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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-4-5, Page 2Candiated Ar Nits Xerern. ..e4ue Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially Invited to write to thls department, I n Mats only vvni be published with each question and " ansvver; as a means of identification, but full name and address must be Olean in each letter, Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct if stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs. Helen aavs, Castle Frank Read, Toronto. A. 11. B.: -This plan has been tried h'Sv a mother and was successful in curing her little daughter, who bad violent spells of temper. When a fit of temper came on, the mother took a basin of cold water and sponged the little girl's face and neck, holding the eold sponge especially long at the temples, behind the ears, and at the back of the neck. In a few moments the tense little muscles relaxed, the yes grew less wild and the child would• lie down. Then the mother would take her daughter's hand and talk to her lovingly but firmly on self- control. After six or seven treat - Merits a complete eure was ,brought about, L. D. Met -1, The milk bottles that are used for infant feeding can be thoroughly cleaned by rinsing first with cold water then washing with hot soapsuds and a clean bottle brush. Rinse the bottles both inside and out- side in an abundaace of flowing clean water, preferably under the cold water faucet; examine each bottle to see there is no cloudiness or speck re- maining. Then place in a bottle rack and set in a moderately hot oven for an how,. The bottles will be sterile and fit for use. Bottles may also be put over a fire in a boiler filled with cold water, to boil for half an hour, after which they should be carefully draihed and kept dust -free. But the oven method is preferable. Cool the oven slightly by opening the door a few minutes before removing the bot- tles; this will prevent the cracking that ?alight result on sudden exposure to the colder air of the room. -2. To tell when a child has scarlet fever the following should be noticed: The hatching period is from a few hours to several days, no longer. Then comes a scarlet rash, appearing first on the neck and chest, then covering the face and body.. Tide eruption peels as scales and flakes. There is fever and quick, pulse and the straw- berry tongue." The glands in the neck are swollen and there is lilOrO throat. The discharges from the Dose and throat are more dangerous than th h uithing 1). G. :-.Try the garnes at your party for boys and girls. 1. "Nc-1 tured Verbarium." You take some; long word, such as "Caribbean" or t "Beloochistan", and by rearranging , th 1 tt fl d number of smaller I words, such as cat, loot, beau,: belt,' and others. Then from advertise-) !Lents in the papers and magazines! . . cut out pictures which represent the words and paste them on cards for an! exhibition. From these pictures the. guests are supposed to guess thel smaller words and then pick out the. individual letters and guess the whole. large -word from which they are taken.1 2. "Geography." Take each letter ! of the alphabet and in five or ten min- utes' time write down as many towns, seas, rivers, etc., as y011 cnn think of which begin with the letter chosen.' 3. "Change Places." For this the players it in a circle and there must , be a leader, who tells a story. The story teller goes very rapidly, invent- ing as he goes along, and suddenly and frequently introducing the phrase. "change places." No attention must be paid to this unless he adds, "The King is here." Then all must jump up and try to take different seats. In the confusion the leader tries to slip into a seat, and then the one left without a place has to start a story. It adds much to the excitement if the leader sometimes seems on the brink of giving the sentence which means a general move, such as "Change places, the King -will come sox.," or some- thing else of royal news, to which no attention should be paid. C2Jiee4 Shear fairly early, at least before the very warm spring days arrive and thus save the ewe discomfort and loss in weight, With wool as valuable per pound as butter, the greatest care should be taken to produce the clean- est, best fleece and properly to care for the same after shearing. Co- operative marketing will add from two to eight cents per pound revenue from your wool. Gleam all vermin from the flocks and herds before the young stuff Symptome of acute indigestion are: uneasiness, lying down and rising, op- pressed breathing, eructations of gases or attempts to vomit, pain usually continuous but varying in in- tensity. Give 2 to 3 ozoil of turpentine in