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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., SEPT. 15, 1938 Farm Forum 1. Q. 'Will you please advise me if lime would take the place of fertilizer (second place) when preparing the spring soil for seeding, and also on the corn soil, and would it benefit the hay and pastures? 1 do not feel that I can afford to buy commercial fertilizer, and 1 have heard lime is a good substitute, and much cheaper. 1 have been told my-land needs lime." -- W. C. M. of Lincolmn Co. A. Regarding the use of lime I would say definitely that lime will not take the place of fertilizers, any more than a horse will take the place of a dairy cow. Lime is used to sweeten the soil; fertilizers carry plant constituents such as Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, and Potash, none of which are carried by lime. If your soil needs lime to correct its acidity, lime is what you must add because fertilizer will not correct soil acidity. What you had better do is to nend a sample of your soil to the Department of Chemistry, and let ns test it and advise you what treatment the soil requires. In sending the sample, I would suggest that you send about a cupful in a small cotton bag. 2. Q. "Last Fall I sowed Fall Wheat ah The Wheat wa: too long, and i Will the fertiii: to airy other gt this Spring on the same would it be advisable b Spring Wheat on the si Is there more than one Spring Wheat, and if kind is the best. H. J. Co. th fertilizer, treated and stood did not come up. r be of any value in that land? Or ) sow the kind of so, which of Halton L. Tii( re is no reason why Spring >r any other Spring grain your Fall Wheat field ot benefit from the fertili- is applied to ^our Fall re the Wheat did not would suggest that in spring grain you fol- n the Fall Wheat ^ ly found th; crop. Hence, same drill r( Fall Wheat i the benefit the four cor . n is general-t fertilizer drilled in res better results than ilizer broadcast. This the young -growing iw you drill along the ws as followed when -as sown, in all prob- the tny instanc- Officer Blinded Watching Eclipse Sightless for Days, South African's Vision New Restored CAPE TOWN.--Suddenly going blind while on his beat, a city policeman named Barnard was found by another officer groping his way along trying to find police headquarters. Removed to hospital, the suggestion was made the case was one of "eclipse blindness" caused by watching the eclipse of the sun the day before without sufficient protection for the eyes. Blindness thus caused has often resulted in permanent loss of sight. Fortunately, after four days' treatment, Barnard found that he could see, though imperfectly. Blindness returned at intervals of a few hours, accompanied by violent pains in the head; but after a day or two Barnard found his sight completely restored and there are hopes now that he has been permanently cured. Electric current rates in Shanghai, China, have just been increased by nearly 25 per cent. Classified Advertising LYONS' MID-SUMMER SALE Reconditioned Furniture This is a splendid opportunity to buy really high class, reconditioned l^ltU1'eBviry f™Uo.°en "hollwU, cleaned, reconditioned and sold under a positive money back guarantee of satisfaction. All goods ctar«-receipt of money order. Special at-*oc Mahogany bed room suite, ity and full size bed with sagless Fu'ring and new mattress. V*5*' dresser, chiffonier, full size rich v/; I -.- • finish, dresser. $59 <■ . ffonier, full size bed, sagless tpri :u and new all felt $19.50 UlV,V'extension tab?. $24!50 l"rHukt'"xtTn1! ebaiis."'8 ""' ' "her upholste e $39 buff,,,,';'..' l a bi'net! ex ten-Perfect. $49 jvai'ntt nr. . I' buffet, extension Uble, .-:h:a„ •mo'.net and 6 leader uphols.ered chairs. $79 ™[£ chairs In bin $89 ^rKl* buffet, chin iSS.VS 1'RACTICAL, SCHOOL ladies'^ and^gentlemen^s gar- Peterborough^ r |300) large t'chairs. Per- ▼1AJ7 mately cabinet, eroado $19 Chest«rfl«l< repp t!>ria! Marshall, spring-Smart .5 ste -ed in 1 reversible Marfh show-wood front $*> Marshall spring! $55 S -;;:!.: Ible Marshall cu-Wood facing-*. chiffoniers, ted*;' tS'mniieV' '"Mohair suite $225) revers-. walnut show TRADE-IN DEPARTMENT 478 Yonge it., Toronto IMSTl JP YOU LIKE < or pain-. --Wr t <No Fee). O've >rSA\V. SKETCH >pe arid oreupa- ULL (KLINE) . SEED ■ crop. KlincManlifa. • HARE AND HARDY ORNAMENT-als--Send for our latest fall planting catalogue. Full descriptions fruit for the order. 