HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-10-15, Page 7GREW OLD TOGETHER - A couple of old-timers get together.
Hattie Higgins, 75, holds a 100-year-old wheat cradle. The
crude but graceful implement was common on farms a cen-
tury
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ago, before wheat was harvested by combines.
TINFARM FRONT
kaussat,
are shipped all over the United
States and Canada and South
America. They travel in the
farms' own trucks, by parcel
post, railway express, and air
express. In addition to the 400-
acre pedigree breeding farm at
Duluth, Mr. Vantress also has a
3,000-acre mountain farm at Jas-
per, Ga., and distributing plants.
in the Northeast, Midwest arrit
on the West Coast.
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Mr. Vantress himself is still IC'
relatively young man and began
his pedigree testing program in
Liye Oak,' CalifQ,rnia, in 1939.-4
little over three years ago he
moved his operations to Georgia
because he felt that this section'
offered the opportunity of doing
the best breeding job possible
and also bedause Atlanta is the
hub of the broiler belt.
At Duluth, a continuous pedi-
gree pure line testing program
and pedigree cross-testing pro-
, gram are being 'carried out, and
results have been heartening.
Vantress entries won both of the
National Chicicen-of-Tomorrow
contests and have taken numer-
ous other honors. The farms
specialize 100 per cent, on male-
line breeding.
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As a result of •the breeding
program, coupled with the per-
fection of better feeds and ini
proved feeding practices, the
Vantress farms are now produc
ing birds with better conforrna-'
tion„a larger 'ratio of meat to,
the bone frame, a better eviscer-
ated yield, and a -faster rate of
„growth on less feed.
If all the sack dresses in the
world were laid end to end they
would reach half way across the
ocean-and lots- of men think
this would be a good idea.
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Rural Happenings
'Way Down. East
There seem to be several things
that deserve mention.
We dccided to take Sunday
afternoon off and got away from
the place for a change, intending
to drive out and see how the
potato fields looked, and when
We got home there were seven
notes in the back door starting,
"Don't you ever stay home ?"
Another thing that happened
proves that time is a purely re-
lative thing. I hadn't seen. Phil
•Craig since 1924, when he and.
I were expert shovelers in the
Freeport Gravel Pit. We got $18
a week for filling blue tiPearts
with gravel, and Road Commis-
sioner E. H, T. Mahn was building
about 75 miles of road for around
a thousand dollars. The E, stood
they said, for and maybe
•the H. T. stood for happy times,
because they were,
Phil and I would shovel like
mad until the gravel began drip-
ping off the top of the load and
the teamsters would haul out,
Then we'd sit on our shovel
blades and rest while another
team backed in. This was guod
exercise and we slept and ate
well. We'd discuss local politics
and dances ' at Sylvester's Pa-
vilion and the weather, and thus
put in a fine summer, I hadn't
:seen him since,
But I parked the automobile
the other day in a duly accredi-
ted spot,, and as I stepped out
there was Phil Craig going by,
looking not greatly unlike the
.same companion of the pit. He
lifted his head as he passed and
without hesitation said:
"Hello, 'John!"
"Hello, Phil," I replied.
Then he continued to walk on
into the next 34 years, no doubt
feeling he had said about all
there was to say, and so he had.
That same trip, somebody was
telling about the time Whisp'irin'
Stetson had a telephone put in,
Whisp'irin' was a victim of that
down,East sense of the ridicu-
lous which also leads to bald-
headed men being called Curly,
and things like that. His normal
speaking voice was a blatant
blast that outdid Stentor, the
bulls of Bashan, and the bass sec-
fn'
•
ZONING UP -- A girl who ob-
*lfiously ha's a bone to pick with
someone is Maureen Smith,
pictured as she waits in line
-for a bus in London, England.
'The skeleton, an amateur the-
Aatrical prop, probably proved
>invaluable in getting her a seat.
Urn Of a combined intercollegi-
ate glee club, When he said how-
do Ito some passing lady, it would
set her right back a.about 'three
paces. You could hear him all
ov.,,r town.
So somebody saw the tele-
phone man up on a ladder at
Whisp'irin's house and said.
"What do you need a 'phone for
-all you gotta do is open a win-
dow and tails!"
Whisp'irin' said, "Yeah, but
sometimes I like an answer"
We had another fellow, speak-
ing of Whisp'irin', who was mild
and moderate and never could
be heard unless you 'whated him,
and. they always called him
Howlin' Gunderson.
One thing puts 3:ou in mind
of another, so somebody asked
whatever became of Sim Greem.
