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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-4-14, Page 8Believe it or not, calves can stand a lot of cold. In fact It's claimed that they do better out.. side than if you keep them cooped up In a warm barn, * * Dalry cows can take the cold -- we ve seen that from the way they produce and stay healthy in open sheds. * * * Now comes word from Idaho that the same is true for calves, even in cold climates. For two years Idaho scientists have Compared open -shed runways, where calves aren't pampered, with two common types of in- • door .pens. * * * Twelve Holstein calves in Individual 6' x 45' open -shed runways were compared with two other groups of 12 in in- door pens, from the time they were three days nld until they were 37 days of age. Here's why the runways come out best: * * * Took less bedding. Each open -shed calf needed only 32,7 pounds of bedding for the winter. Those in indoor pens with wire floors above concrete took .52.2 pounds a- piece, and the group indoors on dirt took 86.2 pounds. Big reason for the saving in the open runways is that the Calves were fed hay and water - New Winter Fair President — S. G. Bennett, M.C., Toronto indus- trialist and one of Canada's leading Scotch Shorthorn cattle breeders, who was re-elected president of the Royal Agricul- tural Winter Fair at the annual meeting on Wednesday, March 24. Mr. Bennett is President of Beardmore and Company, and a Vice-president of Canada Pack- ers Limited, as well as being a director of several important companies. A f t e r graduating from the University of Toronto, he went to Oxford to study Po- litical Economy) from there he loaned the Royal Engineers, with whom he served with distinction from 1914-1918. After the war he was on the Engineering Staff of the University of Toronto for six years before entering busi- es( the University of T o r o n t o ler six ye ars before entering business. ed from covered bunks at the open end of the runway. They got grain at the shed end. When they got all three in the shed„ they spilled water and messed' up the bedding. Calves gained more. Open- shed calves gained an average of 62.7 pounds, compared with 89.8 pounds for those on wire liars inside, and 55.6 for calves in dirt -floor pens. * * * Less labor. Daily chore time to feed, bed, and clean out the manure averaged only three- and a -half minutes per day for each open -shed calf. It took five minutes apiece for those on concrete; six minutes for those on dirt floors. * .* * Calves were healthier. Only two of the open -shed calves had scours, as compared with five on wire floors, and seven on dirt. Seven of the calves on dirt floors, and six on concrete in the indoor pens were sick or un- thrifty, against only four in open shed. * * * "Solid partitions between the runways are important," warns D. L. Fourt, head of Dai- ry Husbandry at the University of Idaho. "They give the calves protection from drafts, and prevent earsucking — there- fore, prevent frozen ears." * * * Another study of calf losses in Idaho shows that dairymen who were pampering their cal- ves in barns had the highest losers. So it looks as if it pays to let calves rough if, as long as they're dry, protected from strong winds, and kept separ- ated. sa Fees Painter- ' Wilt -Eats Ants Among distinguished Austral inns who were invited to Can- berra, the Australian capital, to meet Her Majesty Queen Eliza- beth II is Mr. Flying White Ant Mr. Flying White Ant is the famous aboriginal painter, Al- bert Namatjira, from Central Australia. The "Albert" he got from the missionaries: "Namat- jira" is his tribal name and means "flying white ant." Albert Namatjira, who is fifty- one and the father of five sons and three daughters, all full- blooded aborigines like himself, is one of the world's most suc- cessful painters. He makes $7,500 a year and his pictures have been bought by many big galleries. Three paint- ings by him are owned by Her Majesty the Queen. Twenty years ago, Namatjira was acamelboy in Central Australia, employed by white men and earning a few shillings a week. He is a member of the Arunta tribe, considered by scientists to be one of the most primitive races in the world. They live in crude shelters made of the branches of trees and hunt game with spears. To the Lutheran mission sta- tion at Hermannsburg, eighty miles from Alice Springs in the Radio Astronomy Pioneers --- Edward Utley, right; and David S. Heeschen, stand next to the dish -shaped parabolic antenna which helped win them doctorates in astronomy from Harvard University. The device is built of wire mesh, is 24 feet in die- meter and cost $100,000 to build. The young scientists use the radar -tike equipment instead of the mare conventional telescope to do their star gazing. Symbols Of War And Peace — The 100 -foot -high statue of Christ the Redeemer towers above a Brazilian air force Gloster Meteor as it circles CorCeeado -Park a the harbor entrance to Rio — ' de'Janeiro, Brazil. heart of Australia, came a white painter, Rex Battarbee. He had been painting the vividly colour.' ed desert country—the purple mountains, red sandhills, gnarled rocks and twisted trees. Namat- jira saw the white man's paint- ings, was filled with the ambition to became a painter, and asked for lessons. Battarbee' agreed and got a tremendous shock. Namatjira. was a born painter -a genius. In two weeks he learned 'all that the white man could teach him. Excited at his discovery, Battar- bee took some of the aborigine's watercolors to Adelaide and showed them to a famous Aus- stralan painter. "Should he come to Adelaide for lessons?" Battarbee asked. "No need at all," said the fam- ous painter. "He knows every- thing now." Fame and money followed quickly. In 1938, forty-one wat- er -colors by Mr. Flying White Ant were exhibited in Melbourne and sold within .a few days. Within a few years he was mak- ing $3,000 a year from his paint- ings, and today the figure is about $7,500. With wealth nearly came dis- aster. to Albert Namatjira's health. Desert aborigines have mainly a meat diet, and in con- seqaence they are lean and wiry people. Namatjira began to eat the white man's food with lots of flour and -sugar. He put on weight rapidly and in no tune his weight was up to eighteen stone. His immense bulk affect- ed his heart badly. Doctors shook their heads over him, gave him only a few years of life, and the quality of his landscape paint- ings fell off. Albert cured himself. He went back to his aboriginal diet and cut Out flour and sugar. He also took to eating honey -ants. These Central Australian ants gather honey from flowers and shrubs. This honey is stored in the bodies of some of their fellows. These reservoir ants hang by their front legs from the walls of ant galleries and have huge distended bellies, about the size of a cherry. Worker ants are responsible for bringing the honey to the nest and feeding it to these luckless storage ants. Albert Namatjira ate several pounds of these ants daily and they cured his heart trouble. He is now several stones lighter and in excellent health. "I always. feel well when I keep to my diet of honey ant," he says. Wealth has brought gains to the former camel -boy. He has been able to build a white stone house near the mission for his family and to save money for a block of land on which he hopes to set up his sons as cattle men. But money also brought prob- lems. Aborigines have a simple communal life in which all ma- terial possessions are shared. For several years most of Al- bert's earnings went in buying food and clothes for his numer- ous relatives. In one year about $8,600 went that way — almost Albert's entire earnings. He didn't mind. He had been brought up that way= -what was his, was his tribe's. He just went an painting, But he began to worry when hit two elder sons didn't seem to have any more ambition than to visit aboriginal camps, in Combination Suzy P e r e t t e combines the popular princess silhouette with the fashionable coat style to create this spring - into -summer dress, A pert Iittle- boy collar and a big bow tie top the design of ice -blue silk and cotton. Central Australia, driving a truck that Albert had bought, and running hint into: bills of $1,200 a year for petrol and repairs. Luck took a hand. His sons smashed the truck up badly and Albert hadn't enough money at the time to repair it, His sons and their friends began to look for work at the mission. Namatjira is unspoiled by suc- cess. He is a fine-looking man with great natural dignity, His 'example has inspired other ab- origines of the tribe to become painters and to -day there are half a dozen of them who are doing fine work—and selling at good prices. This fabulous success story, cul- minating in the aborigines gen- ius being presented to Her Ma- jesty the Queen, might never have happened at all if a soldier in World War I had not had ex- ceptionally keen eyesight. Rex Battarbee, 'the white raint- er who discovered Namatjira, served with the Australian forces in France and during the battle of Bullecourt was so -severely ly wounded that he was left for dead for two days in no -man's land. He was about to be tossed into a grave when a member of the burial party noticed a slight flicker of an eyelid, Batterbee was put an a stretcher and taken to a hospital, where he recover- ed -after two years and, in due course, went to Central Australia an a painting trip. Nall a strip of leather belting along one side of your wooden wheelbarrow, leaving loops of leather io hold garden tools, One . Good Turn.. Mark Twain, in one of his In- imitable after-dinner speeches, once lampooned the "magnani- mous incident" stories which of- ten adorned"children's books and "uplift" literature of the Victor, tan are. . Mark to the contrary notwith- standing, magnanimous incidents do occur, they don't all go sour, and—believe it or not—several of themcan be reported on the samepage of thesame newspa- per the same day. Witness the Columbia Univer- sity alumnus who once received. as a student a scholarship of $175 "at a time of desperate per- sonal need." He repaid the schol- arship and now, years later, be- st' —MI his alma mater a #14110 gratitude eft. Witness the three-year-old Il- linois boy lost all night in the woods during a cold, pelting rain. Searchers found him at dawn lying on the grouni with his half-grown collie dog "Cor- ky" standing over him trying to keep him dry, Ia gratitude for just what, we don't know. But with some knowledge of small aye r d dogs we can guess quite a lot. Witness the British dog who wage his tail the postman, the milkman,and the baker but seizes the rent collector by the seat of his pants, Now, did the owner once do that dog s good turn or the rent