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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-03-21, Page 3MIMEO 1' CUMGEO 00©F H©© lam© ©4. &212J DOOM UREK]. • 11000 z MO 1200 MIME UMOO MOO. MESE- MOON 0000 , COE OM DEEM hMEER1 ©©rm :©®E1® ©M ©010 MOH MOO MEMO ©©WC0I 01500®0 MIMEO Eggs -Foe* To Teep her hens contented and productive, Mrs. Jane Brown, of Teagues Farm, Hay - wards Heath, lets them listen to the radio every day, and to late-night dance music. Before laying on this non- stop entertainment, Mrs. Brown found that sudden noises - particularly„ low flying aircraft --used to terrify the hens. Now, familiar with the noisy Jazz and jive music, the chick- ens are not, upset by other sounds• The domestic hen is one of the most remarkable food pro- ducers in the world. In a single year a hen • weighing three to lour ponds will produce many times her own weight in eggs. .An average hen laying 150 eggs a year will produce 18 to 1.9 lbs, •of eggs. Exceptionally good birds have approached the ideal of an egg a day. The present record of 361 eggs in a year is held by an Australian bird.. No wild bird remotely ap- proaches the domestic hen in egg -laying ability. Mallard clucks, for example, lay about 146 a year, quails 128, pheas- ants 104, ostiich 100, canaries 60, pigeons 60, and house spar- rows 51. The domestic fowl's suprem- acy is not surprising. She is the product of 3,000 years of man - directed breeding.' The ancest- ral jungle fowl of Asia lays from 30 to 40 eggs a year only. Moreover,` these eggs are half the size of the barnyard fowl's. The average hen's egg weighs about two ounces but occasion- ally freaks are produced by ne- terp}rising hens. What is prob- ably the largest ever fowl's egg is fittingly displayed in the Mu- seum of Curiosities of the Pas- teur Institute in Paris. It is about five and a half times the size of the average egg and weighs over 11 ozs. The hen which triumphantly laid this giant was a White Leg- horn. The smallest hen's egg on record weighs only a fraction more than a twenty-fifth of ,an ounce. It would take about fifty eggs of this size to balance the scales with a normal two -ounce egg. Hen's eggs shaped like cu- cumbers and sausages have been recorded. Double eggs with linked shells occure less fre- quently. Much more familiar arae double -yolk eggs. A record double-yoker weighed just half a pound. Investigating this phenomenon which o c cu.r s chiefly among young pullets, a scientist computed that a double -yolk egg appears once in about 530 eggs. The odds against triple-yokers are very much greater - one egg only in every five thousand. Compared with the hen's egg no other single food of animal origin is eaten by so many people; none is served in so many ways. Some- thing like 200,000,000,000 eggs are eaten every year through- out the world. The egg's great popularity is due to its tastiness and its wide range of use. It also- happens to be a near -perfect food. It is MERRY MENAGERIE (/AYT g.:BNE'Y 443.a b. it.. YN 3.7 "A burro? Why, I've always thought X was a camel!" a rich source of proteins and fats. In addition it contains nearly all the known vitamins and many desirable minerals - and it is easily digested. Experts are new turning their attention to the package - the eggshell. The shell is fine for nature's purpose but not for ours. It's fragile and is also per- ous which means that eggs de- teriorate. Now eggs can be re- moved from their shells and sealed in aritight transparent bags, and kept fresh until need ed by the housewife. When Sailors Wore Flowered Hats! The decision that Royal 'Navy personnel should wear "civies" while engaged in Suez salvage operations was a startling break with 'tradition. Yet British sailors have not always worn an official uniform. In the eighteenth century, sub- ject to the individual whim of them captains, sailors wore what they pleased. For• instance, the captain of H.M.S. Tulip decreed green jackets and a flower in the hat as the appropriate rig for his men. The captain of H.M.S. Blazer also had definite ideas on dress. His boats' crews had to wear blue and white -striped jackets, which incidentally, became the forerunner of the modern "bla- zer." • The men of H.M.S. Cale- donia could easily be picked out in a crowd, for they wore Scots bonnets with tartan ribbons. But the naval officer with the most eccentric notions