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---- bb Wheelwrights Are A Vanishing Race The small singing river Méon runs through. some of the most beautiful country in Hampshire to join the sea in a quiet creek between Spithead, where Eng- land's fleets have assembled for centuries, and the 'deep channel which takes the ocean liners out of. Southampton. , Old cottages and barns all up the lovely Meon valley have ancient ships tim- bers in their construction: Oak, which centuries ago |grew as stripling trees in the |New Forest close by, and in its prime went into the making of 'the high-pooped vessels of Tudor times, the little ships that car- ried the early settlers to- Ameri- ca, and the old wooden men o' war that sailed under Nelson. After anything up to 50 years at sea, they would limp back to a breaker's yard at Fareham or - Portsmouth, then the best pieces would be loaded on a wagon to be drawn up'the road and start life again, as part of a new- built inn, a manor house,"aqr a snug cottage. At the head of the valley, the lytch gate of the church hag been made of them, and beyond it, the thatched home of the Ayling brothers has for. all its stout uprights, wood which has sailed the seven seas. Wood--oak and box; -hazel and ash--has also been 'thé life-long -occupation- of - ~ William and Alfred, now in their - seventies. They are still carrying on the job that has been in their family for six generations, work- ~ ing on the same spot for over 200 years, for they are two of the very few wheelwrights still left in this part of England. When I came down the lane, past the long timbers stacked against an ancient tree ' beside the cottage, and scattering the gamecock hens pecking in the yard, 1 stepped into another world. A world which, almost everywhere else, disappeared. quite a century ago. Logs burned in the big open hearth in the cot- tage kitchen, a black chain hung to suspend the cooking pot, an old iron pump. delivered the "water to the sink, and oil lamps gave the lighting. The two brothers were busy making a ladder. Alfred was smoothing "the treads in swift, sure strokes, with the box-wood plane he had made when he was a young man, Beyond the work- ship door were two other: Jad- _ ~-ders "théy "had just completed, painted bright blue by William. "Not much call for cartwheels these days," they told me sadly. "We mostly do wheels now when we're making wheelbarrows. "Small wheel like that is the trickiest to make," said William, "harder than a big chap to get to run true. I started helping my father sto make wheels when 1 was eight, but I was 20 before I made a cartwheel on my own -- you've got_to-have_had> EXperi---i- ence, so you can judge. things to a fraction. "We had to help with other things, of course," remembered Alfred. "There were carts them- selves -- the whole thing used to take about a fortnight and cost around ten pounds. And sheep cages, and chicken coops, | and hay rakes. There was always a job waiting when you came home from school -- and if by chance there wasn't -- well, we'd have "to go and pull the weeds out of a widow's garden. No playing -- or birds-nesting." In the lofty barns, where the preat rafters reared up to be lost in dusty dimness, they show- ed me the oldest wheel on the premises, one_that for a_century. and_ a half manually by had been worked a handle fixed in Upsidedown to Prevent pecking H a all Rie AS0ddyMSINvid [EH ERE WHY EEE) the centre, to revolve the lathe for wood-turning. There too, with shafts pointing pathetical- ly.to the roof, stood the different types of carts they had made in earlier years' The brothers sur- veyed them nostalgically. The demand today was for smaller things -- cold frames, pick and shovel "handles, rakes, -and the ladders, writes Marjorie Nisbett in The Christian Science Moni- tor. In the corner stood the draw shaves they had used for lighten- ing spokes and wagon timbers, the axes for cutting the wood they bought standing, the iron - beetles they used as wedges for splitting trunks, the great five- foot- long saws with their wicked teeth that they used to cut out planks in the saw-pit. There, under. the shade of great oak, Alfred was always "bottom-saw- yer" among the rain of falling saw-dust; William working above at the exacting job of "top-sawyer", as his father and grandfather before him. "You always work together-- do you never disagree as to how a job is to be done?" 1 asked them. William shook his head "No, we never have once--" "We worked together now for 60 years" nodded Alfred. "We just -consult each other before we start -- and we always come to terms. "And we've still got almost --~more jobs on hand than we can tackle." In the long, light evenings too, there was the garden, It was cultivated to the last inch. Honey from the white bee skips that edged the flower border, eggs from the scratching hens, butter and milk from the four grazing cows, apples from the gnarled trees almost touching the lower edge of the long sweeping roof of their centuries- 'old cottage -- there was scarcely a necessity for which they need- ed to step "outside the "small- "holding. Even the roof hey re- thatched themselves, "inter-- vals, t. "The - straw's hard to - get; though, today. Costs £40 a ton -- and it takes two tons to do that over properly!" said Wil- liam. - They may live in another world. Quiet, serene, and almost self-supporting. But the world 'which rushes down the main road bordering the village sees them by no means as back num- |---bers;-for-far-beyond it the Ayl- ing brothers are known as crafts- men, That is why, not long ago, they had to catch the train to Reading, where- they replaced- with seasoned oak, treads in a valuable and ancient staircase. Why, recently, they harnessed their gray pony each morning, to jog down in the trap to West Meon, to do a woodwork job in the church. And, from half across the country a pair of trap shafts _| _had_just. arrived for- mending: said ---- "PH - William like---doing them," wistfully, "I'd always . rather be working on something that has to do with a horse." Disc Jockey Helped Catch Himself Death came suddenly to- a twelve-year-old boy in Medway, Massachusetts, recently. He had just started to cross the road » when a large car sped round the corner, The youngster had.no time to jump clear. The vehicle smashed into him, and he was killed in- stantly. Without slackening speed, the driver raced on. Police immediately alerted the local radio station, who arranged.