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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-12-08, Page 3TIIHAI!M FRONT o4u11 Income from the sales of live - stook and livestock products amount to 40 per vent of the total from the sales Of all farm products. h Canada for the past three years, Their value was •Weary 31 billion dollars, * * * These sales were achieved without any over-all reduction in the size of the breeding herds which made them possible, 'Capital invested in these herds M 1951 was approximately 22,- 167,142,000. 2;107,142,000. in other words the breeding stock now in the hands of Canadian farmers is capable of producing nearly double its own value Of saleable products every three years. And of doing so without depleting the natural resources of the land, • • r Since tke dawn of history, mankind has recognized the im- portance of certain types of ani- mals to his welfare. The wealth of many nations, ancient and modern, has been measured in terms of the livestock their peo- ple- were able to keep. Austra- lian wool, New Zealand butter, Danish bacon and Argentine beef, are but typical examples of national economies based on the production of livestock. - 0 * • From the time man first cap- tured and tamed the wild beasts of the forest and the jungle, he has adapted them to his needs, and sought by selection and care to improve their qual- ity. He has changed their form and character and vastly im- proved their capacity to produce essential articles of food and clothing, • • It The recent exhibit of the Canada Department of Agri- culture at the 1954 Royal Agri- cultural Winter Fair grahpically illustrates this long process of livestock improvement. Modern types of livestock are traced b a c k, through photos, early drawings and sketches, to the original wild animals from which they came, • • • As man spread through the world he took his livestock with him, Asian types were taken to MEMORY ARTIST - .Finishing touches to a multicolored canvas are provided by Salvatore Mas- slmino, apartment house super- intendent, whose eyesight has been deteriorating for the past 20 years. The 48 -year-old artist, -who now has only 20/400 vision in one eye and can distin- guish only out -of -focus, colorless forms, mixes his colors from memory for his canvases. Europe, - a n d from Southern Europe to the North, From Eu- rope, a n d particularly from Britain, they spread 10 the Am- ericas, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, • • • Three centuries ago, b y selecting and mating together animals of the same form and colour markings, the founda- tions were laid for many of the various breeds as we know them today, • * * Livestock improvement made slew progress until leading breeders started to keep records of their individual animals. As more breeders adopted the prac- tice and breed societies were organized, with official herd books, progress became more rapid, Later, as records of per- formance of outstanding animals were included in these records, productivity of certain types of animals such as the dairy cow was notably increased, - 4a • • • Danish breeders started feed- ing tests to provide rates of gains and feed cost records for their swine, and carcass mea- surements to determine their quality. Dressed carcass compe- titions at the Smithfield show in England, provided somewhat similar production records for breeders' of beef cattle. • * • In Canada, breed societies and the Federal Department of Ag- riculture co-operated in setting up a Record of Performance sys- tem for dairy cattle, and an Advanced Registry for swine. These enable breeders of these two classes of livestock to se- lect animals of proven produc- tive capacity for their breeding operations. • * * Rail grading of hog and beef carcasses by government grad- ers provide another means of recording quality in the prog- geny of breeding animals and thereby a basis of selection fOr the improvement of breeding stock. • * • Selection of breeding stock has not been the only' factor in .this long story of livestock im- provement. Care and improved feeding methods have had an important place. There have been notable changes in both respects from stock roaming at will in the cave dwelling era, to the milking parlours and scientifically balanced feed ra- tions of today. • • • The number of apple trees in Canada has declined since 1931 by 47 per cent, from 10.2 mil- lion trees to 5.4 million, afcord- ing to a review of trends in pro- duction and distribution of Canadian apples by W. W. Ware in the "Economic Annalist", a publication of the Economics Division, Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa. Just over 4 million of the decline was in the provinces of Ontario and Nova Scotia. • * • The principal reason for the decline, which reached its peak just before 1941 (except in Nova Scotia where the sharpest decline occurred after 1941 with the loss of the traditionalmar- ket in Great Britain during and since the second World War) has been the increasing special- ization of fruit production. 