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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-02-04, Page 3• ' What kind of bacon do you like -fat bacon, lean bacon, or bacon with the fat and lean in- ter-rnixed? Over three thousand visitors to the Royal Agricultural Win- terTair chose, from six different samples of bacon on display at the Canada Department of Ag- riculture's Bacon Exhibit, those they considered Good, Fair, or Poor, and stated whether they were acceptable or not accept- able as bacon they would buy. The visitors filled in cards re- cording their preferences so the Department officials could de- termine what a sizeable group sef Canadian consumers say is the type of bacon they want * * * Those, filling out the cads stated whether they were men, women, or young people under 21 year of age. When the cards were sorted into these three groups, the choice made by each group differed so little from the Others that the three groups could be treated as one, * * Saznples of bacon chosen for the test were a fair range of the side bacon, commonly called "breakfast" bacon, as sold in the retail stores. Side bacon was se- lected because even in the best ,of hogs it carries considerable fat as compared with bacon made from a loin cut. * * * Careful measurements were made of the amount of lean meat in each of the samples and the results expressed as percentage of lean to fat. When these per- centages were compared with the preferences stated on the cards it was quite evident that most (Id those veting preferred a lean type of bacon but one with lay- ers of fat between the layers of lean. * * * The sample receiving the high - 1st prefeience. rating stood , 7th In perctentaWif lean, to fat, The second . ample stood 6th in pere 041f lean, while .the .,..tettete Symbol of. Strength - A .motto that was Charlemagne's in the year 800 forms part of the new- ly authorized insignia of Head- quarters Allied Forces in EurOpe. The Latin phrase around the shield means "Crime does not pay." It stands as a warning ogainst would-be aggressors as the West builds its strength. In the center is a tower in silver, symbolizing "the fortress of Eu- rope." On the gateway to the tower are the letters "CE" stand- ing for Central Europe. Behind the tower and pointing upward is the sword of Charlemagne, -^e• samp1irhe highest percen tage orTean tct fat was only third in popular choice. The sallp). given the lowest preference rat ing, however, was next to •the lowest in percentage of lean, * * About three-quarters of those filling out cards selected one sample as better than any of the others, and about an equal num- ber rated One sample as poorer than any of the others. The re- maining samples showed quite a difference of opinion. Two sam- ples, carrying a high, percentage of lean, but not appearing to have the same quality otherwise, were rated highly by some, presum- ably because of the high leer- centage of lean, but were de- clared poor or unacceptable by nearly an equal number. * * *' Two samples about midway between the top and bottom in percentage of lean, ranked about equal in popular preference. Each was rated Fair rather than Good, and by about the same number of people. * * The sample chosen by the ma- jority as the best was a break- -fast bacon containing about one- third lean to two-thirds fat, or about the' percentage one would expect in an A grade hog. * Recent surveys made in Ontare lo and Nova Scotia and person- al observations made in some other provinces indicate that far too few sheep breeders follow any definite breeding plan in their commercial operations. The znajor practice is to use grade ewes of one or more of the Down breeds and breed to a pure bred ram, of the predom- inant breed, a practice not rec- ommended if the objective is to produce market lambs. Cross- breeding, while, the universal practice in -Britain and a highly recommended practice, is prac- tically unknown. * * • * Both surveys reported an ab- normally high rate of mortality at birth, being 55 per cent and 63 per cent respectively, and this' can be taken to mean a general lack of vitality •in the offspring, a facto).- directljerelated to breed- ing practices. Vitality and pro. ductivity, two of the most ini- p'ortant factors in lamb produc- tion are definitely under .the con- trol of the breeder... He can, by planned ,crossbreeding, ensure, not only lambs that will live but more of them, as the "hybrid• • •2,1 • ;-•.; • :•545($.. (,•ft,..fgA° • • • ,-,••,...,..amtkissUik:e4w" 44, •••.;0&,:k t.• Chi‘-yNtime--Come And Get It - It's dinnertime forffambi, a pet deer, and her pal, Duchess, and this means lots of fun for the Frank Northeys, superintendents of cabins at Clear Creek Park. The young doe survived the recent hunting season and is fattening up on daily meals provided by the Northey family. *••••••...1, vigor" resulting from the cross- ing of unlike types will guaran- tee this. Crossing two breeds, such as two Down breeds, or "grading .up" by using a pure bred ram of the same breed as the grade ewes will not give such results as the individuals are too much alike, and the degree of hybrid vigor, if any at all, will be low. * * Too many breeders think of various breeds as just being dif- ferent in Colour or conformation and pay no attention to the in- herent differences in breed • ca- pacity. A "grass" type Oleo . such as the Cheviot was devel- oped to make its living off. "grass" on