The Seaforth News, 1959-10-15, Page 3Prima Donna Of The
Vegetable World
If ever a vegetable wee a
prima donna, it's the homely,
turnip -like sugar beet.
Given the right soil, fertilizer,
watering, weather, and loving
care, she'll bring a handsome
revenue to her sponsor, But woe
to the man who fails to pay her
those essential courtesies.
Nowhere is this more vividly
understood than in southern Al-
berta, where 1,600 farmers plant
Canada's largest sugar beet crop
and, in normal years, harvest
about half a million tons. Out
of this mountain of beets,, three
southern Alberta plants, at Ray-
mond, Taber and Picture Butte,
refine 140 million pounds of
white sugar,
This is more than half the
white beet sugar produced in
Canada. Four other beet refin-
ing plants - one each in Mani-
tobe and Quebec and two in
Ontario - produce the remain-
ing beet sugar. The seven plants
combined produce 18 per cent
of the Canadian white sugar
output.
To farmers under contract to
the sugar factories, sugar beets
can bring a return of more than
$200 per acre, No cereal crop
begins to compare with this, But
it is an advantage which is not
won easily. Raising' the tem•
peramental beet calls for con-
stant care, hard work and care-
ful planning. In early spring the
farmer must' plant the seed one
inch apart and fertilize the field.•
He must irrigate at least twice
and sometimes four times, He
must thin the grown plants until
they are 12 inches apart and at
harvest time dig,. decapitate and
pile the roots, at the same time
praying that the weather will
not kill his year's work.
Frost can be both his friend
and his foe. A nip in .early Sep-
tember is welcomed because it
helps bring the beet to maturity
and hastens the storage of sugar
in the root. One year, however,
severe September frosts killed
the t ops and small "feeder"
roots in the ground. When new
tops started growing during the
heat of an Indian summer, some
sugar was drained from the
beet.
A wet fall makes the ground
so muddy that only with diffi-
culty can the beet farmer use
the mechanical harvester, which
in recent years has taken much
of the back -breaking toil out of
harvesting.
In the beginning, beet raising
was a back -breaking, disappoint-
ing task. It began in Canada in
1901, when Jesse Knight from
Utah made the first abortive at-
tempt to introduce sugar beet
farming to the fertile plains of
what is now southern Alberta.
Since then former wheat far-
mers have mastered the art. In
1925 the crop yield per acre was
72/2 tons of beets. Today me-
chanization, better farming anis
improved varieties have raised
the yield toas high as 20 tont
per acre.
Around the end of September
harvesting begins and Canadian
Sugar's three plants spring to.
life after an overhaul in the
nine-month off-season period.
The plants run 24 hours a day
and key workers forget about.
evenings at It o m e. The 1,000
men employed during beet -slic-
ing time (the "campaign," as it
is dubbed) get on w i th the
urgent task of processing the
beets into sugar, molasses and
wet and dry pulp for livestock
feed. Only the $52/2 million Ta-
ber plant, one of the most mo-
dern on the continent. dries the
pulp so it can be marketed at
great distances,
Around Lethbridge in south-
ern Alberta beets pile up at
railway sidings awaiting trans-
portation to a sugar refinery.
More beets are stacked outside'
each plant but harvesting con-
tinues until farmers have com-
pleted their deliveries about
November 1,
Around Christmas time the
last beet rolls through the slicer
and farmers and refinery work-
ers turn to other tasks. Only
skeleton staffs remain at the
plants to overhaul machinery,
sell and ship the sugar and
molasses, make the final pay-
ments to farmers and plan how
they'll look after next year's
crop of the "prima donma of the
vegetable world" - by Jean
Danard in the Imperial Oil Re-
view,
Safety Is Money
The testimony of experts
shows that there is added incen-
tive to safe driving. It turns out
that driving which is safe is also
money -saving.
Among the tips passed out by
an economy -run winner recently
were these:
-Drive at moderate speeds,
Driving at speeds over 60 can
reduce gas mileage as much as
50 pct. over what you'd get
sticking to. the 40-45 m.p.h.
range.
-Avoid sudden stops. When
you see a traffic light turn red
or a stop sign coming up, take
your foot off the accelerator and
glide to a stop.
-Stay away from hot -rodding
getaways. Accelerate slowly,
and shift gears quickly, rather
than gunning it up to 50 in sec-
ond gear.
This and other economy prac-
tices could save you up. to $250
a year in gas costs, the experts
say.
Of course, those who can't
bear to abandon their black lea-
ther jacket mentality -their pen-
chant for using an automobile
as • an instrument for satisfying,
an animal yearning for power
won't change their hot -rod hab-
its just because it saves money,
or is safer, or more polite.
Just the same. it is nice to
know that the man who drives
as if he had a head on his shoul-
ders, rather than a monkey on
his back, is making himself
money as well as driving safely.
-Denver Post.
