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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1918-7-4, Page 6By^ ,.gronom1st. This Department is for the use of our farm readers who want the advice of an expert on any question regarding soli, seed, crops, etc. If your question is of sufficient general interest it will be answered through, this column, If stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter, a complete answer will be mailed to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing Co,, Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. H. W.;-1. What is the best keeping onion, those grown from Seed or front Dutch sets? 2, What is the best time to sow buckwheat and what is the best variety? 3. What variety of millet do you recommend and when should it i be s err n ,? Can you give me directions forthe cultureof millet and rape? What is the best soil for all these crops? Answer: -1. Both systems of grow- ing onions are used. Some produce them from seed and others from Dutch sets. The yield from Dutch sets is usually less than that from seed, but the advantage is that the sets can be planted as soon as the ground is ready in spring and the green onions are ready to use earlier than those raised from seed. Asa rule better bulb onions for keeping are produced from. seed. 2. Buckwheat can be sown any time early in spring until the first of July. Possibly sometime in June is the best time to sow it. In tests at Ontario Agriouitural College these four varieties stood high, -Common Gray, Japanese, Silver Hull, Rye Buckwheat. lx, In Ontario tests the following mi4;ts have given good re- sults, Siberian, Hungarian, Canary Bird. Millet can be grown on any good sail, It can be planted later than moat other farm crops, and pro- duce a fair yield of hay. In order to get a good stand of millet, after the ground is plowed it should be thor- oughly disked and harrowed and if still lumpy should be rolled and har- rowed.The milletis then sown broadcast at the rate •of 20 to 30 pounds per acre. It is worked into the soil by a light harrowing. Under normal conditions the germination and growth will be rapid. The crop should be cut before it is too old else the hay will be woody and of poor nutritive value. Rape can also be grown on most, farm soils but does not do its best on muck soil. Theseed bed should be carefully prepared by plowing, disking and harrowing and the seed can be sown in. rows broad- cast at the rate. of 2 to 4 pounds per. acre. A medium loam or a heavy loam soil is best adapted for the grow- ing of rape. As to variety, Dwarf Essex Rape has given best results in Ontario. W. W.: -L What will eradicate twitch grass from the garden? 2. How would you treat potato blight? Answer: -1. Twitch or quack grass is exceedingly troublesome since it propagates by running root • stalks just under the surface of the soil. Small pieces of these roots will begin to grow wherever dropped, hence the area afflicted with this pest may be rapidly enlarged if care is not taken to collect every bit of root stock pos- sible, and to dry and burn it when the ground is being worked in early spring. The only thing that can be done for quad, grass in the garden is to keep its growth .down by continual hoeing. Various methods . to eradicate the pest have been suggested. One is by smothering it out. For this pur- pose a thick seeding of rape is prob- ably the most successful crop to grow. Thickly sown millet is also very ef- fective. 2. Late blight of potatoes must be treated by careful, spraying with Bordeaux mixture. . This'm 'mix- ture consists of5 lbs. copper sulphate, , 5 lbs. lime, 50 gallons of water. The lime and copper sulphate must be dis- solved separately, A gallon of water will dissolve a ground of either copper sulphate or lime. When the ma- terial has been dissolved mix it in the proportions indicated, and spray the potatoes every ten days or two weeks from the time they are five inches above the ground. If any plants have missed the spraying and the tops have gone down early from blight attacks, care should be taken not to store stock from such plants with healthy potato stack. W. W.:-1. What can I do for cut- worms? They are cutting off my tomato plants. I wind them with paper but they crawl up the paper and cut them just the Brame. Answer: --For controlling cutworms, the Maine Experiment Station gives the following advice: - "Control cutworms with a poison bait. This is very easily made up of white arsenic (can be bought at ahy drug store) some molasses and some- thing such as bran with which to make a mash. Mix the white arsenic and the bran material while dry and. put the molasses into a cup or a bucket of water to dissolve. Then add enough of this sweetened water to the bran to 'make it just moist throughout. Place a teaspoonful at the base. (not touching) of each plant affected and near the base of adjacent plants. Where the damage seems to be along an edge bordering a piece of grass -land, put some down near each plant along the border. Use the following quantities: - For gardens of 34 acre or less use: - Bran (or substitute) ....1 'quart White arsenic ....1 teaspoonful Molasses 1. tablespoonful Water to moisten For 1 to 2 acre gardens use: - Bran (or substitute) 10 lbs. White arsenic 1lb. Molasses 1 quart Water .............. to moisten Many people add to this poison mash, the juice and crushed pulp of some fruit that happens to be handy, such as grape fruit, apples, tomatoes, oranges, cantaloupes, etc., which may have "just one by," and it is consider- ed by scientific people to be a very good practice. This poison bait is cheap, easily mixed and easily ap- plied. The fact that it is a very old remedy which was standard many years ago has given a sufficient test of its reliability..' One of the best fea- tures of the poison is that as soon as the worm has fed he crawls into the ground from which he never emerges so that the birds do not eat ,othe dead cutworms. IN•tleRNATIONAL LESSON JULY 7. Lesson I. Beginning The Christian Life -John 1. 35-51; Acts 16. 13-34. Golden text, Rev. 22.17 Verse 13. On the sabbath day we went forth without the gate by a river side -This verse lands, in the midst of a narrative concerning the experience of Paul in the city of Philippi in bbag Plants Of all leading early and late varieties, 45c. per hundred, mail pre- paid, $2.50 per" thousand; express collect. Also Cauliflower, Brussels' Sprouts and Onion Plants. Plants are being shipped success- fully to all parts of Canada, Ask for price list, Iterold'n Farms, Fruitland, Ontario /Dept. "T" Niagara District Partners who ship their wool direct to` us get : betterprices than farmers who Bell too the general store, ASK ANY rARNIZFU who hen sold his wool both cvciys, and note what he mays--,: or, better still, write us for our paces;: they will show you how. much you lobe by selling to the General Store. ;We pay the big/test prices of any 6rtn thecountryand tirti the largest wool dealers in Canada. Payment is re- mitted the same day wool is received. S1i puS your wool to -day. yottwilthe more thou pleased if you do, and are assured of a stare deal frons us. 2 4parazoommat HV. ANDiRISW3 /3 CHURCH ST,. ",t'OEtm It'o Macedonia, notable as the first city in Europe in which the gospel was preached. Following the vision which he had in Trees, Paul crosses over to Europe. He firsttouchesat Neapolis on the shore (the modern Kavala) and then goes up to the Roman colony of ` Philippi, named after Philip' of Macedon, ' He remains' several days in the city, right to whose privileges he could claim as a Roman citizen. On the Sabbath day, that is, the Jewish JewsSabbath, he goes out to where the congregate, which was by the riverside. Where we supposed there was a lace of prayer -In most cities we find. the Jews worshiping in a syn- agogue, but in this city they seem to have been too poor to 'build themselves a house of worship. They had only a "praying place," or "proseucha," by the river side, where prayer was wont to be made. We sat down, and spake unto the women -This was apparently not synagogue service. It was-noc unusual for the teacher to teach in sit- ting posture. sess her and acknowledging Pnul and his companion as "servants - of the Most klagh God," Paul rebukes .the "demon,," the girl is restored, the spell of the demon is broken, and the soothsaying business is broken up, The men who owned the }girl seize Paul and his companion and drag then, be- fore the magistrates. The crowd is inflamed against them, their clothes are torn from them, they are publicly whipped with rods and placed m prison with their feet fastened into stocks. 25, About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and :singing hymns unto Cod, and the prisoners were listening -They were probably unable to sleep because of the pain of their wounds from the awful scourging and the dis- comfort of their position, but with joyful spirit, unmoved by the savage treatment they fill the prison with their jubilant hymns of praise -a mar- velous thing to the wretched prisoners upon whose ears fell the notes ,of Christiano joy. Y. 26'. Suddenly there wns a great earthquake -This evidently reads as a miraculous event, indicated by all the details -the opening of all the doors and the shaking off of all the bonds of the prisoners. 27. The jailor . . was about to kill himself -The jailor was respon- sible with his life for the safety of the prisoners and preferred death by his own hand to exposure, disgrace, and a dishonorable death, i 28. Do thyself no harm: for we are all here -Why did not the prisoners make a dash, for safety when an oppose tunitvwas afforded them? The earth- ! quake had thrown them into a panic: The jailor came to the outer door, called for lights, and, ; with the pre- sence of mind of a Roman, summoned the guard, and the opportunity was lost. 29. Fell down before Paul and Silas -He now saw in Paul and Silas no longer criminals. They were unlike any-other,prisoners. They had been shamefully treated, but were evident- ly, to:him, favorites of the gods. 30. Sirs, what must I do to be sav- ed ?-His appeal was not to, be saved from the earthquake or from the wrath of the gods on account of his treatment of Paul and ' Silas; for he was merely an instrument to carry out the decision of the magistrates, but it was salvation as he had heard it de- clared by the apostles.' 