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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-9-27, Page 24 t N /44: tiFR'rM.y C.hezadacroce.ane . ,Arefe42, .t"tuc� Mothers and daughters of all ages are Cordially invited to write to this department. Initials only will be published with each question and its answer as a means of identification, but fait name and address must be given in each letter. Write op one side of paper only. Answers will be nailed direct if stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed, Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs, Helen Law, 233 Woodbine Ave., Toronto. 11lotler:--Ilere is a sample day's diet for a three-year-old child. Break- fast, scraped fresh apple or orange ] juice, strained oatmeal and top milk, i milk to drink. • Morning lunch, milk,• P biscuit. Dinner, poached egg, tender vegetable put through sieve, stale bread and butter, corn starch. pud- 1 ding, milk to drink. Supper, rice and top milk, seedless jam. sandwiches, i milk to drink. School Girl: ---Try the following games at the party for your school friends:— Hands and feet guessing—To play this game divide the party into two I bands. One is sent out of the room, the other stays in it. Place a screen (one of the folding kind) in front of an open door, The members of the band that has been sent out of the, room then walk past the oRen door behind the screen holding up one of 1 their hands as they. pass, The mem- bers of the band left in the room must then guess whose hand it is. For every hand guessed correctly a. point is scored far the band. After all of one side has .shown a, hand it is the turn of the other sideto go out and do the same. The side scoring the most points in the end wins. If the feet are to be guessed instead of the hands, the screen should be raised a foot or so from the floor .'so that the shoes may be seen under- neath and the rest of the body hidden. Obstacle _ Race—There is plenty of laughter in this game. Those who do not know it are seat out of the room and let in%ne by one, The boy or girl who is called in is shown two or three small objects, such as a footstool, a vase, milk bottle, etc., that have been placed in a line on the floor. The or- der is, "walk blindfolded past these objects without touching them." The player is accordingly blindfolded, but before the hazardous trip is begun all the obstacles are removed. The boy or .girl will pick steps very carefully, trying to sidestep what is really not there at all. At the end of the game, when all the players who have been tricked except the Iast one whose turn it then is are present, there a very great deal of merriment. Word gaiue—Choose sides and ap- Pella a scorer and a timekeeper. A player from A's party is sent out of the room while Ws party picks out a letter. The A player is then called in and the timekeeper says "Go." The letter is told and then he must say as fast es he Call as many words begin- ning with that letter ae he can think of on the spur of the moment, At the end of a minute the timekeeper stops. hien and his score is counted. One of B's side then goes out and does the same thing. So on the game goes un- til all players alternately have had a turn, The scores of each side are then counted, the one with the great- est slumber of words winning, Z and X may not be chosen. Mrs. 5, D.:—Lunch-box bills of fare are very important, and you are a wise mother to pay special attention to them. Pennies spent in the candy store at noon can undo all the good of the nourishment taken under watohful eyes in the morning and at night, and a nine lunch is the very best rival of apenny candy store. Here are same bills of fare that can be shade up from dinner left -avers: Crisp rolls hollowed out and filled with chopped meat or fish; season with a little salad dressing; a peach -and au apple. Cold slices of meat loaf, soda crack- ers, buttered; stewed fruit put in a little jar with screw -on top, and a piece of ginger -bread. Baked -beans sandwiches, orange and a coul#Se of pieces of candy. Hard boiled eggs, rye bread and fruit. Minced -beef sandwiches, apple. sauce tin jars) and cake. Honey and nut bran muffins are a valuable addition to the lunch box. Here is the receipe: 3 cup honey, 1 cup flour, from ee to ee. teaspoon soda, U. teaspoon. salt, 2 eups bran, 1 table- spoon melted butter, 1% cups milk, Ve cup finely chopped, English walnuts. Sift together the flour, soda and salt, and mix them with the bran. Add .the other ingredients and bake for 25 or 30 minutes in a hot oven in gem tins. This will make about 20 muffins. (dim &forks MENDING