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The Brussels Post, 1962-11-15, Page 7THE FARM EOM Jokuuuse. . ions. • '-;;r7111' ago the sVnel industry Lad to. be pro keel tee Ina very grim way. To eneourege the breeding of sheep end the neenufaelure of woollen goods. - an•Act was pass- • ed that no one sbOuld be buried_ in any LAtie otio.:t than. that Marie. of ;:liat'p's Son/ old rlitirvli registers have reCorde of 'burials With af- fidavits; that wool only was u.,;erl to 01011C the d e a ci, At true church. .hewevers there. Was a. breach in iri110 'Then the rele- Oyes t• s women reeree Edith. Talbot who -was -buried In linen, had to pay d - A:5 fine, of whish 50$. was, glecn• to the poise of • the perish and 50s. to the in- forlllei'! Strange Tales Reqarding When it comes to e tall, ani- mals are one up on the human race! They make the most of their extra appendage too, using it either as a fly-swatter, cata- pult, propeller, parachute, blan- ket, plough, rudder, periscope, grappling hook, or as an emo- tional outlet. While the horse and cow use their tails mainly for swatting flies, other animals are more in- genious. The kangaroo uses his as a prop or shooting stick, The woolly monkey also be- lieves in making himself comfort- able. He curls his tail into a loop, stiffens it and uses it as a port- able chair, The fox and cat wrap their tails around them as a blanket. Anteaters of West ,Africa use their armoured tails to block their burrows against hostile in- vaders, The ant-lion, when dig- ging a pit-trap, walks backwards using its tail as a handy plough. The beaver uses his as a rud- der for swimming and a prop when standing on dry land. He will also slap it against the water to warn other beavers whenever. sensing danger. The squirrel's bushy tail has many uses. It acts as a steering rudder when he jumps from tree to tree, fe. balancing Parasol while' crossing a narrow branch, and even as a parachute! Squirrels have been known to fall as much as sixty feet WithOut suffering any' injury. Whales use their massive tails to dislodge barnacles froni 'their backs. During the fnating „season; they also slap at one another with their tails in a not-so-gentle form of play. The male sea-horse has a pouch in its tail which is .used' for nurturing the eggs that are laid by the fam-ale. The dragon- fly, which usually walks awk- wardly along the bottom of a' pond, will at a sign of danger, fill its tail with water and use it as a form of jet propulsion,. The nymph of the may-fly breathes through its tail, The rat-tailed maggot, larva of the drone-fly, likes to sink' to the bottom of a pond, using its long tail as a kind of submarine peri- scope. Besides employing their tails as extra hands, tools, instruments of communication and danger signals, animals make good use of their tails as weapons. One blow from the tail of an alliga- tor has been known to kill a man. .The oat balances on a fence largely with its' tail; the wood- pecker uses his as a prop and brace while clinging to a tree. The baby dtosophila fly, usually found whenever there are ban- anas, is born wingless, but gets around by -using its tail as a spring-board. These flies simply bend their bodies like a bow, 'then let go and are catapulted into the air. The -male damsel-fly comes equipped with a coupling device at the end of his tail. When a fe- male takes his fancy, he simply hooks on to her and nettle, her through the water like a locomo- tive engine drawing a train! Whether or not the female ob- jects to this has never been es- tablished, The female opossum carries her yoeng on her back like a subway etrap-hanger, She simply curves her tail back over her body and the young hang oh to it with theirs, Then there is the lizard which uses its tail to avoid being 'swal- lowed by' a hungry snake, /I; simply loops its body around the branch of a tree and grabs Its own tail its mouth and hangs On. When the baffled snake fails to find a loose end to begin swele lowing, he Whaley gives an in disgust! The Peeicoeit's tail is merely decorative, as is the eighteens foot long appendage' of the Sap- atieee long tail fowl of Yokohama,- Even the curly pig's tail,- Which would seem to serve no purpose, at all, is a leardeneter of its health; curly When straight When sick s Or, as One Old farmer' Ode Obseteed: "How elee would 'YOU , tail!'g pig if It were not le? 