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The Seaforth News, 1960-09-22, Page 3• • . They Cut Down On Forest Fires Oalifornia'a popula• ton his zoomed like a rocket in the past ten years, but the num- ber of forest fires hasn't. This is an ;Amazing thing, once you stop to think of it. Sins Jarvi, super. visor of the great Angeles National Forest, suggests it very well may indicate that people are friends of the forests, and that the more people there are, the safer the forests are bound to be, This isn't to minhnize the seriousness of fire losses in Cali- fornia and other parts of the West this summer. Nobody can view these losses complacently. Trees are too precious, They have too great economic value, They mean too much to recrea- tion, to flood control, to safety. But Conscientious people --"The public is wonderfully co-opera- tive," Mr. Jarvi says -- establish firebreaks of responsible behav- tor which cuf down clanger. People less conscientious or less responsible can cause fires, and it only takes one stroke of heedlessness to lay waste thou- sands of timbered acres during the dry seasons of the western .year. People cannot be called re- sponsible for fires started by lightning, a bigger factor than usual in these parts this summer .and always a major factor up- state. But deliberate incendiar• ism is a tough problem. Letting children play with matches is another, Tossing e lighted cigar- ette into the grass is still an. other. Incidentally, in two recent .cae.es, California judgee have meted out justice by requiring men who were careless with their matches to help rebuild cabins destroyed in the forest as a consequence of carelessness Visitors are sometimes amus- ed, then puzzled, to enter an area in this southern part of California marked national or state forest without. a tree in .sight, What they discover is that brush covering the mountains is as vital to the watershed as trees. And brush can burn tike preeir. Then the hillsides are de- nuded, and the winter rains come along to unravel the soil at a great rate, The upshot is a big price to taxpayers for measures to restore the surface, stop erosion, and prevent the floods that could prove extreme- ly costly to nearby urban areas. Recent fires in the Tahoe and Eldorado National Forests of California have looked, of course, like the classic concept of the forest fire. Thousands of acres covered by magnificent, mature trees have been lost in /lames. But the big story is what peo- ple who are specialists are doing to minimize this kind of tragic destruction of a marvelous nat- ural resource. The Fifth World Forestry Congress has just con- vened in Seattle bringing to- gether experts from around the world to whom fire prevention is one of many vital concerns. Recently two groups of men en route to Seattle stopped in Cali- fornia to confer with experts here. In Australia, Venezuela, arid various other nations, the challenge is like California's. Weather and climate in forest protection are worldwide cor- eerns. One way to pretext foresee, Mr. Jarvi points out, is to de- velop green strips along main highways, Kept clear of dead- wood, these strips have nothing that will kindle, or at least nuth. ing that will kindle too swiftly to control Another pl'otection is planting that is fire-resistant. Experiments with cistus, or rock roeti, such as are now being car- ried out by the Los Angeles Ar - ISSUE 38 - 1980 (A THE MUSCLES OF YOUTH - Young calf fights efforts of young girl to lead it through the Missouri State Fair grounds. Vicki lea Fitchett, 7, won the bottle. She was helping with Future Farmers of America exhibit. boretum, indicate it is almost like asbestos. Fires in this area have provid• ed an opportunity for next spring. Foresters c a n spray selected ridge tops, now clear of growth, to keep new growth from coming. In this way thee can make fuel breaks, stretches perhaps 400 feet wide, which can be kept sterile or on which can be allowed to grow what foresters call low-volume fuel - plants that will not burn big Programs like this, of course. cost money, but losses caused by the lack of prevention may cost vastly more, writes Kimmie Hendrick in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor, Many techniques for fighting fires have been developed, the most dramatic being the use of airplanes. Mr. *Terri stresses that planes are a tool, not an answer, They can't be used at night and they can't be used when there is air turbulence. Recently the effective use of aircraft was illustrated near hese, though, when Angeles National Forest's team of 13 planes went in and "clobbered the fire in San Antonio Can- yon," as Mr. Jarvi puts it. They dropped borate and bentonite and doused the fire. When you talk about forests, in any part of the United States or any part of the world, you open the question of land use for the sake of people. Drive through one of the great national forests of France, for instance, and you see how •centuries of human experience with natural resources produce a thrifty at- titude toward timber that is al- most as impressive as the awe- some beauty of the tree -arched roadway. Did medieval men get the in- spiration for their Gothic cath. edrals from these graceful boughs. Maybe, for beauty is utilitarian and - at the very least where trees are concerned - it means safety to the soil. protection to cities, and indus- try. Of course it also means the treasury of the out of doors. Q. How can 1 make good ad- hesive for sticking cutout gold - paper letters or similar items to glass? A, You can make a good one very easily by dissolving a few medical capsules in a small amount of warm water. Just enough water should be used lg maize a thick solutien. 