HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-10-20, Page 3MAKING •TRACKS — Railroad worker Binger Sandman rides
to the job on a special tricycle in Kiruna, Sweden. The town,
90 miles north of the Arctic Circle, depends completely on the
railroad to bring in supplies.
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irselne 42:
Jesus said, "Messed are they
which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall brs
filled," Matthew 5:9, It is the
one Who is hungry that really
enjoys his dinner, So in the
spiritual life; only those wile
hunger and thirst after righteous-
ness receive the comfort that
brings happiness,
The Psalmist has been under
pressure, He has wept as his
enemies have taunted hl in,
"Where is •they God?" Doubts,
have assailed him. His soul is
cast down and disquieted, Like
one of my friends, he may have
wondered at the providence of
God in taking one of his children,
Or, like another friend, a uni-
versity student, he may have
been tempted to ask, "Is there
really a God?" Whatever the
doubts and fears, David never
gives up faith. He exclaims, "The
Lord will command his loving-
kindness in the daytime, and in
the night his song shall be with
me, and my prayer unto the God
of my life," The song concludes
with the memory selection,
verse II, "Why art thou cast
down, 0 my 'soul? and why are
thou disquieted within me? hope
thou in God: for I shall yet
praise hien, who is the health of
my countenance, and my God."
We can't go through life with-
out experiencing disappoint-
ments And frustrations. This is
an imperfect world. We need
God to hold us steady all along
the way of life. We realize that
need more in the tests of life. A.
Christian friend in his forties,
after nearly a .year of suffering
from an incurable disease, re-
cently went to 'be with his Lord.
In a sealed envelope he had left
instructions for his wife and
children with regard, to his
funeral. Here is the last verse
and refrain of a hymn he had
chosen to be sung at the service.
"Pardon for sin and a peace
that endureth,
Thy- own dear presence to
cheer and to guide;
Strength for teday and bright
hope for tomorrow,
'Blessings all mine, with ten
thousand besides
'Great is thy faithfulness!
Great is thy faithfulness!'
Morning by morning new
mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand
hath provided
`Great is thy faithfulness,'
Lord, unto me!"
In a world of uncertainty we
can depend on God.
, MARKED MAN — Ritual and
diplomacy meet in Tolon Na,
Ghana delegate to the U.N. in
New York, His face is scarred
by tribal custom.
sized unit, owned 'by a family, or
small-type corporation, can pre-
vail in this country. But it must
be larger than the family farm
of grandfather's day if the people
and 'the machinery on it are to
be fruitfully employed.
So when we talk about a fam-
ily farm, let it be a farm to suit
modern conditions and not a
farm to suit sentimental ideas
inherited from the past.
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Farmers in another' part of the
world, namely Russia, appear to
be having their" troubles too as
this article by Paul Wohl in the
Christian Science Monitor would
seem to indicate Mister K. talks •
mighty, big, but even he can't
control the .wind and the rain—
at least not yet!
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Premier Nikita S. Khrush-
-chev's hurry to get disarmament
talks started at the United Na-
tions Assembly may well be con-
nected with the.news of unpleas-
ant 'economic facts reaching him
from home. Most important
among.these facts is the failure
of this year's agricultural plan.
This failure could have been
avoided or cushioned if Soviet
industry would devote 'a larger
Share of its capacity to peaceful:
purposes, notably 'to manufac-'
ture of agricultural machines
and fertilizer. At present, West-
ern observers believe, more than
40 per cent of the national prod-
uct is spent on armaments and
nuclear developments. The So-
viets are paying a- high price for
maintaining a lopsided economy.
For the second year in a row the
grain harvest is disappointing.
The economic development,
plan for this year which the Su-
preme Soviet or legislature rati-
fied in October, has called for a
22 per cent increase over the
poor grain harvest of 1959 and
for an 8 per cent increase over
the buinper crop of 1958. Neither
target will be met. It rather
looks as if the grain harvest
once again would be very much
below that of 1958.
Industry's responsibility for
part of the setback in grain pro-
duction call be seen from the
fact that agriculture which was
to receive this year 135,000 trac-
tor ploughs, 108,000 tractor sow-
ing machines, and 54,000 grain
combines actually seems to have
received little more than half
the promised equipment.
Poor weather was another
factor. After all unusually late'
spring, followed by sandstorms
which necessitated the resowing
of more than 20,000,000 acres,
July once again saw a spell of
unfavorable weather. Judging by
the reports which are nosy
the grain harvest in the Ukraine
and in the Lower Volga region
will be worse than last year.
