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Zurich Herald, 1954-01-21, Page 3rr More and more the art of cat- tle judging is coming to be re- cognized' as ' a real asset to the modern farmer. So the follow- ing article, taken from "Ameri- can Farm Youth" may interest some of you, as showing the views on the subject prevailing "South of the Border", * Farm students taking their first animal husbandry course at the University of Minnesota us- ually think they know all about judging good breeding stock. Dr. Raymond Anderson, ani- mal husbandry instructor and coach of many successful judg- ing teams, soon makes them see the light. , He knows that most of his students come from live- stock farms and that some have shown baby beef animals as 4- H club or FFA projects. He also knows that while some might recognize outstanding animals, few can givereasons for their .choices: * * Selection is the basis of all successful livestock breeding. In order to mate beef animals so that the offspring will be super- ior to the sire,or dam requires the knowledge f a standard ac- cepted as ideal. Few students know what this ideal is. * * This standard changes slight- ly over long periods of time be- cause of market demands. At a recent conference of judges at Iowa State College, it was dis- covered that medium-sized ani- mals were most desired by the modern breeder. Cows of this type would weigh from. 1400 to 1500 pounds. Bib Precious image - Standing in a glass case in the Church of Ara Coeli, in Rome, Italy, is a life- sized figurine of the Christ child, considered one of the most price- less items in the Eternal City. Carved from an olive tree taken from the Mount of Olives in Je- rusalem, the age -blackened statue is covered with jewelry and precious stones from all over the world, which have been donated by people who have had requests granted. The figure s placed in the center of the fiurch for the holiday season. In the past, breeders and judges favored the small, short - legged, fine -boned, extremely compact animal. Too many "dwarfs" cropped up as a re- sult. At present, breeders do not want this type nor the large, coarse, open -shouldered, and un- evenly nevenly fleshed cows. A front view of the beef ani - may often tells a " buyer or breeder all he needs to know. A slightly dished face, short from muzzle to poll with a wide, broad forehead is considered a good start. Such a head is re- lated to the short neck, wide back, deep body, and short legs of the ideal beef type animal. In beef cows the eyes should be wide apart, prominent, and mild, indicating the disposition of a good mother and feeder. * * * Both dam and sire should have short, thick necks that blend smoothly with the shoulders. Ideal beef animals have shoul • ders so thickly fleshed, or "laid - in" as the judges say, that it is hard to tell where the neck ends mad the shoulders begin. The shoulder bones can be easily felt on poorly fleshed animals. * *. The chest of the .beef animals should be wide and deep with a full heart girth. Such a chest indicates the strong constitution and feeding ability of good breeding animals. Front legs should be short, straight, and set squarely under the corners of;the body. From a side view the beef ani- mal should appear symmetri- cal. Its body, giving further evidence of constitution and di- gestive capacity, should be wide, deep, and compact. The back should be as level,wide and as smoothly and uniformly, flesh- ed as possible. In breeding ani- mals a .depression just back;' of the shoulders .in the region call- ed the crol's is not' serious, but a depression in the region of the loin, -just ahead of the hips; is an indication of physical weak- ness, ror the kidneys ' lie just below. * * * . The ribs -of the ideal animal should be long and widely arch- ed or "sprung." This combina- tion guarantees an aminal with a large capacity of roughage.. They should also be set close to- *gether. Animals with close -set ribs mature earlier and are the easiest "keepers." As seen from the rear the ideal beef animal should carry out smooth13 ,at the tail head. That is, the tail setting should be level with the back. The hindquarters should be wide and thickly fleshed especially in the region called the round. The hind legs should be short, straight, and set squarely under the body. tl: W :k Breeders must keep in mind that while the region of the round, rump, loin, -back and hindquarters represents only one- half of the weight of the beef carcass, it comprises approxi- mately two-thirds of its value. These are the regions of the most popular wholesale cuts. * * "It should always be remem- bered," says Dr. Anderson, "that grass is the foundation of live- stock production. Pasture, hay and forage crops supply 80 per cent of all feed fed to beef cat- tle." To improve the beef herd then, beef animals must be pick- ed for a combination of charac- coswP PUZZLE ACROSS 1: Part of a curve 4. Bleats 9. Strilte with 1':n open hand 12, r (Sp.) 13, I'o..roetenr. 14. Musical sound 15.111r;h pointed hill 16. 'rakes again 18. Thoroughfare 10, Binding' fabric 21. Attention 22. Evergreen tree . (ab.) 23. Afterthought 25, Party 27. wild plum 28. Domestic animal 12. Lorcet seed 80. Be frugal 21. Narrow inlet 92. DonTsey 22. Clod of war 24, Depend 25. Again (prefix.) 26, Duck gentui 27. '0.1xtinct bird 88.Smooth 89.1and of dog, 42,1doVIngan rt 46. Anger 46. C.oz'ntan river 4 t, nounty in a'entsylvamis 42, towest numbe 49. Small pie 40. `Knoalts 51. Masculine ' nickname DOWN. 1. Branches of learn inif 8. Tumultuous ti border 8, Amends 4. More exposed 0. 