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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-06-12, Page 3Animals on the Farris ' It is early summer on my hill- side, The fields are variegated strips of green in many shades, interspersed with the yellow of ripened grain and of mustard, and the brown of ploughed earth, The harvest has begun, Orderly stacks of mown wheat clot some of the Helie, eh [rely etched in high -lights and shadows under the July suit. 'Elie hay is- rolling in from the meadows piled high in long, creak- ing, two -wheeled carts, some drawn by strawberry roan horses with blond manes, hitched tandem, some by yoked pairs of cream -colored Charollais oxen. Cuckoos are still calling back and forth from the hedges but they will trot be heard, so local wisdom Inas it, after the 14th of July. Quantities of bees are dip- ping into the honeysuckle and the roses. Every now and then one gets in the drainpipe by mistake: its infuriated buzzing against the metallic sides of the pipe sounds like boogie-woogie. Underlying my terrace is a long field planted in potatoes, The far- mer is cultivating between the rows with a hand plough pulled by a donkey, the latter in .turn pulled by the farmer's young son, The farrier talks loudly and continually to his donkey, while the solenum- faced animal carries on its task with an expression of sad resig- nation. In another strip alongside my walled garden, this one being in pasture, Madame Hen -parrot (Per - ruche) of Asquins Village, brings her three cows each morning to graze. One of them has red and white markings, one grey and white, one mauve and white, Ma- dame Hen -parrot is more than three score years front the early flush of youth. She walks slowly up the hill in her wooden shoes at a cow's pace, with her knitting, a folding milking stool with four slats for a seat,a long stick, and an umbrella. She has a blueorsometimes a white kerchief over her head, and wears a faded and much patched blue apron upon I know not how many faded and patched skirts and petticoats. A black dog accompanies the pro- cession. Madame Hen -parrot unfolds her milking stool, unfurls her umbrel- la if there is rain or a strong wind, takes to her knitting and talks continually in a shrill -pitched voice to the cows and the dog. Unlike the farmer talking to his Largest ,;;mer: The Empress of Scotland, 26,300 -ton flagship of the Canadian Pacific fleet is shown here passing under the Jacques Cartier Bridge al the entrance to Montreal harbor to make history as the largest vessel ever to arrive in the world's largest inland port. The big luxury liner and cruise ship, which had to hove her masts shortened by almost 45 feet to clear under the bridges and power lines on the way up -river from Quebec, will make Montreal her Canadian terminal for the remain. der of the 1952 St. Lawrence navigation season. The 666 -foot long vessel carries 663 passengers, and will make one trip every three weeks between Liverpool, England, Greenock, Scotland, and Montreal. The inset shows Capt. C. E. Duggan (in uniform), master of the largest and fastest vessel on the St. Lawrence route, being welcomed to Montreal by Capt, J. P. Dufour, (second from right) Montreal harbormaster, while looking on are A, C, MacDonald (left), managing director of C.P.S., and Andre Gauthrier, river pilot, who was aboard the vessel for 139 -mile run up river from Quebec. oxen or his donkey, there is no cajolement in her directives, but she gives the reasons underlying them. "Now chase that complete- ly idiotic animal out of that cor- ner"—this to the dog—"because she has been there too long and should know that the grass is bet- ter below!" My hillside is quiet; save for the nightingales in the springtime and the voices of the cultivators and cattle tenders conversing with their beasts. — From "Bird of Time," by Melvin Hall, T11E FA M According to the scientists, the lowly corncob is good for some- thing beside burning—or making pipes. Not long ago they found in it a good source of an important chemical 'which can be uesd in the manufacture of nylon. Today it is being considered as a first class stock feed which puts more weight on beef cattle at less cost. 5 0' * On a farm near Coon Rapids, Iowa, 4,000 head of cattle were fattened for the market last winter with a diet consisting of 75 per cent corncobs, The cobs, which were always a disposal problem, were ground up and mixed with small amounts of shelled corn, molasses, urea, soybean oil and fish oil. The urea provides the nitro- gen which helps in the digestion by cattle and fish ,oil is for vita- min A. * 0 * Weight gains were estimated- at two pounds per day at a cost of 15 to 16 cents per pound compared to a gain of one pound per day costing 28 cents when shelled corn, bay and protein were fed, ,ry 0 * The old "forty -acre" farm kit - New Add Fad?