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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-02-18, Page 6liElmirimminnzgoin I° FOR WOULD BE FARMERS. dlrlould Try it Qutist as Farmhands Before Buying Farms. The United States department of agriculture receives many letters from city people who bare read glowing ac - Counts of the wealth that may be Wade on the farm. A large percentage of these people have already bought farm land. Some of them appear to believe that the reason all farmers are not rich is because of extravagance. wastefulness, ignorance and a lack of business ability. To these letters the department's specialists reply much as follows: "As a matter of fact, farmers, as a class, are intelligent, industrious and economical, and many of them are men of good business judgment Further, those who have made a thorough study of the business side of farming know that it Is not an easy matter to make money on the farm. Only the dost practical and experienced forme* are mailing any considerable profit out of their business. Most of the money that has been made on the farm in re- cent years has been made, not by farm- ing, but by the rise of price on farm lands. In the nature of things this rise cannot continue indefinitely, and come one will own this land when the twice becomes practically stationary or perhaps starts to decline. "While it is true that occasionally a city bred family makes good on the farm, this is the exception and not the rule. It is always a risk to invest In a business without first making a thor- ough study of that business. Many city people who have saved up a few hundred dollars and who have had lit- tle or no farm experience, but who are imbued with a rosy vision of the joys and profits in farming, buy poor land at high prices and thereby lose the savings they have been years in accu- mulating. One city family paid $10,- 000 cash and assumed a $12,000 mort- gage on a farm worth only about $11,- 000. Another paid $2,000 cash and signed a mortgage for $6,000 on a farm that was later appraised at $3,000. A. city family that had saved $2.000 used this money to make a first payment on cheap farm land and when their eyes were opened found they still owed considerably more than the farm was worth. For seven years they have worked night and day to meet the in- terest without being able to reduce the principal. These 'instances could be multiplied almost hadefinitely. "In purchasing farm great care should be taken t, get a good farm at a fair price. To pay or agree to pay more than the farm is worth is to in- vite failure. From a business stand- point no farm that does not pay inter- est on the total investment, deprecia- tion on equipment and wages for all labor performed on that farm is suc- cessful. "Even when great care is taken in making the investment only in excep- tional cases should the city bred fam- ily attempt farming. Generally the best advice than can be given to the city bred man who desires to become a farmer is that before purchasing a farm be work as a farm hand for two or three years. This will give him an opportunity to learn at first hand many things about the business as well as the practical side of farming. In no other way, as a rule, can he get good farm training and experience at less trouble and expense or without danger from financial disaster." Vermin Proof Roosts. One of our largest ponitry men uses gas pipes instead of the usual wooden fixtures to support his roosts and thus makes them almost' entirely free from mites and other parasites which are so troublesome to poultry raisers. The pipe is bent as shown in the illustra- tion and to hold the roosts in place boles are bored at proper intervals, through which bolts are inserted, pro- jecting far enough above the pipe to hold the roosts in position. The roosts are made as usual and are laid on the pipe without 'fastening, thus making it easy to remove them for cleaning, etc. The pipes need not be over three- fourths of an inch in diameter and will be found to be one of the most satis- factory supports for roosts yet devised. Cornstalk Disease. A serious cornstalk disease that has reduced the crop on some farms in Iowa this season is under investiga- tion by the botanical section of the Iowa agricultural experiment station. Dr. L. H. Pammel, who is in charge of the investigations, says that in some delde the damage amounts to 15 per Dont or more, due to fallen or bar- ren stalks or undeveloped ears. "This disease," says Dr. Pammel, "may be recognized quite readily by fallen stalks, which look as though they had been blown over. However, there