HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-09-13, Page 7Broodiness .is a natural char-
tcteristic in the domestic fowl.
prior to the development of
modern mechanical incubators
broodiness was a necessary part
of the process of reproduction.
tt has been demonstrated that
rroody hens ' lay fewer eggs
compared with non -broody hens,
and actually are a "nest nui-
lance", breaking eggs, soiling
ether eggs and nest material and
requiring extra labor to care
!or them. It is for these reasons
:hat broody hens are considered
undesirable in the modern com-
mercial laying flock.
Various methods have been
eied to control or eliminate
broodiness in the fowl. Most
poultrymen are familiar with
the "brc.idy coop" in which
broody hens are placed so that
broodiness is discouraged by re-
moving here from access to eggs
and from the darkness and
warmth of an enclosed nest. 11,
!s well known that subdued
lighting, waren temperatures and
access to eggs are conducive to
broodutess. The "broody coop"
is fairly effective but requires
rn"neiderabte labor for feeding
and watering, etc, In order to
reduce labour requirements,
some puultryment use a "broody
pen" made by constructing a
wire net partition across one
corner of the laying pen, The
mechanical feeder passes through
the "broody pen", and it is also
equipped with an automatic
waterer. This arrangement re-
duces labor requirements con-
siderably and when well -lighted
and ventilated is just as effec
live as the broody coop in the
control of broodiness. Care must
be taken, however, to make sure
that eggs which may be laid on
the floor of the "broody pen"
are promptly removed.
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The use of drugs as means of
controlling broodiness has been
attempted but to date such a
method t, not considered enm-
menially practical.
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Selective breeding show's
much prumiae for the control of
broodiness. It is well known
that in many strains of Leg -
horns, bruodiness has been re-
duced almost to the point of
elimination. Breeding for non-
broudiness in pure strains and
eroesee ran be complex and
time consuming. In the mean -
its appearance in a flock the
poultry farmers must continue
lo use the 'broody coop" or the
"broody pen" to control brood-
iness in the domestic fowl, par-
ticularly those farmers who
keep the heavy breeds and
emeses of heavy breed,.
Art liciel insemination i'i new
accepted as a practical method
for breeding cows in all parts
of Canada. In other countries it
is equally popular and inorma-
tion trent England indicates
that in the population of cows
aow being bred artificially,
there are 100 times fewer bulls
in use. In practice, artificially
used bulls on the average, breed
1,000 cows a year and this fi-
gure could be increased many
times with a strong demand for
teem from a particular bull.
consequently, good and poor
Breeding bulls are used more
:wavily in artificial service than
al natural service, and mistakes
ah bull selections are much more
serious when artificially used.
To avoid such mistakes, says
C. G. Hickman, Research Officer
Dairy Cattle Breeding, Central
Experimental Farm, Ottawa,
Ont., clear objectives must be
established for what is needed
in a profitable dairy cow, and
breeding programs for bull se-
lection are imperative. Other-
wise artificial i n s e m in a tion
could lower the producing abil-
ities of the present generation
of dairy cattle.
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Breeding programs operated
by artificial insemination units
in co-operation with patrons
are needed to provide a steady
supply, of proven hulls for use
in artificial insemination, Young
bulls out of cows known to out -
produce their stablemates for
several lactations should be put
into limited artificial service in
many herds. After a year of
such use they should be taken
out of service until daughter
production is known. With this
in'.orma'i on the best bulls can
be put back into service for
heavy use, and the remainder
whose daughters failed to do
better than average should be
shipped to the slaughter house.
The present scarcity of such
highly selected bulls in our
units, not only discredits the
importance of artificial insem-
ination, but also speaks convin-
cingly of the need Inc sire pro-
ving programs.
High efficiency broiler ration°
developed over the past decade
have made it possible to pro-
duce three to five pound chic-
kens in 35 per cent less time
and on 30 per cent less feed
than was possible twenty years
ago. This remarkable progress
has resulted in the replacement
of the large roaster chicken by
the so-called broiler chicken
which can be produced in much
less time and with greater feed
efficiency.
°
There ]sstill a demand Inc
heavy roaster chicken. how-
ever, and work by T. M. Mac-
Intyre, senior poultry husband-
man at the Experimental Farm,
Nappan, N.S.. has shown that
high efficiency broiler rations
may be used to improve growth
and feed efficiency of this type
of bird.
