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The Seaforth News, 1957-12-05, Page 3Eggs Aire, Not For Tlhlrown sg !'. The egg, in spite of superficial similarities, is not a true missile. It ends, to loop. It is heavier on one end; and with a side-arm or shy delivery it will curve', as well as a boomerang, ;although it happily doesnot come back. To score a direct hit with an egg requires careful practice with speed and distance. I'he side - band quality .is erratic. I threw eggs many years ago, and have not done it lately, and it would take a lot .today, to tempt me to throw one at anybody, even a cabinet member. My thoughts were peaceful in those days, having been brought up that way by kindly parents, and I used eggs only in self-de- fense. I had no belligerent. intent. I did not start -Iv throwing eggs at people, but rather at a target, and there was no thought in the early .stages .of my development' that 1 would one day use eggs as a weapon. What happened was that my father had a surviving pen of a doomed breed of poultry - Am- erican Dominiques. They are now gone, or at, least I wouldn't know where to find any, but they con- tributed the better qualities of , their nature to numerous strains and crosses now famous. The Dominique ' was the "I i t tl e speckled hen of olden tales, and merited more than oblivion, but when all the world is hybrid, who shall be pure? The Domin- ique went his, and her, way and this was too bad. 1guess my Dad hadthe last of them, and he was sentimental. At the time I speak of the hens were eight and ten years old, and tired. The roosters were older, and had relinquished their enthusiasms. The reproduction rate was at a low ebb. It took many an egg to make a hatch. Dad could have switched to Orpingtons or Rocks and make money, but he liked his little speckled hens, and he hated to quit on them. Now, theca hens would sit around a good deal, and then one of them would up and lay seven or eight eggs in a sudden burst of industry and afterward would go to setting. If anything came of this, the hen would come off in three weeks with a chick or two, but if nothing happened, as usually aid. the old hen would "-sit there and sit there and stare NOW WHAT? - Cuddling it like a doll, Larnie Renshaw, 6, holds a huge Sakuripima radish. An Oriental -type winter ra- dish, the Sakurijimn is said to be the oldest type of vegetable used by mon. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore N. Ochse grew it, but still roust learn how to serve it. It has an odor to match its size and the texture of well -tanned shoe leather. at a -crack in a board and persist and persist. When all hope was gone, we'd stick the unlucky old, girl in a broody -coop and "break her up," and she would go into a ,moult and sit on a, roost for months and get all ready to try again. Fortunately Father didn't de- pend on his hens for revenue, although4he did win all the prizes at poultry shows in his class just because nobody else had any more, and this income helped pay the feed -bills. The upshot was that we always had a lot of eggs on hand which had failed to hatch. They could not, of course, be moved into the ordinary channels of trade, and it was my chore to stop whatever else I was doing from time to • time and dispose of them, I bur- ied them, mostly. Out on a knoll, near the edge of the woods and away from the buildings, we had a little hencoop about eight -by - eight where we put the hens that decided to set. This kept them in quiet, away from the bustle of the regular henhouse, and meant our accumulation of unsuccessful eggs built up out there. One day I was cleaning out this hatching house, and I chanc- ed to scale an egg off across the greensward at a moss -spot on a yellow birch tree in the edge of the woods. -It was a heave of maybe 100 feet, and I missed the tree by a, mile. I was on the starting baseball team at the time, and had a good peg. 1 could throw into a bag just right for a quick tag. Bat an egg is not a baseball, and I missed. This interested me, and I hove another. After a number of eggs I got the hang of it, and found an underhanded toss was better than any other kind of throw. In time, using a few eggs when- ever I had to cleanout the hatch- ing house, I got so I could hit the moss -spot very well, and our pathetic pen of Dominiques dwindled and dwindled, Now it chanced we had a gang of lads in town who liked to play in the woods - something boys don't do so much now - and they called themselves the Wah-wah-tay-see Tribe, Juven- ile delinquency was not yet iso- lated, and the Wah-wah-tay-see Tribe never had anything but fun. They used burdock leaves for scalps, and played settlers and sachems, and roamed the wildwood. On this `day of which I speak they discovered me at my chore, surrounded me, and undertook a massacre. I was now a pioneer settlement, and no mercy could be expected. I discovered that I was to be extinguished when a green apple from a wild tree hit the henhouse roof, followed by many more apples, and accom- companied by wild war cries. My marrow was chilled at the pros- pect, and I looked about for de- fense. • This was the only time, really, I ever used an egg as a weapon. I think I should draw a discreet curtain over the details of the horrible fate the Wah-wah-tay- see Tribe met that pleasant af- ternoon. They bit the dust. They fled in terror. The settlement tvas saved. The Wah-wah-tay-see Tribe never struck again. I have never since used . this weapon, and I would have to be awful mad at anybody to take it up against him. He would have to be a vile and mean character. An egg is pot a nice thing to throw. It is contemptible. It wobbles as it comes, and you can't duck. You just stand there. I know. - by John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. PUZZLEMENT Policeman: "You saw this lady driving toward you. Why didn't you give her half the road?" Unhappy driver: "I was going to, just as soon as I could find out which half she wanted." CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 t'e14 palette 00000000. 