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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-7-30, Page 7INC MONEY AT HOME . Bummer hoarders anu the Passing Motor Tourists Present • New Sources of Income to Every Citizen. in Summer Play Ground Areas and Along Main Motor Routes. We spot cash every time -4111s bust.recess in the weeds, and it steed un - catering to -the passingrnotor occupied threugh all the summer heat. ' "deists as well as the summer board- Thi e was efore the payed reed- with %en frs who can nowadays be gotten f roin jt5 inevitable procession of motorists a -of the big „ ceetres' and who are passed the farmstead. With the corn - tiling over in greatly increasing lug of tourists 'the, villege inn filled at Intubers front the United. States nights and had to turn away trvel- ere suramet weather is much too lets who fumed mid fretted at tae t for comfort during the heated inhospitality of a' county filled with iteezon. homes. The woman lathe brick house This is but the beginning of a new heard of It. Shp offered her spare - day for women in the country. And bedroom and the strangers, looking it for the boys and girls who want to the brick house and at the woman her make money of their oWn. Every self, snapped it up. Some of them had passina motor ear that comes from a been a long time away from home. distance spel,ls opportunity for those People who stayed at the brick who desire to eater for this business. house told their friends about it and One needs but to remember that the spare room soon had more patrons of all commodities, the mot universal, than it could accommodate. It hap lie mot appealing, is food, Then periedd that the woman needed some think of it in theme of the needs and extra money just then, and it occurred wants of theseraununer people. You th her that she bad other rooms winch see its possibilities? could also be fitted up for tourists, But yet we bear of Mrs. Blank, a and throughout the summer she put farmer's wife, tragically poor, borne up from two to six people practically down by poverty and debt, communing every night, It did net mean a great with her soul one afternoon, when deal of trouble to give them breakfast despairingly she looked down from when she had a ready supply of milk ater cool verandah' and saw the black and cream and eggs not a day old. If line of motors on the road—then she she had had more time, or a grown - had an inspiration that nobody in up daughter at home, she would prob- that community haa ever dreamed' of ably have opened an all -day tea room gelling fern products by the roadside and created a market for her fruit as an organized business proposition: and vegetables and chickens right at IIot dog stands, yes. Soda pop and home. As it is she offers only room lemonade stands, yes. But fresh green and breakfast ,and the coming and farm products, no." going of the guests interferes very All sort a duff from rhubarb to little with her day's work, She keeps field peas and beans, with the general a, register and takes a new interest in run of garden "sass" as the mainstay, American geography because of the have been coining money for those Places listed there. When the travel - best located. lore leave they ask her to call and see Even the cup of -tea to weaey motor- them if sh4 ever 'comes to New York lets is making a deal of pin -money for or Saratoga or Kalamazoo. She doe; rural people we know; the lunch with not expect to visit these places but' It, at say 40 cents to the half -dollar she feels as each new party goes on per person, usually charged, is not its way that she has made some new to be despised. friends. Best Of all it brings company. Wo- THE' '"APPLE TREE" INN. men like meeting people, you,know i Another woman, a specialist in poul- and If the woman of the house is busy try and horticulture who could have one of the children can stand outside earned her living lecturing on these to take care of the business. subjects, preferred to buy a place in Stories of what some women have the country where she could do an accomplished in—retent Years with all-time tearoom business and have a catering to tourists read like fairy country home of her own in the bar - tales. It has usually been discovered gain. It was a very ordinary looking, • that there are two distinct depart- house and lot at the edge of a village Monte, the producing and the selling when she took it Now it is an old - ends to this business each equally im- portant, but requiring hi the operator different qualities, different gifts of mind. Rarely are both the producing and the selling ability combined in one and the same head. ' If a •man has genius for production hi ed h rd ith stone as on ig ga en w yvalks and flowers and bird -baths, and, an old-fashioned house with the main' dining -room built on in the shape