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HOW TO TRANSFER SEEDLINGS FROM FLATS
BY PROF. C. H. NISSLEY.
A loose, frtable soil that will not one-third manure, one-third garden
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er, supplied a map marked with. the areas approved by his GoverR- ment as follows:-Notre Dame BayFog-free twelve months in the year, and lee-free nine months; Mortimer. Bay-Ice-free twelve; months in the year, and fog-free during the period that Notre Dame Bay is frozen.
It is intended that the new, aero-
bake is a good medium in which to soll, and one-third sand is recom-drome at Furbough should be the grow transplants." A mixture of mended.
Inve the Roll into which the for some other kind of a covering young planta are transplanted fover the glass, slightly richer in plant food than
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focal point for existing services to and from all parts of Europe, passengers and ninil being convey. ed to the seaplane base for the Transatlantic flight. Alternative. ly, passengers and mail will be picked up after the ocean flight for transport to Britain and the Con- tinent. The same service will be available at Notre Dame Bay.
NO SHORTER ROUTE Mr. Clandining, in an interview the soll in which they were started į A cold frame will be found of said that the various Government as seedlings. Bone meal, added at great assistance in cultivating experts who had been investigating the rate of a 5-inch flower pot full hardy vegetable plants. It offers the potentialities of the scheme to a medium-sized wheel-barrow of protection from cold weather, starts had been impressed by the clogg the prepared soil, will add the pro-plants quicker, and results in an Juxtaposition of an excellent aero- per amount of plant food,
carller plant. It also offers a place Set the transplants so that the in which to accustom early plants drome site--chosen by an airman crotch of the seet leven is just grown under controlled heat con- of international reputationa above the ground. The rools are ditions to outdoor environment pre-natural scaplane base, and, within placed into holes, which are made paratory to garden transplanting, a mile, sufficient depth of water to It may be constructed at very allow the largest Transatlantic either by the fager or by the use
little cost, using one and a quarterliner to herth at any state of the of "dibbies."
Press the ground around thech by 12-inch express, spruce or roots thoroughly so that there willig hemlock boards from 14 to tide.
Hi fort tong, pinced parallel to each be no possibility of an air space other, & feet apart. surrounding them. Have the soil. They ahould run east and west quite moist, since it is essential with a slant of from 4 to 6 inches that the roots obtain an adequate toward the south. This will per water supply.'
mit more sunlight to enter the Water the plants immediately frame and will provide means of after transplanting. and shade carrying off excess rain water. them for at least 24 to 36 hours. The cold frame should he pro- especially if the day is warm. Iftreted against extreme cold either the plants are set in an outdoor through electric heating or through cold frame, put the wash in place the use of burlap or canvas covers, and place salt hay, burlap, canvas which should he properly anchored.
"The experts," he added. "have agreed with Captain M'Clenaghan's view of the economic importance of flying the Atlantic by the short- est and quickest route, and there Is no shorter route between, the Old World and the New than that; between Galway Bay and Dame Ray."
Notre
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935.
The liner Normandia, French challenge for shipping supremacy, is nearly ready for trials that will show whether it is the fastest as well as the biggest thing afloat. Four 15-foot propellors that will drive the 75,000-ton vessel across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage into in the Spring ara ready to be attached. A workman is shown polishing the 23-ton screw, which was cast
In England.
SCOTLAND YARD
HOW IT IS "MUCKIN" UP CRIME"
only fields. In 1983 are now miles of houses ill-protected, and afford- ing excellent opportunities for Ithieves,
Lord Trenchard emphasised the "Your Blinkin' squadrons are need for a wholesate enlargement; Mr. Clandining is leaving short-fair muckin' up crime." This of Scotland Yard, or the removal Every branch of ly for New York, to discuss the testimony by an "old lag" to the elsewhere. schemes with American bankerslciency of the police wireless pollee work had become inumensely organisation was cited in Air more complicated in the past interested In the project. The Marshal Lord Trenchard's report forty years with its own group of American Embassy in London is on the Metropolitan Polica for experts and specialists. He com- making the necessary arrange-1934.
