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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1951-01-18, Page 6THUG P I J0k-eII • i•, '.This nation" says t,, R. Snyder, prominent agronomist, "was once the centre of civilization; but today its extensive acres of barren soils stand as a constant reminder of what the loss of fertility and pro- ductiveness will do to a nation's well-being. So it has been since time began that each nation pros- pered only so long as its agricul- ture prospered." * If those words make you feel bice ducking toward the nearest bomb -shelter, set your mind at rest. The nation Mr. Snyder was speak- ing about was China, not Canada; and he coupled the remark with the warning that the fate of our pre- sent civilization hinges largely on what we do about soil conservation in the next few years. Such a warning is by no means new. But it is one that can hardly be repeated too often. * * * For a prosperous agriculture good land management is a necessity, this soil expert states. This means the complete utilization of all lands for continued maximum production. To attain this we must control erosion, conserve water and return to the soil the needed plant food and minerals. * * * Erosion control may be accom- plished by contour ploughing, sail) cropping, erecting wind breaks and keeping land too steep for cultiva- tion in sod. By terracing and con- tour cropping, water can be better controlled. Stubble mulching and leaving crop residue on the sur- face are effective in preventing both erosion and water run-off. k * :t The soil, climate and nature of the crop determine the kinds of plant food needed. Each individual farmer must find out what nutrients his farm and crops require and apply them accordingly. High per - acre yields can be obtained by keep- ing the soil nearly neutral in re- action and well supplied with or- ganic matter and available plant food by the judicious use of crop residues, green manure crops, barn- yard manure, commercial fertilizers and lime. * * * The use of feathers as a feed supplement for poultry is. being ex- perimented with at a western re- gional research laboratory. Accord- ing to the research workers, feathers are high in arginine, one of the amino acids considered essential for the feeding of poultry. In the same Iaboratory processed feathers are being tested as a conditioning agent in mixed organic fertilizers, in the preparation of plaster retard- ers and the manufacure of plastic articles. * The process consists of a cooker, drier and grinder. Feathers are cooked under pressure in saturated steam at a temperature of 287 to 307 degrees F. To obtain uniform heating, the feathers are agitated during cooking. * * * After cooking for 30 to 60 min- utes, the steam is exhausted and the feathers transferred to drying equipment where the moisture con- tent is reduced to eight to 10 per cent. The dry, friable material is then easily ground to produce a meal or powder suitable for pack- aging in such containers as multi - wall paper bags. * * * Thousands of tons of feathers go to waste each year in Canada be- cause no suitable method has been devised to process them economic- ally. In fact, the cost of disposing feathers has been a costly problem for many packers of fresh and fro- zen poultry. Before long, however, to New Sting For The Air Force—Here is a cutaway yiew of the F-89 Scorpion. Type boxes point out features of the plane. The twin -jet travels in the 600 -mile -an -hour range, and is designed for day or night operations in all weather conditions. these feathers will be changed from a liability into a real asset. K * * And while we're on this fowl subject, I might as well pass along a message which may be of value to some of you who do not only raise poultry, but have a hone freezer as well. '} * * Why feed perfectly good grain to lazy hens when it could be used for human food? Do you know that these non -laying hens consume 5 to 8 pounds of costly feed a month? Why not freeze these loafers who are slowly draining the country's grain supply? With these frozen chickens in your home freezer, a chicken dinner will present no prob- lem when unexpected company drops in. * To kill birds, use a pointed blade that tapers from a width of / inch at the handle to a point. Hang the fowl at a convenient height and press lightly against the bones in the neck as the blade passes through the jugular vein. This method in- sures rapid, thorough bleeding. * * Scald the birds in water about 128 degrees F. for 20 to 50 seconds depending on the age of the bird. This leaves •the skin in good con- dition; whereas scalding at a higher temperature makes picking faster but tends to make the skin look blotchy and unattractive. Chill the birds in ice water os chill room immediately after they ate' scalded and picked.