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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1944-04-27, Page 2ani ,Ch CHRONICLES GINGER FA By Gwendoiine P, Clarke M Y M * C 1 I have been outside looking for signs of spring, And, believe it or not, I found them, There was the sound of frogs singing in the pas- ture swamp; the shrill scolding cry of a blue -jay, as he flew towards the big oak tree; a red -breasted robin strutting around; lilac buds definitely swelling and, by scratch- inglrway at the dead gross, I found several yellow -green shoots of daf- fodils. There were also some heal- -1•.y looking rhubarb crowns—if only there were sugar to go with it— and here and there seedlings of bur- dock and chicory. Coine late spring yr early, the weeds are always with tis. * x; * Down at the baro there are other igns of spring. I don't have to • look for them, they snake their pre- aence known from afar. I mean the calves—there are four of thein, and alt heifers. Yesterday we stopped their horns. Farm people will ' ow what I mean ba that but for the benefit of those svh. don't live on a farm perhaps I had better explain. Calves are born without horns just as babies are born without teeth. tut the roots are there ---little hard knobs on either side of the head known as "buttons". They appear quite harmless and can Hardly be- felt efelt at all until the ,salves are about a. week old. But Ie ave them alone and watch those buttons develop into murderous leaoking horns. It depends an the breed of cattle how • murderous thosegiorns are likely to ' be. - Our cattle:: are, Ayrshire and Chat breed has about the worst ,.horns of any. '4.S.0 to keep the horns i"roir. ' g we rut the buttons y tout if st'- .lob CAltii`.j TORCH The chap above literally "carries the torch" for the RAF. He's traffic director at RAF station in England, and is pictured using a lair of torches to signal landing directions to bombers returning after night raid over Europe. fa done carefully the calf doesn't even feel it. But if one is clumsy and gets caustic on the surround- ing flesh then the poor little calf ets bad burns and no doubt suf- sers pain- and discomfort, But be- lieve rte, it is quite easy to bungle the job as the fighting strength of ' ri week-old calf is amazing, Inci- dentally it is quite as easy to burn oneself as the calf. Caustic sho.ld lye handled with respect. * Here is how Partner and I tackle the job. I gather up my supplies, rubber gloves, scissors, cup of water and caustic pencil in a bottle. Part- ner corners the calf to be treated; straddles its back and tries to hold ilia head steady. With the scissors J clip away when I get a chance at the rough hair around the buttons. Sometimes I get quite a bit done clone before the calf realizes that aomething queer is happening, but moaner or later it "catches on." And „ Skij.s Eruptions I•Tere. It a clran, stainless, Pene- trating' anti ,Pt;,, oil that brings ries Ay rrllnf from the itching and discomfort. 1v ;t only dors this healing antis- eptic ntis-ep ir. oil promote rapid and healthy li iN,.1ng 1n open sores and wounds but boils and simple ulcers are ,slue) relieved- in elin,'ted.iir skin affections the itching of xiezArna is guickt' _stopped. Pimples i~ 141 arsery eruptions dry and settle ., true ..of Barber's rich, Salt El;,ttultii, Jinbing :`Coes and Peet and eviler inf1ijpmarory skin disorders, You�Cu i aohtniir oone's Mineral* flri in the original bottle at any 1;,• '' ,41;}i1,, t17Xe. Satisfaction guar- 82nr q`l i1r,&ltro,i7ey hack, then the fun begirs, It twists a d it wriggles and it sticks its nose up in the air, Every time I get the scissors in position for another go the calf gives a mighty lurch and I have to back up or catch the calf in the eye. Partner tries to do my part as well as his own. "There now, he says, "get her now.... oh, you're too late again." And then I start telling him what to do .... "Watch out.... hold her steady.... down--down—how do you think I can work with her nose in the air?" * * * And so the job goes on. If it is too prolonged we get out of pat- ience with each other, the calf and the job in general. But we always persevere and finally finish the job. The worst part is rubbing the buttons with the caustic pencil. This is dipped in water and rubbed very firmly. on each button until tha skin is rubbed off and pin- pricks of blood are showing. Care has to be taken to see that both sides are done evenly. One time when we were dealing with a par- ticularly unruly calf I didn't make too good a job of it. One horn grew and the other didn't. The horn that grew was stunted but it was still a. horn and certainly made the heifer a queer looking animal. How- ever I think we made a pretty fait. job, of things yesterday and the calves are none the worst for their ordeal. We did only two—the others were not quite ready. English Train jrucalaite ma' Courageous Action of Driver And Fireman Averts Danger To Passengers THE WAR . WEEK rmmentary on Current Event$ Indi ri Army ° SDI 2,000,000 Men Largest Volunteer Army In World Increasing interest- hi - the Burr- . these campaign has centred attention on the Indian scene generally, cont- • stents the. Montreal Star, It a doubtful whether the general pubs lic, in this country or in the United States, has more than a vagtfe -i of the part that India has played,; and is playing in the world -conflict,; Some data recently • issued by 'the t Government of India Information Services in 'Washington serve- to emphasize in a graphic manner In- dia's share in the