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!Barnyard manure liquitied eau
make a farm almost self-sufficient.
It can help grow crops, heat the
farm buildings and provide fuel
Cor the tractor.'
This is the claim of Fritz All-
men who is probably one of Can
ada's foremost farmer authorities
on manure. in a recent deinonstra•
tion attended by leading Canadian
agricultural scientists, he showed
what has already been done to his
own 480 acre farm near . the • his•
torte Quebec village of Carillon on
the banks of the Ottawa River, and
revealed his future plans for the
barnyard by-product.
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Air. Allumn, who emigrated from
Switzerland many years ago, has
80 head of Holsteins. His manure
liquifying equipment consists of a
1,000 -gallon concrete tank beneath
the barn floor, two upright eon-
erete 35,000 -gallon storage tanks,
which he calls "silos," behind the
barn, and a 30 -horsepower gasoline
motor which operates a speed
pump.
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Liquid and solid manure mixed
ap with cut straw bedding is shov-
eled daily into the receiving tank
through manboles located in the
middle of each concrete gutter. Gut-
ters are sprinkled with superphos-
phate at the rate of one and a
btalf pounds o'r'superphosphate per
cow per day. This absorbs am-
monia, hastens the bacterial action
during the decomposition process,
Increases the nutritive value of the
manure and helps reduce manure.
odor.
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Through rapid circulation in the
first tank, the manure is liquified
through bacterial action, then
pumped into the silos where it is
allowed to "cure" for several days.
When the curing process is com-
plete, the liquid manure is pumped
into the 1,000 -gallon 'tank of a
tractor -drawn sprayer. It requires
only a minute and a half to fill the
tank The manure is sprayed on
Che fields in an even swath 12 feet
wide t one side ,of the tractor it
takes only 10 minutes to apply 1,000
gallons Application rate is about
he tons per acre.
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During w i n t e r;'. 111r. Allmen
sprays the manure right on the
snow, his tractor being equipped
with special caterpillar chain
treads to enable it to get around
in the deep snow.
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"This •operation really reduces
labor costs," Mr. Allmen said.
"Where once it required 30 hours
of manure handling per cow per
year, it now takes me only five to
silt hours to handle the same
amount."
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But the greatest dividend in us-
ing liquified manure, Mr, Allmen
found, was the saving of the large
amounts of plant nutrients which
3ALL'es SALLIES
"Let's not talk finances; 1 had
alt hard enough time today buy-
ing all this stuff."
are lost through regular lunallattr
methods: up to 50 per Bent is [lis
estimate, the total ;slue of which,
he says, is $170,000,000 a year to
all of Canada. His method has re
suited in a 25% yield increase in
forage and other crops,
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Very soon this enterprising Que.
bet farmer proposes to collect the
methane gas which is given oil
during decomposition of the or-
ganic matter in manure. He claims
-*this will cook his meals, heat his
home all year round, and provide
fuel for his tractor. Lor the lat.
ter, the methane gas is compressed
to six atmosphere in propane gas.
type cylinders and fed info the
carburetor through a special at•
tachment. Manure from his 80 heed
of cat" .e can generate more meth
ane gas than he would normally
need. The extra profits from in-
creased yields and the saving in
labor, heating and tractor fuel
costs, will pay back the investment
on his installation in live years, he
claims.
A recent report from the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in Ottawa list-
ed 80,000 species of insects in Can-
ada's national insect collection.
The report added that new species
are being discovered each day.'
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While many Canadians consider
insects as ,bothersome creatures of
interest only to bug collectors, the
fact is they pose a great economic
problem to the nation. Admittedly,
there are many useful insects which
should be protected, but there is
a vast number which cause incal-
culable damage to the country's ru-
ral economy.
* * *
According to current statistics
the annual loss in livestock and
field crop production in Canada at-
tributed directly to insects is in
the neighborhood of $312,000,000.
This sum is staggering indeed and
undoubtedly would have been much
greater had it not been for vari-
ous agricultural chemicals devel-
oped over the past few years.
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In 1051 in Alberta, for example.
