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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-01-14, Page 7• Here in Canada we have to import a lot of things which we cannot grow or produce our- selves. But it seems almost un- believable that we should be im- porting quantities of -. believe it or not! - poultry. Still, that's what's happening, and here's why. Canadian consumers prefer to buy their chickens,and turkeys ready to cook. In peparation for Thanksgiving, states the Poultry Division, Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa, substential quanti- ties of eviscerated, or drawn, tur- keys were .Imported and offered at retail levels at around 69 cents per pound. These were popular with consumers. Total imports from January 1 to November 14, 1953, amounted to 4,665,892 pounds. This includ- ed turkeys, fowl, chickens, ducks, geese, and 3,054 pounds of pig- eons. Turkeys were approximate- ly half the total imports and of these about 644,000 pounds were in • eviscerated_ready-to-cook- forin.. Large retailers are now de- manding eviscerated poulttry, and this is particularly true in the ease of turkeys for the Christmas trade, where the demand for ev- iscerated birds far exceeds the supply. 8 While the eviscerating capacity in Canada has been steadily in- creasing and is around 700,000 pounds per day, it is not sufficient to take care of the evisceration during the period when turkeys are normally marketed which, in Western Canada, is from Novem- ber 15 to the latter part of Dee- ember. There will have to be con- siderable development of addit= ional capacity, states the Poultry Division, if the supply of turkeys prepared in this manner is to be sufficient to meet the demand. * kit * Many people think Federal Department of Agriculture em- ployees are employed solely in • work of value and interest to the fanner. They are :surprised to learn that hundreds of these em- ployees are fully engaged in pro= tecting the health and welfare of consumers. * * * Today practically • all food pro- ducts entering commercial chan- nels of trade are inspected and graded at some stage by Federal Shield Of Honor - This is Sir Winston Churchill's. Garter Shield Which will hang in St. George's Hall at Windsor, along with those of other Knights of the Garter. It was*designed by artist Percy Vere Collings of Herts, England, who was painter to both King George V and King George VI. Department of Agriculture offi- cials. This ensures that they are wholesome and of the quality they are represented td be oy those offering them for sale. The inspection and grading applies to wheat and other cereal products, fruits and vegetables, dairy pro- ducts, poultry products, and all classes of meats. * An illustration of the work involved in this protection for the consume.: is indicated in the latest report of the Meat Inspec- tion Service of the Health of Ani- mals Division, Ottawa. The re- port states that "Approximately 70 per cent of all cattle, calves, sheep and swine • slaughtered commercially during the fiscal year 1952-53 were slaughtered, under the supervision of the Fed- eral Meat Inspection Service,' The pervice was engaged princi- pally in: - * s: 1. Veterinary examination be- fore slaughter of foodeproducing animals, including cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and poultry to eliminate those affepted with disease or other unwholesome conditions. 2 A thorough veterinary post- mortem examination of each car- cass at time of slaughter to detect and eliminate diseased and other- wise unfit meat. 3. The destruction for food purposes of all diseased unsound or unwholesome meat and meat by-products. 4, Constant supervision of the 'preparation of meat food pro- ducts to ensure cleanliness dur- ing their preparation into articles of food. 5. Guarding against the use of harmful preservatives and ether deleterious ingredients. 6. Supervising application of the Canada Approved inspection legend to meat and meat food products to .show that they were at time of marking, sound health- ful and fit for food. 7, Informative labelling and prevention of false and decepe • tive labelling on meat products. 8. Certification of meat and meat products for export. . 9. Inspection of meat and mat food products offered for importation into this country. Inspection of heats was car- ried out on a• full time basis in 124 meat packing plants and cov- ered 13,084,059 meat animals, of which 79,423 or less than two- thirds of one.per cent were con- demned. Fifteen years ago,=in 1939, the Meat Inspection Service covered only 83 plants and 6,081,899 ani- mals, of which 36,677 or approxi- mately the salve percentage were condemned. This indicates the expansion of the Service in 15 years. STEALS RUN Rube Marshall pitching for Wichita Falls, Texas, clouted a home run early in the game and, pitched air -tight ball for seven innings to maintain his one -run lead. In the eighth inning, how- ever, le lost his control and loaded the bases on twelve straight bad pitches. The man- ager waved him to the shower room, but 'instead of proceeding directly, Marshall halted the game while he walked over to the score board., removed "his" one run, tucked the figure un- der his arta, and walked oft the field, CROSS 1i4 ORD PUZZLE Amoss 1, Cronies 5. Poorly 3. Mark of a wound 12. norder 18. Late (comb. form) 14. Triklt expletive 15. Left 41. of the *Union (ab.) 18. Stationary part 19, Oinitted'in pronouncing 21. Australian 24. Tear a7 of metal etal' 27. isepands 31, 7'rose' water 32. Mellows 82. Note of the (love 24. One who does not belong 88. 