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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-5-19, Page 3The dairy cow, )bide of the province's cream producers, once chewed her cud contentedly after a day on tush slimmer pasture and did her best with dry hay and grain' in the winter months. But those days are gone forever, Farmers have+, recognized that the cows enjoy • grass, and that, M addition, they produced more milk and cream when on a grass diet. And So there has been a switch ' to grassland farming and to grass silage, so that the factory on feet which produces milk, butter, cheese and 'all the other dairy products, can have a diet she enjoys in the winteras well: The changeover has been slow, and is not by any -means com- plete as -yet, but all over Ontario farmers' are givingmore thought to grass — the cheapest and best stock food in the world. * .a Experts on the subject of cattle feeding have predicted that more molasses will be used in dairy rations in the future. Larger sup- plies are becoming available, and there arethose who figure the cows will get larger rations of this treat in the years to come. o « Farmers may soon be equip- ping their tractors with radios to frighten birds away from their crepe. Since recent press reports told of scaring starlings away from urban communities by broadcasting recordings of sounds made. by frightened starlings, the Field Husbandry Division, Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, report that amplified radio pro- grams have been used on at least one farm in eastern Ontario to protect a field of grain corn from bird damage. s a a Sheep breeders in the Rimou. ski area of Quebec are getting good results from cross -bred lambs.In the fall of 1950, 92 North country Cheviot rams were placed In service in the area for the production of market lambs from Leicester type flocks. Of this group 34 were placed with the Bic co -Operative, * « t Last year, members of the co - Operative had 121 lambs per"100 ewes and losses were one per sent lower than the average for the province. Cross -bred Che- viot -Leicester ewes in the area were mated in the fall of 1952 with O x f or d and Shropshire rams and produced 210 market 1 a mb s and the improvement made by this second cross was particularly noticeable when the carcasses were graded in the abattoir. The avera▪ ge grading for Que- bec Iambs was: 47 per cent Choice, 32 per cent Good, and 21 per cent inferior. Wether Iambs teem the Cheviot -Leicester cross, graded: 80 per cent Choice, 22 per cent Good and 18 per cent inferior, but the second cross Iambs, from the Down rams, ' graded 79 per -cent Choice, 18 per cent Good and only 3 per cent inferior. * • « a This year the 435 Cheviot - Leicester ewes now owned by members of the Bic co-operative, in 29 flocks, will be mated with 18 Oxford and 5 Shropshire and Suffolk rams. This project to improve the quality of the market lambs from the Rimouski district 1s a co- operative undertaking by the flock owners and representatives of the provincial and federal de- partments of agriculture, « a * A province that was, accord- ing to a lot of oldtimers, founded on the dual purpose cow, the 'Fritter Away Those Pleasant Moments BY DOROTHY MADD02 'NOW is the time .for spring parties. It's also the season for fragrant, fresh pineapple. You'll welcome this unusual recipe, for fresh pineapple -and -cheese fritters, Serve these delicious mor eels on food picks, along with tall, cool drinks or fruit juices, Fresh Plneepple Cocktail Fritters (Apnroxlmately 40-50 balls) One citp sifted, all-purpose flour; 1 teaspopt@double-acting belting powder, i4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon ground, black pepper; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind, 1 egg, slightly beaten; % cup milk, 1 tablespoon .butter or margarine, melted; 1 cup Vs -inch fresh pineapple cubes, 2 teaspoons sugar, soy sauce, 1/2 pound mild -flavored Cheddar cheese (optional)4 Sift together first 6 ingredients,, Stir in lemon rind. ' Combine or eggmargArine, and milk, end stir into Sour mixture along with melted butter Cut pineapple into 1/1 -inch pieces; mix, with sugar and dip in soy: sauce: (Be sure to dry each piece with a paper towel,) ._ Cut cheese into 1/2 -inch pieces, if used, and place on top of each pineapple wedge, Dip in the batter and fry until brown ie deep, hot fat (365 degrees ,F, on deep -fat thermometer), or hot enough to brawn a cube of .day-old bread in 40 seconds. Quickly remove from fat and drain on absorbent paper. Insert toothpicks and serve on hors d'oeuvre tray Fresh. Apple Fritters; Pare and core apples. Cut into .1h -inch cubes. Prepare and fry, in deep, hot fat as• for pineapple in the above recipe, For a special ler}ncheon or an outdoor grill party, this delicious mixed grill will please' everyone. The use of herbs gives the food a magically wonderful flavor, ' Mixed Grill With Herbs (Servos 6) Six %-inch slices eggplant, unpooled; 6 %-inch slices potato, peeled; 6 3/4 -inch slices sweet potato, peeled; 6 lamb chops (small steaks or