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; | lsnt ie en > # 92_ . e e s B 9 ty â€"_ Potato culture: Evew® gardener has his own idea of pota§§ culture, The ideas are varied and many, but as a _general rule the following will be _found correct.. Some growers prefer the Cobbler, others the Delaware, tothers the Green Mountain, Nova 'Séo§a., ete. These are all good varieâ€" @Aminions differ as to planting in hills @r rows. Rows in the writer‘s opinâ€" ties, and a man should grow what he has found to be best adapted to his soil and conditions. In any event, poâ€" ?%@pes need loose, well fertilized loam: . It is too early for corn or beans. Wait until the 24th of May unless it gets hot in the meantime. _ Peas, whether tall or dwarf, are easy to grow. They like a cool, moist loam that is rich and has been deepâ€" Iy spaded. The low dwarf varieties are the easiest to raise, but are not so productive as the large podded tallâ€" er sorts. For a succession plant for _early crop the dwarfs, at the same time plant some tailler later sort and a week following put in a second _planting and follow up every week for awhile so as to get all possible. Peas can be put in right away. Dont‘ sow after June 15th. Cover with half inch of soil. â€" Sow about three inches Apart and in rows running north and south preferred.â€" Sow later varieties a little deeper. Right here it might be well to mention that in first sowâ€" ings of all the small stuff sow pretâ€" ty light, as there is lots of moisture near the surface, but in sowing, say late in May or June, sow deeper, as moisture has gone pretty well below the surface, unless it has been wet for some time. A lot of seeds do not | come up because people insist on planting too deep. Allâ€"light weight seeds such as onions," lettuce, etc., must be planted very shallow in first plantings. Parsnips are of the easiest cultivaâ€" tion. They prefer a rich, moist and rather sandy location. They don‘t meed much fertilizer and a spot that Ahas been well manured for some preâ€" wious crop is ideal for parsnips. Sow About one inch deep and thin out latâ€" €r to sixteen inches apart. A good plan is to mix radish seed in proporâ€" tion of three to one. The radishes will be ready for use long before the parâ€" snips need thining out and you save space in this way. In thinning out press the plants you leave in. Don‘t leave them loose. This is a common error in thining out,â€"and results in & loss, as the plants do not set firmâ€" iy and cannot grow, properly if leftl in a loose condition. Parsley does well in almost any loâ€" eation. Plant very thin about oneâ€" half inch deep. Thin out to six inâ€" «hes apart when the 2nd pair of leaves Gevelop. _Some Helpful â€" Garden Hints Onions can be sown now, as they stand cold weather. ‘ Sets are the best for early table use. For fall maturâ€" ing onions or those wanted for storing. Prize Takers or Yellow Danvers are two of the best. Any soil is good that is well fertilized. Select a spot that is rather moist. Ground must be thorâ€" oughly puiverized. Sow _ seed not deeper than oneâ€"quarter of an inch, and press in firmly. When two inckâ€" es high thin to three or four inches. Cultivate between the rows (which should be 12 inches apart. Cultivate® ‘at least twice a week during the first month and pick out all weeds among the plants, being careful not to disâ€" turh the young plants. Sprinkle wood ashes or soot among the plants to keep out onion. maggot. Hoe the earth around after they Aare three or six inches high, but very slightly, and later on in hoeing (after onions are well formed) remove or hoe the earth away from the onion, as they mature above the ground andâ€"get their food from the tendrils at the bottom of the onion.. Onions are very hard to grow and require careful study and lots of attention. Muskmelons, watermelons, â€" pumpâ€" kins are not advisable in any small galjden, as they take upâ€" too much room, and are‘not as essential a food as other more .i_m‘portapt feods in war time. Lettuce requires heavy, rich and moist soil, for a dry, sandy or pootr soil will cause a slow growth, which destroys the crispness and flavor of the leaves.. Boston or New York head lettuce is the finest variety. Cut off heads only and the stalk will sprout ugain and produce another head. Cauliflowerâ€"Same as «cabbages. Don‘t sow cauliflower until later, as the heads seldom mature in hot dry weather. & : Cucumbers do well in any soil, providâ€" ed there is six inches of good manure under the soil. Plant in sunny spot only. _ Carrots thrive best in warm sandy soil which has been well worked and heavily manured. Don‘t sow deeper than oneâ€"half inch and press the seed down firmly.