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The Brussels Post, 1954-7-7, Page 3TIILFMM FRONT Grass -legume silage has been made at the Smithers Experi- mental Substation, B.C. during each Of the past three seasons. The results obtained have been extremely satisfaetory, despite the lack of familiarity with sil- age making in general on the part M those supervising. The quality of the feed so preserved has varied considerably, but generally it has been excellent, The actual loss Of material has been small, and the improved health of the cattle herd at the station during the winter months has been marked, says Superin- tendent W. T. Burns. * e It .has often been stated that proper moisture content of the material to be ensiled is inept fin - portant for a high quality feed. Three years experience has cer- tainly emphasized the need for care in this respect, Some rather slimy and unpalatable silage has been produced from material too moist, and some charred silage has resulted from material that was too dry. Though there was undoubtedly some loss of nutri- ents in the charring, practically no material was discarded as a xesuit. Slimy silage was not readily eaten and proved exces- sively laxative, but again it was necessary to throw out a very small proportion. During the first two seasons, actual shinkage in the weight of grass material stored as compar- ed to silage fed, was 25 per cent. Results for the 1953 silage are not yet available. Most of this shrinkage represents moisture loss. Unfortunately, the weight of discarded material as a result of spoilage is not available. How- ever, when it is considered that no nutrients 'are lost from the crop as a result of weathering, all being preserved in excellent condition, the loss through spoil- age experienced has been very reasonable. In spite of this, it is telt tied with the experience that. has been obtained, grass -legume mixtures can be ensiled to re- duce losses below those of the preY.ens years, * * * In stressing the advantages of storing the hay crop in a silo, the improved feeding quality cannot be over -emphasized. The shorthorn herd at this Station has been wintered in much better condition since a. part of the ra- tion has been grass -legume sil- age. The animals are more active, their coats are not dry, dull and brittle, but glossy and smooth, indicating good health. The cows have less difficulty in calving and produce strong, healthy calves, Also the cows milk better, especially those calv- ing early in March, which means smaller losses and more rapid growth. * f • There are many problems to be worked out in preparing to store the hay crop in a silo on each ,individual farm. Without exception, those problems can be solved with careful planning and careful attention to details such as moisture content; packing and covering. Suitable equipment is now available for whatever quantity is to be stored. Cer- tainly the experience at the Smithers Station during the past three years has proved the value of silage as a method of "making good hay in bad weather," and as a high quality feed to raise healthy animals. * • Shrinkage has quite a bearing in a livestock transaction. The amount of shrinkage varies con- siderably and depends on several Inters, says H. J. Hargrave, Lethbridge Experimental Station, Alta. The following are among the important ones: * 1. Length of trip. Usually, the longer the trip the greater the shrink; however, the loss of weight does not bear a direct ratio to the distance travelled since the greatest loss occurs In the first few miles, * . . * 2. The degree of comfort..Ex- tremes in weather, either hot or cold, increase the shrinkage, Badly crowded cars or trucks and rough runs with many stops add t0 the weight loss in market- ing livestock. * * a 3. The condition of the animals at the time of loading has a bear- ing on shrink. Tired, hungry, or thirsty animals are likely to show high shrinkage when being marketed. * * 4. The kinds of feed used. Grass cattle will usually shrink more than grain -fed cattle, Ani- mals that have had large quanti- ties of hay or silage will usually lose more weight than those that have been on a full feed of grain. Laxative feeds such as beet tops and cover crop result in more shrinkage than non -laxative feeds. * 4 4 5. The class of animals. Thin two-year-old feeder steers will shrink more than the same aged cattle that are fat. Long three- year-old steers off grass -will shrink less than long yearling 'steers off grass. There will be little difference in the shrinkage, of heifers and steers of the same age. at lambs can be expected to shrink less than feeder lambs, while ewes will shrink more than feeder lambs. Hogs usually shrink less than other farm ani- mals. No Such Thing As "Emptyr.3-° Space Is the space that surrounds us • a vacuum? Or rather if we could remove from space the stars, planets, nebulae and com- ets, would we have left a vacuum? No, space is far from being empty. Not many years ago as- tronomers at •the Carnegie In- stitution of Washington found that an average cubic yard of "empty" space between the stars contains: 20,000,000 