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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1922-8-17, Page 7In a Phonograph Recording Laboratory With An Artist Not any music lovers bother their me, and if I away too much to the right or left, or too far backward, I bump a violin bow or a bit of music sweeps my hair.. "The flute has the air in the intro- auction, so I yield him my place close to the horn, and either dunk -down out of his way or step noiselessly to one side. The orchestra does not follow me exactly, and I resolve to ask a while others almost squat on the floor, moment's leniency on 'sous un Ciel excellent production received' during or that a recording laboratory con- tome rs bleu., to brill. out the `s,e cies an early summer which comes without is the cause of such heavy losses 'n sista of two rooms, one where theg commercial eggs at this time of the the 't' in touj�ours.. extra exertion on the part of the - artist or artists stand and the other heads about the details in connection Address communications to Agronomlet, T3 Adelaide $t, Wast, Toronts with the making of a phonograph re. Hot Weather Hints for Poultrymen. If they are required for breeding an- a fa by an. a artist. of a have, , perhaps, a faint conception of a singer, arches - Much has been said as to winter other year, put them in a coo and era or band standing before a horn practices in the poultry yard you do not need them, put them .on to knowing that in the case of an the market just as soon as the breed- orchestra some instruments are played ing season is over, By keeping the by performers on very high stools reales out the eggs will be infertile s,, but inj give them a pen away from the hens. performing—but when it comes down too many cases, particularly in farm flocks, as soon, as summer comes, the hens are allowed to look out for them.- selv-es. This is possibly due to the and the germ will not develop. Ude farmer; We And that at this time of year any hen will lay, but the spirit of bard work is short-lived with -the evils, and they again fall off in Jane and July. At this timeof 'the year the cults are most easily identified. With a little training and study these un- profitable individualscan be taken out even earlier, Those hens shQwiog lack of vitality, small round bodies, et- the rthe big beefy type, will not stand up long in the summer. The yellow pig- ment returns to the beak and shanks. They go into an early moult and `are all through for another year; Get ae quaiinted with the alacker-hen and learn to cull these out. This will ma- terially decrease your cost of feeding and .also get the benefit of a better market, Space will not permit a long discussion on culling. Attend a cull- ing demonstration this summer and learn how. The condition of the poultry house in summer should be .given every at- tention. A hot, stuffy house is not conducive to health and high •larodue- tien. Make some arrangement for summdr ventilation., This can easily be done by putting ventilators at the top of house to Barry the hot air off, Bring fresh air in from opened win- dows, thus creating a constant eircu- kation of air. In houses having shed roofs, fresh air inlets can be placed along the back. This can be done by hinging the cornice board to that it can be dropped, allowing air to enter between the rafters. This draft is prevented from striking the birds by lining up inside the house for a short distance over the roosts and down to the dropping board. This allows air circulation over the birds and keeps the house fresh and sweet. twenty pounds; bran, twenty pounds;: Houses which have high roofs can middlings, twenty pounds. WO straw lofts to good advantage. This can be fed dry, and also two These can be made by placing some feeds a day moistened with milk, pre, loose boards over the joists and cover- ing with a foot or fifteen inches of otraw. This acts as an insulator, pre- vents the suns rays beating down on the roof, heating up the house. This straw can be used to equally good ad- vantage in winter as it aids in ab- sorbing the moisture from the house. If windows are used under the drop- ping boards these should be opened up, giving the house every chance to stay cool, particularly at night. Shade should be applied for the laying stock during the day. If trees are scarce, a patch of sunflowers can be sown and fenced off until they get up to good size. Corn sown in rows makes excellent shade. While it is true that the birds do ,not use the house a great deal during the summer it should enver be