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In experiments conducted at
Nappan a substantial improve-
ment in growth and feed effici-
ency was obtained by the use
of high efficiency rations Inc
roaster type chicken, The birds
on the high efficiency rations
made better gains and attained
better finish on less 'Teed than
the birds fed the conventional
growing mash and grain ration,
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Results of this work indicate
that with growing mash and
grain averaging $70,00 per ton,
and with chicken selling at 40
cents per pound, high cost in-
gredients of the high efficiency
ration could raise the price of
the finished ration up to $100.00
per ton and still be more eco-
nomical than the mash and
grain ration.
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month of August. A freak hail storm had residents in snow boots shoveling their walks clear
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"Two's
Is h
A Complete Story
by A. Cecil Hampshire
Mr. Periwinkle put down the
telephone and called to his
nephew from his office at the
back of the shop. The old jewel-
ler wasslniling broadly and rub-
bing his hands, "George!" he ex-
claimed. "Guess what has hap-
pened?"
George paused in his task of
cleaning a silver candlestick.
"Someone's invented a polish
that doesn't rub off?"
"No, you idiot. Miss Minton
is going to sell us her family
silver. It has been lying in the
bank vaults ever since her
mother died. Nip up now and
give the bank messenger a hand
with it. She's en her way here
herself."
Some lime later, while Miss
Minton watched hint, Mr. Peri-
winkle drew one by one from
their green baize wrappings
heavy silver tea services, entree
dishes, cake stands, cutlery, wine
coolers, fruit dishes, cream and
coffee jugs, heavy, solid and
redolent of a bygone age when
there was leisure in the world
and no servant problem,
"Beautiful stuff , ," the old
jeweller murmured reverently.
"I hate to part with it," said
Miss Minton, "but it will never
be used now, I'm afraid. And
when I received this simply
wonderful chance to buy the cot-
tage in Devon I've always want-
ed," sIhe went on, "I decided that
the silver must go to help pay
for it"
"Ohl, then you'll be leaving the
district soon, Miss Minton?" ob-
served the jeweller as he stack-
ed the dully gleaming silver
carefully an the counter.
"Yes, I am giving up my flat
as soon as arrangements to take
ever the cottage are completed,
I shall be glad to leave the
smoky old town. Do — do you
think these are worth much?"
she asked hesitantly. "They
must be quite old, but after all,
no one seems to use silver like
this any more."
"Several hundred pounds," tihe
old jeweller told her. "But 1111
work out an exact figure for
you.,'
"Oh, I almost forgot. This may
as well go, too." She took from
her shopping bag a silver ob-
ject wrapped in tissue paper and
put it down in front of the jewel -
let'.
"A Sauce -Boat," commented
Mr. Periwinkle, as he unwrapped
it. "And early Georgian. Very
nice indeed." He held out his
hand. "Have you the other one?
The pair will fetch a good price."
Miss Minton, unaccountably,
blushed. ".I'm afraid not," she
murmured. "I don't know where
it is, You see, my uncle gave me
one and he gave the other to my
... to the man I was going to
marry. 'Two's a pair and they
must always go logethe'r,' he
used to say."
"Did something hapoen td nre
vent your marriage, then?" ask-
ed Mr. Periwinkle, gently.
"We — we auarrclled," slid
Miss Minton. "He was ver im-
pulsive, you know. It was at a
ball," she went on dreamily.
"Matthew — that was hi: name
-- accused me of fleeting with
a man he did not like: Oh, it was
all so silly, and 1 wasn't really
flirting. At any rate. I told him
I could never marry a man with
a jealous, overbearing nature.
He flared up at that, and then
I flung back his ring and told
him I never wanted to see him
again. Matthew was an officer in
the Navy. He went back to his
ship, somebody told me, and —
I've never seen him since."
"I'm sonny," said Mr. Periwin-
kle, glancing al her flushed
face. She must have been a
very pretty girl in 'those clays,
he thottglft.
"Oh, it doesn't matter now."
said Miss Minton. `I heard he
married; I never did. sFather
died suddenly and Mother be-
came an invalid, so I didn't seem
to have any lima to go to patties
the
any more." She paused. °But I
mustn't bore you, Mr. Peri-
winkle. Now, how much are
you going to give me for the
silver?"
