The Seaforth News, 1954-01-07, Page 15This wietet^, ,vou cau slip a 30..
potted bush saw over your shoul••
der and clear as much land as
several men could with axes.
What's more, you won't have
a backache and a network of
seratehee when you come in
from a day's work,.
The rig is ready to ge when -
Wirer you have time to use it -
yeti don"t have to organize a crew
of men, or hire heavy machinery.
"
ft:
Most of thesenew saws weigh
between 25 and 35 pounds, and
have a four -foot shaft that lets
you Cut brush while you walk --
Without stooping or bending
over, A 1- or 2 -horsepower en-
gine drives the cutting head
One type has an 8 -inch or 10 -
inch circular blade, Another has
a regular "beaver -tail" chain
saw cutting head.
k•
In Cornell University°tests on
land 40% to 50% covered with
thornapple, these saws cleared
brush at the rate of an acre in
seven or eight hours,
s a
With a second man to push
the brush over and paint the
'stumps with an oil solation of
2,4-D and 2,4,5-T -- or in some
eases 2,4-D alone --you .no slam
the gate on re -growth.
et
Chemicals, gasoline, and de-
preciation - will cost you about
$10 a day, but even with an ex-
tra man you can clear an acre
for about $25.
P 8 A
To help the machine pay its
way—you may want to line nu
some custom clearing jobs with
.your neighbors, if you have only
en acre or two of brush ou your
own farm
MERRY MENAGERIE
:„NO./11e.. 12.8
"Offhand, I'd say either you're
2aveng a bad dream or rm has
Eng a good one!"
One of these saw; may be just
the thing to help you clear out
branchy, thorny bushes that
grow too thick for animals and
machinery to get through.
Once you get the upper hand,'
foliage sprays and basal stem
sprays taut keep your lands op •
-
en. ,1 ,..
One thing about the Idea of
wide -row mem: you can modify
it to tit the crops you want to
grow.
Igen Hoyt liked the advantages,
when he read about wide -row
corn. The rotation on his farm
included navy- beans and wheat
so he figured out a way to grow
both with his corn
On half of a tis -acre field this
spring, he planted corn in four
42 -inch rows, leaving a 210 -inch
strip fallow between each set of
corn rows. On the other half of
the field he alternated bean rows
With fallow strips. To get rid ot
a bad weed problem, he kept the
strips bare all -summer.
in September, he drilJed wheat
in the strips, and he'll sow clov-
er in both wheat and corn stalk
next spring.
When the system rreally gets
rolling next year, here's what
•Hoyt plans to do on a field now
in clover: "rn turn the sod um
der early and plant corn in 14Ia,
About June 11, I'll seed the 210•
inch strips to beans, in Septem-
ber, 1'11 harvest the beans and
put in wheat. Any time the
beetle turn out to he a i'ailure,
I can plow them turder for gi'aen
manure."
Re can still use a two -row
cornpicker, and he'll harvest the
beans and wheat with a self-
propelled combine,
• a a• a
To keep yields up, Hoyt in-
creased his corn planting rate to
get the same number of pleats
per acre. Despite a July and
August drought, the corn yield-
ed at the rate of 00 bushels, com-
pared with 50 bushels from reg-
ular planting in 1952.
ROUST OF- YOUTH
A man met a friend be hadn't
sewn • for a long time. "Why,
George," he said, "you've chang-
ed! What's making yet. so•old?"
"Trying to keep young," said
George,
"Trying to ,keep youug?" quer-
ied the friend.
"Yes," was the gloomy re-
sponse, "nine of them."
t.
Involved In Trade _ In an 1 1 -man deal the New York Yankees,
gave up outfielder Sill Ronne (upper left) and prize negro first
baseman Vic Power (upper right) for pitcher Harry Byrd (lower
loft) and first baseman. E,d Robinson (lower right) of the Philtt-
sielphia Athletics, Yankee outfielder Don Boilweg also went to
Philadelphia, Six other players were involved in a•deeI with the
Yankee farm club et Kansas Ctty«
it's no crick s -taut . .
, .. to grow taller ,
. - . and taller!
