HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-6-16, Page 6CONDUCTED BY PROP. HENRY G. BELL
The object of this department is to place at the ser-
vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
methority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crop.
Address ell queetions to Professor Henry G. Bele in
owe Of The Witson Publishing Company, Limited, Toren-
ece and answers will appear In this column in the orcier
in which they are received. when writing kindly men-
theathis paper, As space is limiteti it Is advisebie where
iftheiealate reply is necessary that a stamped and adi
dressed snveop bs enolosed with the question, when .
the answer will be mailed direct.
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fl e A.: Would eweet clover have a
tendency to eradicate milk -weed and
quack grass? How long after planting
before a crop can be cut for hay under
normal conditions? How early should
Lt bo sown, and how much seed per
ace?
Answer: Sweet dive' makes very
rapid end close growth. I do not know
that it will eradicate milk -weed and
quack grew, but it will at least
weaken those weeds, and make their
exte,rmination easier,
There are two kinds of sweet clover
e—the animal and 'biennial. The annual
denier, if planted early in spring, pee
-
duces a good forage erop by the mid-
dle, of July, whith in many instances
out from 1 to 13h tons to the acre.
The biennial clover produces a heavier
growth the second year, but•,ei.hoeld not
be cut short the first autumn. As a
role 10 to 15 lbs. should be seeded per
a.cre to get a good catch.
i R. K.: I have a field cf biennial
white sweet clover eoeded in oats last
year. Can I cut it for hay, then let
it grow up again and cut it for seed?
What time ehall I cut it so as to give
It time to go to seed?
Answer: Biennial clover seeded last
year should make a good !cutting of
bay by mid -summer of this year. If
eta early it will make a second growth
which will flower, :but if you are grow-
ing it for seed, do not cut it for hay
first if you wish to get the largest
yield of seed.
W. F.: Would like seene information
aim° was all right. This field has
been in cent for the past two years
and I have planted it to corn again
this spring!. The land is a mixture of
sand, clay end gravel. It is heavy
beech mid maple land, but badly run
down. What is the• amount and kind
of fertilizer to use?
Answer: The fertilizer to be added
to corn depends very largely upon the
soil upon evhich the earn is grown If
the soil is a rich loam evhich has re-
ceived considerable manure, atid phos-
phate is probably the only fertilizer
that need be added. If the soil is pure
clay which has not received manure
for eome time You should add from
200 to 400 lbs. per acre of a fertilizer
carrying 3 to 5' per cent. ammonia, 10
to 12 per cent. phosphoTic acid. If the
soil is sandy en- gravelly a complete
fertilizer analyzing approeamately 4
per cent, ammonia, 8 per cent. phos-
phoric acid, and 6 per cent. potash
should be used. This appears to be the
type of soil on which your torn has
been growing. Therefore, we would
advise adding at least 400 lbs. of the
above fertilizer per acre.
B. H.: I planted raspberry bushes
this spring in gravelly soil, using
sheep manure as fertilizer. Can you
give me directions as to the best care
this season?
Answer: The raspberry bushes
should receive cultivation eufficiently
often to keep down weeds and to pre- 4
serve the moisture in the soil. About
the middle of July we would advise 6
Iti kgr: t1 CroT.
There are probably no birds whose
halate eeliolly good or wholly lifid
foin the standatant of entode best
interests. May epecies are recoa
inzed as valuable oseete eonteibuting
largely to human welfare; others show
altos and virtuce so nicely .balanced
ast nake judgment difficult; while ie
a few species their eunierous sins
bread them its uadeservinie of protee,
tion, In spite oa all that has been
written in ite defence, the crow belongs
th popular tnind to the last or outlawed
group, for its deetructivenees is at-
tested by the farmer, the poutry raiser
and the sporteman. Netwithstanding
the abuedanee of the English sparrow
in this province and the enormous
kisses due to its activities it would
seem that the crow is coneidered as
serious a pest, if one may judge by
letters of inquiry which are received.
The economio etatus of any bird ! de-
pends almost entieely upon what it
eats, To be ranked as a benefieial
speoies, t mast eielier render valuable
service by the destruction of animal
pests (insects or rodents), or in the
consumption of weed seeds.
