HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-10-2, Page 6Protecting Our Furred Friends
Now that the nights are getting
frosty, it is time to begin to- think
again of trapping.. Evert more im-
=�- - - �"` • portant, however,is the proper pro-
- teotion of our fur -bearers • until their
This Department i ter the us3 est' our farm reader'; who want the advie value» Y , lap accord
about Y. but b waiting three weeks should he applied to the ac_
of an expert on any- question regardin�. soil, Beed, crops, etc, If year question , or until earl. Novartis-* it will be a' ing as the soil is more or 'less niche
g do not begin trapping y ,
la. Of sufficient general Interest, it Will be answered through this column. ;e d You S t rnvbertoro0ctober before' o• 1,,'wbx'th about $6. Ca�r.onemake It is important that the manure
Fall Fertilizers For Lawn.
To stimulate the growth of,a lawn
and to improve its appearance for
the follovei'ng spring net better treat -
Invest YDanr. oney
5 y:.% DEBENTURES
you can all post your land with 'fico ment Dean, be recommended than the j- Interest payable Jia1f yearly,
Trapping'- sigliis.arid wort: together to application of a properly ratted rua-1 The Great West Permanent-
in
et. If anyone is" ` stubborn nitre in the lata. fall. This application i �� (�f3ltii'laly
about agreeing to wain', point out that should not be made until after the; Toronto offlca 20 King .St, Wesi
in the middle of Cetobex_s. good murk frosts have stopped the 'growth of the
By Agronomist fur beoines prime awl worth fulls will egade about No, 3 and brir4g grass.. Ten to twenty* two -horse loads'
stamped and addressed envelope ts. encfosed v�ittt your totter: a
complete uing is a No. 1 in quality, and money rrny #nabs- t There is rip other should be thoroughly rotted hem* ep-
anstuer wttl b taaited to you. Addretshs. Aslronon+lat, care of Wilson Pu thepal i y' stock on the farm. that wi+ll increase 'cation so that all weed seeds are
Co.. Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W. Toronto. thereby lose half or two-thirds of the o p''
In some places manure is simply value of the furs, when, bee waiting in value so rapidly, ;killed, athex�cise damage done by'
p a they will be worth double price. Prevent hunters and others from weeds will more than offset the fee` -1
Manure—A Gold Mine on the- Farm.
Each horse produces $27 worth of
manure a year (as compared with
Commercial fertilizers); each head of
tattle .20 worth; each beg $8 worth.
It is estimated that the total valve of
menu' -e produced is abcut $200,000,000
—a veritable gold, mine.
At least half of this great wealth
of fertilizing material is sheer waste.
In some good general farming sec-
tions not more than fifteen per cent.
th:•own out through the barn windows
�e a tri until the fur shooting mu�skrais, skunks, eta., for; tilizing value of the application. Ma -1
and left to Ilea against the sides of the not to p sport, whenever
fi' • .. is .rime of Na» 1 quality with most they get a clhance.' nure needs oaxefihl Handling before it
learn, The lasses In fertilizing wattle, p Y You might ea /evil allow theist to shoot is suited far spreading over the lawn,
are large --much larger if the water furs this will be early in November,your e1ne1 els ° tnrkey s, ducks and Unless it is. properly "composted" it.
from the roof drips on the manure. 'Mien furs are prime, the flesh side either fowls for sport, It would be no may have
most of its valuable con-; very desirable form, as well as other
Such a practice is not only wasteful, of the pelts will remain white, -without rri�ro expensive . .to *ou. The valuable stituents rlestzoved byimprover ,
F wcililal►.e elements.
it is also very unsanitary. If it must dark blue streaks, after the animal zs fur -bearing animals stn `your proporte handling. To "coinpost" manure pro -'1, Alla I� 'tions should be made be-
be frliowed,. the gutters on the barn skinned. If the flesh side turns blues are yours as `ahueb as; ant of your' err t should be treated as follows; pia ' .
perly i fore the ground freezes permanently
ehou'd be constructed so that the at any time, even after drying, the stoclt Proieet t ;e,. They are worth' Pile all manure in heaps with alter-' .
w t ill be carried away. A lean-to fur is not yet prune, and will grade; et lift e•trotllale, and sr}kl rise in value nate 1a era of sod oro' er litter. Kee for the winter, as otherwise the fer,
a er will x y , r l y p farrier may be largely washed from
shef may be built as a saver over the No. 2, If vert blue, it may he a leo. i Boni year to veat Do not allow thein it wet enough so it will not burn. Let the soil before it•has a
3 or 4 pelt; and these last t~� o classes . glance to be-
rile of manure exposed to the weather. to #►c caaiglrt off too -closely. beep as it strand a whole year through sum -i come incorporeted with it.