The Soviets, since tnicl-duly,
pinned their hopes mainly on
the grain from KaZakhstan and
Siberia. Kazalthstah alone, wrote
Pravda on' duly 11, was eXpected
to produce One-third of the
totintry'S grain for urban con-
Stuription, for the grain deficit
areas, for the emergency re-
serve, and ,for eitport,
But itetaklistati end. Siberia
apparently are not Mining
through, The Central Statistical
Administration reported that on
Sept, 20 in the whole U.S.S.R..
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THE FARM FRONT
Jokuulatil.
Going. Camping
Old-Time Style
Once again the avilal oat has
1... turned a bountiful harvest and
the September sun bath east his
beams upon a favored land,
After Labor Day, Maine belongs.
pretty much to Us'ns, and the
vecationi$ts have gene home to
their dreary affairs thinking
they had a good time—not knew,
Mg that the joys of July and the
orgies of August are as nothing
compared to the salubrities of
September, Our .1a..t,hie came
home rich from a summer job as
a resort waitress, and then was
said, sung, and spoken:
• "Let's go . camping before
school opens!"
We don't camp as the campers
do, We see campers all summer,
duffel atop their automobiles,
boats bouncing on tiny trailers,
and a slip stream of picnic pa-
per$ and abandon. They are
largely gone •now, and camp sites
are more available, I got down
the wangans, sharpened the
hatchet, nested the skillets, and
we took .off,
We went to a place called
Canada Falls. This is on the
South Branch of the Penobscot
River, close to Maine's western
boundary, „deep in the wilds. It
is pretty far up. If you look at
the map of Maine, you'll see that
the Penobscot Bay makes a deep
gash in the coast. Above tide,
water, the river divides into the
East and West Branches, The
West Branch,e later, divides again
—into the North and South. And
this is historically important, for
those rivers were the transpor-
tation of the olden days, and
they had timetables and routes
just like any railroad.
Not too far from Canada Falls,
just over a narrow "height of
land," you can hit Moosehead •
Lake waters, which flow into the
Kennebec River, These portages,
or "carries," are like 'a bus ter-
minal, where you, change coaches.
The intricate systems of. Maine
lakes, connected by streams, lay
tire, whole state open to the wa-
ter traveler. In Indian times,
these were -the routes they trav-
eled. So you could come up one
system, portage briefly overland,
and hit another system.
Maine was excellent food
country for the savages, and.
they throve. Students. ,,of the
subject. say the populations herd
a thousand years ago were in
big figures. The shell-heaps
weren't made by a few random
Indians; they were made by
whenever a 1,:-Aybird alights op
• the hand or 13 seen on the win-
dew sill still etaves to make us
pause and check the impulse to
kill every small, moving eree-
tare. And it is interesting that
it is completely justified, for it
enables us to send on her way
tile lady (or gentleman) to con-
tinue a life of extremely bene-
ficial predation on countless
!numbers of aphids, greenflies
and wale insects. For with only
a few .exceptions the more than
four thousand species of lady-
birds are thus .predaceous in
both larval, 'end adult stages,
ranking among our most benee
ficial insects and fully deserving
all the encouragement that we.
can give them.
The majority have a .charae-
teristic. shape, -very flat be-
neath, but with the body strong-
ly arched, almost herntspheri-
cal in side view, and often al-
most circular when seen from
above. Most of the species are
brightly coloured, pink, orange
or red, with black dots, Some,
however, are unmarked, and a
few are black with red or orange
dots, Only a few exceed a quar-
ter .01 an Inch. in length, The
bristly, active larvae are boldly
coloured and patterned, typically
with black, orange, blue or •red,
and taper slightly. .
