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The Seaforth News, 1959-09-10, Page 3Wild . Creatures Come To The Call The art of calling wfld crea- tures is almost as old as hunt. slag itself, but it has developed greatly through the years. Beckoning to high -flying ducks and geese with a call has been popular sport through countless generations. Crow hunting long has been spiced with the flavor of enticing the wary black crit- ters within gunshot range through use of a call. What would moose hunting be with- ' out the time-honored hark - bugle? Even calling predators is noth- ing new. Martin Burnham of Marble Falls, Texas, was suc- cessfully calling foxes and weaves more than fifty years ago, sucking wind through compress- ed lips to imitate the high -pitch, ed squeal ot a crippled rabbit, Today animal callers are learning new things about the sport. Murry Burnham, one of the famous Burnham brothers, claims just about any wild ani- mal can be called if its habits are studied thoroughly. Different animals react in dif- ferent ways to various calls. Some are lured with the promise sf an easy meal; others imagine they are courting a female. At times it seems that some animals come looking more out of curl- -anal, than anything else. The basic call for predators is the dying rabbit cry. It will at- tract any meat -hungry predator, from hawks and owls to foxes and coyotes. In Mexico last year the Burnham brothers, Murry and Winston, actually got a mountain lion to answer a call. Imitating the cluck of a love- sick turkey hen to attract super - sly gobblers is a cherished game of chance in Southern states where the wild turkey hunting comes during the spring mating season. I once knew an old-timer who could call quail by pushing his tongue against his palate and cooing like a bobwhite. The Burnhams had a black bear answer a:'call in Canada last spring, probably out of curiosity. Jackrabbits frequently will come bounding to investigate when they hear the rabbit -squeal call. In Noblestown, Pa., Philip Mager, suspected of stealing $75 from a post office, was discover- ed in the posse that was hunting him, ILLUSION "Venice" is what comes to, mind when one sees` gondolas and bridge arches pie - lured. Not so, above. The au- thentic gondola is shown in' Utrecht, The Netherlands, dur- ing an Italian -style fair, • TWO'S COMPANY - Dipping into lunch, together are Sus!e, left, a goat, and her constant companion, Honick Rainbow, right, three-year-old packing• filly. TilF,FARM 1IONT JokilQuea.• How some United States grain -growers are doing' some- ahrng about the wheat surplus is interestingly set out in the following dispatch from the St a t e of Washington. It was written by Harlan Trott and ap- peared in the Chrlstlan Silence Monitor. * Marie Antoinette's classic po- litical faux 'pas, "Let thein eat cake," isn't such a bad idea after all. In fact, it seems to sum up a policy Northwest wheat grow- ers are successfully pursuing to expand their Far Eastern mar- ket. Growers in Oregon and Washington have been working Tor some time to persuade Ja- pan. and India to augment if. not supplant their rice -eating habits with a big helping of bread, macaroni, cakes and pies. * * * Now they are intensifying their efforts to expand these markets through closer regional cooperation.. And the drive to Substitute wheat for rice in the diet of their trans -Pacific neigh- bours is being accelerated by the newly formed Western •Wheat Associates, U.S.A., Inc. Its 12 -man board of directors includes t w o representatives from each of the wheat grow- ers' associations in Oregon, Wa- shington, and Idaho. * 4 Montana is .snot included even though it is a • Northwest state. This has an economic explana- tion. The 100 million bushels' of premium wheat Montana dumps into the nation's breadbasket every year grows on the' eastern side of the, Continental' Divide. Therefore, it is said, Montana wheat growers are not in the same tough railroad -rate bind •as their three western. neigh- bours. *' * * The traditionally unfavour- able. railroad -rate situation long . ago turned Northwest, wheat growers to the Far East market, to which cheap ocean freighters can carry surplus wheat. ' CROSSWORD PUZZLE 7. Swiss capital 8, Musical note 9. Jokers • 10. By 11. Revoke 12. worn away 20. Length. measure ACROSS DOWN 22. Disencumber • 1. Discolors 24. Possessesck 1. Muscular 27. Neckpiece 7. Take cars 2. Muscular. 27. Extend 19. Inn 4, Deka. 30. American 4, Detail Indian 14. Beetle 6, Fresh 24, Timber 6, Railroad car 34, Clay 25, blither .. . 16. Female sheep 17, Tatter 18. Negative 10. Crawling animal 21. Sea bird 25. Within(comb.' • form) 26, Ball screen.. 28, Span of life 29. Inferred et. 