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bulging during settling. The bu.ging
left air spaces, and molding foLowed.
After the silo had fully settled, there
is little or no lateral pressure.
The inside of a silo is no place for
a lazy man during filling time. Only
the most dependable workers should
be entrusted with the spreading and
packing of the finely-cut fodder. The
lazy man will lean up against the silo
! wall or sit down and loaf, letting the
ThT"storage of fifty tons of clover' cut fodder pile up. With the heavy
or corn made up as dry hay or corn and nght portions separated and with
fodder, would require a barn 40 x 330, the leaves all together, soft, spongy
FILLING THE PROSPERITY
TANKS. |
The silo is the cheapest and most
efficient coarse fodder storage build
ing that can be erected on the farm.
A ton of clover hay or corn, field-
cured and stored in the farm barn, re
quires at least 400 cubic feet of space.
The same quantity of corn or clover
would occupy but fifty cubic feet of
silo space. !
XOClClCx. WUU1CL Lt>U[lXlXV/ Mtxx j it* n 1x -16, costing not less than $1,200. The ^eas develop in every foot throughout
saml quantity of fodder made up as; the mass. It can be smoothed over at
silage could be stored in a silo 10 x 30, the time, but the telling evidence of
costing not to exceed $300. i ><»&>« >s generally seen m the mouldy
The silo has made possible the ex-[ sections when the silage is removed,
tensive use of plants that are not suf-1 The best corn may be grown, the
ficiently palatable m their natural,
state to be of great value. The ensil
age process, when practiced on sun-'
flowers, mustard, coarse sweet clover
and Russian thistle, makes palatable
acceptable ensilage. Also, the silo
may be made to serve a useful pur
pose by providing a medium through
which weed-infested crops may be
handled, by being utilized to save
grass, clover and grain crops in sea-
" sons too wet for haymaking or grain
ripening.
During the season of 1920 a very
The Sunday School Lessonk
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SEPTEMBER 21
TRAINING OUR
CHILDREN
THE BREAKFAST—
FLORENCE J. OVENS.
<’I
Jesus Makes a Missionary Tour, Mark 1: 35-45. Golden V ,}
Text—Thou cans! make ms clean.—Mark 1: 40. ! . . , .x ou are not going out of this
house until you’ve eaten your break
fast, Leon,” said his mother emphatic
ally.
Leon let go of the front door handle,
threw down his cap and school book,
and went to the dining room, scowling.
In about three minutes he was back
again. His mother had gone upstairs,
but she heard him.
“Leon,” she called, “you haven’t
finished? You can’t have eaten any-
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best of silos built, the cutting machin
ery may be used, yet the silage largely
spoiled by loafers neglecting the
spreading and packing of the fodder
as it goes into the tank.
All silage material should be finely
cut. Coarse stalks and hollow clover
and grain stems must be cut short and;
be crushed or broken in order to pack!
well. The use of the flexible distribu-:
| tor tube is a great aid in the even
: spreading of cut fodder. It, too, should (
j be operated by a man possessed of
’ sufficient energy to do an honest day’s!
17l!llllg V11C OUUOVU VZJ- -1-1/-IW vv
large portion of the cut and stocked , . , . , „ ., . I
grain crop of the Pacific Coast would The highest grade of corn silage is,
have been lost had it not. been that;
the farmers had silos. Owing to con
tinued unseasoned weather the grain
sheaves made a luxuriant growth, de-)
veloping about eight inches of matted
green top. In this condition the crop
originally intended for grain was put
into the silo along with such green
material as was available at the time;
moisture and acid culture were added
in quantity sufficient to control the
fermentation processes. A good silage;
resulted, the silo having saved the
crop.
