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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-05-05, Page 7TRUNK LINE - Stethoscopelike plastic tube is linked with others to tap maple trees into one reservoir. Ben Abraham joined 50 trees with 2,500 feet of tubing. Squirrels occasional- ly bite holes in the plastic but otherwise, it's fine: • since DeceMber. Itr,''.13ringing the total to date to,I.1671" Latest areas ;be Artified were: Nova Scotia e- Pieteu, Yarmouth, Ai iigiterish: S=h e •1-. burne, Queerit: 4 • :77 New BrunsWicit'-e Weseriorel' land. Ontario - Elgin, Lanark, Lin- coln, Russell. Manitoba - Daly, Bolan d, Stanley. Saskatchewan - Benson, Big Arm, Caledonia, Dufferin, Gray- son, Park, Langenburg, Wolse- ley, Warman, Wheat Lands, and North Saskatchewan Administra- tion District 375. * Under the national eradication program, 1.34 per cent of cattle tested have been found to be reactors. For an area to qualify for certification, not more than one per cent of all 'cattle and not more than five per cent of all herds can be infected with the disease. Birds Build Nests 'Of Many Sorts The great majority of birds build nests in which they lay and incubate their eggs. Many, though by no means all, also use the nest as a cradle to rear the helpless young after they have hatched. But the roosting place of an adult bird is very seldom a nest: only woodpeckers, some song-birds. . . and a few others build nests to sleep in. When you read that The Bird hurries home to its nest 'at the approach of night (or rain or thunderstorms), your author is finding Wealth Under .A Desert- The discovery of it on the • Persian Gulf has brought emir- Mena. wealth late Arabia. Paelly as a result of this, and partly AS a result of the war, prlceS the towns .have soared. In the deseret the Bedu need very lits tie to keep themselves alive, Their herds provide them With food and drink, but they have certain requirements which, they cannot supply for themselves,. They need cloth and cooking- pots, knives, ammunition, occa, sional loads of dates er grain. , To get these things they visit-e markets in the villages or towns and sold a camel or a goat, a little butter, water-skins, rugs, or saddle bags. Life in the desert ceased. to be possible when the few, but entirely es- sential, commodities that the Bedu had hitherto been able to buy in exchange for the prod- ucts of the desert became too expensive for them to afford, and when no one any longer required the things which they produced. Bedu love money; even to handle it seems to give them. a • thrill. They talk of it inCessant- ly. They will discuss the price of a headcloth or a cartridge belt intermittently for days. To pass the time on. the march a man will put up his camel for sale, and the others, although they know that he has no inten- tion of selling her, enter into the spirit of the game and bar- gain noisily for hours. They are all obsessed by dreams of buried. treasure. Frequently as we rode along my companions assured me that there was dhahab (gold) to be found here and dliahab to be found there - un- OLD SALT - Longshoreman Louis Podgornich. gets uncov- ered from 10 tons of salt. He was buried when the load shifted on a freighter. Quick rescue work saved his life. der enormous sand-dunes or great rocks or in the middle of a quicksand. In the Wadi. Difin near Haba- rut they pointed out a tunnel twenty feet up in the face of a limestone cliff, inaccessible ex- cept with a rope from above. This tunnel, whose mouth was two feet by four feet, had been filled with a plug of clay which the Arabs had recently tried to remove, as they have a tra- dition of treasure buried there. They claimed to have penetrated about twenty feet along the twisting tunnel, but said that they had given up before they reached the end of the plug. ...There was a considerable pile of excavated earth at the foot of the cliff, Sometimes, finding their preoccupation with money tedious, I chided them for their avarice, and they Answered: 4'It is all very well for you; you have plenty; but for us a few riyals may make all the differ- ence between starving and not starving." On the Oil-fields the Bedu could find the money of which they dreamt. - From "Arabian Sands," by Wilfred. Thesiger. Pointed Criticism A surprise citation raised its grinning head among the Ati- nual aWatda announced by the Washington Newspaper Guild last inontlf: Special' honor in the "Initrior"' -,q6gbry was Paid to a musk 'c. The 2 WAS SOft‘spoken:i Zyear-c,id Milton beflitier who, addition to hie Majer job of covering Capitol Hill Int The Wathington New, doubles the Paper5S reviewer Of ballet - and prOfestiorial ten= ilia,. His aivard-winning