Because of the gathering of the
dans at tile great crow roosts of more
southern eountries, our winter popula-
tion of crows is very much reduced and
therefore thewinter food plays little
part in a consideration of the economic
status of the species in Ontario.
for another of the crowds vices, for
during the einemer month e itLS,i-c-
comiAishect dacken thief, $o Much
.stealth end eunaing eve displayed ie
this Pursuit that it often eseapes noe
ace ead ;beneficial 'hake beer miech
Qf the lhanie and often sellielathe. sue
Promo penalty. In saneOf the 'case§
reporte, poultriaraieing has ileeeome
Welanig'h bar:mild° until theshot-
egaurnlii,nally pet an end to the erowes
ee
In june adult May-heetles are eaten
in large. aemberee eome !cal.:gilt alive,
ethers ,PICited, up as auTiona During
• t e late summer months grasshoppers
form ueensielerablo portion of the food
supply. The deetruetion ea .thes•e in-
sect s must he caasedered as beneficial,
but it falls far eliort of atoning for
the wholesale destruction of entire
broods of benefieial birds. The crow
always 'prefers hath -shelled insects
and rarely eats caterpillars or soft
larva of any kind, In the fall, corn
becomes an important item in the diet
and theloes may be considerable when
the
fallwegmatlit;Ltittio! nflocks preparatory to
In March the migration tide starts
in. At this season of the year their
food (supply consists of carrion, waste
grain, benumbed insects and cold-
blooded, vertebrates and meadow mice.
If the crow is ever to be considered
as beneficial it is during these months,
April, May and June are busy
months in the crow's calendar. Nest -
building, egg -laying and brooding, and
finally the search for food for the
nestlings are the duties which now de-
volve upon the birds. It is during this
period that the crow commits the
crimes which make it detested by the
farmer and the bird -protectionist. Un-
doubtedly the most serious charge
against it results teem depredations
n newly -planted corn fields. The extra
work involved dn replanting, and the
hort growing season remaining for
he replanted corn make the damage
of unusual importance in this province.
Fortunately, report's indicate that seri-
ous damage is not general, but depends
rather upon local -conditions. Where
crows are numerous and cam fields
few, the damage may be considerable.
The bird protectionist finds much to
criticize in the crow's crimes against
smaller bird's. These species are put
to flight and their nests robbed of eggs
or nestlings. Many of the birds thus
attacked are therns.elves decidedly
.beneficial to man and the damage done
In their destruction is at once ap-
parent.
So serious is this phase ef the ques-
tion that. seine of the leading orni-
thologists of this country declare the
crow to be the most destructive native
•enemy of snealler birds.
The tastes acquired( in the robbing
of the nests of wild birds may account
adding 000 lbs. of bone -meal per acre
in regard to fertilizers for corn. I distributed between the rows of canes
have been told that acid phosphate and worked in by cultivation.
A little fly dope to spray on COWE
saves them a lot of pestering. But it
le even of greater v.alue to the dairy-
man and his hired laran. Their morale
on hot slimmer nights is never improve
ed by being kicked and switched by
fly -bitten cows. One cow with a. tail
like a bundle of wire can make a
raker extremely disgusted with life.
The cows need salt in the. summer
as well as any season and the large
wall blocks are very handy to have in
the lane or pasture. It gives every
cow a chance each day to obtain some
wit and the blocks do not break up
easily so that bits of salt can be pick-
ed tip by poultry.
Sometimes dealers do not like to
handle dairy butter in trocks but pre-
fer the pound packages of uniform
quality put up in neat wrapping paper.
Then there are no crocks to return and
they do not have butter of various
shades and some crocks which are too
may and others not salty enough.
When the peoclucer has a local trade
with private customers it is soon pose
! Pack up your lot and ship to tts.
' We do the rest—fair grading—
' highest prices-aspot cash pay-
ment. Try us.
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;aby Chicks
Bathurst breeders are the large,
early- metalling, trap -nested,
bred -today B.C. White Leghorns.
They are prolific winter layers
because they are Canadian and
acclimatized to our severe -win-
ters: Par June delivery:
Me Chicks, $20; 50 Chicks, $10;
25 Chicks, $5. Special prices for
larger quantities. Free circular.
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1 sible to find what they like best and
make the butter accordingly.
During hot weather young calves
are sometimes staked along the road
with an inadequate water supply. It
pays to remember that water is al-
ways the cheapest element in an eine
mal's ration and yet is one of the most
important elements in making animals
grow.
