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Zurich Herald, 1956-07-26, Page 7T11L JA M FROT. No aspect of potato produc- tion has received more com- ment in recent years than that of quality. Mr. N. Parks of the Central Experimental Farm,, says that quality in potatoes may be divided into three cate- gories, namely, food quality, market q u alit y, and cook- ing q u alit y. The gauli- ty in each of these three cate- gories depends upon, and may be affected, by a large number of factors. Two factors that exert a profound influence on potato quality are: preparation of the soil and fertilization of the crop. * * * A soil in which the fertility level and organic matter con- tent has been built up and maintained through crop rota- tions will consistently produce Higher quality potatoes than a :soil where the nutrient require- ment for a crop is supplied through heavy applications of commercial fertilizer. Fertiliza- tion of the potato crop should be based on the anticipated crop requirement in relation to the known available nutrients in the soil as determined by soil analysis. * * Most potato soils are deficient 3n potash and the cheapest and most commonly used form of this element is muriate of po- tash which contains potassium and chloride. In soils requir- .dng heavy applications of po- tash, trouble is often encounter- ed when the muriate form is used because of the action of the chloride on the tubers. It decreases the dry matter con- tent of the potato and increases the tendency of the tuber to darken when cooked. If soil fertility is kept at as high and as well balanced a level as pos- sible through proper crop rota- tions, the potash requirements of the soil will probably not be great enough to warrant an ex- cessively heavy application of commercial fertilizer to meet the need of a current crop of potatoes. If for some reason heavy application of commer- cial fertilizer must be made, a portion of the muriate of po- tash may be applied either on a green manure crop or to the soil — but in the fall of the year before planting the potaL toes.. A large percentage of the chloride will then be dissipated before it can be absorbed by the potatoes. This method of ap- plying, potash in the muriate form has been adopted in Europe SALLY'S SALLIES "Here's a blend some say is a bit old-fashioned. It just smells nice." and the results have been con- sidered satisfactory. * * * The problem of growing high quality potatoes is complex. The variety to grow, the ma- turity of the crop at harvest time,, methods of handling and storage temperature are but a few of the additional factors af- fecting quality. Nevertheless, experiments indicate that im- portant factors are good soil management and proper fertili- zation of the crop. To accomp- lish this the potato grower must consider adopting a crop rota- tion suitable forhis district and basing fertilization practices on crop requirements, time of ap- plication, and soil analysis. * * * The most significant feature of the beef cattle industry in Canada is the remarkable in- crease in the consumption of beef. In 1955 Canadian ate 72 pounds of beef per capita. This is approximately 27 pounds or 37.5 per cent higher than the per capita consumption figure for 1952. Last year the inspected kill of cattle averaged 32,733 head per week and the beef cattle ex- port for the whole year for slaughter or for feeding was about two per cent of the cattle marketed in Canada. To date this year cattle marketings are about 9 per cent over the same period in 1955. The inspected kill has been up an average of 2,760 cattle more per week than a year ago. * * The number of cattle and calves on farms in Canada at the present time is probably at the top of the present cattle cycle, and cattle numbers will likely soon begin to show a de- cline.` However, for the first time on the North American continent cattle numbers have risen to a peak in the cattle cycle at a time when there are enough people to eat practically all of the beef at reasonably satisfactory prices. Therefore there is not the same necessity to make a downward adjustment of cattle prices. * * * The Canadian consumer is buying more and more of the top grade of beef as indicated by the increased numbers of Red and Blue brand beef over the past few years. In 1938 the average weekly number of Red and Blue carcasses in the kill was approximately 5,900 and this represented 21 per cent of the total kill. The weekly average so far this year of Red and Blue grades has been 13,700 which represented nearly 42 per cent of the total kill. In one week this year the two top grades combined made up 50 per cent of the inspected slaughter. The total numbers of Reds and Blues was about 15,500 and this was fairly evenly divided be- tween these two grades with nearly 8,000 Reds and 7,500 Blues. * * The increase in demand for Red and Blue carcasses has created a year round market for these grades. In 1955 the week- ly average of Red and Blue combined was about 11,700 car- casses. The lowest period was during the month of Septem- ber when the total of these two BEAR -FACED OPPOSITION •— Hummel Hummel, 5 -month-old polar bear cub, disapproves of suds goings-on as keeper Arnold Showman, left, and Henny Hick attempt to give her a bath at Brookfield Zoo. Miss Hick was Hummel Hummel's travel- ing companion on the cub's journey from the Hamburg, Ger- Iroany, Zoo, where the baby bruin was born. FISH STORY — No one made a birdie but the fish sure were niblicking at the Metropolitan Beach golf course, near Mount Clemens. Ivan Sayers, left, and James Kraft display fish found in a sand trap near the lith green after gale -lashed waters of Lake St. Clair swept inland, washing ashore hundreds of carp. grades dropped to about 10,- 000 weekly. The average for the whole year was about . 