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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-03-03, Page 7WHEN THE CROCUS AWOKE US — Caroline Bell, 5, scents the imminence of spring. She is getting close to crocuses which blopmed in the garden of her London home in a mild spell. THE FARM FRON -I. If- .1. et 0 W 3 25 31 22 21 36' 35 31 37 eft+ 26 30 34 BOW 7.6Wee ;7 28 29 REAL WHOPPER Thomas Novak, holds a giant egg,• pro- duced' . of his father-in-law's farms. It measures 10 inches the long way around, seven inches around the middle. Egg & right is a normal "extra-large" for comparison. TAllt ABOUT TEEN-AGERS Rot even to San Francisco do the Beats go 'Oh wilder kkks, Thai The baiter't faVarite frolic is inhaling auto exhaust until he gets' lighthedadd, 'Lek * . inhales the furrida-aridk right, freslietis Up at a Water fountain: More. than once. MIX': hat. passed Out .frotti: the effects' - Of this tjdhibit but this hoist* abated hit desirt4 With 13reoci crumbs And Patience ._„ It's diMcult, often, to explain to unversed realists what s: Whimsical spirit can do, and per. haps I'd be better oft if i clidn'i bring this up. I just mean there Are some people who don't coin prebend foolishness, so my wife always looks at me funny when r water the ducks. tie it known, as I have testified before, that my ducks have no utilitarian standing and are not omptrted in any way in any agronomy tabulations, They are not chat tels, but friends, cultylated' out of an odd notion I have that some things can be important even if nobody knows it, My clucks—don't winter in the barn, but have their own little house by the pond, a 'ittle dis• tance from the other buildings, and I entice them therein each fall about the time the ice be- gins to feather at the edges. Feeding them is easy — I dump 100 pounds of pellets into a big hopper I've made and, as there are but four ducks this winter that will last a long time, Watering them must be done each day, and I love to do it and wouldn't miss it for any- thing, I draw a pail of water ai the sink, a little better than lukewarm, and wade out -through the snow. Sometimes after a fresh storm, I put on snow-shoes. Perhaps you don't 'know just what this means — there is a trick to walking on snowshoes and carrying a pail ,of water. It isn't something you ,just go and do. It takes practice and balance, and you aren't sure every time if you'll make it Sometimes I do. • I keep the duck house pur- posely buried in snow, The first .storm or two I lug out a shovel and bank it, and after winter really gets nasty the eaves are 'flush. This keeps it warm and cozy inside, and my ducks win- 'ter most well. The real reason I have the 'ducks by themselves is because they are ducks. Hens scratch in litter, and if given a chance will keep dry. Ducks, with their big 'flat feet, just pack litter down, 'and they make such free use of water that their house would soon be a skating rink if you didn't plan. I keep the water pan at a low point by the door, and then pack the straw in so it slopes up and away No mat- ter how wet and icy it gets around the pan, the ducks can retreat uphill and keep their tootsies warm. Of course. there's no heat in the house except what the ducks make, which isn't much, but with snow pack- ed all around they make out fine. All this is incidental to my pleasure. My mallards, all sum- TRAPPED — The pet cat of Luella Kane, seems to be get- ting that bottled-up feeling.. Protruding ears give away the photographer's trick. PUZZLE edieOes 1. Short thickset horse 4. NO, Caroline' river' 7. Red.used as n condiment • 11, Itii.V11.. 13. Dessert, 14. Fatty 15. Regal fruit residences` . OOMPOeition ter' nine' 18, Cabbage salad 114 21, 13titittene Oleo 23. Riley 'of Medicine' 0' 24, irriMitee ' 27. Gr. letter:. . 30. Goddloolled• Si. 'Clink beetle' 34, Parent Plifitied WOW 14, fat Fuse 19, Siouan Indian 40. xatke 44. Atclitit0m:41Y pra' Aleirt 411. Work , . ; 1 O.- Matti Whlilt19' 111. Woo.11, . . .6 2,•biloy knee Iii, Coinmetiee 5441'608 or chilli' Oitt0t.y. 11S,•TPvit raer, range tree and oasy, snd nattirallike they get a little wild They are wild birds anyway, few fill:W.1'110011S back. They get very wild as soon as the little ones wines, and the bens teach them to be alert and distant. All summer, if anybody comes around, the ducks stay on the far side of thee pond and look skeptical, It is really quite a job in the the fall to round them, up and get them under cover, nut, as soon as t have them in the house they can he tamed, and it's more fun than you think It takes some doing, but they make wonderful pets At first, when I come to fill their pan, they huddle in a corner and suit me and they won't come gut until I've closed the door But after a few days they get coming to the pan while Pm there, and after a few more times they are there before me At this point I fish a crust of bread from my pocket and- crumble it, and start my tam- ing program. At first they stand off and