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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-06-12, Page 7Animals on the Farm It is early sunttut•r on utv hili side. The fields are varlrisatr-d strips of green in many shades, interspersed with the 5,01luw of ripened grain and of mustard, rd, and the brown of ploughed earth, The harvest has begun, Orderly stacks of mown wheat dot some of the fields, sharply etched in high -lights and shadows under tate July sun. The hay is rolling its from the meadows piled high in long, creak- ing, two -wheeled carts, some drawn by strawberry roan horses with blond manes, hitched tandem, some by yoked pairs of cream -colored Charollais oxen, Cuckoos are still calling hack and forth from the hedges but they will not be heard, so local wisdom has it, after the 14th of July. Quantities of bees are dip- ping into the honeysuckle and the roses. Every now and then one gets in the drainpipe by mistake: its infuriated buzzing against the metallic sides of the pipe sounds like boogie-woogie, Underlying my terrace is a long field planted in potatoes. The far- mer is cultivating between the rows with a hand plough pulled by a donkey, the latter in turn pulled by the farmer's young son. The farmer talks loudly and continually to his donkey, while the solemn - faced animal carries on its task with an expression of sad resig- nation. In another strip alongside my walled garden, this one being in pasture, Madame Hen -parrot (Per - ruche) of Asquins Village, brings her three cows each morning to graze. One of thein has red and white markings, one grey and white, one mauve and white. Ma- dame Hen -parrot is more than three score years from the early flush of youth. She walks slowly up the hill in her wooden shoes at a cow's pace, with her knitting, a folding milking stool with four slats for a seat, a long stick, and an umbrella. She has a blue or sometimes a white kerchief over her head, and wears a faded and much patched blue apron upon I know not how many faded and patched skirts and petticoats. A black dog accompanies the pro- cession. Madame Hen -parrot unfolds her milking stool, unfurls her umbrel- la if there is rain or a strong wind, takes to her knitting and talks continually in a shrill -pitched voice to the cows and the dog. Unlike the farmer talking to his Largest Miner: The Empress of Scotland, 26,300 -ton flagship of the Canadia4 Pacific fleet is shown here passing under the Jacques Cartier Bridge at the entrance to Montreal harbor to make history as the largest vessel ever to arrive in the world's largest inland port. The big uxury liner and cruise ship, which had to have her masts shortened by almost 45 feet to clear under the bridges and power lines on the way up -river from Quebec, will make Montreal her Canadian terminal for the remain- der of the 1952 St. Lawrence navigation season. The 666 -foot long vessel carries 663 passengers, and will make one trip every three weeks between Liverpool, England, Greenock, Scotland, and Montreal. The inset shows Capt. C. E. Duggan (in uniform), master of the largest and fastest vessel on the St. Lawrence route, being welcomed to Montreal by Capt. J. P. Dufour, (second from right) Montreal harbormaster, while looking on are A. C. MacDonald (left), managing director of C.P.S., and Andre Gauthrier, river pilot, who was aboard the vessel for 139 -mile run up river from Quebec. oxen or his donkey, there is no cajolement in her directives, but she gives the reasons underlying therm. "Now chase that complete- ly idiotic animal out of that cor- ner"—this to the dog—"because she has been there too long and should know that the grass is bet- ter below!" * My hillside is quiet; save for the nightingales in the springtime and the voices of the cultivators and cattle tenders conversing with their beasts. — From "Bird of Time," by Melvin Hall. According to the scientists, the lowly corncob is good for some- thing beside burning—or making pipes. Not long ago they found in it a good source of an important chemical which can be uesd in the manufacture of nylon. Today it is being considered as a first class stock feed which puts more weight on beef cattle at less cost. a: * * On a farm' near Coon Rapids, Iowa, 4,000 head of cattle were fattened for the market last winter with a diet consisting of 75 per cent corncobs, The cobs,' which were' always a disposal problem. were ground up and mixed with small amounts of shelled corn, molasses, urea, soybean oil and fish oil. The urea provides the nitro- gen which helps in the digestion by cattle and fish oil is for vita- min A. * .