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The Seaforth News, 1958-04-10, Page 3o in ®e1®oCl®® f�ElllIWk1 ®®®®f�0© E©11111101/1® EDE iiri i MEIN EgIn®E EVE EE® 1! 111 rifarI►%d 171©11E1E1 i E©© ®I10115W1 inEnci Qnn ERE 11Ef`1©©E©• E0®11© ICEE717110121E1 ©t Wh]L Gardening Over The Centuries We are apt to think that the love of new and rare plants is a thing of modern` growth, and it comes as something of a shock to find that the first recorded plant -hunting expedition was or- ganized fnore than 3,000 years ago, It was inspired by Queen. Hatshepset of Egypt when she built a fine new temple at Luxor about 1570 B.C. A fleet of ships and a company of gardeners went to the Land of Punt, now known as British Somaliland, a n d brought back plants, seeds and living trees. The main purpose of the ex- pedition was to find incense - bearing trees for the temple gar- dens and in due course the Queen's sculptors recorded that thirty-one living trees had been established there. Those trees have been identified with the Boswellia, that still grows in the land of Punt, whose characteris- tic brittle resin is still put to the , same old uses as in the days when Pharaohs ruled supreme. Xn the dry state it is known as "frankincense" and is used in re- ligious ceremonies, and when softened by boiling in oil is used es pitch for caulking ships. About one hundred and fifty years later• another Egyptian monaroh left a record that am- ong the treasures of ebony and Ivory, gold and precious stones, brought back from a successful foray against the Assyrians, were many new and rare plants, in- cluding a variety of Vine, a Pomegranate, and a Water -Lily. There is an old tradition that the Double Yellow Persian Rose and the tree .that we know as Lombardy Poplar were brought back by the soldiers of Alexan- der the Great on their return from the Persian Wars. Even in the days of chivalry,. when culture was at its lowest ebb, knights returning from the Crusades did not forget their ladies who tended tiny ,gardens within the walls of lonely cas- tles. Many of the gaily coloured fieldflowers of southern Europe and the Levant came to us about that time. One of the first is the great scarlet Ranunculus of Pal- estine, the familiar R. asiaticus, of our spring gardens, said to have been brought back by Louis IX of France to his mother SQUASHERWOMAN - Although presses have taken over almost everywhere in Italy, grapes are still crushed by foot in this Frascati winery, near Rome. Atop a barrel, the women steps through the ancient method, removing stems later. x Blanche of Castile, who had a famous garden about the middle of the thirteenth century. As with the gardeners of to- day the medieval monks were always willing to pass onseed- lings, slips, grafts or pungent roots to friends and to fellow en- thusiasts. Varieties of special vir- tue or of religious significance such as Madonna Lilies, the gaily coloured Anemones from the Land of the Holy Cross, or Snow- drops .. , were carried far and wide over the whole of Christen- dom in the wallets of palmers and wandering friars, to be given as an appreciation of the hospi- tality that was always so freely given, . So it has been down through the changing centuries, our gar- dens have been enriched by men of every walk of life, wanderers and stay-at-homes, parsons and pirates, all have worked together to increase the variety of our cultivated plants and the beauty of our gardens. - From "The Coming of the Flowers," by A. W. Anderson. Careless Stork Hatched Gosling Few actresses become bird - watchers, but that is Miss Nancy Price's hobby around her Sus- sex home and when she travels abroad, In Norway she studied the stork's habits, and found, that, in wooing, he first bows elabor- ately, then proposes by placing his long bill over his back and giving a raucous cry. He is also very polite and courteous after marriage, but has strictly moral ideas on how a wife should conduct herself. She quotes two astonishing stories of this morality, related by Bishop Stanley in a fascinat- ing account of her hobby, "I Watch and Listen". All the eggs from a stork's nest were stolen and replaced by hen's eggs. When the chicks were hatched the male vanished for two or three days returning with a number of other storks, who gathered in a circle round the female, evidently discussing her case, She was then torn topieces and the nest destroyed. In the second case, near Berlin, two storks made their nest en the chimney of a house, the owner exchanged eggs when the mother stork -was careless enough to let him de 50, and a gosling was hatched. After in- specting it, the male flew around the nest with loud cries, then disappeared, On the fourth day the inmates of the house, disturbed by loud cries coming from a field front- ing it, saw nearly 500 storks standing close, together, appar- ently listening to one facing the mass meeting. When he'd finished, another came forward to address the as- sembly. This proceeding con- tinued with a succession of birds, then the whole court rose into the air uttering cries and flew towards the female in her nest. Finally, one bird - evidently the disgruntled mate - struck her three Or four times, knock- ing her out of it. She, the gosling and the nest were then des- troyed. • TYPIST THOUGHT SIZE WAS TOUCHED Recently Miss Margaret Light- foot, a shorthand typist employ- ed by a bank at Ladysmith, Natal, pulled the dust cover from her typewriter and pre- pared for work. Her eyes pop- ped; some of the typewriter keys were moving by them- selves. Miss Lightfoot pushed her chair back, firmly believing that some ghostly typist was at the machine -then she saw trying to rear its head under the type- writer keys a dangerous yellow snake! One of the bank staff coaxed the snake out and dis- patched it. CROSSWOR D PUZZLE ACROSS 8. Eccentric 1. Cures piece • 6. Poisonous 7, Shun bean 8.lRorrower 18 Apportion 9. Constei let Inn 14, 388018 10, 'tribunal 15, Daub 1 1 IQnnhh 16. 