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The Seaforth News, 1956-04-19, Page 3TIff.F]UM FRONT JokA ►• -1 That the carrying capacity of old pastures could be doubled by re -seeding and fertilization, was demonstrated by the On- tario Department of Agriculture in a series of experiments spread over a four-year period in the counties of Kent, Middle- sex, Bruce, Victoria and Lanark. In their experiments, the de- partment men took five widely scattered farms of about 100 acres each and divided each farm into three parts. The first part was a check plot which was left untouched. The second plot was fertilized, and the third plowed up, fertilized and re -seeded with a good pasture mixture. " * * After four years the check plots (untouched) averaged a gross return of $77,79 per acre. Gross return on the plots that were fertilized only was $114.45 per acre and on the plowed up, fertilizezd and re -seeded plots the return was $150.92 per acre. 4 * 4 Average weight gain per acre on check plots was 80.3 pounds, on fertilized plots 114.2 pounds and on re -seeded. and fertilized plots 167.5 pounds. The seed mixture used in- cluded brome, timothy, alfalfa and orchard grass as well as Ladino, white Dutch, meadow fescue, Kentucky Blue and per- ennial rye grass. A nurse crop of Roxton oats was also grown, * * * While researchers disagree on hew often a day a cow wants to drink, they are in agreement with the fact that the greater her intake of water, the greater her ability to produce milk. In their investigation, the ex- perts found that cows would rather not drink if they have to walk too far to their water sup- ply and advise that for maxi- ih..:, COVERED - Seated in a basket full of Mexican pesos, -inde Cristal, comely Argentine tar, illustrates the fact (?) that her producer insured her for that amount in Mexico. Occasion was her American film debut in 'Coma nche.° mum milk production, watering bowls be placed at several lo- cations in the pasture to enable cows to drink whenever they became thirsty. 4< * * Piping water to convenient locations has long been a prob- lem on the farm. Conventional metal piping presented special problems. Due to its weight it was difficult to handle. Instal- lation of joints and couplings was time consuming. Corrosion by water and soil chemicals de- creased its life and efficiency. A sudden dip in temperature below freezing often resulted in bursting of undrained pipe. * * * With the.introduction of poly- thene piping (polythene is a plastic made from Alberta na- tural gas), a trouble-free, inex- pensive and easily installed cold water system has been made possible for the Canadian farm- er. The plastic is so light a farm boy can carry several hun- dred feet of piping on his shoul- der. It expands with freezing and returns to normal when the water thaws. It will remain in the soil indefinitely without de- terioration, The only tools re- quired for installation are a knife to cut the piping and a screw driver to tighten the con- necting clamps. The piping can be laid down in a plowed fur- row for warm weather use or in a trench below the frost line for year-round use. Digging a ditch six to eight teet top width, three feet deep and a quarter of a mile long in one second sounds impossible. But it can be easily done -with dynamite. * * M Of course it might require half a day to load the holes along the course the ditch is to take, but the actual "digging" is done in the flash of time it requires for the dynamite to explode. Blasted ditches may be any length and may vary from two and one-half feet to 12 feet deep and from four feet to 40 feet wide at the top. The soli where ditches are blasted should contain a high percentage of water for satisfactory results. * * * Two distinct methods of blasting ditches are described by experts of C -I -L's explosives division. These are the propaga- tion method which can be used in wet soils only. The electric method is intended for ground that is too dry or too hard for the successful use of the pro- pagation method. It can be em- ployed in almost any type of soil except dry sand in which it is practically impossible to blast ditches, n * * The propagation method is generally the quickest and most economical on wet soils and swamps. 