The Brussels Post, 1960-04-14, Page 7HE FARM FRON
John
written of the.marvelous mud
conditions this old farm can,
generate, I got 4 Spirited letter
from an admirer of earthworms,
Who Said if I nurtured enough
worms they would peeferm, a
subterranean Miracle and traps,-
form, the place into a tractable
Vet. I never tried it. I felt
there might be a difference be,
tweene adeeck,yard ,plot eanii. 'the"
Wide: expanse, of e•a timbarlend
wilderness, and that the •quantity
of ^ earthworms needed might
frighten me.
I droVe through the fields, the
wheels sluicing into the soggy
earth, and the dog holding his
head high as he, splashed along.
I came,. to the; pasture brook,
usually tinkling in December un-
der the first crust of Ace, 'and it
was a roaring torrent, complete-
ly flooding the culvert by the
sugar housee couldn't think of
a carol that ,fitted the moment,
so I didn't. sing. Instead, I gave
my attention to the chUrning
wheels, which now and then
would spin a few turns without
going anywhere, and splashed
mud into the. trees,
What I go after is a fair load
"of boughs and one good tree for
the decking ceremonies. My best
supply is far down the back hill,
in the remoter part of the farm
-a mile from the house and
across what we call the Slough
of Despond. I came to the
slough, and found it was stick-
ing three feet into the air. I 'got
too nearer. I would have to wade
across with allegorical care, cut
my greens on the other side, and
tote them out, Other years the
slough has been frozen, and when.
I had the children in the trailer
I would ride out onto the ice,
twist the front wheels a little
' and set up a gay slewing which
sent ripples of laughter and glee
across the crisp Christmas scene.
This was where we always, had
a little sport with the poor
pooch, for he would 'come loping
along at our calling, and land on
the ice before he was aware.
He'd slip and slide, and make his
feet go, and reproach us with
disgusted eyes. He liked it after
he caught on, but the surprise
dismayed him.
A small fir tree, standing in
the rain, accumulates a great
amount of water in its branches,
which it releases on the woods-
man when he strikes with the
axe. If you will stared, fully cloth-
ed, in your shower bath, and
contrive to have the thing turn-
ed on full blast suddenly, you.
find out what happe,ned to me.
It is not a Christmasy delight.
But I slogged around, lugged out
-mye'boughs and' my tree, and in -
time had my load.
Then, the great tractor wheels .
churned and dug into the farm,
oozing downward alarmingly, and ,
there' r Was. There's do problem
abOtit this, the engineering re-
covery is fairly simple, but it
takes time. It takes, in fact, all
day. I just had to walk home,
get the long logging chain, and
come back, and by taking longer
and shorter hitches in turn I
drew the trailer up onto higher
ground and finally got rolling. I
sang no carols, and the spinning
wheels plastered my greens with
a lovely brown so I later rigged
up a hose and washed them
clean again.
Thus the greens came home,
the halls' are decked, and with
a fa-la-la and a yo-ho-ho, fairly
moist, I bid thee all Joyeux
Noel!-By John- Gould in. The
Christian Science IVIonitor.
SILENT PARTNER
A married woman reported to
the police at Bitha, Israel, the
fact that her husband was miss-
ing. They learned that he, had
been missing for some five ,
months or so.-
Naturally the police queried
why- the wife. hadn't reported to
them before. Apologetically she
replied: "I didn't miss him until
now."
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in the Waters Of Roston Harbor as eliti6rnially high tides inundated Oretie, 61'64 Ailieritra
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Bringing Horne,
The Yuletide Tree
While my boots are drying out,.
take this opportunity to extend
Christmas wishes in all direc-
tions. I have just dug a lovely
.tree for our parlor, and slogged
•ye garlands across ye Slotigh, OP'
'Despond, and all is in readiness.
"We've been having ,a spell,. ei,
*most' nn-Christinas weather, with
an abundance of pipe wet rain,
no frost in the groend, and very
little to set up the customary
yo-ho-ho and fa-la-la attitude.
However, Yuletide happiness to
,you all!
