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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-09-13, Page 3T1IATQM FBONT lovalawelA: We hear so much these days about modern methods on the farm that sometimes it comes as a pleasurable chage to recall the times when farming wasn't quite so efficient, perhaps, but they "got there just the same". Writing i n The Christian Science Monitor, John Gould tells about how his grandfather used to farm. * * * Gramp used to say that a man couldn't work out and farm, a statement which, in spite of some modern evidence to the contrary, I believe to be so. This didn't include "changing, work" or working out your taxes - for that was merely helping yourself at the same time. Gramp would wag his head when he heard that somebody had gone to teaming, or was off cutting wood by the cord. It took all your time and all your energies to keep your head afloat On your own place, and every day you spent away from it cost you, and you'd never earn it back. Cramp didn't believe that you could rationalize cash in hand az profit when it took you away from your own interests to get it. There is a great deal to mull over in the old fellow's attitude. Except by changing work he never labored a day off the old farm, and his days were long. He kept laboring when he was old and there were no demands on him. He could have relaxed his latter ten years and given the rocking chair a good ride and nobody would have said a word. But he had a way of looking at things, and he wouldn't see any security in working for some- body else - not for him, any- way. He might see some secur- ity for the other fellow. I've never known anybody who worked harder than Gramp, although he sometimes did things the hard way and bull -horsed through in spite of himself.. Many a time, when daylight was still a brand-new experience to the morning, I'd be ticking them off under the covers and wake m to hear Gratin) saying, "Now, I've milked and put out the cows, and had breakfast, and I'm going up to cultivate the peas, so you lay abed as long as you want" It was so, and I'd get up after a time and along about noon would have dinner ready when he carne in from the field. He never had too much luck inculcating into me the great principles of his program, al- though I did my share when jobs were to be clone, and learned much that he probably thought I missed. One of my greatest services to him would be with that extra pair of hands so often needed. A man can work alone up to a point, and then he'll find him- self devising some way to do a thing that would be easy if he had help. Nobody would know, unless he's done it, how helpless a man is when he's trying to fit a kingpin in and can't line the holes up. It happens to me with the tractor hitch, and to every- body who does such work. You strain one way, and brace an- other, and push and pull, and then when you get the place ready you can't do anything about the pin. One time Gramp went up in the far field for a small load of scatterings, and he' turned the horses too sharply and sprung his front wheels loose. The load was really quite good-sized and he was up against a problem. First, he had to unhitch the team because the jolt had frightened them and they were standing on their hind legs and pawing the' air, and squealing -- not an un- usual routine for Gramp's style of horse. He hitched them to a fence then studied his situation. He had a choice - he could unpitch the load and fit the wheels together easily, thus de- ferring the work over a whole afternoon, or he could fit the wheels back with the load still on the rack, making a quick burst of strength save him all the work with the fork. He decided to do it the fast way, so he rolled a rock about the size of a washtub from the wall, and went over to his fence - post project and brought a couple of stout spruce poles. He put in one pole and pried the rack up, holding it up by standing on the pole. Then he fitted in the other pole, and found he could brace the front wheels back into line all right. If anything had slipped my grandfather would have been catapulted three farms away, but nothing slipped. He eased the two poles off and walked up to the house, where I was sand- papering a crate of eggs, and had me come down with him and fit the pin in. I asked him what he'd have done if I hadn't been handy, and he said my proximity dissipated any neces- sity of pondering the matter, but probably he'd have made out by working a third pole with his teeth. Nowadays, with newer ideas of organization an d cooperation and specialization, a