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The Seaforth News, 1959-07-23, Page 3,. 44 Vases The City To Uee a Cow Li An invitation to participate in the Boston Common Dairy Fes- tival has been extended to me. Apparently the idea is that 1 may be able to bring some country flavor to Boston, thus edifying the community beyond anything Hitherto experienced, but 1 accepted mostly on the grounds that I would like to see a cow. It will not be an easy job to edify Boston, and 1 approach the assignment with trepida- tion, but the chance to see a real, live cow again enflames me with ambition, As 1 understand it, Boston Coalmen was originally set as- ide as a perpetual cow pasture, blueberry barren, and a place to cut cordwood, and the dairy i'ndustre. now become some- thing of a mighty mogul, pre- sumes onthis ancient heritage to display a flock of cows army. - ally to promote its business with the cit;' customers. The idea is not aimed at me, primarily. As an old cow hand from away back, 1 gave up all associations with cattle about the time the dairy business got complicated. We had cows one day, and after some uffictals had visited the and spent three hours and a half reading me the new rules, we sold aut and began buying milk In bottles. Until that time the cow had shared our family life with honor since earliest times. The first cow on this farm had been a stoic. She was led throes:: the .uncharted forest, and embraced the life of a moose or caribou. It was quite a time before they felled enough trees to make a field and sprouted enough grass to make forage. She was said to have chewed spruce gum instead of cud, and knew how to dip for pond -lily roots. Her diet of mos- ses and skunk cabbage, princess pine and cedar tips, gave a gamey quality to her milk, and after a bottle of it the baby would snarl like' a bobcat. The Indians from Swan Is - and used to come over and help round her up, and then would stand in a circle and watch her get milked. The pro- cess .amused them. Afterward, many a cow came and went, and at times there'd' In eighty or a hundred of them, all told. They'd have several yokes cf oxen, and young stork coming along, and escapees that 1(0-H4 - Martha Rae Williams Is as pretty a buccaneer's belle Os neva: sailed the seven seas. She's shown on a visit to areent;eM Lake. ranged the ridges. Milking a cow was predicated wholly on household needs, so they neves bothered with more than two at a time. Cows "dry off," so you have to keep two •- one that freshens in the spring, and one that will "come in" in the fall. This Way, you have just enough milk twice a year and a sur- plus the rest of the time, which is fed to calves and pigs. But• ter, cheese, cream, and milk flow to the family table and now and then to trade, and you make out fine. We had six "head" here when we decided not to Eight city hall, and they were respected mem- bers of the family and carried their load well. They had never heard any of the long language of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, and were not aware that somehow they had become a menace to national health and security, and were generating public destruction. It was sad to gaze upon them, happily flap- ping their tails at flies, and eval- uate their ignorance, I never knew all the things I was supposed to do to keep cows any more, but there was something about rubber gloves except at bedtime, membership in several orders and societies, and an agreement in writing that I would not do anything unless so instructed by the pn- litical authority, I also had to build two new doors on the tie- up, one for in and one for out, hinged accordingly, so the in- spectors could £low unhampered and smoothly. The doors had to be high enough so they wouldn't bump their noses as they deign- ed to pass through. At that time, cows and I parted, company, I have, indeed, missed them. A cow is a comfortable asset, and economically sound, even though they make work and tie you down to regular attendance. But the dairy industry, in some way, has never been able to take the place of a cow, First, milk costs too much. Every time I pay the milkman I think of the pails of waste milk we used to dump in the hog slops. Then, too, the farm palate is the quickest to see the differ- ence in milk. The dairies squirt it through machines, fortify it, separate it and put it together again, suspend it, crack it, ther- mate it, reverse it, and teach it to spell and do simple logar- ithms. By the time milk reaches a doorstep it has acquired more experience than a veteran of the Foreign Legion, and has trav- elled more, than ,.a retired mo- ' torman. It can pass all thetests, but it is not the same milk we used to hoist . on the table in- the big blue pitcher and salute with the query, "Has anybody , stirred it?" The great cream on top had to be subdued with a spoon before you could -fill your glass or anoint your oatmeal. And it was not considered sporting to pour first and get this all to yourself, however much it made oatmeal a greater joy. There is something forlorn in my intention to go to Boston. to see a cow. She will be a fine cow, right out of the Bovine Blue Book, one "who has licked the new order of things and come'out on top. She will prob- ably gaze on me with amaze- ment. - By John Gould in Tha Christian Science Monitor. "Orangeade" is the name of new, almost -fluorescent rose de- veloped in Great Britain. Its developer, Sam McGredy, Brit- ain's leading rose hybridist, says •that the flower can be seen when one is almost a quarter - mile away from the plant. 