In other years going, for the.
tree has been a crisp event of,
.joy and gladness. Indeed, I
often join in the crass, mercen-
.ary program of the NAM and cut
-a few trees to-standby the way-
side and entice the passing cus-
'tomer. True, I generally give
.away more than 1 sell, but that's
my affair and a tree isn't worth
much here anyway.
We use the balsam fir, and it
has. little value otherwise. They,
.sprout like weeds, and each
takes the place of a more valu-
able spruce, pine and fir, and if
:you trim your woodlot at all you
usually swing an ax around and
eliminate them before they get
'too big. Naturally you leave
.some here and there for Christ-
mas purposes, and if the poach-
ers from the village use you
right, you'll have enough, So,
.along about 'the second week of
a December I'll hitch the trailer
'to the tractor, bounce up to my
'back acres, and fetch home what
,greens our family desires to
snake the surroundings tradi-
lionally festive.
And, it is usually a crisp ad-
venture. Rime-frost along the
-wood-road, ice on the ponds, and
-often some snow, I drive along
.singing an appropriate carol, the
-dog trotting alongside looking
:suitably amazed when I hit a
high note with approximate suc-
cess, and the wheels bouncing.
This year the second 'week in
December arrived, but the spirit
:had not moved. The front lawn
was still green, the ponds and
bogs were heaped up and open,
-and water flowed by every spill-
way. The season was out of
whack. But days passed, and
soon the yOungsters would be
'coming home from school, folks
would be dropping in for holiday
greetings, and Advent wreaths
-would be post-facto. There must..
'be some greens on the fireplace
'mantel at least. So, I tossed the
axe in the trailer, hitched"on the
tractor, whistled 'for the pooch,
-and struck out. I guess I didn't
say it was raining at the time.
A hearty, jubilant kind of rain.
:like a monsoon. ,
Some years ago after - 1- -had. •
SMART BIRD - This clever
pigeon is busy people-watching
in hopes of getting a meal. He's
perched on a coin machine that
dispenses bird feed.
ACROSS
1, Lose color
6. Sphere
8. Minute orifice
12 .,111 -Strit
13 Achieved .
15, Arena' up to
date.
17 Outfit
18, Travel
19. Instant
20. Tavern-
21. Aggregate
22, Candle
.24. Wicked „, •
'26. rilatorted
28. White-allotted..
deer of India
IS. Sandarac tree
12. Pronoun
'33. Mohn.rnmed'S
adopted -son'
14. Moist .
34. Pnlin LOY,
--37.,•Overt
19. Snare .
42. Old oath-
44. Oieelltrig, ,
46 Fail behind'
47, Work Milt
49.. Mark of
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53. Female ruff
'54. To grant
, aticoltitfait
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49' .1 otiith
10;.-Clit hay 11. rennY-
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Absent-Minded!
A single. shee, 440 five, was
discoyeree in a London movie
after closing• time recently, Jt was
claimed neXt day by a. pretty girl,
who explained, that she had
taken it off because it. was pinch-
ing and then walked home:bere-
foot, thinking she, was cereyingel
it, in her hand s
During a meeting: in a New
York suburb, areatteactive yo_ ing
housewife began calmly to take
off her etockings. She explained
afteewords that she had been so
deep in thought 0914 something
else that she had imagined she,
was at home and about, to go to
bed.
Incidents, eike these are cause
ing some psychologists to. ask:
Are young women today becom-
ing more absent-Minded? If so,
why? It's hard to supply convinc-
ing answers to these questions.
It's not only the women who
do odd things. Lots of menetend
to let their minds wander. A
businessman actually forgot he
and his wife and family had
moved the, day before.
The house's new occupant,Was
indignant when he•saw him walloe'
into.= his old home, hang upehie
hat and absent-mindedly put 'his
arm around a woman cleaner
and try to kiss her thinking she
was his wife.
In a country church the rector,.
a keen- cricketer, on preparing
to leave ,the reading desk forethe
second tithe one Sunday morning
surprised the the congregation by
linnouncing: "Here endeth the
-second innings."
And a young man whose wife
had asked him to go out and buy
some steak and also post' some
letters, returned home still grip-
ping the letters, having popped
the meat in the mail-box.
