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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-09-22, Page 3tl� iy 9r I,^ t ERFAR- Gwen.d.oli.n.e P. Claxk,e 11 variety is the spice of !lie then last week we had it! First a , welcome change in the weather which gave us a chance to en- joy what came after ... a session with the preserving kettle, be- ginning a braided rug, visitors for two days, threshers for two meals, 'and then the Cahadian National Exhibition . . and more of the same - coining up - except for threshing, that is over and done with. Not so the canning and pickling, much of it still on the waiting list - and it won't wait too long either - and more visitors are with us again. We are glad to see them, of course. Partner and 1 went to the "Ex" for opening day and we did enjoy it. We watched the March Past of the Boy Scouts as they gave the Salute to their Chief, Lord Rowallan. For over an hour on they came, those boys, in a never-ending stream of marching feet. Boys and lead- ers of all nations; light skins and dark skins, not all in the Boy Scout uniform as we know it, but in the traditional uni- form of their own country the Swiss with their colourful red skull caps; the Swedes equally atractive in blue and white caps; boys from the Near East with turbans of grey, white or blue, some hanging to should- er length - and of course there were all types of berets. There were boys in short pants of blue, khaki or Irish green - and the Scots in their kilts. Some marched in true military style; others apparently were still a little new in training. Some carried packs. Boys from the U.S.A. had red sweaters or jackets slung on their belts; one carried a suit -case. One older boy even managed to sport a corn -cob pipe. We wondered how he managed to get away with it! We noticed one wheel- chair scout in the ranks. Later, On the parade grounds, we counted no less than ten wheel chairs. A number of excellent bands gave colour to the March Past, including the main visiting mu- sical attraction for this year's C.N.E. - the United.States.Navy Band, with its smart navy and white uniform. There was an embarrassing moment for the Sergeant-Major of one Canadian band, who threw his baton in the air in the approved spec- tacular style, but he failed to catch it on its way down. The baton landed in the dust at his feet! At the official ` opening that afternoon representative scouts from over sixty nations marched to the bandshell and stood at 'I warned you that row was horseradish!" either side of the platform, each bearing his country's flag. But you will have heard or read all about the opening ceremonies so I won't go into details . -ex- cept to say it was a thrilling moment when Lord Rowallan touched the control button giv- ing- the signal for the release of small bombs that sent aloft para- chutes with flags of the various nations attabhed. As for the Exhibitiol, itself 1 can't tell you very much about what it has. to offer this year as we were there only about six hours ... and six hours wouldn't be too long to spend even in one building. I specially wanted to the Cat Show - other years it has always been over by the time I visited the "Ex". I didn't expect Partner to come in with me, but strange to say he did. Maybe that was just 3 t as well otherwise I might have been there yet. I wanted to see the Siamese cats as I have always had a sneaking fancy 1 would like one. To my surprise there were dozens of them. On my last visit there were only a few. Apparently there are three types of Siamese - Sealpoints, Aby- sinnians and one other which I have forgotten. The Sealpoints are the most colourful but the Abyssinians have a lovely soft coat and seem to have a more contented disposition. Among the other breeds was a white cat with one green eye and one blue - just like the kitty I had when I was very small. I don't know how true it is but I have always understood that if both eyes of a white cat are blue then the cat is deaf. We saw many other cats - black cats and grey, orange and Manx. Partner said our Black Joe and Mitchie-White could match the best of them any day of the week! Of course we made a point of seeing the Shell Oil observation tower and the Arches of the Provinces. The Tower should he quite a landmark. We wish we could say as much for the Archways. Frankly we were disappointed. From the advance publicity we expected to find something quite imposing - something solid and substantial, worthy of the province 'which each represents. In our humble estimation the Arches are totally inadequate for that purpose. We hope the proposed new Women's Building, scheduled for 1950, will not be constructed on the same pattern. However, taking it all in all, the "Ex" is well worth going to see and we hope to make a return journey, seeing a few of the features we missed on otu first trip. BACHELOR HONEYMOON Franz Hausers, a German bach- elor, was jilted at the last mo- ment by his fiancee. All arrange- ments had been made, not only for the wedding but also for the honeymoon, for which Hausers had paid a large sum of money to a travel agency. Nati ally enough, the wedding could not take place, but with the honeymoon it was a different matter. "One can console oneself for losing a fiancee," Hausers said, "but not for losing money." And he proceeded to make the honeymoon ,journey trom one town to another, on his own crtosswoRD PUZZLis Al 1 Ills 2, Rabb t 1 fell 6. On the ceetto 9, rutting tool 19. Lotiv,en of ,,,ankh,,! 