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The Brussels Post, 1960-03-24, Page 7WRECKER. WRECKED - A storm sweeping through. Nashville, turned the tables on a wrecking firm by toppling a tree which crushed one of its cars. NOW When nights arc still cold but noondaYs are pleasantly mild, the eel)• begins to run. All during the preceding summer the trees' green leaves went about their business of photo synthesis, making sugar out of air and water and, Sunshine. A large crown beari ng a multitude of leaves produces more sugar than is needed by the tree for either current consumption or new growth, and the surplus is stored away in root and trunk. It Is this surplus that begins, to stir as spring approaches. Just what makes the sap move we do not know. We do know that living tissues are necessary and that sap runs out of the tapped trunk in responses to changes in pressure within, Pres- sure changes are in turn brought about by alternating high and low temperatures. When the day remains cold or the night warm, sap will not run, The year's sugaring is over for good when leaf buds begin to Awell. Maple sap is collected drop by drop in buckets that hang from the tapping spout or spite, , . The sap must be boiled as soon as possible before it can ferment or turn sour. So on days when the sap is running in a steady drip, there is a constant round of the grove with the collecting tank, and fires burn under the big, fat evaporator pans far into the evening. - From "The Changing Face of New England," by Betty Flanders Thomson, Winter Nights In. An Indian Orchard Winter nights are different, Then no song is to be heard in the orchard. Some times the thunder mutters deep-toned threats over the dark mass of trees while the black rain pat- ters incessantly onto the broad banana leaves and strives to shake the quiet might of the sacred pipal tree. More often there is no rain, and the trees stand silent in cold darkness or chill moonlight all night long. Not a sound can you hear, save when a bird utters an eerie cry, as in a dream, flutters about in the branches, and is quiet again. If you want to catch the dreamy loveliness of a winter's morning, you must wake up be- fore the sun does and go into the orchard. You will hear the hundred thousand notes that make up the great morning hymn of the birds. You will find the trees shrouded in a gauze of blue mist. You will see the sun's first rays pierce the blue like a sheaf of gilt arrows and light up the dewdrops caught in the cob- webs on the grass, making them glitter like diamonds. The mall will be up already, lighting a fire of dry twigs and leaves to warm his numb hands, with the smoke spiraling into the air, the twigs crackling, and the red and yellow leaves writh- ing and crumpling up as they catch alight and then' burn out into black embers. Little by little the sunshine spreads over the orchard, cast- ing on each object the spell of its golden touch. The air loses its chill and becomes warm and balmy, and the green guavas drink in the golden warmth that will make them swell out round and full and tightly packed with soft, white, seeded sweetness, (But only the red-beaked par- rot knows which ones are sugar- sweet, so pluck from the tree where this bird has pecked.) Many mingled scents are waft- ed to you - the lovely frag- rance of white jessamine flow- ers, the fresh smell of lime leaves, the delicate perfume of wild-pear blossom, the smells of moist earth and green grass. Lying there on the grass, you can hear the honey bees, buzzing drowsily in the white pear tree and see the butterflies hovering around the red hibiscus flowers that loll out long, pollen-covered tongues. They are intruders in the orchard, but the lady of the garden let's them grow, along with the jessamine flowers, to make garlands to sell in the mar- ket place. 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"Vilt 411140115111111 1 11)"'-'-'084111par I .1P Wap GRAIN BoX- „, ,, , ..., ,,,,„„ .dviiii,, (1!adi O 0 H O P P E R FEEDER • -,----. ."`"N!: 1.. :0,•:::: lniliili VillT1074.3,,,,4%, 4)..ELEVATOR - - . ''iliiill4liillil, .?'-44411 .0 CROli4iitY1'NG0.iii i .144: . CROP DRYER WAGON' 44°44 •' ()BALE CARRIER O HAYCRUISER BALER ©BARN CLEANER o MANURE SPREADER' O SILO UNLOAOER h., Aotit.OUNK "'"' FEEDER. 4) BLOWER 0 CROP CARRtEk THE FARM FROM •._.. --.1*- A. - ''• _..., 401 0 IVOUISZela • ' - .._.:V..,0* ,.. __.