The Exeter Advocate, 1919-6-5, Page 6By Agronomist.
This Department is for the use of our farm readers who want the advice
of an expert on any question regarding soil, seed, crops, etc. If your question'
is of sufficient general interest, it wall be answered through this column. if
stamped and addressed envelope is enct'bsed with your letter, a complete
answer will be malted to you. Address Agronomist, care Q1 Wilson Publishing.
Co., Ltd:, 73 Adelaide et, W. Toronto.
The Spraying of Plants far the Pre-
vention of Injury by Insects
and Disease..
At this season of the year particu-t
lar attention should be paid to thea
prevention of ravages by disease and,
insect pests. It is possible by a+.`
timely application of the proper"
sprays to control effectively many of;
our worst diseases and pests.
Spray materials may be divided'
into three classes. First, there are,
the fungicides, such as Bordeaux
mixture .and lime sulphur wash
which are used to control or to pre-;
vent the development of fungus dis-
eases sueh as Apple Scab and Pa-
tato Blight. Secondly, there are;
poison sprays, such as lead arsenate,"
for the control of biting inseets, sw h
as the Potato Beetle, Tent C'aterpil
Iaxs, ete., and thirdly, the contact
sprays, sueh as kerosene emulsion or;
nicotine sulphate, for the control oft
sucking insects, like plant lice.
By selecting the proper sprays
under each of these three headings,
a combined spray containing all three
can be used, and thus, in a single
application, one has a fungicide and,
a complete insecticide combined. A
good combined spray is made up as
follows; 4-4-40 Bordeaux, consisting
off 4 poiinds ui.slaked lime, 4 pounds°
copper sulphate, and 40 gallons of!
water, to which is added 3 pounds oft
arsenate of lead or 2 pounds of arssen-i
ate of lime in paste form Cif the dry
form is used, use one-half this quan-
tity) for controlling biting insects.'
and if' aphids or plant ;ice are pres-'
ent, one-third of a pint of nicotine!
sulphate should be added or, as an
alternative, the Vane sulphur could
reglad the Bar.teaux mixture.
misunderstandi'.gs when the returns
arrive. Sometimes a calf looks larg-
er than it really is, but the scales are
quite generally truthful.
Some consumers of meat do not be-
lieve the any calves should be killed
for veal, but farmers are not often
of that opinion. Frequently the dairy
farmer has all he can do to raise
enough feed for his dairy cows and
he cannot afford to go into the beef
business at the same time. Many
farmers do not have the barn room
to care for beef cattle and many
calves will not grow up into either
profitable dairy or beef animals and
such stock is more profitable when
sold: as veal. As one farmer resent-
ly said, 'cry income from veal calves
is the easiest money that I snake on
„
tale ratan.
It pays to keep the best heifer
calves and the pure-bred bull calves
usually find a ready market as bred-
ing stock.
The Value of a Clover Sod for the
Corn Crop.
sail conditions for the corn
crop are represented by a well -
drained, medium loam plentifully
provided with decayed vegetable mat-
ter (humus), That the successful
growth •of corn is closely associated
with abundant soil humus will be
clearly apparent on a brief considera-
tion of its functions as related to the
needs of corn.
Humus is the most important soil
constituent and imparts that hikhIy
desirable, mellow physical condition,
denoting warmth and life, to both
light (Ferule-) and heavy (clay) soils.
The practice of manuring is based on
this feet. Humus is the medieen
Do not delay the application until:which supports the favorabl>z baeter ",. `'` ""» n
the disease or pest has become eel-' 1 upon realities uliseen and M eternal,
iia life of the soil and is the chiefFor the Christian it has become a
dent lov its ravages, but make the° source of the valuable nitrogen NO. ieh personal relationship to Jesus Christ,
app:ieation in time to prevent the; these organisms release-- along with . ho and through whose Spirit 'of redemption, all of power, all of
damage. An application of spray is the mineral constituents of humus—
not a mire, it 4., a preventative. for the nourishment of the growing ; `which are building a new world, in
Do not think that one application, crop. Furthermore, the acids pro-` which he himself shall have, or ra-
is Fufficient, Remember that at this' duced during the decomposition of then has already*, his citizenship, t
season of the year foliage grows humus exert a solvent action on the, ter thing for us, that they without
rani�lly and a large amount of new' ,mineral soil compounds liberatin 2• A Good Report. The great men
leaf .::irfaee is soon exposed after an' phosphoric acid, potash, etc., in as ` of Old Testament times, the ��elders „ usl' alto not be made
Witnesses, perfect
figure (0is
h e had witne4 born diem (R V)
ThE CHEERFUL CEftU
The world is full off'
he.roes
OF wh.iell no histories
For tell.
i or every mask Is
rtol ie.
