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WHO? EWE?--Denice Marin-
kob enjoys a ride en the back
of Pat, the wooly sheep.
My second lecture follows
when they are still politely in-
terested, "But you can tell sea-
sons by the donkey, here," I
say. "How so?" they wish to
know and if one of these gray-
haired braying creatures happens
to be in sight, they examine it
quizzically,
In spring (let's nqt bewilder
them any more -arta keep to the
conventional chronology), the
humdrum gray or brown little
creatures change into lovely
fairytale .apparitions. You see
them walking toward their mas
ter's house with two baskets full
on their flanks. The contents of
the baskets spill out, envelopes
the little donkey in a cloud of
sweet smell coming from all the
fresh wild flowers on the large
fields that are cut now and fill
the baskets. Green and red and
yellow and orange and blue and
white and when you go out and
look at those fields you, wish to
lie on that colored carpet and
dream all the dreams of spring,
writes Edith M. Cooley in the
Christian Science Monitor.
Summer arrives. The colors
have" changed to orange and
burnt ,siena, greens here and
there from a patch of cacti. The
sun is hot and merciless; all the
flowers have gone except forothe
resilient thistles, They stand high
in their unapproachable blue-
violet splendor but in July even
they become dry, brown stalks.
Our donkeys then walk slower,
their baskts filled with dry hay
and dry thistles. There is no -
doubt that summer is here. It is
heavy and wraps the earth in a
sunny, scorching passion.
Late in September the donkeys
trot with a lighter stance again.
Their, baskets now have various
EGGSECUTIVE SUITE — Mrs Mina Baker operates a 30-
fingered vacuum lift which speeds handling and reduces
breakage at a modern poultry and egg processing plant, A
pushbutton production program for 10,000 hens increases
output and produces high ,quality eggs which often reach
grocers' shelves in the area ,within 48 hours.
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This technique paid off in
tests at a prairie experimental.
farm of the Canada Department
of Agriculture. Steer calves ate
more of the poor quality hay and
got more out of it. Actually,
calves fed just the baled hay lost
weight,
Poor quality hay used in a
feeding trial at the Melfort, Sas-
katchewan, experimental farm
contained only 6.6 per cent crude
protein, reports staffer Dr, S. E.
Beacom, It was first-cut hay and
contained stubble from the pre-
vious crop.
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The hay was fed over an eight-
week period in long '(baled),
chopped, ground and pelleted
form to four groups of steers,
each containing six animals, The
results:
—Calves fed long hay consum-
ed an average of.6,5 pounds each
daily and lost an average of 0.14
pound of body weight per head
daily.
—With chopped hay, consump-
tion was 7,1 pounds per head and
gains 0.22 pound per head daily.
—A third group ate an averege
of 10.3 pounds of ground' hay
daily and chalked up gains of
one pound a day. se
—Consumption of pelleted hay
by the fourth group crept up to
11 pounds daily and average
gains of 1:8 pounds per day were
recorded, 4,
When ground or pelleted, the
hay was harder to digest. This
was more than offset by increas-
ed consumption which allowed
the calves to gain a pound or
more daily,
Dr. Beacom ran a second trial
in which goad quality hay of 17.5
per cent protein was fed, Calves
in all groups gained on this feed,
ranging from 1,32-pounds per day
on the long hay to 2 pounds pet
head daily on Denoted hay,
Pounds of feed coneutiecl Der
head daily ranged froth, 10.4 to
12,7,
both trials, steers fed the-
pelleted hay required a week to
10 ,days before they would accept
the food readily.
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font being built on the Green liver in northeastern Utah cis part of the giant five-stet.'
poet Colorado River Storage' PrOject, The dam will be 502 feet high obove bedrock arid'
Will noriftilii approximately one million cubic yurds of concrete, A section of 4ii0hwoy that
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LESSON
tween .everynic on earth. .and
e,aeh person would need a tank
something the sire of the Empire.
State Building to hold his share,
No, one knows why, but the
brain:A of water creatures never
develop a do those of lend crea-
tures, not even brains camper-
able to those of our lowest mam-
mals. •
Whales,, seals and porpoises
don't count; they are really land
animals that have gone back to
the sea.
Man has Used water to regulate.
his life. The Egyptian temple
priests invented water clocks
which told' hours of the ,day by
the amount of water flowing
from jars of known capacity..
Throughout history man has
struggled for water, lie has de-
veloped new water , sources and
improved old ones at . great ex-
pense to turn deserts green and
give cities. enough to grow on.
He has even fought bitter battles
for water.
