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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-03-02, Page 3March. 2nci, 1916 THE .WINGHAM TIMES CHOPPED STUFF Get the incubators ready. They should be started next month. If the calf begins to scour cut down the rations by half at least. Draughts in the poultry house are the chief cause of colds in hens. See that the milk from which the calf is fed is kept scrupulously clean, Give the hens some meat scraps if you would avoid the feather eat- ing habit. Daily exercise will help to fit horses for their share of the work of the coming season. .A little exercise every day, save in stormy weather, is a good thing for all classes of stock. Oyster shell provides shell making material for the hens and so pre- vent soft-shelled eggs. Equal parts of sulphur and salt are recommended as a treatment for ticks on sheep and lice on cattle. Pruning should be under way next month. Some men with large or- chards started a month ago. The Cultivated area of the United Kingdom has declined by one million acres between 1900 and 1913. A little linseed meal should be added to the skim milk fed calves. Not over a teaspoonful should be add- ed at the start. Poultry is one of the most profitable side lines on the farm, and, the work being light, the women and children can look after it. The first three or four eggs that a duck lays in the early spring are sel- dom good for hatching and usually are sold or used for cooking. The Bureau of Industries reports 298,627 acres in orchard in Ontario i 1914, a decrease of over 8,600 as compared with the year before. In feeding ensilage to horaes, it will be founda wise thing to mix i with cut straw or chaff. Six pout.tls a day to a full-grown horse is ample. A lot or annoyance and waste of time will be avoided by looking over implements and harness and seeing that everything is ready for sprin work. A little linseed meal added to th grain ration is a good thing for al classes of live stock. It helps to keep the bowels right and the coo sleek. Protect the young fruit trees either by tramping the snow around the trunks or by wrapping them up fifteen to eighteen inches with building paper. A good meal mixture for pregnant ewes consists of oats, two parts; bran, one part and linseed oil cake or peas one part. Half a pound per day is about right. On a purely breeding farm, where eggs are not the sole consideration, hens may well be kept until the fourth season, and will breed some of the best of stock. In the past 20 years at Smithfield Show, the Angus have won ten cham pionships, as compared with six for the Shorthorns, two for Herefords, and two for Crossbreds. "Almost every farmer in our section has a silo now," said G. C. Caston, Craighurst. "Men who scoffed at the silo years ago say they would not be without it to -day." Oil meal is not as rich in protein as cotton seed meal, but it contains other properties which give it a preference. n This is cal eciall y r e i t ere are no THE roots t to f n DUST CLOUDS OF ALASKA, Winter well O� 0 � Winter well the calves and yearlings BEING Don't lose gains from last summer's, t pasture. but keep the young stock growing and thrifty; successful feed is essential dl' n I for uvEthi rase an ANDp �WE p L[. There was an increase of only 8,000 Restored To ,Health By "Fruit -a -twee" acres in the area in field crops in On- Thee Famous Fruit Medicine tario in 1914, On the other hand the acreage in pasture increased by 152,000 acres. There will be a further increase in pasture this year. e During 1914 there v'as an increase 1 of 152,000 in the number of swine in Ontario, an increase of 23,000 in the number of horses and a decrease of 74,, 000 in sheep and lambs, 26,000 in milch cows and 1,000 in other cattle. The farmer with only a few animals can hardly afford to keep pure-bred males, Yet he cannot afford to use scrubs. One solution of the problem is for several neighbors to club togeth- er and secure the pure-bred sires need- ed, In the C. A. C. poultry houses, with the open wire front, hens have laid freely when the thermometer marked below zero. Prof. Graham will give you particulars of their construction. A house capable of holding 100 Rocks can he builtfor$75. Get"More Money" for yo.ur Skunk Muskrat, Raccoon, Foxes,White Weasel, Fisher and other Fur bearers collected in your section SHIP YOUR FURS DIRECT to "SHUBERT" the largest house in the World dealing exclusively in NORTH AMERICAN RAW FURS a reliable—responsible—safe Fur House with an unblemished rep- utation existing for "more than a third of a century," a long suc- cessful record of sending Fur Shippers prom pt, SATIS FACTORY AND PROFITABLE returns. 