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Zurich Herald, 1953-06-11, Page 3UNItY SC ; MI�I Old . LESSJN'r Principles e. Christian Stewardship 2 Corinthians 9 Memory Selection: Every num according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudg- ingly, or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corin- thians 9:7, The church is often criticized because of its frequent appeals for money. But how little the church receives compared with what is spent for liquor and to- bacco! The Anglican Council for Social Service in its report to the General Synod last November estimated that the costs and loss- es of drinking in Canada for the 10 -year period was $4,586,273,000. Of this $1,922,233,000 went to the provinces and Dominion govern- ment as revenue, leaving a net cost to the people of $2,664,040,- 000, We believe the churches use the comparatively insignifi- cant amount which they receive for more worthwhile purposes In the instance of our lesson Paul was appealing for a good offering for the needy Christians at Jerusalem. The poor people of Macedonia had responded most generously. They first gave themselves to the Lord. What would the church at rich Cor- inth do? Paul had predicted well of them but he sent Titus in ad- vance just in case they had ne- glected to respond to this appeal. In his exhortation he cited the greatest example of giving: "Ye know 4he grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he be- came poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." Someone has suggested that there are five levels of giving. 1, The "Tip" level- Those who give a small coin to the Lord, the same way that they tip the waitress. It is just a little hat- ter of appreciation for the Lord. 2, T h e "Entertainment" level - those who refuse to pledge and give only when they come to church. They give as they give to a theatre, or the ball borne. They give when they go. 3. The "Emotional" level- those who give only when they are emo- tionally stirred. They refuse to give when their feelings are hurt, They may give once or twice a year according to feel- ings. 4. The "Promise" level - Those who pledge but neglect • the promise. They never or sel- dom pay up. 5. The "Bible" level- those who give systemati- cally and proportionately. Here is cheerful, joyous, regular giv- ing, week by week- both to their local church needs and -to the wider work of the church. God loves the cheerful giver. Something Will Grow No matter what sort of a spot we have there are some things that will grow. In gardening one hears much of fine, rich foam' and sunshine, and while those conditions may be ideal for a lot of plants, there are others that actually prefer a location far toss favorable. In poor dusty soil, for instance, there are hardy flowers tike portulaca, alyssum, zinnias; and many more that will make a good showing. Then the dark corners near walls or under fairly dense shades are ideal places for begonias and pansies and certain fern -tike flowers that shrink away from the bright lid i3s Add T< fail' DOROTHY MADDOX E all turn to salads when the weather gets warm. If salads include some form of protein such as cheese, eggs, fish or meat, they can be used as main dishes for luncheon. klere are two main -dish salads and a delicious buttermilk cote slaw. CRISPY CHEESE BALLS (Makes 8 balls, about X1/ merle`s in diameter), One package (3 ounces) cream cheese, 1/4 to 1/2 cup candy -coated puffed wheat. Form cheese into balls and roll in cereal. Serve with pineapple, orange, or other fruit salads. For an attractive salad, center 2 or 3 crispy cheese balls on lettuce or other salad greens. Arrange fruit sections in swirls around the cheese balls, BUTTERMILK COLE SLAW Shred a head of crisp cabbage very thin. Then slice thin 2 small onions, 5 or 6 stuffed green olives, and add with 10 capers to the cabbage. Salt to taste. Dressing: Use 1 teaspoon salt, pepper to taste, 1A teaspoon paprika, a very little curry powder, 1 teaspoon caper juice, 1 tea- spoon Worcestershire sauce, and ice cup mayonnaise. Next edd just enough buttermilk to make it as thick as cream. Toss dressing and salad until thoroughly mixed. TOSSED MACARONI SALAD WITH BLEU -CHEESE DRESSING (Makes 6 servings) One tablespoon salt, 3 quarts boiling water, 8 ounces elbow macaroni (2 cups), 1/2 medium-sized head lettuce, shredded, .1/4 bunch chicory, broken in pieces, 2 medium-sized tomatoes, cut in wedges, 2 tablespoons chopped onion, 1/3 cup chopped celery, 1 green pepper, cut in thin strips, 11/2 -ounce package bleu cheese, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1/e cup salad oil, tl2 teaspoon meat sauce, ee teaspoon garlic salt, 11/2 teaspoons salt, ie teaspoon freshly ground pepper, dash paprika. Add 1 tablespoon salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradually add macaroni so that water continues to boil. Cook uncovered, stirring d Value Salad These crispy cheese balls will turn any kind of fruit a main dish for an attractive summer meal. occasionally, until tender. Drain in colander. Rinse with cold water and drain again. Chill. In a large salad bowl, combine chilled macaroni, lettuce, chicory, tomato wedges, onion, celery and green pepper; toss lightly but thoroughly. Chill. Crumble bleu cheese. In a small bowl, combine bleu cheese and remaining ingredients; mix thoroughly. Add bleu cheese dressing to chilled salad; mix lightly but thoroughly. salad into sun. Even sogg corners have their favorites and poor wind- swept rocky slope s. Rugged climates, too, are no handicap. Indeed in some northern 'gar- dens are grown the very finest of vegetables and the brightest of flowers. Away up or rather down on the northern