plained that overcrowding hope- lessly ments for Mr. Clendining to meet Wireless patrol cars resulted in Many work in corridors by arti
impedea administration. the chief of the Civil Air Depart-1821 arrests being made during the fetal light, and the criminal ment at Washington, and to visit second half of Jast year, the records continually needed piled the principal air operating and thieves often being caught in up passages and manufacturing companies
floor to the under actual possession of the stolen car cellings. their auspices.
within a few minutes of the theft. Senior officers often engaged in Lord Trenchard pays tribute to most confidential conversation The original scheme was brought the increasing to the favourable notice of the efficacy of the police, but stresses together in.
crime fighting were crowded three or U.S.A. Government by Mr. Sterling, the diflculties due to the growth fingerprint staff was jammed to- tiny rooms. The formerly American Minister to the fof London and of the numbers of gether like warehouse clerks in a Irish Free State.
motor-ears. Districts which were Christmas rush.-Rexier.
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Here is a well laid-out vegetable garden Illustrating the practice of "companion cropping," String beans have been planted between rows of tomatoes,
The string beans mature in 60 in the soil.
to 60 days and will be harvested
Many combinations of early and
by the time the tomato plants need late crops may be profitably sub- the extra room. The benn vines
will then-be-turned under, and the-jected to this system of "companion tomatoes will thus be aided by the cropping."
provision of more organic matter Next Tuesday: Vegetable varlėties.
ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE
LONDON TO NEW YORK IN 24 HOURS
Halifax and New York, supplied by the Air Ministry--that on a con- servative basis, and making due allowance for delays, the air journey from London to New York can be completed within 24 hours. The scheme in its original form provided for a combined sea and air service, with Galway and Halifax as terminal points. As the result, however, of a meeting
NEWFOUNDLAND at the American Embassy Inst
TO GALWAY
November between Mr. Stebbins, the United States Trade Commis- soner, and Mr. Clendining, the London, Mar. 20. #cheme was altered to a direct air
The prospect of a regular pas-service between Galway and Now- Benger and mail air service across foundland. The change of plan the Atlantic has at last been
WOR discussed willi brought within sight of realisation M'Clenaghan, the Chief of the Air Captain by negotiations which have been Department of
the Irish conducted during the last
Free few State Government, who expressed months between interested parties the opinion that there would be no and the Governments la London, official objection to the alteration, Dublin, Newfoundland, and the and pointed out that his Depart- United States. These negotiations ment was aware of the importanca have reached a stage when the of the Galway Newfoundland route. possibility of a regular Trans- Upon the advice of the Civil atlantic service between Galway Department of the Air Ministry, Bay, Ireland, and Newfoundland in the scheme seven and a half hours may be a before the Newfoundland Govern- was placed directly reality within the next year. ment, and on January 22 Mr.
For economic and other reasons, Clendining was informed by tho it is claimed that the successful Trade Commissionor, Mr. Davis, working of a regular Transatlantic that the proposal would have the schedule must depend on. the use goodwill of his Government,
FOG-FREE SITES
The next stage in the elaborate
of the shortest and most direct route between the Old World and the New; and the scheme will pro- vitie for the building of a now negotiations was an interview. on nerodroma at Galway Bay. From January 30, at the American Em- there it is a hop" of 1,500 miles bassy, when Mr. Clendining and to the nearest point upon the other Mr. Maxwell Ayrton were received. side of the Atlantic-Notre Dame by the Air Attache, Captain Mona- Bay, Newfundland. A alte for this hau. He informed them that the norodrome has already been select Sikorsky seaplane could put up a ed at Furbough by Sir Alan cruising speed of 175 miles Cobhama, air consultant to the Irish hour, and had, accommodation for Transatlantic Corporation, a com- 62 passengers. pany controlled by trustees ap- suitable arrangements could ba Providing that provod by the Irish Free Stato made at the terminal points, there Government, whose chairman, Mr. seemed to be no reason, he declared. C. H. Cloudining, has throughout why the service should not be been the prime
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with the Civil Department of the Air Ministry, and at an important American seaplanes are to oper- conference held at the offices in ate over the route. These machines London of the Newfoundland are capable of a cruising speed of Government, the question of find 175 m.ph, and it has been cal-ing a fog-free site in Newfoundland culated partly from official flying was fully discussed. As a result times between London and Galway, Mr. Davis, the Trado Commission
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