The Brussels Post, 1954-9-8, Page 7TIBIAE FRONT
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Do YOtt know: one bushel of
at will yield 18.2 pOunds of oat-
meal Or rolled oats; a bushel of
wheat will yield On the average
0,2 pounds of flour; an average
live hog, weighing 166 pounds
will yield 01 pounds of bacon,
ham, shoulders and sides, cured
or smoked; it takes 100 pounds
of milk, Leafing .8.5 per cent but-
terfat, to produce 4,3 pounds of
buttdr; a quart Of raspberries
weighs 11/4 pounds; a metric ton
(10 quintals) of potatoes equals
30.74 bushels.
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These and hundreds of other
interesting facts relating to
"Canada Weights, Measures and
Conversion Factors for Agricul-
tural Products" are contained in
a bulletin recently produced un-
der that title by the Marketing
Service Econoznies Division, Can-
ada Department of Agriculture.
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The authors state the bulletin
is an attempt to gather together
from various sources weights,
measures and conversion factors
commonly required in calcula-
tions on agricultural products. It
has been prepared in co-operation
with the Agriculture Division.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics,
the commodity divisions of the
Department of Agriculture Mar-
keting Service, and the trade
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Sources of information vary
and many of the figures may be
revised as further data are ob-
tained, *In some cases figures
have been revised from those
formerly used in government
publications. Unless otherwise
meted, the data are national
averages and may not be valid
for 'use regionally. Figures have
been rounded In most cases. In
some instances weights and per-
centages are fixed by law, Each
ej-theee--ie indicated by the addie
tion -of the word "Statutory" after
theitern.
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The authors add "This bulletin
should be regarded as provision-
al, comments will be of assistance
in preparing any subsequent edi-
tions. Letters regarding the
scope and content Of the publica-
tioa should be sent to the Chief,
Economics Division, Department
of Agriculture, Ottawa."
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Self ;szeding of silage is another
step in .savIng labour in cattle
prodttatiOn. Several problems are
invOlved in this procedure, but
with the use Of horizontal or sus-
face(s110s, the difficulties appear
to be decreased The Animal
Hu bandry, and Field Husbandry
DIi siOns of the Central Experi-
me tal Farm, Ottawa, have been
giving attention to the problem,
and" the first experiment with
beef cattle was conducted during
the winter et 1953-54. .
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One lot 01120 steers was given
accr to grass silage in a hori-
zon al silo 18 feet wide. Feeding
wa , Oho by a movable sten-
chiehetepe leeder •gate, suspend-
ed eeoliethe side walls of the silo
by a 'feller bar. 'The other lot of
20 steerse,was band fed ,timilar
silage from the other en ce of the
filo,
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At first Ithe sel; fed tattle -Wee
allowed to move the feeder gate
forwald at will, but it was found
that they had a tendency to pull
down more silage than they
would eat during the day. Once
the silage was exposed to the air
and chilled it became unpalatable
and a considerable waste occur-
red. A4 a remedy, the feeder gate
was fastened so that the cattle
.could not move it. It was then
moved forward every two days so
that a depth of seven tO eight
inches of fresh silage came with-
in reach Of the cattle. This pro-
vided ample feed for the number
of cattle involved, and reduced
wastage to a minimum,
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The silo was open to the weath-
er and this created a problem
with snow and frost, This was
overcome by suspending jute
bags over the openings of the
gate, and spreading a tarpaulin
above the feeding area.
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Stormy weather or tempera-
tures which ranged from 47 de-
grees to 19 degrees below zero
did not seem to impede the will-
ingness of either group to feed.
The total gain of both lots was
the same, indicating that • both
methods of feeding had equal
effect on gain.
In the latter part of the experi-
ment, when the gate was func-
tioning properly, approximately
75 per cent less labour 'was re-
quired by the self fed group.
Providing wastage is kept to -a
minimum by proper adjustment
of the feeder gate, it appears that
self feeding surface silos are a
practical and important labour
saving device for wintering beat
cattle, This experiment will be
repeated.
A REAL HANDICAP ,
Russ Stoneham. the director,
once found himself in a little
mountain village, and he had to
get back to the city in a hurry.
The only transportation he could
find—after his car had broken
dONVO on the road—was a mule -
drawn carriage. The driver
agreed to take Russ into town,
saying he had to get there him-
self for the marketing, but
added, "One thing, thoagh. It's
a bad road, and I can't hurry
Lily. He's my mule, and he's
been with me so long, I just got
to take good care of him."
They jogged along a few miles;
then the driver pulled up and
pointed. "Hill up ahead," he an-
nounced. "It's too steep for 141Y,
so you'll have to get out and
walk it."
