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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-6-12, Page 2By Agronomist. This Department is for the use of our farm readers whoo want the advice of an expert on any question regarding soil, 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 wilt be ma[ied to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing Co., Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W. Toronto.. The Wet Spring, I known fact that cows which are al- lowed l-loKed to go down in their mill, flow In some parts of Eastern Canada,, for lack of supplementary feeding especially, the continued wee weather' et the right tin , are hard to get that has characterized this season up back to their maximum production to the present has prevented the sow-. again and subsequent feeding does ing of some of the usual crops at the' not give as high a return. usual time and has, had a tendency, to discourage the farmer. However,1 The farmer who has on hand a sur - the possibilities of producing crops on plus of corn silage which he can carry land not yet prepared is still good, over for mid -summer feeding has providing the weather continues to the problem well solved, for there is j mprare and the right crops are sown no better or more economical feed to f in the right way and properly looked be had. Unfortunately, owing to the J - THE CIIEEKFUL CHERUB searc-ed the world For h' ppirxess But sorrows met me. everywhere .. The y drove me. bt,.ek ,to ray own heart — And ha,:ppin.eas wa,s wt.it;pg there.. Ir rCArh after. poor crop and poor harvesting wed, All the cereals, even yet, may be ther last year, very few will find expected to prove satisfactory. Sowthemselves with a surplus of ensilage, wheat as promptly as possible and but this misfortune should not deter follow with oats and barley In the them from preparing for an equal if order named. The latter may be ex-' not greater acreage of corn this year peered to give good yields sown in so as to have a surplus for next. the first ten days of June. Peas and Of the annual crops which can be oats sown, equal parts by weight, at grown and cut and fed green, thus the rate of 3 or 4 bushels per acre, taking the place of ensilage, probab- may be used as an accommodating ly a mixture of peas 1. part and oats erep, since it is equally satisfactory 1' parts, sown at the rate of 21,'i;. for green feed, hay, grain or even bushels per acre is one of the best. ensilage purposes. Buckwheat may This could be improved by the addi- be sawn up to July loth with cer- tion of vetches if the seed were ob- tair.ty of profitable returns even on tainable and not tee expensive. A the poorer types a soUs and where small piece of land near the barn should be used, a strip being sown as early as possible and another some three weeks later so that fresh green feed may be coming on at all times. Red clover sown at the rate of 10 pounds per acre with the above would give early green feed for the follow- ing year. A good crop to be sown two or three weeks after the second seeding of oats is common millet. This is a hot weather crop and would be ready to feed off when the oats were finished. A strip oearly for- age o -age corn would then come in nicely and earry the cows over on to the aftergrass, late earn and stable feeding. If desired the above seheme can be extended by sowing fall rye where the first crop of oats was taken off. This would provide the very earliest form of green feed for the next spring, which in turn would be fol- lowed by the previously mentioned clover, peas and oats, corn, etc., the corn being sawn where the rye was taken off, thus developing a system of double cropping in regular rota- tion. It would of course be necessary to manure such a field quite fre- quently. In some cases such a system of soiling crops would entail too much labor, in which case probably an an- nual pasture crop would serve the 3 desired purpose. Such a crop can be times and harrow before seeding. In grown by sowing 3 bushels per acre any case do whatever work is to be of a mixture of equal arts of oats, done on the lard az well as possible barley and wheat. This should be and what is quite as important in the sown as early as possible and should case of hoed crop, mentiemed in the be pastured when it reaches six foregoing see to it tha:, they are kept incites in height. If a sufficient acre- free from weeds for the text couple age is available the cows can be al - of months. lowed to pasture upon this constantly hut if only a small field is available Pasture Supplements for Dairy Cows. then the cows should only be allowed The season is now at hand when. on for an hour or two every morn - the farmer should consider how he is ing and evening. They should be going to supplement the pasture for kept off altogether when the field is his dairy cows during the coming dry very wet. The grain should not be sea on, for we have no guarantee ellewe:I to get so far advanced as to that the present rainy weather will head out, otherwise all bottom continue. Furthermore, it is a well grovel.: will cease. water does not stand. Millets and Hungarian grass are good forage pro - diners sown before the middle of July. For ensilage and forage purposes. the standard