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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-10-23, Page 6Address cot'nmunications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St, -West, Toronto The Upper Storeys of the Barn.herd all the more difficult. • Then, too, No part of the ordinary farm barn many experienced herdsmen contend is more likely to be neglected at time that cows frequently abort as a result h k t the' svninathetic Item, of building, than is the upper part, the of a s system. ° in other words, when a serrixOUT GOAL Oil, WOOD SOLVES THE FUEL QUESTION Price $13.50 QUESTION, H.EA i RAND COO1 ER i'c�o .oma For Town and Cbui try ,'Alam Camps and Bungalows } eseeostee Produces Gas Anywhere. owe roQ ERAt( Pits in. any coal OP wood stove without: ale -rations. For cooking and heating, OPE s ne part above the main floors. And be- ous syscow aborts from an injury, if the beep this ad, special'ttention to Mail Orders. cause we do not finish tl is up as eve see eCO.daily. herdsman is negligent about it and ereE A1Gi'i"l�\Gi�, OF CANAl?A ought to when the work is going on, leaves the foetus in the gutters or 1Z6 Xii;t St. vh Toronto, Ont. t tolose 't always in we are very ap .: n < < ards, the other cows sense its pres- the same incomplete and unsatisfac- y n to abort. If cows rt' condition k that have aborted do exert', symoa- To show what T mean, let me speak 'ta diti en. a and < tie apt thetic effect upon other tows in the of a case I knew. The wife of the farmer wanted a straw bed filled. The. herd, and it is safe to assume that an Those sprint; calves which have been he lace at' same eases they do,, one can readily en grass require something more s from the Serd and treating themcowsub- men folks were slat on t p work. She was of an independent tuan see the necessity for removing such tantaal.added to their ration. Once of n incl and she mounted to the high-:cows the ealf flesh is lost, gains are but est sea fold, some twelve or fourteen' until they come around all right• slowly made. feet above the big barn floor, and put ;'nen a caw aborts, the only _ssfe', gran is an excellent feed for all down the needed straw herself. But, course to pursue is to remove her pregnant animals. It is both bulky before she had finished her work and from the herd and give her proper and laxative. It ,is unfortunate for gotten down, she vent straight down, tr ockmen that this by-product i through the scaffold to the flood be-; iMany dairy experts will say that it so high priced considering the quan- Iow. As it happened, she went through s not necessary to remove cows thattity which is available. standing straight up and struck on the; have aborted from the herd, but I do' Is the sire at the head of your herd straw a& below, so that she arta. not hurt,' not understand row one is to producegood enough to effect some iinprove- .save as the scare gave her a fink. eieau and sanitary milk in a stable ment? if he is not he is losing money If there bad been a good. floor on that ,there Iowa that have aborted are al for you eaery day you keep him. scaffold that accident never would• lowed to at -and. To be sure, the use of Breed up, not down. have happened. I have seen many, disinfectants may prevent the disease! Whitewashing should' form a regu- r 1 1 fl from spreading and, perhaps, it is a, lar part of the care of all buildings sea. oil'is, in .4hlc a t, a on y oa3 made of rough slabs laid rounding sick: fact that abortion does not spread; where animals are kept•,•and should be from cow to cow, but the chances onei clone twice a year at least. If white - safely i was alv.ays glad to gat dawn i, taking. are too great to Sustify care -t wash is carefully made and strained, folwhenever I had been en a seat- i estless in handling individual cases, pp fold as dangerous as that. I and applied with a saran, it is not a Ia. laying the floor ir. the uppca • . storey of our own barn, I ave it two ung; throalgt narrow openings, being; tart' measure. This recipe is excellent: chased and clubbed, turned out into,i Slake half a bushel of unslaked lime Crowding them together while gte difficult job, and, is a neceseaary sani- with boiling water, covering it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid' through a fine sieve or strainer. Add to it a peck of salt. previously dissolved in warm ~water, three pints of ground rice boiled to a thin paste, • Stix le the a ing 'diems while the liquid is hot. Add•fiv.e gal- lons of hot water' to the mixture, stir well and let stand • for' a few d'uyse, covered as nearly air -tight as -possible. The Succesefuk Poultryman Iles Long Lease on His Jobe When a ' poultryman,' goes` out of m business it may not be -due to a fell- ma. ell _ uae. Some ,men leave poultiy pro- duction ro duction for other lines of business in the same way. that. there are frequent changes in..other lines of trade. How- ever, the farmers end ponitrynien who really like '. their- birds dislike' to sell -small because•of -sall failures and they dislike to give up ''when `they have made a. success .because