MELISSA'S. DRESS Elizabeth sat on a hassock mending Melissa's dress. Melissa was her oldest and largest doll, and Elizabeth did not know how she had managed to tear her new summer dress. Still, it dict not matter much how it happen- ed, after all. The only thing to do was. to mend the dress, and since Melissa was not able to mend it herself Eliza- beth was trying hard to do it for her: Besides, it was Elizabeth's birthday, and she was going to have a party in the afternoon.Of course Elizabe:1 not allow Melissa to wear a torn dress to the party. It was a beautiful summer morning, and it was the hardest thing in the world to stay in the house on such a moin:ng, let alone mending a dress that should not have been torn. Just outside the window there was a robi.-a singing in a maple tree. "Oh, come out! Oh, come out! Oh, come out!" the robin was singing, al- most as plainly as a person could speak the words. "I can't stand it much longer!" sighed Elizabeth. "But I just must mend this dress so that Melissa can go to the party. 0 dear! It's such a job!" Then, just as she was putting some more thread in her needle, Teaser cameboundingin through the door. "Don't you dare to bother nae, Teas- er!" said Elizabeth. "I'm as . busy as I can be!" But Teaser was not to be put off In that way, He jumped round the room in little, short leaps, stopped in front of Elizabeth long enough to- bark sharply, and then bounded to the doom and back again. "Yes, yes, Teaser," said Elizabeth, "I know that it as a beautiful day, and 1 want to go out and play with you, buirthis dress simply must be mend- ed " 'Teaser barked again. No doubt his knew very well what she said, but he had no idea of giving up so ' easily. Suddenly he seized Melissa's dress in his teeth and pulled it. "Stop, Teaser!" cried Elizabeth. "Stop, I say, or you will tear it worse!" But Teaser diol not stop, He only, palled the harder. ;sudden',#, with an extra tug, be pulled the dress from Elizabeth's hands and dashed through the door, with the dress flying behind him, Elizabeth leaped from her has - Book and ran atter him. "Come back ! Come back !" she cried, "Come back here this instant, Teaser i;, • Teaser looked over his shoulder and tried to bark, but, with the 'dregs in his mouth, he did hot succeed very well, Out of the yard he ;ran and doWzt the road, with Elizabeth now on the verge of tears, calling to him in vain as she pursued him. Not far from the house Teaser sud- denly stopped in the middle of the highway. He dropped Melissa's dress and began to sniff at a parcel that looked as if it had just fallen from a passing wagon. At first Elizabeth was so eager to pick up Melissa's dress, now more soiled and torn than ever, that she did not see the parcel; but Teaser barked again and danced round her in such a way that she had to notice it. She picked it up and ran withit back to the house. "See, mother!" she cried. "See what Teaser found in the road, where he had dragged Melissa's dress—the horrid thing !" The parcel bore no address. It was a long box, wreaked in plain brown paper. What could it be 7 Who could have lost it`? Melissa's mother decided to open it. Perhaps there would be a name or an address inside. And when they took off the wrapping paper and removed the cover, what do you suppose they found ? A beautiful doll, about the size of Melissa, dressed in the love- liest clothes 1 "Oh! Oh!" was all that Elizabeth could gasp; , and ` Teaser, who was much excited over the box and its wrappings, barked two or three- times as loudly as he could. Just then Elizabeth's father came in. "Would you like that doll ?" he asked. "Like it!" cried Elizabeth. "Of course I. would like it, but of course I Can't have it I Some little girl has lost' it—or some little girl's father was taking it home to her." Then Elizabeth's father laughed, and took her on one knee andthe won- derful doll, on the other knee. "Well," he said, still laughing, "that new doll has come to your birthday "party. I was bringing her home from the village, and the parcel fell from the wagon just before I got here. Teaser saw it fall, but it was too large for him to carry, and he made you go and get it before I' could go .for it my- self," y- self" "Oh, then she's mine, alter all !" said Elizabeth, and she seized the beautiful new doll from her perch on her father's other knee and hugged him and the doll at the same time. "Aad Teaser knew it all the time and was trying to tell ,me,! A little later, when Elizabeth looked deeper into the box that the doll had come in, she found there several ex. Let, dresses. One of them she prompt- ly gave to 'lelelissa to take