â€" _ Cabbages require anâ€" enormous amount of plant food, especially lime, and this is found in bone meal, wood ashes, etc. There is never any danger of getting land too rich for cabbage. Continuous cultivation is necessary. Sow early and late varieties. â€" Cabbages like cool, moist soil, preâ€" ferably heavy loam with gravelly sub soil. Good crops may be produced in light sandy soil or in heavy clay proâ€" vided the latter is well drained and made fine and loose by thorough cultiâ€" vation. i Do not attempt to plant anything until your. soil has been awwell â€"raked and all particles broken as finely as possible, after the ground has been well plowed and harrowed and manâ€" ured. â€"In planting the standard varieties a few pointsâ€"to bear in mind are as follows: 'f}rq@and one items that are necesâ€" sary to know to insure complete sucâ€" €ess, and we merely mention a few as concisely as possible. If you were keeping bees, dogs, hens, you would maturally know all about their habits, their good and bad features, the kind of foods to give them, know how fo treat their ailments, etc. It‘s preâ€" cisely the same with flowers or vegeâ€" tables. You can‘t have the maximum of success unless you know the kind of vegetables to grow, how to plant, best locations for each, etc., etc. Now all this can be learned by experience, by asking those who know and by reading directions of the catalogues, and following earefully any expert adâ€" vice. Theâ€"following short hints, howâ€" ever, cover some of theâ€"questions ofâ€" ten asked and are important: _ In planning your garden the followâ€" ing hints may assist in many ways, ’.}Plfere are a lot of important matters to remember in" growing . vegetables with suceess. It would take columns to give even a partial idea of the hunâ€" feccee Mess are es The Australian Government is makâ€" ing every endeavor to have raboit ranchingâ€"become one of the big asâ€" sets of the future. Ranches which formerly raised sheep and cattle are now being fenced in with close wire netting and used for breeding grounds and runs for rabbits. Canadian boys and girls could help by raising rabâ€" bits. Petrolia, Feb.â€"7, 1918 This cancer of sinful waste .in Britain must be cut out if she is to be worthy of comradeship with her coloâ€" nies and Allies in the joint fight for freedom. Britain standing up to fight her German enemies, with her right arm strapped to her side by the selfish liquor interests, is a sad sight for Canada, and one that tends to depress the zeal and confuse the will of those who are fighting by Britain‘s side. Yours truly, R. STIRRETT. This argument so far says nothing of the waste of men, the waste of sugar, molasses, etc., the waste of coal, the waste of the moral life of the people, the waste of transportation space, the waste of labor, all resultâ€" ing from or accompanying this waste of precious food grain for the want of which the children in Britain are in peril of starvation and the war may be lost. Nor does this argument inâ€" clude the national burden and disâ€" grace of British distilleries, â€"where stronger liquor, such as whiskey, is made, and where the figures are even more appalling. In the face of such conditions and with national defeat and ruin impendâ€" ing, the beer brewers of Britain will throw into their vats, 600,000 tons of grain this year. When we begin to look into the extent of this waste we are appalled. It means that if it were loaded in cars, each car holding one thousand bushels, it would require a train on the G. T. BR., via London,from Sarnia Tunnel to Hamilton, to transâ€" port it. Or, if on the line via Forest from the tunnel to Guelph and fourâ€" teen miles beyond it. Or, if a farmer made two trips per day, six days each week, from his farm to the elevator, and took fifty bushels at each load, it would take him 638 years to deliver that