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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-4-3, Page 6Br Agronomist_. This ospartmcnt Is tor the use of our tarm row:ters who want, the Advice of an expert on any question reaardfla soil, sect, crops, etc. it your question la et sufficient general. interest,, It wilt be answered through this column, it *tamped and addressed envelope to enclosed with your .totter. a complete answer will be mailed to you, Address Agronomist, care ot Winson Pawl:ging lyre.. Ltd., 73 Adelaide st W.. Toronto,. EXPERIMENTS . WITH FARM CROPS The members of the Ontario Agricultural. end Experimental Union are pleased to state that for 1919 they are prepared to distribute into every Township of Ontario material ee high quality for e.eperiments with Grains, Fodder Crops, Roots, Grasses. Clovers and Alfaifas, as follows: LIST OF EXPERIMENTS FOR 1919. Number. Grant, Crops. I'tots., 1—Testing two varieties of Oats 2 2 ---Testing 0.A.C. N. 21 Barley and Emxo,er x 2 3 --Testing two varieties Q£ Hullers Bayle} x . . - . 4 ---Testing two varieties of StirIle'heat••••••••••• 5—Testing two varieties of Bi ekwheat x x r a • « , . + e , s . x . x e , f ---Testing three varieties of Field Peas 7 ---Testing two varieties of Spring Bre . - . - . - _ • . , , • 8—Testing three varieties of Soy, Soja; or Japanese Beans 9—Testing seven varieties of Feint and Dealt Husking Corn ,• , , • , . . Refit Crop; 11 ---Testing 'th'ree varieties o !Omits ... rax,.. ,.,.ax.r,4*F++a+•4 11—Testing two varieties of Sugar Mange1s , . s x . x .. x , w .04.44•4•00 12—Testing three varieties of Stivedieli Turnips . , . , . , , .. , , x • 1 —Testing two varieties of Fall Turnips , , , .. e e . , , . , .. w+ +. • , • .. * *.R 1 --Testing two varieties of Carrots .,x ....... .,.., 4.4,04#4-1,.• Forage, Fodder, Silage and Hay Crops. 2 2: 3• 2 3` 7 3 2 3 2 2 10 --Testing the planting of Corn at six dist,'ances in the row , , , .. 6 1e—Testing' three varieties a Millet ................., ,...,,.,,,, 8 17 ---Testing two van?et-ies of Sorghum , . .. , .. , , •. .. , , , , .. , 1S—Testing Grass Peas and two varieties �of Vetches , , .. • . t. 3 Ine----Tereing Rape, Kale and Field Cabbage .... , .. , , .. 31 `20—Testing three varieties of Clover ... , . , . , , , , . , . , .. 3 2t --Testing two eurit ties of Alfalfa At .... 01..444444 2 22—Testing four varieties o£ Grasses ....... . ...... . ........... . .. 4 Culinary Crops. 23 Testing three varieties of Ftield Beans ..... . 3 21- Testing two varieties of Sweet Corn .. . . ....... . . ... . . , , , x 2 Fertilizer Experiments, 23•. -Testing Fertilizers with Rape,,,„,,,,,,,,,,,,x... ....... ... ... Miscellaneous Experiments. 29 ---Testing three grain mixtures for Grain productiosl 3' —Testing three grain mixtures for Fodder production, 3 The size of -each plot is to be two rods long by one rod wide, Any person in Ontario may choose any ONE of the experiments for 1919 and apply for the seine. The material will be furnished in the order wheith the applications are received, while the supply lasts. Each appli can should make a second choice, as the material for the experiment seleeted ns first choice might be exhausted before his application is received. All material will be furnished free of charge to each applicant, and the produce will, of course, become the property of the, person who conducts the experi- ment. Ewe person applying for an experiment should write his name and address very carefully, and should give the name of the County in which he lives. Address PROF. C. A. ZAVITZ, Director Field Husbandry Branch, On- tario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont. CAI/ April is an ideal month for hatch- ing goose eggs. Duck raisers take advantage of this month to get out their future breeding stock. April ducks gain better development, and start to lay earlier than those hatch- ed Inter. The nights are cgo1, but the days are glorious with sunshine, and are so invigorating. It is just the kind of weather that stimulates the at- tendant, filling him full of enthusi- asm, (Nspeciaily as he sees that new lifehas been put in his stock. Every- body seems happy. April is not only an excellent hatchirg month, but it is an Ideal growing month. One can just see the little ones growing; and this exhiliarating weather will be with us for twe more months—April and May. More