The Seaforth News, 1961-06-01, Page 3OatThrashing Time
Away Out West
Along 3s 'Kay of every year, if
ww had had a seasonable spring
and fair oat crop, folks began to
et. anxious about the weather,
'hien would be scanned for pos.-
ibis hail or windstorms, It was
bats-outtin.rl time In the canyon
eountry.
The men on the place were
working and patching and mend.
ing on the old reaper, and finally
they hitched up and took it into
the field. A few rounds would
be made, then the decision would
come floating back to the women
at the house - the oats won't
do atall yet; they're away too
green. We might as well leave
them alone a few days till they
get a little riper. , , . Finally the
grain was cut and stacked in
shocks over the field, and a man
could begin to worry about the
Thrasher,
The burning issue was: When
would it get to your place? They
were threshing three farms away
now; your neighbor had thirty
acres before they could come
your way,.,,
The day came at last when
Father would announce that he
looked for them to pull into our
place tomorrow. Then the bustle
was on, Sacks to hold the grain'
must, be mended. The granary
had;• -to be swept up and made
ready=; fps' the loose oats that
would" be stored there. Hands
had to be rounded up, and trips
to town made for supplies...
Things were humming around
the house too. We swept up
• around the washbench outside,
where the men would wash the
chaff and grime from their hands
and faces before coming in to eat,
Thrasher hands had to be served
food that would stick to their
ribs, so we picked over cup after
cup of pinto beans and, put them
to soak overnight, But I don't
remember that we ever did any
of the real cooking the day be-
fore; I don't think our mother
held with the notion, She want-
ed her food cooked the day it
was eaten; brought straight
from the stove and served piping
hot. This meant we would snap
the fresh green beans and scrape
the new, potatoes and make the
cobblers and the"salads and stuff
in the morning. Big families
came in handy; it took all 'hands
to get a Thrasher meal on the
table.
We heard the Thrashes' next
morning as it carne off the hill,
turned in to our place, and came
down the David road past our
Rouse, through the lot gates,, and
en down the lane. , . Wagons
and teams were rolling in, driv-
en by men in overalls or duck-
ing pants and blue work shirts,
with red bandanna handker-
chiefs sticking out their back
pockets. . . Each wagon had
been equipped with sidepieces so
they would hold more bundles.
This is where we sat as children
when we rode back and forth
with the wagons from the
Thrasher into the fields. After S
had made a sociable round trip
or two (thus avoiding some of
that work at the house), Father
sent me in to tell the womenfolks
how many places to set on the
dinner table. -From "Gone Are
the Days," by Annalee Burns,
A bore is a man who, when
you ask how lie is, tells you!
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MODERN STAINED GLASS - Depioting the workaday world rather than religious scenes, these
unusual stained glass windows have been built into the nave of Christ Church, Blackfriars, Lon-
don. They' are two in a series of "Modern Life" windows, created by artist Frederick Cole, which
portray the working lives of residents of the parish. At left, a secretary takes dictation from her
boss. Right, two London charwomen.
THE FARM FRONT
okl2usseu.
A 40 -year-old dream - to see
the last of Canada's vast cattle
herds tested for bovine tubercu-
losis - will become a reality in
June, thanks to the persistence
of the Health of Animals Divi-
sion, Canada Department of Ag-
riculture.
Some time late that month, the
last herd will be injected with
tuberculin developed in the de-
partment's Animal Pathology La-
boratories at Hull, Quebec,
Agriculture Minister Alvin
Hamilton and senior officials of
his department will be on hand
when the last tuberculin shot is
"fired" in the Peace River sec-
tion of northern Alberta,
* 4.
The long, hard fight to eradi-
cate the .disease had a shaky
start as early as 1894 but the
Canadian parliament strongly .
opposed the idea. Eradication
was begun systematically in 1919,
in many cases over forceful pro-
tests by skeptical cattlemen.
The struggle cost the govern-
ment more than $50 million in
compensation and administration
costs. To date it has involved
over 49,000,000 tests, resulting in
the discovery of some 567,000
eases of bovine tuberculosis.
Compensation a 1 o n e, paid to
farmers for loss of .infected
cattle, has topped the $21 million
mark. * *
Dr. K. F. Wells, veterinary di-
rector general for Canada, be-
lieves the battle has been worth
every penny it cost.
