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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-08-11, Page 3ARM FRONTJokz Several methods of growing pullets have proved satisfactory. Such details as sufficient space in pens and range shelters and plenty of hopper space are, per- haps, more important than the actual method of rearing, provid- ing the birds are reasonably well fed. Pullets are being grown en- tirely indoors with satisfactory results. The use of shelters on grass range, however, is more popular than confinement rear- ing with pullets hatched in the spring. * * Experimental work shows that it is not necessary, and may even be harmful, to force the growth and development of pullets with very high protein feeds. On the other hand, severe restriction of feed may be equally harmful. If some feed restriction is practised it is„ necessary to dispense the feed in measured amounts in troughs or on the ground, since restriction on the basis of length of feeding time is relatively in- effective in retarding feed con- sumption. * * * A satisfactory method of rear- ing pullets with a minimum of labour, is followed at the Can- ada Department of Agriculture Experimental Station at Freder- icton, N.B. The method involves full feeding of mash and grain on ranges, with free access to oyster shell, grit and water. Large, . well constructed feed hoppers which require little at- tention, ere used on range. Mash, oats and wheat are fed in sep- arate hoppers, or in separate compartments of each hopper. The birds balance their own ra- tion, and a much larger propor_ tion of grain than mash is usually eaten. The pullets are housed and fed a laying ration before egg production exceeds five per cent. * * * Seed yield of red clover defin- itely increases up to a certain point as the numbers of honey bees working the field for pollen and nectar increases. A report. from the Bee Division, Canada Department of Agriculture, in Ottawa substantiates' this rela- tionship between seed yield and honey bee populations. It is em- phasized, `however, that' recom- mendations cannot as yet be made as to how many bees are needed to produce. the largest possible seed set. * * • * Observations have been made on honey bee activity, in red clo- ver over the past few years, and although some satisfactory re- sults have developed, complica- 10 VISIT RUSSIA - Shah Mo- hammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran is planning to make his first visit to Russia, at the Kremlin's Invitation. tions due to external factors which are impossible to control have . also developed. For exam- ple, in one particular instance, four fields of red clover were laid but and varying numbers of honey bee colonies were intro- duced to them. One colony was placed in one field, two in anoth- er, three in another and five col- onies ,in the fourth field. In the first field the harvested seed yield was 115 pounds per acre, and in the second field the red clover produced a yield of 226 pounds per acre. In the field where three colonies had been added the yield dropped off to 195 pounds per acre and in the five -colony field the yield was 186 pounds per acre. A check field where no honey bees had been introduced produced a yield of 60 pounds per acre. *, * At first glance these figures appeared to indicate no advan- tage in adding more than two colonies of honey bees to this specific acreage of red clover. However, closer investigation proved otherwise. It is believed that seed yield would have con- tinued to increase with the in- crease in honey bees had it not been for competitive crops such as buckwheat in the area. Pos- sibly other factors should also be considered as responsible for the drop in seed yield at the three colony level. Harvesting loss could in some cases be as high as 50 per cent, and the density of the red clover stand could have varied somewhat between the fields. At any rate there was a decided increase in seed yield where bees had been introduced over the check field of red clo- ver. * * * Another factor contributing to higher seed yield is the control of injurious insects by the use of insecticides. Control of these in- sects by the application of toxa- phene appears to encourage honey bees to forage for nectar and pollen, resulting in greater seed set. Cured y a Tickle A 13 -year-old French boy who has been mute for ten years re- gained his speech after being tickled by his foster -sister. He is Robert Pignot, of Montaigu, near Poitiers. At the age of three, the boy suffered a physical shock and became mute. Doctors who ex- amined him could not find any physical cause. What in the beginning looked like a passing