The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 32

Saturday Section A i I 1 Helps farmer R. J. Davis unload his milk. for the excellence of the cheese produced here. Some attribute it to the toil, others to Holstein milk.

Turns and stacks George Liddiard. The club meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 7.30 p.m. to 11 p.m. throughout the Summer, with free instruction to 'members on Tuesday nights. The chess club, meets Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons.

During the Fall and Winter season, there are various tourna menu for players in all classes. During the Sammer. months, members drop in frequently for a friendly gsme even during very hot weather. Apparently the bt way to take your mind off Jhe heat is to concentrate on check-mating your opponent. i Ki- I Af tYVi Juxtapositibn of Chess, Badm in ton The activities of the RA.

Centre range all the way from a fast, snappy game of badminton, requiring plenty of physical effort, to a slow, methodical game of chess, which taxes the mental capacities of the players but involves no more physical ex- than is required to move a pawn or a bishop from one square to another. It Is possible to be keenly Interested in both types of activity. The four members of the RA Badminton Club shown In the -above photo (left to right: "Jackie Gio-net Earl Wintle. Marilyn Bradley and Lynn Mason) fera taking, advantage of time An THE OTTAWA JOURNAL SATURDAY, JULY 1901 One-Woman Cheese Factory at Woodlawn At Woodlawn, 1 Carieton hamlet between Dun-robin and Fluroy Harbor, Mrt, Frank Pope hat run her cheese factory unaided for the law I year. Her husband commutes daily to Ottawa to his CS Job.

Mrs. Pope, a 110-pound dynamo, puts in quite a day. She helps her farmer- patrons empty their- milk cans. She stokes the boiler which supplies hot water and steam for cheese-ma k-t makes the cheese or curb, Nothing to Equal Slice of Mrs. Pope's Cheddar on Any Mom's Apple Pie By MARY AKSIM -a long three-hour process, much easier now since the 'Introduction of.

mechanical paddles for stirring the thickened milk. When the curd is ready, the packs it into cheesecloth cases and sucks the 80-92 pound "rounds" of new cheese in the cooler. While In the cold room, she turns (upside-down) the 30 or more cheeses curing there. And she stiH finds time to keep the factory as spotless as a modern kitchen: AS A CHILD, Mrs. Pope remembers sleeping under the big vat with her kitten while her father G.

Lines, now retired and living in North Gower made cheese. And the cheese! Well. It's good enough to have won a Journal trophy at the Ottawa Exhibition, and innumerable pr res at local fairs. Mrs. Pope has customers who order their cheese a year Ahead' and let' it' cure in the cold room; by contrast, msny other like their Cheddar fresher.

We like ours after it has been stored in our outside root cellar for about a year. It's especially good after a few holes have been bored into the round and a light amber substance poured therein. But tastes differ. THE FUTURE for this type of home delicacy does not look too bright, however. Small factories such as Mrs.

Pope's are finding the competition for farmers' milk with the big dairies a losing one, and more and more I I I I- it. 0 1 Pi Stokes toiler with cheddac cheese factories are closing -down. This despite the fact that Eastern Ontario cheese ranks Cull thickened curd A Report on RA Acfivities By JACK VIN0KUR out in between games to watch an Interesting chess game between two serious members of the RA Chess Club. The club rooms at the RA Centre are right across the hall from the big noisy gymnasium and as long as they tiptoe in very quietly, the bidminton players are welcome to drop in and rest up 40 fund shovelful. with the best Experts from our own and other countries are continually touring this region to discover the reason tt eel knife.

by playing or watching a game of chess. In fact, silence Is so essential to the complete enjoy-ment of a chess game that the photographer was not 'permitted to disturb the two chess players In the picture long enough to, get their names. Both badminton and chess are carried on at the RA Centre throughout the Summer. The Summer badminton club is very active this year. In the first round robin tournament the winners were Phyllis Huhert.

AdeleGow. Marilyn Bradlev. Hartley Smith, Len Turner and with vf i 1 tfufl.i Whatever the reason, there is nothing to equal slice of Mrs. Pope't cheese on top of any Mom's apple pie. 90 pound 'rounds' The Home Workshop YOU MAY REMEMBER a swing like this from childhood days.

What fun It wat for youngsters! Their elders loved It for gentle rocking, too. Now you can make one for your own yard. Pattern 30S, which lists materials, gives dimensions' and shows construction steps, is 50c. This pattern also is in the Lawn and Garden Furniture packet No. 37 which contains four patterns all for $1.75.

Send cheque or money order to The Journal, Home Workshop. A DONKEY. CART PLANTER it quaint and gay for a patio or any place in the yard that a bright accent it needed. Flowers may be planted right in the cart or potted plants may be placed It The donkey' pert expression is easy to reproduce by fining In colore as Indicated on Pattern 474 which gfrea actual-sire cutting and painting guides and directions for assembling the project Price 50c Send cheque or money order to The Journal, Home Workshop. -v -irWTERN 305 I S3 1 PATTERN 474 Let's talk about hybridizing flowers as a hobby.

1 know many people are discouraged at the very outset by the feeling that plant breeding, and hyhridiration it difficult procedure call- Ing for knowledge of tech-' niques not available to the average flower lover. exactly The techniques for hybrid ix. Ing the moreepmmonow "vsTnuy be learned in a very" few minutes. The art of selecting parents and evalu- ating your own hybrids 'it the. really difftcut task and one that can be learned as your Interest grows.

In the beginning, select a large flower, these art easy to work, with and serve bet Ser asrr Introduction Into Dreeoiog. uuaioius, ins ana JtylllkiCia: uh flower parts large but tneir seedlings are easy to grow Jand they will often bloom the second year. AS SOON at the petals unfold is the time to Start hybridizing. I like to go out in the morning with an array of small bottles or vials. In these 1 place stamens from one variety of iris or gladiolus and label it At the same time 1 remove all the other stamens to prevent self -if the' flower Is an iris I cover the bloom with a large plastic bag.

