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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-12-15, Page 7Diu.nter Ever Knew Haw To nec1c H Once again the loud and voci.• Tereus riot of fall foliage has • degenerated into the dumsotto 4)f leaden hail at the portals, and ?the s p n r a di c explosions of a !dwindling Gettysburg. 'Tis the - season of the Noble Nimrod, as tithe sporting columnists phrase AL, and I have mingles! feeliligs, Well, when you've grown up aground the old farm, you speak the language of the region. I have honestly pondered about "'posting" the. place. but 1 doubt if 1 shall. In the first place, doesn't work. The evidence is strong that no hunter, yet, t, ever knew how to read. Some of them appear to have vine little r;, - sight at all, but, an arnazitey ability to look up and think they see something, whereupon tidy shoot your "Keep Out" sign I' 111 of holes with astounding accur- acy. Those who cart reac, and feel some obligation to pay at. teritian, immediately refer to you es a bounder, and worse, and expound spine vague philosophy that ownership entails a noblesse oblige to share. This happens to be sort of so, The game, if any, belongs to the people of Maine, and doesn't go with the land. A field that hasn't had a rabbit on it in 35 years remains at the option of the pub- lic, who inay came at any time to see if one has returned, Un- less, of course, the owner has complied with certain statutory demands, and has "posted" his land, After he has done this, there exists a public problem known as "access," and - the: sporting journals urge that ac- tion be taken, 1 try to keep an open mind, because our state does have a public policy of wildlife pursuit. We are, so to speak, in that busi- ness. If a gentleman cares to tour up here from yonder and buy a license, which entitles him to shoot at my corncrib, I am supposed to cheer and consider his presence a boost to our gen- era] economy. Another thing, 1 find it hard to forget that the old ancestor drew on this source of supply in his time, and survived be- cause of it. It took some years to get trees felled and burned, land smoothed off, and gardens planted and harvested. His do- mestic animals were few for a long time, But the 'five mouths he had to feed, a number that increased as he went along, were favoured by the wilderness food that was here. He not only went a -shooting, but he set traps and mets, And this wasn't actually too long ago, He was in the pas- senger pigeon era, when flocks of these birds came scaling in so they clouded the sun, Today, with proper American hindsight, we lament the end of this spec- tacular bird. But just as I feet there must have been some latent intelli- genee in those people who pio- neered for us, I find the modern hunter lacks same. 1 cranked the tractor the other day and went op to haul another load of wood tor the boys, completing our fall preparations for next spring's work in the sugar bush. When we got to the sugar house, we found some agile -witted hunter had sent a shotgun blast through the door. The door is just bat- ten -type, pine boards painted red, and is entirely a weather matter. The place isn't locked, never is, and the curious may always step in. Some hunter, wandering along. had merely arrived opposite the door, lifted his shotgun, and had pulled the trigger, The pellets pockmarked the outside generously, but en the inside they ripped away splinters and stirred up quite a reaction.' - This was done, 1 suppose, by /somebody who would consider sne unkind if I put up signs say- ing "Keep Out"! It is the sort of thing you don't see described in the outdoor magazines when they discuss the growing tendency to post land, and urge the sporty - group to organize and fight for access. We also found evidence u1' target shooting that same day which merits reporting. The bays 1 speak of were recently men- tioned here as youngsters who pleased me by taking an inter- est in my woods. Their parents had lately moved onto the Ridge, MERRY MENAGERIE ,.._ civ„ 14( 'IC We ,;ting to nue : patt•- hotti, a wish he'd putroute Sauce on it:" ISSUE Se -. 