Who does t!115 own
job well,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
JUNE 1.
Dr. Huber will answer all 'signed letters pertaining 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. Huber will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis.
Address Dr. John B. Huber, M.D., care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide
at, West, Toronto
Lessen IX. Faith, What It Is and;
What It hoes, Heb. 11:1-40; 12;1, 2.
Golden Text John 14: 1.
11: 1. Now Faith, Writing to the
persecuted Jews who had embraced
the Christian faith, the ,author of this
epistle shows them their fellowship
with the nien of faith of every former
•
•
Night Terrors.
In some nervone conditions the
dream, state is projected into the
waking state for a few moments or
for a long time. Iu hysterical peo
pie the features of the dream may.
persist for an hour or so, constitut-
ing a delirious accident; here eve
have to deal with a kind of somnam-
bulism, but with greater mental and
physical activity, Of much the same
nature ie sleep -drunkenness, in which
a person on being suddenly awakened
from deep sleep, is apparently amnia
eat and may do acts of violence. Such
a state is only temporary, however.
Children frequently have night ter-
rors. They wake in vligue, wild
alarm, one or two hours after going
to sleep. The child screams in ter-
ror, clings to its mother but appar-
ently fails to recognize anyone, and
cannot be at once quieted and reas-
sured. .After a.fcw ninutes the ex-
citement'" spontaneously subsides and
the child returns to sleep, without
recollecting tho attack in the .morn-
ing During the frenzied terror it.
age, with Enoch end Noah and Abra- may run from the room or climb upon
ham and Moses, and many another 'the furniture, in a wild attempt to
who had believed and suffered and escape. Often the .ries imply a
served in their day and geneication, fear of being caught by some one or
their faith in God enabled tl.em to by wild animals.
do the present duty, and to look be- True night terrors are of some-
yond the present to the future glori- what serious import, indicating an
ous fulfilment of God's promises• unstable constitution..Snlnetirnes they
, Having little, they becikmo heirs of are induced by difficulty in breath-
" all things, and the sojourner • dwell- ing because of adenoids or bronchitis
ing in tents looked for and possessed or laryngitis or weak heart or gen-
the city of God. His faith became far' eral weakness. They inity be the
him the title -deed of wealth as yet forerunner of mild epilepsy or St.
unrealized, the evidence ared assur Vitus Dance. They may, however,
ance of the glory which eves to be. rmean only nightmare; that is, a kind
Faith is the certainty of liaape, ehe 1•
of vivid dream usually traceable to
some physical condition or previous
terrifying eisperienee. Indigestion,
bad ventilation, mental shock, fright,
worry and the like give rise to a
feeling of great weight on the chest,
of suffocation or of. falling. Then
the. patient suspends respiration or
makes distressed inspiratory sounds
and awakes with a start.
. Questions and Answers.
Question—Will you please tell me
the cause o . pains in The neck by
reason of knotted glands at the sides
of my neck, way down to my collar
bone, The glands are also swollen
under my jaws.
Answer—One could not easily telli
without examination, but your ail- i
meat might be Hodgkins' Disease -1
a very serious malady, When thee, i
are such glands as you describe in!
the neck: under the arm pits and in {
other parts of the body, the diagno-
sis pis pretty sure to be Hodgkins'
Disease. You should see a very good
doetor at office.
Question—What will cure bunions?
Is it best to have an operation? 1
always take shoes one size larger
but the bunions seem to be getting
bigger!
Answer --Only an operation will
stop the growth of Bunions. They
generally result from; wearing shoes
too small for the feet. In the Arniy,
the Munson last is the one on which
the soldiers' shoes are made. Such a
shoe has a straight inner edge and,
very broad at the toes. Those who
wear such shoes are not likely to
have bunions or corns.
