The Seaforth News, 1948-04-15, Page 2!—Because of newly -developed processes of
handling and marketing, hemlock—once looked on with disfavor -
by Iunibernten—is rapidly developing into a "big business"
proposition. Here a tree is being "topped" in Western Canada.
Hemlock, Once Neglected
Now Basis Of Big Industry
Hendt.ek tmes hat e pr 1 l lc been
growing in British ieltarYa for as
many centuries .s they have in other -
Canadiar. pros mete:, lett it was only
few years a.o that ,tn ine Learned
how to ,,.inert them into a profit-
able hushvas.
Rich stands of Dottglas far and
redar—tinq.cr tlut prod'es the "pay
dirt" in the Innihering business- —
attacted aU the atterri nn nt the tim-
ber operay.r . attd the lowly bet
plenti int heintnek was completely
overluokci. And no wonder—for it
paid only ;,bout ftye .1-h r, p,; thou-
sand ',raid feet. •
The story -of the new hemlock in-
dustry in British Cnluin!•ia has just
been told in pictorial forst, and will
Tike°ly i.e coming your way on the
rural film programs now showing hi
many of the counties of Ontario. The
stns• is presented in the new "news-
reel" series of the National Fihn
Board. entitied, "Eye. Witness". De-
signed to bring iniortilatiou about
Canadians to Canadians, the series
'will he .presented, one reel for every
program en the rural tint circuits
from now on.
Saw Possibilities
The starkly hemlock, as we started
out to say, was neglected — until a
Czechosiotalcan family, used to
handling this hood in their native
land, arrived in Canada some nine
years ago, the victims of Hitler's
persecutions.
To them, the stands of hemlocks
represented a gold mine. In spite of
the gloomy headshakings of the: old-
timers, they set ant to market the
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hemlock. They had a secret, of
course. and it lay in the proper grad-
ing of the timber.
The new "hemlock family" soon
deteloped into a tlouridhing company.
Today there are over 3;110 employ --
tea. \\'aecs arc high, and lining and
working conditions are excellent —
all because the Czechs knew bow to
make the hemlock pay. Because of
their skill the price per thntisand
board feet has ri.cn over five tittles
its 1939 talite. -
Correct Grading
Most of the operations in the woods
ate mechanized. Power saws, trac-
tors, crates are to be sten in all their
operations. At the • company mill,
experienced graders grade the hem-
lock at all stages of Its transforma-
tion into the finished product. Wood
that is straight -grained and free of
knots is planed and bit in long
lengths. It is specially "cured" so
that it can be used for interior dee-
orating as well as outside wort:.
Knotty wood, and wood weakened
by curved grains is cut up into small-
er st•ctiens of all shapes and sizes.
Intelligent research has found new
markets for these smaller. and form-
erly unprofitable bits of wood. One
of the readiest markets has been the
food packing industry. The small
pieces, which have no odour, make
excellent packing cases.
The camp in which the workers and
their families live is as up-to-date as
possible. Recreation grounds and
halls are side by side with attractive
billets. The camp even boasts a
tennis court and a moving picture
theatre.
THE GREEN THUMB
Or
"HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?"
By GORDON L. SMITH
Make Plans Now
There are I, is of things a gard-
ener can do before the ground is
ready for planting, and it is not a
bit too early,
either, to start
looking around
for damage, to
see what shrubs
and flowers
have come safe-
ly through the
�p winter, to snake
a note of gaps
to be replaced.
shl+li3
In this preparatory work, plan'
nirg for the coming season is the
most important and probably the
most pleasant. A good seed cata-
logue will help. In this will be
found important points about hard.
nee s, colour, time of blooming or,
in the case of vegetables, time of
maturity. Remembering these facts
will help prevent mistakes, such as
planting small things behind .larger,
getting big vegetables crowded too
close together, having clashing
colours or lows intervals when there
is no bloom at all.
By noting carefully the time of
blooming or the number of days to
maturity, it is possible to plan and
create flower gardens that will
bloom contin ously until frost, and
a continuous supply of the very
freshest of vegetables In both
eases in addition t using- early,
medium and late varieties, it is also
advisable to plant several times.
say, once a little ahead of normal,
then normal, then later than nor-
mal This will spread out vege-
teal s ;i rl flowers, too,
Grass Seed Early, Too
Grass loves cool weather. If it
doesn't get its start while there is
plenty of moisture in the ground
and before the sun gets too hot
new seeding will not give best re-
sults. So, just as soon as one can
walk'on the ground without getting
one's shoes really muddy, is the
time to plant new lawns or re-
pair old ones, The soil should be
worked as fine and level as possible.
It is much easier to get a lawn level
before the grass is sown than after-
wards. With new lawns work soil
thoroughly, then roll or allow to
settle -and work again. Not only
does this preliminary cultivation
tend to get the ground level but it
also kills the weeds and here again
the job is easier before the lawn is
established than afterwards.