a pint of raw linseed oil as a drench. Foment the abdomen. If pain be severe give 2 drams of the solid ex- tract of belladonna.. Repeat ff neces- sary in 2 hours. Give rectal injec- tions. Pampered stock, like pampered peo- ple, soon decline in vitality. ss argunient m xayor clipping the horse in the early spring is an overcoat covered with hairs. Make haste slowly -with the team when the first warm days come. You know how easily you get tired y • self on sueh days. The better the sire the higher the dividends he \sill pay and in no line of live stock does this hold more em- phatically true than in horses. More horees, heavier horses and horses in better condition all through the working season will lower produc- tion cost. Prepare the horses in the early sprieg for a hard summer's work by regularly exercising and gradually increasing to heavier work. 'When the spring work begins it is high time to give the horses' shoul- ders proper attention, To work a horse with a sore shoulder is barer- ous. The collar should fit so that one can easily get the hand between the bottom of it and the horse's throat, If it is too large it will be sure to make the neck sore, and if too small it will choke when the horse pulls. Never use a pad under a collar so as to make it fit; a pad keeps all an out from under the collar and the shoul- ders soon scald in hot weather. The first thing to do when going to work a colt is to see whether there is a col- lar to fit bim. If not go and buy one. The man who makes the most sat- isfactory returns out of hogs is the man who is in hogs all the time, and only to the extent that his farm will conveniently carry. For Ontario farmers, the bacon type of hog is beyond question the comes. Feed is too high in price to waste on lice and ticks and the new- ly -born animals will thrive better if they are free from them. Undocked and uncastrated grade Iambs are always an indication of primitive methods in the handling of sheep, and no farmer who takes an interest in hisfrock will neglect the - performance of these operations. t pe to be roduced That is the type which both the home and the English market calls for, and 'for this type these markets will pay a premium. The hog ie essentially a by-product a the farm and a means of turning, to valuable account commodities which would otherwise be largely \twice such ae whey or skim milk, small pos tatoes, grain shelled in the field. The hog, like other meat animals, renders it pessible to make a double profit out of coarse grains -one pro- fit in a reel "home market" for the grain itself, and another in the man- ure produced in feeding. The bacon type can be produced at least as cheaply as the thick fat. For the production of the bacon type of hog, one finished at 175 to 200 pounds, barley is one of the best of feeds, and will give a greater gain for the amount of feed used than will corn; but barley should be mixed with other grain to increase its palatability. In a general way oat chop is the best grain for growing hogs, and barley and corn and shorts for finishing. Milk in all eases adds to economy in production. _sae- ttitiasp • A Give the live stock buildings a thor- ough spring house-cleaning. Dis- infection of the walls and floors with some cheap disinfectant will prevent the spread of any contagious diseases and will increase the health and vigor , of the stock. i One cause of cream failing to ripen properly is keeping it at too high a temperature. This interferes with the ripening, and also gives the but- ter an oily flavor. The value of\ accurate knowledge properly reeorded had a clear demon- stration at a recent farm sale of cat- tle. The owner says that the Bab- cock test and his scales made him $500 that day in the sale of ten cows and heifers. This rnay be readily accepted when it is known that one COVI, without a pedigree, sold for $210 on her record as a milk -producer. To give proper care to milk you must have the equipment with which to do it The dairyman is keeping his cows on expensive land. He is selling all of his crops through them. What he gets from milk is his reward. Sueely then, it is worth while giving the milk proper care in order that the resultant product may bring the best price possible. • The bark of the black mangrove, a tree growing abundantly in the Ba - harries, has been found th yield an ex- cellent tanning material. TIME FOR INDOOk BENING Preliminary Sketching of Rov,-s and Space to Be Devoted to Varieties Means Tune -Saving Labor. In spring, gather up the bones which have accumulated during the winter Seeds for planting the home vege- table garden should be ordered at once, so as to be on hand as soon as the weather and condition of the soil make