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runs through some of the most
beautiful • vountry in, Ilatnnshire
to join the sea in a quiet areal
beOverni Spithead, where Eng-
land'e fleets have assembled for
centuries, and the deep .phannel
which takes the ocean liners out
of Southampton, Qid. cottages
and barns all up the lovely Mean
valley have ancient ships tim-
hers in their constrection.
Oak, which centuries ago grew
as striating trees in the New
Forest close by', and in its prime
went into the making of the
high-pooped vessels of Tudor
times, t'-a little ships that cap-
vied early settlers to Ameri-
ca, ana the old wooden men o'
War that sailed under Nelson.
After anything up to 50 years
at sea, they would limp back to
a breaker's yard at Fareham or
Portsmouth, then the best pieces
would be loaded on e wagon to
be drawn up the road and start
life again, as part of a new-
built inn, a manor house, or a
snug cottage,
At the head of the valley, the
lytch gate of the church has,
been made of them, and beyond
it, the thatched home of the
Ayling brothers has for its
stout uprights, wood which has
sailed the seven seas. Wood—oak
and box, hazel and 'ash—has also
been the life-long occupation of
William and Alfred, now in their
seventies. They are still carrying
on the job that has been in their
family for six generations, work-
ing on the same spot for over
200 years, for they are two of
the very few wheelwrights still
left in this part of England. ,
When I came clown the lane,
past the long timbers stacked
against an ancient tree beside
the cottage, and, scattering the
gamecock hens pecking in the'
yard, I stepped into another
world, A world which, almost
everywhere else, disappeared
quite a century ago. Logs burned -
in. the big open hearth in the cot-
tage kitchen, .a black chain hung
to suspend the cooking pot, an
old iron pump delivered the
water to the sink, and oil lamps
gave the lighting,
The two brothers were busy
making a ladder, Alfred was
smoothing the treads in swift,
sure strokes, with the. box-wood
plane lie had made when he was
a yoUng man. Beyond the work-
ship door were two other lad-
ders they had just completed,'
painted bright blue by William.
"Not much call for cartwheels
these days, they, told me sadly..
"We mostly do wheels now when
we're makink wheelbarrows,
"Small wheel like' that is the
trickiest to make," said William,
"harder than a big chap to get
to run true, I started helping, my
father to make wheels when I.
was eight, but I was 20 before I
made a cartwheel on my own —
you've got to have had experi-
ence, so you can judge things to
a fraction.
"We had to help with other
things, of course," remembered
Alfred, "There were carts them-
selves — the whole thing used '
to take about a fortnight and
cost around ten pounds. • And
sheep cages, and chicken coops,
and hay rakes. There was always
a job waiting when you came
home from school = and if by
chance there wasn't — well, we'd
have to go and pull the weeds
out of a widow's garden, No
playing ot birds-nesting."
In the' lofty barns, where the
great 'rafters •reared up to be'
lost in dusty dimness, they show-
ed me the oldest wheel On the
premises, one that for a century
and a alf had been worked'
manually by a handle fixed in
Upaideclietel to Prevent I voicing
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MAY SO1001
LESSON
Din tired of llearir3 people siXt
"Qh, I'm not really living as 'I
aould„ but I'm really not 30
I think I'm V. I as the aver-
Ienough. `"L'a
111-:1 igo.w.:11 to do. good:
clad tio.:,11 'it r't, to. him it .1•1•
We. must Nt,t4Pc
in ,a1,1 1114 Ile,ht that shines. upo4.
OW path from 00(1'4 'Word, .Je,
sus said of lukewarm chrlatiana,
"I will SPUe out of
mouth," (Revelation .3;1:6• Wo
must awah'en from the lethargy
that has bcf‘allert upon us be,
fore judgment comes.
It could be the only solution.
to solving heavy commuter au-,
tomobile traffic to our cities is to.
have a circumferential or outer
belt superhighway five to ten
miles—wide.
by gev«.4. 'B, Worrell!, 0,4„•04).
;The. Source of Trio Wisdom.
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Memory Selection; If any of
you. 144 Wisdom, let him ask of
nod, that giveth to all men li-
berally, .and Upliraideth. not;.. and
it shall. 'be g1 y e n unto
Sames 1:15,
R. ever wisdom was needed in
the world, it is today, As I write
the Congo crisis deepens and the
withdrawal of South Africa from
the British Commonlwealth em,
phasizes the tensions that .exist
M Africa. A letter from mission-
ary friends in the Congo area tell
of the missionary refugees who
have come to their home and of
two who were slain.: The turmoil
and unrest as reported in the
newspapers are not exaggerated,
John Kennedy's flashing smile,
o attractive during the presi-
dential campaign, ha's given way
to a sombre serious contenance
as be has the responsibility of-
:making important decisions re.,
garding Cuba, other Latin
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American countries, and PC0,401,
31110 alld. other problems. We
should peas' 'fag oUr leeders.