11,600. The increase in feedlot fatten- ing of cattle supplies the market during the winter, spring, and early summer. From then on, grass fattened cattle predomin- ate. This change in marketing de- mands, has resulted in a more efficient use of pasture because with an assured outlet right through the pasture season there is not the necessity, as was the case at one time, of trying to reach the early market before the seasonal break in prices. In other words there is now a steady outlet for the top grade cattle right through the year. * +* Last year Canadian cattle producers did a good job of shipping their cattle into the markets in about the right numbers that could be handled in the domestic trade. This was one of the main influences in keeping prices at a fairly steady level all year. Cattle prices in Canada are related in a gene- ral way to the price levels in the U.S.A. If there is a surplus of beef in Canada the Ameri- can prices tend to create a level below which Canadian prices do not fall. If there is a shortage in Canada the cost of cattle or beef in the United States acts as a ceiling above which Canadian prices will not go. What the immediate future holds for cattlemen depends upon the number of cattle on feed. That is, the numbers to come to market and particularly the trend of prices in the U.S.A. Looking at the picture from a long term view there is reason to believe that the fu- ture is bright, both in Canada and the United States. Over the next few years emphasis will probably be placed on the' ef- ficiency of feeding and atten- tion given to improved methods of marketing. "That was the Metropole Hot- el — there's been a robbery," said the duty sergeant at Can- non Row Police Station, West- minster. Such calls were rou- tine, causing, little excitement, but this one was to prove in- triguingly different. A few moments after it was made a tall, smartly dressed man left the station and walk- ed rapidly in the direction of the hotel. Had you noticed him you might have thought that he was from the Foreign Office or, maybe, a bank manager. You would hardly have placed him as a detective from the C.I.D. And when he entered the bedroom of Mr. George Marsh- all to investigate the robbery, that portly and pompous solicit- or was somewhat taken aback. He had not expected to find a detective in his bedroom with- in half an hour of reporting his loss. "How much has been taken, sir?" inquired the C.I.D. man, James Berrett. "Twelve thousand pounds," boomed the lawyer. "Ten one - thousand -pound notes and four five -hundred -pound notes." "Then the first thing I'll ask you for is their numbers." Ber- re+t took out his notebook. 'I haven't got them," admit- ted Marshall. "Then your clerk will have them?" . quite. I will see about ,t." Berrett soon had the clear outline of the affair as present- ed to him by the lawyer. Marshall had come from Ret- ford, Notts, the previ8us even- ing with his wife. He left a leather wallet containing docu- ments and the £12,000 in notes with the hotel clerk for safe keeping. Next morning he took the wallet to his room, removed a document, checked the notes, locked the wallet and put it down by the window. That was about ten o'clock. He then went downstairs to the barber shop for a shave, but had to wait. When he return- ed an hour later he found the wallet cut open and the notes gone. When a detective is told so straightforward a story by a prominent solicitor and J.P., he does not immediately take it for a pack of lies. But just as truth has an accent of its own, so has untruth. Berrett, gifted with that sixth sense without which no man makes a good criminal in- vestigator, began to smell a rat. There was no sign of entry anywhere. But there were curi- ous aspects in the case. For ex- ample, he reflected, why should a thief cut the leather all round the lock to get at the contents when he could have picked it up and carried it away? Then, again, why was an open trunk untouched? The detective lifted the top garment. J,ust beneath was a small pile of sovereigns. "Curious, sir," he observed, "that the thief did not touch this." "Not at all," retorted Mar- shall, "he had taken all he needed l" A case for investigation thought Berrett — for the in- vestigation of Mr. George Mar- shall Marshall practised with his brother, and one of their many distinguished clients was the Duke of Newcastle. All over Retford, Berrett found the naive of Marshall to stand high. But he also found that George Mar- shall was living rather more lavishly than might be expect- ed; and he came upon several people to whom the solicitor owed money. Months of work, hundreds of interviews, journeys to many towns were necessary before the whole story became plain. It was the old one -- that of the embarrassed debtor who robs Peter to pay Paul. Marshall had lived beyond his means. The Duke of New- castle had sold a property for 140,000 and instructed the so- licitor to hold the money until further orders. No orders came for two years. During that time, to meet pressing debts, the harassed so- licitor began to gamble with the duke's money. If he could make money quickly, he could get himself out of the mess. Things .were looking desper- ate when Marshall came into contact with a short, snub-nosed, voluble man who promised him the fortune he needed. "Divest with me, and you'll find yourself quickly the richer for it," he promised.. "There's nothing like gold mines and 1 control..the 'finest in Western Australia-Wea;.