planting possible. Before or- dering seed the home gardener should look over his plot, measure' its area, size up the soil, 'decide on the best location for each vegetable and deter- mine how much seed he will require for the space available for each kind. Seeds cost more this year than in 're- cent seasons and they may go higher, so it is well to be prenared. It will be helpful to ;lake a rough plan of the proposed garden. On this plan indicate the spaces to be used for each "Variety and also by means of colored pencils or symbols show tyliere a second crop is to be planted or in- terplantecl between gr0Wing rows, and also arrange for the second and third crops which are to follow those previously harvested. Such a plan will enable the gardener to keep the ground busy all season, supplying fresh vegetables during the summer and producing in the late fall root and other crops for whiter use. Once the preliminary spading and working of the garden has been dor-', it is as easy to raise two or three crops as to keep the garden clean o weeds for producing only one picicing. Those whngardening or who wish to have their children take an interest should have some one to do the heavy spading or breaking up of the soil. This work frequently disgusts novices and children who would continue an intereet in the gar- den if the task was simply to cultivate soil already broken up. A couple f hours of labor would be sufficient for a small back yard. In case of a patch from twenty-five to fifty feet and upwards, it is cheaper to have the place plott-ed and harrowed at a cost of about $1.50 for that area and more in peoportion to laeger extent. The questions of bow much space and tirne one must have for certain sized crops and results are important, but just neve these can be deferred, since out-cloor work Is impossible on account of the hard winter and lata spring. Indoor gardening such as the seed buying and planning spoken of is possible. Many plants can be started in the house, both vegetable and flower, and be ready to plant Out when the ground is dry and warm. Even without a habed one care get earlier crops of tomatoes, cribbage, cauliflower, pep- pers, eggplant Mid lettuce by starting seed early in boxes in the house, Early potatoes zometithes are forced In the same way. Seeds so planted germinate and are ready for transplanting by the time it Is safe to sow the same kiwi of seed in the open ground. When denger of and bury them at the roots of trees, bushes, ete. They make excellent fer- tilizer. THE CALL FOR CHARACTER Character is the Only Fortune Worth Accumulating, the Only Possession That Survives. ` Thou desirest truth in the inward parte."--Psalms, li., 6. Character is not what you say you are. that is profession; nor what you do, that is conduct; nor what people think about you, that is reputation. Character is what you are. It is the central self, the man inside the man. With truth as the fabric of character we have manhood at its best. The call of the hour is f6r character, No substitutes will do; no paper currency, no promises to ray, only the pure gold of reality will answer. In this age of fortune hunting character is the only fortune worth atcumulating. It weathers all gales of adversity, defies all financial panics. When the curtain is rue g down and we enter the narrow door af the sepulchre all other possessions are scraped off. Character alone goes through to God. Character has three characteristics' --2Veracity, which is character express- ed in speech; honesty, which is char - Artier expressed in deed; sincerity, which is &erecter expressed in mo- tive and purpose. Three Aepects of Character "Whatever mistakes or follies you may commit, don't lie," said a father taking, leave of his boy. Wise advice, because deceit honeycombs the moral natare, and makes it collapse under sudden strain of temptation. Dis- honesta is stupidity, because it chloro- forms conscience, that sensitive nerve of the soul, implanted by God to shove us the difference between right and tvrang, and betsveen the calls of the angel and the animal in no Whatever honesty costs it is always a bargain. Mother Nature teaches :sincerity. She has no false prophets, she keeps all her pledges. When the sun is in Capricorn it is winter; in Cancer it is summer. Hence4, when noen is insincere he is out of gear with nature's machinery and out of tune with the syMphonies of God. Cervantes seid, "Honesty is the best Polley," but the old. Spaniard might have added that a men who is holiest merely for policy is not honest, he is politic, Honesty disdains all cloaks. Mid the oily tongue which calls steal- ing "appropriation," which speaks of the "tricks of trade" instead of the "crimes of