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The Brussels Post, 1958-02-05, Page 31INDAYS01001 LESSON IIIFARM FRONT Joklasseti, 4,444,4-41 1 1 titans 4oir: litho 141towi hiving is pitosor* +Oho h truck et hie own. fibteainhitel‘ 4 411 4 Living proof that stick-to-it- iveness pays off is Edward Emeigh, 31, of New Alexan- dria. He wanted to be a truck driver, but standing only four feet, two inches, and weighing 101 pounds, the odds seemed to be against him. However, with the assistance of Walter Ramaley, owner of an equip- ment and supply company in his home town, Ed set out to overcome his difficulties. He own so that he could drive one added a few refinements of his of the trucks — a mammoth 24- ton concrete mixer. On the job he finds his short stature is no handicap in climbing over the truck to insbect the concrete mixer. He's been. driving for several years now, and has a perfect safety record, uses power steering, pillow, tool box ana elongated pedals. and Vali piles will greatly re- duce the possibility Of blackleg spread by the seed corn maggot. ,*. The blackleg organism ..54, ASPS from year to year in the S011, or in infected seed plecea, 'The, organism .enters the stem from the seed piece and causes a softening and blackening of the: lower portions of the stem, The branches 'become more tip, right than normal, and the shoot becomes pale arid yellowish,. The newly formed' tubers may be invaded by the organism, caus- ing a soft rot of the central tions of the tuber starting at the stern end, Many certified .seed growers are now planting small, whole seed, but seed of this size is scarce,. Subway Strike And Mud-Stuck Tractor Exploring The Australian Bush BUShWellting is now recog- nised as one of the features of Australian life, especially among the yot4.p eople. Small won.. der, whe..we, realize the climato that calls to us to come out of doors and the beauty and inteea est of that outdoors when we respond to its call. There is satisfaction to be taken Merely in being in the bush, especially alone or tit Se it emomalpLancliouni sehtiplgrou is .so o much r 11 es apparent than among the burly- burly and jostle of a crowd, To really get to know the bush and enjoy it, bushwalking needs to be clone in this way, Not many miles will be covered in a day, but there will be a drinking in of beauty never to be realized by those who aim to cover dis- tance as speedily as possible, The real bush-lover makes a poor bush-walker if his achieve- ment is to be measured in miles per day,' for there is constant delay in his walking while he stops to admire this or to inves- tigate that. Those of us who love the bush and want to see at least some of it preserved in its primitive state for posterity, know that the young people, in the main, can readily acquire thi feeling for the bush that gives them a satisfaction noth- ing else can bring. We have been with them—some of them—in the bush and have known this satisfaction to have affected them. There is usually not much said, but the human companion- ship has deepened, and there is often a stronger understanding of friendship between them. The future of our bushland lies to a very considerable ex- STONE AGE Up-TO-DATE -- Their use almost as old as civiliza- tion, stones that become rounded when tumbled in revolving drums to serve as grinding agents are contrasted with a pre- cisioned nose cone made primarily of basic, stone-like ceramic materials for use in a supersonic fissile. The contrast between the ancient and modern was provided at the opening of a research center. It will be devoted to projects affecting for- ward-looking operations of the nation's ceramic tile industry, Metric Measure Japan has added itself to the list of countries which gradu- ally, or more so, are pushing the use of the mettle system of weights and measures as against English yards, quarts, a n d pounds„ In the Orient the need for uniformity is extreme. Custom employs a mixture of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Hindu units as well as English and metric. If metric measure does eventu- ally displace traditional English units a number of familiar say- ings will have to be revised — or read as children now read of cubits and farthings. For in- stance, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" wi,11 become rather ponderous if translated into 28.35 and 453,60 grams, And 2,4 kilometers will hardly fit the poetic meter for "Half a league onwardl" Of course, there always has been a wide variety of measures. Such as that of the Southern "mammy" who tried to describe how much molasses she used in her gingerbread. Mentally lis- tening to the gurgle of syrup from the jug, she "reckoned" it would be "about two gullollops an' a drip." The engineer deal- ing with fuel injection into an internal combustion engine at 4,500 r.p.m. doubtless will prefer to deal with ten-thousandths (or less) of a cubic millimeter at 20 degrees centigrade. — From The Christian Science Monitor. 