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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-1-22, Page 6Address communications to Agronomists 73 Adelaide St. West,. Toronto Making Hatching Eggs Pay. 1 ber of eggs for sale and return the The hatching egg business furnishes j money immediately if more are order- ed than can be shipped for a long time. The seller of hatching eggs tapes the poultryman with his reward for keeping purebred stoat. The eggs from purebred etoek in the spring i some risk as well as the buyer. Tho are worth more than mired eggs be- ! cause there is a demand for purebred salvation of the hatching egg buss- stock. As the dairyman eau sell a, honest is the fiahone fact est buyer could pure t most farmers are good purebred calf for a price higherchase eggs and have good . results than its market value as veal so the poultryman can sell the eggs from with them and then claim to the pre ducer that the eggs were well -mated purebred fowls for more lied and ob- Man the grocer eau pay. tain another setting. Some breeders The first step in selling ]tatein,„ offer to replace a setting at hall. price. eggs is advertising. The buyers ie. a This gives both the buyer and the poultrymau's community will not fur. risk, a ohr 1 chto bear some of the Wish enough trade. Even they will mensk of will replace hacches. Some eoultgy, usually find out that eggs are for sale hwillthmall infertile eggs, from reading the advertising. Most most af them only guarantee a eer- of the orders will come from the small tain per cent, offertfluc towns of the province that the adver- One breeder of much experience hatch - User scarcely knew existed. Some told me that he would not sell hatch ing eggs in ono-hundred•egg lots to advertising can be plece,l on the sign strangers to place in incubators. This board at the side of the road, some in ' was because some buyers had pur- the local newspaper and the balance chased large numbers ot his best eggs in farm journals, and placed thein in poor incubators Retelling eggs can be :dripped by which were liven worse attenttou, Of parcel post with little if any lose. course the hatches were poor and then Conte:er:ad containers can be Pule the buyers wished more eggs free tar tiliasetl which will hold fifteen, thirty their money back- That poultryman ar fifty eggs. Each egg is wrapped ill eaters only to the buyers of ane or newspaper and placed in its section two settings who place the eggs under so there will be no jostling. If the lens and he does a good hatching packages es are shipped by express they egg business and the buyera are satire ean be sealed with gunned paper, but fled, if sprat by parcel poet they must be left Before selling hatehinc,a the '.:lseale d but , n;. be tied with a strong breeder met have quality stout of ••ord. good vigor and laying ability. The Market baskets o:.zn be used for eggs+ must be gathered frequently fn hatching eggs. Line the bottom with the early spring to keep them from excelsior and then wrap each egg in a chilling, Late in tlu season the over- sheet of rewspaper and a bit ot ex- heating of the eggs will be as danger., celefer, Do not crowd the eggs, as ens as chilling, The germ will start this wi".l result in some breakage. to grow and then become chilled and Cover the top of the basket with bur- die. Of course. these things all re - tap and tie in securely. Then draw duce the quant; .y suet quality of chicks the handles together over the top of hatched. The cuatomers are not the basket and tie them so that no pleased and it is the business ot the other parcels can be placed on the seller to build business by delivering eggs. The satchel baskets with covers the quality goods which bring repeat are also fine for hatching. eggs. Wood- orders and more customers. en candy* pails are sometime: used. The farmer with purebred stock can They are lined with excelsior on the do his hest to sell eggs of quality. 