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Zurich Herald, 1955-02-24, Page 3TIIL PA hrJo6 M FRONT The care which chicks receive during the brooding period will have a great effect on the finan- cial returns from these birds at a later date. Probably no mis-• take is more common than the tendency to put too many chicks In the brooder house. The ex- cessive losses, unven growth, and cannibalism that result are often attributed to other causes, yet it must be expected if the house contains too many chicks for its size. Now is the time to check the available space and equipment and to make plans for the brooding season. * is The brooder house should provide at least seventy-two square inches of floor space per chick up to eight weeks of age and the floor space should be doubled if chicks are to be kept in confinement for a longer per- iod. In addition to ample space a wide range of temperatures to suit the needs of the chicks is necessary. Over -heating, chilling and drafts are harmful, with over -heating the major fault. Where chicks are being brooded late in the spring some pro- vision should be made to ven- tilate the house and hold tem- peratures down. When chicks DREEN-This pretty young lady 'sitting atop all that rabbit food Is Katherine McDonald. She's holding a giant head of lettuce at the El Centro vegetable festi- val. MATCHLESS BEAUTY -Fiery Ital- ian actress Silvana Pampaini is the center of burning attention at the second annual Cinema Gala in Rome, Italy. Apparently, there's nothing but .good luck In reversal of the ill-omened adage, "three on a match." crowd to the outer walls and are seen to pant then the tempera- ture is too high. • * * >* The choice of a brooder stove is important, especially in con- struction; as there is always risk of fire. The stove should be set up and in operation at least three days before the chicks ar- rive. A good rule to follow is to have a temperature of 95 de- grees under the brooder for the first week and to reduce the tem- perature 5 degrees each week. It is advisable not to raise more than three hundred chicks un- der one brooder. For the farmer who raises four hundred to six hundred chicks two brooders would be more satisfactory. * * * Ample feeding space is also a necessity for fast, 'even growth. Two four -foot feeders per one hundred chicks would provide • approximately two inches of feeding space per chick which is satisfactory until the chicks are six weeks of age. If chicks are to be confined for a longer period, then the space per chick should be increased to three inches. Some poultrymen follow the practice of covering the litter , with newpapers for two or three days while the chicks are learning to eat. * * * An adequate supply of fresh water should be provided at all times. Two waterers of two - quart capacity are more satis- factory than one of a gallon during the brooding period. If later a change is made to a larger waterer the small ones should also be used for a short period until the birds get ac- quainted with the new supply. * * * Germination tests at home are the practical and common sense answer to farmers who, question whether their seed is going to . germinate properly after they. sow it. This is particularly the case with seed retained from last year's harvest, the germina- tion of which may be low. For the common crop, home ger- mination tests can be made suc- cessfully on a sample which will most nearly represent the entire lot. The usual practice is to use 100 -seed ,counts, in duplicate, or more. The average of the separ- ate tests is then used in deter- mining the percentage of ger- mination. * * 4' Clean blotting paper, absor- bent cotton, paper towels, or cloth may be used to hold the seeds. Place 100 seeds on the material selected and cover with the same kind of material. Place on a large dinner plate and cover with another one. Sand may also be used for test- ing seeds of cereals, corn, peas and beans. * * * Seeds should not be allowed to rest in water. The material should be soaked in water, and the free water allowed to drain off before the seds are planted. * * Uniform temperature ranging from 65 to 85 degrees F. is suitable. Sprouts should not be remov- ed and counted before they are large, enough to determine if they are healthy and appear capable of developing into use- ful plants. Clovers and other legumes' in particular should be examined carefully for broken and abnormal sprouts that start growth but are incapable of continuing to grow into plants. CROSSWOR tt T. liva ue 8. Greek poen, 8. Bellow 10. Poker stake 11. Require 17. Plasters open court ACROSS DOWN 23, Insect eggs 1. serpent 1 winglike 24. Weep 2 Wine 95. Native metal 4, Girl's name 3. Ready 8. Persia 4. Obliterate 12. Roman 5. For tear that household gnfl 0, hlminish 12 t"onrse 1;1•aas stem 14, Soiitary t5. rnpoch 18 Ampinintsno', 13 Meals 20 Anrlenlate 21 T1Xist 39 wife of rlerahit 24. SensitIva 20. t tt1 n o plant 22. monk a chair 33, 'tountatn nymphs 32, African fly 84. River bottom 85. Anarchists lntetrass t AA. Rn afraid 89. rnnetng dtimn ' 40. 