The Seaforth News, 1952-01-24, Page 7Taking Cave Of
!Electrical Appliances
TIIer'.s a pop-np elee'trlc toaster
in our house that started married
-life with tis nearly eleven year, ago.
'It hasn't failed or faltered in all date,"
bale writes Bob, Gibney in the
- Country Gentleman.
A little of the fight -kine( of care
and respect is all that's necessary to-
- keep a toaster or any small hens,:,
held appliance putting out carefree
help for Many years,
Do's and Don'ts for All. Appliances
Almost invariably they are elec•
trieal appliances—motor-driven cases
like fans, food mixers and blenders;
or (teat -producing appliances like
toasters, sandwich and waffle grills,
coffee makers, hot plates, roasters,
and irons,
Treat their electric cords with.
care. Wipe grease and fats from
smooth -rubber cords with Warm
suds on a cloth after disconnecting
Keep than free of oily substances,
or the rubber insolation will deteri-
orate.
Plug each end of the cord firmly
into the socket or onto its prongs.
Haphazard connections spark con-
stantly, are a fire Hazard, and burn
plugs Into eventual uselessness.
Rave a place to hang separate
iron, grill or heater cord.; where
they'll stay cool and unkinded.
Don't jerk a cord to disconnect
it—grip .the plug and wiggle it out.
Don't tie knots in cords if you
want the inner wires to stay un-
broken,
Don't test for broken wires by
flexing the: core, You could get a
bad burn if the broken inner wires
should short.
Don't wrap cords around hot ap-
pliances.
Never plug any heating appliance
of over 600 -Watt capacity into an
extension cord or hanging plug.
Use se only built-in wall sockets or
range outlets, or have heavier wir-
ing installed if your house is old and
anderwired.
Don't leave any appliances plugg-
ed in while it's not in use.
Oil motors and working parts
only if and where oil holes or caps
are provided, Use a light ,111010 '
bile or appliance oil and use it
sparingly.
If a motor sparks badly, smokes,
grows too hot to touch comfortably
- or smells like scorched rubber or
cooked insulation, take it to a re-
pairman at once.
Occasionally, clean lint and dust
away from vent holes in the motor
body to let it breathe and cool
efficiently.
Don't continually overwork a
motor with loads that heat it or
slow it.
Don't immerse any motor in
water or allow water to splash into
it.
Don't poke any object into a
motor, whether it's running 'or not.
Be. gentle with any heat appliance.
Often the coils which produce the
heat are delicate and unprotected
from poking or jarring. For the
.gadget's sake, keep knives and forks
away from heating wires. Clean
dust or crumbs frotn exposed heat
coils by gently brushing with a soft -
bristled brush,
Don't plunge any heat coil into
water, Keep dry always. If exposed
to moisture ,let it dry for a clay or
two before using.
Don't leave a heat appliance op-
erating for longer than necessary
Life of any coil is not unlimited, so
A hy shorten it 'needlessly?
Sorcerer's Apprentice.- in West
Berlin, Germany, Ernest Bogclsack
sneaked into town from the Soviet
Zone, hid in a public lavatory until
the .attendant !eft, removed the
brass water taps from the sinks in
order to sell them 111 the black
market, immediately loosed a flood,
tried to get out but found the doors
locked. how led for help until a pass-
ing police patrol broke 111 and res-
cued hitt from the rising waters,
by then neck -deep.
Is Time to P rch a e u t - Pried Cod
Coordinated cotton separates,
this sleeveless blouse and gath-
ered skirt have hobo theme. In
permanently crinkled costo n,
color of blouse is picked up in
ane of the brilliant patches
posed against darker back-
ground of shirt,
EDDIA KILNS
xtHE bright look of cotton sepa-
rates has become, for 1952,
brilliant. But it's a .disciplined
brilliance, with, colors carefully
coordinated to get the maximum
in a dramatic effect.
Color combinations, instead of
being haphazard, are balanced:
Blouses and skirts are planned to
be matched or mixed, according to
the wearer's preference.
Thinking of cottons now, in the
middle of winter, may seem a bit
like shopping for Christmas in
July, But many thrifty women
have learned that this is the best
time to buy budget -priced cottons.