--v... \ fe '. , 23 32 Sixteen. Years To Grow A Ro4el • On a sunny clay this coming summer 4 lovely red rose Will he ceremoniously plucked from a large rose tree on a grave, at Mannheim, Pennsylvania, and presented to a beautiful young Woman, A Simple ceremony like this has been carried out every June since 14772, when, rose-loving Baron Heinrich Wilhelm. Stieeel died at Mannheim, leaving his fortune to a local church on one condition, This was that each June, when the roses he loved were bloom- ing everywhere, a rose should be taken from a specially plant- ed tree above his churchyard grave and presented to his youngest and most attractive woman descendant, A slim, pretty teenager who lives in Pennsylvania will be this year's recipient. Like others before her who have received an "inheritance rose," as it is called, she will keep it until she dies One of the Baron's descendants travelled Amore than 300 miles to receive her rose some years ago. If there's one flower which is rarely out of the news, it is the rose. Rose breeders are still try- ing to produce the "perfect rose." One of the finest produced in re- cent years is a hybrid tea rose, a rick pink bloom with a deli- cate scent. The man who pro- ducecl this exquisite newcomer to the rose world is said to have worked on it secretly for six- teen years. Tremendous interest has al- ways been shown in Britain in the cultivation of roses which are the finest flowers natural to that soil, although there "birthplace" was Persia, Only ten kinds of roses were known in England in 1581. A century later we hear of nine- teen, and in a book on gardening published in 1798 nearly fifty species are mentioned. Twenty- three million roses in more than 500 different varieties were grown in Britain before the war. The oldest rosebush on earth is at Hildesheim, Germany, where war-time bombs which did great 'damage to the town failed to stop its growth. Legend says it was planted by Charle- magne more than 1,000 years ago. Roses are not merely decora- tive and sweet-smelling. They helped to fight disease in Brit- ain during the war. Rose hips, the fruits of rose shrubs, are rich in vitamin C, and when it was impossible to get oranges the hips were collected to .make na- tional rose hip syrup, an anti- scorbutic for children. In one year, 1943, 500 tens pf rose hips were picked from British hedges and made 2,500,000 bottles of .syrup-equal in vitamin con- tent to 25 million oranges. When, we talk of a lucky per- SOFT-SOAPER - Sonia Thomp- son, 3, is a soft-soaper whose theme song could be "I'm For- ever Blowing Bubbles." CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Coal distillate 4. Harden 7. 'feting hog 12. 33everage 13. EqUiValerice 14. Pocketbook 15. Dessert O. Spanish dialect 18. Sweetheart 20. Clear prefit 11. AdheblVe 22. Baking chamber 23, Court deCition 24. AbOrbeah 25. Give back 27, Rertiolied the bone!. 28i Ahlidett dog '80. Worthiens dog 10. TitteritY 83 Atealtengers 87. Pulled apart :88. BlehrOjpid 89. Smooth 40..Stinkeri 7enCe 41. Edge 48. Mitelcal keeper„46, Shelter , -47..zraeget0 418:,Frent ,411. Defiartiiiiitt In ran Cid E40. material,.51,1)EiriMe f$2. High Witness ‘,6kw.8 Sol? we sometimes say he's "on bed Of roses," Well, a noteri- PUS early governor of ,Sicily did habe 211013 a bed. Re extorted $1,000,000 from the people and had himself carried by eight men on a bed stuffed with countless rose petals. On his head he wore CrOWP of roses and round his neck, rose garlands, Dip into history and you find scores of, references to roses, The Emperor Nero loved their, He once spent more than $150,000 Procuring rose blooms for a single magnificent feast. When he entertained in the open air a fountain in his garden sometimes sprayed rose-water. It's been calculated recently that 3,500,000 roses are needed to make one quart of pure attar of roses, the world's most ex- pensive natural flower essence. There is a rose garden nearly thirty miles long in Bulgaria which produces forty tons of attar of roses annually, It was partly destroyed by the Nazis but is now flourishing again, Housewives used to make home-produced rose water to im- prove their complexions in Vic- torian times, In the early morn- ing they gathered the blooms of "cabbage" roses while the dew was still on them, They picked off the petals and prepared "a delicate concoction" which toned up their skin. An excellent jam is made from rose petals in some parts of Europe, Before the days of syn- thetic syrups, chopped rose petals added to sugar and baked in an oven was a favourite flav- ouring for cakes. Few rose lovers know that the Empress Josephine was so keen to assemble the world's best roses in her garden at Malmaison that she gave a certain Mr. Ken- nedy, of Hammersmith, London, a special passport. This enabled him, war or no war, to travel between Britain and France "in the service of the Empress's roses." Imagine paying your rent with a rose. This is what Sir Christo- pher Hatton, Lord Chancellor to the first Queen Elizabeth, paid for Ely Place, which he occupied. When an electric company sought permission in 1931 to run cables across ground in Kent owned by the journalist and edi- tor, the late Arthur Mee, he said he would accept a token payment annually of a red rose as rent. In June of every year after that, until he died in 1943, Mr. Mee received a newly plucked red rose from the manager of the company. He used to press each rose, dry it and then place it In a rent book. Golf In Russia From the P olish publication Slowo Powszchne (the Common Word) via the New York Times we learn