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A STAB IN THE BACKI- A young tearful Argentine is "surrounded by assassins" as he is given an antipolio injection in a Buenos Aires school. Argentina is in the grip of q severe polio epidemic. Inoculation of all Buenos. Aires children from six months up to four years of age was started throughout the city. British Strike Criminal Nonsense Britain is keenly embarrassed about its "who drills the holes" shipyard strike at Girkenhead. It is not just dismay that an American purchaser of British ships, William White of New York, president of the Pen -Ore Steamship Company, is publicly incensed at the delay to ane of his vessels by this "screwy", stoppage. Nor is it alone the implied threat that the Cammell Laird Shipyard - and perhaps other British builders - will get no more of Mr. White's orders. It is most of all the apprehen- sion that such an incident, re- ported around the world, will backfire against British ship- building in general, And British shipbuilders feel they already are under great pressure from the inroads of German and Japanese competitors. Bemoaned here is the threat- ened loss of dollars from future Pan -Ore building contracts - due to a dispute that originally. started over the lining of a hold in an American banana vessel. Two unions disagreed a v e r which would bore holes that penetrate wood -backed alumin- um sheets itt the lining - join- ers or metalworkers? What understandably exasper- ates Mr. White is that banana boats are not his concern. More- over, his ship needs no wood - backed aluminum sheets. He is an ore man - and his new ore tanker scheduled for delivery last November is still held up by a dispute over three banana vessels being -built the Ameri- can United Fruit Company. You might say he is delayed by a banana split, although neither Mr. White nor Cammell Laird's 'any longer thinks that is fiipny 'writes Henry S. Hay- wardy, Chief of the London Bur- eau of The Christian Science Monitbr., Unquestionably t h e $18,000,- 000 Mr. White intended to spend for three more British ships has been endangered. While the money is important, even more important is „the threat to. Brit- ish prestige, reliability, common sense and good will in an'indus- try where once this country knew no peer. The outspoken liberal London News Chronicle declares the whole affair is "a disgrace" and warns that this is how "rot sets in." The newspaper notes the government has "remained no- ticeably mute" although the Ministry,of Labor now is holding an inquiry. Concludes the News Chronicle: "Strikes are often justified, but this one has degenerated into a piece of criminal non- sense." Mr, White also commented on the fact that two of his ships built in the Burntisland Yards in Scotland were handed over late - one taking 36 months, the other 52 months to complete. Although another builder, the Bartram and Sons Shipyard in Sunderland, boasts it built six ships. in 12 --months, with aver- age time of 16 weeks from keel laying to launching, it does not cite figures for the time required from launching to completion. It is in this later stage that recent delays have been encoun- tered by Mr. White in other Yards. Isis unfinished ore boat was launched in July, 1955. The conservative London Daily Telegraph also labeled the Birkenhead affair a "costly .dis- pute" and admitted "foreign cus- tomers cannot be expected to wait indefinitely." Mr. White now threatens to steam his partially incomplete MUSIC -MINDED Twenty -two- year old. London actress Hazel Gardner hasn't flipped her lid. She's wearing it. Stylist Philip designed the platter -like hairdo for her in honor of her husband, Len M'arter, popular comedian - disc jockey. 34,000 -ton vessel to a non -Brit- ish port to get it finished. Whether or not such extreme ac- tion is attempted, British indus- trialists and Merseyside and Clydeside shipworkers are in- creasingly uneasy. They remem- ber the grim days of the late '20's and early '30's when there were too few ships to build and too little work. Orders are s till plentiful, meanwhile. Due to the shipping boom, many firms have con- tracts for three to five years, and Cammell Laird itself reportedly has commitments ar far in ad- vance as 1960. Got'don Smith Por Easier Handling Why the straight rows and even spacing of seeds or plants in the vegetable garden? Part of the reason of course is neat- ness, but only part. Mostly we plant this way because it makes the job of looking after the gar- den very much easier. If the rows are straight we can culti- vate in half the time as we do not have to wiggle carefully around each plant, And if the plants are uniformly spaced in the rows then we can weed far more quickly too, Instead of feeling around with our fingers for the next onion or carrot or pea vine, we know it is approx- imately two, four or six inches from the previous one and at one swoop we remove 90% of the intervening weeds. If the vegetable garden were planted any old way, weeding, thinning, cultivating and spraying would be anunnecessarily back -break- ing chore and we couldn't think of using a garden tractor or even a hand drawn cultivator. Even in the formal clump planting in the flower garden, we should try to be uniform in the spacing so' that cultivation is made easeir. Success With Transplanting 1f we observe just a few sim- ple rules almost any plant can be moved when young and small, The main thing is to keep the roots undistributed, to keep them away from the air and to cover quickly end firmly with fine moist soil, Watering dur- ing and