APRIL 9. 1931 Q . THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN NEWS Y NOTES BY AGBICOLA A Cali of Pilcbards 1 must confess 0t a predilection for an occasional can of pilchards as a guppoi‘ dish. This can be deemed a pleblan taste, for the pilchard is not m aristocratic viand as is_the sal- mon though it has a flavor all its own. The nearest sPPNaoh to it in mete is the sardine as im- ported from France; and this is as it silould be, seeing that the French sardine is but the baby pilchard embalmcd in oil. In Britain the pilchsrd appears to be confined to the south coast, more especially to that of Cornwall, where it is taken by the hundred. salted, barreled and sent abroad, I never heard of its being caughton tile east coast, where indeed its place is “gen by its first cousin the herring. The pllchsrd, strange to say, is very lightly esteemed in the Old Count- ry, although its progeny “s lmuile" i; eagerly welcomed by high and low. This distaste for what is really so excellent fish, is doubtless caus- ed by the crude method of preserv- ing it. The pllchaid, ss has just been said is, s close relative of the herring; it has larger scales however, and in gems respects it resembles the shad, euctiler fish of the same group. Un- til recently. In common with many other denisens oi the deep, its early stages were quite unknown. Larval pilohsrds, however, have been bred by the Marine Biological I ‘ ‘ ry at Plymouth, England, and another mystery of the sea is cleared up. when the larva is shout two in- ches 1ong~it ls<a slim worm-like creature with s snub nose and very protu‘ ‘ eyes. It has but one fin, but that extends along most of its baclcand terminates at s cir- cular tail. As the young fish grows this long dorsal fin gradually disap- pears, giving place to a dlspropriat- icnately large fin near the tail, which also becomes large and forked. The anal and ventral fills make ‘their ap- ' pesranceyand thshead becomes fish like, with the eyes sunk into their sockets. The body still remains eel like. In the adult fish the upper (dorsal) fin is no longer near the tail, ‘out is about the middle oi the back, andthe body has broadened out. ” _ in any lists of hlorth Atlantic fish- es I find ‘no mention ‘of the pilchard and conclude that the water is too cold for this fish. n. is an import- ant food fish of thaPaciflc coast, where it is caught and canned in large numbers, More About Earthquakes While doing some spring-cleaning the other day, I chanced to find a B0110 0f an old newspaper, worn and yellow. Something impelled me to glance over it before destroying ltlnmd to my great interest 1 found that it contained a letter from "Ari Observer" sscribing the origin of r-rthquakes to the, conjunction of the sun and the moon-a theory "M011 I had enunciated in my notes lllltle recently. I transcribe the letter in full. "The moon was almost at its near- “l Bllilroach to the earth on Sun- illiy. January 1th, when the recent "Whquake in Mexico- occurred- srld close to its iul] phase, and its Was reinforced by that of the sun lwweriul attraction at such a time which wss st its minimum distance from the earth at l0 o'clock on Sat- "Ydly night. These conditions have existed on many previous occasions when earthquakes and volcanic er- "Dtlons have occurred, and I recall in this connection the two terrible Jamaican earthquages of i907 and ma. Both or these happened in the 3M weeks oi January, w hen the ll"! Ind the moon, at their minimum distance from the earth were nin- “Mhl eacn. others pull ' on our planet. The eruption of Mount Pelee in i908, which destroyed the town of 5t. Pierre, took place as the moon Ind sun, in conjunction passed over the island of m-flinique, almost in the zenith." When I read this l got out my llarr note book and traced this ev- mt bask‘ to January mi, mo, at which date a brief note stated that "a great earthquake in Mexico kill- Bd 1,000 and iniured 1000 people." Besides corroborating my views, si "My expressed, of planetary in- fliience on the origin of earthquakes, U16 "observer" indicates mother im- portant addition to the theory: that l! when any planet (or the sun) is its gravltstlollslpilll is incyeafid. and this again explains why the "ebb oi the barometer readings is i0 irregular and lumpy from Nov- tmber till March or April and runs l0 smoothly during the summer months when the