of a screened porch. At the little gate there is an old apple "tree bearing the sign "Apple Tree Inn" I he is apt to be more or less of a dud In three yeas' business "Apple in the selling line° Here ia where -Tree Inn" has become so well known' the selling d ability of the wife can get that tourists telephone an hour ahead into play, or, if to busy with ordl- to have a table reserved for dinner. I nary dutiesasome one else in the same On a Sunday afternoon, guests who family with the gifts of selling and have been invited to "rest awhile in I rref making good contracts with the the garden before leaving, frequently ' public, should be given this end of the business to develop. TOURIST NOTES BY THE WAY. Innumerable small successes in marketing by the roadside to passing motorists are merely indicationt, find tlie place so allurin that the stay on for tea—not very good motor- ing I progress, perhaps,btindicative of the motorist's appreciation of such places. —are— Country Women Live Longer. sign -posts, pointing the way to great- ' er things es farmers, like business • In spite of her long hours of wok men, are beginning to handle not only the country woman has the best the producing, but also the selling end chance of attaining a -ripe old age, of their game. according. to Hygsia, a medical pub - A farmer can nearly always make lication. The authority states from seprofit if he can market his own pror a study of mortality statistics, that duce without go-betweens. she lives longer, on the average, than "I figure that our success in road- the city woman,, the city man, OT her side marketing has -been due chiefly country husband. - to three simple things: First, hard, No attempt is made to explain why work; 2nd, giving good quality; 3rd, this is so. It may be that her life is selling at a reasonable price." a testimonial to the advantage of hard A strategic location on a main work, or living a quiet existence, or travelled highways :with hundreds of to being in and out of doors. How - thousands of motor cars passing every . ever, this longevity is some compensa- day is a big asset to be used in road- tion for the burden she has carried, side marketing. and it is to be hoped that she may con - "She kept her prices moderate; she tinue to enjoy the blessing of long took infinite pains to please." I life, and at the same time have the "Down below on that road were advantage of modern home. conven- prosperous people; they rolled by ina knees. These advantages may enable luxurious limousines, wads of money 'her to establish still greater records in their pockets, able to buy the earth. ' in Marathon living. And on here, •100eirards off, svera we. Making a cent" e scratching our heads off, and still not! As to Requeening. • • "Qua farmer's wife, with a beauty , miRqueening co1onies, says th e Do- -nion Apiarist, is best done during streak in her blood, had added flower the latter part of July or early in bulbs from her sweet d old-fashione . August. A young queen will. at this Keep your plowshare shiny, alai) garden, and took orders for preserves time, he points out, produce the. larg- your heart. and jams. And such preserves! • • •,' est force of juveniles in time for the She confessed that she had morewinter tvithout any danger of being OH, OH MY HEAD! HOW IT ACHES! 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The coat No. 1052 is cut in sizes 34, 36, 38, bust requires 41A, yards of 40 -inch or 3% yards of 54 -inch material. Each pattern 20 cents. The designs illustrated in our new Fashion Book are advance styles for the home dressmaker, and the woman or, girl who desires to wear garments dependable for taste simplicity and economy will find her desires fulfilled in our patterns. Price of the book 10 cents the copy. Each copy includes one coupon good for five -cents in the purchase of any pattern. HOW TO ORDER PA.TTERNS. Write your name and -address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you went. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address -your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Pualishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St, Toronto. Patterns sent by return snail. orders than she could fill." "She liked to meet her customers she is still less than one year old and I superseded. In the 'succeeding spring face to face and swap recipes. Such still in her prime, able to carry on meetings gave flavor and zest to her , brood production at a rapid rate. life, like apices she thing in her pre-- Figures gather'ed' from twenty col - "rye k`atL:e!' • jonies in 1923 and 1924 show that ten - "On such a highway, with such a colonies headed with queens less than public, the sel:ing ossibeities, of cer- a year old were rather better pro- tein- cetnerodities, especially in the ducers than those containing older food line is limited only by the blue- queens.