Zurich Herald, 1953-02-12, Page 7Electric Heating.
For Eskimo Igloos
The saline Eskimos who bought
iceboxes are about to get another
modern invention.
Only this time the developers
hope Eskimos won't be so in-
genious in adapting •the product
to daily require:net* above the
Arctic Circle.
"They use refrigerators to
store food so it won't freeze," ad-
mitted Tex Ziegler, a pilot who
has spent the past seven years
flying everything from pressure
cookers to ogruk skins hi and
out of the frozen north,
Mr. Ziegler, in his small plane,
arranged to carry a supply of
radiant heat panels and a couple
of brand new combination light
and beat fixtures called thermo-
lites. Destination: Kotzebue, an
Alaskan village some 50 miles
above the Arctic Circle.
This seems a radical change
for an igloo formerly heated by
burning seal oil.. or maybe wil-
low branches. Yet one of the
overhead heat -light fixtures is
earmarked for the one -room sod
igloo of an Eskimo woman.
"She can pay for it by making
Eskimo dolls," Mr, .Ziegler ex-
plained. "I can sell those to post
exchanges, Electric heating will
do her a world of good."
Electricity is provided from
the town's generator.'The cost of
seal oil being what it is today,
Mr. Ziegler figures the Eskimos
will regard electric heating as a
saving.
"The electriglass heating pan-
els will go in Archie Ferguson's
house first," the flying 'trader
explained. "He used to run the
trading post in Kotzebue. I need
skins from him anyway."
Mr, Ziegler traded most of the
refrigerators for reindeer skins.
The Eskimos promptly discover -
cd that the insulated boxes were
ideal .for thawing out meat.
Pressuxe cookers have become a
popular kitchen item in the
Pot Ro Always Gets
DX DOROTHY MADDOX
REEF pot roast is a timely menu suggestion. With good supplies
of beef in the markets, most beef eats, particularly the chuck
and rump, are economical meat buys. Other pot roasts may be the
boneless sirloin tip or round steak, cut a least 2 inches thick. Look
for a good covering of fat and streaks of fat in the lean of the beef
for a more juicy roast.
In purchasing a pot roast, allow 'Jpound of a bone -in roast or
Ye pound of boned roast for each serving. Because the leftover pot
roast Is so good and has so many uses, you will probably want to
purchase enough for at least two meals.
Good seasoning, slow, .moist -heat cooking and colorful vegetable
accompaniments are the basis for a fine beef pot roast, Cover the
meat with seasoned flour and brown thoroughly in a little fat in a
heavy kettle or a roasting pan. When browned on both sides, place
the meat on a trivet or rack and add Ye cup of water, a thin sliced
onion and 2 bay leaves.
Cover and cook either on low surface heat or .in a moderate oven
(350 degrees F.), After 2 hours cooking, add prepared vegetables,
such as quartered onion, scraped carrots, strips of green pepper and
pared, whole, small potatoes.
Cover and continue cooking 45 to 50 minutes. When ready to
serve, remove the meat and vegetables to a warmed platter and
thicken the meat broth with flour to make a rich flavorful gravy,
Here is a variation of the conventional pot roast and vegetable
combinations;
CREOLE POT ROAST
(Yield: 6-8 servings)
Three pounds beef pot roast, 2 tablespoons fat, 11;2 cups tornato
puree, 1r9 cup olive liquid, 2 cups sliced .onions, a cup sliced stuffed
olives.
Melt the fat in a heavy skillet, Brown the meat well on both
Ades. Add the tomato puree and olive liquid.. Top the meat with
onions and olives. Cover tightly anti cools over low heat for 23/2
earty Welcome
Savory pot roast with vegetables, an ideal cold weather -Heal.
hours. Serve with hot fluffy rice in true Creole style.
