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The Brussels Post, 1958-12-31, Page 3HATES CROWDS — Crowds are no novelty to this champion Her'eford',: and; to judge by his• expression, he doesn't like 'em. Beverly McGrath, 12, brought her prize animal to enter him in the 59th cnnual International Livestock Exposition. Proper Care Saves Holiday Plants For Most of us this is the sea- son for indoor gardening, with our 4P0i9r _attention on "f1OWer borders" along our window sillS. December holidays just a few weeks away will add gift plants to our indoor gardens, We want to give them care that keep them as long as we can. Top favorite is the bright scarlet, poinsettia, a very symbol of Christmas. This plant is of the milkweed family, which means it needs plenty of water, When it comes, set it for a while into warm water. Never let it be- come dry, and every day eprav the leaves, both I: top and under side, with tepid water. (Do not wet the scarlet bracts.) A warm sunny window facing south is the best location for a poinsettia. A newspaper between it and the glass will protect it on .cold nights. Keep it out of drafts. The poinsettia can be success- fully carried over to next year if you wish to try it. Briefly:• Dig out and transplant the fern. Cut back the plant to six inches, put it in a cool cellar window and water just enough to keep the roots alive, Reppt and place in the garden text spring, feeding it and keep- ing it watered. Bring it in next fall to a south !window, and by feeding and watering you ought to haye some blooms by the next Christmas., Another gift favorite is the cyclamen. This plant needs much water, and from underneath. Do not get water on the leaves and stems. It must have a cool, even temperature and not too much sun. A north or east windoiv is a good location:, Set the pot into a deep bowl or saucer, fill this once or twice a day, with tepid water and thr6w out after ei hour what thd plant does not „ take up. The 'sterns are juicy and decay readily, so if'any of them yellow YULE STAMP — Thee Christmas rose is featured, above, 'on a new, 40-centime Swiss stamp just issued. One of four, others in the series are: pansy, 10- centime; China aster, 20-cen- time; morning - glory, 30-cen- time. Each carries a 10-centime surcharge which will go to aid a Swiss youth program. or droop, twist them off sharply at the corm or they • will cause ethers- to rot, The' cerelamen will often put, out a whole new set~: of. flower buds after its ,.. post-Christinas rest, blooming on into April.. To carry it over, repot it in May, being sure to have the norm well up out of the soil, and keep it in, a north Window or .set into-the soil in a shady part of 'the. gate den border all summer, keeping it watered. By fall, it should be ready to repeat its season of in- door bloom, writes Millicent Taylor in The Christian. Science Monitor. It is' important to know that the, atelest likes acid soil. Other than this, your pretty little plant can get along with ordinary dare. Give it plenty of water, nil) off Spent blooms so they will not go to seed, and keep it reasonably cool — in an east or south, window. For carrying, it over, repot it in a soil mixed with acid peat, leaf nicild, arid sand. Keep it Watered all Stiminct, for it forms next season's flOwer buds ,ginning right After this season's blOoniing. If it' can sit outdoors in a warm, sheltered place, it should be reedy by fall to begin again. increasingly popular as a holi- day gift plapt is the pretty little: flame crassula or Xalanchoe, with its bright red lilaclike flower heeds and shirlihg fleshy green leaves. This le •a strectilent, and needs -little water except when in bloom. ft does not 'heed Much stir, and Will flower in a north window. Your Christina§ Cactus clOeS rebt Want much Water, and likes to be tip high, in a hanging bas-, ket or wall bracket. It likes sort While blooming, and will appre- ciate a ,feeding of a tablespoon Of hardwood ash and one of betienteal added 'to the Water ace week, of the morrow's Sunday school iesson. Although 1 never said so to Grandma, perhaps at this 4dvanOed, day I may confess to you that this was a Chore. I fro- quently conferred with my neighborhood cronies on the matter, and we agreed that the time spent in memorizing, t.1-4 outlandish names of Old Testa ment characters could he better used, (May I add, not in self. defense but in the interests of truth, that my opinion under went radical and profound al- teration as the years brougnt enlightenment. My friends' views changed also, I believe; anyway, one of them became a minister.) Saturday evening at this time of year was an excellent time for forward, thinking. Frankly, this was self-centered, It com- prised chiefly the active antici- pation 'of the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons, with their re- lease from the clutches of my educators, the exchanges of good will (and gifts), the extraordin- ary