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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-12-31, Page 3Those Lost Hunters Hate To Admit It One of my neighbors hasbeen entertaining this fall,; and finds that times have changed. Used to be you could take a one-man crosscut saw and an ax and 'Pro- ceed up into the back woodlot and be by yourself. It was a wonderful trader' for the hermit and folks inclined to be reflect- ive. A nice lunch, maybe the dog,. and there you were alone and uninterrupted amongst the in- structive beauties . of nature, But the chain saw has changed all that, and Chuck says Ws an eerie thing. It's the lost hunters. The woods are full of them. And they used to mill around until they found themselves, or some- body found them. But now, the minute they lose their, bearings they track the noise of the chain saw, and follow it with unerring instinct right to Chuck's, clear- ing where some afternoons quite .a crowd gathers. Chuck has been working in his bank lot, a mile or more from his house He's been cutting both pulpwood and lumber, and hasn't been hurrying. He likes to clean up his slash as he goes, and he finds the noise of the saw has to be taken in small pur- tions, A chain saw has an air-cooled motor on it, and makes quite a racket, You can hear it for miles on a cool fallday, and in your own hands it be -throbs your ears until the silence, when you shut it off, is deafening. So Chuck has been sawing a while, and axing a while, and resting betimes, and things were going about the way he wanted. About the time the hunting season started, Chuck shut off' the engine one afternoon and turned to see a large man in a big red coat come staggering out of the forest. His eyes were bug- ged out, and he looked consid- erably whiplashed, and he seem- ed to give the impression he had just discovered a new continent. Chuck said, "Hello!" The man also said hello, but seemed disappointed in the smallness of the greeting. He seemed to indicate he thought Chuck might have put a little. more enthusiasm into it. Of course, Chuck didn't know the man had been lost in the woods and had come ten miles through the swamp toward the chain saw. He didn't realize the man had been so alarmed over his own safety that he expected others to be glad he was spared. Presuming he thought t h e National Guard and the war- den service. were long since out looking for him, then Chuck's feeble greeting was certainly slim. Chuck, who didn't know anybody was lost, didn't act par- ticularly delighted at this res- cue. When the man figured this all out, he naturally retreated into the position that he'd never been lost at all, and was merely mak- ing a friendly visit. By this time Chuck had his cue, and he play- ed the thing for fun. The man, naturally, couldn't go back into the woods and • GOLDEN JUBILEE - This stamp commemorates the 50th anni- versary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. Artist Norman Rockwell designed the khaki and blue four -center. It'll go on sale Feb. 8, 1960. laugh tate thing off, so he had to hang around Until something happened that would tell ,him where he was, In peeler to 4e Ulla, he had to offer some reaso4 for being there, and to save face he couldn't. Chuck talked to him some, started up his saw now and then, and spent a leisurely afternoon whittling a couple of pines, It turned out the fellow was from out-of-state, and in his hot pur- suit of Chuck's chain Saw had actually crossed two roads he never saw. This isn't remark- able, because to anybody who is really lost the normal judg- ments are invariably upset, and it's true a man can come out onto his own dooryard and not know it - if he's turned around enough, What amuses Chuck the most is the reluctance of all his lost hunters to admit they were lost. While they are stoutly putting up a front that they know ex- actly where they are, and came into the clearing on purpose to see who was cutting pulpwood, ,Chuck tells them weird tales of how he was lost once in his own maple grove, and about how he got lost another time in his hard- wood lot. "Followed my white horse out, after dark," he says. ' "Been there yet if I'd had a black horse!" But so far, after Chuck itemizes all the times he was lost, none of these hunters has ever owned up. The way Chuck's land lies, you can go to a highway in any direction and it won't be more than a mile. But the senses ger so twisted around that a man can circle himself and not know it. Not at all uncommon is the disbelief in a compass. A man can look at his compass needle, see it point North, and be com- pletely positive the compass is wrong. After that, there is no true direction again. Instincts are unreliable at a time like that, and the confu- sion within the man himself is thorough. That's why he can cross roads he doesn't see - be- cause he just won't believe there is any road there. Truth is, al- most everybody gets lost, at least momentarily, in the real woods, but in most instances recovers before the world knows about it, Occasionally the predicament gets drawn out, and you have the organized search on. ' Anyway, Chuck says, "I got me a sireen song. They come at me like the needle to the lode- star, wallowing across bogs, chasing the willy-the-wisk of my chain saw. Come walking out bug-eyed, and then stand around all afternoon. to folly me home. I'm going to put me in for a hero medal. Chuck McGowan, the Loreloo of the Limberiost. I see more people up in my woodlot than go to Grange, and while I ain't exactly unpopular at Grange, I can tell you, thein hunters is a good deal more hap- py to see me than the Worthy Master is!" - By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. Those Cows Aren't Always Contented Those contented cows in our pastures are not so contented after all. They're hungry, two Cornell professors say. ' Profs. J. K. Loosli and R. G. Warner of the State College of Agriculture at Cornell say most dairymen give their cows less than 15 pounds of good grain. The average cow will produce. up to five pounds more milk a day if her menu includes 20 pounds of grain, the professors say. He who laughs last At the story narrator Intends to tell The same story later. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Gash 4. Wet spongy land 9. Huge wave 12. Ember 13. Aggregate 14, Uruw's note 16, Unoccupied time 17. Decorate 19. Baseball team 20. Obstruct 21, Dispatches 23. Things of some moment 26. C4enealogy 27. 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'Nolo motion 111111111M11.8111111110111° 1111 ainv 2h om in pum amour:mom AIM 111111111111111111111 11111111111 1111111111111111111116 11 IR! 111111111§3m (��®�®�•Il� ■I®®® !®® e•111®®os®o1.®■® iiil11111 � iii®®®111o• Ill■ Answer elsewhere on 'this page l ENOUGH'S ENOUGH- This reindeer didn't mind being in a Christmas parade In Wauwatosa. Tradition and all that. But when they strapped a red light on his nose a la Rudolph, he left the parade in a hurry. Took quite a while to catch him. Standardized methods of pro- ducing and processing poultry, long advocated at the Federal level, are being widely adopted today. This uniformity was evident in the market poultry show at Toronto's Royal Winter Fair, ac- cording to E. D. Bonnyman, Poul- try Division, Canada Department of Agriculture. * 0 * He lauded the effort of grow- ers and processors in standard- izing methods, employing the most up-to-date techniques that have been developed. Entries in the big show were down slightly from last year, but the quality was good, Mr. Bonnyman said, Judging was basedon the fol- lowing factors, (1) Packing, package appearance and mark- ings; (2) Bloom; (3) Conforma- tion; (4) Flesh; (5) Fat; (6) Dressing. * w * A total of 164 exhibtors this year represented six provinces from Alberta to Prince Edward Island, reflecting the wide in- terest that has been generated in the Royal Winter Fair's mar- ket poultry display - which has become the show window of the national market poultry industry. Eviscerated geese submitted by the Community Farm of .the Brethren, Bight, Ont., made up the grand champion box of poul- try. They sold for $2.30 a pound. Harvey Beatty of London, Ont., had the reserve grand champion box. It contained eviscerated fowl, which brought. 75 cents a pound, * w w • Results of baby pig anemia are so serious and the prevention of anemia is so simple that this disease should be of no more than historical interest, in the opinion of a leading Canadian animal pathologist. But, adds Dr. Ronald Gwat- kin of the Health of Animals Division, Canada Department of Agriculture, through neglect of simple precautionary measures, iron -deficiency anemia is ex- tremely common. * n * It continues to take a heavy toll of suckling pigs, says Dr. Gwatkin, and indirectly causes other trouble in older' pigs. Affected litters appear healthy and active at birth. If not given iron they usually remain healthy for about two weeks, when some begin to show a pallor of the skin, especially on the snout and around the hooves. Puffiness often develops around the eyes. * * * When affected animals try to run about or play, they stop suddenly in an exhausted state, breathe rapidly and deeply and may make a thumping sound. This results from an insufficient oxygen simply caused by the re- duced oxygen -carrying power of the blood. Many piglets die from uncom-, plicated anemia in the first few Weeks and the survivors lOse their plump, smooth appearance, fail to make proper growth, and are rough and stunted. Death often results from secondary infections that creep in, or from heavy parasitism with round- worms to which anemic pigs are more susceptible than normal ones, ISSUE 52 -- 1959 Losses are variable, running as high as 60 per cent in some litters, depending on the severity of the anemia and on the de- gree of exposure to other con- ditions. Most researchers agree that sub -clinical or undetected anemia may play a part in re- ducing the resistance of the pigs to later infections. w * w There are many iron prepara- tions which can be given by mouth or injected into the mus- cles. It has been shown that 0.3 gram of reduced iron - about as much as lies on a dime - pre- vents anemia if given once a week until the pigs are on solid food. The first dose should be given the second or third day after birth. It can be given easily and quickly by placing the dose on the back of the tongue with the handle of a teaspoon. Injectable iron is also avail- able and, according to Dr. Gwat- kin, has given better results than the reduced iron. Injections are given in the muscles of the hind leg. Two intramuscular injections containing 100 • milligrams of iron each, should be given, the first not later than the third day. and the second 10 days later. * * * Dr. Gwatkin says discoloration of the skin following