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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1893-03-17, Page 3The Ba ' HurQI Farmers'Institilte.. (Ce id front Seatorth Expositor.) The Bast, Huron farmers` Instituto met in the•Foresters' Hall, Walton, on Friday, March 3rc1, Mr. Uriah McFadden, the President, 000upied the chair, The attend - arm was not large,but there was sufficient lumber present to make the meeting profit- able, though some of the advertised speak - ere were unable to be present. 'fill, KOIINING SESSION was opened by an address by President Me - Fadden on "The Farmers' Institutes. "He 1 pointed out that the farmer received much more than value for membership fee of the Institute, in the way a information of bub letins from the experimental farm at Guelph and in the shape of addresses and•praetical flints from such {nen as Professor Shaw, Professor Mills, Professor Robertson and farmers front different parts of the Prey - ince, who had made a distinct 'success in their respective lines of the vocation, He also showed that the Institute was an edu- cating factor in other than purely business lines. Farmers get together in the Insti- tute and discuss in a friendly way their business, and one and another gives his views and his experience, and each learns to know the other better, and gets to think him a better and more intelligent man than he had ever realized him to be before. Thus mutual effect is fostered, which binds together and tends to strengthen and bene- fit the whole community. It also, teaohes men to give expression to their thoughts and views in an intelligent and intelligible manner, for very often a man who has al- ways been too diffident to speak in public has got so interested in the discussion un- der way, that before he realizes what he is. doing, he is on his feet spouting away at a lively rate and bye and bye he can knock .the spots off some who have always been considered good speakers. Then, by the evening sessions, when music and fun pre- vail, the social side of the farmer is educa- ted and developed. Mr. Thomas St>iaohan, of Grey, also spoke on the sante subject. He said he thought not only agricultural subjects but all, subjects in any way touching the wel- fare of the fariner,should be discussed free- ly in those meetings. He had been de- lighted when he was a delegate to the Cen- tral Farmers' Institute at Toronto, to find that questions of trade were discussed dis- passionately, kindly and without ill -feeling or political bias, and this is as it should be.' Farmers are the producing element ; all other branches of industry depend in a, large measure upon them, and if farming doesn't pay all the people will be poor. Cou- sequently the whole country has an interest in the welfare of the farmer. Farmers cannot combine to raise prices, as manu- facturers'do, nor' would they be willing to do so. They must; therefore, learn to be as economical as possible and learn to produce cheaply, and iqi this lino the Institute is of immense benefit. They cannot raise prices, but they may learn to produce two bushels when before they produced but ono, and thus things may be evened 'tp. ArTEIrN0ON SESSION. At the afternoon sessi on thefirst speaker introduced was Mr. John C. Morrison, of McKillop. He gave a talk on TII.B CO W. He said the two greatest thinga in th is country wore the farmer and the oow. The farmer who keeps cows is generally, the thriftiest. Yon can tell what kind of a farmer a man ie by the kind of cows he keeps. If his cows aro sleek, well feel and fine-looking, you may make up your mind that their owneeis thrifty and prosperous, but if they are scraggy and thin and i11 'kept, you may be sure their owner is shift- less and hard up. It has been satisfactorily demonstrated that the nutriment required to make a pound of beef will make a pound of butter if applied in the right way and to. a strain of cattle that have been bred for milkand butter producers. A man should raise his own cows as far as possible. When you buy a cow you don't know what it nor if it has heen bred from ancestry that would tend to make it adaptableto the pur- pose for which you require it, but when you raise it yourself you know what it is and what it is adapted for. Heifers should never be sold until they have had two calves. By that time you