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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-10-25, Page 3NDAY Sa1001 LESSON 1115111111111S DRIVERS 41, is u NPOPRA_ 3 21 w V N yL w S A S 3 a 3 01. Answe6 ii1S010-here page, , eontiol the ftehere :that were the eettieee (duet pet. The place up the lame beyond tim apring ant be ton a Int come to the gap by the Red Astrachan thee Some Memories Of Old Forming Doys • Many thmee prise by, but the land ehaneaah, Il.t ga mita; and when lily hither and I wallc up through the fielde of our old Maine ram the differeneea d'in't vein to matter, Father's horizons liave Nen lost, heaamee nobody keeps COWz; gray more, but this is relative. Nighty years ztea ewe!: farm had a barnful of stook, and th.' land was kept elm for hay and pas- tare. As e boy, my father could stand on our pasture kited and look away acmes the valley, but not today. Today, uniese he's a dairy farmer, a man can't afford the luxury of cattle, and T guess a good many of the dairy farmers can't—the way their numbers fall off every year, Well, the board of health, and the milk control board, and the federal marketing agent, and a thousand other regUlatory no- lions have put the family cow out of business. We produce more milk every year with few- er cattle and fewer farmers, The horizons have drawn in, My father belongs to the genera- tion of cleared fields and neat, weedless wall-corners.' Tall hay and ripe grains looked good, But the government bulletins tell us now that fence rows pro- tect wildlife and add to the value, Each small bush is nurse- maid to a bigger, and some day we'll have trees to sell. The cattle used to keep the forest growth down by nipping the young shoots. If I want to hold back some bushes I tuck a package of hor- mones into my orchard spray tank, and I don't need cows, • Milk, I get delivered • to my farm doorstep, homogenized, pas- teurized, scarified, and irradiated —cheaper than I could produce it myself, I don't need oxen, and I couldn't grow beef without get- ting afoul of more regulations than an abbey, and my old barn is legally unfit for dairying, It was legislated out of archi- tecture 40 years ago, in the pub- lic interest, My father's father, when he built it, had nobody to please but himself. I've been planning to rip it down and find some use foe the lumber, But things are really about the same, "1 caught a skunk once, right there," my father says. Some squirrels were raiding his pop- corn, so he built -a wire cage to keep a squirrel in and set a box- trap. When he found the trap -sprung he lugged it to the house and dumped the squirrel into the top of the cage and closed the hatch. But this squirrel happened to be a skunk, who resented this treatment and felt silly, indeed, sitting up in a squirrel cage. .In ray time, saw a woodcock, one year, sitting on eggs about where my father caught his skunk, and I watched her daily until they hatched. My own son, in his time, trap- ped.an owl about there, and kept him until he learned that an owl's personal habits are un- pleasant. . And my -father's father used to tell how they set droplogs to Colombig alzd Cuba. M04 were interested in, ti y, the red clovers, Q.I.sike and braille grass, * Caw& imported during the same year 21 million lb, of the principal field seeds compered with 1a,3 million lb, the pre* oils year, The largest amount 4.1 million lb. came from the United states saad. • included 41 • types, the chief in quantity being timothy, alfalfa, and perennial rye grass. Late Harvest in Scots. Highlands Ileaaee, Till/FARM FRONT 06 - 1111111111112.- SITTING ON THE JOB — The crowd in the San Sebastian De Los Reyes,, Spain, viewing stands probably sits at seats' edge while Manuel "El Bolo" ("The Bullet") sits calmly back in his, the bull charging just a few inches away from his relaxed position. lieu IC lit l :wen. -it.