sun h furthest "m. Following this train of thought it is reasonable to suppose that theiormer approach of a comet to the earth Wm» thmllh Perhaps to a lesser de- gree, have some bearing upon mete. orologlcal conditions. A British scientist-conjectures .hni. the gradual deepening of the new. lc is the cause of the New Zealand earthquakes. One may go further and say that this deepening is due to one side of a "fault"’ (whi 1h appears to extend towards Japan) Sihplng down while the other side remains in ststu quo. It is noteworthy that the New Zealand earthquake oi June 17, lbw, occurred within four days n: full moon (June iii) and a volcanic eruption in Japan took place on the 19th. The moon was at full and in conjunction with Mars on the 2nd of February, 1931, when the last catastrophe commenced on North Island, N. Z. The Dalllls. Historical The native home of the Dahlia is Mexico, but it is s matter of much dispute as to whom the honor of in- troducing it to cultivation should be given. An explorer, Hernandez, sent by Philip II of Spain, (oi Armada fame) found many odd flowers grow- ing wild in Mexico, and his book, published in Madrid in 1e15, gives what is probably the first account of the Dahlia under its Aztec name of Acocotli. Another account says that Cervan- tes, head of the Mexican Botanic Gardens first sent seed of the Dahlia to the Abbe Garanilles, Director oi the Royal Gardens at Madrid, to- wards the end oi the lBth century. Seed from the Garden was taken to England in 1789 by the wife of the Ambassador to Spain, but the seed- lings perished the next winter. Nicholas Thierry de Menonville, (botanist and ,.'orer under Louis XVI oi France) who went to Mexico in 1787, on his return told of a plant growing in gardens there "with flowers as large as Asters, on stems as tall as a man, with leaves like those oi the Elder trcef’ And lastly the Dahlia is said to have been discovered by “Humboldt growing in sandy plains three thous- and feet above the level of the sea" in the year 11%. Each of these explorers may per- haps take credit, for the true species (not horticultural varieties) in my catalogues number eight, and it may be surmised that the explorers found. different species. Those considered to be the parents of our garden forms are Dahlia coccinea, D. variabllis (synonym D rosen.) D Merkio and D. Juarezii. fn i800 a shipment of tubers from Mexico to France was rude not from any hope of adornment but for the purpose of ousting the potato from the dinner table. Because Dr. Andreas Dahl, s Swedish botanist, was at the head of the experiments the plant was named after him; as some other plant had already been called the Dahlia the older British botanists persistently referred to our subject as "the GeergianaP-e. trib- ute to the reigning family. A Scottish gardener, one John Frazer, obtained seeds from this con- signment in 1802, which he grew and flowered successfully in Eng- land. By the year 1826 the Royal Horticultural society listed sixty cul- tivated varieties. In i854 the list had increased to over one thousand, but it is probable that none could com- pete in size and coloring with the varieties produced today. In closing the historical part oi this theme. it may be said that Al" though the Dahlia did not fulfil the hopes of those who wished to find a substitute for the potato, it is still eaten to a limited extent in certain districts oi France, despite a some- what bitter flavor. The Dahlia: Modern Before going on to the modern aide of Dahlia culture, there is one historical anecdote which ought to be told. The Empress Josephine, (wife oi Napoleon I. with whomthe British were at war) had a con- signment of Dahliab shipped from Mexico to France. When the Brit- ish officials heard cf this they is- sued orders that the shipment might go forward urunolested, and in due time‘ the tubers reached the Emp- 'rcss who planted them with her own hands. They made such a splendid show that Josephine declared them tn be her favorite flower, and used ‘to invite all the foreign notables to. em them. she was however very leaicus oi their getting into other‘ hands and would permit Gleither flower, root nor ‘seed. to leave her possession. At last a Polish prince bribed one oi the gardeners to give him 100 flowers for 100 iouis. when ~ Josephine heard of this, she "took the gee" as thrscottish say, and i