32. They spoke the work of the Lord unto him -This must have meant a compete setting forth to this Roman and his household of the nature of the teachings of ,Jesus and the way of sal- vation 'through him. 33. He and all- his, immediately-- The mmediately-The jailor brought forth fruits meet for repentance, treating now with. great consideration and kindness the suffering apostles. The washingof the stripes and the baptism in all pro- bability took place in the court of the prisonor with water immediately at hand,, 34. Set food before them -They are not now in the prison but in thepri- vate house of the jailor with all the comfort he can provide,. for them. Re- joiced greatly -"Joy in the Lord" is the phrase used .frequently in the let- ters of Paul to indicate the spirit of the churches he founded. Y�. While it is' possible for vermin to live the entire year; when conditions are favorable, they seem to do their most deadly work in June. Houses that are cleaned once a week and fumigated every month, are seldom in- fested .with vermin. The writer has found that the use of tobacco stems in the nest boxes, in- stead of hay or straw, is in itself one of the best insecticides. Even in set- ting hens tobacco stems are used ex- clusively, with the result that when the , chicks are hatched there are no lice present to sap the life out of them. A good whitewash is made as fol- lows: Take one pint of Zenoleum, threequarts of kerosene, five quarts of milk of lime; mix all with' an equal amount of water. Mille of lime is obtained by slaking enough lime with the, water to get five quarts of creamy consistency, to which the other ma- terials are added. ' It. is better to ap- ply the whitewash with a spray pump than a brush, as the force will drive the mixture deeper into the crevices. Zenoleum used in the spray will kill the bacteria and fungi,.acerosene will kill the mites, and whitewash, will give the pen a clean appearance. • GOOD HEALII QUESTION.BOX By Audrew F. Currier, M.D. Dr: Currier will answer all signed letters pretaining to Health. If your question is of general interest it will be answered through these columns if not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is en- closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis. Address Dr, Andrew F. Currier, care- of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Infant Feeding No. 1. This subject is of great ' impett- ance at all seasons but especially so during the heat of summer when the sensitive digestive apparatus of babies is thrown out of equilibrium. It would seem unnecessary to urge. that every mother who is able to nurse. her baby should do so. The food which is supplied by her body is the natural and proper nutri- ment for her child. Occasionally it is not n"tri•tious and cannot be used, somewhat more fre- quently it is insufficientin quantity and has t obe pieced out with cows' milk, rarely it must be suppressed in the interest of the mother's health or life. It is a sin- against society, against nature and against God when a wo- man with an ample supply of breast milk deliberately elects to suppress it to suit her convenience. It is next to procuring an abortion, which so many women do merely be- cause it is inconvenient to have babies and bring them up. I appeal to every honest, decent, woman who has a baby or is about to have one to see that her baby is nourished at the natural source, so far as it is within her power. If this source fails the next best thing is to get a wet nursesor if this is impossible to use the milk of ani- mals. The milk of asses and goats has curd Or casein which quite resembles that in human milk, but such milk is usually hard to get and hence we must usually resort to cows? milk, preferably from cows that are dry fed. I 4 Grass fed cows often eat plants 14, A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple -That is, a seller of fabrics and clothes dyed. purple. One that worshipped 'God -She was a pro- selyte and so disposed s to interest in religious life. Heard us -More proper- ly, was listening to tis. Whose heart the Lord opened -.She was in the attitude of open mind to receive the truth, a' sincere, unprejudiced and ingenuous inquirer for the way of life. She wel- comed the presentation of 'Christ through the message of Paul and with willing submission rendered the moral self-conscious compliance by which she arrived at faith, 15. When she was baptized, and her household -,She dedicates her entire family to the Lord, accepting at the hands of Paul the rite of Christian baptism, as the rite initiating her into the Christian church This is one of the eases of "household baptism" men- tioned in the New Testament. (For others see Acts 18. 8 and 1 Cor. 1. 16.) It is assumed that the tern,' "household" must have included all her children and, In all probability; in- fants. 16-24. The incidents recorded,in this section occurred on another day 10 Philippi, It appeare that a slave girl who was a ventriloquist, in the service of her masters and bringing in consid- erable erable revenue throrigh her "t dotheagi' follo'w'ed `.Paul: orytng. out through the demon supposed io pas. tl6.fl�rNiR5 aw s.;.uaaay.