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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-01-06, Page 6Page 6 THF. W1NGHAIVI IIMES • r• <, 0 o!, • Making the Little Farm Pay By C. C. BOWSP1ELD A city Man who owns a farm of ten aeree in the district near Toronto is !giving a good deneenstration of inten- shve agriculture and successful mar- ; ., keteng. He raises a variety of pro- duce and sella direct to consumers. Re has a family trade in the towns near him and gets full retail rates feh all the supplies he can produce. The customers receive fresh gnods and fair treatment, both sides being well pleased with the arrangement. "It's fun to make money from the land," says the new farmer. "My , wife and daughter help me to raise the produce and to wash it and pack • it neatly in boxes or baskets. We make our work a pleasure. What we are doing others can do. City people 4'an make money on little farms and enjoy life while they go along." The average of farms in the pro- vince is 130 acres, but in the dairy regions they are considerably above the average. By modern methods of agriculture the owners of ten -acre tracts are accomplishing as much as those on the big places. *see:SS:Wee:zee ON A LITTLE TEN ACRE FAIIX. A farm of 200 acres is capable supporting in corafort twenty or mo families, instead of one or two, an with a reduction of acreage and mor thorough productive methods, foo will be supplied for the increasin pepulation of this country. Much o the farming now ie slack and waist ful. It takes a great deal more hel than is usually kept to properly wor the average place, and as farms ar cut down in size and owners multipl there will be greater absorption o labor and more general prosperity The steady advance in prices for com modities makes modern farming paying proposition. Business sys tem and energy will add to the goo results which are being gained. Bet ter marketing is a great need wit nearly all farmers, and city men evil help to 'work out this problem. For the present the ovveters o small farms close to a town can do a the York County man is doing. Th provincial cities like Brantford Peterboro, or St. Thomas, or even th villages of 1,000 to 3,000 imputa tion, offer good marketing opportuni tee. It is feasible for produeers t supply goods direct from the farm t the town family. It is thought by many that owners of large place scone distance out cannot sneceed in private marketing. In other words it may not be possible to market al farm products direct to coesumers This is an unsolved problem and wil take years to work out. Those who produce on a large scale, tieing 100 to 200 acres, may conclude that it is better to sell to dealers. Those who become expert as truck, gardeners make their land do double duty every season, raising two or three crops of vegetables between April and November. There are many of the most profitable vegetables that can be grown quite late in the sea- son, enabling the gardener to get three crops from the land. This sort of thing takes good tillage and lots of hustling, but it pays. When the owner begins to prosper he cart afford to erect a greenhouse, especially if he has good help around bird. It is fortunate to have consid- erable labor in the family, but in all cases it is best to know just what help is availab' • for the neriods of heaviest production, when vegetables •anel fruits must be gathered and mar- keted without delay. A greenhouse enables one to grow flowers and truek the year through. of re e- a o Drying Seed Corn. Corn that has been picked from the standing stalks contaite a high per cent, of moisture, especially if it is immature, and unless the tnoisture le removed the seed will mold and much of it become worthless. Pur- thermore, unless tiiis nsoieture is re- moved the vitality of the seed will be reduced by freezing weather. The attie of the house or upper ileor of the granary or barn makes a good plaee for drying seed corn if the win- dows and doors are so arranged that a current of air Will pasts through and It Is free from moisture. Seed corn should not be etored in the same Part of the building as binned grait going through the aweating process: nei- ther should it be stored In an DODO - etre with or above live kook, as it will abeorb coesiderable inoleture in I slob ease, gvery pretetution sesonld he taken to prettide for a free Current of dry air ter 114110•Vettbetesiestitelli from the tern. HARD TASK. It W,earied