present day varieties, nxre sill plant: with small, single, aster-Lice floxvel-a. running from blackish-crimson to white, through scarlet, lilac and mauve. D virldilflora was an effec- ive curiosity for it had double flow- ers oi a pure self green. The plant breeders since the mid- dle of the 10th century, have con- verted these simple floirrs into a- bout a dozen well-defined types with self-colored, striped, and mrirhled representatives. The present classification takes note of Show, Fancy, Decorative, Cactus, Pompton, or Bouquet, Single, Peony-flowered. Pompon-csctus, An- emone-flowered and Collsrette Dal- liss. The Show, Fancy and Pompton dahllas have full double flowers. The petals folding over each other in an even imhricated manner, and no Breen must show at the centre. The Show Dahlia usually is of one color but does not lose, standing if’ the edges of the petals show shading of a. different tint. Tile Fancy may have two or more colors, striped‘ or the edges lighter than the ground color. The Pompon is like the show or Fancy but with smaller flowers and more “abundant. Cactus and Decorative Dshlias have quiued florets or petals, spread- lug evenly from centre to circumfer- ence. The Cactus Dahlia, whose par- ent ls known to be the brilliant scar- let D. Juarezii, has all the petals pointed, whereas in the Decorative types all petals are blunt. En pas- sant, it may be said that the Cactus Dahlia first took its name, not from its shape but from its color-rescm- bling that oi the scarlet Phyllocac- tus so commonly grown. This type has now taken on e11 the colors oi the race. v The‘ introduction oi the Paeony- ilowered Dahlia is said to have tak- en place about the year i905. Pre- viously all open-centred Dahlias had been hanend by the judges, but a Hollander in that year exhibited some of this kind at the Crystal Pal- ace in London. They did‘ not get any award from the judges, and the oth- er exhibitors stigmatized them as "rags on flag-poles?’ but when the public were allowed in, they crowd- ed this exhibit and neglected the others. The judges were recalled arid forced to recognize the new "Paeny- flowered Dahlia" with .1 medal. This type is very large with two or more rows oi petals and s. beautiful gold- en disc; recalling the Japanese semi- dcuble Paeonies. The single Dahlias in cultivating dilIer greatly from the original wild species whclh had narrow, pointed petals, set wide apart, thus giving the flower a star shape- The Anemone- ilowered type has a single row of petals, with a full centre of tubular florets resembling a double anemone. The Collarette Dahlia has one row of large petals, arid an inner r0": of smaller petals, usually oi a different color, the “collar" from whence 3t takes its name. The Dhalla, and particularly the Cactus Dahlia, ls apt to become fluc- cld after cutting, but it is claimed that if the stalks are immediately plunged into hot water, and allowed to remain till the water is cool, then placed in cold water, the flowers will remain‘ rigid for three or four days. - Amateurs sepeclally, often have trouble with the tubers rotting or shrlvelling in storage. An expert ad- vises drying them in the sun after lifting, labelling them, and storing the clumps iri boxes or barrels with the crowns downwards. Needless to say they must be kept from frost. Farm Management The Imperial Oil Company of Tor- onto has brought out a little book with the above title, as a companion to those on "Weed Control’ ‘and "Field and Farmyard," which have already been reviewed in these coi- umns. As before, the booklet is writ- ten and compiled by no less an auth- ority than the lion. Duncan Mar- shall, Minister of Agriculture for the Province of Alberta. But whereas the two books already published deal with the actual labor oi the farm in a practical sense, the present volume deals with the farm as a business investment, subject like "all other businesses, to economic laws. “'I‘he farmer," it is well said, "should stand at the very top oi the great group of men who labor, and they are all fsr in advance of many people who have drawn sn ‘office Job in the lottery oi life." Bold words: but the author lusti- iies them by pointing out the fact that s lesser percentage of men in the p. fesslons make an outstanding success of their undertaknigs: while a greater proportion of farmers succeed than of people