If gravy is made with the pot roast use only 1 tablespoon hour
mixed with 1/4 cup cold water for each cup of broth. A teaspoon o;
curry powder mixed with 1/4 cup water, a few shakes of pepper
sauce, and a dash of Worcestershire sauce will give added evidence
of the Southern influence.
sparsely populated area too. Es-
kimo women use those in the
accepted fashion.
The igloos arourd Kotzebue
are made of sod blocks instead
of ice blocks, so for the time
being, at least, there is no pos-
sibility of a gullible Eskimo turn-
ing his house into a puddle by
installing wall radiant heating.
"They like to keep up with
the Joneses the same as we do,"
said the former soldier, who has
his own trading post at Igloo,
halfway between Nome and
Kotzebue. "From seal oil to ra-
diant heating isn't as far-fetched
as it sounds."
LOON WHAT FRESH WATER
CAN DO DURING WINTER
A simple thing like fresh water
can put an extra 10 pounds. of
gain on your pigs this winter, so
tests at Iowa State College show.
Three bunches of pigs were
put on test for 40 days last win-
ter when temperatures averaged
16 degrees.
One bunch got water by the
oldernethod-it was just poured
out to thein each day, and usual-
ly froze a few minutes after it
hit the trough.
Two other bunches were serv-
"But i thought your name was
Mrs. Gosbatg; Daddy calls you
that!"
ed in style - Iran automatic,
heated warterers. They had
water whenever they wanted it.
The bunch that had just ice
most of the day gained 49.1
pounds per pig, while • the two
bunches drinking from heated
waterers averaged 58 and 60.2
pounds per head.
Did the warmth of the water
make any difference? No, say the
researchers. As long as you keep
it from freezing, that's enough.
Water will help put cheaper
gains on your pigs too, they say.
Pigs that had water all the time
not only ate more feed than the
others, but they also made more
gains per pound of feed eaten,
So there's a double pay-off.
FEED EXTRA SUPPLEMENT
WHEN YOU HOG -OFF FIELDS
Corn and soybeans make good
feed for hogging -off, but you still
need to feed some protein sup-
plement at the same time, tests
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
show.
It's the sane story for peanuts
and corn planted together. They
give good hogging -off gains, but
the pigs still need that extra sup-
plement.
But the pasture tests told a
different story. When growing
pigs were on good ladino clover,
they didn't need any extra pro-
tein.
Boils down to thi,: '1'hev
need proteins, either in or with
feed.
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TEST YOUR INTEL!. GENCE
Score your self 10 points for each correct answer in the first five
questions.
1. One of the following men is not a piaywrig'ht. Can you name
hien?
-Elmer Rice -Norman Thomas -Robert Sherwood
-Maxwell Anderson
2. Coffee is ground from which of the following?
-Pollen -Berries. Roots -Leaves
3. Which of the following words does not match the other three
used to describe parts of the eye?
-Iris -Retina -Fouea -Ventricle
4. Thomas Jefferson's home was called
-Monticello -Mount Vernon -The Hermitage
-Shangri-la
5. Which of the following boxers won a decision over Joe Louis?
-Randy Turpin -Maxie Rosenbloom
-Max Schmeling -Sugar Ray Robinson
6. Match the following canals with the bodies of water which they
connect. Score yourself 10 points for each correct combination,
(A) Suez Canal -Aegean Sea and Ionian Sea
(B) Panama Canal --=Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
(0) Sault St. Marie -Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
(D) Corinth Canal -Lake Superior and Lake Huron
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NEW TEST WILL SHOW
IF COW IS PREGNANT
A quick, easy -to -run pregnan-
cy test for dairy cows has been
developed by Oregon State Col-
lege dairy scientists.
While they admit there are
bugs to be ironed out (a cow
will test positive for three weeks
or so after calving), the test
proved 91% accurate when tried
on 136 cows b the college herd.
Some animals were tested suc-
cessfully within 10 days after
service.
A urine sample is needed in
making the test. The sample is
treated with a solution contain-
ing this jaw breaker -- sodium
benzenoneindophenol.
