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M11,, 1 ui,'.ibttr who con
Iter{ olectric light plant
the world'_;. most
aloe red eery fifteen miles Of
',drew ereee, from ZenZiber to
Not' Lee ,lett, with one tiny
engine which pulled trucks
ielett with laughing Sw•ahilis
and € reads.
Very proud of it, he had
vi ithig Bards engraved "Direc-
tor of Government Railways,
Zencrbat.- And when he went
en leave to England, via Japan
and the U.S.A.. he presented
one to ;a railroad president in
Sett I`raacisco,
V.I.P. treatment was al once
accorded him, free travel. a
:special coach placed at his dis-
poeel, Wherever he stayed of-
elcials extended hospitality. In
Chicago he was banqueted.. by
the directors. In a speech of
thanks he ermpa'ed U.S, travel
"terry favourably" with Zanzi-
bar's, and granted thein the
freedo!n of the Bou Lott Bou
ialiway.
Rex Tremlett, who now runs
e, farm guest-house .and c'ara-
ven ,site in Cornwall, tells of
other unusual people he met in
lively recount of his gold -
prospecting days in Snuth,
Central end Cast Africa, "Roitd
to Ophir".
At Brandi. a 'Tanganyika vii -
lege hundreds of miles from
any sizeable town, two- Lupe
River diggers whom he knew
drove up he a car, Although the
temperature was over eighty,
one wore a suit of load check
wit!, "rri - respondent" shoes,
the other a striped flannel suit.,
flamboyant shirt and tie. They
resembled a cartoonist's {Mak-
in the bark were two pow-
dered, lip ticked, silk -stocking-
ed young women • in summer
frocks: an unbelievable sight in
that isolated spot. They got out,
:laughing shrilly, opened the ear
boot, and extracted numbers of
bottles and a cocktail shaker.
Just then a lion roared, quite
Mose. With alarmed squeals,
they clutched each other, jump-
ed back into. the car, slammed
the door and remained there all
night, fed ncensionally with
whiskey.
The (nen ,aid they'd had a
'wonderful time in England,
that,!:s mainly to the girls they
had feet, One had asked his girl
to r ..trey him; she consented
prodded the other married her
friend. Se they'd had a double
tvectr re and honeymoon. Now
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SWOON WITH iT, MAN This
real 1.0;4 cloddy is gone, man -
01 - least halfway gone -in a
pool c i the Paris, France. Vin-
:erroos Zoo. Elvis Presley fans
thou! aril so carried away. A
!res uose.asanal heat wove o la
?ori; rant 'Papa polar to the
welruin s waters.
for "they are very expens 1 ,"
both husbands confided.
One flay. when Treroleelt tea r
in Bantle, a native arrived cele-.
ry'ing in non hand a loog stick
with a letter sheer in a cleft
1111 in the end, in the other a
bottle. The note was from an
entertaining fellow, Wallis Wil-
son, whom he had met not long
before on a ship sailing from
Durban.
As a young man, Wilton
made a fortune from Malayan
rubber. He spent four months
of each year in England, the
remainder abroad visiting
friends.
Passing through Kampala.
and hearing that Tremlett was
miles away "in the blue", he'd
bought the loyal hotel's only
battle of Napoleon brandy as a
present for him, then hired a
meal native, given him money,
and told him to travel until he
found Tremlett. He'd hitch-
hiked and walked nearly 300
miles: it had taken him a
month,
Later tha( bottle saved Trem-
lett's life, He was drinking with
a mining manager, Howard, and
his bookkeeper, Hodd, when the
latter picked up the rifle Trem-
lett had stood against the wall,
onened the breech, glanced
down the empty- barrel, then
closed it, unaware that this ac-
tion loaded itfrom the meets -
eine.