In grading up a herd of cows it is,
of eourse, necessary to use a sire of
the same breed for each cross. Other-
wise you are developing mongrels in-
stead of progressing closer and closer
to pure-breds of one breed. Many sec-
tions are handicapped in developing
high -producing herds :leause of the
long ellsta.nce that roust be traveled to
obtain high-quality bulls. In such sec-
tions It will surely pay to own a good
buil co-operatively.
,
It has been commonly supposed tltat
chieke should' not roost until they are
about half-grown or they will have
crooked breasts. We believe that when
a chick is well feathered out that its
wings are strong enough to lift its
body up on the Tease and that nature
made those vrin.gs strong so that the
chick could get up off the ground at
night and thus avioid as much danger
as possible.
When the chicks have learned to
roost it is much easier to protect them
from mites. If the percales are painted
with kerosene oil the mites will be
killed and if the birds use protected
roosts they will not be injured( by the
mites. Lice are also easier to control
if the birds are on roosts which con-
tain no _crevices in which the lice can
hide and the birds do not crowd on the
roosts and become overheated as they
do on the floor and this helps in keep-
ing down colds.
Some breeders do not like to have
tbe chicks roost at an early age and
they protect them 'by providing beards
raised a few leeches from the floor on
whieh the Ideas can spend the night.
We :believe that vigorous birds from
mature breeders tan roost at an early
age without the danger of deformed
breasts. •
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'Once on a tinae'so the fairies say,
there were no stars in the sky; only
a iblg round sme and a big and
moon. Millions of miles below was
the big round earth. ' Up in the moon
two persons Eyed, the Woman in ehe
Moon and the Men in the Moen. The
woman had beautiful long hair and
was dressed in yellow; the man -wea.s
fat, and jolly and laughed (a great
deal.
They spent most of their time pole
iohnig the moon. They tended it so
carefully, in fact, that it grew larger
ali 4ire time.
"The moot is getting so big," the
woinan said to the man ome day,
"that it will soon be too bright and
will keep the people on the earth
awake at night What shall we do ?"
The man thought a. minute and then
he began to laugh. His fat cheeks
shook so harcl and his eyes shone so
bright that the people on the' earth
said to one another, "How wonderful
the *peon is to -night!"
"I have an excellent pian," the Man
in the Moon said. "I wiht trim the
moon down until it is Shaped like a
slice.of watermelon. Then P(il make
other meanie out of the triennia(' ga"
So die trimmed the mon until It
was ahapea just Eke a slice of melon.
The woman was very much pleased
with her new house.
"Look," said' thie people on the
earth, "We have a new "moon to-
night."
The Man in the Moon and hie wife
sat on the steps of their new moon
hease, and the man tried to make
Vitae moon e out of the shavings,
Snip, enip weree the eiciasone; drop,
drop weiet the little pdecee that fell
as he out
"Oh, look tvthat /bre made!" the
man etaid sifter a while, He held up
little six -pointed oboe,
"How' pretty," the woman, said. "A
pley lull of little stars like that wlij
be 'Much prettier flare di, alterMi o
Withal/10one," And alai sea to Weal;
eagerly to; help lent out abaa'a
tee they bad used up all the'
trivet:liege, the Man In the Moon took
leke" little (related( cart, diitolied It to a
baecae and weal; kndng along ,over
earatieeietiei,....areere ,
Total extermination would be inad-
visable, but the sagacity and intelli-
gence displayed by the crow give
ample assurance that man's best ef-
foits will still leave eufficient numbers
for esthetic and ornamental purposes.
It distrusts and avoids man, but soon
learns how harmless are the scare-
crows, bits of dangling tin and ether
devices used in an effort to frighten
the birds from fields of grain.
The first step toward crow control
on the farm must be the destruction
of crow's nests. If the trees of ehe
wood -lot shelter the nests of a hall -
dozen pairs of croWs the farmer is sure
to pay a heavy tole in the loss sus-
itained in nearby corn fields and in the
poultry yard. He is also robbed of
the services of many :mealier birds
whose work is important in the control
of plant pests. Where the crows have
been (allowed( ;to nest undisturbed' for
several seasons, the armee will usu-
ally find it time well spent to take a,n
occasional hour in ridding the farm of
nesting crows. Shooting through the
nest,. M the spring, with a shotgun
will often, kill the entire brood :of young
crows. The niost serious damage will
be done in the vicinity of the nest.