*,, Why the Bible? Pealin .19t 7-11; 2 Timothy, 3: 14., 1.7; 2 rgto. 1.: 10-21, Memory Beriptoret 'reach me* 0 Lord,. the way of thy statutes; .and I simot keel) K -onto -the end, rsalin 119: 33, The attitude of the writem orb the Old Testament is well pressed in the lesson by the words, 'The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul." The statutes of the LORD, while- objeotive in themselves,. have a =St wholesome effect on the in- dividual who. walks by them. They make wise the simple, re- joice the heart, and :enlighten. the eyes, They give warning and in keeping of them there is great reward., 'The Holy Scriptures are given by inspiration of God, or liter- ally, God - breathed, There are many good books in the world, but the Bible outranks them all, The 'Scriptures were written by men, specially inspired and guid- ed by the Holy Spirit. Recently, I heard a medical doctor of high rank in his ape. Dial field, give an address from the Wend of God. He lied joined the church in his youth but only during the Billy Graham cable .paign in Toronto, did he come into a personal acquaintanceship with Jesus Christ as- hie personal Saviour, He gave us more of God's Word in three-quarters of an hour than most :ministers _do in four or five eentnotes. He real- ly believed the words of He- brews 2: 12,, "For the .ward of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two - edged. sward„ piercing even - to the di- viding asunder of soul and spir- it, and of the joints and marrow,. and is a discerner of the thoughts. and intents of the heart." As a scientist he understands the pur- poses and potency of various powerful drugs. But here is a weapon which is the most pow- erful of all in reaching into the souls of men. He used it deftly and. effectively. The Bible is important because it is God speaking to us. We are going to be judged by, it in -the last great day. It is our road snap from earth to heaven-. It is: sad that in so many homes, dust gathers-- on the covers. We had better. search it daily. It wila uncover our sins, It will show us our Saviour and the way to• find pardon and peace in His Name. Let us read the Bible„ For several weeks the crop stayed out in the stook. Then one afternoon, Alec, an easterly neighbour, and his two boys ar- rived, unannounced, ire the fields. He stood looking round the crop. "It would. be as well in the rick, I think," he said, . . A short while later Willie Maclean ap- peared, with. Billy and Bertha in his wake and the nine of us worked with gusto. It was a -perfect October eve- . nine. The sky was blowing red and the air was pungent, with a hint of frost, When the enor- mous yellow moon came looming over the arc of the hill, I went up to the house with Helen and Bertha, and we stoked the fire, to set the kettle boiling, and made toast and a panful of fried eggs. On the next two evenings this band of neighbours worked with us, till all three cornfields were decked with small sturdy ricks, "It'll be safe enough now, what- ever," they said, as they bade us goodnight, They had quiet]. watched our Progress through the year and had taken, I think, a modest, communal pride in our first harvest. They just wanted to be sure we should secure it, knowing as they did from their long experience what tricks the weather was capable of, We marvelled at their undemonstra- tive good-neighbourliness, and blessed them for it. Later on we had a couple of days' hired help to make the big stacks, from which the corn would be threshed. The last few ricks had small caps of snow on them before they were at last brought in. When the stacks were completed, on the last day of October, we knew what had gone into the fashioning -of them—the work, the anxiety, sunshine, storm, good fellowship — the whole of our new life was sym- bolised in those five rugged cones, standing stark against the crackling stars. Yes, it was the last day of October when, we put aside our pitch forks. .. The stacks became so much a part of the landscape that we were quite sorry to see the ar- rival of the threshing-mill and to have to undertake the slow dismantling of them, However, there was compensation in watching the plump, burnished grain pouring out of the hoppers into the sacks and to note that there was an astonishing amount of first-grade stuff among it, We would take a sample in a grimy palm and gloat over it, like a miser with his gold. Our corn had been sown in a snowstorm, and it was to see an- other before it" was finally gath- ered in, When the job was three-quarters done the snow began to fall in soft, feathery flakes, . . However, the grain was got safely under - cover and Jimmy and Billy battled away with the stack of straw and se- cured it with weighted ropes, Next day the seed merchant's lorry came to collect the- surplus grain and we received a substan- tial cheque.