look; heads cocked, but soon I have them picking up the crumbs as fast as I crumble them, and the next step is to have them actually eating, from my hand, Then comes a part they don't like. One day, while a bill is wiggling about on my palm, I close my hand and have one caught. This one flops wings and' kicks, and the others,. retreat, scolding. The mallard is won- derfully made,,, and his foliage, is interesting. Pike to spread a wing and look at it, rumple their breasts, and make like patting a palsy dog or rubbing a purring cat's ears. Just friendly, like. But once I've done this, the whole flock goes. into a period of distrust, and I can't get them • back to my hand right' away. However, bread crumbs and patience are overpowering, and after a time. I can, close up on any bird, fondle it, and have them right back crawling all over me again. They run their bills under my boot tops, inside my jacket, and the rapport is permanent. Actually, the way this works, it takes almost all winter. Soon after I get them coming to my hand, and not averse to being manhandled, there'll be an egg one morning; the snow will be going; and it will shortly be time to turn them loose for sum- mer. Little ones will be hatched, and the natural wildness will re- turn. They won't have anything to de with me until fall comes and I herd them into the house again. So, what happens • is, I take my pail of water and disappear Sometimes I'm gone an hour. I bring the pail in and set it by the sink, and she says, "Where've you been?" I tell her I've been watering my ducks.' A likely tale. I could have watered the Gobi Desert in that' time, I try to explain that my entente is at a crucial point, that. I am just about to close my hand on the old drake himself — that there's more to it than just tip- ping water ,out of ,a bucket. But it doesn't seem to come out just the way it is. This is a simple,, basic, uncom- plicated kind of thing that, very likely, is nobody else's business. It's Sort of, between me and my ducks, apart from anything'else. I just like to do it. There may be those;' inehidihg my wife, Who ,think it. takes me a long time to water four smallish ducks. But I have no intention, „however humanity at large as-, sesses my pastiMe, of giving it up. I don't see any point in keep- ing-ducks if you can't pick them the bill. By Jail GoUld ,in the,..Christian Science Monitor, "How did'MaePherson'eure, his stammer?" "Oh, he put„.throtigh a long distance call to New York." ISSUE 10 ee-'10,60e'e Using Sex in insect Warfare: whole thing is based on sex," said Dr, Arthur quietly, have great faith it, will work," The entomologist from the Department of Agriculture was explaining the newot tee- tie which man has developed in his endless war on the endlessly resilient world of insects It con, slsts in dropping swarms of male insect made sterile with a co. balt-00 bomb. into areas which. are plagued with the species„ As Lindquist put it: ""We find that the, sterile males compete very successfully with the nor, mei ones. The average result is that .60 to 70 per cent of the eggs laid are sterile and won't. hatch." This weeks the exeperi-• merit is going on deep in the Okeechobee wamps of Florida. with mosquitos as the victims. Later in the year, the Navy and Department of Agriculture. plan to try the same idea on the Pacific islands of Rota, thirty miles from Guam. Three million sterile fruit be released. weekly fora year in an attempt to exterminate the scourge of the island's melon crop. HOG TIED — Ed Fox struggles with a hog. This and 35 other .porkers were being loaded for an air shipment as a gift to Japan. Christian Martyr Dies In Custody In the little village of Krasic, Yugoslavia, Aloysies Cardinal Stepinac died last month — the first prince of the Roman Catho- lic Church to die confinato and irripedito (imprisoned and im- peded) by the Communists. The village was the 61-year-old pre- late's boyhood home, and for the past eight years his prison. The spiritual leader of 5.7 million. Catholics, Stepinac, whose death resulted from a lung embolism biought on by a longtime blood disorder, had alSo been the first high-ranking member of the hiereichy to suffer outrage at, Cominunist hands- As, Archbishop of Zagreb, the lean,:ascetic Stepinac spoke,' Out '- for freedom and human righti• throughout the German occue tiatieli: in World War II. Then in September 1946, Tito's Cotn-,,,, niunists arrested him for alleged-•;: Nazi collaboration and subtler-:•• , sive activities. His sentence- Sixteen years in prison thoekedie . the free World, Little was doper to mitigate the shame when,`' of-_ ter five years in jail, he was re= • leased and confined to the village of Iteasic. Aloysius Stepanic had been both a soldier, end 1 fernier lade. fore he decided on the prieat, hood in 1924 at the 'age of 26. Ordained at the age of 32, he was made an archbishop fdur years later, and; succeeded to the see of Zagreb in 1937. Stepanic was created cardinal in 1953, but