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where th'ese, specimens are no doubt wishing they had stayed south-in Antarctica-for the
winter,. • Although the snow should be to thei r liking, the residents of the Coney Island
Aquarium are huddling under what shelter 'is available as New York suffers through its
worst storm in years.
TIE FARM FRONT
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Some years ago one of the
Slaelestones came to town to
get a hairent, and the barber
asked him how many rows lie
'was keening.
"I ain't," he said. "They're
keeping mel
""No doubt," said the barber
"Bat how many you got?"
"4ght,"
"Oh, that's all? I thought you
had thirty-forty!"
"No," said Blackstone, "I ta-
pered off. Truth is, I got fed up
with bounding out of bed every
morning 'to be nursemaid to a
flock of cattle, and I decided to
/ whittle down and begin to lake
the ease and enjoyment "due me,
I ain't so young as I was, and I
like it better now. 'Stead of roll-
ing out in the small hours the
way I used to, I lay abed until
four-thirty!"
Now, isn't that a nice little
story? I'll tell you the truth. I
heard it, and it is just the way
tt happened, except that it was
sne of the Weaver boys and. I
!hanged the name to protect the
Innocent, and I rearranged the
numerals to emphasize the point,
He had been keeping ten cows,
and he cut it down to one, and
he said he "laid abed" until five
thirty instead of four-thirty.
This gratuitous explanation on
my part is in the interests of
truthful history, whereas my
changes in the story were to en-
hance the illustrative values. I
am trying to make the point
that farming is an early-rising
profession.
I gather that city people think
the farmer is the only fool who
gets up before breakfast, and
this must be why the farm radio
programs are always aired in
the prologue of the day. It seems
the the FCC insists, somewhat
loosely perhaps, that a certain
amount of broadcast time be de-
voted to agricultural subjects,
and the program director's an-
swer is to feed the stuff out in
the dawn, when nobody else
would be around.
The whole trouble with this
notion is largely that we have
come to a public situation where
the farmer is the last person
who needs to hear about farm
problems. He knows what they
are. But we've got vast, concen-
trated populations of nonfarm
people who no longer have the
slightest knowledge of farm af-
fairs, and unless we get them
thinking sympathetically fairly
soon we're going to be in bad
shape.
It is an axiom of history, as
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eminent's. own standards,
Even more ominous was some
evidence submitted on the effects
of MX' on the human system;
Dr, Malcolm Hargraves; a
blood specialist with Aoehester's
Mayo Clinic, testified that DDT.'
may very likely cause leukemia
and Noclgkin's disease,
A New York geriatrics special-
ist, Dr, W. C. Martin, warned
that every Anleriean has quart,
titles Of DDT stored in ...his sys-
tem. Particularly vulnerable, he
Said, were the nervous system
and liver,
Though charges of "hearsay"
kept Murphy. from introducing
all his evidence, he Wks for-
ward cheerfully to the second
week of the trial: "Wait until I
bring in laboratory analyses of
the birds, They'll have to listen
to that," - From NEWSWEEK,
Fewer Shoes
Arnericans are wearing fewer
'Shoes,
So says the Boot and Shoe
Vorkers Union which cites
statistics: 3,5 pairs per person in
1956; 3.47 pairs per person in
1957; an estimated 3.3 pairs per
person in 1958. (Anybody got
a.third of a pair of shoes kicking
around anywhere?)
It's not surprising that the shoe
workers are worried about this
state of affairs. But shouldn't
we all be concerned?
It appears to us that Americans
are wearing out fewer shoes be-
cause they are less and less on
their feet. The wear is all on
the seat of the pants these days,
It would be interesting If some-
one could come up with statistics
on trousers sales.
Seems to us it's time to get
Americans back on their toes-
ariniot just for the sake of the
shoe business.
-Portland (Maine) Press Herald
REAR, HARD LU,CK
"My luck's right out. I lost a
pot of money in a business deal;
then I had my car stolen; now
my .wife is ill. How's that for
being dead out of luck?"
"Not as bad as mine, old boy.
The other day I bought a suit
with two pairs of trousers, and
this moring I burned a hole its
the coal."
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LESSON
k11 erten
The Church and Communitr
EvangeLisne
Mark 5:18-20; Luke 10:1.3; Aetal
5:42; 1 Thessaionians
Memory $election: The ham-
est' truly is great, but the la-
bourers are few: pray ye there,
fore the Lord of .;the harve$,
that He would setfd forth le,.
hourers into His Harvest,
Three boys were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Carman Bell at theite
farm home at Stayner, Ont. To..
day, one is, a medical missionary
in Nigeria and the other two era
successful pastors in Ontario.
asked one 'of them, "How do you.
account for the fact that all three
are in the full-time ministry?
