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The Seaforth News, 1961-09-07, Page 7R ,fiItieiberr,ry Cares Came Every Year Blueberries are in season, and the white tablecloth is in hiding, The first blueberry cake is his- torical, and this time the date was shared with an astronaut Who went and came, and it is 'a new kind of competition, If the world had its perceptions tru- ly in order, I think there would also have been this headline, even. if only below the fold: Bluberry Cake Again in Style: "Truly •Good!" Say the Goulds. Well, I think astronauts are doomed t0 a kind of indefinite glory. Soon the event will be relegated editorially to "last Month." In a few weeks some- body will phrase it, "this sum- mer." Alnd after a while it will become the summer of 1961. In time the several probing thrusts into space will be recorded as taking place "in the sixties," and even "the latter part of the 20th century," One day, no doubt, the hero of "last August" will be one of a group appearing on page 38 of the "ETV" lesson, just as our youngsters now cover the "period of discovery" by lumping Balboa, Cortez, Cabot, de Soto, and de Leon, alas, But blueberry cakes come every year, and horizons never fade, and the wonder and, delight persists forever, Some things, Man can do once and "first"; other things, Man can do first many times, I certainly am not a pothunter when it comes to picking berries. In Maine, a pothunter is one who is after meat, and sees not the shy -eyed violet by the margo, •the polliwog and the primrose, the squirrel and the robin, and the haze that makes fairyland of the valley, I do, While skinning out the first reluctant blueberries I philosophize all over the place, give ear to the jay and thistle, inquire after the ubiquitous bunchberry, and consider the sweet-smelling periphery. $o my consideration proceeded, and I had plenty of time, for the first blueberries are reluctant. Later on you ,can raki, them by the pailful, but now only the first berry on each bunch is blue, and some of them are hanging back. The only reason for going to all this trouble is the magnificence of the "first" blueberry cake. A year ago, if anybody re- members,. I had blessed this readership with our blueberry ,pake recipe, which was a philan- thropy beyond measure, and the thing had backfired. Certain grateful replies arrived, but there were too many who wondered ff I had miscopied the ingre- dients, and several who accused one of malicious' sabotage and downright tactics. The burden was that this certainly made a dubious kind of cake, and one lady who was decidedly unhappy said if she had only stopped to 'think before she began, she'd have known this would never make a cake, The only way she saved it, she wrote, was to douse ft with a rich sauce such as we use on a plum pudding, and .with this camouflage her family quietly ate it. but without en- thusiasm. When the first of these letters came in I was puzzled, but soon it was clear the trouble lay in the semantics of "cake," Nobody in Maine would suppose blue- berry cake is a cake, and to con- fuse it with a dessert is, im- possible, Blueberry cake is p hotbread, to be eaten with the meal, anointed with plenty of butter, and these people who thought it was a substitute for pie were straining, I felt keenly for these f olks who unbraided me — they had saved it for afterward, and seeing' how lonely it looked in the nappy had saturated it with lemon sauce, covered it with ice cream, and had labored some- how to make it look like what they thought it ought to look like. Their families, in general, dutifully ate it, but expressed no keen joy and spent the evening in silence looking at Mother with concern and wonder.'Mother felt it was 'all my fault, and said so, So I was skinning out the oc- casional blue blueberry, thinking about this, and the tree frogs were improvising, andmy tin bumper gradually accumulated the required amount, and I kept thinking how lucky I was to have grown up in this vicinity where such things happily Shaped my career. It must be sad and lone- . ly, I thought, to dwell in, distant places where the function of the blueberry is unknown and mis- understood, and sometimes gets a sauce on it, I further reflected how the blueberry wisely makes himself prominent in areas where he is appreciated, but whether this is cause or effect I am unable to say. No, I had not mispeiled the recipe, and blue- berry cake stands as I described it. - A mother fox had her young ones out on a knoll over the pasture wall, and all the time I was picking I could hear them playing, The least whiff of me, or the snap of a twig, and she'd have spoken them quickly<, into vanishment. But the wind was toward me, and I was quiet and the little ones yapped away and I suppose I had found out where my neighbor's poultry has been going. He's been complaining. Twilight faded and it was dusk, and I wandered back to the house. "Blueberries!" she said. I heard some pans banging and a mixing noise, and the oven door closing. I also heard her on the telephone. "I just put a blue- berry cake in the oven," she said, which was the total conversa- tion. Two neighbor couples came in shortly, full' of the astronaut