the place of the soiled and tarn dress that was now fit only to be thrown away, And what a merry birthday party they had that afternoon, and Teaser enjoyed it quite as much as Melissa and the new doll enjoyed it Get the wheat land ready early; Those' who ploughed early last year got their wheat, in those who didn't' have no fail hvhratt this harvest. ; 1 Z%'"aY''l k4 ' w ch s are,they,1J4ox� on { osz4ldi4.S reau hle n I.il pre-, r erve Lantic pare Cane Sugar, with its fine grauulation, is best for all preserving; 10, 20 and 100-11i. sacks 2 and 5-1b. cartons Send us Red Troll Ter ds•uuuk for` free copies Of our t},roucw. Cook Boal:-. Atlantic ata lar Re fineries Limited MONTREAL "Pure and Vr.colored" 139 :0r INTERNATIONAL LESSON SEPTEMBER 30, Lesson XIV. The Goodness and Severi- ty of God—Review. Golden Text Psa. 103. 8. 1. The God of love. Modern Christianity has been passing through a period in.which,the love and -forgive- ness of God have been emphasized. His relations to the individual have been dealt with almost exclusively. His lessons for the nations and for humanity have only recently come again into prominence. With this emphasis on the other half of the law and the gospel there comes a fuller vision of the character and purpose of God. As the old prophets, some of i them in exile, saw his character in all its fullness, so we are beginning to get an all-round vision of God as we see him revealed in social progress. We find the God of love is also tdhe God of law. We discover that he deals, with sin and evil not by whim and fancy, but by fixed laws. In these laws the operation of divine love is seen seek- ing to save the individual and the com- munity from the consequences of sin. 2. The God of strength. • Law in- volves retribution. Cause and effect work out irresistibly in the moral universe. They operate constantly, in social progress. We discover farnine and pestilence to be not the .sudden whim of an angry God, but the dire ef- fect of broken- law. Nations have re- fused to work economic righteousness, they have refused to^ obey the moral laws that are related to health, and hence they pay the cost in suffering, This is the severity., of the moral\uni- verse, but it is still the strength of love. It is not punitive, but correc- tive. orrective. It is penalty, not merely punish- ment. This mrkes it possible for men who learn the consequences of sin to discover and remove its causes. The penalty of social sin is a challenge to the community to discover and remove its roots. 3, . To whom vengeance belongeth. There is a constant desire of men to take a situation of wrongdoing into their own hands and to Dunish the violaters of law. The result is evident in the old penal system, which, seek- ing to work vengeance, has failed to benefit either the community or, the criminal. When men learned that the consequences of sin for the sinner must be left in the hands of God, then they _ faced their proper task of re- claiming the sinner and preventing the sin. It must be the same in the relations between nations. Criminals and crime must be prevented, but the social consequences inherent in the sin of those who offend against inter- national justice and righteousness will after all be visited most severely upon their own heads. The penalty can be left with, God: The prevention lies with man. Even though the hog furnishes the most meat for a given amount of feed and will produce it in the quickest time, it is pointed out that this meat should be produced mainly from food wastes and not from good grain that would furnish food directly to man. The great economy in pork production comes from the fact that pigs furnish a food by-product from these wastes and do -not need the high-grade feeds' that beef cattle must have. Wastes on farms and in the towns make good hog feed; by-products from canneries, bakeries, fisheries, packing plants and the like can be utilized as hog feed and to better economic ad Vantage than in' any other way. Dairy wastes are particularly valuable as hog feed and promote rapid growth with a good money return for every ,gallon fed. The farm orchard furnishes large quantities of wincl,-fallen or defective fruit; which is relished by hogs, and is beneficial if fed in small quantities frequently, and not all at one feed. Garden wastes, tops of vegetables, culls of all sorts, even weeds, are read- ily eaten, and such as may not be eaten will be worked over, going into the bedding and adding to the manure, Kitchen wastes are an excellent source of food for hogs, but should be kept at a minimum, because practical- ly all food prepared -:for man's