is this difference: The diseased stalks break at the nodes," A. fungous parasite is responsible for the trouble. Where it attacks the stalk there Is a brownish and sometimes pinkish disc Coloration of the fibers, and a little mold may alae be found on the out- side at the baba of the leaf sheath. The roots are ed and ha e a Plidt- lilt web Wow*. hi fir y. tiatitty- iforkwisitio i ''- rstanding whirs A* duras. ill list sosig. THE WINGHAM TIMES Build Up The Home Town I F YOU want to live in the kind of a Town, Like the kind of a Town you like, You needn't slip your clothes in a grip And go on a long, long hike. You'll only find what you left behind, For there's nothing that's really new. It's a knock at yourself when you knock your town. It isn't your Town—it's YOU. REAL Towns are not made by men afraid, Lest somebody else gets ahead. When every one works and nobody shirks, You can raise a Town from the dead. And if, while you make your personal stake, Your neighbor can make one, too, Your Town will be what you want to see. It isn't your Town—it's YOU BE LOYAL: TO YOUR OWN COMMUNITY Do not suffer another day with Itching Bleed- ing, or Protrud- ing Piles. No surgical oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you at once and as certainly cure _you. SOc. a pox; all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toropaper enclose le box stamp teeif o pay poou stagne this KEROSENE FOR CLEANING. Kerosene has many uses to which it is never put. For instance, blood stains on wash material can be removed by saturating the stained portions with kerosene and then dipping in boiling water. Your windows will take on a wonderful gloss and can be cleaned without much elbow grease if you will pat a goodly amount of kerosene in the water they are washed with. It cuts all grime and grease. When washing oilcloth or linoleum put a cupful of kerosene into a pail of warm water. Never use soap on these floor coverings. If your sewing machine runs stifly, saturate the parts with kerosene and leave it on over night. In the morning wipe dry, then oil with a high-grade machine oil, and the machine will run like a "breeze". Keresone will clean your porcelain bathtub and wash basin, removing that black rim that some- times forms. If your dustless duster cannot be found, soak a piece of cheese cloth in kerosene; then hang in the air for a few minutes. With this rag you can polish your best furniture. Kero- sene will shine up your hot Water kettle so that the cooly will need no looking glass. It will take fly specks off your,mirrors and leave them with- out a flaw. ComeU to Win ham on Dollar Day, 24th Xavier Seguin and his wife Josephine were arrested, charged with murdering Joseph Forget at his homestead, near, Rainy River, by putting strychnine in his food. ' i1dre. Cry FOR FI,ETiR'S ° ,tib► S '■ v/ R I A IN PROSPECT. THE useful air We breathe is free, A priceless boon To you and me. Let's breathe a lot, Pull deep and fast; We cannot tell How long 'twill last.. Though now it stretcher Far and wide. It may ere long Be trustifled, And we may be Compelled to pay For what we use From day to day. A snap like that Can't last, I fear. The end, indeed, May soon be near. We may receive, I grieve to say, A bill for what We stow away. The trust has missed It's finest bet, But it will put A meter yet On what we breathe And come down hard And make us buy it By the yard. There are persons who are ill natured because they were born so and are glad of it. Being permitted to do as his wife pleases is the inestimable privilege of the married man. Faith is undoubtedly a very good thing and makes a Btu anchor, but it is NO substitute for a lend pipe ehiei°. The thine- that most of its craft lesitt brought home to us is the truth about ourselves. • RACE POISONING. To the Editor— Sir - It is true that the white race are being slowly poisoned off the face of the earth, that men are growing smaller, disease increasing, doctors and drug stores multiplying, the insane in- creasing out of all proportion to the in- crease of population, and the weaklings and unfit threatening to equal in num- ber those who are able to take care of themselves? Is it true that the moder- ate drinker who probably has never been drunk may leave behind him a race of weaklings on account of his self indulgence? Is it true that where prohibition has been pretty well enforc- ed for a number of years that the in- sane, the weak-minded and the idiots have dereased in a wonderful manner? Is it true thatmany of the great nations of Europe have become so alarmed at the degeneracy caused by the use of in- toxicants that they