Successful silage making depends!
first of all on fermentation processes,)
which are largely cdntrolled by the
amount of air present in the mass of
fodder. Silos built with air-tight
walls will cut off the air supply from1
the outside and reduce the losses to a
minimum. Air-tight, hence satisfac
tory silos, may be made of wood, stone,:
brick, monolithic concrete blocks and
tile. i
Generally speaking, wooden silos
One of the newest ideas throughout England is the sale of miniature busts
of the Prince of Wales, all proceeds to go to Lord Haig’s £25,000 campaign
for the benefit of British ex-service men.
grain crop of the Pacific Coast would
I produce a large proportion of grain
i in the total weight of crop. Large-
■ growing southern varieties of dent
corn that give an immense green
weight of fodder per acre, will, as a
rule, produce a very poor silage. Many i
dairymen prefer flint varieties and
the small stalk varieties of early ma
turing dents for silage purposes. From
such, a rich sweet silage can be made.
The weight per acre may not be nearly
as great as with the late maturing,
large-growing dents, but when the sil
ages are compared on the digestible
dry matter basis, the smaller growing
earlier maturing dents and flints have
the advantage. Only such varieties
as will ripen at least a few ears should
be used, even in most northern sec
tions.
In the early years of silo experience
the practice was to grow big corn.
Little attention was paid to the grain
yield, and much poor silage resulted
v tmeia.ii -peamug navav.. f’’om the twelve to fourteen-foot stalks
are cheaper to erect, but less durable ^at went intothe silo ^without the
than the others. ------ ------(
standing empty dry out. If before'ear<
they are filled they receive attention,
and' the hoops are tight, they will keep
silage pcucvuij, xui vn>- ..... , . +n
swell sufficiently to make them air-PU^^S\aJ^.
tight. Silos made of other materials,'
if properly constructed, are always
air-tight.
Wooden silos when' very necessary two-pound, well-glazed
Hard experience has demon
strated that there is more milk, beef
or butter in a cubic foot of silage
perfectly, for the wood, will, corn that consists of big
The greatest quantity of digestible
dry matter is obtained from a corn
crop when it has reached the condition
Silage will keep perfectly in a silo ^01 husking, ripe enough to
complete maturity ir the shock. An
other advantage in growing earlier
maturing varieties is that such can
be ensilaged in September and the land
prepared for fall wheat, an important
corn
of any kind which is air-tight. On the;
other hand, spoilage always results i
when air enters the silo at the sides
or at the bottom, and often cause
large losses, a few small openings will, allow sufficient air to enter to spoil h“ .-L°pea.n
the whole mass of ensiloed material, i
The top of the ensiloed material will
seal itself through decay of about a
foot of material, less when very green
crops are used, and more when more
matured crops are put in. Spoilage
can be largely eliminated by cutting
thoroughly the last few loads of silage
as they are cut up, by covering the sil
age with a layer of finely cut wet
straw.
Silos less than twenty feet deep do
not give the same high efficiency as
silos over thirty feet deep. Height is
required in order that the weight of
the mass may be sufficient to compact
the cut material and reduce the air;
content te a degree not favorable to i 282’ the’yVarTeforV? The^rice rf'but-
borer has become a menace to com
growing over a •'vide area.
I The freezing of corn after it has
reached the denting oi early glaze
stage, does not materially injure it
so far as silage making goes, if the
crop can be cut up shortly after
freezing. It is always advisable to
run the risk of frost, rather than en-
siloing the corn in an immature state.
I
I. JESUS THE MAN OF PRAYER, 35-38. as they still do in China and in many
II. jesus THE GREAT physician, 39-45. r , heathen countries.
Introduction—Mark 1:21-24 con-1
tains the record of a whole day’s work
of Jesus. The scene is Capernaum;
the time is the first Sabbath which
Jesus spent in that city. In the morn
ing Jesus attended the synagogue and
taught. At midday, Jesus leaves the
synagogue, and going to the house of
Simon and Andrew, heals the mother-
in-law of Simon. At sunset, extra
ordinary scenes are witnessed in the1
usually quiet streets of Capernaum. ,
“Working all day” is the title that
might appropriately be given to the
picture of Jesus in these verses of
Mark.
But the next morning, when the
crowds reappear, Jesus is gone. The
UJ streets are again thronged with peo-
Q i pie waiting with their sick, but the
! Healer is nowhere to be found.