—Approximately the size of a pack of cigarets, this finger -operated midget add- ing machine can add, subtract, multiply, divide and square fig. ±.res. Manufactured by a Berlin, '•3rmany, firm, it will sell for about $94. then is going modern. In the cur- rent transformation of Canadian farm homes, the kitchen seems to be the room getting the most at- tention, writes Ethel Chapman, who was for many years woman's editor of F'armer's Magazine, * M, 0 Miss Chapman has found that within the last few years big farm kit ch ens have been divided to provide a modern kitchen - dining room with a separate utility room where the men can wash-up, where the laundry can be done, or a little pig warmed and fed in an emergency. a• * Running water was ouly a dream of most Canadian farm women 30 years ago, Today, farm water sys- tems are being installed at an amazing rateElectricity is rapidly reaching even the farthest of the back concessions. Hooses built 30 years ago without a clothes closet from ground floor to attic are get- ting new storage space: Kitchen cupboards are being installed with such enthusiasm there's scarcely a spot left to hang a calendar, * N Central heating is transforming farm home architecture, according to Miss Chapman, It is no longer necessary to keep a room closed for warmth, so partitions are being taken out to throw two rooms into one or to make wide archways joining halls and living -rooms. Windows are being enlarged and new windows added. The picture - window is finding real popularity. x: * s• . Over the past 50 years farm operations in Canada have pro- gressed froth hand and horse labor to an occupation that is highly mechanized and scientific. The farmer himself has changed from a hewer of wood leading alt iso- lated life to a citizen of the world —a logical development of produc- ing fond for export. A. * * This great revoiutlon on the farm, writes Dr. G. E. Reaman in the current issue of C -I -L Oval, ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST I --•.Napoleon. 2—s 1 e i g It, 3— Aegean Sea, 4-2000 miles, S— anto. 6—ie rock. 7—(A)—Indiana; (13) Oklahoma; (C) Ohio; (D) North Carolina. MERRY MENAGERIE "Check your son, Sister?" actually begat[ when the mechan- ical reaper displaced the sickle and scythe more than 100 years ago. But it wasn't until 1900 that real progress was made in mechaniz- ation of the gasoline engine. By this means the farmer achieved power in a controlled quantity that enable him to free himself from horse -produced power. * A' Dr, Reanman, who is head of the Department' of English at the On- tario Agricultural College, review- ed the scientific developments in the last 50 years. When the laws of genetics came to be understood, it was possible to breed dairy cows which gave more milk. Much ex- perimentation has taken place in both breeding and feeding poultry so that today any fowl which does 1101 product satisfactorily is elim- inated from the flock. The discov- ery of antibiotics has meant a great deal in fighting and overcoming diseases in animals as well as humans. to * * In the field of pesticides, DDT was ,probably the first wonder- working insecticide. Many others followed soon after. New fungi- , cides, rodenticides and weedkillers have been developed. Other new chemicals cause the leaves to fall off ripened crops to facilitate hand and machine harvesting. * * No longer does the farmer point a finger of scorn at "fancy farm- ing" carried on by scientists. He ow realizes they arc working for him. THE MILITARY MIND A sergeant was asking some re - recruits why walnut was used for the butt of a rifle. "Because it has more resistance," volunteered one iman. "Wrongs" "Because it is more elastic." "Wrong!" "Perhaps it's because it looks nicer than any outer kind," volun- teered another, timidly, "Don't be an ass," snapped the sergeant, "It's simply because it was laid down in Regulations." :SUNDAY SCIIOOL LjSSOY By Rev. R. 13 Warren, B.A., B.D. The