200,000 acres of grasshopper -in-
fested grain land were sprayed by
insecticides which saved a crop
valued at $6,000,000. This was done
at a cost of $50,000 and represents
a return of 120 to 1 on expendi•
tures. Last year the prairie barley
crop was rescued from destruction
by a severe outbreak of barley
aphids when a blitz -like aerial and
ground counter-attack soaked the
infested fields with chemical spray.
These are not isolatt:d• cases anti
many more could be cited which
suggests that •tf certain farmers
choose to ignore the value of most
ern pesticides, annual Carrn losses
to pests will continue to be in the
millions of dollars.
IDENTIFIED
At a costume ball in New Orleans
there was a leather -lunged Master
of Cemernonies who stood at the en-
trance and announced eacb arrival.
"Monsieur Talleyrand."
"Anthony and Cleopatra."
"Nicholas Nickieby."
Two scantily draped ladies walk-
ed in. The Al. C. was puzzled by
this impingement on Gypsy Rose
Lee's preserves. "What .characters
are you depicting?" he asked.
. "Us? Oh, no particular charact-
ers. We just dropped in, that's all."
The 33I.0. turned to the assembly
and barked his loudest : "Two
ladies of no particular 'character."
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BEE -WITCHED, BOTHERED, BEE-WILDERED - That's what residents
of Pittsburgh were when a swarm of bees settled on 'the curb of
a busy downtown street. But Betty Finacchi, left, and John W.
Roberts don't seerri to mind having the little stingers all over their
hands and faces. Nobody knows where the honeymakers came
from or why they came.
How To Care For
Cane -Bottom Chairs
Rush -bottom, splint, or cane -seat-
ed chairs have been highly prized
by generations of housewives, but
how to take care of them, often
poses a problem. Now comes good
counsel from the United States De-
partment of Agriculture quoting
Gena Thames, New Jersey house
furnishing specialist.-
If you have a newly finished
rush seat, straighten the rows and
even the seat with the rounded end
of a stuffer, and polish the seats
with stuffer or a piece of leather.
Then apply equal parts of turpen-
tine and raw linseed oil to botb
sides of the seat.
- When thoroughly dry - or after
24 hours' of drying - apply a sec-
ond coat to the top and bottom.
After another 24 hours of drying,
apply a thin type of sealer with
a rag. Add more coats until no dull
spots appear. Allow at least 24
hours to dry between each coat.
As for those old chair seats that
have dried out and become embt;iis
ded with dust, 8:[iss Thames says:
To 1 quart of hot water add 3
tablespoons boiled linseed oil and
1 tablespoon turpentine. Never place
this flammable mixture directly on
the stove or over a flame. Keep
this solution hot in a double boil
er or a pan or can set in warm
water while you use it, but remelt'•
ber, not on the stove.
Brush out loose dust before ap-
plying cleaner. Use a cloth to apply
the mixture and a brush to remove
dirt that has collected between
strands or the underside of a cane
seat. If a finish is needed on the
seat after it is. thoroughly dry,
a.pply a thin type of floor sealer
on both top and bottom.
Wed Five Times
To Same Woman
Some men may thin:: nothing of
having five wives but Sammy Sex-
ton has struck a new note by mar-
rying the same wife five times!
At a celebration party recently,
all the children of his marriages -
natural brothers and sisters, of
course - got together to wish Sam-
my luck just in case he gets an-
other divoree.
Sam first married his wife Mar-
tha at Whitesburg, Kentucky, back
in 1912. When their marriage broke
up, they divorced and then were
reconciled, so they were married
again. Always after a quarrel and
a divorce, Sammy started courting
his wife - or his es -wife - once
again. And the result is he's head
of one of the happiest and most
united families in Amerlon.
A similar trend is interesting
inarriage-gni di nee exports.
After thirty years of married life,
54 -year-old i\118, Margaret fluglu's
divorced her 'iyyettr-old husband
on the ground of desertion. But
after another five yonrs,.uldor and
wiser, they decided to reuutrry be
fore the Slough registrar --- to tin,
great joy of their fourteen chit'
drew and gra ndchiIdrot.
Last year some bundrt'd couples
decided to defy their divorce de•
crees, seer out their old partners
and remarry. It. happened
to band -leader 13i11y Munn, after
he had left his wife Eileen and
been divorced.
