The Seaforth News, 1953-07-30, Page 711 FARM FRONT
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Whc:u .an emergency 1.0.10•; up,
a man eo11letinlee 'leas to act
quickly, utd net eecat'dine to t e
emote.
When then temperature hit a
steaming 05", with high humidity
and no air moving, Sanford Al-
ger had to act quirk oe Ince tee
chickens.
He bought large blocks of
and put them in the pons in
front -of electric fans. It did the
trick --he didn't 'tole a rhicke'n.
If you happen to be troubled
with mites in the litter of your
poultry 'house, here's a tip. You
can kill then( right where they
are -without throwing out the
li ttel',
One way is to sprinkle the, lit-
ter with a combination dust con-
taining 5% DDT or Methoxy-
chlor, plus 20% sulfur, says Da.
yid Brannon of Washington State
College, Put on about 3 pounds of
dust to each 100 square. feet of
litter, and (nix it in thoroughly,
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If eou don't own a mecha-
nical litter stirrer, and want to
try an easier method, you can
just spray the litter with insect-
icidies, and let it dry for a day
or two, For this method, says
Brannon, mix up 4 pounds of
50% wettable DDT powder - or
methoxychlor with 0 pounds of
wettable sulfur 'per 100 gallons
of water.
About 3 g• allons of the mix-
ture to each 100 square feet of
litter should do the trick.
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How often should you treat
the litter? Since both DDT and
methoxychlor last well, once a
season should be enough,
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Broiler growers don't agree
en how much lighting their
chicks need, Some say: "All the
time," Others say: "Just in the
summer."
C. B. Lafitte of Shelby County,
'"ereeerreemprOnaisses, and has some good
reasons for it, too. Starting in
1948 with one small house, he
now markets 90,000 to 100,000
birds per year, and is recognized
as one of the best broiler men
in the fast-growing broiler re-
gion of East Texas.
Lafitte has a time switch that
turns on the lights at 10:30 p.m.
and off at 6:00 a.m. You need
lights especially in the summer,
he says, because the broilers
will eat more in the cool of night
and be ready for market sooner.
But why not burn them all
Con n :ps Add Zest a
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de( warm weather when appetites may be jaded by setting
+nightly novel dishes. Recently In Dallas, Tex., Nell Morris, one
12g the et -Attlee outstanreng home economists, showed one how to use
l 1)rtl chaps in balled dishes, Her recipes will certainly make your
slinmetertime crooking a little more interesting.
CORN 'paps =PT's( CDEESI1
(etelrves a to 8)
One and one -hal( cups milk, 2 eggs, slightly beaten; er teaspoon
dry !mustard, .lie teaspoons salt, re, teaspoon cayemie, 1 cup onions,
chopped; 2 Cups grated American cheese, 1 cup crushed earn chaps
(measure after crushing).
Add heated milk to slightly beaten eggs and seasonings. Mix
onions, eheesc and eorn chips together and place in a greased
baking dish. Pour milk and eggs over this and bake in moderate
even (320degrees5'.) for 20 minutes.
For an economical and out -o( -the -ordinary Matey dish, uv this
recipe'
CORN CII1P-,00241 CASSEROLE
(Serves 6 to 8)
''our 01411c05 macaroni, 4 slices bacon (fried erisp), 3 tablespoons
bar:nn drippings, 4 tablespoons chopped green pepper, le cup
chapped onions, 2 cloves garlic (minced), Ye teaspoon monosodium
glutamate, le teaspoonwhite pepper, 1/.t teaspoon salt, 1 can con-
densed tomato soup, 2 cups lightly crushed corn chips (measured
atter crushing), 1 cup grated American cheese.
13oi1 macaroni in salted water until tender. Saute onion, green
poppet' and garlic in bacon fat, then add seasonings, tomato soup,
minced bacon and cooked macaroni. Place half of corn chips in
a casserole. Add the macaroni mixture. Top with remaining,eorn
tines and grated cheese. Bake in moderate oven (960 degrees I'.)