'Only in good condi- TY WANTED YOU CAN HA' WriteUforVre modern, self- .LM DEVEUIPKD- UMBER LEFT HAoYE-- heARD .SEND CS YOUR TRACTOR MAG] to and General, P.. pairs. « e a Manfr., 855 Bay St., Toronto. THE SILVER LINING I had a wisdom tooth pulled out, So I'm not as wise as I used to wuz But this I know, without a doubt, Less brains don't hurt like the toothache duz. Gob _ -At the dance Thursday night my suspenders broke right in the middle of the dance floor." She -- "Weren't you terribly em- "No, my ] had , plagued by authors who sent him their books to read, had a regular form of receipt mailed back, stating: "Mr. - intends to lose no time in perusing your book." There is a great deal of satisfaction in looking back if the training of children has turned out well; O'Brien had five or six husky sons that attracted attention: Clancy -- "'Tis a fine lot of boys ye have, O'Brien." O'Brien -- "They are that. And I never had to raise me hand against them except in self-defense." Nothing annoys a woman more than having her friends drop in and find the house looking just like it usually does. "How e you, son- Boston Boy -- "That's hard to say, sir. According to my latest school tests T have a psychological age of 11 and a moral age of 10. Anatomically, I'm 7; mentally, I'm 9.' But I suppose you refer to my chronological age. That's 8 -- but nobody pays any attention to that these days!" SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS Momentum is something to give a person when they are leaving. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. The letters "M.D." signify Mentally Deficient." Vesuvius is a volcano, and if you climb to the top you will see a creator smoking. Science is material but religion is immaterial. READ IT OR NOT! For every dollar spent on books in the United States, there is $27 spent on chewing gum. Detective (to office boy) -- Is it Mr. Jones or his partner which reach the office first, as a rule?" Office Boy (turning red) -- Well, Mr. Jones at first was always last, but later he began to get earlier till at last he was first, though before he had always been behind. He soon got later again, though of late he has been sooner, and at last he got behind as before. But I ex--pect he'll be getting earlier sooner or later." Coleman Lantern Defies Hurricane Hurricane winds exceeding 100 miles per hour cannot extinguish the light of a Coleman Pressure Mantle Lantern, according to tests conducted recently by engineers of the Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas. A standard Coleman Gasoline Lantern, Model No. 242-B. was placed in a wind-tunnel--a device designed to create winds of any desired velocity for use in the testing of airplane parts and construction. The lantern then was subjected to a gale of 105 miles per hour. Mr. Tom Salter, the aircraft engineer in charge of the test, gave the Coleman Lamp and Stove Co. an affidavit stating that the Coleman Lantern would give dependable lighting service under this :errific wind velocity. The extreme power of a hundred-mile-an-hour wind can be better appreciated when it is remembered that a genuine hurricane, as officially defined by the Weather Bureau, is a wind "exceeding 75 miles per hour." Newspaper readers will recall the many hurricanes which have battered the state of Florida. In 1935 a hurricane which struck Florida literally demolished almost every structure within its thirty-mile path. More recently, on Sept. 1 of this year, newspaper reports described a violent typhoon which battered Tokyo, Japan. According to reports, the typhoon "left in its wake vast destruction across East-em Japan." Hundreds of people were injured and many were killed. Railroad and communication services were paralyzed. And the wind, said by the weather bureau to be the worst in 30 years, was blowing 75 miles per hour--or 30 miles per hour less than the wind resisted by this gasoline lantern. Coleman engineers explain that the Coleman Lantern's ability to withstand high winds is due to the