HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-07-05, Page 7PKK You Ever Try
TO Ca tch A Sheep?
Having iutentionalily dedicat-
ed a great part of my generous
philanthropies to! the sedentary
lettilosopltiere I view with alarm
the current contention that Am-
erica is physically unlit and we
should all get up on the bars
and drill. Exercise doesn't appeal
to me overmuch. and I read with
distaste the other' night about a
school somewhere which has du-
tifully responded to this national
crisis, and has trained the boys
to take a wooden peg in each
hand and walk right up a wall
full of holes, I wonder if they
could catch a sheep?
I hear on the radio that if l
hurry I may yet get a beautiful
tubular -.steel gymnasium Unit
for my children for only $24,
with stamps, and save then' from
' disgrace, This will make them
fit, but the truth is that my
children aro past the push-up
age, and can catch sheep,
They have never been too
much Inc exercise, bet they can
jump up and grab the limb of
et tree and pull themselves up to
shake beechnuts or look into a
crow's nest. They can lie flat on
their bellies and drink from the
pasture spring and then leap up
to run again, but I don't know
11 they can do push-ups. They
can hang onto a nettling rope
and swing to the ground mow,
but I think they've never been
en the high rings. Did you ever
try to catch a sheep?
I can catch sheep, but I sup-
Oose if the head coach of the
lympic squad took one look
at me he would shake him head
in dismay. He wouldn't know
that a sheep catcher could eas-
ily take the ski jump and mara-
thon in the morning, and sew up
the decathlon in the afternoon.
suppose there is no Olympic
laurel for catching sheep. It
would be too big a strain on the
athletes.
There are a lot of farm jobs
like tihnt. Like getting a barrel
of vinegar up from down cellar
on a plank, or setting a hogs'
trough right-side-up with three
half-grown sows and a barrow
standing on it, squealing for din-
ner, Or getting the bit into an
elderly -horse who had just de-
cided to take the day off.
If this nation needs exercise
I recommend that the Secretary
of Welfare get some sheep and
turn them loose in populated sec-
tions with a prize of durable
value to each citizen who catches
one. We'd be trimmed clown to
a pin -point nation in two weeks.
We'd have the greatest per cap-
ita fitness since the Amazons.
There is nothing that contributes
to agility of co-ordination and
muscular stability like a breathy
sheep who needs catching,
Take a young man who is vir-
tually without proper exercise,
and who has only to grain the
hens, water the young stock, f111
the woodboxes, walk two miles
to school and back, pick up the
eggs, .split kindlings and churn,
and if you suggest to him that he
ought to do a few push-ups be-
fore supper a certain reluctance
may set in, But if you yell at
him that a sheep is in the peas,
he will take his exercise oblig-
ingly and become a useful citi-
zen,
Some of the track and field
records seem smallish to such
a boy. He can high -julep a 10 -
foot fence, leap over a 30 -foot
brook,and do a hundred yards in
three seconds - all with his hi -
cut boots on, I'm all for sheep
in this emergency.
I'm talking about Maine sheep,
which are different, We never
had great flocks of sheep with
trained dogs, You see, the cagey
old Founding Fathers observed
that it took about so many sheep
to keep a Maine subsistence fam-
ily in wool and mutton, so they
exempted the Brat 10 sheep from
taxes, high-minded government
economists who sagely debate
the impact of unfavorable taxes
on business and industry might
like to notice that nobody much
in Maine has ever had more
than 10 sheep. This is true even
though sheep do well here, the
wool has good staple and grades
out profitably, and sheep might
otherwise be a leading farm
item with us.
So we•.nover macre big busl-
noss of sheep; they were extra
and we fenced them, They often
rats with the other cattle, We
often made pets of them, And
when one got loose, he had to be
caught, Sheep are followers by
nature, and if ane got over the
fence they generally all would,
If this happened, it was best to
eatch the leader and put a yoke
on him, or her. AU this con-
tributed, frequently, to a wise
decision not to have any more
sheep, at all, and a farm would
go three or four years without
any, until some were picked up
again.