they like the business and realize that it has com- pensations above the profit in money, That is why we have poultrymen who stick to the business even when their hens and their other farm operations have made them enough money to re- tire. They learn -to like poultry and all kinds of live stock and find that caring for the stock makes them hap- pier than loafing. One fine thing about the poultry business is the fact that a man would never have to give it up for his health as 'it is a healthy oc- cupation. Even an old man who likes poultry can stay ,with his business. after he might be too old for another business. The poultryman who suc- ceeds Shall be able to look forward to old age 'on the farm with as little fear as any man, because as long as. he can get around at all he can do something that is worth while.—K. layers of boards, breaking joints so •• . that no seeds and dust would rattle:Icy yards and standing on too short: platforms. where the hind feet are ins down tothe Scar below and there the gutters are frequent causes of! would be 110 danger of hreaa>angt, the best abortion among dairy cow;. All of; way to lay t;� used far the first ,ager, but the throegh.s ahold floor. Old beards these exalter may be kept down to a" may .• minimum by turning a few cows out: The Serious Mistake of Being a Self -Centred Guardian of . top floor aught to be of rood boards' int, the vara_ ata time and g;hing; Little Children. free front 'Cheek or luokeaa ,pots. The- them p.�l;.tyr tr atnaent, If the yards;, MOTHERMISDOLI ra icv it is s, ter to venter them in higher leer ( alive the main floor these leaf- a f+.id� are, the more seeure should be the barn. Some of the more quarrel -1 the fleeting upon them;c and certainly some members of the herd should be! The the Metnpa'sa n-na'.11 the boards ax turned out with those capable of tak-; many 1 h 1 d d ing care of themselves. fore By HELEN JOHNSON '':EYES. oar has brought into daily use longed for quiet. Tho children, on the words not commonly used be- other hand, desired an entirely differ - Among these is ego -centric, ent holiday. TIaey 'would not mi_a By johnI3.. Huber; AM,MD t +eat - Address communications to 73 Adelaide St, West, Toronto . The Asthma Paroxysm. " bronchial tubes leads to overgrowth The asthmatic seizures. occur com-� of their muscular •cont; by this and by moray at night. There may be pre-- the accompanying congestion of the monitions—chill, tightness in the 'bronchial mucous membrane, lining chest, depressed spirits. Or the patient those tubes, the latter become perman- will go to bed with uneasy sensations,' ently thickened and narrowed. This will begin to wheeze in his sleep and{ fact 'leads to obstruction of the pul- will gradually become aroused by his; inn ,rye unnatural circulation; and so .gement of the shortness of breath. Or, after a fewl hours sleep, he will awaken abruptly, air cells, comes in time to accompany with dyspnoea and oppression, as if asthma. In time the heart, also, be - being suffocated. He will sit up, fix-, comes dilated with marked venous prominences in the neck and breast. The outlook as regards the parox- ysm is good enough as to life itself. g ills sliolricters, either pt' putnan his hands to his sides or by support- ing his elbows on his knees; or he will stand leaning over the back of his chair, Thus he remains immovable; the breathing efforts are violent; all Several months ago. I had a large the muscles are e•alied into play; the wart come on my thumb and a few neck muscles are prominent. One's days' later T 'had one on the inside of synnpathies are'painfully enlisted. my left hand. Several times I have Cyanosis anil lividity of the coun- been going to do something for them, tenanee indicate the defective aera but as they never bothered ma much, tion. The sufferer is speechless and I failed to do anything. Is there any anxious; a. clammy sweat bathes his danger from warts? Sometimes they face. His pulse becomes small and itch and hurt me these last few days. feeble, but his temperature is little ' Answer—Better get your druggist raised• his extremities are .cold. There to remove them b means of clastics. is cough at first, tight, and then with Or get this of the druggist: Thirty -tenacious expectoration. • When the grains of salicylic acid plus five patient seems at his very worst, the grains of cannabis indica in one paroxysm moderates; at its end he ounce of collection. Keep this tightly sinks into a well earned sleep. Such corked. At night paint this over the a paroxysm may last, however, for wart, by means of a matchstick about several days, the end of which you have wound a The seizures tend to recur and to little absorbent cotton, so as to become chronic• this depends, how- make a brush of it. Throw this away ever, much on the presence or absence after each. application—a much clean• of the direct or exciting cause. As er process than using the old stylt the disease progresses there is some camel's hair brush. Then, as the shortness .of breath and "wheeziness" warts soften, gently scrape away the in the intervals