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o S? 1 ? 1 1 0 s 5-5 1 Ii 1 l r 1 ( I'M PRACTICING THATSAVERY l.lV.sCK OU COULD ) O i XTT " N TO BEA LION , DANGEROUS y r BE KILLED V 4 NOT IF . VWHATj ---j-TAME f OCCUPATION! ' ' ' ?N (VOU DON T HAVE) ' ARE J CT o 1 - . NA LION I ' " fW-t9 'V t4- reJi , tl.M I Q EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD. Saturday, July 21, 1962 Page 3Bxi Ask Andy is Cowbirds Are Negligent Parents Andy sends a complete 20volume set of the World Book Encyclopedia to John Revell, 8, 1522 Alderaood St., Eugene, Ore., for his question: What is a cowbirtf? Most birds are loving parents. The mother bird sits on the nest to keep the eggs warm with her soft feathers. Sometimes the father bird takes turns sitting on the nest while the young birds develop inside their eggs. Later, the parents feed and educate their babies. But the cowbird does none of these things. Of all the birds that live in our land, Mr. and Mrs. Cowbird are the most careless parents. They do not even make a home for their chil dren, for they build no nest at all. They are not even around when the baby cow birds hdtch from their eggs. They do nothing to feed their babies or teach them to fly. We wonder how baby cow birds manage to grow up at all. But they do, because in summer we see parties of them playing together. They seem to be fond of cows, for often we see them near a herd of cattle. This is how the cowbird got his name he is friendly with cows. True, Mrs. Cowbird does not take the trouble to build a nest, hatch her eggs and bring up her babies. But she is very careful to place her children in good foster homes. She lays each brown speckled egg in the nest of another bird. Some times she lays two eggs in the same nest. The foster parents may be song sparrows, wrens or warblers. Birds, of course, cannot count and sometimes the foster parents mistake the cowbird egg for one of their own. But some of the foster parents sense that the cowbird egg V If s JOHN REVELL Award Winner is a stranger. They may desert the nest altogether and start a new one. They may try to bury the cowbird egg in the bot tom of the nest or build a second story on top of it. Little Mrs. Wren is apt to poke her beak into the cowbird egg and pitch it out of her nest. But every year, thousands of cowbird eggs are adopted by foster parents. This is sad, for the cowbird hatches sooner than his foster brothers and sisters. He is bigger and often shoves them out of their rightful nest. When grown, he flics away to join his relatives. The cowbird is a black bird with a brown head and his wife is drabbish grey. They feed on grain and grass seeds and also gobble up grasshoppers. Many birds refuse to take a cowbird egg into the nest and most of Mrs. Cowbird's eggs never get a chance to grow up at all. But when a cowbird baby hatches, things are different. Almost any bird will feed a baby bird who cries for food. Mr. and Mrs. Song Sparrow may desert the cowbird's eggs. But a young cowbird will be fed in the nest of a vireo, a redstart or a Baltimore oriole. Andy sends a Hammond's Nature Atlas of America to Billy Cowan, age 8, of Peterborough, Ont., for his question: What is smoke? A fire is fed by fuel such as wood and coal. When the dancing flames blaze away, the wood and coal gradually dis appear. The smoke which coils up from the blaze in sooty clouds explains part of this mystery. In the heat of the fire, the wood and coal turn into other things and one of these things is smoke. Wood and coal are made from tiny particles and the heat of the fire breaks these particles to pieces. They are now dif ferent particles. Some become gases and float off to mix with the other invisible gases in the air. Some become fragments of carbon, small enough to float in the air. It is these carbon particles which make the clouds of sooty smoke. Andy awards each day a full set of the World Book Encyclopedia for the first question he selects to answer. When a second question is answered a large world globe or atlas Is awarded. Question are " accepted from teen ,ge ur less-than-teen-age readers. They should " be addressed to the KeRlstr-Guard S75 High St.. Eugene. Andv pre fers