The Brussels Post, 1959-10-08, Page 3-4
the yield to es high as. :20 tons
per acre,
Around.. the,,end of September
barvesting begins and Vanadian
Sugar's three plants spring to
Life after an overhaul in the
nine-month off-season ,period.
The plants run `,44 hours a day
and key workers forget about
evenings at h o m: . The 1,00 0•
men employed during beet-slic-
ing time (the "campaign," as it
is dubbed) get on with the
urgent task of processing the
beets into sugar, molasses and
wet and dry pulp for livestock.
feed, Only the $51/2 million Ta.
her plant, one of the most mo-
dern on the continent, dries the
pulp so it .can be marketed at
great distances
Around Lethbridge in south-
ern Alberta beets pile up at
railway sidings awaiting trans-
portation to a sugar refinery,
More beets are stacked outside
each plant but harvesting con-
tinues until farmers have com-
pleted their deliveries about
November 1.
Around Christmas time • the,
last beet rolls through the slicer
and farmers and refinery work-
ors' turn' to other tasks. Only
skeleton staffs remain' at the
plants to -overhaul machinery,
sell and ship the sugar and
molassesT make .the final pay-
ments to farmers and plan how
they'll look after next ,year's
crop of the "prima donna of. the
vegetable world" - by Jean
Danardew in the Imperial' Oil Re- vi
Safety Is Money.
Prima, Donna Of The'
Vpgotoblo World
If ever a vegetable was a
prima donna, it's the homely,
turnip-like sugar beet,
• Given the right 011,, fertilizer,
'watering, weather, and loving
care, she'll bring a handsome
revenue to her sponsor. But woe
to the man who fails to pay her
those essential courtesies,.
Nowhere is this more vividly.
'•enderstood than in southern Al-
berta, where 1,000 farmers plant
Qanada's largest sugar beet crop
and; in normal years, harvest
about half a million tons,. Out
of this mountain of beets, three
southern Alberta plants, at Ray-
mond, Taber and Picture Butte,
refine 140 _million pounds of
white sugar.
This is more than half the
white beet sugar produced in
Canada. Four other beet refin-
ing plants - one each in. Malti .
toba and. Quebec and two in
Ontario - produce the remain-
ing beet sugar. The seven; plants
combined produce 18 ,,per cent
of the Canadian white sugar
output. . • ' •
He Put filentho1 In
R9,1114°YPPIA/11..
Lloyd Hughes: whose friends
always. .cailed hl.s $pucl, couldn't
shake that, cold. Then he took his
mother's advice and mix.ed, men-
thol crystals with his favorite
rell-your-own's. Not only did .the
cold disappear, but Spud and his
buddies liked, the new smoke's.
taste, So well, in fact, that Spud
and -his 'folks sold the family
restaurant and went into, the •eig--
grette making business. Thus,.
back in the early 1920's in Min..
go Junction, Ohio, was born the
mentholated cigarette.
Throught the years, Spuds
(now produced by Philip Morris)
and its lone competitor, Fools,
seldom seldom sent up enough smoke to
cover more than a fraction of
the total cigarette market. But
last month, mentholateds were
the hottest (and coolest) thing in
smoking since the filter flood,
holding a solid 11 per cent of
the biggest cigarette market in
history. (running: 3'to 4 per cent
above, the record 436 billion cig-
arettes smoked last year). And
inanufactivers.. were area-testing
three new menthol brands to.
compete with the seven already
in the menthol field.
The surge of the menthols was
triggered by the success two
years ago of • R. J. Re,y.nolds'
Salem. In quick succession came
Liggett & Myers' Oasis grid P.
Run, Sheep, Run
Finest Game Of All NDAYSC11001
4.4,.•• LESSON Some things get lost, The fin-
est game of all, the most excit-
to me, is disappearing
lag and, mystical and splendid,
the game that meant childhood
Sheep, Run. Do they still play
that in the little towns upstate,
in the villages of the West, in
the sleepy Southern places?
They do not play it in our sub-
urbia..
We may have played it in
broad daylight at times, but I
think of it as coming always at
after-
noon, after an early supper. For
the end of a long' summer
me, the memory is mixed up
with twilight and mystery, If
you are twenty-five or over and
ever lived in a small town, you
must have known it, Do you re-
call it as wistfully as I do?
