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The Brussels Post, 1960-03-31, Page 7,erpeoll on „every vacant inch of land, The unceasing moisture washes the trees. fresh And green; then it soaks down into the soil, deeper and deeper, to rouse the insect world, The earthworms now wiggle. out of the oozy mud, the green toads croak on the wet grass all day long, and when the rain stops you may see the tiny red .garden spiders; like little blobs of soft, crimson velvet,, running over the soil where it .3s pot so wet. When night falls, winged ants. swarm out in great teeming hordes - out of the earth, out of the grass, from everywhere,. Their winged splendor is the short-lived gift of the monsoon, and they fly about in desperate, blundering anxiety to make the most of it while it lasts. Around the mall's lantern is a great swarm of them, clumsily knock- ing against the glass and falling with a little flat sound to the ground, When morning comes they have gone, and near the lantern is S. mound of gauzy wings, soft as gossamer. - By Nilofer Ahmed in the Christian Science Monitor. some day, make a half-hour show all by itself, You began by feed- ing the horse, giving him a drink, scouring him at least somewhat with a curry or brush, and swap- ping his halter for a bridle, When you got the bridle up around the eyes, ready for the bits, the horse would lay back his ears, close hts teeth like the doors of a bank vault, and lift his head about 17 'feet, backing up as he did, Thus the whole enterprise moved rearward, and if the worst happened your head-free horse bolted and would be gone until Tuesday, If you were fortu- nate, you got him bridled, and he would either stand for the rest, or you could snap him to the harnessing rings in the barn floor. Most any horse with what is hilariously called horse sense knew enough to inflate himself against °the harness, He'd stand there with his eyes bugged out, holding his breath so you couldn't tighten the straps. Fitting a harnessed horse into the fills, shaftens, would make the best part of a show. You backed the horse in, steering him by the bridle, and had to reach down with the other hand and bring up the fills, so they'd slide into the loops. Probably nobody, in the entire history of horse- dom, ever did this completely and right the first time, because every horse had two sides, and you had to go around. Next came the fastening of the tugs to the whiffletree. On a buggy harness you had an eye sewn into the leather tug; there was no hook or snap. The eye went over a knobbed ferrule on the end of the tree. So, you'd gel one on, and by the time you'd gone around to get the other your horse would step ahead. This left you with about two feet be- tween the whiffletree and the end of the tug, and no known method of making it up. You couldn't make the horse hear you; you couldn't pull him back. The leverage on the whiffletree fought you. Water in the West is part of the story. One night we watched some unlucky wranglers suffer three days in a waterless desert, but their horses made out very well, It has also surprised me to see them kindle a rousing fire in wasteland, and come with a pail of water. Here in the lush Maine wilderness, where wood is always at hand, we don't make camp that easily. You hunt a little for the right wood, and wait for the flames to settle to embers. Everything, thus, seems to indi- cate, to me, that, settling the West was a simple little picnic hardly worth mentioning, It was a great deal, more work saying at home here on otir eastern farms where we had work to do. One night I saw a prospector with two horses and three mutes bring a pail at water as he made camp. The first' thing he did was Wash his face in the pail. An old uncle of ours who. prospected out there repeatedly told me the scarcity of water spared them toting soap. ,So I wonder. Anyway, the evening require- xnents of five animals who 'have been climbing all day will ex- ceed one pail of water. I know, for. I have- stood at the pump handle rnaliS'r and many ati even- ing and pumped water for just such &Mint until My cfavibles 'fretted each other and made a noise like a Cricket. NobOdy'fold ,me' these' eastern animal's, were a fake, and that all through the . Great West, they had thousands- of horses that never ate, drank, required grooming, or acted mean. Settling the, West must ' have been wonderful. - By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. DIDAYSCII001 LESSON About Horse Sense And Non-Sense The cultural winning of the. West seems to consist of half- bour segments