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The Seaforth News, 1957-02-28, Page 3Birdbrains One can only' assume that the expression "birdbrain," as ap- plied to persons oflimited men- tality, is an outgrowth of the fact that many birds possessing the power of transportation still remain , North,' •here to shiver and 'freeze with man. This, to most people, seems like faulty judgment for even a bird. How many men, possessing wings and the ability to speed safely and cheaply southward, would be around enduring the foul wea- ther? Yet birds do it, lots of them, and,, we can only assume that these are not as smart as the ones who go south even before the Christmas . holidays. They don't stay out of loyalty to. man, but probably because they don't know any better. The fact that ' they do hang arotind to share . our misery during the winter should arouse a spirit of, kinship even for those who can take their birds or leave them All of which is to say that now is the time for all good men and women to give a thought for the birds, their pre- sent unhappy state, and their need for a few handouts while the •ground is covered with snow and the winds are cold. If you do put out food, remember It should be in a spot inacces- sible to other household :pets. There is one ornery trait about most dogs: they will glut them .aelves;on food left out for birds, no matter what it is, if they can get hold of it. The strained rela- tionsh' between birds and cats' need hardly 13e stressed. Birds are. actually our good friends because they work all spring and summer dispatching all kinds of bugs and beetles. If it were not for the birds, we would be a whole lot worse off than we are. So let's give them a handout now, not in the spirit of donor to mendicant, but to willing workers who more than earn the few handfuls of food you give them during their hun- gry and cold days in January. - Hartford Courant. i effort and efficiency' and make ,easier the accumulation of ca- pital by more people. Urges Income Tax Reductions OTTAWA - The Canadian Chamber of Commerce recently urged the government to an- nounce in the forthcoming bud- get a broad plan of deferred tax reductions appropriate to the developing surplus. The Executive Council of the Canadian Chamber, in a brief to the Ministers of Finance and National Revenue said it would appear that there is at least from $300 to $400 millions of annual revenue that could be applied to tax cuts. The . brief warned, however, that because of the' inflationary environment the "full application of such tax reductions should be deferred to a time when inflationary pressures have abated and when such reductions would be useful and constructive from every point of view." Any such program of deferred tax reductions, the brief said, should include the following changes: (a) Reductions in the lower and middle rates of tax on per- sonal income. Such reductions would put more emphasis on MERRY MENAGERIE "Any of port in a storm, ell. ma'm:" (b)' A reduction in the gen- eral rate of "tax on corporate income and an increase in the present $20,000 limit to which the lower rate on corporate . in- come now applies. Such 'a re- duction would put Canadian business in a better position to keep up in the rapid advance of technology. and to hold and strengthen its competitive post- Lien vis-a-vis other countries. (c) A review of the special excise tax structure with a view to removinganomalies and lim- iting such taxation only to com- modities which are regarded as appropriate for special taxation on a permanent basis. While' generally approving the present tight money policy, the Executive Cocncil brief issued a warning against overdoing it, claiming the policy of restraint should be eased as inflationary pressures slacken. A special section on. present monetary policy said in part that such a policy is regarded "as the least undesirable of the various alter- natives which might be consid- ered by the government, includ- ing ncluding increased taxation, direct measures of control, and of course the alternative -of simply letting the inflation take its course It would be' fatally easy . and superficially popular for the monetary authorities to accede to the growing demand for money and credit. But if the demand is excessive in relation to the existing productive capa- city of the econbmy, it can only result in bidding up prices and costs. The best way to check in- flation is to prevent undue ex- pansion in the supply of money and credit." A section of the brief devoted t o government expenditures urged Ottawa to place "more than ordinary emphasis" on containing the present level of expenditure. Apart from pos- sible defence requirements, it was stated, the most urgent de- mands are in the area of muni- cipal and provincial responsi- bility and if at all possible it is desirable that the federal tax collector should make some room for unavoidable increases in municipal and provincial tax- ation. Otherwise, the overall tax loads is more likely to increase than to decline. Blues Stop Riot Jazz maestro Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong has made another visit to England, following his rapturous reception there dur- ing his last world tour. He ran into trouble in the Gold Coast during that tour when thousands of excited Afri• - cans gathered in Acca's largest park and screamed: "Blow, man, blow the house!" The delighted Louis, was about to oblige when the local` police`, major pulled him aside. "When you play fast," the Major said, "these Africans can't stand it. They'll riot all over the place from joy." A smile stretched over Satch- mo's broad face. "Okay, Daddy," he said, "I'll give 'em a little slow beat. You know, that o1' four o'clock in the morning mu- sic." The jazz king promptly burst out with a slow blues fa- vourite "Sleepytime Down South." It must have been one of the quietest jazz concerts on record. On another occasion Louis was taken to the Gold Coast University, where the drum- mers of seventy tribal chiefs gave a display of African music. Louis listened. His fingers itch- ed. Finally he could stand it no longer. He picked up his trum- pet, checked 'the beat and rhythm and whipped out with a hot chorus. In next to no time the whole university was rock- ing solidly to one of the wildest impromptu versions of "Stomp - in' at Stomp-in'at the Savoy" ever heard'- or seen. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Vipers 6. Lion's foot 8. Hastened 12. Jump 13. Recline 19. Auto wheel rim 15. seed vessel 17. English school 18. Extra parte 19. African fly 21. Potter term 23. Old musical note 24. Book oI psalms 27. Supports for millstones 80. Vandal 31. Rub out 33. Soft murmur 89. Bury 36. Tightest 38. Night before 39. Roughly elllnttcal 40. Ten Draws torus Draws s 47. Minitoke Firs6 48. First 50. Currant 51. ArtiEvergle reen 58. grr een tree 53. Top cards 4. Sward 6. Killed L Swire alountakte 7. Cried 2. Percolate. 3. Rind of rubber 4. Coll 5. Daub 5. Atmosphere 8 Unyielding • 29. Toper f. Meager 82. Parted allowance 06. Shirks 10. 004 01 love 87. Sinks down 11. Sand hill heavily 16. Focused 0. racts 20. Gallant night 1. Style o1 22. Muse of poetry 24: Gr. letter 29. Fixed star 26.. Go before 28 Dowry poetry 2. Salamanders 44. Wind spirally 46. Ancient slave. 6. Meat dish 45. Exclamation t 2 9 4 rf ;: 5 6 7 ;;Ki.,8 l(f.. 9 - IO. 11 12 ..% '14 ::; �f is 16 '17 18 0;19 g 20 iS .c 21 22 22i 23.*::.< ,.> 24 25 26 Ki 27 25 29 30 ti§31 32 ,o,33 4 34 35 •.'{ 36 37. 38 M 39 �• 40 41 42.. *45 - 44 45 46 47 i. 48 49 50 . 5453 •v 55 Answer elsewhere' On 'this page HE GOT KING SAUD'S GOAT Fresh goat milk is an exotic, hard -to -come -by beverage in Washington. A staple item of Arabian diet, its procuremant posed something of a gostronomic crisis with the imminentarrival of Saudi Arabia's King Saud. Allan Rogers shown making one of his prize goats came to the rescue to supply the eight quarts daily for the visiting king and his party. TIILPAIZI4 FRONT iovA, Research at the Beaverlodge Experimental Farm, has disclos- ed no practical method for the chemical control of wild Oats in grain crops, says A. C. Carder. Maleic hydrazide has been in- vestigated ; intensively for a number of years. It is applied when the wild oats are in the milk stage with the object of devitalizing the wild oat kernel without injury to the seed of the cultivated crop. The cost of application is about $3 per acre. Although this method succeed.. ed on 'an ' experimental basis it proved unsatisfactory for com- mercial use. One reason for this is that the period during which successful treatment can be made is sometimes very short and may be difficult to deter- mine. Moreover, with severe in- festations, repeated applications over a - number of years are necessary :befdre there is any marked visible reduction in wild oat population. More recently the feasibility of the use of pre -planting che micals has been examined. Nine different pre -planting, chemicals were applied to the soil in fall and spring and immediately worked • in thoroughly with a disc. The crops subsequently seeded were wheat, oats, barley, flax and peas. The object was to kill the germinating wild oat kernels in the soil while doing no damage to that of the seeded crops. Ten pounds per acre of IPC applied in the fall elimin- ated 90 per cent of the wild oats with no apparent injury to peas but other crops 'suffered severe- ly. In; one test, fifteen pounds of 2;4-D ester per acre, also ap- plied in the fall, prevented ger- mination of most of the wild oats and did little harm to cul- tivated oats seeded in the spring. Other crop species were seriously injured. However, cur- rent prices of these two chemi- cals at the above rates makes. their commercial application unpractical. The chemical CIPC, a close relative of IPC, gave a high degree of control of wild oats but caused some injury to peas. MCP ester proved more lethal to wild oats than did the ester of 2,4-D, but did considerably - more harm to the seeded crops. Other chemicals, such as CDAA and CDEC, gave some control at Beaverlodge when applied early in the spring before seed- ing but only at rates which injured the crop. e e e A vital factor in the success or- failure of ensiling forage crops is the degree of packing. employedin relation to the moisture content of the crop.' This factor can be controlled' by stage of maturity, wilting or , partial shying, addition of mois- ture, length of cut, amount of'' packing, speed of ensiling' and other methods of operation. W. E. Cordukes, agronomist at the Central Experimental '_ Farm, says grasses and legumes can be. ensiled in different types of silos: 'at any time from the early bud stage to the full bloom stage of growth of the legumes in the 'sward. .For high quality silage, free air must be elimin- ated from the silage mass in order 'to produce a proper type of fermentation. Whi e a eq compaction is paramount, over- compaction of high moisture forages can also result in a poor quality silage. At the bud stage, the standing crop contains a very high per- centage of moisture. To offset high moisture, wilting or a long length of chop and a moderate degree of compaction should be employed. As the crop advances in maturity, the moisture con- tent decreases; and so with each advance in maturity the amount of packing required to elimin- ate air in the mass increases. At the full bloom growth stage, compaction becomes extremely important and difficult to attain, and if not acomplished, will cer- tainly result in a poor quality silage. By employing a shorter length of cut with advancing