HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-08-25, Page 3Blackbirds and grackles look
upon a corn field as a particularly
tasty morsel and in very short
order can damage over 90 per
cent of the ears and may remove
as much as a quarter of the crop.
And they are very hard to scare
away, as tests at the Central Ex-
perimental Farm, Ottawa, have
shown.
A carbide exploder was tested
which consisted of a gas gener-
ating unit that combines calcium
carbide and water to produce
acetylene gas, after the style of
the headlights once used on auto-
mobiles and bicycles. The gas
is mixed with air and creates an
explosive mixture in an explo-
sion chamber, In turn a pilot
light ignites the gas and causes
a report similar to that of a shot-
gun. The explosions may occur
as frequently as twice a minute•
under ideal conditions.
4' * *
Two exploders were used in
the Farm tests in a two -acre
block of ear a corn and reduced
the damage from 20 per cent to
six per cent. However, it cost
approximately '75 cents per day
to operate the units and in this
particular test the value of the
crop saved did not equal the cost
of operating the exploders.
*It was also found that while
excellent protection was obtained
for a couple of weeks Or so, the
birds soon became accustomed
to the noise and were then more
difficult to scare. The occasional
use of a shot gun to supplement
the exploders might increase the
effectiveness of the units as bird
scarers.
m * *
The conclusion reached is that
while carbide exploders afford
some protection they are not a
complete answer to the problem
of scaring birds.
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PLANETARY PLUMBER - Here's
what the well-dressed repair-
man will wear when he's called
on to tune up space stations or
make repairs to rocket ships
while in flight, as conceived by
W a Disney. "Spacebottle",
with jets top and bottom, has
seven Mechanical arms, two of
which appear in picture.
gin to bear their first fruit at five
to ten years from seed. Apple
seedlings are especially slow in
coming into bearing. If an ap-
ple cross is made, say, this spring
the results of the cross may not
be known before 1965. The per-
iod from seed to the first fruit
is known as the fruitless period
or the juvenile phase, No means
are known for eliminating the
juvenile phase in fruit tree seed-
lings.
*
It is different in established
varieties of tree fruits. These
varieties had their origin as seed-
lings, but many years: have
elapsed since the seedlings pass-
ed through their juvenile phase
and were propagated as varieties.
Consequently, it is possible to in-
duce a tree of an established ap-
ple variety to bear fruit as early
as the second year from grafting
or planting.
At the Canada Department of
Agriculture Experimental Sta-
tion, Summerland, B.C., experi-
ments have been made to deter-
mine .the extent to which the
fruitless period in apple seed-
lings may be shortened by bark
ringing. Bark rings, • approxi-
mately one-quarter inch in width,
were removed from the central
leaders of trees at 3 to 5 feet
from the ground. The wounds
were allowed to dry for 15 min-
utes and then covered with an
emulsified asphalt tree seal. The
ringing was done in the first
week of June and the effect of
ringing evaluated the following
May by counting the blossom
trusses on rigged and on unring-
ed trees in adjacent rows. Most
of the trees were in their eighth
year from seed when ringed.
4. * 4< Two years' experiments indi-
cated that ringing could shorten
the fruitless period by one to
two years in trees that were
close to the. end of their juvenile
phase. In very young seedlings,
ringing had no effect on blossom
formation. In trees that were
ready to bear fruit, irrespective
of forcing, ringing increased the
amount of blossom per tree. Most
of the blossoms, and on many
trees all the blossoms, were form-
ed above the ring. The ringing
effect lasted for• one year only,
and trees which'failed to respond
to the first treatmenthad to be
ringed again. Although the ring-
ed trees experienced some shock,
which was evident by yellowing
of foliage and interruption • of
growth in the part above the
ring, no trees were lost by the
treatment.
* * *
Since the operation is very
simple and takes' only one to
two minutes per tree to perform,.
the treatment can be considered
as a practical means of shorten-
ing the fruitless period in apple
seedlings. Ringing can also be
used to induce blossom forma-
tion in over -vigorous trees of all
varieti es.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
A couple who never before
had ventured west of Hoboken
were making their first trans-
continental trip aboard a Cana-
dian streamliner. At one stop
far along the line they left the
train for a little exercise, and
inquired of a man on the plat-
form, "What's the name of this
town?" He answered, "Saska-
toon, Saskatchewan," "Good-
ness," marveled the husband,
"we've come se far the natives
don't even speak English here!"
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PEACE - AND WAR - As the world enters the l l th year of the
atomic age, a monument to peace stands in the shadow of
shattred Industrial Promotion Hall, Hiroshima, Japan. Situated
at ground zero, focal point of the blast which levelled the city
August 6, 1945, the rubble has been left as a reminder of the
cataclysmic power of the atom. Among the inscriptions on the
memirial is one that expresses the wish of all mankind -"No
More Hiroshim'as."
How To Propagate
Lilies Quickly
The popularity of garden lilies
has increased greatly within.,. the
past few years and each new
season sees a greater. interst in
this fine group of .garden plants.