much grain. Or, if the flour it would make were baked into ordinary loaves of bread and these set side by side, it would take 136 tables the size of a hundredâ€"acre farm on which to lay them out, and if these loaves were sold at ten cents each, the value of them would be $80,000,000. ‘"Unless you are able to send the Allies at least T5,000,000 pushels of wheat over and above what you have sent up to the first of January, I canâ€" not take the responsibility of assurâ€" ing our people that there will be enough to win the war." ; Recently the British Food Controlâ€" ler cabled to the Food Controller of the United States: The following letter, recently pubâ€" lished in the Petrolia Advertiserâ€" "Topic, is timely. We commend the arguments to readers of The Times and Guide. Editor "Advertiserâ€"Topic‘"‘:â€" : _of no account and look down upon those so engaged. The garden work should not be undertaken in a hapâ€" hazard way, but should be planned so as to develop a consistent and proâ€" «gressive series of studies from year to year. Pupils should advance into more difficult work just as they do in all other branches of school work. Teachers should leave records of the work done and the work planned as a guidance for their successors.. In this way the children will grow up with a «Jove for the forests, hills and glades and be content to live thereâ€"nay more, will deem it an honor to be callâ€" ed a tiller of the soil. The permanency of any nation will depend upon the extent of happy, prosperous, permanent. homes that are developed. within its borders and the purpose of each and every subâ€" ject taught in the public schools should be to produce such. The school garden is anâ€" outdoor workâ€" shop or training department, and should aim at creating an interest in home beautifying, the principles unâ€" ‘derlying such, the best materials to use, and the methods of planting and caring for them.. The school garden furnishes a link between the home and the school, its surroundings denoting \community conditions. This â€" work may be utilized along mental lines, such as language, spelling, history, geography, and otherâ€" branches of study, thus keeping the child longer at school and giving them a broader and more practical education because it is being obtained in terms of his daily life and environment. These gardens are the visible expression. of the estimation of the people of the district of the value of education to increase productive industry. It stands for the side of education that digniâ€" fies manual labor under the direction of trained intelligence and_ a knowâ€" ledge of _ scientific_ principles. By teaching agriculture and horticulture in the school we place it on a level with other branches of learning, and lessen to a great extent the prevailâ€" ing tendency of the average student to belittle the farming profession as THE SCHOOL GARDEN Radishesâ€"Sow thin, don‘t waste seed by sowing too thickly. You gain nothing. Sow successions.â€" They need rich soil and sun. s ion are preferable, as they are easier to hoe. â€" They should be 30 inches apart (Government suggestion). _One eye in each piece is as good and betâ€" terâ€"than three. In cutting cut down through the crown (The crown is the top or where the most eyes are.). In planting in hills two to three picces with one eye each is enough. It in rows, plant each piece 10 inches apart. See that the eye or shoot faces up. sAn expert potato grower informs me that it‘s a mistake to hoe up the soil around them when they are six inches or so‘ high.. He claims they should not be hoed until they are 18 inches or so. His contention is that when it rains the rain runs off the hills and until the new tubers are formed they need a lot of moisture. The time to hoe up is in late July, when the season gets hot and when the new tubersneed protection from the heat of the sun. In the meantime hoe well between the rows to keep down weeds and conserve moisture. This is a subject on which there is a great difference of opinion.