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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-09-06, Page 7THL1MM FRONT 612=41 Broodiness is a natural char- lcteristic in the domestic fowl, prior to the development of nodern mechanical incubators broodiness was a necessary part pf the process of reproduction. Ct has been demonstrated that broody hens lay fewer eggs :ompared with non -broody hens, ttnd actually are a "nest nui- sance", breaking eggs, soiling sther eggs and nest material and requiring extra labor to care !or them. It is for these reasons that broody hens are considered undesirable in the modern com- nercial laying flock. * Various methods have been :tied to control or eliminate oroodiness in . the fowl. Most poultrymen are familiar with the "broody coop" in which broody hens are placed so that broodiness is discouraged by re- moving hens from access to eggs and from the darkness and warmth of an enclosed nest. It Is well known that subdued lighting, warm temperatures and access to eggs are conducive to broodiness. The "broody coop" Is fairly effective but requires considerable labor for feeding and watering, etc. In order to reduce labour requirements, some poultryrnent use a "broody pen" made by constructing a wire net partition across one corner afe the laying pen. The mechanical feeder passes through the "broody pen", and it is also equipped with an automatic waterer. This' arrangement re- duces labor requirements con- siderably and when well -lighted and ventilated is just as effec- tive as the broody coop in the control of broodiness. Care must be taken, however, to make sure that eggs which may be laid on the floor of the "broody pen' are promptly removed, * * The use of drugs as means of controlling broodiness has been attempted , but to date such a method is not considered com- mercially practical. * * Selective breeding s h o w s much promise for the control of broodiness. It is well known that in many strains of Leg - horns, broodiness has been re- duced almost to the point of elimination. Breeding for non - broodiness in pure strains and crosses can be complex and time consuming. In the mean - its appearance in a flock the poultry farmers must continue to use the "broody coop" or the "broody pen" to control brood- iness in the domestic fowl, par- ticularly those farmers who keep the heavy breeds and crosses of heavy breeds. Artificial insemination is now accepted as a practical method for breeding cows in all parts of Canada, In other countries it is equally popular and informa- tion from England indicates -that in the population of cows now being bred artificially, there are 100 times fewer bulls in use. In practice, artificially used bulls on the average, breed 1,000 cows ar year and this fi- gure could be increased many` ,,imes with a strong demand for ;men from a particular bull. Zionsequently, good and poor breeding 'bulls are used more eeavily in artificial service than en natural service, and mistakes to bull selections are much more serious when artificially used. To avoid such. mistakes, says C. G, Hickman, Research Officer Dairy Cattle Breeding, Central, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont., clear objectives must be established for what is needed in a profitable dairy cow, and breeding programs for bull se- lection are imperative. Other- wise artificial ins e mina tion could lower the producing abil- ities of the present generation of dairy cattle. * • Breeding programs operated by artificial insemination units in co-operation with patrons are needed to provide a steady supply of proven bulls for use. in artificial insemination. Young bulls out of cows known to out - produce their stablemates for several lactations should be put into limited artificial service, in. many herds, After a year of such use they should be taken out of service until daughter production is known. With this inPorma'l on the best bulls can be put back into service for heavy use, and the remainder whose daughters failed to do better than average should be shipped to the slaughter house. The present scarcity of such highly selected bulls in our units, not only discredits the importance of artificial insem- ination, but also speaks convin- cingly of the need for sire pro- ving programs. * * * High efficiency broiler rations developed over the past decade have made it possible to pro- duce three to five pound chic- kens in 35 per cent less time • and on 30 per cent less feed than was possible twenty years ago. This remarkable progress has resulted in the replacement of the large roaster chicken by the so-called