The Seaforth News, 1954-12-09, Page 7TIIJJA P11 P111 NT
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Income from the sales of live-
r4tOck and livestock products
amount to 40 per cent of the
total from the sales of all farm
products in Canada for the past
three years. Their value was
/leery 32 billion dollars,
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These • sales were achieved
without any over -ail reduction
in the size of the breeding herds
which made the m 'possible.
Capital invested in these herds
in 1951 was approximately $2;
167,142,000, In other words the
breeding stock now in the
hands of Canadian farmers is
capable of producing nearly
double its own value of saleable
products every three years. And
of doing so without depleting
the natural resources of the
land.
Since Lite dawn of history,
mankind has recognized the im-
portance of certain types of anis
mals to his welfare. The wealth
of many nations, ancient and
modern, has been measured in
terms of the livestock their peo-
ple were able to keep. Austra-
lian wool, New Zealand butter,
Danish bacon and Argentine
beef, are but typical examples
of national economies based on
the production of livestock.
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From the time loan first cap-
tured and tamed the wild beasts
Of the forest and the jungle,
he has adapted them to his
needs, and sought by selection
and care to improve their qua:ity. Ile has changed their form
and character and vastly im-
proved their capacity to produce
essential articles of food and
clothing.
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The recent exhibit of the
Canada Department of Agri-
eulture at the 1954 Royal Agri-
enItural Winter Fair grahpieally
4��ustrates this long process of
livestock improvement. Modern
types of livestock are traced
b sec k, through photos, early
drawings and sketches, to the
Original wild a n i in a 1 s from
which they came.
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As man spread through the
world he took his livestock with
him, Asian types were taken to
MEMORY ARTIST - Finishing
touches to a multicolored canvas
etre provided by Salvatore Mas-
eimino, apartment house super-
intendent, whose eyesight has
been deteriorating for the past
20 years, The 48-year-oid artist,
who now has only 20/400
vision in one eye -and can distin-
fuish only out -of -focus, colorless
orms, mixes his. colors from
memory for his canvases.
klurope, a n d, from Southern
Europe to the North, From Eu-
rope, a n d particularly from
Britain, they spread to the Am-
ericas, South. Africa, Australia
and New Zealand.
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Three centuries a g o, b y
selecting and mating together
animals of the salve form and
colour markings, the founda-
-tions were laid for many of the
various breeds as we know them
today,
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Livestock improvement made
slow pr ogress until leading
breeders started .to keep records
of their individual animals. As
more breeders adopted the prac-
tice and breed societies were
organized, with official herd
books, progress became more
rapid. Later, as records of per-
formance of outstanding animals
were included in these records,
productivity of certain types of
animals such as the dairy cow
was notably increased,
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Danish breeders started feed -
Ing tests to provide rates of
gains and feed cost records for
their swine, and carcass mea-
surements to determine their
quality. Dressed carcass compe-
titions at the Smithfield show
In England, provided somewhat
similar production records 'Tor
breeders of beei cattle.
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In Canada, breed societies and
the Federal Department of Ag-
riculture co-operated in setting
up a Record of Performance sys-
tem for dairy cattle, and ' an
Advanced Registry for swine.
These enable breeders of these
two classes of livestock to se-
lect animals of proven produc-
tive capacity for their breeding
operations.
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Rail grading of hog and beef
carcasses by government grad-
ers provide another means of
recording quality in the prog-
geny of breeding animals and
thereby a basis of selection for
the improvement of breeding
stock.
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Selection of breeding stock
has not been the only factor in
this long story of livestock im-
provement. Care and improved
feeding methods have had an
important place. There have
been notable changes in both
respects from stock roaming at
will in the cave dwelling era,
to the milking parlouws and
scientifically balanced feed ra-
tions of today.
The number of apple trees in
Canada has declined since 1931
by 47 per cent, from 10.2 mil-
lion trees to 6.4 million, accord-
ing to a review of trends in pro-
duction and distribution of
Canadian apples by W. W. Ware
in the "Economic Annalist", a
publication of the Economics
Division, Department of Agri.
culture, Ottawa. Just over 4
million of the: decline was in
the provinces of Ontario and
Nova Scotia.
