The Seaforth News, 1960-09-01, Page 3A Hard Way To
Get A Grindstone
N.," , tad ,Jimmie Griffin the
ere,: day, "We don't tench a
hand -scythe at all."
" i rti,ll T don't suppose you'd
Ment to buy a good grindstone?"
asked my friend, Flats Jackson,
in the tone of voice he likes to
adopt when he assumes a plzilan-
thz•opie role, and hopes to stick
some innocent bystander with a
tough trade, Jimmie said he
guessed not.
e
got ther best grindstone anybody
ever had, and it's legally mine,
and it's available at a young and
tender price."
"I suppose it's a coarse stone,"
1 said,
"No, it's not," said Flats. "It's
coarser than medium but it don't
draw on the metal, and it's a
quick cutter without being flinty,
if you know what I mean."
"How did you ever come to
own a grindstone legally?"I said.
"I bought it. I bought it from
old man Guppy up above Fair-
banks,"
Nobody said anything, so Flats
added, "The mean Guppy."
Nobody said anything again,
iso Flats said, "I suppose this
Guppy was the meanest man
that ever set a foot on the State
of Maine. He had an ingrown
belief that nobody under 15
should ever have any fun at all,
and that over 15 you out -lived
the desire for it. I can't tell you
all the mean things that man
did. But we boys around there
used to like to work on his dis-
position when we could think
of anything, and sometimes the
more agile -minded were able to
contrive a situation that should
have reformed him,
"Anyway, come Fourth of July
night, I took it into my head to
do something that would reform
Mr. Guppy in a complete and
helpful way and I took it out
on his grindstone. It took a little
doing, because a grindstone is
heavy, and I was closer to the
ground then, and I wanted this
to be a big surprise.
"Today, naturally, I don't have
an idea why this was supposed
to be funny or nice, or why it
was supposed to reform Mr.
Guppy, or what possessed me to
work so hard for such a little
possibility. But I stole up behind
his barn, and went into the shed,
and with the strength of ten
men I lifted that great gorm-
ing grindstone down out of the
BEARING UP - Ivan Kudryavt-
sev doesn't seem to mind this
tort of thing as a performer
with a Russian troupe appear-
ing in Wembley, England. Ivan
found the bear ass a cub and
trained him,
stand and got it On the ground.
"It wae a hand -crank store.
The kind that sat on four rollers,
and the shaft came out with
twoo bende on. Funny nobody in
the old tt rys of 'Yankee ingenui•,
ty never figured a clutch 00 a
grindstoeii. If you had a good
bearing for it, you'd kirk up
quite some momentum, and the
handle would fly around like a
windmill,
"Well, that's neither stere nor
there. I had in mind to roll this
grindstone down past Mr, Gup-
py's front porch, where he was
sitting in his rocking chair
thinking up new things to be
mean about, and while I say I'm
a little hazy now on just what
effect this was to set up, it seem-
ed at the time like a good thing-
to
hingto do. Roll it,, you know, like a
hoop. So, I got it rolling all
right, and I was cuffing it with
a little stick, and away we went.
"We went by Mr. Guppy's
front porch, and he sat up and
took notice. We went across the
yard with the crank flying free
on the other, side, and we wound
up about 35 yards of hog fence
on the handle, pulling out some
stakes and taking them with us,
and then we hit the soft ground
of the sink -drain area and come
to a muddy and final conclusion,
Quite a run, 'twos,
"So Mr. Guppy came down
and says, 'That looks like my
grindstone!' I now realized deep
inside that whatever it was 5
had in mind at first hadn't pan-
ned out 100 per cent. Anyway,
he looked at the edges of the
grindstone, and se said I'd chip-
ped it beyond repair, and would
have to pay for it.
"I have never known, then or
now, what a grindstone is worth,
new or secondhand, Money, then
was just something you touched
on in the eighth grade under
'Banking & Currency,' so after
Mr. Guppy and my father had a
summit meeting I agreed to hoe
corn for Mr. Guppy until the
grindstone was paid for.
"It took two weeks. His corn
patch ran from the main road
down to Sandy Stream, and while
I suppose it's half a mile, it
seemed like the same distance as
Utah. Every night he'd tell me I
was doing well, and at the end of
two weeks he said, `There, now
I figure the grindstone is paid
for. Let that be a lesson to you,
and you ought to be glad I was
kind and lenient instead of try-
ing to make things hard on you?
