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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1922-10-12, Page 3V Fhmi Crop Queries CUfWWiEU S-k PROP. HENRY G. BBLL The object of thia department lc to place at the ter- vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged •uthorlty on ali subjects pertaining to soils and crops. Address all question! to Professor Henry G. Boll. In care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toron* to, and answers will appear in this column In the order In which they are received. When writing k'ndly mei> tlon this paper. As space Is limited It is advisable where Immediate reply is necessary that a stamped and ad­ dressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when lhe answer will be mailed direct. Copyright by Wilson P nblishing Co., Limited Finish the Cattle. Every farmer desires to get the best market price and the largest profit passible from his cattle. Tcp price is the result, in the first place, of breeding right, in the second places cf proper feeding and care, and, in the third, of sending the beasts to market sufficiently finished. Important in this connection is the winter feeding. The Animal Husbandman in connec­ tion with the Dominion Experimental Farms, dealing with “Feeds for win­ tering and winter fattening of cattle in Eastern Canada” (vide Exhibition Circular 106) summarizes the condi­ tions thus: That a relatively small number of animals as marketed are sufficiently finished to command the top price; that a small percentage of finished animals are marketed be­ tween December and April; that T. B.: Kindly tell us just how feed and handle calves, to be raised separator milk. We would like raise eight or ten that way. to on to '| Raising calves is both a science and an art. One should know what the calf requires, but it is an art to give these requirements in the best and most practical manner. Allow the calf to nurse its dam at least four times. This gives the calf the first milk of the cow, which is necessary to start the bowels in a normal condition. Teach the calf to drink, however, before he has formed too strong a habit for nursing. Give him whole The Sunday School Lesson OCTOBER 22 Jesus Tempted, Luke 4: 1-13. Golden Text—In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to suc­ cour them that are tempted, Heb. 2: 18. '7s The Country Church Choirs. G. R.: M hat is the difference be- proximated by’feeding 2 to 3 lbs. skim prices for finished animus are high- tween hydrated lime and the ground -• * * •* -----K .* .... limestone applied to lands? Where land required two tons per acre of the ground stone how drated lime would stone? Answer: Ground carbonate of calcium and magnesium.; Burnt lime is the carbonate with the gas carbon dioxide driven off by burn-! ing cr heating; that is, burnt lime is | the oxide of calcium. Now, if the( oxide or burnt lime is slaked with steam or water it forms hydrated lime or calcium hydrate. 56 lbs. pure burnt j lime is equal to 74 lbs. hydrated) lime, or 100 lbs. of ground limestone. II. M.: I am feeding my four month old pigs skim milk and middlings. Now I have rye, oats and corn which I could grind and feed with the mid­ dlings and milk. Will you please give me a ration from the above? Answer: Four month old pigs should be about 100 lbs. liveweight. They should get daily about 35 lbs. dry matter per 1,000 lbs. of hogs, 4.8 lbs. protein, 22.5 lbs. carbohydrates, and 0.7 lbs. of fat. This could be ap- much of the hy- be equal to the limestone is the When a hen stands around on one foot in out-of-the-way corners, not mingling with the other fowls, refus­ ing food, although aimlessly picking at nothing, she is evidently infested with the large white lice that burrow into the skin at the root of the feath­ ers. They seem to embed themselves around the ears, gills and throat be­ fore they attack the other parts of the body. The hen mopes around for a week or two, then a slight diarrhea sets in and the fowl dies’ in a short time, supposedly from cholera. I have saved fowl® in the latter stage by the following method: Mix pulverized camphor and grease to form a soft paste. Carefully work this with a stick or end of a match well into the skin around1 the ears and every part of the head and throat. With the fingers work the paste down the back of the neck, across the back and underneath the wings. In a short time the hen will begin to eat and drink, and will entirely recover. Egg production is the final answer regarding profit on the poultry farm, and eggs are seldom obtained from a flock infested with parasites or in which disease is rampant. The com­ mon poultry parasites are lice and mites, which attack the outside of a bird’s body; the internal parasites are intestinal worms and tapeworms. The egg-eating habit may be cured with quinine.' Break an egg into a small dish, and into it stir a generous amount of quinine. Also put some around the inside of the shell. I put this mixture before the hens and they at once began to eat, but not for long. Soon they were shaking their heads as if disgusted with the meal, and that cured them of the habit. In saving meat for the hens, from animals that have died on the farm, it is highly essential that we be sure no disease caused death. The meat! ought to be dried and put away so' that it will keep well. Decayed meat1 is not a bit better for hens than it i-s for people. milk per day along with as much est during those months and that a _____— » - — — X.7I—.. __ 1—. — .