Russ got out and trudged
alongside the carriage. Not five
minutes after he'd got back in,
the driver stopped again,
"Another hill," he said. "This
time I'll get out and walk."
And a couple of minutes later,
the driver again announced a
hill ahead. "This Is the west
one of all. We'll both have to get
out and walk; Lily's getting tired
already,"
At long last, they ',hit town,
both walking. Russ pulled out
his -wallet and paid the driver.
Then he said, "I had to come
here because I had an appoint -
men. You had to some for the
marketing., letie tell Me: why in
heck did we bring Lily?"
re All In Tie Water — I Whitt demonstrate the effect
ei the draught on irrigated, right, and non -irrigated, left cern
at an experimental farm. The corn in beth eases was planted
the same day and given the same toil fertilizer. Whitt tewere
over the unirrigated corn and is dwarfed by the stalks that
received plenty of water.
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•Delek To Dreaming Again the sound of school bells resoende. through the land. It is the
time for books, for classrooms and learning. Back to:Twotke boys — end Rack to dreaming of
next year's they' days at the 'fishing hole where, resting is more importent than catching fish
as It Is for Duncan Mitchell, pleterece here.
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Itifaivs Of Lovers
Are beviiius
When attractive, copper -haired
Christine Hargreaves as mar-
ried a little while ago in Chester
to Peter Waugh, a London pha-
tographer, her wedding presents
included one which ensures that
she will never have any shop-
ping worries for the rest of her
life.
Her rich father — chairman of
two ' companies valued at more
than £1,350,000—had the origin-
al idea of making his twenty-
year -old daughter a present of a
lifetime's housekeeping enoney
,The gift was in the form Of stocks
and bends. And. it's no' wonder
that housewives all over Brit-
ain are envying Christine and her
good fortune.
Christine's wedding alone must
have cost a tidy sum. There was
a lavish reception at the Har-
greaves' lovely manor house
near Congleton, Cheshire, With
police permission, Mr. Hargreav-
es had special road signs put up
to guide the 250 guests.
In these hard times, when aved-
ding gifts and, many other things
are nearly three times, dearer
than they were before the war,
brides are not often so lucky as
they used to be.
On n Scottish -bride and her hus-
band %, receiVelt ',sr 500 -year-old
SeOttiph ctsi1 ds a weddisk gift
and went jo live \in„it aftee theik
lioneymeoe. Among their \othar
gifts was a priceless antique
verisodel of a ship
Ohm of the lucltiest of brides in
thelfirsitecl States was Miss Helen
McLaughlin, whose wedding
presents when she Married Dr. A.
F. Carroll in Brooklyn were so
nunierous that four large furni-
ture vans, escorted through the
streets by a strong guard of arm-
ed police were required to move
them from her father's house.
These wonderful gifts includ-
ed a solid gold dinner service,
a diamond necklace each tone
of which weighed nine and a liege
care's, a det Of Limoges Ghlea
containing 1150 piebese an ebony
pedestal 'eurnmuntee by an, enor-
mous vaed Of Weld' -silver; and
cheques amounting to huntirees
of thOusends Of teethes
MiIli�nair"Pterpoint Morgan
gave his daughter bonds worth
4200.000, a palace on the Hud-
son River,a 'priceless collar: o
diamonds and other gift's whed
she married.
The whole world was astound-
ed by the Wendt* of her. wed-
ding elle Willett leansformet her
father's -Madison Square mansioir
entre en Atrial/Vs palate, There .
wee° chests of' gold and silver'
plate 'worth fortunes, and: ttipes-
tries which cost no less than
£100,000.
Guests were dazzled by the al -
mast endless array of precious
stones, rare and antique •laeee,
clocks, rings and fabulously pric-
ed furniture on view at the re
ce tion.
e officiating minister reedy.
ed a 1,000 -dollar fee and the
bride's wedding cake weighed a
gamier of a ten.
What was the most fabulous
wedding present ever received?
It amounted to no less than
£8,000,000 and was a dead man's
surprise gift for the young cou-
ple, Alexander Thayer and Mar-
jorie Bourne, in December, 1926.
It was revealed at the wedding
reception that, according to the
wishes of the bride's • father —
head of a great American bus-
iness, who died in 1919 — she
and her husband were to be co-
heirs to the surprise wedding be-
quest.
Girls all over the United States
envied pretty HarrierSteviart
Brown, known as 'Baltimore's
Golden Bride," when they heard
of the amazing wealth of gifts
with which she was deluged when
she married a New York banker.
They included cheques 10 r
£100,000, a anagnificent", chain,
containing 200- dianacinds, six
motor-carsa c white bear, black
bear, as well -as aeopard:figer and
]ion skins.
