HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-10-7, Page 2Address communications to Agronomist, a3 Adelaide St. West, Toronto
How to Succeed With Geese I easily reach it. Goose eggs are ex -
Geese for breeding purposes should treinedy sensitive to chill—therefore
be selected in the fail or early winter, the mother should not be taken from
In their natural state, geese mate WI the nest to feed. If she is allowed to •
pairs and the best results will follow • cheese her own time to leave the nest,
if the plan of nature is adhered to. she will cover the eggs with either
There are sante breeders who claim to: down or feathers.
have had good results. by breeding one' On account of the close, downy -
gander to -several geese, but it is an feathers of the goose, the eggs have!
quite general opinion that not °veld less ventilation, thus preserving more.
three females should be allowed to! moisture, than when set under hens.
one male. ! Therefore, if hens are used, some,
The age of the breeding stock is cm! moisture must be supplied. This may
big factor in securing bath quality' be done to soe extent by placing the
and quantity of eggs. The eggs of nests on an earth floor and covering
yearling geese seldom hatch well and them lightly with straw. The last
it does not pay to bother with therm! week or two of incubation, however,
if they hatch at all, the goslings, es • more moisture than this plan supplies
a rule, are small and weak. Two-year-! may be needed. The additional am -
olds may be used but they reach theirount required may be provided by
best at three years of ace. The fe-4 placing a sod three or four inches
male retain their breeding qualitiesthick under the nest, covering it light -
throughout their lives. but it is best, ly with straw and moistening it with
not to keep them for this purpose: warm water as needed. A good plan
over eight or ten years. is to pour a half-pint of the warm
Mongrel birds should never be pur-; water directly over the eggs, which
chased for breezing purposes as the will be quickly absorbed by the sod,
majority lay only from ten to twenty-. From five to seven eggs are all that
fie eggs per season,. while the p,„ire- should ee given to a ben.
breds lay from forts to fifty. 1 The ordinary incubator is not the
The breeding birds solvated should most sueeessful way to hatch goose
be strain and heaitlly. They should eggs, owing to the size of the eggs
not be allowed to get too fat or there • and the thickness of the shells. Ex -
will be a low percentage of fertility eerfenced breeders, however, get good,
in the eggs., During the winter give retult.t from the incubator,. but -its
them as .great a variety of food as takes much care and attention. One
poseir le. ' They require a great deal of of the most practical methods is to{
green food and will do well on corn' set the eggs ;n an incubator about.
frothier ter clover or alfalfa hay, with seven days, test out the fertile eggs,:
caoiteil petat,Fts or other vegetables, and set the balan4e eludes hens, sup
gate, eerie oyster shells and grit. They plying the moisture as before stated.j
ants r::qutre cost: ide:able exer:ise and; When artificially incubated, goose;
shoo!d hive some place in which to eggs :h:>iilI be tarred three times a'
run. ; day, Alternate days of the last week;
The lay:rg season tan be controlled a damp woollen cloth should be laid
te a large extent by the plan of feed- aver them to soften the shells. The,:
ir.g. T ”: rpenng of the season .man goslin g. n will not leave the ah his for!
1'f iteei ns i .rlmetielly by he:.vyi fee » some time after pipping anal it may.
inn winter it 7 i e ' Y 1 'Asti
duringvire or car 1. d t �, c. ark to help St ire a theme.
dein eta joy allowing ordy a small abet.' out. Great f.'are '11;1St be mied in this,'
F: em November to February the • h Wever, as the membranes are easily
ftrwd: should be given just enough to tern, causing them to bleed to death.
keep them in good health. Aiher that i sIon as dried. they shisuld be re-
date, the ratios may be grsdually in- inured from the incubator and placedi
creased. lin a brooder at a temperature of nine -4
Goose eggs are hatched in three ty degrees, heat being gradually re-+
different was—lig the mother goassen dueed until at the end of the :won('
by urns, and by incubator. Those set ' week it has dropped to seventy de
under mother goose have natural ,n- green. The brooders must be kept
very clean as young goslings are.
much mare sensitive to unsanitary f
conditions than are young chicks.
