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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-08-21, Page 3They Live at Other Animals" Expense Living at the expense of some- body else, and iu turn providing for another parasite, is ns common in the animal world as among men. An outstanding case is that of the flying fish. Pursued by its enemies in the water, it leaps into the air and is often caught by the pelican. When the pelican has got its pouch full of fish it wings its way to land and starts to eat. The pooch is a bag of skin hanging from the under -jaw, and in order to get a fish out of it the bird must open its mouth, and by a toss of the head throw a fish out of the pouch. The seagull, knowing this, and being a lazy fellow, watches tate clumsy pelican until it flies ashore to feed. Then the gull, with the impudence which comes ao natur- ally to villainy, actually purches on the long head of the pelican and waits. Stolen Meal The great mouth yawns open, the tasty fish is flipped out of the pouch, and in another instant it is. in the gull's beak! But the sharp eye of the light- ning -like frigate -bird has been watching, and the moment the gull leaves its perch on the pellican to enjoy his stolen meal, it sees a stronger and faster bird hurtling towards it like a rocket, The gull opens its beak to scream in fear, and with a graceful swoop the failing fish is caught by the last thief of all. It must be said for most animals that they rob or murder solely for the purpose of getting food, but here and there we come across a thoroughly depraved creature who steals for the fttn of it. All Bait Gone! One of these is the North Ameri- can wolverine. It will follow a trapper at a safe distance, and af- ter the trapper has carefully baited all his traps it will steal all the bait quite as carefully. 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Thus, it's ideal for bathrooms, bedrooms, nurseries, recreation rooms or other small areas requiring heat, light and air circulation, • Besides all its other advantages this utility appliance fits into the decor of a rt#nn, unobtrusively lending beauty to it. fox has been caught and then cool- ly walls up and kill it, It then tears the fox from the trap, eats as much as it wishes, buries the rest, then goes on to inspect other traps. Trappers hate the wolverine, which seems to be able to avoid the cleverest traps available. One trap- per spent a week making an elab- orate and complicated series of traps, laying cords about the ap- proaches to the bait, so that the most wary animal would have been sure to stumble on one and pull the trigger of a gun placed so that it would shoot the disturber. The next morning the trapper visited his "foolproof" wolverine - catcher and found every cord bit- ten through and every scrap of the, bait gone! I wouldn't even try to make a hcess as to how long wild oats ave been a problem—and a serious one—to farmers. Just when you think you have the pesky things licked for keeps, they're back again, worse than ever. They remind enc of what a little niece of mete once said about the weeds. "Wouldn't it be grand" she said, "if things like strawberries were as anxious to grow as the dandelions?" * * * But, according to Prof, L. B. Shebeski of the university of Sask- atchewan, wild oats would be easier to control if farmers would help nature to crack the seed coat in order to provide germination and growth at a time when the plants could be killed off by tillage. Wild oats, by the way, were especially bad in many north Saskatchewan fields this Spring. * * * Farmers knew that wild oat seed sometimes lay dormant for years, but did ,not realize this dormancy could be broken if the oat seed coat was cracked to allow germin- ation.. Unless the seed coat was cracked the seed would not ger- minate, Prof. Shebeski said. Nature did this job of cracking the seed coat by alternate freezing and thawing in the fall and alternate wetting and drying of the soil in the growing season. Prof. Shebeski advocated wild oat control be started in the fall with shallow fall tillage to bring as many seeds as possible near the surface for the alternate freezing and thawing process. This seed would germinate its the spring and could be eliminated by tillage. * * * Isiany farmers found their low spots badly infested with wild oats because they had followed a policy of leaving tillage until this land was drier. Prof. Shebeski advised farmers with low, waterlogged land _to till it as soon as possible in the spring. To germinate and produce a plant any seed needed three things — temperature, mois- ture and oxygen. The low land had the moisture and the temperature would come as the spring advanced, but lacked oxygen. The low spots should be worked as early as pos- sible in the spring to aerate the land. This procedure would give the wild oat plants the best chance to grow enough to get their second leaves and beat the proper stage for killing by further tillage. * * * The sowing of the proper crop should be delayed until this pro- cedure had been carried out and the maximum amount of wild oats grown to the stage when they could be killed off and not infest the crop. Young Ancient Mariners—Tried and tested sailors, Inge Wand- schneider, 11, and her brother, Bernd, 9, right, scrub the cabin of the 87 -foot ketch, "Optimist." In which they crossed the Atlantic in 43 days with their parents and a craw of two. Needless Dollar Fuss One cannot