He paused and then replied, "I
was Mother's prayers." What
finer tribute could a boy pay to
his mother?
In our memory selection, Jesue
indicates that prayer is the way
to solve the present shortage off
ministers. We need the vision og
the ripened harvest that stirs us
to prayer, Then the Lord will
send forth the labourers, If they
are not sent by Him they will
not succeed in harvesting,
When one comes to know
Jesus Christ as his Lord anti
Saviour, first impulse Is to tell
others that they may know Hirai,
too, The best place to start is thdi
home community among t'hos4
we know_ best, The man in out'
lesson when freed from the
tyrannel'of Salon, wanted to cone
tinue In the presence of Jesus,.
But Jesus said, "Go home to Uzi'
friends, and "tell them how great
things the Lord halls done foe
thee." Jesus sent 70 out in. pair*
to announce the kingdom and
prepare the way for His visit to
the various towns. God is etilit
depending on people to do Hle
work. How energetic were the
early Christians; "Daily in the
temple, and in every house, they
ceased not to teach and preach
Jesus Christ." Community evan-
gelism will take us into the
homes as well as into the
churches.
The lesson concludes with a
tribute to the successful wit-
nessing of the Christians in
Thessalonica. From them sound,-
ed out the word of the Lord f
and wide. Their faith God-war
was spread abroad. They ha
turned from their idols "to serve
the living and true God; and to
wait for His Son from heaven.
Let us ask ourselves, "Do we
see the harvest? Do we pray?
Are we going into the homes o
our community, telling of Jesus
Christ? Are we showing fortis,
the grace of our Lord Jesuit
Christ by our daily living?"
1$e. .Ere R. Barclay
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Poor Listoning
For Formers
tAlgf,b0 *CONQUERORS-Eig hty-
fly:tyea'r:Old -OlaV Ejaaland, the
last man 'alive of the five Nor-
wegiam.who Jirst , reached• ,the
South- Pole nearly a half cen-rlt
,tur`y:,4o, relaxes With a ,ciar-
ette at his hoMe in Morgedal,
cINIckrWny. Roald Amund
sea and;ethree others, Eilaelemd
reached the frozen bottom of
the world on Dec. 14, 1 91 1.
Very much- alert, despite- his
advanced age, -he follows cur-
rent Antarctic explorations with
keen interest.
old as historians, that when agri-
culture is neglected, the econ-
omy declines. Nowadays we
have a Secretary of Agriculture,
and a 1,7SDA, and experiment
stations, and a policy, and big
appropriations, and all manner
of people who think we are
taking carp of the farmers,
When things decline, they'll all
wonder how-come,
Years ago them WaS a fellow
on radio who used to regale us
about 5:30 a,M, with the cur-
rent quotations on "agricultural
commodities." He had a voice
like a chain pump with a rim-
racked gear. This fellow would
tell us how much to charge for
kumquats, persimmons, malaga
grapes, okra, pineapples, and
similar strange and l'earsorne
foods, along with tomatoes, car-
rots, broccoli and other things
we had heard of.
The radio station wee getting
some government listing which
was not edited for our locale,
and without any thought Of What
the words said this fellow was
stentoriating on the theory that
a farmer wouldn't care, and it
was good enough for him, He
used to say ,"Tomatoes, so much
a box; carrots, so much a box;
asparagus, so much a. box." I
dropped him a card one day and
asked what kind of a box he
was using for his tomatoes, and
instantly got a nice letter back,
thanking me for my "interest"
and enclosing a fat experiment
station booklet about "agricul-
tural containers."
This fellow would never be
employed later in the day to
sell soap or electric shavers to
the discerning and sensitive
citizens who arise and listen de-
cently, and even if he were, he
would not read anything about
farming. I think the best time
for a farm program Is about
eight-thirty in the evening,
when the farmer has finished his
labors, removed his boots, and
is sitting in a rocker relaxing.
Perhaps the best message you
could bring him would be some
soft violin andnflute music.
But somehow, in the develop-
ment of radio farm ,programs,
we have come up with this no-
tion that a farmer listens only
around six a.m.; and he has no
interests except the clank of
tractor commercials and the sta-
tistical renditions of government
reports.
Music, interspersed in these
programs, is either ear-splitting
performances of Semper Fidelis
by a full band, or a predomin-
antly alto hill-billy number like
Coming Round the Mountain.
