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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-11-26, Page 3Increasing the size of the herd but inability to afford buying more land for pasture and feed growing, is a problem facing many dairy farmers today. * * Gerard Clouatre, who owns a 75-acre dairy farm near Sabre- voix, Que., some 35 miles south- east of Montreal, had this proo- lem until he discovered it was possible to carry a• herd almost twice as large on the same acre- age - without too much trouble end expense. How he did it is described by Simonne Daig- neault in the current issue at C-I-L Oval. 4 4 * Miss Daigneault writes that three years ago Mr. Clouatre maintained 30 head of cattle on his farm, 65 acres of which were under cultivation. He wanted 50 head without further investment in land so he sought• advice of the Montreal soils laboratory of Canadian Industries Limited. * As a, result of laboratory soil tests dr. Clouatre 'discovered that different Parts of his farm had different soil conditions. The 'pasture near ,his barn, for ex- ample; was poor in lime, phos- phorous and potassium. He cor- rected this deficiency by apply- ing, in the •fall, four tons of limestone per •acre and a good application of manure to improve the organic matter content. The next spring he added a 2-10-6 mixture of fertilizer at the rate of 400 pounds •an acre. * * In fields '5 and 3, previously sown to hay and pasture, both ladino and- timothy were on the verge of dying out from lack of phosphate and potash. A fall application of 0-20-20 at the rate of 240 pounds an acre pepped them up promptly. * * * Soil analysis also revealed that two other plots of land, in hay and pasture,had also run low in lime, hosphorous ' and potassium and had not been recently manured. This called for a spring application of 5-10- 13 at 350 per acre following en application of lime at the rate of 21/2 tons an acre during the pre- ceeding fall. Another plot which suffered a boron as well as phosphorous and potash defici- ehey was treated this fall with en application of a 2-10-20 ferti- lizer augmented by two per cent of boraX, * 4 * This scientific approach to Mr. Clouatre's problem is beginning to pay off. His oat crop yielded him 70 bUshels to the acre. He took off 60 tons of hay from the revived land. It now takes less, than one -acre of improved pasture to carry one cow. He has already' added to his herd Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking and is so confident his farm can easily sustain 50 head, he has begun to enlarge his barn to en- able him to house the increased herd. All this with no Merv- ;e acreage. Device Defrosts Coffee Crop ' If you had visited Brazil this past summer -and toured the State of.Parana you would, if you had gone into the coffee- growing area, have witnessed a strange phenomena. In some sections, the landscape would have been covered by a dense fog, not unlike that experienced in London. This fog, the natives would tell you, was artificially produced and protected the cof- fee crop from freezing. If you were curious, you would have found that this fog was manufactured by a tanklike contraption, standing about four feet high and weighing some 500 pounds. It would be in use on many of the plantationa; for; 'it was winter; and the days and nights were chilly, as they are in California in December. This fog-making machine was designed by' the Beeler Corpoiet- tion, the world's largest manu- facturer of smokescreen equip- ment. It came into beieg -be- cause Brazil suffered two dis-. astrous coffee crop losses -27Se per cent in` 1953 and about 40 per cent in 1955. As coffee com- prises about 70 per cent of the country's 'fxports, the situation was indeed serious. How •did this situation come about? Well,, the coffee growers, -relying on the abundance of rich land Allele country affords, had failed to fertilize the soil of their immense plantations in the coastal area, where a warm, equable climate prevails. Thus' whop the land was "worked out," 'they had to move back- into the semijungle region near the foot• of the Andes. Here the temperature drops considerably in winter - especially at night. And frostlike weather is often the rule. Meanwhile, the engineers had