'sides and between each layer of eggs, Then it is up to the buyer to bring and the egg are wrapped in paper. out successful hatches. The fact that The wooden eovers are nailed secure- most owners and breeders of purebred ly. A wooden package is more apt to stock are honest reduces the risks of cause vibratioa of the eggs than the the business and helps to make it more spring-like baskets. It is neces• more pleasant than it would be ander sary to invest some money in pack- other conditions. The hi laying t+ S' R "' the ashn 'i .r . reit 11 @ .. Tv ani g g ez* eh are care- months of year are March. April and May. That is the time of hatch -1 lessly snipped will result hr dissatis- fled custanners. Orders for eggs nivat he promptly :acknowledged and shipped as soon as possible. It all the eggs are sold for several 'weeks it is better to inform the buyer st once and let him know when he will be quite sure to receive them. Customers da not like to buy hatching eggs and then wait for six or eight weeks for delivery. It pays to encourage customary to order early and then estimate the probable num- ing and also the time of low-priced eggs. If the spring eggs can be sold for hatching at a good price it brings up the yearly average and the poultry - limn who has good hick with his hatching egg business receives con- siderable pleasure and profit from the Socks of purebred poultry, [Will Sixteen -year-old Reader kind- ly send her naive and address for a reply by mail•- Agrononiistl. The Red Rubber Ball thing in the bail to give it ballast, so 11 it wouldn't fall in the wrong place. t 1 Keep the ballast." The precious m,:nntes were flying, The long train on whielz Dwight but Dwight did not like to throw the was traveling had been standing ati ball without seeing the owner. If a little way station for half an hour. i he only knew the boy's name he could Something was wrong with the en -1 call. Then all at once he remember gine. But Dwight did not care. He ed his face very distinctly—round and was watching a freckle -faced boy jolly and peppered with freckles. about his own age. who was playing Perhaps they called him Freckles, for fuel He leaned out of the window and put his hands to his mouth: "Ho, Freckles!!" he called. Instantly the jolly face appeared at an open upstairs window. It looked surprised, and then pleased. The! signal was given for the train to move; there was not an instant to be lost. , ball by himself in a little yard not far from the track. The boy was so used to seeing trains that he did not look up at all, but kept on playing. At last, hon -ever, he saw Dwight at the window of the nearest passenger coach. They grinned at each other. Without knowing it Dwight cupped his hands, as if he were waiting for the ball. "What kind of a ball is that?" he called. "Catch!" cried Dwight. "Red rubber!" the freckled boy The other bey made ready, and the called back, Then he added, "Want red rubber ball flew through the air. to look at it?" The boy in the window caught it Before Dwight could answer, he squarely. had raised one arm and tossed the He looked more puzzled than ever ball, "twight caught .it. He pulled at sight of the string and the note. his pocketknife out, "This is what I Then Dwight gazing back as the train play with on the train," he said. moved faster and faster, saw him The freckle -faced boy loolced eager. jerk the knife out of the ball. The "I never had any knife," he said, freckle -faced boy broke into a broad grmrfing cheerfully. grin. He leaned out of the. window Just at that moment some one; of the little house and waved. with all called the freckled boy quickly, and' his might to the boy at the window he turned to run. "Back ina second!" he called to Dwight. The red rubber ball was not much of a Lyall, Dwight thought, It al - of the speeding train. Steamed Apple Pudding. ready had a hole an it, and the bounce Four thin slices buttered tread, 4 was nearly gone. He was so busy cups sliced apples, half cup syrup or looking at it that he did not notice sugar, quarter teaspoon salt, . half when the wheels slowly began to teaspoon cinnamon or .quarter tea - move. All at once he looked up. The 'spo'on grated nutmeg. Put half the train was well under way, and the apples in the bottom of a dish, half little yard andf,the freckled boy were the syrups, dust with cinnamon and • gone. 1 a little +butter; then the slices of but - "I've carried off that boy's.. ball".") tered.'bread-. (only 1 layer of bread), cried Dwight in. dismay. He told liens the rest of the apples, sugar, cinna- father what pact happened. .. "I don't mon and salt. Cover and set in ran even know his name,"' he finished. of boiling water one hour, or until the "I'm afraid there's nothing we can apples are