HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-01-20, Page 71111, Di FRONT
Writing in the Agricultural
Institute Review, Dr. K. W, Hill
summarizes tests made with
various synthetic soil condition-
ers in a number of locations
extending from Vancouver Is-
land to Nova Scotia. The ob-
jectives were to learn the effects
on the yields and quality of the
crops and note the physical ef-
fects on the soil.
• * *
More than two dozen individ-
ual experiments were made dur-
ing 1952-53 and in two cases
significant advantages were at-
tributed to the treatment with
soil conditioner. At Nappan Ex-
perimental Farm, the yield of
marketable potatoes on dyke -
land soil was increased 11 per
cent as a result of adding 2,000
pounds of conditioner per acre,
and at Normandin Experimental
Station, the yield of silage corn
was increased 83 per cent follow-
ing treatment with 1,000 pounds
of conditioner per acre. In the
remainder of the tests on oats,
sugar beets, wheat, corn grain,
barley and potatoes — except
at Nappan — no significant dif-r
ferences in yield could be as-
cribed to the conditioner,
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In other tests it was found
that soil conditioners had a
measurable effect on soil prop-
erties. Generally they tended
to improve the crumb structure
and the rate of percolation of
water through the soil was
speeded up. The total porosity
and the non -capillary porosity
was higher in the treated than
in the untreated soil.
* *
Results of the studies do not
indicate that soil conditioners
at present available have a place
in general farming practice in
Canada. With current costs of
about $1 a pound, conditioners
could not reasonably be used at
recommended rates except on
very small plots or extremely
valuable land. Clearly evident
changes in certain physical
characteristics of the soil due
to treatment with conditioners
have been noted consistently but
these' benefits have not been re-
flected in higher yields.
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When a food shopper buys_a
can of fruit or vegetables, how
Warm Reception—Storekeeper on
the Rue Tronchet, in Paris,
France, installs infrared heaters
over his display window in
hopes that window shoppers will
pause long enough to thaw out
both themselves and their poc-
ketbooks before going on to
some other store..
many times does she wish she
could examine the product in-
side- How many times is she
influenced by a colourful label,
a brand name, or a low compara-
tive price, and fails to note
whether the label bears the
word Fancy, Choiceor Stand-
ard, All canned fruits and veg-
etables packed for shipment
from one province to another.
in Canada are subject to in-
spection by the federal Depart-
ment of Agriculture. The pro-
ducts are segregated into lst,
2nd, and 3rd quality grades and
labelled respectively as Fancy,
Choice, and Standard. The
grading is based on such factors
as nature and uniformity of
colour, texture, and flavour, and
on freedom_ from defects and
foreign matter. Products which
are labelled "Fancy" may be ex-
pected to excell in all the above
factors while "Choice" products
can lack top quality in one or
more aspects. `Standard' can-
ned products may be expected
to show poor quality in one or
more of the factors although
they must meet the require-
ments for human edible food.
The grade requirements for
each crop are set out in the Meat
and Canned Foods Act. For ex-
ample, the regulations for can-
ned peas include the following
specifications:—
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Fancy—Prepared from young,
tender peas, practically free
from loose skins and splits; shall
be tender and have a normal
flavour; shall be uniform in col-
our and maturity; the liquor
shall remain clear.
* * *
Choice—Prepared from fairly
young,tender peas, 90 per cent
free from loose skins and splits;
shall be fairly tender and have
a normal flavour; shall be 80
per cent uniform in colour and
maturity; the liquor shall remain
fairly clear.
* * 4'
Standard — Prepared f r o m
peas not necessarily uniform in
colour or maturity or free from
loose skin and splits; this grade
shall be 90 per cent free from
hard ripe peas; the liquor need
not be clear,
k K *
Corresponding descriptions are
given for other products so that
the consumer, by simply noting
the grade on the label, can be
guided as to the quality within
each container. Often, the price
differences between grades is
very small in comparison with
the differences in quality. The
discerning customer can often
purchase Choice and preferably
Fancy products to better advan-
tage than the Standard products.
SALLY'S SALLIES
"Now that Christmas is over,
what about New Year's Eve?"
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PUZZLE
ACROSS
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6,. Cold and
rainy
9, Soak
12, Plea ring
13,Pintal.
14. Yate
15. AA apostle
16. Weight
17, Soft hair
18, Lukewarn.
20, Grant
21. summit
24. Tune bug
25, Anxieties
26. Scent
28. Portificatioh
80, Grumble
82; Likenesses
86. Type of car
88. Openwork
fabric
89. Celestial boat'
42, Blushing
44,-•Paace
45, Prayers
46. Wearied lIc
dullness
48, Pesten
49. Hit hard
CO. Rental
contract
4. Closo
66, Constellation
16. Nocturnal
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2, Exist
3, Allow
4, Dillseed
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6, W thdra'v
7. Poetless
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8. Conquer 39. Opening
.9, Allude 34, Old 2'rencl,
10, Baffle coin
11. Wearies 35. Congeal
33.
