The Seaforth News, 1960-07-07, Page 7Dairy Month And
Remarks Whereon
J tine is Miry Month, and I
Coed eonstraincd to matte some
lsppropriate rem a r k s. Three
glasses cif milk every day, ete,
The statistics on dairying are in-
teresting -- every year the num-
ber of dairy farmers goes down
while the production of milk
goes up. Fewer farmers keep
more cows who give more milk.
Indeed, the dairy business has
so changed that an old cow hand
like myself is almost a stranger
to it today, It is less sociable. As
it has consolidated and mechan-
ized, A has became the kingpin
of American agriculture, all
phases considered, until today
the dairyman sounds more like
an industrialist than a farmer.
The Dairy Princesses are be-
ing selected nationwide right
now, to glamourize the business,
and they are very different from
the tight -fingered lassies cf a
bygone time, sir she sayed, sir
she sayed. The chances are your
Dairy Princess can tell you the
calcium content of .04 milk, but
she couldn't get a decent strum
on the bottom of a pail.
Milking was always, almost
everywhere, considered squaw
work, In most of the world, a
man who milks loses face. Switz-
erland is one country wh.re a •
man could milk within the de-
finitions of propriety, ane in
parts of Europe a milking man
is still called a "Swiss," even
though he inay in truth be an
Armenian. I'll bet you didn't
know that;
Today the gentle and persua-
sive
ersuasive art of draining a cow is so
thoroughly mechanical that a
Dairy Princess needs only to be
pretty and have enough votes.
In New York State not long
ago a power failure in the milk -
shed created disturbance enough
so the news service featured it,
.and whole legions of cows went
=milked until they could screw
in a new fuse. Some farmers
cleverly drove their trucks up
to the barns and connected hoses
to the vacuums on the wind-
shield wipers, giving their milk-
ing machines enough pull to do
a Pair meantime job.
But that night hired man af-
ter hired man deposed and stat-
ed that he could not or would
not milk - and it's perfectly
true that it was just as well, for
Cows nowadays know little that
isn't mechanical and they would
probably have put up a Boller.
I think the great marvel of
the milk business is the process
of pasteurization, which has
been overplayed as a health
device, for its primary function
is far more practical. The dic-
tionary is a little more accurate
about this process than .some of
the milk promoters. It stops or
delays fermentation, and with-
4u.S.POSTAGE
FORESTRY STAMP - This stamp,
which will go on sale Aug. 29,
marks the Fifth World Forestry
Congress. The design is taken
from the Congress seal.
out it the modern dairy bu,inett
fouldn'1 up.rnl(r.
MAik is highly perishable by
nature -- the elements that
nature --rhe dements that make
It an ideal food arc all elements
that promote quick and natural
digestion, Quick spoilage of milk,
in truth, is its own proof of ex-
cellence. Pasteurization thus de-
lays this natural consequence and
gives the farmer time to move
it long distances to waiting door-
steps. Most milk travels at least
100 miles today between pro-
ducer and consumer.
Not long ago a dairyman in
southern Massachusetts bid on
and won a government contract
to supply milk to the Loring Air
Force base at Limestone in
northern Maine .-- some 400
miles away. It wasn't too long
ago this would have been utter-
ly absurd. And this dairyman
had his cows not in Massachu-
setts, but in Vermontt At first
he brought milk in tank trucks
all this long distance, but later
he began buying milk produced
in Maine and set up a creamery
near the base - smoothing the
logistics. But his Vermont cows
stand ready to fill any gaps if
Loring needs more milk, and
pasteurization makes the long
hike possible.
America depends most heavily
on Holsteins, They are a large
framed cow, derived from the
continent, and by selective
breeding have improved on an
old reputation for a low-fat milk
in quantity. They used to say
if the cow filled a pail, but you
could look down through the
milk and see the bottom, she
was a Holstein - and in those
days it was "steen." It is now
"stine," and she is a potential
record -breaker in all categories.
Next comes the Jersey, a
smaller and folksier animal from
the Channel Isle of Jersey,
whose rich milk won her the
name of the "butter cow." They
say there are more Jerseys in
the world than any other cow,
and a man with a herd of regis-
tered Jerseys always has a
pleased look on his face.
Another Channel breed is the
Guernsey, who is growing fast
in popularity, and is trademark-
ed with the "Guernsey Gold"
title. She has a high conversion
lector - food to milk, and she
is one of the prettier cows when
she adorns a sward and contri-
butes to a landscape. Also impor-
tant in America is the Ayrshire,
from Scotland, who like the
Scots themselves is adaptable
and can stand in a snowbank
in Canada while her sister is
equally at home in an Alabama
swamp. Her conversion factor is
high, too, and she is chummy.
Easy to work with in modern
milking parlors.
