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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-07-20, Page 7"An average of 7,000 pounds Of 5,4 per cent milk per acre has been produced by g, S. Erighant on his farm near St. Alban's, Vermont, /ay ge ly through scientific pastnre man- agement, This compares with the On- tario average of 2,000 pounds per acre and much less in Que- bec, • a * The Brigham farm consists of some 260 acres of crop land and 180 acres of rough pasture. The hitter is estimated by Brigham to be equivalent in carrying ca- pacity to about 60 acres of crop land, His herd consists of 125 milking Jerseys and an equal number of young cattle. • a * During a recent visit to the farm by representatives' of the C-I-L farm advisory service, it was learned that to maintain the high rate of milk production, Brigham uses a three-crop rota- tion of corn, oats (as a cover crop) and hay. Grass is kept down for about five years, al- though this varies with the sea- sons. roWPR.,15 THING,thet,started:the huge aluminum pro. ject in Kitimat, Be Here's a wintertime view of the transmission lines,that carry, electricity across 50 rugged mountain miles. Alatnl:tiM SMELTER SITE CARVED out of the wilds to Make use of the power was second step, This is an airview of the Kitimat ',smelter, Ship in foreground was landlocked for construction office. ;NW Bugs like the Colorado po- tato beetle are chewing insects and are therefore best con- trolled by using insecticides sprayed or dusted on the plants. The insect takes the poison in-. to its stomach while feeding and is invariably killed. Stomach poisons, however, are of little u s e against sucking insects which siphon their food from inside the plant below the level of the insecticide sprayed on the leaves. An aphid is an ex- ample of such insects and •these are best controled by spraying with an insecticide which kills by direct contact with the body. The eating habits of maggots which get inside roots and stems have both chewing and sucking characteristics and these are controlled by use of other spe- cial chemicals. Recently, an all purpbse spray and dust was in- troduced which ,can control both sucking and chewing insects as well as plant diseases with one treatmen t a * Can insects take over the earth? A writer in the C-I-L Oval answers with a note of warning that the descendants of one female cabbage aphid, each season, number 1,560,000,000,000- 000,00,000,00. Married Bliss In New Guinea The life of a Papuan is simple at least in tering of outward actions and events. As for his inner life it remains a mystery, even for himself, just as ours does for its, iii spite of psy.. ehOanalysis, In Papua the villages are small the huts huddle closely together 'and 'their Walls are made of laves. Everything that haPpeila in a hut is knOWii to the entire village: - targe,•scale marital dislitates—, the thoSt ,doinition theme in the human tragicomedy ...-ard variably enacted in public, and thereby acquire ,a heightened importance. Such quarkels generally took place iii the'evenings, at the tithe of the Main meal. 'First of all, one would heat the husband i all out to his Wild 'sulking nit • his "Whet are yeti going id bring Me thy sapper, you good.for. . . 013D.:ONt ObT — it's!nOt.beccinie Oaci..1.siiol is really add' the hi. ..•• . eats by himself: The pup at the toff the qdhOtd, who is named for the lone spot on his head; has his tpeCial hecouSO there isn't room for him around the, cOnitiinnity' food trdy. The 13 Dalmatian pups cite owhed , by Mr. and Mit, Ralph G tlahlerithal, 10. Memento 11. Speak ' imperfectly 12.,Beruses wings 18. Melds of combat 20. Tended 21. 'Weakens 22. Observe by touch 24, Notleen 25. Abrading', tool nothing?" roared the male voice. This' was greeted by a classic silence. "Aren't you ashamed of keep- ing me ' waiting? Have I paid your parents for nothing? What have you been doing all day, you no-good woman?" The really heavy battery of insults was coming into play. "I was quite right: you're nothing but a filthy, black bot- tomed trollop!" Finally, choking with rage at his own evocation of all he had sacrificed for this worthless wo- man, he leaped down, rushed to • his, hut, burst into it like a tor- nado, and emerged dragging his wife by the arm. The latter hid her face with her free arm, but was careful to peep out surrepti- tiously and ascertain that she had a large audience. Suddenly nose to nose with her husband, began to swear at him, in her turn, in a high shrill voice. "You're no better than a dirty cassowary." The cassowary Was reputed ' among the natives to be both extremely stupid and promiScu- .ous. The usual upshot was that the husband grabbed his wife by her short fuzzy hair, and gave her a mild beating With the, flat