use should be eaten by him. The total cordage required for a first-rate man-of-war weighs about 80 tons, and exceeds £3,000 in value. Do not feed the dairy herd as a herd, for cows differ in their food re- quirements just as human beings do. By feeding all cows in the herd alike, some are sure not to get enough for the greatest profit and others will get more than they can use to advantage. Cows need much water and should be induced to 'd rink two or three times a day if possible. The average milch cow requires nearly ten gallons of wa- ter a day and more than two-thirds of that must come as drink and the bal- ance from water in the food. Always provide clean fresh water. Salt should be supplied at the rate of five to seven ounces a week, given as often as twice during the week. Do not use a common salt box in the ,yard unless all the cows are absolutely free from disease. It pays in dollars and cents to give the cow extra care. The cow that is kept comfortable will give the best returns. There is no advantage in cooking or steamingfeeds for dairy cows. Sonic unpalatable feeds may be consumed in larger quantities if cooked but cook- ing does not ordinarily add much to the palatability of grains and may ev- en decrease their digestibility. This year there are in South Africa, as nearly as can be estimated, 31,- 424,680 sheep and 8,920,270 goats. "Did you have the eight-hour system on the farm where you worked ?" "Yes; we worked eight hours fir' the forenoon and eight hours in the after- noon." THE CHILDUN'S FOOD Questions Every Moth Did each .child take about a quart: of milk in one' form or another ? Have I taken pains to see that the milk that comes to my, hots has been handled in a clean way ? If I was obliged to serve skim -milk for the sake of cleanness or economy, did I supply a little extraefat in some ether way ? • Were the fats which I gave the child of the wholesome kind found ' milk cream, butter, and salad oils, or of the unwholesome kind found in doughnuts and other fried foods ? Did I make good use of all sltim- nrilk by using it in the preparation of cereal muskies, puddivg9, or other- wise ? dere all cereal foods thor"oughly cocked 7 Was the bread soggy ? If so, was it because the loaves were too largo, or because they were not cooked long enough ? Did I take pains to get a variety of foods from the cereal group by serv- ing a cerealmush once during the day • Did I keep in mind that while cer- eals are good foods in themselves, they do not take the place of meat, milk, eggs,' fruit, and vegetables'? Did I: keep in ,mind that children who do not, have plenty of fruit and vegetables need whole wheat bread and whole grains,. served in other ways 7 e • Should Ask Herself. Did each child have an egg or an equivalent amount of meat, fish, or poultry 7 Did any child have more than this of flesh foods or eggs If so, might the money not have been better spent for fruits or vegetables ? If I was unable to get milk, meat, fish, poultry, or eggs, did I serve dried beans; or other legumes thoroughly cooked and carefully seasoned ? 'Were vegetables and fruits both on the child's bill of fare once during the day 7 If not, was it because we have not taken pains to raise themin our home garden? . Did either the fruit or the vegetable disagree with the child ? If so, ought I to have cooked it more thoroughly, chopped it more enoly, or halve re- moved the skins or seeds ? Was the child given sweets between meals, or anything that tempted him to eat When he was not hungry 7 Was he, allowed to eat sweets when he should have been drinking milk or eating cereals, meat, eggs, fruit or vegetables ? Were the -meets given to the child simple, i, C„ uiiinixed with tiiuclh fat or with hard substances' difficult to. chew, and not highly flavored ?1, Was the food served in a neat and orderly way and did the child take ;rep, to chew his food properly ? Conducted by Professor Henry G. B3ell The object of this department is to place at the ,ser- vice of our farm reactors the advice of an acknowledged authority on al! subjects pertaining to sods and crops. Address all -questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, In, care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toronto, and answers will appear in this column in the order in'. which they are received, As space is limited it is advis- able where immediate reply is necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed whir the question, when the answer will be mailed direct, WINTER WHEAT POINTERS Ontario farmers pt tihistime ale that it would produce a good healthy busy with their i prepare o winter