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The Seaforth News, 1955-07-28, Page 3Cattle use up an enormous amount of energy fighting horn flies which rob them of sizable quantities of blood each year. This loss of energy and blood represents a great waste of for- age and feed. An animal bother- ed by the parsites may lose as much as half a pound in weight a day, and milk flow inay be reduced as much as 20 per cent. " * * The horn fly resembles the house f1y, but is only about half as large. The female lays its eggs on fresh cattle manure, and in warm weather the eggs hatch into maggots in less than a day. The maggot feeds for five days, then rests as a pupa for about a week before emerging as an adult ready to lay eggs in two days, Thus, the complete life cycle from egg to egg takes only two weeks. At this rate, there would be 12 generations in six months, from spring until fall, but fortunately, there is usually a decrees° in numbers during hot, dry weather, M * * Ilorn flim are primarily a pest of cattle, and spend most of their rives upon their unwilling hosts. They feed by piercing the cattle's akin and withdrawing blood. They usually attack the part of the animal's back that cannot be disturbed by a swing of the tail or head. The flies are sensitive "0 changes in weather. To avoid hot sun or rain, they may con- gregate on the under side of the animal, hut when the air is cool they frequently infest the base Of the horn -hence, the name "horn flies." a ¢+ A quick and easy method of controlling horn flies on dairy cattle, according to agrieultural chemists, is to sprinkle a table- spoon of 50 per cent methoxy - HAPPY TEARS - Patricia Ann O'Kane, 19, wipes tears of joy from her eyes after winning the title of "Miss New York, 1955" at Palisades Park, N.J. The blonde beauty is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weights 138 pounds and measurers 36, 24, 36. chlor insecticide along the back of the cow and then spread it around and rub into the hair with a few sweeps of the hand. It should be distributed evenly over back, neck and upper sides. Two to three weeks' control has been reported with this treat- ment. Four pounds of the insec- ticide applied at two-week inter- vals is said to be enough to con- trol flies on up to 20 milk cows for 10 weeks. Our innate urge to "save" things is both a bane and a bless- ing. It can manifest far-sighted thrift or the squirrel-like accum- ulation of odds and ends. Preserving something for fu- ture use is the usual motive for saving, and, on the face of it, nothing could be more commend- able, Discarding things that can be of further use is wasteful. The problem lies in deciding what has further usefulness, states a writer in "Farm Pro- gress." It's usually easy to evaluate material goods. But what of our accumulation of intangibles - the ideas, beliefs and prejudices which are often factors for or against progress? How many of these should be "preserved for future use" and how many should be discarded as having outlived their usefulness, if, indeed, some ever had any value anyway? The livestock industry, as agri- culture in general, is at a point where a re-evaluation of meth- ods and objectives is no longer optional but necessary. Many outmoded ideas and beliefs are in the way of the acceptance of changes which have already proved practical and economical- ly sound. To cite but one example: Much of the effort and cost of provid- ing the modern winter housing quarters for a dairy herd is ap- parently "'loves labor lost" The shed loafing barn, with its ac- cumulation of droppings well diluted with suitable bedding, offers a warm bed and a cool house which, given free choice, cattle prefer to the warm "clean" barn. The saving in labor is striking. Housing is simpler and cheaper, and the milk drawn from "shed" cows in a small milking parlor will likely show a lower bacterial count than that from their barn-stanchioned sis- ters. Itt Introduction of new methods may, in many cases, be slow be= cause of inadequate educational extension programs. But it can- not be denied that resistance to change is also a factor, and one which often seems to be stronger in agriculture than in industry, perhaps because of the larger number of individual "entre- preneurs" in the former. 1 * a Regardless of causes, the les- son is clear. The periodic "stock taking" of industry with its ac- companying re-evaluation of as- sets could well hemore often imitated by the farmer. Worn- out ideas and beliefs should be quickly "written off" as are any other worthless goods. Saving them may be more of a liability than the business will stand. 