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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-10-2, Page 6Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, ', pronto PUTTING THE PiJLLETS 1N Pullets and older hens should not WINTER. QUARTER.be kept together. The same amount 1f you have not already done so)! feed to produce good egg produc-, get the poultry house In sha!,e for the' tiro in pullets may cause hens to be inlets. Fix doors and windows, be come overfat. i start la *iii p When the pullets first _3 g, cine that roof does not leak, cover some. of them may lay oir the floor hi creeks so that there will b no drafts •; the corners of the paultxy house. If The amount of open froet that you !they persist, catch them when about have depends upon location and cli- mate. Two sides and the back of the! to lay and put them on a hest, As a house must be absuiutely tight so as rule this will break them of the habit.+ toprevent drafts. It fs bad to have eggs. on the floor as ` if they become broken, the habit of , Thoroughly clean the house. Nest egg eating gets started. Egg eating boxes should be taken outside and sprayed with disinfectant; also poul- seldom is found in a flock where the I birds are not confined. try house itself, roosts and dropping board, top and under. When changing the pullets from the Glean litter ha straw chaff corn range to their winter quarters do not Y, , aim. The husks, leaves or sawdust, must be pros' keep the house much too w I vided in which the grain can be scat- i bird results coldcatch egg and pthis prevents; reV pts tered. Litter absorbs much of the g g droppings, fowls on range have been in fresh air1 You will now begin to see the re- night and day so that any changes in sults of crowding at night by the young stock. If . you allow all sizes of chicks to run together, the smaller ones huddle under the larger` birds at night to keep warm and in the morn - ed surface is in bad condition or shows a clumsy aceumilation of many pre- vious coatsof paint, a paint and var- nish remover should be applied thor- oughly with a brush,-al'iowed to pene- trate and then scraped off with 'a knife that has not too sharp an edge. After all the old stain or paint has been removed, the -piece should be washed with soap and water and dried. When absolutely dry it should I be shellacked, After the shellac is entirely dry, it should be lightly sandpapered. .Icor all the sandpapering that isdone be-; twee• h the temperature of their quarters should be gradual. Dry fresh air even if cold is much better than warm damp air. Provide thebirds with a plentiful. ing they become chilled, and then you supply of grit and oyster shells and have an epidemic of colds which may see that they have all the green food develop into roup. they will eat up once a day. The same You can check colds by every night ration they had on range should be immersing the bird's head in hydrogen continued for a time. The change peroxide. Do this for about ten days. from range to new conditions upsets Should any of the birds reach ` the the pullets for a week or two and if li coats t e finest sort of sand- paper should be used. After dusting, the furniture is then -ready for the first coat of paint. If two coats of paint are to be used before applying the final one or two coats, these first coats should have the chief feunda- tion of white lead with turpentine and dryer, and without oil. They may bo about the color that has been decided on for the final coat, but this is not necessary; if there is some other paint of somewhat the same tone value, that can be used up.• One advantage in painting the piece the color you think you would like it to be in the end is that you can see how it is going to look before it is finished. The first coat of paint should be put on just as carefully .and well as the last coat. Little paint should be taken om the brush at a: trine; the paint should be brushed in with even Istrokes, working it in so hard that 'the brush makes a slapping sound. The brush strokes should be in one direction. .Allow the first coat to dry thor- oughly. Sandpaper lightly and. dust. ! Then apply your second coat of paint. The third coat may be of paint or of eggshell enamel, and must be identic- ally like the coat that is to go on last. You will have to use your judgment as to whether you will need to put on all four of these coats. Sometimes two coats of paint and one of enamel are enough; sometimes one coat of paint and two of enamel are preferred. If the last coats are of paint instead of enamel they should be protected with a waterproof varnish, applied the very last thing of: all. If you have used an eggshell ena- mel for your last coats, after the enamel is thoroughly dry it should be rubbed with powdered pumice and water if its color is light. If its color is dark, it should be rubbed with powdered pumice and oil. The foregoing directions for fine painting, if followed carefully, result in a product so perfect that no decora- tion is needed for its further beautify- ing. The amateur who is able to