the Scottish hills and to enable it to do this on steep hillsides it developed certain characterpticsee:in its physical , make-upteelet found in the muttgn breeds, in More eliguler and agile. The Down or, "Mutton" breeds twere developed, for "fold- ing" or , getting their livirig Off • enclosed areas of turnips, kae Or such crops'and - so acquit :• • • .'capacity 2 for 'heavy feeding roots • and concentrates. Their . general conformation is: 'rounded rather ' than angular, .and they are hutchless abtive. The two types are something similar to the "dairy" and "beef" types of cattle. Making Punishment Fit The Crime Henpecking Women Pecked by -Hens In the Kavirondo country of East Africa, a young Englishman came across a group of huts which he thought might be the resi- dence of the local chief. Squeezing through the stockade surrounding the main building, and stooping to enter it, he near- ly tripped over two women who lay asleep in the doorway, rolled up tightly in filthy blankets. Then a grisly sight made his stomach heave with revulsion. Protruding from the centre of the mud floor was a man's head, the tongue lolling from a gaping mouth, which grinned with yel- low fangs. Parched, wrinkled eye- balls glared out • from sunken sockets from which the eyelids hung in strips. The whole was in the last stages of decomposition. For some moments the English- man stared in horror, then plung- 7. Chalice CR SSW RD 8, Musical instrument PUZZLE 0, Cubic meters 10, French artic14 ACROSS 61 4. 'Montan ft. Crafts, 12. Before 18. Diminutive masculine name 14, Ornament on tt 9944(1(1141st pagoda. 111. ITO 'viand nerfnrman e 17. Serious 10. Orown boys 20. Myself 21. Organ of hearing 22. Lem, action 22, lltvide 25. Saucy 28, Fru -ling of the nest tense 20, of IN, re 21. Witness 112. 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This was one of many strange experiences mining prospector Roger Courtney had when he set out in a rubber canoe from Lake Victoria Nyanza to strike the • headwaters of the Nile at Lake Albert, and paddle down it „ through the Sudan into Egypt. His only possessions, he reveals in his exciting book, "African Argosy" were camping and cook- ing gear, a miniature telescope, fishing tackle, a native spear, and 48 in cash! In one village the headman told him they were punishing a "bad woman" for using bad words, henpecking her husband, setting his other wives against each other, and taking lovers. He found her on the ground, with a mass of squawking, clucking hens scram- bling over her, pecking at corn scattered over her body, their beaks digging deep into the flesh. Already she was bleeding from a score of places; the onictokers were carefully replacing the corn where the blood flowed mostfreely. Shocked by this barbarous pan- ishment, Courtney ordered that she be released, She at once got up, abused everyone in sight and departed, cursing, through the crowd. Later in his journey, • when he had wrenched hienseli wreetimg with the canoe' a sail, he was tend- ed by a Nubian woinan dresSed in robes of flowing silk, who took him into her house as gnest. and dressed hien in native costume. Then •she :offered him :her fifteene yeareold daughter as wife. Listen, 0 man," she said, "my heart, tvai.ns to yo'., bc,ehise you ,ro•lproVe. in your 11iboat, nod etou Otte n.6.1 .o arm not as a great white man to poor black woman. I am lonely, but I am rich. . . . "I own much land and some fishing in these parts. Take Suba. I shall ask no price in cows or sheep, and you will become to me as my son, and all will belong to you when I die. Come, think, is she not a fine girl? Will she not make a strong and obedient wife?" Turning her head away, Suba gazed sideways at him through the lingers of the hand that half - hid her lace. Tactfully, Courtney told the mother that a future wife already awaited him in England, and it Would put great shame on his .house and hers if he did not remain '1 aithful to her. In the Sudan he .fund native blondes, their • hairehl eached te a • light ,corn-colour!'Walking into. a local beauty-pegieiir one day„ he,,saVv-,a Yetingtgrti•ereiteing,•iten'tee' native stool. The hairdresser slapping fresh cow droppings ori' - the head 01 her'Plient; thus was the "peroxide blonde" created! •At one village the author sat vith :the Cndur, or headman, delle he'aittlethe elders held court t ..indge:Petter ex:lines! Everyone a gued eat the top of his voice• ii- , a courtroom filled with chil- dren, goats and chickens, which ran amend loose. Incensed at being fined two • e,sheep for some offence, one old lady seized a stick and begged passionetely for a beating instead. "I ant a poor woman," she wailed. "Beat me, beat me half to death, my masters, but take not my beautiful sheep, I implore your And, casting herself before the Omdur, she wallowed in the dust at his feet. Courtney had to dodge stam- peding buffalo and schools of basking crocodiles •and hippos. Once there was a tremendous up- heaval under his canoe and he felt some great body pushing up- wards through the thin rubber bottom, The next moment he was in the water, clinging to the overturned craft and facing a large, puzzled hippo, which' bobbed gravely up and clown a few yards away with "the slightly shaken air of an old gentleman who has stepped on a stair which isn't there and -has bitten hie tongue," As it eyed the canoe, Courtney prayed that the hippo wouldn't mistake its long shape for a croc, for he had