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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-07-21, Page 3hew 1, FARM FRONT Jam'Q An average of 7,000 pounds Of 3.4 per cent milk per acre has been produced • by 16. S. Brigham on his farm near St. Alban's, Vermont, l a r go l y through scientific pasture man- agement. This compares with the On- - tario average of 2,000 pounds per acre and much less in Que- bec. * * * The Brigham farm consists of some 260 acres of crop land and 180 acres of rough pasture. The latter is estimated by Brigham to be equivalent in carrying ca- pacity to about 60 acres of crop land. His herd consists of 125 milking Jerseys and an equal number of young cattle. • * During a recent visit to the Tarin by representatives of the C -I -L farm advisory service, it was learned that to maintain the high rate of milk production, Brigham uses a three -crop rota- tion of corn, oats (as a cover crop) and hay. Grass is kept down for about five years, al- though this varies with the sea- SOn S. e * Thirty acres of corn are grown for silage and fertilized at the rate of 300 pounds of 8-16-16 per acre powed down and an- other 300 pounds of the same mixture applied with a planter, Later, a side dressing of 150 . pounds of amonium nitrate per :acre is used. Following corn, oats is grown as a nurse crop. This is fertilized with 200 pounds of 8-16-16 applied through the drill with the spouts off. This ensures good establishment of grasses and clovers (ladino, al- falfa and brome) for hay and pasture. * w After each cut of hay the sod is top -dressed with 150 pounds of 5-10-10 per acre. Pastures receive an annual application of 500 pounds of 8-16-16 or 0-15- 30 per acre and provide the bulk of roughage from early May un- til frost comes in October. Any pasture supplement required is provided by corn silage. In ad- dition to providing hay and pasture, grassland fills six silos each year. This quality roughage feeding is supplemented by 16 per cent protein grain fed at an average nate of one pound protein to 'three pounds of milk, * * * A new concept of building up moil fertility is being introduced this summer to the high value cash crop areas of southwestern Ontario. * 0 0 The practice, known as "plow down", involves the broadcast- ing of fertilizer on harvested fields in late summer or early fail and plowing or discing it into the soil. This leaves the grower with the necessity of making only one fertilizer ap- plication the following year by eliminating the early spring ap- plication during the busy plant- ing season. Plow down is ex- pected to become wide -spread in areas where two annual ap- plications of fertilizer is an ac- cepted practice. * * * According to Thomas Henry of the Chatham district of the C -I -L agricultural chemicals department, plow down has .many other advantages besides easing the pressure of spring work. He says that it does away with winter fertilizer storage problems and requires no extra handling. It increases yields by providing extra nutrients re- quired by many crops that re- reive planter treatment only. The deeper application of plant food by plow clown gets it into the moisture zone which en - Boot By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent • Kitimat, B.C.-(NEA)- Many of the answers to the problem of relocating and dispersing American industry as a defense against atomic attack can be found in this amazing new com- munity in northwest Canada, 100 miles south of Alaska. In fact, the very heart of this industrial project, a 450,000 - horsepower generating plant, is probably the best protected source of electricity against A- bombs on the North American continent. Its site is hewn out of solid rock in a cavern large enough to house the liner Queen Mary, 1,400 feet inside a moun- tain. Many of the objections which have been made against greater dispersal of U.S. industry were raised when the Aluminum Com- pany of Canada announced that it planned to invest 275 million dollars to create a brand new, major aluminum smelter up here. But by imaginative use of the latest engineering and scientific developments and modern cane munity planning techniques, this area which• a few years ago was virgin, rugged mountain wilder- ness is well on its way to becom- ing a new industrial center of Canada, * Alcan (Alminum Company of Canada) is already second only to Alcoa in the U.S. in aluminum production, and this city's output should make it the world leader. The city could have an economic impact on the whole northwest section of the U.S. There are now more than 6,000 permanent residents of the area, including families. The flow of other private industry here indi- cates that 50,000 persons might be calling this place home in a 'few years. Just about every feature of Kitimat, including getting people to enjoy this remote area with its rains- and snows was once said to