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Tolerating Mies in the farm yard
is not only unsanitary and unneces-
sary but expensive. According to
the agricultural chemicals depart -
meat of Canadian Industries Lind -
ted, the tormentingattacks of flies
can reduce the milk flow of dairy
nettle by as much as 15 per cent,
• considerably more when flies are
extremely bad, Beef production
may be decreased by one-quarter
to one-half pound per day—or a to-
tal of some 30 pounds per head
during the fly season.
• * * *
To keep a farm "fly -clean", some
suggestions are offered by J. A,
Oakley, noted entomologist:
* * *
Install screens wherever neces-
sary and practical. Haul out man -
are and spread it at least once a
week. Manure is the most serious
single source of fly trouble on the
farm. Don't let fly -breeding rub-
bish accumulate. Spray animals at
least every four or five weeks dur-
ing warm weather,
* * *
For spraying buildings, 50 per
cent DDT wettable powder or lin-
dane wettable powder are reccom-
vended. But they should not be
sprayed on milking animals or live-
stock being fattened for slaughter,
he warns. Instead, a 50 per cent
methoxychlor wettable powder
should be used.
* * *
These control methods are effec-
tive with houseflies, horn flies,
stable flies and other species that
prevent cattle from grazing peace-
fully.
Flea beetles, Colorado beetles,
leafhoppers and aphids—the major
insect pests attacking the Canadian
potato crop—can be controlled with
one insecticide—DDT. Those who
prefer to dust may use a three per
tent DDT dust while those who
favor spraying have a choice of a
50 per cent DDT powder or a 25
per cent, DDT emulsion, At least
100 gallons of spray or 30 pounds
of dust per acre are recommended
in early applications. These am-
ounts should be increased in later
applications to allow for increased
foliage area.
* * ' *
A new giant cockroach one and
one-quarter inches long and half
an inch wide has invaded North
America from the tropics and may
eventually find its way to Canada.
* * *
Technically known as `Naupho-
eta cinerea,' it is called by some
the `lobster' roach because of a
lobster -like marking on its collar.
Recently, heavy infestations of; -his"'
insect were found in several food -
handling establishments in Tampa,
Florida. How long they've been '
there has not yet been established
by the city's health authorities.
* * *
The wings of the tropical pest
are shorter than the body, leaving
its edges and abdomen in view. The
color is a mottled tan with a pink-
ish cast along wing edges and col-
lar, The lobster design on the col-
lar is tan on a black background,
There is a cream colored dot on
each edge of the abdominal seg-
ments on their upper surface, On
the under surface, the abdominal
• markings are shaped like the num-
eral 7. t° * *
The apple is becoming as versa-
tile as the soybean or peanut —
thanks to chemistry. Chemists have
taken this "one a day keeps the
doctor away" fruit and have dis-
covered exactly what makes it
"tick." * * *
After laborious experiments, they
have found, for instance, that 26
different, compounds were respon-
sible for the apple's aromatic fla-
vor—no mean feat considering that
the fruit's flavoring matter repre-
sents. only 50 parts per million of
the' original juice.
,* * a:
Chemists have developed a syrup
that is trot' only good for table
use but which is used in coated
paper, cosmetics, toothpaste, tobac-
co and in milk products for infant
feeding. They've recently developed
a high-density apple juice concen-
trate -that will keep a whole year
without being frozen.
RADIO STUFF
When Groucho Marx was guest -
star on the Bing Crosby show, he
recalled, "A year ago, 1 had enough
money to cholco a horse." "What
happened."" prompted Crosby, "I
trade a slight error," Groucho ad-
mitted. "I bet on hint instead of
choking hiin." . . . Eddie Cantor
. devised a new quiz program. Your
name is selected at random • from
a local telephone directory, and- if
you're at home when Cantor calls,
he borrows twenty doliars, ... Bet-
ty Grable and the great baseball
pitcher, Dizzy Dean, once co-starr-
ed on a broadcast from a Veter-
ans' Hospital. "Say something
cute to Miss Grable," urged the
announcer. Dean fingered his col-
lar anct proposed, "I'll , show you
My curves, Miss Grable, if you'll
show me yours."
Walking upstairs requires energy
exceeding by 150 per cent the en-
ergy required to saw wood.
The Face of War—One more patrol completed. One more safe return. Pvt. Heath Matthews, 19, of
Montreal, who is with the Canadian Army unit in Korea, has just returned from a combat mission,
tired, grimy, and shaken up. This trip, he's lucky. His only injury is a bloodied nose.
The Stkkk4ip
By MAUDE NORMAN
The wind whipped in the open
car window on Rose -Ellen's flushed
cheeks.
"Serves you right, you little
fool," she muttered, "for taking
things for granted, but he said he'
couldn't wait to see me and all
the time he was still in love with
Kate."
She had always loved Steve Wil -
sat and had started writing to him
when Kate was too busy with her
.ti1k44o3c.,,fxiends.-to.•.u6.other .. Gray-.
dually the tone of his •letters had
changed.
