HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-11-03, Page 3earth; the camp-fire fliehers:a
faint Answer to the coldbrilliOnee
of the stars,
'ram Tabriz, the first large • city that greeted neon .our ..entry
into Persia, we had, driven south,.
on reads scarcely.' Marked on the
map, following the summer that
wag beginning to fail en those
northern highlands; south by the.
marshy shoos. of bake Urmyja.,
On On to the windswept plateaux'
of Hurdistan, 'Tiny villages nestl-
ed in tiers of mud roofs in the
shelter of valleys watered by
streams green with watercress.
By one of these streams we.
Came Upon A. group of women in
long flowered petticoats of scar-
let and black, baggy dark pante*
loans clipped tightly above their
bare feet, with untidy bands .of
black lace wrapped loosely round
the oiled ringlets of their hair„
In some villages the men were
winnowing, tossing the corn with
forks into the blue .sky, the
grain floating in a mist of gold,
in the light breeze. Walking
round the winnowers I was once
startled by a thin curl of smote,.:
'that . rose between my feet, only.
to 11,41. that I was standing on
• The'...f6ofs of cottages..
'"FrCiM, a Persian Tea-House," by
Michael, Carroll.
NDAY:SCH11001 LEssoN
By Rey. lt. .0areley •Vitarree
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Confession and Forgiveness•
irssalats 341 'and • 01
Federal Aviation Authorities
Given The Bird' By Stariings
the scales between 135 and 119
pounds,
The survey pointed up the
fact that 13,0 per cent of all
grade B carcasses weighed be-
tween 171 .and 1.80 pounds, and
93 per cent between 125 and
134 pounds. * t. *
mOverfinish" too much fat-
is a leading fault in grade R
carcasses and has bean stressed
as such for many years, aceord-
ing to. Mr, Senn, Actually, 89.9
per cent of the carcasses in /this
grade were reported to be over-
finished,
Another 17 per cent were
"off-type" - too short, round.
ribbed, or with heavy front
ends..
filgicine The Desert
Blossom And: .Begr
Irrigation was the 7fir:st .rne)Or
triumph of man over his hydro,
logic .environment. Possibly the
first irrigationist lived in the
Nile Valley, 4,500 years before.
'ihe thne of Chtist, Probably
rigation was invented independ"
ently in several different, early',
agriculturarkseeietieS in lace
far removed from one another,.
In any ..eVellik at the dawn of
history in Egypt, .Babylonia,
Chinn, Mexice, and many
other regions, irrigation was, be-
ing practiced. Man's conquest ..of .
the arid and semi-arid lands was
already well begun. .
The first irrigation techniques
were relatively crude. One of
the earliest, pictured on tablets.
in ancient XgyPtieri, tombs, was
simply to; carry water from!' the.
stream to the field-in potsswting.
by a yoke from the shoulders
of a men., Rarly..also there came
into use the sideswpe, a deVice•
still employed „„In'Parts of .the
Near '.East: It consisted of a lever
with a water basket on one. end
and, a counterweight en the ,
' 'other. The'betket and its coun-
terweight were ,so .closely bal-
anced that 'even h child could.
push up the counterweight to
lower the basket into the ,river
and then pull the weight 40Wn
to raise the water.. Since the
wooden lever could be rotated
freely about the. post top on
which it rested, the water basket
was readily swung round and
emptied into a . cistern at the
head of an irrigition ditch,
Far more efficient and sophis-
110,1A104 FRONT
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Designed to honour individ-
ual t Who have trade some -.Otit.
starldin •e011tribution to agriet,t1-
tore; in!'past years, a Canadian
Agricultural Hall, of Valne will
be established during the 1909
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair,
which will be held in Toronto
from November 11 to, 19.
Sparked by W. P., Watson, Live
8tOck Commissioner for the
Province of Ontario, a inovee
ment for such a project has been
underway for 'some. time.
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The Royal Agricultural Whiter.
Pair will act as sponsor of. the
Canadian Agricultnral Hall of
Paine and all agricultural groups
and erganilations across ..the
nation are being. urged to active-
ly support this undertaking,
Objects of the proposed Cana-
dian Agricultural. Hall of Fame •
include recognition of individuals
for 'otttgtaiiilfzig coritrihatioosAto
agriculture, the establishment of
portait gallery and the promo-
tion of interest in and the study
of agriculture. generally.
Working with Mr. Watson on
the project are George, M. Cle-
mons, Brantford, Harold White)
'Guelph., J. A, Carroll, )3rampton
and Professor C. E. Raithby,
Guelph.
The way of salvation is $.0
forth very clearly in this lesson.'
