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Zurich Herald, 1953-12-24, Page 7II-II:ARM FRONT A cow's rumen is its number one stomach where billions of c, microscopi. .plants (bacteria, yeasts and' ';'other micro -organ- isms) break•idprvn, by a fermenta- tion process, the cellulose in the roughage eaten• bythe cow. In addition to furnishing food for the micro-organisms, the fer- mentation process provides or- ganic acids and simple sugars which the cow is able to digest, At the same time the micro-orga- nisms themselves serve as a source of protein. n e: * An important discovery recent- ly was the fact that an increased supply of nitrogen made it pos- sible for. 'microscopic plants in the rumen to make more effect- ive use of roughage supplied to them by the cow. According to C -I -L animal nutritionists, exper- iments conducted with synthetic urea feed compound which con- tains 42 per cent nitrogen, disclos- ed that this product helped sti- mulate rapid bacterial growth in the rumen which in turn brought about a more efficient breakdown of cellulose. With synthetic urea in their feed, cattle can eat and digest roughage previously con- sidered of little value. Such roughage includes corn and stalks, wheat straw and timothy hay. Modern insecticides have a fine safety record of use both in the home and agriculture, and have actually saved millions of people from death or illness, according to a recent speech by Dr. E. F. Kipling, of the bureau of ento- mology and plant quarantine of the U.S. Department of Agricul- ture. * Dr. Kipling said that DDT alone is credited with saving an estimated 5,000,000 lives and pre- venting at least 100,000,000 ill- nesses. "I am convinced that to- day we have safer insecticides for controlling insects in the home than we had 10 years ago," he said. "We have synthesized pyrethrum and methoxychlor in- secticides low in their toxicity to man and animals. The record of extensive and • safe use of DDT and lindane is good. These new- er insecticides have replaced al- most completely the more toxic • ones such as the arsenicals, fluor- ides,—phosphorus and cyanides which formerly were in common. use •tri homesfor controlling household pests." * All previous wars, Dr. Kipling pointed out, caused great in- creases in the incidences of in- sect -borne diseases. During the last decade, however, unpreced- ented and successful use of in- secticides has protected Allied soldiers and citizens of allied countries from malaria, louse and mite -borne typhus and other dis- eases transmitted by insects. * * * "DDT has come under heavy ,fire from those who believe that, y. SALLY'S SALLIES 1144. P,p I,. Nm, erne a.in. In. W,U ,3k1 "Did you say you were looking or just looking around?" d �, t+ G ot("r . t +t fit .?�r4T tw#tw"wr`fd�i' "4't tr,,r`v (If0 atterfe 14411- tt1P..t >i a`Pree CHRISTMAS MEANS MANS THINGS ,. o. OW o Soon we will hear again the ancient Story—by candle light in church, or as Dad reads to the family before the fire. Once more we will remind ourselves 'that the Peace on' Earth promise can come true. But we know that this won't happen until we've learned to spread Christmas goodwill through all our days and years, over all the world. We face the grimltruth that war, hate, and hunger still sicken our planet, and humbly w;eplace the blame` where it belongs—within our- selves. We wonder, how: people, and nations, can continue to be selfish, suspicious, and fearful', generosity and tolerance come so naturally at this season of Christ's' birthday! And we pray that; when enough Christmases have come and gone, well have learned. the lesson the Nazarene taught: to love God, and to love our neighbors cis ourselves. Our celebration of Christmas;, may be as reverent as a surpliced choir, or as jolly as a jingle bell. No matter, so long cis the things we do find us working orikthat Lesson. We make a family ritual of bringing in the tree. We fill boxes for overseas, baskets, or neighborhood door steps. We take toys to the Children's Hospital', put on a•.program for shut-ins, or make up a box of candy for the mail.carrier. • We all get underfoot as Mother pulls pin -feathers from the turkey. We breathe down her neck as she knits and purls last rows in Dad's Christmas sweater, or•runs seams in the Wise Man's robe for Dick's part in the Christmas play. We frenziedly, but lovingly, scrawl notes to go with our greeting car -1s;. make long, improbable shopping lists; put fruit cakes and homemade jam into gift packages; ferret out old-fashioned stockings for the children to hang: We throw open our doors to our friends—plan a sleigh ride, skat- ing frolic, or after -church snack. We go singing, muffled to the ears against the frosty .night. And who's morea symbol of good will than Santa Claus? He pops up everywhere -tending coin kettles on the corners in town; entertaining eager-eyecl. tots in department stores; and (looking suspici- ously like the janitor) handing out presents from under the school's Christmas tree. There's nothing new or spectacular about our ways at Christmas, But while doing,:these good; familiar things, we are at our best-- practicing.toward a: time when we may become perfect in brotherhood, and have peace in -our world. 