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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-06-23, Page 711NDAYi11001 LESSON Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Products containing amino triazole or silvex give good con- trol. For preparations containing amino triazole, Tour pounds of the active ingredient per acre is recommended, and two pounds per acre for silvex. A commer- cial mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T (brushkiller) at two pounds of acid equivalent per acre is slightly less effective. * * * Directions for spraying small areas are given on containers. It is extremely important that a thorough, job be done in apply- ing the chemical, says Dr. Hay, as this can make the difference between excellent and mediocre results. Points to remember are: 1. Use enough solution to wet all foliage thoroughly, going over the area twice if necessary. 2. Spray when the leaves are fully grown from mid-June to mid-August in Eastern Canada, and proportionately earlier in B.C. Avoid spraying during dry periods as the chemicals are not so effective. 3. Repeat if new growth, oc- curs. If the roots are not com- pletely killed the new growth will appear in late summer or in. the next season and should, be sprayed to prevent re-esta- blishment of the weed. * * Soil sterilants containing so- dium borate also give good con- trol of poison ivy. These should be applied in early spring or fall when there is adequate rain- fall to carry the chemicals into the soil. They may be applied dry in a granular form or may be mixed with water. All vege- tation in the area treated will be killed for at least one sea- son. * * * When working in poison ivy, rubber boots and gauntlet gloves should be worn, cautions. Dr. Hay. Avoid skin contact with the leaves, stems, roots and equipment. Wash hands, wear- ing apparel and equipment thor- oughly after spraying. MOE EUNIA 001 mown map BOO UMW 201320MOD MOODEE MEMO DU000 UMOD 000OU DUOLIMUO U00 BOOM MOO ©EM© MOOD MEMO MUM minium OBODOMOB num mom Dom 000/ mu MUD MOM Canadians have heard so much of the decline of the rural popu- lation that they tend to accept it as a fact without prdbing for the human factors behind it, comments Dr. Helen. C. Abell. Dr. Abell, head of the rural sociology unit of the Economics Division, Canada Department of Agriculture, made a careful study ,of this problem in Cana- da's primary industry. She reminds the city-dwelling Canadian that families living on farms , go through the normal cycle of rearing children and helping to establish them in their chosen occupation. * 4, The chosen occupation of most sons used to be the continuation of the family farm or setting themselves up on farms. Today this expectation of transference of the family farm from the present to the succeeding gener- ation is no longer part of the thinking of all farm families. Why this change? For one thing the economics of farming are such that it is becoming increasingly difficult to make a go of it without a large volume of production and an assured market for the farm produce. * Many, young 'farmers,• and sons of older farmers, feel that they do not want to borrow the money necessary for expansion' of land, buildings, machinery and stock. They may prefer the regular hours and wages to be found in jobs off the farm 'and this eventually leads to perman- ent non-farm jobs and urban living. For some farmers ' how- ever, this non-farm work is an, effort to earn the stake which will enable them to re-establish themselves on the land. * * * Looking at instances where the farm has been expanded, Dr. Abell seeks to find whether this has led to better living for the family. She finds that the in- creased income has brought into the home some of the things which•make life easier and more enjoyable but often at the price of the wife and children giving up much of their time as Unpaid labour on the farm. The D,B.S. regular monthly survey for December, 1959, con- firms that unpaid family labotir accounts for much Of the labour forte on Canadian farms—only 79,000 men of 588,000 were paid workers;. only 9,000 women of a 30,000 labour farce were paid Workers. The search for adjustment to today's economic conditions in- wolves the wife and children as well as' the man of the family, Dr, Abell concludes, * Poison ivy arid the related poison oak c a n be controlled With herbicides, say - br, 3, R. Hay of the Plant Research in- Stitute, Canada Department Of Agriculture, O ttawa. Poison ivy is found' in provinces of Canada but is more prevalent in Ontario and West- ern Quebec., From Quebec City eastward it is found leas fre,,' cillently and from. Winnipeg to thee Padilla' Ocean it is trouble- mid mainly at lake and wood-~ land resorta, Poison oak occurs in British Columbia, Boy And Mule Try For Corn Record On an acre of sandy loam In the southern end of Prentiss County, Miss., corn is coming up. It belongs to a 4-H Club boy, Lindon Ratliff, who is out to break the world's record which his brother Lamar Ratliff esta- blished in 1955. Lamar's yield was 304.38 bushels of yellow corn testing 20 per cent mois- ture when it was shucked. That