There trust .first of all be CenVie,
sorrowthis ra
sin.
°n twhaot. wprbeedx,neceisl.
ore
vividly expressed in Scripture.•
•
than in Psalm Al. We see it also,
in Psalm 32. ovor day and night
thy hand was heavy upon me,"'
Then comes confesSion. "f said
will confess my transgressions
unto the lord.'" Confession.
comes easily when s godly sorrow
for sin has 'worked repentance.
Re who is thoroughly repentant
is ready to bare his heart before
God. He wants to The done with
sin forever. He sees that his sins,
however. they may have invlov-.
.ed, others, have been primarily
an,pffense agninstiCod., Ile sees
himself -pertly responsible for
Christ's death upqi the cross. It
wag the sins' 11 that nailed
Him there.
An encouraging downward
trend was indicated in the
number of grade B carcasses
with a pigment fault - colored
,hairs. The percentage in Eastern
Canada totaled 1,7 arid the per-
centage in' Western Canada was
3,6. Just )six years ago, these
figures were 10,3 per cent for
Western Canada and 5.9 per cent
for the East.
Concludes Mr: Seim: ''Pz:b-
dueers who pay. a little, closer
attention to the market weight
of their hogs will find it pays
off."
'; The'lext,....s;tep i faith, An en-1
couragement, for , ith is pointed
up in our memor selection. "if
we confess our si '5, he is faith-
ful 'arid'' jug tb f rgive us our
-Sins; and to Olea , e us from ail
unrighteousness."' 1 John 1:9.
This is, the verse 1 hat helped me
most when I was: onsidering the
way of selvatien. I had wonder-
ied if perhaps I might confess my
sins to God and yet receive no
forgiveness. A young minister
explained this verse to me. I saw
then that God would be faith/ ill
and just to forgive, I could count
on Him to de His part if I would
do mine. Some months later un-
der a deep sense of convictions
I became truly sorry for my sins.
I was sorry enough to quit 3them.
all, regardless of what anyone of
my companions at High School
thought or said about it. I saw
my Saviour dying for me on.
Calvary. I confessed my sin to
God. Then the words of our
memory selection came to mind..
God had promised. I believed.
My burden of guilt was gone. I
arose, forgiven. The way of
salvation is 'really very simple
when we are willing to humble
ourselves and turn to Jesus
Christ with the whole heath.
I have always been very* glat
far that day when I experienced
the forgiveness of sin. It was, the
beginning of a new life, a lite 14,1.
Christ Jesus. I became arnew
creature' through faith in-`Jesus
Christ, The way grows better
every day. I .shall be eternally'
, grateful to my Lord. ,- ,t
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There's always plenty of
trouble about, yet some people
insist on wasting time looking
for it. ,.
eggs, When }hese methods
work;-the sailors tried to"elubt„'Z
them."Finaif they spent $110,000
te,level the near the rum./
ways, the g4nei, birds' takeoff -
point; They also provided shill-
tar sites on another island tp at-
tract the birds there,
' 44 last report, the problenron
Midway has been rethiced Sub-
stantially - but it, too, has not
been eliminated entirely.
By JERRY BENNETT
Newspaper Enterpri.se" Assn.
Washington Tile squawk of
a frightened; bird may make air sl
travel safer some day - if other
birds can finally be made to un-
derstand that they are flying in
the face of progress,
Federal Aviation Agency ex-
perts are studying ways to dis-
courage flocks of small birds,
like starlings, which menace
flights, from roosting near air-
ports,
Broadcasting a record of bird
cries has always succeeeded in
driving away starlings from air-
ports; but only for short periods
of time,. The birds always return.
'This story might seem funny
if it' weren't so frightening. The.
FAA believes a flock of migrat-
ing starlings might have been
sucked into the turbo-jet engines
of an Electra airliner on Oct. 4
at Boston, causing a "flame out"
which resulted in the deathi of
61 persons. So the 'FAA takes its
recordings seriously.
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The novel recording is made
by ,holding a starling upside
clown in front of a microphone.
The squawk is recorded on tape
and broadcast over a loud=
speaker. The system, was devel-
6:ped:AiY:',Dr. Hubert -Frings and.
Prof. Joseph Juniber of Pennsyl-
vania State College arid',tested in
1954.
On three consecutive evenings,
federal officials broadcast the
tape' 'from the fourth, story of
the Wailiington Archives Mild=
ing as the starlings flew in to
roost: Playing time was' five to
20 seconds until the birds were
,driven away.
The starlings avoided the
fourth floor and went elsewhere'
around thebuilding where the
sound couldn't be heard, They
stayed there for the next three
months until they migrated for
the summer,
But the -starlings eirentually
returned to their usual Archives
roost. The same thing happened
In Air Force experiments at
Wright Patterson Air Force Base,
Dayton, Ohio.