1 • i M I 4 1 for some purposes at least, it, constitutes too great a -health risk to permit its use in the manner now advocated for .controlling insects which affect man," said Dr. Kipling. "The attack goes on despite the insecticides' fine re- cord in protecting people throughout the world from dis- ease -carrying insects. Yet, to my knowledge not one death (ex- cluding accidental deaths) or serious illnesshas been caused among the peoples exposed to the insecticides in connection with insect control." A 10 to 30 per cent solution of copper sulphate used as a foot bath can help control foot rot in dairy cattle, according to tests made at the department of veter- inary clinical medicine, Univer- sity of Illinois. * * Four-fifths of a pound of the chemical in one gallon of water will make a 10 per cent solution. A 30 per cent solution is obtained by dissolving two and one-half pounds of copper sulphate in a gallon 'of water. The chemical will go into solu- tion much easier if hot water is poured over the powdered crys- tals. * ' Off The Tree — Paddle Ears, a baby chimpanzee, has his dinner right off a banana tree in the jungle gardens bf,Ponce de Leon Springs, Fla. Holding the chimp is Nancy Stech. TllUM 5, Gordon, Smith, Expert Advice For Our Gardener At long last here is a boob for the Canadian gardener — not a book which is a rehash of material better ' suited to other climates, or one containing a grain of useful advice to a bushel of stuff alien to our needs — but a volume packed with the very sort of information most of us have, up to now, vainly desired. It is called A GARDENER'S SOTJRCE BOOK, by G. H, Ham- ilton, 268 pages, published by Dent, and worth many times its price of $4,50 per copy, As W. Sherwood Fox, review- ing itin the Toronto Globe & Mail, says, it will be welcomed because it has been prepared ex- pressly for amateurs by a Cana- dian whose point of view is consciously Canadian and who is eminently qualified to write such a book. The, author, G H. Hamilton, is a scientific botanist who has long been officially as- sociated with the extensive gar- den projects of Ontario's Nia- gara Parks Commission. Thanks to . him our amateur gardeners. need no longer flounder in be- wilderment .with guides to gar- dening primarily designed for other latitudes or for profession=. als,• •,.. Through his ability to orga- nize facts and to write clearly Mr. Hamilton has succeeded in compressing a host of 'essential details into the compass of a modest book. In .each depart went their range is practically complete: from soil, fertilizers and other basicthings to ways of controlling pests and disease; from window boxes and house plants to spacious planned beds;., from kitchen herbs to the show- iest blooms of annual and peren- nial, of shrub and tree. As for times and seasons, the author guides the reader round the whole cycle of the year, month by month, even week by week. He tells him not only at what stage of the year to expect sundry flowers and fruits but when, far in advance of Ma- turity, to beg' preparing for them. His instruc:—ns are east tr�f: lucid English which often sparkles with flashes of rele- *ant humour: Do not fail to read the ' truth about the shamrock and the thistle. Reinforcing the running text are many excellent illustrations and useful tables. The titles of some of the tables are signifi- cant:. Favorite perennials for northern gardens; favorite de- ciduous trees for northern gar- dens; wildflowers for the gar- den; recommended herbs for northern garden s; flowering shrubs for northern gardens. The reviewer regrets the lack of a table of native shrubs and trees comparable to the table of wild: -flowers. He also misses fuller directions for cultivating our beautiful native, the flower- ing dogwood. ' The publishers are to be high- ly commended for the book's at- tractive appearance, handy. for- mat and readable type. :, • Willed His Fortune..' . To The' Queen Queen Mary left a fortune of £406,407 (£3?9,864 net) but, as precedent decrees, no details of her will are to be published. Un- doubtedly there will be wind- falls for many members of the Royal Family, the Queen includ- ed ;but. it. is. unlikely that, any l'esta:ment' can . e'ver again affect ' the' reigning