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To Stop Tractor
Suirounded as I am by the
Age of Speed, I have my
thoughts. Although they are il-
legal. the Hollywood Mufflers
go down our hill and rend the
quiet country air, and the mer-
ry youngsters wave at xne plea-
santly as they regain control and
get their hot rods in a straight
line again. Those of us who did
our hot rodding on a bicycle or
in a Tin Lizzie should be per-
mitted some little `place to sit
quietly and reflect.
I have seen attempts to make
the general subject of hod rod-
ding respectable, with insistence
that the hot rodders are really
serious-minded juveniles eager
to promote highway safety, pru-
dent speeds, and aid in the gen-
eral welfare and common de-
fense. That is not the kind of
hot redder we have going down
Over our hill.
In all fairness to me, the truth
is that in my own good time I
made my automobile go just as
fast as it could, too. The speed-
ometer in my model T was gear-
ed to a cog on the front wheel
and the minute the vehicle
gained motion the needle would
shoot up to 90 miles an hour
and stay there until we stopped.
Although this indication bore.
no relationship to actual affairs,
it was daring back then to go
90 m.p h. even in imagination.
I have no idea how fast we
really did go. The roads, then,
were seldom paved, and any
speed faster than a horse could
lope was equivalent -to jet
speeds of today. There were
also mechanical reasons why
high speeds were inadvisable,
one of them being that the• en-
gine just wouldn't turn up any-
way, and others being the lubri-
cating system, the tires, the
windshield, and the steering as-
sembly Those of us old-time hot
rodders who remember how a
front end would jacknife in soft
sand will now shudder in uni-
son at the thought... .
Something of those days came
back to me the other day when
ney father drove my tractor. He
wanted to help with the plant-
ing, and I suggest he bring the
seedlings. The next thing I knew
there was a bang and a crash,
and I looked up to see him
coming down across the field
with the tractor in wild flight.
Somehow he had thrown the
gearing into neutral and ac -
vested a down -grade at the
name time, a situation not whol-
ly wise if you are on the seat.
Top speed with my tractor is
supposed to be ten miles an
$your, in gear, but on a free
roll it will get those big tires
going and do quite a stint.
Dad didn't mean to stint that
way, but he doesn't drive the
tractor much and something
confused him. He steered the
thing adequately, and coasted
to a halt in the gully, and after
a bit got back into gear and
came along bringing the trans-
plants 1 said, "Dad, did you
know that while you were run-
ning away you hollered 'Whoa)?"
This was a hod -rod joke at
one time. Dad reached back in-
to his unconscious a' long way,
and since in his youth he had
called "whoa" at many a gaili-
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venting horse along these an-
cestral slopes, there is nothing
remarkable in his 'doing it again
to a tractor. Dad said, "I was
willing to do anything, if it'd
work"
. Sam Litchfield was the local
character who, back around
1915, brought home a new au-
tomobile, drove it into the barna
and hollered "Whoa!" is it went
out the back end and landed in
a heap on the manure pile. Ev-
ery town had somebody who did
that, and it was not the only
hot -rod antic based On the in-
terchange of eras.
There was a man up at Web-
ster who bought ' an automobile
because it was becoming the
thing to do, and he set it in the.
barn on blocks, and did all his
driving there. He'd crank it up,
get in behind the wheel, let it
into cruising gear, and sit there
with the rear tires spinning in
the air and practice driving. His
wife would come out and sit up
with him, and they'd take a long.
drive together, going nowhere
but steering and shifting gears
as occasion required's.`: d ad-
miring the scenery. The old fel-
low, whose life had been spent
with horses, never did get up
courage enough to take the con-
traption on the road.
Naturally, the young fly of
today who can't remember when
anything was new, will . think
that was just a story and won't
believe there was once a time
when a thing like that not only
happened but that it was really
quite a natural thing, and un-
derstandable.
One of the first automobiles
ever owned in these parts was
driven into Maine by a New
Yorker who came up here to
rusticate one summer, and he
bought the car specially for the
trip He was wealthy and could
do it. Then, after driving up, he
decided he didn't like the idea,
and realized he had momentar-
ily given in to an impulse. He
gave the car to Henry Bubieil,
who was his guide and compan-
ion on fishing trips. Henry did-
n't know anything about cars,
either, and gingerly tried it on
backroads until he got the feel
of it.
A. youngster of fifteen, glm-
ning his plaything down myehill
at 100 m.p.h., won't appreciate
how delicately the matter of
driving a car was approached
by somebody like Henry. But
Henry worked on it, and at last
felt he had mastered the trick,
'and drove over to Hebron to
show his new automobile to his
brother.
