HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-01-25, Page 3"We are prcntd of our dairy
cattle here in Canada," the speaker
said, and those attending the meet-
ing of the Eastern Branch of the
Agricul,oral Institute of Canada
probably thought they evcre in for
one of those back-slapping, "eviry-
thing-is-rosy" sort of speeches.
They were soon disillusioned.
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"But," the, gentleman went un,
"the average production in Ontario
is disgracefully low. 11ollaud carries
more dairy cattle with an average
production of 8,000 pounds of milk
and 340 pounds of butter -fat per
cow .per year. New Zealand milks
more cows with an average annual
production of 6,000 pounds of milk
and 330 pounds of butter -fat. On-
tario has an average production of
4,500 pounds of milk and only 150
pounds of butter -fat per eow per
annum."
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That speaker is a man who should
know what he is talking about. He
is Dr. E. S. Archibald; and be
made those statements on the oc-
casion of =Itis retirement as direc.or
of the Experimental Farm Services
at Ottawa.
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While Dr. Archibald's remarks
were pointed at one Province they
could well refer to the rest of the
Canadian provinces which, in fact,
have lower milk and butter -fat pro-
duction averages than Ontario. •
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The agricultural scientist's state-
ment surely indicates that Canadian
dairymen should put more effort
into increasing the production of
their herds. How it could be done
is told by Dr. Archibald himself:
"With increased dairying, the trend
is and should be an intensive grass-
land agriculture. This means greater
soil conservation, more intensive
use of our soils, better crop selec-
tion, contour culture where neces-
sary and greater use of fertilizers.
A properly planned agriculture in-
volving these factors calls for great-
er co-operative activities amongst
those engaged in farming, educa-
tion, production, storage and 'mar-
keting . . ."
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While our herds may never reach
the average level of production of
those in Holland, it would indeed
be a triumph on the part of Cana-
dian dairymen if they came any-
where near it.
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If they can only devise some sort
of machine that will lay the eggs,
practically the entire operation of
raising chickens will be done me-
chanically, . and a really modern
poultry plant will have as many
gadgets, push buttons as the instru-
ment panel of a -big super -bomber.
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Latest development along this line
is using infra -red lamps -the sante
kind they have to bake the enamel
on newly -painted automobiles -to
keep the chicks warns and cosy. In
tests conducted down in Delaware
baby chicks were placed in a re-
frigerated room 12 degrees below
zero Fahrenheit, With infra -red
lamps as the only souce of heat, it
was found that the chicks thrived
under the heat lamps even at this
low temperature.
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As a result of these tests, a large
poultry farni installed an infra -red
heating system in its new 20,000
chicken broiler house using 228
lamps placed 19 inches above the
floor. As the chicks grew and re-
quired less heat the lamps were
raised. The beat output is regulated
by a thermostat.
The um method eliminates tiring
and stoking of stoves, excludes the
danger of tire and provides a con-
stant heat. The chicks also do not
crowd and injure each other since
they do not Iutve to huddle for
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And if you are one of those )vlto
think we should have more Govern-
ment controls than already' exist,
it might be worth your while to
read what an English egg producer
Peter Lyne by name ---has to say•
about it. Isere it is, as reported
in The Christian Science Monitor,
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The sad ti ings that are happen-
ing to the Englishman's breakfast
egg are only a part �f the. perplex-
ing. situation facing the British
farming industry of the beginning
of this new year 1951.
..To take the egg problem first -
the fact is, that roughly speaking,
there are only enough eggs in shops
these days for about one egg per
week per person. And those 50,000,-
000 eggs a week are none too fresh.
Some housewives refuse to serve
a boiled egg unless they can obtain
them off' the ration from a country
friend. But the trouble is that coun-
try friends are increasingly tight-
fisted with their eggs.
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It has happened this way. Under .
the "fair shares for all system,"
the government has worked out aq
ingenious and complicated plan to
siphon eggs from the producers to
the official government buying
agencies with as little leakage as
possible.