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Short for e 29, Clear . man's name S0. New Zealand 45, Sand out wood robin 61 Rather thn n 21, Pack 6d. Uneasy 32.71,31: can dishes 65, Novrt 4 6 6 B io If I'2 ' is ,4 to 24 zo 17 23, 30 31 Answer Elsewhere ea This Pas. ... Fashion Hints .. "MUSEE DE LIRE" (Wax Museum) -The new "Flat" line Is em- phasized in a sheath gown by Jacques de Monloye with e neckline cut high and straight at the front with an extreme low back and criss-crossed hip drapery with flat hanging pareis. The gown is in Acetate taffeta In the new "Jasper blue" shade. of little market value and low productivity, and experience has shown That trees planted farther apart can be sprayed and cared for with no loss of yield. In- deed, ' Canadian apple produc- tion has been increasing despite the decline In trees. In 1931 the average yield per tree was 1.8 bushels, in 1941 it rose to 3,1 bushels, and in 1951 it was 3.6 bushels. They Make A Hobby Of Collecting Old Toys Two men sat in a New York shop chatting with each other . . . entirely oblivious of the presence of the proprietress. "I saw it only yesterday in an old toy catalog -a tin boat with a tin man and pair of wooden oars. You .wound it up and put it in a pool and the man would row the boat. I'd like to find one of those!" "Not a chance," replied the second man. "Make up your mind to do without it. Such toys were broken within a year or two, Kids were al- ways hard on toys." The owner of the shop went to a corner cupboard, removed an object, and stopped before the great big men who were talking about little old toys. "Is this what you mean?" she said. It was. The very toy, The spring was gone. But all the rest was there. It had survived seventy- five years of time, and perhaps as much playing with by grown- ups as by the youngster for whom it was bought. Grown-up men and women do play with, early, toys. There is an editor of a woman's maga- zine looking right now for a certain kind of hobby horse dating 'from around 1760. There are some thousand or more adults, some bank presidents, some motor tycoons, some in- surance executives who buy mechanical toy banks at what some people think are absurd and ridiculous prices. But it is their fun. The price of a round of gold seems ridiculOus, too, When you count up the cost of balls, caddy fees, new clubs, side bets; and the annual dues of an **elusive club. There is i a woman of parts who, after hours, is a mechanical toy bank hunter; especially shooting banks, the kind that not only portray some kind of shooting action but which also explode a little cap -if you have the cap to put in the proper slot. Mechanical toys - steam en- gines, magic Ianterns, steam - powered and spring -powered locomotives that run on tracks and pull trains! Dolls that are just manikins and others that cry and do other things that babies do; jack -in -boxes, jump- ing jacks, rocking horses, hob- by -horses, building blocks - the toy parade is endless. Not without charm (and in some cases with fantastic price tags) are such things as early minia- ture furniture, children's furni- ture, and magic toys for grown- ups. -From "First Reader for Antique Collectors," by Carl W Drepperd. REAL ORATORY The Sales Manager of the European branch was now in New York, and his English was very limited. But the company regarded his sales record as worthy of a hero's welcome. He was taken to all the best shows; given a yachting trip around the harbor; and that night was tile guest of honor at a former dinner in the Waldorf- Astoria. An interpreter stood by his side and gave the French -Am- erican translation of the acco- lade now being given him by the president of the company. "And now, Francois," beamed the president, "tell us your great formula for selling Indi- gesto Flour throughout La Belle France," Francois stood up and, in a few impassioned, words of French, he shrilled and trump- eted what must have been a great and inspiring credo. Then he sat down. "How modest," they all cried. "Be told us ie a few words," The interpreter arose at pod from the president. "Francois, he say these- a wonderful coun- tree and he love all of you, and please, you will understand he cannot say more, • He wants to know where ees deft gentle- man's room." Amateur Potter calms Success "My, it's difficult to tell in ten minutes what being a pot- ter is all about," said Irene Hamel breathlessly, as she breeztd in after one of her New York radio and television inter- views. "But I always end my comments by telling any we- ' man who might be listening that she can do whet I've done, 4o0, if