hamburgers may be'substituted), 8 email sausages, 12 slices bacon, 6 thick slices tomatoes, marinade. Parboil eggplant, potato and sweet potato until just tender. Mari- inade lamb chops 1 to 2 hours. Place chops on grill over hot coals 'or op broiler rack in oven, Brush eggplant and the two potatoes with the marinade and place on rack or grill. Add sausages which have been parboiled for 5 Fresh pineapple fritters, with or without tiny Pieces 'of cheese. make tasty conversation -pieces for your parties. minutes. Broil 15 minutes, brushing with marinade from thne to + thne, Turn. Breit 5' minutes. Add tomatoes dipped in marinade and the bacon slices. Broil 10 minutes, or until tender. Marinade (Yield; about 1 oup) One lemon, sliced thin; 1 small carrot, grated; iia cup oil, b cup vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon ground (rubbed), thyme leaves; 34 teaspoon whole rosemary leaves, % teaspoon whole basil leaves, iii teaspoon garlic powder, 2 whole bay Ieaves, crumbled; 2 whole cloves, tablespoon parsley flakes, ys teaspoon ground black pepper, lift teaspoon onion salt, Vs teaspoon salt. Combine all ingredients. Simmer 5 minutes, Pour over chops while hot. Durham, is becoming more and more specialized every year. ✓ r * * In the early day@.of this cen- tury there weren't too many of the farmers in Ontario who sold cream from cows of pedigreed ancestry. There were some breeders of purebred stock of course, but most of the herds that wandered about this prov- ince's pastures were either of mixed ancestry Or were mixed herds. * e a It used to be, to quite an extent, the custom to keep some daiby cows, and some of the beef. type. That way the farmer' was able to get a fair amount of milk and at the, same time he raised beef calves which kept him in meat or provided a little extra money. But the milk from both typ.s of cows ended up in the same can. M - « « This isn't so much the custom today. Ontario cream producers aren't usually purebred breeders —they're general farmers. But at the same time most of their. herds, it not pedigreed, are made up of cows that can trace their ancestry to a single breed. * This enables the farmer to have a better idea of just what his cows are going to do when it comes to filling the milk pail, and it also makes for more uni- fortuity in butterfat content of the milk, In the end it makes for a better deal for the con- s u to a r,, whether he purchased milk, cream or butter. And the farmer who wants beefy calves can still bred his cows to beef bulls, and get cross- bred steers that do fairly well as meat producers for the stock- yards. 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Memory Selection: How Iong halt ve between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow hint; but if Beal, then follow lite . 1 Kings. 18:21, Elijah is particularly remem- bered for his encounter with the prophets of Baal on Mount Car:- mei. ar-mel. But there was a period of preparation for this spectacular event Elijah had- learned to pray effectively. He said to Bing Ahab, • "As the Lord of God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but ac- cording to my word." As the drought became more desper- ate itwas well for Elijah to be hiding. At Cherith he learned to depend bn the ravens to bring his food. Later when the brook dried he went to Zarephath. where he depended on God and on a widow, The widow pre- pared the meals but God kept the handful of meal from be- coming less and oil from fail- ing. After three and a half years of drought Elijah appeared be- fore King Ahab. Many of Israel had followed the lead of Ahab's wicked wife in becoming wor- shippers of '13aal. The 850 pro- phets which ate at Jezebel's table were summoned to Mt, Carmel. There God sent fire from Heaven upon Elijah's sac- eifice oonstsning evert the stones and water in .the trench. The people fell 'ort' their faces and acknowledged Jehovah as . the true God, The prophets of Baal Were slain. . I n answer to prayer the 'heavens again gave rain, Many Canadians. are werehip- pi ngMoney and pleasure, When t we give ourselves to ttolove tsf mbuey and sensuous pleasures we miss God's blessing, Alan is an ittitnottaI being and tanhot feed his soul on the things which money can,ebuy. Many try to forget the emptiness of their lives by getting drunk. That leads' to" greater troubles BI11y "Graham and others are trying to call the world back to God. There is to be a forsaking of sin and a humbling of our- selves. before God. As we be- lieve en Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, He • will for- give us our sins and give us both the inclitnation and power to live a holy. life. Ile, will give us the Holy Spirit to abide with us and guide us into. all truth, Nearer The Sun Colder at Gets In its long yearly journey around the sun the earth comes nearest to the suet early in De- cember (91,500,000. miles), and early in July it farthest froth the sun (94,500,000 miles). To dwellers in the northern hemis- - phere-this is always a little sur- prising, for their cold winter weather Comes .when