1511(1 OPENING BID -- An open car for the open road, this new Fiat makes its debut in Turin, !Icily. It features breezy comfort pilus roof for carrying skits. FRI11D -- David Greenglass, 39, an Army machinist who gave atom bomb secrets to a Rus- sian -recruited spy ring, is shown in New York after his release from prison. Green - glass, the brother of executed atom spy Ethel Rosenberg, had served nine years and four months of a 15 -year prison sentence. and we got friendly over Int ., - maple sap idea. Amongst other things I showed them, I showed them how to lay up the stone fireplace by the spring, and get it ready for their cooking. We drove two forked stakes, and laid a pole across, above the fire, so kettles might be hung. I showed them how to hunt an alder with its branches just so, and make a double -ender hook — one hook over the pole, the other for the bale of the pot. It's a woodsman's trick, very handy. So they had hunted for alders and had about a dozen of these hanging in the fireplace, all ready 1.0 r neat spring's hearty fare, • . Well; some intellectually re- tarded hunter had come along • with a rifle and had seated hint - self on the steps of the sugar house, and had methodically shot at each of these hooks in tura. When hit, each hook would swing around. After a time, how- ever each would disintegrate un- der bombardment, or would fly away. We found chewed -up pot- hooks al] through the pucke- brush. It was discouraging to stand there and see this, :ted reflect on the nature of the in- dividual who, under the modern conception of sports afield, had occupied himself so proli10hly. You find yourself I do -- mulling over the local spnrtu;,; gentry, trying to figure out which orf them would -do such a • thing. and it's pretty hare] fine] yourself thinking that little of anybody. Yet. somebody ilii. -- By John Gould in the (hl ;.- iian Menet. Monitor. How Can 1? By Roberta Lee Q. Bow can 1 intprot'i•e, a cork when I've lost the real article? A. A very satisfactory tub- stitute for a lost cork is an inch or two of candle. Soften up the wax a bit nand vour e;tndle "cork" tvi1l fit. Q. How can 1 rennave some • grease spots from tveilpal;,:r? A, Make a paste of corn- starch and wafer, iet remain un- til dry. then brush oft. I1' thio-' doesn't work 11y a paste, of fuller's earth and rerlsto 11 1 - chloride. and Ilse in the Pante • mantic!. Q. Nott- can 1 make. the pett- ing of hand -cooked eggs mach easier? A, By adding :alt to the water in which eggs are hard - cooked ,you harden the shell and make it much easier to strip off. A quick dunk in cold water helps, too, as doe's- rolling the egg around to erui h the shell somewhat before yon twain peel - int. c2, !low ctut 1 renew the gloy' of some of my eustiutic jew'elr'y? A. You can make this.jewelry sparkle like new rf soaked fo- an ]tour in hot omits. and am- monia, mixed in half and half. Dry the jewrIty well. 1 ,o!xl -- a per sen with thinks as much of 11111 r 11 as you think el yawste11. Youthful D ty's Of Robbie &urns In the y'c,tts at i..r:hlea at. the end- of uneventful days marked merely by the slow and punas!. al coming of reedtitne and hpr- vest, the onrush of virile youth bursts asunder the bonds of cir- cumstance. When twilight has faller fairly over the lea, Robert Burns goes moving, it matters not how laborious his