teVieWi, in full: "Liberate, opening at the Latta last night, shOWed that he has lost none of his VortatilA' sty, Hie still plays on then black• keys as well as the white Oriel," SCENTS. HER - Susie, a one- month-old mongre I, experi- ences the first spring fever of her young life. She delicately sniffs a daffodil. meanest, vilest, least trustwortilh most despicable hunk of flesh ever set en paper. Possibly only the evil is re- membered, and many. a good. horse went to oblivion. without impressing the family overmuch, The nasty ones are recalled viv- idly, But, there are too many tors, too, many had ones! Nobody writes (at least so !far) to tell me I am wrong, that the horse is a 'beloved, creature, dedicated to serving mankind generously, a friend and companion,. Every body is writing to tell me be used to have a horse even meaner than mine. I have a disturbing collection, now, of horses, that bit, kicked, squealed, ran away and other- wise took the joy out of .life, leaving a wide aggregation of resentful citizens who grew up to hate horses, and preserve their animosity intact, Applying a sim- ple Gallup. Poll equation to my mail, I can say that 84 per cent, of the American people despise horses, and that it's all the horse's fault, This is a shocking situation, particularly when you. stop to reflect on ell the horses now working in television,. In every instance, these peo- ple emphasize that the horse had no reason to be nasty. He had good care, pleasant accommoda- tions, plenty to eat, and was given every chance to be .pleas- ant, But no, he would eat his oats and then sneer. He would partake of every bounty, and then kick the end out of the stable. On the evidence I have assembled, .unsolicited, any strict logician would have to conclude there never was a nice horse. .And, of course, this ruins my professional respect far the ani- mal as a happy character. If, following my formula, I now write a piece that depicts a kind .and loving horse, smart and in- telligent, it's going to offend a lot of, people who know. the true horse as well as I do. Perhaps I shall never write about a horse again! - by John Gould in the Christian Science -Monitor. He Doesn't Like Those Old Hymns! We're going to our Father's mansion On the Happy Day Express; And the letters on the engine Spell When. England's industrial re- volution was bowling along full steam the words of this muscular hymn might have seemed quite appropriate. But when David Holbrook, a 37-year-old play- wright in Suffolk, heard one of his three youngster singing it, in his century and in his house, he winced. It was, he said, "not only in bad taste, but appalling poetry," and he set out to do something about hymn singing in Britain. With the aid of Edrich Cun- dell, retired principal of Lon- don's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Holbrook is making a new selection of 150 hymns for publication next year by Cambridge University Press. "For our new book," he said, "we're discarding the worst nineteenth - century drive 1." Among the discards: "All Things Bright and Beautiful" and "There Is a Green Hill Far Away. In their place he plans to include Ameeican spirituals and modern hymns by Ralph' Vaughn Williams, Benjamin Britten, and Aaron Copland. The mail, which was running heavy for the hymnal makers, has been about 4 to 3 in their favor. In the face or the criticism, Hol- btook was calin. "I Sather ex- pected more." It's easy to make tinted cocoa- nut. Fill glass jar half-full of 'shredded cocoanut and sprinkle in a few drops at food colour- ing, cover jar and shake. The increasing use of varie- ties that are resistant or toler- ant to the more prevalent potato viruses has reduced virus-caused diseases in Canada's potato crop. The three varieties most plant- ed for certified seed in Canada, Sebago, Katandin, and Kenne- bec, seldom develop the undesir- able "net necrosis" in their tub- ers when they become infected with the leaf roll virus, although they are not resistant to the virus itself. They are, however, resistant to potato virus A, which com- bines with potato virus X to cause the "mild mosaic" foliage disease. These varieties and Rus- set Barbank, which ranks fourth in popularity, are also resistant to potato virus Y, which com- bines with virus X to cause the severe "rugose mosaic" disease. * * * The first three varieties have come into prominence during the past 20 years, largely re- placing Green Mountain and. Irish Cobbler, which now occupy fifth and seventh place respect- ively. Virus X, alone, usually causes an almost imperceptible weaken- ing of the plants, and potato virus S seldom causes any visible diseases. However, these two viruses are almost universal in potatoes and cause an estimated 10 per cent redtiction of the 'crop. The new variety, Saco, combines freedom from net necrosis with resistance to these viruses. * These are not, all of the viruses that infect potatoes.