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we fel o a GR Be Eo 1 -- ue oD es a fr T g : iw rs. S hs ---- -- Sp ~ - CE gm AE SAE NE Ne) - MATSAPADEE ARSE ea i las SY EAM AIRE Fg Aeris HE SEER stig te de Sek -------- THE GREEN THUMB "How Does Your Garden Grow? By Gordon"L. Smith Make Plans Now. There are I ts of things a gard ener can do before the ground is scady for planting, and it is not a ! hit too. carly, either, to start looking around for damage, to sce what shrubs and flowers have come safe ly through the winter, to niake of paps to be replaced. work, plan- a note In this nirg for the coming season is the important and probably the preparatory most most pleasant. A good seed cata logue will help. In this® will he found important points about hardi: ne s5,- colour, time of blooming or, in the case of vegetables, time of m-turity. Remembering these facts will help prevent mistakes, such as planting small things behind larger; getting big vegeubles crowded ton close together, having chishing colours or lon; tervals when thege is no bloom at all Jy uoting carefully the tive of | blooming or the number of days to maturity, it is possible to plan and create flower gardens that will bloom contin ously" until frost, and a continuous supply of the very freshest of vegetables. In both cases in addidon t using early, medium and late varieties, it is also advisable to plant several times, say, once a little ahéad af normal, then normal, then later than nor- mal, This will spread out vege: tables a dd flowers, too. Grass Seed Early, Too Grass loves cool weather. If it doesn't' get its start while there is plenty of "moisture in the ground and before the sun gets too hot new seeding will not give best re- sults. So, just as soon as one can walk on the ground without getting one's shoes really muddy, is the time to plant new lawns or re- pair old ones. The soil should be worked as fine and lev-] as possible. It is much easier to get a lawn level before the grass is sown than after: wards. With new lawns work soil thoroughly, then voll or: allow to settle and work again. Not only does this preliminary cultivation tend to get the ground level but at also kills the weeds and here again the job is casier before the lawn is es:ablished than afterwards, Good seed with lawns is vitally important. For 'special _ purposes like. shady places thére special types of grass or mixtures. Select a day with as little. wind as ¢ possible to sow the grass seed, and sow it both across and length- wise. Sow plenty of sced and fer tilize. Thick, well-fed grass will crowd. out most weeds, 0 "Harry," said the auditor's wife, "aren't attics the most wonderful things to have around?" are "Yes, indeed!" agreed the agree-, able man. "What did you discover now, darling?" > "The new look," replied the hap- py housewife, "in an old trunk." T-I-M-B-E-R-R:R !'-- Because of newly-developed processes of handling and marketing, hemlock--oncee looked on with disfavor by lumbermen--is rapidly developing into a "big business" proposition. Iere a tree is being "topped" in Western Canada, Hemlock, Once Neglected, | Now Basis Of Big Industry Hemlock trees have probably heen gyowing in British Columbia for as many centuries as they have in other Canadian provinces, but it was only a few years ago that someone learned how to convert. them into a profit- able business. ' Rich stands of Douglas fir and cedar-- timber that produces the "pay dirt" in the lumbering business -- attracted all the attenion of the tim: ber operators, and the lowly but plentiful hemlock = was completely overlooked. And no wonder--ior it paid only about five dollars per thou- sand hoard fect. : The story of the new hemlock in- dustry in British Columbia has just been told in pictorial form, and will likely be coming your way on the rural film- programs now showing -in many of the counties of Ontario. The story is presented in the new "news- rec!" series of the 'National Film Board, cntitled, "Lye | Witness". De- signed to bring -infdrmation bout Canadians to Canadigns, the series will be presented, one reel for every program on the rural film circuits' from now on. Saw Possibilities The sturdy hemlock, as we started" out to.say, was neglected: -- until a Czechoslovakian family, used: to handling this wood in their native land, arrived in Canada some nine years ago, the victims of Ilitler's persecutions. & val. To "them, the stands of hemlocks represented 'a