! Anxiously Peter and his companions
| go in search of Jesus, and find him in
make the solitudes outside of the city, pray-
Ask ing. This brings us
profit lesson. We are now_ I’Ve “never for-! a man of prayer,
tory about my grand-1- JESUS the man of prayer, 35-38.
' ' V. 35. The prolonged labor of the
day before had curtailed Jesus’ hours
of rest. Nevertheless, long before day-
Whenever,
, therefore, any of the above symptoms
occurred, it was at once concluded
that possession by demons had taken
place. Jesus saw in all this, the signs
of Satan’s fearful domination over the
souls of the sufferers, commanding the
demons to go, and bringing back to
the disordered mind, the sense of God’s
love and power to save. Mark sees in
these conquests of the terrors inspired
i by demons, the most wonderful proof thing at all!
“I’ve had all I want,” was the
answer, and the next moment he was
gone. ,
With slight variations this scene
had been enacted every morning dur
ing my three weeks with the Thorn
tons. More than a year elapsed be
fore my next visit, but I soon found
plenty of evidence that the perform
ance had been continuous.
1 Another nine months passed; again
I was with these friends. But a
change had taken place. Each morn
ing Leon sat quietly down to break
fast when I did, his mother sitting
with us though she had eaten prevn-
ously. He ate each course in turn
slowly with evident enjoyment. I was
surprised and so glad that, on the
morning I was leaving, I could not re
frain from commenting on the trans
formation. Leon had gone to school
and we were just sitting down for a
final chat.
“It came about through the Parent-
Teacher Association,” said my friend,
smiling. “If Bob and I both go we
have to take Leon. One evening we
all went and listened to a particularly
clever lecture on ‘Nagging’. The next
morning while Leon was dressing, he
said, ‘Mother, the man last night
didn’t say anything about breakfast,
did he?’
“‘Breakfast?’ I said.
“ ‘Yes—well—that’s the only thing
you ever nag me about.’
“I was amazed, and for the mo
ment, angry.
“ ‘Do you think that’s a very nice
way to talk to Mother?’ I asked.
“ ‘I didn’t know you didn’t want to
talk about it,’ he said, in a perplexed
tone.
contagious and inveterate ringworm. I t I said, ‘you had better
The disease is still commbn among, try eat y°ur breakfast properly
poor Jews and Moslems. The same every morning so that we shan’t have
classes are affected by lencodermia or, to discuss the subject.’
“But after he had gone to school I
thought the matter out. Leon was
right, I did nag him about his break
fasts. What was more, they were a
source of daily worry to me. I often
of Jesus’ Messiahship.
Vs. 40-42. These verses tell also
how Jesus cleansed a leper. Strictly
speaking, the leper had no right to
leave his seclusion and to appear am-
’ ong men. But necessity in this case
knows no law. The leper flings him
self at the feet of Jesus, crying, “If
thou art only willing, thou canst make
me clean.” It shows the wonderful
pity of Jesus, that at this moment he
does not even hesitate to touch the
leper. He knew it to be God’s will that
at that moment he should touch the
man, and should say, “I am willing;
be thou cleansed.” j
1 . Vs. 43, 44. But Jesus sternly charges
him to say nothing about his cure, but
to go at once to one of the priests
with the offering required in the law
of Moses. (See Lev. 13:49; 14:2-32.)
He was to do this “as a testimony to
them,” that is, to show that he is
cured, or to show that he is a pro
phet of God in Israel. (See 2 Kings
5:8.)
V. 45. The healed leper does not re-!
main silent, as Jesus commanded, but
proclaims his cure far and wide. The
result is described in the present verse.
Jesus cannot entei* any of the cities
for a time. The popular excitement is
too great for men to listen calmly to
his message, and he chooses the quiet
er places for his work.
A LEPER.
We use the word “leprosy” for a
particular disease; apparently the
1 Biblical writers, even in the Lew
15 14) used the term for
Setting
BY MRS. GR ACE BATES.
