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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-02-14, Page 17TRAILER PARTS 1.' iicc.ESSORIES sola - Serviced Large stack of new, oSed and factory clearance propane furnaces, refrigerators, stoves,- toilets -all. the odds and ends for horne,•made (Inds and cenver- signs---specialpackage prices. ri MOBILIFE CENTRE No. 8 Hwy,. between 401 and Kitchener — 653 Si b WATEiI.WELL, 'DRILUNG : DAVIDSON WI HAVIE JUST PURCHASED AN ADDITIONAL HIGH-PR.RSSURR8 ROTARY DRILL TO PROVIDE, RVRNFASTR .R ' SRRVICI FOR OUR CUSTO�MRRsI , Free Estimates 'f nyNMpre in Ontario. Fast Service. Our Wiells Exdo Pftwincial Government Standard*, Modern Rotary and Percutslon DNlliny. Strict Adherent, tp Environmental Regulaticsns. DAVIDSON WELL WIPIOHAM i� DRILLING LTD.. SATISFIED CUSTOMERS SINCE 1900 THROUGH FOUR GENERATIONS' LOWER INTEREST RATES Now Available On 1ST. 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Kitchener, 1-519-744-6251 Member of Ontario Mortgage Brokers Association Thinking of Purchasing a BICYCLE? Beat the.Price Increase We have been informed by Sekine Canada Limited that there will be a price increase effective March 1, 1974. This is the second increase in 6 months. Buy quality Sekine Now 1il Lloyd's Small Engines KrwRo6 tik 74411 $119'sP, 10 speeds Ph. 356.2639 • i4' r,[Yr1 r,� +� ^�r , r�y'fir�'//f;Cf�f�:f'rfcr ff/frrF f'r% '.�'�. ¢}�%%�%�''�� �' ,. � � ff �'r/,��:.ffry�+ri'ixl�f��fr���fff•,�r 7iY.f,:i f : 1 �'0"0.{r / r�. i%/{.' rf .4!! �r%; r /�1 • OMEi f ffJ: r r.rr7{.'.rf. ...Jw irfr�rf�/...•.f.S'£1,+��rfFr���rrli.YevC•. filYiwrfll.rl IT'S IN BLACK AND WHITE..00 Credit debentures, interest rates, capital expenditures, budgeting and cash .flow these and many oiher financial, terms concern today's farmer in his record- keeping. Accurate and complete records, a Must at income tax time, are also the basis for many farmmnanagerneni decisions. They can Allow whether that, new pie of equipment can be justified .or whether the old one, with repairs, will last a few more .seasons. Farm management specialists of the Ontario Ministry of Agri- culture and Food provide many farm families with expert coun- selling in farm business and money management. (Photo by Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food)r VPM: �fr!r.�,ff ��f r• ff rr' r .�''�;.�'rr'' r f f •,• �•rkfrrr fffffriff f! !,� fi / f, rr% � �f ''{,r�r...1��r{ From the ....rivewa By,W. J. Miller per cent. If your timing ie; Off, in Safety Canada you'll also experience a sni- With all the talk these days ficant decrease in fuel economy• about fuel shortages and rising — Service air filter:' Dirt in the fuel costs, making that tank of air cleaner can cause a decrease gasoline go farther takes on an in mileage as well as a cut, in added significance. Here are power by restricting the flow of some tips on how to stretch your air to the engine. fuel dollar for that gas -guzzling — Avoid gasoline spillage. It's monster that you drive. too expensive to waste. — Keep your speed down. You - Don't ride the brakes. can get up to a 25 per cent im• — Keep transmission in high proveinent in,fuel economy by gear. slowing down from 70 m.p.h, to 50 m.p.h. — Avoid those "jack rabbit” starts. Gradual acceleration in city driving can save as much as two miles per gallon compared to rapid . acceleration. At today's prices that's nothing to sneeze at. — Keep speed constant. Driv- ing at a steady speed helps to save gasoline. - Anticipate stops. Plan ahead. Allow for gradual, rather than abrupt stops. Smooth driv- ing contributes to , better fuel economy. Plan your trips. Do all'your errands on one trip if possible. In city driving, a one -mile trip with the engine cold may decrease fuel economy by as much as 70 per cent: Longer trips allow the engine to warm up, resulting in better mileage. — Avoid engine idling. An id- ling engine isn't doing any useful work, but it's still burning up fuel. Don't idle. engines for more than three, mitiltes, ,. -Warm the engine by driving. You can get better economy by driving the car to warm the en- gine, rather than allowing it to idle excessively: This -Speeds up The warming process and saves gasoline. — Cut down on the use- of air" conditioners. As a rule, the use of an air conditioner cuts gasoline mileage by 10 per cent. ' — Maintain correct tire pres- sure. Underinflated tires can re- duce your gasoline mileage slightly. • , — Keep the engine tuned. Spark plugs misfiring 10 per cent of the time at speeds of 30 to 50 m.p.h. have been found to in- crease fuel consumption byeight. — Service the manifold heat control valve. A valve stuck;in the closed position will catale a loss of power and hard startling with a hot engine. Sticking in either position makes the engine use more fuel. — Use the right fuel. Check to see if your car can use unleaded or low -,lead gasoline. Using this type of fuel will reduce lead depo- sits and the possibility of spark plug fouling that can drastically reduce your mileage. , — Lubrication is important.. A properly lubricated engine means less friction between mov- ing parts. —• Check your choke. 