HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-04-15, Page 2Believe it or not, calves can
stand a lot of cold. In fact it's
claimed that they do better out-
side than if you keep them
cooped up In a warm barn.
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Dairy cows can take the cold
— we've seen that from the
way they produce and stay
healthy in open sheds.
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Now comes word from Idaho
that the same is true for calves,
even in cold climates. For two
years Idaho scientists have
compared open -shed runways,
where calves aren't pampered,
with two common types of in-
door pens.
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Twelve Holstein calves in
individual 6' x 45' open -shed
runways were compared with
two other groups of 12 in in-
door pens, from the time they
were three days old until they
were 57 days of age. Here's
why the runways come out hest:
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Took less bedding. Each
open -shed calf needed only
32.7 pounds of bedding for
the winter. Those in indoor
pens with wire floors above
concrete took 52.2 pounds a-
piece, and the group indoors on
dirt took 86.2 pounds.
Big reason for the Saving in
the open runways is that the
calves were fed hay and water -
New Winter Fair President — S.
G. Bennett, M.C., Toronto Indus-
trialist and one of Canada's
leading Scotch Shorthorn cattle
breeders, who was re-elected
presidentof the Royal Agricul-
tural Winter Fai; at the annual
meeting on Wednesday, March
24. Mr. Bennett is President of
Beardmore and Company, and
a Vice-president of Canada Pack-
ers Limited, as well as being a
director of several important
companies. After graduating
from the University of Toronto,
Ise went to Oxford to study Po-
litical Economy; from there he
joined the Royal Engineers, with
whom he served with distinction
from 1914-1918. After the war
he was on the Engineering Staff
of the University of Toronto for
six years before entering busi-
ef the University "of Toronto
for six years before entering
business.
ed from covered bunks at the
open. end of the runway. They
of grain at the shed end. When
ey got all three in the shed,
they spilled water and messed
up the bedding.
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Calves gained more. Open -
shed calves gained an average
of 62.7 pounds, compared with
59.8 pounds for those on wire
flors inside, and 55.6 for calves
In dirt -floor pens.
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Less labor. Daily chore time
to, feed, bed, and clean out the
manure averaged only three -
and a -half minutes per day for
each open -shed calf. It took five
minutes apiece for those on
concrete; six minutes for those
on dirt floors.
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Calves were healthier. Only
two of the open -shed calves had
scours, as compared with five
on wire floors, and seven on
dirt. Seven of the calves on dirt
floors, and six on concrete in
the indoor pens were sick or un-
thrifty, against only four in
open shed.
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"Solid partitions between
the runways are important,"
warns D. L. Fourt, head of Dai-
ry Husbandry at the University
of Idaho. "They give the calves
protection from drafts, and
prevent earsucking — there-
fore, prevent frozen ears."
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Another study of calf losses
in Idaho shows that dairymen
who were pampering their cal-
ves in barns had the highest
losers. So it looks as if it pays
to let calves rough it, as long
as they're dry, protected from
strong winds, and kept separ-
ated,
Famous P inter
Who Eats Ants
Among distinguished Austral-
ians who were invited to Can-
berra, the Australian capital, to
meet Her Majesty Queen Eliza-
beth II is Mr. Flying White Ant.
Mr. Flying White Ant is the
famous aboriginal painter, AI-
bert Namatjira, from Central
Australia. The "Albert" he got
from the missionaries: "Namat-
jira" is his tribal name' and
means "flying white ant."
Albert Namatjira, who is fifty-
one and the father of five sons
and three daughters, all full-
blooded aborigines like himself,
is one of the world's most suc-
cessful painters.
He makes $7,500 a year and
his pictures have been bought by
many big galleries. Three paint-
ings by him are owned by Her
Majesty the Queen.
Twenty years ago, Namatjira
was a camelboy In Central
Australia, employed by white
men and earning a few shillings
a week. He is a member of the
Arunta tribe, considered by
scientists to be one of the most
primitive races in the world.
They live in crude shelters made
of the branches of trees and
hunt game with spears.
To the Lutheran mission sta-
tion at Hermannsburg, eighty
miles from Alice Springs in the
!radio Astronomy Pioneers — Edward Lilley, right, and David
Fisesrchen, stand next to the dish -shaped parabolic antenna
which heaped win them doctorates In astronomy from Harvard
University. The device is built of wire mesh, is 24 foot in diia•
Ureter and cost $100,000 to build. The young scientists use the
radar -tike equipment instead of the more conventional telescope.
to do their star gazing.