This does not seem to be so necessary with a gladiolus but is good practice if controlled pollination is desired. In the' early afternoon or late evening of the same day that the stamens were placed in the bottle, I go around to each bagged flower and take stamen out of the bottle -with "forcepi Trtoothpicltr and brush the anthers over the stigma; then 1 piece the bag on the flower sgsln and label the cross. With iris particularly, the stalks should be staked, for the teed pod it heavy and will fall before ft matures. I usually prefer a toothpick to forceps because these can be thrown away after each pollination thus preventing never be acceptable for garden use and can be taken out. Good clear color of the type for which you are striving, may.

be grown for a few to test for the flower production, ttalk -strength, frillinett or lacing or whatever character seems to appeal to you. tter the very first 'Baweic" ing of any of your crosses, Jtm wiM-seow stem te-fora late desirable characteristics and plan your crosses ahead with this in mind. Whatever flower you decide to use your hybridizing, you will first need to get together good collec-lion of first class varieties; for it is useless to try to breed new 'varieties front older discarded ones, unless you are looking for tome refill titer rhtt ftae be1 a immunity" from disease or greater floriferousness. 90,984 Lost Bumber-Shoots! LONDON (UPT) London Transport It all set for rainy day. It hat 90.M4 umbrellas aU black, all tightly-rolled, all ownerless.

These umbrellas helped make 1960 a record year for the firm, which runs this city's buses, subways and trains. "It is the largest number of umbrellas forgotten In a year on buses and subways since our lost property office opened in 1933," a spokes-' man said. Losses of the black rolled "brollies" standard equipment for London businessmen were up S2.8 per cent oyerJ959JJiejaidJL Buttye- glass losses were down 19 per cent, indicating that passengers could at least tee what they were missing. MILK JACKPOT ELIZABETH. NJ (UPT) Louis Miclak of East Linden.

NJ, put in hit 30 cents and hit the Jackpot in a milk vending machine. He only wanted one quart, but the mechanism Jammed and 39 more quarts tumbled out. J) ri- 'r ha n-monthold neighbor, fishp tin is at the Pbete by Banatfc) Sparky will be creeping home any mora la the wee small hours after a howl ing session with some of hit cronies oil somebody's back fence. "He's a contented cat now" sayt Mrs. Lemke.

DEREK POCSON. 14 I 7ai(nf 'a fline-Xif Quota Wearlij Spent at Aqe 21 PEMBROKE Twenty-one today. Or was it yesterday? Only' "Sparky" probably Pembroke's oldest cat who celebrated his coming of age the other day could answer that And he isn't talking! A grey-white tomcat, weighing It at 10 lbs, he usually celebrates his birthday in the latter half of June, says hit owner Mrt. Edwin Lemke. As far as can be estimated he first taw the light of day in June, 1940, arriving at the Lemke home after being given to one of Mrs.

Lemke't sons by neighbor. SPARKY doesn't iy claim to any proud bloodlines. According to hit owner, he's fust a plain tabby and getting grouchier in his old age. With 21 years urider his belt his nine-life quota has quite a dent in it He's survived ground glass in his food from a cat hater, disappeared when the family changed homes, turning up at the old residence three weeks later hungry "and several pounds lighter, and wound up "bald as an egg" after being treated with coal oil for fleas picked up from ftit vani.ihed- for four weeks on that occasion). Visitors to his domain on Cecilia Street are treated with a disdainful air.

particularly if a caller should chance by during siesta time. This, according to Mrs. Lemke, is sny time between getting up in the morning and bedding down for the night AS' A he doesn't have to exert himself because there are, no mice around his residence. What occasional action be does tee It confined to escorting neighboring pets tcross hit territory and the odd cast of back-arching should a dog have the) effrontery to cross his path. Sparky has had hit battles with dogs Just like any other feline, but apparently he has given more than he's taken.

Mrs. Lemke says he can handle a couple of Inquisi- Most flowers have a plentiful supply of pollen, although in some flowers it Is hard to find. Some anthers of the iris, for example, may have to be slit to collect the polls a. I usually pollinate each stigma on tuccesaive days, with fresh pollen from the tame flower if possible; ttii ensures that at leirt' on" one of the days the ttlgma Do not forget to place a The Techniques Of Hybridizing Easy to Learn By A. R.

BUCKLEY atmrw'thrnuweT slew pn which you place the name of the cross. This makes your efforts more interesting and will prove useful in' later years when you see the results. Thus, if the gladiolus flower you are using at a pistil parent it Red Charm, and the anthers come from a gladiolus named Antarctica, your cross would read "Red Charm Antarctica." www MOST SEEDS will ripen very shortly after the cross It With hardy plants such as iris and daylilies, the seed may be sown in the open ground, as you would radishes, as soon as they ripen. Iris seed will germinate as soon as the snow goes In the Spring and sometimes in the Fall. Gladiolus seed is collected (as soon as the pod is ripe) end stored dry in a cool basement during the Winter and then town theflist week in Mi Iris or daylily plants will most likely produce a bloom the second year, and 60 per cent of gladiolus should flower from corms two years old.

in the initial year of flowering you will be able to discard many seedlings on the basis of color alone. In iris, for example, a muddy color or falls that show excessive heavy veining will i mLdU. Sparky, afed 21, and a Fifi, let down to some farmer's birthday party. tive dogs, but when the odds lengthen to tiree or four "discretion proves the better part of valor" 'and he heads for the nearest tree, there to sit the issue out on a branch, usually asleep. Mrs.

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