HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-11-02, Page 2Bit FARM FRONT
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Rats, on the average, steal at
least 6 per cent of total farm re-
turns, and on badly infested farms
they can reduce income by as much
as 20 per cent. Yet controlling rats
is not usually expensive, requiring
mostly a clean-up campaign, rodent -
proof construction and a routine
follow-through.
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Rats avoid open spaces and in-
variably run along the walls. They
won't even cut corners. So in your
extermination campaign set your
traps close to the walls and then
place a box outside of the trap to
provide a natural runway against
the wall. Never place traps in the
*per, With a setup against the well,
unbelted traps are very effective.
To make regular traps more sensi-
tive, enlarge the trigger by adding
a square of corrugated cardboard
as large as the snapping surface
of the trap. Force the trigger be-
tween the two thicknesses of the
cardboard. When you set the trap,
cover it with a small amount of
shredded paper.
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Traps won't control the rats.
Control begins with cleaning up the
yard. Remove all piles of loose
stone and rubbish. Build platforms
18 inches above the ground and
pile all boards, fence poles and
rolls of wire on them. Burn old
fertilizer bags, feed bags and other
useless combustible materials. Then
dean out under all buildings that
are erected on piers.
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Inspect feeding floors and build-
ings constructed on concrete slabs.
If these are undermined, place a
two -foot -deep concrete foundation
around them. If short length cor-
rugated asbestos sheets are avail-
able in your area, use them for
Tow -cost cut-off walls around the
slabs, instead of the concrete wail.
Inspect all masonry and stone walls
too. If there are holes or cracks, 0
patch then: with a rich mix of con-
crete.
Next, build an incinerator for
burning all combustibles that ac-
cumulate in the day-to-day opera-
tion of the farm. It can be made
rolled -up poultry wire° In addition,
from a discarded metal drum or
if you dump cans and the like at
one end of the property, dig a pit
and cover the garbage. Don't leave
it exposed.
* * *
Doti t store firewood or manure
near a source of feed supply for
rodents, They like to nest in such
places, which should be as far
away from buildings as possible.
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When you have cleaned up
around the buildings and inside of
•them, rat -proof one building at a
time. Start with the corncrib. First
snake sure that the floor is tight,
so Born will not drop through and
attract rats. It's best to line the
floor wih metal or other rodent -
proof material. Cover the inside of
the crib walls to a height of two
Leet with a heavy hardware cloth.
Use a ? t -inch mesh wire. Then
place a band of metal or flat as-
bestos board around the outside of
the crib at the top of the wire.
Make this strip at least 8 inches
wide and carry it around corners,
door openings and projections, so
that it is continuous around the
whole building. Equip doors with
springs so they will be self-closing.
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If your crib is built with the
slats vertical, use sheets of gal-
vanized metal around the outside
bottom of the crib, Place this metal
no it ruts down to the concrete
piers and to at least 8 inches above
the crib floor. Place this metal on
both sides of the bottom of the
doors too.
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After the corncrib is rodent -
proofed. line the feed bin and grain
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rooms in the barn, poultry house
and hog house. If you use metal,
lap all sheets. If you are working
with asbestos, butt the edges of the
sheets tightly and don't install
sheets with broken or ragged edges.
Remember that a hole a half inch
in diameter will allow some rats
to get in, and that even smaller
holes will provide a, good gnawing
edge.
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When the obvious places around
the buildngs have been ratproofed,
investigate the construction of each
building with an eye for eliminat-
ing rodent runs and nesting places.
A common source of trouble is the
carelessly built hollow wall. Walls
with an inner lining should be made
rodentproof or the lining re-
moved. You can ratproof by filling
the hollow places to a height of 12
inches above the sill with cement
or bricks, or by refinishing the wall
to a height of 18 inches above the
floor with a band of galvanized
metal or asbestos board.
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Rock foundations in old barns
should be carefully repointed with
cement mortar. Windows and ven-
tilators should be screened and
drains fitted with tight covers.