An elaborate and inevitably costly
piece of bureaucratic machinery has
been built up which provides
smoot:t going for the producer, but
has almost eliminated really fresh
eggs.
To show how it works I will
give my own experience as a small-
scale egg producer. Last year we
sold 12,700 eggs to the government
packing station and had no parti-
cular wish from a business point
of view to sell them to anyone else_ .
The government sends round its
own collection truck every Tuesday.
It provides the boxes.et® pack the;,..
eggs in. All we have to do: , is to
fill up the boxes and receive the
check for the collection of the week
before.
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What is more, the goverinment
buyer has been paying us five s'
lings a dozen and selling them in
shops at four shillings a "dozen.
The difference is paid for out of
food subsidies.
But the government's hand goes
deeper still into our egg produc-
tion. Our chicken -feed rations,
which are strictly controlled, are
calculated from the egg production
figures which the government keeps
as a result of the eggs we selrto it.
It is all so easy. • The govern-
ment is, in fact, doing a good deal
of our account keeping for us. We
are anxious to send as many eggs
•as possible to the state, packing
station.
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If someone asks can we let them
have some eggs, we are apt to
stand on one leg and say hesitat-
ingly, "Well, yes, but we ave to
charge you a shilling more than
you would pay in the shops. We
can't do it very often, because if
we do it will upset our business
with the packing station and we
shan't get so much teed."
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Then just to show how hard it
all is we remind our visitors' that
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trick
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of rest
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21. Platform
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hearing
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26. Self
27. Disease
29. Marvel
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gas
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talk
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42. City in
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of boo
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19. Approached
21. Condensed
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moisturee
carriage
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discourse 27. Grown boys
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Snow Lift -Little Linda Jane Keene; age 3%, has her hands
fall 'frying to help shovel off some of the six-inch staow. The
snow's not so tough, it's the shovel `that's too heavy.
Comes Prepared - Four-year-
old Dennis Lenagen of Aus-
tralia apaprently wasn't sold
on the efficiency of American
transportation, for when he
arrived he insisted on keeping
his bike at his side. He made
the long 'trip here himself-
not by bike but, by plane -and
will join his father in Trinidad.
we ourselves mostly eat only crack-
ed eggs or ones that might be re-
jected by the packing station. We
let very special friends have eggs
and make exceptions where we are
appealed to in cases of emergency.
But every now and then we feel
very indignant over tf is egg busi-
ness. Without this super planning
for fair shares it is true that some-
body , might be having two fresh
eggs and somebody else no eggs
at all.
But would there not always be
that glorious opportunity for the'
no -egg man, to- get.,into ihe,,,,two-+
egg class? Is it really a satisfac-
tory answer for everyone to have
one stale egg?
We, as producers, sell to the
packing stations. Bu we are not
really happy about our perishable
commodity losing its freshness in
a three-week or month-long trek
through tr:e long channels of the
bureaucratic machine. We would
like more people in 1951 to have
not merely more eggs but snore
fresh eggs.
WHAT TO .DO WITH
OLD RAZOR BLADES
What to do with old razor blades
should be no problem to gardeners.
They ought to try burying thein
among the roots of their hydrangea
plants.
The flowers of the hydrangea are
naturally white and pink,. but by
treatment with oxide of iron (rust)
blue flowers are produced.
The razor blades provide the osx
ide of iron by rusting in the ground,
and it is said that hydrangeas ab-
sorb it and turn blue.
Swedish architects consider the
razor blade problem so important
that in their latest blocks of flats
bath -rooms have a "disposal slot"
in the wall.
Used razor blades are pushed
through and drop into the wall
cavity where they eventually rust
away.
How Cats Get
Their Vitaan-iiin D
Cats don't lick their fur merely
to keep clean, according to latest
research. They do it to get their
daily supply of Vitamin D, without
which no animal can have perfect
health.
There are glands in the cat's skin
nt=hich exude oil into the fur.