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"If you fill a sack full of peas you
may defy Satan to fill it full of
beans:"—G. Travers.
Sweet young thing—"But why are
the forests out there called `virgin`
forests?" The Canadian --"Because
they've never been axed."
hr c'. Pet now in Christ there is
fulfilment,—their hope finds ita j'isti-
fication l.ml completion in Trim. 4.11
in whom n all of spiritual strength to
lie sees the-workint; of those paversgoodness,overcome the world, which they had
sought, is to be found in Him, "Cod
having provided" in Him "some het -
application is made, and it is this eiinilable forms,:_ Humus acts like a in the narratives of the Old Testa -
new uncoated surface which is a sponge, absorbing and retaining mois-
source of infection. Three or four' tures it is the upper -soil reservoir of, merit, in respect of their faith. It
spr :y. during the season will be nec-° water which it yields up gradually' is because of their faith that the his-
t tar lues so ood a re ort of the
drawn from the ancient races in
whieh swift and hardy runner; con-
tended for the prize. Great multi-
tides assembled to witness this fas-
essaxy to keep the leaves covered and to the feeding roots and will thus The difference between Moses of• l cleating sport The runners laid
the plants free from disease and enable a corn crop to withstand or aside the outer garment and every
good repute, and Pharaoh, of evil re-
pents. € more rapidly recover from the effect pule, is the difference which faith in impeding weight, tleat they might
Make the applications thoroughly,i of a prolonged period of drought. God makes. run lightly and freely in the great
drenehing all parts of the plant with, For its valuable germination, corn g contest. Such is the life of faith.
a fine, nest like tray. A coarse 3. Through Faith We Understand.
i l demands a warm seedbed, and to lack. , The witnesses are the great multi -
spray is not as etc"ective as a finely The tremendous fact of God's ere
d of this essential condition many fail-' tion of the world isnot roved by
tudes of the faithful who have gone
divided one. due. Corn makes -es a rapid historical or scientific evidence. It is before. Jesus who started us in this
If you have not already done so, succulent growth and—like all leafy known and apprehended by faith. race walea" the end with the laurel
ures are
make apple:•°tion at ,ince to yourcraps—imbibes and transpires water
,{ And. yet how certain a fact it is, and
nearest Experimental
Farm or Dis- freely, requiring therewith a bounti-
triet Representative for a Spray; ful supply o£ nitrogen and mineral howw sure our knowledge of it! By
Calendar, or apply direct to the Cen for the building up of its tissues. 1 faith we understand.
tral Experimental Farni, Ottawa. A good crop of red clover (cut for 4.t i Being Dead Yet ofSpright-
These calendars will give you full , Faith is the secret spring of rightt
+� hay) is an ideal forerunner of corn; eousness. So Abel's faith 'wrought
instructions as to mixing and apply- the decayingresidues of clover stems
ing sprays for the control of all pests leaves •and oots furnish a large am- apggoodconsciece us deeds, and assuredthat
his
offering
him by
and diseases. Don't delay. Do itountount of humus rich in nitrogen. wasaceeptablento God. Andso
Clover alfalfa and other legumes' is that his
voice speaks down through
now!
Ipossess the unique faculty of assimil ' the ages declaring to every genera -
Marketing Veal. i; atin • atmospheric nitrogen and thus
pI tion that the only gift or offering of
When good veal calves are to be, of enriching the soil in that valuable; worship pleasing to God is that of
sold it sometimes pays better to kill, element. Furthermore, their deeply ; faith and well -doing. For (v. 6)
and dress them on the farm and selll ramifying roots draw mineral plant! "without faith it is impossible to
to local dealers rather than to turn food, in solution, from the subsoil c,please him."
them over to live stock shippers. Re-) and in their subsequent decay, liber- 7. By Faith Noah, warned of .God,
cently we sold a dressed veal to a 1 ate this mineral matter in zones ac- prepared the ark which saved his
meal dealer for twenty-four cents' cessible to the roots of corn. family from the flood. In a world of
A sod carrying a heavy aftermath, uncleanness he had kept himself
of clover or alfalfa may furnish such pure, and so had already in himself
an abundance of humus forming ma -1 the assurance and the enjoyment of
terial as to dispense with :the neces- the "righteousness" which is by faith
sity for the addition of barnyard ma -land w ich is yet to fill the whole
nure. world.