that qustions be written on postcards, rather than in letter .s form. To Your Good Health 2 Ailments Have Similar Symptoms By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Dr. Molner: For four months my husband had angina-like pains in his chest and arms. Finally tests and X-rays proved it to be gall bladder trouble, cholecystitis. The doctor put him on medica tion and a low-fat diet. What is this ailment, and docs it take a long time to cure? MKS. L.M. Cholecystitis means "inflam mation of the gall bladder," and it is usually auite Dainful. It also has a nasty naDit ot resembling heart disease, and it is not uncommon for the two to be confused until suitable tests have been made. (It's real ly tough when, as occasionally happens, a patient may have both problems at the same time.) With proper treatment, such as your husband is getting, the condition may clear up com pletely, or it may lapse into a chronic state. In the latter event X-rays will disclose faulty functioning of the gall bladder and stones may be found. Stones do not disappear by themselves, nor by any known medication. If they are there and causing trouble, surgery may be necessary. U.S. Water Use Up Sharply WASHINGTON Americans are using more water than ever to keep cool, clean and occu pied. Water consumption by factories, farms and homes has jumped more than 12 per cent in the past six years. The United States gulps its liquid assets at the rate of 270,000 million gallons per day, says the National Geographic Society. The greatest water glutton is not the hot tennis player or suburban gardener but Ameri can industry. Industrial cooling processes ac count for more than half the water consumed in this country. It takes 65,000 gallons of water to produce a ton of finished steel, 200, 000 gallons for a ton of rayon, and no less than 600.000 gallons for a ton of synthetic rubber. Irrigation farmers rank as second largest users of water, followed by individuals at work, play and home. Billions of gallons go dow nthe drain an nually from such modern conveniences as showers, sprinklers, swimming pools, dish washers, laundromats and garbage disposals. Sheer waste takes a heavy toll. Even dur ing New York's severe water shortage of 1949 50, engineers estimated that 200 million gal lons a day dripped from leaky faucets and pipes alone. Water-hungry America fortunately can draw on a nationwide rainfall averaging 30 inches a year, or ten million gallons for every man, woman, and child. However, more than 70 per cent is used by growing plants or returned to the atmosphere by evaporation and breathing. Storage lakes, reservoirs and canals lose nearly half their water in vapor. Moreover, water is not evenly distributed. Mountainous regions of Hawaii may be deluged with a foot of rain a week, yet Nevada aver ages only nine inches all year. Some areas which are flooded in the spring suffer drought by late summer. The Herculean task of supplying water to arid zones and cities where demand exceeds supply is being approached in several ways: conservation measures, notably antipollution and the re-use of water; the building of larger aqueducts, and conversion of fresh water from the sea. Scientists have been experimenting with a chemical spray which blankets reservoirs and lakes with a film to cut evaporation losses. Attempt to unscramble sea water are be ing intensified by governments and private in dustry. Success on a large and inexpensive scale could open up a vast new resource, for oceans cover almost three-quarters of th earth's surface. The idea of desalting water is not new. In 49 B.C., during his siege of Alexandria, Egypt, Julius Caesar produced fresh water for his troops with solar evaporators. It is assumed that the condensing vapor was collected by oiled silk or fabric screens. 1 1 1 j& - 1 fefe "" " --. 1 , S'''y f A,! r,M.ter"Ulait! Qaz. She's ) 'CV-v' (X&F'A iki. " DON'T HURT J I A'- 7 I t"M"SaM' s . mMfes ffTT, fP) b OU KNOW HOW HE I I QUICK! U1 rsfyr fcJ, IS ABOUT FOLLOWIN J .; I'll WHILE HE'S NOT ) ' il P$ ,1. ORPEKS J ( rV LOOKING r .RvSft S3 ( J k:t W m r- -fW 5" U- ITS HIS PRIDE, MIKE.' MOST f OR TWO CENT? 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