can judge what they aro adapted for: if good milkers, keop thou{; if not, fatten them for beef. If you sell them before they have calved you don't know their value and you may sell them for half what they would prove to be worth to you, If you are buying cows, first look at the 'shape. A. milker should have a thin neck, broad forehead, nice -shaped head, tapering to the muzzle, large, fine eyes, large body, deep in the ribs, a large udder and a large ,Cream vein, Suck a cow will give milk that will make a lot bf Butter anti cheese. Short- hrns make the beat kind of oovs 4)keep if you get a niilkfng lierd,thon if you don't caro to go in for milk e o lusively you havo good beef cattle. /believe in crossing Shorthorn cows with holstein or Ayrshire bulls. I rather incline to the holstein cross, as the Ayrshires are inclined to be wilder. I once had a cow myself with three crosses of Shorthorn which gave fifty pounds of milk par day, and her mother with two drosses THE WING RAM a TIMES, MARCH' .17, 1893, averaged 54 pounds during one summer, Wben you get the oow you want you must feed her. I maintain there is more profit in a cow than in any other animal except a pig. Some people do not think .so, but I know that a farmer can make $40 or $50 a year out of a oow. The most profitable time to llavve a cow Como in is the fall, but of course a farmer cannot have all his cows oorne in at that season, Some farmers do not belivo in feeding a cow, but if rightly fed she mill do much more than pay for lier board during the winter, We will say that you feed $ the. of grain which would be worth about 8 cents, and 20 lbs. of hay, worth about 7 coats. This should produce at least a pound of butter, which at 17 Dents leaves a profit of two cents, and any cow that won't do this muoh is not worth keeping, Feed her for beef or sell her or something, Cows should be brushed and curried every day just the same as horses. It will make a big difference in the oow, The stable, also, should be kept scrupulous- ly clean. The best way to tie cows is with gra stanchion on eaoh side of the nook. Cattle. do better when kept clean. Feed the hay whole, never cut it.. When it is long it keeps the cow chewing longer and they will lie down longer. Change the feed often. Professor Robertson thinks that a cow should bo milked with the dry hand, but when a calf sucks the teats are wet, and we cannot do better than to follow nature's plan. If the teats and udder aro kept glean no dirt can come off and go into the milk when they are wetted. Unless a farme-rhas the ready money by him to build a silo and buy a straw nutter, I think clover hay is cheaper than ensilage,but if a man can have these things without having to borrow the money to procure them, 'ensilage probably pays bettor. Always have the milk of each cow tested, for there is no use keeping a cow that gives milk of which it takes about fifty pounds to make a pound 'of butter. Testers can now bo got very cheap and three or four neighbors might club together and );et one among them. Milk should.be paid for at the factory always by test, for it is"jest as fair to pay the same price for milk with different percentages of butter fat as it is to pay the same price for differ- ent grades of wheat. Then, if milk is paid for according to test there,is no temptation for any one to send skimmed milk to the factory. Mr. T. Strachan, of .Grey, was the next speaker. He spoke on the subject of DAIRYING. He thought there was no branch of farm- ing so profitable at the present tiine, un- less it were pig feeding, and that canto properly under the head of dairyiug,for the very best pork, and that which found tlio best market in England, came from pigs fed on milk and ' coarse grain. Professor Bobertson had made particular enquiries in the old country regarding this matter, and that was the conclusion he Caine to. Some Englishmen even declared that they could detect the difference in the pork. There is no• branch of industry that brings more money into Canada than cheese making. the whole year round. Ib would be a (, e1 licnto-()fade' wish s'to'ry, great advantage to havo cheese factories in , "Ezra S. .Conn came near losing his summer' and butter factories in winter, and life while catching eels from the shhoro frownshi would bring in w good deal of looney. We , on Wednesclay1ea