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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-07-24, Page 3111E PAM RC �,M ,F WrSA f i 02b4cYell Tolerating flies in the farm yard is not only unsanitary and unneces- sary but expensive. According to the agricultural chemicals depart- ment of Canadian" Industries Limi- ted, the tormenting attacks of flies can reduce the milk flow of dairy cattle. by as much as 15 per cent, considerably more when Ries are extremely bad. Beef production may be deereased by one-quarter to one-half pound per clay—or a to - tat of some 30 pounds per head during the fly season, • * To keep a farm "fly -clean", some suggestions are offered by J. A. Oakley, noted entomologist: • * * Install screens wherever neces- sary and practical. Haul out man- ure and spread it at least once a week. Manure is the most serious single source of fly trouble on the farm. Don't let fly -breeding rub- bish accumulate, Spray animals at least every four or five weeks dur- ing warm weather, o • * a For spraying. buildings, 50 per cent DDT wettable powder or lin- dane wettable powder are reccom- mnded, But they should not be sprayed on milking animals or live- stock being fattened for slaughter, he warns. Instead, a 50 per cent methoxychlor wettable powder should be used. * * * These control methods are effec- tive with houseflies, horn flies, stable flies and other species that prevent cattle from grazing peace- fully. * * * Flea beetles, Colorado beetles, leafhoppers and aphids—the major insect pests attacking the Canadian potato crop—eau be controlled with one insecticide—DDT. Those who prefer to dust may use a three per cent DDT dust while those who favor spraying have a choice of a 50 per cent DDT powder or a 25 per cent DDT emulsion, At least 100 gallons of spray or 30 pounds of dust per acre are recommended in early applications. These am- ounts should be increased in later applications to allow for increased foliage area. * * * A new giant cockroach one and one-quarter inches long and half an inch wide has invaded North America from the tropics and may eventually find its way to Canada, * * *. Technically known as 'Naupho- eta cinerea,' it is called by some the 'lobster' roach because of a lobster -like 'narking on its collar. Recently, heavy infestations of this insect were found in several food- handling establishments in Tampa, Florida. How long they've been there has not yet been established by the city's health authorities. * * * The wings of the tropical pest are shorter than the body, leaving its edges and abdomen in view. The color is a mottled tan with a pink- ish cast along wing edges and col- lar. The lobster design on the col- lar is tan on a black background. There is a cream colored dot on each edge of the abdominal seg- ments on their upper surface. On the under surface, the abdominal markings are shaped like the num- eral 7. * * * The apple is becoming as versa- tile as the soybean or peanut — thanks to chemistry. Chemists have taken this "one a day keeps the doctor away" fruit and have dis- covered exactly what makes it "tick." * * * After laborious e"aperintents, they have found, for instance, that 26 different compounds were respon- sible for the apple's aromatic fla- vor—no mean feat considering that the fruit's flavoring matter repre- sents only 50 parts per million of the original juice. * * -* Chemists have developed a syrup that is not only good for table use but which is used in coated paper, cosmetic, toothpaste, tobac- co and in milk products for infant feeding. They've recently developed a high-density apple juice concen- trate that will keep a whole year without being frozen, RADIO STAFF When Groncho Marx was guest - star on the Bing Crosby show, he recalled, "A year ago, i had enough money to choko a horse." "What happened?" prompted Crosby, "1 made a slight error," Groticho ad- mitted. "I bet on him instead of choking hint." , Eddie Cantor devised. a new quiz program, Your name is selected at random .from a Iocai telephone directory, and if you're at home when Cantor calls, lie borrows twenty dollars. , , , Bet- ty Grablc and the great baseball pitcher, Dizzy Dean, once co-starr- ed on a broadcast front a Veter- ans' hospital. "Say something cute to Miss Grable," urged the announcer. Dean fingered his col- lar and proposed, ".I'll show yop toy curves, Miss Grable, if you'll show me yours" Walking upstairs requires energy exceeding by 150 per cent the en- ergy required to saw wood. The Face of War—One more patrol completed. One more safe return, Pvt. Heath Matthews, 19, of Montreal, who is with the Canadian Army unit in Korea, has just returned from a combat mission,, tired, grimy, and shaken up. This trip, he's lucky. His only injury is a bloodied nose. The Sticit.Up By MAUDE NORMAN TI wind whipped in the open car window on Rose -Ellen's flushed chee cs. "Serves you right, you little fool,' " she muttered, "for taking things for granted, but he said be couldn't wait to see me and all the time he was still in love with Kate." She had always loved Steve Wil- son and had started writing to him when Kate was too busy with her other boy friends to bother. Gra- dually the tone of his letters had changed. - Then when he announced he was coming home. hate's interest had revived, but Rose -Ellen remained