The Brussels Post, 1948-7-14, Page 7He Refuses To Smile For The Cameraman — Benny Beaver Looks pretty glum about the
whole tiring as he poses for his picture at the fur farm of the four Pardoe brothers near Blen-
heim, Ont. The brothers are making an experiment to find out if beavers can he successfully
raised in captivity, If they succeed it may mark the beginning of a new era in Canadian fur -
farming, as beaver pelts are cvorth anything from $50 to $60 apiece.
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Inside Those Wire Pans A New, Industry May Be A-Borning — The four Pardoe brothers
are successful fur farmers and have over 3000 mink on their place near Blenheim, Ont.
Now, starting with 15 beaver they trapped near Espanola, they're trying to raise these fam-
ous fur -bearers on a commercial scale—something there is no record of ever having been done
successfully before. Food is cheap, being principally poplar saplings; but only time will tell
whether or not the heavers, whose rich brow n pelts lured so many early adventurers to
Canada, will breed in captivity,
Thunder
Shower
By
NORMA MOSHER
Joan Roberts called me the other
day. Rather surprisingly, for I
hadn't seen her in years, and after
the usual exchanges, `IIow are you?
It's too bad we don't see one an -
•other more often," she got down to
the point.
"Did you know your cousin Ethel
was being married next month?"
"I was aware of the fact," I re-
plied, rather gristly. "I've already
been to three of her showers."
"Well, since I'm bridesmaid 1
simply have to have one, too, I've
decided on next Tuesday, and 1
thought you night like to conte."
This was a "miscellaneous" show-
er, which, as everybody knows,
means that you can bring anything
from the book -ends Aunt Hattie
sent you for Christmas to the pil-
low slips you picked up during the
January sales for g1.0s,
Our household, unfortunately,
never seems to yield any hidden
treasures at time right moment, so I
bought a rose bowl at the little
gift shop up at the corner,
I didn't get it wrapped until the
last minute, an usual, and as usual,
I found that there wasn't a bit of
fresh ribbon in the house,
But I still had the marls to -wrap
up. Much as I disliked the idea, I
had to pass therm along to the nqt
•bride in the family --although Ethel
didn't seen like family to me, be-
cause until recently we hadn't seen
her in ages, I didn't even know
whether she remembered the pearls,
but the shower would provide a good
opportunity to give thein to her.
So I did them up the best I could,
not forgetting the little card that
always went with them,
Von know the old routine by now.
When the scout posted at the door
to watch for the guest of honor
called "Here site costes!" time lights
Were torsed nut, and there was
comparative silence brokit only by
a few giggles from the 'teen-agers.
"Then, as Ethel stood in the door-
way, everyone yelled "Stn•prisel" oil
went the lights, and she put on a
fairly convincingly"display of amaze-
ment.
We all sat around in the usual
circle, with Ethel opening the gifts
and Joan reading the accompanying
cards, Then they were passed on to
be duly admired and exclaimed
over, and returned via the circle
to Ethel. The donor of the seventh
gift by tradition to be the next
bride, turned out to be a stoutish
matron who lived down the street
and had three strapping half-
grown boys,
It was getting late, and we were
hopefully sniffing the fragrance of
the coffee brewing in the kitchen
when Ethel reached 'way down for
the last package, The white paper
and red cord looked rather plain af-
ter all the other pretty wrappings
and 1 was sorry that 1 hadn't taken
time to dress it up a little. "This
must be something extra," E''thel
said giving away the fact that tilt
present and all presents had been
accounted for in her busy little
mind -
She gave an embarrassed laugh
when she saw the shabby box, an-
ticipating another joke, But when
she opened it, there was only the
string of well-worn pearls, Not real
ones, of course, bu' well thatched
and graded, As Joan read the card,
a burst of incredulous laughter rose
throughout the roost,
"'A pearl for every year of hap
piness when you wear these on your
wedding day.' Why, it isn't even
signed."
Ethel's voice was shrill over the
buzz of commons in the room,
"This must be a joke, As if I
would wear those --those pearls with
my wedding gown. 1 think the
person who did this should own up.
And 1 have a pretty good idea,"
turning and looking pointedly at
me, "who it is."
I stood up. "Why of course, Eth-
el, VII own up,"- I said quickly,
"And 1 did hope that you might
wear them at your wedding. 13ut 1
can see that it was a Mistake on shy
part, and tin truly sorey for what
I did. But there's one consolation,"
I couldn't help adding when I saw
lbs look of 'triumph in her eye,
"You'll not get a duplicate of (hese
at another shower. You see, they
belonged to our grandmother,"
Just For Fun
The youngster's parents had
visited the neighbor's home the
night before and when the neigh-
bor answered the doorbell the
next morning and saw Jimmy she
thought his parents must have
forgotten something.
