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| \ : 0d | | 4 | pm 1 4 1 ph Fz . rd " 4 3 pens Ei | 3 p i y «ad a . . - a ------ Feathered Visitors Arrive By Storm Twas five falls ago, I think, I * first found a pair of green-wing- ed teal in my farm pond. I may have skipped a spring &% fall .since, but mostly I've been around, and I was on hand this morning when, again in a driving " November. rain, I found them settled in for their semi-annual visit, (Please give me leeway as to time; "this morning" means as I write. T recently wrote of pick- ing luscious grapes in early Sep- tember, and when the Dispatch - appeared in late October I had «mail asking if I'd sell some. In September, I gave them away!) Well, the green-winged teal is a lovely, bouncy little bird, said 'in the big-Audubon book to-be "the sportiest of our ducks," and must be kept distinguished from thé blue-winged teal, which is + quite another bird. I am ndt a duck hunter, as so many of 'my neighbors are -- we live close to Merrymeeting Bay, which is the best stopover for waterfowl on our whole coast. But I've explained before that my farm flock of ducks keeps us supplied without guns, : license and. duck stamp, should we eat that way. And the domestic flock often "tollers" in wild birds, which are lawfully game in sea- son, but which find the pond a haven. Mostly these wild birds are black ducks, but occasionally there will be a mallard, and sometimes a sheldrake, These var- ous wild birds, sliding in for a st, have no business with us. t me walk out by the pond while they are in, and they will raise the hue-and-cry and take off and he gone. But these green-wings didn't, They paid no heed to me, al. though I couldn't get too close to them, and while they were here they seemed to be as friendly and tame as my own pets in the same * pond, Say : The green-winged teal doesn't nest near here. They winter ra. * ther far down the. coast; even to Honduras, and they pass this way in going to their summer nesting grounds, sometimes as far as Alaska, but at least west'ard of Quebec-somewhere. In migrat- ing, you see, the green-wing seems to go afield a mite in order to touch down for a short week- --end in Maine.- What mysterious | path in the high sky was set for him in the dawn of wildlife, that "he must always come this way, and go this way? + My green-wings have always come in a storm: Great slanting . sheets of rain, driven by a harsh, _cold no'theast wind off the Atlan- tic rip away, and this is when I find them here. I like a storm, and always have. 1 dof't tackle ¢. them bareheaded; I pull on my weather gear, and: I'm warm as ~ toast and dry as a bone except for my hands and face, and I wander around to see how things are. It's a pretty wild scene up in - the thick woods, to see the great "limbs on the hardwoods lashing 'back, And down in the black growth, where the footing is soft and 'quiet and the wind is held back I have walked up on a bed- - ~ded-down. deerq who; on a dry day, would have. bounded and . Bone off like a freight train. Most of the animals take cover in this Kind of a 'storm-and become sub- dued. So as I.wandered out past the pond '1 found; this pair of green - winged, teal 'bobbing around, At first sight I just ac- knowledged them as ducks, and then I decided 'they were: teal, .and after that I discovered them . to be greenswings, . © They spent two full days with me, and since then they have done the same each spring and fall. I wonder what schedule *'contriVes to' bring them exactly here each time just as the storm "1x. breaks? How do. they. know, in. | Honduras or If, Alaska, when to strike out so they can be right here for the nO thidhster? I think they drop in' about the time the storm makes up, for they are there of a morn. uring the evening, 2 i H m How, A ry; 12 9 . widly . UNCHANGING NAZARETH -- Relativel city of Nazareth nestles in hills of Galilee, in Isreal. ing. And they take off in the gray light of what would be the fourth day, after the storm has spent itself, Of course, I' have no way of knowing if these two green-wing- ed teal today are the same ones who came: down five years ago, I assume they are, because I don't think this great surge of migra. tion that goes on with the birds is .than chancy, but don't they raise some young?' Don't they have a flock on these trips? -My own farm mallards come and go, 'but not by flying. One Year I sent away and bought a _ -new--drake;- I-have--also- bought | - = new hens, The mallard is essen- tially 'a wild bird, willing to do-- mesticate himself, but he; too, knew: those flyways once and could probobly return to them. Do these free and limber buc- caneers give our lazy old mal- lards a pitch? O' come with me and be my love sort of thing? Do they: tell 'of happy mornings in the 'slough holes of Manitoba, or of warm nights when a Honduras moon sleepily caresses the swamps? Do they tell of tall ships and a star to steer her by? And do. my, mallards shrug indiffer- ently 'and talk ' of security and welfare and fringe benefits? Whichever, if either, these green-wings do not use my pond - a8 "other-migrant ducks do. They do not fly when affrighted, and' _ while they are here they are as much at home as the mallards. They are foul weather - friends, coniing from, a .mysterious yon. der in'a: pattern of life quite be- yond our understanding, and re- turning to it again to leave us wondering <= By: John Gould in * the! Christian! Science" Monitor. STRANGE BUT TRUE Sixty-folir years ago a grind- stone -was'-ordered from.a Brit- ish firm by a storeman in Bun- { bury, Australia. The ship carry- ing it out was wrecked off the coast of Western. Australia. Re- cently, members of a skin-diving club found' the stone while ex-: ploring the wreck; - fe "~The address «01 the storé which - ordered the grindstone was dis- covered. from the shipping com< pany's records. "And the store 'sent it to the son of the man who had wanted it in the first: : place, Bly U0 BRR NENT AR Ui x ake _ 84.Bpouse svorffe i: £ the leeth nt exudate 2. Reotory - . 