Two other breeds are gaining
favour. One is the old Red Dur-
ham or Milking Shorthorn,
whose beef characteristics give
her a "salvage" value. She gives
a fine milk, but traditionally
doesn't "hold up" so well as the
year advances. Here again, se-
lective breeding is changing that,
and many farmers believe her
the ideal cow. The other is the
Brown Swiss, said to have a
mighty potential and some day
to be far more popular than
now.
Milk consumption nationally is
on the increase. Congress has
just enacted a far bigger sum
for school and institutional milk
programs. So let us salute the
milkman in June, when green
pastures are lush and the morn-
ings are splendid, and Bossy on
yonder brow is lighthearted and
kind. - By ' John Gould in the
Christian Science Monitor.
If you listen to all the songs
you wouldn't think there's an
Irishman left in Ireland. They're
all somewhere else singing about
it.
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FRUIT OF CIVILIZATION - Everything -probably including a
kitchen sink - turned up when this section of the Surrey Canal
In London was drained. Receding waters left this unsightly mesa
of bikes, baby carriages, buckets, bedsteads and other junk.
The canal will be filled in and used as a building site.
United States, exploring the
possibility of nationwide eradi-
cation of hog cholera, has can-
sulted leading authorities in
Canada where the infectious
virus disease has never been
given a chance to get a foot-
hold. * * *
Dr, K. F. Wells, Canada's Vet-
erinary Director General,attend-
ed a Chicago meeting called by
local, state and federal officials
to discuss the problem.
Dr. R. J. MoClenaghan, chief
of the Contagious Diseases Sec-
tion, Health of Animals Division,
was at a similar meeting in New
Orleans, and Dr. W. A. Moyni-
han, associate chief, attended one
in New York City.
* * „
Even before the turn of the
century, Canada rigidly controll-
ed hog cholera by slaughtering
all animals found suffering from
it: During the past decade there
have been eight outbreaks in
which about 3,500 pigs were des-
troyed by officials and their
owners compensated.
The U.S., on the other hand,
long ago decided to live with
the disease rather than attempt
to stamp it out. Control by vac-
cination has cost $1 per hog up
to market age, and the annual
loss to the swine industry from
the disease has.. been estimated
at $50,000,000.
Hog cholera is often associ-
ated with the feeding of uncook-
ed garbage.
* * *
Tree growth on 2,000 acres in
southern Quebec was sprayed
from the air with DDT last
month, as authorities waged war
on infestations of gypsy moth.
It is only the third time in
35 years that an outbreak of this
pest has been reported in Can-
ada. * *
L. L. Reed, who directs sur-
vey work for the Plant Protec-
tion Division, Canada Depart-
ment of Agriculture, said DDT
in diesel fuel was applied at the
rate of one pound per gallon per
acre.
"This is the same treatment
as has been used with remark-
able success in the United
States," explained Mr. Reed.
"American officials report near-
ly 100 per cent destruction of
larvae." * *
Nevertheless, extra precautions
will be taken this year to guard
against further spread of infes-
tations.
About 800 sex -attractant metal
traps, loaned by the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture, will be used during the
summer flight season of the
moth.
In addition to placing traps
at the point where controls have
been applied, the trapping area
will be extended north and west
to ascertain if additional pock-
ets of infestation occur.
• * ,9
Since only the male gypsy
moth flies, cartridges containing
the scent of the female moth are
used to lure them into the traps
where they are caught on pieces
of cardboard smeared with
tanglefoot,
Normally, only a few moths
are caught by this method, but
last season 97 moths were trap-
ped in southern Quebec, A field
survey confirmed that several
infestations had become estab-
lished.
First gypsy moths were
brought from Europe to Massa-
chusetts by a French scientist
for experimental purposes.
* * *
A third shipment of Canadian
agricultural products left Mont-
real recently, bound for Rum-
ania.
It was the wind-up of pur-
chases arranged for by a delega-
tion of Rumanian agricultural
leaders during a four-week tour
of farms and ranches in central
and western Canada last March.
4 't *
The final shipment included;
220 Hereford heifers and five
bulls from the prairie provinces;
100 Ontario Holsteins, including
two bulls from high test dams;
19 Aberdeen Angus cattle, in-
cluding one bull, from Ontario;
50 Landrace pigs from western
Ontario; eight Alberta rams -
five Rambouillet, one Columbia
and two cross-breds; and two
Border Collie sheep dogs, also
frons Alberta.
In the earlier lots were 892
Hereford heifers from western
Canada and nine Hereford bulls
from Ontario.
* * *
Carl Anderson of the Eastern
Irrigation District, Brooks, Al-
berta, accumulated the western
stock. Of the cattle making the
trip to Montreal, a small num-
ber were rejected by Rumanian
officials for reasons that could
be attributed to the hazard of
the train trip.