days. nt' how early his mornings. Distance and time are forgotten.. • . On an April night young farmer Burns got one of his sisters to stitch together .some pages of coarse paper tar the purpose of jotting for memoranda, but poet Burns had siart ori the first page thus "11 might he at' some- 1111 crest to a curious ob- server of htutan nature to i,te:' hoe: a ploughman thinks and tc : i5 " In the evenings wh.:n the dey't Work is over ]ta attd Min gu to- Tarbolton. ''A -little village ut thatched roofed cottages with tits click - clack of 0 weaver's shuttle sounding on a summer's evening through the wide open doors, On the dusty white toad, -barefooted children play. Old men hobble out to sit on the cool boulder stones by the door cheek. Wontcn gossip in the -doorways - dandling their babies,. and turn to look after the retreating form of the infrequent visitor, " This is the Tarbolton of a hundred yeai:s ago depicted in the Kihnarneck Standard of 1007 by one Helen Steven. • It is the village es Burns knew it yet another - hunclred years back, for time stood almost .still between the 10th and loot centuries. , , , But now in 1770- 80, Tarbolton is the Mecca of the rural youth and maidens of the. parish, among whom Is one Rob- ert Burns.. , Apart from the pleasures• in which he so assiduously joins with his rustic companions, he has an inner life of joy, all his own. As evidence, there is that slim book he has just started to write, stowed away in a drawer at. Lochlea. Even .vhcn amongst them at the dance he is lured softly on his destined path with thoughts which are the harbin- gers of the first lyric fated to mark hint for itmnortality. . • He is beginning to be-reeoe- nized as the Itthy mer, and tlans- rripte: of his twos, laboriously copied out by his admirers, are being passed front hood to hand, and recited by his it-,,. , . by the smithy fires:, and even at the corner's of the street on market and lair days. 11. speedily bc- ten).s identified wt'h the life of the village and •.to ntrystde. He has a tongue in bit head, hung Burn,, tit is hien un ar- :,u r Int, and like.; to ht:ar him - women .dandling int- women.dandling the babes, unci the old men sitting by the door- ways, look alter the Rhymer when he passu.s and >.itakc their heads. But. the young folk all like him. He is their trusted con fident ._• Front "Poet's Pilgrim- age" The Story of the Life -and Times of Hobert Burns, by Elsie S. Bite, • One of the nicest things about telling the truth is that you. don't •have to remember what you said, Farming $t'tca es Marcid Alligators ,Alt t1ti,rit of 0 farm t'4tl)ttre'S, tilt visions rd 4.4.)10:1; situp anr3, hi tt cxt,pt int the lJnitttvt States NI11114114 .41044 1at'l)t are weed for the rearing of alliga- tor ! .'litigator form have, flrn.urislt- ee? til the:' 11;5, since the begin - 1 r+1t; of tItt century belattsr: dl^ hooter skins alt' in great de, maid by manufacturers of all !finds of high-class leather gnosis. '1' here is also a considerable tiq.de in live specimens. Pct al- ligators. have become quite 11111 ttu,luon. .'Although the alligatel is a.n American rtptile, farming them was originnated by an Faip..11sh- 1'dut, Mt H. I. Campbell. Right tip to the, end of the last een- Iu'y huge numbers of alligator's were killed every year by sportsmen and farmers. They Were regarded as a major pest because of their frequent raids on cattle. In. the latter years of the century as many as 300,0110 alli- gators were killed annually in -Florida alone, and similar num- lairs were killed in several other ,sten. Campbell w'an a Well-k:noWn gide. for '.port: men anxious to .I.Ive a crack at alligator !ana- log. He. was Ituown as Alligator Joe, He realized that constant hunting