He married again, but his second
marriage crashed in' ruins in the
divorce court. Then he realized he
teas In Love 'With Eileen all the
time, Luckily she had never stop,
ped loving him.
Dick Hughes of Liverpool siutil'
arty felt se strongly about his love
for his wife that, on the very day
he received a copy of the decree
absolute of divorce he putt; a flow
er in his buttonhole and went to
remarry her,
Their divorce had been is fnitnre1
Oise couple were parted for
POINT OF VIEW - Carla Bush-
ness, 3, doesn't enjoy being on
top of the world. She's resting
on. Arctic section of huge globe
aboard the Independence, clock-
ed at New York City. The young-
ster and her mother returned
aboard the liner after visiting
daddy, Captain Clark C. Bush-
ness, stationed in Italy.
twenty-four years before they de-
cided to abandon divorce-. It came
about when Ted Gandy was work-
ing in his- market -garden near
Basingstoke and saw a girl in smart
service uniform walking towards
him through the cabbages.
Hie 29 -year-old daughter, Doro•
thy, whom he had last seen as a
toddler of five, had decided to look
up her old Dad. And she' spoke
so persuasively to him of her moth-
er that Ted decided to journey '
to Newcastle to meet his ex-wife.
Love can certainly be stranger
than fiction.
Not that every remarriage is
merely the happy ending of a div-
orce case. After being legally mar-
ried for seventeen years and rais-
ing two sets of twins, Elsie Weed -
on always felt 'that her register-
office wedding had not been val-
id in the sight of God. So the
Weedons decided to marry again
In church, complete with organ mu
sic, bridesmaids and wedding dress,
"As I saw my wife walking np
the aisle," said Mr. Weedou, "she
looked just as sweet as she did
on our other wedding day."
At Dagenham one couple tune
rigid again after forty years. When
Mrs. Eliratbt'tb Driscoll became a
Catholic like ber hesband she fie
tided to uutrry him again under
Catholic rites. Though a grand.
Mother she used her maiden nn.tna
for the ceremony.
A Norwich girl refused to man
ry ber ideal orae' when he was
there as an Aniet'itatl servicenlatt.
After he went home to the States,
however, his love -letters were so per•
suasive that she agreed to go 1.o
New York to marry him.
Unluckily his company transfer
'red him to California and, 00 ar-
rival in New York, she found that
she httd to chase her man amuse
the States.
When their marriage broke up,
ale returned to New York and bad
actually booked n passage back to
-England when her husband pleaded
with her to• ignore the divorce de-
cree. So they were married ,vet
again- and their two marriages
have brought them three bonny
children!
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• Drive Wet ... Care -
,T ow Can 1?
By Anne .tshleY
Q. How can 1 strengthen new
glassware?
A. Try putting the neve glass-
ware into a pan of cold water
and heating slowly until the
water has reached the boiling
point. Then remove from the
fire and let stand until the water
has cooled before removing the
glass.
Q. How can 1 soften a tooth-
brush that is too hard for the
gums?
A. Soak the toothbrush in
hot vinegar for a half-hour.
Then wash in clear, cold water
and you will find a great deal
of the stiffness has been elimin-
ated.
Q. How can 1 keep scratches
from •being noticeable on patent
leather shoes?
A. Paint the shoes with a
mixture of olive oil and jet
black ink, applied with a very
fine brush.
Q. How can 1 relieve an irri-
tating cough?
A. A mixture of the juice of
two lemons, one tablespoon of
granulated sugar, and one teas-
poon of water will often relieve
an irritating cough. Take one
teaspoonful every half-hour.
Q. What can 1 do if the
leaves of the rubber plant have
turned yellow?
A. Loosen the dirt around
the edge of the pot and remove
the plant to a different pot. The
root may be pot-bound, or the
soil may be wormy, but in
either case it is wise to repot
the plant.
Q. How can I clean the oil
mop?
A, When water and soap
have failed to clean the oil mop
satisfactorily use hot water,
ammonia, and a little washing
powder.
Q. How can 1 keep the plants
in a hanging basket watered
without danger of dripping?