- * , a I Non -laying hens are likely to be big boned; therefore, the meaty and bony pieces should be separ- ated in order to prevent a waste of storage space. Disjoint the chickens; separate the meaty pieces, which include breasts, thighs, and Iegs. Bones may be removed from the legs and only the neat stored to preserve space. The back, wings and necks may be made into tasty creamed chicken. * 5 Birds must be packaged in mois- ture -proof, vapor -resistant wrappers which can be sealed tightly. Use medium or shall containers accord- ing to your family's needs. Cartons may be labeled with the ;ate and contents. A fold of cellophane should be placed between the pieces before packing to prevent sticking together. Frozen chicken may be cooked without thawing in either stew or fricassee. * * * in preparing creamed chicken, cover the bony pieces with salt water and simmer until tender. A small bag of herbs (/ teaspoon thyme and 3 teaspoon marjoram :.nay be added to the cooking water as a mild seasoning. Cool the cook- ed meat and separate the meat from skin and fat. In stripping the bones, fry to have good sized pieces that Corrin` Round The Mountain 'Demonstrating his skiing skill on a mountainside, John Litchfield, 34, executive director of Sun Valley Ski School, is the first American ever to head a major ski school anywhere hi the world, Litchfield was a member of the 1940 American Olympic ski team. can be cut into cubes of uniform size. These are just right for mak- ing wonderful creamed. chicken with your favorite recipe. k :k * Meat from the necks; wings and backs of six chickens yields approx- imately 4% pints. If the legs are added, the yield is about 8 to 9 pints. Cool the chicken quickly, package, and freeze it at zero de- grees F. or lower. Ancient Potteryy. Found In Israel'. Pottery from the first Jewish kingdom to the Herodian epoch was discovered when excavators opened an ancient rock -hewn cistern in the northeastern corner of the Na- tivity Church in Bethlehem.' The excavators belonged to the British -staffed Department of An- tiquities of the Hashemite Jordan government which is carrying out restoration work at the famous shrine. According to the excavators, the cistern corresponds far more to the "David's well" mentioned in the Old Testament than the cistern in western Bethlehem which is usually claimed to be the historic well. They said that the close con- nection between the cistern and the Nativity grotto tends to confirm the tradition that the grotto was a sub- terranean stable. The cistern has seemingly been untouched since the Roman destruction of Bethle- hem in 70 A.D. Some Records For • You To.Shoot At Do you want to break a world record? Here is a selection of challenges. It is on record that a man can hold his breath for 20 minutes 5 seconds; stay under water for 6 minutes, 29 seconds; live without sleep for 115 hours; run 5,625 miles in 59 days; live in a heat of 248 degrees Fahrenheit; live in a cold of 103 degrees below ... All you have to do is do better. Sixty-four Vancouver smokers recently gathered to see how long they could make a pipe last. The winner kept his one-eighth of an ounce puffing for 1 hour, 57 min- utes. To Moscow on Stilts Then there are the R.A.F. Cor- poral who recently swallowed' a yard -long glass of'ale in 55 secorids, the champion packer who has squeezed 187 different objects into a matchbox, the Tokyo champ fly - swatter, who swatted 180,003 flies in a day —. no D.D.T. and no cheat- ing? Freak records are nothing, new. In 1891 Silvain Donlon walked 1,800 miles from Paris to Moscow in 58 days on stilts. In 1900 Johan- na Hasslinger strolled 875 mites from Vienna to Paris on her hands. In 1880 Johann Ketzler, a porter by trade, a champion eater by in- clination, ate 80 liver sausages in two hours, 200 fried potatoes in three hours, a whole roasted ox 'axi 42 days. But let's be more reasonable. Two Aussie tree -fellers, Harry Jackson and Pete McClaren, hold the double -handed saw champion- ship, slicing through a tree 78 inches in circumference in 42 seconds. George Hossflelfl won the world's typing championship by rapping out 139 words per minute from unfamiliar printed copy' for an hour, A Manehester barber can shave a man in 12 seconds. A- US. naval officer can tie 772 differ- ent knots. Is anyone game for. 773? Could you heat any of the"se? Swing a club 17,000 times without stopping? Sit on an ice -block 27% hours or on a flagpole 300 days?, Drink 37 scalding cups of coffee at a sitting? Rock in a rocking chair 92 consecutive hours without cu- shions. A gallon of beer has been drunk in 27,6 seconds, 200 yards of spag- hetti consumed in five minutes, A bath -chair has been taken round the World. A. gani of rummy has been allayed for a million points. ORT . , A S1X131TCIC Over the stretch of years during which we have been cobbling around with various sports columns, the reading world has been spared many pieces from our typewriter because of one of our most persis- tent beliefs. (Incidentally, we have also personally been spared a good deal of work.) * * * Whenever we• think of something snappy to write, we are immediately assailed with the belief that (a) somebody ,has already said the salve thing and said it better