Then when he announced he was
coming home. Kate's interest had
revived, but Rose -Ellen remained
confident she was the one he now
cared for.
But why, oh why, did she have td'
be so impulsive and greet him as
she had?
Running out to her car as she
had and driving wildly through
town wasn't helping any.
She was approaching the city's
outskirts, when as she stopped for
4,140,
a red light the door on her side
of the car opened, a hard round
object pressed against her side,
a voice grated.
"Move over, sister—fast!"
Rose -Ellen opened her mouth
but a vicious jab turned the in-
tended scream into a gasp.
"Keep quiet, sister, and you
won't get htirt"
Rose -Ellen had always pictured
bandits, tf she thought of them
at all. as teazel -faced or beetling-
browed. flashily dressed, This one
looked like an ordinary citizen.
"Say, you're a slick chic!:," he
said,
"Why did you get in my car?"
"Now, don' tell me you're beau-
tiful but dumb," he mocked, "1
got in because 1 needed a car. VII
tell you the story of my life
tater. Say, you've been cryittg,
ain't 'e1ta. What's the platter? Boy
friend give you the brush-off?"
Fear gave courage—and inspira-
tion. "I'm not worrying about him
--now," she murmured. "We were
always quarreling. He wanted to
marry and settle down, but I
wanted excitement—and adventure.
t ran away from hitt and you carie
along. Don't you think I should
know your name?"
"Sonne call me Dan," he smirked.
"You're so dark and romantic
looking."
Basking in hen admiration, he
wars alert enough to greats her hind
as she opened her' handbag.
"Whatcha got in there?"
"Nothing but powder and lip-
stick, and my wallet,
"O.K. It ain't that I don't trusts.
cha, Baby, but I gotta be careful."
"Don't be silly," she smiled, busy
with her lip -stick and powder -puff.
"I'm having too much fun to do,
such a thing. Will you take me to
a real night-club and btiy me beau-
tiful clothes like they do in the
movies ?"
"You betcha — clothes — all the
money you want!"
She gave him an excited little
laugh and nestled against him, urg-
ing, "Faster -go faster."
The car leaped ahead. Suddenly
a siren sounded behind them.
"Dammit," he swore. "The cops
and nee with no license"
"But I have mine. Pull' over and
I'll take the wheel. Don't worry, •
we'll only get a ticket. 4k
"`No tricks," he warned. `Re
member, I've got this gat handy."
Rose -Ellen felt the bandit's tense
body relax as the trooper handed
back her license, then tense again
as instead of the expected ticket,
a revolver appeared in his hand.
She gave a gasp of relief, then
heard the trooper's shout as some-
thing struck her side and darkness
descended.
Rose -Ellen held court the next
day with Steve, her parents and
Kate her admiring 'audience.
"Thank goodness, the bullet just
grazed your side," her mother ar•
ranged the pillows more comfort-
ably, "and it is high enough that
it won't prevent your wearing a
bathing suit.
"But you need not have been
hurt at all if you hadn't misunder-
stood when I told ' Kate I was
happy because she told me ..you
loved me," Steve said..
"Tell us, Rose -Ellen," Kate ask-
ed curiously, "How did you tip
that trooper off?"
"Oh," she answered sleepily, "I
knew a State Trooper was stationed
on that side road just before Route
135 on the alert for speeders. When
I was supposed to be fixing .ny
face I wrote 'Help, Bandit' across
my driver's license with lip -stick,
then coaxed my would-be boy
friend to speed past."
ONLY REAL FRIEND
An old Irishman collapsed in the
street and a crowd gathered, all
trying to help and each making
suggestions. One, Maggie Riley,
kept shouting, "Give the poor man
whisky," but little attention was
paid to her.
Then the agonized voice of the.
man rose above the din: "Will the
lot of yet hould your tongues and
let Maggie Riley speak!"
A good paint job enhances the
value of a house by 12 per cent,
real estate appraisers say.
Orchids In Britain
Favourite flower of the British
Government today is the orchid,
for British -grown orchids are most
important dollar -earners, sought
after by enthusiasts all over the
world,
Growers in that country have
unproved the orchid almost as
much as they have the wild rose,
and whereas in the old days enor-
mous sums were paid to intrepid
collectors who sought ram orchids
in remote places, today, thanks to
hybrid breeding, collecting un-
known orchids is not profitable.
The most common orchid is the
Early Purple, which flowers from
early spring until late summer in
damp meadows and by streams. •
Shakespeare loved this plant, and
called it "Long Purples" and "Dead
Man's Fingers."
A rare specimen which grows in
the south and south-east counties
of England is the Man Orchid.
The most lovely pecitnen, how-
ever, is now almost 'extinctin the -
countryside. It is the Lady's Slipper
Orchid, and a hundred years ago
it flourished itt some of the woods
and forests, but so many admirers
have uprooted it and tried to trans-
plant it to their gardens that it is
only occasionally found.
A modern orchid nursery is a
warmed greenhouse where there are
Getting Wild Honey From A Bee Tree.
