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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-03-15, Page 9)er1711, 114_ amounts of the hormone, chemi- cally-known as indole - 3 - acetic acid. Other soil bacteria and many molds also produce this hormone, but are much 'less abundant. „, Plant growth hormones are produced naturally in higher plants. In minute amounts, they control growth and other physi- ological functions of the plant. Studies are being made of the effects of the amounts produced by soil bacteria on plant growth, and their probable effects on re- sistance to disease. • * • The embargo on export of La- combe swine was lifted by the federal government last month. The ban was imposed at the end of 1958 when distribution of the first breeding groups to Ca- nadian farmers got underway. * * The new swine breed was de- veloped by the Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture for crossing with commerical types but it was feared that, without export con- trol, the supply might be de- pleted before the Pee,ed became established in this country. Several thousand Lacombes are now registered with the Ca- nadian National Live Stock Re- cords. Breeders recently answered a questionnaire expressing satis- faotion with the Lacombe and requesting freedom to sell it in the commercial export trade. • * Barring known grub - infested cattle from entering Canada is routine, but importing them de- liberately is news. It happened though, at Leth- bridge where 14 Herefords in- fested with warble grubs were recently received from Oklahoma in the interests• of science, Explained J. Weintraub of the Canada Department of Agricul- ture's research station; "The ani- mals will be studied to see if the grubs they carry can adapt to the Canadian climate." Warble grubs mature and are dropped by cattle in Oklahoma Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 1111111111111111111111116.6111111111 1111111111i1111111111111111O111111111 11111111111111111E1111111111151111 11111111111111111 6111111111111i0611111111111111111111111111 111211115141111111111111111i111111111 61111111140 11111111®® 11111111 ion iii:IiK:41111104titiegg ijo:441105311:011..*:•:,11•:•.:4 wromiciniags. iii111111Mii1111N111111151211111111 11111111Miii111111111111E1011111111 eey Rev, R. Barclay Warren, 13,A., BM* The Greatest Commandment LeYittOIS 19:18; IVlatthew 35;35, 37, 19:16-2l memory Selection: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God With ell thy heart, and with all thy souk and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neigh- bour as thyself, Luke 10:27. WHIRL 'ROUND-Nature seems to draw rings around man when it comes to design, as is shown by this circle of floating ice on the Kaskaskia River, The 30 foot diameter circle, which may have been formed by a whirlpool, remains in same spot. Protect Teen-age Farm Employes 111E FARM FRONT December and -January; in Canada they are dropped April 4.04 May. The question arises.: Gan the grubs dropped in mid -whiter survive in Canada? Al Leth- bridge, they have survived. brief exposure to -407. but 'It is not known it they can survive ions' exposures under natural condi- tions. •• Tt is important to know if grub-infested cattle from the south could re-infest those ,areas where the grubs have been practically eredicated by con- trot., measures. It is important also to determine if new cattle grazing areas in the north .co.uld. become Infested. Rearing the Oklahoma grubs in the laboratory will provide a supply of warble flies in winter whereas they are available lo- tally for only a short period in the early summer, With this ad- ditional supply the work on the reproduetive. behaviour of the flies and on tests with chemi- cals that may inhibit reproduc- tion will be expanded, The flies will be used also. in an intensified study of the anti- bodies produced. by cattle as protection against infestation by grubs. Such information may help development of a control vaccine. Show exactly how to do the job safely, without strain. It is appropriate that follow- ing our study of the ten com- mandments, we should turn to the great commandment, which. Is sometimes stated in two parts, Jesus, said, "On these two com- mandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matt. 22:40. It is easy to see that if we have this love •as emphasized in the great commandment, it is natural for tee to keep the ten command- ments. With such supreme love for God we will have no other gods, we shall reverence His name, keep His day holy and honour our parente. If we have