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G+1ZES to suit your
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with Mara. 'Safe de -
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Write for Price Lie
tin Cut down fuel
bills. team wrote'
comfort.
The HAt,t.UDAY CO5 PAtev, i imitod
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of the manure produced is. used, Even - are worth very little, Pr.tni;ness of •
in the most intensive dairy rei�ions. Another good way to save manure,' sins is judged entirely by this white; good supply en bland from year to: mer and winter, forking it aver two: Prepared sheep manure le an excel -
where coves are large;~ stall fed and especially In the case of Bog's or beef blue colon of the flesh side of the; yerir. as yeti wau.dv with any other; or three times during the year. It` lent dressing. As it has been stcriliz-
is to have a concrete paved orb e 1 steric. You would t.,,t Lill oft: every, well then be ready for use on the ed by drying and rendered odorless,
eomFarativety great care is taken utile. skin. Whether the hair slips a trifler Y
, feed lot, preferabl defier a shed roof.. » hone and cow you heti on yst�x nl.�^e, lawny and danger from wood seed evil?. there are not the objections to it that
with the manure, ills loss seems to y or not is not considered so much, for , ,
be approximately twenty-five per Where the owner of the ;arm can notespecially if 3 otk could not get any be minimized, there might be to ofordinary manure,
the coltdit'ori of the skin otherwise. more. The sarin should be true with Many object to the use of manure If there are parts of the lawn which
'enc, ai:ard a Favell floor, a. cheap open' determines whether the hair twit: slip the fur -bearers l
The best pian to prevent this waste (esteem, shed may be made to serve or not. Of course, .ti Ann may be pen-
is to haul the manure eine ser, rti it the purpose -err- well. if a?tundant T and
If a mink or other animal gets to from -treed wads, but because of its
feetly white, Ivo, 1 in primeness, an bothering your poultry' a little early,unsightly and unsanita appearance.
on the field as fast as prohiuced. When beetling is used to absorb the valuable" Mill grade o. 2 or 3 beealzso of shoat- y' '
this not rattical store the manure liquid manure. In such a feeding lot. et . ether gel a good safe house for the These will undoubtedly ].refer to use
p or shed fibs intixure is allowed to', Mesa n# itis fur> cuts • in skin, c ' hen, or set a box. trap at the runway something else, and the moat econ-
h h i Irimenes5 o nrus.ra sins canes where the mink -i 1 Have to enter to omlcdl substitute is finely ground bone when it is covered by slush or Snow
pits are being used more and more. each day's bedding being strewn over be judged bywhiteness. A muskrat get the hen. If the snln, bathers, he or bona meal, Thus should tae app],ied 1 is destructive to a lawn.:
These pits have concrete floors and the well -;,ramped manure. Some never becomes fully prime and ,white is caught. at the rate of from 500 pounds to one!
bast February The skins' Make a few feet square f d' the ground
at all, not only because of the danger- will be tramped over -•'hen they are
not frozen, especially when now is
melting there, they should be pro-
,_ tested to prevent persona from eid-
wlies .t can not tench out. , f 1 t k t ting across. Tramping on the turf
To save manure, concrete manure gather under the feet of the animals,' .
sides se that not any of the valuable farmers using this system arrange until. a . a e a pen e q re o ton an acre, according as l a Bit Thrift Stamps.
fertilizing elements are wasted. A their feed -racks so that they tan be caught'during the fall, if good qua l- small wire netting, covered on tap' is more or less rich, r Y
pit (1x12 feet and three feet deep, raised from time to time, malting it ity, may be more of leen blue streak- and bottom, In it have a box and With the bone heal it is desirable Potatoes require a coal place not
with na is d floors v possible to feed till solidi"* packed ed, and yet grade No, 1 fall. The .-are small water trough, and keep the mink to use double the quantity of woocli tot' ry
l nn ori fie inches ehick ', r y s tree with winter -caught suns.' until its pelt is prime. ashes, which ma be minted with the! The metric system has been official.,
will serve the needs of the average., manure hes accumulated a depth of :. y' ,
farm. In thatdoescave' several feet umler the .bed. It has These No. 1 fall or sinter skins do In many places in our country the bone meal or sown separately, These ly adopted by 23 countries, and is used
ground not cap not, of course, bringso inurli as a
in, only au inside foam -will be needed: been shown that minute thus handled T , fur -bearers are almost all killed off, ashes contain considerable lime in a; to a greater or less extent in 200.