neglect- ed. Keep the dropping boards cleaned and watch for mites and lice. The nests and roost should be frequently treated. Crude oil applied frequently to the perches and netts will eradicate. these blood -sucking mites. Lice, if well established, will reduce the pro- duction. and cause an early moult. If the flock is lousy treat at once with sodium fluoride. This is the rest and west easily applied lice treatment and will assure a clean flock for six months at least. It good practice during the .sum- mer months to reduce the grain and make the birds eat more mash. They do not require a feed rich in carbo - 'hydrates to keep up body heat at this time, but do need the stimulating con- atitutentsof mash. Sour milk or buttermilk, if available, should be given at all times and the meat scrap kept up to ten or twelve per cent. If no milk is available keep the scrap up to twenty per cent. A good mash can be mixed of equal parts of ground oats, ground corn, bran, middlingsend meat scrap. - Green feed is i ften neglected.. Dur- ing the hot weather the ,birds. .do not range far and the runs are very, much devoid of green feed. Sow some rape, Chinese cabbage _or sprout some oats for summer. The .addition of a little green `feed will aid -in retarding the moult and help hold up production. Be sure that all males are removed. from the laying flack at this season.' hatching. year. These fertile eggs will, held at (tire boll* of holies) where the record- "The orchestra seem to be playing temperature of seventy or eighty ing machine is set up, they are not too load; covering my words no. mat - a deees,'for 'a few !hours, start to pro- infrequently at sea. For the bene- degrr ter how carefully I pronounce. I try' rens. The heat is insufficient fit of such persons, the following gives to d hands to thelender with 9y eyes osi- to continue the development and the a fairly comprehensive grasp of the g egerra ggs dies and decays, causing rotten situation as outlined by an artist her-° ° a� tesn tn in the sunderstand Het in front of ethinka, This is a good time to look up mar. "1 have," she says, "accepted :an en- go slower, so I nod the kets for infertile eggs, as good eggs are hard to got on the average market at this time of the year. Get in touch with someone who will pay a premium for guaranteed eggs and then produce a quality product. If you continue to sell en the local market in competition with eggs produced carelessly, you will continue to lose money. You can- not afford to produce a good product and be penalized for the other man's carelessness and you cannot afford to play the role of the careless producer. Have you cleaned, and put away all) the brooding equipment ready for next spring? Stoves and metalware will last years longer if carefully cleaned, up, oiled and put away in a dry place; when the brooding season is over. The main object with the young stock should be to bring them along with no setbacks and have them in the pink of condition when fall comes. The a last nasal ery of desolation the voice early hatched cockerels should be stops. ready for the market before now. Seg " 'Good;" I think. 'My turn now.'" regate the best as soon as the sex cane All Set for the Horn, be detected, put them on a separate range away from the pullets` They will do better andthe pullets are much better alone, particularly in the lighter breeds. The cockerels will make better gains when fed alone and supplied with a moist mash in addition to the dry mash in hoppers. A good mash for the gagenient to sing on the afternoon of tempo slightly. This is only the first t the —th. I arrive at the recordir►,gx 4., P° of trying it, and ten to one it rooms fatally punctual as usual. The wilt not tae satisfactory, so the strain singer before me is still recording. is not so great as when you know you Her Inst effort is being heard criti- are making a master, or matrix, from ally by the orchestra leader and 're- which the record will be cast, and you cording master, The orchestra metas. feel you may allow yourself liberties are sitting round in their shirt sleeves in nndirating tempo, and so en." in the anteroom, smoking hard. The Wrong Time for Comments. Through the clouds of cigarette smoke "We go on to the end. A. silence, are dimly seen the 'Positively No while the machine whir -r -r rs a band Smoking' signs. They know that a of fine lines as a selvage to your rib - sensitive throat is often affected by bon of song. Sometimes a singer will heavy cigar smoke, and so rarely int forget this pause and remark loudly, dulge in that luxury. 