Where can we find wisdom?
In the eloquent passage hi, Job
30.0-28. the speaker points out
that it cannot he gotten for gold,
but "God understandethi.he way
thereof, and lie itnoweth the
place l.liercor.," and Says , to man,
"Behold, the :fearaf the Lord,
that is wisdom; and to depart
from evil is understanding," It
isn't some new philosophy we
need. We must act on the prin...
eiples Of righteousness that 'we
understand right now. We must
turn away from sin, confess. to
(40d and believe on the Lord
Jesus .Clariee for our salvatiOn,
If multitudes of people around
the world would do that, it
would be reflected in the les-
sening of world tensions every-
Where.We who have the light of.
the Gospel shOuld lead 'the way. ISSUE 14 — 1961
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WHALE OF A BUCKET — A worker in Danville looks as though
he is about to be' gobbled down by a 'huge drag bucket — the
world's largest. It is destined for service in an open pit coal
mine in Brazil, where it will take 50-ton gulps.
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19. Chaste $6. Default
20. Wiry 48. Age of man
21. Of the sun 40. Pitchers
22. Omit in 42, Coarse prra3p,
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vestment 47. By birth
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use—from the response of the
range to various types of treat-
ment, through that of the ani-
mals to rates of stocking and
grazing, dual use of range by
sheep and cattle, livestock gains
under various conditions, etc.
• • •
The "Northern Plains Pilot
Ranch" is on land made avail-
able by Jack Morton, veteran
Wyoming rancher. The informa-
tion gained will be generally
useful throughout the northern
Great Plains.
It will take up to two years to
prepare, and the first experi-
mental period will% be of 10
years. The academicians are as-
sinning that they not only can
make a profit on a commercial-
sized ranch operation, but that
'they can show the way to pri-
vate operators. Answer elsewhree on this page
MIN
i Business Kids Itself
American business enjoys a good laugh . even when it is the butt of the joie. ving the point
is the popularity of a 24-page brochure called "Progress Report" for which4$1 below, were
taken. A take-off on the sometimes super-superlative annual corporate rep,* the business
world, this merry farce is manufactured by a 78-year-old calendar and •specicitir7:iidvertising firm,
for distribution by individual companies. i.
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the centre, to revolve the lathe
for woe's-turniim l'Ir1n5 too,
with shafts nn'ntinc' p.Ith.A140),
ly to the roof, stood the different
types of .virts they had made in
earlier years. The brothers sup,
rayed them nostallealty The
demand today was far smaller
things . — c,ald frames, pick and
shovel handles, rakes,, and the
ladders, writes ,Marjorie Nisbett
in The Christian Science Mork-
tor.
In the .corner stood the draw
shaves they had used for lighten-,
leg spokes and wagon timbers,
the axes for cutting the wood
they bought standing, the iron
beetles they used as wedges for
splitting trunks, the great five-
foot-long saws with their wicked
teeth that they used to cut out
planks in the saw-pit. There,
under the shade of great oak,
Alfred was always "bottom-saw-
yer" among the rain of falling
saw-dust; Will i a in working
above at the exacting job of
"top-sawyer", as his father and
grandfather before him.
"you always work . together—
do you never disagree. as to how
a job. is to. be done?" I asked
them.
William shook his head.
"No, we never have, once—"
"We worked together now for
00 years" nodded Alfred, "We
just consult each other before
we start — and we always come
to terms, -
"And we've still got almost
more jobs on hand than we can
tackle."
In the long, light 'evenings
too, there Was the garden. It
was cultivated to the last inch.
Honey from the white bee .skips
that edged the flower border,
eggs from the scratching hens,
butter and milk from the four
grazing cows, apples from the
gnarled trees almost touching
the lower edge of the long'
sweeping roof of their centuries-
old cottage — there was scarcely
a necessity for which they need-
ed to step outside the small-
holding, Even the' roof they re-
thatched themselves, at inter-
vals.
"The straw's hard to get,
though, today. Costs £40 a ton
— and it takes two tons to do
that over properly!" said Wil-
liam,
They may live in • another
world. Quiet, serene, and almost
self-supporting.• • But the world
which rushes,. down the main .
road bordering the village sees
them,by no means as back num-
bers, for far beyond it the Ayl-
ing brothers
is
known as crafts-
men. That' is WWY, not long ago,
they' haVoto catch the train to
Reading, where they replaced
with- seasoned oak, treads in a
valuable„ and ancient staircase.
