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Nickel writes: This is a lads,sand with beautiful water r cor pastel compilation of selected para- t.heehsprits, int* Orbit and oil aintings• carving and tea graphs of letters t received from they'll land on thatillusive nrOrt bush abstractart, very much like Fr, 41',14, Abraham of Rurseong, .( of, self-sufficiency which odd P some of the driftwood art Iusaw . , , . "the , ,�,>!d while In Victoria and Lunenberg. India. Abraham, a i�t,Btive Fakecad � � r�rarda to On top.of aD this *o songs s we ofN a Scotia, is supe tntendent this, of a boys'. farm training school a hungerlese, rpore human life ao have been playing on the public there, to instru+lt boy's (about 90) badly° Oeeded.a India address system icor the thousand ,in the art of farming. This Parti- For the past twohours I have .of visitors we have had—all these solar section of the school spe- been hearing; thelhunder-throat- lovely songs have been composed cnalzes in the care and manage- ed'crowing of five prize cocks, .so. _ by teachers on my school staff or anent of hens Tor egg production. if this letter seems n to vibrate by people in our own villages. A news item in Farm and, you'll know • the reason why. Honestly you would be amazed at Country, the OFA official publi- These cocks amaze me« We are, how "developed" and rich. our cation, telling of Mrs. Davidson's holding our annual exhibition and people are in creativity 'and in. departure to India, gave a Toron- „ competitions and these clanto- to address where. contributions . rous birds have been brought in could be sent. Being interested in from the villages around to tom - the project I sent a minor- contri= ` pete. Last evening we had the bution, not expecting anything prize distribution and obviously their love and appreciation of the :things of beauty that bring peace and joy to our 'hearts,. In a sense this is an added motive forme to help our children so that they can more than a formal acknow- the winners are crowing, about do something to solve our terrible ledgement and an official receipt' their success. problems of poverty. It seems a for the amount. • Opposite the cocks, hens and ` .double crime that people so I was surprised when some rabbits are the competing vege, talented and so creative should time later I received a letter from • taales—a quieter entry,. thank be haunted by hunger and .de - India thanking me for the dona- God, because if the pumpkins; on.. 'pressed by dirt, the slums and the tion. In replying to Father display did have :vocal chords sickness that inevitably go with Abraham I explained that it was they surely would have to make poverty. a news item in Farm and huge sounds to go with their huge, It's a rare day that our boys t. ountry, telling of Mrs. David- size. Every time I look at those r don't get a lecture on sanitation,tl son's departure, which prompted pumpkins I see hundreds of :keeping food mould -free (not an me to contribute and intimated pumpkin pies, like my mother 'easy thing to do during our anon - that I would be ' interested in used to Make, stretching out for soon months) and never giving learning just what wholly, unso- miles before my watering eyes. anything to the birds but the licited response the item had Unfortunately, in India we don't freshest, purest water. And I evoked. The following was his make pies with pumpkins. We use seldom end a lecture without re reply : , them in curries which are tasty minding them that . the way they Thank you for your letter. We and spicy for sure. But a man's treat their chickens is the way were very surprised and encour- stomach does have its deep, pri- they should treat themselves: aged by the response to the news vate memories—and mine has This is very important. Friends item able to forget Farm and Country. This never quite been orget of mine nearly lost their little has never happened to me before. certain items like pumpkin pie, two-year-old a short while ago Perhaps farmers, wlio know the • strawberry shortcake and on • because of worms. It can happen uncertainties of life better than Fridays the two fresh mackerelsvery fast. -'Children become ,others in many ways, can appre- our family (eight all told) regu- anemic, the stomach swells and ciate the hopelessness of India's larly consumed at a cost of 25 the intestines become all fouled situation if we don't grow more cents, in those days when so up. So, if our chicken education food. " much could be bought for so little, does nothing but teach our boys 1 can well believe that Malcolm The school right now is filled hygiene it is not wasted. Hygiene Davidson was a well-known and with the delicious perfume of is not an examination subject, but influential ' man. When he was hundreds and hundreds of Milia- a life -and -death subject. here he impressed all the agri- layan orchids, for up on the , cultural people he met with his second floor we have a garden of When I speak of "lectures", knowledge and hist ability to -delight. Our hall is filled with ' however, don't conjure up a plc - listen to their side of the story. flowers. The number and variety, ture of boys neatly seated at We certainly had high hopes of the beauty and fragrance would desks with me spouting at them developing our piggery section convince you that the Himalayas, in front of a chalk board. These very extensively but that was which are famous for their snow- lectures are given around a cage given a bad blow by his unex- capped peaks, should also be as we extricate a. sick chick, to petted death. Still, we do make famous as a mountainous Garden ,,, five or ten boys who are directly some progress though much of Eden. During the four days of involved. Or they are given at roll. slower than we would have with our exhibition, I have walked call time when 108of us share the his help: through the hall two or - three discoveries and difficulties of the Eleven at night it is. I've just times a day and have yet to see day. So our lecturing system is