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II Iii-A hlbh is known to e81" - A!‘ o“ Qmrukr ,. ....?,‘,lu:i‘umbu‘.b in scme quantity 5°11- M Q14 print 1n 11111 uiluﬁlafiw onion; were believed to ward

- 111w "lord 2'1"1‘i"°é‘ay“1<.°‘l.121. The 1w- Per- beheaued cu TW" “m”

ma by William 1102111111 "NW- ueamr was wmelmlli " ‘ °"

7.‘. 1

off colds.

Th; lesson conveyed in the“ brief remarks is: hi 011141110 111d Karlie for health hex; winter! And

111 feel better 1r you sww them

, _ , - .you nettulst and rlcligilled to 11111“ ms,’ yourself!

. . lyl, 1 1.112s c1158

$133“? 1.1:. NuMXl-Ag late, ilstneo 1n I N“ X , was actually that of mvav, as he appeared w m, day oi his 11 ‘ GrpClLllll 11.‘; H" m“; E111; i.~l1 W; ‘ _ _ ‘ , ljnglg 11115» 111 1.111.111 11nd, ‘is conﬁpuveri-g A1143,- recuiung 111111 terrible u) u ll 1H6, 1111011 Lhe Highlanders melted away before the lire of the lkighsh musk r

the

cotch '_ .:id liil- l ‘111-ought w

had not c111\.1l\tai l" 6* Pe-

l

‘ . - 111 I Fredericton, 1 um in m“ °“1,‘l..§i§§é10‘.‘,“‘.1‘1’- "The Anwhlblwl 01 m, “mm-y oilbritish Columbia", l-landbwk Ne- devotes a.‘

. m, we plain of o!

wnske L3,,“ leadmlProvlnce o! Canada, perished, ‘ 1 and.

The Alllphiblﬂll. Again Through the kindness o! Dr. R-

2 o1 the Provincial Museum. Na- 1111-11 113s 111111913’ Pwvlded 5-01 with 1.1111111111111115: nine species 01 salamnnders, three slﬁciis Q! WWI Lwo oi ‘Free-toads and wt lllndl Bogs- twenty species altogeth- er. Out of this number, N"? m! Leopard Frog and the Green FIOK are common to the Islbnd l-lw. The casua. reader doubtless 11111114: that i1. would be no loss 1X

uwwall these humble creatures in every

but biologist find. most valuable in their life-history. Let

the material

4 flllY 111"" “l “m” mm.‘ “U? 11.14101" ronienlber that the 111 ‘ - . 1'1 . l1 ‘k to the time " . nurmlu‘, “T1111 13101.5 lgigingm creatures that ‘ ‘ ~‘" W". " fmcfrf" uncd 1n llle waters" were urilﬂ “‘"““'m' .m" , fix" “ldllby the Creator to try their fortune ‘m5 “Wm “M” (Oh ‘on the dry land an "Xperiment . .. ~ "1 e 3-‘ . ' ‘"10" 1*. " “d ho‘? i."“-‘,‘,",%_o§40,.e_ that. wns to culminate 1n the oomlnii

ill zateci 1:

F‘

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~ 11:10 had 10111941 , 111111 the rWlb-e . a pardon bl‘ P1’- qwqu l‘11111hlo-<l1~ul111:

Ira y 1 n C 8,61,,‘ m h“, bpriyy ,_p.-<11\d n-uurrl W. ,

ué 1111a mm he turned

9- . Q13 jl,rvgi=s,.'lilrl n-v 1011.5" 111- _ 11~11111 it‘.

ll lil, "You snri I shall] the some, 1c In those! drc-mv t0‘ a A5 llovat

1,, ,;,.- . 1.1m,‘ he 1.1114 c\1 in his, l4; xvorde. A. he laid his head n the block, he was heard to say

u, decorum as; pro patrin

nL- sweet and proper it is to ilor one’; country". Was it a

Girls ell Onion! o‘ not: h: 1m Guardian

4m, so” that two Russia-n Dr. L v. wrowev "id

, 5, Q. Fllntovd, have been moo on, belle! of the m; .2...

bun lone ueed ﬂu n1, uuprunntiwe tynhul 690i»! think “M! ll roman to believe that Klfliu

ins an effect. $111981- u" _ 131g nun iound that the

{mi unsultai . I

111011.111" 1 s to] . "Good dny,l

rdul’.

