The Exeter Times, 1921-9-22, Page 7.i6gLM1
CONDUCTED BY PROF., HENRY G. BELL
Tho object of ehl,e deparement Nett) place t the . tier,
' !lee of our farm readers thee'advicegot an echnowledoed
enthority on ail 'subjeets'pertaining to soile and crope.'''
Addreee, alt eueetisinit to ,profeaseet",H.eilrY,G.
Pere of Thi WUwn P4hifehlog CompanyeLliniteci„'Terere
eO, and aneWeregwitlei.ippoer.in this., colipinii in the order
An 'which they ,ere reCelef;ed. When wrj,t.1119kIndy meo: •
ttlan this "'ljellrolt,ed it ipeadvieabletvehera.
inenedleteerePbr le ne4eseary that •a ifernped,:tinti
dressed envelopebe ecialeied .telth the • .question, 'when •
*.h.,4taffeeear will be melted dleectee ' • ,
GopYsight by W114611:11', ublishing Co.,, 14imitetl
: N. Age fhave four or five acres of would therefore a.dvise 'as follows—
land which is.qoiteheavy clay,- It has ,Applytabontea ten,of lune Per awe
been plowed and has ,been •in Pasture When the land 'is plowed this Fall or
for ;aimed fifteen years - quite heavy. next Spring.' Work it .inte the "land
June 'Spit' What' would 'be -the 'best
'crop to .plarit next Spring so I could
-sew it to wheat in the Fall of 1922?
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,When would be the beet taine,te plow
iftenel how raanY inches'deep should it
be PloWed? ' •
'Aoseyere Thv ,answelr to yawr cknos-,
tipn w4i,depond some extent upon,
YOUr are„ in, the' see-
ticln
wher4'cOtn el,aiii;Y7
_cro of corn cain fbe gtown end cut
foisiiage suffic.iently early to 'allow
the•,,grourid 13e..p1ow,e,4 and worked
ub for fall wheat in the, antuinn of
4:1522. If You taire, 'not In the'orifib'elt
. I Would .aclvieegreWing' mixttire' of
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By Ale.A. -e• LVILLE SlIAW•
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EPTEMBER 25
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ReVieW. Golden Text--Galacians 6: 10.
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tdoes, the ,rukal "Chilli -net.el? It li pede'tt"eir,ctrti..--L-Ly---and,s.urcte: of te‘eliz be -',a dignriied ai a i , „ ,b, .„, f , ° l'clUP"ill'age a interco,uree 4C 4111 men.
eeebesi that chihtren„, elle fool's, thn the "Yo•nd caPlibit9---:iitot alone: with, ptu.. i in, ,, v,,m,e h4 hl. vmerigehatsehtvee blieveVreast ,,I.,f of 4.1 emlat natipns. .Mei.eove: , the
truth- Inn, ,g2).iritt- of i1 it I Pilt t dente frP111 tae, .4114 ' -12.t, W th Student', , ot • eeroP • 1•R'°. ?ne-11"6 III ilin 'th Eead safe' 1
tile ,r1.90.-,'4,..ibit t9' en, excePni°11n1IY,' '-fre'ni• tl,te 't°w'.2-5' and ci0Fii'-'7, -7°11.11.4,Ple.n3ttaii'pe.aglig°11niSg il:t.(allVil'osrrtt: '-‘17'°11f j,nali aWt°3fill3ill'Ilhcie Palitrdatee-ssttafinh;itslia'edvRelnaad-ceelTixaids fl°71111er arl'll'e'
'bright- sehre'0,1 bo Y• 1-1,e' eone.g,ii.d„alenreed oaf, arnucdsuw,,a,°smx1..0,7t.""J:rily"" sll."1.11i.Pell'iay'glelacnust.-iururae.,,1172,,ti, beeji vio,ie"-ntly ,o,ppo-sel, Teeetee tht ,rolegg,"pheut ell th,ose laIndis, soffthatil,the,i.