'Continen Draw i artiol . Enconn , Midda, t! 49, Weoll-dressea n ; | 150, Boiled meat x ish' : Dexterity romining "BF: Recline ah PML 5 Stan in | pearing 10 (] al area r ms + o "in London, CLEAN SWEEP -- Perched like tiny birds on the scaf- folding that shrouds the west towers of St. Paul's cathedral workmen begin the job of landmark cleaning. Ter---- Peking's "Fox Hunts" Run By Radio The Chinese Communists have Just invented a new sport called "fox hunting" and have held their first national competition 82 of whom were women, The Chinese version bears lit- tle. resemblance to the old Eng- lish one, however, for the Chi- nese_hiinter" is on foot, he has a ray receiver "with a direc- tionat antenna instead of hounds, mitters. In this game, the receivers are homemade by 'the contestants, and it does not take much imag- ination to see why the game is 'being played, = During the contest which has Just ended, each male competitor had to track down three radio transmitters that were hidden over a 5%-mile course and were 1. emitting signals only at intervals, For the women, only two "foxes" were placed on a 3%-mile course. t The team event (two men. and two women) was won by the 'Army, but civilians took first -place for individual scores, writes : also included a radio-signaling event<another new "sport." In: this game, each of the members of a two-man team race against members of other teams over a prearranged two-mile' cross' receivers, exchanging 'messages 'as they run at top speed, J. At the two widely separated ~ | finish lines, they record coded '| messages broadcast by the organ- zing' committee and then send , coded messages to their teani- "mates, * oo RR IE Hh 8s : The People's Thbetation' Avnig : only took second place in this ev nt, | L i i : GEL AL} mE --------y y unchanged since the da @ city is a foca "Introduced into the '|. paunch had not been broken in Peking with 172 competitors, .and the "foxes" are hidden trans. S, E. Gamerekian in the Chris- fi tian. Secienge Monitor, : The week -long competition country route with transmitter | ' COTA 18808 81 -- 1068 Tatar Fy ¥ 1 Cal TANT S10 Despite some mastication, many kernels of whole grains fed to cattle pass through the entire digestive tract intact and are wasted. Federal researcher Dr. C. B. Bailey says such losses can be avoided by: grinding the grain. He found that whole grains animal's down appreciably by the fluids even after '24 hours. The oppo- site was true of ground grain. * "un 4 * The experiment was conduct- ed through a fistula, or artificial opening in the. paunch, using small nylons bags through which the paunch fluids could pene- trate. After 10 hours in the rumen, whole oats had broken down one per cent only, and wheat, barley and corn not at all. * LJ] * The ground grain' showed. a percentage breakdown of 90 for wheat, 81 for barley, 84 for oats, - and 51 for corn. After 24 hours in the paunch the percentages for ground grain had increased to 94 for wheat, 89° for barley, .. 64 for oats and 84 for corn." Cor- responding percentages for- the - whole 'grains after' 24 hours were 11, 5, 2 and 4. Thus after 24 'hours both ground and whole oats had brok- en down the least. After 10 hours corn was broken down the least' among the ground grains. Dr, Bailey said 'more whole grain' would be broken down In normal consumption than in the nylon bags but the figures were significant enough to show thé wisdom of grinding grain feed. . L] . It would take a' mighty big basket to hold all'the eggs mar- keted through federally: register- ed egg grading stations last year --2.5 billion of them. Seyi And a somewhat oversize oven would be needed to cope with the 430.7 million pounds of poul- try handled by processing plants in the same perlod, i Under federal 'Tegulations, all eggs and poultry shipped from one province to another, or ex- ported, must be graded, and this is done by trained workers at 2 the plants. * To the division's Grading and Inspéction section' and' its" field 'corps of 135 inspectors goes the job of making suré& that the pro- duce measures up to the grade py L] LJ] . : rade. checks are carried out at registered egg grading and packing stations and registered ' pbulity processing plants, . Ex- tensive 'checking for correctness of grading is made also at whole sale. and retail levels, i Inspection and certification is compulsory for the export of ail sizeable quantities of eggs, poul- try and frozen egg products. "Canada Grade A" on poultry or eggs Is the ho vife's assur- 'ancé of quality. This grade mark on poultry indicates that it meets specific requirements for flesh and fat. On eggs, It Indicates +a shell that is clean, sound and normal in shape, and yolk and a RF MSL ys when Jesus walked its street in his youth, point for tourists especlally at Christmas time. albumen qualities that will be appealing to consumers. * LJ * Yolk color, governed by the food value of the egg but'is a factor in grading, The yolk color may also spark a mild disagreement in a house- hold. A survey some time ago showed that women preferred lighter colored yolks than did men. And city dwellers of both sexes favored lighter yolks than did their country counterparts. + * . The high quality of Canada's pouitry products did not "just happen". 