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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-06-01, Page 7Jimmy's Fishing Excursion, Jimmy was spending the :summer at 'his Grandfather's farm; a lively place, with cows and horses and pigs to interast him; but this day Jimmy was not happy. At the lower end of the orchard, ,just beyond the stables there was a •creek. It was a narrow stream and yet it was deep •and very swift; and it was full of small fish, One° ninny's uncle Ned had' taken him down to this little 'brook, that -went, singing •so gayly, on its way to the sea, and had allowed him to fish .all one long afternoon; :and ever after that happy clay Jimmy had but one 'wish, and that was to 'play in the brook; to sail snake believe ,ship's, and ' to catch more of the little • minnows and have Mary, the cook, fry them for his supper, as she had that other time. • But e waternbecause .th ran so swiftly, and was so deep, it was not 'safe for Jimmy,to go there alone, and j he had been forbidden to do so, over and over. Yet this afternoon, the longing be - 'came so unbearable that the small lad 'felt be could not endure it, and so very quietly he went to the barn, found the long willow fishing pole TJncle Ned had fixed for him, and orceping past the kitchen door, so no one would' see him, he hurried away, drown the garden path, and through the orchard to the creek. 1 For a long time after Jimmy reach- ed the old willow tree, whose branches reached nearly across the 'stream, he' was very careful, and he kept away from the edge of the water; but soon, in the excitement of catching min- nows, he began to grow careless, and leaned faa=ther and farther over the edge of the bank, in his attempt to. throw his line into a deeper pool, at the farther side. Jimmy's Uncle Ned had told hint of l :a big, wary trout that lived in that' pool and, he thought "If I can only' catch that whopper, I guess they wilt think I em big . enough to go fishing, by myself, and won't they be sur prised• when I take him home." But,' like so many others, Jimmy was "counting his chickens," for as her balanced on a branchof the willow, ande threw back his arm to make a long cast, the branch'bent slightly:0d; in trying to regain his balance, Jim-; production, record has been at by the Ayrshire "Butbereup of Gienholm" owned by Prof. J. D. Clark, superin- tendent of the Experimental Station at Ottawa, which under a 36155-ed•aytest produced 16,444: pounds of Milk and 062 pounds • of fat, the milk production being 400 pounds in excess off ,any pre- vious record'. Canada is not particularly lcewer n'ed in the matter of claiming the world's record being ;'ally conscious that she is realising what she set out to ac- complish in establishing a thriving° dairy industry. Production is inareas- ixig rapidly, especially lir, tie Western ' provinces, and the Canadian products ' have found great favor, in the face of strenuous ceompetlition, on foreign markets,. The type .of dairy animal Canada tee produced is in universal de- maid and individual production r•e- cords ,are equal to those achieved else where: rely fell with a splash elght in the huiddie of the swiftly.Ilewing watea'.. As he fell he gave one lead cry, and then he was •whirled away, the current rolling him over and over, so that he hid no chance, to •swine --for Jimmyhad been leaning to swim that summer. Somewhat stunned, and . dreadfully frightened, Jimmy was fast losing his senses, when he heard a shout, and through a haze he saw a figure run- ning at top speed down the bank. "Hold on, old c'hae; I'm owning," Uncle Ned called., as he !stpurted ahead, making for another willow that grew over the creek lower down; and as Jimmy, sputtering and gasping, went sailing by, Uncle Ned bent a long branch of the willow tree right down in front of him, and shouted "grab it boy, grab it." Jimmy did grab' it, and held on with all his strength. It was only•a moment befoze-Uncle.Ned had him, dripping and shaking, on the bank. "Well," said Uncle Ned, as he hur- ried Jimmy towards home. "How do you like fishing by your lonesome, had fun enough to make it pay?" "No," chattered Jimmy, "I'll never run away .and, go 'fishing alone again; but after all, Uncle Ned, if I hadn't been nearly drowned, you would never have had the 'chance to be a hero by saving me." "That's all right, , Old Timer, but don't you go off on any more solitary excursiibns, just on my account; I'd rather be a plain :every -day farmer, than be scared to death, any day; and it was lucky for you that I 'happened to miss you, and looked for that fish- ing pole, or you'd be floating over the clam about now." "Just the same I hope I can catch that big trout,"said Jimmy, as he was tucked away between blankets, and made to swallow a big dose of ginger tea. . "Perhaps you can," said Uncle Ned. "I think .you have been punished enough for d'iso'bedience this time; but next time I will go along, when you try for him. I was just hunting you up, to ask if you would like to do to the Lake and catch real fish, when I missed you this