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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-07-19, Page 3TIIIFMMFRONT Grass silage is a general term applied to meadow crops that have been cut and stored in a green stage of development so that fermentation takes place. This green material may be stored with or ' without pre- servatives or conditioners such as acids,. molasses, ground , grains, etc., used to control fer- mentation during storage. * * * According to V. S. Logan, Canada Department of Agricul- ture, a renewed interest in the feeding of grass silage to dairy cattle has taken place in Canada in recent years. Part of the rea- son for this has been the grow- ing realization of the importance of high quality roughage for economical milk production. The need for retaining high feed value in the roughage, difficult to achieve when haying wea- ther is unfavourable, has stimu- lated the hove toward storing roughage as silage. Improved machines for handling the green material have simplified silage production and removed much of the earlier objection to this system of storing roughage. * * * Grass silage generally contains a high proportion of protein compared to the total digestible nutrients in the feed. Addition of preservatives to silage may increase palatability of the feed and add slightly to its feeding value. However, the trend is to- ward curing silage without pre- servatives. * * Like anything else silage has advantages and disadvantages. There is less wastage of feed- ing time than with hay, and less storage space is required as compared with an equivalent amount of feeding value in the form of hay. Also some areas which are unsuited to growing other succulent feeds will pro- duce good grass yields which •can be turned into silage. The disadvantages of silage are the objectionable odors that may develop, and during severe , weather freezing may occur. * * Further details on Grass Silage in Dairy Cattle Rations can be obtained by writing to the Information Service, Cana- dian Department of Agriculture in Ottawa a n d requesting Publication No. 929. * * * Canadians spend about 25 per cent of their income on food and approximately seven cents of each food dollar is spent on poultry products If the poultry industry is to gain a larger share of the consumer food dol- lar, attention must be given to efficiency in production pro- cessing and merchandising and SALLY'S SALLIES C6 b. (,-1 am//�N=, "Just why do I have to keep asking for the time?" the importance of good promo- tional work must be recognized. * * * Canadians are eating more beef, pork and poultry than they did in the past. Last year the per capita consumption of poul- try meat was 29.7 pounds, an increase of approximately 8 pounds since 1950. Since 1953 beef consumption has increased ' by about 7 pounds per person and pork has increased approxi- mately 3 pounds during this same period. Considering this greater demand for all meats and an increase in population of about 3 per cent each year it appears that there is, and should continue to be, a good matter of competition between the various industries involved in the meat business and of course personal consumption preference as to which branch will com- mand the majority of the con- sumer market. * * * There has been a gradual transition in the development of the poultry industry. A very few years ago poultry produc- tion was a sideline but now it is rapidly becoming a highly specialized farm enterprise. Ef- ficient laying flocks are replac- ing the old casual layer and ultra -modern broiler plants in existence at the present time are indicative of the transition in the production of poultry meat. * * * Recent acceptance of turkeys by the Canadian consumer has been achieved by the introduc- tion of small light weight birds and new processing and pac- kaging techniques. This has meant a higher consumption of turkeys during holiday and so- called off-season periods. Pub- lic demand for turkeys in 1956 should be strong but the short run price outlook like that for any other poultry product in general is largely influenced by supply. Production of turkeys in 1956 will likely be higher than last year but the rapidly expanding domestic market should off -set the effect this greater supply may have on price. * * * The numbers of broiler chic- kens sold to growers in Canada in 1955 were the highest on re- cord but demand is continuing at a high level and consumption this year will probably exceed that of 1955. However, the pro- ducer will have to plan produc- tion programs to meet market requirements if the cost price relationship of 1955 is to be maintained. * * * Changes in merchandising and processing methods have been geared to accommodate large scale production and distribu- tion, and today the public is be- ginning to enjoy a higher quali4, ty poultry product, packaged is a more convenient and attap-- tive form than ever betOte,73:i. These changes, however, „..aire'..a forcing poultrymen to adopt the • most modern production tech- niques and management prac- tices, including a thorough knowledge of current market trends and conditions. A mother's life is not a hap- py one. She is torn between the fear that some designing female will carry off her son and that no designing male will do the same for her daughter. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 3, Salary 1. Lettuce 4. Not asleep 4, Excuse5. Learning 8. Strive 1t,. Kind of vine 2. Not at home i 7. Take place >, interlaced 8, Monte tt 14, Regret 1 1'. 1 ngligh river 5, l• t'gT i 17. Paid uhf 19. Kind et fish 20. Bewilder 21, Goddess of peace 23. Meagerly 28, Not one 27. Assigned task 28. 9iusical nate 19. Par,nt 30 Jeer 31. Animal's foot 32, Exists 33. i retectice coverifig 34, Residence 38 To prove guilty 37. Cold dish 38. Clue 30, Pit 40. Articulation 42 Stoker 41. "Tavern 48, Ancient Ro' than official 48, Biblical person 44. 1080(1. tri Y3i1"et' 41. Taxi t)O W.N , 1. 