moment, g'ave nee a swift , t . , , - , e • • - ve 9 ma , y up n 1
neat e_ecerri: ens hurled at" me ,his eon- ti:,70 11 11 '01.7 ,t1)-e'llitlileil-rv:d-asaybultn.,adng9eP. -I °J",e0,4110nu:rrac,r7d 4pnroued.X,',CITL024:Wexee icelliss,,It6te.'61jet,e! .1.011nlia. e-Ye.r . Y g° sa e ti, O. e
ellesiton, final and all -embracing: "All ,PertilltitY, `tO ''el'''Y.e, : ' II' i comes, the -chhaetrip))-iaienlovafe:. ,bwirolael dtirruilummairt,iii- We tnaY fellew Paul 2'1' ' hrs c°ta-
panieoe through , twee•leng journeye--
he cari gett." eration„ and, they aretbus preparing ,ity vehicle,
I might conclude • by dropping the thentselves to malte t.:11:at future a' over all prejudices and barriers'of na- to' Cyprus andt-Asia Minor, IVI'il,cedertia
topicat thiis" no -tilt as fully' cOvemed loY scientifiC -grueces"s a8'Well''' a financial tion and rape and creed aied make an, and Greece. We enter With him „into
.. - ,-, • men onT,ahoduno:3,in,telettua, lay .. or. the eitY, ,A,f..,,ter ei..1..ty, ,i,nt,o jewi,Sh.:_ynarogue,s
my boy friend's, brief statement. St-1aq,, ,succesT-a citizenship. sucesti, as wo..,11 brotherhood and „ood-
, • and rket li;eies, and werkShoPs, and
s 11°I., °i‘k:s" ' INvil•ngl:1,11. eesctiuraalantylc;,e,',12.1,habl8ettattoe'scitntla:riLl epaened (IP'6'""wCFSRIPq416,111"11°:‘• '8' e.' see, a'''''•
bece, awe, ', he lies not had ail he. could, as a personal success_
.iedllatel &frier plowing, Nex' ,t , et So to speak and bemuee there ing toward statesmen -tele as we , e - • sernbled throngs ea'gen listeners and
SPring geed it to barley, putting en 1,still exist for hire 'handicaPa se gre'atea suocets that "WEI ."Ct:Xlis b°e'i'1' : illr qa71.1.1wseihtholatlhe, hyirtn b):11:$ te, h000.,,,,islelgi Ivoneiensere some open and willing ears gle,d, to
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about a bushel to the acre, and at the that while the friends o.f.education. are, sills of lecal politics. piece receloe se egereat A message. But we
same.tame seed.N.0,13. a' mixture, Of, lialiering to; oVereente., thein all tate, :net .0e:relating to \ttp/ace,' maintaining hineseie ber the see' alSo Jeolons and hostile • ‘fa,ces,
.'eenunon, .ed 'and al•silee clever,' *beet
10 liie, of the foemerand 4 ,lb$,, of the
letter: per acre, or 'abont 12 to Ifi,ihs
Per, a,cre of .sweet 'clover. .
1 h in diate
inany of hipe grow up, snffer and :go There was a (lay when feeces and ,labor of bia hands and beconeing, as Jews that cannot e•ndere, to' hear•th,at
•out a life without having realized the walls were mee'e ess.ential to stifettzlhe'saTs,'all things to 11 men tha.t by t11( 1 f'ge etsaNabieP df which
e Sidered to be
In all t ineens he may gain some of the tileY dreamt le to be for the Gentile as
still argue and preach and plead, at the old city where I WaS .born the'
In order to ,supp t e lane p <
'available planifded to get the legumes to elem. away the handicaps fer, naries the orchatchs =la gardens, the
of e lerbilizer carreangetebout 3. pee an for all, who are to come ,along the wells of stone o -r brick OT tall spiked,
cent. ,arordorria; 8 per cent phtisphorie path of eitizenship via the way of the iron railin,g. And—let US mark this,
acid ,and per cent. pOtesh. Thie rural, hente and the /Ural, school: well—the jails were full of fencet
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shen -ewe the gram ereP and 'grass How much, education ean the come- climbers, evallehr.eaker prowlers.,
a goodevigorous -start. If the legumes try child take? .would perhaps be the thieves., , have livid, to see most
better , way of outtingethis question. of these Ponderoes „peetectionS" done
When the earth receive,s more rnols- away. As we came better to under-
ture than it can care for, we hatte stand the psyehology.nef mentahn re-
destruetive or wasteful 'overflow— actions we saw that Postiibly walls
flood; when, it reee.ives less than it invited elinelierst, , perhaps created
eare tare for, we have destructive OD thieves; as we also. found out some-
erastefur d.epriVationedeonght.- Our thing ,about the real, snielt of brother-
s
-measure of his Petsibilitle•s we neuet then theY are 11,'Di On
eve ny e perttinity each doing eurbesteStately,hoines, convents, the setniel
growing, aPPIT about 300 lbe. per acre rimietr "of this' •generatien • as possible centeteries).eYene were .tirretinded
by
b*ley tand oats, lal3out a leu.thel of make an. abundant growth, cut the
evil to the acre, which eould cut. first erop and turn tha second one
for mixed grain. As soon as the crop under in ord'ento build up the humus
is herves•ted, have the ,grotalid Plowed of t s sot •
iminecliately faxen 5 to 7 Melee deep Subscriber: Is it all right to spray
and worked up for fall wheat. At the potato vines on toth for blight, with
ei`ee, eeeet tete fen evete,ae it will' Bordeaux; or' Would you have to heve
pay y-ou to add eedditienial available a spray that youcan reach them from ,
un.der the leeves? , educa•tional float or &ought. The
top for blight with Bordeaux gives a be renneeal, Men and women must be Welk without, a visible sign, of fence,
corning citizens mUst not suffei from, hood and, the Shared:. good, we saw
that it naiglit be Safer to have a velvet
Answer: Spraying potato vines on proportion of schooling to need must lawn 'extend clear down to the side;
fair distribution of -,the fungicide fruitful,accord'ing to the need Of thein or ,even to ,lose" Tans apPle or a tomb.