simple mat- ter like putting a hayrack to- gether could involve a dozen men, and no tricks. It isn't so necessary any more to do things alone, because nowadays people will work out. Every so often I find myself at some absurdity which makes me think of some of Gramp's old ideas. He got his jobs done by using the facilities he had and improvising for those he lacked. One time he felled a tree into another tree, and when he hook- ed the oxen on to pull it free the thing gave a twitch and stood on the other end and jerked the oxen off the ground by their necks. I might point out that this was not necessarily an un- usual situation. It may be more drastic, but it isn't essentially different from things that hap- pen on a farm all the time. If Gramp had been off working for somebody else, it wouldn't have happened, but it did hap- pen, and it posed a problem that needed immediate solution. I have no idea what I'd have done, or what anybody else would have done, but Gramp grabbed his cant dog and rolled some logs in below the dangling front feet of the cattle, and he. had them standing up like trained elephants on circus tubs while he went up the tree and sawed the butt off. When the butt fell free he had to jump clear, and he showed me the jump and it was a dandy, about thirty-five feet into a blackberry jungle ,and atfer that he had an awful time convincing the oxen it was all right now to back down. He finished the job he was at before he came up to supper. Anyway, Gramp never worked a day off his own farm, and was always his own boss and his own security - and his own philoso'- pher. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Air; )SS now 'S 1. Alark 2. Cornmeal dish 3, Leggings t'un;aer 3. 1 oundalion 1. i'hnrrh recess P,. Implore 3. t'nn t•••r hnntiny • 12, Easy gait 1 Topa' huiluningbird 11, woody plant 13. Summary 17. 1t0oorded deeds 18. ('nlleetiuu 19. Imbrieaut 20Not the Salne vt do 23. 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Unit orre loM11110P ,4 flswee pls*where on this page DOCKSIDE -ENGLAND - Paratroopers stand by on dockside at Portsmouth, England, as material is loaded aboard a British carrier before she departs for the Mediterranean to stand by pending outcome of the Suez crisis. Catch The Big Ones In The Fall If Labor Day marks the end of your fishing season, you're making a big Mistake because, early September raises the cur- tain on some of the best fishing of the year - in both fresh and salt water. You may pick July and Aug- ust "to get away from it,all" and cool off, but for the fisit's hot, and these are the poorest months to catch 'em for the scorching sun has warmed up the lakes and streams, and 'the fish are off their feed, lying in the shade of rocks or seeking the cooler depths. Even in the ocean these are the doldrum months. Of course, yon can catch 'em then; might even be a .fair catch, too - if you've got the right tackle and know the tricks of hot -weather angling. But at best, it's spotty and you've got to have a lot of patience. But conte the crisp Septem- ber nights, the waters cool off, and the fish come to the sur- face, ravenously hungry after the summer layoff and biting like crazy .to put on fat for the lean. winter •days ahead. That's why I've been an autumn fisherman for years, and when I see the hills flame crim- son and gold, I know that the trout and salmon have come up from the mid -summer depths to cruise the ricky shoreline in search of smelt. They have run up the Kennebago and Cupsup- tic Rivers, South Bog and Rangeley Stream. In Steep Landing Pool, Screw Augur, Gravel Bank and a score of pools besides, they are rising splashily to dry flies, something you'll seldom see in spring and never in summer. Maybe you can't take a fail vacation, but there's sure plenty of fishing around anybody's home at this season. It doesn't natter what the local species are - trout, bass, pike, wall- eyes, muskies - they all feed acvtively in autumn. Trout fishing, for example, .is so good in the fall that practi- cally all state fish and game de- partments now have extended the season well into October. The seasonal trout fishing cycle in Long Pond on Cape Cod.. is typical. In spring when the ice goes out, the anglers rush in. some days poor, and so it goes some days poor, and it goes while trout and anglers gradu- ally taper off till early June. By late June the warm waters have sent the surviving trout into the cool .dentlis. A few are stilt crceled by die-hard anglers dragging a series of metal flash- ers on wire line 80 feet below the surface, but during July and