injection will not occur if the preparation is injected to a proper depth and the skin drawn down when the needle is inserted so that it moves back and covers the hole in the muscle. A word of warning: The proper dose of iron may be expected to give the desired results but overdosage must be avoided. While there appears to be a good degree of tolerance to iron in pigs, it has been shown that excessive doses c a u se trotible. TRAVEL BOOR Standing in the path of a tor- nado which struck the small village of Fansler, a two-storey general store was completely demolished and its contents scat- tered. Four days later while plough- ing his land, some 45 miles dis- tant from Fransler, farmer Roo- ert Beal found an account book bearing the name of the store. Larges' Chin* Of Floating Ice The largest chunk of floating ice in the world rides at anchor, in Antarctica. It is called the Ross Ice Shelf, Its size alone makes it magnifi- cent, And its historical role as a gateway to a continent has made itfamous. Sir James Clark Ross, sailing in the British ship Erebus, in 1841, discovered it. Capt, Robert Falcon Scott camped at its edge in 1901 and launched his cele- brated "furthest south" expedi- tion across its face. He later came to a tragic end 3n its un- forgiving snows. Sir Ernest Shackleton march- ed across it on his way south- ward in 1908, and Roald Amund- sen crossed it on his triumphant dash to the South Pole in 1911, Admiral Richard E, Byrd built his Little Americas at its edge, Two present-day Antarotie scientists, Dr. Edward C. Thiel, and Edwin S. Robinson have studied it closely. "The shelf," says Dr, Thiel, "is about the size of Texas. And this makes it the largest truly flat place on earth," It is virtually featureless ex- cept for windswept sastrugi, ridges of hardened snow that hump jaggedly up across its face. Its seaward front extends 400 miles athwart the Ross Sea on the Pacific side of the continent. At its deepest, it reaches 500 miles inland from the sea. Its ice ranges in thickness from 800 feet near the edge of the Ross Sea to about 1,500 feet at the foot of the great network of glaciers on the continent's rim. The shelf is fed by the ice of these magnificent glaciers and from the snow that falls and hardens on its face. The nature and characteristics of the Ross Ice Shelf are only now becoming accurately known. An oversnow traverse party, led by Dr. Albert P. Crary, roamed across 1,450 miles of its face during the Antarctic summer of 1957-58. The data gathered then are still being analyzed and in- terpreted. But what is already known makes a striking portrait. Most of the shelf's great mass floats on the water, though in several locations it is grounded. Dr, Thiel and Mr. Robinson recently proved that the shelf heaves up and down ever so slightly with each ebb and flow of the tide beneath it. At the sea's edge it oscillates gentlY with the action of the waves. The sea on which it floats ex- tends downward from the bot- tom of the ice to as deep as 4,400 feet. One of the shelf's most spec- tacular characteristics is the fashion in which it gives birth to icebergs. Huge tabular bergs the size of the state of Rhode Island are known to have "calved" off from the seaward edges of Antarctic ice shelves,' writes John C. Waugh in the Christian Science Monitor, No man ever has reported seeing a berg so massive ac- tually breaking away. put 11 party in the early 1900's wit- nessed the calving of a lesser One and reported that it sounded as if "hundreds of heavy guns had been fired at once." The ,Ross Ice Shelf is not the only great slab of ice hinged to the shores of this continent. Across Antarctica on the Wed- dell Sea side lies the Filchner Tce Shelf, a partially floating body of ice about two-thirds the size of the Ross Shelf. Around the edge of the con- tinent many lesser shelves and ice tongues cling to the land, All these together form the great iceberg factories of Antarctica. The edge of the Ross Ice Shelf creeps seaward at an astonishing rate of speed. Dr. Thiel and Mr. Robinson estimate it moves out- ward five feet a day. A massive calving will set it back again many miles. But then it re- sumes its steady creeping im- mediately. The study of this great natural wonder is renewed each summer season. Mr. Robinson, who was a member of the Crary traverse party, and Dr. Thiel have been carrying on local measurements this season from the Naval Air Facility here at McMurdo Sound. James H. Zumberge, profes- sor of geoloey from the Uni- versity of Michigan, soon will begin a long-term study of the shelf. His study will concentrate on the nourishment, wastage, movement, and deformation of the shelf. The shelf affords an excellent laboratory for the study of rock deformation. Ice is considered a rock by structural geologists. And marked deformation, which takes ages in ordinary rock oc- curs quickly in shelf ice -within a time scale that a human life- time can span. So men, by ob- serving the Ross Ice Shelf, can witness natural forces at work that are observable nowhere else on earth. "What is an executive?" asks a puzzled reader, A man who talks golf around the office all morning and business around the golf course all afternoon. Upsldeduwn to Prevent Peking s,-� ©1EIMIBIWs©© 1 ©� `+ ©M©peTavo2 ®Q 0 Einar, IfIE111211i1E IdC1 q �i EI©(v©'i;'7o ��''' W0© © LJD 'E] MMEIUI. 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