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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-09-09, Page 3Do you know: one bushel of oats will yield 18.2 pounds of oat- meal or rolled oats; a bushel of wheat will yield on the average 43.2 pounds of flour; an average live hog, weighing 130 pounds will yield 91 pounds of bacon, ham, shoulders end sides, cured or smoked; it takes 100 pounds of milk, testing 3.5 per cent but- terfat, to produce 4,3 pounds of butter; a quart Of raspberries weighs 11/4 pounds; a metric ton (10 quintals) of potatoes equals 30.74 bushels. ¢ a .. These and hundreds of other interesting facts relating to "Canada Weights, Measures and Conversion Factors for Agricul- tural Products" are contained in a bulletin recently produced un- der that title by the Marketing Service Economics Division, Can- ada Department of Agriculture. * 4, * The authors state the builetiin is an attempt to gather together from various sources weights, measures and conversion factors commonly required in calcula- tions on agricultural products. It has been prepared in co-operation with the Agriculture Division, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the commodity divisions of the Department of Agriculture Mar- keting Service, and the trade. * * m Sources of information vary and many of the figures may be revised as further data are ob- tained. In some cases figures have been revised from those formerly used in government publications, Unless otherwise noted, the data are national averages and may not be valid for use regionally. Figures have been rounded in most cases, In some instances weights and per- centages are fixed by law. Each of these is indicated by the addi- tion of the word "Statutory" after the item. ♦ 4 4: The authors add "This bulletin should be regarded as provision- al, cOmments will be of assistance in preparing any subsequent edi- tions, Letters. regarding the scope and content of the, publica- tion should be sent to the Chief, Economics Division; Department of Agriculture, Ottawa." * w Self feeding of silage is another step in saving labour in cattle production. Several problems are involved in this procedure, but with the use of horizontal or sur- face silos, the difficulties appear to be decreased The Animal Husbandry, and Field Husbandry Divisions of the Central Experi- mental Farm, Ottawa, have been giving attention to the problem, and the first experiment with beef cattle was conducted during the winter of 1953454. 4. 9, 4. One lot of 20 steers was given access to grass silage in a hori- zontal silo 18 feet wide. Feeding was done by a movable stan- chion -type feeder gate, suspend- ed from the side walls of the si10 by a roller bar. The other lot of 20 steers was hand fed similar silage from the other end of the silo, At first the self fed cattle were allowed to move the feeder gate forward at will, but it was found that they had a tendency to pull down more silage than they would eat during the day, Once the silage was exposed to the air and chilled it became unpalatable and a considerable waste occur- red. As a remedy, the feeder gate was fastened so that the cattle could not move it. It was then moved forward every two days so that a depth of seven to eight inches of fresh silage came with- in reach of the cattle. This pro- vided ample feed for the number of cattle involved, and reduced wastage to a minimum, * 4, 4 The silo was open to the weath- er and this created a problem with snow end frost. This was overcome by suspending jute bags over the openings of the gate, and spreading a tarpaulin above the feeding area, * Stormy weather or tempera- tures which ranged from 47 de- grees to 19 degrees below zero did not seem to impede the will- ingness of either group to feed. The total gain of both lots was the same; indicating that both methods of feeding had equal effect on gain. r In the latter part of the experi- ment, when the 'gate was func- tioning properly, approximately 75 per cent less labour was re- quired by the self fed group. Providing wastage is kept to a minimum by proper adjustment of the feeder gate, it appears that self feeding surface silos are a practical and important labour saving device for wintering beef cattle, This experiment will be repeated. A REAL ItAND&OAP • Russ Stoneham, the director, once found himself in a little mountain village, and he had to get back to the city in a hurry. The only transportation he could find—after his car had broken down on the road—was a mule - drawn carriage. The driver agreed to take Russ into town, saying he had to get there him- self for the marketing, but added, "One thing, though. It's a bad road, and I can't hurry Lily. He's my mule, and he's been with me so long, I just got to take good care of him." They jogged along a few miles; then the driver pulled up and pointed. "Hill up ahead," he an- nounced. "It's too steep for Lily, so you'll have to get out and walk it." Russ got out and trudged alongside the carriage. Not five minutes after he'd got back in, the driver stopped again. "Another hill," he said. "This time I'll get out and walk," And a couple of minutes later, the driver again