A tourist camp near our little farm I learned that one should
has furnished us an idea that is pay-; things good, not stint them,
ing off the mortgage for us. My hus- ■ enough to make a reasonable
band and I are town-bred. L 1 ~~11 1 ""
ned when we bought our farm to raise
pigs and chickens and keep five or j
six cows. We have discovered that;
there is real money in selling good |
things to eat to people in the tourist)
camp. A. similar trade could be built
with town-folks from any farm pro
perly located.
Some hikers wanted to know one day
! if we had any chickens for sale. They:
said they would call ror them next day.'
I baked bread and two green apple)
pies the next morning, and when I saw ’
I those articles on the table beside my.
dressed chickens the thought suddenly j
occurred to me, “When those people
call for their chickens, perhaps I can^
sell them some bread and pie.”
I set the stage properly, dressed:
chickens close to pie and bread. They
bought the whole display.
So the idea was born. The next day
I carried bread, pie, and fried cakes
down to the camp and sold two dol-,
lars’ worth.
In less than a week I could see that
the business was too much, for me, so
I drafted the “gudeman.” He got eggs,
vegetables, and apples ready; I baked
a quantity of food; and away we went
at ten o’clock. WTe have adhered to
that hour ever since—ten o’clock every
day but Sunday. xAnother of our first
plans was always to take orders for
dressed chickens. We don’t take them
unless ordered, because they won’t
keep.
Believe me, we used to sit and look
at each other on the way home some
days when our sales amounted to
fourteen dollars and sometimes as
high as twenty. We soon began to payi
up some of our bills. We had borrow-i
ed every cent for stock and equipment.
That was the first year, and last
summer was the second. We started
June 18th, and in ten weeks we took
in $1,000 in round numbers. We built
a screened-in back verandah, and
there we did most of our work, baking
in the kitchen range. We also had
an oil stove with an oven.
When we took orders we scrupulous
ly filled them—all but once. Some peo
ple who didn’t eat meat on Friday
ordered a quart of baked beans. Some
how we overlooked this order, and
when we got to them, the bean kettle,
like Mother Hubbard’s cupboard, was
; bare. Suffice it to say, they wouldCanada’s Production of
Butter and Cheese.
Canada turned out 163,456,759
pounds of creamery butter valued at
$56,894,008 last year, compared with
j 152,501,900 pounds valued at $53,453,-
extensive fermentation. The deeper)^ {JJg averZge^d ^34 "cents per
the silo of any given capacity, the nds against g5 centg
smaller the cross or top turf ace ex- <- - „ , , . .
posure. This is important, since silage
will spoil rapidly if exposed to the air.)
The modern practice is to build the
silos high, and of a diameter that is
in keeping with the daily feed re-j
quirements the aim being to have the p^fneg’s^ 3^223,225°pounds Valued
silo as small in diameter and as nigh at $i3j106,043. and British Columbia,
as it is practicable to build. The deep -------
silos have the distinct advantage, in
that a better silage can be made and
there is less wastage on exposed top
surface. Low, wide diameter silos
are easier to fill and empty, but do factures "L 1223 bAx,
not pack well and surface waste quite pounds valuedVt $28^629^366'
in 1922. Of last year’s production,
Quebec manufactured 60,179,616
pounds valued at $20,741,454; Ontario,
54,773,180 pounds valued at $19,443,-
505; Maritime Provinces, 6,319,574
pounds valued at $2,352,521; Prairie
2,961,154 pounds valued at $1,250,485.
Of cheese, Canada manufactured 11
per cent, more at an increased value
of 31 per cent, last year compared
with the year before, the total manu-
> in 1923 being 151,483,353
---------- The av- heavilv. I erage prjce of cheese last year was 19c
The wall or walls should be smooth compared with 16c in 1922. The Mari-
and vertical. The structure should be time Provinces produced in 1923, 2,-
true and of uniform diameter through-, 671,238 pounds of cheese valued at
out to facilitate the undisturbed set- $514,404; Quebec 46,770,556 pounds
tling of the fermenting mass. Any ob-' valued at $8,763,782; Ontario 99,535,-
struction, such as a bulge or ^cavity ‘ 405 pounds valued at $18,842,102, and
the Prairie Provinces 2,216,058 pounds
valued at $438,023.