The Air Force also tried to
rid itself' of the starlings by
_emitting high pitched sirens
above human hearing level,
beating drums and firing guns
into the air. These methods
worked - temporarily.
In 1958, the General„ Services
Administration,' believing that
the starlings might be more
frightened by the cry of a nat-
ural enemy, the hawk, switched
"vocalists."
The starlings disappeared,
They were replaced by a flock
of hawks.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice is after the starlings, tab.
Dr. James S. Liriclzey, an FWS
official, says that the starlings,
introduced here at 'the turn of
'the 'century, feast upon improve-
ments in U.S. crop growing
methods and there are few en-
vironmental hazards to bother
them. Therefore, the starling is
not wanted On farmland either.
All agencies worried about
the starling Might hear the
plight of the Navy, which has its
own bird problems.
What the starling threatens to
do to some flights around the
country, the gooney bird has
aerie to flights en Midway Is-
land in the Pacific.
In one year, 538 Navy air-
craft Were involved itt collisiotia
with gooney birds, (albatrosses),
which inflicted damage totalling
more than $156,000 and endan-
gering persons on the planes,
SO the Navy tried to frighten
the birds off With weird noises,
smoke them nut and steal their
To Kelp
,Look At Goldfish,.
ti; Milli 1i Yccifigh swain and-
denly to freedom, their deaths
or the waiting nets of hundreds
of small b9ys in a city-of West-
ern, Japan, recently when :rain'
from a passing typhoon flooded
the local cultivation ponds.
Children woke the morn-
ing after the typhOion to find the
city's streets filled with gold-
fish.
Ten million had escaped but
another sixty million in the
ponds were not affected by the
typhoon.
To-day goldfish are the most
popular of all ornamental fish
and millions of dollars are spent
annually in rearing them in
various parts of the world.
Goldfish are really carp and
for many years most of those
seen in Britain came from Italy.
They like heat and thrive well
in water at a temperature of 90
degrees, but experts say that the
goldfish of to-day are much
hardier and can withstand the
cold of an English winter much
better than their forbears did a
century ago.
The United States has many
goldfish farms. Some, in Mary-
land employ hundreds of men.
So popular are goldfish in Am-
ertea that some of the 'big stores
present them to customers, giv-
ing one goldfish for each stated
amount spent.
One goldfish expert recom-
mendS the stury of goldfish and
their habits as a perfect cure for
worry. People can find tran-
quility merely by gazing at gold-
fish, he says.
The first goldfish to reach
Europe came from China and
werepresented to the famous
Madame Pompadour. The artist
Whistlev did not like goldfish.
While in Italy he had a grudge
against his landlady so he angled
for her goldfish -.placed tempt-
ingly on a ledge beneath his
window-sill - and caught theni.
Then he callously fried them
and dropped them ' back into
their bowl..
* * *
A new oat variety, Russell,
was released this year.
In, testshmade in Ontario dur-
ing the pes.k four years, Russell
generally outyielded the ree-
1 ommended v rietles in all areas
' except the 11 "ahem part of the
province. ,,,,
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Russell is similar to Garry in
its resistance to stem rust,
crown rust, smut :land other
diseases and is,rnoreUolerant of
stem than the currently grown
varieties. It has a larger kernel .,
and a lower percentage of hull
than Garry, It has shorter straw
and ripens about the same time.
Seed treatment for seed-
borne diseases is recommended,
just as, it ',is with. 'Other Varieties
of oats.
While Russell has stimulated
interest in other provinces, Dr.
Zillinsky feels it is best suited to
the medium and lighter soils of
Ontario.
"Just a little extra attention
to hog weights on the part of
producers would return divid-
ends."
That's the conclusion of Elgin
Senn, chief of the grading sec-
tion, LiVestock 'Division, Canada
Department of Agriculture, after
analysing the results of a nation-
wide survey of hog carcass
grades.
First Sight Of Asia
Comes As Shock
To anyone travelling eastwards
from Europe the first sight of
the Asian plateau must come as
something of a shock. Perhaps
it'will be at the endof the long
climb inland above Trebizond,
up from the lush timbered slopes
of the Black Sea; when far
above the. tree-line at the top
of the pass w- the same spot
where Xenophon's soldiers, mar-
ching in the opposite direction
first glimpsed the sea - the
mists fall back and the great
barren hogs' backs, edged with
range on' range of blue peaks,
break into, view.
