| Show the lamiet lepierres pierres La res raise gobblers a year ott on canadas largest turkey ranch va 14 AV VV 1 ae s S A u W 1 1 zal 1 0 q r w W e X Z owner of the largest turkey farms farm in canada is tommy lapierre who with the aid of two sons and two daughters raises gobblers a year his farm is located in british columbia on the international inte boundary line between the province and the state of washinton washington the moderate and equable climate of this region permits the birds to live out of doors all year round the lapierre turkeys are of the giant breed weighting from 25 to 30 pounds when ready for market the huge flock eats about 28 tons of feed a week during the fattening period during the rest of the season the big active birds can pick a large part of their food on the grassy range more than half of La pierres roast ers are being shipped overseas to canadian troops for christmas dinners the others are marketed in canada tommy lapierre is shown holding a white holland one of his prize toms en nn I 1 10 above is florence lapierre with a 30 pound Al mammoth ammoth bronze specimen that seems to be worried about the future estimated our records show for instance that two bakeries used exactly the same ingredients in making bread right down to the last pinch of soda one made excellent bread and the other went bloke broke the diff difference arence was in the k kinds ads of water used if water of the proper purity is not used it is impossible to make good beer canneries dare not use certain kinds of water or the peas will be hard and unmarketable water 0 of f unusual purity is required for the manufacture of carbonated beverages otherwise discoloring coloring dis sediment develops if confectioners confection ers do not use water with the right kinds of chemical content the candy will get sticky or the pure white fondant soon looks rusty the processing of wool requires water according to definite chemical specifications ficat ions for washing otherwise d dyes ye S will not penetrate the fabric uniformly or fast colors cannot be obtained even laundries must have the right r i kind of water to do a good job on papas shirts huge demand for da data ta to meet the need for information the water analysis s program will I 1 have to be enormously increased the survey believes conclusive information on the chemical content of surface water at a given spot for instance requires daily analyses over a perio period d of at least a year it is not enough to examine ground water at one place and ahsu assume me that it will be the same in surrounding g areas in houston texas for e example the survey found that the chemical content of five different wells in close proximity to each other varied as much as from 4 to parts per million of soluble minerals the stream gauging program must be greatly enlarged before adequate information about t the he nations water resources can be furnished the report states every river has its own story to tell but constant attention is required to follow its history A considerable variety of scientific instruments in the hands of experts who know their business are used to record the volume velocity and other pertinent facts irrigation projects studies of the behavior of streams over long periods are necessary to provide reliable information for the guidance of planners for such projects as hydroelectric hydro electric plants irrigation flood control bridges reservoirs ervo irs an and d the like the extremes of behavior of a river can be known only by keeping constant records over long periods knowledge of such extremes pays dividends in the end many times in the past bridges have cost more than necessary to withstand floods that never came or a large but inadequate investment has been swept away because of unanticipated floods wa what bat a river is likely to do in the future can be judged only by knowing what wha t it has done in the remote past the value of such information gathered over a long period of years has been abundantly demonstrated during the past decade every major po power and irrigation project including TVA boulder grand coulee and the rest has depended entirely upon basic information that has been built up by the geological survey over the last half century none of them could have been successfully executed without such information WWW AW x ayr 7 M v y V 41 V apparatus used by the geological this is part of the stream gauging weighing pounds is lowered into a survey the to torpedo shaped sinker reel the speed of the spinning cups culis Is crane and i from t this his of if a boat above riv river er by means operator in the transmitted electr electrically to of an the stream the depth and the volu ir I 1 of swiftness information the water can call be calculated |
