The Seaforth News, 1954-01-07, Page 7This wlki.m1', you eau slip a 30 -
pound bush sew aver. your shoul-
der and clear as much lend as
several men could with axes.
What's more, you won't have
(t backache and a network of
Seratches when you corse In
from a dies''`: work.
A Y, Y•
The rig 'is ready to gu when-
ever you have time to use It --
you don't have to organize a crew •
of men, of hire heavy machinery.
Most oi. these new saws weigh
between 25 and 35 pounds, and
have a four -foot shaft that lets
you cut brush while you walk—
without stooping or bending •
over. A 1- or 2 -horsepower en-
gIne driven the cutting head
One type has an 8 -.inch or 10 -
inch circular blade. Another has
a regular "beaver -tail` chain
saw cutting head.
9, * t,
lxi Coreell University tests on
land 40% to 50% covered with
thornapjt'.•. these saws cleared
brush ai -lee rate of an acre in,
seven- or eight hours.
With a second man to push
the brush over and paint the
stumps with an oil soletiou o£
3,4-D and 2,4,5-T •--• or in some
cases 2,4-D alone—you can slam
the gate on re -growth.
Y:
Chemicals, gasoline, and de-
preciation will cost you about
$10 a day, but even with an ex-
tra man you can clear an acre
for about S35.
0 tk
To help the machine pay its
way—you may want to line un
some custom clearing jobs with
your neighbors, if you have only
an acre or two of brush ori your
own farm,
MERRY MENAGERIE
wtawn.,.. `ray- 12-8 (litaaiiteae✓r
"Offhand, I'd say either you're
Raving a bad dream or I'm hav
frig a good one!"
One oX these suws stay be just
the thing to help. you clear Out
branclty, thorny bushes that
grow too 'hick for animals and
machinery to get through.
Once you get the upper hand,
foliage sprays and basal stem
sprays can keep your lends op-
en, '° 6
One Oleg about the Neu of
wide -row corn: you can modify
it 'to di the crops you want to
grow.
Leo Hoyt liked the advantages
when he read about wide -row
corn. The rotation on hie farts
included navy beans and wheat.
so he figured out n way to grow'
both with his corn.
4
011 half of a 05 -acre field titin
spring, he planted corn in four
42 -inch rows, leaving a 210 -inch
strip fallow between •each set of
corn rows. On the other half of
the :field he alternated bean rows
with fallow strips, To get rid of
a bad weed problem, he kept the
strips harp all summer
v e a
10 September, he .drilled wheat
in the strips, and he'll sow clov-
er in both wheat and _corn stalks
next spring.
When the systern really gets
rolling next year, here's what
Hoyt plans to do on a field now
y in clover: "1'11 turn the sod un-
der early and plant corn in May.
About June 11, I'll seed the 210 -
inch strips to beans, in Septem-
ber, I'll harvest the beans and
put in wheat, Any time the
beans turn out to be a failure,
I can plow them' under .for green
manure."
r• t Y.
He can still use a two -row'
cornpieker, and he'll harvest the
beans and wheat with a self-
propelled combine.
a o 0
To keep yields up, Xfoyt itt-
creased his corn planting rate to
get the same number of plants
per acre, Despite a July and
August drought, the corn yield-
ed at the rate of 60 bushels, com-
pared with 50 bushels from reg-
ular planting in 1952.
HOUSE OF YOUTH
A man met a friend he hadn't
seen for a long time. "Why,
George," he said, "you've. chang-
ed! What's mating yo+, so old?"
"Trying to keep young," said
George.
"Trying to keep young?" quer-
ied the friend.
"Yes," was the gloomy re-
sponse, "nide of them."
Involved In Trade In an 11-nnan deal the New York Yankees
gave up outfielder Bill Kenna (upper left) and prize negro 'first
baseman Vic Power (vapor right) for pitcher Harry Byrd (lower
left) and first baseman Ed Robinson (lower right) of the Philo-
slelphia Athletics. Yankee outfielder Don Boliweg also went to
Philadelphia. Sit; other players were involved in a devil with the
Yankee 'farm club at Kansas Ctty.
It's no trick it -tall ... .. - tet grow taller ... , end taller!
