HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-8-14, Page 6By Agronomist,
This Department is for the use of our farm readers who want the advise.
at an exert on anquestion regarding soil, acted, crops, etc, if your question
is. of su ficient per at interest, it will be answered through this column. if
€tamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter, a complete
h -"Suver will be mailed to you. Address Agronomist,• care Of Wilson Publishing
Lea, Ltd., 73 Adelaide $t. •W. Toronto,
Co-operation in Throhing. I and possibly a grain shelter ora silage
When a farmer plans to thresh from i cutter --and builds a shed to house the
the field, engages a custom threshing implements, the total capital under
crew to do the work on a certain day i pre-war prices required usually am-
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and the outfit does not aepear.until,°,ants to $3,000 or $4,000: When it
three weeks after the suetifie'l time;? - passable for the company to hire a
is it any wonder that the si good engine or some other part of the
,aantryma
makes a few pointed remarks cars-, equipment, it may not be advisable
cerning custom thre_herznen in gen-'to buy.
eral and this one in particular'? # Threshing for the various members
of the ring is performed on a business
Unreliability of custom threshers, b ssis, an average day's work being re-
Iabar complications which often arise garcied as 2,000 bushels of oats, or
when two outfits reach a neighborhood about 1,000 bushels of wheat or rye.
the same day, the expense of custom: Record is kept of the time put in by
threshing, the careless and-extrava-
ogs of the work
gant work of some hired machines, i
each
laborer and
'anion the c the members on.
and similar factors have caused grain g
the basis of the a
growers in some districts to organize" motuit of grain that
eo-operative threshing rinege for the is thresIsed.
purchase, maintenance, and efficient;
Protectin Poultry From Lice..
operation of thre,hing machinery, a g ry
During the last two or three years j The best roosts for the poultry
the number of threshing outfits sold house are two by three pieces with
to farm organizations has greatly in- the upper edges rounded with the
creased, and the tendency at present: plane. The roasts ran be built in
is toward the formation of smaller section by nailing three roosts to
co-operative units and the purchase of i eros. -pieces, Then the cross -;nieces
small outfits. This comes. from the are hinged to the back wall of the
necessity for more economical use of poultry house so that they can be
labor and the advent of the farm tract • raised and hooked to the ceiling, A
toi•, the power of which can be w•e11, block nailed to each side of the front t
utilized to run a small thresher, whieleg of the section forms the resting place
-complete. with wind stacker, self on the dropping beards when the
feeder, and weigher,. costs about fir-•- roosts are lowered. This gives the
2OO. dost of the farmers' clubs are poultryman a chance to thoroughly 1
small, so that all members may get, spray the roosts on all sides and it
their threshing done in about fifteen • eateheee all of the mites.
clay'_. All threshing is completed in ; Some breeders have the roosts fit'
sen zo sable time so that the grain may.into groves front which they con'
be saved to the .;est advantage. easily be removed at elc'aning time.
There are ma general methods cif Never nail the roosts to the wall as
ring. eo-operation, the most eommen this increases the danger from mites. l;
irre?:v'ng the hiring c f a threhing • Of course, the roosts nailed to a crass-
outfit. the other it pur,•hase. pities form places for mites to hide,
Threshing rings are a.;neileial ins- but when the section- are ra! ed and.'
much as the thre:hin • calendar in a hooked to the ceiling the spray dopei
neighborhood may be so arranged that will run into the cracks and destroy;
the work can 1 carred Oat with the tat. pests,
Ir a. t possible lass of tee in moving , The best solution to the nee prob-;
f ern fat•m to farm. .As a job nears 1;,m is to use blue ointraer♦t on eachl
tt.mniet!on, the first niers through , mired at least twice a year. Place a
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nine. may go .here immediately ank in thoroughly so that none of ;,he'
have the grain ready to thresh by the ointment can be eaten by the bird.
time the outfit arrives and is set up Place another dab under each wing.1
No time is lost either in contraethng! Never lave the blue ointment where',
for an outfit or M securing, t thresh . it can be eeten by poultry or other
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PLANTING MEMORIAL
Living Remembrances of the Country's Defenders That Will Give
Each` itan an 'Enduring Monument.