in any other business. Not because farming is easier work, mark you for it requires intelligence as well ss industry, and a knowledge oi many sciences. A comparison of the material advan- tages enjoyed by the farmer, as a- gainst those of the city man, closes the first chapter. ' Without going into detail, other wouldnctgrownshliiissnymore. nibbles The lP-"clnklist Reviews Events At Quebec g (Canadian Press) AIONTREAL, Alpril b-Over half I the population c1‘ Quebec-the wo- men—wiil never obtain any import-l and its demands will never receive a serious hearing from the legisla- ture until it gains the right to vote. 5o declared Mrs. Pierre F. Casgrairl, president of the League for Wo- men's Rights, reviewing events at Quebec in regard to the two fem- inist measures which were recently defeated. One mom“ , and not among the least important in the Legislature, had said a few days previously: "Please don't ask us to waste the time of the Legislative Assembly over your academic debs " said Mrs. Casgrain. was the bill to admit women to the Bar an academic question-s measure designed to sf- ford women the requisite training and talent to earn their livelihood in the profession for which they were fitted? she queried. Was a bill intended to give over half the popu- latlon of the province the right to participate in the choice of those who would make the laws for the good or ill of the country an acad- emic matter’! labor and the fanners are listen- ed to seriously when they. make dc- mands of the Legislature. said Mrs. Casgrain. Why? Because they have the vote. when the women seek some legislative action they are told “We must not proceed too quickly- come back next year; we are so busy, we have not. time to waste." “Wemced the vote. At the polls our voice would be eloquent indeed- we would be heard. It is true," Mrs. Casgrain continued, “that we obtain- ed certain s ’ ents to the Civil Code, but only at the cost of year after weary year of striving and dis- appointment, arid in face of s cam- paign of violence and calunmy on the part of our opponents. “ We are not discouraged. Our cause is just, and we will win in the end." Mrs. Casgraila said. manor: wrrn as naoonps HOLDS SUPBEMACY IN AIR PARIS, April 7.—With 38 world sir l records out of the 105 accepted and ratified by the. International Aero- nautic Federation,‘ France has claim- ed again the supremacy of the air, wrested from her by Germany for a. few months in 1930. Lucien Boussoutrct and Aime Ros- si, who annexed the distance and duration marks on a. circuit near Oran, Algeria recently, and Regin- ensi, who with Jean Lalouette ach- ieved a similar feat for planes car- rying a useful cargo of 2,000 kilo- grams," brought France to the front again in the world of aviation. Germany has 30 records, the Un- ited States, la, Italy a, Great Brit- ain, Czechoslovakia and Spain 3 each and Hungary l. Louis Dumesnil, Air Minister, says France will make an intense effort for the Schneider Cup. Sadi 1e- cointe, world record-holder for speed over 500 kilometres, has been stat- near Marseilles, for and his experiments with the new French seaplanes are said to have been quite satisfactory. ‘ ant right until it counts politically h lonfd at Marignane, hydroplsne base ten months ‘plats that have been ‘Old ‘ilhlrus Skull Found in Sand lCsnsdlan Press) MONTREAL, April B.—Ti'le natur- al resources and development branch oi the Canadian National Railways as come into ll _ession of a walrus skull believed to be between twenty and thirty thousand years old. It was found in Northern Manitoba by George Brown of The Pas, an em- ployee of the C. N. R... during re-, cent construction work on the Hud- son Bay Railway. ‘rl-ie skull was dis- covered eight feet beneath the sur- face of a gravel ridge situated 8 miles east of the main line of the Hudson Bay Railway at Mile 467. This point is about 35 mils due west of the western shore of Hudson Bay. The skull is that of the Arctic walrus (tricheohus nosmarus) and probably represents one M the many walrus Wanderers that flourished south of Hudson Bay during. the glacial period Walruses are notor- iously svaaarious and it is interest- ing to reflect that over much of the country at present traversed by the Hudson Bay Railway there was once heard the deep barking of thousands of these mammals 23y peace- ful but thoroughly formidable when