The Brussels Post, 1949-11-2, Page 2Great African
Bird Sanctuary
A8 day 'ends and dusk descends
over Pleter-Maritzburg, birds in
twos and threes and large skeins
flying in that inatinctive formation
Which has inspired aerial manoeu-.
ovrea may be seen against the
crimsoning sky coming in from all
directions toward one point.
"Where are they making for?"
the newcomer asks, bewildered by
the eight of s0 many snowy -white
egrets, blue cranes, herons, the
sacred Egyptian ibis, and the wild
ducks flapping their night -black
wings, writes Shirley Aspoas in
The Christian Science Monitor.
Recently I visited Martizburg,
the eapital of Natal, and, like many
another newcomer, wondered where
these thousands of birds were con-
gregating. I was told they were on
their nightly flight to the Allison
Bird Sanctuary, where they roosted
'011 dawn. The next evening at dusk,
Mr. Allison, a former mayor of the
city, drove me out to see this sanc-
tuary which he originated.
A disused quarry, from which
material had been dug to build the
town hall and other buildings, had
disfigured one of Natal's loveliest
valleys. Fed by the waters draining
off the surrounding hills, this quar-
ry soon filled up. The gum trees,
wattles, and syringes growing in
the pit died after being flooded and
held up gaunt, gray branches above
he lake.
It did- not take the birds long to
discover that these skeleton trees
made a fine roosting place, and it
is estimated that as many as 30,000
birds gather there nightly, flying in
from a radius of 20 miles. The
white egrets, or tick birds, which
*end their days in the corn n fields
following the cattle as they graze,
to catch the grasshoppers, roost
there every night.
Since the sanctuary was pro-
claimed 10 years ago, they have
nested there and hatched their
young by the thousand each sea-
son. At first glance, the trees in
the lake look a sthough they are
eovere'd with large, white blossoms,
but then they move and the "blos-
soms" are seen to be manses of
snowy egrets perched on every
available foot of the boughs. Doz-
ens of other varieties of birda roost
there and water fowl inhabit the
lake and nest in the reed -fringed
edges.
Aa though conscious of their
royal blrthplaee, two magnificent
swans, with necks held high, wafted
their snowy whiteness across the
water, moving with that incompar-
able grape. These swans were a gift
sent out from Coolcliien-on-Thames
Sy His Majesty's swan master.
ince then, they have nested and
eygnets have been reared,
II
to
9
7
Accidents happen much too. often. Two
persons die in accident everyten
minutes and 200 more 'are injured,
Indian Say
"White Man Loco"
A Cherokee Indian won the first
prize offered by The Farmer -
Stockman for the reader who
-would write the best comment on
two pictures, one of a dilapidated,
deserted house and the other a
washed-out field. This is what he
aaid:
"Both pictures show white man
crazy. Make big tepee. Plow hill,
Water wash; wind blow soil. Grass
gone, land gone, door gone, win-
dow gone; whole place gone to
hent Buck gone. Squaw, too. Pa-
poose gone. No chuckaway,,, no pig,
no corn, no cow, no hay, no pony.
"Indian no plow land. Keap
grass. Buffalo eat. Indian eat buf-
falo. Hide matte tepee, make moc-
casin. Indian no make terrace, no
build 'dam; no give damn. All time
eat. No hunt job, no hitch -hike, no
ask relief. No -shoot pig. Great
Spirit make grass. Indian no waste
anything. Indian no work, White
man heap loco,"
Such Language
The young husband had just
arrived home from the office.
"What's the matter, darling?" he
asked, "You look flustered,"
"Oh, I've had a dreadful ,'day,"
hit wife answered,
'l+irst Baby iris first tooth,
Om ht took his first step, and then
he fell and knocked out his tooth."
"Well, and the what happened?'
asked her husbandman.
"Olt, darling," she answered in
a shocked voice, "he said hit first
wordl"
In The Colossal Tradition --Hollywood's adjectives seem to
affect canines, too, for Gregory Peck's Alsatian police dog re-
oently put on quite a production of her own Her 13 puppies
merited some nursing aid from the actor, who admits he can't
produce pictures as fast as his dog produces puppies.
PORT
-, A S>,x51TC� i Ic
A reader of this column has
drawn our attention to the fact that
we have not, so far, ventured to"
predict the outcome of the current
Big League hockey race, or maybe
it should be "endurance contest".
He says "you were 100% correct in
your baseball and race track fore-
taste, to maybe you are quitting
when you are ahead!"
* * *
It ie so long -almost ten months
-since we made the forecasts al-
luded -to, and at first we thought
that our esteemed customer must
have blown his top. However, on
looking up the files, we found that
we had predicted that the Phila-
delphia Phils and the St. Louis
Browns WOULD NOT win top
honors in their respective baseball
leagues; that the Kings Plate would
fall to a colt or filly foaled in an -
fall to a colt or filly foaled in Can -
winner would be three years of age,
no more and no less,
* * *
So the customer, as in all well
regulated establishments, is right.
That is calling them 100% - and we
only wishwe could have found a
bookmaker who would have laid a
price against the selections.
* * *
Now, much heartened by these
almost -forgotten triumphs, we dust
off the old crystal ball and peer into
the depths to try and discern what
is going to happen in the National
Hockey League.
* * *
And unless our skill as a seer has
clean departed, here is what the
future has in store, hockey -wise:
No matter which two teams survive
the lengthy grind -Maple Leafs
and Red Wings is as good a guess
as any -by the time they reach
the end of that 70 -game schedule,
they will be slowed down to such
an extent that they are liable to
play the Stanley Cup series on
hands and knees.
