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Institutes Stcfrte.

_Here is a schedu-le for pruning some common shrubs that may be followed with profit by the

. e gardener:

_ ,arbenry——March - Aprvil: Cut -out an old cane occasionally. Pruning to be done March to June.

‘ Bi‘-iidal Wreath-—tlVlvayn Cut out oldest canes. After the flowers fade is the best time to prune.

MRS. PRESTON BECK

‘ -Honeysuckle» March

Few Ilble--To Recognize Starvation In Plant Lile

vClematis——Marc«h - April: Cut out’ all weak branches. Retain asmtutch old wood as pcssilble. Dog?wood—May-June: Take out ‘dead wood. Pruning should fol- low flliowering. - - Arpril:

Everyone recognizes the symp- toms of starvation in anim

‘Pruning Schedule Termed Important

als requtinements flor normal growth.

Take out oldest canes. To thin out in the fall is also a wide plan.

Hydrangea. Pegee -* Mamhi Cut old stems back to a few inches. Cut weak slhaoots.

Boston lvy—-M.a»rch-April: Very ltitle and only to trim vine. Take dead vines from walls. ,

Lllac——March * July: Ciut old cane covered with scale. Out flower clusters ollf after they fade.

Mock Orange- July: ‘Cut out dead wood. Should be thinned after flowering.

Rose, clim.bing——Ju.>ne-July: Cut ‘beak after flowering.

cannot manufiacrture their food

Festival ot.

One form of starvation occurs

.The Women's Institutes of Prince Edward Island have been noted -for their great contribu- tion to the betterment of rural living. '-Their projects‘ cover I wide field of activities, but per- haps the most " outstanding gift to the cultural life of the Pro- vince has been the inauguration of the Music Festival. .

Like so many similiar or2am' zations the music Festival starr- ted in a small way. R was in

1945 ‘that a group of Institutes

V near Charlottetown became 1n - —ter‘ested'in holding a competitive Festival. _ . , ‘

A committee brought the mat- ter before, the annual convention that year and though favourably received, no action on-.a provin- cial bra ‘‘ was undertaken.

J However the smaller group de- cided to hold a festival in their district. = Their first step was to have a music teacher give in- struotion in the schools of the area, then in~1946 the first fes-

tival was held. .

Mrs. Preston Beck was the‘

first president, Edwin Cook, Vice President and Nlrs. Nadine Archibald, ‘ Secréta;ry',,Treasurer. Under their capable leadership. the first festival was." successful with 125 énatrtes adjudicated by Miss Dorothy "Allen"-d_f Mt. Al- lison University. ’ p Even the most enthusiastic sup-’ porters did not expect the f.pheno- menal growth of the annaul‘fes- rhival, which. this year has over 2300 entries with classes '2 being held in Summerside, Montagu and Charlottetown. —. _ Since 1946 the ~Women’s Iknsti-. tu/Les havehcontinuedy, ‘to support the festival ‘in ‘every way possible. Institute members have fiserved‘ on the Executive, ‘local Institutes,’ have group, .membe1gship;s and many sponsor the teaching of music in their local s‘chool‘s‘. A The annual Music Festival is; now ‘ must bring satisfaction to , its founders. The objective for the future is to have regular music instruction in every school -in the Province. : .

, Plowing Mdldlflri -Mtttnylntereslecl Spgeclulors

“"All/vPloughln,g Milieu, A Fair sand Gat‘tle"S4ho-w,+.a;ll‘ tinder the superintendence and inspection of

~ the”~Central -“Agriculturali Society,

have been held at Charlottetown or: immediate vicinity, in the course of the present week. The Plough-ing Match took place on Tuesday, Sept, 26, 1840, on the Farm at Brighton Lodge, in a field admirably adapted for the .p.urpose.. , ,

The prizes were three in num- ber, and there were only six competittors. Messrs James Salm- ple, John Ferguson and Charles

had entireley themselves ‘

of their population;.‘=:Never,'“?indeed- it was nequently rem;a_rke«d, ‘ ' so tmajny.-'3 human beings eve one time assembled in Cha 1‘ town ‘on-'»‘a"ny ~pi"evi‘ou~s cc and all being dressed ’ ‘ holiday attire gave to tl ‘ a peculiarly gay as well a thing appearance.