—From Croft in the Hills," by Katharine Ste- wart, EAFIAMA ,Miami 1(151-ANDS Key West, t10 lava" ANIROS Thie ie. 1. ,,,uppa,e. what tin•y meen by ' (tote.. Our total fine its a tuni1,5, on this term is small eompari'd to settee to the holdines in the Eng- land our people corms from, but it le a total hung—from hegin- to now is hardly mare filar sir thand, My own grandtather renum- bered, and told rree hiniself, of the when the Drily neigh- fac six miles away. lie couldn't remember the Indians, but his grandfather could, and told about them, so to me the stories were only one hearsay away, The Indians liked us, he said, used to step in overnight to visit whenever they came this way to massacre some settlers at tide- water, It was in those times that our first house was built. The "old, settler" was a boy of 19 then, and he dug clay from the brook- bank in the lower field and burned all the thousands of bricks he used for his eight-flue chimney, He didn't know how to burn bricks, and there was no- body around to show him, so he read what it says in the Bible about this trade, and went ahead, And my father and I walk up amongst my 30-foot pines and he says, "This is the best field on the farm, I used to harrow it for beans with a yoke of young steers and, three logs driven fug of wooden teeth, Nat a rock in the whole field, and good soil." His father had cleared it — it stood comb-thick with monstrous pines older than. Columbus—and was delighted to find it free of the rocks that sprouted like mushrooms on the rest of the farm. In my father's time it grew crop after crop, and then in mine we read another government bulletin and planted it to pine again. Six feet apart and offset in rows, neat and orderly, the little seedlings reached for the sky, and I suppose my son will one day send them to mill and perhaps his own boy to college. The land is the same, but the generations come and go and the uses change: It isn't enough that the world has fathers and sons, There ought to be at that continuity with the land that an old farm affords, Young, crows cry in August, filling the humid, misty morn- ings with discord, and they are there for grandfathers a n d grandsons alike. The easterly rains slap on kitchen windows, the blackber- ries hang by the rock walls, and there is perpetual. magic to the clear; cold water in the spring by the lane. These things are the same, and in our living room we not only have the stereoscope through which Grandfather gazed in awe at the beauties of Niagara Falls in winter, but we have the spin- ning wheel on which grandmoth- ers twisted the family yarn, and the latest pictures from Telstar. Bricks burned before the Rev- olution await the inspections of further tomorrows, Father cones and walks up through the fields with me, and sits again by the old places, and the things he did and the things he saw are about the same as we do today.. His fields of corn were waked to Maturity before an early frost if they were lucky; Mine is hy- brid seed led with computed fertilizers and, irrigated, so I'm sure of a crop, But it's still 'Corn. The telephone rings to inter- rupt him while he -is telling grandchildren how' he drove eight miles in a snowstorm, with a white horse 'he couldn't see from the pang, to carry news of a new sister to an aunt up the, road, Aunt Eunice's roses still bloom by the doorstep, arid Aunt CUBA Miles 0 200 Careful surveillance of wild life in the area will be maintain- ed, Authorities are particularly concerned that a herd of wood bison, a rare species of the plains buffalo, should not be touched by anthrax in their sanctuary in near-by Wood Buffalo National Park, ORIENTE PROVINCE * • Guantanamo • Santiago • GUANTANAMO 'NAVAL BASE • ieq.stMaii Caribbean A Sea Sea„eteeeee RED HERRING? — Cuba' has announced that Russia will build a $12 million fishing port for Soviet herring trawl- ers. Official statement says it will be built at Havana, but speculation continues to cen- ter on city of Bones, spotted on Newsmap. Work crews are already installing a shore-to- ship missile base there, ac- cording to U.S. experts, It is about 85 miles from the American naval base at Guan- tanamo. Soviet fishing boots have been known to carry complex electronic gear to monitor U,S, missile shots from Cape Canaveral range. Anthrax is contracted by ani- mals grazing on infected pasture- land. Sport hunting of buffalo was ordered cancelled this year to prevent the possibility of an infected animal being shot and parts of the carcass containing the spores being brought out. Spores are long-lived and very resistant to