HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-02-12, Page 7PRIDE OF MOOSEHEART—Casting a bovine glance at her birthday cake is Mooseheart Princess
Star (cow at left), holder of a world's record for milk production. She is presented with the
cake by members of the Moose Child City Drum and Bugle Corps on her 10th birthday.
Princess Star has produced more than 145,000 pounds of milk and 6,700 pounds of butterfat
during her career. She's the matron of the purebred dairy herd of Mooseheort which pro-
duces at least a quart of milk each day for the nearly 800 children in the town.
By ftvy, ,Barclay WRgIelik
IMMIGRANT — A privileged character is this Aphidoletes
Thompson', .who figuratively wears a "don't swat me" label.
The "skeeter" is one of 1,800 imported from Czechoslovakia
and colonized in Oregon and Washington to combat the balsam
wooly aphid which causes gout-like swellings in silver fir. This
unusual close-up photo of a "skeeter" in flight was taken by
the Pacific Northwest Forest and Ranger Experiment Station.
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TIE FARM FOR
Joivausseil
It is generally accepted that
wild oat seed may have the abil-
ity to remain alive in the soil
for a period of at least three
years without germinating. -Until
this weed germinates not much
can be done in the way of con-
trol as .our knowledge stands at
present, and this holds true even
when chemicals are applied to
wild oat infested soil before a
crop is sown. Recent experiMents
by Dr. B. G. Cumming, dealing
with the influence of light on
the germination behavior of wild
oat seeds, indicate that although
non-dormant seeds are not un-
der normal conditions influenced
by either light Or darkness, a
higher proportion of partially-
dormant seeds may be 'induced
to germinate by depriVing them
of sunlight, providing there is
sufficient moisture for germin-
ation. This end might be accom-
plished by burying them through
fall cultivation.
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Partially-dormant' seed obtain-
ed from different localities in
Eastern and Western Canada and
from plants grown under tem-
perature and humidity controlled
greenhouse conditions were test-
ed under artificial light and sun-
light. Partially-dormant. samples
almost completely failed to ger-
minate on the soil surface when
exposed to light, although mois-
ture was sufficient and allowed
complete germination of the non-
dorniant seeds placed on the soil
surface. At the same time, how-
ever, a considerable number of
the partially-dormant seeds ger-
minated when buried to a depth
of one inch. On the other 'hand,
when completely deprived of
light the partially-dormant seeds
germinated as well on the soil
surface as at one inch depth.
Althsugh delayed seeding is
still -the most widely used and
effective form of wild oat control,
fall tillage has been studied
fairly extensively during the past
two years by workers in Western
Canada, to determine its overall
effect on germination. The 1957
Research Report of the Western
Section of the National Weed
Committee shows that a much
greater 'number of wild oats may
germinate where fall tillaged is
practised, So far, the best results
have been obtained from the me-
dium-late to late tilled plots.'
Almost without exception the re-
sults indicated the wild oat seed-
lings emerged earlier in the
spring and in greater number
from plots tilled late in the fall,
that is between the 5th and 20th
of October,
Research workers are assisted
in their effort.' to control certain
agricultural pests by predators
and parasites that prey on plant
disease organisms, insects and
Weeds, The value of these natural
control agents has been fully
realized for smite time and every
effort is being extended by the
Science- Service of the Canada
Depeatinerit of Agriculture to in-
create the effectiveness of this
so-called biological tontrol,
'9 4, IN
In a recent test at :Belleville,
Ont.) a 'species Of nematode Was
applied to potato plants by a hand
sprayer' at the rate of 5,60. per
plant to detertitine what effect
they would haVe on potato beetle
Control. At the completion of the
test it was found that the num-
ber of potat'd beetles Was tech:iced
from an average of 61 per plant
to 39 per plant, despite the fact
that 13/1, inches of rain fell with-
in 24 hours after the nematodes
were released. Nematodes were
recovered from dead potato bee-
tles found on the sprayed plots.
A survey of parasites and pre-
dators of the potato beetle in the
Belleville" area showed that para-
sitism by a common species of
parasite average less than one
per cent early in the summer
but increased to about 50 per
cent toward the end of the sea-
son.