Sim was an in-and-outer, mov-
ing around the villages doing
odd jr.ts, and once in a while
putting on a little, show he had,
His specialty was fire-eating,
During his act he always smear-
ed gasoline on his face and
shaved with a blowtorch. This
was most spectacular, On one
occasion he had one side all
shaved and was about to do the
other When Minnlebrook Hall
caught fire. This was the social
site at Porter's Landing which
Sim had engaged for three dol-
lars for a one-night performance.
They put out Sim and the fire
in that order, and nobody has
seen him since.
Sim always talked with a rich
flow of multilegged words, and
that brought to mind Sassafras-
Joe Minto, who was our best dis-
courser. He was supposed to have
swallowed the unabridged as a
boy. Joe was of uncertain origin
(which was not unusual in that
era of Maine seafarers who
touched all the front verandahs
of the distant world) and had a
little salt-water farm on which
he raised various things. He'd
come one day with shucked
clams or spike mackerel, and the
next time he might have cucum-
bers or blueberries. And his flair
for articulation made it a treat
to stand and haggle.
Ray Dyer was one of his regu-
lar customers for eggs, and one
day Ray lit into him for bring-
ing such small ones, It was pullet
time and Joe was working off
his' peewees. After Ray had ex-
hausted his contumely, Joe took
a deep breath and said:
"I would respectfully request
you to comprehend, Mr. Dyer,
that these ovoid integers of poul-
try production are • transported
to you in the identical measure-
ments originally projected by the
'manufacturing specialists in my
employ!"
Ray .swayed .a little„ and said,
"What?"
• 'Joe said, "I say, this is how the .
hens lay 'em!"
-I' also heard about Marshy
,,who .,,cranked up his
old Madel T the Other morning
and started to town. He came
off the little dirt road out past
his place, onto the hard-top, and
got there jtssras a motorcade, by
an antique-car club was going
by .on its way to an outing:.
Marshy drove right into line,
and when he got to the village
there was a special motor-police-
man there to convoy the antique
cars, and he waved Marshy right
along with the rest of their.
Every time Marshy tried to tura
off the policeman motioned him
back into line, so Marshy kept
on, going and went away over to
Small Point where they had an
exhibition, and Marshy won third
prize. .
• This is the first time' he ever
won anything, except for dry
beans at Topsham Fair, and he
was pleased, although when he
got home his sister atked him
some lively questions ~ about
where he'd been. Marshy's is a
1911 Model T; he bought it new
at that time; and he didn't know
about antique cars. And so
By John Gould in The Christian
Science Monitor.
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As an example, 15 years ago
16 weeks and 15. pounds of feed
were needed to produce a three-
pound broiler. Presently in
Georgia three-pound broilers are
turned out'iris eight or nine
weekt on about seven and one-
half pounds of feed. Some pro-
ducers achieve better than that
average.
Dr. C. K. Laurent, formerly
head of the poultry department
of the Georgia College 'of Agri-
culture at the .University of
Georgia, where much of the
poultry research in Georgia is
conducted, forecasts that within
the next five years a scant six
weeks and, only six pounds of
feed will be needed to produce
a three-pound broiler.
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Charles Vantress, who con-
ducts a tremendous independent
broiler breeding research, pro-
gram at the Chas. Vantress'
Farms, Inc., sees it a little' dif-
ferently. He believes a three-
pound chicken will be produced'
soon in seven weeks on about
1.75 pounds of feed per, pound of
meat-a total of 5.25 pounds of
feed for the three-pound bird.
* *
What this should mean to the
housewife is easy to 'see-better
poultry at lower cost. Georgia
Poultry experts claim that chick-
en has long been the best buy in
meat available, and they forecast
that •the day lieS ahead when
per capita consumption of poul-
try will exceed that of pork,
which is currently 60 pont& or
more per year.
An estimated 25,000 persons
are currently employed in the
various segments of the Georgia
poultry industry which now
benefits more fanners and their
families than any other single
commoditythe state.
* •
Funds to out pOilltry
research in Georgia are preVided
by feed manufacturers and deal,
era, tnatitafacttiters of teed sup-
plenienta and tuppliet, and in-'
dependent breeders, sUpPleinerit=,
ed by some state and federal
.governmentitinds for university
research:.
In his huge Operation, With
headquarters in. Duluth, Gas,
Charlet Vantress and his genres
Of researchers have des
yeloped a new variety Of .broiler;;
IcifeWii at the 'VeritresS
,ant White Male Line; esPeciallY
crossbreeding for Meat,' finds
incredibl e 'AS it May Seetii, hit
• Males Will Sire more than 1,500,-,
000,000 "VatitteSS CrOSS" chicks
id the Next .12 month's.
