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eal rr Bird Uses a Leaf as Umbrella | but Sometimes It Doesn’t Work Edward H. Forbush Tells How Feathered Friends Seek Shelter | | in Showers and Storms—Aristocrats Nest. in Hollow Trees and Bird Houses Interesting incidents of how birds find shelter from storms are told by | Edward H. Forbush, former Massa- chusetts state ornithologist and an authority on wild life, in an article ; prepared for the-Associated Press. “One day,” says Mr. Forbush, “overtaken in the woods by a sudden | peuring rain, I sought shelter under | the edge of a, sand-bank where the roots of a large tree Leld up the turf, | which projected like a roof overhead. All along the bank, close under its, overhanging edge, sparrows of various|to’ creep under a loosened clapboard | kinds had found. shelter, and -were happily picking up seeds. and sand., Another time during a heavy hail- storm, I found refuge under a porch, and there a chimney swift, beaten down by the hail, joined me. “Light birds are active in light showers, which do not hother them, but during heavy,downpours, especial- ly those accompanied by high winds, they seek shelter, unless engaged in shielding their eggs or young. “A broad leaf will serve as an um- brella over a hummingbird’s nest in a shower, but in a heavy rain aabope) paried by high wind, the little ‘mother! bird, brooding her young, is drenched and tossed about perhaps for many hours, nevertheless she clings to her nest, and spreading her wings over her tiny brood keeps them dry and warm. In such a storm a pair of vireos sat side by side upon their nest, | facing in opposite directions, sheltering the young with their wings: Two warblers managed differently, the female sat on the nest and the male spread. The rain ran down his starit. ing back and off his tail in a little | stream. | “Birds that nest in hoilow trees or, bird: houses stay there during cold, storms. Phoebes and swallows go to; their sheltered nests in barns, cut- buildings, caves, etc. Somie birds use crevices in the rocks or cther shelters} in which normally they sleep. In se-; vere winter rain storms or. sleet’ storms the smaller species must take | shelter. During an ice storm a chick- adee, his tail loaded with icé, was seen, of an old house. The larger and hardier birds are not troubled much.by storms, even in winter. Hawks and owls get all, the protection they need in pine woods. Grouse and bobwhites fre-| quently allow the snow to cover them) in great storms as they sit quietly on, the ground. One winter I found a| little cave in the rocks that had af-/ forded shelter for two grouse until. one of them, roaming incautiously, abroad, was, killed. b a large hawk. | Grouse often dive into the snow for shelter or to escape their enemies. Ducks and sea birds are not dis-. turbed by rain, but rather enjoy it. The wind is their great enemy. Inj; great wind storms they like to get under the-lee of the shore. I re- member a long storm with a tremen- dous off-shore wind in winter. After it, many sea ducks and other sea fowl both| were found floating dead on the waves |} ——————___—__7——— with their ehads under water. off-shore wind had been so strong that: they could not reach shore—Christian j stood over her with wings slightly. Science Monitor. Canada Building | a Nation (Editorial in the New York Sun) Canada’s golden flood of grain now sou sweeps to the sea. It testifies to the fertility of a virgin soil cultivaied by man equipped with all the instruments of a agriculture, experience and in- genuity. From breaking of prairie aod tc +anhing offal profits its pro- duction’ typifies modern nation build- ing, nation building with modern im- plements. Tractor-drawn gangplows prepare the land; certified seed is broadcast mechanically; combines har- vest and, thresh the crop;, motor trucks haul it to the country eleva- tors; co-operatives stores it for a good price, sell it when conditions are propitious, collect the price ana ; 20t frighten them. Consequently they- settle with their members. In all parts of the world there are men fascinated by the spectacle eager to join in the toil and its rewards. Those who can meet the Dominion’s | wisely conceived regulations for ca, mittance seek to share its hospitality. | They are setting up a melting pot In the North-West; in the standing; grains and good farms competitions | conducted this year by the Calgary Board of Trade with the patronage of the Alberta Department of Agricul- ture the prize for the .best atirhene | farm in the district was awarded $04 Tosef Csavossy of Cochrane, who emigrated from Hungary a few years | ago, and also won the highest honors | for a standing field of oats; the sec- | ond prize winner was Oscar Ander- | son, from Sweden; the winners of | third prize were Messrs. Wright and | Bond of Irricana, who are from the} United States, while the fourth prize | went to R. Ness of DeWinton, Alberta, who emigrated from England. All are Canadians now; their have another part in the everchanging drama of nation building. In all their activities the pioneers of Canada work with the tools that progress has fashioned. Their lum- bermen have*been taught by the ex- not inexhaustible, but that reforesta tion and afforestation are as practic- able and essential in America as they | are in Europe. .The trapper and hun-; tr. supplement the peltry of the wild, with skins from