real progress can be made through selection and breeding than "— tai* a -,rte feeding. The best oenfterer and care wi11 n ` rtaiLk? a ig Qd layer out of a bird with big thick pelvic bones, any more than heavy feeding will make a draft horse out of a racer. Select birds with thin pelvic bones WORK -Ili THE GARDEN: f,APCt. "'' I.AN THE` GARDEN" DAP1.PAlet;' r. t 1S' .rl STORE.VtGETABLES /it MANVt'£GARDEN• BEEI?Er 111 • a p.ow FQR CARRQTS MA`f SaRtNC qE t,ANNEO CAN014 E`aT4A W£ET CORt1 URCHASE '7NESEEDS RCPARS FOR - Ttle S!RING WORK PRtPARE THE HOTBED uSE FRESit 5TA8kB jtAtyugE-rORCERNUAARB- i1 vtOR7E 5Q)1. Agour M DDLE f OF APRIL- soWTHE HARDIER. ;/a01 rABL y Q5.^ "Dlaiting two blades groin where only one Wade grew before." "Cheap Fertility”- doitar6 for you Hard work at cultivation helps --proper crop rotation is another big help, but there Is nothing that will give you as steady, generous, sure and CHEAP fertility as will Glenne "Shur -Gain" Fertilizers, They give your soil the complete blend ot nitrates, phosphoric acid and potash needed for bumper crops. Fertilizers The materials we use are the richest in the world for elements o! crop growth, and they are Combined by expert chemists who :have knowledge of every foot of Canadit's eon. Whet crops aro yon Planting this $grins? Sae your dealer about Gunns "Shur -Gain" atm and bo aura of real but cheapest fertility, newt llslay 'WS important anejeet, Booklet "num> crops" manse en request, GUNK$ LIMITED WEST TORONTO, ONT. and with plenty of space between the ear of the breastbone and the two it pelvic bones, Male birds should be selected the same way, always being careful that only the most vigorous and healthy specimens are used in the breeding yards. r That it pays to have drinking cups in the stanchions for dairy cows is no longer n question for argument. It has been proved beyond a doubt. How do they pay? In 'three ways: 1. They save time and labor in water- ing cows. 2. They save fuel, because they do away 'with the necessity of a tank heater. 3. They increase the yield of milk from the cows :using them. A very careful estimate states that drinking cups will save, on the aver- age, three, nlinuegs e. cow a. day. i?I „S ..,:Fig for cows. This means ten Successful Since g fltir 6 3 catNI° ue jolts a tie askh4 WIri a todzy'ltts Free got Bulbs Plants IO.• SEE EPS MEAN SUCCESS FAR it our seeds means 611:4 r. - your seecIsmn. Our 64 !Jes,rs of unbroken. success speaks (or iisei` J.L.SIMMEI1S ES it7; o,TeR TO. SEED CORN Add"-": Ma. X,. L} ! s.31Yi - Windsor, Ont. Eales • Coanty -NAT g t',l '7E1300 RABBITS S & BROILERS Better quality preferred. WRITE FOR PRICES STANFORD'S, Limited 128 Mansfield St. - Montreal KEEP,; YOUR COWS IN PRIME CONDITION ing being s , t mid nature easily succumb to pain. and are far more liable to contagious diseases than more vigorous animals. A good tonic, however, will do a lot to- wards improving your cows'. con- dition pr. A. 0. nArrards COW Ilriil'IGOViA.TOR will prevent abortion and the re- tention of afterbirth; will give.. them strength while c •1 -.Ing; pre- vent biarrhoea and ucouring In oo•w•s and calves; overcomes bar- renness; increase the quantity and ° quality of the milk and will quickly cure garget and. caked udder. Every cow owner should Use this won- derful tonic, Big_ book•. on /Fr3" 000. .A. n l in al Ail- ments 6i,3ban1e7n menta sent fres. C1o„ I4mlte Write for a Irnowiton. V.Q. oopy, GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX By Andrew P. Currier. M.D. Or. Currier wilt answer all alanod letters pertaining to Health, if your question is of general Interest It will be answered through these columns; if not, It will be answered personalty it stamped, addressed enveia h e is en- closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis, Address Or. Andrew F. Currier, care rot Wileon Publlehing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, The Clinical Thermometer. lubricant on the bulb may facilitate g registers tempera- its introduction. If the thermometer A thermometeristoofar within the rectum tura, based upon the principle that"carried , variations in temperature will cause a given substance to expand and con- tract with approximate regularity. Mercury is commonly used to mea- sure temperature but so also are metallic springs or straps of sensitive metal, or fluids which are sensitive', to air pressure. A