HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-7-22, Page 2raked up all that had been dropped and
missed, which was not one bit more
. '; than is dropped or missed on the aver-
• , age American- farm. I took a scythe
,=.e' n 1 ,� , ei,a W.„ and cut the grain that had been left
_- - - r. standing in the corners and around
s �: -s//f the .edges, Then I took a flay -rale and
" :,7. -eeassee to raked it up.
etddress communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West; Toronto .
Controlling Thistles. shoes. Keep sweeps sharp and cult!.
The tioint.that must be kept in mind vete frequently. Hoe the earn after
in righting thistles is that the rot laying by, and, cultivate the ground
rather than the tops, must be kiliede after harvest with a disk harrow until
Simply cutting off the tops .a fetst frost. Repeat second year,
filmes has much the same effect est Hoeing and Cutting --Best method
pruning tan apple tree. But if the; for small patches. Sake out the patch
tops are cut off deep and frequently, :nd:visit it regularly with a sharp hoe
the rents -mut eventually suffocate; cr -scythe at least twice a week.
through leek of l.aaces. Bearing this' Cheinieals—There is limeehemieal
in mind, any one of the following! that in reasonable quantities will kill
methods will be faun;' effective: thistles With one app'ieation, dale;mss
Sumner 'Fallow—This method is applied directly• to the gut root. For
ilaost staitalale for one-half nacre or: sereying use sodium arsenite (a vio-
ntore of thoroughly infested lain l,' lent poison), two pounds in ten gal-
from which little revenue could be ex-, .ons of water; common salt, one pound
petted any. wa,y. Plow deep in the fall i in one end one-half quarts of wate; ,
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expeing the reefs to the frost. Maid or crude carbolic acid, diluted one-half.;
row in the spring to kill seedlings off If animals are salted on a small patch
annual vseeta . Let the thistle given of thistles, the thistles will finally
tlrz;::l the first illossems :,appear. about: a'eaippeer. rregtient spraying of the
June 15, ter uf;til three is tiaatger of • thistles with the above chemicals may
other wk els going ,a seel Plow' be ;.sed ineteud cf eutr-ing, in reeky
shako::•, and Cam then men frost use` or ether inconvenient places,
disk harrow ofteaa ceireell to pe•e*vent Misce'i:antx is—Sheep will some--
then?tie haves from ei?iiiug over fettle times grams thistles' to deaths if forced;
i::.`c•f s;=•cv:the If t1 e thi=ties stet to aFo so. Small aat�ehe of thistles;
mere then sex :nl'i:cs high at ateit e,ny he Smothered by covering S'i'tu;
thee, all tee ,ret^:e-ia were will be! overial i i;;C, strips of tar paper or
e i•'e•• hi'. Th implies to an naf•threliel7tlildin,'; paper, weighting dt:avu the •
Fellow lle?:'' this to e ant's a fit during the see -paps w; ith eavth and leaving the paper
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yeae li .h a cultic tee trop lying; on for eight or ten weeks during hot
it a ii tiv t it: a tuiti'.'::thei and Trifle„ weather. A Boating of straw or naa-
cut ineiviemil a'l'der.I mire. rat? foot or more in depth will
P;- Pee ew—Foc gran ileitis or a•- r.,.r the same purpose.
hay. imiessmy. to prevent tatGto ..-1 elazey 1nWasto Gram.
from es'eis . -that: thistlesto grow' Three y tars ago, ala Iowa farmer,'
for ,'see to six dress,. then plow,' who was rinsed in Canada, bought a
end: inataii es in feat method for rue -down farm in Ilan, as and went to
rem, 'Leer ef imesiee For cultivatel. work to lira;ke it into a profitable;
er :sieve thistle:, lam grow unlit w'he'at-prQ tl:hing land. Last year his
erg . teietoS tt l.':ra :tt;a plow shat -+•,t., !made forty-two bushels to the'
low. ,-"1:c tl:ie°:e, a.a about three attre.y while the nett beet record in.