4. 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Cyclo Manufacturing Company of Denver, manufacturers of pol- ishing equipment, has operated such an experimental egg factory for six months now, housing 6,000 hens. This is small compared to some present egg -production plants, particularly in California, but Cyclo claims its revolution- ary design, when applied to units to house 100,000 hens or more, can: Increase egg production to about 80 per cent, or 800 eggs per thousand hens per day, as against a present national aver- age of 55 per cent. Provide practically all Grade AA eggs, never more than 24 hours from the grocer's shelf. And do all this at a production and wholesale cost from 10 to 14 cents lower a dozen than the present costs. The company president, Lewis Hayden, started looking for di- versification some years ago, and hired James Helbig, Colorado State University graduate, to sur- vey the agricultural field. Mr. Helbig in turn decided that egg production offered the most promising field for automation. "It's still in the Middle Ages, technologically speaking." He has devoted three years to the present project. Essentially the experimental plant consists of cages for 6,000 individual birds mounted in high tiers that revolve around the central handling place. Each hen gels two minutes an hour to eat and drink, as her cage passes the troughs in front. She spends 15 tninutes an hour in the lighted zone in which the troughs are located, then her cage passes into a "twilight zone" for the next 45 minutes. At night the whole installation stops for 10 hours. e 7 0 A girl technician now collects the eggs by means of an elevator that moves up and down the face of the tiers and keeps a punch -card record of the per- formance of each hen. Hens that don't produce are sold. Health is extraordinarily good, and precautions are taken to keep it so. Most of the cost of convention- al henhouses is in air condition- ing, Mr. Helbig says he studied this problem afresh, coming to the decision that the only prac- ticable shape is circular, tlis de- sign offers adequate air condi- tioning at a basic cos( only about 20 per cent of that of convention- al houses. Basically the problem is to re- move body heat. No outside heat is necessary even in winter; and most of it must be thrown away to keep the birds healthy Both temperature and humidity are completely controlled, write Roscoe Fleming in the Christian Science Monitor. * Mr, Helbig says the birds are happy and unafraid. They talk briskly with each other, yet the separate cies prevent the usual problems of rivalry and combat. And how they lay! The 80 per cent production ratio is main- tained. One valuable byproduct is in the fertilizer which is automati- cally collected, dried, packaged, and sold. In the final units everything will be done by machinery save Lor record keeping, and this can be done from the central station around which the tiers of cages move. Practically all the eggs from Cyclo's 6,000 -bird unit are taken by Denver's newest and largest hotel. We Can't Keep Them An On The Farm • Suppose none of the boys ever left the farms! Have you ever visited one of Europe's countries where the land has been divided, generation after generation? In Extreme cases you would see a "farm" with little strips, an acre here, a half acre there, mai be widely separated. Under governments which discouraged new opportunities, where a peasant's sons were expected to become peasants, to slice. up the property was the only solution. From the time I was knee high to a chipmunk, I have heard complaints about young people leaving the land, and still hear the Same words. One regrets to see an outstanding youth leave Yet, what if he couldn't... Shouldn't we be glad to live in a nation where a youngster is free to choose his future, and to make the most of his abilities? Not every brigh t boy will make a good farmer. He may do far better for himself, and for the country, as a good professional or business man. True, some who do have the talent and desire to be farmers decide to do something else be. cause they lack capital. How- ever, we seldom hear of good farms that fail to find good farmers. The land produces more new boys than new farms. With effi- ciency demanding larger acre- ages, some of the boys will in- evitably go out to become the engineers, scientists and educa- tors that the nation needs, The boy who Is not going to stay on the land can capitalize on his farm background. Indus- try