broiler chicken which can be produced in much less time and with greater feed efficiency. * * There is still a demand for heavy roaster chicken, how- ever, and work by T. M. Mac- Intyre, senior poultry husband- man at the Experimental Farm, Nappan, N.S., has shown that high efficiency broiler rations may be used to improve growth and feed efficiency of this type of bird, * , * In experiments conducted at Nappan a substantial improve- ment in growth and feed effici- ency was obtained by the use of high efficiency rations for roaster type chicken. The birds on the high • efficiency rations made better gains and attained better finish on less Feed than the birds fed' the conventional growing mash and grain ration. * * * Results of this work indicate that with growing mash and grain averaging $70.00 per ton, and with chicken selling at 40 cents per pound, high cost in- gredients of the high efficiency ration could raise the price of the finished ration up to $100.00 per ton and still be more eco- nomical than the mash and grain ration. At a dinner party in Paris where Benqamin Franklin was one of the distinguished guests, the Abbe Raynal asked, "What kind of man deserves the most pity?" Franklin answered, "A lone- some man on a -rainy day who does not know how to read." CROSSWORD PUZZLE •. At t:t hSS 1. Plow back 4, Areti:. 9. l'a, ,i i; P' fashion 12. :Wield 13, CCon, 'z mold in a 14. tie in iebted 13, ItangP ot knowledge 13. Piett'e puzzle 17. Chess pieties 13. 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Land measure J 2 3 1S .' 4 S 6 7 8 k AI 2 kc,J3 4 111111.11111111111111116111111111 1m■®.mu111®UU lila 111111111 11 4f 9 is / �'.� wr �fiii■�1 .Answer elsevvhera ou this page ::.43.»..x..,..: WINTER iN AUGUST - Tunbridge,' England, experiences a touch of winter in the hot summer month of August. A freak hail storm had residents in snow boots shoveling their walks clear of the cold, wet stuff. The bail storm, followed by heavy rains, caused flooding and other damage, "Two's A Pair And Should Be Together" A Complete Story by A: Cecil Hampshire Mr. Periwinkle put down the •telephone and• called to his nephew from his office at the back of the shop. The old jewel- ler vas smiling broadly and rub- bing his hands. "George!" he ex- claimed. "Guess what has hap- pened?" George paused in his task of cleaning a silver candlestick. "Someone,'s invented 'a polish that doesn't rub off?" "No, you idiot. Miss Minton is going to sell us her family silver. It has been lying in the bank vaults ever since her mother died. Nip up now and give the bank messenger a hand with it. She's on her way here herself." Some time later,- while Miss Minton watched hili, Mr. Peri- winkle drew one by one from their green baize wrappings heavy silver tea services, entree dishes, cake stands, cutlery, wine coolers, fruit dishes, cream and coffee jugs, heavy, solid and redolent of a bygone age when there was leisure in the world and no servant problem. "Beautiful stuff ." the old jeweller murmured reverently. "I hate to part with it," said Miss Minton, "but it will: never be . used now, I'm afraid. And when I received this simply wonderful chance to buy the cot- tage in Devon I've always want- ed," she went on, "I decided that the silver must go to help pay for it." "Oh, then you'll be leaving the district soon, Miss Minton?" ob- served the jeweller as he stack- ed the dully gleaming silver carefully on the counter. "Yes, I am giving ,up my flat as soon as arrangements to take over the cottage are completed. I shall be glad to leave the smoky old town. Do - do you • think these are worth much?" she asked hesitantly. "They must be quite old, but after all, no one seems to use silver like this any more." "Several hundred pounds," the old jeweller told her. "But I91 work out. an exact figure for you." "Oh, I almost forgot. This may as well go, too." She took from her shopping bag a silver ob- ject wrapped in tissue paper and put it down in front of the jewel- ler. "A Sauce -Boat," commented Mr. Periwinkle, as he unwrapped it. "And early Georgian. Very nice indeed." He held out his hand. "Have you the other one? The pair will fetch a good price." Miss Minton, unaccountably, blushed. "I'm afraid not," she murmured. "1 don't know where it is. You see, my uncle gave me one and he gave the other to my , to the man I was going to marry. 