-ot Men. Mlnny creatures, inure and

1111111], were used 111 111c- Great ldx< mid very 1111111)’ proved t and 0113- their fossil bone, remain w tell us that they once existed. But u witnesses, the lllile creatures we count, so insig- nificant, still carry out the original

an. The

gm w

larvae of the Snlasnanders

they breathe by tueans of gills, and hay; tall-fins. Alter their second summer, the gill, and tail fin are absorbed, 1111111,; and nostrils develop, 1111d the creature lilnW adult» is fiLLPd to dwell m1 the dry land. The. nostrils, by the wuy, are in the roof of the mouth!

There are reaotionarier, it seems even amongst Salamnnders. 'I\vc rpccirs of the B. C. snlamandors

e7 occasionally display e. phenomenon

ruled "neoteny", which means that some individuals never assume the state. The larva remains a lorve, but it grows to n much longer sin and may even reproduce! "The discovery of neoteny among um- phlans," pay, thg Handbook, "has Blven rise to many experiments . . i0 dl-wuver the factors which re- gulate the change from youth to adulthood In some tests. larval gelamsnder. which were fed thyroid extract, rapidly lost their gills and became ults; U111; suggesting that the activity of the thyroid gland probably controls the process of metamorphosis."

In the lower wsilu o! life, many‘ animals, such s; worms and cribs, have the ability to ropim portions of the body or legs which no lost by accident; but i-hi power e! re- newal i: usually absent in the vertebrate animals. In the amphib-

onlanl" 1| l1 B141 l" a at wounds, ‘Tmd that contains s wwvﬂull which however they do understand. , ngy, ﬂu garlic (Allium ns-id ilho onion (A. 66D!) comma, snd have much sumo virtues, vhouah tho slrllv m. l with t-h on wound! "phzmeintlnisstwa-ritwu uni that wetn in which srllc y“ pounded up, had s remg 111:3 effec on open woun ,a much usged 111 British hospitals. use o! garlic u I. prevent. vs 1m hue is new in me, ehouzh V; cmin thM the much mull- gnql hulh contains a WWW!“ genniridc. Last ‘year 1L W“: fag a: or a $311130» uknd what 1% 11 being ma. would

‘I

1R8! time.

Wll. runulk:

st’; what. the Jews out, isn't ‘and,

p?" or again "I know; that‘: W115! m. Italians cat!’ It always sounded 11kg some kind of reproach! However, l was 8101111118 U115 ngetable because it is a wonderful source of vitamin C, (weight tor weight) about six, times the amount n: compared with onions. vitamin O is< antis- eorbutic, and is necessary in winter, when from rc-zetnbles are not in‘ be had; it; helps against. infections!

are not altogether object: of study-

orates win,

inns, however. the power of re en- erstiort-is well developed, ospec slly in the Selamnndrine larvae and the tadpoles of frogs. ‘Ilhese may replace completely s. leg or tail that has been bitten off, and the ability i, even retained by some

adult salamanders; but in the gdult Mn o! the trues Ind ma, o: the complete renewnl of s pun, guch ss s leg, is very ran.

