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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1950-05-11, Page 2Important Catch—Anton Nilsson, captain of a Swedish fishing boat, points to the hole in an airplane wheel his vessel picked up in the Baltic Sea. 'caval authorities say the wheel could have conle from the nnarined Navy plane that disappeared over the Baltic after an attack. by Soviet fighters. Nilsson and the wheel are now in Stockholm, Sweeten. Most folks who raise beef cattle know that they can make more beef on a mixture of Iegume and grass than is possible on straight grass. But they also know that it's a tough job to keep a good legume -grass mixture going for more than two or three years. That's because the grass has a tendency to crowd out the legumes. mine years of testing At the Ii- 11nois Experimental Farm showed the following results: They got 342 pounds of gain per acre the first ytar of a legume -smooth brome pasture, The following year, they got 126 pounds LESS gain, as the smooth brome had taken over 80 to 85 per cent. of the pasture. And at the same time, the gains on a legume - orchard grass mixture DROPPED from 245 pounds to 169, The Illinois folks are still working on the perfect answer to this prob- lem. But, up to now, they have found that what works best for them is called the Haas mixture. This is a mixture of two bushels of oats, with 2 lbs, of red clover, sweet clover, aisike clover, timothy and rape per acre. Steers gained as much as 298 pounds per acre on first-year Haas mixture, and UP TO 416 POUNDS THE SECOND YEAR! Sounds interesting, to say the least! A lot of the news you see regard- ing farming these days seems to echo the tone of what you read on the front and editorial pages. While those whose task it is to peer into the future aren't predicting disaster today, or even tomorrow, still their outlook is rather gloomy. So, for a change, this success story—as re- ported in The Farm Journal (Phil- adelphia) --.might be welcome, It tells of how a man, over in Indiana, was almost wiped out back in 1940, but managed to build his income from IP700 to $17,000 in less than a decade. What's more, it was cows that pulled hirn through. eK >,t ek Ten years ago, things weren't going any too smoothly for Russel Magnus: in fact, lie freely admits he was just about down to his last nickel, The general situation was not any too good, and a bad attack of Bang's disease and mastitis had just about wiped out his dairy herd. But this farmer and his wife weren't the easy quitting type, They were killing to try it again, so they pulled up stakes, bundled together their six children, and took off for 1 a farm they had bought about 60 miles away. It wasn't Much of a farm. You probably know the sort—old, hilly, run -down --a fine place to no really broke ou. But it hadn't cost much —around $40 an acre --and it was a place to make a start with two "'cull" coir; and five heifers they tool: along. Aithotigh :Mangus was down for the count then, , he was far from "out," as the events of the last 10 year.; prove. Since then, his wheat yield has jumped from 10 bushels to 30 bushels per acre; his nat yield loas clin)berl from 25 bushels to 50 bushels; his corn is up from 25 bushfis to as high as 90 bushels. And his herd of seven COWS has grown to 45. Chose cows are doing mighty well, t'oo last year, they averaged --on test 13.311 pounds of milk, and 448 Itnnllds of butterfat. Manbua' aruas 41coule of $700 that first year has climbed to $17,000 in 1947, and $15,000 in 1948. How did he do it? Well, those dairy cattle, for one thing; they ate UP the roughage it took to put through Mangus' land improvement program. When he went on the farm, grass would hardly grow on half of the Place. So, little by little, lie limed; fertilized; tested his soil; re -limed; re -fertilized; changed his fences; sunk some deep-rooted legumes into his tired, hard -to -work soil; and planted several acres of evergreens on sonic washed-out slopes—and added some grass waterways, Back in 1940, Mangus had to buy hay; 20 acres of meadow on the, back of the farm yielded exactly seven tons of timothy. Now he gets ar. easy average of three tons of alfalfa -clover to the acre. Just in case you're wondering what happened to the disease trou- bles, don't sell Mangus short: he learned his lesson. Now his herd gets a Bang's test and a T.B. test every six months or so. He keeps his cows healthy, And those healthy cows gave him a net profit last year —above feed cnsts—of $370.10 apiece, ak =k g Today, after 10 years, ibfangus has his farm practically paid for. He could )lave paid for it by now, but he has improved, remodeled and modernized the buildings on the farm. He and his family are living a lite that's a far