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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-05-09, Page 7©QBE' ©i (Cil'.-. MEW ©E�1I 1!' II f©. I i 1LWI C]CJl7 nrii w i EMU/ ' ONEMO© 11 ©WEIM 1 I' ' MME DON MEM UGC MEOW II I IGlJ©D AHI) i7©© MOl'i ©UE©OM MOi BMW Lo]Ea MUUOWBIW [NUI ,i JF LIUUMMI1 OEM OWEN:MOM Mayflower Sec al nd Heads Out t Have patience, lVtayflower II is at sea and on her way to America. But at this moment she loiters still within the bounds of the lost Kingdom of Lyonesse, wandering slowly from end to end of King Ar- thur's legendary realm that now sleeps beneath the sea, waiting for the key of the wind tr open the gate beyond the outpost Scilly Isles to the Atlantic. 'This shou-d be inscribed upon her coat of arms: have patience. The two words represent not only the essence of the ship's experience so far but also in a sense the very meaning of her. For the wind keeps no sched- ule but its; own. The lesson of sail is that one learns "to work with and not against," a lesson most surely applicable to Anglo- American relations. This it is also that sums up the real attraction of , sailing ships for the Mayflower's mas- ter, Comdr. Alan Villiers. If there is one person connected with the project who at this moment is completely unruffed and at ease, determined to make the best of the wind when it does come and happy to wait for it while it does not, it is doubtless Captain Villiers. "People these days w o r k against time. At sea, under sail, you work with time," Captain Villiers said to the writer as he balanced against the edge of his chart' table in his sea cabin on April 20. "Steamships work against the sea; sailing ships like this must work with it. And ?.'hose who sail must likewise learn to live, never against, but always with themselves. And with each other." It is perhaps little wonder ;ghat the master of the May- flower looked, and spoke, more certainly in character, dressed in 17th -century style for the ceremony at Plymouth's historic Mayflower Steps on April 20, Dhan did anyone else present, writes John Allan May, in The Christian Science Monitor. (The Pilgrims set out from this site. Drake, Raleigh, and Hawkins boarded their cutters here. Bligh of the Bounty, too. And the pioneers in, the coloni- zation of New Zealand, off to sail in the vessel Tory. And here landed the crew of the American seaplane NC4 on May. 81, 1919, after the first flight across the Atlantic.) Captain Villiers arrived at 10 a.m. in the Mayflower's slate blue longboat with Henry Horn- blower II, president of Plimoth Plantation, of ,. Newton, . Mass,. pulled byseamen wearing jer- kins and stocking caps, piratical expressions, and the smudge be- ginnings of beards. Captain Villiers' bottle green stockings were wrinkled,, but he wore his tall black Puritan hat as if it had gold braid round it. His expression was roundly happy. He made a stirring little speech. "This is a good tough ship of Devon oak . . . what our fore- fathers did for five centuries we can do again ..." Henry Hornblower II pre- sented him with a chip off the Plymouth Rock. James T. Fra - SALLY'S SALLIES 'These nights are chilly, aren't they, Georgie" Sea zier, chairman of the board of selectmen of Plymouth, 1‘2as- sachusetts, asked him to take to America with him the photo- graphs and drawings of Plym- outh, Devon, and the scroll of 7,000 signatures which he, Mr. Frazier, had been presented, The Lord Mayor of Plymouth, resplendent in his scarlet robe trimmed with sab1 and ' his golden chain, reminded him of an order of Sir jack Hawkins: "Serve God daily: love one an- other; preserve your victuals: beware of fire: and keep good company." It was an impressive little ceremony. And all the while it was raining. And also all the while in the rain great crowds began to collect until all along the Barbican and on lofty Plym- outh Hoe there was such a crowd as none had ever seen before here in April, Captain Villiers, with the Lord Mayor in company, was pulled back to the ship, which lay in the lee of Drake's Island, guarding Plymouth Sound. Would she sail? Would she leave now, as soon as the Lord Mayor had bid adieu? The crowd waited. As it waited it grew. And as it grew it waited. Noon cams and passed. And so slid lunch -tinge. Rumor ran around it was going to be three o'clock, four o'clock, six o'clock, tomorrow, Monday. Everybody had hadit straight from someone who knew some- one who had seen Captain Villiers 15 minutes before. The master of Mayflower would go when the ship was ready. The crowd on the Hoe, with its children, its dogs, its binocu- lars and telescopes and cameras, looked down on an extraordin- ary sight, a veritable Dunkirk of little boats swarming round the beautiful Elizabethan vessel — drive -yourself motor boats, row- ing dinghies, sailing boats, motor launches, tripper steamers, canoes cutters, lobster boats, drifters, smacks, and even one great millionaire's motor yacht, white and clean as a new £100 note, which idled by, looked down for a momentor two at the little Mayflower and then glided off to anchor in the bay. At 4.35 the sun came out. And simultaneously a tug began to toot and twist and clear an open space around the May- flower. Then she was slowly towed toward the evening. At 6.30 it was a perfect spring evening in the romantic painters' manner. The sun behind soft barred• purple clouds; westward silver spotlights on the darken- ing