� which injure their milk as an article of healthful food, but the same plants which when green are injurious may be harmless when in the form of hay.. Milk is a complex and perfect food containing albumen in its cheese, fat in its butter or cream, sugar, water and mineral salts, and these' are all the body needs for its upbuilding. It varies greatly in the 'proportion. of these constituents, some containing more cheese than others, some more fat, hence all milk is not equally suited for nourishing babies. At different periods in a baby's life more of - one constituent is required than of another. Casein or cheese in cow's milk is usually too tough to be digested by a young infant's gastric juice, and hence this substance must often be diminished. Milkspoils very quickly unless it is kept cold on account of the action of. the bacteria which gets into it almost as soon as it is drawn. These bacteria may be destroyed or prevented from growing by the ac- tion of heat. The "process of doing this is called. pasteurization by which it is heated to 140. degrees F., forty minutes. Cream or fat may be added to it un- till its total volume is three per cent. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. M. K. -Have been advised to rub my` baby girl; who is four weeks old, every other day with olive oil, in order to strength her bones. Is it desir- able ? Answer -It will do no harm, but I think.. cocoanut oil is preferable, it is less greasy and it has nutritive value, as well as the olive oil. ro.o 1 Colt> ••,•'. BACK -«r eennwARp.tt Fr, Wien Willie saw this funny beast., a 3I1► gave a mighty shout: , ever caw an elephant _X0141101,8_ plgitY'4. �l�a;>lx twr l.Gd^ .ti.a a, The Southern Canada Power Co., Limited Controls Water Powers on the St. Francis River capable of over 100,.000 H.P. development, and through stock own- ership controls several Light &r Power Companies. I511e Company supplies power and light to. over 45 muni- cipalities in the Province of Quebec, principally iu the Eastern Townships, Work has been commenced and is progressing rapidly, on the development of ono of the Company's largeP owers on the St. Francis located at Drummondville. This plant is being developed to supply' the increaseddemand for power in the territory served by the Company 1 Y. and enable more manufacturers to locate in this district. Phe development of water' power now is a patriotic duty,. as well as a commercial advantage.. We recommend the 6% BONDS of the SOUTHERN CANADA POWER COMPANY,- LIMITED, which we aro offering with 'a bonus of common stock, thus giving in- vestors an op portunitY of,participating in the future suc- cess of the Company, Send for circular and map showing territory served. BONDS MAY BE PTTs-or$ASED FROM US ON MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN NEsIIYT HCMSON Invest/Tient Bankers Mercantile Trust Bldg.. 222 St. James Street - COWIPANY Limited Ilamilton Montreal MOTHER -WISDOM There is a "Right and a Wrong Kind of Fatigue in Children. By Helen Johnson Keyes. Of course children must be tired sometimes.'. and if they rest quickly, then after' a night of sound sleep or after ` a wholesome meal followed by a period of thorough relaxation, all is well. Indeed, fatigue of this kind is actually healthful. Particularly at that tinge of life during the teens, which we call adolescence, the body and mind work best through periods of hard, fatiguing activity, followed by profound' relaxation and indolence. All .patience should - be shown to adolescent boys and ;girls who choose to get through their tasks in this manner, al- though to their parents it may be somewhat irritatiny and inconvenient. There is, however, a fatigue which, is dangerous and which should be met at once with proper remedies, for the longer it is allowed to persist the more difficult it is to overcome. The symp- tom by which it may always be known is the lack of power the sufferers have to become rested again. It set- tles down on them 'like a permanent condition of weakness and discourage - anent. Children suffering from this dan- gerous fatigue awaken irritable in the mornings, have, poor appetites and lit- tle interest in anything which they do. They perform their home tasks and their school work in a blundering, in- attentive way. It lays them open to diseases of all kinds and makes re- covery. from these; diseases more un- certain, slower and less complete. Morally, it leads to dullness, indolence ani failure all along the road. The explanation usually made for fatigue and nervousness in children is that they are studying too hard.. As day to day, in a widening circle of ill health. The schoolroom, perhaps, is heated by an unjacketed stove. Close; be- side it the air is so hot that the "chil- dren are 'drowsy; iri the back of 'the room the youngsters are shivering, In both places the air is poisoned by the breaths of the children and the burn-• ing up of fuel in that same stove - which equals` twenty-five men in its power to exhaust pure air. The desks, very likely, face the door, and windows on both sides shed cross lights upon the children's work, caus- ing eyestrain. It takes so long to put on coats and hats that outdoor recess is omitted much of the time. The only wonder is that any study progress is made and even a tolerable health maintained by most of the pup- ils. • The system of promotion is too apt_'. to be a