that golf is no longer the butt of Communist ridicule as a childish capitalist pastime. In fact, in their well publicized effort to overtake the -West, the Russians have actually taken up the sport. The Polish paper avers that there are several new courses in the Crimea and that one will be ready near Moscow this spring on which "President Eisenhower will be able to try out the game he fancies," It will surprise no one, we are sure, that now that the Reds have recognized golf, they find that Russians ' discovered it. Slowo PoWszechne qUotes Prav- da as calling it a game which Russian shepherds played with enthusiasm almost a thousand years ago. This will be interesting news to the , editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. Their assiduous re- searchers credit the game to the Scotch and report the first men- tion of it in a 1457 decree of pat liamenn which complained that the people were becoming more interested in golf than in archery, ,--Milwaukee Journal Fame of the Entomology Re- search Institute for Biological Control at Belleville, Onte has spanned the world. During the past two years, 5,000 species of predacious mites have been sent to Belleville frcm many parts of the world for identification. These came from almost every country in Europe, from many countries in Central and South America, and from Australia, India, Burma, Nepal, Japan and the Philip- pines. To date, say Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture researchers, over 80 species new to science have been found. To describe and name them involved de- tailed studies of the predacious mites of, for example, Algeria and Central. America. Nearly 30,000 species of mites - microscopic organisms related to spiders - are known. Many of them damage agricultural crops and fruit trees, especially those sprayed with DDT, which destroys the enemies of mites. * * * Damage would be much great- er if the pest species were not attacked and killed by preda- cious mites. Agriculturists dis- agree on the value of these pre- dacious species, and it was in the search of the answer that investigations were launched at A relatively minor aspect of these investigations developed into a major project. * Belleville scientists soon found that some of the predacious, mites were species new to science. These had to be des- cribed and given scientific names. When this was done, Dr. D. A. Chant, leader of the re- search group, found himself re- cognized as an expert on the classification of predacious mites. Investigations on the value of the predacious mites indicate that in some situations they are less valuable than has been sup- posed, because they feed on plants as well as on the plant- feeding mites. However, in other situations they effectively pre- vent serious damage to crop plants. * * 4' Sucking lice can reduce the number of red blood cells in cattle by as much as half, warns Dr. W, 0. Hanle of the Cahada Department of Agriculture's Lethbridge, Alta., research sta- tion. When this happens, he points out, their resistance to unusual exercise, rigorous weather, se- vere conditions of transporta- tion, and disease is reduced, * * 4, . Some cattle are highly sus- cePtible to biting and sucking lice and if kept in crowded quartets during winter on main- tenance rations, ehey quickly spread' the infeetatien. Thus control by spraying, washing or dusting is vital. * * Spraying or washing cattle in cold, windy weather in Winter involves the risk' of respiratory diseases This should be done in a warns building and cattle given coinfortable shelter until they are 'dry. Failing this, it is ad- viseble to use an insecticide dust fair temparary control. * Dusts Must be applied at two, Week interVals. While lesS festive than spraying, dusts ref duce lice sufficiently to prevent severe anemia Until the cattle can be sprayed chiritig the fitst Warm weather. A systematic insecticide such as rOiuiel in the form of Boluses is satigfactory for urgent treat- -Mehl of abuttals during SeVere When. Maple Sap Begins To Run The. Indians knew about mak- ing maple syrup. For years after the country was settled, "tree sugar" and honey were the only available sweetenings in the back country, and white sugar was an expensive luxury. Now the tables are turned, and maple sugar is the luxury sweet, . It takes some forty years to grow a tree large enough to he worth tapping. When the trunk is ten to twelve inches thick it will keep one bucket busy.. . . A well-managed grove con- tains nothing but maple trees, and it is not used as a cattle pasture in the summer. Some- where in the grove there is a plain, weather-beaten sugar house where the sap is boiled down into the syrup. There must be fuel nearby, perferably from surplus young trees in the grove itself. Since it takes a cord of wood to boil the 875 gallons of sap needed to make twenty-five gallons of syrup, a big, woodpile is accumulated during the win- ter. A sap storage tank is lo- cated in a cool, shaded spot where it