HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-02-24, Page 3The care which chicks receive
during the brooding period will
have a great effect on the finan-
cial returns from these birds at
a later date. Probably'"no mis-
take is more common than the
tendency to put too many chicks
In the brooder house, The ex-
cessive losses, unven growth,
and cannibalism that result are
often attributed to other causes,
yet it must be expected if the
house contains 'too many chicks
for its size. Now is the time to
check the available space and
equipment and to make plans
for the brooding season.
* * *
The brooder house should
provide at least seventy-two
square inches of floor space per
thick up to eight weeks of age
and the floor space should be
doubled it chicks are to be kept
in confinement for a longer per-
iod. In addition to ample space
a wide range of temperatures to
suit the needs of the chicks is
necessary, Over -heating, chilling
and drafts are harmful, with
over -heating the major fault.
Where chicks are being brooded
late in the spring some pro-
vision should be made to ven-
tilate the house and hold tem-
peratures down. When chicks
GREEN -This pretty young lady
sitting atop all that rabbit food
Is Katherine McDonald. She's
holding a giant head of lettuce
at the El Centro vegetable festi-
val.
MATCHLESS BEAUTY -Fiery (tal-
ian actress Silvana Pampaini is
the center of burning attention
at the second annual Cinema
Gala in Rome, Italy. Apparently,
there's nothing but good luck
In reversal of the ill-omened
adage, "three on a match."
crowd to the outer walls and are
seen to pant then the tempera-
ture is too high,
* * *
The choice of a brooder stove
is important, especially in con-
struction, as there is always risk
of fire. The stove should be set
up and in operation at least
three days before the chicks ar-
rive, A good rule to follow is
to have a temperature of 95 de-
grees under the brooder for the
first week and to reduce the tem-
perature 5 degrees each week. It
is advisable not to raise mare
than three hundred chicks un-
der one brooder. For the farmer
who raises four hundred to six
hundred chicks two brooders
would be more satisfactory.
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Ample feeding space is also
a necessity for fast, even
growth. Two four -foot feeders
per one hundred chicks would
p r o v id e approximately two
inches of feeding space per
chick which is satisfactory until
the chicks are six weeks of age.
If chicks are to be confined for
a longer period, then the space
per chick should be increased to
three inches. Some poultrymen
follow the practice of covering
the litter with newpapers for
two or three days while the
chicks are learning to eat,
• * *
An adequate supply of fresh
water should be provided at all
times. Two waterers of two -
quart capacity are more satis-
factory than one of a gallon
during the brooding period. If
later a change is made to a
larger waterer the small ones
should also be used for a short
period until the birds get ac-
quainted with the new supply,
* * At
Germination tests at home are
the practical and common sense
answer to farmers who question.
whether their seed is going to
germinate properly after they
sow it. This is particularly the
case with seed retained from
last year's harvest, the germina-
tion of which may be low. For
the common crop, home ger-
mination tests can he made suc-
cessfully on a sample which
will most nearly represent the
entire lot.
* * *
The usual practice is to use
100 -seed counts, in duplicate, or
more. The average of the separ-
ate tests is than used in deter-
mining the percentage of ger-
mination. * * *
Clean blotting paper, absor-
bent cotton, paper towels, or
cloth may be used to hold the
seeds. Place 100 seeds on the
material selected and cover
with the same kind of material.
Place on a large dinner plate
and cover with another one.
Sand may also be used for test-
ing seeds of cereals, corn, peas
and beams.
W. * *
Seeds should not be allowed to
rest in water. The material
should be soaked in water and
the free water allowed to drain
oIP before the reds are planted.
Uniform temperature ranging
from 65 to 85 degrees F. is
suitable.
Sprouts should not be renlov-
ed`and counted before they are
large enough to determine if
they are healthy and appear
capable of developing into use-
ful plants. Clovers and other
legumes in particular should be
examined carefully for broken
and abnormal sprouts that start
growth but are incapable of
continuing to grow into plants.
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CLIMB OF COURAGE - Backing agonizingly up the steps, Mary
Susan Evans, of East Spencer, N.C., was doing one of the hardest
things she will ever have to do in her life. Recovering from
polio, she was learning to walk again with braces. Mary Susan
is a symbol of an unusual demonstration of courage in .adversity,
She represents the institution in which she is being treated. The
Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital was built in a record 94
days with money subscribed In .42 days during the polio epidemic
In 1948. Valued at six million dollars, it has handled 1267
patients. It is one of the few in the country to take care of the
whole scope of polio from early phases through rehabilitation.