Leila ,. ;i:. disk the. eehly and plant ti:(' etlhllilhurvt3- was enay twenty-two
tate remmiier game ^s ia i::: sm-'tie,'- bushels.
crap Meth %J. Inttea J of living on his farm. he
( —d': ,..a'gat'e:, et lamed it to it Kansas plan en shares,.
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la' ov •'. ;A geal ha... ,tree en ri: h grimed. and when threshing time tame, the ,
('ut t;r:izi; ++r .;Yitih <;tray fair hey. Piot{ owner went clown to look over things.
shale.: four te' sn ,lay later. Leeve "The t;r.t tiling they did," he said.;
for fo, e to i; : •s noire and testi , ••raga to tennis dawn a whole swath
tareeithl;', then Ness t nothtr min of with the reaper elealr around most of h
lahek:.lte at, four-eft:es ata ,tttl:- rape,; the fields before they started to cuti
broadcast six -eighths of '1 po,un.l; m l- the grain. in Canada we always mow -
kit. three-quarters of a peek; ter fore cd a strip around the field with a'
der e,:tn in cheek row:. After the; cradle before we started the reaper. I
trop is nee keep thirties down i°y disk asked the tenant why he didn't cradle;
ing unit! frost. Ilemp and alfalfa ere; the edges before going in with his!
et eelient smother craps in sections, reaper.
where they are grown. Alfalfa: may; "He only Iodized .at me blankly. Hey
be e.th;,:r spring or fall sown, accord-; heat, never seen a cradle. He argued
mg to custom, but the surface of the. that while I might save some grain,
ground must be clean and well pre-! that when I figured in ray time I
pared before planting. i wouldn't make anything by it. So I
Cultivated Crops—Most generally had -to let hini go on and trample down
used method. Corn in check rows is - the grain.
the hest crop. Have ground clean be- I "At noon while the men were eating
fare planting. .Equip cultivator with I dinner, I took a team and went into
rine-inch sweeps instead of ordinary i the fields that had been finished. I
t=r 1eia ' eve, cut the crop early for
stacked all the grain separate
that I had colleeted in this way, and
after all the threshing was done, we
threshed out this grain, beeause I
wanted to see to a certainty just how
much I would get for tidy trouble.
"Well, do you know, I got enough
wheat to pay all my threshing expens-
es and my personal expellees from
Iowa to Kansas and back ego n ti The
effect of that demonstration was that
the others in the vicinity se.lit away
slipshod about it," he said.. "We don't
hurry when we are cutting the grain
or loading it on the reeks. We take l
our time, and that means that we take j
everything clean."
I walked across his wheat stubble
and I would be willing to- double all
the waist grain that any one could pick
up—even at present prices—on All his
100 acres of- small grain, for •I know
that it wouldn't take ten cents to do it!,
k These wheat growers are clean
laa=vesterm One of thein told •rile that
he sent the boys into the fields with
cradles and scythes .in advance of the
reapers, to. take out the grain in the
sharp corners and along the fenee
rows.
"They get it out before the teams
have a chance to tramp it flown. It
and bought cradles and are now using is4'1' iai.ieh tradable and1 the bays Pike'
them before they ,end in their reap- to do it, because I give them half of ,
ers. They neeer dreamed that such what their stack threshes for doing it.;
a little bit really made such a big 1 got enough out of my share last'
difference." year to pay threshing expenses." 1
Another farmer told inc last sura- Where threshing can not be done
rarer that he saved from one to three immediately you will find that these:
per cent. of his crop by clean 1 arvest- farmers invariably stack their grain.;
ing and threshing. That merans that They do it because it pays them, And;
he was adding,. from one to three if they are making money, you can'
bushels to every 100 he threshed. make it too. No one has a patent ou
When you think of that saving in
terms of the market price of such
grain, you begin to realize why this
particular man had such clean stacks, right, but for the individual it is the
such tine buildings and fences. extra hour of labor and the extra
**It is just as easy to take things bushel of wheat to the dere which
clean as you go, es to be slovenly and bring the profit,
the idea.