'its ttev. wax,re)1, 11,„1). that restraint of trade is not. con- fined entirely to those aspects of trade which those administering the Combines Investigation Act are interested in. The 4wneral public 13 un- touched by Most of these things, for the general public is tar xe. moved from what can be termed not as long as the retailers are dfromentflar ie7l market to consumer. Perhaps the con- sumer rtihues v of Pplraocdettcaen ignorant Of what goes on in t con- sumer is not interested, certainly able to maintain the image which they have succeeded in establish- ing. This is indicated by the general belief on the part of Mrs. Consumer that the farmer is to blame when prices seem high, Mrs. Consumer has little oppor- tunity to compare the price at the farm with the store price, She, for instance, doesn't know that at the end of August, when she was called upon to pay fi9e for a basket of tomatoes the wholesale price was 400 and the price to the farmer less than that. Mrs. Consumer can't be faulted for her ignorance. She has no opportunity to ascertain the facts. She would, we believe, be interested if she knew the measure of mark-up and the added cost of doing business be- cause of the gimmicks of rebates, allowances and payola. ,, Those who live in the world of trade are in agreement as to the measure of viciousness that pertains. There has been a lot of off-the-record ranting and a lot of verbal protests. Perhaps the time has come for a look at it all in the hope that trade can be a little cleaner and some of the pressures removed. If such a look is made possible, it is more than likely that some of the images will topple. The question is, who has the courage to tackle the big, bad wolf? ittcdoto.ption; MAWS ReSPOISOs Acts Itb 3044;: 4omans 10t, 4-V1$. .1 IOWA PET PROBLEM — stub- born battle fought on both sides when John Johnson, 7, tries to get Tinker out in the sunshine, Tinker, 2 months old, seems unmoved over it. COMING THROUGH — Joan Borgstede, 20, will reign as Miss Grand National over the 18th Grand National Livestock Exposition'at the famous Cow Palace in Son Francisco, FOR SURLY WAITERS St11001 SON Memory Scripture; For by grace arc ye saved througlt faith; and tbat net of yourselves: it; is the Oft of God, rphesiana This is a great lesson. In the first part which tells of the, con- version of the Philippian we have a graphic illustration of the response man must give tO God's call to redemption, A 'man, convicted of his sin, cries out, "Sirs, what must I do to be sav'ed? God's messengers, who until the earthquake had sat or lay with bleeding backs, their feet fastened in the stocks, re- plied, 'Believe on the Lard Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." How sim- ple! Some protest saying, "Where is the call to repentance so clearly set forth by the pro- phets, and the apostles? Did not. Jesus Himself say, 'Repent ye, and believe the Gospel'?" Mks 1:15, But repentanee was al- ready evident in this man. The fruit of it was seen in his wash- ing of their stripes. The next portion of the lesson emphasizes that we are saved by faith, "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." But this is not a mere mental as- sent to the :truth of the Gospel but a commitment of ourself to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, We must say as Saul of Tarsus, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Romans 9 and 10 set forth two sides of the coin, Romans 9 deals with the sover- eignty of God in His World: "The potter has a right over the clay." But Romans 10 shows that this sovereignty does not over- rule our obligation to God, The Apostle sets forth both sides with- out trying to harmonize them. There are two sides to the same coin and human understanding can only look at one side at a time. I John was written to safe- guard against Gnosticism which said that though man's spirit could be saved it had still to live in an evil body. John urged that a.. genuine knowledge of God would nernitests_itsell in transformed moral chari.111e-96341. —xsese-Leee_ suit of true faith is very evident in these verses. This lesson cer- tainly makes clear the way of salvation. It's round and silvery and about an inch across, and next to your plate in a restaurant it looks a lot like a quarter. In- stead, it's a booby prize for rude waiters. "Zero Cents," it reads on one side. "This Coin .. - Matches Exactly the Value of Your Service." Pictured on the other side is an empty, upturned• palm. The no-tip coin is the creation of a 36-year-old New Yorker named Roy Morser, who sank al- most $1,000 into a supply of 20,000 slugs and a month ago began selling them by mail at eight for a dollar. He doesn't in- tend to use them himself. "If anything," he says sorrowfully, "I ant an overgenerous tipper." of the retailers. With payola individuals benefit. Combining the rebates, allowances, direct payments to the nature of retail mark-ups, one can only come up with one answer — that the cost of doing business below retail level becomes oppressively ex- orbitant. « * Growers have tried to meet the system by developing compul- sory marketing plans and estab- lishment of co-operatives, but even these have not been suc- cessful in off-setting some of the practices. The result is a grow- ing demand for a full-scale in- vestigation — a Royal Commis- sion — so