tundras in the summer time the ground is aflame with bright bloom. In any good Canadian seed cata- logue will be listed flowers and vegetables that will thrive in unusual places and it will pay to study these special likes if we are to do the best with unusual locations, Hot W'eat1x r Hints The wise gardener will change his methods when the days turn hot. With the lawn he will cut less frequently, and not so short, and he will usually let the clip- pings lie where they fall to form a bit of protecting mulch. In the flower and vegetable garden, even if no weeds have been allowed to grow, he will continue a light cultivation once -a week or every ten days, to create what is known as a. dust mulch - which will pat e v evaporation of moisture •from the soil. Before going on holidays it is an excellent plan to go over flower and vegetable gardens lightly with grass clippings or similar material to conserve the moisture. If necessary and pos- sible one should water thorough- ly •thd'night before the final pre - holiday cultivation. Still Time There is still time for a show of flowers and a fine ,yield of vegetables. In fact one can go on sowing all sorts of seeds and setting out plants right up to July in many parts of Canada and still get good results. With a bit of luck in the weather, mostly in the way of showers, growth is very rapid during the extraor- dillarly long hours of sunlight we have in June, To catch up experienced gardeners will use a little extra care with these late started gardens. They will make sure the soil is well cultivated and enriched where at all pos- sible with chemical fertilizer or manure, They will thin seed- lings to give them plenty of room. With certain flowers and veg- etables that require a long sea- son to bloom or mature they will use well star t ed plants, watering carefully and perhaps shading from the hot sun for a few days after they are set out, `haY ------ 7. ;ruined SSWORD 8, Typo anemone 0. Slipped 10. '3 � 1l. 'Years aS' on amnia 'lof one's lino 16. Silk fabric """'^"""'1"^' 11, • wlttYpers'o Ai I,OSS pt1't+'' 20, Moisten A. Droop 4. Speedily 0.Ilenith reantr. 12, sick 13. 20148 devil 14, 'Haul 15. Sign of a'ftlitioci 17. (brined the 18 Beverage 10. 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This contention is borne 'out by the Department ,of Agricul- ture at Ottawa. Here is their dope. r, Pasture areas improved by re- seeding and fertilizing can be kept in good condition and better returns secured from them by grazing with mixed sheep and cattle than by sheep or cattle alone, judging by the :average of seven years' results at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. This seven - year experiment showed that a pasture treated with 10 tons of manure per acre every four years, and grazed with both sheep and cattle, had a carrying capacity 23 per cent greater than an adjoining field given a similar application of manure but grazed with sheep alone. Compared with another adjoining field of permanent pas- ture, receiving no manure and grazed by sheep &lone, the in C'r'ease was 50 per Cent. On 0 iourt h adjacent field, not matured but fertilized with 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia per neve each year plus 300 pounds of superphosphate and 75 pounds of muriate of potash applied every four years. mixe•t grazing gave an increase of 4. or cent over the rnsuured field grazed with sheep alone; 6.0 pet cent over a similarly fertilized field grazed with steer's alone, and 74 per cent more than liar' untreated field, t. 4. Each of these &'ids consisted of four acres. fn 101.1118 of actual meat produced, the unheated field showed 1.59 pounds Average dearly gain in weight ty the sheep graved on it. The immured field gl axed by sheep aloe( pro- duced a gain of 10)2 polltds. The ln,^enured field gr eed by sheep and cattle produced 0. gain of 126 pounds for the sheep and 1.45 pounds for the steers. r s. The ler- till:cel field produce a gain of 152 pounds for the sheep and 165 pounds for the sieers. A field ive•r1 II!** OalOi'trr':l2- rnmit nod ,;`'71"' 1 by 1;re't's' alone' produced a gain of 248 pounds for the steers, still below either of 'the mixed -grazed fields in total meat production. All gains are based on 150 days of graz- ing. P. E. Sylvestre and S. B. Wil- liams, of the Animal Husbandry Division at the Farm, state: "Grazing with cattle and sheep resulted in a definite increase over grazing with sheep alone, This was not only due to the greater number of stock carried on that pasture but also to the higher daily gains of the lamb in the mixed -grazed fields. There was a better utilization of the grass available. Little of the herbage was noticed going to seed in the mixed grazed .fields, while there was considerable waste on that account in the fields grazed by sheep alone. Thus the mixed -grazed fields did not require clipping. The quality of t1 ' sward was also improved. The mixture of clovers and grasses was considered almost ideal in the mixed -grazed fields while thele was little improve meet in the others. "A certain amount err cars must be exercised, however, ire the proportion of sheep to cattle Three ewes and their lambs to one two year-old steer gave ex. cellent results." Considerable interest has arisen in recent years in the possibilities of chemical thinning 01 tree fruits, particularly, applee. In vestigations are being carried on at Ottawa and at var'ioue branch stations. At ,Sulnnlerland the sodium salt of dinitro ortho cresol and certain hormone ma terials have been reasonably of fective. The standard method of applying these sprays has been with the -conventional sprayer and hand spray guns. 1,1smg this method, about 