during which 33o.. body ever fed a horse. This is unlike any horses that ever came to my attention back here in the jaded Fast. In fact, the winning of the West as so thoroughly de- picted on the air has turned out to be a rather effete propo- sition, not at all as I had thought, The nutritional desuetude of the horse, alone, astounds me. Indeed, the whole role of the horse in the opening of the West is an amazing thing. You see, I know horses, I was brought up with some of the best. And when a man in the picture says, "Awl raid., Hank, ah reckon you better saddle mall hossi" 1-lank comes back promptly with a horse all saddled. It wasn't like that. When anybody decided he'd like to go to the village, the hitching-in of a horse was a job of some dur- ation, and I always got out of it I could. There were times somebody suggested I hitch in old Gertie, and I'd disappear and he gone for days. Gertie was a fairly well-man- nered horse who; while you were buckling the surcingle, knew how to levitate and kick with all four feet at once. Gertie was a good horse, but she had no de- sire to go to the village, While western horses never get fed, our old beasts were al- ways eating. The team would get fed before daybreak of a winter's morn so they could .chomp everything down and be ready to hitch in when we fin- ished breakfast at the house. There was a peculiar noise about a horse going from his stall to the tub for a drink which nas never been put on any sound track I've heard - the hollow ringing of his steel shoes on the hemlock planks of the barn floor, everything accentuated by the frost in the air, and then the sucking noise a horce makes when he drinks. The western horse evidently spent all his' ime in the shaf tens, for anytime a buggy or buck- board appears, the horse is al- ready hitched in. Getting a horse attached to a road-rig might, .4 Rev, tt-ttarcial !Warren IOUS) A.U.ster Teacher Matthew 11.AO; .9:1447 Memory Selection: .4ions went about all 0.41111e, teaching its their SPIAgoPleS, Tqpp,0444. the gospel. of the kingdom., Mat, sew 4;23, la or this quarter we study tho teachings of Jesus. The °Meld subject is, "'Sermon on the Mount and Parables.' The course pre- sents a detailed study of the Sermon on the Mount with a re- lated consideration of various parables as they throw light on the teachings in the sermon, The Sermon presents standards for citizens of the kingdom of God. What would. Jesus,. this new Teacher, say about the law given by God through Moses? This was of great interest to the Jews, Particularly the Scribes and Pharisees. Jeus said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil," In His death, the ceremonial law concerning sacrifices for sin, was fulfilled, No more lambs need be slain for our atonement. In Mark 7:15 He declared, "There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him." Thus He set aside the en- tire set of ceremonial regulations concerning clean and unclean foods, as Mark declares in his comment, "This he said, making all meats clean." (7:19, ASV). It these regulations could be set aside, there is no logical reason why others of a ceremonial na- ture might not. There were still other laws in the Pentateuch which pertain to civil matters and criminal modes of proced- ure which were of temporary validity. See for example Deut. 21:18-21. The moral law as set forth in The Ten Commandments still stands, The Commandments ap- pear singly or in groups, various- ly expressed in many places in the Scriptures. Jesus repeated five of them in his conversation with the rich young ruler. For the second time in my ministry. I am bringing a series of mes- sages on these commandments and finding a gratifying res- ponse. Men may scoff at man's law but we had better heed God's law. The parables in the lesson il- lustrate the point that the spirit- ual freedom of the. Gospel could not be combined with the old Mosaic ceremonies. The new dis- pensation brought in by Jesus Chirst calls for more spiritual worship. 