announced a hill ahead. "This is the worst one of all. We'll both have to get out and walk; Lily's getting tired already." At long last, they hit town, both walking. Russ pulled out his wallet and paid the driver. Then he said, "I had to come here because I had an appoint- ment. You had to come fdr the marketing. But tell me; why in heck did we bring Lily?" is AU in The Water -- Darnell Whitt demonstrates the effect of the drought on irrigated, right, and non -irrigated, left corn at an experimental farm. The corn in both cases' was planted the same day and given the same soil fertilizer. Whitt towers over the unirrigated corn and is dwarfed by the stalks that received plenty of water. Sack To Dreaming — Again the sound of school bells resounds through the land. It is the time for books, for classrooms and learning. Back to work, boys — and back to dreaming of next year's lazy days at the fishing hole where resting is more important than catching fish as it is for Duncan Mitchell, pictured here. CO IS When attractive, copper -haired Christine Hargreaves was mar- ried a little while ago in Chester to Peter Waugh, a London pho- tographer, her wedding presents included one which ensures that she will never have any shop- ping worries for the rest of her life, Her rich father — chairman of two companies valued at more than £1,350,000—had the origin- al idea of making his twenty- year -old daughter a present of a lifetime's housekeeping moneys The gift was in the form of stocks and bonds. And .it's no wonder that housewives all over Brit- ain are envying Christine and her good fortune. Christine's wedding alone must have cost a tidy sum. There was a lavish reception at the Har- greaves' lovely manor house near Congleton, Cheshire. With police permission, Mr. Hargreav- es had special road signs put up to guide the 250 guests. In these hard times when wed- ding gifts and many other things are nearly three times dearer than they were before the war, brides are not often so lucky as they used to be. One Scottish bride and her hus- band received a 500 -year-old Scottish castle as a wedding gift and went to live in it after their honeymoon, Among their other gifts was a priceless antique sil- ver model of a ship. One of the luckiest of brides in the United States was Miss Helen McLaughlin, whose wedding presents when she married Dr. A. F. Carroll in Brooklyn were so numerous that four large furni- ture vans, escorted through the streets by a strong guard of arm- ed police were required to move them from her father's house, These wonderful gifts includ- ed a solid gold dinner service, a diamond necklace each stone of which weighed nine and a half carats, a set of Limoges china containing 150 pieces, an ebony pedestal surmounted by an enor- mous vase of solid silver, and cheques amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Millionaire Pierpoint Morgan gave his daughter bonds worth £200,000, a palace on the Hud- son River, a priceless collar of diamonds and other gifts when she married. The whole world was astound- ed by the splendour of her wed- ding gifts which transformed her father's Madison Square mansion onto an Aladdin's palace. There were chests of gold and silver plate worth fortunes, and tapes- tries which cost no less than £100,000.. Guests were dazzled by the al- most endless array of precious stones, rare and antique laces, clocks, rings and fabulously pric- ed furniture on view at the re- ception, The officiating minister receiv- ed a 1,000 -dollar fee and the bride's wedding cake weighed a quarter of a ton. What was the most fabulous wedding present ever received? It amounted to no less than £8,000,000 and was a dead man's surprise gift for the young cou- ple, Alexander Thayer and Mar- jorie Bourne, in December, 1926. It was revealed at the wedding reception that, according to the wishes of the bride's father — head of a great American bus. iness, who died in 1919 — she and her husband were to be co- heirs to the surprise wedding be- quest. Girls all over the United States envied pretty Harriet Stewart Brown, known as "Baltimore's Golden Bride," when they heard of the amazing wealth of gifts with which she was deluged when she married a New York banker. They included cheques f o r £100,000, a magnificent chain containing 200 diamonds, six motor -cars, a white bear, black bear, as well as leopard, tiger and lion skins, The gold and diamond pres- ents alone filled seven large tables. The presents, wrote one woman reporter, "were on a scale of splendour unequalled in the social history of the city of Bal- timore." Fashions in wedding presents arra constantly changing. During the war clothes and petrol cou- pons were often given as pres- ents instead of conventional gifts such sR toast -racks and tea- caddies. Friends and relatives of many young brides saved on stockings, went without new dresses and sent anything from two to twen- ty coupons as wedding gifts. One London bride received ninety-two clothing coupons in fives and tens from her girl friends. Her husband's office friends gave coupons worth sev- enteen gallons of petrol, which the couple used on a Devonshire honeymoon. It was actually