phase, however, developed into a chronic condi- • tion. Robert was brought up in a school for the deaf and dumb at Poitiers. In September, 1952, a warm- hearted well-to-do lady, Madame Devallois, adopted him and an- other orphaned child, Odette Fouganey, three years his junior. One day, while playing with her foster -brother, Odette start- ed teasing him, and tickled him under the arms. While laughing heartily until tears streamed down his cheeks. Robert cried: "Stop it, Odette -stop it! You. are hurting me!" The girl ran to her foster -mother, crying: "Mother, mother, Robert can speak!" "I didn't believe her at first," said Madame Devallois, "until Robert hurled himself into my arms, crying, `I can speak -I can speak!'" Robert now goes to an ordin- ary school like other children. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACTIOSS nnwN 1. Nuisance 1, Peel 5. Entangle 2. Prectding nights 3, Party 4. Walks 6, Acts out of sorts 6. Craft 8. Log float 12, Declare 13. Source of in eta1 14. Greenland settlement 15. Money taken in 17. Adriatic wind 18. Property 19. Table utensil 2.i. Sweetmeats 23. Chinese pagodas 26, Paces east 30. Assist 3i, Analyze callmmati- y !3.17Xclamation 14. Prove a will 86. copied 87. Dinner CQul•seh 40. Wax ointment 43. Ascended 47. Greedy 48. t4111.tc,* dynes SO. 1*erset 18.ltefore (prefix. 34, Adam's grandsoh n8• Ccastint 'Vehicle 44. Whrioe (Iorefixy OF, 5tttelies 7. Bed canopies 8. Discount 9. On the summit 10. Gambling game 11. Not this 36. Inhabitant: suffix 20. Great lake 22. More sensitive 23, Gentle stroke 24, Manner 25. Bother 27. Surface o£ cloth 28. Article 29. Doleful 31. Clasp :t2. Try 35. Ornamented 36. Speeches to the audience 38. Anxious 39. Period of time 90. Taxis 41. Sin 42. Ceremony 44, "Auld Lang 45. Sufficient c' (poet.) . 46. Promontory 49. Sooner than i . Aosweli elsewl ere oft this page, 1 l HOUSE OF ANTENNAE -It looks like the folks at Round Hill mansion in South Dartmouth, have gone TV crazy. But actual- ly, these aren't TV antennae at all, They're being used by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop long-range, point-to-point radio communication. The giant "corner array" antenna is beamed at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1100 miles away. The dish antennae are for UHF transmission of voice signals. These new broadcast methods are being developed to supple- ment presently overcrowded conventional transmission bands. Water Bombs Away! The college prankster who somehow thinks it funny to drop a paper bag filled with water on or near somebody can find a future in that' sort of thing now if he wishes. Canadian for- est rangers have found that an enlarged version of the water bomb, using a laminated paper bag and dropped from a low- flying airplane, can check or control a small forest blaze un- til ground crews can reach the fire to extinguish it. The bags, each holding 31/2 imperial gal- lons (about four U.S. gallons), are often dropped in "strings" of eight. Now, using a different type of plane, the foresters believe ` they have improved on the first system. They have equipped a plane with a 240 -gallon water DOWN UNDER A visitor from Australia walked into the Rolls-Royce showroom and paid cash on the line for the most expensive li- mousine model. "Ship it to my sheep ranch outside of Sydney," he instructed the sales manager. A year later he was back to order another car. "Best model I ever saw," he exclaimed, "and you can quote me on that. I particularly approve of the glass partition between the front and rear seats. Most ingenious fea- ture of the whole car." "Why do you say that?" inquired the Rolls-Royce representative. "It's like this," explained the Austra- lian. "I roll that window up, and 'I'd like to see the damn sheep that can lick the back of my neck while I'm driving it to market!" eeek BACK IN THE AIR - First German -made aircraft since the end of World War 11 is exhibited at the Fifth Annual German Air- port Day at Bremen. Called the "Motor -Raab," Ft's a glider -type plane powered by a Volkswagen engine. It flies for five hours on five gallons of gas. tank which can be tipped to dump the load in three or more installments where needed. The water is said to be the more effective because it reaches the ground in the fire area as a fine rain. Now, wait. till the rain- makers get hold of that idea! From The Christian Science Monitor. The Dizzy 1a� Jerome Herman Dean, better known as "Dizzy" to admiring baseball fans all over the coun- try, is even better behind the mike than he was on the mound pitching for the old St. Louis Cardinal gas -house gang in the thirties - and higher praise than that hath no