destruction. Quarantine a n d inoculation control the' disease in domestic stack but such means are not applicable to wild life. a * Seed production from timothy, the dominant forage grass in Eastern Canada, was estimated early in September to reach 8.5 million pounds, about half of the 10-year average. Most of this will come from Ontario where there was a short- age of hay and pasture in the heavier producing areas coupled with an increase in livestock population, Some yields were in the 250-300 pound-per-acre range, and were of good quality. * A bed which is 230 years old and more than nine feet long was specially provided for the use of President de Gaulle dur- ing his state visit to West Ger- many earlier this year. Finding a "fitting" bed for the tall President's visit proved one of the German organizer's prin- cipal headaches, One German town ccuncillor offered to lend his 7ft. French, eighteenth-century bed for the occasion, but his offer was grace- fully declined by the Hamburg city authorities. His height-6ft, 3in.—prevent- ed de Gaulle from escaping after he had been captured at Verdun during World War I. He made five escape bids but each time the guards caught him. "Naturally," he says today, "they always recognized me on account of my height." Uphiciedown Lt.) Pl'eVent Eunice was an old lady when George Washington was a boy. The doorstep used to be a flat fieldstone that was slippery in the rain, so in after times it was replaced by a cast cement block. But the wrought-iron foot- scraper from the old was set over into the new. Uncle Nia,h brought the scraper from France when he went over there with Ben Franklin. And that Red Astrachan tree by the gap isn't the tree that was first planted there. Our family has worn out many an apple tree, but somebody al- ways manages to keep a new one coming by the gap, You Might call this loyalty to a tradition; and you might call it an investment in the- future. But it's also a very good are tanglement in your own time. — by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. Doesn't Believe In Hitch-Hiking An irate lawyer trying to es- tablish a point in cross-examina- tion-demanded of the defendant: "Madam, while you were tak- ing your clog for a walk, did you stop anywhere?" "Sir," the witness said quietly, "have you ever taken a dog for a walk?" CROSSWORD PUZZLE ISSUE 43 — 1962 Forecasts are for the biome grass seed crop in Western Can- ada to be about the same as in 1961 with Manitoba increasing its output. Larger production of crested wheat grass in Manitoba arid Saskatchewan may be offset by a, small crop from Alberta. A substantial decrease in creeping red fescue seed is seen through decreased acreage and yield. Canada is the main source of this seed for U.S. buyers. * * Manitoba grows practically all Canada's meadow fescue seed crop which this year may be twice that of any previous year, The quality is also good. Export of field seeds froth Ca- nada totaled 55.8 million pounds for the crop year' ended June 30, compared with 65.4 million pounds the previous year, * The United States took 45,4 million pounds, the principal items being 15,6 million lb, of sweet clover, 9 million lb, of creeping red fescue, 5,7 million lb, of red elover, single cut, and 3.3 million lb. of double cut, 6.2 million lb. of alsike and 2 million lb. of alfalfa. Other importers were. Ettro- pean countries, and Japan, Aus- tralia, South Africa, Argentina, 7, Very bed' 'le:Wliatticiti 8, Noah's 27, Untruth landing place 2g Summer (Pr;)- 9. Impetus -30, Hoit-Veilly, 10. AWAY ftoiti body • witid*Eird 83. Sareitetid 11, Ntithbetti 34.- Splinter DOWN-: 16, Sintrielie dolt- 38, Cot itioticiri 1, Explosive". 20, Gilind,, 22, Mtn, coin doVidea. parental. 28, Bib. character' 2.- DiehMenteet 22, Buffet 119,,Ifitentleiiii 'S. Caste. 23: Port 40. Paper Pairritliler, , eN. Zealand) Mulberry, 4, Siiiiill 'shot 24, Turkish 41 Belk,. school , I, Tatters , weight '42: Wilting title. 8,• Cittirld • Motel • ,..23.. PoilieY,ei.liik 43,,BilkniOrM , ACROSS' 1, Cantdilment doretiption 8, He lovOl (Let) 12, *Mgt 12, Land irieriiiilte 14 riiiidtfori te„ Piutidetet 17, Welly 18. Welkiiik stiolte 19,, POO iihevi4 $1. (BV,) 22. Hebrew month 28. Harbor 21. 20,-Porei.,er , (Maori) 'SO. At rest 11. Out .(Dutch) S2. 118, „ „ 37, 119, Stifiefititieili 42, ftniii4headepublfoatlon d koci (Egypt';? 