Where co-operative measures aTe
taken by large nuiribees of farmers to
reduce the number of nesting crows
the resultare particularly gratifying.
For the protection of the corn crop
there seems at present no better meth-
od than that of tarring the seed corn.
The time and labor involved are about
the same as in the formaldehyde treat-
ment of grain and when properly done
the results usually justify the addi-
tional iteni in the cost of production
of the crop. Place the eorn in a tub
and: cover with lakearierna water and
stir- so as to MOW*. the corn thor-
oughly. DraM immediately ilnd stir
cin one tablespoonful of coal tar per
bushel. Spread out to dry. It can
then be used successfully in the corn
planter.
the sky, hanging out the stars as he
went.
"Oh, look" said the people on the
math. "See the little bright lights up
In the ,sky!"
After that whenever the moom
grew too big and brialet til?.e couple
would pare it down and cut out •m.ore
stars from the pa4rings.
One spring day the WOM211 in the
Moon deckled to clean' house. She
swept .and dusted' and beat and washed
until her husband was out of patience
with her. The dust made him sneeze,
and the furniture tripped him up. He
decided to go away for a while. So
he got inrto his little -cfond cart and
went off for a ridee
When he came back he found a pile
of golden shavings out in the yard.
They were the little piece e that be
had trimmed ofe ebetween the points
of the stars durbeg the winter. His
wife had swept them up all over the
house.
"Cart them off somewhere," she
said. "They aren't big enough to
make staTo of, aaci they are just clut-
tering up the m:ooaa"
So the man loaded his cloud cart
with the little pieces ef gold and took
them out into the sky and dernped
them there. Dowee down fell the
little golden pieces; down faster and,
faster through the elouds. , A saucy
breeze came chasing along the sky
and helped to came' them down. Past-
er and still :easter they whirled until
at iast they landed on the earth.
The next morning when the chil-
dren ran outdoors they were aston-
ished to findi myriads of Iltitle yellow
things shining in the thick grass like
pure gold. -
They reein eagerly to pick them up,
icri,nicrizt beautiful near k flowers!" they
Sine enough, diming the night a
fairy lead touched the little pieces of
gold and ehanged thierne Every Ben-
gle shaving had become a blight yel-
law flower with a, green stem.
"'They are shaped Eke little cups,'
said one of the ehadiane.
"And they are as yellow as butter!"
osid another,
tfadtviAriathh
eib:e terbalwaeatameat Y—
tteltolellos,:at,he4atale—lit lehati9tbter"-
Intercrop the apace in your garden,
Keep all the ground busy.
Try out a new vegetable or two this
year. Varietyels the "spice" of gar-
dening.
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JUNE, 19.
Matting' the Sueitt Orde,r chriatiau: St, Luke 4; it 5-21 ; St.
Matt. 25; 34-40. Golden Text—St, Matt. 25; 40.
Connecting Links—The essence of these my brethren, ye, have done it
Christianity is in the epirit, not M the unto nie.
ferrns, of life. It ig poseible for the It fellowe that the Christian spirit
Christian epirit to exist and to lama. will alevetysi manifest itself in this way
fest itself in any recognized or and that seca kindly', helpful, healing
established order of society, Even a ministriee are the tree activities of
slaye and his master may live to- Christ's kingdom. By them, ear more
gather as brothers beloved (see Philo- than by theories' and eaperimente, is
imhoenaletoia Tee king, the feudal lord. the social order being- made Christian"
san, the physieian, the soldier; TheY represent the mightiest ferees of
the fierf, the priest and monk, hermit progrese and of reform, 'Plie nations
and miseionary, have all entered into of the world can do without the ran -
this !brotherhood. It le possible for lutionary agleittor„ the preacher of
this kindly' Christian relationehip to daze hatreds, even the ciever theorist
exist in the factorythe Teresa the but they cannot do without the mon
field, and the mine, between employers ance the women of the kindly heart an
and employed, just as perfectly aa be- the open hand,
tweeze fellow workmen in the same
craft. 'Pile Christian spirit is the
spirit of love ancl service.