14noo+q'age 8. Armu:t 7, Parts 8, Stairs 9. Tlasy gait 10. insect. 11. Footllke part 17, Mark of omission Pnrnur • 22. Soars 23, Bucket 24. Remain 26, Rise high 28. Comfort 27. Unknown person 28. The world • 20, More rational 84. )ecay aG. Warn off 37. MMIeasures At any time 30. Cut nfl'. 40. Sea bird 41. Coarso'g race stern 42. Dowry 43. Mountain in Crete 44 A'rn r2 15 Answer elsewhere o Mit page. 11 STIrt ET IN SHINTIME Photo by Ron 8aulthorne teristics which makes them bet- ter able to produce top quality beef from Youghage. Buying animals from purebred herds does not guarantee superior ani- mals -they produce their share•; of inferior ' livestock. 0 t, a Selection of a , sire is moat important since it means esta- blishing the 'very backbone of . the herd. He must be a better individual than any. of the cows because he is going to influence% every single calf produced: •.A very good sire and "grade" cows," improve the herd faster .and` more profitably thanice;'versa.:' Her . sires should be *icked for cLaracters • found lacking in the cows. If the cows have a ten- dency tobe long-legged and rangy, a short, .compact' .sire ` should be 'selected.. Mad Gunman Starts Reign -of ' Terror With a stetson, hat pulled well down over his black mask, the. young man kicked open _the sal;., oon swing doors with a fort four in each hand. "Watch .jewellery and, money on';Pt . table; and add a bottle of Scotch,.' he said grimly. In panic-striken silence, the inmates crept to the table and laid the gunman's boo- ty on it. With one gun back in its holster -and the other covering his victiees,,the young man shov- elled •his• booty into a sack and backed out the doors. A Hollywood Western: No. It happened the other day in Ken- ya's biggest seaport - •Mombase - and it was nothing to do with Mau Mau terrorist gangs. It start- ed a thirty -six -hour reign of ter- ror that left four dead and doz- ens wounded. The gunman - a twenty-one-year-old European - left the saloon and held up a passing car with three Asians in it. They lost their money, their car; but the bldod lust hadn't 'yet gripped the outlaw, so they didn't lose their lose their lives. "I'm ` Buffalo Bill!" he yelled at them, as he smashed the neck of the whiskey bottle against the car. With one hand on the driv- ing wheel and one holding the jagged neck to his mouth, he careered off .down the street. The liquor was doing its work. He stopped at a native shop; kicked open the door and shot dead the first person he saw. "Now you know," he said; "give me food.' Again he grabbed his loot and screeched off down the street. Darkness was falling; the bot- tle was empty, but the 'Devil looks after' his own.. The gunman crashed but escaped. He lay low for twenty-four hours. Then, in a small African village, about thirty miles from the city, ht was recognized as he boarded a bus.. He jumped, off .and ran down the street, but an African. Woman and her little boy were in the way. He shot them dead. An african constable led the .vil- lagers in a wild chase after the madman, who was frantically emptying' his ' forty -fours into his enraged pursuers. One by one the natives .fell in • the, , cloud of shot. The gunman deed. round the corner of a shed. The con - stat le told the crowd to go back and tend their wounded, and ' crossed the stree4 to get a clear field of fire. The gunman Shot and missed. The constable 'shot. in a weird contortion the guni man fell --• a. bullet through hie head. CAUSE AND EFFECT? The :list of 'prizewinners at a church picnic included the fol- lowing: "Mrs. Smith 'won the la- dies' rolling -pin throwing con- test by hurling a pin 75 feet. Mr. Smith won the 100 yards dash." After The Title -James A. Martin is out to cop the champion flag- pole -sitting title. Perched .on a tiny platform atop .a 40 -foot pole in"•Miami.-.Mar-tin. giros to. stay one year. The flagpole -sit- ting record, set by a woman, is 152 days. ()El ther P nets? Does. Lae . Exist A book has recently been writ- ten stating that Venusians have arrived on the earth. True or false, it has brought to the sur- face a• problem that • has been with us for many years. 'Does life exist on our two neighbour planets, Mars and Venus? Before you discard the theory, consider the evidence. During the present century, and more frequently during the past twenty years, famous astron- omers in various countries have recorded strange flickerings from Mars, as though signals were be- ing made to Earth. . Recently the Japanese astron- omer, Dr. Tauneo Saheki, report- ed what appeared to be the flash of an atomic explosion on the planet, followed by brilliant flash- es of light of several minutes duration. He also announced the recep- tion of radiation which appeared to be of artificial origin on ultra- sensititve electronic equipment. These electronic waves appeared to be signals. There is plenty of other evid- ence that the Martians, if they exist, might have attempted to signal Earth by other and simp- ler means. By constructing enor- mous geometrical signs ' on the planet's surface, , for instance. Such signs have been observed frequently from the Eae►h. They sometimes take the form of a triangle, a perfect circle with a triangle inside it, and crossed lines in the form of an "X,'.' They speak a universal language which would be understood by intelligent life anywhere... Suggeations have been made that