diamond enthusiast. Ted Shane has dug up a Dizzy Dean anecdote most fans never heard before. Seems the Diz once bet a crony two bits he could fan Joe Di Maggio's big brother, Vince, every time he faced him one afternoon. Vince obligingly whiffed his first three times up, but on his fourth trip to the plate, lifted a harmless little pop back pi the plate. Dean hollered to his catcher, "Drop it, or I'm ruint!" Then he burned over the next pitch for strike three. Dizzy Dean thinks he knows how Red Russia could be brought into line. "I'd get me a buncha bats and balls and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to play baseball instead of totin' rifles and swallerin' lies. And if toe Stallion ever learnt how much dough there was in the concessions at a ball park, he'd quit cotismanismt1 and get into a honest business." Cove i . en Of Norway Deep under the mediaeval for- tress of Akershus, overlooking . Oslo harbour, there has just been completed one of the biggest air- raid shelters inthe world. Blasted out of solid rock with the help of twelve tons of dyna- mite, it is more than 600 feet long and can give shelter to 3,000 people. Above the shelter is a layer of rock averaging about 60 feet thick. In -peace-time the authorities hope to use the shelter, which has cost $200,000, for exhibitions, storage, and other purposes. An- other big underground shelter built in Oslo recently is now housing Norway's biggest furni- ture exhibition, and last Decem- ber a Christmas fair was held there! A third vast underground Warehouse being built at Eke - berg, Oslo. will be ready next auturbn. More than 5,000,000 • cubic. feet of rock have been blasted out to make these under- mountain chambers. • Altogether there will be 48 storage rooms of more than 5,000 square feet each. Immediately outside the entrance are quays and road and rail colnmuncia- tions, • The underground warehouses • will be let, to merchants, who will, of corse, have to evacuate them if they are wanted for more urgent purposes. Nate is the scentless sun- flower, with gaudy crown of gold; brit friendship is the breathing rose, with tweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tying The Knot A solid r!;tatrimonial tie should certainly result from the way in which a wedding was carried out near Christchurch recently. In the small town of Tokoroa the registrar found that he had to perform the ceremony in five languages! The groom was a Greek who knew only about two words of English; he had lived most of his life in Russia and Germany, and had only German identity papers. The bride had been born and brought up in China, had lived in Russia for a number of years, and had even less command of failed and the Italians retreat- The only available witnesses to the tying of the nupital knot were Cypriots and Poles. So in order that everyone present would understand what he was talking about, the registrar per- formed the ceremony first in English, and then in German, French, Greek, and Russian, the last-named language, fortunately, being understood by the Poles. The bride wore blue. Lives With Bullet Imbeded in Heart "Between death and Amedeo Galli," wrote an Italian journal- ist, recently, "there exists a non- aggression pact." This is hardly an exaggeration. Amedeo Felice Galli, a fifty - eight - year - old bookkeeper, has had a bullet in his heart for the last forty years, and is still going strong. He sustained it during the First World War. In May, 1916. he was a soldier in an Italian in- fantry regiment, ordered to make a bayonet charge against an Aus- trian position. The attack was heavily repulsed, and the Aus- trians maintained a bombard- ment even when the Italians had retreated. Galli was one of the few sur- vivors, but was left lying on the battlefield, unconscious and ap- parently dead, when the attack English than her fiance. ed. To the village of Goria Minore went a message that Galli had fallen in action. The Austrians, too, believed Galli was dead. Indeed, they were just about to bury him when one of their doctors noted that his heart was beating; very faintly, but definitely still mov- ing. Galli knew nothing abput all this. When he eventually opened his eyes with the familiar words, "Where am I?" the reply, from Professor Steinmaurer, an Aus- trian surgeon, was. `"Vienna Hos- pital, my friend. You are alive by a miracle, and you ought to be put in a museum." Galli remembered his name and the circumstances of hs wound, but his surprise wee enormous when he discovered that he had been unconscious for almost a year; the month, in fact, was April, 1917. Steinmaurer, who was intri- gued by his case, took the oppor- tunity of