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YORK DIESEL General Machine Repairs DIESEL SPECIALIST JOSEPH BUYS Proprietor Richmond Hill Cotter St Newmarket phone 59090 Experiments Show Foliage Feeding Produces Results OPTICAL ILLUSION EL Nobody ever did very much househunting without a a house for sale which fill- led the bill in almost every re spect except that most of the rooms seemed a little too small But nine times out of a who has this corn- plaint Is actually being fooled a form of optical illusion for its pretty safe bet that the house question was empty when it inspected Maybe youve noticed this your- when youve been moving A room thai always seemed large enough while you were living there suddenly seems to shrink the moment the furniture Is re- moved Perhaps you even wond ered how you ever got along in such a tiny room Ive seen prospective pass up lovely homes for just this reason so now whenever anyone comments that an empty bedroom for Instance looks too small I always encourage him to take at least an approximate mea sure of it and compare it with a furnished bedroom which he con siders adequate In size As a matter of fact measuring floor area In each room is one good way of evaluating a house you are inspecting to find out Just how much total living 7 space It has It can he an especially helpful thing to do particularly as I say if you are in a position of having to com- pare a vacant house with one that is furnished Even trying to visualize how your own furniture might lit in- to a room can be a tricky position unless you take a few measurements here and there pays keep this point in mind whenever youre Inspecting a vacant house Dont let an illusion trick you Into passing up a good buy STOUTT ESTATE SOUTH PH NEWMARKET Era and Express Classifieds Results From Market Growers Journal In hearings before a Senate subcommittee on atomic energy research Dr B chief horticulturist at Michigan State University made the following statements After a severe winter in Mi chigan a few years ago we tried spraying dormant trees with fer tilizers Winter injury frequent ly appears in isolated areas of the tree the next year in which the new leaves show symptoms of a deficiency of certain nutrients such as potassium Our thinking was that if these areas could be kept alive just as one might drop supplies to mountain climbers to keep them alive until communication can best be established perhaps the tree would regenerate more easily and recover We feel that the treatments were helpful but the result was looked at with some doubt Radioisotopes Used This is where radioisotopes have been a great help and have clarified the situation We re ceived from the Atomic Energy Commission radio phosphorous and radio potash These in win tertime were made into solutions cotton gauze was dipped into them and wrapped around the branches of the tree and then tested for radioactivity by means of a counter Within 24 to hours even in midwinter and at below- freez ing temperatures we could find these materials in vertical branches to 2 above the point of applicaiton Further they tended to accumulate near the bud From these tests the ques tion of entry of nutrients into dormant branches has been es tablished Foliage Feeding For example as you well know spraying is a common procedure on the farm these days Fungicides insecticides and herbicides and fly and live stock techniques are everyday occurrences People understand the spraying tech nique Furthermore we now have new materials available which are ideally suited to spray appli cations that we apply these days Instead of limestone raw rock phosphate and that sort of thing we now have fer tilizers which are completely soluble in water such as urea which carries up to percent of nitrogen orthophosphoric acid and so on In final analysis we find that a leaf is a very efficient organ of absorption We find that the materials move into the upper surface of the leaf as well as the lower surface- We find that it enters at night and during the daytime We apply the material here to the leaves and of course the fruit is quite near the leaves which may be a point Now if we follow this curve of total phosphorus in the fruit derived from foliar application we find a substantial amount at 16 perhaps to hours after application Contrast this with the soil application where the rate is much slower This is very important in certain critical times of the year For example the soil may be cool and low in phosphorus at just the time it is needed by a vegetable or strawberry plant Or there are cases where the soil locks up certain materials that are applied like potash and mag nesium Under such conditions we find leaf application very significant and very effective When we do this to a number of different plant species we find that they differ in their ability to utilize urea Here again is the sort of thing the farmer has found out to some de gree In the case of the cucum ber for example we find that it can use urea very rapidly In fact in a matter of a few hours the small amount which we put on a cucumber leaf in our tests is entirely used up The whole field as I have said is a field of considerable in terest and promise The thing that impresses I think is not how much we know but how really little we know At one time we felt the leaf was covered with a cuticle im pervious to water but now we find that certain tissues come right to the leaf surface making a connecting link from the sur face so that when the material touches there it is absorbed and moves through the cell walls and into the leaf To summarize I have shown that the value of leaf feeding is established Entry is certain Movement occurs within the plant We have materials that are available suitable and effec tive We have apparatus that is well suited to our- needs The limiting factor is knowledge and this is where the radioactive iso tope technique promises a great deal for the future Your first friendly smile when you borrow from HFC A smile of welcome always greets you whenever you visit HFC It is your introduction to Households pleasant yet businesslike loan service Our managers and specially selected and trained to give you tho prompt attention and friendly understand ing you desire when you borrow money At HFC you may borrow up to 1000 choosing your own terms with up to months to repay And you may borrow with confidence because HFC is Canadas first and foremost consumer finance company Phono or visit HFC to day You are always welcome HFC is backed by Years experience Cut TABU JO 400 500 3106 HOUSEHOLD FINANCE In Street floor phone TW NIWMARKOT HERE HEALING Editors Note This biweekly article series will contain interesting facts about is published as a public service by this newspaper in cooperation with the Ontario Hospital Asso ciation A total of babies were born in Canada during the year This means a birth about every seconds The records show that some thing like per cent of all Can adian births occur in hospital which is a high ratio by any stan dard In some urban centres how ever more than 90 out of every babies that come into the world are born in hospitals As a result infant mortality is being decreased year after year at a phenomenal rate In the middle ages more than one woman in every ten having childbirth in hospital died of pu