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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-05-24, Page 7Beans And Bislaaits Three Times A Day!. Out in Iowa people have been filling sandbags, should the spring freshets run wild, and it seems such a far cry from the old flays here in Maine when the seasonal run-off was never any calamity, but the welcome ex- pressway to the mills with the winter's harvest of timber,' It might be interesting to remem- bey some of the things. Although most of the men who worked in the woods were jacks .of all phases 'of lumbering, the river -driver stead taller and de - mended extra respect. It was a special talent, and called for standing up under rugged abus- es. He wculd go wet 'day and night all during the drive, sleep- ing in his soggy clothing, and getting an en route diet of buns, biscuits acid molasses which, • af- ter 23 meals, brought him singing to the 24th as if he were join- ing the festivities at an Olympic banquet, Today the drive 'is, al- most gone in Maine, and on the St, John and Machias, and a few others. where they .still do it the circumstances have sweet- ened e a w et ened the exposure. The truck, of course, has brought a change„ All winter the teamsters would bring the harvest down to the water's edge, and millions of feet and cords would wait for the break-up. The lake would turn black, and get porous; the high- er sun, wand and rains would do thelr work. One day they would bring the bateaux down from the storehouse, launch them, and the drive was on. The ba- teau may or may not have its rightful place in the amarine mu- seums, but it should, It was, is, a double -ender with something of the design of a salt -water dory. It was long and narrow, fairly big for a fresh -water craft, and designed for white -water. They handle not unlike a canoe, but are designed for work. With a good man handling the pole, it's hard to swamp one, Pole, be- cause in that kind of going you don't row or paddle. The bateau was the taxi of the drive it always went down, for horses could bring it back, and they had nothing else to do all sum- mer. Sometimes the cook and his wagon moved by bateau, some- times by wagon, Here and there bunkhouses were stationed along the river, but often the men. wouldeat and sleep in the open. Cooks sometimes carried stoves with them, but they knew bow to build a fire and cook around it in a circle, Beanhole beans would be started two and three days ahead of the drive, to be dug up when the first ba- teau appeared in the rapids up- stream. The word "boom" comes to mind, and in the Maine woods there was nothing sonic about it. Booms came in two lands - the long straight ones that were stretched down the river, log af- ter log chained one to the other, to keep drifting logs in the chan- nel, and the round kind that en- closed a raft of logs for towing across the ponds. Year' after year more and more booms were stretched down the rivers, until all the back eddies and coves were closed off, and driving eon sisted mostly of watching the logs go, ]Jutthey still tow the booms on the lakes. T ass year the towboat •on Flagstaff Lake had a• bad day - they towed in- to a headwind from breakfast to supper, and ended up seven miles behind where they started,. It was quite a wind, In windy weather, in the old days, they used to have a way to winch the booms. They'd tow a raft up ahead, anchor it, and then winch the boom with a long cable'off a capstans It took time to gain any distance, but far less time than it would take to round up 20,000 cards If they got dis- persed in the lake. After towing across the lakes, the logs' would be sluiced into the stream below and continue on their .Way. There was another kind' of boat, in addition to the. bateau and the towboat, which should be in the museum. It was the boom -jumper, They ;still use' them. Heavily planked, it had an. odd after -structure abaft the keel, to protect the propeller and shaft from logs, The boom - u 1 mpel was usually built on skids, so a team or a log -hauler could tow it across a lake on the ice ois overland -'it was a boat on runners. The powerful, engine wag something to confuse any deepwater engineer, Indeed, deepwater mariners of all kinds would look askanceat the boom- jumper, and few of them would care to ride over a boom and chug -a -lug down a lake amidst 25,000 cords of spruce, It is a seafaring experience best left in the culture of the old river - driver, To each his own, but if life owes you a new and dif- fet experience, I suggest you top things_ off with a good ride in a boom -jumper. Down at the mills, where the flush -boards on the dams were awash, the arrival of the first, logs was an occasion. Crews had the area boomed off, so the logs could be held up. At sluiceways the ownership was determined, and logs that belonged to a mill downstream were passed through. Those belonging there were head- ed toward the tramway and 122-. ed c,nto the bank, to be used as needed. Long logs, unpeeled, had to be boomed in the water, or bugs would get at them, The drive, anyway, was over - except for the "log -watch" who patrolled the river all sum- mer looking for strays, and pos-, sibly logs some riparian oppor- tunist had yanked out en passant to enlarge his woodpile. Some- .times a log -watch would have the job of throwing a man's whole supply back in the river, just because it had a spot of red paint on every stick. Herding a swarm of bees across the great • plains without losing a bee is a good story; bringing a million cords of wood down the Kenne- bec is just as good, and they did it. All of which stuns up to the point that this annual spring surge in Maine was our` economy at work. The freshet was good news, and the drive was the big event. So times change and opin- ions vary, Afterwards, the river - drivers went to farming, whit- tling, working in sawmills, and perhaps guiding - something to do until the mills began hiring again in the fall, and the cooks began baking beans again, and the work started to get timber ready for another ice -out, - by John Gould in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor. Q. How can I mix starch for use on dark materials? A. Mix the • starch with cold tea. A substitute for starch to be used on black or dark blue materials is to dissolve one tea- spoon of gelatine in a quart of water. f, 7➢xleting 28. Transgress 10. Carry on 36. Permit 11. Seasons 17. Shred 10. Move side- ways - 21 So Amer. 44, In a line ACRO.N., 2. Cone by rodent 45, Russian river 40. Old form 1. Data 8. Shout 22 Persia 6, &inflow after 21 Wel Iv oY- elf 0. Milkflsh 4. Span of 25. Purn•ree 47. Molten ook 12. Concur horses 27. Charge 40, Once around 18, feminine K. Old nib. word 20. Portends ri 1. Ingredient 7name 1.A,t30, Light collon or varnish 14, Darrel stave. 'Tenertted efabric O2. .Eyrie 16.IClnirly otamper 31. Minute 58. Alan's 10. Trace 8.8 aper particle nickname 18. 'Worker In stone 20. The birds 111, Spot on a . playing card 29. Popular success 25. Corroded 20, Open rourt 28. Charge 80. Minim' note 82, Strike out 04. Tlgg dish 38, Indefinite article 97. Statement of s0. Italian river 40, Mongrel 41, Scarlet '43. Male ant 49, TOO had 48, Artist's stand • 8. Relates again 150, ntavr 9, U4it K, Satuky atlen 50. Shute 16g7g, Cob? flat D: Snot rat , 11, Distant CROSSWORD PUZZLE 38. Rubber 40. Serve food 92. Restrain Answe • e sewhera on this page TREE, R1DE Bambina, the helpful elephant who lives at Skansen Zoo in Stockholm, Sweden, aids woodcutter Ingvar Nylund who gets a ride on a.tree trunk he. chopped. T11LL&2N FARM FRO(T JokA__. Potato growers 'who wish to cater . to the chip industry must •choose a variety high in dry- •matter content and, that makes chips of desirable colour, says H, T. Davies, of Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture. ' Some varieties make good chips throughout the year, some: are suitable in summer only and others are unsuitable at any time, he points. out. 5• * * The Avon variety is • one of several that produce chips of good quality throughout the year. When Avon is taken out of storage, however, it must be re- conditioned by holding •at high- er temperatures before process- ing. Other suitable varieties a r e Netted Gem, Russet Rural,' Ken- nebec a n d Cherokee. Katandin makes good chips but has a low dry -matter 'content. Keswick and Irish Cobbler are suitable for chips only when freshly dug in July, and August. Although high in dry matter, Green Mountain is unsuitable because certain sugars and Pro- teins in the tubers produce dark-coloured chips. * 8 0 Here's a timely tip for bee- keepers: Fumigating combs with acetic acid and feeding the' drug Furna- , gillin to bees areeffective mea- s u r.e s in curbing nosema di- sease. e: * 8 * * * This advice is offered by Dr, J. C, M. L'Arrivee, of the feder- al experimental farm. The acetic acid fumes destory the spores and prevent conta- mination of healthy bee colonies, Dr. L'Arrivee reports that in tests at Brandon, only one in six healthy colonies became in- fected with nosema disease when hived on combs fumigated with acetic