~ Would advise experimenting on several methâ€" ods.. Nothing like experimenting to satisfy yourself which method is the best. None of us disagree, however, onâ€"the fact that they need Paris green often and also Bordeaux mixture for blight. : This will be continued next week THE CANCER IN BRITAIN A NATIONAL ASSET You must also know how to estiâ€" mate weights from a letter of an ounce, orâ€"a fish, or a potato of one A scout mustâ€"beâ€"ableâ€" to estirSate heights from a few inches up to three thousand feet or more; that is to say, he ought to be awble. to judge the height of a fence the depth of a ditch, or the height of an embankâ€" ment, of a house, tree, tower, hill, or mountain. It is easy to do when onee you have practised. it for . a few times, but it is yvery difficult to teach it by books. ce _ §.45â€"â€"Remaining tests for second | class and â€"tenderfoot. Enrollment of any new boys. 9.15â€"Notices read and suggestions received from individual sceouts. Atâ€" tendance registered. 9.25â€"Dismiss. : No parade on Saturday unless we have a promise from at least twenâ€" ty uscouteâ€" to. turn "out. Our troop alls for a limited number of boys and frequent absentees without reaâ€" sonable excuses will have. to make way for new boys who want to be true scouts. It won‘t be a pleasant memory in later years to think that you were a poor scout in war time. Your scout master is proud of the majority of you, but wants every boy up to ‘scratch. Remember, we are only learning scout craft. Think of the fun and the good we all can ’ do when we are efficient. ____Judging Heights and Distances Every scout must be able to judge ‘distance from, an inch up to a mile or more. . You ought first of all to know exactly whatâ€"is the span of your hand, and the breadth of your thumb and the length from your elbow to your wrist, and the length from one hand to the other with the. ‘arms stretched out to cither side, and also the length of your feet; if you reâ€" member these accurately â€"they are a great help to you in measuring things. Also it is useful to cut notches in your staff, using such measurements Distances can also be judged by sound; that is to say, if you see a gun fired in the distance and you count the number of seconds between the flash and the sound of the exâ€" plosion_reaching you, you will be able to tell how far off you are from the gun. & Sound travels at the rate ofâ€" 365 yards in a second; that is to say, as many yards as there is days in the year. & an hour, if you have been travelling for an hour and a half you will know you have travelled about six miles. WHITE ROSE GLEANERS & DVERS Judging the distance of objects from you is only gained by practice; and judging the distance of a journey is generally estimated . by seeing how long you have been travelling andcat what rate; that is to say, supposing you walk at the rate of four miles as one inch, six inches one foot and one yard. These you can measure off with a tape measure before you use your staff and they may come in very useful. WESTON‘S HARDWARE STORE MAIN STREET PH Uniform must be worn. 7.30 promptâ€",Fall in. Ten minâ€" utes of physical drill. T.45â€"â€"Ambulance course, continued by. Mr. Wilson. Church and Main Street Why Buy a New Suit ? Gents‘ Furnishing and Tailoring Store MAIN STREET, WESTON 32. PHONE NO. 2 I have just received my spring importation of fine Men‘s Suitings, Pantings, etc. All the desirable patterns and fabrics are here for your inspection, including West of England Worâ€" steds, Plain Serges, Howick Tweeds, Cashmeres, etc. ~ In checks, pinstripes, diagonals, plain and fancy weaves. Open for inspection on Friday, April 12th. Come in and look them over. Prices $25.00 up. SCOUT NEWS W. E. COLEMAN Orders, April 26th OIL STOVES Let us clean and repair your old one and Save Money. MRS. J. S. FINNIGAN Sunshiny Days Call For New Clothes In all sizes, 2, 3 and 4 Burner PERFECTION or CLARK JEWEL 3020 Dundas Street West,i’il‘c;ronâ€"ta D H A. M ‘ oal Ofl in Any Quantity. THE TEMES & â€"â€"Agent forâ€"â€" Weston Tramps, loafers, "sports," and genâ€" tlemen of leisure who hang around pool rooms, picture shows, cabarets, railway stations, steamboat landings, Street corners and other places with nothing particular to do, and a reaâ€" sonable amount pf health and strength to do it with, please take notice. Loafâ€" ing is now Hlegal. The recent Order in Council declares "all persons enâ€" rolled in Canada shall, in absence of reasonable grounds to the contrary, engage in useful occupations." Mr. W. R. Judge of