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» "J With Bread Crumbs And Patience It's difficult, oftep, to explain to unversed realists what a -whimsical spirit can do, and per: : y I'd be better off if 1 didn" b! g this up. a Just, mean there . are some people who don't com 'prehend foolishness, so my wife "always looks at me funny when y . I water the ducks. Be it known, as I have testified before, that my ducks have no utilitarian standing and are not computed in any way in any agronomy ' tabulations, They are not chat- tels, but friends, cultviated out of an 'odd notion I have that some things can be important even if nobody knows it. My ducks don't winter in the barn, but have their own little house by the pond, a little dis-* tance from the other buildings, and '1 entice them therein each 'fall about the time the ice be- gins to feather at the edges. Feeding them is easy -- 1 dump 100 pounds of pellets into a big hopper I've made and, as there are but four ducks this winter that will last a long time. Watering them must be 'done "each day, and I love to do it and wouldn't miss it for any: thing. I draw a pail of water at the sink, a little better than' lukewarm, and + wade out "through the snow. Sometimes after a fresh storm, 1 put on + snow-shoes. Perhaps you don't know just what this means -- there is a trick to walking on snowshoes ahd carrying a pail of water. It isn't something you just go and do. It takes practice and balance, and you aren't sure every time if you'll make it Sometimes 1 do. I keep the duck house pur- posely buried in snow. The first storm or two I lug out a shovel and bank it, and after winter really gets nasty the eaves are flush. This keeps it warm and cozy inside, and my ducks win- ter most well. os The real reason 1 have the ducks by themselves is because they are: ducks. Hens scratch in litter, and if given a chance will keep dry. Ducks, with their big . flat feet, just pack litter~down, and they make such free use of water that their house would | soon be a skating rink if you didn't _plan. I keep the water pan at a low point by the door and then pack the straw in so it slopes up and away No mat- ter how wet and icy it gets around the pan, the ducks can retreat uphill and keep their tootsles warm. Of course. there's no heat in the house except what the ducks make, which isn't much, but with snow pack- 84 all around they make out ne. All this is incidental to my pleasure. My mallards, all sum- I ates ». TRAPPED --~ The pet cat of Luella Kane, seems fo be get- ting that " bottled-yp feeling. Protruding ears glve away the photographer's trick, mer, range free and easy, and naturallike they get a little wild They are wild birds anyway, a few generations back, They get very wild as soon as the little ones comes, and the hens teach them to be alert and distant. All summer, if: anybody comes around, the ducks stay on the far side of 'the-pond and look skeptical, It. is- really: quite a- job ip the the fall to round them up and get then} under cover. But, as soon as I have them-in the house they can be tamed, and it's more fun than you think It takes some doing, but they make wonderful pets. At first, when I come to fill their pan, they huddle in a corner and in- sult me and they won't come out until I've closed -the door But after a few days they get coming to the pan while I'm there, and after a few more times they are there before me At this point I fish a crust of bread from my pocket and crumble it, and start my tam- - ing program, At first they stand off and look; heads cocked, but soon I have them picking up the crumbs as fast as I crumble them, and the next step is to have. them actually eating from my hand. Then comes a part they don't . like. One day, while a bill is wiggling about on -my palm, I close. my hand -and: 'have one caught, This one flops wings and kicks, and the 'others retreat, scolding. The . mallard is won- derfully 'made, and his folidge - is interesting. 