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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-08-30, Page 3Jif Govt. Tinkering And Food Prices Wade of grief atteuded the an- ttounccluei't of a 3.5 point rise its the cost -of -living index, Nearly all f tltc increase was caused by still .spaying fund prices. Most other .factors in the index lead levvlsld af"r. Cott:tturr.: art wad. I+•atmere are not sari.lied. And let'e see where a lot of the trouble lie,; Government—federal and provincial, Wheat, fetid grains, butter, cheese, eggs and several other:main food product:; are virtual govern - anent monopolies, . l.n some Cases all production must be sold through governmen,. boards, Its all eases, by various devices government agencies effectively control price;, With one product—butter---govern relent anett.ures have penalieed- and some curses completely eeclud.eu any couapetitiou, ..in the last fete years the Coy• eminent has stepped in and bought and sold apples, bacon, potatoes, honey, cheese, eggs and other food products, Growers have been sub- sidized to keep potatoes and apples of, the market, so that prices would stay up. Growers have been sub- sidized to tear out apple trees. Federal and provincial govern• rnents have encouraged and some- times actually enforced monopoly marketing agreements in milk, fruit and vegetables that would bring instant prosecution and Heavy fines it attempted by private interests. :f this govertuneitt interference bad given us a more pleutiful and cheaper supply of food, or even if it had created general satisfaction, among Canadian farmers it might be overlooked, But exactly the op- posite has resulted. Instead of getting out of food marketing after the war. federal and provincial governments have got in deeper and deeper. The consumer and the taxpayer have paid clearly. The moral is plain: Government should stay out of business. -•-.T roto The Financial Post. Don't Turn The Cat Outdoors At Night He Can Be More Use Indoors What many cat lover, don't realise is that, by turning their pets out at night. they expose them to danger, In the country they are liable to be caught in animal traps, attacked by dogs, and in both town and country there is the danger from traffic or contracting disease from other cats. Although cats are independent creatures, they can be persuaded to stay home at night if their owners arc patient. A cat soon develops a habit. Provide a little warm liquid refreshment just before bedtime and after a while your cat should come home regularly for its night- cap. They Need Energy Another big mistake many cat owners snake i to think that a hungry annual makes a good hunt- er. On the contrary, rats hunt for pleasure, and those that are forced to by hunger will only kill to sat- isfy their hunger, Catching and killing rate, especi- all, demands strength and energy, and these can only be kept up with plenty of good, clean food. Hungry or well fed. no cat can do the important job of helping to rid premises of vermin if it is turn- ed out at night. Vermin hide during the day and corse out in the dark. If anybody had the right ideas on cats it was the Ancient Egyptians, In those days the male cat was likened to the sun and the female to the 3010011, 13ut they deserved the honour, for it was Egypt's' cats which did much to avert plague by 1 eStrnying the vellum which in - settled the country whenever the .Nile overflowed its haul„ an rt flooded tate land. Yore material rcaards for iE,gypt's feline population included sumptuous sleeping quarter, and places of honour at banquets. ts Are Pr IgX" E DNEi411- TJW din sy:fp- agersbig this eal fall iscoatihepyramitteend, T,he pyramid is emit$.tined by touches that make it sndividual and keep it from becoming a kind of campus uniform, It may, for example, have sleeves that are pushed up to hal- loon fullness. Or a deep collar, jumbo pockets and wide cuffs. It may have an upstand collar and touches of velveteen trimming, in matching or contrasting colors. There are also purple poodles, pyramid silhouettes in nubby poodle cloth of winter violet, Fashion -right coats that have such practical features as a deep hem that can be let ,down as a teen-ager shoots skyward are likely to appeal to mother and to be generally easy on the family budget. Owl and Perky One such coat (left) is,a pyra- mid in all wool monotone tweed by Bambury. Velvet is used for the shawl collar and the cuffs. The saddle shoulder and double flap pocket treatment both look new in a teen-age coat. And there's a deep hem to grow on. Another coat (right) is single- breasted with a Peter Pan collar and turn -back cuffs. In light gray all -wool broadcloth, it, too, has the deep hem that adds to the life of the coat. I, what is known as the "meat - type" hog a special cross or breed - of ]tog? Lots of folks would answer definitely "Yes" to such a question; but, according to an article by Howard Bloomfield in a recent issue of "Tire Country. Qentleman", out in the State of Ohio, they say emphatically "No". And they should know something. about hogs in Ohio. Heaven knows they raise enough of them.. :Tow can you tell a meat hog when you see him? Soinc claim • you can't tell from the outside if a hog is full of meat or full of fat, any more than you can look at a tire and tell if there is •a patch on the tube. I?ven