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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-12-23, Page 3TIff FA1WE FRONT A cow's runlets is its number One stain-eh"where billions of microscopic plants (bacteria, yeasts • and" other micro-organ- isms) break down, by a fermenta- tion process, the cellulose in the roughage eaten by the cow. In addition to furnishing food for the micro-organisms, the, fern mentation process provides or- ganic acids and simple sugars which the cow is able to digest, At the same time the micro-orga- nisms themselves serve as a source of protein, * An important discovery repent- ly was the fact that an increased supply of nitrogen made it pos- sible for microscopic plants in the rumen to make more effect- ive use of roughage supplied to them by the cow. According to C -I -L animal nutritionists, exper- iments conducted with synthetic urea feed, compound which con- tains 42 per cent nitrogen, disclos- ed that this product helped sti- mulate•rapid bacterial growth In the rumen which in turn brought about a more efficient breakdown of cellulose. With synthetic urea in their feed, cattle can eat and digest roughage previously con- sidered of little value. Such roughage includes corn and stalks, wheat straw and timothy hay. Modern insecticides have a fine safety record -of use both in the home and agriculture, and have actually saved millions of people from death or illness, according to •a' recent speech by Dr. E. F. Kipling, of the bureau of ento- mology and plant quarantine of the U,S. Department of Agricul- ture. a r a Dr. Kipling said that DDT alone is credited with saving an estimated 5,000,000 lives and pre- venting at least 100,000,000 ill- nesses,."I,am convinced that to- day we have safer insecticides for controlling insects in the home 'than we had 10 yearsr,ago," he said. "We have synthesized pyrethrum and methoxychlor in- secticides low in their toxicity to ` man and animals... The record of extensive and safe use of DDT and lindane is good. These new - What AFoot—Deeply impressed, this young German girl com- pares the size of her foot with the huge skeleton foot of.a pre- historic monster. The giant bones, •blackened by age, are ort exhibit at the Senckenberg Mu- seum of Nature in Frankfurt. er insecticides have 'replaced al- most completely the more toxie odes such as the arsenicals, fluor• ides, phosphorus and cyanide$ which formerly were in common use in homes for, controlling household pests," * * a ' All previous wars, Dr. Kipling pointed out,, caused great in- creases in the incidences Of in- sect -borne diseases, During the last decade, however, unpreced- ented and successful use of in- secticides has protected Allied soldiers and citizens of allied, countries from malaria,' louse and mite -borne typhus and ether dis- eases transmitted by insects. "DDT has come under heavy fire from those who believe that, for some purpose& at least, it constitutes too great a health risk to permit its use in the manner now advocated for controlling insects which affect man," said Dr, Kipling, "The attack goes on despite the insecticides' fine re- cord in protecting people throughout the world from dis- ease -carrying insects. Yet, to my knowledge not one death (ex- cluding accidental deaths) or serious illness has been' caused among the peoples exposed to the insecticides in connection with insect control." A 10 to 30 per cent solution of copper sulphate used as a foot bath can help control foot rot in dairy cattle, according -to tests made at the department of veter- inery; clinical medicine, Univer- sity of Illinois, a a * Four-fifths of a pound of the chemical in one gallon of water will make a 10 per cent solution. .A 30 per cent solution is obtained by dissolving two and one-half pounds of copper sulphate in a gallon of water. • The chemical will go into solu- tion much easier if hot water is poured over the powdered crys- tals. Many Canadian fanners have long considered water systems for stock feeding and household. use. But a system usually requir- ed long stretches of piping. Con- ventional -galvanized piping has proved expensive to install• in such instances and frequently deteriorated rapidly when laid. in many types of soil. There was, too, the constant danger of split- ting if water froze in this piping during a hard winter or sudden freeze-up. * * * Polythene piping has largely eliminated these problems. On the farm of Eric T. Webster, North Hatley, Que„ for example, .one mile of three-quarter inch polythene piping was installed to bring additional water from a ispring-fed reservoir