"So that night I hitched Old
Meg into the wagon, and I drove
up to Mr. Guppy's and began to
load the grindstone into the wa-
gon. He came out and said, 'What
do you think you're doing?' I
said I was taking my grindstone
home. He said I couldn't do that.
I said I could, that I'd paid for
it, and I wanted it.
"He appealed to my father,
and I remember my father spoke
very slowly, like a judge with a
weighty decision, and he said,
'Now, Mr. Guppy, I don't want
to appear to be defending the
boy, but it seems to me you have
exhausted your discretionary
powers, I'nm inclined to think you
were worrying more about the
price of the grindstone than you
were the rehabilitation of a way-
ward youngster. In that cross-
wind of motives, you have been
hoist on your own bargain, I
suggest you take what it would
cost to hire a man for two weeks,
and go buy a new grindstone -
and I'll take on from here and
handle the boy.'
"That's what happened. He
drove in and bought a new grind-
stone for haying season, and I
still have the one I bought from
him. It's the best grindstone we
ever had, and every time r use it
I dodge the chipped edges and
reflect on my misspent youth and
the iniquities thereof," - by
John Gould in The Christian
Science Monitor,
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CENTENNIAL PORTRAIT - Artist Grandma Moses celebrates
her 100th birthday with this presentation of her portrait, The
painting is by Dean Fausett, president of the Southern Ver.
mont Art Centre.
TllI1.1 FRONT
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Amendrnents to Canada's fruit,
vegetables and honey regulations
have just been put into effect, the
most significant of which deal
with potatoes.
They call for greater uniform-
ity in sizes of potatoes, especially
for those sold in consumer -size
packages weighing less than 25
pounds. Size limits are specified
for both round and long varietes,
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Seriously misshapen potatoes
are to be excluded from Canada
No. 2 grade, However, a slight-
ly larger proportion of below -
minimum -size potatoes in both
No. 1 and No. 2 grades and pro-
portionately more potatoes with
hollow heart in Canada No. 1
Large grade will be permitted.
The provision dealing with
various types of damage in po-
tatoes, such as maturity, clean-
liness and sprouting, have been
re -defined to bring potato grade
standards more in line with pres-
ent-day market demands,
The sale of new potatoes which
have special size requirements
and no maturity requirements
has been extended from. August
31 each year to September 15.
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Of the importance for export
sales to points other than the
United States is the provision
that a heavier weight of bag-
ging must be used so that it will
not tear during shipment.
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Some revision in grade stand-
ards have been made for cher-
ries, peaches and pears. They
relate to cleanliness and permiss-
ible damage at time of sale. They
also lower the box count for
peaches to prevent inclusion of
under -size fruit in graded con-
tainers. Cherries meeting the re-
quirements of Canada No. 2
grade may now be marked Can-
ada Domestic when packed in
any of the standard containers.
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Other changes included re-
wording some sections because
of a recent re -organization of
the agriculture department and
several additions to the sched-
ule that sets out the dimensions
and capacities for standard pack-
ages for fruits and vegetables.
The regulations come under
the Fruit, Vegetables and Honey
Act, which is administered by
the Fruit and Vegetable Divi-
sion of the Canada Department
of Agriculture.
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A devastating disease of pout -
try known as Chronic Respira-
tory
Disease (CRD), is consider-
ed
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the most important respira-
tory disease of chickens and tur-
keys in Canada.
CRD is believed to be caused
by the pleuropneumonia -like or-
ganism (PPLO), and according
to Dr. S. E. Magwood and Dr.
G. L. Bannister of the Health of
Animals Division, Canada De-
partment of Agriculture, the
clinical disease is commonly ag-
gravated by secondary bacterial
Invaders.
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A CRD control program should
aim at the establishment of
PPLO -free flocks, as the rearing
of PPLO -free chicks iie depend- •
ent on the parent flock being free
of the bacteria. The organism is
transmitted through the vett to
the chick.
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If flocks are known to be in-
fected, the transmission cycle
tail sometimes be broken by
antibiotic injection, although this
method has not -been uniformly
successful. The use of PPLO -free
flocks is the most reliable method
of securing disease-free chicks
but it is e very exacting priced -
tire,
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When laboratory diagnosis
has confirmed the pre once ot.
PPLO as the principal agent in
an outbreak of respiratory dis-
ISSUE 36 - 1960
ease, the course of action to fol.
low should depend on the poten-
tial value of the flock.
Improvement in environment
is always essential. Also, atten-
tion should be given to ventila-
tion, possible crowding, sanita-
tion and nutrition.
