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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-06-28, Page 3"Can ,atso be a Point Where People Meet" 1.1p In the northwest;:rii part New YorkState..the S. Lawre River is the green and living lin dary between Canada "and the VJ ed State, Here the two countr are more than a mile aParl• irr the small American-li:liege of Al ristown a ferry runs every ho across to the Canadian town ' Brockville,reputedly the rich town per capita in the entire B tisk 'Empire. The ferry is a ti little ship and flies both the. Arne and Canadian flags. On bo sides of the river it, uses the sin plest of slips. At each place- cu toms and immigration officers che the passengers. „. The border between the Unite States and Canada is, on the ma a thin line: a change of printer ink distinguishes 'one land froi the other. The border is unguarde all along its ;thousands of mile There are hundreds of entry point along it, but at no one of them • including Brockville and Morris town, is there one single soldie stationed. The traffic that erosse back and forth on the ferry at Mor ristown, with never a passport to hundred passengers and none ask ,ed, offers an even better exampl of how the people of two lands can live side by side and commingle with a minimum of red tape and no armed guards, Labour laws prevent any broad interchange of Americans and Ca- nadians going back and forth to jobs in either country. Customs laws prevent any great amount of cross-border day-to-day shopping, although, during the meat shortage a few years ago, Many Anterican housewives used to go over to Ca- nada for the day's pork chops and bacon and, as long as they brought in small amounts, the customs men were lenient. But there is a lot of business crossinz back and forth on that ferry—alesmen from, both countries, heavy trucks laden with assorted freight for Canada and crates of medicine, hatbands, and electrical parts for America. Now and then the ferry carries a load of sheep or cattle across for the Amer- ican market, All day long, particularly on weekends, there is a large amount of social visiting across the river —going over for lunch with Cana- dian friends or having Canadian relatives come over for dinner, for on both sides of the border there has been a lot of interiAtiOnal marrying. And, until. Coast Quard regulations made it difficult, the ferry usedto carry as _ -united nations group as ever rode , from oneland to. another: • house- wives from both sides used to take • advantage of the offer, 'Thirty-five cents round trip or as long as you want to ride," and sit atop ,the ferry all afternoon of a pleasant summer day, riding back and forth, not getting off, knitting and' chat- ting in a sort of international 'ferry- klatsch. Of a weekday evening the larger number of passengers are young people, mostly young men, heading over to see their Canadian girl friends or coming this way to take their American girls to the American movies. As the immigration. officers pass a hundred ferry passengers in five minutes, they seem casual and care- less. To a stranger, little border stations like these towns appear to be -the best :of ail possible . places • for iheaking int & either country and for bringing in contraband. The. truth is that the officials know peratmally almost all the regular passengers. Let some stranger come and. their casualness vanishes. The stranger is detained' a few more miniites and asked a' few questions . antf.thai is usually all. But,' as one officer said, :"Theseare the worst sort .of ,bordert.places to get away with anything. A big station has only a few. officers to ‚check many entties and all in . a Short' dine. Here there's po, me,. Mister,. and': I'm 111 1L0 httelit,,Whenever 1 find stranger *,hb seeths suspicious,: I can tale ,i.t11 day. And I do." The dOlellats of the two coun- of nee 0411 Or- ur of est ri- int ri- th 1- s- ck 1). s' fl d s. r a e Inds young woman carefully secures with cellophane tape the stems or three perky' daisies which she'll wear at her throat for a fresh and flowery look. Crit lfiftNit AMES IF you'd like to keep that fresh -as -a -daisy look despite the sweltering heat of summer days, try perhing up your costume with newly -cut Rowers, straight from your own garden. perhaps you've been nursing the idea that the only flowers that may be worn are florists' corsages—preferably orchids. If so, over- come that notion, or you'll be missing a beauty aid that may help you express your own