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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-01-14, Page 7Here ix: Canada we have to import a lot of things which we cannot grow or produce our- eelvos. But it seems almost un- believable that we should he im- perting quantities of -- believe it or not! •-- poultry. Still, that's what's happening, and here's why, Canadian consumers prefer to buy their chickens and turkeys ready to cook. In preparation for Thanksgiving, states the Poultry Division, Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa, substantial quanti- ties of eviscerated, or drawn, tur- keys were imported and offered at retail levels at around 69 cents per pound. These were popular with consumers• d e Total imports from January 1 to November 14, 1963, amounted to 4,665,892 pounds. This includ- ed turkeys, fowl, chickens, ducks, geese, and 3,054 pounds of pig- eons. Turkeys were approximate- ly half the total imports and of these about 644,000 pounds were in eviscerated ready -to -cook - .form. ' * d a Large retailers are now de- manding eviscerated poultry, and this is particularly true in the case of turkeys for the Christmas trade, where the demand for ev- iscerated birds far exceeds the supply, a e• While the eviscerating capacity in Canada has been steadily in- creasing and is around 700,000 pounds 'per day, it is not sufficient to take care of the evisceration during the period when turkeys are normally marketed which, in Western Canada, is from Nevem- ` 4 15 to the latter part of Dec- ember. There will have to be con- siderable development oE addit- ional capacity, states the Poultry Division, if the supply of turkeys prepared in this manner is to he ° sufficient to meet the demand. * r, n Many people think Federal Department of Agriculture em- ployees are employed solely in work of value and interest to the farmer. They are surprised to learn that hundreds of these em- ployees are fully engaged in pro- tecting the health and welfare of consumers. * • e. b Today practically all food pro- ducts entering commercial chan- nels of trade are inspected and graded at some stage by Federal Shield Of Honor - This is Sir Winston Churchill's Garter Shield which will hang in St. George's Hall at Windsor, along with those of other Knights of the Garter. It was designed by artist Percy Vere Collings of Herts, England, who was painter to bath King George V and King George VI. Department of Agriculture oiti•. dais, This ensures that they are wholesome and of the quality they are represented to be oy those offering them for sale. The inspection and grading applies to wheat and other cereal products, fruits and vegetables, dairy pro- ducts, poultry products, and all classes Of meats. An illustration of the work involved in this protection for the consume. is indicated in the latest report of the Meat Inspec- tion Service of the Health of Ani- mals Division, Ottawa. The re- port' states that "Approximately 70 per cent of all cattle, calves, sheep and swine slaughtered commercially during the fiscal year 1952-53 were slaughtered under the supervision of the Fed- eral Meat Inspection Service.' The Service was engaged princi- pally in: -- I. Veterinary examination be- fore slaughter of food -producing animals, including cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and poultry to eliminate those affected with disease or other unwholesome conditions. 2 A thorough veterinary post* mortem examination of each car- cass at tithe of slaughter to detect and eliminate diseased and other- wise unfit meat. 3. The destruction for food purposes of all diseased unsound • or unwholesome meat and meat by-products. 4. Constant supervision of the preparation of meat food pro- ducts to ensure cleanliness dur- ing their preparation into articles of food. 5. Guarding against the use of harmful preservatives and other deleterious ingredients. 6. Supervising application of the Canada Approved inspection legend to neat and heat food products to show that they were at time of marking, sound health- ful and fit for food. 7. Informative labeling and prevention of false and decep- tive labelling on meat products. 8. Certification of meat and heat products for export. 9. Inspection of meat and m.:at food products offered for importation into this country. et * inspection of meats was car- ried out on a full time basis in 124 meat packing plants and cov- ered 13,084,059 meat animals, of which 79,423 or less than two- thirds of one per cent were con- demned, Fifteen years ago, in 1919, the Meat Inspection Service covered only 83 plants and 6,081,899 ani- mals, of which 36,677 or approxi- mately the same percentage were condemned. This indicates the expansion of the •Service in 15 year's. STEALS RUN Rube Marshall pitching for Wichita Falls, Texas, clouted a home run early in the game and pitched air. -tight ball for seven innings to maintain his one -run lead. In the eighth inning, how- ever, he lost his control and loaded the bases on twelve straight bad pitches. The man- ager. waved him to the shower room, but instead of proceeding directly, Marshall halted the game while he walked over to the score board, removed "his" one run, tucked the figure un- der his arm, and walked off' the field. CROSSWORD PUZZLE .. ACROSS "' (Phil I. Cronies 4, ,rnnel'ted 5. Pearly 0.39nm•oachee • 3,, ,wound Merit nt-n 6. Shoiter 1.1)enosit of t• 12. 