is the "mostest" corn ever rais- ed in one season, by man or boy, on 43,560 square feet of ground.. (The average production of corn last year in the United States was less than 50 bushels per acre.) Lamar will be home in. June from his stint in the Navy. That'll be in plenty of time to give Lindon some advice on how many pounds of 14-14-14 fertili- zer and extra ammonium nitrate the knee-high maize should' have in order to tap his own record. Inseparable work - fellow of young Lindon Ratliff is his gray mule, "Dolly." She does all the plowing and cultivating, and Lindon has taught her to be very careful and not step on any corn plants. Lindon told me: "Mr.. Guard, Dolly is not a six- year-old as you might think. But she is only a 'young' sugar mule — 23 years old." It was in the year 1952 when I journeyed out to Booneville, Miss., to the Rotary Club shindig and gave. Lamar a gold. medal for producing 214.1 bushels of corn on his 4-H project acre. At that time Lamar assured me he was going to raise 300 bushels on that same acre. "You see," he said, "I had only 20,000 plants this year and they yielded 200 bushels plus. Next year I'm going to put 30,- 000 plants on that 160 square rods, manure and fertilize it ac- cordingly, and that ought to make 300 bushels, don't you see?" Sounds reasonable! County Agricultural Agent W. Taylor Smith and 4-H Club Leader James Archer were standing by and they smilingly agreed to let him live and learn, writes Samu- el. R. Guard in the Christian Science. Monitor. So Lamar planted 30,000 stalks cn that acre. When I saw it that summer it was a wilderness of corn, so thick you couldn't wade through it. The sunlight couldn't get in there either, as it should. THANKS, CHUM — A small fawn, found lost and starving, gives an affectionate nuzzle to 4-year-old Gayle Schoen as feeding time comes around in its new home, Holding the deer is brother Wayne. THE FARM FRONT Jo6ustsTii SOME FUN — Maureen Chap, Chicago secretary, goes wad- ing in Loop fountain. Some- thing to do with the heat. Children Plrtying In The Woods Every' year, about this time, get a return of a great sadness over our woods—they sit there alone, With no children whoop- ing things Up, It was not always so, Great comments are made on every hand about juvenile delin- quency and the purposelessness of the beat generation. Maybe Ws because nobody plays in our woods anymore—and there have been worse theories than that! There used to be children there, and by this time of year they'd have quite a program going. Our woods happen to be sit- uated so this might be important, The old range roads were laid out a mile apart, more or less, and in Maine they had to accom- modate hills and streams so the pattern wasn't always so check- erboardish, Our house happens to sit on the far side of such a Maine square from the village7 I so our woods are closer to town than our house is. The back end of a Maine farm is usually the pasture and wood- lot, and before the days of dairy improvement it would be both, and as the village has grown over the years people have lived closer and closer. Perhaps in time our woods will be in town while our home is still out in the .country. This situation made our woods available to village children, and they'd begin appearing as soon as the snow was gone. I used to ,play with them, or they with me, and there was infinite variety in our pleasures—although maybe in this day explanations will come hard. We used to make tree houses, for instance. You'd sit up on a limb with imaginary boards, and have quite a good tree house. Remembering how this went, it's somewhat forlorn to wander along now, as I do, and look at the magnificent opportunities that children are no longer us- ing. My own youngsters are off .at school and college, so I have no idea what the present-day children are doing instead. They certainly aren't swinging on birches, for instance. A beauti- ful stand of paper birches has come in along the edge of the maple grove, and nary a child has approached them. They are just going to waste. There are no limbs on a birch this size for hands and feet, so you have to "shinny." It's like climbing a pole. And after you get up far enough your own weight causes the tree to bend over. Thus you swing far out and down, landing light as a pussy cat on the ground, and the tree then swings back up into place for somebody else to use. Fifteen or twenty youngsters, going up and coming down can ,do quite a business—and then there is the occasional misfire. This happens when you don't get up quite far enough, which means fast •enough, and the tree 'bends too, soon. It leaves you out but not down. You may be fifteen .feet off the ground, and not heavy enough to make the tree bend some more. There you are, hollering away, and everybody -findg it amusing. You have a kind of summit decision to make . which is simply to let go and come down in a heap. It was never as bad as I thought it was going to be, arid next time you climb you make sure to go a bit higher. We used to have meeting places. We'd break up, come evening, with an agreement to meet at "Number One"—this was a monstrous great red oak in the lower pines. It stuck up .so high the pine limbs crowded around it, and gave the effect of being a red oak trunk with pine limbs. That was Number One. When we built our house I cut 9, Tapering flag 10, SOCOrid set in 10. The pool a quadrille 1n poker 38, Peaceful 41. Venetian magistrates. 