Suddenly there was a crash:
The hurricane lamps blotted
into darkness, the brandy bottle
burst and drenched Tremlett,
the siphon exploded, chairs
crashed over as he and Howard'
ducked under the table—How-
and with a bullet through his
thighs,
Hodd, for some re05011, had
pulled the trigger with the rifle
planted at Tremlett's chest. The
bullet bit the bottle, ricocheted
to the siphon, burst it, and
ploughed through the three-ply
table top to hit Howard in the
legs. Tremlett had a lump of
glass embedded in his chest,
pieces in his hair, and but for
the bottle would instantly have
been killed,
Tremlett mentions an inter-
esting South African Dutch
custom. When the daughter of
the house has a suitor, a candle
was given her and placed in a
candlestick on a {able near the
Bible, When the old folk went
to bed the lama was doused,
the candle lit, Ey the time it
had burned nut, whether in
Iwo night or twenty, the suitor
was expecied to declere hi/It-
self. and t)' not accept rd, depart,
But there yramcd no ride
against blowing the candle out,
which not1 r
P
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1rt7
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life hal "made the In ht more
ill
11e'.,•ription of moue; Ilfo
and the ,wintry i•" admiral. -,le.
The tool: records a most
l u.,l and m,t, Ir_ -1, career:
Ra
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.'1n all -tun, world n'rnrd for
rainfall fe: being claimed ed for July
111th, 1953, 1 u• a, v);:'r m,'ar
,h,ftc'.-011, 101,:,.
111 the „ally hour.. of that day,
(''131: rflinl,11 fell at a rife of
0.60 inches a Minute, according
to an official recording 5r0aae of
the U.S. Weather latreati. For-
tunately it ,lid not fall at that
rat:' rtal lung, for in an hour
that would amount to nearly
tlu'c',' and a hall' fest cif water.
A radar set fifty -firs miles pieh-
eet nP e'ehoes.. of the :term.
For a aulilarly 111^11 rnfr,
wemiln'r rCh'•11.4 hat's had
back to 14".i, when 11.113 lochs
of rain a Infinite (set,: reeerd5d
it California, though in 101
there was a rhnll,I'ul claim for
0.112 inches: a minute from pans -
ma. lint r' the Panama claim
w a. 11:1.51 upon unreliable
methods of measurement, it
cannot compete for the world
screed.
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HAPPY PAY-OFF — Roy Kimball enthusiastic 4-H Club member,
has a happy grin as he bids farewell to the high-quality Heree
ford steer he raised and sold for a record price. The average
price for 4-H beef at the Central Wyoming Fair was $30.31 per
hundredweight, Roy's 916 -pound steer brought $42.75 when
bought by Caspar's Hotel Henning. So, with a deduction for
shrinkage, the 16 -year-old youngster pocketed a check for
$372
A variety of factors influence
egg quality and many of these
can be controlled by the pro-
ducer. Strains of birds differ
in their ability to produce eggs
With good albumen, freedom
from blood spots and good
shells. so a strain of birds not
ipable of producing eggs of
the desired quality should be
replaced by a better strain,
Good poultry management
must be emphasized because
good management is reflected in
egg quality. Only healthy pul-
lets in good condition should
be housed and confined
throughout the laying period.
Confinement twists in disease
control and thus has an influ-
ence on egg quality.
Egg storage temperature court
be checked k d r rh
far 1 • 11i��11
temperature; reduce egg shelf
qualify and change thick 0100-
t 1e a to thin watery albumen.
1( air- flathc'rcd litre to
t ni ten daily and laying
pros .ire properly vent dated
thk dang,t van be partially le-
chr, rd. P huirld he cooled as
quickl. a. p;::,ihlc and this
eaohint pint should tee thor-
ough Leto to pl:au°rf in
3.0111 1 4'03 c ,. Stn!nprv'cr
inrc should i,c' teem ii(1 to Pill dc.
ecce: h.. and humidity 70 to ;5
decreer'. Eggs take gni '.oft':. fla-
tuts rcctdlh :i,i ahue1ci hot. be
<t0rl'1) in Iho 11,311113,1' producte:
With 51.1'011g odor_, tier) a 011101S.