1 0 • 4 HEADS UP - Looking like trophies, these rub bits are having their temperatures taken at Squibb laboratories. If readings are normal, the rabbits are injected with the product to be tested, such as antibiotics. lh 1959, 5,000 rabbits got about 20,000 injections. An Early Robin With the spring the robin, who is ordinarily a somewhat soli- tary fellow or to be seen in pairs, suddenly becomes gregarious. When I emerge suddenly 'from the house they burst out of the rhododendrons in clouds. The other day in the shank of the winter I counted fifteen who had chosen a temporary headquar- ters in a tall maple. It was in the late afternoon and the fall- ing light threw them into sharp relief against the bare branches. With a good pair of field glasses I could make out their claws clasped around the twigs, and the effulgent colour of their breasts sharpened by the refrac- tion of the glass. At such a time when the daylight is slowly fad- ing, binoculars are truly rose- coloured glasses. But wait! Caught in a perfect focus one of them leaps into flight. Without spreading his wings he launches his body and that graceful downcurve is for all the world like that of a diver in a swan dive. The glasses fol- low him down, With a, burst of his wings he slips-into the depths of a tall holly. For a moment he is lost, and in seeking him out, the glasses range over the holly - a depth of deep green leaves with the rich red of the berries gleaming in clear out- line against them. Of a sudden 'he stands in focus again, stalwart and upright, his chest aglow against the deep im- penetrable greenery of the holly. With his beak agape he clasps a single red berry. Then with a sudden toss of the head it dis- appears down his throat. He ducks, plucks another, and then stands there with the berry a spot of gleaming red in his bill. Here in the framed field of my binoculars is an Audubon print come suddenly alive. - From "Thousand Acre Marsh,':. by ?Dudley Cammett runt. OUT FIRST BALL At Ventersdorp (W. Trani- veal), Mr. Sewes Terblanche, former Cape Town University ciicketer; hurled a stone at a charging-;two-year-old Afrikan- der bull find killed it, • x., FRONT Joku brooder space. On June 111, 17,- 7,300 poults were taken from the brooders and put on range. Having a large number of birds mature early permits more leeway in marketing. Sales are now spread out from September to December. Poults receive con- stant care, day and night, nntil they are grown and marketed. Last year, because of a tight commercial market, most of the big birds went alive to Kansas City wholesalers. Several hun- dred, however, were dressed in her modern processing plant and sold direct to the retail trade in Topeka, the state capital, a few miles distant. Other delicacies produced by Mrs. Ingersoll are boned and filleted turkey steaks, a turkey and pork sausage, and smoked, precooked turkey. Mrs. Ingersoll handles super- vision and financial management alone and, during hatching sea- son, commutes daily to the hat- chery in Burlington, 44 miles away. She gives much credit for her success to her two assistant man- agers. During processing and selection periods, a crew -of 10 or 12 local workers is employed. The future of commercial apple growing lies with the dwarf tree, R. F. Carlson, hor- ticulturist at Michigan State University, told Western horti- culturists. He expects dwarfs rapidly to replace standard-size trees, The former make better use of the ground, and they grow so much more rapidly that they be- gin to produce harvests and. pay for themmselves in the fifth year from planting. In contrast, an or- chard of standard-size trees only begins to pay its way by the 11th year. ments. In securing the exclusive Kansas franchise for the Rose-A- Linda strain of broad breasted bronze from Rio Linda, Calif., I joined what I consider one of the best breding programs avail- able." Along with producing quality stock, it is necessary to use mod- ern management and feeding practices, maintain strict sanita- tion, and work every "angle," ac- cording to Mrs. Ingersoll. Newest practice on the farm is artificial insemination, using her own toms. Used in combination with natural matings, fertility and profits are increased. This is the coming thing in the turkey business, she says. "Eventually, it will be uneces- sary to keep toms at all, which will be a big saving in feed - they are big eaters." Commercial feed is bought in bulk in Kansas City. It is hauled to the farm by a livestock truck- er on return trips from the Kan- sas City stockyards. Grain is raised on the farm on available land as time permits, but it is a small portion of the' amount needed, writes Lois M. Smith in The Christian Science Monitor. * * Because of labor and equip- ment costs, Mrs. Ingersoll finds it better to buy reserve supplies of corn, milo, and oats at harvest- time and store the grain in' metal bins on the farm. Feeding is tdone daily' on bal- ance,. formulas granges every two :Weeks, aecordingtb?:ege;and weight, .Mrs,Qn.