tender. If the pan will fit, do but wait till we -come back this it can be put over the boiler in which way two weeks frons now," his father the meat is beim cooked, therebysaid. "The trains always steps here saving full, nt gas is being used; also saving the washing of an extra pan or boiler; Serve warns. - Buy Thrift Stamps. Better • a little -With righteo'usnes's than great revenues without right. A word fitly spaleen is like apPlos el' gold in picture:; of silver. thing heavy inside it, and a string --- with a note tied to it hung from the Clean up the incubators, using a hole. The heavy thing was a sling disinfectiint m the egg chambers. See pocketknife with three bright blades that ct atr' and 'i:1 good The note sr„d. "I had to put some- w.ot ing cruor and ready for use. THE CHEERFUL CHER115 • • r I wov1•dcit trt e. « y iwrt- 1e lot With rmillioraaires or k nc $ tar sve. -- strenge with all my work and woe.. 1 life to be. myself .Co! mveh: , Winter Pruning. Winter pruning of bearing orchards should be attended to svery year. The orchardist should go over his trees systematically and cut out crossing or broken limbs wherever these occur. Out close to the main limb, don't lear,-e stubs, and paint the wetted with white lead and boiled oil. (no turpentine). We prefer a stiff stencil brush and rub the paint well into the wood. A little brown eolorin „^ makes the wound less consp•ceous. When cutting a large limb eat on the ander side first. this prevents tearing the wood and bark as the limb comes from the tree. When limbs spread toe wide and make cultivation near the tree impossible, cut to It shoot that is growing up. This shoot Will soon grow strong and take the place of the pert cut off. 'tang of our older orchards have tic. quired the off-year habit., which means crop one year, grow the next. It is after the growing year that we must thin our trees and pee that there is not too much new- growth to exclude light and air. It there is a heavy new growth thin this to distribute t as evenly as passible, Dont leave stubs of heavy growth hoping they will form fruit spurs, as cutting awe i the heavy new• growth cuts away the big plump buds which easily form fruit spurs, leaving the less matured buds which prefer to make uew • weed growth, so the result would 'be crow d- ing instead' of thinning the tree. Use sharp pruners aril saws and make clean cuts. Use sharp eyes and good juclgnx nt, distribute the new growth evenly and the strop will be evenly distribzited. A little well done every year elimin- ates the culls; <tree butcher;* at long intervals eliminates the profits. Don't haggle a tree and e;tpect the wounds to heal, Don't prune trees when .frozen hard. Don't leave pruning till too late. Don't leave pruning's 'lying about; burn them and take advantage of the ashes. a few minutes for water.” A fortnight later,. when the .long train stopped again at the: way .sta.- inion„ Dwight was looking out anxi- ously. There was no one in the yard. "What shall I' do ?" he said. He held the ball tight. ' There was some - If you are- going. to put a hot pie or cake •au a plate n hen tt:kixt • it out of the oven, heat the plate fi?•st. If put on a cold plate it will teiaoine heavy. The Boy Has Got a Herd. Boy is mighty happy, Eyes are bright and snappy, Goes about a-singin' from the morni till it's dark. Holds liie >ilead up higher. In his glance there's fire, Bet you anything you want that lad will matte his mark. ,What has gone and done it? Well, th' boy hes won it, . L arned th' . right to have some cows to call Ns very own, Pedigreed ones, winners, Hungry for their dinners, Cows, that briug in ribbnns when at county fairs they've shown, If you'd keep boys grinning, It you'd have them winning. if you avant to make them love the farm from .end to end, 'Let thein do some wishing in between their fishing, e d the boyhood pleasures that youth always seems to lend. Boy is so much prouder, Does iris singin' louder, I'p at five each morning with a smile upon his face. Some good little fairy Gave th' kid a **dairy," Now lea's gain' forward at a mos pro- gressive pace. Keep a Gun on the Farm. The munber'i f farms throughout the ecuutry without a sign of a gun on thent 's surprisingly large. I consider no farm equipment complete witho:'t at least cite good gun. I keep • three on the farm and find use for them