Further research of this na-
ture at Belleville on sweet cloVer
weevil control yielded promis-
ing results. Three species of para-
sites imported from Sweden de-
veloped satisfactorily in this for-
age Jest *
Perhaps of more recent inter-
est are the attempts to use in-
sects to control weeds. Adults of
a certain species of beetle col-
lected in the Belleville district
were released at Marsden, Sask.,
and Codesa, Alta., in an attempt
to control toad flax. Other spe-
cies have been released in Brit-
ish Columbia for the control of
common St.-John's-wort. These
species have continued to in-
crease in number in some areas.
At Fruitville, B.C., the adult
beetle population was 282 per
cent greater-in 1957 than in 1956
and the number of flowering
stems of St-John's-wort de-
creased by 43 per edit over the
same period.
e Really Said
If® With Flowers
The father of an attractive
nineteen-year-old girl was adam-
ant on one point. He would not
agree to her marriage to her
boy friend Tom unless he could
be sure she was genuinely in
love.
"She can go away on a world
tour for six months," he told
Tom. "If when she returns shz
still feels the same way about
you — you may marry .But dur-
ing her absence you must both
undertake not to write to or
'phone one another."
Torn had to agree to the con-
ditions, for he was very much
in love with Jane, and she with
him.
- Soon afterwards the girl left
her native Illinois, with her aunt,
bound for England. Torrnwas at
his wits' end. He wanted to keep
reminding 'the girl of his love
for her an yet he had agreed
neither to write nor 'phone.
Eventually he had a brain-
wave. He visited a florist who was
a member of Interflora, the nor-
lots' Telegraph Delivery Associa-
tion which has thousands of
branches throughout the world..
Tont discussed his problem
With the florist and they cooked
up a scheme, after studying
which flowers were available hi
cities at the time when jute and
her Mint would arrive.
On het arrival in London Attie
received a lovely bouquet of
irises: In Paris it was a bou-
quet of lilacs and in Rome a
spray of orchids. As' she went
from city to city each florist
faithfully delivered Torti'a orj
der:,- sticking strictly to the type
Of flowers ordered.
Tom reasoned that Jane, a
Smart girl; would tumble to the
secret message, And when 8ii&te-
teivbd her Pula' bouquet in
Special. Dellyeil,,
Through The Snow;
For several months of each.
year, heavy deposits of snow_
Which on the 'nigher elevations
frequently reached a depth Of
twenty feet, Pr more--.caused the
suspension of virtually all trans-
mountain travel, This Was, dur-
ing the early years, a source of
muelt inconvenience, 'and Q.CP4-•
sionally of genuine hardship,. to
residents on bOtb sides of the
range,. „
It was not until the winter of
1850-1857 that residents of these
areas received same measure of
relief, and it came from an un-
expected quarter. The one re,
sponsible was John A,' Thomps
son, a thirty-year-old native of
Norway, who was then operat-
ing a ranch in the .$acramenta
Valley. Ope day Thompson, a
giant of a man with blue eyes
and flowing blond heir and
beard, .read a newspaper story
stating that all -traffic over the
Sierra had been suspended for
the winter due to beavy snow-
fall on the upper levels. Al-
though be had left his native
Scandinavia while still a • boy,
he well remembered that snow
had never been looked, on there
-as a serious obstacle to travel.
Accordingly he set to work
making himself a pair of "Nor-
wegian snowshoes," using the
wood of an. oak tree that he had
recently cut down on his ranch.
By present-day standards, the.
shoes, or skis, he fashioned were
awkward in the extreme, they
being, according to one account,
ten feet long, four-and-a-half
inches wide in front and four
inches wide behind, and weigh-
ing twenty-five pounds. . .
After a few days of practice
to accustom himself to his cum-
bersome skis, Thompson was
ready to assay .his first winter
crossing of the range. With a
Well-filled bag of east-bound
mail strapped to his back, and
carrying little else except the
clothes he wore, he set out from
Placerville late in January, 1856,
beaded for the Ciarson Valley
some ninety miles distant, The
trip took him three days, in the
course of which he crossed the
seventy - three - hundred - foot
summit, passing over snowdrifts
that in places were as much as
fifty feet in depth. On the
journey he • rested. but two or
three hours each night. . •
During the winter of 1862-
1803 when he was crossing .over
a new route farther to. the south
— from Murphy's Camp to.