The brother kept sheep, ar_.i
employed three or four of his
flock to mow the lawn about
the buildings. This meant he had
a tight . fence about the place,
and at the driveway had a set
of bars made of smooth spruce
poles spaced closely so the sheep
couldn't breech it. Henry drove
up to the bars and came to a
graceful stop. He set the hand-
brake, put the thing in neutral,
and descended to remove the
bars. Each bar was taken out
and carried to one side in turn,
and then Henry got into his
auto, released the handbrake,
put into gear, and drove
through. •
Next he stopped again, set
the handbrake, put it in neutral
and descended once more to put
the bars back. Each bar was
carefully inserted as before.
Now Henry got into his car
again and, intending to drive
majestically up and stop by the
kitchen door, he somehow got
the machine in reverse and
backed through the bars. What
has hot rodding ever done.to
equal this?=By John Gould in
The "'iris+?an Science Monitor.
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HOPE FROM HUMBLE PLANT -- A new compound has been
thrown into the battle against'; heart disease. Oil is pressed from
the seeds found in the centerof a lowly, thistle -like plant called
the safflower (inset). Called''Saff, it is used in atherosclerosis,
the heart disease that causes one death in ,seven in the United
States. Matthew J. Lynch, a pharmacist at Abbott Laboratories
in North Chicago, Ill., demo11 traces how white emulsion of the
seed oil is compounded with .eater.
The causes of the disorc
known as apple scald which oc'
curs on many apple varieties
waxing and waning in intensity
from one growing season to,Yi
next, have baffled the effortsso
research workers for over fi$t
years. Scald may be rough`
described as the vaguebro.
discolorations which occur
the surface of apples. On sd
varieties, like McIntosh , i#
primarily associated dvitte
stem cavity, and in others, et;
associated with the lentical a
with Linda or Sandow. Its on,
curence tends to lend credencf;1
to the old axion "beauty is 01113T
skin deep" and defeats much of,'t;
the present principles of market•:,
ing wherein much emphasis is.11
placed on the beautification o j•
the product.
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Normally scald tends to he
confined to the green or un
blushed snrfaces of apples and.-
may
nd`-may be particularly severe on
non -blushing varieties, such as„
Greening. It may form reticule*
patterns and it may even pene--
trate the fruit flesh to shallow
depths. 'Sometimes these shale
1,,9w penetrations dry up and cotes
lapse and in other cases remain
soft and gelatinous; the latter
aspect is referred to as soft
scald.
skin. Mineral oil wraps and
emulsions control this disorder
ebut are not considered practi-
cal. Most recently the Horticul-
ture Division, Central Experi-
mental Farm, Ottawa, has em-
ployed diphenyl amine dips on
Cortland and has found this to
be an excellent controller. Un-
fortunately this material is not
acceptable for use on foods. But
it is hoped that work with this
aterial will supply clues to the
eiSe of other'.materials of a more
innocuous type.
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Crescent-shaped notches along
the margins of sweet clover
.leaves is evidence of attack by
the Sweet Clover Weevil. Seed--
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eed-ling and mature clover alike are
damaged by this small, dark -
grey beetle and it is quite possi-
blethat the young or larvae
Which feed on the rootlets of the
second year's growth are partial-
lyresponsible for the spread of
root rot disease. Dr. W. R. Allen
of the Science Service, Canada
Department of Agriculture has
found the use of chemicals such
as dieldrin, toxaphene, heptach-
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Scald generally appears after,;',
Long storage, although it may'•.
occur as early as six weeks. Its
presence is emphasized by re-
move] to higher ,temperature at
the end of storage and in some',.
varieties low temperature itself
may be a serious factoreas, with
the variety Jonathan. In other .
varieties high storage tempera-
tures leading to a rapid decline
of fruit quality may produce':.
scald. In Cortland, .. scald is ,. as-
sociated with early ' picking;
many varieties have increased'
euseeptibility under high nitro-
gen fertilized programs, among
which Wagener would be an ex-'
ample,
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Generally scald has not been,
the formidable factor in Canade
that it. is' in , warmer climates.
More recently, however, with the
growth of 'controlled atmosphere
(C.A.) storage., the risk of scald.
becomes more important. The ob-
ject of C.A. storage is to enable
a higher quality product to be
put on the market at a late date.
This depends on. the storage of
only high quality apples. An
outbreak of scald could be very r„
costly and the risk increases with
length of storage. Scald on Mc-
Intosh in C.A. storage has been
minimized by reducing the oxy-
gen to a level of three per cent.