They are :oleo very sensitive to damp -i
nese when young, but when a month
old they are the most hardy of domes-
ticated fowls.
cub then. A nest in a quiet place
trhere the mother is not likely to be'
disturbed should be provided and from'
ten to fifteen eggs rlaeed under her.
While sitting she should be provided
with plenty of green food, grain, and
clean water, placed where she may
nfie.Paik
Every breeding farm should have a
sanitary milk room, where milk and
cream can be kept clean and cool. The
inside walls should be plastered and
the floor made of concrete or tile,
Ample room for the cream separator,
for washing and cleaning,• the pails,
cans and other utensils used in milk-
ing; and handling the products. Space
for weighing, testing and keeping in-
dividual records should also be given
consideration in planning the milk
room. By having a suitable room and
conveniences for weighing and testing
the milk and keeping milk and butter-
fat records, the task will be greatly
simplified and the milkers will look
after the work more efficiently. It
is also a good plan to keep on hand a
supply of medicines and materials for
treating and disinfecting sores and
wounds and giving first-aid to sick
cattle and young stock. An outfit for
treating milk fever is also necessary
or, the farm where valuable dairy
cows are kept for breeding purposes.
It costs but very little to keep these
remedies and instruments at hand and
it may be the means of saving a valu-
able animal when one has trouble in
getting veterinary aid at the proper
time, Hot and cold water are needed
at the dairy barn and a supply should
be at hand without running to the
house when it is needed. Unless the
water is sufficiently cool to preserve
the milk and cream during warm wea-
ther one should provide means for
keeping a supply of ice where it can
be used in the milk room: On the av-
erage dairy farm the cost of an ice
house and putting up sufficient ice to
last through the summer will not be
large and the investment will prove
one of the best that the breeder of
dairy cattle can make. Cleanliness
.and refrigeration are the secrets of
producing pure milk and :cream.
Ontario and Peace River Oil
and Gas Producing Co., Ltd.
300 wells in Ontario in actual opera-
tion; pumping at a good fee, output of
300 more wells, through our own pipe
enc, fo our awn storage tanks at
Yetrolla, capacity 100,000 barrels. Earn-
ing Government bonus of 22l cents per
barrel. on our present monthly output
of 2,000 barrels, equals $1,050 per month.
Valuable leases owned In Peace River^.
District.
High prices paid forGasoline, Lubri-
cating and Fuel Oils,give s large de-
mand and big profits. Shares, par value,
One Dollar. Price, One Dollar.
Directors: Mr. B. J. MacCorrnack,
Manager, Canada Foundries and -Forg-
ing, Ltd., Weiland; Mr. John More, Man-
ager, International Nickel Co., Port Col-
borne; Mr, J. C. . Stewart, Managing
Director, P. L. Robertson Manhifacturing
Co., Ltd., Milton.
Send your prders to
ITORMAN & CO.,
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ISSUE Nq,
IStoring the Vegetable Crop.
The vegetable crop has been an
abundant one in most places in t' :n-'
ada this year, and many persons miIl
have a large quantity to store. ; .. is
important that care be taken ins ;}r-
ing so that loses will be reduce; to^
a minimum.
Potatoes should be dry when stored
and where possible put where the
1 temperature will not go above 40 deg.
F., or below 32 deg. In order that the
isurface of the potatoes can be kept
dry and in the best condition to avoid
rotting, provision should be made for
air to pass underneath and through
them. If they are stored in consider-
able or large quantities such provision
is made by keeping the potatoes about
six inches off the floor by first putting
down a slatted temporary floor with
the boards just close enough so the
potatoes will not fall through, and a
similar slatted temporary wall a few
inches from the permanent wall would
permit a still freer circulation of air.
Keeping them in crate -like boxes with
openings between the boards on tops
and sides is a good method.
Beets, parsnips, carrots, salsify and
turnips keep best under conditions
somewhat similar to potatoes, though
it is not so important to keep them
dry. Indeed in he average cellar they
are liable to become too dry and lose
their firmness. If there is danger of
this they may be kept in boxes and
covered with a sack kept wet. In a
warm cellar they will grow.