between the 'parox- softened parts. You can use an ole ysms. safety razor for this purpose. Then The effect of frequent seizures is keep on reapplying the collodion noted in the raised s':ioulders and the until the warts are a thing of the patient's stoop. The requently re- past. Don't keep picking at then'; peated spasmodic contractions of the you may thus get blood poisoning. Questions and Answers. - t Improper feeding and the more gen which is only the Latin foi^two words the rain, they said, if C would read to capable of sustaining any weight thatto close the highway. Dere again oral use of Frain feeds that are deft-� meaning "I" and "centre" or a person them. Well, if T was too busy to read, courtesy demands that a sign bearing via be pot upon them. • dent in mineral nutrients, has un who is self-centred. would T play just a few games of prevalent as it was but it is still more intelligible directions be installed, The matter of Leaching these upper 'd I Well then could I not The Illusion of Free Paint. Fortunately, the practice is not so un- common a: , taue it to ae petv.y soon an r< M T 7 aJi+i's in the i-�tia•n is one of consider- tiaubtedly caused many •cavus to be -1 This trait of character is receiving mar es ' common than sonic of us wash—the --•I t come easy victims of abortion and attention and study because pack the parches'. board (which was covering of barns and other farm If you use strcng ammonia, you can axle importance. Many of the older i particularat the bottom of a trunk of things I y have no better sterility, A lack of adequate nerve, it was discovered among the men who bl.ildings with hideous signs proclaim- remove medtieine stains from linen. baµni oaf oihnm froe m floor oor Io floor than and force building fcocl causes a de were being trained for rv-n service, expected not to need)? Could they ing the virtues of -wares offered for to climb 'adders. �'llere these exis 1>iltated condition. Our study of cat- and created difficulty. The egocentric telephone to a friend to come over to sale in nearby towns and cities. Un - at a'" they are USUItIly built into the' t!e foods has beer. based too largely er self-centred soldier is incapable of d• ? Wh ld not we all on aur rain coats and :riddle roar, andofcourse, perfectly; from the production of milk •standard, submitting his will to army disctipline. l.c.rk'fle Willa.. It rcourse, no sinall and we have neglected to make up ra- He is mentally unqualified to see why raaiount of strength to get up such tions to sustain the cow. The cow he should do so. In his awn cstima- a ontladder. None but a strong man' must be fed so as to not only produce. tion he the centre of the world e s t . milk, but also to nourish, sustain and and re is ns which interfere hos a ever try it.g When we were building our barn, I' give birth to the calf. When we make -with his freedom and his pursuit of said, "No climbing g a ladder for us. up rations on any other basis than this happiness, impress him as unjust and v: ill have a good pair of stairs we are impairing the breeding goal- absurd, There is this distinction be- ta ;»n from the blain floor to the scat- ities of aur cows and inviting and tween selfishness and ego -centricity: fold shore" And we did put in such fostering abortion and sterility in our reifishness is a defect of character a flight of :stairs, wide enough and herds. In feedixig a ration made up and will; a selfish person knows he is easy to climb, so that it is no more largely o corn silage and gluten meal doing an injustice or an unkindness (Er,ie•tllt to get from floor to floor • had more or less trouble with but does not care, for he has deter - than it is in the house. 1 abortion, retained afterbirth and weak mined to please' himself. Egocentric - :1 thing which happened in our' calves that lacked vitality and showed ity, on the other hand, is a mental de- pressive a few years ago is fins' no disposition to thrive. This trouble feet. The person suffering from it pres sive enough to prove how careful has been minimized by feeding finely lacks the intellectual power to see we should be about aur ways of get -1 ground bonemeal. Acting upon the the needs of other people er to per - ting up and down in the barn. It wash belief that a deficiency of minerals ceive combinations and complexities a busy time of the year. The farmer might cause abortion and weak calves which demand sacrifices from every was delayed about doing his chores.: we. began feeding this material along one in order to promote a cause of The wife wanted to do what she could : with our dairy rations and have had value to humanity at large, He has veryfew cases of abortion, and to help things along. She climbed over • no consciousness of guilt in refusing into the silo and put out the ensilage . stronger calves since,. we began the to sacrifice himself; on the contrary, for the steel:. Then she pulled herself practice. Feeds like die best gluten it seems to him a mark of intelligence. up by her arms ^to the opening it meal that have had the proportion of The most serious cases of