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you intend, .some day, to identify
yourself with his Rock. Finally, sub-
eeribe for the local paper.
If you show yourself friendly and
anxious to identify yourself and your
family with all local interests, you
will soon feel well acquainted, and ten
to one the Iadies of the family will
like the new home instead of pining
for the old one,
HORSEw ,.
We know that a > wide variety of
feeds is absolutely essential with cows
and poultry for high production of
milk and eggs. 'Also that it f's neces-
sary for the best growth of pigs,
calves and other young animals.
The work horse does not produce
foods directly, like the cow or hen,
r but he certainly lends' a hand in mak-
ing crops. ' And he, too, needs a varied
diet to do his hest.
When hard at work in the hot fields
the horse puffs " and sweats. With
every extra puff of breath and every
extra drop of sweat he is burning up,
not one or two, but half a dozen or
more chemical compounds. And if a
variety of, feeds is not supplied to
tory. The concrete silo with walls re- the average of the same ten years the refill and refurnish the animal's body,
'pierced by half -incl' rods, has the imported seed obtained through three he will either become weak or ipso
advantage of being perm -anent. This; of the leading seed houses gave 77, flesh; sometimes both.
silo is perhaps the most popular 77 and 76 per cent. We have not ob- A poor farmer driving a poor horse
where it can be afforded It can be tained imported .seed from any source with a whip. A progressive neighbor
constructed by ordinary farm labor.' which has given us as high a per- and good horseman remarks, "It is
Cement blocks and vitrified tile areI tentage of germination over a series not a whip but more hay and oats the
also found satisfactory, These several: of years as we have obtained from horse needs." How true! Yet many
styles of silo are described, and comi the seed produced at -Guelph. horsemen attempt to make their
piste instructions for the building of ! If farmers who have some good teams do more with a whip, though
the stave silo, with illustrations, aro mangels stored in their root cellars, feeding them only a narrow ration of
given in the pamphlet in question, would next spring, when the growth timothy hay and corn during the
heavy working season.
One of the best farmers we know,
who has fine horses and gets the best
kind of work from them, and keeps
them "fat" throughout the year, feeds
a varied ration during the working
seasons. In addition to timothy, he
feeds them some clover er alfalfa.hay.
Besides corn, he always gives his
working team some oats, with a little
bran or shorts, occasionally a dash of
linseed -oil meal.
Some men will not allow their work
horses to touch green grass, declaring
it will snake them soft, or cause them
to lose their wind.
To those of us who know how much
good a little green grass does a work
horse, in connection with heavy dry
feeds, depriving a hungry work horse
of this appetizing necessity is hard
to understand.
Many of the best farmers let their
work teams out to pasture at nights,
because of the better air of the pas-
ture and so that the work animals
may secure vitalizing green feeds to
'nix with the •dry ones they eat
through the day.
Good farmers and kindly horsemen
have always known In a practical way
activity is at a low ebb. As a result the benefit of green matter with dry
no nitrates are being formed in the to the well-being of all animals. Vita -
soil and plants cannot make voge- min discoveries and scientific proof of
tative growth. this knowledge.
To correct this and enable the plant Many work horses in summer be -
portion of the ration. The advan-i many cases the untreated section did to get away to a good start, apply nil come skin poor, and a few drop dead
tages of the silo are equally great for; not winter nearly as well and in one trate of soda one hundred pounds to in the hot fields for want of the com-
one hundred and fifty pounds per acre piste nourishment that a wider var-
Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto
ADVANTAGES OF THE SILO.
One of the chief advantages of the
elle is that in many cases it enables
withholding stock from the pastures
until the erase and the weather con-
ditions are favorable. Never a spring
goes by but sacrifices have to be made
in the condition of the stock as well
as the pastures, by emptying the
stables at too early a date. The feed
supplies become exhausted, hay and
other feed is relatively dear to pur-
chase, and there is nothing for it but
to turn out the stock. If one has a
silo, it follows that bulky crops will
be grown, and as these are preserved
without loss, the available supply of
feed for the winter months is greatly
Increased. It would be difficult to
estimate accurately the increase of
stock that can be carried on a given
acreage by the addition of a silo and
the growing of silage crops. The ad-
vantage lies, not so much in keeping
a greater number of animals, but in
keeping better those that one has.
