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ARR RAT "coats. A - Rr LAHEY, ¥ GREEN b Gordon Smith It seems as if the old motto might very well be changed to read "Eternal vigilance is the price of-- healthy tomatoes." For there is no , doubt about it, in many sections of the country tomato discases are be 'coming. more serious every year, So be sure and dust your tomat- oes every ten days from the time the first cluster of fruits is half devel oped. Use fermate, or a mixed dust containing fermate -- alternating with a fixed copper dust. Both these are available under different trade names. The fermate controls the an- thacnose disease which causes the . rotting of tomatoes after and some- times even before picking. The cop- per dust controls leaf diseases. * * * Too drastic pruning of hedges: during very hot weather may re- sult in sunscalding of the leaves and twigs too suddenly exposed. This is especially dangerous for evergreen hedges or trees. How- ever, summer pruning will save you a lot of trouble with overgrown vines and shrubs, such as silver- lace vine, spiraea forsythia, grapes, Japanese yew and so forth. Branch- es of trees that are hanging too low may also be cut off, * . . When Russell lupins 'were first introduced in England some ten years or so ago they €reated quite a stir; and those who have been suc- cessful with them on this side of the water are equally enthusiastic, Even in seasons when other flow- ers look weary and beaten, these perennials manage retain crisp, colorful flowers growirig on straight sturdy branches, Some gardeners still claim that - lupins will not do well in areas where 'midsummer heat is severe or that they must have a particular sort of alkaline soil. But folks who have tried them have grown them successfully in different sec- tions all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific--so even if you have doubts about your chances with +.them, 'a few seeds are well worth risking.' * ' * August is a good time to sow the lupin seeds, which should be soaked in lukewarm water overnight in - order to lessen their hard outer If your soil is inclined to acidity, it might be a good idea to dig a trowelful of lime into the ground where they are to go. Seeds can then be" scatter®d lightly over the surface and covered with soil, "Once you have had success with Russell "lupins," and enjoyed their striking color and design, you will never want your garden to be with- out them; and in spite of a reputa- tion--possibly unearned--for being tricky and difficult, it has been proved that they will thrive in lo- cations which, a few years ago, would have ~been considered out of the question. -- The ivory-billed woodpecker is fast becoming extinct in the United States, while the pileated wood- pecker is close on its heels, -- : LIFE'S LIKE THAT TR » Rad : = Gam " 2 "TE A Fete Py, ™ "I gave her the best years of my life . . . Spent money on her when a nickel would really buy something 1 1" % A Sed hg Three of a Kind--And All Beauties--Almost everybody likes a good dog, and one doesn't have to be an expert to know that these three, posing as if they had been modelling all their lives, are among the finest specimens of the Great Dane breed to be seen anywhere. This exclusive picture, taken especially for these pages, at the Unionville, Ont. Dog Show recently, show Mrs. . T. Weir of York Mills with Champion Tar-Tann, Champion True, and Triumph -- just 9 months old but a Champion -in the making. Gooseberry and Rhubarb Jam One quart gooseberries, 8 quarts rhubarb, 34 cup water, 5 cups sugar. - Remove stem and blossom ends from the gooseberries, using scls- : sors. Wash rhubarb and cut in one inch pieces. Do not peel. Add the water to the gooscberries and cook until gooseberries are soft. Add rhu- barb and sugar and continue cooking until the jam _ ls thick--about 80 minites, stirring . occasionally so that the jam "does --mnot. burn. Skim and pour 'into-hot "sterilized glasses. When cold, cover with melted paraffin wax, adjust' covers, label and store. Apple Mint Jelly "cool. © them all. ABLE TALKS dane Andrews. for one minute. Then pour into a clean, dry glass jar. Cover and let Keep in ice-box. Gooseberry Fool The dictionary defines a "fool" (in the culinary world) as "dish of crush- "ed fruit with whipped cream and sugar." Theoretically, this is true ,but the famous gooseberry fool of old England is more complicated than that--and the best known "fool" of Top and stem a quart of really ripe gooscberries and stew them in water with just a little sugar until tender. "Press them through a colander t remove tough skins. |. To the fruit add a tablespoon of butter, a cup of sugar, just a whiff of salt and 4 well-beaten egg yolks, Pour all this into a glass bowl. Beat the egg whites stiff and add 2 table- spoons "powdered -sugar to them. Then heap this lightly on top of the This morning, when I first awak- ened, the air was delightfully fresh and 'cool, and through the open windows and doors, wafted along by'a light breeze, came the first sweet smell of new mown hay. There is nothing quite like it. Hay that has been cut two or three days and properly cured has a dif- ferent smell--hot and dry, if you know what 1 mean. [ can quite un- derstand what it would 'do to hay fever victims. - Sometimes I wonder, apart from the smell, why it is that haymaking always appeals to the imagination of those who think wistfully of holidaying on