the Pe!tatch 1,110Weve., if •'Want• a sent this cpiestioarin'still 41 1,1414t4 eva•y: ing weakness. Tie -vanishing Of such
, p4ertfood in the fosin-of ebont, 250 .to
809 lbs. of fert.ilizer pee'a,cee. For the
fail Wheat on you n; heavy Clay I -would
advise using an avelysts runni.ng about
2 Pel: ..atn'le:alia:'1-2 per eteFt•
pheespleceict aeicl .anct 1 2 per gent.
petash.. -
R. S., A. Would, I .get as: geod, set
sults frOno`APPIYingact,dePho§Ph4e
the ton surface ana' draggineit'intia
would' if r
AnetVei::' Best, reieiltS'
' from Phosphate:: rit-33t'r.,,isr.„-•Wer,Ice:47,
int;o taic 'soil:. datdline by, aPplic,ation
threugh, a fertilizer
object tigto get 'theePheestthate•
huted through the moist seif as, there:
weghlY as p,osecible." If the soil is dry
and the applied:thin is neadehreedcest
an, the eurface-, yon. will not get as
therough
a distribution through' the
growing arca as when the fertilizes
L' -worked i.114* the danip where it
CM1 MITilerhqt,ely diesolve end epreacl
through the 'Soil weten., •
T. W.: I -have a piece of ground,
. abet six- acres, whieh I planted to
oats last spring. I sowed abotit 200
lbs. of fertilizer to the acre and all. I
received was two loads of straw (ne Mr. Lionel Stevenson, suPerintendent
of tie., 'Sidney Experimental Station,
oats). I want to get some clover on.
an a bulletin recently issued, sets forth
what has already been aecomplisbed,
and at the same times describes the
requirements of nut culture. ,He sayi
that , on. ina.nly homesteads, in British
Colombia nut trees have been planted,
but, thatXeving to neeeet, WAY a few
hatresoevive.d. In' order to place nut
cultivation on a better, and, if pose
le, a .pa,ying basis, thc„ experiment's
spoken of were undertaken -at the Ex-
perimental Farm et :A.geseiz, and at
the Experimental. Statien on Van-
couver Wand. • Fine speeiniene of the
Persian or English walnut: are; to -be
seen on therisland.and in. the levee'
Fraser -v:alletr.:. ThiShfact leads to the
belief that theyatnan profit.ably
grown, Scene .fifteen or sixteen var-
ieties are being experiniented with:
The planting was made in and
Miring _the' early .growing period of, 'dey, 'Phis conclusion leads,ua to pre=, stone than to efeakeneMen by co -mot -
was wee, ..feecee,:ilsgPerhaPS, an out- heaven -and visionfhehearsthevoice endurance -we lose ,sight foe a nerecment
wardesymbor „thegpeestng other, Of, '..01.6-„Ohe, whesePeople,,.he.basbeen .0g:set:one ete ,eeteeeee
differentia.tioni betWeOn man farmer' ---tlt'PerseeJlte'hub"-toiOathite-s•Of'-t°therediieof:' priestseandegetternerszeand
and Maneinerehaotelbetvveen wernen on _ . • e • eneolingeenebee,liegeouldt elweetsesee
Ike farm in- the eity• e r e treesenghteonlYehiee apprevate
nose ,,where,,,,he,',gees lea.eleeittethoughte
overrall-,liisesteidtiesi:Whereehei reviews=
and- ,censid'ers deeply,. what:, he, ,bus
learnedeabotiteJesepeeGleriSt,eandefitedte
in that the crowning- -wisdom, the law
which is. hencefoith to govern his life.
He goee beck at length to, Darn,ascus
and' to Seemealeni to preath Christ.
faith and following:of 'Testae Christ.
The story of Paul's life as, far as, we
have followed it will be a fescinating
•
subtect for review. We see him first
as the carefully educated child of a
good Jewish. home, in the echoole and
university of his native city of Tarsus,
learning the, mathematics and the.
philosophy of his time, the Hebrew
and Greek langnages and literature,
and acquiring skillsin rhetoric and' de-
bate. We see him again in the woe-
derful city of his dreams, Jerusalem,
renevh4ed.and eerie:es both it $ his-
tory and its prophetic hope, studying
the ancient law, with the great
Gamaliel as his ',teacher. And again
he iS -the zealeuskofficer of the jewish
council actively engaged he trying to
stamp out a mischievous sect of pee.
wel, fOr the Jew, and Gentiles who
ere effencied w en told ef the felly
of their idol woeship. We fellow,Paul
and his comp, noes through scenes of
riot and confusion, amid th'e fierce
clamor of 'mob, before R01112-11
magistrates, who. usually tried to do
what was just, into prisons, and then
flightin t rth s and new
places of toil.