Where corn can be grown at all
successfully, there is no other crop
equal to it for the making of silage.
Before deciding that this crop cannot
be grown satisfactorily, a careful test
should be made, because corn has been
so improved in recent years that the
experience of the past does not justify
a decision for the future. If, however,
it is proved that corn of the earlier
varieties is not a success, then one can
fall back on a mixture of oats, peas,
and vetches, or sunflowers, or on such
crops classified as clovers.
For cattle feeding, roots were for,
many years the succulent winter feed
used. With the introduction of the
silo and the growing of corn, it was,
soon learned that labor cost was
greatly reduced. Besides this, there
is the advantage of better thrift in
ensilage fed cattle, as well as reduced
labor in preparing the feed. Pamphlet
No. 35, "Silage and Silo Construction!
for the Maritime Provinces," records,
that steers fed ensilage at the Fred-
ericton Experimental Station, made a
profit of $15.32 more per head than'
those fed on roots as the succulent!
Home -Grown Mangel Seed
necessary in silo censtruction. These Best.
are strength, smoothness of interior,
the absence of angles on the inside, In the average results for ten years
and durability. Of the popular types, at the Ontario Agricultural College,
the stave silo is the most easily and very careful field tests show that our
quickly erected, and when given a per- home grown mangel seed gave an av-
manent roof and the hoops kept tight erage percentage of germination from
in the summer, it is fairly satisfac- the clusters of 119 per cent., while in
available at the Publications Branch
of the Department of Agriculture at
Ottawa.
DID YOUR CLOVER KILL OUT
THIS SPRING?
If it did, you had better write the
Department of Chemistry, Ontario
Agricultural College, Guelph, for di-
rections for taking a sample of your
soil to discover the reason.
Reports from some districts this
year show a good deal of winter
wheat and clover killed out, states the
Department of Chemistry, O.A.C.
This is highly undesirable and can
be prevented by the use of lime and
acid phosphate applied with the crop
on which the clover is seeded. In
some cases lime is not necessary for
the soil is not acid, but where acidity
occurs lime is very essential. Phos-
phorus is a great root farmer and it
is the strong, deep-rooted clover and
wheat plant that withstands the al-
ternate freezing and thawing of
spring weather.
In answer to a circular sent out
this spring to the twenty-five co-
operative experimenters handling our
Lime Phosphate Experiment, the ma-
jority report that the clover on the
half acre which received crushed lime-
stone and acid phosphate in the fall
of 1922 is in perfect shape, while in
of vegetation is starting, plant these
on a piece of well -tilled land, they
would be able to grow seed for home
use. As near perfect roots as pos-
sible should be selected and these
should be planted about thirty inches
apart each way. We have occasion-
ally obtained as high as a pound of
seed per plant, but this is exceptional
and it would not be wise to count on
more than from four to eight ounces
of seed per plant on the average. By
transplanting from fifty to one hun-
dred plants in the spring, a nice quan-
tity of seed should be obtained. This
would greatly help out the situation
in furnishing home grown seed and
in showing what can be done in seed
production in different localities
throughout the whole province.
Nitrate of Soda Helps in
Cold Springs.
In such a season as this, cold and
wet, the greatest need of the plant is
for nitrates, says the Department of
Chemistry, Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege, Guelph. The ground is so cold
and wet that it takes a long time to
warm up and as a >iesult bacterial
dairy cattle. At this season of the '
year when next winter's stock rations
must be provided for, it is well fel
consider whether or not one can of -i
ford to be without a silo. Even under,
the best systems of feeding the profits
are little enough. By the use of sil-i
age, greater profits are undoubtedly1
made possible, whatever crop is to be'
grown for the silo.