Markrtiur5 ''n :e'1e1-111 tinter a
week help' mta151201) high qual-
ity. An ample supply g.1 calcium
mist be mode available tor lav-
ers ^s O5r .411)•11 1s 111.001 135 pr'r
cosh eah•imn carbonate.
in spine breeding woi 0. the
big=t pg.:.aiblr' parent material
must 11e selected. The only
method pr. ..idl) availabie
whereby meatgiralits, of differ-
ent litters may be compared,
require: the e11015hte(' and car-
enss 11))ned ement of a sample
of pigs front each litter and
appraisal of the different litter::
nn the basis of the carcasses 0f
their slaughtered litter mates.
By chance the samples slaught-
erer' might include the best pigs
of the litter, which not only
represents a loss of breeding
stock but also slows down an
improvement program. If it
were possible to measure car-
cass quality an a Iiving pig,
more pigs of the best litters
would be available as breedin
stock. Di', H. T. Fredeen an
other members of the Animal
Husbandry staff at the Lacombe
Expreimental Farm, Canada
Department of Agriculture, are
attempting to determine carcass
'quality on live hogs through the
use of ray and measurement
of fat thlckne:,.
rat a, � ::'.
l d r all' X to cd and
E ,
front the film the vertebrae
and numhe.t of tibe are counted.
Eventually tide infntmatmc,
may give- indurations of the po-
tential carcass ass quality of -the
animal. The hogs are X-rayed
0111.0.agzlin at 2011 pounds weight
and in addition to t'ertrlarart
and rip lode's, fat thickness rm
the back or the hog is record-
ed. This information 14 then re-
lated 10 actual carcass quallti•
after slaughter.
-:1 more rapid and les,, e pen-
sive rnea:;urc of fat tl,ickties am
the live hoer, can be obtained by
the use of what is known as a
Lean 11rIe:teer, Tltie is a needle-
Iilue apparntns consisting of two
eiect.roc!,-s inenlaied from one
an0)1101, 'Pic needle k intro-
duced into the animal and the
era: tone" of the flesh to a yr'ry
smelt electrical rurre'nt is
meanered ,1g. a IYlet.el". I( is pow-
ered b•: 33 pen -light btrtierien..
F'al, due to its c0nipositiOn, has
a greater r,15(5tance to electri-
city- than. lean meat, so when
111ri needle pa;t.;cs from lett to
lean it: is indicated on the
niefer, and the depth of rat- IC'
.cordoci
r•-
rordec'1 in this manner.
't'11e Lean ivh'ter was ctrce.dup-
ed 1'" rescarc•h leen at I'urdlc
Up) ,And ;ttld is .tier! 1011)5:
widely by research workers lu
the United States. It is gradu-
ally replacing 10, earlier meth-
od of fat measurement where
the skin was slit with a scalpel
and the lay'e'r of fat lileaSur:`'d
w.itl a small ruler, The Lean
f ieter is practically painless
and can be used to measure the
tat anywhere on the animal's
body. At present it is in use at
oeveral swine research nnit3 ill
Canada,
The use of X-ray was pio-
neered by German workers and
their results were sufficiently
encouraging so that Danish
Swine Testing Stations have in -
tailed X-ray equipment in
thei lest piggeries.
No country as yet retie,, 00
this equipment as a measure of
carcass quality to the point
where the slaughter test is
eliminated . Work ie progress-
ing nicely at Lacombe and Dr.
Fredeen is hopeful that he may
come up with information
which will eventually eliminate
slaughter of potential breeding
stock. X-ray equipment is cost-
ly which, together with its size
and weight, makes it of unlike-
ly use for other than research
purposes. The. Lear Meter, on
the other hand, is a compara-
tively cheap, uncomplicated in-
strument weighing but a few
pounds and may prove nt con-
siderable practical value to
swine breeders who wish to im-
prove the carcass quality, spe-
eificaliv fat content. of their
pigs.
Pigs Arrested
As Drunks
The effect of alcohol on ani -
mats was discussed recently at
a meeting of veterinary surgeons
in Germany. One vet mentioned
the ease of a young elephant
which visited a Kaffir kraal in
the Zambesi valley some time
ago and emptied six out of eight
large pots of beer which he
found in native hut. He then
"staggered away" into t h e'
iungle,
ANew lurk animal expert
revealed in 1949 that he had
'treated twenty-five tattle for
drunkenness in a week while
visiting a farming area. He
blamed it all nn a sudden gale
which knocked down bushels of
green apples. The rattle ate
them and the apples fermented
in their stomachs forming. alco-
hol. he explained.