a farm. Apparently it has some sort of romantic appeal. Children will stay around all day in a hot, shadeless field while load af- ter load is being built, and for the sole purpose of riding>home on top of each load as it comes to the barn. Men, who hardly know a pitchfork from a table fork are yet "willing to "lend 'a hand with the hay". For a man to stay on a farm and afterwards confess he didn't assist with the haying is about on a par with an angler com: don't know about women farm visi- tors . .. I guess most of them are content with the smcll of the hay, and the fact of being where it is, . + . And what does haying mean to the. farm people themselves? For the men it is a period of hard, hot work, nervous strain and a stcrn game of guessing--guessing™ what the weather will be forty -cight hours from the time of cutting; try- ing to figure out whether it would be better to coil the hay, or to rush swath to the wagon and cheat that threatening storm. thus Or loader, a buckrake or a - machine? And the women . . . ah yes, the women! How they wish that haying did not coincide with canning. and berry picking time: Maybe a crate of berries waits to be canned but bailing hayfork--and the wagon has a way of coming in just as the fruit is ready for the jars. And oh my, it's - hot, dusty work! The rope drags along the ground and by the time the load is off the farmer's wife-- feels more like taking a bath than 1 cup finely chopped mint leaves . 1 cup boiling water 8 cups apple juice 134 cups sugar green coloring Pour the boiling water over the - clean mint leaves, cover- and lét Strain the juice - steep for 1 hour. from the leaves and add 4 table- spoons of the extract to the apple juice and sugar. Boil rapidly until two drops of the jelly will run to- gether at the edge of the spoon and sheet off. Add a few drops of green coloring. Pour and seal with para- | hin. . s For Summer Drin It takes just about two to make a big jar of home-made "chocolate syrup. which will keep and keep in your refrigerator. ~ Chocolate syrup-can be one of your big summer staples. It's a marvellous help in whipping up last- minute pafty drinks and dishes. The. children love it. : "And here's how easy it is to make! FIRST--Mix well together DRY, ¥% cup of breakfast cocoa and 34 cup of sugar. THEN--Slowly add 3; cup boil- ing water, stirring meanwhile. Boil - PUZZLE . _ACRoss '3. Poplar 1. Youth $. Contingent 4. Shred 4. Edge 7. Volcano «Bb San 12. Island (F'r.) * 6. Small Spanish 13. Solid water horses 14. Worship 15. Circuit 16. Of a city ipe " Bravings Knot ! Shiboas 50. Tear ; ') ° 61. Harem room t moisture t ol _ CROSSWORD [hte B00 C OSS ORD Beriod 85. K ick a foots 38. Apparent , Qut of place 41. Port 3 14 43. Resume Bhepherd's 44. Bouquet 45. Mooed 47. Frees 49, Dance step . Te 62. Also Ba [oN 18. 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You would not expect anything in, a British hotel could surprise Con- rad N. Hilton, Because Mr. Hilton ° is President of the largest chain of hotels in the United States, includ- 'Ing the 8,000-room Stevens In Chi- eAgo. } But up in his River Suite at the Savoy, where he ls now staying, Mr. Hilton has been Impressed by "those: cute little buttons" which bring a walter, a maid or a valet to your room in a matter of seconds. Even in the Stevens he would have 'to telephone "room service," and then perhans wait fqr as many minutes. ~~ / : going on with her canning. Except that there is never time ... . taking a bath between loads might Icad to an embarrassing situation. But going out to the ficld witli the wag- on--now that's something else again. Don't ever be sorry for any woman you see out on a hay wagon _--not if she has a working partner who doesn't rush things. Building a load doesn't require a lot of strength; it is knowing how to place each forkful as it comes that does the trick- And as the load gets high- er and the wind, blows through your hair, for some 'unknown reason a sense of "satisfaction possesses you and 'you feel, not only on top of the load but on top of the world. But hang on to that fork--brace yourself against any sudden move- ment of the wagon or the chances are you will be out of thic world in a 'hurry. Regretfully I realize my wagon days are over. Not but what I could still build a load--the trouble would be getting off it. * Really Crowded Eddie Cantor claims that once he went to Washington and found things so crowded that it was only with the greatest difficuity 'that he managed to get a room in a hotel. He was just sinking off to sleep when suddenly he heard snoring coming from the bathroom. He hurriedly investigated, then rushed to the telephone. : "Good Heavens," ' he yelled, "there's a midget up here snoring in my bathtub!" "Just one?" replied the clerk "calmly. "The little must have pulled out the plug. There's supposed to be two" of them." . 7 room rascal things, loading straight from the GINGERFARM Gwendoline P. Clarke ing home without going fishing 1 _ would it be wise to invest in a hay there are also horses to drive on the | or daughter, assthe case may be, | 'trough is one of my little catbirds. 