erperal fever Even if the same mortality rates prevailed today as were in existence in a- bout 24000 mothers would die in childbearing in Canada and the United States At our present mortality rate less than 2000 ex pectant mothers may lose their lives It is a rather strange but in teresting phenomenon that more babies are born when the moon is full than in any of its other phases Be that as it may the fact remains that more and more babies begin their journey through life in a hospital The identification of the new born their feeding and care par ticularly of the sickly or premat ure and the care of the mother has added to the work and re sponsibilities of hospital person nel especially in recent years This increasing trend to child birth in hospital however is wel comed by the hospital admini strator and all the members of the hospital team who are con fident that a hospital birth does much to get the child off to a good start along the road of life Since only onethird of Cana das population is in the civilian labor force onethird of Canadi ans are the earners and taxpayers who pay the costs of government for themselves as well as for the remaining 1 h i d s of the people Page 8 The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday June OneBallot Poll Costs 80 But Voter Will Be Absent ANNOUNCE WEDDING Miss Joan daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Marinoff Richmond Hill will be married June to Mr Greig Rogers son of Mr and Mrs Rogers Ont The ceremony will take place at Aurora United church Studio WEEKEND CAMPOUT HELD BY GUIDES Fifteen members of the First Newmarket Girl Guide company with their three leaders held a weekend campout on the proper ty of Mrs Ted Pope Holland Landing As part of their first class work the girls made impressions of the tracks of fox chipmunk racoon deer and skunk They passed tests for many of their woodcraft and camping badges A Guides Own was held on Sunday with Captain Ellen Jack son in charge Miss Jackson spoke on The Beauty of the Earth Only one voter is listed in Poll 227 in con stituency in the June federal election And the single voter pro bably wont mark a ballot Poll 227 considered to bo the only onevoter poll in Canada consists of the Gold Bar farm just east of Edmonton and its one vot ing resident is Sandy The deputy returning officer will receive SIS for his election day work and the poll clerk 10 Two enumerators each received 25 for placing Mr name on the voters list After all this effort it appears Mr isnt likely to put in an appearance at the poll He is in Britain and isnt expected to return for several months However it wont be a total MY wife Sometimes she do Sometimes she dont Sometimes she will Sometimes she wont Darn my socks And when she do 1 walk on air And when she dont My feet go bare Sometimes she will Sometimes she wont Sometimes she do Sometimes she dont Give me a kiss And when she will I cut a caper And when she wont read my paper loss because the and the poll clerk through transfer certificat es will cast their ballots at No 227 Returning officer J L Chap man said that since housing de velopment is slated for the area it is possible there could be many voters in the area by next year In addition it was felt the sect ion should be a separate poll be cause it covers a large area Brownies Complete BP Project Work The members of the Newmark et Brownie packs have been busy completing their project so that each Brownie will be entitl ed to wear a BP star on her uni form This year marks the anniversary of Lord BadenPow ells birth Lord BadenPowell or as he is affectionately known was the founder of the Scout- Guide movement One requirement of the Brownie project is that a Brownie must something for others She must try to bring a little sunshine into someones life Newmarket Brownies prepare three plays depicting Brownie life for local presentation They entertained their mothers at the Scout Hall on May 29 when the three plays highlighted the pro gram On Friday night they visited York Manor the Countys Home for the Aged The Brownies en tertained the of York Manor with a repeat performance of their plays The Newmarket Public Library The Time Of With summer coming on we hope many of us spend a great deal of time outofdoors But not all of us care to indulge in or be spectators at the more strenu ous types of play which are only considered play because no one would be willing to pay us for the quality of performance which frequently results And some of us are blessed we mean it with allergies which permit us to evade that form of drudgery known as gardening For such summer is indeed the finest time of the year Outdoors With Pete provides a good start for a list of hooks which deal with the out doors interests of the kind of folk described above The wellknown columnist is most at home with those who love the lakes and streams and cottage Its on the library shelves Tramping through woods or across the fields is vastly more in- teresting if we arc familiar with the things which meet the eye Native Trees Of Canada is an au thoritative and wellillustrated work simple to use and invalu able to the tenderfoot The Audubon Guides are standard reference book of the birds of this part of the world It will be a rare bird indeed which we cannot identify quickly from a check of this volume Catching Up For some the summer season provides an opportunity to catch reading we intended to do hut didnt during the busy winter Larger works which may still be on our must list and which arc- available in the library may in clude Churchills Birth Of Britain the first volume of his planned History of he English Peoples If you are not surfeited with politics right now or seek refuge in the heroic past Donald Creigh- tons two volumes on John A The Young Politician and The Old Chieftain may help to explain why modern politi cians seem so dull The second volume is more interesting We wonder if color and candor might not servo to foster and pro tect democracy better than the cult of respectability BestLoved Book If the writer were anxious to establish an appearance of liter acy it is difficult to say what book he would choose to call his bestloved book But as we came upon The Yellow by Pat rick Slater we were reminded of several limes we have read this volume and of the several copies we have bought and lost to friends over the last 20 odd years When we first road and fell in love with this simple book we had never Toronto or the sur rounding countryside Now the whole locale of the story is fa miliar ground and we love It still We recommend it to our friends ASSESSMENT CASK TO JUNK will appear be fore a judge in Toronto on Mon day June on two charges of making a false statement in sign ing his affidavit to the towns as sessment roll He was committed trial when ho appeared in a preliminary hearing here before Magistrate see my new sign Ive switched to Iff Now you can got the famous Texaco gasolines at the Regent Dealers displaying the Texaco sign ft Ski Chief TEXACO FIRE CHIEF Top Sky Chief gasoline with Petto that gives you maximum performance and more milet per dollar And What more YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD AT REGENT DEALERS DISPLAYING THE TEXACO in today the Texaco and Ml up with Top Sky Chief With YOUR REGENT DEALER Regent Refining Canada Ltd