that all facets of the trade in fruits and vegetables may be examined, with power to summon witnesses and examine them under oath. • • • Much is made of the powers contained in the Combines In- vestigation Act and the continual examination that goes on when suspicion of pricing combina- tions, aimed at preventing price- cutting, develops. In the opinion of the writer, sat:, price-setting combinations are to be preferred to a lot of the things that are left untouched for it can be argued piece of wire over the hole, and they flew around and abused me. That is why, later, when I was asked if I would subscribe, to the Audubon movement I said that I did not plan to be nice to birds until birds began to be nice to me. I tett things were all mix- ed up, We had a robin build a nest' once atop the fuse-box for the barn, and when lightning blew a fuse one clay this robin blamed it on me, She would waggle her tail, which I gather had been in- volved in this mischance, and would berate me miserably, When I tried to open the box and insert a new fuse she would fly at me and threaten me, and say terrible things. I said to myself, what this government needs is a robin-to- people program. So, I think some of these birds are bad characters. Warbling their native woodnotes, wild, they hang around as if they were adorning the scene in a purely artistic manner, but all they are doing is waiting to take over. My mallards, content and domes- tic in the farmyard pond, tolled in some wild ducks, and these wild ducks parade to the hopper and eat my hard-earned grain as if they'd been invited, and when I approach all innocent of this in- trusion they squawk-and holler and thresh around and take off leaving a loud streak of calumny and vituperation in their ,wake, It leaves me feeling unwanted, and forlorn. I think the birds are getting more and more possessive and abusive every year. It is time we stood up for our rights. — By John Gould in the Christian Sci- enbe Monitor. Upsidedown to Prevent Peektng U00 WOO OEMO OHMOO MOM MOM OEMMOU VUO OD MOHO HMO 000 MOM HOO coo® MEnnemon or1 11117200111017 IMMO@ MOH BOO@ WOO ©of hl OUM num DOM fur© 00EI MOMMOO OVOUMOMOO UMU MOM OMME1 MHO We eec1 Protection Agairol The Birds in my very youth, through .the indoctrination of a sehoolma'am, I • became a proud member of the Audubon Club, and pasted Wekers of the lovely birds in A little book. I gazed at them through 1t glass, and admired their song. Since then, I have grown up, and a great amount of evidence has come my way to show that birds are .a pretty domineering lot, and hard to get along with, This line of thought will dies tress innumerable people, but it mine to me while I was picking grapes this morning and had a stern session with a catbird, These grapes are called. "Moose's Early" and they are delicious. They are large in stature, rich and juicy, and come in big clusters. Some of my other grapes are said to make better jelly, but these are the best for eating, as the cata- logs say, "out of hand." I can pick these hi little strawberry baskets and set them by the road and frustrate the tax gatherer. And I find this catbird likes the grapes as much as people do, and he had been visiting my arbor until he got the impression these grapes were his'n, I say "arbor" with qualifica- tion. I prune the vine every year, and it is supposed to lie upon a pole arrangement I put up to sup- port it. But the vine got away from me, and in addition to ad- orning the poles it runs up into a McIntosh. Red tree and comes down again on the other side. This McIntosh thus produces ap- ples and grapes about bushel for bushel, and the way the tree and the vine have desegregated the harvest is a joint project. I keep a colony of bees under the shade, tooeeso in pursuing this project soine care is exercised. So I was up on a' ladder, poking through the jungle, putting a.pplos in oee basket and grapes in another, and this catbird discovered me. He has: been around all sum- mer, He lifts his melodious note, according to my Audubon train- ing, when I am at a distance and he is alone. The rest of the time he just meows, He likes to find our stub-tailed cat asleep under a rosebush, and will fly down in- to the other side of the bush and meow, This throws Stubbie into a tizzy, and is a mean trick, So he tried the same thing, sort of, with me. He flew in, from the other side in full possession .of the premises, and came face-to- face with me — a blue-black cluster of fine grapes between. He suddenly found that he was being robbed' He jumped afoot in the air and cried out, He was rude, He called me names, He said he had a deed, and ordered me off. This is typical of birds. Last year a barn swallow flew into • our shed and built a nest on a beam, She might have inquired if I cared, 'but she didn't. She presumed. She didn't even tell me she was going to do it, She installed a clutch of eggs and clapped herself upon them with, great secrecy, So one day it look- ed like rain and. I closed. the shed door. I didn't pass that way again for a couple of days, and. when I opened the door this lit- tle swallow lady flew at me and reproached me bitterly,, She said. many an unkind thing. She went into details. That shed was hers, and the door was" hers, and I - had done a terrible thing. Her pent-up hatred and spleen had been meditated into. a vast tirade. Who did I think I was? One year I had a crib -Atli of ear corn, • and a flock of blejays annexed it„ They found e hole and began if it out, They acted as they had a permit from the Public Utility .Commis- sion. I went down and tacked a TURTLE FARM — Diane and Steve Thomas over look the be- ginnings of a turtle farm. Neighbor gave tn,.errt present of turtle last June. They found a dozen eggs soon afterward and now it's a big coming-out party. ISSUE 46 -- 1962 These Sheep Grow Their Own Grass The farmers rubbed their eyes in amazement. What had hap- pened to their sheep? They look- ed closer. Yes, it was true, The sheep were -actually sprouting grass at the mixed farming centre about thirty-five miles east of Perth, Australia. During periods of heavy rain the animals become so saturated that pasture seed's take root in their wool Their fleece becomes so heavy that the weakened sheep have difficulty in rising from the ground once they flop down on it. Wool is never out of the news because it's been proved recent- ly that the whole world is using more of it than ever before. 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The image -is one of large volume at low prices, and it can be- said that the consuming`pub- lit .pretty well accepts the picture as it has been painted. * S * To those who seek to supply the retailers — farmers, shippers and wholesalers — the image is a vastly different one. The feel- ing of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association is that the time has come to ex- -amine the facts of trade and pour a little light on the image — the real image. Two aspects of the retailing of fruits and vegetables — fresh and processed — are concerning the industry. One is the cost of doing business with the large re- tailers through the media of re- bates, advertising allowances, payola and other gimmicks which have been accepted, under pres- sure, as standard practiees. The other aspect is the unusually high mark-ups being taken ex- cept in the weekly advertised specials — the come-ons, * The objectionable features, of which so much is heard, ave become part and parcel of tiler- chandizing through the agency of fear, in some cases abject fear for nothing can be more dieturb- ing to a grower or dealer than loss or threatened loss of a reg- ular market home. The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association is fully aware of the nature Of the objectionable prae- flees, but finds it difficult to se- cure the kind Of proof, in the worst inoldente, that would per- mit of 'cieah,eut charges simply because of the feet of retalietiOn. In nearly every case brought to the attention of the Aseeciation, the •Complairient backs away when invited to permit the Asso- ciation to'rise the information for the purpose of direct charges. The nature of the exorbitant inark-ups are not difficult to peeve. The extent of the rebates and advertising allowances is established, but use of the ill- foririatiOti b ee 0 in e s difficult, When those complaining clam up in the face of any threat of pub- Iti the Matter of for supply. They ate under CQh- Staht pressure froth- iridividttal sellers and selling eombitiatiOne, In the petit:1S of ample supply when the hunt for a Market Mind is constant arid, at times, a rather hectic bttsitidee„ the buy- er Can Almost dictate his own terms. The result is the deVelt:494- iiieht of a•Sys tem of trading that has lost many Morel :eipecte as PoWer corrupts. • 4 • in the natter of retake and eidteettielzig: alideedliteS, the PaYe inente directly' 'bite tliti Oder. 1, Noah's first son 4. Slide 8. Drama 12 biblical chai'actei• 1IL Slater 16. Suri•ci 17, Dcitili'S cell 18, Tatitald symbol Bound 20 Chart 21, Posses/46i 22 King of the Jungle 13 is able 24' Wagon 15 Eternity' 26 Manage 28. Atop 29 tto.rdeti 80. 'Note of the Coritinide 83 Storage plan 94 Deposited $6 Bittei Veteh 37. Become, ragged by , rubbing 28 Hen fruit' 29, Pilineen hisaMiree 4o Lima 41 Littid Mollaure 42 'RS:Sobel] Implement 41 usere:it Rine& 46 reel; fegiird. 49 Sztate" 49',Vidk elsoWitere 'Oh thit page It dOesiii 'take, long to tieediiie hard,b011ed' when you've beeii in. hOt Witter a ter* times. HI SE- COWIMUN1_,,,r1P1 OWeif in this ittkett Chiriete, tortinitinists. *soldiers hosed in Tibet dee iih- id the Liitirdtti bred 'arid ,!,lust released by the -radian , government.