because he would not ask permission Of the Yugo- slay Ccerneitiniate, he was net able to, go to the Vatican for the etStisistOry, Leet dressed as an erefibialiep, tiis body' lay in State" Kratit'S 400-year-old church while his cardinal's robes and hie rod hat remained in Rome —a eythbol of political pressures pieced on the thilteli in Yugoslavia and Other totelitatiati-ruled 'areas of the world. We'S. It significant that the gov- ernment ipermitted Cardinal Stepanic' to be buried in his own cathedral ill Zagreb! Vtigoslav Ca'tholic's, Mindful of ti recent &Veil of convictions' of prieste for' "anti-state rietiVitY,',3. took. the news less as Sigh of hope then of ettilifirig" eliploifiadYe More that-1..100 acres in south- ern Ontario were treated with an insecticide last fall, as two levels of government combined efforts to control the Japanese beetle. Another 30 acres will be eovered next spring. Upwards of 700 acres have been treated since 1941. * • * This beetle has a, rapacious appetite and its meal ticket can be any one of more than 200 plants ranging from flowers to fruit to corn, with the grubs causing extensive damage to lawns when populations are high. L. L. Reed, who directs sur- vey work for the 'Plant Pro- tection Division, says that be- cause of the Japanese beetle's fondness for grapes and soft fruits, it could take a costly toll in the Niagara Peninsula unless kept under control. Indications are that it would not thrive in other parts of eastern Canada. * * • This pest is presumed to have entered the United States in soil around the roots of Japan- ese plants prior to the restric- tions established by the United States Plant- Pest Act of 1912. It was first discovered near Philadelphia in 1916 and has been spreading out in an ever widening circle through natural flight. A strict Federal quaran- tine "in the U.S., in effect for many Yeere has retarded more extensive' spread.,; * ,treatments 'were Made::at 'Wee , in egave. way 6,:pitg'.14hieli::.Wa;#:;i•eplaced by ieldran teit:OVeeerete:gtenular eldriri' 7s spread, by ordinary n,ci grain seeders at ;the :ate osok;cepeidet T is eahpis. '''t67 6)501,y'': and ,.equally ereeeaelepe ieffeCtiv6 ,as oth,tt4 ineecticides. -,ej,eteSt •.epplidatlote. involved lend .et "SK.'Catharinee, Fort Erie, Hamilton, Pert .' BbrWell and Windsor. e Eevery year, trapping opera- tions and soil treatments are carried Qu t with the co-opera- titan of the Ontario Department Of AgrictiltUre, Mr. Reed ex- plains. Last year about 2,100 traps were used to capture over 1,000 beetles, This was a sub- stantial reduction over the 4,000 trapped in 1958. Most Significant reduction took place at Port Erie, where only 176 were caught compared with 3,300 the previous year. This, Mr. Reed believes, was due to the treatment of 30 acres of turf in thet town in 1958, A total of ,'033 dahricliari theep fieere been eideted elatightekeci &tieing the past fee& Menthe Wider a national pro- grainaimed at stamping out sctapie, a disease of the central nervous system of 'sheep Ih Alberta, two infeeted &eke, 417 sheep, had to be destroyed, reports Di' I. t, Wells, Veterinary Direetor den- Oral; while in Ontario, atibtlief ileek of 17 Sheep Wad 'slatightere ed. Canada's scrapie eradication program, 'revised last August, provides for the slaughter of infected flocks and any animals moved from infected flocks, to- gether with their immediate progeny. In addition to the three in- fected flocks dealt with, 1,539 sheep have been destroyed either as animals which were moved from the infected flocks or as progeny of an animal that had been moved. • e These sheep involve 178 flocks. AU of the flocks, which take in about 40,000 sheep, are being kept under surveillance for 42 months from the date on which exposed sheep were removed from theflocks. * * * First outbreak of scrapie in Canada was confirmed in 1945 It is considered to have been brought here with sheep impor- tations from the United King- dom. Such imports haere been embargoed since 1954. The program now being ap- plied for the control of scrapie in Canada is, equivalent to that followed in the United States. Petticoat Lane Still Flourishes Wags once said a man could go in one end OLLondon's Petti- coat Lane and buy. 'this own watch back at the•epther. That may,• or may not, still be true, but the market's traders certainly have the reputation of knowing. ,a good bargain when they see. one .When ae,vhite'rear- hie Roinan' torso was, dug up there not so long ago, many e a Cockney .'voice. 