Living nementbrances.,of the CG.untr y's Defenders That Wdl Gtva Eac;t
Man an Enduring 1Vionutnent,
Trees ate the best memorials,
In what more fitting form can the
respectful sentiment of the living be
enshrined?
The newspapers are surcharged
with bright new ideas for the raising,
of monuments. to the soldiers who
have fought their last fight aid paid
the forfeit, and to those who having
served valorously have returned to
civil life. Nearly always the ideas
are boxed in concrete, stone, brick
and azbestos—a memorial hall, a
bridge, a statue, a hospital..
"Ile who plants a tree,
He plants love,
Tents of coolness spreading out above
Wayfarers he may not live to see.
Gifts that grow are best;
Hands that bless are blest,
The reason for putting the top soil
in first is that it contains mere plant
food in available form than does the
deeper soil, and so gives the better
chance for the rootle a to absorb it
and incorporate it in the tree; The
tree ,pis put down in the hole :a little
deeper than it stood in the nursery
because it will thus get a chance to
root more quickly, the roots will be
kept cool and, further, it will be able
the better to resist the wind.
At the time of planting the tree
needs to be headed back, that is, to
have part of its top removed. In order
to understand the reason for this, it•
must be taken into account that while
the Yung tree has been growing in
the nursery, its root system and its
system of leaves and branches have
been so developed that a balance
Plant Life does the Test." exists between them, the roots sup -
Let us popularize a fsrm of mem- plying just the quantity that the
p leaves need for their use. Ia, the pre-
orial that identifies the individual cess of digging up a tree a certain
soldier With an individual living mon:,i- proport'on of the root system has to
znent. One thousand names may be be sacrificed; to balance tams, a por-
hidden an a brass tablet within a tion of the upper ;:art of the tree has
public hall. There is no reason why to be removed, or else the tree will
this mass remembrance may not be suffer,
given more distinction and made await If you are at liberty to select the
more suggestive through it living trees for yourself, do not think that
ever -renewing symbol. Trees will per- the larger trees are neeessarily the
farm this happy function perhaps bat-, best. Smaller trees are easier to trans -
ter than any other medium yet seg- plant, and in the course of a few years
Bested. Let our monuments to the will overtake the trees that at the
country's defenders represent our per- time of planting we.e considerably
sonal participation in the act of tree larger.
planting rather than a charitable toss: The tree should he planted while
o£ a dollar bill into a collc..tor's hat,' he a dormant condition, that is, in the
The first essential in planting a' case of a broad-leaved tree, before it
.shade tree is to prepare a good large leaves out in the spring or after It
It.ole for it. If it seems needlessly has shed its leaves in the autumn,
large, all the better. In that ease Evergreens, or ;:orifers, may be plant -
'there will be plenty of loose soil ed later in the spring or earlier in the
1 around the roots, through which the fall. With the latter, special care
little rootlets will be the better en- must be taken that the meta do not
abled to feel their way in their search dry out, even foe an .net; nt,
,.planted thegreet ora..
for the sail moisture. One American Trees plan. 1 cit t i
city, where the shade trees are ureter en avenue rho rd not he placed nearer
a special commission, always makes together than"f,.,r:j .to fifty feet. Ii
holes four feet square and three and planted much nearer then this, both
a half feet deep. These are left for roots and branches will int rfere with
a time and gradually filled up with those of the neignlaaring tre.0 s, to
loose soil, fertilized if neves wary; and, their neeettal detrhne♦tt.