clinical therm - meter registers changes in tempera- ture in the animal body. In human beings the normal is 98.4 degrees F. Such a thermometer is usually a glass tube, four or five inches long, perforated from end to end, with its lower end dilated to a bulb and con - hours of labor a cow during a 200 day milking season. This amounts to about $2.50. The average amount of fuel saved through not having to use a tank heater has been estimated at fifty cents a cow a winter. The average increase in milk yield is estimated at'two pounds a cow a day, or 400 pounds for a 200 -day, milking period. At $3 a hundred, this means $12. Thus, the saving in labor and fuel and the increase in milk yield am- ounts to $15 a cow a winter. Drink- ing cups cost less than $5 a eow. If you can't buy a herd buy a heifer. FSILTILIZnR A. R DENS. LAWNS, FLOWERS. VI -Complete Fertilizer. Write George Stevens, Peterborough, Ont. EARLY NORTHERN YELLOW CORN (Quebec grown) The earliest yellow flint corn In existence, Su plied on oob otaly, quantity limner Via. 400, 2 lbs. 760, 6 lbs. SIM, p I5 LZ2Z'$ MOD STOMA 360 aoro *iter St. West Montreal. lila. P.€3,—Send for copy of booklet en- titled "14daking the Garden Pay" contraction of the sphineter may draw it entirely within the organ. There is nothing serious about this but it may require skil�l'ed help to remove it without breaking. The temperature of the body is usually lowest from 7 to 9 a.m., and.highest from 5 to 7 p.m. It is increased by exercise, digestion, prolonged heat, excitement, etc., and diminished by pain, haemorrhage, fright hysteria and various emotions. Children have sudden changes in temperature after sweating, convulsions, or the influ- ence of infectious germs. A good taining..yufy; a••l2iead of ,which thine to have ,°in ever.:* household; eneeease nds the perforated space as the especially where there are children, temperature is recorded. The thin- is a reliable thermometer, and equal- ly it desirable to know how to use it be to heat and the quicker the mer- it. eury will expand. A. scale at the side wATCH OUT rojZ ,NSECTS .. .e.Av TNG P0TArQES- sf:.r OUT TOMATO Pe.ANTS SOW Act, rct10:, VEOETA8I.ES `. an -r cuLTIVA7PIL ?yt;GARDEN -KE.CP FREE fttOM WEEDS -SOW DOTATOES ETC^ +,.SOtfLOWER =Ds EARLY ,,i `N MAY March. Plan the garden campaign.. Pureh:tse the seede. Prepare for the spring work. March, April. I;f. you have one, prepare the hot- bed or cold frame for use, Fresh stable manure will be necessary for the hotbed, This should be'turned several times befara it is put ,into the hotbed. Force rhubarb and raise early let- Luce and radish. By the middle of April the soil will be ready to work. Rake over the garden and sow the hardier vegetable seeds, such as ear - rots, beets, peas, parsnips, radish, onions, white turnips, spinach and Swiss Chard. April, May. of the tube usually graded from 05 Questions and Answers. degrees to 110 degrees F. records the Subscriber-1—What can .be done temperature. A lens front on the for swollen glands resulting from a thermometer magnifies the thread of blow received six months ago? mercury and facilitates reading it. 2 --Do such gands ever disappear In European countries the Celsius or without treatment? • ' e scale has a loin e often develop ,into at zero and a boiling point at 100.1 mors and can ' they be :' effectively The Reaumur scale has freezing atf treated by the X-ray? zero and boiling at 80. A thermo- • Answer -1—I do not imagine that meter must be sensitive and accur-, the trouble you refer to, is swelling Early Model and Crosby Egyptian, ate, and such an instrument stare-! of the glands—if it is due to a blow; Cabbage—Set plants 18 inches dardized and tested, which willregis-; it is possibly an effusion of blood, apart in the row, with rows 2 feet ter temperature , in one minute or; which has formed a tumor, which, in apart. Varieties recommended: Early less is purchasable almost anywhere. all probability, will.disappear in Jersey Wakefield and Copenhagen Observation of the body temperature, time. Market (early), Succession (mad is about as ancient in its origin asi 2—Swollen glands of some vane any observation we know of, The t ium), Danish Railhead and Drumhead ties do absorb and disappear, but in Savoy (late), and Red Dutch (red). earliest observers said there was' the ` majority of cases they require Cauliflower—Set plants 18 inches fever or disease when the skin felt! suitable attention in order to get rid apart in the row, with rows '2 feet hot and this early,becaree a point of of them. apart. Varieties recommended: Early (importance in diagnosis and treat-' 3—The condition which you speak Snowball and Early Dwarf Erfurt. ment. It is not accurate as a record' of is a tumor, and, in some cases, I Carrots—Sowee about l ,inch of the heat of the interior of the should suppose an X-ray treatment deep in rows about 15 inches apart. body and of the blood. The import -I might be helpful. Varieties: recommended: Chantenay, ance of frequent records of body Mrs, M. F.