1 your car has an automatic choke, check it periodically to make sureit doesn't stick. It regulates the gasoline -air mixture used in sirting and warming your en- gine. III�esS :teed. col' in differentcolors' itwe A team of British scientists, led by 44: James, • has intro- duced a new process at the Birmingham, England, Inter- national Nickel Co.'s Europe- an Research and Develop- ment Center, whereby stain ' less steel can be produced in • many different colors. The basic process is simple and involves immersing stainless steel in an acid bath of varying lengths of tine, de- pending on the color desired. Companies in Europe, Japan . and Canada are' taking out worldwide licenses: H.GORDON GREEN For over 20years now, we have been buildingup a herd of a rather peculiar breed of beef cattle at our farin, the Belted' Galloway. These Bellies look like their black cousins in most re- spects arid they are about the same size. But each one is marked with a very striking band of white which goes right around its middle. One dear ofd lady who dropped in frond the city one day to pay us a visa was somewhat shocked the first time she saw our herd, and immediately asked why we had bandaged them all. These are rugged animals, and are fed on the snow or not at all. ft, is • also a very rare breed, with perhaps no more than 20 herds in its native Scotland and no more than a half dozen small herds in the U.S. It seems that there will soon be more however, because to the hobby farmer this is an ideal animal, It takes very little care, is a spectacular beast to be- hold, and most important of all, it is very different from anything his neighbours own. - But quite apart from, its grow= ing appeal to the hobbyists, we likg the br a, id;we'll continue f''to deep thea Mt! dry. ire they admirably adapted for the rigors of our Canadian winters, but they are also exceptionally fine ' milkers. And thereby hangs a tale which I think I should tell you now. Back around 1875, when British cattlemen were just beginning to see the importance of keeping breeds pure and separate, the Scottish Galloway men began to plan their first herd book. At the same time they made their first plans to improve their breed and to standardize it. "Now look here," their organ- izers said, "let's just have , one color to this breed. Let's agree that we won't include any color but black in our book." • The 'cattle of the Galloway dis- trict in Scotland at that time were rather careless about their colors, with some whites, some reds and some broken . colors mixing in with the rest. Even- tually the Scots settled for the black and the dun colors. All the rest were to be cast into the outer darkness. And the curious belted variety was one of the colors which was .to be eradicated. Everybody agreed to this it seems — everybody Ithat is but the good wives of the Galloway' country, and they wouldn't agree at all. • Their reasons? Well first of all, the Belties were so pretty! Secondly., since time immemorial,' the farm wives of the country had always believed that a Belted cow was a better milker than the others were apt to be, and so ' when it came time to select a "house cow" frotn the herd, the woman of the house invariably selected a ,big cow with a big white belt around it. To make a long and very inter- esting story short and purely historicali `there was somuch femin ne_prdt t a`bc it tliertficie discrimination their husbands had levelled against the Belted cows of Scotland- that a special herd book was opened to keep these animals from becoming ex- tinct. So whatever else you may have to say about the Belted Galloway, you ' must at least admit that it is the only breed in the world today- which owes its existence to the will of angry women.. Even today, some 80 years later, most Galloway breeders will tell you/that a Belted cowis likely to have an unusual share of milk for her calf. But many of them don't like the breed just the same. Why? Well, it's still a woman's breed you know! Crop surveys from space As the August sun ripens the wealth of the Prairies, teams of government workers, farmers and elevator agents call or drive from' farm to farm to estimate the size of the maturing crops. The information is telegraphed to Ottawa, mixed into a national estimate by toiling statisticians and delivered after days of con- centrated, complicated effort to the agencies and individuals who must market the harvested grain. There may be a better way. A faster, more accurate count of acreage may some day be made with the help of satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above the fields. A test of crop -counting by satellite was completed