when the time comes that the tree is Trees grown in a ntir'ere will in all
to be planted, a hole is ,scooped ,in the protability give wore' atisfaction
loose earth, a little larger than the than those taken from a wooellot. If,
� `^ desired
reason it i.�
thetree isa n
ande.. however,
roots, a for any
mass of treehow e ,
planted in this hole. j to make use of the latter, much care
i At the least the hole should be lerge should be taken in the ;,election of the
c , , enough to accommodate the roots of tress. They should be sele�ted either
�.. the tree without crowding. The fine from the outside bonier of the' 'Wood -
to
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mg crew Certain men may be :`o'•1. 7s iL i•• poi"i,nous In a re"cut s"�"
top soil first taken out should be put lot or frozri same well -lighted g,.«ed a, E,
to lrect advantage bee assigning them tall, with a poultry instructor Who Dr Huber wilF answer alt signed tatters pertaining to Hoaith, if your aside by itself, and the coarser soil
used:
"` , ' ` in it. In that way there will be ols-
to ane kind of work for the season "his had experience in several districts ! question is of general interest it will be answered through these • columns; , taken from lower down should be rained trees which have been used
Unless the weather man prevents', he recommended the blue ointment as` tf not, it will be answered personally If stamped, addressed envelope is en• similarly put aside. The tree should to an abundance of light and air, and
threshing continues until all the job, the lies, possible protection from lice closed. Dr. Huber will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis, be gut in the hale in such a way that so will sutler Ie tllraug h their new
i p Address Dr. John B. Huber, M.D., care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide
are completed in the circle, and thus and su erior to any of tine carious it will stand a couple of inches deep starroundings differing: from their
p- St West, Toronto er than it stood in the nursery=. Then, original environment. The greatest
ing
'tittlewagon boxes orq hay s 11oa loaders.; time wave and when s he had ever s the worksed. It s is'Screening Hawses Properly. aid and he is badly troubled with first of all, the fine top soil should be'care should be taken to get trees with
i constipation. Is quite wall otherwise p
P put back in the hole and tramped a good root system. It will be well
L sually the threshing. season is great- done the poultryman knows that it is. many of our fellow citizens screen
1; shortened and tl i'- Payors the time- `done hell and more lice will not hatch against flies and teed mosquitoes in
ly eompletion of the subsequent fall. out and thrive as is the case after such a way that their houses be,'o.ue
work, such as plowing, seeding, dist'', the value of a powder has disappeared. excellent traps to keep insects indcors
tributing manure, and so on. The; To keep down the mites the roosts which was presentably not the ob-
threshing ring reduces the work of the 1 and nests must be protected. The ject in view.
housewife, as there are less men to mites on the roosts cause the most Screening of 16, or better, 18 -mesh
feed during the harvest season. trouble. During" the day they may, to the inch should be used. Iron, gal -
Practically, all the threshing rings t hang under the roosts in clusters. At', vanized steel wire, copper or bronze
perform some outside work as accom- night they come up and feed upon is used, the screening bought in rolls
modation at the customary rate,, or ' the blood of the birds and this helps 100 feet long and from 24 to 49 inches
to enlarge the ring in order to eecure to devitalize them and reduce their' wide. Black iron wire netting is
all the necessary help. capacity for egg production. ' usually 12 to 14 -mesh; this is not to
When a ring buys all the machinery , Coal tar preparations are highly be recommended, because the pests
nese, separator, power, clover huller, I spoken of as mite protectors and one: can get through it. All mesh, even
application will Iast a long time. Ker- bronze and copper, should be varnish
osene oil will kill the mites, but the'. ed or painted, to prevent oxidizing and.
roosts must frequently be painted with corroding, especially at the seashore.
it during hot weather. :4ianyof tile, Daub lightly, so that the paint will
commercial poultry house sprays are,not run and fill up the openings.
fine to keep the roosts free from mites. ! All screen doors should be well -
There are several lice paints which' strutted, open outwards, capable
can be used to advantage on the! of being firmly closed. Where mos-
roosts, neat boxes and possibly overcluitoes are very thick there had bet -
the entire interior of the house. When ter be a screened vestibule with two
spraying the orchard with lime-sul- ` entrance doors. Many screen doors
phur, some poultrymen give the inside: don't fit or are made of thin and un-
of the poultry house a thorough bath..' seasoned wood. A good door frame is
This kills mites, lice and disease, made of Cyprus or other seasoned
germs and is a very effective ways wood I to 11/2 -inch thick, well braced
of controlling poultry pests. Some, and painted. To protect the screen -
poultrymen use whitewash once or, lag when the door is pushed open
twice a year to kill mites and lice (many' people use their foot for this)
and give the poultry house a clean' the lower panel should be covered in -
appearance. Others claim that the; side with a ea -inch mesh wire gauze,.
whitewash seems to make their pouf to protect the screening; several
try houses damp and they prefer the i strips of wood 1 inch wide, set 3
oil sprays and commercial mixtures, inches apart, should be nailed across
which do not seem to gather damp- the lower panel -and two -or three such
ness• ! strips placed across the lower part of
When building a new poultry house the top panel.