produce a perfect painted piece isnot always able to do • a perfect bit of decoration. A line of contrasting color, either put on with a striping brush or else drawn in first with pencil and ruler and care- fully painted in with b. camel's-hair' brush; a line of contrasting color run on a bevel or turning here and there; the spindles in a chair back, the edge of .a table, the under side of a flap lid, the inside of a desk, the interiors of dresser drawers and shelves all done in some 'vivid hue that is in contrast to the decorative dull color of the piece itself—this is as far as the sen- sible amateur will go in decorating furniture. Paint your furniture, but keep it plain. There are certain colors that are particularly suitable for the painting of furniture. Dull olive green is very decorative in certain rooms, and if in doubt about this color, look a; an olive and get a painter to mix this color for you. Apple green -heed,: be used in smaller quantities, or c 'en- - nee _._. roupy stage icili and burn or bury the ration is changed also, it gener- them, The greatest prevention for ally takes them longer to get back to this condition is to keep the growing their normal condition. birds from crowding and the different If pullets do not start laying aizes separate. See that too many promptly, a wet mash should be fed birds are not allowed in each house at noon. If you can secure fresh even if of the same age and size as bones and have a green bone cutter the results are the same: colds and this feed will be found to be a splen roup. I did stimulant in starting egg produc- By October first and sooner, if the tion. Too much green bone may start a slight bowel trouble but this is sel- dom serious. Just give less of the green bone. Beef scrap can be given the birds in a hopper. At first the birds niay eat more than seems good for them but, their first greed satis- fied, will eat only what they should. birds are large enough, they should be put in their laying quarters so that they will not have to be moved once they start laying. Moving pullets when they start to lay or just after, may check them and sometimes they will not start again for several weeks. For the Farmhouse Painted Furniture BY ETHEL CARPENTER. There is no doubt at all that paint lends a special beauty and effect to a piece of furniture. And especially is this true of inexpensive furniture that might be quite unassuming in its original state. Added to this, there is no place where simple painted fur- niture is so at home as in the farm- house. simple antique pieces of Colonial fur- niture are already possessed—cherry, maple, or mahogany chests and slat back chairs, corner cupboards, setters, old kitchen chairs, drop-leaf tables of mahogany or pine, shelved dressers, crickets, four -post beds, all of which are usually too fine and valuable to paint, but which have been kept in So, when this beauty is absolutely or restored to their original state— within the reach of anyone at all at even in this sort of home, the rooms the insignificant cost of a can of will surely need the addition of a few paint, it does seem as though more simple painted things to add variety people should avail themselves of this and richness of color. Such simple easy method of thus transforming antiques are the natural heritage of their otherwise humdrum furniture. the farmhouse and comparatively few The two kinds of furniture pre - that homemakers were influenced by. eminently suited to farmhouse use are that unfortunateyears semisophi rte tion of such painted pieces and the simpler a few years ago to the extent that types of farmhouse antiques. Any they have got rid of all of them in farmhouse can be entirely and very favor of what was once mistakenly charmingly furnished with either fancied to be grander and more suit - type, but a mixture of the two with able city furniture. a predominance of either, results in' How the pendulum swings! For city the ideal farmhouse scheme, and this folk are combing the hedgerow lanes should be kept in mind as as influ- for farmhouses that are willing still epee even when buying furniture of to part with quaint treasures! But to other types. And even if no suitable no home is there such honor in pis- pieces are at hand, in starting over . sessing just these simple piecesas to with this new scheme of furnishing in, the farmhouse itself. mind, it will be found to be quite the I Though it is a pity as a rule to easiest and cheapest method that will • paint a deserving antique, among the assure success. simpler pieces there are some that After a beginning is made, this will lend themselves to this purpose— scheme may be pursued to completion' the commoner of the kitchen chairs, over any number of years, real plea- the cruder tables made of wood, a lit - sure being attained with each new the cricket or a clumsy chest, may be piece that is painted and each old made very handsome if painted black piece that is acquired. The home that, or a dull and decorative color. thus grows from year to year is the; Failing any old pieces that may be most