afternoon." "Oh, Uncle Ned," wailed Jimmy, "and now I can't go. I'll never, never run away again as long as T live. It don't pay a little bit, and I did so want to go to the Lake." DAIRY INDUSTRY OF CANADA RECORDS CREATED DUR- INC, BRIEF HISTORY. Type of Dairy Animal Pro- duced in Canada is in Universal Demand. No sooner does Canada turn her hand to some new, phase of agricul- t tural endeavor than she achieves un - 'qualified success in the departure and proceeds to create records. This has been repeatedly illustrated in her brief history and now the Dominion, in agricultural phases previously con- sidered impossible ,to her soil and climate, has surpassed older countries where agriculture 'has been an estab- lished industry for generations. It is not long since Canada commenced her departure from the tremendous cattle herds and huge wheat fields which formed the general coneeption of suc- cessful agriculture and by diversify- ing With .dairy cattle made a bid for' dairying fame, but 'already she lias ae-' com,plished ehenonenal things hi this! direction, exporting dairy products where previously she imported, and meeting en what has come to be an' equal footing of quality the olid estab-. fished dairy countries of 'the world. With the 'interest awakened in dairy-' ing, Canadian farmers, as is typical of all their activities, were satisfied with, nothing but the best, .and set' about producing the best dairy cows' possible, in '*Bich laudible work they received the active •co-operationof the • governments. They have. now develop- ed, herds which are •considered second uo none orf the globe; and each year Canadian animals are purchased by other countries to build up their own (nerds.. Every year sees Canadian Lure -bred dairy stock .purchased by. farmers in the United •States. They have gone,Tapau, to Australia, Japan, 'Peru and the West Indies. - Holstein stock, first importer] Timm England,has herd Its progeny branght back to improve British. ;herds, For •country of each recent dairy development meat this is very eredlt,able showing. Alberta Cow Sets Pace. ]`hough f..rein . the. outset, Canadian dairy l roduetinn records compared .ver'•y favorably with those of all dairy. eounntries there was nothing signal about them nail "Rosalind of Old Bas- ing'," a Jersey of Red Deer, 'Alberta, won for herselfthe distinction of be- ing tt'c, champion illiich eow of the .iri'inpira, s1ien the Dominion] Plant a Tree. He who plants a tree Planus hope Rootlets up through. fibres blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free; So man's life must climb From the clods of time Unto " heavens sublime. Owlet t I tree, thou prophecy, thou little t , What the glory of thy boughsshallbe? He who plants a tre Plants a joy; Plants a comfort that will never cloy, Every day a fresh reality, Beautiful and strong,. To whose shelter throng Creatures blithe with song, If thou cou•1•dst but know, thou happy tree, • Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee! He who plants a tree, He plants peace. Under its green curtains jargons cease; Leaf"and zephyr murmur soothingly; :;hallows soft with, sleep Down tired eyelids creep, Balm of slumber deep. Neverhast thou dreamed, thou blessed tree, Of the benediction thou shalt be. He who plants a tree, He plants youth; Vigor won for centuries in sooth; Life of time that hints eternity; Boughs their strength uprear; New shoots every year On old growths appear. Thou shalt teach the ages, sturdy tree,. Youth of soul is immortality. 1 He who plants a ,tree, He plants rove, Tents of coolness spreading out above Wayfarers' he may not live to see. Gifts that grow are best; Hands that bless are beat; Plant! Life does the rest. Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree, And his work its own reward shall be. —Lucy Larcom, 1824-1893. The weer Congo. In Congoian 1, men do the sewing and wash the clothes and women farm the crops and sell the produce. Men. alone are permitted to take snuff, whilst the women smoke tobacco far more potent than the strongest twist. A Congolese bride wears her wed- ding -ring onthe leg, not on the finger. It is not made of gold, but of brass, and may weigh anything up to thir- teen pounds! Eat Meat Only On Holidays. In Greece there are hundreds of families i who never taste meat during, the entire yeare xcept on New Year's Day and at Easter. experienced the gratification of true accomplishment and felt justifiably proud. On a lest .conducted .over three consecutive years her highest milk yield for one dray was 52 lbs., for one month 1,471% lbs., and for ane year 15,700 lbs. The average test for but- ter fat was 5.16 per cent. and she pro- duced in one year 1,031.89. The ac- tual returns for cream ,and skim milk from this queen of cows in the three years was $1,007.50, which it must be remembered, was in a time when but-' ter prices were very much lower than 1 they are now and a thousand dollars had greater representative value, This achievement stimulated Can- adian dairymen to emulation and pointed the way to yet greater things. Later Bulla Pontiac, a