on dress and appearance was Captain "Nobby" Ewart. An enthusiast for spit and polish, Nobby once demanded that his private stock of poultry should be fallen in at Divisions on Sundays so that they could be inspected along with the ship's company. How to line up a platoon of lively fowls and keep them pro- perly dressed by the right might have floored a lesser man than Captain Ewart's coxswain. But he groomed the birds and kept them in place on deck by means of a staple over the toes of the chickens and a tack through the webs col the ducks. One morning the coxswain turned up for duty in the cap- tain's boa` sporting a ripe black eye gained as the result of a lost argument. Nobby took one look at the brawny seaman, then °'this stickler for uniformity promptly ordered the rest of the boat's crew .to black one eye with burnt cork! It was not until a century ago that the Admiralty introduced the first regulation uniform for the men of the lower deck. Ex- cept that it is more smartly cut and better fitting, the blue- jacket's uniform today differs little in essentials from that established so long ago as Janu- ary 1857. An additional garment was a blue cloth jacket, abolished in 1891. It was from wearing this • 'that the term "bluejacket" ori- ginated. Th'e original Uniform Regula- tions also introduced a sennit hat for sailors to wear in tropical climates. Similar to the wide - brimmed straw hat worn at one time by children on holiday at the seaside, this article of kit became very unpopular, and was abolished. Naval officers' uniform was in- troduced in 1748 after they had sent a petition to . the Admiralty. A. group of officers persuaded the beautiful Duehess of Bedford, wife of the then First' Lord of the Admiralty, to wear a riding habit they had designed. George II, how had an eye for a pretty woman, saw her riding in the park as they had hoped, and so admired thehabit that he ap- proved of the same colours of blue and white being used for their uniforms. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACuns's 1, Roundabout route 7. Tallied )13. Oke from sleep 14. Unpaid debt 15. Sour 16. Carry 1 4, irnyvme 11 a. nxists 20. Paradise 1?2. Pieces 124. Singing bird •2f,. Secondhand 23. Plural ending 22. Sin 20. Organ of smell 42. Weird 34. Account entry 16. Bombastic tails ,13. Spanish lady 10. Uniform '42, Grow old id D. Indian 5 mulberry j46. Hindu Princess 42. Remnants of I combustion k6, Wild animal *1. Lethargic • states *4. By 6. Topsy'. friend. S6. Augmented 43, Girl's name 10. Narrate 33 /111 $1 4. r"art'08 Sr r'iov%sa• `.1'.41.411 DOWN 1. Grammatical case 2. Rubber 3. Fiigh hill 4.T7xtertnr 5 (Ourselves 6. NTetworis 7. Perched 3 ('rimned trnhrin 9. Alternatt.e 10. Raise 11. Church festival 12. Stylish 17. Burden 21. Unit of service 23. Arabian seaport 25. Ireland 27. Dry 31. Sign 33. Greenland settlement 35. Weight allowance 37. Kingdom in Tndn-Chlne 33. Office machines 39 Jit. near J erusa lem 41. Iniquity 43 Set for a certain speed 44. Gan ded• property 47. Mountain spur 40.:Reseues 51, Festival 63. Scent 67. ICnnwledgr 59. Biblical priest 61. Exist El ATvselr 3 4 5 13 •• hF, 7 , 8 9 10 1 12 14 15 16• 17 19 20 a 22 18 23 24 25 2.6 29 34 35 30 31 36 37 32 33 38 45 59 53 39 Aga 42 43 44 49 53 54 7 53 59 Answer elsewhere on th ti' page. • " NAUGHTY,, NAUGHTYI Fighting bulls are supposed fo charge straight forward and nearly all do. This enables the matador to show off a series of classic passes with his cape. But some- times a bull refuses to cooperate inhis own death and leaps crazily about, like the one above. So he's rated a "bad" bull for giving Matador Juan Silveti a very bad time in Mexico City's. Plaza Mexico. TIILFMN FRONT The farmer's spray shed or the gardener's garage is beginning to look like a pharmacy with all the varieties of agricultural chemicals now available to fight plant -diseases. 