sea;' calm on the blue water and a mist across the headlands in the east; and, lower left a shaft of brilliant sunlight strik- ing one solitary triangular sail. Now Mayflower herself hoisted all sail. The tug turned home The attendant boats hovered uncertainly and then left one by one. Darkness closed very slow- ly in with the ship alone, drift- ing on the tide, her sails hanging empty, waiting in King Arthur's Cornwall for the wind. Have patience. HILL BILLET DOUX Love will usually find a way when the going is tough. And love -struck Jack Kenyon, a far- mer at Mineral Paint hit upon a novel idea to persuade his be- loved to marry him. He covered parts of a quarter -mile stretch of hillside with a fertilizer. La- ter, the doctored parts turned green to spell out, in 300 -ft. lettering, the name of his girl J -U -L -I -E. The sign -writing had a happy ending. "Don't ever mention Harry to me again," stormed a girl to her friends. "He not only., lied to me about the size of his yacht—he made me dothe row- ing as well!" CR ,1 SSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1, Radio amateur (slang) 4. Writing table 8, Better known as Sgt. Friday 12. Inaugurate 14, Concept 15, repeated 36. Not far ` 17. Moneyfaolo1 18. (government grants to inventors 20, Housefly larva 22. 1 ossesties 23. .Tap outca, t 24. Wire measurement 26. conductor's abet( 80. Building sites 82. At present. 84. Gourd fruit 85. Imagine 87, chatter 80. Father or Joshua 40. Ballad 142.Daughter of Cadmus ' 44, Porter 143. Tdentieal 40. Medicinal plant 50. Number to be divided 53, valley 54, Proof 165, C.ond1neent %S. Smooth breathl nsc 5. Dino 28, Riches 6. Paco 29, Not any 7, State inAlaiaya 21. Projecting 8. Variety of outward apple 28. Had being 9. Paradise 36. Rug 10. Win 23. By the side of 57. Cardinal 11. Obstructs 41. Swiss singing number 13, Chinese river 43. fabricated DOWN 19. 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Each year there are reports f r o m commercial vegetable growers and home gardeners • that plants have been damaged by top or side dressings of 'com- mercial fertilizer. Investigation of these reports says M. Mc- Gibbon, Plant Nutritionist at the Canada Department of Ag- riculture Experimental Farm, Sumaserland, B.C., has shown that most cases of fertilzer damage were caused by im- proper methods of application and that the same amounts and kind of fertilizer could have been applied safely if certain „a precautions had been taken. ai N+ * Growers often become impa- tient with the slow growth that young transplants, such as to- matoes, rake during cool per iods in early summer. They feel that the plants need fertil- izer and place a band of it around and often touching the stem of the young tender plant. The result is that a small area of concentrated fertilizer salts is formed which burns the tender young root and stern tissues and may kill the plant. Fertilizer should be spread and worked into the soil before transplanted crops are set out, in which csse they plants will not need any further fertilizer until they are at least half- grown. At that time, if they need a supplementary applica- tion of fertilizer, it should be sprinkled lightly on the 4 soil in the area to which the roots are likely to spread, but not con- centrated around the plant stem. It will then be taken gradually into the plant root zone either by,rain or artificial sprinkling and utilized by the plant with- out damage. e)2 'v* Instances of fertilizer dam- age to home gardens and lawns often occur when the gardener. applies chemical fertilizer and 'waters it in. This usually hap- pens because the plants. were) parched before the fertilzer was applied. In such . cases, the. plants immediately start to ab- sorb water and soluble fertil- izer salts, often more salts than the plant'can stand at one time, send damage to various parts of the plants results. The safe way to apply commercial fen tilizer in such, cases is to water the lawn or garden thoroughly the day before the fertilizer is to be applied, apply the fertil- izer and then follow with a light watering to carry the fertilizer down to the plant root zone. Even highly conecentrated chemical fertilizers can be' ap- plied safely by this method. Chemical fertilizers are a ne- cessity for satisfactory plant growth in most areas. They can be used to great benefit with- out danger of damage if 'a few simple precautions are taken in their use. ,K * Wild buckwheat is common i11 agricultural areas across Can- ada. This weed is not readily killed by standard applications of 2,4-D which will .control most other annual broadleaf weeds commonly found in grain: fields. This fact; together with a series of years of apparently favourable weather conditions, seems to have allowed an in- crease in the abundance of this weed. Not only does wild buck- wheat reduce yield through competition, but where dense stands of it occur, the vines en- tangle the grain, making harv- esting operations extremely difficult. o Chemical studies at the Can- ada Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm, Scott, Sask., during the past few years have shown that, while this weed cannot easily be eliminated, or "killed outright, a high degree of control may be ob'tained. A large number of herbicides have been tested as possible buckwheat killers. In agree- ment with other workers, it has been found that 2,4-D is the most effective of the selective herbicides currently available for wild buckwheat. The esters and particularly the lose vola- tile esters have been superior to the other formulations. It has also been demonstrated that better results are obtained if the 2,4-D is applied when the wild buckwheat is in the one to two true leaf stage of de- velopment. This is probably the most critical factor involved in obtaining a control, which is expressed not as outright kill of the plant but rather as a re- tardation of growth. Thus, it has been known that a single application of a 2,4-D ester, ap- plied at the early stage, at a rate of 8 to 12 oz. per acre will give reasonably good control. 