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The Seaforth News, 1956-07-26, Page 3tis it is generally known that young fresh pasture grass has a higher feeding value than the same grass at a later stage of its growth. D. H. Heinrichs re- ports that an experiment at the Canada Department of Agricul- ture Experimental Farm indi- cates there is a marked dif- ference between the protein content of various grasses and that this difference increases with progressive stages of growth and maturity, • r _ .D The protein content of Fair- way crested wheatgrass, Sum- mit crested wheatgrass, brome grass, intermediate wheatgrass and Russian wild ryegrass was quite similar in May, at the early leaf stage, varying from a low of 20.1 per cent for Fair- way to a high of 21..3 for inter- mediate wheatgrass. At the shot -blade stage differences be- gan to show up. Brome grass had 17.1 per cent protein, Rus- sian wild ryegrass 16.4, the Fairway and Summit wheat- grasses 14.2 and 14.8 respective - Vend intermediate wheatgrass 11.7. b ♦ a At the flowering stage the relative differences were even greater, Brome and Russian wild ryegrass had dropped to 10,4 and 11.5 per cent but the wheatgrasses were down to 6.6. This indicates that for good quality hay the wheat grasses need to be cut well ahead of the flowering stage. By August and later, Russian wild ryegrass is well above any of the other four" grasses in protein content and contains 7.1 per cent even when left standing until the following spring. Fairway crested wheat - grass under the same conditions drops to 3.4 per cent. In carbohydrate and fat con- tent, these grasses differ less widely but Russian wild rye- grass and brome grass are less fibrous and more palatable to grazing stock later in the sea- son than the wheatgrasses. a, a +.• From the pasture manage- ment standpoint, crested wheat - grass will supply good early spring grazing, intermediate wheatgrass and brome grass good summer grazing and Rus- sian wild ryegrass, which re- tains a high nutritive value at maturity, will provide the best pasture for late summer and fall. Measurements made at the Canada Department of Agricul- ture Soil. Research Laboratory, over a 4 -year period have shown that when ample mois- :ALLY'S SALLIES "Irn't it strap:e, sir? 7 sell so srtany dictionaries and I've nev- ..r read a single one!„ ture is available the daily use of water by a short grass crop is nearly equal to the daily eva- poration from a standard eva- poration tank. The evaporation varies from almost nil during cool, cloudy weather to over one-third- inch on hot windy days. The mean daily evapora- tion is 0.2 inch in June and Au- gust ugust and 0.25 inch in July. Con- sidering the main growing period for May to September inclusive, the total water re- quired for evaporation is about 28.5 inches, of which 9.5 inches is supplied by rainfall during the same period. To produce optimum growth of grass, addi- tional moisture must be avail- able either as stored moisture or as irrigation. 5 5 a The amount of stored moisture in the soil in early spring de- pends on the precipitation dur- ing the fall and winter, and on the capacity of the soil to hold water within reach of the grass roots. Sandy lams can hold 1.25 inches of available water per foot of depth; medium learns can bold 1.75 inches and clays about 2.25 inches of water per foot. The depth of penetra- tion of grass roots depends on the rooting habit of the parti- cular crop, and on the thick- ness, height and development of the stand. Lawn grass roots are confined mainly to the top 6 to 8 inches whereas those of pasture and forage crops may penetrate to a depth of 3 or 4 feet. In the latter case, the available water held in the root zone of a medium loam would be about 6 inches. a 4, r In many' seasons rainfall and stored moisture provide about half the water required by a well -kept turf, and supplemen- tal irrigation must be applied if growth is to continue through July and August. Irrigation is usually started on pasture and forage when 50 or 60 per cent of the available moisture is depleted. Evaporation losses are high if water is added in fre- quent light applications. On the other band, heavy applications causing runoff or loss of water below the root done should be avoided. A grass grown for pas- ture or forage on a loam soil with a water use of 0.2 inch per day should receive 3 inches of water either as rain or irriga- tion every 15 days. On lawns it would be more economical to apply one inch of water every 5 or 6 days than to apply the same amount of Water at more frequent intervals. If a sprink- ler is used it is a good idea to check the rate of application with a series of simple rain gauges, or in the case of lawns, to read the water meter and work out the mean depth of water on the area covered by the spray. NOT MISSED When Eddie, the noticeably slow-moving and inefficient clerk in a small-town general store, wasn't in evidence one morning. a customer asked, "Where's Eddie? Ain't sick, is he?" "Nope, he ain't sick," replied the proprietor. "He's just not working here any more." "That so?" responded the curious villager. "Got anybody in mind to fill the vacancy?" "Nape," said the proprietor. 