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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-03-30, Page 7it 26 29 37 22 5Z There has been "some evi- dence of improvement in quali- ty" of Canadian hogs since the government instituted its hog premium policy last. October, Ralph K, Bennett, Canada De- partintnt of Agriculture states in a review of the.1960 hog industry in Canada, The new policy provides for a $3 premium on Grade A hogs,. The total number of Grade A hogs marketed in November and December 1960 equalled 31.1 per cent compared with 20.2 per cent for the corresponding period in 1959, However, Mr. 'Bennett felt it is "too early to forecast .any direct results of the change in hog premiums policy." * * There was a huge drop in the number.of hogs in Canada dur- ing 1960. The 1960 total was al- most 6;8 million head, compared with 8.6 ,million head the pre- vious year. The figures repre- sent a decrease of 21 per cent during the year. Domestic disappearance av- eraged 125,398 head weekly, a reduction of about 8.400 head per week or about 6 per cent less than the preceding year. e There was also a considerable drop in export of pork and hams to the United States in 1960. Shipments to the 1.1,S, during the year totalled almost. 45 Mil- lion pounds, sorne 8 • million pounds less than the preceding year. Total exports of pork and teams to all coMetries during 1960 amounted to about 65 mil- lion pounds. The number of hogs on Cana- dian farms at the end of De- cember 1960 was estimated at 5.5, million head, a reduetion of 14 per cent from the 6.4 million at the same time. the preceding year. • 4, * * The average ,price for the year was almost the same as for 1959 but the range of prices was much wider. Prices ranged from a low of $19 at Toronto for Grade A's last. March, to a high of over $30 in December. The cumulative national weighted average de- livered price, per hundredweight for Grade A hogs, was almost $24, a Quality, a major problem in the hog industry, did not show any Marked &lenge during the year, The percentage of Grade they've kept the recession away from Sebastopol," says one local storekeeper. "Whenever a bull- dozer goes by, you know that Charlie is making some More improvements." For Charlie. Schulz, whose own dismal youth (he flunked every subject in the eighth grade at St. Paul's public eehool) finds'. , echo- ee in his comic strip'. aiiti-hero Charlie Brown, the good life in Sebastopol is recompense indeed. "The comic strip. is my -medi- um. and I see no need to apolog- ize for," Schulz said midly last month, as he settled his brown 'loafers and gray, slacks on the divan in his 40-foot living room.. Off in the appliante-studded kitchen, Joyce was drying her hair ("When eve furnished the honee she piet, in a regular beau- tY shop"), The children, who occupy Separate wings in the rambling ratieh house, were eith- er at school (public) or at large. "Why does the strip appeal to so many people?" Schulz mused. "Well, it deals in intelligent things-things that people have been afraid of. Charlie Brown represents the insecurity in all of us, and our desire to be liked. Lucy is the dominating one in every family, the little girl who has no doubts about who is go, irtg to ruin the show, I don't really know what the dog' rep- resents," Schulz slouched deep- ee into the divan, "But how can you give a personal evaluation of a work o.i art?" he said, grin- Iling"modestly. "Of course," he continued, "the characters de talk like adults, If you listen to children you'll hear them use adult phrases, I just have the tharatters iii '?eahuts' say theist every 'day, It :Makes _their language hilarious,"-From NEWSWEEK, Most older people have good advice to give - they used so little of it when they were younger.• • REUNION IN A MANHOLE Mrs, Carl Crive of Michni, throws her dreris around her collie', Sherry. The dog was_last in the City sewers Mr almost day, . t y cessing, mostly under contract, Plums were sold half for pro- cessing sad half for fresh use. St#001 ... LESSON The investigators noted • that approximately 52 per cent of the Canadian produation of the fate fruits was used fresh, in the five years ended 1058. Two per cent. was exported and the remainder' processed. Imports of fresh, fruits were mostly consumed fresh, not PrOeeseed Per capita consumption of the fresh fruits totals 12 pounds at .which point it has been fairly stable for the last five years. Bettor buy a, spare can ,opener7 comic, Strip, Gets New Chommitor Frieda is a nonstop talker, She is al..