August, when the vacationers are many, the catches are few and far between, writes Ted Janes in "The Police Gazette." Comes Labor Day. The vaca- tioners depart, and the local anglers break -out their tackle. They know that during the next two months the trout will be back near the susface, chasing schools of baby herring through the shallows. On spinning lures and streamers, cast -or trolled along the shoreline they'll catch bright -spotted brown trout and vividly -striped rainbows up to 6 pounds in weight. And they'll have the lake pretty much to themselves! Just last week I fished there and took some fair-sized trout. But the old, seasoned big fish were conspicuously absent. "Caine back in October if you want to catch them," a local ex, eft told nlc. "Fish the west shore in the late afternoon, and you'll find 'em." I'll be there! The same thing is true of bass. In many states, especially in northern sections where these fish spawn in May or June, the bass season doesn't open till July 1. The fishing is good for the first week or two, and then deteriorates, not because the bass have been caught, but be- cause they become logey and listless during the hot summer. But since bass are by nature warm water fiish, they continue to feed actively through the warm months, especially large- mouth bass, which are partial to shallow, weedy waters. But largemouth and smallmouth, too, seek the cool depths during muggy summer weather. That's why night is the best time to fish for bass during this time of year. But even then the fishing is slow compared to that in the fall. Cool autumn waters perk up the bass's appetite and put an edge on his fighting spirit. You'll find him along the shore- line all day, feeding heavily on frogs, minnows, crawfish and insects. Fall fishing is especially good in the South, where summer temperatures wilt both fisher- men and fish. Since fish spawn earlier and grow more rapidly there, many southern states have no closed season on bass. But this doesn't mean that the fishing is equally good thruogh the year:. Winter is the poorest time. Then in spring there's a feed- ing spree which makes for a period of fast fishing. In July and August cone the doldrums, followed by the cooling autumn, which, as any guide around the Florida creeks or the TVA lakes will tell you, is the top season. The pike family, though a warm water species, is espe- cially susceptible to heat. You can catch pickerel and northern pike through the ice with some regularity, but it's a tough job coaxing them out of the pad beds on a torrid August day. The pike's lack of appetite in summer stems from the same feeling of inertia and listless- ness which overtakes sweltering hturnans, but during September and October. he makes up for his summer layoff by chewing up everything in sight. Fall is when the big fish come to net, too. Last September a companion. and 1 fished a local lake along with two other frineds in an- other boat, In less than an hour a big pickerel bit my partner's trolled spinner, It weighed 51 ponds, a good-sized pickerel in any water, We kept quiet, in- tending to surprise our friends at lunch, but they surprised osis instead. They had a 5,3/4 -pound- er! lt''s the same with muskies. They go on a hunger strike dur- ing the summer so that you can only tease a few of them out of the tule beds at dawn and near dusk with plugs and spoons, But year in and year out the heavy catches come in June and again during September and October, when the biggest fish come to gaff. In salt water it's the same. The mid -summer doldrums, fol- lowing some fast June and early July fishing, are well known to surfcasters and charter boat skippers out for striped 'brass, mackerel,, . bluefish and tuna. These are all migratory fish, and when they turn southward in autumn, feeding as they go, the panic is on. One day last Octo- ber two surfinen on the beach at Wellfleet, Cape Cod, took 96 stripers to a 45 -pound top. Here are some records kept by a Cape skipper on last year's results: "Bluefish arrived in mid- August and by the 27th were overrunning the bay, continu- ing into the late fall.. , Tuna late, first one caught August 29th. Starting the first of Sep- tember, tuna, bluefish and srip- ers were all hitting hard and continued to do so well into October." Charles Church's 73 -pound stripped bass, still a world's record on rod and reel, was caught off Cuttyhixnk on an Oc- tober day back in 1913. And so it goes. That's why I say it's too bad that so many fishermen end the season on Labor Day and miss the big autumn round -up. Act- ually, Labor