'Two's a pair and they must always • go together,' he used to say "' any more." She paused. "But I mustn't bore you, Mr. Peri- winkle. Now, how much are you going to give me for the silver?" The jeweller pored over the piece of paper on which he had jotted down some figures, then named a sum. "Pity about those sauce -boats," Mr. Periwinkle sighed. "The pair would have fetched you at least another £75." But Mr. Periwinkle did not sell the sauce -boat with the rest of the silver. He polished it care- fully and set it in the window. Casual customers were informed that the sauce -boat was not for sale. To his nephew's. question- ing Mr. Periwinkle returned one answer: "When you only have one of a pair put it in the win- dow and sooner or later the other will turn up." One day a tall, broad -shoul- dered man entered the shop. In his late fifties, he had curly grey hair and a red and weather- beaten face that was still hand- some. An air of command hung about him. "That sauce -boat in the win- dow." He pointed. "May I see it, please?" Mr. Periwinkle c a r e f u 11 y studied his inquirer over the top of his glasses. "It is rather a nice piece," he remarked gently. "Early Georgian, you know." "Yes., yes, man," the customer agreed testily. "Can I see it?" "Why certainly, sir," Mr. Peri- winkle smiled suddenly and moved away to retrieve the de- sired object from the window. The customer almost snatch- ed it from his grasp and exam- ined it closely. "Where did you get it?" he demanded abruptly. Mr. Periwinkle cleared his throat. "The - ah - article is the property of a private owner, I'm afraid, sir," he lied calmly. "I could put you in touch if you are interested in buying the piece, sir." "Well, I am interested," said the big man. "I' have the com- panion to it. So don't sell it to anyone else," he warned fierce- ly. "Now, who is this client of yours. Wouldn't be a lady by any chance?" he added. "If you will let me have your name and address, sir, I will put you in touch as soon as I can;" he promissed. "Here," said the big man, drop - pin a visiting card on the coun- ter. "Fix it up as soon as pos- sible, but don't let that sauce- boat go. Good day to you." When the customer had de- parted, the old jeweller at once picked up the telephone and dialled Miss Minton's number. He gazed at the visiting card in his fingers. It bore the legend: Rear -Admiral Matthew Walker Knott, C.B. (Retired), Navy & Army Club. "Miss Minton?" he asked pres- ently when a voice answered. "Did something ha nen to DM. "I an, so glad that you haven't vent your marriage then?" as'.:- I left town yet. I have had an in - ed Mr. Periwinkle, gently, quiry about that silver sauce - "We - wo ouarrelled," said boat of yours. It seems that the Miss Minton. "He was very im- inquirer possesses one exactly 1, lite it " pulsive, you know. It was at a ball," she went on dreamily. "13ut,I<Qr, 'Periwinkle, 1 sold "Matthew - that was his name ' You us the sauce-boat," exciainc'd - accused me of flirting with ,. pev- a lean he did not lice. Oh, it was son has ons just like it?" she ' all so silly, and I wasn't really faltered., flirting. At .any rate, I told !hitt! "Look, Mise Minton, T am he demanded of Mr. Periwinkle. "And how much is this sauce- boat going to cost me?" "My client is in here sir." The old jeweller went to the door• of his office. "May I introduce-" he began, but the admiral's voice drowned what he was about to say as Miss Minton appeared be- side him. "Anabella!" he cried, striding eagerly forward. "So it was you after all these years!" I Miss Minton stood smiling tremulously at him. "Mat, dear Mat," she murmured. Through the open door of his office, to which sanctum he had tactfully retired, Mr. Periwinkle could not help overhearing, what followed. He learned that the admiral not been married after all. His engagement had been broken off, but Miss Minton had not seen the notice in the news- papers. He had never ceased to think of his first love. But after their quarrel he had plunged into his career, had spent much time abroad, then the war had come. • Afterwards his efforts to trace her had proved fruitless. Now at last they had met and he wouldn't dream of allowing her to disappear again. Mr. Periwinkle could scarcely catch Miss Minton's responses, but they were apparently em- inently satisfactory. Presently he heard the shop door open. But by the time he reached the threshold of his lit- tle office the admiral and Miss Minton with linked arms were already disappearing. On the counter stood the silver sauce- boat, forgotten. "I say-" began the jewel- ler dashing forward. But the door closed behind the unheed- ing couple. "Oh, well," shrugged Mr. Peri- • winkle, and smiling to himself he picked up the sauce -boat and locked it carefully away in his safe. -From "Tit -Bits". could never marry a man with a jealous, overbearing nature. He flared