411 1.1 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking By Rev., R. Barclay Warren RA,' KO. 1 Organization of i4 Church, 1 Remans 12:3-8; 1 Timothy 3;10 DlelnorY SetecilePt Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the holy ghost bath made you over- seers, to feed the church of god„ which he hath purchased. with his own blood. Acts 20:28. All genuine Christians are one memberso bodyin Christ no f 11.110dtheevr! This is an, intimate relation. Each of us has different gifts and hence different functions in the church of Jesus Christ, It is imloOrtant that we exercise to the full mit God-given gifts to the building of the body of Christ. We muse maintain that beautiful oneness of spirit with God's children re- gardless of their colour,' race or religion denomination. Professed Christians belong to many different denominations with different patterns of or- ganization. We must not confuse membership in the body of Christ with membership in a denomination. We may belong to a church and not belong to Christ. Ananias and Sapphire be- longed to the church but were really hypocrites. There are still many hypocrites but that is no reason why we should not asso- ciate ourselves with a church. In the beginning of the church the organization was closely pat- terned after the synagogue, each of which had its elders. But the choosing of deacons was some- thing new and was done to meet a need that arose. There was no divine command involved, but the use of common sense. In the first century while each, church had its elders, frequently one would stand out in promin- ence above the rest. We find this in the church at Jerusalem when, Paul reached that city at this alose of his third tour. We react: "Paul went in with us unto, James; and all the elders were ,present." (Acts 21:18). James, of outstanding personality, was their leader. Later Paul told Titus to appoint elders. Paul sets forth a high stand- ard for leaders in the church. They must be proven Christians before becoming deacons or Overseers in, the church. Mort 4 men with these qualifications of godliness and leadership are needed today. Whenever I go to the big city, I have the chastening feeling that all the hullabaloo and boo, raw is going on juSt the same On days I'm not there, It's sort of bard tto believe this, new, a$ Sit here with the morning sun- light streaming in my window, one foot on the wastebasket and the other alloyed into the book- ease between Butler's History of Brownville Junction and Nine Orations of Cicero--the com- panionable Muse perched on my shoulder to tell me how to spell the hard words—for this morn- ing New York seems distant and unreal. The last time I was in New York I didn't leave the train, but sat in my seat and thought about this. I looked out the win- dow and saw the crowds milling and pushing, reflecting that this unbelievable to-do continued all the whilst I would be up in the woods and alone. Since the train arrived thirty minutes late but left on time, New York thus gave me back fifteen minutes otherwise gone forever, and I thought if just these fifteen minutes could be distributed. equally among the folks on the platform they could all slow down a little. I commented on this to a man across the aisle, and he said that in traveling this route twice a week for eighteen years the train schedules had similarly restored to him the rough equi- valent of about fourteen months, but that since he had never left his seat he couldn't really say that he had ever been in New York, Of course, while I discharge the daily duties of my up-coun- try career, nobody in New York knows about it, if he cares. This was beautifully demonstrated by the widespread disinterest when I got my tractor stuck in the mud the same day the New % York subway strike took effect. The result of the strike was con- fusion, inconvenience, and hard- ship—and things were in bad shape here, too. The great dif- ference was that all the news- papers devoted front-page space to the subway strike, and the great turmoil of the erstwhile ''patrons, whereas nobody asked me how I felt, and no photo- graphers sloshed up through the ooze to see how I was making out. It was a lovely morning here. A thick rime frost