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The Seaforth News, 1954-02-04, Page 3s4; What kind of bacon do you like—fat bacon, lean bacon, or bacon with the fat and lean in- ter -mixed? Over three thousand visitors to the Royal Agricultural Win- ter Fair chose, from six different samples of bacon on display at the Canada Department of Ag- riculture's Bacon Exhibit, those they considered Good, Fair, or Poor, and stated whether they were .acceptable or not accept- able as bacon they would buy. The visitors filled in cards re- cording their preferences so the Department officials could de- termine what a sizeable group of Canadian consumers say is the type of bacon they want, 9, * * Those filling out the cards stated whether they were men, women, or young people under 21 year of age. When the cards were sorted into 'these three groups, the choice made by each group differed so little from the others that the three groups could be treated as one, ,r * 8 Samples Of bacon chosen for the test were a fair range of the aide bacon, commonly called "breakfast" bacon, as sold in the retail stores. Side bacon was se- lected because even in the best of hogs it carries considerable fat as compared with bacon made from a loin cut. ., * 8 Careful measurements were made of the amount of lean meat in each of the samples and the results expressed as percentage of lean to fat. When these per- centages were compared with the references stated on the cards it was quite evident that most of those voting preferred a lean type of bacon but one with lay- ers of fat between the layers of lean. * The sample receiving the high- est preference rating stood 7th In percentage of lean to fat. The eeeond choice sample stood 8th in percentage of lean. while the IRO .Symbol of Strength A motto that was Charleniagne's in the year 800 forms part of the new- ly authorized insignia of Head- quarters Allied Forces in Europe. The Latin phrase around the shield means "Crime does not pay." It stands as a warning against would-be aggressors as the West builds its strength. In the center is a tower in silver, symbolizing "the fortress of Eu- rope." On the gateway to the tower are the letters "CE" stand- ing for Central Europe. Behind the tower and pointing upward is the sword of Charlemagne. sample with the highest percen- tage of lean to fat was only third in popular choice. The sample given the lowest preference rat- ing, however, was next to the lowest in percentage of lean, * 4t 4. About three-quarters of talose filling out cards selected one sample as better than any of the Others, and about an equal num- ber rated one sample as poorer than any of the others. The re- maining saxnples showed quite a difference of opinion. Two sam- ples, carrying a high percentage of lean, but not appearing to have the same quality otherwise, were rated highly by some, presum- ably because of the high per- centage of lean, but were de- clared poor or unacceptable by nearly an equal number. s * * Two samples about midway between the top and bottom in percentage of lean, ranked about equal in popular preference. Each was rated Pair rather than Good, and by about the same number of people. * * The sample chosen by the ma• jority as the best was a break- fast bacon containing about one- third lean to two thirds fat, or about, the percentage one would expect in an A grade hog. * k. 4: Reeent surveys made in Outer - lo and Nova Scotia and person- al observations made hi some other provinces indicate that far too few sheep breeders follow any definite breeding plan in their commercial operations. The major practice is to use grade ewes of one or more . of the Down breeds a n d breed to a pure bred ram of the predom- inant breed, a practice not rec- ommended if the objective is to produce market lambs, Cross- breeding, while the universal practice in Britain and a highly recommended practice. is Prac- tically unknown. Y * 4. Both surveys reported an ab- normally high rate of mortality at birth, being 33 per cent and 63 per respectively, and this can be taken to mean a general lack of vitality in the offspring, a factor directly related to breed- ing practices. Vitality and pro- ductivity, two of the most im- portant factors in lamb produc- tion are definitely under the con- trol of the breeder. He can, by planned crossbreeding, ensure, not only lambs that will live but more of them. as the "hybrid Ch+s,vtime—Came And Get It ._ It's dinnertime for Bombi, o pet deer, and her pal, Duchess, and this means tots of fun for the Frank J. Northeys, superintendents of cabins at Clear Creek Park, The young doe survived the recent hunting season and is fattening up on daily meals provided by the Northey family. vigor" resulting from the cross- ing of unlike types will guaren •tee this. Crossing two breeds, such as two Down breeds. or "grading up" by using a pure bred rani of the same breed as the grade ewes will not give such results as the individuals are too much alike, and the degree of hybrid vigor, if any at a11, will be lots. 1 Too .many breeders think of various breeds as just being dif- ferent in colour or conformation and pay no attention to the in- herent differences in breed ca- pacity. A "grass" type sheep such as the Cheviot was devel- oped to n'xake its living off "grass" on the Scottish hills and to enable it to do this on steep hillsides it developed certain characteristics in its ,physical make-up not found in the mutton breeds, being more angular and agile. The Down or `mutton" breeds were developed for "fold.. ing" or getting their living off enclosed areas of