St. Luke 4: 16-21. .Aa His custom
was. Jesus did not despise the religion
of the past. His custom wan to go
to the synagogue service on the sab-
bath day. There,"too, the opportunity
was offered Him of teaching the peo-
ple. On this occasion He was in His
old home town of NazaTetb, anel wee
invited by the chief. ruler of theosarrae
gogue to read the !Scripture and speak
ta the congregation. He chose the
sixty-first chapter of Isaiah and read
the great declaration of that praphet's
mission to his -people. Inspired( by the
Spirit of the Lord it was Hes to pro- For those who have fed the hungry
claim the coming of a great deliver- and clothed the naked and ministered
ance, a deliverance, it is true, which to the stranger and the sick and tho
was never realized, in a material way prisoner, are the great words of inva
by the Teeple of Israel, but which tation: Come, ye blessed of my Fa -thee.
jestis now declares is to :be realized They have the :greatest of all human
through His ministry.
who
For Jesus has come to preach the joysthe tahnedjataireyolhsaevrev,lteheetobrtihgehete hope
goapel (i.e., good tidings) to the poor, of an (immortal enheritaace in the
lireokhenasih:armtsse, asnadgeofodfeiihveearleainigee feeof Kingdom of God.
b
-those held captive by the world's
greed and !cruelty.. He has power to
open eyes that are spiritually blind,
and to give freedom to those who are
bruised in. sin's prison. homes. He,
too, like the prophet of 'old, is sent to
preach the acceptable year of the Lord,
the dawning of a .new erai-the long -
sought and long -hoped-for age of sal-
vation. For those who would. listen
The greatest evils and greatest
dangers of society are thoee oa greed
and hatred, and these evils. are not
eon med to any one class. The way of
safety is the way of unseetish kindness
and love. If commerce and indeatey
cannot be carried on on a basis of
unselfish kindnees, then either we
ought to have no commerce and
organized industry OT Christianity is
nnepos.sible as a law of life. Either
supposition is incoaceivable. The
Christian law of love. and kindness
must be the law of business as well
as of home and neighborhood life. He
who refuses to be governed eV this
law is not a true Christian.
Application.
However ably Jesus might deal with
the broad principlee of the Kingdom,
He never forgot that in improving the
social order our dealings must neatly
be with individuals; not with abstract
principles and relations, but with men
and women and little children and the
conditions in which they live. In pol-
itical econonay it used to be the
to, Iris words and( believe, that ,new ufiaasna.i,o,n to talk about the economic
era was already begun. There is no such creature. Be-
hind all discussion of sociology or
All bare Him witness. The Weeds of political science, oi• even religion is
Jesus are not reported in full, but we "the throbbing armee !of humanity,
can imagine that He spoke of the tempted, sinning, sorrowing, suffering,
Father in heaven and His love for struggling and striving." The social
men, of human love and servece, of the problem is not merely intellectual, it
coming age of justice and freedom is human. It will not suffice to cherish
and the healing of the world's sore great ideas and noble ideals. If they
rows. "Woe& of grace?' fell from His are to count for anything they must
lips. But among those who heard lie eapressed, in our contacts with our
were townsfolk of cramped and nar- fellowarien. 'T'he enthusiasm for hum -
row vision, who had no {heart to -under- anity is one thing; the enthusiasm for
.stand Or care for these high things, the individual man is quite another."
They were only disposed to criticize, But Jesus brings us all right up
and to make little of Joseph's son, the against the problem of our own per -
one -time 'carpenter: St. Matt. 25: sonal dealings with our neighbor's in
34-40. • this memorable picture of the last
Then shall the King say. In this judganent. He says that lives are to
parable Jesus sets forth the things be tested oh the basis of what they
that are above all else pleasing to God, have meant tG other men en terms of
They are to feed the hungry, give food, drink, shelter, clothes and corn -
drink to the thirsty. show itospitality passien. Many of us have not time to
to the stranger, clothe the naked., Weft read and ponder as we should like.
the sick and those who are in prison. The pressure of the days upon us is
For those who do these things the so heavy that we get little chance to
kingdom oa heaven is prepared_ Even examine t'he perspective of life. But
though they have not known or heard deeds of charity and kindness, words
of Jesus, or have not known that in of encouragement and help, the atti-
tude of hea-rty and -Tactical goodwill,
these must become the habitual char-
acteristics of our relations to the,
this way they were serving Han, they
will receive this great reward. For
Jesus had so identified Himself with
.
humanity and human need., that He brothers and sisters! among whom God
could truthfully say Inasmuch as ye, has placed( us, or ours should be a
have done it unto one of the least of I "fearful looking for of judgment."
