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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-01-26, Page 3Important consideration in brooding chicks include such things as cost of fuel, fire haz- ard, and efficiency of operation. Where individual brooder stoves are used which burn wood, coal, oil or gas, some chance of fire exists, although modern oil and gas brooders do have valuable safety features. For this reason many operators consider it wise to use brooder stoves only in colony houses, 'Thus if fire should start it can be usually confined to one small house and the loss is not too serious. Large operators, how- ever, find that labour efficiency is reduced with this type of brooding because automatic wat- ering systems cannot be easily installed in colony houses and more labour is required for several small units than for a, large one. A large brooder house can be heated with a central heating plant. The extra initial cost over several small units is likely to be more than repaid in a few years by savings in fuel and labour. The risk of fire involved In brooding can be practically eliminated by proper installa- tion of the central heating plant in a fire resisting section of the building. Electric brooders of various types have become popular with small or medium size producers. One type, in which soil heating cable is embedded in the con- crete floor, has been used at the Experimental Farm, Fredericton, N.B,, since 1949. This method of brooding is very convenient and gives satisfactory results but the il+es cost where the entire floor area is heated, is likely to be high. Electricity required for one hatch using this type of brood, ing, has varied between 4 k.w.h. per square foot for mid -winter brooding, Commercial broiler growers usually allow one square foot of floor space per chick, With this method, it would be necessary to brood. two or more chicks per square foot of floor space for the first two to three weeks, in order. to keep costs • within reasonable limits. After this period the chicks do not require so much 'YES, WE HAVE NO " - Ba'nanas, peaches, grapes or much of anything else. Not after elephants came to call al a London, England, greengro- cer's. The proprietor doesn't mind too much when an apple. is snitched now and then. But when his produce disappears by the trunkful into parading pachyderms. heat but more floor space is re- quired. Infra -red heat lamps are also giving satisfactory results for brooding at the Fredericton Ex- perimental Farm. Electricity required has been about one k,w.h. per square foot of floor space for mid -summer brood- ing. The incidence of crooked toes has been reported from some sources to be very high under infra -red lamps but there is no clear evidence at the Farm that there are appreciably more crooked toes under infra -red brooding than in pens with floor radiant heating. Results of a survey conducted in the United States indicate that the average cost of fuel was slightly over five cents per chick with chicks started in De- cember. The tests were taken cin various parts of the country with different types of brooders. Satisfactory results can •be obtained with many different methods of brooding. Cost of equipment and cost and con- venience of operation with con- sideration of the fire hazard in- volved, are likely to be the deciding factors in the method selected. Loss of iodine in salt blocks exposed to the weather can be avoided when potassium iodate is used as a source of iodine. This was demonstrated in 1951 by Dr. Watson and Mr. David- son, chemists with the Canada Department of Agriculture, and their recommendations 'have now been given official sanction under the Food and Drug reg- ulations. Iodine is required by live- stock, as it is by humans, to prevent goitre and other ills attendant on diseases of the thyroid gland. When pigs, calves or foals are born dead, or weak and hairless, iodine de- ficiency in the maternal diet is immediately suspected. For this reason iodine as potassium iodide is included in the salt. This is quite satisfactory for table salt which is kept dry, but not for livestock as an iodized salt block exposed to the weather or left in a manger will lose its iodine fairly rapidly. Efforts have been made td stabilize the iodine in sale blocks by coating then with fatty materials, photographer's hypo, and even molasses, with no real success. Blocks exposed for two months under summer pasture conditions lost all their iodine in spite of such treat - merits. Two compounds containing an available source of iodine proved relatively stable under both stall and summer pasture con- ditions. One of them,, potassium iodate, proved to be cheaper than the other. Salt blocks were made up to contain 0.015 per cent and 0,50 per cent