Obligation to be Trustful Exodus 20:16; John 18:15-27 Memory Selection: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exodus 20:16, A careful survey of 10,000 men and women in an eastern Ameri- can city revealed that 98% of them, upon their own confession, were "in the habit of telling lies," Re- cently it was revealed that a state- ment concerning germ warfare at- tributed to a government official and which led to serious misunder- standing had only been inserted by a newspaperman to "brighten up the story." Some doctors lie to make an operation appear neces- sary and sometimes to buoy up a patient on false hopes:' Parents lie to their children and children early learn from their example. We ridicule the Communists but we have lies a plenty apart from Communism. Jesus Christ said concerning the devil, "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is , a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44. His first lie was to Mother Eve in his successful effort to de- ceive her. He said, "Ye shall not surely die." Gen. 3:4. He was sug- gesting as he does constantly to men to -day, that "God doesn't mean what FIe says." Millions of mor- tals believe him. A story in an old Public Reader told of the boy who cried "Wolf, wolf," When there was - uo wolf. One clay the wolf really came. The boy cried loudly but in vain. The men thought he was lying again. The sheep were destroyed. When one earns a reputation for lying, often he will not be believed when he is telling the truth. "Ly- ing lips are abomination to the Lord," Prov. 12:22, "Ali liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brim- stone." Rev, 21:8. Jesus is the Truth. Those who love hint have been delivered from. their deceitful heart and endeavour at all times to speak the truth. yTtIDIO1 MILD WEATHER TO REMAIN Can't Remember Ex-Wive's Names Bruce Steele isjust a seventy- two -year-old Texan pinmher, a handy 0111111 With his spanner, but he has just established a new rec- ord in wives. When he married ihrty-seven-year-old Estelle at El Paso recently he signet the mar- riage lines for 1110 seventeenth time. Bruce has now had four- teen wires, but one of them lie Married twice and one three Bines, making tevcut'011 marriages in all. "Can I help it if 1 appeal 'to women?" Inure askes his critics, "it's the plumber in 11131" Woolen send for the plumber half the time, he claims, just to tell hunt their troubles while he works, hurt Bruce was a boxer' with a travel- ling show when he married his first wife, glary, back in 1911. When he moved on, she got a di- vorce and he wooed and wort girls in outer towns. "Just give the women what they want and give them a divorre every little while;' he 51111ms up. Yet to-day—although he never forgets his tools on a plumbing job ---he cannot even re- member all Ills wires' names, Fanny Went to Court There was Nellie whom he mar- ried twice, two girls named Rose, and Panny whom he has cause to remember because she nearly fool- ed him with her third divorce. Af- ter being married to Bruce twice before, Fanny didn't want the di- vorce and contested it in court , , hut variety- prevailed! "Find their weaknesses and play it up -that's the way to be a gond Romeo," Bruce declares, But his theory is contested by forty -seven- year-old Francesco Juliao of Bra- zil, who says that marriage has many complications. And Juliao— a successful white farmer—should know, He has twelve wives living with hint all at once in his home- stead near Rio de Janeiro. Two recently presented him with sons to add to his total of twenty- three children. Legally speaking, more than one wife is against Bra- zillian law, but so far the authori- ties have smiled upon this happy dozen, Platinum blonde, Betty Cala- musa, too, 'has set all America gos- siping with her twelve marriages in fifteen years. Two men she re- married for a second try, making ten husbands in all, and at thirty- nine she has no regrets. "Perfect marriages aren't rare," she as- serts. "My marriages were so per- fect they were just too good to last. Mother says she just can't understand what I'm looking for!" Betty has married G-men, Air Force 'heroes (two), an undertaker and a full-blooded Cherokee In- dian. Most of her ex-husbands still send her birthday and Christmas cards and some even remember her at wedding anniversaries. "But no children!" Betty sighs, "I just never planned for