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Slain 1 2 34 0 3 5 6. 7 •• 8 9 10 Ir 12 _: : 1314 3140ad U3Sf 15 16r VdSi 03Abt v 17 NO 1 1 I Add'. .yti; 3N 18 i s 5N3AVa 3 ©©0'':©©L7 a El ,,,,,`.S 19 20 __ ON INV -. 3AVH N3WV 331 MOS 31o, S O V � 24 - 26 27` 22• 29 a 431 32 •.. 33 . 34 WO135 36 . 37 33 39 •,0 41 , 42 43 4.4{; -. 46 1 . . 47' 48 49 50 Si Answer elsewhere on th s page. THOSE FALLING LEAVES - This sea of leaves means business for two enterprising lads, Arthur Lambert, left, 12 and Greg McGowan, 10. The two take a breather, before tackling the fallen maple tree foliage. As an example of how regu- lations to prevent the spread of crop diseases can be violated quite innocently, several heather plants had to be refused entry into Canada during the summer by officials of the Plant Protec- tion Division, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture, The action was not taken to ,stop Canadian Scots from receiving a sprig of heather from their ain folk at home. It became necessary to prevent the possibility of the Golden Nematode being intro- duced into Canada on the roots and adhering soil of the heather plants. This particular nema= tode, a microscopic member of the worn family, which can do great damage to growing plants, is unknown in Canada and so stringent regulations are justi- fied to prevent its introduction into Canadian soil. i, * An additional threat arose when it was found that to pre- serve freshness, some of the sprigs of heather had been em- bedded in raw potatoes. The im- portation of potatoes from Eu- rope is prohibited to guard against the introduction of po- tato wart diesase. This disease, which if established could be most detrimental to Canada's po- tato crop, is unknown in Canada except in Newfoundland. * * * All heather which was free of roots and soil and was in no way contaminated by the pota- toes was released for delivery to the recipients, as was heather certified by the Minister of Agri- culture in Scotland as being free of the Golden Nematode. Natur- ally the potatoes were destroyed. * * * Forecasts of the 1957 produc- tion in Canada for legume and grass seed crops have recently been released by the Plant Pro- ducts Division. w n * The alfalfa seed crop for 1957 is expected to exceed last year's production of 1,3 million pounds clean seed by 50 per cent. It will be one of the smallest on record, since seed setting in Ontario was little better than last year. The Western Canada crop is ex- pected to show a slight incase ever the unusually small pro- duction of last year, but far below the average for that area. * * * Production of double -cut red clover seed, grown chiefly in Eastern Canada, may be about three times that of last year's production of 4,065,000 pounds due mainly to larger acreages and good yields in Ontario. Que- bec: production will be less than in 1956, due to a 50 per cent re- duction in acreage, and drought conditions. The total quantity of Maritime production, centred mainly in New Brunswick, while small, will exceed that of last year._ * * An increase not ,in excess of 25 per cent' is expected for the crop of single -cut type red clo- ver, mainly produced in Western Canada. About 1,700 acres of Lasalle and red -clever (a dou- ble cut -variety) were inspected' for registration and certification, with production estimated at 190,000 pounds. * * * Acrea, of alsike clov.:r for seed production has increased in Alberta, where' it is mainly grown, but unfavourable weath- er has hampered harvesting operations and estimates of_ the total yield so far are uncertain. With improved conditions, how- ever, production may be nearly double that of the 1956 figure of 4,245,000 pounds. * * a Little change over the 1956 production of sweet clover seed, which amounted to 19,775,000 pounds, is forecast, but prices offered growers may discourage the harvesting of some low- yielding crops. The bromegrass seed crop this year is expected to be only two- thirds that of last, which was 0,210,000 pounds, the smallest in recent years. * * Although thele was a large in- crease in potential acreage of crested wheatgrass for seed, which last year amounted to 710,000 pounds, dry weather in Saskatchewan, where it is main- ly grown, resulted in a light crop. Production in Manitoba and Alberta is estimated at about the same as that of a year ago, but the Saskatchewan crop may be from 20 to 25 per cent higher. * * ,n There was a slight increase in acreage of creeping red fescue harvested for seed in Alberta and the Peace River district of ' British •Columbia, where nearly all the crop is grown. Production is estimated at from 