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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-05-08, Page 3• MayfloWer Second Heads to Sea VVild Waterfowl. Ate From His Hand NAY SCHOOL LESSON roe rue about one week After the first, This gives much better .control than if the second application, is delayed two or three weeks AS. the longer interval seems to: allow the plants to recover or to, reach a more reststent stage. 0 S -0 based On the results to date the following is a recemmenda- tion for the chemical .control of wild buckwheat. In chemical. control It is important that wild buckwheat be. 'treated when in the first and second true leaf stage. In fields of wheat and barley the best results have been obtained with. two treat- Merits of 2,4-a. ester applied one week apart at 5 oz, acid, per acre. in tields. of oats good re-. sults can expected from two treatments of MCPA ester ap- plied one week apart at 5 oz. acid per acre. In, years when the wild, buckwheat is in, the first god. „second true leaf Stage, he- fore the grain crop. It in a stage. that is safe to trea„ it is recorn, mended that MCPA. ester 'be used as less damage will be done to the. crop..' aMONswIr EAST MEETS WEST—A Korean farmer, wearing his country's traditional, garb, and a sleek, 650-kilowatt Diesel generator provide, a, study in contrasts on the dock at T'eachon-.Ni, Korea.. The denei-ator will power a gold placer dredge bought by the United Nations Korean' Reconstruction Agency to assist in the mining' of valuable gold deposits in the area. MEM MEW MOP EEMEMEME Ii EWN MMEDUMUO EIEWO EMU@ MNPUMUS EMEMEM MOW MMM COE MEM CEEM ©CM MOW MOM MUM k ROM MEMO immumen BOUM OCUM OWHOMMER OEOU EHOUNEME MEV MEW MOM By Rev R. Rarr,ja) Vi'arren II,A„ R.D. Abraham and Ills God IGenetis 12:1-3; 17:1-9 Memory Selection: Show thy ways, 0 Lord; teach (by paths. Psalm 25:4. Jews, Christians and Mohana, meclans all honour and revere the memory of Abraham, At seventy-five years Of age he left Haran at God's call and enter- ed the land of Canaan. He re, ceived the great promise: "I will make of thee a great nation,. and I will bless thee, and make thy name great,, and thou shalt be a blessing; and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; tend in thee shall all families Of the earth be blessed." But 'the years went' by and Abraham had no children. He reminded God that his only heir was Eliezer of Damatcus. God replied, "This shall not be thine heir.." And Abraham "believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him for righteousness. Sara became impatient and gave her handmaid, Hagar, to Abraham and from the union Ishmael was born. But this was not the fulfillment of the prom- ise. Sixteen years later, Sara at the age of ninety, bore a son. Abraham was ten years older. This' child 'was the promised heir. Abraham's faith was to have one more severe test. God asked him to present his son .as .a sacrifice. He prepared to obey. As he was about to slay Isaac, God spoke to 'him saying, ."Lay not thine hand upon the lad!" neither do thou anything unto) him; for now 'I know that thou fearest God, seeing, thou haat not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." On the occasion of the final confirming of the covenant knit prior to the conception birth of Isaac, God said, "I frlit the. Almighty God; walk before me, and be then perfect." Abra- ham endeavoured to obey that command, walking 'in all tke light he had.. He is called the father of the, faithful. His des- cendants have given us our Bible and the Messiah himself. Jesuit was born of .a Jewish maiden, in. spite of much suffering these people still continue as a die- .tinct race. They have regained a foothold in the land promised to Abraham. A few of there have accepted Jesus as their Messiah. The Jews are becom- ing increasingly the focus a world interest. God will not fall in His promise to them. Eight Drown In River Of Beer Any idea of a tortoise's speed — flat out? Tests on a giant tor- toise in Mauritius show that even when hungry and enticed by a succulent cabbage it can- not exceed 5 yan.p. (yards per minute) — or 0.17 m.p.h. Pipe smokers might experi- ment to see just how long a pipe of baccy lasts; but the to- bacco must be kept alight! The target is 3 hours 7 minutes, a world record established by M. Kos, of Laeken, Belgium, in 1912.. His fill was about Ya of an ounce. Any idea of the size of the largest known wooden vat used in the history of brewing? It was one of'3,555 barrels (127,- 980 gallons) capacity in use at' a brewery in Tottenham Court Road, London. In 1814, however, this vat burst and flooded the immediate neighbourhood with beer, causing damage to houses and the loss of eight lives by drowning. Ills oldest friend, Sydney Bux- ton, in a privately printed mem- oir., gives this account of. Edward Grey and his Falledon ducks. He was successful in rearing no less than five-and-twenty species of ducks, tome of them very rare, and others which bad not been bred elsewhere in Eng- land, or at all events under semi-wild conditions. His latest success was the rearing of broods of American canvas-back. Amongst such a mixed community hybrids were not infrequent, and some of these were of distinguished parentage, These latter he oceasionally des- cribed as 'High-Bred,'!