If pregnant, the cow's urine
turns green, stays that color for
5 to 10 minutes. If she's not preg-
nant, the urine color reappears
within a matter of seconds after
the initial color change.
When the test is developed to
a point where any dairyman can
use it, it should cut heavy losses.
"The number of dairy cattle
sent to slaughter as sterile and
non -pregnant, but which are ac-
tually with calf, amount to 10%
of all dairy animals butchered,"
says J. II. Byers, one of the re-
searchers who developed the test.
FEIiI9 COWS SILAGE AS
TIM ONLY ROUGHAGE?
It they have to, dairy rattle
can der their job of producing
calves and milk, with silage as
the only roughage, In tether
words, they don't necessarily
have to have hay or pasture.
In tests conducted by the Bur-
eau of Dairy' Industry, t1.S.D.A...
eight grade Holstein and Jersey
heifers were split up. One bunch
was .raised on only silage and
grain, the other got a ret;ulat
grain ration p1131 alfalfa and 1103
othy hay.
After i'resltenieg, the fiot. teals
on silage produced 12,141) lbs,
milk, compared tt ith 11,406 fol.
Holsteins on regular rations. ,ler•
seys on silage made 10,316 pound:
compared with 9,585, on three
makings daily, Kir, days.
Off -hand, you'd conclude' trona
these records that it's better to
feed silage and no hay. 13ut folks
running the tests have this to
say: When corn silage is the only
roughage, you have to feed more
grain to boost the total digestible
nutrients.
One other thing -carotene i
essential for a cow to produce
normal calves. Silage is low in
e.crotene, so there'., a chance that
feeding it as the only roughage
might cut down the call crop.
FEED YOUR TREES HAY?
Don't- give up on those non-
productive apple trees just yet
-not until you've tried mulching
with high -nitrogen hay.
It works like a tonic; restores
vigor, gives trees an the plant
food they need, and in just the
right balance.
USDA horticulturists tried the
idea first at Beltsville, Md., on
some 18 -year-old York trees that
were on their last legs -pretty
sorry looking.
C. P. Harley, in charge of the
experiment, used orchard -grass,
but says that you can use brome.
alfalfa -any meadow grass. .Just
be sure to fertilize that grass
well, so that the nitrogen con-
tent is high. Harley put on 300
pounds of, ammonium nitrate per
acre.
At heading time, just when the
steins Carried the biggest
amounts of nitrogen and other
plant nutrients, Harley cut the
grass, and spread 200 pounds of
air-dry hay under each tree. He
saw results quickly -foliage be-
came dark green and thick, fruit
spurs increased, and the trees
started bearing.
Unmulched trees still limped
along, even when Harley gave
then commercial fertilizer equal
in plant food value to nutrients
in the hay.
"We've been using this meth-
od of handling trees for several
years, and the response Inas been
nothing short of amazing," says
Harley.
"Trees on their .lu,1. legs that
would not respond to other treat-
ments, mode remark able co1110-
backs.
"It's the best medicine that
we know of."
WONDER DttUGS I)ON"i'
MAKE MO]tE EGGS
Anti -biotic drugs may make
chicks grow faster, but they
won't make fens lay ens. more
ego.
That':: what J. S. Carver and
L. R. Berg have totted out at
Washington State College. They
ran three tests with White Leg-
horn pullets, and drew blanks
on three scores:
The anti -biotics didn't raise
egg production: they didn't make
the birds any heavier: and they
didn't cut down death losses.
And when the pullets were
related to produce hatching eggs.
anti -biotics in the feed failed to
snake any inlprrtant difference
in hatchability of the eggs.
This apparently means that
there's a limit to what even won"
der drugs will do. It looks like
your hens will do just as well
on a good, standard laying ra-
tion as on one that's fortified
with drugs.
RIGHT LIGHT BULB
HELPS EGG GRADES
The kind of electric light you
use when you carton or case
eggs can make money for you
or lose it.
