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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-10-26, Page 3IINDAY SO001 LESSON In a constant effort to develop strains of corn with improved character- istics which can be incorporated into new hybrid varieties, agricultural scientists sometimes come up with some odd results. Three examples grown in the research nursery of the Missouri Farmers Assn., are dis- played by three pretty girls. Left, Janet Grubb holds a strange-looking ear which has husk covering each kernel as well as the ea,' itself. Center, Joanne Debenedetto displays an exotic ear of red popcorn that resembles a huge strawberry. The ear of corn with an extremely small cob, held by Mary Howell, right, wouldn't be much good for a corncob pipe, but it has other desirable features: large ear, small cob and long, deep kernels. TIE FARM FRONT kuiaLsgeu such a feast. Cabeza couldn't have been, bothered by the ex- perience, if he ever had it. From towns and cities and Indian reservations, in this part- icular time of the particular year of a good crop, from the San Francisco Peaks north into Utah and Colorado, from Nevada set- tlements along the sides of High- ways 8 and 40, from California towns onto the flanks of the eastern Sierra and into the Tehachapis and San Rafaels and Topa Topas, in cars and trucks and jalopies and horse-drawn buggies and wagons, harvesters as nut brown as the pinon itself will roll out in the direction of the forests' bounty. Their gathering - 300 carloads shipped once from Santa Tee alone. Who knows how many from other places? Stop to watch the pickers and one of them will tell you, end you will believe him, "Sir-this is nothing else but the gift of God!" The number of women who drive or own cars has increased tremendously in the past few years. According to one esti- mate, about a quarter of the country's licensed car- drivers are of the fair sex. And as for car ownership, the only esti- mates available indicate that about 20 per cent of Canada's automobiles are owned by wo- men. 7.71_,J1311 0 A d5 a :N2ing: 005 roN 1 213.1.N3 NONV W395 a21003 5.10 IV ON 11'9'21 a N 3 I/ Aid 3 Sid 3 21 3 a V 11111 3 V e a 3 wig opt V3 3 H 21 3 n H 9 N a a a N 0 3 a d N a M 9 O N a a a V Mir V 3 9 a a 3 N Oil a :Pinnpor farm Mn Old .Q.ntario, As X look back to the world of my boyhood across more than eighty, years of remembered life, it seems as though centuries had The between then and now, The quiet, pleasant country town of Strathroy in Western Ontario, on the outskirts of whic4 I was born on August 1874, was, like moSt places in the Middle West, still in touch with. America's heroic age, that of the pioneers. Both my grandfathers cleared their farms from the wilderness. with the ax. My mother's girl- hood home was built from logs on the farm, arid, although by my time a frame kitchen had been added, the great fireplace was still used on occasion for cooking. There were stumps of the pri- meval forest in the pasture lot by the creek, and across it on a hill a dark, uncut hemlock wood, by which Indians from the reser- vation ten miles away used to camp when the stream was fill- ed with fish in the spring freshet, using the bark for roofing their little huts. Beavers built their dams on the smaller creeks, and if one crept quietly down the hillside one could see them chewing down the willow trees, Apparently the Indians did not hunt them, and we liked to have the creatures there. By my time the clearing of land was fast becoming only a dimly remembered legend, treas- ured by the few remaining pio- neers. But the pine-Stump fences were witness to the size of those primeval trees, for their roots spread out in a tangled circle as much as ten feet in width. So complete had been the work of the pioneers with no bulldozers, but only axes, levers and oxen, that there were no pine forests left, only maple, elm or' oak -in the wood lots at the back of the farms, By my own time only one winding pioneer road still re- mained, running alongside the streams to the nearest market town. The whole country had been cut through by the straight "concession lines" and "side roads" of government engineers, blacking_ out square or oblong iqr.ns:-Tbere, as elsewhere all oveli•thE',e_ontinefit,. the surveyor mapp'd the country for the set- tler. Orchards, gardens and fields were set primly side by side. for miles on end, with houses and farm buildings spaced a little back from the road. The layout' was symmetrical, with all, the farms alike, but here, as else- where on the continent, it made prose instead of poetry of the countryside. - From "The Auto- biography of James T. Shotwell." Schoolboy: A mrhiologue is a conversation between a man and his wife. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking covered as a result of the herd test. At first the tags will be applied by meat inspection assistants or technicians at commission auctions, consign- ment sales, stockyards or any- where that cattle are assembled for market purposes. But the hope is that ranches, co-opera- tives and livestock dealers will soon be interested enough in the plan to put the tags on all cattle as they are marketed. • * The market-cattle testing, program will find its greatest application in the west, but it will be used in Eastern Canada as' well. In the beginning, tag- ging will, be confined to adult cows over four years intended for immediate slaughter. Federal veterinarians are confident that a uniform back- tagging of animals of proper age : and class in districts of origin and the setting up of sample collecting, testing and reporting procedures will not only be' a tremendous aid to the brucellosis eradication cam- paign, but may also contribute to 'control of disease in cattle generally. * « • The Health of Animals Divis- ion has embarked on an edu- cational program to acquaint livestock 'owners of the bene- fits of market testing and to enlist their participation. • Aurora is the name of a new variety 'of alsike clover licensed by , the, Canada Department of Agriculture. It was developed jointly , by the department's experimental farms at Beaver- lodge and Lacombe and the University of Alberta. Now on test at six locationS across. Can- ada seed 'for distribution will be derived from the' lot desig- nated as breeder seed in the autumn of 1962, Canada's ,dalry industry must loOk deeper into customer mo- tivation if it is to sell more of its products, according to D. B. Goodwillie, of the Canada De- partment of Agriculture. He was moderator of a panel discussion at the National Dairy Council of Canada at its annual meeting in Halifax, He said that milk production, now about 19 billion pounds per year, is apparently on the in- crease. Milk is still one of the best food values at the store and the poPulation of the country is going up. But, asked the speaker, why is per capita consumption of milk products going down? In 1960 the figure was 950 pounds against 1,062 pounds ten years before, He wondered if dairy products are not being "out-promoted and out-merchandised" by other foods claiming their share of the house- Wife's dollar, In the face of such competi- tion, producers and retailers need to know mere about the' market such as what etistoni- ers Want and why they want it; why tastes differ in different areas; would teenagers take to milk; do people drink , it from habit or because it is food for them? there is the question of price. There are many food and nott-food products bidding against dairy foods arid the price must be competitive to meet this challenge. 18Stit. 4i 061 RIDE HIM COWBOY - This spider monkey has been great- ly influenced by the TV cow- boy. However, the nearest thing to a horse his size is his best friend, a dog named Tipp. The Harvest Of The Pinon Nuts Drive north from the west Texas country, from southern New Mexico, Arizona, and Cal- ifornia, and lhe,land rises before you to 4,000 to 6,000, to ,7,000 feet and higher. Mountain ranges be- come more frequent, lock them- selves in endless high chains, are less interrupted by plain and escarpment. The hard yellowish surface of the ground becomes a brownish red and then a red; the ,air is slighter and frostier; the distances ahead are blue and mysterious. And this is, every- where, the country of the pinon. The first westward wayfarers, the mountain men and fur trad- ers, found tons of the nuts stored - in Indian encampments. A skin pouch filled with them was the invariable token of friendship offered by the earliest residents. The nuts are still there. It was John Muir who wrote, at a time when. California grew enough of a wheat crop for Frank Norris to write a good book about it, that the pinon nut crop in Nev- ada alone was worth more than all of it, Once, vendors sold pin- ons on street corners in Western cities as chestnuts were sold in Eastern and peanuts in Southern. The year of the bumper crop WaS,both a cultural and an econ- omic event, In