been experimenting, trying to devise a machine to protect crops against frost in the United. States; a project under- taken because it was found that the firm's business always dropped in the years when heavy frosts were suffered. The experiments, were a failure, and the project was abandoned. But a government agency in. Brazil, hearing about the experi- ments, wrote to the Besler peo- ple for information; .and al- though it was explained that no progress had• been made, the Bratillan Government neverthe- less sent a commission to this country to confer" with the Bes- ler engineers on the project. Several' days of conferences followed. At first, no progress was made. Then one day, in the midst of a' discussion, a Besler engineee, glancing out the Wine dow and noting the heavy fog that peevailed, had a happy in- epiratioh. "'WM khow," he said,• "when we have fog, it gets chi!, iy, but -never col I; and crops never freeze." It Was• an ideal That evening, Tithothy Coitrhi president of Besler e accompanied by menu bees of his eleginediarig'staff, acid the Eirazitititi colrintisstoii,. drove *NDAYSCII001 LESSON By litev eVareate 'Teaching by Parabics Mark 4; 1-17 Memory Selection: Be ye doers of the word, •and not bearers only, deceiving your own selves, James 1: 22. Jeatia was the greatest Teacher of all time. He knew how to capture and hold the interest of his listeners and put His mes- sage across so that it would be readily remembered. "Without parable *eke he not unto them." Matthew 13: 34, Even those who were unwilling •to do. what Jepus taught would ro- olember the story. In time some of 'them would grasp its spieitual meaning and become disciples. The parable of the Sower di- vided hearers hito four classes. The wayside hearer hears the word but it makes no lasting impression on him. It does not really penetrate his hard heart. The hearer represented by the rocky gound . hearer gives early promise of feuit but the roots do not go down far, Hence he withers in the time of persecu- tion. Another, likened' unto the thorny &mend, is overcome by the cares of this werki, ,and the deceitfUlness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in and choking the word. But there are the, hearers likened unto good ground who bring forth a harvest, some thirtyfold, some sixty and some an hundred. How important are the words the parable, "He that bath ears to hear, let him hear," An in- temperate English innkeeper went to a church to hear some special singing, but determined that he would not listen to a word of the sermon. After the singing he put his forefingers in both ears, but once removed one of them to brush a fly from his face. Just then the minister called out, "He that hath ears to 'hear, let him hear." The words powerfully impressed the innkeeper. He listened to the sermon, was converted, and lived a godly life for eighteen years, until his death. For many years he went, in all kinds of weather, to this church, which was six miles ,away. We live in a land of an even Bible. We have ample oppor- tunity to hear the Word of God. The tragedy is that so many close their hearts to the heeding of God's Word. tee $5 TAXES THE IMAGINATION = 'Mickey Me 'circus elephant, trudged up these stairs in the town hsIl of Augsburg, West Germany, to deliver a trunkful of amusement fax from elroui admissions. That's what the man said who took this picture: WHAT'S WRONG' WITH THIS. PICTURE? Soitiothio.0 is wrong- about the 'beauty ofthit a utumn steno oh fain, and It's Virginia Dafferh. Before you read further, t W 'see if you can et it .. Give' opt Thai 'pumpkin. Vittilala, is holding it made- of • TO WE YOUR LIFEn ACROSS I. Cereal grasi 4. Be under obligatiOn '7,„ Out of date it Arranged in . fold, 14, Creased 15. BONO 16, Repeat 18 Superlative Orating Is. Offscouringe 20. FrOnt 21, A lifetime. 22. Sort of glove 2.9. untruths 24. That man 25, A Oiled eon.. filets 25 (Ina 01- the. tiiiderWorld 27 Eateein 29 .15,9mloW frainee 12, Inatilre 33. lloastin0 „ Melte " 34. nohow Si. Central part 17. Sim'ans as. Seat in entire( 19.01,1 elm it 40. Amen,: 41. Cistern 4 'Oriental 44, Mr. Clan* 45 r'en1111"I 47 letaeleeeit wort , , 411 letters 00 Sp, tale el ShowoW , nN I. tiarVest: Wash,wound at once with , plenty of soap and water. 