Finishing the Late Hatched.
Late hatched chicks may need some
forcing to bring them into fair condi-
tion before the coklest days of winter.
Possibly the pullets cannot be expected
to lay before lanuary 1 and yet the
laying will commence sooner if these
birds are given heavy rations to de-
velop them as large as possible before
ey have to be housed for the winter.
Pullets that are late -hatched and
underfed in the fall are nearly alwaye
a loss as they frequently become
stunted and do not lay any eggs until
late in the next spring.
Boiled oats will be !consumed in
'large* quantities by the late -hatched
birds.. Place a pail of the eats on the
range where they can have access to
them at ,aed times. A large capacity
crop can be developed in that way.
Boiled pumpkin mixed with bran is an
appetizer of which the birds will eat a
great deal andit also expands the crop
and gives the bird the large capa.city
which stimulates rapid growth.
Send the late -hatched stock to bed
with a full crop. It pays to examine
the crops of the bieds after they go to
roost and note the condition of the
crop. If the birds,have plenty of food
before them and some Andividuale go
to bed with half -full croPs it meareo.
that those birds are.not good feeders
and they (should be culle,d out as' sbon
as they are large enough to bring at
least their cost of production on the
market.
The problem of late -hatched chicks
is serione en the farm as too many of
the young birds come in that class.
Frequently they are underfed, espe-
cially if the corn crop happens to be
less than uaual. It pays to feed thein
well or they cannetpay for the little
that they do get.
Shall BOITOW to Learn?
yotmg man who was igoing In debt
l'or his education, gave theefollowing
reaeon for doing co: "y the time X
finish I shall be in debt $800. To have
Waited 'until I earned this amount be-
fore going' to eeleeol wbuld have dee
leyed eno eevetal years. r can PaY it
back In half the time after I an
through eollege because of increased
earning power. therefore coneider
that I eave at least a year in my life."
Thin' Out Garden Plants.
Do not allow your plants to grow
to ci large before thinning them. Nearly
all' home gardeners plant more seed
than necessary, in order to get a fell
stand Cif plants. As soon as these are
large enough to handle easily, all ex-
cess plants should bepulled out, leav-
ing enough space betw-een each plant
remaining for the vegeta,bles to de-
velop properly. If this practice is not
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tbtele any good
ooNd Now ilea°
Mies Norton's smile was synapa
thetie, but it was also amused. "Ye
do?" she said. "Never? llowee that?'
."13ecause I shall never be able to go
away from home. It isn't that I don.'
love them all—of course I de! leor
my own pleaeare I'd prefer sta
Tighe there. Misa Norton, waft
to be service to the world!" IIer
:face shone, und her voice deepene,d
alenest reverently as she eaiii the
worels; ellen it changed unhappily as
she 'continued; "You see liowAt turns
outl 1 wanted to go to France ae the
r
t!
, .
other I had MY plans all
imicte, and then mother eirtiseat"woll
and we ,eimpla couldn't get a servante:
so I had to stay at home and just laiit
and: do things like that. It's 'always
that way. Other girls do the big things.
And l have to do the little ones!'
"What's the trouble this three ?"1
"Oh, another of those wiatehed
things,---measleel And ilowl Just
last
night I got a letter from, •DT,
Kathleen Mason saying that I might,
come down to Toronto and do some
special armee under her—a perfectly
wonderful chancel And to -day Tom ef
came down with the measles, and that
means Betty and Jack, of course. I
can't leave mother all alone Her
voice broke in a little sob, "I am so
disappointed le
"I know, dear, know." Miss Norton
placed her hand sympathetically an
the ghe's. "I happen to have been
through it, too. So I'm going to tell
you something that ,was a great help
to me in bearing my disappointments,.
It was a sermon that I once heard on
the text, The path of the just. is as
the shining light that shineth more
ind more unto the perfeet day.'