be impossible to create. But every technical, transpor- tation and social problem has been licked so thoroughly that Alcan plans to raise its invest- ment in Kitimat to half a bil- lion dollars. Here are some of the things taking place today which the pessimists said would never happen: Water from the 5,500 square miles of mountain lakes which used to run off unused to the east is now profitably flowing west. The eastern end was dam - In Can dian Wilderness Shows Way To industrial Dispersal PT. ST, JOHN PRINCE 7•RUPERT KITIMAT� 'VA vco �L VANCOUVER MIS'LAND MPacific Ocean BOOM -SITE in Northwest is located on map. Kitimat is 100 miles north of Vancouver. med at the drainage point and. a tunnel 25 feet in diameter and 10 inlies long, was cut through solid rock at the west end to capture the immense power of the water which comes from melting snow. The electricity is carried on transmission lines to the smelter 50 miles across some of the rock- iest, most snow -bound terrain on the continent. By using the latest navigation aids ships bring alum- inum ore all the way from Ja- maica. They finally pass through the treacherous 80 miles of tide- water channels connecting Kiti- mat with the Pacific, arriving several tines a week. * * * Getting permanent workers to pull up stakes with their fami- lies and move to this remote, rainy -snowy - although never sub - zero - area was one of Alcan's biggest problems. Getting families to move anywhere is one of the big arguments against attempting industrial dispersion in the U.S., too. But Alcan called on the serv- ices of Clarence Stein, a world famed city planner, and the city planning firm of Mayer and Whittlesey, It turned them loose on all aspects of creating an at- tractive town which would lure and hold enough workers to keep th eplant going. The planners then took up such things as giving every kitchen a view of a white -topped mountain, locating residential sites so that prevailing winds would not blow plant fumes to- ward homes and locating schools so that kids did not have to cross major streets to reach school. They blueprinted such things as mosquito - control methods, shopping areas, schools, churches,. automobile exressways, c i v i c centers and sports areas. Although the first grass is just beginning to show on the lawns of the 500 modern new homes which have been built, the suc- cess of the planning effort is showing all over. Just . about every resident of the new town is happy with it. The citizens have complete democratic control of the city and are holding elections. With the help of Alcan, workers pay $700 down and $60 a month for a $14,000 house. Every house, built by private contractors, has been sold. Most of the 450 houses under construction al- ready have been purchased. * * * Private capital has moved in with concrete block factories, lumber mills, banks, industrial gas plants, hotels, stores, restau- rants and paper firms have scouts • TO LURE FAMILIES into wilderness industrial town railed for modern community planning technique. Schools were built as the plant went up. These are second graders at Kitimat, POWER IS FIRST THING that started the huge aluminum prlo- jeot in Kitimat, B.C. Here's a wintertime view of the transmissions lines that carry electricity across 50 rugged mountain miler. SMELTER SITE CARVED out of the wilds to make use of the power was second step. This is -an airview of the Kitimat smelter,. Ship in foreground was landlocked for construction office. i31 town lining up plant sitks. To reduce, Kitimat's remote- ness there are two airline flights in and out each day. Passenger seaplanes fly in from Vancouver, 400 miles south, in about three hours. Twice a week passenger steamers arrive from Vancouver and a spur of the Canadian Pa- cific RRailway from Terrace, Terrace, B.C., 43 miles away, connects with the town. Convinced that the whole idea is now a success, Alcan is going ahead with major expansion o its plant and is ready • to self power to any other industry willing to move up here. Work is going on to double the smelter's capacity to 331,5011 tons annually. This will be com- pleted in 1959. The ultimate planned capacity is 550,000 tone a year which will make Iiitinta3 the largest aluminum smelter he the world. courages deeper root growth, thus making the plants more resistant to drought conditions. * * * Mr. henry maintains that fer- tilizer applied to trashy surfaces and plowed under, speeds de- composition of fibre stocks into humus, thus enriching the soil and increasing its capacity to hold water. A heavy layer of undecomposed trash prevents water from moving up through the soil. * * * Some knowledge of the life cycle and habits of crop -destroy- ing insects can be a useful guide to growers as to what insecti- cides they should use for more eficient control. * * * The million species of insects in the world today, of which 80,- 000 occur in North America, are divided into two general classes. There are chewing insects which destroy plants by tearing and chewing at their tissues, and sucking insects which pierce through plant tissues and suck out the juices in the same way as a mosquito sucks the blood out of a human. 