It will be noticed Quebec manufac
tured the most creamery butter
Ontario by far the most cheese.
II
interfering with the settling will show
considerable spoilage at the time when
i the silage is being removed. If the
sides or walls are not vertical and
parallel, good results cannot be ex-;
pected.
The outward pressure of the cut1
fodder during settling is approximate-'
ly eleven pounds per foot for each foot
of depth.
At the bottom of a thirty-foot silo, ’
the pressure on each square foot'
would be over 300 pounds. A silo ten i
feet in diameter and thirty feet high'
will have to stand an outward pres-'
sure on the lower foot wall of approxi-' average of 18.8 pigs, which were wean-
mately 9,430 pounds. The pressure) ed at from six to eight weeks of age.
on the tenth section is about 6,600, The feeds used consisted of middlings,
pounds, or 210 pound, per foot. These' oats, barley, oil meal, tankage, clover
pressures indicate t'Sat the silo wall hay, roots, and skim-milk, besides pas-
must be strong and secure. Square' turage for four months. The par
silos failed to be fully efficient, large- [ ticulars given are from the annual
ly because they were not built stiff; report of the Station, issued by the
" enough to stand the pressure without Department of Agriculture at Ottawa,
W i
and
Cost of Rearing Pigs.
A record of the cost of keeping a
sow for a year and feed consumed by
herself and litter at the Lennoxville,
Quebec, Experimental Station, showed
that each pig at weaning age had cost
$2.29. Four Yorkshire brood sows
were used in the experiment. Each
sow raised two litters and raised an
to our present
to see Jesus as
We plan-: and they’ll sell fast.
! gotten the st,., „
mother, who fwas a famous cook. ■
Someone said to her:
“Why is it, Mrs. Blank, tha,, y°U1. light, he leaves the city for the solitude
j where he can find a time and place for
: God. He must pray in order to fit him- 1 self for the day before him. What did
W11V i he ask on bended knee -in that dim
don’t try to soak people be- hour, while the first faint morning airs
Tha+’s pigeish were stirring in the leaves. We are
not told, but we know it must have
been to be wholly surrendered, to be
cooking always tastes so good?”
And my grandmother answered:
“Because I put good things in it;
that’s why.”
We c
cause they’re tourists,
and unprofitable. We’ve never tried
it, but we’ve seen it tried. It may u^er]y gUjded by the Father’s will, to
work once, but not often the second be given strength for all that the day
time.
White bread, rolls, and cookies we
don’t bother with. Bakers can make
these good and cheap, and they can
far undersell the private individual.
These take much time and stove room,
which count in a rush.
One should have a variety. It takes to peter and bis friends, that Jesus se^eml^distincV^ maladies?
might ask of him. Men sometimes
think that work can serve as a substi
tute for prayer. Our Lord did not
think so. Who ever worked as he
worked? Yet he also prayed, for
i prayer is not work, or anything elsel’ but prayer.
i Vs. 36, 37. It seemed extraordinary (Lev. chs. 1!
some time to sell one thing. One can should absent himself when all the aside the leprosy of the house (Lev.
sell several articles almost as quickly, world was waiting for him in Caper- 14;37) and the leprosy of the garment
and have more cash at the close of naum. Had he not an engagement to (Lev. 13:47-59) as peculiar and ob-;
’ •(■l, „11 ___ ------------' .. . , v • V ;
y, , T ' • *. , , ---- - casco as vvtxx!Bu?_ JeSAS a SO an engagement to affections of the human body. Thei
' 1 plague on the head or beard, “the
scall” of Lev. 13:20-37, was, according.