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It appeals to nations to forswear war because of the threat of the hydrogen bomb. So-Call9ed Glamour Is Ig Business In the streets of Nice, French- men stood and gaped, riveted to the pavement. And no wonder! -for their goggling eyes were taking in the curves of an outsize Marilyn Monroe, sprawling in swelling perspectives in the clouds. • An inventor was trying out a publicity gadget for projecting pictures in the night sky. But the French agree it's a device that should be used with dis- cretion. High above Broadway eighteen ]Hiles of neon tubing were used to show a shapely girl walking across a 100 -ft. display, demon- strating lingerie. The illusion of movement was achieved by flashing her on and off in ten successive positions -and the ef- fect wasso real that it is said that more than 800 cars bumped into each other on opening night because the drivers were look- ing the wrong way! Out -size publicity is big bus- iness these days. Even when Princess Margaret toured the West Indies, publicity muscled in. An hour before the Princess stepped ashore at Nassau, Baha- mas, a famous movie actress ar- tk'ived and borrowed the whole colourful. welcome. She charmed her way through the police cordons, posed for pic- tures using the royal yacht as background - and publicity agents made sure she was sched- uled for picture pages and head- lines around the world before she was escorted away. When the Princess visited the island of Grenada, there were protests because she would be using a closed car, An open American limousine was substi- tuted instead, shipped in by an enterprising sales agent who realized that useful publicity would accrue to the makers. Remember when plump King Farouk seemed to be chasing lit- tle Mimi Medart, a 'sweet and unspoiled American girl from St. Louis? As he bent low over her hand the flashbulbs popped. As if in flight, Mimi left her Deau- ville hotel and went to Biarritz . but she had scarcely signed the hotel register there than Farouk and his suite checked in behind her. Mitni's name flashed round tee world. So, incidentally, did that of her father, Bill Modart, the American hamburger king. But in the background was the au- dacious Italian publicist, Guido Orlando. When Farouk stepped from a hotel lift and kissed the hands of his friends, Guido made sure that Mimi was pushed well up front, her fingers extended. When he know that Farouk was moving from Deauville to Biar- ritz, he made sure of the royal choice of hotels. Mimi went ahead and it looked as if a bold, bad monarch was pursuing American innocence. In reality, it all made publicity ... for hamburgers! When Marqueez, the dancer, came to town, the amazing story went around that she was a Bur- mese temple dancer, the first ever to be allowed to dance on the public stage. On her birth- day, she insisted on riding on an elephant. It made a first-rate picture; Marquee; and Jumbo posed alongside a London bus. But then officials in Burma pretested that there were no female temple dancers in their country and the truth leaked out. Marqueez was the dancing daughter of a Sheffield tea deal- er. That vintage temple dancer story, however, helped to make her name. Publicity makes perfect . or at least it's often a decisive factor in moulding a career. Before Jane Russell betaine famous in "The Outlaw," pub- licity scouts thought up hun- dreds of news stories to put her on the front pages. In 21 years, 50,000 photo- graphs were distributed to make magazine and newspaper readers conscious of her curves in the greatest publicity build-up ever known. WOAD FROM HE WISE William Wrigley, the chewing. gum magnate, got into a con- versation with a fellow -passen- ger on a fast train. The subject of advertising cropped up and his companion asked hint why he kept on spending such fabu- lous amounts on it. "Your product is known ev- erywhere," he remarked, "why not stop advertising and save a few millions?" Wrigley thought for a moment and ,said, "This train is going' fast, isn't it?" "Yes, over sixty miles an hour," was the reply.. Asked Wrigley; "Why doesn't the railroad company unhitch the engine and let the train travel under its own momen- tum?" Housewife (to friend, encoun- tered in street): "A lot has hap- pened since I saw you last. 1 have had all my teeth out, and a trig. and television set put in". 'Britain Takes Mm At Drunken Drivers Drunken drivers are singled out for special attenion in new efforts by the British Govern- ment to reduce road accidents. The goevrnments' road traffic bill, introduced in the House of Commons July 4, is intended as an all-around effort to get tough with road offenders. With 6,250,- 000 vehicles on its gravely in- adequate road system, Britain has one of the worst traffic problems in the world. In 1954 there were 238,281 casualties on British roads, in- cluding 5,010 killed and 57,201 seriously injured. May, 1955, was the worst -ever month for road casualties, Public opinion is increasingly impatient with what it regards as governmental failure to take drastic action. An 485,000,000 ($238,000,000) road extension program was announced here July 5. But the opinion of the Labor opposition in the Com- mons and of a large part of the nation as a whole is that ex- isting plans are completely in- adequate. Furthermore, existing British laws are condemned for being antiquated and unhelpful in countering the road