manner in which the heat resisting glass globe is designed to deflect moving air away from the lighted mantels. Openings which admit air , for combustion are sized and placed in such a manner as to prevent direct blasts of air from striking the point of illumination. This same globe protects the Coleman Lantern from insects and from rain, making it the greatest outdoor light. In Manufacturing Washing Glass Market Recovery Is Felt--Production Is Well Over $200,-000,000 Yearly, Survey Indicates; Plants Are In Operation Again Following Slump z*%Of Several Years Manufacturing is making a steady comeback in the Prairie Provinces after drastic declines during the depression years and gross production value now is well over $200,000,000 a year, government figures disclose. Definite Upward Trend The Dominion Bureau of Statistics survey of manufacturing industries of the Prairie Provinces, Spectacular Gold Strike Made Near Yellowknife North West Territory Is Found To Be Rich in Gold Ore-- Mining District Spotted From Plane -- Others Are Staking Claims What may turn out to be one of the most spectacular gold strikes in Canadian history, made July 22 on a lake 30 miles east of Yellow-knife, has been made public by Fred W. Thompson, veteran prospector of Haileybury. Winston Norman, writing in the Globe and Mail, says: I visited the find by/airplane several days ago and got the story from Thompson, under pledge of secrecy. I saw gold in seams and nuggets on quartz veins in the hitherto despised "hot" sediments. Future Is Assured Thompson, who came to the Yellowknife rush with his brother, Robert, last April, made the find in company with Roy Lundmark of Wabigoon, Ontario. They were put down at Discovery Point in a little red and green Waco seaplane flown by Norbert Miller of Toronto. Colin S. Johnston, Toronto engin- A HAPPY REMINDER! "VA While in town rrJz'v ) «e* your c°py of iXsM this week', Issue No. 38--'38 eer, expressed this opinion during a visit to the scene: "The future of the Yellowknife area is assured. This is a great day for Northwest Territories and all Canada. It is the most significant turn that the whole Yellowknife rush has taken. It means that there is a fertile field for prospecting in all the me-tasediment belts which were hitherto shunned." Gleam of Free Gold Thompson made his original discovery from an airplane while flying over a desolate and weirdly folded area of rock. "I first saw veins from the air about six weeks ago," he told me, "and had been trying to get over here ever since. Miller brought Lundmark and me and put us down on this lake. We made a traverse, and two hours after we landed we found free gold a quarter mile from the lake, in one of three parallel veins each about five feet wide. A Discovery A Day "We started staking right away. In the course of staking we ran onto a number of other veins which panned. Since that time we have been averaging a discovery a day, either high-grade gold or rock which pans." Most important of all the veins uncovered by the Ontario prospector is: "Treasure Island." On this little patch of rock and muskeg, surrounded by waters of the nameless lake, I saw a quartz vein exposed for 60 feet with 35 foot width. I saw free gold gleaming under two feet of water where lake slime had been scrubbed away, and handfuls of uncrushed muck which leaves a heavy tail in the pan, mixed with coarse gold." DIXIE plug smoking tobacco while based on 1936 figures, the latest available, show a definite improvement trend. Gross production value was $331,601,000 in 1929 and slipped to a low of $164,889,000 in 1933. In 1935 it climbed to $219,483,-000 and the next year pushed ahead to $247,707,000. Sala wages knocked down i froi $54,- during the depr< 915,000 in 1929 to a low of $33, 109,000 in 1933. Recovery was obvious in 1936 when they totaled $42,832,000. While no definite conclusions could be arrived at concerning the present state of manufacturing in the West because the 1937 and 1938 figures are not available, it was assumed that manufacturing was continuing to forge ahead. Meat Packing Leads Slaughtering and meat packing was listed as the leading manufacturing industry with gross production value in 1936 of $52,-519,000. Flour milling was