1)og of mixed breed 17, Charge. 19. Artificial language 29. Son of Jet her 23. Bscape by , trickery 25, Pronoun 20. Scolds 30 Qutcic l9' 32 1,80 Andy-., 33. Chafe 16. Flight 81Clocked 38. Vengeance 40,.iap, outcast 41.IMalte happy 43. Roman bronze 44. Silkworm 45, Juice of a. tree 47 Bun ting; ik titanic 61 Quibble .55 Those born In Pince 51 I ur•lginer 57Anc. Gr. coins 58hammed DOWN 1 r os lessee 2 t`re, 2, Malt drink 4. Idle 3. Mali WILY 12, Unit of re- • 7.,Obtnin luctanee 9. Hebrew . 13. Always month 20. Lessen 2. passenger 21. Forgive • steamer 22. 11ouquet 4, Send out 24. Ilihdu demon 8. horseback 35, Harrier in -a game Roman circus 7, Existence 20. Door part .48. Make lace 27. Rims- 9. Luzon native 29, Peer Gynt's 0. Worm mother 3. Immerse 91. Reverence 53, Turn right 24, lagers C4, Terminate Answer emewhere on this page. FEELING SHEEPISH -Just a few friends and relatives of this ewe stood around after it got its head stuck in a bucket on a ranch and frightened off the rest of the herd of 2,000. Owner Rod Johnston soon rescued the "monster" from the unhappy pre- dicament. More and more the phrase "self-help" is bobbing up in meetings where the economic troubles of agriculture are un- der discussion. Farmers them- selves are using it, The big gov- ernment programs have been tried and found wanting. Sur- pluses grow. Now when farmers and their economic advisers gather in meetings like one held recently by the National Farm Institute of the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce they consider new approaches. They ask questions: Can farmers, by banding to- gether in strong commodity or- ganizations, such as those of wheat growers or swine pro- ducers, bring the earnings of agriculture in line with those of business and labor? Can they enlarge their domes- tic and foreign markets by tin - proving the quality of their pro- ducts and adapting them to the tastes of their consumers? Should government programs be redirected to encourage self- help? • ' • • Many farmers and farm lead- ers, of Course, are still ardent advocates of parity price sup- ports. Even the self-help people think government farm pro- grams should be maintained for the present. But with greater frequency now you hear a dif- ferent note. Here, for example, is Marion Steddom, an Iowa hog farmer, speaking at the Des Moines Institute: "There has been a drastic change in the thinking of farm people in the past few years. The change is from an attitude that government farm programs would eventually solve our problems to a conviction that we must solve our own prob- lems sooner or later. "We are seeing commodity groups being formed for the sole purpose of developing a self- help program for a particular industry. Future government programs should be devised to assist activity of this kind, with a goal of making these pro- grams self-supporting." • • d As noted before, this does not mean that advocates of self-help programs want to scrap price supports and other forms of govermnent aid immediately. Even conservative economists think this would be extremely unwise. One -speaker in the Des Moines group who called himself a "free enterpriser" went so far as to say that anyone who would ad- vocate ending these government programs before adjustments were made was either "naive or deceitful." • • y While the present heavy sur- pluses hang over the market, the government must continue to support farm prices and help agriculture make adjustments, it was generally agreed. "Use the present programs to buy time in order to get a more fundamental solution to the farm -income problem," advised John H. Davis, director of pro- gram in business and agricul- ture, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, and a former president of the Com- modity Credit Corporation. Mr.,Davis is one of those who believe that agriculture and the nation as a whole have much to gain from stronger producer organizations. He says that the marketing structure of agricul- ture has • for many years been lagging behind the production structure which has made giant strides. Farmers have been pro- ducing more corn and wheat per acre, more hogs for a given amount .of feed, more milk per cow. But at the sarne time, farmers have lost control of marketing, es Mr. Davis sees it, This has been taken over more and more by large businessorganizations not connected with the farm, The two functions, production and marketing, have become pro- gressively more and more out of gear. The result has been to weaken the farm economy, writes Dorothy Kahn Jaffe in The Christian Science Monitor. Now it appears that big changes are under way. Tech- nology is forcing a closer link- age of on-farm production and off -farm marketing, with off - farm capital often financing the operation and