had formed in the night, and the rising sun hit it with unerring accuracy and distributed beauty over all. I climbed on the tractor seat, pulling the trailer, and rev pleasantly down behind tPe barn, up through the hayfield, Handkerchiefs decorated with road safety slogans are to be given 'youngsters, aged 5 to "4 in a London, Eng. suburb, in an effort,,to reduce road accidents. OMED far WEE WNW ORME MOB OBOM MOMEMUME OEMSBOW NEM MEMO@ MOHO HONOR 00E OME MEMOS ONMMOM ©MM BOO NM@MO BOOB MEM MOM NEOMDEO OWOOOEMM MEMO OEM ©M00 OMOM WNW MEM ©OM@ seased plants. On the other hand, seed pieces from inocu- lated tubers produced a 20 per cent infection. When the indi- vidual seed pieces were inocu- lated and planted the infection increased to almost 30 per cent. * q, 1, In areas where potato black- leg is a constant problem, the disinfection Of seed pieces in- volving a ten minute soak in streptomycin sulphate is recom- mended. Seed treatment tests at Charlottetown also indicate that acid, mercuric chloride and a mixture of Semesan Bel and the anti-biotic Agristrep will give reasonably good results. • 44 4, I/ possible, potatoes should not be planted in fields that are low and wet during the early part of the season and crop ro- tation should be practised. Pro- per disposal of decaying tubers No method has yet been de- vised to eliminate the bacterial ring rot organism from the po- tato seed piece, but according to Dr. D. S. MacLachlan of the Science Service Division of the Canada Department of Agricul- ture, the disease can be pre- vented from spreading 'by the disinfection of all handling equipment and storage bins, and the use of certified or founda- tion seed. Bacterial ring rot, an ex- tremely infectious bacterial di- sease is possibly the most seri- ous of all potato diseases known, today. infection takes place through the seed piece, the only known way in which infection can occur,. There is ne evidence that the organism overwinters in the soil or can be spread by any insect. To a large degree the cutting knife is resomsible for a high percentage of ring rot infection. As many as 50 to 100 potato sets may be contam- inated by the knife following a cut through an infected tuber. For this reason the knife should be dipped in a disinfectant after each potato is cut. 1, 0,4 Studies on the extent of di- sease transmission to potato sets from contaminated bags, indi- cates that from three to six per cent of ring rot infection may come from this source. This can be eliminated through the use of fumigants and heat treat- ments, but the search for a more rapid and efficient method of disinfection is continuing. * * * Over the past three years,. re- search in Ottawa has shown that certain newer type disinfectants are much more effective than older conventional types, such as fortnalin or copper sulphate. These newer materials pene- trate more rapidly through jute strands of potato bags and into cracks and splinters of storage rooms. Most of these newer ma- terials such as Teramine, San- o-fee 25 and Ocean 101 are reas- onably priced and readily avail- able. The development of resistant varieties is the obvious solution to the ring, tot problem and for Several years now research on this aspect of control has been done in both Canada and the United States, The variety Tc- - ton, developed a few years ago, and the Merrimac variety, a re.. cent introduction front the 'Uni- ted States, both show some re- sistance to the organism. Unfor- tunately these varieties are hot completely Mat-Mine to ring rot and therefore present a certain hazard as symptomless carriers of the disease. * Although sound, uninjured potato seed pieces Very t eleldni give Age td the bacterial. disease' blackleg, studies by the Seierice Service Laboratory, Canada De partment of Agriculture, Shoat?' a Considerable redtitticin in the incidence of bletkieg Vfiert whole itibers tire planter in Place of the Usual exit seed pikeet, Itt these teats, tubers hi- dettiatect With the Organiatta find Planted *11616, pr-banded di beyond the orchards, and into the black growth, I was after some. Christmas trees, I like to cut a few and set them by the road in hopes of a sale, I never sell any,,much, but this way I can control the giving away, If I leave them PP in the woods, people come froth great distances to carry them off, and I have no way of know- ing who gets them. So, like all the New Yorkers on this Same morning, I went to business, riding along with a good, feeling for all, and some- thing of the pre-Christmas spirit dominant, The big tractor wheels crunched on the light snow or the hoar