scramble by the children to get ahead of one another instead of a serious pursuit of knowledge. They1. wear themselves out in the nervous excitement of doing better than some- body else. Those. boys and girls who happen ` not to be good 'recitation - scholars often fail in this scramble and grow despondent and ,ashamed. They are frequently the most prom- ising pupils in the school but nobody knows it because we are all blinded by the false standard we have set up. By discouraging them, testing them by what, they cannot do instead of by what they can, we thrust them into the ranks of the nervous, the tired and the discouraged. Before taking your ruff -down chil• dren. out of school try this cure: In the bitterest cold of winter let a, matter of fact,: this is seldom the them sleep with wide-open windows: cause and if they are taken out of As soon as the weather is milder put school, little improvement 'occurs un- 'their beds ona porch. If you have -less in addition to removing them. a bathroom; let the day begin with a from their studies' a number of other cold plunge in the tub or. a cold show - changes, are made in their manner of er.Give them a breakfast of, well - ac living. I believe that if you will cooked cereal with cream on it, and search your memory and experience eggs and toast -no fried foods or you willdecide that among all those sweets. See that their -feet are dry - run -down youngsters whom you have shod and -their bodies comfortably seen taken out .-of - school, the only, clad for the trip to school. Prepare ones who, have improved have been them nourishing lunches'of well -baked those who at the same time were sent I bread spread with butter, or sanwiches away:for visits or put on diets or made of chicken or beef. Do not include to sleep on porches. The truth is that hang, pickles, jams or candies. Chil- hard study will not hurt any normal; dren should. not drink tea or coffee;' boy ,or girl if it is done under health- instead, give them a bottle of 'milk ful, happy conditions. or cocoa. Fresh fruits will supply all Yes, it is trying conditions under the sweets they need, in the best pos- which school life often proceeds, which eible form. When they must halve usually result in dangerous fatigue I cake let it be simple. Nuts and raisins and nervousness sometimes running make an excellent dessert with ; real on into that 'twitching disease, known i food value but they shpuld not be as Saint Vitus' dance, or into tuber- added to a meal already, heavy with culosis. The causes are threefold and meat. This is true, too, of ,cheese. lie in the faulty hygiene of the home, Cheese should be added only to a light the poor hygiene of the school and the meal of green salads or vegetables or system of marks or competition' with fruits. other pupils "and examinations which Then let the, mothers of the con - are often pushed to a senseless and munity form a mothers' club or a truly criminal excess. parent -teachers' association and see Children frequently start off the that the school stove is properly day with insufficient breakfasts, ar- jacketed; that there are always two windows open, One at the bottom and oneat the top; that the desks are turned, with their backs to the door and that the windows on the right side of the -room are darkly curtained, al- lowing the light to fall only from the , rive at schoolchilled and perhaps with wet feet -and are provided with a mur- derous basket -lunch of pickles, ham, cake and candy. What wonder that their heads ache and that they believe that their studies -which are indeed difficult and painful under these ci.r-j rear and left side. If the school has cumstances-are the cause of their illi but one room, urge the fathers to build health' They feel far too sick to ,eat ' on a second'. one where an oil stoveand supper but are hungry 'by bedtime so! a few kitchen utensils can be skept foie. they eat ,a generous slice of pie before,heating dishes for the.midday lunch sleeping. A bad digestion''makes a or even for simple cooking." person feel cold so probably they do I There will 'be few tired or nervous not open the windows very wide and children in a community where such the pie, plus the poor ventilation, pre-' home and school hygiene methods are duces' restless sleep. So they go, from practiced: There is a tendency for farmers to keep their lambs until they weigh 100 pounds or more, instead of selling them when they reach a 'weight of `seventy-five to eighty pounds and bring the top market price. Packers will not pay the top price for lambs, no difference how fat, if they weigh over eighty pounds. The reason is because the best cuts of ineat can be obtained' from the smaller carcass. In addition, the one who sells March lambs in June or July when they have attained seventy-five or eighty pounds, instead of waiting until falls to dis- pose of them, avoids "the danger of disease in the last two summer months. Lambs ` make very small gains during this period. They make the cheapest gains under five months.. of age. They can reach the neces- sary; weight by the last of June or middle of July if fed liberally with: grain, pasture crops and milk froni their' mothers, The marrow from the soup bone makes a pleasant addition to soup.