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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-04-30, Page 7Little Luck With. Prize Contests one Of our neighbors has bad much fun, and some profit as a semiprofessional contestant, her starnings being expressed in washing machines, trips to places, some cash, and no little Mount of fame, She says there's trick to „it-and no doubt there ;s, for my two attempts wen me u)thing, just had a little fun, that's all. My specialty is soap, One day I came into the shdp to straighten a nail, and as, the shop radio is on the light switch I was presently aware of the opportunity of a lifetime, If I would send my name and address to the Hollywood box number, inclosing 25 cents and the wrap- per off, whatever kind of soap I was using, I would receive- elesoletely free-a lovely writ- ing pen which would perform under water, even on glass, for long years to come. Since I'd been spending 29 cents for pens which wouldn't even write on paper, this sounded like a sure- fire deal, and I responded. No doubt the advertising fra- ternity was doing research on soap habits, and planned to tabu- late the accumulated response with mercenary int e n t i o n s, counting on the American Pub- lic to contribute the expenses as well as the information. That was all right with me. I stuck a quarter on a piece of cardboard with some carpenter's glue, wrote my specifications, and in- closed the wrapper off a can of McGruder & Frye's noncaustic fish oil soap. I happen to use that kind of soap, even if no- body else does. Well, long years ago the pogy, known to fish biologists as the menhaden, abounded off the coast of Maine and was a great economic resource. The pogy is e buttonhole herring, but too oily end unpalatable for food, and riot exactly a game fish. In those days great greasy boats put out Into the Gulf of Maine and netted these pogies by the hundreds of thousands of barrels and pro- cessed them for a great variety of civilian uses. They made a lot of fertilizer, mink foOd, this And that, and they extracted oil. You could stand on the beach and- see the smoke from the rendering, great clouds of black smudge on the horizon. Each boat would be surround- ed by an oil slick for miles, and It stench you could lean against end hack pieces out of. Occa- sionally the warmer southerlies Would waft some portions of this flavor ashore and Yankees would wish they wore in Iowa, Some,. limes, when weather set in, these pogy boats would seek haven in Some cove, and it was almost impossible to hoop their location a secret. People uP on Ithe bank would get wind of it. But pogies were money, and until modern industrial chemistry took over they served their purposes, - A great deal of the pogy oil was. used in paints, The oil had a permanency and a great power of penetration which impregnat- ed wood and preserved it 'for generations yet unborn, The oil would not dry, however, while a man stood around to see, and this le why Yankee's squat on their beels during a conversa. tier), instead of *sitting on a door-. step or leaning against a shed, Then some of the oil would be put in soap. This wasn't much of a soap by presept standards, but it was fairly good for its time-when most families came by soap via their own leach- boards and long work. Fish oil soap came in cans-not in bars, flakes, or powder-and was used for industrial purposes more than personal ablutions where human skin was a factor. There was a • maritime suggestion whenever you pried off a cover. So when the Farquar General Store bankrupted about.25 years ago I made them a small offer and received two cases of Mc- Gruder & Frye's product. They were glad to get any offer. •, The soap had no doubt been in in- ventory since about 1830. I use the stuff as a spreader and stick- er for fungicides in the orchard. True, modern chemicals for this purpose are available, but I won't need any for about 400 more years. I scoop out a gob, dissolve it in a pail of hot water ,and pour it in the tank along with the nostrums recommended by the Extension Service. It works very well, although it makes my or- chard smell like a clam flat and attracts an • occasional seagull who flies about in a bewildered condition and screams with an alien off-shore doubt. I never got my pen. Some- where in Hollywood is a rascally advertising statistician who owns a quarter with glue on the mint mark and has never fulfilled' the obligation of our agreement. The only satisfaction I have derived from this comes from my own imagniings - I do smile when- ever I suppose how they looked when they found the McGruder & Frye label, I presume they absconded with my money to teach me not to be fresh at a serious time, Then, more or less the same thing happened when they changed a soap powder from white to pink. The new pink powder had many advantages, they said, and the person who best described them in 25 words or less would receive a hand, some sports car. I want a sports car to take. egg crates to the wholesaler, so I quickly enter- ed this contest. I use this par- ticular soap powder aft a spread- er and sticker for nicotine- sulphate on my roses and door- yard pretties, and while the old white powder was all right, the new pink has a wonderful scent and I am delighted, Anybody who has ever sprayed nicotine-sulphate by d kitchen window will know why the scent is admired. My dooryard reeks of aromatics and joy, instead of nicotine-sulphate. Wheel I spray, the. Sweet William is sweeter and the rose improve. 