crop maturity, compaction can be greatly facilitated. Results of silage experiments at Ottawa clearly illustrate the importance of proper compac- tion. A grass -legume silage en- siled at 75 per cent moisture, but with little or no compaction, gave a silage of poor quality and a 43.2' per cent loss of dry matter. The same crop modes= ately compacted had a loss of 30.9 per cent as compared with a loss of only 17.5 per cent where thorough compaction was employed. With thorough com- paction the silage had no heavy silage odors, and was relished by the livestock. p A e Mechanical grazing is a me- thod of feeding animals where the fresh pasture feed is brought to the cattle in a feed lot. This usually involves the use of a forage harvester and self-feed- ing wagon or feed bunks. In 1956, an experiment com- paring this method. of feeding with fresh daily grazing was made by the Animal Husbandry and Field Husbandry Divisions of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. The animals in r/4'.UNDAYSCHOOL LESSON By 'Rev. R. Barclay Warren ,B.A., B.D. Interpreting Signs of the Times Matthew 16: 1-12 Memory Selection: Ye can dis- cern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times.: Matthew 16:3. Jesus had just fed a multi- tude with a lad's lunch, He had walked on the Lake of Galilee to the disciples in distress. In the land of Gennesaret they had brought unto Him all that were diseased and as many as touch- . ed Him were made perfectly whole. Still the Pharisees and Saducees asked him to show them a sign from heaven. No wonder Jesus said, "A wicked and adulterous generation seek- eth after a sign; and there shall be nosign be given : unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas,' When that sign (the resurrec- tion of Jesus) came, they still continued in unbelief, It is a true saying, "There are none so blind as they who will not see." There are signs today that the corning of our Lord draw- eth near. One sign is that of the establishment of the' Jew- ish nation in the land promised to their father, Abraham. They do not hold all the land but recent events indicate their pur- pose to extend the borders of their national home. Paul wrote: "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come: For men shall be - lovers of their own selves, covetous,; boasters, proud, blas - phemers,disobedient to parent unthankful, unholy, without na- tural affection, truce -breakers, false accusers; incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, . heady high minded, lovers of pleasures more thou lovers of God; haviirile,rfedift• of godliness, b u t d+=, 6p power' thereof.",2 Til r a These words were net!o',ap- plicabli: as they are. t! da '. Sal- vation the Bible the way of ;Sal- vation is clearly defined. N9 one in .this country of an open Bible need bein darkness. Nei- ther do we need the visions of any modern seer. The Bible la sufficient. Jesus said, "If any man will do My will, he shall know of the doctrine." John 7:17. Golf Gimmicks the feed lot were fed from a self-feeding wagon that was loaded each day by using a shredder type forage harvester. The equipment required cost approximately $1,500 plus a 3 - plow tractor and one operator. Time required for each day's feeding was as follows: hook- up Wand unhook harvester, 8-16. minutes; travel (1/4 mile), 8-12 minutes; cutting time per ton, 10-20 minutes. One ton of green feed grill. - satisfy 15-20 cattle and req}ifres s approximately 26-48 minutes bg time each day to feed the'-ania mals, Collecting two to 'tf green feed requires 36-68 utes every day when the larger load is hauled. Shredder type forage ' harvest- ers seem well suited to this type of operation providing fields are suitable for mechanical op- erations. One man can perform the operation without undue strain in approximately one- half to one hour each day when 25-30 cattle are' being fed. Did you know that golf bails can be hit farther when they are warm? Some profession* says golfing .addict George Houghton, carry one in each trouser pocket and tee up w1t31 them alternately. All golfers have a gimmick of some sort, he reveals, in the lat. est - and, possibly, liveliest - addition to his popular "addict" series, . "Golf Addicts Through The Ages", delightfully illus. trated by himself. "Tucked away in the innermost recesses of our hearts is an infallible re- medy, formula or method, whirls is our own particular answer to the golf riddle," he says. One of the best of all royal golfers, King Leopold of the Belgians had a handicap of two in his heyday, and in 1936 reached the last sixteen in tha Belgian Open. He also'had a secret gimmick, revealed by his caddie to Hough- ton one day. Before a big match the Belgian monarch made e point of cutting his fingernails very short 1 Re the importance of relaxa- tion, Houghton says that a friend of his takes his teeth out before playing a shot so that he won't be tempted to grit them. Ha adds: "Perhaps Ted Ray knew the complete answer. When ask- ed if he had the secret for achieving a good shot, he said: 'Yes. Walk right up to the ball and hit the blankety thing.'" Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking l't4 MABEL'S STABLE -With arms outstretched, Norman Lloyd makes like a bird to demonstrate the inherent stability of "Stable Mabel", a new, one -passenger helicopter. The tiny chopper Is powered by rocket engines mounted in tips of its rotor blade, and uses a hydrogen peroxide mixture for fuel. SIAMESE TWINS SEPARATED - Floyd and LaVerne Hutchins proudly' hold their separated Siamese. twins, Gary and Lary, in La Meso,. Calif. The youngsters,. the sixthpair in known*' - medical history to have been successfully separated .Were` connected at the base of their spines at birth and were separated 17 date later without complications.