it pays to start at once and adopt pre -1 In seine climates even the best
ventive measures against the lice and doors will swell or warp, so that they
mites. A new house can easily bel will not close; if then they are planed
protected and . then if the tr. eatments , to make them close, the wood will
,'are continued with regularity theiel shrink in very hot weather leaving
'fill never be any trouble from the cracks for insects to canter through.
poultry pests" After a house has once It is best to have an easy -fitting door,
become thoroughly infested with mites fully 1/e -inch clear all around the edge;
and lice it is more difficult to control and then to mosquito -proof this by
' them as they breed rapidly and if a tacking canvas .1 mels around the top
few are missed by the spray dope dur- and one side the door, facing on the
ing hot weather, thousands will soon outer side (not on the screen door)
inhabit the hoige, so that this canvas will take up all
Save the chiffon velvet hat trim- the lost or extra 'space. To the lower
edge .a - strip of canvas may likewise
minas. Thee is nothing better for be taken to cover, any existing (men -
brushing the silk skirt free from dust: ing, .,
Keep a p;ieee on the hat rack. It is The best window screening is one
excellent for brushing felt hats, that is screwed into place, for the
Equal parts of kerosene and vin- season, the entire openingbeing
egar make a good polish for the case screened. Whatever screening is used,
of a piano and the keys can,' be clean- let there be no minutest opening for
ed by wiping them vlth •mtlk.
insects sma ale through, The wire
If there is no apple corer handy, netting can be tacked directly on the
try a perfectly smooth clothespin window facing, with half -roused ma -
This will extricate the core as effectu-, tenial over edges to give it a .seat
ally as the corer you buy. finish.
When you fill the jai with preserves
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Feri ff erS
For Profit
Wri:e for Free Bsalteti;A
Ontario Fertilizers
Limited
Toronto
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OW about using acid. phos-
•t�• phate alone?
A total of 90 years' experiments
at Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana.
and Virginia Experiment ' Sta-
tions shows the following aver-
age iucrea.aes per acre from the
use of single element and com-
plete fertilizers,
Average Are
Ii aortal Added Increase Obtained
AriYtnonta or nitrogen :86 bus.
Phosphoric ' -acid 5.55
Nitrogen and Phot acid 8.64
Complete Xerttlazer•s 11.13 "
You canpet an increase from.
acid phosphate atone but you
I can get over double the increase
front complete fertilizers.
Lay Your Plans for l a r
Jx la c. ..3t re-
turns 3 g
turns per acre while 'wheat prices
are -high,
IaTttto Tor free boolelat.
Tike Scrl' and Crop
Improvement tent Bureau
of n --
I nurse him myself. He is very bon- around the roots, after which the to remove quite a large mass of earth
me, weighing 14 pounds, I am care coarser soil may be thrown in. All around the roots, so as to interfere as
fut. of my diet, He only brings back soil must be firmly packed around the little as pas:,ible with the connections
his food once In a great while, roots except the two or three inches formed between the roots and the soil;
Answer—Pull information as to at the surface which should be left
baby and for the nureing mother is
being mailed you.
I have a baby girl age 15 months
who has a birth mark. I may say it
nearlyecovers her nose. It is red like
a beet but as smooth as the rest of her
face. I have been advised to have it be taken that none of the latter is In other respects the directions al -
air.
removed with radium and your epi compressed allowed to be in direct contact with ready given for planting the trees
air. I would like to have opinion. the roots. should be followed.
Answer As to baby's birth mark, o .
I would not advise operation. My own
inclination would be to leave it alone
as it may disappear or be much modi-
fied in color. Information about your
boy is being mailed you.
Uowej Killed Five Acres of Quack
Grass.
I had a piece of five acres of solid
quack grass, and tried summer fal-
lowing, raking and burning the roots,
but it seemed to flourish better than
ever.
Then I pastured it for some years,
planted it to corn and cultivated, but
the quack grass was ever present. I
their drew the corn off, got a disk har-
row with round disks, put two teams,
one each side of the tongue, and let
, in fact,trees can be transplanted at
loose, in order to lessen the evapora- almost any season if a good •large ball
tion from the soil. Any gravel there of earth is left around the roots. The
may be had better be removed alto- greatest care should, of course, be
gether. If the soil is poor, it may be taken that the roots should not be 6.
fertilized with artificial fertill er or allowed to dry out, especially in the
well rotted manure, but care should case of evergreen (coniferous) trees.
