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- 2 / + -- Vata Ra The Advantages Chand is to Of Rapid Milking Massaging and "stripping" Are Not Now Desirable 'A bulletin issued by the 'Cor- nell College of Agriculture, N.Y,, makes - the following observation on the. advantages derived from rapid milking of cows: The best way to milk cows by milk them rapidly, with little or no "strinping." For- merly it was thought that milk + productior. could be increased if udders were massdged before and © at the end of the milking period. "Stripping" cows to withdraw the last milk 'from the udder was thought to be an essential part of hand milking, Massaging and "stripping" are not now desirable, though rapid hand milking is still known to be best : : W. La . BE a a In a general way the operating of milking machines has developed in much the same way as has hand milking. There -may be no more need to massage udders and to "strip" by hand after machine ailking than after hand milking. Too long a time devoted to "strip- ping" may develop slow .milking. Since the operator notes that cer- tain cows start to milk slowly, and since he nceds to make cer- tain that the machine really milk- ed the cow dry, he is more likely to use massage "and "stripping" 'with machine milking, * * * A "machine begins milking at full spced and continues at a maximum rate even after the cow is" dry, while an expert hand milker begins easy and stops milking when the cow is dry. A machine milks. four quarts at a time and a hand milker two at a, time. Hence, if an expert hand milker can milk a cow in about eight minutes, the machine should do the job in four minutes, Since one to one and one-half minutes are required to change the ma- chine from one cow to another, this means that the milking ma- chine operator using two single' "units shouldimilk 20 cows or more an hour. The majority of cows - can be 'trained to milk on a time schedule and such milking saves labor, produces more milk, and tends to reduce mastitis. «Te * - Not all cows can be milked rapidly, and others give extra large quantities of milk, This is" especially noticeable in hand milk- 'ing where the milker "squeezes just hard enough to remove the milk quickly. In machine "milking the suction is great enough to milk*the hard ones, and the amount of suction, within rea- son does not vary materially the - rate of milking. Thus, the ma- chine tends to' milk the harder milker as fast as'the easy milkers, IRON MAN "iron 'man"--Pvt, above of Albany, N.Y, One of the U.S, Meet a real Michael Scambulluri, paratroopers who spearheaded the 'invdsion of Sicily, he was captured by the Italians. When he spoke to them in Italian, an enraged officer Jectared him a spy, had him placed against a wall and" shot him seven times, Scambulluri fell and a soldier tossed two hand grenades at ~ him, Their explosion blew his body completely around.--Left for dead, he crawled, hands tied, "across a field to a cemetery, hid until a friendly Sicilian helped him to Americans. He was placed «a hospital ship--which 'was sunk just as jt prepared to pail. Pvt. Seambulluri 'survived the sinking and® is now recoveking in a Cairo hospital, STREET SCENE IN SICILY Sep oe Sicilians young and old--some with "balcony seats" a captured town on road to victory in Sicily, Amar eats ome g = 38 bin oh Sy 2 i hina NSA --turn out to watch the Yanks march through Side By Side With War Effort All In Britain Plan For Peace And The Nation's Health Improves By Sidney Horniblow ; Side by side with Britain's mighty war effort, there Is being ovolved a blueprint for the coming years of peace. And while Britain as a nation makes planus for the post-victory era, the individual ap- proach is not being overlooked. 'One small instance of (his is to be found in the fact that.130, 000 of London's war workers are, even now, devoting their scanty leisure hours to studies at the Evening Institutes. Among other . things they are learning arts and crafts, agricul ture and nursing, elementary med: icine. and languages--to fit them. selves for fulure careers when there is no further need to. en- gage In munition-making and .civil defence duties." ) A New Electric Age While they follow their studies, various organisations: announce their plans for a post-war Britain, The British Electrical industry, for example, has many things in mind to improve .the home life ofthe people. They include: Lamps that will give the home two-and-a-half - times the present illumination at no, greater con- sumption"of current than now; In. visible heating of rooms from the walls; "rationalised" wiring instal lations, with all meters, main | switches and fuses in one wall cabinet containing - interchange- _ able fuses that even a child can handle in safety; radio direct from the 'mains; and refrigerators with- in reach of the family with even the lowest Income. Home-Made Clothes Meanwhile, problems of clothing and food continue to engage the attention of Britain's home front. Economy 