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HOW TO TRANSFER SEEDLINGS FROM FLATS

BY PROF. C. H. NISSLEY.

A loose, friable soil that will not one-third manure, one-third garden hake is a good medium in which to soil, and one-third, sand is recom- grow "transplants." A mixture of mended.

Have the roll into which thejor sonic olher kind of a covering

plants Arc Young

transplanted over the gloss; slightly richer in plant food than!

the soil in which they were starte

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in

A cold frame will be found of assistance cultivating as seedlings. Bone meal, added at great the rate of a 5-inch flower pot full hardy vegetable plants.

offers

to a medium-sized wheelbarrow of protection from cold weather, starts the prepared soil, will and the pro- plants quicker, and results in per amount of plant food.

earlier plant. It also offers a place

elther by the finger or by the use of "dibbles."

THE

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or supplied a map marked with the arean approved by his Govern-. ment as follows:-Notre Dame Bay-For-free twelve months in the year, and lee-free nine months; Mortimer ny Tee-free twelve months in the year, and fog-free) during the period that Notre Dame Bay de frozen.

It is intended that the now nero- drome, at Furhough should be the focal point for existing services to and from all parts of Europe, passengers and mail being convey- ed to the seaplane base for the Transatlantle flight. Alternative- ly, passengers and mall will be picked up after the ocean flight for transport to Britain and the Cou-t tinent. The same service will be available at Notre Dame Buy.

NO SHORTER ROUTE

Mr. Clendining, in an interview said that the various Government experts who had been investigating the potentialities of the scheme

had been impressed by the close. juxtaposition of an excellent agro-

Set the transplants so that then which to neenstom early plants drome site-chosen by an airma international reputation—à crotch of the weed leaves is just grown under controlled heat con-of above the ground. The roots are ditions to outdoor environment pre-natural seaplane base, and, within pinced into holes, which are made paratory to garden transplanting a mile, suelent depth of water to it may be constructed at very allow the largest Transatlantic little cos

cost, using one and a quarter- Inch by 12-inch cypress, spruce or liner to berth at any state of the Press the ground around the

rough hemlock boards from 14 to tide. roots thoroughly so that there will! 16 feet long, placed parallel to each he no possibility of an ir space other. 6 feet apart. surrounding them. Have the soil They should run east and west quite moist, alnce it is essential with a slant of from 4 to 6 inches that the mots 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 a means of after transplanting,

shade carrying off excess rain water. them for at least 24 to 36 hours. The cold frame should be pro- especially if the day Is warm. If tected against extreme cold either the plants are set in an outdoor through electric heating or through cold frame, put the sash in place the use of burlap or canvas covers, and place salt hay, burlap, canvas (which should be properly anchored.

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

APRIL 11, 1935.

The liner supremacy, is nearly ready for trials that will show whether it in the fastest as will na ile biggest thing afloat. Four 15-foot propellors that will drive the 75.000-ton vorvel across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage late in the Spring are ready 18 be attached. A workman is shown polishing the 23-ton screw, which was cust

in England.

Normandie. French challenge for shipping

SCOTLAND YARD

only fields in 1933 are now miles) of houses ill-protected, and afford- Ing excellent opportunities for Ithieves.

of

"The experts," he added, "have agreed with Captain M'Clenaghan's } · view of the economic importance of dying the Atlantic by the short- est and quickest route, and there is no shorter route between the Old World and the New than that| HOW IT IS "MUCKIN' between Galway Bay and Notre

UP CRIME" Dame Hay."