in huildin such a it except where' -offers little frons heating and leach-; No. 1 spring -caught skin, but theys This will not do; they must be pro .,.the eonerete
g p ,sept es , are nevertheless considered prime.
tested. The fur industry of this come-
vary
above the ground eto prevent nds a. vflooding1,rl For'saving manure the feeding shed Muskrat skins very a great deal dui- try is worth millions of darters an -
by surface water. The floor should be' serves the pure Ise of giving the gen-j then ll, htos ver. You end wilmay l nually. We can not let small fur -
re -enforced by ".so en wire fencing,' eral farri, cr the heez Battle farm," bearing animals go the way* of the
put in after about two inches of; something of the advantage held by grade No. 1, and get another at the buffalo and the passenger pigeon, If
Same place a week or so later that
cement has been laid, the section of the intens;ve dairy farm. The manure your ,ware laws do not amply protect
fencing being cut long enough to beef saved on the Canadian farm under; -will be quite blue and grade No. 2.- your cur -bearers, write to your Ater -i
up a few inches at either end into, present col.ditions is almost exactly To be sure that they are cruris prince ber to amend them so that they twill.;
the side walls, When the re-enforc proport: anal to the member of animals ` and will bring good value, it is best If they -allow people to begin trap-
ing has been put in, the remaining stall -fed on the farm; the manure of to wait until early November to trap. ping in October, when furs are not
three inches of the ileo- laid -and animals n yields, excepts n caset etablel has s where' judge at -certainen ,tilnes. Inre hard some paces trapping until furs are prime, just e-
prhne until November, don't start
th' forms for the side walls set up '
and used immediately. Use one part field crops are hogged down or other-' in Canada they may be caught, being cause the law says you may. See that
of cement, two of sand and four of . wise pastured down, or where pasture' perfectly prime, but if left out in the your neighbors await, too.
screened gravel. A pit of this kind. is used in a rotation. i trap during a hard rainstorm lasting Many people have signed pledges to
is large enough to hold the accumula-f If no shed or pit is available the, several hours, the pelts are },.able to protect the birds. r s. It is just as im-
tion
tion of manure on the average farm. best method of storing manure in the! turn perfectly black.
until such a time as it can be con-Iopen is to pile in a compact pile with i Therefore, resolve not to start trap -
I
veniently spread on the field. nearly perpendicular sides: The pile; ping too early. See your neighbors
A manure pit doesn't cost money;: should be left flat on top so that it, so that they will not start before you
portant that we should wake up to
protecting the fur -bearers, before it
is too late. One year there were hun-
dreds of thousands of passenger pig -
it saves money. The value of the= will absorb the rain water. This net do. Draw up a pledge fair to all, and' eons, and the next year there was
manure saved when stored in pits will! only lessens the amount of leaching,1 get them. to sign it. Then if any hardly one alive in the world..Now
equal at least five per cent. on the' but helps keep the manure moist and': wandering early trapper tries to come not a single survivor can be found.
pit investment. Where manure ist thus reduces the fermentation, This in and get furs before they are prime, It pays to protect the birds.
stored in loose, flat piles in the barn- method will not prevent leaching; - yard, the loss by leaching and decayetherefore it is recommended only
in six months amounts to from thirty when there is no better way of storing
to sixty per rent. the manure.
"There are a good many fine things
about a milking machine. One of
them is that your hands don't get tired
milking. The last cow milks as easy
as the first one."
That is my neighbor's way of sizing
up the milking machine. He was left
alone through the shifts and turns of
the times and •could not get help to do
his farm work as it ought to be done.
The milking was especially tedious.
"I used to spend from an hour and
a half to two hours right on the milk-
ing stool. By the time I got through
I was tired and in poor shape to begin
the real work of the day. Now I am
fresh and ready to go at other things
after breakfast. I milk my rows in
about half the time and they don't
mind it as much asthey used to when
they were pul+led and hauled around
by careless or indifferent milkers."