sovereign as did the will of the Buckinghamshire mis- ere John Camden Neild: A . barrister, schooled at Eton and "finished" at Cambridge, he spent the last years of his life money-grubbing. ;FIe eked out his, misery by never brushing his one blue swallow -tail coat for of destroying the nap. He slept, if not by cadging a bed front his tenants, then on bare boards . in 'a large, ill -furnished house' in. Chelsea. „ 'Stale crusts, 4;d -boiled eggs and buttermilk kept him ahve until his seventy- thiid year. Then, dying in 1852, hE bequeathed his fortune of 400,000 to Queen Victoria, She, rather surprisingly, ac- cepted this nest egg, but used sale : of the money to provide legacies for field's neglected de- pendants. Also, she raised a re- redos and stained glass window to'•his memory in North Mars-' ton Church, Buckinghamshire, in the chancel of which he was buried. So, despised hi life, he bought himself a royal salute in death. Dog Defies Frontier When a Munich bank clerk decided recently to spend a week -end in the Austrian Tyrol, he planned to take his long- haired onghaired 'spaniel with him. But at the frontier he was told he must not cross with a dog. A kindly inn -keeper on the German side offered to care for it while his master was in Austria. The dog had other ideas. Two hours later it made a dash across the frontier and traced the bank clerk to a hotel twenty miles away where he had sought shel- ter during a thunderstorm. • Master and dog had a pleas- ant week -end together. Then arose 'the question: how could the dog be got back across the frontier into Germany? The man solved the problem by tipping an Austrian peasant and leaving his pet temporarily with him 150 yards from the frontier post, He himself crossed into.Germany and then he gave a loud, familiar whistle. The peasant slipped the lead and the dog raced across the frontier, A SHEEP STORY When ,:may. great-grandfather was a lad In the eighteenth cen- tury, he was once sent before breakfast to let out the sheep inside the barn so that they could reach the watering trough. He opened the big door, went to the sheepfold inside, let down its bars, and stood aside to watch the flock, led' 'lay'" the majestically authoritative ancient ram... . But he did not go out. When the old ram who was their dic- tator -leader came to the open door, he halted, shaking his great horned head in uncertainty. Be- hind him, au the flock stood still, —patient, incurious, docile, await- ing the orders of their Duce. The farm boy, who was my great» grandfather, pushed his way through the submissive sheep tilt he could see what the ram saw: the just -risen sun sent through a knothole in the barn wall a long ray . across the opening of the door. In the dusty air of the barn it looked like a solid yellow bar, about the height of the shoulders of the sheep. As my great-grandfather look- ed, he saw the ram realize his responsibility for those followers of his, who depended upon himeto make up their milds. Gathering his haunches under him, he launched himself into the air, sailed over the impalpable ray of light as though a wooden rail • —and trotted across the barn» yard to the watering trough. The sheep behind him did not ques- tion his decision. If their Duce ordered a leap it was for them to leap. The next one in line sprang high, and triumphantly cleared the airy bar of transparent sun- shine. The third sheep rose into the air, his forelegs doubled up under him to avoid knocking against the ray of light, landed on the other side, proud of his feat. My great - grandchildren began to laugh. One by one every sheep accepted the dictum of their ruler that Only by a mighty leap could the watering trough be reached. . - Not a generation of our folks since then, but have heard that story as a sharp -edged warning about the tiresome, futile and often deadly quality of docile refusal to question the party line — any party line. — From "Ver. mont Traditions," by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, copyright, 1953, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Lit- tle, Brown & Co. Industry for many years has used X-rays to inspect packaged items like cereals, candy, milk and fruit and ensure that pro- ducts are free from foreign mat- ter. - Take Off — The photographer got this straight from the camel's mouth as he moved in for this picture at the London, England, zoo. Although too close for com- fort as far as the photographer' was concerned, George is a fav orite •of children who visit the zoo. Snow Family -- Patience pays off and these two gals finally get their man -- their snowman, that is, as their town is blanket» ed with snow. The happy girls are Dolarita Heaney, 13, kneeling, and her sister, Dorothy, 11.