we should co-operate by dis- playing some sort of light signal in return, perhaps 'also arranged in the form of a geometrical fig- ure that would be visible to Mars ' The Russian government• some years ago planted fir trees in Sib- eria in the form of an equilateral triangle, with sides fifteen miles long, but a telescope more pow= erful than any in, use today would be needed to detect such a com- paratively small shape from Mars. As far back as 1907, Professor A'. E. Douglas, another great as. tronolner, observed op Mars an enormous octagon outlined in a • ; dark colour which was probably geometrically planted vegetation. A few weeks later the octagon had vanished. It was replaced by a five -pointed star! The star shape, according to astronomical measurements, was at least, 1,200 miles in diameter. A similar five -pointed star shape, outlined in dark colours and hav- ing a diameter of at . least 1,000 miles, was observed on Mars by Harvard University astronomers in 1924. In March, 1939, Dr. E. C. 511- pher, of the Lowell Observatory in the U.S., went to South Africa to view Mars under the best "pos- sible conditions. Among the many photographs he took of the planet were several of a region known as the "Solus Lacus." It is a dark area of presumed fertility, about the size of Europe. These photo- graphs proved that the shape of "Solus Lacus" had altered great- ' ly, perhaps through deliberate in- tent of the Martians. Were the changes another at- tempt of the Martians to attract the attention, of the Earth? Some astronomers thought so, In 1924, when Mars was very near our planet, radio engineers picked up signals which could not be traced to any transmitters .on Earth. These signals were receiv- ecT-simiilTazieous1'f in places as widely separated as Vancouver, B.C., London, Eng., and Newark, New Jersey. Said one scientist: "They were clear and distinct, but so weird in their formulation and modula- tion that they resembled nothing familiar to human ears or ever received by radio before." Other scientists in Newark in- sisted that the signals had come at regular intervals and resem- bled "someone tearing on the bass strings of a piano." They appear- ed to come from Mars, since they varied in intensity as the planet approached and recedes' from Earth and finally faded out com- pletely. We know that Mars and 'Venus are the most likely planets in our solar system -apart from the Earth itself -to support intelli- gent life. Most of the others we can rule out as almost certainly lifeless, Carbon dioxide has been detected on Mars, a gas which is essential to the survival of plants. That creeping green that ap- eirk OM SCilOOL LESSON By Rev R. B Warren, B.A.. 8.D. Jesus and Nicoderaus John 3:1-16 Memory Selection:. God se loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 'Son, that whoso- ever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16. Nicodemus will always be re- membered as the man who came to Jesus by night. But at any rate he came. That required courage. Later he boldly called on the chief priests and Phari- sees to withhold judgment on Jesus until they had given Him an Opportunity to speak for him- self. (John 7:50). It was Nicode- mus who brought the spices tor the body of Jesus after He had died on the cross. There he is mentioned as, "Nocdemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night." (John 19:39). Some see here an intimation of con- trast to the boldness with which he now came. Jesus taught Nicodemus the ab- solute necessity of the new birth. We need a revival of teaching on this theme today. We have heard so much of the good inherent in man that many of the rising gen- eration think that a new birth is unnecessary. Some rely on reli- gious education. They assume that if one has been brought up in the Sunday School and taken into the church he is naturally alright. Others rely on the sac- raments administered by the church to procure their salva- tion. But Jesus Christ said, "Ex- cept a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." This is accomplished in man by the Spirit of God. It is a miracle of God's grace. Man must turn from his sin and fully rely on Jesus Christ„ as his Lord and Saviour. We receive eternal life when we believe in Jesus Christ. That believing is not merely a mental assent but an exercise of the will in obedience to Jesus Christ and a trust in Him. ' Those who persist in their own - way shall perish. But God's gift of His Son is for all. 'Whosoever believeth on Him shall not per- ish, but have everlasting life." ;;pears on Mars at certain- seasons is now believed by some to be a kind of lichen, similar to that which grows on Earth. Creatures adapted to live .on Mars, thinks Dr. R. S. Richardson, of Mount " Wilson Observatory; "might look like anything be- tween a grasshopper and a yak." It would be foolish to suppose their physical appearance would be like ours. The famous novelist, H. G. Wells, pictured the intelligent in- habitant of Mars as a strange, in- sect-like creature which, like our own spiders, grasshoppers, and ants, is able to flourish on a min- imum of air and water. (Upside down to prevent peeking) ,%.'fi yr 4�woT, :s� { LCi 4, fit ov. G;�'�'.tF• 'v`h� .Y.. �:�r�, h . �S'"' Home's Where it's found - Although this pose is just for laughs, "Suds," pedigree unknown, is much happier,in the beer gltls, than he was a while back. The puppy was found in a park during a cold December night. We has since been adopted by a kind citizen.