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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-8-29, Page 3s Ilioh mp in Ile- appis fres so year- l..l Tommy '1 hot: r 1 nmdr't•sd um lbc• way, of w'onn,n. Why did Itis sisicr \\'iniired preiet George. Pottle: when she stood ba es a sc:4.11 guy like Prank Sumo Why was she gain„ to the mall ;sate ill town tonight with (horm. ^bier xis• had turned doe a l;ranl:' L didn't torte sense. Nest year probably she :mel George would he married. Nov, had it been Plmd< it would he something h. luolaforteard tc,. Jt would be fun,if he rntlld think of some way to scare Georiie when he cans tonight. Not fat it would change Winifred's ' opinion of George, but it would he fun ally - way, Then he remembered tt'11b 111.'5 KEEP OCT!" sign be had picked ala in a trash droop a few ntomdls before, :\t the time he hadn't eo.- pected ever to put 11 to such a good use, • The more he thought about the idea the better he liked it, What would George do when he saw the .sign on the front of the house? kle bet the old frailly -cat would Leave int a hurry, Fut lie tutni be careful. Ito wish- ed he Icmew exactly what time George would come. If he put up the sign too early, one of his own folks might see it before George came. And that, of course, would he the end of it. On the other hand 'fhcwaited too long Georgec t 6 lt conte before fore. the sign was u 1 . In the early dusk Tommy crouched behind a clumatp of bushes, Slowly the minutes drag- ged by, At last tl car turned into the drivenay. George Butler gat out of the ear, started for tate house, stopped and then hurriedly got into the car again and drove oft. Tounu)* sprang ftp: his plan had .worked perfectly, but he lutist not let Winifred see what he had done. But he was ton late. Winifred was staring ,at the sign tacked on the•irout of the house, He started to turn and rung but decided he might as well 'fare the music now, for she would get hold of hits sooner or later. "So, S uartypants, 1'11 have to sit house tonight and twiddle my thumbs just because you midst have your little joke!" Tommy was silent for a minute, twisting one leg around the other. "Maybe you could phone and ex- plain --he'll pro'bly go home," The word, conte reluctant Is for he "MUMPS KEEP OUT! Govt, Tinkering And Food Pricers \i':gls tri grist attended the au noun,,. went of 0 3.5 point ri a ill GIs cos -of -living bides. Nearly an of dn. iurre:tsr woo- rati'ed I .,till snaring food price.. :dont other factors in the iutt,•x Intl leveled alt, Consumer, arc nuol. hammer, arc not sa.ti,Gr 1. rbI t fel', cot• tti.rc a lot ti the trouble lies: lit ,. rument -irricral :uul prociutial. \\Treat, test grains, butter. rhe' e, cgf4 and severtd other twain Mod products are virtual govertr meal monopolies. In some *,mets all producUuu must be sold through sloven to it boards. In ,til cases, by various deyiee, goy:rotten agencies elfectitely soot rot prices. With un' product•-better..goveru- men1 ole:r,urei have peualbrd awl fn some case. con:pleb ly eseloth t ally competition. 1n the la l few years the t%ov• ertttment has stepped in soul bought and sold apples, bacon, potatoes, honey, cheese, cgs;`and other food products. Cron ir'have been sub- sidized io keep potatoes and apples off the market, so that prices would stay up. Grower; have been a:b- sid;ecd 10 tear 001 apple trees, Federal and Prot luctal go era mleuts have encouraged and some- times setlntlly tnforred monopoly marketing af;reemculs im milk, fruit and vegetables that wo» Id bring instant prosecution and beery flues it attempted by private interest-. Jf illi, governnucut interfereuct had given us tt more plentiful and cheaper supply of food, or even if it had created general satSfactit among Canadian farmers it might be overlooked. Pat exactly the op- posite has resultel. Instead of getting out of food federal the war, -h ill, after rte• •ar mal et t, o ernments have provincial t and pt 1 6 got in deeper and deeper. The consumer and the Itspayer have Paid dearly. ' 1'Ite moral is plain: Gorernnten1 should slay"Out of business,.. -Front Che T'itiancial Post. Dot Turn The Cat Outdoors At Night "So, Sntartypants, 1'11 have to stt hone tonight just because you most have your little jolcel" didn't \too Winifred to telephone, and if she (lid he hoped George wouldn't be home, "1 will NOT1" she cried hotly. „Not schen he didn't case enough to see svhich of us was sick— why, .1 might be dying of mumps for all he knows --or cares!" "People don't die of me fps, do WS?" "What diffcrcuee docs Hi a t make?" she retorted, "11 doesn't excuse hitt trout ttsl:- ing. If he didn't dare to conte to tltu door, be could have stood in the yard and yelled, Surely, 1 couldn't have thrOwu the mumps on 11111 Anyway, if 1 had the mumps he ought to be willing to have then, tool" - It was almost to good to be - trne. Tontnty thought. Only one thing was needed lo make every- thing perfect and