HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-12-19, Page 7in a louvered box, :technically
known as a Stevenson screen;
another on a north wall of an
insulated building. Both were
four feet above ground leveL
Although these thermometers
were known to vary less than a
degree under identical conditions
they came within this accuracy
only 35 per cent of the nights
when expcfsed as described. On
45 per cent of the nights they
showed a difference of two de-
grees oi more; on 21 per cent a
difference of three degrees or
more and on 3 pei cent 'a differ-
ence of over five degrees. The
greatest difference was 7 degrees
F. and occurred on a calm, clear
night.
The explanation for these dif-:
ferences is to be found in the
phenomenon of radiation. The
loss of heat by the mercury or
spirit in the bulb of a thermo-
meter to colder objects within
line of sight may, under certain
conditions, be considerable. The
reverse is also true, and the
recording liquid will take on heat
radiated from warmer objects.
These objects need not be close
at hand.' Also, on clear nights
a thermometer openly exposed
to the sky will lose heat by
radiation and so register much
colder than „a thermometer in a
shelter. Readings from such an
openly exposed thermometer may
be representative of the tempera-
ture of short -vegetation on the
ground but will not correctly
indicate the temperature of the
higher air surrounding animals.
A householder cannot be ex-
pected to" keephis thermometer
in a louvered box. However, ex-
posed thermometers will give
reasonably accurate performance
if certain precautions are taken.
Never face a thermometer direct-
ly towards the window of a warm
room nor towards an expanse of
sky. The former location will
cause it to register high, the
latter low. The instrument is
'best suspended an inch Or two
from the north wall which itself
faces a background of trees or
other buildings.
ON THE TARGET
The bandaged and haggard-
looking husband was asking the
Court for a separation Order.
"My wife's been throwing things
at me ever since we married,"
he said. 'I don't feel safe."
"Yet only now, after twenty
years, you seek the Court's pro-
tection," said , the magistrate,
sceptically.
"Well, sir, her aim's getting
better!" the man explained.
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steer was judged the Grand Champion steer at the Interna-
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:aoti 'bony Express On NaLa.
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MERICAN RELATION -This cartoon which appeared in the Ion-
eYcpreSses one triglish VieW Of Current U.S.-11ritiati relations.
ComMunist licitly leader 'Nikita Khruslichev saying to Preilderit
you can undetci nd what it hietrritito have satellite: frodble,
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Farm. Evenings Evenings
Not So Quiet
AS the brief, atittnrmadiseipined
sunset adorned the Westeria sky,
t Sat On, a aharp reek and con-
templated, DOC. ROPkwell, the
Old 'Keith circuit quack, says if
you sit On a rock long enough it
Is bound to make an impression
in you, but DOc is a come-lately
in the philosophy of down-East
rocks. Grandfatifer, who preced-
ed Doe by an entire history book,
said nobody shetild ever' sit on a
imooth rock because he would
sit too long,
For short rests, consistent with
a farmer's time schedule, one
should select a sharp rock, in-
suring that dilatory periods will
be held to a minimum and that
sedentary inactivity will shortly
seem more arduous than labor,
This is a calculated compromise
'with relaxation, and doubtless
shows the difference between,
arue rural philosophy and the
slapstick., or professional, kind-
!the latter merely noting that
rocks are uncomfortable at best,
and neglecting to compose a use,
ful conclusion.
I had therefore selected an
angular projectipn from the or-
chard wall and had lightly de-
posited myself thereon, intending
'to edify myself briefly after fini-
:shing up the carrot yanking and
then be on my way home for
'supper. The sunset was pretty, in
the fallish manner. Purples eon-
veying a touch of cold and pos-
,sibly snow, predominated, with
the richer and warmer colors
muted. Purple is supposed to be
•a rich color, but in an autumn
.sunset it is not. And the change
from afternoon to dark was not
prolonged.
This is the time of year when
the crepuscular ipterlude, a term
I have never been able to work
into ari«essay, is scarcely a fleet-
ing instant. You can stoop down
to pick up the side of your wheel-
barrow and miss it completely.
I had hardly adjusted myself to
my hard and probing rook when
it was dark, and there I sat all
by myself in the orchard and
nothing to see.
This undoubtedly includes the
ingredients for an idyllic foray
into bucolic observations - the
7DONKEY LIFT-A Paris, France,
shoe store, trying to get a don-
key into the shop for publicity
purpOses, ran IMO 'difficulties..
The janitor of thp establishment
Wouldn't let *Cora," the.' burro,
walk up the ?wo'fliglits of shiny
stairs,fo'the presentationTroorn;
50_4 Was decided to hoist Cora
up from the outside. With tied
legs and':blindfbld, the da*hg-
donkeY afforded sf:.ectators
'much arriusemeht, but didn't
get very far-the rope broke.