confident she was. the one he now cared for, But why, oh why, did she have to be so impulsive and greet him as she had? Running out to her car as she had and driving wildly through town wasn't helping any. She was approaching the city's outskirts, when as she stopped for a red light the door on her side of the car opened, a hard round object pressed against her side, a voice grated. "Move over, sister—fastl" Rose -Ellen opened her • mouth but a vicious jab turned the in- tended scream into a gasp, "Keep quiet,• sister, and you won't get hurt" Rose -Ellen had always pictured bandits, if she thought of them at all. as weazel-faced or beetling - (wowed. flashily dressed. This one looked dike an ordinary citizen. "Say, you're a slick chick," he said, "Why did you get in my car?" "Now, don' tell me you're beau- tiful but dumb," he mocked, "I got in because t needed a car. I'll tell you the story of my life later,. Say, you've been crying, ain't 'cha. What's the matter? Boy friend give you the brush-off?" Fear gave courage --and inspira- tion. "I'm not worrying about hitt' —now," site mur'mur'ed. "We were always quarreling. He wanted to ntarry and settle down, but I wanted excitement—and adventure. I ran away from hits and you came along, Don't you thine I shotild know your name?" "Some call isle Dan," he smirked, "You're so dark ,,and romantic looking." Basking in her adlniratiou, he was alert enough to grasp her hand its site opened her handbag. "Vs'hatcha got in there?" "Nothing but powder and lip- stick, and niy wallet. "O.K. It ain't that I don't, trusty cha, Baby, but I gotta be careful." "Don't be silly," she smiled, busy with her lip -stick and powder -puff. "I'm having too much fun to do such a thing. Will you take me to a real night-club and buy sire beau- tiful ,,clothes like they do in the movies?" "You betcha — clothes — all the money you want!" She gave him as excited little laugh and nestled against him, urg- ing, "Faster -go faster The car leaped ahead. Suddenly a siren sounded behind then'. "Dammit," he- swore. "The cops and me with no license" "But I have mine. Pull over and I'll take the wheel. Don't worry, we'll only get a ticket. "No tricks," he warned. "Re- member, I've got this gat handy." Rose -Ellen felt the bandit's tense body relax as the trooper handed back her license, then tense again as instead of the expected ticket, a revolver appeared in his hand. She gave a gasp of relief, then heard the trooper's shout as some- thing struck her side and darkness descended. Rose -Ellen held court the next day with Steve, her parents and I{ate her admiring audience. "Thank goodness. the bullet just grazed your side," her mother ar. ranged the pillows more comfort- ably, "and it is high enough that it won't prevent your wearing a bathing suit. "But you need not have been hurt at all if you hadn't misunder- stood when I told Kate I was happy because she told me you loved me," Steve said. "Tell us, Rose -Ellen," Kate ask- ed curiously, "How did you tip that trooper off?" "Oh," she answered sleepily, "d knew a State Trooper was stationed on that side road just before Route 135 on the alert for speeders. When 1 was supposed to be fixing .ny face 1 wrote 'Help, Bandit' across my driver's license with lip -stick, then coaxed my would-be boy friend to speed past." ONLY REAL FRIEND An old Irishman collapsed in the street and a crowd gathered, all trying to help and each making suggestions. 'One, Maggie Riley, kept shouting, "Give the poor man whisky," but little attention was paid to her, Then the agonized voice of the roan rose above the din: "Will the lot of yet hould your tongues and let Maggie Riley speak!" A good paint job enhances the value of a house by 12 per cent, real estate appraisers say. Orchids In Britain Favourite flower of tate British Government today is the orchid, for British -grown orchids are most important dollar -earners, sought after by enthusiasts all over the world. Growers in that country have improved the orchid almost as mutt' as they have the wild rose, and whereas in the old days enor- mous sums were paid to intrepid collectors who sought rare orchids in remote places, today, thanks to hybrid breeding, collecting un- known orchids is not profitable. The most common orchid is the Early Purple, which flowers from early spring until late summer in damp meadows and by streams. Shakespeare loved this plant, and called it "Long Purples" and "Dead Man's Fingers." A rare specimen which grows in the south and south-east counties of England is the Man Orchid. The most lovely pecimeu, how- ever, is now almost extinct in the countryside. It is the Lady's Slipper Orchid, and a hundred years ago it flourished in some of the woods and forests, but so mar.y admirers have uprooted it and tried to trans- plant it to their -gardens that it is only occasionally found. A modern orchid nursery is a warmed greenhouse where there are Getting Wild Honey I have received a number of great thrills in a long life, such as the notification that I had qualified for my doctorate, the reception in New York harbour in late Decem- ber 1918 after the first World War, the citation from the President on receiving an honorary degree from Harvard, but, believe me, these thrills are all in class 13 as cote - pared to the one I got when I first found a bee tree