that would be for Frank to conte, And then Frani, did conte, He jumped out o{ his ca' and asked anxiously, "\Who's sick?' "No one, That sign's. just Tont- sty's 11111' joke:' Wittifred ex- plained. Nrtatl< laughed, "'.Chat's good! just saw lack itttt.rtin in town and be said he had seen a ntntnps sign on your house when he -drove by. So .1 thougltt T'ct come out and sec if you needed any help, Say, why aren't you at the ball game?" "How do you expect ole to go? Walls? our ear's in the garage Cor repairs," "Why, 1 thought-- Web, you 'know I'd be awfully glad to take yds itt, if you care to go. And :['on lay too-- unless three's a crowd," "Not when the third one's Tons sty,". Winifred said, putting ht's atts ornhmd the boy."He dill rue alt e' Int good turn tonight." He Can Be More Use indoors What many cat lovers don't realise is that, by turning their pets out at night, they expose ,hemi to danger. Tu the country they are liable to be caught in animal traps, attacked by clogs, and itt both toren and country there is the danger from traffic or contracting disease from other. cats. - Although 'eats are independent creatures, they can be persuaded to stay home at night if their owners are patient, A cat soon develops a habit. Provide a little warns liquid refreshment just before bedtime and after a while youreat should - come Itonte regularly Inc its ulght tap They Need Energy Another big mistake many cat owners make is to think that a hungry animal snakes a good hunt- er, On the contrary, cats hunt- for pleasure, and those that are forced to by hunger will only kill -to sat- isfy their hunger, • Catching and killing rat., espcei- all, demands strength and energy, and these can only be kept tip with plenty of gond, clean food. Iiungry of well-fed, no -sal can do the important jolt of helping to rid premises of vermin if it is turn- ed out at night. Vermin hide during the day and come out in the dark• it anybody had the right ideas on cats it was the Ancient Egyptians, In those -clays the male cat was likened to the sun and the female to the moon. But they deserved the honour, for it was Egypt's cats which did ntttclt to avert plague by destroying the vermin which in- vaded the country whenever- the Nile overflowed its banks and flooded the land. More material reword. for F,gypt's. feline population included sumptuous sleeping quarters and places of ltonoue a1 batquetii • Pyramid Coats Are BY i13DNA muss �HP big deal in coats for teen- agers this fall is the pyramid. The pyramid is enlivened by touches that make It individual and keep it from 6eooming a kind of campus uniform. It may, for example, have sleeves that are pushed up to bal- loon fullness. Or a deep collar, Jumbo poalcets and wide cuffs. It may have an upstand collar and touches of velveteen trimming, in matching or contrasting colors. There are also purple poodles, pyramid silhouettes in nubby poodle cloth of winter violet. Fashion -right coats that have such practical features as a deep hem that can be let dawn as a teen-ager shoots skyward are likely to appeal to mother and to be generally easy on the family budget. One such coat (left) is a pyra- mid in all wool monotone tweed by Bambury. Velvet is used for the shawl collar and the cuffs. The saddle shoulder and double Sap pocket treatment both look new in a teen-age coat. And there's a deep hem to grow on. Another coat (right) Is single- breasted with a Peter Fan collar and turn -back ciffs. In light gray all -wool broadcloth, it, too, has the deep hem that adds to the life of the coat. ractical an erky 1TWrKRN FRONT is what i, knots -u as the "meat- lype" hog a special cross or breed of hog? Lots of folks would answer definitely "1'es" to such a question; buts according to an article by 15Toyrard Bloomfield in a recent issue of "Tine Country Gentleman", oyttin the State of Ohio, they say ontshatically "No". And t It e y should know something about hog. ill Ohio. Heaven knows they raise enough of them. Tfow can you tell a meat hog when you see him? Some claim you can't tell from the outside if a hog is full of meat or full of fat, any more than. you can look at a tire and tell if there is a patch on the tube. Even show judges !rave. picked out "neat ]logs" that, when slaughtered, yielded more lard than most. But in Ohio hundreds of farmers have learned lo pick out a meat hog witlt high tn.'curaey, and other, are learning. Ts the obeli -type hog a long-term pasture Proposition? is it kept leaner, with less feed and thus taking longer to grow—a slower kind of hog? In Ohio they say to. Tale's right among the best -doer's in your lot, 1.1e nay be the hest-, doing hog of all. e v In Ohio the farther; themselves Have been building up pressure for hog improvement. When -the coun- try wanted fat hogs. Ohio won Fame. as a fat -hog state. Now it works for an equal reputatinu in a more modern type of hog. a * a, Last year ill Ohio's biggest hog county, Clinton, leading growers got together to load both barrels: ' first, to develop leaner hogs and dispel housewives' frowtts at the meat counter; second, to get more money for those better hogs, The farmers carte to 0 ntretiug -with State workers told they brought SHARPENING SS-CISSORS MAKING,. SWAFk EN 5CISSd S FAY ABRP tVe ACTON. hogs from their own herds, Ill dis• alter what a pleat type, i, auyhoty, * The hogs were =uttered and the farmers voted. 