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yk Hayfiolds -- 'And Strawberries ~One of the nicest moments of country living comes along about now when the sensitive: nostril quivers on the Junetime scene nd word goes out that the wild, tield strawberry is - available again. Nobody, anywhere, re- gardless of his preferment and station, can do any better with a spoon than you can. Probably he isn't doing so well, and in his opulence is envious. At least if he was once a country boy. I've fell essayists and poets always overdid the strawberry when they worked on it, letting their subject run away with them. They have a way of mak- ing the strawberry sound like an orgy, an unbridled stuffing, In a way, this is too bad, because the strawberry is a dainty and delicate thing, and never had any wholesale complexions. It isn't that kind of bounty, and should always be treated with respect and restraint, Oh, sometimes if the season is' properly moist and propitious you'll find a big one here and there -- but wild strawberries stay in their own size range. Tales of bringing them in by the pail, as big as your thumb, stretch the license, and indicate more emotion than either recol- lection or tranquility. You may chance upon an odd patch here and there that will occasion alarm, but year in and year out strawberries run more to frag- rance than size, and require 25 or 30 to the dozen. You'll get more of them at the handful than at the peck. These metered feasts of. rousing shortcake should be approached with lifted eyebrows. ] Not that we haven't had short- cakes--but not in the gorging range. Each morsel was savor- ed and swallowed with thought and gratitude, and made to last as long as possible, In the old days 'when the farm here was self - sufficient, Grandmother used to line up her eight chil- FH x, An SIKH STATESMAN -- ailed in the remote town of harmsala, India, 80-year-old Tara Singh remains the pow- erful leader of-the country's 10 Though million Sikhs. Their demands for a separate Indian state of their own have led to bloody rioting. Sikhs belong to a re- Hglous ; offshoot of Hinduism. » dren in a scavenging operation that 'moved up the field and back 'again in ordered arrange- ment, getting every last berry. She laid down a rule against eating any at the time, They'd come back to the house with quite a take, and although they'd eat some for supper, the bulk of the harvest would be: "put up" for winter, And as they tried to make everything, in those days, go as far as pos- sible, they'd "piecen out" the strawberries with rhubarb. The thrifty pleplant stood rich and hearty, and its long limbs would be cut up and added to the stewing kettle. This gave bulk, but the dainty flavor of the strawberry held its own and the combined confection was domi- nated by its lesser part. Some few berries, and per- haps only in a bountiful year, would be preserved in glass by emselves -- but the children might never taste them, for they were kept for special occasions. Those days saw the minister and his wife about twice a year, par- ochial calls timed just right for supper, Those were more string- ent times, and the visits were no doubt predicated on appetite as much as spirit--at least the suppers were always better on such occasions. That would be a time for straight strawberries and no rhubarb. I had an aunt whose girlhood ambition was to grow up and marry a minister, 50 she'd know what preserved strawberries tasted like! I've always liked picking ber- ries, It suggests a providential kindness where time is your only investment, and you are on the ground floor of prosperity. Strawberries are hardest to pick, but the reward is the greatest. The sun caresses the back of your neck in Junetime intimacy, and the lush hayfields strive to hide the quarry before you can find it. You can't stand up, as with blackberries and raspber- ries, and you can't rake as with blueberries. You do such close things as stare a friendly adder in the. eye, or come in six inches over a bobolink's nest, You find yourself talking intelligently 'with grasshoppers and spiders, sharing their down - to - earth opinions. But that's where straw- berries are. You see a cluster, and it looks big and hearty, but after you've picked the berries off they look tiny in your hand, and. even tinier in the dish. It takes longer to cover the bottom of a strawberry pail than any other kind, even though it is well to leave a few stems to keep them from smushing too much, Then you have to hull them. Dainty, fragrant, soft and juicy, strawberries are lovely, but they are mean to hull. The best way is to dump them on the kitchen table with the hope others in the family will lend a hand. Slowly, painstakingly, they get cleaned, and there is forever the ultimate feeling that you had more than that, really. But even a few in-a saucer, covered with cream, are enough to emphasize the eternal worth of the experi- ence, If you get enough for a short- cake, life holds little else that can compare, I think if I were to sum up all the pluses and minuses of country vs. city liv- ing, I'd stake the advantage un- waveringly, with unanswerable effect, on the little wild, field strawberry and its dainty ability to confound 'all other "values." 