cry from that $700 beginning back in 1940. Where Did The Wild Pigeon Go? What happened to the millions of beautiful passenger pigeons once so common in America and now be- lieved to be extinct? This mystery is referred to by Miss W, L, Puxley in her absorbing book of travel, "Strayed Among Lonely Islands." In the last century, they were so numerous as t0 constitute a plague. She describes: "A vast host of beautiful birds with long tails and bright red bodies, which literally filled the air, ".For three days, the birds kept on flying in a column a mile wide, and the whole colunin was about 250 miles long when a fresh one appeared, Round and round they wheeled as they swept by, with such a rush of millions of wings that no one could make their voices heard unless they shouted, however near to the person addressed. When they settled to rest, they left the woods in ruins for 40 miles, and great branches were broken by their weight, while many trees were killed by them. Year after year, this went on, bringing food to the settlers who dried the meat for the winter; until one year it was noticed that the pigeons were fewer in num- ber, and the following year they were very few," A year or two later, there were none at all and not one Specimen of the species has ever been seen since, What was the cause of their dis- appearance? Your guess is as good as those of they scientists. A StiXBITC > lc Counting, as we do, a large num- her of trout fishermen among our friends and acquaintances, it has long been our desire to pay due credit to those intrepid souls. The fearlessness, determination, disre- gard for personal comfort and about seven other deadly virtues displayed by those heroes in pursuit of their dangerous prey is worthy of the highest honors we weaker mortals can give them: :K :K eta But, up to now, the proper words and phrases have utterly tailed to flow from our long-suffering type- writer, Still, everything comes to him who waits --to coin a phrase— and just the other day, we ran across what might be called "The • Perfect Tribute to Trout Fisher- 1;leu." The nlau who paid it is no raw hand. For 50 of his 70 years, he has been guiding hunters and fishermen through a vast wilderness area, and so speaks with authority, And here is 'what lie has to say: "A confirmed trout fisherman is just like an ordinary man in most ways except that his brains have been beat out." A very ancient adage runs, "To the victor belong the spoils," or some such; and it is another of those old sayings that are true -or false, just as the case may be. Biff Bennett, writing in Sport Magazine, recalls an interesting instance of the loser getting all the gravy, rath- er than the winner. In the baseball record books you will find emblazoned the name of Bobby Feller who, on an afternoon back in 1938, struck out exactly 18 Detroit Tigers in a nine -inning game. Unless this marls has been bettered between the time these lines are written and when they appear in print—which is unlikely, considering the trouble pitchers are having with the new rules—that record still stands. It w -is one of the greatest hurling feats in baseball history, beyond a doubt., But, although most baseball fans have heard of Rapid Robert's won- derful work that afternoon, how many of you remember even the name of a guy named Harry Eisen - stat. Not so very many, we'd be willing to bet. Yet the afternoon when Feller, pitching for Cleveland, whiffed that record-breaking .dozen and a half of the Tigers, on the mound for Detroit was Mr. Eisen - stat. WHAT TS MORE, DE- TROIT WON THAT BALL CAME BY A SCORE OF 4 to 1. "To the victors," etc. Phooeyl =k 'k Still, there are plenty of forgotten men in sport. Danny Gardella, for another example. It isn't so long since Daniiy's name was appearing in big type on every sports page from coast to coast—for Danny was the man who had the audacity to sue organized baseball for the sum of $300,000. x Mr. Gardella claimed that organ- ized ball had deprived hint of his right to slake a living in the major leagues, just because he had done some playing "south of the border, down Mehico way." Nobody knows for certain just what Danny got out of his suit as it was settled out of court, and Happy Chandler isn't saying, But, for a while, it looked as if the suit might bust the game wide open and, as Arthur Daley Puts it, when the settlement was made, organized baseball took its first deep breath in months. Now. Gardella's name has popped up in the news dispatches again, and most of us had to give our memories a couple of sharp jabs to recall just who he was. He made the news this time—in small type— just because the St. Louis Card- inals, from whom lie had been draw- ing wages, had shipped him down to one of their minor league farm.