Centreville sold one fat hog last Saturday to Mr. Lewis Swinton, for which he receivâ€" ed the sum of $111.50. Convictions for an offence under this new antiâ€"loafing law before a magistrate renders the offender liable to a penalty not exceeding $100 and costs, and in default of the loafer‘s ability to pay, he must go to prison for a period of not exceeding six months in a common jail or any inâ€" stitution or any farm owned by a municipality or province established for, such a purpose, and put in the tin& at hard labor. Where a convicâ€" tion is obtained by a municipality, the municipal treasury will receive the fine. Where proceedings are institutâ€" ed by a provincial officer, fhe proâ€" vincial treasury shall receive the monâ€" ey. :;gaere proceedings are instituted within® a municipality by any other person, the fine is divided equally between the municipality and the province. The Girl Guides are at last going to be organized in Weston. On Friday evening, April 19, some of the comâ€" mittee, the captains and five oi the girls, were invited to attend a lecture at the home of Mrs. Warren, Wellesâ€" ley St., Toronto. The members of the Weston committee present were Mrs. v. H. Hollinsworth and Mrs. G. L. Healey. The captains are Misses,Helâ€" en Packbham and Ruth Rothery. The girls from Weston who were present were Misses Edith Hollinsworth, Aiâ€" leen Healey, Minnic Martin, Bessie Cameron and Viola Gardhouse. Adâ€" dresses were given by Miss Harvey and Dr. Winnifred Cullis, and altoâ€" gether they spent a very enjoyable evening. A meeting to organize the Weston Girl Guides will be held here at Weston at some time in the near future. HURRAH FOR THE GIRL GUIDES! Objects appear nearer than they really are: First, when the light is bright and shining on the object; seâ€" condly, when looking across water or snow or looking uphill or down. Obâ€" jects appear farther off when in the shade, across a valley, when the backâ€" ground is of the same color, when the observer is lying down or kneeling, when there is a heat haze over the ground. Alsoâ€"you should be able to judge numbers, that is to say, you â€" should be able to tell at a glance (about) how many people are in a â€"car or in a group, or in aâ€"big crowd, how many sheep in a flock, how many marbles on a tray, and so on.. These you can practice for yourself at all times in the street or field. pound, or a sack of bran, or a cartâ€" load of coal; and also the probable weight â€"of a man from his appearance â€"these again are only learnt by pracâ€" tice, but as a scout .you should take care to learn them for yourself. GUIDE, WESTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24TH,â€" 1918 PHONE NO. 14 Phone 265 The Times & Guide does all kinds of Job Printing such as Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Envelopes and Concert Programmes. A neat job guaranteed and prices right. | i Py h e Plim: A Ford Car Takes the Place of all These Things The colors rival the rainbow tints in softness and beauty, and do not fade. They soften the light and make rooms ideal for reading and sewing. Mellotoned walls can be washed with soap and water when soiled. Each washing makes the finish look bright and fresh. This sanitary cuality appeals to careful housekeepers. Before you do your decorating come in and let us show mult o e you the Mellotone tints, § Amtrmmmmmgremsmmmrene...â€". .« oo omcmpmns Graham & Carton, Dealers, Weston A Ford will save you time, trouble, and money. â€"It is the utility car for the busy farmer and his family. In their place you have a speedy, dependable, dignified, roomy Ford Carâ€"complete in itself. It is vastly superior to the narrow; cramped buggy that travels so slowly. And when a Ford is standing i(lic]e it does not eat three meals a day, and it requires no "looking after." \ HEN you own a Ford you can do away with many articles that are a source of continuous expense to the man who still ; » drives a horse. For instance, not only your drivingâ€"horse and buggy, but the single harness, blankets, whips, currycombs, brushes, horseâ€"shoes, pitchâ€"forks, feedâ€"bins, etc. Touring â€" â€" $595 Runabout â€" $575 Coupe â€" â€" â€" $770 Sedan â€" â€" â€" $970 Chassis _â€" â€" $535 Oneâ€"ton Truck $750 E. 0. B. FORD, ONT. PAGE SEVEN ~o 3