G. Alov, wv should be business- keep with all these anxious souls who scure, there remain several skin dis-
We feel that this is as legiti- were lining the streets with their sick? eases as well as more deeply seated
r'x lit I OC*n o L. <~t zS n I A o vt AV? /"AAV-A /> v» 4- 4- zx xv. . • f 1 1 11 rH1_ _
the deal. Also, one s
like, b. ------- ----
mate and honorable as any business, with God
and conduct ourselves accordingly.- y. gg jesus explains that he must
There is much pleasure in this, as well, not return to Capernaum. His prim- to~many Vnyslrians," some" variety of.
as profit. AVe meet strangers, ^ot ac—, ary task is to prea,cli to tlie souls of i*i -n orarrvrrn I
quainted, try to give them a good opin-' men, not to heal their bodies. The
ion of our locality and make many stime is short, and the message of the
good friends. x *
This is a cash business; no credit
asked nor given. Credit makes poor ghalf he go over’the cities of Israel?
customers and poor friends. We in- Then Jesus tells Peter that it was to
quire of our customers whether they’ll prepare by prayer for this missionary
be in need of any article produced on journey, that he came away from
the farm in fall or winter, and can Capernaum that morning. Similarly
dispose of our winter products in this we And Jesus spending a nmht m
r , prayer before he chooses his twelvei way- . . . ’disciples. (See Luke 6:12.)
I I mustn t omit to mention that
well washed, food containers are dustinow vigits the synaROgues of Galilee, affected and parts fall off, while lumps i
and fly-proof and clean on the outside, grjg tas^ js proclaim the nearness on parts exposed to rubbing often be-^
and we ourselves are clean as to dress of the Kingdom and to lead the souls come open sores. At the same time the
and person. Bungalow aprons are of men to God. But in the furtherance thickening extends to the mouth and;
approved apparel, and may always be of this task of leading men to God, he throat, and the voice is reduced to a 1
neat and clean ' 'heals whenever the sick are brought husky whisper. These are the obvious;neat ana ciean. ... .. ,, , , _i
[Kingdom is urgent. He must go on __ ______ _ ______ _
that very day.to preach m other town- ■ vitiligo, which produces a discolors-'
ships of Galilee, for how otherwise tion of the skin such as is described.
in Lev. ch. 13, or it may be that Lev.,
ch. 13 includes also psoriasis or Eng-'
lish leprosy.
What is called leprosy to-day is a- -disease that produces commonly, a was S°in? ou-t without
thickened condition of such features, being properly fortified.” She paused
as the eyebrows, the sides of the noseTj thoughtfully.
-----x-_„. ------ -----, , the cheeks, the chin and the ears. The 1 “You know,” she continued, “Bob
i II. JESUS TIIE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 39-45. thickening gives to the hands and feet has to leave here before seven, and I
like to have my breakfast with him.
It hasn’t seemed wise to waken Leon
so early so of course he had had to
eat his breakfast alone. I had not
been particular about having him rise
at any regular hour and often he had
to hurry in order to reach school in
season. Usually, by the time he was
dressed, some of his schoolmates would
be here waiting for him.
“As I thought about it 1 realized
that these conditions were far from
I being conducive to a quiet, orderly
I breakfast. I therefore determined to
i change them, and I did. Leon gets up
I regularly now at seven o’clock. By
his
not
led.
bles or chains. When a cow gets a I can’t eat a second meal, but 1 can
caked udder, and one teat or quarter, and do sit at the table with him. I
must be drained through a milk tube/ plan to talk with him. at this time,
try the following method which has about things in which he seem
always been successful with us:
One person grasps the cow’s nos-;
trils with his left hand, using the
thumb and two fingers. He raises her
head, just as though he was going to'
drench her, except that he holds her
head around more to her side. When lliese cans, ana il nas p
the milk tube is to be inserted, the eats his firstmeal of the da
He looks better and he is better; he
has more self-control and is doing bet
ter work in school, and,—I don’t have
to nag.”
^OnVladv"became mv customer be-'to him. In particular, Mark records features of the disease, but sometimes
One lady became my customer be cast ‘demons.” It was they are entirely absent. What is
cause the first bake-lady who came - - ...................
along had dirty finger-nails. People
may be made of dirt, but they serious
ly object to eating it.
....... x. ____ _ -- — . . What is!
universally believed that “evil spirits” fundamental is that in every leper the
-entered into people, and produced de- nerves of the ^skin cease to act, he,
i
Maturing of Cheese.