- ettes, in Houston, Texas. =k # # The truth of the matter seems to be that Danny never was a real big leaguer, When he managed to get a fair clout at the ball, it was liable to travel quite a piece—but even that wasn't any too often as, in his best year with the New York Giants his batting average was a non -too - sensational ,272, * k :k His fielding was apparently of the same variety as that of one, Yencer Wiedensaul, who used to do a spot of outfielding for the Toronto Maple Leafs back in the days when Gran - maw and Grampaw were stepping out. Wiedensaul could misjudge BOUFOW) CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AGENTS ii"ANTED FOR SALxa IyuF6S49ttX t3'I'OC Jf{ TO SOLL Sams Carden Tractors, veay hfO'SORCYCLES Harley Davidson, Now and _ 1tLs;I0RVE now for Spring Delivery--Ghineea Profitable line. bend for literature.. 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SMALL hospital in attractive northern On- the super -sensational kind; and Charley Good and the rest of the tiTD1CAL toric town reaulres Registered Nurses for General Duty. salary $140 per month plus sports writers promptly dubbed flim POST'S ECZEMA SALVE full maintenance. Excellent living conditions. "Wonderful b� onderful )Nicely', —a tag which Banish the torment of dry eczema raaben Banish"'weeping Ally: Superintendent of Nurses r,nrly Minto Hospital. Cochrane, Ont. 90er cent. of the fans tools to be P skin troubles Pns". t0ezemp salve will not disappoint you " o•'- 1'rt1LD\•Eli\vA2QT17U--active r silent, rum- ors the level, Which just goes to tching, scaling burning eezeroa acne. rine berins large cut of logs In Northern On. show you that making the hard ones worm, pimples and a.thleie's fnot, will respond to tario. $0,000 required, write Box 60, 123• look easy doesn't always pay, readily this stainless. ndnrless Ointment regardlpss lir hnw o)uhhnrn lir hopeless. they 18th street, New Toronto, Ont. 'k seem PRIME $1 lie 1'L311 JAR �y Anway, as we said, Danny Gar - delta's fielding appears to have been along the same lines. A baseball re- porter once wrote, "Gardella caught the ball—unassisted." Ant], again, "Gardella made a sensational catch of an easy fly ball." Danny was a practical joker, too, of a somewhat ghoulish kind, bike the time in Cincinnati when he and Napoleon Reyes were roomed on the 23rd floor of their hotel. Reyes had just finished shaving and stepped back into the bedroom, It was empty; the door was locked from, the inside; the winnow was hide open; and on the table was a note, reading, "Life is too much for. me." Trembling and afraid, Reyes tot- tered to the window and peered out, expecting to see the mangled corpse of his teammate lying far below. Instead, there was Danny grinning at hint, hanging by his hands from the ledge with nothing between him and the pavement but 23 stories of fragile Cincinnati air, But now, Danny the forgotten Iran, is back in the minors. We wish him well and hope that he manages to get up top again and stick there as lie had --if nothing else—plenty of color, But even more than that, we wish that his suit against organized baseball had gone through. It would be interest- ing to take a look at the inside works of "the world's greatest, etc., etc.," and see just what really makes it tick, T4 se- eepin Costly Are you keeping an old team around the place for an occasional job, or because of sentiment? If so, it probably costs you a lot more than you !realize. In a study of average expense of horse labor, the University of Wyoming has found that it was as much as $7.77 an hour, where horses were used for little work. The average cost of horse labor was $1,52 in hour. Economists—not taking the horse's or the farmer's feelings into account —sternly advise' disposing of the draft animals. The pasture and feed released for beef or dairy cattle Will bring better returns, Coming into the Icitchen from shopping, she could smell burning. "Oil, John," she said reproach- fully, "you promised you'd keep an eye on the pleat." "Well, so I did," replied her hus- band, "but after a bit there was so ,much smoke I couldn't see a thing," Sent Post Free on Recepit o1 Price POST'S REMEDIES etter T)ead 680 Quppn St E., Corner of Lorain Peronto CRESS CORN SALVE -For sure relief. 'Four A group of Canadian doctors Druggist sells Cress. Callous Salve relieves were discussing Foreign Exchange quickly too. Control Board requirements in the USE FINN'S S.E.S. Tablets. stops calf scours and pig scours. Cost fifty cents f e0 matter Opeople who apply for calf. Ten cents pig. Easily given. Guaranteed U.S. funds with which to go south or money refunded. One dollar trial sample. R. A. Finn Co. Ltd., London, Ont. the y OI1 ground of ill -health. 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