frequently in protecting turkeys, ducks, piety and sheep Nam la:cwli,ig dogs. Last season the dogs got into a large flock of full -Mood turkeys iituar, the house about daybreak and killed` five before 1 could reach' them with my gun. The dogs were so vicious that ipon my arrival I was promptly attacked and would ave been bitten: had it i:ot been for nxy gun, which I' need freely for my own pretet•tion as well as Stir that of the turkeys. I sue• eeedeii in eating the remainder of the OIL renewal as practised hi Europe accounts for the. very igh yield per acre at- tained in European farms, and soil renewal tei simply means restoring plant feed and hurms. This is done by apply- ing a, dinary stable manure and commercial fertilizers. Harab-Davies Fertilizer is ascienti- fic compound wlzi`h contains Nit- rogenorAmmonia, r eosphoric Acid and Potash in readily soluble form. Experience absolutely proves that it is more profitable to work 50 acres with a good fertilizer than 100 acres without it- Fertiliging means not only bigger crops, but better surd stronger crops. It is strictly a quality article. Pound for pound it is positivelythe cheapest as well as the best fertilizer offered. Write For aur booklet, "Fertilizer Results by Se.tisiled Users" —sent free on request. Read what farmers. in all parts of Canada have accomplished with Harab-Davies Fertilizer. ONTARIO FERTILIZERS LIMIT .i Dept. w £;, WEST TORONTO. ONT. FARMERS' CLUBS L nvEFE VENT VEALERS We are Buyers of Ontario Grains and Sellers of Western Feeding Oats and Barley. 0E7 OUP P. ,TC,ES •rarrrwatie e. 4593 ..Yz.. 4"i✓ O e, Co. ROYAL BANK BUILPIh"3 'TORO N TO taea eitt 14 \eglia Irtailm. ® .. i B3 John B. Huber; :1 MM'D ii as a.a--a •_ - -^- we r �- - .emr �:'�ianb.,. .ar ars^•--�t�•�, ":�iac,, �+ turkeys. On another oeeaeion, by; Address communications to 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto prompt aetion with my gam, I saved; the larger part of a flocs of dull€s' Bronchitis. from prowling dog:. i On:: becomes susceptible to. prtnli.-- posa'd to, "cold on the cheat" by get - Miley time I have gotta? a within range cf the sheep paeture jet in time to save the sheep from prowling dogs, ba :heel,• wing a lost; -ranine rifle. For this purpose 1 ue ;'. 32-0 caliber re- t catir; rifle. I can seater wogs one- haif mile distant ,rith Chia gun and have frequently .sent thein setlrryi+,' home at this cr t . , when they• would have l:. e n hi miaihier before 1 could have reached them single Mande t Fur sl:unlcs . crows sial lur" rlish spor- rowws I keep a twenty-two caliber re- peatinfi• rifle, finding it just as useful mei profitable for teem.: posts as the larger guns are •for other protection. My other gun is a shot -gnu. My three guns cost me about See. They have caved their coat a number of time. over in tine aetion and have mese than paid their coat in getting pelts of vari- ous kinds.• A New lees in Neighborhood Clefs It's an ill wind that blows no -awhile,. says Sarabo. And so the ill -wind of • high prices and labor shortage which the war has left in its train should blow along with it its compensating measure of gain. I've an idea that no small amount of that gain is go- ing to come about in a revival of neighborliness, helpfulness and co-op- eration. Everybody being in the same boat, so to speak, the only way out is to turn in and help each other. And the result cannot help but be a partial return at least, to the ways of our forbears, when,. lacking hired help, neighbors exchanged work and com- munity life took the place of joy rides and movies. . - In the towns there is a suspicion of it already among mothers of small children. How are you going to get down towns to shop or to a show or out to a party, when you can't get help for love or money and the chil- dren are too young to leave^l Prior to this dearth of workers, if you did- n't keep a girl, you could always hire someone to come in for an afternoon! or evening. But now itis almost im- possible to do that: As a result, mothers, who not so very long ago Would never have asked a neighbor for a favor, are -beginning to help one another out by exchanging services. Mrs. Jones takes Mrs. Smith's Sally for Monday, and Mrs. Sleuth returns the favor Tuesday. As a result each woman discovers that the other ,,is really human. Other little courtesies follow, and