The first thing man learned to
do with water besides edrink it.
was to carry it, Historians say
this was almost as much a mile-
stone in man's devealpinent as
Was learning to use lire and
' making the first wheel.
The clay vessel represented a
new wave of progress. The jug
gave him mobility.
There is one source of' water so
accessible, so plentiful, and so
endless that if man can,ever tap
it he will probably never have to
worry about his - water again.
There is only one thing wrong
with it: it isn't lit to drink. •
It is the sea.
The problerri is simply; .remove .
the salt and make it fit to drink.
The solution is•difficult, So far,
desalinization has been impos-
sible except at high cost. Only
two basic methods 'are consider-
ed practical at this time,(1) dis-
tillation and/or freezing and (2)
osmosis, the method of passing
sea water through a membrane
which catches the salt and allows ,
fresh water to pass through the
minute openings..
There are experimental plants
in Norfb Africa and the Middle,
East. Success here would put an
'area almost the size of the U.S.
under cultivation,
Freeport, Texes, has a huge
experimental. '. de - salinization
prorgamme of the distillation
type going right now, one of the
five planned by the U.S, Depart-
ment of the Interior which is in-
vesting $20,000,000.
We can and must learn more
about the 'sea. A mass exodus
into a nener watery world sounds.
unbelievable and the possibility
of it happening lies far beyond.
cur lifetime,
In' the meantime, of course,
other sources cotild be developed.
which -would make -sueh all ex-
unnecessary, - -
But thoughts of men beginning
a new life under the sea cannot
be dismissed lightly. Scientists.
say this is possible and they have
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proved the "Doubting Thomases"
so wrong in the past,
Some depict highly developed
cities under the sea; homes and
public buildings, shaped - like
'hemispheres to withstand the
pressure, made from matetials
extracted from the sea, or mined
from the sea floor,
They say these cities will be -n
cluster of ceneinunities, or "sea-
burbs," surrounding a huge cen-
tral hemispheric extractoinfebri-
ce tor industry.
They envisage communication
by Underwater subway; passages.
in and out of cities by .subista-
eines and stile-ports.
But, they admit, this will probe
ably not come to"pees until the
land is burnt out,.
Then as they claim all life
origihally came front the sea
millions of years ago, so it may
return to the sea—man's last
refuge.
Man's l.cast Chance
or Enough 'Motor?
W'Imt future does the world
bold for us and, Mere ininnVenn
our generations to come? We are
often reminded that the world's
population increases alarmingly
every Mintite and' that in the
not too distant future, our lends
Will be unable td ,produce enough
food to feed these eXtra, menthe.
What, then, is the solution?
One answer could be water—
tO be more precise, the sea. It is
possible that one day, when land
resources are depleted, we might
move into the sea to be close to
our last great supply,
For the sea holds just about
everything we need to live com-
fortably—food, metals, cloth and
our drinking water—and holds
them in greater abundance than
the land does,
Throughout time water has
Meant many things to humanity
—Sex, religion, food, death—and
now it offers the world a chance
to stay alive,
Water, the most plentiful of
substances on earth, will always
be one of man's most pressing
problems.
It is perhaps the first thing,
he became conscious of himself.
Water is the most plentiful, yet
sometimes the scarcest necessity
he has,
It is the source of all life and
sustenance on earth, and is the
home of nine-tenths of alt living
things on this planet — both
species and number,
Water makes up three-fourths
of the weight of our bodies! in
fact human protoplasm is only
water with many substances dis-
solved and suspended in it.
It is the only substance found
in solid, liquid and gas forms. In
fact, it is the only natural liquid
on earth.
This precious liquid is the most
universal solvent. As such, it al-
ways contains something of the
things it has touched.
Even rainwater is not pure; it,
picks up and dissolves airborne
gases and dust on the way down.
And water does flow uphill, In
trees, for instance, something
called capillary action pulls sap
to the highest twigs. Sap is about
ninety' percent water, ,
A pound of it heated to 100
degrees will warm your hands in
a blizzard for about thirty min-
utes. A pound of lead at the
same temperature will give you
warmth for only one minute.
If the earth suddenly became
perfectly smooth—no mountains,
valleys, etc. — the water on it
would spread and cover us to a
depth of 3,000 feet.
i,o,ity-tiine ,of our known ele-
ments occur seawater; includ-
ing gold. Bet the. man who finds,
a way to extract, this gold will be
poor. There are So many xi-Innen'
tons of it, his formula would
make gold valueless as a curren-
cy stWard.
Water has been associated with
sex through the ages. It still is.
Each . June 23, the women of
Marsala, Sicily, drink the "proph-
et water" of the ancient Grotto
of Sybil,
Maidens want to learn whether
they'll marry during the coming
yean, The Wives want to know
whether ' their husbands. have
been faithful during the • year
past.
