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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-05-26, Page 3Seven years of thorough test- ing, selection, and a moderate degree of inbreeding, have pro- duced a new breed of bacon hogs at the Canada Department of Agriculture Experimental Sta- tion, Lacombe, Alta. It is a white breed with flop ears, which distinguish it from the Yorkshire, and contains the blood of the Landrace, Chester White and Berkshire breeds, but not of the Yorkshire. A * Work on the new breed started as a result of recommendation by a committee appointed by the Canada Department of Agricul- ture in 1948, to study the swine breeding situation in Canada and the work of the Department in relation to swine breeding problems. After investigating the work then in progress in Canada and visiting several_ leading swine research stations in the United States, the committee recom- mended extension of research and the improvement of the Ca- nadian Yorkshire, and urged development of a white bacon breed, with no Yorkshire blood in its foundation, suitable for crossbreeding with the York- shire. The latter approach was suggested as an effort towards utilizing hybrid vigor which has been demonstrated in many crosses between breeds differing in genetic background. * * * In 1947 the Lacombe Station obtained ten high-quality Berk- shire gilts from breeders in On- tario. These were bred to two Landrace-Chester White boars. Offspring of these crosses were backcrossed in 1949 and 1950 to three other Landrace- Chester White boars obtained from the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. In 1951 two pure Landrace boars were obtained from the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture to provide for the inclusion of more Land - race breeding in the project. * * * The foundation of the new breed therefore consisted of 10 Berkshire sows, 5 Landrace- Chester boars, which carried be- tween 47 and 71 per cent Danish Landrace blood and 2 pure Landrace boars. All animals se- lected were of good bacon type. 5 * * Since 1952 the herd has been closed and matings have been made from selections based on litter, individual, and litter mate performance. Tests following standard Record of Performance practices were conducted with litter groups of 4 pigs fed in a piggery maintained at Lacombe -for the purpose. These tests pro- vide records of feed used, rate of gain and an appraisal and scoring df carcass quality of leanness based on measurement and weight, * * 5 Through the development of the breed it has been compared under identical conditions with a high quality strain of inbred Yorkshires developed at La- combe. In 1953 the comparative testing of the Yorkshires and the crossbreds of the two breeds was extended to the Experimen- tal Station at Scott, Sask. In 1954 the test was extended further by establishing a unit of the new breed at the Experi- mental Faris at Indian Head, Sask. 5 * 5 From an analysis of the tests made at all three stations, the present evaluation ofthe breed is summarized by J. G. Stothart and Dr. H. T. Freedeen of the Animal Husbandry Division at the Lacombe Station, who have done most ofthe work on the new breed as follows:- * * * It appears that the litter size of the new breed, as measured by number of pigs born alive per litter, is about the same as the Yorkshire. The average birth weight of pigs of the new breed is about one-half pound greater than for Yorkshires. Average weaning weight of pigs of the new breed is some five pounds greater than for Yorkshires. In rate of maturity the new breed has a decided advantage. Average carcass score is very similar for the two breeds with a slight advantage for the York- shire. The crossbreds of the two breeds appear to be equal or superior to either breed in all important economic traits. Pigs of the new breed have good temperament, and the sows are good mothers, * * , Additional co-operative tests are in progress with commer- cial breeders by supplying them with boars to which half of their sows are bred, while their remaining sows are bred to their own boars. Results from these tests are not yet available. Not So Dummy If it weren't for the fact they looked so much alike, you'd never take Zeland Love to be Leland Love's brother, to say nothing of his twin. Leland is a printer who also farms and invents for himself. He is friendly and talkative. But Zeland has never worked a day in his life. He comes out only after dark and is the strong silent type. Just puffs on his pipe and listens -but says nothing. Aclose observer might think Zeland was a