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Robbery On a Wholesale Scale Good - looking and suave James Brydges was the eldest son of the eighth Lord Chan- dos of Sudeley. It was an old title with not much money at- tached. Short of cash, both Lord Chan- dos and his heir had had to "go into business"; the father as ambassador to Constantinople, the. son as MP. for Hereford. But neither man made much of a stir in the world. James, „restless and ambitious, began to look around for quicker, surer ways to wealth than a seat in Parliament. Considering matters with a coo], unsentimental eye, he de- cided that the Princess Anne's card parties had more to of- fer than attendance at the House. James had heard how "Bran- dy Nan" - as the Princess was nicknamed - had arranged for the notorious gambler "Beau" Law to escape from a con- demned cell and James realiz- ed that the Princess had a weakness not only for gambling •butfor gamblers as well. He determined to try his luck - in more senses than one -at the Princess's card -table. There was, of course, no dif- ficulty in introducing himself into the exclusive circle. He was a most -personable young man, and as heir to a "good" peerage, he was naturally ac- ceptable in royal society. He often sat at the Princess's table and was soon holding a thick wad of Anne's I.O.Us. They were worthless scraps of paper but James was determin- ed to make a handsome profit out of them. He never pressed the matter of the royal debts. Cool, charm- ing and gay, he would sit down, night after night, to play cards -never letting the innumerable glasses of brandy -sack cloud his judgment; and he would invari- ably go home in the dawn, rich- er -on paper -by a few more hundreds or even a few more thousands. At last the time arrived when even Anne - cheerful debt - 'dodger as she was - began to wonder why the Honourable James Brydges, M.P., was not pressing for his money. She knew, from Court gossip, how the family was fixed; that the estates were mortgaged up to the hilt. One night, during card -play, the Princess found herself sit- ting alone at table with James. Fortified by the courage of the bottle, she raised the question of her debts. "Why, Mr. Brydges," she ask- ed, "have you never pressed ole for a settlement?" Brydges raised his carefully tended eyebrows, and laid a ringed hand on his flowered waistcoat. "1 . . . press Your Royal Highness . . . ?" "Mr. Brydges, it is kind of you. But . . do you not need the money? Can you afford to be so patient?" James's chance had come. Af- fecting fecting a regretful air, he sigh. - ed, and murmured: "Well, no, perhaps not. But I am so de- voted to Your Royal Highness that . . . well " It was not a difficult. matter then to suggest that the ques- tion of the debts be left over uniiil after the Princess had be- come Queen. And then, perhaps a job could be found for James' It was a solution which suit• ed very well the loose morals of the time. By getting a public appointment, James would let the taxpayer settle Anne's debts - and allow him to make a handsome profit on the deal While Anne, for her part, would not need to worry any more about her inability to pay her debt of honour. James did not press his claim the moment that Anne became spleen. He bided his time. The Union of England' and Scotland was being pushed forward against loud public opposition von both sides of the Border, and James saw how it would be to his greater advantage to wait until the two countries were actually united as one political and national unit. ' The Act of Union was signed - and the armies and navies of the two nations were now all part of one single armed force. The time had come. James put forward his claim -and was appointed Her Majesty's Pay- master General of the Forces abroad. It was a plum job; and now he was to show how much juice that plum could be made to yield. For five years James Brydges took his cut on every payment authorized by his department; whether it was to a gunsmith for a supply of muskets, or to a general for arrears of pay. The office of Paymaster in those days combined the powers and functions of the Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Naafi, Royal Army Pay Corps, and a consid- erable part of the Treasury. Nominally responsible to Par- liament, the ruler over this un- wieldy and all-powerful body was, in fact, cbmpletely in- dependent of control and almost of criticism. In those free -and - easy days all the Paymaster had to do was present a bill for which Parliament had - somehow - to find the money. James Brydges made this job pay him handsomely •- far too handsomely, said the crit- ics, even in an age when it was considered quite legal to get as many 'perks" as possible, espe- cially from public appointments. No sooner had he taken of- fice than James set to work to build two magnificent mansions; one - "Canons" - at Edg- ware, the other - "Chandos House" - in Cavendish Square, the two to be connected by a tree -lined carriage -drive. The two pavillions of the Cavendish Square mansion still survive. They were intended to house the gate -keepers - yet are to -day regarded as large houses. James, when he was build- ing his palace at Edgware, brought over the finest Italian painters and architects, and used to boast that to keep a watch on the builders he em- ployed the finest accountant in England. For the Cavendish Square mansion alone, nearly $10,000,000 was allowed! It was a pity, said some, that the Government hadn't em- ployed a battery of the finest accountants in England to su- pervise James's conduct as Paymaster General. For when at last the scandal of unpaid troops and undeliver- ed military and naval stores threatened to overturn the Government, they had to ask James to hand over his lucrat- ive office to some less ambiti- ous, less extravagant holder. Then the accountants did go in ... and reported a deficiency of no less than $1,500,000,000! Had James had it all? When he was asked to suggest where it had all gone, he shrugged his elegant shoulders and murmur- ed . the eighteenth - century equivalent of ,"Search me!" It seems incredible, but James was actually compensat- ed for loss of office. When Anne died, and George I came to the throne, he made James Vis- count Wilton, Earl of Carnar- von and Duke of Chandos -' and when James died, at the age of seventy, he was still in possession not only of his ill- gotten fortune and his unde- served honours but, apparently, the respect of the world. Yet the extraordinary case of James Brydges, , Duke of Chan- dos, had a beneficial and last- ing effect on British national finances, After Brydges had resigned the post of Paymaster General, the old system was changed. Thereafter it would have been quite impossible for any public servant, however exalted, to fiddle on Brydges' astronomical scale. So that, after all, it wa.