and related topics, and to save time they sat right .down at the kitchen table .The dimensions of the cake were 11 -by -18 -by -3 inches, and the time was 9.30 p.m, When it was gone everybody gave me a rising vote of thanks to which I responded modestly, and thus the official blueberry season of 1901 was officially opened. That it was not a nation- wide news event is purely rela- tive, and possibly beside the point. Alt h h h . , . . by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. .FATHER IKNEW BEST Strolling on Venice's Lido last week, the debonair Duke of Windsor and his duchess made a striking picture — especially with the duke's brow abulge with a swim mask. Normally, the Duke gets his exercise golf- ing, gardening, and gadding about the globe, but he plunged in for a vigorous seasion of un- derwater swimming and soon regretted it: all it netted hint was a two-day bout with lum- bago. 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Proceeds went to CARE, Mr. Eagle is lore instructor for the scouts, TllflA2M FROM Jam Officials of the Canada De- partment of Agriculture have this word of advice for tourists, cottagers and farmers: "Don't let your household pets, particularly dogs, run loose where they can come in contact with wildlife.” * * * Although the incidence of rabies has not reached alarm- ing proportions anywhere in Canada so far this year, a steady number of rabies cases, particu- larly in wildlife, are being con- firmed by laboratory tests, In Ontario alone, 108 cases were confirmed between April 1 and July 31. Of these, 70 were in wildlife, particularly in foxes, skunks, raccoons and wolves. Of the 38 cases in domestic animals, nine were in dogs which, it is believed, were left free to run in the woods. ( 4 A few cases have also been confirmed in western counties of Quebec and in the southwestern portion of Manitoba: Of 14 cases reported in Manitoba, all but two involved skunks. Most heavily infested area of Ontario is Renfrew County where 18 cases, nearly all in foxes, have been reported since April 1. * 4 4 The number of cases reported so far this year is well below that of other recent years. In view of this, a Health of Animals spokesman said, there is no cause for alarm. But extreme caution should be exercised in keeping dogs front running loose in the woods. Even dogs that have been vacinated against the disease should be kept under control at all times, he said. 4 4 5 Bloat in a dairy herd can be reduced but it cannot be pre- vented. This is the conclusion reached by Dr. J. M. McArthur and Dr. J. E. Miltimore, of the Canada Department of Agriculture's re- search station, following exten- sive experiments with bloat - preventive materials. 4 4 5 The cheapest and most reliable means of reducing bloat, they point out, is that of maintaining pastures at more than 50 per cent grass and grazing legumes when they are as mature as pos- sible. Bloating was easily obtained from freshly cut legumes fed to cattle held in an exercise yard. Preventive materials were add- ed to the feed or given as a drench. Best treatments were four ounces daily per head of emulsified tallow, mineral oil or peanut oil added to the chopped legume, 5 0 5 Another effegtive treatment was an oral dose of penicillin, but a combination of penicillin and mineral oil as a drench did not reduce bloat more than did either used alone, The two animal scientists found that mineral oil was more effective than tallow when giv- en as a drench, The effective- ness of tallow was increased by emu) ification but dosages of tallow higher than the tour ounces daily did not prove any more e:—olive than did the foto' ounce rale. Freshly cut alfalfa at the tenth bloom stage caused less bloat than alfalfa cut at the pasture stage of development. And, the researchers learned, f e e din g freshly cut immature alfalfa carried no more assurance against bloat than grazing it. Throughout their experiments, Drs. McArthur and Miltimore found that treated cattle had to be watched for bloat just as carefully as untreated animals. In summing up their findings, they reported that the cost of preventives was greater than the cost of treating animals that bloated. * * You can get rid of poison ivy with chemicals or implements, but it will take persistence to completely clearit from your property. E. G. Anderson, of the Cana- da Department of Agriculture, explains several methods of eradicating poison ivy in a four- page pamphlet just issued by the department. 4 * 4 Chemicals, he says, are ter ommended for killing poison ivy covering large areas and in other places where it is not practical to remove the plants with hand implements. For small areas, a 2 or 3 -gallon sprayer should be used, For larger areas the job should be done with a sprayer mounted on a truck or tractor. 