'I was able to get my, happiness about this soap into 25 words • But alas! The soap company never- sent me a sports car. I didn't even get one of the 2,500 other valuable awards. I had to When Fireflies Think Out Loud Otte dark evening just before starting for the country, I looked from, a tenth-floor window at swarms of people milling around the corner of Lexington and :Forty-second ,Street ›,..W,Ius struck by their likeness- fit) Sects and even felt a little dia... dain for their intensity and the way they were rushing about, The swarms headed for trains or theaters were made all the More eerie and ridiculous by be- ing caught in the orange flashes of neon signs, while buses moved in their midst like giant, lumin- ous-eyed beetles, Three hours after saw the people-insects at Lexington and Forty-second, l saw some other night insects that didn't resem- ble people at all. I turned into a dirt road, passed ft bank of hemlocks that looked like a deep forest in the flow from the head- lights, crossed a stone bridge over a brook, and stopped at a clearing among tall oaks and lindens, When I switched off the engine and lights, at first it was blinding black, scary quiet, and lonely. It takes about twenty minutes, for the eyes to become dark-conditioned and for the feelings to get used to not wear- ing, the protective clothing of noises and lights. So you have to wait a little for the other world to come through. , When it does, the night &stilled with magic. Small sounds filter through the stillness - the tin- kle of the brook, the distant bark of a dog, the musical notes of a restless wren, the whir of a June bug, the strident scrape of a cricket. Eyes begin to see the wa- seen. Stars pierce the sky; then suddenly over the garden, you see the black air traced with liv- ing sparks! g$4.0 slowly and smoothly, buoyantly up, down, ,and around. ,.pocassionaily an ardent lover makes horizontal run, letting go with ,extra,larigbt triple tiashe? At faster intervals, ,-- From 'The River .:+1 Life," by Rutherford Platt, ifir SON LESSON By BeV 11, Barclay Warren IRA, LW, - The Church and. World Evangelism Matthew 28:1$-20; Acts 13:1-3; Rornans 1:14-18, The :martyrdom of Ave Amer- ican Missionaries in the gcuador jungle two years ego focussed ,the attention of the world Oa missions in a very vivid man- ner, The bravery and devotion of the young wideWS in carry ling on at their posts continues to stab the conscience of a world, spiritually sleepy, in the pursuit of fleeting pleasures add the, things that money can buy. Why do people risk their lives to take the Gospel of Jesus 'Christ to those who haven't heard? Is it worth-while? These young peo- ple, and thousands of other men and women like them, have gone forth in response to the Divine Imperative as expressed in the memory selection for today's lesson; "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing thug in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy, Ghost." (Matthew 28:19.) We all have a definite respon- sibility in sending out the Good News, All must pray and pay. Some are clearly and distinctly called of God to go in person. to those who sit in heathen darkness. At Antioch as certain, prophets and teachers minis- tered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, "Separa me Barnabas and Saul for t I work whereunto I have call them." And when they h fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. Saul became the great* missionary. He bore the glad tidings to Cyprus, through Asia Minor, into Macedonia and Greece and finally to Rome, the capital of the Empire. From there, others took the message into Central Europe and ac the channel to the tiny island Britain. Our forefathers hear the Message because other* obeyed' the command of. Jesus to preach the Gospel to all nations. Haven't other tribes and nation" the right to hear it, too? Church members who have no interest In n'llsW"' MO. 0 be, mire . . . eei themselves: '.)'hen di eY ivll want to send the 'Message arotuut the world: "0 taste and see that the 1.4111) is good." (Psalm 341 8,) CoMirittillitS by their zeta shame many Christians. We ceft•-• tainly need a great spiritual awakening. Let there be more emphasis on Missions and we won't need so much ado about missiles. 