turnips, kale Or such crops and so acquired a capacity for heavy feeding on roots and concentrates. Their general conformation is rounded rather than angular, and they ' are much less active. The two types are something similar to the "dairy" and "beef" types of cattle, Making Punishment Fit The Chime Henpecking Women Pecked by Hens In the Kaviroudo country of East Africa, a young Englishman came across a group of huts which he thought might he the resi- dence of the local chief. Squeezing through •the stockade surrounding the main building, and stooping to enter it, he near- ly tripped over two women who lay asleep in the doorway, rolled up -tightly in filthy blankets. Then a grisly sight made his stomach heave with revulsion, Protruding from the centre of the mud floor was a man's head, the tongue lolling from a gaping mouth, which grinned with yel- low fangs. Parched, wrinkled eye- balls glared out from sunken sockets from which the eyelids hung in strips. The whole was in the last stages of decomposition. For some moments the English- man stared in horror, then plung- 7. Chalice :,. [rum. u,, 8. Sttlsleol 38. flap tinged intratnent. 40, Cute of nest A'. Cnbio uretero- '.1:1. Worthies,. 10, Emrichnrtir•, lea ring u:. Kan away 1e ti. However marry AGnnFK 6r. I+'e all lee 18. Along '7. Implement xm- 1. Total ending. 18. Short teey (Ire—Ina the 9, t.tta len 30. Centro! hn1. 9. Mop i neWN 33, Send peym E••. 18,'1,010 lethal; tR, Rei"ro + Rennin bren ie 28, Confined man errs ,Camel Artit•• ,o Cooking 17, Diminutive cemoas botha: 51. Americanmmnit 4, Puesesahe so, Newspaper humorist nano t#. mane +e n, adjective otnployoet 03. 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He had once heard that chiefs and other native big -Wigs chose to be buried in a sitting position in the centre of their huts, with their heads above ground. The unfor- tunate widows were expected to continue living in the nut, keep ing watch, until the Bead was no more than -teeth and bone. Then it was buried with the rest of the body, This Was one el many strange experiences mining prospector Roger Courtney had when he set out in a rubber canoe from Lake Victoria Nyanza to strike the headwaters of the Nile at Lake Albert, and paddle down i1 through -the Sudan into Egypt. His only possessions. he reveals he his exciting book, "African Argosy” were caniping and cook. ing gear, a miniature telescope, fishing tackle, a native speer, and 63 in cash! - In one village the heacttnalu tend him they were Ixuiishin,+4 a "bad woman" for using bad winds, henpecking her husband, eetting his other wives against each other, and taking lovers. He found her on the -ground,. with a n1*2 Flt• squawking, clucking; hc.us e' i tl bung over her, pecking atrycore scattered over her body, the1r beaks diggit:g deep into the flesh. Already she was bleeding from a score of places; the onlookers were carefully replacing the corn where the bloocl flptved most freely. Shocked by this barbarous pun. ishment, Courtney ordered that she -be released, She at onto got up, abused everyone in sight, and departed, cursing, through the crowd, Later in bis journey, when 1" had. wrenched himself wrestling with the canoe's sail, he wee tend ed by. a Nubian woman dressed hi robes of flowing silk, who took him into her house. as guest and dressed him in native c.ost11111(0 Then sial offered hint her lifieP1r • year-old .daughter as wife, "Listen, O mall." she said, "n,y heart warms to 'you, because you are brave In your little boat, and ,van tal9^ ten one pc rsoll tie neet1er, not as a great white man to a poor black woman. I alp lonely. but I am rich... , "I own lilted). land and some fishing in these parts. Take Suba. I shall ask no price in cows or sheep, and you will become to me as my son, and all will belong to you when I die. Come, think, is she not a file girl? Will she not make a strong and obedient wife?" Turning her head away, Sube gazed sideways at him through the fingers of the htuid that half - hid her face. Tactfully, Courtney told the mother that a future wife already awaited him in England, and it would put great shame on his house and hers if he did not remain faithful to her. In the Sudan he found native blondes, .their hair bleached to a light corn -colour! Walking into a local beauty -parlour one day, he saw a young girl sitting on a native stool. The hairdresser was slapping fresh cow droppings an the head of her client; thus was the "peroxide blonde" created! At, one village the author sat with the Cinder, or headman, while be and the elders held court to Judge petty crimes. Everyone argued at the top of his voice in a courtroom filled with chil- dren, goats and chickens, which ran around louse. Incensed at being fined two sheep for some offence, one old Lady seized a stick and begged passionately for a beating instead. "I am a poor women," she wailed, "Beat me, beat me half to death, my piasters, but take not alar beautiful sheep, I implore you!" And, casting herself .before the Omdur, she wallowed in the dust at his feet. Courtney had to dodge start peeing buffalo and schools of basking crocodiles and hippos. Once there was a tremendous up- heaval under his canoe and he felt some great body pushing up• wards through the thin rubber bottom, The need moment he wx,s in the et'nter, clinging to the overturned craft and facing a large, puzzled hippo. which bobbed gravely up and down.a few yards away with "the slightly shaken -air of an old gentleman who has stepped 0n a. stair which isn't there and has bitten his tongue," As it eyed the cavae, c:ottieney prayed that . the hippo wouldn't n)ieltake ate ie,1,f; shape ter a croc, for he lead seen what hippus could do to them. t1ortunately, si nth a suurt that spouted water rest high, 'it • sank Beneath I,ru` surtz,cc. Courtney righted the educe, 2'1.1 matte hurriedly for 511e :diose, - Takes Three Days To Walk 10 .Miles It is difficult to convey to those who hove had no ex:periencc or i this country. the relationship or, rather, the .lack of relationship between distance and time. There is probably no other country like northern 13urma in the world, There is :finagle as thick; there are mountains as high and steep; there are climates as humid and extreme. lint the combination of all three is unique. 