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DECADENCE IN RURAL SCOTLAND, Four counties in Scotland, Argyll, Berwick, Perth and Sutherland, are shown to have a smaller population now than in 1804, and the 1911 census shows that in no less than 533 out of the 874 parishes of Scotland the population is smaller than in,1901. In every district where agriculture is the dominant in- dustry there is a decline of population. Thenumber of persons engaged in agriculture, male and female, has de- clined from 254,842 in 1871, to 199,083 in 1911. A comparison with the figures for game -keepers shows that while the number of farm -servants has declined from 1881 to 1911, there has been an increase of 1,673 to the number of game- keepers for the same period. The principal disabilities of the ordinary tenant farmer are liability to confiscation of his improvements, arbitrary increase of his rent (possibily as a result of his own improvements) and arbitrary eviction. Against these evils the Agricultural Holdings Acts offer no sufficient security. The Ground Game Act fails entirely to give the farmer adequate protection against loss and damage by game, the preservation of which conduces to under -development of agricultural and pastoral land and is highly detrimental to afforestation. In the most extreme case cf game -preser- vation — the deer forest — enormous areas are kept without inhabitants and industry in order to secure the complete solitude roost favorable to this form of sport. A Word of tiratitude "In justice to humanity I want to tell you that I was a great sufferer from itching piles. and have found Dr. Chase's Ointment the best treatment obtainable," writes Mr. Fred Hintz, 13rodhagen, Ont. "It gives instant re- lief and I can recommend it to any suff- erer from this dreadful disease." HARMFUL FACE POWDERS. Dr. Hastings, Toronto's Medical Health Officer, blames some prepar- ations of face powder for causing in- flammation of the eyes. Many so-called rice powders contain, he says, in ad- dition to the rice powder, other in- gredients which irritate the delicate membranes of the eye. Sixteen samples of these powders were recently analyzed, and of the number only two consisted entirely of rice, and only six contained any rice at all. The remedy suggested by the Medical Officer of Health is not so drastic as the giving up entirely of face powders. Perhaps he doesn't admire ladies with shiny noses; or perhaps he knows better. Anyway he advises those who do use such aids to beauty to also use care on their selection, and buy only the preparations known to be pure and harmless. He also recommends apply- ing the powder with a cloth rather than a puff, so that the eyes may be pro- tected from flying particles. "Pure rice flour purchased at a grocery would," says the Journal of the American Medical Association, "remove this particular danger," IN MEMORIAM Written in memory of Mrs. Cameron who died in Culross on February 17th, 1916. Not now, but in the coming years It may be, in the Better Land We'll read the meanbng of our tears And then, sometime, we'll understand. We'll catch the broken threads again And finish what we here began Heaven will the mysteries explain And then, oh, then we'll understand. We'll know why clouds, instead of sun, Were over many a cherished plan— Why song has ceased when scarce be- gun - 'Tis then, sometime, we'll under- stand. God knows the way. ile holds the key, He guides us with unerring hand, Sometime with tearless eyes we'll see, Yes, then, up there we'll undertand. —Sons and Daughters. MOE.ROCHON Rochon, P.Q. March 2nd, 1915. "I have 'received the most wonderful benefit from taking 'Fruit-a-tives'. I suffered for years from Rheumatism: and change of life, and I took every remedy obtainable, without any good results. I heard of `Fruit -a -Lives' and gave it a trial and it was the only medicine drat really did me good. Now I am entirely well; the Rheumatism has disappeared and the terrible pains in my body are all gone. lam exceed- ingly,grateful to 'Fruit -a -lives' for such relief, and I hope that others who suffer from such distressing diseases will try `Fruit-a-tives' and get well". MADAME ISAIE ROCHON. The marvellous work that `Fruit-a- tives' is doing, in overcoming disease and healing the sick, is winning the admiration of thousands and thousands. 50e. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25e. At all dealers or sent postpaid by F ruit-a-Lives Limited, Ottawa. FALLACIES EXPOSED. To the Editor: - The Liquor interests have been send- ing out so many statements calculated to deceive that with your permission I purpose discussing each one very briefly. 1st. The Personal Liberty League would have us to believe that West Virginia's financial difficulties were caused by prohibition. That could not have been, for the Yost Law only came into effect July 1st, 1914. The truth that the indebtedness which caused the trouble had been accumulating for years under liquor rule. Governor Hatfield says that men who opposed the law ars now in its favour, and further "thou- sands of families have been made hap- pier, and grocery bills. rentals and other necessary items are being promptly paid by hundreds of men who formerly drank and gambled away their earnings while wives and children were left with- out subsistance." A wheeling shoe mer- chant writes, ''We are now selling shoes to men who used to beg for the old shoes left by our customers. That does not kits if ,.ronibition was going to injure West Virginia. 