can be easily filled from the sled tank and where sap can run from it into the evaporators by gravity. Along in March as the midday sun recovers from its winter en- feeblement people in the north country begin to think about the sugaring. Sugar weather is often the kind when vapors from,melt- ing snow hang in a murky haze over the soggy land all day, and only in the chill of evening does the air become clear and crisp again. There is a certain kind of heavy, wet snow with large flakes that stick together in clumps that is known in Ver- mont as "sugar snow." liNDAYSC11001 LESSON kly Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., 8,13, A Witness in clia44 Acts gg; 16-24, 30-31 , Memory Selecllent I•13 all Mese , things we are more than coal, querors through Rim that loved us, Romans 8:37. Even in prison Paul proves that, "All things Work together for good to them that love God.". In his letter to the PhilinPlauS he said, "I would ye should un- derstand, brethren, that the things which happened unto ins have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; se that my bonds in Christ aro, manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; and many of the brethren in the Lord, wax- mg confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.' (1:12-14). Nearly hall of Paul's letters Which appear in our New Tes- tament were written from pri- son in Rome. In them there is no trace of bitterness. He made no accusation against the people responsible for his unjust impri- sonment. They are messages from a joyful and loving heart. The key word of his letter to the Philippians is, 'Rejoice.' Seven- teen times in four short chap- ters, .some form of joy or re. joice occurs. He writes in tri- umph, "I have learned, in what- soever state I am, therewith tai be content," and, "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus," Paul needed his prison. experience for our sake, Without it he could never have written so helpfully for the sick and troubled. The 'fourth chapter of the Philipp ian letter has strengthened many. Paul has, been criticized, for going up to Jerusalem when he had been warned that he would be imprisoned. Well, who are we to judge this great man? Je- euee, snowing of His decease which He should aoCettrt,"‘-11 et Jerusalem, steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem. Se Peat seemed impelled by the Holy Spirit to go up to Jerusalem. When his closest friends, includ- ing Luke, heard the Divine pre- diction at Caesarea and beset him not to go, he said. "What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jestis." Acts 21:13. If people always shrank from im- minent dangers we would have few missionaries. God had His hand on Paul and was leading Him. He was fitting him to be a greater blessing. The editor of a certain maga- zine received a letter from Edin- burgh which warned: "Gentle- men, if you print any more jokes about stingy Scotsmen, I shall cease borrowing your paper." feet down the winding path and, from the distance, come the in- cessant cooing of the doves and the sharper call of the hoopoe searching for insects in the bark with its pointed beak. - By Ni- lofer Ahimed in the Christian Science Monitor. ISSUE 13 -- 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking no •ego© Elf711/TBOEIBM €1121:3111E1 InElE1 MUM MIAMI Oda a 1 zi 0191 tEl 0 0 El EMU EMI I:1E112KM EICE/FlOnE71 MAT 'M EM MIDEI 1:31W.1 1111111F4CRI €1EIEI ffigEiffl -Don ERR/ 1210121111 191001 DI3E3 ''den and its immediate area where as much as SO per cent of the work 'Ott a *0y ,farm 'Is condemecitedi Materials-handlIn§ machines like the barn Cleaner, SIG unloader and bald Carrier 'reducenee4 for manpower and allow greater farm efficiency and profits. Sketch' Irani Sperryscope Magazine. weather. Three doses are requir- ed at 10-day intervals. Each should contain five grains of the active ingredient for each 100 pounds of the animal's weight. Mystery Monster Will the Loch Ness Monster be caught eventually by echo soun- der? Recently Donald Patience, of Avon, Ross - shire, used his echo sounder while navigating the Loch, and it picked up some- thing whidh, to say the least, sounded fishy. The echo pinged against some- thing alive at a depth of ninety- five fathoms, Records show that at the point where the reaction was registered, the true depth is 110 fathoms. The report greatly interested Mrs. Constance White, of Clach- naharry, Inverness, author of a book on the monster, and an ardent researchist into its habits, authentic and mythical. She hopes other skippers will switch on their sounders when sailing through the Loch and let her have details of anything unusual that is picked up. There is no doubt something odd inhabits these quiet Scottish waters. Too many responsible people have reported seeing the monster for their evidence to be discarded as absolute moonshine. DOWN Maker or clothed 2. Recessed part Of a room 3. Passes a rope through 4. 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