Luckily, the animal surVived the
nine-foot fall, and eventually
ireached her destination. •
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Man, the place, the tirile, and his
thoughts, And it Was rather .a
shock to learn that this situation
in which I found myself was not
at all as quiet, withdrawn, and
secluded as 1, and, perhaps a
reader or two, would expect.
You have no idea bow noisy it
was.
Some of this was the still air
of the evening, banging with the
preparations for frost, The light
breeze of the afternoon had sub-
sided With the sun, and there
was no rustling of the beech and
bak leaves, All sounds frail, all
directions came with equal in-
tensity, and they came from afar,
I could perceive the composite
vibrations of the entire periphery
with Unimpeded clarity, to coin
a phrase,
Eight separate and distinct dogs
were barking, five of them to
the shouts ef children winding up
their outdoor play. The other
dogs, neither separate nor dis-
tinct, were hounds over in the
Farrar swamp bugling a rabbit.
They would fade and re-emerge,
fade and come back, sometimes
together and sometimes not, their
contributions ranging from the
whines Qf high grief to the low
rumbles of mutual despair.
Then two airplanes, went over,
flying low,, and next some jets
went over, flying high. The lights
of the two first blinked pleasant-
ly, but the jets snarled their
hateful, ominous, blood-chilling
overnoise, Which ought to be out- ,
lawed., This world was never
meant to be an echoboard for
jets.
Then came automobile, horns,
the squeal of brakes, the grind-
ing of' diesels on the long hill,
and the rattle of truck bodies-
highway neises from two miles
away; Next, the digesters were
blown off at the mill-a rushing,
steam-escaping noise we hear
only' when the air is right. A
train, away off on the main line,
whistled and then rumbled over
the big bridge.
And Mrs. Blais stepped to her
door, a mile aviay, and lustily
summoned her copious brood;
lingering lastly on lung-sapping
exhortations Which can be euph-
oniously represented by: "Tippy-
yiret Tippy yire! V'en - see!
'Pesh-twee!" This can be trans-
lated, more or less, by, "Little
Peter, come here, hurry!" But
none of the inflection of the
original was lost in the mileage,
and my translation perforce dis-
includes the implied alternative
that if petit Pierre didn't 'pesh
himself with all celerity he would
everlastingly regret. it. Then the
Blais door slammed; indicating
Peter had entered, and quiet pre-
vailed from that quarter. 4
The fish horn the 'Garlands use
to advertise their meals now
split the evening and resounded.
Father garland, answering
promptly, paused' only to close
the rolling door on the barn,
raked and rasped and whined
on its uneiled track.
I hadn't been siting long, and
I was ready tea unsit. I applauded
the new moon and the early-out
stars, 'and when I stood up I
could see the house lights over
the knoll-supper would be about
ready now. I smiled at the popu-
lar notion that the countryside
is traditionally calm arid quiet
and peaceful. Give a Hollywood
director a cricket he can snap
and a 'frog to croak, and he thinks
he can make a rural scene. The
rustling leaves, the,. purling
stream, the twittering. grosbeaks.
Just then a steel-rimined trac-
tor. went down the road by the
house, drawing what aOunded like
a Neva Scotia hayrack with loose
slats, joaded with empty
drums, milk 'cans, and Storm win-
dows, perhaps-a la§t touch be-
fore I went inside and closed the
door on the traquility of a lovely
country evening on the old farm.
by John Gobld in
"The Christian Science Monitor"
Needles Expand
The first recorded ready-naade
garments in America were shirts
for Indians, made by at least One
woman at Northfield, Massachu-
Setts, as early as 1725, and men's
breeches, j likewise rnade at
Northfield. The first real readP,
made plothing industry, hOl.va
ever, did not develop until about
a century later, as an outgrowth
of the trade in men's second-
hand clothing, This trade had
sprung up to meet the need of
sailers, Whose stay in a port
might be Very Shell« ... Rejected
custom-made garmenta, Made
custom shops during slack seas-
sons, supplemented the stock Of
second-band clothing. ,
The Manufacture of ready-
made clothing had become a
thriving business bY 1835, though
it Was practically limited to
men's and boys' clothing of the
cheaper grades and to shirts, At
this time the sewing of clothing
was still a hand process, which
could be done as easily in the
home as in a shop. The earliest
shops, therefore, were merely
cutting rooms, and the cheaper
grades of material were sent to
the country` to be worked upon
by women in their spare time.
The better grades were sewed ,
by city workers at their homes,
or by journeymen in the custom
tailoring shops when work was
slack. Subdivision of labor had
not yet appeared in the shops,
except for the cutting, and it was
customary for a worker to make
art entire garment. Many skilled
tailors, however
'
were helped in
their work by their wives and
children: .