'llnh brown (mint" 47. Ml� 'Worked b, horses 40. 'Digit 6o. hiilseed 1. False god 8e. 2000 pounds 58, Corded tabtlqe 114. 'Those nitre Op N. Strrantaa 20. On the ocean 27. Pointed knife 28 lloaim, 39, Golf mound 3i.s 32. At any time 36. Ancient Celtic priests 38, t:curt orders 89. Draws 40. ,Headliner 41. Sea eagle 42. i,00k slyly 44. Narrow opening 45.t'ros. 1ti Wans:Mt 48. 1032 444C Seve Avow elsewhere est lelaaee. CLIMB OP COURAGE - packing agonizingly up the steps, Mary Susan Evans, of East Spencer, N.C., was doing one of the hardest things she will ever have to do in her life. Recovering frorn polio, she was learning to walk again with braces. Mary Susan is a symbol of an unusual demonstration of courage in adversity. She represents the institution in which she is being treated. The Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital was built in a record 94 days with money subscribed in 42 days during the polio epidemic in 1948. Valued at sbc million dollars, it has handled 1267 patients. tt is one of the few, in the country to take care of the whole scope of polio from early phases through rehabilitation. oi er Abbey Among the many tombstones in Westminster Abbey, where' normally only the great are • buried, is one to the memory of a humble farm labourer from Shropshire whose only claim to fame lies in the fact that he lived to the ripe. old age of 152: Thomas Parr. Though few today have ever heard of him, "Old Parr", as he was. called, became for a span of two months the talk of Lon- don, and the guest of kings and princes; it was on the express orders of Charles I that he was given an Abbey, burial. -Born in 1483 in the Shropshire village of Alberbury, he lived in no fewer than ten reigns, from that of Edward IV to that of Charles I; and throughout his life subsisted almost entirely on old cheese, milk, coarse bread, small beer and whey. For eighty years Old Parr re- mained a confirmed bachelor, fending for himself in his small cottage near the River Severn. He .had no eyes for women -un- til one day ,in 1563 he met a young woman little more than a quarter his age, and he found his second youth. Th aged and wrinkled farm- hand forgot his abhorrence of women and became an ardent suitor. He fell madly in love, married. after, a short courting, and in less than four years was the father of two children. Alas, the romance proved "Of course the way to be a sue" cessful painter is to become a Prime Minister first." sweet but short. Soon after the birth of his second child, Old Parr lost his wife, and found himself a widower with the res- ponsibility of bringing up a family single-handed. He now had "an eye for the girls," however, and at the age of 105 he disgraced himself by becoming the father of an illegi- timate child by a local lass, Katherine Milton. This so filled him with shame that imme- diately after the baby's birth he did penance by spending the night in, Alberbury Church clothed only in a white sheet. He then married Katherine and settled down to a steadier life. Thirty years after his second marriage he was still threshing corn in the Shropshire barns with the energy of a man of sixty. Indeed, though his eye- sight had begun to fail by then, he was still working at 150, and appeared to be as robust as .ever. In 1635, two years later, the Earl of Arundel got to hear of his remarkable longevity,.,, and determined to take Thomas to London to see the king. And that proved his undoing. Charles I was so delighted that • he treated Thomas Parr as an honoured guest, inviting him to dine at the royal table and over - priming him with rich food and goodly wine. He provided him with a home in the Strand, and commissioned both Rubens and Van Dyck to paint, his portrait. The excitement was too much. and his digestion, so long ac• customed to simple country fair, revolted. Within two months of his arrival in London Thomas Parr was .(lead. He had died, said a doctor who examined him, from overindulgence in food and drink, His heart and lungs were sounder than those of most men less than half his age; and had he been allowed to continue with his 'quiet country life he Might well have lived for many years more. The king was so distressed by the news of his death that he ordered that he be buried in Westminster Abbey and that a memorial stone be erected re- cording his longevity, Besides his stone in the Abbey, we can still see the humble Shropshire cottage where Parr spent a large 'part of his life. How Irving Berlin Wrote Ref -Seller Irving Berlin grinned apolo- getically. "Sorry," he said, "there's oat really a romantic story story be- hind `White Christmas.' It would probably be a good publicity story to say that X wrote iton an Alpine peak or something like that --- but, believe me, it would be too darned cold and uncomfortable on ' an Alpine peak to think about writing a song there! "To tell you the truth, I can't even remember where I wrote it. It was probably on a very hot day! 1 had got an idea for a stage show based on the dif- ferent holiday seasons. Christ- mas was one of the holidays, and I got a phrase