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Symbols Of War And Peace — The 100 -foot -high statue of Christ the Redeemer towers above a
Brazilian air force Gloster Meteor as it circles Corcovado Park at the harbor entrance -to Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
heart of Australia, came a white
painter, Rex Battarbee. He had
been painting the vividly colour-
ed desert country — the purple
mountains, red sandhills, gnarled
rocks and twisted trees. Namat-
jira saw the white man's paint-
ings, was filled with the ambition
to became a painter, and asked
for lessons.
Battarbee agreed and got a
tremendous shock. Namatjira
was a born painter—a genius. In
two weeks he learned all that
the white man could teach him.
Excited at his discovery, Battar-
bee took some of the aborigine's
waterdulors to Adelaide and
showed them to a famous Aus
straian painter.
"Should he come to Adelaide
for lessons?".Battarbee asked.
"No need at all," said the fam-
ous painter. "He knows every-
thing now."
Fame and money followed
quickly. In 1938, forty-one wat-
er -colors by Mr. Flying White
Ant were exhibited in Melbourne
and sold within a few days.
Within a few years he was mak-
ing $3,000 a year from his paint-
ings, and today the figure is
about $7,500.
With wealth nearly came dis-
aster to Albert Namatjira's
health. Desert aborigines have
mainly a meat diet, and in con-
sequence they are lean and wiry
people. Namatjira began to eat
the white man's food with lots of
flour and sugar. He put on
weight rapidly and in no time
his weight was up to eighteen
stone. His immense bulk affect-
ed his heart badly. Doctors shook
their heads over him, gave him
only a few years of life, and the
quality of his landscape paint-
ings fell off.
Albert cured himself. He went
back to his aboriginal diet and
cut out flour and sugar. He also
took to eating honey -ants. These
Central Australian ants gather
honey from flowers and shrubs.
This honey is stored in the
bodies of some of their fellows.
These reservoir ants hang by
their front legs from the walls
of ant galleries and have huge
distended bellies, about the size
of a cherry. Worker ants are
responsible for bringing the
honey to the nest and feeding it
to these luckless storage ants.
Albert Namatjira ate several
pounds of these ants daily and
they cured his heart trouble. He
is now several stones lighter and
in excellent health. "I always
feel well when I keep to my diet
of honey ant," he says.
Wealth has brought. gains to
the former camel -boy. He has
been able to build a white stone
house near the mission for his
family and to save money for a
block of land on which he hopes
to set up his sons as cattle men.
But money also brought prob-
lems. Aborigines have a simple
communal life in which all ma-
terial possessions are shared.
For several years most of Al-
bert's earnings went in buying
food and clothes for his numer-
ous relatives. In one year about
$3,500 went that way .-- almost
Albert's entire earnings.
He didn't mind. Ile had been
brought up that way --"what was
his, was his tribe's. He just went
on painting.
But he began to worry when
his two elder sons didn't seem
to have any more ambition than
to visit aboriginal Damps, In
Central Australia, driving a truck
• that Albert had bought, and
running him into bills of $1,200 a
year for petrol and repairs.
Luck took a hand. His sons
smashed the truck up badly and
Albert hadn't enough money at
the time to repair it. His_ sons
and their friends began to look
for work at the mission.
Namatjira is unspoiled by suc-
cess. He is a fine-looking man
with great natural dignity. His
example has inspired other ab-
origines of the tribe to become
painters and to -day there are
half a dozen of them who are
doing fine work—and selling at
good prices.
This fabulous success story, cul-
minating hi the aborigines gen-
ins being presented to Her Ma-
jesty the Queen, might never
]lave happened at all if a soldier
in World War I had not had ex-
ceptionally keen eyesight.
Rex Battarbee, the white paint-
er who discovered Namatjira,
served with the Australian forces
in France and during the battle
of Bullecourt was so severely
ly wounded that he was left for
dead for two days in no -man's
land.
He was about to be tossed into
a grave when a member of the
burial party noticed a slight
flicker of an eyelid. Batterbee
was put on a stretcher and taken
to a hospital, where he recover-
ed after two years and, in due
course, went to Central Australia
on a painting trip. '
Nail a strip of leather belting
along one side of your wooden
wheelbarrow, leaving loops of
leather to hold garden tools.
T urs
cJae Andrews.
Most of us have our favorite
cake recipes -- tried and trusted
standbys that always "come out
right."
However, sometimes it's a
good idea- to give these favor-
ites a .slightly different touch,
and an easy way to do it is by
adding a tripping that's either
BAKED or BROILED.