personality. Professional corsages are thrilling for special events, but for casual occasions your own favorite yard or field flowers will work just ate well. Wear one particular blossom all summer long, and it's likely to be regarded as your own personal trademark. It's a nice distinction to be thought of in connection with roses, pansies, verbena or what- ever. To mane your moral anangements appear .hand -made rather than home-made, it's a good idea to avoid grabbing up a bunch of blooms as youldash through your front yard and sticking them to your collar with whatever pin you happen to find in your purse. - If you wear flowers, they're worth a bit of planning. Devote a few minutes to choosing the handsomest blossoms your garden offers, then take them inside or the couple of seconds it'll take to arrange them artfully and attractively. Bind their stems with cellophane tape to bad the flowers in their correct places. Then pin them with pride—and a long bat or corsage pin—to the spot an your bat; suit or dress where they'll show off to best advantage. • TIM FARM FRONT JokA9u4sell Probably a lot of you dairymen get sick and tired of writers on farm subjects eternally harping on the 'subject of proper milking -machine operation. Still, the care you took crossing a busy street or high- way yesterday isn't. going to get you safely over today; and the same applies in this; case too, So perhaps another reminder won't do any harm, * ' 4= • For there is no doubt about it, improperly cared-fot milking ma- chines often add billions of bacteria to milk. Rubber, because of its por- ous nature, is naturally hard to keep clean, and Airing milking, some of thg. milk solids get worked into the pores. • * a* The butterfat causes the rubber to soften and lose its shape, -while the other milk solids provide abund- ant food for bacteria. In the pores of the rubber where they are out of. reach of brushes. and sterilizing rinses, these 'bacteria are- able to Ott, At the next milking, as the liners are contra -et - ed and relaxed with each pidsation," these bacteria are squeezed out and washed away in the milk. Many of these bacteria are not killed by pas- teurization, and their presence in large numbers in the milk leads to trouble. • g, ge Numerous methods of caring for the teat cup assembly have been re- commended, says Dr. K. C. Johns, Division of Bacteriology and Dairy Research, Ottawa, Probably the simplest, and certainly the cheapest and most reliable, depends upon fill- ing the assembly with a weak (0.5 per cent) lye solution after first rinsing out the milk residue. Lye dissolves the casein and saponifies the fat, while at the same time de- stroying most of the bacteria present, * For long tube milking machines the lye solution is best used in a tries may get into their own diplo- matic knots and make speeches about the good or bad • state of . Canadian -American relations, That never troubles the people who live along the border. They go back and forth, in full friendlieess, as simply as a man rides a, ferry from Man-. Rattan to Hoboken, to show that a border need not be a line where people divide. It can also be a straight line -that marks the point where peOplet.' ineet.—From the New York Thitea. • BY • H;6401,D ARNETT solution rack; this must be set up perfectly level, and the lye solution must make contact with the entire jnner surface -The lye solution may be. prepared by making up a stock solutipn, dissolving one can of lye in 1 gallon of cold—prefarbly soft —water, then diltiting 4 ounces of this to 1 gallon for use. An alterna- tive method is to add 2 heaping tea- spoonfuls of lye to 1 gallon of water, stirring thoroughly to dissolve it. Dr. Johns cautions that unless the' lye solution is up to strength, it will not do the job properly. * The life of the liners can be great- ly extended by having two sets and using them alternately. After being used for a week, they should be boiled in a 2 per cent lye solution for 10-15 minutes. Directions for this procedure 'can be obtained from the Division of Bacteriology and Dairy .Research,, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, * * * . Some farmers are afraid to use lye solution, having heard that it damages the rubber. This is not thte. Just the opposite is the case. Instead of harming it, lye solution, especially when hot; extracts traces of fat, and prolongs the life of the rubber. It is true that when old liners are boiled in lye, they may ""pleasant odour, but this 15 s)e.e„uy removing .the decomposing milk solids and bacteria hiding in the pores and crevices of the rubber. If boiled weekly, Dr. Johns points out they will never get into such a state, and they will retain their shape and last moch.longer. 