The Brussels Post, 1960-07-07, Page 7liNDAY SCI1001
LESSON
HONEY OF A JOB — Bee fancier George Kuzarre noticed a swarm of bees that had invaded
a car parked in Pittsbucgh. He donned a makeshift net, skillfully brushed them into a box.
Digging World's
Deepest Hole
Pions are nearly ready for
boring the deepest hole in the
world — Own through the
ocean floor to reach what scient-
ists call the boundary between
-the earth's crust and its inner
mantle,
The great bore will take place
either off the Mexican Pacific
coast or in the Atlantic north
of Peurto Rico, gxperiments are
now taking place to find out
which area is more suitable.
Why do scientists want to bore
at least twenty miles down into
the earth—at least fifteen miles
deeper than the deepest oil well
yet drilled? Because they hope
to obtain, for one thing, .a com-
plete picture of the ocean basin,
to pentrate through the sedi-
ments of the ocean floor to the
rock below.
Drilling 15,000 feet down in
the open ocean will be a tough
task, More than 15,000 carats of
industrial diamonds, it's calcu-
lated, will be needed to provide
the teeth of the boring bits. And
hundreds of thousands of dollars
would be added to 'the cost of
this great scientific project if
adverse weather caused the drill
pipe to break.
Should drilling at sea prove
too difficult the scientists will
try to bore beneath a coral atoll
or ocean island. New drilling
techniques will have to be devel-
oped to do the jab thoroughly
and obtain all the scientific in-
formation required.
Scientists everywhere are ex-
cited by this new project — the
geologists' "reply" to the space
and, cosmic probes now taking
place.
Hitherto the site of a worked-
out• diamond mine at Kimber-
ley, South Africa, has been gen-
erally regarded, as the deepest
man-made hole in the world.
A stone thrown intc. It takes
about ten seconds, to reach the
bottom of the mine. Visitors to
the site have difficulty nowadays
in finding a pebble to throw into
the mine because for a consider-
able distance around every stone
has been, carefully gathered up
by an enterprising' African. He
sells them to vistors for sixpence
each!
"I have lost my wallet," re-
marked Jones to his colleague.
"I've looked in every pocket 'ex-
cept one my 'trousers."
"Why not look there?"
"I daren't — think how awful
it will be if it's not there!"
tiy Am U, leareley Waxen
SOcial justice Then and Now
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Memory Selection; Hate tint
evil, and love the good, and, os
tahlish judgement in the gate.
Amos Silo.
Amos spoke out boldly against
the social injustices of his day.
The rich were inhumane toward
the poor. They oppressed them
in a kind of human slavery,
(2:6). They built beautiful hoineS
by defrauding the destitute
(5:11). There was no court of
justice at which the poor could
receive their dues, (5.12).
The intemperance of the na-
tion was no less disgusting, One
passage (6:3-6) is sufficient to
show the sensuousness which
sudden wealth had promoted,
Immorality had progressed to
the point where it did not even
call forth shame. (21), This was
finding its place in the religious
festivities (4:4) after the pattern
of the surrounding pagan nations;
Are we better today than Is-
rael was in the day of Amos,
2700 years ago? It is impossible
to make an accurate comparison.
We don't know what proportion
of the people were guilty of the
sins which Amos so vividly Par-0
trays, The laws, now as then, are
designed to protect the poor, But
often the poor lack the knowledge
and the finances to secure their
rights. Many have lost the house
they were buying because they
were unable to refinance a sec-
ond mortgage, due to the huge
bonus demand. There is a lot of
fraud in the' world today. As for
intemperance and immorality, if
Israel were worse than we are
today the situation was indeed
terrible. When one reads the pro-
phecy of Amos and then reads
the newspaper, he cannot but be
struck with the similarity in the
condition of the people. But
where is Amos? Billy Graham,
speaks out pointedly against
these conditions and he is heard
by many. But the tide of ungod-
liness is not stopped. It is time
to pray. Let us say as Amos, "Let
judgment run down as waters,
and righteousness. as a mighty
stream."
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HEAD HUNTER — Grim evidence of modern-day cannibalism,
this crudely decOrated skull is displayed in. Stockholm by
Swedish explorer Dr. Sten Bergman, He came by the trophy
in New Guinea,
QUICK AND THE bEAO•Brought to a halt, a peasant funeral procession-near tveita.,
bia, gives way' to troop Of bicycle recoil and their it.teoft'trucks.