1ranemit 37. Palin 28, Secure 40, Neckpieces 43. small lump 47. Nobleman 45. Tingrateftil persons 60. Re fond of 81. Part of the foot 52. Afternoon parties 63. T"crmerly 94, ile wrong ss., n.,V iiiVNiI<t'e 1.$ine11 oitshicne a. Scrota 3. t:arth (Phil. Isl.) 4. Asserted 5,7lncroaehed 6, Shelter 7. Deposit of m • 8, Caustic wit 9, neiief 4 a 3 4 11 15 18 .i. ULAgu.n composer 1.1, Part of a sit., 10. Gipsy 20. Great quantities 22, 5fathemati' • ratios • 24. Muer (Sp.) 25. Old French coin 26. Openwork fabric 28. tint:nom n person ' 29. Put. on 114. = 0, Take dinner 16th century helmet °5. Calm 39. in favor of 10. Season (Dial. Ling.) 1i. tIimaiayan wild goat tv�ar.) 42. location ` 44. A.meriran Indians 45. `otfat. ••• 46. Actual Lehi , 49. And not i0 li 73 No } -1 t Ati ti Answer elsewhere on his page. WINT WONDERLAND Photo by Eon Sculthorae Australia's lack Police Trackers Ca s. Follow "Shadows" in the Imine you are on the run from the police in the wild bush of New South Wales, You are wanted for robbery under arms. You are Jimmy Governor, "last of the Australian bushrangers." They'll never get me, you say, even if they have got aboriginal 'trackers with them. You know what they say in the bush -that • black trackers can follow a man almost everywhere and draw a map of a fly crawling round a mirror: • 'a But they cannot track you down, you tell yourself. You are an aborigine ;and you know all their tricks and what they look for. So you wrap sheepskins over your boots to hide your tracks. You cross rocky ground, and you use the dry beds of rivers and treks, where you think you will not leave a mark. You double and circle. You lead the trackers and the police to a river and you enter the water, but several feet out you reach for the branch of a tree and draw yourself up into it: And you swing from tree to tree for per- haps a hundred yards and steal back in the direction from which the police -constables and track- ers are coming. You do these things again and again But you cannot threw them off your trail. Like human bloodhounds, •they camp on your heels every night. And finally they surround and arrest you -- after you have wounded.. one of the constables. You, Jimmy Governor, know then what everyone in the Australian bush says - that you cannot escape the black trackers. You are caught and you go to jail for 11. years. Black trackers, like those that caught the "last or the Australian bushrangers" just over twenty years ago, are the invaluable aids of the Australian. white -police- inan. So remarkable is .their skill that some: people credit them with supernatural gifts. But it is nothing more than the.., acutest powers of observation as the following story will show. A white police -constable and a tracker were on .patrol in West- ern Australia when they came on the tracks of :three shod hor- ses. The tracker examined them and said: "Thal: all one Kendy Menne sly) track. That one big black horse Kendy ride: that• grey .one Charlie ride; that little horse for pack." And he named the three police horses, Newark, Nipper, -and Fancy. . The trooper wouldn't have it., Froin his knowledge he knew that Trooper Kellner» should be a good 200 miles awiiy in another direction. Subsequently: the black trac.l;er was shown to be right. Kennedy had changed the direction of his patrol. What made the trackers feat all the more remarkable was that he had seen the threle horses only once, and six months before --and then they were wished, Testimony to the: aborigine's un-• canny powers of observation is paid by the Australian anthropo- logist, T. C. R. t trebiew. 'H'e seys that native stockmen at the Her- mannsburg Mission, in Central Australia, could identify the tracks of over 200 aboriginal men, women and children; those of 12 white men and women, and the hoofmarks of 50 working horses and a number of camels and donkeys. Such skill is the product of many generations of a people who havehadto depend on their eyes for their livelihood; who must kill every day for every few days) in order to live, as they have no methods of preserv- ing food. ,:.,M1 From the time he can crawl a young aborigine is taught the . ways of the bush by the men of the tribe. They trace tracks in the sand, and he learns not mer- ely the tracks of the various ani- mals, reptiles and birds, but their habits. He learns when and where they feed and drink. He learns to tell from a track whether an animal is travelling fast or slow, and whether it is ill. If it walks over, stony plains it will not leave prints, but it •will move stones slightly or press them in. The fabulous skill of the black trackers has saved the lives of many men, women and children in the great emptiness of the bush, Trackers are stationed at cen- tral points throughout Australia so they can be rushed by plane or car to the point where they are needed. One hot summer night a message reached the police station at Merredin, a West Australian wheat town, that the five-year- old daughter of a farmer had wandered into the bush and was lost. The tracker at Kelerberrin, 30 miles away, arrived at the bush homestead just before dawn, Here is how someone who was there tells the story: "It seemed pretty hopeless, It was mid-sulnnier. The ground, • baked hard, wouldn't show the • marks of a baby's bare feet, and unlees she were found quickly - the day promised' to be a scorch- er. 