help feeling sorry for a lot of Canadian hotel managers, tourist resort operators and store clerks in these days of the depreciated U.S, dollar, Cor fusion and resentment have been generated, especially at border points where American money is circulating almost as freely as our own legal tender. And all this fuss is unnecessary. When the shoe was on the other foot no thinking Canadian expected to have American hotels, or storese accept our dollar at par. Most Canadian visitors to the U.S., as a matter of course, had their money changed into U.S. currency before they crossed the border. It's a pity that our American visitors would,not adopt the same practice. Where they don't and insist on using their own currency here we should not hesitate to discount it and we should tell them this: "It may have the same name but our dollar is not the same as your dollar, For a long time you took 10 cents off each of our dollars before you•even started to do business with us. Times have changed. You and a lot of other people (nave been buying into Canada, have been investing in our oil wells, our mines, our industries. That investment has made our dollar scarcer, more valuable. It is the old law of supply and demand." —Frohn The Financial Post The experimental station at Lacombe, Alta,, bears out this pro- cedure as the best for control of wild oats. "Shallow tillage and de- layed seeding, plus the use of fer- tilizer and an early - maturing grain," was the recommendation of the station. * 5 * On the station a field has been in fallow -grain -grain rotation for 38 years, yet developed a serious wild oat problem. Sifting the wild oat seeds the station technicians found 70:7 bushels of wild oat seeds per acre. * * * In the fall of 1949 the field was given a shallow tilling with a one- way disc, and in the spring of 1950 with a duckfoot cultivator and cable weeder. Seeding was delayed until June 2 while an adjacent area was seeded May 8. The grain seed- ed June 2 was practically free of wild oats while that seeded May 8 was polluted. U MY SCIIOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren, B.A.. B.D. By R. Barclay Warren, B,A., B.D. "THE TRAGEDY OF SAUL" 1 Samuel 15:17-22; 18:6-9; 31:3-4. Memory Selection: To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heark- en than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22, The tall young king to whom God had given another heart (1 Sam. 10:9) and whoshad prophesied (10:10) had a sad ending. In im- patience at Samuel's late arrival he assumed the office of a priest and offered sacrifice. Then he was diso- bedient in sparing Agag and the best of the flocks of the Antale- kites. His effort to lay the blame. on the pdople showed further weak- ness. If the blame had really rested on the people then it would show weals leadership on his part. Jea- lousy was the next sinful trait to appear. Then came malice and an- ger against the youthful David, An evil spirit from the Lord troubled this sinful king. On occasion Ile would seem to be about to revert to the good life. When David showed him how he had spared his life he said, "I have sinned—behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly" (26:21). But the apparent reformation was short-- lived. hort-lived. The last scenes of Saul's life are particularly distressing. The Philis- tines are arrayed against him. In his plight Ile resorts to the witch of Endor. In earlier days he had been zealous in ridding the land of these impostors, What an array we have of them today: fortune tellers, tea cup readers, palm readers, med- iums, etc. But "should not a people seek unto their God?" Is, 8:19, Wiles eked boy t figure Samuel, "Wray hist thou disquieted me, to bring me up?" he replied: "— God is departed from me, and an- swereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams." The news he received was evil. He had gone too far from God to return. In despair he fell on his own sword. His light went out in darkness. "Let him that thinketh he stand- eth take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor. 10:12. Arrival In Alaska A bush pilot, flying a makeshift plane that could rightly be called a "crate," tools us to Bristol Vil- lage. On our way in we flew over herds of caribou and moose . We soared over the heavily -wood- ed mountains and then over the fiat and treeless t u n d r a, snow- covered and glittering in the bril- liant ritliant sun, and down to the shore by the lashing waters of Bristol Bay. As the heavy ground fog below us lifted, the pilot set us down on a lake two miles from the schoolhouse. It was the twenty- third day of our journey. The sound of an intoning plane is rare and wonderful in the North and on this occasion, as on every one, all of Bristol Village carie to meet the plane. No word had been sent ahead of our corning, but the news spread through the crowd and we heard eager cries of: "Teachers! Teachers have come! We have school novel" Around us were the smiling friendly faces of Aleuts and Eski- mos broad and welcome, Bill and I were overwhelmed by the warinth of their cordiality as we introduced ourselves and exchanged hand- shakes. The fact that teachers bad come made it a gala day for the village. Children climbed over the plane, the men helped 13111 unload, and the women gathered together in a circle to one side, chattering gaily. One of them, Esther, an Eskimo mother, walked over to me and said timidly; "We want you to like us here." Mashing