* * Weight gains were estimated at two pounds per day at a cost of 15 to 16 cents per pound compared to a gain of one pound per day costing 28 cents when shelled corn, hay and protein were fed. The old "forty -acre" farm kit - New Add Fad?—Approximately the size of a pack of cigarets, this finger -operated midget add- ing machine can add, subtract, multiply, divide and square fig - ;res, Manufactured by a Berlin, ,>•trmany, firm, it will sell for about $94, chen is going modern. In the cur- rent transformation of Canadian farm homes, the kitchen seems to be the room getting the most at- tention, writes Ethel Chapman, who was for many years woman's editor of Farmer's Magazine. * * * Miss Chapman has found that within the last few years big farm kitchens have been divided to provide a modern kitchen - dining room with a separate utility room where the men can wash-up, where the laundry can be done, or a little pig warned and fed in an emergency. Running water was only a dream of most Canadian farm women 30 years ago. Today, farm water sys- tems are being „installed at an amazing rate. Electricity is rapidly reaching even the farthest of the back concessions. Houses built 30 years ago without a clothes closet from ground floor to attic are get- ting new storage space. Kitchen cupboards are being installed with such enthusiasm there's scarcely a spot left to hang a calendar. * * * Central heating is transforming farm hone architecture, according to Miss Chapman. It is no longer necessary to keep a room closed for warmth, so partitions are being taken ,out to throw two rooms into one r to make wide archways joining halls and living -rooms. Windows are being enlarged and new windows added. The picture - window is finding real popularity. Over the past 50 years farm operations in Canada have pro- gressed from hand and horse labor to an occupation that is highly mechanized and scientific. The farmer himself has changed from a hewer of wood leading an iso- lated life to a citizen of the world - a logical development of produc- ing food for export. * * * This great revolution on the farm, writes Dr. Cr. E. Reaman in the current issue of C -I -L Oval, ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST 1—Napoleon. 2—s 1 e i g h. 3— Aegean Sea. 4-2000 miles, 5— ants. 6—a rock. 7—(A) --Indiana; (B) Oklahoma; (C) Ohio; (D) North Carolina, MERRY MENAGERIE i Sdi'i }I` if f•5 LESS "Check your son, Sister?" actually began when the mechan-• ical reaper displaced the sickle and scythe more than 100 years ago. But it wasn't until 1900 that real progress was made in mechaniz- ation of the gasoline engine. By this means the farmer achieved power in a controlled quantity that enable him to free himself from horse -produced power. * * Dr• Reaman, who is head of the Department of English at the On- tario Agricultural College, review- ed the scientific developments in the last 50 years. When the laws of genetics came to be understood, it was possible to breed dairy cows which gave more milk. Much ex- perimentation has taken place in both breeding and feeding poultry so that today any fowl which does not product satisfactorily is elim- inated from the flock. The discov- ery of antibiotics has meant a great deal in fighting and overcoming diseases in animals as well as humans. * In the field of pesticides, DDT was probably the first wonder- working insecticide. Many others followed soon after, New fungi- cides, rodenticides and weedkillers have been developed. Other new chemicals cause the leaves to fall off ripened crops to facilitate hand and machine harvesting. * No longer does the farmer point a finger of scorn at "fancy farm- ing" carried on by scientists. He 1 ow realizes they are working for him. THE MILITARY MIND A sergeant was asking some re - recruits why walnut was used for the butt of a rifle. "Because it has, more resistance," volunteered one man, "Wrong!" "Because it is more clastic." "Wrong!" "Perhaps it's because it looks nicer than any other kind," volun- teered another, timidly, "Don't be an ass," snapped the sergeant, • "It's • simply because it was laid down in Regulations." JITTER 'TIIi main AMLkMAN 