Sheep are short-winded. They
can out -duck, out -run, out -man-
euver, out -guess and out -smart
you amazingly, and if an inex-
perienced sheep -chaser gives
them an occasional pause, or tries
to sneak up on them, or schemes
strategy, they can keep loose all
day, But if you simply larrup
after them, never hesitating a
moment, keeping at full tilt
every minute, o'er hill and dale
and fence and swamp, a sheep
will give up before you do. It's
you or hint. How long it takes
is his option, but you can win if
you don't stop. And after you
have won, and yoked him or fix-
ed the fence, and somebody
comes by and says you are
physically unfit and need exer-
cise, a great doubt wells up in
you and you resist the suggestion
that you chin yourself or do
push-ups - or take a peg in
each hand and climb a wall full
of holes. - by John Gould in
the Christian Science Monitor.
Noise Helps To
Trap Whales
Newfoundland's mink ranch-
ers have no worries this year
regarding food supplies for their
animals, Due to an abundance
of pothead whales off the coast
last summer, the mink's larder
is still well stocked.
It is estimated that well over
+5,000 potheads were brought in
by Newfoundland fishermen.
The pothead whale, a docile
creature, measures up to twenty
feet in length, and weighs up to
three tons.
The pothead "drive" or
"round -up" is a community ef-
fort in south-eastern Newfound-
land, where the mink ranches
flourish, with all participants
sharing in the cash returns on
an equal basis.
Noise is the principal weapon
employed by the fishermen to
make their catch, D o z ens of
small boats move quietly out,
to form an are on the seaward
side of the unsuspecting whales.
When the craft are all in posi-
t i o n, the fishermen create a
great uproar, and the boats close
in on the catch.
Herds, numbering several hun-
dred at a time, are then driven
into shallow waters, where the
potheads are quickly dispatched
with hand harpoons, and power
winches haul them over ramps
to the shore for cutting opera-
tions.
Mixed in proper proportions
with fish scrap, cereals and other
ingredients, whale meat and
liver constitute a vitamin -rich
diet for the milk.
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REALLY BUZZIN' - Harvesting a bumper crop of buzzing
honeybees is E L. Pickett, who is a bee hobbyist, wears mask
and Tong gloves when working.
TIIESARM FRONT
Use of artificial insemination
for cattle breeding continued to
increase in Canada last year,
The practice showed an over-
all gain of seven per cent over
1960 and reached the point where
16.8 per cent of the cow popula-
tion of 5,468,000 was bred arti-
fiotally, reports the Livestook
Division, Canada Department of
Agriculture,
s. 9 9
The number of semen produc-
ing organizations remained un-
changed at 14 but that of pur-
chasing organizations declined
to 216 from 219 in 1960,
First services reported totalled
852,556 -an increase of 58,632
from the previous year, The
number of first services with
frozen semen increased to 433,-
940 from 310,951.
• e *
AI -bred calves registered as
purebreds numbered 67,850 com-
pared with 63,425 in the preced-
ing year.
Herds serviced by artificial in-
semination totaUed 100,000 down
370 from 1960. Of last year's
number, 5,495 were tested on the
official Record of Performance
or Dairy Herd Improvement
Association programs. In 1980,
8,387 were tested.
A total of 530 bulls was main-
tained in studs located in six
provinces - Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Al-
berta and British Columbia.
Permits for semen imports to-
talled 2,145 compared with 780
. in 1960, and exports increased to
2,666 vials from 578.
* • •
A London, Ont,, store of Stein -
berg's Ltd. was recently fined
$10 and costs on each of two
charges laid by Canada Depart-
ment of Agriculture for viola-
tions of the Ontario Farm Prod-
ucts Grades and Sales Act.
A representative of the store
pleaded guilty to the charges,
which in one case involved fail-
ure to state variety and grade in
the sale of bulk Delicious apples.
The second charge concerned the
sale of apples, red beets and po-
tatoes which failed to meet the
declared grades.
* * •
Residents a n d construction
firms in isolated areas concerned
with the safe storage of food,
have also to face stringent reg-
ulations against the use of insec-
ticides near foodstuffs,
F. L. Watters of the Canada
Department of Agriculture re-
searoh station at Winnipeg, has
several suggestions for keeping
flout untainted for a long period.