Holstein Freisan, owned by T. A. Barron, of Brantford, Ontario, left the Alberta cow behind and made a world milk production record under the official test of the Holstein-Freisan Assoeia- tion. In twelve months shep roduced a total of 27,017 pounds of butter; 1,- 259 pounds of fat; and 1,573.75 pounds of butter. This was far in excess of any world's milk record previously set, though since surpassed, and entitled Bella Pontiac, for some time, to the title of the world's record cow. No another Canadian cow has risen to fame setting a new Canadian, re- cord for combined milk and butter production which also, from the stand- point of strictly official tests, is a world record. This cow is De Kel Plus Segis Dixie, of Vaudreuil, near Mont - reel, Quebec, which in 1921 produced 32,632 p:oumds .of milk and 1,439 pounds of butter. The test was conducted under the supervision of chief inspec- tor C. S. Wood and R. S. Hamer, Do- minion. • live stock commissioner. Neither in milk alone or butter alone is Dixie's record a Canadian one, but,, far combined production she is the first' in Canada. Only one cow has sur -1 passed this record in the world, Segis Pieterje Prospect, of the Carnation Paries, and this was effected -under merely semieotlicial'tests '. aid not hi:n der the eye of 'a government official; so that the Qoebec cow might with'. justifieation claim 'the world's corn-! alined butter and milk :production re-' cord. • An 'Unquestioned World Record. Since th.e Vaudr^euil, covi's line achievement a world record in another class has' been made .by a heifer "Echo Sylvia Laura" owned by W. D. Wright of Brockville, Ont., evhich holds' the world's championship for .butter and, milk production for heifer with first cal:C, This young• anima born in' April, 1919, in seven days produced 505,5 pounds of, milk and' 36,64 pounds of butter, ,And in thirty daps 2230.5, pounds et milk and 141,10 pounds of . butter. i A new four -.year 614 Canadian milk Machinery That Seems Almost Human. Although the making of a pin : is not such a complicated matter as the aianufectuee. of 'needles, it passes through many processes before it is ready for the market. . In the latest improved method of making pins, red copper and zinc are put into a :crucible, and the amalgam obtained by fusing the two metals is run into moulds to form oval pla:tes,. The plates are sheared and then cut into wires. While being cut they are held fast by massive clamps. At this stage a device similar to .a glacier's direr/loud is driven down upon the plates by a simple truck pike machine consisting of four grooved wheels and a pulley and chain. While the • plate is held in position by the clainps, its outer edge rests against the `'tangent of two circular shears, which turn mechanically in op- posite directions. The 'machine starts, the shears worst, and the wires receive their points and are cut into square. seetions, which are seized by workmen and hooked on to one of the shear posts. A n'ian draws the plate along, and the shears force it to turn. While the shears are paring the plate into the required shape, a sixty pound weight drags the truck along, pressing on the shears. The shears cut .all the time until the plate is par- ed to a diameter of forty-five milli- metres. Then the wire from the square sectgons goes to the wire - drawers, where the ends are pointed by file .or hammer. . Later the wire is straightened, drawn, and turned. It presents its ex- tremity and is met by a little mallet, which gives it the three short, sharp raps which form its head. The fully - formed pin wire is now cut intosec- tions. As the sections • are cut they fall on to a grooved slide: The groove catches the pins by their heads, and they are manipulated by a long, rapidly revolving'rnouider. The pin is then pushed away from the machine from behind, drawn back, and then forced forward, revolving as it moves along. As the pin advances along the screen or sieve, its body lies almost wholly on the runner. When it reaches the end of the long screen it falls into the box which has been set to catch it. May. May is such a pretty girl— She fastens in her hair The pink of apple blossoms And the white of summer pear., She has the, most elusive scent That any girl could use; She owns a gorgeous sunset sky Of many different Mies. ,.t She robes herself in softest gieen--- That's most becoming, too, Although the changes • in her gown Are really very few. May is such a clever girl— She knows the way to blend The colors in her centrepiece Just so they won't offend. Shea truly very kind of heart And trims the poorest lots With something as exquisdts as The blue forget-me-nots. But when her lovely centrepiece is all complete and fine, Her sister June will come along And change the whole design. —Nan Terrell Reed. Sad GIve•Away. Mrs. Hibrow—"Did the Earl you had to dinner last night bring his coronet?" Mrs. Newrich-"I didn't even know. he could play one." 2� Children have to acquire a taste for sweets; it in not one of their na- tural traits, saysa scientist. How Biggest : est Diamond