Zurich Herald, 1954-11-25, Page 7Bursting of old upright or
tower silos when filled with
grass silage has generally been
considered as caused by the
greater weight of this silage
compared with that made from
corn. The Chemistry Division,
Department of Agriculture Ot-
tawa, suggest it may be the ad-
ditional factor of gas produc-
tion by the plant tissues that•
results in the almost explosive
disintegration of the less rug-
ged but apparently tight silos.
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A preliminary test, made by
packing a small quantity of a
fresh, green, timothy - brome
grass mixture in a tightly stop-
pered flask, showed that at the
bend of the first day gas pro-
duced from this green plant
material produced a pressure of
3.8 pounds per square•inch with-.
in the flask. At the end of three
days the pressure has increased
to 6.8 pounds per square inch
and by the end of two weeks
•to 17.4 pounds.
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The difference in the chemical
•content of the two types of silage
and the greater density Of the
grass wih consequent closer
packing, may account for greater
gas pressures in tower silos
tilled with grass than when fill-
ed with corn.
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It's a trite saying that "the
best time to stop a fire is before
it begins." Furnaces and other
heating and cooking appliances
are just as efficient and fool-
proof as the manufacturers can
make them. But if the smoke
pipe or the chimney becomes
faulty an obvious fire hazard
has arisen. Replacing a length
Of smoke pipe costs a few cents;
it could prevent immense prop-
erty damage or even loss of life.
An hour or so checking on heat-
ing and cooking installations
and on electrical equipment,
extension cords and the like, is
time well spent. And don't over-
look the oily rags and those used
for waxing or painting. These
can cause fire from spontaneous
combustion; they are best being
thrown out. •
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Another danger spot .is under
the stairs leading to the base-
ment. Often it is crowded with
a miscellaneous collection of
highly combustible material,
papers, boxes, firewood, even
coal. Experts point out that
should fire get to this spot the
draught will cause it to spread
-to othehr parts of the house.
* * *
Fire is the worst hazard on
most Canadian farms, particu-
larly those that are not serviced
by electricity, for of necessity
inflammable liquids must be
used for illumination and wood
must often be used for cooking
and heating. During the years
"You are in love with two hand-
some men. You can pick out one
and send the other to me."
1946 to 1949, 321 rural homes
were destroyed by fire, making
an average of 80 farm homes
per year lost through fire. The
death toll In rural fires during
this four-year period was 576
persons, something over half of
the victims being children. To-
tal property loss from fire in
Canada in 1953 amounted to
$83,561,100 .
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Over caution is
tified where fire
concerned.
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certainly jus -
hazards are
The past•few years have been
very bad ones for barley dis-
eases and 1954 was one of the
worst. Of course, late seeding
and lots of moisture are ideal
for the growth of many diseases,
but it is sad to see new varieties
with so many good characteris-
tics struggling to do their best
against several vicious attack-
ers. The combined and concen-
trated. efforts of many individ-
uals, both plant pathologists and
plant breeders should enable the
barley plant to win the strug-
gle, but it will require ,much
work on the part of many peo-
ple. There is particular concern
over a series of leaf diseases
which seem to have become
more widespread and serious in
recent years.
The barley jointworm which
caused much damage in Prince
Edward Island since its dis-
covery. in 1946 shows signs of
being curtailed somewhat, prob-
Bu gt--In Thr oder
1SY IRNA Mr '7,
One of the best things that
could happen to a housewife is
an automatic needle threader.
And it's here. Ready to act as
an aid to the homemaker who's
in a hurry, to the impatient and
to home sewers with 10 thumbs
is the first automatic needle
threader on a home sewing ma-
chine.
Actually, a great stumbling
block for women who are just
learning to sew is the needle.-
threading
eedlethreading operation, even though
needle -threading skill and cre-
ative sewing ability are not Linke
ed. '
Secret of the new device,
which is built in as a part of,;
the machine mechanism, is a tiny
precision -built steel hook. The
home sewer need only flip a
switch and the steel hook drops
down automatically, seizes t h e
thread and draws it through the
needle eye.