- to broadcast messages appealing for the- driver -or saw the accident ward. A little later, Ronald Greene, one of the station's disc jockeys, went on the air as usual with his record programme, At frequent to come. for- intervals -he-asked-listeners to contact the police if they knew anything at all - about the hit- and-run driver, Then, his programme over, Greene prepared to leave the studio--to find the police wait- ing for him. They had identified him as the wanted motorist by an ornament niissing from his car--found at the scene of the accident. ANNIVERSARY - This is the 1 first of Tre stamp smarking the Civil War centennial which the UiS. Post Office will 'issue, This one, recalling the shelling of Fort Sumtar, the opening of hos- tilities, will be released in April. in Charleston, S.C, site of the fort, : ok despised aphis. L anyone who . WHALE OF A BUCKET -- A Worker Danville looks as thoogh he is about to be gobbled down by a huge drag bucket -- the world's largest. It is destined for service in an open pit coal mine in Brazil, where it will take 50-ton gulps. FARM FRONT Ab Entomologists kncw . her as "Hippodamia .Convergens, Her admirers know her affectionate- ly as the "Little Cow of God." And everybody. else knows her simply as a ladybug. By what- ever name, she stands today in ~ high and rising favour with far- mers. A ladybug, it seems, can do no wrong and a great deal of 'good. She is the angel of the' insect = world. She eats such harnmful bugs as mites, scale, mealybugs, bollworms, leaf- worms, and the eggs ¢f all such insects known to be harmful to man's crops. Her delicacy is the She is exclusively carnivorous and won't touch vegetation, She has almost no enemies. But she will attack any insect pest that is not too hard-shelled, too fast- moving, or too large. And with admirable discrimination, she re- fraing. from attacking other "good" insects. . LJ LJ As if -this were not enough, -~ she is also inexpensive, "easy "to care for, and quite undemand- ing: just hose her down once in a while when she's travelling or pop her into the refrigerator "when she isn't working. More and more she is being "harvested" and made available for duty in gardens, orchards, and fields as a substitute for sprays and poisons. One of the leading harvesters of ladybugs in the world, the Lady Bug Sales _..Company, -- of - -Gridley;- army on duty 24 hours a day." There exist about 600 known varieties of ladybugs, pinhead size to thumbnail size. But only Hippodamnia Convergens, the species with bright orange body snd black spots, is found in large eniough numbers to be harvest- ed commercially. An estimated 90 per all ladybugs supplied in the United States are. harvested on .the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada- Mountain range over- looking the great Valley in California. At Lady Bug Sales Company in Gridley, in the heart of the valley, Mrs. M. E, Nelson pre- sides over the packing, shipping, and closely guarded processing of swarms of Hippodamia Con- - vergens. Her company ships out at least 10,000: gallons of ladybugs (135,- 000 bugs per gallon) a year to all the 50 states, mostly to the --wheat, corn; cotton," "and "alfalfa belts. . . . Ladybugs from there have watched over peanut plants in Peru, cotton fields in. Blythe, Calif., birch trees in Anchorage, Alaska; and maple trees in Tole- do, Ohio. They have even been shipped as far as Egypt. Lady, Bug - Sales Company ships its ladybugs through regu- lar United States mail in small packages of 5,000 (for small gar- dens); medium packages of 30,- 000 (for lot-sized gardens); and in large packages of 100,000 (for 10-acre fields and orchards). The bugs cost about 7% cents per. thousand. * * # After. they have had their fill of aphis and. such, Hippodamia -Convergens-swarm-into-nests-in the mountains and hibernate like bears. That is where they are "harvested." And it, takes a "canny sense of ladybug' wavs to locate - their nests, Margaret Waugh, who . laugh-. ingly bills herself as "the only lady ladybug : packer In the world," says that "a layman wouldn't know how to find lady- bug nests or even what to look for." Professional pickers go up In- to the mountains each harvest -Calil; -- hails her-as-the 'farmers' private | cent 'of | Sacramento _well as season -- usually around Christ- mas 'and again in June -- and raid the nests. Armed with plastic dish pans, they creep up on the hibernating ladybugs, pounce on their nests, scoop up ladybugs, leaves, pine. "cones, "dirt, and all, and cram them into the pans and finally into special bags. "They are so wiggly-squiggly," explains Mrs, Waugh, "that.while ~ you are picking a gallon of them, a quart is taking off in another direction and up vour pant legs and everywhere." L] . . Good picker orally know there whereabouts of from 2,000 to 3,000 beds along the western slopes of the mountains. The ladybugs nest at altitudes rang- ing from 2,000 to 6,000 feet. They like it cool. At Lady Bug Sales Company, Mrs. Waugh, the lady