Many species of ladybirds
have a curious habit of gather-
ing in very large numbers to
hibernate together in some dry,
sheltered • crevice. In nearly any
part of the temperate zone con-
siderable assemblages of this nac
ture can be found in winter be-
neath loose stones .or dead bark,
In some parts of the: world these
groups number scores of thou-
sands, of individuals assembling
year after year, in the same
place. In .California certain hill-
tops are famous as winter quar-
ters of ladybirds, which annu-
ally gather to the extent of -a
bushel or more from the sur-
rounding territory. Such spots
are highly valued. by their • own-
ers, who collect the 'beetles and,
sell them to owners of citrus
groves. When liberated in the
spring -they set to work on the
scale insects; and the next
autumn a new generation seeks
refuge in the sane winter quar-
ters, to be collected and distri-
buted in turn. — From "Living
Insects of, the World," by Alex-
ander B. Klots.
i total ! .ain acreage was. about.
ef,t',0e )m(j hem, tax's of grain land
had , ,,n. mowc(T. This year's
1.25,000.000 linters, meaning that
1 'ran 22 lee, cent of the acreage the
! grabi had not even been cut,
,Sile. the harvest in the Eu-
rope' mr grain lands is virtually
Lye., the Asian territories must
be far behind, Roughly one-third
of the Soviet grain acreage is
in Kazakhstan and in western.
Silxx la. There, Su v i et harvest-
ing teams. are ming ae,ainst the.
snow,
Last year millions of tons of
grain were lost to. snow in this,
same area. In some places the,
grain was, net cut in time, in
others. the threshing was . not
.complete, in others' storage fa,
cilitie$ were .inadequate, Only a
fraction of the silos and ,under- -
ground grain bins planned for
this -year have been, built,. 'Under
these circumstances it is quite
unlikely that the, grain crop from.
the Asian new lands is better
this year than it was in • 1959,.
Despite carefully selective op-
timistic harvest propaganda, the
newspaper Sovietskaya Rossyia
now is beginning to' call the
harvest situation in some of Si-
beria's richest grain lands
"alarming," Over-all harvest re-
ports have become restrained,
If this year's grain harvest will
just .equal last year's, as Western
observers in Moscow believe, the
first two years of the Seven,
Year Plan will have marked no
Progress at all.. On the contrary,
the grain harvest would remain
substantially below that of 1958,
which was .counted as 100 in the
projected increase percentages,
About Ladybirds
And Ladybugs
The names ladybird, ladybug
and ladybeetle have been ap-
plied to 'these little insects since
the Middle Ages ... The adinoni-
tion of the well-known nursery
rhyme to the ladybird to "fly
away home, your house is on
fire, your children alone" is said
to refer to the European custom
of burning the hop vines alter
the harvest. The . vines were
doubtless heavily populated with
ladybird larvae feeding on the
,aphids that abound on the hop.
The 'second stanza, ,"Except Attie
Nan, who' sits in a pan, Weav-
ing gold 'laces as' fast as she
can," refers to the brightly ail-
oured •larva forming its yellow
pupal case.
The incantation of these lines
Hens Autograph
Their Own Eggs
The old question—which came
first, the chicken or the egg?—
is not what worries the modern
poultry-farmer. He wants to
know which chicken laid which
egg, and for over fifty years, R.
Broughton-Cook of Heathfield,
Cape Province, has tried to find
the' answer.
He worked on an invention
that would mark the .egg as it
was laid, but has now abandon-
ed this idea in favour of a wire
headpiece, carrying a coloured
crayon.
He noted that all hens ex-
amine a newly-laid egg with
Upsidedown 'to Prevent Peeking
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greet tribe:: of them all eating
at once. And when the seasons
changed, they tot* off up the
rivers in, their bark and skin
canoes, fanning Out ON er the end-
less water systems to hunt.
Then when the land was open-
ed by the old lumber barons, the
rivers and ponds became liquid
railroads, down which the tint-
her could move to the mills,
Incidentally, in Maine we call
our lakes ponds, and Smile hid-
utgently at Minnesota, where
ponds are called lakes, Moose-
head Lake is about 50 miles long,
but you'll hear them say, "Pond's
rough today!" All through this
wilderness region, long before
settlements were made darns
were put in at stretegie points—
um of them at Canada Falls,
This was a "conservation" meas-
ure, but I'm afraid it was before
that word had its modern mean-
ing,
They made the dams to hold
back water so it could be re-
leased when needed, and by
flushing through enough at a
time they could send the logs
down. Hydropower interests
readily teamed up with the hurl,
ber people, and step by step the
flowage in all these intricate
systems was brought under con-
trol, A good mill man at mil-
linneket today can look at his
chart and tell you to the pailfiel
how much water he'llas in every
pond up and down on the. West
Branch.
— So at Canada Falls, where the
Indians had a lovely natural
falls, over some ledges, leading
down into wonderful pools be-
low, there is now a concrete dam
of some size, a baby Hoover
Darn that was built by private
industry, but which has the iden-
tical same purpose in the broad-
er sense. Above the dam lie
long stretches of "deadwater,"
an artificial pond noted for the
excellent trout fishing. In the
old days, before the dam, trout
used to come up from Seboonook
Lake, fighting through the white
water of the rips, and pass up
into t h e smaller woodland
streams to spawn.
