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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-4-9, Page 7� t�t➢'S H1.uty By Anne L. -Wilson U NCLE JONAS always held that it was a man's duty to look after his women folks, but that was before he got caught out in his dory in a storm and was brought home with a twisted leg, He sat, now, on a discarded saw- horse in Timothy Donovan's back- yard and whittled. Yet not later than this morning his sister Abbic had said, "It does seem to me, Jonas, as if you could get something to do; ever since you lost that dory you've done nothing but sit around and whittle. It don't seem right for a man your age to be a burden—not that I'm complaining," said Abbie righteously, "though it's hard on a woman my age keeping boarders, without," she finished plaintively, "cleaning up a mess of clips." Jonas had promptly moved his whittling out of Abbie's kitchen and over into Timothy's backyard which he shared with a moth-eaten old goat, •Nieodemus, • His gnarled hands handled the knife skilfutlj•, and his fingers carressed the tiny+ craft his skill had produced. He rescued a piece of calico, purloined from Abbie's work baskets and fashioned tiny sails to billow out from the minia- ture utast and spars, and set her a -sail in Donovan's pond, a full- rigged fishing schooner, He had just finished and looked up to see Abbie bearing down on hhn full sail. "Now, Jonas, there's no call for you to sit out here in the sun with that old goat. Folks'Il be say- ing I drove you out of the house," "Folks'1l be right," said Jonas stoutly. Abbie's face broke up, she was close to tears. "Now, Jonas, you d on't need to take what a person says to heart." "Thirty years," said Jonas stub- bornly, "I kept the house fedand respectable. Don't seem any call for you to go fretting now." He sat, now, on a discarded sawhorse in Timothy Donovan's backyard and whittled. "I know, Jonas," said Abbie, wiping her eyes with her apron, "But it does seem—" Nicodemus had finished chewing the label from a tomato can, he bleated, his vindictive little eyes swinging around in Abbie's direc- tion. Abbie left in a hurry and Jonas patted the goat. Whittling could be hard work, he thought, when you did it eight hours a day. He counted his little fleet carefully, they were all there; stout, water tight, in full sail. He looked up to see Abbie conning down the street with a man, - Abbie's voice was uncertain. ▪ Golstein came all the way down from the city to see you, Jonas. Mr. Golstein keeps a curio shop—" but Mr. Golstein was shaking )lands with Jonas, showing alt his teeth. "Well, well, I see you've got them finished. Are they all there?" He started counting thein into his bag." Jonas nodded, he was unaccount- ably tired, a man got that way working under strain; his shoulders ached, his fingers were blistered, anditis bones cried out against the hardness of the sawhorse. Mr. Goldstein finished packing the ships, tools out his wallet, "$250." he said cheerfully counting it out, "And say, Jonas, that figure of the little goat is going over big. Can let you have an order for a hundred of them. Same price." He turned to Abbie, "Lucky day for your brother and me, Miss Abbie, when he came into town to have his leg .attended to and saw some carved figures in my window. Tell you what, Miss Abbie, not many people's got so much fore- sight these days." He went off chuckling, "Now Abbie." said Jonas gently, "there's no call for you to he cry- ing. Tt's a man's duty to look after his women folks: I didn't tell yott before because Afr. Golstein wasn't attic, lie wanted to see theist first: Seems that nowit's getting colder, we could let the boarders go and 1 could sit in the kitchen. It's more companionable lilac -•••for ,von and lite." Fine Antidote For Too Much Gun'PXay Around dinnertime the o t h e r night we walked into a living room that rang with pistol shots, screams and hoofbeats. Somebody on 'the radio was having a bad tittle, Then the hubbub died clown and we ap- preciated the quiet„Tito otstlaw had evidently been cornered and gave up; once more the Lone Ranger cowboy had done a public service. While an announcer told our own cowboys stretched before the radio to print name and address on the back of a box -top, we were think- ing about the rest of the week, The next night wouldn't be the Ranger; it would he Hopalong who went through the pistols -screams -hoof- beats formula, and the night after that someone else—with our cow- boys not missing one of theme. For It scents that cowboys (bath on the radio and in the living room) are here for a while. The best antidote we know is the CBC's school broadcasts, now in their tenth year. An estimated 600,000 Canadian school children hear half-hour programs planned by a teacher -broadcaster commit- tee. The broadcasts are used by teachers as an integral part of their lessons, and include such things as programs dealing with famous Can- adians and full-length radio ver- sions of Shakespeare's plays. Last year the Department of Transport issued 8,252 free radio licenses to schools. The CBC and provincial departments of education spend about $200,000 annually for the school broadcasts. This spring, after seven years' of service, Dr. W. P. Percival, Director of Prot- estant Education in