Other important innovations
featured on this new machine
include concealed lighting f o r
clearer vision, collapsible thread -
holders for double -needle stitch
es Nerve
I4MY SCllOO1
LESSON
Frst automatic needle threader
hooks thread (inset); hook draws
ing and a removable top that
permits all oiling parts to be
protected within the machine.
Sewing tension is .improved to
the degree where it's possible to
on a home sewing machine
thread back through needle eye.
sew any thickness (from sheer
synthetics to thick, carpet -like
textures and even leather) with
the same medium needle and no
tension adjustment.
ably by natural predators. The
plant breeders at Charlottetown
have, in very short order, dis-
covered sources of resistance,
and in 1954 many jointworm
resistant hybrid selections were
being field tested.
Barley has passed through
another year marked both by
successes and disappointments.
The attention being given to the
crop by farmers, by industry, by
the export trade and by the
plant scientists should certainly
help to keep this famous old
crop in the limelight.
Bet Their. Shirts
And Everything Else
Pepi, a young Austrian officer
captured by t h e Russians at
Stalingrad, waited his turn for
bath -house parade at the cri-.
minal transit camp of Karabas
- and got a surprise. The staff,
including the barber who had
to shave him, were all women
fellow -prisoners.
The girl wielding the razor
was about twenty-five, with
dark hair, dark, deep-set eyes,
painted 1 1 p s, finger -nails and
toe -nails, peeping out from her
sandals. She wore a short blue
skirt and white blouse with
apron over it.
"What is a man like you do-
ing in a hell -hole like this?"
she asked. -
"And what is a girl like you
doing here, if it comes to that?"
This was the beginning of an
astonishing love affair between
the two prisoners, described in
"I Survived," by Godfrey Lias,
who met Pepi in Vienna last
year and wrote his remarkable
story.
"In my grandfather's days, a
lover sometimes pounced on a
girl and carried her off on his_
horsewithout giving her time
to open her mouth to say "yes,"
the girl, Masha, said. "But in
this inferno, if a girl sees a
man she likes she has no time
to wait to be courted or carried
off by force. She must make sure
of him the moment she sets eyes
on hila or she may never see
him again."
Her voice was low, soft, thrill-
ing. He drew her to him. In a
moment her arms were round
his neck.
"The present is s h ort, my
sweet," she said at last. "And
waiting is always too .long. I
will send you word as soon as
I know how we can see one
another again. Till. then, think
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7. Competitor
in a contest
8. Tiny
9. Happen
10. Vast
ACROSS DOWN
1, Weep
2, Garden tool
1. Stylish
b. Cook In water
9. Article 8. Poorly
12. Part played 4. Underground
13. Sea eagleart of a
14, (ring of the douse
Visigoths
15. Shout
10. Instruction
18, Liquid
measure
20, Individuals.
21. Love apple
24. "---- and
Andy"
28. Music drama
27, Broke
suddenly
80. Move to and
fro
31. (quo -my
persons
Si. Mountain
in Crete
88. Character.
isties of the
Slnvs
38, l.4lty in Italy
88. tnesinbus
substances
89. Cylindrical
40. Accost
42. Pitcher#
44, Netreete
48. 'Mower
50. Tree
et, Hire
2.Wetany
52, (Oriental sea
captain
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11.Orguns o1
vision
17. Crochet stitch
19. Sloping letter
21. Pulls
22, (4em
28. Huge stones
25, Control
27. Total
28, Redact
29. Scandinavian
82. Cuttlebone
36. Mohammedan
viceroy
3.7. Bearlike
39, Trials
40, Listen
41. dandle
42. Proceeded
46. Singing
syllable
47, Decay
44, Tavern
49. Hi go wave
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of me often. And I shall think
of you always."
Back in his quarters, a strange
thing happened to Pepi. Three
young criminal prisoners were
playing cards. Suddenly one of
them brandished a knife in his
face and shouted: "Off with your
clothes, Fritzi. I wan t thein,
I've lost mine at cards, as you -
can see."
Habitual lags in Soviet pri-
sons often stake a newcomer's
clothes on their game, and if
they fail to get them, lose face
with their fellows. Pepi knew
what would happen if he. re-
fused, for the other two had
knives, too. Shivering with rage
he took off his coat and trou-
sers and donned the rags they
threw him. Then he went to
Kolya's hub - his friend and
fellow -prisoner - told him
about it.
