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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-05-10, Page 3TREE RIDE - Bambino, the helpful elephant who lives at Skansen Zoo in Stockholm, Sweden, aids woodcutter .Ingyar Nylund who gets a ride, on 'a tree trunk he chopped. PINT-SIZE PONY - Wilma Primus, 19, carries 11-day-old pony colt born on her family's farm. It is 18+ inches at the shoulder, weighs 25 pounds. Potato growers who wish to cater to the Chip industry must choose a ,variety -high in dry- matter content and that makes chips of desirable colour, says H. T, Davies, of Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture.' Some, varieties make good chips throughout the year, some are suitable in summer only and others are unsuitable at any time, he points out, The Avon variety is one of several that produce chips of good quality throughout the year, When Avon is taken out, of storage, however, it must be re- conditioned by holding at high- er temperatures before process- * I Other suitable varieties Netted Gem, Russet Rural, Ken- nebec a n d Cherokee, Katandin •5! tnakes good -chips but has a low ',W-matter content. Keswick and Irish Cobbler are suitable for chips only when freshly dug, in July and August. Although high in ,dry matter, Green Mountain is unsuitable because certain sugars and pro- teins in the tubers produce dark-coloured chips. are 5 Here's a timely tip for bee- keepers: Fumigating combs with acetic acid and feeding the drug Fume- gillin to bees are effective. mea- sur es in curbing nosema di- sease, This advice is offered by Dr, J, C, M. L'Arrivee, of the feder- al experimental farm. The acetic acid fumes destory the spores and prevent conta- mination of healthy bee colonies. Dr. L'Arrivee reports that in tests at Brandon, only one in six healthy colonies became in- fected with nosema disease when hived on combs fumigated with acetic acid, compared with ,five in six when the combs were not treated. * * In fumigating with acetic acid, the supers (boxes) of brood combs are stacked and a shallow tray of glacial acetic acid is placed in the pile, A:fter a week's exposure to the fumes, the combs must be aired for two weeks or more, the re- searcher warns. Because of the bees' sensitivity to them, traces of the ftimes could retard de- velopment of the colony. * It pays to read! This is the advice of the Con- sumer Section, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture, in stressing the value of information provid- ed by labels on canned and fro- zen fruits and vegetables. Thanks to government grad- ing regulations and inspectors, the guesswork in buying these foods is eliminated if a shopper takes the time to read the label. A grade Mark 18 the guide to quality and is one of the first things *or which a shopper should look. In order of quality, grades f o r canned fruits and vegetables are "Canada Fancy," "Canada Choice' and "Canada Standard," Frozen fruits and ,vegetables e n d canned juices have t w b grades - "Canada Fancy" and "Canada Choice,' g radeThe names apply to products canned or frozen hr Canada and, also to those that are imparted and repacked. Thd word "Canticle alma appear as part `of the grade mark on labels Oil linported prOdUeta told in the original containers„ How- e v e r, "Fancy Grade," "Choice Grade" and "Standard Grade" must meet the corresponding "Canada" grades. Country Of origin indicated on imported products, M. If, * Labels also show the amounts in the containers. With, canned fruits and vegetables it IS the volume by measure in fluid ounces and with frozen products it is the net weight in ounces or pounds. Containers for canned fruits and vegetables are of standard sizes and limited in number, while frozen products must be packed in standard net weights. This standardization helps the shopper to -compare prices, the Consumer Section points out. * 4. There are a number of other label markings that discerning shoppers will note, such as the ones showing the percentage of ,sugar used in a syrup - packed fruit or the fact 'that none was added and, in the case of many fruits and vegetables, whether they are packed whole, sliced, diced or cubed. The full story, however, can- not be told on the label, This involves a wide range of gov- ernment regulations ranging from weight standards for can- ned fruits and vegetables to the requisite that the product must be sound, clean and wholesome. Are You Really Worth Your Salt? A United States scientist with the colourful name of Athelstan Spilhaus has just come up with some fascinating facts - about salt. Once part of a Roman soldiers pay-hence the word safarli salt, made of deadly sodiunf4d poisonous chlorine, is obtained"by evaporating sea water or dissolv- ing or mining underground rock salt. Its biggest users ye the United States, claims