3/1afet Lek crossbreeding stock,
The Mighty Voice
Of. Big Ben
When. Rig Ben struck three
o'clock in the afternoon, we all
jumped--and my ears rang for
some moments afterwards, You
see, I was standing within six
feet of that monstrous bell in
the tower high over the House
of
W
Commons,
cial party of watch
and clockmakers,. I had plodded
up the Spiral staircase of 290
steps from the Parliament
Square ground level to the clock
room, where the mechanism
that runs perhaps the most
famous elock.in the world is
housed,
We were there at a quarter
to three, when the eight quar-
ter bells chimed , the quarter
hour, right on the dot. The ac-
tual chiming was far above us,
but we could see what made it
go, Pulleys pulled, wheels spun,
Fans whirred around. Rocker
arms .went hp and down. There
was an impressive noise quite
apart from the bell,
We already had traversed the
narrow passage behind° t h e
clock's four faces. Each dial is
nearly 24 feet in diameter. The
numbers on the face are each
two feet long, The minute spaces
are a foot square. The hour
hands'are nine feet long, and
the minute hands 14 feet long.
After mounting another 44
steps, we entered the belfry
chamber and were in the pre-
sence of Big Ben itself. I mean
herself. Or maybe himself. That
requires some explaining. Big.
Ben is the big bell, not the
clock. And big bells, it seems,
like ships, always are referred
to as. "she" in the bell-world.
This she-bell, however, has al-
ways been known by a mascu-
line nickname, writes Henry S.
Hayward in The. Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
Some wanted to call her "Vic-
toria." Others advocated "St.
Stephen." One of the latter
Was Commissioner of Works Sir
Benjamin Hall, a large man
himself, who in 1857 made an
ardent speech in the Commons
about the new clock. Cried a
member: "Why not call it 'Big
Ben' and haVe done with it?"
And that was how the name
came about. She's a him. -
But to get back to the big
bell that makes one of the most
.ramous sounds in the world. Big
i's about 14 tons. Tbe first'
,saversion was cast at Atockton-
-iin:Tees, and the ship.tliat car-
:zztied it to London nearry:.,;fouri-
ered` in a storm. This bell
'didn't "speak" properly, and the
experts of the day kept testing
it with heavier and heavier
clappers until the bell broke.
It was recast; to the surprise
of many it hit the •intended note
of "E" and was hauled back to
Parliament by 16 white horses.
Again, they hit it too hard;
again it tacked. But they turn-
ed it an eighth and patched it
up-and that bell still is per-
forming today.
The quarter bells are set to
the following lines:
"All through this hour,
Lord, be my guide,
And by Thy power,
No fOot shall slide."
Big Ben then booms to under=
score the message.
Only a handful of times, in
more than 100 , years has, Big
Ben stopped. Once driving snow
halted the hands,. But the first
part of the Clodk mechanism to
be renewed since 1859,' a 'new
pendulum , spring,. 'Was not re-
quired until 1944,
During World•War. II Big Ben
had a' close call. On May 10,
1941, the chamber of the House
of"Corrimon.s below was destroy-
ed 'by- bombing. The". clock's
south• dial was smashed and .,the
belfry damaged,. But, through-
out the bombing .of London Big
Ben's voice broadcast as usual
its message of lope and inspira-
tion to the British at home and
abroad, It told the world this
capital was calmly carrying on.
.From the outset, accuracy has
been demanded of Big Ben. The
original ,specification called for
the first stroke of each hour to
be correct to within one second
-and for the clock to telegraph
Its correct time twice a day to
Greenwich Observatory,
They said it couldn't be done,
that no clock so big could be so
accurate, But after 10 years, a
clock mechanism capable of
meeting the specifications had
been produced,
The clock formerly was hand
wound, a formidable task which
took strong men many a weary
hour. Now it is done by an
electric /toter. Large copper
British pennies rest on the
pendulum in careful piles to
give it just the right weight for
split-second accuracy. Amateurs,
such as I, give a lot of credit to
these pennies, which we under-
stand, but we looked blank
when it was explained that
"power, is conveyed to the pend-
ulum via double three-legged
gravity escapement."
Big Ben, they say, has never
been more than four seconds
off. For weeks at a time it has
run to within one-tenth of a
second per day of true time.
Big Ben is not meant to be
heard 'close to, However, when
standing in the tower you hear
that mighty voice bong once or
thrice, something of the majesty
and history of this country
sweeps over you with the sound.
But, take it from me, 12 would
be too much.
Arthur, Godfrey
At Winter Fair
The Right Honourable Vin-
cent Massey, Governor-General
of Canada, will officially open
the 1958 Royal Agricultural
Winter Fair to be held in the
Coliseum, Toronto, from Novem-
ber 14 to 22.