'9r 20 minutes,
ov to IVAs
Corn chips and zippy cheese served with chili sauce are a. zestful
hot weather luncheon dish. Try it to relieve the mealtime cn0-
notony of summer, -
pepper, 1 cup grated American cheese, tai cup finely crushed 00.10
chips (measured after crushing).
CORN CHIP'S BAKED NOODLE LOAI'' ' Cooknoodlesin boiling salted water: Drain and rinse. Corn.
(Servos 0) bine beaten eggs, milk, seasonings, cheese, corn chips and noodiesa!
'.sue package (0 000000 noodles, 3 eggs, 2 cups milk, 3/4 tea- Pour into a greased cesserote. Bake in moderate oven (:35U dogrees'
spoon salt, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, Is teaspoon white ie,) for 45 minutes.
ltiglit? "We used to do this;' said
Lafitte, "but when the power
would go off, the birds sometimes
got excited and piled up, But by
letting thein get used to the
darkness for a few hours each
night, we never have trouble."
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(Some growers who us0 lights
have stand-by battery-operated.
sets.)
"Another advantage," Lafitte
reasons, "is that it gives the birds
a c110110c 10 rest awhile, When
natural darkness comes on. the
birds sluff their crops -enough
to last the two or three hour' be-
fore the lights come on."
FAR FROM 21051(1 COOKING
There is a well-known Ameri-
can general, at present in Korea,
who is noted for his keen in-
terest in all that goes into the
Army's stomach.
Approaching the nervous'
young Cook of an advance field
kitchen, the big man boomed:
"Here, let me taste that." The
cook opened his mouth to pro-
test, but the general snapped
"Don't give me any buts -give
me a spoon!"
The general dipped his spoon'
into the huge soup cauldron,
and tasted the liquid.
"]you don't call that stuff soup,
do you?" he roared.
"No, sir!" stammered the sol-
dier-. "That's what I was trying
to tell you -it's dish -water, sir!"
Albino Baby -Warming, mothering and feeding a tiny albino
squirrel thrills three kids who found it, apparently sick and
orphaned. Kate Mobley, 8, at left, coaxes him to eat. Her sister
Kuulei, 15 holds him while the third sister, Patty, 12, fixes
a special bottled formula recommended by animal experts at
the zoo.
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Crackers and Cheese - And,
what better refreshment for a
picnic than crackers and cheese,
Serving up his special brond for
the day, our photographer com-
bined (fire) crackers and cheese
(cake) to produce the eye -
appealing picture of Norma -
Randall, Hollywood actress, seers'
above,
Bitten By Snakes
Over 400 Times
George Cann, reptile -keeper at
Sydney's Taronga Zoo Park, has
caught 17,000 wild live snakes
(he claims this is an Australian
record) and has been bitten
over 420 times. George has been
in the game since boyhood.
For thirty-four years he gave
snake show all over Australia
With him m the pit he would
have 200 venomous snakes, cop-
perheads, rattlesnakes
He thinks he's fairly venom -
proof, but thirty-one years ago
a tiger snake near Nowra (N.S.
W.) nearly finished him. Ile was
out in the bush catching snakes.
He collapsed in his shack sev-
eral hours later and was .neon •
scions for four days.
Fortunately, a friend chanced
along nn the fourth day, found
hint lying on the floor, and re-
vived him after half an hour's
vigorous shaking. Cann could
move neither arms nor legs the
a fortnight.
A 1000111 later another tiger
snake bit him at Maitland
(N.S.W.) when he was putting
on his act. Cann was blind for
three days.
George's two sons, twenty-
four and fourteen, share his en-
thusiasm for shakes. During the
war the elder boy, a soldier in
New Guinea, caught two tree
boas and shipped thorn to his
father for the zoo.