“) sort of stuck up. Charlie .Elrewn. and the rest of the "Pea- nuts" peer group should be some- whatfless than ecstatic aver her arrival on the scene, and oven her thoughtful cartoonist-oreator, crew-cut Charles M. Schulz, doesn't seem too clear about why she is there or where she comes from. "I suppose," Schulz sup- gested modestly, "I introduced, her to pep up the strip," As any of the more than 38 million readers who dole on this phenomenally successful comic strip could tell you, though, "Peanuts" hardly needs any pep. ping up, Frieda, with. her "na- turally curly" hair, has joined an all-star east that includes Good 01' Charlie Brown, perennial scapegoat; adder-tongued Lucy, hie chief tormentor; Linus, who seeks security in a worn blanket; Schroeder, a Beethoven-worship, ping intellectual; Pigpen, "a hu- man soil bank"; a worldly wise. dog named Snoopy, and several assorted other "wuncleekincier". These •adult - - minded moppets, who for ten years have captiv- ated highbrows, lowbrows, and all in-between levels across the land, now. appear in 614. papers, 35 countries, and eight languages including. Finnish and • Afrikaans, and in the process earn for Schulz more money than the cartoonist cares to divulge, "Peanuts" has borne the un- complaining Schulz from a $65- a-week job as instructor in a St. Paul, Minn„ • correspondence art school to. a 28-acre estate in the - rolling hills of Sebastopol, nor- thern. California,. where he lives with his attractive blond wife. and five children, three cars, five dogs, calico cat, horee, rabbit, cows, tennis court, swimming' pool, formal gardens, and billow- ing lawns. "You might say - House Foonciationp. MOtie Of Oronite . The neighborhood in which. Aunt Harriet and Uncle Pearl • lived was appropriately called the granite Neighborhood, It was here in the days before the Civil War that the Doorstone Quarry turned out -door - rocks by the bemired, In our Childhood, the quarry was no longer in opera- tion, though there were relics of the days of its 'activity, the granite boarding house, the chip- strev'n road leading to the quarry hole, and Uncle Pearl's huge barn, which had once hotieed the Doorstone oxen and the galamanders, ' The 'nearby Blue hill Granite Company and-'• the White Com- pany were concerns that did bus- inese in the late nineteenth cen- tury and into early decades of the twentieth, The rutting sheds of the former were in sight of Aunt: Harriers bourn so that .she heard the beat of the hammers on the cutting chisels'. eel she went about her work, The ,White works at the foot ot Clay's Bill employed the men' of ."ithe Friend's Corner Neighbor- hoed in the months from March to November. My brothers and I took pride in the fact that Fa- titer and Unete• Pearl were "boss cutters," and that Uncle Arthur had the reeutation of being the fastest cutter on the job. Otis and Ben and my cousin Austin. served as tool and water boys when they were in . their 'teens, but the decline of granite-cutting and the . closing of the Granite Neighborhood works defeated the boys' ambition to be master cutters. We children had listened to the conversation of our granite- cutting elders so that the jargon o'f the trade 'was familiar to us. .Ashlar, reamy stock, curbing, six cut work, grout, and galam- ander were all terms that we understood and used with accur- ecy. We recognized the shrill whistle of the Blue Hill Quarry • and the more roust blast of the White whistle as signals that twice a day, at seven o'clock and"' at twelve, summoned the men to -work, and, at eleven, gave the ilgnal for the workers to knock off for dinner, The four o'clock whistle meant the end of the day when the cut* ters brushed of their stones, fold- *el their aprons, and placed their, peen hammers, their hand ham- mers, and their chalk and line In their tool boxes. The black- Smith's banked their , fires and the teamsters unhitched the work horses from the cumber- some galamanders, • The engi- neers left the engine house. and ,, the quarrymen climbed up the ladders from the quarry hole. The horses. that had been stabled in makeshift hovels while their owners • worked in shop or quarry or engine house raised their heads' and neighed as • though as to say, "Good, this day's work is done. Let's hurry home to my stall and ieedbox Of oats." Granite cut at • White's yard. was taken to Atlantic coast ports by white-sailed schooners and. ships. One of the schcionees was the herald of the Morning, a • CARROT TOP - Natalina Petrarca„ 4, a Roman miss, sits atop what she believes to be rabbit heaven - o mountain of car- rots. She is, of course, munching On one, An Eskimo's View Of His Homeland From the writer's point of view, the Arctic has no favour- able qualities, unles.s its severity be counted as such. It is a bar- ten, empty land, largely comfort- less and desolate, The endless tundra stretching from sea to horizon has an austere, monoton- ous charm, a certain cold, clean- edged beauty. Yet throughout it is hard on man, To the Eskimo, however, it is home, the earth's most favoured place. They have no desire to go elsewhere; they are content with this country Which contains enough walrus and seal to'satis- fy most of their needs. In its topography, the eastern Canadian Arctic ranges from great glistening, coloured cliffs to flatlands, that roll away, mile after empty mile, featureless and undifferentiated, save for quiet inland pools that blue-spangle its mbn„btonous expanse. The fleeting weeks between the passing of one winter and the coming of another witness temperate and even warm wea- ther. Snow melts, flowers bloom, birds flock from the south. The land becomes sombre brown, not colourless, but dead in colour, save for the brilliant orange of lichen-covered rocks. Aivilik men are keen geo- graphers when describing