Zurich Herald, 1949-06-02, Page 3IIARM. 1.1i.•ONT
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The Toronto Anglers' and Hunt-
ers' Association has just started
sonething which sounds like a
really good idea—a predator eon•
tt•ol campaign lasting from June 1
to December 1, It is designed to
interest hunters in helping to rid
the country of harmful pests,
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Prizes are being offered for in•
dividuals and for five -man teams
who do the best in the proposed
.'clean-up; with foxes being rated at
50 points each; crows 20 points;
skunks 15 points; starlings 10
points, and groundhogs 5 points.
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A special note on the elites
blenk is rather interesting, It reads:
"Our predator control campaign i$
of considerable value and benefit
to the farmer' in tie saving of
crops and other farm products.
H.oti•ever, it is recommended that
member, fist obtain permission
from the farmer before eu tering
his land. The development of good
farmer relations is hi the interest
of all."
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Just in case any of my readers
are interested in hearing more
about the proposed campaign, the
address of the Toronto Anglers'
and :Hunters' :'association is 16
Gould' Street, Toron.o. I am sure
that if you write to that address,
you will receive full details.
Not long ago, I was re -reading
a poem of Kipling's—.1 forget the
title, but some of you will probably
remember the verses I refer to.
They tell of ..how, down through
the centuries, native Britons—Hob-
den was their name—kept giving
advice on the management of a
certain piece of land to the differ-
ent "conquerors" who temporarily
possessed it . Among them was a
Roman, a Dane, a Norman and so
on.
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To one of them who was com-
plaining that this field "didn't look
no good," this particular Hobden
answered, "Have it jest as you've
a mind to, but I've proved it time'
on time, if you want. to change her
nature, you have COT to give her
lime."
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That line came back to me on ,
looking. over a release. from the
Ottawa Department of Agriculture,
one 'tern on which was headed,
"Lime Will Correct Soil Activity."
The article goes o:n to say "It is
not generally known, but in some
areas, even virgin soils require
liming." -
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Canada is now using lime at a
rate . of 450,000 toes a year, but
hutch more than -this should be em-
ployed if our soil is to be kept at
a satisfactory level. Before lime is
applied, the soil should be tested
to determine if it is required. as
high alkaline soils may be just as
harmful to certain crops as acid
soils are to others.
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•Inst in case some of you don't
already know it, the Dominion and
Provincial Departments' of Agricul-
ture have a joint line subsidy
policy, so that line can be deliv-
ered very cheaply on - the farm.
The Provincial Governments ope-
rate this policy through their agri-
cultural extension staffs, and fann-
ers interested in purchasing agri-
cultural lithe should contact their
local agricultural representative.
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From many parts of Canada
, 'some questions about the growing
of beans for human consumption.
- While about 80 per cent. of the
commercial crop is grown in South-
western Ontario, field beans are
grown successfully in a great vari-
ety of soils. They require about.
the same climatic conditions as
corn.
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But greatcare is required to pro-
duce a crop of Al quality. Planting
should not take place till all danger
of damage from spring frosts is
past, Harvesting should aim at get-
ting the crop in as clean and dry
as possible. And in threshing, no
matter whether you use a combine
or an ordinary machine, care must
be taken that as few beans as pos-
siitle are broken or split.
'.['lte shall white pea bean is the
type in greatest demand for com-
mercial canning, and in Southwest-
ern Ontario, the Michelite, because
ot its yield and superior quality,
bas largely replaced the Robust
varie.y, once extensively grown.
The Corvette variety has a little-
larger
ittlelarger seed that Michelite, and oc-
cupies a much smaller acreage,
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In some areas, where earlier ma-
turity is required, the Burbank
variety is frequently grown—it is
very popular, for example, in the
irrigation districts in Alberta. The
brown seeded Norwegian variety is
earlier than any of the white seeded
kinds. It bakes well and can be
recommended for areas where real-
ly early maturity is essential.
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Several varieties with .,colored
seed are grown, and of these, the
Yellow Eye is the most popular. It
is highly regarded es a baking Iran
bean. Unfortunately, the yields are
low as compared to the common
white pea type. Which will be
enough of beans—and of this col-
u'm'n- for a week.