thrilling and satisfactory kind painted without desecrating them, to have, and the most lovely in the however, there are very inexpensive and. quaint new types made in the old spir THE MAGIC OF PAINT. it which may be mixed in with such antique pieces as still show their orig- inal finish. These may be bought most economically and sometimes even in ed furniture, chosen for its quaint old; the unfinished state, and are extreme - shapes, and painted at home, with ly desirable when painted. effectively' perhaps an antique piece restored to for giving life and variety to rooms. its original finish, lending variety and, Plain chests of drawers; drop -leaf - charm. tables—Colonial gateleg or the situp- Though simple and quaint modern ler straight -legged type; Welsh dress - furniture may be bought in nearly ers; spindled beds; Windsor arid slat- any new shop, there are very few back chairs; bench tables—many in - farmhouses that haven't a number of deed are the.: suitable pieces that may quaint pieces in their possession which be bought with a view to painting. are not antiques, but rather simple Just how should furniture be things of humble origin, needing only painted?. to be painted to show their isndeniable First, let us consider it from the beauty—drop-leaf tables originally de- standpoint of practical work, then signed for kitchen use, but lovely from that of the decorative effect. enough in shape to be welcomed in When painting any piece of furniture, living and dining rooms; porch Wind= ` it should bedetermined first whether. sors; candle stands; plain bookshelves the interest lies in obtaining a pro- without doors, or even those that are fessiona-looking result, or whether the product of the home carpenter; • the painting must be . accomplished plain straight chests of drawers;} hurriedly for a quick effect of color. tomer cupboards with small -paned A really professional result in doors; wooden spool -turned beds and! painting furniture may be gained in quaint cottage -dres§ers. I this way: If the piece is new and un All these pieces, plus some even I - stained, first dust it and then apply more nondescript in character, may a coat of shellac; ,this seals the knots; be glorified by the magic of paint, and I and acts 'as a filler upon which the' farm- interiors may, thus be turned first coat of paint will go more easily. into homes of beauty that may be com. l PHS STARTING POINT. pared fiesorably with the most charm -This should be done only when the ing homes of to -day. I furniture is to be painted or enameled, Even in the farmhouse furnished not when it is to be stained.; If the with old things,' where a number of ,. furniture is old and the alteadv naint When very few antiques, if any, are available, the farmhouse may be furnished entirely with modern paint- bedroom.:furniture. Mix a green to! match a greening apple. .Add the slightest bit o•f pink or gray and it will be sage or leaf green. naeuetrue• AND SAME BLU1:S. I have made a perfectly beautiful peacock blue by mixing together porch -chair green enamel and asure- blue automobile enamel. This peacock blue was dull and rich and a wonder- ful color for furniture. Midnight blue. is another favorite. This ' can be ob- tained by adding black to dark blue, and if this mixture is too puledish, a bit of green will make it right. Pea- cock and midnight blues are the safest. blues to use for furniture, unless one( Chinese red is too has had much experience. veto di.s- } regard. Needless to say this should be used in very small quantities. An extremely small piece of furniture might be done this color, or an inter- ior of a chest or desk, the outside of which was painted putty color or black. Chinese red should be very, much of a henna, and if I were mixing it myself I should take a normal bright red and add brown and yellow until dull and rich enough. Black: is one of the most decorative furniture hues that we have. It should have a bright surface such as is given by regular enamel that is not rubbed dowii very much. • • Putty color is another color that is very desirable. This may be light, and the actual color of putty, or it may run deeper until it is more the color of coffee ice cream, -or even of powdered cocoa. ( Many of these colors come ready to use in cans of eggshell enamel, but if putty color must be mixed, I should take deep ivory and add brown in small quantities until the right depth was obtained. If too pinkish, add a little green. When wishing to change just barely the tone of a color by add- ing a little of the opposite or comple- mentary color, be sure to add only a brushful at a time, as it is easier to add more than to take it out after it goes in. Gray is another color that is used for painting furniture, but it should be sandy, partaking somewhat of the color of putty. Furniture painted this color is hard to mix into the usual room scheme, and gray should be kept more for the painting of bedroom furniture. Orange niay be used in very small piece.