A gala and colourful open-
ing ceremony has been plan-
ned to launch this year's Royal,
which will attract more than
18,000 entries from many parts
of the world. Taking part in
the official opening ceremonies
with His Excellency the Gov-
ernor-General will, be Charles
F. W. Burns, President of the
Royal Agricultural' Winter Fair,
and His Worship Mayor Nathan
Phillips.
welcome to tea-m- trim. ,h;
United States, iviexico: tuba,
Germanuy and Canada that will
compete in the International
Royal Horse Show.
With a number of novel fea-
tures and attractions, indica-
tions are that the 1958 Royal
will be one of the best in the
history of this big annual event
which dates back to 1922. In ad-
dition to the Horse Show, which
will attract some of the world's
best riders and finest horses,
there will be a magnificent flow-
er show, a wool fashion show, a
photographic competition and
other highlights.
Arthur Godfrey, internation-
ally-famous television and 'radio
star, and his prized Palomino
stallion "Goldie," will appear at
the Horse Show each evening
throughout the eight days of the
Royal and on both Saturday af-
ternoons.
tSs lies It, Barclay Warren
BA., al)
Introducing the Gospel
Luke 1:1-4; 3:1-6,
Memory Selection: When the
fulness of the time was come,
God sent forth his son. Galatians
4:4,
For this quarter we begin a
study of the life of Christ based
on 'the three Synoptic Gospels
with a strong emphasis on the
Gospel at Mark, These record
chiefly the events of Christ's
Galilean ministry with Luke in-
cluding an account of His mini-
stry in Perea. John records
principally Christ's deeds and
sayings in Jerusalem and Judea.
All four give a detailed account
of the last week and especially
9f the last twenty-four hours of
Christ's life,
The writer of the lesson for
today was Luke, "the beloved
physician" who joined Paul at
Troas on his second missionary
journey. There in the account
in Acts he begins to use the per-
sonal pronoun "we," He went
with Paul 'to Jerusalem at the
close of Paul's third missionary
journey and evidently stayed in
Palestine during the two years
which Paul spent as a prisoner
in Caesarea. During that two
years he had abundant oppor-
tunity to talk with apostles and
gather data of his Gospel also
the Book of „Acts.
During that two years Luke
very likely had opportunity to
meet Mary the mother of Jesus,
One present-day scholar has re-
marked, "Dike's exclusiVe nar-
ratives concerning the birth of
John the:Baptist"' arid "'of "Jesus
are such as would interest a phy-
sician, to whom such personal
disclosures would be confided."
Some critics saf they do not be-
lieve the story of the Virgin
Birth because neither, Jesus nor
Paul mention it. They uncover
their own evil heart at unbelief
when they reject the accounts
by Matthew and Luke. These are
in full record with God's state-
ment that the seed of the wo-
man should bruise the serpent's
head; with the prohecies of
Isaiah concerning the birth df
Nr:11;gilin:Beictrotsth
Immanuel; Paul's teaching of
• eo cal;
much
nun it qh ou fe
more
tih
the inOarriation and Jesus' re-
lation with the PagIVE: The
ritrhies;
of the Scriptures. Let us ap-
proach the study of the life of
Jesus knowing that He is indeed
the Son of God.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
Approximately a million dol-
lars:"'is being :spent this. year on
poultry research in Georgia, the
U.S. nation's No. 1 broiler-fryer
state, to produce improved and
tastier poultry in a minimum of
time and at the lowest possible
cost.
The big 1958 investment in re-
search, with emphasis on breed-
ing and feeding, comes atop ever-
increasing sums which have been
spent for the• same purpose in
recent years. And poultry ex-
perts cite that such research is
constantly producing worthwhile
results.
WAR AN DD PEACE A Chinese Natiandlitt antiaircraft battery
in the background spoils the illusion of pastoral peace given
by the foiling farmers in the foregreUndi the inccitiOKUOUS
;Si-anoint') was seen near Taiwan, capital of Formosa,
Mayor Phillips will" extend a
HAPPY '`BIRTHDAY" tin-Tin recently celebrated his 40th
"birthday' in. Hollywood With a luscious, decorated cake. No--
Ritif y it tat do yeart old. The current Rinty, hoW stcirrinJ
A8C,TV't "The AdVenturet of Rift Tin Tin," is the fourth to play
the' part, The triginal kin Tin Tin Wat a pup found' by Air Carpi.
Sgt, Lee Duncan hi bombed-out airdrome of .1(.1iiy, France,
40' years ago. itt "World War 1.,