Standards and averages are all
1 HE SUNDAY SCHOOL
THE SUNI):AY itCHOOL LESSON north-west of Jerusalem, in whish
David's men were victorious, but
Asalie1. a younger brother of Joab and
Abl hal, and a nephew of David was
alma by .Abner. David continued to
grow in strength, and his rival to be-
come weaker. The crisis of the con-
flict cavae when Ish-bosheth gave
mortal offence to :Aimee., the coln-
inersicr of hiss army. Abner went
over te, David, and used all his great
influeime to bring the men of Israel.
with hhn. Int he fell a vietini to the'
v c :tan, -e of Joab, whose brother he
had e:in. Shortly after I=h-bosheth •
was murdered by two of his own cap
tides, who brought his head to David,
and were immediately put to death by
hila for their crime. David's wise,.
statesmanlike, and conciliatory policy;
now bore fruit. The chiefs of all the
tribes tame to him at Hebron and of-
fered him the kingdom. They recalled.
his valiant stand capable leading of the
armies of Saul against the Philistines.
They spoke of some prophetic oracle
by which it had been declared that he
would be a captain over Israel. (See I
Sam. 22: 10; 2 Sam. 3: 9; I Chron..
11: 3.)
Thou Shalt Feed My People Israel.
They compare the king to n shepherd,
as comparison often made by the pro-;
phets and poets of later tines. David
made a league, or covenant, with therm;
by which, no doubt, he guaranteed to,
them the preservation of their ancient
laws and liberties. So Samuel, at the
accession of Saul, had "told the people
the manner of the kingdom, and wrote
it in a book" that the ancient rights
of the people might be preserved
against any arbitrary use of power by
the king (I Sant. 10: 25.)
Forty Years. The dates now assign-
ed to David's reign are about 1010 to
970 BO. The date -of his becoming
king -over all Israel was, therefore,
about 1003, or 1002•B.C.
And so the shepherd boy became
king of all Israel; He had behaved
himself wisely and blamelessly. He
had made advancement by his own
courage, integrity, and ability as a
leader of men, and not through in-
trigue, treachery, or disloyalty. David
already displayed those qualities of
understanding, tactfulness, and large
heartedness which endeared him to the
people, and joined to him so many men
ir>;unswerving loyalty and attachment.
The testimony of Psalm 18 to his pur-
ity' and reetitude is••worth reading in
this connection:
JULY 2JTII.
David Succeeds Saul as King, 2 Sam.,
2: 1.7; a: 1-1 Golden Text ---
Prov. 31 5.
2: 1-7. David Inquired of the Lord.
The ancient custom was to consult the
priest, who east the sacred lot. The
priest appears to have worn a gar-
ment, or girile, called the ephod, in
a pe ket of ►s diel two small objects
of wood or stone were kept. These
ohjests were marked in some way, so
that when the lot was cast one would
give an affirmative, the other a nega-
tive, answer•. The fiat one drawn by
the priest was regarded as giving the
answer of God to the question asked.
Only the priest, wearing or carrying
the ephod, had tate authority to con-
sult the divine oracle in this way, and;
it is probable that David's friend
Abiathar performe3 this service for
Unto Hebron, This was the chief city
of Judah, and was situated about
twenty miles south of Jerusalem.
They Anointed David King. The men
of Judah acted for themselves alone,
desiring no doubt that the rest of
Israel should join them, but not wait-
ing to secure their consent. As a mat-
ter of fact the other tribes chose to
follow the house of Saul, and a son
of Saul was made their king. For
Us g Printers' Ink to Find Customers seven years the kingdom was Claus di-
vided.
.� E Dadid reigned in Hebron and
Ish-bosheth (or Ish-baal—I Chron. 8:
33; 9: 39) at Mahaa.aim in Gilead east
of Jordan. Most of the country west
of Jordan and north of Judah was in
the hands of the Philistines.
The Men of Jabesh-Gilead. It wns
this town that Saul relieved at the be-
ginning of his reign, when it was be-
sieged by the Ammonites (I Sani. 2),
and the people did not forget him in
the time of his defeat and death. See
I Sam. 31: 11-12. David now shows
his magnanimity as well as his genu-
ine affection for Saul and Jonathan
by sending.his thanks and his prayer
far the blessing of God upon them. No
doubt he would have liked also to win
them over to his side, that they might
acknowledge him as the rightful suc-
cessor of Saul.
