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-.^ THEFASMFIOMT |okiv12as^ The Spring cleanup season is litre again, ami it's time for burning dried grass, leaves, trasli, brush and all the otlirr odds and ends that gather around a place during the winter. Hut before you start, give a thought to this- HOW MANY PKOI'I.K WILL MEET DEATH BECAUSE OF SUCH CLEAX- UPS? * * * I haven't the full statistics for Canaila, or the United States citlier. But I did sec recently that last spring, in the State of Iowa alone, no les-i than fifteen people met death through these Spring bon- fires; also, that most of such vic- tims were children under ten years old, or adults over sixty. » • t To get the trash burned up with- out undue risk of life or limb, it will pay to follow these simple rules. ♦ t » ONE: Don't leave bonfires or brush fires unattended. * * * TWO: Burn trash or rubbish in covered wire enclosures, or in in- cinerators. • * • THREE: Start open fires ONLY in the center of large cleared areas. * * * FOUR: Keep your fires small by adding only small amounts of trash at a time. ; • * • FIVE: Don't .start gra^s or rub- bish fires on a windy day. • * * .SIX: Don't start bonfires late in the day, or around mealtime, when you can't be there to watch them. * * â- !( GEVEN: Never use coal oil, gas- oline, or any other inflammable liquid cither to start a fire or to help keep it going. * • » EIGHT: Always stand on the upwind side of a fire. If your clothing should happen to catch fire, DON'T START TO RUN. Instead, roll on the ground and keep your head upwind. A blanket, sack or coat may be used to smother flames. » • * And now, something of interest â€" I hope â€" to those of you who raise chickens. Last year, out in the mid- dle west, demonstration flock owners were divided into two groups; those that crowded chicks by allowing less than half a square foot per chick up to eight weeks old, and those who allowed that much or more. • * * The crowded group averaged 15 per cent mortality; the uncrowdcd group lost only 6 per cent. Cost of pro<Iuction in the first group was 3')'/2 cents a pound; in the second it was only 31 cents. Com- ment is unnecessary; the facts speak for themselvesi • • » If your chicks show a tendency to pile or crowd at night, your brooder house may be to blame. W. R. Whitfield, writing in Wal- laces Farmer, has some worth- while comments and suggestions regarding this. • * * Improper temperature conditions cause most crowding o- piling. The trouble usually shows up when chicks are from a few weeks old up to roosting time. And the dan- gerous time of day is about sun- down, or when chicks no longer can sec to eat. ♦ ♦ * If all your brooder house win- dows are in the south wall, you are more likely to have crowding trouble. The old-fashioned string of south windows make that side of the house cooler and keep it lighted longer. The light encour- Look, No Hands â€" Tony Rocca, one of the grunt-aml-proan set's more versatile jierfonners, disdains the use of coninion- place hcadlocks and toeholds, preferring- to flatten his opi)onent with an indelicate flyiiipf kick to tiie jaw. Vietiiu of the unorth- odox treatment in tlii.s match is Ali Haba, wlio would have done better with the aid of his Forty Tiiieves â€" lie lost the bout. ages chicks to collect near the windows for late-in-thc-<l.iy eating. Then the coolness causes tlieni to pile up when darkness falls. * « * The trouble is worse under warm - room brooder conditions â€" when oil or coal brooders are used. * « * Crowding doesn't often happen with electric brooding, probably because lights usually are used with that kind of brooder. The brooder light seems to cut down on crowd- ing, even when housing conditions aren't so good. * * * Piling seldom is reported in a brooder house which has ihe right number of windows in the right places. In one up-to-date experi- mental brooder house, for in- stance, there is just one window in each of three walls â€" cast, south, west. That means there is little difference in either light or tem- perature over the entire floor area. * » * So chicks don't crowd to one side to eat just before sundown. They're scattered over the house to finish their eating; so when darkness comes they can sense the hover's heat and find their way back to a warm spot for their night's sleep. ; » * ♦ If you have piling-up trouble be- cause