These separates are forerunners of
summer fashions to come. Put
neatly away until warm weather,
they eliminate the necessity for
last-minute hurried shopping in
late spring.
A hobo skirt and shirt, designed
by Brani;ian, are in permanently
Crinkled cotton. The sleeveless
blouse has a Peter Pan color, Its
color is planned to pick up the
color in one of the patches sprin-
kled over the gathered skirt
Patches in brilliant colors are
poised against a dark background,
as when raspberry, pink and aqua
are used on navy and 'worn with
a raspberry blouse,
An organ grinder motif in black
velveray appears on a bright green
cotton broadcloth circle skirt with
huge sweep. This is worn with a
scoop neck blouse In green o1'
black.
Organ grinder motif of black velveray decorates this sweep circle
skirt in green cotton broadcloth, Scoop -necked blouse is done in
matching green or contrasting black,
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fialsseR
It scents hare( to believe now,
but- less than a dozen years ago
chickens were regarded primarily,
as egg -laying mechanisms. Practi-
cally all the scientific breeding .was
aimed at just one thing,-- to get
more eggs per hen, And egg pi,, -
duction climbed first to 1111 amaz-
ing 300, and went on climbing.
There were those•Tvho claimed
that this emphasis on.egg-laying not
only decreased the size of the birds,
but also detracted from pleat quali-
ty; and most of Its Can remember
when chickens in the market were
mostly worn-out hens, culls and un-
wanted cockerels --an assortment of
egg -laying by-products.
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It was probably the sight of that
great breeding creation, the broad -
breasted turkey, which caused far-
seeing chicken raisers to aim a di-
vision into two separate types, —
meat types as distinct from egg -
producers. The n01v trend was
spotlighted when a great American
chain of food stores, six or seven
years ago, started a hig c'ampaig'n
to increase chicken eating. I
haven't the figures for the year just
passed, but in 1950 the response to
this campaign was so great, south of
the border, they ate 625 million
chickens. And of that number no
less than 425 million were descen-
dants of "Chicken of Tomorrow"
stock, Once again "1t Pays to Ad-
vertise" proved to be a sound busi-
ness maxim. .
Writing about this new -type
chicken in The Country Gentleman,
,Froward Bloomfield says "What
the new meat chicken might look
like was dramatized by taking very
good chicken—full-bosomed, unlac-
ed birds—and blowing them up
with a pump until the skin stretch-
ed almost to bursting . , . wax
casts were Made ... just as a goal
Street Models—tailor Maurice Priess carefully escorts one of his
chess dummies to the street after being evicted from his shop.
All his possessions, including several shapely mannequins, were
dumped' unceremoniously on the sidewalk in the cold January air.
to shout at. Then the best new -
model chicken was pumped tip and
another cast was made. That is
the Stickel' of Tomorrow—a clink -
en with chest and legs that look
as if they might pull a plow. ex-
cept that the muscles are tender,"
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As breeding 'improved, feeding
methods kept pace, Three pounds,
or less, of feed now makes a pound
of chicken, instead of the former
four pounds of feed to a pound 01
meal. Growth has been speeded up
till a bird reaches three pounds in
tell weeds instead of twelveand
its nothing unusual for birds of
twelve weeks to scale four or even
five pounds , , . These heavier birds
are cacker'els, of course, but in a
state contest hell! last year the pul-
lets averaged to er four pounds :n
12 weeks,
1t appeal's that the biggest fac-
tor in this stew -style feeding nos a
discovery about corn. Loaded with
energy and growth -producing finali-
ties, corn can also induce poor
health. A few years ago when more
than 25 per cent of cern was fed.
chickens sickened, Lost appetite and
went in for feather -picking and
cal11tibalisltl. But scientists dug
around till they found out what
was wrong, coating up with a for-
mula than is the basis of the new
feeds w'lnrh get some remarkable
results. •
The reseachet's found that corn
needed a shot of extra vitamins,
aitch as nicotinic acid, niacins or
choline. A very- small amount, aril.,
ded to a ton of cora, destroys the
evil effects, Nowadays feelers are
mixing rations containing no to 70
per cent of corn and finding that
their chickens grow faster-, on less
feed. than mar before. 111 the' hast
couple of years anti -biotics and the
animal protein factor have also done
their part in more profitable feeding.