Cortland, on the other hand
cannot be placed in C.A. storage
because the tendency to scald is
too great.
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are supposed to be found in the
theory that toxic by-products
from the respiration of the apple
itself are trapped within the
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By Bev. It. Barclay Warren
84., B.O.
Miriam, a Leader in Israel
Exodus 15:20-21;
Numbers 12:1-10, 13-15
Memory Selection: A woman
that feareth the Lord, 'she shall
be praised, Proverbs 31:30.
During this quarter we are
studying personalities of the
Old Testament. The first one is
Miriam, sister of Moses and
Aaron. She was quick-witted as
a child. She stood in the distance
to see what would happen her
baby brother who . had been
for and DDT, effective in the
control of this .insect. He also
feels that gond crop management
will assist in keeping this pest
down to a minimum. "
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In fields where destruction, is
common each year weevil popu-
lation's can be reduced con-
siderably by discontinuing sow-
ing this forage crop for two suc-
cessive years. As soon as a second
year's crop of sweet clover in a
weevil infested area has been
harvested, :,stubble should be
plowed or surface cultivated to
destroy the beetles developing
the soil. New sites for sweet
clover should be as far from in-
fested fields as possible bearing
in mind the location of fields on
neighbouring farms.
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Very often seedling crops of
sweet clover will be attacked by
migrating weevils from fields
that have been cut for hay. These
migrations can be prevented by
the application of insecticides
along the edges of the fields in
strips several rods wide. If leaf
notching appears on newly sown
clover, insecticides should be ap-
plied to the plants and the
ground. A second years' growth
can withstand fairly severe
damage from this insect pest but
seedling plants die quickly when
attacked. v.
This defoliator spends the win-
ter as an adult in trash, litter
or top soil. Adults become active
when the second year sweet
clover begins to turn green in
the spring and infest seedling
plants when they appear above
the ground.
placed in the bulrush ark mons
the .flags by the river's brin1,
Perhaps her mother asked ha
t0 watch. Perhaps as a Iovinfi
sister she acted on her own ime
pulse. Then without fear and
without identifying the child she
brought her mother to the scene
who secured temporary custody
of her own child.
Miriam had leadership quail-
ties as well as her brothers. God
says through Micah (6:4): "1
sent before thee Moses, Aaron
and Miriam." After the miracle-
lous crossing of the Red Sea she
took her timbrel and led the
women in a great outburst .of
rejoicing. She was a prophetess,
Then comes a blot on Miriam's
career. Moses had married an
Ethiopian woman. Miriam, joined
by Aaron, started a whispering
campaign. While resentment or
jealousy toward the dark com-
plexioned woman sparked the
flame, the underlying cause
seems to have been jealousy of
Moses They said, "Hath the Lord
indeed spoken only by Moses?
Hath he not spoken by us?"
Then God stepped in, In a
pillar of cloud at the tabernacle
He spoke to Miriam and Aaron
in the presence of Moses and
reproved thein for speaking
against His servaet, When the
cloud departed Miriam was lep-
rous. Aaron woo repentant and
pled with Moses to pray for
her. In great magnanimity char-
acteristic of real greatness he
prayed, 'Heal her now, 0 God,
I beseech thee." God answered
his prayer but for seven days
she had to remain outside the
camp as one unclean, It was a
severe lesson.
Muchmore credence 'is being
given today to the view that
many functional illnesses result
from wrong attitudes as anger
and jealousy and worry. It is
also apparent that deliverance
from these attitudes often alds
in restoration to health. This is
a roundabout way of saying
that sin is sometimes an impor-
tant factor in some illnesses. De-
liverance from sin through re-
pentance and faith in Jesus
Christ may pave the way to a
recovery from such illnesses.
Two cows were overtaken
and passed by a jet 'plane,
spurting Haines from its exhaust,
Say, that fellow is in an aw-
ful hurry, isn't he?" said one
crow.
'Sure," cawed the other, "and
so would you be if your tail was
on fire."
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SAWED-OFF CLIFF -Sliced off neatly, this 25 -foot piece old
limestone coral topples to earth as worker at Left stands clear
in the 120 -year-old quarry at Warwick, Bermuda. Though
explosives, picks and shovels are normally associated with
quarrying operations, the workers employed hand saws to
cut the coral, used extensively in building on the island. This
sect' n, representing 27 hours of sawing, will be cut into
smaller bricks.
THE CHANGING DESERT -- The old and the
Israel increasingly use modern machinery to
and other modern agricultural devices were
ment.
new moot as Bedouins from the Negev M esert
harvest their crops in .place of camels. Tractors
donated to various tribes by the Israeli govern-