struggle, How many people, we wonder, realize' • that the Indian Army is the largest volunteer army in the world—two trillion strong. The regular re- cruiting has been 50,000 men per month, and it would have been in- finitely larger but for . th . ,fact that' . it was limited by,the amount of the. equipment available for . enlisted then. India's Army Nearly one-fourth f1£ India's army has seen active service overseassa . the Fourth Indian Division played; a most important part in the over-...: throw of Mussolini's African Eti1. ' pire, during which it suffered soxne*i 15,000 casualties, or one hundred, per cent of its strength, but ' it captured over 100,000 German and. Italian prisoners. Field -Marshal Lord Wavelt has *' also gone on record as saying:: "Without the assistance of India, both in troops and in material, we most certainly could not have held the Middle East, which has beeu,'I think I can claim, the keystone _of` our present successes." Royal Indian Navy The Royal Indian Navy person nel is today thirteen times greater than at the outbreak of the war. - The Information Services state that ships of the Royal Indian Navy have played their part in the Battle of the Atlantic, in the operations against the Italians in East Africa,' the campaign in Iran, the operations is the Dutch East Tndies waters, the defence of Singapore, the Bat- tle of Burma, and the invasion of Sicily. Today they are engaged fit ' the duties of escort, patrol and mine -sweeping throughout the Eas- tern and Middle Eastern Waters, Indian Air Force The. Air Force has developed also in a phenomenal way, having ex- panded ten -fold since the beginning of the war. India was one of the - -. first countries to estahtle1,- a train- ing school for parachute ti . s The resport a of volunteers tC ,Y branch of the Few passengers, if any, on a Lon- don night express recently knew that only the prompt and courage- ous actions of the driver, Herbert Blunt, and his fireman, William Page, saved them from great dan- ger. An air raid was in progress when the packed express entered a tun- nel, and most of the passengers were asleep. When about half way through, Blunt saw that. the end of the tunnel was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that in- cendiary bontlas were showering down, He slammed on all his brakes and stopped his train just inside the tunnel. Then, with shovels ' from the engine, Blunt and Page went out into the open and set about extinguishing the bombs, some of which had already set fire to the wooden sleepers. Despite the danger from possible explosives they carried on and ex- tinguished nearly 40 incendiaries lying on the track. Other incen- diaries on either side of the ent- baniknent were illuminating the countryside around. Having completed their task, Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, brief- ly reported the incident and said that as no high -explosive had been dropped and the track was safe they proposed proceeding "at cau- tion." This they did, with a total time loss of only 30 minutes, On arrival at their depot neither made any mention of what they had done, and it was a day later when the district locomotive super-. intendeiit heard of the incident from • another source. Asked why they did not report the matter, Blunt, who is 57, answered, "I did not want to blow my chest out about nothing," Cat Vision A new kind of goggles has been developed, fitted with plastic lenses of a deep reed color David 0. Woodbury notes in C.pier's. They arse being worn by thousands in t' e armed forces to adapt the rnen'e is�'+a3 for exacting night duty. After the war, this scientific short cut for eatabtlshing night vision will be available everywhere to track and btsr drivers, railroad -men, plans pltoes, etiefxtdto lie . autortxoblis owitere, and Al W. cent down tits high aesidont Ise* *Ierr0la4ed *bib de's b. subtiiarine and general patrol duties, minesweepers, motor launches and other: craft. Over 4,000 sea -going vessels of all types were repaired in Indain shipyards in the first two and a half years of the war. 'War Industries The development of war indus- tries has been little short of amaz- ing, Frorn the outset of hostilities up to March, 1942, India supplied the bulk of war material for the Middle East, She produces the latest types of artillery, and her or— dnance output has grown by leaps and bounds. She snakes over 8,- 000,000 garments ppr month for army use, and over 4,000,000 pairs of hoots a year for the army. All the above figures are official, and should serve to convince all save the deliberately purblind that India is behind the war effort heart and soul, despite the lugubrious prophecies of Gandhi and his sat- ' ellites that the Indian people would not back the Allies until the Bri- tish. Government had withdrawn from the sub -continent. India has every reason to be proud of her war ach evenlen ts. OTTAWA REPORTS That Problem .Ahead of Canadian Poultrymen Is To Produce Eggs More Efficiently • • The problem 'ahead of Canadian poultrymen is not one of increas- ing production, but of producing eggs snore efficiently, according to officials of the Egg and Poultry Marketing Service, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture. The new contract between the Special Products Board : nd the British Ministry of Food calls for shipment of a minimum of 8,400 (short) tons of dried egg powder annually during 1944 and '1945, the equivalent of 48,000,000 dozen .eggs. With the delivery of 847,149 cases from the first of the year, as against 329.1.1 cases in the