3 It is the result of production programs and policies carefully and the production and sale of chicks. Responsibilitiy here is 'with the division's Production section, : . Canada is a pioncer in this field and its National Poultry Breeding Program, inaugurated in 1919, is the oldest of its kind in the world. Unddér it, breeders are assisted in- developing lines in meat and egg production, . . .* : participating in the program which is carried out in three phases--the pedigreed selection Upsidedown to Prevent. Peeking PENNE TREE HFG Eid Emi Zinonein. Iz slalni3l hen's diet, has no effect on the -- mapped out to improve poultry - of poultry for greater efficiency Thirty-five breeders are now | program on the breeders' plants, on-the-farm random sample tests by the breeders, and the central testing program at Ottawa. Also in the domain of the Production section is the admin Istration of the Hatchery Regls- tration Policy which this 'year Involves 456 chicken and turkey hatcheries with a total capacity of 35,023,115 eggs. This policy aims at the dis semination of breeding stock through the poultry industry; control of the spread of disease through hatcheries and into com- mercial chicks, and the supply of statistics concerning the numbers and types of chicks being sold. - * . Registered hatcheries are sub- Ject to federal regulations that - demand a high standard of cleanliness and adequate fumiga- tion of eggs and Incubators, They also set out measures for Inspec- tlon of hatchery premises and methods of distribution of chicks and turkey poults, Supporting the federal regula- tions is the Provincial Hatcher Supply Flock Policy which |s primarily concerned with the eradication of Salmonella pullor- um disease, Under this measure, blood tests for pullorum are re- quired for hatchery supply flocks. Eagle Tries To Carry Off Baby A rare golden eagle swooped on a terrler dog and attempted to carry It off In Chloago recent. ly. The dog was only saved be- cause a policoman scared the le off by firing his pistol, « Iden eagles carry off live hares and rabbits--even lamba. They have also been known to oarry off young deer. A Swiss newspaper foid of a tourist who was passing through a mountain gorge when an eagle suddenly attacked him. He used his stick to defend himself and the bird flew away but next minute another eagle appeared and dropped a live pig . a few weeks old at the man's feet before flying off. The tour- Ist's fellow guests could hardly believe their eyes when he re- turned to his hotel with the pig under his arm. Has an eagle ever carried oft --a baby? In New Mexico recently a farmer said that an eagle pounced on to his two-year-old son in his pram, buried its talons in his thick woollen cdat and began lifting him. The farmer, whose story was vouched for by another man who was present, at once seized a spade and made the-eagle drop its burden before it flew away. The child was badly bruised. By Rev. R. Barclay Warren, B.A, BD, When We Are Disciples Matthew 28: 18-20; Romans 1:13-16; Luke 14:24-35 Memory Scripture: Go ye there. fore, and teach all nations, bap- tizlng them In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world, Matthew 28:19, 20... Our memory scripture sets : forth our task, No disciple is exempt from this command. As we go forth daily in the home, factory, shop, school or church, we are to help our fellowmen to become disciples. For some, obedience to these words, means going to people in other coun- tries and of other tongues. But we are all in this together. The great multitude of the blood- washed which John saw were of all nations and tongues. (Rev. 7) The church is likewise commis- sioned to baptize and to teach. But the, fact is that we are so dilatory about our task that we are not even keeping up with the growth of population. We need a great spiritual awakening. In the passage in Romans we 'get an Insight into the spirit of a man who took seriously the great commission, He went into all the world preaching the gos- I, not for money, but because e was In debt. He owed It to 811 moh to share with them the Good News. How much better to have this debt than the serf- ous debt incurred by the easy path of credit buying. It was this sense of obligation that made him willing to stand even in the shadows of imperial Rome and carry out his mission, The passage from-Luke speaks of the cost of discipleship. To- day's trend is to make disciple- ship appear easy. But Jesus pre- sents to his follower, a cross, No affection for our nearest relatives must interfere with our. obedi-- ence to Jesus Christ. The great comforting word is that of Jesus himself to us, "Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world." It pays to serve Jesus, Are you proving it so? ! Having heen fed with a daily ration of orange juice--in the form of citrus pulp--a 40-cow herd at Womberal, Australia, has increased its milk and butter yield by 10 percent. HEADS UP -- The French still have a great FA NERS ERE | many open-air markets, although they have regular American-style super- markets, too. Bargain-conscious shoppers usually patronize the outdoor types. where cut-rate prices often reign. DOWN TO THE SEA Cmdr. Ives Cousteau Huge pillars, above, WITH AN ISLAND -- Most men go down. to the sea in ships lans a rendezvous with King Ne n at Nice, France, are tubes will house Cousteau and two assistants as "crew" to conduct marine studies for the Monaco Ocean tune on His 'man - made island, ich will support the island, which members, plus several scientists. Purposes: ography Museum, : NER) ) of but N 2 rk - Ep A am pe = OR n Cr ow Co his oa C8 Pid