The water of small !locks, who
.produces mostly for • 1881111 use
and a limited outside sale, ran take
advantage of this new trend just as
well as -•-a few rears ager- mans
benefited by the chauee to hug
chicks of superior laying 418105x.
The same chicks, bred for more
meat and faster maturity, are hr
coming available to the "stuall-
titner" just las they are to the ratan
who numbers .his fluckc by the time.
sand:.
Attcl. au•rording to the already
quoted Howard 6luomfield, there
are even advantages 111 the smaller
flock, lie tells of one hatcherytnau
who sells, at half price, weak -look-
ing, putty chicks—the rails out 01
his incubator trays --to nearby
farmers. "The women. generally
raise every nuc of triose chicks, and
tell me how fast they grow," this
than reports, "while t'm always in
conference in hig houses regarding
disease outbreaks, diet troubles and
so forth," -
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The reasons for such results may
1)e that the women give tate chicks
better care, or possibly because
they have more space, Because
crowding means more money most
commercial growers allow three -
entailers of a square foot per bird.
But, as most people know, larger
space means better, ltealthier and
finer -quality chickens. That again,
(tome chicks are hand -fed, which
generally makes for better quality
because the chicks at the 'beginning
of an automatic feed 11115 nab the
biggest, choicest hits in the mask.
The question naturally arises—
"Now about buying treat -strain
chickens, and eating the cockerels
while the pullets are kept for lay-
ing?" Sometimes the results of such
a practice arc very good--some-
tinles not so good. The manager of
a huge hatchery, devoted to meat-
typo chickens exlusively, says that
the meat -strain birds produce about
Tha.'s why he pays 311 -cents -a -doe.
150 eggs to a lacing -type's 250,
ea premium for Itis hatching eggs.
Now, to trop oft, here are some
useful instructions about how to
dress a chicken properly, either for
110Slte (11e, or for sale.
1. Cru off `feet straight through
or just below hock,, leaving a bit
of the foot skin. This keeps the
115111 from drawing up on the drum-
stick while roasting,
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2. Cut out the oil sac on the back
near the tail, because it play give
the chicken an or flavor,
•.l. From betwr'en the shoulders,
slit the skin up the back of the
neck. 'Theo sever the neck between
shoulders and pull it away. Now
yon can easily talc out the crop.
windpipe and gullet. The lap of
skin from over neck and breast can
then he easily fastened to the bark
with skewers. -
4, :111,1(1' 1e churl run (1(1811
tlu•rnigll the abdomen and around
the vent insert a auger -through
the front opening and loosen the
attachments of the heart and Jim -
:111d the lungs . Loosen intestines
front the rear. After this, iwo fin-
gers hooked over the gizzard front
tate rear opening will remove in
one maks everything but kidneys
front the leafy cavity,
Bourgeois Wealcness. In (soda••
pest, iln101883. after two tactors
nursery school directors. tried to
buy chamber pots at a government
store and were told flat only un-
suitable Japanese 11ow5er vases
would lie available- until nest year,
the trade -union paper 1\cpszavn an•
grily commented: "The small chile
drefl ofthenursery are in no posi-
tion to wait until ,ianuary for the
Pots.''
Wild Oats Still
Unsolved Problem
herbicides formed the chief topic
of discussion at the Fifth Western
Weed Control Conference recently
held at 'Vancouver. There was
mach talk of 2,4-1), now well-
known,to farmers, in addition to
'Curie(. s of experimental work on
some of the newer chemicals such
as TCA, CMI', MH, MCP, SES,
and DNOSBP,
Tillage as a 8ee,hcontrol mea-
sure seems to be fading out of the
Picture with a great many crops.
But delegates had tc admit that
with some weeds, notably wild
oats, it was still the only answer.
