HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-10-22, Page 3Whether the past year of hard
work has been profitable or not,
the farmer and his family will
be looking forward to a period of
cotnparative relaxation during
the next few months.
These months, however, can of-
ten be turned to profit by using
the time to acquire further know-
ledge on better farming methods,
Information on the most effi-
cient methods of farming is ac-
tually going begging. Provincial
and federal departments of agri-
culture have an abundance of
literature which describes the
latest findings of agricultural
scientists in experimental sta-
tions across the country. These
are available usually without
charge, Many Canadian indus-
tries are constantly turning out
reams of valuable informative
matter far various segments of
the rural population. The closer
scrutiny of farm journals and
weekly newspapers and careful
attention to farm broadcasts, will
often provide information that
can be turned into dollars and
cents by the farmer.
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For the benefit of the young
farrier, most Canadian agricul-
tural colleges run short courses
during the slack farm periods.
These cover special or general
subjects ranging from fruit
euture to fares management. En-
rolement fees and costs of board
and room are so low that the
return on the investment can be
incalculable.
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Association with farm boys
from other sections of the country
and with some of Canada's top
agricultural scientists who serve
as instructors, leads to the broad-
ening of vision— an intangible
factor in successful farming as
in other vocations.
Increased vision plus greater
knowledge pave the way to in-
creased efficiency.
Injecting cattle with insecti-
cides such as lindane is a new
method being tried by agricul-
tural scientists to kill cattle
grubs. In recent experiments
with yearling cattle, four injec-
tions gave first-rate control
However, research workers still
have to determine if this new
method of grub control is both
economical and safe to use,
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A new type of woodmen's
boots designed to eliminate the
major hazard in woodcutting op-
erations—axe cuts to the feet—
is now being manufactured in
Canada.
Much the same in appearance
as bush boots now in use, they
make special use of a special
weave of nylon fabric in their
interior constructions—the same
type of fabric used by police
forces as body armour against
bullets. The boots are warm and
waterproof and their weight is
kept to a minimum. They have a
life expectancy of about five
times that of conventional boots.
When the new nylon boots are
in widespread use, it is expected
that they will go along way to-
wards eliminating foot injuries
to woodmen and cut down radi-
cally the yearly Canadian . com-
pensation bill of hundreds of
thousands of dollars which such
injuries cost,
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According to a recent economic
breakdown of the current retail
costs of the various nutrients con-
tained in it, milk is the best food
bargain on the market. If you
were to purchase all the nutrients
in one quart of milk separately,
they would cost 42 cents, says
C -I -L Agricultural News,
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Broken down, it roads: one
quart of milk contains one cent's
worth of sugar, a half -cents worth
of vitamins and minerals, two and
one-half cents worth of fat and
38 cents worth of protein (at
present beef and pork roast
prices), Total --42 cents,
Chief Wetness
Was Parrot
Two collie dogs were loaf in
Chicago. Only one had been
found, but both owners came for-
ward to contest its ownership,
Jack Robbis greeted the big
brown dog with "Hallo, Shepi"
and a vigorous display of tail -
wagging was his reward, Then
Frank Daniels called out "Lad-
die!" and the tail wagged just as
much,
Judge Mason Sullivan was just
observing that the animal was
not capable of distinguishing its
owner when it jumped up and
started to lick his face, thus
clinching the argument,
Found by a small boy in Ocea-
pa, West Virginia, a parakeet
was claimed by two ladies,
"I taught him to say 'Joe is a
pretty boy,'' said Mrs, Carl
Maxey to the magisir.•ate, John
Lambert. She began coaxing the
parakeet,
Mrs, James. Pelfrey stopped
only to explain that her parakeet
•would oblige by saying "Jimmy
is a pretty boy," before taking
up her place on the opposite side
of the cage. But the two ladies
pleaded in vain. It was the ma-
gistrate who did the talking:
"I decide to confiscate this
bird," he said, "and hold it until
it talks and tells its name so I
can understand it and determine
its ownership. Until that time,
this case is open."