— ——1.1 1 -L^-. ll WO 1 4- TTTZ\1 11 —— A — 4- "V* I I grain as the hogs will take. One relatively small percentage of steers successful farmer made up a success-. classed as export steers are sufficient­ ful ration out of 1 part oats and 1 ly wrell finished for the trade, hence part peas or barley finely ground. In proper winter feeding is desirable, winter it is customary to feed grain' These statements are illustrated in twice daily with mangels at midday.! In your case a mixture of rye and; ■corn will about and barley. S. H.: I would milch cows. timothy hay and shredded corn fod­ der. As grain I will have corn, oats, rye, cull beans, and bran, be for winter feed; will mangels. Answer: Henry’s Feeds ing gives a daily ration for 1,000 lbs. cows as follows: 10 lbs. clover hay, 20 lbs. corn stover, 8 lbs. corn meal, 3 lbs. corn and cob meal, 1 lb. bran, 8 lbs. roots. Your substitutes may be worked in about as follows: 12 to 15 lbs,, timothy hay, 20 lbs. shredded corn, 8 lbs. com meal, 3 lbs. oats and rye meal (equal parts), 1 lb. bran and i 8 lbs. mangels. I would not feed cull bean meal to dairy cows. substitute for peas like a ration for my As roughage I will have This will also have and Feed- The Effect of Feed on the Richness of Milk. Until very recent times it has been universally held that milk varied in richness or per cent, of fat according to the feed and care the cow received. Foods rich in fat, perhaps more than any other class of nutrients, have been looked upon ais having a direct influ­ ence on the richness of the milk. Sometimes if the amount of fat or oil in the ration be increased markedly or suddenly by feeding such feeds as cottonseed meal, linseed oil meal, cocoanut meal, soy-bean meal or flax­ seed, there will be a temporary in­ crease in the percentage of fat in the milk for a short period, but the nor­ mal richness always reappears within a short time. This slight temporary increase in richness of milk is not due to the nu­ tritive effect of the food, but due to the sudden change in feeding which upsets the normal working of the cow’s glands and digestive organs, and is often followed by a decrease in the amount of milk given. Attempts at feeding fat into milk for a long period have not been suc­ cessful. The quality of milk cannot be changed over any considerable time by the feeder, but is largely deter­ mined by f actors not under his control, such as breed and individuality. The milk of each cow possesses a fixed in­ herent richness. The Jersey cow gives a milk which is relatively high in fat. No kind of feed or care will cause the Jersey to give milk like that of Holsteins, or the Holstein like that of the Jersey. The quality of milk de­ pends on the inheritance of the rather than on the food which consumes. cow she ------------------ Looking for a Farm? Here are a few things no should overlook when going to buy a farm: Do not buy land when it is covered with snow. A woman who did that a year ago, found when spring opened that she had invested in a piece of swamp land. Do not trust anybody else to pick out a farm for you. See it yourself before you close the bargain. Satisfy yourself that the price you pay is a good investment. That is, that you can grow crops enough and sell them at such a price that you can pay for your farm from the proceeds. Look well to the neighborhood you locate in. Good neighbors, good roads, good schools, church privileges are worth more than good land. And go intending to add your part toward making the community the best pos­ sible. Take care that you are not too far from market. Many a farmer has been handicapped by long distance man New Varieties of Grain. Since the inception of the Dominion Experimental Farms up to 1922 there have been originated by the Cereal' Division seventy-four new varieties and selections of grain, including 29 varieties of spring wheat, 9 varieties of oats, 14 of barley, 7 of peas, one' each of spring rye, winter rye, emmer! and sunflowers, 6 of beans, and 5 cf flax. The principal variety of all is the Marquis wheat, which has won ■ prizes wherever shown and has brought millions of dollars to Canada.! Although the farms came into life in 1886 this great work has mainly been done in the present century, f under the direetien ot the late Dr.