He says flour stored in paper
bags can be protected against
insects for a year by sewing on
paper tops and bottoms treated
with pyrethrins and piperonyl
butoxide,
• c •
Tri-wallpaper bags having the
middle wall impregnated with
this insecticide give only as good
protection and are more costly
than tops and bottoms, Cotton
flour bags impregnated with the
chemicals result in tainted flour.
Although the pyrethrins in
combination with piperonyl but -
oxide make one of the safest in-
secticides, it should not come in
contact with food. It has been
used for years by the food indus-
try, generally to treat floors and
walls of food warehouses.
Mr. Watters points out that
low temperature is also an insect
deterrent. Tests show insects are
less likely to penetrate flour bags
stored at 80° than at 72°F. and
higher.
* *
A "wonder drug" may become
a new aid in controlling rust in
cereals.
An antibiotic -known simply
as P -9 -was successful in curbing
rust in cereals cubing green-
house and field tests at the fed-
eral research station at Winni-
peg, reports Dr. W. A. Hagborg.
In greenhouse tests, wheat
sprayed with P-9 one day after
being inoculated with rust did
not become infected: In the
fields tests, spraying of infected
plants with the antibiotic reduc-
ed the infection and boosted
yields,
P-9 is taken into the plant sap
and makes it resistant to new
infection for several days, Dr.
Hagborg explains. It also checks
the rust fungus on recently in-
fected plants. Both effects are
important In field control be-
cause they reduce the number of
applications required in a grow-
ing crop.
* • *
The antibiotic is obtained from
a fungus belonging to the strep-
tomyces genus. It is not avail-
able commercially at present and
it is not known whether large-
scale production is feasible or
econmical,
Small quantities were produc-
ed for test purposes by a drug
company and cultures were made
available to the Winnipeg re-
search station and to the Nation-
al Research Council's regional
laboratory at Saskatoon, Sae-
katchewan,
An effective spray would be
valuable in outbreaks of new
races of rust by providing tem-
porary control until resistant
varieties of cereals were avail-
able,
A U.S. View Of
Selling China Wheat
That U.S, wheat growers
should favour selling wheat to
Communist China, as noted by
Agriculture Editor Joe Bianco
at their meeting in Berkeley, is
not surprising. Export of a sub-
stantial quantity of the grain to
China would relieve, though it
wouldn't solve, the surplus prob-
lem which is placing more and
ISSUE 25 - 1962
m o r e restraints on American
Producers. 11 would tend to firm
up the prier: of wheat, ac well.
Others would benefit, too..
Wes t Coast port s, including
Portland, would handle most of
the grain. Exporters, longshore-
men, warehousemen, ship own-
ers, seamen would all stand to
gain.
Many reasonable arguments,
can be made Inc sending our
wheat, of which we have too
much, to Red China, whieh
hasn't enough food for its great
masses of people. One is based
on humanitarian grounds. An-
other is that Canada and Aus-
tralia are furnishing grain to
their advantage and the United
States' disadvantage. John B.
Oondliffe, economist with the
Standard R e s e arch Institute,
said that if Red China used its
gold or dollars to buy wheat it
could buy less "strategic" ma-
terial, since its gold and dollar
supply is limited, Anyway, we
need foreign exchange and we
don't need our hoard of wheat.
An unanswered question is
whether or not wheat would be
a "strategic" material in t h e
broadest meaning of that term.
It would make the failure of
the Communist regime less ap-
parent to the hungry and un-
doubtedly somewhat disillusion-
ed Chinese people. T h u s, we
would help strengthen the yoke
fastened on these unfortunates.
There has been no apparent
change in Red China's policy of
aggression. Its attitude toward
this country is as belligerent as
always. It is supplying materials
of war and technical assistance
to Communist regimes and
guerrilla forces in many parts
of the world, including Cuba at
our door.
This is an expensive business.
If the Peiping regime were in-
terested in the welfare of the
Chinese people, rather than in
fostering worldwide commun-
ism, it could divert the money
it spends on war preparations
both at home and abroad to
buy food. There could be no
objections then to selling Ameri-
can wheat to China, As condi-
tions are, we would be bailing
out a dictatorship which is a
threat to all nations. The extra
cash we'd receive wouldn't be-
gin to pay for the additional
trouble we'd be buying, - The
(Portland) Orgeonlan,
AT THE WRONG END
Two brothers made a nice liv-
ing for years playing the front
end and rear end, respectively,
of a horse on the stage, Then
one day the rear -end impersona-
tor quit -just like that. "I was
finally overcome with the un-
fairness of it all," he explained.
"My brother was always whistl-
ing at the pretty chorus girls and
pinching them -and then they'd
kick the heck, out of me!"
FAIR WARNING
A general store in Vermont
exhibited this warning above the
soda -cracker barrel: "Smokers
and chewers will please spit on
each other, and not on the stove
or floor."
NM SC1 ON
LESSON
By Rev, 11. B. Warren. 1:16. 0.0.
Josiah's Reforms
2 Kings 32: 1-2; 231 2-3, 21-27
lvlemory Selection; S o w to
yourselves In righteousness, reap
itt mercy; break up your fallow
ground: for it is time to seek the
Lord. Rosea 10:12
For fifty-five years, iSIkna:4:seh,
an idolatrous king reigned in
Jerusalem. He seduced hie penpie
to do more evil than did the na-
tions whom the Lord destroyed
before the children of Israel, On
his death his son Amon tock the
throne and did no better. Wnt'n
be was slain by conspiring s(rv-
ants in his own house his son
Josiah became king at eight years
of age and reigned for thirty-one
years,
While Josiah was still young
he began to seek after the God
of David. He broke down the al-
tars of Balaam. He did not stop
at putting away the evil but be.
gall to promote the good. Ike re-
paired the temple, Interest in
improving the facilities for wor-
ship is often an indication of a
rising interest in spiritual reali-
ties.
Then came the discovery of
the book of the law, The king,
with tender heart, humbled him-
selff and wept before the Lord,
He led his people in making a
covenant with God. Then they
kept the Passover as it hadn't
been kept since the days of
Samuel, • •
To be a reformer leaves one
open to attack on many fronts.
Many Christians throw up their
hands, exclaiming, "What's the
use? If they want to do what's
wrong, they'll do it regardless.
We'll just get ourselves in for a
lot of harsh criticism." There
are many who definitely dislike
reformers, Those who make
money from the evils don't want
to be disturbed and will fight
back bitterly. There are others
who, though having no mone-
tary interest in the profits of
evil themselves, in the name of
democracy, plead for freedom
for sin to flourish. They can be
very caustic in their endeavour
to silence the reformers.
We need more people like Jo-
siah. We need people who will
fully support those who lead in
such. We need an aroused Chris-
tian conscience,
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FREE RIDE - Only the face of this Bedouin girl is vi2,ble
as she rides in style on o donkey in Israel's Negev l Bert.
She's on her way for a check-up by one of the Israeli gov-
ernment's doctors, who visit camps all over the desert.
Pro-Communist
forces advance 100 miles
past Laos cease-fire line.
Probe indicates
bomb explosion caused
jetliner crash in lows
killing 45.
4 Y4415r
Kennedy sends
,000 troops to Thailand.
Probe
agriculture official's
death in Estes farm
empire scandal.
tl ,,29% Market rallies,
recovers 60 per cont
of lois,
U.S. fi es Polaris
carrying airtime bomb
1400 miles,
ii
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s,
Dutch evert
battling Indonesia
paratrooper in
West New Guinea.
U.5. will admit
Chinese refugees crowding
Hon • kong,
Scott
Carpenter successfully
orbits earth three
times in Aurora 7'
capsule.
A 22' 26 die in
crash o U.S, Navy
plane near Munich,
Germany.
anomie a
battles pro-Cammunlit
rebels.
•
Stock prices
dive $21 billion; sharpest
break since 1929.
Israel hangs
Eichmann for crimes �_
against humanity, 11
OAS leader
Salon sentenced to
lifa imprisonment
in Paris.
European
extremists kill 62
Moslems in Algeria
bombin
Demonstrators
battle pollee in Portagot.
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