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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-03-08, Page 3She Raised An Orphen Hummingbird I The Cooleys' home is about 20 miles from Eugene, near Lea - burg, Ore,, where they have an acre of ground on the IVIcKenzie River, with flowers, trees, and bushes which provide practically a bird sanctuary, for they permit no cats on their premises. There are usually many Hummingbirds about getting nectar from their flowers, and Mrs, Cooley had al- ways watched them with keen interest. 'She learned that on dull days, when the flowers did not yield enough nectar to sustain their swift flight, the tiny hummers went into a kind of torpor, con- serving their energy for another try at the flowers. Early one morning she found one on a wire sitting •quietly, his eyes closed. Although he seemed aware of her as she approached him he did not move but, as silo barely touched him, he opened his eyes and flew to nearby flowers. She wished then that she might sometime t e got one to light on her hand. On a Sunday afternoon two seasons later, she had her wish. Her next-door neighbor came over holding something out to her. "Do you want this? See what I found," she said, placing in the palm of Betty Cooley's hand the tiniest almost featherless little bird she had ever seen, It was a baby hummingbird which had fallen from its nest. From what she later learned about hum- mingbirds, she entimated it must have been about 10 days old. She knew baby birds must be fed every 15 minutes and de- cided this one's first meal should 'be sugar and water as the near- est thing to flower nectar. It accepted this eagerly from an eye dropper, Then she called Dr. Ralph R. Huestis, professor of biology at the University of Ore- gon In Eurgene, who advised that seine protein should be ad- ded; So she pressed out the juice of a little hamburger, combining it with the sugar and water to snake an acceptable baby -bird soup, Apparently no mother bird could have provided better meals, for the little fellow, less than an inch long when she got him, grew amazingly that first week.. ,she made a soft little nest for him of cleaning tissue and got .a little cage in which he could move about safely. His feet and legs were so slender you could hardly see them, she said, and he used his wings and bill like little walking sticks. She devised his bath from the shallow base of a butter dish such as is used to hold a quarter - pound of butter. It was too slip- pery for hint to light on, so she put adhesive tape on sides and BUILDING ANGLES - Novel apartment houses in Lahr, West Germany, will house French soldiers and families stationed in the area. The angular buildings built by the Bonn government contain 24 apartments grouped around a centrally located stairway. bottom. But he still needed more support so she taped strings across the bottom for his tiny feet to hold to and this was per- fect, as he indicated by frequent. use of it. As be grew, he gave greatest attention to his wings, preening them and removing bits fo dark "and removing the bits of dark covering in which his little fea- thers had been encased. Wings are of first importance to baby birds. When he started to fly from his sago he would go as far as he could and then just drop onto. whatever was beneath him, He learned to light on Betty'sshoul- der, or on one finger, If, in the morning, she had her hair in curlers, he made for . them as though they were intended espe- cially for him to perch on, The intelligence of this feath- ered mite was always a wonder to the Cooleys, He expressed his pleasure when there was nlusie on Use hi -fl by delighted little chirps. After being fed he al- ways chirped a satisfied. "thank you." Betty had a small bell which she rang at feeding time and be quiekly learned to re= spend to the call. He also discovered around the fireplace tiny little spiders, the size of a pinhead, of which there are many in that ,part of the country, When he could find no more, Betty, using one of the tiny feathers he had dropped, got on her hands and knees and brushed • minute spiders out of the corners, putting thein in a small bottle. Then, when be wanted one she would shake it out on her finger and brush it off. As it dropped down at the end of a slender thread of web, the bird would dart from the lampshade or cur- tain rod and have it in an instant. They called him Smidge be- cause he' was so small, In the morning when Betty greeted hint with, "Good morning, Smidge," lie held his wings close to his side, mouth wide, and swayed slightly from side to side, always acknowledging the greeting the sante way. He had his little games, too. When her husband was .at the table and she rang the bell for Smidge he was apt to head straight for Phil's head like a little dive bomber,' then swerve just in time to whir past his ear. When he flew toward a wall, it always looked as though he would go right into it, but he banked like a plane, turned, and was headed the other way before you knew it. Fruit flies, like