same period last year, indications are that the_ quantity available for drying for British shipment in 1944 will great- ly exceed this amount. Prewar egg exports to the United Kingdom were around one million dozen eggs a year. Shipments of dried eggs in 1943 were the equi- velant of 34 million dozen eggs. Canadian ,ea•gs, sold for approxi- ., ataly fire sante rice as tlt'c�tr ,in ' exucrntty i a<u4o s 14o1land and 'Denmark on the. Bri- air services has been excellent, and tis•h market in prewar years. In it is stated that both Indians and order to meet this competition, Gurghas have been found to make greater efficiency on the part of first-class parachutists. The Force Canadian poultrymen will be ueces- has played an important part in sary, Marketing Service officials providing coverage for Allied ship- advise. ping both going and tontine with —0— troops and war 'supplies. In ad- dition - Indian air units have made many important raids on enemy ter- ritory. Some idea of the expanse,of the Force may he gained, it is poin- ted out, from the fact that during the past year more than one mil- lion men have been engaged day and night in the work of aerodrome construction. Shipbuilding The war has brought about ,the development of one invariant new industry to Indra — shipbuilding. Before the war there was none in the Indian Empire. Today Indi;ut shipyards are building ships for RECEIVES M.C. :Prom the hands of Lt.Gen, Siz QIiver Leese, Eighth Army Com- mander, Capt. A. J. Charbonneau of Ottawa, former star football player with Ottawa Rough Riders, receives the coveted Military Cross Mr valor in action, The premium of $1.00 a carcass on Grade "A" hogs which packers formerly paid to producers has been abandoned after negotiations be- tweeil the packers an the Meat Board, Dominion Department of Agriculture. Instead, as from April 10, this is now being paid as an increase in the dressed weight price of both "A" and grade "131" carcasses, by the packer,. Tile increase in the dressed weight price of grade "A" hogs amounts to about 50 cents a hun- dred, and on "111" grade carcasses, to 'about 10 cent a hundred. Ap- .proximately- 28 p.. cent of hogs -now being marl.eted grade into the top grade but the percentage of . those grading into both ".\" and "111" is as high as 75 percent. Discounts -previously made for "heavie," and other off -grade hogs have. also been discontinued, and the three "C" grades, and' three "D" grades have been consolidated in- to one grade each, with weight range of "heavies" being narrowed by 10 pounds, and that of "extra . heavies" widened b.- the sante amount. Federal premiums of -$3 and $2 on the two top grades are now be- ing paid on officially -graded hogs direct to producers. Sotne provin- ces are also paying premiums 011 'top grade hogs. All of this is ad- ditional to the increase added to the two grades by the packers. —0— Sales of used trucks, trailers and buses by' individuals not in auto- motive sales business are now un- der a Price ceiling, according to the motor vehicle controller, - The new order covers private deals, sales Ly auction, or in sales of personal or household effects. Maximum prices are..established on the basis of new vehicle prices with percentages to .allow for depreciation according to the age` of the model, —0— A net increase of $443,95'0,01.5, or ?.1% in custonls, excise and income • tax returns for the year ending Marsh, 1944, as compared with the year ending March, 1043, is an- nouiteed by the Minister of Natio :- al Revenue, Hon. C. W. G. Gibson, Income tax' returns totalled $',02.1,- 404,707, an increase of $357,4,11,874 over 1943, and total customs and excise taxes were $911,707385, tut increase of $1811,507,1.11. Provisions of ti® new \ 'artiirli' 5 Prices and Trade Board Order controlling sale and distribution of corn does not apply to sales of corn to a farmer for use as feed on urs own farm premises, the order points out. The Bok Shelf Bedford Village By Hervey Allen Bedford Village is a novel of high adventure, a story of people and events so real, so vividly alive that you cannot help but become a part of their lives and fortunes. \•With it, Hervey Allen takes full stride as a storyteller in •his por- trayal of American frontier- life in 1764, While the story is centered in Bedford Village and Pendergasses' tavern, it also moves in the bleak wilderness about, as Captain Jack And ilia '401.,ni^:„ i'o,ces stalk Li - diens through the forest to a bloody climax of death at The Salt Ket- tles. Through it all runs the story of Salathiel Albine and Itis fight for his white heritage, and the com- plications of his search for a van- ished wife. These people are not figures in an easy costume piece of colonial life—they are the Americans of yesterday, the men and women and children who touched hands with our ancestors,' fought with them, lived with then, died with thein in the making of a new coun- try. Bedford Village . By Hervey Allen ... Oxford University Press ... Price $3.00. Weight Of World • As currently estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Standards, and sub- ject to correction if anyone wishes to cavil, the weight of the world in toils is 6 followed by 21 ciphers, or in plain figures 0,000,000,000,000,- 000,000,00a, says the Ottawa Citi- zen. That seems to take it defini- tely out of the lightweight class, though ort recent performance we believe that if weighed in the bal- ance it still would be found want- ing, rKEEP FtP "Give yourself a lift"! 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