is looking for him, especial- ly if he does well in college. For instance, the demand for train- ed agricultural engineers rises every year. Even now the sup- ply is short. Only about 250 ag- riculttiral engineers will get de- grees in 1962, as compared with 420 in 1949. The demand is active for farm boys who graclu- ate in industrial and comtner. cial Beide. - Farm Journal Magazine. A Room of His Own For the First Time There are many "firsts" in one's life when one is young and at the beginning of things; but there are certain "firsts" that re- main forever memorable. I had never been outside New York City itself. I had never ridden in a Pullman train or eaten in a dining car, and 1 had never stay- ed overnight in a hotel. All of these things now took place in glittering succession. When the train roared out of Grand Central station and emerged from the tunnel at 96th Street, I sat in my seat at the window and watched the squalid tenements rush past me, in ane of which, though I could not see it, 1 had lived all my life. I have never emerged from the tunnel since then without thinking of that first ride, I sat there not quite daring to hope that the time would come when 1 would never have to return to the Bronx and the poverty that dull- ed and demeaned each day. In the dining car I sat opposite Mrs. Harris and Mr. Pitou, and sensed what it was like to order the food that tickled one's pal- ate at a particular moment with- out thinking of what it cost. And when I settled into my room at the hotel in Rochester, I sat for a long moment on the bed drinking in a joyous sense of privacy that I had never before experienced. I would sleep alone in a room that night for the first time in my life. I did not know until that moment how starved I had been for privacy, what a precious refreshment to the spirit it is; there is no such in- dulgence in the realms of pov- erty, and only those who have lived without it can know what a prime luxury privacy is. From that moment on I began to fight savagely for the blessed solace of a door closing behind me in a room of my own. It was a long time before I could rouse myself sufficiently to leave and go to the theatre where the dress rehears- al was about to begin. - From "Act One," An Autobiography by Moss Hart, (ficS,UNDAY SC11001 J,L;SSON By Rev. It. 11 :oven, B.A., B.O. Falee Leeder--hip Brings Ruin Micah 3:1-6, 9-13 Memory Selection; The ways of the Lord are right, and thsi emit shall walk in them: hut the transgressors shall fall therein. Hosea 11:9. Micah hes a twofold come plaint. The one is against the leaders in government which ine eluded the administrators of justice, and the other is against the religious leaders, the pro- phets and prieats.• The leaders are described as those, "who hate the good,• and love the 'evil." When such 111011 are in office, woe to -the people.' The leaders are greedy and op- pressive. They are like canni- bats, feeding on the people. They "abhor judgment, and pervert all equity." They "judge for re- wand,' rs Micah's description is appli- cable to the leadeof some countries today, But revolution has ousted some of them, Come munist leaders are certainly op- pressive. But whet about Cana- da? Frequently corruption is ue- covered -at all levels of govern- ment. And how much more v. ill only be uncovered at the judg- ment? Of course those in °Mee may be no worse than the an.n eeral ruof the people. But when those in public office mieaprif o- Priate funds. and it discoveled, it becomes widely known. Peo- ple are -too apt to judge all by the few and hence men of good character a r often reticent about accepting leadership. Micah..? eondemnetion per). phets and priests was even mole eevere. The prophets made people err. The tone of neer prophecy depended on h o w much the person gave them. "The bigger the bite the fairer the prophecy." And the prophet was vicious in his denunciation al those who didn't put into his m there are religious leaders who depend on men ra- ther than God for their support and who gear their message to ensure themselves of the reward. God have mercy when money determines the type of message to be given. No wonder such a prophet has no vision and turns to giving book reviews, ger. When religious .leaders preach and ppraywith their eye oft ' money, they can only lead peo- ple to err. We fear there is a lot of it today. We need to turra. to the Bible and start obeying God. LIRE PAROLE HOARDS Inmates of Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Ala., have em- barked on a 14 -week course on "how to win friends and influ- ence people." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N 1 d A V t N V 3 0 0 .17k2 • 1.). MW 0 A 0 1 3 ? 