HEARTS ARE FREE - Foster
parents for Lin Suk-Fong, above,
are a group of inmates at the
federal prison in Atlanta. tin-
der the Foster Parents' Plan,
they'll contribute $15 a month
toward the support of the 10-
year-old Hong Kong , refugee
whose parents fled from China
in 1946. She's the first child in
Hong Kong to be helped under
the plan. Strapped to her
shoulders is her one-year-old
brother.
Tasty Dishes Of
Insects And Worms
Wasp grubs fried in the comb.
New carrots with wireworm
sauce. '
Moths sauteed In butter.
Seventy-five years ago an Eng-
lisiunati named V. M. Holt rec-
ommended these succulent dishes
in an exotic cookbook called
"Why Not EatInsects?" But, as
Marston Bates, University of
Michigan zOologiet, gourmet, and
*Orld. traveller, puts it ,in an
article in last month's The Anse
tieett did not suc-
ceed in arousing 'much
siasnOi - •
Enlarging. on this, disdain foe
insects in Western. cuisine, Betel_
Writes:- "it is difficult to Under:
stand this: prejudioe. We eat oeN
get* clanie, 'Crabs, and Aline%
which • belong to the same gen-
. era! . animal .phylum as the
seas." Yet ,most Americans'
quickly, wheel their Shopping
carts past the fried geas'shabriere.
canned magileY Worths, and silk- .
worm pupae,
in ,other., parts of , the
.Bates - observes,- insects are im-
portant -ficidettiffs.. Termites (159
ecalakies an ounce) are TiOritilde
in Africa:.Cruneley. toasted.' ants
..'seeveehiefieeecorii 'at South Arne- -
Seems Cocktails in
co are acCOMpanied by m.aguey
worms. Of, these Bates remarks
"They liaVdea nutty tlaVoie which
blends' Well With a Martini,"
'In trying out the worms on his
cocktail guest. Rates rebores that.
"Ved haven't.found anyone Who
disliked .No one is en- -
intielaetic; but "at least they Pre-
Vide a topic. of conversation."
Obey the traffic eigrie they
.plaCed there for V b
SAPETY
Canadian farm front may not
have been all they are cracked
up to be.
At least thie is indicated by
a study of capital-gross income
relationships conducted by C.
K. Varkaris, Canada Depart-
ment of Agriculture economist.
« *
Mr. Varkaris found that for
every dollar of gross income in
1935, there 'was an investment
of $6 in land, buildings, machin-
ery and 'livestock. The gap has
narrowed greatly since then. In
1957, for example, the invest-
ment per dollar of gross income
- was $3.59.
Gross income consists of cash
income from the sale al farm
products, income in kind (poul-
try and eggs,'meat;; fruits, veg-
etables, honey, maple products,
dairy products, _forest products,
wool • and cereal" products used
by the farMer, and house rent),
supplementary payments' made:
by governments, and the value
of inventory changes.
e. I *
In 1935e' the .ratio varied from
a high of $7.90 'in Saskatchewan
to a low of $4,38 in Nova Sco-
tia„ and in 1957. from $4.38 in
Albert to $2.96 in Prince Ed-
ward Island.
The capital investment..: per
dollar of net< income (returns to
operator's labor and'-,`,,capital)
was much higheee every
dollar of net income:eane 1933
there. was an aVerSeeeseieivest-
ment of $19.77, 441 dn,. 1957
there was an aver4g0;iiivest-
meat a! $9.80. k 4"
o *
- Apart from ,;,,be er weather
conditions ire .the later period,
increased efficiency ancL:increis-
es in other inputs; such as Mi.,
tilizer': and herbioides, asmwell
as' improved feeds and practites,
largely accounted 'for this, trend
in capital -- gross incom e ratio.
Lectureta should always re-
member that the capacity of the
mind' to absorb Is' USuallyjimit-
ed to what the 'seat can endure.
Rush-Cutting Is
Ancient Business
Green (and high, tool) grew
the rushes in, many, parts of
Britain this year and rich was
the harvest reaped by the com-
Parativelyi few families'
cut them• down every Year Vein
the banks of rivers.