1s the order"of the day, both to save raw-"materfals and shipping space, and to provide money for the war chest. In -this,~the women play a lead: 'ing part. A new tendency, just re- vealed, is-to-cut out the purchase of feady-made clothing, and to buy, Instead, material from which clothes can be made at home. The development is particularly no- ticeable In London. The increase fn' retail sales of dress materials in May was three per cent. over the sales in May last year, and that followed a trend which has been steadily upward, in recent months, 4 3 on Sales of -dresg materials by one London store increased by a third in" the past year, and eight out of every ten women customers ask for pattern and dressmaking instruction booklets at the same time. ER ey Frock From Garden Seat Ingenuity knows no bounds when it comes to- women's war-time fashions. Consider the clothés dis. played 'at a Home Front Exhibl- tion in Manchester this week: A check coat-frock made from a fifty. year-old fishing suit, a dressing gown designed from travellers' samples, and a house frock that was once the cloth on a garden seat, The clothes had been made by pupils of the city's Evening School of Economy. Types of Toys Limited Even children's toys come with in the scope of war rationalisation, To avold waste of labour and ma: "terials 'there will be five main types of toys available in Britain next Christmas. Dolls, soft plush toys Including stuffed animals and the like, wood- en engines and trucks, model afr- craft and indoor' games, The maximum controlled price - after October 1 wlll bo 24s.6d, re- -{ They will be: tail. This"'##l mean that more costly toys that have not been sold by that date will be put into storage until after tho war. i More Vegetables Grown Total war is changing Britain's ealing habits and for the first time the value of vegetables is fully appreciated. Poople have improv- ed their methods of cooking and, better still, have learned to eat a wide variety of vegetables raw, to obtain the maximum amount of vitamins and mineral salts Which aro so often lost in careless cook- ing. : - To meet the increased demand, farmers, market gardeners and the ' people -s{liecmselves, are growing more vegetables than even before. The lotal national production of vegetables has grown from three million to four million tons a year. _Maternal Mortality Falls How does change of diet affect the health and general well-being of Britain's people? Let the figures speak for them- selves. Britain's birth rate in the first quarter of this year was the . highest recorded for 16 years. In 1942 hoth infant and maternal mortality rates were at new low levels. The infant mortality rate of 49 per thousand live births was the lowest on record. : In the fourth year of war, moth- ers and children are being pro- vided with mare health-giving foods than they were in the habit of tak- ~ing for themselves in peace-time. And on top of all this both moth. ers and children ave drinking con- siderably more milk than thoy drank in peace-time, Expectant Mother and Baby Still another concession for ex- pectant mothers is announced this week. From July 25 the expectant © mother will be entitled to two ra- tion books, the geeorid, a modified child's book, will enable her to --obtain supplies of ofl itional to her normal adult r ns--this, of course, before baby comes. Under this new plan the éxpect- -ant mother will be entitled to a priority supply of seven pints of milk a week plus her normal non- priority supply. She will get twice as many eggs, a ratlon and a halt of meat, oranges as they are avall- able and orange juice and cod-liv- er oll compound. Between date off landing in North Africa and the middle. ot May British troops smoked 450, - 000,000 cigarettes and ate 9,000, 000 bars of chofolate. Since April 1st 2,600,000 British airgraphs were dealt with, 25,000 bags of mall were roceived from Britain. " happy as the day Subs Spend Third - Of Time Submerged British submarines on opera- tions lurk bencath the water about four months out of twelve, accord- ing to Commander Ben Bryant, one of the Navy's aces. About three-fifths of the year were spent on patrol, he sald, "but generally submarine crews ace is long. They spend their spare time in childish games, Ludo and cribbage main- ly." ) "There 1s plenty of laughter," he told a BBC audience, Few. of us would swap our job for any other. And from a commanding officer's point of view in tracking down and beating up the enemy at his .doorstep we enjoy what ia to us the finest sport in.the world. High : Vitamin Value + Of Canadian Flour Pensions Minister Mackenzio said last week in the House of Commons. It was lie opinion of the highest nutritional experts in Britain that high vitamin Cana- dian flour made from natural wheat has a finer nutritive valug than any flour into which oxtra vitamin {s introduced synthetical- ly. He sald he would not be sur- prised to see the United Kingdom and United States "reverting" to the