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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. d, 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. d• .;. 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. * * 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. • * * i. 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 . d, * Over caution is tified where fire concerned. d. i 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 CROSSWORD---®.-�..� 5 Argument PUZZLE 0. Faithful 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 � {b. V0 * meso eiiiNieC 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 Notmon d.nsWer Ell ewhere on '.hills Vag* 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." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking a a N Gi a N 1 a a a .1. 0 a d 9 N r;. �rr.S N N a M 1 N v a ii d O O 1 w a 0611. M a O ai A 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.