'That was pretty good, don't you "From the room beyond ---the re- think?' which is, of .course, instantly cording room --I hear a Jewish wail, ,recorded on the faithful wax, spoiling marvellously reproduced in the ma- an otherwise good record. chine, 'Eili! Eflii' The girl's chest "At the close of a test the maobine:. voice is carried up to middle G in de- is stopped and the director climbs fiance of vocal methods, but it suits down from his box to hear the record. perfectly the anguished lenient. With "Ile says, perhaps to the trombone, 'Those notes urn -be -um -be must be more sustained'; or, 'What did you play, cornet, in the fifth bat from the end?' and so forth. "Silence, please! from the recorder. "Not at all. Apparently they areere mo` ea the swinging zinc funnel not satisfied. The orchestra is called and puts ;another smaller one in its back, and I hear the girl herself re- place. peating phrases I have just heard With great care the teat is,; from the machine. After three or fourat' run over and yob listen with painful'. standing close to the born. repetitions she comes out• --typical' tion You teen tee mentally that that tone was Russian Jewess,pale, with something too bright with its flat a -a, it cut too mystic in her eyes belied by her smart deep in the wax for the soft sounds clothes and generally ready-made air, before and after it. That cockerels: can be made up of ground „ high note; All right, Miss Howard!, That is I. came very near beteg corn, thirty pounds; ground oats, g a blast—I was "I have grown a bit keyed up.by too close," waiting—always to me one of the most trying incidents of life --and go gladly Rearranges the Orchestra. to the slaughter, "A slight shifting of the orchestra's forably sour or buttermilk. Keep milk "Mi, mi, I hum a it. Yes, the Feral positions takes place, for the before them at all times. If milk is voice is still up—that Is, resonant and keen, practiced ear of the master re- not available, ten per cent. meat scrap as I left it after my careful morning corder was too dull in one place, the can be added to give the necessary practice. brass too heavy in another. The protein. Every care should be given to pul- lets from now until fall. See that the roosting quarters .are well ventilated, kept clean and free from mites. Sup- ply. shade. An ideal place to 'raise pullets is in the orchard. The corn field, if not too far away, is an ex- cellent spot. It supplies shade and abundance of insect life. Corn or sunflowers can be sown for shade if it. is not convenient to move the colony houses to the corn field, Hopper -feeding both the mash and grain feed is a great labor -saver, and gives excellent results. Outdoor hop. pers can be constructed which will shed the rain and bold enough to last for several days. If milk is available keep it before the birds all the time, if not, be sure they always have a supply of fresh, elean water, and ten per cent. scrap can be added to the mash. A very good developing mash can be made from bran, twenty-five parts; mid- dlings, twenty parts; ground oats, twenty parts. Corn, fifty parts; wheat, fifty parts, makes an excellent scratch feed which also can be fed in hopper. As the pullets begin to develop, twenty per cent. corn can be added to the mash to insure goad fleshing be- fore they commence laying. This will aid in preventing a fall moult in early pullets. Special attention must be paid to "The flute is to play an obligate the green feeds. Pullets not receiving close to ray ear, and is extreonely to plenty of greens will not yellow up or afraid that I will not let him come develop as strong constitutions as when given abundance. Oats are easily within recording distance of the born sprouted in summer and a patch of for his solo work. "I enter the warm room. It must be kept warm because of the wax used for recording, and of course the win- dows are closed. Some companies re. cord in a big, resonant, empty room; some in one planned to dull all extra sound vibrations. As for myself, I welcome the big vibrating emptiness. It helps your record, helps you on big notes when, you sway back from the horn and all the air waves pulsate with your voice, "The orchestra is grouped round you, It is small, of course, and varies maestro gives his opinion, and the men who have left the room—showing+ small interest in the first test—are called back. With much talk and ban- ter they climb back and blew a. few swirls and quirks on their instru- ments; the violinist jazzes the melody you have just been singing, and a general smile