your brooder house is old- fashioned, you can fix things up in a hurry. Just remove all but one window on the south side (and cover roof windows), then add one to both east and west walls. Your house will be a lot safer for brood- ing in any kind of weather. * * • If you're suspicious of this idea, try this test: Cover the extra south windows with cardboard. If you have four, five or six windows on the south, cover the middle ones and leave just those on each end in use. If that improves the situa- tion â€" as it probably will â€" then you can go ahead with a mor perman- ent rearrangement of windows. Present Iowa State College re- commendations call for not more than one window for each 10 linear feet of wall space in brooder houses. At the church children';; party: Oh, Vicar, will you sing yonr .song to the children now, or shall we let them enjoy themselves for an- other half-hour? Vessed in top hat and pitch from the back tor border. Most of Vl it hard to buy his ^st-dominalcd zone. PY aSixbvtO A favorite occupation of base- ball and hockey fans, when they have nothiiif,' better to do and sometimes when they have is pick- ing the order of finish before the season begins. Most of us iire satis- fied to pick tlie teams wt think will finiLli on top or, at the most, those that will be first, Seconal and third. ♦ * * Howov.r, there are some real sporting lni;;s v,lio go ri;Tht down tlie line from first to ei.i;lith â€" in baseball, that it. .\nd if you imagine this is an easy thing to <lo v.e might say that the odds against predict- ing the cxaci order of finish in cither major league are 40,400 to L The odds against picking both of them correctly L6.3.S,702,400. » • » (If yon doubt the correctness of either of the above figures, get out your slide rule and dop.; it out yourself â€" or else put in a beef to Arthur Daley of The New York Times, from wliom we swiped them.) * * * All this serves as notice that we are about to make our am.iial Na- tional and American League pre- dictions, and if they comj to you a little bit late we apologize and hope you'll be able to catch up on any sleep you may have lost await- ing tlieni. We shall not try and pick more than one in each loop, finding it hard enough to get two into the correct slots, let alone a dozen or more. (Last year we picked iioston Red Sox and Brook- lyn Dodgers, but had the first men- tioned knocked of? in a last-minufe photo finish, as some of you may recall. 1 * * * In the .^merican League our sentimental choice would be either the Philadelphia .'\thletics or the Detroit Tigers; and when we first began peering into our much bat- tered crystal ball, it appeared as though the latter must get the call. Hut the more we studied the respective strengths of the respec- tice clubs, the more it looked as though we would have to settle, once again, for the Boston Red Sox. t * * On paper they looked invincible, in spite of the sneaking feeling that some of their key men show a slight tendency to choke up when the chips are down and the going tough. In fact if they should happen to get away to a good start â€" something they have failed to do in the past seasons â€" they might win the Junior League by as far as that proverbial strong country boy can throw the proverbial red apple. * * ♦ Yes, as we. said before, wc had definitely decided on Mr. McCar- thy's Red Sox. And thenâ€" and then â€" we happened to read about some doings which kicked our carefully compounded dope every whichway, and then some. * * ♦ These doings concerned ? gentle- man of the name of Joseph Di- Maggio, who will be 36 years of old age come November â€" which is plenty of age to be carrying on one's shoulders in big league circles. In addition, Mr. DiMaggio has been so tcoubled with aching gams that it was uncertain that he would even get to the barrier in this season's race. So here are just a couple of things which that poor over-aged cripple did in his first Yankee Stadium appearanceâ€" an F'xhibition game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. * * * "In the fifth inning he raced some 100 feet and robbed Brooklyn's Roy Campanella of a triple, and possibly of an in»ide-the-park-homcr, with the most amazing catch witnessed in the Stadium since DiMaggio's job on a drive by Hank Grecnburg CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AOKNTS WANTED TO BELL Bam'i Garden