gold mine. In spite of the gloomy headshakings of the old- timers, they sct out to market the "billets. - fennis court and a moving picture hemlock. They" "had a secret, of * course; and it lay in the proper grad- ing of the timber. ' The new "hemlock family" soon developed into a flourishing company. To-day there are over 3500 employ: ces. Wages are high, and living and | working conditions are excellent -- all because the Czechs knew how to make the hemlock pay. Because of their skill the price per thousand hoard feet has risen over five times its- 1939 value. . oe *. Correct Grading Most of the operations in the woods ace mechanized. Power saws, trac: "tors, crancs are'to be seen in all their operations. At (he company mill, experienced graders grade the hem- - lock at all stages of its transforma- tion into the finished product. Wood that is straight-grained and. free of knots is planed and left in long lengths. It is specially "cured" so that it can be used for interior dec- orating as. well. as outside work. Kunotly wood, and wood weakened by curved grains is cut np into small- er scctions of all shapes and sizes. Intelligent research has found new markets for these smaller and form- erly unprofitable bits of wood. One of the readiest markets hag' been the food packing industry. The small pieces, which have no odour, make excellent packing cases. "The camp in which the workers and their. families live is as up-to-date as possible. Recreation grounds and halls are side by side with attractive The camp even boasts a theatre. : ie == -- What happens to a 14,000-foot cloud bank when the wea bod ther-makers go to work on it is shown in this Signal Corps photo, taken 44 minutes-after the clouds had been "seeded" with dry ice. } gh In the opinion of many scientists, up to now the various "rain-mak- ing"! experiments in different parts of the world have been the cause of more" headaches than actual mois: fure, The government'. "foolin' around with God's work has been blamed by the skeptis for\ the forest fires in Maine, New York's record snow, oo the hurricane in. Savannah, Ga... last . "fall, the high price of corn'and prac - ically: every other weather calaim? ity of tlie past-year. A western rancher has filed a claim for the exclusive righ's to use the clouds zhove his property, Two ! "states are about to su¢ cach other to, "their determine legal ownership of the clouds passing over, 'their territory. A delegation from the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce recently ar- "rived in Washington to demand that, a rainmaking project be set up in state ~ to 'prevent further dro- 1s. And thé manager of a sor "ern baseball club has appealed { + help, claiming that a rival leaguc ig sabotaging him by causing) all his home games to be rained out, Those a.¢ just samples of the storm, z ; Most of the trouble, a spokesman for the weathermakers says, is caus: cd by exaggerated claims made for the possibilities of making snow and i So far, he says, the best - area across the center is a channel of precipitation, 1.2 miles at its widest point. Scien- tists figure thus far they've caused more headaches than they have rain, % Weather-Makers' Biggest Headache thay can do is cause a litte rain or snow to fall from clouds which are - just about*to produce rain or snow anyway. . You can't make it rain. or snow if the proper clouds aren't in the vicinity, he points out. But having gone only this far in" the rescarch, the expert claims, has stirred up enough trouble for the future, He envisions. "cloud raid: ing" by competing farmers or com: munities in dry areas, Sceding a "ripe" cloud with dry ice, plain water or silver iodide at just the right time could divert rain from one district to another, . Tie proper rationing of clouds is ultimately going to have to be de: cided by a Government agency, the expert predicts. / Plenty pretty, she was, too. "thing for you!" "and stopped the car. > MATT CHRISTOPHER I" WAS a righ afternoon, "with the sun flashing on hali a dozen sails that bellied 'in the soft wind on the shimmering lake. Driving along on the good road in his dilapidated car, Stanley Ervay had sid visions of another luckless day. Those two fish poles and the cigar hox of artificial flies in the back seat were looking for new owners--, special owners who were worthy and desefvine. He could find no one. who seemed ta.peed those two poles, Poles he and Maggie "had no gered for any more. Suddenly