Why;* recently, they harnessed
their gray pony each morning, to
jog down in 'the trap to West
-.Neon, to do va woodwork job in
the church, And, from half across
the „ j
ust
a pair of trap shafts
had errived for mending,
' like doing them," said
Willlaih "I'd• always
rather be WOrking on something
that-has to - do with a horse."
bisc,lockey Helped.
Ctittli 'Himself
%4
t•rk; Tr>:
season — usually ,around Christ-
mas and again in. June. — and
raid the nests..
Armed with plastic dish pans,
they creep up. on the hibernating
ladybugs, pounce on their' nests,
scoop up ladybugs, leaves, pine
cones, dirt, and all, and cram
them into the pans and finally
into special bags.
"They are so wiggly-squiggly,"
explains'Mrs. Waugh, "that while
You are picking a gallon of them,
a quart is taking off in another
direction and up your pant legs
and everywhere." • .
Good ea..seally know
there whereabouts of from 2,000
to. 3,000. beds along the western
slopes of, the mountain's. The
ladybugs nest at altitudes rang-
ing from 2,000 to 6,000 feet. They
like it cool.
At Lady Bug Sales Company,
Mrs. 'Waugh, the lady ladybug
packer, and her husband,, Mau-
rice, package the Hippodamia
`Convergens and prepare them
for shipment. • . •
Nobody has yet devised a sub-
stitute food that ladybugs will
eat. And 'nobody has ever suc-
cessfully raised them in captiv-
ity. They have got to be harvest-
ed Out in the mountains in their
beds, writes John C. Waugh in
the Christian Science Monitor.
• • •
A generation of ladybugs only
lasts for one season. They lay
their eggs, perish, and their off-
spring swarm to 'the mountains
to make up the next season's
harvest.
As Mrs. Nelson puts it, "Lady-
bugs sometimes traipse away."
So each year, to keep the insect
pests cleared out, several appli-
needed. But 75 cents worth of
necled. But 75 cents worth of
ladybugs have repeatedly done
the work on an acre of field or
orchard that $6 worth of spray
couldn't.
And in some areas, particular-
ly where crops are easily dam-
aged by spray, there has been a
decided flocking to Hippodamia
Convergens. At any rate, Mrs.
Nelson says her business grows
busier every year. • • •
A laboratory covering 20
square miles under the crisp
Wyoming sky will be operated
by the University of Wyoming.
It will be a typical family-
sized ranch of Great Plains pro-
portions—a "spread"—on which
teams of university research spe-
cialists from varions departments
will put together all their knowl-
edge to show how a ranch should
belt to achieve the utmost in
profit,
OUR PRESIDENT-Self-made leader-of men,
known to his employes as "Dad." . . . A
staunch believer hi self-education, our
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EntomologistT1mm her as
Hippodamia Convergens. H e r
admirers know her affectionate-
ly as the "Little Cow of God."
And everybody else knows her
,simply as a ladybug. By what-
ever name, she stands today in
high and rising, favour with far-
mers.
A ladybug, it seems, can do
no wrong and a great deal of
good. She is the angel of the
insect world. She eats such
harmful hugs as mites, scale,
rnealy'bugs, bollworms, le a I -
worms, and the eggs of all such
insects known to be harmful to
man's•crops. Her delicacy is the
despised aphis.
. •. •
' She is exclusively carnivorous
and won't touch vegetation. She
has almost no enemies. But she
will attack any insect pest that
is not too hard-shelled, too fast-
moving, or too large. And with
admirable discrimination, she re-
frains from attacking other
"good" insects, ,
• • •
As if this were not enough,
she is also inexpensive, easy to
care for, and quite undemand-
ing: just hose 'her down once
in a while when she's travelling
or pop her into the' refrigerator
' when she isn't working.
More and more she is being
"harvested" and made available
for duty in gardens, orchards,
and fields as a substitute for
sprays and poisons. One of the
leading harvesters of ladybugs
in the world, the Lady Bug Soles
Company, of Gridley, Calif.,
hails her as the "farmers' private
army on duty 24 hours a day."
. • •
There exist about 600 known
varieties of ladybugs, pinhead
size to thumbnail size, But only
Hippodanmia Convergens, the
species with bright orange body
and black spots, is found in large
enough numbers to be 'harvest-
ed commercially,
An estimated 90 per cent of
all la,dyib,ugs supplied in the
United States are harvested on
the western slopes, of the Sierra
Nevada Mountain range over-
looking the great Sacramento
Valley in California. • •
At Lady Bug Sales Company
in Gridley, in the heart of the
valley, Mrs. 111, E. Nelson pre-
sides over the packing, shipping,
and closely guarded processing
of swarms of Hippodanuia Con-
vergens.