Ie ung Sancti o i3 oryup should not go into this branch exolusfvely, were fishing some distance from ono an - however, but should have other branches in . other and while Brown was baiting his addition. We should have good cows, cow` hook ke saw Conn' struggling' qn the not adapted solely to milking purposes, but ; ground as though in a fit, Fie ran to his general purpose cows, so that if one turned 1 ch ked to don eath by an found that that lie ed gone out not to be a good milker she could be fedi down his throat fitC or seven inolies. for beef. The great thing is to select a lt3rown grabbed the eel, but it was so proper bull, This is the Ivey to success. iillppery that he could nob hold it, and Calves can be raised even if the milk is he got his hands full of sand, seized 1t again, and tug ed away until he pulled sent to tho iaotory. They must, bow ever, it out. The eel weighed seven pounds. wino early, so that they will be sufficiently When Coon ?reroute he said that the advanced when the factoryopens. If the eel coiled itself around his right a;m while he was taking the hook from its. cows Calvo early in. February or Marcli' mouth, and that when he went to bite they will give a good flow of milk all winter it on the head to kill it, as he had done if well fed, and will pay more than their to hundreds of eels before, it gave a board. Our horses are fed up all the time lunge and drove its head so far down until sold, but if a cow gets a little hay his throat that he was helpless at once. once in a while, and has no other attention —Aylmer Sun. paid to her, we think she is all right. Mr. Pollard, of McKillop, asked if it was • Ro RIIeW. practicable to milk a cow right up to, or A school inspector was examining a nearly up to calving time. Mr. Strachan said he thought it was, though he had never done so himself. He also added that he considered chop better than whole oats for feeding purposes. Mr. Pollard then spoke for a few minutes. He said that times were depressing and we must study our business well. We must study not only how to produce, but we must make a study of the markets as well. He could remember quite distinctly when wheat was the staple product of the Ontario class in grammar and trying to elucidate the complex relations of adjectives and nouns by a telling example. "Now, for instance," said he, "what am I?" That was an easy question, and all the child- dren shouted: "A man!" and then look- ed around triumphantly, as much as to say, "Ask another." "Yes, but what else?" said the instructor. This was not so easy, but after a pause a boy ven- tured to suggest: "A little man." "Yes, but there is something more than that." This was a poser, but at last an infant phenomenon almost leaped from his seat in his eagerness and cried: "Please, farmers, but now wheat had got so 1 ow in sir, I know, sir—an ugly little man?"— Boston Globe. price, owing to over -production in the great * wheat lands of the West, that it no longer The Usual Result. paid to raise it here. We must pay more In the general scarcity of fruits this year we find now and then an orchardist attention to stock -raising and other branch- who is reaping a rich harvest, by having es of farming. In regard to what had just a good crop to sell at the prevailing been said, he thought it unwise to milk a high prices. Investiog1sationnot usually theresult sof shows cow right up to calving time. He let his alsthat his cr lucok, but of wisep and careful cultiva- cows rest for about 3 months every, year, tion. and thought he was amply paid by the ha.- 1 provemeut' of the calves. He also found itI Berkwell's Bronchial Balsam 15111 cure any Cough Cold, Bronchitis or Asthmh. impossible to raise calves without milk. I His plan was to feed on new milk for two Hu make's a mockery of bliss who or three weeks and then give morning's milk at night, skimmed a little. This was kept up for tour or five weeks, when he be- gan to feed a little oats, which lie consider - I ed the best feed. He had always obtained good results in this way. A Problem. 81r. Daddy—I wish our laaby could talk more plainly ; Brown's I.nby is a month younger, and one cat{ under- stand almost every ward it says. I wonder why it is ? Mrs. Daddy (otiendcd)—I'm sure 1 ;don't know. (Tu the baby ) .Cornesey 'sooty usonnety itre sweaty. Does 'oo I wicked popper scold 'on dear ittie pop- sy nlopsy dud kine ?