'Without these chemicals, it is conceivable that we might succumb to the rots, the rusts and the blights. Today, research on fungicides has reached a high state of;per- fection. But not too many years ago our *pet supply was at the mercy of many plant diseases, The potato, for example, had to fight a serious battle against early and late blight which threatened its complete destruc- tion. * * * In the early 17th century, Sir Walter Raleigh, on a voyage to Virginia, discovered the Indians cultivating'it plant the name Pf, which he translated as pot He took it to Europe whe' ?' remained a botanical curiosity' for years. The peasant farmer at last discovered its food value • and soon the potato .replkced cereals which had been the staple diet of the white man since the dawn of history. * * * Then a new disease appeared in Central Europe. It made the leaves of the potato plant turn water -soaked, slimy, rotten and black. The tubers decayed and the crops were ruined. The disease, which we now know as late blight, spread with lightning rapidity over Europe and appeared in Ireland in 1844. That densely populated island had accepted the potato as a god- send and had almost ceased to grow cereal of any kind. The entire potato crop was wiped out and 250,000 people actually starved to death while 1,500,000 emigrated, many to Canada. * * * In Canada late blight is today a serious problem for potato growers. The federal agricul- tural department undertook ex- periments in 1934 to breed new blight -resistant varieties. After testing more than 124,000 seed- lings, two varieties which were immune to the disease were in- troduced. Unfortunately their immunity did not last. The ex- periments are continuing but the prospects of obtaining a blight - resistant variety of • potato re- main in the future. * Although it is at present im- possible to eliminate the disease, its harmful effects can be con- trolled by fungicidal sprays or dusts. From experiments in Prince 4dward Island growers have dis- covered that a certain fungicide 'gives excellent cantr& of early and late blight as-wellas other diseases of potatoes. At the same time this fungicide stimu- lates growth and protects the quality of the potato right through the growing season. * * For blight control, application phould begin as soon as plants, etre two to six inches high and continue at five to 10 -day in- tervais las long as blight threat-• ens. The fungicide is easy on foliage and £rmers have found • tat it does not burn, stunt or yellow the plants. * * * if chemistry had been unable to find an answer to potato blight, one of our most nutritious and low-cost foods would have disappeared from Canadian tables. Potatoes contain plenti- ful supplies, of important min- erals: iron, calcium and phos- phorus and are a goed source of Vitamin C. They also contain substantial amounts of Vitamins A and B, riboflavin and a high- quality protein. One medium- sized potato supplies about 100 calories - penny for penny, more energy than most other vegetables. * * * When primitive man first brought sheep down from the hills to his campfire on the plains, he brought their internal parasites with them. Man has been cultivating these parasites ever since. The usual indications of worms in sheep and goats are unthrifti- ness, loss of weight, scours, pot- belly and paleness' of the akin and mucous membrane of the eyes and mouth. In some cases infested animals appear gaunt and depressed, show signs of ab- dominal pain and refuse to eat. Lambs become stunted, appear unthriftyand their wool may become rough. * *..* Of the internal parasites af- fecting sheep and goats, round- worms are the most serious. They have been found wherever sheep and goats are kept but are the most numerous where the same pastures have been used for long periods. There are eight different species of rondworms - the twisted stomach worm, medium stomach worm, small hair worm, hookworm, whip- worm, nodular worm, large - mouthed bowel worm, and thread -necked strongyles. * * •* Disease caused by worms is considerably different from dis-, ease caused by bacteria. When bacteria invade the body of an animal they multiply and dis- ease develops as a result of this multiplication. On the other hand, roundworms do not mul- tiply inside the sheep. Each baby worm which enters the animal's body develops into -an adult, but does little damage by itself. It sucks blood, produces a toxin, or opens a minute hole for second- ary bacteria in the lining of the digestive tract. * * ,, Although a few worms can do little damage inside an animal, they do lay the groundwork for serious infestation of the rest al the flock. Each female lays 60,- 000 fertile eggs. These are dis- charged into the food mass in the digestive tract of the host to be passed out onto the pasture in the droppings. The eggs hatch into baby worms which are picked up by other