come in after •waikinS up -and. ,. all they different=. kflowersls and ?luid:and..;fl ible and Jacks :the- down under the clearest, most plants- that are 'on tItSplay: Janes orderliness, of °elassroor educa= star-studded sky the Lord ever Davidson just can't get over the tion. revealed to earth -bound mortals. fact that our mountain sides (we Thanks again for remembering I needed the revelation, are at the 5,000 foot level) can us. At the morhent, because of Though at the moment we are produce so many flowers and that floods, famine and runaway in - coping the food situation wors- our towns and villages around ens in the country and I know that have so many enthusiastic gar - our people will have to tighten deneijs. This, of course; is the their belts before things get whole point of our exhibition. better. Rice, flour and sugar are Even the poorest of the poor in rationed. The rationed rice is the Kurseong area can, and many practically inedible, even for the do, grow flowers. Mother Nature hungry ; flour is not available and is so enthusiastically co -opera - sugar is so expensive one would „ tive. have to be a maharaja -to indulge. I dread the thought that while So salted tea is back in fashion. trying to help our people produce Honestly, sometimes I feel like more food and improve their Job sitting on the mammoth dung health we may neglect these heap of India's miseries, sprin- R "' kling myself with ashes and half -wishing with "Job, so close to bitterness, that since God has heaped on so much suffering why doesn't He top it off with death? Then comes the end of the work day. I walk under the stars, pray as well as I can, drink in the deli- cious silence (people in, the villages are all tucked away, with the oil lams out b nine) and' py with silence comes peace. -Hope lights a star in my heart and Job and I (temporarily) part com- pany. But I shouldn't give you the im- pression that I go around during the day with a face as long as an income tax form. My kids won't let me. It is -a paradox, but my 90 chicken boys, thin, spare and dressed in clothes a thread away from rags, emanate hope like tiny animated stars. During the morning work period, as water trays are being cleaned, food trays filled and litter turned, of the 20 boys taking care of flock C, fifteen must be singing. Even Job would have to "come off it" and do a little grinning under the pressure. They not only give me hope for myself. They give me hope for India. What al gift of God this cheer- fulness is 'to these children. These days, with shortages so severe and inflation so wild, they come to school with only a cup of plain tea (no milk, no sugar) in their stomachs. Gone are the two chappattis that used to control their pangs of hunger until they got the lunch we give them at noon. Now they have to do their morning work and get through four class periods before they get something in their stomachs. It seems to me that anyone would be justified in going around with a verylong face indeed under these circumstances. So, when I see their big smiles and hear their happy chatter and particu- larly when I hear how many of them sing as they work !feel very humble myself and very confi- dent that these boys, given half a flation India is having a rough time. • May God bless you and keep u in His love and peace. Con- t ibutions specifying the St. Alphonsus Farm Project may be sent to Canadian Jesuit Missions, 833 Broadview Ave., Toronto, Ont. (Please note this is not a re- lief agency. Contributions in- tended for relief should be mailed to a relief agency operating in India, ) Remember when swiping chickens was so common that a farmer often slept with his shotgun? The bad boys who roamed the midnight, countryside were so old fashioned then it' seems they never even con- sidered going into the cattle rust- ling business. Chickens were much more co-operative if you just knew the°right place to pick them off a roost. Meaning a place where they were fat and not too lousy and the dogs were conge- nial. Didn't need to load them into a truck either. A bag to sling over your back was all the equipment you needed. There were of course a few big time operators in the game, but chicken stealing as I remember it was nearly • always petty thievery. A bunch of the lads would find themselves in town some night with no money and full of henry' and someone would say "By geez lads but my stomach's swearin' at me. By geez wouldn't it be jake now just to smell a chicken a sizzlin' in a roastin' pan?" And before they knew it they were trudgingdown some dark and deliciousy hostile road that led straight to some fated henhouse. The number of birds that were lifted depended upon how many were in the gang plus the size of the fowl plus how hungry you were. Spontaneous thieving such as this was rarely for the purpose of turning the loot into money. The gang was nearly always a non-profit organization, and the chickens would finally lose their heads behind some kitchen which could be con- sidered safe. A chicken roasting party was just the thing for a house where the old folks were away. Another lovely feature of henhouse crime was that the girl friends could join in. Females were especially handy when it came to plucking the birds and taking the plumbing out of them and finding stale bread to put in its place. Sure they were 'all juvenile delinquents, just as surely as are the kids today who smoke pot and swipe their old man's beer. But the local yokels seemed inclined to be somewhat lenient towards such pilfering. Even the farmer who owned the fowl had to be cautious about his wrath sometimes because he cotild never be sure that one of his own boys wasn't one of the ring- leaders. So often as not, joking was the order of the day. There used to be a lot of good jokes about henhouse raiding. One of the best that I can recall, used to be told by Arthur Godfrey and it was about .the old fellow who thotight he heard a commotion in his henhouse one night, so he grabbed his gun and his flashlight and struck out across the barn- yard in his slippers and under- wear. And just as he was cauti- ously easing open the henhouse door with his gun at the ready his faithful old dog poked his gold nose through the back flaps of his master's longjohns and the old guy shot ten hens! Well that was hack in the bad old days and the young lads and their girl friends no longer make those delightfully wicked safaris into midnight chicken pens. Von know why? Well I'll tell DOUG MacKECHNIE, right, livestock Merchandiserand supervisor of the f!