carefully-bred ani- mals. They find high profits in such | once neglected fur bearers as the muskrat and the rabbit. The stock breeders outlaw those thieves of fod- der, the scrub bull and stalilon. Their rams are, pedigreed; their barnyard flocks: are scrutinized for non-pro- ducers. Their milk and cream are | handled under hygienic conditions’ and are marketed intelligently. The prospector uses the airplane to survey great areas.and to carry him to a convenient base for intensive exploration. The burro has not lost his usefulness, but his field has been circumseribed. Cartographers on high do their work with cameras with such perience of others that forests sal: iH deal children will} in the United States. ment by authority has preceded or accompanied the settlers; Judge Lynch and the Vigilantes are not. Development of natural re-| rces is not impelled by insecurity | needed. There are no fraticidal of property and person. prem@hitary disputes of strife, no after effects of civil war to. infest the territory with desperadoes. ' Acute as the Dominion’s racir” lem becomes Ge umes, it 4 threaten internal war. In every age the pioneers he the best of their races; men women of moral and _ physicai strength, enterprise and initiative.’ They adopt innovations with enthusi- | asm. They discard the outgrown and } obsolete without reluctance. Accus- tomed to makeshifts, innovations do are ideally receptive to the proposals of inventors. Necessity runs a labora-’ tory to which supporters of the theory , of invention by inspiration give less |thought than it deserves. formal workshop, but from it came many of the mechanical wonders of the nineteenth century. The man who to-day pushes back the frontier bene-" fits trom them and from the output ———$————— —_————————————————X—sSNX"—_:”0O000___00 Grey Wrightson, expedition as their predecessors with chain gangs never found ‘possible. In the lands now coming under cul- tivation no farmer must work in the fieul with viflo ~’ bard to repel Indian to Canada in 1927 by the - ~ Se Oe sees aos ad a Sa {has been classified as waste becomes ' raiders as did the makers of the West available for exploitation. This i Law enforce- | It’s an in-, 18 years old, an unemployed miner with a mother and two brothers to aid in supporting in Durham County, England, was brought : anadian National Rail- ways Colonization Department, and placed on the farm of James Bell, near Kingston, by the British Immigiation and Colonization Association. Never * ————— tion and recreation is elevated. But -balanced growth will produce a won- ‘der land. There is nothing to disturb the ipeople of the United States. in the |present or discernible future of the } Dominion. | good citizens in considerable numbers fis true; we regret their departure and ‘the loss their withdrawal causes to | our economic structure. But they will make good Canadians, and the more good Canadians there are under the Maple Leaf the better off all Ameri- cans will be. Every instrument at the hand of Canada to develop its land is at our hand to develop and improve our-own. By adaption to the shifting needs of the people, by putting each district to its best use regardless of habit and tradition, the United States can avoid repetition of the calamity inflicted ow Eastern agriculture by the opening of the West and partake of while promoting the welfare of a good neighbor. Se ce Growing Older A little more tired at close of ‘day, A little less anxious to have our way. A little less ready to scold and blame, A little more care of a _ brother's name; And so we are nearing the journey’s end, Where time and eternity meet and blend. 7 A little more love for the freinds of M. Georges Jean Knight, new Minis- youth, % ter Plenipotentiary of France to Can- | A little less zeal for established truth; ada, photographed at the Windsor |A little more charity in our views, Street Station, Montreai, en route by! A little less thirst for the daily news; the Canadian Pacific Railway from And so we are folding our tents away, New York to Ottawa. And passing in silence at close of day. A little less care for bonds and gold, The j as z of the organized research that NOW| A. little more zest in the days of old: charecterses ooasd tili t 1! A broader view and a saner mind, As man’s ability to utilize natura’, 4 jittle more love for all mankind, products increases, much matter that | ‘And so we are faring adown the way That leads to the gates of a better day. admirably illustrated in the Bework | — Bie er Ch aaa saeco same A little more leisure to sit ama dream, carded. Because of advances in such | Fes oo ae eae hea sa gare ose ne Satone’ With ai of those long loved and but areekless man would today desi | nq ao e are going where all must a go, os edeemably a waste place as, in iTo the place the living may never aig ‘od faith, map makers not; eae fined the Great American Re wee it shrink petore These beautiful lines from the pen ) ee, Sige Bess of R. G. Wells paint for us one of the y they. will Ps fit foci: most beautiful pictures of Life. For prs a Ad 5 Ta toe in a there is no more beautiful picture eines naa R sca cera sane. {tBan that of consecrated old age. To Bobo aia Tahe aby aC | see men and women as they approach cessible spots. life’ 1d ih ; No man can envisage the industrial: ees oS See ean oe mers tiviti f the future, but establish- kindly, more charitable regarding Boy ee vi ‘ Z ‘others, more mellow in thier disposi- ment of factories to meet the needs: : tions, is a sight that must prove in- of a prospervus, well-governed people ! ” spiring to the younger eneration and the growth of commerce in sup-; Die ‘ younger generat s - . ,-_ (coming along. plying their necessaries and ':kuries | will attain vast proporitons. There | ee SS Re will be new problems; Canadian wheat Success lands will rise in price and require fertilizets in increasing quantities; If you wish success in life, make taxes will mouft; luxurious living will’ perseverance your bosom friend, ex- be disired.and obtained; the expenses ‘perience your wise, counsellor, cau- of li 2 go up as the plane of comfort,’ tion your elder brother, and hope diversion and opportunity for educa- your guardian genius. a ST oolNolNlaaeae=E=E=E=E=ES=S=Sa_ a having seen a-farm before he set to work in earnest to “learn the game”, with such success that this year he stood highest in the agricultural judging contest’ in the county of Frontenac among 55 com- petitors, in connection with the Ontario Govern- ment plan to take 500 boys to the Royal Winter Fair,—Canadian National Railways photograph. 4 You Can Help With a Recipe The editor of this page is always That it is taking from us glad to receive and publish a good ‘recipe No better cooks are found anywhere than Canada. If you have ‘a recipe that you have pzoven and ‘one that you would like others to en- Joy send it in and we will publish |it together with your name and ad- idress. | Send recipes to Women’s Editor, | Wilson Publishing Ce., 73 Adelaide | Street West, Toronto, and it will be ‘publisted in an early issue. | Baked Green Peppers A La Barclay 6 medium-sized green sweet pep- ;Pers; % cup nectars raisins; 1 small |piece of onion, chopped; 1 cup ' ground left-over cooked meat; 1 cup ‘eooked vice: % teespoon salt; 44 teaspoon poultry seasoning; 2 table- jspoons butter; ¥% cup- fine bread cedumbs. Cut a slice from stem end of pep- per, remove seeds and -parboil five minutes. Drain and sprinkle inside with salt. Heat food chopper in boiling water, then put raisins through using. medium _ cutter. To raisins add cbopped onion, ground meat, cooked rice, sait and poultry season- ing. Fill peppers with mixture. Melt butter, stir in crumbs, _ then cover peppers with crumbs. Place in bak- ing pan with alittle hot water to pre- vent burning. Cover and bake half an hour in a moderate oven. Re- move cover and brown. Serve hot with brown or tomato sauce. Delicious Veal Use veal steak one-half inch thick. lCut into pieces large enough for a serving. Beat the yolk of one egg and add a teaspoon or more of water, into this dip the veal; then roll in bread crumbs which have been toast- ed and well seasoned with salt and pepper. Have an iron spider piping tot with about one-fourth inch hot fat in the bottom. Pan-fry the veal quickly on both sides until a nice brown, then cover the veal with hot milk (a pint or more of sour cream may also be used). Cover tightly and set in a slow oven for about one hour, removing the lid for tke last fifteen minutes. Raspberry Junket with Peaches ‘ and Cream 1 package raspberry junket; 2 tablespoons powdered sugar; sliced peaches, sweetened; 1 pint milk; 1 cupful cream; almond extract. Warm the milk slightly, dissolve in it the junket powder and pour each dessert glass nearly full. Let.set un- til firm, then chill in ice box. Whip cream and sugar with an egg beater until stiff. At serving time fill up the glasses with the sliced and sweet- ened.peaches and decorate top with th cream. Artichokes, Italian Style 2 French artichokes; 1 lemon; pars- ley; 1 teaspoon sweet herbs; % cup \prown stock; % cup tomatoes; Wy cup mushroom liquor. Cut artichokes in quarters, and re move the choke. Rub over with lemon; parboil fifteen minutes iu water with one-half ‘teaspoon salt and one tablespoon lemon juice, and drain. Place in casserole, with sweet -erbs, brown stock and two teaspoons lem- on juice. Cover and cook in oven until tender. Remove; strain liquor in pan; add to it tomatoes, stewed and strained, mushroom liquor, and one-half tablespoon chopped parsley. Cook ten minutes; season, to taste, and pour over artichokes. Lamb Souffle 1 cup soft bread’ crumbs; 2 cups thick white sauce; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon chopped parsley; 2 cups cho: jamb; 14 tablespoon salt; %4 teaspoon pepper; 1 teaspoon onion. Make and cool white sauce, then mix it with crumbs, seasoning, and chopped meat. Add the _ beaten yolks of eggs, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Put into a well-but- tered baking dish and set in a shal- low pan containing one inch of -boil- ing water. Bake twenty to twenty- five minutes in a moderate Serve at once. Stuffed Heart Beef keart; 1 cup cracker crumbs; % cup white sauce; 1 cup roasted chestnuts; salt and pepper to taste. Wash the heart thoroughly inside and out. Stuff with dressing made from ingredients given above and sew up opening of the heart. Cover with water and boil ten minutes, ther simmer until tender. Remove heart from water one-half hour before serv- ing and sprinkle with cracker crumbs, salt and pepper. Bake until brown. o ‘aS Destiny So was it destined; and thus came IT here To- walk the earth and wear tke foray of man; To suffer bravely as may state, One step, one grade, one eycle nearer. God.—Thomas Baiiey Aldrich. ! Becomes oven? - tote