= of fur•niti:re, tut probably even one who is fond of this color would not dare have m re than two tiny pieces in one house, Avoid cheap colors—pinks, Alice blues, porch -chair greens, steel grays and fire -bucket reds. Paint a piece or so at a time and note the effect. The European Red 'Mite. . Apple growers in many parts of the country have long been familiar with the common red mite which attacks the foliage and causes it to turn brown. The European red mite has now appeared. This new pest was first reported in Canada in 1915, and has since been observed in the Eastern States and, • California. It is probable that it is quite widely distributed, but has been! confused with older forms. Red mites live over the winter in; the egg stage on the twigs of apple I Home Education 'Thi Child'. First school Is to Family"=FroebN.' Interesting. Your Children in Books—By Helen Gregg Green The other day Aunt Emma Lou and I 'made• -,-a call at Hildegarde's. We found her sitting cross legged on the floor with her nine-year-old . son, Jim. Beside then lay an open boil:, a pile of dried moss, stones,some small branches, crayons, a few Indian arrow- heads, and some sheets of heavy ma- nilla paper. "What in the world—?" we ex- claimed i i one breath. 4 i 01 "We are making scenes from White's `Boy's Life of Daniel Boone'," Hildegarde explained, after Jim had left. Wo looked' amazed, I suppose, for Hildegarde continued, "As a child I learned to detest books and reading of all kinds. I carne from a home where the readingof a book was a solemn rite, performed with a solemn coun- tenance. Mother and Father never seemed to have time to discuss any of the books we read; they simply hand- ed them to us from dusty library shelves with a `Here's a book that will teach you many things you should know, so run along and absorb its contents'. I would rim along, sll righty but often'I hid the book under a rock: "When Jim was a littld chap I made trees. . They are sometimes so abun-I dant that masses of the eggs may be easily seen by the unaided eye. The writer has had no difficulty in killing; the mites in the egg stage by spraying, with lime -sulphur diluted at the rate of one to five. Experiments with! weaker solutions have not proved very, effective, but many of the miscible oil sprays are reported to give a good percenti:ge of kill. MEETING THE CANADIAN BUFFALO Thi$ is, a snap taken at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley the other day. 1, Canadian Pacific Telegraph,meisenger•is introducing his little friend to the big buffalo thee stands outside' the company's pavilion at Wembley. up my mind he should love his read ing. His fatherland I"often,read the book he reads, so we can discuss • with hiiii afterward. .Sometimes. dramatize the scenes in a book togeth- er. If we have other books- that will help him to understand more., tutor- oughly r.the one he is reading, we leave them lying on the library table, where they will be sure to catch his eye." "Well, my dear, you are wise," Aunt Emmy Lou approved, "and you also seem to havemede a study keeping Jimmy interested in the rig». ind of - boobs: "Indeed we have," Jimmy's mother smiled back. "His teacher tells us he is the best posted boy in the school." Aunt. Emmy Lou and I went away. thinking what a wise little mother i i1degarde was and wondering why` we didn't all try so good a plana ' Why don't we, 11 wonder? Aren't books, after: all, the real foundation of education? Don't we all know won- derfully brilliant people who are not college or even high school graduates? Ask any of them to what they attri- bute their success, and they will ans- wer, "My education came. from books:" Books! There are thousands of them available to all of us. Teach your children to love them.. Taking In the Fair vs. Being Taken In by the Fair. As the Fair and Exhibition season ishere, it would be well for all who contemplate attending same seriously to ask themselves this question: "Do I get as much out of my visit as I should?" Fairs and -Exhibitions provide a means of social intercourse and enter- tainment for the people of the sur- rounding community but fundamen- tally they are educational, particular- ly to the rural .community. Their main object is the improvement of agricul- tural conditions by comparisons of in- ferior and superior live stock, crops, etc., and the donating of premiums to the lattet class. The pleasure of the social and lure of the entertainment features should not be allowed to supersede the inter- est that should be taken in the educa- tional features. Every agriculturist is, or should be, interested in making the most of his business, and he can find numerous aids in a day well spent THE CHILDREN'S - HOUR 9 JACKIE RABBIT GETS CAUGHT. IN THE FENCE, Vie., When Johnnie Muskrat knocked at the .man's door in Stoneyville to in- quire the way back to Woodland and the pian hiinself came to the door, how he, Jackie Rabbit, and Willie Woodchuck ran! Dodging behind bushes and bunches of grass, they were soon out of sight. . They never even looked back' to see if the man was coming. When they had left the village, with its stone houses, far behind, they paused in the . - shadow of a big hazel bush for breath. "Oh me, oh my, I thought he had ine that time," puffed Willie Wood- chuck. "And so did I," said Johnnie Musk- rat. "Is he coining yet?'