All conversational offerings are
done by a refugee from the de-
clamation classes, ' '
The other morning another
bull-Voiced despoiler of diction
gave a speech on impending leg-
islation designed to ,protect the
farmer from nonfarm 'encroach-
ments-such as having a non-
access highway bisect your acres
and leave you forty miles from
the lush meadow you can see
across the street. This was a
message deserving every art of:
the trained speaker, and should
- have been heard by everybody
else, least of all the farmer. He
knows, but his salvation wilt
come from the thoughtful rem-
edy provided by nonfarm peo-
ple who are now, unthinkingly,
allowing such absurdities to hap-
pen. So it is.t
I'd take "Triyjnert'able radio up
. in thelyo8de, geithe enp, f or 'ill' ig
afterhogn music cut afitt
ber, "if -there was - anything:,to
Bear besides' hock and roll. and e
,'the .soupy .1-efouthings7 of *the* boy
wonders who like it. Timber ! !
e..e.eBy John Gould., in The Chris.-
eetia an ;Science Monitor,
The following, analysis of ,the
1957 livestock ,market has been
prepared by the Markets Infor-
mation Section, Department of ,
Agriculture, Ottawa. It is pre-
liminary, to the more detailed
Livestock Market Review which
is released later in the year.
Marketing: The output of cat-
tle to public stockyards, shipped
direct to pack Plants and direct,
on export in 1957 totalled 2,570,-
891, an increase of 12.6 per cent;
calves at 1,013,985, up 4.6 per
.cent; hogs 5,401,197, decrease
9.4 per cent; sheep and lambs
598,979, down 1.6 per cent.
* • •
Quality: The average dressed
weight of beef' carcasses slaugh-
tered in inspected plants was
505.6 lb. for the year, nearly
eleven pounds more than a year
earlier and the heaviest since
1952. Gocd pastures and plenti-
ful feed were evident in the
heavier weights and better fin-
ish. of , the cattle marketed. The
percentage of Grade A and B
carcasses in the total slaughtered
was 38.5 compared with 37.1 in
-1956. Slight improvement in hog
quality for the third successive
year showed grade A as' 28.7 per
cent 'of marketings, the ' best
since 1951, and grade B1 41.7
per cent. a e
Prices: Livestock averaged
higher in price in all depart-
ments than a year earlier. The
course of cattle prices was down-
ward through January-Febru-
ary. 'At mid-March the market
strengthened and through the
April-August period good steers,
Toronto, stayed, between $19 and
$20. The U.S niarket .Moved up,
during thls period 'and
neslatighter..‘mattle .'commenced to
,move.: southward;, in. ;May,' fol-
„lowed ateenici-Atigust by a heavy
'movement ",ofd feeders. Good
slaughter steers dropped to $17-
'$18" brackets -in.October-Novem-
eber ., when 'marketings were at
,peak levels,• but were upward
bound *during ,. December and
finished the, year near $20. seen
"'Coinpetitibn- from U.S. buyers
'kept leeeltere cattle "at' aterueually
strong levels during Abe fall
period of 'heavy marketifigs and
these kinds-sold 600 cwt, higher
than in the previous year, good
steers averaging 06,75 for all
markets. The improvement in
, stock calf prices was even more
pronounced with the; year's av-
erage at $17.15, up ; $1.65. ,The
average of all cattle at eleven
markets was up 40'e at $14.65
cwt. The all Markets' average
for the nine per cent smaller
hog output was $29.70 for grade
A, an increase, of $4.50, cwt, Good
lambs averaged $20.10, up 25e.
Foreign. Trade: Cattle exports
in 1957 were the heaviest since -
1950 and fifth largest on record,
Beef cattle shipments to the
11,8, at 278,770 conipared with
only 1,800 in 1956. Over 49 Mil-.
lion pounds, of beet were ex-'
petted to alit countries making
a total of live :and dressed .ex-
poets 'equiVeient to about 371,000
cattle. Calf ekport. were
creased to 11,823 frhiii 4,490 0%
year earlier, Thiporte in. 1651 in-
eluded 4,441 tattle froin the TI,S,
and nearly' 10' million' lb, of
fresh end frozen beef, a total' of
42,000 head in ternie, of live tat-
tle, 2Xpetts of dairy and pure-
bred tattle at 37,693 bead Were
deft Irene 45,346 in!1956, Sheep
and lambs moved south during
the fall to a total of 17,138, and
the' equivalent of nearly 11,000
Iaiiilis Were shipped -as dressed
product. Seine 28,500 live sheets
and)airitia 't,Ver'd hilt:101'10d f:•otii
the U.S.4 and dressed product
equivalent to 244,620 live lambs
was brought infrorn all own-
trice. Exports of fresh and cured
Poek declined to, 36 millibn "
pounds in 1957, from 62 million
pounds a year earlier.