trade," and reports "she won the prize" instead of "she gambl- ed. Many a home has gone to pieces, man y• a marriage tie has been shatter- ed from lack of sincerity. Little acts of deception have caused the rift with- in the lute. A safeguaiel against evil is to have no secrets. Where there is a secret there must be somethirig wrong. I do not refer to legitimate private affairs, but to secrets which, if told, woud involve us in shame. Pity the poor wretch v.,..ho for the brief mo - illicit pleasure walks every day shadowed by the spectre of ex- posure. Character Must Ile Acquired The call for character mal.es DO compromise with hypocrisy. Jesus faulted the Pharisees because they stressed cenduct instsad of character, taught rules instgad of principles, riff- ered the water at the faucet but neg- lected to sleartse the spring. Out of the heart are the issues of life. Re- pentar.ce means letting tiuth get its grip on your central Self. Outward respectability and polished manners are only veneer. You cannot purify the cistern by painting the pump. Character cannot be inherited; it must be acquired. It is the result of the continual doing of the right things. No nxan ever gets ready for a crisis at a moment's notice. What he does at the critical moment depends on what he was doing yesterday and the day before, and the day before that. Our habits grow upon us as our flesh does. Good habits, like good flesh, make for health; bad habits, like bad flesh, make for disease. Begin your good habits early in life, Few men forts any new habits after thirty -it takes all their time to steer their old ories, tilesset; is the man who thinks char- acter building worth while and builds the structure, not out of driftwood, but out of granite bloeks "Build it well whate'er you do, Build it straight and strong and true, Build it high and long and broad, Build it for the eye of God," -Rev. Daniel Itotrman Martin., ' frost is over and the soil is dry en- ough to work, therefore the home gar- dener starts his early garden with seedlings ' well above the surface. Transplanting, if properly done, in- stead., of hurting, seems to 'help such plaet;'aevelop a ,strong root sYstern. Garden enthusiasta _should get good deal of inleasure. feem this kind' of prelimiriry ihdoor gardening. .They also can use boxes to hasten the blooming period of many sorts of flosveri which stand ti anSplanting Any sort Of wooden box filled with good soil answers the purpose. The following crarections for making seed boxes and handling the plants should be carefully followed. Seeds of early tomatoes and cab- bage, as well as cauliflower and pep- per, should be planted in a seed box in the house at once. The seed box houl d be three to four inches deep. gtevelve to fourteen inches wide and ew t',eety -to 'tenty-four inches long. Special boxes can be bought cheaply, if nothing suitable can be found around the home. A layer of about one inch of gravel or cinders should be .placed. in the bottom of the box, !then -it should be filled nearly full of rich garden soil, or soil enriched -with decayed eavee oi mantne. Bonemeal, - sem:Land backyard soil, equally mixed, is d. 1 Soil should he pressed down firmly with a small piece of board and rows made one-fourth to one-half inch deep and two inches apart crosswise of the box-. The seed should be distributed , eight to ten to the inch in the rows and be covered. The soil should be gently watered, so as not to wash up the seeds, and the box set in a warm place in the light -in the sunshine by a window being best. Water enough must be given gently from time to time to cause the seeds to germinate land grow thriftily, but not enough to 'leak through the box. If a piece of glaSs is used to cover the box it will hold the moisture in the soil and hast- en the germination of the seeds. s When the plants are from an inch to an inch and e half Moh they should 1be thinned to one or two inches apart in the roW, rio as to give them space 1 enough to make a strong, stocky growth. If it is desired to keep the plants which are thinned out they may be set two inches apart each way in other boxes prepared as mentioned for the seed box. When the weether becomes mild the box of plants 'should be set out of doers part of the time, so that the plants will "harden oft' in preparation for transplanting to the garden later, A good watering should be gieen just before the plants are telcee out Of the box for transplanting, so that a large ball of earth will stick to the roots, of each ono. Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell. The object of this department Is to place at the. service m' our farm readers the advice of an acknowl. edged authority on all subjects pertaining to eolls and crops. Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, in care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, To. ronto, and answers Mil appear in this column in the order In which they are received. As space is limited It Is advisable where immediate reply le necessary that 11 stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when the answer will be mailed direct. ......••••••••••••• Question --II. Te ---What is the value Speaking generally, the hulls of the NNPofsweetarhsetufehottliclildd°v, its effect on the soil? seed does not germinate until the L.erfor roughage, seed are so hard that frequently the t as .. e sown, and how much second year. Sweet clover seed per ,acre? Would it be all right 1,o should be sown about the same time as other clover is $own in the spring. A mixture of sweet clover and other clovers would be all ight, but speak- ing generally, it is Lot best practice to sow sweet clover seed with a grass sow with other clover and grasses? Answer: --- The, attitude toward sweet clover is turning from one direct opposition to one of consider- able favor. The plant for a long time was looked upon as a troublesome mixture. The grasses tend to offer weed, but it is now regarded as a too strong compatition for the yo ung alua ble source of roughage and good sweet clover silents. Care should material for pasturcige and a form of be taken to inoculate the soil at the legume which is beneficial to the soiltime of 'seeding, so that the right kind Sweet clover plants grow exceeding- of bacteria for the ciover will be pre- ly rapidly and will thrive on soil of sent in the seed beds low fsrtility. On account of its rapid Question 1-W, Ta -Are oats that growth if it is not cut sufficiently are mowburnt till they are light brown early it will make hard unpalatable On the hull good f hay. For roughage sweet clover Answer:-Oatsseed? cut at the tame the flowers contain a peculiar they are a light brosvii color should be , egin to show. Sweet clover plants b organic matter carefully tested before they are used known as Coumarin, arhich gives it alfer seed' Count out two lots of 100 charasteristic odor. At first this is et.ch. - Place titese between net blot- 1ters or damp cloths. Keep near a, distasteful to cattle; however, they s soon learn to eat sweet clover hay and source of heat such as a stove or , furnace, for a period of a week or ten of hayIf a good seeding is obtain actually prefer it later to poor oimsIday At the d . ie en of this tinie count . - ed, sweet clover will cut at least two !the seed that have sprouted strong or three crops a seasonIf cut and you will have the percentage of . seed that will gerininate. Speaking , early and handled carefully the hay will retain a large percentags of the generally any sweating of oats in bulk to such an extent that it discolors leaves which are most valuable in the Lending rationAs a pasture, sweet the hull of the oats is e-ery- detrimental . . clover is valuable especially if pas - to the vitality of the seedIf you tune is cut over with the mower suf-' th th germination is only 50 per cent., have to use e oats for seed and find e ficiently often to keep down plants necessarily you will have to increase which would grow- up and become your rate of seeding to double what is woody. Again the livestock pester - !normally used, in order to be sure of a nig on the sweet clover have to acquire .:. ' a taste for the plant. Street clovergood stand ' has a beneficial effect on poor soil. /11 Question 2 -1 heve a 'field of stiff our investigation of the question of clay land which was ploughed once last legumes improving the fertility of the fall • What is the best way of work - soil we were not able to obtain de- ing it into a seed Led for the oat11 i finite figures as to the amount of , the spring? s that are burnt until e 'legumes adds organic matter to the tiny soil particles and make the crumb soil and organic matter is exceedingly , of the soil a little coarser so that air valuable, in that it gives the soil wa- can circulate better in the seed bed ter -holding capacity, plant -food -retain -1 When you are seeding to oats, I in' capacity, opens up heavy clay ;would advise also seeding to clover and soils, binds together sandy soils and timothy. After you have taken off forms the home and food of bacteria. ione cutting of hay plow under the sec In seeding sweet ciover, Michiganlond -crop of clover to increase the A.gricultural -College advises from 151organic matter. Your stiff clay land to 20 pounds per acre of hulled ) will not greatly irnprove Inc texture un - seed or 20 to 25 pounds per acre' till you have increased the organic o miler e sweet c ovei seed. matter or humus within it. n roge fixed by any of t e legumes ' Answer: -In preparing fall plowed under all conditions. The concensus stiff clay land for a seed -bed -for oats of opinion is that if the soil is rich the this coming spring, I would advise legumes will tend to get a large that you apply. 