"Please, Mrs, Brown", Jimmy
said, "may I look at your din-
ing -room rug?"
She was astonished but said,
"Why of course, Jimmy, come
right in."
The boy stared at the rug in-
tently. Filially, with a puzzled
frown, he turned to its owner
and said, "It doesn't make ins
sick".
Queen Made Old
Frenchman Happy
Back in the days when the
Queen was still Duchess of York,
she was the honored guest of the
great French Colonial Exposition,
held at Vincennes. There, in the
open air garden, she was being
served tea by the guiding genius
of the Exposition, France's dis-
tinguished former soldier and
statesman, Marshal Lyautey,
Now on this occasion the excite-
ment and the unusual exertions to
,which the Marshal had been sub
jected had reduced hint to the
condition of a tired and disillusion
ed old man. Greatly admiring
the old warrior, the Duchess wond-
ered how she might help hint regain
his former attitude of cheerfulness
and well-being,
"Monsieur le Marcehal", she fin
ally said, "you are so powerful, you
have done so much for your wonder•
fol country, and you have created
this great exposition—would you
do something for nuc?"
"Foe you, Madame", the old war-
rior replied, "But wat can I do
for your Roya highness?"
"Why thisl" said England's fut.
ore queen. "The sun is in my eyes,
Will you make it go away?"
The Marshal was about to dis-
claim such powers, when suddenly
the sun went behind a cloud.
'Thank you, Monsieur le Mate-
chail", the Duchess exclaimed grate-
fully.
The old soldier beamed with hap-
piness.
The Dlttchess, with a mischiov
nus twinkle in her eye, whispered
to a fellow -guest, "I saw the cloud
corning,"
TIIISARM FRONT
Jo
Fires in Canadian homes caused
just as many deaths last winter as
did automobile accidents on our
highways. For the safety of his
home and his family every hotne-
owner should have his heating sys-
tem overhauled and cleaned during
the summer, rather than leave it
011 the fall when furnace men and
heating contractors are rushed to
death.
For those who attend to such
personally, a few lips on the proper
way to clean a furnace may be help
Ful. Once the chimney has been
swept, clean out the pit at the bot-
tom of the chimney; also clean all
soot from pipes connecting furnace
to chimney, as soot can corrode the
the pipes.
Pipes should be carefully check
ed for holes and loose connections
from which smoke and dangerous
gases may escape, If there is any
slope at all in pipes, they should
slope upward toward chimney.
Finally, furnace fire bex and
heating boiler should be thorough.
ly cleaned and checked for cracks
and other damage. Homeowners
who haven't the exprience or nec-
essary equipment to do this prop-
erly should call in a heating con-
tractor. It doesn't pay to take
chances.
* * *
Old Home Weeks and Reunions
will be the order of the day in many
parts of Ontario. Lindsay is hold-
ing Old Home Week from July
First to Tenth. There will be an
Old Boys Reunion at Tm.lnmira, July
First to Fourth, while the Bruce
County Reunion will be from July
20th to August Fourth-
s * *
Now that they're using egg shells
commercially—and in a big way—
about the only part of a chicken that
goes to waste is the cackle, and
sometimes we fancy we even hear
sometimes we fanc wye even 'tear
some of those corning over those
"disc jockey" shows on the radio.
Robert Frock of Nebraska is the
one to find a use for the egg -shells.
He is running what is claimed to
be the only egg -shell dehydrating
plant in the U.S.—drying up and
grinding into flour no less than
half a million shells a day. Most
of them go into livestock feed, re-
placing bonemeal or limestone as a
source of calcium. Some, however,
are being used for human nutrition,
principally in hospitals, Frock
claims that egg -slit" flour is cheap-
er than bonemeal and more digest-
ible than limestone and predicts
that the day is corning when there
won't be a wasted egg shell in the
country.
* * 8s
The battle between the various
types of fertilizer continues- A Da-
kota Experimental Station warns
fanners not to expect that plowing
under crops for "green manure"
will step up the yields as much as
using wet barnyard manure. This
station has been doing both for
some 30 years, and says that yields
with barnyard manure were consid-
erably greater than from the green
manure crops such as sweet clover.
* * *
Writing in the Farm Journal re-
cently Wheeler McMullin stakes
some suggestions to the U. S. Agri-
cultural Authorities which Wright
possibly be addressed, with equal
point to those on this side of the
border.
