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Canadian Garden Service 1950 By Gordon Lindsay Smith

An Ounce of Prevention

R is a lot easier to keep a gar- den healthy than to try to cure a sick one. The latter job is possible, of course. but it takes time and in the meantime one is apt to get discouraged. There is no dark secret. about flourishing flowers, vegetables. grass and other things that go to make up a fine garden.

The first point that matters is clean, vigorous soil and good seed one buys seed and plants from reput- able Canadian sources and does so regularly each year. there is far less danger from disease and insect pests. With certain bulky things, too. like potatoes and gladioli bulbs, most experts treat before planting with some of the ready-prepared chemicals now on the market.

In our great grandfather's day they didn't have to worry much about diseases carried over In the soil. but that is not the case now. In the older sections of Canada, at least. there are a lot of things lurking in the soil that only treat-

ment of seed and fairly constant.

lprilylll: or dusting of the plants can keep in control. In usilll; any of these solutions one should

fully. If these call for soaking several minutes or several hours then that is the only effective procedure. Of course it is not nec- essary to treat many kinds of seeds, provided of course We Set good stock in the first place.

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Be Ready for Pests

The second bit of advice from the experts is to be ready for any attack of insects or disease be- fore the damage gets serious.

In this preventive policy a little special equipment will prove val- uable. A good sprayer or duster and a few pounds of material to use in the same are Just as impor- tant as cultivating tools and fer- tilizer for the growing end of the Joli.

It is possible to buy the raw in- gredients and mix up sprays and dusts and this is often the course followed where the garden is very large. But ready-mixed sprays with only water to be added, and dusts ready for the gun, are in- expensive and they will save time and trouble in most cases. For the ordinary sized garden one of the small hand spi-ayers that hold a few quarts will probably be suf- ficient. hilt for larger jobs and for lawn work with 2-4-D to kill weeds. a larger piece of equipment will be ncccsszlry. In recent years many gardeners have turned to dust and dusters. For a cou.ple of dollars one can get a hand-operxu ted giln that will cover a large garden in a very few minutes.

Get Going Fast The main thing with spray: and dusts is to have a little material ready and to start. using it at the first sign of trouble. If this is done there will be no trouble in

copiiig-i-with almost any tying (it bug or disease.

insects, pests, divide into two types - those that bite or eat holes in those that suck the Juices. age from the first is soon notice- able, that by the latter shows when the leaves or plants wilt. For

New British Grass Drier

A newly dcsigncd grass drier which employs a burner 01 the type used in gas turbine aircraft engines was recently demon- strated by the manufacturers at Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey. For some time Tiltman Langley Laboratories, Limited. have stud- led the possibility of applying gas turbine technology to industry. and this led to the design and dcvclopmont of a new type of grass drier. The grass drier employs a burner of the type used in gas turbine aircraft engines. A thin lziycr of grass is dried in airc- iating drum. the warm air being circulated by means of a fan. A small amount of the moist air is expelled and replaced by the fresh air used for combustion. The drier is designed for the use of the small farmer and can be moved with case by a tractor or by a separate engine. The grass drier can be modified for use as a grain drier by fitting an zidapior-ii'ulikiiig to the out- let of the large fan alid connecting it to a flexible hose, which has several rigid tubes branching from it for inserting in the grain sacks. This picture shows: The .c,i'.1ss-dries. which is de- signed for the small farm. seen during it recs it demonstration.

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"THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN Agricultural Notes From Britain

NEW RIVERS WILL FDOTECI LAND FDOODS

(By L. F. Easterbrook)

On the eastern side of England, near the coast, lies B. strange and fascinating stretch of country... the Fens-formed over many centuries by silt deposit which sfndually builds up until it is only covered at high tide. Then men have come and reclaimed the land, thrusting back the sea with dykes and walls.

Land is still being won back in this area. In 1948 a group or (gym. ers reclaimed 3.000 acres on the shores of a large indentation in the coast known as the Wash. They employed contractors to build two sea. walls, each six miles long and projecting ten feet above the water level. The land inside that wall will be grassed over and b8C0me mm. high quality farm- ing land.

But what we in Britain call the Fen District, covering some 750,. 000 acres. was reclaimed 300 year! ago by the fourth Duke of Bed- ford. who Joined with-othrr land- owners to form a "company of ad- venturers" for this purpose. They employed a Dutch engineer, Corn- elius Vurniuydeii, ts do the job. It is a tribute to his work that it stands to this day and has won for Britain some of the most fert- ile soil she possesses.

7&0 !'ears' Work

Vermuydenis scheme was .4 most ingenious one. He cut drains at the foot of the higher lands to carry away the surplus rainfall which poured down on the Fens. He led it away to the rivers or the sea by these drains so that it could not add to the wetness of the marshes. A further system of drainage was introduced to carry water away from levels from which there was no natural fall. He wid- ened and straightened existing rivers, and cut new watercourses that were rivers in themselves. It took 20 years to finish the work. Since then banks have been added to contain water that might over- flow existing dykes or river banks in time of flood. These extra banks restrain the floods from racing over the dead flat countryside and in flood time they become like great reservoirs. As the water is carried off above the level of the ground it is not uncommon to see a house standing beside a. river, but below it. with the river-bed level with the bedroom windows.