Onions are very liable to rot unless
kept in a dry place. Keep them spread
out as thinly as possible. Where
quantities are small, an attic room
where there is no frost will be found
a good place to store them.
Cabbage will soon wilt in a warm,
dry cellar. Keep them outside as long
as possible by protecting thein with
leaves, stray, or soil. If they begin
to crack before it is time to pull them,
loosen them in the ground by twisting
the plant and thus checking growth.
When stored where the air is very dry
they keep better with the roots and
stems left on, and wrapping each head
in a newspaper will prevent wilting to
some extent.
Celery is left outside until danger
of severe frosts. To keep well in stor-
age it needs a moderately dry, well
ventilated cool cellar for best results.
The celery should be planted in the
cellar in rows close together in sand
nor light soil, separating each row with
alath or other pieces of wood to keep
'the tops somewhat apart and better to
ensure 'a cireulation , of .air. The soil
should be kept moist but the tops dry.
Avoid wetting 'the leaves and stalks
if watering is necessary.
To store green tomatoes to ripen
them put • in closed boxes or drawers
where they will be in the dark and in
a moderately warm place,.
Farm Help That Runs by Electricity
Shortage of man power and the
high wages demanded by such farm-
hands as are available are causing
progressive farmers to seek other
more reliable and Iess expensive means
of help in operating their farms. . And
in electricity for power and lighting
many already have found the ideal
form, of service that they were looking
for. Others in ever-increasing num-
bers are making that same discovery
daily; eventually all will do so.
Silent, tireless and always willing
and 'ready, in addition to being cap-
able of performing many tasks at one
time (and doing them all well), the
electrical farmhand is fast becoming
the mainstay and support in all pro-
gressive farming communities. De-
servedly so, too. Electricity has won
to that place by sheer merit --service.
It might be added, too, that the
electrical farmhand found many ob-
stacles to be overeome in his progress
toward his rightful place an the farm-
er's pay -roll. A bit partial to the olds
fashioned ways at the outset, the
farming community gave but scant
attention to the electrical farmhand
when first he went plying for a job.
But that now is all a thing of the
past; the farmers have tried electric
service and found it good.
One fanner malting use of electric
milking -machines, reports that the
cost of current for milking fifty caws
twice daily is fifty cents; the time res
quired for the milking is one hour, and
only two men are required to handle
the operation.
Another farrier reporting on the
merits of his electrical hired man sup-
plies the following examples:
Feed grinding, six and one-half
cents a hundred pounds; ensilage -cute
ring, six and one-half cents a ton;.
corn husking, one cant a bushel; wood -
sawing, fourteen and one-half cents
a cord; pumping water, three cents a
hundred gallons.
Other such examples in abundance
can easily be bad, but those two should
suffice to show why farmers are turn-
ing to electricity to operate their
fauns. And a clearer understanding.
of the electric -Ad farinhan;l is supplied
by the impesing array of jobs he now
performs.
Electricity ss. Horse -Power.
Herne -power or man -power loses
when multiplied. One horse working
alone is proportionately more efficient
than any number working together.
In fact, experiments have shown that
with a fear -h•
orse team elle efficiency
of each horse is but eighty per cent.
And with an eight -horse team the
efficiency of each horse is only about
forty-nine per cent. Whereas, with
electric horse -power no loss whatever
is pensioned by multiplying the units
of power, Best of all, electricity never
tires; it works at full pitch twenty-
four hours daily, if required.
Most people are familiar with the
term "horse -power," but only the
technically informed understand that
it signifies the power to lift 33,000
pounds one foot in one i..inute. And
just as that term represents capacity
for performing a certain amount of
work, so too does the electrical unit
of power measurement, the kilowatt,
represent a certain amount of energy.
The kilowatt is the equivalent of 1,000
watts; and, by the way, 746 watts is
the equivalent of the standard horse-
power. That fact attains added signi-
ficance when it is realized that in
actual test it has been shown that the
horse is only equal to lifting 26,000
pounds one foot in one minute.
