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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-07-18, Page 3Hollered "Whoa" To Stop Tractor Surrounded as'1 am by the Age of . Speed, I have my thoughts. Although they are il- legal, the Hollywood Mufflers go down our hill and rend the quiet country air, and the mer- ry youngsters wave at me plea gently as they regain control and get their hot rodsin a straight line again. Those of us who did our hot rodding on a bicycle or in a Tin Lizzie should be per- mitted some little place; to sit quietly and reflect. I have seen attempts to make the general subject of hod rod- ding respectable, with insistence that the hot rodders are really serious-minded juveniles eager to promote highway safety, pru- dent speeds, and aid in the gen- eral welfare and common de- .tense. That is not the kind •of. hot rudder we have going do# over our hill. In all fairness to me, the truth is that in my own good time I made my automobile go just as fast as it could, too. The speed- ometer in my model T was gear- ed to a cog on the front wheel and the minute the vehicle gained motion the needle would shoot up to 90 miles an hour and stay there until we stopped. Although this indication bore, no relationship to actual affairs, it was daring back then to go 90 m.p:h. even in imagination. I have noidea how fast we really did go. The roads, then, were seldom paved, and "any speed faster than a horse could lope was equivalent to jet speeds of today. There were also mechanical reasons why high speeds were inadvisable, one of them being that the en- gine just wouldn't turn up any- way, and others being the lubri- cating system, the tires, the ' windshield, and the steering as- sembly Those of us old-time hot rodders remember who re -e how m a front end would jacknife insoft sand will now shudder in uni- son at the thought... . Something of those days came back to me the other day when my father drove my tractor. He wanted to help with the plant- ing, and I suggest he bring the seedlings. The next thing I knew there was a bang and a crash, and I looked up to see him corning down across the field with the tractor in wild flight. Somehow he had thrown the gearing into neutraland ac- costed a down -grade at the Same time, a situation not whol- ly wise if you are on the seat. Top speed with my tractor is supposed to be ten miles an hour, in gear, but on a free roll it will get those big tires going and do quite a stint. Dad didn't mean to stint that way, but he doesn't drive the tractor much and something confused him. He steered the thing adequately, and coasted to a halt in the gully, and after a bit got back into gear and came along bringing the trans- plants I said, "Dad, did you know that while you were run- ning away you hollered 'Whoa!?" This was a hod -rod joke at one time. Dad reached back in- ' to his unconscious a long way, and since in his youth he had called "whoa at many a galii- MERRY MENAGERIE 'Look, Charlie -- I'm a Iiindu fakir!" venting horse along these an- cestral slopes, there is nothing remarkable in his doing it again =to a tractor. Dad said, "I was willing to do anything, if it'd work" Sam Litchfield was the local character who, back around 1915, brought home a new au- tomobile, drove lit into the barn, and hollered "Whoal" is it went out the back end and landed in a heap on the manure pile. Ev- ery town had somebody who did that, and it was not the only hot -rod antic • based on the in- terchange of eras. There was a man up at Web- ster who bought an automobile because it was becoming the thing to do, and he set it in the barn on blocks, and did all his driving there. He'd crank it up, get in behind the wheel, let it into cruisinggear, and sit there with the rear tires spinning in the air and practice driving. His wife would come out and sit up with him, and they'd take a long drive together, going nowhere but steering and shifting gears as occasion required, and ad- miring the scenery. The old fel- low, whose life had been spent with horses, never did get up courage enough to take the con- traption on the road. Naturally, the young fry of today who can't remember when anything was new, will think that was just a story and won't believe there was once a time when a thing like that not only happened but that it was really quite a natural thing, and un- derstandable. One of the first automobiles ever owned in these parts' was driven into Maine by a New Yorker who came up here to rusticate one summer, and he bought the car specially for the trip He was wealthy and could do it Then, after driving up, he decided he didn't like the idea, and realized he hac momentar- ily given in to, an impulse. He gave the car tHenry Bubier, who was his guide and compan- ion on fishing trips, Henry did- n't know anything about cars, either, and gingerly tried it on backroads until he got the feel of it. A youngster of fifteen, gun- ning his plaything down my hill at 100 m.p.h., won't appreciate how delicately the matter of driving a car was approached by somebody like Henry. But Henry worked on it, and at last felt he had mastered the trick, and drove over to Hebron to show his new automobile to his brother, The