But the "conservationists" ran
into a conflict of definitions.
They insisted that a fishway be
built around the dam, a ladder
of successive pools which trout
could use to ascend,' This was
built, and for many years it car-
ried the desired Eastern brook
trout over the dam, which he
could not otherwise ,surmount.
However, word went around
that yellow perch' were also
using this ladder, and were like-
ly to establish themselves in the
deadwater. The assumption is
that perch were not able to as-
cend the natural barrier of the
original falls, and in Indian
times never got up. And the
yellow perch is not considered,
in Maine anyway, a wanted
creature. We call them, along
with suckers, dace, and such, a
"trash" fish. So the fish-ladder
closed off, and now neither trout
,nor perch, nor' even' good red
herring, go up over Canada Falls
to the wondrous climes. above.
The pool below the dam is the
end of the line.
So, you see; there are things
to look at and think about, and.
with your tent pitched at Canada
Falls you can drop back into the
lore .of the forgotten past,
imagine the great tumbles of
logs that went down through,
and even wonder what a fish
does about it, anyway.
I found that the trout follow
ancient urges, and still try to
get up. This tends to congregate
them in the eddy where Canada
Falls churns its interminable
.flow, and upon suitable solicita-
tion they may 'be prevailed upon
to join you for breakfast, I had
foreseen this likelihood, and had
inserted a box of yellow corn
meal in the wangan—for in an
emergency it can also be used
for johnnycake. We like johnny-
cake fairly well anyway.I didn't
see any yellow perches.—by
John Gould in the Christian
Science Monitor.
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Answer elSeWhred: on this page.
This editorial from the Prairie
Farmer (Chicago) refers specifi-
cally to conditions south of the
Border. But I' think there is
enough of interest to Canadian
farmers to reproduce it here.
*
During the political campaign
we. will hear a great deal about
the family farm. Unfortunately,
this has become a kind of flag
which we wave to stir' up .senti-
ments and prejudices, whereas
we are actually talking• about a
locally-owned, independent eco-
nomic unit...
I believe the preservation of
farming as an independently'
owned, medium-sized economic
and social unit is important 'to
the future welfare of America.
At the same time, I think it is
important to know what we are
talking about.
Back in the homestead- days,
80 or 160 acres was considered
a famby farm. With present-day
machinery and modern methods
this homestead will not keep a
family fruitfully employed nor,
will it support the amount of
machinery and labor -.saving
equipment which the Modern,
farmer insists on using.
Much more realistic as an eco-
nomic unit is what I would call
the two-family farm, which has
many advantages. In the first
place, there is much. greater op-
portunity to use machinery on 'a
larger farm. Also, providing
more room for manpower gives
a married son a better chance ,to
stay on a farm in a house sepa-
rate from the older folks.
If a son or son-in-laW is -not
available to carry on, the two-
family farm leaves room for a
married hired man who has little
hope of owning his own farm
and yet has a real contribution
to make as the second man in a
modern farm setup. It also pro-
vides an entering wedge for an
ambitious young man who wants
to farm but who has no land in
the family.
This two-family farm also
opens the way for. a higher
standard of living for both famc
ilies. A single family operating
a farm must keep its nose to the
grindstone as in few other occu-
pations. If there is livestock on
the place, the farm work may
be so confining that travel and
vacations are virtually Mapes-
sible, and young people must be'
restricted in their education.
What chance does this larger,
two-family farm have of success
under modern conditions? T be-
lieve tile chances are quite good.
Two families, working in har-
mony, can maintain a keen in-
terest in the work, and with this
interest goes willingness to put
in extra time and pains to make
the enterprise successful, There
are many indications that this'
medium-sized farm can be as
efficient or More efficient than
larger farms,
Tile very large farm runs into
all kinds of cliffiettIty, Employees
en Stich a faint ate inelhied to
assume the sane attitude as ems
ployees hi a factory. •There earl
be Very little doubt that if farais
get so big as to reqttire Multiple
employees, labor will be union-
ized and labor and management
troubles will be saddled on this
type of fame, Horns of work
Will be severely restricted, and
the specter of strikes May easily
enter the farm• field.
Vesi I believe the' inetlithrie
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