Do you remember your appre-
hension as you waited to be
chosen for a team? It was a tri-
bute to your popularity to have
your name called quickly. Then,
when the choosing was over,
came the secret huddles of each
pack, You had the signals to
decide on, colors they were, usu.
ally: blue for "Lie low," purple
for "Danger; they're on the
trail," yellow for "They're pass-
ing; get ready to run." After
that came the scattering and the
frantic search for hiding places.
You went far afield then, some-
times blocks and blocks away.
For this was a formal search,
with spies and informers arid
raiding parties; and as it was
summer, there didn't have to be
an early end to forays.
Do you remember the wonder-
ful hiding places: the nook un-
der a latticed porch, the gully,
the cleft tree with conveniently
drooping branches? And how
hard your heart beat when the
enemy (after giving a fair "Here
we come" as warning) started,
in full cry, on your trail? Then
you. became, indeed, the hunt-
ed. . . .
There was the most delicious
danger in the air. You listened
to your own leader, running
with the wolves and crying out
words intelligible only to you.
You did not dare cough or move
or draw a deep breath. Or the
pack passed you, and obedient
to the signals floating back, you
dodged about in the lengthening
dusk, creeping, hunching over.
melting into shadow.
And then, after what seemed
an eternity of peril, the shrill
explosion of "Run, sheep, runt"
Your heart pounded, your legs
pumped like pistons. And the
light finally died in the sky, and
someone called you to bed, -
"The Province of the Heart" by
Phyllis McGinley, Copyright,
1959, by Phyllis McGinley.
Bey It, Barclay Warren,
B.P.
Sharing. the Living Chit*
Acts 3:1-1, 11-16.
MenlerY Selection; Silver and
gold have I note; but such as I
have give I thee, Acts 3;6,
The Gospel records many beat-
ings performed by Jesus. Here Is
the first detailed account of
healing after the ascension at
Jesus, performed by the apostles
in the name of Jesus, The com-
mand to the cripple was, "In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazar,.
eth rise up and walk," In the
explanation to the crowd that
gathered, the apostles thorough-
ly disclaimed any power In
themselves to perform such a.
healing. Peter preached Jesus
and said, "His name through.
faith in his name bath made this
man strong."
Jesus used miracles as oppor-
tunities for further teaching con-
cerning the kingdom. Peter does
the same. He proceeds to preach,
"Repent ye therefore, and be
converted, that your sins may
be blotted out, when the times
of refreshing shall come front
the presence of the Lord." The
healing of the body is secondary
to the healing of the soul. Ne
matter how well we care for
the body with all modern medi-
cal aids, it is returning to the
dust till the resurrection day.
The soul will return to God who
gave it. Therefore we must
stress repentance and conver-
sion and the forgiveness of sins.
The worshippers in the temple
must have been startled when
the cripple who had been car-
ried daily to the temple's gate
to receive alms now entered the
temple "walking, and leaping.
and praising God." But when
anyone who has had .what seem-
ed a permanent handicap, sud-
denly finds release, he is very,
very happy and thankful. Simi-
larly when one is converted and
receives the joy of forgiveness
of sins it is very natural for
him to give praise to God. It
more people were praising God
instead of grumbling and wor-
rying, fewer tranquilizers would
be sold. Nehemiah said, "The
joy of the Lord is your strength."
(8:10). "With the heart man be-
lieveth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth 6nfession is
made unto salvation." Romans
10:10.
Peter's sermon is one of firm-
ness motivated by love. He says,
"Ye , .. killed the Prince of Life,
whom. God hath raised from the
dead," But hope is extended U
the words, "I know that through
ignorance ye did it, as did also
your rulers." We must not hesi-
tate to .charge people with their
sins, We must also encourage
them to seek forgiveness through
repentance and faith in Jesus
Christ.
JUST LIKE BABY - Soroya, a three-month-old otter, takes
her formula of milk, cod liver oil' and powdered baby food
from owner Emil Liers, a famous otter raiser,
To farmers under contract to
the sugar factories, sugar beets
can bring a return of more than
$200 per acre. No cereal crop
begins to compare with this. But
it is an advantage which is not
won easily. Raising the tem-
peramental beet calls for con-
stant care, hard work and care:,
ful planning. In early spring the
farmer must plant the seed one
inch apart and fertilize the field,
He , must irrigate at least twice
and sometimes four times. He
must thin the grown plants until,
they are 12 inches apart and at
harvest time dig, decapitate and
pile the roots, at the same time
praying that the weather will
not kill his year's work.