- In his article in the July sky vau't overhead." . And Ps you know thP points Seasonable Hints theApiarist - relY out that a good queen in the fall gives . . motor tourist is getting more and • i f • ' Headache is not of itself a disease, but is generally caused be some 'dis- order of the stomach, liver or bowels, and in all cases the treatment should be directed to remove the cause, for with the cause removed 'the headaches vanish for all time. For the purpose of removing the headaches it is impossible to And a strong coon es ()I. winter;that, win,better remedy than 'Nies Jeer, ol) to the gravel roads in good tering conditions being equal, these weathra'a preferring to keep away colonies will be the strongest in the from the main highweYa with heavy spring, and that strong colonies in traffic. This srors new opportunity the sp,ring are those that build up • reaching into many little villages, best for the flow, many towns, and to innumerable gates for those who would make money out of the lasing tide of tourist business, coming by autertue bile to. Ontario especielly, es the Sum- mar Play Grounds of Americo. - MAKING MONEY AND NEW FRIENDS, In s maple -shaded brick house along an Ontario highway a woman 'had a Unchoking a Cow. If yeti ever.- have a cow choke on it potato or anything similar, don't try to jam it clown the animals throat for you are apt to fate it into the windpipe. laAny cows have been kill- ed that way. 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These would include many Christians, and it is the Christians Whom James is addreesing, implying by the words "the tVrelve tribes" that the Christian part Of the Jewish peo- ple is the true Israel of God, The Epistle is a homily or practical exhortation on the -Christian life, Tra- dition' identifies the writer with James, the Lord's blether, who at an early time became head of the church in jerusaaern (Gal, 1:19, 2:9; Acts 15: a3ff.). If the Identification is correct, it is probable that our present Epistle represents a later literary forth - setting of the original letter which James composed. The subject of the Epistle is "Prac- tical Christianity," The writer shows that this involves humility (19-21), obedience (22), true self-knowledge (23-25), reverence (26), and reality, (27). , Vs. 19-21. James shows that humil- ity, the willingness to listen to the teaching of Christ, is the first requi- site of sincere religion. V. 19, Many persons in the church wished torpreach to ethers before they had themselves received a proper grounding in the truth. This prema- ture 'ambition to speak had unfortunr ate consequences, one of which was a readiness to quarrel and to lose pa- tience with their fellow -Christians. James urges that Christians should be "swift to hear," but "slow to speak." Their first duty as disciples is to learn. To listen to God is MOTO rt t thanto k f Him, until at least the soul has mastered what God has to teach it, Humility, therefore, an earnest ana teachable spirit, is indispensible to true piety. Does not Jesus say that it is "the poor in spirit" who Inherit the kingdom of heaven, Matt, 5:3? V. 20. For lack of a teachable spirit Christians sometimes give way to anger with others, and mistake this impatience for genuine zeal for God. I James points out that to become angry or -abusive never promotesanyreli- gious purpose The wrath of man .does not work divine righteousness." "The true servant of Christ is always I kind and forbearing in dealing with others. Ho -is never sarcastic or con- temptuous. V. 21. Therefore, we must suppress all these ugly and mischievous mani- f,estations terapernaed make it our , business rather to receive God's holy word in lowliness of mind. God's word is like a new breech or shoot which ' a gardener grafts on to a wild rose or apple -tree in order to obtain culti- vated flowers and fruits. If we re- ceive the truth meekly, it will have its effect in, the saving of our souls 22. Secondly, the Christians must show obedience. It is not enough to listen to the truth, we must translate it into action. Otherwise our religion will be all in the mouth. Compare the man who built his house upon the sand, Matt. 7:26-27.