An Idea Many
Places Might Copy
• "The joint committee," writes G.
Y. Clement, which sponsored the
Wallaceburg Water Safety Drive,
have desired me to write to you,,,,_
to express our appreciation of the
assistance given by the Red Cross
in our campaign. This campaign
was instituted due to a tragic series
of child drownings extending over
the years, probably due to the dan-
gerous situation in our town,. We
have a very deep river here, and the
town is built around .its forks, and
it seems to constituts a regular trap
for young children.
"When the last drowning occurred,
in January, the local Kinsmen Club,
Rotarians, Optimists, and Junior
Chamber or Commerce, formed a
joint committee to deal with the
Problem, and worked closely with
the town council and school boards.
This has been done, and an inhaler
has been p urchased, and 25 life-
saving posts, complete with ring
buoys and gaff poles, have been
erected at strategic points along the
river banks, and the town has pur-
chaser] an aluminum boat and a fast
pick-up truck. Classes in the Schae-
fer method Of artificial respiration
have been set on foot, through every
organization in the town, as well
as the factories, and we hope that
several hundred people will receive
instructions within the next week
or ten days." — From the Salvation
Army "News Bulletin".
It now becomes a race for towns
to increase their trade territory and
at the same time' to know what to
do with the cars when they come.—
Knoxville Empress.
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ti AA ( EGORY
WHETHER OF THE MANUFACTURED
OR HOME MARE VARIETY YOU CAN
INCREASE THE USEFULNESS OF
YOUR METAL PAINT -STIRRING
PADDLE BY SIMPLY BENDING
THE ENP OF THE PADDLE AND
SHARPENING THE BENT EDGE
YOU'LL FIND IT'S EASIER
TO SCRAPE LOOSE THE
PIGMENT THAT SETTLES
Al THE BOTTOM. THE BENT
EDGE ALSO MAKES A HANDY
MASHER FOR LUMPS At:
PE.ADY LOOSENED,
t DEND UP
SAND SHARPEN
To AvOID GETTING PAINT ON YOUR HANDS,
WHEN DOING ,ODD JOBS OF PAINTING A'
ROUND YOUR HOME, MAKE A HANDLE
FROM SPRING BRASS OR STEEL WITH A
FLAT SPLIT RING TO HOLD 1T 'TOGETHER
she SPLIT `" LiKC. A CLAMP AND MAKE. 1T ADJUSTABLE
FOR vARIOUs SIZED CANS,
Home Made Lie-Detector—Chicago's Crime Laboratory wanted
a new lie detector, but learned that a factory -made machine
would cost the city, $1295. Policeman Joe, left, and John Price,
economy -minded brothers, thought they could do better than
that. \Vith an O.K. from the ,commissioner, they built the
detector alcove, using some old parts and some new ones.
Cost : $100.
Is It The Lost
Lcot of Lima?
An American expedition equip-
ped with the most up-to-date treas-
ure -hunting instruments that sci-
ence can provide, claims to have
found the long -lost treasure of
Cocos island, said to be worth
$750,000,000. The expedition, led by
Mr. Ellis Patterson, used electric
metal detectors and high explosive.
The real-life treasure island of
Cocos (not to be confused with the
Cocos or Keeling Islands in the
:Indian Ocean) lies in the Eastern'
Pacific in latitude 5° 32' North,
longitude 87° 2' West. Owned by
the Central American republic of
Costa Rica, but uninhabited, it is
four miles long and *Ivo miles wide
For over a century, adventurers
have been looking for three sep-
arate treasure hoards, said tar lie
hidden on Cocos Island. For it
served as a remote safe-deposit for .
the men of the skull and. cross-
bones who pillaged and plundered
up and down the west"coast of the
Americas during the seventeenth,
eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Pirate loot was landed
there from the crammed holds of
marauding ships, to be "deposited"
by bloodthirsty crews who wished
to sail away once more to pillage
and kill.