Hiro, and Yet We All Face the Same Problems. A ft,ietul ouce aseed auaged man e bat caused him to complain so often at eventide of pain aud weariness. "Alas," replied he, "I have every day so much to do. I have two falcons to tanne two hares to keep from running away, two hawks to manage, aser- peut to conflue, 11 liou to chain and eick man to teed and wait upon." "Well, well," commented bis. friend. "yon are busy indeed! But 1 didn't know that you bad anything to do with a menagerie. How, then, do you make that wet?" "Why," coutieued the old men, "lis- ten. Two Valcons are my eyes. which I must guard diligently; the two bares are my feet, which I must keep from Ivalking in the ways of tea; the two hawks are my bands, which 1 must tmin to work flea I may provide for myself and those dependent on me as well ns for a needy friend occasionally; I Ile serpent is my tongue, which I must keep ever bridled lest it speak un- eeemly; the lieu is my heart, with which 1 bave a continual tight lest evil thiugs come out of it, and the sick man is my whole body, whicb is al- ways needing my watchfulness and care. All this daily wears eut my strength." CAPTURING A GIRAFFE. The Animal Is Too Fragile to Snare In Traps or Pitfalls. Perhaps you have often wondered about the scarcity of giraffes in pub - Pc zoos. The reason that only a very few menageries can boast of this ex- hibit is on account of the difficulty in capturing and transporting them. The long legged and long necked ani- mal, keeinof eye and nose and ear, can see, smell and hear a hunter miles away. Hunters cannot employ traps and pitfalls against him. His fragile legs would be crusted in a trap, and both bis 'legs and neck would be bro- ken in a pitfall. There is only one way to capture a giraffe alive. He must be surrounded and chased until from Omer weariness be staggers helpless into a bamboo in - el osu re. Peril lies In shipping the giraffe for bis voyage on the sea. The glraffe's legs break very easily. If he slips the fragile underpinnings double under RIM and snap. In transferring the ani- mal from shore to ship his long, belp- • less neck may become tangled in the tackle or strike a sparmast or shroud, In which event its all over with Mr. Giraffe. Couldn't Leave. They were late at the special sale and found a crowd clear out to the doors. "Isn't it dreadful?" asked No. 1. "Perfectly awful," replied No. 2. "Think of cultivated, intelligent wom- en in such a jam as that!" "How can they endure .:,e?" "No woman of dignity would be caught in such a mob, and I am going right back home." "So am I." "Then come on. Hold on a minute, though. What's that woman saying?" "Why, that she got three cakes of regular ten cent soap for 15 cents. Oh, Susan, how can we go home?" "We can't. Take hold of my hand, turn your shoulder to the crowd, and we will push our way in there or die in the attempt." Temperature of the Earth. It has been generally believed that the temperature increased at almost a constant rate from the earth's surface toward its center, but this supposition appears to be incorrect in the light of recent experiments. In one mine the average rate of increase in tempera- ture, carried down to 8,000 feet, was one degree for each 250 feet of de- scent. Various results have been ob- tained from measurements in other places. No temperature variations were shown between depths of 1,400 feet and 2,300 feet in the Kalgoorlie mines in Australia. These and other observations are considered as indi- cating that the increase of tempera- tures with depth in the earth is not governed by any general law. No Royalties Called "Baby.0 One noteworthy feature about royal- ties is that none has been called "baby." From their earliest years the royal children are always called by their names or possibly by some pet name, but an English prince or prin- cess is never called "baby" either by relatives or by his or her nurses. From the age oeefive a prince is styled "sir" by his attendants and a princess "mad- am." -London Standard. That's Different. "I know her father does not like me. He wants me to go to work in his fac- tory." -wen, why don't you prove yottr worth by going? Then there will be wedding belle and a happy ending." "I don't know about that! It's a dynamite factory." Definition of a Drop. Zn the nesv British- pharmacopoeia a "drop" is defined tie mining front a tube of which the external dituneter is exactly three millimetere. twenty such