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iwMii...i,.m>ni.ini wuw wi^wwuw â- â- â-  ^mp !9P •I 14' mFAIMFSONT |okl\12ltS5eU Just about a year ago I passed aloiifj: to readers of this column news of a Montana cxpcriintnt in the matter of feeding skim or powdered milk to young [tomato plants. In so doing I unintentionally laid myself open to some of the finest 'needling' I liave ever ex- periencedâ€"and I niiKlit say that, in jny time, I have been needled by experts. * * * Tlic whole trouble was â€" well, you know the old Scots saying about the children of the busy shoemaker always running barefoot. And I had been so busy preaching the possi- bilities 01 milk-fed tomatoes to others that I clean neglected to do anytliinK about my own. • • « But why go into gruesome de- tails. I-ast Summer, in my part of our fair province, it wasn't very favorable to stuft such as tomatoes. And it ieenied that the neighbors formed a habit of leaning over the fence and peering much too in- tently toward my straggly and starved-looking vines. -Xs they turned away I could almost hear them saying to themselves "Milk- fed tomatoesâ€" PHOOOOEY."- * • , ♦ But things have a way of evening themselves up. As a pal of mine used to say, "You'll go along for a spell thinking life is just as bad as it can possibly be; then, all of a sudden, it will take a chant-e â€" and get worse." Anyway, within the last couple of weeks I've run across three people who tried out the milk feeding â€" and are most enthusiastic about it. » • * So here it comes again, just as it was published last March or April. I liaven't had word of any- body trying the treatment on onions as yet. • * ♦ Most of us have heard of such things as ce!ery-fed ducks and, in a bygone day, corn-fed blondes', but 1 must confess that milk-i'ed tomatoes are something new â€" [at least to me. However, that's what they're saying â€" feeding milk to young tomato plants is not only possible, but highly profitable as well. * • * According to Prof. Frank M. Harrington, who is head of horti- cultural research at Montana State College, the milk feeding will not only make the tomato plants grow, They'll mature earlier; the vines will be sturdier; the root systems 50% bigger at transplanting time; and at harvest-time the tomatoes will h? big, solidly-fleshed, with few seeds. ♦ ♦ » As for the yield â€" that from the milk-fed plants will be about double. In fact the milk appears to act very much the same as some of the new growtli-stiuuilating liorniones we hear so much about. ♦ ♦ * In charge of the Montana experi- ments was Dr. Leon Johnson. He dissolved powdered milk in water till it formed a soupy mixture and poured about one-third of an ounce around each new plant the first week it was up. Then he increased the amount one third of an ounce each week for five weeks. He also used buttermilk and skim milk in the same manner. ♦ - » As for the actual results â€" plants that hadn't been given extra plant food of any sort produced at the rate of 6,829 pounds of tomatoes per acre; those receiving skim milk alone yielded at the rate of 9,814 pounds; while plants receiving both skim milk and ammoniated phos- phate averaged 12,374 pounds. * * * One pound of powdered milk Swede Auto â€" To be placed on the in.irket- in June i.s this low-shiiijif, low-priced Swedish motor car. The veliicle's designer, Clae.s Allaiider, left, tries out the runabijut wi'.h a friend in Stockholm. The car will sell for about $386. That very eminent guardian of the hockey twine, Mr. William Durnan, of the Montreal Canadiens, has announced his intcntmn to re- tire at the end of the present sea- son â€" that is, if hockey seasons ever come to an end. which <ve some- times gravely donlit. He will be greatly missed; but for his own sake, we sincerely hope that Large William will stick firmly to his resolution. * » * Durnan makes no bones about his reason for quitting, frankly stating that he wo\ild prefer to end his career with all his mental marbles ir.tact. And with the sort of hockey they play nowadays, and the kind of protection goalmin<>rs entirely fail to receive, this is a rather harder task than many onlookers even begin to suspect. * • * Goal tending, under present con- ditions, is an " 'uryin', scnrryin' " business, ^s the old lady in "The History of Mr. Polly" •â- cniarked after her rescue from a burning building. Your own pla3 crs tend to back in on you and block your view so that you never have a glimpse of halt' the pucks that are hurled your way until they either hit you or land in behind you. Op- posing forwards play "inside home" on you in a manner that