dummy, And that's exactly what he is. But Zeland is no joke. He is the latest of Leland's inventions, the result of lonely night driving between his business and his home. Every time he had to stop at a traffic light or a stop sign at some dark, deserted spot, he thought how easy it would he for a thug to step out of the shadows, point a gun at him, rob him, and take his car. And then he'd seen wo- men driving around by them- selves at night, and thought how risky it was. So he•made himself a •twin brother -its head made Of wood and tin - to serve as an after -dark guardian. Zeland sits or: the front seat puffing away on a pipe that's kept going by machinery in his innards: Once when Leland stopped at a filling station, the attendant didn't notice the fellow on the front seat beside the driver was a dummy. He got suite a shock when Leland introduced him. TWICE BLESSED A young husband did not like hash. His wife acquired a French cookery book, giving many re- cipes for using leftovers. The next evening one of the fancy mixture$ in a covered dish ap- peared on the table. The husband reached over and raised the cover, but the wife said: "Why don't you ask the blessing first, dear?" Replied the husband: "I don't believe there's anything here that hasn't already been bless- ed." 10 Of oat historical period 11. Strategy PUZZLE. o'tcss " t7. Proplfee°s cry 30. Man's nickname ACROSS 3 Less tmue.) 31. Outfit 1. Number 4. Unit of work 24 Assists 8. Head cook•. 6. Sun god 86, Trim 15 Mean 6. Tropical 23 Undermine 14 Eagle's neat rodent 130 al:tiered 15 Explosive 8� Departed ymbol Lor S1. Rich noise 19. Away Choc calcium 23 In general Clmr 19 Draw to a 9. favnrclose. CROSSWORD 19, Siouan indica 20 "rivate teacher 22 sea god 2i Exist 24. Strike 5. Tear 87. ^r nease ,otnt 28. Half (prefix) 29. Exit 81. Jewel 39. Rubber tree e 34. Exploded 59. Color 40. Aloft Fr r 4. iSeawee 41. Seaweed 44. Dad ` 44. Haul 40. Drone 48. Dash, 49. Dash 62, Corrode 62 Kind of rubbert 68 Entitled ttss 66, Ambasnndore 67. 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Breaks like these: Bob Hope happened to wan- der into a Greenwich Village FRANK SINATRA: Fate smiled on a singing headwaiter. night-club (and thus discovered Tony Bennett). A phone call from New York to Canonsburg, Pa„ came at just the right tune (and not three hours later, by which time Perry Como would have signed a long-term lease on a barber shop). Harry James, Benny Good - man's trumpet star, decided it was time to form a new band (and happened to see a young singer named Frank Sinatra at the same time). Eddie Cantor needed a vaca- tion (and picked a resort where a kid named Eddie Fisher was appearing), There are dozens of great singers out of work, hundreds clamoring for auditions, thou- sands eking out a living singing in roadhouses and cheap night- clubs. •How come Bennett, Como, Sinatra, Fisher and the handful of top stars made it pend these others didn't? They got the breaks. This is not to. say the chan- ters on top today aren't talented. They have to be or the public wouldn't accept them. But many of the others are just as talented -maybe more so, They just KE FAMOUS MALE SINGERS haven't been at the right place at the right time. Eddie Fisher got his good breaks, like most of the stars, after a long string of bad ones. Once, for example, he was sing- ing on a radio station in his home town, Philadelphia. He got an audition with a barn- storming band led by Ray Be - duke. He was great. Beduke liked him. It was all set for Fisher to join the band in a few days. Eddie sat by the phone, wait: ing for the call. The phone didn't ring. It wasn't until weeks Tater - sad, depressed weeks - ,that he learned the reason. The band had broken up just before it reached Philly again. * 5 And then there was the time he got a record contract. He was only 18, and he'd just fin- ieshed a 13 -week stint at the Copacabana as a production singer. People heard him and there he was where he'd always dreamed of being -making a record. It was just a small spot on Columbia record with' the Marlin Sister,, but it was a re- cord. There was just one trouble - one bad break. It was during the musicians' strike, and the record just had a harmonica background and if.,, west no- where. "+t But then, one day, out of the clear blue Catskill sky, came the good break. Eddie Cantor came to Grossinger's, a Catskill Mountain resort, and heard Ed- die sing. He took him with hint on a tour and helped him to his RCA cotnract, And that break paid off. It was the same sort of good break for Tony Bennett, when Bob Hope heard him singing in