There are certain essential factors
or two cases will have to be plowed
up.
If seeding is done with spring grain
it is good business to use acid phos-
phate at tho rate of at least 300
pounds per acre, and preferably 400.
If the soil is acid, lime is also neces-
sary to give a strongly rooted clover
and alfalfa which will carry it over
the first winter—the most critical
period of the life of the plant.
Fanners in New Neighborh
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BY HILDA RICHMOND.
When a man proves into a new of his mother; but nobody had
community, particularly if he moves
in from another province or a distant
county, there are several things he
should attend to without delay. In-
deed, there . are some things that he
should attend to before he leaves his
old home in order to begin right in
the new one. One of these is to get
letters of introduction and recom-
mendation from the bank with which
he has always done business, from
the pastor of the church he attends,
thought it worth while to announce
immediately the arrival in the county
of one new family.
LOOK UP A GOOD DOCTOR.
Another wise precaution is to hunt
up and get acquainted with a good
doctor, as soon as you are located. If
the family is healthy and there has
been no need of a doctor's services for
years past, no harm will be done; and
if an emergency arises, the family
will have reason -to thank its lucky
at once. If bought in lots of several
hundred pounds it can bo obtained at
a reasonable price and its benefit is
almost certain. Do not, however, ap-
ply if heavy rain threatens, as it is
soluble and will be lost by washing.
Another benefit which will be der-
ived is this. The nitrate of soda dis-
solves in the soil water and soaks
down into the soil. The roots go after
it and hence the result is a deeper
rooted plant , more able to withstand
the period of drouth which so often
follows a wet seed time.
Silage Crops.
Where corn cannot be grown satis-
factorily, a mixed crop of oats, peas,
and vetches has proved to be a very
suitable mixture for the making of
silage. The ensilage from these crops
has high feeding value, containing, for
example, twice as much protein as
either corn or sunflowers. Corn, on
the other hand, where it does well
fety of feeds will furnish.
POULTRY.
Home Education
'Th. Child's First School Is the Family"--Fro.b.
A Question of Enduranc
"Yes, Janet is going , to learn
music," said Janet's mother, "even if
it does worry me nearly to death to
make her. practice."
"Doesn't she like to practice "
asked the friendly neighbor, who was
making a call.
"The first half of her hour she prac-
tices very well, but almost every day
she begins crying after thirty minute
are over, and I frequently, have to
punish her to make her finish the
hour."
"You don't mean to say that seven-
year-old baby practices for a- steady
hour each day?" The motherly eyes of
the older woman were very bright as
she asked the question.
"Indeed she does," the child's
mother answered. emphatically. "If
there is one thing more than another
that I cannot endure it is dilly-dally-
ing about something. When a thing
is begun, I want it finished before it
is left."
The caller was silent for a moment,
and when she resumed the conversa-
tion it was to introduce another sub-
ject. ..-
"Did you enjoy the lecture Prof.
Mozer gave before the club yester-
day?" she queried.
"It was interesting, and he is a
pleasing speaker, but I did wish he
could have made his .lecture ahorter.
After four o'clock. when 1 felt that
I should be at home getting dinner
started, I could not keep my attention
on the lecture at all, My mind was
somewhere else, and I could scarcely
sit still."
"It was a long program, and I can
imagine how you felt," the neighbor
agreed. "It is very hard to force
one's attention when the mind is busy
elsewhere."
"Well, I simply can't do it." The
younger woman was very positive.
The mite is the poultryman's worst
enemy. It multiplies by millions,
feeding upon the fowls from the time
they settle upon the perches in the
evening until they leave them next
morning. Spraying the perches may
destroy great numbers, but thousands
are left to hatch out new colonies at
once.
The best method I have tried to get
rid of the pests is to provide two sets
of perches. • The round ones have
blocks nailed upon each end, to pre-
vent turning upon the supports.