Lord Trenchard omphasised the “Your Blinkin' squadrons are aced for a wholesale enlargement Mr. Clendining is Jeaving short-fair muckin' SUP crime." This of Scotland Yard, or the removal

Every branch ly for New York, to discuss the testimony by an "old lag" to the elsewhere.

police wireless police work had become immensely schemes with American bankers

ellciency of the organisation was cited in Airpore 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 Police for experts and specialists. He com- making the necessary artange- į 1934,

plained that overcrowding hope- lessly ments for Mr. Clendining to meet

impedes Wireless patrol cars resulted in Many work in corridors by arti

administration. the chief of the Civil Air Depart-821 arrests being made during the ficial

light, and the criminal ment at Washington, and to visit serend half of last year, the records continually needed piled the principal air eperating and thieves aften being caught in up passages and floor to the manufacturing companies under actual possession of the stolen ear ceilings.

within a few minutes of the theft. Senior officers often engaged in Lord Trenchard pays tribute to a most confidential conversation The original scheme was brought the increasing crime fighting were crowded to the favourable notice of the efficacy of the pollee, but stresses together in

three or four U.S.A. Government by Mr. Sterling. the difficulties due, to the growth fingerprint stan was jammed to- tiny rooms. The formerly American Minister to the fof London anil of the numbers of gether like warehouse clerks in a Irish Free State.

motor-cara. Districts which were Christmna rush.---Rénter.

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Here is a well tald-out vegetable garden lustrating the practice of "companion cropping." String beans have been planted between rows of tomatoes,

The string beans mature in 50 in the soil,

to 60 days and will be harvested. Many combinations of early and by the time the tomato plants need. the extra room. The benn vines late crops may be "profitably "sub- will then be turned under, and the Jected to this system of "companion tomatoes will thus be aided by the cropping."

provising of more organic matter Next Tuesday: Vegetable vařlettes.

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Halifax and New York, supplied by the Air Ministry-that on a con- |servative basis, and making duo Fallowance 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

the American Embassy last November between Mr. Stebbins, the United States Trade Commis- soner, and Mr. Cleudining, the London, Mar. 20.

scheme was altered to a direct air The prospect of a regular pas service between Galway and New- senger and mail.air service across foundland. The change the Atlantle has at last been was

of plan discussed with brought within sight of realisation M'Clenaghan, the Chief of the Air Captain by negotiations which have been Department of the Irish Free conducted during the last few State Government, who expressed months between interested parties the opinion that there would be no and the Governments in London, ofllcini objection to the alteration. Dublin, Newfoundland, and the and painted out that his Depart- United States. These negotiations ment was aware of the Importance have reached a stage when the of the Galway Newfoundland route. possibility of a regular Trans- atlantic service between Galway Department of the Air Ministry, Upon the advice of the Civil Bay, Ireland, and Newfoundland in the scheme seven and a half hours may be 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 the it is claimed that the successful Trade Commissioner, Mr. Davis.. working of a regular Transatlantic that the proposal would have the schodule must depend on the use goodwill of his Government.

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The next stage in the elaborato

route between the Old World and the New; and the scheme will pro- vide for the building of a new negotiations was an interview, on nerodrome at Galway Bay. From January 30, at the American Em- thero it le a "hop" of 1,500 miles hansy, 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 site for this han. He informed them that the anrodrome has already been select-Sikorsky seaplane could put up a at Furbough by Sir Alan cruising speed of 175 miles an Cobham, air consultant to the Irish hour, and had accommodation for Transatlantic Corporation, a com 62

passengers. Providing that

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pany controlled by trusteesan-suitable arrangements could be proved by the Irish Free State, Government, whose chairman, Mr. seemed to be no reason, he declared, made at the terminal paints, thera G. II. Clondining, has throughout why the service should not be been the prime mover in the negotiations.

successfully

operated.

Further conversations took place AMERICAN SEAPLANES.with the Civil Department of the Air Ministry, and at an important American

sonplanes are to oper- conference held at the offers in ate over the route. These machinos London of tho are capable of a cruising speed of Government, the question of find- Newfoundland 176 m.ph, and it has been cal- ing a fog-free sito in Newfoundland. aulated partly from official flying was fully discussed. As a result tmas between London and, Galway, Mr. Davis, the Trade Commission

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