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f^; A. * A ^ W CHBONICLES OF GINGEB FARM Students Learn Horticulture â€" Nineteen yoiiny men are attendint^ tlie Niagara Parks Comni^ssiuii training sclujoi ju>i l.'elow the "Whirlpool. In three years they learn enough horticulture, floricuhure and ahoriculture to fit tlieni for top jobs. Director of the school is J. B. Liddell (left), who came to Ontario from the Royal Rolanical Ciardeiis at Edinburgh. Few students anywhere have as pleasant surroundings (right) for their classes. Kequirenients for entry arc three sncccssfnl years of high school and, preferably some practical knowledge of horticullnrc. TABLE TALKS Muffins and Jam T â- 4 4 -»- *â-  t â€" Stravrberry Rhubarb Conseive 2 ctips (Yi pound) prepared rhubarb 1 cup seedless raisins 2 caps sugar 1 cup corn syrup 1 hrge orange 4 cups (1J4 pounds) prepared strawberries )1 cup blanched wahiuts, coarsely _ chopped To prepare rhubarb, wash and cut into ^-inch pieces. Place in deep kettle. Add raisins, sugar and corn syrup. Remove peel from •range and cut away one-half of inner 'white part. Chop peel and i4d to rhubarb. Cut orange pulp, entirely free from membrane, into small pieces and add to rhubarb. Meanwhile, wash about V/i quarts fully ripe strawberries. Drain and hull. Add to rhubarb mi.xture. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Re- duce heat; simmer, stirring occa- sionally until thick, about 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from heat and cool about 5 minutes. Blanch wal- nuts by covering with boiling water forabtut 3 minutes, then drain and cover -with cold water. Drain; chop and add to rhubarb mixture. Pour Conserve into hot sterilized glasses. Paraffin. Makes 7 glasses. (6 fluid ounces each). Serve with: Breakfast Muffins 1)4 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons double-acting baking powder . }4 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons melted shortening % cup wheat flakes Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder, salt, and sugar, and sift again. Combine egg and milk and add all at once to flour mixture; add shortening. To mix, draw spoon from side of bowl toward center (16 times), turning bowl gradually. Chop spoon through batter (10 times). Add cereal and mix (about 5 strokes). Turn into greased muf- fin pans, filling each- about Yi full. Bake in hot oven (425 degrees F.) 22 minutes, or until done. Makes 9 large muffins. ...THE GREEN THUMB... â€" By Gordon L. Smith â- =;==== With so hiuch to be done out- doors right now, it is very easy to forRet about your house plants. But many fascin- ating kinds â€" in varieties s o m e - times hard to get from a florist â€" can riadily be grown from seed, which should be sown now, so that they will have time to develop into blooming size by the autumn. Flowering maple, a favorite of grandmother's era, has been much improved by recent hybridizers. Pendant, bell-shaped flowers one to three inches long come in deli- cate shades of yellow, red, pink, salmon, orange and white â€" some with light veinings of contrasting color. Patience phint, another old fa- vorite, blooms all year round. Those that have flowered indoors during the winter may be set out in a shady spot to bloom through the summer. Because they grow so readily from cuttings and are so easy to grow from seed, sucli plants are of tin hard to buy and you will be amazed at tlie results from a packet of mixed hybrid seeds. But don't forget the one great require- ment of these ever-blooming flow- ers â€" plenty of water. Begonia scniperflorcns is another ever-blooming candidate for a sun- ny spot in your window. Christmas Cheer, with its scarlet-crimson blossoms above dark grien foliage and Christmas Pink, with bright pink bloom and lighter green foli- age, are also well worth while. Seeds of begonias are so tiny that it is best to plant them in very finely-sifted soil, and just barely covered. With all such seedlings, watering should be done with great care. The soil should never be al- lowed to dry out entirely, as the drying of tlie tiny root-li.iirs 'is fatal. Geraniums, often grown from cuttings, are also easy to raise from seed. But don't disturb the flat in which the seeds are pl.Tnled, as CROSSWORD PUZZLE r w ACROSS 1. Cultivntors 6. Uikcty «. I^ath 12. First man 13. Hotindless expanse 14. Ke.Mide 15. Noon 17. I're.sently IJ. Bevornge 19. Aptitude Jl. Verdant 24. Work 25. Manners 26. Kye of a Ijean 27. Toward 29. Record 30. Pir.st appear- ance 31. label 32. Hy 33. Train of wives 34. Not any 36. Wall painting 38. Sudden thrust 37. Cutting tool 39. Ship's boat 40. ReHldue 41. Depute J(. RuFsinn olty 7. Tla'her than 48. Vice 49. Bxi.sted to. Noise II. Look after DOWN 1. Son of Noah t. Poem t. AttentloL 4. Strikes I. Continent (. Size of coal 7. Metal 8. Ski race 9. Pas.senger steamer 15 10. I';..t;li.sl> llviT 11, Canvas lodge 16. Private room 20. Border 21. Festival 22. Disorder 23. Work unit 24. Printed defamation 26. Proclaimed 27. Stronif taste 28. Molding 30. Vonllire 31. Unit •( ship capacity 33. Hurry 34. I>ump of metal 35. Sklnnint 36. Recline 37. Bird 38. Present 39. Dingle 42. Worm 43. Hail 44. Metal â- 15. Olden times some seedlinjrs may appear within two weeks while otliers may t:ike four times tliat long before >•' •â-  v- ing. Periwinkle is a cln'.riniiig animal wliich makes an e.Nception:ill> good l"iiife plant because it endures licat well. It <Lvi Icps slowly into a 12 inch plant with pholx-like flow- ers and waxy green foliage. Prini- ro.