across two frozen lakes and two miles of crystal white snow, we finally came to the schoolhouse. It was a long white clapboard building, something like a covered bridge, with a front porch along the length of it. We had expected a one room log cabin and were overcome by the "grand- eur" of this school. Thanking our drivers for tak- ing us and our luggage to the school, we asked then to come and see us when we were settled. Sev- eral children _ plainly wanted to stay and one little Eskimo boy asked hopefully: "School tomorrow maybe?" We told them It would take us a few days to get the school ready, but to drop in for a visit any time. The next morning at seven o'clock they were there. The schoolrooms and teachers' *lying -quarters were all in the same building, connected by a long hallway. As we stepped out on the front porch, we flinched in the glare of a white Iand. It stretched out to the North Pole and somewhere on the way merged with a bleached sky, the ivrosty glitter broken only by shreds of smoke creeping out of the chimneys below, like soiled remnants of an old fog. For as long as sten could piece metnories together, Bristol Village had been a permanent settlement, and so It was not an igloo town. Winding trails laced homes together, join - Ing two separated clusters of houses nestled in the snow. Down in the vill e, w legrp tjjt the Eskimos live o`t to e roti¢ and the Aleuts in the other. After many centuries of sharing the Arc- tic, the two distant cousin races had become close neighbors in this one spot in Alaska.—From "Hearth in the Snow," by Laura Buchan and Jerry Allen. Precious Glass The study of glass may he coot - pared to a window which opens backward to the most remote pee. iods of recorded history. There 1e for example, the legend of the acct• dental discovery of glass by the Phoenicians, A group of Phoenicia's sailors, tate story goes, built a hon - fire on the beach. Having no stones upon which they could rest their cooking utensils, tliey used cakes of soda which they happened 10 have with them. On completion of their meal, they were amazed to find that the soda had disappeared, In its place was a hard shiny sub- stance which proved to be the first glass made by man. Or tet us glance back into tilt history of the ancient Egyptians. In the museum at Cairo the modern: traveller sees all the priceless pos. sessions of King Tutankhamen. Among these is a marvellous gold necklace with a hundred gold pea. dents inlaid with turquoise, lapie lazuli and cloisonnc of glass. Be- cause glass is so common in the world today, it strikes one as odd that this material should form part of these exquisite adornments of ancient Icings, but our surprise ends with the realization that in those ancient tines glass was so rare that it was valued above precious stones. Anyone who becomes interested in the history of glass, will be de- lighted with many of the archaeo- logical exhibits he will find in Egypt, In a tomb of one of the old Pha- raohs near Thebes, for example, paintings on the walls show Innen blowing glass in very much the sante way and with very much. the same tools still employed in glace making at the present time. Stilt preserved is a glass piece found in the tomb of Thutmose IT, who reigned about 1500 B.C. Anyone who studies the old mo- saic glass beads of the Egyptians will find in them the designs wlticle served hundreds of years later to give workmen their ideas for the so-called "cane" patterns used lit sowehtso.f the early glass paper.. eigm Many centuries alter, the art of glass -snaking spread to Venice and Rome. In the 12th Century, glass factories were so numerous In Venice that they became a fire ha- zard to the city. As s result, they were moved to the Island of Mu- rano, where the secrets of glass- makers were guarded under penalty of death. Glass-makers of those days ranked with the nobility, and a daughter of a count could starry a glass-maker without losing caste, At Altars, the seat of the glass- makers' guild in the 13tH Century, glassworkers were eventually hired out to other districts—much to the distress of Murano. As a result, the art spread to Bohemia, France amend Fng1 fl • two ce rlgj I t .r to the muted States, There Is no reference to Venetian glass manu- facture before the 13th Century„ although it is noteworthy that by this time St. Mark's in Venice,, built in 1159, had mosaics through- out its interior, and the Venetians of the 13th and 14th Centuries were already complete masters of the use of enamel.—From "Old Glave Paperweights," by Evangeline H. Bergstrom, «� , Eleven O'Clock Break Combination hot c o f f e e- cold water dispenser is ideal for offices, Coffee cars be taken "with" or "withou't" by pressing appropriate button. Beverages served in sanat- tary paper -cups. "She's A Honey"—This new Lockheed F -94-C Starfire, jet -fighter interceptor climbs to 45,000 feet in a twinkling and zooms along in all weather "in the 600-m.p.h. class." Its "bubble nose" houses instruments that electronically track down enemy air- craft. The "almost automatic" Starfire is the first fighter plane to have all -rocket armament, carrying 24 rockets, 2,75 in size, Said test pilot Tony Levier after landing, "She's a honey," JITTER By Arthur Pointer THAT'S THE LAST TOASTED YOU GET! IR'. `'you _ you EAT ANY MOta, you'll` EXPLODE/ --1J3 �1 B � `. ?: `" + rpt t �� t� ..---.-._.� ' ,o ��+, ihips }. , . 1 l 'S ) Li , y o c pi F .a �" . ,'I3. ."'^"m ,yv� .• ,r4 ver y