One of the farmers providing
milk for this cooperative is Abra-
ham Green, now farming the
Leona Farm, family homestead
on which he was born, Mr. Green,
in white shirt and city trousers,
welcomed us for a tour of the
farm. * * *
Mr. Green has a herd of about
200, including Guernsey, Swiss,
and Holstein cows — he just
uses his own judgment in buying
stock, he says. "Purebreds are a
rich man's hobby. We want cows
that are milk. factories," he ex-
plains. Where a farmer used to
expect about 16 pounds of milk
from a cow daily (" a one-can
cow") some now give 60 to 65
pounds "I have one giving 90,
another around 70. I try to aver-
age 40 pounds per day per cow."
What bas - brought about this
fantastic increase in production
per cow? Many things: including
breeding stocic, better feeds, bet-
ter handling of the animals in
general. * *
On the day we visited Mr.
Green we watched his cows
come into their clean, de luxe
barn from their lush green pas-
ture across the road — backing
up traffic along Route 28 as they
crossed the road at what was for
them a lively pace.
As we admired this spacious,
inviting farmstead Mr. Green
described how he had gradually
built it up since the death of his
father when he, young Abe, was
only 12 years old. He has built
all the farm. buildings since 1932
and has cleared 150 of his 200
acres. He did not disclose his total
investment, but did tell us that
the milking system installed in
his barn alone represents about
$10,000 worth of equipment,
states a writer in the Christian
Science Monitor.
Here milking machines convey
the milk from the cow into glass
tubing extending above the stalls,
which take the milk directly into
a big, cooled bulk tank. During
the whole process the milk is not
'touched by hands or exposed to
air. It le picked tip and delivered
in bulk tanks 'directly to the
dairy.
No Cinderella
Will the shoes worn by the
Queen tither wedding and those
Worn by Princess Margaret at
hers, be on exhibition one day at
a museum?
The shoes worn by Queen Vic-
toria at her wedding ended lip
in this way — at a museum of
footwear in the Midlands.
Queen Victoria's shoes dis-,
prove the.• generallY accepted
idea that she had a tiny foot, for
the Soles are nine inches tong.
It is known that the first Per-
son to own Queen Vietetia'S
shoes after she had parted with
them was a Woman iii10W12
"Augusta W.."
In a letter this Weitiari wrote
in May, 1841, she says: "A thous-
and thanks, My dear girl for
sending nle the pretty shoes of
the Queen': After I had heard so
frequently that Her Majesty had
the prettiest foot, in the kingdom
I should certainly Have expected
to find a tinier shee. You Must
agree with me that they are no
Cinderella's slippers!"
Queen Victoria's shoes matched
her wedding dress, now in the
possession 'of' the London IlIti-
teurn.
NATE i8 ,---1646
modern forms in the Upper
Jurassic beds,
It will therefore be seen, from
this brief sketch of their life-
history, that dragonflies are both
beautiful and intensely interest-.
ing insects, and will well repay
greater attention to a detailed
study. — Vrom "The Dragonflies
of the British Isiese!' by .Cynthia
Longneld.
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drat in a scavenging operattoe
that moved up the field and
back again in ordered arrange-
melt, getting every last berry.
She laid down a rule against
eating any at the, time,
They'd come back to the house
with quite a take, end although
they'd eat some for supper, the
bulk of the harvest would be
"Put up" for winter, And as
they tried to make everything,
in those days, go as far as pos-
sible, they'd "piecen out" •the
strawberries with rhubarb, The
thrifty pieplant stood rich and
hearty, and its long limbs would
be cut up and added to the
stewing kettle. This gave bulk,
but the dainty flavor of the
strawberry held its own and the
combined confection was' domi-
nated by its lesser part.
Some few berries, and per-
haps only in a bountiful year,
would be preserved in glass by
themselves — but the children
might never taste them, for they
were kept for special occasions.
Those clays saw the minister and
his 'wife about twice a -year, par-
ochial calls timed just right for
supper, Those were mote string-
ent times, and the visits were no
doubt predicated on appetite as
much as spirit—at least the
suppers were always better on
such occasions. That would be
a time for, straight strawberries
and no rhubarb, I had an aunt
whose girlhood ambition was to
grow up and marry a minister,
so she'd know what preserved
strawberries, tasted like!
I've always liked picking ber-
ries, It suggests a providential
kindness where time is your
only investment, and you are on
the ground floor of prosperity.
