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figured or crippled,, they were .
:pot immune.
But appease their gods and
;eve themselves from 'committing
a mortal sin, the -Hindus 1,ised to
marry such unwanted girls to,
trees. That satiStie4 the strict
tenets of their caste,. •
fStit. now, under the new re,
forms, it, is hoped that All
will cease, Child Marriages will
probably end, 'too. Formerly,.
-bustiand.s were cheapest when
bought young., And, having only
the - scantiest resources, many
Hindus purchased a man for
their daughter when he was just
a babe In arms,
Ity Rev, It, Barclay Warren
B.A., B.I).
Pr".••••••.,
,,Spokesman for God
X Samuel 3:10-20,
Memory Selection: Samuel
grews and the Lord was with
him, and did Jet none of his
words fail to the ground. 1 Sam-
uel 3:19.
Five-Yard Cabbage
A professor of organic chem-
istry,. Mikhail Shemyakin„. says
agricultural experiments in the
Soviet -Union have produced Ors.
rots three feet long pn51.0.10bioves
,ftve yards wide, -Vile fantastic
growth is attributed to use In
the soil of certain fungi called
gibberelins,
Effects of this sort were .re,
ported in a conference of biolo-
gists at Stanford university in
California last September' hence.
western .borticulturalists do not.
discount the report from Moscow,.
though they dmibt from their
own experiments- whether the
15 foot cabbage would make
good slaw or soup. The fungus.
was first discovered 25 years. ago.
in Japan, where it caused some
rice plants to grow extremely
and uselessly, tall.
The significance of gibberelins
or gibberellic. acid may not lie
so much in the size of the growth
it induces in vegetables as in the
ability tS make them grow rapid-
ly or in supposedly barren soil.
Professor $hemyalcin says that
gibberelins "cut the vegetation.
period from months to weeks,
making it possible, tc introduce
farm crops in the extreme north
and in deserts."
Thi$ could be extremely im-
portant to the Soviet Union,
most of whose territory lies north -
of the latitude of the northern
boundary of the United States'.
Americans who have explored.
the possibiilties of chemurgic
farming will hardly suppose that
the world map of agricultural
production is not subject to
change.
quent slower growth. No notice-
able change in the pasture was
observed under either method of
grazing.
Rain Of Frogs
When it was officially reported
from Budapest not long age that
many tiny frogs had rained
down on the city during a freak
whirlwind and thunderstorm,
some people in this country were
either puzzled or sceptical. How
could such a thing happen?
Meteorologists have an answer.
While many stories of living
showers of frogs, fishes and oth-
er creatures are exaggerated, it
is a fact that very strong up-
ward air currents do sometimes
suck up caterpillars, worms,
beetles and so, on and then drop
them from a watery sky.
Professor J. Arthur Thomson,
the scientist and naturalist, in-
vestigated the phenomenon and
reported: "There is no doubt
that many different kinds of
creatures, especially aquatic
ones, can be lifted and trans-
ported in a whirlwind and show-
ered down elsewhere."
Naturalist Edwin Way Teale
tells of coming from a hotel in
Chicago in the early 'thirties
after a violent storm which had
lasted for many hours,
"The gutters were running
with water and scattered across
the wet pavement for several
blocks around were tiny silver
minnows," he reported. "No one
could have scattered them by
hand so widely. The only plaus-
ible • explanation was that the
area had received a shower of
minnows during the morning
storm."
The list of queer "rains" is
endless. Only cats and dogs seem
to be missing. There have been
"authentic" downpours of snails,
turtles, snakes, mussels, toads,
lizards and sprats.
Sixty-five years ago a dense
cloud was seen over a village in
Cambridgeshire. It burst quite
suddenly and millions of ants
fell down. They covered the,
ground almost like a carpet and
the astonished inhabitants crush-
ed thousands at every step.
A nineteenth-century record
shows that a storm of pilchards
fell on Glamorgan in 1859, hazel
nuts in Dublin in 1863, hay in
Monkstown in 1875, snails in
Redruth in 1886 and caterpillars
at Saints, in the Jura, in 1891.