he saw the voung man. The young man's bowed head and slow gait suggested distress. Also, about a hundred feet ahead, he saw a.trim-figured young lady. She was walking quickly. It was quite ob- vious to Stanley that something was wrong. Had he really discovered a pair of prospects? le came to a grinding halt beside the young man. "Hello. Want a ride? | got some- "Okay, what's the gag?" Stanley laughed. These young peo- ple "nowadays! "No gag. It's an offer, providin'--just like | said. But first, tell me. You're in trouble, ain't you?" ) "Could be. But that's my affair." "Nope." The reply was abrupt. "That's the cure, son. Fishing 101 wonld a wound. know 1t sounds crazy. But there aut a better remedy for a situation like you'd gotten yer- self into. 1's better than listenin' to jazz music, or takin' a walk, or plane ride just to get away from everybody. Most people don't know tl, but when they do those silly things they're just breaking their hearts mito a lot nore little pieces." N reached for the heal sick hearts iu like medicine The young man door handle. "This is where 1 get off, mister. Guess I've taken the wrong buns." Stanley grabbed his arm. "Wait a second, son. I ain't too old not to know what I'm talkin' about, and 1 ain't crazy, either. The secret is sit- ting in the boat--the two of you, out there on the lake." : The young man frowned: "In a boat? The two. of us?" ' "You can sit acrost from each other an' brood your heads off, but you can't run away: from each other like you're doing now. Sit tight, son," he said, turning to the wheel. "That's her, ain't it, walkin' up ahead there? - Mighty in a hurry to get home like?" . The car chugged along. Presently, Stanley halted it alongside the girl. "Hello?" said Stanley. "Hop in back, will you?" Her eyes flicked to the young man. She started to walk on. "UII rain," Stanley called. "You'll get soakedsto the skin. Sce that rain- cloud up ahead?" 23 + ; ,, Stanley turned off toward the laké Several row- boats were draw upon shore. "Wait here a minute, folks," Stan- dey said. He went to a small building nearby, keyed open a door, and re: turned with a, pair. of well-polished oars. He placed them in the oarlocks "of onc of the boats, then went to the car and got the two fish poles and the cigar box of flies. The girl stared wide-eyed. "But I've never fished before! Anyway, JITTER what is this all about? And, what about the rain?" Her bushand clutched her hur- ricdly by the arm. "Oh; don't argue with him, Mae, and get in that boat hefore he changes his mind, Didn't vou ever hear that t's hest' to sat- isfy a crazy man if you want to keep him happy 7" The voung man pushed the out and the "girl jumped in. Jioat "Happy , landings!" cried Stanley, © waving Smiling, he watched them go out, then turned, a little <adly, 'back to his car. Mager wouldn't. care, now, that he'd given the poles away. They fad fished with them -many times while she'd heen alive. Anyway, they might do good in the hands af that nice, voung couple. He and Maggie, he recalled; must have heen their aces w hen somchody had eiven them the fish poles. Britich Athlstos Train Hard On Whale Steaks the Crew: for famous Oxford © and Cambridge Boat Race, due to be rowed at the end of March, are training hard. A pretty grim prob- lem has faced both of them---food: and they've tried out various ways of adding to their rations. The "Oxford team has a large quantity of whale steaks - hardly @ substitute for the roast beef of pre-war years, hut better than nothing, Last semester some of 'the mien in the trial eights had secured frozen whale meat kept in the college ice hox, and served 10 them with thes dinner. This se: mester pretty well all the rowing men are ecting, whaler . x J a* Cambridge has bought a Boat "Club cow, and members of the crew d@re=ledrning to Cambridge, and making a wel come addition to "the crew's one quart a week milk ration. 