Cann tells a good story about
the younger lad. When be was
five, his mother found hila in
a. tin pit with twenty blue -
tongued lizards. One protesting
lizard was clamped between his
teeth Said Canty Junior, "Mum-
my, this nasty lizard bit me, so
I'm biting 111m brelt."
What is new is opposed, be-
cause mast are unwilling to be
taught,
---s;\MW1L JOHNSON
World -Famous -Diamond Hidden in
Potato Field
What has happened to the Koh -
1 -Nur, the ra07000 and fascinat-
ing diamond that has glittered
for so long as one of the shining
highlights of the British Crown
Jewels? The startling answer' is
that nobody knows.
It played no part in the Coro-
nation ceremonies. It had not
been built, as so many people
expected, into the Queen's newly
reconstructed Imperial Crown of
State. Apart from the Queen her-
self, and three close confidential
advisers, no one knows the iden-
tity of the stone's present owner.
Was it mentioned in Queen
Mary's will? The great diamond
was set into Queen Mary's per-
sonal crown over forty years ago
and was long regarded, like the
crown, as her late Majesty's per-
sonal property. The contents of
royal wills, however, are never
disclosed, and the value of the
gem is not considered to have
been included in Queen Mary's
reputed £3,000,000 fortune.
Legal fuzzier
With watchful regard for the
legend of a curse that ordains it
unlucky to men, Queen Victoria
is known to have willed -the Koh -
i -Nur to Queen Alexandra, From
her it passed to Queen Mary,
who merely loaned it for the
queen consort's crown at George
VI's coronation in 1937,
But Queen Victoria also made
a provision that the diamond
should always be worn by the
queen consorts of England and
never by the kings. To -day, of
course, there is no queen consort.
Our young queen is sovereign in
her own right; the Queen Mother
is, in reality, a dowager queen;
the Duke of Edinburgh, although
El consort_, is not in line as a man,
and thus an interesting legal si-
tuation has arisen.
Yet this is by no means the
only strange twist in the Keh-i-
Nur's recent story. During the
war it was kept in an old hat -box
in the vaults of Windsor Castle.
At ane time, when German in-
vasion seemed imminent, it was
placed in an air -tight preserving
jar and buried in a potato field.
And to heighten the controver-
sy, it is being urged. that time Koh -
1 -Nur belongs to the government
of India and should be returned.
Some of It Yours
(Jut perhaps 700, yourself, have
a fragment of the Koh -i -Nur and
are giving it house room unaware
of the curse? After the East India
Company presented it to Queen
Victoria, the 186 -carat stone was
cut down to 106 carats. The
smaller part was again split and
many of the smaller chippings
found their way into private
jewellery.
In size, the Keh-i-Nur-Nlouu-
tain of Light -cannot compare
with the modern 3,025 -carat Cul -
linen in the State Crown or the
770 -carat stone found in a Sierra
Leone river -bed seven years ago,
which has now passed to a pri-
vate buyer, Yet it is one of the
world's oldest known diamonds,
Legend traces it back 2,000 years
-when it was ' allegedly found
in the Golconda mines in India
-and it has a documented his-
tory froze the year 1304.
It formed part of the loot of
Malwa, seized £1'om the old .Pa-
than empire, It passed into the
fabulous treasury of Delhi and
was found there when great
Tameriane's grandson copquered
Hindustan And founded the famed
Mogul empire,
Wars have bean fought around
the Koh -i -Nur. in trying to rend
it, men have fallen down stair-
ways and broken their necks,,A
harem slave once hid it away
and appeased her conquerors by
revealing it hidden in the em-
peror's turban.
Emperor's Piig111
But how to get it? The con-
queror suggested exchanging
turbans as a gesture of friend-
ship and the unfortunate emper-
or, Mohammed Shah, had no
choice but to comply.