43, Mythical monster 45, Strong wind 46, roreboding 47. Barber'S cull 48. Gerrit) and chilly 49, 1100c1) 50. Noncom. missioned officer (ab.1 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 9 3 10 6 7 2 4 7k: •M• 12 15 14 17 26 18 27 28 21 19 29 22 20 11. Affirmative' 17, L*oiltIly dance 19. Cavalryman's Weanen. 2, wing-shaped 22, Aiiricitlitte 3, Ralf .(Pref 131 24. Siouan . Indian 4, Condiment 25, Gulls 6. Plant again'.221; .WATel-g6TdI tIdge 6, Beverage 28, 'lieu lontee 7.- IS imminent 80. Absolute 8..Mental .btirden 33, Idealist 30 23 24 25 31 34 32 33 38 35 Ad -BOSS I. Ringed metal fastener. 5. N'Vading bird 9, Water resort 12, Away from *lad ward 13. Patron Saint of sitilori 14. Dilly 15. Inclined want 36. Segregate 18. Threefold 20. Paradise 21.. Corroded 23. Esau 26. Used In marlcing trails 29. Flatter , servilely 31, T.Imb 22. Bla sph enied 84. Propel a hoot 35. TO:chaust as of energy 37, Motions of the sea $9. S then island 40. ATerepeettliar 42. On the summit 44. Beaver Stater 48. railing to, , follow. snit 51. Designate' ,52• Wile SPeod contest Z4. 34011y 55. 514(1 being 156. Grandson of Adam 47, Coin DOWN f. Male deer 37 36 39 41 40 42 47 46 45 44 43 letheA.: 48 51 SO 49 ;S. tate 52 54 53 55 57 56 ODD BIRD — As yOu ptoLiably sutperted, thete are two pa,. ohs in this pidtUre net on e, Was taken at the Antonio zoits.: , reeaitieldt ate:.'flesii-ealiti§ Kea pdrrOts normally found in Ni* 5'23 Answer elseWhere oil thiS page. By stet,'. It, Barclay Warren R.A„ 11.0. The Firm Foundation Matthew '7;24-20; 21428-3A Memory Selection; Whosoevet heareth these sayings of mine, and, deeth them, I will liken hire unto a wise man, which hunt his house Open a rdek. Matthew 7:24. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of Matthew record the longest sermon in the Scriptures, Today we study the conclusion, the application of the sermon. The wise man is he who hears and does the sayings of Jesus, He is like the wise mart who builds his house upon the rock. He stands up in the storm. The foolish man has the same opportunity as the wise man, He hears the sayings of Jesus but he doesn't do them, His house, built on sand, goes down in the storm. The distinction lies in whether or not we obey the teaching of Jesus. Many admire the wisdom of Jesus' words, They quote them with pride. But at the same time they will not obey' them. This is foolish. Samuel said to King Saul, "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, an4 to hearken than the fat of rams," 1 Samuel 15;22. Many are unable to cope with the crises of life. When the suit is shining they feel fine but when the clouds of trouble, dis- appointment, bereavement anti suffering gather, they go to pieces. This is the time whert we should prove Jesus Christ as the all sufficient Saviour, * The second part of the lesson helps to illustrate the first. One son at first refuses to go to work but later changes his mind. The other says he will go but he doesn't. From the father's view- point the first son is the more satisfactory. He did the work though he was slow starting. Je- sus said to the religious persons who did a lot of talking but were not living according to the truth that the publicans and harlots were going into the kingdom of God before them because they were believing. Reader, where do you stand? Are you doing what Jesus taught? If you are slisObeYinf Mtn your profession is a irldea.- e r y. It's living the life that counts in God's sight. It's living the life from day to day by the grace of God that will enable you to stand in the time of storm. The beginning of wisdom is the ability to admit the other guy is right. ISSUE 26 — 1960 the oak and made the living- room floor with is still. Meeting Place Number One. Meeting Place Number Two Was A ledge above the spring, A safe place to have a fire, When we took lunches, that's where we'd wind up. Most always, if we were Englishmen we'd meet at No, 1, but if we were Indians, we'd meet at No, 2, It was a bet, ter place to drY scalps,. There were no cowboys around, just Englishmen and Indians. The Englishmen always lost, and got scalped. We were hard on Englishmen. But, there was so much more. We saw the skunk cabbages corn- ing through the ice, and later the hypaticas and moccasin flowers, Somehow, I remember, we had a rule that Mayflowers and Moc- casin flowers didn't get picked— I've always ever since felt bad to see either in a bouquet. They were said to be flowers that of- ten failed to come again the next year if disturbed, so we left them. We found partridge and wood- cock nests. We sometimes climb- ed pines and brought down a little crow which we kept for a pet. Every boy had a pet crow, one time or another, and you didn't have to keep him in a cage. One of the nicest things about playing in the woods was the coming of night, when we'd