the arrival of new X -Ray equipment to give him an examination. At first he could not credit what he saw, and looked twice more before he could believe his eyes. Yes, there was definitely a bullet in Galli's heart, wedged in the right-hand ventricle. The bullet is still there today. Now and again, he becomes un- conscious for a couple of hour, when the bullet takes a certain position less beneficial to his constitution, but on the whole he is a remarkably fit and active man for fifty-eight years -and a miracle` for a man with a bul- let in his heart. He is married, and has children. What puzzles us is how a fool and his money got together in the first place. moat ON B. Barclay Warren, B.A., 0L1IA, Loyalty 'tinder Difficulties Psalm 137: 1-6; Daniel 3-13-lt Memory Selection: Re win deliver us out of thine hand, 0) king, But if not, be it know% unto thee, 0 king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor woe - ship the golden =age wink e& thou hast set up. Daniel 3:17-18, Only one who has been am exile can fully appreciate Psalm. 137. "To hang your harp on the willow" is a well-known saying, "How shall we sing the Lord'ai song in ' a strange land?" The exiles were loyal to their hot. country. They lived in Babylon but their hearts were in Jerusa- lem. As the years went by thek longing for home increased. A letter from Jeremiah warned them against the false prophete who said the time would be short. He urged the people to build houses and plant gardene and adjust themselves to the land. "Seek the peace of the city prayunto the Lord for it: for in peace thereof shall ye have peace." God meant this exile for their good. "I will give them 6t heart to know Me, that I am the Lord: - they shall return unto Me with their whole heart." 24:7. The faithfulness of the exiles to God must always come first, Their co-operation with Baby- lon' was not to be a compromise. When the Hebrews were requir- ed with the others to bow to the god when the music sound- ed, three young men refused -to bow. They were given another chance. But they would not be- come idol worshippers. They an- swered in the bold words of the memory selection. Their livete were preserved in the fire are one like the Son of God walked with them. Another testimony was given pagan Babylon. God was with the exiles. It was a better people who later returned to Jerusalem. They had been refined and purified in the furnace of affliction. We still have this faith: that God through affliction blesses His people. We learn some lessons there that we can learn in no other way - "No thanks, I won't h¢stm another -I'm flying." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©.LL©5 ?TF1©®'.' ©EI i .; g 11121E o Oona EWEoe©®o OMNI ©©RIDO`I 0!®JME MIN ©® y�.r��r�. ©�© €EE�lDOM cow ErlIgEEEE1171 maroon ononE GEHO DIMMEBEE ME©© tAMC i®C`i MEGEIJAHOMI OREM' "HOT" LAUNDRY - Hottest laundry operation is at the Atomic Energy Commission's Hanford, plant. Water absorbs dangerous atomic radiation conning from handling equipment which is being repaired, Hooded and masked "laundresses" are actually mile technicians and scientists employed by General Electric:, 2 3`..... y la 7 "Kr,i 8 9 10 11 14 15 IU ,,%:, 17 Ig .'" 19 20 ialh'il 2.7 • 20 29 Ill '�~.+, 33 �.` cti BO r•. •Y; in.�v�a S se eleeteeee 149 41 42 `1143 44 46 4b 47 7.:k8 4�, 50 ,4i. 41544 1. ::: 5.2 53 *kip. 59 x 55 Aosweli elsewl ere oft this page, 1 l HOUSE OF ANTENNAE -It looks like the folks at Round Hill mansion in South Dartmouth, have gone TV crazy. But actual- ly, these aren't TV antennae at all, They're being used by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop long-range, point-to-point radio communication. The giant "corner array" antenna is beamed at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1100 miles away. The dish antennae are for UHF transmission of voice signals. These new broadcast methods are being developed to supple- ment presently overcrowded conventional transmission bands. Water Bombs Away! The college prankster who somehow thinks it funny to drop a paper bag filled with water on or near somebody can find a future in that' sort of thing now if he wishes. Canadian for- est rangers have found that an enlarged version of the water bomb, using a laminated paper bag and dropped from a low- flying airplane, can check or control a small forest blaze un- til ground crews can reach the fire to extinguish it. The bags, each holding 31/2 imperial gal- lons (about four U.S. gallons), are often dropped in "strings" of eight. Now, using a different type of plane, the foresters believe ` they have improved on the first system. They have equipped a plane with a 240 -gallon water