1 have received a number of
great thrills in a long life, such as
the notification that I had .qualified
for niy doctorate, the reception in
New York harbour in late Decem-
ber 1918 after the first World War,
the citation from the President on
receiving an honorary degree from
Harvard, but, believe me, these
thrills are all in class 13 as com-
pared to the one I got when I
first found a bee tree unaided.
The finding had an amusing se-
quel, Tlie hole was about eight feet
up the bole, too far to reach but
near enough for the bees to be
very conscious of an intruder. I
started proudly to blaze my ini-
tials on the tree when 1 became
conscious of a roar and the air
seemed to grow dark above me. 1
turned and ran just in time, nor did
I return to finish blazing the tree.
Later, I related the event to George
Smith who covered me with con-
tumely. That a pian should find
a tree and then be driven off by
the bees before he could blaze it,
Smith regarded as a disgrace. He
assured me that he would take up
the tree himself without benefit of
veil .pr gloves.
I knew better than to argue, but
on the appointed tine when he, my
brother and I went to take up the
tree, I brought two veils and two
pair of gauntlets. When we got
to the tree I set about collecting
dry= stuff for a smudge, a natter
which Smith said was quite unnec-
essary. I was downhill from the
tree when he went to work. I
heard the axe fall perhaps' a half
a dozen times, and then there was
a siren -like • ,ail . . . and Smith
carie charging through the woods,
a stream of angry bees behind him
like a comet's tail. That was one
swarm which defeated the intrepid
Smith, He borrowed my brother's
net and gloves, my brother went
off and hid in th'e woods, and with
net and glove protection and a
smudge as well, we cut down the
tree and took up the swarm. We
got sixty pounds of honey . .
Either wild honey is more tasty
than the domestic variety or one's
exertions have made it seem so.
My guests have always agreed that
my wild honey is More aromatic
than any one can buy. I imagine
the answer is that strained wild
honey is a blend, while domestic
honey is generally of one variety.
The taste of honey varies widely
rows of conical glass flasks, as in
a chemist's laboratory. In these
flasks are the infant orchids, lying
on a bed of agar -agar, a gelatine
made from seaweed which provides
just the nourishment they need.
When they are a quarter of an
inch high the orchids are trans-
planted into pots containing sphag-
num moss, root soil' from Certain
ferns, and fibre. Several more trans -
plantings take place until finally,
in the sixth to eight years, the
orchids bloom.
First orchid to be brought into
Britain was admired not for its
beauty, but for its use in the
kitchen. It was Vanilla, the pods of
which yield the familiar flavouring.
according to the flowers tron't
which it is made. Clover honey,
foolishly the most prized, is the
most insipid. Golden rod honey is
golden yellow and spicy. Buck-
wheat honey is, if anything, too
pungent and heavy as molasses.
The honey of Provence, made from,
wild thyme, has a special piney
taste. In straining wild honey no
attempt is made to separate the
varieties, and the result is a blend,
varying somewhat according to tree
or season, but always more inter-
esting than the domestic variety.—
From "The Bee Hunter," by
George Harold Edgell. •
J1NMY SC roc
LESStK
By Rev.
R. Barclay
B.A.. S.D.
Samuel, Judge and Prophet
1 Samuel 7:5-17
Warren,
Memory Selection: Prepare your
hearts into the Lord, and serve
him only. 1 Samuel 7:3
Happy is that people which is
blessed with wise and devout lea-
ders! Quietly the prophet Samuel
worked among the people. Great
public appearances were not made.
But the fact that God was with
him in his service as a judge con-
stantly reminded men of their emp-
ty lives. As Last the fruit of his
labour was seen as men and women
here and there began to weep after
the Lord. Then its a great mass
meeting he called upon Israel to
separate themselves from their
idols. They must go through the
valley of humiliation and contri-
tion for sin. Then he called upon
theta to dedicate themselves for-
ever to God and his service. Even-
tually the fierce Philistines saw that
God was with Israel. A strange
thing was seen; a greedy, pagan
nation in its diplomatic dealings ap-
parently became even generous,
turning over territories which were
not asked. A military nation re-
spected the rights of a smaller,
poorly armed" people, because it was
evident that God was with them.
We believe that religion and piety
are still the best securities of a
nation.
As we review Samuel's religious
and political influence we see the
growth of a new unity among the
various Hebrew tribes. Even as
sin, gives birth to misunderstand-
ings and conflicts between individ-
uals, it is the first cause of war
between nations. How can count-
ries understand each other when
they are so blinded by selfish
passions? But let the Word of God
find access to men's hearts and it
will, bear fruit in international
unity.
Sure need Samuels today; men
who are honest, unselfish and God-
fearing. Such leadership will do
more for us than a limitless supply
of atomic bombs. God give us
such men!
Ecssy Does it—The world's largest
as it slips into place over a small
Most expensive road per mile
link the cities of La Guaria and
pre -stressed concrete bridge span makes a spectacular picture
valley to be crossed by Venezuela's new $15,000,000 highway.
in the world, the Autopista will extend 10 and one half miles to
Caracas, savingalmost an hour driving time.
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By Arthur Pointer