Genoa, via Markleyville and
Hermit Valley .— he sometimes
sought temporary shelter in. one
Or another of a group of deserted
miners' cabins at the last-named
place. Often, however, the
snowdrifts were :so deep at that
point that the pabins were eoms
pletely buried And he was able
to locate them only by probing
downward with his long ski,
pole until it struck one of their
roofs,
Thompson maintained his Ufa,
que one-man service across the
mountains for close to two deg
codes. — From "High Sierra
Country," by Oaar
Played Dead
To Keep, Alive
If a savage animal attacks
you, it is no use offering re-
sistance, just play possum, You
then have a aporting chance of
emerging from ti le melee with-
out serious damage."
Few hunters ever had so
stern a test of this theory Qt
feigning dead in order to sur-
vive as a South African farmer,
Johnny van Zyl, Setting out re-
cently from his home at Ghanzi,
in Bechuanaland, .he was enjoy-
ing himself shooting at small
game when suddenly a leopard
charged straight at him.
In self-defence, he loosed of.f
both barrels of his .shotgun, but
if his 'pellets atruck the great
cat they did not alter its speed.
or course. On it came, to leap
for the kill at his shoulders. With
great presence of mind, Van Zyl
let himself be borne to the
ground and, with the beast snarl-
ing over him, lay still.
He even kept his left arm out-
thrust, as if inviting the leopard
to bite it, The leopard Iboked
ptizzled by this remarkable deve-
lopment,. did no more than nuz-
zle the prostate figure, and then
seemed to lose interest in it
completely,
Seeing their employer, un-
harmed, his native stalkers re-
covered their courage and shout-
ed wildly, causing the great cat
to slink. away.
TRUISM
Being a husband is just like
any other job. It's much easier
if you like your bess.0
KING-SIZE RANCHER—Joseph C.
Coney, San Francisco steamship
company executive, locates on
a map of Argentina lands com-
prising some 2,300,000 acres
whith, he, says, makes him
.owner of the. world's largest
ranch, The fabulous King
Ranch In Texas covers about
1,000,000 acres of the Lone
Star State. Coney plans to
staff his holdings with families
from the Netherlands and Italy
.if he gets Argentine and U.N.
approval.
Honolulu shortly before return-
ing home she did `sit down and
work out what Toni was trying
to say with flowers.
' She had made a note of each
bouquet and listed them as fdl-
lows: irises, liliacs, orchids,
violets, evening primrose, jon-
quils, asters, narcissi, eucharis
lilies„ tulips, orchids and —
— mimosa.
It took her only a minute or
two to take the initial letter from
each flower and to arrive at his
message "I Love Jane — Tom."
The six months were not quite
up so she couldn't write or tele-
phone. But she went to a florist
in Honolulu and, a few hours
after handing in her order there,
a cable was delivered to a florist
in Evanston. The same afternoon
Tom received a small spray of
orange blossoms; which signified
only one thing -- marriage;
WARNING
Don't smoke in bed — the next
ashes that fall on the floor may
be your own.
One Of The Rarest
Birds In The World
One Sunday shortly after my
return from Hook's I suggested
to a couple of friends that they
should come and climb a neigh,
bouring hill for exercise s the
hill was in the Masai Reserve,
It was hard going in the
bright sun, and whenever the
shade of a thorn-tree OVered, we
were thankful to sit down. A
couple of hours later f put my'
head over the crest, only to fall
back again as though I'd been
sniped.
'What on earth's the matter?'
Trevor inquired in alarm, 'Have
you seen something odd?'
Had I seen something odd! I
was so excited that I could
scarcely bring myself to speak,
'Now listen you two,' I hissed,
'I've just had a shock, Gliding
about the valley on the further
side of this crest is one of the
largest and rarest birds in the
world, You'd probably take it
for an eagle, But it's neither an
eagle nor yet a venture, but a
larnmergeyer, and ..I want to see
whether I can photograph it
without being seen.'
By now both Trevor and Mac
were beside me anxiously peer-
ing into the void.
'Whist—d'ye call yon a birdie?'
Mae whistled, 'Why not a super-
jet and have done? It must be
10-fOot across.'
Ten foot indeed, or 9 at 'least.
The huge golden bird was
wheeling at eye-level only a
feW yards from where wt'
crouched.
'It's got black round its eye
like a panda,' Trevor breathed.
'If only we had a pair of field
glasses.'
'If only I had telescopic-lens,'
I sighed. 'D'you realize that the
African lammergeyer has never
been photographed before?'...