These results indicate that ad-
justed stocking may well be ad-
visable where the highest pos-
sible animal gains per acre are
desired over a short period of
time. However, it appears that
for growing animals or animals
intended for long keep, it would
not be worthwhile.
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' Both the adjusted and fixed
methods of stocking a pasture
have their advantages and dis-
advantages. The main advantage
of the adjusted method is that
nearly all of the spring flush of
grass is consumed at a time when
it is' most nutritious and thus
greater animal gains per acre
are realized. However, after the
flush of growth, the extra ani-
mals have to be either disposed
of or placed on another pasture
at. a time when aftermath of
supplemental annual crops are
not usually available. Stocking
at a smaller fixed rate through-
out the season results in lower
gain per acre. In addition, much
of the spring growth matures
and decreases in nutritive value.
However, this acts as a reserve
during the second half of the
pasture season and thus dis-,
penses with the need for supple-
mental pasture.
Samuel was the last of the
great judges of Israel. His sons
walked not in his ways, but
turned aside after lucre, and
took bribes, and perverted
judgment. (8:3). So the elders of
Israel asked for a king so that
they might be like the other
nations. Samuel, under divine
direction, annOinted Saul and
thus began the long period of
monarchial rule in Israel.
The story of Samuel's child-
hood and youth is unique, Be-
fore his conception he was dedi-
cated to God. While still a child
he was taken to serve in the
house of the Lord, Our lesson
tells of the night when God re-
vealed Himself to Samuel in a
personal way, The first message
which he was to convey for God
was one of judgment upon the
family of Eli the priest. Eli's sons
had made themselves vile and
he restrained them not.
It is heartening to everyone
when young people turn front
their selfish, sinful, pleasure-
seeking ways and become wit-
nesses for the Lord Jesus. Christ.
One is not so surprised when the
aged turn to thoughts of God. So
often youth forget God. Solomon
said, "Remember now thy Cre-
ator in the days of thy youth."
Ecclesiastes 12:1. Samuel lived a
great and fruitful life. Though
Saul became king, Samuel was
still a spokesman for God. On
the day of the coronation Sam-
uel said to the people, "God for-
bid that I should sin against the
Lord in ceasing to pray for you:
but I will teach you the good
and the right way." He coun-
selled King Saul and repri-
manded him when he sinned.
He anointed David to be his
successor.
Saul, before hs last and fate-
ful battle went to the witch of
Endor and asked her to bring
Samuel from the dead. The
witch was astounded at what
she saw and cried with a loud
voice. She knew then that the
inquirer was none other than
King Saul who years before had
ordered the destruction of those
who practised witchcraft. Once
more Samuel was spokesman, for
God. He said that Saul and his
sons would die on the morrow
and Israel would be defeated,
The influence of Samuel's life
is still counting for good.
his citiznship seriously, and goes
about leaning on electric fences,
will find they are not lawfully
made,
Another interesting decision
had to do with the width of a
fence, Another judge ruled that
dimension is presumed, and that
although the line between two
farms has no geometrical prop-
erties, the fence that denotes it
has substance and allowance
must be made for same,
This sounds like so much lega-
listic double-talk until you rea-
lize that the court was adjudi-
cating the curious contrivance
known as a "Virginia Fence."
This was a post and rail barrier
obviously invented in a state
where labor was more prevalent
than in Maine, It took a great -
deal deal more lumber, which had
to be cut and shaped. And the
fence zigzagged in such a man-
ner that Yankee ship captains,
when they had to tack into the
wind for days without making
any mileage, entered the simi-
lar zigzagging in their logs as
"made Virginia fence all day '
Anyway, somebody built a Vir-
ginia fence on the line, and his
neighbor raised the good ques-
tion of how much ,land you need,
to delineate an imaginary line.
