The Brussels Post, 1949-10-26, Page 6TI A FRONT
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The business—or perhaps it is
an art—of determining the sex of
tiny chicks is of such interest to
practically everybody concerned
with poultry that when I ran across
an article on the subject, in a pop.
War English weekly, I decided l
eouldn't do better than to pass it
along to my readers. So here it is:
In the normal course of events a
hatch will yield an equal number
of male and female chicks, and it
you are not able to identify the
males until they are two months
old, you have lost an awful lot of
chicken -rearing mash, of brooder
space and of time. Consequently,
it was of great interest to ns to
learn that the Japanese had dis-
covered a means of identifying the
sex of a chick when hatched writes
a Norfollc farmer in "Answers".
Squeezing the Truth
Some of then] were working in
this country in 1939, in fact they
had a few Englishmen under in-
struction, and what had been merely
of interest to us now became an
essential factor in the conduct of
our business.
Since 1940, then, I have bought
only chicks guaranteed to be ninety-
dlve per cent pullets, But how le
this sexing done? Goodness knows.
I have watched it all and I am
little the wiser, but I can telt you
what I saw.
The breeder front whom I buy
hatches 3,500 chicks every Wed-
nesday for eight months of the
year, so the sexer ryorke for him
One mhrning a week, and works
ler other breeders and hatcheries
the rest of the time. For his ser -
lees my breeder pays a thousand
pounds a year, and finds his keep
and the use of a car.
I arrived one morning to pick up
a load of chicks. In a corner of the
incubator -room a small space had
been walled off and a curtain was
drawn aside to reveal to me a
young man seated at a table in the
top of which were three large holes
as big as dinner plates. Under the
central hole was the termination of
a chute down which someone was
passing ehfcks to him at what seem-
ed to me a fantastic speed. The
other holes and chutes were ao
constructed that chicks passed into
them slid away into boxes.
There was a very bright light,.
shaded, of course, from the sexer's
eyes, and the rhythm of his move-
ments held me spellbound, I did
not see him fumble once. Out of
the centre hole came his hands, a
chick in each. Pointing their rear
ends at a bowl, perhaps two feet
away, he would give a sharp
squeeze, which would evaculate the
little tummy with a very definite
"zip,"
This is the secret, this is the art!
It has to be done, but if you or I
were to try it we should kill Wok
after chick. One glance at close
range and he has spotted the sex,
and the chick is tossed—harmlessly
but positively tossed—into the cor-
rect chute.
What does he see? He tried to
show me, but I couldn't set any-
thing, and because he held a chick
a moment too long for my inspec-
fion it was hurt, and obviously
would die.
The rhythm is extraordinary. No
fumbling, no hesitation, no pause.
Eight hundred an hour. I stood
these fascinated, and he worked
away as steadily as the pendulum
of a clock and he had been at it
for hours.
This particular young man was
working for the Society which had
trained him, and he will have to do
so for several years for a very
meagre wage. But when his time
is up he will work as a free-lance,
and will come as near making a
fortune, I should think, as can be
done in this country of exorbitant
txation.
I have heard of £150 a week and
more, and the season is much
longer than might be supposed.
Many will get eight months work
in the year. I understand they
have to be extremely careful of
their hands,
Writing His Ticket—Thirteen-
ear-old Egon M. von Asow, of
Berlin's British sector, works
on Isis second book following
the publication of his first,,
"Goethe for Pupils of the Third
Grade in High School:" A stu-
dent in Barlin High School, he
Is literally writing his own way.
Look Out, Ferdinand—Although soccer has replaced the tradi-
tional bull -fight as Spain's national sport, crows still flock to
cheer and jeer the fighters at Madrid's arena, This picador,
his feet and calves well protected by steel and leather, inflicts
painful wounds on the bull to weaken and madden him. Then
the matador takes over.
SPORT./W AStrr 1` i:C
We had always thought that the
Kentucky Derby was the supreme
example of that gentle American
habit Of ballyhooing a more or less
'ordinary sports event into some-
thing which the average fan be-
lieves to be of world-shaking im-
portance. But now, thinking over
the calibre of baseball (?) recently
exhibited in New York City and
Brooklyn, we are inclined to think
that the World Series classic (1)
tops even the Kentucky one.
* * *
The Yankees, for instance, al-
though they went into the series
badly handicapped phyaically, were
generally believed to be a "smart"
club—one that knew all the answ-
ers,
* * *
So what do we find them doing?
In the fourth game singles by Phil
Rizutto and Tommy Henrich—"the
old reliable"—put Yankee runners
on first and third. Yogi Berri
trickled one down to Miekis at
third] and Rizutto, trying to duck
Campanella's tag, stepped off the
baseline, something which even a
third-grade schoolboy would know
made him an 'automatic out.
Whereupon Campanella had only
to throw down to second where
Henrich—"the old reliable"—was
having a daydream or something,
and found himself trapped off the
bag,
* * *
So the ultra -smart Yankees, in
that one frame, had a total of two
walks and two hits, yet nary a run.
Of course it happened in Brooklyn
—and the atmosphere of Ebbets
Field must do something to even
smart ball -players. Still, if it had
been Babe Herman, or some of the
famous dumbells of old, that in-
dulged in that sort of base -running,
it would have gone down in the
books as still another example of
Dodger dumbness.
ISSUE 43 — 1949
But the whole sorry affair was
too much of a letdown, after all the
advance buildup, to dwell on at any
great length. If those were the
teams that finished first in the Am-
erican and National Leagues, the
fans who live in the cities boasting
second division clubs must be real
gluttons for unishlnent.
* * *
At the same fourth Series game
already referred to. one observer
made the remark that you could
pick out a pretty fair ball team
from the spectators in the stands.
Then two or three of the boys
started making a list of the talent
present.
* m *
For your catching department
you could have had either Steve
O'Neill, Michey Cochrane or Luke
Sewell, Your pitcher might have
been Carl Hubell, Lefty Gomez or
Waite Hoyt. At first—Hank Green-
berg, Bill Terry or Charlie Grimm.
Second — Rogers Hornsby or
Frankie Frisch. Shortstop—Lippy
Leo Durocher or Pie Traynor, At
third—Red Rolfe or half a dozen
others almost as good, and as out-
fielders, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and
Mel Ott.
"Yes indeed• ," said the guy who
started the discussion. "Roll a few
years off those shoulders, and you
could pick a team from that outfit
that would give either these Dod-
gers or Yankees something to wor-
ry about."
"Roll years off their shoulders,
nothing!" was the prompt reply.
"The way the Dodgers and Yanks
are going, all you'd have to do le
put uniforms on those oldtimere—
and they'd beat either or both of
them right this minute!"
O 5 *
And the gentleman might not
have been so far astray, at thatl
In Baton Rouge, La., a dismissed
iceman was arrested on charges of
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