In recent years the program
has been conducted smoothly
with full and complete coopera-
tion • of producers. But in the
early days, progress was any-
thing but smooth.
This was partially because no
compensation was paid for reac-
tors when the program was
launched. In addition, farmers
who asked to have their cattle
tested had to provide the Health
of Animals officer "with free
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HAIR-RAISING - Effects of static electricity are vividly felt by.
Kent Taylor at the Student Fair at the Chica-go Mosey', of,
Science otod Industry.
COSMONAUT? - He may look
like a spaceman examining a
funny looking rock. Actually
he's a technician at the Good-
year plant, working around
powerful rocket fuel. His suit
protects him from harmful
fumes.
transportation to and from the
nearest station and with board
and lodging during his official
visit."
* * *
Records kept by the Health of
Animals Division since before the
turn of the century indicate the
success of the testing program
and the need for it in the first
place.
In Stanstead County, Que., in
1930, twenty-nine per cent of the
cattle tested were infected with
tuberculosis. In Oxford County,
Ont., in 1947, the rate was 23.7
per cent. At Charleswood, Man.,
in 1939,
the rateof infection was
34 per cent. With the eradica-
tion program in full swing, the
rate of infection dropped to 0.19
per cent in -1943 at Charleswood;
0.15 per cent in Oxford County
in 1956, and to 0.60 per cent in
Stanstead County in 1931,
* • *
With the government and cattle
owners. working hand in hand to
stamp out thedisease, the rate
of infected cattle in the entire
country in 1959-60 was only .0.087
per cent, In 1928-29 it was a
startling 6.023 per cent.
In other Words, veterinarians
today have to test almost 750
animals to root out a single case
of bovine tuberculosis. Forty
years ago they could discover at
least one case in every 30 ani
mals tested.
* n
Completion of the testing pro-
gram does not mean that the
fight will not be continued. It
will be, Nor does it mean that
bovine tuberculosis has been
completely wiped out, That day
probably will never come. But
what it does mean is that in the
years ahead there will be so little
of it left in Canada 'that it will
iso longer be considered a serious
threat to the cattle-raising,indus
try - nor will it be an economic
problem, * *
The new Avon potato - an
early variety - is gaining favor
Oaf
in many sections of Canada and
the United States.
Released in 1958, it was devel-
oped in the National Potato
Breeding Program primarily be-
cause of the high-quality chips
that can be made from the tu-
bers directly after harvesting
them, * * „
The tubers of Avon are uni-
form, bright and smooth, have
excellent cooking qualities and
develop in time for the early
market. To avoid roughness, they
should not be let grow oversize.
Avon is resistant to common
scab. The tops mature medium
to late in the season.
Seed of Avon is in short sup-
ply this spring. Growers with
Foundation stock are advised to
plant it for seed production as
there will probably be a good
demand for seed in this variety
next year.
Some Methods
That Catch Bass
The worst lure made, used
properly, can get you bass, and
sometimes a very good catch,
when the best lure made, used
wrong, will only get you skunked
flat. Therefore, how you use your
lure is at least 20 times as im-
portant as what the lure is.
There is but one single method.
of using a lure that will always
get you bass, anywhere, Well
over half the time it will get you
most bass except in the extreme
southern states, where it will do
best only perhaps a fourth of
the time. Here's that always re-
liable method:
Use only plastic or wooden
plug, spinning, or casting size,
that won't float. Naturally, if it
will sink at all it will, given time,.
go as deep as you want,
First, drop it over the side of
your boat, holding on your hand
about ten feet of loose line '-
five feet is about the amount
You can measure between the
fingers of both hands, your arms
extended
as wideas possible;
that's close enough for practical
purposes, Begin to count as the
plug begins to sink, and stop
when the ten feet of line is
taken down. That,- of course,
gives you the sinking speed of
the plug.
Now cast but don't begin to
reel. Instead, count at the same
Speed as before until your plug
has gone down as deep as you
want it to go.
How deep should you let it
go? Begin quite shallow, perhaps
even with no pause, and keep
trying deeper and deeper -until
•you start catching them - then
it's well to try still deeper to
see if you don't catch still more.