drops of water at I:1 deft:tees C. being equivalent to one milliliter or eubic • centimeter. Nicely Flavored. Newlywed rat dinnete-This lettece ecnnething fiereto. Did you weell it? M. eteIwet1.Ofeo•ursta I did! And 1 Used petturnen Seep toot SOME WAR TIME DON'TS Mr. Horatio Bottotnley, editor of "John Dull," has crystallized a few ideas into don'ts for use at the present time: Don't allow the home to be unduly affected or depressed by wur, Don't, on the other hand, allow the war to make no difference. Don't for ons moment lose eight of the fact that the Huns can be fought in the home as powerfully as in the field. Don't forget that money wi:I win the war, and that, in the long run. the home will have to be taxed to find the meney, Don't forget, therefore, thet the find- ing of the money will depend largely upon you. Don't fail to look around at once and see where you can retrench, hut above all, where you can prevent waste. Don't forget to preach that in war- time waste is a crime. Don't despise the idea of running your household as though you were a Kitchener in command. Don't go without anything that is necessary to health of inted and body, but - Don't get anything which you don't really need. Don't alarm them or sadden them. Don't let them go without anything which is vitt.] or which would lower their vitality. Don't think that children are not im- mensely interested in the war. They are. Don't fail to see that they do their "bit" under %your gencralship. GOOD SENTENCES. Luxury tends to selfishness and coarseness and the swamping, of the higher manhood. -Malcolm J. Mc- Leod. You want mortal patience if you love a man. -Oujda. When. the judgement's weak, the• prejudice ts strong. -Kane O'Hara. Music lends- expression to that for which speech has no words. -Carmen Sylva. It is a goodly thing 'to die with the blessed consciousness of never having taken advantage of another's infirmity, or poverty, or ignorance. -Henri •Per- reyve. We are builders of our own character. -J. F. W. Ware. The sand is flowing out of the glass, day and night, night and day; shake it not. You have a work here: -Gen. Gordon. By trouble we learn the way of right- eousness -that is the way of obedience. -Lyman Abbott. D. D. The craftsman who fashions with his own hand the shapes which he has de- signed in his own mind, after the desire of his own heart -he, at any rate, is not a living machine. -G. Wyndham, M. P. Truth is a structure reared on the battlefield of contending forces. -Dr. Winchell. Youtb is invariably present in the old age of a great man. He neve t com- pletely loses life's first elixir. -Prof. Harris -Bickford. The gentleman exists to help; he has no other vocation.-T.T. Munger. We should not be worthy to be the sons oi. our fathers if we did not go forward on the plain path of national duty. -Conan Doyle. Man gives from principle; woman from sympathy. -John Pulsford. There is no greater philanthropist in the country than the working man who shares his loaf of bread with his neigh- bor. -Mr. Will Crooks. Leisure for men of business, and business for men of leisure, would cure many complaints. -Mrs, Thrale. Truth, like cork, will be uppermost at one time or another, • though kept drevn in the water.-Igaac Taylor. It is a great service to create an hon- est smite as e meet one` another in this heavy -lac en World. -Rev. Dinsdale T. Young. Judge Barron at a recruiting meeting at Ayr, scathingly condemned selfish indifference to the war, The Rev. H. T. Stannage Boyle, Dean of Divinity at Trinity College, has just been appointed President of Kieg's College, the Church of England Uni- versity for the Province of Nova Scotia, in succession to the Rev. Canon Powell, now rector of Holy Trinity, Toronte, Owing to the pressure of present duties at Trinity, Dr. Boyle will not be likely to take up his new responsibilities till March 1, Rev. Mr. Boyle is a former well-known Rector of St, Paul's Church, Winghatu, and old friends here are pleased to hear of his appointment to his view position and best niehes will follow bin, to N'ova Scotia Children Cry SONG IN JANUARY. "Snowflakes falling lightly, Sparrows calling brightly Through the empty stretches, Satitewhite and clear, Made the heart beat loudly, Vibrant, glad and proudly - Le! now cones grey winter - Joy -time of the year. Winds are filled with rapture, Music fine they ettpture From the elm -boughs stately, Playing violins; Children sing their gladness, Gone'the old year's sadneee. Mather Thee's forgiven All her crying sins. Face the future brightly, Long day in and brightly, Gird yourself with Gout•age, Wealth of strong hope bring! sOod above to guide you, Fight whate'er betide you, Till the heart's grey winter 'Wakes eternal Spring!" -Dr. W. J. Fischer. .1111111•Mamp..