to a farm- house and cottages on a nearby lake. Since the system would not be used in winter, the piping could be laid close to the sur- face. ;Where piping passed through pasture fields on this 'project' a single furrow was plowed and the piping uncoiled and laid in the furrow. Dirt spaded; over the trench finished 'the job. One 400 -foot coil of this piping proved so light that a boy -could carry it. * • a In cultivated fields, the furrow ,was spaded out a few inches deeper . so that normal plowing could take place without hitting `the pipe. Pipe ends were joined by hand with a sleeve over which 'each end was slipped, to be held Q4 Off Tho Tree — Paddle Ears, ,a baby chimpanzee, has his dinner right off a hanatia free in the tvngle gardens of Ponce de Leon Springs, Fla. Holding the chimp It Nancy Stech. ih place by two lio'se-type clamps tightened with a Screwdriver. The ''flexibility oft' -the pipe per- mittedisbendin}g around obstruc- tions like roclrs-'and trees with- out the need for.. extra' fittings and lengths w4hich would be need- ed with rigid-,„ metal piping. Trenches need not be finished either as to direction or depth. GIFT WRAPPINGS OF MANY KINDS The: interchange of _Christmas gifts between family and friends has a long history and.matly and varied are the customs and tra- ditions relating to it, St Nish- olas is sulrposed to have been the earliest donor of Christmas gifts. He is certainly thr most famous. Not much has been recorded, however, about the early history of wrapping for the gifts Tradi- tional gift containers are the stocking on this continent and - the shoe in France, Holland and Germany. Sweden still practises the quaint custom of the "Julklapp," This is a small but precious gift 'wrapped in an enormous pack- age which takes much time and labour to undo. The task of dis- covering th¢ gift hidden within the innumerable coverings usu- ally .results in much fun a n d laughter One romantic custom is still practised by young meh in some European countries. Thev have themselves wrapped up in a par- cel and delivered to their lady love, emerging on arrival to re- quest the, lady's hand. To those, who remember the standard tissue -paper with the red and green string used for Christmas gift wrapping a few years back, today's variety of fancy materials is amazing, •;The Stores are offering reams of paper cowered with Christmas, designs, plain br printed sheets ' in brilliant colours, plastic:,�aa, pens with- ribbons to match ant" f011 'w h l c h can be, purchased _ printed, plain or evn quilted. _- •i, The array of„ribbohs and seals available is endless and often tempts the amateur to overdo a wrapping job in their enthusi- asm, Expert, gift wrappers em- phasize the need for discrimina- tion. "Don't put all those seals On that two-by-four package,' they w a r n, a n d "Keep your workmanship neat" - GREjEMN. TIIU aB. 1t Goraon Slattit Expert Advice For Our Gardener At long last here Is a book for the Canadian gardener -- not not a book which is a rehash of material better suited to other climates, or one containing a grain of useful advice to " a bushel of stuff alien to our needs — but a volume packed with the very sort of 'information most of •us have, up to now, vainly desired. It is called A GARDENER'S SOURCE' BOOK, by G. H. Ham- ilton, 268 pages, published by Dent, and worth many times its price of $4.501 per copy, As W. Sherwood Fox, review- ing it in the Toronto Globe & Mail, says, it will be welcomed because it has been prepared ex- pressly for amateurs by a Cana- dian whose point of view is consciously Canadian and who is eminently qualified to write such a book, The author; G H. Hamilton, is a scientific botanist who has long been officially as- sociated with the extensive gar- den projects of Ontario's Nia- gara Parks Commission. Thanks to him our amateur gardeners need no longer flounder in be- wilderment with guides to gar- dening primarily designed for other latitudes or for profession- als. Through his ability to orga- nize facts and to write clearly Mr. Hamilton has, succeeded in compressing a host of essential .details into the compass of a -modest book. In each depart - spent their range is practically complete: from soil, fertilizers grid other basic things to ways of 'controlling pests and disease; froth- window boxes gad house plants -to spacious planned beds; front kitchen herbs to the show- iest blooms of annual and peren- `dies, of shrub and tree, "As for, ,times -and seasons, the atlttior guides' the reader round Vies •whole cycle ,of -,the year, month by month, even''Week by week. He tells him not