Paurs,,life becomes to us a great
extern:ale of ur.,s,elfech toil, a living
sacrifice. He gives himself wholly to
his, task. He 'has, become, he confessee,
:Ike bond slave of Jesus:. Christ. He
lives only, -to preclaim. the love and
eavingegrace of Jesus Christ. es
'he himself- -wrote,. "Foe. me to, live is
Chriet." And he believed that, in ail
haste& and sacrifice Christ was with
-"-Neyee forget," writes Paterson
Pie who profess to be the f°11"Ters 4 Smyth, "that inner secret ofe Paul's
er erucified Nazarene. Then by the life, the co-natant:realizing of ,the close
waYside, ad heproceedswith auth°Ti. - preSenceeaf his Lord- The.evholetvalue , StRo Construqtios.
tative letters, to „the Jewish magi's- ot,,,,this biogrpaphy is, lost,tif.eve forget - ,,, •
trate s of Damascus' he is suddesilY Christ in ti ' le f H- ervant• if , The stateltY of-Teed'.111'`IllanY Part,9 '
in admiring his faith and• courage and of the country this year „renders it
stricken as -with a thunderbolt from
ATMOSP
'CONDITIONS
'Atmospheric teniPeriatkire Iwo
\ilna:14'a-bge;l3stl..ua:1t-iPir'itgtv °;015InV,YteT6tb,010t le'014;
practice Vain gmaring instead- 4
'teak iraing. A temperatesee,
Ithough necees aloe Anti enefi, eh* . '
510410 cieees, kit:el:mental othent,
but in each 644 requires a libeled
lamount preciPitatien. Lite eliting
Or eerie' 044 12X1 frost` is very often
'injurious, to- crops, has harnessed
much of nature, and usted hut uk)
'one „e,ari Say 3'41 10, can eentrol
the weather, althea gh, mey o dify
it in, some instences "or overeeme,.eoluo
of. its diseetrous effecte.
The primary eouree ef all heat- ire
the sure oia Sol Shhiee, and heat aceda
light travel the Intervening g2,000;000'
miles et .spaee, with a velocity of 186,-
000 miles pee second. Some. of this •
heat is abeerbed transiteby
titles of dust, water -Vallee< end the air
i,tsele, thus inoreaeing the teenperature
of th,e air. The remeinclee is. J1 '34
by the :earth. .,
Loeel. conditiene have, a great effect
on temperattrre. Largo water exeee
such as small lalc.es, prevent high
temperature. The heat is icept mere
inoclerate 'beeau.t.,,e it takes neaely three
hundred tirnes es much Met to seapote
rata, jere,:xteitsealtentle.n pe,eac .ettahareee• tone <llecgeer:ci.
Large swanape end; 'a.,XeaS, of green
timber furnish Ilaage quantities of
-weter.to the air; als-o retain the steel -lig
water longer and therefore heve 'a
modera.ting effect. -
Paget is prevented by swamp. Iv oo•cle
end water areae, becauee they produce
a -high hurity and are net so readily-
ce,oled as are the large eleaxei' anca,ti
tl-tore'ugh, epplic,ation, • additional. tWhe.t,anust., the 'country -child produce
Sp149 _ be „eliteinted. whiehrdrive order4itattalmay:,Peat,me.e4Ibe de.
the, aiqui'd,np-..docier the lawer -treandS of."'htittba'kein theePlace ,where
el -Alike leaves. _ ThiSernethede.of;aPPilieli,e1 '."(15
,ca,tion is'''ingeertreicr in; theraigerpoe A New,Erre,Dateits.
ttate-gretVing .,seotibnts.: of ' Me:inee iatcl - A- faWatreltv:ere to the 'ffitest:i011eet ,
' Statede WOUlkEirivole, „an . exhaustive
,
study of' life and, living. as they are
' Nut Gro”ring„ in Conad,a. and -a:1, cthey sh°114t1,93e• It w°111 -d -at
-"Whether nuts, ,such as valnuta, least inVolve a:study of what consti-
stemmas, oheatnuts, filberts and cobs, bites Cana•dian citizenship and Can-
can be grown in Canada to such adian etates,manship, far it is not too
extent •as -to he „commercially success,- muc.h to say.' that we have entered
ful' is an open' question. Experiments upon a world -period, when the ,inter -
are being made at Experimental estis of farmer and statesman areas
Fame in British Ceflumbia to see if closely related ,as my right hand is te
such a thing is possible. These ex- my left: the national- body cannot
periments to be thorough will natur- afforcleto cripple or paralyze or ampu-
ally have to covey/a member of Years. tate ei,ther one!,
As, they have .been in 'operation only -• -Manet,"Of Us earl 'renteinbeiithenihe
for a limited; time, the ,results, as yet average magazine and newspaper took
aehieeed, -while encouraging, cannot account of fames and farmers chiefly
be said , to be altogether canclusive. fiene -the standpoint of concleeeension
toward men and women who made
daily elose contact with the dirt of
the field, the barn, the ehick-en yard,
the hog pen, or, from the standpoint
of the farmer as a comic or pictur-
esque contribution to a certain. type
of fictien.; or, in connection with va.-
cation idylls and poetry about the
antninating cow, the song of
ehanti-
cleer, the rosy cheek of milkmaids and
SO On. Neerlyeall this bas gene by,
thank God!To-day the farm. and the
farmer and his wife end family are
on all editoriAl pages that are worth
the name; ene great, field of journal-
ism sends out; shall I say, billions of
pages yearly; well edited, well illus-
trate.cl, ipSinted, 'for -rural readers
alone; the miarket reports and the
weather reports and the health reports
and the insurance reports,end a seciee
of other exact statistical documents
that/concern themselves with the busi-
ness World, in its most serious and
vitai as,Pects, torn their cleareet spot
lights upon the 'rural poeula,tion and
What it is doing ancl'thinking, The
ferm vote and the farm thought arid
the farm action are to bo dealt with.