Tractors, s*rr prodtabl* line. Send for Uterature. Oar- dan Power Toola Llinlted. Weit Hill. Ontario. BABl CHICKS WHEN you can buy proven perforniance why sa'tle (or leaa? Tear after year under all oondltlona of climate and care Tweddle chlcfca have proven concluelvely that they are one of Canada's truly vreat profU-produtintc stralr.ji. And no 'wonder. Kach year through aound pro- greaalve breedlnff pollctej the Inherited pro- duction characterletlcB of the Tweddle strain has Inoreaaed. Thla year buy proven-produc- era â€" Buy Tweddle R.O.P. Sired chicks. Their records apeak for themselves. Prompt delivery, day old. started tw6 weekij to six weeks, older pullets, turkey poults. Free cataloKue. Twed- dle Chick Hatcheries Limited. Fergus, Onl. MONKTON CHICKSâ€" Government Approved. Breeding quality, one of the best. Don't guess, be certain Write for prices and cata- logue. Monkton Poultry Farms. Monktog. On t. SCHUMMER CHICKS 30VEH.NMENT approved. Top quality. Free Catalogue and price list explain details. jchummer's Quality I-latchery, Llnwood, Ont. a decade ago. â€" DiMag, stationed in dead center, broke toward 'Itis right when Campanella's bat con- tacted the ball. It was 100 to 1 and i.o takers that the blow would be tor extra bases. But DiMaggio never gave up. With characteristic grace lie headed for the bleacher fence in left-center some thirty or forty feet short of the 457-foot sign. Joe, going like the wind, his back to home plate, stuck out his gloved hand and made the catch." » * * That should have been enough for a fugitive from the hospital, but not for Joe. "The cheers, which were deafening, had hardly died away when DiMaggio came up to the plate a minute or two later and, after working Roe to a 3-and-2 count, propelled a terrific drive into the lower left field stands. The ball landed about twenty rows up and, needless to report, the recep- tion which accompanied his leisure- ly trot around the paths was at least equal to the one he got for his incredible catch." * • * Well, when we read those lines â€" and we only wish we had been there instead of trying to find excuses for not starting to do a little gardening â€" we smashed the crystal ball, chucked out the tea- leaves, and started over. We know that the New York Yankees don't figure to beat the Boston Red Sox; or, for that matter, to much more than squeeze past Philadelphia Athletics for third place. We know that they pulled a miracle last season, and that miracles, like lightning, seldom strike twice in the same place. Still â€" they're our pick. We're going to hunt up a nice liberal bookie and invest all our worldly wealth on the New Y'ork Y'ankees to take the Ameri- can League pennant. And if they shouldn't chance to come through â€" well, we'll ju.'t charge the two dol- lars up to sentiment. » » ♦ What about the National League, you say? Well, if the iirooklyn Dodgers don't win by at least ten to fifteen games, there just isn't any justice. They should outclass all the others by so much that the race might be all over by July the Fourth. Philadelphia Phils might be second, and St. Louis Cardinals are third. But the Dodgers appear to be the big.tjist cinch to appear in sports since the days of Man O'War. He was the horse, you might remember, who once ap- peared to be home free, and fin- ished second to a thin,:^ called Upset. Lost Liberty Alucli human suffering is due to the failure of early diagnosis â€" and this is no less true in economics and politics than in medicine. Early symptoms ofun go unheeded. They may pass; they may mean any one of many things; they do not sub- stantially impair â€" these are typical human reactions to early warnings. But it is a fact that for countless millions of people, liberty has been lost â€" lost for the rest of their lives and perhaps for the lives of their children. These people have often failed to recognize the early symp- toms. The promises of statism, of more government intervention, of more planning, are alluring. The struggle for security through government action is a struggle to avoid risks and uncertainties. But government can make our lives free from risk only if it has the power and authority to control our ac- tions. With the responsibility we impose upon government must go the power to implement that re- sponsibility. This is elemental. 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