Slimly the market expanded,
the lower income groups in all
parts of the country resorting
more and more to ready-made
garments. The ,California gold
rush of 1849 opened up a new
market. At about the same time
the technique of the industry
made vast strides forward, with
the invention of the sewing ma-
chine by Elias Howe in 1846, and
its improvement by Isaak
Singer a few years later.-From
"The Needle Trades," by Joel
Seidman.
Archery Realms.
There's a boom in the ancient
sport of archer y, ,especially
among Women who realize it' as
an aid to beauty, This back-to-
4-the-bow-and-arrow trend is so
marked that it's even hoped to
include archery in .the Olympic
Games. in Rome in 1960:
Today's teenagers are taking
up archery as a spurt not pnly
because it develops the chest
and arms, but because it teaches
the eye to concentrate. ,
Clad in' green 'attractive green
skirts for" girls, and green shirts,
jerseys or coats for men-many
of these 1956 archers are firing
up to 150 arrows a day as they
practise for competitions,
Many use steel bows. Others
stick to the tradiional yew,
• At a Midland- factory bows
and arrows , are made from the
high-tenAle steel tubing used in
Spitfires and Laneasters during
the' war. But a competitor at
a Devon archery meeting some
time ago was 'seen to be using
very effectively a 50-1b. English
yew bow which was more than
a century old. It once belonged
to Sir Henry Rider Haggard,
the author.
Some of Britain's best bowmei.
are found in the Royal Com-
pany of /Lechers, a mediaeval
corps which always acta as the'
Queen's bodyguard while she is
in Scotland.. These Men shoot .
in the open at 180 and 200 yards
range. The only other bowmen
to shoot at similar distances are
the Woodmen of Arden, at Merl-
den, Warwickshire. They wear
Picturesque' fouch hats, Lin-
coln green coats and chick trou.-
sets..
Earen by modern standards
the bow and arrow can be quite
On effective weapon. Just' before
the War a famous big game
hunter' out lot a new thrill used
bows and arrows on a shooting
trip in Africa. He said he' had
as Much success With, them as
he usually had with rifles.
To prove the penetrating
power of arrows, a London
archer fired several through a
stuffed stilt of armour. A twelfth
century record tells Of 'On Eng
liah archer who shot an arrow
through an oak dock' fotir inches
thick, the head of the missile
standing out a hand's breadth
On the other side,
Stories of thibin aldecia who
split peeled hatel twigs at a
inintired yards ,are usually ex-
aggerated. One 'Of the rarest
Mt' in archery iS hitting the
bulltseye three tithes 'fanning:
That is etfuivalerit hi archery
of .hdling, in one: at golf,
Arohts, it considered by me-
dical hien to be one Of the beat
hariiea the world for nervy
'people, for it, reqiiireS omplete
tententratiett arid takta the mind
off problems:
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Drive With Care
Of all the plant species growing
in Canada, one in five rates as
°a t weed. The annual weed cost
runs intcr many millions' of dol-
lars, enough to warrant close
" attention to their control.
According to Dr. C. Frankton
of the Canada Department of
Agriculture, many a bad weed
has gained a ,foothold simply be-
cause it was not recognized for
what 'it was. „ Success in weed
control depends largely on a
, proper understanding of these
.plants. It is often difficult to
trace them down because most
of the weeds growing in Canada
have been, introduced from some
'.other country. Frequently. care-
ful search in foreign literature,
particularly European and Asia-
tic, is required before a strange
'plant can be identified.
Weed workers may consider
•correct identification of weeds a
trivial matter but there is a defi-
nite practical application. ,Cer-
tainly some of the confusion as
to what weeds are controllable,
' and to what extent control Meas-
ures can be applied can be at-
tribtted 'in part to misidentifica-
tion. An early report from the.
United States claimed that field
bindweed could be controlled
readily by 2, 4-D; subsequently
it, was found ,that the bindweed
controlled was one of the annual
species. An introduced plant,
halogeton, poisonous to livestock,
now occupies some four million
,acres in the western States and
this abundance may well be due
to the fact it was at first confused
,with Russian Thistle and had be-
come well established before be-
ing recognized as a serious men-
ace.
An exact knoveledge of thelife
history, the series of changes
through which a plant passes in
the course of its development, is
essential to successful control.
the life histories of most of the
important, Weeds ,in Canada are
under investigaticin and a good
deal of information is now avail-
able on germination behavior.
An importaat part of weed in-
vestigation is to ascertain where
different species ocCur in Canada.
From reconnaissance surveys em-
bracing all weeds encountered,
a remarkable amount of informa-
tion' on distribution has been
Compiled. More intensive' surveys
are carried out to answer specific
problems such as the milkweed
survey during World War II, as
aeutce of floss-grid rubber,. rag-
Weed -surveys to establish where
hay fever sufferers might ekpect
relief, surveys for barberry and
buckthorn, intermediate hosts for
cereal taiga:
Such 'studies and other related
b4ic atedies will in, tinie serve
to improVe the effieiericy of
control methods. However, due
to the recent origin of thede,
,Testigatitin8 It will be some years
before weed *bakers Will have
compiled as valuable a mass of
information as that available" in
the fielda of plant pathology or
entteriloogy.