up at that, and then I flung back his ring and told hien I never wanted to see hinl again. Matthew was an officer in the Navy. He went back to his ship, somebody told me, and --- I've never seen him since." "I'1n sorry," said Mr, Periwin- kle, glancing at her flushed :face, She must have been a very pretty girl in those, days, he thought. "Oh, it doesn't matter now," said Miss Minton. "1 hoard he married; I never did. Father died suddenly and Mother be- taine an invalid, so I didn't: se..cm to hove any lime to go to parties wanted in the shop now," said the old jeweller ignoring her re- mark. "1 suggest that you call in here at noon tomorrow. Could. you do that?" "I don't know. I'ni afraid I - Y -yes I'll come," she decided. A little later Mr. Periwinkle, picked up the telephone again and dialled the number of the Navy and Arniy Club. Next day 1Vliss Minton, with a quickened pulse and an attrac- tive flush on hercheeks, sat in Mr. Periwinkle's office a n d watched the hand of' her wrist - Vetch move round to 12.:15. Then the shop door opened acrid the admiral strode lift. "Where's ibis client of yours?" Why !Editors Hate Proofreaders Ad for nurse in the Los An- geles Times: "Very desirable position with Wilshire doctor who has six sappy and satisfied girl's on his staff." * * * From the Towanda, Pa., Re- view: "This will be the first time that the chorus has appear- ed at a PTA meeting and a real threat is anticipated." * * From the Freeport, Texas, Daily Facts -Review: "Pvt. Gary M. Alders has been home on furlough after faking eight weeks' basic training at Ft. Bliss." * * * From an ad in the Montreal Star: "The world's finest tree roses. Book now - scarce, war SCIlOOL LESSON The Source of Human Conflicts James 3:4.55; Ott -12.. Memory Selection: Follow peace with all men. Hebrews 12:14. We don't want to become cyn- ical. But as we grow older we are becoming less excited about the tall story we hear or read. Sometimes the story leas no foundation in fact. Other times it has grown so much that the facts are barely recognizable. Many of these inaccuracies oc- cur quite innocently. We often misunderstand each other. Then some people seem to develop the habit of exaggeration almost unconsciously. James in his paragraph on the tongue is not speaking of the infirmities common to this mode of communication. He is think- ing of its deliberate use to de- file and poison and destroy as fire. Election time is an example. Some think they can rise to power by spe.e:ing evil of oth- ers. Of course the reason for the evil use of the tongue lies in the heart. Bitter envy and strife in the heart prompts evil speaking. We need the wisdom from above which is "first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without parti- ality, and without hypocrisy." If this wisdom abound in us then our words will minister grace to our hearers. James speaks of the double minded man who is unstable in all his ways. This person wants the world and heaven, too. He has not the single aim of living to please God. To all such James writes, "Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse ydur hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." Sin in the heart is the source of human conflicts. Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins and rose again the third day. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Let us take the simple and clear way taught in the Scriptures of dealing with sin, ,the source of human conflicts. Many disappointed customers every year." * * From the Hendersonville, N. C., Times -News: "Miss Elaine Rhodes entertained at her home with a household shower honor- ing Miss Elaine Rhodes." * * From the Laceville, Pa., Wy- oming County Courier: "Ex - Governor James, who is an at- torney for the complainant, 'is working without thought or re- muneration," From the Toronto Globe & Mail: "The blond young man with the chew cut ..." From a Dodgeville, Wis., ad- vertising circular: "Clothing left to our exepert care always gets the kind of dry cleaning that devitalizes fabrics." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ISSUE 36 1956 ARCTIC "LANDING" -Engineers itt Marietta, Ga., show how' 40 -pound block of ice is mounted on outrigger attached to rear, of auto and dragged at highspeed over section of a plane's fuselage material to determine effect of landings on Arctic leo. Purpose: to evaluate various protective materials which could be applied to belly of the C•120 Heroules, turboprop cargo and, troop carrier of the Tactical Air Command. Engineers are; from lett: Lockheed Aircraft's C. D. 'Birmingham and J. Xi ?hilltps.