The Welshman, Captain Edward
Davis, was one of the first pirates
to "invest" in Cocos Island. His
ship, tate Bachelor's Delight, a cap-
tured Danish gunboat, terrorised
the • seaboard towns of the Carib-
bean for four years.
He buried this loot in Cocos and
for 14 years lay low. 'Then he set
out in a 36 -gun ship, named The
Blessing, to return and collect the
treasure.. He never got to Cocos.
On the way, he turned pirate again,
sacked the City of Tolu on the
Spanish Main, and was killed by a
Spanish musket ball.
Cocos was also the favorite de-
posit box of Benito Bonito. A
Portuguese pirate, he had earned
for himself the unenviable title of
"Benito the Bloody Hand."
Just how many hoards Bonito
buried on Cocos will never be
known, but in 1819 he landed the
entire contents of two Meesioan
treasure ships. On the beach he
divided the spoil into four separate
heaps, then hid each in a separate
place. This loot included 40 tons of
silver, dollars, eight hundred gold
bars, hundreds of gent -studded
weapons, and caskets of jewelry.
Harried by pursuing ships, Boni-
to left Cocos and headed south to
rcund the Horn. Off Tierra del
Fuego he was intercepted by
Espiegle and with the ex-
ception of one man named Chap-
pelle, he and his crew were killed
in the fighting.
Fate of the "Mary Dear"
Chappelie never returned to
Cocos, but before he died, he drew
a rough chart to show where the
treasure had been buried. But it
was never found. -
In 1820, while fleeing from the
liberating armies of Bolivar, the
Spanish Viceroy placed on board
the Bristol brigatine Mary Dear all
:Peru's gold reserves and valuables
worth 'several millions of pounds
which had beets taken from Lima.
Captain Thompson, in command ot
the Mary Dear, was ordered to
stand well out to sea until Spanish
warships could convoy hint to
Spain.
instead, Thompson seized the
treasure and headed for Cocos
Island, There he and his crew
placed it in a cave which they had
excavated from the cliff -side.
Then Thompson turned traitor.
While his companions were inside
the cave, gloating over the treasure,
he exploded a charge in the en-
trance and sealed them all in.
Half a dozen well-equipped ex-
peditions have since been to the
island to find that cave, including
one led by Sir Malcolm. Campbell,
All came back empty-handed.
Perhaps the American expedition
has had better luck, though it may
be one of the other .buried hoards
that has been discovered. For no
mention has been made of the gris-
ly guardians of Thompson's treas-
ure.
Perhaps they are still waiting . , .
Broken Leg or
New Ladder
How can a fellow tell when a
rung on his ladder is going to
break? On the list of farm injuries
are a number of broken legs, arms,
shoulders, heads that came when a
rung broke.
•It snakes a difference whether
you're on the third rung from the
bottom or the third from the top.
Maybe every farmer ought to
figure out the life of each ladder,
and throw it away a couple of
years before the breaking point.
But how do you tell?
All we are sure of is that most
farmers keep ladders around too
long. A new ladder is cheaper than
a hospital bill for a broken leg,
How It Was Done
English society was agog when
a duke mar'r'ied a blonde from the
Music Hall chorus. It was even
more agog when a Bond Street art
gallery exhibited a life-sized por-
trait of her in the altogether. The
duke was furious. "I don't know
what's biting you," said the wife.
"Believe me, there's nothing wrong.
He did it from memory."
If You're Asked
To Make A Speech
Offhand, you may never have con•
aidered extemporaneous speaking as
a particular skill you needed to
acquire. You may have been a head
table guest, but not the principal
speaker. You may have received
a gift or a special recognition in
public and have accepted it with
having only to say thank you. You
may have been seated on the plat-
form because you accompanied the
honor guest.
None of these occasions called for
a speech, but there may be an-
other time when you will find it
necessary to speak extemporane-
ously. It is important that you be
able to speak welI,'dven though you
are not the main attraction, There
is no special technique to learn,
for the manner in which you talk
informally is definitely yours and
not' one for another person to imi-
tate writes Carol Biba in the Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
But there are a few guideposts
to follow along the speaker's road.