the earth as as a whole is closest to the sun, and their hot sounmer days come when it is farthest wau;r, How- ever, to those who live in the 'southern hemisphere it is all quite proper and natural. Their cold weather comes in July when the planet is farthest front. the sun, and their hot weather iu December when It is nearest lo the great source of heat, While there are many things that af- fect the climate of a region, the chief differences are made by the way a particular part of the earth is tilted toward or away from the sen. In July, when the earth is farthest from the sun, the northern hemisphere is tilt- ed toward 1t, while the southern hemisphere is tilted away from it. Therefore the slut's rays strike the northern half on the .. earth more directly than they do the southern half. The part of the earth that ltappees, to he tilted away from the sun gets the solar rays less directly. These ' sieving revs have to pierce through more of the earth's blanket of atmosphere, and they lose ]teat in that way. +1 How The News- paper Got Its Start The newspaper in its modern form is usually regarded as be- ginning in 1566, when the .govern- ment of Venice, Italy, issued writer) news -sheets and exhibit- ed them in the Streets. Anyone was allowed to read them on payment of a small coin called a gazette. On this account the news -sheets were called gazettes, and they became so popular that they were printed. Soon after the date mentioned, gazettes were issued In most of the big cities of Europe. The first Eng- lish newspaper was the Weekly News, published in London in 1622. But in this paper and its successors down to 1641 only foreign news was printed. While newspapers in the mod- ern sense are thus less than four centuries old, something corres- ponding to the newspaper was found in the ancient world. Ac- counts of the doings of the im- perial armies of Rome were sent to generals in cousmand in all parts of the empire. These Acta Diurna, or Daily Doings, as they were called, were communicat- ed by the generals to their of- ficers. 'Farther back still. items of news, generally about kings or battles, were carved in stone in prominent places in Babylonian and Assyrian cities- These may almost be regarded as the ori- gin of the newspaper as a re- cord of events. Probably the oldest newspaper in this sense is the Siloam Inscription, discover- ed in 1880 in the rocky aque- duct of the Poolof Siloam at the southeast end of'Jerusalem. The characters are those of an early form of the alphabet used by 'the Phoenicians, Hebrews and Moa - bites. The language is Biblical Hebrew. The inscription is of the''gerlod of the'Hdbrew mon- archy • • -It dates back to at least 700 B.C., and is one of the oldest Hebrew inscriptions known, 'It may be called the Jewish news- paper of Isaiah's time, and per- haps even of Solomon's time. Freely translated it reads thus: "Finished is the boring. And this was the manner of the bor- ing. The hewers were playing the pickax, each toward his fel- low; and there were still three cubits to finish, when there was heard the voice of one calling to his fellow; for there was a crack in the rock on the right, And on the day of the boring the hewers struck each to meet his fellow, pickax to pickax, and the water ran from the source to the pool, ttvo hundred and a thousand cubits. And a hundred cubits was the height of the rock above the heads of the hewers." It sounds very modern. Just such a paragraph might . an- noiutre the completion of the cutting of a new tunnel through the Rockies, for instance-- From the Book of Knowledge. SHOOK' TACTICS. CURED 82.1711 1018 A twenty four-year, 1 t' nY 1 old French farmer who accidentally louohed a high-tension power line While trimming a hedge, received such a severe shock that he lost tile stutter which had afflicted him 3131ce boyhood. Now he eat speak clearly, with no trace of an impediment, Says the fath- er; "It's a miracle (lure." Movie Star Photos Recall Fairly A, few afternoons ago, l,1 spent a mellow hour with. some fans- oua faces from a fabulous pie-. neer age of 11)011043 pietas,. •Currently celebrating its 85th anniversary, United Artists had assembled photographs from some of its earliest successes. Some of them recall an almost legendary era, writes John Beaufort in The Christian Sci- ence Monitor, It was an era of D. W. Griffith, of the Gish ,]stars, Mary Pick- ford, and Douglas Fairbanks,' and Charlie Chaplin. It was Griffith, Fairbanks, Chaplin, and Miss .Piekford'Who founded Upited Artists on. April 17, 1919. Their objectives were "to improve the photoplay in- dustry and its artistic standards, and the methods of marketing photoplays," and to "market photoplays in the interests of the artists who create them." 