The farmer is bene of our national
bone, flesh of eur national flesh, 'and
what ohr national life in its evolution-
ary oregoings has brought into vital
union, let him put asunder Who dare
--at his own peril. '
Make Their, Calling Sure.
Therefore—to return to our muttons
—what education can our rural Johnny
and Mary telce? I make unqualified
answer that they 'caii take exactly
what any boy or girl ean take: euch
education as Will mos; perfectly fit
them, to quote the great teacher. Paul,
to make their "calling an.d election
sure", -4 sure success in the broadest.,
.souridest sense of what the weed Sae-
eeit3 ean inean. And eyhat then is to
be the "calling and election"of the
notentry child? ,
Within my memory and yours, the
Three R's have given place to such a
bewildering EA of special projects
it and I would like to ,have something
to cut for hay next year also. Can I
sow, tiraothy and, clover this Fall, or
just tho timothy and sow the elover in
the Spring? What can do to get a
catch? Would land plaster help? If
60, how much would be proper to sow
and when would. the best time be to
SOW.
Answer: The climatic conditions of
the 'past eummer Were 'almost oppeeite
to such es woUld produje best, growth
of oats. Conse.queartly, tilde exop 12
very largely a failure all overecthe
previnee. The fertiliser. which: you
applied to your oats -will remain very
largely in, the eiaii ,for 'neat, year's
crop. If you ere inthe Fall whee,t-see-
tien our ground could be worked up
imanekiately eaid -itheat sown this
autunan. Under such a system good .
reaubis are ,g,t4501 by 'SD m 0 th y wan -le tine trees have attained eon.
sidera.ble size; orailsc a few have so -far
produeed nut e c'et good quality' in any
quantity. The American species of
chestnut, known as Oastanea dentate,
common enough' in Quebec and On-
tario, is , but rarely seen in British
Columbia, While the 'flavor is super-
* 'ied to the oats still 1°2' t° the `Ia•PaThee'''s, -83.14 •ul''Pb, feel:
izer thot aPPL - • chestnut, its small. wee is an 0, e
in the ,soil, if you wish to make stall
sure a a. clatch of grass and
clover would adviee the addition of
200 lbs. more featilizer et the time you
are drilling en pour wheat. This
immecilateay, peserteeee Week' Em-ope, Ceiliforrim and China. 'I'vvo
o these trees have produced prolific
crops of theeleard ellen type and one
of the soft shell almontcl. British .001-
urribia is eut the.range for wild
ian4 joiasti,er because talk; is ahr3Tay a pecans and up to date the,rir planting
eeed at the time the wheat as sown
and. applying the clover in the epring-
4usit as the .1alet enews are going off,
or as sten ea the ground is sufficient-
ly dry to bear a team. .
Wthile You Nvall haRe risriderable of
the Tier:Stec:el of the 200 lbs. of
to its finding a market abroad. Al
mends, both hard and soft shell; :have
been under experiment, trees having
been brought. in 19.13 from .southern
'give the •telaeateend the grass a. geed
start, preparing it for the ee•vm-e tests
ef 73.31,ter,.• ,
would not advise the aphication of
temporary' -stinralant. dees net add 114s n°t l'esult°6 '8'13Y great 6aleCes6.
any 11,115,,mifood, ansi indeed Operates et, Filberts are difficult to grow, and
let loose, seine a the pleastfoed that is
, already im the soli. Letting loose this
plantfo od time when the crop is
not growing actively may' result 12
,the low of some of the soluble plant,
food from tho soil; whereas the addl.
tion of the fertilizer advised would be
actually supplying immediate avail-
able food to the young crop.
13. Please tell me -what to do
'with lot on which nothing can grow.
havo about, one-half acre of black
sand on which nothing seems to grow.
'Ilte land is level and 'though there
usesl to be a great deal of water on
ft., I have drained it..
Answer: From your description
MU not ralb 10 to determine Whether it
is the chemical ecnateon. of the soli or
the bud physical condition of it that
causes its sterility. gine° tt is sand
end you ilave &dined thoroUghly,
but dila without 'effect, 1 sin the
opinion that tile mil is (1) t•Sour, (2)
Altogether too ,open ,to,retatr: suffi-
cient moistaire tor ocadt growth, and
Be pe,py-'111,10ergoe4..
thot it moot no%ki, ar?p,,, miter thim Act poorest on.o,
their success ha,s also been limited.