ladybug packer, and her husband, Mau- rice, Convergens and prepare for shipment. them Nobody Yas yet devised a sub- stitute food that ladybugs will eat. And nobody has ever suc- cessfully ralsed them -In captiv- ity. They have got to be harvest. ed out in the mountains In their 'package the Hippodamia- beds, writes" John C, Waugh in "the Christiaj Lo Monitor. . Ld A generation of Siig only lasts for one season. They lay _thelr eggs, perish, and thelr off- spring swarm to the mountains to make up the next season's harvest. As Mrs. Nelson puts it, "Lady- bugs 'sometimes traipse away." So each year, to keep the insect pests cleared out, several appli- needed. But 75 cents worth of -neded. But ~ 75 "tents worth of 'ladybugs havé repeatedly done | fu the work on an acre of field or orchard that $6 worth of spray couldn't. . And in some areas, particular- ly where crops are egsily dam- aged by spray, there has been a decided flocking to Hippodamia Convergens. At any rate, Mrs. Nelson says her business grows busier every year. « oe . -A laboratory covering 20 square miles under Wyoming sky will be operated by the University of Wyoming. It will be a typical family- sized ranch of Great Plains pro- portions--a '"spread"--on which teams of university research spe- - cialists from various departments will put together all their knowl- | "edge to show how a ranch should be run -to achieve the utmost in profit. . » . The university, a Land Grant college, has heretofore conducted many investigations into better farming and ranch practices, as fundamental _ into problems and possibilities of soil water, and vegetation, These have been singly to farmers and ranchers. Now all such advanced knowl- edge will be put to work in this good-sized, commercial live stock operation to sée how the com- bination may pay out. . - . The ranch, near eastern Wyoming, will also be used as a gigantic classroom to which university students and extension service classes will be taken. And the lessons learned will be made available to- all Wyoming ranchers, and else- 'where on' request, Both sheep and cattle will be raised oh this ranch, a herd of about 100 and a flock of about 1000; thus -discounting the tradi=- tion that sheep and cattle do not get along together any better than sheepmen and Ccattlémen. Movable forces 'will eliminate sheep-herding, and will also di- vide Up the range for carefully controlled rotation of grazing on pasture made as lush as possible by fertilization and reseeding, sagebush elimination, and new types of grasses and herbage. . . Everything will be carefully research available Douglas, in » recorded for future study and the "crisp "1 By Rev. R. B. Warreh, B.A, B.D. The Source of True Wisdom Proverbs 132-7; Job 28: 20-28 . Memory Selection: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth. to all men li-- berally, and upbraideth not; and : it shall be given unto him. James 1:15. . It ever wisdom was needed in the world, it is today. As I write the Congo crisis deepens and the withdrawal of South Africa from the British Commonwealth em- phasizes the tensions that exist in Africa. A letter from mission- ary "riends in the Conga area tell of the 'missionary refugees who have come to their home and of two who were slain. The turmoil and unrest as reported in the newspapers are not exaggerated. John Kennedy's flashing smile, so attractive during the presi- dential campaign, has given way to a sombre serious contenance 2s he has the responsibility of making important decisions re- garding Cuba, ~ other Latin use--from the response of the range to. various-types-of -treat-- ment, through that of the ani- mals to rates of stocking and grazing, dual use of range by sheep and cattle, livestock gains under varlous conditions, etc. - The "Northern Plains Pilot Ranch" is on land made avail- able by Jack Morton, veteran Wyoming rancher. The informa- tion gained will be generally useful throughout the northern Great Plains. Jt will take up to two years to prepare, and the first experi- mental period will be of 10 years. The academicians are as- suming that they not only can make a profit on a comumercial- sized ranch operation," but that they can show the way to pri- vate operators. a. a American countries, and econo- mic and other problems. We should pray for our leaders. Where can, we find wisdaun? In the eloquent passage in Job 28:12-28 the speaker points out that it cannot be gotten for gold, but "God understandeth the way thereof, and He place thereof," and says to man, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." It isn't some new philosophy we need. We must act on the prin- ciples o! righteousness that we understand right now. We must turn. away from sin, confess to God and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation, If multitudes of people around the world would do that, it would be reflected in the les- sening of world tensions every- where.We who have the light of the Gospel should lead the way. knoweth the I'm tired of hearing people say, "Oh, I'm not really living as { should, but I'm really not so bad, 1 think I'm as goed as the aver- age." This is not- enough. "To him that kpoweth to do go and doeth it not, to him it is sin. James 4/17. We must wall in all the light that shines upon our path from God's Word. Je- - sus said of lukewarm Christians, "I will spue: thee out of my. mouth." Revelation 3:16, We must awaken from the lethargy that has befallen upon us be- fore judgment comes. It could be the only solution to solving heavy commuter aue tomobile traffi€¢ to our cities Is to have a circumferential or outeg belt superhighway five to tem miles--wide. ISSUE 14.-- 1961 avi $. Censure 29. 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