was taking such at tell that the ,tcattn'e, were ferule r xtermindtion, So he started the t airld's first alligator faion to rear them in captivity. - He chase a site on the books l a small mountain stream in .,Arkansas, at a point where the ,treats formed a number of small ponds. These were fenced off, each with a portion of the adjoining land, to form a series of separate pens. He knew that only alligators of about the Satre ve could be kept together. Stocking the farm was not a difficult matter. Some he caught tor himself, but the majority - were supplied by other hunters, who were keen to help when they learned that a live adult oras worth more than they could get for its skin. Eggs, too, he 'vas ready to buy — for they are easy to hatch and supplemented those laid by his own captive specimens. Once, having found a nest With thirty eggs during a hunt- ing -expedition, Campbell left them in a box in the bedroom of his hotel while he went oft on safari for several days. When he returned he found his hotel room crawling with baby alli- gators. No one in the hotel had dared go in and pick thein up! For most of the year alliga- tors are• not dangerous and Campbell was able to to walk about quite freely among his thousand or so specimens, keep- ing a wary eye on the one or two larger individuals known to be bad-tempered. During the breeding season, however, great care has to be taken to keep out of the way of the adult moles. They become very fierce. Having laid their eggs, the fe- males. can tern nasty. They build a nest of dried twies, reeds. weeds and must, and deposit Their thirty to sixty esos indite Although it drooled tn-tt!te:' th1rina the incubation period, lr.e female alligautr's maternal in- stinct forsakes .her the moment her offspring hatch. As soon as she has seen there emerge from the nest she loses all further interest in them, leaving theta Ottoler thentsuivo,s. fpr oblt:tit Campbell had to ileo was that of ittbernatiori. 1.1 their natural state alligators burrow into the mud in winter, during which time they neither feed nor grow. As an alligator's value is proportional to its, f'atnpbell wanted thein to grow as fast urs possible. So he pro- vided warmed indoor quarter';* with- heated pools, to which all his stock teas transferred in the autumn. • If you think alligator tarn, tug lacks excitement. what AGENTS SALESMAN At r hi, I *Muni ntnio, ..%pelhot,tart vr,, 1 r l sy rte l taint, _)h e i 114,,,• Inglie di:, t lh tial, 1 t t. +M+.tt Sts 641. tnontnu, BABY CHICKS in 20 WI.I K Ot.n 1!t t P4'1.1,0111 acrd el art, rte h , ,u '.p t 1 Lrlr, , pt'otuPt hhtptne,t! Book 411411444 Atrcit bt'oli, ri nit Da...1,1 dtrnl peroou •md 1t - F,,11t ee.r Jt'dn r Iu, nen t, order. C o n t o t. 1 l ,.:a'ee n*. e r -niter Bray Hatchery, 120 John North, Hamilton, Ontario. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 1 011 LEASE, modern eloiee i•14,11011 and re.,Uwr,tn, su.51 47 persons, trenton 410111,1- now uncle; ourit lit -tial, ready Mann. 51 Iiia, c. toms, r, itrt Dun• das W , Tremor, umor, Ortl. 1 MADE 5700 ON IMPORTS m 'tIi.,Vf was y 1,tttit en t order 1 nolo in 1 day. 1 will sltotr, ue, hon, to •tart. this hit' profitable Int'ux., tin, +nut ht our in spare time 'to tie/ iu,udize to stuenl needed Brite to LtV for. fret, details and inttrio tau en Ire - port.. Drank ('lark Ott, +7117 St. Clair Ave. E„ Toronto Ir,, Unique Opportunity M:tNUFA(TLRI?R of sensational ht. tendon is of •nine et 1 t he territories and offers lnutrhlec 10 ssrlous person who has taaile. 111 invest. eampieto trtdniae and publieitc at nor expense. Mohnen revenue fluu°o. Those with enpintl unit. need siipti Write with reference tot (s.11.1 Co.. Post Office Box 001. Station it, SI Laurent, Mont- real BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SALE SALE -BARN \ splendid id opportunity for a young. ugglt..ser tatetioneer celii nl buildings. Choice loentton. 