Openings made in the side walls
for plumbing and electric wires
should be closed with mortar. Wires
and pipes leading from one build-
ing to the other should be shielded
with disks.
* * *
In the final stages of the clean-
up, it may be necessary to resort
to poison bait. Try at least three
kinds of bait, such as fish, rolled
oats, hamburger or chicken entrails.
Expose these without poison side
by side in teaspoonful quantities
in places where the rats are known
to feed, just before dusk. After you
have determined which bait the rats
prefer, feed the unpoisoned material
material for a few nights. Then,
when they really accept the bait,
place the poison bait for the big
kill.
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Always be careful in using poi-
sons so that farm animals, pets and
children do not have access to them.
When you have cleaned up
around the buildings and shut the
rats off from their feed supply, the
rats will actually help you in the
extermination campaign as the big
rats kill off the weak.
For Iron Lung Patients:—For
patients in iron lungs, a British
firm has developed a prismatic sy-
stem of mirrors which enables them
to read without fatigue. The mach-
ines are built for standard mains
or battery.
Old Batting Order Changeth—After 50 years, Connie Mack
(right) stepped down as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics,
turning over the managerial job to jimmy Dykes (left). The
.3F -year-old Mack, who brought nine pennants and five world
'':.ttnpionships to Philadelphia as the A's pilot, congratulates
his successor.
Around High Schools, Collegie
ates and vacant lots, of recent
years we have noticed the increas-
ing popularity, among the yohngdr
generation, of something called
"Touch Football." It appears to be
a fairly interesting pastime either'
to watch or to play; and has the
advantages (for parents) of being
fairly easy on the players) ward-
robes and (for participants) not
overly tough on the hide.
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But, so far, we haven't heard any-
body putting it away as genuine
football and neither, for our dough,
is what a bunch of highly - paid
and well -upholstered athletes are
currently displaying to huge mobs
of customers at Toronto Varsity
and various other stadia throughout
the land. In fact, to a whole lot of
observers, it wouldn't be a bad idea
to tag it frankly "Tackle Basket-
ball" and let it go at that.
* * ' *
Just imagine. A week or soago
out in Winnipeg a certain back -
fielder caused a big sensation .by
pulling off what was described as
a spectacular play — one that left
the opponents fairly flabbergasted,
and cost them the game. Just what,
you ask, was the nature of this
play? Well, this backfielder caught
the ball and, instead of falling on
it or trying to run with. it, merely
put the leather to it and returned
it to enemy territory. So stunned
were all concerned that it was a
simple matter for one of the back's
teammates — who had prudently
stayed onside — to amble down the
sward, pick, up the pigskin, and
proceed over the goal -line for the
winning touchdown.
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That, dear reader, was the spec-
tacular play which even now they
are talking about around Portage
and Main. Shades of Huck Welch,
Pep Leadley, Hughie Gall and a
host of others to whom it would
have been a rudimentary tactic, if
we know what we mean. In the
days of their greatness opposing
teams didn't take chances on having
the ball hoofed over their heads.
Nor did they allow it to bounce
around unattended after it had lit.
They knew only too well that a
ball on the loose meant an onside
player — or ,the kicker himself —
or both — would be along in a
matter of seconds to latch on to
it. .
* * *
I en take, as another example,
the much', - discussed tie game
between cr{rgos and Rough Riders
clown in.'Ottawa.. There were the
Riders, fairly late in the game, with
a 12 point lead, and with a chance
to add a certain single to that mar-
gin. (Everybody knows, or should
know, that a 13 point lead is a
vastly different thing from a 12
point one. Faced with a deficit of.
a dozen points a fighting team
thinks "Well, two converted touch-
downs will tie it up.". Make that
deficit a baker's dozen and they
know that they have to be lucky,
as well as good, to get on even
terms. As the psychologists would
put it, nine times out of ten- their
daubers go clown and they're a
beaten team.