Was Polished The wonderful skill and ingenuity of the diamond workers, which invol- ves the utmost .delicacy of workman -i ship,• has never better been illustrated than in the polishing • of the biggest of all •diamonds --the .famous Cuilinan, presented to the late Xing Edward VII. by the owners of the, Kimberley mines in. South Africa.. It was necessary to •cleave the stone in three pieces so as to remove the two very bad flaws. This cleaving was accomplished first by making an in- th' limn vision , nh the stone vv" a a o cutting saw at the point where it was to be ,cleaved and folllowing the grain (all diamonds have a grain) to a depth of one-half to three-quarters of an inch. X Before this cleaving operation was undertaken crystal models were made cleaved to learn, as far •ascould and be known, just what would happen when the same process was applied to the real stone. When the incision brad been made the cleaver aver inserted' into the slit a s:peeially eoirstrueted knife blade made a i then with h t ,.tech d l e It of the finest , an thick steel rod struck it :a hard brow and .cut the stone in twain exactly at the •point where it was proposed it efhould he cut. It was an exceedingly well executed piece of work. The cleaving of a diamond is not. always accomplished along the line it is intended., and, it notinfrequently happens that in cleaving a stone it flies into a great number of pieees. The Cullinai •stone baying been su,e- t 1; cessfully split the next and final opera- tion was the pelfsluing, the most diffi- cult and nicest part of the diamond cutting. This huge gem was polished Afrtzca, on a disk made of cast iron and steel, revolving. at the rate of twenty- four hundred revolutions a minute. The diainond• was pressed down on this disk, which was liberally supplied with a miXtui'e of diamond dust and oil, by weights of from fifteen to twenty-five pounds, and the - disk was constantlyturned from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day for eleven months before the polishing was •oomipleted. The Cullinan is mealy times larger than the Excelsior, the next largest diamond in the world. The Cullman in the tough weighed 3,027 carats. The part of •'Nhe stone on the mill, when finished, weighted 'between 500 and 600 carats. The . actual commercial value Of the stone is about $2,600,000, but its Unique character makes it practically priceless. When the Cullunan was fdund it was a. problem sof the diamond company to decide what to do with it. Its mere eine, over one and a half pounds, made it unmarketable and unsalable, and to out it up into small ,pneees would destroy not only its fiitriesie value but its sentiznentai value.. The diamond therefore retrained in the vaults of the company .for nearly three years; when it was decided to present it to the Xing orf Great Britain on the anniversary of his sixty-sin;th 'birth- day. In the rough t1io stone was valued, at about $1,000,000, and about this price was actually paid, namely $400,- 000 and $600,000. representing 60 pr cent, of the interest the Government of the Transvaal had therein on ac- count of the fact that the government was entitled to this percentage of the output of all 'diamond mines of Sotith oH—wEt;i- 1 HAVENT TIME "rOTHINK ABOUT ALL THAT JUST Novo (- HERE YOU ARE JACK -.THIS IS '(Ou.R CHANCE WHY Done" YOU TAKE IT? MY p; PEOPLE WANT >• TOJQiri You! D�S1�G,gl-ic pfyj' R'rt�alPiCx epp CTc '`O LST it —I Z Migratory Birds Convention Act The Act respecting certain conven- tions between Canada and the United States for the protection of migratory birds which was ratified at Washing- ton in. December, 1917 and is sum- marized, with amendments, in a gov- ernment paper issued last fall, is be- ginning to make itself left. At beast, so says Mr. Jack Miner; student of wild life and lover ofthe great out- doors; who, on his farm near Kings- ville, Essex County, Ontario, some years ago set aside an area as a Birds Sanctuary. Briefly, the Ant .defines the opening and closing dates for shooting migra- tory 'birds or the taking of their eggs and nests, the bag limits, the closed season, the, kinds of guns and appliances permitted sportsmen, the penalty for, violatin"the law and the names of the birds . that come within the protectory clauses of the Act. It is designed to protect and Propagate the birds during the mating : and breeding season, and obviate their ex- tinction both north and::soutlr of the international boundry, leaving to sportsmen and those who depend upon the game for food supply, opportunity to indulge their purpose. Mr, Miner—or "Jack" as he Tikes to be called, bases his assertion on the number of 'wild' geese and ducks which annually visit his Sanotuary ponds. "Since the Act went into effect," he declares, "I have noted the .steady in- crease in the number of birds that Dome to sojourn with nie. The first year—some year ago,—I de'finit'ely offered protection and feed to these birds., seven only visited me; but they came back the following one with eleven others and year by year, they returned in increasing numbers un- til