1 lke to spread a wing and look at it, rumple their breasts, and make like patting a palsy dog or rubbing a purring cat's "ears. Just friendly, like' But once I've done this, the whole flock goes into a period of distrust, and I can't get them back to my hand right away. However, bread crumbs and patience are overpowering, and after a time I can close up on any bird, fondle it, and have them right back crawling all ' over me again. They run their "bills under my boot tops, inside my . jacket, and the rapport is permanent. Actually, the way this works, it takes almost all winter. Soon after I get them coming to my hand, and not averse to being manhandled, there'll .be an egg one morning; the snow will be going; and it will shortly be time to turn them loose for sum- mer. Little ones will be hatched, and the natural wildness will re- turn. They won't have anything to do with me until fall comes and I herd them into the house again. So, what happens is, I take my pail of-water and disappear Sometimes I'm gone an hour. I bring the pail in and set it by the sink, and she says, "Where've you been?" I tell her I've been watering my 'ducks. A likely tale. I could have watered the Gobi Desert in that time. I try to explain that my entente is at a crucial point, that I am just about to close my hand on the old drake himself -- that there's more to it than just tip- ping water out of a bucket. But it doesn't seem to come out just the way it is. This is a simple, basic, uncom- plicated kind of thing that, very likely, is nobody else's business. It's sort of between me and my ducks, apart from anything else, I just like to do it. There may be those, including my wife, who think it takes me a long time to water four smallish ducks. But I have no intention, ~ however humanity at large as- sesses my pastime, of giving it up. I don't see any point in keep- ing ducks if you can't pick them up by the bill. -- By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. "How did MacPherson cure his stammer?" "Oh, he put through a long distance call to New York." Ee -., N .. ISSUE 10 -- 1960 __ "CROSSWORD _ PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN 1. Short thickset 1 Hea N horse 1 3 A a naned 3. olsed 4. No. Carolina river 1. Bud used nse condiment 12. Kava 18. Dessert. i Fatty fruit 6. Regal ald realdences 11. Composition for nine ) b 18. Cabbage salad ' 5 Maturity . TE Em "medloine . Imputes BE 4 : } En uetie" y Fifled wool | fal : . Fu t 1 Bin Indian * fly] IF Maple we o nue Dwell «. Tapering 28, Bquare root of sollds th 8. Biugly H : Card Game Sine, iF Shae J. 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This week, the exeperi- ment is going on deep in the Okeechobee wamps of Florida with mosquitos as the victims, Later in the year, the Navy and Department of Agriculture plan to try the same idea on the Pacific islands of Rota, thirty miles from Guam, Three million sterile fruit flies will be released weekly for a year in an attempt to exterminate the scourge of the island's melon crop. 3 HOG TIED -- Ed Fox struggles with a hog. This and 35 other porkers were being loaded for an alr shipment as a gift to Japan, ' Christian Martyr Djes In Custody In the little village of Krasle, Yugoslavia, Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac died last month -- the first prince of the Roman Catho- lic Church to die confinato and impedito (imprisoned and im- peded) by the Communists. The village was the 61-year-old pre- late's boyhood home, and for the past eight years his prison. The spiritual leader of 5.7 million Catholics, Stepinac, whose death resulted from a lung embolism brought on by a longtime blood disorder, had also been the first high-ranking member - of the hierarchy to suffer outrage at Communist hands: As Archbishop of Zagreb, the lean, ascetic Stepinac spoke out for freedom and human rights throughout the German occu- pation in World War IL Then, in September 1946, Tito's Com- munists arrested him for alleged Nazl collaboration and subver- sive activities. His sentence of sixteen years in prison shocked the free world. Little was done to mitigate the shame when, af- + ter flve years in jail, he was re- leased and confined to the village of Krasic. Aloysius Stepanic had been both a soldier and a farmer be- fore he decided on the priest- hood in 1924 at the age of 26. Ordained at the age of 32, he was made an archbishop four years later, and succéeded to the see of Zagreb in 1937. Stepanic was created cardinal in 1953, but because he would not -ask permission of the Yugo- slav Communists, he was not able to go to the Vatican for the consistory. Last month, dressed. as an archbishop, his - 'body lay in state in Krasic's 400-year-old church while his - cardinal's robes and his red hat remained in Rome -- a symbol of political pressures placed on the church In Yugoslavia and other totalitarian-ruled areas of the world. Was it significant that the gov- ernment permitted Cardinal Stepanic to be buried In his own cathedral in Zagreb? Yugoslav Catholics, mindful of a recent flurry of convictions of priests for "antl-state acti 34 took the news less as a sign of cunning diplomacy. hope than WHEN THE CROCUS AWOKE US -- Caroline Bell, 5, scents the Imminence of spring. She is getting close to crocuses which bloomed in the garden of her London home