acid, compared with five in six when the combs were not treated. * * o In fumigating with acetic acid, the supers (boxes) et brood combs are stacked and a shallow t r ay of glacial acetic acid is placed in 'the pile. After a week's exposure to the fumes, the combs must be aired for two weeks or more, the re- searcher warns, Because of the bees' sensitivity to them, traces of the fuines could retard de- velopment of the colony. * * * It pays to read] This is the advice of the Con- sumer Section, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture, in stressing the value of information provid- ed by labels on canned and fro- zen fruits and vegetables. * * '6 Thanks to government grad- ing regulations and inspectors, the guesswork in , buying these foods is eliminated if a shopper takes the time to read the label. .A grade mark is the guide to quality and is one of the first things for which a shopper should look. In order of duality, grades for canned fruits and. vegetables are "Canada Fancy," "Canada Choice" and "Canada Standard." Frozen fruits and vegetables a n d canned juices have two grades "Canada Fancy" and "Canada Choice" * * * The grade names apply to products canned or frozen in Canada and also to those that are imported and repacked. The word "Canada" cannot appear as part of the grade rnark on labels on imported products sold in the original containers. How- e v e r, "Fancy Grade," "Choice Grade" and "Standard Grade" must meet the corresponding "Canada" grades. Country of origin is indicated on imported products. * * 4' Labels also show the amounts in the containers. With canned fruits and vegetables it is the volumeby measure in f to i d ounces and with frozen products it is the net weight in ounces or pounds. ' Containers for canned fruits and vegetables are of standard sizes and limited in number, while frozen products must be packed in standard net weignts. This standardization .helps the shopper to compare prices, the Consumer Section points out. 4 4, 4, There are a number of other label markings that discerning shoppers will note, such as the ones showing the percentage of sugar used in a syrup - packed fruit or the fact that none was added and, in the case of many fruits and vegetables, whether they are peeked whole, sliced, dieed or cubed. The full story, however, can- not be told on the label, This involves a wide range of gov- ernment regulations r a n g 1 n g from weight standards for can- ned fruits and vegetables to the requisite that the product must be sound, clean and wholesome. Anyway the Rabbits Haven't Any Vote Leaning forward in liis leather - upholstered chair, Associate Jus• tioe Carlisle Higgins of the North Carolina Supreme Court wanted to know: "How can you kill without using brute force? What difference does it make whether you use a stick or a shotgun?" Attorney Richard T. Meek said: "Use of a shotgun ie sporting." This colloquy occurred in the Supreme Court at Raleigh, N,C,, last month during a hearing on a suit to prohibit the notorious "bunny bops" sponsored each December by the Harmony Am- erican Legion Post 113, In these gala pre -Christmas affairs, up to 190 men and boys stream into the open fields near Harmony and, with sticks and clubs, beat to death hundreds of rabbits for the Legion's annual barbecue. The point that Meek -attorney Y for the Mechlenburg County Hu- mane Society -was trying to make was that at least a hunter out shooting is using some amount of skill and reflex, which is far more than is required of a bunny bopper. Public indigna- tion last year forced the Legion post to substitute shotguns for clubs at the annual hunt. Last month, however, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that there is no law against beat- ing rabbits to death. In its deci- sion, the court observed that the "future health, safety, and wel- fare of the public cannot be en- dangered by what occurred on previous hunts." • There was no mention of the health, safety, and welfare of the rabbits. Hunter - Is all your party back? Guide - Yes, you're the last. Hunter - Then I've shot a deer. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 055dzi 12di _a VM No e3 y /A 10laai 'p2sV a V list a B 1 10' i. omoniga81112 /e N r;3 D€1 /7 v'• ] d , ,'.ii>: }'., '', � SS /0 O 1'0' /7 r 9ti VM'',a;9OQ 4aAS3.9a 20 Si �©©- d d 2/ 2323 -1.*Y 26 27 -�' 2a 29 'JOt30 gas 31 52. 33 ' 3(' 3U ' 37 3a ',' 39 40 Jr A/ 42. SFS of 16 - - g46 .Ow 49 'iP' 47 �:Sw M '�J 07 S2 S3 x4 6 `sC ' r C56 4. -.w. 14'' :.. Ad 56 9 Answe • e sewhera on this page TREE, R1DE Bambina, the helpful elephant who lives at Skansen Zoo in Stockholm, Sweden, aids woodcutter Ingvar Nylund who gets a ride on a.tree trunk he. chopped. T11LL&2N FARM FRO(T JokA__. Potato growers 'who wish to cater . to the chip industry must •choose a variety high in dry- •matter content and, that makes chips of desirable colour, says H, T. Davies, of Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture. ' Some varieties make good chips throughout the year, some: are suitable in summer only and others are unsuitable at any time, he points. out. 5• * * The Avon variety is • one of several that produce chips of good quality throughout the year. When Avon is taken out of storage, however, it must be re- conditioned by holding •at high- er temperatures before process- ing. Other suitable varieties a r e Netted Gem, Russet Rural,' Ken- nebec a n d Cherokee. Katandin makes good chips but has a low dry -matter 'content. Keswick and Irish Cobbler are suitable for chips only when freshly dug in July, and August. Although high in dry matter, Green Mountain is unsuitable because certain sugars and Pro- teins in the tubers produce dark-coloured chips. * 8 0 Here's a timely tip for bee- keepers: Fumigating combs with acetic acid and feeding the' drug Furna- , gillin to bees areeffective mea- s u r.e s in curbing nosema di- sease. e: * 8 * * * This advice is offered by Dr, J. C, M. L'Arrivee, of the feder- al experimental farm. The acetic acid fumes destory the spores and prevent conta- mination of healthy bee colonies, Dr. L'Arrivee reports that in tests at Brandon, only one in six healthy colonies became in- fected with nosema disease when hived on combs fumigated with acetic acid, compared with five in six when the combs were not treated. * * o In fumigating with acetic acid, the supers (boxes) et brood combs are stacked and a shallow t r ay of glacial acetic acid is placed in 'the pile. After a week's exposure to the fumes, the combs must be aired for two weeks or more, the re- searcher warns, Because of the bees' sensitivity to them, traces of the fuines could retard de- velopment of the colony. * * * It pays to read] This is the advice of the Con- sumer Section, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture, in stressing the value of information provid- ed by labels on canned and fro- zen fruits and vegetables. * * '6 Thanks to government grad- ing regulations and inspectors, the guesswork in , buying these foods is eliminated if a shopper takes the time to read the label. .A grade mark is the guide to quality and is one of the first things for which a shopper should look. In order of duality, grades for canned fruits and. vegetables are "Canada Fancy," "Canada Choice" and "Canada Standard." Frozen fruits and vegetables a n d canned juices have two grades "Canada Fancy" and "Canada Choice" * * * The grade names apply to products canned or frozen in Canada and also to those that are imported and repacked. The word "Canada" cannot appear as part of the grade rnark on labels on imported products sold in the original containers. How- e v e r, "Fancy Grade," "Choice Grade" and "Standard Grade" must meet the corresponding "Canada" grades. Country of origin is indicated on imported products. * * 4' Labels also show the amounts in the containers. With canned fruits and vegetables it is the volumeby measure in f to i d ounces and with frozen products it is the net weight in ounces or pounds. ' Containers for canned fruits and vegetables are of standard sizes and limited in number, while frozen products must be packed in standard net weignts. This standardization .helps the shopper to compare prices, the Consumer Section points out. 4 4, 4, There are a number of other label markings that discerning shoppers will note, such as the ones showing the percentage of sugar used in a syrup - packed fruit or the fact that none was added and, in the case of many fruits and vegetables, whether they are peeked whole, sliced, dieed or cubed. The full story, however, can- not be told on the label, This involves a wide range of gov- ernment regulations r a n g 1 n g from weight standards for can- ned fruits and vegetables to the requisite that the product must be sound, clean and wholesome. Anyway the Rabbits Haven't Any Vote Leaning forward in liis leather - upholstered chair, Associate Jus• tioe Carlisle Higgins of the North Carolina Supreme Court wanted to know: "How can you kill without using brute force? What difference does it make whether you use a stick or a shotgun?" Attorney Richard T. Meek said: "Use