aroused. The two tusks, some fifteen inch- es in length, are well preserved a.f- ter thousands of years beneath the sands, but one is considerably worn at the tip. It ls considered possible that this tusk was chipped as the creature rludged among rocks and sea shells in search of food, crywas polar broken in battle with some bear, the inherent enemy of the wal- rus. GROWING CELERY PLANTS (Ellpflillildlltll Farms Note) Celery is grown for its leaf stalks. It has certain medicinal properties and. its consumption should be en- couraged. _Strange to say, its con- sumptlori is confined largelyto those livig in towns and cities. The im- pression seems to be that remarkable skill is required to grow this excel- lent vegetable. ‘Irue, 'it cannot be grown with the same ease as carrots or many other vegetables, but st- tention to a. few details make: its culture possible in any garden with a not undue amount of workI Celery seeds will germinate in a- bout two weeks afer planting; dur- ing this time the soil should be kept damp. The seed box may be set any place in a warm kitchen (or in a hotbed) and when the seedlings ap- pear, pplace in a hotbed. In two weeks after germination the plants may be singled out and transplant- ed to another flat 1 1-2 to 2 inches apart. In another month these will have developed into good plants ‘for setting in June. Seed sown thinly in a seed flat may be transplanted dir- ectly to the open without trans- planting to other flats, but more care is necessary in transplanting these seedlings. shallow seed flats and similar flats are best for transplant- ing. It is unnecessary to have more. than three inches of soil for start- ing or growing the young plants. The once trans- planted may be cut out with a square of soil, thus avoiding the injury of removing the soil from the roots that isllecessary if the plants are not and Fencing; Credits and Debts (“We very seldom realize that "farm credits" mean "farm debts," says the writer, in speaking of the numerous commissions "Farm Credits?) Mixed farming, but the motif oi the booklet appears in Chapter XIV as Farm Bookeep- lng. » Excellent as the other sections are, replete with wisdom and full of pithy sayings, they are not more import- ant than this on the keeping oi the farm records. These and these only will give the farmer the true results of his year's work, showing him what part of his business is profitable, and where losses are made. No oth- er business would last for a year without some system oi ‘u- k‘ ping, and it is a compliment to the vital- ity oi the farming profession that it can stand up under the woeful want of system in record that now pre- veils. The chapter is practical in that it presents specimen pages for milk and egg production, individual cow rec- ords, separate sheets for live stock, dairy produce, crops, labor, machin- ery, repairs, etc. ‘Phase are brought forward into a summa y of receipts and disbursements, the difference being the profit or loss on the years work. Then follows the k ‘ sheet, giving the owners worth and when compared with the previous year's balance sheet, showing g "bird's-eye" view of the progress made. Point is given to the system by the inclusion of actual figures from x2 books of Western farmers, who it seems, are more careful to keep rec- ords than are their Eastern breth- ren. This useful book may be had wtih Dahlia species noted in theospticns are on Selecting a Farm; out charge. (“om the Irrparial Cil article as the parents of the Investments and Taxes; Planning Comparirs omce, at Toronto. first ti ' nted into flats. If grown too rapidly, due to high tem- perature, the plants are less stocky. so that it is better not to force them too much- If planted early they i “pmmmd m sludyishould be well hardened off in a ‘cold-frame, before setting to the open. Many sorts have been under test at the Experimental Station, Kent- ville, and we find White Flume to be a satisfactory early variety. Goll- en Yellow Self-blanching is use: largely as the best sort in commer- cial plantings. Seed started here Ap- ril 3 and the plants set to the open ground June 10, gave stalks ready for use August 29. CHARLES SWINBURNE SMACK- ED GEORGE MEREDITH YEARS ' AGO NEW YORK, \~ April 7.