- i Vs. 23-26. True piety requires, in the third place, that we recognize , what we truly are in the sight of God. , If we listen to the truth, but do not ' go any further, we are like those who I get a glimpse of themselves in a ' mirror and see all their faults and de- fects, u e nextomen forgetow i they looked. Self-love is apt to blind ills to our unsightliness in the eyes of God. We listen to God's word, and it shows us our sins and faults, but if , we only listen, if we do not act upon what we have discovered about our- selves, and about what the Lord re- quires of us, we are no better than the unen ig ne V. 25. The gospel, the teaching of Christ, is the perfect expression of, God's holy will for us. Therein we' see what God is and what our duty, is, and we see it in a manner answer- ing to our own deepest thoughts and convictions. If, therefore, we act on it, giving ourselves up to the divine will instead of merely taking it in with the ear, we can count on being blessed and saved. It needs obedience to make religion real and of any value, St. James calls the gospel "the perfect law of liberty, because it corresponds with our own truest intuitions of what is right. It is not felt as a eramping burden like taie old Mosaic ,Law. Rather is it the means of our own freest "and highest self -development. Vs. 26, 27. St. James takes a prac- tical instance. Whatever religious profession a man makes, if he cannot keep his tongue from being alaustve end quarrelsome, heC is not a true Christian, but only a pretender. Rev- erence is necessary to a truly religious ltfe, V. 27. Finally, the only genuine worship of God consists in a life that Is (1) devoted to the relief of distress in others (2) uncontaminated by worldly or selfish motives. Where there is no desire to help widows and orphans, or where a man's motives are I no higher than these customary in the ordinary world, it is quite false to speak of a man as a trot worshipper of God. De you want to see a pumpkin apreaa itself? After it comes up take a box a foot or so square, knock out the bottom and put the fraine in the ground near the vine. Partly fill the frame with barnyard Manure, and keep the manure ;wet till the season ends. What you get will be sotne nutelaking, • If, a cow produces 175 pounds of butter in a year, she's well worth keeping, PROTECTION OF POTATO, aLERY AND CABBAGE CROPS The damage done to the sesgetable crepe each year by ineeete and dis- eaee enerrnoale, but nevertheless, quite uneoticed by many growers, Mane these lessee coald ae reduced to the minimum if proper spraying machinery and meter -tale were on hand. Plants to produce the maid - mum yield pertacre must be robeeted from injury; because if the oUage is hampered and prevented from func- tioning Properly, there Is bound to be a reduction in returns per acre. The more thoroughly thatthe spray- ing is done, the less injury there will be to the plants, and to accomplish this, it is necessary to have peeper machinery and materials. Where a large 'acreage is to be sprayed, a spea cially constructed four row, twelve nozzle rnechir»e should be provided, with pumping capacity to maintain pressure around one hundred and fifty pounds per square inch. Where the area to be sprayed is smaller, there are several makee of steelier spray machines which are quite satisfac- tory,and which will do good work if properly used. One of the thief points in spraying is to see that the work is carefully and thoroughly done, As soon as the potato plants are aboutsix inches above the ground, spraying should be commenced, using the 4-4-40 Bordeaux mixture prepara- tion to which may be added one and a half pounds of arsenate of lime or arsenate of' in the dry form, per 40 gallons Of spray. If leaf hoppers are present, % of a pint of nicotine sulphate added to the above mixture will be found effective. In the early part of the season, it is important that the Bordeaux mixture be used to protect the plants from an attack of early blight, and, combined with the two other ingredients, it will give pre- tection against the young potato beetles and leaf hopper, the latter of which are the cause of hopper burn. Continued spraying shoeld ha done throughout ihe Seaga., at intervals of ten days, until the danger of insect injury and disease infection is past. It very often happens that when the late spray applications are neglected, late blight does the most damage. In preparing the stock solutions, only the beat materials Prieeerabre Should be need. This appliee especially to the lime, Which ehotild be treah- and un- tdialted. TO produce celery continuously for years under the intensive method is certainly emirting trouble, if pre- Vetitive measures in the way of spray -.'lug 4r0 not attended ta Celery blight renders 4 crop raetioally worth - lees in a e ort space amp. Spray- ing with Bordeattic mixture can be considered as a tape of good inaur- anee arid should therefore not be neglected, The proper procedure is to start spraying the plants while they an) in the cold frame and to continue the applications at interval's of ton. days until quite late in, the autumn. Should there be only a slight amount ed blight present on the plants when lifted for winter storage, this Infection will rapidly spread when the plants are packed away in the storage cellar, causing a inemendous loss. At any rate, clean. celery will command the highest market price, To obtain