-Seed grow- era ere familiar with "purple top", "witches' - broom", a n d "spindle tuber". Each is caused by a specific virus, and each is sometimes widespread in particu- lar areas. Less known, and for- tunately less widespread, are po- tato Viruses F and M, and others that cause yellow dwarf arid calico; there are others not yet clearly identified. ,Indeed; so numerous are the notate viruses that their isolation and identification continues to be a Major task in plant patilel- egy research. * * Some of the viruses now held in check could quickly become more prevalent if it were not for seed inspection, for viruses sire passed on through tubers to the new Crop. They are spread from diSeased to healthy plants in the !field, some by mechanical contacts and sand by sapsucking insectS, Some viruses are har- bored by wild plants that grow heal' Potato fields, and Would be difficult to eliminate.• * More than One-quarter of alt battle . in Canada have been brought tinder a national eellOSIS tontrel progrtthi.• Health of Animals Departitierit Of Agineul, titre, hat reported that 'the pro, grant, lau3iched iii 1157, tiONV Velvet abotit 1,906,00 Cattle. • Twenty-five areas have quell- tied as brucellosis Certified tireat Many Letters From Horse-Haters An extremely strange thing has happened here, and I simply Must be Permitted to digress about it, It is worth it, You see, he svlio tickles the typewriter learns early that the "animal" is above reproach, and will be defended stoutly by vast hordes of fine folks who can rally in seconds by the thousands, I can give you a mellow example: Not long ago I did a friendly bit here about Stubby, my eat. I presumed a little, and was flip- pant. It was a matter of prin- ciple, I guess, for came the hordes and Stubby had many supporters while I was rude and bellicose. Of course, nothing •could be further „from the truth, and you can ash Stubby - who has probably yanked my pajamas off the closet hook again and is sleeping on them as usual, But I made Stubby the fall guy in some domestic situations, anti had not qualified the report. Maybe you remember I did a sequel piece to assure the Telinophiles that I was really spoofing, and Stubby is not overly unhappy with me. I prefer to give this a literary (sic) twist. just make the point that animals, in general, when they insert themselves into composition, had better make out all right. Otherwise, there is a postal horse-whipping - and I think that means whipping the author with a horsewhip, and not whipping a horse at all. I can say this is all true. You let some uncultured billy goat whose moral character is at a low ebb wander into text, and if he doesn't get the better of man- kind, more or less, the mail gets excited, The circumspect writer will therefore be respectful of billy goats, and all other animals, at all times. It is easier. Well, ignoring what I knew, I „recently did a diereSpectful piece about the Western TV horse, I dwelt on bhe beaits we used to have in the older days here on the farm, and I pictured them as wild, rude, mean, nasty creatures whese entire purpose was to make things hard on humanity. I thought the major point being made - that TV horses have lit- tle verisimilitude - was more important at the moment than being kind to horses. I talked myself into an exception. Even so, as I finished the piece, I said to myself: "Oh, oh! Now comes the mail from horse-lovers!" What happened was a surprise, and from my point of view per- haps an agreeable one. I didn't hear from the horse lovers at all - I began getting letters from the horsehaters! They seem to run to a goodly group. Mostly, they are older folks, those whose memories run back to real horsy days, and they show a high cali- ber of wit and understanding, as well as a deep-seated ire. There is no false beguilement, as when you form an opinion with- out knowing - they know, and they are under no illusions. On the basis of this response, it seems to me the horse has few friends. If there has been a popu- lar national opinion that horses are nice, and ride high in pub- lic esteem, I can say this is not so. Through the great cross 'sec- tion there is a heartwood of dis- trust, mistrust, disrespect, and open animosity toward the horse. This is riot from good people who' sentimentally .accept the idea of "horse,' sense;" •and think of the horse as a "noble steed." This is from people who had horses in their lives and have no trouble about remembering them. And