He Grows On You -- A whole generation has grown up that never saw the inside of a vaude-
ville theater •- and that's why 70 -year-old Clarence Willard is still contain' and amazin' folk by
"growing" right before their eyes, Pictures above tell the story. Willard started in show business
with famed Phineas T. Barnum. He's been doing his "growing" act for 50 years. Back in 1912
he was a big vaudeville headliner and played long runs in New York, He lives in San Francisco
now and just plays in service hospitals now and then and sometimes entertains patrons at Tony.
pandy, a small bistro in which he has an interest, in first photo, he stands at his normal height
of five feet, 11 inches, alongside a coat rack for comparlsan, In second picture he has passed six
feet and finishes off at a height of six feet, three inches.
WM Men Be Able To Land On Tim Moon?
The science of space travel
will be many years old before
the first landing on the Moon is
attempted. It may seem strange
to say that voyages to not
landings on. --the farthest plan-
ets, which are several thousand
million miles away, present
fewer difficulties than the task
of bringing a manned -rocket to
rest on the surface of the Moon.
The task of preparing for this
landing will be an enormous one.
Rockets and fuel are expendable.
We can take chances with them
and afford -to lose some in the
cause of. experiment, But men
are a different matter, In space
travel, we must never gamble
with Manan lives. No men cat,
set toot on the Moon until they
stand a good chance of getting
bask to Earth.
Fuel for Return
This means that their rocicets
must be built with a two -fold
purposes --to land on the Moon
and to take off again for the re-
turn ;journey. Such a tesit will
require a .huge rocket, with a
fuel supply gasater than anything
we can cope with at the uu,tnfnit.
We have chosen the Moon as
our larding place not because it
is nearer than the Planets, but
because it is smaller tied its gra-
vitatiozc l pull is less
In fact, the Menu its approxi
'mately a mere 250,000 miles away
from the Porth, a distance that
means nothing in space t'r'avel.
Once we get bcynnd the planets,
disttiltcer+ must be measured in
light yearn, which is the die-
t -Mice a beam of light will trav-
el in a year. Now light travels
at a speed of 180.000 alien, per
second., This may help to give
some impress'Jnn of the vastness
of space.
Trayelli ng t h r o e l; h these
acearr Of emptiness in a spacer•
Ship will not: be difficult.. Sup•
pose wm sol a coarse for a stir
one light year away. We elate
with a fairly 810011 supply of
fttel trout the space station.
As Loup as w'e f1CN 0111' motets
our speed will coutinue to iii
crease, rintil it reaches •:etimel'hitte
very close to the .11)eeri or- light,
When this happe stet wee strut off
out nrotoss and Wait. The space.
ship continues to tie throng:,
space at a constant speed in the
(Breeden .of the star. arriving
at ire cic,�tinatfnn 1r1 just ave- a
seem.
luta 11: we decide to karst te,
that Stas, or one of its satellite,
our problems become very real
indeed. To fight the grevitt' the
are bound to encounter, we will
need a huge supply of fool and
no curb landings will be attempt-
ed until the Moon has first been
conquered.
Last week we took all ordinary
Ottrney :from the Earth to the
first space station: Now we will
go one stage farther, and accom
sany the spaceship which le to
and the first men on the •Moon,
It is a single -stage rocket,,
cite unlike the one we used on
tnejourney up from Earth to the
pace station.- it hue no spare re-
er've of .fuel, and no wings to
and it in a high-speed glide. On
he :Moon there is no atmosphere1 ail, so wini(s would be quite
useless.
Our starting ,point le tate space•
station, and the firing procedure
xnuciz the same ac doecr.'ibed
last week.
Five Days' Tip
It is r Jane ort this jour
uey that we save as touch tuel
as we possibly cau. So when we
reach a high enough speed to
carry us to the Moon, we must
switch oft the motors. in this
case the speed required 1s 24,900
M.p.h., which is reached within
five minutes of take -oft:.
Our racket's speed will gradu
ally decrease as we get farther
away from the Earth, and we are
practically at a standstill by the
time we reach the Moon's gray],
tational field. At this rate, the
journey will take five ays
about as long as it takeeMier to
cross the Atlantic. . n".,,. e
it seen, that the primer virtue
of the space traveller must be
patience. Wherever we travel
in the Universe there will be long
periods of "coasting" which may
last for clays, months or years.
This time factor is the only limit
ou space travel, and some of the
farther stars would take more
t than a human Iifetime to reach.
Radio control from the space
station keeps a constant check on
our course, and the pilot makes
such steering corrections as are
found necessary. Our course is
worked out not to take us to
tate centre of the lefoon, but to
the. edge of its gravitational
dela.
On the .fourth day of coasting
we aro beginning to feel the ef-
fect of the .Moon's pull. Rather,
the rocket is feeling it: inside,
we would not notice .t but for
the evidence ot our inetrumcnts's.
Now the rocket begins to pick
up speed once more as gravity -
takes hold. If allowed to fail un-
hindered, it u-ould crash into the
Moen int more than 5.000 m.p.h.
Our -pilot re-dit'ects the rocket
so that its jets are farting the
Moue and its nose pointing away
Front oovr tem we need split-
second timin;:. and must hand
over the taxa, of landing, to an
automat ic Mks. The rocket is
allowed to tali tree until it is
.1110 exiles above the Moon. Thai
tier ,j t,; are tired .-. against thi
di rise ire, of fall - to slow ur
down. Thee continua to tire, for
foul' Whittles rt t ;Ie is rate or
• deeelerittioe t'':..t Produce; no
dtscott•i;,,rt at el? tit the people
inside,
The rocket tioaqs to rt,,..t about
twenty tout idiovi,1119 ilternrx',++' !
surfic,•, and ti!' jot, me: time. -
tied hact, :melee t„ brine it
deem tit the :trvut;,l.
41.n=1 peuple. irl,i,;it:c ark t a
r1 'bit. landing in tbia way could
he i tr lid
i io topirt cues, In •
fact, it is no more Wag:, to do
so than a ruc!;ot trove:Ring up
wards..
What H'e'll 10100
'Singe 011r rocket has ct,.tns: to
re,.t pointing upteards, the- prob
tern of taking off •a ;a10 prctsmts
little dirk ulty providing w c
have a fairly large.. reserve 11
fuel.
What can we expect. to find on
the Moon:' In the first place, we
are not likely to sue any fu'rnt of
life as we luiow it In feet, we
of e
do n sen, ,
dater telrtr to irons
the rocket unleee we are tenter•
ted by our spat. enlist It world
be quite impossible to startles'
tm,aidscl for more than a few min -
Wee We would be either belief
alive at frozen sti0'.
The reason tt e get these ex-
tremes 01 temperature is that lite
Moon has no atmosphere, nothing
to tone down the fusions heat of
the Sun or mellow the intense
coil of night. When we even
vitally build uur lunar base it
must be completely sealed in and
contain its own atmospher.'e.
From the Moon it is only a
step to the planets, Certain of
the eight major planets we can
never hope to explore—Jupiter,
whose gravitation pull is so
strong that on its surface we
would be crushed: Saturn, where
the same would happen; Mer-
cury, which is so close to the
Sun that we would be burnt alive
before we reached it; Pluto, far-
thest of the planets. which is so
cold an inhospitable that we
aright not even survive a land-
ing.
(colonies in Space
But on our two neighbour
planets, Mars and Venus, ere are
quite likely to find some evidence
of life. Both are fairly close to
the .Earth in size, and do not sal•
for from the extremes of heat
and cold that are found on the
other planets. For centuries, men
have wondered whether other
beings are alive; even probably
watching the Earth, on Mars.
Venus is the mystery planet,
shrouded completely in a dense
cloud which conceals its surface
from our gaze.
Space travel will one day pre
vide an answer to these riddles
of the skies, but it will do more
besides, It may provide colonies
fur the Earth, already overcrowd-
ed. It may be that eventually we
shall travel to other suns, and
populate worlds unknown to us.
All this. and more, will tut
within our reach -- for we are
about to embark on the greatest
adventure ever tmder,taltpri by
11?ankind.
GAMBLING MEN
Tire wiles and methotis of pro-
fessional card sharps aboard oc-
ean liners and trains have been
advertised so widely- that stickers
are not so plentiful as they were
in days of yore. A famous Dam-
on Runyon quote ix the advice
an old farmer gave Itis son who
was leaving to make his way in
this big city: "Remember son, if
a slick gambling feller corned
along and offers you even money
he r:r,t1 make the jack or spades
jump out of a deck and spit
prure juice in your ricer„ don't
take him ---or sure as heck, you're
loin' to wake up covered with
prune juieel" One sharpshooter
grew so discouraged at the slim
puking.;, he turned honest and
wrote a book exposing the meth-
ods of itis crooked compatriots.
It has sold over a hundred thaw
:and e•opio .
Friendly games. where all ate
participants are simply buretirtg
w•ittt good will, are, et coulee,
another story. john Voelkor, pro -
tweeting ettorney of Marquette
County, Michigan, tells of 0 /tome
in wrhirh the towt''s leading doc-
tor was talking a frightful shel-
lacking until lot a heed of stud
carne along ur whish he finally
drew eces back to back. Pur•
ther.reorc, starslede Stayed. On
the next turn of the card, ihr
doctor d :m' another a,t (Jurors
tnrtatel) tri; friend, Joe, .'ittitrg •
et hie right, shage ehis lnn1net t
- to surly n heart 0ttec;, and
siantp'd over th,. table..
-The players ttiahe,l hint to H
couch where be t t rite , It • last.
" hat 11 we du now? th ' v; hifr•.
faced player's implored the doe•
t.Or. "Out of c t r, t for the dead."
he replied promptly. "T au e'st
we funises this 115,(1 11.11(1145• Op"
You au 10f40111st
Matge ingenuity ltaa never leg
him et a lass when It comet
to ways in wltieh 80 spend his
spare time. Most people are con.
tent with the less spectacular
end .more usual hobbies --
stamp -• collecting, gardenia
gr,.
Ithitting, and the like.
But others tax their brain to
the limit to find novel ways of
passing the odd hours,
You might, for instance;, oeca
stanaily sea someone •cautiously
inserting his fingers in the
"Used Tickets" box on a bus.
He will probably be found to be
a member of the Ticket and
Fare Collection Society, whose.
hobby is collecting bus tickets.
An unusual collection was
shade by the late Ifing Alfonso
Of Spain of items connected
with attempts to assassinate
him. It began with e large stone
which had been thrown at his
head when lie was a child.
Rut whatever their interest,
all collectors like giving their
pursuits impressive names. Here
are some of them: meadophily
(a naive given to their hubby by
collectors of beer bottle labels),
meadmatophily (h e e r mats),
philaurunry (orange. wrappers),
clgringophily (cigar rings t, in-.
Pldphfly (char ribbons) conxu••
sophily (eigsr-bots lift leaves),
fromology (cheese tables), and
philluminy (match -bot labels).
Q(7I(1I{ TIMING
In Nathan Austrbel's "Treasury
of Jewish Folklore" appears the
story of a famous preaelxer of
Dubna whose driver stopped est
route to a lecture date and said,
"Rabbi, do me a favor. For once
I'd like to be the one receiving
all the honors and attention, to
see what it. feels like. For this one
engagement, exchange clothes
with tae. You be the driver and
let axe be the rah; e"
The preacher, a merry and gen•
erous soul, laughed and said, "Al)
right -but remember, clothes
don't make the rabbi. If you're
asked to explain some difficult
passage of the Law, see that you
don't make a fool of yourself."
The exchange was effected. Ar-
rived at their destination, the bo-
gus rabbi was received with tu-
multuous enthusiasm, and ob-
viouslyeioved every minute of it
Finally, however, there came the
dreaded moment when an er--
tremely tricky question was put
to him.
He met the test nobI3r, "A fine
lot of scholars you are," he.thun-
dered. "Is this the most difficult
problem you could aslc me? Why,
this is so simple even my driver
could explain it to you." Thele
he called the Preacher of Dubnee
"Driver, come here for a mom-
ent and clarify the Law for these
dull-witted fellows."
INFOltliil D ON FM:FOI8MS
At a dinner party, Dorothy
Parker was irked by the antics
of one of those ladies of 50 who
dresses like a debutante, drool-
ing over an embarrassed colonel,
Vaguely aware of a threat of
mayhem in the air, size giggled
"It;s his uniforms, I just love sol-
dier,
"Yes," agreed :Miss Parker -
"You have in every war."
Who's A, ru;.,? - 01' Moes Vti i„fes
r,f,Ly li Joist hit slily wore in
othe- h Sttr c t' e; nrrt10(1, .cert
that df ssse't tee pretty iris
Maxwell 04 P ;i Fsert<Im. bis
has 'sbanitn .::1 t t'.,,. ,ai .;;red»
robe,e t ,:; t ".I: e 50r t iia.
in order r to ttd. : (1' ee sem.,
gr,