Quebec, retired as Chairman of the National Ad- visory Council on School Broad- casting; Dr. R, O. MacFarlane, De- puty Minister of Education for Manitoba, succeeded him. We have no idea how many adults listen to cowboy shows, but the CBC tells us that many school broadcast pro- grams have higher rating of adult listenership than other day -time programs. —An Editorial in "Saturday Night” Toronto CORRECT After the service one Sunday morning the vicar was, approached by an old lady who expressed ap- preciation of his sermon. "Why, Vicar," she said,"you can never know what your sermon meant to me. It was just like water to a drowning man." sibs FAIMu FRONT kulatll It isn't much of an exaggeration to .say that a real revolution is underway in agriculture, . It is a biochemical revolution to the pro- duction of cereals, meats and other foods, that is bringing meat animals and plants to maturity --and the market—in greater quantities and more speedily than ever Before. * * * One of the most important of these -developments is the new syn- thetic sow's milk formulated with terramycin. I have already referred to it in these columns, but I know that a little fuller information about it woii't be amiss. * * * Herbert J. Luther is the name of the nutritionist who composed the original formula, and before announcing Itis discovery last No- vember he had tested it—and var- ious variations of it—on no less than 500 baby pigs in his laboratory as well as supervising the testing of an additional 3,000 on commer- cial hog farms. The milk is corn- pounded of skint cow's milk, land, fish solubles, vitamins and miner- als. Baby pigs taken from their mothers at 24 to 48 hours learn without difficulty to 'drink it front a trough. - * * * At 5 weeks, having been fed all they will drin)e of the synthetic milk, with dry pig starter kept constantly before them from age 2 weeks on, the "sucklings" weigh in the neighborhood of 35 pounds and are ready to go on feed. The three weeks saved over pigs suckl- ed by the sow gives the synthetic- ally -fed pigs is a big head' start. The explanation is that terramycin as a feed supplement exerts its greatest stimulation in the -first weeks of a young animal's life. * * * The new discovery is not merely a replacement for sow's milk; it is. also the harbinger of a new way of life for hog raisers—and for swine. It opens the way to new practices that can revolutionize the breeding and feeding of hogs and, particularly, their care in the suck)-, ing stage, It makes available to agriculture a tool that can revolu- tionize swine raising and increase enormously. the amoudt of meat available to the consumer. * * * The story of the synthetic milk What, No Tin Cans?—Having given up hope of finding a tin can at an international agriculture exhibition in Paris, this billy -goat who hails -from Normandy, condescends to accept a handful of hay from five-year-old Anne -Marie Vergne. Her bearded friend was judged one of the best animals raised on European farms. has its beginnings in the develop- ment by chemists of the antibiotics, chemicals produced by molds, which immobilize or kill disease - causing organisms. When it was learned that addition of antibiotics to the regular feed consumed by poultry and swine would increase their rate of growth sharply, the earth -mold drugs became impor- tant economically to agriculture. * * * Animal nutrition studies indicated clearly that the younger the animals were whets they began to get anti- biotics, the more impressive have been the gains in their rate of growth. With chicks, studies have shown, if the antibiotic feed is given the day after they are hatch- ' ed, the rate of growth gain can run as high as 50 per cent at four wedks; if it is begun four weeks after hatching the rate of gain is much less impressive;. if begun after eight weeks, still smaller; and if not begun until after 12 weeks there is almost no gain over nor= mat, non -antibiotic -fed chickens. * * The problem with swine was dif- ferent. Young pigs normally suckle Useful Hints For the Pipe -Smoker Or For The Man Intending To Start That great essayist, Charles Lamb, wrote—"May my last breath be drawn through a pipe"—a man of much wisdom. ON CHOOSING A PIPE A heavy or hot smoker may prefer a bowl with thick walls, since the more wood there is in the bowl watt, the more heat it can absorb from the burning to- bacco. Choose a pipe, however which can be held comfortably between the teeth. To gauge the weight and balance, hold the pipe be the end of the mouthpiece be- tween the forefinger and thumb. If you have dentures, a light- weight bowl with medium or short stem is generally most suitable. There are also specially designed mouthpieces that can be easily held between dentures, ON CHOOSING TOBACCO "I cannot get on with a pipe . it burns my tongue." How often this has been said. The pipe is invariably blamed for this sensation, whereas more often than not the fault lies in the choice of tobacco. Many smokers choose a mild blend but 'mild' is a somewhat mis- leading description. So-called 'mild' tobaccos stroke hotter than full strength tcbaccos. It should be re- membered tltat fine-cut tobaccos are not so cool as medium or coarse -cut, moist tobaccos smoke hotter than dry ones and very dry tobaccos burn too freely. Hot