-^es fake six to eight months from seed and require cool growing con- ditions; altliough there is one vari- ety, with salmon pink bloom, which is supposed to be quicker, and flow- ers within four nioittlis after •seed- ing. Seeds sown in .shallow bulb pans or flats are ca.- ier to care for than those in open ground. I'inc seeds should be prcs.^ed' very carefully into finely sifted soil, covered very lightly witli soil or sand, and the container soaked until the surface looks damp. Glass or luwspaper .slionid be placed over the top un- til the sprouts appear. Once up, they require sunshine and a con- stant supply of moisture. Your seedlings hruld be moved into small pots, or later on into larger ones, only when the roois bcyin to crowd. Grown outdoors all summer, carefully watered and fed, they should di velop into hus- ky plants for your f«ill an(t wintei window garden. About 10 per cent of the total area of the Philippines is under cultivation for rice. , Just For Fun "Mosc" .said the Southern Col- onel to his colored houseman, "I'm going to have guests for dinner on Sunday and 1 want you to get a nice turkey. But be .--urc it's a tame turkey â€" not a wild one like you served last time as my guests are Nortlienicrs and might not like the gamey flavor of the wild kind." Sunday dinnir arrived, and a Moblc-Iooking turkey adorned the board, sure enough. But when he was halfway through his por- tion, the Colonel angrily sum- moned his houseman. "Mose," he said, "I thought I told you to be sure and get a TAME turkey!" "And daf's what I sho enough did. Boss," was the reply. "Then how do you account for these â€" two buckshot I bit out of the slice I'm eating?" "Dat's a fame bird all right. Boss, I wouldn't tell you no lie. De fac' of dc matter is, dem buck- shot was meant for MK, not for de turkey!" Public Talks Need Private Prtsctice .Ml of us are called on at one time or another to make a speech â€" to make a presuitation, to acknowl- ed;.;e a gift, to welcome a visitor. Do you get tongue-tied when it's your turn? Suppose your club is having a dcl)ate and you feel strongly on the subject; are you able to express your opinion? 'I'liink out your first sentence word-perfict and scribble a few phrases to lulp you make your point. Let'.s ^ay tlie topic is 'â- lnade<|uate Schooling." Your first sentence would have to be a bombshell. "livery day, twenty-five harried teachers try to control .\ND teach over 1500 studuits. That's 60 of our children for one person to handle." You go on, reminding them how hard it is to liandle two or three children in the home. You give statistics on teacher's salaries and then offer a possible solution, one that the group can act on. 'Ihere are so many situations that jou can meet with confidence and poise once you know the ins and outs of pflblic speaking. See our P adir Service booklet No. 83 for various speech samples, parliamen- tary procedure and voice improve- ment. Send THIRTY CENTS in coins for "Self-Instruction In Public Speaking" to Reader Service, Room 604, 371 Bay Street. Toronto. Print name, addre; '^ borklot title and No. 83. How Chinese Do It Since my arrival in tliis country â€" wrote a Chinese visitor to London â€" I ha\^ observed with dismay the English way of making tea. In time of shortage it is i:nneccssarily ex- travagant and I have been able to convince friends here tliey can save nearly a third of their ration by mak- ing tea properly. After warming the teapot only one and a lialf tiaspoons of tea are required for an ordinary-sized pot. The tea is only just barely covered with boiling water and is allowed to stand half a minute. A little more water is thui added and allowed to stand; this is repeated until the pot is filled. The pot must never be completely emptied before adding the water for a second pouring. Koreans developed moveable type •SO years before Gutenberg printed the Bible. fiy GwendoJina P. Clarke Everyone seems to be fed up with the weather â€" rain, wind, cold, thunderstorms â€" and still more rain. Water, water, everywhere. It is too bad for the farmers who have not yet finished seeding â€" but there is not one thing anyone can do about it. We were watching tlie skies anxiously ourselves ta>\'ards the end of last week but thank goodness we were just able to get through before the rain came. We were so glaiL It is a tiring busi- ness â€" to say nothing of the worry when seeding drags on through the weeks. It must be particularly dis- couraging to those who have re- cently taken up farming â€" we old- timers are more or less hardened to the vicissitudes of farm life! • • * _ , I wonder if this unusually active period