little spiders, were a favorite food. Betty usu- ally cut a peach in half and let it lie on a saucer till the fruit flies appeared, Smidge knew right where to go for them but the flies, warned by the whir of his wings, crawled underneath where he couldn't get them. He then flew to Betty, hovered in front of her and flew back to his perch, going back and forth until she turned it over for him so the flies were on top or scattered so he could get them in flight. Big flies he would chase -not to catch, but to drive out of his ter- ritory. Then came a September day when a door was open for a mo- ment and little Smidge ventured into the wide world with the hummingbirds outside, Although he: had learned how to take nec- tar from a dropper; he had no experience getting itfrom flow - era, but Betty arid Phil feel sure he learned from his brother birds and they hopefully await his re- turn when the hummingbirds come back in the spring from Mexico, to which they migrate. - By Jessie Ash Arndt in the Chris- tian Science' Monitor. Q. How caul quickly make any own "sour milk" for sour -milk recipes? A. Two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, added toone cup of sweet milk, sours it to the acidity de- sired for sour -milk recipes. CROSSWORD PUZZLE AC'BOSS 1, T1me of day, 5. 1., or 9, Impair 12. Part of a church , 13, Make obdurate' 15, Sant bar 16. Common lea.• tions 17. Tolerates 19. Aunt. (Sp.) 0. Turf 21. Chemical used In dyes 24, Avenge 27. Sham' as. Artificial language 29. Precious atone 80, Bit 31. Conceited erson 82. Title 88. 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An enol of the Canadian wheat surplus is in sight, but this, says Professor MacFarlane, "implies little further price or income im- provement." * * Only when the United States can reduce its massive surplus and modify its policy of dumping wheat, he charges, "is there a chance for optimism about the world 'situation." For that reason Canadian agri- culture is intensely interested in the recent statement of two Re- publican spokesmen, Sen. Pres- cott Bush of Connecticut and Rep, Thomas B. Curtis of Mis- souri, who suggest a radical change in United States f a r m policy. Their proposal that the United State should not confine a policy of tariff reduction to industrial goods but should begin to dis- mantle the high walls of pro- tectionism around its farms is highly relevant to Canada's agri- cultural problem. At present, says Professor MacFarlane, "United States dumping of wheat in otherwise commercial- Western European markets is hurting Canadian ex- ports. "In the last crop year th e United States exported 140,000,- 000 bushels to western. Europe. This compared with about 60,- 000,000 bushels the previous year. Inquiries about the me- chanics of the pricing formula used by the United States Gov- ernment in these sales go unan- swered.Y B u t, Professor MacFarlane asserts, "the gigantic United States (wheat) surplus is affect- ed only slightly by a vast scale of give-aways and dumping. Ex- ports from that country in the 1960-61 crop year were 669,000,- 000 bushels, b u t supplies still stand at nearly 2,000,000,000 bu- shels," * * * As the United States surplus Overhangs the world market, Ca- nada finds its own wheat situa- tion drastically changed. The great Canadian surplus built up since 1952 probably will disap- pear this year, Professor Mac- Farlane says. • In the past decade the annual carryover of unsold wheat aver- aged more than a 1,000,000,000 bushels but in the present crop ' year it dipped to 788,500,000 bu- shels. This was the result of two fac- tors: 1. A sharp increase of exports to 354,000,000 bushels, including exports of 60,000,000 bushels to Communist China, a new dus- tomer, and a crop of only 262,- 000,000 bushels in 1961, the new- est since 1937. 2. Moisture conditions on the prairies this winter threaten an- other light crop. MI these factors combined, Professor MacFarlane warns, do not mean that the disappearance. of the wheat surplus will cure the farmer's • troubles, His net income •remains relatively low .and "grain prices at the• farm have lost ground in relation to cost of goods farmers' must buy. "Nor Is all bright on W o r 14. markets, Supplies still exeeed commercial needs, United States dumping policies hurt, Britain's entry into the Common Market may bite into our business," In the wheat industry Cana- dian governments have refused, so far, to consider anything like the 'United States's price -sup- port policies, though the farmer rias been assisted by a crop -In- surance program and by grain storage at state expense, writes Bruce Hutchison in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. • Without d i r e c tgovernment support, wheat prices have been edging upward in the last year to a new high of over $1,80 a bushel for the best grade. Over the last five years the farmer received between $1.25 and $1.30 a bushel at the farm as an average for a 11 grades. ONLY A ROSE - Trailing a full-blown organza rose, a high crowned miller's cap