49 ' 35 39 36 2 FARM FRONT See ("doctor immediately for atiflinbies shot. If capture animal olive so that' it may be observed. Future treatment nay depend on this. 32 room. I had failed to *ao into. orbit, and the glass jingled and tink1,,d something wild. I -stared off along the intended trajec, toi y, making believe I was go- ing over the church, but it was no use. 'rile dining roam was fa Ind with powdered glass, with me chestnut looking innocent in the corner, and I knew a bill would be rendered, My aunt must have felt some twinge of complicity, for she had at least consented to watch, and she Peeled! off two dollars to help defray the expense, and protest- ed to, all that it had been wholly an accident, • We had butternuts, and by holding an old flatiron between the knees and hammering faith. fully with a carpenter's hammer we could clean out over a week- end enough meat for one batch of fudge, There is' a recollection of long hours of whacking to get a taste, and the fun of gath- ering a bagful of butternuts is lost in the business of opening them and hunting through the prevailing shell for something to eat. My fayorite nut, I think, was the hazelnut, which came off a bush rather than a tree. I don't remember any untoward details concerning hazelnuts, and I guess they were all 'right. Our pasture lane used to be lined with them, but they are all gone. There, was some kind of a bug appeared one •year, boring into the husks, and shortly we had no more. The big problem with beech- nuts was VI) find them. These little triangular tidbits grow on the huge• old beech trres, and • drop with the first sharp frost. Once they drop the squirrels and jays go after Ahern, and they can search` through the fallen leaves faster than we , can. In all the years I went for beech- nuts I never had more than a double handful at one time, ex- cept the year we spread out the blankets and sheets. This was a good idea as far as nuts went, but it lacked certain merits just the same-as the womenfolks pointed out `when they, were washing everything. We spread• blankets and sheets all around under a couple of big old beech trees the night of the first cracking frost. There was a fine moon, and we .expected to have tons of nuts. The frost opened the burrs all right, and the tiny nuts must have' rattled down •all night long. But an extensive gathering of deer came along in the predawn pe- riod and executed a cotillion on our bedding. You never saw such a mess. Here and there a few nuts had, been spared, but mostly the labor had not been repaid. We had about two dou- ble handfuls. So we carried the blankets and sheets back to the house, and learned that our ex- periment, was unapproved by the laundress, who thought our brilliant idea stupid. It's how you look at it. The pigtoe nuts got us into trouble, too. Timmie Brackett said, one day, `51. know where there's a pigtoe tree!". So he Jed us through the woods, away over back, and Up behind a barn, where we 'found pigtoe nuts galore. We never had ,any better luck. Then a man step., ped out , and said, he was a de- puty sheriff, ,and we were all arrested. It wasn't as bad as it sounds; for we' picked ,up our nuts• and ,ran, and .made a fine escape and never went back. It seemed some boys unknown to us had been plaguing this farm- er, and he didn't like it. When we showed up, our first foray into that neighborhood, we .were mistaken for the culprits. Tim- mate, of course, was aware of this, and told us later. For a few days we wondered when we'd get picked up, but then nothing happened. Seems as if I remember those few days more than I do the nuts.