't News of interest to honey pro- clueers—and honey lovers—comes in a recent dispatch from Over 'Ome. * Heavily blitzed in a warehouse when Liverpool suffered its great- est air raids, a quantity of Canadian honey purc1iasectip.1942 has recent- ly been marketetFin England. Be- cause of more urgent reconstruction jobs, the consignment remained for some time literally supporting the roof and one wall of the badly damaged warehouse. The honey sur- vived both the explosion and the elements, and has shown no deteri- oration or loss of flavour during the last eight years. * * ti Dollar shortages have severely limited the quantity of Canadian honey on the British market in re- cent years. The blitzed honey ,was sold to retailers aill*not to 'process - ora for blending with honey from elsewhere. In this way, many con- sumers -were, able totaste the can - obtainable in Groat -Brii4ty•';'Onve again. and become •re-deqiiVed with it against the time Wheil-Mt is freely adian product in ;ita PERHAPS SNAILS, • _ . The customer had .Waited haikap: hour for tlx fish he had ordered. -At last the waiter apPeared, "Your fish will be here in five minutes," he said. • " •• Anothergnarter of an hour passed and then the customer summoned the waiter. "Say," he inquired, "what kind of bait are you using?" "A garden is a maddenitig thing. Glad wot; Snails, leather jackets, ants, slugs, blight, anti rot 1" —Anon. GI/UN THUMB 6bvdonzint. The modern gardener has ample reason to be confused by the treat- ments prescribed for keeping his plants healthy. The technical terms —insecticides, fungicides, ,`all-pur- pose sprays and dusts, DDT, 2, 4-D, etc.—are apt to seem as myster- ious to the novice as does a pres- cription written by his doctor. Yet they do have a definite relationship to the enemies that may mean ruin for a carefully planted garden. * The insects thatattack garden plants are lumped into two divi- sions: those that chew and eat the leaves or plant parts, and those. that suck the juices from inside the plant or foliage, Chewers in- clude caterpillars, grubs of beetles. and the beetles themselves, wasps, ants and rnaggots, 'and worms such a the cutworm and canker worm which begin theirivets on the out - corn borer and various tree borers, divi- sion also are the borers, like the (not' earth Worm). In this erpillars orteertatips:As -git:u.bs oft * * All of these chewing insects are controlled by chemicals that actu. ally poison their food—the insecti- cides that are known as stomach poisons. Lead arsenate, cry-olite, dutox, pyrethrum and rotenone are only a few of the many kinds now on the market, They ate used singly or purchased as combina- tion sprays. * * In the sucking group are aphids in all stages, leafhoppers, green fly, mealy bug, .tarnished plant bug, spittle bug and the lace bug that attacks azaleas and rhododen- drons. Sincethese pests penetrate the surface of the plant to draw out the juices; surface or sttomach pdisons are' of.' little use. The chemicals that •.;control them, called contact .insecticttles, act by sinoth- ering, and are applied under pres- sure. A favorite is Wack Leaf 40 (nicotine sulfate). Pyrethrum and, rotenone 'are used as contact insec- ticides as well as stomach poisons. In 'some cases DDT is effective, though not against a pl ids. * • Almost microscopic in size, the thripi.- and mites are the most dif- ficult to control, Red spider' (or ied spider,. 'mite) spina a web 'On the underside of evergreen foliage and that of other plants. Protec- ted by the web, the spider sticks the juices and turns the leaves a rust color, Before the insect is reached, the web must be broken. Sulphur is then applied as a dust; and some new insecticides have been developed for better control. The cyclamen mite attacks del- phinium, African violet and be- gonias, stunting leaves and deform- ing buds. Sulphur dust or diorite gives control, but DDT does not. In fact, DDT increases the red spider mite population, because it kills the insects that prey on this microscopic pest. DDT will con.