The Dominion Dairy and Cold Stor
age Commissioner, Mr. J. A. Ruddick,
in his last News Letter calls attention
rangement of mind, convulsions, hys- loses his sensibility, and there is a
terical cries, and spiritual distress, profound lowering of the vitality and
Men lived in terror of these demons, efficiency of the organism.
Rations for Laying Hens.
What was regarded as the best ra-
Restraint for a Cow.
Sometimes it is very desirable to half-past seven he is ready fo:
tion for laying hens was fed for two know howto restrain a cow from kick- breakfast, the other children have
years in succession to birds in the ing, without casting or applying hob- yet arrived and he doesn’t feel burr
Egg-laying Contest conducted at the
Nappan, Nova Scotia, Experimental
Station. The scratch grain mixture
consisted of 100 pounds of wheat, 100
pounds of corn, 50 pounds of oats, and
50 pounds of barley. The dry mash,'
which was kept constantly before the
birds, consisted of a mixture of 100
pounds of bran, 100 pounds of mid-,
dlings, 100 pounds of crushed oats, 100
pounds of corn meal, 50 pounds of oil
meal, 50 pounds of beef scrap, 50
have nothing more to do with us dur- Section 12 of the Regulations under
ing their stay. Fortunately this hap-' pajry Produce Act which reads:
“No cheese shall be graded until it
is sufficiently mature, in the judg
ment of the grader, to permit of the
quality being properly determined.”
The Commissioner says that during
his recent visit to the United King-'
dom he was more than ever impressed
with the necessity of Canadian fac-’
tories stopping the practice of ship-'
ping their cheese when only a day or1
two old. He further states that fac-)IIieab au puunuB . ................. ...x,
tories that pursue a reasonable course pOunds of blood meal, and 15 pounds person holding the cow pinches the
in this matter and keep cheese until it charcoal. These mixtures were used nostrils as tight as he can, and the
constantly from the 1st of November, ’ effect is much like twitching a horse,
when the test commenced, until the1 Of course, there are cows so vicious
fourth of September the following) that only tying up the hocks will re-1
year. During the remainder of the' strain them, combined with the above;
year the 50 pounds of barley in the) described method. But it is remark
scratch mixture was replaced by 50 able how this simple mode of restraint
pounds of oats, and in the dry mash' will take a cow’s mind—if she has one
the 100 pounds of crushed oats was, —off her real troubles, and how much
dropped and substituted by 50 pounds can be accomplished without getting
of bonemeal. The green feed used dur-) her frightened or stubborn,
ing the winter months consisted of!
mangels, while in the spring months
sprouted oats were used instead. Each
pen consisted of ten birds, kept con- Horses?
stantly housed in a shed roofed build-'
ing 10 by 12 feet in size. Nearly two- complaining servants?
thirds of the front of the house con-: Do they not trust us, and is not
sisted of glass and curtains. Hoppers their welfare in our hands?
supplied with grit and shell were pro- \ Will you do all you can to help good
vided for each pen. ' and regular meals, a good stable and
bed, careful grooming and sensible
treatment.
He needs three meals a day. A (
troop-horse’s daily ration is 12 lbs.
of hay, 10 lbs. of oats and 8 lbs. of
straw.
When he is working hard he needs j
food and water every two hours. It is
cruel to keep a hard-working animal
thirsty. Hay dipped in water will keep
him cool if he cannot have a drink.
See that the manger is kept scrap- j
1 pened to us only once. i
, I always baked a quantity of food,!
and if I had orders I baked more. The
idea is to have food on hand. There (
are many who won’t give orders, so
we sell them as we find them. At the
beginning of the season I bake less, (
baking more as the crowd increases.' ■
It is better to have too little than too
much, for things must be fresh.
We take the seasonable vegetables
and fruits and eggs. Of baked foods
the first favorite is pie—apple, berry,
lemon cream, vanilla cream, custard,
pumpkin, and chocolate. I usually bake
mostly apple and two other kinds one
day, and so on. I’ve baked as many as
28 in one day. I carried them in bis
cuit boxes last year, with a pie tin
inverted for a cover; but next
season I’m going to have a tinner
make a regular pie carrier, like a
baker’s.