About every two months these perch-
es should be removed and replaced by
the other set. This can be done, even
in cold weather, by simply shifting
the fowls to their day quarters.
I remove each perch carefully so as
not to dislodge any of the mites. Then
is to be preferred on account of the i I spray around the supports and clean
very much greater weight of crop up generally. After that I replace
That can be grown per acre. In sec- clean perches and allow the fowls to
tions where the corn crop is doubtful, return undisturbed. The infested
it is well, therefore to put in some Perches have boiling water, with a
and from several of the leading bu'd-stars that it knows where to apply acres of the cereal mixture. This liberal quantity of kerosene and spir-
ness men,instantly for medical aid. It isn't mixed crop has the advantage of be- its of turpentine added, poured over
When he arrives at his new home, necessary to take up an hour of a ing suitable either for silo or for the every inch of them. Then they are
he leaves the letters of introduction busy doctor's time announcing one's making of hay, or it even may be Placed on end against a tree or fence,
with the bank and the church and intentions or giving a lengthy history allowed to ripen for threshing. When some distance from the poultry house.
the business house or houses, and at of the family, but it is well to get it is to be put in the silo, it must be
once establishes his identity and his acquainted and make a note of the cut very fine, spread evenly, and well
standing. This is more important
than many people consider it. It may
help in time of emergency and; if the
emergency never arises, it gives the
newcomer a fine start in every way.
It shows that he did not have to slink
telephone number and the location of
the doctor's office.
After getting settled, write to the plenty of water as the filling proceeds.
folks "back home" and tell them the Unless this is done, the stems being
exact location of your farm our tele hollow do not pack closely and are
tramped. The keeping quality is
greatly .improved also by adding
e --By OraA. Clement.
"When I have lost interest, I might\
just as well leave the meeting 1 a11I
the good I get from what' is said
afterward. I don't remember a word
of it."
The caller's brown eyes twinkled'
knowingly but kindly, as she said.
very gently, "I am sure that is more
or less true of us all. Especially is
it true of our little folks. Did you
ever hear it said, Mrs. Martin, that a
child of Janet's age cannot concen-
trate its attention for " re than
thirty minutes at one time?' The av-
erage is less than that.
"It is not a child's fault that it
cannot concentrate. It is Nature's
way of insuring normal, all-round de-
velopment. It is as natural as it is
beautiful kr children to go flitting
happily from one thing to analre
like butterflies, and it is well tonin
the little ones to apply themselves to
work and study by giving short tasks
which can be finished within a half-
hour. Longer tasks exhaust a child's
power of concentration and use up
nerve force. Flirtherrnore, nothing is
gained by continuing them after in-
terest and attention are lost. But I
wag going to ask how you enjoyed
Miss Love's solo."
So again the subject of discussion
was shifted and Janet and her les-
sons were not mentioned.
But the motherly neighbor was
pleased the next day when, after a
painstaking, if jerky, rendering of
Pixie Valso with some finger exercises
as a finale, the Martin's piano was
quiet until Janet had had a long romp
with the Jones twins, after whi'it
tinkled methodically and cheeriih lly
for thirty minutes more with no ac-
companiment of sobs.
"That is much better," she said to
herself. "I only hope I did not offend
Janet's mother."
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THE CHILDREN'S
HOUR
WISHING.
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do;
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and
true:
Rid your mind of selfish motives,
Let your thoughts be clean and
high;
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?.
Well, suppose you make a start
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart.
Do not waste one page of folly;
Live to learn and learn to live.
If you want to give men knowledge
You must get it ere you give.
Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along. the way;
For the pleasure of the many
May oft -times be traced to one
As the hand that plants the acorn
Shelters armies from : the sun.
THE ORIGIN OF THE PLEIADES.
BY LEREINE BALLANTYNE.
Culling.
During the year 414 culling de-
monstrations were held by the O.A.C.