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21. Pointed hill 40, Repair
41. Repairs irs
23. Small 46. Th, olt lett
explosion 46. Uncovered
47. Costly
25. Rotating elei'e 40. Hnock
27, (toes up 51. Monkey
22. Eater 52. Have a ehair
31. Meshed abrlo 58. Before
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Fashion Hints
°`Pasco -Dobie" is the name France Davies has given her evening
design. A strapless sheath, its Hp drapery ends in voluminous
back fullness. Fabric is a blend of acetate and viscose. The
flecked pattern gives the fabric a textured, tweedy look. This
is one of 44 styles, featuring Canadian fabrics, presented at the
first American showing of the Association of Canadian Couturiers
of the Hotel Pierre, New York City, December 7.
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Polic all I
Concealed in a luggage van
of the Manchester to London
night express, two railway po-
licemen recently saw a pair of
thieves creep into the van and
break open a mail -bag. As one
of them plunged a hand inside
it, he gasped with astonishment.
For ,two nearby mailbags had
suddenly come to life — and out
popped the policemen!
With an authorized establish-
ment of 3,842, the present - day
strength of the British Trans-
port Commission's Police Force
is 3,365 policemen and 113
policewomen. This is a sizeable
squad, the biggest single dark
blue force outside the civic po-
lice in Britain.
It shoulders no light burden.
For, as the Force's chief officer,
Mr, William Richards points out,
it has to guard 51,000 miles of
railway tracks plus huge termini,
docks and inland waterways.
- Broken Bottle Attacks
Since the introduction of
guard dogs to Glasgow sidings
and goods yards there has been
no record of a railway pilfer-
ing gang mauling or assaulting
a police officer. Previously, sev-
eral officers were beaten to their
knees and badly injured by as-
sailants armed with broken bot -
ties and crowbars,
At Hull docks, the first port
to be dog patrolled, an officer
had to grapple with two roar-
ing drunks. One bit his ears as
the other seized him. It seemed
he must be hurled into the
water, but his whistle brought
a police dog into action, and
soon both men were completely
subdued.
The dogs,. bred and trained at
Hull, operate now in docks
along the north-east coast, in
railway depots and sidings both
in Scotland and London. Also-
tians, they can smell any inter.
•1opear lurking it a van or tunnel.
Crook's Hunting Ground
Scotland Y a r d co-operated
with the railway police in track-
ing down and suppressing one
of the worst rackets of recent
times. Waterloo Station, London,
was the crooks' hunting ground.
Here, in a six month period,
nearly 550,000 worth of parcels
vanished, Eventually, the plot
was unmasked.
The chief stooges were two
dishonest porters, Picking out
likely looking parcels, they
stuck fake labels on top of the
existing ones, thereby consign-
ing the parcels to stations on
London's outskirts. At the same
time, they marked the packages
"To Be Called For."
Accomplices then drew up in
their cars and collected the
spoils. Much of this enormous
loot found its way into a Soho
fiat, exhibited as a trade stall.
Here, at bargain prices, the
booty -- ranging from first-class
golf bags, fishing sets and
whisky cases to ladies' under-
wear, frocks and cameras — ct;as
sold to discreet customers. When
the flat was raided the police re-
covered £624 worth of stolen
goods, a small proportion un.
fortunately of the the total of
the gang's filchings.
Railway police often show
outstanding courage, One, Rob-
ert Cameron, recently saved a
£4,000 vanload of whisky and
Was awarded the B.E.M. — most
deservedly.
He was on his usual beat at
Burton -on -Trent when he saw
a gang jump into a lorry which
had whisky aboard, Dashing for-
ward, he grappled with one of
them and managed to immo-
bilize the vehicle. But, a solitary
policeman, he was no match for
a whole gang of determined
thugs. They hammered into him
and, as they trussed him up
like a turkey, he feigned un-
eMisclouen eee.
They dragged him ode to a
warehouse and left him there.
But as soon as they locked the
door on him Cameron struggled.
free, ' ran to a shunter's cabin,
raised the alarm and savedthe
whisk.
itisy1951, British Railways
adopted a precaution which has
since paid dividends — the pre -
Vision of steel grille corridors
alongside luggage vans, so
screening off the van's contents
very effectively from petty pil-
ferers. But the fight never re-
laxes; and "all's fair" in this
unseen battle of the tracks and
sidings. Police disguise them-
selves as porters, holiday-
makers, ticket collectors, shunt-
ers, even business men, clean-
ers and waiters in order to
watch suspects, or investigate a
source of leakage.