Half a century later, another
emperor lu the same plight tried
to deceive a conqueror by foist-
ing hen off with a perfect repli-
ca, In '0(1108, ' h1 is . capital -was
ransacked and -his palace raze,1
to the ground until tele diamond
was at last found in a heap of
ashes.
Following the overthrow of
the Sikh empire, it was handed
over to John Lawrence, the
British Resident, Absent-minded-
ly he put it into a cotton coat
pocket, forgot about it, and then
learned the coat had gone to the
cleaners.
Panic-stricken, he turned the
laundry upside down, "If you are
looking for that piece of glass,"
said a servant, "I have put It in
a drawer."
BriLlianee Fades
And when Queen Victoria was
at last presented with the Koh -i-.
Nur, it must be recorded that
she did net think much of it,
The gem did not seem to shine
with sufficient brightness, hence
the old queen ordered it to be
recut. But the harsh truth is
that diamonds as old as the
Koh -i -Nur gradually lose their
power and brilliance.
This "gem of germs" is no ex-
ception, Some years ago it was
valued at £140,000, but it was
priced at £2,000,000 when shown
at the Great Exhibition in 18511
So who now owns the Koh -i -
Nur? It is nearly two years since
it was last seen twinkling hl
Queen Mary's crown at the
Tower of London, Since then the
crown itself has been dismantled,
and the Queen was seen to be
wearing gems from it when she
last rode to the State Opening
of Parliament. If the I{oh-i-Nur
has to await the next queen con-
sort, its icy fires may lie in cold
storage for sixty years or more.
On The Naming
Of Cats
Lt. 0eette. to tt.10 ae 1 wrnna tins
that the naming of cats is aft. ,•il •
most infallible guide to the dere
flee of affection bestowed re: fi
at. 'Perhaps not affection set
much tis true appreciation a -
feline eheracter. You may he
reasonably' sure when you meet
a cut called Ginger or merely
Puss that his or her owner has
insufficient respect for hie eel.
Such plebeian and unineenea
tive names are not given to alis
by true cat -lovers, There is a
world of difference between the
commonplace "Tabby" and the
dignified and t;onoi'oun "Tat/Atha
Longelaws Tiddleywinks" which
the poet Hood christened his cat.
And her three kittens called Pep"
perpot, Srratchaway and Soole
(:ins reveal an affectionate int•>e.
est whi(•h is never. displayed 113
such ordinary names as ; re.ity
or Mickey.
We cannot ail t•iet, of t••.1I...04,
to Southey':: heights. He. you
may remember, called his eat
"the most noble the 9.echdukn
Runmpelstil•rehen, 14Iarcus Mae
butt, Earl Tomlel'nagne, Ba!'vn
Raticide, D,' a n w h 1 e r awl
Scratch:' .. .
Not that grandiloqu€et or len -
ey titles are nese Nary to a .trot
appreciation of cats. What could
be more dignified or appropriate
than the name of Doctor John -
son's cat Hodge? And the haul
some Bedfordshire rat who to
mentioned later in this story is
admirable suited by hie name
of Albert.
Without doubt the names given
to individual eats shed iniele; -'
ing light on their human-ownere
No one but a true eat -lover could
call his cat Gilderoy, Absalom,
Potifar, Wotan, Feathers or Shah
de Perse.-From "Charles, The
Story of a Friendship," by :Mich •
ael Joseph. Copyright, 1952, by
Michael Joseph. Prentice - H'11,
Inc.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peafar.g
Toothsome Prize - The spirit of
adventure paid off in lots of
thrills and a real prim for Larry
Cokenower, left, and Walter
Myers. Using a snore -pole with
a wire loop, they caught a four.
and - one-half - foot alligator' in
the Des Plaines River.
Squirrel Friend -Douglas Holmes, shows off his pet squirrel' Skip"
id his seventh grade classmates at Union High School. 'fh • boy.
found "Skil," eeveral weeks ago rind the two hove her'smte
inseparable friends.