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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-03-27, Page 5Little Luck With Prize Contests One of our neighbor has had much fun and 'some profit as a semiprofessional contestant, her earnings being expressed in washing machines, trips to places, some cash, and no little amount of fame. She says there's a trick to it -and no doubt there is, for my two attempts won me nothing. I just had a little fun, that's all. My specialty is soap. One day I came into the shop to straighten a nail, and as the shop radio is on the light switch I was presently aware of the opportunity of a lifetime. If I would send my name and address to the Hollywood box number, inclosing 25 cents and the wrap- per off whatever kind of soap I was using, I would receive - absolutely free -a lovely writ- ing pen which would perform under water, even on glass, 'for long years to come. Since I'd been spending 29 cents -for pens which wouldn't even write on paper, this sounded like a sure- fire deal, and I responded. No doubt the advertising fra- ternity. was doing research on soap habits, and planned to tabu- late the accumulated response with mercenary it en t on s, counting on the American Pub- lic to contribute the expenses as well as the information. That was all right with me. I stuck a quarter on a piece of cardboard with some carpenter's glue, wrote my specifications, and in- closed the wrapper off a can of McGruder & Frye's nenbaustic fish oil soap. I happen to use that kind of soap, even if no- body else does. Well, long years'ago the pogy, known to fish biologists as the menhaden, abounded off the coast of Maine and was a greet economic resource. The pogy is a buttonhole herring, but too oily and unpalatable for food, and. not exactly a game fish. In those days great greasy boats put out into the Gulf cif Maine and netted these pogies by the hundreds of thousands of barrels and pro- cessed them for a great variety of civilian uses. They made a lot of fertilizer, mink food, this and that, and they extracted oil. You could stand on the beach and see the smoke from the rendering, great clouds of black amudge on the horizon, Each boat would be eurround- ed by an oil slick for miles, and a stench you could leap against and hack pieces out ctd. Occa- sionally the warmer southerlies -would waft some portions of this HER FAVORITE - Licking her chops, suzy, a 4 -year-old Siam- ese cat, comes up for air while putting Nay her favorite food -corn on the cob. The feline Is a real sour -puss when milk is put in front of her but the corn is lust purr-fect. flavor ashore and Yankees would wish they were in Iowa. Some- times, when weather set in, these pogy boats would seek haven in some cove, and •it was almost impossible to keep their location a secret. People up on the bank • would get wind of it, But pogies were money, and until modern industrial chemistry took over they served their purposes. • A great deal of the pogy oil was used in paints. The oil had a permanency and a great power of penetration which impregnat- ed wood and preserved it for generations yet unborn. The oil would not dry, however, while a man stood around to see, and this is why Yankees squat on their heels during a conversa- tion, instead of sitting on a door- etep or leaning against a shed. Then some of the oil would be put in soap. This wasn't much of a soap by present standards, but it was fairly good for its time -when most families came by soap via their own leach - boards and long work. Fish oil soap came in cans -not in bars, flakes, or powder -and ,was used for industrial purposes more than personal ablutions wheze human skin was a factor. There was a maritime suggestion whenever you pried off a cover. So when the Farquar General Store bankrupted about 25 years ago I made them a small offer and received two cases of Mc- Gruder & Frye's product. They were glad to get any offer, he soap had no doubt beeh in in- ventorye, since about 1830. I use the stuff ara spreader and stick- er for fungicides in the orchard. True, modern chemicals for this purpose are available, but I won't need any for about 400 more years. ' scoop out a gob, dissolve it in a pail of hot water ,and pour it in the tank along with the nostrums recommended by the Extension Service. It works very well, although it makes my or- chard smell like a clam flat and attracts an occasional seagull who flies about in a bewildered condition and screams with an alien off -shore eloubt. I never got my pen., Some- where in Hollywood is a rascally advertising statistician who owns a quarter with glue on the mint mark and has never fulfilled the obligation of our agreement. The only satisfaction I have derived from this comes from my own imaginings - I do smile when- ever I suppose how they looked when they found the McGruder Sr Frye label. I presume they absconded with my money to teach me not to be fresh at a serious time. Then, more or less the same thing happened when they changed a soap powder from white to pink. The new pink powder had many advantages, they said, and the person who best described them in 25 words or less would receive a hand- sorne sports car. I want a sports car to take egg crates to the wholesaler, so I quickly enter- ed this contest. I use this par- ticular soap powder as a spread- er and sticker for nicotine - sulphate on my roses and door - yard pretties, and while the old white powder was all right, the new pink has a wonderful scent and I am delighted. Anybody who has ever sprayed nicotine -sulphate by a kitchen window will know why the scent is admired. My dooryard reeks of aromatics and joy, instead of nicetine-sulphate. When I spray, the Sweet William is sweeter and the rose improves. I was able to get my happiness about this soap into 25 words . But alasI The soap company never sent me a sports car. I didn't even get one of the 2,500 other valuable awards. I had to console myself with merely my mind's eye supposal of how they looked when they read my entry. 