3read and potato rationing have hit both sides--they get avenous after a hard afternoon on the river and there's nothing much to fil) up with, The race itself will use us 3,000 calories, and each prac tice costs every man 2,500 calories. That dosn't leave much out of the daily United Kingdom ecverage "of 2,700 calorics a day, to ride a cycle home. The Cambridge coach in- - sists .on a hot cup of meat extract --not rationed--immediately after rowing, He says his crew's phy- sique is just as good as pre-war, _ but they're not as well nourished. * » * Whale steak, -when available is increasing in popularity with Britain's housewives too. All have - their own ideas on how to cook it. The secret of success of whale meat lies in the cooking: Wlen 1t has ® been skilfully prepared and served with onjons or suitable sea- sonin +, many people have been deceived into thinking they were cating beefsteak. In Herman Melville's tale "Mo- by' Dick," : the sccond mate gives his recipe for "cooking whale: -- "Hold the steak in one hand and a live coal to it with the .other; that done, dish it." This" method, however, does not receive the ap- proval of the exerts, who all ad- vise fairly slow cooking! Noisy Fish Break Silence of "Deep" Fish that laugh, whistle and make a clacking noise with their teeth resembling lower plate wob- ble are the bright-hued stars of a movic i® the making. + Technicians using special under- seas = cameras. and hydrophones have been recording the strange noises for many weeks. the picture proves, arc pretty noisy, and the. ocean's. depths, referred to in song and story as the "silent deep" are still deep but anything but silent Navy underwater listening posts discovered during the war that fish were ~ aquatic magpies. = Surprised schools of fish sometimes cut- loose with a racket rivaling that of an approaching enemy battle fleet, Some of the fish ii the movie, titled "Voice of the Deep", actu- ally sound as' though . whistling, Others emit laughing noises and those with the appar- ently lower plate wobble neverthe- less have long and very sljarp and well anchored molars. milk her! ; She's "ept on a farm just outside Most fish, they are' New Record-- Duddy Boyle soars 65 Teet to a new water ski jump record at Cypress Gardens, Fla, beating the previous mark by two feet. Hurricane Chasing Is Hazardous Job For Cameraman - In a sailing vessel (or any other «hip for that matter) it might seem plainly the part of wisdom to bend every effort to avoid hurricanes. However, men have been known to literally chase hurricanes in windjammers for the express purpose of getting the ship's decks "swept with waves and some oi the ship's can- vas torn to shreds by the howling winds. : * * * These hurricane chasers go out at the bidding of Hollywcod mo- tion. picture studios who want ac- tion shots of heavy weather in its native haunts, says a writer in the Christian Science - Monitor. So, of course, a camera. crew gdes, along to record the required film footage. The life of .a camera man on a hurricane-hunting expedition may be quite exciting: He may, if the script requires it, be lashed to a masthead 8Q {icet. or more A the air, his camera pointing vertically downward to get angle shots of deck action. "As the ship rolls in heavy seas the masthead may swing through a 25-foot arc, with the result. that part of the time there is nothing but foam-flecked water below "the daring photog- rapher. * *e ok Other picture requirements may make it necessary for the camera. crew to perch on scaf- folding outside the ship's hull off - the port or starboard bow. From such a vanfage point interesting LL * . Who: Wouldn't? There was a young man of Maur- itius ° : : Who used to. get frightfully vitius . Whenever his spouse Walked out of the house Aud left him to wash up the ditius. ay lashing ~ pictures ~ oi the ship smashing heavily into mountainous waves may be recorded. However, ship sinkings and close-ups of sca-storm deck action" < ND are practically always taken "with- in studio walls. There, in huge tanks, the water is "lashed to a fine but controlled fury by wind and wave -machines and hydraulic "jacks cause the vessel to rock with, "the waves or list and stagger as it is about to slip beneath the waves. : * 'Worse Luck ° The men were dining in a group in an army camp, "discussing any subject that arose to pass the time. = One of the subjects was rein- carnation, and one of the men was a firm 'believer and was giving his views to the corporal, one of the most disliked men in the camp. "Yes," he insisted, dic we always return as sometifing or someone clse." "Rubbish!" snapped the corpor- al. "Do you nfean to say that if I "died IT might worm?" : "Not a hope!" put in onc of the men, seizing an opportunity. "You're never the same thing twice!" A' new chemical process makes it possible to produce stockings that won't run, pants that won't shine, suits that won't wrinkle and woollens that wan't shrink. 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