'about 110 in the waterbag'- the child wouldn't last long. "As soon as he Could see, the tracker was circling round the ' house, widening his circle as each cast failed Within 15 minutes .he'd cut her track, That twig '-- which looked to me like any of the hundred -odd twigs in the vi- cinity -- had ben displaced. For hours he followed this alleged track consisting of an occasional . broken twig or crushed leaf, un- til in the late afternoon he came on her, tear -stained and sun burnt, asleep under a bush." On one epic patrol in She Northern Terirtory e few years'' ago, four trackers trailed a native ' who had murdered a white man for 500 miles before they caught • him. ' One. of the most remarkable pieces oC tracking followed the robbery of a gold escort hear Peak Downs, in Central Queens land, some years ago. The escort had been stuck up, and two of the troopers killed. In charge of the inquiry was Police -inspector .i. MERRY MENAGERIE "They bought one of those little foreign sport cars!" T. Griffin, who was also gold commissioner. The simple-minded aborigine examined the spot of the robbery and then declared 'that Griffin himself was responsible for the crime. The inquiry went on. Then it leaked out that Griffin was in a jant, for money. Other evidence came to light, and the upshot was that Griffin was charged, tried, found guilty, and hanged. by Jeff Peters in "Answers," Mold pineapple gelatin salad right in the can. Remove the can lid, and pour off juice. Refill with gelatin mixture; chill until solid. Salad unmolds easily if you hold can briefly in warm water. Cut between pineapple slices to serve. UNDAY SCIIOOL LESSON By Rev R 5 Warier' 13.A.. B.D. Jesus Uses EllisAuthority John 2:13-25 Memory Selection: God b Spirit: and they that worship Bine, must worship Bim in spirit and in truth, John 4:24, We often sing, "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild," but the sentim ment of these words does not suit the mood of Jesus in today's les- son. Jesus was angry because the temple, His Father's House, had become a house of merchan- dise. Providing sacrificial ani- mals had probably originated as a convenience for those who had brought none of, their own. Money -changing was also a prate tical service. Animals brought in for sacrifice had to pass in- spection, for which there was a fee, and could be rejected, thus forcing the owners to buy from the temple market. The con- venience became a racket. Doves, the poor man's sacrifice were sometimes sold at ninety times their normal price. The leading priests got e large share of the fees and profits. No wonder Jesus was indignant. What things Jesus would con- demn and remove if he were to enter our church and individual life today? To have him come and radically •purge the unseem- ly things would be a revolution- izing and healthy experience for all of us; but because we already have ample light, he leaves it to us to look at his life and the Spirit -guided early church and then follow the same Spirit as we do our own purging. The light is the same, the saving power is the same, and the judg- ment will be the same in any case. In the unprinted portion of this lesson we have the record of the first miracle of Jesus, - the turning of water into wine. It should be remembered that the drink which the ruler of the feast called "the good wine" was not the juice of anything, but was wholly supernatural, made en- tirely out of water: No chemist analyzed it and stated whether or not it contained any alcohol, We have no doubt that God was well able to produce miraculous- . ly a drink, and a nutritious drink, too, that tasted better than their man-made wine, without alcohol in it. The wedding was a sacred occasion, not a drunken brawl. Stitch white shoe - faces on Baby's bib for a sturdy, long - wearing tie. The model airplane builder can use a plastic spray bottle to he1j dampen plane's paper covering easily and evenly. To fill the bot- tle, immeese it in clear water, then squeeze and release. (Upside down to prevent peeking) Jumps A"Gree •-- Lee Dia Koon, Korean war orphan, flashes his promotion -winning smile for foster -father, Sgt. William Freer. A picture c: Lee, wearing his enchanting grin, was mailed tell Freer's mother who offered to adopt the child, and started that chain of circumstances which "promoted" the Korean waif from squadron mascot to adopted son of Freer, Pony has already learned the English alphabet and counts to '100.