#til Showcase Herds, shows visitors the dairy showcase hard on the Central Experimental' Farm in Ottawa. The herds are on display daily for <prospectiVe fiorelgrl buyers ofa n dian cattle as well as for tourists. • ationcal Showc Cattle herds grazing peacefully iii the midst of the hustle and bustle , of a nation's capital? Where else but in Ottawa! Each summer two herds munch quietly in•lush pastures in clear view of hectic rush hour traffic and hundreds of tourists passing along'one of the city's important thoroughfares. The animals• are still there in the winter—housed inside bright, spacious barns or outside in exercise yards on Agriculture Canada's Central Experimental farm which has long since been surrounded by an expanding city. They're out dairy and beef National Showcase Herds. And if the daily commuters hardly cast a glance any more, there are thousands of others who do. That's more than 20,000 special visitors in 1972-73, to be exact, plus thousands of casual •visitors, The herds are operated by the federal: department's Livestock Division. "These animals are Canada's quality cattle on display," says Doug MacKechnie, Agriculture Canada livestock merchandiser and supervisor of the showcase herds. "fihey are a sample of the better herds in the country." The two herds of about 50 ani- mals each area living sales pro- motion for Canadian exports of live cattle as foundation breeding stock for foreign countries. Such export sales have become an important source of cash in- come. for Canadian livestock breeders. The major breeds of dairy and beef are included in the showcase herds. Thirteen cows each of Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein - Friesian and Jersey make up the bulk of the dairy herd while '15 animals of each of Aberdeen - Angus, Hereford and Shorthorn comprise the beef herd. A herd sire is maintained for each of the beef breeds. Dairy cows are bred by artificial in' - semination from Canadian A.1 units selected in consultation with breed associations. The cattle in each herd are en- tered on Record of Performance test programs to evaluate their Only experienced drummers need apply The government of Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) is hiring official tom:tom drummers now that the tradi- tional 21 -gun salute for visit- ing heads of state has been re- placed with a tom-tom beat. And, instead of military marches, "Dialilo," a song. written in honor of President Mobutu Sese Soko, • will be played while foreign digni- taries review Zaire guards of honor. . Japanese women plan Everest climb A Japanese all -woman ex- pedition will attempt to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest peak at 29,028 feet, in the spring of 1975, using the south col route. The women are one of 11 teams given permission by Nepal to attempt the Everest climb at various times up till autumn, 1978. LINCOLN'S PLAN On Dec. 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for reconstruction of the South. you. Even if they were still hungry enough to go swiping, where In the 'world would the gang find anybody today who still knows how to puck a chicken and take the vital organisms out of it? 6 production value. "We need' more than performance statistics to satisfy knowledgeable foreign buyers," Mr. MacKechnie says. "Work and_wear traits of the breeds over a number of years count in the marketpace. We have a vast country, too large for most foreign delegations to •visit " at onetime. Ottawa is a conve- nient locatioqn� for centralized herds that can be examined by travellinguyers on tight sche- dules." In addition, foreign livestock - men 'have their own diplomatic, connections located in Ottawa as well 'as the services of Agricul- ture Canada's Health oT Animals Branch which provides health standards for cattle exports and imports. - - Animals in the herds come from across Canada. Farms in the Maritimes, Quebec,' Ontario, the Prairies and British Colum- bia have sold. stock to the federal department's livestock division for use in the showcase herds. Replacement animals also come from .the herds. The showcase herds rank in the top 10 per cent of working, herds in Canada, Mr. MacKeehnie 'says. "We house then ,inside' much of the time so they will be available for viewing by the pub- lic. This affects their perfor- mance slightly so that a herd of similar quality would do better under normal, well managed firming conditions." \- This serves to strengthen buyer confidence- that the types of ani- mals on display in Ottawa will give at least . Matched mance under more_. typical, management practices. Some - countries :are ; .im- pressed enough to" keep a strong' market ` going. for 'exports.' of Canadian registered cattle:: Jai_. pap, Mexico, the USSR, the i `nW- ted .States. several ",Air i n coon - tries, Cuba;:: -ether Latin ;Ameri- can and:. European countries imrt. ported:our'.stock tin 1972 for a, total value of ai 7,222,000. Exports of :registered cattle re:- •mained, strong. during' 1973, Aal though ,total numbers `were. slightly _ lower than :hi 1972. Sothe grazing herds in Ottawa are much more than a tourist's. curiosity piece: They are the main actors in a living show witi dow that has attracted' many customers to shop amongthe tap quality beef and dairy mei— abaft-' dice of ourlivestock industry. THE,OL-D FACTORY - We Buy Sell *The Antique fi . *The Unique *The Useful RESALE CENTRE Queen St. S. 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