"I don't remember all of it or even
half of it, but this phrase stuck in my
mind: 'Nob lightning, you notice,' said,
the preacher, 'but light.' And he went
on to tell us that we want to do big
spectacular things that will flash
across the world like a shaft of light-
ning, but that God doesn't ask it of
most of us. He wants a steady day--
by-day light, shining more and more,
until it is perfect (ley- for everyone.,
We don't notice the lamplight or the
street light or even the daylight nearly
so much as we do the, magnificent
sheets of eightaing that &hie :acrose
the whole sky; but we leve by the other
light, and we measure by candle power
still! 'Not lightning, but light' "
• Interested.
Keep the Young Folks
The question of keeping the boys.
and girls interested in the farra is an
mportant onerancl. I believe it rests
with the parents to a great extent as -
to whether or not our boys and cares
become interested enough with life on
the farm to take away the desire to
leave it for 'the city.
Perhaps the method used by the
writer would be of interest to some,
for it has -Worked out well for us.
Three years ago I said to one of
my daughters, "Cora, I will give you_
your pick of one of our registered Jer-
sey heifer calve. I will give you the
calf with the understanding. that when
this ealf grows up and has a calf, that
ealf is to be yours, and when you sell
it you are to give me $100 for its
mother; the rest will be yours. I will
have the cream the cow produces to
,pay.for her keep, but you are to have
all the ineatease in value except the
$100 to pay for the calf."
When her heifer freshened last No-
vember she was placed' on tese for the
egister of merit andewill produce over
yea hundred pounds of butter as a
wo.-yeareokl heifer.
Her bull calf was sold thie fall for
$300, which gave Cora $200 clean
money, alter paying $100 for his
mother.
Later I gave one to another one of
iy daughters, also one to my san, the
ame bargain was made as with the
rat. The interest these -children take
Ter,seys is gratifying to me. They
followed', not only do the crowded con- 6.
ditions cause a tall, spindly, unhealthy t
growth, but the excess plants act as
weeds, 'using up the plant food and
moisture that should be available for
the crap.
The distances that Plante shoula
stand, in the TOW in order to have
enoug-h mom for proper growth varies s
with the different crops and with the fi
different varieties of each vegetable. ia
In general, plants elf bush beans eliould
be three or four inches apart; beets,(
carrots and salsify, two to four inches;
endive, eight to twelve inches:; kale,
eighteen to twenty inches. kohl rabi
four to six dnches; leaf lettuce, six to
eight inches; parley, three to six w
inches; 'parsnips three to four, inches; m
radish, one inch; epinach, three to lour se
inches, and turnips three to four re
inches. ' • ve
'Leaf lettuce is Igensraily thinned ao
several -times. The first thinning is
not done until the plants aro of such
size that a few removed' here and
there may be used as salad and will
give room for those remaining to grow
larger. Later a second and Lhircl thin-
ning takes place, again giving room
for further growth. By this method
great deal larger crop may be obtain-
ed from a limebect space than ,if the
small pltanks were given maxinimni
dia-
taneo at the fait thinning.
Radishes and carnate are brelinarily
not thinned( ' until stone are large
enough to use—unless, of couree, the
reed has been sawn exceptionally thick,
Thinning of epinach, too, is !delayed
until the (Small plants removed aro
torah enough to MO as "greens?'
Many gardens are through when the
fleet cama aro teleen off, Planting the
same vegetables ten days apart as
long as possible will prolong the pe-
riod tfor Treat green food from the
garden, e
have something to think about. They
study pedigrees, the correct
aretrue
ds,ucear je,eyest,:y., !satnocluibidieve me, they
This plan will work out with any
ne of stock, enly so the children, get.,
hat they are promised. I (believe that
eking your son or daughter owner of
mething good and helping thein get
sults in dollars, and, cents,- will go n
ry long, way indeed! in keeping them
ntented on the farm, and ultimately
malto them live wires for !better farm-
ing.
How —1—T-7.rea:t.—C—al—ves for
Scours.
Here is how I handle .calves which
are troubled with scours. At the
firet appearance of trouble I feed the •
calf raw eggs. I give one each night
and morning in its Teed ef, milk until
the tale has recovered. Ono or two
eggs will net be enough but several
ailment.—II. E. X.
until there is no furteree traces ca the
should be fed regularly twice each day
Buy Canadian product.
If potatoes are boiled slowly Inatead
of rapidly, they will not become
trumbly,, and will cook in loss time.
Before taking baked potatoes from the
even, prick with a fork to let the steam
11°)uectOrniTnir'ci"aegw4, VereTneet• them from
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