5r 1-5. Then Caine All the Tribes
of Israel. There had been strife be-
tween them and David, so long as Ish- •
bosheth, Saul's son lived. A battle had
been fought at Gibeon, about six miles
Business men of the towns have
found advertising of one kind or an-
other their most useful ally in selling
what they make or undertake to
market. Farmers, taking them as a
whole, have made little use of public-
ity, though some, it should be said,
do admirable advertising—much better
than small-town merchants, who too.
often merely generalize or try to be
pointlessly humorous or clever.
Perhaps farm people have looked on
advertising as a mysterious or diffi-
cult method beyond their ability. Such
is not the case. Said a brightfarm
housewife, who was advised to employ
advertising methods, "I don't know a
thing in the world about advertise-
ments or how to write them."
"You don't have to know much about
advertising," urged her adviser, "just
sit down and write a letter to some-
body about the thing you have to sell.
Give the reasons for buying it, and a
,good description. Then go over your
letter and make it as concise as pos-
bible, compose a heading for it that
you think will attract the favorable
attention_ of readers, and you have an
advertisement"- •
Letters,
dvertisement."-
Letters, by the way, are often the
most effective kind of advertisements.
A country housewife 400 miles away
from Toronto gave particular atten-
tion to poultry with the result that
she could ship crates of eggs regular-
ly. "Why can not I locate some one
in the city who would buy 'these from
1ne direct?" she asked herself, and
she answered her question by writing
letters to a few of the larger hotels
of Torr,nto. One of these hotels was
very glad to take her entire output,
and for years she has found that a
most satisfactory arrangement. There
was no special difficulty. here. Had
our lady not known the names of a
senzhnhet' 7 f the hotels, any newspaper
of ins city would:lhaire answered an
inquiry on that point:
A farmer wile produced a consider-
able quantity of fine hales and shoul-
i Teijs"l'aure'l that some of the higher
grade food stores ot department stores
maintaining food sections might be
interested in securing his stock -every
season. A few letters -unearthed the
fact thtit• one of the high-grade de-
partment . stores was glad to buy.alt
his goods • This is but one more -;ex-
ample of letter. °advertising:. A study
of the principal daily newspaper of a
city will show which are the progres—
sive stores.
Several et nen have built up a
"
nationwide market for their special
;brand of fruit cake, There are hun-
Idreds of successful experienees in the
i marketing of fancy eggs, strawberry
plants, flowers, purebred poultry, hogs,
sheep, cattle, etc.
It should not be concluded that one
letter to an inquirer is always suffi-
cient. Farmers should take a hint
from manufacturers who attempt to
sell goods to farm users; these manu-
facturers frequently write several
times before they conclude that it is
not possible to make a sale. Often
an inquirer will fail to order or to
respond just because some point in
the first letter is not exactly clear.
Making it easy to order is another
thing that the farm advertiser will do
well to learn from the mail-order
houses. •Sendling an order blank, solieit-
ing a trial order, making up assort-
ments of goods for ;(1, $2, $5 or $10,
etc., are all expedients that help.
Very often the profit on the first
sale does not amount to enough to
cover the cost of selling. However,
in most lines the advertiser has a
i chance at least to make a steady cus-
i tomer'of the one-time buyer, and here
lies his opportunity. Furthermore, if
the advertiser makes the most of his
chance lie will make customers of
many of the friends and acquaintances
of the original customer and thus
spread his circle of private buyers at
low cost. Pleased customers are near-
ly always willing to pass the word
along as •to where they procured a
desirable article or animal-particai-
larly so if they are asked tactfully .to
do this and to give the -name's of peo-
ple among their. acquaintances who
are interested, When a .letter is re-
eeived that opens with same . such
statement as "lar. Philip Jenkins, : to
whom we recently sold a barrel of our
apples, tells me that you may be
interested in getting a . barrel • from'
as," the interest of the reader is in-
creased many time's.