the professor, who is Dean at the University of Min- nesota Institute of Technology, Ten million tons are used an- nually in America, although only a very small fraction as season7, ing for food, Most of it is used in preserving foods and hides, for do-icing roads and in animal diets. The professor's students have been shown how to break down a salt solution into chlorine gal and' caustic soda. The chlorine content makes such things at mothballs, bleache s, plastics, DDT and other drugs, while the soda is used in the manufacture of soap and glass. Thus, the common salt we at is a basic raw material for the whole chemical industry. !hinter Is all your party bac0 - Yes, :yois're, the last: Then PVC Shot a deer, Upsidedown 'to Prevent Peek' ig zi NIA N 0 7141.5ZI Shutters Are Important In France NDAY SCI1001 SON tly Hey U. Barclay licrArrog, stretched .clown the rivers, until all the back eddies and coves were closed off, and driving con- sisted mostly of watching the logs go. But they still tow the booms on the lake's, Lust year the towboat on Flagstaff Lake had a bad day - they towed in- to a headwind from breakfast to supper, and ended up seven miles behind where they started, It was quite a wind, In. windy weather, in the old days, they used to have a way to winch the booms. They'd tow a raft up ahead, anchor it,. and then winch the boom with a long' cable off a capstan. It tools time to gain any distance, but far less time than it would take to round up 20,000 cords if they got dis- persed in the lake,. After towing across the lakes; the logs would be sluiced into the stream below and continue on their way. There was . another kind of boat, in addition to the bateau and the towboat, which should be in the museum It was the boom-jumper, They still use them. Heavily planked, it had an odd after-structure abaft the. keel, to protect the propeller and shaft from logs. The boom- juniper was usually built on skids, se a team or a log-hauler could tow it across a lake on the ice or overland - it was a boat on 'runners, The powerful engine was :something to. confuse any- deepwator engineer. In d e e d, deepwater mariners of all kinds would look askance at the boom- jumper, and few of them would care to ride • over a boom and chug-a-lug down a Take arrin).st 25,000 cords of spruce. It is. a seafaring experience best left in the culture of the old river- driver. To each his own, but if life owes you , a new and dif- ferent experience, I suggest you top things off with a good ride . in a boom-jumper. Down at the mills, where the flush-boards on the dams were awash, the arrival of the first logs was an eccasion, Crews had the area boomed off, so the 'logs could be held up. At sluiceways the ownership was determined, and logs that belonged to a mill downstream were passed through. Those belonging there were head- ed toward the tramway and lift- ed onto the bank, to be used as needed. Long logs, unpeeled, had;;.,' to be boomed in the water, or."!, bugs would get at them, The Day Of the Lord 2 reter 3:1-18; Jude Memory $cripturei 1 knew whom. I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day, 2 WilnethY Shutting up the house for the night in Franee is somewhat dif- ferent from doing the same thing in the United States Where one ordinarily locks the front and back doors, checks the windows, and lets it go at that, In France the ritual is more complicated, Take our house, a square, old, three,storled charmer in Le Vesinet, a, pleasant sub- urban town 10 miles north of Paris, on the railway line to Saint - Germain - en - Laye, The yard of our house (or garden as the French persist in calling it, though it grows, mostly bare dirt) is surrounded by a high iron fenee, with discouraging spear Points 911 the top of each paling. One's first act at night is to swing shut the two iron doors of the great carriage gate through which, presumably, surreys once whirled in lacquered splendor and through which now our car barely squeezes. (Two lines of scratches advertise that twice, on dark nights, we did not quite make it.) These gates close by means of a chain and padlock. The small pedestrian gate in the fence is simpler, locking with a huge and rusty key. Next one proceeds to the house, pulls in behind him the iron door at the side entrance, and locks it. Meanwhile, one hopes his son has been busy about the shutters, Each window in the house is adorned by a pair of heavy wooden shutters, which t h e French insist should be swung• to and locked from inside each night. For the first few months we were lackadaisical about this, assuming that a potential thief would be sufficiently discour- aged. by the iron fence around the property, Not at all, our neighbors and friends assured us One French friend, after visiting us and per- ceiving my offhand reaction to these