A. Put the porous cup from a
discarded wet -battery cell in the
center of the hanging basket,
fall it with water, and it will
seep through supplying the
necessary moisture without
danger of dripping water.
Q. How can I remove creases
from velvet?
A. The most effective way is
for one person to hold the vel-
vet tightly while another passes
a warm flatiron over the wrong
side. Then brush the nap, and
the velvet will look like new.
Q. How can I sweeten a sour
stomach and treat indigestion?
A Place a half - teaspoonful
of baking soda on the tongue;
then wash down with a drink
of cold water.
Q. ' How can I remove stains
from a mattress?
A. Place the stained mattress
in the sun, and cover the spots
with a thick paste made of
starch and cold water. Allow
this mixture to remain an hour
or so; then scrape off and re-
peat the process if necessary.
This treatment proves more ef-
fective if done while the stain
is fresh.
SUMMERS' TIME
Never for a moment does the
diamond judiciary deviate from the
path of unequivocal righteousness.
Take Bill Summers, for example.
The veteran amp was operating
behind the plate in a movie being
filmed in Hollywood. The pitcher
delivered and Bill yelled, "Strike 1"
This made the director unhappy.
"Hey, Bill," he snapped, "you're
not following the script. That was
supposed to be a ball."
"Tell the pitcher to follow the
script!" roared Summers. "I can
'em as I see 'em."
SCHOOL
LESSON
Barclay Warren ILA. R,D.
The Continuing Mission
of the Church
Acts 2816, 23-31
Memory Selection: Go ye there-
fore, and teach al natis, bap-
tizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost: teaching thein
to observe all things whatso-
ever I have commanded your
and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the
world. Matthew 28:19-20.
The story of Paul's voyage on
the Mediterranean Sea from
Caesarea on the eastern coast to
Malta and then his journey to
Rome is a thrilling one. Though
he was a prisoner he proved to
be the best advisor on board.
When they had rounded Cyprus
and changed ships at Myra they
came to Crete. After spending
a time at The Fair Havens they
set out in spite of warnings from
Paul. They were soon caught in
a terrible storm. The tackling
was thrown overboard and soon
all hope of being saved was lost,
Now they were ready to listen
to Paul. It is still true that many
people nil] only listen to the
Gospel message when they ars
in great trouble. He told them
that an angel had assured him
that he would be spared to ap-
pear before Caesar and that all
lives would be saved but the
ship would be lost. Part of this
memorable sermon was used as
a text by Billy Graham when
he preached to Queen Elizabeth
and Prince Philip. It was, "Be of
good cheer: for I believe God."
This was one sermon which the
press was not permitted to re-
port. We know that the sermon
would be true to the context.
It would thus be an optimistic
message tending to stimulate
faith in God as revealed in the
Bible.
When Paul reached Rome he
dwelt in a separate house with
a Roman soldier, There he min-
istered first to the Jews and la-
ter to the Gentiles. For two years
his lodging was a place of coun-
selling and preaching. Some of
Caesar's household were conver-
ted to the faith. It became a
missionary training centre. One
may well imagine that the sol-
diers set to guard him became
missionaries in the armies sent
into various parts of. the Roman
Empire. Paul, the prisoner in
chains proved a valiant witness
for his Lord. Others caught his
vision and the work went on.
The Junior Legion members were
being asked to find the Scriptur6
portion pertaining to the lesson al
the week
One Junior Legion member came
home and said, "Mommie, where do
we find the story about the seven
ducks in the muddy water?" Aftes
many perplexed moments and,
countless inquiries, it was finally
discovered the lesson was about
Neiman dipping seven times Iii
the Jordon River.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
WORST SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED -• Harried citizens canv,,,..ed
of the omnipotence of the tax collector will be horrified to know
that the girl peering from the mail collection rack, above, is an
Internal Revenue Cervice employe. Margie Spencer is appear-
ing in a strictly unofficial capacity. She's posing to emphasize
attractiveness of Uncle Sam's new mail collection racks and is
not scrounging the mails for late tax returns. Citizens perfor -
first steps in mail sorting operations by depositing air dna
special delivery matter at left; out -of town first-class mail goo*
at right and local letters drop on top of Margie's head.