Frost can be both his friend
and his foe. A nip in early Sep-
tember is welcomed because it
helps bring the beet to maturity
and hastens the storage of sugar
in the root. One year, however,
severe September frosts killed
the tops and small "feeder"
roots in the ground. When new
tops started growing during the
heat of an Indian summer, some
sugar was drained from the
beet.
A wet fall makes the ground
so muddy that only with diffi-
culty can the beet farmer use
the mechanical harvester, which
in recent years has taken much
of the back-breaking toil out of
harvesting.
In, the beginning, beet raising
was a back-breaking, disappoint-
ing task. It began in Canada in
1901, when Jesse Knight from
Utah made the first abortive at-
tempt to introduce sugar beet
farming to the fertile plains of
what is now southern Alberta.
Since then former wheat far-
mers have mastered the art.'In
1925 the crop yield per acre was
7% tons of beets. Today me-
chanization, better farming and
improved varieties have raised
THE FARM FROM
Jo The testimony of \ experts
shows that there is added,incen-
tive to safe driving. It turns out
that dr1Ving which is safe• is also
money-saving.
Among the tips passed out by
an economy-run winner recently
were these:
-Drive at moderate speeds.
Driving at speeds over 60 can
reduce gas mileage as much as
50 pct.. over what you'd get
sticking to the 40-45 m.p.h.
range.
-Avoid sudden stops. When
you see a traffic light turn red
or a stop sign coming up, take
your foot off the' accelerator and
glide to a stop,
-Stay away from hot-rodding
getaways. Accelerate slowly,
and shift gears quickly, rather
than gunning it up to 50 in sec-
ond gear.
This and other economy prac-
tices could save you up to $250
a year in gas costs, the experts
say.
Of course, these who can't
bear to abandon -their black lea-
ther jacket mentality-their pen-
chant for using, an automobile
as an instrument for satisfying
an animal yearning for power
won't change their hot-rod hab-
its just because it saves money,
or is safer, or more polite.
Just the same, it is nice to
know that the man ,vho drives
as if he had a head on his shoul-
ders, rather than a monkey on
his back, is making himself
money as well as driving safely.
-Denver Post.
Resistration is necessary in
order to participate from the
start in the government's pro-
gram' of supporting egg prices
by deficiency payments, L. W.
Pearsall, Agricultural Stabiliza-
tion. Board chairman, reminds
egg producers.
spot may be very different from
that a few feet away. Conse-
quently, many soil samples are
required before a reliable meas-
ure of the moisture content of
a large area can be obtained.
This takes much time and effort.
Several instruments are avail-
able for specific or research pur-
poses, but all have the same in-
herent weakness - they meas-
ure the moisture content of very
small volumes of soil, not of the
soil as a whole.
A -promising method has re-
cently ,locen, -devised for deter-
mining the moisture content in
large areas by deduction from
the amount contained in the at-
mosphere. (The air is the rese-
voir of water which evaporates
from plants and soil). Thus the
change in moisture content of
the air as It passes over the soil
reveals, how,much water is leav-
ing the soil.
Sensitive and costly equipment
is required for research purposes.
4 4 *
For rough ,estirnates, several
assurnptionS can be made to
make the equipment useful for
irrigation scheduling *and other
moisture.:. budgeting work. For
the latter, weather records can
be used to determine• soil moist-
ure content at any time in the
past ind 4gt any locatfon that has
weather recording facilities.
nt.t.r.. 0'1*
A recent refinement of the
moisture budgeting procedure
permits separation of the soil
into zones and the determina-
tion of moisture content in any
zone, without having to take
soil samples. This is valuable in
moisture research. Investigation
of past records enables more in-
telligent planning of future
work, such as in irrigation plan-
ning.
•
The deficiency payment policy,
replacing the present method of
providing support through egg
purchases, takes ecect October
1 this year.
Payments, if necessary, to any
one producer during a 12-month
period will be° limited to 4,000
dozen Grade A Large eggs, in-
cluding Grade A Extra Large.
*
Cards used for applying for
registration may be obtained
from any egg grading station.
Only one application is to be
made for each farm or business
unit involving multiple flocks.
In the case of multiple owner-
ship, only one application should
be made.
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KIDS ARE KIDS - The school
is in Moscow, but the' expres,
siOns are from all childhood.
Such glee is to be fOund any-
where when school is out for
the day.