> no bad thing that Queen Anne liked gambling - and that Brydges was a lucky player. Says Plants Have Ear For uslc Have plants an ear for music? Do flowers possess a kind of sixth sense? Is it possible for trees to fall in love -or at least to show signs of tender passion similar to those of human being? Before you dismiss these as silly questions. Consider what has been happening at a uni- versity in Pondicherry, India. Large-scale research thereinto the sensitivity of plants is hav- ing astonishing results. Music is daily broadcast through microphones to listening plants. When "entertained" by carefully selected music, says a scientist, plants have been found to grow faster. And many plants show a marked pre- ference for female crooners. If you are still incredulous, Dr. C. T. N. Singh, who has spent some years in this kind of research, should convince you. He says he has treated sugar cane, tapicoa, sweet pot- atoes and other plants to sooth- ing music with amazing results. His first visual proof that plants have an ear for music was when he saw a movement in a hydrilla leaf as he played tunelessly on a metal rod. The plant knew he was playing out of tune, he says. It is not unlikely, say other experts, that plants have a sixth sense. One plant, a native of Cuba, has been known to pre- dict volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. It has no flowers and consists of a long stalk from which branch numerous twigs contain- ing rows of delicate -looking leaves. The leaves are highly sensitive to electric and mag- netic influences. They change colour or close, while the twigs bend themselves into curious positions. By being able to in- terpret the movements of the plant in response to electric cur- Oascnoa LESSON tt, f3arelay Warren, B.A.. tS.l). We Belong to a Great Company Hebrews 11.:32-12:2 Memory Selection: i'Vherefora seeing we also are compassed aboral with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, aa the sin which doth so easily bead us, and let us run with patiencs the race that is set before us. He. brews 12:1. Christians are often in minority. Jesus said, "Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destuction, and many there bo which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and sew there be that find it." Lllathew 7. 13, 14. Elijah felt very much alone after his victory on Mount Carmel. }Ie said, "I, even I only, am left." But God replied, "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Isreal all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which With not kissed him." 1 Kings 19 If we feel lonely in the Christian way let us read Hebrews, chap. 11: God has always bad his witnesses. his heroes of faith. He has them to- day. The five young missionaries who were slain in Ecquaclor last January were men who were will- ing to risk their lives for the advancement of the Gospel. A.reft.1 'behind the iron curtain and the bamboo curtains have bad their modern heroes, toe; men and women who would rather die than forsake the Lord Jesus Christ. In view of these who have been true under difficult circumstances the writer urges us to run our race with patience. Let no unclean oruse- less habits hinder. Let us keep our eyes on Jesus. If we Look to people we will become confused. .Jesus is our example. Let its live so as to please him. Do you belong to the great com- pany that are living by the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ? They come from many different lands and walks of life. But for them all Jesus Christ is the supreme object of their affection, "This is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith." 1 John 5:4 rents, the scientists can predict great convulsions of nature. If you have ever suspected that there is a greater mystery about a flower than its colour or scent, watch what happens to mimosaa-which scientists believe has feelings as acute as our own. One has proved that mimosa is provided with a highly devel- oped muscular system. It is easily depressed. A wisp of cloud which obliterates the sun even for a moment will cause the mimosa to hang its head almost imperceptibly and lose its brightness. But the moment the cloud has passed the mimosa rejoices once more. That trees can fall in love was the contention of a famous plant psycologist, Sir Jagadis Bose. He said he had observed trees which "selected certain other trees nearby as objects of their affection and sent out slen- der tendrils to enfold them in a fond embrace." Upsidedown NVVA3d 1 3: t© moa Sao a 3 V to Prevent Peeking b I 3 0 1 N ICI 3 : N 3 N M V V W V 1 'i 1 0 d 1 N H N V 1,:i CI 1 N n N a Orr SI a© ON 21 I N 3 AO ,qN IflV1V d O RUSSIAN WELCOME -•U.S. Ambassador to°the Soviet Union Charles something to U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan F. Twining, right, Moscow for a look at Soviet air might. Twining's counterpart in the Air Mlkrshal •Pavel Zhigarev, left, and Russia's Deputy Defence Minist second from left, care shown with them. E. Bohlen is pointing out during the latter` visit to Russian Air Force, Chief er, Marshal Ivan S. Konev, 1 1 d 4 4 a ,i d 4 A 4 4 i