He spoke of a number of other good
features about the milking machine,
but this was the windup.
"You can't tell how long a man will
„toy if you hire him. I had. two or
three men last season at different
times. I thought I had them for the
season, but they slipped away from
me. Centracbs will not Mold men who
make up their minds to go. The ma-
chine stays right on the job. I know
in the morning when I get tip that I -
am going to 'End it in its place, ready
for business. Of course, I have to do
some things for the milking machine,
but it won't go back on me if I use
it right."
Another roan told me of his ex-
perience with a milking machine as
follows:
"It used to take me just about two
hours to milk eighteen cows. That
meant four . hours, counting night and
morning, sitting on the milking stool,
the best I could do. Last winter was
unusually cold, and I actually frosted
my feet in the stable, working there
so long at a se -retch with little chance
to move them around.
"Being faced with another winter
of like experience, on account of the
lack of help, I determined to put in a
analking machsine. • The original cost
of true machine was $300, but by turn-
ing
urning in a separator that we were no
longer using, I was able to get the
-pinker by paying $200 in cash.
"The znachane shortens the work of
milking about one half, which counts
in the short days when .chores take
such a large part of, the tame. That
gives me a better chance to work at
other winter work, such, as gottaing
up wood.
"I made a pulley out of .a round
stick of wood and attached it to the
driving shaft of the milker, so that
by gearing it to the grindstone we,
could sharpen the mowing machine
knives, grind the scythes,. axes and
other tools with the same source- of I
power. Altogether I find that the
machine enables me to do without
help that I would otherwise have to
keep through the winter months."
In every flock of chicks and of fowls
there are individuals which can never
be profitable, and often area menace.
They are weak and become an easy
prey to disease and pass that disease
on to others. There are also the mis-
shapen ones and those which have suf-
fered injury. These, -with the known
non -producers, should be weeded out
early in the season.
Every frock of youngsters should be
watched carefully and any that grow
slowly, show signs of weakness, do not
have good shape for their age, should
be disposed of as early as possible.
Those with teaisted wing's; deformed
beaks, wry tails or *rooked backs
should likewise be disposed of, even
though they are healthy.
1.f we except those which are to be
kept for use or sale for breeders, all
surplus males should be disposed of
as early as they can be fattened and
a good market secured. It is care-
lessness in points such as this that
keeps the scales from turning from
failure to success.
.
A. good dry clean• er consists of
equal parts of cornmeal and salt,
moistened well with „t rpenbine.
Turnips, beets-, carrots will keep
hest at a temperature slightly above
freezing.
THE - CHEERFUL CHERUB
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I• .am the c'.ptt.in.`:or
my 'soul
f°'•a.in would s`x..iI on
peo..ceC'ul. strea.in,s s
But 1 must - brave.
the - sea, or li Fe. ---
AAnd,o}i clear
me the,
subma.rzr e.5
By John B. Is ex; AM,MD
M4q17,12M ..173172
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, Or. Huber will not prescribe for Individual cases or make diagnosis.
Address Dr. John B. Huber, M.l?., cams of Wilson PubIIst4g Co., 73 Adelaide
Et. West. Toronto
Catarrh.
Nasal catarrh is either acute or
chronic.
a
Doctors call the acute variety
coryza or acute rhinitis; and say it is
either simple or specific.
A •simple coryza is due to exposure
to cold and, wet, to irritating -vapors
such as workmen are exposed to in
some occupations; and it accompanies
a good deal of rheumatism, tuber-
eulosis and asthma.
Specific coryza comes on in the
beginning of most eases of the "com-
mon cold," diphtheria, measles and
scarlet fever, and ether 'infections,
and is due to the germs of those dis-
eases. The symptoms are .sneezing,
hoarseness, headache, chilliness, at
first dryness in the throat and then,
after a few hours, of copious dis-
charges, stuffing up of the nostrils and
occasional incessant eil,owing of the
nose. Suoh a nasal catarrh • is very
likely to be "catching."