But the Rough Riders, who
needed a win very badly, apparent-
ly thought they were playing "five
or no count." They disdained to
boot for that lowly single. And
so they settled for one point, in-
stead of two —. a difference which,
at this writing, looks as through it
might cost them their chance 'of
getting into the playoffs, to say
nothing of one Of more very luta-
ere gates.
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The Argos, too, were guilty of
what seems to be'--• to put it mild-
ly— rather muddled football
thinking. Joe Krol isn't the hooter
he uoed to be, not by teveraly ac
Nevertheltetc he'll otill probebly�q e
boot we hove in th' Ent. lifit
with a golden opportunity kr hba
to kick the winning point, the top
brass gloated, instead, to toot a
lovely forward pass right into wait-
ing Ottawa, arms, Instead of
eliminating Ottawa then and there,
they left them with a chance -- a
lapse which, the Toronto team
might yet be bitterly regretting.
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Second - guessing? Monday -
• morning quarterbacking? Certainly
it is, and • nothing else, but, Still,
if second -guessers and Monday
morning quarter -backs were ban-
ned entirely from the sport, foot-'
ball would be nothing like the
popular game it is with the paying
public. Or with sports writers
either. Everybody recognizes that
kibitzers are an integral "part ' of gin
rummy. So are side -line critics in
football, and there's no getting
away from the fact.
* * *
So, to try and stmt it up, it would
scent as though, along with United
States imports and several attrac-
tive features of the American game,
we might have brought north of the
border just- a little too much of
their way of thinking. Canadian
teats are not only largely U.S.-
manned, but also U.S. coached. And
it seems hard, almost impossible,
for a United States coach to realize
that .the single point is part of
Canadian football, and that six sin-
gle points will beat one unconver-
ted touchdown, even though they
don't draw as much applause or
as big Headlines for the ultra -brainy
coach.
* * *
In United States papers and
magazines we see an increasing
demand for the game to be taken
away from the coaches and given
back to the players. We don't think
it would be such a bad idea to
have a similar movement right
here, record - breaking crowds or
not. In the meantime, why not
let's be honest about it and — as
suggested in an earlier paragraph—
drop the name Football and call it
"Tackle Basketball." They've cer-
tainly pretty well taken the "foot"
out of it.
Modern Etiquette
By Roberta Lee
Q. What should ong do at the
dinner table if one is asked a ques-
tion just at the moment one is con-
veying a bite of food towards the
mouth?
A. Most certainly don't put the
food into the mouth and then
attempt to answer the question. It
is much better to return the fork
to the plate, answer the question
and then resume eating.
Q. Is it proper for the bride to
carry the bridegroom's ring to the
altar?
A. No; the maid or matron of
honor takes care of the ring, and
hands it 'over to the bride at the
proper moment during the cere-
mony.
Q. When one is smoking at the
table in a public dining room, and
there is no ashtray, is it all right
to use a plate or saucer fcr the
ashes?
A. This is done only by -an in-
bred person. It is much better to
ask the waiter for an ashtray.
Q. Does the father of a widow
or divorcee, who is marrying for the
second time, give her away?
A. Yes; her father gives her
away precisely as he did at the
first marriage. And her family
again assumes all expenses of the
wedding, unless she prefers to
meet them herself,
Q. Is it proper to send type-
written letters of condolence? '
A. No. More sympathy and
more sincerity are expressed in
letters which are written by hand.
Q. Is it proper for a man to con-
duct a woman across a room for
the purpose of introducing her to
another man?
A. No. One should always
bring the ratan across the room to
where the woman is standing or
sitting.
Q. How long after refreshments
are served should a guest remain
at a bridge party?
A. This depends upon how ear-
ly in the evening the refreshments
are served, but probably about
thirty minutes after finishing is the
usual time to leave. - A guest at
any affair should never "rat and
run."
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ISSUE 44 — 1950