brother kept sheep, and employed three or four of his flock to mow the lawn about the buildings. This meant he had a tight fence about the place, and at the drivews'ty had a set of bars made of smooth spruce poles spaced closely so the sheep cduldn't breech it. Henry drove up to the bars and came to a graceful stop. He set the hand- brake, put the thing in neutral, and descended to remove the bars. Each bar was taken out and carried to one side in turn, and then Henry got into his auto, released the handbrake, put into gear, and drove through. Next he stopped again, set the. handbrake, put it in neutral and descended once more to put the bars back. Each bar was carefully inserted as 'before. now Henry got into his car again and, intending to drive majestically up. andstop by the kitchen door, he somehow got the machine in reverse and backed through. the bars. What has hot rodding ever done to equal this? -By John Gould in The Snristian Science Monitor. Drive With Care CROSSWORD PUZZLE 6, Work 28. Proof 6. Went quickly 29. Always 7 Ott of rose 80. Writing table petals a73. Fancywork 8 Stoppit(g. 88, Civil. War intentionally. general 9. Carry 35. Robbin 10. Excited 40. Honey badger ACROSS 55, Spreads to dry, 11. Yawn ' 42. Outer , 1. Mass of 56. Limb 16 Give out garment floating ice 57. Scrutinizes • ' sparingly 43, Make eyes 6. Medieval DOWN 20. Went ahead 44. Peruse 21. 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Answer elsewhere on this page HOPE FROM HUMBLE PLANT - A new compound has been thrown into the battle against heart, disease. Oil is pressed from the seeds found in the center of a lowly, thistle -like plant called the safflower (inset). Called Saff, it is used in atherosclerosis, the heart disease that causes one death in seven in the United States. Matthew J. Lynch, a pharmacist at Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago, til., demonstrates how white emulsion of the seed oil is compounded with water. THIEF Joku M FRONT The causes of the disorder known as apple scald which oc- curs on many apple varieties, waxing and waning in intensity from one growing season to the next, have baffled the effortsof research workers for over fifty years. Scald may be roughly described as the vague brown discolorations which occur on the surface of apples. On some varieties, like McIntosh, it is primarily associated with the stein cavity, and in others, it is associated with the lentical as with Linda or Sandow. Its oc'- curence tends to lend credence to the old axion "beauty is only skin deep" and defeats much of the present principles of market- ing wherein much emphasis is placed on the beautification of the product. • • „ e Normally scald tends to be confined to the green or un - blushed snrfaces of apples and may be partleulariy severe on non -blushing varieties, such as Greening. It may form reticulate patterns and it may even pene•u trate the fruit flesh to shallow depths. Sometimes these shal- low penetrations dry up and col - Apse and in other cases remain soft and gelatinous; the latter aspect is referred to as soft scald. w a • Scald generally appears after long storage, although it may occur as early as six weeks. Its presence .16 emphasized by re- moval to higher .temperature at the end 'of storage and in some varieties low temperature itself may bea serious factor as with the variety Jonathan: In other varieties high storage tempera- tures leading to a rapid decline of fruit• quality may produce scald. In Cortland;. .scald is' as- sociated with . early, picking;. many varieties have • increased ;uspeptibility under high nitro- gen fertilized programs, ,among which Wagener would be an .ex- ample. ' Gtenerally, scald has net beep the formidable factor in Canada. that it is` in warmer climates. More' recently, however, with the growth' of -controlled atmosphere (C.A.)';storage, the risk of scald becomes more important. The ob- ject of C,A. storage is to enable a higher quality product to be put on the market at a late date. This depends 011 . the storage of only 'high quality apples. An outbreak of scald could be very costly and the risk increases with length of storage. Scald on Mc- Intosh in C.A. storage has been minimized by. reducing the oxy- gen to a level of three per cent. Cortland, on the other hand cannot be placed in CA. storage . because the tendency -to scald is too great. • - • * The metabolic causes of scald are supposed to be found in the theory that toxic by-products from the respiration of: the apple itself are trapped within, the skin. Mineral oil wraps and emulsions control this disorder but are not considered practi- cal. Most recently the Horticul- ture t Division, Central Experi- mental Farm, Ottawa, has em- ployed diphenyl amine dips on Cortland and has found this to be an excellent controller. Un- fortunately this material is not acceptable for use en foods. But it is hoped that work with this material will supply clues to the use of other materials of a more innocuous type. - t * • Crescent-shaped notches along the margins of sweet clover leaves is evidence of attack by the Sweet Clover Weevil. Seed- ling and mature clover alike are damaged by this small, dark- gray beetle and it is quite possi- ble that the young or larvae Which feed on the rootlets of the second year's growth are partial- ly responsible for the spread of root rot disease. Dr. W. R. Alien of the Science Service, Canada Department of Agriculture has found the use of chemicals such as dieldrin, toxaphene, heptach- Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©©SH MERE 0©il-,Eiln .,111:1E1, -cant 00000© ©DllrF ©© a©3© EI 3l©Q©lg d© 0 ©© :I251102O •°. 