0 t,r,4: 1149 V 114 15 3 6 1 v 21 V 510 N 0 -1- 3 1e.5 9 +/Reel. W V N 1 rivg-,45evivillyw 31VN 1W21315014 >1 0 044 2/4----V 0 21.0g"N,t0 d 3 v w 1j3 11 N 0 THE QUICK AND THE Invisible, a hovering beak into an outdoor with sugar water. THIRSTY - His fast -beating wings almost hummingbird pokes his long, narrow bird bar. Charles Harris filled the bottle 2 g Mill5 6 '7 ,7:: 11110 0 a MN KIN art IU li Moan IAA Illill p.129 rr etro34 11111NOMMI Effi ill'EM 'MEM IM IIMMENEN UMMMEMMOMMUM MI MMOMMEMBAN UMMEMMINI MOM MOMEMMIWUMMO Answer elsewhere an Rile page. - • One developing innovation in the poultry industry may tend to divorce it entirely from the farm, producing eggs in circular factories right next to cities, and eliminating entirely the long haul from the country. The circular shape has been chosen to allow these super - modern production plants to ride thousands of hens in individual cages on a "merry-go-round" in- stallation that will bring hens to their food, and the eggs to the hand of the collector. Ma- chinery will do all the work ra- ther than people; the few people needed will all be technicians rather than laborers. Cyclo Manufacturing Company of Denver, manufacturers of pol- ishing equipment, has operated such an experimental egg factory for six months now, housing 6,000 hens. This is small compared to some present egg -production plants, particularly in California, but Cyclo claims its revolution- ary design, when applied to units to house 100,000 hens or more, can: Increase egg production to about 80 per cent, or 800 eggs per thousand hens per day, as against a present national aver- age of 55 per cent. Provide practically all Grade AA eggs, never more than 24 hours from the grocer's shelf. And do all this at a production and wholesale cost from 10 to 14 cents lower a dozen than the present costs. The company president, Lewis Hayden, started looking for di- versification some years ago, and hired James Helbig, Colorado State University graduate, to sur- vey the agricultural field. Mr. Helbig in turn decided that egg production offered the most promising field for automation. "It's still in the Middle Ages, technologically speaking." He has devoted three years to the present project. Essentially the experimental plant consists of cages for 6,000 individual birds mounted in high tiers that revolve around the central handling place. Each hen gels two minutes an hour to eat and drink, as her cage passes the troughs in front. She spends 15 tninutes an hour in the lighted zone in which the troughs are located, then her cage passes into a "twilight zone" for the next 45 minutes. At night the whole installation stops for 10 hours. e 7 0 A girl technician now collects the eggs by means of an elevator that moves up and down the face of the tiers and keeps a punch -card record of the per- formance of each hen. Hens that don't produce are sold. Health is extraordinarily good, and precautions are taken to keep it so. Most of the cost of convention- al henhouses is in air condition- ing, Mr. Helbig says he studied this problem afresh, coming to the decision that the only prac- ticable shape is circular, tlis de- sign offers adequate air condi- tioning at a basic cos( only about 20 per cent of that of convention- al houses. Basically the problem is to re- move body heat. No outside heat is necessary even in winter; and most of it must be thrown away to keep the birds healthy Both temperature and humidity are completely controlled, write Roscoe Fleming in the Christian Science Monitor. * Mr, Helbig says the birds are happy and unafraid. They talk briskly with each other, yet the separate cies prevent the usual problems of rivalry and combat. And how they lay! The 80 per cent production ratio is main- tained. One valuable byproduct is in the fertilizer which is automati- cally collected, dried, packaged, and sold. In the final units everything will be done by machinery save Lor record keeping, and this can be done from the central station around which the tiers of cages move. Practically all the eggs from Cyclo's 6,000 -bird unit are taken by Denver's newest and largest hotel. We Can't Keep Them An On The Farm • Suppose none of the boys ever left the farms! Have you ever visited one of Europe's countries where the land has been divided, generation after generation? In Extreme cases you would see a "farm" with little strips, an acre here, a half acre there, mai be widely separated. Under governments which discouraged new opportunities, where a peasant's sons were expected to become peasants, to slice. up the property was the only solution. From the time I was knee high to a chipmunk, I have heard complaints about young people leaving the land, and still hear the Same words. One regrets to see an outstanding youth leave Yet, what if he couldn't... Shouldn't we be glad to live in a nation where a youngster is free to choose his future, and to make the most of his abilities? Not every brigh t boy will make a good farmer. He may do far better for himself, and for the country, as a good professional or business man. True, some who do have the talent and desire to be farmers decide to do something else be. cause they lack capital. How- ever, we seldom hear of good farms that fail to find good farmers. The land produces more new boys than new farms. With effi- ciency demanding larger acre- ages, some of the boys will in- evitably go out to become the engineers, scientists and educa- tors that the nation needs, The boy who Is not going to stay on