It is remarkable how Vermuy- den's work has endured three centuries of wind and floods. But. Nature never gives up the battle and this century it has become evident that unless large scale reconstruction is undertaken, soon- er or later a great calamity must occur. We have had several warn- ings. The last one was In the great blizzard of 1947, when the Fan waters burst their banks and many acres of fertile land were flooded. It could easily have been worse.

Like a Sponge

There are several reasons why the problem of Fen flooding has become more acute. Improvements in land drainage and macadam roads have combined to increase the flow of water from the higher lands that drain into the Fens. But also the Fens are sinking. They sink about an inch a year. fix they are like a great sponge a d as the water empties out, the peaty surface dries and crumbles away, in dry, windy weather.

It is believed also that bacter- iological action is eating the soil away. This is not only lowering the level of the Fens and so adding to the danger of serious flooding; it is interfering with existing drains and waterways. For the sinking takes place unevenly. so that two ends of a waterway may snk more than the middle. with the result the the middle becomes a hump- back up which the water will not flow.

So we are preparing to put into operation the biggest scheme for making the Fens safe since Verm- uyden won them back for Britain. It will cost, over s18.000.000, but it will save spending 5300.000 a year for ever on makeshift arrange-

s first class catastrophe. Two entirely new rivers are to be cut to carry flood water from the high lands harmlessly to the Wash and there discharge it into the sea. one river. 2'? 1-2 miles long, will encircle the Pens from the river Lark to Denver. in the county of Norfolk, where a great sluice con- trols both the outflow of the rivers- and the inflow of tidal water from the sea. Another river, ll miles long. will run from Denver parall- el to the Great Ouse to a point a little way up from King's Lynn,- also in Norfolk. The work will take at least six years. but when com- pleted it will be capable of dealing with flood levels higher than the greatest ever recorded.

A National Investment

500.000 of the total cost. for this rich land is a national investment that effects a dollar saving and grows more food to the acre than any other we possess. The remaind- er of the money will be paid by those who live in Fenland. It will represent all additional charge of about 15 cents on the dollar (5) on the raieable value of Fan- land property. But alrrady some Fenland farms are paying as much as 36.16 per acre for the Ill- suralice against floods they pos- 5985.

The Fen people are hardy folk. They and their ancestors have fought the menace of rising wat- ers for generations and they will tell you, in their rather taciturn way, that after all they and their livestock and their farms are still there to tell the tale after 300 years.. in conversation they are inclined to belittle the threat un- der which they live. But this is not only because tfiey are famil- iar with it. one does not talk too much of the things one really fears and there is not much doubt that when the work is finished many 9. Fennian. especially those living in houses where the floods roar down the narrow channels level with the upper storeys. will sleep as he has never slept before on winter nights when the temp- ests of those parts lash torrential rains to fury.

Export 0! Live Horses

As from June 1st. Britain will al- lw the export of live horses valued at 100 pounds (approximately moi or more, without restriction. The value is F. O. B. and must be de- clared in accordance with Customs requirements.

This minimum. announced by the Board of Trade in consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture. is considered adequate to prevent any export of horses for slaugliter.

Horses vs Tractors

O'ITAWA. June, 23. 1960 -- The ever-increasing performance and efficiency of the tractor during the first part Of this century does not mean that in the near future the horses will have disappeared as ii factor of importance in world agriculture, says an editorial of "World crops". 11 mazinc published in Great Britain and distributed throughout the world.

According to this article, there is no reason to believe. as some prophets do. that the horse "will survive merely as an instrument for sport and recreation, a charm- ing relic of a bygone age". On the contary, writes the editorlalist, the horse has. and will continue to have, a definite part to play in the farm economy for many years to come and. indeed. in- definitely. It. will supplement the work of the machine and their roles are complementary, a sort of symbiosis. in fact.

Point is given to this in it re- cent circular or the British Min- istry of Agriculture which de- scribes the alarming decline in the number of farm horses during the past decade. The circular. stresses the fact that tractors have to depend on imported fuel all, while the horse "proceeds under its own steam generated by home-grown food".

"Even assuming that adequate supplies of tractors, spare parts and fuel can be relied upon. say the writer of "World Crops", there

are still many occasions when

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the horses can be more suitably employed than the tractor. Smaller farms with, say 100 to 126 acres of arable land possess- ing only one tractor will almost certainly require two horses at least".

The editorial goes on to point out that the tractor is particularly valuable for getting heavy work done quickly. but numerous light! jobs are more cheaply and officiently done by horses. es- pecially when conditions are wet.

owing to the lower compressivl effect of the horse. In some con- ditions, "the value of the draft animal as a source of supply of organic manure has to be taken into account". ,

"It is not really a question of competition between the animal and the tractor. concludes ihl edltorialist, but rather one of de- ciding the conditions undrr which each can be used to lie besl advantage. They are. in flirt. coni- iplrmentary and not competitive".

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