DOWN UNDER A visitor from Australia walked into the Rolls-Royce showroom and paid cash on the line for the most expensive li- mousine model. "Ship it to my sheep ranch outside of Sydney," he instructed the sales manager. A year later he was back to order another car. "Best model I ever saw," he exclaimed, "and you can quote me on that. I particularly approve of the glass partition between the front and rear seats. Most ingenious fea- ture of the whole car." "Why do you say that?" inquired the Rolls-Royce representative. "It's like this," explained the Austra- lian. "I roll that window up, and 'I'd like to see the damn sheep that can lick the back of my neck while I'm driving it to market!" eeek BACK IN THE AIR - First German -made aircraft since the end of World War 11 is exhibited at the Fifth Annual German Air- port Day at Bremen. Called the "Motor -Raab," Ft's a glider -type plane powered by a Volkswagen engine. It flies for five hours on five gallons of gas. tank which can be tipped to dump the load in three or more installments where needed. The water is said to be the more effective because it reaches the ground in the fire area as a fine rain. Now, wait. till the rain- makers get hold of that idea! From The Christian Science Monitor. The Dizzy 1a� Jerome Herman Dean, better known as "Dizzy" to admiring baseball fans all over the coun- try, is even better behind the mike than he was on the mound pitching for the old St. Louis Cardinal gas -house gang in the thirties - and higher praise than that hath no diamond enthusiast. Ted Shane has dug up a Dizzy Dean anecdote most fans never heard before. Seems the Diz once bet a crony two bits he could fan Joe Di Maggio's big brother, Vince, every time he faced him one afternoon. Vince obligingly whiffed his first three times up, but on his fourth trip to the plate, lifted a harmless little pop back pi the plate. Dean hollered to his catcher, "Drop it, or I'm ruint!" Then he burned over the next pitch for strike three. Dizzy Dean thinks he knows how Red Russia could be brought into line. "I'd get me a buncha bats and balls and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to play baseball instead of totin' rifles and swallerin' lies. And if toe Stallion ever learnt how much dough there was in the concessions at a ball park, he'd quit cotismanismt1 and get into a honest business." Cove i . en Of Norway Deep under the mediaeval for- tress of Akershus, overlooking . Oslo harbour, there has just been completed one of the biggest air- raid shelters inthe world. Blasted out of solid rock with the help of twelve tons of dyna- mite, it is more than 600 feet long and can give shelter to 3,000 people. Above the shelter is a layer of rock averaging about 60 feet thick. In -peace-time the authorities hope to use the shelter, which has cost $200,000, for exhibitions, storage, and other purposes. An- other big underground shelter built in Oslo recently is now housing Norway's biggest furni- ture exhibition, and last Decem- ber a Christmas fair was held there! A third vast underground Warehouse being built at Eke - berg, Oslo. will be ready next auturbn. More than 5,000,000 • cubic. feet of rock have been blasted out to make these under- mountain chambers. • Altogether there will be 48 storage rooms of more than 5,000 square feet each. Immediately outside the entrance are quays and road and rail colnmuncia- tions, • The underground warehouses • will be let, to merchants, who will, of corse, have to evacuate them if they are wanted for more urgent purposes. Nate is the scentless sun- flower, with gaudy crown of gold; brit friendship is the breathing rose, with tweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tying The Knot A solid r!;tatrimonial tie should certainly result from the way in which a wedding was carried out near Christchurch recently. In the small town of Tokoroa the registrar found that he had to perform the ceremony in five languages! The groom was a Greek who knew only about two words of English; he had lived most of his life in Russia and Germany, and had only German identity papers. The bride had been born and brought up in China, had lived in Russia for a number of years, and had even less command of failed and the Italians retreat- The only available witnesses to the tying of the nupital knot were Cypriots and Poles. So in order that everyone present would understand what he was talking about, the registrar per- formed the ceremony first in English, and then in German, French, Greek, and Russian, the last-named language, fortunately, being understood by the Poles. The bride wore blue. Lives With Bullet Imbeded in Heart "Between death and