-By John Gould in The Christian. Science Monitor: C. ObJectly submiseive 10. Bristles 11. Happy Places 13. nsec 17. A king of Egypt (ab.) 37. Friend (Fr.) 19. Father 39. Blind fear 21. Sunken fence 22. Characteristic 40. Sweetsop 23, Careen 41. Flying 25. Drudite mammal 26, Platform 13, Particle 29. Borders 14. Serious 29. Slushed offense 90. Qualified 45, Some voter F eat; 14 16 17 20 23 26 30 31 34 31 41 44 47 SO 51 Answer elsewhere on this page §finglIess. Bees Itecil Go-getters A bee which carinot.sting has been evolved in Germany. The world's first beekeeper to own such 4 swarm, Karl Peschite, Of Oberhausen, Is now watching their honey-PoduelPg PQrfIrwrr ances very keenly, According to reports, these stingless wonders are fetching in the honey at high, sPeed. Mori- oyer4hey pick up nectar from trees ee, well as from field and garden blooms and the Ruhr at- mosphere, with its corroding fumes and heavy 804I deposits, does not deter them. Satisfied that they are a 'work- able proposition, the Ruh,. Bee- keepers' Association, a body of 600 moneymaking apiarists own- ing some 4,000 swarms, has, founded a special breeding sta- tion. Soon, as production gets mov- ing, this nursery will sell stooks to, interested members, and pos- sibly, also to beekeepers in other parts of the world, For, providing its honey yields are first class, the stingless bee will commend beekeeping to men who do not at present fancy decking themselves out is ro- tective veils and gloyee Inc thought of a sting, and the bother of avoiding it, puts them off a very rewarding hobby. Those, however, who swear by bee stings as a remedy for rheu- matism"may feel a little cheated by this latest triumph of sci- ence. But it will be years yet before the new .species ousts, if ever it does, those bees that do sting. UNVANOUIS-HED .-alThei 'legen- dary Phrienik 'Of Egyptian mythology "croVeris This' symbol of France's ' Caen University. The, immortal 'bird •was ,believed to rise 'from its ashes after be- ing, consumed by fire. The" university has done the same thing. Almost completely de- stroyed in World War II, its re- building is nearly finished. That Apology Of Pasternak's 'It is 'difficult •to escape the impression that the world=wide indignation aroused' by the So- viet at of abuse launch- ed Boris •Pasternak has forced Moscow to make some eignifi-• cant concessions. This impres- sion seems well founded if one compares the violence of 'the charges made against Russia's greatest living author after he committed the "crime"• of win- ning the Nobel Prize with the contents of the letter of "apol- ogy" by Pasternak which Pravda .has now printed. Seen superficially, the letter might seem to be a capitulation by Pasternak to the terror cam- paign unleashed' against him. But a close reading shows other significant elements. Nowhere in this "apology" does he repudi- ate "Doctor Zhivago," confining \ himself to regret at, some inter- pretations of the book. Moreover, in his letter he is for the first time permitted to call attention to the fact that he was nomin- ated for the Nobel Prize five years ago- that is, long before the world knew about "Doctor Zhivago," a feet which implicitly, refutes the charge that 'the No- bel award to him was purely a political act of any kind. • Nowhere in his letter does he accept the appellation of "traitor" or "Aida? applied to him in Pravda, and he restates again his assertion Of indissoluble ties with his People, And Pasternak, Weil knoWrs, of Course, that the World Will fully understand the AeSoplari Meaning to be attach- ed to his statement that his re- treats theSe• past• days have been "Voluntary,," The Soviet regime, in Short, appears .to have been forced to accept feoni Pasternak a don-;, cession that is far front liticen- clitierial surterider. - New YOrk Timei to the top of the Berkeley hills and. observed the log eelereuded 'valley below; noted how the electric lights seemed to flieleer in the white mist; a prenomena caused by raaiaet heat Waves emitted iron: the ground end Contained in the log, writes. Harry M, Nelson, in The Chris- tian Science Monitor, From this it was deduced that the fog protected the ground e-- kept it from freezing; and that this would hold true in the cof- fee growin; area in Brazil, which has a climate siraili'rto, that of California. "What we need is a fog-mak- ing machine," said Mr, Colvin, The Brazilians agreed, Building such a machine was comparatively simple; a tank- like structure, containing a gaso- line engine, a pump, centrifugal blower, and a steam generator that would evaporate a com- bination of oil and water, mak- ing a dense fog; which, as Mr. Colvin explained, "was heavy enough to cling close to the ground and absorb the radiant heat of the earth and thereby form a warm, white blanket around each plant." A mockup up of this machine was shown to commission