Butternuts, hickory 'nuts, and hazel-
nuts all yield well at Agassiz. Walnuts
have been experimented with at the
Experimental Perm tnere ntore
yoars than, on th,e .The trees
have gToWn..well, but the fruit; gen-
erally has not been up 'to a awl:ileac-
tory Marketable standard
4.
Fall Poultry Culling.
tI„xe p..er„seting, es --DA" '„Deee,- ette, epeeeeetee, Hehinde, ov-erethe
arrlers, as
„ , . cpne •Dal 34M -M7:1 ere He "lcriewelliin.'; lone blie "..f.ziendefin dire
oeniod,•efeehe, GreateWanbrought to a
elimaxethia ,deneelition , of walls, be-
tiveen ,,countrfandt town ,and, blessed
be the :law oof .mornerittiani which ie.:the,
servant alike or arid good, the good
work goes on! IVIuttah needs mutual
enxiettea, ;mutual service and suffer-
ing, modern _machinery-, goodoroa,c1s,
rural ,postal service; telubs for boys
and' girls, .elubs for -women, clubs for
men, clubs,f or the Whole famine-, clubs
for the rural citizens ef county and
proyinee arid ;nation, clieremunity enteao
Prises, -of :41eorte'tflesene,,geSope-rati-ve
merketing an& buying, ft). co-operative
woreleippirig,. and: • Playing—the§e,
crudely elassified, are strin,elef the bat-
tering ram -which. have beoken, down,
the old line .fences and -opened up
.
Avenues of' exchange betimen farm
ind farm, farm home and Own home,
farm, supply erel town, demand, farm
demeaul and town supply.
, The Ileett step in poultry culling is
fall culling of. the poultry flock. The
fanner who is really endeavoring to
breed up high -laying strain cannot
eafford to lereed frona has entire flock
.
of. liana' and pttltlets. It win pay him
-to make up a spekial breeding flock
each spring, wing yearling hens OT
Older in the. flock. If the selection
of theme hem is left mail late next
whiter, it will be bawd to plek them
out. The proper time for this work is
in 'September or October. 'rho flock
should he gene elVer itiet the sarwte as
In the sumer editing but with the
idea 01. *1011g *01*t the, belt hew
A Sacred Trust.
'This breakin,g of barriers -means
that hosts of children twill most cer-
tainly find their "callingand election.'
anywhere but on the farm .and,, of
course, not an incensiderable number
of town and city children , will find
theirs anywhere but in the towns end
cities. As already suggested, this is
no matter for dismay, either way it
falls out. It means surely that Nature
is at her age -ad busiriees of . restor-
ing a lost balance, getting a nen* grip
on her children, putting new blood into
tired veins, tal„-ing care as she best
knows how of the total' interests of
her one family—the human race.
In any own mind I make no differ-
ence between the eduCational needs,
fundamentally speaking; a -ttle coun-
try chiki and the city Does not
eaeh mariechild end each wernan-child
need to be ready for LIFE, first, of
011 and last of all? And dare you say,
or I, any teacher or educator or
leader of any type 'oeokind say into
whet grooves the life is;,to be forced?
To escond to the rural "youth one whit
less privilege than "all,he can get," is
to rebuild the fences of long ago and
continu.e to create the type_ of anind
that, resenting fences,' attacks that
which the fence proteeti or else re-
fuses to see the fencee 'come down no
matter how it might gain thereby!
Ea.& child that comes. into the world
is absolutely entitled the best the
world has for hina-Laall ems get!"
Each. dila is his owe. man, SO to
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Pants ,town expeliences gieepoint 16
theexhorta,tion,vrithietchich the lesson
for toeday begins. He knew what it
was 146 be overtakeh inea fault. Right
in the midst of 'a career_ oloperseeu-
very itriportaait that. no foildee„he al-
lowed Itti te .wa,ste.e. The cern "cro,p,
tunatelyievheretit a el een,,prop ere-
ltre grown, goede, Chen
beezeve,dreby dreleigeineithe elle**, hot e
,nroteeeithczt,zerims
theeniatericeleSevedthat tieetheectueliet
-feetlepeetelucei. • , The neestepreafitekeleil
„Way :to presexere 'cornfor, -winter; feede
a -ng, is-inallfe-sile, This •steatement hae
beere amply been,e. out tiree eeid tirne
again. The Experimental Farm,s•nt
But he meets .ho,stility, es in peril of areoeeneectetl 01 Ilia ein. It vras•wleen.
tion he had been smitten to thegnound teams of sm..10, const:17.t..01.17.which, a -re
Ottawa haetet trittitett "ditl'erent sva-
his life and is persuaded to rebel -Tr- te begone& end chagrined blind an•cl. con, '"derat -wl'th '171 E'XalthltbrIM
hie home an Tarsus. Here and m the fused, that a Mesteenge ee Jesus ceme 102, available, Irene the Publicia.tior.e
carries on work, until Barneloas him "Brother Saul " Branch.
neighboring regions of 'Syria and oi eel
Olinda he bears his testimony and
who thadheen his friend in Jerusalem
ceinestto,invite e toch, to
share -int the work of' the mixed Jew
and Gentile church of that city:
A year passes end the eity anissien-
ary work ,in Antioch leads to the in-
auguration of an enterprise Which is
to carrytthe gospel to distant lands.