Headaches over identiaication
are not only provided by animals,
The clerk of Nutley Magis-
trate's Court, New Jersey, called
out the name of John Duncan,
and two men came into court to
hear their charges read.
The magistrate inquired which
of the two was Duncan. They
both replied "I am."
"This summons is for John
Duncan, of Belleville." said the
magistrate, But both claimed Bel-
leville as their home town,
"Which one is John Duncan,
of De Witt Avenue?" asked the
magistrate in a strained voice,
As one the men replied "I aro."
They were then asked which
John Dungan lived at 187 De Witt
Avenue. Only one man replied„
and the magistrate's sigh of re-
lief was audible,
But nobody was to blame, One
John Duncan pleaded guilty to
speeding, and the other to driving
without a licence.
Don't Let Go -- European hepcats, in a contest between Berlin
and Paris, prove they are just as limber as any of our native
jitterbugs, Axel Gar•cinet whirls his partner, Bebe Coffinet, both
from Paris, off the floor in time with a mad musical beat at the
Sports Palace in Berlin, Howtver, the French contingent lost to
the German team in the "best rubber -legged couple" competition.
Retreat To The Valley — The season for high-altitude grazing in the Bavarian Alps is over, now
that winter begins to claim the mountain slopes where cattle spent the summer. Photo above,
taken near Mnidelang, shows the traditional day of return to the valley, with local cheese*
makers, in Sunday -best clothes, taking their flower -bedecked herds home again.
Churchill useurra
Back to his light, airy study at
his Westerham Kent house,
Chartwell went Prime Minister
Sir Winston Churchill seeover-
ing after a well-earned rest at
Chequers.
In that study can be eeen the
Union Jack hoisted by the first
troops to land in Italy in 1943, -
Chartwell, standing amid eighty
acres of woods and meadowland,
gives a commanding view of the
Weald of Kent. It has lovely
gardens and there is a bank of
rhododendrons which every year
is the envy of professional grow-
ers — is is so perfect.
In the grounds of Chartwell
are two lakes and •a swimming
pool which Sir Winston himself
helped to construct. There's also
a brick wall with a stone tablet
inscribed: "The greater part of
this wall was built between the
years 1925 and 1932 by Winston
with his own hands." You can
also see a little brick house
which the Prime Minister built
for his daughter Mary.
One day the Prime Minister
may set up a museum at Chart-
well of all the queer things he
has received as presents dur-
ing his career. One of these is
the head of Toro Bravo, the
heavyweight fighting bull that
was born with a V-sign on its
forehead.
This bull was killed by Spain's
famous toreador, Manolete, on
Europe's D -Day.
Reel True Story — Dr. Jesse C.
Overbey, dentist, proudly dis-
plays the 750 -pound, 13 -foot,
11 -inch blue marlin that may
be a coast record catch. Dr.
Overbey battled the giant for
two hours and 15 minutes in the
Gulf stream near Diamond Light-
ship, off Cape Hatteras.
TALKSJ:LE
;)ane Andr. e,ws
Newcomers to this country
from Europe are always surpris-
ed at the abundance and variety
of our foodstuffs, and especially
fruit.
Over in Sweden, for example,
apples are about the only fruit
that is really plentiful, so the
housewives there think up all
sorts of new and attractive ways
of serving them. Writing in The
Farm Journal (Philadelphia),
Marianne Gronwall Sprague tells
how surprised she was to find
that, on this side of the Atlantic,
we use apples mostly for sauce
and pies.
So here are some apple recipes
with a Swedish "slant" and I'm
sure you'll find them well worth
trying.
APPLE TORTE
Mix together :id e. flour, 1 tsp.
sugar, cut in la c, butter, add
gradually 2 to 21a tblsp. cream.
Mix lightly with a fork. 'Form
into ball. Refrigerate for half an
hour before rolling ---so it's eas-
ier to handle.
Roll out % of pastry on cookie
sheet, about 3/4 -inch thick, Place
an 8 -inch par on pastry, and cut
around edge with knife to get
round bottom crust.
Bake crust. in. 375" oven 15
minutes.