their immediate surroundings, B u t once they venture to tell of the outer world, geography gives way to tekilograliehP. I asked a number of them to describe the world. The earth, they replied, is merely several weeks journey in extent from their home. Most agreed that It is both flat and circular, with Southampton Is- . land as its centre. The sun, fol- lowing el irregular course, travels about it, lighting firet th4 upper and then the under side. At the end of the earth stand four great pillars which 'support the sky dome. Here are the stars which burn so brightly in the heavens on clear nights - From "Eskimo," by Edmuns Carpen- ter, Frederick Varley and Robert Flaherty. THE FARM FRONT aiy :Rev, It, liktratY Warren 0.A., LI), Christ Our loivitig' John 20; 1.1-22. Memory Selection; ,tesus Said unto them again, Peace be ante, yaw as Ply Father bath seat meo even so send 1 you, Jahn 20:21e The rising of Jesus Christ from the dead was the climax of the, wei,ders that accompanied Hilt coining in the likeness of man. The apostles, after Pentecost, took full advantage of this la prcssing upon their hearers the claims of the Gospel. Here are some typical expressions front their preaching as recorded in Acts, "Him. .ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crud. fled and slain; whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it," (2;23). "God had', made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ," (2:36). "Ye. , . killed the Prince of life, whom God_ bath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses," (3;14,15). In comparison with the apostles we are much toe calm about the glory of the resurrection. We accept it but we fail to grasp tile wonder of it. Jesus was seen after His res- urrection over a period of 40 days by people, singly, and in groups as large as 500, After Pentecost, 120 of these became the nucleus of a witnessing Church. They emphasized the resurrection of Jesus Christ as proof that Jesus was the Christ and therefore the people should repent of their sins and believe in Him, They saw multitudes converted to faith in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savi- our, And still the work goes on, though not as fast as it should. The church is too much caught up in the spirit of the age to give the witness it should, Paul said. in his leave; to the Philippianset. (3 111.10), For Many' Walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the crose of Christ: whose end is de,struc- tion, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." Fleshly appetitee. rule in many; 4 lives :today. And what glorying there is in the things of which we should be ashamed. Many of the best selling books and most popular movies exploit all sorts of sex perversions. Earthly things have our attention far tact much. May God help us to re- pent and return to the simplicity of the Gospel as set forth by the early Church. 5,4* rEETt.4 ,ecee ,, ................. , craft. in which we tools great in- tereSt because Father and Uncle Arthur owned a two-sixty-fourth interest in her. Granite was not the Herald's only cargo. She brought pineapples from Carib- bean ports to Baltimore, coal' from Baltimore to Maine, and now and then cargoes of ice, a Maine product that for a few decades brought great prosperity. to the Kennebee Valley, writes Esther 'II), Wood in the Christian Science Monitor. The school in our Friend's Corner Neighborhood was called the Granite School. Il set on a graniteecrowned hill and was guarded by a great gray boulder that served equally well as a goat, a fort, or a lighthouse, In the vicinity of the schoolhouse were shallow quarry holes from Which in the pro-Civil-War days stock ,had been taken to make paving for the Mississippi River levees and for city streets. One of the holes, the Manning Quarry, was a favorite play- ground, which we called the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon." Since the two levels of the abandoned quarry were covered only by crisp lichens and stunted seedlings, our designation was a highly imaginative one, But we Friend's Corner children were 'never short when it came to im- agination. A second quarry hole -was our Cemstock Lode and a third a dungeon in the Bastille. Nat all the granite went into paving and ashlar and, curbing. Every Friend's" Corner Home had a granite foundation and, in the case of our modest farm house; there was 'a double underpinning. of blocks. .Every house had a granite door-rock and a granite • hitching post, where• the horse •• of an afternoon caller was, in the warm months, hitched while the owner went inside for a visit, ,„ Uncle Pearl and Father had a friendly rivalry over the use of granite on -their homesteads. Father cut a well-curb for our backyard well; Uncle Pearl made corner blocks on which he placed. the rain barrels; Father cut a granite urn which was set under the. parlor windows and in which Mother planted red geraniums. But Uncle won the "battle of, granite" when he laid a sidewalk of cut stone from his back door to the barn, a walk which we children found ideal for bounc- ing balls and rolling marbles. At the time when Father and Uncle were busy making granite ,conveniences for their .homes, we children became interested in collecting stone chips, , a hobby which. Father encouraged by suggesting that we strew the chips along, the foundation of the. house, a . space where the grass at best grew • sparsely, Dan and. Uncle Arthur were so much im-• pressed by the' neatness of the margin that they engaged us to make a similar fringe of chips. along the foundation of their homes. Today no paving is quarried at Friend's Corner; no granite is cut in the Granite Neighborhood; th.e whistles are stilled; the granite-laden Herald of • .the Morning no longer sails' down. the bay, But we still have. re= minders of the days. of granite prosperity - o u r foundation blocks, our odor-rocks, our hitching' posts; now so seldom. used,-and our chip margins which: are as gray and as neat as. they were forty years ago when we children were for a brief time workers with .geanite. THOUGHTFUL - New York's subway, long the target for amateur artists, is going along with the gag. In order to pro- tect other signboards, special posters have been, set up for the mustache-drawers to prac- tice their art upon. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 34. Winged 35. Gained by labor 30, Coddle is. Grasp suddenly 89, Moved furtively 41. Land measure 42, Crude 43. Identical 45, Pagoda ornament 40. Biblical character 47, Worked hard (collect.) ACROSS 03. Neat 1. Pratee DOWN IS, Curtsy 1. Needlefish 9, A president Jr nickname 2, Suited 4, Broken up 5.Injurlous 6. Great bodies of water 7. Cotter ream ko3 1 ,tc.vvr11 l'ookIng U o I, .Ulvorcee's allowance 9, Despot 10, macaw 11. Write 10, Artificial language 20.1n a frenzy to kill 21, Glaelel fragment 22. City in Bolivia 28, Help 24. Kind of duck 20. Incline 27, lIxalt one's self 30. Benefits 31. Not healthy etie ro /1 9 6 2, /3 IZ 76" /4 23 24 25- The generetion now being brought up has, the idea parking meters were always part of a curbstone. 3d 35 2 3/ 32 5117.11FIrl Fir14!;-.1911EINI 1:111EligrIFEIV ECM MIMI ME® ©loo linglA rEn orri non PE 11111IIRIZISI OHO alit] Egli:117:1E1M ©©C•7® run .11 CEICIMIEEFICI FIV1P3111 EEO PIPE111 noinci 1013- E/00121 I liked his speech, It pleased nie vaetly- Especially when He said: "And lastly-e 6 /9 ZO /7 3 , 8. Nipa palm 12. Instigate 13. Head of a suit 14. Ancient stringed instrument 15. Preserved an account of 17. Persia 18. Coln of MacaO 19. Large lizard 91. Several 23. Wind flowers 20, Rather than 27. Twice (music) 28. Up to the time of H. Ruthenium symbol Ploolc of birds . Slippery AnsWer th e Purpose $3. Palm cockatoo 25, Wapiti 30. Energy (slang) S7. Gigantic 89, Watchfulness 40. Subsequent to 41. Branch of the sea 42. A roast (Fr.) 44, Datintlesa 48. DIllseed 49, English. letter 10. City in Indians it, Marries 52. Dutch commune eeee e,dee:e.e. re • 42' 3 45 50 53 547 A increased by one per cent, and of Grade C by one-half of one per cent. This gain, how- ever, was offset by a decrease of nearly two per cent in Grade B hogs. "Since the ban on United States' , imports was lifted in February, 1960," Mr. Bennett re- ported, "the Canadian hog pro- ducer leas been in the same po- sition as the cattleman has been in for some time -- his prices are tied directly to price levels in the United. States." * * More Canadians are reaching for canned fruit than ever be- fore, Basing their calculations on leetilallehed statistics and about 1,000 replies to questionnaires sent to Ontario orchardists, the economists come up with some figures of Canada-wide interest. Ontario in 1956 had 83 per cent of the country's peach trees, 136 per cent of the pear trees, 75 per cent of Cherry trees and 53 per cent of the "other" tree fruits, most. of them plums and prunes, Twenty-nine of Can- ada's 48 fruit canning plants were in Ontario in 1958. * Not only has a striking in- crease in Canadian consumption of canned fruits taken place but it is likely to continue, according to the economists, While the population of Can- ada only doubled in the last 32 years, the home market for can- ned fruit increased by almost six times, On the basis of average disappearance for the past five years, they concluded that there appears to be a market for 7.9 million pounds of canned cher- ries; 62.5 million pounds of can- ned peaches, 31,2 million pounde of canned pears and 10.1 million pounds of canned plums, 4, 4, * Average per capita use of the four fruits canned was steady at seven pounds in the period 1954- 58 compared with 2.4 pounds in the 1929-33 period. The relative stability in use now reached may be due to the growire consumption of frozen fruits - front 24.1 million pounds in 1953 to 36.6 million pounds in 1958. This was a jump of 52 per cent, more than three times the rate of population increase in that time.. More than half of the peaches, pears and cherries harvested bn 883 Ontario farms surveyed by qeestiontiaire were sold for pro- ISSUE 13 - 1961 AnSwei elseWhree on this page et Olt}:ING F04 'TROUBLE-Ice fishermen on Ldke WinhebagO, Fond I shanties.' The ice had drifted .406 ,t6 lake. A rookethiti do Lac, Wit., received a .surprise when they Stepped from their I•bridei was used' to tiet therie, their toes and thontiel back,