1? you take a pai.x' of dividers and measure off ou the largest scale map yeti can find the distance between our Base Camp and Camp One at the "oltfluenre ,you will find that it is about six miles, If we allow fifty per cent extra for windings, ascents and descents, which ean- nei, be shown on the map, the distance Is stall under ten miles. To- us gibe walked 'it that seenis- in",r*dlbl'e, int it is tree- on the ala;i. But remember we had to walk, Now the standard rate of walking in England—not usually achieved in practice --is tour miles an hour. If one thinks of walking, that is what one has in mind. Apply this rate, and the distance between our Base Camp and the confluence, say ten miles, would take two and a half hours, or at a generous estimate, three hours; and I have already said that we took three days over it. Why? It is true that a native earrying a very light load on hie back would do the journey in a day, but it would take even hint a great deal more than three hours. We who took three days Were, 011 the 1704 for sixteep hours altogether, including halts. If you can on the average, cover less than half a mile an hour, while expending more en- ergy than it requires to walk Dight times as far on a good road, it IS obvious that a ten -mile march begins to assume formid- able proportions. It means board and, lodging on the way — tents, food, transport. Remember this is no tour de force, no momen- tary effort. The plant -explorer is living and working under these conditions for months on end.... Cranbrook told me that on the first night they had slept in an enormous natural cavern, under a fallen rock, where fifty men could have found shelter. It was off the path, a .few hundred feet up the slope, completely hidden from the slope below, so that I had not seen it. From the number of shelters we passed, the rocks blackened by smoke, I formed the idea that there was a definite route up the valley. These were no hunters' caves. The track, too, though not good, was unmistak- able. We were on the road to Tibet. From "Plant Hunter's Paradise." by 9. Kingdon Ward. 'LITTLE WILLIE" Little Willie, inquisitive Put 60 cousin through the sieve. Mother stopped such innovations - 5aid it made for strained relations. BAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. it, Barclay Warren, O. A., B. D. ['algia. 'ThatMakes Whole Joint 6:2-18 Memory Selection; I am corm that they might have lase, and that they might have It more abundantly. John 10:10, On every band we view hu- man suffering. Science has mads great strides in conquering eer' tain diseases, but the war against suffering is by no means won. The man in this lesson was by all human standards, an in- curable. For thirty-eight years he had been afflicted. Jesus raised his expectation by ask. ing, "Wilt thou be made whole?" It is a cruel thing to raise the hopes of a sufferer if you can- not follow through by giving same real help. But -Jesus fol- lowed his question by the com- mand, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk," "And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed, and walked." Many people quickly forget God's mercies and go on their way !ungrateful. Not so with this ' man, Jesus found him in the temple. To him he spoke these words of cambia, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee." We will need God's mercy again. in fact we con- stantly require.: His mercy. Vie may well sing. "I Need Th .=e Every Hour." The Pharisees, W110110 religh n was of the letter rather than of the spirit, found fault because the healed ince carried his bed On the Sabbath. They were Moo concerned about the keep- ing of the law than they were about the welfare of the indi- vidual. They needed spiritual life, If God's love is not mani- fest in our lives, 0nr• religion is vn, 14Ieu e:ver3 twlxt;er- haiig cued thirstingere for abundant • are hun li$e• ldloney cannot buy it but 3esus Christ came to give it. 0 that men would turn to Him for the satisfying of the quest of the soul. "0 that men would taste and see the wonders of Isis grace." TRAI'FIC BANGERS A teacher, lecturing on high way safety, advised the children that once they started to cross the street, they should never loole back. "Remember what happen- ed to Lot's wife," she said, "She looked back• and turned into a pillar of salt." "I was out driving with niy mother last week," one child vol- unteered. "She looked back and turned into a telegraph pole." (Upside 110158. to prevent peeking! "Stranger ranr,:utr rrl,ln BC•yolsd The Horizon .the flare White Heron of o Single Plight," was the title bestowed on Queen Elizabeth II a; a ga1r+ring of all the Maori tribes in Rotorua, New Zeakatid, when she wee nn 5.1x1 a chieftoiness of the Arawa tribe. She is meel11 g ra ' }? e +1 •1.1e1' Maori guide, Pali. Thr. Queen and the Duke w'e're 1ive11 kiv; i-foothorecl deckles which _ look tribesmen six months 10 make.