next with value of $36,715,000 and butter and cheese third with value of $23,219,000. Other industries with values were: Petroleum products, $15,526,000; railway rolling stock, $13,901,000; printing and publishing, $8,852,000; bread and other bakery products, $7,-891,000; breweries, $6,900,000. Green, Brown, Blue For Men This Autumn And Winter You Will See Fresh Tones in All of Them; Shirts To Blend What will be the fashionable colors for men's suits this autumn and winter? And what will be the correct accessories to accompany them? The British Color Council has answered these questions. Blue, brown and green are suggested for suits. Two new blues are introduced, a dark shade reflecting the blue-green of the sea; college blue, a darker but warmer tint. Blue-green is indicated for the lining of both. Brown also has two fresh colors: a warm, deep shade named Barbadoes; a darker tone described as Indies brown. A lining matching the former, suits both cloths. The council further sponsors regent green, a deep shade with lining in accord. Selecting the Right Tie Which are the most attractive shirts to go with these suits? For the blue group, apart from white, there are three shades of blue and a gray that matches the sea gull's feathers. To accompany brown kits, we have cream, ivory, parchment, and pine-frost, the last a light green. Green outfits require shirts in gradations of that color, medium gray with a touch of green, silver-grey. Men are keen on ties and the council gives guidance to becoming selections. For blue suits, chocolate, Oxford blue, peony red and purple, navy find favor. Champagne, cream, maroon and peat brown represent suitable ties for brown kit. While silver grey, bottle green, Cambridge blue and gold pass the test with green clothes. This should help those who give ties as presents. Sally Victor has brought out a "drum major's" high cuffed hat in beaver lined with contrasting velvet and with a mounting pheasant feather. fNEURITIS ] One thing that helps is to M «"'?. Then r'ub°the liniment Pain eases off! M MINARDS LINimeNT What Science * Is Doing * TWO NEW SATELLITES The Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced that two new satellites of the planet Jupiter have been discovered by its Mt. Wilson Observatory in California. Jupiter, largest of the planets, was the first heavenly body to be studied with a telescope. Galileo, with the first crude instrument, a wooden tube fitted with lenses and only about two feet long, discovered four satellites of the planet in 1610. Subsequently five others were found. The satellites announced today have been designed as "Numbers 10 and 11." "MIDGET SUN" PERFECTED Perfection of "midget sun" in the form of a tiny mercury lamp that produces from a thread of metallic vapor no larger than a toothpick light twelve times as brilliant as the ordinary 1,000-watt incandescent filament lamp and gives three times the amount of light for the same current consumed, was announced simultaneously by the General Electric Company and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. The mercury vapor attains a brilliance of about one-fifth of that of the sun's surface. The new lamp is expected ts revolutionize lighting practice in a number of fields. SOUND AFFECTS VISION Sound improves the visibility of some colors and interferes with the seeing of others. Results of an investigation on a single color were reported by P. A. Yakolev, of the Helmholtz Institute, of Ophthalmology in Moscow, in 1935. A report of a more extensive series of experiments is communicated by him in "The Journal of the Optical Society of America." There are important implications in these experiments, not only physiological, but psychological as well. Interdependent relationships between taste and smell are well known. These Russian experiments indicate that there are similar relationships between hearing and seeing. According to them a picture seen in silence win have its color values changed when viev t of suffic DON'T suffer with Stem; Rheumatism, Neuritis, ' Learn to Type at Home $1 Weekly Buys a CORONA Thorncliffe Park Racing Starts SATURDAY TRACES mm DAILY # Admission $1.00 First Race 2 p.m. F. S. Living.ton, General Mgr. R. W. Ca.Mey, See'y-Treas.