46 acres ot land, IneludIng a Registered Subdivision To inspert contact: Don Wilson, Rot.' Estate Broker, 1114 Char- lette Stl'et t 1'r turbo 45 491. RI. 5.0573 ur 111, 2'33616 _.. COINS -. CASH paid promptly for old Canadian. Newfoundland and .American coins, Tokens, medal collections and ell oast coins, Booklet o1' prices paid, 25:. S. Hendler. t1r,5 Lepine St., Montreal 4. tfueiret, DOGS FOR SALE REGISTERED German Shepherds. Puns, brood bitches, yoatg mock. Very reas- onable, Most reduce stock. Write for infornttnile,Daton Tint -nor Kennet,, HaHaulm:, vn,_FARMS FOR SALE DAIRY FARM 200 neves, 140 working. Bulk contract to Toronto. Modern sta- bles, good !rouse, located on good coun- ty road. Can be purchased. with nr Without stook and machinery. We have larger dairy farms listed with bulk 0511 : tracts. One outstanding farm 650 acres, over 606 choles work acres. Large emu- tract, 5 sets of buildings It' interested in farms contact Dot 5111,1,1 Real Lis- tato Broker, 154 Charlotte Street, I'eter- borough, Ont., RI, 5.0573 or RI. 2.3366, FARM FOR SALE OR RENT FOR Sale or Rent; !,i-tnile east of Mad. oc, 16 -room double house with oil fur- nace hot and onto water on lap, fifty acres of land, 12 acres- of orchard, Mackintosh, Tolman Sweets, Northern Spy and Delicious, Gootl berry patch. Handy barn with 504t. stable. Ideal lo• cation. Terms arranged. Walter Pieden, Madoe, Ont., 1111. No. 2. FOR SALE - MISCELLANEOUS PRESERVE flowers without spraying. Minting, brushing. Instructions SL00. Morley Stephenson,, 174 Euston Road, Burlington, Ontario. HELP WANTED Occupational Therapist 190.13ED hospital with active Physical Therapy Depar'tmrltt. Apply to St ,to- sept, Hospital, Mt, Clemens, Michigan, u s» HEARING AIDS AT LAST : Hearing Aids, only 529.95 Satisfaction Guaranteed. Good as the best, selling atseveral tithes our price. Free Literature. Cary Sates, Inverness, Florida. INSTRUCTION EARN Morel flookkeepine, .Salesman - •+hip, Shorthand, T'l -nritln0, rte. Les- son" 50; tilt for free .'ttcnler No .13. e wtadien Lotrtg olid n'r C',torses 1290 Bay street. Tmnnt°. iut bout r title:n:d t tarns r When reptile skini, sure first :0 demand for making ]eit111 '' goods, an Ariatnr: bouseWife. Mrs. Halbert. dccidrd to .try her 1'at1d at snake. forming. She didn't s t for t.r haumlt species, i-tn ,rinse• in,• Beadle laltlasnakc. Batik 1t kSt nil tr,',1 captivity, They r,t'ott' gilick]y if well fed ton thief_! attti then' •kin€. ('l'e vet'y vainaitle. Not only did Mrs. IIolbet t. farm the rattlesnakes. but cure.:] the skins as tcc']] and made ;HI kinds of articles ranging iron; -hocs and hate to pin'.,.; and hags, all of wettish she sold in her own shop. Properly tanned rt,tticsnaktt skin is .:s light and as soft 115 tot feta, She even used it to make dress's: and undrr- N"ear. Po'.SOICAL SATISFY YO00SE.F --- . 1lF.1:'1 , ,+tt4:RER OF RHEUMATIC PAINS rat'. tltIIII1+'S SHOULD TRY etk4N'5 ltfn0DY. MMMUNRO'S. DWG 17070 335 01GIN OTTAWA 11.25 Solo, .s, Caip,,i. POST'S FCZEMA SALTIE 1. ,➢'-tt tho lot , t 11,1,ffifit toe-'!' , 1,1 +.,. "1:n., I,tn C(11i)AO,, en . :) no, inmnint 4i• b,rttht ,.,;, , inn, n. -can. ra•,. .,emutill roVg. ei zoniti, t 11 ,, ,. t1') t) fins f ,n)1. Sdotl. � tr. ur. tP tori''.15 cif Sar; udtl u,rr , 1 1 ut +t Stet Post Frain ot, E swept of PMSG PRICE 1554 5E11 )AR POST'S REMEDIES 9645 5t- Clrtr l,,, not Ens) .11 emu N4)851140 HOMES ro:,1F01 r4Rl.t'e:stootl tele 01,1110 pe5pie - L �',ut snpervtsinn, r l;ir;cre11 r nr r, , 44111, 5}niin'5 to :\inSIAF W,n:,. iti.t. F'... 