Among the many tombstones
in Westminster Abbey, where
normally only the great 'are
buried, is one to the memory of
a "humble faun labourer from
Shropshire whose only claim to
fame lies in the fact that he
lived to the ripe old age of 152:
Thomas Parr,
Though few today have ever
heard of him, "Old Parr", as he
was called, became for a span
of two months the talk of Lon-
don, and the guest of kings and
princes; it was on the express
orders of Charles I that he was
given an Abbey burial.
Born iii 1483- in the Shropshire
village of .Alberbury, he lived
in no fewer than ten reigns, from
that of Edward IV to that of
Charles I; and throughout his
life subsisted almost. entirely of
old cheese, milk, coarse bread,
small beer and whey.
For eighty years Old Parr re-
mainec a confirmed bachelor,
fending for himself in his small
cottage near the River Severn.
He had no eyes for women -un-
til one day in 1563 he met a
young woman little more than a
quarter his age, and he found
his second youth.
Th aged and wrinkled farm-
hand forgot his abhorrence of
women and became an 'ardent
suitor. He fell madly in love,
married after a short courting,
and in less than four years eves
the father of two children.
Alas, the romance proved
"Of coursethe way to be a suc-
cessful painter is to become e
Prime Minister first."
If
How Ir vh'ag er°dhi
Wrote est. eU9er
Irving Berlin grinned apolo-
getically.
"Sorry," he said, "there's not.
really a romantic story story be-
hind 'White Christmas,' It would
probably be a good publicity
story to say that I wrote it on
an Alpine peak or something
like that - but, believe me, it
would be too darned cold and
uncomfortable on an Alpine
peak to think about writing a
song there!
"To tell you the truth, I can't
even remember where I wrote
it. It was probably on a very
hot day! I had got an idea for
a stage show based on the dif-
ferent holiday seasons. Christ-
mas was one of the holidays,
and I gat a phrase into my head
for it. The lyric had to lead up
to 'And may all your Christ-
mases be white.' It wasn't easy.
either!
"The stage show didn't come
off, after all, so I put up the idea
to Paramount as the basis for a
film, and it resulted in "Holiday
Inn: Bing Crosby sang 'White
Christmas' in it, I didn't dream
that it would become such a hit.
It's easily the most successful
number I have written from a
commercial point of view."
Its success has been phenom-
enal. It was introduced, briefly.
in another picture, "Blue Skies."
Now it comes to the screen for
the third time in the film which
carries the tune as its title,
"White Christmas," once again
with Bing Crosby singing it.
Over eight million of the ori-
ginal Bing Crosby records have
been sold so far. Add this figure
to the sales of records made by
other artists and you get a total
of over eighteen million.
"One always hopes for a hit,
of course," Berlin remarked,
"but 1 defy anyone to say in
advance whether a number will
catch on or not. I was lucky
with 'White Christmas' in that
it thine out during the war and
it appealed to Servicemen serv-
ing overseas. It had a nostal-
gic appeal for them.
"One of the most touching
moments in my life was when
I went to New Guinea during
the war. I was taken along to
see a troop show on Christmas
Eve, and not many people knew
I was there. Nothing could have
been less Christmasy. 11 was
very hot, and there were palm
trees all around. There was cer-
tainly no snow! Then, at three
minutes to twelve, the whole
audience stood up and sang
'White Christmas.' I'm not
ashamed to say that I 'found
tears coming into my eyes."
Sleeplessness has resulted in
This new number, "Count Your
Blessings."
Berlin just couldn't sleep. He
tried pills. He saw the doctor
and was prescribed various
remedies, None worked. He
tried the old dodges of counting
sheep, the flowers on the bed-
room wallpaper, the leaves on
the tree outside his window.
One night his wife remarked:
"What's the use of counting
sheep? Why don't you count
your blessings instead?"
Berlin swears that her advice
worked. Counting his blessings
put him into a happy frame of
mind, and he fell to sleep. More
than that, Mrs. Berlin had pro-
vided him with an idea for a
song, and now "Count Your
Blessings" looks like joining the
other hits to his credit.
At one time he used to com-
pose his songs at the piano. To-
day he puts them straight down
on paper doing lyrics and mel-
ody at the same time.