varieties of corn are recommended, including the flint var- ieties: Longfellow, Salzer's North Pa:.. to and C'onpton's Early, and the dent varieties, Wisconsin No. T, Gold- en Glow, White Cap Yellow Dent and Bailey, Man ;els sown immediately e,toa,ld come along sat:sfacto,rly. Swedee thrive in such a season as eve are having and may be expected to give good returns sown anywhere before the end of June. Fall or White turnips are .excellent cattle feed, while not so satisfactory as Swedes for most purposes do well if sown even as late as the end of July. Rape for pasture is of great value for, swine, sheep or beef and young cat- tle, and may be sown as late as the end of June. With late seeding most thorough preparation of the seedbed is abso- •Iutely necessary if success is to be hoped for. If land has to be plowed turn a shallow furrow. Grassy Iand will be much better plowed and it is quite possible that this op- eration can he Clone more rapidly than a similar seedbed could be prepared with other treatment. After plough- ing, roll if possible. disc two yr more The First Line of Defence A plentiful supply of ammunition is the first line of defence against the enemy. When waging war against the Potato Bug army, make sure that your first line of defence is impregnable by using Munro's Pure Paris Green—the only ammunition you'll need. When the first Potato Bug ap- pears, spray the plants with a liquid solution of this old reliable Killer, and the enemy will be destroyed and your potato crop saved. MUNRO'S PURE PARIS GREEN is a fine fluffy, rich green powder made to Government standard. It has been killing potato bugs for years, and this year will kill more than ever, because more people will use this old standby to make sure of getting a good crop of potatoes. Be sure you get Munro's from your Hardware, Drug, Grocery and General Store. Manufactured iby �. !t1 d`L� U? I y3 lit 1, 1FdtTEtl 11dONTR1✓Ag.o: � j� d� a4} - illi%AiY eeeil.V'_.'b.—b. o 05 pot ot�, V ‘Ax`Sn r,a � �w •i' r anufaottirei s, exporters , anzi importers, Crown Diamond Paints, Che4olicaks, Bye analis and Tanners Sap)li 3. INTERNATIONAL LESSON JUNE 8. 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 S. Huber, M.D., care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto Feeding Children. With three meals a child has a better appetite, much better diges- tion, and thrives much better in con- sequence, than when its stomach is gar or butter and sugar or butter and constantly* overloaded and working salt. Zweibach or stale bread and overtime. Yet some especially deli -butter. Bread and milk. Scrambled eggs twice a week. Custard or corn-' cafe children cannot do without starch. Bread and butter. Biscuit. luncheon at 3 or 3.30•, then a glass A glass of milk or of malted milk apple, raw apple, pears and cherries. Bread and butter. Supper: Farina, cream of wheat, (each eooked for two hours) from 2 to 3 tablespoonfuls with milk and su of milk and a biscuit or a •cup of or cocoa. i broth and a biscuit are right. Or a When the child has had egg for, child may at this time have instead breaefast this food should not be a scraped raw apple or a pear; the repeated in any form for supper. Red, latter is especially good for consti meat should be given but three times, pated children. Children recovering a week. When the child has a chop, from serious illness will require, ac- for breakfast he should have poultry; Lesson X. Obedience—Gen, 12:1-4; cording to the doetor's directions, or fish for dinner. Carefully select-, Matt. 7:16-20; John 14;21-24. more frequent feeding. i ed fruits (apple, pear, peach) may What should be the dietary of a i be given at three p.m., supplemented Golden Text, John 15: 14, child from three to six years? We' by a biscuit or two or by stale bran, 7: 16-20. By Ti Fruits.t ntay select from among the following{ bread and butter if their use is found: This is said of prophets, n who f articles: I not to interfere with the evening, would be heard as teach f their! Breakfast: Cracked wheat, corn-' meal. fellows who would with au meal hominy, oatmeal (each cooked; Their of me ere o k thority as having a message from God. • fore they are used). Served with Question -.-•My 13 -months -old baby: "By their fruits ye shall know milk and sugar, or butter and sugar I weighed T?A pounds at birth. It now 3 s as cer din y as a re known by what it beard. The pro- scrambled egg. Bread and butter, 1, it weighed 23 pounds and has not phet's life must be a good life, and bran biscuit and butter. Glass of ; gained any since—in fact it has lost so also it will be found that where milk. some. Some people tell me to wean there is genuine goodness of Life Dinner: Flair soups, rare roast'it right now. Others say to nurse it there will not be false teaching. In beef, beefsteak, poultry, fish. iota -1 during the second summer. What this present day religious and social toes stewed with milk or baked. should I do? and political prophets abound, and in Peas, string beans, strained stewed! Answer—Babies had best always the confusion of tongues and strife of tomatoes, stewed carrots, squash,! be weaned by the twelfth month. ideas it is hard to distinguish the white turnips, boiled onion, eauli-1 Wean the baby nor;—before the beat