Day should be con- sidered the mid-season marker; a sort of second opening day, signalling the start of some fast and furious sport. SALLY'S SALLIES "Is there any regular helicopter service into, and out of, Fort Knox?" HIGH QUALITY "My husband is certainly easy on his clothes," said Mrs. McVie. "He bought a bowler hat twenty years ago, had it cleaned twice and exchanged it seven times in restaurants, and it still looks as good as new." Bev. AY SC1100L LESSON t• B. Warren, h R•,B u. Democracy in Christian Fellowship James 2:1.13 Memory Selection: My brethren,, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory➢ witli respect of persons. Janet 2,1. The ground is very level around the cross. Your talents, social standing or wealth do not place you above your brethren in Christ. Any minister or church which sets itself to cater to any particular class of people to the exclusion of others is not Chris- tian. A card just received from friends travelling in USA has a picture of Moody Memorial Church. Its main auditorium has over 4,000 seats On the picture are the words of D. L. Moody: "Ever welcome to this House of God are Strangers and the . Poor." James writes, "If ye fulfill the royal law accordng to the scrip- ture, Thou shalt love thy neigh- bour as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors." In larger towns where one relig- ious denomination has two churches there often develops a social- distinction. The well-to- do are linked with the one church and the poorc. people with the other. This is unfor- tunate. There should be no caste system in the Christian church. The pour should be welcome and feel at home in any church. James asks, "Hath not God cho- sen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the king- dom which he hath promised to them that love him?" Jesus was the friend of the poor. He deliberately chose to be born into a poor home. He could have turned stones into gold for himself but he didn't. Jesus had no envy or antagonism toward the rich. He loved the rich young ruler and he dined with rich Zacchaeus. He was ac- cessible to all. We should fol- low his example. To show deference to the rich is to evaluate men on the basis of what they have and not of what they are. It is to put material and temporal things above human character, which is eternal. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking BARK IS WORSE THAN THEIR BIKE - Cycling members of West Berlin's police force are putting on the dog. Specially construct- ed pillion seats on bicycles make a fine perch for the canine cops, as they ride out to take part in training exercises. Cops put on their annual show in the Olympic stadium to impress Berliners with their skill, efficiency and discipline. fAg Wim• • ., �...m......._ --- PLANE WITH A BUILT-IN FLYING SAUCER - An official "flying saucer" has made its initial flight, but the discus -shaped structure was attached to an airplane. The "flying flapjack", above, mounted atop the fuselage, houses a distance -determining radar antenna. The plane with the new radome was built to test advanced ideas in flying radar stations. Technicians described the first tests of the "flapjack", as "definitely successful." i;' ; /2 •h;:?; J3 +. /y 9 %r• {; FS r 1 {v 2,.r.c 3'� ..n 2 ' 31 ,4 ':;31 2 7 213 29 iG C 3 •,r}�r'? 36 r� 1111 c'n -. >ti . v.<2: 37.. 34- .. . 1111 V4.:5:vr ti 39 , rr ., •� .• 4 7 , . 48 ,4 flswee pls*where on this page DOCKSIDE -ENGLAND - Paratroopers stand by on dockside at Portsmouth, England, as material is loaded aboard a British carrier before she departs for the Mediterranean to stand by pending outcome of the Suez crisis. Catch The Big Ones In The Fall If Labor Day marks the end of your fishing season, you're making a big Mistake because, early September raises the cur- tain on some of the best fishing of the year - in both fresh and salt water. You may pick July and Aug- ust "to get away from it,all" and cool off, but for the fisit's hot, and these are the poorest months to catch 'em for the scorching sun has warmed up the lakes and streams, and 'the fish are off their feed, lying in the shade of rocks or seeking the cooler depths. Even in the ocean these are the doldrum months. Of course, yon can catch 'em then; might even be a .fair catch, too - if you've got the right tackle and know the tricks of hot -weather angling. But at best, it's spotty and you've got to have a lot of patience. But conte the crisp Septem- ber nights, the waters cool off, and the fish come to the sur- face, ravenously hungry after the summer layoff and biting like crazy .to put on