opportunities for good eat- ing. It was pleasant to contem- plate the turkey and mince• pie that would be mine, twice in about a month. And it was quite possible, even in November, to plan what one would do on skates, snowshoes,' and sled dur- ing the glorious week between Christmas and New Year's when a boy would (he hoped) have new equipment to demonstrate to his friends. Stormy evening, were, I think, best of all. Let the weather charge at our hilltop: I cud- dled in my chair and thought of the unfortunate folks who, in Grandma's phrase, "had to be out in all this," We agreed that we were indeed fortunate to have the warm room, the books, the lamp, the good companion- ship. But whatever the weather, the hours sped swiftly between Saturday supper and Grandma's inevitable, uncontestable com- ment, about 9 o'clock: "Well, there's plenty of hot water, so it's you for the tub!" They Practise Tongue-Twisters If you think that tongue- twisters such as "She sells sea- shells on the seashore" are old- fashioned or' .merely a pastime for children, ask famous TV and radio announcers, preachers, teachers, after-dinner speakers and singers what they think. They'll all tell you that the tongue-twister is a vital part of their training. The tongue, say elocutionists, must be trained to precision of action just as ef- fectively as any ether part of ,the human' frame. One radio announcer has re- vealed, that the fact that' he could accurately say: "T h e seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us" helped him land a good job. A well-known clergyman who practised such tricky, sentences as "Gaze on the gay, grey bri- gade" and "The sun shines on shop sign" for months now preaches eloquent and crystal clear sermons, A public-school teacher' whose training included such gems as "The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick" and "Theoph- ilus..Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted" is in great demand as a lecturer:: Tongue-twisters are also help- ing to cure lisping. They have often been used to' test a per- son's sobriety. A London doctor once asked a suspected drunk to utter the words "Methodist Epis- copal". The' man failed, but he succeeded in saying, "truly rural" without a hiccup. The second floor tenant called the party below and shouted; "If you don't stop playing that blasted saxophone, I'll go crazy." "I guess it's too late," came the reply, "I stopped an hour age." 0Aik SFIAKt toa OARMERS T.iere'S a ititithill‘ or everything, noweidaya, Sr so it aderns.. A good exilitold. is this, Medliatiltial tree Shaker, Shown being letted Ci6OV6,, h brie ef tiUttibee of comniercicil machines Under study. The ain't is to" remove a reakiniurri Of good fruit with trininiuM rawer and tree deinidide. The rrietChieles are Suctitifiaity harvesting prunes, al/nand:le Wei ri U Ise UNDAY SCI1001 LESSON it this way: "In grandfather's day More than live pounds of feed were needed to produce ts Pound of broiler meat; today it takes only 2V2 pounds, Then took 13 weeks to grow a three. pound bird; today it takes about nine,” More efficient Production And marketing has made broilers a bargain item at the chain store. Thanks te.lower prices, fried chicken, once a company - din- ner dish, now appears on week- day tables and a greatly increas- ed demand exists, Broiler' pro- duction is -reported to have in- creased fivefold since 1943, • • • Integration has had a lot to do with all this, Mr. Reed says, the big appeal of the integration plan to farmers is that it takes most' of the risk out of broiler production. Under the old sys- tem, a farmer might have to sell his entire flock on a low market, for broilers cannot be held more than a week or so from the time they reach marketing weight. • * • Under such circumstances. a producer could lose money on the operation. If he was so 'liar fortunate as to strike a low mar- ket the next time he had birds ready to sell, the loss might be serious indeed. But by dealing with an integrator, he gets a guaranteed return a pound or per bird. * * The 'integrator can afford to give this guarantee because he is selling constantly, and he gets the advantage of market peaks to make up for periods of slump. Actually, he plans the timing of each brood so that the mar- keting he does for the differ- ent farmers will be spread out over the entire month. By 11ev it, R, Wirren Bate BM, Jesus cow the Lord Mark 8:2745 Memory Selection: 9rhoit art the Christ, the. Son Of the living God. IIEFARM FRONT .J06 Nitwits! Arise! Lady :Helen Nutting, chairman of the British Council of Mar- ried Women, wants Parliament to pass a law requiring husbands to turn over to their wives a percentage of their salaries. She would let Parliament decide the amount. Lady Helen says the status of British wives is inferior and she blames existing laws which make a husband lord and master of his wife's property, if any, and re- quire only that a man must "maintain" his wife and "answer for her debts." Maintenance isn't enough in this day and age, Lady Helen ar- gues. A wife, unless she is a "little nitwit with no ambition," needs some extra spending money which would be hers by right. As far as American males are concerned, Lady Helen's com- plaint reads like the account of some strange social custom dis- covered by an intrepid explorer in an out-ol-the-way jungle. U.S. husbands have long since lost control over the weekly pay check, to the "little woman." The legislation they would favor would' be an act permitting a male wage earner to keep some trivial share of his pay for his very, very own. Which leads us to the thought that if 'a Council of U.S. hus- bands were ever organized and amalgamated with Lady Helen's Council, the resulting revolution might be more world-shaking than any Karl Marx ever antici- pated.—Denver Post. broiler department of the In- diana Poultry Association. He.has -a long record .of prac- tical experience in the hatchery and poultry processing business. He has also been a feed sales- man and part owner of a hatch- ery. Working with him is Victor Gardner, another experienced poultry man. Mr. patchier op- erates the Farm Bureau Cooper- ative's hatChery, a sizeable busi- ness in itself with a capacity of 210,000 chicks. The cooperative has a contractual arrangement with farmers for the output of 20,000 laying hens who provide the hatchery eggs. Vic and John, as the farmers know them, are always ready to advise the cooperating farmers in regard to new poultry tech- nology. They act as liaison men between the farmers and the re- search laboratories of the uni- versities and the feed companies.„, They work also with the county agent's staff, gathering all the information they can which has bearing on the poultry produc- er's job. How valuable• this new technology is proving is indicat- ed in the. reduced amount of feed now necessary to bring a broiler to marketing age. * * * One feed company expert puts "I see that tips are forbidden here, waiter." "So were apples in the Garden of Eden, sir." The following is one of a ser- ies of articles by Dorothea Kahn Jaffe in the ChriStian Science Monitor based on her study of modern farming in the U.S. Mid- dle West. It should be of interest to many Canadians interested, in cooperative marketing. • * * John Reed sits in his office at the Elkhart County Farm Bu- reau Cooperative here and looks over the operation of some 50 or more 'privately owned poultry farms. He does it by looking at a chart on his office wall. This chart has movable indicators which show just when each farmer started to feed his cur- rent crop of bioilers, at what dates the chicks were given cer- tain , types of feed, and the ex- act date they will be ready for market. Further information about each farm is contained in a hanging file on the wall beside the chart. 'John Reed has to know a great deal about these farms in his capacity as director of the poule• try department for the coopera- tive. The cooperative has a fin= ancial stake in each farmer's operation. In today's language, the coop is ,an "integrator." it provides, the farmer with feed and baby chicks on credit; gives him technical assistance, and , pays him so much a pound (less cost of feed and chicks) after the broilers are marketed. * • This farm-business setup pro': tcts the ,farmer from market fluctuations by guaranteeing him a flat rate per pound in advance of production. It else offers him a bonus for efficient feeding. In return, the tooperative gets a steady supply of broilers. This enables the cooperative to mar- ket the birds to the, big proces- sors who demand a constant regular volume in order that they in turn may operate effi- ciently. In this highly organized, low-margin-of-profit bu sines s, everything depends upon timing. No longer can volurrie of 'sup- plies be left to the haphazard ways of nature. The integrator therefore plays an important role in maintaining regular marketing schedules. Al most all of the broilers commer- cially produced in the United States are now produced by "integration," it is estimated, In many areas feed companies, hatcheries, and processors are the integrators,- One of the big hatcheries, Cobbs Pedigreed Chix, Inc.., operates here. But Mr, Reed and his associates are showing that a cooperative may serve as an integrator with coin-, parable success. The cooperative in this case was already in the feed business. Tt sells its poultry feed at retail (On credit) to the broiler growers with whom it has contracts, * Like other 'integrators, this' one helps farmers to increase their efficiency by adopting the Latest findings Of the research laboratories, Mr, Reed Is a pont. try specialist, i-resident Of the As when Jesus was here, so today, people have different opinions as to who Jesus really is. Students of practically all religions agree that Jesus was it good man who taught fine Ideals. Some