` a term which to his amusement had been used by my typist in a letter of mine, in which I was c referring to a rare hybrid that 'I had reared. t The water-hen, as he called it -- known to most of ,4s as the moorhen — is one of 'the most difficult birds to table, ' though they live all -their lives cheek by jowl with human beings. lie, however, by his patience and by his personality overcame their innate timidity, and latterly, a water-hen was one of the first to come to meet hini when he arrived with his basket of bread; while another frequented the lawn and occasionally1 ;came into the- 'Squirrel Room' in 'search` of.. food. In earlier days most of the-- ducks were pinioned; but, for, some years past they, have been free to fly where they like, and to come and go as , they will. Many of them fly away' never to return, but a large proportion. re- visit their home. Nothing- delighted and heart • - ened Edward Grey, more , than the return of a wanderer, es pecially if it had been absent zier, chairman of the board of selectmen of Plymouth, Mas- sachusetts, asked him to take to America with him the photo- graphs and drawings of Plym, ouch, Devon, and the scroll of 7,000 signatures which he, Mr, Frazier, had been presented, The Lord Mayor of Plymouth, resplendent in his scarlet robe trimmed with sable and his golden chain, reminded him of an order of Sir Jack Hawkins; "Serve God daily: love one an- other; preserve your victuals: beware of fire; and, keep good company." It was an impressive little ceremony, And all the while it was raining, And also all the while in the rain great crowds began to collect until all along the, ;Barbican and on lofty Plym- outh Noe there was such a crowd as none had ever seen before, hero in April, Captain* Villiers, with the Lord Mayor in company, was pulled back to the ship, which lay in the lee of Drake's Island, guarding Plymouth Sound. Would she sail? Would she leave now, as soon as the Lord Mayor had bid adieu? The crowd waited. As it waited it grew. And as it grew it waited. Noon came and passed: And so did lunch-time. Rumor ran around it was gOing to be three o'clock, •four o'clock, six o'clock, tomorrow, 'Monday. Everybody had had it straight from' someone 'who rAnew some- one who had seen Captain Villiers 15 minutes before. The master of Mayflower would go when the ship was ready. The crowd on the Hoe, with its children, its flogs, its irioeti- lars and telescopes and cameras, loOked ,down ,on an extraordin- ary sight, a veritable Dunkirk of little boats swarming round the beautiful Elizabethan ..vessel — drive-yourself motor boats, row- ing dinghies, sailing boats, motor launches, tripper steamers, canoes, cutters, lobster boats,' drifters, smacks, and even one great millionaire's motor yacht, white and clean as 'a new Imo 'note, which idled by, looked down for a moment or two at the little Mayflower and then glided off to anchor in the bay. At 4.35 the sun came out. And simultaneously a tug began to toot' and twist 'and' clear an open space around the May- flower. Then she was slowly towed toward the evening. At 6.30 it was a perfect spring evening in the romantic painters'--.. manner. ' The sun behind soft barred, purple clouds; westward, sillier spotlights on the darken- ing sea; calm on the blue water and a mist across the headlands in the 'east; and, lower left a shaft of brilliant' sunlight strik- ing one solitary triangular sail. Now Mayflower herself hoisted all sail. The tug turned home The attendant boats hovered uncertainly and then left one by one. Darkness closed very slow- ly in with the ship alone, drift- ing on the tide, her sails hanging empty, waiting in -King Arthur's Cornwall for the Wind. Have patience. Upsidedown tooPrevent Peeking Have patience, Mayflower Il is at sea and on her way to America, But at this moment she loiters still within the bounds of tho lost iingdom of Lyonesse, wandering slowly from end to end of King Ar- thur's legendary realm that now ,sleeps beneath the sea, waiting for the key of the wind to open the gate beyond the outpost Scilly Isles to the Atlantic. This shouid be inscribed upon her coat of arms: have patience. The two words represent not only the essence of the ship's experienee so far but also in a sense the very meaning of her, For the wind keeps no sched- ule but its own, The lesson of sail is that one learns "to work with and not against," a lesson most surely applicable to. Anglo- American relations. 