Snorting, hiccupping, waying
Pt S flopped out or
rrailway
trnek at S it ret uennnss, France,
a 0)13001 1,..",0 L150. Blind
drunk se tie the verdict of a
veterinary suiesiten, after g,>'n-
dartnes had arrested si:, of the
disorci-ll,y characters—all pedi-
gree pigs. it tinned out that
1,00l'51',30 re along the line the
truck was shunted and lurched.
tint of their caret:- tumbled the
pigs. And out of two 0501:en
carne flowed 1 r:h Bordeaux
ti ins. The pits drank the lot:
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The Shepherd PsaInt
Psalm 23
Memory Selection: me Lord It
my shepherd; I shall not want.
The twenty-third Psalm is 11)4
best known and the most loved
passage in the Old Testament
David, the Shepherd• who he -
came king, has expressed th4
musings of a sheep with deep
meaning for its in our relating.
to God. Sheep instinctively know
- when folded for .the night tha'
the one who cared for them that
day will guide them safely of
the marrow'. In the early morn int
he leads them first to the rough
er herbage and then to the riche,
grass. They lie dawn in gree,
pastures about 10 a.nt, to clic,/
their suds. They will not dl•inl
gurgling water. ,The shepherc
will find a place be intake ono
where th" water is still. Fact
day the sheep in the Holy Lend
leave; its place in the feeding
line and. has a fr-w minutes corn'
-mrinion tt'i)h the shepherd.
- The Valley of the. Shadow ag
Death in Palestine• is a narrow
defile through a mountain rewire. •
Climatic and gracing conditions
Make it necessary 10 take 1114
sheep thr ttsh this drnrernue
passage for 0' a'r n 1.,r'din r each
year. If a sheep .lip:, from tha
narrow path the shepherd Tilt
raise him with his crook, If dogh
come near the shepherd will Intel
his staff at them with accurate
aim. In the Spring the shepherd
goes before cutting,. out the poi**.
oru09 plants. Each night a4 Ma
sheep enter -the fold lite<tiep.
herd applies file oil to tiny cul:
and presents th" large overflow-
ing cup of cold water for re-
freshment. The sheep e_ors to
rest contented.
As the shenherd care-, for his
sheep ?a the Lord care for those
who love him, Al 2 a.m. we wee
called to mother's' bedside in the.,
hospital. I quoted this P=nine
When I said, "lea, theme;(, 1
Wali: through the valley of -the
shadow of death, I will feta no
evil: for thou art with mei" she
softly whispered her lee) wnrdc.
"Yes, fe us i3 with me 11 w-
have fully committed our Herta
to Jesus enlist. the flood She p -
herd, we can enter in happiness
and contentment into the `(tit
rich living set farf h hi the „rera-
tv-thrid Psalm,
tpsidedown to Prevent 1eetoti:J
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IT RUNS ON PARAFFIN OR ANYTHiN' - The Rover T•3, Britain's
latest gas -turbine car, goes on display, following tests by tha
British Motor Industry Research Association. Fuel consumptions
of the car, not yet in production, has been described as "reason-
able". During tests at 40 miles per hour, the T-3 did 13.8 miles
per gallon of "paraffin", British terminology for "kerosene".
On a high-speed test track, the Rove, was timed at 102 miles
per hour with plenty of power in reserve, The T-3 feotuees m
four-wheel drive and a glass 'einforced plastic body.
HEAVEN'S A SKUNK IN THE REFRiGERATO
Life is just a small boy's heaven for 10-year.old Billy Hoffman. You see, his daddy owns a pet
shop stocked with all sorts of interesting beas ties. What's more, Billy has the privilege of
taking home a different pet each day, if he wants to, from a waddling duck to a baby
alligator, Some of his unusual playtime friends are shown here.
Skuevlt helps Billy raid refrioerator.
Just monkevina with Billy's homework.
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