1011B1 © iaN' ievig "©N 0©A1a SEEN ©0©11l rlO QDO©: WINO IIIIEIEI 1 t!:. IMMIE113013 ©©M':`rE© 10171CI n Mil X000 N El al MAY SC11001 .,ON By Bev, B. Barclay Warren B.A., B.10. Miriam, a Leader in Israel Exodus 15:20-21; Numbers 12:1-10, 13-15 Memory Selection: A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30. During this quarter we are studying personalities of the Old Testament. The first one is Miriam, sister of Moses and Aaron. She was quick-witted as a child. She stood in the distance to see what would happen her baby brother who had been for and DDT, effective in the control of this insect. He also feels that good crop management will assist in keeping this pest down to a minimum. e a * In fields where destruction is common each year weevil popu- lations can be reduced con- siderably by discontinuing sow- ing this forage crop for two suc- cessive years. As soon as a second year's crop of sweet clover in a weevil infested area has been harvested, stubble should be plowed or surface cultivated to destroy the beetles developing the soil. New sites for sweet clover should be as far from in- fested fields as possible bearing in mind the location of fields on neighbouring farms. * 0 * Very often seedling crops of sweet clover will be attacked by migrating weevils from fields that have been cut for hay. These migrations can be prevented by the application of insecticides along the edges of the fields in strips several rods wide. If leaf notching appears on newly sown clover, insecticides should be ap- plied to the plants and the ground. A second years' growth can withstand fairly severe damage from this insect pest but seedling plants die quickly when attacked. 4, • „ This defoliator spends the win- ter as an adult in trash, litter or top soil. Adults become active when the second year sweet clover begins to turn green in the spring and infest seedling plants when they appear above the ground. placed in the bulrush ark among the flags by the river's brink, Perhaps her mother asked her to watch. Perhaps as a loving sister she acted on her own im- pulse. Then without fear and without identifying the child she brought her mother to the scene who secured temporary custody of her own child. Miriam had leadershipquali- ties as well as her brothers. God says through Micah (0:4): a/ sent before thee Moses, Aaron and Miriam." After the miracu- lous crossing of the Red Sea she took her timbrel and; led this. women in a great, outburst of rejoicing. She was a. prophetess. Then comes a blot on Miriam's career. Moses had married an Ethiopian woman. Miriam, joined by Aaron, started a whispering campaign. While resentment or jealousy toward the dark com- plexioned woman sparked the flame, the underlying cause seems to have been jealousy of Moses They said, "Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? Hath he not spoken by us?" . Then God stepped in. In a pillar of cloud at the tabernacle He spoke to Miriam and. Aaron in the presence of Moses and reproved them for speaking against His servant, When the cloud departed Miriam was lep- rous. Aaron was repentant and pled with Moses, to pray Tot her. In great magnanimity char- ' acteristic of real greatness ho prayed, 'Ileal her now, 0 God, I beseech thee." God answered his prayer but for seven days she had to remain outside the camp as one unclean. It was a severe lesson. Much more credence is being given today to the view that many functional illnesses result from wrong attitudes as anger and jealousy and worry, It is also apparent that deliverance from these attitudes often aids iorestoration to health. This is a roundabout way of saying that sin is sometimes an impor- tant factor in some illnesses. De- liverance front sin through re- pentance and faith in Jesus Christ may pave the way to a recovery from such illnesses. Two cows were overtaken and passed by 'a jet 'plane, spurting flames from its exhaust. 'Say, that fellow is in an alv. ful hurry, isn't he?" said one crow. 'Sure," cawed the other, "and so would you be if your tail was gn Sire." SAWED.OFF CLIFF -Sliced off neatly, this 25 -foot piece of limestone coral topples to earth as worker at left stands clear in the 120 -year-old quarry at Warwick, Bermuda. Though explosives, picks and shovels are normally associated with • quarrying operations, the workers employed . hand saws to cut the coral, used extensively in building on the island. This sect' .a, representing 27 hours rf sawing, will be cut Into smaller bricks. THE CHANGING DESERT - The old and the new meet as Bedouins from the Negev 'Desert in Israel increasingly use modern machinery to harvest their crops in place of camels. Tractors and other modern agricultural devices were donated to various tribes by the Israeli govern- ment.