sheep as they graze. Entering a sheep in large quantities they do serious dam- age. The only way to keep pas- tures free of infection is to de- stroy the parasites before .they can lay their eggs. * * * In recent years sheepmen have been turning to phenothiazine, a drug developed in 1938 by the United States agriculture de- partment to help cut down their losses from internal parasites. Phenothiazine may be given in sufficient doses to expel the worms outright, or in smaller doses to arrest the development of the eggs of worms that sur- vive. The recommended dose to re- move worms from an adult sheep or goat is about one ounce. For lambs under 60 pounds, a dose of slightly over half an ounce is adequate. Somewhat larger amounts of the drug will not harm either sheep or goats bt accuracy in measuring the doses avoids waste. WE'RE DIFFERENT - A n Ameriacn advertising magazine has discovered that the buying habits of Canadians are different in many respects from those .of Americans. "Because we talk ap- proximately the .same language and share the same continent and standards of living, comments The Financial Post, many Americans seem to, assume that "Canadians" are simply a stray- ed tribe of Americans -just the same people, 'only living a little farther north. Actually there are a lot of differences between us in soap buying habits and other things. That is to be expected in a country that is completely inde- pendent and intends to stay that way. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking UNDAY .SCIIOOL LESSON By Rev, i`t, Barclay Warren B.A„ B.D. Are We Hypocrites? Matthew 33: 13-15, %3-28, 3i49, Memory Selection: Take heed that ye do not your alms before me#i, to be seen of them: other- wise ye have no reward of you Father' which is In Heaven., Matthew 6:1. A lady wrote to a minister say- ing that she would like to attend' his church only that there were so many hypocrites there. "Oh,O' he replied, "Come along and join the others." Of course there are hypocrites in the church but that person is small who tries to hide behind one. God judges people for what they are and not fOr what they pretend to be. W. may fool people but we can't fool God. Nowhere in the Bible is there such a scathing denunciation as that in our lesson given by Jesus to the Scribes and Pharisees, hy- pocrites. "All their works they do for to be seen of men." They want to be seen and honoured. They make long prayers as a pretense but devour widow's houses. They are strict tithers but short on mercy and faith. Jesus pronounced judgment on them in no uncertain terms. We are amused when children play at pretending. But when adults work at it seriously in the name of religion it isn't funny. Some will act quite religious on Sunday but put over a sharp deal on Monday. For some the amount of a gift to a church or charity is directly proportional to the amount of publicity it will receive. Some people use reli- gion for their own ends. All this and much more is hypocrisy. Immediately following this de- nunciation comes orie of the ten- derest enderest and most solicitious state- ments of Jesus. "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy chil- dren hitdren together. even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Be- hold,;your house is left unto you desolate," -',Jesus had love even for the kypocrites and sought to save' thZm: It is easy to be to hypocrite. , Ultimately it brings desolation of spirit. STOOL PIGEON One often hears the phrase "stool pigeon"what it reallymeant at one time. In ancient days' the stool pigeon was a bird whose eyelids had been sewn to- gether so that it would con- tinually cry out and flap its wings. Its cries attracted other pigeons, who were captured and killed. • ON GUARD -Keeping watch over 'the Straits of Tiran, entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba, the Israeli frigate "Miftach" patrols the waters to protect Israeli shipping rights. 1 AMMUNITION -WALNUT SHELLS -With protective clothing making him look Nke a space man, this worker wields a pneumatic gun using am munition 'even mare weird. The gun shoots ground walnut shells. They are used to blast clean aluminum mold4+l,, like that tit right, used minutes. rubber mattress. With the shell -blasting gun, one man can clean a mold in 90 m m making foam Il used to take a man 12 hours, using a wire wheel buffing machine.