“A portion of Queen Sqt'.a railed off and formed. into porary enclosure for horses cattle, sheep and swine, a.nd~*t~he’ ~n-urnber of animals produced was considerable. Istis understood that

an accomplishrnent that

: Weldon, of this town.

shut relatively few. people are able to necsognrize the symptoms of

this condition in plants, say-s.W.

J. White, Forage Crops Labora- tory Saskatoon Sask. In fact it in propably not widely known that such is definitely the case. are sevenal causes of star- vation‘ in plants but this article will be restricted to starrv-artivon catunsed by removal of leaves. ‘ A‘ MAJOR CAUSE V Starvtaion caused by removal of leaves ocwcluns commonly in grasses and legumes which are gra-zed heavily or cut fior hay freqruently. Like pl a n t s, jgras-ses ‘and legume mtaunufao tun"e_“’ their leaves the sugars and starches they require. The leaf surface is the food “factory”. -and the immediate effect of clin- 1pti:xi}g,‘_by animals or machine is

ttoreilucue the size of the fact

=o1'y.;,'llhe plant then Sets about to rebuild its factory.‘ ' “'.'Illiris‘ rebuilding process requir- iesjrnonei-enengy than the reducer? leaf surface can supply, and re- seifveor stored flood souvrcecs must 309? ‘1*S*°.-*is ' With these facts it is readily realized that if the clipping pro- cess, either by animals or with a/imioweri, is repeated lrequently and-' the grasses and 1»et-z»ume-s clipped closely the plants simply

eri-ck G; Goodman; best long wool ederanm, George Tweedie; best ‘long_;wooled ewe, James Miller; 'ibe_s_t;y~short wooled ram, Andrew punca ,4 jgbest short wooled ewe, George Been: best boar and «sow: George Coles. . . . ‘

Among the vegetables exhibi- tedjwas a cabbage ofthe drum- headkillg. weighing twenty pounds, raised by Mr. George Several ‘1.sr,se.. squashes and. put». ‘fins were also shown—am-'ong the for- mer were two, raised by Mr.

under these» circumstances. G-ratsses and legumes on literal- ly thousands of farm pastures in Western Clalnada are stuttering in vanidus degrees from the type of starvation described above. The cause is overstocking—not en- ough aches of grass for the nutmlber -of animals. ,

The efrfiect is lowered produc- tion, reduced ability to compete against weeds and eventually death of the grasses and legumes if «starvation is carried far en- ough. t

The effect on yield dvependzs on how long the ovenstocking has -proceeded and ‘how excessive it has been. In severe cases —— and they are not uncommon — the yield may only be 10 pencenrt or even less of what normally could be produced.

Starvation at any time of the year is serious, Dr. White points out, but it is paitticrularly so in the fall. From early fall on- wand grasses and legumes norm- ally store fioodin their roots. The food is reqiuired during the win- ter months when the plants are hibernating but still brerathi-ng.‘

It is also required for the start of spring growth. Sttarv-atrion ii" the fall retsults in an increased danger of winter loilling a nd weak growth the next year. This is pantie-ulvarly the case in the legumes;

Tlhe solurtion of the problem is grazing motleratetly. G-rass and legunies shwouldx. not be grazed down to ground level at any sea- son of the year. The number of animals and the nvutmlher of acres should be adjusted so that not all the current year's growth is used bywthe stock‘. Particulanly from late summer onward a growth of a few inches» should be allowed to develop‘. -- ‘~ »

‘lb ,Page 1213, Tuesday, May 20, 1958 =- Guardian - Patriot

off the list. Today in many Cana- dian communities the consumer has the choice of buying an at- tractively dressed whole fowl, a half, a quarter, a leg—and is he likes, she can leave the wings for those wafht them! Turkey steaks have caught on and are proving popular on some markets. Because of its better flavor and quality and the elimination of much unpleasant kitchen labor, ready-to-c o o k» and eviscerated poultry is finding increasing fav- or from coast to coast.