Many species and varieties of
Mites multiply themselves more
or less rapidly by means of small -.
bulbs which are produced on the
underground portion of the stem.
-"By allowing these small bulbs to
,xleyeldp, a group of plants may
'`fie obtained eevntually from one
healthy bulb. But a more rapid
method is. by scale propagation,
says D. F. Cameron, Division of
Horticulture, Central- Experi•- •
mental Farm, Ottawa, -Ont Most
lilies may be propagated rapidly
from the scales of- the bulb, and
various methods have been used,
most of which. require the use of
cold frames or propagating beds.
For the home gardener who
wishes to propagate some of his
choice lilies to extend his plant-
ings, or to increase his stock of a
choice variety of seedling, the
following method is suggested.
This method requires little
equipment oder than polythene
bags such as those in which ap-
ples, oranges and other fruit and
vegetables are sold, and some
sphagnum moss, which may be
obtained from florists or garden
supply stores.
The best time to take the .
scales from the lily bulbs is
shortly after the flowers have
faded. If the plant is dug up
carefully at this time, a num-
ber of thick fleshy outer scales
may be broken away from the
bulb without doing any harm to
the plant. The core or heart of
the bulb is then set back in the
garden arid it will dontinue its
normal growth until the end of
the growing season. Another
method of obtaining the scales
is to dig the earth away from
arbund the base of the stem, ex-
posing the underground stem
down to the bulb, when the
scales may be pried loose with-
out disturbing it.
These fresh plump scales are
then placed by separate varie-
ties in polythene bags along with
a couple of handfuls of slightly
moist shredded sphagnum moss,
and the bags shaken to cover the
scales with moss. The tops of
the bags should be folded over
to exclude the air, and held
closed by means of a paper clip
or an elastic band. The poly-
thene bags permit the passage
of gases but prevent moisture
from escaping from them, thus
keeping the scales turgid.
The bags containing the scales
should then be placed in a dark
cabinet at room temperature,
and afterthree or four weeks,
from one to four or five small
bulbs will develop along the
bases of the scales. By late Sep-
tember or early October, these
bulblets will be up to One-half
einch • in diameter and at this
time they may be planted out,
2 inches deep, in a sheltered
frame where they can be pro-
tected over winter, to be re-
moved the following October to
their permanent location in the
garden. Or the may be set out
directly from the polythene bag
into the border where they are
to flower, and covered with a
two inch mulch of leaf mould,
sawdust or shavings, to prevent
heaving by frost action in the
spring. By this inexpensive sim-
ple method, one good healthy
bulb can be propagated to yield
up to one hundred flowering
size bulbs within a period of two
years.
There is one piece of advice,
in a life of study, which I think
no one will object to; and that
is, every now and then to be
completely idle -to do nothing
at all.
-SYDNEY SMITH
TweedHe-Dee-Junk
Even as the late, great Ring
Lardner in his time, we find
ourselves growing tune -touchy
.. What gripes usmare each
time it's repeated on radio, juke
box or TV is that simpering
little jumble of hogwash called
"Tweedley, Tweedley, Tweedley
Dee."
Some of you oldsters may re-
call that Ring Lardner's pet
peeve among the juke ballads
was Cole Porter's Night -and -
Day thing, "I've Got You Under
My Skin.' ... He raved on by
the, column, cussing out the
whole song. But what dug him
the most was the rhyme about
that "yearning, burning deep
down inside of me" which gets
"under the hide of me."
Poor old Ring! He wanted
songs to have a little dignity
about 'em. We're glad he doesn't
have to wince with us at the
baby -talk rhyme tricks of the
Tweedley song. They're enough
to make Mother Goose herself
blush,
We don't object to rhyming
"tweedley-dee" with "as can
be," or "tweedley-dum" with
"sugar plum." But when the
switch runs to "tweedley-dot'
in order to rhyme with "gimme
all the love you've got," our
gorge begins to rise. Each time
we hear that song we feel a
glaze forming over the eyes,
and a hum -happy spasm coming
on:
Tweedley,ditto-ditto dunk,
Song -rhymes now are merely
junk.
Hubba, hubba, summer and
fall,
'The fool things never make
sense at all,
Tweedley - tweedley - tweed -
ley, BAH!
-Denver Post.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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LESSON
R, Barclay Warren B.A. Oa
Hope for the Despairing: 'sash,
Chapter 55
Memory Selection; Incline you
ear, and come unto me: heate
and your soul shall live.
-Isaiah, 55:$
The prophets of God were Of-
ten misunderstood. Jeremiah ad-
vised that Jerusalem should sur- .
render. For this he was branded
a traitor and cast into a dun-
geon, He was known as the
weeping prophet. But these
prophets of doom had an opti-
mistic faith, too, They knew
that though God might chastise
his people for a time for their
sins, he would not forsake them.
A better day would come. Jere-
miah and Ezekiel, whose writ-
ings form a part of today's les-
son foresaw the return of the
exiles to their own land. They
had also, some vision of the new
covenant which God would
make with men through his son,
Jesus Christ.