true from the false, We must look flower, spinach, asparagus tips, I of the summer comes on, and she for the fruits. What of the life and bread and butter. For desserts; Rice' will thrive. Your baby's weight is conduct of those who would be the Pudding, custard, tapioca. pudding,' well enough. The average baby at h 18pounds. � 10 months weighs p builders of a new world, the leaders stetted prunes, stewed apples, baked g spas be-! Questions and Answers. th 't h i f if possible,three hours the day them " •u t t ' 1 t e is or butter and salt A soft boiled or weighs only 22 pounds. At 10 months! of a new democracy. Are they like Christ in word and deed?Or are they atheists, mockers of goodness, haters of all who are net of their own claw or creed, destroyers of homes, murder- ers, thieves, ignorant and unclean? Or, again, are they the loud -mouthed preachers of a narrow and selfish na- tionalism, or of an equally narrow and selfish religion, both of which fail to recognize the obligations of our common humanity, and deny the universal Fatherhood of God and brotherhood of men? We have these false prophets in our midst, and they sometimes come to us "in sheep's clothing." Beware of them! 21-23. Not Every One. Christ speaks here of those who make de- vout profession of faith. Their words are good and their speech is pleasant. They preach and make boast of heal- ing and other wonderful works. The final test of their genuineness is not in these outward appearances, how -- ever fine or plausible they may be, but simply in their obedience to the will and to the laws of God. Their faith, if it be true faith, expresses itself in obedience, ,faith working by love. 24-29. A Wise Man. True wisdom lies in doing the will of God. First one must seek to know His will, and here the Bible, more than any other book or teacher, meets the seeker's need. At the same time, however, he will look for evidences of God's will concerning him in his own dis- positions and talents, in opportuni- ties of service which are opened to him, in social and national duties, in. the ministries of the church, and in those inward voices by which God speaks to the soul. The wise man will build wisely, on a foundation well and truly laid. Jesus says that he who both hears and does in sueh a man. He builds upon a rock and his building stands the shook of storm and flood. Not so the foolish man who builds on the shifting and uncertain sands. His house will not stand. In John 14:21-24 Jesus describes the man who truly loves Him. "He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me." He promises that to one who is thus obedient He will manifest Himself. In answer to a disciple who asked how that could be, - Jesus declared that God would love such a man and that both God and Christ would come and well in him. If we try to put this great truth in simple words will,it not be that the man who hears and obeys becomes like Christ. He is changed by love into the like- ness of Christ, and so the Spirit of God, which is the Spirit of Christ, dwells ,in him, and speaks and acts through him. To him God in Christ is a present fact, a living reality, a vitalizing force, 'a saving grace; wis dour, power, sanctification and re- demption. "If my friend has one eye I look at him in profile."—Joubert. Maybe You Waste Time. It looks to me sometimes as if a farm efficiency expert could be about as useful a man as ever was. We have sueh Wien in our country agents, but they have too much territory to cover. We all do our work with too ninny steps. I know I do, I think about what I am doing, yet at times I find myself going at chores or other work in a way that takes many mare steps that it should. Many times a few nails, a gate repaired, or a doar put on its track would save time and labor, but we can't take the time to do it. Some time ago I watched a farmer feed 10 head of horses. At the end of the barn there was a vacant stall where the oats were kept. He made 1a trip to the end of the barn every } time he fed a horse. I didn't ask him why he didn't take a bushel of Barley is a good poultry feed if fed rightly. One of the most satis- factory methods of feeding it is to feed it soaked for the noon feed. The barley is placed : in a pail or other receptacle and boiling water' added. This is usually done in the morning and the teed then covered with a sack to retain the heat and 'left stand- ing until noon when the soaked barley is fed in place of a moist mash. oats along with him and feed the 16 horses with two or three trips, or why he didn't use a wheelbarrow to take the oats along with him. I wonder if he ever thought of that? Invest -Your Money IN 5y t?o DEBENTURES. The Great West Permanent Loan Company.. Toronto Office 20 King St. West Mud stains may be removed from tan leather boots and shoes by rub- bing thein with sliced raw potatoes. When dry, polish with cream or paste in the usual way. "Make all Wren your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, some of them turn into friends Friends are the sunshine of John Hay. What a Gallon of Gasoline Will Do. A single gallon of gasoline will do wonders almost anywhere, but no- where has it been applied to better purpose than on the farm. 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