The jeweller pored over the
piece of paper on which he had
jotted down some figures, then
named a sum.
"Pity about those sauce -boats,"
Mr. Periwinkle sighed. "The pair
would have fetched you at least
another ,£75,"
But Mr. Periwinkle did not
sell the sauce -boat with the rest.
of the silver. He polished it care-
fully and set it in the window.
Casual customers were informed
that the sauce -boat was not for
sale. To his nephew's question-
ing Mr. Periwinkle returned one
answer: "When you only have
one of a pair put it in the win-
dow and sooner or later the
other will turn up."
One day a tall, broad -shoul-
dered man entered the shop. In
his late fifties, he had curly grey
hair and a red and weather-
beaten face that was still hand-
some. An air of command hung
about him.
'that sauce -boat in the win-
dow." Ile pointed "May I see it,
please?"
Mr. Periwinkle carefully
studied his inquirer over the top
of his glasses, 'It is rather a nice
piece," he remarked gently.
"Early Georgian, you know."
"Yes, yes, man," the customer
agreed testily. "Can I see it?."
"Why certainly, sir," Mr. Peri-
winkle smiled suddenly and
moved away to retrieve the de-
sired object from the window.
The customer almost snatch-
ed it from his grasp and exam-
ined it clgsely. "Where did you
get it?" he demanded abruptly.
Mr. Periwinkle cleared his
throat. "The — alb — article is
the property of a private owner,
I'm afraid. sir," he lied calmly.
"I could put you in touch if you
are interested in buying the
piece, sit:"
"Well, l am interested," said
the big man, "I have the com-
panion to it. So don't sell it 10
anyone else," he warned fierce-
ly. "Now, who is this client of
yours. Wouldn't be a lady by
any chance?" he added,
"If you will let me have your
name and address, sir, I will put
you in touch as soon as I can,"
he promissed,
"Here," said the big man, drop -
pin a visiting card on the coun-
ter. "Fix it up as soon as pos-
sible, but don't let that sauce-
boat go. ' Good day to you.'
When the customer had de-
parted, the old jeweller at once
picked up the telephone and
dialled Miss Minton's number.
He gazed at the visiting card
in his fingers. It bore the legend:
Rear -Admiral Matthew Walker
Knott, C.B. (Retired), Navy at
Army Club.
"Miss Minton?" he asked pees -
really when a voice answered.
"I am so glad that you haven't
left town yet. r have had an in-
quiry about that silver sauce-
boat of yours. If seems that the
inquirer possesses one exactly
like it."
"3tlt, Mr. Periwinkle, I sold
you the sauce -boat " es:clainmed
Miss Minton. "You say 11114 per-
son has nna just like it?" she
faltered,
"Look, Miss Minton, 1 am
wanted in the shop now," said
the old jeweller ignoring her re-
mark. "I suggest that: you call
in here at noon tomorrow. Could
you do that?"
"I don't know, 3 m afraid T
— Y -yes, I'll come," she decided.
A little later Mr. Periwinkle
picked up the telephone again
and dialled the number of the
Navy and Army Club.
Next day Miss Minton, with
a quickened pulse and an attrac-
tive flush on her cheeks, sat in
Mr, Periwinkle's office a n d
watched the hand of her wrist-
watch move round to 12.15.
Then the shop door opened
and the admiral strode in,
"Where's this client of yours?"
he demanded of Mr, Periwinkle.
"And how much is this sauce-
boat going to cost me?"
"My client is in here sir." The
old jeweller went to the door
of his office. "May I introduce—"
he began, but the admiral's voice
drowned what he was about to
say as Miss Minton appeared be-
side him.
"Anabella!" he cried, striding
eagerly forward, "So it was you
after all these years!"
Miss Minton stood smiling
tremulously at him, "Mat, dear
Mat," she murmured. •
Through the open door of his
office, to which sanctum he had
tactfully retired, Mr, Periwinkle
could not help overhearing what
followed. He learned that the
admiral not been married after
all. His engagement had been
broken orf, but Miss Minton had
not seen the notice in the news-
papers.
He had never ceased to think
of his first love. But after their
quarrel he had plunged into his
career, had spent much time
abroad, then the war had come.