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Why the difference in temper,
tante regiateted by outside
libirSehold thearnotrieterat Next-
« dclOr neighbors often find ticeit
therniorileter§ differ by five de-
grees o More, Are: the thermea
inetera. et faarlt or doea the cause,
lie eiseWherel
a the Beaverlodge
perinieritar Farm, Alberta, during
Winter nights have. shown several
degrees differende between the
reeding of edentate therrito-4
Meters set only , 0, few pada
apatt. lr, A: t: 'Carder reperta
that One theritionieter WaS Piked
Pigs!' Snuffles .
Bring'Home:Truilles. •
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ebasnsimee rltbhh' iehllesirnoee
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strong smell by dogs or pigs,
lo4rr fgiPvre than.
'timeswalnuts,
i toatshjer ss I le • "r
thing like mushrooms, but are
much dearer to buy. Though
some may be found only just
under the surface of 'the gretntod•
moat grow four or ;Wore inches
found as , Big
truffles
a s 7.we.
sometimes
The world's Aries/. truffles
come from Perigord, near Bor-
deaux, antl their distinctive
gourmets. Figs.
i
there are spe-
cially trained tb hunt for the
truffles, digging them n up with
their snouts.
Lulti, a French pig which
worked every day' for some
years in the forests of Gascony
hunting truffles, was so good
at the job that her owner in-
ured her for $10,000.
Her amazing snout "divined"
the delicacies at great speed and
she used, he said, "to bark like
a dog when she found them."
Truffles were once valued so
highly in Italy that the areas
where they grew were guarded
day and night against poachers.
These men would sometimes
send their retriever dogs through
the guards to dig up the covered
fungi, the dogs being trained
to bring only large truffles with
the best market value.
It is under beech trees that
truffles are mostly likely to
grow. Epping Forest was once
famous for its truffles, but now
has none. Most of Britain's truf-
fles are now found in certain
districts of Hampshire, Dorset
and Wiltshire on chalky soils,
but those available in restaur-
ants are usually imported from
France.
Sixty years ago the cellar of
one famous London restaurant
:regularly housed some and
imported truffles valued at
$150,900.
SAFETY FIRST
A medical officer was testing
the camp water supply.
"What precautions do you take
against infection?" he asked the
sergeant in charge.
"WO' boil it first, sir," replied
the sergeant.
"Good."
"Then we filter it."
"Excellent."
"And then," said the sergeant,
"just for safety's sake we drink
beer."
SUCCESS!
"My son went away ten years.
ago to make his fortune."
"And what is he worth now?"
"I don't know for sure. But
the New York police are offering
twenty thousand dollars for
him."
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became .fiesh, and .004 :mows.
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glory as of .the only toegetten:.ot
• the •Pather,). full Of grace and
truth, John 1444 • • .•
The wonder of Ohristmas lies
in the fact that the God loved us*
enough, that Christ, the Eternal
Son, came to us in the likeness of
human flesh. The Babe of Beth-
lehem was God Incarnate. When
he was about to enter upon his
ministry at the age of ,thirty
years, John went forth te pre-
pare the way, John did his work
humbly and well. He said, 'Tr,
that cometh' after me is prefer-,
red before me: for he was before
me." Actually John was a few
months older than Jesus. Why
then did he say, "He was before
me?" John knew that even be-
fore the world was created,
Christ, the Word, had been with
God 'and was God. Indeed, "All
things were made by him, and
without him was not anything
made that was made."
Jesus Christ is "the-true light,
which lighteth every man that
cometh into the *orld." His own
nation officially rejected him and
asked their Roman overlords ti
crucify him, On the third day in
spite of a Roman guard he arost
from the dead and emerged tri. _
umphantly from the tomb. Indi. *4`
viduals from nearly every nation
on earth are still receiving lii
To these he gives power to
come the sons of God. A miracitaaa"
takes piece in the heart. Not on1r71-•
are the sins of the past forgiven,
but the person now hates tht
sins which once he loved. Novi
he loves God with all his hear(
and his neighbour as himself.
With all the tinselry and trap-
pings that have accumulated it
the observance of Christmas lel
us be sure to centralize ow
thoughts upon the main truth
Then we will wonder, worship
and obey.
May this Christmas season lat
One of great blessing to you!
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"HEY, WATCH IT, BUDDY"=A steer in a Canddic:rn feeding yard
gives forth a rumbling bellow, unwilling to accept hi i fate with
resignation. These fine, beefy specimens of livestock, dehorned
to prevent injuries, await delivery to farmers and breedert Who
fatten them for market,