this spring between; three and four thousand are now to be found on the Sanctuary. I attribute the great increase in the last three years to the Migratory Birds Act." Mr. Mines, who is a philosopher as well as fiend of bird and beast, is an enthusiast on wild life conservation. From cthildhood he has lived on the farm he now occupies, which in his youth was uncultivated forest land: and mingled daiiyR•with the'wild ihdngs of the woods. He has made friends with thepi and Doane to understand them. "When you kill a bird, in the spring " he says, "you're dep?eting bird life; you're taking a mate away from some other bird and wiping out untold, unborn families. It is a moral crime for anyone to kill any bird at mating or hatching time;" and he faithfully ,practices what he preaches. About ten acres of the farm is set aside as the Sanctuary and protection is .extended for two miles en either side. In this area, Mr. Miner made an artificial pond 'and scatter d cern on the banks and the shallow bottpms. Last year, 7,000 bushels. (on the cob) were fed to them, and now, year aftr year, in increasing numbers, in the early spring and ]rate fall, he is visited by his feathered friends. They know him 'and trust him. Sportsmen who have attempted to approach . wind geese near enough for a sere kill, know the difficulty of accomplishing their purpose, know the sagecety and intelligence of the speoies. Yet Mr. Miner walks •carelessly amongst then and brings Ms friends .and visitors with hirn. Wiintering along the shores of the Gullf of Mexiico, the co'as'ts of Florida and the mouth .of the Mississippi, Wild geese migrate northwards in the early 'spring to breed in the vicinity of Hudson and James Bey, Labrador and Baffin Land. In the course of their long flight they descend to rest on ponds and lakes wherever night finds them •a.nd prior to the passage of the Migratory Birds' Act, were slaughter- ed in great quantity. This slaughter mow, to a gireat extent, has been eliminated. Their food value to tlhoae who live in what are known as the Barren Lands of the North is great, and afber the breeding season, when moulting, thousands are easily killed and laid away in the frozen .ground for future consumption. Mr. Miner is carrying en his altruis- tic work from the sheer love of de He is increasing the •size of his Sanc- tuary to one hundred acres, handling the active administration cf his farm and: brick ,and the plant to his sons, and is going to devote all his time and energy to the welfare of the binds. He grows his own corn for feed pur- poses -and while he is in receipt of small annual grante from the Do- minion and Ontario governments, his books show a deficit. His example and propaganda is making itself felt in windening circles and the demands for his lectures from points in both Can- ada ,and the United States are e.tead:ily increasing. It is due to the efforts of babies' lovers both north and south of the boundary, the late Dr. Cordon Hewitt ,of Ottawa and Dr, Harnady cf New York., that the Migratory Bird act came into existence. Gerais Pass Through Walls. Five hundred monkeys have been mad in the last three years in experi- ments by which the vaccine now in use .against pneumonia has :been, de- veloped. • This has been part of national re- search work on the 'subject of in- fluenza and pneumonia, which, accord- ding to Dr, W. H. Park, of the New York Health Department, has proved, amongst other things, that the invisi- ble. unidentified organism that causes influenza can ss through a stone h p wall. For three years the Dep,arinient has kept under observation 6,000 vaccinat- ed and 8,000 unvaccinated persons: There have been two cases of'pneu- incl m�onia •amongs�F the vaccinated, twelve amongst the. unvaccinated. The moiikeys have been brought in as they were needed from South Am- erica and Africa, end` the experiments have been carried out in Washington and New York.'. Dr W. 11. Pacrk states that twosuFb- S stances were used hypaclermically in the' treatment of pneumonia, one be- ing the vaccine and the :other the serum taken from .a heree that had been inoculated with pueunionia, The serum was generally admitted to be x« useful aici in aid treatment of pneumonia, but there was some dif. ference of opinion regarding the vac - cin. When a person suffering front pneu- monia is inoculated with the vaccine, a chill is produced which sometimes throws off the disease. The experiments on monkeys show- ed that when the animals were vac -- tined they did not get pneumonia, even though they might be inoeelateri with the ;germ. If they were not rMei naxed they did get the disease wheninoculated; and usually died, but thee dict not mean, said Dr, Park, that experiments on•human beings would show the same results. • Mother Thoughts: I would go proudly And bow my 'head no more. How can I walk humbly Before High God. Beating on my siloukiers This immeasurable road.? My burden of the loss of lain So groat it is, and sore, 1 must go proudly, end bole my head no c,re. Mari,ila M. P. Hubbell. Good bargaining makes a tifeg purse.