the land can capitalize on his farm background. Indus- try is looking for him, especial- ly if he does well in college. For instance, the demand for train- ed agricultural engineers rises every year. Even now the sup- ply is short. Only about 250 ag- riculttiral engineers will get de- grees in 1962, as compared with 420 in 1949. The demand is active for farm boys who graclu- ate in industrial and comtner. cial Beide. - Farm Journal Magazine. A Room of His Own For the First Time There are many "firsts" in one's life when one is young and at the beginning of things; but there are certain "firsts" that re- main forever memorable. I had never been outside New York City itself. I had never ridden in a Pullman train or eaten in a dining car, and 1 had never stay- ed overnight in a hotel. All of these things now took place in glittering succession. When the train roared out of Grand Central station and emerged from the tunnel at 96th Street, I sat in my seat at the window and watched the squalid tenements rush past me, in ane of which, though I could not see it, 1 had lived all my life. I have never emerged from the tunnel since then without thinking of that first ride, I sat there not quite daring to hope that the time would come when 1 would never have to return to the Bronx and the poverty that dull- ed and demeaned each day. In the dining car I sat opposite Mrs. Harris and Mr. Pitou, and sensed what it was like to order the food that tickled one's pal- ate at a particular moment with- out thinking of what it cost. And when I settled into my room at the hotel in Rochester, I sat for a long moment on the bed drinking in a joyous sense of privacy that I had never before experienced. I would sleep alone in a room that night for the first time in my life. I did not know until that moment how starved I had been for privacy, what a precious refreshment to the spirit it is; there is no such in- dulgence in the realms of pov- erty, and only those who have lived without it can know what a prime luxury privacy is. From that moment on I began to fight savagely for the blessed solace of a door closing behind me in a room of my own. It was a long time before I could rouse myself sufficiently to leave and go to the theatre where the dress rehears- al was about to begin. - From "Act One," An Autobiography by Moss Hart, (ficS,UNDAY SC11001 J,L;SSON By Rev. It. 11 :oven, B.A., B.O. Falee Leeder--hip Brings Ruin Micah 3:1-6, 9-13 Memory Selection; The ways of the Lord are right, and thsi emit shall walk in them: hut the transgressors shall fall therein. Hosea 11:9. Micah hes a twofold come plaint. The one is against the leaders in government which ine eluded the administrators of justice, and the other is against the religious leaders, the pro- phets and prieats.• The leaders are described as those, "who hate the good,• and love the 'evil." When such 111011 are in office, woe to -the people.' The leaders are greedy and op- pressive. They are like canni- bats, feeding on the people. They "abhor judgment, and pervert all equity." They "judge for re- wand,' rs Micah's description is appli- cable to the leadeof some countries today, But revolution has ousted some of them, Come munist leaders are certainly op- pressive. But whet about Cana- da? Frequently corruption is ue- covered -at all levels of govern- ment. And how much more v. ill only be uncovered at the judg- ment? Of course those in °Mee may be no worse than the an.n eeral ruof the people. But when those in public office mieaprif o- Priate funds. and it discoveled, it becomes widely known. Peo- ple are -too apt to judge all by the few and hence men of good character a r often reticent about accepting leadership. Micah..? eondemnetion per). phets and priests was even mole eevere. The prophets made people err. The tone of neer prophecy depended on h o w much the person gave them. "The bigger the bite the fairer the prophecy." And the prophet was vicious in his denunciation al those who didn't put into his m there are religious leaders who depend on men ra- ther than God for their support and who gear their message to ensure themselves of the reward. God have mercy when money determines the type of message to be given. No wonder such a prophet has no vision and turns to giving book reviews, ger. When religious .leaders preach and ppraywith their eye oft ' money, they can only lead peo- ple to err. We fear there is a lot of it today. We need to turra. to the Bible and start obeying God. LIRE PAROLE HOARDS Inmates of Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Ala., have em- barked on a 14 -week course on "how to win friends and influ- ence people." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N 1 d A V t N V 3 0 0 .17k2 • 1.). MW 0 A 0 1 3 ? 0 t,r,4: 1149 V 114 15 3 6 1 v 21 V 510 N 0 -1- 3 1e.5 9 +/Reel. W V N 1 rivg-,45evivillyw 31VN 1W21315014 >1 0 044 2/4----V 0 21.0g"N,t0 d 3 v w 1j3 11 N 0 THE QUICK AND THE Invisible, a hovering beak into an outdoor with sugar water. THIRSTY - His fast -beating wings almost hummingbird pokes his long, narrow bird bar. Charles Harris filled the bottle