When exposed to the ultra -violet
rays of the sun -present even on a
.dull day -the oil produces a sub-
stance 'containing the vital Vitamin
D which the cat absorbs with its
tongue.
An unfounded belief is that a
stolen cat 'makes a first-class
mouser, but animal psychologists
say that any cat is capable of
killing rats and mice.
The hunting instinct is natural,
but soft living and the comforts of
civilization is ruining it.
Instead of scouting round in
darkened corners in search of 'ro-
dents they prefer curling up in front
of the fire and letting the manufac-
turers of rat poison take over their
chores.
Naturalists who have examined
the stomach acid contents of dead
cats have repeatedly found feathers
and parts of birds.
Hardly ever is there a sign' of a
. cat having eaten a mouse..
Y1t579t,of the cat's bird -hunting is
duncat night and in the early morn-
ing, when he can catch both the
mother bird and the young ones at
the sante time,
Snapshot Saved Him
From. The Gallows
Answering a knocking on the
door of his flat in Rio, Ralph Brew-
ster was confronted by a police
inspector.
"I am afraid, Senor," said the
inspector, "that I must arrest you
for the murder of Senor Francisco
Belgardo."
Brewster appeared stunned.
"But I was a friend and business
partner of Delgado. Why should I
have wanted to murder him?" he
protested.
"True. you were partners," ack-
nowledged the other. "But isn't it
also 'true that you quarrelled with
Delgado the day before he died -
and threatened hint with violence?"
"We did quarrel," Brewster ad-
mitted, "hut we became friends
again. Otherwise would I have gone
sailing with him?"
"But I put it to you," persisted
the detective, "that you went sail-
ing for the very purpose of striking
hint with an oar when his back
was turned -which would account
for the fact that he was found with
his head crushed in."
Brewster 'paled. "Let me explain,"
he said. "Although it sounds fan-
tastic, Delgado asked me to hold
the tiller while he climbed to the
masthead to loosen a. rope that had
jammed. While he was up there he
lost his hold and fell to the deck
head first."
"A likely tale," sneered the de-
tective. "And perhaps you can also
account for the missing oar ?"
Delgado was a Brazilian and
popular in Rio. So the case made
newspaper headlines and the whole
thing seemed crystal clear. The
Englishman had quarrelled with
Delgado and had taken his revenge.
Hot-blooded Latins understand how
feelings boil up, and then -in a
flash -murder is done.
Brewster's case looked hopeless.
But, as a last resort, his defending
counsel got into touch with the
British Consulate General and ad-
vised him to advertise in all the
local papers for anyone who could
produce evidence of Brewster's
innocence.
It also happened that on the af-
ternoon when Delgado met his
death a young tourist on board
an American liner entering Rio
had stood at the rail taking snap-
shot's. He was a keen student of
photography and took great
trouble to get some interesting life
studies of the entrance to the har-
bour, with its curving beach backed
by picturesque mountains.
When, three days later, lie called
for his pictures at the chemist who
was .printing then, he found that
one of a yacht had a slight 'blemish
on it, a black smudge spoiling the
white spread of sail. It annoyed
hint. And he pointed it out to the
chemist, who produced a power-
ful magnifying glass to examine
the imperfection.
"You say you took these pic-
tures
iatures three afternoons ago, from the
American liner as it was entering
Rio harbour?"
The young man nodded in agree-
ment.
"I think the police might be in-
terested in this print. Take a look
through the glass and you'll see
what 1 mean," the chemist contin-
ued.
Even the chemist's powerful glass
could make out little more than
a blurred shape against the sail.
But that was enough to send the
tourist hurrying along to police
headquarters with his precious
print.
With the aid of special magni-
fiers an enlargement many tines
the size of the picture was made:
and this revealed, without any
shadow of doubt, a man's falling
body. The enlargement enabled
thein to identify Delgado's ship,
and as there was no sign of Brew-
ster, it was obvious that he was,
in fact, manning the tiller.