mem- bers before they returned to. Brazil. Hearing of the commission's success, a' group of independent Brazilian coffee growers ordered 50 of the machines from Besler, Jungle Drums Call Father In Cape Town, South Africa, a young Xhosa native, critically ill in hospital after an operation, cried' for his father. Telegrams were sent to the police in the remote Transkei territory 'to trace the boy's father but they were unsucessful. Then someone in. Umtata had a brainwave, summoned an old Xhosa deputy chief, and sug- gested that the bush telegraph - the African drums - be tried. For seven hours non-stop a mes- sage was tapped out before a weary Xhosa limped into •the town to find out what they want- ed with him. The message had been relayed for more than sixty miles to reach him in a remote mount- ain village. He was offered an` immediate journey to Cape Town by air but refused. "The witchdoctor' warned me that if I fly a bird I will lose my wives and my farm and cat- tle," the Xhosa said. He left that night for Cape Town by train and arrived in time to learn that his son had rallied and would live. 21 24 27 1 12 IS 42 46 CAMERA 'CONTEST Each intent on trying to !'upstage" the other and steal the scene, Jean Hogan and Shaggy, 'the mop- pawed dog, were so intent on the battle thaHhey, both got out of focus. Note that Shaggy is even stepping on Jean's foot. It happened while, shooting, Walt Disney's /"The shaggy prig," a spoof or shaggy deg stories, in Hollywood. Horse Chestnuts And Debt There was always puzzlement OM the ditty: "Here WQ go gathering .nuts in May - ,'" for our nuts came in the fall cif the year, After the first frosts had set the summer's progreSO back, we'd go gather, ing nuts ,in all directions, Some- times we'd find some, and some- times we'd also find a fringed gentian. Not in May, but may- 1)e' down Under. We had several kinds of nuts to gather in these part; but I think Maine has largely gone out of that kind of nut business since. I do not know, actually, where to look for a pigtoe now; but they used to be fairly'fre- quent, Somebody said they were some kind of hickory, but we called them pigtoes or some- times shagbark; and hickory wasn't a word we used. I think nuts, in general, are an item I associate with fiasco and de- bacle, for it does seem that the subject ran to much less merri- ment than the gay ditty sug- gests. With horse chestnuts, for in- stance, I think 'of the time I cle'aned out a plate glass win- dow and,first went in debt, We didn't eat horse chestnuts, of course, but they are so 'smooth and pretty we 'had to find some use for them, like carrying them in` our pockets. There, were, many things in those days which ulfilled a magnificent utility by ;just going around in boys' pockets. There was one day, that Irv- ing Bronte reached in his pock-, et, in school, to procure his penny for the War Saving Stamp program, and as he vrith- drew it brought forth, inadver- tently, a great company, or raft, of horse chestunts, which roll- ed and thumped about on 'the schoolroom floor with great vivacity. The teacher told him to be more careful, but we knew Irving had been extra careful to set that one up, and. It had come off just about as he ' had said it would. I had a David slingshot in those times, and could have tak- en a Goliath if one had appear- ed. I could stand on our lawn and toss a horse chestnut over the roof and steeple of the Bap- tist Meeting • House, which was quite some fling. There are a number of horse chestnut trees growing over, in that section now; about the right size, and I imagine I planted them all. So I showed an aunt of mine how I could fling in the David manner, and my horse chestnut slipped on the back cast and hit the big window in the dining WHAT TO DO-Rabies, one of the most dreaded of eliseases, if still a serious problem in many countries, reports WHO, the World Health Organization. Sketches above illustrate steps recomroends In the event of a bite by a possibly rabid animal. CROSSWORD PUZZLE: 31. Mother Dig 33. Gave zest to 35. Crinkled fabric 36. Fertile deSert regions goddess 2. Affirmed 3 Annoy 4. A baseball champion 11, Pronoun 6, Decrees 7. Composition in Verse 8 Atmosphere 93. Keyhote 4 3 40 4 5 37' 19 ' 3 29 7 9 10 II