Jewish eommunitieS ire the islands of
:the Mediterranean sea,: and .all about
its coastai.,, seem tol. invite thent 10
come. ' Their rknoilLs....ge .both of Re..
brerw and Greek Makes it poasible for hien, we MaY do for others.
and ,leading him. o-ut 4.iicto liberty. For econeany in 'labor the silo sh,oel (1,
Again, vehen he went to Je-,resaleni, heebuitt as near as passible to the icd
filled CV/th 'remorse for 'his past actions evein anl sheltereelefrom the "nerth
6141 'eekTng 10 nti'n'E-` -e°" -ed- zeal visI11 ie not tore:seamy to take ne-
on behalf' of the church, he was met the seaCe- inei.de-get a been. It tiheeitile
with- seispiciee, end disbelief by "all" -
na be •everloolee ti-ae tee reger
but one man Barriaba.s', who had faith
ed and' net -only took his part then, than the -s,naailee, elee, that, the Itiglier
diameter costs le..es tier ton conseity •
to. 'believe that Saul had been_ conve-rt-
but afterward, having a special piece the silo the reore silage it
of work to be done sent for him tebe per foot of height. A silo' 12 fee:te.
his partner in it. Pael" knew the im diameter and 24 feet high
sweetness and• s.trengtth of hretheidY front 55 to -60.. toile- of coml. ,silage,.-
helpful-nees, and What others did forreas -foot t o f the a,rcia-
VcOe
height will hold felly 100 tons, evhile
you have no need of the science—the
arte:-/t the literatures!'" Anti you; little
girl, will reekand wash _and .raise
bable.s—thet,Thircl or perhaps the
Fourth Beolc'Will be enough far Your
•
Trained for Right Laving.
Quickly and sketchily streaking, the
rural child is, to be trained for Self=
hood.; Citizenship; Parenthood; BU.Si=
ness—an intelligent understanding, a
soil and sky, Plant life, tree life, ani-
mal and Igo, hacteria life; the
business of the. business NkcIdi as he
meets 12 12 everyday life; -the business
of an -iniderstanding of machinery of
every type end kind, for he has to do,
firsl and last, with the highest -types
as wail aa the simpler forms of me-
chanics. He must be trained for law
observance, whether it be the hay a
"self,reverence, self-knetwledge, self-
control," game laws, land laws, laws
that governrthe financial world, prohi-
bition laws, the rules and larvw 01
politics and statesmanship, laws of the
Weather, of commerce, of 'inters.tate
and even b.:be/material relations. He
must be trained for home -making, for
community -making, for "state -making,
for world -making and Other World -
have not touched upon specific
agencies nor made specific suggestions
. .
as to how, all this is to be adcomplish-
ed.. That is not my immediate prov-
ince. I only make my plea that we
make practical answer to the question,
speak, and 'until he ean act and choose
for himself, hie training is a solemn "Row much education does -the rural
child need?" by ;giving him, up to the
trust -9. natio,nel trust—et world trust
—Ito be, administered without the vcaeirTgleitm, 011 he couairi take
enviszia*sini,bau,e celin
e
damning decision which in the past ,
li,a,s said., in the case of the farm dhild, use'
all .theThe Right Hammer for Metal
rthat vre, who are gray-haired, feel as "You will raise wheri
at ad hogs-- , ,
For rougen work atio heavy pounkung
An Illuthinat int Subject
The coal -oil light's a burning bright.
(It will, sometimes, :when it feels right) ;
Pat sets there reading, slick as sin,
The latest poultry. bulletin;
Then, half to xna, and half to me,
Pa ups and speaks: "I see," says he,
"As how correct illumination
Will make hens lay like all CreatYll
I've thought -it out; the help's all hired ;
I guess I'll have the henhouse wired.
Ma.fitOOPWaind peers and sews away,
Does Ms, and, then I hear her say
"I 'vvisht.1 was blamed old hen.
Maybe they'd wire the homestead then!"
a machinist's or blacksmith's bail -peen
lea.nemer is the tool to :use. It is made
for ,the 'special purpose. Of pounding
Garpentors' driving tools, such ae
hammers and hatchets, are notAtetenxie
ad to. be uaied in pounding on heavy
Metal.' To use them with cold chisels"
will soon hatter t•he facea Off Abe car.
ptstei's ±00115. Tendert:11g them virtu,
iron or driving inetal '
B. J. S.: 1 have a duck which laid
over seventy-five eggs. Then she
wanted to set and we let her. When
she came off she drooped around and
e 16 -foot silo 80 feet high hold'
about 120 tene.