the best results from spraying, three nozzles should be used on each row, so as to thoroughly cover the foliage and leaf -stalks with Bordeaux, one nozzle directed down- wards and one nozzle on each side of the row. The addition of % pint of nicotine sulphate to 40 gallons of Bordeaux will control thrip. For the control of the green, cab- bage worms, which riddle the lea -sea and heads of the plants during the late summer and autumn, there are two remedies which work very well, the use of a poisoned spray or dust- ing with pyrethrum powder. Many people object to poison being used on cabbage, but as the heads fill eei from the 'p outwards, tend the leaves are tightly claspect there is no danger in using a poisoned spray. However if a non-poisonous remedy is desired,One part by weight 01 fresh pyrethrum powder or Persian insect powder mixed with &dr parts of cheap flour, placed ina perfect sealer jar and left to stand over night will be found to be a good control when dusted on the heads and leaves in the morning while they are still damp with dew. Marketing Green Ducks. I Green decks should be marketed just as soon as they have completed their first coat of body -feathers. The Pekin duck, which is the best 'breed for the "green duck" trade, usually attains marketable size in. from eight to twelve weeks from date of hatch- ing Green ducks, 'shordd.be4eveloped, as rapidly as possible as there is a co -relation between rate of develop- ment and cost per pound, the cost in- creasing very rapidly as the ducklings reach marfketable age. Ducks may be marketed either alive or dressed. If the market is a local one the birds may be sold alive, but if the market is distant much better returns will be secured by dressing the birds before shipping. When green ducks are being mar- keted alive the sale should be made before the birds are shipped as duck- lings do not stand confinement well. 'p the birds In roomy, slatted crates and put in dry shavings to keep them clean end dry until they reach their destination. The ducklings should not be fed before shipping, and shipment should be made as early in the day as possoible Tsecure the best returns for green ducks they should be sent to market dressed. The birds should be starved for about eighteen hours before kill- ing, but they should be given all the fresh water they care to drink. The water will assist in cleaning out the intestines and thus prevent discolora- tion through fermentation of food in the digestive tract. When the birds are ready for - killing hang them up by both legs. Ducks should be bled in the mouth and then the blade of the knife should be forced into the brain so as to render the bird uncon- scious. After bleeding has stopped the birds may be taken down, and then they are ready for scalding. Dip each bird in scalding water, leaving it submerged for about thirty seconds, remove it from the water to give it air and repeat the operation. Try to remove the feathers and if they do not come out easily dip the bird again. Wrap up the dead bird in a bran sack and let it steam for three to five min- utes. When the feathers have all been removed the birds should be cooled in a barrel of ice water. By leaving the d'ressed buds in the cold water for five or six hours they will become quite rigid and can be removed and packed for shipment. Boxes or barrels can be used for this purpose. Pack the dressed birds ie containers as closely as possible using ice to fill up the spaces and ship the birds to market with as little delay as possible. Efficiency of the Hen. The hen leads all other farm ani- mals in the quantity of edible food solids manufactured as compared with the weight of the dry matter in her body. She is capable of truly remark- able performance when wall fed and properly handled. ' As an example we may take a Leg- horn hen weighing three and. a half pounds and laying 290,,,eggs in a year. Of course this will be her pullet year record and at the end of the year she will weigh around four pounds rather than three and a half. In the 200 'eggs will be betWeen five and a half and six pounds of edible food solids. If the eggs are more than average in gee the total may be even greater. This amounts to nearlyealour times the quantity of dry matter in the body of the hen at the beginning of the year. No other farm animal can do so well. It would therefore seem to be El wise procedure to give the poultry fleck at least as good a chance in the way of comfortable housing and care- ful feeding as is given to the other stock. 