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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-01-19, Page 7TIIHMM FRONT The following article, taken from "American Farm Youth" tells how one poultryman ,,gets premium prices for his eggs; and ..1 ,.thought . it interesting enough to pass on to you. In- cidentally,, where i1 speaks of selling eggs at "auctions" it just leans "wholesalers: Through careful control of his feed and hens to produce large, high quality eggs the year around, one New Jersey egg raiser is selling 30,000 dozen eggs a year at a 50 per cent increase in profits on a retail route. The raiser, Abe Berkowitz of Lambertville, N. J., follows a closely controlled, all - mash feeding program and a plan, of careful .management of hen ro- tation. In addition to supplying his retail route in New York City, Berkowitz' 5,000 hens pro- duce 45,000 dozen eggs a year for the auction at Flemington, N.J. * * Berkowitz reports that sales on his retail route in upper Manhattan and the Bronx, worked two days a week, aver- age 580 dozen eggs a week; 290 dozen a day; 29 doz-en an hour; a dozen every two minutes. Such a schedule gives little time for sales talk or displaying the quality of the product. The customers, who have been sold on the Berkowitz egg by the recommendations of friends who use them, will stay sold only if the eggs hold the same top quality week in and week. out. x: * * To the Berkowitz customer the perfect egg is white, light - yolked and of large, extra or jumbo size, For this egg, the Berkowitz customer will pay from 20 to 30 cents per dozen more than auction prices. Against a typical run of auc- tion prices per dozen - me- diums, 380; large, 400; extra large, 421/40; and ,umbos, 490 -- equivalent route prices per dozen are: 580, 600, 671/40, and 790 respectively. The minimum premium of 200 per dozen on mediums and large is 50 per cent better than auction prices. The 250 and 300 premiums on extra large and jumbo are 60 per cent better. * * The quality egg that attracts the premium customer does not occur by accident, Berkowitz., says. Producing it requires careful feed control and a dose schedule of flock rotation. Berkowitz feeds his white leghorns on an all -mash pro- gram. He uses no scratch. The mash formula is delivered in bulk by 12 -ton trucks that pump the feed into Berkowitz's.. three bins. The mash formula is so bal- MERRY 'MENAGERIE "Now, THIS is what IMcall a• FAMILY tree!" anted that the vitamin A con- tent is high enough to counter- act the xanthophyll in the corn the mash contains, This is es- sential to the productions of light -yolked eggs. *, Berkowitz also believes that full A potency reduces the num- ber of eggs with blood spots. Both the A and D vitamins in the mash must' be delivered to the birds at full potency to maintained their health and appetite. Without these two es- sential nutrients egg size, qual- ity and production become ir- regular, and Berkowitz cannot obtain the premium eggs he needs for his route. * * The bulk delivery -bin storage method of feed-handilng re- lieves Berkowitz of most of the labor he would have if he used bagged feed and leaves him free to manage his flock and his route. But bin storage .of the mash creates heat conditions that are detrimental to most vitamin supplements. Sun on bins generates tem- peratures as high, as 125 de- grees Fahrenheit and destroys the potency of . vitamin A and D unless proper forms of these vitamins are present. To assure Berkowitz and other customers who store feed in bins that their mash will retain full potencies of vitamins A and D, the cooperative forti- fies its mash with the Micra- tized vitamins A and D, The cooperative had a com- mercial laboratory test Micra- tized A and D against a variety of other vitamin supplements and found the Micratized vita- mins were the only ones . that would retain full potency in the severe heat conditions of bin storage. * S: Berkowitz says his egg qual- ity confirms the laboratory re- sults on the retention of vitamin potency in the mash the co- operative supplies. He has less than one per cent of dark - yolked eggs and his incidence of blood spots is similarly low. * . * * With good feed to produce high quality eggs Berkowitz couples careful hen rotation to achieve steady production of large eggs. Unlike egg raisers who sell only to auctions, Ber- kowitz cannot replace his flock entirely every fifteen months. The wholesalers can take all their hens at the same time through the small egg period when their laying careers begin. With no steady requirement for large eggs, the small egg period amounts to a production lull for the wholesaler and "a time of lower income, but it does not endanger his market. For Berkowitz a period of small eggs would be a period when he could not deliver the premium eggs his route re- quires. To avoid such lulls, he replaces his flock gradually. Each year he- raises 4,000 new pullets. With these pullets • he replaces 3,000 of his 5,000 hens at the end of their fifteen month laying career. Of the remaining 2,000, he replaces 1,000 at the end of eighteen months of lay- ing and holds the final 1,000 over for a second year.. The older' birds give him large egg while the young birds are de- veloping - CROSSWORD D PUZZLE ACROSS 61. Conflict 62. Type of auto- rnoUile 22. Phrygian 63. Spread loosely !ting DOWN 23. Make amends 24. Mountain where Moses died 25. Comes in 27. Pleasant smell 1. Sick 4. Subtle emanations 9. Small explo- sion 12, rater (comb. form) 13, Gush 14. Swiss canton 15. Mattress fit11ng 17. Vivid red 10. Son of Judah 20. Near 21. Man's nick- name 22. Angry 24. Egyptian river 26. Meadow (Poet.) 29. Pronoun 30, Calm 32. Endeavor 33 Answer to Purpose 34 Japanese sash 35. Pagoda 37. About 20,111minet 40, .Attacks 42. Myself 45. PPi el1l en fishes 45. Auto fuel 47. Pte the matter 49, 1!;xists 50 Pixelamation 61. Pertaining to milk 54, Positive Dole 157. Exist 58, l3aolt of a beat *0. Sun 6. S' w ,B LI 7. Part of a curve 8. Arctic base 9. Young ben 10. 