egoeen- v,h:I h she came in. That was the end ;their constituents changed during the tricity amount to insanity and 'are of things with her. Something inside i various processes of manufacture placed under treatment by doctors Ler body snapped. In less than a day! must be supplemented by other feeds who specialize tin nervous and mental she was dead. An awful thing„we say,1 to restore these elements removed by disorders. This work has graven and so it was, and the worse because the manufacturer if they produce good enormously—probably even as much it might have been avoided. A short' results and furnish sufficient mineral as surgery—as a result of the reveIa- ladder set over in the silo, with rounds matter for making milk and develop- tions which the war has brought close together, would -have saved her life. While the best time is to finish up the scaffold when the barn is first built it is always in order to make such changes as are needed to make the higher floors safe. Care of Aborting Cows. in the light of present day knowl- edge abortion may result from injury, improper feeding, uterine weakness or from contagion. The difficulty of determining from which cause an in- dividual ease may have oziiginated makes the problem of handling the ` 4 % INTEREST PAYABLE HALF YEARLY Allowed on money left with us from three to ten years. Write for Booklet The Great Fest Per lent Loan Company. }Toronto Office 20 King St. Weet, for A limited-guantity;`of ' s'jligh•Grade Mill Ends for; ,sale cheap. •Samples Free Instructions and Prior) List of • FALL BULB.S1 ' sent upon request rt , GAR It' NL.t N'. REGT. GSD WY 4 Hospital St. - Montreal Distributors oil Durpee's Seeds Apt.W-1: pt .. ing the unborn calf. Many cows are injured by spas- modic feeding. By this I mean they are fed heavy grain rations while milking and the odds and ends of roughage when they are dry. It is the cow that is well fed at all times that stands up under heavy milk pro- duction and produces a '.sound vigorous ealf Each year. It is the improperly fed cow that becomes a victim of abortion and sterility, simply because she has not the power to resist disease germs. Feeding mouldy fodder, frozen sil- age and smutty corn has been known to upset the 'cow's digestiotrand many outbreaks of abortion are thought to have originated from such causes. In every flock of chicks and of fowls there are individuals which can never be profitable, and often are a 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 suffered injury. These, with the known non -producers, should be weed- ed out -early in the season. 'Every flock 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 twisted wings, deformed beaks, wry tails or crooked backs should likewise ;be disposed of, even though they are healthy. If we except those which are to be. kept for use or sale for breeders, all n C• i O5ed of x14 ..hoatltx be d s surplus males p p as early as they can be fattened and a good niarcet •secured. It is careless- ne-ss in points such as this that keeps L the se ' •a fro darning free failure to suecees. forth. However, you and I are not concern- ed just now with these extreme cases or with the difficulties they create in the army. Their only relation to us is that of drawing our attention to very mild forms of the same mental state in perfectly sane people. To use a homely phrase, these mildly egocen- tric people have never accustomed. themselves to "getting into the other fellow's shoes” The self-centred in- dividual sees only his own point of. view and forgets that every individual in the world has different needs and different opinions and possesses equal privileges with his own. One rainy holiday I had an exper- ience that made me conclude that I was an _egocentric mother. I ,was do- ing war work in a big city and was living. in a small apartment with my three children. On that holiday I wanted to catch up with those homely, personal duties which remain undone when one spends eight hqurs a day in an office. Moreover, I. was tired and. play and remain to inner . y cou dou'btedly, the man who. permits such puta desecration is thinking only of the go to the movies? advantage of having his buildings. I was accomplishing very little of covered with paint at no cost to him= the many things I was sure needed to self,and of the X10 bill which is slip - ha done and certainly was not fond- pedto him as an additional considera- ing quiet or rest. I became came frl-itated tion for the privilege of committing such an'otitrage upon an innocent and unsuspecting countryside. But, aside from the esthetic stand- point, this sort of paint is poor econ- omy at best. Those who have been victimized in this way—and such it usually amounts to in the long run— assert that with the exception of that portion of the building bearing -.the -advertisement the paint used is of the thinnest and poorest quality, •scarcely good enough, as a rule, to weather more than a season or two, -The sign, and felt that the children were naughty and deserved reproof. Then suddenly a voice within, me seemed to ask this question: "Are not your children individuals just as much as you are an individual? Does not this holiday belong as much to them as to you?, You work in an office but they work just as hard in a school. Why have they not the same right to plan the day for themselves as you have to plan it for yourself ?" "But what I have to do is useful," I said to the inner questioner; "it is work." however, is put on to stay, and is of "You do not believe, then," contin- the "display" variety, which makes it ued the inner voice, "that children's almost impossible to blot it out with - play is important? You say so when out the use of several coats of paint. you write for this column, but do you really believe it?" "It will ' make them selfish," I argued, " if I give up my way for their way always." There seemed to be laughter in the inner "spice a's-it answered me: "Will it not make• them .selfish if they find out that you are selfish?" The accusing voice won the argu- ment! I changed ney program for the day, resolved not to 'be egocentric. I read to the children and played with them and they in turn .helped me. True, I,,did not get as hnuclh done as I had planned, but the world since has gone on just the same as if all those tasks had been accomplished! If, on -the contrary, my children had been suppressed and rebuked in their very natural desires, there would have been rebellion in their hearts towards me and quarrels among themselves as a result of nothing interesting to do to celebrate a great holiday. These would have injured them just a little and, besides, there would have been lost .a dayful of opportunities -to gather them closer into my confidence, a .dayful of comradeship would have been lost. •- It is astonishing how children re- member their happy times. Perhaps years later one of *mine will remind me of some story we read then or some foolish joke that made us. all laugh. Perhaps such a memory will set up a wholesome train. of thought some day when evil trains of thought are threatening, To me, happy -mem- ories stored up in childhood seem the safest bulwarlciagainst the dangers of the adolescent period, They "over- come evil wiith good," as the Bible tells us is the wayto do. 'I am" sure that the safest way of conquering sin is to create a love of righteousness and this is accomplished best by filling the young mind full of good things which it enjoys. Almost "it follows 't II , TSE CHEERFUL CHERUB The sailor hiss no hx.rder 'jobs Who st-i1s the stormy OC2'B,n 5 ' Than 1 who steer littkk soul Through strange and deep emotions. Thus, in the long run, there is no real saving. • A public- spirited farm woman once said: "The inside of my home belongs 'to me to do with as I wish, but my yard and home surroundings belong in a measure to the great public whose way takes it past my door." Which applies quite appropriately to the plastering of farm buildings with ad- vertisements. Many cities have pas- sed laws forbidding obnoxious sign- boards in certain residence districts. When will lovers of the countryside champion a bill to forbid turning our barns into billboards? Which Way Are Your Closed? The closing of a public highway when The, are being made- carries with it a certain responsibility toward those who use the roads. As a rule, these responsibilities seem` not to weigh very heavily upon those who clisch'ar a them. The public STC M WINDOWS &DOO •� SIZES to nut yctu 0-1 opening. Fitted Nvith glass. Sato do- Livery 4uarwteed. 'Write for Prix Lid jI L Cut down furl bilk ert.m !aruwinter The HALLIDAY COMPAraY, Limited HAMILTON FACTORY 5ISTRIUUTOUS CANADA as the night the day he -will not then be false" to the memories which are in his heart. Besides, my children had a right to that . holiday. They are individuals just as much as I am an individual. If .I do not understand this and live accordingly, .I shall prove myself to be an egocentric Mother. I do not want to be. Do yea ! should: g growls, but gets • along as bestit can, largely because it takes time to hunt out and register complaint with the proper authorities. ' For one thing, a road should be really closed, not partially so, if it is intended that no traffic Whatever pass a cerltani point.: There are always those who are ready to take a chance, and who will press onpassed a sign "Road closed, in hope -of being able to pick their way around the obstruc- tion This results in interference and annoyance to the road gang;, some- times in- accidents.and upsets to these who venture upon the torn -up high- way. Wiwi) a road is closed, courtesy' deinanda that it'be closed at the near- est crossrocta, and rot haif a utile further on, where_peehaps the actual work of repair may be in progress. Almost everyone clan recall the :annoy - epee and delay occasioned by/ being obliged to retrace one'scourse due to t'Le neglect of the road bosts properly Assessment System Whole Family Insurance. The Order furnishes insurance to its members at Ontrl.rio Government Stand- ard rates. Sick and 'Funeral Benefits are also given if desired. 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