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The quart of milk on the doorstep or half-gallon -jug in the supermarket are mostly taken for granted by shoppers long ac- customed to the best. - But quality does not just hap- pen, in dairy products or any- thing else. Top quality can be assured only by unremitting vigilance and constant seeking of new ways to improve products. ° LJ LJ In this search for better methods and better products, the dairy industry stands with justi- fied pride in the front ranks of food producers. We had a glimpse of what this means down on the farm and in the dairy when we went visiting recently. Out on beautifully manicured grassy grounds in Brockton, Mass., we toured the plant of Pro- ducers' Dairy Co., one of the old- est farmers' cooperatives in the United States. They tell you there that "the process of making milk is the same today as it was at the beginning of time, but the ways of getting it to the con- sumer have changed mightily." LJ * LJ This cooperative, which was established in 1917 and has weathered many economic cycles since, now bottles between 28,- 000 and 30,000 quarts of milk daily from 39 local, farms, and delivers the milk by the most modern delivery methods to 25 cities and towns. The general trend toward fewer dairymen who produce more milk is clearly shown in the re- cords of Producers' Dairy Com- pany, which had around 60 mem- bers in the beginning, who were putting out around 5,000 quarts - daily. Now 39 farmers produce enough milk so that this dairy's year-round average is 21,000 quarts a day. * '] L] Machinery does almost every- thing in the dairy now -- even to the complex assembling, faster than human hands .could do the job, of the cartons into which the milk is poured. The cartons go into machines folded flat and come out boxed, glued, filled and closed. The sparklingly clean dairy has floors of acid-resistant brick held together with acid-resistant concrete. The machinery, walls, floor, everything, looked anti- septically clean. While certainly not the biggest dairy in the Unit- ed States, we venture that this Is one of the most modern. Slightly over a hundred em- ployees, keep things going here, receiving annually wages of near- ly a half-million dollars -- while, the cooperative's records shows over $1,000,000 is paid to local farmers for their milk. LJ Nd . One of the saféguards which has kept Producers' Dairy pros- perous through 40 yedrs is the clause written into their bylaws allowing tha dairy to accept no more than 10 per cent of its total volume of milk from 'any one producer -- thereby avoiding too great dependence on any one farmer. One of the farmers providing milk for this cooperative is Abra- ham 'Green, now farming the Leona Farm. family homestead on which he was born. Mr. Green, in white shirt and 'city trousers, welcomed us for a tour of the farm. . . . » Mr. Green has a herd of about 200, including Guernsey, Swiss, and Holstein cows -- he just uses his own judgment in buying stock, he says. "Purebreds are a rich man's hobby, We want cows that are milk factories," he ex- plains, Where 'a farmer used to expect about 18 pounds of milk from a cow dally (" a one-can cow") some now give 60 to 65 pounds "I have one giving 90, another around 70. I try to aver- age 40 pounds per day per cow." What has brought about this fantastic increase in production per cow? Many things: including breeding stock, better feeds, bet- ter handling of the animals in general. * . LJ On the day we visited Mr. Green we watched his cows come into 'their clean, de luxe barn from their lush green pas- ture across the road -- backing up traffic along Route 28 as they crossed the road at what was for them a lively pace. As we admired this spacious, inviting farmstead Mr. described how he had gradually built it up since the death of his father when he, young Abe, was only 12 years old. He has built all the farm buildings since 1932 and has cleared 150 of his 200 acres. He did not disclose his total Investment, but did tell us that the milking system installed in his barn alone represents about $10,000 worth of equipment, states a writer in the Christian Science Monitor. ' Here milking machines convey the milk from the cow into glass tubing extending above the stalls, wlhifch take the milk directly into a big, cooled bulk tank. During the whole process the milk is not touched by hands or exposed to air, It Is picked up and delivered In. bulk tanks directly to the dairy. - No Cinderella Will the shoes worn by the Queen at her wedding and those worn by Princess Margaret at hers, be on exhibition one day at a museum? The shoes worn by Queen Vie- toria at her wedding ended up in this way --< at a museunt of footwear in the Midlands, Queen Victoria's shoes. dis- prove the generally accepted Idea that she had a tiny Toot, for the solés are nine inches long. It is known that the first per- son to own 'Queen Victoria's shoes after she had parted with them was a woman. known as "Augusta W." In a letter this woman wrote in May, 1841, she says: "A thous- and thanks, my dedr sir, for sending me the pretty shoes of the Queen, After 1 had hedrd so frequently that Her Majesty had the prettiest foot ih the kingdom I should certainly. have expected to find a tinler shoe, You must agree with me that they are no Cinderella's slippers!" Queen Victoria's shoes matched her wedding dress, now in the possession of the London Mu- seum, ISSUE 28 -- 1960 Green' Dragonflies Have Ancient Lineage There is no group of insects that has a more astonishing life- history than the dragonflies, , . . "Nymph" is another term for the young stage, and here de- notes the time it spends under water, between hatching from the egg or crawling out of its skin as a fully winged insect. During this nymphal life there is no sudden change, but the skin is cast at intervals as the dragonfly grows. The wings ap- pear, in wing-cases, little by lit- "tle after the fourth moult, and the internal structure gradually alters together with the shape and structure of several external organs. , .. The nymphs live and breathe under water, sometimes buried in the mud, sometimes climbing about the weeds, often in still water, sometimes in swift running streams. . . . When fully grown the nymph leaves the water, clintbing out on to the bank or up reeds, trees, grass-stems or anything handy, sometimes walking quite a long way before settling down, and there, after drying, it will split the skin and struggle out as a winged insect. It is not a perfect dragonfly. First, as with all in- setes, it has to dry, and the crum- pled wings and long abdomen