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Others in the "Blowhearts" band are, from left: Bob shaw, Swen Swensen, Dave Wright, John Hart and Brent Brock- bank. Oh, yes, they don't really play in a jug. This is just a trick photo. Her Nightmare Unearthed burger Mrs. Gordon Tombe came down pale and haggard to the parsonage breakfast table at Little Tew, in the rural fastness of Oxfordshire. "I dreamed of Eric," she said. "It was terrible. 'I dreamed he was lying dead at the 'bottom of a well, half -forced through a kind of hole. And yet there was transferred to a Paris branch and was practically spent. It seemed obvious that Eric had cut loose and was buying himself quite a time. Yet his mother's weird recurrent dream still persisted. Then Mr. Tombe at last. struck a lead. A barber remembered not only Eric but also a friend whom he had introduced, a man named Ernest Dyer, living at a farmhouse oddly called The Welcomes, at Kenley, Surrey. •' • •.7. • RIGGED IN ICE - With the New York City skyline in the back- ground, a crewman of thefishing boat "Florence B" chops off heavy ice formed on the boat's rigging after returning from a fishing trip. The city was suffering from a record cold wave. a stone slab above him. It was like - it was like murder!" -Her husband, the Rev. G. C. Tombe, ' tried to reassure her. "Your nerves are on edge," he said. "Our boy will surely come home ... ". it was then autumn. Ever since April of that year-1922-- Eric ear--1922-Eric Tombe, a handsome ex - Army officer, had been missing without trace. • His parents went to his Lon- don flat and found their letters still cluttering the hall mat, un- opened. No doubt it was natural in the circumstances that an anxious mother should dream of accidental death and even mur- der. But she had the hideous night- mare again . . and yet again. The stone slab in. her .dream seemed to be in the grounds of a farm, sealing a well, where far beneath the body of her son lay still and quiet. With grue- some persistence, the vision haunted her sleep through weeks and months. Finally, the nightly torment grew so extreme that the parson resigned his living and went to London determined to search for his son byevery means in his power. He made inquiries in the shops and restaurants neigh- bouring his son's flat. Ile pester- ed Scotland Yard, and perhaps the C.I.D. detectives found the old clergyman somewhat of a nuisance. For the police had, of course, already made a routine investi- gation and discovered that che- ques duly signed "Eric Tombe" had been drawn from Paris dur- ing the summer on the young man's bank account. Moreover, the suni of $3,700 had been lits hunch was that his son was dead and that Dyer still lived, Once more lvtrs. Tombs endured her terrible dream. The fact that The Welcomes had been a farm could no longer be overlooked. The old parson went to Scotland Yard, repeat- ing the details of the dream, and begged them to scour the grounds. More to humour him than anything else a few po- licemen were deputed to search the place - with startling re- sults. Every yard was overgrown and dilapidated. Yet . in a corner of the paddlock the police found two stone slabs covering dis- used cesspools. Both were pumped dry - and found ,emp- ty. The police shrugged their shoulders. Many a dream hunch has proved fruitless before now. But suddenly a young constable gave a cry. Almost hidden be- neath grass tufts was a third slab. Under it was a cesspool that had been filled with stones and rubble. The searchers dug with rising excitement. It was hours before sufficient rubble had been re- moved to reveal a manhole cover. Beneath it was another hole similar to that described by Mrs. Tombe from her dream. And here, hunched' up, head downwards, were the remains of the body of a man. Hideous gunshot wounds at the back of the head, injuries that could not have been self- inflicted, disclosed proof of foul play. Though little remained of the thing that had been Eric Tombe, a watch -key in one of the tattered pockets, an in- scribed wrist -watch and gold fillings in the upper jaw proved identity. The discovery was made on September 12th, 1923, almost a year after Mrs. Tombe first had her dream. And evidence at the inquest set the date of the crime as April, 1922, six months before the onset of the recurring nightmare. The verdict was one of mur- der against Ernest Dyer. His wife had seen him one night the previous summer hurling large. stones down the death pit. But where was Dyer now? Oddly enough, he, too, was dead. Un- erring justice, though thorough- ly blindfold, had caught up with him • long months before. There's a flashback in fact to an occasion in November, 1922, when the Scarborough police successfully