smoking leads to a burnt tongue. This increases the flow of saliva, which in turn produces moisture in the stem. A 'hot' smoker should avoid mild, moist or fine-cut tobaccos and a 'wet' smoker should choose a me- dium to full mixture containing Latakia. THE CARE OF A PIPE A new pipe should be filled firmly and evenly only half way for the first few smokes and, then should be smoked slowly until a protective layer of carbon has form- ed inside the bowl to avoid the risk of charring the briar. Good tobacco is often spoiled by hasty filling. A pipe should be care- fully packed to ensure even com- bustion. Light up evenly and well. Press down the lighted tobacco after the first pull or so. A pipe should be emptied imme- diately after stboking. The BOWL should be held when emptying and the tobacco tapped out against the paint of the stand. If held by the mouthpiece great strain is imposed on the stem which may split or break. If tapped against a hard object the bowl may be damaged. • The bowl should be scraped oc- casionally, as too thick an accu- mutation of carbon will eventually cause the bowj to crack. This usu- ally occurs when a heavily car - boned pipe is being rested. An ideal crust is 1 -16th inch. Cool, sweet smoking depends on a• properly scraped bowl and a pipe which is kept clean. A penknife should not be used for scraping. The sharp point may 1 tivt7lN i1; ht)Y;t,'tti' 3'>1T'l 11 } �itfk"c t}E=k.t;llt bore through the bottom of the bowl. Use a pipe reamer or smo- ker's companion. Your tobacconist will recommend the best type for your purpose. A pipe should never be cleaned with water or steam. An ordinary cleaner is best. This can be dipped in methylated spirit if required. It should run through the pipe two or three times and the pipe then allowed to dry off. Whey taking the bowl and mouthpiece apart avoid undue strain on the sten. Grasp the mouthpiece firmly in one hand and gently twist the bowl off with - the other, holding the pipe at the juncture of the bowl and mouthpiece. A pipe should be allowed to cool off before re -smoking and a heavy smoker should keep two or three in use. To change a pipe from day to day ensures the fullest enjoy- ment. When not in use a pipe should be kept bowl downwards. the sow for 56 days, Under those circumstances, they cannot be fed an antibiotic at predetermined levels. Moreover, with creep feed- ing of antibiotic -fortified dry sup- plement, piglets still face sanitary and other hazards, such as crush- ing—problems not existing in poul- try production. How then get an antibiotic to piglets during this vi- tal period when it will have the most stimulating effect on their rate of growth? * * * Feeding abnormally high levels of te.:amycin to the sow in hopes that some of this would pass to the young pigs through the sow's milk, proved very expensive and had little if any effect on speeding the growth of the pigs. Obviously, this procedure was not the answer. * * * Luther knew that from time to time in the past, attempts had been made to devise a synthetic sow's milk. Even before the advent of antibiotics, breeders realized they could . sharply cut mortality and simplify their management prob- lems if they could separate the young pigs from the sows within a day or two after birth. One such attempt had been made by Dr. Con- ner T. Johnson and co-workers. Their tailor-made synthetic sow's milk was prohibitively expensive and did not lend itself to ready ad- aptation at the practical farm level. .But their work did indicate what might be done. * * * The synthetic milk makes pos- sible reducing mortality front a present range of 20 to 35 per cent to 5 per cent, and at the same time produces pigs some 10 to 35 per cent heavier at weaning than the average sow -fed piglet, * * * But there are other short-range economic implications of great im- portance. The terramycin in the milk stimulates growth. By making the synthetic sow's milk available to the entire litter, the pig raiser can virtually eliminate the runt, that statistical pig -and -a -half in every litter that too often costs more of feed than it is worth. 9/c GR. N T111111 VIII{ 4 Gov'lon51t4th,' Gardening Indoors It's possible to build a garage or even a house without a plan but it is hardly to be recommended.. The same applies to a garden, though the planning is much more simple and it is a lot of fun, too, In fact with a pencil, a bit of paper and a seed catalogue one can put in a very pleasant evening while wait.. ing for soil and weather to warm up out of doors, Vegetable, Planning No elaborate plans are required unless one is going to do things on a big and lavish scale, For the vegetable plot, indeed it is just a matter of simple straight lines and a little knowledge of the size the various kinds will grow and when it is safe to plant them, Where space is very limited one can get a great deal more by interplanting short season things like lettuce, radish, spinach, etc., with say car- rots, beets, beans. The latter will take much longer to nature and will require full space after the quick growers have been harvested. Another space saving trick is to train vines like cucumbers, melons and squash along boundary fences or paths. Also that is a good place to grow tall things such as staked tomatoes and corn. In the very emelt