in a mild spell. More than 100 acres in south- eri Ontario were treated with an insecticide last fall, as two levels of government combined efforts to control the Japanese beetle. Another 30 acres will be covered next spring. Upwards of 700 acres been treated since 1941. J J * have This beetle has a rapacious appetite and its meal ticket can be any one of more than 200 plants ranging from flowers to fruit to corn, with the grubs causing extensive damage to lawns when populations are high. - L. L. Reed, who directs sur- vey work for the Plant Pro- tection Division, says that be- cause of the Japanese beetles fondness for grapes and soft fruits, it could take a costly toll in the Niagara Peninsula unless kept under control. Indications are that it would not thrive in other parts of eastern Canada. L ] [J This pest is presumed to have entered the United States in soil around the roots of Japan- ese plants prior to the restric- tions established by the United States Plant Pest Act of 1912. It was first discovered near Philadelphia in 19186 and "has been spreading out in an ever widening circle through natural flight. A strict Federal quaran- tine in the U.S, in effect for many years has retarded more extensive spread. LJ [ . First soil treatments were made at Niagara Falls, Ont, in 1941. Lead avsenate gave way to DDT, which was replaced by dieldrin. Ten per cent granular dieldrin is spread by ordinary hand grain seeders at the rate of 30 pounds to the acre. This insecticide is considered cheap- er, easier to apply, and equally as effective as other insecticides. Latest application involved land at St. Catharines, Fort Erle, Hamilton, Port Burwell and Windsor. *. . Eevery year, trapping opera- tions and soil treatments are carried out with the co-opera- tion of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, Mr. Reed ex- plains. -Last year about 2,700 traps were used to capture over * 1,000 beetles. This was a sub- stantial reduction over the 4,000 trapped in 1958. Most significant reduction took place at Fort Erie, where only 176 were caught compared with 3,300 the previous year. This, Mr. Reed believes, was due to tne treatment of 30 acres of turf in that town in 1058. LJ LJ '0 A total of 2,033 Canadian sheep have been ordered Raiighigred during the past four montls' under a national pro- gram aimed at stamping out scraple, a disease of the central nervous system of sheep In Alberta, two infected flocks, comprising 417 sheep, had to be destroyed, reports Dr. K. F. Wells, Veterinary Director Gen- "eral, while in Ontario, another flock of 77 sheep was slaughter- e Canada's scrapie eradication program, revised last August provides for the slaughter of infected flocks and any animals moved from infected flocks, to- gether with their immediate progeny. In addition to the three in- fected ' flocks dealt with, 1,539 sheep have been destroyed either as animals which were moved from the infected flocks: or as progeny of an animal that had been moved. LJ * * These sheep involve 178 flocks. All of the flocks, which take in about 40,000 sheep, are being kept under surveillance for 42 months from the date on which exposed sheep were removed from the flocks. [J LJ] LJ First outbreak of scrapie In Canada was confirmed in 1943. It is considered to have been brought here with sheep impor- tations from the United King- dom. Such Imports have been embargoed since 1954. The program now being ap- plied for the control of scraple in Canada Is equivalent to that followed in the United States. Petticoat Lane Still Flourishes Wags once sald 'a man could go In one end of London's Pettl- coat Lane and buy his own watch back at the other. That may, or may not, still be true, but the market's traders certainly have the reputation of knowing a good bargain when they see one. When a white mar- ble Roman torso was dug up there not so long ago, many a Cockney voice called out: "Let me 'ave it. I can find a buyer!" Petticoat Lane, It seems, is as old as London itself. The great, sprawling market Is made up of Middlesex, Wentworth, and Goulston Streets in the heart of the East End. Each is filled with countless stalls, displaying every conceivable commodity from clothes and curios to cockles and whelks. Most of the traders in Petti- coat Lane are long established and known . for giving good value, Some come to the market in great, gleaming cars, which they park on one of the muny World War II blitzed sites. Others push handcarts or carry their wares on trays, writes Steve Libby in the Christian Science Monitor, To a few who have had good businesses -- and bad breaks -- a pitch in the Lane is the last stand, all that