are trying by posters, handbills and other means to warn the people of their danger? If these serious statements are even half true and they are wholly true, what kind of people are we that do not rise in a mass as the people did in Russia and demand that this poisoning of the nation shall increase. It is very humiliating to find that nations that we have been calling "Heathen" have mare care for the national welfare and stability than we. China has conquer- ed in her war against opium. A large colony of negroes in New York with property valued at many millions are `found to have less than half the num- ber of saloons that the surrounding whites have. Now we have the news that Russia has abandoned the use of intoxicants of all kinds. Recently the great cities of Petrograd and Moscow have refused, by a popular vote, to allow the use of even beer and light wines. In view of all these facts is it not time that we ask the Legislature, by an immense petition to do something to save the nation before it is too late? They waste their time andthsi'country's money over chi4dish immense, compared to this great ,r►htionel evil, kohich they seem scared to touch. Ii. Arnott, M.B.,M END OF THE EARTH. The Latest Figuring Puts it Only Two Million Years Away. Scientists tell us that life on the earth began about 2,000,000 years ago. It has generally been accepted that life win last for 05,000,000 years. Ninety-five million years Is a fairly long time. None of us who are aye today need worry about what will take place 95,000,000 years hence. Even the most altruistic can scarcely be inspired by love for an inconceivably remote posterity. But the French savants are alto- gether ltagether disturbing. Here comes one, M. Verronet. who says that the earth will permanently freeze within the next 2.000,000 years and that life will van- ish. This is bringing the tragedy near- er home. We would glady accept the older reckoning. Verronet places mankind of today about midway between the beginning and the end. He computes that in the future life will exist as long as it baa already existed. He specifies only one forty-eighth as long a life as those who have studied In the past. There is only one consolation to be derived from the Verronet reckoning. As far as the influence of today is con; cerned 2.000,000 years is as good as 95,000,000, In either event those who are comfortably laboring today cannot expect to be lovingly remembered when the cataclysm of ice makes the earth a barren wilderness.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. HIS TWO TENSE MOMENTS. One Was a Ninth Inning and the Oth- er at a Dinner Table. I beard a prominent Cambridge man tell of the two most tense moments of his life yesterday. But the tension in eagh case was different. "I doubt if I ever shall forget either occaslon." be said reflectively. "They were big moments. "The first was when 1 was in college. I was captain or the baseball team that year. We came to the end of the ninth. We needed one run to tie the score and another to win the game. Two faro were down and two on the sucks when I came to but. And for once in my career I did it. I lined out a three bagger, right over the railroad truck. When I felt it go—well, that WM.One occasion. '_And the other." He chuckled. but a -tow • 8'ush crept over his rtreeks, "It was thirty year's ago, soon after I left 'allege. Is` went over to see a girl I thought was pretty nice and to meet ner folks for the first time. I went on I Sunday. All the men were' away. tad they had duck for dinner." He -topped. "Ever carve a duck?" he ''ked ureaningly. "No. neither had i 'afore. Nor have I since." His flush tcepened. "I never even went to see hat girl again," he added plaintively.— i:oston Journal. Men and Oaks. Once as 1 was botanizing under an ink I found among a number of other plants of similar height one that was lark in color with tightly closed leaves Ind a stalk that was very straight and ,tiff. When I touched it, It said to me in firm tones: "Let me alone. I am not for your collection, like other plants to which nature has given only a sin- gle year of life. I am a little oak." So It is with a man whose influence is to last for hundreds of years. As a child, as a youth, often even as a full grown man nay, his whole life long— be goes about among his fellows, look- ing like them and seemingly as unim- portant- But let him alone. He will not die. Time will come and ' bring those who know how to value him.— Schopenhauer. Twin Outcasts. "What,is your friend's business?" "He is a critic." "I have a friend I would like to have Min meet." "What does he do?" "He is an umpire." Quite Modern. "What are you doing?" "Waiting for my ship to come In." "You are waiting a long way from the ocean." "This is an airship." Too Good to Keep. "What are you promoting?" "Just a gold mine." "Any gold in it?" "Think Pd be selling stock in it If there were?" y " THE WEAK SPOT IN THE BACK. When the kidneys get ill the back gives out. But the back is not to blame. The ache conies from the kidneys, which lie under the small of the back. Therefore, dull pain in the back, or sharp, quick twinges, are warnings of sick kidneys—warnings of kidney trouble. Plasters and liniments will not cure a bad back, for they cannot reach the kidneys which cause it. Doan's Kidney Pills reach the kidneys themselves. They are a special kidney and bladder medicine. They heal the diseased surface of kidneys and bladder, and help them to act freely and naturally. Mrs. Chester Romain, Pert Coulone, Otte., writes: "I had been troubled with sore back for over four years, and could get nothing to do me any good until I heard of your Doan's Kidney Pills. I got three boxes, and took them and now I am completely cured." Doan's Kidney Pills are dOe a box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Mile burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. When ordering direct specify "Dean's,! Cured of Piles and Eczema By IIsing Three Boxes of Dr. Chase's Ointment, Mr. Abram Buhr, Herbert, Sask., writes:—"I want to say that I was troubled with eczema and' piles and suffered greatly from the itching, burning sensations caused by these annoying ailments. I sent for a free sample of Dr. Chase's Ointment, and this did me so much good that I bought three boxes more, and after using same was cured of both eczema and piles." This is the kind of letters we receive daily from people who have been cured of these distressing skin diseases by the use of Dr. Chase's Ointment. No matter how skeptical you might be, you could not read these letters for many days without concluding that Dr. Chase's Ointment is un- doubtedly the most prompt relief and certain cure for these ailments. If you have doubts send for a fres• sample box and be convnced. It was by use of a free sample that Mr. But', was convinced of the merits or this treatment. For sale at all dealers, "mr Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Ti. route. TO OUR OWN. [Baltimore Sun.] All day long there sings to me, Far and near and sweet and true, Thoughts of things that ought to be, Dreams of things we ought to do. All day long above them all; Sweet I hear the message fall—e Serf or slave or kin or. throne— Let's be loving to 'our. awn! She that waits when evening creeps Up the sunset mantled steeps. Those who chatter by her side, Waiting, too, with eyes, brown, wide; All day long in dust and strife Something whispers, soft of tone— In this vale of love'and life— Let's be loving,toour own! They that need it, let them feel That their faith is ryorrn the while They have many wounds to heal, Let us help them with a smile; Up and down the world it goes, Life's low message—zone to zone— As with lily and with rose— Let'§ be loving to our own ! _" RIST,AMO 1HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD, ii, ldzs.'WINSLOW's SOOTHING SYAIIP has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS TEETH fortheir DWHILE NG with PERPECTSUCCESS.Itt SOOTHES time CHILD, SOPTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN; CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHQ;A. It is ab- solutely harmless. Re sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. February I I th, 191 5 PERT PARAGRAPHS. ►THERFI are individginls such pool! den,. nstrators that they can't eve show the point of their own jokes, Nobody would be guilty of writing an anonymous letter. That's why it it anonymous, One-half of the w- orld knows how the other half would live if it were' running things. Too many people keep all their coutu tesy for their acquaintances and all, their indifference for their families. — I �f�ll The reasoq why some men are fast- may i.e because they are trying to get. away from their reputations. We all consider reform an extremelt • good thing for our friends to invest:it gate and seek to practice. The only reason, probably, why all . our'friends haven't an ax to grind le because they can't find the ax. Most people will speak the truth—tos•- a consideration. The Miracle. "I understand Miss Brown is much improved in healt Ii." "Yes, indeed, and in every other way." "Glad to hear it" "She is ten yetis younger than, she was five years ago." 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