=Pnek. Now your blood should be purified. 'Cake Hood's Sarsaparilla, the best spring medi- cine and blood purifier. The World of Labor. There is a shingle trust. Galt leads in pin manufacture. Many things that wore once profitable are Germany has 4,300 electric plants. not now so—for instance wheat. We can The railroad has boomed Jerusalem., raise just as good wheat to the acro in Armour'will employ G,G00 ii1e11 at Kansas Huron now as we ever slid. Tho soil has city, not deteriorated, but the price is very low, Uncle Sam pays $90,000,000 a year in and, consequently, it does not pay to raise salaries. t. But it seems, that the dairying busi- ness is not a thing that is, good for a little Only one f:nll•rigged ship was built in while and then goes down, but both demand Mam°last year. and price havo kept growing. There wore Europe reports 70,000,000 people wearing 12,000,000 pounds more of cheese shipped wooden shoes. to the old country in 1892 than in 1891, and Last year 282 textile mills were estab- the price realized was considerably more fished in the United States. than it ever had been previously. If farm- Telephone chat costs $2 for three minutes ors had not found the business profitable between Paris and London. they would not have increased it. In but- Edison. has 200 women in his employ ter, also; there was an increase of some 0110 making the most delicate electrical instru- and a half million pounds in 1892 over the {()ants. previous year, while the cattle and horse , . trade decreased in 1892 from the previous Enthusiasm. year, both iii quantity and the prices paid- it has been gat ertlyd that enthus- Farming is, undoubtedly, the most im• ias,1, is fanaticism, If it he true, it is portant industry in this ccuntry. Pacili-, equally true that the world needs more ties for education in this branch of industry fsnetics. are much greater at the present time than The manwho throws himself, body they were 20 years ago, and in the future it and soul, into the world's vroi.'k is for will occupy a still more important place. preferable to his vice versa, the indif- Dairying is sure to become, in the eastern ferent man. part, at least, of our own country, one of Of all the flaws which a character the most important (if not the most im. Tray possess, that of indifference is the portant) branches of this important hulas- Worst, try. This branchshould be encouraged, Show us a boy enthusiastic in his not by bonuses or props of that nature, but work and we can show you ono who by local support of the butter and cheese will make his way in the world; show factories. This should bo done, not for the us one Who is indifferent and it is easy sake of the factory men alone, but for the to pielc cue who in after life will never sake of the farming community. Thefarm- be heard from. ers themselves ask no bonuses or props, All this is aimed at the heads of our bet simply edueational facilities, in order boys to shote then{ the blackness of X- dint they may become expert in their busi- don't-careness. Loys,be enthusiastic. noes. Along this line there has been open- Move. Lot every effort count. If you od at Guelph a dairying school, where our undertake a thing, stick at it—sueeeed sons and daughters may go to learn to in it. If .you undertake to learn a make butter scientifically, He thought the trade sbOw enthusiasm enough in it to boys end men on the farms thould relieve Pnaeter it is every detail. the women, to a large extent, of this work; If you enter college and a profos . it is properly men's work, and. should not sional lit., be crank enough to stand be saddled Citi the women, mid butter should at the head 1,f your class and your be made scientifically, not by liap-liazard. chosen profession. He believed in Having batter factories .in Remember nothing succeeds like sateen and I.dcn't•care never achieves that they can make money for their owners it. send,, tObnac0 with a hiss A Plain Statement, I Hagyarcl's PectorelBalsam cures coughs, colds, asthma, hoarseness, bronchitis, tight - nese of the chest, and all diseases of the !throat and lungs. winter, and Having the cows calve early, so ...mIta, ave.._, A EVERY DOSE EFFECTIVE And it persoye cel in will Positively Core the Worst Cases For Sale by All Druggists And W)?laaleu<.Prc by LONDON .11DRITO- CO., London Ont. =_51 1TifF CHIEF ` l C .LO.OM ; CHARM OF.A REFINED WOMAN is her complexion. it hyhavePinnpies 1 Freckles spots or nany blemish when 11 each Bloom Skin 1 Food will remove r' t them all, and leave *if *+7�`•vy``� the Skin transpar- C1 I i V E9,91in �uulS ft and beau- ri A.Clii BLOOM (antains nothing that can inluro the sl' n. 