This piece of evidence is regard-
ed as the most remarkable coinci-
dence in the history of crime. For
had the tourist clicked his shutter
either half a second earlier -or
later -Brewster would have certain-
ly been executed for the murder of
his friend!
Will Inflation
Wreck Us?
Further serious inflation will un-
dermine Canada's morale • and its
entire defence program, Bruce Hut-
chison write in a recent issue
of Maclean's in an article, "Are We
Heading for a 20 -Cent Dollar?"
The sharp drop in' buying power
of the Canadian dollar in the past
three years is revealed in an ac-
companying article by Sidney Mar-
golius: when controls were lifted
in 1947 the dollar was worth 79
cents compared with its 1939 value;
at the end of 1950 it had slumped to
58 cents.
By inflation, Canada and other
free countries can wreck them-
selves, destroy their present econ-
omic systems and lose the fight
against Communism, says Hutchi-
son. "It can become our Achilles'
heel and Stalin's secret weapon. He
knows that but so far we don't."
"We have denounced the Social-
ists of Britain whenever they pro-
posed a capital levy -but (with
inflation) we have enforced a fer-
ocious levy of our own. We have
selected as our victim the man who
has saved his money, botight Vic-
tory Bonds, prepared to keep him-
self in old age instead of living on
the public.
"We have exempted from the
capital levy the speculator who was
smart enough to buy goods like real
estate or the claim of goods in the
form of common stocks. The value
of these things in money has risen
as the value of money has fallen.
"We have robbed the saver, the
pensioner and the widow while the
investor, the speculator and the or-
ganized wage earner (who in the
main has kept wages abreast of
Hying costs) have gone scot free,"
The Cattadiait government thus
has committed an act for which an
individual could be put in jail, says
Hutchison, "and has committed it at
our command."
The Canadian goveriltttcut is de-
termined to avoid total or partial
priee controls to curb inflation "but
the U.S. is slithering into them day
by day -and U.S. controls are po-
litically irresistible here.
"Unless this slide is soon arrested
the American economy will be un-
der wartime government controls
within a year. Thus the greatest
danger of all is that we shall repeal
the free society of America for a
temporary emergency when we face
in fact perhaps decades of cold war;
that, having established a totali-
tarian economy in the name of dem-
ocracy, we shall be unable to
liquidate it in 10 or 2C years when
everyone is geared to it."
To escape this prospect and to
check inflation now, Hutchison sug-
gests the Canadian public support
measures to: hold purchasing pow-
er to the level of production; cut
government spending on non -de-
fence items; drastically increase
taxes; raise interest rates on loans
to curb private spending; reduce
consumer credit.
As for whets happened to the
dollar itself„ Margolus points out
that the average Canadian family is
living better than it lived in 1939
but not as well as it lived in 1945
at the peak of the wartime boom.
"If you parcelled the total income
in 1939 among every Canadian, each
had $386, Ip 1945 the per capita
income had zoomed to $804 and in
1949 to $948. But the 1945 average
income would buy $671 vt orth of
goods at 1939 prices and in 1949 it
could still buy $589 worth. That
means the average Canadian has
about 50% more buying power than
before the war and 12010 less than in
1945."
The average Canadian indus-
trial worker earned $20.11 a week
in •1939, $31.23 in 1945 and by mid -
1950 he was getting $43.50. Ac-
cording to the Dominion Bureau
of Statistics, he's about 25% better
off in real earnings than in 1939.
But his present wages will buy him
no more than $31.07 did in 1945.
Canadians can expect to pay
higher prices in 1951 for goods
containing steel, wool, tin, rubber
and most rnetals, says Margolius.
And by spring suits, coats, shoes
and some cotton items will cost
more.
A cold is like democracy -some-
times the eyes have it and some-
times the nose.
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In Lace
On a seaside
rock with
ocean breezes
ruffling her
long tresses,
Janet Winters
poses as a
wintertime
Lorelei i11 a
brief, lacy
-swimsuit.
She also gives
a preview of
the sort of -
thing that
more northerly
residents will
see on their
beaches next
summer.
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