GUY WALKER MERCHANT TAILOR. Sidney, B. C. CLOTHES PRESSED. CLEANED AND ALTERED. SUITS MADE TO ORDER TOMMY ATKINS’ MONEY BELT, 8 Specialty, Price 75 cents. Umbrella Repairing a Specialty. BREEDERS OF PURE BRED WHITE WYANDOTTES. Hatching Kggs, Day Old Chicks and Breeding Stock For Sale. Write for prices and particulars. AIREDALE POULTRY FARM, Keatings P. O. B. C. Funeral Co.Ltd (HAYWARDS) 734 Broughton Street, Victoria, B.C. Suburban calls given prompt and careful attention. Telephones—2235, 2236, 2237, Your Wife! LESSEN HER BURDEN OF 2238 DRAIN TILES FOR SALE Apply J. T. READING, Phone Y35 HOUSEWORK Give Her Lazan Bay. THE CLARENCE FRENCH DRY CLEANERS AND DYERS 704 Yates Street, Victoria—the most modern plant in the city. Ladies Work a Specialty, Evening and Fancy Gowns. Alterations and Repairing. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Guy Walker, agent Sidney and Islands TO BUY ONE OF OUR EL- ECTRIC MARINE RAILWAY. Layard Bros. and Swan GENERAL ENGINEERS. LAUNCH AND MOTOR CAR’ RE- PAIRS. BEST EQUIPPED MA- CHINE SHOP IN THE DIS- TRICT. MODERATE CHARGES. DEEP COVE. R.M.D. Sidney, P.O IRONS. GUARAN- TEED FOR TEN YEARS. B. C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. LIGHT AND POWER DE- PARTMENT. VICTORIA B. “e T° win the war with the decisiveness which will ensure lasting peace, the Empire will require to put forth its full collective power in men and in money. From DEAN BROS Control Those Plant Lice that SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1916. Take Away Your Just Profits It is advisable at this season of the year to draw the attention of the farmers, fruit growers and gardeners to the principles involved: in the con- trol of aphids or plant-lice. There is no more suitable time of the year than in the opening days of sv ‘ug, when the buds of the trees and bush- es are breaking, in which to control these insects. Aphids or plant-lice are known to all on the many and various plants they infest. They are recognized in the form of grey masses on cabbage leaves; as green clusters on twigs of apples, plums, roses and maples, or in the curl of leaves of many kinds of plants; as white, woolly ‘masses on the leaves and branches of apple trees beeches, and so forth. In many and varied situations may such insects be found, and, while it is probable every plant-infesting aphis is different in the matter of species, all ‘represent very nearly the same type of life his- tory, all undergo similar growth and reproduction, and all are controlled in the orchard or garden by the same underlying: principles. During the winter season the aphis which infests plants above ground, ex ists in the form known as the ‘‘sex- ual egg.’’ TheSe eggs are shiny black brown, or varojously colored, and are laid in quantity, on twigs, and the Dranches of plants. In the spring, almost conjointly with the bursting of the ‘buds, these ‘‘sexual eggs” hatch to what is koown a$ the ‘‘stem mother.’’ This stem mother is usu- ally twice the size of the small lice seen later in the year, and may be observed if carefully watched. All ap hids that are found on plants arise | Feeding takes place by means of a minute proboscis or tube, which is inserted into the plant tissues, and nourishment is sucked up into” the body. The breathing organs of aphids are not located in the head, as mignt be supposed, but are situated along the sides of the body. Some forms develop wings later in the year, and migrate from time to time—hence it is advisable to keepa close look-out for new clusters form- ing. The control of the insects may be summarized as follows: Keep a _ close look-out for ‘‘stem mothers’’ or for the small masses of young aphids developing from these stem mothers. Spray immediately these are seen, remembering that in So doing you are preventing the multiplication of later forms, which is rapid. The spray to be used may be any of {he nicotine compounds, soaps, oils or caustic washes. Insoluble arsenical compounds av useless in the matter of control, be- cause the aphids obtain their nour- ishment from beneath the surface of the leaf. The oils or soaps, however block the breathing organs, and suf- focating results, while the caustic washes corrode the body tissues, thus causing death. It