00 at he od ad 1) a e, or d- pe ed ee Hs, ys am er ce ipt •ns xis ole er- nd on W11 ou ora put it e a ow fish oes ar ets, vith am. adt eat Iced ipes oks, ned his ems and The nust here ight •ush hors tIE $1101.1141) HAvoigm) IT A hook thief, arrested by the police in a West Berlin depart- mental store while hiding in a, cellar, WAS 10)1.114 to have In is possession a book entitled "The cause and prevention of crime," Itch That Bites When employes itch, they scratch-and in the process they cost U.S, industry an estimated $100 million a year. So reported Dr. Harry R. Foerster, derma- tologist of Marquette University, at last week's annual Congress on Industrial Health in Mil- waukee, Industrial dermatitis, ranging from falling hair and simple rashes to clusters of boils that are slow to heal, may be caused by any chemical compound that the worker handles, from metal- lic salts to fat solvents, But with today's constant changes in in- dustrial techniques, company skin specialists must keep a constant watch for new, obscure occupational irritants, warned Dr. Donald J. Birmingham, chief dermatologist of the U.S. Public Health Service at Gin- cinatti. Plastic and fiber-glass materials can cause severe skin problems, he said. One of the most unusual new skin irritants, he reported, is butyraldoxime, a printing-ink chemical. Exposure to this compound causes print- ers to break out in a rash after they drink alcohol, The most reliable preventive measures, according to derma- tologist James 0. Jordan of Buf- falo, N.Y., are: Air conditioning, to get rid of dust to which some Workers are sensitive; protective clothing (such as heavy aprons, helmets, and gloves that fit into detachable sleeves), and showers before leaving work, From Newsweek. C r, WHAT'LL. YOU HAVE?-"Bosst, one of eight head of cattle that broke outs of a truck delivering them to the stockyards, acted like she knew her way around the city. She headed straight for a nearby tavern but was captured before being' able to sample any of its products. 1 4 4 4 I 4 4 h. I a These are not yellow, and red and swirling like sparks from a fire; these are separate white sparks moving deliberately In- dependent of each other, flash- ing on and off. Some are close to the ground, some thirty or forty' feet up, but most are around ten feet above the ground. Their tiny white flashes do not dispel the darkness but they fill it. You can count a hun- dred in a minute. They catch your attention, ease your feeling of joneliness;, they ar,e reassure ng. They are not violent and noisy like riveting and honking; they are gay and .free and gentle. When saw 'so many fireflies over my garden I thought if fire- flies existed only at this one .place on earth, how they would excite and mystify the world and make sensational headlines, counted the seconds between flashes over and over aqin and followed individual sparks as far as I could see them.... A flashing firefly is thinking out loud, and since this is a mat- ter of personal feelings the flashes are very irregular. Many give a single flash at four- or five-second intervals indefinitely repeated and then go dark. They About 10 years ago cattle breeders first began to develop an interest in the preservation Of meadow crops, as silage rather than hay. At that time it seemed a logical solution to the problem. of prc .:ring high quality rough- age for winter feeding under the adverse weather conditions which often plagued the haying season. w. The •swing to grass silage gain- ed Impetus when experiments conducted by the federal depart- ment of agriculture proved that grass preserved in this fashion cOuld, satisfactorily replace, even. the best quality hay, These ex- periments showed grass silage to be relatively rich ,in protein, calcium and carotene. While somewhat lower in digestible nu- ,_ trients and net energy than hay, it Was slightly higher in protein, * * * Two recent developments have further encouraged farmers to use this type of feed for both dairy and beef cattle. One was the invention of harVesting ma- chinery which, grealty reduced the labor of handling green grass; the other - the horizon- , tal silo which made possible self- feeding of silage. Studies at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa indicate that self-feeding of silage may reduce labor by as much as 175 per cent. There are still problems to be solved before horizontal silos can be considered completely satis- factory. One of these problems is to find a covering material which will prevent spoilage from exposure of the silage to the air, a layer of fresh, unchopped grass. These temorary covers were removed one month later and replaced by neoprene-coated nylon with cemented seams/The edges of the covers were weight- ed with railway ties, and the central portion 'with a two-to- three inch layer of sawdust, / Top spoilage losses observed in ,--thi& test showed, that the neo- prene-coated nylon reduced the loSaes of the previous year to t*o.T.pOunds per square foot from aniiiVeege of 6.7 pounds. I I 1 I I Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking PETER---ITIFE s 111314111111FIE NE© PINIIIIMEME • MO COM; C, ere" •.-4. • "* * TlieAgated-nYlon covers WOr1i:". used Wolusively in 1056, weight- • ed in the same manner. Forage of chopped first-cutting orchard grass was harvested in May and the silos opened for feeding in Deceneber. Almost 90 per cent of the silage was found suitable for feeding." Total .spoilage was re- duced to four-tenths of a pound per square foot of top surface - as compared with six to seven pounds in the first tests with un- • supported plastic covers. As a result of these tests, coat- ed nylon may soon be playing an important role on many Cana-, dian farms and ranches., It is made of 100 per cent nylon fabric coated with neoprene rub- ber.