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Parties requiring work In their lino will do well by calling on them or seeing one of their agents heti purchasing. You will find our prices are away down, Our workmanship is unsurpassed. Wei will 050 rad but the very best stock and by square dealing hope to secure a liberal share of the puhlto patronage, Mt T Watson, who has been running. the business for the past year, will represent us on the road, Call ani see our stock and prices. VANSTONE BROS,- BANK OF Hz MILTON, WI;NGHAM. Capital, $1,250,000. Rest, $650,000, President -3011N Sxuatvr. Vice-President—A. G. RAMSAT. DIIrr,1?,CTORS JOHN PROCTOU, Cr1As, GURNEY, GOO ROACH, A. Woos, A. B. Lae (Toronto). Cashier—J. TURNBULL. Savings flank—Hours,10 to 3 ; Saturdays, to 1. Deposits of 51 and upwards received and interest allowed. Special lieposits also received at current sates of interest. • Drafts oi, ,reit Britatn and the United Stator bought and sold 13. 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On the security of Cultivated Farm, Interest six per cent, eatable annually. Any portion of the principal mar bo repaid at any time the borrower wishes All expenses pard by the County. No person except the County Auditors allowed to see mortgages or to know to whom money is loaned. Apply to W14. HOI.MES Oedorbh, Aug. Sth VOL Co. Treasurer. FOR SALE, Lot No. 3, and the B. g of Lot 110. 7 11th Con. Turnberry-150 acres; 90 acres cleared; well fenced; frame house and other buildings; good orchard; cheap, on trine. Apply to M. C. CAMERON, Or Godericl4, WM. MoPHERSON, Glenfarri, w P. O. PROF. SCOTT MUSICAL LEADER PRESBYTERIAN gives Private. Lessons in Vocal Training, both 14. and Tonle-Sol.Fa flotation. Open for en{,a„enita4 for Concerts or Church meetings. Terms Inodoraf - Apply at SIRS. E. MORROW'S,. 24 Shutes St u'inghe 2,000,000 Feet of Logs Wanted Highest Cash Plicrt paid fcr any quantity of HADD AHD SOFT WOOD LOCI delivered at our yard in Win rn. Alsc for Heading : and Shingle Bolts by the cord. Call and get prices, length to cut, etc. Dressed and Undressed Lumbei Shingles, Lath, &o., kept continually en hand. McLEAM & SON Wiugham, January 4th, 1893. How many persons know that Ripans Tabules, now so largely advertised and used, are simply the favorite prescription of their family doctor prepared in a sciertifio manner and a form convenient for haricl ling, eonveyance, preservation and use? 1n the great hospitals of the metropolitan cities, where th wealthy find better care than in their own luxurious homes,the ingredients of Ripans 'Tabules are administer ed to thousauds of rich and poor alike with beneficial effect. They are the main dependence of the mos eminent physicians in cases of derangements of the digestive organs, such as dyspepsia,constipation, biliouonee and other ills connected with the stomach, liver and bowels. For some years one of the principallrosita in New 'York Cit has used a formula, differing slightlyfrom the common one that has ben found Cityde a r unusual 'eflicac . Through commendations of physicians its mission of has been so widely p y healing 0 ya idly extending that it finally seemed desirable to prepare the ' . ; rapidly e �, y • � Y pep a tl o pl asci 1ptton ins convenient fain, so aS make it available to the wl.ole public at a moderate price, and, to announce the fact througl recognl gpublicity—advertisement m dluln fol seculln in the columns e a of the newspapers of the land.,,.�tis� has to done, and now the time is not tar distant when every family of intelligence will be as certa to possess, supply of Ripans Tabules as a clock or a cooking stove. They are already to be found on sale almost titor where, and any druggi9t or dealer will supply them, A. box, containing six vials, is sold for 75 cents,,t t gross package, contaming four boxes, for $2. They will be sent by. mail, post paid, 'to any address; on ceipt of price, by the Ripans Chemical Company, No. 10, Spruce St., New York.