Good seed with lawns is vitally
inlpoetant. For special purposes
like shady places there are
special types of grass or mixtures.
Select a day with as little wind as
possible to sow the grass seed,
and sow it both across and length-
wise, Sow plenty of seed and fer-
tilize, Thick, well-fed grass will
crowd out most weeds.
Bonanza
"Hairy," said the auditor's wife,
"aren't attics the most wonderful
things to have around?"
'Yes indeed,' agreed the 'agree-
able man, "What did you discover
now, darling?"
"The new look," replied the hap-
py housewife, "in an old trunk,"
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Happy
Landings
MATT-CHRISTOP}TEFL.
IT W iS a bright afternoon, with the , tm flashing on 'half a dozen
sails that bellied in the soft wind on
the shimmering lake. Driving along
on the good road in his dilapidated
car, Stanley Ervay had sad visions
of another Iuekless day.
Those two fish poles and the cigar
boa of artifieial flies in the back
seat were looking for new owners—
special owners who were worthy and
deserving. He could find no one
who seemed to need those two poles.
Poles he and 1iaggie had no need
for any mom.
Suddenly he saw the young man.
The young man's bowed head and
slow gait suggested distress. :\iso,
about a hundred feet ahead. he sew
a trim -figured young lady. She was
walking quickly. It was quite ob-
vious to Stanley that something was
wrong. Hacl he really discovered a
pair of prospects? He came to a
grinding halt beside the young than.
"Hello, Want a ride? I got some-
thing for you!!"
"Okay, wwhat's the gag?"
Stanley laughed. These young peo-
ple nowadays! "No gag. It's an
offer, providin'—just like 1 said. But
first. tell me. You're in trouble, ain't
yo'"
"Could be. But that's my affair."
"Nope." The reply was abrupt.
"T'Ihtt's the cure, sou. Fishing. Ien
heal sick hearts just like medicine
nada a t:.o,,nd, 1 know it sounds
grow. But there ain't a better remedy
for a situation lire you'd gotten yer-
self into. It's better than lisfenin' to
jazz music, or White a Walk, or plant
ride just to get away front everybody.
Most people don't know it, but when
they do tIi er silly things they're just
breaking their hearts into a lot more
little pieces."
The anon man reached for the
door handle, "Theis is where 1 get
off, mister. Guess I've taken the
wrong bus."
Stanley grabbed his arm, "Wait a
second, son. I ain't too old not to
know what I'rn talkin' about, and I
ain't crazy, either. The secret is sit-
ting in the boat—the two of you, out
there on the lake."
The young man frowned. "In a
boat? The two of us?"
"You can sit accost from each
other an.' brood your heads of f, but
you cant run away from- each other
like you're doing now. Sit tight,
son," he said, turning to the wheel.
"That's her, ain't it, welkin' up
ahead there? Mighty in a hurry to
get home like?"-
The car chugged along, Presently,
Stanley halted it alongside the girl.
Plenty pretty, she was, too.
"Hello?" said Stanley. "Hop in
back, will you?"
Her eyes flicked to the young ratan.
She started to walk on,
"It'll rain," Stanley called. "You'll
get soaked to the skin, See that rain -
cloud up ahead?"
Stanley turned off foward the lake
and stopped the car. Several row-
boats were drawn up on shore,
"Wait here a minute, folks;" Stan-
ley said, He went to a small building
nearby, keyed open a door, and re-
turned with a pair .of well -polished
oars. He placed them in the oarlocks
of one of the boats, then went to the
ear and got the two fish poles and
the cigar box of flies.
The girl stared wide-eyed. "But
I've never fished before 1 Anyway,
what is this all about ? And, what
about the rain?" '
Her husband - clutched her hur-
riedly by ;tile arm. "Olt, don't argue
with hint, Mae, and get in that boat
before he ehangcs his mind.. Didn't
you ever hear that it's best to sat-
isfy a crazy man if you want to
keep hint happy:
The young man pushed the boat
out and the girl jumped. in..
"happy landings!" cried Stanley.
waving.
Smiling, he watched them go out,
then turned, a little sadly, back -to .
his car. Maggie wouldn't care,' now,
that lte'd given the poles away. They
had fished with .then many . times
while she'd been alive. Anyway, they
might do good in the hands of that '.
nice, young couple.
He and Maggie, he recalled, must
have been their ages when somebody
had given them the fish poles.
British Athletes
Train Hard On
Whale Steaks
Crews for the famous Oxford
and Cambridge Boat Race, due to
be rowed at the end of March, are
training hard. A pretty grim prob-
lem has faced both of them—food;
and they've tried out various ways
of adding to their rations.