"I know them," Kolya said
gruffly. "Wait here. I'll be back
in ten minutes."
He returned with face, hands,
clothes covered with blood, and
bleeding from a gashed cheek.
"There are your clothes," he
said. "They will not be taken
from you again." Then: "I bid '
you good-bye. I have to leave
here. Masha will take care of
you. Give her my love." He
walked out into the snow. Pepi
never saw him again, but learn-
ed later that he had givers
himself • up to the guards and
been transferred to another
camp. Back in his hut, Pepi
found two of the card -players
dead, with their throats cut. The
third had been stabbed as he
had run away.
Two days later Masha sent a
message saying that Pepi had
been chosen to take a bundle
of clothes .to the wash -house to
be disinfected. She met him at
the door and beckoned him in,
telling the guard to wait in
the disinfecting room. Then she
threw her arms around his neck,
burst into a torrent of weeping,
and between sobs and kisses said
she knew all that had happen-
ed, blamed herself for not tak-
ing better care of him, and
promised that he was now under
her special protection,
"1 held firmly to those preci-
ous minutes spent with her as
a drowning man clutches des-
perately at his rescuer," he says.
"I know they saved my reason,"
They met many times after
that, and after another bloody
affair in which a head prisoner
beat another to death with an
iron rod, and in turn had his
head bashed in with a hammer
by three masked avengers,
which led to a blood feud and
more killings, Masha arranged
for Pepi to be transferred to
the convalescent ward, where
he could live under less horrible
conditions and meet her more
often.
Thanks to her, he stayed four
months at Karabas instead Of
the normal few weeks, before
he was transferred to a penal
ctrl.
THE NEW "400" -It's the "Blue
Overalls," not the "Blue Book"
for Mrs. Martha Schubert. She
is one of 400 union card-carry-
ing women carpenters in the
Los Angeles area. She uses a
gunpowder -powered device to
fire three-inch steel pins that
attach wooden framing to, con-
crete flooring of new homes.
Sea Elephants
From Hawaii I returned to
the coast of Mexico where I
chartered a boat and cruised to
Guadalupe Island, the only place
in the Pacific where sea ele-
-•
phants still live. • Here I tried
to identify the beach where
these creatures gather. My only
clue was a photograph in a
magazine published in 1923
(unluckily, the photograph had
been reversed in publication, so
we passed the spot without rec-
ognizing it.)
We cruised along under one
of Guadalupe's two thousand -
foot cliffs, crowned with a "
fringe of tall evergreens, the
foggy abode of wild goats.
Weird -shaped piles of rock stood
isolated in the Pacific swells,
far away from the shall beaches
along the foot of the island's
precipices. So steeply do the
sides of these extinct volcanoes
plunge down into the ocean
that it is very difficult for a
vessel to get a hold on the
rocky bottom with its anchor.
Returning, I sighted a small
beach near the north tip of the
island, on w h i c h lay some
t w en t y -five gray, seal -like
forms of immense size. These
must be our sea elephants! We
succeeded in getting an anchor
to hold fairly well close to the
breakers, and I rowed for the
shore in our t e n de r. On the
stern seat was a large green
duffle bag tightly tied, with all
my photographic equipment in-
side. The small boat held only
one person,
At the edge of the breakers I
held the dinghy for several min-
utes with the oars, waiting for
the heavy surf to calm a little.
Finally, I pulled in toward the
beach on the crest of a wave.
Dowry the shore I saw the head
of a sea elephant t h r u s t up
above the surf, his mouth open
in a yawning roar, He was as
big as a whale and his long
snout, curled down over his
mouth like a caricature of a
hooked nose.
Then the boat spun sidewise
on a steep wall of water and in
an instant I was in the water
under the dinghy. I felt the
seat pressed against the top 0f
my sun helmet. The gunwhale
of the dinghy rested on my
shoulder. So I swept at a fear-
ful speed under the little boat
toward the beach, Then my feet
grounded in the rocks, I gave
a heave and lifted the boat that
was holding me down under the
chocolate -colored water.