have to expand. . . . Many of the dragonflies have such a powerful flight that they can, and do, migrate for several hundred miles. Certain genera seem to be more prone to migra- tion than others, but not always all the species of one genus; Amongst our dragonflies the very rare Vagrant Sympetrum is a complete immigrant, while the Redveined and the Yellow- winged Sympetrum are mostly visitors from across the sea. en © The Darter dragonflies like sunning with widespread wings, which they do conspicuously on reeds, rocks or roadways, and they rely for their safety on the extreme swiftness of the "take- off," which is accomplished ow- ing to the "ready" poise they assume, The smaller of the Hawker dragonflies adopt the same attitudes, but the large spe- cies of Aeshna prefer to hang while resting, and probably rely for safety on thelr keener sight.' The dragonflies are of very an- cient lineage, certainly having descended from the glants found in the Upper Carboniferous rocks, of which several {fossil species and genera have been found. The largest of these Palaeozoic ancestors had a wing- expanse of twenty-seven inches. The Giant Age of Insects was followed In the Mesozole period by a steady decline in size and a greater specialization of struc- ture, till we reach definitely world -- modern forms in the Upper Jurassic beds, . , . It will therefore be seen, from this briet sketch of their life- history, that dragonflies are both beautiful and intensely interest- ing insects,. and will well repay greater attention to a detailed study, -- From "The Dragonflies of the British Isles," by Cynthia Longfield. Digging World's Deepest Hole Plans are nearly ready for boring the deepest hole in the down through the ocean floor to reach what sclent- " ists call the boundary between the earth's crust and its inner mantle, The great bore will take place either off the Mexican Pacific coast or in the Atlantic north of Peurto Rico, Experiments are now taking place to find out which area is more suitable. Why do sclentists want to bore at least twenty miles down into the earth--at least fifteen miles deeper than the deepest oll well yet drilled? Because they hope to obtain, for one thing, a com- plete picture of the ocean basin, to. pentrate through the sedi- ments of the ocean floor to the rock below. Drilling 15,000 feet down in the open ocean will be a tough task, More than 15,000 carats of Industrial diamonds, it's calcu- lated, will be needed to provide the teeth of the boring bits. And hundreds of thousands of dollars would be added to.the cost of this great scientific project it adverse weather caused the drill pipe to break. Should drilling at sea prove too difficult the scientists will try to bore heneath a coral atoll or ocean island. New drilling techniques will have to be devel- oped to do the job thoroughly and obtain all the scientific In- formation required. Scientists everywhere are ex- cited by. this new project -- the geologists' "reply" to the space and cosmic probes now taking place, Hitherto the site of a worked- out -diamond mine at 'Kimber- ley, South Africa, has been gen- erally regarded as the deépest man-made hole in the world. A stone thrown inte It takes about ten seconds to reach the bottom of the mine. Visitors to the site have difficulty nowadays in finding a pebble to throw into the mine because for a consider- able distance around every stone has been carefully gathered up by an enterprising African. He sells them to vistors for sixpence each! "I have lost my wallet," re- marked Jones to his colleague. "I've looked in every pocket ex- cept one in my trousers." "Why not look there?" "I daren"t -- think how awful it will be if it's not there!" By Rev. R. Barclay Warren BA, B.D, Soclal Justice -- Then and Now 5:10-15, 21.24, Memory Selection: Hate the evil, and love the good, and es- tablish judgement In the gate, Amos 5:15, Amos spoke out boldly agains the social injustices of his day The rich were inhumane toward the poor. They oppressed them in a kind of human slavery. (2:6). They built beautiful homes by defrauding the destitute (5:11). There was no court of Justice at which the poor could receive their dues. (5.12). The intemperance of the na- tion was no less disgusting. One passage (6:3-6) is sufficient te show the sensuousness which sudden wealth had promoted. Immorality had progressed te the point where it did not even call forth shame. (2:7). This was finding its place in the religious festivities (4:4) after the pattern of the surrounding pagan nations. Are we better today than Is- rael was in the day of Amos, 2700 years ago? It is Impossible to make an accurate comparison. We don't know what proportion of the people were guilty of the sins which Amos so vividly por- trays. The laws, now as then, are designed to protect the poor. But often the poor lack the knowledge and the finances to secure thelr rights. Many have lost the house they were buying because they were unable to refinance a sec- ond mortgage, due to the huge bonus demand. There is a lot of fraud in the world today. As for intemperance and immorality, if Israel were worse than we are today the situation was indeed terrible. When one reads the pro- phecy of Amos and then reads 'the newspaper, he cannot but be struck with the similarity in the condition of the people. But where is Amos? Billy Graham speaks out pointedly against these conditions and he is heard by many. But the tide of ungod- liness Is not stopped. It is time to pray. Let us say as Amos, "Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking SH3|3 a a) I< of m Sed] Ww > ZIOfwia oa VNWEO|~] (33 BSCE [MO alu df= <I Z|OJd~ <[Z S<Szlaoldyo SR ull=oxwulo wuwlwolx~ <| WI--~Q/Will ow fre: cannibalism, in Stockholm by He came by the trophy oF. SRE QUICK AND THE DEAD -- Brought fo a halt, a peasant bia, gives way to a group of bicycle racers ~~ funeral procession near Tena, Colome and their escort trucks,