That's because some lights
show up tinted eggs better than
other lights.
There's nothing wrong 'witty
tinted eggs -that isn't the .point.
But customers, whether they buy
from you at retail or wholesale,
like their eggs to look alike -all
white, all brown, or all tinted.
They'll pay more for a uniform
pack,
A daylight fluorescent bulb is
the best Iight for showing up
tints, according to tests made at
Cornell University. Next best is
a white fluorescent, and after
that cool, white, deluxe bulb.
Here's a tip: Shade the bulb,
and hang it low enough so none
of the light shines in your eyes.
Catches and .Bands
Geese by Hundreds
On November 22, Jasper Wil-
son Miner, who was in charge
of banding Ducks and Geese at
the Jack Miner Sanctuary, Kings-
ville, Ontario, made a record
catch of Canada Geese when he
caught 844.
251 had been banded in other
years.
189 had been banded previous-
ly in the fall of 1952 and 404 had
never been 'banded previously,
making a total of 844 in the
catch, Each bird was banded
with a Jack Miner band which
contains Jack Miner's name and
address, date and serial number.
No Wonder; Man in .Brixton
was going bald. "Move to
Hampstead," a skin specialist ade
vised him. He did and his hair
grew again. Said the doctor: "I
found he had been living next
door to his mother-in-law,"
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LESSON
By Rev, R. Barclay Warrens
S.A., B.D.
Possessions : ,Help our Uiadraunees
Matthew 19 :16 -26
Memory Selections Take lir'
and beware of covetousness: foe
a man's life consisteth not in (oleo
abundance of the things which iso
possesseth, Luke 12:1a`
In the Bible we read, "Give
me neither poverty nor riche
feed me with food convenient fors
me: lest I be full, and deny theee
and say, Who is the Lord? or lea
T be poor, and steal, and take
the name of my God in vain.'
Proverbs 30 : 8, 9. Some one Mute
said, "It is no disgrace to be poor;
but it is inconvenient." Hcwever
a man's character is determiner,
not by what he has but by hie
attitude toward what he has"
""They that will be rich fail
into temptation and a snare, and
into many foolish and hurtful.
lusts, which drown men in deg.-
truction and perdition. For the
love of money is the root of all
evil." 1 Tim. 6: 9, 10. The rice,
young ruler in our lesson failed
in the most crucial hour of hie
life not because he was rich but:
because his heart was so set upon:
his possessions that he could not:
give them up for Jesus' sake,
He was a clean respectable young
man but the coin was so close to
his eye that it hindered him from
seeing the value of following
Jesus at any cost. We have
no record that he ever altered
his decision. He gained the world
but lost his soul.
"How much did he leave?" ask-
ed one who had just been in.••
formed of the death of a masst.
reputed to be rich. "He left K
all," was the reply. There are nes
pockets in a shroud.
We are only stewards in thio:
life. Let us use what we have
to the glory of God. Let the rick
remember that "It is easier for
the camel to go through the eye
of a needle than for a rich many
to enter into the kingdom of
God." Let all others remember
that when the disciples asked,
"Who then can be saved?", Jesue
replied, "With men this is im-
possible; but' with God all things,
are possible." The salvation pro-
vided by our Lord Jesus Christ:
is adequate for all.
LONG RUN
An electric motor to be used
in' the first atomic subrnaririo
engine has been operating for €a
year and a half without a break-
down, the Westinghouse Electric
Corporation reports. The motor
has been sealed in a tin contain-
er to test its performance during
the eighteen months.
(Upside down to prevent peeking)
Substance Over Shadow -Mrs. Herbert E. Smith (right) spends a`
few moments with her five-year-old daughter, Linda Carole,
in Memphis, Tenr„ before the child carried out rr court
order by receiving rabies injections. Linda had been bitten by a
rabid dog but her parents refused medical aid because, they said,.
"God has cured her." A Memphis judge ordered treatment. Na
one contested the action.