Water was perhaps the earliest
form of judge and hangman, In
the Dark Ages, any man claim-
ing a witch had. done him claim-
could' demand all females sus-
pected of witchcraft hurled into
a deep pool with stones tied to
their backs.
Any woman who didn't sink
was regarded as a witch and
burned at the stake. The others
Were declared innocent, which
was great :comfort to their fami-
lies When they put the drowned
bodies in the graVeyaed,
Eskirnes need less water then
any people in the World. They
hatdly ever sweat, because of the
neld, Use almost no water in
Cooking, and hardly ever bathe.
Divide all of it equally be- ,
Tolling The :Soctsato
ay The. Porikorsi.
When Anglo7iaxons arrive in
Morocco (which I choose at ran-
dom beeriu.;e t have lived here
for e long time) or in any other
North ,African country, they duly
admire mosques, souks, camels,
veiled women, water vendors and
other exotic things, including the
climate.. "An ever blue sItYr
• they exclaim.
The rapture does not last very
lOng. After a while they begin
to wonder: "but there are no
seasonsi Isn't that rather dull?
,rust think, • Christmas and no,
snow, no white Christmas!" The
latter: possibility seems to im-
press these visitors most and sad-
dens them beyond my compre-
hension,
At that point I cannot resist
reminding them that the first
Christmas did not exactly hap-
pen under a Christmas tree and.
surrounded 'by snow . (although
that night was probably very
cold in Bethlehem), and that we
invented all the romantic trap-
pings which are really only glit-
ter and" tinsel but so important
to them. They look at me with
some indulgence, . their fades
clearly showing that they went •
Along with my fancies but. that I
really had no understanding at
all of ..• Christmas;
.0) Ito, It S. Warren, 154,, 1.3,0A
What Is Eternal Life?
John ip-e3t;er 1ito79,s 0: 443;
I Corinthians 15; 3-28;
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The most common conception
about eternal life is that it Means
duration of existence or "forever-
nen." It does, of course, fooled.
this but Se does the term inunor-
tality, If the term eternal UPI
implies no more titan unending
existence, then it is merely a syn-
onym for immortality and all
men have that. Jesus never im-
plied that all men have eternal
life. In the wards of ,Teens which
form our Memory Scripture wet
have the only Scriptural defini-
tion, as follows, "And this is life
eternal, that they might know
these the only frne Gads a114
Jesus Christ, whom thou bast;
jfast. i7Vtses of Romans 5
and d,e6', like two great brackets,
each make reference to eternal
life, Between the two are im-
Portant truths concerning eternal
life. Whereas in the old life be-
fore conversion we were dead in
sins, now we are' to be dead to
sin, Paul makes clear that eter-
nal life is a quality of the Chris-
tian's present existence and con-
sequently must manifest itself in
certain characteristics, In bap-
tism he sees a symbolic likeness
to Christ's crucifixion, and be-
cause of this, the Christian must
regard himself as completely
identified with Christ in His
death and resurrection, The re-
sult is, to be a resurrected life in
which the Christian's relation-
ship to sin is altered.
In the extended metaphor thbt
follows (6: 15-23) the picture in-
tended belongs to the system of
slavery so common in the first
century world. As a slave could
be transferred from the service
of one master to another, so the
Christian is te, be changed from
the service of sin to the service
of God. He who lives the resur-
rected life must be a servant of
God. He must 'yield his body to
God's service just as freely as he
once yielded it to the siavemas-
ter, sin. This consecrated service
will be a testimony of his posses-
s in ioffe.God's ,gift, which is eter-
nal
In the lesson portion from I
Corinthians we see that Christ's
resurrection was only the first
fruits (the earliest yield of the
orchard giving evidence of a
coming abundant harvest). Since
Christians are to share in that
testirtection, eternaldife has also
a future aspect, ,
. peter points out that Christians
do not .escape trial. But the trial
is designed' ;toseason our faith
that it May be found unto praise
and honour and glory at the ap-
pearing of Jesus Christ. How im-
portant it is that we may know
Jesus Christ and possess eternal
life. Our life will be changed and
also our eternal destiny. Eternal
life is God's free gift to us
through Jesus.
loads; big, ripe, juicy dark
grapes sometimes, Or faggots to
prepare for the winter. Nature
here is much snore anthropomor-
phic than in other places I know.
These sticks of eucalyptus wood
have add, knotted shapes; they
seem to coma from some en-
chanted wood where roots have
faces. ith the first rains, the mea-
dows become green overnight
and then you see the donkeys
"all naked," without any load
and happy, eating that first new
grass.