10. Memento CROSSWORD PUZZLE A 0111050 1. Air Claus ' 6. Sagacious 10 ltet'ate 31 Resembling a thread 18 2muses 31. Concerning 16 ohinese measure 19 Other 9.8. Literary bits 19 Particle of electricity 21 Cracicle 23 nalieYnil 1i" war 26 Nourishes 26 Twilled fabrics 27 Bearing 28. ti? defeated 20. Posts 83. Sources of metal 24. Demolish 2136. Self (Scot.) 6. Bounder 27 Cronies 8 Pronoun ,40. Near D ot rid of Peered Peered 146 Books of fiction , Ostrich 8 Concede DOWN 1. Older 2. Bright 2. By birth 4 Black "quid. 6. Accompanies S- I:overng e 7.0 freeholders 3.0 iemienl symbol 9. 0lined by labor 11. Speak imperfectly 12, Peruses 14. Wings 18. Fields of combat 20. Tonded 21. Weakens 22. Observe by touch 24, Not cos 23. Abrading tnol 97. Gone 23. Of a place 29. Speaker 30. Tropical tree 31, Fuse again 22. Coasters 34, Foray 37, lentreacY 40. Piece out 41. And not 42. Itumminghlyd 47, Decade 43. 1•lxelamatlon Answer elsewhere on this page. Bugs like the Colorado po- tato beetle are chewing insects and are therefore best con- trolled by using insecticides sprayed or dusted on the plants. The insect takes the poison in- to its stomach while feeding and is invariably killed. Stomach poisons, however, are of little u s e against sucking insects which siphon their food from inside the plant below the level of the insecticide sprayed on the leaves. An aphid is an ex- ample of such insects and these are best controled by spraying with an insecticide which kills by direct contact with the body. The eating habits of maggots which get inside roots and stems have both chewing and sucking characteristics and these are controlled by use of other spe- cial chemicals. Recently, an all purpose spray and dust was in- troduced which can control both sucking and chewing insects as well as' plant diseases with one treatment. * * * Can insects take over the earth? A writer in the C -I -L Oval answers with a note of warning that the descendants of one female cabbage aphid, each season, number l,560,000,000,000- 000,000,000,000. GOOD ADVICE The etiquette columnist' of a Manhattan newspaper received an anxious note from a 19 -year- old , young lady. "I stayed out until 3 a.m. the other night. My mother objects. Did T do wrong?" The lady journalist replied: "Try to remember." MERRY MENAGERIE "Ob, he's a CHINESE French poodle!", HW Y N11001 LES O l It Barclay Warren B.A.,.,B.D. The Southern Kingdom Over- thrown, 2 Kings 24:20b-25:12 Memory Selection: Be not de. ceived; God is not hocked: for • whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians' 6:7. Nebuchadnezzar having taken Jehoiachin captive to Babylon, ,proceeded to make his uncle, Zedekiah, king in his place. Zediekiah promised to obey Nebuchadnezar but after nine years he rebelled. The Chaldean army came to Jerusalem and after two years took the city. Zedekiah and his men who es- caped in the night were soon overtaken, Zedekiah witnessed his sons being slain and then his own eyes were put out. The temple was burned as were many other of the great build- ings of Jerusalem. Another great multitude of people were car- ried captive to Babylon. Only the poor of the land were left to be vinedressers and husband - men, Why did this punishment fall upon God's chosen people? "Zedekiah - did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not him- self before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord." "The Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he 'had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and"despised his words, and mis- used his ‚prophets, until the wrath of te Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the"- Chaldees." The reason is clearly stated, God used a pagan nation to punish his own people. To whom much is given shall much be required, Many believe Hitler was a scourage in the hands of God: We have escaped from. the hands of this tyrant. But if we fail to take heed to our ways and turn from our sins to serve the living God, He can easily raise up another tyrant to sub- due us. May we repent and be- lieve .on the Lord Jesus Christ. IN TILE GROOVE An Austrian pianist was en- gaged as accompanist to an ama- teur singer whose voice kept continually going off-key. At last the Austrian threw up his hands i31 despair. "Madam," he said, "I give up the job. I play the black notes, I play the white notes -and al- ways you sing in the cracks." Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain,. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ' ©MEIE}`i 1"�'IE©® g��i1mammi�, td000ml�\e^.jy I� gmomm�I�I�©tl'nd ©© `'kni, fi ©EI -L�7L +G` tIBOUIVIEOW PR�I4©�IJ��•.1 ©©011 r'n ©EUM IA 16?,y ECJ ]fr VggOOM MEM ri .tRONJWMOf L EQ. u®©o© nK ©F i AMUOKOEl 1F MOnMifi1 I1Otr r ODD ONE OUT - It's not because Odd Spot is really odd that ha eats by himself. The pup at the top of the photo, who is named for the lone spot on his head, has his special pan only because there isn't room for•him around the community food tray. 'The 13. Dalmatian pups are owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Blumenthal +-a 1 2 3 4 5 b, cir l•• a 7 s 9 Id i3 !4 �Y`j6C t3 16 :., 0 :... .. i7 '.y ,y ✓fi. ra 39 20 a24 21r . 82 23 24VA 25 Y%2G }27 ,. 28 29 v 3a 3/ 32 33 �34u ,. 3s 36 t. A.. 32 \ 58 39' `; • 13x: 40 •. ' 41 42 43 44 ' . 45 ,� vA.'.:,' W3'., 4? 40 S ire y.1e 47 'i"44 Answer elsewhere on this page. Bugs like the Colorado po- tato beetle are chewing insects and are therefore best con- trolled by using insecticides sprayed or dusted on the plants. The insect takes the poison in- to its stomach while feeding and is invariably killed. Stomach poisons, however, are of little u s e against sucking insects which siphon their food from inside the plant below the level of the insecticide sprayed on the leaves. An aphid is an ex- ample of such insects and these are best controled by spraying with an insecticide which kills by direct contact with the body. The eating habits of maggots which get inside roots and stems have both chewing and sucking characteristics and these are controlled by use of other spe- cial chemicals. Recently, an all purpose spray and dust was in- troduced which can control both sucking and chewing insects as well as' plant diseases with one treatment. * * * Can insects take over the earth? A writer in the C -I -L Oval answers with a note of warning that the descendants of one female cabbage aphid, each season, number l,560,000,000,000- 000,000,000,000. GOOD ADVICE The etiquette columnist' of a Manhattan newspaper received an anxious note from a 19 -year- old , young lady. "I stayed out until 3 a.m. the other night. My mother objects. Did T do wrong?" The lady journalist replied: "Try to remember." MERRY MENAGERIE "Ob, he's a CHINESE French poodle!", HW Y N11001 LES O l It Barclay Warren B.A.,.,B.D. The Southern Kingdom Over- thrown, 2 Kings 24:20b-25:12 Memory Selection: Be not de. ceived; God is not hocked: for • whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians' 6:7. Nebuchadnezzar having taken Jehoiachin captive to Babylon, ,proceeded to make his uncle, Zedekiah, king in his place. Zediekiah promised to obey Nebuchadnezar but after nine years he rebelled. The Chaldean army came to Jerusalem and after two years took the city. Zedekiah and his men who es- caped in the night were soon overtaken, Zedekiah witnessed his sons being slain and then his own eyes were put out. The temple was burned as were many other of the great build- ings of Jerusalem. Another great multitude of people were car- ried captive to Babylon. Only the poor of the land were left to be vinedressers and husband - men, Why did this punishment fall upon God's chosen people? "Zedekiah - did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not him- self before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord." "The Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he 'had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and"despised his words, and mis- used his ‚prophets, until the wrath of te Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the"- Chaldees." The reason is clearly stated, God used a pagan nation to punish his own people. To whom much is given shall much be required, Many believe Hitler was a scourage in the hands of God: We have escaped from. the hands of this tyrant. But if we fail to take heed to our ways and turn from our sins to serve the living God, He can easily raise up another tyrant to sub- due us. May we repent and be- lieve .on the Lord Jesus Christ. IN TILE GROOVE An Austrian pianist was en- gaged as accompanist to an ama- teur singer whose voice kept continually going off-key. At last the Austrian threw up his hands i31 despair. "Madam," he said, "I give up the job. I play the black notes, I play the white notes -and al- ways you sing in the cracks." Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain,. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ' ©MEIE}`i 1"�'IE©® g��i1mammi�, td000ml�\e^.jy I� gmomm�I�I�©tl'nd ©© `'kni, fi ©EI -L�7L +G` tIBOUIVIEOW PR�I4©�IJ��•.1 ©©011 r'n ©EUM IA 16?,y ECJ ]fr VggOOM MEM ri .tRONJWMOf L EQ. u®©o© nK ©F i AMUOKOEl 1F MOnMifi1 I1Otr r ODD ONE OUT - It's not because Odd Spot is really odd that ha eats by himself. The pup at the top of the photo, who is named for the lone spot on his head, has his special pan only because there isn't room for•him around the community food tray. 'The 13. Dalmatian pups are owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Blumenthal +-a