The judge allowed that a Vir-
ginia fence which staggered over
ten feet of land was, in the fact
and the law, of no greater judi-
cial width than a strand of wire.
It might look wider, bill it was
not so in the eyes of the court.
How wide a fence you can
therefore erect is left for future
deliberations, but probably the
question will never come up.
Certainly the Yankee stone wall
has substance, too, and we must
presume dimensions.
Back in the forgotten laws of
early days, the extent of fence
statutes amazes. To settle all
the varied squabbles ,that arose
when the country was first being
settled and fenced, legislators
deliberated thoughtfully and
courts sat tedious hours. And
law, custom, and usage built the
fence into a farmer's urgencies
until we got poems about it, and
wise saws and pithy sayings.
All leading, it seems, up to to
the point where fences lapse,
into desuetude and nobody
sharpens posts any more.
Oh, a few-but not, as we
used. to hi the spring, slapping
the first hatch of blackflies and
hoping•te get the job done befOre
the hay ran out: Chunking an
iron bar into the :mud, to ream
a hole, and then standing on
the bunk of ,the sing to whack
the post into place with a fence
maul.
There was a peculiar knack to
drawing a wire taut, and then
driving a staple-a knack that
requires about thirteen agile
hands. But the job could be
done with two,' although you'd
have to see it to believe it. And
it might be' hard, in this day and
age, to step out quickly and find
a good fence-fixer, with or with-
out -extra hands. I never cared
much for mending fences, and I
got all the peeling I wanted fix-
ing the grape arbor.-By John
Gould 'in The Christian Science
Monitor.
Some women don't park a car
- they abandon it.
, Fence Mending
Something there is that doesn't
mend a fence as much as it used,
to, and. I yam glad, The great
change in the bovine category
has left me free of fence worries,
both in and out, and for some
years now there has been no
demand en me to take the old
pall of staples and hike out in
the spring mud to mend the pale.
"l'ime was that everybody had
cattle, including us, and fences
bad to be kept up, But nowadays
the regulations, restrictions, and
regimentation have had their
effect, and hardly anybody keeps
a cow unless he can keep a lot
of them.
I got to thinking about fences
this week when I had to peel a
few spruce poles to fix my grape
arbor. Peeling fence posts was a
tedious chore, and by spring al-
most any farm would have a
cord of them peeled and pointed
and ready. You'd have more if
you had a new fence.in mind,
Pointing them was a two-man
job if you had two men, One
would hold the post up on the
block, turning it a bit after each
swipe, and the other would
swing the ax. You just stood
there and swung- the ax until
the poles were all pointed, and
'the other fellow picked them up
and held them and laid them
down again. You were just like
a machine for hours on end. A
good man, with a sharp ax and
a sure stroke, could point posts
so they looked as if a machine
did it, too.
Then, you'd load the posts on
a drag, along with the patent
wire tightener and a reel of
wire, the pail of staples and
your tools, and the horse would
take you to work. There would
be downed trees across the.
fence, wires broken down by
hunters, poles that had given up,
and sometimes whale stretches
laid flat by the snow. You had
to get the entire fence back in
shape before the grass was green
and the •cows got on it,
Perhaps nobody has ever
paused to think that page after
page of ancient legislation and
decisions without end have been
repudiated by present-day fenc-
ing - which consists sometimes
of pushing small metal rods in
the ground and suspending a
single wire oh insulators. The
animals respect the quick dom-
mend of the low voltage and
keep in bounds. This :ia' inter-
esting, for cows wciuleTunap a
six-foot fence of woven wire,
but they keep their distance with
an electric fence.
However, once there was a
wise and just jurist, a thought-
ful judge on a dignified bench,
.and he sat, without laughing,
<luring a long and tedious liti-
gation over how strong a fence
- must be. He weighed the testi-
mony and arguments, and hand-
ed down the magnificent deci-
sion that a fence, in addition to
other established qualities, must
be stror i; enough for a man to
lean on. Leaning on fences, he
held, was an integral part of the
American heritage, an unalien-
able right the courts are bound
s, to recognize and protect.