HE HAS A WEIGH WITH BIRDS - What looks like fowl play
is serious work to Dr. David G. Woodgush. Experiments in taste
and appetite involve weighing of test fowl to see what role
those qualities play in the selection of foods.
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JUST LIKE BABY - Soroya, a three-month old otter, takes
her formula of milk,'cod liver oil and powdered baby food
from owner Emil Liers, a famous otter raiser.
THEFARN FRONT
J06
Registration is necessary in
order to participate from the
start in the government's pro-
gram of supporting egg prices
by deficiency payments, L. W.
Pearsall, Agricultural Stabiliza-
tion Board chairman, reminds
egg producers.
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The deficiency payment policy,
replacing the present method of
providing support through egg
purchases, takes ecect October
1 this year.
Payments, if necessary, to any
one producer during a 12 -month
period will be limited to 4,000
;dozen Grade A Large eggs, in-
cluding Grade A Extra Large.
4
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Cards used for applying for
registration may be obtained
from any egg grading station.
Only one application is to be
made for each farm or business
unit involving multiple flocks,
Inthecase of multiple owner-
ship, only one application should
be made.
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The average number of laying
hens on hand must be given,
The application, to be valid,
must be signed by the applicant.
Once a producer has been
issued a registration number, he
merely has to identify his egg
shipments with it and can mar-
ket at one or more egg grading
stations.
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Lastest estimate of Canada's
apple crop is 14,991,000 bushels,
a decrease of 12 per cent from
last year's production.
Maritime provinces will show
increases, while Ontario, Que-
bec and British Columbia will
harvest less this year.
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The predicted crop will be
three per cent below the 1954-
58 average production, reports
E. S. Eaton, Canada Department
of Agriculture economist.
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In the United States, the 1959
apple crop is expected to yield
118.7 million bushels - a drop
of about six per cent from last
year. 4 4 4
For the year ending June 30,
1959, United Kingdom apple im-
ports under the quota system
amounted to 3.6 million bushels,
compared to 2.9 million bushels
for the previous year. This takes
up about 97 per cent of the estab-
lished quota for the year.
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Of the total quota imports,
Canada shipped 804,000 bushels
and the United States 560,000.
Canada's share remained at -
22.3 per cent, although total im-
ports to the U.K. showed an
increase of 25.6 per cent over the
previous year's 2.9 million bush.
els,
Italy supplied` the U.I. with
2.1 million bushels during 1958-
59, boosting its exports by 26.6.
per cent over the previous year.
Europe's apple crop this year
is estimated to be lighter than
theone of a year ago. Italy
expects to harvest 79.5 million
bushels, compared to 81 million
bushels in 1958.
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A stumbling block in the path
of research workers investigating
problems of soll moisture and
the use of soil moisture by plants
has been the lack of a good meth-
od of measuring the moisture
content of soils.
Soil is variable and complex
and its moisture content at one
spot may be very different from
that a few feet away. Conse-
quently, many soil samples are
required before a reliable meas-
ure of the moisture content of
a large area can be obtained.
This takes much time and effort.
Several instruments are avail-
able for specific or research pur-
poses, but all have the same in-
herent weakness - they meas-
ure the moisture content of very
small volumes of soil, not of the
soil as a whole.
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A promising method has re-
cently been devised for deter-
mining the moisture content in
large areas by deduction from
the amount contained in the at-
mosphere. (The air is the rese--
voir of water which evaporates
from plants and soil). Thus the
change in moisture content of
the air as it passes over the soil
reveals how much water is leav-
ing the soil.
Sensitive and costly equipment
is required for research purposes.
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For rough estimates, several
assumptions can be made to
make the equipment useful for
irrigation scheduling and other
moisture budgeting work. For
the latter, weather records can
be used to determine soil moist-
ure content at any time in the
past and at any location that has
weather recording facilities.
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A recent refinement of the
moisture budgeting procedure
permits separation of the soil
into zones and the determina-
tion of moisture content in any
zone, without having to take
soil samples. This is valuable in
moisture research. Investigation
of past records enables more in-
telligent planning of future
work, such as in irrigation plan-
ning.
In Saint Simeon, Canada,
which gets its water supply from
a small mountain lake, house-
wives complained that brook
trout were coming out of their
faucets,
Run, Sheep, Run -
Finest Came Of All
Some things get lost, The fin-
est game of all, the most exelt-
ing and mystical and splendid,
the game that meant childhood
to me, is disappearing -Run,
Sheep, Run. Do they still play
that in the little towns upstate,
in the villages of the West, in
the sleepy Southern places?
They do not play it in our sub-
urbia.. ,
We may have played it in
broad daylight at times, but I
think of It as coming always at
the end of a long summer after-
noon, after an early supper. For
me, the memory is mixed up
with twill/gilt and mystery, If
you are twenty-five or over and
ever lived in a small town, you
must have known it. Do you re-
call it as wistfully as I do?