into my head for it. The lyric had to lead up to 'And may all your Christ- mases be white.' It wasn't easy, either! "The stage show didn't come off, after all, so I put up the idea to Paramount as the basis for a film, and it resulted in "Holiday Inn.' Bing Crosby sang `White Christmas' in it. I didn't dream that it would become such a hit. It's easily the most successful number I have written from a commercial point of view." Its success has been phenom- enal It was introduced, briefly. in another picture, "Blue Skies." Now it comes to the screen for the third time in the film which carries the tune as its title, "White Christmas," once again with Bing Crosby singing it. Over eight million of the ori- ginal Bing Crosby records have been sold so far. Add this figure to the sales of records made by other artists and you get a total of over eighteen million. "One always hopes for a hit, of , course," Berlin remarked, "but I defy anyone to say in advance whether a number will catch on or not. I was lucky with `White Christmas' in' that it came out during the war and it appealed to Servicemen serv- ing oveiseas.. It had . a nostal- gic appeal for them. "One of the most . touching moments in my life was when I went to New Guinea during the war. I was taken along to see a troop show on Christmas Eve, and not many people knew I was there. Nothing could have been less Christmasy. It was very hot, and there were palate trees all around. There was cer- tainly no snow! Then, at three minutes to twelve, the whole audience stood up and sang 'White Christmas.' I'm not ashamed to say 'that I found tears coming into my eyes." Sleeplessness hasresulted in his new number, "Count Your Blessings." Berlin just couldn't sleep. Ha tried pills. He saw the doctor and was prescribed various remedies. None worked. He tried the old dodges of counting sheep, the flowers on the bed- room wallpaper, the leaves on the tree outside his window. One night his wife remarked: "What's the use of counting sheep? Why don't you count your blessings instead?" Berlin swears that her advice worked. Counting his blessings put him into a happy frame of mind, and he fell to sleep. More than that, Mrs. ,$erli4 had pro- vided him with an 'idea for a song, and now runt Your Blessings" looks 'like 'pining the other hits to his'cre8t4 At one time he used to com- pose his songs at the piano. To- day he puts them straight down on paper doing lyrics and mel- ody at the same time. "I work any time, anywhere - at home, in hotels, in trains. And on the back of an old en- velope if it happens to be the only piece of paper handy. You've just got to keep on writ- ing!" AY SCIIOOL LESSON Rev, R. Barclay Warren, B,A., B,D. The Church Proclaims this Gospel 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; 2;1-5; Colossians 1:24-29. Memory Seleetiopet 1 am not ashamed of ,the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that be- lieveth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16. Gospel means Good News. The good news is that "Whoso- ever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." But man will not call until he accepts the truth concerning Jesus Christ. He cannot accept it or believe until he hears it. He can only hear when some- one goes to him proclaiming the message. Hence we who have the news have the re- sponsibility of telling otters. The gospel is really very simple. "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man be- lieveth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." We must believe; we must confess. He who believes is glad to con,"• -ss for "Whosoever believeth on him shall not he ashamed." * * * Paul had one-track mind when it came to preaching. He said, "I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified." This was the sum and substance of his preaching. He said, "My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demon- stration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." We need more preaching of this type today. Only such preach-. ing willawaken men to their lostness and urge them to re- pent of their sins and believe on Jesus Christ as their Sav ' ioThis'is no" time for insipid es- says ssays from the pulpit. The Goode News must be proclaimed in the power of the Spirit that melt may hear and find eternal life. SEAL SC,' EN1rBALL It >, i i happened in three mine utas flat. The man walked irate the bar, ordered a shot of whis- key, gulped it down, deposited 50 cents an the bar and walked, out. Quickly, the bartender scooped up the coin, put it in his pocket and turned to the next customer - only to catch the4 cold eye of the proprietor staring at him. The bartender hesitated a moment, then shook his head sadly. "What a screwball!" he con- fided. "Leaves a 50 cent tip - and then walks out without pay- ing." aying." Upsidedown to Prevent Peekin ii Itql l TrAi I?1 V1 SKY- IIGH DOODLE --It took more than two miles of steel to get this "doodle" effect. You're looking straight up inside the new, "a "OO -foot TV -transmitting tower of station WENS. The lacy -like creation weighs a hefty 74 tons.