2nd. 'They say that many of the boys and girls in north Carolina had to wort: and thus were deprived of educational opportunities. We frankly admit that that was true before prohibition. Now the Superintendent of Education says that school attendance nearly double in two years after prohibition came into force. 3rd They point out that Tenessee and North Carolina which are dry, have more poor than Florida and Lousiana, which are nearly dry. I have been in both, and it is quite true that North Carolina and .Tenessee had a great number of poor blacks, while Florida and Louisiana were rich states. Why did they fail to tell us that the paupers in the nine dryest states in 1915 were 46.5 per hun- dred thousand population while in the nine wettest states they were 127.7 - nearly three times as many? 4th. They tell us in big head lines "Kentucky turns down prohibition". That is not true but it is true that the "personal liberty" member of the as- sembly refuses the people the liberty to vote on the question. More than half of Kentucky is already dry so they knew what would happen if the people got their liberty to vote on the question. And still they cry for Liberty. 5th. They say, "You will be surprised to learn that the states lowest in church membership are all prohibition states. Yes. we would be very much surprised, because Ex -Governor Gien of North Carolina and Governor Capper of Kansas have told us that in their states. church attendance has rapidly increased. A few years ago a census of the wet and dry ownships in Ohio showed that in the dry townships church membership in- creased from 25% to 50% more rapidly than in the wet, townships. H. Arnott, M.B„ M.C.P,S. Nothing Luke it for Colds Mrs. Holland Sheffield, N. B., writes: "Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine has cured my children and myself of severe colds. We are never without it in the house There is noth- ing like it for colds and throat trouble, and it is soothing my children would drink as whole bottle t to f they were permitted." Volcano Ashes Make the Hills Appear to Bs Snow Clad. As we to Kodiak strange dark clouds were seen obscuring the horizon at several points, one of which was so heavy and black that it resem- bled smoke from a great forest tire.. Captain Jensen startled us by explain- ing that this was dust blown by the stiff breezes front the lofty hills all about us. These hills seemed covered with suow, but the whitish deposit proved to he ashes rained down sev- eral feet deep upon all this section dur- iug the eruption of Mount Katmai in June, 1912. Katmai is still smoking. The san looked like u dull silver del - la', as it shone through the ashy mist. The dust cloud was so thick that it held our steamer up for four hours until the way was cleat, Passing your hand over the rail of the boat, you found your fingers streaked with the impalpable gray powder. When we funded at Kadiak we found piles of sort gray ashes and large and small pieces of light, friable stone. like pum- ice stone, which bad been thrown out by the volcano. The explosion of the volcano was heard at Valdez, 400 miles away from Kadiak, and sounded Tike a cannonading. It was followed by a deposit of fine ashes in Valdez. In Kodiak the ashes covered every- thing. They half buried Colonel Blod- gett's blg cannery on the dock and put him temporarily out of business. They completely filled up a pond four feet sleep which had been the skating re- sort for` many years of the children of Kodiak. CORE OF THE EARTH. Its Form a Mystery, but the Globe, as a Whole, Is as Rigid as Steel. The theory that the crust of the earth is ouly a few miles in thickness and rests upon an intensely heated molten interior is no longer tenable. It is now .known that the earth, as a whole, pos. sesses a high degree of effective rigid- ity, as great as if it were composed throughout of steel. It is no doubt true that the interior of the earth is in an intensely heated condition and that it appears to possess some of the qual- ities of a fluid. At the same time it behaves in many respects as a solid. Professor Milne concludes from the velocities of seismic waves at diferent depths that the materials and general characters of the crust of the earth that are found at the surface may ex- tend to a depth of about thirty miles. but beyond that the material seems to merge into ;t fairly homogeneous nu- cleus. '1 ills slate, probably extends to a depth of six -tenths of the radius, but the remaining four -tenths form a core which differs in its physical and possi- bly its chemical constitution from the outer portion. What the state of this nucleus is must be a matter largely of conjecture until we have a fuller knowledge of the state of matter when subjected to the vast pressure such as exists within the earth's interior. Additional evidence that the earth, as a whole, is at least as rigid as steel is furnished by a study of tidal phenome- na and also by the variation of latitude. Squaring the Circle. The origin of the problem squaring the circle is almost lost in