The printed portion of the les-
son is from Isaiah and has a
universal -appeal. It has been
aptly called an Old Testament
offer of salvation.
The invitation is, "Ho every
one that thirsteth." Man is rest-
less within himself. He is only
content when he gives himself
in full surrender to God. In the
meanwhile he wastes his money
for that which is not bread and
his energy for that which satis-
fieth not.
Isaiah pleads with men to
seek the Lord while he may be
found. He points out the way:
"Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return
unto the Lord, and he will have
mercy upon him; and to our
God, for he will abundantly
pardon." Then there will be a
transformation. "Ye shall go out
with joy. -Instead of the thorn
shall come up the fir tree, and
instead of the brier shall come
up the myrtle tree." The life
becomes beautiful and fruitful.
Sin never pays. But God has
provided a glorious deliverance
from it. We will only find hap-
piness which we come to God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hrrk.nes Release ore Energy
Thn SvraI A
By KENNETH O. GILMORE
NEA Staff Correspondent
Most of the big hurricanes
come during the months of Au-
gust, September and October ac-
cording to records kept for 67
years.
*: *: 4'
Hurricanes originate in tropi-
cal ocean areas and usually
move' from low to higher lati-
tudes with increasing speed, size
and intensity. They are large,
revolving storms accompanied
by destructive winds, heavy rains
and high waves and tides. En-
gineers have estimated that sur-
face wind speeds up to 250 miles
per hour have occurred within
a hurricane.
The damage a hurricane can
do is frightening. The most re-
cent example is infamous Carol
which boiled through the New
England states early last Sep-
tember after brushing the North
Carolina coast. It caused about
60 fatalities and a loss of over
$460. million to property and
crops.
Officials at the Weather Bu-
reau estimate that one minute
of a hurricane uses up more , en-
ergy than the entire U. S. pro-
duces in electric power in 50
years. And the energy released
by a typical hurricane in one
second is greater than several
atomic explosions.
For the past 70 years an aver-
age of eight hurricanes per year
have occurred, but this number
has increased to 10 per day dur-
ing the last 20 years. Lately, a
number of people have been
writing to the Weather Bureau
suggesting the possibility of
blunting or taming the storms
with an atom bomb, •
hat to o in a Hurricane
By NEA SERVICE
For those persons on land who are in the path of .a hurri-
cane or near one, the Weather Bureau urges these instruc-
tions be followed:
Keep radio and television on and listen carefully for the
latest alerts, warnings and advisories.
Get away and stay away from beach areas and other lo-
cations which may be swept by high tides or storm waves.
Remain in your house if it is out of danger from high
tides and well built. -
Supply yourself with extra food that can be eaten with-
out cooking or much preparation.
Sterilize the bathtub, jugs, bottles, cooking utensils and
fill them with drinking water, as the city water service may
be interrupted. -
Have flashlights or other emergency lights in working
condition and handy. Be sure you have gasoline in your car.
Check on everything that might blow away or be torn
loose like garbage cans, garden tools, signs and porch furni-
ture.
If the center or "eye" of the storm passes directly over,
don't be fooled by the lull in the wind. It will return from
the opposite direction after a few minutes, frequently with
greater force.
This would do no good and
only make matters worse, say
the weather experts. Even as-
suming that such an explosion
stopped the winds momentarily,
the natural production of energy
by the hurricane rains would be
sufficient to restore the winds to
full force in about 15 minutes,
Further, the heat of a blast in
the atmosphere only tends to in-
crease the intensity of the storm.
Another objection is radioactiv-
ity that would result from a
nuclear explosion. It is estab-
lished that fallout is greater
when precipitation occurs, and
I ATTFRN FOR HAVOC: Arrows indicate directions in which
hurricanes generally travel toward the United States. All of there .
originate ha the belt of doldrums in the southern North Atlantic,
hurricanes always have consid-
erable amounts of rainfall.
The best defense against hur-
ricanes is a good warning sys-
tem. And the Weather Bureau
claims its Hurricane Warning
Service has been expanded to
improve the issuance and dis-
tribution of alerts.
Here are some of the facilities
that are going.to be in use dur-
ing the hurricane season:
From Brownsville, Texas, to
Portland, - Me., on the Gulf and
Atlantic coasts, teletypewriter
circuits are hooked up to Weath-
er Bureau offices. Instantane-
ously every station on the cir-
cuit receives all the observations,
reports and alerts that are sent
out.
Many agencies pitch in to help
during this critical time of the
year when every morsel of in-
formation can be used by mete-
orologists to accurately and
speedily predict when and where
the storm will strike.
Specially trained Air Force
and Navy crews fly into areas of
suspected storm activity and
often directly into the storm.
This is the most dangerous but
also the most reliable method
of reporting the location, inten-
sity and movement of the storm.
Also assisting tare Coast Guard
stations, lighthouses and mobile
units. Ships in the hurricane vi-
cinity are of particular value,
and they furnish reports at hour-
ly intervals.