instead of looking the other way when they meet in the street the two women get acquainted and discoverr they have many inter- ests in common. iIn a certain country district the idea is being worked out on a still more coinpreliensive scale. It all hap- pened at a quilting bee. Now quilt- ing bees are -neither new nor original. They 'have been held from time immemorial, but the idea which grew out of this one has a decided element of newness. The,women had a wonderfully good time, and when it came time to lease, •someone wished they might have another quilting, party the •nect'.week. "I haven't a quilt to tie, but I've got a bushel .of stockings you might darn," the mother of six said . jo1:- ingly. "Why fiat?" two.-ae three worsen said at once, "we'11 just do that."' • "O, no," protested the tiett woman. ".1 wouldn't til,'nk of Maher you do my amending." "What dife:erc'nce does it make whether We Full darning cotton through a stocking or through a quilt?" argued a friend. "It is work either way, and if mending will help you mare than quilting, we'll all cone:" 1. ting the feet 'wet; by exposure, fa- tigue. overwork; by previous weak- ening di:sc•ases; by food that is in - dig'' table cr scanty or an the other lurid, excessive for the bodily needs. "Catching cold," which very fret -meet- ly results in bronchitis, sanies alma from living in overheated rooms. eta intv1; 11 whee oeygerr-consuming gas I- eur.staa'rtly hx nae. in Meow and weal:roma-a and in ],h i'':: w'tnio .tin' jrot0n encs e':halatzo'ui of inaauy people' teeether i>: bei^.: rP az,e:Aili.'l hour by hour and eltty by dui rlirc.±, j+short, there is bard ventilatIon. Those' whose oetupat`on prep th+'rn.outdoors are not neatly . o prone to bronchitis as ate eedei:tary workers. In most cases hronnhitls i:n iufee- ticn:c, a germ cif eaee. Thea germs of catarrh, of pneumonia, of grippe, are frequently found in the spittle coughed iout by breneli'tis sufferers. It seems that br nnehitik le ram among fisher- ! relic, by rrasmi of the germ -free sea air. Besides tieing is gore), disease. bronchitis comes also in such occupa- tious as leach to the breathing in of chemical frmes and of irritating par- ticles of steel, stone dust,' cotton fibre end the like. Bronchitis Is also a natural accompaniment o£ many dis- eases—measles, typhoid lever, malar- ia, asthma, whooping eough and so on. The trouble usually begins with a cold in the nose which works down through the throat, past the Adam's apple. then along the wind pipe and "Then I'll give you your dinner,", said the first wvnman. "Indeed you won't," chorused the crowd. "What help would it be to mend for you if you had to spend the whole day cooking frr us. 'We'll all bring something and have a pot -luck dinner. You make tea or coffee, and we'll bring our own dishes and take them home to wash. In that way, no one will have muchto do." So it was settled, and the neighbor- hood club has become a regular insti- tution. Every week they go to some home and do just what will be most helpful. One. week it was 'making nightgowns for the family. Another week they- made two house . dresses and three kitchen aprons for the host- ess. Nobody knows how many towels they have hemmed, and sheets they have made, and as to carpet rags, well, several women have new bed- room rugs as a result of the busy fingers of this club. One woman even had her fall housecleaning done. She is in defier e health 'the doctor ordered no heavy work, no one could be hired in that district to wash win - dews and scrub woodwork,. so the neighbor women came with their'work dresses, and in a day's time .cleaned the house from attic to cellar. The men of the neighborhood have caught the spirit. Husking bees are again heard ,'f, k_i?eze has been a day of sawing and splitting wood, and when there came a dearth of -worker:. in the sugar beet fields, the men's co-operative club banded together and helped one another out. The n.