show judges have picked out "meat hogs" that, when slaughtered, yielded more lard than most. But in Ohio hundreds of� farmers have learned to pick out a meat )tog with high accuracy, and others are learning. a: * Is the pleat -type frog a long-term , pasture proposition? Is it kept leaner, with less feed and thus taking longer to grow—a, slower kind of hog? Its Ohio they say no. Ile's right among tltc best -doers in your lot. 111' may be the hcei- • doing bog of all. Tit Ohio the farmers ttremeelve.; have been building up pressure for hog improvement. When the coun- try wanted fat ]togs, Ohio won fame as a fat -hog state. Now it works for an equal reputation in e more modern type of hog. sic 9: Last year in Ohio's biggest hug county, Clinton, leading growers got together to load both barrels: first, to develop leaner hogs and dispel bonsetwive5' frowns at the meat counter; second, to get more money for those better hogs. The farmers carne to a meeting with State workers and they brought e HAROLD ARNETT LSH.; , 'E ; G SCISSORS MAKI Ne- ,V5RAL, CUTS -TiOUGi-1 SANT) PAPIR WnL4.. it;P'5Ni SClSaOt 5 B\' ASi ASIVE ACTION hogs from their own herds, to dis- cover what a neat type, is anyhow. * 1, '.flue hogs were numbered and the farmers voted. Thee the hogs were taken to Columbus and slaughtered and analyzed in the State's Meats Laboratory. A few days later, these carcasses went back to Clin- ton County in a refrigerated truck. The same men gathered to find out how well they had judged the hogs. They were about half right, half wrong. Their judgement was little better than the toss of a coin. Plainly a farmer needed a better eye than that to select his breeding stock. Sixteen committeemen traveled to an Eastern packing plant to follow their own hogs through to a meat -and -fat analysis. Then four more "on -the -hoof" judging and cut-out demonstrations were held. By that time growers could pick the meat bog 80 per cent of the time, which experts say is a good workable judgment. And meanwhile a grader was trained at Wilmington to select truckloads for packers demanding, and paying extra for. choice hogs. 1 fere is some advice that veteran ho -;;-men and experts hand out on the problem of hove to go about picking out your meat -type hogs. A * *f Loot, fol a little longer hog. The one you used to want teas broad, flat on top, but he had too much fatback—stay away from hits. An old saying was, "Pick the biggest, the thickest, the quickest"—still a good saving if you leave out "thick- est." Chunky box -ended types cut too high a percentage of fat. Look for a good ]taut, a medium but not too heavy shoulder. It's a. good sign for that shoulder to cut up a little sliarp, says Tom Bernard; he doesn't care if a hog has something of a ridgepole, (ict a straight underline; no sag in it. A. body not too deep. A heavy jowl is not good. A very important point is neatness around the tail. If the tail is deep- set. with a btimpincss around it, like that of a fat steer, the ham is too fat and the hog is an overfat type elsewhere. st * When farntcr, learned to re- c'ogoize their meat hogs. the next stet' was to snake up truckload shipments of these superior ani- mals. Seven packers ordered the graded hogs, paying usually 50 cents per hundred pounds above the market. In the selection o[ thousands of hogs, a cheerful 'fact has emerged for the grower. He doesn't have to discard a breed he has worked with for years, In droves of the renown- ed "lard breeds" have been dis- covered excellent treat -type speci- mens, and overfats have been found among bacon breeds. Nor ,have the new crosses and inbreds been ex- empt from lardy hogs. * k * Ohio observations show a fallacy in the old idea that the best -doing hog is the broad fat type. The tarsi half of hogs going to market, the best -doers in the feed lots, make a high showing in meat. After the peak of the tnacketing season passes, it's a harder job to finale up a shipment of neat -type hogs. When the slow hogs, seven or eight months old, come along toward the end, of the run, the over - fat hog predominates and meat type is edarce, * * +t "A loss of people had the idea." says County Agent Grimshaw, "that the meat -type hog would be produced mostly on pasture and take seven or eight months, Our boys have a two -litter program, and • taking longer doesn't suit them at all. They want the hogs off in five and a half to six months. In sum- mer they like to bring them oft pasture to the feed lot at 150 to 180 pounds, and in winter they stay in the feed lot. nut instead of finding the meat type slower; they're finding• most of their meat animals among the fast -doers, the first off to mat'kct." Hated Lacing Boots —Invented Zippers The zip fastener, one of the Most complex yet useful devices ever invented, was bora sixty years ago in the brain of an inventor uatued Whitcomb L, Judson who had be- come tired of lacing up his hoots. He also resented the time wasted in tightening his wife's corsat strings, and these things bothered him so much that he conceived the idea of a series of hook& and eyes fastened on to two facing edges of fabric, with a slide fastener which would automatically close or unlock them when moved up and down. He patented the device in Anted - ca, but two years later, in 1893 •in Alsatian mechanic, .i1enri Amason, hit upon the sante