perches precariously atop a high hairdo in Paris, France. This compares with ;t pries of $L50 to $1..60 ten years ago, Even an increased price re- cently is net enough to compen- sate the farmer for his rising costs. "Considering that the things farmers buy have risen by 25 per cent in the last 10 year s," Professor MacFarlane argues, "the financial squeeze on wheat producers has been se- vere," Under these conditions a Ca- nadian government concerned with the political as well as the economic facts of wheat will fol- low closely the agricultural de- bate developing in Washington as part of President Kennedy's tariff initiative. Grace's Husband Gets Hot and Bothered Monaco's Prince Rainier III drew himself up to his full 5 feet 9 inches, his brown eyes blazing in anger. As Europe's last ab- solute monarch and as the man who three years ago suspended his country's constitution, he was not accustomed either to being told off, or told what to do, But this time he had to take it -be- fore giving it back. Laying down the law, Emile Pelletier, France's Minister of State to the park -size principal- ity, demanded that Rainier re- voke his recent decree restricting free trading on the Paris Bourse of stock in Radio Europe No, 1- a privately owned Monaco -based station in which the French Gov- ernment wants to buy a control- ling interest because it considers its news broadcasts "too inde- pendent," 15 trade in the com- pany's shares was forbidden, Pel- letier indicated, the French Gov- ernment could retaliate by turn- ing off Monaco's electricity, halt- ing all rail service, and closing the border to tourists, ' Rainier capitulated but he was furious. The dialogue between the two men -as somewhat free- ly reported in the Parisian press is said to have gone like this: RAINIER: "I used to be a Francophile but I damn sure regret it now." PELLETIER: "Sir!" RAINIER: "You are a salaud, (s.o.b.)." PELLETIER: (with dignity), "I cannot tolerate your speaking of France in such fashion. 1 am going to withdraw." RAINIER: "Darn right you are -you're fired." At that, the first French min- ister ever kicked out of Monaco huffed off to Paris, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ClIZIEI Eiti 4'�I U D M IIIll l ©W= ©I.'�E1�11U© ©D©©© , ;o©o ©120©MIOL 4 �- ©1!11E1 g©�M #[=11!13 ra,-;; 00 QQ©WGlar" M©�© ©l�10nrit �t©D0'' ©II11O ''1I©a00©© Ol]M ©DIE MEI :r ©©©D n `'©©D0 MM©I1 vw 1 1 0-1- 80011 NDAY moo! LESSON By Rev, R. Barclay Warren,. H.II. No Stealing Exodus 20:15; Joshua 1: 19-25, Memory Selection: Let hint that stole steal no more; but ra- ther let hien labour, working with his hands the thing which Is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth, Ephesians 4:28, Stores give fantastic figures about losses from stealing by customers and employees, A friend who is a store detective says, "You'd be surprised at some of the people I find slipping ar- ticles into their clothes. It isn't just the poor by any means," Stealing usually begins with little things. Just as the person will be faithful over a few things, he will likely be faithful over many things, so the person that will steal a little, will like- ly steal a lot if he has the oppor- tunity. Many steal from the govern- ment unabashed, But in the eyes of God, it is still stealing. We shall give account of it some day. One person said, "The person gave me too much by mistake, I didn't steal it. Should I take it back?" I said, "If by error, I received fifty dollars of your money, what would you expect me to do about it?" You can guess the answer. A ten -year- old boy asked his father for a definition of ethics. His father said, "I cannot define ethics, but I can give you an illustration. It's this way, Your Uncle Henry and I are in business together. Now suppose a man comes into the store and buys a five -dollar ar- ticle. He gives me a ten -dollar bill thinking it's a five, and leaves the store, I am thinking of something else at the time and do not notice the mistake until he's gone. Then I find the ten -dollar bill, and I say, 'That man gave me five dollars too much.' That, my son, raises a question in ethics. Shall I put that five-spot in my pocket or split it fifty-fifty with your uncle?" An evangelist bought a street car ticket. He noticed that ha had received ten cents too much, He went back to the conductor, and reported it. "1 knew it," said the conductor, "I heard you preach last night. I wanted to see if you practisedwhat you preached." People steal from God, too. Joshua took of the silver and gold consecrated to God. So, many rob God of the tithes and offerings. No wonder there is so much more money for liquor than for the cause of the King- dom. We need a spiritual awake- ning. ISSUE 8 - 1962 PERSONALIZED POSTS -- Original, antertaining OSTSAOe Original,;'entertaining and functional are these four imaginative mail boxes which reflect the individuality, of their owners in Rockford, III., top photos` Buena Vista, Ga., lower left, and Alden, N.Y., lower right, They're eye openers for passing motorists, too.