of a shotgun ie sporting." This colloquy occurred in the Supreme Court at Raleigh, N,C,, last month during a hearing on a suit to prohibit the notorious "bunny bops" sponsored each December by the Harmony Am- erican Legion Post 113, In these gala pre -Christmas affairs, up to 190 men and boys stream into the open fields near Harmony and, with sticks and clubs, beat to death hundreds of rabbits for the Legion's annual barbecue. The point that Meek -attorney Y for the Mechlenburg County Hu- mane Society -was trying to make was that at least a hunter out shooting is using some amount of skill and reflex, which is far more than is required of a bunny bopper. Public indigna- tion last year forced the Legion post to substitute shotguns for clubs at the annual hunt. Last month, however, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that there is no law against beat- ing rabbits to death. In its deci- sion, the court observed that the "future health, safety, and wel- fare of the public cannot be en- dangered by what occurred on previous hunts." • There was no mention of the health, safety, and welfare of the rabbits. Hunter - Is all your party back? Guide - Yes, you're the last. Hunter - Then I've shot a deer. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 055dzi 12di _a VM No e3 y 10laai 'p2sV V di a B 1 i. omoniga81112 N r;3 D€1 �1:10� v'• ] d , ,'.ii>: ` �...� �9 J � SS O 1'0' r 9ti VM'',a;9OQ 4aAS3.9a Si �©©- d d NDAY SC1OOI IESSON By Rev ft Barclay Warren 13,A„ Tile Day of the Lord 2 Peter 3;1-18; Jude Memory Scripture; I know whom 2 have believed, and ons persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day, 2 Timothy 1;12, Our lesson deals with a much neglected subject. We are told that the Old Testament has 1848 references to the second coming of Christ and the New Testa- ment has 310 references, On dif- ferent occasions groups of people have attracted attention by ins sisting that He was coming on a certain date, They have gath- ered to await His return, Satan is delighted with such behaviour. He knows, as any Christian should know, that no man know- eth the day nor the hour of His coming. (Mt. 24:36; 2 Pet, 3:10). But this disappointment to ex- pectant people tends to lull the public into thinking that Jesus Christ will never return, The scoffers increase just as Jude and Peter said they would. Nev- ertheless, "The day of the Lord will conte as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." The exploding of a nuclear device in the mega- ton range is a small affair com- pared with 'the event thus de- scribed by Peter. Today, men are more feartul of what men may do with their destructive weapons. But God will have the last word in the destruction of the world as we know it. And that is not all for us as individuals. We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ to resider our account. But the picture is not all fore- boding. "We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwel- leth righteousness." As Noah and his family were saved from the flood, and righteous Lot from Sodom and Gomorroah, so a godly remnant will be saved from the final overthrow of the world. There are those parta- kers of the Divine nature who continue to grow in grace. Peter urges, "Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and elec- tion sure." The Lord does not will that any should perish but that all should come to repent- ance. ISSUE 19 - 1962 a SUN t`^ 80" HELIOSTAT --y SUN 3 WATER-COOLED WINDSHIELD 48" MIRROR AND MOUNTING EARTH 'LEVEL ELEVATION 4,770 FT, -C\G 60" CONCAVE MIRROR AND MOUNTIN TUNNEL EXIT l 1- SPECTROGRAPH SHAFT -r' -h - 1 I I NSULA1 ONND STRUCTURE9HELIOSTAT TOWER OBSERVATION ROOM Na Grophic j TEMPLE OF THE SUN - The unusual structure in the foreground of photograph above houses the world's largest solar telescope, now nearing completion at Kitt Peak National! Observatory, 40 miles southwest of Tucson, Ariz. The structure stands 110 feet high; the diagonal shaft is 480 feet long, 280 feet of it underground, as shown in diagram. Sun- light will be reflected from a heliostat (flat mirror) to parabolic mirrors inside the shaft and into the observation room. The telescope will have a focal length of 300 feet andl will form images of the sun nearly a yard In diameter, which may either be photo• graphed or directed into spectroscopes. The big instrument will permit studies of the sun in greater detail than has ever been possible. Domes of the observatory's 84-incae and 36 -inch stellar telescopes are visible In the left background of the photograph.