1 do hope there was a light chuckle, at least. - By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1(`ItOSS 1 Part of a church 6 LampreYe 9 011(01 12 Warm irt 34 now the hend 19. MSOUttie 7. Stain 18 Affirromilve l9 Wm% eon ntry 21. 13019.1er 22. Scheme 23. Style of type 22, Pellet ruled 29 19.7nertild 1210 811. Heated 31. Sally (lc* 32. Threatened 34. In n 1111191 59. Sufficient (poet.) 86.• Prene for 310.312 en t 37. P32111202 grain 19. Orion' room . 40. .1 nice or a • tree 15. Sittetert 44. Come about 47. Nothing 45. loorgl eeriest. • 25. Gerourt cite • 20. eme,er 51, S h a 528 .5 1)0 9111.97 1.01d 1. Small and 4 wen 0 3. Satiate 9. Sootier than 5. Clo in • G. Jac. 0111 (11112 7. linwalian wreath 8. Of old ego 9. Addl. tn 10 Small boily 12. 111111,1, of water 11, Chop it Whirlpool 3 Cringes 13. Of an ancient 4. sea,ht.,, race (1 Henri2011141. 20, Plaid cloth ,loth 71. Tropical Fruit ;7. 139110-10 22. 1)eep hole .2.1)0(n11ale 43. Itemnr19 (eh.) 9. (tree 1; 19. 510991 commune 30. Chemica 1 0. Cruise 1, Parliele 12. Writes • ;. 11n5rilsh !Mier 9 ittliee elmenes '0, Seed IMMUMM1 ',Corrode Answer etsewhere on this page. , • - WHAT'LL YOU HAVE? --"Bossy", one of eight head of cattle that broke out of a truck delivering them to the stockyards, acted like she knew her way around the clty. She headed straight for a nearby tavern but was captured before being able to sample any of its products. THIFAIN FRONT About 10 years ago cattle breeders first began to devehip an interest in the preservation of meadow crops as silage rather than hay. At that time it seemed a logical solution to the problem of producing high quality rough- age for winter feeding under the adverse w e a th er conditions which often plagued the haying season, The swine to grass silage gain- ed impetus when experiments conducted by the federal depart- ment of agriculture eroved that grass preserved in this fashion could satisfactorily replace even 'the best quality hay. These ex- periments showed grass silage t0 be relatively rich in protein, calcium and carotene. While somewhat lower in digestible nu- trients and net energy than hay, it was slightly higher in protein, * Two recent developments have further encouraged farmers to use this type of feed for both dairy and beef cattle. One was the invention of harvesting ma- chinery which grealty reduced the labor of handling green grass; the other - the horizon- tal silo which made possible self- feeding of silage. Studies at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa indicate that self-feeding of silage may reduce labor by as much as 75 per cent. There are still problems to be solved before horizontal silos can be considered completely satis- factory. One of these problems is to find a covering material which will prevent spoilage from exposure of the silage to the air. 4; * 4. Tests conducted by the United States department of agriculture may have solved this problem. Two neoprene -coated nylon cov- ers were tested for two seasons. Not only did they reduce spoil- age to an almost negligible amount but they proved to be durable and less subject to acci- dental damage from handling than other materials. * * * The two silos used in the tests were 14 feet wide, eight feet high, and 66 feet long. Their sides were made of matched lumber, lined with rolled as- phalt roofing, and their floors of concrete. They were located on well -drained sites, In 1954 both silos were Filled with second -cutting grass and clover. The contents of one silo had been put through a forage chopper. The other was filled with uhchopped forage. In both cases the silage was packed 'in with tractors during the filling period. Covers of unsupported plastic material, joined with tape, were applied and weighted at the edges with iron pipe. The tops were covered with sawdust. Al- though the taped seams appeared' airtitht, a differential in elasti- city of the cover and the tape caused puckering and allowed air to enter. Six to seven pounds of spoiled dry matter per square foot of silage proved this sealing technique to be unsatisfactory. * In 1955, unchopped and chopped first -cutting grass was again stored in the two. silos. The covering material originally planned was not available, so temporary leeaCt paper covers were lapped and weighted with a layer of fresh, unchopped grass. These temorary covers were removed one month later and replaced by neoprene -coated 'nylon with cemented seams. The . edges of the covers were weight- ed with railway ties, and the central portion with a two -to - three inch layer of sawdust. Top spoilage losses observed in this test showed- that the neo- prene -coated nylon reduced the losses of the previous year to two pounds per square foot from an average of 6.7 pounds. 