4.. * * Rubber boots, coveralls and gauntlets are strongly recom- mended by Mr. Anderson for anyone who plans to eradicate poison ivy or work where It grows. The first application should be made 'when the foliage is well developed, usually early in June. A thorough spraying job is es- sential and every leaf must be covered with t h e chemical. Where the growth is very thick, it may be necessary to spray again within a few days, The second spraying is important be- cause new growth or plants missed the first time will re - infest the area. Spraying should be repeated whenever new growth appears, but not after mid-August, Further treatments are usually needed the second year to kill all the plants. Depending upon the density of the poison ivy and the type of chemical used, one gallon of so- lution usually covers front 100 to 200 square feet, he said. * 4 * Chemicals recommended for killing poison ivy include brush killer, silvex, amitrole, ammate and 2,4-D, Because some of the products are corrosive and all— even in minute amounts—can damage desirable plants, it is most important that spraying equipment be carefully cleaned after use. Where it is not feasible to use chemicals to eradicate poison ivy, isolated plants can be removed with a grub hoe or spade, In large areas, such as gardens and cottage lots, poison ivy can " be killed quickly and cheaply by the usual methods of cultivation, • 4 * Additional information on the eradication of poison ivy can be obtained in Mr. Anderson's booklet, "PoisonIvy," published v by the Canada Department of Agriculture. Copies of t h e pamphlet may be obtained with- out cost by writing to the In- formation Division, Canada De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario Why Spectacles Cost So Much Their secret, said the U.S. Jus- tice Department, was as sinful as it was successful. The charge: That two of the nation's largest manufacturers of eyeglasses set prices low in markets where the competition threatened to usurp their hold, raised prices in other markets to recover their losses. In complete accord with Jus- tice officials, a Milwaukee Fed- eral grand jury recently return- ed a double-barreled indictment against both firms, the $89 mil- lion American Optical Co, of Southbridge, Mass., and $64.1 million 'Bausch & Lomb, Inc., of Rochester, N.Y. Also named were their respective vice pres- idents, Victor D. Kniss of South- bridge, and Alton 1C Marsters of Rochester. The charge: "A continuing conspiracy of unreas- onable restraint of trade." While both firms denied the charges vigorously, the govern- ment said that the origins of the conspiracy could be traced back more than 30 years. Their comon- opoly, said the indictment, be- gan in the '20's when the two companies began to buy up con- trol of smaller optical firms throughout the country; it alleg- edly reached a peak in 1959, when together the firms account- ed for two-thirds of all ophthal- mic lenses sold in the U.S. and controlled prices on nearly all the rest by virtue of their size, DRIVE WITH CARE ! urDAYscI1oo1 IESSUN By Bev. it. Barclay Warren B.A.,'B.D. Timothy, a Guardian of the Truth (Temperance Lesson) Philippians 2:19-23; 1 Timothy 1:1-5; 2 Timothy 1:1-8; 2;1.5, 22. Memory Selection: Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testi- mony of.our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel ac- cording to the power of Clod, 2 Timothy 1:8, Timothy is a shining example of courageous, devoted youth .It was on Paul's second visit to Lys- tra that Timothy was invited to join the missionary party. That he went along is the more re- markable because it was here that Paul on his first visit was stoned, dragged out of the city and left for dead. But Timothy saw lives transformed through the ministry of Paul. Indeed, it is al- together likely that it was at this time that Timothy became a be- liever in Jesus Christ. He had had careful teaching in the Scrip- tures, and his mother and grand- mother were women of faith But this was the entry of Christianity to Lystra, Timothy proved a valuable helped. Front the tone of the let- ter written to him by Paul one concludes that he is the closest to Paul's heart of any of the workers. Here is a comment about him from Paul's letter to the Philippians, "I have lid man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel." Timothy endured hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. He did not use 'youth' as an ex- cuse for the indulgence of sin- ful lusts but pursued righteous- ness, faith, love, peace. Even in youth he was an example to be- lievers. Young people should read the letters to Timothy frequently. Here was a young man transform- ed by the power of Jesus Christ. There was no loose living for hint; he was a self-disciplined youth of high ideals. If he were here today we can't imagine him being -a slave to alcohol, nicotine, obscene literature or any of the other things which impair a man and make him less than the best he can be iii the sight of God and for helpful service to his fellow- men. We need more youth like Timothy, today. Business is never good business unless it makes friends. ISSUE 35 — 1961 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ®©EI©m ®©®®®17 ©©L10©M®©©®®p' ©©© ©B0®® I00`,, ©©1:20© O®© `TIM ©®®d ©©© ,®EID® ®El©®©ET-;,©©©mQ0 uq ©I7©©© a ©©Q' :tp ' ©OC1©©d EJ ] ©t,7©© CII LINO 11•'r ' 00�� Darr- 7©p©© ®©0© #, ©©©1:1®la CIEIEIMIEligliflilE1111:11111 ELDER STATESMAN — Former Republican President Herbert Hoover Is shown at his desk in New York City. The 31st US, commander in ,chief is now in his 88th year.