The members of one family
have been cutting rushes annual-
ly for, nearly 900 years. Qne
member provided rushes for
Hereward the Wake's bed when
he was fleeing from the Nor-
mans.
Who uses rushes to-day?
Brewing firms buy them for
caulking barrels. Many more
are in demand by women's or-
ganizations for the making of
mats and fancy baskets for sale
for charities at Christmas. Well-
dried rushes are so strong that
baskets. made from them last a
lifetime.
But it's many years since coun-
try people tramped into London
to sell fresh rushes, reaped with
long-handled sickles, to well-to-
do householders who used them
as carpeting for floors.
Life was less of a rush in those
days! People had time pains-
takingly ° to bind rushes into
sheaves and to make rush bearing
an occasion for carnival. The
sheaves were garlanded with
flowers before being carted in
procession through the villages.
There was even a Queen of
Rushbearing, who led the wag-
on bearing the most attractively
decorated sheaf. • Other pretty.
rush-bearing lasses dressed in
white also carried sheaves and
followed the wagons, whose
drivers wore beribboned hats
and holiday clothes.
Rushes were used to• strew the•
aisles of churches all the year
round. The poet Wordsworth's
great-grandchildren were among
those who took part in a rush-
bearing festival in St. Oswald's
'Church at Grasmere, Westmor-
land, some years ago. The poet
worshipped in the old, square-
towered church whose "rush re-
cords" date back to 1682.
Bible Difficult.
To Translate
When one turnego the lan-
guage into which the translation
is to be made, fresh difficUlties
arise. If it is a language already
reduced to writing and possesses
dictionaries and' grammars that
is a great advantage. But even
here there are some very high
hurdles to cross....
These problems seem, indeed,
hard enough. Yet for several
hundred of these translations
there was no dictionary, gram-
mar, or even alphabet. In many
instances the, natives had never
seen any kind of writing till the'
missionary came and were amazed
at the effect• of soundless written
messages. Here' •the missionary
must be phonetician, lexicogra-
pher, grammarian all in one....
It is not to be expected that in
the face of these difficulties all
translations will be equally suc-
cessful. The Bible Societies, even
after checking the text by vari-
ous processes, customarily issue
first translations as "tentative
editions" to be tested. and .re-
viewed in use.A translator into
an Eskimo dialect found he had
rendered "Nation shall rise up
against nation," by "A pair of
snowshoes shall rise up against
a pair of snowshoes," the differ-
ence being a single letter in a
seventeen letter word. In an,
early Florida (Solomon Island)
translation of Psalm 104, the
phrase "the• wild asses quench
their thirst" was later found to
be literally "the cannibal pigs
drink water to stop hiccougha."
Among numerous people in a
part of India the conception arose
that God was a bluish being be-
cause the first word in the phrase
heavenly Father, was taken to
mean having the color of the sky.
- From "The Book of a Thous-
and Tongues," edited by Eric M.
North, P,h.D.,
001
$7 Rey, B. Bare
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The Gospel! Versus Legalism
Acts I5:1-12; 12-21
Memory Selection: A man is
not justified by the works et the
law, but by the faith of Jesus
Christ. GalatianS 2:16.
We have eeen how the Gospel
was received by the. Gentiles in
Antioch and in towns of, Asia
Minor, New there were Jewish
Christians and Gentile Chris-
tians, Their backgrounds were
vastly different, The Jews had
been brought up under the Mo-
saic law. The Gentiles had been
heathen, The Jews had practiced
circumcision since the days of
Abraham. Jesus had been cir-
cumcised. To the Jews this rite
was the sign of God's everlasting
covenant with' His people. (Gene-
sis 17:13), Some felt that these
Gentile Christians, in order to be
counted in God's family, must
also be circumcised. Believing in
Jesus Christ was not enough..
Some Jews came down from.
Judea and taught among the
Gentiles, "Except ye be circum-
cised after the manner of Moses,
ye cannot be saved."