fat for the lean. winter •days ahead. That's why I've been an autumn fisherman for years, and when I see the hills flame crim- son and gold, I know that the trout and salmon have come up from the mid -summer depths to cruise the ricky shoreline in search of smelt. They have run up the Kennebago and Cupsup- tic Rivers, South Bog and Rangeley Stream. In Steep Landing Pool, Screw Augur, Gravel Bank and a score of pools besides, they are rising splashily to dry flies, something you'll seldom see in spring and never in summer. Maybe you can't take a fail vacation, but there's sure plenty of fishing around anybody's home at this season. It doesn't natter what the local species are - trout, bass, pike, wall- eyes, muskies - they all feed acvtively in autumn. Trout fishing, for example, .is so good in the fall that practi- cally all state fish and game de- partments now have extended the season well into October. The seasonal trout fishing cycle in Long Pond on Cape Cod.. is typical. In spring when the ice goes out, the anglers rush in. some days poor, and so it goes some days poor, and it goes while trout and anglers gradu- ally taper off till early June. By late June the warm waters have sent the surviving trout into the cool .dentlis. A few are stilt crceled by die-hard anglers dragging a series of metal flash- ers on wire line 80 feet below the surface, but during July and August, when the vacationers are many, the catches are few and far between, writes Ted Janes in "The Police Gazette." Comes Labor Day. The vaca- tioners depart, and the local anglers break -out their tackle. They know that during the next two months the trout will be back near the susface, chasing schools of baby herring through the shallows. On spinning lures and streamers, cast -or trolled along the shoreline they'll catch bright -spotted brown trout and vividly -striped rainbows up to 6 pounds in weight. And they'll have the lake pretty much to themselves! Just last week I fished there and took some fair-sized trout. But the old, seasoned big fish were conspicuously absent. "Caine back in October if you want to catch them," a local ex, eft told nlc. "Fish the west shore in the late afternoon, and you'll find 'em." I'll be there! The same thing is true of bass. In many states, especially in northern sections where these fish spawn in May or June, the bass season doesn't open till July 1. The fishing is good for the first week or two, and then deteriorates, not because the bass have been caught, but be- cause they become logey and listless during the hot summer. But since bass are by nature warm water fiish, they continue to feed actively through the warm months, especially large- mouth bass, which are partial to shallow, weedy waters. But largemouth and smallmouth, too, seek the cool depths during muggy summer weather. That's why night is the best time to fish for bass during this time of year. But even then the fishing is slow compared to that in the fall. Cool autumn waters perk up the bass's appetite and put an edge on his fighting spirit. You'll find him along the shore- line all day, feeding heavily on frogs, minnows, crawfish and insects. Fall fishing is especially good in the South, where summer temperatures wilt both fisher- men and fish. Since fish spawn earlier and grow more rapidly there, many southern states have no closed season on bass. But this doesn't mean that the fishing is equally good thruogh the year:. Winter is the poorest time. Then in spring there's a feed- ing spree which makes for a period of fast fishing. In July and August cone the doldrums, followed by the cooling autumn, which, as any guide around the Florida creeks or the TVA lakes will tell you, is the top season. The pike family, though a warm water species, is espe- cially susceptible to heat. You can catch pickerel and northern pike through the ice with some regularity, but it's a tough job coaxing them out of the pad beds on a torrid August day. The pike's lack of appetite in summer stems from the same feeling of inertia and listless- ness which overtakes sweltering hturnans, but during September and October. he makes up for his summer layoff by chewing up everything in sight. Fall is when the big fish come to net, too. Last September a companion. and 1 fished a local lake along with two other frineds in an- other boat, In less than an hour a big pickerel bit my partner's trolled spinner, It weighed 51 ponds, a good-sized pickerel in any water, We kept quiet, in- tending to surprise our friends at lunch, but they surprised osis instead. They had a 5,3/4 -pound- er! lt''s