Amedeo Galli," wrote an Italian journal- ist, recently, "there exists a non- aggression pact." This is hardly an exaggeration. Amedeo Felice Galli, a fifty - eight - year - old bookkeeper, has had a bullet in his heart for the last forty years, and is still going strong. He sustained it during the First World War. In May, 1916. he was a soldier in an Italian in- fantry regiment, ordered to make a bayonet charge against an Aus- trian position. The attack was heavily repulsed, and the Aus- trians maintained a bombard- ment even when the Italians had retreated. Galli was one of the few sur- vivors, but was left lying on the battlefield, unconscious and ap- parently dead, when the attack English than her fiance. ed. To the village of Goria Minore went a message that Galli had fallen in action. The Austrians, too, believed Galli was dead. Indeed, they were just about to bury him when one of their doctors noted that his heart was beating; very faintly, but definitely still mov- ing. Galli knew nothing abput all this. When he eventually opened his eyes with the familiar words, "Where am I?" the reply, from Professor Steinmaurer, an Aus- trian surgeon, was. `"Vienna Hos- pital, my friend. You are alive by a miracle, and you ought to be put in a museum." Galli remembered his name and the circumstances of hs wound, but his surprise wee enormous when he discovered that he had been unconscious for almost a year; the month, in fact, was April, 1917. Steinmaurer, who was intri- gued by his case, took the oppor- tunity of the arrival of new X -Ray equipment to give him an examination. At first he could not credit what he saw, and looked twice more before he could believe his eyes. Yes, there was definitely a bullet in Galli's heart, wedged in the right-hand ventricle. The bullet is still there today. Now and again, he becomes un- conscious for a couple of hour, when the bullet takes a certain position less beneficial to his constitution, but on the whole he is a remarkably fit and active man for fifty-eight years -and a miracle` for a man with a bul- let in his heart. He is married, and has children. What puzzles us is how a fool and his money got together in the first place. moat ON B. Barclay Warren, B.A., 0L1IA, Loyalty 'tinder Difficulties Psalm 137: 1-6; Daniel 3-13-lt Memory Selection: Re win deliver us out of thine hand, 0) king, But if not, be it know% unto thee, 0 king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor woe - ship the golden =age wink e& thou hast set up. Daniel 3:17-18, Only one who has been am exile can fully appreciate Psalm. 137. "To hang your harp on the willow" is a well-known saying, "How shall we sing the Lord'ai song in ' a strange land?" The exiles were loyal to their hot. country. They lived in Babylon but their hearts were in Jerusa- lem. As the years went by thek longing for home increased. A letter from Jeremiah warned them against the false prophete who said the time would be short. He urged the people to build houses and plant gardene and adjust themselves to the land. "Seek the peace of the city prayunto the Lord for it: for in peace thereof shall ye have peace." God meant this exile for their good. "I will give them 6t heart to know Me, that I am the Lord: - they shall return unto Me with their whole heart." 24:7. The faithfulness of the exiles to God must always come first, Their co-operation with Baby- lon' was not to be a compromise. When the Hebrews were requir- ed with the others to bow to the god when the music sound- ed, three young men refused -to bow. They were given another chance. But they would not be- come idol worshippers. They an- swered in the bold words of the memory selection. Their livete were preserved in the fire are one like the Son of God walked with them. Another testimony was given pagan Babylon. God was with the exiles. It was a better people who later returned to Jerusalem. They had been refined and purified in the furnace of affliction. We still have this faith: that God through affliction blesses His people. We learn some lessons there that we can learn in no other way - "No thanks, I won't h¢stm another -I'm flying." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©.LL©5 ?TF1©®'.' ©EI i .; g 11121E o Oona EWEoe©®o OMNI ©©RIDO`I 0!®JME MIN ©® y�.r��r�. ©�© €EE�lDOM cow ErlIgEEEE1171 maroon ononE GEHO DIMMEBEE ME©© tAMC i®C`i MEGEIJAHOMI OREM' "HOT" LAUNDRY - Hottest laundry operation is at the Atomic Energy Commission's Hanford, plant. Water absorbs dangerous atomic radiation conning from handling equipment which is being repaired, Hooded and masked "laundresses" are actually mile technicians and scientists employed by General Electric:,