last summer, about the time the traditional survey was being made on the ground, and the re sults are encouraging to the scientists who performed it. Dr. A. R. Mack, an Agriculture Canada researcher working at the Canada Center for Remote Sensing in Ottawa, leans over the huge computer -printed maps of the western test areas and points out the rectangles of dots, X's and other Symbols Which reveal the acreage and crop planted in each field. "We think we can provide ear- lier estimates for the Wheat Board, and some day we may be able to measure the extent of things such as drought, frost damage and the productivity of prairie rangeland," says Dr. Mack, The remote sensing center re- ceives its satellite data from the government tracking station at Prince Albert, Sask., and then .feeds it through the computers which produce the print-out • maps: Photographic, prints of the paths swept by the satellite are also created electronically,\ and in these pictures the fields appear as hazy patches of white, gray or black, depending upon the nature of the planted crop. At any moment during its 14 orbits a day the satellite — ERTS-1 — watches 11,100 square miles of the earth's surface and its milli -spectral scanners can identify the light and measure the amount of reflections bouncing back from an area as small as one acre. The project is performed in Canada in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration which launched ERTS-i in July, 1972. Agronomists from several re- search stations, universities and a commercial "firm in Canada are participating in the program. Also, 'mathematicians, computer programers and other specialists with the Canada Center for Remote Sensing are developing new ways to provide the best information from satellite and high altitude photography. Thirteen test strips for study- ing spring wheat were scanned in the 1973 test, eight of them in Canada. `The areas covered in- cluded • Starbuck and St,ney Mountain, Man.; Melfort, Delisle and Swift Current, Sask.; Ray- mond 'and ,Olds, Alta. ; and Dawson Creek, B.C. Accuracy of the satellite esti- mates is about 90 per cent when the crops are maturing. One reason.why the accuracy is not higher is that barley and wheat mature together and, at the time of ripening, reflect similar wave- lengths of light back to space. The two crops are therefore diff- icult to tell apart and research will. be required to determine the best time and way to distinguish them. How does the system work? First, the sunlight reflected by the crops, is picked up by a scan- ning device and directed to four separate sensors in the satellite, each one registering only the radiations within a specific band of the spectrum. All other light is blocked by filters. The amount and wavelengths of light reflected by, a field depend not only on the type of crop growing but on the maturity of the plants themselves. The amount of chlorophyll in the plant and the size and shape of its leaves all affect the type of light reflected. By analyzing the light reflec- tions from a particular patch of ground, and then visiting the field to check the crop' visually, a com- plete code of wavelengths is developed. It is this code that allows the identification of crops in'other fields without the neces- sity of paying a personal visit. To simplify the procedure, only two bands of light were analyzed in the 1973 test: the visible red light band and a band of non - thermal infrared light. Let's take the example of rape- seed. A healthy, green rapeseed crop reflects a very low level of red light and a Very high level of infrared. A few weeks later, the crop matures to a brownish yellow aa. - its chlorophyll content becomes smaller. The change affects the type of light reflected and flow the satellite registers much more light within the red band and less in the infrared band. The system is by no means perfect because it obviously Cannot function at night or when , the land is hidden by cloud. The ERTS-1 satellite is only an experimental machine. It will probably take several years before a truly practical satellite can be designed and launched to provide our marketing agencies with reliable information, not only of Canada but of other grain - producing countries in the world. YOU FIX -1T By GeneCAN .von WINDOW FROSTING If you're looking for a little more privacy in one of your rooms. in which the window isn't frosted, here's one method of frosting that window. Soften some putty with a few dtops of linseed oil, and dab this over the window glass. This will dry into a nice frosting in a day or two, whereupon another coating may be applied. This frosting is more or kss permanent and weatherproof, and can be safely wash- ed with soap and water. But it is possible, too, to "defrost" the glass at Any time, if you with, with some con- centrated ammonia. r ,w A. C. 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