of the hand. Sometimes there were more serious Consequences. One day, after a quarrel simi- lar to the one*I have just de- scribed, the woman, who had received a more severe beating than usual, began to' behave as if she had gone quite mad. She ran, shouting and geSticulating, down the narrow village square like a wild bacchante. Suddenly, MERRY MENAGERIE, koli r heti a CHINESE FrenCh rooter Alcan Boom In Canadian Wilderness Shows Way To TIE FARM FRONT kilPuvell .ndustrial Dispersal Isy POVOLAS •IiAltSM NBA Staff Correspondent one of the big arguments against attempting industrial dispersion in the U.S., too, But Alcan called .On the ,serV-f. iega Of Clarence Stein, a world- famed city planner, and the city Planning firm of 1!1ayer and Whittlesey. It turned, them loose on ail aspects of creating an at- tractive town which, would lure and hold enough Workers to keep th eplant going, The planners then took up such things as giving every kitchen a view of a white-topped mountain, locating residential sites so that prevailing winds would net blow plant fumes to- ward homes and locating schools so that kids did not have to cross major streets to reach school, They blueprinted such things as mosquito - control methods, shopping areas, schools, churches, automobile exressWays, civic centers and sports areas. Although the first grass is just beginning to show on the lawns of the 500 modern new homes which have been built, the ,suc- cess of the planning effort is showing all over. Just about every resident of -the new town is happy with it. The citizens have complete democratic control of the city and are holding elections. With the help of Alcan, workers pay • $760 down and $60 a month for a $14,000 house, Every house, built by private contractors, has been sold. Most of the 450 houses under construction al- ready have been purchased. * Private capital has moved in with concrete block factories, lumber mills, banks, industrial gas plants, hotels, stores, restau- rants and paper firms have scouts FT. ST, jOiritsi"LF :PKINCEpi, :::RUPERT arclaY Warren, The. Southern Kingdom OVIW thrown, 2 Kings 2,11g0b-45:14 KITIMAT V.4)sb.. OG Kitimat B.C.--(NIA)-T- Many of the answers to the problem of relocating and dispersing American industry as a defense against atomic attack can be found in this amazing new com- munity in northwest Canada, 100 miles south of Alaska, In fact, the very heart of this industrial project, a 450,000- horsepower generating plant, is probably the best protected source of electricity against A- bombs on the North American Continent, Its site is hewn out of solid rock in a cavern large enough to house the liner Queen Mary, 1,400 feet inside a moun- tain, Many of the objections which have been made against greater dispersal of U.S. industry were raised when the Aluminum Com- pany of Canada announced that it planned to invest 275 million dollars to create a brand new, major aluminum smelter up here. But by imaginative use of the latest engineering and scientific developments and modern com- munity planning techniques, this area which a few years ago was virgin, rugged mountain wilder- ness is well on its way to becom- ing a new industrial center of Canada. Memory Selection: Be not de- ceived; God is not mocked; hot Whatsoever a man sovveth, that shall lie also reap. Galatians• 6:7. VANCOUVER ISLAND Pacific Oeean (ZL-4 .E471; BOOM-SITE in Northwest IS located on map. Kitimat IS -100 miles north of Vancouver. Nebuchadnezzar having takee4 Zeholachin captive to BabYlono proceeded to make his uncle. Zedekiah, king in his place. Zediekiah promised to obey Nebuchadnezar but after nine years he rebelled. The Chaldean. army came to Jerusalem and after two years took the city. Zedekiah and his men who es- caped in the night were soon overtaken, Zedekiah witnessed his sons being slain arid then his own eyes were put Out. The, temple was burned as were, many other of the great build- ings Of Jerusalem. Another great multitude of 'people were car- ried captive to Babylon: Only the poor of the land were left to be vinedressers and husband- men. Why did this punishment fall upon God's chosen people? "Zedekiah — did that which was evil in the sighs of the Lord his God, and humbled not him- self before Jeremiah the prophet,, speaking from the mouth of the Lord." "The Lord God 'of their fathers sent to them by his Messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and mis- used his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees," The reason is • clearly stated. God used a pagan nation to punish his own people, To whom much is given shall much be required. Many believe Hitler was a scourage in the hands or God. We have escaped from the hands of this tyrant. But it we fail to take heed to our ways and