1.5 pints of sodium dinitro cresolatc per 100 gallont• of water are applied to the tree the full -bloom stage as a drench, ing spray. Tests have also shown that apples can be thinned jut, as effectively with conc'entlate as with hand Sprayers, and that the amount of sodium dinitro ereso• late required is approximateie 15 pints per acre. This, diluted with 100 gallons at water gives an application of about two gal' tons per tree. Using a hormone spray o.f alpha naphthalene acetic acid, 72 grams of hormone pet a01'c gave satisfactory I'0suif.s. ' Dltlltnliics arise. however, t. the use of these chemicals. The dinitros ase caustic and burn 111, floral parts and leaves sc'verele While the hormone spray may evltise e t'C1'e di torition and dwarfing of the foliage. Recent reports indicate that delayed ap- plications of hormones up to four weeks beyond the calyx stage would reduce this injury, Investigations are under way at Ottawa to determine whether delayed sprays will reduce the injuries arising from these sprays, and at/the same time give effective thinning of the fruit, Results so far, indicate that with certain of the hormones, al least, delayed spraying i$ a pos- sibility. The Vast Amazon The Sea River (Amazon) has eleven hundred known tributar- ies. Ten of them are larger than the Rhine. Seven are a thousand miles long. The Madeira is three thousand miles long and collects ninety tributaries of its own be- fore it joins the Amazon. Stand- ing where they join you can just make out the other shore of the Madeira but you cannot see across the Amazon... . Place the mouth of the Ama- zon at New York and its arms -would reach ten into. Canada and down into Mexico and almost to California. Straighten out the kinks, and the smaller end would stretch twelve hundred miles out into the Pacific. (It seems unbelievable, but figure it for yourself. The breadth of the con- tinent is twenty-eight hundred miles; the length of the Ama- zon, according to corrected sur- veys, a little aver four thousand miles.) All Europe could be placed within the Amazon basin and have room left for half a dozen Japans. The Amazon is not satisfied with Brazil. It sends its feelers far up into Bolivia, Peru, Ecua- dor, Colombia and Venezuela and the Amazon basin includes gen- erous portions of these nations. The sources of the great river are high Andean lakes only eighty miles from the Pacific coast. -- From "The Amazing Amazon," by Willard Price. ILLITERACY If you live on this planet, it's 3 to 2 you are illiterate. There are 1,200,000,000 totally illiterate people in the world. New Mercantile ank Acquires Property The Mercantile Bank of Cana- da, chartered by Act of Parlia- ment on March 31, 1953, has ac- quired the Hanson Building, 253 St. James Street West, as tempor- ary Head Offices and banking quarters. The bank has also bought lapid and buildings on the north-west corner of St. Janes Street and Victoria Square, where it will erect a modern head office build- ing at a future date. The announcement of these property purchases was made by Mr. Henri Moquette, in behalf of the Mercantile Bank's proviclonal directorate. The provisional Canadian dir- ectors are Senator P. H. Boutfard of Quebec, and the Messrs. Ar- thur Cross, Montreal industri- alist, and .; , B. Carswell, promin- ent consulting engineer of Van • couver. The Victoria. Square site, occu- pying a frontage of 177 feet on the Square and 130 feet on St..,j mes Street, is at present occupied by several buildings, the largest of which is known as Dale douse and was formerly the head office building of the Dominion Textile Company. When the site becomes aye ;t- able on the expiration of lease, the first unit of the Mercantile Bank's Bead Office building wilt be constructed there. Plan tor this unit, and for subsequent ad- ditions which will cover the entire ground area, have been drawn b, Messrs. Lawson and Betts, Archi- tects, of Montreal. During the interval before the new building is erected, the Mer- cantile Bank will utilize the Han- son Building as Head Office prem- ises, and the main banking office will open for business as soon as occupation can be secured and ix terior alterations made. The Mercantile Bank of Canada is the first bank to receive a charter from the Canadian gov- ernment since 1929, Capital foe its issue of shares has mainly been subscribed by the Nationale Han- dlesbank N. V. of Amsterdam. The. Netherlands, of which Mr, Henri Moquette is a Managing Director,. Three Canadians and two nomi- pees of the Handlesbank will comprise the original Board of the Mercantile Bank. Mr. Moquette also announces the purchase by the Mercantile Bank of a property on Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver„ where- 'bui?rlrug.03.)era.lykerra commence within sixty days, Other branches will subsequently be opened in principal Canadian cities. The Mercantile Bank of Canada will conduct a complete domestic banking service in Canada, and will also specialize in the Pacific trade, through the widespread facilities of Handlesbank. These facilities include branches in Japan, India, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore, and through- out Indonesia, as well as in such Netherlands centres as Amster- dam, Rotterdam and The Hague,. tjnsidedown to Prevent Peeking Handy -Cycle -- French inventor Charles Duval, above, t' inks he's solved a big problem for cyclists, He claims that leg., m... !e strain con be eased by switching to hand pedals whichh he has mounted on his bike's handlebars. Or, if you prefer to slake a jet, you can use both hand and foot pedals to increase your speed, The gadget is one of marry shown at the. annual inventore•exhibit in Paris,