In other words, only a little more
than half as much energy can be got-
ten from the horse as is supplied by
one kilowatt of electrical energy. And
by way of suggesting that man's
greatest opoortunity is in the field of
mental effort, it should only be nec-
essary to add that man is capable of
doing only about one-seventh as much
work as the horse. And it should be
noted, too, that neither man nor horse
can sustain for long, even that ratio
of accomplishment; they both tire
quickly. EIectricity is steadfast and
tireless. In tests of endurance and
strength man's effort compares illy
indeed with the performance of the
tractor or the gasoline engine, or the
silent, steadfast force of electrical
energy.
Lighting the Farm by Wire.
No farmer need now be told the ad-
vantages of electricity for lighting—
it's self-evident. Between the even
radiance of the electric lamp and
other forms of lighting—candles, oil
lamps, and so on there is no compar-
ison. Still less is there any ground
for comparison between the mussy,
daily labor of filling lamps, and the
annoyance of hunting and striking a
match; still less is there ground for
comparing such burdensome prelimin
aries and the delightfully simple oper-
ation of commanding light by pressing
a button or turning a switch.
The question ratherr is how to come
mand the facilities that will provide
electricity for farming operations and
for lighting. And those means are
now fortunately available in every.in-
stance—no farm need longer be with-
out the benefits of electrical service.
For those farms located beyond the
zone ttltat it is practicable for the cen-
tral station to serve, there are the
individual farm lighting and power
plants. The assortment of such
plants is very complete and offers a
very good solution of the farm power
and lighting problem, no matter how
Targe or small it may be. There is, a
plant that will be suitable.
The roan who can hook onto the
central station's lines for current to
drive his motors and light his house
and buildings has practically no res-
ponsibility beyond that .of paying his
bills. It is the duty* of the central
station to see that the necessary cur-
rent is always on tap when needed,
as much or as little as that may be.
And to the credit of the central sta-
tion be it said that the cost and work
of supplying that service are not by
any means trifling natters.
The line on the central station's
chart showing the hourly, daily and
seasonal demands for current is one
of hills and valleys. The higher the
hills and the deeper the valleys, the
greater the range between the
maximum and the mdninium de-
mands for current. That means
that during the periods when
the demand for current is smallest,
much of the central station's expen-
sive generating equipment is idle..
Nevertheless, that equipment must be
always an hand and ready against the
hours of need. Also, there is the cost
of erecting and installing the neces-
sary feed lines, transformers, and
other equipment.
Obviously enough. that expense can
not be undertaken in order to serve
one or two farms; but when the farm-
ers of the countryside generally decide
to make use of the services of the
electrical hired man, and to light their
hous"s and buildings in the best and
mot convenient way, the central sta-
tism can usually be depended upon to
meet such a request for service more
than halfway,
If the central station has current to
sell, there is every reason why the
farmer should have it; and the cen-
tral station wants him to have it. The
expense of conveying central station
power to the farmer's thresher, en-
silage -cutter, milk churn, or what -not
else, has always been satisfactorily
adjusted in the many communities
where electricity is being used.
The Care of Traps.
Should traps be boiled, and if so,
do whet? Should they be oiled? Is
rust harmful? There and many other
simliar questions Confront the trap-
per. Econ old hands at the game dif-
fer on these points.
A man rvho never boils new traps
u•niulyr explains his position by say-
ing that new steel in itself has no
odor; there is no scent until the trap
is used.
We hove good reason to believe that
steel and iron do have an odor; the
fact that we can not detect it prones
nothing, except that our smelling
sense is weak eonipared to that of
wild animals. But even granted that
they do not, there is another reason
for boiling the new trap—to get rid of
the varnish and oil with which some
traps are coated. Many a new trap,
perfect in make and action, falls to
attraet for that one reason—that it
still carries the odor, no matter how
faint, of varnish or oi1,
"But," you say, "I must oil my
traps; if not at the beginning, surely
later, after long use and exposure to
the weather," Once in a long while, •
yes. The oiling business is overdone;
I prefer a rusty trap to one loaded
up with kerosene. The former may .at
least get a chance at the animal, but
not the latter; you may think you
have killed the coal -oil smell by airing
and rubbing, but the keen -nosed fur -
bearer knows better. Oil the traps
when the joints really require it, but
use some lubricant as nearly as odor-
less you can get. Never use a
strong smelling substance like ker-
osene.