-' II I at the Fair: I don t see him. Do you suppose Speaking more particularly from we will ever get home?" asked Ja the live stock man's point of. view, Rabbit. "We must hurry backie he should make 'a point of seeing as woods' and perhaps someone can tell much of the live stock a spossible ,as t usthe way there." "Yes, is being judged, so that he can see! I guess the only safe place for the good and the bad types and eee us is woods," said Johnnie Musk. rest his own breeding operations• ac- rat,,"and that doesn't seem very safe. cordingly. Anyway, I'm not going to knock at a Undoubtedly the spectator will not stranger's door again to learn the always 'agree with the judge as the wa, best of them make mistakes (as do Hush! What was that?" whispered the best of farmers), but to the dyed- Willie Woodchuck. in -the -wool steels man there is no' With ears alert they all listened. ie greater pleasure than to stand at the ringside and pit his opinion as to the meritorious animale in a class against ,that of the judge. It is well There was a swish, swish in the leaves behind them. With a frightened look at each other they hurried off' as fast as they could go. It wasn't very fast to remeriTber, however, that the judge though, for they were tired and very has the advantage in that he is able much out of breath after their long to handle the animals and view then! run. They never turned to see ,what from all angles and may see or feel the swish was, or they. would :not have something that is not evident to the been frightened. They'felt sure it was.-- man at the ringside. •the man but it was only Mrs. Blue The management of Fairs and Ex-' Bird hunting in the leaves for a big 'see hibitions should endeavor to plan the black bugs for her little Blue Birds. live stock judging program so that too Across the fields they went running many classes would not be going on' until they came to a barbed wire at the same time. This, of course, is fence. Johnnie and Willie Woodchuck difficult ata one or two-day Fair but climbed through successfully without. comparatively easy in the case of a • catching their very much tattered four-day or full week Exhibition. clothing. But when Jackie Rabbit Having the judging e'ings located fair -tried to get through it wasn't so easy. ly close together would help consider- ably for then two classes of stock caught his trousers on a big barb could be followed at the same time right where he always sat down. There fairly intelligently, he dangled back and forth. "Help! programme of the judging of help! help!" he called. He live stockshould be published in the . thought sure the swish in the leaves press previous to the dates of judg- had been the man and that he was - ing and on notice boards around the right behind pini. grounds while the fair is going on so' Just as Johnnie Muskrat was al - that the visitor may go .to the ring most back to help him, his trousers of stock in which he is most inter- I gave way. "help rip!" and down ested. For instance, at the Central j went Jackie on all fours. In a jiffy he Canada Exhibition at Ottawa this was upand the three little Woodland year, notices were posted aroundthe boys trotted as .fast as they could. groundsgiving the time of judging of toward the woods. various classes and sections of live stock. A day intelligently spent in taking in the above mentioned educational features of the Fairs or Exhibitions which you attend will be something to lookback on without regrets, as there is everything to gain and nothing to lose. On the other hand, the side shows and other questionable enter- tainment features nter-tainment.features invariably take in, financially and otherwise, more than, they leave with the community, and their attendance at Fairs and Exhi- bitions should be 'discouraged by the deadly method of withholding patron- age. The woman who was thoughtful .enough tp count the number of times that duties required her to be at the stove, cupboard, sink, basement, din- ing -room table, etc., had valuabledata at hand when her husband and a car- penter satclown to plan the new kitchen, A self -feeder which will supply the growing pullets with . both grain, and mash is quite as, necessary to the economical development ,of next >sea- son's layers as any other piece of poultry equipment outside of a good house. else. -Corel Leverhulme. Playing Safe. Askins--"You're drinkin' quite e bit for a gentleman's gentleman, I should think you'd be afraid of the poisonous stuff." ' Opkins="I'm quite cautious. T never touch it until after my gentleman has opened a bottle and taken a drink of it himself. The farmer who would keep his pou(itry flock free from white diarr- hoea will blood -test the bullets and other hens saved for laying next, year. This is best done when the flock ie culled in the fall. • I.f you are lucky in marriage you can afford to be unbicky in everything