#4VIt.,eStirn:astls • --'that feed corivetsibing' iurining just above 0/2 poi.Mds,,nf feel. for each pound of turkey pro. ducect She spys that ,fe0 son-, version' offers a big 'challenge id . growers interested in doing a better job. "It's a struggle for producers who ,do everything from pro- ducing fertile eggs to marketing live and dressed birds," says the young businesswoman. "You really have to watch the cor- ners." One profit booster for the farm is production of its own poults. Each November Mrs. In- gersoll, a licensed state selec- tion, agent, personally selects about 1,500 hens and 250 toms as: breeders. These produce her own flock plus some 30,000 poults a year which are sold to other producers. ,, Poults are produced in three- age groups, the largest number in the earliest group. This makes the most economical Use of 1 4 I I -I .1 1 4 4 I 4 4 4 4 I * Mr. Carlson said that some types of dwarf are producing 700 to 800 bushels an acre by their eighth year, and by the 15th year one variety at Michigan State was produrting 1,300 bush- els per acre. * • "Fifty, years ago Dad set out an apple orchard for his grand- children. Thirty years ago or- chards were planted for the chil- dren. But today's dwarf varieties permit Dad to plant one for his own pleasure and profit," he added. ' He said there are other ad- vantages to dwarfs also - labor is easier to get because the trees are, easier and less dangerous to pick from, and they are more adapted' to machines, such as sprayers. 4, 44 I Monsoon Season In' An Indian Orcliiird 4 4 4 If you want to see where the doves have laid their tiny, speckled eggs, you must push your way through the long, piked grasses and dense, thorny shrubs to where the kakronda bushes grow in the shade of the foliage overhead. Keep well away from that dark hole in the ground near the tangled roots, where the Hooded One lives, and peer carefully into the mass of slender branches covered with berries, pink and white and some as red as rubies.' There is the nest with its fragile eggs. - Not' far away is the kaitrul , tree, a great leafy dome with fruit that°;slices into stars. Go right under it and you will see the kamraks growing, yellow, juicy masses with a skin like transparent plastic stretched over their five ridged. surface. They hang in crowded clusters from stems like tiny bits of red thread growing incongruously out of the trunk of the tree and. from the thickest boughs. As you stand there, a threadlike stem breaks under the weight of a sun-ripened kamrak and it falls to the ground with a soft thump. It is bruised, and the dry, pow- dery earth thirstily sops up the sour-sweet juice. The season the orchard likes best is the monsoon, when pour- ing rains bring forth lush new life from the soil. The trees put out hundreds of thousands of new leaves; tender green sap- lings push their shoots out of the rick, chocolate earth; and the toll, aggressive grasses en- .4 4 4 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking I 4 4 1 I Ab 3 wiv zi V 3 a E s NB a V M V )1i 3 A 3 3 7 V a a d V a 1. V S V S Y 3 9 3 a 3 Operating a turkey farm is not a career many women under- take. However, it is one. in which: Mrs. Jean Ingersolj of Michigan \ Valley has been very succeiOnt, ' S,he started operating Ingersoll Turkey Farm ''after her husband, :Phillip, passed' on in 1952, This year her' flock of around' 15,000, birds shows promise of be- ing the most profitable of any during her six years of operation of the 250-acre turkey-produc- tion plant. During the six years, Mrs. In- gersoll has paid off heavy in- debtednesi, built new ranges, and added much equipment. Two years ago she bought a half ih- terest in a hatchery and produce company in a nearby town. * e All this was in addition to im- proving the , comfortable modern home and providing cultural ad- vantages for her three children, .Itay, Sue, and Kerry. "I've decided the key factor to a successful operation in thit kind of venture is quality," Says Mrs, Ingersoll. "First-quality birds Show a higher feed-conver- sion rate, mature earlier, and finish off heavier than common strains," Quality also helps solve the marketing problem, she says. She finds her first-class birds have' greater consumer anneal and keep' retail customer orders coining in year after year, Mrs. Ingersoll's trophy case, holding an even dozen awards On birds froni the fatin, is evidence that she produces turkeys of this ton quality. 'Phil always Carried on tilt lin, ptovetnent program with the In, &toll strain he developed," Mrs. Ifigersoll recalls, "but with my dual role Of heinernaket and producer, and with increased prodtietion,. 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