collector a bad one? We'd better drop it right there or we'll be over in Mark's corner From The Christian Science Monitor, Much of Interest For the Ladies Realizing that every housewife spends approximately 80% of her time in the kitchen of her home as well as a considerable por- tion of other rooms and, conse- quently, is a deciding influence on her husband when in the market for a new home, spons- ors of the National Home Show, had much to interest milady. Every conceivable piece of household equipment to assist the housewife as well as all the products and services that go into the construction of a Cana- dian home and the equipment and furnishings that transform that house into home were dis- played. - SALLY'S SALLIES: ?.sr•"._ IYLS tiAMIMED FREE - IFYOU 9(15 GLASSES 'The Doctor says nature put ears where they are just to keep spec- tacies in place." TABLE TALKS dam Andmws. Most of us have our favorite cake recipes — tried and trusted standbys that always "come out right," However, sometimes ft's a good idea to give these favor, 1tes a slightly ' different touch, and an easy way to do it is by adding a topping that's either BAKED or, BROILED. Just leave your freshly -baked cake in the pan; - then spread frosting on the cake, and broil 5 to 6 inches from heat; or place topped cake in hot (450°) oven 6 to 8 minutes — a longer time will dry out the cake. Toppings brown very quickly during broil- ing — better 'watch them care- fully. These recipes fit a 9 -inch round or square cake. FRUIT -NUT FROSTING 2 tbisp. butter n5 c. brown sugar 2 tblsp. cream If, c. mixed candied fruit I5 c. blanched, silvered almonds Ift c. coconut I'E tsp, salt Cream the butter and sugar together. Add cream, fruit, al- monds, coconut and salt. Mix lightly and spread on cake. Broil until bubbly and glazed, 3 to 6 minutes. PEPPERMINT CANDY FROSTING }.G e.' confeotioners sugar IS c. flour tsp. salt - 2 tblsp, soft butter 2 tblse, cream % c. crushed soft peppermint candy. Blend sugar, flour, salt, and butter together. Add cream and sandy. Mix well. Spread mix- ture over cake. Broil until mix- ture begins to brown, 2, to 4 minutes. * * • COCONUT I1ON.E3L FROSTING 2 tblsp, soft butter ?f, a dry shredded coconut 3,4 e, honey 1 tsp, grated lemon ri el • salt Spread top of cake with but- ter, Combine coconut, honey, lemon rind, and salt, and blend will. Spread inter cake. Broil just long enough to toast coco- nut lightly, 2 to 4 minutes. * • • CHERRIES . ROYAL FROSTING �a c. confectioners sugar tsp, ginger, 3 tblsp, flour 444 tsp, salt 2 tblsp. soft butter 12 Marsbino cherries, and chopped Blend sugar, ginger, flour, salt, and butter until evenly crum- bled. (A pastry blender or fork works fine here,) Stir in cher- ries.'' Spread Mixture over cake. Broil until mixture 'begins.. to bubble, 3 to 4 minutes. drained Modern Etiquette Q. Is it proper to use ruled paper for social correspond- ence? A. This usually makes it bad impression and it is better to avoid using lt, If you have trouble writing in a straight line, buy the black -ruled paper which fits under the notepaper: These are called guides, and can be purchased in `any sta tionery store. Q. When is the proper time for guests to arrive ata church wedding? A. From a half-hour to not later than five minutes before the ceremony, All guest's should be seated before the parents of the bride and bridegroom ar- rive. Q. When ice cream is serv- ed on pie, should theice cream be eaten with the spoon? A. No; the fork should be used. Q. When a girl is walking 'along the street with a man and he speaks to someone she doesn't know, should she speak also? A. She should senile and nod her head. This holds true also for the man, should she speak to an acquaintance. Q. Should one always change his fork over to the right hand after cutting off a portion of meat with knife and fork? A. This is known as "zig- zag" eating, and is not'neces- sary, It is better to be able to use either Band interchangeably 'While eating. Q. Is it necessary to send a gift. when one is invited to a church wedding, but not to the reception? A. In this case, itis not ne- cessary. Only an invitation to the reception requires -a gift. Q. If no individual butter knife is provided at the. dinner table, should the meat knife be tided fdr this purpoce? A. For spreading butter on bread, 'yes:' But when one is putting -butter on potatoes or vegetables, then the fork should be -used. . .. • Q.,..Should a young married woman identify herself. over the telephone to a social acqu• aintance by saying, "This ii Sharo'it Martin," or, "this li Mrs. David' Martin" ? Am"This, is Sharon Martin.' Q. -Should the man or the woman, makethe move to stot for conversation when the, meet each other on the street? A It is up to the pian to dc this. ` Q. If a woman is seated in e streetcar or 'bus,' ana iinothet woman carrying a baby is standing, should she offer her seat?' ' A. Yes; and if there are any men, seated nearby, they should be extremely -embarrassed for their lack of good -breeding. When you send a letter to r convalescent child, write your message in large letters on card. board; then cut it up, jig-saM puzzle fashion. The invalid will enjoy putting the letter together to read. Hair it Goast — The 42 -inch tresses of pretty Helen Korovoff • fall prey to a barber's scissors in San Francisco. Miss Korovoff, immigrated four years ago from Harbin, China.