Soils all over America—he writes
—are screaming for more humus,
more organic matter. Soils, once
friable and absorbent, have become
hard and sticky. Agricultural needs
a new crop that is mostly roots—
roots that will reach down into the
subsoil—roots that will leave the
ground full of their organic matter
can equal a really phenotninal root
structure, Why are not explorers
searching for plants to 011 that
need?
Afr• ihlcMillen goes on to discuss
the growing scarcity of cellulose.
Use of paper—he writes—has risen
until the average is nearly one
pound her person each day. Cellu-
lose gets scarcer and more expen-
sive. Wood pulp comes from for-
ests that steadily grow thinner and
farther away. The time approaches
when a yearly cellulose crop will
pay. Somewhere an earth there
must be plants which could be ad-
aptd so that fanners here could
othcellded
agrndw rayon.e Wulosehy areneenot explforpaperorers
looking for such plants?
* *
This might be important news
for any of our readers who raise
sheep—and especially those wishing
to push lambs along so as to get
them to market in the shortest pos-
sible time.
Many a man who has over -eaten
has found a real relief in a teaspoon-
ful or so of bicarbonate of soda,
better known as baking soda. Now
they've discovered that baking soda
is just the thing for lambs that
make "pigs" of themselves.
For it's a well known fact that
over -eating by sheep can be even
more serious than it is with human
beings. In rec.-nt experiments
lambs which had been feed a strong
ration, in order to induce rapid
gains, often vomited grain, scoured
fretly and had a death rate of 20
per cent.
But another test group, fed soda
along with exactly the same ration,
remained perfectly healthy. The
soda was fed at the rate of one-
fifth of an ounce per head daily; or
1.2 pounds of soda per 100 lambs
per day.
According to the Dept. of Agri-
culture of New South Wales, pear
trees treated with hormone sprays
showed an average drop of only
12.3 per cent as against a fall of
44 per cent front untreated trees -
As a result of the spraying, over-
ripe fruit remained on the trees
until lorg • after normal picking
maturity.
Sizable Universe
If we tnay judge from those
parts of space which are accessible
to telescopic observation — writes
Sir James Jeans in "The Stars and
Their Courses" --a large part of the
matter of the universe is already
condensed into stars. We obviously
cannot state the total number of
stars in the whole universe with any
approach to accuracy but its vast-
ness is suggested by time statement
that there are probably something
like as marry stars in the universe
as there are grains of sand on all
the seashores of the world. Or, to
take another comparison, the total
number of stars in the universe is
probably equal to the number of
drops of rain which fall on the
whole of London in a day of heavy
rain. And we must remember that
the average star is something like
a million times as big as the earth.
Cross Wheat•R,'s
Experiments are being , ,u : , ,•d
at the Plant 13reeliug lu Int 11 of
the Agricultural U n i v e r s i t y of
Wageningen (The Net berlaud.,1 in
crossing wheat and rye and it t.4
expected that large-scale pbmtiegs
of the new cereal will talar place
this year. Experiment, during the
past fifty years have pr""lueed only
sterile crosses but a partially fertile
variety has now been developed.
The new cereal is staled to thrive
on poor soils and is of a high
nutritive value.
Here and There
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you tither be in, Pat -- ail explosion
or a collision?"
Second ditto: "In a collision, be-
cause in a collision there yez are,
but in an explosion where ere yez?"
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Sounds almost unbelievable — until you know the reasons
why. Certo is nothing but "fruit pectin" — the natural sub-
stance in fruit which makes jams "jam" and jellies "jell."
It's extracted from fruits in which it is most plentiful for,
better, quicker, easier jam and jelly making.
i. Short boil — That's why, when
you use Certo, you don't have to
"boil down" your fruit to make it
set. A one -to -two -minute full,
rolling boil is enough for jams .. .
a half -minute_ -to -a -minute for.
jellies.
2. Extra yield — The short Certo
boil saves all the precious fruit
juice which, in long boiling, goes
off in steam. You get an extra
yield of SO, more jam or jelly.
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3. Saves time, work — What a lot
of time and work it saves, tool The
old long -boil way you'd have to
boil and stir many times as long.
4. Fresh fruit flavour — colour —
With Certo you use fruit at its
peak of flavor and colour and not
the under -ripe fruit used in long -
boil recipes. The Certo boil is too
short to spoil this lovely taste and
colour. They stay, right in your
jam or jelly.
5. No failures—Ydu'il Have rfo
failures if you follow exactly the
recipes provided with Certo. Dif-
ferent fruits need different hand-
ling, so there's a separate
tested recipe for each one. 11
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AND JELLY -MAKING
GET CERTO AT YOUR GROCER'S
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By Arthur Pointer