'called- out • "Let , rrie.'ave find a.buyer!t! Pettic,oet'Lane; it 'seems,' old as London itself. The. greate. sprawling. market is. mede up of'.,• Middlesex, Wentworth, a n d Goelston Streets in the heart of the East End, Each is filled with countless stalls, displaying every conceivable commodity from clothes and curios to cockles and whelks. Most of the traders in Petti- coat Lane are long established and 'known for giving good value. Some come to the market in great, gleaming cars, Weil they park on one of the many World War 11 bilteed eites, Others push handcarts or carry' their wares on trays, writes Steve Libby in the Christian Science Monitor, To a few who have had good businesses — and bad, breaks — a pitch in the Lane is the last stand, all that is left, One old man is trying, to sell second- hand sheet music. While many Petticoat Lane traders shout their wares like circus barkers, others rely on a ---more modern and intimate -- approach, owhere do you come from, luv?" one asks a plump, Smil-r. ing woman in the crowd Around his stall, "Edinburgh," she replies, "Luverly place, Edinburgh," he says, going on to talk about the woman's hometown as though business was a secondary consideration. Then, picking up a blue leather handbag from the pile on his stall: "Couldn't get this at the price in Edin- burgh, could you?" The deal is soon clinched. Visitors to London who are "in the know" go to Petticoat Lane on a Sunday morning just as they would to the market square in some old French town or the native bazaars of Cairo, Doctors Figure It Was. A Nice Try? For months, as Billy Smith, a 25-year-old laborer, lay in a hospital bed, it seemed that sur- geons had achieved a miracle, In a foundry accident last July, a swinging crane had all but severed Smith's right leg. , Ordinarily, the doctors at Eden Hospital in Castro Valley, Calif., would have amputated the leg at once. But because of the 25-year-old Smith's good physi- cal condition, Drs. Stephen V. Landreth, Alan J. Gathright, and Keith W. West tried to sew the mangled leg to the stump. At first, the chance to save the leg seemed promising. But six weeks ago a deep infection de- veloped in the injured bone and in the knee joint, "which pre- vented •repair of the main nerve to the leg." This month, the sur- geons amputated Billy Smith's leg. Smith said philosophically: "I figure you have to go along with what the doctors say." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking COB MOO MEIMEO U1S00000 OWE= MONO ODEMOMOD 0190 clam OMMOOMON avO DUBOW! ONCE= i"1©© EOM E OMOUDECM00 00MOMDED DOMO BECIE0 =BOOM EMBED MEM CVO DUMB D COB UNDAY SCI1001 ESSON By 'Bey, Br Barclay...Warren • God's Protecting Providence Acts 0:6-11, 1644 Memory Selection: God is oar refuge and strength, y , a very! present help in trouble, Pplta 46:1, God who has protected Paul through many dangers, is still with him while a prisoner of the state, His appearance before the . sanhedrin was brief. While pro- testing that he had lived in all good conscience before God un- til that day, the high priest com- manded, that he be smitten on the mouth, Paul's sharp rebuke, and His later explanation for it, have" been ,viewed in different ways. It has been suggested that Ananias had taken the office since Paul bad last been asso- ciated with the Sanhedrin; that Paul did not know who had giv- en the order to smite him; and that Paul made an honest mist take. Personally, I think that Paul had not sufficiently re- flected that the words came from the high priest and that it, should have been more deliber- ate and less vigorous in his re- ply, At any rate, Paul's words that, "God shall smite thee, thou whited wall"; were both penetratingly true and prophe- tically suggestive. His apology should serve as an apt ino'del for elle Christian's spirit and de- partment in similar circumstan- , ces. It has been suggested that Paul apologized to' the office, it he did not to the man, Paul, has been criticized for his strategy in dividing the council: see nothing unethical about it.. He had attempted to give a straightforward, courte- ous defense. But they were in no humour to be fair. When hatred develops over religion, it is a hellish thing. Hatred in the realm of politics or sport is mild, compared with that which parades in the cloak of religion. However, Paul succeeded in do- ing only half of the famous say- ing, "Divide and conquer." As the two groups quarrelled Paul was rescued from their midst by the soldiers. But Paul's enemies didn't give up. Their plan to kill him and its failure through the loyalty of Paul's nephew is an interesting story. This is the only place where we meet any of Paul's relatives in the Bible. God had His hand on Paul. He used many different people and means to protect him. He had rt. work for him to do at Rome and no plotting could hinder God carrying out His purpose. The bitter truth is that a glance in the mirror will show you exactly what the younger generation Is coming to. 15 16 12 2 3 47 so SI CROSSWORD 8. Sibgly solids DOWN 16, Sento* occurrence ' 1 Head , 20. City in Poiand '10. Go by doverings 22. Sesanie 41. Dismounted 2. Egg-shaped 24. Conjunction ' 42, Italian coin 2. Poised 25. Ocean 43. Nimble 4 Twitch 26. Reigning '45. Jot 5. Maple gen ue,, beanty 46. Tidings C. Dwell 27. Whiten 49. Piece out ‘, Tapering 98. Square' root o1 ,-, 29. Exist 32, Card Game 11109... 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