casualty problem. It is at this shortcom- ing in the law that the new road traffic bill is aimed. For one thing, the law on drunken drivers is to be changed. Hitherto, magistrates and juries have been confused in their ruling. It seemed that the law failed to dictingnish be- tween a driver who drove when drunk and a driver who recog- nized bis inability to drive and took a snooze by the road.eide or evert parked his ear alld Tent Monte to bed.. In this repect the law out- raged public (pinion, There was confusion among the police, the medical professions, and the courts. The new bill aims to iron out the anomalies and deal more severely with drunken driving through fines tm to 5300, disqualification, and prison sen - tomes. The charge of being drunk in charge of a car will be less ists will be encouraged to desist severe in the hope that motor - from driving if they think they are under the influence of al- cohol In the course of the Com- mons debate on the new road traffic bill, a former Laborite Home Secretary, Chuter Ede, made an urgent plea to the medical profession to show more responsibility in its court evi- dence on drunken drivers, Mr. Ede, a respected veteran mem- ber of the Commons, spoke from personal experience as a magistrate when he said that doctors often confused jurymen with their evidence. Leniency Charged Mr. Ede cited a doctor who declared in court that the term "drunk" was a colloquial term and he didn't know what it meant, Mr. Ede said it should be quite clear to a doctor when a driver was sufficiently drunk to be incapable of driving with- out due care. Mr. Ede made the serious al- legation that some doctors were inclined to be too lenient with middle-class drivers. In other words, what he appeared to mean was that there was a ten- dency to shield people who were thought to get drunk in a tra. ditional gentlemanly way. Mr. Ede's high standing is ex- pected to give considerable weight to this denunciation of some doctors for being soft with drunken drivers. Mr. Ede said he did not think there should be leniency for dangerous drive ing when 600 children were be- ing killed on roads every year. R. fiarelay Warren, B.A., eta Ezekiel and the Earlier Captivity 2 icings 24:8-i5a; Ezekiel 1:2-3; 18:30-32. Memory Selection: Repent and turn yourselves from alt your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin, Ezekiel' 18:30. This generation has witnessed the transfer of thousands of peace -loving people from their homes into Siberia and other parts of Russia. It is not a never thing. Nebuchadnezzar, the kind of the Chaldeans took Jehoialcim the king of Judah and carried him away captive. "Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove then* out of his sight." During the three months reign of his son, Jehoiachin, Nebuchadnezzer laid Beige to Jerusalem. Jehoiachin, with his mother, servants and princes went out of the city and s u r rendered. Nebuchadnezzar then took all vessels of gold and 10,000 captives to Babylon. Thi4e was the first stage of the cap- tivity of Judah. But God did not leave himsefi without a witness. Among the captives was a youth named Ezekiel. In the fifth year Ezekiel was called to be a prophet. God sent him to his own people in captivity, "independent children and still' -hearted." It was a hold message which he 11711: t deliver., "Repent, and turn yourselves' from all your trans ;reesions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin." It differs from much of the pop- ular religion today. Ezekiel said, "Cast away from you all your transgrl'tsinns, wh".eb7' ye have transgreesed; and mete you 42 new heart and a new spirit: Inc why will ye dies, 0 1101120 of Is reel? For I have no plel;4ure 108 the death of him that ciie'th, sante the Lord God: wherefore tuna yourselves, and live ye." Ezekiel'ts message is still timel-. Gaining confidence in yourself i:; not suf- ficient. We must turn from Otte sins 10 God or sin will be our ruin. People prefer to keep their pet sins and yet have a sense of assurance that all is well be-' tureen them and God. This is to false security. God abhors sin, We must abhor it, too. Only thee will we find refuge in God. NO PRIVATE EYES IN 5 PROVINCES The last census showed L detective agencies in Cana& --- 5 in Ontario, 3 in Quebec, 3 Be British Columbia, 2 in Manito- ba and 1 in Alberta. During 1951 they employed from 73 to 104, including 10 working pro- prietors, had a payroll of 5101,e 700 and total receipts of 5228,- 600. Fencing: Shipments of woven wire farm fencing totalled 11,- 152 tons in the first three mimes ters of 1953, 1,080 less than 100 1952. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N3 321 d0 D 213d Ci 3 S>� N CI 321 3s' d NO 30 3 Q S 3 0 V M aB 3W a Aril V 3 .1 v a:' S 1 "3 r� r'ti S Ad 3 O Ni n D 3 z N N 3 1 LOST - A little girl and her bathing suit. That's the story beh'ncl this picture taken at Palisades Park. Officer John Murphy found 18 -month-old Cathy Russo wanderoing on the amusement park's beachlookingharder for her morn than for her suit.