a Greenwich Village night-club. He was just singing one number ber the production number - but Hope liked him. And, like Cantor with Fisher, he was go- ing on tour and needed a young male singer. * * 4 Bennett's break led to another one. On that Hope tour, Mitch Miller of Columbia records heard him and signed him to a record contract, Miller just "happened" to hear him. Perry Como has had his good and bad breaks, too. He was making a pretty good living - for Canonsburg, Pa„ anyhow -- at barbering. He had his own shop and netted $125 a week. And he sang at local affairs. Then, more or less on a dare, he auditioned for a spot with a Cleveland band. And he landed it and decided to give singing a fling. He could always go back to cutting hair. He sang with bands for nine years, the last seven with Ted Weems. When the Weems band broke up, in '42, he decided he'd had enough one-nighters and long bus rides. He was going to sign a lease on a new barber shop -when a call came from New York. They were offering him a CBS radio show. He de- bated a while, then took it (he could always open up another shop). That was his break. From then it's been onward and up- ward. And now he's one of the tops in the world. He can al- ways open*up the barber shop. Frank Sinatra is generally recognized as the bestchanter of therm all. But it took a great big break for him to get wide- spread public exposure without which a singer is just another unemployment check, He'd been struggling for years. He'd won amateur hour contests, done countless radio shows, sung in night-clubs. In fact he was a $25 -a -week sing- ing headwaiter at a New jersey club when the fates finally smiled. This was in June. 1938, and Harry James had decided to leave Benny Goodman and start his own band. While he was thinking about TONY BENNETT: First Hope, and then record man Miller. the big move he just "happen- ed" to catch Sinatra's turn at that nightclub. He signed him. They toured the country,' until the James outfit ran into book- ing trouble in Los Angeles. And it "happened" that Tommy Dor- sey's band was there, too, with an opening for a singer. James let Sinatra out of his contract. Frank went with Dor- sey. And he made the records that turned him, within a few years, into the man who made swooning a national pastime. Things have to "happen" be- fore a chanter becomes a star. rs,,.t>� :•1 EDDIE FISHER AND FANS: Before the autograph stretch, a long stretch of waiting. Hog -calling itcher About fifteen years ago, there showed up in the Brooklyn Dodgers' spring training camp at Clearwater, Florida, a large right-hander by the name of Pea Ridge Day. He said he was named after the little hill town of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and he claimed to be a great pitcher. But he also claimed another great distinction. He boasted that he was the champion hog - caller of Arkansas and several adjoining states. And,without any encouragement, he pro- ceeded to give a demonstration of his art on the spot. He emit- ted a terrific and blood -curdling hog -call. The guests dozing in lobby chairs tumbled to the floor in terror, while others, in their rooms, besieged the switchboard with an xi o u s queries as to whether the fire siren just heard indicated a blaze in the neighborhood. But Pea Ridge Day, was a pitcher after manager . Wilbert .Robinson's own heart. The jo- vial - Uncle Robbie was soft on big pitchers particularly if their heads weren't as strong as their arms. And Pea Ridge Day stuck with the team. During ball games, Pea Ridge was a sight to behold and listen to. Every time he struck out a man he would cup his hands and give forth with one of his cele- brated hog -calls that would al- most lift the scalps of the fans In t;lrl Amusing as he was to his fel- low -players, the end of Pea Ridge Day was a tragic one. One night, with his team mates fast asleep on a train that was taking them from Chicago to Pittsburgh for an important series, Pea Ridge suddenly, in the dead of night, let loose with one of his terrifying hog -calls that awoke every man on the train. No one could sleep the rest of that night. Weary from lack of sleep, the team lost the game the next day., -The players blamed the loss on Pea Ridge Day. They stopped 'laughing at his antics and began to avoid hits. From an amusing clown he turned into an annoying nuisance. Pea Ridge Day was hurt by the scorn of his team mates. Something seemed to snap in- side him. He turned morose and sacs and kept to himself. His pitching ability fell off and soon completely vanished. The Dodgers let him out. And, not long