A sufferer from acute *Wills
should take one-half a grain of cal-
omel every hour until there is e. move-
ment of the bowels. The calomel
should then be topped off by a seidlitz
powder. Then grains of Dover's
powders is a good bedtime , dose for
this condition, after heaving taken a
hot footbath. Net day take Dr. Lin-
colees rhinitis tablets, one every half
hour, until the throat feels dry; 'these'
can be had of any druggist. The best
Iocal application is to snuff up and to
gargle several times a day a normal
salt solution (one -hale teaspoonful of
table salt to - a turblerful of water) as
hot as can be borne with comfort. ,
Chronic nasal' catarrh is likely to
follow an acute rhinitis: In the course
of time the nasal mucous Membrane
becomes thickened and obs+bructive,
making - the breathing labored and
difficult. Then ,after many months or
years, the mucous membrane becomes
atrophied, with .a bad odor and green-
ish offensive orasts.
Chronic catarrh is more a ,symptom
of aome other ailment than a disease
in itself: There is generally some
constituabionasl disease "which the doc-
tor must cure upon which the eatarn'h
will generally" get well of itself. Any-
body with catarrh; therefore, most
regulate his diet and habits, and must
attend carefully to his general health.
Especially nmst he keep his feet very
warm. and dry. Only the doctor can
Manage successfully cases of chronic
catarrh. For he has to use caustics
to the thickenings, the hypertrophies;
and he has to remove the crusting
and then make proper application to
stimulate the " atrophied - condition.
No alcohol or tobacco habitue can
be cured of his catarrh, while he
uses these substances. The vast
majority of incurable deafness comes
front neglected catarrh.
Questions and Answers.
I fan a returned man. Was severely
gassed in May, 1.915, and was in—
valid-ed home, discharged as medioally un-
fit in 1917 with dilated heart. Since
then I have suffered very much with
nerves, being very irritable, sensitive
and at times have pains in the temple.
Also at teens I have smearing sense•
tions in the -legs and arms. I used to
have severe pains around my heart,
but have not been, troubled much in
that respect lately. Sometimes I have
a kind of suffocation at night. This
mostly happens just when I, fan going
to sleep. At times I gbt +a.- very de-
pressed feeling and get mopey. 1 have
been a fairly heavy smoker and tea
drinker. I yam at present working on
a farm- to - complete my vocational
training course. I was recommended
for farm work. Do you think that
class of work will suit me? '
.Answer=I can hardly thinkaof an
%invalided hero more worthy of - ad-
miring sympathy than the man who
hes been gassed 'in warfare. It is
possible that you will never regain
100 per cent. efficiency. But by quiet
living, being careful not to -over-
exert;' cutting down the coffee and
the tea, smoking tobacco in modera-
tion (I should"advise cutting it out
entirely in your case, unless you don't
care much about it anyway), the .,sen
nations you :mention will Tin large part
disappear. Try to get good sleep,
with windows wide .open. I; amvery
glad you are on a farm. That is the
place and the vocation for the re-
turned men. But until your health
comes around don't overwork. I am
mailing you eurbher information.
Best wishes!
P, t ,
st'h -
ralerOno 9
MORALS {Me•ral3 n. (F..S.e MO& al iIie
moral conaitlon,,ribs condaton in ol;tarrcapeata,xa
jar as itisaireacdbv,ardependent pppn,maralcar
aideratlana, auchn tAset aptrir, hops and comlarcnc4s.
mental stale: as of a bade ohnen, an arrra+, and Oke
HAT is Dr. Websier*s definition. Mang
of us know the word only in its,
war -time application. •
Webster dwells firstly upon the usage *Met
word "morale" as applied to the common -place
#;appenings of every -day life. His allusion to its
reference to en army comes later. And Webster is
correct --meticulously so.
It was their privatelife morale that made such
splendid soldiers of our boys when the time came
for them to don the khaki. It was that, and that alone,
that made them take the first step, and it was thatevhich
darri d theta through to victory. If their every -day
morale had been neglected, the Army could have done
little with them and success would not have crowned
their efforts. -
It is the many little incidents of your daily routine that make up
your morale—the morning shave, your clean linen, polished shoes,
brushed clothes. Webster speaks of zeal, spirit, hope and confi-
dence. It is by attention to the small details of your personal.
appearance that these may be attained.
The Gillette SafeterRazor enters as much into the morale of every.
day life as it did into that of the trenches. It helped our soldiers to
maintain their confidence and bearing. It will do the same • for you,
The Gillette Safety Lazo- makes the daily shave come easy—there
is no pulling or scraping --no .honing, or stropping—just five minutes
of perfede shaving comfort. And, afterwards, a chin that tells of
morale and self-respect.
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