—My little girl; aged 2 Danvers Half Long and Early Scar - temperature has records recognized, years, has fifteen White warts on her let Horn. about one hundred years and suitable chin and they are multiplying and Celery—TheHo. seed should be sown instruments have been devised for, getting larger. What can be done to I early m the house and the plants obtaining them. A thermometer must remove them? pricked ,out in late May at about 5 be absolutely clean as well as aecur-1 Answer—I am afraid your diag in. O. SOliition of bone ate. It is a good plan to dip the bulb; nosis of the condition is not correct; " wipe.warts are, to gay the least, `very some of those , rural cemeteries P If I were you T would have the child it carefully before using et. When; ermined: by a skilled dermatologist must look up -ward not downward for I the thermometer is applied the ti placed in the armpit, the mouth or an accurate record and it may le in d lie can tell you wihat may be best the 'way of treatment. One of our neighbors used 300 den Self Blanching (Paris Golden Yellow) early;; Winter Queen, Evans Triumph and Perfection Heartwell, late, Corn—Sow seed about 2 inches. deep in hills 2 feet apart, with rows 3 feet apart, Varieties recommended: Early Malcolm, Golden Bantam and Country Gentleman. Cucumber—Sow seed about 2 inches deep in hills 18 inches apart, with rows 4 feet apart. Varieties re- commended; White Spine and Chicago Pickling, Lettuce -Sow seed about le inch deep in rows 15 inches apart. Varier ties recommended. Grand Rapids, :;lack -seeded Simpson, Crisp as Iee. Melons ---Sow seed about 2 inches deep in bills 12 inches apart, with rows 6 feet apart. Varieties reeohn- mended: Long Island Beauty, Hack - The regular work of cullevating er,sack, Montreal Market and Emer.. the garden will commence this month. It should be kept neat and free from weeds. '.Elaut potatoes, and sow the re- ald Gere. Onion—Sow seed about ?e inch deep in rows about 15 inches apart. Varieties recommended: Yellow mainder of the vegetable seeds, ln- Globe Danvers, Early Iced Wethers- eluding string beans and sweet corn. field, Prize Taker. Sow flower seeds early in May. Parsnip—Sow seed about 1 inch. June. deep in rows 18 inches apart. Varie- Continue to keep the garden well ties recommended' Hollow Crews cultivated and free from weeds. and Intermediate. Watch out for insects and spray the Peas—Sow seed about 2 inches deep potatoes as soon as they are a few in rows 18 inches apart. Varieties American r dus An dd: Ga inches above the ground. recammen e , Set out the tomato, pepper and egg Wonder, r,Gand many regory Surprise, hers, IvieLean plants about the first . week of Tune, potatoes—Plant seta 3 inches deep Rad sow• seed of. all the tender vege- about 12 inches apart tin the row, tables, such as citron, cucumber, with Zee feet between the rows. pumpkin, melon, etc, ` Varieties recommended: Irish Cob - June, July. bier (early) and Green Mountain Make second sowings, for succes- (late sion crops, of such vegetables as Radish—Sow seed about l inch beets, peas, radish and corn. deep in rows 12 inches apart. Varia- Set out plants of late cabbage. ties recommended: Soatrlet White - Sow turnip seed. Tipped. Turnip- and White Icicle. July, August. Spinach -Sow seed about e -e inch The canning season commences .in deep in rows 15 Melees apart. Varie- July. ties recommended: Victoria, Think Young beets and carrots may be leaved. canned with success and are of a Salsify—Sow seed about 1 ince better flavor than the fully matured deep in rows 15 inches apart. Varie. roots. ties recommended: Long White, Can. the extra sweet corn. Sandwich Islands. September, October.