iodine, and tested by the Department's animal pathologists who gave the iodate a clean bill of health. Permission to use potassium iodate has now been granted by Food and Drug officials and when salt blocks containing this compound are produced com- mercially, farmers can be as- sured of a stable source of iodine for their livestock. a e a Ferguson a new tomato va- . riety produced by the l:Iorticul- tural Division, Central Experi- mental Farm, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, is especially suited to the needs of. canning crop growers in On- tario. - The variety is the result CRaOSW'OR PUZZLE AC'1SOSS 1, tin trance 5. Belgian 000'01nne 3, Ina line 12. Drinks 17. Auto 14, Cause of ruin i 15, Snucy • � 19. Stirred up 79 Dry ,19,0"ore ;20. wenn 21. Press 23, Posed as model 225, 21,415ly crowd 2Dros'y ?loved with measured step 33 i nnipetent 3; 'Submerge. 37 Large bundle 1 30. (live way 40 And not 42, Went hurriedly , 43 1"ortune 49, Perused 47. Likely 90 Por tear that 92 Fodder pit i 61 iinlnhnhited 57 Crystallised Precipitation 53 Son of t$aaC s8 Male descendant 60 Poo(. edge 61 Variety 62. Corrode '88, Winter vehicle DOWN 1. Openings 0,, ,teres 3. Dire 4. ' mound ether 9. scrutinised 6. S , nmm0n pni,liel� 7. Melodies 32. Snug room - s. hair 34. Building cloth addition 8. Amount of 80. Sign speed 29. Puppet 10: Individuals 41. Concerning 11. IAspousen 44. Coax 17. Snare 4U. Donkeys 22. Correlative 47. Fruit drinks of either 48. Alexi can dollar 25. Is possible 99. Russian 26 Japanese sash emperor 28 Clamor , 57. Partici) 90 Funtlam ante 3. Affection 31 Old musical et. Was indebted I F 2 a 4 );% 1r S 6 7 :,? 8 9 ' 10 11 12 }`,15 13 ;14 is -. til' zi :,11e 23` i7"' 23 •:..:‘,::.: 'f;:` 29 24 i..:;•�;•' 30 31 32. '',, '':a,':,21 25 26 X34 a.?C12.7 �ii�\`F, - 28 $3 35 36 .j 37 4;+42 28 9 : 40 4i { \.x!43 44 ;::.,,'i;.":. 4.5 46`•';'4-.;a;:. 47 46 49 f:fi 4.: $ .. 50 57 e^ £ 52 53 5R 55. 56 57 53 .,4,‘ 59 . .. ^ Y 80 &1 663 , Answer elsewhere on th s page• BLASE -Newsmen who meet ocean liners at dockside in New York City are used to being deadpanned by celebrities, but nine- month -old Barbara Torarz presents a new high in well-bred boredom for the cameraman. The Yugoslavian youngster, was one of many refugees arriving aboard the transport General Langfitt, under the Refugee Relief Act. of ten years of selection and testing of lines developed from a cross between the Bounty and Rutgers, varieties. It is named after the late William Ferguson who for several years headed the vegetable crops section of the Horticulture Division. For many years the variety Geneva John Baer has made up a large part of the acreage of tomatoes grown for canning. Although productive and Of hood quality when grown under' con- ditions Geneva John Baer is in- consistent. This is due mainly to its susceptibility to fruit cracking and other defects drought or poor leii structure, caused by a zee s sive heat, Ferguson on the hand is more consistent in its performance and produces heavier yields of canning grade fruit than deneva John Baer regardless of adverse growing conditions, This new variety has a determinate or "bush" type plant as compared to the spreading open structure of Geneva John Baer. It is con- sidered vigorous and has suffi- cent leaf cover to protect the fruit against sunsca]d, The cross between Bounty and Rutgers was spade at Ot- tawa in 1941 although the first selections, were not made from this cross until 1946. Of these selections, one showed parti- cular promise and in 1949 was assigned the trial distribution number Ottawa TO -17. This selection later named Ferguson, has been grown for five seasons in yield trials at the Horticul- tural Substation at Smithfield, Ontario. Each year it has been one of the top yielding varieties, and each year has given better yields and has consistently shown' less fruit cracking and sunscald than Geneva John Baer. In 1954 and 1955 extensive commercial plantings were made by a number of Ontario grbw- ers. In general the reactions of both growers and processors have been favourable, and it ap- pears that the Ferguson variety should be of real value to the industry. Not Quite Goodbye Ever wonder what became of discarded Christmas wrappings and boxes? The containers that bulged so mysteriously and cu- riosity-ticklingly before the gifts were taken out of them? The wrapping paper brave with Santa Clauses and holly and lighted homes_ and trees and sleighs in red and green and gold? It seemed sad to dump them off into oblivion, to cover their once -radiant promise with the lid of a trash can and bid them goodbye forever. But be of good cheer yet! The news is happy! These bright ap- purtenances of the season are not lost in limbo. They are only undergoing a Great Transmogri- fication. Waiting