| WHIe it is trlK that houses can be William Saunders was Dn-setor anywhe^ remember that they of the Farms up to 1902 and then;cost in the3e d and look ’ under Dr Charles E. Saunders who; buiMi carefully to see what became Dominion Cerealist m 1903 — and in the winter of that year and 1904 gave the country the famous' Marquis, which wa^jjeobtained from a! mixed variety called Markham which was in turn secured from a cross made in 1892 between Hard Red Calcutta and Red Fife. -r- -----*---------------* Let’s not forget that the finest look­ ing hen is usually the poorest worker. The Chinese made agriculture a part of their school courses over 4,000 years ago. —— ----o----------- Cattle were the first money. Roman word for money, pecuniam, is derived from pecus, meaning cattle. first .from railway stations. Dr J TI711---1- _-x ,1 . Th! i condition they are in. From roof to cellar they should be comfortable and sanitary. And bear in mind that a valid title is what conveys the home. Insist on' having a search made and see that j you have an abstract of title. Finally, don’t be in a hurry. Buy! in haste and repent at leisure may be' a revised version of an old saying, I but it is a good one, all the same. —E. L. V. If you want an umbrella to stand it handle up when wet.--------o-----_ Some teamsters make us horses weren’t so patient, rot, wish part by the fact that in Toronto last March the top price reached for prime steers was $11, while the average for good and common steers combined was only $6.92. In like manner the top price paid for calves was $14 and for the average $5, and for llambs fhe top was $16 and the average $11.33. I The Children’s Dream. Come, my children, fly with me! In our imagination We’ll build an aeroplane and see The wonders of a fairy nation. The propeller whirls— Away we fly! We’ll cut a window in the sky, And then With caution peeping through We’ll see just what the angels do. light iThey’re forming halos made of For mothers when they sleep at night; They tie each raindrop to a string To drop it on the flowers in spring; They’re bending rainbows bit by bit, So careful lest they should not fit, So when you see a rainbow fair, Hush! Don’t you toll who placed it there, But keep our secret! Hug it tight, And only think of it at night. So now heigh ho! away for home, The counterpane’s our aerodrome, A pillow for each curly head, Nurse finds us fast asleep in bed. —Jas. Howcroft. ------------------j-------------. - To remove old wallpaper, apply hot water containing saltpeter. Use one heaping teaspoonful of saltpeter to a gallon of water. Apply with a brush. After a few applications, the paper will peel off. Time and Place—A.D. 27; The Wilderness of Judea. Lesson Setting—Our lesson this week deals with the Temptation of Jesus. This event is connected vitally with His baptism. His baptism by John was a gracious recognition to the ministry and person of John and an identification of Himself with that ____ _ ___ . .... ................. movement, although baptism was in milk from his dam for the first week, the case of Jesus the symbol of _c]e^n2 Then use one-half new milk for one week. Then gradually increase the skim-milk and decrease the new milk, titud^ to" God? so at three weeks of age the calf is ( his entrance into "a"new 'lif e of public getting alt skim-milk. Do not feed too much milk; five approving words of God and the full pounds at a feed is sufficient. 1----- the milk always at the same temper-1 ature when fed. As the calf grows larger and older and requires more food, begin giving ground oats, wheat middlings, corn meal for grain, and also give clover hay, ensilage or any roughage food you have. This will make a better calf than to feed large quantities of skim-milk. ness from sin rather than cleansing from sin, yet thereby He identified i Himself with humanity in its true at- ". Moreover it marked ministry and' was confirmed by the ---------------------- ---------------- . 1 - ------- “He hears his daughter’s voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice.” —Longfellow. Once each week, usually on Friday evenings, in hundred1 of rural com­ munities throughout Canada little bands of enthusiastic and devoted men and women meet to practice the music to be sung in_ church the following Suday. The anthem and a solo or two are usually the items upon which most time is spent, but the hymns are not neglected, and in some churches the chants and others the psalms, set in poetical form, have to be studied. Each denomination has selected and adapted the music that best suits its needs, and church choirs do a great deal to keep the spirit of music alive and vigorous in the Dominion. In rural communities one frequent­ ly finds men and women of exceptional natural talent, good sopranos, altos, Satan tenors and basses, who have had no suggests it would be a splendid con- • more training than the local choir is firmation of the promise of Ps. 91: j able to give. In some places, also, it humble kings instead of inspiring fishermen? Why not use worldly means for heavenly ends? V. 8. Thou shalt worship the Lord . . Him only shalt thou serve. There can be no compromise either in the 1 worship or service of God. Christ had ■ come to glorify God and the way of I service must be in accordance with! the will of God. III. The Temptation to a Popular Messiahship, 9-13. V®. 