8' * * When the buckwheat has only one to two true, leaves, the crop likewise is usually in the one to two leaf stage of growth. This is a very susceptible period, hence the use of high rates of 2,4-D has injured the crop. This difficulty has been circumvent- ed by the use of two applica- tions of 2,4-D or MCPA esters at relatively low rates. The first application must be made early and the second should be made about one week after the first. This gives much better control than if the second application is delayed two or three weeks as the longer interval seems to allow the plants to recover or to reach a more resistant stage. _:: 8' Based on the results to date the following is a recommenda- tion for the chemical control of wild buckwheat. In chemical control it is important that wild buckwheat be treated when in the first and second true leaf stage. In fields of wheat and barley the best results have been obtained with two treat- ments of 2,4-D ester applied one week apart at 5 oz. acid per acre. In fields of oats good re- sults can be expected from two treatments of MCPA ester ap- plied one week apart at 5 oz. acid per acre. In years when the wild buckwheat is in the first ..and second true leaf stage be- fore the grain crop is in a stage that is safe to trea, it is recom- mended that MCPA ester be used as less damage will be done to the crop. Eight:' a reg' a n an aver I' f ser Any idea of a tortoise's speed — fiat out? Tests on a giant tor- toise in Mauritius show that even when hungry and enticed by a succulent cabbage it can- not exceed 5 y.m.p. (yards per minute) — or 0.17 m.p.h. Pipe smokers might experi- ment to see just how long a pipe of baccy lasts; but the to- bacco must be kept alight! The target is 3 hours 7 minutes, a world record established by M. Kos, of Laeken, Belgium, in 1912.. His fill was about y8 of an ounce. Any idea of the size of the largest known wooden vat used in the history of brewing? It was one of 3,555 barrels (127,- 980 gallons) capacity in use at a brewery in Tottenham Court Road, London. In 1814, however, this vat burst and flooded the immediate neighbourhood with beer, causing damage to houses and the loss of eight lives by drowning. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 7ThUNDYOOL By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Abraham and His God. Genesis 12;1-3; 17;1-9 Memory Selection: Show me thy ways, 0 Lord; teach me thy paths. Psalm 25:4. Jews, Christians and Moham- medans all honour and revere the memory of Abraham. At seventy-five years of age he left Haran at God's call and enter- ed the land of Canaan. He re- ceived the great promise: "I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." But the years went by and Abraham had no children. Ho reminded God that his only heir was Eliezer of Damascus. God. replied, "This shall not be thine heir." And Abraham "believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him foi righteousness." Sar a became impatient and gave her handmaid, Hagar, to Abraham and from the union Ishmael was born. But this was not the fulfillment of the prom- ise. Sixteen years later, Sara at the age of ninety, bore a son. Abraham was ten years older. This child was the promised heir. Abraham's faith was to have one more severe test. God asked him to present his son as a sacrifice. He prepared to obey. As he was about to slay Isaac, God spoke to him saying, "Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." On the occasion of the final confirming of the covenant just prior to the conception and birth of Isaac, God said, "I and the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." Abra- ham endeavoured to obey that command, walking in all the light he had. He is called the father of the faithful. His des- cendants have given us our Bible and the Messiah himself. Jesus was born of a Jewish maiden. in spite of much suffering these people still continue as a dis- tinct race. They have regained a foothold in the land promised to Abraham. A few of then( have accepted Jesus as thell Messiah.' The Jews are becoln' ing increasingly the focus ol world interest. God will not fed in His promise to them. ,• VoskrilifirrSeSSsiSs•SeMssi • GRAND HOTEL—This scale model shows the luxurious appear- ance of the Berlin Hilton Hotel, scheduled to open its doors January 1, 1959, in West Berlin, Germany. The 21 -story, American -designed structure will have 350 rooms and is ex- pected to cost more than four million dollars. MAYFLOWER II READY TO SAIL—The Mayflower ll, replica of the vessel that brought the Pilgrims to the Ntw World, d, unfurls her square-rigged sails for the first time and sloshes through the waters of Tor Bay off Brixham, England, in a full-dress trial run for her voyage to the U.S.