Just then a, pair of augur buz-
zards shot out from the rocks
below, and emphasized the lam-
mergeyer's bulk by contrast, An
augur buzzard is no mean bird,
but it looked like a pigmy be-
side a giant. Closer' and closer
the lammergeyer wheeled, then
suddenly dropped from sight. I
presumed that it had settled at
its resting site, and edged fur-
ther along the ridge to get a
view.. 'What I saw made me
gasp.
Not one, but two Iammergey-
ers were seated side by side on
a ledge. Their white heads bob-
bed in the sunlight as they
preened their golden feathers,
and they looked as calm and
comfortable as parrots in a cage.
Probably I ryas the only man in
the world, I reflected bitterly,
to have ever surprised a pair of
African lammergeyers at their
toilet. Yet I had neither suit-
able lens to record the fact, nor
even a pair Of glasses to watch
them properly.
Just then the birds 'appeared
to notice something, and in a
flash one dropped over the rim.
The other rocketed into the sky,
climbing unbelievably fast. It
was already no bigger than a
peregrine, and was soon the size
of a swift. began to under-
stand how easily such a bird
could escape notice.. .
By now the lammergeyer had
quite disappeared, and shoulder-
ing our packs we turned to re-
sume the ascent, —FrOm "Adven-
venture Begins in Kenya," by
John Pollard.
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Sunday School t ckhnto°771°i is rida4 1valuable1PIr
opportunity for teaching the
Bible, Quarterlies and' helps,
valuable as they may be, shoO14,
not supplant the Bible, Let al
as soon as they can reads 'lea...
athnedirus e ilstle to Sunday Sehoo ,
The minister must be "apt •to'
teach", He will exercise the gift
in conversation with individuals.
a's Philip did with the Ethiopian
eunuch and Jesus did with
dernus and the Woman oat the
well, He will teach as be visits
homes as Jesus did at the home
of Martha and Mary and in the
home of the Pharisee. (Luke 7.)
He will teach in the church. He
will not major on his own °pit-
ions but on what the Bible says,
One of the reasons` for Billy
Graham's success is that :he
speaks with authority, quoting
many times in each sermon
what "the Bible says,"
The minister cannot carry the
whole load. He must commit the
truth -to lattliful men, who shalt
be able to teach others also.
One cannot teach what he only
half-heartedly .• believes. If he
does not accept the Bible as the
very Word of God he will be
teaching it as the word of mere
man. It is hard to understand
how men Will remain in the
pulpit and still discard such car-
dinal truths as the Virgin Births
the deity of Jesus Christ, the
resurrection of the body and,
the future reward of the
righteous and punishment of the
wicked. Such teachers only add
to the confusion of unbeliet.
They need to repent and be-
lieve on. Jesus Christ as their
personal Lord and Saviour.
My old Chemistry text-book:
is much Out-of-date. But not se
with the Bible. The Word of the
Lord abideth" for ever. Let ;la
experience its truths and the4
teach it to others. •
Monkey Business
Starts A War
Indian merchants, shippers
and trappers dealing in monkeys
are now engaged in a bitter in-
flationary price war Trappers,
formerly satisfied with $10 per
live monkey for export, are to-
day demanding double and
sometimes as much as $25 a head
for the sturdiest specimens.
Some merchants, resentful 'of
this imposition, have felt it
worthwhile to employ trappers
on their own account. Naturallys
-between the new cutsprice spe-
cialists and the long-established
catchers, no love is lost. Each
side feels the other is making
monkey out of it.
This embittered strife does
not, unhappily, promise an easier
life for the monkey. His worth
to India as an article of export
is nearly $3,000,000 a year.
Latest figures issued by the
Indian Government show that
between April, 1956, and Janu-
ary, 1957, merchants exported
150,000 monkeys, netting almost
two million dollars. Main recep-
tion countries were: The U.S.An
120,000; Canada, 18,000 and the
United Kingdom, 8,000.
"SPORTSCAR" HAY BALER—Farmers attending the Parni Show will get a look al: a new hay
baler so highly Maneuverable it has been called the "sportscor of farm machinery". it i#
'pictured above, being' dettionstrated. Called the Super Haylirier,. it picks up hay from hay
tows, sweeps it info the barer. Here measured dnidUtitt of hay tire' whisked into the beike
titethibet. By Vett& 'tension controls, the fernier ca 11 control the density of the Bale and
#utornatically get the bole-weight he wants,. totes ore tied with either wire or n
preferred: