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The Seaforth News, 1962-11-15, Page 7OO Lii;ssoN by ttew 'It R Mir/en t,,1,- 43.11 1•llly the Bible? Psalm 19; 7-11; 2 Timothy 3: 14- 17, a teeter 1; 10 ?l. Memory Scripture: Teach me, O Lord, the way' of thy statutes; and 1 shall keep it unto the end. Psalm 119: 33, The attitude of the writers of the Old Testament is well ex- pressed in the lesson by the words, "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul." The statutes of the LORD, while objeotive in themselves, have a most wholesome effect on the in- dividual who walks by them, They make wise the simple, re- joice the heart, anc.i enlighten the eyes. They give warning and In keeping of them there is great reward. The Holy. Scriptures are given by inspiration of God, or liter- ally, God - breathed. There are many good books in the world, but the Bible outranks them all, The Scriptures were written by man, specially inspired and.guid- ed by the Holy Spirit, Recently, I heard a medical dootar of highs rank in his ape- oial field, give an address from the Word of God, He had joined ,the dhuroh in his youth but only daring the Billy Graham cam- paign in Toronto, did he come into a personal acquaintanceship with Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour. He gave us more of God's Word in three-quarters of an hour than most ministers do in four or five sermons, He real- ly believed the words of He- brews 2: 12, "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and ;shaalper than any two - edged sword, piercing oven to the di- viding asunder of soul and spir- it, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" As a scientist he understands the pur- poses and potency of various powerful drugs, But here is a weapon which is the most pow- erful of all in reaching into the tnou1s of men. He used it deftly and effectively. The Bible is important because 41 is God speaking to us. We are going to be judged by it in the !Last great day. It is our road map from earth to. heaven. It Is sad that in so many homes, duet ,gatlhers on the covens. We had better search it daily. It will uncover our sins. It will show ws our Saviour and the way to find pardon and peace in His Name. Let us read the Bible. BIG SLEEPER A bed which is 230 years old and more than nine feet long was specially provided for the use of President de Gaulle dur- ing his state visit to West Ger- many earlier this year. Finding a "fitting" bed for the tall President's visit proved one of the German organizer's prin- cipal headaches, One German town councillor offered to lend his 7ft, French, eighteenth -century bed for the occasion, but his offer was grace- fully declined by the Hamburg city authorities. His height-6ft. 3in.-prevent- ed de Gaulle from escaping after he had been captured at Verdun during World War I, He made five escape bids but each time the guards caught him. "Naturally," he says today, "they always recognized me on account of my height." An irate lawyer trying to es- tablish a point in cross-examina- tion demanded of the defendant: "Madam, while you were tak- ing your dog for a walk, did you stop anywhere?" "Sir," the witness said quietly, "have you ever taken a dog for a walk?" SITTING ON THE JOB - The crowd in the San Sebastian De Los Reyes, Spain, viewing stands probably sits at seats' edge while Manuel "El Bala" ("The Bullet") sits calmly back in his, the bull charging just a few inches away from his relaxed position. How do you get rid of 274 buffaloes that have died of an- thrax over an area of 600 square miles of muskeg and woodland in the Northwest Territories? This was the problem that faced the Canada Department of Agriculture -and departments when the plight of the stricken herd was discovered at the end of July. The solution: organization and mechanization -plus lots of men, lime and fuel oil, By September 10 all carcasses had beenburiedor burned and the infected pastures had been burned over. The Health of Animals veter- inarian Dr. William J. Norton, who was dispatched from Cana rose, Alberta, to the scene indi- cated in his reports to headquar- • tars in Ottawa, that a helicopter was the king pin in the opera- tion. The aircraft was used to sur- vey the area, place numbered markers near the carcasses, ferry burial Brews between the camp and their equipment when this distance was too far for the bom- bardier, and to transport crews and fuel oil to otherwise inac- cessible areas where carcasses had to be destroyed by fire. In- spection of the work was made sometimes by helicopter and sometimes by bombardier, a vehicle which travels easily over this terrain, Five bulldozers were used for excavating the burial trenches, Where the water table was too high for deep burial, an eight - foot thick mound was built up over the bodies. This proved to be the usual procedure. Tractors, t'•avelling in pairs, hauled lime, fuel oil and tools. Each pair was accompanied by a bombardier for locating and hauling carcasses and for trans- porting the crews where practic- able. The supplies were brought down river to camp in a barge. w u * Fort Smith, the nearest settle- ment to the infected meadows, was too remote to serve as a base for the operation. The camp was set up on the bank of the Slave River on an old sawmill site where a large building stood, This was used as a dining hall and a modern kitchen trailer was attached to it. Shacks were put up for the men to live in. All personnel coming into the com- pound were required to pass CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN 1. Cantonment 1. P:xploo Ivo devices, 6. Cerruptlou 5,1) amounted a. Coat,• g trdener 4. Small shot 6. Tatters 6 r',•ude nu tr,l 8. }le loves (T.,at.1 12 Wings 10, Land moasurr 14. Function 16. Plunderer 17. Verily 18, Walking sticks 15. Peet shows 22 rtteel'1 rewr month , 28. 17arhnr 20 Varsity 20 Forever (Maori) SO. At rest 81, Out (r, tehl as. Vacillate 08.. storrnitii (Pr 1 86. 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Pei sec, rant. 1', 0111:worm 23 29 az. 43 9.13 Answer elsewhere on t lie page through a de-contatnination post and a washhouse trailer contain- ing washing and drying machines was provided to handle the dis- infecting of clothes. • Early in the work the crews began to wear masks as a protec- tion against the spore -laden dust whioh was raised by helicopter landings and bulldozer exeavta- tions, The scrupulous attention paid to disinfection at bhe base and at the work scene was a feature of the whole project. The ground around the burial point was lim- ed or burned off; the carcasses were covered with lime to hasten their destruction! lye was used to wash the equipment used. Deep burial or mounding puts the carcass beyond the reach of carnivorous animals and birds which, though themselves im- mune to anthrax, might spread the spores from the infected ani- mals to other pastures. Where these methods could not be used, the carcasses were destroyed by fire with the aid of fuel oil. e * * At the conclusion of the dis- posal operation, -brush and pas- ture were fired to force the sur- vivors of the infected area to seek other feeding grounds. Carefulsurveillance of wild life in the area will be maintain- ed. Authorities are particularly goncerned that 'a herd of wood bison, a rare species 01 the plains buffalo, should not be touched by anthrax in their sanctuary in near -by Wood Buffalo National Park.. e „ Anthrax is contracted by ani- mals grazing on infected pasture land. Sport hunting of buffalo was ordered cancelled this year to prevent the possibility of an infected animal being shot and parts of the carcass containing the spores being brought out, Spores are long-lived and very resistant to destruction. Quarantine a n d inoculation control the disease in domestic stock but such means are not applicable to wild life. e 0 Seed production from timothy, the dominant forage grass in Eastern Canada, was estimated early in September. to reach 8.5 million pounds, about half of the 10 -year average. Most of this will come from Ontario where there was a short- age of hay and pasture in the heavier producing areas coupled wil,h an increase in livestock population. Some yields were in the 250-300 pound -per -acre range, and were of good quality. q, p e Forecasts are for the biome grass seed crop in Western Can- ada to be about the same as in 1961 with Manitoba increasing its output. Larger production of crested wheat grass in Manitoba and Saskatchewan may be offset by a small crop from Alberta., A substantial` decrease in creeping red fescue, seed is seen through decreased acreage and yield. Canada is the main source of this seed for 1.1.5, buyers. 0 0 6 Manitoba grows practically all Canada's meadow fescue seed crop which this year may be twice that cf any previous year. 7h(: weenie: is also good. Export of field seeds from Ca- nada totaled 55,8 million pounds for the crop year ended June 30, compared with 65.4 million pounds the previous year. 0' e 0 The United States took 45.4 million pounds, the principal items being 15.5 million ib. of sweet clover, 9 million ib, of creeping red fescue, 5.7 million lb. of red clover, single cut, and 3.3 million lb, of double cut, 6.2 million lb, of alsike and 2 million lb, of alfalfa. Other hnporters were Euro- pean countries, and Japan, Aus- tralia, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Cuba. Most were interested in timothy, the red clovers, alsike and broms grass, * a * Canada imported during the same year 21 million lb. of the principal field seeds compared with 13,3 million lb. the previ- ous year. The largest amount 15.1 million ib. came from the United States and included 41 types, the chief in quantity being timothy, alfalfa, and perennial 170 grass, Doesn't Believe 1n Hitch -Hiking Most hikers, frequently to the annoyance of motorists, stick out their thumbs, periodioally in the hope of cadging lifts. But one who sets himself firmly against hitch -hiking in any category is Ronald Aldous -Fountain, a farty- five-year-old Norwich born com- mercial traveller. The very idea of hitching outrages his faith in his own two.sound feet. Having spent the last nine years in Australia, he is now trekking the 2,000 miles from Melbourne to Perth, a journey by foot of ten to eleven weeks' hard, dust -begrimed slog, "I intend to get there," he says, "In time for the Empire Games in November, and I'm definitely not hitching any rides." This stocky, 51t, 3rn. tramper revels in long hikes. Since the war, he has tramped many thou- sands of miles through Germany, England, the Middle East and Japan. And, as he knows well, if he accepted a single lift, even in an emergency, it would spoil his grand "foot it yourself" record. In all weathers, with the going good or bad, through jungle trails or across desert, he aver- ages 25 to 30 miles a day. Up I1'tluwn to Prevent H-rk,rig Some Memories Of Oki Fanning Days Many things pass by, but the land cleingetb not so much; and when my father and I walk up through the fields of our old Maine farm the differences don't seem to matter. Father's horizons have been lost, because nobody keeps cows any more, but this is relative. Eighty years ago every farm had a barnful of stock, and the land was kept clear for hay and pas- ture.' As a boy, nay father could stand on our pasture knoll and look away across the valley, but not today. Today, unless he's a dairy farmer, a man can't afford the luxury 01 cattle, and I guess a good many of the dairy farmers oan't-the way their numbers fall off every year. Well, the board of health, and the milk control board, and the federal marketing agent, and a thousand other regulatory no - times have put the family cow out of business. We prpduee more milk every year with few- er cattle and fewer farmers, The horizons have drawn in. My father belongs to the genera- tion of cleared fields and neat, weedless wall -corners, Tall hay and ripe grain% looked good. But the government bulletins tell us now that fence rows pro- tect wildlife and add to the value, Each small bush is nurse- maid to a bigger, and some day we'll have trees to sell, The cattle used to keep the forest growth down by nipping the young shoots. If I want to hold back some bushes I tuck a package of hor- mones into my orchard spray tank, and I don't need cows, Milk, I get delivered to my farm doorstep, homogenized, pas- teurized, scarified, and irradiated -cheaper than I could produce it myself. I don't need oxen, and I couldn't grow beef without get- ting afoul of more regulations than an abbey, and my old barn is legally unfit for dairying. It was legislated out of archi- tecture 40 years ago, In the pub- lic interest. Aly father's father, when he built it, had nobody to please but himself. I've been planning to rip it down and find some use for the lumber, But things are really about the same. "I caught a skunk once, right there," my father says. Some squirrels were raiding his pop- corn, so he built a wire cage to keep a squirrel in and set a box - trap. When he found the trap sprung he lugged it to the house and dumped the squirrel into the top of the cage and closed the hatch, But this squirrel happened to be a skunk, who resented this treatment and felt silly, indeed, sitting up in a squirrel cage. In my time, saw a woodcock, one year, sitting on eggs about where my father caught his skunk, and I watched her daily until they hatched. My own son, in his time, trap- ped an owl about there, and kept him until he learned that an owl's personal habits are un- pleasant. And my father's father used to tell how they set droplogs to control the fishers that were the settler's chief pest. The place is up the lane, beyond the spring and before you come to the gap by the Red Astrachan tree, This is, I suppose, what they mean by roots. Our total time as a family on this farm is small compared to some of the holdings in the Eng- land our people come from, but it is a total thing -from begin- ning to now is hardly more then firsthand. My own grandfather remem- bered, and told me himself, of the times when the only neigh- bor was six miles away. He couldn't remember the Indians, but his grandfather could, and told about them, so to me, the stories were only one hearsay away, The Indians liked us, he said, used to stop in overnight to visit whenever they came this way to rhass;acre some settlers at tide water, It was in 010Se tunes .that ow first house was built. The "old settler" was a boy of 19 then, and he dug clay from the brook bank in the lower 'field and burned all the thousands of bricks he used for his eight -flues chimney. He didn't know how to burn 'bricks, and there was no-. read whatydittsaysp wi'nhthe Bible about this trade, and went ahead. And my father and I walk up amongst my 30 -foot pines and he says, "This is the best field on the farm. I used to harrow it for beans with a yoke of young.. steers and three logs driven full of wooden teeth. Not a rook 1 the whole field, and good soil." His father had cleared it - it stood comb -thick with monstrous pines older than Columbus -and was delighted to find it free of the rocks that sprouted like mushrooms on the rest of the farm. In my father's time it grew orop after crop, and then in mine we read another government bulletin and planted it to pine again. Six feet apart and offset in rows, neat and orderly, the little seedlings reached for the sky, and I suppose my son will one day send them to mill and perhaps his own boy to college. The land is the same, but the generations come and go and the uses change. It isn't enough that the world. has fathers and sons, There ought to be at that continuity with the land that an old farm affords, Young crows cry in August, filling the humid, misty morn- ings with discord, and they are there for grandfathers a n d grandsons alike. The easterly rains slap on kitchen windows, the blackber- ries hang by the rock walls, and there is perpetual magic to the clear, cold water in the spring by the lane. These things are the same, and in our living room we not only have the stereoscope through. which Grandfather gazed in awe at the beauties of Niagara Falls in winter, but we have'the spin- ning wheel on which grandmoth- ers twisted the family yarn, and the latest pictures from Telstar. Bricks burned before the Rev- olution await the inspections of further tomorrows. Father comes and walks up through the fields with me, and sits again by the old places, and the things he did and the thing% he saw are about the same as we do today. His fields of corn were coaxed to maturity before an early frost if they were lucky; mine is hy- brid seed fed with computed fertilizers and irrigated, so I'm .sure of a crop. But it's still corn, The telephone rings to inter- rupt him while he is telling grandchildren how he drove eight miles in a snowstorm, with a white horse he couldn't see from the pung, to carry news of a new sister to an aunt up the road. Aunt Eunice's roses still bloom by the doorstep, and Eunice was an old lady when George Washington was a boy. The doorstep used to be a flat fieldstone that was slippery in the rain, so in after times it was replaced by a cast cement block. Butthe wrought -iron foot - scraper from the old was set over into the new. Uncle Niah brought the scraper from France when, he went over there with Ben Franklin. And that Red Astrachan tree by the gap isn't the tree that was first planted there. Our family has worn out many an apple tree, but somebody al- ways manages to keep a new one coming by the gap. You might call this loyalty to a tradition; and you might call it an investment in the future. But it's also a very good ar- rangement in your own time, -- by by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. DRIVE CAREFULLY - The life you save may he your own. ISSUE 43 - 1962 OVER AND UNDER THE BAY Barges float huge 325 -foot -long steel bridgesection into position to form the highest point in the 17.5 -mile -long bridge -tunnel highway crossing of lower Chesapeake Bay.