Strawberries are hardest to pick,
but the reward is the greatest.
The sun caresses the back of
your neck in Junetime intimacy,
and the lush hayfields strive to
hide the quarry before you can
find it. You can't stand up, as
with blackberries and raspber-
ries, and you can't rake as with
blueberries.
You do such close things as
stare a friendly adder in the
eye, or come in six inches over
a bobolink's nest. You, find
yourself talking intelligently
with grasshoppers and spiders,
sharing their down - to - earth
opinions. But that's where straw-
berries are. You, see a cluster,
and it looks big and hearty, but
after you've picked the berries
off they look tiny in your hand,
and even tinier in the dish. It
takes longer to cover the bottom
of a strawberry pail- than any
other kind, even though it is
well to leave a few stems to
keep them from smushing too
much.
Then you have to hull them.
Dainty, fragrant, soft and juicy,
strawberries are lovely, but they
are mean to hull. The best way
is to dump them on the kitchen
table with the hope others in
the family will lend a hand.
Slowly, painstakingly, they get
cleaned, and there is forever fhe
ultimate feeling that you had
more than that, really, But even
a few in a saucer, covered with
cream, are enough to emphasize
the eternal worth of the experi-
ence.
If you get enough for a short-
cake, life holds little else that
can compare. I think if I were
to sum up all the pluses and
minuses of country vs. city liv-
ing, I'd stake the advantage un-
waveringly, with unanswerable
effect, on the little wild, field
strawberry and its dainty ability
to confound all other "values."
Let there be always-Junes and
hayfields, and the fragrance of
tiny strawberries in the warm
grass, and you will have a rea-
son for ruralities when all else
fails. —By John Gould in The
Christian Science Monitor.
One of the nicest moments of
.country living comes along about
now when the sensitive not;tril
quivers on the Junetime scene
and word goes out that the wild,
field strawberry is available
again, Nobody, anywhere, re-
gardless of his preferment and
station, can do any better with
a spoon than you can. Probably
he isn't doing so well, and in his
opulence is envious, At least it
lie was once a country boy.
I've felt essayists • and poets
always overdid the strawberry
when they worked on it, letting
their subject run away with
them. They nave a way of .rnak,
ing the strawberry sound like
an orgy, an unbridled stuffing,
In a way, this is too bad, because
the strawberry is a dainty and.
delicate thing, and never had
any wholesale complexions It
isn't that kind of bounty, and
should always be treated with,
respect and restraint.
Oh, sometimes if the season is
properly moist and propitious
you'll find a big one here and
there — but wild strawberries •
stay in their own size range.
Tales of bringing them in by the
pail, as big as your thumb,
stretch the license, and indicate
more emotion than either recol-
lection or tranquility. You may
chance upon an odd patch here •
and there that will occasion
alarm, but year in and year out
strawberries run more to frag-
rance than size, and require 25
or 30 to the dozen. You'll get
more of them at the handful
than at the peck. These metered
feasts o f rousing shOrtcake
should be approached with lifted
eyebrows.
Not that we haven't had short-
cakes—but not in the gorging
range. Each morsel was savor-
ed and swallowed with thought
and gratitude, and made to last
as long as possible. In the old.
dayS• when the farm here was
self - sufficient, Grandmother
used to line up her eight chil-
S KH STATESMAN — Though
jailed in the remote town of
Dharmsala, India, 80-year-old
Tara Singh remains the pow-
erful leader of the country's 10
million Sikhs. Their demands
for a separate Indian state of
their own have led to bloody
rioting. Sikhs belong to a re-
ligious offshoot of Hinduism.
In order to become perfectly
contented it is necessary to have
a poor memory and no' imagina-
tion.
TIE FARM FRONT
Jokt
Dragonflies. Have
Ancient Lineage
There is no group of insects
that has a more astonishing, life-
history than the dragoeflies....
"Nymph" is another term for
the young stage, and here de-
notes the time it spends under -
water, between hatching from
the egg or crawling out of its
skin as a fully winged insect.
During this nymphal life there
is no sudden change, but the
skin' is cast at intervals as the
dragonfly grows. The wings ap-
pear, in wing-cases, little by lit-
tle after the fourth moult, and
the internal structure gradually
alters together with the shape
and structure of several external
orga,ns. , .. The nymphs live and
breathe under water, sometimes
buried in the mud, sometimes
climbing about the weeds, often
in still water, sometimes in swift
running streams....