9-12. Pinnacle of the temple; the place that symbolizes God’s presence, i Cast thyself down. Christ has refused to use divine powers in the interests ! of self. He has refused to use worldly gjwer in the interests of His kingdom, ■ ut how will He use His divine power in the work of the kingdom ? Satan tempts Him to a lavish, unrestrained, spectacular, wo nd er-stirring way that would advertise His divinity and pro-' fioundly impress the multitude. He shall give His angels charge. ! Have gift of the Holy Spirit for that task. . In a word, the baptism was a recog- j nition, an identification, a beginning, ! and an endowment. It was a great ■ experience in the life of Jesus. I. The Temptation to an Easy Messiah­ ship, 1-4. V. 1. And. Mark says “straight­ way,” after the baptism. Full of the Holy Ghost; dedicated to his great task and endowed with the full gift of God’s spirit for it. Led . . . Imu. „ , .the wilderness; in the neighborhood ! ps'.a^m 1S f°r those in the plain of the Dead Sea. Experiences must1 not only 'be experienced. r~ be understood. Jesus needs retire-! m-ent for thought and contemplation. • Being forty days tempted. J___* thought would be about His Messiah I ship, its nature, method and end. T 12. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord found that an enthu'Siiastic music tne run gin Jesus differentiates between teacher has done wonderful' work in traimu™ No • “. . ..I path of duty and in the presence of er how good a voice may be by Thev must in’evil'a^l|e danger. It is for dangers it is always improved and - y • ! that menace, not for dangers that are brought nearer to perfection by tra.in- ravmzii. i 1Jesus’! be a Wonder-monger, lah-! Jesus were always prompted' by ( it is quite possible that as the use omp, xuo nciL.uic, iiicmvu auu vnd. He always assigned to help, always; arMj des'ire for music increase in Can- found Himself being tested, and tried Jnac^e subordinate to His teaching of; ................. Temptation for ; ^venly truth. He Himself not His x -• '........•; miracles is the sunreme revelation of i i God.I V. 13.When the devil had ended all the temptation; every kind of tempta- jtion. He departed; a rout, not a re- , treat. For a season. Jesus had fought i this battle once for all, but tempta­ tion is not a past experience. There will be other battles, but not along this line. Even at the end of his ministry there will come the tempta- TT. - . tt- tion in the Garden of Gethsemane1, toHis wildernes® experience, His bodily, geek &ome ,&asier lfcan the ,cf; needs were forgotten for a time, but thg Cross> But 'His they asserted themse ves later and suprem8 fr(telit to the of Go,d> this time of physical reaction andiFrom bei&inniRg to end, He will be a bodily exhaustion is seized by the Mesigiah whoi&efekin,gdom’ is not of this: mp er or is cu minuting effort. ; world, but cf divine love that seeks,! V. 3. Command . . that it be made serves and1 saves bread. Seemingly, a natural thing, for, _hunger is meant to be appeased—a| Application, reasonable thing, for Christ must live The temptation of our Lord was no to do His work, an easy thing for a drama. He took to Him a true body, word will do it, a useful thing for it and a reasonable soul and was tempt- would demonstrate His divine sonship able as well as tempted in all points' and' power. | just as we are. He was plunged into V. 4. Not . . by bread alone . . by ’ no river Styx to make Him invuilner- every word of God. Jesus uses the able. Otherwise His' temptation would, ( scripture (Deut. 8: 3) for His shield, have no value for us. He triumphed,! f Hunger is not the supreme motive. ■ Hiis human nature notwithstanding. Jesus will not use His power in-a! This temptation in the wildernese self-satisfying way. In all His min- wa.s no doubt externalized1 in the telil- istry Jesus never used His ^ivine power to save Himself from any of the pains of hii® human life. His power is for others. II. The Temptation to a Compromis­ ing Messiaship, 5-8. V. 5. An high mountain . . all the kingdoms of the world. Satan has! -been foiled1 in the test of self-satis-; faction. But if Jesus will not choose' the easy way for Himself, perhaps He will choose the easy way for His j kingdom. I Thee . . if Thou . . wilt worship me.! with that Greatheart of the human an-J power plant cf automobile type. The sides and chassis