'Then the hogs were taken to Columbus and slaughtered and analyzed in the State's !feats Laboratory. i\ few days later, these carcasses w•ettt back to Clin- ton County in a refrigerated truck. The same stem gathered to find out how well they had judged the hogs. They were about half right. half wrong.. Their judgement was little better that the toss of a coin. Plainly a farmer needed a better eye than that to select his breeding stock. Six teen committeemen trawled) to an Eastern packing plant to follow their own hogs tirrouglt to a nteat-and-fat analysis. Then four more "on -the -hoof" judging and cut-out demonstrations were held, By that time growers could pick the meat hog 80 per cent of the time, which experts say is a good workable judgment. And meanwhile It grader was trained at -\Vilntingtou to select truckloads for packers demanding, and paying extra for. choice hogs, r: % 5 Idere is some advice that veteran hog -then and experts hand out on the problem of how to go about picking out your meat -type hogs. II N Took for a little longer hog. The one you used to want was broad, flat 'on top, but he had too much fatback—stay away front hint. An old saying was, "Pick the biggest, the thickest, the quickest" -still good saying if you leave out "thick- est." Chunky box -ended types cul too high a percentage of fat Look for a good haul, a otediunt but not too heavy shoulder. It's a good sign for that shoulder to cul no a little sharp, say's 'Cons Bernard; he doesn't care if a hog has something of tt ridgepole. Get a straight underline: no sag !n !t. A both' not too deep, A heavy jowl -is not good. A very important point is neatness around the tail. If the tail is dcep- set, with h bnnhpiness 't'ound it, litre that of a fat steel•, the ham is tob fat and the hog is an nverfat type el ewilere. Whin .faruters learned to re- cognize their pleat hogs, the next step was to make up truckload shipments of these superior ani- mals. Seven packers ordered the graded hogs, paying usually 50 'rents per hundred pmmuds above the I11:it'keI, In the selection of thonsantis of hogs, a cheerful fact has emerged haveto • I! doesn't • t. e to the grower. t g discard a breed he has worked ed with for yeas, In droves of the renown- ed land breeds" have been Lis- cuvered excellent meat -type speci- men;, and overfats have been found among bacon breeds. Nor hai•e the new crosses and =reds been ex• empt crow lardy hogs. .44 Ohio observations show :t fallacy in Yee old idea that the best -doing hog is the broad fat type. The soh of hags going to market, the best -doers ill the _ feed lots, make a high showing in meat. After the peal: of the nta,keting season passes, it's 0 harder job to stake up a shipment of meat -type !togs. \\'hcu tate slow hogs, seven or eight months old, come along toward the end of the run, the over - fat hog predominates and treat type Js scarce. t•;\ Tot of ueoide had the idea," says County Agent Grintshaw, "that the meat -type hog would be produced mostly on pasture and take seven or eight months. Our boys have a two -litter program, and tatting longer doesn't suit them at all. They want the !togs off itt five and a half to six months. In sum- mer they like to bring them off Pasture to the feed lot at 150 to 180 pounds. and in winter they stay in the feed lot, But instead of finding the meat type slower; they're ftndiug most of their meat animals antatg lite fast -does s, the fust otl' to stoker Hated Lacing Boots —Invented Zippers • The' zip fastener, one of the most complex yet useful devices ever invented, was born sixty years ago in the brain of an inventor named Whitcomb 1., Judson who had be- cotiie tired of lacing up his boots. Ile also resented the time wasted in tightening his wife's corset swings, and these things bothered hint so much that he conceived the idea of a series of hooks and eyes fastened on to two facing edges of fabric, with a slide fastener which would automatically close or unlock them when moved up and down. He patented the device ill A eri- ca, but two years Tater, in 1893 all Alsatian mechanic, Henri Aroson. hit upon the same basic idea and produced a practical slide fastener superior to Judson's, Starved! His ineeutiom was. developed liy an American ft'11 but more. than twenty-five years passed before a machine was constructed which could stake the fastener and mass produce it. Some of America's most brilliant engineers cackled -the problem and failed. Among them was Gideon Sunlbeek, who devoted four years to it, during which time he was smrviug and practically penniless. Once during those years he paid his grocery bill with $750 -worth of shares in a company he intended co form when be hard 5 it t t1' problem. was dubious. but ' 1'ill i T hr grocer he a 1 ) money • 1 V • Sundb auk had t suet had no option but to accept the "worthless" cheque. Fifteen years later they were worth a fortune. Even when Sundbaek triumphed and produced not only a niachine, but a new foolproof fastener, the company almost went into liquida- tiu because nobody seemed to want the zipper. 