got on the track of a confidence trickster named James FitzSimmons, who was wanted for questioning after • palming off a number of dis- honoured cheques on northern business men. When asked to step round to the police station, FitzSimmons played for time. "Do you mind if I get a few things from my room?" he asked the inspector. They mounted the stairs togeth- er, but suddenly the con man brought a revolver from his pocket. Before it could be pre- vented he shot himself and rolled over dead. Dyer - alias FitzSimmons- must have thought that the body of Eric Tombe had already been discovered. In his luggage was Tombe's passport, with Tombe's signature and Dyer's picture. Here, too, were blank cheques and practice sheets of forged signatures. It was Dyer who diverted Eric Tombe's funds to ' Paris. Dyer killed himself on November 16th, 1922. Though the date was never definitely pinned down, this could have been the eve of Mrs. Tombe's first nightmare. •Did the murderer signal his ghastly secret from the grave? The old parson hurried to the farm, Localsof whom he asked the way gave him some queer looks. He began' to understand the reason when he found him- self gazing down a grass -grown, briar -tangled drive. At the far end the farmhouse was a ruined shell, gutted by fire. But local gossip at last sug- gested a possible motive for Eric Tombe's disappearance. Tombe and Dyer in partnership had run The Welcomes as a racing table. Tombe had sup- plied the cash and Dyer the ex- perience. The latter, a big bet- ting man, had once wagered every penny he had on a rank outsider in the Lincolnshire and had pocketed $45,000 when the horse romped home at 33-1. The money had been swiftly dissipated in London's night- clubs and, subsequently, the racing stables had enjoyed no great success. There had been a fierce outbreak of fire and trouble' over the resulting in- surance claim. indeed, the tn- surance inspector asked so many awkward questions about' the petrol tins he found in the gut- ted building that Dyer did not press his claim. Instead, Dyer and Tombe both disappeared. Not far from the stables, however, was living a woman who regarded herself as Dyer's widow. Dyer, it seemed, had perished in a road crash m France and she hal received a final cheque for £60 from Tombe winding up poor Dyer's afairs.: The leter, signed "Eric Gord- on Tombe," and dated July 1022, looked conspicuously nor- , mai, But the Rev, Tombe felt instinctively 'that it had been forged. 1. Barclay Warren, B.E1.., M3.ti. Parables on Discipleship Luke 14;7-11, 1641 �. Memory Selection: Whosoever exalteth himself shall he abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke X4:11. How very practical is the teaching of Jesus for the every- day relationships of life, in sb- cial and business as well as 113 spiritual matters! He was en- tertained often in humble homes and in the homes of important people. What a delightful guest he must have been -gracious, courteous, sincere and friendly! He must have been politeness itself, but unaffected and genu- ine. In high social circles it is very important that the people at the banquet be seated according to rank. It is embarrassing for the person who has pushed himself forward to be asked to take a lower seat. The person who is called to a higher seat is in a more favorable light. Sometimes the humbleness of the act of taking the lowly seat is more apparent than real. Some indi- viduals take pleasure in being spotted and called to the plat- form in the presence of all when they knew they were des- ignated to sit on the platform. Ministers are frequently guilty. God knows the heart. * * 8 None of us would think of refusing an invitation from the Queen. Yet many neglect the invitation of the King of kings to the great gospel banquet pro- vided at so great a cost. Most people do it quite politely. But whether they say, "I pray thee have me excused," or "I cannot come," the end result is the same. They miss the banquet. The excuses in the parable are trivial. No wise man would buy land without seeing it or oxen without testing them. No groom would want to miss the oppor- tunity of showing off his bride. Theywere only excuses. They remind one of the man who went to his neighbour to borrow a rope. The neighbour replied, "I cannot lend it to you, for I am using it myself to tie up a heap of sand." "But," said the first, "you cannot tie up sand with a rope." "Oh, yes," returned the other, "you can do almost any- thing with a rope when you do not wish to lend it" No excuse will stand at the judgment. REMINDER Little David was saying his prayers one night. After the us- ual "God bless Mummy and Daddy," he came up with: "And please make Tommy stop throw- ing things at me. By the way, I've mentioned this before!" Upsidedown to Prevem Peeking 1 a S ry Q 0 QO N tiZa 0 d i'1µ? 1 N d t1 Cl a 2! 121 dO v 1 e 0 S a )10d 1 d M V -7 v Q d 1.21 fl d aflnV 111 S OSS 1 THAT COLLEGIATE LOOK - This 1911 model -T Ford is the proud possession of Bill Robeson, right. The 12th auto Robeson has restored in two years, this one has gleaming brass radiator and headlights, a high body and straps to hold down the top. The student finished it with 14 coats of hand -rubbed lacquer. His only casualty with car, which averages 28 to 30 miles per gallon of either gasoline of kerosene, was a broken wrist whist, cranking the car to start 4t.