basic idea and produced a practical slide fastener superior to Jutlson's. Starved! His• invention was developed by an. American firm but - more than twenty-five years passed before a machine was constructed which could make the fastener anti' mese produce it, SoiIae of America's most brilliant engineers tackled the problent and failed. Among theta was Gideon Sundback, who devoted four years to it, cl'iii•ing tvhichi time he was starving and practically penniless. Once during dirge years he pair) his grocery bill with 8750 worth of shares i.t a rmripttny lie intended JITTER to form when he had solved the problem, The grocer was dubious, but since Sundback had no money he had no option but to accept the "worthless" cheque, Fifteen years later they were worth a fortune, ),yen when Sundback triumphed and produced not only a machine, but a new foolproof fastener, the company almost went into liquida- tin because nobody seemed to want the zipper. Then in 1917 a tailor in Brook- lyn with an eye to novelty, stitched zippers on the money belts of American sailors and sold the belts in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Navy technicians examined the invention and were soon using zippers by the hundreds of yards for retaking fly- ing suits. ; The fastener was induced into Britain in 1925 on tobacco `pouches. Then dressmakers began using it on clothes and pockets. Parisian fashion designers made use of it on the gowns which had fasteners all the way from neckline to hent. Aircraft manufacturers adopted it for opening inspection daps in the wings of planes. The machine that makes the fas- tener is even more marvelous than the zipper itself. Mile after utile of wire is fed into one end, together with spool after spool of cloth tape. Out at the other end emerges the zipper, STOP THEM ,\ manufacturer had received a visit from the Income Tax Depart. went. After a two-hour siege of questions, he was visited by re- presentatives of several other government departments and bu- reaus. Finally he had a call from tete chief of police. In disgust, he sold hie plant and bought a skunk farm. "Now," he said, "maybe the gov- ernment will keep its nose out of my business" During the summer months the - home owner often has time to landscape his property. Yet, this season of' year has not been st satisfactory time to move plants, particularly large specimeas, Num erytnen have now worked out ways to transplant even woody plants during the hot weather, with littb danger of loss. Two methods aairLa described here. * * 4' Of course, the problent of mov'.- ing a tree or shrub in the winter was solved long ago. The plant is dug with a ball of earth while temperatures are above freezing; the ball is allowed to freeze solid during colder temperatures, and then transplanted. A far more difficult problem is the transplant- ing of deciduous material, both shrubs and shade trees, during hot summer months, in such a way that: growth continues without wilting. a: * While chemists were busy devel:•- oping waxes and plastics to be sprayed on the foliage for summer - transplanted stock, William Howe Jr., of Howe Nurseries, was busy working out another angle. He felt certain that there must be a natural way of moving plants successfully ite full Ieaf during the hot sum- mer months, His demonstration be• fore 200 nurserymen showed what basic rules need to be observed for such an undertaking. First, the soil must not be dry when the plant is moved. If a dry spell precedes' the digging, artificial watering is needed to get as much moisture into the plant as possible. An oversized ball of earth is duty around the root system, It needs to be wrapped in burlap and roped. in a compact manner to avoid any cracking of loosening of the earth from around the roots. if there is any delay in replant- ing, the ball of earth is kept welt moistened. Any recently acquired, succulent growth at the tips o branches should be pruned off. (This should slot be confused with. "heading back" a tree, which is ;t far more drastic operation.) Whet the tree is to be transported any distance at all by truck, the entire top of the tree is wrapped with a lightweight burlap cloth. Extreme rare in handlit.,; the plant is needed in order to avoid cracking the earth ball around the roots. And the final planting oper- ation should be done with a good soil mixed well with hyper -humus or peat moss, or both. A good soak- ing with water and a ntuleb are absolutely necessary. The proper follow-through ots maintenance includes watering and constant upkeep of the mulch until the tree is re-established in the new location. This problem of care has no substitute and is as impor- tant as balling and 1?urlapping. * q, On flowering shrubs and smaller shade trees, new succulent growth will wilt during the first few hours out of the ground. In such in- stances, Mr. Howe puts the plants in a cooling shed or in the shade. Twenty-four to forty-eight hours later they have regained their rigidity. The Wintl: h-ell;-chi—Clare Lippert smiles happily after be ng tanned ;•.lits r anrisylvartia of 1952 al the state beauty contest at Hart•isburri. Next month she'll cc. a ,,t x the title of Miss America. - ' STAY Ma'am impAre iAtT WH1Z • t5►4oP bN 7-14E MEZANtN ' Four. By Arthur P4xrte G000 HEAVENS E1OW 010 YOU esT OF' Ft1;ISg? n', a a a 41 a 4 N a 4 a 4 •