Poultry Dept. Extension men—a total
of over 5,000 people attended. In ad-•
them rising up to the tree tops, and
going even beyond them as high as
birds may fly, they called frantically
to them to come back, promising to
give them all the food they wished.
However, the little boys did not
hear them, for their eyes were on the
lovely sky land where they saw all
th beauties of the cloud -world. The
good little spirit fixed them there
forever and turned them into seven
beautiful bright stars and they were
very happy, and never again were
hungry for food.
Because they had no books from
which to read, nor any great thinkers
to write books for them, the Indians
who lived here in North America be-
fore we came devised legends about
the wonders of nature. These legends
were handed down and the young
people would sit in the wigwams or
long houses and listen during the long
winter evenings to the stories told
by old men and women about how the
stars came into the sky, what caused
the trees to grow, why the animals
were cunning, and all such things
that we too ask our parents about,
when we are little boys and girls.
One legend told by the old Huron
HOGS .
We have had a great deal to say i1.
times past about the efficacy of good
pastures on the economical production
of live stock. It is a subject well
worthy of frequent discussion, and it
is just' as important with regard to
hogs as with any of the other domes-
tic animals.
The ancient pig sty with its tiny
proportions, its filth and squeeling
occupants, is, or should be, a thing of
the past, so far as commercial hog
production is concerned. It is as un-
natural for a hog to be confined for,
long periods in close quarters, as for,
a ,man to spend all his life in the
house. The evil effects of such treat-
ment may be overcome largely
careful attention to exercise and
but it is neither desirable with man,
nor profitable with hogs.
In a state of nature hogs roamed ,.
the woods and the prairies seeking
what they might devour. We have no
records of their suffering from in-
testinal worms and lice, and hog
cholera was unknown.
We put rings in their snouts so
they cannot root up our nice meadows,
and then feed them tankage to re-
place the worms and grubs, and min-
eral mixtures to replace the mineral
elements which their ancestors were
In the habit of rooting in the earth
for. We even cut down all the trees,
because they interfere with the plow
or the binder, or with our distorted
esthetic sense and build artificial
shades, that our hogs may enjoy pro-
tection from the heat of the sun,
ditron to the 414 culling aemonsrra-
phone number, rural route, and vari- almost sure to mould during the cur- tions, culling schools were held in i people long before even Cartier came which nature demands they should
away from his 4o.d hot: 2; and tlic id's ous other items, so that telephone ing process. Pamphlet No. 35 of the Port and Napanee.1 to this country, abof[t the origin of, have. Perhaps, some day, we will
he may be worth little in this world = calls and mail need not be delayed. If Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, Woodstock,Of tds X0,hens Hopea handled at demon-' the Pleiades, is vary quaint, The i employ osteopathic hog doctors to ex -
goods, if he can show good recrm-!you have a common available at the Publications T3ranch,•r
mendations as to chaiaeter and n•
a! c�_
sties i over 17 000 were considered
name like John ser
"11 n goes fully into silage crops, describes
the various popular silos, ir;eluding
the construction of the stave silo.
•
tegrity he at once gets in touch v'ith'
good people in his new neighborhood.
DOES THE POSTMASTER KNOW YOUR
ADDRESS?
His name and the exact location of
his farm should be given • at once to
the telephone and telegraph offices.
Many people neglect this, saying:
"We do not expect any messages."
But no one knows what calamity, sick-
. ness or important business may make
it necessary for friends or strangers.
to look him up.
I used to work in the post office,'
and it was amazing to see how many
death notices and letters and tele-
phone messages were not delivered,
until too late, because of lack of ad-
dress. Once a telegram came for'
John Brown; and, after exhausting
all their resources, the authorities put
the customary notice in the post of-
fice expecting that John Brown would
prove to be a commercial salesman
and would call soon. It turned oat
that the owner of the telegram was
the nephew and hired man of a new-
comer in a neighborhood some miles
from town. His mother was buried
two days 'ciefore he received the notice
of her death.