•••••••001.5.1.,... Sweden is reming copper mining. Queensland devotes 147,743 acres to sugar cane raising. In London, only persons over the age of 10 may pawn goods. Chinese in San Franscisco are pte- paring to fight the change in Govern- ment in China. Illinois has more cc al -producing counties than any other State, 51 con- taining mines. (Mina Water, Light and Power Com- mission announced a third reduction in •power and light rates. If you count the number of times the letter "z" is used in a book, yob will find the average to be less than one in a thousand. Arthur Outten, of Chicago, formerly of Guelpb, sent poi) to the Guelph Branch of the Red Cross Society, with his Christmas greeting. W. M. Appel has been granted a cer- tificate of naturalization and has been again elected Reeve of Tavistock, two other nominees retiring. Introducing air into water to produce an emulsion, a French engineer has succeeded in raising it in a suction pump to a height of sixty feet. Pte. David Upper, 110th Perth Bat- talion, died in Stratford General Hospital of blood poisoning; his father- in-law died Sunday, and the funeial had not been held. Chronic rheumatism so bad he couldn't hold up his arm; is alibi of a man on trial in Wyoming for holding up and robbing fifteen stage coaches in Yellowstone Park. .The doctrine of "honor among thieves" has collapsed at Sing Sing Prison. It became known that the outfitting department and the shoe shop had been robbed. Managing John. "You really must impress upon John the folly of bis line of action." "WIlat's the use? He won't pay the least attention to ine. He'll only listen to fools now." (After a short pause.) "You speak to him." -Exchange. Facial Foliage. "Do you think whiskers would im- prove my appearance?" "I hardly know, old chap. What va- riety do you contemplate cultivating, the kind that bristle or the. species that droop?" - Self Reliance. "Never complain about what you can't help," said Mr. Optim. "And yet," repliedn Mr. Pessim, "there's no excuse for 'complaining about anything else." Strenuous Kindness. She -Here's a story in the paper that tells about such a kind policeman. He -What did he do?, She -He found a man asleep in the street, it says, and fanned hint till he woke up When Ma Takes Up Oratory. When a lady finds out she can make a speed) the husband may as well put the children in a boarding school, strangle the canary bird and renew his acquaintance with the fellows at the club.. A Dutch Custom. Lookiug'glassee are commonly to be seen imaging outside Dutch dwellings. These are so arranged that persons sitting inside can without being seen enjoy a reflection of all that is going on in the street. Making It Strong. Racots-I'm buildihg an icebox. Eg,bert-Oh, are youi "les. What do they put in an lee. box to make it strong'?" "Onions, I believe. Have e Purpoeo. .A life without a purpose ie 0 enigma, dritting thing. Ilvety day we ought to reuew our purpose?, Saying to ourselves. "Tliis day let tta, tale, n sound begin. ning. for what I have hitherto done IS „ ChM'A 6aftillIrinti VS wen ex peteled in 1.1:”itr•-(114. more we die FOR FLETCHER'S, pease of it the tenor ear possession.-- Motor fl'alo _ eAs-roP1A(4 TAMING A BAD MAN With a Passing Glimpse of Native Life in Alaska. AN INDIAN, WHO WENT WRONG In the Absenoe of Uncle Sam's Com- Missioner He Cut Loose and Terror- ized His Tribe, and Then the Judge Returned -The Meeting and Result. There are'precincts in Alaska with a large native population where it is policy to try a case at times without actually having a session of court, writes H, S. Farris. There are a few isolated eases of Alaska natives who have been bluffed into becoming law abiding persons after the commission of a misdemeanor, when if they had been tried and given a term in jail they would have become conflrmedjail- birds. A. good illustration of this is the case of a native in one of the small interior towns. Now, most Alaska Indians are tame --very tame -and this fellow be- came a bad man unexpectedly and ac- cidentally. He suddenly pointed a rifle at a small group of his fellows and let out a yell. His