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For weeks the answer evaded flim, Then he was struck by a most singular fact. The price of camels i• Egypt had suddenly risen to unwarranted. heights. Investigating further, the Brit- ish officer discovered that cam- els being used to cross the Sa- hara from Egypt to Tangier and Casablanca were only making a one-way journey. They never came back! A few more inquiries supplied the answer: metal capsules con- taining the drugs were fed to the camels before leaving Egypt and lodged in the creatures' stor- age compartments. On reaching Tangier and Casablanca, the un- lucky camels were killed and the capsules recovered. Each hcamel o ad been carrying up $ca 0 worth of narcotics. After the ingenious dope smugglers had been rounded up, the officer wrote a report for the the United Nations Commission on Narcotics so that it could warn all member nations to be on their guard against this re- sourceful ruse. Instruments used by police in desert countries to - day t o "search" camels for narcotics include mine detectors a n d fluoroscopes with which police and customs officers can search inside the animals. The international list of known dope smugglers and their tricks is one of the biggest and most effective weapons used by the world's nations in their battle to stamp out the deadly narcot- ics. Recently, American narcotic agents smashed a large smug- glin ring which had been bring- ing opium into California from Mexico. The smugglers packed the opium in large tins labelled "Tomato Puree" and took it openly across the Mexican -U.S. border in motor lorries. Each load had several genuine tins of puree which could be opened for inspection if neces- sary. An alert customs official noticed that the puree he inspec- ted wasn't fresh enough and ask- ed awkward questions which led to arrests. Far eighteen months wardens in a Canadian jail tried to stop morphine being smuggled in: every safeguard was apparently taken, but still the addicts in the prison managed to get their sup- plies. The loophole wasn't spot- ted until one prisoner made too great a fuss because his shirt had not come back from file laundry outside the jail. The morphine had been com- ing into the prison ironed into the collars of newly -laundered shirts. 8'lch collar had a week's supply of the drug which addicts sniff Much recent smuggling has been of hashish and its kindred drug, tarijuana. Also known as Indian hemp, hashish is extract- ed from the Indian hemp plant. Marijuana ("Devil's Weed") is derived from a South American plant. Smugglers. have racked their brains to find new ways of get- ting hashish and marijuana past vigilant customs and police - and very often failed. Yet, ironically, prisoners in the strict- est supervised jail in America, the grim Alcatraz island prison of San Francisco, were only too obviously getting liberal suppl- ies of hashish. Moreover, they were getting it quite openly and with the unconscious help of the governor and warders. The prisoners had been keep- i7g'canalies. Some of theta be- gan smoking the -bird -seed as a substitute for tobacco and dis- covered that it contained the seed of Indian hemp. It was not until canary -keeping had grown astonishingly popular that war- ders asked themselves why the birds were half -starving and the 'prisoners fighting mad. Not even the slickest and neatest smuggling coup is proof against a slice of badddluck. A big American ring worked an elaborate plan to land $1,- 500,000 worth of narcotics, main- ly hashish and heroin', in an American port. An important part of the scheme involved the reproduction of a municipal dust -cart into which the parcels were to be thrown, hidden in garbage. Unhappily for the smugglers, a genuine dust -cart was on the wharf and the smug- glers threw their drugs into it and the plot was uncovered. Shortly before this huge haul Boston customs officials seized $75,000 worth of opium on a ship in the barbour. It had been hidden in flour bags. Sources of supply for hashish were originally in the Middle East, but more recently it has been cultivated in the New World: Jamaica, Mexico and isolated parts of the United States. Mexican and U.S. anti -narco- tics agents were unable for a time to find out where the hemp was being cultivated until they turned up the internati4Ba1 lieg of methods Of cOYtcealment used and came upon the name of - Russell Pasha. Russell Pasha was the British - born director of the Narcotics Bureau in Egypt before the war. One of his first actions was to ban the growing of poppies from which opium is extracted. From opium is derived other drugs such as laudanum, heroin and morphine. In spite of no visible splashes of white and mauve poppies along the banks of the Nile, the supplies of opium and other drugs remained undiminished. Staring at the innocent -looking crops of wheat and other cereals, Russell Pasha got a hunch. He chartered a 'plane and flew up and down the Nile and soon spotted large patches of flowering poppies hidden in the middle of the taller crops. After reading Russell Pasha's report in the file, U.S. and Mex- ican agents tools to the air and were soon destroying large hemp crops in Louisiana and in Mexico. And to bring it full circle to Russell Pasha again- in the high mountains of Mex- ico they found secret poppy fields! - Addicts pay big prices for il- licit drugs. A British witness a few years ago told the world Expert Committee on Addic- tion -Producing Drugs that one laudanum addict had paid a peddler $7,000 for a single ounce. This was an exceptional price paid by a man in the power of the drug. But heroin sometimes changes hands at $100 an ounce in Lon- don's underworld. Cigarettes of marijuana, called "reefers," are sold 2s. 6d. to 15s. each in the West End. Prices are higher in America, where drug addicts are esti- mated to number 60,000 (Brit- ish estimates are 4,000 at most) and where the illegal traffic amounts to more than $500,000,- 000 a year. Heroin sells in the U.S. underworld for $100 an ounce. Drugs are claimed to be responsible for half the crime in U.S. cities. Spurred by the huge profits to' be made in this evil traffic, smugglers will continually think up new smart smuggling gim- micks. But fortunately all such gimmicks are short-lived. TOE END The three polar bears were sitting on an iceberg, "Now," said Papa Bear, "I've got a tale to tell." "I, too," said Mama Bear. "I, too, have a tale to tell." The Ittle polar bear, sitting on his part of the iceberg, look- ed at his parents and said, "My tail's told." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©©E • OWES BEIM 000B 1000 ©O UE IK L] LIOUEIO©L7 MOO ©®®I EP © EUg -COME € BE ©COCl€! <COM ©ULA© l7NUDE ©C'7 ®11O0�!' O' ©U©©M0 ©©©LSI ©©0© L0m019KA MOOD EEO 'Ougsm M00 Ofd 83" h f X00 LESSON It. Barclay Warren. ti.A.. l4(.l. Suffering as Christians 1 Peter 1:3-9; 5:6.11 Memory Selection:. Casting all your are upon him; for he caret for you. 1 Peter 5:7. Everyone has a measure of suf- fering during his lifetime. One lady I visited was very bitter about her suffering. As she lay on bee bed year after year and watched others walk by her window she complained, "It isn't cricket." Hee attitude aggravated her suffering, It made it more difficult for the others in the house, too. iMiy next coli watt a lady dying with cancer. Strong drugs were given her to dun the pain. nut her attitude n•as so different, She was Mani -dui that years ago she bad surrendered her life to Jesus Christ. She was trusting in Flim now. She was thankful for Mende and all God's goodness, - Why the 4ifferenoel The our watt concentrating her thought upon her- self and her Illness. She looked at Gott 01(13' to accuse Him. The other. though suffering more intensely, had confidence In God's goodness just as she had when she 1111a welt. The experience was a trial of her faith. Site was true in the trial. There are other forms of suf- fering, uffering, too. merited unfaithfulness and children's selfishness will cause severe heartache. Neigbbourl3 may "think it strange that ye run not with them to the same mese of riot speaking evil of you." But Peter said, "If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be asham- ed; but let him glorify God on Chia bellalL." He also said, "If ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy ars ye." If we live by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we can be til- umpliant In suffering. Such a Tie- torlous life is a witness to others Some, when afflicted, have decided in a passive sort of manner, to make the best of it. One lady later determined to make tbe most of it She began a telephone ministry, She called the sick and those he trouble of any kind and in a cherry voice gave them a message of com- fort from tbe Bible. She helped to spread the sunshine of God's Word TRAPPED FOR NINE DAYS - Jean Malogetts, 18, of Sunnyvale, Calif., is comforted by her mother, Mrs. Lawrence Margeets, al General Hospital in Salt Lake Cit, Utah, Miss Margetts had just been rescued from the wreckage of an.'auto where she had been trapped nine days without food or water. Her fiance, James B. Hixon, Jr., 22, was found dead about 15 feet from the car. CH,ns1lCAl. WARFARE ON WEEDS AND BRUSH has been .declared by Canadian railways. ,,ora we see a special spray train applying a chemical weedkiller (Atlacide) on a stretch of CPR road bed. Brush flanking railway rights of way is killed with another chemical -a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5 -T -from powerful, long range nozzles mounted on top the spray car. Some 12,000 miles of weed -infested track from Newfoundland to British Columbia will be sprayed by 11 spray trains this summer and more than 1,000,000 gallons of chemical solutions will be used, The spraying replaces .the ancient time-consuming and expensive sythe-and-hoe method o weed control.