when. a real old horse- handler decides to depose and State, you don't get any mincing around. Most of these letters start off about like this: "Re- garding your Dispatch, we used to haVe a weird nag . . ." Then follows a description of the UNDAYS0001 LESSON By Rev, R. lfr.. Warren, 100 Christian 1Uffileileet Society Matthew 5;1046; 13:31.35 Memory Selection: Let your llght so shine before men, that they may see your good werits, and glorify your Father which is• in heaven, Matthew 5:10, The sun was shining brightly when we took to the air at Win, nipeg, But as we travelled over the Great Lakes, darkness closed, in, From an altitude of 17,000 feet I spied a light from a boat, How cheering it was! It was more than three miles away but I could see it. If I dropped my eyes a little, all was dark. But if I wanted to see a light, •I could. Some people prefer to gaze stupidly into the darkness. Da- vid wrote, "I said in my haste, 'All men are liars.' " Psalm 118:11, Elijah, in heaviness of spirit, on learning of Jezebel's threat on his life, said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the chil- dren of Israel .ave forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." And the. Lord said, "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bow- ed unto Baal, and every mouth which bath not kissed him." 1 Kings 19: 14, 18. Let us not minimize the depth of the dark- ness about us. But God has His lights, too. We are called to shine as lights in the world, in the midst of a crooked and per- verse nation. Philippians 2:15. We can't dispel all the darkness but we can shine. In The Mer- chant of Venice, Pertia, says• to• Nerissa while still at a distance from Portia's house: "That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws hiS beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." A few weeks ago I spoke one Friday evening to a large group of youth. Afterward I present- ed to the minister who had been our host for the evening meal, a copy of my book, Spiritual Strength for Today, published by Thomas Nelsons. The minister expressed regret that he hadn't known about it before the meet- ing that it might have been an- nounced. After reading the book he ordered 10 copies. Meanwhile I was reproved. In a kind of false humility, I was hiding my light under a bushel. Jesus said also to His disciples, "Ye are the salt of the earth." We must help to preserve and give savor to the good. We are to rejoice even in persecution. The kingdom will go on. The tiny mustard seed will become a great tree. The leaven will spread. Jesus Christ is the Light of the world. Ultimately, every tongue shall confess that He is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 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Many people also think that song- birds usually nest high in the trees, This is true for some kinds but by no means for all. Most of our small birds nest in bushes. Then there are the larks and pipits and some buntings and warblers, which make their nest on the ground... The way the nest is built var- ies greatly with the species, frem the almost transparent structure of the blackcap to the finely woven, domed cradles which the long-tailed tit, the wren, and most remarkable of all, the pen- &lithe tit build for the4, young. The tightly woven, felt-like nest cf the penduline tit has only a side entrance and hangs from a swaying poplar branch. These are only a few examples from the passerines. If we take a look at other groups, we will find many new variations. The nightjar, for example, sits on its two eggs on a carpet of pine needles which lie just as they were blown by the wind. The nightjar relies on its remarkable protective coloration and would only advertise its brood if it al- tered the surroundings by gath- ering any kind of a nest. The kingfisher, bee-eater and sand - martin bore a yard deep ' into the sandy loam of a cliff and lay their eggs at the end of this tunnel, the kingfisher on fishbones which it throws up, the sandmartin in a warm nest often made of feathers. The grebes gather all sorts of plants under water to make their large float- ing nests with a shallow hollow on top, in which they lay their eggs. If the water level rises, the eggs lie with their undersides in water. - From "The Birds," by Oscar and Katherina Heinroth, English edition prepared by "Michael Cullen. Mt FARM FRONT J.06, ISSUE 20 - 1960 10. Alert 31. Leafy shelter CROSSWORD 11. Soaked In an 32. Fortune antenna 33. Wonder s olution PUZZLE 16, Model of 35. Jump perfectloa 34.11ues 18. Superior 36, Freshet blaOlc tea 37, Burdened 20. Pubild officer 39, Ethical 22. Supper 41. 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