Ile (crows On You A whole generation has grown up that never saw the inside of a vaude-
ville theater - and that's why 70 -year-old Clarence Willard Is still amusin' and amaxin' folk by
"growing" right. before their eyes. Pictures above tell the story. Willard started in show business
with famed Phineas T. Barnum. He's been doing his ''growing" act for 50 years. Back in 1912
he was a big vaudeville headliner and played long runs in Hew York. He lives in San Francisco
now and just plays in service hospitals now and then and sometimes entertains patrons at Tony-
pandy, a small bistro in which he has an interest. In first photo, he stands at his normal height
of five feet, 11 inches, alongside a coat rack for comparison. In second picture he has passed six
feet and finishes off at a height of six feet, three inches.
Will Men Be Able To Land On The Moon?
The science of space travel
will be many years old before
the first landing on the Moon is
attempted. It may seem strange
to say that voyages to—not
landings on --the farthest plan-
ets, which are several thousand
million miles away, present
fewer difficulties than the task
of bringing a manned rocket to
rest on the surface of the Moon.
The task of preparing for thin
landing will be an enormous one.
Rockets and fuel are expendable.
We can take chances with them
and afford to lose some in the
cause of experiment. But men
are a different matter, In space
travel, we must never gamble,
with human lives,. No leen can
set foot on the Moon until they
stand a good chance of getting
back to Earth,
Fuel fur Return
This means that' their rockets
must be built with a two -fold
purpose- to land ora the Moon
and to take off again' for the re-
turn journey. Such to task will
require a huge rocket, with a
fuel supply greater than anything
we can cope with at the moment.
We have chosen the Moon as
our landing place not bemuse it
is .nearer than the Planets. but
because it is smaller and its gra-
vitational pull is lees
In :fact, the Moon is approxi•
mately a there 250,000 miles away
from the Earth, e distance that
meant nothing in space travel.
Once we get beyond the planets,
distances must be measured it,
tight ,years, which is the dis-
tance a beam of light will trav-
el in a year. Now light travels
at a speed of 186.000 ndies pec'
second. This may help to give
scene impression Of the t'attneta
of space, ,
Travelling t 11 e c u g h- the ee
oceans Ot emptiness in tY epee...
ship wt 1l1 not be difficult. _Sup-
pose
Suppose we set a conn'ee far a slat
• one tight year awn . We mart
with a fairly small supply of
fuel from the spare station, -
As lora; es the tire: nue motes``
our speed will centime to ei
crease, until it ra'he's' ;omethiu
very close to the speed of .light,
When this puppets, we shut alt •
oto• motors and wait. The space
shift continues 'te Ity through
spare tet a constant spend it th•'
direction cot the star. arriving:
at its d,.cdination In jute ewer a i
yea, j
But if rte decide to told nl. 1
that star, or 0110 of its satellites
our prohien.s become very real
indeed to fight the •gt lvity we I
are bound to encounter, the will
! oeed a Mtge supply of Wel and
no such lendingwill be attempt
ed until the Moon hes nest been
compered.
Last week we took an ordinate,
journey from the Earth to the
first space station. Now tae will
1 go one stage farther, and accost•
pally the spaceship which is to
land the first men on the Moon.
It ie a single -stage rocke(,
quite unlike the one we used o11
our jmturney up from learnt to the
space station. It has no spare re-
tierve of fuel. and no wings to
land it in a highespeed glide. On
the Moon there le no atmosphere
at all. te. wings would be quite
useless.
Our starting point is the space
station, and the (lrfng procedure
ie mucin the saute as described
lest week.
Five Days' Tip
• 1t is important on tivst Jooe
ney that we save as much fuel
as we possibly can. So when we
reach et high enough speed to
carry us to the Moon, we must
switch off the motors. In this
case the speed required is 24,900
M.p.h., which is reached within
five minutes of take -off,
Our rocket's speed will gradu-
ally decrease as we get farther
away from the Earth, and we are
practically at a standstill by the
time we reach the MOWS gravi-
tational field. At this rate, the
journey will take five days r-.
about as long as it takes a 'liner to
cross the Atlantic.
It seems that the prime virtue
of the space traveller must be
patience, Wherever we travel
in the Universe there will be long
periods of "coasting" Which may
last for clays, months or Years,
This time factor is the only limit
on space travel, and some of the
farther stars would take more
than a human lifetime to reach.