The gold and diamond, pm:
ants alone ailed seven largo
tables. The presents, wrote one
Woman reporter, "wefe du a ecaltr
of splendour uziequalled,in 'the,"
social history of the .city of 13a1-'
tireore."
Fashions, in wedding presents
are constantly changing, During
the war clothe and petrel cou-
pons were often given' as iptes-.
meta Instead Of conventional gate
such as toast -racks and tele -
caddies,
Friends and relatives of inany
young brides saved On atotkings
went without new dresses and
sent anything from two to twen-
ty coupons aswedding gifts.
One London bride received
ninety-two clothing coupons in.
fives and tens from,: her girl
friends. 1 -key ,husbaSid's office
friends gave coupons 'Worth sev-
enteen gallons of petrol, which
the couple used on a Devonshire
honeymoon,
rt. was actually 'illegal to make
gifts of petrol coupons except
when ownership ofa car was
changing. But it was pennies -
able for members of a family to
pool their clothing coupons to
give a bride a present.
• There's no end for the list of
queer wedding presents which
astonished couples have received
at various times.
Fancy receiving a tombstone
as a wedding gift! It arrived for
a sweet-faced little bride on her
wedding day in Massachusetts
and caused her to burst into
tears. Inscribed on it was the
bride's name.
Not until after the honeymoon
did she discover that the sender
of this strange "gift" was a young
man whose offer of Marriage she
had turned down two years be-
fore the met the man she loved
and married. The jilted lover
chose this way of exacting ven-
geance for the "slight to my hon-
our," as he called it.
Perhaps you would expect a
lis -tag to elegize sow ng.
usual wedding presents. A1V/id-
land lion -tamer was annoyed to
receive three boa -constrictors
and t'flvek alligators within two
Ithurs,pf, hs arrival with his pret
ty bride at a email West Country
hothl sone'yeare ago,
' The allikatbrs had been badly
packed and broke out of.their box
during the night. They roamed
about in the darkness'and one
found t' -its way to the couple's
bedroom: 5.
, There ,wcs• a canopy ,over their
Old-fashioned bed. So scared
was the young bride that she
eihnbed le the top of it, staying
there until the alligator was
caught. Fortunately, it did not
own' to the' bride that what real-
ly worried her husband during
that hectic night was the possi-
bility that the alligators might
wale •iitetetlee lbartoneteletorsl
Bit Through Turn*,
Shawn And All
When Voter Berge mentioned
to hie friends, that he intended
taking up residence on 13000
Hoe, one Me the omelet Of the
Aru Islands in the Arafura Sea,
south Of Duteh'New Guinea, they
told him he was mad. He would
be flirting with dela.
But then, having diced with
the Great Reaper before hi the
hazardOus calling Of pearl -diving,
Berge decided 10 sit in for an-
other round with fate,
Once a year Batoe Kora, or
Snake Island as it is called, be -
cameo the rendezvous, for breed-
ing, of hordes or venomous
snakes, each some fOur feet long
with distinctive black and white
rings round their Wks, These
"water mocassins" came annual-
ly in huge shoals Irian the New
Guinea coast sixty miles away
and, relates Berge in an enthral-
ling account of his experieences,
"Danger Is My Life" ", , . it
was a ,strange and alarming sight
from the top of my island, to
see their heads bobbing out of
the water."
Todeny these interlopers the
use of the island was one of the
author's first tasks. This he did
by erecting a corrugated iron
barricade a good way from the
water, but even so one or two
found a way in, and on odd
occasions when these unwelcome
visitors made an appearance
some quick thinking — and ac-
tion — was called for.
During a meal, to which Berge
had invited some quests, one of
the men suddenly gave a cry and
pointed to a slithering reptile.
Quicker than thought Berge
grabbed the snake,by the tail
and cracked it as the Australian
cattle herders crack their stock -
whips, breaking the creature's
back, After. tilis interlude the
dineas resumed their meal.
Naturally enough during his
tuiderivater excursions in search
of peel -bearing- - oysters t h e
author had brushes with the bil-
igerents resenting his trespassing
into their domain — the dreaded
sting ray, the giant octopus that
shook him like a jelly, and the
big tiger shark, The latter is a
terrifying brute with a ferocious
bite — yet, oddly enough, he
writes, deep-sea divers canscare
off a too -inquisitive tiger' hark
by a simple ruse: „
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If the shark becomes urria4alt4:
ily curious the diver lets tereinuch
air into his diving suit as pds-
,
sible, then expels it by cautiousky
opening the cuffs.
The stream of bubbles shooting
out somehow does the trick and
the brute sheers eff.
The old adage about familiarity
breeding contempt is certainly
true in this case, for almost in the
next breath Victor Berge quotes
an Incident in support of the tiger
shark's terrific bite. One day.he,
caught an enormpus green tur-
tle, five feet wide and about three
feet thick, too heavy to hoist into
the boat, so a rope was slung
round It and it was towed along.
The tew hadn't gone far when
a tiger shark shot through the
water -and with a single bite cut
clean through the turtle, shell and
all, as It It were going through
inittere
WORSE AND WORSE
One, of the newer schools of
faith healers (electronic, herbal:m)
ran into an old friend of his.
"How're things, Harry?" he
asked.
"Hot so good," Hatay said sad-
ly, "My brother's sick."
"Ah," said the faith healer,
"your brother isn't sick; he only
thinks he's Fick. Tell him that,
and remember it yeurself: he only
thinks, he' e sick?:
And a lei.' da,ya later he met
Harry' again. -"Hetes your bro-
ther now?'" said, the 'faith healer'
triumphantly.
"Worse," Harry, said, He
shook his head. "He thinks he's
dead."
Wallah Trapped
By COMMON DNA
Gan ordiney sleet trOP At Origkte
inal? Predeetee Hang Orda, A
pioneer of modern criminOloalye
preyed that it cOuld, He reale*
ed that the dust In the coat 01 Si
locksmith must differ from time
found In a miller's,
When a jacket was found 4
the sena Of a crime, he put it !
a stout paper bag and beat
lightly, then allowed the'duet
settle in the bag, Later wreathe.
ation showed it to be wood dust,
indicating a sawyer, carpente'
Or joiner. But among the duet
were particles of gelatine and
pOwered glue, Sawyers do net
use glue, se a carpenter Or join-
er was indicated—and this prov-
ed to be tree. -
In another ease a maker of
counterfeit coins was convicted
when the metallic dust from hie
clothing peeved under analysis
to be of exactly the same con-
stituents as the metals of. some
base coinage in circulation.
Professor Locard, another great
criminologist, obtained startling
results by similar reasoning
when a bomb containing cellist-
ous nitrate was fotind near a
public building in Marseillies.
Some anarchists were suspected
and brought in for questioning.,
One of them had a thick sliehica;a1
of black hair. Loeard courteous- ' I
ly proposed to give the amazed —
anarchist a shampoo.
He carefully washed the man's
head with pure alcohol and kept
the liquid, It was allowed to
settle, and the excess liquid was
drawn off. There was a sediment
left at the bottom of the 09n-
tainer and ineen , ixaminaliolz
this was found to caritain a high
percentage of cellulose nitrate.
The man did not, normally
work near chemicals and could
not account for the nitrate in his
hair. It transpired he was the
leading bomb -maker among the
anarchists. .
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HAPPY AT DOME!
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Bill Martin, the Associate pro-
ducer of a TV show, is an
ardent fisherman. One day lee
was sitting on the banks of a
stream, waiting for the Rah, ,and
a stranger came along.
"Catch any yet?" he asked
Bill. •
"Nope."
"That's funny," the, stranger
said. "I heard this was a tine
place for trout"
"It must be," Bill said bitterly.
"They refuse to ldave it."
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TEACHER'S PET'--- Tecieher - Ad.
rain Davis hold "Quito,"
South American woolly monkey,
who will be one of the mein
attractions in the biology class.,
The nine-year-old monkey will
be used in connection with
anatomy studies. "
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Mag/Oifitillg Mtrror s Ha Real Beauty Aid for 'You!
As Anal Cheek elt the seneihness of her reake.up, egrets Virginia
Mee makes use of a sitternifyleg mirror, It's oleo a reliable
Measure of her skin ere.
BY EDNA IlS
TEM advantagea..0VasmagnIfying mirror as a teal aid le batinitar
are many. Though first glance Into OA* 1. Menge lealleWbeti
upeetting, a second glance can be both edueatiorial told rewardin
beauty -wise.
This second glance may reveal to you Bases you didn't levet you
had, but flaws that others have uetteed. Mabey. women tp.frito
poor beauty habit of taking them:wives and tize wisk tha4 leek fee
granted, But that's not the Way obsereatt see 'du; the eleWs are
dearly visible to them. .
A magnifying mirror is, therefore, of first heleoeteUce to you ine
learning the truth about your skin,' If there are tiny hieltheadie
imperfootthes or blemishes,that joy, thought were well coneealeffli
by make-up, the mirror wilf show theft teeou, Atid to good per.
pose, Once you're S.Wkre01 them, eon Oen correct them.
It will also provide en theispittableeeheek on :your browliee, re'e
veding to you stragglers you'd not noticed. It will tea you'a etata*:
plate story about the dry and•011y tete at your skin, giving you
a (thane to treat each eeparately.
And finally, it's the last word on the smoothnese of your make-
up, telling you if you've worked well and with an expect hand.
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