Standing up, I staggered onto
the beach, carrying the dinghy
that should have been carrying
me. As the surf swirled about
my legs I saw the duffle bag
containing the camera and film.
Making a dash, I rescued them
before water could get inside.
A colony of some twenty-five
sea elephants lay on the beach
and flipping dry sand over each
other's backs. At times a bull
would rear up and give utter-
ance to a weird bark, sounding
like bubbles coming up from
the water of a deep well. Two
or three of the heard made off
into the sea as I approached.
Others merely looked up and
yawned. -From "The World Be-
neath the Sea," by Ottis Barton.
Fatal g Penalty
Angelo Scandurra of Palermo,
Sicily, was so intent on his task
of stealing from a house he had
entered that he was unaware of
the householder creeping up on
him. A loose floorboard creaked,
the burglar looked up in alarm,
saw the owner of the house
about to attack, and fled.
So hurried was Scandurra's
exit that he left one of his shoes
behind. The police were called
and supplied with information
and the shoe. Later, in a police
line-up, detectives found the
foot that fitted the shoe -and it
was Angelo's. The householder
recognized the thief, and the
masculine Cinderella received a
prison sentence for his careless-
ness.
CANNY QUARTET
William J. Pickerill, t h e
South African music composer,
who recently composed "Cape
Town Suite," has included in it
a scherzo entitled "The South -
Easter" -after the summer wind
which always whips through
South Africa's Mother City.
In this scherzo he has includ-
ed a quartet of coal -oil cans!
The score calls for the cans to
be kicked from the top of the
choir steps to the bottom.
Rev at. B. Warrens, b.A.,B.».
In Time of Trouble
Psalm 142; 46:1-3, 10-11.
Memory Selection; God is our
refuge and strength, a vera
present help in time of trouble.
Psalm 46:1.
Trouble comes to everyone.
It came to Job, a man "perfect
and upright, and one that feared
God, and turned away from.
evil." It came to David in the
sins of adultery and murder am-
ong his children: echoes of the
sins of his ofn former life. The
sins of his own former life. The
repeated in the lives of their
children. In this respect we may
invite trouble. Trouble came to
Ahab after he married the
wicked Jezebel, a worshipper of
Baal. Disagreement on the mat-
ter of religion by husband and
wife can cause a heap of trouble.
Our troubles are never as bad
as they might be. One i las said,
"If all our troubles were hung
en the line, who wouldn't choose
his own?" If you are tempted
to feel sorry for yourself, start
visiting the hospitals.
Trouble is a test of character.
Then you see what inner re-
sources you really have. Many
of the psalms were written out
of experience with trouble. In
today's lesson the writer cries
out, "Refuge failed me; no man
cared for my soul." Many a per-
son has felt like that. But the
Psalmist goes on to point out
the way to victory: "I cried
unto thee, 0 LORD: I said,
Thou are my refuge and my
portion in the land of the liv-
ing."
Happy is he who can say in
faith, "God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in
trouble." But it is well to ac-
quaint yourself with God be-
fore trouble comes. Then you
will not be sowing to the flesh
and later reaping corruption.
But trouble of sickness, bereave-
ment, disappointment and dis-
aster knock at the door of alln.
Then it is good to have an abid-
ing faith in our loving heavenly
Father who cares.
GOOD ADVICE
The dentist, is more than a
salesman of health. He is the
friendly counselor at all times.
Take the time Eddie De Marco
bounced into the office, waving
a ticket in the air.
"See this ducat, Doc? Twenty-
five smackers a plate. Big din-
ner at the Waldorf tonight.
Some class, eh? I'm finally
dining with the upper set."
"The steak may be tough,
Eddie," advised the dentist.
I were you I'd take the lower
set, 100."
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Trip to Sweden is in store for Joe Tran, 37, of Claremont, Ont.,
as result of his victory itt Canadian championship competition
for Esso Silver Plow, held by Ontario Plowmen's Association
at Ballantrae, Ont. He and runnerup, Ivan McLaughlin, 50, of
Stouffville, Ont., will travel to Sweden next year as guests of
Imperial Oil to compete against plowmen from other countries
in the third annual world championship plowing match.