4, * The coated -nylon covers were used exclusively in 1956, weight- ed in the same manner. Forage of chopped first -cutting orchard grass was harvested in May and the silos opened for feeding In December. Almost 90 per cent of the silage was found suitable for feeding. Total spoilage was re- duced to four -tenths of a pound per square foot of top surface - as compared with six to seven pounds in the first tests with un- su,pported plastic covers, As a result of these tests, coat- ed nylon may soon be playing an important role on many Cane- dian farms and ranches. It is made of 100 per cent nylon fabric coated with neoprene ruo- ber. A tarpaulin made of coated nylon is weather -resistant, light in weight and can be handled easily. When used to cover a horizontal silo it will not stick or freeze to the ensilage, and can be easily manipulated by one man to allow self-feeding of cattle. To date the agricultural appli cations of coated nylon have been limited to portable light- weight storehouses for grain. These recent developments sug- gest its potential value to • farmers. * * Canadian cattlemen have dis- covered that even when their animals are housed in. clean, dry surroundings they can become infested with lice. When not checked immediately, these little insects, the biggest is not more than one-eighth inch long, can prevent normal growth in young animals and reduce milk and meat production in mature cat- tle. Some badly infested animals may become so unthrifty that extreme depression, anaemia and even death may result. * * * On most farms and ranches chemical insecticides have made possible r egul a r preventative control programs. The cattle are inspected and sprayed in the epring, before they are let out to pasture or range, and again in the fall belore 'they are con- fined in feed lots or barns, Since complete coverage is necessary, each animal is thoroughly soak- ed by a high-pressure spray. Special attention is given all pro- tected places where lice are like- ly to congregate. If lice infestation occurs dur- ing the winter months when temperatures prevent outdoor spraying, control becomes more difficult. Even hand washing will not be practical unless a warm work area is available. Many farmers have solved this problem by hand -dusting with a 50 methoxychlor insecticide which is non-toxic to both hu- mans and animals. * * Lice control can be effectively cbtained by sprinkling a heap- ing teaspoonful eat the powder along the back of the animal, The powder should then be evenly distributed from the poll 'down along the neck and with- ers, and over the back, rump and upper flanks. It must be carefully work ed by hand through the animal's rough shag- gy winter -coat until it reaches the skin. Special attention should be given to the folds on the sides of the animals neck, the inner surface of the legs, ears, the bases of the horns, the tail and other parts of the body where lice are likely to be hid- den. Several applications, spaced at two to three-week intervals, may be necessary to keep infes- tation in check. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking NDAYSC11001 LESSON By Bev B. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. • The Church and World Evangelism Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 13:1-3; Romans 1:14-18. The martyrdom of five Amer- ican Missionaries in the Ecuador jungle two years ago focussed the attention of the world OA missions in a very vivid man- ner. The bravery and devotion of the young widows in carry- ing on at their posts continues to stab the consdience 'of a world„ spiritually sleepy, in the purstdt of fleeting pleasures and the things that money can buy. Why do people risk their lives to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who haven't heard? Is it worth -while? These young peo- ple, and thousands of other men and women like them, have gone forth in response to the Divine Imperative as expressed in the memory selection for today's lesson: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." (Matthew 28:19.) We dii have a definite respon- sibility in sending out the Good News. All must pray and pay. Some are clearly and distinctly called of God to go in persora -to those who sit in heathen darkness. At Antioch as certain prophets and teachers minia- tered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. Saul became the greatest missionary. He bore the glad tidings to Cyprus, through Asia Minor, into Macedonia and Greece and finally to Rome, the capital of the Empire. From there, others took the message into Central Europe and across the channel to the tiny islaiid of Britain. Our forefathers heard the Message because others obeyed the command of Jesus to preach the Gospel to all nations. Haven't other tribes and nations the right to hear it, too? Church members who have no interest in missions need to be convert- ed themselves. Then they will want to send the message around the world: "0 taste and see that the LORD is good." (Psalm 34: 8.) Communists by their zeal shame many Christians. We cer- tainly need a great spiritual awakening. Let there be mom emphasis on Missions and wee won't need so much ado about missiles. VII A BIT OF FARM HISTORY -This scale model of a farm threshing machine is the result of more than a thousand hours of loving labor by farmer Adolph Doelling. Each part was handmade in his rural blacksmith shop. The model develops three horse - ower on the flywheel and is self-propelled, fired by coal. Doelling said he built it so that today's youngsters could see type of machine their grandfathers use. ,eeleeeteleielleMe• WHERE TRAGEDY STRUCK-Volunieer workers ai Prestonburg, Ky., are showh searching the Big Sandy River for the bodies of 26 children and the driver who were killed when a school bus plunged off a 50 -foot cliff. The rain -swollen river dropped six feet lost night, and workers were then able to locate the bus and attempt to remove the bodice