Note this well: In many places,
at many times, though you're get-
ting a good number of bass at a
certain depth, you'll get much
larger bass by fishing deeper,
Practically all the real old hunk•
ers, everywhere,' are caught very
deep; rarely is one of them taken
on, a surface or shallow running
lure,
Another sound rule of bass
fishing is - when you're not
catching bass, you're not fishing
deep enough; fish deeper and
you will. When bass are about
20 feet down, they won't tome
up after a shallow -running lure,
This is not exceptional; it's the
usual thing, with bass,.
I get bass because I put my lure
down close enough to them so
they will go after it, Regardless
of what 1 do with the lure down.
there, I'll get some bass. But
there are days when even though
you're putting the lure right
down among them, they're re-
luctant to strike it. Then, you can
get some, but if you want to get
many, you must tease them into
striking. Most experts agree that
slow fishing catches more fish
than fast retrieves •- except un-
der unusual conditions. When
bass are reluctant to strike, I' ad-
vocate a speed of retrieve of one
reel turn every four seconds,
Yes, I know that's way slower
than you ever reeled before, and
you may have a hard time at first
making yourself hold down to
that. All but an extremely few
veterans sling and reel far too
fast, seemingly with a vague
notion that the more water they
get over in a day the more bass
they should catch. Which is the
exact contrary of true; they're
getting over a lot of water but
not really fishing any of it, even
though they do catch an occa-
sional bass,
Reeling thus slowly, keep giv-
ing your rod tip sharp little flips
of a foot or so, then let it drop
back so the plug drops dead -
rather, sinks slowly. It should be
coming towards you only per-
haps half the time. Don't make
the thing mechanical, monoton-
ous; the slow and irratic move-
ments of a lure are best to tease
reluctant bass into striking.
Sometimes, give two or three lit-
tle flips close together, and
sometimes make your pauses
longer than usual, with shorter
jerks between.
How deep can you work it?
About 30 feet is my own limit.
But in summer, in a lake of av-
erage size and type, it's utterly
impossible for a fish to live much
farther down. There's no oxygen,
so he'd die there as fast as if
thrown on shore, The depth to
which they can live will vary
from day to day. I'm merely set-
ting 30 feet as a good average
guess. -By Jason Lucas, author
of "Lucas on Bass Fishing,"
He Gets Stung A
Hundred Times Daily
"When you're working with
300 million bees each season,
you've got to expect to get
stung," says Howard Foster rea-
sonably. As owner and chief
beekeeper of Foster Apiaries in
Colusa, Calif., Foster does get
stung - up to 100 times a day
- while grossing $100,000 a year
for his pains from the sale of
hives, honey, and what is prob-
ably the nation's biggest crop of
queen bees,
A lean, tanned executive of 45,
Foster last month was happily
fending off his merchandise as
he topped off his February -to -
May season. Each day, the firm
had shipped some 200 portable
hives full of bees to •clients all
over the Pacific Northwest and
as far north as the Arctic Circle
in Canada. Each package con-
tained a queen with enough
workers (about 8,000) to start a
colony, and most went to farm-
ers, who keep bee colonies to
pollinate crops and increase
yields, "Each spring my bees
work round the clock, first in
the almond and prune orchards,
then in the alfalfa and melon
fields," says Foster.
Foster also ships a half million
pounds of honey annually from
his Montana branch (where he
first stated in the bee business
with his wife twenty years ago).
But the real prestige and profit
items in his line are his special
brand of queens, sold in colonies
or individually (for $1.25 each).
A hybrid cross between "Cauca-
sian" and "Italian" strains, Fos-
ter's queens are also "double
grafted." First he dgstroys the
larvae in aween- ee cell and
q b
substitutes an older larva. The
older larva then has double the
NDAYSCH001
LESSON
By Rev, R. Barclay Warren
B,A., B,l).
Self -Discipline (Temperance .
Lesson)
Proverbs 7:1-5; 14;30; 16:32;
17:27; 23:19-21.
Memory Selection: The fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, gentleness, good-
ness, faith, )meekness, temper-
ance. Galatians 5:22-23,
For down - to - earth practical
practical wisdomfor every day
living, the Book of Proverbs ex-
cels, Billy Graham sets a good
example to us in reading a chap-
tre from it each day.