Radio control from the space
station keeps a constant check an
our course, and the pilot makes
such steering Corrections as are
found necessary Our course is
worked out not to take us to
the centre of the Moon, but to
the edge of its gravitational
field.
On the fourth clay of coasting,
we are beginning to feel the ef-
fect of the Moon's pull. Rather;
the rocket is feeling -it: inside,
we would not: notice .1 but for
the evidence of our instruments.
Now the rocket begins to pick
up speed once more as gravity
takes hold. If allowed to fah um
hindered, it would crash into the
1Vfoort al more +hien 5,000 m.p.h.
Our pilot re -directs the rocket
so that Its jet; are facing the
Moon aid itas none pointing away
Prom non' an we need split..
second timing, and attest hand
over the task of lauding to art
automatic' elicit. The rocket is
allowed to fall free: until it le
160 stiles ebave the Moon. Time
the jets are sired against the
direction cf fall -- to Blow us
downs. They continuo to fire for
fmttrttilnntee at :„ etead.y fate of
deceleration that produce; 00
discomfort at tail to the people
The rachet conic:' to 01,1 about
mettle feel • above: the Move:.
surface, and the jets are: throt-
tled bate etigldly Ir lu'ittr' it
down to the ground. •
Mat peepl . un e„n e noel. a
locket leveling in thie oily would
be inclined tt, toppl over. • to
fart, it r8 no more likely to do
an than a r'oc'ket ix:wolfing `.up-
ward
IVhsas We'll tend • -
Since our rocket !tea come to
rest pointntg upwards, the prole
lean 01' taking Of again prosont&
little difficulty - providing: we
have to fairly ltlrpe `sweet '1)
fue.L '
Mat grin the expect to find 00
the Moon? In the first place, we
are not likely to see any fot'n1 of
life, as we know ft. In fact, we
do not even dare to venttere 101,01
the rocket unless, i00 are protect•
ted by our space sults. li would
be quite impoeribi0 to survive
unaided for more than a few mtu.
cites. We wetuld be either hotted
alive or frozen stiff.
The reason eve get the :'e• 011'
tt'ennes of tempo:attire attire in that the
Moon has no atmosphere, nothing
to tone down the furious bat of
the Sun or mellow the intense
cold of night. When we even
Wally build our lunar base it
`trust be completely sealed in and
contain its oevn atmosphere.
From the Moon It is only a
step to the planets. Certain of
the eight major planets we can
never hope to explore ----Jupiter,
whose gravitation pull is so
strong that on its surface we
would be crushed: Saturn, where,
the same would happen; Mer-
cury, which is so close to the
Sun that we would be burnt alive
before we reached it; Pluto, far-
thest of the planets, which is so
cold an inhospitable that we
In
might not even =MVO a land -
Colonies in Space
But on our two neighboise
planets, Mars and Venus. we are
quite likely to find some evidence
of life, Both are fairly close to
the Earth in size, and do not sut-
ler from the extremes of heat
and cold that are found on the
other planets. For centuries, men
have wondered whether other
beings are alive, even probably
watching the liiarth, on Mars.
Venus 10 the mystery planet,
shrouded completely in a dense
cloud which conceals its surface
from our gaze.
Space travel will one day pro-
vide an answer to these riddles
of the skies, but it will do more
besides, 1t may provide colonies
for the Earth, already overcrowd-
ed, It niay be that eventually we
shall travel to other suns, and
populate worlds unknown to us,
All this, and more, will be
within our reach - for we are
about to embark on the greatest
adventure ever undertr+lcett by
lllankince
GAMBLING
The wiles and methods of pro-
fessional card sharps aboard oc-
ean liners and trains, have been
advertised so widely that suckers
are not so plentiful as they were
in clays of yore. A famous Dam-
on Runyon quote is the advice
an old farerser, gave his son who
Was leaving to make his way in
the big city: "Remember son, if
a slick gambling feller comes
alone; and offers you even stoney
he can make the jack o1 spades
,lump out of a deck and spit
prune ;Mee in yore' facie. don't
take him --or sure as hock. you're
foie to 11'ake up covered r ed with
Prime juice!” One eh..rpshoute:
grew so discouraged at the. slim
picking:, he turned honest and
t wrote. a pool: expo inl the: meth-
od- ol his crool ad onion t, lots.