calling the tune, (This is known as vertical inte- gration.) The farmer may lose his right to make decisions. What to do about this trend? -"The proper course is for far- mers to band together so that they can take the lead in mar- ket improvements, develop- ments, and expansion, even when this involves integration," says Mr, Davis, • d M Farmers have already done is great deal for themselves through, their big cooperative marketing associations and com- modity organizations. But ac- cording to Mr. Davis, they have not done as much as is needed. They must invest more in their organizations, he says. They should dig down and pay salaries for top management competitive with those offered by the big industrial corpora- tions. They need to spend freely for research and promotion of their products, They must fi- nance "verticle integration." It will pay in the long run. While not many commodity organizations are as yet doing the job Mr. Davis envisions, some are really pointing the way, Speakers at the Des Moines Institute reported cases. One was that of the vigorous young soybean industry. It has increased production 2% times from its already expanded out- put of World War II days, yet it has been able to develop markets to absorb the output. • • d George M. Strayer of Hud- son, Iowa, executive vice-pres- ident of the American Soybean Association, told how it was done. The soybean people pro- moted the use of protein feeds for livestock, a feed which has a soybean meal base, and great- ly increased its use. Then Mr. Strayer went to various Euro- pean countries and Japan and set up industrywide promotion offices in those areas. Result: The industry export- ed 90,000,000 bushels of soybeans last year and enough soybean oil to use up another 175,000,000. bushels, or more than the Indus try's total production during World War II. • • • Other commodity groups have made export markets for them- selves. Mr. Strayer said that Oregon has no wheat surplus to- day because the Oregon Wheat League sold the dee-eating Jap- anese on wheat as a food, Of course, the government has helped' these commodity groups with Public Law 480, which per- mits acceptance of foreign cur- rencies in payment for exports, This is, in fact, the kind of gov- ernment aid the self-helpschool favors. Farmers who took part in these discussions at Des Moines left with plenty of information to take home to their -farm or- ganizations. They could use it, because a great many farmers appear to be still hopeful that parity price support can solve agriculture's problems. BIRD SPOTTERS FROM SPAIN In the days before shotguns, when game was caught in nets or brought down by hawks, the birds were first located by dogs known as "sitting" or "setting" spaniels. These spaniels, which came from Spain, were the ancestors of our present day setters. There are three varieties of the breed, English setters, Irish setters and Gordon setters. It is not known which variety is the Oldest, although they all came originally from the same spaniel stook. Setters were mentioned by name as long ago as 1570. The name comes from the word set, which means to stand rigidly and point On scenting game, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking SCI1001 L SON By Rev. 11. B. Warren, B.A., B.10. The. Church's Assurance of Victory ' John 20:26-29; Epheslans 1:15-24 Memory Selection: Now unto him that is able to do exceed- ingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in tett, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen,. Ephesians 3:20-21. How many blessings we mise if we do not meet with the be- lievers on the Lord's Day! What a long week of torturing doubt it must have been until Thomas was with the disciples •on the following Lord's Day when the Lord appeared to them again, The best we can say for Thomas is that his was the scien- tific attitude when he said, "Ex- cept I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." No hearsay for him, But Jesus did not com- mend ommend his attitude. There was more than caution in Thomas;. there was unbelief. There is is note of reproof in the words of Jesus, "Be not faithless, but be- lieving" and "Because thou haat seen me, thou hast believed& blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the greatest of all miracles. This was not just re- suscitation, Before Jesus tools his body again, he glorified 3t. It was no longer a natuhal body but a spiritual body. Jesus had borne the image of the earthly; He now bore the image of the heavenly. jt '3s qp amazing demonstration of the e3tceeding greatness of the power of God. The same God, through the sac- rifice of Jesus Christ, is able to forgive our sins and give tet victory over sin in this present life, The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the assurance of our rising from the dead. We cond.- dently sing: "In the resurrection morning When the prison bars are brokea We shall rise, Hallelujah, We shall rise." COLD COP IN COLD WAR - Built by West Berlin children, this snowman represents an icy -faced customs officer checking motorists crossing the border into Communist East Berlin. The word "Zoll" around the figure's neck means "customs." The German sign reads: "Attention) You leave West Berlin in 70 meters." In right background, within the Eastern Sector, is the Brandenburg Gate. 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