unaided. The finding had an amusing se- quel, The hole WILS about eight feet up the bole, too far to reach but near enough for the bees to be very conscious of an intruder. I started proudly to blaze my tials on the tree when I became conscious of a roar and the air seethed to grow dark above use. I turned and ran just in time, not' did I return to finish blazing the tree. Later, I related the event to George Smith who covered me with con- tumely. That a man should find a tree and then be driven off by the bees before be conlil blare it, Smith regarded as a disgrace, He - assured me that he wou'd take up the tree himself without benefit of veil or gloves. I knew better than to argue, but on the appointed time when bee my brother and I went to take up the tree, I brought two veils and two pair of gauntlets. When we got to the tree I set about collecting - dry stuff for a smudge, a matter whicli Smith said was quite unnec- essary. I was downhill from the tree when lie went to work. I heard the axe fall perhaps a half a dozen times, and then there -teas a siren -like •:ail . and Snaith came charging through the woods, a stream of angry bees behind him like a comet's tail, That was one swarm which defeated the intrepid Smith, FIe' borrowed my brother's net and gloves, my brother went off and hid in the woods, aid with net and glove protection and a smudge as well, we cut down the tree and took up. the swarm. We got sixty pounds of honey .. Either wild honey is more tasty than the domestic variety or one's exertions have made it seem so. My guests have always agreed that my wild honey is more aromatic than any one can buy. I imagine the answer is that strained wild honey is a blend, while domestic honey is generally of one variety. The taste of honey varies widely rows of conical glass flasks, as in a chemist's laboratory, In these flasks are the infant orchids, lying on a bed of agar -agar, a gelatine made from seaweed whicli provides just the nourishment they need. When they are a quarter of an inch high the orchids are trans- planted into pots containing sphag- 11um moss, root soil from certain ferns, and fibre. Several more trans - plantings take place until finally, in the sixth to eight years, the orchids bloom. First orchid to be brought into Britain was admired not for its beauty, but for its use in the kitchen. It was Vanilla, the pods of which yield the familiar flavouring. m A Bee Tree according to the dowers firona wltielt if is made. Clover hoaley, foolishly the . most prized, is rho most insipid. Golder' rod horsey 13 golden yellow and spicy. Buck- wheat $Duey is, if anything, too pungent and heavy as molasses. The honey of Provence, made from wild thyme, has a special piney taste. In straining wild honey no attempt is tirade to separate the varieties, and the result is a blend, varying somewhat according to tree or season, bat always more inter- esting than the domestic variety. --- From 'The Bee Bunter" by George 1'Iaruld Ii'lgell. liNDAYSCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren, B.A.. B.D. Samuel, Judge and Prophet 1 Samuel 7:5-17 Memory Selection: Prepare your hearts into the Lord, and serve hint only. 1 Samuel 7:3 Happy is that people which is blessed with wipe and devout lea- ders! Quietly the prophet Samuel worked among the people. Great public appearance;: were not tnade. But the fact - that God was with hint in his service as a judge con- stantly reminded mets of their enti- ty lives. As last the fruit of his labour was seen as :nen and women here and there began to weep after the Lord. Then in a great mass meeting he called upon Israel to separate themselves from their idols. They must go through the valley of humiliation and contri- tion for sin. Then he called upon then to dedicate themselves for- ever to God and his service. Evea- tually the fierce Philistines saw that God was with Israel A strange thing was seen; a greedy, pagan nation in its diplomatic dealings ap- parently became even generous, turning over territories which were not asked. A military nation re- spected the rights of a smaller, poorly armed people, because it was evident that God was with then, We believe that religion and piety are still the best securities of a nation. As we review Samuel's religious and political influence we see the growth of a new unity among the various Hebrew tribes. Even as sin gives birth to misunderstand- ings and conflicts between individ- uals, it is the first cause of war between nations. How can count- ries understand each other when they are so blinded by selfish passions? But let the Word of God find access to men's hearts and it will bear fruit in international unity. We need Samuels today; melt who are honest, unselfish and God- fearing. Such leadership will do more for us than a limitless supply of atomic bombs. God give us such men! Easy Does It—The world's largest pre -stressed concrete bridge span makes a spectacular picture OS it slips into place over a small valley to be crossed by Venezuela's new $6,000,000 highway. Most expensive road per mile in the world, the Autopista will extend 10 and one half miles to link the cities of La Guaria and Caracas, savingalmost an hour driving time. JITTER WELL, YOU'RE A BETTER Af2T15rs norm. THAN I Tlie6447' YOU'D isg.7A1m A esEsr u' vin WANT 7o, 03y Arthur Pointe