• Aside from the matter of odor, a
trap freshly oiled or greased does not
have so secure a grip as when dry;
and this apparently slight matter may
make just the difference between a
catch and an escape if you have
caught some "No. 3 animal," an otter
for instance, in a No. 2 trap.
I am not advocating rust, but I
think it is less objectionable than a
repellant smell of oil. A rusty sur -
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON ; act, and as such pleasing to God.
nr'i'tllil~lt 10TII ' Wesley, in his Notes on the New
Testament, says, "It beeonieth every
messenger of God to fulfil all His
righteous ordinances." Jesus desired
Ito have His full place and part in this.
Baptism and Temptation of Jeeus, St.
Matthew 3: 1; 4; 11. Golden . great movement of repentance and
Text, St. Matt. 3: 17. preparation for the coming of the
kingdom of God. Robertson (in The
3: 1-12. The Preaching of John. Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jesus) says,
"Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven 1 "When Ile stood in the presence of
is at hand." This was the burden of the Baptizer, heard him speak, drank
John's message, It struck home to the ; in the scene in all its spiritual signifi-
very heart of the pride and selfishness i cance, talked, probably, to the prophet,
of the time, The pious pretence of' alone about His past experiences and.
the Pharisee and the Sadducean self- • dreams, He knew that He could not
complacency were of no avail as a hold Himself aloof from this great
defence against the challenge of that • movement. • Here was the very titres --
message. Observing the feasts and; hold of the kingdom of God around
sacrifices, paying tithes, keeping the which all His holiest dreams and long -
rules of the Sabbath day, and making: ings gathered. He must give Him -
the ceremonial washings and fastings, i self to it as a bumble laborer. And
were not enough. Nor was it of any, He resolved to submit Himself to bap-
use to say "We have Abraham to our , tisnt, It was, for Him, simply an open
father." There must be a change of , vow of sacramental self -dedication,
mind and heart, a turning from evil i body and soul, to serviee. Nay, more,
ways, a true repentance; a repentance l it was the holy passion of His heart
the fruits of which would be seen in !for men, profoundly moved by what
right living. f He saw, deliberately laying itself
He That Cometh After hie. John alongside mankind in their need of
believes that the long promised Say-. repentanceIt ryas the response of
lour is about to appear, and that when ;His will in obedience to the clear
Ile appears there will be a separating koiilting of the will of God."
of the good from the bad, like the; "Descending as a dove." It would
separating of the wheat from the : seem that only John, beside Jesus
chaff of the threshing floor. For only , Himself, saw, or understood the signi-
the good would enter into His king- licence of. this coming of the Spirit.
dem. It was necessary, then, that , To Jesus it meant the definite, positive
there should be genuine repentance, ' call and consecration to His great
change of heart and life, that mei-it task, the '`discovery and aeeeptanee of
might be ready for His earning, other -
His divine vocation.„
wise they couid have no part or place 4; 1-11. The Teil,ptation. `°Into the
with Him in His glorywilderness to be tempted." The hour
3: 13-17. The Baptism. "To be bap- { of great exaltation is followed by
tined." Baptist was originally a Jew- many days alone in the wilderness in
ish custom and represented a sere- i fasting and prayer. Then He is as-
monial purification. Where possible ladled by fierec temptation. He Is
it seems to have been the bn"llim of tempd e divine odoubt then h land lrad comelity
the whole body in a running stream of
but e uno. al • Iiiilt sitar that divine Voice which had
or sprinklinthpog;,ring was also ter recoantgrnizedahandas ; spoken. The tempter said, "If thou
a form of baptism (Num. 19: 11. 31: • , be the Son of God,"and repeated It,
19; Iso, 1: 16; Zech. 13; 1; Ezek. 36: flii if to cast doubt upon that assump-
24; mark 7: 3; Luke 11: 38). A Gen-. tion. The tempter asks' Hini, to prove
tile who was admitted as a convert to it by a mir els,---by ehangiltg stones
the Jewish church was baptized. John to "'rend' or lay casting Himself from
gave the rite a moral sig'ntleanee ;Ind - F)2•110 huh ,pesos an tit;; temple roof.