H. W. Legett, La•-ontbe experi-
mental station (Alberta) told the
conference that wild oats is still
the most serious weed infesting
crop laud in western Canada. An
average of 4,000.000 bushels are
shipped from prairie farms to ter -
initial elevators each year.
Leggett' estimated that this ac-
-counted for only about one-third
of the wild oats produced. The
other tiro -thirds never' reach the
combine, -
"There is, as yet, no sure me-
thod of control," Leggett admitted.
But two pleasures which will help
are:
1. Use of an early -maturing crop
of barley, with seeding delayed un-
til the lirst week in Tune so that
several crops of wild oats can be
killed before seeding. Cultivation
with a• rod weeder, cable weeder or
cultivator when there is a one-half
inch sprout on the barley. This
work to be done on a day when
the weeds will wilt quickly. Pettis
lizer also reconuttended.
2, Growing 11 crop of green feed
which may be cut before the oats
mature,
rude The Can
We roll lade the lovely oasis 1eA
Biskra. This is the Garda of •Al-
lah of I:lichens' fauna., romrnu<'e, -
, Through the soft evening .s -resets
ed• .with orange- blossom' '1511 N
veiled w,ult,d who might emit)) t„”
the honri1 of the Moslem paradise.
It was then that I suet 1u't'triule,
but she was mit veiled, She had
great brown eyes whose look of
trusting 11111ucevcc was contradicted
by a sneering, nose and it pouting
lower lip. She had large yclloly
teeth . and 11 nec+ liken 131'4t((',.
14betlly fantastic, she seemed 10
beli ing to this fantastic land.
11'e organized a1 ealavau for a •
trip to the south-west, . . 1 would
be content with nothing les; than
a eauud. Su the eameieers i1(1801nc-
ed us, I asked tier her name. Be --
fore they could reply, she tt,'r.scli
answered with a gargling ,,,und. It
suundetl More like Gertrude than
i(1181hing else, so Grrlrude she was
from that 1ime1 oft,
011' f411':! van, when assembled,
comprised besides ourselves six
Arab canal driscr<, six camel=, and
a horse. Tile parts camels were
loaded with tent,, camping equip-
ment, and food, 1 was soon to learn
that Gertrude also had a1 pack cam-
el's mentality and to her 1 was tier,
er any thing more than a sack of
flout'. ..
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\-Vitlt her nose in the stratos-
phere. (;ertru,le objected gargitr;ly
to tithe cameleer's command that
she kneel down. When she tingly
collapsed with a rattling groan, her
saddle trap still some five feet above
ground. I scrambled ftp and perch-
ed atop her hump in the crotch
of the ornate saddle,
"Goon(!" cried the cameleer, and -
the instant result was a1 Violent
earthquake, Ru
nhl'
lg
in
n,111
Gertrude stood up on her hind legs.
This would have been quite all
right except that she was still doter
on her fore -knees, 1 was tossed for-
ward against her neck, 'which I
clasped firmly, Gertrude was in-
censed by such familiarity; she
turned her head and gave me a rip
on the shoulder with her great yy1• •
low fangs. • ,
But 1 w'a4 not to stay within nip-
ping _ distance long. Another
"Goons!" and up went her front
enc(, severing my hold upon her
neck and throwing Inc - violently
backward.
Now- I was sitting on a yellow
cloud looking down upon Biskra.
The cameleers • and even my conn •
panion on his horse seemed infi-
nitely far below. I felt as unsteady
as a boy on his first pair of high
stilts. The street was bordered by
mud walls that shut the gardens
away from the public gaze. liut to
me, aloft on my magic carpet, there
was no privacy; I could look down
upon the intimacies of every gar-
den. Among the date palms, orange
trees and flowering shrubs women
worked while children played in the
basins of sparkling fountains.
One of the advantages of being
a flagpole sitter is that the flagpole
does not move, "OOssl" cried the
cameleers, and our caravan began
to pitch like a ship in a stormy sea,
It did not take Ise five Minutes to
learn that riding a camel is not as
easy as it looks when a Bedouin
does it.—From "I Cannot Rest
from Travel," by Willard Price.
Winter: the season of the year
when it's colder outside a movie
theatre than it is inside.
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