turn from our sins to serve the living God, He can easily raise up another tyrant to sill,- due us. May we repent and be- lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ. med at• the drainage point and a tunnel 25 feet in diameter and 10 miles long, was cut through solid rock 'at the west end to capture the immense power of the water which comes from melting snow. The electricity is carried on transmission lines to the smelter 50 miles across some of the rock- iest, most snow-bound terrain on the continent. By using the latest navigation aids ships bring alum- inum ore all the way from Ja- maica. They finally pass through the treacherous 80 miles of tide- water channels connecting Kiti- mat with ' the Pacific, arriving several times a week. • a a Getting permanent workers to pull up stakes with their fami- lies ,and move to this remote, rainy-snowy — although never sub - zero — area was one of Alcan's biggest problems. Getting families to move anywhere .is * * Thirty acres of corn are grown for silage and fertilized at the rate of 300 pounds of 8-16-16 per acre powed down and an- other 300 pounds of the same mixture applied with a planter. Later, a side dressing of 150 pounds of amonium nitrate per acre is used. Following corn, oats is grown as a nurse crop. This is fertilized with 200 pounds of 8-16-16 applied through the drill with the spouts off. This ensures good establishment of grasses and clovers (Mine, al- falfa and brome) for hay and pasture, is now •a success, Alcan is going ahead with major expansion of its plant and is ready to sell power to any ether industry willing to move up here. Work is going on to double the smelter's capacity to 331,500 tons annually. This will be com- pleted in 1959. The ultimate planned capacity is 550,000 tons a year which will make Kitimat the largest aluminum smelter in.• the world. * a a Alcan (Alminum Company of Canada) is already second only to Alcoa in the U.S. in aluminum production, and this city's output should make it the world leader. The city could have an economic impact on the whole northwest section of the U.S. There are now more than 6,000 permanent residents of the area, including families. The flow of other private industry here indi- cates that 50,000 persons might be calling this place home in a few years. Just about every feature of Kitimat, including getting people to enjoy this remote area with its rains and snows was once said to be impossible to create. But every technical, transpor- tation and social problem has been licked so thoroughly that Alcan plans to raise its invest- ment in Kitimat to half a bil- lion dollars. * a * Here are some of the things taking place today which the pessimists said would never happen: Water from the 5,500 square miles of mountain lakes which used to run off unused to the east is now profitably flowing west. The eastern end was dam- in town lining up plant sites. To reduce Kitimat's remote- ness there are two airline flights in and out each day. Passenger seaplanes fly in from Vancouver, 400 miles south, in about three hours. Twice a week passenger steamers arrive from Vancouver.. and a spur of the Canadian Pa- cific RRailway from Terrace, Terrace, B:C., 43, miles away, connects with the town. Convinced that the whole idea TO LURE FAMILIES into wilderness industrial town called for modern community planning technique. Schools were built as the plant went up. These are second graders at Kitimat. GOOD ADVICE. The etiquette columnist of at Manhattan newspaper received an anxious note from a• 19-year- old young lady. "I stayed out until 3 a.m. the other night. My mother objects. Did I do wrong?" The lady journalist replied: "Try to remember." * a After each cut Of hay the sod is top-dressed with 150 pounds • Of 5-10-10 per acre. Pastures receive an annual, application of 500 pounds of 8-16-16 or 0-15- 30 per acre and provide the bulk of roughage frOm early May un- til frost comes in October. Any pasture supplement required is provided by corn silage. In ad- dition to providing hay and pasture, grassland fills six silos each year. This quality roughage feeding is supplemented by 16 per cent protein grain fed , at an average rate of one pound protein to three pounds, of Milk.' * * A new concept of. building up soil fertility is being introdiiced this summer to, the high value cash crop areas of southwestern Ontario. courages deeper root growth, thus making the plants more resistant to drought conditions. * Mr. Henry maintains that fer- tilizer applied to trashy surfaces and plowed under, speeds de- composition of fibre stocks into humus, thus enriching the soil and increasing its capacity to hold water. A heavy., layer of undecomposed trash prevents water from moving up through .the soil. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking I stood up, and made a sign to the woman to follow me. We walked over to my hut, where I roughly bandaged the injured finger. She returned home with her head held high, her whole bearing proclaiming her victory. This custom which the women have, of cutting off their fingers to express sorrow or resentment, was especially practiced as a sign of mourning. I have come across women of 50—a very venerable age in those parts—who had lost joints from two or three fingers of either hand. The pitiful stumps were a vivid testimony to the various tragedies of their wretched existence. — From "Savage Papua" by Father An- dre Dupeyrat. * * a Some knowledge of the life cycle and habits of crop-destroy- ing insects can be a useful• guide to growers as to what insecti- cides they should use for more eficient control. a * a The million species of insects in the world today, of which 80,- 000 occur in North America, are divided into two general classes. There are chewing insects which destroy plant'; by tearing and chewing at their tissues, and sucking insects which pierce through plant tissues and suck out the juices in the same way as a mosquito sucks the blood out of a human. • * a The practice, known as "plow down involves the broadcast- ing $P fertilizer on harvested' fields In late summer or early fall and plowing or discing it into thn soil This leaves the grower with the necessity of making 'orilY:one-fertilizer «ap,-. plication the following year by eliminating :the early spring ap- plication during the biliy plant; ing semen. Plow down is ex- pected to become wide-spread in areas where two annual ap- plications of fertilizer is an ac- cepted practice. * According to Thomas Henry of the Chatham district of the C-I-L agricultural chemicals department, ,plow, down has many other adVantages besides easing the pressure "of spring work. He says that it does away with winter fertilizer • storage problems and requires no extra handling. It increases yields by, providing ' extra nutrients re- quired by many crops that re- ceive planter treetmint only, The deeper application of plant food by plow down gets it into the moisture Zone which en- CROSSWORD PUZZLE 27. Gone 23. 01 a place 26. Speaker 30. 'Tropical tree 31. Puce again 32. Coasters 39. Fords,: 37, EntreaO, 40, Pjeee out And not 42. ITtiminingbird 43. Decade 43. Exclamation 9 7 r 2 S 3 ?*: /2 70 /4 13 /6 t1 16 , /9 20 '21 ; 23 2 5 24 27 she stopped and became so pur- posefully calm, that I felt a shudder of apprehension down my spine. Resolutely, she headed for her hut, while her husband returned to the communal hut with the air of a boxer who has just won the championship belt. She soon reappeared, however, holding in her hand one of those Oval, flat pieces of obsidian, ground to a sharp edge on one side. For one moment, I was afraid that her plan was to chop her husband's head off. But no. She made straight for me, instead.' A trifle alarmed, and prepared for any eventuali- ty, I kept a wary eye on the advancing woman. Her eyes, however, were glued to the trunk on which I sat. Having reached one end of the trunk, where the wood of- fered a flat, firm surface, she placed her left hand upon it and before I 'could make a move, she had raised the stone in her right hand, and with a single blow severed her first finger at the top joint. ' Complete silence reigned over the whole vilage. The woman stared at her bleeding finger for a moment, then picked* tip the severed por- tion which lay on the ground, wrapped it in a leaf, and re, entered her hut, not without a scornful backward glance at her husband. The latter, sitting on the edge of the veranda, legs dangling, and head lowered, appeared shame-faced and distressed. A few minutes later the wo- Man with the truncated finger reappeared in the dark hole of her doorway. This time, She walked boldly in My direction, nursing her wounded hand hi her righ t. Now She was all smiles. She had caused her lit- tle stir. Then, laying her drip= ping left hand on her vast breasts, as if On a cushion, With her right she waved a long knot. ted cord tinder my nose, and started Slipping: the knoti through her fingers like a rO, salt. Meanwhile the nitittered something. "8he's reciting the number of tunes her Than has beaten her," Golopoul explained. bet- ter not pay any attention to' her. ton know how it is, women have to be beaten :from time to tune,'' 36 32 ACIROS$:,r:11 Aceetnp.antei lirte,...Clatiti Beverage 6 sii,trdiothi 7, Offidelioldere 40. Iterate 3. Chemical' 31 Reserribling skiribol thread 3. Gained ii)• 13 Arnitses- labor • 15, Coilderri In g, 76 ChilleSe, measure I Other 13, Literary bite 1) Particle of , electrielt* 2 CraCkle. 22. 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