When plot One should concetttrete on those 'Neill*$- abies that take up the least rooms for the number of -meals produced! Things like corn, potatoes, peas and squash, for instance, require quite a lot of space, On the other )tan it is positively amazing the quad. titles of beans, carrots, beets, let- tuce, radish that one can harvest from a patch' of ground no more than 10 feet each way. Flowers and Lawns For flower gardens and especial, ly the ground about the houses authorities generally advise an in* formal layout. This means a getter• ous allowance for a central lawn, and round this are arranged stump* of . shrubbery, trees , and flower.. The beginner is warned to steer clear of stiff rows for flower though along walks, fences and house lines the flower garden or shrubbery will have to follow more or less regularly. But planting clumps is the best practice, even to the tiny edging flowers along thrt front of the garden. The same hof true of the medium and large flowers, both annual and perennia and the lower shrubs. Of course with trees, unless we. have an exceedingly fine lot, we stick to individual planting. Here, Just to prevent any monotony, how- ever, it is an excellent idea to have an odd tree or group of shrubbery` right out on the lawn, but to ons side rather than in the centre, Flower beds are brokenup in the same way, with an occasional clu*ai of larger plants brought deliberate) forward just to add interest and screen a bit of the background. There are also some important long-range economic implications in the synthetic milk. * * * It's use would seem to open the way for the rapid development of the fledgling pig -hatchery industry, which could provide fanners with a thrifty, dependable - and disease- free supply of weanling pigs. Though nearly 90 per cent of hog farmers now raise their own pigs, up to 40 per cent in one test sur- vey indicated because it recirculates the product. Thus, the packer, who frequently has so much lard he doesn't know what to do with it, can now dispose of it to help raise more pigs—and more lard—to go right back into snaking more pigs —and still more lard. Pay Tribute To Late Jack Miner During National Wild Life Week April 6 - 12 inclusive, the Canadian school children will pay tribute to the memory of the late J..ck Miner, Canadian naturalist, by writing es- says and giving oral compositions on value of Conservation of which movement the Late Jack Miner was a pioneer, In 1906 an editorial in The Minneapolis Journal referred tc jack Miner as "the father of the Conservation movement on the continent." Jack Miner's birthday was April 10th aitd National Wild Life Week was created by an act of Parlia- ment so as to fall on his birthday. This year the week falls on April 6 to 12 when all service clubs will feature special speakers. Sunday, April 6 is Nature Sunday and preachers and Sunday Schools will observe it by preaching and teach- ing GOD IN NATURE, GOD THE CREATOR OF ALL NA- TURAL RESOURCES and other sermons with similar titles refer- ring to God's great out -a -doors. It is strictly an educational week when nothing is allowed to be sold or commercialized and no financial appeals allowed to be made but a week that the public not only for this generation but for generations to come will be on the receiving end. "One of the triumphs of democ- racy semis to be that the minority has the say and the majority has to pay." Leaves a Good Tact* In a Reader's Mouth So much emphasis has been placed on sex, violence and menta/ ailments in books, today, that The Penningtons by Basil Partridge comes as a wet. %1.*ag?-�se come change of pace. It is a piece sent and readable family novel, pub- lished both in Ca• ;nada and in the United States. Its the latter country it was a choice of the family Reading Club which specializes in books that leave a :good taste in the reader's mouth. The book's action takes place in "Kingsford" (Maritimes), Montreal, and Ro- chester, New York. We first meet the Penningtons in Kingsford. The head of the family is the kindly, rather harried, and poor dean of the cathedral, but the driving force is his wife, Victoria. There are half a dozen children, ranging front Larry II, a Booth-Tarking- ton type, to a son and daughter in their early thirties. The action con- sists of the problems of the )tome, the action and reactions of the bro- thers and sisters to each other and their parents. The dean dies sud- denly and readjustments Have to be made. The working out of these is most interesting. The author has a definite gift for characterization, so the Penningtons are very real people subject to the sorrows, mis- takes, disappointments—and joys— which normal people encounter in life. Here is a timely reminder that millions of people still lead normal lives in this discordant age. Thera is nothing mawkish about this book. It is a lively story. It moves. The kind of book that will Kat. read- ing more than once. FOR FREE A film actor, married and divorc- ed five times in three years, cams to the registrar with his sixth bride. It was the same registrar who had married the actor on the previous occasions. After the ceremony the actor reached into his wallet, but the registrar waved the money asides "Not this tune," he said, "This one is on the house!" By Arthur Pointer