for them with open arms . is the wastepaper in- dustry, to which they come just in the nick of time (the tempta- tion is stoutly resisted to say the St. Nick of time). This up -and coming industry, which does a $200,000,000 busi- ness a year, had been starving for paper. Production ran at a record high, and collections were not keeping. um So a big post- Christmas gift, tons and tons, and tons of it, will go to paper and paperboard trills through- out this country and abroad. c rna- rema It may be astrange tion that Sister's doll -box and Buddy's cowboy -suit wrappings'' are in for, but it's a reincarna- tion, and that's what cou rt$. - St. Louis Post -'Dispatch. CNR President Reviews Past Year by )Donald Gordon, G.M.G., Chairman and President Canadian National Railways MONTREAL - The Canadian National system shared, to a de- gree, in the general upsurge .in the nation's business in 1955. The transportation industry as a whole, both in Canada and the United States, stepped up its level Of activity to meet the di- versified demands ofa prosper- ous send optimistic economy., The increase in the volume of business done by the railways was accompanied in 1955, as in other recent years, by a sharp- ening of competition from truck, airplane, bus and automobile. TO meet this stiffer competition, the Canadian National has been moving ahead on a broad front towards better utilization of both its human and material resources. The Canadian National system has made notable gains in oper- ating efficiency in the past few years, and more such gains will be required in the future if the company is to win and hold a sound financial position in an_ expanding Canadian economy. The events of 1955 are both a measure of the challenge and evidence of current efforts to meet it. West and east from Montreal, new trains and schedules brought added cbmfort and speed to Ca- nadiae rail travel. Under diesel power, the Super Continental, Ocean Limited and Scotian cut over sixteen hours off the rail trip from Halifax to Vancouver, The rapidly expanding devel- opment of Canadian resources is reflected in the contribution of new CNR lines t0 the open- ing Of base metal areas. The Kitimat line, ' opened last Janu- ary, is now in operation far both passengers and freight. During 1955, a rail line from Hlllsport to Manitouwadge, On- tario was completed and con- struction , was started on one from Beattyville to Chibouga- mau and St. t'elicien, Quebec. The steel skeleton Of ,The Queen Elizabeth'ilt- now clearly visible on the Montreal skyline and general contracting work will begin early in the new year. A start hasbeen madeon the Terminal Centre Building being erected on the railway's prOp- erty near the hotel. These are further steps towards realiza- tion of a long-term plan for the development of the terminal area. In an effort to strengthen its competitive position in the trans- portation of motor vehicles, the Canadian National designed and ordered 25 new car transporters, special box cars each with a. capacity of eight vehicles. De- livery is expected in 1956. Jointly with the Canadian Pa- cific, the CNR extended the CBC's microwave TV relay sys- tem from Montreal to Quebec City, thus helping to bring more Canadians into the widen- ing area of television, reception. These and many other new developments in 1955 took place against a shifting pattern of railway traffic, Canadian Na- tional freight tonnage increased over 10 per cent, mainly as a result of sharp' increases in ship- ment ' 01 mine products, base metals, construction materials and lumber as well as most manufactured products, especial ly automobiles, These increases, which more than offset scattered tonnage declines in grain, pulp- wood and coalwere not, howeve r, large enough to bring total traf- fic to the peak level of X953. The most significant ,gains were in low -rated' commodities • and this is reflected in a lower aver- age revenue per ton mile than in 1964. While there was no change in the general level of freight rates during 1955, there were import- ant developments in the rate structure and its administration. A new Canadian Freight Classi- fication was filed with the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada on March 1st, and on the same date a scale of equal- ized class rgtes became effective. In a move to add to the com- petitive opportunities of carriers, Parliament in 1955 enacted legis- lation providing for freer ad- ministration of agreed charge contracts for freight transport. Since the latter part of July,. when the new procedures came into effect, the Canadian Na- tional has arranged 28 new agreed charges with shippers, bringing the total in effect at year end to 95. Passenger travel over Cana- dian National lines was about the same