'Then 5 1917 a tailor ill Brook- lyn with an eye to novelty, stitched •nippers on the money belts of \uterican sailors and sold the belts in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Navy technicians examined the invention and were soon using zippers by the hundreds of yards for staking fly- ing suits, ; The fastener was induced tato Britain in 1925 on tobacco poaches. Theo dressmakers began using it nn clothes and pockets. Parisian fashion designers made use of it on the gowns which had fasteners all the w'tty from neckline to !tent. Aircraft manufacturers adopted it for opening inspection flaps in the wings of planes. The machine that snakes the fas- tener is even store marvelous than the zipper itself. Mile after utile of wire ,s fed into one end, together with spool alter spool of cloth tape, Out at the other end emerges the zipper. STOP THEM A manufacturer had received a visit front the Income Tax .Depart- ment. After a two-hour siege of questions, he, was visited by re• prescutatives. of several other government departments and bu- reaus. Finally he had a tali from the chief of police. In disgust, he sold Itis- plant and bought a slcunk farm. "Now," be said, "maybe the gov- ernment will keep its nose out of my business." r/A,E, iivirytuENis t' is rdoe\ Stt\tl:1v • During the summer m0ntltti the home owner often has time to landcape his property. Yet, tibia season of year has not been fa satisfactory time to move planta particularly large specimens. Nuro' erymen have now worked out 'ways to transplant even woody planta during the hot weather, with lft(tto danger of loss. Two methods aro described here. • k 4 n ,•tar.,'. lite Wadden] of n101 a Inc.' 0r 41111114 in the winter wa: solved hong ago. The -plant is dug with a hull of earth wttil(t tempe•r:Wires are ahoy*, ireezit18S' the ball is t it i mot! lU freeze solidi during solder temperatures, and street transplanted. A far more ,liiilrult problem is the transplant- ing of deciduous material, both shrubs and shade trees. during hot stunner months. in :;ueh a way that ;rowth .on tissues without wilting. While chemists were busy Sevel- opulg waxes and plastics to' ire sprayed on the foliage for sutnmer•- transplanted stock, William llowe Jr., of Howe Nurseries, was busy working out another angle. He felt certain that there must be a natural way of moving plants successfully in full leaf during the hot Suns - mer months. His demonstration be- fore 210 nurserymen slowed what: basic rules need to be observed I'm suet, an ,undertaking. dr IDA be Y soil m u 4l 14 the s First. what the Taut moved. Jf a ,dry ns • I is m spell precedes the digging, aetif°lal watering is needed to get as much moisture into the plant as possible. An oversized ball of earth is dug around the ,mot system, It needs to he wrapped in burlap and roped in a compact ntatitter to avoid any cracking or loosening of the earth from around the roots. If there is any delay in replant- ing, the ball of earth is kept well moistened. Any recently acquired, succulent growth at the tips of branches should lie pruned off, ('Chis should not he confused with "}leading back" a tree, which is a far more drastic operation,' Vtrhe0 the tree is to be transported any distance at all by teuck, the entire top of the tree is wrapped with a lightweight buries du�,ttt. * * rhtaM; Extreme care in handling the plant is heeded in order to avoid cracking the earth ball around the roots. And the final planting oper•• ado': should be dote with a good soil mixed well with hyper -hunts or peat moss, or both. A good soak- ing with water and a nralrll arc ahsolntrly neecssary. * 4, The proper 'follow-through on maintenance includes watering and constant upkeep of the ,mulch until the tree is re-established ill the new location. This problem of care has no substitute and is as impor- tant as halting and btu'lapping. * * 5 On flowering stu•ubs and smaller shade trees, new succulent growth will wilt during the first feu' flours out of tte, gepwnc. In such iris stance., bin. 1-fo*e puts the planta in a cooling sheds or ie'tthe shads. Twenty-four - to"forty-eight hours later they have regained their rigidity. TheLYinnait-oh,ohl —Claesar h1e tippers smiles happily after being nomad Miss Pennsylvania of 1952 at the state beauty contest at Harrisburg. Next month she'll Compete in Atlantic City far the title of Miss America.