13. Inclination 14. Dessert 15,- wiles 19 Dem fined 111 port 18, Co towered 90. Debouches 21. Paithitll 23. Nato of an injury 20, Desicuat ed 30. Allow 31. Rubber tree 42. Own (Scot,) 23. Obliterate 35. Steep 28. 7rebrew letter 37. Scarlet - 28. Female relative 40, Below (tient.) 44 Vault 44. Places 46. Except 90. 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Clark, 91, takes grandson Bobby for a ride behind Sally Ann, Clark's solution to the question, "What will replace the auto?" Denied a renewal of his driver's license because of his age, the oldster, who has 47 years of driving without a serious accident behind him, purchased the pony and buggy so that he can visit his wife's grave each day. TIIIJMN FRONT ;.Jo6ldusrsll When pests invade a crop, people and things have to move in a hurry if the crop is to be saved from destruction, A delay anywhere down the line of ac- tion could result in disaster. An example of this was demonstra- ted in the prairie provinces re- cently when the barley aphid plague broke out. w w w Now, a single aphid is a harmless looking, hardly -visible, insect which feeds off the plant by sucking its juices. There are usually aphids on most plants, but when they are present in epidemic proportion, a field of grain can be stripped in about four and one half hours. Their reproductive powers are prodi- gious and if climatic conditions are just right, they can sweep across the land in a single season with the speed of a prairie grass fire. And conditions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta this summer were ideal for aphids to propagate. w '0 * The insects were first noticed near Winnipeg. They were soon reported in eastern Saskatche- wan. In a little more than a week they appeared in epidemic pro- portion in Alberta. With the barley crop in the three provin- ces totalling about 7,500,000 acres, there was indeed cause for alarm. w But by a miracle of close co- operation between entomologists, farmers, industry, customs and agricultural authorities, millions of acres of barley crop were sprayed. Farmers reported aphid infestations to their local agri- cultural representatives - and they had to do it within a mat- ter of hours or the insects would have had the upper hand. Ag • - ricultural representatives went to pesticide firms to see what chemical was available and were given the answer: the new, and powerful aphicide, mala- thion. Was it available in Canada? Some, but not enough. Manu- facturers were in the eastern United States. w w w Telegrams and long distance phone calls went back and forth" between Winnipeg, Montreal and New York City. SPecial planes were chartered to fly mats them concentrate from New Jersey to western Canada. In about 10 days time over 70,000 pounds 01 material was flown in. In the meantime all available supplies at Hamilton were rushed via air to the west. Traffic representa- tives of industry and government customs inspectors in Winnipeg stayed up all night for several nights to rush the material through customs. The western distributors had their staffs working around the clock for- mulating and shipping the in- secticide to aphid plagued di- stricts. Agricultural planes and ground sprayers were pressed into service and worked over- time to apply the malathion, - w • 4' Thousands of acres of aphid infested barley were saved by this co-operative quick action ' on the part of all concerned, Heavy rains which came later also helped and saved part of the crop by knocking the de- structive plant lice to the ground, w • V Since the introduction of che- micals for controlling insects, plant diseases and undesirable plants and animals, the public is somewhat confused as to the meaning of the general terms describing these products. J. G. Hastings, pesticides man- ager of the C -I -L agricultural chemicals department, attempts to clarify the situation by say- ing that all such chemicals could be classed as pesticides and gen- erally fall into four main groups. w * w (1) Insecticides - control in- sects. Examples - DDT, mala- thion, aldrin, lead arsenate, ben- zene hexachloride, rotenone, di- azinon. (2) Fungicides - control fun- gus and other plant diseases. Examples - Captan, copper sul- phate, ferbam, sulphur, and a variety of seed treating chemi- cals. (3) Herbicides - control weeds and other undesirable plant growth. Examples - 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T, polybor-chlorate. (4) Rodenticides - control rats, mice and other rodents that might have become pests. Examples - Antu, Cyanogas, Pival, Warfarin. Some pesticides. Mr. Hastings says can be formulated to have both fungicidal and insecticidal properties which when applied will control both plant diseases and insects which attack the plant, for example, Deecop dusts and wettable powder for spray- ing, all purpose garden dusts and sprays, Troxide, Cucurbit 3-5 dust and Mergamma C seed treat- ment. Great care however must be taken to ensure that all chemicals are compatible and that no injurious reaction will result. V it V Because of strict government regulations, pesticides on the Canadian market can be depend- ed upon to do the job they're meant to do - if directions on the label are carefully followed. Birds Know Time One of the most intriguing examples of clock time sense is exhibited by certain herons of Eastern Australia that regularly fly out to the Great Barrier Reef at low tide, cohere they find an abundance of shell fish and other marine life. Except at low tide the parts of the reel where these birds feed are un• der water. How they know the exact time to leave, so that they ar- rive just as the corals are break. ing through the