* * *
Might be, at that, fully as interest-
ing as some of these "classics" that
have gone before. Speed, after all,
is a comparative thing; and a contest
between two evenly matched cock-
roaches can be fall more exciting
than one between CITATION and
a thousand -dollar plater,
* * *
Anyway, those who take their
hockey via the ether route need
have no fears or forebodings of a
dull winter. Even if the puck -
jugglers are glowed down to a walk,
the microphone -maestros will man-
age to make it sound as exciting as
though it were the CHARGE OF
THE SIX HUNDRED with the
original cast, As for the lads whose
task it is to describe the games for
daily , newspaper readers - well,
they have added a neat touch re-
cently by detailing the exact num-
ber of stitches necessary to close
'the wounds of the various hockey
gladiators.
* * *
This last, we think, is something
which will bear, and probably get,
further development. In fact, we
shouldn't be too much surprised to
gee scoring statistics reading some-
thing like tills:
A SR SG Total
Ezinicki 10 7 23 32 72
* * *
The "SR" and "SG" -just in case
you're worrying about it -would
stand for "Stitches Received" and
"Stitches Given"! -
ISSUE 44 -- 1949
Cold Cure
Changes in weather frequently
start colds in the best of us, 5o
here's another remedy you can add
to the list. It comes from Texas,
and is reputed to work four times
out of five.
When you feel a cold coming on,
before you go to bed, drink a
glass of grapefruit juice, either
fresh or canned, with a,;tablespoon-
iui of baking soda added. Repeat
the dose the following night, When
yous awaken on the second morning
the cold should be gone.
Sounds simple enough.
TIDE FARM' ,F FRONT
Probably most of you have read
about this outstanding event al-
ready. Perhaps some of you were.
personally present. But just in case
some of you missed either reading
about it or witnessing it; I'm going
to pass along a brief description of
what happened near Brooklin, Ont.,
one day in September.
* * *
That was the day when more
than 8,000 people watched a dilapi-
dated 140 -acre farm converted -
al7nost as though by magic - into
a first-class producing unit by
means of modern agricultural
science,
* * *
Prior to its rebirth,nthe farm was
in a miserable stater The buildings
were sagging and weathorbeaten
and unpainted for years. Wind ero-
sion had played havoc with the top
soil. Springy &pots Inde cultiva-
tion difficult or impossible. Deep
gullies cut through the fields,
* * *
'Then the miracle happened!
Giant bulldozers and other power-
ful machines moved in. Undesirable
scrub growth was uprooted, Large
trees were blasted with dynamite.
Sloping land was laid out for con-
tour cultivation and a four-year
rotation. Terraces were built to
prevent gullying by run-off water.
• * *
A reforestation project 'was
launched in an area infested with
buckthorn and some other scraggy
growths. Some 27,000 tiles were laid
to drain boggy sections. Spray
painting gave a new lease of life
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE --
Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out of
Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go •
The liver should pour out about 2 pints of
bile juioo into your digestive treat every day.
If thio bile Is not flowing freely your food may
not digest. It may just decay in the digestive
Dant. Then gm.. bloats up your stomach You
get constipated. You feel sour, sunk and the
world looks punk,
It takes those mild, gentle Carter's Little
Liver Pills to get these 2 pints of bile flow-
ing frooly to make you feel up and up.
bile crow freely today,
kafor Effective
arter ssLittte Liiver
Palle, 801 at any drugstore,
to the unsightly buildings. The
farm wife's antiquated kitchen was
fully modernized. A virtually vee -
lase piece of property bloomed out
into a parad*ise , * , , In *a single day,
This experiment with the Brook -
farm should make Canadians
sit up and think, I'Xundreds of de-
serted, unproductive farms are
strewn across the country. Many
others are offering a meagre exist
ence t0 their owners, It has now
been proved that such wornout land
cam be restored, Perhaps not in one
day as was the case with the Brook -
din farm, bet through co-operative
efforts of governments and individ-
ual farmers over a period of time.
* * *
And now here are some facts
about crop losses tvllich are really
astonishing. We all know that the
ravages caused by pests and plant
diseases are great, but probably did
not realize their hill extent. Any-
way, at the recent meeting of the
International Congress of Crop
Production, held in London, Eng„
it was estimated that 50 per cent.
of all the crops grown, harvested
and stored are ravaged by plant
disease and insect pests.
* n
According to at? hi ities of the
Food and Agricultural Organiza-
tion of U,N.o., annual losses of
world grain crops alone to insects
and diseases amount to 65,000,000
tons. Yearly losses from potato
blight were given as 10 per cent.
of the entire crop. Even after the
crops arc harvested, an additional
loss of eight per cent. is suffered.
* * *
During and since World War Il,
knowledge concerning the control
of pests and diseases has been
gradually expanding. Research has
brought forward many new and
1 insecticides highly effective v nse'cticld s and
fungicides. But these are not the
final answer, state international ag-
ricultural experts. Their solution to
the problem as a whole would be
to convinne farmers that gains equal
to those derived from fertilizer ap-
plications can also be obtained from
use of modern crop protection
methods.
Modern Art ,
For 11 days artists and critics
studied admiringly an abstract
painting called "Composition" at a
local are show in Leeds, England.
Then a more observant viewer
discovered it was hanging upside
down -with the painter's initials
topsy-turvy in the upper left-hand
corner. e
Artist Alfred Common was
pleased to hear it.
"I regard it," said he, "as a
compliment on the coherence of the
design."
Slime say beards are not hygienic.
But a recent survey among stone-
masons refutes this, since hairy faces
serve as a filter, keeping out dan-
gerous dust. It was found that
clean-shaven masons frequently
contracted silicosis. Those with
moustaches suffered less from the
complaint, and those with mous-
taches and beards were found to be
practically immune.
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