is obvious, therefore, that every individual aphis must be touched by these mixtures to effect control. It is impossible te put this principle into effect if the leaves are curled, as will happen if the young Jice are al- lowed to develop too far. Therefore spray early, thoroughly from these original stem mothers and andyintelligently. a rapid multiplication in geometrical ratio continues throughout the sea- son. —_—— LET US PRODUCE AND SAVE— The war is now turning on a contest of all forces and resources—men, munitions, food, money. The call to all is to produce more and more. necessary to work harder. enlist must be taken by those at home, men and women, old and young. more we can save. in the gardens. LET US NOT WASTE OUR LABOUR— In this war-time all labour should be directly pro ductive or should be assisting in production. Ma -SIR THOMAS WHITE, Minister of Finance. this viewpointit id our true policy to augment our financial strength by multiplying our productive exertions and by exercising rigid economy, which reduces to the minimum all expenditures upon luxuries and non-essentials. Only in this way shall we be able to make good the loss caused by the withdrawal of so many of our workers from indus- trial activities, repair the wastage of the war, and find the funds foritscontinuance. It _ cannot be too frequently or too earnestly impressed upon our people that the heaviest burdens of the conflict still lie before us, and that industry and thrift are, for those -who remain at home, supreme patriotic duties upon whose ‘faithful fulfilment our success, and consequently our national safety, may ultimately depend.”— PRODUCE MORE, SAVE MORE. MAKE LABOUR EFFICIENT. SAVE MATERIALS FROM WASTE. SPEND MONEY WISELY. Begin at home. It may be | clothing. The place of those who Canada wi The more we produce the | of $500,000,000. Produce more on the farms and Save more and help to win the war. tage ? cit | risking their Jives for us at home. LET US NOT WASTE MATERIALS— The larger portion of salaries and wages is spent on the home—food, fuel, light Are any of these things being wasted # $20.00 a year saved from waste in every home in | more than pay the interest on a war debt LET US SPEND OUR MONEY WISELY— Are you spending your money to the best advan- hat do you think of extravagance in war time? Tens of thousands of Canadians are daily eee eee AN APPEAL FOR AID 10 CANADA'S TOBACCO FUND When you've finished making bandages, and thru with knitting socks, When you've done your bit for China and Japan; Will you kindly drop missionary box, For another, who’s a ‘‘brother and a man.’”’ He ain’t no ‘‘bally Heathen,;’’ and he ain’t no ‘‘Plaster Saint,’’ But he likes his pipe, the same as you and I; Perhaps it’s wrong to have it, and then perhaps it ain't, That’s a matter we can settle bye-and- bye. a dollar in my Tommy is not at a picnic, and he is not at a dance, But where’er he is he likes his little joke; And the other day he wrote me from a place ‘‘somewhere in France’ That ‘‘the only thing he wanted was a smoke.”’ “And he said the shots were humming “just Tike a swarm of beés, | And the shrapnel shells were singing overhead; And the gasses they were floating* along upon the breeze, And the stench was just delightful,” so he said. “Por it reached right up to Heaven; he could cut it with a knife; That's the time,”’ ho says, “that eat- ing was a joke, But the OND fly in the ointment of this "sweet, pastoral life’ Was, he'd like to have the makings of of a smoke.”’ So I put it to you plainly, just as a pal to pal, . And I'm going to give it to you good and strong; Tommy sends—TO YOU—a message out of that infernal hell, Are you going to keep him waiting very long ? —STEVE COLLINS, Troasuror T. & PD. F. A. ~~ Burgess, cold storage inspector, is not intended as a_ ecientific treatise on cold storage problems, but rather as a popular discussion of the sub- jects for the information of those who may have a commercial interest in it, and as a guide to inexpertene?d persons who may have embarked in the cold storage business, but it is so explicit in language, so precise and explanatory in detail, that. it would be somewhat difficult to increase its interest or enhance its worth. In the 24 pages