she is really interested enough." Thus says Mrs, Ham- el at the end of her brief five- year -long career in ceramics, and during her first exhibition in New 'York City. Actually, Mrs, Hamel terms herself -despite winning a first prize in a recent San Francisco Potter's Association show, and exhibiting at the California State Fair, Pacific Coast Cera- mic Show, San Francisco Mus- eum of Art, and annual Nation- al Pottery Show in Syracuse, New York -a "California house- wife." She is married to a San Fran- cisco interior decorator, Karl Rhode Hamel, and wee once a kindergarten teacher. Before becoming interested in pottery she had studied neither art nor design, but did have an M.A. degree in 'music from Mitis Col- lege. In 1949, she wanted to find a hobby. So she and her bus - band took up pottery together that year, and became members of the Mills College Ceramics Guild, which worked in the stu- dios at the colleges at nights and on week ends. The hobby soon became a major interest in her life, which increased as her apparent flair for color and shape became apparent. So keen was ` her desire to learn, she was later able to study with the famous British potter Bernard Leach, and to learn the chemistry of glazea from the California potter Ed- ward Caddogan. In 1950 she visisted leading Italian ceram- ists, and in 1951 the pottery village of Valauris in southern France. There she did some work in the studio of Innocenti, a well-known French potter. After her return to San Fran- cisco, her husband purchased e studio cottage for her, three blocks from their own home. There she has her kiln, tables, shelves, and sink and can work at her potter's wheel, stealing glimpses of the Golden Gate Harbor spread out below. She works there completely alone, handling each step herself, from mixing her clay to the long firing process. But she doesn't find her work lonely. "I can hardly wait to get there each morning,' she says, her brown eyes dancing. "I love every bit of it." During the past two years of work in her own studio, Mrs. Hamel has, through experimen- tation, developed a high -fired, strong stoneware of great color depth, which, because of tha hazards in making it, is a tech- nique rarely used by modern potters. She uses reduced irons and coppers, redwood ash, pear ash, cobalt, and lava to produce some of her glazes. She fires a piece as long as 24 hours at a. temperature up to 2300 degrees, gaining by this smoked, or re- duction, firing the gleaming ma-, roons, rich rose colorings, blues and mauves, or tawny browns which distinguish her work. Her current exhibition, which showed at Pygmalion; House in New York through November, includes bowls, plates, platters, pots, cups, vases, and various other decorative items. All of them have been made with a definite purpose in view. "I grow iris in my garden, so this bowl I made for arrangements of my white iris," she comment- ed, pointing out a wide, deep bowl in pale colorings, decor- ated with a hazy iris or two be- neath the glaze. She puts on decoration "by feel" or instinct, After studying a pot or a plate for a throe, she then puts on the decoration which she"feels belongs to it - and makes it sound as simple as that. NO SPACE LIKE HOME Arriving home after an ab- sence of six months, Mr, and Mrs. .Toe Garcia, of Douglas, Ariz., noticed that the place had a strange, empty look. Checking up the couple found that on their list of missing articles were: the bed, cup- boards and a chest of drawers, two tables and four chairs, a medicine cabinet, lengths of pip- ing, taps, electric' light bulbs, two complete window frames, and for good measure a clothes line and two steel posts dug up from the garden. The bewildered homecomers asked ,their neighbours if they had noticed anything suspicious .• going on since they left. They all answered "no." Police are still searching for the missing items and the people who took then', ALMOST ANYTHING LEADS TO ROMANCE Fate is utterly unpredictable, And never more so than In the matter of romance. A. setback in life, a chance meeting, a single word spoken f0 a stranger -any of these can change your life+ completely. You never know what's waiting just aroundthecorner, Returning to .barracks in the black -out, a middle-aged soldier stumbled Over a woman, She was on her hands and knees on the pavement, "I've lost the key of my fiat," she said. So he join- ed in the search. Without result. But the sol- dier found an open windOw, scrambled Through, and let the woman in, She was grateful, and they arranged to meet again, The soldier was a bachelor; she a spinster, Both had pushed ro- mance out of their lives years before. Yet they fell in love and married. Nothing was very unusual in that. Except that in civil life the soldier was a poorly -paid draper's assistant, while the woman owned several