"I work any time, anywhere
- at home, in hotels, in trains.
And on the back of an old en-
velope if it happens to be the
only piece of paper handy.
You've ,lust got to keep on writ-
ing!"
sweet but short. Soon after 'the
birth of his second child, Old
Parr lost his wife, and found
himself a widower with the res-
ponsibility of bringing up a
farpily'single-handed.
He now had "an eye for the
girls," however, and at the age
el 105 he disgraced himself by
becoming the father of an illegi-
timate child by a local lass,
Katherine Milton. This so filled
hien With, shame that imme-
diately after, the baby's birth he
did penance by spending the
night in Alberbury Church
clothed only in a white sheet.
He then married Katherine and
settled`doivn to a steadier life.
Thirty years after his second
marriage he wtis still threshing
corn in the Shropshire barns
with the energy of a man of
sixty. Indeed, though his eye-
sight had begun to fail by then,
he was still working at 150, and
appeared to be as robust as ever.
In 1635, two years later, the
Earl of Arundel got to hear of
.his remarkable longevity, and
determined to. take Thomas to
London to see the king. And
that proved his undoing.
Charles I was so delighted that
he treated Thomas Parr as an
honoured guest, inviting him to
dine at the royal table and over -
priming him with rich food and -
goledly wine. He provided him
with a Home in- the Strand, and
commissioned both Rubens and
Van Dyck to paint his portrait.
The excitement was too much,
and his digestion, so long ac-
customed to simple country fair,
revolted. Within two months of
his arrival in London Thomas
Parr was dead. He had died,
said a doctor who examined him,
from overindulgence In food
and 'drink. His heart and lungs
were sounder than those of most
omen less than half his age; and
had he been allowed to continue
with his quiet oountry life he
might well have lived for many
years more.
The icing was so distressed by
the news of his death that he
ordered that he be buried in
Westminster Abbey and that a
memorial stone be erected re-
cording his longevity,
Besides his stone in the Abbey,
we can still see the humble,
Shropshire cottage where Parr
spent a large part of his life.
AY SCHOOL
LESSON
Rev, R. Barclay Warren,
B.A., B.D.
The Church Proclaims the
Gospel
1 Corinthians 1:18-25; 2:1-5;
Colossians 1:24-29.
Memory Selection% 1 am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God ante
salvation to every one that be-
lieveth; to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek. Romans 1:16.
Gospel means Good News.,
The good news is that "Whoso-
ever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved."
But man will not pall until he
accepts the truth concerning
Jesus Christ. He cannot accept
it or believe until -he hears it,
He can only hear when sone -
one goes to him proclaiming
the message. Hence we who
have the news have the re-
sponsibility of telling other:;.
The gospel is really very
simple. "If thou shalt coneess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be sav::d.
For with the heart man be
lieveth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation." We mint
believe; we must confess. Tie
who believes is glad to cerlr' <s
for "Whosoever helleveth on
him shall not be ash'mu'd "
x: * 4.
Paul had one-track mind
when it carne to preaching,' He
said, "I determined not to know
anything among you, save Jesus
Christ and him crucified." This
was the sum and substance of
his preaching. He said, "My'
speech and my preaching was
not with enticing words of
man's wisdom, but in demon»
stration of the Spirit and of
power; that your faith should
not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God."
We need more preaching of this
type today. Only such preach.
ing will awaken men to their
lostness and urge them to re-
pent of their sins and believe
on Jesus Christ as their Say.
lour.
This is no time for insipid es -
Saye from the pulpit. The Good
News must be proclaimed in the
power of the Spirit that spew.
mar hear and find eternal life.
REAL SCREWBALL
It all happened in - three min-
utes fiat. The man walked into
the bar, ordered a shot of white
Isay, gulped it down, deposited
50 cents on the bar and walked
out. Quickly, the bartendee
scooped up the coin, put it in hie
pocket and turned to the next
customer - only to catch the
cold eye of the proprietor staring
at him. The bartender hesitated
a moment, then shook his head
sadly.
"What a screwball!" he con-
fided. "Leaves a 50 cent tip -•
and then walks out' without pay.
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Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
SKY-HIGH DOODLE -It took more than two miles of steal lo get
this'ucloodle""effect. You're looking straight up inside the new.
500 -foot TV -transmitting towerof station WENS. The lacy -like,
creation Weighs a hefty 74 tons,
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