of the hood are extended to the rear, and support two pivoted vertical levers, at the lower ends of which, in contact with the ground, are flat, horizontal propelling plates, cr feet. By means of a system cf connecting rods and cranks in con­ nection with the motor, these levers are caused to move backward and forward alternately like the legs of any biped, and the propulsion of one foot continues until propulsion is started by the other. ----------o--------— Dairy Products from Canada to Britain. Statistics published in the News Letter cf the Dominion Dairy and Cold Storage branch show that Can­ ada exported to Britain during th® year ending June 30th last, 1,646 tons of butter and 58,674 tons of cheese. Experts of butter to the Mother Coun­ try from Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, and the Argentine all ex­ ceed Canada’s experts in quantity, but New Zealand’alone exceeds our ex­ ports in cheese. In the month of July, this year, Canada’s exports of butter profit. The man who does that will, to the United Kingdom were 44,964 not go broke even though he seldom long hundredweights compared with hits the extreme top price. And, as 2,347 hundredweights in the corres- regularly as the seasons come and go, ponding month last year and 907 eggs, butter, poultry, fruit, are low hundredweight the year before. The , when the crop is on, and high the export of cheese fell off considerably, ! balance of the year. “ So I’m not advising that you gamble, but rather that you meet a well-known, orderly recurrence cf price changes with intelligent action. Sell on the spot when there is a profit in doing so, but when prices are below- the cost of production, do a little cold storing yourself, and then sell as the! market shows you a net profit. Big Field for Co-operative Association 'Sometimes this can be done by the individual. Sometimes it is too big a job for the individual, and belongs to the farmers’ “Co-op.” But, one j way or the other, here is a practically! ’] untouched fieild in marketing, where ’ the farmer can help to narrow the h gap that exists betwen. the consumer ! ,! and himseilf. and in such fashion as' twenty-five cents a crate each month: , , . ’ m1 ter balance for the farm and its boss. --------------9--- The principles of feeding should be practiced on the farm table as well as Ten Thousand Pound Dairy Cows. Five years ago at a dinner of cattle breeders the late Dr. C. C. James, then Dominion Commissioner of Agricul­ ture, said “We need more ten thou­ sand pound cows.” Judging from the fourteenth report of the Canadian Re­ cord of Performance for Pure-bred Dairy Cows, published by the Domin­ ion Live Stock branch, Canada is in a fair way of having her* wants ful­ filled. The number of cows that have j „ qualified in the Record of Perform- created in Christ for the weak who, ance with records of 10,000 lbs. milk' are tempted1. or over, is shown to have been 3,2271 V. 2. Did eat nothing . . he after-1 up to April 1, 1922. Given by breeds ward hungered. In the intensity of the figures are as.follows: Hoistein- Friesian, 2,368; Ayrshire, 594; Jersey, 150; 'Shorthorn, 90; Guernsey, 16; French Canadian, 9. Total, 3,227. —-----e------— Why Hogs Root. Why do hogs root? Experts say rooting is just one of the natural pro-: clivities of swine. While it probably! does help make muscle, it is other­ wise of no special bepefit, and has no J particular significance. The fact that hogs show a strong tendency to plow up fields is no indication that they1 are not getting proper feed; rooting does not result fronT’teck of mineral or protein in the ration. Hogs root for worms, roots, and other food, but they seem to thrive just as well when a check is placed on the extensive use I of their snouts. They a make a cool bed on a hot d advise ringing where hogs damage by rooting. also root to day. Experts s do material Cold Storage and the Farmer John Elkins, who lives across thei road from me, is a likeable sort of chap, but he has one pet antipathy, and that happens to be cold storage. I He thinks, and honestly so, that “them | cold storage fellers is hookin’ their claws onto the earth.” He has .it! figured out that nearly everything from sunburn to taxes is in some way caused by our great refrigeration plants. And John is not alone in his way of thinking. But I doubt if even we, who take a little more moderate position, often stop to figure where we would be without cold storage, and just what it does for us as well as to us. Let’s make a list of the indus­ tries that exist on their modern scale through the existence of a system of cold storage. The list will include: The branch The branch The fruit business—more farming. The poultry business'—still more farming. The livestock business1—’the biggest branch of farming. Wipe out our refrigerators, our re-j be’lil say: frigeratcr cars, our cooling pianus,: ----------— our cold storage plants, and these An bhe winter! lines of business, every one of them,' y°ur cake and eat it too. would decay and disappear from the! P^en^y eggs and famine prices. By Hugh J. Hughes Now it’s another story. Along in eggs are going up. grumbles, his place. About that same time, were it not for cold* 'Storage, eggs would not merely go up in price, but they’d go clear off the market! Year Round Market for Eggs Now. Note just what happens: In the spring, when eggs were1 rolling in fast, all the farmers had a -market, and. something like a fair price for their eggs. And this market continues all the season because, and only because,; the consumer in the city is sure that he can satisfy his taste for eggs when­ ever he wants to do so. Put into other words, the egg appetite of the average consumer has been trained to ask for eggs any time in the year. The eat­ ing season has widened from a few Weeks to twelve months, and the farmer is the gainer, as he secures a steady outlet. But you tell that to John Elkins and U'U'U vui vui ic- -— v : “Yes, but look at how them, frigeratcr cars, our cooling plants,' °°ld storage aigs fetch down the price X in +Po. uHn+an!” Well, you can’t have Can’t have whole milk business—another of farming. egg business—still another of farming. invited' or created. Jesus refused to ■ ing, for there are right and wrong The miracles ways of singing. ■ ’ ’ It is quite possible that as the use regarding all these. ’ the strong means a revealing of strength. For the weak it means a revelation of weakness, but for strong and weak alike the test is real and the writer of Hebrews emphasizes the reality of Christ’s temptation and the sympathy which such temptation ing somewhat after the fashion of Christian’s experience in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress;. Nobody we ever knew of ever saw the devil1 with out­ ward eye. If we could so see him it would be an easy feat to say, “Get thee behind me 'Satan.” It suits the devil’s strategic purpose to fling in1 his suggestions with a hidden hand and no doubt after this inward and spiritual manner, our Lord was tempted. As we go through the wilderness of j this world, shall we breast our temp- i ada teachers will be trained specially to work in rural communities. Such teachers should make a specialty cf singing and of one instrument, pre- 1 ferably the piano or organ, and, if : possible, to 'have a teaching knowledge of other instruments, so much the better. Such a teacher would bear the same relationship to the specialist in one instrument as the doctor doing general practice in the country does to the specialist in the city. Such teachers could be of inestim­ able benefit in a Community in teach­ ing the art of music, in training choirs, in organizing concerts and in discovering and developing the young who have natural talent. They would add immeasurably to the enjoyment of life and would brighten the lives of people whose everyday life leads them to toil and struggle with nature for such harvests as the earth affords. The more general use and practice of music in the country would do much to make life more attractive and d&- i sirable. As a wholesome and bright­ ening influence its value cannot be ■overestimated'.--------4--------- Tractor Propelled by Feet for Use on Soft Ground. An agricultural tractor which is propelled by feet instead of by a wheel is described in the Popular Mechanics Magazine. The purpose of I the machine is to furnish a tractor i that will operate ; times on ground for the effective wheels. Mounted equally well at all too soft or muddy used of propelling on a pair cf steer- irgLAlWlll. j Ml KUO OA1XV1X VYC MX OCV.ZU M M.X . KI’ 1 1 1’ LV. 6, 7. All His power I will give1 tations alone, or shall we go along; wheels is a hood, witn a radiator November when the hens out on^the ^'6 Jews looked for a kingdom of, race, who has overcome all temptation farm begin to miss the angleworms' eartW P°^eiZ'nd JiOry' 7i]J!o°nTe/'ay Put th™gS ™der . . 6 . ,, . , . ,7 world would bow before such a king-1 Hcs feet; If we do, God will make usand to curl up their toes m the morn-; Why not compromise, earthly j more than conquerors through Him mgs, the city consumer notices that p0Wer for spiritual ends? Why not; that loved u:s. We may be sure of of course he come before the world as a king in-: this, that we must either overthrow, You’d do the same, if in stead of a carpenter? Why not choose' our temptations or be overthrown by a throne insifead of a cross ? Why not them. !plethoric “plunderbund.” They do. December is nine months inclusive:! not buy up and hold off the market' total per crate, $2.50. Add freight immense quantities of food in order | and price at time of storing, then add to gyp the farmer on prices coming, a profit and enough in addition to coverLO gyp uirc xtuiiiicx vii piivco wuime , a piuuiajtueuuugu mwuiuuu lu wvei and the consumer on prices going.