Afterwards his efforts to trace
her had proved fruitless. Now
at last they had met and he.
wouldn't dream of allowing her
to disappear again.
Mr. Periwinkle could scarcely
catch Miss Minton's responses,
but they were apparently em-
inently satisfactory.
Presently he heard the shop
door open. But by the time he
reached the threshold of his lit-
tle office the admiral and Miss
Minton with linked arms were
already disappearing. On the
counter stood the silver sauce-
boat, forgotten.
"I say---" began the jewel-
ler dashing forward. But the
door closed behind the unheed-
ing couple.
"Oh, well," shrugged Mr. PerI-
winkle, and smiling to himself
he picked up the sauce -boat and
locked it carefully away in his
safe. —From "Tit -Bits".
Why Editors Hate
Proofreaders
Ad for nurse in the Los An-
geles Times: "Very desirable
position with Wilshire doctor
who has six sappy and satisfied
girls on his staff.'
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From the Towanda, Pa., Re-
view: "This, will be the first
time that the horus has appear-
ed at a PTA meeting and a real
threat is anticipated."
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From the Freeport, Texas,
Daily Facts -Review: "Pvt. Gary
M. Alders has been home on
furlough after faking.- eight
weeks' basic training at Ft.
Bliss,'
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From an ad in the Montreal
Star: "The world's finest tree
roses. Book now — scarce.
NDAY S€11001
LESSON
The Source of Human Conflicts
James 8:4-5; 4:1-12.
Memory Selection: Follow peace
with all men. Hebrews 12:14.
We don't want to become cyn-
ical. But as we grow older we
are becoming less excited about
the tall story we hear or read.
Sometimes the story has no
foundation in fact. Other times
it has grown so much that the
facts are barely recognizable.
Many of these inaccuracies oc-
cur quite innocently. We often
misunderstand each other, Thee
some people seem to develop
the habit of exaggeration almost
unconsciously.
James in his paragraph on the
tongue is not speaking of the
infirmities common to this mode
of communication. He is think-
ing of its deliberate use to de-
file and poison and destroy as
fire. Election time is an example.
Some think they can rise to
power by speaking evil of oth-
ers. Of course the reason for
the evil use of the tongue lies
in the heart. Bitter envy and
strife in the heart prompts evil
speaking. We need the wisdom
from above which is "first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy
to be intreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partia
ality, and without hypocrisy."
If this wisdom abound in us
then our words will minister
grace to our hearers.
James speaks c: the double
minded man who is unstable in
all his ways. This person wants
the world and heaven, too. He
has not the single aim of living
to please God. To all such James
writes, "Draw nigh to God, and
he will draw nigh to you.
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye
double minded.'
Sin in the heart is the source
of human conflicts. Jesus Christ
died to save us from our sins
and rose again the third day.
"If we coulees our sins, lie is
faithful and just to forgive us
our aims, and tel cleanse us from
all unrightcouslless." Lt•t us
tale the simple and clear way
taught in 11 o' Seripture:s al
dealing with sin, the slluree o1
Human corlihet;.
Many diapnautcd cu610inet's
every 513t.„
From 111. 1l e lug r 5onuttic', N.
C., 'I'lu1 i•lewo: Miss Elaine
Rhode,: entertained at her home
with a househe•Id shower honor-
ing Mics Elaine Rhodes,"
•From the I.aceville, Pe.. Wy-
oming County Courier: "Ex -
Governor James, who is an at-
torney for the complainant, is
working without thought or re-
muneratioe."
From the - Toronto Globe $c
Mail: "The blond young man
with the chew cut , .."
From a Dodgeville, Wis., ad-
vertising circular: "Clothing left
to our exepert care always getat
the kind of dry cleaning that
devitalizes fabrics."
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ARCTIC "LANDING"—Engineers in Marietta, Ga„ show how,'
40 -pound block of ice is mounted on outrigger attached to rear
or auto and dragged at high, speed over section of a plane's"
fuselage material to determine effector landings on Arctic ice,
Purpose: to evaluate various protective materials which could
be applied to belly of the C,-180 Hercules, turboprop cargo and
troop carrier of the Tactical Air Command. Engineers are,1
fromlleft: Lockheed Aircraft's C. B. Birmingham and J. R,