Her Company ships out at least
10,000 gallons of ladybugs (135,-
000 bugs per gallon) a year to
all the 50 states, mostly to the
wheat, corn, cotton, and alfalfa
'belts,
Ladybugs from there have
Wetched over peanut plants in
Penu, cotton fields its Blythe,
Calif., birch trees, in Anchorage,'
Alaska, and maple trees in Tole-
do, Ohio. They have even been
shipped as far as Egypt.
• Lady Bug Sales Company
ships its ladybugs through regu
lar 'United States mail in small
packages of 5,000 (for small gar-
dens); medium packages of 30,
000 (for lot-sized gardens); and
in large packages of 100,000 (for
10-acre fields and 'orchards). The
bugs cost about 11/2 colts per
thousand. *
After they have had their fill
Of aphis and such, Hippodainia
CofiVergeriS swami nests
the thOttiitailia and hibernate'
like bears. That is Where they
are "harvested." And it takes a
canny sense of ladybug ways to
locate their nests.
'Margaret Waugli, who laugh-
ingly bills herself as "the only
lady ladylattg packer in the
says that "a layrilan
Wtitildn't knew how to find lady-, tb6ut!,, i16§ts or even what to.look
Peta4ssional picker§ go Up in-
tti the mountains each hatireat
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OUR. HOME OFFICE — A paragon of modern architecture
irnagineering, our newly constructed, completely air condi-
tioned executive headquarters resides majestically amids
elegance and lush outdoor gardens — a symbol of our
corporation's dedication to civic leadership,
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Death came suddenly to a
twelve-year-old boy in Medway,
Massachusetts, recently, He had
just started' to cross the road
when a large car sped round the
corner.
The youngster had no time to
jump clear, The vehicle smashed
into him, -and he was killed in-
stantly, Witho u t slackening
speedl the driver raced on.
Police im mediately alerted the
local radio station, who arranged
to •broadcast messages appealing
for the driver or anyone who
saw the accident to come for-
ward.
-A little later, Rdnald Greene,
one of the station's disc jockeys,
went on the air as usual with his
record programme, At frequent
intervals he asked listeners to
contact the police if they knew
anything at all about the hit-
and-run. driver,
Then, his programme over,
Greene prepared to leave the
studio—to find the police wait-
ing- for him, They had identified
him as the wanted Motorist by
an ornament Missing from his
car found at the scene of the
decadent.
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The university, a Land Grant
college, has heretofore conducted
many investigations into better
farming and ranch practices, as
Well as fundamental research
into' problems and pOssibilitleS of
water, and vegetation.
These have been available
singly to farmers and ranchers:
Now all such. advanced krioWle
edge will be put to work in this
good-sized, commercial live stock
operation to see how the com-
bination may pay out •
The ranch, near Douglas, in
eastern Wyoming, will also be
used as a gigaiitit classroom to
which university studeets, and
extension service classes will be
taken. And the lessons learned
Will be made 'available to all
Wyoming ranchers, and elsee
Where on request..
Both sheep and cattle will be
raised on this ranch, a herd of
about 100 and a flock :of about
IMO; thus discounting the tradi
Ulan that sheep and Cattle do hot
get along together' any batter
than sheeptnee and tattletnee. • •
Movable fences wilt eliminate
sheep-herding, and will also 6-
Vide Up the range for carefully
Controlled rotation of gratirig:en
pasture Made as lush as possible
by fettilitatiort and reseeding,
sagelittslh elimination, and new
types Of grasses and herbage'. • • •
Everything Wilt be carefully
redetcled fat' Itittift study atsd
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out founder 10 CiStilite each nietnber Of his tOrpOrate fere»
ily retirenierif With digniiji, and Security, atir refirenienit
futitt funakiiu to tiring permanent peace 466)01
to bit ihaSe-Whe hitye served 'Us Well,
ANNIVERSARY This is the first of five stamps marking the
Civil Wor'centermial which the' Post Office Will issue, 'Ma
One, teceillitig the shelling or Port Suretitlr, the Opening of hos-
t/0;11es, will 6e reltosed ill April hi tharlestOli, Site of the
fiery.
OUR TREASURER—Rine 'trent the rank's by
the persistent apifilitatieti Of frugality, un-
canny foresight, and priitient reinvestment
of our profits:.