Investigations made by the Division I 8-10. So "Abraham*"obeyed what
of Chemistry, in connection with ex-, he knew to be the call of God, and
periments conducted at the Central, led his people out from an idolatrous
Experimental Farm, Ottawa, have and corrupt eommunity to a new -end
shown that a vigorous crop of clover • strange land, where he might woeship
per pound, and it weighed one hun-
dred and four pounds; it brought
$23. . It was the type of calf that
most live stock buyers would have
examined and bought for 318 to 320.
In dressing this calf at home there
was some blood and scraps that could
be used as poultry feed. The heart
and tongue made two good meals ori
the home table. Of course, the liver
was sold with the calf and it does not
pay to remove the liver and try to will contain, at a moderate estimate, according to his conscience and found
sell the calf without it. That never in its foliage and roots; from 100 to a new society devoted to the service
is satisfactory to the dealer and the 150 pounds of nitrogen, 30 to 40 of the true and living God. He was
farmer makes friends and money by � pounds of phosphoric acid, and 85 only a nomad shepherd, chief of a
delivening all products in the condi-
tion that most thoroughly pleases
the customer.
The neat appearance of the car-
cass is a factor in selling veal calves.
It does not pay to tie the loose skin
around the legs and head to keep out inarily remaining after removingthe having seen them and greeted them
the air,and it is always necessary crop), cpllected immediatelybefore from afar. (RN.) That has been
to keep the hide and meat dry and spring plowing, contained from 60 the experience of faith in every ate.
to 115 pounds of potash per acre— nomad clan, dwelling in tents, but
approximately equal, in fertilizing ''he looked for a city which hath
value, to ten tons of good barnyard foundations, whose builder and mak-
manure. Further investigations er is God."
showed that the roots, dead stems 13. These all died in faith, not
and leaves (the clover residues ord- Baying received the promises, but
clean. Sometimes there is an oppor-
tunity to sell veal calves to the ulti-
mate consumer or restaurant dealer
and entirely cut out the middleman.
More often it is possible to make sat-
isfactory arrangements with a rel-
iable local dealer. •
When veal is shipped by express
some farmers say that it is best to
have the receipt marked "with liver."
Then if this appetizing portion of the
calf is "lost" in transit there will be
a chance of collecting for it. Veal
must be thoroughly cool before being
shipped. It also pays to carefully
aweigh wheeeereass as this avoids some
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to 80 pounds of nitrogen, 20 to 30 The Kingdom of God is coming, but
pounds of phosphoric acid, and 50 to its fulness and power and glory is
70 pounds of potash per acre, or the not yet. The city is being built, but
approximate equivalent, in fertilize
ing value, of six tons of the best barn-
yard manure. ,
A shiny truck or wagon will not
sell poor farm .produce; but thepride
which leads you to keep it sowill
cause you to grow stuff that folks
will want the minute' they set their
eyes on it.
It is a curious fact that children
are the best judges of character at
first sight in the world. There is an
old "Scotch proverb, "They are never
cennie that dogs and bairns dinna
like."
Almost five inillion persons have
died in British India from Spanish
influenza and fully a million others
are believed to have died in the na-
+i..e gintee from the same cause.
its walls and its many mansions are
not yet complete. There is much evil
in the world and men are slow to
learn` the ways of God.. The best
which the world looks for and .agon-
izes for lies on .before. Faith sees
the promise from afar, but holds that
promise in possession as the dearest
thing in life. Though "strangers
and pilgrims on the earth," the men
of faith desire and seek, "a better
country, that is an heavenly." And
therefore, the apostle makes the
great and significant declaration that
"Cod is not ashamed to he called
their God:"
-Thera follows; a further lest "ef_inen
and women of notable faith, the
saints, the heroes, the martyrs, of
successive ages, to whom now the
records' of, history do light honor..
The promise led them on as a etai of
wreath which is to crown the victor,
that ,is immortality with Himself in
heaven. He has set us the example
of faith, courage and steadfastness in
trial and suffering. He is "the author
and finisher of our faith,"
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