=. Thusfcitor, who should have begins astute, fell for the Kit- ''talk of Whitaker Wright, the financier whose downfall shook the financial city of London and brought thousands to ruin. Whitaker Wright was under arrest, and creditors were press- ing on all sides on the day that Mr, Marshall set out for Lon- don with his wife. For now the duke wanted an accounting and his money had gone except six £1,000 notes. Desperate, banking on his high standing to escape suspicion, the hard -driven gambler had faked the robbery. George Marshall was duly arrested by Berrett, and sent to jail. Starting, as all must, as a uniformed constable, James Ber- rett had not worn out his first pair of boots on the beat when he earned the coveted riband of the Royal Humane Society for a gallant rescue. Now, by 1926, bearded and looking just a bit like the late King Edward VII, it was Chief Inspector Berrett who went by fast car, along with Sergeant Harris, to assist the Essex po- lice, following a request from the Chief Constable of that county. P.C. Gutteridge had been found shot dead in a lonely lane. That was fact No. 1. The Morris -Cowley belonging to Dr. Lovell, of Billericay, had been stolen some hours earlier. That was fact No. 2. Was there any connection? The answer came when the doc- tor's car was found abandoned in a Brixton passage. Blood was on the running board, there was a dented mudguard, grass, dirt, and, more important, an empty cartridge case. Find the revolver from which that bullet was fired and we have the murderer, reasoned Berrett. And even as the thought crossed his mind a name flash - up — Frederick Guy Brown. hroi ii Was known to run s1 phoney garage and todeal in stolen cars. He also had a rec- ord :as a violent criminal. He was• eventually arrested in his Battersea garage, and there the detectives found a loaded Webley, skeleton keys, a torch, jemmy and doctor's in- struments. The full story of the hunting down of Brown and his drunken Irish partner, Kennedy, is long and involved and includes a flying visit to Sheffield. This journey was made by car. At Markham Moor, near Tuxford, Notts, a stop was made to refuel. Because police officers have to render expense accounts, Berrett asked for a receipt for the payment for the gas. As the car moved off he happened to glance at it. "Well, here's an omen!" he exclaimed a moment later. "Look at this!" At the bottom of the receipt the garage man had put his rub- ber stamp. It consisted of a gal- lows from which swung a corpse, and the words: Settled with thanks. That receipt is now in the mu- seum of Scotland Yard. It was a sheer coincidence, but as an omen it proved true, for Brown and Kennedy were both .con- victed and executed. They had forgotten the well-known rule of the underworld: Never kill a cop, or you'll have the whole lot on to you. From the bottom rung of OW ladder to the top took J'anfe$ Berrett close on thirty -vin* years to climb. When he• retir- ed, his burly, bearded figure was known to every cr0'k ill. London,. But none bore him grudge, 'for "Gentleman" Ber- rett always played fair Has might have been a confounded nuisance at times, but he was always on the level. Modern Etiquette... Q. Bow should one take leave of persons to whom one has just been introduced? A. You can say, "Good -by, X am very glad to have met you." To one who has been especially interesting, or who is somewhat of a personage, you may say, "It has been a great pleasure to meet you." Q. When a woman is wearing gloves, should she apologize for not removing the right glove when she shakes hands? A. No; nor should she make any attempt to remove the glove. Q. If one is eating a steak or something similar, isn't it an right to cut several mouthfulls at a time before eating? A. No; on should cut a single bite at a time. Q. Is it ever proper to use the knife to cut the salad when dining? A. When it can be done easi- ly, use just the fork. Sometimes, however, lettuce can be tough to manage, and in that case it is quite all right to use the knife. Q. If a man brings a gift when calling on a girl, should she open it immediately or lay it aside until he has gone? A. She would most certainly show better manners and more appreciation if she opened it at once. Q. Is it proper to tip the hotel doorman ' who Lifts your bags out of the taxi to the sidewalk? A. No. Q. Is it proper for a host or hostess to interrupt some dis- cussion among their guests? A. Not if it is a friendly dis- cussion. However, if an embar- rassing situation arises, Or angered discussion seems im- minent, the host or hostess should intervene with a quick change of subject. Q. For how long should the bread and butter plates be left on the dinner table? A. Until it is time to serve the dessert. ROSE IS A ROSE — Harry Wheat- croft, heatcroft, known as "Mr. Rose" to gardeners, sniffs his latest creation — the "Grace de Mona- co" rose. The flower named after you -know -who, will be ex- hibited in London at the Chelsea Flower show. "1 WONT" — Nurse Mary Louise Steinke, right, shrieks with joy after winning the election for president of the National Student Nurses Association.