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The principal reason for the
decline, which reached Its peak
just before 1941 (except in
Nova Scotia where the sharpest
decline occurred atter 1941 with
the loss of thetraditional mar-
ke£ in Great Britain during and
since the second World War)
has been the increasing special-
ization of fruit. production. Bet-
ter cultural methods have been
adopted, more suitable varieties
have taken the place of those
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"tvMUSEE DE CIRE" (Wax Museum) --The new "Fiat" line is em.
phasized in a sheath gown by Jacques de Monjoye with a
neckline cut high and straight at the front with an extreme
low back and criss-crossed hip drapery with flat hanging
panels. The gown is in Acetate taffeta in the new "Jasper blue"
shade,
of little market value and low
productivity, and experience has
shown that trees planted farther
apart can be sprayed and eared
for with no loss of yield. In-
deed, Canadian apple produc-
tion has been increasing despite
the decline in trees. In 1931 the
average yield per tree was 1.8
bushels, in 1941 it rose to 8.1
bushels, and in 1911 it was 3.6
bushels.
They Make IA
Hobby Of
Collecting Old'Toys
Two Hien sat in a New York
shop chatting with each other
, • , entirely oblivious of the
presence of the proprietress. "I
saw it only yesterday in an old
toy catalog -a tin boat with .a
tin man and pair of wooden
oars. You wound it up and put
it in a pool and the man would
row the • boat. I'd like to find
one of those!" "Not a chance,'
replied the second man. "Make
up your mind to do without it.
Such toys were broken within
a year or two. Kids were al-
ways hard on toys."
The owner of the shop went
to a corner cupboard, removed
an object, and stopped before
the great big men who were
talking about little old toys. "Is
this what you mean?" she said.
It was. The very toy. The spring
was gone. But all the rest was
there. It had survived seventy-
five years 0f time, and perhaps
as much playing with.by grown-
ups as by the youngster for
whom It wag bought,
Grown-up men and women
do play with early toys. There
ie an editor of a woman's maga-
zine looking right now for a
certain kind of hobby horse
dating froto around 1700. 'There
a1'O some thousand or more
adults, sortie bank presidents,
some motor tycoen0, some in-
surance et"ecutivetl who buy
mfiat;±chtoy bank anical s
at W
some people think are absurd
and ridiculous prices. But It is
their fuo. The price el a rowed
+sl geld seems ridiculous,
toe,
when yott count up the cost of
belle,.
eaddy fees, new clubs,
Bide bets, and the annual duaq
of en exclusive club. There ie
a woman of parts who, after
hours, is a mechanical toy bank
hunter; especially shooting
banks, the ldnd that not only
portray some kind of shooting
action but which also explode
a little cap --if you have the
trap to put in the proper slot.
Mechanical toys •- steam en-
gines, magic lanterns, steam -
powered and spring -powered
locomotives that run on tracks
and pull trains! Dolls that are
just manikins and others that
cry and do other things that
babies do; jack -in -boxes, jump-
ing jacks, rocking horses, bob..
by -horses, building blocks •'--
the toy parade is endless, Not
without charm (and in some
cases with fantastic price tags)
are such things as early minia-
ture furniture, children's furni-
ture, and magic toys for grown-
ups. -:From "First Reader for
Antique Collectors," by Cate
W. Drepperd.
REAL ORATORY
The Sales Manager of the
European branch was now in
New York, and his English was
very limited. But the company
regarded his sales record as
worthy o1 a hero's welcome.
Ile was taken to all the best
shows; given a yachting trip
around -the harbor; and that
night was the guest of honor at
a former dinner in the Waldorf-
Aetoria:
An interpreter stood by his
side and gave. the French -Am-
erican translation of the acco-
lade now being given him by
the president' of the company,
"And now, Francois," beamed
the president, "tell us your
great formula for selling indi-
gesto Flour throughout La Pelle
France."
Francois stood up and, in a
few impassioned words of
French, he shrilled and trump-
eted what nlust have been a
great and inspiring credo, Thee
he sat deem
"How modest" they all cried.
"He told its in a few words,"
t se t iso
The interpreter aro.. a d
"Pt
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from the resident. i? r r ^f
It r,
he say these a wonderful eoun-
tree and lie lova all of you, and
please, yeti will understand he
cannot say .more. He wants to
,know where eee deer gentle-
nma109 rode,,,
ALMOST ANYTHING
LEADS TO ROMANCE
Pale is utterly unpredictable.
And never more so than In the
matter of romance. ,A. setback
in life, a .chance meeting, a
single word spoken to a stranger
-any of these can change your
life completely. You Ytever
know what's waiting just
around the corner.
Returning to barracks in the
black -out, a middle-aged soldier
stumbled over a woman. She
was on her hands and knees on
the pavement. "I've lost the key
of my fiat," she said. Se he join-
ed in the search.