The' electric fence, I submit,
does not qualify in this respect,
and therefore is illegal and un-
American. The man who takes
This slide rule helps farmers reduce soil loss from rainfall.
Embodying research data compiled over the last 30 years, the
rule makes possible fast and reliable soil loss estimates right
In the field. The rule is fed information concerning the amount
of fain, type of soil and soil cover, 'length of slope and other
factors. These are given numerical values and a trained tech-
nician can find the best combination of cropping system and
conservation practices which meets the needs of a particular
farm.
TiliFAIM FRONT
Venice Menace'
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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SWING, SISTER, SWING-Seem-
ingly unhampered by the habit
of her order, a sister from Mary-
knoll College belts the ball a
good one. She's in a ;competi-
tion with sisters front another
institution in the area at an
annual outing given by Mary-
knoll.
Quill Pens
Still In' Use
Girls Married
To Trees
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SAFETY FIRST
Trailing Philadelphia by a run
in the eighth inning, Detroit put
the first two men on base and
then elected to bunt. Ferris
Fain, the daring young Athletic
first sacker, plunged in, grab-
bed the bunt, and threw to
third. His throw eluded Pete
Suder and the runner scored the
tying run standing up.
"Darn it, Ferris!" sputtered
Connie Mack when the A's came
into the bench. "I don't want
you ever to try that play again!"
Most of. Mack's employees
would have sat down and sulk-
ed. Not the high-spirited. Fain.
"What did you want me to do
with the ball?" he bellowed.
"Eat it!"
"Well, by golly!" Mack yelled
right back. "It'd be a whole lot
safer in your mouth!"
Feeding value is equally as
important as tonnage per acre in
determining the stage at which
grasses and legumes should be
harvested for silage. M. F. Clarke
of the Agassiz, B.C. Experimen-
tal Farm, says that in general,
mixtures in which red clover
predominates should be har-
vested for silage as soon as
bloom becomes evident through-
out the field. Waiting until
blooming is complete will in-
crease tonnage slightly but at
the expense of palatability and
nutritive quality.
* *
If the legume content of, a
field is low then the stage to cut
will be determined by the
grasses. The ideal stage is at
time of heading, to obtain good
quality with satisfactory yield.
Delaying harvest until bloom
will sacrifice quality, although
palatability will remain fair. Cut-
ting grass when seed is formed
will lower both nutritive value
and :palatability considerably.
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Storage procedure is another
important, aspect of forage man-
agement. Immature grasses and
legumes, while high in quality,
present a •storages problem be-
cause of their very high mois-
ture content. This is particularly
true when tower silos are used.
Wilting in the swath to a mois-
ture content of 65-75 per cent
before storing is quite effective.
However, when storing by the
"direct cut" method, considera-
tion might be given to the use
of a conditioner.
* I *,
Various conditioners have been
tried at the Experimental Farm
,dyer the past three seasons. Ex-
cellent results have been ob-
tained from the use of dried beet
pulp• added at the rate of 70-100
pounds per ton of fresh cut for-
age. Initial cash outlay for beet
pulp is 'quite high but this it
offset in part by the fact that
70-75 per cent of the beet ptilp
is recovered when the silage is,
fed. 4'
Sodium bisulphite added at the
rate of 8 pounds per ton to early
cut legume silage will ensure
a pleasant smelling silage. Cost
of . this material at the recom-
mended rate is in the neighbour-
hood of one dollar per ton, This
Chemical does not in any way
increase feeding value arid Irian-
ufacttiter's directions for its
application should be folloyed
closely.
Silage cenditioners are not re-
quired --;hen using, horizontal or
btinv"r 'type sllos. In such silos
hi li Moisture Content of forage
:eves as an aid to rapid air
exclu'si'on..
The world's "floating city',
Venice, may soon find itself
vanishing under the waters of
its canal streets! Millions of
termites have been discovered
feeding on the woodwork of
several score of houses and
bridges.