The Oxford team has secured
a'large quantity of whale steaks -
hardly a substitute for the roast
beef of pre-war years, but better
than nothing. Last semester some
of the Wren in the trial eights had
frozen whale meat kept in the
college ice - box, and served to
then with their dinner. This se-
mester pretty well all the rowing
Wren are eating whale,
ta
n 0
Cambridge has bought a Boat
Club cow, and members of the
crew are learning to milk herl
Siler '-ept on a farm just outside
Cambridge, and ' staking a wel-
come addition to the crew's one
quart a week milk ration.
Bread and potato rationing have
bit both sides—they get ravenous
after a hard afternoon on the river
and there's nothing .such to fill
up with. The race itself will use
us 3,000 calories, and each prac-
tice costs every man 2,500 calories.
That dosn't leave much out of the
daily united Kingdom everage of
2,700 calories a day, to ride a cycle
home, The Cambridge coach in-
sists on a hot cup of meat extract
-
-nd5t rationed—immediately after
rowing, He says his crew's phy-
sique is just as good as pre -tear,
but they're not as well nourished.
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Whale ,steak, when available is
increasing in popularity with
Britain's housewives too. All have
their own ideas on how to -cook
it. The secret of success of whale
meat lies in the cooking. When it
has been skilfully prepared and
served with onions or suitable sea --
Bonin many people have been
deceived into thinking they were
eating beefsteak.
In Hermann i\Ielville's tale "iIo-
by Dick," the second nate gives
his recipe for cooking whale:—
"Hold
hale:"Hold the steak in one hand and
a live coal to it with the other;
that done, dish it." This method,'
however, does not receive the ap-
proval of the exerts, who all ad-
vise fairly slow cooking!
Noisy Fish Break
Silence of "Deep"
Fish that laugh, whistle and
snake a lacking noise wits' their
teeth resembling lower plate wob-
ble are the bright -hued stars of a
movie in the making.
Technicians using special under-
seas cameras and hydrophones
have been recording the strange
noises for many weeks. Most fist.,
the picture proves, are pretty noisy,
and the ocean's depths, referred
to in song and story as the "silent
deep" are still deep but anything
but silent.
Navy underwater listening posts
discovered during the war that Salt
were aquatic magpies. Surprised
schools of fish sometimes cut loose
with a racket rivaling that of an
approaching enemy battle fleet.
Some of the fish in the movie,
titled "Voice of the Deep", actu-
ally sound as though they are
whistling. Others emit laughing
noises and those with the appar-
ently lower plate wobble neverthe-
less have long and very sharp and
well anchored molars,
New Record-13uddy Boyle soars 65 feet to a newwaterski
jump record at Cypress Gardens, ria„ beating the previotts
nark by two feet.
Hurricane Chasing
Is Hazardous Job
For Carneraman
In a sailing vessel (or any
other ship for that matter) it
night seen. plainly the part of
wisdom to bend every effort to
avoid hurricanes. However, men
have been known to literally chase
hurricanes in windjammers for the
express purpose of getting the
ship's decks swept with Iashing
waves and some of the ship's can-
vas torn to shreds by the howling
winds.
t '
These hurricane chasers go out
at the bidding of Hollywood mo-
tion picture studios who want ac-
tion shots of heavy weather in its
native haunts, says a writer in the
Christian Science Monitor. So, of
course, a camera crew goes along
to record the required film footage.
The life of a camera man on a
hurricane -hunting expedition may
be quite exciting. He may, if the
script requires it, be lashed to a
masthead SO feet or more in the
air, his camera pointing vertically
downward to get angle shots of
deck action. As the ship rolls in
heavy seas the masthead may
swing through a- 25 -foot arc, with
the result that part of the time
there is nothing but foam -flecked
water below the daring photog-
rapher.
ry 5, »
Other picture tegnirclnelvts
may make it necessary for the
camera crew to perch on scat-
' folding outside the ship's hull off
the port or starboard bow. From
such .a vantage point interesting
Who Wouldn't?
There was a young man of Maur-
itius
Who used to get frightfully vitius
Whenever his spouse
Walked out of the house
And left him to wash up the ditius,
pictures of the ship smashing
heavily into mountainous waves
may be recorded.
However, ship sinkings and
close-ups of sea -storm deck action
are practically always taken with-
in studio walls, There, in huge
tanks; the water is lashed to a
fine but controlled fury by wind
and wave machines and hydraulic
jacks cause the vessel to rock with
the waves or list and stagger as
it is about to slip beneath the
waves.
Worse Luck
The nett were dining in a group
in an army camp, discussing any
subject that arose to pass the time.
One of the subjects was rein-
carnation, and one of the Wren was
a firm believer and was giving
his views to the corporal, one of
the most disliked men in the camp.
"Yes," he insisted, "when we
die we always return as something
or someone else."
"Rubbish!" snapped the corpor-
al. "Do you mean to say that if I
died I might conte back as a
worn.?"
"Not a hopel" put in one of the
men, seizing an opportunity.
"You're never the same thing
twice!" -
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