Do you remember your appre-
hension as you waited to be
chosen for a team? It was a tri-
bute to your popularity to have
your name called quickly. Theo,
when the choosing was over,
came the secret huddles of each
pack. You had • the signals to
decide on, colors they were, usu-
ally; blue for "Lie low," purple
for "Danger; they're on the
trail," yellow for "They're pass-
ing; get ready to run," After
that came the scattering and the
frantic search for hiding places.
You went far afield then, some-
times. blocks and blocks away
For this was a formal search,
with spies and informers and
raiding parties; and as it was
summer, there didn't have to be
an early end to forays.
Do you remember the wonder-
ful hiding places: the nook un-
der a latticed porch, the gully,
the cleft tree with conveniently
drooping branches? And how
hard your heart beat when the
enemy (after giving a fair "Here
we come" as warning) started,
in full cry, on your trail? Then
you became, indeed, the hunt-
ed....
There was the most delicious
danger in the air. You listened
to your own leader, running
with the wolves and crying out
words intelligible only to you.
You did not dare cough or move
or draw a deep breath. Or the
pack passed you, and obedient
to the signals floating back, you
dodged about in the lengthening
dusk, creeping, hunching over,
melting into shadow.
And then, after what seemed
an eternity of peril, the shrill
explosion of "Run, sheep, run!"
Your heart pounded, your legs
pumped like pistons. And the
light finally died in the sky, and
someone called you to bed. -
"The Province of the Heart" by
Phyllis McGinley, Copyright,
1959, by Phyllis McGinley. -••_
At Work Below Zero
Human beings can work in
severe cold -but only with great-
ly impaired efficiency, Dr. Far-
land B. Hedblom, Staff Surgeon
for the Navy's "Operation Deep
Freeze" in Antarctica, told the
International College of Surge-
ons meeting in Chicago. Peak
human efficiency, he said, is
reached at about 68 degrees. "At
from zero to 40 degrees below,"
Dr. Hedblom said, "efficiency is
about 60 per cent; from 40 to 60
degrees below, roughly 10 to 25
per cent." Much of this lost effi-
ciency, he said, is due to the
time spent in warming numbed
fingers and toes, "and in general,
fighting your environment."
To an extent, Antarctic per-
sonnel find "the cold is stimulat-
ing," Dr. Hedblom added. "In
fact, it makes them overwork."
It hasn't hurt them. Although
there are three times the normal
number of injuries (many caus-
ed by slipping on ice), Deep
Freeze men, Dr. Hedblom said,
"are in remarkably good health."
:UND Y SC 001
LESSON
tlev. at. B.trelay Warren, 1
B.A.. B.D.
Sharing the Living Christ
Acts 3:1-7, 11-16.
Memory Selection: Silver and
gold have I none; but such as 6
have give I thee, Acts 3:6.
The Gospel records many heal-
ings performed by Jesus. Here is
the first detailed account of a
healing after the ascension of
Jesus, performed by the apostles
in the name of Jesus. The com-
mand to the cripple was, "In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazar-
eth rise up and walk." In the
explanation to the crowd that
gathered, the apostles thorough-
ly disclaimed any power in
themselves to perform such a
healing. Peter preached Jesus
and said, "His name through
faith in his name hath made this
man strong."
Jesus used miracles as oppor-
tunities for further teaching con-
cerning the kingdom. Peter does
the same. He proceeds to preach,
"Repent ye therefore, and be
converted, that your sins niay
be blotted out, when the times
of refreshing shall come from
the presence of the Lord." The
healing of the body is secondary
to the healing of the soul. No
matter how well we care for
the body with all modern medi-
cal aids, it is returning to the
dust till the resurrection day.
The soul will return to God who
gave it. Therefore we must
stress repentance and conver-
sion and the forgiveness of sins.
The worshippers in the temple
must have been startled whoa
the cripple who had been car-
ried daily to the temple's gate
to receive alms now entered the
temple "walking, and leaping.
and praising God." But when
anyone who has had what seem-
ed a permanent handicap, sud-
denly finds release, he is very,
very happy and thankful. Simi-
larly when one is converted and
receives the joy of forgiveness
of sins it is very natural for
him to give praise to God. It
more people were praising God
instead of grumbling and wor-
rying, fewer tranquilizers would
be sold. Nehemiah said, "The
joy of the Lord is your strength."
(8:10). "With the heart man be-
lieveth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation." Romans
10:10..
Peter's sermon is one of firm-
ness motivated by love. He says,
"Ye ... killed the Prince of Life,
whom God hath raised from the
dead." But hope is extended in
the words, "I know that through
ignorance ye did it, as did also
your rulers." We must not hesi-
tate to charge people with their
sins. We must also encourage
them to seek forgiveness through
repentance and faith in Jesus
Christ.
ISSUE 41 - 1959
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ANYONE NEED A RETREAD? -• Standing with a small foreign car, secretary Patricia Casey
eyes the world's largest tire 'im. Developed for use with a 10 -foot -high tire for military ve-
hicles, it outweighs both car and miss,