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THLFA2N FRONT J06 Stepping up production of a certain type of -food too far ahead of consumption only invites "fire sale" prices, E. D. Bonnlyman, Poultry Division, 'Canada De- partment of Agriculture,' has warned. He reminded the Eastern On- tario Poultry Producers'. Associa- tion that while it requires al- most 18 billion pounds of food to feed the nation every year, poul- try meats and eggs make up a very small portion of the total volume. * * * He suggested that a balance must be maintained between pro- duction and consumption. Mr. Bonnyman said production of poultry meats and eggs has been increasing every year and last year's figures were the high- est on record. The trend is con- tinuing. Up to May ▪ 23, broiler markets had reached 73.7 million pounds - an increase of 15 million pounds over the same period in 1958. There was a potential in- crease in turkey tonnage of 14 million pounds for the same per- iod over one year ago, and egg marketings through registered grading stations were up by 8 million dozens over the same period in 1958. And, said Mr. Bonnyman, the Agricultural Stabilization Board had purchased 685,400 cases (20,- 562,000 dozen) eggs up to May 23 this year compared with 365,- 000 cases for the whole of 1958. * * * He emphasized the keen com- petition among.foods for the con- sumer's dollar, pointing' out that the so-called heavy meats - beef, pork, fish, mutton and lamb - make up 165.3 pounds of the total per capita consumption. Poultry meat accounts for 32.9 pounds and eggs, 35 pounds. * * *. Per capita spendable income has a bearing on food consump- tion, he said. It has been rising steadily during the past few years until it reached a high of $1,338 in 1958. Consideration should be given to: (1) The question of supply; (2) Demand; (3) Competition from other foods; and (4) Per capita spendable income. In the case of poultry meat and eggs, it is a question whether to cut down on the supply or step up consumption to take' care of the extra supply. * * * "While the consumption of various foods may vary from year to year, the overall con- sumption refrains constant", he explained. "The food item attrac- tively prepared in convenient form that will upgrade thesniet at competitive prices is the one^ that makes inroads on other foods and gets a larger share of the consumer's money. The amount of Canada Stand- ard brand beef being stamped across the country is increasing steadily, reports Elgin Senn, Can- ada Department of Agriculture. He notes that the new grade introduced a year ago to fill a gap in the national beef grades, is being used in western prov- inces, Quebec, ,and, to a lesser degree, Ontario, LAKES AND RIVERS, heavily banked with t r e c s, provide game fish with clean w a ter, cool temperatures, proper food. When fire ravages a ,Watershed, good fishing takes A ong holiday. Please, be case - NI. with all forms' of fire. Pre- vent forest fires. Standard grade was establish- ed for moderately lean beef pre- ferred by economyminded house- wives, the Department of Nation- al Defence, and persons wanting to cutdown on fat for health reasons. • * * "It appears quite possible that with the demand for leaner beef, some beef producers may find it profitable to market their cattle less finish than required for Choice or Good grades with a re- sulting saving on feed costs," comments Mr. Senn. * * * Brown ink is used with the grade name on the brand to dis- the Choice or Red Brand and the Good or Blue Brand. This new grade includes steers and heifers of top medium or bet- ter conformation with a light covering of fat over most of the exterior which must not exceed the fat on the middle of the Can- ada Good grade. * .* * Standard grade last year aver- aged nine per cent of total Cana- dian slaughterings and, for the 'first four, months this year, It has accounted for 9.5 per cent. This year, up to May 2, Stand- ard formed 14 per cent of total beef slaughtered in Saskatche- wan; 11.5 per cent in Manitoba; 10.9 per cent in Ontario; 7.7 per cent in Alberta; 6.0 per cent in British Columbia; 4.2 per cent in Quebec; and 19.5 per cent in the Atlantic Provinces. * * * Milk and milk products supply Canadians with 22 per cent of their food energy; more than 80 per cent of the calcium in their diet; and more than 50 per cent of riboflavin. Popularity of these products is seen in the fact that the aver- age Canadian last year consumed 18.3 pounds of creamery butter 17.6 pints of ice cream, and 8.8 pounds of cheese. * * * The gross annual value of the Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking E©►..l' ©a NEON ©na�©7N ©WRI ' < spQ `°dgNOWW 3©N©NNA J 7sIQ Ego Cid© ®®alai% ©mM t0b®n ®E7en t©®Ni7©C�in MENI ®®NQ© [ ,.,'Ili ! y®[©!y�1b6k® W 00p®�f1-.�,esy^.. r.I�CT oriel I �LL/W®0® �'®mulga ®a:10k4t ik 4It®Ip© dairy industry reaches a total of one billion dollars, making it one of the largest single industries in the country, Dairy products provided 18 per cent of all farm cash Income in Canada last year. * 4 * A little more than 3,000,000 cows produce the river of milk needed to meet the demands of Canadians each year. During 1958, milk production reached an all-time high of 18 billion pounds. Provincially, production ran from a low of one per cent of the total in. Prince Edward Island to 34 per cent in Quebec. * * * In addition to "every day" products such as fluid mills, cream, butter, cheese, ice cream and concentrated milks, the Canadian dairy industry pro- cesses and distributes other, prod- ucts which enjoy increasing popularity. These include 2 per cent milk, buttermilk, modified milks, sour or salad cream, skim milk, chocolate drink, "instant" skim milk powder, ice cream novelties, sherbets and formula milks. Some Red Faces In Israel! The posters appeared all over Israel: s your ' e ou r ori c ane to show the folks back home what Israel's eleventh Independence Day was like. The smaller type advertised a 71/2 -minute docu- advertised a 71/2 -min, documen- tary film presenting the high - Day celebrations for the benefit of visiting members of B'nal B'rith. The souvenir film package sold briskly for 80 Israeli pounds ($37 at tourist rates) until a visitor from England made a startling discovery: the back- ground music for much of the film was Sir Arthur Sullivan's fine old hymn, Onward, Chris- tian Soldiers. Red-faced officials at the Israel Motion Picture Studios, Ltd. tried to explain. Nobody work- ing on the pitcture was familiar with Onward, Christian Soldiers, they said, and in casting about for background music for the film's climatic military parade in Tel Aviv, they had hit on an RCA Victor recording by Arthur Fiedler of T. M. Carter's Boston Commandery March. What they did not know was that Composer Carter had used Onward, Chris- tian soldiers as his motif. The studio quickly pointed out that there are some Chirstian soldiers in the Israeli army (said one film maker: " We are a demoncratic country"), but a further check only increased their embarrass- ment: not a single Christian, they learned, had\marched on- ward in the Tel Aviv parade. ISSUE 28 1959 NY SCik',WO ',I' J lly lira '1 Barr tut IV at en B.A. ft 11 Blessing for an Alien (1' lb) Ruth 1:18-23; 4;1417 Memory Seiertinft: Ile dnlh execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, anis toroth the stranger, in giving, hits food and raiment. Love ye therel'oi•e the stranger; for re we' a ntt"ner- ers in t11e land of Egypt. Welter. onomy 10;18-10. Unless you are a delcienclilnl of the North American Indians, your ancestors were at one time immigrants. How strange they must have felt as they entered this new land! aMy maternal grandfather told me something of his wistfulness as he landed in Canada at the age of 10 from Glasgow, Scotland If we study the Book of Ruth it will hrned- en our upnderstanding and sym- pathy for the imrogrants who are now coming to Canada. It is said that when leen iamin Franklin was IV/Mister to France he read the Bnolt of Ruth at a social gathering, After he had finished it, everyone expressed delight at tbe charming story. They asked where he had obitin- ed it, thinking it was n recent story. They were amazed that it had been written 3000 years be- fore. Immigrants can learn much from Ruth. She came by choice and she came with a determina- tion to stay. To her mother-in- law she said. "Whither thou go - est, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou dlest, will I die, and there will I be buried." Ruth was industrious. She went out to glean in the fields. She was eager to learn. Her mother-in-law who knew the customs of the land, offered her good advice which she followed. God's favor was upon Ruth. Her kindness and loyalty to her mother-in-law brought her favor in this new land. (Incidentally, anyone studying this book will be' much less likely to offer any smart quips in a disparging serire about mother -in-laws. If relations are strained, 9 times out 01 10 it Is the fault of the son-in-law qr the daughter-in-law,) Boaz re- deemed the inheritance of Naomi and married Ruth. Ruth's great grandson, David, became King of Israel. Further down the royal line came Jesus, born of Mary. So Ruth, a Noabitess, stands in the royal line. How honoured she was. This country has for the most part been developed by immi- grants and their descendants, Let • us be kind to them. PATTERN FOR SURVIVAL - Beautiful in detail is this seed sphe•e of the dandelion, bane of the perfectionist who tries to grow an all -grass lawn f MONUMENT TO INGENUITY - Gold -pointed awn mower In the patio a:'eo of this horns Is a monument to task banished forever, Mrs Ruth Multree enjoys her' naw, green gravel "lawn," planted by the entire fcmily in a co•nperative effort to end for good the tyranny of lawn chores, 11 a y 1 4 y 4 4 4 vi 1 1 1 1 4 d a n