falling water, is a complete mystery. In many places the reef is thirty miles or more from the mainland, so they cannot possibly see before they set out that the corals are becoming uncovered. What makes their clock sense so much more remarkable is that the actual time of -low tide is never the same two days running, being each day nearly an hour later than on the pre- vious one. 64% Of Rented Homer Let Unfurnished and Unheated A DBS sample survey taken last Septembe. shows that 64% of an estimated 1.076,00e Can- adian households rented for cash were let unfurnished and um heated, slightly more than 5% - were heated and furnished, about 30% were heated only. and less than 1%n were furnishe2 only, vmAnsi When Worms Spawn Islanders Feast The scene is set by the shores of the South Sea Islands, The time is early morning, just six days after the October full moon. Down in the little harbours and along the beaches their is bust- ling activity as every -available boat is made ready to put to sea, In imagination we will follow the islanders, for this is to them a great day. A mile or two out from the shore the boats stop, and everyone in them dives for a basket which he scoops into the sea. As he pulls it out, the water rapidly drains away, leaving e mass of wriggling worms. These, the sole object of this early - morning expedition, are tipped into the bottom of the boat, and the operation is repeated. The sea is full of these worms, and the boatmen go on scooping for hour after hour, as fast as they can, occasionally pausing to enjoy a mouthful of the curious creatures, which they regard as a luxury. Eventually the boats are crammed with their wriggling cargo. The baskets are then dumped on top of the masses of worms, and the boats are headed for home, the catches providing feasts for every fam- ily as long as they last. Exactly a month later, just six days after the November full moon, the whole expedition is repeat- ed, the worms then being even more abundant than in October. What does all this curious ac- tivity mean? It is the spawning season of the Palolo worm -the Worm with the Sense of Time. Throughout the year this lowly creature, lives in clefts and crannies in the coral rocks sur- rounding these Pacific Islands, where it remains hidden away and protected from its enemies. Then, as October approaches, the breeding instinct lures it from its hiding -place. Every worm spawns but once a year, choosing either the sixth day after full moon in October or the corresponding day in No- vember, the majority waiting until November. How they manage always to choose the same day is a complete mystery. Yet it has always been so, and these two days have been feast days for the islanders from time immemorial. They are, in fact, the two most important days in their calendar. Although the Palolo worm is an outstanding example, there are other creatures that exhibit a remarkable time sense. Bird migration, for instance, often shows considerable constancy in its occurrence. Many animals have a remark- able clock time sense, some of their activities occurring at pre- cisely the same time each clay. There was, for example, the badger known to a Hereford- shire farmer that emerged from its earth punctually at nine forty every evening; and the woodpecker that for months on end retired to roost under the Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking M V 5 eaves of a house at precisely three -thirty-five in the afte noon, no matter whether it wee bright or dull, raining Or fine. Domestic animals sometimes acquire an acute sense of time, especially where meals are in- volved.. An interesting story le told of a ten -mule plough tease on a Californian farm, Thetas animals knew almost to a min- ute that mid-day and six o'clock in the evening were times to cease work and make their wait back to the farm buildings for a meal. They would go ors steadily pulling the plough un- til these times. Then, it work had not already been stopped„ they would suddenly cease pull- ing, began to bray and become restless. WHAT A WOMAN IS REALLY MADE OF According to an ancient and picturesque Hindu legend, Twashtri the wise created the world's very first woman in the following manner: He took the soft curves of the moon, the graceful lines of e creeping plant, the suppleness of the snake, the slenderness of the willow by the water and the emerald lustre of the blades of grass on the meadows. To these he added the playful lightness of the feather, the ser- ene gaiety of the sunbeam, the fickleness of the winds and the pure tears of the clouds, the soft velvet of the multi -coloured blos- soms, the look of the hind, the timorousness o1 the hare, the vanity of the proud peacock, the cooing of the turtledove and the talkativeness of the parrot. Finally, he took the cold of the snow, the heat of the fire burn- ing in the heart of the mountains, the hardness of the diamond and the cruelty of the jungle tiger. He measured them judiciously and mixed all these ingredients, and from the mixture he model- led the first woman and was satisfied with his work, the leg- end concludes. D. C. FIREFLY? - That's right it's not' "see the firefly?" The "fireflies" which adorn the hair of model Dolores Greer are strictly a production Inasmuch as lightning bugs can't live In the California climate, a Uni- versity of California professor designed the blinking decora- tion Dolores wears, which Is battery powered. SMOOCHING, ANYONE? -Muzzling in on carnival 'booth is Danny, bulldog belonging to T. E. Hamilton, Carnival was put on to raise money to start a zoo., - '