` Squash—Sow seed about 1 incl; deep ,lee hills 3 to 4 feet apart, with Many of the vegetables will have rows about 6 feet apart. Varieties to be stored during these two recommended: Long White Bush, months. The garden also may be Summer Crookneek, Delicious, Hub- manured as soon as the crops are bard. harvested, and plowed for the follow- Tomatoes—Set out plants 2` feet ing spring, apart in rows 2 feet apart. Varieties What Seeds to Sow and How. recommended: Alacrity, Sparks Earl- Beans—Sow the seed two inches Tana, Bonny Best, Chalk's Early Jew - deep in rows 18 inches apart. Varie- el, Livingston Globe. ties recommended: Stringless' Green Swede Turnip—Sow seed 1 inch Pod, Early Red Valentine, Round Pod deep in rows 2 feet apart. Variety recommended: Champion Purple Top. The following publications may be had free upon appltieation to the Pub- lications Branch of the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa: Vegetable Gardening at Home.and on Vacant Lots, Circular No. 14. Notes 'on the Cultivation of Some Staple Vegetables. Special Circular No. 4. How to Make and Use Hotbeds .and Cold Frames. Exhibition Circular No. 16. Asparagus, "Grelery and Onion Cui. tura. Pamphlet No. 5. Cabbage and Cauliflower Culture. Pamphlet No. 11. Tomato Culture. Pamphlet No. 10, The Potato in- Canada. Bulletin No. 90. Common Garden Insects and Their Control. Clircular No. 9. The Manuring of Market Garden Crops. Bulietin No. 32. Soil Fertility, Its Economic Main - inches apart, with the rows 2 feet tenance and' Incresscse. Bulletin No.' apart. Varieties recommended; Got- 27, centigrade freezingt I3—Dothey d' 1 t tu_ Kidney Wax, Wardwell's Kidney Wax. Beets—Sow seed about 1 inch deep in rows 15 inches apart. Vaeleties recommended: Detroit Dark Red, -Veins Veins ?. "PlEA'.B, 'EMS Iron -Elastic Laded Stocking SANIT.aRY, as they may be washed or boiled. ADJUSTABLE. laced like a legging; always Sits. CO6'O$TABLI1, made to measure; light and durable: COOL. contains NO Rt13- BER. 1,500,000 SOLD ECOS OMICAt, cost $3.50 each, or two for the same limb, $6.60, postpaid. Write for Catalogue and Self -Mee ,surement BIank Carling Limb Specialty Co. 514 E7ew Birks Bldg. W1A,1'.xeatil. P.q.: the rectum. The last of these is far the most reliable in determining.. the body temperature biit is often incon- venient, particularly in children. The pounds of sixteen per cent. acid mouth is next in importance.for this phosphate when sowing wheat and purpose,, the bulb being placed under got good results from tt. One-half the tongue. After the thermometer of the field yielded thirty-one bush has. been removed and read, the els an acre, the other half, with the thread of mercury should be shaken same wheat variety and soil, yielded down and the instrument always cis- forty-seven bushels an .acre, The infected and dried before being put onlyreason -for . this was that he- had sway.The danger .of breaking' the haued and spread thinly during the thin bulb must always he considered previous winter the manure from his in introducing the instrument espec- horse stable, top -dressing the wheat iaely In the rectum ansa it must not _ evenly in connection with the acid be inserted forcibly, an' antiseptic, fertilizer.—G. B. One Farm Wood -Pile. "Say, mother, I'll be glad when- I get that wood -pile into the wood- shed. Then PR be all through with it, won't I, mother?" "No, John, You know I shall want.. you to carry out the ashes after the wood is .'burned up," cheerfully re- plied mother. "But then I'll be through with it, mother?" "Ob, no, I believe not, for you will then scatter the ashes on thecorn- field, and father will plow them under. in the spring. Then you will help him' plant the corn, you now. The corn will grow, eating the ashes and earth ourselves, and that'wilI surely be the end of this old wood -pile." "Not quite," said mother. "You know there will be cobs /left, and stalks of corn," Wemay feed them to the pigs, or to the cows, .and that will give us meat or milk." -"Well, I never knew there was so much to a wood .pile before," said John, as he busied •himself. 'carrying in wood. . If you are invited out to dinner and take a small And with ,.you, be ,sure to spread a •paper on the floor under the child's 'chair. This will catch the particles of food wlach the aver about at, and by and by you will also age child is sure to drop, and your eat sweet, corn. hostess will appreciate your thought, "Oh, we'll sort of eat the wood fulness: