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How to Inculcate the Habit of Observance of Punctuality in My Compatriots?
HOW TO INCULCATE THE HABIT OF OBSERVANCE OF PUNCTUALITY IN MY COMPATRIOTS?
I was Senior Farm Management Assistant of a large mechanized farm under Kurnool—Cuddapah ( re-christened as Kadapa) Canal (K.C. Canal) in Andhra Pradesh in early sixties. Our Farm Manager was a stickler for rules, regulations and adherent in punctuality. It is needless to mention that either rain or shine, important farm operations like detasseling of seed parent in Hybrid Maize/Corn (Zea mays) seed production plots, and removal of pollen shedders in male sterile female parents of Hybrid Jowar (Sorghum vulgare) and Bajra/Pearl Millet (Pennisetum typhoides) seed production, rouging of offt-types in both male (pollinator) and female parents based on their morphological characteristic features can’t be suspended or postponed under any circumstances and have to be carried out on a daily basis throughout the flowering period of the crops concerned for avoiding contamination from foreign pollen and for maintaining absolute genetic purity. This highly technical nature of work is required to be done under my close supervision and can’t be assigned to lower functionaries and therefore my presence in the Farm was of utmost importance. The farm staff used to assemble near a culvert in Nandikotkur which is a taluk head quarters at 5.00 A.M. to travel a distance of about 15 km by a Massey Ferguson—65 H.P. Tractor provided under USAID hitched to a two wheel hydraulic trolley for reaching the farm located in Thangadencha Village which was not connected by a proper road, undulated and with full of potholes. As there were no residential quarters at the Farm site at that time, we used to stay in Nandikotkur which was the nearest dwelling place for the staff.. One chilly winter morning my Farm Manager was found very furious when I reached the pick-up point. He was visibly annoyed and sought my explanation for late coming. I had told him in an apologetic tone that my “Bifora” wrist watch showed 5.00 A.M. only. It is an accepted fact that two watches usually do not agree with each other. My boss shaking with anger told me to throw my watch in the gutter and stated that his “Rolex” Swiss made watch showed 5-03 A.M. and declared that I was late by 03 mts. He has given me a thorough dressing down and instructed the Tractor Driver not to wait for the late comers and leave the place on the dot and whosoever comes late, should make their own arrangements to reach the Farm in time. I had learnt a lesson in a hard way and thereafter I was more cautious in maintaining punctuality for both official chores and even for the private engagements.
However, observance of punctuality is a casualty in India everywhere and in every walk of life. The departure and arrival of trains and air services are always delayed indefinitely and only on rare occasions they maintain time creating untold hardship to the traveling public. Public meetings, Functions, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia are never commenced at the announced time. Late attendance is a usual practice for the Govt. employees both at the state and centre and they leave early. Most of the working hours are spent in gossiping in the canteen over hot cups of Tea and women employees engaged in knitting sweaters is a common sight in Delhi resulting in low output. There are many instances where small school children are forced to take part in rallies to commemorate either a birth or a death anniversary of some political leader or some other major event for which some VIP is invited. Perhaps to impress upon the general public their importance, the power and fiefdom they enjoy, the Ministers and political leaders and also due to their packed programmes on the way reach the venue several hours behind schedule unmindful of the long wait forced by them on the beleaguered people . All the while, the children are forced to stand in stadia in the scorching Sun and there were countless instances in recent times where the children got dehydrated and swooned and rushed to hospitals in an unconscious condition necessitating intra-venous drip. During the election rallies, the politicians never turn up in time testing the patience of the voters and the huge gathering would be found craning their necks towards the sky to spot the approaching chopper to land on the helipad specially built for them at public exchequer. The power drunken, uncivilized and rustic Ministers never tender an apology to the waiting crowds for the inexcusable delay in their arrival.
People invited for social functions also come very late despite specifying the time for Lunch or Dinner and put-forth lame excuses for the delay as traffic jam/bumper to bumper traffic instead of planning their departure judiciously and giving sufficient cushion for the traffic snarls. Therefore, it is no wonder that these ‘delays’ sarcastically and derisively termed as Indian Standard Time (I.S.T.) I have sad experiences aplenty on several occasions of my guests turning up very late and even did not have the elementary courtesy of expressing regret for the late arrival. It is a well established Indian custom not to eat until the invited guest joins to take the meal and if the host happens to be a diabetic, one can imagine his miserable plight.
However, there are few people in India who follow strict punctuality. I was a witness to an incident in Union Agriculture Ministry when a Director of Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S.) reprimanded the Chief of RD & QC of a PSU when he arrived late for the meeting chaired by the former. When the latter arrived at the venue, the first two agenda items have already been covered. The Director was infuriated and has asked the PSU Member who arrived late to leave the Meeting Hall and ordered the caretaker to shut the door.
In this context, let me recall as to how strict punctuality is observed by the Australians and their time sense. At every important inter-section of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland State, a large electronic clock displaying the correct time can be noticed. The Director of Primary Industries, Queensland has invited me and my room mate hailing from Ghana to his residence for dinner and asked us to be present at 6.00 P.M. at a specific intersection to be picked-up. We have reached the landmark half-an-hour in advance and the time was ticking away and the host could not be sighted even when the clock was one minute short of 6.00 P.M. We thought that our host might have either forgotten about the invitation extended to us or would be coming late. However, we heaved a sigh of relief when his car screeched to a halt and when he emerged out at the stroke of 6.00 P.M. When we told our host about the doubts entertained by us about his arrival, he enlightened us, at length, about the way of life in Australia where the guests never come early as the hosts may not be ready to receive them that might cause embarrassment to both the hosts as well as to the guests and at the same time they never come late also and observe strict punctuality. Can my compatriots take a cue from Kangaroos in observing punctuality in their daily life?
S. Srinivasa Rao, M.Sc.(Ag.)
E-mail: samsrirao@gmail.com
About the Author
Samrajyam Srinivasa Rao, M.Sc.(Ag.)
Seed Technologist (Retd.)
Delhi, India.
E-mail: samsrirao@gmail.com
Ok i wanna know if this is to eat or not?
Ok well i got a gift that is strawberry body trats for lovers n on it it got creams n chocolate body paint. But it also has something called strawberry dreams flavored honey dust n Da ingridients r corn starch modified, glucose, zea mays starch, honey flavor, silica, sodium saccharine, red33. Red40. Is this to eat or no?
judging from the ingredients probably
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American Fruit Trees, Nut Trees, Berry Plants, Grapevines, And Native Plants Promoted By Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the United States minister to France following the great American, Benjamin Franklin in 1785. While acting as the French minister to the United States, Jefferson surveyed crops of agriculture in France searching for fruit trees, nut trees, grape vines, berry plants, and many other potentially useful crops that might be commercially grown in the United States. Many of these seed plants and trees were exported to the American colonists and planters for experimental growing on United States farms and plantations. In exchange to the French, many native plants of the United States were exported to France and Europe for testing. Plants and trees such as red, and black raspberries, scuppernong grapevines, muscadine grape vines, pecan tree seed, Citrus seed, and plants such as mutated cultivars of orange, lime, grapefruit, kumquat, lemon, and tangerine, that centuries before had been introduced by the Spanish colonists into Florida from Europe and Africa. Grains such as corn and the famous American tobacco products were also favorite imports to Europe. The Indian Blood peach tree produced exceptional fruit, even from planted seed, and American grapevines, wild plum and cherry trees were used as root stock for grafting fruit trees and grapevines. Mulberry trees, pawpaw trees, and strawberry plants were also exciting new plant introductions into Europe. American native nut trees such as the American chestnut, Castanea dentata, and the Chinquapin nut, Castanea pumila, as well as many species of Hickory trees, Pecan trees (Carya illinoinenis), several species of walnut trees including Juglans nigra, and the American filbert, Corylus americana (Hazlenut) were all received for commercial agricultural testing in European countries.
Thomas Jefferson made a note on his plant interests to the State of Virginia in the year 1787 #VI, "A notice of the mines and other subterranean riches, its trees, plants, fruits, etc." with his interests in "the orchards produce apples, pears, cherries, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, almonds, and plumbs." Thomas Jefferson was also a learned botanist who could intelligently discuss the fruit trees, berry plants, grapevines, and nut trees in the Latinzed, scientific language with the agricultural elite authorities of his time. In his writing to the state of Virginia, he wrote: "Scarlet strawberries, Fragaria Virginiana of Millar; Whortleberries, Vaccinium uliginosum; Wild gooseberies, Ribes grossularia; Cranberries, Vaccinium oxycoccus; Black raspberries, Rubus occidentalis; Blackberries, Rubus fruticosus; Dewberries, Rubus caesius; Cloud-berries, Rubus chamaemorus."
About native wild and escaped plants, trees, and vines, Jefferson reported on wild fruits like Elderberry, Elder, Sambucus nigra; Papaw, Annona triloba" and the mulberry, proper for its food, grows kindly, pomegranates and figs. Wild cherry, Prunus Virginiana, Cherokee plumb, Punus sylvestris fructu majori, Wild plumb, Prunus sylvestris fructu minori, Clayton, Wild crab-apple, Pyrus coronaria; red mulberry, Morus rubra; Persimmon, Diospyros Virginiana.
Thomas Jefferson had a great interest in timber trees from which lumber was made into dwellings, furniture, tools, fuel, etc. He reported: "Black birch, Betula nigra; White birch, Betula alba; Beach, Fagus sylvatica; Ash, Fraxinus Americana; Fraxinus Novae Angliae, Millar; Elm, Ulmus Americana, Willow, Salix Query species?; Sweet Gum, Liquidamber styaciflua. Plane-tree, Platanus cooidentalis; Poplar liriodendron tulipifera; Populus heterophylla; Black poplar, Populus nigra; Aspen, Populus tremulus; Linden or lime, Tilia Americana; Red flowering maple, Acer rubrum; Horse-chestnut, or Buck's-eye, Aesculus pavia; Catalpa, Bignonia catalpa; Umbrella, Magnolia tripetala; Swamp laurel, Magnolia glauca; Cucumber-tree, Magnolia acuminata; Portugal bay, Laurus indica; Red Bay, Laurus borbonia; Dwarf-rose bay, Rhododendron maxiumum; Laurel of the Western country, Qu. species?"
A group of smaller trees reported by Jefferson was "Holly, Ilex aquifolium, Cockspur hawthorn, Crataegus coccinea; Spindle-tree, Euronymus Europaeus; Evergreen spindle tree, Euonymus Americanus; Candleberry myrtle, Myrica cerifera."
Oak trees were valuable to the early colonists for use in building houses, furniture, tools and fuels, Jefferson listed these as: "Black Oak, Quercus nigra; White Oak, Quercus alba; Red oak, Quercus rubra; Willow Oak, Quercus phellos; Chestnut Oak, Quercus prinus; Black jack Oak, Quercus aquatica, Clayton, Query?; Ground Oak, Quercus pumila, Clayton; Live Oak, Quercus Virginiana, Millar;
Many flowering trees were planted in Thomas Jefferson's garden estate at Monticello, such as Dogwood trees, Grancy Greybeard, Redbud tree and Locust trees listed as: "Wild pimento, Laurus benzoin; Sassafras, Laurus sassafras; Locust, Robinia pseudo-acacia; Honey-locust, Gleiditsia la; Dogwood, Cornus florida; Fringe or snowdrop tree, Chionanthus virginica; Redbud, or Judas-tree, Cercis, canadensis."