Canadian-type flour. SNOOZE TO SICILY ny od 4 - Forty winks before invdsion are caught by this Sicily-bound Al- lied paratrooper who, like his comrades, remained calm and re- pa 80) . laxed until signal for attion was given, : ' VOICE PRESS BLACK MARKET CATS He was a dedler in the black market, . He had been selling rab- bits, One day he was discovered trylng to sell rabbits with long tails. It turned out tho rabbits had been cats, That is one of the risks you take when you buy black market meat fn any country. --Windsor Star. ---0--. RAKISH BURGLAR | Householder, reported to the police that a tall, thin burglar, whom he had encountered fn hls garden, struck him a violent blow on the head. The constable solved the mystery and captured the as- sailant by stepping on the rake too. --Owon Sound Sun-Times, DIFFERENT NOW There was a time when a tira was worn out if the tread had dis. appeared. Now they sre not aband. oned until the air begins tg show through. - --Peterborough Examiner, . 0 "WOPPING UP" WOPS Canadian soldiers in- Sicily were "supplied with books teaching Ital fan conversational phrases. Did they explain that "wopping up" means mopping up in English? --Woodstock Sentinel-Review. yt MENTAL JOURNEY HARD It i3 now possible to travel from Ottawa to Moscow in three days. Physically, of course; the mental Journey still {akes a little longer than that. © --Peterborough Examiner. --0--- MAY BE SO We'll probably forgive the on- emy---not because we are right- cous, but because we lack the mor- al backbone to stay interosted, alert and tough. --Victoria Times. . it td FANCY PA IN SHORTS Gosh, come to think of it, what a lot of darning might be saved, If they painted s6cks on Pa and little Willie, too. --DBoston Herald. The Book Shelf LU COMBINED OPERATIONS The Official Story of the Com- mandos with a foreword by Vice- Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations "his fs an astonishing, absolute ly absorbing account of the ac- complishiments of those picked men from the Royal Navy, the British Army, and the Royal Air Force, who work with U.S. Rang- ers and others of the United Na- tions in what is known officially as Combined Operations--or, more popularly, the Commandos. So far as possible, without giving aid to the enemy, it is the complete story of tho Commandos since the very beginning of their activities, commencing with the experimental attacks on Norwegian islands, and proceeding "with more ambitious attempts. on the Continent. In quick succession follow highly 'dra- matic accounts of the assault on southern Italy, the evacuation of Crete, the defeat of the French In Syria, the daring ponetration of the enemy's lino In Libya--culmin- ating in the suspenseful stalking of Rommel's headquarters--the as- sault on St. Nazaire, the capture «of Madagascar, the Dieppe raid, the invasion of North Africa. The book Is utterly without , heroics, and yet is all herolsm. The reader marvels at the terrible efficiency, the terrible simplicity, the terrible courage, and the awe- some nonchalance of the British Royal Navy and Army and R.A.F. men who particijate in these raids. Combined Operations . . . The Macmillan Company of Canada. . . Price $2.00.4%... oo vo sep n ereniee There are approximately 1,400 members of the Women's Timber Corps In Scotland.. They are fell- ing, cross-cutting, working at saw- mills and driving tractors and lor res, - . RE e-- British Version "The superiority of British alr crews Is largely due to the fact that the German crews do not train as a unit," Scene: Aboard a Junkers over England. "Now, Hans, you der target spot und I der bomberon will drop. and der banghelm make." "Not so, Karl Schmellenhorst-- you de target spot and I der bang- heim" will make. You made her bangheim on. Friday". "You are a schweinhund." "Und you are ein-meanie cat!" Third volce (hastily): "Nelther of you will der bangheim make -- soe? because der sergeant der w bombheim in der plane forgotton to put has." Royal Navy Tugs The world's largest tugs are now being built for the Royal NAY in siipy ards te Britain seve set eral already being in commisson, They can tow over long dstances anything up to a battleship or giant passenger liner, and in ton- nago they are almost equal to a medium-sized destroyer. One re- cently towed a ship of 7,000 tons for 1,400 miles, At the outbreak of war, Britain had 25,000 tractors for agricultural work; today there are 125,000 in use. Six-shooter at the hip and milic tary bearing readily identifies this figure on the sands of Sicily as American Licut.-Gen. George S. Patton. SPIRIT OF ® I CANADA Ilt. Sat. Geo. Calver (left) lost both legs in a raid over Cologne when flak struck his four engine bomber, damaging the landing gear and tail, Calver and his crew were able to bring the bomber back safely." On being fitted for artificial legs George asked that they be four inches longer. They compromised by giving him an addition al inch. 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