Brown bread is next, and this is so!
simple any child (or man) can make-
it. It is just a sour-milk graham!
bread with a cupful of bran added,1
baked in a loaf. It’s delicious and i
recommended by doctors. Whenever,
tourists broke camp they usually
bought a supply to take home. It
makes wonderful sandwiches. We mix
four loaves at a time in a crock, put
them in four pans which just fit the
oven, placing them on the bottom first.
Then four more, placing the first ones
on the top grate; thus we’re able to
bake eight loaves at once.
When you say brown bread and
baked beans, people sit up and take
notice. I baked my beans by the Bos
ton method, soaking them overnight I
and starting them on top of the stove
when the oven was being used for i
other things.
Next come fried cakes—not dough
nuts, but sour-milk fried cakes. After, have brought as broilers when weigh
that cup cakes spice, raisin, plain ing two or three pounds,
and chocolate. These I carried in ’
clean boxes, which I got from the
store. Then macaroni and cheese, *
with plenty of eheese. i
is properly matured, will receive the
protection to which they are entitled.
Henceforth shipments of cheese that
are too green for grading will be'
warehoused at the maker’s expense
until they have become.reasonably ma
ture. Mr. Ruddick believes every in-’
telligent operator .will appreciate a
system that places all factories on ’
| the same footing.
I
i The End is Not Yet.
Some farmer with a statistical turn
of mind has computed that a gallon of
gasoline will milk 300 cows, bale four
tons of hay, mix thirty-five cubic feet
of concrete, move a one-tun truck
fourteen miles, plow three-fifths of an
acre of land, and make enough elec
tricity to keep eight lights going in a
farmhouse for thirty hours. And the
end is not yet.♦ ---
Cleaning up dairy herds is one of
the best methods of advertising dairy
producis to a-discriminating public.------«----- -
Breeders with early hatched cock
erels often hold them too long, espe
cially if they have plenty of feed ar.d
do not need the money. Then they;
find that the price per pound drops’
until the four and five-pound birds j
; bring no more money than they would
Green feed fresh from the fields in
late summer and early fall helps to
prevent the usual decrease in dairy
production at this time of the year.
pa
) icularly interested.
“At first, when I sat down in this
way numberless little duties would
suggest themselves to me and it was
hard not to get up and be about them,
but I have learned to be deaf to most
of these calls, and it has paid. Leon
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better
Hints About Horses.
Do we owe a debt of gratitude
Are they not faithful, obedient, u
Iodine is the sovereign remedy for
goitre and lump jaw. Apply the tinc
ture externally every other day in
goitre. Give a pregnant sow or ewe *•
or nanny goat one grain of iodide of
potash daily in feed, water, or salt
during the last half of pregn mey to
prevent goitre or hairlessness of off
spring. For same purpose give preg
nant cow 20 to 30 grains of iodide of
potash a week during a like period.
For remedy of lump jaw or “wooden
tongue” give cow one dram of iodide
of potash twice daily in water, under
direction of the veterinarian, who
should also operate upon the affected
part. Iodine tincture or ointment also
cures ringworm.—Dr, Alex-
ande
If the breeding of thoroughbred
poultry was more generally conducted
on business principles, when engaged ,
; in largely for the sake of expected pro- !
i fits, we would not hear of so many
! disgusted or badly disappointed breed-)
; ers. A large proportion of the be- ’ ulously clean. Horses are extremely •
I ginners commence with an enormous) clean feeders and will not clear up
amount of self-conceit and false ideas) their food if there is dust in the re-)
and a very small amount of exper- j maining portion of it. A piece of,
ience, and until this is directly and' rock salt should be kept in the man- j
----------------------j --------- _ ax! -—. The horse enjoys it, it does good
will never be attained.--------------------< and promotes appetite.
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Seventy-five per cent, of the world’s; , __u ___(
yield of gold in 1923 was produced completely reversed, success and profit ger.
within tho British Empire. j
Uncorseted Figure.
Miss Cricket — “.Goodness,
Wasp, you’re not a bit stylish--don’t
you know the slender waist is entirely
i out of date?”
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