the same with muskies. They go on a hunger strike dur- ing the summer so that you can only tease a few of them out of the tule beds at dawn and near dusk with plugs and spoons, But year in and year out the heavy catches come in June and again during September and October, when the biggest fish come to gaff. In salt water it's the same. The mid -summer doldrums, fol- lowing some fast June and early July fishing, are well known to surfcasters and charter boat skippers out for striped 'brass, mackerel,, . bluefish and tuna. These are all migratory fish, and when they turn southward in autumn, feeding as they go, the panic is on. One day last Octo- ber two surfinen on the beach at Wellfleet, Cape Cod, took 96 stripers to a 45 -pound top. Here are some records kept by a Cape skipper on last year's results: "Bluefish arrived in mid- August and by the 27th were overrunning the bay, continu- ing into the late fall.. , Tuna late, first one caught August 29th. Starting the first of Sep- tember, tuna, bluefish and srip- ers were all hitting hard and continued to do so well into October." Charles Church's 73 -pound stripped bass, still a world's record on rod and reel, was caught off Cuttyhixnk on an Oc- tober day back in 1913. And so it goes. That's why I say it's too bad that so many fishermen end the season on Labor Day and miss the big autumn round -up. Act- ually, Labor Day should be con- sidered the mid-season marker; a sort of second opening day, signalling the start of some fast and furious sport. SALLY'S SALLIES "Is there any regular helicopter service into, and out of, Fort Knox?" HIGH QUALITY "My husband is certainly easy on his clothes," said Mrs. McVie. "He bought a bowler hat twenty years ago, had it cleaned twice and exchanged it seven times in restaurants, and it still looks as good as new." Bev. AY SC1100L LESSON t• B. Warren, h R•,B u. Democracy in Christian Fellowship James 2:1.13 Memory Selection: My brethren,, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory➢ witli respect of persons. Janet 2,1. The ground is very level around the cross. Your talents, social standing or wealth do not place you above your brethren in Christ. Any minister or church which sets itself to cater to any particular class of people to the exclusion of others is not Chris- tian. A card just received from friends travelling in USA has a picture of Moody Memorial Church. Its main auditorium has over 4,000 seats On the picture are the words of D. L. Moody: "Ever welcome to this House of God are Strangers and the . Poor." James writes, "If ye fulfill the royal law accordng to the scrip- ture, Thou shalt love thy neigh- bour as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors." In larger towns where one relig- ious denomination has two churches there often develops a social- distinction. The well-to- do are linked with the one church and the poorc. people with the other. This is unfor- tunate. There should be no caste system in the Christian church. The pour should be welcome and feel at home in any church. James asks, "Hath not God cho- sen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the king- dom which he hath promised to them that love him?" Jesus was the friend of the poor. He deliberately chose to be born into a poor home. He could have turned stones into gold for himself but he didn't. Jesus had no envy or antagonism toward the rich. He loved the rich young ruler and he dined with rich Zacchaeus. He was ac- cessible to all. We should fol- low his example. To show deference to the rich is to evaluate men on the basis of what they have and not of what they are. It is to put material and temporal things above human character, which is eternal. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking BARK IS WORSE THAN THEIR BIKE - Cycling members of West Berlin's police force are putting on the dog. Specially construct- ed pillion seats on bicycles make a fine perch for the canine cops, as they ride out to take part in training exercises. Cops put on their annual show in the Olympic stadium to impress Berliners with their skill, efficiency and discipline. fAg Wim• • ., �...m......._ --- PLANE WITH A BUILT-IN FLYING SAUCER - An official "flying saucer" has made its initial flight, but the discus -shaped structure was attached to an airplane. The "flying flapjack", above, mounted atop the fuselage, houses a distance -determining radar antenna. The plane with the new radome was built to test advanced ideas in flying radar stations. Technicians described the first tests of the "flapjack", as "definitely successful."