separate for our homes. The village boys would go one way, and I'd come out through the junipers at the top of the hill and see the house down across the fields, lamplight in the win- dows, Being careful to avoid ambushes, I'd scout the situation and find the settlement safe. It was nice to know that while you were supporting the pioneer hardships the people you were protecting were having if comfy and cozy. Little did they know the dangers that prevailed. This spring, as many springs now, I've wandered out as I al- ways do, and there is no evi- dence of child's play in the for- est. Nobody makes a brush lean- to; there are no ashes at No. 2. The bright .new birches have gone unswung. Nobody has scalped an Englishman; nobody has tracked a Pemaquid. The whole acreage is going to waste, and I think it's a terrible thing we've come to.—By John Gould in The Christian Science Mon- itor. Imagine Sleeping For 23 Years Imagine for a few moments that you're a man (or a woman) of seventy. Then it will amaze you to learn that even if you're a comparatively quiet indiVidu- al, you've spent no fewer than thirteen years talking, says a Swiss scientist. If this fact hasn't left you speechless, ask him how many words the daily speech of a hu- man being consists of and he'll tell you: "An average of 18,000 words, equivalent to a book of fifty-four pages." So a seventy-year-old person has spoken as many words as are contained in 4,620 books of 300 pages each, declares this expert, after making elaborate calcula- tions. For good measure he also tells us that a seventy-year-old per- son, assuming he or she spends eight hours a day sleeping, has slept for twenty-three years. We also spend a great deal of time in eating. A man of seventy spends six years of his life feed- ing and about one and a half years are spent in washing him- self, assuming he washes regu- larly! What about a seventy-year- old's work, entertainment and leisure hours? These involve a period of twenty years, says the scientist. LaMar forgot about photosyn- thesis, and his. yield that year fell to 05 bnShelst Accordingly, Mamma a n4, Papa Paul Ratliff persuaded the boys to cut their population of corn stalks to 25,4170 or less on that acre down the hill below their stock pond. Next year the yield was bacl Up to 218.5 beg- els, and in 1955 it Made the record 304.38 bushels. • Last year Lindon grew 242.7 bushels on his Acre, despite a.. severe frost when the corn W.4.1. six inches high, a hailstorm. right when it had recovered. from 'frostbite, and a flood of. 36 measured inches of rain in June, before three weeks of drought in July. (What farmers have to contend with!) Hemingway In A Paris Book Shop A customer we liked, one who gave us no trouble, was that young man you saw almost every morning over there in a corner at Shakespeare and Company, reading the magazines or Cap- tain Marryat or some other bock, This was Ernest Hemingway who turned up in Paris, as I remem- ber, late in 1921. My "best cus- tomer," he called himself, a title that no one disputed with him. However, he would have en- deared himself to me just as much if he hadn't spent a penny in my establishment. I felt the warmest friendship for Ernest Hemingway from the day we met. Sherwood Anderson„ in Chi- cago, had given his "young friends Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hem- ingway" a letter of introduction to me. 1 have it still, and it reads as follows: I am writing this note to make you acquainted with my friend Ernest Hemingway, who with Mrs. Hemingway is going to Paris to live, and will ask him to drop it in the mails when he arrives there. Mr. Hemingway is an Ameri- can writer instinotively in touch with everything worth while go- ing on here and I know you will find both Mr. and Mrs. Heming- way delightful people to know. But the Hemingways and I had known each other for some time before they remembered to produce Anderson's letter. Hem- ingway just walked in one day. I looked up and saw a tall, dark'young fellow with a small mustache, and beard him say, in a deep, deep voice, that he wat „ Ernest Hemingway. I invited him to sit down, and drawing him out, I learned that he was from Chicago originally. . Hemingway was a widely edu- cated young man, who knew many countries and several lan- guages; and he had learned it all at first hand, not in universities. He seemed to me to have gone a great deal farther and faster than any of the young writers I knew. In spite of a certain boy- ishness, he was exceptionally wise and self-reliant. In Paris, Hemingway had a job as sports correspondent for the Toronto Star. Do doubt he was already trying his hand at writing fic- tion. -- From "Shakespeare and Company," by Sylvia Beach. TURN FOR THE WORSE Dr. Leo Jerking; reading from the text of higfngigural address as president? Of "East Carolina College before an audience of 10,000, suddenly found he was making no sense. One of his six children had swiped page 8. 5 16, SERGEANTS HIT OHIO -- The tWa walking British Attriy geantspause cit the Ohle State line hi their trip aeresi the nation. At left'Sgt, Patrick'Maloney; Sgt. Aiiiirvyri EVadi at right: