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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-09-10, Page 6THE WINGHAM TIMES, SEPTEMBER 10,1014 arm anD Garden THERE'S MONEY IN CORN. Minnesota Colle,ge Expert Says Seed Should Be Selected In the Fall. There are few persous in the Unit- ed States, or anywhere for that matter, who are drawing $200 a day in wages, eo few that it would not take long to rneution them. As a result a corn grower would be deeidedly surprised. it 'be were to be told that he could make as much, at least during oue day in the year, as the very rich. To put himself in the millionaire class oue day in the year all that it is nwessary for this corn grower to do, says Ray P. Speer, Minnesota College of Agriculture, is to select his seed corn in the fall. Tills is eot a mere4 surmise, for statistie's gathered by re- liable corn experts prove the point be youd dispute. The story is not long and is shnple enough for any one to uneerstaud. The average yield of corn in Minne- sota during 1000 and 1010 was 27.4 bushels of corn per acre, Based on a cost ot production per acre of $13.75, accordieg to the figures taken from a ' series of farms in southeastern Minne- sota for five years, this average yield barely exceeds the cost of producing It. A. higher yield of corn must be se- emed if a prot3t is to be obtained. BOMB 0011:1N0 SE= COBB. Since the items of expense incurred by producing a sixty bushel crop when compared with a thirty buslael crop, so far as plowing, planting seed, culti- vation, husking, cost of machinery, sent and other factors are concerned, do not vary much it would be safe to say that nearly every bushel over a thirty bushel yield will represent a profit. How is this yield. to be obtained, and what bearing does it have on the $200 wage? It has been proved by the Towa experiment station and others that the yield of corn varies directly as the stand, and the stand, needless to 'say, cannot be better than the seed torn planted. If seed corn therefore an be secured which is so much better than ordinary seed as to produce a eorty bushel crop where thirty bushels ;Were secured before this means an ad- tlitional profit amounting to the market price of the increased yield. One per - Eon can easily pick eight bushels of good seed corn in a day, and this will Vent approximately fifty acres. The tncrease in yield of the seed produced orty bushels an acre—and there is no Veason why forty bushels could not be earoduced—would mean an increase of b00 bushels, worth at least $200. This is a very good day's salary. It certain- br would pay the average farmer to put himself in the millionaire class one Vlay this fall, PERMANENT PASTURE. Advantage of Winter Feeding Is In Use of Byproducts. If a portion of the land is too rough for cultivation or if the farm is of 'such a size that there is too much land for the help employed and not enough to demand another hand, it is often advisable to keep this extra land in Permanent pasture. On =try large farms It is better because of the scarci- ty of labor to farm less intensively and keep a considerable area in pasture. rnder sueh circumstances feeding on pasture should prove remunerative. , The advantages of winter feeding cOnsIst in the opportunities to make better use of the byproducts, Such as tern fodder, damaged hay, etc., and the better distribution of labor. In the SVeStent part of the corn belt the ma- jOrity of the cattle are fed during the pate fall and early winter months, so ithat they may be out of the way be- fore bad weather sets hi, thus avoiding e.nsive shelter. A. little farther ts Where the disagreeable Weather •s earlier, It Itt customary to rough e cattle on pasture and stalk fielda tmtfl Deeettber Or /watery, when the *re put Int0 the yards And fatten In the eastern pat of the Cern belt tattle are frequently fattetted iii she or barns. 'he rititaber of steer e to be fattened depends tm the quantity of roughage **tillable. If there is a surplus of corn it should he sold or fed to hogit. Ott the tithe band, if there is a alight ded. chesty it may MT. Matt tiednomiettl to buy a little 00en or Other concerki trs,to ho df)110110. of.tht roust fmod. *It N A WAR FOOTING CANADA is going to find out, within the next few months, what it means to be a war footing.'' Just what it means depends largely on now we meet the situation. It might mean continued dullness, depression, "hard times" ----if we were to persist in thinking and talking "hard times." It may, just as reasonably, mean prosperity ---if we keep oul- heads and- go after business in the right spirit of ag- gressiveness. We rnight well follow the lead set us by some of our large industrial concerns. An excellent example is furnished by our three leading automobile manufacturers. One—making a high-priced car—has given instructions for the most aggressive selling campaign the company has ever undertaken; backed up by a big campaign of advertising in the newspapers. Another, .who makes various -priced cars of high quality, had a large annouucement of 1915. models in a long list of papers the very week after war was declared. A third—a Canadian branch factory of a United -States concern making a popular priced car, is announcing an import- ant price change—and taking larger space than ever before in Canadian newspapers to tell the story, And this, be it noted, is the attitude of the three big men in an industry that the pessimists have been predicting would be seriously affected by the war. Their unshaken confidence, their greater -than ever determination to market successfully a class of product that is always hard to sell, should be an in- spiration to the rest of our industries. These three manu- facturers have tested advertising, and have confidence in Its efficiency in stimulating business in times of war as well as in times of peace. Instead of retrenching, the business men of Canada: may well emulate the action of the motor car manufacturers, and go out after business in the most aggressive way possible. Nis TRAGIC LEITtR---= How would you answer it? Between the lines of this short letter yet can read grim tragedy. If its appeal viers made to you, personally, how would yen answer it? Suppose you held the power te receive this poor woman or to turn he away, which would you do? "Will you kindly give me information concerning admission of a very needy woman near me. Her husband is dead, and she is in consumption. She has two small children, ab present in an orphans' home, as the mother is not able to care for them, and their only income is what an aged mother earns. They live in one small room." It is easy to say, "Why, of course, I would offer relief, if it were in my power!" Bub, think 1 Are you sincere when you say that? Are you in earnest? Do you really want to help poor, suffering Con- sumptives? Then here is your chance to prove your sincerity. Contributions to the Muskoka Free Hos- pital for Consuraptives will be gratefully acknowledged by W. J. Gage, Chairman grecutive Committee, 84 Spadina Avenue, R. Dunbar, Secretary • Treasurer, 347 ring Street West, Toronto. COWER'S COMMENT. (London Advertiser.) Collier's Weekly, probably the most rapresentative periodical of the public opinion of the citizens of the United , States, has the following to say in its current issue: "In the past and the immediate present, the war, of course, has caused us, as a nation, some confa- sion. For the filture it is possible,, to say, in the words of one of the most thoughtful leaders of Ameri- can finance and industry, that if we have wise leadership, the per- , • manent result upon American in- dustry and commerce of the pres- ent Ruropean war will be of a bel - 1 eficence suet, as to stagger the im- agination." In so far as the war is eoncerned, the whole continent IS as one commercially. A great opportunity niters to Canadian industry to take care of the usual im- port blueness. Men will need work, land if the eyele can remain tiebroken there will be aft good times this winter as last winter. Size your prospective sufferings beside the Suffering of say - one liVing in the tations at war at , Europe, and 'Omagh you live at the veriest "tank" station you are better 01 than If you Were a social leader he IWIln or Paris. Canada will give He then aud Mohey te the eattse of Great tcritain, but there is no reason for a cessation of trade. Once the first flurry has settled there will be ample oppor- tunity for the sound business man to increase rather than decrease his out- put. Just as the Americans see the opportunity, so may we. This week's edition of Collier's has some pleasant reading for a British subject—some thrillingreading, in fact. It stands for the best of American thought, and it is distinctly with the humanitarian side of the present war. For instance, this paragraph Will leave no room for doubt as to where it stands: "We shall obey President Wil- son's neutrality order faithfully. All the same, we know the man who, stripped of monarchial prerce i gatives, n any American court, under American law, could be in- dicted and convicted for incitement to murder." Then there is a word of advice that comes home to those of us who do not look to the future; "In England, the war has brought to poverty a large number of per- sons who were formerly well-to-do. Their tragedy is the result of a calamity that no one could forsee, No parent can be certain that his Crippled With Rheumatism Anil Skeptical After Trying Many Medicines—Dr, Chase's Kidney - Liver Fills Cured Him, When the kidneys fall to purify the olood the poisons left in the system ase pain mid •ouffering„ such as back- ,cche, lumbago and. rheumatism. Read :tow tiiis t kuptitt was ct•rcd by Dr. sla 1.,e'S IC.idney-LIver Pills. Mr. It'. W. Brown. Xingsbury, Quo., .frites:—"I have been completely cur - of bar%aithe and lanie back by isitig i. Onase's Kidney -Liver Pills. 