52.1k7.t NUTRIA. ATTEiNTION PURCHASERS OF NUTRIA w'he;u pooh ,: ,rri or, idtt' 10,4 t'eliuwin, Fmrt a:) tilts orr,ul0,. Dun oiler,: 1 The h4741 +:ih;h etor15, no crow7 bred or f mild typo reent1Lnended. 2. file reputation t plan weh rt hl proving itself dry t ,.dud by clic, t-1 t'tied tut hats: 3. rail nt nran,e t h, -;r replseentent b rid the rot Ili t in the even of .t rthtt It lull-:plrined in MIS rhea!t ot meth:. 4 ‘S'e ,olve leu nl ,rutatitms thii'b are in demand t r fee e it' !tents. a Sea r ..itI. t,ut rim,. nrlamizztbts to.tautl'ell pen nr-rtrt, in writing. C. Membership ship in o n. a chtsive breed. els aSGeer tits, whereby Only purchal- els of this stock nt,t p',rticipate In the belief 115 so offered, 4Prices lir Rtntk start et 200. pair. Special offer to those who qualifgt earn tour .Nutrit, 01 our cooperative, basis. write Cau,dl.-rt Nutria Ltd., XII No 2,Stotntt')11 , Ontario. OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN BE A HAIRDRESSER JOIN CANADA'S LEADING SCHOOL it- d, Opp; iitttity Learn urn 11 rdre sm:: Pleasant di 4 n) ie n profession; Food wages Thooganos o1 Snecaoofit 1latvei Cr-dltates America's GrerteFt System Illustrated Cie Monne Free. writ i-. nt Call MARVEL HAIRDRESSING SCHOOL 355 Bioor St W., Toronto t,::1 t e 44 Ki ,. w Hamilton 72 Ridtau stet ttttawa. PERSONAL AUTHORS invited submit MISS t+111 types tincludinv poem.: (0r book pail- ileation, Reese/10,h terms, Sto kwelll Ltd.. Ilfracombe, England .estd. 1655:. HYGIENIC RUBBER GOODS TESTED guuanteed mailed in plain parcel, including aralogue and seg book free with trialr,ortment. 76 for 51.00 (Finest quality,. Western Distribu- ters, Box 24 -TPF, Regina, Sask. PHOTOGRAPHY FARMER'S CAMERA CLUE, BOX31, GALT, ONT. Films developed and - 11 motile prints 40.' 12 megnc prints ren Reprints 5.: each KODACOLOR Developing r u 1 1 vee unt metuattng prhitst. Color prion t5, each extrp Anse° and I:gtechrame '15 nim, 20 ego- posures mounted In :lidos s1,2.). Color Prints from slides 42 'b, Money rt- funded in full for ''0 11,11141 ne twee. .. .� PONIES - _.... SHETLAND PONIEs tor ante. '9100 and ep w'it;ht Porn Farm. t 1.I( No. 2. 'filed, forst. Phone 22.W.2 PROPERTIES FOR SALE LARGE house, bosun..nt 111)110, Phone. running water. r. runt.113, 91.. ,i r e )anti. Near village. !mora „ I ,. ,gtl,t >Pio 'Young, Otte seal. On,, RFtstsTE lti Il ru r: I ,111 bruit 111 rmvtt house, ,nil , rn tyd .-cite Weltly furnished. -n 1 I l td 1 n.'tr hhla, , nil -t.:Lt,' r Ir nur,1,,15 hon,¢ nr 3'111111, . 1,011 -. r1.1'r1.1'1110,13v,, r11 111 residue, 410 n 1 114.1, - furred Fen inn, ])t 51, 11,e dot r slue by .It ,.,,t. eat IL; rt H .hv;:att Nit ,. r \ Hop; r, 1.10 . 0 he - i... c, el:. Olt. LAND iseem ,.; r '., •t tn,,t.. BUY nett tt t t'0 d; SUBSTANTIAL 1,0-.:1 t 1 ", LOTS on r I t I t t GEORnIRN I ,: 111: I 11,ot ROA05 t it,h,, 11 ea , r.:, n•',d DISCOUNTS nn ;.11 1 is , trh SPECIAL ok..000, , ,u ills .,, HU. 2-3587 or, n , R ,:1,-y I.'II, 727 Bo et t .\t,.,, '1-0., WANTED 51 ANTE') ort :,blit. t .n' '5 vat 11Y. 1;t• prior to 1911 to eon 11'1, m;. do tion, also any cler01,11010 lur i ell Will pay tan per 1r WI he 4103. w .115,141,10u note 12, Ontario WELDING MACHINES ELECTRIC ARC WELDER 130 Amp. Unit $79.50 woe, and ruts to 1:.1 111 thi,.k. Write tet fuel":tot 11 a. p I:otu IIs i .Sales. Bos 22, w'hith}. tultee"t Boo LITTLE BRiTISHERS --• Eight of Great Britain's most famous sans turn up in miniature colored plaster futures in London, Maltese sculptor Vincent Apap created the caricatures. From left are Archbishop of Canterbury, Clement Atlee, the late Aneurin Bevan, Lord Morrison, Sir Anthony Eden, Viscount Montgomc,y, Earl Morubatten earl lir Winston Churchill. The statuettes ore Ilio property of Prince Philip who loomed them lo, t shibittcn to the public.