the San Rafaels in California it was possible to know when a bumper crop was about to arrive by the numbers of Indians ap- pearing and camping out With no apparent purpose in early Sept- ember, Many Indians, many nuts; few Indians, few nuts or no nuts at all. Some said three years intervened between bumper crops, some said five, some seven; Which, in a series of waves, is always the biggest? No one knows. No one knew when the bumper crop would come either. One may only know that no per- tons ever control it. It comes and gods when it pleases. (All that was a long time ago, Today, all along the pinch belts, it is often easier to steer the pielt- up past the coining nut crop to the big city, along the Many paved roads; there one may 13tiy the nuts already shelled; but there are people everywhere Who don't know What is gOod for them, eh, seriet?)" Birds and bees du not pollinate 111111WISill111111111Eillii1111111 1111 61111111111111111111111111M1111111 %W1IIIUB VI II III 111If;iiiii 611111111111111gii!ifiz:iii'ii0 6111111111 Kg:14111MM Willi. III 111111iiiiiiiii111111111111iiiiiirn kill II giiiii1111111111111114 Answer elsewhere on this page SPRINKLE'S FORECAST - Aidprapiticitely darbed for any weather Contingency, as well as being opPropriately honied, Charlie Sprinkle reports for work tit the U.S, Weather Eltirooti hi Cleveldricl. Just back from the Artily in time for fall rains, Sprinkle itiSiStS that his name does not indicate great preference for that kind Of weather, Agricultural Scientists Carry Out ResearChes 'Amid the Alien, Co n.1-•' teV. ilarclay Warren B.1). Growth in Christian Concern. Matthew .25:31.--46 lvlePtory Seleetiont sear ye one Another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ, Galatiang 64. It Was the final week of our Lord's ministry, He was looking forward to the cross, and beyond,. He told Xiis disciples of the signs that would precede His re turn to earth in glory and the judgment that would follow. He gave three parables; The Ten Virgins, The Talents, and The Sheep and the Goats, In the fiat, the foolish virgins had not made adequate preparation for the coming of the Bridegroom; in the second, the wicked and slothful servant did not use the gift that had been given him, and in the last, which forms our lesson ' the great separation takes places. The goats• are those who failed to serve the Lord in ministering to the needs, material and spiritual; of their fellowmen. Jesus' final charge to them is, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me." Then He utters the fearful words, "Andes these shall go away into ever- lasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." We are prone to forget the pos- sibility of the spiritual develop- ment of man; man who was, created in the image of God, Al- though that image has been mar- red by sin, the moral and spiri- tual image ^ can be restored through the salvation purchased, for us by our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. When we help to do this by acting in a Christ- like manner to this creature from the hand of God, we are serving our Lord. Note that we have used the word, "Christ-like". To give people that for which they ask, may be to do them an injustice. We should investigate before we invest. To be gullible is to en- courage roguery. In Galatians 6:1-6, Paul re- minds us of our responsibility to others. While every man must bear his own pack, we must go to the support of those who ;have an extra burden of grief or sor- row. if one has faltered and failed in the hour of temptation, 'we must not stand back and criticize. In meekness We should reprovir and help the one who has failed, back to his feet. In thus helping others, we fulfill, the law of Christ. "The girl who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right," says a psychologist. Yes, and she also may be left. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 4. Clasps 5.(rulgere 8. Corroded. Weakening 7. 