The termites are said to be
almost indestructible and pe-
culiar to Venice, and so far no
effective remedy has been found
against them.
Apart from the new menace,
Venice was already finding it
difficult to keep its head above
the water as the foundations
of many buildings are rapidly
decaying. ti
'Mats your sex or haven't
you been told?'
The crippling burden of mar:4
rying off a daughter is now re-
lieved by law in Andhra, India.
A new edict, recently sanctioned
in this state, strictly forbids Hin-
du fathers to provide their
daughters, on marriage, with any
sort of a dowry; even simple, in-
expensive presents are not al-
lowed.
Anyone caught givirig or ac-
cepting this former traditional
offering is guilty of a criminal -
offence and can be jailed for
six months.
Previously, widespread observ-
ance of husband-buying practices
imposed' great hardship in a
country where the average an-
nnal income works out at $75
a head.
Dowries erred always On the
ids Of generosity, for to offer
something smaller than expec-
tation implied lose of caste and
also degraded one's daughter .
A relatively prosperous Hindu
owning six acres of land was
expected to contribute at least
$750 to his son-in-lawis
Tjie gods were supposed to be
angry with those who, beCause
of their poverty or for any other
reason, kept their daughters
single. The wretched girls them
'selves did riot escape punishment,
Because of this, mothers in some
areas quietly killed them at
birth.
In other families, where not
a rupee existed to meet, these
crippling dowry deinaridsi the
girl's father would Work as a
slave' for his son-in-law's family
for g year or se. With three or
four daughters td Marry Soff, the
man could' be ruined for life.
However unattractive they
Were, these girls Mist had to Iv s
Married oft Even though du Ansiket d,seis here 'on jiage.
After fixing the wedding date
with his attractive young bride-
to-be, a sentimental nobleman
was sitting discussing wedding
plans with her 'when the shrill
cry of one of 'the peacocks on
his large estate was heard
through the open window. It
gave him 'an idea.
He ordered a servant to take
feathers from one of the pea-
cocks to a firm which specialized
in making quill pens. They fash-
ioned them into pens which were
used by bride, bridegroom and
witnesses to Sign the marriage
register on the wedding day.
Stich peacock quill pens are
rarely made newadays, but
there's still a steady demand for
other types of quill pens. Goose,
turkey and swan quill pens are
still used by some • lawyers,
churchmen, governnient departs
• ments for engrossing important
doctments.
Hundreds of quill pens are ex-
ported overseas from Britain.
Fashioning them .is a highly
skilled jells, an ancient craft Wu-
allY• handed from 'father tO son
or daughter. Authoress Lath=
akin° Tynan wrote More than 150
books with quill pens.
Menke have Written many
Maiinseriptt With nails, some
using a writing fluid consisting
Of soot, guns', liqUid, Of cuttle-fish
and lampsbleek,
One ferment King's Counsel of •
the 'twenties invariably used
quill pen - and not Only for
Writing! He would often pick
Up his quill pen and 'Lite it, as
a baton when dealing in court
with a hostile Witness. It sel-
don't :failed to itilsireSt the Wit-
fieSS,arid On one occasion he
Wee hit Case On this account. In
legal'circles this Method hdeaitie
known as "qteilirig With a qUill,"
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In a four-year study with beef
steers' on permanent pasture at
the Central 2-xperinienta1
Ottawa; Worthwhile higher aril-
gaihs pee acre Were, obtain-
ed , by adjusting the rate of
steeling to 'Seeaetial flush Of pea-
tine than on a fixed rate of
stocking throughout the pasture
teaaoii. W. A. Jordan teperta that
an extra 87 pounds bf animal
gain per acre Wad obtained by
the adjusted-thethod *here pea-
titres Mete stocked id edbaeitV
during the flush of spring growth
and the number Of Militate' tee
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0 Christmas tree. A derworiittotioti .of the art is One of 'the
features. of the Pomitylvoriio Dutch Falk Festival held al KUtts
towns Pas