only,,,,ht what+stagesoh'the year to expeots sundry flowers amts_ fruits but when, far inadvance'..of ma- turity, to begin preparing for them. His instructions are cast in lucid English which often sparkles with flashes of rele- vant humour. Do not fail to read. the • truth about the shamrock and the thistle. Reinforcing the running text are many excellent illustrations and useful tables, The titles of some of the , tables are signifi- cant: Favorite perennials for northern gardens; favorite de- ciduous trees for northern gar- dens; wildflowers for the gar- den; recommended herbs for northern gardens; flowering shrubs for northern gardens. The reviewer regrets the lack of a table of native shrubs and trees comparable to the table of wild -flowers. He also misses fuller directions for cultivating our beautiful native, the flower- ing dogwood. The publishers are to be high- ly commended for the book's at- tractive appearance, handy for- mat and readable type. Willed Ills Fortune To The Queen Queen Mary left a fortune of £406,407 (£379,864 net) but, as precedent decrees, no details of her will are to be published. Un- doubtedly there will• be wind- falls for many members of the Royal Family, the Queen includ- ed, but it is unlikely that any testament can ever again' affect the reigning sovereign as did the Will of the Buckinghamshire mis- er, John Camden Neild, A barrister, schooled at Eton and "finished" at Cambridge, he spent the last years of his life money-grubbing. He eked out his misery by never brushing his one blue swallow -tail coat for fear of destroying the nap. He slept, if not by' cadging 'a bed from his- tenants,i'then on bare boards in .a largo, ill -furnished house in Chelsea. Stale crusts, hard-boiled eggs . and btlttermnik kept him alive until his seventy- third year. Then, dying in 1852, he bequeathed his tontine of £500,000 to Queen Vi'etoria. She, rather surprisingly, ate= cepted this nest egg, .but used some of the stoney ^ to provide legacies for Nield's neglected de- pendants. Also, -she raised a re- redos and stained glass window t0 'his memory in North Mars- ton' Church, Buckinghamshire, in the "chaidei of which he was buried. So, despised sit life, he bought himself a royal salute In death. Dog Defies Frontier When a Munich bank clerk decided recently to spend a week -end in the Austrian Tyrol, he planned to take his long- haired spaniel with him. But at the frontier he was told he must ,not cross with a dog. A kindly inn -keeper on the German side offered to care for it while his master was in Austria - The dog had other ideas. Two hours later it made a dash across the frontier and traced the bank clerk to a hotel twenty miles away where he had sought shel- ter during a thunderstorm. Master and dog had a pleas- ant week -end together. Then arose the question: how could the dog be got back across the frontier into Germany? The man solved the problem by tipping an Austrian peasant and leaving his pet temporarily with him 150 yards from the frontier post He himself crossed into Germany and then he gave a loud, familiar whistle. The peasant slipped the lead and the, dog raced across the frontier: A SHEEP STORY When my great grandfathes •liras a lad in the eighteenth ren. 145y, he Was once sent before b1'eakfast to letout the sbee )psisie the barn s0 that they could resell the watering trough. sit *spoiled the big door, went to tht Sheepfold inside, let down its liars, and stood aside to watch the flock, led by the majestically authoritative anotent rain... But ha. did not go out. Whea the old ram who Was their dies tater-leader cense to the opett door, he halted, shaking his great horned head in uncertainty. Be. hind him, allthe flock stood still -patient, incurious, docile, await- ing the orders of their Duce. The farm boy, who was nay great- grandfather, .pushed bis way through the submissive sheep till he could see what the ram Saw: the just -risen sun sent through e knothole in the barn wall a long ray across the Opening of the door. In the dusty air of the barn it looked like a- solid yellow bar, about the height of the shoulders of the sheep. As my great-grandfather look- ed, he saw the ram realize his responsibility for those followers of his, who depended upon him tO make up their minds, Gathering his haunches `under him, he launched' hifnself into the air, sailed over the impalpable ray of light as though a wooden rail —and trotted across the barn- yard to the watering trough. The sheep behind him did not ques- tion his decision. If their Duce ordered a leap it was for them to leap, The next one in line sprang high, and triumphantly cleared the airy bar of transparent sun- shine. The third sheep rose into the air, his forelegs doubled up under him to avoid knocking against the ray of light, landed on the other side, proud of his feat, My great-grandchildren began to laugh. One by one every sheep accepted the dictum of their ruler that only by a mighty leap could the watering trough be reached.. , , Not a generation of our folks' since then, but have heard that story as a sharp -edged warning about the tiresome, futile and often deadly quality of docile refusal to question the party line —any party line.