relieves everybody. We begin again. "'.Ah-li, say'—from the flute when he has finished his introduction—I! did something funny.' His top note;. bas been a bit husky, just like a prima! donna with a frog in her throat. The' in size, from twelve to twenty men, say. cut is stopped. There is still room There are some strings, a saxophone on the wax for a twelve -inch record, possibly, trombones, horns, cornettss, so we start again, We swim on: Con oboe different woodwinds and flu Sometimes the violin has a queer metal horn attached to its side. This focuses a briIliant tone on the record- ing horn and allows the violinist to stand farther back. "All the men are on different levels. Some stand on blocks and little plat- forms, some sit on stools of different heights and built-up chairs. A11 are movable, and can be adjusted and re- adjusted with ease. Their music is suspended from a network of cords and wires near the ceiling—a little sheet in front of eaeh man's eyes. The men climb up, shuffling their feet and shoving their wooden stands about. The trombones are pushed back, the strings forward. nais to le pays." A Flaw in the Wax. "We get about a third through. The man at the machine holds up his hand. A hole in the wax no good. 'A. hole' sounds tremendous; in reality it is a minute flaw, not to be seen by the naked eye, but the needle has dis- covered it. Tiny as it is, it will affect the perfection of the record. A fresh wax is put on. "The musicians swirl and toot again absent-mindedly'. I do a few mi-mi's, or perhaps, feeling the fatal 'master' approaching, I slip a moisten- ing lozenge under my tongue. I have not been nervous so far in any degree. Habit and knowledge that in all pro- bability it will have to be repeated several times have detracted from the sense of responsibility. Now I gird up my loins—.this is probably the sell- ing record. A bit of phlegm, tiny, un - rape can be sewn to provide this ele- "I reassure him and win a smile. important on the concert platform or; We all must record into that one horn operatic stage, where one may ex-! meet. A patch of alfalfa is excellent pectorate comfortably at will, seems and the birds will do well on a range somehow or other, and it is a finely- : balanced affair, requiring much nice' to float across my chords. A burning; of this kind. The old tough sod doesq !; rage seizes me. I look up and shake not yield feed of any value during the' adjusting to•enable us to do so. my hew -d, at the leader. He may not hot, dry weeks of summer. 1 The Orchestra Rehearses. even have heard it, but he taps his Keep a line on the most promising! The orchestra leader taps his baton baton—the orchestra stops. pullets and enter a pen in an egg after the music is distributed,and 'Isn't that maddening? p I say.' ng A miserable laying contest. The sale of breeding they begin to rehearse. They try its frog—'I'm so sorry]' No one pays any stock will be greatly increased by an' through once, A mistake or two in attention to me" official record at an egg -1 a y g h in coif-; the notes—groans and whistles of dis-, The Last Attempt. law. test and vrill help to. sell the eggs for gust. It :is •correeted. They try again.. „ The maestro 'stands way above you I They resume their tuning up and II. Preparations for the Journey, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AUGUST 20 e Second Return frort3 Exile, Ezra 7: 10; 8: 21-23, 31, 32, Golden Text—The band of our God is upon all them that seek Hirn, for good Ezra 8: 22. (Rev. Ver.) Lesson Foreword ---• After the Temple had been rebuilt in B.C. 51(1." the proper and faithful observance of the temple service became a matter of paramount importance. Israel had been taught a terrible lesson in the experiences of the exile and it was felt that in order to prevent a recur- rence of such a national calamity no Mains should be considered too great in following the Iaw of God. The law, indeed was all that stood between Israel and destruction. The religion; of Israel, therefore, became more and more legalistic, and the guild of scribes who studied and interpreted the law sprang up and assumed a growing importance. It is generally held that the leader in this great movement was Ezra, the scribe. He it was who, on returning from exile, persuaded the Jews to accept the law and adhere faithfully to it. To -day's lesson introduces us to Ezra. To clarify the story told in the Book of Ezra we give a brief summary of his mission. After securing a commission from Artaxerxes, the king, giving him wide powers and the privileges of 