immediately after trans- planting is essential, unless the soil is very moist and also if possible supply a little shade for the first few hours for a day or two. With big things like trees and shrubbery, it is also advisable to tie trunks or main stem firmly to a stake to pre- vent the wind loosening, If there are only a few things to move, one should do the job in the evening and preferably when there is no wind. Above all it is most important to cover the roots well and keep the soil firmly pressed around them. To speed growth and lessen the shock of moving it is a good plan to sprinkle a little chemi- cal fertilizer around but not actually touching the roots. Take It Easy There is a nice thing about gardening in most parts of Can- ada, One doesn't have to rush. Because of the long hours of sunshine, growth is rapid, and even if we have not got really started yet, there is still plenty of time for most flowers and vegetables. As a matter of fact, there is far more risk of failure with too early planting than too late. Almost everywhere in Can- ada, it is possible to have an ex- cellent garden even if we are unable to get a spade into the ground until well on in May. And there are lots of quick growing things which will make abundant bloom or fine meals for the table even if planted in June. The experts, incidental- ly, always warn the beginner to take it easy, to prepare the soil well, and wait until the spring weather has really arrived. Of course one should get nursery stock and some of the hardier sorts of flowers and vegetable% planted as soon as possible, but the main sowings are best post- poned until around this time or even later. Spreading the plantings, too, over a fairly long period, right up to early July in the Warmer parts of Canada, is always ad- visable. In this way the harvest of flowers and vegetables is spread out too. SOME DOG A regimental dog -mascot was laid to rest with the following epitaph: "In memory of Jip who in his time bit: the C.O., 2 majors, 5 captains, 13 lieutenants, 40 sergeants, 200 other ranks and 1 land mine." % JCil001 jLESSON R. Barclay Warren, B.A., B.IEE.' The Church Endures Persecution Acts 6:8-10;.7;51-60 Memory Selection: Unto yea It is given in the behalf 4iit Christ, not only to believe en him, but also to suffer for ide sake. Philippians 1:29. Some seventeen hundred years ago Tertullian said, "Thee bleed of the martyrs is the seed of the church," This has often been proven true. The fear ok death does not daunt the truth disciples of the Lord. The martyrdom of the five young) missionaries in Ecuador last January has led to hundreds o& young people dedicating them- selves to to go anywhere takin the gospel. After the death 4 Stephen there was great perse- cution- erse-cution.. against the church at Jerusalem. What was the re- sult? "They were all scattered) abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. They that were scatttered abroad went every- where preaching the word," One of the most significant statements in the lesson is, "The witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. Saul could net help being impresed by the at- titude of Stephen. His face was as the fact of an angel. As the stones were striking him he called on God saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."' And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Saul continued the persecu- tion with greater vigor. He west kicking against the pricks. Sopa he was confronted by Jesus himself as he journeyed to Damascus, There Saul surren- dered and soon became the greatest of the apostles. It is a great trial for the loved) ones of those who die a mar- tyr's death. But we must re- member that God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders tte perform. More was accomplish- ed through the death of Steph- en for the kingdom of God that could have been accomplish*/ by his living many, more yearn. God knows all things and he le all -wise. He is too wise to err and to good to be unkind. Let us always trust Him, SWEETHEART SOFT SOAP The bench jockeying in the 1929 World Series was unduly loud and vicious - so much se that Judge Landis had to step in and order it stopped. Junk before the start of the next game, Mickey Cochrane, tough Athletics' catcher, shouted to the Cubs, "Come on, sweethearts„ let's go. Tea and cake will be served in the fourth inning." After the A's took the Series, Landis visited their clubhouse to congratulate them. He spoke a few gracious words, thea turned to Cochrane and said, "That goes for you, too, sweet -s, heart." r Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking GRACE-FUL DECOR - Shopkeepers in Monaco were vying with each other in creating colourful decorations for the Grace Kelly Prince Rainier HI wedding, Typical is Francois Gudi, Monegas- que electrician; shown putting the finishing touches to a' crown made"oF Baccarat crystal that he'll display en bit window.