14ASNY®&EN Cottrc7 -MNG OUR EMPTY BOTTLta5,,. WILL. YOU Mur Tflt^M WNERE NE'U. Or SURE TOSEE 'i VIM �2 r;, By Rev. R. B Warren, B.A.. B.D. The Obligation to be Trustful Exodus 20:16; John 18:15-27 Memory Selection: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exodus 20:16. A careful survey of 10,000 men and women in an eastern Ameri- can city revealed that 98% of them, upon- their own confession, were "in the;'_ habit of telling lies." Re- cenfly:'Yt was revealed that a state- ment concerning germ warfare at- tributed .to. a government official and which led to serious misunder- standing had only been inserted by a newspaperman to "brighten up the story." Some doctors lie to make an operation appear neces- sary and sometimes to buoy up a patient on false hopes. Parents slie to their children and children early learn from their example. We ridicule the Communists but we have lies a plenty apart from Communism. Jesus Christ said concerning the devil,. "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44. His first lie was to Mother Eve in his successful effort to de- ceive her. He said, "Ye shall not surely die." Gen. 3:4. He was sug- gesting as he does constantly to men to -day, that "God doesn't mean what He says." Millions of mor- tals believe him. A story, in an old Public Reader told of the boy who cried "Wolf, wolf," when there was no wolf. One day the wolf really came. The boy cried loudly but in vain. The then thought he was lying again. The sheep were destroyed. When one earns a reputation for lying; often he will not be believed when he is telling the truth. "Ly- ing lips are abomination to the Lord," Prov. 12:22. "All liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brim • - stone," Rev. 21:8. Jestts is the Truth. Those who love' him have been delivered from their deceitful heart and endeavour at all times to speak the truth. 4TUL rat • MILD WEATHER TO REMAIN i; Can't Remember Ex.Wive's Names Bruce Steele is just a seventy- two -year-old Texan plumber, a handy man with his .spanner, but he has just established a new rec.. ord .in ;wives. When he married fcirty-se3*Rn-year-old Estelle at El Psso re etttly he signed the mar- riage Ones for the seventeenth time. Bruce has now had four- teen wives, but one of them he married twice and one three times, making seventeen marriages in all. "Can I help it if I appeal to women?" Bruce askos his critics. "It's the plumber in mel" Women send for the plumber half the time, he claims, just to tell hien their troubles while he works, But Bruce was a boxer with a 'travel- litng show when he married his first wife, Mary, back in 1911. Vt'hen he moved on, she got a di- vorce and he wooed and won girls in other towns. "Just give the women what they want and give them a divorce every little while," he sums up. Yet to-day—although 'he never forgets his tools on a plumbing job—he cannot even re- member all his wives' names, Fanny Went to Court There was Nellie whom he mar- ried twice, two girls named Rose, and Fanny whom he has cause to remember because she nearly fool- ed him with her third divorce. Af- ter being married to Bruce twice before, Fanny didn't want the di- vorce and contested it in court . but variety prevailed! "Find their weaknesses" and play it up—that's the way to be a good Romeo," Bruce declares. But his theory is contested by forty -seven- year-old Francesco Juliao of Bra- zil, who says that marriage has many complications. And Juliao— a successful white farmer—should know. He has twelve wives living with hien all at once in his home- stead near Rio de Janeiro. Two recently presented him with sons to add to his total of twenty- three children. Legally speaking, more than one wife is against 'Bra- zillian law, but so far the authori- ties have smiled upon this happy dozen. Platinum blonde, Betty Cala- musa, too, has set all America gos- siping with her twelve marriages in fifteen years. Two men she re- married for a second try, making ten husbands in all, and at thirty- nine she has no regrets. "Perfect remarriages aren't rare," she as- serts. "My marriages were so per- fect they were just too good to last. Mother says she just can't understand what I'm looking fort" Betty has married G-men, Air Force heroes (two), an undertaker and a full-blooded Cherokee In- dian. Most of her ex-husbands still send her birthday and Christmas cards and some even