'drawing upon -the royal treasury of Persia forfinancial assistance, Ezra gathered together in Babylonia a large company of Jews who wished to return to Palestine. Three days were spent in fasting and prayer for the success of the expedition and the caravan set out. Arrived in Jeru- salem, Ezra found that many of their people had intermarried with the heathen neighbors; these were made to put away their foreign wives. Some time later a solemn congregation was held and Ezra, standing in a wooden pulpit, read aloud from the book of the law. The people signified their ac- ceptance of it and the day was cele- brated elebrated with a sacred feast. pies, Rich as the Samaritans and poz- sibly the Aremeans might set upon them. But Ezra had already Wasted to the Persian king that no escort was needed. God would be a sufficient defence for his peaple. T:ierefnro Ezra and his companions threw them- selves all the more earnestly upon God's protection in prayer. V. 23. Ile was intreated of us. The answer to their prayer was not mini. fest at the time; but the safe comple- tion of their perilous journey was proof that God had heard them and been with them. II. The Journey's End, 31, 32. V. 31. The River of Ahava. It is likely that "the Ahava was one of the many canals or artificial rivers in the vicinity of Babylon." By means of these canals the •delta of the Eu- phrates was irrigated and rendered fertile. There was a great net work of them through the country where the exiles lived, V. 13 suggests that this canal ran past a place by the same name and quite probably the place gave its name to the river, It was the place of rendezvous where Ezra gathered his company. The pre- parations for the journey occupied three days. The hand of ou God r IS • an expression frequently employed in the OId Testament. it is a metaphor denoting God's strength. i V. 32. The route which Ezra's ex- pedition foIlowed from •Babylon to Jerusalem involved nine hundred mites of travelling and required three months and a half to cover it. This is comparatively slow trayeiling but a caravan with women, children and household effects would naturally move slowly. Three days. When Jerusalem was reached the travellers spent three days in resting and prob. abl l th ' 1 f th f y eying ear pans or a uture. I. The Leader, 7: 10. j Application. This verse sets forth the rule of ( "Leadership" is a hard -worked word life of the true scribe. The movement which Ezra led is to be explained ultimately by his own character. Pre- pared his heart. The Revised Version rightly changes this to "set his heart." It expresses the fixed resolve of Ezra's heart. To seek the law. The 'first duty of the scribe was to "search the Scriptures." He studied the law so as to ascertain the principles under- lying it and, having found them, to apply them to practical life. To teach in 'Israel; the result of the ,scribe's in- vestigations `issued in the diffusion of the knowledge which he had acquired. He gathered disciples about hm who sat at his feet and learned, or he ex- pounded the Scriptures in the syna- gogue service. Notice the tlu'eefold office :of the scribe,—to search the law, to do the law, and to teach the Cherry Leaf Spot. Clean cultivation of cherry Orchards is the best means of .preventing leaf - spot, next to spraying cherries. Where the orchard is free •.from weeds, the affected leaves from the•previous year are disposed of. Cultivation buries them - and destroys the fungous, by exposing it to the elements, Where. the leaves are allowed to remain in• the ground; they carry' the infection from year to year and when the con- ditions;are right shoot the spores •into, the air; which ligating on an: unspray- ed -cherry leaf, gerniiriate and produce leaf spot. Hence' a very' important factor of cherry gra'ing is to dispose of the affected leas=es, and keep the orchard clean. Where the infect:on is bad this'•-cai it will pi cbF N'y ray to: plow the in feeted leaves under at ohce, and sow l to a cover crop, and then disc the cover crop under early next spring and keep your cherry orchard free from weeds next year. Another 'very important factor, in the .control of the cherry leaf spot is to spray immedi- ately after using either lune -sulphur 1-40 or Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50 with one pound of: arsenate of lead to every fifty' gallons of mixture. The lead with `the fungicide will control the slugs which work on the cherries. . To sum up, clean' cultivation, with proper spraying is essential for the control of ;leaf spot on