The importance of evergreens was obvious to Thomas Jefferson, and he listed them as: "Black or pitch-pine, Pinus taeda; White pine, Pinus strobus; Yellow pine, Pinus Virgincia; Spruce pine, Pinus foliis singularibus, Clayton; Hemlock spruce fir, Pinus Canadensis; Aborvitae , Thuya occidentalis; Juniper, Juniperus virginica (called cedar with us) Cypress Cupressus disticha; White cedar, Cupressus Thyoides."
Jefferson reported that many cash agricultural crops of America were of native or mysterious origin that included: "Tobacco, Nicotiana; Maize, Zea Mays; Round potatoes, Solanum tuberosum; Pumpkins, (Squash) Cucurbita pepo; Cymlings, Cucurbita verrucosa; Squashes, Cucurbita melopepo"
Besides the production of crops from native plants, Jefferson wrote that American farms produced: "wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, broom corn, and Indian corn, rice, tobacco, hemp, flax, cotton and indigo."
Long and the round potatoes, "turnips, carrots, parsneps, pumpkins, ground nuts." Ground nuts were today's peanut, Arachis hypogaea.
Thomas Jefferson listed many grasses and grains in his report to include: "Lucerne, St. Foin, Burnet, Timothy, ray and orchard grass, red, white and yellow clover, greenswerd, blue grass, and crab grass, Panic, Panicum of many species; Indian millet, Holcus laxus; Holcus striosus; Wild oat, Zizania aquatica; Wild pea, Dolichas of Clayton; Lupine, Lupinus perennis; Wild hop, Humulus lupulus."
Thomas Jefferson reported that American gardens were producing in the year 1787; "Musk melons, water melons, tomatas, okra, pomegranates, figs, and the esculent plants of Europe, Jerusalem artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus; Long potatoes, Convolvulas batatas;"
Various ornamental plants such as flowering Sweetshrub, Poke Weed Salad, Passion Flower, Jerusalem Artichoke and Tuckshoe were: "Upright honeysuckle, Azalea nudiflora; Calycanthus floridus; American aloe, Agave Virginica; Sumach Rhus, Qu species?; Poke, Phytolacca decandra; Itea Virginica; Granadillas, Maycocks, Maracocks, Passiflora incarnata; Tuchahoe, Lycoperdon tuber."
Thomas Jefferson reported useful vines: "Ivy, Hedera quinquefolia, Trumpet honeysuckle, Yellow jasmine, Bignonia sempervirens." and the seemingly insignificant "Long Moss, Tillandsia Usneoides"
Medicinal herbs such as Datura, Marshmallow, Ginseng and Jimson Weed were reported along with: "Senna, Cassia Ligustrina; Arsmart, Polygonum Sagittatum; Clivers, or goose-grass, Galium spurium; Lobelia of several species; Palma Christi, Ricinus; James-town weed, Datura Stramonium; Mallow, Mallow rotundifolia; Syrian mallow, Hibiscus moschentos; Hibiscus virginicus; Indian mallow, Sida rhombifolia; Sida abutilon; Virginia Marshmallow, Napaea hermaphrodita; Napaea dioica; Indian physic, Spiraea trifoliata; Euphoria Ipecacuanhae; Pleurisy root, Asclepias decumbens, Virginia snake-root, Aristolochia serpentaria, Black snake-root, Actaea racemosa; Seneca rattlesnake-root, Polygala Senega; Valerian, Valeriana locusta radiata; Gentiana Saponaria, Villosa and Centaurium; Ginseng, Panax quinquefolium; Angelica, Angelica sylvestris; Casava, Jatropha urens."
Thomas Jefferson was an amazing man with a genius and intelligence that helped to make the United States a great nation, not only because of his political contribution as a formulator of the United States Constitution, as a great United States minister to France and the third President of the United States, but Jefferson also was an accomplished writer and farmer.
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