Then

of the nnsslbly 11s examined in future N01". but enough has been written to malt

In several other aspects amphibians which may

9 "5 Dllln that the creatures worthless u

Odds nml End. Bdinbnr h. ‘Phe name comment- Klng of Northum- bris, who founded the

llltntiiude? 'I'he farmer is indis- Pensabie to humanity, and the teacher to society, but where can

°°““““1“3-0ne find two worse psld oil-mes! "rho

farm population of Canada, in 192i, was 31.7 per cent of the total. From i915 to i920 the fumerb received one-mud o1 1,1,, “anon,” income, and time, were relatively PFNDQIOILB- Prom 1936 to 1829

and tones up the blwd "ﬂml-i-itthree yam) ens 1111-111 income w"

Garlic, from its bactericidal quel- itiee is uscful against infections

iihe nose and (limit s0 m“ U" “vfrpm” r111 snrcl‘ hclps against ookls, some lmrbalists my 851F110 ‘ also useful in case; of mun blood‘ pressure, while nil of garsic, in m; 11¢ l, srﬂri for the relief of ‘iouhlc Llmrlhermore, n r-flrqt or mung row‘ ~ to stunulaua n. 11‘=1s in a narurail

rluuclsh 11c IllﬂllllPlT

‘ottrsh _ he “curse of Can- mey explain the ic, shown by the

1' p11. of ‘ 41L 1111- food-plants that 1h» w.‘- yeurned for 1n- tilie Wildcrnoss lNutnhers ll, 51- l The germlcninl substance in gur- llo. has been termed erniﬂnzldehydel lr- Qprpl 1:; and llll> may he thel

111 r111» p;‘r‘l'l‘n‘lf)n of typhus .. ..

..-1- 111ml 1.11m garlic, . 1 "L051 this is duc xmr and less pung- ‘iha 11PM inhabitants; "uglnr" urorl m roost’

' a szwv; or lunch lwinrn‘

il supposed in‘

.- 1 ~11 . .- 1". 11 is llkv-lj‘ that. 11 uwnvul, T111‘ l have‘

seen this rPCfYliililPiiflPd in a medic- ll work qulic recently. The active rzcnrnlrldnl

principle ‘

‘ u: m, 11111011 i= 1.112111 111,11 aldehyde-l

T! mo“ have FFWMTYLYU! 1n dn with}

Excessive Worry

3.151s the Nervous Syslem

l Hr l1r111=' lmld rlulir-s, nurlrlcn

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mim- Ir 11

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one-slam o!

thus 1r~licvi11g u condition $422 1n p E

There was n not rountrlos. "Gar-_,x1,-11-1;h

l1 ‘uni _1\'crvu Pills a chainco . -.

the totsl income, and from i930 tn i940, it had falen to one-tenth the national income. In the nineteen years hetwgen 1930 and i939. thirteen have been "un- favorable" to the tanner. The farm

population had declined to 27,5 pg!‘

cent o! the total in 1M1, and the dcclcnslon was most marked in the Mnritimes. Teachers’ salaries Rlurased (m 1041, the your of the Census,» from $1.321 in B.C_, to I. We are a Iona way

resident 01ft‘ that brave new world!

Nature Notes from ths North.

snow-drift in the

1'7 feel high at. the end of

but it is now 211x111; i0 feet;

"1 has Dmbﬂbly done some damage.

0Y1 Abril 2nd. a "Crane" (pro-

perly ilerom was observed flying north, over the house on his way to the buy; he wouldn't gee muchl

Robins here, April Srd- “Tame" Boon “V1111? Aim. 6. Afternoon of Aprll| 7,‘ll1r_- weather which 11nd bm-n ""81" 70F u few days. changed:

the wind blcw from the Nw, and

511°" fell. closzing the trees and covering the bare fields, whiqh were all clear’ nqnin by the m,“ Qn t-hr- 81h. the mt. lulzgrd 1n n hi1: Meadow Vole, 11rv1111l11rly rnllprl

11 Fin-Ir] Itfrutw‘. (111 liiustcr Sunday iAlrvrll 91, the first blossmn of the Cloth of Gold Crocus (C. Susianusl

Owned it; little 311-110“; “W” m 1M6- “mrdiuz to the Naturalists‘ Cnlnndtr." this‘ Tififdy imp; bu“; hlmmﬂd 0n March lflth.

orchard

ienlpt in 1i, n put :1 111mm on

111] “Ilfflﬁd why

1-l nnrvn fnnin r-nnininlng r-ncrmin] dmnqnlj

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