} n:�a.tiiwts axiiii ;e1 ''e;ssow.a.Licado not fail to have the evrap overrun
111.1 Teaa,`s,10 Mall.dai5. Toronto 1 i the top, This will ensure air -tight-
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Questions and Answers.
1 have a baby bey just ten weeks
Who Is To Blame?
"Well, George," said his wife, as
George Morton and she came in from
vated man, so as the taste for good
books, good drama, good preaching;
you used to have a taste for all these
church one 'Sunday morning, "how did not so many years ago, but you're
you like the sermon this morning?" losing it fast. That s what makes me
"Nothing in it," he replied briefly. ass eoct r inon g. uro It ofmon
he smez re
"I don't get anything out of sermons mark -ably good, and so it did to others.
nowadays. It seems to me the great I wonder if you're not judging your -
preachers must all be dead." self ?"
"I wonder ,if the trouble is with the
preacher or you George?" his wife,,,,
replied. "If it were only sermons Safeguarding Against Wind.
amongst other worth-whilete things Now that windstorms are far more
that had lost their interest for you, I fierce than when the country was more
shouldn't think so much of it; but do thickly wooded, there is much more
you realize that you can't get inter- reason to make sure of windbreaks
ested:in a worth -while book, the opera around the home buildings for the
bores you; you can never be got to comfort and safety of our :families
them sail, first one way lapping half go to an orchestral concert or a must- and
s from theees set neven a s will not cued
and then ero'ssways.`1 then seeded the cal recital or a lecture that is meant y g y
for intelligent people? The newspaper do much to Use k the force of w, nd-
piece to rye, and have not seen any -
has taken the place of real reading storms, but, by absorbing the free
thing of the quack en that piece since. with you, the musical comedy or the electricity in the air, will prevent
That was eight years ago., Now the
ground froze ,quite hard that winter,
and I figure the freezing was what
'lcillee the quack.—A. H. G.
Ink stains can be removed •byapply-
,ing freshly nixed mustard to the
spots. Let it remain one or two hours
then wash off- and -rinse.
TUE . 'C IEEE .FUL CtiE tWB
taszsmamatsamstatttctiamastzaanglike 5orri brume s
about rreyself'
evrly 1-,70..ir pried
5vnd y cloches
1 tleinle. lire pretty
mice hope,
l"i. soul Wort
miss me,
when it OGS.
moving picture the place of the opera
or the concert. You have acquired an
appetite for the frothy, highly spiced
things that require no thought."
"Well, if I didn't get a sermon at
church, Pm getting one now! . But I'll
have to admit there's a lot of truth
in what you say," he admitted good-
naturedly.
"George," she said, "your name is
legion. You're just like hundreds of
other men who in the rush of busi-
ness to -day are losing their taste for Tittle cloudy put olive oil on a clean
worth -while things, You remind me cloth and rub it. This will make the
of a story I read the other day abottt surface cleanand bright.
a dealer in hides who was .inveigled
outto dinner by his wife. It chanced
that he was seated .at table between
a bi:illiant woman novelist and it very
clever doctor. His wife thought he
would surely have a good time. 13ut
she asked what sort of evening he had.
He replied,' `Abominable! What did
those people know
about hides.1
He
ate, slept, drank and lived hides.
"That's what seine of you men are
doing with your business. Your brains
are` a one-track line, and anything that
doesn't directly concern your business
has no interest for you. I'm not s old-
ing. I simply pity you. The taste for
music is essential to a really culti
lightning strokes. On or near many
farms can be found fine young trees
of sugar maple, chestnut, pine, etc.
Or a few nuts like hickory, and the
seed of shade trees planted in the
right spot will sopa grow into thrifty
trees. The location of the trees
should be planned with care, so that
shade and protection from the worst
storms will result.
When mahogany furniture looks it
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if invested at 3% will amount to $697.7s
If invested at 4%, interest com-
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amount to -
^y744.2e
But if,,invested in our 51%
Debentures will amount to.. $830.20
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