this pure love (the word is used to describe the nature of God; for God is love) toward our neighbour, we shall not hate him, defile him through adultery, steal from him, lie about him or covet what is rightly his. If we keep the great commandment we will keep the rest. One os the great inadequaciee of the English language is that we use the same four letters to describe the attitude of a man toward a steak, a weinan towar4 a hat, a boy toward a girl, I mother toward her child, and a saint 'toward God. Of course, we usually can tell by' the context what a person means when he uses this word 'love', but there is danger that the consistent low use of the word may dispel some of the higher meaning. The Greeks had three words for 'love'. `Eros' meant the kind of love which seeks to possess its object and stood for all lustful desire on a physical level, It does not appear in the Bible. 'Philla' meant a mutual friendship and solicitude. The word used in the memory selection is 'agape'. It is the kind of love which goes out toward another in a deep concern for his welfare without any ex- pectation of return. It is express- ed in John 3s16. Man is inherent- ly selfish but when we share of God's 'agape' toward us, then we have this kind of love toward Him and toward our fellowmen. If this love prevailed in the hearts of men, this would be heaven on earth. Traded A Door To Get A. Painting In recent years the 87-year-old +storyteller Somerset Mau.gham has been increasingly worried about the safety of the paintings at his Villa Mauresque on the French Riviera. The immediate area, St. Jean-Cap Ferret, has long been a favorite hunting ground with art thieves. After last summer's thefts, amounting to •some $8 million worth of art, Maugham came to the painful decision to sell his fine collection of 35 paintings at auction, On April 10, some 2,200 con- noisseurs, reporters, and sight- seers in London will jam Sothe- by's auction rooms, where chair- man Peter Wilson expects to dis- pose of the collection-works by Renoir, Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, Matisse, and others - for about $2,240,000. Meantime Maugham has recalled some of his experi- ences with art in "Purely for• My Pleasure," soon to be pub- lished in London. In one notable transaction de- cades ago in Tahiti, he traded a. wooden door to a native for three panels of a glass door, an which Gauguin had painted an Eve. By the time Maugham met Matisse, the old painter was bed- ridden, Maugham bought two of his paintings. "One is known as The Yellow Chair',"' he writes. "It gave one the impression that a happy inspiration had enabled him to paint it in a single morn- ing. When I said so . . he . . told me that he had scraped his paintings down to the canvas' three times before he could get the effect he wanted. The colors were brilliant . It made pic- tures close to it look rather drab and I had had to hang it by itself electric clock and doorbell, Each in turn was approved, by the OPA. I found that permits to buy unavailable things were easy to get, and as long as the OPA thought you couldn't get a.iy- thing, they'd approve it. Arrayed against them was a certain avail- ability of about anything you wanted if you, knew where to look, "Don't tell the OPA I've got one, but if they OK your or- der have one," The wording of government directives took study, and sometimes an electri- cian is driven to distraction to find peripheral meanings, The challenge grew daily. So far I knew nothing about doing the actual wiring, and wondered if I ever would, Strangely enough, a clerk in the OPA solved everything. Ile was denying me a permit to buy cables and switches, but he said there was a storekeeper up at. East Overshoe that I ought to call on and get acquainted with. Now this storekeeper was canny and foresighted. Before the government clamped down on anything, he had bought in about three carloads of electrical effects, and he had trucked them out over a back country road to an old farmhouse he owned and in which nobody had lived for 30 years. The farmhouse was seven miles beyond any power lines, and the only electricity they'd ever have there would be the' battery in a jacking flash- light. But the 'storekeeper heard my story, and agreed with my charitable motives, and we got in his truck and drove out to the farmhouse. He had 13 miles of Romex cable on the porch light alone- all coiled up and tucked over the piazza, Down cellar he had five ass of fuse boxes nailed on a wall. The old parlor had over 500 lamps in it, all wired up. There isn't a hydro - plant in Maine with capacity enough to have fed into the lines he nod in the kitchen. And, you see, everything was installed and wired up, so it became "second- handed," and the OPA, directives didn't apply. He looked at my wiring diagram, cut off all my cables to length, and counted out the junction boxes, connect- ors, sockets and switches. I spent the summer, off and, on, wiring the house. It was* -a lot of fun, I learned to "snake" wires, and I kept my circuits on the right side. I never worked more than five hours a day, which is long enough at a time to fiddle with wires. I finally put in fuses and screwed in the bulbs. Then I went down to the office of the power company and I showed them my OPA permit, and I stirred up quite a touse over their slowness to respond. "This job has been waiting since June!" I shouted at the poor girl behind the counter. My friend, the manager, winked at her, and we all smiled. That afternoon a lineman came around and shoved a cable through the hole in the beam and I tied it into the box. Everything worked fine, and still does, but. I'd want electrictian's pay if I ever tackled anything like that again. The house? Well, it was old and vacant, and some refugee people who had been through quite a lot were coming, and they were' elderly, and I never felt the WPB meant them any- way. -By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. Wear adequate clothing as protection against sprays. Tyyino To Untangle. Official. Red Tape News that the electricians in New York have "won" them- selves a five-hour day causes due approval up here in the country, and turns my thoughts to the time I was an electrician. My experience tends to show that no price is too high for this worthy Service, and I'm sorry I didn't know ray own strength. I wired a'house once, It wasn't my house, but circumstances had set up a situation where I thought this was a fine thing to do, We couldn't get an electrician to do it, because there was no money in it, and while I had no know- ledge and no license, I did work cheap. What I'm talking about was war-time, and the country was under both kinds of restric- tions - proper and WFB so the nuances are intriguing 4nd the venture was a vast challenge, I wonder, at the new union scale, just what that summer would have cost. Well, it was not only a chal- lenge to find the wires and fix- tores, and not only a challenge to figure out how to put things together, but it was a greater challenge to fight the accumu- lated order s, regimentat:on, codes, zoning rules, union coin- pliances, stop orders and OPA directives. What I was about was illegal, improper and un- American. But I felt it was a decent ambition and that I would do it, whether I could or not. I went to a friend in the power company and he said no service could be extended unless the house (he said "housing unit") were ready for it prior to July 1. Since it was now June 29, I bad to rush back, bore an inch hole through the beam by the underpinning, and get to • the OPA so they could stamp my pa- pers. The hole sat there staring at the road until September, but it was "ready" prior to July 1. Then I found that the entire pro- ject was a semantic manifestation of cerebral loopholes in Wash- ington, Not one thing was done In this entire project which was "illegal," but even at this late date when time has mellowed the perspective I am not eager to argue, the morality. I found, for instance, that a refrigerator plugged into an out- let is a "temporary" thing, but that the same refrigerator be- came "permanent" and lawful if you soldered the connections. Thus any frivolous, or "unes- sential," contrivance became es- sential and approved if soldered in. So we soldered the toaster, Prohibit loose clothing that could catch in machinery. on a white wall. I said: 'You know, I buy paintings to brighten ,my house.' Matisse gave an angry grunt. 'That is only deco- ration,' he muttered, 'Decoration has no importance,' I thought this nonsense, but was too polite to say so," CHARLES EVAt4S HUGHES 18 2 \ 19 6 2 Match youths to the job; ban the "thrill kids," show-offs, FARM SAFETY - Farmers across the nation soon will employ thousands of young people, many of them unfa- miliar with farm work. Prop- er safety supervision is essen- tial to reduce the toll of death and injury among young work- ers. The above sketches illus- trate some sound safety prac- tices. JURIST HONORED - A corn- mernorative postage stamp portraying the late Charles Evans Hughes will be issued by the, U.S. Post Office Depart- ment on Wednesday, April 11. O. When dropping in •on friends in their new home or apartment, is it all right to ask to see all of it? A. This suggestion should al,. ways come from the host or hosteSs. CROSSWORD PUZZLE New Drug Helps With Tuberculosis A new drug can be like a Broadway show. The drug may be fine in theory and trials, but until it's exposed to a large, live' audience, no one knows for cer- tain how good it will be. One drug which has passed its live tests is an anti-tuberculosis compound called isoniazid. Ten years ago last month, isoniazid was grit announced to the Ptib- lic with a cautious promise that it Would be the best anti-TB drug available, At a National 'Ttiber- culosis Association anniversary luncheon hi New York; TB ex pests agreed that isortiaticl had fulfilled its promise, Largely be- cause of the drug, the mortality rate from TB had declined § per cent annually so that now barely 10,000 Americans die of the dis- ease each year, What's More, is- ohiazid has been effective in 95 per cent of the patients afflicted with TB. SLEIGHT OF HAND-This jackhammer seems to operate by magic, Actually, the operator left his gloves on the ma- chine's handle when he went out to lunch, Nearly 8,000 ewes have been shipped under the federal gov- ernment's program of traneporta- tion assistance to sheep produc- ers. The federal - provincial pro- 'gram, announced in December, 1960,, by Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton, is aimed at bol- stering Canada's lagging sheep industry by helping to establish larger, more economic flocks. The federal government pays up to 50 per cent of the transportation costs on ewes bought for breed- ing purposes, with its share hing- ing on the amount paid by each province participating in the plan. • , In Ontario, Manitoba, Saskat- chewan and British Columbia, agreements provide for equal di- vision of transportation costs be- tween the Canada Department of Agriculture, the provincial gov- ernment and the purchaser. In Quebec, the cost is shared by federal and provincial gov- ernments on a 50-50 basis. • • •* Of the 7,946 ewes shipped last year - nearly all of them in the autumn prior to the breeding season -6,326 went to Ontario; 1,020 to Quebec and 600 to Brit- ish Columbia. The majority of shipments came from Alberta and Saskatchewan. The 6,326 ewes shipped to On- tario went to 55 producers, who took from 40, the required mini- mum, to 280 head each. Meanwhile, officials expect that last summer's drought and consequent shortage of feed will sharply curb shipments of sheep to and within Saskatchewan and Manitoba. ,, * Arthrobacter, a group of soil bacteria common throughout the world, pr o duce significant amounts of plant growth hor- mones, or auxins. This was discovered recently by two Canada Department of Agriculture scientists at Ottawa, Dr. H, Katznelson, Director of the Microbiology Research Insti- tute, and J. C. Sirois of the Plant Research Institute. * • * As many as 3,000 million bac- teria may exist in one ounce of soil. Moreover, they are five to ten times more numerous in the soil .surrounding plant roots. The plant itself contributes to the growth of. the bacteria by providing them with food from dead or dying root fragments, sloughed-off cells and root ex- cretions, These include amino acids- the "building-blocks" of proteins-some of which stimu- late the bacteria to produce 60 times as much hormone. - All types of these bacteria tested produce readily detectable 27. Growing out 30. bBooduy dn e r se. Legislative 27. Sinews 40. Musical syllable 42. Ocean 46. However 46. /tallan day 45. bi rihneigneze Cc se rolled tea 49, Hebrew letter 50. Anglo-Saxon 51. Wino ceSit 52. HIgh In the 53.1'819{14er 7, Man's nicknaine 8. Pollen-bear- ing part O. Chief executive 10. Boat propeller 11. God of the 18. Summit 20. At horde DOWN 91. Roll of 1,O wns tobacco 2. Palni leaf 22. 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I 7... ntaices: ritetioabiNs S4 , Period et ,,.„. time P. A.ii0,16.4iiiiedli , frestnitif 'SO, The 'jinni,' TRACKLESS TRAIN - New supply vehicle capable of cLirrying 150 tons of Cargo Ovee practicallY any *detain in the World is being ,..tested by the U,S, Army in Texas. The 512-faot-long overland trdiri hos" 13 cars with firei four feet . wide dnd 10 feet in diameter. Each of its 54 huge 'Wheels. is powered by indi 401dUat electric ' motors. Three gas turbine -engines generate eledridity, Tan tart are for Margo, two carry the- power ietaht4 and the front Cdr. contains Contrott ISSUE , Answer elsewhere' On this page'