as in 1954. Faster trains like the Super Continen- tal, together with special tours and incentive fares, offset de- clines in immigrant travel early in the year, The Canadian transportation ma"rket is larger and more com- plex than it was a few years ago, and the CNR, like other carriers, is constantly striving to adjust its services to this changing market. The process of adjustment can be seen on many fronts: in new trains and lines and in line abandonments (of which there were eight to- talling 144 miles in 1955), in the extension of "piggy -back" serv- ice and incentive loading rates, in faster freight and passenger movement through dieselization, in dinettes and coffee shop cars which in 1955 served 30 per cent of Canadian National train meals, and in the addition of truck routes for better service through integration of road and rail transport. Throughout the system, many long -needed improvements ars being made, enhancing its abil- ity to render goo4•,service and strengthening its basic earning power. These physical advances ars being made all across Canada. Cape Breton Island was linked to the mainland by rail and road for the first time in 1955, on completion of the Canso Cause- way. Extension of rail lines was MAiL FISH - Fish -by -mail is bi l- ed as a "first-ever" offering by a mail order house, which has added aquarium residents to Its 1956 catalogue. Connie Mc- Gowan shows how a plastic bag, containing oxygen -charg- ed water, is packaged for parcel post shipment. o� ESSON B. Barclay Warren, B.A., B.L God's Concern for Sinners Luke 15:1-10 Memory Selection: The Son of man is come to seek and ba save that which is lost. Luke 19:10, The publicans and sinners came near to Jesus 10 bear hien. The religious Pharisees and scribes sneered. "This man re- ceiveth sinners, and eateth with them." Jesus effectively ans- wered the sneer by telling the story of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son. The last part, The Prodigal . Son is the best known but will be dealt with next fall. 'Yes, Jesus is a friend of sin- ners. He leaves the ninety and nine that are safe in the fold and goes searching for the lost' One. When he finds it he car- ries it home, rejoicing. He calla his friends and neighbours to come in and rejoice with him. He loves the sinner. Ninety end nine good people do not satisfy him if there is one lost. Ira D. Sankey has popularized this story in song, While in Scot- land with Evangelist D. L. Moody he came across the poem The Ninety and Nine. That night in the eservice he sat at the little organ and set the words to music as he sang. When Billy Graham was in Scotland last year the organ was pre- sented to him and shipped to USA. Similarly the woman who has lost one of her ten coins, per- haps a precious heirloom, searches till she finds it. Them she rejoices with her friends. At the conclusion Jesus says, "There is joy in the presence at the angels of God over one sin- ner that repenteth." GOd is greatly concerned for sinners. That's why He gave Ela only begotten Son to die. That Son shared that concern in glu- ing Himself. If we are His dis- ciples we shall share that con- cern. "Did Christ o'er sinners weep And shall our cheeks be dry? Let floods of penitential tears Burst forth from every eye!" There is danger Of our being more concerned over the alt quisite architecture and interior decoration of the church than the saving of sinners. May God help us to share His concern for sinners. We shall then share the joy of the angels when one sin- ner repents and comes to Christ, supplemented in 1955 by wide- spread modifications in locomo- tive servicing facilities and in passing tracks to get the most out of new diesel motive power. Moreover, some 200 diesel-elec- tric locomotives were put he service along with about a thou- sand new freight and passenger cars. Four additional diesel Railiners began operating in Quebec and Alberta. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking coca t" ©.�1o© ©E3C10 ®RID© ,,010 ,i it •1111E©I€t Hca©,o© BO as©u LAMMFIEVi �©©�.'. • a©©ors ono '11:110N, MICE ILCIE1111 12121151 EIMIE IEEE 'a CIEIMC1113111tEin ©015 ©[ilC10 '. ODE 120110Zi M02tcirno OHIO WHAT'S IT TAKE TO GET A DEGREE? Albert Knute, senior at John Carroll University sits amid one professor's answer to that question. A survey conducted by the Rev, Fr. James J. McQuade of the university's department of religion found that theaverage college degree requires: 2000 50 -minute lectures, purchase and study of 50 books, book reports on 160 other volumes, 25 terns papers, 800"study assignments, nment s 68 pencils, nine bottles of ink, six reams of paper, 50 semester examinations, 650 class quizzes and 4000 hours of personal study, The survey did not include the amount of brain power used.