—From "Ver- mont Traditions," by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, copyright, 1953, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Lit. tle, Brown & Co. Industry for many years has used X-rays to inspect packaged items like cereals, candy, milk and fruit and ensure that pro- ducts are free from foreign mat- ter. Take ;Off - The "photographer got this straight from the camel's mouth as he moved .in for this, picture at the London, England, zoo. Although too close for com- fort as far as the photographer was concerned, George is a fav- orite of children who visit the zoo. Snow Family — Patience pays off and these two gals finally get their man -- their snowman, tijat Is, as their town is blankets ed with snow, The happy girls ate Dolarita Heaney, 13, kneelingr and her sister, Dorothy, 1 1, • 4' sets*" r f ,: r r. ,r., r., i• 1�~r. CHRIST 'MEANS MANYWe TH �� tai - •-` f,� � .z..entertaining r'''' r .• : r.'' r" rr r'" r " r' r r , is Ot., , r• r.r s ' V 1 / :• �P0'4, t rpt fp-, If , a 0 *Al W°` { Soon we will hear again the ancient Story—by candle light in church, or as Dad reads to the family before the fire. Once more we will remind ourselves that the Peace on Earth promise can come true, But we know that this won't happen until we've learned to spread Christmas good will through.all our days and years, over all the world. face the grim truth that war, hate, and hunger still sicken our planet, and humbly we place the blame where it belongs—within our- selves. We wonder how people, and nations, can continue to be selfish, •suspicious, and fearful ... generosity and tolerance come so naturally at this seasonof Christ's birthday! And we pray that, when enough Christmases have come and gone, we'll have learned the lesson the Nazarene taught, to love God, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Our celebration of Christmas may be as reverent as a surpliced choir, or as jolly as a jingle bell. No matter, so long as the things we do find us working on that Lesson. We make a family ritual of bringing, in the tree. We fill boxes for overseas, baskets for neighborhood door steps. We take toys to the Children's Hospital, put on a program for shut-ins, or make up a box of candy for the mail carrier. We all get underfoot as Mother pulls pin -feathers f?om the turkey. We breathe clown her neck as she, knits and purls last rows in Dad's Christmas sweater, or runs seams in the Wise Man's robe for Dick's part in the Christmas play. We frenziedly, but lovingly, scrawl notes to go with our greeting cards; make long, improbable shopping lists; put fruit cakes and homemade jam into gift packages; ferret out old-fashioned stockings for the children to hang. We throw open our doors to our friends—plan a sleigh ride, skat- ing frolic, or after -church snack. We go singing, muffled to the ears against the frosty night. And who's more a symbol of good will than Santa Claus? He pops up everywhere—tending coin kettles' on the corners in town; eager -eyed tots in department stores/ and (looking suspici- ously like the janitor) handing out presents from under the school's Christmas tree. There's nothing new or spectacular about our ways at Christmas. But while doing these good, familiar things, we are at our best— practicing toward a time when we may become perfect in brotherhood, and have peace in our world. •- '''t'.v �'.t� .. ' 4 ih place by two lio'se-type clamps tightened with a Screwdriver. The ''flexibility oft' -the pipe per- mittedisbendin}g around obstruc- tions like roclrs-'and trees with- out the need for.. extra' fittings and lengths w4hich would be need- ed with rigid-,„ metal piping. Trenches need not be finished either as to direction or depth. GIFT WRAPPINGS OF MANY KINDS The: interchange of _Christmas gifts between family and friends has a long history and.matly and varied are the customs and tra- ditions relating to it, St Nish- olas is sulrposed to have been the earliest donor of Christmas gifts. He is certainly thr most