the mists of antiquity, but there is a record of an attempted quadrature in Egypt 500 years before the exodus of the Jews. There is also a claim, according to Bone, that the problem was solved by a discovery of Hippocrates, the geom- etrician of Chios—not the physician - 500 B. C. Now, the efforts of Hippoc- rates were devoted toward converting a circle into a crescent. because he had found that the area of a figure pro- duced by drawing two perpendicular radiuses in a circle is exactly equal to the triangle formed by the line of junc- tion. This Is the famous theorem of the "tunes of Hippocrates" and is, like glauher salt out of the philosopher's stone, an example of the useful results which sometimes follow a search for the unattainable. Probably Futurist Music. He was a "reformed" old fashioned country newspaper editor that had found farming a better paid industry than editing, and he was discussing crops with a company of fellow farm- ers at the village grocery. "Well, Lem, I s'pose you're a reg'lar farmer now; been at it for ten years," remarked one of the friends. "Oh, I'm a farmer all right," said Lem, "and I s'pose I'll always be one, but I tell you the smell o' printer's ink is still music to my ears.". Why He Was Sure to Advance. Clarence presented himself before the father of the girl whom he hoped. to marry and declared his matrimonial intentions. . "I have no serious objections," said the father, "but is there any chance of promotion for you or an increase in your salary?' "Is there?" exclaimed Clarence eager- ly. "I don't see how I can help it! Why, my positon is next to the lowest one in the Whole establishment!" h0. CO cm ar y« I • F'S OBLIGATIONS. not thoughts and erne - Life is what we do; ,t is our with its consequenrr.; upon tomorrow or ne$ year, ethers immediate - - R next 'n the next gen ..;r.— onsor Allen. This Russian Mou,jiks. Atter he had smashed a Russian army and overrun a province Napoleon collected the nioujfks and told them that henceforth they belonged to nim and France. They glared at Mm and gave him the Ile. He shot some of them, but the rest were adamant. Then he bad one moujiit branded on the left arm with the letter N. "Naw," he said, "you belong to me." The woujik lifted to the conqueror's face his bloodshot eyes under his shaggy mane of Bair, and then, seizing a hatchet, lopped off the left arta and let the bleeding limb fall at Napoleon's feet. "That is yours," he growled, "but the rest of my body and my heart belong to holy Russia and the czar!" And from that hour Napoleon realized what he was up against. La Mascotte. The mascot came to us from the French. The word is French slang and was popularized by Audran's comic opera. "La Jlascotte," in 1880. though before that its use had long been com- mon among French gamblers. And, as In England, the mascot could be any- thing from a dog to a doughnut.—Lon- don Standard. Badly Expressed, A Loudon restaurant has this notice displayed In various parts of its din- ing room: "Any Incivility or inirtten. tion on the part of any of the employ- ees of this establishment will be cote sidered a favor if reported promptly to the proprietor." Use MILBURN'S LAXA-LIVER PiLLS FOR A SLUGGISH LIVER. When the liver becomes sluggish it is an indication that the bowels are not working properly, and if they do not move regularly many complications are liable to set in. Constipation, sick headache, bilious headache, jaundice, heartburn, water brash, catarrh of the stomach, etc., all come from a disordered liver. Milburn's I,axa-Liver Pills stimulate the sluggish liver, clean the coated tongue sweeten the obnoxious breath, clean away I all waste and poisonous matter from the system, and prevent as well as cure all complaints arising from. a liver which has become inactive. Mrs. John V. Tarlton, Birnam- Ont., writes: "I take great pleasure in writing you concerning the great value I have received by using your Milburn's Laxa- Liver Pills for a sluggish liver. When my liver got bad, I would have severe head- aehes, but after using a couple of vials, I am not bothered with them any more." Milbel-n's 1,a,c t -Liver Pills are 25c a vial, 5 vials. for $1.00, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co„ Limited, Toronto, Ont. Pag u. A Resor er's Scoop. Reporter—I've got a good piece .old news here this morning I've found a person who bas been confined ued too room his entire life. Editor ---Good% send It 4P. Who Is It? Reporter--Whyr, a three-day.old baby at our house.. Consolation. First Criminal Lawyer—Facts are stubborn things, Second Criminal Law.. yer (cheerfully)—Ob, yes! If they were not our fees would be smaller Down and Up. Hew, ag—He's a low down crook. Bildad—Who's a low down crook2 EIewgag :The man higher up. Father's Baby, Willie's Lady. "But my daughter's too young to marry, young man. She's just barely a miss." "She may seem that way to you, sir, but she is a hit with me." Fortune is like a mirror—jt does not alter men. It only shows men just as they are.—Billings. In Both Ways. 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