Roll remaining pastry into
long thin strips 11/2 inches wide.
Make scallops with tablespoon
Peel and sliee ince thio wedg-
es, 4 or 5 apples.
Arrange apples over crust
Brush with 2 tbhsp, butter.
Sprinkle with 1 tblsp. sugar.
Tuck scalloped edge -around
torte.
Bake (with a second cookie
sheet underneath, to keep torte
from getting too brown) in 350*
oven 80 minutes.
After torte has baked about 20
minutes brush with V: c. hot ap-
ricot or peach jam,
Continue baking until golden
color, Serve hot—plain or with
vanilla sauce. Serves 6 to 8.
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APPLE MERINGUE CAKE
Bake vour favorite rake recipe
ea lee tate gruel Swedish one:
Cream tether t c. butter. 1
c. sifted confectioners' sugar.
Add, one at a time, 2 eggs.
Combine 1 c. sifted cake flour,
1 tsp. baking powder, grated rind
of a lemon.
Add .dry ingredients to cream-
ed mixture; blend well.
Pour batter into -greased 8 -inch
cake pats. Bake in moderate
(350') oven 25 to 39 minutes.
Coot
For the apple -meringue top-
ping, prepare—
Rosy Apples in Syrup:
Cook slowly for 10 minutes, 1
e. sugar, 2 c. water, juice of 1
lemon, 1 small cinnamon stick,
few drops red food coloring.
Peel, core, and quarter 5 or 6
cooking apples,
Cook slowly in syrup until
tender, Arrange apples on cake
and top with—
Meringue:
Combine in mixing bo',"I 3 egg
whites.
Add la top, cream of tartar.
Beat until soft peaks form
Add gradually 1 c. sifted con-
fectioners' sugar, 1.a tsp. vanilla,
Beat until stiff.
Bake in slow (900") oven 20
to 30 minutes, Serve with—
Vanilla Sauce:
Beat until stiff 1 e. heavy cream,
Beat 3 egg yolks,
Add slowly 'pit c, sifted confec-
tioner's sugar, ?a tsp. vanilla.
Continue boating until totally.
•Fold cream into egg mixture
and chill,
Serve colt.
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BAKED APPLES WITH
' BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE
Wash and core 6 baking ap-
ples,
Place in greased baking dish.
Fill centres with mixture of bfi
c. cream, e. dat'k corn syrup,
left e, chopped nuts.
Bake until tender in moderate
(350') oven, Serve with•—
Butterscotch Sauce:
Combine 1 c. cream, lie e, dark
corn syrup, 2 tblsp. butter, 1 tsp.
vanilla,
Cook over law heat until
thickened (20 to 30 minutes),
stirring 0ccasionelly. Serve
warm over baked apples.
Some Strange
'ills That Peomil
Made
When Mildred Russell died
Ieaving her life savings amount-
ing to more than $9,000, to Ed -
wine Lady Peek recently, she
made history. For up to her
death Miss Russell had been em-
ployed for fifteen years as per-
sonal maid by her blue-blooded
legatee.
Thus a traditional situation
was reversed, for it is usually
the faithful servant who is re-
membered in the will of the ap-
preciative employer—sometimes
with a near fortune.
Take Miss Annie Hurt, who for
twenty-five years cushioned her
wealthy mistress against the
bothersome details of everyday
life as personal maid.
When her employer's will was
read Annie found herself pos-
seseed of an immediate $3,000
and an annuity of $9 a week.
For fifteen years Hilda Lons-
dale willingly denied herself the
pleasure of going to dances,
theatres and cinemas, or even lis-
tening to the radio, in order to
companion a wealthy Yorkshire
spinster. Now the old .lady has
died leaving her appreciation in
the shape of a legacy of $42 a
week for life.
That good cooks are almost
worth their weight in gold is
proved by the experience of Mrs.
Margaret Hughes, When her em-
ployer died she bequeathed to
her favourite cook no less than
$30,000. Another culinary wizard,
Mrs, Ula Fletcher, who was cook -
housekeeper to the late Lady
Dalziel, received a lump sum of
$000, a life annuity of $9 a week,
a suite of furniture, a cairn ter-
rier and two canaries.