This was one of the most criti-
cal periods in the history of the,
early church. Paul and Barna-
bas had taught these Gentiles
that no one could be, justified
by the works of the law but only
by the faith of Jesus Christ. They
strongly opposed these Judiazers,
It was finally decided that Paul
and Barnabas should go to Jeru-
salem and lay the whole ques-
tion before the apostles and
elders.
At the Jerusalem conference
Peter related his experience at
the home of Cornelius.* God had
put no difference between the
Jew and Gentile but had given
the Holy Spirit to the Gentiles,
purifying their hearts by faith.
He asked, "Now therefore' why
tempt ye God, to put a yoke
upon the neck of the disciples,
which neither our fathers nor we
were.able to. bear?" Then Barna-
bas and Paul told the conference
of the miracles and wonders God
had wrought among the Gentiles
by them. After 'much ,discussion
James' pronounced the decision
which was endorsed by the
group. The Gentiles were not to
be troubled but simply asked to
abstain from pollutions of idols,
and from fornication, and from
things strangled and from blood.
We must still guard against
legalism. We cannot be saved by
our works. We are saved through
the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ. This grace is ours through
faith.
RE SURE CAN
The glamorous woman lion-
tamer , stood motionless as the
lion took 'a piece of sugar from
her lips.
"I can do that," cried a young
man.
"Would you dare?" sneered the
ringmaster.
"Yes; and do it just as well as
the lion."
ISSUE 3- 1990
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
▪ * *
Collecting air-borne' pollen in-
volves a 24-hour exposure of
glycerine jelly coated slides in
a standard air sampling device,
counting the ragweed pollen
over a unit area of one square
centimeter, and converting cen-
timeter counts by using standard
factors.
Sites with indexes above 10 '
are not recommended for hay
fever sufferers, those between
five and 10 are fairly goods bo-
lo* five good, and below one
excellent.
* * *
This is the picture in western
Canada:
British Columbia Very little
regweed pteient in any part of
the proVince; Alberta Only :in
the Medicine. Hat area were
counts high; :Saskatchewan -e No
stations' had air indexes above
two, althotigh, information is
still not available froth the ejt,
teethe southern portien of the .
beoViSite: Meniteiba - Eight sta,
flan itide*ee were generally tow;
'except in the area around Met-
den: 4, 4
lieferting to Canada's' :rag,
weed problenif Mrs Bassett
nientee
"NOW that the ,broad oetlities
of ragweed pollen incidence in
Ontario' and Otiebee are better
knOWK, it would be adVeritage,
atiS to tnteOsrly ragweed' don,
trol CaeriPaigne, in the, more
northerly areas Wheke the in.
dexes are still under or not
much Over 10."
e
The 'good old dzys on- the
Ragweed pollen is one of the
most important biological im-
purities of the air over the
eastern part of this continent.
Upwards , of 3,000,000 hay fever
sufferers in this region are sen-
sitive to it.
4. * *
Results in 164 pollen collect-
ing stations across Canada in-
dicate the heaviest concentra-
. tion of ragweed pollen in' the
air is in the southern parts of
Ontario 'and Quebec, reports
John Bassett, Plant Research
Institute, Canada Department
of. Agriculture.
Furthermore, says Mr. Bas-
sett, about "two-thirds of the
total area of heavy ragweed
pollen concentration, in- Canada
lies in southern Ontario.
Ragweeds and their air-borne
Wien are probably now invad-
ing northern Ontario and unless
they are effectively controlled,
they will become more abundant
in many northern localities and
will spread still further north-
ward as new areas are opened.
* * *
In the Gaspe Peninsula and
Atlantic Provinces, ragweed
control campaigns have been
conducted for several years with
encouraging results. In ,New
Brunswick, pollen air indexes at
several stations-have been de-
creased as-much as 75 per cent.
The northern limits of Can-
ada's heavy ragweed pollen con-
centration extend .from the base
of the Bruce Peninsula to the
St. Lawrence River, about mid-
way between the mouth of the
Saguenay River and Quebec
City.
PURE CORN - Leroy Huff holds on his lap the reasons for the
blue ribbon he holds in his hand. He, is a 4-H winner in ta
stotewide-crops contest.
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