security matters, tele- phoned me the next day to urge, apologetically, that I did not yet know France and that I should do as. Frenchmen did. Had I seen any house in the neighborhood left unshuttered at night? I ad- mitted I had not, and decided to conform. Now the habit is so in- grained we would feel uneasy and somewhat naked if we left our shutters open at night. The ground-floor shutters are the most formidable, requiring that an iron bar be dropped into place at each window once the shutters have been swung shut. From outside the house this floor appears inky black, no mat- ter how brightly the dining and living rooms may be lighted. We drew the line at the third floor, concluding that any burg- lar who could surmount the pointed fence and scale the peel- ing concrete walls of our house, Beans. And, Biscuits Three Times A Day! Out in Iowa people have been filling sandbags, should the spring freshets run wild, and it seems such a far cry tr;-/m the old days • bcir(i, in Maine when the. seasonal run-off was never any calamity, but the welcome ex- pressway to the mills with the wintr's harvest of thnber. it might be interesting to reinem- ber some of the. thing6. Although most of the men who worked in the woods were jack; of all phases of luMbering, the river-driver stood taller and de- manded extra respect. It was a special talent, and called for standing up under rugged abus- es. He would go wet day • and night all during the drive, sleep- ing in his soggy clothing, and getting an en route diet of beans, biscuits and molasses which, af- ter 23 meals, brought him singing to the 24th as if he were join- ing the festivities at an Olympic banquet, Today the drive is al- most gone in Maine, and on the St. John and Machias, . and a few others, where they still do it the circumstances have sweet- ened the exposure. The truck, of course, has brought a change. All winter the teamsters would bring the harvest down to the water's edge, and 'millions of feet and cords would wait for the break-up, The lake would turn black, and get porous; the high- er sun, wind and rains would do their work. One day they would bring the bateaux down from the storehouse, launch them, and the drive was on. The ba- teau may or may not have its rightful place in the marine mu- seums, but 'it should. It was, is, a double-ender with something. of the design of a salt-water , dory, It was long and narrow, fairly big for a fresh-water craft, and designed for 'White-Water, They handle not unlike. a canoe, but are designed for work, With a good man handling the pole,, • it's hard to swamp one. Pole, be- cause .. in that kind. of going you don't row or paddle. The bateau was the taxi of the drive - it always went down, for horses could bring it back, and they had nothing else to do all sum- mer. Sometimes the cook and his. wagon moved by bateau, some- times by wagon. Here and there bunkhouses were stationed along the river, but often the men would eat and sleep in the open. Cooks sometimes carried stoves with them, but they knew. how to build a fire and cook around it in a circle, Beanhole beans would be started two and three days ahead of the drive, to be dug up when the first ba- teau appeared in the rapids up- stream. The word, "boom" ' comes to mind, and hi the Maine woods there was nothing sonic about it. Booms came in two kinds - the long straight ones that were stretched down the river, log af- ter log chained one to the other, to keep drifting logs in the chan- nel, and the round kind that en- closed a raft of logs for towing across the ponds. Year after year more and more booms were TIE FARM FRONT Jo6uuseil Our lesson deals with a much neglected subject, We are told that the Old Testament has 1845 references to the second coining of Christ and the New Testa- ment has nil references, On, dif- ferent occasions groups of people have attracted attention by in- sisting that He was coming on a certain date. They have gath- ered to await His return, Satan is delighted with such behaviour, He knows, as any, Christian should know, that no man know- eth the day nor the hour of coming. (Mt, 24:36; 2 Pet. 3:10). But this disappointment to ex- pectant people tends to lull the public into thinking that Jesus Christ will never return, The scoffers increase just as Jude and Peter said they would. Nev- ertheless, "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up," The exploding of a nuclear device in 'the mega- ton range is a small affair com- pared with the event thus de- scribed by Peter. Today, men are more fearful of what men may do with their destructive weapons. But God will have the last word in the destruction of the world as we know it. And that is not all for us as individuals. We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ to render our account. But the picture is