free electrons 20,000,000 hydrogen atoms 5 sodium atoms 1 potassium atom 400,000 photons, or light -darts This we must add 1 calcium atom for every ten cubic yards of interstellar space, and 1 titan- ium atom in several hundred thousands of cubic yards. In ad- ' dition, a particle, perhaps as big as an average smoke particle might be filtered out of every quintillion cubic yards of the space between the stars, Sir Arthur Eddington sum- med itup like this: "An atbm en 1 counters another atom about once a year," in interstellar space. Dr. Edwin P. Hubble has been i quoted as saying that the pro- i portion of matter to space could i be approximately indicated by imagining one grain of sand in a hollow sphere the size of the earth. All this matter is called cosmic dust, or interstellar dust. There'll Be No Cat-astrop ie—Tabby probably hod many a motorist in a frenzy as she fouled traffic of the highway patrol stop station. Thp officer holding up tete traffic, so the kitten could cross the street, Is unidentified. Don .t Leave'Welcome Mat Out For Burglars Before you and the family lake off on that sunnier vacation make sure to fhiefproof your home. illustrated below are :six tips, on how to safeguard your home against burglars. They're from crime expert John Mosler, who predidis, the public will he burglarized more than 1296 tli nes every 24 hours during. July and August. 6r� Cancel all milk and newspaper deliveries until you,ret,urn home. A cluttered porch is a come-on sign to burglars. ' in arm your postman about your tempora'ry change in address. A 'stuffed mailbox is an invitation to' burglars. Tell o trustworthy neighbour where you con be reached. Ask him to callpolice if he notices suspicious activity. Don't leave gems, cosh or valu• ables In your home. Take them down to the bank for safe -keep- ing while you're gone. Notify police as to how long Lock all your doors and win - you'll be away. Neighbourhood dows. Don't just slam the door. policemen will watch for any Lock it with a key so that the strange goings-on, bolt provides added security. Nine -Year -Old Boy Almost Blinded As every mother knows, small boys have an uncanny faculty for getting their heads caught in fences, their tongues frozen to metal pipes and their pockets crammed with strange, stray objects. The first two usually result in nothing more serious than a bruised neck and a skinned tongue. But the collector's in- stinct in a small boy can lead to tragedy. Several weeks ago a nine- year-old Montreal boy was nearly blinded for life because he didn't realize the danger hid- den inside some harmless look- ing objects he found while play- ing around a construction site. They were blasting caps, used to detonate commercial explo- sives. But the boy and his play- mates thought they were fire crackers and were eager to set them off with a bang. After building a fire in a ring of rocks, the nine - year - old dropped one of the caps into the flames. When it failed to ex- plode immediately, he fed an- other to the flames. At that precise moment the first cap exploded, setting off the second. The blast hurled to the ground one lad standing four feet from the fire, filled the air with metal- lic slivers and left the first boy bleeding and temporarily blind- ed. Another similar accident happened there since. Blasting caps and dynamite are essential tools in countless construction projects constantly in progress across this fast - developing copntry. Contrac- tors handle them without fear or injury because they are skilled in their use. But in the hands of children or inexperienc- ed adults, they are dangerous to life and limb. A blasting cap is so sensitive that heat, a tap from a stone nr a hammer, even a prick from a pin or a nail, can cause a serious accident, Legis- lation governing the manufactue and use of blasting caps and explosives, their handling and shipping was enacted years ago. But the law finds it difficult to curb the curiosity of a small boy. There are two different but equally potent types of blasting caps. Both can be recognized by their small aluminum or copper cylinders about the diameter of a lead pencil. One is often mis- taken for an empty .22 cartridge, This has an open end, is about one -and -one-half inches long and is designed to be detonated by the flame from a fuse. The other type can be mistaken for a firecracker or a pencil holder, It is an elec- trio blasting cap with two wires extending from one mid so it can 1 be fired by an electric current. These caps are from two to five inches long and are sometimes brightly colored. Parents and children should 1 also realize that explosive cart. xidges are not to be trifled with either, They are usually about eight inches long and an inch or so in diameter. But they may be as much as 16 inches to two feet in length and four to eight inches in diameter. They are usually covered in brown or waxed paper or encased in card- board tubes, Blasting caps and dynamite cartridges should never be touch- ed by inexperienced hands — not even with a ten -foot pole. Any- one finding them should give them a wide berth and report their