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Thie is lofty praise for the much -maligned beneficiaries of today's government farm subsi- dies. * * * Before the acreage allotment program was put in effect, the Pacific Northwest produced ab out 150 million bushels of wheat a year on its high eastern plains. Under the allotment pro- gram, its production now is only about 120 million, bushels. Since World War II, exports have averaged nearly 70 per cent o1 the Northwest's output, as com- pared to 34 per cent for the rest of the nation. As far back as 1949, Oregon State Wheat Commission sent a team on a fast boat to the Far East to study ways to expand this mar- ket. * * 0 The first step in this direction was to increase consumption of wheat foods in rice -eating areas in Asia. The ' Oregon commission and. the Millers' National Federation teamed up on a project at the Women's Christian College • at Madras, India, in 1952 to teach the nutritional values of wheat. foods to people who had stradi- tionally eaten 'rice instead of cake. In fact, they' had ,eatenso little else than• rice, they were said to be effected by. malnutri- tion. With the aid of•funds supplied by the Millers' Federation and the State of Oregon, the Direc- tor of Agriculture in the State of Madras succeeded having wheat accepted as a supple- mental food to rice. * * * Then, with the enactment ot the 1954 farm bill, Richard K. Baum, now executive vice-presi- dent of the Northwest Wheat Associates; Earl Pollack, grain marketing specialist of the United States Foreign Agricul. tural Service; and Gordon Beals of the, Millers' Federation toured the Orient to widen their search for markets. This time, their hands were strengthened by the. 1954 act which removed the ob- stacle to increased trade, namely a shortage of .dollars. * * * Thus,. when Japan came irate the market, the "let -them -eat - wheat" program took on a big, new dimension. Spokane's Jue Spiruta, then of the Oregon Wheat League, got a grain ex- hibit set up at Osaka's 1965 World Trade Fair, He had three Japanese bakers working as hard' as they could every day, • baking - cake? * * * Next to the Emperor, Betty Crocker was on her way to being Japan's national hero. That is to say, thoy started out with. American calve mixes. There Strange Harvest Of Slack Beetles Deep In the dark forests of Baden, Germany, intently solemn bands of men, boys, and women gathered in circles around the towering fir trees. At the base of the trees, they spread cotton sheets. Then they carefully stroked the trunks and branches "with long -handled, soft brushes, Down on the sheets tumbled a strange harvest: Small,' shiny, ,black beetles called Laricobius erichsonii. Only a few weeks after they were caught, 20,000 Sof the Baden beetles, shipped by air in screened boxes, were re- leased in the woods north of Bangor, Maine. To the participants inthe strange rites at Baden last spring each of the beetles was woth 10 cents. To the U.S. For- est Service which was footing the 'bill, the insects seemed worth every penny. If they do their job well, the Forest Serv- ice explained recent 1 y, they may save the United States more than a billion dollars, the value of the nation's fir stands which are now threatened by some woolly little aphids no bigger than a sharpened pencil.' paint. A hungry colony of the aphids, sucking on a fir tree's resinous sap, can kill it in two years, One of the few ways to stop this costly destruction is the Baden beetle, as voracious a feeder on aphids as the aphids are feeders on trees, What the Forest Service hopes to do is to restore the balance of nature -for the woolly bal- sam aphid is not a native Amer- ican. Accidentally brought to this continent from Europe at the turn of the century, it was quick - HOLD IT - 'Watch the birdie" is more than a photographer's catchword' when lensman Joe Campiglia aims his camera. .Pet baby mockingbird strings along. they got fancy. They started doing culinary handsprings with scones, jelly rolls, and you - name -it - so long as it has wheat. * * * -A training center for wheat - flour bakers is now located at the Japan Institute of Baking in Tokyo. To encourage the pur- chase of United States wheat, Oregon became a sponsor of Japan's annual golf tournament by putting up the American Wheat' Cup. Out of these self-help con- tacts came visits by Japanese officials to study American wheat - handling and baking methods. They are still coming. ly spread by the wind through pulpwood stands in Neta England and Eastern Canada. In 1954, it was found in 000,000 acres of lumber -producing forests in Ore= goal and Washington, where by now it has sueked to death trees worth $21 million, And, because the aphid snuggles deep under the heavy fir branches, aerial spraying has proved useless. Canadian forestry experts get the credit for finding a weapon against the aphids. Told by Eu- ropean entomologists a few years ago that the aphids are harmless at home because other insects keep them in cheek, the Canadian Forest Biology Division started importing various preda- tors for experimental study. Only insects which dine solely on aphids -and so cannot be- come pests themselves - were considered. The Baden beetles are one of the most recent Canadian dis- coveries, and look especially good to the U.S. Forest Service because of the ease with which they can be collected, shipped, and released.' "All you have to do," explained Dr, W. V, Bene- dict, the service's top entomolog- ist, "is put a hundred or so of the adults in a box, fasten it to a tree in the springtime, let