With broiler and production
flocks, oral medication with anti-
biotics may be helpful only by
improving the appetite. Anti-
biotic medication of flocks of
average value may often be un-
economical, but good nursing
will minimuize the flanancial
loss.
Valuable breeding flocks may
be given mare prolonged anti-
biotic medication and antibiotic
injection might be considered.
Obvious symptoms of the dis-
ease are: nasal discharge, con-
junctivitis, respiratory rales,
"snicking" sounds and coughing,
followed by loss of appetite, loss
of weight, and in laying birds,
lowered egg production.
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To reduce insects and mites
that persists in crevices, empty
farm granaries should be cleaned
and sprayed before new grain is
stored, advises E. A. R. Liscombe,
Winnipeg Research Station, Can-
ada Department of Agriculture,
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Granary walls and floor should
be swept thoroughly before
spray is applied, and the sweep-
ings buried or burned, he warns,
Waste grain around the exterior
of the building should be treated
similarly.
Insecticides recommended in-
clude one per cent Iindane, three
per cent malathion and five per
cent methoxycior. Any one of
these may be applied with a
garden sprayer at one gallon
per thousand square feet, or to
the point of run-off.
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All interior surfaces of gran-
aries should be treated and grain
should not be stored in them for
seven days after application.
Many men have acquired an
education just by reading small
print.
By Rev. It. Barclay Warren
ILA., 13,0,
God's Hand in History
Isaiah 10:0.7, 12.155 14: 34.27
Memory Selection: The Lord
of hosts hath purposed, who shall
disannul it? and his hand Is
stretched out, and who shall turn
it bath? Isaiah 14:37.
"I ant rich, and increased with
goods, and have need of noth-
ing." Revelation 3:17. This, the
spirit of the Laodicean church, is
strongly reflected c d in this age.
But there come occasions to all
of us, when our self-sufficiency
dips sharply. A young friend,
whose capacity rated close to the
genius level, is doing his stint
of service in the United States
navy. He wrote to his father,
"I'm beginning to realize that I
haven't got the world by the
tail."
To us all there are times when
we stand in awe as flashes of
light reveal to us that there Is
a higher Power over the destiny
of aur lives. We see God's hand
in history. A friend missed his
plane by a few minutes. It was
well that he did, for that plane
crashed, killing all on board,
As we grow older, we can see
how events that seemed insignifi-
cant at the tune, were really dis-
plays of God's hand in history.
The acceptance of my Christmas
article by a newspaper in 1941
didn't even get mention in my
diary. Now I can see that it was
one of the most important events
in my life.
In our lesson we see how God
used the heathen Assyrian to
punish Israel. The Assyrian, with
lust to conquer the world, was
not yielded to God. Nevertheless,
he was the rod of God's anger
against Israel. In time God used
the Chaldean to break the power
of the Assyrian. Then in succes-
sion cane the empires of the
Medes and Persians, the Greeks
and the Romans. Gad is still
above the affairs of man,
I have no leanings whatsoever
to atheistic communism. But I
wonder if Russia's professed
s„ rnpatlty for telt" 11.1 :49 2 have
not spurred the colonial powers•
to granting r.rc rf:'r privileges of
self expleesionend .elf govtrn••
Ment to tate pee. (arts tinder their
rule, Colony after e a 1 o r1 y,
espeeially in Arica, Ls- gaining
its indepelldenee, WI' speak dis.
paragingly of 1 ae communist -age.
tater. We tend to forget the de-
sire of. all men, everywhere, to
be free. God may be using the
communist for Hie purpose. But
the eolnn'tllrliet, if Ile continues
iu his de1lfal o1 God, will hila-
seif b4e broke n as was the Assy-
rian.
Any. Volunteers
For Skeeter Bites?
Four youlig Australian medi-
cal ze-carch workers recently
exposed themselves voluntarily
far three weeps to dangerous
mosquito bites. They sat on the
banks of the Mitchell River, in
Queensland gulf country, invit-
ing mosquitoes to attack them.
As the mosquitoes bit them the
scientists sucked off their at-
tackers with plastic hoses cov-
ered at the mouth with gauze.
Eleven thousand flies sus-
pected of carrying a deadly dis-
ease, encephalitis, were thus
collected.
Packed in dry ice they were
flown to Brisbane, where they
will be used for research work.
Experts hope to isolate frnlrt
their bodies the •encephalitis
virus which, from time. to time,
ravages riverside settlements in
Queensland.
It is thought that the virus is
brought from Asia by migratory
waterfowl. The Attstrali•.in limes
quite then •feeds on the water-
fowl.
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