call him a prophet, The Mohammedans consider him to be a prophet though not a par with. Mohammed. One of their favorite sayings Is, "There is mil God except God and Mohammed is his prophet," As four men car- ry, the open coffin bearing their loved one to the. grave, they chant thts saying over and over on their way. There are some bearing the name of. Christians who believe in Jesus as, a good man, even as a son of God as we are all sons of God,—and stop there, Of course, such a one could not be a Redeemer and Saviour. H. could set us a good example but could not provide forgiveness and new life for the sinner. The confession of Peter is the correct answer: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Since all sin is primarily against God, only God can grant complete forgiveness. His will- ingness and desire to do so is shown in the fact that He gave His Son to be made in the like- ness of men to become a Medit- ator. Jesus Christ is our only hope. Though. Peter made the great confession, he did not fully un- derstand that Jesus Christ must suffer in order to make atone- ment for our sins. He did not see that the portrayal of the suffer- ings of Messiah as given by ° Isaiah, chapter 53, would be lit- erally fulfilled. We all shrink from the cross. We seek our own comfort. We hesitate to deny ourselves, take up the cross and follow Jesus. But this is the way into the kingdom for us all. "For whoso- ever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gos- pel's, the same shall save it." It is not enough to acknowledge in word that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God. We, must follow Him. 3randma Was A Champion Fryer When .1 was a hey, 4 fall Or winter Saturday evening had .attractions offered by no other tinge, It Was art interval /Or re- laxing, remembering, preparing the luxurious, cozy end of another busy week Of course, Saturday evenings in spring and summer had ad- vantages, too, but they couldn't produce the snug comfort that arrived with the early darknes.t say, late November. Our tin, electrified home was never so cheerful, never so hospitable and carefree. The lighted lamp on the round golden oak table in the living room, the dusky ,print of the three horses' heads (Grandma said the steeds were Pharaoh's), the easy chair in the window that kept its eye on the Mohawk River, the book on •the nearby stand, awaiting the after-supper reading — well, my environment has changed many times, but those shining hours have been my yardstick for contentment. Relaxing, to the boy, meant an hour with Black Beauty, the Brownies, the Argonauts, or with Ernest, as he studied the Great Stone Face in the White Hills. Grandma assisted in tee reading, even when the lad wes well .able to do his own, 1, 1 1v,-. was always eager to hear her animated voice act out the stories. The remembering on Satur- day evening recalled not only events of the week — academic and recreational — but a much more recent pleasure: Grand• . ma's fried potatoes, a traditional part of the day's supper. She was a champion frier. I recall the pleasure I got from slicing the cold potatoes, left over from dinner, and speeding the thin slivers into the iron pan at the 'hot front of tile coal etove. I took a station close by, to he certain that my pieces were al- lowed to carbonize properly. To me the height of Culinary per- fection was a heavily overfried potato. I loved it and still do. "Well, if you turn into a chunk of charcoal, don't say I didn't warn you." Grandma would chuckle, Fortunately, the transformation did not take ,place, so she had no occasion 'for I-told-you-so. The Saturday remembering, however, concerned loftier mat- ters recalling major and minor triumphs of the last week—that I had beaten my arch ri'al, Freddie Winters, in arithmetic; that I had successfully, yes, triumphantly, identified in geo- graphy class the capitals of the Balkan countries, a feat I was unable to duplicate in later years. It was also, perhaps, good to remember that I had planted a rather sharp left on the chin of my occasional antagonist, Jack Niles, Grandma, to whom I promptly reported my victories as they came to pass, seemed especially pleased when I had walloped poor "Jack, realizing full well, I suppose that the next time there would be a differeht story and that credit should be given in a hurry. Let me admit that the week, had likewise provided events re- flecting less glamorously less creditably on my scholastic ,prowess; however,' I naturally wasted no time thinking about them. Nor shall I give you, even now, a sample of my short-, 'comings, except to suggest that long division was my nemesis for several weeks despite Grand- ma's patient assistance, and that I never fully mastered the head- quarter cities' of those trouble- some twins, the Virginias and the Dakotas, writes John L. Cooley, in The Christian Science Monitor. 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