location immediately to the police or other authorities. Wise parents would be practicing an ounce of prevention if they de- clared areas where men and machines are at work this sum- mer strictly out of bounds, Is There Life On Other Worlds? In our own solar system there are eight other worlds like the earth. The earth is probably the only one, however, on which living creatures are to be found. For many years astronomers have wondered about life on Mars, our red neighbor planet. Now, because Mars has so little at- mosphere and water, we know that there are propably no human beings or other living creatures t h e r e. Recently astronomers have come to believe that certain kinds of plants do grow on Mars. Many astronomers believe that there are probably other famil• - ies of planets like our own solar system. It seems very likely that if our sun, which is just 1 an ordinary star, has planets moving around it, other stars may have planet families, too. • Astronomers have not been able to prove this, however, since even the biggest telescopes are not large enough to show other plan- ets which might be revolving around other stars. Ripe Old Age Candy Balls Became Deadly War Weapon A Britishmilitary intellig- ence agent called on a suburban candy manufacturer and mur- mured that he wanted to discuss a matter of great importance "something so top secret you mustn't even tell your wife." Then from his pocket he pro- duced a sticky bag of aniseed balls and asked, "Can you drill holes through hundreds of these by the end of the week?" A few weeks earlier, inventor Robert Macrae and his business colleague C. V. Clarke were scouring the sweet shops, buy- ing up every aniseed ball they could find. Soon, all the whole- salers were denied fresh sup- plies. Throughout Britain, ani- seed balls were diverted to armament factories. As a result Britain soon had a secret weapon that sent thousands of tons of enemy shipping to Davy Tones' locker. The aniseed balls were popped into the deadly delayed action limpet mine. After being 1 attached by frogmen to the hull I of a ship, sea -water slowly ate i through the aniseed ball until Doctors all over the world are discussing the amazing longe- vity of a Lebanese shepherd named Assad Mohammad El -She - mi, who celebrated his 115th birthday this' year. The old man recently paid her tirst.ever visit to a doctor • not because he lilt ill, but because he thought it would be "a good idea to have an overhaul at my age„ The doctor, a leading Beirut practitioner, saes the veteran's heart, lungs, liver and stomach are as healthy and robust as those of a young man. This is believed to be due to his open-air life and wholesome diet of niillc, bread, fruit and vegetables. , Blue-eyed, white -bearded Mo- hammad has never smoked or drunk alcohol. He sleeps eight hours nightly, has good sight and hearing and declares his greatest desire is to live till he is at least 150. He is a widower and is now head of a fancily of seventy. His grandfather lived to be, 122 and his father died at 132 after marrying twice. it exploded the detonator. Every child knows the slow - dissolving properties of the homely aniseed ball. Yet the men who remembered that recently received hundreds of pounds for their invention That's only one of tht' start- ling war -time sagas newly re- vealed by the least -known court of claims in London, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. For the past eight years the Commission has been investigating the cash claims of the inventors of the secret weapons that helped us to vic- tory. Now the judges soon hope to finish their task after shar- ing out $2,100,000 among some 400 backroom boys. Many of them admit they worked out their best brain - waves in a shed at the bottom of the garden. Winner of a $300,000 award, Kurt Sommerfeld saw a quartermaster sergeant lay a stretch of rusty chicken wire netting between his tent and the stores, From this incident sprang his idea for "tin lino," ,the portable air landing strips and steel -mesh mads that helped invasion. A young naval officer thought it absurd that the Admiralty should be using demolition charges one at a time to blow up wrecked ships which,. lying in shallow waters, had become a danger to navigation. Why not a line of charges, he thought, exploding simul- taneously on the ocean bed, creating a deep trench into which the wreck would be pushed by the tides, thus con- veniently burying the wrecks on the sea -bottom? Be invented a pistol to do the job which cast him only $6. The Commlaslon awarded bite. $4,500. Sven then it represented a bargain 40r Britain. The device swiftly disposed of 500 wrecks at a saving of many million dol. lars. And how much is it worth in cold cash to win a battle, save an airman's life or save 100,000 sailors from being seasick? This Is the crux of the riddle which the Commission has had to solve again and again in assessing the amazing stream of war -time in- ventions, Sir frank Whittle was granted $300,000 for his jet 'plane research. Yet this sum was exceeded in the $300,000 awarded to a Swiss firm for patents used in the hydraulic undercarriage