* * *
Bucur Schiopu, Vice Minister
of Agriculture, who led the dele-
gation to Canada, said that quai-
Weather forecast
For Eight Years!
A lot of holiday resorts would
get a tremendous boost if rain-
less periods could be accurate-
ly forecast.
But in the United States, 117 -
year -old scientist Dr. Charles G.
Abbot has startled more cau-
tious experts by forecasting the
rainfall for the next eight years.
Dr, Abbot, who hopes that his
predictions are at least 00'"c ac-
curate, says, for instance, that
St. Louis will have rainfall 25%
above normal in 1967.
His predictions are based on
years of research on the amount
of heat coming from the sun,
lengthy exploration of musty
weather records, the gradual de-
velopment of a theory that mois-
ture and temperature trends run
in precise cycles of 273 months
each, and the use of an electron-
ic computer to put it all together.
But other meteorologists will
not go along with hi..i theories.
If You Get Bitten ..
Bitten by a venomous snake,
the seasoned woodsman quickly
applies a make -shift tourniquet,
cuts into the wound with his
knife, and sucks out the poison.
Then, happily, he inay take a bit
of "snakebite medicine" a slug
of whisky.
According to an article in the
115, Armed Forces Medical Jour-
nal, this age-old treatment is
risky and "can speed death."
Comdr. Robert S. Leopold, chief
of the physical -sciences depart-
ment of the Naval Medical Field
Research Laboratory at Camp
Lejeune, N,C., explained why:
"Suction helps spread the snake
venom faster."
DRIVE CAREFULLY - The
life you save may be your own.
MY DIANE - Diane McBaine,
19, just happened to be sitting
on her suitcase when a pho-
tographer happened along.
sty stimulated his interest in pro-
curing Canadian cattle and other
farm products.
Besides the livestock, the Ru-
manians bought corn and soy-
bean seed. In addition, a Can-
adian firm was given the job
of constructing a 250,000 bushel
elevator on one of the country's
biggest state farms.
J!N X SC OM
C_ ESSON
By Itev it tiarelity Warren
11.1. R,R
Men Who Spoke for trod
Mala.) 7:7-15
Memory Selocioir: Preach the
word; be instant i33 season, out
of smell; reprove, rebuke, ex-
hort with all long suffering anddoctrine. 2 Timothy 4;2.
The subject for the lessons of
this quarter is, A Century of
Great Prophets. We shall study
Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Micah,
in that order.
Amos was a herdman and ga-
therer of sycomore fruit in Te-
koa of Judah when the Lord
called him to go and prophesy to
Israel, His preaching disturbed
Israel. He pointed out in detail
the social injustices of the day,
He warned of the danger of the
sense cif false security in this
era of unparalleled prosperity
since the days of Solomon. Amos'
penetrating attacks on sin pro-
voked opposition. Amaziah, the
priest, complained to King Jere-
boam. IIe bade Amos to go home
to Judah and prophesy there and
leave Israel alone, But Amos
stayed till Ills task was done.
He predicted that the children
of Amaziah would be slain, his
wife would be a harlot in the
city and Amaziah would die in a
strange land.
Many ministers have confided
to a minister friend. "I wouldn't
dare present that line of truth
in the church where 1 am now."
Of course, ministers must have
in mind the capacity of their
hearers to receive, Paul wrote in
his first letter to the Corinthians,
"And I, brethren, could not
speak unto you as unto spiritual,
but as unto carnal, even as unto
babes in Christ, I have fed you
with milk, and not with meat;
for hitherto ye were not able
to bear it, neither yet now are
ye able. For ye are yet carnal:
for whereas there is among you
envying, and strife, and divi-
sions, are ye not carnal, and
walk as men?" But Paul was re-
ferring to the deeper truths of
Divine revelation. He was not
suggesting that he had withheld
reproof of sin. A reading of his
letter shows that he condemned
fornication, covetousness, extor-
tion, railing, drunkenness, law-
suits between members, mumur-
ing and partaking of the Lord's
Supper unworthily. Paul did not
hesitate to expose sin.
Ministers have a great respon-
sibility. They heed the prayers
of God's people. If they are
speaking for God then they must
give His message at any cost.
And they must give it in the
spirit of love. May God help us
to be faithful to Him.
We wish we could get as ex-
cited over things as radio an-
nouncers think they can make
US.
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ISSUE 27 - 1960
TEXAS MINNOW PERHAPS? - That's 75 you nds of siva yellow catfishsquirming in the
arms of 10 -year-old Robby Koncak and Dallas, Tex., aquarium supervisor Jeff Moors.
Bobby and his father hooked the fish and turned it over to the aquarium for display.