•esult has been very satisfac- tory./ Work is tighter for .e•veryone, there is a, spirit of sociability in that heighborhood not found in many since the advent of autos made long 'excur- sions. from` home passible. They have made th'e school house a •community centre and have parties,. lectures and old:fashioned "spell -downs." The. spirit of co-operation is belegworkecl out into a buying and selling club, which promises help of a . still more material sort.' • And it all arose out of the shortage cf labor—D: H. 1 so to tit- mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes, which time beenme flamed. Tee patient fuels heavy and lan nxou.:. without appetite, with • pains in the bones, chilly and,.tsverisia sensation.. spewing, eyes watering, a sense of • fullness around the nose and the eyes. Next conte dry and sore throat, hoarseness, oppression and rawness behind the breutltbone •> in it r name fullness the chest: and ni ,r cough. ' Snell a bronchitis can sola?: times be "nipped in the bud" by means of a hot thank (fenionede or tea) at bed -tune two compound carthartic pills, five grains of quinine and a hot foot bath and• then at onee to bed, well blanket- ed. If the sufferer gets a good sweat • during the night lie will probably have avoided his attack of bronchitis.: • If not. he must then give place to the physician.. Questions and Answers. After a short distance I cannot walk, very good. My right leg begins to feel heavy and drags. My knee seems to give way. I am very glad to site down and rest. I never go otxt alone for I have to hold someone's arm. - Sometimes when I have been out fox a. short time my right leg begins to tremble and I can't steady myself as I ought to. Also my right hip is a little higher than the left one. Answer—I should fear tuberculosis of the hip joint. If there is any unc certainty, have au X -Ray taken, Thitl is most important. Your doctor must attend. to the rest. Further inform a - tion is mailed you. Married Men Live Longest. 1£ you are a woman, you will live ilonger than the average man. It is an old saying, but very true to. in spite.of the stress of the mo- dern woman's life and the physical conditions to which she is subject. C. . Statistics 'trove the truth of the say - 1 ing. Nine. hundred and live spinsters out of every 1,600 it twenty-five years of age reach forty-five; 652 out of every 11,000 reach sixty-five; 119 reach eighty-five, and eight attain the age of ninety-five. On the other Band only 79 males out of 1,000 at twenty-five years of age ; reach forty-five; 559 sixty-five; sixty- four eighty-five; and three ninety-five. 1 That married men live longer than bachelors was mentioned as a curious I tact by 'an official of the Prudential Assurance Company to the writer: 1 while, although in the long run women live longer than men, a man of twenty - 1 five ha.s more chances of living to be fifty than a woman of the same age. On the other hand, if a man and woman have both reached the age of. fifty, the chances are that the woman will outlive the man, a fact accounted for by the difference in temperament. Clergymen and farmers are popular- ly suppos:' to be the longest -living people. Compareia eneela engine -drivers, they would seem tolead a e re placid existence, and yet the latter sae e` a good longevity a,veragc, Altogether nearly three times as many males as females die a violent death. Proper living, of, course, counts for everything. Hard; work never killed anybody, but to quote a .popular say- ing, "tile average loan digs his ;t;•ra•vee with .his -teeth.' Eilniridance of food and ease, shortens lite; while people who,•take frequent d.rialts shorten their lives by at least six years. In regard to mortality among child- ren, Providence and the law of aver- age seems to strike a fainly e, e,, li. ance. While twenty per cent. more male children die of consumption than. females, twenty-five per cent. more girls die of cancer than boys. Nearly forty per cent, more girls die'of whoop- ing cough than boys. Again, while rheumatism and arth- ritis rthritis causes the death of fifty per cent. more girls than boys, pneumonia and asthma results in the death of fifty per cent. more boys than girls. Prepare for Spring It will soon be the time to plat the vegetable garden and order the seeds for spring planting," Express and freight are very slow and the mails are not as promptas formerly, so it is well to order seeds early, to have them onahand and thus be free from vjorry when planting time arrives. Some' thing can be started early- in the house and good .sized plants .will be ready for setting out as soon as the weather is sufficiently settled. This applies to flowers as well as vegetables. 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