'This it is also that sums up the real attraction of sailing ships for the Mayflower's mas- ter, Comdr, Alan Villiers. If there is one person connected with the project who at this moment is completely unruffed and at ease, determined to make the best of the wind when it does come and happy to wait for it while it does not, it is doubtless Captain Villiers. "People these days w o r k -against time. At sea, under sail, you work with time," Captain Villiers said to the writer as he, balanced against the, edge of his chart table in his, sea, cabin on .April 20. "Steamships work against the sea; sailing ships like this must work with, it. And those who sail Mat likeWise 'learn to live, never against; but always with themselves. ' And with each other." It is • perhaps little wonder 'that the ,master of the May- flower looked, and spoke, more certainly in character, dressed in 17th-century style for the ceremony at Plymouth's historic Mayflower Steps on April 20, than did anyone else present, writes John Allan May,, in The Christian Science Monitor. (The Pilgrims' set out from this site. Drake, Raleigh, and Hawkins boarded their cutters 'here. Bligh of the Bounty, too. And the pioneers in the coloni- zation of New Zealand, off to 'sail in the vessel 'Tory. And here' landed the crew of the American seaplane NC4 on May 31,919, after the first flight across the Atlantic.) Captain Villiers. arrived at 10 a.m, in the Ma'yflower's slate blue longboat with Henry Horn- bloWer II, president of Plimoth Plantation, of Newton, Mass,, pulled by seamen wearing jer- kins and stocking :cepa, piratical expressions, and the smudge be- ginnings of beards. Captain Villiers' bottle green stockings were wrinkled, but he wore his tall black. Puritan hat as if it had gold braid round it. His expression was roundly happy. He made a stirring little speech. "This is a good tough ship of Devon oak . . . what our fore- fathers did for five centuries we can do again . ." Henry Hornblower II pre- sented him with a chip off the Plymouth Rock. James T. Fra- HILL BILLET DOUX SALLY'S SALVES Love will usually find a way when the going is tough. And .love-struck Jack -Kenyon, a far- mer at Mineral Point hit upon a novel idea to persuade his be- loved to marry him. He covered parts of a quarter-mile stretch of hillside with a fertilizer. La- ter, the 'doctored parts turned green to spell out, in 300-ft, lettering, the name of his girl j-U-E-I-E. The sign-writing had a happy ending. EPStEIN'S "CHRIST"—One of the most modern pieces of religious art is "Christ in Majesty" shown after it was unveiled at the Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. The work of sculptor Sir John Epstein, the elongated 16-foot- high piece is cast in 'shimmer- ing aluminum. Epstein, 76, feared that he might live to see the unveiling to the public, for the sculpture was hidden away in a crate for 18 months before being uncovered. He was in London when the Unveiling finally took place. "Don't ever mention Harry to me again," stormed a girl to her friends. "He not only lied to me About the size of his yacht—he Made me do the row- ing as well!" 'These nights are chilly, aren't they, Georgie". ' • S. Dine 23. Riches GRAND HOTEL—This scale model shows the luxurious appear- ance of the Berlin Hilton Hotel, scheduled to open its doors January 1, 1959; in West Berlin, _Germany. The 21-story, American-designed structure will have 350 rooms and is, ex, petted to cost more than four million dollars.. 4. a,series of years ,of apparently favourable Weather conditions, seems -to have • allowed an in- crease in the abundance of this weed: Not only dees wild buck- wheat ; reduce , yield through competition, • but where dense stands of it occur the vines en- tangle the grain, making harv- esting ,-,1,operatioris extremely diffictilt.%; ..Chemical ;studies at the Can- ,ada t.,pmartment .*of Agriculture Experimental, Farm,, Scott, Sask., during the pagt 'few years have shown that;7 While this weed cannot teasilk bbl eliminated, or killed outright,.