famous. Not much has been recorded, however, about the early history of wrapping for the gifts Tradi- tional gift containers are the stocking on this continent and - the shoe in France, Holland and Germany. Sweden still practises the quaint custom of the "Julklapp," This is a small but precious gift 'wrapped in an enormous pack- age which takes much time and labour to undo. The task of dis- covering th¢ gift hidden within the innumerable coverings usu- ally .results in much fun a n d laughter One romantic custom is still practised by young meh in some European countries. Thev have themselves wrapped up in a par- cel and delivered to their lady love, emerging on arrival to re- quest the, lady's hand. To those, who remember the standard tissue -paper with the red and green string used for Christmas gift wrapping a few years back, today's variety of fancy materials is amazing, •;The Stores are offering reams of paper cowered with Christmas, designs, plain br printed sheets ' in brilliant colours, plastic:,�aa, pens with- ribbons to match ant" f011 'w h l c h can be, purchased _ printed, plain or evn quilted. _- •i, The array of„ribbohs and seals available is endless and often tempts the amateur to overdo a wrapping job in their enthusi- asm, Expert, gift wrappers em- phasize the need for discrimina- tion. "Don't put all those seals On that two-by-four package,' they w a r n, a n d "Keep your workmanship neat" - GREjEMN. TIIU aB. 1t Goraon Slattit Expert Advice For Our Gardener At long last here Is a book for the Canadian gardener -- not not a book which is a rehash of material better suited to other climates, or one containing a grain of useful advice to " a bushel of stuff alien to our needs — but a volume packed with the very sort of 'information most of •us have, up to now, vainly desired. It is called A GARDENER'S SOURCE' BOOK, by G. H. Ham- ilton, 268 pages, published by Dent, and worth many times its price of $4.501 per copy, As W. Sherwood Fox, review- ing it in the Toronto Globe & Mail, says, it will be welcomed because it has been prepared ex- pressly for amateurs by a Cana- dian whose point of view is consciously Canadian and who is eminently qualified to write such a book, The author; G H. Hamilton, is a scientific botanist who has long been officially as- sociated with the extensive gar- den projects of Ontario's Nia- gara Parks Commission. Thanks to him our amateur gardeners need no longer flounder in be- wilderment with guides to gar- dening primarily designed for other latitudes or for profession- als. Through his ability to orga- nize facts and to write clearly Mr. Hamilton has, succeeded in compressing a host of essential .details into the compass of a -modest book. In each depart - spent their range is practically complete: from soil, fertilizers grid other basic things to ways of 'controlling pests and disease; froth- window boxes gad house plants -to spacious planned beds; front kitchen herbs to the show- iest blooms of annual and peren- `dies, of shrub and tree, "As for, ,times -and seasons, the atlttior guides' the reader round Vies •whole cycle ,of -,the year, month by month, even''Week by week. He tells him not only,,,,ht what+stagesoh'the year to expeots sundry flowers amts_ fruits but when, far inadvance'..of ma- turity, to begin preparing for them. His instructions are cast in lucid English which often sparkles with flashes of rele- vant humour. Do not fail to read. the • truth about the shamrock and the thistle. Reinforcing the running text are many excellent illustrations and useful tables, The titles of some of the , tables are signifi- cant: Favorite perennials for northern gardens; favorite de- ciduous trees for northern gar- dens; wildflowers for the gar- den; recommended herbs for northern gardens; flowering shrubs for northern gardens. The reviewer regrets the lack of a table of native shrubs and trees comparable to the table of wild -flowers. He also misses fuller directions for cultivating our beautiful native, the flower- ing dogwood. The publishers are to be high- ly commended for the book's at- tractive appearance, handy for- mat and readable type. Willed Ills Fortune To The Queen Queen Mary left a fortune of £406,407 (£379,864 net) but, as precedent decrees, no details of her will are to be published. Un- doubtedly there will• be wind- falls for many members of the Royal Family, the Queen includ- ed, but it is unlikely that any testament can ever again' affect the reigning sovereign as did the Will of the Buckinghamshire mis- er, John Camden Neild, A barrister, schooled at Eton and "finished" at