wheat areas, They are tatting You tools "good ogre to feed up the special: care to give the ground the young calf or the young pigs early in verY best preparation, shoe winter the spring, because you determined to wheat this year means money. Prices have strong, vigorous stock. The same are high and there seems every indi- cation that they will remain so. In fact, wheat prices have but a very few be obtained. times surpassed that obtained ate, frac Many' farmers are interested in fer- tilizers this year, but unfortunately just lharvested,a moderately -large crop not all understand what fertilizers are, and the government is palling for an or how they should -be used. .Fertili- increase of over 30% of the crop pro- zers are carriers; of plant -food;: in suck Uncle Sam auras at ,form that the plant -food quickly dis= over a billion bushels of wheat thiS solves in the soil moisture and can be coming year. used by the crop, Now; some of .the Now, there aro sways and means by .elements of . the milk which the calf Which the average farmer can increase drank went to building its flesh. both his wheat and his net profits. Be Other food in the milk went to build - care should -be` taken in the feeding of the wheat crop if best results are to duced in 1917. sure to see that the seed -bed has very ing the bone ot the animal. It is. thorough preparation. A rough, him- somewhat similar in the food of the py wheat seed -bed leads touneven plant. So that the farrier may know planting, since many seeds are buried the relative amount of plant -grower, too deep and others fail to get sue plant -ripener and plant strengthener, ficient covering.- that the :fertilizer carries, the Domin- 'If, after the ground is plowed, it has ion Government in 1909 decreed that been carefully disked and harrowed, • this should be stated on the bags in possibly rolled and harrowed also, the which the fertilizers are sold,, and that kernels of soil are packed sufficiently the analysis should bo guaranteed. so that the moisture supply for the Now, the farmer reads' that the ter- til4% young growing wheat will be sufficient. shllizer contains 2 to ns nitrogen, we This moisture supply is all important, shall sag. That means that the mix - because it is the carrier of plantfood. lure contains 40 to 80 lbs. of that kind The plant obtains nearly all of its of plant -food, which causes the wheat food •throw h its roots, and this food plant to grow rapidly. Manure con - food tains to the ton about 15 lbs. of this can be taken up only when it is dis- kind. of plant -food: Of 'course every solved in the soil` moisture and root bit of stock manure should be care - juices. If this very simple explana fully spread on the ground and worked tion were fully comprehended by all Ontario wheat gravers, it would eli- minate a great number of failures. 'Winter wheat cannot grow in a pool of water. It has . to face the rigors of ' a rather severe winter, hence bad !drainage conditions tend to retard its development and subsequently weak, ill -nourished wheat makes an unsuc- cessful attempt to face the severity of the Canadian winter. • It will be of little avail to seed winter wheat in, ground that is poorly drained. Use well -drained ground so that the plant may have suitable growing conditions. Volumes have Veen. written about best varieties of wheat. The Cana- dian farmer is fortunate in that he can refer to his provincial or Dominion tests. On both:; the experimental fields of Ontario Agricultural College and the Dominion experimental farms,. leading varieties of wheat are care- fully tested year by' year. Only those that show superior value are retained. in, in order 'to increase the .growth ot the crops. Fertilizers should' be used to supplement the manure, or to make it go two or three times as far. We said that some of the food in the milk -which the calf drank -went' to building the bone of the animal. Bone is composed of a combination of lime and phosphoric acid. Now, strange to say, it is 'the phosphorus from this `same kind of a compound which is used by the plant to give strength to the growing plant and to hasten its maturity. The per cent. of phosphoric acid (P205) shown by the analysis on the bag, will tell you how much of this kind of plant -food there is in the mixture. Under present international condi- tions, there is a great scarcity of the next plant -food ingredient; potash. Some fertilizers offer one per cent., but many are sold with only the first two ingredients of plant -food in them. Potash causes the formation of starch After these have been carefully or the filling of the kernel: It also