remember her at wedding -anniversaries. `But no children!" Betty sighs. "I just never planned for any." MISSED HIM A little old lady in her seventies went to a doctor. She detailed all her ailments, real and imaginary, but seemed most concerned about a recurring dream in which she was diligently pursued by a personable young man who wanted to flirt with her. The doctor advised her how she might sleep more soundly. In a few days she returned. "Don't tell me you aren't sleeping better nowadays." said the doctor. "Oh, I'ni sleeping fine," the old lady replied, "but to tell the truth I certainly miss that young nnan1" Glv'e Them Room Thinning flowers and vegetables, especially' those that come from fine seed, is a bother but it will be well worthwhile in sturdier and better plants. With flowers this will mean earlier and bigger blooms and less lost from winds and lictvv With vegetables like carrots, beets, lettuce, etc., it will be finer flavor and mare tenderness Properly spac- ed, properly thinned vegetables are much easier to cultivate, too. If at all possible one should leave enough room between each plant so that a 'small hoe or a special long -handled cultivator can be used. These iin- plements will save hours of hand - weeding drudger). Staked Tomatoes For most gardens it is advisable to stake tomatoes. At the time of planting good stout stakes at least six feet high are driven well into the ground and within a few inches of each plant. To these the main stern of the tomato plant is loosely but securely tied. every foot or so as it grows. All side shoots are nipped off just as soon as they develop, but one must be careful not to remove tile fruit or flower clusters. This is a wetkly job during the growing season. Eventually the main stem of the tomato plant will reach the height of the stake and then it, too, is nipped off to encourage fruit to set into top flowers. When staked, to- matoes can be grown about 18 inches apart and in small gardens, around the edge of the plot, Grow Manure As soon as one part of the vegetable patch is used up (peas, spinach, radish, etc., will soon be out of the way and the ground clear), experienced gardeners make a practice of sowing some green crop like rye, oats, buckwheat, etc. This covers the ground, checks weed growth and when dug or plowed in late in the fall makes an excellent fertilizer. In addition to enriching the soil such growth also adds essential humus. Cutting Gardens Home grown flowers in season are certainly not luxuries when one remembers that one can grow liter- ally armfuls of blooms at a cost of only a few cents. And there is no reason why the average person should not grow them by the arm- ful and use them liberally as in Britain to decorate living, rooms, verandahs, etc. Where large quanti- ties are wanted for such purposes many people make it a practice grow them in rows with the vege- tables. It is much simpler to grow them in this way and there is no disfigurement to the decorative flower beds when bouquets are required. This particularly applies to such flowers as sweet peas., gladioli, marigolds, zinnias and other either trailing or straight growing things that lend them- selves to row cultivation. "Several of my friends in my old home town want me to go and live there again." "Did they tell you that?" "Oh yes. They said they want me to come back and settle." TEST YOUR iNTELLIGENCE Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. Waterloo saw the defeat of: —the Spanish Armada —Napoleon —Kaiser Wilhelm —Czar Nicholas II 2. Which of tl:e following is misspelled: — chief—sliegh —believe —receive 3. The Dodecanese Islands are in the: — Dardanelles —Atlantic Ocean —Pacific Ocean —Aegean Sea 4. The length of the Mexican -U. S. boundary is about: —500 miles —2000 miles —3000 miles —800 miles 5. Aardvarks are fond of: —shrimp —oysters —ants —legumes 6. In the 13':'le, what did Moses strike to get water: —a rock 7 Listed below are they are applied. answer. (A) Hoosier '(B) Sooner (C) Buckeye (D) Tar Heel Total your points. A score superior; 90-100, very superior. —sand —a tree — stone tablets nicknames and opposite them the states to which Match them, scoring 10 points for each correct of 0-20 is —Ohio —Oklahoma —North Carolina —Indiana poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, By Arthur Pointer NI OOP 'a 4 4 1 8 4 't 8 r 4 1 1I 1 4 1 1 1 4 9 1 1 1 4 4