seen what hippos could do to them, Fortunately, with a snort that spouted water six feet high, it sank beneath the surface. Courtney righted the canoe and made hurriedly Ior the shore. Takes Three Days T. Walk le Mlles It is difficult to Convey to those who have had ao experience of this country the relationship or, rather, the lack of relationship between distance and time. Them is probably no ,ether country like northern Burma in the 'world. There is jungle as thick; there are mountains .as high and steep/ there are climates as htitnid and extreme. taut the combination of all three is unique. If you take a pair ot dividers and measure off it the largest scale map you can find the distance between our Base Camp and Camp One at the confluence you will find that it is about six 'miles. If we allow fiftv per cent extra for windings, asee' ntS and descents, which can not be shown, on the neap, the distance is still under ten miles, To 11S. who Walked it that seems incredible, hut it is true. -on the NDAY SCI1001, LESSON map. But remember we had to walk. Now the standard rate of walking in England -not usually achieved M. practice -is four miles an hour. If one thinks of walking, that is what one has in mind. Apply this rate, and the distance between our Base Camp and the confluence, say ten miles, would take two and a half hours, or at a generous estimate, three hours; and I have already said that we took three days over it. Why? It is true that a native carrying a very light load on his back would do the journey in a day, but it would take even him a great deal more than three hours. We who took three days • were on the road for . sixteen hours altogether, including halts. If you can on the average, cover less than half a mile an hour, while expending more en- -ergy than it requires :to walk O eight times as far on a good road, it is obvious that a ten -mile march begins to assume formid- able proportions. It means board and lodging on the way - tents, food, transport. Remember this 18 no tour de force, no incenen- tary effort. The plant -explorer is living and working under these conditiOns for months on end.... Cranbrook told me that on the first night they had slept in an enormous natural cavern, under a fallen rock, where fifty men could have found shelter, It was off the path, a few hundred feet up the slope, ,completely hidden from the slope below, so that I had not seen it. From the number of shelters we passed, the rocks blackened by smoke, I formed the idea that there was a definite route up the valley. These were no hunters' caves. The track, too, though not good, was unrnistak- able. We were on the road to Tibet. - From "Plant Hunter's Paradise," by F. Kingdon Ward. "LITTLE WILLIE" Little Willie, inquisitive Put his cousin through the sieve. Mother stopped such innovations - Said it made for strained relations. By itev. R. Barclay Warren, B. A., B.1), Faith That Makes Whole john 5:2-18 eraory Selection; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10, On „every hand we view hu- man suffering. Science has made great strides in conquering cer. thin diseases, but the war against suffering is by no means won. The man in this lesson was by all human standards, an in- curable. For thirty-eight years he had been afflicted. Jesus raised his expectation by ask- ing, "Wilt thou be made whole?" It is a cruel thing to raise the hopes of a sufferer if you can- not follow through by giving some real help. But Jesus fol- lowed his question by the com- mand, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk," "And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed, and walked." Many people quickly forget God's mercies and go on their way ungrateful. Not so with this man. Jesus found him in the temple. To him he spoke these words of caution, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee." We will need God's mercy again. In fact we con- stantly require His mercy. re may well sing. "I Need Th Every Hour." The Pharisees, whose religb was of the letter rather than of the spirit, found fault because the healed man carried his `bed on the Sabbath. They were more concerned about the keep-. ing of the law than they were about the welfare of the indi- vidual. They needed spiritual life. If God's love is not mani- fest in our lives, our religion is vain. Men everywhere are hunger- ing and thirsting for abundant life. Money cannot buy it but ' Jesus Christ came to give it. 0 that men Would turn to Hine for 'the satisfying of the quest of thee'Asoul. "0 that men. would tate' and see the wonders of His grace?' TRAFFIC DANGERS A teacher, lecturing on high- way safety, advised the children that once they started to cross the street, they should never look back. "Rernernber what happen- ed to Lot's wife," she said. "She looked back and turned into a pillar of salt." "I was out driving with my mother last week," one child vol- unteered. "She looked back and turned into a telegraph pole." (Upside down to prevent peeking! ,,,•••ettft'ittatit,,IettNt,t'''''••ttettIltirett*.••'s -`t "Stranger From Beyond The Horizon - the Rare White Heron of a Single Flight," was the title bestowed on Queen Elizabeth II at a gathe,ing of all the Maori tribes in Rotorua, New Zealand, when she was n-Acte4 a chieftainess of the Arawa tribe. She is meeting a 58 -year-old Maori guide, Rat*. The Queen lend the Duke we, -e -gb' en kiwi -feathered cloaks which took tribesmen six months to make.