Without result. But the sol-
dier found an open window,
scrambled through, and let the
woman in. She was grateful, and
they arranged to meet again.
The soldier was a bachelor; she
a spinster. Both had pushed ro-
mance out of their lives years
before. ,Yet they fell in love
and married.
Nothing was very unusual in
that. Except that in civil life
the soldier was a poorly -paid
draper's assistant, while the
woman owned several drapery
shops, After the war he ran
them for her. A lost key in the
black -out - and . romance - had
put him on top of the world.
Now take the case of a motor -
mechanic who went on an outing
to the seaside with other mem-
bers of his firm. Just as the
coach was about to leave for
home he realized he was out of
cigarettes, He rushed into the
netu'est 'tobacconist's, asked for
a packet -and then had a shock,
"I'm awfully sorry," he said,
"but I'm afraid I've spent out,"
The attractive young widoes
who kept the shop liked the
look of hire. "Never mind," she
returned, cheerily. "Take them
and pay when you're this way
again. I'll trust you."
At the first opportunity the
man returned and settled the
debt. One thing led to another.
The mechanic became attracted
to the widow and she to him.
Eventually they married, a n
the former motor - mechanic
proved himself a keen business
man, At the moment they own
three shops and a cafe, all be-
cause ---as the wife says, laugh-
ingly -he hacl an honest face.
During the depression be-
tween the wars a young clerk
was nearly starving. He told
himself grimly: "I'll beg a cop-
per from the first person that
comes along." A well dressed
young lady approached. Reluc-
tantly, shamefacedly, the clerk
stopped her.- "Please help me,"
he said. "I'm out of -work and
haven't a penny,
Something about this weary,
despondent beggar quickened
her pulses. Used tet men who
had everything who could afford
to indulge in their every whim,
he was a striking contrast.
"Come and have a meal!" she
said suddenly.
The young man did so. And
the high-spirited, impulsive girl
realized that here was the one
man in the world for her. She
pleaded with her father, a big
noise in the textile trade: "You
must find him a job." The father
agreed. The clerk became his
leading salesman; and now the
merchant has two grandchildren
in the business,
Another clerk used to lunch
every day at the same restaur-
ant, Entering as usual, he was
served by a new waitress. She
e e rna d different from the
others, had poise and dignity.
Intrigued, he asked her for et:
date.
At first she refused, but after-
wards gave way. That date was
. followed by several others, and
at last the truth emerged. Tho •
girl was his employer's daugh-
ter, Tired of doing nothing use'.
ful, she had become a waitress
and was searching for change
and adventure.
She succeeded, The clerk be-
came her husband and was made
a partner in her father's bus-
iness.
Somewhat similar is the story
of the youthful purser on a liner
making the South American
run. A .beautiful Argentine girl,
obviously wealthy, broke h e r
necklace. She stooped to re-
trieve the pearls,,and so did the
purser. Their heads bumped to-
gether. They both laughed, and
from this beginning their
friendship ripened into love.
There was a snag, however.
The girl's parents objected to
the match, felt that their daugh-
ter would be throwing herself
away. But the girl was self-
willed. "Let's get married," she
told her sweetheart After hest -
tion, he agreed.
The outcome? The parents
relented. The father made the
purser manager of his London
office.
Sometimes, however, the out-
come of a heady romance is not
so happy,
A big business man „was at-
tracted by his secretary. In the
office she was competent, as-
sured - and charming. She also
suggested new methods which
saved the firm money. In due
course they married.
iWthin six months she became
a spendthrift. Entreaties, threats
on his part were brushed aside,
"I married you for your
money," she said. "Now I'm
spending it!"
Eventually, the husband went
bankrupt. And the wife blamed
him for not restraining her be-
fore!"
Proof
A Negro in Houston, Texas,
was applying for social security
benefits, for which he was due
at the age of sixty-five, but he
had rte birth certificate, life in-
surance policies, marriage li-
cence or any other document to
substantiate his claim, After
about half an hour of patient
trying, the official asked, "How
did you get your name, Defurse?"
-thinking that he might be
able to trace his birth by that.
"Dates the one thing I de
know, mister," said the old
Negro. "I got dat name because
I was born de furs' day after
Lincoln was shot."
Ile got his benefit.
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STON S WINDOW -Designer or iupert Moore
viewsthe
window featuring Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's coat -
of -arms. It will be erected in the gallery at Chequers, country
home of Sritain's prime ministers, near London, where coats.of-
etrrns of previous prime ministers are displayed. The Garter
window was started shortly after Churchill was knighted,