- trol thrips, however, which .deform roses, asters, gladiolus and other flowers. Faced with the problem of se- lecting chemicals, the gardener is inclined to overlook the most im- portant factor of all in insect con- trol—that of timing. If insects are attacked at the period in their life cycle when they are most vul- nerable, a good control is assured. * * The corn borers, for example, which also attack dahlias and cos- mos, hatch as tiny worms from eggs laid on the under side of fol- iage, Moving slowly along the leaf, the borers' goal is -the inside of the stalk. While on a journey, they readily succumb .to almost any chat or spray. But once inside the ,stalk, no spray can reach them, • * * * Added to the importance of tim-. ing is :the fact that there are two to several generations of sane in- sects—yhich doesn't lighten the task 'of the gardener. County agents, agricultural schools or col- leges and botanical institutions in the locality have information on infestation dates. * Fungus diseases are initiated by mIcrescapis spores. These alight ou leaVeS, flowers and stems, then „ germinate like seed and send a tube into the plant's interior. There the tube branches and rebranches in all directiOns, 'breaking dotiht its* ribefntitgn 'It- phut -cells. In spores to set tip re -infection. * * The principal factor in the •spread or control of disease 'i-. *either. Moist, muggy conditions, fog and continued wet weather are all fa- vorable to disease, and during such Periods, mildew. black Npot of ro- ses, cankers and various leaf dis- eases spread repidly: • * * 4, The chemical's used to control these diseases are called fungi - rides. Dusting sulphur, lime sulphur, bordeanx mixture fa comliinatioo of copper sulfate and lime), for- maldehyde, fermate and zerlate are among the common chemicals used,. Like the insecticides, fungicides are used singly or in combination. The material needs to be applied. to the plants before the spores at - rive, or within a very short period thereafter. The critical time is just before or immediately after rain and during moist weather. They Have No Choice In still another field the Socialist Government of Great Britain has finally admitted that private enter- prise can do a better job. This time it is the tea business. For over 10 years the Government has been the sole buyer for all the tea consumed in the country. Gigau. tic deals were made on a bulk basis as with many other commodities handled by the state. Now the authorities have decided to get out of the tea business. In doing so the ministry of food issued. this -significant statement. "The Government considers the system of government purchases does not on the whole give the consumers the widest possible choice of teas, especially those of finer quality, nor does it, in present circumstances, assure adequate sup- p1y." Socialists the world over could study that confession with profit It reveals a fundamental weakness of state trading. Though it frever works out in actual practice, it theory at least because of volume, there should be lower costs when a government contracts to buy all the tea or the wheat or the bacon that may. be available in a producing country for a .substantial length of time. ' But there will be no variety at all. For the length of the contract all the tea or whatever is being bought will come from one source and be of general standard. Carried through to all foods it would be like putting. a whole nation on army rations, which while they might be nourish- ' ing enough, would get awfully mon- otonous, That's why there is so much conc.- plaint about the food in Great Britain today. It's not lack of quan- tity but lack of variety that really hurts. Where people who once had a choice of food from evety_coraer. . of the waild, the presentrRs.frieticua`. result in' sheer Misery.—Fronr.a. When. the County S*heriE died in Caliaa, Calif., the sorrowing in- mates of the county jail contributed a handsome funeral wreath which bore this inscription: "To our be- loved Sheriff—from the prisoners." Grade Robins ---A blase eity bird ignored a construction company's deadlines and built her nest right smack in the middle of scaffold- ing for em apartment house, Before anyone could soy Jac* Robin -son, Mrs. Robin had laid four eggs. Fuming forernefi wait- ed 24 hours, then moved the nest with its two baby robins and two eggs to a safe place, Maim Robin followed along, deter. mined to let nothing interfere with her maternal duties, LOOK,SLKIE „ THOR TO 812We THE PAPVR 111,1 Tima House. 0 RES .r. LOOSE PICTURE -FRAM NAIL IN PLASTERED WALL, WRAP NAIL IN NARROW PIE ao-rH,DIP iN GLUE, REPLACE NAIL IN WOLA AND ALLOW DAY OR TWO FOR 6LUE TO OW JRMANOille,:;" • IN memo/NINO, 1).151.vgpz Nw stocoom. 1