'Jhe founders and their asses ciates set to work to realise their goal in a series of films which were to help establish the worldwide: popularity Of the new medium. Many have be- come cinema classic. ( The Mu- seum of Modern Art is current- ly offering a vivid resume of cinetna history with a UA film series,) Moviegoers w h o remember back to the days when televi- sion wasn't even a gleam in an electronic eye, would find many a movie memory in the several dozen "stills" from the United Artists Bless Douglas Fairbanks in "His Majesty the American" (the company's first release) and , "Tba Three Musketeers," Riche, and Barthehness' in "Broken Blossoms," Charles Ray in "The Girl I Loved," Charlie Chaplin in "The Circus," Rudolph Val- entino in "The Son of the Sheik," Mary Pickford in "Pol- lyanna" and "Little Lord Fann- To tleoy'." meet the demands of an expanding market, the founding quartet made contracts with in- dependent producers who re- leased their films under the United Artists banner. Among these wete Abel Gance'a "I Ac- cuse," George Arlias in "The Man Who Played God," Mae Marsh in "Paddy the Net gest Thing," John Barrymore in "the Beloved Rogue," and Buster Keaton in "The General," UA films of the 1930's in- cluded "Street Scene," "Arrow- smith," "Congress Dances,' "The Ghost Goes West," "The Emper- or Jones," "Elephant Boy," "Dead End," "Dodsworth," "You Only Live Once," "Wuthering Heights," and "Our Town." Notwithstanding its successes over the years, `United Artists has had more than its share of show business vicissitudes. The general movie downtrend that followed. World War II almost carried UA under, That the company has anything to cele- brate this year, except past glories, is due to one of those recoveries in the best melodra- uratic tradition. In 1951, a group hgaded by Arthur B. Krim and Robert S. Benjamin assumed management of the company ( the only re- maining founder -owners were Miss Pickford and Mr. Chaplin). UA then had a deficit of $1,000,- 000. As Variety summed it up recently: "No pictures, no cus- tomers, no money." Now, all that has changed. With films which may not in- variably have improved the photoplay industry and its artis- tic methods, the new manage- ment at least succeeded in turn- ing the tide on disaster. There followed "The African Queen," "High Noon." "Moulin Rouge," and 'Bwanna Devil" (the first of the recent 3-D films). oAc GREEN ff;"Tiltirt . yn.4 For the Record It's an excellent idea t0 keep a garden ' note -book Or d1535ti Mere we jot down the dates 49 actual planting and note the first green peas or the first gladioli bloom, We also list new varieties that we are going to Jtow next year sure and those obs we intended to de but did not get around to in 1904. Fos' same neglected+ jobs it won't be necessary to wait that long. With certailr, lines of nursery stock, most shrubs, trees ,and, vines for instance one can buy and plant In the all just as well, es next spring, By doing this we get these established earlier and save time; for other.' tasks next year, Be Tough One has to be- firm when it comes to thinning and soma other jobs about the garden, Nature is much too generous and if every seed that sprouted were allowed to grow, things would get in a terrible mese, Plants would be crowded un- mercifully, would become weak and spindly, a prey to the fir's( insects Or even a good breeze. Everything will do much better it there is plenty of room to develop. Newly transplanted flowers, vegetables and nursery stock will become sturdier and much better plants if they are pinched back. in all bedding plants, things like petunias, asters, tomatoes, and such that come in flats or boxes, all flower buds and bloom should be removed when transplanting takes place. Thin them too In almost every case where plants are started from seed anti. ' especially tiny seed, like lettuce or alyssum. Or poppies, they must be thinned later. In doing this naturally we pull out the poorer specimens first but in any case we must leave plenty of room for full development. If we are afraid 0± later damage from huge or . cutworms- perhaps we will leave twice as many plants 'as at first,. then later on 'we re- move very other one. In cer- tain vegetables like beets and carrots, too, we leave the plants about an inch or s0 apart at first, then use later thinnings for our first meals. When thinned properly the plants -left will grow more quickly, more sturdily and should .be healthier. Thinning is not always con- fined to seedlings. The extra big and fine blooms you usually see in the flower shows are often the result of thinning. Only in Rill Case 11 will be the Ilocve£ buds that are removed. ''Instead of letting every single rose, peony, or dahlia develop, the professionals nip off about fifty percent or more of the bads so that thise that are -left willbe finer and bigger. The same thing is done with fruit like apples, plums and peaches for big prime results. • (Upside down to preveetpeeinng) 3 0 1 3 8888 S 0 °. macizu rii, ©s - main © C�s�1+a®0•-E„a OEM pfinartVIM a 0 0 AV 1 S 3 8 V nw 'I V 5 t' 5 t 1 c ariCrt -- r . tux B a a reach at the In Mm � s L ass. lays w t M M s 9 Y Y Y t thrave of one of the man soldiers s who died at. Bataan during e early days of World War lt, The first lady of the Philippines, a native of Bataan, pays homnge of the Fort McKinley tem - Glary 10 Manila to commemorate Bafaon Day.