20 to 25 per cent more than last year's total of 5,320,000 pounds. The crop proved better than early con- ditions had indicated, even though because of wet weather much of it lay in the swath for a considerable period causing some loss of yield. * 1 ' * While meadcsv fescue a 'ed production in Manitoba is esti- mated at about 75 per cent of last year's record crop of 2,153,- 000 pounds, it will be far larger than average, and the second largest on record. The quality of seed is reported as being from fair to good. ure Chickens Most people find it quite a chore to make sense out of economic and financial theory. This is particularly so ina country such as ours where our economy is in- fluenced by the many facets of a free enterprise capitalistic system,' The following comments of the Warner & Swasey Co. dis- cuss one of the more basic of our American economic truths: "You repaie. shoes, he pumps gascoline, I raise chickens. We sell to each other and to the man next door - a retired school teacher on a pension, `Somebody convinces me I can make just as .much for less work, so I raise fewer chickens but increase the price of those I do raise. , "But you aren't going to re- pair more shoes in exchange for a chicken; he isn't going to give me more gasoline for a chicken. It's the same chicken; I haven't made it worth any more to you. So all you do is raise the price of repair work; he raises the price of gasoline. But the re- tired school teacher can't raise his pension; he jest gives up chicken. "So all I've done is lose one customer, and traded dollars with the others. "If I had worked more effi- ciently (maybe invested in a mechanical brooder) I would have had more chickens to trade for more repair work and more gasoline, and by cutting costs and prices a bit, got two teachers as customers instead of none. "And more people could be en- joying chicken"_ Pueblo (Colo.) Star Journal. LET'S BE PRACTICAL Prospective Groom: "Lucille, darling, now that we're going to get married, you should give up your $40 -a -week job." Intended Bride: "Certainly, sweetheart. Of course I will." Prospective Groom: "The way I figure it, you're gonna have to make at least $50." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 3id3 iS Ia 0 3 3 S AN O?;3NJa•'•`9NOa G3N3d0321,i;'138" 3140ad U3Sf i:'ts1Q.0wxl 03131 35 VdSi 03Abt ,;;Vdo' NO 1 1 I Add'. 3N 1 6v s 5N3AVa 3 ©©0'':©©L7 a El -LOOS,.;.' N3W0 ON INV 1 3AVH N3WV 331 MOS 31o, S O V TTJJNMYSCllOOI LESSON "By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Pattl's Triumphant Witness Philippians 1:1-2, 12-21. Memory Selection: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21. ' For four Sundays we shall study Paull] letter to the Philip- pians. Philippi was the first European city in which Paul preached. He and his compan- ion, Silas, were beaten and im- prisoned here. But at midnight they prayed and sang praises. unto God; and the prisoners heard them. The jailor was con- certed. Now Paul is writing to them from the prison in Rome. Despite his prison experiences he is not bitter against society. His letter is keynoted by the word, "Rejoice." Paul in his letter to the Church in Rome had said, "We know that all things work to- gether for good to them that love God." Now he was having a chance to prove the theory. He declares that the things which have befallen him have worked out for the furtherance of the Gospel. Guarded by a soldier in his own hired house he had liberty to preach. Even some of Caesar's household were con- verted. Other disciples became more bold to witness for their Lord. Paul's imprisonment at the Empire's capital resulted many more people hearing the Good News of Jesus Christ, It requires faith to always be- lieve that, "All things work to- gether for good to them that love God," A minister was be- ing twitted about his eleven - year -.old car. He took it good humouredly and then said, "Well, it's paid for; and so is every- thing else that we possess. I wonder if one reason` the Lord doesn't give us more money is to show our friends that happi- ness doesn't depend on the pos- session of things. Some one needs to remind this generation that the pattern of simple living as illustrated by John Wesley and the early Methodists and George Fox and the Society of Friends has a lesson for us today. Jesus said, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth." (Luke 12:15.) How much better to say with Paul, "For to me to live is Christ" ,than to say, "To live le money, fame or worldly plea- sures." When the goal and pur- pose of living is Christ then to die is always gain. Let Christ have dominion and we know life at its best. sists `stow `;;SPEC RADAR WARNING - The Portsmouth Air Force Base boasts a new high in auto safety since the installation of an electronic warning device. Pictograph above shows how it works. Radar waves are bounced back from an approaching car to a con- trol box that computes the speed at which the car is traveling. If the driver is exceeding a set speed limit, the neon sign (left) lights up. TIME TO REMODEL - Demolition would seem to be the only answer for ilea lopsic.edt. .l- ing in Felixstowe, England, a true householders nightmare. Actually, it's designed for laughs. The "structure" adorns the outside wall of a fun fair and is meant to .attract curious visitors to the scenes behind it.