The cone:tete Ale hoe the Advantage,
ethe,rs in perroenency end stability,
but the iMtial coot is greater than for
other -Lynes. Net oni,y is the pon=ele
'eel° permanen.t `but it- is fireproof,
verznin-pioef, and when empty it re -
her 'visite the rioet 'severe winds. The 4341131hweorul df feathers erasr 01:11 eda drognag:e 2.1
07oPen ma.intenance &tartlet that need be
her mouth as though gasping for given.8 Well aenStracle3re0
13
ei.ete,s4
lo
breath. Thought phaps she was is -tbe teewe efeeetitesideettai
moulting but it seems as though she with a -wash of Portland eernent and
ought to be better by now. Can you
Id! me what to do for her? Alva give
the best feed for young ducks and tell
if they can be picked during the sum-
mer.
When mettle* beeeding ducks -gape
and appear rough end lacking in vital-
ity it is usually due to lung trouble.
It is often caused by dampness in the
house or lack of range. Possibly the
strain a heavy laying folloWecl by a
long period of setting on eggs re-
duced the strength of the bird and
made her susceptible to lung trouble.
A little cayenne pepper in the food
may be helpful. Isolate th,e bird in a
dry, sunny house and die may recover,
but treatment of melt cases is difficult.
Ducks can be picked the same as
geese a.nd at the same time. When
the birds begin pleats; at themselves
It'. the A -nth -1g end seem about to, shed
it is time to make an examination and
piele them if the feathers seem ready.
A good ration 1' or ducklings can be
made of one part corn meal and four
parts bran with a little how -grade flour
to stick sI tagerbber. Then add about
five pet centa coarse sand:After the
third day a sprinkling of beef scrap
and gre.en rye should be added to the
mash. ,
After the eighth week a goo?, fat -
alii?I'MasgePa, ii*agnuch ait a ticked or
L tiud heinlner 6.64 NOil not dnlv
-WithettE Clog*.e1Ittly eapli,tetg trael
the nail bead. This eillPing rellatti
iii damaged -ma.* and bruired fingers,
let torn
bent nails' and It pers. Tot
ridoC tho evtl, grind Cite face of
hammer till it is, per,/ectlqr ani)0004
then keep it in tha,VeOnciftion,
water mixed to the ceneistency of
thick cream. Once in three or feur
yeare, ie -often enough 1' ca' this- treat-
'rnent.
Deere are several forms of concrete,
sites., but petheps the best for a farm-.
er to build, is what ie termed the mono-
lithic, wille.h is roede by frlli.iig in, the,
Soft mixture between „ forms raised
from day to day nis building proceeds.
Thm
e aterials needed are Portland,,,
cement, sand and gravel. - Except. fee
a good forerosn no ekilled habor is
required. The thicknee,e of the wall
is usually 6 inches. The deors, may
be two types, either coeitinnous,',, or
intermittent. The latter is probably
more universal and gives a stroug:er
-wa21. The openings ere,usually 2 1e01wide by 8 feet high seemed 2 to A
feet apart.
The qu,antities et' materiel needed:
naturally vary with the eize ebm
silo. A silo having a diameter of 14'
feet and height of 82 feet requires
45 barrels of cement, 14 cubic yards
of ea,nd and 28 cubic yeexte of broken'
stone er gravel. The proper proportion.
of the materials for making the ce-
ment are one part cement, two of se,nd,
reel four of stone for 'wells end one
part cement, 2•Ya of eand and. Ave i
atone or gravel, for footings and floora,.
teninie ration for ducklings eonsists 051 ,tearvessieg being over earlier thian
three parts corn meal, one part low-
grade flour, one part green food and
three-fourths part; of beef scmp. This
is given three times each day.
Be noblol And the nobleness that
Belan ether men, el•ceptaw, but neve/
And, rt.oe in majesty to 314,0
th12 oWn.—.1mnes,Itassell
Farmers Should not 4:MY:le45V10
rake '41r MAW natural aolitto11a.
Flea' b.tn raiteed ‘„that way ts,a,
fty rather eimi uu awe. To alOite a
t oat of ham tannar &lioutd
then in the pink sif oeingiOlow
yb,dol.*, 16*11. Of*
Oiler ed to*
usual will allow titne for the con-
struction of the 6110 be,fore it need be
used this autumn, excerpt in those sec-
tions whore the corn is already ready
for putting b. Corn may be ensiled
from the elsecle, however, prtivided it
is vial moistened with water raring
the filling profess.
This will be a fine,f411 for eleianinix
thc coc;harrt ,4f1.1.21t,harvept
.00,.*r.117.„ Desi ndi ibrolcod-,AnrOutt
nici„blig4 eanitemi ten',he eat .o4t 'tot
a0f511t410' at 'Ws one ' yeas:
B t4ettpettallityi„
.,„*"ffige v!, lop bizi.
th.got