any." MISSED HIM A little old lady in her seventies [vent to a doctor. She detailed all her ailments, real and imaginary, but seemed most concerned about a recurring dream in which she was diligently pursued by a personable young man who wanted to flirt with her. The doctor advised her how she might sleep more soundly. In a few days she returned. "Don't tell me you aren't sleeping better nowadays," said the doctor. "Olt, I'nl sleeping fine," the old lady replied, "but to tell the truth I certainly miss that young man i" Give Them Room Thinning flowers and vegetables,. especially 111050 that 00111e front fine Fred, is a bother but it will be well worthwhile 10 sturdier ion' better plants, With flowers this will mean earlier and bigger blooms and less loss from n iml. 0101 I ..n e r: With vegetables like carrots, Necks, ('mire, etc , it will be timer -flavor and more tendernese. Properly apac- 011, properly thhliied vegetables are numb easier to cultivate, too. If at all possible one should leave enough room between each plant st, that a small hoe or a special loth -handled cultivator can be used. These int- plror•ut will -Fare hours of ban& weeding drudger. Staked Tomatoes For most gardens it i5 advisable to stake t,nnateers. At the time of planting good stout 51111305 at least six feet high are driven well into the: ground and within a few inches of cavil plant. To these the 1111011 stem of ttte tomato plant is loosely but securely lied, 05ery foot or so as it grows. All s'de shoots are nipped off just 110 500n as they develop, but one mn<t be careful not to remove the fruit or flower clusters. This is a w e, kly job during the grown¢ season, Eventually the main stem of the tomato plant will reach the height of the stake and then it, too. is nipped off to encourage fruit to set into top flowers. When staked, to- matoes can be grown about 18 inches apart and in small gardens, around the edge of the plot. Grow Manure As soon as one part of the vegetable patch is used up (peas, spinach, radish, etc., will soon be out of the way and the ground clear), experienced gardeners make a practice of sowing some green crop like rye, oats, buckwheat, etc. This covers the ground, checks weed growth and when dug or plowed in late in the fall makes an excellent fertilizer, In addition to enriching the soil such growth also adds essential humus. Cutting Gardens Home grown flowers in season are certainly not luxuries when one remembers that one can grow liter- ally armfuls of blooms at a cost of only a few cents, And there is no reason why the average person should not grow them by the arm- ful and use them liberally as in Britain to decorate living rooms, verandahs, etc. Where large quanti- ties are wanted for such purposes many people make it a practice to grow them -in rows with the vege- tables. It is much simpler to grow then in this way and there is no disfigurement to the decorative flower beds when bouquets are required. This particularly applies to such flowers as sweet peas, gladioli, marigolds, zinnias and other either trailing or straight growing things that lend them- selves to row cultivation. "Several of my friends 111 my old hone town want the to go and live there again." "Did they tell you drat?" "Olt yes. They said they want me to come back and settle." TEST YOUR INTELLIGENCE Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. Waterloo saw the defeat of: —the Spanish Armada —Napoleon—ICaiser Wilhelm —Czar Nicholas 1I 2. Which of tl e following is misspelled: —chief—slieg(t —believe —receive 3, 'The Dodecanese Islands are in the: —Dardanelles —Atlantic Ocean —Pacific Ocean. —Aegean Sea 4. The length of the Mexican -U, S. boundary is about: —500 miles —2000 miles —3000 miles --500 mites 5. Aardvarks are fond of: —shrimp -oysters —ants —legumes 6. In the Bale, what did bfoscs strike to get water: a rock —sand —a tree — stone tablets 7 Listed below are nicknames and opposite thein the states to which they are applied. Match them, scoring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) Hoosier (B) Sooner (C) Buckeye (D) Tar Heel '.l'otal your points. A score superior; 90-100, very superior. .—Ohio —Oklahoma —North Carolina .—Indiana of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average: 70-80, JJTTIR 71{6 NSW MILKMAN 5IASN'r aeon Cul4Bcl -MI6 OUR EMPTY eoTTLR5.,. WILL Y6p cur -mem WHERE HE'LL Or UURR TO ovarisum By Arthur Pointer