cherries. ---�` • Build that silo early. Ten cows in, milk would be about the Logical number to keep up the fer- tility on a 100 -acre farm where com- mercial fertilizers are•used, and where there are three dry cows, some you -ng stock,, and some horses. ' , trilling while another wax is adjusted. f 8: 2143- -He is behind and a little to Off we goagain. lay now a tinge of i The commission from Artaxerxes is facing you his eyes en the orchestra ande you. side of the Born. ; boredom has crept into everyone at one p y given, ch. 7: 11-2G. Then follows a ready?' ., mg in •disguise, as one is autematical tion and a description of the rendez- , the many repetitions. This'is a bless -!list of those who went in the,expedi- « � All d A f esh.wax is put in place, every-; ly less nervous on account of it and-' vows, ch. 8: 1-20. Ohapter eight as thing looked at carefully—yes, allis at:last we have made a mat written in the first person singular, ready. A moment of absolute silence,! "The almost perfect,careful ' vri purporting ttto be from the pen of enl the'whu r=r-z of the machine is eful singing edEzra himself. It is generally rpenrd- 3' you have done has put your voice in heard. The needle is put on the wax,' fine condition for the a's a leaf from his personal f V lifted from it, put carefully }pack; nett number, and memoirs you repeat the whole process. You are V. 21. In order to secure an, auspi- again. Then if the cut is just right tired at the end of the session from cions journey, Ezra proclaimed a fast. I.—that is, the •curling spiral of a wax standing so long -in one spot and from' A fast was a token of abasement be- hair begins leaving the surface where fore God and served to intensify their 1 tile -,strain of trying to do your very. Y i [ the needle travels delicately over it— best. prayers; by it the members of the the assistant recorder holds uphis "r ' expedition solemnly committed them- ` sometimes I have made a'master P , hard, whir -r -r -r' goes the machine, and record at the second repetition. Some selves into God'e Bands for safe con - we are:: off. The attack is perhaps a times it takes an hour to get one duct to the journeys end. A right bit' ragged at first. , , ; g ac way the shortest and easiest route I ri -. • "I stand close to a suspended zinc MSN°" " record. and way; one that was least' exposed horn coming from the machine, shaped I —$'"-----"• to attacks from robbers or enemies. V 22 I l d t d like a funnel. I' must stand with one Wrongs do riot leave off where they w� ashamed, etc. Under begin, ordinary conditions an armed escort foot in front of the other, ready to egin , would be necessary, The journey r forward at will, Tl But still' beret new mischiefs in their sway back o r v le would lead through regions where orchestra is thickly clustered behind• ' course. Dazniel, lawless desert tribes •awl, hostile pee - in religious circles to -day; and one is apt to get tired hearing it; neverthe- less, the thing it stands for is of prime importance. Would there have been a "second return from exile," without the leadership of Ezra? If not Ezra, then Nehemiah, or some other must lead. What then is the preparation for_ leadership, what elements, what factors are necessary? - Exceptions to every rule, of course, but a man starts from a point of van- tage if he is well-born. Tennyson appeals to the homely wisdom of the farm. Whatever the biologists say about inherited characteristics, any man of common •sense knows that blood and tradition taunt. Ezra came of a distingriiished priestly family. (See Ezra 7; 1-6.) Ability, initiative, sagacity, a cer- tain native authority, are qualities. that :are essential in any man who• is to be chief in any. enterprise. Ezra was a "ready scribe." Diligence, a steady effort to accom- plish the good end, is indicated as part of the fitnessof.Ezra for leader, for "he set itis heart to seek the law of ovale and to do it, and to teach." Conscience, a sense of obligation, marked the whole course of this leader from beginning to end. Courage is indispensable; for the spirit of adventure, taking new paths braving known and unknown danger and difficulty, is the very life of s: leader. Impulse to serve, a eens•e of urg- ency, rho deepinstinctive moving of the spirit to effort for the public good, give life and force, and magnetism to one who would stir the souls of his fellowmen to attempt some great and difficult thing. He who aims only at the lowest tai sure never to attain to the highest, but is not unlikely to mist even the low.. est.- Brown'eon, l.i.L:t