-.a. high degree of controle'lmaybe • obtained. .A large • numher ,of herbicides have been tested as possible btickWheat killers. In agree- ment with other workers, it has been found that 2,4-D is the most effective of the selective herbicides currently available for wild buckwheat. The esters and particularly the low vole- tile esters have been superior to the other formulations. It has also been demonstrated that better results are obtained if the 2,4-D is applied when the wild buckwheat is in the one to two true leaf stage of de- velopment. This is probably the most critical factor involved in obtaining a control, which is expressed not as outright kill of the plant but rather as a re- tardation of growth. Thus, it has been known that a . single application of a 2,4-D ester, ap- plied at the early stage, at a rate of 8 to 12 oz. per acre will give• reasonably good control. * * * When the buckwheat has only ,one to two true leaves, the crop likewise is usually in the one' to two leaf stage of growth. This is a very susceptible period, hence the use of high rates of 2,4-D has injured the crop. This difficulty has been, circumvent- ed by the use of two applica- tions of 2,4-D or MCPA esters at relatively low rates. The first application must be made early and the second should be made Each year there are reportic f r o m commercial vegetable growers and home gardeners, that plants have been daniage'cl by top or side dressing's Of lebiri mercial fertilizer. Investigation of these reports says -1)/L , Mc- Gibbon, Plant Nutritionist 'at the Canada Department„of Ag- ricultiire Experimental Farm, Summerland, B.C., has shown ' that most cases off,,4erglzek damage were caused )33T proper methods of ,apiilicAtion and that the same amounts and kind of -fertilizer could have been applied safely if certain precautions had bead -taken. * * * Growers often become impa- tient with the slow growth that young transplants, such as to- matoes, make during cool per- iods in early summer. They feel that the plants need fertil- izer and place a band of it around and often touching the stem 'of the young tender plant. The result is that a small' area of concentrated fertilizer salts is formed which burns the tender young root and stem tissues and may kill the plant. Fertilizer should be spread and worked into the soil before transplanted crops are set out, in, which cse the plants will not need any further fertilizer until they are • at least half- grown. At that time, if _they need a supplementary applica- tion of fertilizer, it should be sprinkled lightly on the soil in the area to, which, the roots are likely to spread, but not 'con- ' centrated around the plant stem. It will then be taken gradually : into the plant root zone either by rain or 'artificial' sprinkling and utilized by' the plant with- out damage. S Instances Of 'fertilizer dam- age to henie gardens and lawns Often occur when the gardener applies Chemical fertilizer and waters it This, usually hap- pens .because the _plants were parchettbefoPe the ,fertilzer was applied. - In Sta',.4 cases, the plants iinrnediatery i start to ab- sorb water' 'arid ' soluble fertil- izer saltar. often more salts than the plant can stand at one time, and‘darnage to various parts of the Plants results. The safe Way to apply coininercial f er- tilizer in such cases is to water the lawn or garden thoroughly the day before the fertilizer is to be applied, apply the fertil- izer and then follow with a light watering to carry the fertilizer down to the plant' root sone, Even highly coneeentrated chemical fertilizers can be ap- plied Safely by this Method, Chentical fertilisers are a ne- cessity for satisfactory plant growth in most areal, They can be used In great benefit With- out danger of claniage, if a, few Simple precautions are taken In their uses.,'. Wild bilekWheat is 'common in agricultural areas across tail- ada. This weed is riot readily killed by standard applidatietis of 3,4=1:li Which Will control friOst other ariiitial broadleaf Weeds commonly found in grain fields'. This fact, together with for many months and became a wild bird, which yet immediately on arrival took its place in the dinner queue and again fed from his hand as though it had. never been away. 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Smooth hrdath I MAYFLOWER it READY. tO Me flower if, the vessel that brought ti l Pilgrims to the Nfw, Werld, unfurls her scluere-rijgetl Sens for the first time and sloshes througt the Weitei-s Of Tot ay oft theand, ie a full-dress trial run for her voyage' to the ill AiisWer eiSeWhere on this page, liaw can I remove a Stith- glPSS nork front it bottle? A; Hy wrapping a hot cloth ireinid the neck of ,,,the bottle. 1 ME FRONT AM% :ql4itfisket ste.'