Feeders: Feeder cattle went
onto Canadian pastures in in-
creasing numbers until the end
of July when the increase over
1956 was 25 per cent. From
August onward U.S. demand
drained off over 200,000 head
and at the year-end 13 per cent
fewer cattle had been shipped
off stockyards to country points,
the total being 299,596. a I •
Meat Supply: Domestic disap-
pearance of meats from com-
mercial slaughterings was little
changed in total. Beef increased
6 per dent, veal 5 per cent, mut-
ton and lamb 6 per cent and
pork decreased 8 per cent. All
classes at 1,781 million pounds
was less than one per cent
above 1956. *
Values: Commercial livestock
marketings in 1957 showed an
increase in total value of 13 per
cent over 1956, aggregating $655
million. Per head values 1957
(1956 in brackets).: Cattle $135
($129), calves $45 ($41), hogs
$47 ($39.25), sheep $16 ($15.50).
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The condition of peaches and
of containers in rail transit from
the Niagara and southwestern
Ontario peach growing areas to
markets east of Montreal and
west of Sudbury, and the air car
temperatures in transit; were the
objects of a study in _1956 and
1957 by the Transportation Stor-
age and Retail Section and the
Fruit and Vegetable Division of ,
the Canada Department of Agri-
culture in co-operation with the
Canadian railroads.
A total, of 40 carloads of
peaches were examined at the
time of loading and unloading,
Thermographs were used to ob-
tain temperatures during the
loading, transit and unloading
peArliord
,temPeratUk res *within the
refrigerated cars before loading
averaged 45 4.elegreeke at • the eton,
and 44 degfeeS etheleottorri. An
average of 7,700 ponnds of ice
and 662 pounds of salt were used
in the; initial icing and .stanchu.d
re-icing instructions were follow-
ed en route, he peacliee ('Wele ,‘
pre-cooled to art averak tem-
perature of 45 degrees before
loading. 4. e e
The carlots of peaches examine
ed had all been slip Sed a nen
siderable distance~ ;Twenty w-
hets shipped to points in Quebec
province required an average eof
37 hours in ettAnsit. For these,
the 'average temperature Of trier
peaches decreased three degrees
during transit. Thirteen carlots
evert shipped to the Maritime'
prvoinces in an average transit
tithe of 61 'hours. there was ece
difference for these carlots in
the loading and arrival ternpera-
turc of the peaches.
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ThlAY:six‘Cittlie 40 Caricieds
the good, condk
tion. Three Were infected with
brfgen,,reit, ..and lien remaining
eAflelt 'Wad slightly damaged' by
the shifting, of the .„coptainerS
trafigit.°
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. The time taken by loading and'
unloaditieduring, the Shipitient,
of peaches is considerable,. In
this study, the loading took freni
IWO to six botirs for Most Of the
carloads, and unloading reqUited
from eight to 48 hours or longer,
Did DDT Do It?
In the East Coast's Long Island
Sound, a more curious relation-
ship exists between the fiddler
crab, the mollusk-loving starfish,
and the succulent oyster. The
crabs feed on the starfish eggs,
keeping the starfish population
down and so saving the oyster
for eating. •
For ten yeareehowever, the oy-
ster population has been decreas-
ing. Recently,' it suffered an un-
usually sharp drop. The culprit,
charged a group of Long Island
residents in a New York Federal
court, may well be the Depart-
ment of Agriculture which
sprayed nearly a million pounds
of DDT over the area in an at-
tempt to wipe out the leaf-
chewing gypsy moth.
By doing this, the plaintiff
charged the UCDA had killed
millions of crabs, thus allowing
the starfish to multiply and kill
off the oysters.
The angry landowners were
led into court by Dr. Robert
Cushman' Murphy, curator eme-
ritus of the. American Museum
of Natural. History. They, asked
the court to decide if the gov-
ernment can be permanently en;
joined' rom spraying insecticides
on private property.
The crops were only a small
part of Dr. Murphy's ease,. In
support of his cause, he cited
additional alarming evidence:
Birds keeled over or wandered
around with DDT "palpitations."
Honey-bees and ladybugs sue.
cumbed. A crop of thorough ty
soaked peas was analyzed and
The heaviest fall of snow in
Washington in 22 ,years - 14
inches--brought out the men
with shovels to clear the steps
of the Capitol and adjacent
buildings, left, A mammoth
storm crippled the East Coast
from Maine to the Carolinas
but the scene below was an ex-
ception ,Mn the cold, sunny Mid-
west. Helen LaCuke wields a
small broom against an Impres-
sive pile, of the white stuff cov-
ering a car in front of her
Michigan City, Ind., home. A
freak storm, dumping four feet
of snow on an area less than
20 miles square on the south-
east shore of Lake Michigan,
threw the citj, of 30,000 into a
state of emergency. Chicago
as well as surrounding towns
sent help to the stricken city.
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