07-16-1970

VOLUME 64, NUMBER 13 CASS CITY , MICHIGAN THURSDAY, JULY 16, I970 SECTION C SIX PAGES
Cooking—that's what brings
a bachelor to his knees
BY MIKE WALSH
After a month of living alone
I now know why men marry,
why they are willing to sacrifice
independence and comfort
for the time-worn tradition of
matrimony, A need for compan-
THE CASS
Jim Gross
ionship? Hardly. A bachelor is
able to have a variety of com»
panions. A desire for the quiet
life? Nonsense, a bachelor's
solitude, self imposed, is
obviously superior to the subdued
existence of marriage.
These and similar reasons are
mere rationalizations devised
by the female of our species
to convince herself that she is
needed and that man cannot
exist without her.
And she is, needed and right,
If for nothing else but to insure
a man's self-preservation.
Let's look at just one bachelorhood
dilemma.
COOKING: Not every man
hates to cook, but how many TV
dinners can he tolerate? Recently
I decided to enhance my
regular cookin'-bag meal with a
cake, I had no desire to purchase
one of those ready made
sponge cakes that taste as if
they were made from real sponges.
No, I'd do it myself. Meaning
a cake mix. All the ingredients
were in the bowl, all I
had to do was mix it up. Since
I had no electric beater the
package instructions said I'd
have to do it myself--300
strokes. It began OK5 but the
third time the batter hit the
wall something had to be done.
So 1 put the top on the Tupperware
bowl and shook it. There,
that should mix it up, I felt
so inventive. The w^omenreaders
will of course know the outcome
of my efforts. But I
thought beating the batter was
to mix the ingredients not to
get air into them. Needless to
say my triple layer devil's
food looked like the offspring
of a mating of a pancake and a
brownie.
• Cooking itself is bad enough,
but washing the pots, pans
and dishes is reason enough
to make any man opt for marriage,
to completely escape the
perils of the culinary torture
chamber.
Paper cups and plates solve
part of the problem but Ihaven't
yet found disposable pans. If
the Green Giant could cook his
vegetables in a plastic pouch,
why couldn't I. Another innovation,
men. Dump a can of those
tender, golden kernels of corn
into a baggie, secure the top
with one of those wire dofoickjes
and drop it into a pan
of boiling water, Voila! The
result: Tender golden, kernels
of steaming corn topped with
succulent melted baggie-sauce,
Great,
OK ladies, you win and "I
do."
FARMER PEETS - Old Fashioned - Fully Cooked
Over 15 years ago we introduced
the loose housing dairy
building, 10 years ago new designs
in poultry laying houses*
and 3 years ago the cold free
stall dairy housing. Now we are
nearly ready to present to the
hog farrower and feeder a new 1
type of advanced design hog
housing.
This new swine housing is just
being completed at Michigan
State University and it is be-
. lieved to be basically the ultimate
long-time best system
around. In brief these are
the details of the building and
system.
The frame building is 32 feet
wide and about 102 feet long
and will house 200 to 300 hogs
depending on their size.
The house can be shortened
or lengthened by six foot increments
because the single
pens are 6 feet wide. The length
of each pen extending from the
center' aisle to the outside wall
is fourteen feet.
The buildings are of two designs
for air ventilation. They
are either totally closed and,
windowless. or closed with adjustable
side openings. Both
have reversible fans capable
of one complete change of air
in every one to two hours.
These buildings have 3 and
6 inches of blanket insulation
in the walls and ceilings, respectively,
and a supplemental
thermostat controlled heating
system. Both have air pressure
controlled air intake strip ducts
running along the edge and top
line of the side wall-ceiling
juncture.
The manure handling system,'
a real important must in hog
farrowing and finishing, is com-.,
posed of slatted concrete or
aluminum floors and aerator.
Slatted floors either .partial or
total in each pen area plus a
manure pit is now acknowleged
to be the best type not only for
manure handling but also hog
sanitation disease control.
Either of the two ventilation or
air exchange systems v/ill give
equal effectiveness.
Now we come to the newest
and perhaps the best innovation
yet developed for odor elimin-
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ation and manure decomposition.
This is the aerator. This
five horsepower motor driven
paddle wheel moves the liquid
manure to incorporate greater
amounts of oxygen to the liquid
manure. This greater supply of
oxygen causes air living bacteria
to be present in larger
numbers in the liquid manure
thus accelerating the rate of its
decomposition. This increased
decomposition rate causes less
odor buildup too.
So in a nutshell this is a real
change for the best in hog housing,
manure handling, environmental
control and hog sanitation.
The swine and agricultural
engineering specialists from
MSU feel there will be very
little changes to be made from
this basic design for many years
to come.
to Thumb EOC for
emergency aid
The Thumb Area Economic
Opportunity Commission announces
the receipt of a $29,-
997.00 Federal grant for an
Emergency Food and Medical
Program. The program is funded
for a fifteen (15) month
period beginning July 1, 1970.
The purpose of this program
is to provide emergency assistance
to people suffering from
malnutrition and starvation. As
indicated by the Michigan Economic
Opportunity Office, the
project will complement efforts
of other state and local agencies.
It will also provide additional
resources to serve
migrant farm workers and local
families who are seasonally
employed.
The program will assist those
eligible people having an emergency
need for food, when other
agencies are not readily available
to provide for them. It
will also attempt to seek out
and identify those people who
< are living on an inadequate
diet and insure that the children,
especially of those families,
receive adequate food.
The aged whose income is
too low to maintain an adequate
diet are also to be identified
and given assistance.
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