Once you securely stake them down,
you will find that speaking without
preparation can be an interesting
and sometimes delightful experience.
provided always, of course, that you
have something to say!
Your attitude has much to do with '
putting yourself and your audience
at ease, once you stand before them.
You may be able to give this a
variety of names; we shall call it
poise.
There are easier jobs than stand-
ing up before a group and speak-
ing intelligently as well as amus-
ingly, especially when you have had
no previous notice. Nothing is so
disconverting to an audience as to
have .a speaker obviously unpre-
pared, not in words, but in how to
get thein out! Here's a tip front
an experienced head -table guest,
who is often called upon for the
well-known "few words." He picks
out one person in his audience and
imagines that he is talking with
hits alone. The rest of the erowd
fadei into the background. He for-
gets that he has many listeners;
they become, just one.
That is One way to gain poise.
You May figure out a device that
will serve you equally well.
Keep your head up—and chin,
too—when you are talking before an
audience. This goes for talking over
the radio, also, as any of you know
who have ever broadcast. You
have ail seen the speaker who grasps
the back of a chair with his hands
and talks into the tablecloth or to
the platform floor, eompletely obli-
vious of the people out front. Look
your audience in the eye. They will
immediately decide that. you have
something to say. Note also the
value of a smile and a pleasant ex-
pression. That counts more than
anything else, when you are mea-
suring favorable audience reaction.
Once you have risen to your
feet and have, we hope, your audi-
ence with you, remember to be
brief. Extemporaneous . speeches
sometimes assume the major pro-
portions or a reasonable facsimile
of a full-fledged speech. If you
are asked to say a few words, re-
member the definition of few. It
is, according ,to the dictionary, not
many.
Some speakers like to put in a
plug for a favorite idea of theirs,
which may or may not have a point
for what is being discussed at the
meeting.
Your third guidepost then is
Stick to the Subject. Neither spend
your time telling several funny
stories. For a short speech, one
story well told is sufficient.
Choose your words Carefully..
There are many persons who spend.
several minutes telling how unac•-
eustotned they are to tnalcinE
speeches or how they happened to
be at the meeting and at what hour
they were asked to speak. Explau-
ations of this sort are usually bor-
ing to one's audience unless there
is an excellent reason for going into
such detail. If you have been asked
to speak on short notice, the chair-
man or master of ceremonies will
probably say so in his introduction.
If then you make a good speech,
your audience will not have to be
reminded that you were unprepared.
That will be so much to yor credit.
Sometimes you are called on to
speak from the floor. This is in-
deed a test of your ability for ex-
temporaneous speaking. Remember
to acknowledge courteously the re-
quest that you speak. Try to spealc
loudly and clearly, so that no one
is unable to hear you,
And, above all, never refuse an
opportunity - to speak even though
it be for only a few minutes. Ex-
temporaneous speaking is best des-
cribed that it is being yourself.
And if you can become skilled in
this kind of public appearance, you
will di:cover that you have a tnost
. useful talent.
' Where He Learned
Four young heroes whose ages
ranged from ten to 15 years were
being honored by the local Lions
Club for rescuing a comrade who
had fallen through the ice. One
of the Club members asked, "Did
the idea of making. a human chairs
to pull your friend out come to
you intuitively or did 'you learn.
the method in Boy Scout or YMCA
work?"
"Naw," replied one of the heroes.
"1 saw that in a Comic."
Strike Leader — Carrying a,
strike sign, Tommy Thompson,
president of the UAW -CIO
Local 600, takes a place in the
picket line , surrounding the
Ford Motor Company's River
Rouge plant in Detroit. More
than 62,000 workers walked
out over an alleged assembly
line "speedup."
Three New Faces at Paris Parley—Three new faces will appear at the conference table in
Paris when the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers tries again to unsnarl the German
problem. Left to right in this photo montage are U.S, Secretary- of State Dean Acheson;
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; French Foreign Minister Robert Schwan and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky. Only Bevin was present in London in neceni ler, 1°,17,
when the Big Four last considered Germany.
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