act struck ter- ror in the breasts of all the tribe, which was muck to his liking. This native knew that the commis - stoner for his precinct had gone to Seattle, and "going to Seattle" means, to the Alaska native, all or any part of the universe outside the boundaries of the territory. Also the "gubment" had been considering the appointment of a deputy marshal for this section of Alaeka, but the "gubmeet" moves slowly, and as yet no deputy had been named. So every day it was necessary for this wild native to make a demonstra- tion before one or more membersof the little tribe, It amused him, and besides, it was profitable. He would suddenly appear in the home of one of his neighbors, brandish a knife or a gun, emit one terrifying "whoopee!" and the field was his. He would then take any article of furniture or any- thing In the way of provisions that s'uited his fancy or appetite, after which the village would be normal un- til the next outbreak. At thnee they uttered feeble pro- tests. "I think maybe judge come back pretty quick; maybe you !Ketchum it." To which the wild oue asserted, "Ire jun no 'fraid judge, no 'field marshal, no Wald 'skookum house' "(jail. At last the news -came to the village that the commissioner bad returned and was now at his headquarters, twelve miles clown the river. So that night some of the bravest of tbe braves slipped quietly into the bed mane; cob. In, and before the enemy had recovered front his surprise he was tied hand and foot. The following morning he Was placed in a sleeping bag, trussed as he was, and sledded to the mining camp where the commissioner was lo- cated. A committee of three natives waited on the commissioner at his office that afternoon and explained the situation. Among other things their spokesman stated that "this Injun talk, no 'fraid judge, no 'fraid marshal, no 'fraid 'skookum house;' that's • whatsemat- ter!" The commissioner went at once to the house where the bad Wen had been taken. The native lay on a cari- bou skin in the middle of the room, bound hand and foot, while around the room were squatted some Jetty mem- bers of two neighboring tribes. All awaited the "trial" with much interest and anticipation. The commissioner ordered the native released. One fellow produced a knife, cut the boucle and a.ssieted the had one to his feet. There were only two ways out. The native must be jailed or bluffed into being good. As the native's family must be provided for, the latter course was adopted. The commissioner step- ped close to the bad man, looked him in the eye and asked, "You no 'fraid judge, no 'frald marshal, no 'fraid skookum house?" All was perfectly quiet. The eyes of the natives were centered on the two men in tbe middle of the room. For almost•a minute the two men looked each other in the eye, but at last the bad man wilted. His eyes fell, and he stood like a small boy caught in some mischief. "Yes. me 'fraid," he said.- Caee and Cottunent. Ancient Oath Taking. A method of taking the oath far mere hygienic than kissing the boOk was that observed at the Forest of Dean Mine court for about 500 yenrs, begin- ning in the thirteenth century. It was not for any hygienic reasons, but to prevent soiling the book, that the min- ers before giving evidence touched the four gospels with a stick Of holly. The 'witnesses wore their bats to show that they were free miners. -London Chron- icle. The Giant's Organ. One of the most interesting feature of the Giattt's causeway is "the glinted organ." This huge "instrument" eon - gists of a group of pillars of various iengthe set apart oh the side of the Main cliff. The larger eoltimns being in the centet and the 'smaller ones tie wring off on either side after the !ash- lort of organ pipes adutirably sustain the idea which the 'Wile "giant's or conveys. rawIsouslomowto WO Om •o• iwoo There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum -Oliver Jitiodell Holmes. -st January 6th 19 t 6 6,1 It WHAT TITE R.,I*11E,P.,., CAN Do ivrria CONCRETE ). ConcHo Foondatico for ti Hone Bata ( teeteetenneet: .• ;No lo Ow filo www •••w 1mA •ol oho,' co WO u11, ado= wl• ,.0,I. w dm., .4 4. pod., inoj 0,44 ,1411,an grr42./7•71.1:gtelt Nair. WASCIVgal" 0271:VM.171:71. 4wima foot. • 1,40. owl is.. 74'• '11:2•147 4wow hh, 4.4 bow. ry Irnour tho.hthl wo• wm• T• wow& towfortah, arsiten limi• Wada., gryl 1,1011. Get This Free Boolt es, CO11.0410 411. 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