When fully grown the nymph
leaves the water, climbing out on
to the bank or up reeds, trees,
grass-stems or anything handy,
sometimes walking quite a long
way before settling down, and
there, after drying, it will split
the skin and struggle out as a
winged insect, It is not a perfect
dragonfly, First, as with all in-
setcs, it has to dry, and the crum-
pled wings and" long abdomen
haVe to expand. , .
Many of the dragonflies have
such a powerful flight that they
can, and do, migrate for several
hundred miles. Certain genera
seem to be more prone to migra-
tion than others, but not always
all the species of one genus,
Amongst our dragonflies the
very rare Vagrant Sympetrum is
a complete immigrant, while the
Redveined and the Yellow-
winged Sympetrum are mostly
visitors from across the sea....
The Darter dragonflies like
sunning with widespread wings,
which they do conspicuously on
reeds, rocks or roadways, and
they rely for their safety on the
extreme swiftness of the "take-
off," which is accomplished ow-
ing to the "ready" poise they
assume. The smaller of the
Hawker dragonflies adopt the
same attitudes, but the large spe-
cies of Aeshna prefer to hang
while resting, and probably rely
for safety on their keener sight.
The dragonflies are of very an-
cient lineage, certainly having
descended from the giants found
in the Upper Carboniferous
rocks, of which several fossil
species and genera have been
found. The largest of these
Palaeozoic ancestors had a wing-
expanse of twenty-seven inches.
The Giant Age of Insects was
followed in the Mesozoic period
by a steady decline he size and
a greater specialization of struc-
ture, till we reach definitely CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
Cows chewing their cud on
Boston Common — known as the •
U.S. nation's most famous long-
ago cow pasture — were only
one of the phenomena of June
Dairy Month.
The idea of such goings on, of
course, is to dramatize for the
public the service which dairy
farmers and the ,whole dairy in-
dustry provide for people to-
day. The quart of milk on the
, doorstep or half-gallon jug in
the supermarket are mostly taken
for granted by shoppers long ac-
customed to the best.
But quality does not just hap-
pen, in dairy products or any-
thing else. Top quality can be
assured only by unremitting
vigilance and constant seeking of
new ways to improve products.
* *
In this search for better
methods and better products, the
dairy industry stands with justi-
fied pride in the front ranks of
food producers.
We had a glimpse of what this
means down on the farm and in
the dairy when we went visiting
recently.
Out on beautifully manicured
grassy grounds in Brockton,
Mass., we toured the plant of Pro-
ducers' Dairy Co., one of the old-
est farmers' cooperatives in the
United States. They tell you,
there that "the process of making
milk is the same today as it was
at the beginning of time, but the
ways of getting it to the con-
sumer have changed mightily."
* *
This cooperative, which was
established in 1917 and has
weathered many economic cycles
since, nosy bottles between 28,-
000 and 30,000 quarts of Milk
daily from 39 local farms, and
delivers the milk by the most
modern delivery methods to 25
cities and towns.
The general trend toward fewer
dairymen who produce more
milk is clearly shown in the re-
cords of Producers' Dairy COM-
pany, which had around 60 mem-
bers in the beginning, who were
putting out around 5,000 quarts
daily. Now 39 farmers produce
enough milk so that this dairy's
year-round average is 21,000
quarts a day, * * *
Machinery does almost every-
thing in the dairy now — even
to t h e coniplex assembling,
faster than human hands could
do the job, of the cartons into
which the milk is pouted, The
cartons go into machines folded
flat arid come out boxed, glued,
filled and closed.
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The sparklingly clean dairy
has floors of acid-resistant brick
held together With acid-resistant
concrete, The Machinery, Walls,
floor, everything, looked anti-,
septically clean. While certainly
riot the biggest dairy in the Unit-
ed States, we venture that this
is one of the most modern.
Slightly over a hundred em,
plOyees keep things going here,
receiving annually wages of near-
ly -half million dollars —
the Cooperative's records. shoi,vs
&Yet $1,000,000 is paid to local
farriers fiat their milk.
Otte of the stifegittatda Whieh
has kept Producers' Dairy pros-
through 40' years is the
elatiSe Written into their bylaws
allowing the dairy to accent lib
More than 10 per .dent of its total
Veltiiiie Of from any one
Preatider thereby avoiding too
great dependence oh any'olio
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