illegal to make gifts of petrol coupons except when ownership of a car was changing. But it was permiss- able for members of a family to pool their clothing coupons to give a bride a present. There's no end to the list of queer wedding presents which astonished couples have received at various times. Fancy receiving a tombstone as a wedding gift 1 It arrived for a sweet-faced little bride on her wedding day in Massachusetts and caused her to burst into tears, Inscribed on it was the bride's name. Not until after the honeymoon did she discover that the sonife`r of this strange "gift" was a young man whose offer of marriage slot had turned down two years be fore she met the man she laveit and married. The jilted Ioviir chose this way of exacting von- geance for the "slight to my hen - our," es he called it. Perhaps you would expect a lion -tamer to receive some un. usual wedding presents. A Mid"• land lion -tamer was annoyed Err receive three boa-constrictot'e and five alligators within two hours of his arrival with his pret ty bride at a small West Country hotel some years ago, The alligators had been badly packed and broke out of their box during the night. They reamed about in the darkness and osa found its way to the couple's bedroom. There was a canopy over their old-fashioned bed. So scared was the young bride that she climbed to the top of it, etayinty there until the alligator was caught. Fortunately, it did not occur to the bride that what real- ly eamly worried her husband during that hectic night was the possi•• bility that the alligators might wake up the boa -constrictors! Criminals Tra pet By Common Daasi Can ordinary dust trap a crim- inal? Professor Hans Gross, a pioneer of modern criminology, proved that it could. He reason- ed that the dust in the coat of a locksmith must differ from that found in a miller's. When a jacket was found at the scene of a crime, he put it in a stout paper bag and beat it lightly, then allowed the dust to settle in the bag. Later examin- ation showed it to be wood dust, indicating a sawyer, carpenter or joiner. But among the dust were particles of gelatine and powered glue. Sawyers do not use glue, so a carpenter or join.• er was indicated—and this prov ed to be true. In another case a maker 0f counterfeit coins was convicted when the metallic dust from his clothing proved under analysis to be of exactly the same con stituents as the metals of some base coinage in circulation. Professor Locard, another great criminologist, obtained startling results by similar reasoning when a bomb containing cellul• ous nitrate was found near a public building in Marseillies. Some anarchists were suspected and brought in for caueetioninga One of them had a thick shock of black hair. Locard courteous- ly proposed to give the amazed anarchist a shampoo. He carefully washed the ,niarfs head with pare alcohol and kepi the liquid. It was allowed to settle, and the excess liquid waa drawn off. There was a sediment Ieft at the bottom of the con- tainer and upon examination this was found to contain a high percentage of cellulose nitrate. The man did not normally work near chemicals and could not account for the nitrate in his hair. It transpired he was the leading bomb -maker among the anarchists. WO1tSJ1 AND WORSE One Of the newer schools or faith healers (electronic, turbans) ran into an old friend of his. "How're things, Harry?" he asked. ',yet so good," Harry said sad- ly. "My brother's sick." "Ah," said the faith healer, "your brother isn't sick; he only thinks he's sick. Tell him that, and remember it yourself: he only thinks he's sick." And a few days later he met Harry again. "How's your bro- ther now?" said the faith healer triumphantly. "Wcrse," Harry said. lit shook his head. "He thinks hes dead," agnifying Mira Xr Is As final cheek on the anooth.uees of her makeup, entrees Virginia Ivia,;ro ntakes use of a m*gulfying mirror. It's. ;4150 n reliable Owe:fa re of her akin tete. a! eauty Aid for Volt »Y I1 DNA lwsf.rGg Tar: iehaatagss of a magnifying mirror as a real aid to beauty are many. '!'hough first glance into one is always somewhat upsetting, a second glance can be both educational and rowurding, beauty -wise. This second glance may reveal to you flaws you didn't know you had, but flaws that others have noticed. Many women fall into the poor beauty habit of taking themselves and the way they look for granted. But that's not the way observers see you; the flaws are clearly visible to them. A magnifying mirror is, therefore, of first importance to you in learning the truth about' your skin.' If there ars tiny blackheads, imperfections or blemishes that you thought were well concealed' by make-up, the mirror will show them to you. And to good pur- pose, Once you're aware of there, you can corxect them. It will also provide an indisputable check on your lirowlitte, re- vealing to you stragglers you'd not noticed. It will tell you a cent - plate story about the dry and oily areas of your skin, giving yot'. a chance to treat each separately. And tb''tlly, it's the .la';t word on the smoothness of your 'make- up, telling you if you've worked well and with an expert hand,