For a score of years Miss La -
elide Wooldridge devotedly nurs-
ed wealthy John Taylor, guard-
ing his health and queueing for
hours during the war when
choice foods were scarce. Then
John Taylor died, and in his
will he left Nurse Wooldridge
$60,000.
Miss Ada Ryan, - who for over
four years nursed an elderly
couple. reaped an even greater
reward when her ' employees
died. For their gilt-edged appre-
ciation of her unselfish care took
the !'oral of a $150,000 fortune.
V, -urs of loyal and efficient
service have just repaid Mitt,
Constance Pearce with a dazz-
ling legacy of $150,000 and r3
handsome London mansion. Tier
job: secretary to a wealthy com-
pany director. This generous em-
ployer also bequeathed $30,000
his typist!
A strange bequest from a grate-
ful patient to a fatuous surgeon
was disclosed in a recent will,
For the gift was in appreciation
of the doctor's refusal to perform
an operation!
"To Doctor Girling Ball," dir-
ected the last testament of Ar-
thur Leonard, '"200 guineas as
a token of admiration of his skill
and courage in diagnosing that
there was nothing the matter
with my appendix."
On to the bed of Miss Janet
Agnes Bell, lying incurably 111
in .n Edinburgh nursing home,
a stray cat jumped one day. It
was an ordinary tabby. But to
lonely Miss Hell the cat spelt
companionship. "I call him De-
sire," she told her nurses, "he -
cause I desire his company."
When the old lady died Desire
became the world's wealthiest
cat. For Miss Bell left her furry
friend $1500 in her will to pro-
vide him with comfort for life.
But the title of world's richest
pet belongs to Jerry, whose own-
er, octogenarian Luther Sawyer.
of Cambridge, Massachusetts, re-
cently left him $21,000. Evert
with present-day prices this sum
would be more than enough to
keep Jerry in gold-plated luxury
for the rest of his days. For Jerry
is a parrot!
y.ad You.0raow?
The life of a broom can be
doubled by giving the brietle
ends a coating of shellac.
When finishing a wooden table
top, follow the grain of the wood.
If you can reach across the table,
start at the edge farthest away
from you and brush from the
middle toward each end. When
the surface is completely coated,
use the tip of the brush and
make long strokes from one end
to another. The edge should be.
finished last with a small brush.
Be careful not to extend the
brush strokes over the already
finished top surface.
Scientists tell us that the av-
erage
verage shower adds between 'fa
and 1 pounds of water vapor
to the moisture content of a bath-
room. For a tub bath, the amount
of moisture is somewhat less.
Four tub baths taken consecu-
tively`equal about the same as 1
shower. To prevent water vapor
from spreading throughout the
air in the home, close the bath-
room door while bathing. Open
the window a few inehe. top and
bottom immediately following the
bath, The walls and ceiling of
the bathroom should also be coat-
ed with a moisture -resistant en-
amel.
Inward -opening wooden shut -
tars lend an attnosphere of
quaintness to a breakfast nook or
a kitchen. Such shutters need
not be made of wood. They can
be painted on the wall, The
French call it "trompe-l'oeil,"
which means optical illusion. Use
straight, simple lines with a little
shading to make the shutters
stand out from their background.
The pages of almost any home de•
corating magazine will provide o
model to copy.
Every nes, discovery must
necessarily raise in us a fresh,
sense of the greatne.:s, wisdom,
and power of God.
--Jonathan Edwards
Classified Information -- Alfred C, Fuller, founder of the brush
company that bears his name, paid high compliments to news-
paper classified want ads during ceremonies when a photostatic
copy of his first want ad was placed in the firm's museum hall.,
The four -line ad in a newspaper, back in 1909, is credited as the
turning point that brought sales up from $20,000 a year to its
$50,000,000 now. Mr. Fuller has consistently used newspaper
want ads ever si' ^e the first one, which is circled an the framed
copy he holds above,