1,000 to 2,000 pounds amount of nitrogen from the soil like per acre of air -slaked burnt lime. Scat - other grain crops, but if the soil is ter this evenly on top of the plowed poor, by virtue of the bacteria growing land as soon as the soil is sufficiently on the roots of the legumes they can dry to work. Follow- the application „d make use of considerable of the nitro- by a careful and thorough discing and gen of the air circulating around the harrowing. This air -slaked burnt roots 'of the plants. Under all con- lime besides correcting any sourness it • n -ditio f ns o course, the growing of in the soil, will gather together the INTERNATIONAL `LESSON APRIL 8. .Lesson IL Jesus Raises Lazarus From The Dead -(Easter Lesson) - John 11. 17-44. Golden Text-Johu 11 25. Verse 17. Allowing a day for the journey each wey., this means that he died very soon after his sisters sent the 'message. 1 19. Jews --Remembering the re- igular association of the name in this Gospel, we see a contrast implied be- tween the impotent comfort of an out worn system and the fullness of joy In sorrow that Christ bears. 1 20. The active Martha. behaves like Peter in John 21 7 (and Matt 14. 28). Mary, like the beloval disciple there, waits for the Master's call. I 21. As verse 32 shows, this was what the sisters had been saying to one another . allthrough those days. In the Greek there is a little untrans- latable .differelice, individualizing Mary's words: she puts my in a more 22. Shalt ask -Literally, Shalt have asked. The phrase is inclusive,' and covers what she thinks lie has ben'. asJkoisilugs avivroeualcidYciraw from her by an ambiguous phrase how far she really ventures in the vague hope that her last welds have hinted. . 21. Her venture has been too much: she falls back on the great ultimate Hope, Ina dares riot anticipate any - thine. moue 2Cip' are Paul's Preaching 0.1. "Jesus and the Resurrection," The 1 nesurrection is riot a future event: it is a present Power, and not, rnerely a fact, but a Person. Paul preaehed this so urgently that his careless hearers in Athens thought "resur-, reetion" was the Larne of a goddess! (Acts 17. 18.) Shall lie live -Its the next '.e se shows, Jesus niaans that death will not deserve the name; it will not interrupt life, bit only change it's27sPhci .1 h ive believecl--The tense hn- . Plies a trtlith pr OVIOUS1y NV011y OD(Iclnd ing stilr-s-"f have learned to bpli0e." She pronounces her creed as it bas come to her; the Lord had been giv- ing her an implication of it which was at present more than she could take in. 48. The shout was to help the faith of the sisters which we may believe w -as needed in coopera.tion. Lazarus was "sleeping," and mast be awaken- ed; the Lord acts in accordance. 44. Bound -Long swathes of linen were wound round and round the body. Napkin-Cornpare John 20. 7. It was a handkerchief, named frorn its use for wiping away sweat, and now used to cover the face of those whose toil is done. Loose him -The Lord's attention to a homely detail like this, or the child's nced of food un the Janus story Marl: 5. 43), emphasizes the sense of mastery. There is no mighty wrestling with Death, as in the case of Elijah: the Lord of Life has only to issue his command. See John 5. 28. Readers will not overlook Brown- ing's "Karshish the Physician" in which the deepeet lessons of the story are wonderfully handled. Its prob- lems are, of course, manifold and can- not be mentioned here. The Evange- list's perpose is the niain thing to e- meriber, as expressed in John 20. 81. Compare 2 Tim. 2. 18 and note how this story corrects a perversion of the great tsuth it is meant to teach. Take only healthy birds for breed- ers. A vigorous eockerel and yearl- ing hens are best. If pullets are used have them well matured. In light breeds, mate one male to 20 females, and m heavier breeds' One male to 15 females. ; The poultryman Makes his greatest profit from the chid:ens which are hatched before May le The early hatched cockerels ere sold as broilers when the broiler Market ia at its best. The flood of late hatched broilere brings prices down and congests the market, The greater returns received from earl3r hatched broilers go far to- ward defraying the coet of raising the pullets. These millets in turn begin laying when eggs are bringdeg the highest prices and when there is the greatest shortage of strictly fresh eggs. eianiase