or, (b) if we wait long enough somebody else will say the same thing and say it better. * * * Ever since they started this "Ca- nadian Athlete of the Half Cen- tury" thing, which filled so many columns of newspaper space and so many minutes of radio air, there has been one interesting 'point we had a desire to bring up. But we never got around to writing it, for some reason. or other; and, sure enough, we weren't kept waiting vtbo long 'before it was done for us ,ne a manner which we could not hope to equal, let alone top. So, without' further ado, we quote the following 'from the pen of Can- ada's ace columnist, J. V. McAree, as published in the Toronto Globe and Mail. * 5 * "We do not dissent from the choice of outstanding Canadian athletes made by a poll of sports writers and sportcasters. We have seen most of them and have known some of them. We do not deny that the choices were wisely made, es- pecially the choice of our friend, Miss Bobbie Rosenfeld. :k * * "What we feel inclined to doubt is the competence of the judges. We doubt if half of them were born fifty years ago. We doubt if nine - tenths of them fifty years ago were in any position to form any but juvenile opinions of what they saw. * :x * "If they were adults in 1900 they must be in their seventies now, and we do not know any of them who from appearance would be taken for venerable citizens. How many of the judges ever saw Henry Hoobin, the Shamrock lacrosse player? We doubt if most of them ever saw Newsy Lalonde, who was chosen the best player of Canada's national game in the past half century. DID THEY bo THEIR JUDGING FROM NEWSPAPER CLIP- PINGS?" * * * To which Mr. McAree might well have added the doubt that fifty per cent of the pollsters ever even saw a real game of lacrosse—that is, the old 12 -man style played on wide, open spaces—or are in a .position to compare' Newsy .Lalonde with the likes of Billy Fitzgerald, Eddie Powers, Mickey -Ion and a whole host of other top-notchers. * 1: 1 We, ourselves, •saw in action a large majority of those mentioned hi the various polls. But in sport, as in everything else, distance has a way of lending enchantment. When you are young and enthusias- tic, members of your "home team" acquire a glamour that is largely in the eye of the beholder. For years we, in lacrosse, were a dyed -in -the wool Tecumseh fan. Anybody not wearing a Tecumseh uniform was an enemy. If Lalonde or FitzGerald scored a goal, it was by sheer luck, ' not ability. In other words we were not "in any position to form any but juvenile opinions" of mien 1 Was Nearly Crazy With Fiery Itch until I discovered Dr. D, D. Dennis' aniazine ly fast teller—D. D. D. Prosorlption. World popular, this pure, cooling, linui medication speeds peace and caflrart frons :erne itching caused by eczema, plmnlea, rashes, athlete's foot and ether itch troubles, Trial bottle 30 rust appltcatton olleoka oven the most inionsc itch or money back, Ask druggist for 0, D. D. Prosorlption (ordinary er extra\ strength), u s.. ...., a „Classified Advertising . 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Conacher was the outstanding choice as the half -century's great- est. On his record, he could hardly be passed up. Still, if we were al- lowed to make just one pick for a player around whom to build a teeny we would take Joe -Krol ahead of Cbhacher, and Red Batstone ahead of either. So it's all a matter of -opinion. Big Con himself says that the greatest Canadian football player he ever saw was Warren Snyder of Varsity, and Conacher certainly should know what he's talking about. Yet just how often did you see Snyder's name men- tioned when the hullabaloo was on? * * * So it all boils down to a matter of personal taste. The experts have spoken, but don't let that throw you. If you still think that Wdloozis was better than Whatisname you have a right to your opinion; and if your old Iran maintains that Whatchacallum was greater than either, don't try to argue with him. The old song said "There'll be pie yin the sky bye -and -bye" but we never heard anybody hold out -hopes that there would be sport there too. And, unless there is, it will never be settled definitely who would be the winner in a bout be- tween, say, Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey or who would finish first in a field made up of Man O'War, Exterminator and Noor. * We would parlay Johnson and Exterminator; but we could be wrong, at that. For now that we have taken time to think it over, our choice of the outstanding Ca- nadian athlete of the half century might .:very well be a gentleman • whose name we never even saw mentioned. Jiinnliy Archer, whose family lived right around the cor- ner front us in Toronto, was the first big league catcher to throw to second from a squatting posi- tion --an innovation which probably had a nio.re revolutionary effect on a major sport than anything ever done by any other Canadian. First thing you know we'll be starting a poll of our own. 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