system of Bali- fax bombers, and the record was $500,000 to a firm which owned the "know-how" of hardening aircraft aluminum,. On the other hand, the four inventors behind the Pluto pro- ject for an oilpipe On the sea bed shared $45,000, Sir Robert Watson -Watt was given $150,000 tax free as the father o4 radar. A Scottish firm developed stabilizing gear that reduced the sea -sickness by controlling the roll of more than 100 warships. Their award was $80,000. Seven men shared a payment of $35,000 for inventing the radio proximity fuse. It saved the south of England from thousands of casualties from fly- ing bombs which failed to reach their target. In the Pacific, too, the invention protected millions of pounds worth of Allied ship- ping from Jap ,suicide attackers, Said One of the inventors: "Just hew did they assess their payment?" The widow of a flight -lieuten- ant who invented a bomb release received $1,000. Another widow received $4,800 because her hus- band had helped invent an ap- paratus to convert sea -water into fresh water. Even a man who had invented a fly -trap made out of old gasoline cans received $800. Though conducted with strict integrity, this great share -out has inevitably caused heart- aches as well as headaches. Blueprints and models have littered the tables while the in- ventors pleaded their case. The judges have had an un- enviable task — and roughly thirty per cent of the claimants have received precisely nothing because it was decided they couldn't prove their rights BE ENEW TOO MUCH Sammy Epstein was a consci- entious lawyer who was v e r y careful about living up to every inch of the law. One day he came home and found his wife walk- ing on the ceiling. 'Tor goodness' sake," he demanded, "what do you think you're doing?" "Walking on the ceiling," re- plied his wife, "and I'm having a wonderful time" "You can't do that," protested Sammy. "It's breaking the law of gravity." Immediately site fell to t h e floor with a bang. She sat stun- ned by the fall, then she burst I into tears. aWith a sob of resentment she l cried to her husband: "Because you know the Iaw, do you have to open your big mouth" NDAY SCHOOL LESSON Ey Rev. it, Banta," warren, OA- 8.0. Arco We °Awing As Chrlstiaitsi' 1 Corinthians 3; 1-3; Ephesiaute-41 11-1.0; Y Peter 1; 54; 3: 10., lslemury >iltleotiou; Cxrow in grata, and in the knowledge of Op Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, k Peter 3; 18, There were a number .o'i con- ditions in the church at Corinth that were not satisfactory. That eould be said of any church to- day. Paul pointed out that their envying, strife and divisions were an evidence that they were but babes In Christ. They were walk- ing after the flesh and not aI., cording to the Spirit, They were carnal, No churchis perfect. But Christ has given to the church, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers for the per- fecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying qfthe body of Christ. Babes ih Christ are expected to grow. It a child does not develop physic-, ally it is tragedy. So it is in the spiritual. We are to grow in Christ, We are to become more gracious by adding to our faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, p a t i e n c e, godliness, brotherly kindness and love. Each day we - should become more like Christ. As we increase in these graces and in the knowledge of Christ we shall not be blown about by , every wind of teaching, We shalt know what the truth is in Jesus Christ and we shall exemplify that truth. We shall strive for more and more of that charity or divine love so beautifully des- cribed in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. Paul writes to these people at Corinth, "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify Gott in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's," If we will let the Holy Spirit direct our lives we shall grow as Christians. Noises In The Night When furniture creaks and cracks and groans, it is probably because of changes in the tem- perature. It is generally true that wood, and most other -sub- stances, expand as they are heat- ed and shrink as they are cooled. During the day, the air has been warmed up .by the heat of the sun, or by the warmth given out by the furnace in the house. At night It is usually much colder, both in the house and out-of- doors. Furniture is likely to shrink more or less at night, as it cools, and to expand with the greater heat of daytime. A part of a chair or a table may sudden- ly slip a' little and make a creak- ing noise.. As the furniture shrinks a little, the joints do not fit as, lightly as they did before. The amount of moisture in the air- ln also have something to clo with tele. We notice the creaking of fur- niture, or of an old house, more at night ten we do in the day- time because it is usually much meii . iidt` then. However, fur- n3''tvi"?[n'1".' horn do creak in ticedaOme as well. Hero Pays -A: price—The cost of being a Hero is high and Carle- ton West will be the first to agree. While he was !saving a drowning woman, police gave him a ticket for illegal parking,