the beetles crawl out, and hope they find the environment suitable. "In this big test with 20,000 beetles ir. Maine, we hope to find out just how effective they are against the aphids. If they are successful, we'll try larger colon- ies in the Western States. "So far, the beetles have cost us only $6,000 -mostly, to pay for collecting the insects in Eu- rope," Dr. Benedict added. "And remember, this kind of aphid control is self-perpetuating. Once the predators are established, we will have no further costs." Canadian forestry experts, who started it all, are cautious but equally optimistic. "I can't say that we've succeeded in era- dicating the woolly aphid," Dr. Malcolm L. Prebble, director of the Canadian Forest Biology Di- vision, summed up last month, "but their populations have de- finitely been reduced. We feel the program of importing insect predators offers our best hope of someday eliminating- the woolly aphid from our forests." -From NEWSWEEK. Just Who Said Radio Is Dead? Question: What do television viewers do in theuminer? Answer: They listen to the radio. This surprising bit of intellig- ence comes from Sindlinger and Co., business analysts, whose surveys show that last month for the first time in two years more people listened to the radio than looked at TV. Sindlinger attri- butes the shift to increased use of car radios (30 per cent of the total) and portables (12.5 per cent - seasonal factors that should preserve radio's lead well into August. In addition, said Sindlinger, the industry had run out of the pre -1948 movies that supported TV through last sum- mer's doldrums. politely unmen- tioned was television's usual summertime programming pros- tration: There just wasn't much worth looking at. In Manila, P.I., after police re- ported four killings In a month by primitive weapons, Mayor Arsenio Larson proposed an ord- inance requiring licenses for possession of bows and arrows, blowpipes and darts. . In Rhinelander, Wis., while calling other scouts in the camp ' to warn them against using the phone in the storm, Scout Dick La Certe was stunned by a light- ning bolt that struck his tele- phone line. About Crabgrass And Other Pests Late surnmer and early au- tumn lawn care begins with get.. ting rid of creb„yrass and Other lawn weeds. In the case of crab- grass, which deposits thousands of seeds for next year per plant, the seeds need to be destroyed, also, One plant has been known to produce 250,000 seeds. Spraying with selective weed killers is therefore the first step. For the ordinary lawn weede one-- weed killer will usually Blear the lawn. But for crab- grass a special crabgrass killer is best, Some firms even offer differ- ent crabgrass sprays for differ- ent seasons of the year, the late - summer one quite strong and the early spring one focused on killing last fall's seeds. Follow the directions on the container of whichever one is used, Feeding is the next important step. Autumn feeding will give the grass plants a chance to grow strong before the winter sets in. Soak the lawn food in well. Where dead weeds have been raked off you may have bare spots, These should be spaded or scratched up, the soil prepared as for a new lawn, and reseeded. Lightly tamp the seed into the soil, the water often enough to keep the soil moist for the young seedlings, Daily watering on these places or on new lawns will be needed for three or four weeks after seeding, unless rains take care of it. After that, water as need- ed to keep the lawn from drying out. Seeding of the entire lawn lab among established grasses is also good practice in late summer and early fall. It can be done sparingly, for each seed has s better chance of germinating than in the spring. With the feeding and the cool nights and prevalent moisture the new grilse plants coming up will thicken the turf and make a good' root base for next year. Keep on mowing the estab- lished lawn, and at not more than 11/2 inches in height. Thio is so the young grass coming up will not be smothered by tall grass or by heavy clippings. THE GUN-TOTIN' PARSON The Rev. Kurt von Hertzner, whp became the famous gun - toting Minister of the itoc1dei, was journeying westward in 1882 and doing his best to learn the English language before ar- riving rriving at his destination. An obliging fellow passenger, he recalls, taught him over a period of days the key phrases be would need. Von Hertzner prac- ticed steadily so that as he descended from the train and met the mayor of Exton, Colo., where a church was waiting for him, he was able to say hearti- ly, "Hello, you black-shirted old sidewinder! Is it true you rustle cattle for a living?" ISSUE 36 - 1959 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 3 a 0 d 315 3 d 3 S 3 '1 1 3 /lel 3 d a S V 3 0 S 3 3 0 N ISN V .1. 1 S d 318 1 11111 3 0 S H s 3 3 a 3 d ala 3 3 1 n 3 N 0 a 0 1 0 a MIS a a. 3 9 V 3 I a 0 a 3 N 0 3a 9 S • H 9 V 1 N 2113 8 3 3 1 1.11 3 IN 3 .1. 0 S 3 a 0 18 S 0 M 0 H' VM3SN it/1S CHOMPING TO VICTORY - it was every man for himself when the Highland Park Boys Club, staged their watermelon eating contest. Winn.:rs recsived, of all things, watermelons.