1. --it will take plenty of eggs to pay The best I can do now ls sit at my pantry window and watch the loads go by. . . . ; My pantry window . . . Edna Jaques wrote a book of poems called "My Kitchen Window" didn't she? I can't put in rhyme what my pantry window means to me but the poetry is there just the same: And the window has always been there, too, but now | have a table at which to work and from it 1 can see--oh so many things. Right now 1 sce the horses standing in the shade of the barn, kicking impatiently at annoying flies! Whiskey lying in ambush watching an unsuspecting sparrow; Tippy cocking an ear as she hears an incoming car; Partner crossing the yard in_a hurry--I do hope there is nothing wrong. And there, running along the pipe that runs from the pump to the water- From the heh-house | can hear vigorous cackling indicating that one of our Biddies recognizes her function in life. Keep it up, Biddy for that feed you're eating. . . . That is how things appear from my pantry window. | wonder will they have the same appeal next Wednesday to our first summer visitors--my sister from Toronto is coming for a week's holiday on the farm. New, -- And All Of Them Useful Blectric Night t. A ocne-watt fluorescent night Hght that ean be ged into any electric outlet. ill burn continuously for about a year on 35 to 80 cents worth of current. Baby Bhelter Waterproof. Trans- parent plastic pencho, designed to fit over the baby and its stroller or carriage. When not in use folds up flat to fit in a purse. Moth, Roach and Ant Killer, Ap- plled with a sprayer this product fa said to have 3-way action, com- bining the advantages of both the vapor-type and contact-type killers. Non-staining and with a pleasant odor and is, equally effective for moths, cockroaches and ants. For the Tired Fisherman. Plastic device anchors rod and reel on bank without letting them touch sand and gravel. Rod lies in trough in the holder while prongs at the back secure the reel. Holder also comes with a boat clamp if de- sired. Invisible Burglar Alarm. Photo- electric burglar alarm uses invisible rays to foil burglars smart enough to get past alarms of "visible-ray" type by shining a flashlight into the photo tube. : Hair Drier. This may be worn cov- ered with gq scart to look like a turb- an. A mineNl compound inside the lining absorbs dampness from hair within two hours, after which the "turban" may be dried in an oven for re-use. Shuttlecock. Badminton enthusiasts will be interested in a new shuttle- cock featuring a plastic crown, weighing only one-fortieth of an ounce, yet very tough and resil- ient, Crown surmounts a kid-cov- er cork head. IFeathers are placed through moulded holes around edge of crown, and anchored in corres- ponding holes drilled in the cork. Preserver For Lard. New chemical mixture claimed to keep lard sweet _ for two years or more. Potato ¢hips made from lard so treated will keep fifty times longer than ordis~ ary sort. plastic and designed especially for infants this bag will hold 10 of baby's dresses and coats, 4 pairs shoes, with additional pace for other clothing. Said to be impervious te . grease, dirt or acids, and wipet tlean with a" damp cloth. Cement For Tanks. A new typd plastic ceme said to be a perman- ent cure for leaks in tanks of any size, or in fuel tant on cars, trucks even removing liquid from tank. Method is to place small piece of ordinary screen wire over hole and then fill with plastic. Unaffected by heat or cold it adheres fo any type of metal, glass or wood. device is to make water available to the housewife where it is need- ed most--on the kitchen stove. Fit- ting neatly on the back of "ny ord- inary kitchen stove, it operates from the main water supply with a flame-proof, retractable hose whic' can be extended to any portion of the range without fear of crossing an open burner. Trigger-like valve regulates flow and built-in drain carries off any excess cooking water. , Answer To This Week's Puzzle r------------ WAKE WHAT IS CERTO? look better . . . taste better? quickly. ) THE CERTO SHORT BOIL minute full, . oon wo os i 72 7Esreo Recipes INOER THE LABEL .fromy ; RESULTS Why does Certo give you so much more jam and jelly? And why do Certo jams and jellies It's all quite simple. Certo is nothing but "fruit pectin" -- the natural substance in fruit that makes jams "jam" and jellies "jell". It's extracted and refined to help you make better jams and jellies 'more easily and : With Certo you .don't have to boil and boil and boil your fruit to make it set. A one-fo-two- rolling boil is enough for jams... a hall- minute-to-a-minute for jellies, - {LOOK FOR 800K OF. Jell eS our Fruit wi | ATE ERTO ~e i" PECTIN L xf He } (IB) ARE SURE! = Cause with Certo you use fruit 1 2" 0] 1 A pound of jam or elly made with Certo contains no more sugar thon a pound made the old long-boil way. . MAKE YOUR JAMS AND JELLIES THE QUICK, EASY MODERN WAY... WITH CERTO. GET CERTO AT YOUR GROCER'S TODAY CERTO DOES THIS 1 Gives you 50% more jam or jelly because you save all the precious fruit juice that wastes away in steam in long boiling. 2 Cuts to a fraction the time spent over the stove. 3 Retains the lovely, natural fresh-fruit taste and colour. That's still more important be- at its peak of flavor and colour -- not the under-ripe fruit used in long-boil recipes. SUCCESS SURE -- EVEN FOR BEGINNERS However inexperienced you may be, you'll have no failures if you follow exactly the recipes pro- vided with Certo. Different fruits. need diffefent hanGe., There's a separate "kitchen- tested recipe for each one. A Product of General Foods By Arihur koinier Baby's Wardrobe Bag. Made of: or tractors. Can be applied without Kitchen Aid. The purpose of this og Cutt "~