To maintain an optimum bal- ance betwen production and con- sumption, poultry producers real- ize that not only must the product be attractively presented, it must have the highest quality and flav- or possible. E. D. Bonnyman, poultry marketing specialist in -the Department of Agriculture at

‘ O.ttawa7says that while it is im-

portant to produce a bird with good flavor, it is equally import- ant to retain that flavor right up to the time it reaches the con- sumer’s table.

Research work has shown that one of the best "ways to achieve this and avoid “off” flavors and

entrails soon after the bird is killed. This of course must be combined with up-to-date and ap- proved processing practices such

visceral ‘taint, is‘to remove the’

as are followed in the registered

grading station program in Can- ada, where emphasis is placed on sanitation. efficient processing, cooling and frezing.

When everyone is interested in cutting down costs, Mr. Bonny- manpo ints out that when cutting‘- up and evisceration is practised at the initial shipping point, a considerable saving is made in freight as the eviscerating shrink has ben estimated to be about 22 to 25 per cent. On long hauls

this saving in frieght has ben

found to approximate a cent a pound. Considered in terms of the millions of pounds shipped ‘-in Canada every year, it is readily sen what an effect this would

haveon the whole poultry meat’

industry. And if this saving in shipping might be passed onto the consumer,_ then it is conceiv- able that the present 23 pounds annually consumed per capita

might be increased to‘the bene-~

fit of all concerned. -

L WASTE LAND Nearly half of the wtonld’s half area ls largely uninhabitatble be-V‘ ouase of deserts, mountains, ice or tundra. ’

USEFUL OIL . Oil from trees, called “tall oil”, is recovered from pine logs used

a C IN out 0 THE, LITTLE ttru sttoot Hots 9

would normally be expected that ‘agriculture would be one ofjhe

' characteristics ‘of The children area loylng the lesso

subjects on which great stress would b placed. Here we see a teacher describing to a class the

in making paper. This oil is wide-

ly used in making, cutting, bor-

I

‘mg and grinding oils, as well as in the manwfactuzre of paints,

varnishes, linoleum}; other prroducts‘. ‘ ’

MANY P. E. |,.FA”RME RS ARE ouR BEST CUSTOMERS FOR ...

Thomas Pethick, whichweighted

Hazard were the judges, who, af- 3. great many sales were etflfec- ter a careful inspection of the] ted, although not certainly so work, awarded the premiums as ‘many as liadwbeen anticipated, follows: 1st prize, 405 to Thus. nor did the prices that were ob- Drummond, Pri-ncetown Road; tained, with a few excevpttion.-s, 2nd prize, 30s to Charles Wool- realize the expectations of the her, Rustico; 3rd prize 20s to sellesr. ~ Charles Howard, York River. The first prizes offered by the “On Wednesday, being the day Society for the best description of of the Fair, the '.l‘own.presented stock were awarded as follows: a very animated appearance. The best entire colt, 3 ysr. old, And- weather was exceedingly fine, rewcoflfin, Savage Harbour‘; best and llrorn the ntumolber of persons filly”, Hon. J.S. MacDonald; best present, it would appear as if hull, 2 to 4 yrs. old,’ W.W. Ir-

respectively 115 and 100 lbs, and measured, the one six feet, three

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cucumber was this season raised .

in the garden‘ of Mr. Elisha Hoop- With wars and rumors of wars er, Bedeque, from seed procu~r- threatening on the international red from_ the Hon. Mr. Livett, front, here’s good news for the sovvn"‘ln ‘a cold bed in the first housewife on the home front_the wee of June of the following disagreable ‘job of “cleaning the dimensions—length, 23 3-4 in.,,cir- chicken” is on the way out. With CW1Ulf91‘9n30‘€ 11 1-2 111-, Weiélll. 5 the-increasing’ use of eviscerated -3-41 ’ « ‘ andr eady-to-cook poultry in

the whole surrounding, districts viug, Bonshaw; best heifer, Fred-

Taken from Colinial Herald, Oc- Canadian homes another house- W116!‘ 3, 1840. . wife’s chore will soon be struck

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