Cambridge, he spent the last years of his life money-grubbing. He eked out his misery by never brushing his one blue swallow -tail coat for fear of destroying the nap. He slept, if not by' cadging 'a bed from his- tenants,i'then on bare boards in .a largo, ill -furnished house in Chelsea. Stale crusts, hard-boiled eggs . and btlttermnik kept him alive until his seventy- third year. Then, dying in 1852, he bequeathed his tontine of £500,000 to Queen Vi'etoria. She, rather surprisingly, ate= cepted this nest egg, .but used some of the stoney ^ to provide legacies for Nield's neglected de- pendants. Also, -she raised a re- redos and stained glass window t0 'his memory in North Mars- ton' Church, Buckinghamshire, in the "chaidei of which he was buried. So, despised sit life, he bought himself a royal salute In death. Dog Defies Frontier When a Munich bank clerk decided recently to spend a week -end in the Austrian Tyrol, he planned to take his long- haired spaniel with him. But at the frontier he was told he must ,not cross with a dog. A kindly inn -keeper on the German side offered to care for it while his master was in Austria - The dog had other ideas. Two hours later it made a dash across the frontier and traced the bank clerk to a hotel twenty miles away where he had sought shel- ter during a thunderstorm. Master and dog had a pleas- ant week -end together. Then arose the question: how could the dog be got back across the frontier into Germany? The man solved the problem by tipping an Austrian peasant and leaving his pet temporarily with him 150 yards from the frontier post He himself crossed into Germany and then he gave a loud, familiar whistle. The peasant slipped the lead and the, dog raced across the frontier: A SHEEP STORY When my great grandfathes •liras a lad in the eighteenth ren. 145y, he Was once sent before b1'eakfast to letout the sbee )psisie the barn s0 that they could resell the watering trough. sit *spoiled the big door, went to tht Sheepfold inside, let down its liars, and stood aside to watch the flock, led by the majestically authoritative anotent rain... But ha. did not go out. Whea the old ram who Was their dies tater-leader cense to the opett door, he halted, shaking his great horned head in uncertainty. Be. hind him, allthe flock stood still -patient, incurious, docile, await- ing the orders of their Duce. The farm boy, who was nay great- grandfather, .pushed bis way through the submissive sheep till he could see what the ram Saw: the just -risen sun sent through e knothole in the barn wall a long ray across the Opening of the door. In the dusty air of the barn it looked like a- solid yellow bar, about the height of the shoulders of the sheep. As my great-grandfather look- ed, he saw the ram realize his responsibility for those followers of his, who depended upon him tO make up their minds, Gathering his haunches `under him, he launched' hifnself into the air, sailed over the impalpable ray of light as though a wooden rail —and trotted across the barn- yard to the watering trough. The sheep behind him did not ques- tion his decision. If their Duce ordered a leap it was for them to leap, The next one in line sprang high, and triumphantly cleared the airy bar of transparent sun- shine. The third sheep rose into the air, his forelegs doubled up under him to avoid knocking against the ray of light, landed on the other side, proud of his feat, My great-grandchildren began to laugh. One by one every sheep accepted the dictum of their ruler that only by a mighty leap could the watering trough be reached.. , , Not a generation of our folks' since then, but have heard that story as a sharp -edged warning about the tiresome, futile and often deadly quality of docile refusal to question the party line —any party line.—From "Ver- mont Traditions," by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, copyright, 1953, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Lit. tle, Brown & Co. Industry for many years has used X-rays to inspect packaged items like cereals, candy, milk and fruit and ensure that pro- ducts are free from foreign mat- ter. Take ;Off - The "photographer got this straight from the camel's mouth as he moved .in for this, picture at the London, England, zoo. Although too close for com- fort as far as the photographer was concerned, George is a fav- orite of children who visit the zoo. Snow Family — Patience pays off and these two gals finally get their man -- their snowman, tijat Is, as their town is blankets ed with snow, The happy girls ate Dolarita Heaney, 13, kneelingr and her sister, Dorothy, 1 1, • 4'