•A tarpaulin made of coated nylon is weather-resistant, light in weight and can be handled easily, When used to cover a horizontal silo it will not stick or freeze to the ensilage, and can be easily manipulated by one man to allow self-feeding ,of cattle. To date the agricultural appli- cations of coated nylon have been limited to portable light- weight storehouses for grain. These recent developments sug- gest its potential value to farmers.. 9 n N H 440 I d 1 1 0 H S3 S 3 V N N 14 3 3 3 0 3 A "I V 3 0 V a A NI 3 a O H N a V N 0 a Cl N V V 9 f. 3113 3 d 3 S 3 S d V a obtained by sprinkling a heap- ing teaspoonful of the powder along the back of the animal, The powder should then be evenly distributed from the poll s down along the neck and with- ers, and over the back, rump and upper flanks. It must be carefully worked by hand through the animal's rough shag- gy winter-coat until it reaches the skin. Special attention should be given to the folds on the sides of the animals neck, the inner surface of the legs, ears, the bases of the horns, the tail and other parts of the body where lice are likely to be hid- den. Several applications, spaced at two to three-week intervals,. may be necessary to keep infes- tation in check. ,:eeeeeeee. eeeekeeeree. eees • .* * Tests conducted by the United States department of agriculture may have solved this problem. Two neoprene-coated nylon cov- ers were tested for two seasons. Not only did they reduce spoil- age to, an almost negligible amount but they proved to be durable and,less subject to acci- dental damage from handling than other materials. * * * The two silos used in the tests were 14 feet wide, eight feet high, and d6 feet long, Their sides Were made of matched lumber, lined with rolled as- phalt roefing, and their floors of cOncrete.,. They were located on well drained sites. In 1954 both silos were filled With second-cutting grass and clover. The contents of on'e silo had been put through a forage ehoppet, The other was filled with unchopped forage,, In both cases 'the silage was packed in with tractors during the filling, Covers' of unsupported plastic Material, joined With tape, Were applied and weighted at the edges with iron pipe, The tops Were covered With sawdust. Al- though the taped seams appeared airtight,• a differential in elasti- city of the cover and the 'tape caused puckering and allowed air to enter. Sbt to Seven pounds of spoiled dry triatter.per Square feet Of silage proved this sealing techniqtte to be unsatisfactory. * * In 1055,- u chop ea and Clotted first-cutting gitS6 was again stored in the t' o' silos. Tha covering Materiel Originally Warmed was net available, so temporary kralt paper covers Were lapped and weighted With' .• a ing i ng the •ny the Ick- i c ots red A BIT OF FARM HISTORY-This scale model of a farm threshing machine is the result of more than a thousand hours of loving labor by farmer Adolph Doelling. Each part was handmade in his rural blacksmith shop. The model develops three horse- power on the flywheel and is self-propelled, fired by coal, Doelling said he built if so that today's youngsters could see type of machine their grandfathers use. * Canadian cattlemen have dis- covered that even when their animals are housed in clean, dry surroundings they can become infested with lice. When hat checked immediately, these little insects, the biggest is not more than one-eighth inch long, can prevent normal growth in young animals, and reduce milk and meat production in mature cat- tle. Some badly infested animals may beceine so unthrifty that extreme depression, anaemia and even death niey result. * On most farms and ranches chemical insecticides have made possible r egul at prevehiatiye control programs, The cattle ere inspected and sprayed in the rpring, before they are let out to pasture Or range, and again in the fall before they are Oh- fined in feed lots or barns. Since complete coverege le necessary; each animal is thorottghly soak- ed by a high-pressure spray. Special attention is given all pro- tected Places where lice are like• ly t3'edrigregate. If lice infestation occurs dur. trig the winter months when temperatures prevent outdoor spraying, central becomes More difficult. Even hand Washing Will net be practical unless a Warni work area IS available, Many tattler's have SolVed thli problem by hand dusting With a 50 methottychlar insecticide Which is noit-tOkie to both )iii-' Merle Sad ateniele. * Lite control can be ageotivaly HER FAVORITE - Licking her chops, suzy, a 4-year-old Siam- ese cat, comes up for air while putting away her favorite food -corn on the cob. The feline Is a real sour-puss when milk Is put in front of her but the corn is just purr-feet. console myself with merely my mind's eye supposal of how they looked when they read ray entry, I do hope there was a light chuckle, at least. - By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor, SeeeSeeeeeLseee:: 10. Small body. 18'. Thirkdy CROSSWORD 11. whirlpool 3. Cringes of water .0. Chop PUZZLE 13. Of an ancient 4, sea i.c heA race • 6. HeaVy cotton 20, Plaid efoth cloth 21. Tropical fruli ;7; Rational 2. Satiate 22. Dee0.71bfe 8.,Decorate 4. Sooner than 28. RernarIc (alt.) 9.,,Gtelc ,, 6. 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