of buying and selling farm lands is general throughout the province? In all the years we have been here we have never known so many farms cliange hands in such a short time. In this district it doesn't seem long since we rated as "newcomers." Now, by compari- son, we can almost be classed as "old-timers" as, one by one, neigh- bors pull stakes and move into town. I wonder how many will be contented? Often vvc hear of re- tired farmers who are so lone- some in llieir town homes they Iiardly know wha, to do with them- selves. Probably the women settle down more happily than the men â€" gla<l of the opportunity to give more time and thought to their homes without the interruptions in- cidental to farm life. They like to be able to step out, do their own shopping and then walk home again. If they have nostalgic yearn- ings very few admit it. * * * .Xnd then what of the ncwcom- < rs to the country â€" the man from the city who suddenly decides farming is the life for him! Some- times I wonder . . . perhaps that type too. keep their feelings to themselves. "The simple life" is often eulogised through lack of ac- tual experience. Personally my heart ache.s â€" and my indignation rises â€" when I hear of a middle-aged man, quitting his job, putting his money into a hundred-acre farm and ex- pecting his wife and family to ad- iust themselves to an entirely dif- ferent way of life, possibly without the conveniences to which they have always been accustomed. For them "the simple life" very soon becomes mighty complicated. Of course, a few acres with a com- fortable home, that's something else again. I can think of nothing bet- ter in these days of over-crowded living quarters. But r- hundred acres â€" oil no! Not if you haven't been used to farming. Then there are those who think of farming, with a stable full of cows, as a part-time job â€" quite possible if properly organized I I'suallv there comes a rude awa- Make It Stick kening; enthusiasm wanesâ€" and Ml* other farm is up for sale. ♦ • » But the newcomers that I think we all welcome, and who should bt given every encouragement, are th» young couples setting up for them- selves. You just sort of go along with them, sensing their courage, their energy and their ambitionâ€" and you hope to heaven life will not deal too harshly with them. Disillusionment can be a bitter ex- perience for those who cannot riit above it, but a challenge to those who can. Sure, these young farmers will make mistakes, sometimes cost- ly ones â€" they are young yet in experience. But what they lack in experience they make up for in initiative. Most of them are pro- gressive â€" the chances are they will give that "new look" to farming â€" and their wives, if they are the right kind, will be right there with them. The future of agriculture lies in the hands of these young people. They probably will not be required to face the piiysical hardships that their grandparents knew, at the same time every age has its prob- lems. So we say, more power to the younger generation. The world needs you â€" your strength, your vi- tality and your brighter outlook. A ns we x' ro 1 Tl lit W ee k's Puzzle H O £ S /? P r 1 5 L A r A V /i M 5 £ /) L 1 V £ n E li 1 p / /9 N A N O N BBl T £ /9 I T » L £ N T G K e K. !â-  L A a O R â- 1 A 1 m S- I H 1 L u M I T O L a â-  P £ U T I r A G tM fi K £ H â-  N o N E â- â-  It u ft A L â-  L U N a C C H f s £ L I 1 a i^n R £ s T 1 V £ L £ G /» T e K £ L £ R C 1 £ V 1 L W £ R £. V 1 H T E\N D Putty applied to barewood is likely to "unstick" and fall away after a few months. That is why crafts-men recommend that a prim- ing coat of paint be applied to the wood beforeliand so that the putty can adhere better. It is not neces- sary for the paint to be thoroughly dry before the putty is applied. Painting over the putty after the job is done also helps the filler to "Stay Put" while at the same time masking the puttying job. them with MINARD'S LINIMENT M^ ^ Rub on fieely, and note C quick relief. GreaseleM. kAMi ICONOMICAL Fwtdryin*. No ttron. MiE 65c «!"• ^B-** DOES INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOWTHE BELT? Hdp Your Forgotten "28" For The Kind Of Relief Thmi Helps Mike You lUrin' To G» More than half of your digestion is dono below the belt â€" in your 28 feet of boweU, So when indtgeation itnkes, try aomethi^ that helps digestion in the atom&ch AND below the belt. Whftt you maj' need is Carter's Little Liver Pills to cive Deeded help to thst "forgotteA 28 feet" o< bowels. Take one Carter's Little Liver Till beforo snd one after meals. Take them aceording to direotlous. Tfae|y help wake up a larger flow frf the 3 main digestive juices in your stomach AND bowelsâ€" help you digest what you haT« eaten in Nature's own way. Then raoat folks get the kind of relief that makes you feel better from your head to yov toes. Just be eure you get the genuine Carter'fl Little Liver Pillf) from rotir dniERif^tâ€" 36ot LpON Thoa. J. I.lntnn Llmlnd ThTaniwet to thli puzzle ii eliewhei* on Ihto page. By Margarita -50HT5PtW<T0nt' THE LADIES AlO CLUB .WILL HEAR AflOUT THIS//