8. Hankering 9. Make happy 10. Plower 11. Requires Verily 20. No one 21. Refuse wool 22. Imitate 2 Oscillate 2 . Makes vehement Speeches 87. Commotion 47. Mother chickens 41.Quielc 49, Prag OW N rnerit D 1. Possessed I. Prior in time S. Withdrawn from business An additional test procedure has been introduced by Health of Aninials Division of the Division of the Canada. Depart- ment of Agriculture to speed up re-certification of brucel- losis-free beef herd areas. It is a market-cattle testing program equivalent to the milk ring re- certification procedure used for dairy herds. Co-operation of beef cattle owners and the CDA's meat inspection section will be required to make it work. Advantage of the plastic, back-tag scheme devised is that it, provides a method of screen- ing herds in beef and range areas for brucellosis with a minimum of inconvenience to the owner and minimum cost, to the government. * The plan is for the identi- fication tags to be attached- to cattle 'being marketed, especi- ally brucellosis-susceptible cat- tle whose.. herd of origin can be determined. A record of the tag is kept at the Health of Animals Division district office. At the time that the ani- mal is slaughtered, an inspector will collect a blood sample which will be forwarded with the tag to the laboratory. If brucellosis is indicated by the laboratory examination, the originating herd can be traced and submitted' to test. • * An inspector will inform the owner and arrange a herd test. Cornpensatien will not be paid for positive animals- un- covered on a market test since these animals were 'not ordered slaughtered, Nor will the herd be subject to quarantine and retests if no further brucel- losis-positive 'animals are un- 28. Pledge 29. Allow 30. Affirmative 31. Pieces of rock 32. Row 33. Coarse linen cloth 34. Type of musical show 35. Oak nut 35. Thin or piping 38. Asterisk 41. Catnip 43. Negative prefix 43. Diving being 1. Possessive ACROSS pronoun i'..611114:ffil official 4.1. Land measure .13. Nerve network 1 4. Beside. 8. Told minutely 7. Satisfy to the full II Mischievous children 1 11. Reconciled . Anxieties . Those who tally 24. Overt 25. Strong cord 0,Spread hay 27, Radiate 28, Run between ports 31. Bitten br an insect 81. Genealogy 33. Packing in a wooden container 86. Violent disorders V. Set down in I writing 888 RiflEtZp to river 0. Penetrating iertain , ernes cult Sainte Marie the pinon, which has no many- hued blossoms to attract them. Gentle breezes are needed, are essential, to carry the clouds of pollen from tree to its neighbor. Gales blow the pollen outside the pinon belts entirely. Pinons were unknown to the eastern United States until Fre- mont brought back the specimens which Dr. Torrey classified. The tree's outline is a departure from that of most pines, without spires, round-headed or even scraggy topped like an uncertain apple. Trunks are 10 to 12 inches thick and the trees seldom attain a height of more than 20 feet. Limbs have a rubber swinginess and make a delightful sound when swayed by "the wind. Leaves are mostly individual, like single "awls," seldom if ever found in the fives, threes, and twos of other pines. Cones and bark are full of a resiny piny pitch which gives' off frag- rance but it nasty to handle. The cones measure about two inches across, the nuts, round at the base, pointed at the top, oftenest nut brown, about a half inch. They 'are easy to crush between thumb and fore- finger writes Frank Dougherty in the Christian Science Monitor. Passing through Santa Fe a year or so ago during a bumper crop, it was possible to see idle cars strung thickly along the roads leading from the city, the owners busy as beavers in the trees. Everyone, it seems, was aware of the crop of nuts; but few would part with any if you tried to buy them. And every- where people ate them. It was possible now to believe Ruth Laughlin's picture of old men with their backs against a sun- baked wall. "Cracking pinons occupies their minds," she writes, "while they gossip of the affairs of the placita. By long practice they achieve a certain mechan- ical efficiency-the pinon goes in a corner of the mouth, is cracked and munched, and the shells flow out like an automatic feeder." The sweet meat is not the fall and winter goal of men alone: birds, squirrels, and even dogs and horses show great partiality to it. It has been used, in hard years, in the place of barley for feeding cattle. It is the fat part of the diet of many a hillside sheep- herder. One may read somewhere that Cabeza de Vaca once lived for three days on a diet of pine nuts alone. Otherwise, it was lam- ented, he might have starved. The story is suspect. One does not starve to death in three days, and anyone really acquainted with the pine nut can only envy GRASS CROPPER Here is a mechanical grass hopper With di one track Mind. Its lodge Operctted arms odri extend tip to 21 feet on either side to cut down tree limbs and strialt brush which, often encroach iii troclui.