studied, .recommendations are" made gives the plant powerto resist disease. on the basis of the results obtained. speaking For Ontario the following varieties g generally,wheat' soils are have been found 'to give good results: Banatka, American Banner, Imperial Amber, Yarroslaf,,. Crimean Red. The fairly well supplied with potash, so the lack of this plant -food for wheat is not seriously noticed, as yet. first variety - of wheat is especially Now the plant never uses pure nitro - good milling wheat, since it is hard gen, which is a gas, or pure phosphor and flinty and makes strong flour. us or pdtassium,- 'which are metals. Most farmers know that Dawson's We - aid a ton of fertilizer carries Golden Chaff is one of the good varie- ties. This is a heavy yielder, but pro- duces a rather soft grain. There Is something beside variety, however. All cows are not record- breakers. There are some that give 160 to 200 lbs. of phosphorus and pos- sibly 20 to 40 lbs. of potash. The rest of the ton is made up of the carriers of these various plantfdads. Fertilizers will not supply humus, as .tuanure does, They induce rapid ten, twelve and fifteen thousand root poundsof ^snille; in a year; and then growth and consequently add to again there are some that do not give the humus of the e, l in t far as enough milk to pay their hoard and they produce this result, lint they are not essentially a source 'of humus. are an actual expense to the farmer. • They should be used then intelligent- To counter -balance this, there are a • few that produce extraordinary high plant food that they are concentrated milking records, upwards of twenty j Fertil%zers may be new to some On. thousand pounds or over a year': These II tarso farmers, but they are not new in are very valuable and their calves are their use in wheat -growing sections.. England has been using immense It is just the same story with wheat. quantities of fertilizers for nearly 100 Just because a sample ofwheat is of years. So have the eastern provinces a particular variety is no criterion of this country and the eastern states that it is of first class quality. You of our neighbors to .the South, The should a fanout ' the smalluse andf ' shrivennigmill lled graitonsift, labile! State of Ohio, which produces large quantities of winter wheat, makes cause inferior,, plants take up soil wide use of fertilizers. Prof. Thorne, room, absorb moisture, consume plant- Director of Ohio Agricultural Espeii• food and fain to return the good re- mental Station, has recently pointed sults obtained from superior seed, If mit that if the farmers in the county you have time, by all means test the where the experiment station is vitality of the seed, that is, count out located followed the fertilizer prac- 1100 wheat seeds. Place them between tices of the station; they would Iiave damp blotters, and keep diem near increased their wheat yields 14 busli.:- the stave, In, about four or five days elsP question. er acre It .is not ,, of the wheat should have sprouted suf- theory, it is a point already demon. ficiently for you to count the number I strafed. Ohio 'Experinhent Station iras. that are going to grow; 1P. you find increased 'Its wheat yields from 12 to that the wheat Sprouts but 80/0, in- 14 l - bushels per acre by proper ferti- lization; your gtfaiitity 20%,. if you ex- lization; Indiana, 11.6 busllels; and pect to get a normal stand, 11IisStritri, from 4 'to 10 blishels' where Most farmers have wheat drills, but careful tests li•tive i*een carried out many good farmers have to rely upon 'If Shell antincrease can -be acconrp- sowing the winter Wheat on the liar.lished on the Ontario farms this yogi, g y the farmers of. the province can take harrowing and rolling, I! such is lake great advantage of the high prices case, be sure to take.care that the which must prevail this coming year, seed is thoroughly covered. •-1 There should be very little difficulty this year as to the seed sprouting after 'ii, Rye thrives best '�on well -drained, is planted, because the land has been fertile loani soils but'will row bettor g blessed with seasonable' showers, I than most grains on'light, sandy, poor In preparing, the seedbed, : be 'very land, which is not in good physical careful to avoid using `sprouted seed, condition. It is also the best rain g. In sprouted seed the little germ Coven- for alkali oi' acid soil=.. Tho crop is r rowed ground and then covorin it b ing is broken. If seed has been hardier than Winter wheat, and there - sprouted and the sprout has been forte is surer when grown under, ad - broken off there is litel 111 i s it d ti i C