It has sold over a .hundred tltnu-
srntd copies.
l t ee ndly gamete. ti ht re at1 rho
parts tparets 000 imply burvturg
with rood will, arc. of `Deme.
another story. Jelin Voeliter, Ivo -
scouting attorney of Marquette
(.:aunty, Michigan. tells of a game
in which the' 'tonne; leading doc-
tor was takini. a frightful sbat-
lackirng until 101 a barnd ort stud
Panic along in which 110. finally
drew aces back to back Fur.'
Olen'ntot'e, -everybody stayed. On
tbs: mixt tori, ot the acrie the
doetnr d.ren another eve! Unfor-
tunately, Ire: i1'ieud, dec, sitting
51 his right, chose this moment
10 suttee e .hccu-t attack and
stun, pod oyer the cal -lb:. -
The' players rushed him to a
mush c hoes 0r breathed 1,as last,
"What'll We d' riot,"" the white
faced players tntplw ed the; doe -
tor, "Out of reepcect for the dead,"
ho replied lied p omptly, 'T eteeteest
we tench this lt'trl etanding up."
You Infnl air llstt
inane, iugeneity Bari ;lever Wet
hint at a loss when it corner
to 'ways in which to spend hie
spare time. Most people are con-
tent with the less spectaculae
and more usual hobbies ....
name). collecting, (150600105,
knitting, and the like.
But others tax thein' brain for
tine limit to find novel t"ays of
A passing the odd hours.
You -might, for instance, occa-
sionally see someone cautiously
in seting his fingers In Veer
"Used Tickets" box on a bus.
Ile will probably he found to be
a member of the Ticket and ev
Pare Collection Society, whose
hobby is c0111 -sting bus tickets.
An unusual collection was
made by the late Ting Alfonso
of Spain of items connected
with attempts to assassinate
him. It began with a large stontt
which had been thrown at his
head when he was a child.
But whatever their interest,
all collectors like giving their
pursuits impressive names. Here
are some of them: ineadophily
(a mune given to their hobby by
to'ilette`s of beet' bottle labels),
meadmatopilily (beer mats),
philaurumy (orange wrappers),:
cigringophily (cigar rings), in,
fulphily (cigar ribbons) conn
sophily (cigar -box fly leaves),
f ontology (cheese Tables), and
philluminy° (match -box. labels).
QUICK THINKING
in Nathan Ausubel's "Treasury
01 Jewish Folklore" appears the
story of a famous preacher of.
Dubno whose driver stopped en
route to a lecture date and said,
"Rabbi, do me a favor. For once
I'd like to be the one receiving
all the honors and attention. to
see what 11 feels like. For this one
engagement, exchange clothes
with me. You be the driver and
let me he the rah:
The preacher, a merry and gen-
erous soul, laughed and said. "All
right—hut remember, clothes
don't make the rabbi. If you're
asked to explain some difficult
passage of the Law, see that you
don't make a :fool of yourself."
The exchange was effected. Ar-
rived at their destination, the bo•
gus rabbi was received with tu-
muituous enthusiasm, and ob-
viously loved every minute of ft.
Finally, however, there came the
dreaded moment when an ex•
tremely tricky question was put
to him.
He met the test nobly. "A fine
lot of scholars you are;" he thun-
dered. "Is this the most difltcult
problem you could ask me? Why,
this is so simple even my driver
could explain it to you." Then
he called the Preacher of Dubno:
"Driver, come here for a mom-
ent and clarify the Law for these
dull-witted fellows."
INFORMED ON i?NIFORMS
At a dinner. party, Dorothy
Parker was irked by the antics
of one of those ladies of 50 who.
-dresses like a debutante, drooI-
ing over an embarrassed colonel.
Vaguely aware of a threat of
mayhem lu the air, slie giggled
"It's his uniform. I ;just love sole
'diet."
"Yes,' agreed Mies Parke,..
"You have in evert' bear."
Who's Arrald.> ti+i' !at 7r, Ntir,iawr
may Les dol ;i 1•14 cl,rly work its.
otlt -r pore. c t1' . nati:;r, but
that d,14 n't hee 1e`,ally iris
Ma„ well to Iri.r„t! ilearfl. Seta
hos e: t nt.:iel ed nrr 00110t votird.
rob r epee fee; ., . • fur •ri et.
in order to lora sorra, sd:s.
shine,