It must be recorded that very often
the farm advertiser does not under-
stand how to pack attractively or, if
he does understand, nevertheless neg-
lects this important part of the mer-
chandisinge 'Merely because the sale
. is made direct, does not ;Wean that all
the niceties of salesmanship and de-
livery service can be ignored. If the
farm is to be made a .market--piaee,
the man at the head of the enterprise
should take ,all the lessons he can from
his brother' merchants of the cities.
Attractive names for goods, a good
name for the farm; peon -Apt, courteous
letters, all play a strongpart. •
Cord or
Fabric
Extravagant claims, and
exaggerated statements
'may sell tires—but they
can.never make tires give
mileage or service.
About Partridge Tires
little need be said. Their
reputation for '.durability
and .dependability under
An road conditions; justi-
• •flee the statement -
•``, ou can't buy
better tires."
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Game os Te rName
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Financial Notes
Since the discovery of silver in
Cobalt in 1903 and the finding of gold
in Porcupine and Kirkland Lake dis-
tricts in the past six years, mining
companies have produced approxi-
mately $254,001,580, These figures
are up to the end of June, 1020.
Serieus damage estimated at at
least $100,000 to the Niagara Penin-
sula fruit crop resulted from severe
wind, ran and hail storm which swept
over the peninsula Saturday afternoon.
While the storm laded only forty min-
utes, damage was very severe in the
Niagara Falls district, two-thirds of
the fruit being esti:_gated ruined.
Canadian National Railways' gross
earnings for the nine -day, period. end-
ing June 30th totalled $2,471,4119, as
compared with $1,811,838, an increase
of $659,581. For the year to date
earnings totalled $45,564,824 against
$41,485,782, an increase of $4,078,952.
Boston—The president of the Brock-
ton Shoe Manufacturers' Association
says the real peak of shoe prices has
been passed and that competition will
inevitably bring about a reduction in
footwear prices, a fact to be regarded
as "desirable and necessary from
every point of view," Ile expects no
demand s.aflcient to put shoe fac-
tories on full time this summer and
says we are corning. back to old con-
ditions where 80 per cent. of capacity
can produce all the needed footwear.
Chicago—The monthly customs re-
port shows that during the month of'
June 4,000,000 pounds of sugar ar-
rived here from Canada. It was
originally -purchased in Cuba by Eng-
Lish merchants, solei to Canadian con
signees and resold in this country.
The Provincial Paper Mills, Ltd.,
has forwarded notice to the share-
holders that theestock certificates of
the new company are now ready and
requesting the certificates of the Pro-
vincial Paper Mills Company, Limited,
to be sent in to be exchanged. The
exchange is on a basis of three shares
of new for two shares of old. Half
shares are settled for at $50, being at
the rate of $100 per share,
It is stated that 'arrangements will
shortly be made to have the securities
of the Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills
listed on the Montreal Stock • Ex-
change.
:Spanish River preferred was up 2
points to 115 from the opening at 113
an a lot of '725 shares. Brew., 150x67
—66%; Bromp., 526x143---%; Laur.,
300x1.0ele--•109; M. Power, 300x84;
S. River, 825x106-11 ; Que. Rails,
10x23''_,• Sugar pfd., 5.0x157; Pen.,
75x1311A; Bras., 75x43; Abit., 25x
771e; S. of Can. 10x75.
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'Let' u �, � Lee's
'I'hiq suggestion f'+ made a thensand times every evening
in any elty or town where there Is a Loew's Theatre,
LOEW'S THEATRES AMUSE YOU
Leev=;'s Theatres Can Also Make Morley For You.
We now Mier $100,000 i e;, Preferred Stock in Loew's
Metropolitan (Montreal), Limited, carrying a suh-tartial
bonus of Comulor. Shares. This Theatre, owing' to its site
in the most thickly populated district of t'auada's greatest
City, Montreal, hiss fair to become one of the noir profit-
able in the Luew's Theatre aestehu.
Price and pnrtioulare on application,
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Investment Hankers
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The demand for coal to -day, in proportion to the supply,- is
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down as a result.
On account of the tremendous domestic and foreign demand
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We predict that within a very short time holders of good
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