Just leave your freshly -baked
cake In -the pan, then spread
frosting on the cake. and broil
5 to 6 inches from heat; or place
topped cake in hot (450°) oven
8 to 8 minutes — a longer time
will dry out the cake. Toppings
brown very quickly during broil-
ing — better watch them care-
fully. These recipes fit a 9 -inch
round or square cake.
FRUIT -NUT FROSTING
2 tbisp. butter
n/4 e. brown sugar
2 tbisp. cream
% e. mixed candied fruit
�/3 c. blanched, silvered
almonds
% c. coconut
vs tsp. salt
Crean the butter and sugar
together. Add cream, fruit, al-
monds, coconut and salt. Mix
lightly and spread on cake.
Broil until bubbly and glazed,
3 to 5 minutes.
i/
fir
r/s
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PEPPERMINT CANDY
FROSTING
c. confectioners sugar
c. flour
tsp. salt
2 tblsp. soft butter
2 tblsp. cream -
2 c. crushed soft peppermint
candy.
Blend sugar, flour, salt, and
butter together. Add cream and
candy, Mix- .well, Spread mix-
ture over cake. Broil until mix-
ture begins to brown, 2 to 4
minutes.
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COCONUT HONEY.
r'ROSTINCr
2 tbIsp. soft butter
z!$ c. dry shredded coconut
r� ce honey
1 tsp. grated lemon rind
1/s tsp, salt
Spread top of cake with but-
ter. Combine coconut, honey,
lemon rind, and salt, and blend
well. Spread over cake. Broil
just long enough to toast eoco-
nut lightly, 2 to 4 minutes.
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CHERRIES ROYAL
• FROSTING
c. confectioners sugar
% tsp. ginger
3 tblsp. flour.
Ys tsp. salt
2 tblsp. soft butter
.12 Marshino- cherries, drained.
and chopped
Blend sugar, ginger, flour, salt,
and butter until evenly crum-
bled. (A pastry blender or fork
works fine here.) Stir in cher-
ries. Spread mixture over cake.
Broil until mixture begins to
bubble, 3 to 4 minutes.
Modern
Etiquette
Q. h it proper to use raalea3l
paper for social correspond-
encs?
A. This usually makes a bad
impression and it is better to
avoid using it. If you have
trouble writing in a straight
line, buy the black -ruled paper
which fits under the note -paper.
These are called guides, and
can be purchased in any sta
tionery store.
Q. When is the proper time
for guests to arrive at a church
wedding?
A. From a half-hour to not
later than five minutes before
the ceremony. All guests should
be seated before the parents of
the bride and bridegroom ar-
rive.
Q. When ice cream is serv-
ed on pie, should the ice cream
be eaten with the spoon?
A.' No; the fork should be
used.
Q. When a girl is walking
along the street with a man
and he speaks to someone she
doesn't know, should she speak
also?
A. She should smile and nod
her head. This holds true also
for the man, should she speak
to an acquaintance,
Q. Should one always change
his fork over to the right hand
after cutting off a portion of
meat with knife and fork?
A. This is known as "zig-
zag" eating, and is not neces-
sary. It is better to be able to
use either hand interchangeably
while eating. -
Q. Is it necessary to send a
gift when one is invited to a
church wedding, but not to• the
reception?
A. In this case, it is not ne-
cessary. Only an invitation to
the reception requires a gift.
Q. If no individual butter
knife is providedat the dinner
table, should the meat knife be
used for this purpose?
A. For spreading butter on
bread, yes. But when one is
putting butter on potatoes or
vegetables, then the fork should
'be used.
Q. Should a young married
woman identify herself. over
the telephone to a social acqu-
aintance 'by saying, "This is
Sharon Martin," or, "this is
Mrs. David Martin"?
A. "This is Sharon Martin."
• Q. Should the man or the
woman make the move to stop
'for conversation when they
meet each other on the street?
A. It is up to the man to do
this.
Q. If a woman is seated in a
streetcar or bus, and another
woman carrying a baby is
standing, should she offer her
seat?
A. Yes; and if there are any
.men seated nearby, they should
be extremely embarrassed for
their lack of good -breeding.
When you send a letter to a
convalescent child, write your
message in large letters",on card-
board; then cut it up, jig -saw
puzzle fashion. The invalid will
enjoy putting the letter together
to read.
Hair It Gees] -"- The 42 -inch tresses of pretty Helen Korovaff
fall prey to a barber's scissors in San Francisco. Miss Korovof$,
immigrated four years ago from Harbin, China.
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