'Bora er 1. Ga nst4, WI' 13. Late (comb, 0 ..u.., form) 14. limb espletis, 10. Loot Vt. State or the Union (ab,1 1S. Stationery lar) 13, preonounc» s 21. Aastrnllan I>o'ds 23, Source of metal 24. 'roar apart 21. nansints 91. Preece wattsr SS1. otlorrs 03, ve c4 the 54• not bel ndoers g 08.'1'rnn,•mlt 11. Pallid 18. Soctiro 40. Neckpieces 92. Small lump 41. Nobleman 42.fin irratatut nereena 00. me ford of 92. Afternoon foal parties 52 ➢'crmerty 04 Pte wrong 09. Anllon�n to 1, email ennh,cne. 0, Mond comput It. Part of a n •.I• _. 16. UIpsp '30. Uroo.t quant lain 5attbsivati.• tattoo ::4. (liver (Sp.) 36. 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They'll never get me, you say, even if they have got aboriginal trackers with them, You know what they say in the bush -that black trackers can follow a man almost everywhere and draw a map of a fly crawling round a mirror. But they cannot track you down, you tell yourself. You are an aborigine and you know all their tricks and what they look for, So you wrap sheepskins over your boots to hide your tracks. You cross rocky ground, and you use the dry beds of rivers and creks, where you think you will not leave a mark. You double and circle. You lead the trackers and the police to a river and you enter the water, but several feet out you reach for the branch of a tree and draw yourself up into it, And you swing from tree to tree for per- haps a hundred yards and steal back in the direction from which the police -constables and track- ers are coming. - • You do these things again and again But you cannot threw them off your trail. like human bloodhounds, they camp on your heels every night. And finally they surround and arrest you after you have wounded one of the constables, You, Jimmy Governor. know then what everyone in ' the Australian bush says - that you cannot escape the black trackers. You are caught and you go to jail for 11 years. Black trackers, like those that caught the "last of the Australian bushrangers" just over twenty years ago, are the invaluable aids of the Australian white police- man. So remarkable is their skill that some people credit them with supernatural gifts. But it is nothing more than the acutost powers of observation - as the following story will shoe A. white police -constable eau 0 tracker were on patrol fu West- ern Australia when they came on the tracks of throe shod hor- ses. The tracker• examined therm and said: "'That all one Kandy (Keene dy) track. That one big black horse Kandy ride; that grey one Charlie ride: that little horse for pack." And he named the three ponce horses, Newark, Nipper and Fancy. The trooper wouldn't have U. From his knowledge he knew that Trooper Kennedy should be a good 200 miles away in another direction • Subsequently the black trae14(41' was shown to he right, Kennedy had changed the direction of tt1s patrol. •What -made the tra-ker's feat all -the more remarkable- was that: he had seen the three horses only once, and aix mouths before -rand thele thee v c..'f -Unshod. Testimony to Inc tbntigm s tun. canny powers of el i reaticnl is peld by the Austreli>.n arntlh'epo• loiru:t, T. G. ft. Strehlo,v. He WAYS that native stockmen at the Her- mannsburg Mission, in Central Australia, could identify the tracks of over 200 aboriginal men, women and children, those of 12 white men and women, and the hoofmarks of 50 working horses and a number of camels and donkeys. • Such skill is the product of many generations of a people who have had to depend on their eyes for their livelihood; who must kill every day (or every few days) in order to live, as they have no methods of preserv- ing food. From the t.ilne he can crawl a young aborigine is taught the ways of the bush by the men of the tribe. They trace tracks in the sand, and he learns not mer- ely the tracks of the various ani- mals, reptiles and birds, but their habits. He learns when and where they feed and drink. He learns to tell from a track whether an animal is travelling fast or slow, and whether it is M. If it walks aver stony plains it will not leave prints, but it will mous stones slightly or press them 11% The fabulous skill of the black tracker... has saved the lives of many Men, women and children in the preat emptiness of the bush. • Trackers are :stationed at rm- .-Wel points throughout Australia so they can be rushed by plane or car 1n the point where they are needed. One hot summer night a message reached the police station at_ Merrodin, a West Australian wheat town, that the five-year- old daughter of a farmer- had wandered into the bush and was lost. The h•acLer at Kelerberrin. 