In winter the• baskets are usu-
ally filled with eucalyptus
branches, Winter is the season
for trimming those faithful and
humble trees, Donkeys now have
many of their branches in their
baskets, leaves and all, those odd
green leaves which always have
a faint hue of red or brown. The
grass is there again but no flow-
ers yet; they come when the dry
earth has greedily drunk enough
of the now falling rains.
You see, seasons change here.
But you need more subtlety to
tell when they change than at
home—and a donkey!
THE FARM FRONT
Jahn
In its quest for the best for-
age crops for Canadian livestock,
the Canada Department of Agri-
culture has reached out to the
far corners of the earth. The
nursery at the Central ExPeri- ,
mental Farm at Ottawa contains
hundreds of foreign species and
varieties of grasses and legumes.
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There is 'a different strain or
type of alfalfa for every- day of
the year in this nursery, One
hundred and sixty-fine carte.
from the U.S.S.R., 65 from the
U.S.A. and others from Turkey,,
Hungary, Yugoslavia, India, Ti-
bet, Australia and Argentina.
.Strains from warm countries
are usually obtained from moun-
tainous. regions.
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Almost all the cultivated grass-
es and all the forage legumes
grown in. Canada have been in-
troduced by man, notes R. W.
Robertson of the Genetics and
Plant Breeding Research 'nett-
. tute.
In pioneer days the settlers
brought in seed of the varieties
they had grown in their native
lands including timothy orchard-
grass and White clover which be-
came well adapted to the Cana-
dian climate.
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In Eastern Canada, reed ca-
, nary grass is the principal na-
tive grass that has been develop-
ed as a cultivated species. Most
other native grasses were of the
shade-loving type that grew he
the forests or on the banks of
streams, On the Prairies, more
use has been made of the native
grasses hut introduced . species
such as crested wheat, internte-
diate wheat, brome and Russian
wild rye have greatly increased
forage yields in the dryer areas.'
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Through the cooperation 'of
Plant breeders, botanists and
egricultural institutions in Many
cdttntriet, the introductory nurs-
.k cries provide the means of sys.,
tematically introducing new for-
age varieties. Each strain, variety
or species is groWn in short rows
as a preliminary test far hardi-
ness, vigor, forage and seed
yields and disease resistance.
Those with desirable characteris-
tics are increased and seed made
available to plant breeders lot'
use in developing new and im-
proved Strains, A strain that
passes all tests cat be registered
for sale as a variety in Canada,
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Some unusual species growing
in the nursery at Ottawa are
Xochia,. Port anima and quaker
comfrey,
kochia, 4 bushy green plant
that turns red in the fall, IS
grown as all ornamental (burn
ing bush) In Canada and is being
tested as a pOssible forage crop
in parts of South bakota. Xochiti
has ,become n Serious Weed in
sonic Parts of Manitoba and it Is
ineW Unlawful to plant it hi' that
province,
Pea antrua is a small peeennial
Pao about tend inches high and.
native to the highlands of Scot-
land; at Ottawa it kills out badly
during severe winter.
Quaker comfrey is used as a
green feed in Europe; it, is high
in protein and European growers
claim that it produces phenome-
nal yields of forage.
No Fun 'Looking In
Your Maii-Box Now
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In summer an individual's un-
wanted mail may dwindle to •a
weekly wheelbarrow load, but
come fall the mail, box seems the
only visiblen outlet for Federal
garbage. The box, at hreine or at
the post office, has enough biz-
arre ,ecieneons, gfironicks; two-bit
investment schemes and just
plain junk to make a fire for a
football pep rally ...
It used to' be fun to wait for
the mailman or to open a box.
Just about everybody gets a little
excited at the prospect of inter-`
esting mail, but now everybody
feels he is the personal foil for
gimmick-artists and his box is a
garbage can. If postal.inspectors
knew how much mail is thrown
away, they'd wonder how small
towns can afford the money to
have the junk carted off.
If this mountain of drivel had
to be sent first-class, rather than
in bulk-rate, the post office
might be able to declare a whop-
ping dividend. If not, personal
business would have to improve.
For hardly anyone dares to try to
calculate how much time he loses
opening and angrily disposing of
the semi-frauds and trash forced
upon him,—Raleigh (N.C,) News
and Observer,
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Left with 'a lot of poor quality
,.hay?• • • •
Before feeding it in its present
form this , winter, give some
thought to chopping, grinding or
pelleting it. -
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Frazzled baby-sitter to parents
returning home later than ar-
ranged! "Don't apologize I
wouldn't he in a linsty to come
hOthe either,"
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