44. Rddenetitute 46 11 Indian weight • 4,.t. Plower,' field' ,48. Epid poetry' 49. marina' , Sallee SO, tittle girl lit Eibitnerice Most hikers, frequently to the annoyance of motorists, stick out their thumbs, periodically in the hope of cadging lifts, But One who Sets himself. firmly against hitch-hiking in any category is Ronald Aldotts-Fountain, a forty- fiveyear-old Norwich born corn- inertial traveller. The very idea of hitching outrages his, faith in his own two sound feet, Having spent the last nine years in Australia, he is now trekking the 2,000 mites from Melbourne to Perth, a journey by foot of ten tO• eleven weeks' hard, dust-begrimed slog, intend to get there," ' he says, "in time for the' Eitiptre Gaines in November,. and: I'm definitely not hitehing any rides,' Vile Stocky, 5ft.'sin , tramper revels in- long hikes. Since the War, he has tramped many thou. Sands Of miles through Germany, Exigland, the Middle East and Japan. And, as lie knows well, if ha ;hecepted a single lift, evert in an emergency,, it would Apcil his grand "feet it yourself " record, In all Weathers, with the going good or bed,- through jungle trails at aerOsS desert he aver- ages 25' to 30' Miles a< day. How do you get rid of 274 buffaloes that have died of an- thrax over an area of 600 square miles of muskeg and woodland in the Northwest Territories? This was the problem that faced the Canada. Department of Agriculture—and departments — when the plight of the stricken herd was discovered, at the end The of j solution:ulY' organization and . mechanization—plus lots of men, lime and fuel oil. . . • By September 10 all carcasses had been buried or burned and the infected pastures had been burned over. The Health of Animals veter- inarian. Dr. William J. Norton, who was dispatched from Cam, rose, Alberta, to the scene indi- cated in his reports to headquar- ters in Ottawa, that a helicopter was the king pin in .the opera- tion. The aircraft was used to sur- vey the area, place numbered markers, near the carcasses, ferry burial crews between the camp and their equipment when this distance was too far for the bom- bardier, and to transport crews and fuel oil to otherwise inac- cessible areas where carcasses had to be destroyed by fire. In- spection of the work was made sometimes by helicopter and sometimes' by bombardier, a vehicle which travels easily over this terrain. • • • Five bulldozers were used far excavating the burial trenches. Where the water table was too high for deep burial, an eight- foot thick mound was built up over the bodies: This proved to be the -usual procedure. Tractors, travelling in pairs, hauled lime, fuel oil and tools. Each pair was accompanied by a bombardier for locating and hauling carcasses and for trans- porting the crews where practic- able. The supplies were brought down river to camp in a barge. * * Fort Smith, the nearest settle- ment to the infected meadows, was too remote to serve a-s a base for the operation. The camp was set up on the bank of the Slave River on an old sawmill site where a large building stood, This was used as a dining hall and a modern kitchen trailer was attached to it Shacks were put up for the men to live in. All personnel coming into the com- pound were required to pass through a de-contamination post and a weal-Mouse trailer contain- ing washing and drying machines was provided to handle the dis- infecting of clothes, Early in the work the crews began to wear masks as a protec- tion against the spore-laden dust which. was raised by helicopter landings and bulldozer excava- tions, The scrupulous attention paid to disinfection at the base ;Ad at the work scene was a feature of the whole project. The ground around the burial point was lim- ed or burned off; the carcasses were covered with lime to- hasten their destruction! lye was used to wash the equipment used. bcep burial or sounding puts the carcass, beyond the reach of carnivorous 'animals and birds which, though themselves im- Mune to etitheax, might spread the epores from the infected Anil- Mats to other pastures, Where- these'inethods could not be used, the carcasses were destroyed by fire With the aid of fuel °IL * 4, 4 At the ecriclusion of the dis- Poeal operation, brush and' pas- ture were fired to force the stir-, vivors of the infected area to Seek ether feeding grounds. OVERR AND UNDER THE BAY Borges float huge 325-toot-long Steel bridge section into position to form the highest Paint in the 17.5-trine-long bridge-tunnel highway crossing of lower Chesapeake Bop