30 - miles away. arrived at the bush homestead just. before dawn: Here is how someone who was there tells the story: "It seemed pretty hopeless. It was mid -summer. The ground. baked hard, wouldn't show the marks of a baby's bare feet, and unless she were found- quickly -- the day promised to be a scorch - et, 'about 110 in the waterbag' -• tic child wouldn't last long. "Ar; soon as he could see, the traciar was circling round the house, widening his circle as each cast failed Within 15 Mintz -ter he'd cut her track. That twig which looked to me like any at the hundred -odd twigs in the vi- - -- had ben displaced. For hours he followed this alleged track consisting of an occasional broken twig or crushed leaf, •un- til in the late afternoon he came on her, tear -stained and sun- burnt, asleep under a bush." On cud epic •patrol in the Northern Terirtory a few years ago, four trackers trailed a native who had murdered a white man fee 500 mile,e before they caught hits. O,ne ni the most remarkable pieces or tracking fntlowed the 1•obt •y of -a gold escort near pair i),lvns nl C.aitrai Queens land, Burne years. ago. The escort had been stuck up, and two of the troopers killed.- In I.h urge of the inquiry wits Police.rn,pa0,0* J. Ov1ERRY MENAGERIE "Whey bought one of those little foreign sport cars!" T. Griffin, who was also gold commissioner. The simple-minded aborigine examined the spot of the robbery and then declared that Griffin himself was responsible for the crime. The inquiry went on. Then it leaked out that Griffin was in a jam for money, Other evidence came to light, and the upshot was that Griffin was charged, tried, found guilty. and hanged, by Jeff Peters in "Answers." UNMMY KINK LESSON Mold pineapple gelatin salad right in the can. Remove the can lid, and pour off juice. Refill with gelatin mixture; chill until solid. Salad unmolds easily if -you hold can briefly in warm water. Cut between pineapple slices to serve, `Iv Ree 14 13 Wart on HH.A.. 8.1). Jesus Uses His Authority John 2:13-25 Memory Selection: God le is Spirit; and they that worship lira must worship Rim in spirit and in truth, Jahn 4:24. We often sing, "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild," but the senti- ment of these words does not suit the mood of Jesus in today's les- son. Jesus was angry because the temple, His Father's House, had become a house of merchan- dise. Providing sacrificial ani- mals had probably originated as a convenience .for those who had brought none of their. own. Money -changing was also a price tical service. Animals brought in for sacrifice had to pass In- spection, for which there was a fee, and could be rejected, thus forcing the owners to buy from the temple. market. The eon- venicnee became a racket. Doves, the poor man's sacrifice were sometimes sold at ninety times their normal price. The leading priests got a large share of the fees and prclit.c. Na wonder ,leans was indignant. What things Jesus would con- demn and renlo1'o if he were to .enter our cluweh and individual lift today: To have him come - and 1':zdically purge the unriceln- ly things would be a revolution- izing and healthy experience for all of us; but because we already have ample light, he leave: it to us to look at his life and the Spirit -guided early church and then follow the same Spirit as we do our own purging. The light is the same, the saving power is the same. and the judg- ment will be the same in any case. In the imprinted portion of this lesson we have the record of the first miracle of Jesus, the turning of water into wine. It should be remembered that the drink which the ruler of the feast called "the good wine" was not the juice of anything, but was wholly supernatural, made en- tirely out of water. No chemist analyzed it' and stated whether or not it contained any alcohol, We have no doubt that God was well able to produce miraculous- ly a drink, and a nutritious drink, too, that tasted better than their man-made wine, without alcohol in it. The wedding was a sacred occasion, not a drunken brawl. Stitch white shoe - laces on Baby's bib for a sturdy, long- wearing tie. The model airplane builder can use a plastic spray bottle to help dampen plane's paper covering easily and evenly. To fill the bot- tle, immerse it in clear water, then squeeze and release. (Upside down to prevent peeking) 31'4 9 a ,4 1.4 S ©©EI ©p 3 1 f 3 0 .L' 3 )6 1 1 Dleav279N 51.011014!!9 I ";1b 31E11 W3 0 `• 1` 3 d V s : N 'd M 14.012 s , ti 30 1 91 C Q• 0 ;5114 0 3 OQ ppm 319 1 0 • N 321 MEMO . 1 0W'1 3301 9nw3'.h o.I.Els '" 9 ©N 3 .1 it/ 3 1 boom V t1 21 V ."' o 3 ar'` . Qai Jumps A Grade -- Lee Dia Koon, Korean war orphan, fleshes his promotion -winning smile for foster -father, Sgt. William Freer. A picture of Lee, wearing hit enchanting grin, was mailed to Freer's mother who offerad to adopt the child, and started the chain of circumstances which "promoted" the Korean waif from squadron mascot to adopted son of Freer. Tony has already learned the English alphabet and counts to 100.