frost along the woodroad, and here and there broke through the thin ice of the wet spots, Shortly I arrived and put the ax to work. I don't just cut Christmas trees at such a time, I knock a few limbs off pines, and cut out spent Gatehell birches, and tip over defunct specimens of all kinds, There's a lot of cleaning up around a woodlot. I look for beanpoles, and grape arbor ma- terial, and maybe hack out a hardwood piece here and there for firewood. I could have cut my Christmas trees in fifteen minutes and gone home, but it wouldn't have been so much fun. The forenoon moved along, and the weather warmed. , When at last I started for home, the big tractor wheels surged as I released the clutch, • gave a deep sigh and settled in- to the mud. The frost had let go. I got off the seat ,to see how things stood, and must have felt much like a New Yorker when he got ready to go home and found there was no subway, I considered arbitration and medi- ation, and pondered the juris- dictional questions. I wondered if I could get a writ of manda- mus. Of course, as I say, I didn't know about the subway strike in New York, any more than those folks knew about me. We experienced this thing separate- ly, without collusion, but. we must have both had that same let-down feeling that comes at the other end of the run when your transportation has been annulled, I understand the New Yorkers ran for the railroads, and that the alternative failed from over- emphasis. I had no alternative, unless you consider myself as such. I dug the shovel from un- der the Christmas trees, got out the length of chain, and then sat on a stump to think things over. This is a good way to begin, really. You can often do as much good sitting on a stump as you can digging, such as mud. Then I brought some rocks, and shov- elled a little, and climbed back on the seat to see if the strike was over. It was not. I then walked home, It was dinnertime, and. I was hungry. It's a little over a mile, and it's hard walk?ng on the early win- ter inch or two of rain-sogged snow. I had my dinner, read the mail, watered the hens, and re- turned to my problem, Now, it's a curious thing, but being stuck in the mud is some- thing you can often get out of by going home to dinner. By the time I got back the ooze had settled itself under the wheels, somehow, and when I got on the seat and gently let out the Clutch, the tractor came walking out of the mud, trailer and all, as if it had never been stuck, I drove on up to the buildings, and thus ended the adventure, I itemize the details, because I see no essential difference be- tween my being stuck and the New York subway strike. There were more people involved, but that is purely relative. New York wasn't buttoned up and rendered immobile any more than I was. Yet the subway strike was treated as big news, and nobody knew about me. I merely demand equal time.—By John Gould in The Christian Science Where There's A Will There's A Way tent in the hands of these bush- walkers, How useful they are in this direction depends directly on how appreciative they are, and this, in turn, depends on the interest and knowledge they gain by their cOntact. If at first they are completely ignorant of the bush and, its denizens they have the joy of entirely new dis- coveries, But, however experi- enced they become, they never lose something of thiS new joy, for every day is different and every approach brings Sonic- thing fresh, Any bush-lover will tell you that he cart never remember be- ing in the bush without learn- ing something, or seeing sorrie- ,thing he had never seen before. There is a Wealth of local nature literature to assist the would-be naturalist in his quest; also, the best help of all, of course, is the sympathetic companionship of more experienced naturalists, Among the bush walking corn- triunity there should be devel- oping a little section of such na- turalists, whose first-hand know- ledge of the bush can prove of inestimable value to the novice. I have never known a naturalist who was reluctant to part with his knowledge to the true Seek- ' er, and I never expect to know one such. So the bushwelker becomes the bush naturalist, He walks less and ponders More, observes more, arid becomes tviitei He,4in turn, passes oh his knowledge and appreciation to younger btishwalkets, and se the story goes oft-From "Nature- craft in Australia," arranged and edited by Thistle Y, Harris. TONGUE-TYPED—Blond, but not fair-haired as far as the 1,tipto- grapher is concerned, is this lad in Melbourne, Australia. 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