At Work Below Zero
Human beings can work in
severe cold-but only with great-
ly impaired efficiency, Dr. Ear-
land E. Hedblom, Staff Surgeon
for the Navy's "Operation Deep
Freeze" in Antarctica, told the
International College of Surge-
ons meeting in Chicago, Peak
human efficiency, he said, is
reached at about 68 degrees. "At
from zero to 40 degrees below,"
Dr. Hedblom said, "efficiency is
about 50 per cent; from 40 to 60
degrees below, roughly 10 to 25
per cent." Much of this lost effi-
ciency, he said, is due to the
time spent in warming numbed
fingers and toes, "and in general,
fighting your environment."
To an extent, Antarctic per-
sonnel find "the cold is stimulat-
ing," Dr. Hedblom added. "In
fact, it makes them overwork."
It hasn't hurt them. Although
there are three times the normal
number of injuries (many caus-
ed by slipping on ice), Deep
Freeze men, Dr. Hedblom said,
"are in remarkably good health."
*
The-average number of laying
hens on hand must be given.
The application, to be valid,
must be signed by the applicant.
Once a producer has been
issued a registration number, he
merely has to identify his egg
shipments with it and can mar-
ket at' one or more egg grading
stations.
Lorillard's Newport. In fact, the
mint field is now so green that
makers have taken to competing
with themselves. Example: Lor-
illard introduced tinged-with-
menthol Spring only three weeks
ago,'reports it has had the fast-
est start of any cigarette in mod-
ern Mmes.
Tobaccomen say they're mysti-
fied °by the rush to mentholated
smoking. But still there are the-
ories. One; The new menthols
feature air vents, high porosity
paper, and higher filtration - all
designed to cut down on tars and
nicotine and appeal to smokers
fretful over the cancer scare. An-
other: More teen - agers and
women are smoking, and they
like sweet tastes. Heavy adver-
tising - generally acknoWledged
as playing the single most im-
portant role in building brand
loyalty - certainly has had
something to do with the men-
thol madness. Spiraling upward
by $31 million, ad budgets hit
$188.7 million for the big-six
makers last year and are bigger
than ever this year. A large por-
tion of the money is being spent
to plug the minty smokes. One
expert estimates that it takes
from $5 million to $10 million
to Start a new brand Moving
nationally.
Whatever the reason .for the
rise of the mentholated cigarette,
tobaccomen aren't waiting around
for another Spud Hughes to cre-
ate a new taste sensation for to-
day's fickle smokers. Every major
con-many is said to be experi-
menting with other flavored
cigarettes - including, vanilla
and china-men.
▪ *
Lastest estimate of Canada's
apple crop is 14,991,000 bushels,
a decrease of 12 per cent from
last year's production.
Maritime provinces will show
increases, while Ontario, Que-
bec and British Columbia will
harvest less this year. ▪ *
The predicted crop will be
three per 'cent below the 1954-
58 average production, reports
E. S. Eaton, Canada Department
of Agriculture economist. • *
In the United States, the 1959
apple crop is expected to yield
118.7 million bushels - a drop
of about six per cent from last
year,
For the year ending June, 30,
1959, United Kingdom apple im-
ports under the quota system
amounted to 3.6 million bushels,
compared to 2.9 million bushels
for the previous year. This takes
up about,97 per cent of the estab-
lished quota for the year. * *
Of the. total quota imports,
Canada shipped 804,000 bushels
and the United States 560,000.
Canada's share remained at
22.3 per cent, although total im-
ports to the U.K. showed an
increase of 25,6 per cent over the
previous year's 2.9 million bush-
els.
Italy supplied the U.K. with
2.1 million bushels during 1958-
59. boosting its exports by 26.6
per cent over the previous year.
Dttrope's apple crop 'this year
is estimated to be lighter than
the one of a year ago._ Italy
expects to harvest 79,5 million
btishels, compared to 81 Million
bushel's in 1958. * *
A sturribling,block in the path
of research workers investigating
problems of soil moisture and
the use of soil moisture by plants
has been the lack of a good Meth-
od of measuring the moisture
content of soils.
Soil is variable and corripleX
and its moisture content at One
ISSUE 41 - 1959
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is serious work to Dr. David G. Woodgush. Experiments in taste
and appetite involve 'weighing of test fowl to see what role
those qualities play in the selection of foods.
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ENEMY FROM WIT iIN
In close co-operation'with the
police, a student Of Michigan
State University is engaged in a
comprehensive survey of police
work.
Recently, however, he had lb
enlist their help on a much more
Serious Matter. While visiting a
prison during the COLItS0 of his
Studies the nearly completed
book on Criminal psychology
Which he had been Preparing was
stolen,
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eyes the world's target tire rim. Developed for use with ti 10-foot-high• lire for military
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