A man about to leave the hos-
pital after a severe coronary
thrombosis said to his doctor,
"What is the most important
thing for me to remember?" He
replied, "The man who makes
you angry holds your life in his
hands," The RSV renders Prov-
erbs 14:30, "A tranquil mind
gives life to the flesh, but pas-
sion makes the bones rot." A sue-
cessful man told me of his em-
barrassment over his sudden tem-
per flareups, There is a remedy.
Peter's heart was purified at
Pentecost, Acts 15:8,9. His es-
sential personality was not
changed but by the power of the
indwelling Holy Spirit, he was
master of his passions.
The other parts of today's les-
son deal with the evils of seduc-
tive women and strong drink.
They are often found together.
Sexual relations out of wedlock
are on the increase, It is sad
when the young person about to
be married, has not kept himself
pure.
The evils of drink that I see
in this city give me a sinking
feeling. Why do people so mar
their happiness and that of their
families. Dr. C. Anthony D'Al-
onzo, in his book, The Drinking
Problem and Its Control, enum-
erates eight different stages in
the use of drink as follows: 1.
Social Drinking. 2. Excuse drink-
ing. 3. The turning point. 4. Al-
cohol wins over will. 5. Cover-
up stage. 6. Worry stage. 7.
Phase of despair. 8. Rock -bot-
tom phase. He says, "The awa-
kening or reawakening to the
power of God is often explosive
at a particular point in the life
of many alcoholics, Religion, in
or out of Alcoholics Anonymous,
has unquestionably saved more
drunks, lush drinkers, excessive
drinkers, and borderline cases
than any other factor."
Despite the allurements of the
colourful advertising, it is better
to avoid the first stage, social
drinking. "Be not drunk with
wine - but be filled with the
Spirit." Ephesians 5:18. Receiv-
ing Jesus Christ as our Lord and
Saviour will bring happiness.
"The wages of sin is death."
supply of royal jelly (which. can
make any bee egg grow into a
queen), grows "10 per cent larg-
er and 10 to 25 per cent more
fertile than average." The queen's
eventual productivity rate: Up to
2,000 eggs- daily for two months
each year.
Foster, who saved enough from
his bee sales to send his five chil-
dren to college, figures that ag-
ricultural trends are working
with him. Where farmers in-
• stalled one or two bee colonies
per acre a few years ago, they
now average three or four, part-
ly because modern herbicides
and pesticides have killed off
many other natural pollinators.
"If it weren't for the honey bee,"
says Foster with conviction, "the
nation would soon be living on
nothing but fish and grain."
ISSUE 21 - 1961
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE.
ACROSS
1. Spinet
0, Confusion
8. Musical
perception
12, Tirelessly
15. Put on cargo
15, Laborers
17. Theater box
15. Abstract
being
20. Write
21. Selenium
symbol
22, Vibrate
28. Eccentric
piece
24. Sun god..
58. Silver only of
'Venezuela
M. Grease
20, Mind
31. Wheeled
vehicle
82, Mop
83, Sack
84, Deadly
86. That thing'
57. Wine cash
88, Winnow
39. While
41, Wing -shaped
43, Craft
44, Jap,
statesman
45, Elliptical
44, Exist.
47.a'errous
48, ConfUsink
111. Consume
51, lOxclamntielt
of scorn
59. Frrilitntets
GOWN
1. Ream
2. Senseless
8. Appends
4. Born
5. From
0, Sun disk
7. Crash
8,'King of
Bashan
5. Black
10. African
country
11. Cereal grass 35, Obese
13. Citizen of the 37. Soapstone
U. S. 39. Make
14. Astringent reparation
19. Comrade 40. Vocal
20, Oriental lute selections
22. Delight 42. Endure
25, l'reo from Curved g,
anxiety
25, Vestment structure
26. I n 5. LImer
yric
57. Moving wagon 5. Lyric
28. Night bird 6. scraps 80. Jap. oak scrapsaps
80. City in Jarva 7. Greenland
84. Sol eskimo
84. sekly seed 9. n rivet
case 60.Concerning
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