'BOYS AND GIRLS CAN SELL THE BUTTERMILK Passing Motorists Eager for Good from the Th In much of out picturesque lake and highland cotintry, where scenery aaounts, the home dairy flourishes and good, feel: buttermilk, with et - specks of butter floating in it, is about the most refreshing beverage that could api cal especially to people passing along the highways in auto- mobiles. Boys and girls who are eager to make money of their own are finding a ready sale for buttermilk mi churn- ing day. A little table at the roadside ,gate, a bit of a sign painted or chalk- ed on a convenient boulder, eay 200 yards up eviey, and one down the , road; says, 'Fresh Buttermilk,"— cars stop and the people buy and are willing to pay well for the real article, served, cleanly and attractively. Hot dog stands, and roadside mar- kets or the restaurant and the hotel in the nearby entre are outlets at fair prices for buttermilk. Trouble usually at this time of the year is to is Refreshing Beverage; so Home Dairy. get sufficient supply. Two little boys, known to the writer, make splendid money each 12th of July at the Orange parade. their pails of buttermilk, at 5c a glass, are soon sold out and no more supply to be had. This by-product of the home dairy is taking on a new meaning to boys and, girls, who can got it to sell to passing motel: tourists. As a thirst - quencher, a stomachic, a dieuretic, a food and all-round health -giver, where is there any beverage that can equal gora8,bsiunttgerntmioltko?rists ar eag-er this refreshing beverage. Parents need only to suggest the sale of it to the children during the holidays and one of them will starl. in adding to a bank eteount -with sates from this commodity,—also possibly from wild fruits, berates, etc., and garden stuff, if it is available to spare, and tinie can be found to attend to selling it at the roadside gate, ISTIONGTIMI TR HEW STEADY THE 'NERVES By the use of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills Mrs. 3. Glebe, Hamilton, Opt, writes:—"I think it only right to let you know what Milburn -'s ITeart and. Nerve Pills have done for me, For the past 18 mouths I suffered with my heart, and, the least little bit of housework II did 'would. cause Me to faint away. My heart would beat very fest, and may nerves seemed to be all un- strung. I resorted to aromatic spirits of ammonia, as a heart stimulant, bur after taking at I would become deathly sick. Finally, I was recommended to try Milburn '8 lEtes,rt and Nerve Pills, wind,. I did, and, I can, truthfully- say that I ama a different woman since taking them, I can now do my own housework without the least exertion, and I am feeling fine in every wily." E. & N. Pills have been put up by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, for the past 32 years. ) "When You Ask For Them See That You Get Them." Summer Topping of Bla.ckcaps. What makes the average raspberry patch a jungle is the fact that all the, new growth a canes in summer is riot' properly taken care of. Perhaps a few suggestions as to the course I have followed through a matter of 20 sea- sons 'with uniform success will be helpful. Te none of the plants, new or old, do / do anything until the bearing is done. This (in my latitude) is about the middle of July. Then I take a day or so to put the raspberries In decent condition. First, all the old wood is carefully cut out, carried to a pile, and burned. I cut out and burn all plants that appear in the least affected by dis- ease, and those which look spindly. Then the patch is thoroughly cleaned of all weeds and accumulated trash. The fine new canes that a4 to pro - due next year's crop, I tie up to stakes. (Before tying I drive these stakes down tight.) Then cornea the topping; ana this is often a matter of personal taste with different growers. I do not top all canes at the same height, nor at the same time; I top at three and one- half or four feet all canes that look lusty enough to be considered almost mature. Others I let grow until they reach that height Sometimes a good cane will not grow higher than that; then no topping is used. I find it a good plan to touch the top of each severed cane with a pinch of arsenate or lead or Paris green, otherwise a borer may enter through the soft pith thus exposed. But such borers are only occasional visitors; I never knew them to enter more than a half-dozen canes even in a large patch, Shortly after the topping, especteal- ly if a spell of real growilia-Weather ensues, the canes will shoot long streamers downward. About -mice every ten days I trim these off about 18 inches from the parent. If they are allowed to take root, the patch will soon become a wilderness. If their growth is checked, they will be- come stout fruit -bearing limbs. By this method of treatment, a raspberry patch can be kept clean arid orderly, and topped canes will bush out in the most astonishing fashion. 'These heavy -headed plants are the ones that give the big crops.—A. R. Every farmer's -wife should have a hammer, a good sharp knife and a screw -driver all her own. 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