1 also reeommended the pills to a man teno was a cripple from rlicumatiard. Ire was skeptical, as he said that he had tried nearly everything on earth. Finally be consented to try them, and to his surprlee was greatly benefited in the fired week, and the mina lett his legs until he was so supple he could walk without pain or diffieutty. Dr. Chase' e Kidney -Liver Pills have worked wonders in till's place, and we ,hirrIt there 15 no medicine like them." ?Jr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, one a dose, 26 (teas a box, 5 for $1.00; 11 dealere, or redmatisoh, Bates & Co.. ...einited, Toronto. children may not, some clay, come to poverty. There is no guarantee against it. The best insurance is to teach them to work. Probably the best asset any youth can have is the ability to cultivate the soil. That is the most permanent and universal of trades." Children Cry • FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R IA WHO WANTS HER? I Marguerite Merrington in New York Tit -nes.] A vanity girl and the tinned -goods man, One with feeble excuse for a brain, Craving the show of a uniformed beau; The other whose god is gain, just gain— These be the souls that the warflames fan! Had Pain Around Her Heart for Three Years Was Not Sete to Leave Her Alone Day after day one reads or hears of many sudden deaths through heart failure, and many People are kept in a state of morbid fear of death, become weak, wont and miserable and are un- able to attend to either ;heir social or business duties, through this unnatural action of the heart. TQ all such sufferers 1V1ilburn's Heart and Nerve lys will give prompt and permanent rebel. - IVIrs. Norman H. Esau, Ship Harbor, N.S., writes:—"For three years I have been troubled with a pain around my heart. 1 took medicine from my doctor until I found it was of no use, as it only seemed to help me while I was taking it. I got so bad at last that it was not safe for me to be left alone, so having heard of Milburn's Heart and Nerve I took five boxes of them, and eau say they helped me so much that I feel like myself again," Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are 50 cents per box, or 3 boxes for $1.25. For sale at all druggist and general stores, or will be mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. A hot-headed boy with a painted d Sprinrgetaimtne'; promise and life in the bud! With his youthful brag of death for the flag, As flags were vampires to feed on blood! 'Tis for his kind that the eagles scream! Taro peahteahncellors wrangling over a Of land, who play on the pride of xace And a country's need for their lying screed I3ut how will tbey look God in the face Who fight their battles with ne'er scratch? An aged king on a tottering throne, His dead behind him, and death be- fore, With little to choose it he in or lose, A blank in history, but for war— Ah, such are the demon's very Own! And the sober-reinded who dare not shrink, Perforce, or fearing to seem afraid. Must harvest the spoil of their barren The i ttialge Of God, defiled, betrayed, While the war•fiend laughs for his handiWork -- Couldn't Blame the Pump. A luraberman having awakened on a Sunday morning in a "dry town" aft- er a big spree of the night before searched his pockets in vain. Being very thirsty, he remembered stun-. blin„," over a pump in the alley back of the hotel. He hastened to the pump and began pumping, but without results. as the pump bad not been primed. He slow- ly backed away and, eyeing the pump, said: 'Well, I don't blame you for not working, anyhow. I wouldn't patron- ize you when I had inoney."—Ils- change. Plain Hint. "Miss Enid," betnin a young man— "or Enid, I intent known yon long enough to dee. 'the 'Miss,haven't 17" "Yes; I think you have," she said, looking at him Steadily. "What prefix do you wish to snlistittne?"—London Tit -Bits, Penology Today. hlother Ito stow Pion. littla ON who hits loom n trim ottl Was .111, t ralstY. cruoi tooth • "Ion? Child - 011 fin Isi it.- 14)11411;11 Piltall 4.4.4.......4446.emb.s.ilomb.a...4.•...••••••.......9 / PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE. t _ What is called modern agrleul- ture dates back 200 years. The principles of farming, now gen- 4, erally accepted, began then to be , slowly developed through Prima. I i ? 1 I I I i ; I t 1 I, I, i I 1 I 1 i i : , I 1 i i 1. i cal experience, through a study of the conditions, especially through a study of the failure of certain farm lands to bring fort h adequate. results in Eng- hand.In those 200 years we have made progress. If we compare the conditions of farm life today with the farm life of 1714 we will wonder at the change. But 200 years is a long time, and when you divide the gain by the time you see how slow the progress has been. Necessarily slow, Nature has her own way of working, and she has eternity to work in. Man gains nothing save as he works in accordance with these natural laws. Two bundred years ago we knew little about agricultural chemistry end iittle that was not wrong about any chemistry. It is the recorded ex- perlence of all these Weeks and months and years, these Seasons ? good and bad, these reports from new fields, the accumulated • gains of 200 years. that have put the farmer in the position In Whiell he stands today. Let us study all this record. Let us beneflt by it and benefit by our experience last year, last week and yesterday—Home and Farm. 0,0 •••••••.• ••••• • ••• • • O. W.. 111-.114.0 .110•• ••••••••••••••• • ••••• 0 The Clubman- Circuinstances alter cases, you know. The Lawyer—Yes, and a few good eases would materially alter my circumstances.—Roston Trnn- script. 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