made it represent eivensing from the Lint ,Texas already ser, that His way
defilement of sin. Hie reethod was must be the way of faith, and that no
probably either to dip in the denog mere miracle or marvel will ever
in bis water of the river, or to lift the wa;.er prove either to Himself or to the
dt uoosr the head world, the troth of Iii: relationship to
tive Christian writing, makes it clear proof must lie if the IIW age itself
that both methods were allowed in the , and in its transforming pone: upon
,iailits anti polar God or Itis mission of salvation. The
The rid.r..Ire, ;rn a,r,ly still auahorata-,
Christian church, the hearts of men.
IiutJh �' 1^11^ ,
<. "An these things rill I give thee."
John -or );.t him," or rather, The temptation gees further and eon -
as Rev, Vers., "would have hindered ; eer,.s the way by which Ire is to carry.
him. I.rident1! Jelin roust haveout Isis misciam ta)
the world. 'There
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,noun Some uilg; of this kinsman
purity of is presented to Hire what eemee an
his and of his remarkable purity of
life. The statment in John 1: 33 may
mean simply that he did not know
Jesus was the promised Messiah until
he saw what happened after the bap-
tism.
"It beeorneth us." What John was
doing seemed to him to be a righteous
easy way, perp ape by the gathering
of armies and by war, for Palestine
was ripe for revolution against Koine,
but that, IIe heli: vee, would be the
wrong way. That would mean hewing
to the devil, and He refuses it. It will
be God's way, and God's way alone,
that He will go forward,
face is far more persistent in retain-
ing odors than a smooth one. 'While
gloves should always be used in mak-
ing dry-Iand sets, they become doubly
essential if your trap is coated with
rust.
Traps are generally covered, but it
is desirable to dull their brightness
anyway. A trap may become exposed
after you leave it; the wind, a heavy
snowfall, or an unexpected thaw, the
passing of some animal or person—
many things may displaee your set;
and if bright steel is exposed that trap
will do no business.
Many kinds of boiling preparations
have been used for the coloring, and
for destruction of the steel odor, but I
doubt there being anything better than
the old reliable solution of evergreen
boughs. This. gives the steel a blue -
black finish, and repeating• the bailing
occasionally retains the darkness and
helps to keep off rust. Oak or willow
bark is good; also, walnut hulls.
The weather is hard on traps, but
they will, with care, last surprisingly
long. Placing a small bag of salt
under the seawater trap will prevent
freezing.
The wise trapper gets his parapher-
nalia in condition before the reason
open. See that the traps spring read-
ily; put in a tiny bit of oil if neces-
sary, though a "too fust" action is not
desirable. Be sure to adjust the trig-
ger, if required to make the pan sit
level, and see if your chains, pins, etc.,
are all in working order.
Carry your traps in a basket or
sack. The fewer times you have to
handle them the better.
All considered, there is no better
preliminary preparation of a trap
than to submerge it for twenty-four
hours or longer in a running stream.
This, if anything, will make it odor-
less. Of course, exposure to cold air
is in itself a good odor killer, and will
be effective when dealing with no more
persistent scent than that of human
hands.
4
Towers of Silence.
Zoroastrians believe that fire, earth,
water and air are sacred, and there-
fore
herefore not to be polluted by dead bodies.
To dispose of them, recourse is had to
the "Towers of Silence" in Bombay,
where the bodies are exposed to birds
of prey. The bones are later collect-
ed and restored to the relatives. •
HERE is yet time to preserve the autumn fruit for winter
enjoyment. LANTIC "Fine" retains all the bouquet of
sun -ripened Pears and Peaches. How your folks will
enjoy the clear, white delicately -flavoured pears, the rich
peaches whole and luscious! LAN.TIC goodness is more melt-
ing,
elting, it dissolves at once in the hot syrup without over -cooking.
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