Goods Trains "Milked"
In Scotland, a few months
back, a shady coal merchant
entered into league with some
gangsters and, for a time, "milk-
ed"
milked" goods trains so craftily that
dozens of truck -loads of best
. quality house coals, were divert-
ed into his yard. He never paid
a penny for a single consign -
In Wales, a gang greased the
tracks along a stretch of steep
gradient. They selected moon-
less nights for their van -bust-
ing operations. Then, as , train
was forced to stop while the
crew sanded the rails, they
struck, bursting open the goods
man with crowbars to whip out
everything within reach into a
waiting lorry.
•
But sometimes the rail gangs,
responsible for sixty per cent.
of all thieving on our railways,
catch a Jonah or 'one of Chief
Officer Richards' "plants."
A rail ''tee hid himself in a
wicker hamper inside a goods
van at Camden Town. It , was,
he imagined, a perfect observa-
tion post. But judge his surprise
when the thieves he intended
to watch pinched the basket and
carried him off, along with other
stolen goods, to a poky little
warehouse off London's docks!
He popped up through the lid,
and by sheer Jack-in-the-box
shock tactics collared his kid-
nappers.
Again, through spreading
false informatiozi at haunts
popular with goods thieves, the
railway police dangle a bogus
carrot before the gang's noses.
Then, instead of a vanload of
tobacco or nylons, the crooks
open the van's doors to find
waiting police.
Policewomen, too, act as de-
ooys and tackle the risky job of
detecting and arresting those
respnosible for assaults on wo-
men passengers. These girls in
railway blue, or plain clothes,
often find their mirrors handy
for watching a suspect's move-
ments.
Seen in the Mirror
Perhaps the most inspired use
of a mirror was made by a po-
liceman disguised as a porter
at Crewe.Glancing into a slot
machine's mirror, he saw a man
fidgeting with his braces. Hav-
ing undone them — he was hid-
ing behind a pillar — he turned
slowly round and round as of
winding himself up. The police-
man moved over to investigate.
Instantly, his man hared -off
down the line. But, with his
braces unfastened, he was a
loser from the start.
As expected, his trousers slip-
ped down, "All right, it's a fair
cop," he grimaced, sheepishly.
What interested his pursuer was
not so much his embarrassment
as the coil upon coil of tobacco
twist he had wrapped around
his middle. All of it was stolen
from a goods van crate.
XDAY SCIIOOL
LESSON
Rev. R. B. Warren,,,B,A., B.134
The Living Gad
Psalm 1.03:.8.13; Isaiah 40:.25.89;
Matthew .6:9b; John 4:23-24; 10:39
Memory Selection: God is tit
Spirit, and they that worship
him roust worship him in spite
and in truth. John 4:24.
We become like the gods we
worship. Mythology tells us of
the gods of the ancient Greeks
and Romans. They were jealous
of each other, capricious alai,
underhanded in their dealing
with other gods and with men.
They were in constant conflict,
dealing out vengence of one
sort or another, had illicit lova
affairs with each other and with
human s, became intoxicated
with the, drink of the gods, and
such like: ' The worshippers of
these gods became like them and
fell into moral and physical de-
cay.
Carson Reber, a former army
chaplain says that we have our
gods of power, money, personal.
gain and pleasure, with equally
calamitous results. N e r *sou*
breakdowns fill our mental hos-
pitals, drunkenness and divorce
are breaking up the home, sex
crimes are on the increase, and
juveniles are, becoming more
lawless and bolder. With all
our military might we have less
security than ever before. This
is but a little of what comes
when we burn incense to other
than the Lord God Almighty.
The god of the Bible is dif-
ferent.
ifferent. He is pure and holy,
merciful and gracious, benefi-
cent and forgiving. Christ, his
divine Son, is the "express im-
age of his ' person." When we
yield our lives to his He will
completely forgive us our sine.
We will love him and our great
desire wil be to serve him, Thus
we will become like him.
This is the way of happiness,
"He giveth power to the faint."
Without Him we are weak, baf-
fled and frustrated. We need
God, Let us seek Him while He
maybe found and call upon
Him while He is near. "To them
thathave no might He increaseth
strength.
ON THE CARDS
Juliette Pialat, a Parisian
fortune teller, was not a little
surprised to read in the cards
that her dear husband would
suffer a heavy blow in the near
future,
That the cards were right was
beyond doubt; but as time wor%
on and the prophecy wasn't full -
filled Mm. Pialat began to won-
der. Had she slipped up? It was
out of the question; perhaps the
mystic power needed a little
encouragement? She supplied it
-- a hefty whack on her hu --
hand's head with a heavy club.
Hubby didn't approve, so the
fortune teller ended up in
court.
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Doubly Permanent—'''wins Mary Jo and Suzanne Mulholland pick
up their "permanent" Christmas presents by spending an after-
noon, under the dryers at Grandmother Verna Bentz' beauty shop.
A confused Santa, who had to deliver his presents on time, took
na chances; gave the 29 -month-old pair identical dolls„