is left. One old man is trying to sell second: hand sheet music. While many Petticoat Lane traders shout their wares like circus barkers, others rely on a more modern -- and intimate --- approach, "Where do you come from, luv?" one asks a plump, smil- ing woman in the crowd around his stall. "Edinburgh," she replies. "Luverly place, Edinburgh," he says, going on to talk about the woman's hometown as though business was a secondary . consideration. Then, picking up a blue leather handbag from the pile on his stall: "Couldn't get this at the price in Edin- burgh, could you?" The deal is soon clinched. Visitors to London who are "In the know" go to Petticoat Lane on a Sunday morning just as they would to the market square in some old French town or the native bazaars of Cairo. Doctors Figure It Was A Nice Try? For months, as Billy Smith, a 25-year-old laborer, lay in a hospital bed, it seemed that sur- geons had achieved a miracle. In a foundry accident last July, a swinging crane had all but severed Smith's right leg. Ordinarily, the doctors at Eden Hospital in Castro Valley, Calit., would have amputated the leg at once. But because of the 25-year-old Smith's good physi- cal condition, Drs. Stephen V. Landreth, Alan J. Gathright, and Keith W. West tried to sew the mangled leg to the stump. At first, the chance to save the leg seemed promising. But six wecks ago a deep infection de- veloped in the injured bone and "in the knee joint, "which pre- vented repair of the main nerve to the leg." This month, the sur- geons amputated Billy Smith's leg. Smith said philosophically: "I figure you have to go along with what the doctors say." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 5|w|d 4 \ - no humour to be fair. DAY SCHO0I "LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warrea A, BD, God's Protecting Providence Acts 23:6-11, 16-24 Memory Selection: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1, God who has protected Paul through many dangers, is still with him while a prisoner of the State. His appearance before the sanhedrin was brief, While pre- testing that he had lived in all good conscience before God un- til that day, the high priest com- manded that he be smitten om the mouth, Paul's sharp rebuke, and his later explanation for it, have been viewed in different ways. It has been suggested that Ananfas had taken the office since Paul had last been asso- ciated with the Sanhedrin; thas Paul did not know who had giv- en the order to smite him; and that Paul made an honest mis- take. Personally, I think that Paul had not sufficiently re- flected that the words came from the high priest and that he should have been more deliber- ate and less vigorous in his re- ply. At any rate, Paul's words that, "God shall smite thee, thou whited wall"; were both penetratingly true and prophe- tically suggestive. His apology should serve as an apt model for the Christian's spirit and de- partment in similar circumstan- ces. It has been suggested that Paul apologized to the office, if he did not to the man, Paul has been criticized foe his strategy in dividing the council. I see nothing unethical about it. He had attempted to give a straightforward, courte- ous defense. But they were In When hatred develops over religion, it is a hellish thing. Hatred in the realm of politics or sport mild, compared with that which parades in the cloak of religion. However, Paul succeeded in do- ing only half of the famous say- ing, "Divide and conquer." As the two groups quarrelled Paul was rescued from their midst by the soldiers. But Paul's enemies didn't glve up. Their plan to kill him and its failure through the loyalty of Paul's nephew is am {nferesting story. This is the only place where we meet any of Paul's relatives in the Bible, God had His hand on Paul. He used many different people and means to protect him. He had a work for him to do at Rome and no plotting could hinder God carrying out His purpose. The bitter truth is that a glance in the mirror will show you exactly what the youngee generation 1s coming to. # REAL WHOPPER -- Thomas. Novak, holds a giant egg, pre- duced at his father-in-law's farms. It measures 10 Inches the long way around, seven Inches around the middle. Egg of right Is a.normal "extra-large" for comparison. TALK ABOUT TEEN-AGERS -- Not even In San Francisco do the Beats go on wilder kicks than Fritz. The boxer's favorite frolic Is inhaling auto exhaust until he gets lightheaded. Left, ha Inhales the fumes and, right, freshens up at a water fountain. More than once Fritz has pawed out from the effects of this gambit but this hasnt abated his desire, rh pi Sr fo are F