Just a little comnunn sense would
have prevented the tragedy for that
young fe lbw who missed a last sight
ones, it IS w., tO to
your. postmaster that .. your mail is
likely to come from certain towns.
Then if your friends neglect to put
the correct address on the letters,
every other John Smith and Jahn
Jones will not finger your mail over
first and delay it.
A young man once came breezily
into the post office to informme that
a
he had received a letter that did not
belong to hire, and upon being askeda
to produce the letter he said it did
did
not amount to anything so a had de-
stroyed it. Of course it dnot am-
ount to anything to him, butthe right
h
John Smith was very mut disturbed
a
when he heard of it. It happened to
be a letter from his best girl.
If it i;, spring, the local dealer who
a
handles repairs for the make of ma-
chinery on the farm' of the newcomer
I should be hunted up. An u m necessary
itime
n delay in corn -planting ti a means
, much; and so does stopping to hunt
repairs for tr he harrow o the disk
when work is pressing. Getting in is
touch with the huckster also ad-
Ivisable in order easily to get groceries
in the busy season and to he able to
market eggs frequently in'. hot
weather.
false economy is the hole in the
pasture fence.
When stung by a bee, I always re-
move the stinger and rub the spot
with Iard. Try this.—J. M. K.
,
to be culls in so far as profitable egg
producing is concerned, so says Pro-
fessor W. R. Graham, Ontario Agri-
cultural College.
There's many a slip 'twixt the seed
and the silo. It takes a farmer to be
the. true optimist.
Last, but not least, hunt up the The only Canadian nurse who lost an arm on'the fi.eld;is pictured While
church of your choice without wait-
ing fora busy minister to guess that i attending a recent convention athe Ontario Amputation Association,
Pleiades is a group of seven stars ercise their muscles, and import cel-
which we may see almost any bright ery and head lettuce to keep them in
night high up in the sky, The In-, health, but, to date, we are still de -
diens say these were seven very pending upon plenty of range and
bright and clever little Indian boys good pastures to fulfill this require
who once upon a time lived here on ment.
the earth. They were expert dancers,! The best of all forage so far dis-
and whenever a feast was held or a covered is - alfalfa. Clover is a close
celebration given by their family, the second, and on rich land rape gives
seven brothers were called upon to excellent returns. Fall -sown rye here
dance for the company. I Juno grass comes earliest in t
One time they were celebrating the spring, oats and peas are very good
harvest by the many usual dances and for the older hogs about June 1.' Sweet
feasts of thanksgiving, and the seven clover promises to take a position,
boys were dancing in a giddy whirl among the best hog forages. Soy -
just like tie dry leaves, that, falling beans are greatly relished for fall
from the trees are carried around feed, and up-to-date practice calls for
and around by a playful breeze. The growing them extensively with qoi�?,,.
boys became hungry and stopped their that is to be hogged off.'
dance for food, but their people were' Many experiments have, shown that
so busy enjoying themselves that they the most economical gains from grow -
took no notice of the boys, and when ing' pigs come from the use of abun-
they asked for food, they told them dant forage in combination with ap-;
to dance for.it. — I proximately one-half of a full feed of;,
Clasping hands, they whirled away grain. They also show that the acres
again while the old men beat time on: thus utilized are often the: greatest,
the deer -skin drums. But as they producers of net profits of any on the,
danced they cried to each other "We' whole farm.
are so 'hungry! We must have food!"
Just as they said these words- a good When replanting corn, ''stead of�
spirit wluch was passing -beckoned using' a hoe I use a sharpo fed broom
thein, and they found themselves `be stick with a pipe of: some kind .at-,
ing whirled up off the ground foiitw- Cached. I jab the broom, stick into,
ing this spirit without any effort on . the soil, drop a grain of corn into,
their part. Higher and high--: they, the pipe, scratch a Tittle pod bar) the
ascended. When their people saw hole and the job Is done',