after, Pea Ridge Day com- mitted suicide. It was a sad end for a screw- ball rookie who had all the ear- marks of becoming a great pitcher. But the clown had had his day. When they stopped laughing at him, - his life was no longer worth living. And so he stepped off the stage -forever, Who writes poetry imbibes honesty from the poisoned lips of life, -William Rose Benet, SHORT SNORTS Home pigeons have been known to carry messages over 800 miles . , despite the fact that they have been protected from hunters for many years, the quail in Ohio are at their lowest population point in his- tory one pinch of snuff will kill a fish or snake almost in- stantly and will anesthetize a turtle for several hours . the humming bird makes up to 200 wing strokes per second, while the wild duck makes only eight . . , male ants live but a short time in adult state -the workers exist only a few months -average life of a queen ant Is twelve months.. , the iridescent color of a duck's wing patches Is not due to pigment, but of sub- microscopic prisms breaking the light on the -surface of the feathers. - DIRTY SKUNKS ON INCREASE •• A group of gangsters entered a country tavern where. several e telling were t ng stories and enjoying their beer. "We want privacy!"the leader di- vulged He drew a pistol •e and fired twice. "All you, dirty skunks get out of here!" The customers rushed out -all ex- cept a Texas cowboy who stood calmly watching the. scene. "Well?" snapped the gangster, waving his smoking gun.. "Shore were a lot of 'em, wasn't there, Podner?" the cow- boy drawled. (rte Gordon Smith. Cultivation of the garden, even a large one, need not and should not be a back breaking chore. It is amazing how much easier and quicker the job is done with tools that have long handles. Of course, for getting in close to tiny flowers or vegetables, for weeding and a few other deli- cate jobs, it may be necessary to get down on luiees or knee pads but with a little care a great deal of the ordinary cultivating and planting jobs can be hand- led with a minimum of stoop. ing. Spades, forks, dutch hoes, spudders and many of the hand cultivators can be purchased with good long handles which permit operation without any personal bending at all All of these. and other tools too, 03 cluding the lawn mower, should be remembered will work easier and faster if their cutting edges are kept sharp and any moving parts regularly oiled. KEEP PLANTING Too much emphasis cannot bee laid on spinning out the plant- ing. It is much better 10 plant a little every week for a month or so than to try and get every- thing in at once. There is no good reason why moot vege- tables and a lot of flowers can- not be planted for many weeks yet and this gradual planting will produce far •more satisfac- tory results than sowing or set- ting out all at once. The vege- table garden particularly, should be planted gradually with only a portion of the carrots, beets, beans, corn, etc., sown at one time. In the flower line, experienced gardeners will sow such thing,/ as zinnias, petunias, asters, cos- mos and other annuals in little plots here and there in the flow- er garden.` When these come up they will leave only a few plants in the original position and transplant the surplus to other parts of the garden. Handled carefully, these transplants will come along almost as quickly as those left untouched and thus a large garden can be planted et trivial cost. NOT TOO DEEP Almost everyone is inclined to plant far too deeply. With tiny seed such as that of lettuce, care rots, cosmos, zinnias, poppies, and alyssum, which are not much larger than the head of a pin nr shingle nail, it is not necessary to cover at all. We sow these in the finest soil and merely press in. Then, if possible we keep the soil dampened until germination starts. With larger seeds such e2 nasturtiums, peas, beans and corn, one should cover lightly, say a quarter to half inch. With bulbs or corms of gladiolus, dah- lias, ahlias, or potatoes, one plants four to eight inches deep. a Llpsidedown to tsrevent Peeking s 9 3593 3J. tiVd b 31H a 1 da wit 1 p4 V ;rev 6 71N I sazie as 'd 23a� ti a 1213V SdaHD n a 1 N7. a" N n SN en 0 d a 0 A CI d dO Vcl S a ND 3A yin n 4 0 O BUTTER LUCK NEXT TIME-Frecki- ed Robert Maslin 12, was die . qualified lified when he tried to enter his bullfrog in the butter churn- ing contest at the third annual! Butter Day Celebration. Robert wanted to drop the frog into the bucket of cream and let The croaker churn if by kicking around, Might have worked, too, but the judgest thought the boy - should do the churning himself.