of which the bulletin con- sists every phase of. the cold storage problem is lucidly dealt with, espec- ial attention being devoted to the foods in which the simple life is most concerned. Dairy products of course come in for exceptional prominence in treatment, but the best method of procedure in keeping fruits and eggs, and even furs and woollens, are de- scribed in plain and terse language. Not alone the farmer and the store keeper, but the ordinary housekeeper can derive a vast deal of useful infor- mation from these pages. A cardinal principle seems to be that when stor- age is to be resorted to the cooling process can not be set about too quickly in the majority of cases, al- though with moderation and not ex- treme suddenness. For instance milk which is cooled immediately to 60 degrees F., will keep longer than if kept for several hours at 70 and 80 and then cooled to 40. Butter keeps best at low temperature but needs care in method. CheeSe under cer- tain described conditions can be kept at a moderate temperature. Fruit, and in particular apples, keep better if promptly cooled after picking and can be preserved longer in cold stor- age. Eggs ntended for cold etorage should be gathered and treated as so0n as possible after being laid. But in a brief review it is not easy to lay adequate stress upon the import- ance of this bulletin No. 44‘of the - Dairy and Cold Storage series, which is entitled ‘‘The Cold Storage of Food Products,’? and which can be had free of cost: by application to the Publications Branch, “Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.’ POULTRY NOTES. The temperature of the room where the incubator is to be operated should not be more than 10’ F. The better . temperatures for the room in which .- the machine is operated should range — from 45 to 55 F. The proper time to incubate stock is from the 15th March to the 15th May. Do not waste either time or money by hatching early or late, if you wish to be successful. Turn the eggs by hand. Patented turners seldom give good results. -Ventilation is necessary for good hatches. Begin opening the ventilat- ors on the sides or top of the ma- chine about the nineth day on stand- ard made incubators,’ and gradually open the same so that on the eigh- | teenth -day---the---ventilator..is—wide. - open. Moisture should be applied in most cases, if good strong heavy chicks are expected. The steaming process works well if no other method can be used. To steam the eggs, we usually take an old picce of flannel and put it, in hot water, allowing the same to sat- urate all it can. Then let the surplus water drain off and wring out, when it is .placed in the machine on the nursery tray. As soon as the steam stops rising from the cloth, remove from the machine'before it cools off the incubator. Fireless brooders seldom give good results. They must as a rule be op- erated at lhe expense of the chick. If one does not wish to spend as much for brooding equipment, the Is it not our duty to be careful and economical? Canadian dollars are an important part of the war equipment. Make them small lamp heated brooders may be used. as efficient aa possible. If your labour is on somethin that can be postponed, put it off till after the war anc THI VALUE OD COLD STORAGE , make your lgbour tell now. Making war is the firstey tell. Have a War Savings Account. Buy a War When the chicks are dry (24 to 86 f| business of all Canadians. | Efficiency in labour is as | Bond. It, may be that, as the letter of |hours after hatching) remove them ty important as efficiency in Sighting. transmittal says, Bulletin No. 44, is-|from the incubator to te ote i -- ; sued by the Dairy and Cold Storage | Oat hulls are used by many for Hitter, ; THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA 3 Y . Branch of the Federal Department of | and they prove very useful. Give the | Agriculture, and of which the authors: chicks a drink of cool water and if are «i. A. -Ruddick,--dairy. and cold.).they...will- not.drink themselyes teach commissioner, and Joseph! them to do so. __}L THE DEPARTMENT_OF, AGRICULTURE THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE ff ( \ Mone RIE REY RCL) Sim ee Lr ad ene J pct PTE EPG TS OG RIE GY i storage a