not all fore- boding. "We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwel- leth righteousness." As Noah and his family were saved from the flood, and righteous Lot from Sodom and Gomorroah, so a godly remnant will, be saved from the final overthrow of the world, There are those parta- kers of the Divine nature who continue to grow in grace. Peter urges, "Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and elec- tion sure," The Lord does not will that any should perish but that all should come to repent- ance. ISSUE 19 - 1962 without our hearing him, deserv- ed what he could get. Our house is heated by a coal furnace requiring that each fall, winter, and early spring night the fire must be shaken, stoked, and the drafts closed, a process which many readers may recall with minimum nostalgia, writes Harry B, Ellis in the Christian Science Monitor. Each morning, naturally, the whole process must be reversed, from furnace to shutters to out- side gates, This is not always con- ductive to springing from bed with a song on one's lips, Taarticu- lardy on. Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, when the barrels of ashes and refuse must be placed out on the street by eight o'clock in the morning for collection.. In the Middle Ages, no doubt, a man's sense of security lay in putting obstacles between him- self and roving highwaymen, and the noctural habits of, today's suburban Frenchmen can be traced back, in part, to these or- igins. But there is another aspect to this whole question which has come home to our family, It is, frankly, downright cozy on a blustery evening to be thus shuttered away from the world, secure from the gaze of passers- by, Outside is darkness; inside is warmth, light and companion- ship. Our last home, in sunny Le- banon, had one entire wall of glass. Outside those giant win- dows moved the ceaseless ebb and flow of Arab life, We sel- dom felt truly private. Here the contrast is welcome- though by the time one has dropped the last bar and turned the last key, he feels he has earn- ed it. The drive, anyway, was over . except for the "log-watch." who patrolled the river all sum.:' mer looking for strays, and pos4:,-- sibly logs some riparian oppor- tunist had yanked out en passant to enlarge his woodpile. Some- times a log-watch would have the job of throwing a man's whole supply back in the river, just because it had a spOt of red paint on every stick. Herding a swarm of bees across the great plains Without losing a bee is a good story; bringing a million cords of wood down the Kenne- bec is just as good, and they did it, All of which sums up to the point that this annual spring surge in Maine was our economy at work, The freshet was good news, and the drive was the big event. So times change and opin- ions vary, Afterwards, the river- driver§ went to farming, whit- tling, working in sawmills, and perhaps guiding - something to do until the mills began hiring again, in the fall, and the cooks began baking beans again, and the work started to get timber ready for another ice-out, - by John Gould in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor, Q. How can I mix starch fOr We' on clang! materials? A, Mix the starch with cold tea. A substitute for starch to be used on black or dark, blue materials is to dissolve One 18a., spoOn of gelatine in a quart Of Water. 83. Transgreee 35. Vermit I8. Rubber 40. Serve food 42, Restrain 44. In a line 45. Russian river 46, Old form EARTH LEVEL ELEVATION 6,710 FT, Vapor INDSHIELD AND ISTSRUCTURE TOWER H SUPPORTE1 i°AT ACROSS 2. Gone by 1, Data .1. Shoitt 6. Follow after 4, Span of 9, Milictish horses 12, Concur 5. Old 131b. 18. reerninine 6. oaly name C R 110E R D PUZ 5. Existing 10. Carry on 11. Seasonei 17. Shred 10. Move Side- waYs 21. 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TUNNEL EXIT 36 27 29 3/ 28 30 News-Graphic] 32. 35 33 TtivtPLE 'C1F THE 8UN - The unusual structure in the foreground of photograph above' houses the world's largest solar telescope, now nearing completion at Kitt Peak National ObservdtorY, 40 miles southwest of Tucson, Ariz. The structure stands 110 feet high; the diagonal shaft is 480 feet long, 280 feet of it underground, as shown in diagram, Sun light will be teflected from, heliostat (flat mirror) to parabolic Mirrors inside the shaft' tirid into the observation roam. The telescope will have a focal length of 300 feet and will form images of the sun nearly 'a yard in diameter, which may either be photo. graphed or directed into spectroscopes. The big instrument will permit studies of the sun in greater detail than has ever been possible.. Domes of the observatory's Gild 36-inch stellar telescopes (aro the left: background of the PhOtograph. sa 38 37 41 40 ua .43 ft; : 47 5/ 50 98 54' 52. rig 53 56 Answer elsewhete on this -page