■ ycur possible losses through some go-! They do not “corner” food supplies.! jng bad—and you have the price at earth in their present form. They are built up, and they exist on cold stor­ age, just as much as they exist be­ cause of meadows or pastures or rail roads or people to consume food. Take fruit. It is a seasonal crop, highly perishable. It can not stand heat nor handling, but because of cold storage one can eat apples twelve months in the year, and oranges, and bananas. When cold storage came into being in a large way, less than a generation ago, it made what had been the lux­ uries of the rich the common market possibilities of the average consumer. Suppose we trace its effect upon, let us say, eggs. Eggs Five Cents a Dozen. Eggs used to be pretty much a store-trading proposition. Their pro­ duction and their marketing alike were neglected. They were plentiful, and about five cents a dozen in the spring. In the winter we counted them a luxury, arid a new-laid egg next to a miracle. 1 Can’t have a leveling up of prices in the summer and no leveling down of | prices in the winter. Fifty years ago' it was low prices and a short market1 season; now it is reasonably fair prices and a market all the year ’round. Which is the better? But while I insist that the effect of the coming of the cold storage plant as a part of our marketing system has been to lengthen the consuming season, increase the demand for per­ ishable farm products, and increase the income of the farmer, I am just1 as ready to agree with you that the farmer has not received his full share of the benefits. In other words, there is too wide a spread between what the farmer get-s' for his spring eggs, and what the con­ sumer pays for those spring eggs six; months -later. And so cn for the rest] of the list. No Cold Storage Trust. Now let me whack a p-et super; tion between the horns. The “cold! storage men” are not an organized/ :.i- They simply can’t. Not even when which you can sell and break even, they appear to. Maybe some of them try to. I have, a recollection of something of that; sort in eggs, but it simply isn’t done. Why? many in on the same deal, storage plant is for rent to any ers. And they come scores and by the hundreds—'literally. There are egg men galore, all buying eggs When eggs are cheap—and as cheap as they can. Buying eggs on the market, buying eggs from the country stores, buying eggs from the farmers direct—.all planning on buy­ ing cheap and selling dear. Then comes the selling. Along in. October the cautious ones begin to let go whenever they can make a profit,! and the plungers ride for a “big stake.” < Farmers Can Use Cold Storage. \ But this suggests how, in the case of eggs, and perhaps some other, things, the farmer who is not getting, a fair price for his produce on the! home market can take things some-; what into his own hands. Any farmer can buy space in a cold! storage warehouse as easily as he can j rent a room in a hotel when he goes to the city. Upon request, the ware­ houseman will quote him rates for storage: so much for the first month, and so much per month thereafter. As I recall the rate of one warehouse, it amounts to fifty cents a crate of' thirty dozen for the first month, andj I I I !I com- the Best reason in the world—tooj A cold! merely a place I and all by If you follow the market you wi!li be apt to find1 that, taking one year; with another, you can get fair prices for your eggs by selling them as cold storage, and in the way I have de-1 scribed. ; Sell on a Rising Market. I’m not insisting on holding until December, or until any other set time. ■ The thing the man who holds should do, whether he holds eggs, or wool, or wheat, is to sell when the market is rising, and when he can see a clear i being 139,868 hundredweight compar­ ed with 214,568 hundredweight in -July last year. thereafter. Suppose you placed' eggs; in storage in April—the best time to i stere them, as in late spring and sum-i mer they become more watery • and' not <of good quality—from April to in the bam. Dairy Cow Record Breeders. How interest has grown in the im­ provement of the pure-bred dairy cow is shown by the increased number of owners and breeders Whose names figure in the Report for 1921-22 of the Record of Performance of Pure-bred Dairy Gows kept and published by the Dominion lave Stock branch. In the report for 1919-20 the number was 247, in that for 1920-21 it was 336, and in 1921-22 it was no fewer than. 468, making an increase of 90 per cent, in two years. This shows at once not only accelerated interest in milk pro­ duction on the part of the breeders of dairy cows, but also in the economy of the dairy, seeing that the keeping of records has become widespread. Lightning rods are 98 per cent, pro­ tection against fire by lightning.