drapery shops, After the war he ran them for her. A. lost key in the black -out- and, romance -had' put him on top of the world. Now take the case of a motor - mechanic who went on an outing to the seaside with other mem- bers of his firm. Just as the coach was about to leave for home he realized he was Out of cigarettes. He rushed into the nearest tobacconist's, asked for a packet -and then had a shock. "I'm awfully sorry," he said, "but I'm afraid I've spent out" The attractive young widow who kept the shop liked the look of him. "Never mind," she returned, cheerily. "Take them and pay when you're this way again. I'll trust you." At the first opportunity the man returned and settled the debt. One thing led to another. The mechanic became attracted. to the widow and she to him. Eventually they married, a n d the former motor - mechanic proved himself a keen business man. At the moment they own three shops and a cafe, all be- cause -as the wife says, laugh- ingly -he had an honest face. During the depression be- tween the wars a young clerk was nearly starving. He told himself grimly: "I'll beg a cop- per -from the first person that =comes along," A well dressed young lady approached. Reluc- tantly, shamefacedly, the clerl, stopped her. "Please help me,' he said. "I'm out Of Work and haven't a penny. Something about this weary, despondent beggar quickened her pulses. Used to men who had everything who couldafford to indulge in their every whim, he was a striking contrast. "Come and have a meal!" she said suddenly. The young man did so. And the high-spirited, impulsive girl realized that here was the one man in the world for her. She pleaded with her father, a big noise in the textile trade: "You must find him a job." The father agreed. The clerk became his leading salesman; and now the merchant has two grandchildren in the business. Another clerk used to lunch every day at the same restaur- ant. Entering as usual, he was served by a new waitress. She seemed different from the others, had poise and dignity. Intrigued, he asked her fel' e date, At first she refused, but after- wards gave way. That date wee followed by several others, and at last the truth emerged. The girl Was his employer's daugh- ter, Tired of doing nothing use- ful, elle had become a waitress and was searching for change and adventure. She succeeded. The -clerk ben oame her husband and was made a partner in her father's bus- iness, Somewhat similar is the sten' of the youthful purser On alines making the South American .run, A beautiful Argentine girl, obviously wealthy, broke h e 2' necklace. She stooped to re-,. trieve the pearls, and so did the purser. Their heads bumped t0- gether. They both laughed, and from this 'beginning their friendship ripened into love. There was a snag, however. The girl's parents objected to the match, felt that their daugh- ter aughter would be throwing herself away. But the girl was self- willed, "Let's get married," she told her sweetheart. After hest - tion, he agreed, • The outcome? The parents relented. The father made the purser manager of his London office. Sometimes, however, the out- come of a heady romance is not so happy. A big business man was at- tracted by his secretary. In the Office she was competent, as- sured - and charming. She also suggested new methods which saved the firm money, In due course they married, iWthin six months she became a spendthrift. Entreaties, threats. on his part were brushed aside. "I married you for your money," she said. "Now I'm spending it!" Eventually, the husband went bankrupt. And the wife blamed him for not restraining her be- fore!" Proof A Negro in Houston, Texas, was applying for social security benefits, for which he was dun at the age of sixty-five, but he had no birth certificate, life in- surance policies, marriage 11- cence or any other document to substantiate his claim. After about half ani hour of patient frying, the official asked, "Ho did you get your name, Defurse?" -thinking that he might be able to trace his birth by that, "Dat's the one thing I de know, mister," said the old Negro. "I got dat name because I was born de furs' day after Lincoln was shot." He got his benefit. =gra Upsidedowm to Prevent Peeking 0C%©- ©r©e©©1170 • •'..IO©© VIE1131ELEIEIEJEI :. d©©d01:1©C1 1 0©E 0E'' CIEIf ©�0© ©©©©II0 tD©0©®©0 02!10 DUMB lician cul=l nE1E I/.'©©©�7; .. � K©I2121' OIC®©©gk1I1100 © ©ItiiO©DI9II© s©k11211:1 7 'El®©® TIDO ID til:. ®©E D0© ' SIR WiNSTON'S WINDOW -=Designer 'Rupert Moore views the window featuring Prittie Minister Sir Winston Churchill's coat - of -arms. It will be erected in the gallery at Chequers, country home of Britain's prime ministers, near London, where coats -of - arms of previous prime ministers are displayed. The Garter window was started shortly after Churchill was knighted. •