—Sinclair Lewis wasn't the first man of let- ters to get slapped by another M. of L. In the good old days of Queen Victoria Algernon Charles swine- burne laid s lusty eight-cross on George Meredith's cheek. A new volume "As We were“ by Ii. F. Benson recites the circum- stances. ~ For two years the poet and novel- ist lived together. Swineburne “made noises when he drank his tea." and "danced around the studio like a wildcat.“ This was not calculated to please the dignified Meredith. The novelist remarked: "i certainly would have kicked Algernon Charles down- stain had I not forseen what a cist- ter he would have made bouncing- from step to step." The two separated, but some time later were reconciled by friends. Meredith was in tempo lay e of the Fortnightly Review. 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' mrokcro and chose desiring‘ insurance dith, pleasantly enough, "that is all For five pounds (about $25) prcm- 7Lioyd‘s business during the last threQ they pay me!" ium, paid six monih". prior tn illfliCClltllflflfi has been principally mar- This was too much for Algernon expectant birth, a policy is issuabioflne, but 0i’ late other forms of in- Charles, and he thereupon slapped paying 100 pounds mbout $50": in Jmrance are bulking larger in the Meredith in the face. the event twins are born. Both child- [annual turnover. Sinclair Lewis’ face was slappedlren must live 24 hours under the, Lloyd's, whose principal marine recently by Theodore Dreiser foliow-lilrovision of the policy. ‘bllSlllDSS new, is mainly distributing ing s dispute at a dinner. Some rates. depending ilpon ‘mcginformaiion concerning ships, ship- frequency’ of twins in the arlcesiors dint: and skippers was started in th! of the prospective parents, miglu lie .351!‘ 17th Cflllllfl" b5‘ Edward Lloyd quoted at $15. premium for tile $391 who rzin a coffee house where mar- poliz-y, or multiples thereof. ,lllCl‘$ gathered i0 Spill their yarns. Freak bets. often reported as hZlV~:Cl‘l{I.lll1il\' the nld limvrs came to ing been placed through Lloyds. Cox -L1o.\"77“ t" ‘mo! their pals and to NEW YORK‘ Apr“ 7‘__The pushlsays, are generally‘ bu: rumnre for nlvnp ininrmalioii concerning trade can clique have shaved the“, wuhpéthe inspection bureau of the world's ‘routs and condlilons in general. kers’ watched the“. necks and gun: [largest insurance organization 11:10:11.? Ritz’ ,on such policies and drcourugcs iilozr i \_ “n: _ I _“"“ Morris Karger, "king of the puehiicsmmce‘ i P,“-glggqlfkiflfjldlixslrlo:YA . carts," has admitted it. He said the, Lmyds does m“ “T” a”? “lm” "my? l; mulwa .-‘,,iilql‘n‘fllld ‘Evan. um push cart businesa-"Appolls!" “San- l 1 _ App-Ohsi" has rolled up in the m g P E A T in l BE SIICLlIlsXXTULIA‘ Rfililif) l}; PUSH-CART PUSHERS SHAVE. WASH, GET BITZY AS TRADE ASSUMES MUCH TONIER. TONE world; that a. push carteer, by due‘ industry and application to business,’ may now hope to rise to heights un- dreamed years ago back in Odessa or Nishny-Novgorod. , Kargern, who landed from Odessa with two dollars,.illvested it in a pushcart stock and cleaned up $3 in his first day in the United States, i said the class of patronage now ost- ered to by the pushcart men i: steadily becoming tonier and ton-i ler. Park Avenue ladies with their "A" ANY li.i('lil‘.\lil.) f have several pair; of‘ iirxt i iii-looted in Eur-spa fur sob. Fccillng give-xi tn each buyer. 5'1 Fitch which l personally F111! irifivrlnritlvli rc Brcvdinz and up lid s $T§AHiLEBURi' C HARLOTTETCNYN . PARKER HOUSE Street-where the push carts park- and spend their good old Park Av- enue money ior the gee-gaws the push carts sell. As a result, King Karger said, push cartstocks now are often costly-I tapestries, paintings, imported this- and-thatb-and the folk from up- tcwn seemed to find it a good place to buy. "Business?" said Karger. "We can't ' kick. There used to be 10,000 push carts; now there are 50.000. FLUMEENG Why not Remodel the Bath Room This Spring ? A MODERN TUB. Pedestal or Sailiiary Toilet will add a permanent asset io your home. ODDS AGAINST TWINS SET AT ONE HUNDRED T0 FIVE LONDON, April 'I.~It‘s a hundred to ilve that your next child won't be a twin and you can take out an in- surance policy against it being a twin with a premium of 5 percent. Douglas Cox. London insurance broker and head of the firm of that name, is an authority on insurance against twins, popularly supposed to he a sort cf "freak bet" arrange, mcnt. 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