Father east across the Tauras,
Mountains, in. Persia, proper, the
landscape is even more astonish-
ing. As .the snowcapped cone of
Ararat sinks behind the horizon
the long burnt plains crossed by
chains of smooth hills, unfold, t rolling it seems for ever In
waves of o bare brown and yellOw
until they wash the feet of yet
another line of mountains whose
purple"spikes, sharp as dogs'
teeth, melt Into the sky. Never
a tree or a house or the sight of
a man; only the thin 'white
thread of dust road unwinding
over the plain.
As the sun swings westward
the colours deepen, turning the
sea of burnt grass to gold, flush-
ing the peaks to pink and orange,
while huge shadows creep out
from the hills to swallow the
land. Standing so small in so
gigantic a scene, the silence
made more enormous by the thin
pipe of a bird fluttering in the
grass, there comes a sense of
desolation that is almost painful;
a loneliness appalling and yet
exultant. Night shuts out the
It showed that 23.5 per cent
of grade B ,carcass were either
a. little too light 'or a shade 'too
heavy to meet grade A require-
ments.
This fault will hit a hog
producer's pocketbook even
harder now that a $3 quality
premium is being paid on grade
A carcasses and none on grade
B carcasses,'
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Mr. Senn estimated that on a
160-pound carcass, the cash dif-
ference between the two grades
would be -$4.60. . •,
To measure up to grade A
'standards, the carcass mug tip •
Rocky on Tests'
It is nearly two years since
the administration voluntarily .
banned nuclear tests. In that
time there has beenno progress
negotiations with the, Rtissians
on satisfattory' test' ban agree-
ment, nor has there been any
.certain assurance .that the Rus-.:
sians have not -been testing.
secretly. .
In view of these facts (as has
been pointed out here before)
there seems no good reason why
'we should continue our volun-
tary plan. It is a gamble with
our security and hampers de-
velopment of peaceful uses of
nuclear explosions. We should
-resume underground tests which
present no fallout hazard at all.
Our great nuclear physicist, Dr.
Edward Teller, is among those
urging such a course.
Governor Rockefeller of New
York is once more urging it, too.
He has proposed,a practical pro-
gram on nuclear testing as fol-
lows: '
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Upsidedown to Prevent Peking
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STEPPING LIVELY - The grand
old, man of American fclotball,
A m o i• Alonzo Sfagg, jauntily
mews his .I .a w niih Stockton,
Calif. He celebrated his 89th
, birthday.
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S 9 O S. a V The United States shoUld re-
nounce further testing in the
atmosphere and invite the Unit-
ed Nations to establish a corn-
v mittee to monitor fallout. It
should agree to end other' tests
that can be detectdd (providing,
we would add, built-in self-en-
forcing detection guarantees are
possible). It should resume un-
derground testing both, as a
measure of security and of press-
ing the Soviet Union toward a
realistic approach to armament
control,
This makes sense. - Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, '
S d V 3 N S J. d 3 71. ticated than these simple contri-
vances were the water Wheels
and canals that by the time of
Ha.mmurabi, ca. 2000 B.C., had
reached a high stage of devel.
opment in Babylonia. The water
wheel.. Though highly useful on
streams and rivers, the wheel
and, other irrigation machines
were unnecesary on the canals,'
which were constructed at an
elevation slightly above the stir-
rounding fields.
'Dozens of canals, many twenty
miles or more in length, were in
existence in Babylonia during
the time of Hammurabi. In. those
days ,the fields of springtime
were green with barley and
spelt. Date palms and fig trees
flourished. Today in this same
region most of the land is bar- '
ren desert. Only .traces remain of
the canals of 4,000 years ego,.
Unlike a river; a canal cannpt
purge itself of aacumulated
sediments: As it is tapped at
successive points for irrigatibii,
the tarrying power of its waters
'decreases: Sediritenta are depo-
sited, Unless the eerie' =is dredg-
ed almost constantly, it chcikes
itself to death, 'Such hi time was
the fate of the canals of Bahi
'IThe rulers of Babylonia end
Egypt were ever vigilant in
inaintalifing irrigation Works to
the fullest possible extent and
in atignientitig the water sup-
plies whenever possible;
ruler ever forgot that water
was the. Very substance off
which, above ell Others, the ex-
isteride of his 'kingdom depended,
Therefore even the digging of
a solitary well, Was at tiodoiti•6
plishnient that retittited conies
riteitieration in the written red,
OrciS of the Utile. -Frein ''The
Oceans of by David I.
teek.
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life you save may be your own. s V d 9 NMO
POPCORN - Virginia Spencer
holds an ear of corn shaped
and colored like a strawberry.
It was grown at the research
nursery of the Missouri Farm-
ers Assn. The hybrid is called,
appropriately, strawberry corn.
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