wouldn't have been tolerated in the palmiest days of field lacrosse. You are bumped, battered and bruised, as well as be-devilled by the type of loud-mouth that loves to confrre- gate in back of the nets. In fact, it's a wonder that, after a few sea- sons of modern big-time hockey, most of the goalies aren't walking around like punch-goofy fighters, talking to themselves. » * * So, although his absence will leave an aching void â€" especially in the region of the Montreal netsâ€"; we entirely applaud Bill Durnan's resolve to get out when the getting is good. And because â€" as the poet said â€" it's better to decorate the fertilizes 100 young plants in pots, and will take care of even more if grown in flats. Johnson believes that milk-feeding tomatoes will prove practical for both home gar- deners and commercial growers. ' » * * And after the milk had made such a startling showing on toma- toes, Johnson tried it on young onions â€" and with similar results! â€" By Harold Arnett LADDER PAD A SECTION Of INNERTUBEWITH SA\NDUST OR ,„ SHAVINGS MAKES SHOULDER PAD F0RCARRVIN6 LADDER. PAD IS NAILED TO INSIDE OF RWl. FILE HANDLE HOOK POINT ON TAN& HOLDS HANDLE OF FILE . ORIND TAN& TO SHARP POINT, HEAT AND BEND TO FORM POINT. lives of the living than the graves of the dead, we would like to pay kim our meed of tribute. Just how best to go about so doing is rather difficult to (igure out, but we'll try. * * • Well, then, it is hard for any- body who has followed hockey fi;irly closely almost since the days when Lester Patrick and his brother. Prank, invented it, to admit that there are players today that even begin to compare with some of our lierues of old. * ♦ ♦ When Junior comes home, rav- ing over the speed and cleverness of such as Maurice Richard, Syl Apps, Tecder Kennedy. Elmer Lach and the like, it is our custom â€" and that of scores belonging to our generation â€" to give the brash youngster a ))itying smile ^nd start talking abnut Howie Morenz, Cyclone Taylor, Sprague Cleghorn, Dutch N'ghbor, Nels Stuart. "Your stars of today couldn't even carry the spare sticks of guys like those,' we tell him, and sometimes it seems as though he almost believes us. * ♦ ♦ But the truth is mighty and bound to prevail, sooner or later. And if the aforesaid Junior were to come up right now and ask us, "Did you honestly ever sec a better goaltender than Durnan?" we might hem and haw for a while; but in the end we'd be bound to break down and say that we never had. * ♦ ♦ In our time, we have looked at and admired a lot of high-class net- minding. Names like Georges Vczina, Chuck Gardiner, Roy Worters, (ieorge Hainsworth, Lome Cliabot, Harry Holmes and half a dozen others come to mind whenever there is a hockey fanning bee. * * ♦ But while wc may have seen more brilliant single-game exhibi- tions than anything we ever saw Durnan put on, when wc picture Bill over the whole span of his National Hockey League ca- reer, we are afraid we'll have to admit that if he wasn't the best that ever stood between a pair of hockey uprights, he'll do to tie to until the top man comes along. Maybe that admission is a sure sign that age is softening us up, but here it is: * » ♦ Bill Durnan was the Putstanding performer in a highly difficult and nerve-wracking profession, and wc wish him all the best now that he's decided he has had enough. Praise Be An old Scottish couple were listening to a broadcast service, the husband sitting back smoking his pipe, his wife in deep contempla- tion. Half an hour passed in sil- ence. 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Mean Trick A farmer's barn was burned and the agent for the insurance com- pany duly turned up and told him that his firm would build another bam exactly like the destroyed one instead of paying the claim in cash. The farmer was furious. "If that's the way your company does busi- ness," he roared, "you can just cancel the insurance on my wife!" f^OW AUAILABLE- FAMOUS BURDIZZO WIIH CORD STOP) The Improved and Humane Method of Bloodless Castration Cascade wheatâ€" New hijfh yielding soft spring- wheat. CertKletl No. 1. $3 buahel. Harry Sirantr, Hensall. Ont. SI'RAY WITH A SPRA>iOTOR SPUw^YERS for orchard (enffirie and tractor driven), row crops Uraction), weed, dis- infecting-, white washins:, cuttle apraylns and fire fiffhtins; farm wukohb. Shallow Well PresBiire Systems; "TIFA" <Foff Applicator); Portable Irrigation Systems with aluminum pipe, Buckner Sprinklers. McDowell Coup- linifH. Free catalogue?*. Write today. Spra- motor Ltd.. 1000 York St., London, Ontario. APPLE TREES. Ptars. 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