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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-10-07, Page 6Pe 6 •••71Irt THE VVINGHAM TIMES .4 Octeber 7th 1915 tbliefeleteeeddlsereedetelleeerele14:444+44 By C. C. anwsnew e+ehe.ite•WeetieleeeteeseteteeeeSeleee In the dolry Section or Miele tied in s number or other loctillklee threugh• out the country the corn crap is below normal, and limy farmers would be ten.merious predicament but for the amazing auccees of At corn planting Limo Inst year tbe weather in Illinois wail cold and wet. delaying wore end giving: the crop a poor start, but in the line weather or April, three or four weelse before any-, body would Mire put in corn, Weal& was growing vigoveusly. It came 1 through the winter in good condition, jand the yield of hay has been far the, heaviest ever obtained from the alfalfa fields of the northweat. In hundreda o individual eases al• falfa makes up for the deficiency in corn, so that farmers will be able to feed their cattle to advantage. It goes without saying that alfalfa has come into high favor all over the north, and farmers are learning all they can about the crop. This legume ought to net $50 to $75 an acre where it is cut three 'times in a eeasoa, The return is 475 to $100 an acre in eouthern latitudes, where the crop ie cut five or six tiraee. Most of the arguments for vowing alfalfa are based on the plan of feed- ing the crop to dairy cows at home. There is. another side to this, Hamlet Worker of Onondaga county, N. Y.. sells the hay and. cuts out the work of running a dairy. He has sold his cows. His thirty-five acres of alfalfa this year gave five tons of hay per acre. for which he has received an av- erage of $10 a ton. Perhaps his work on the hay represents two months of actual labor, whereas when he fed his mem to dairy cattle be worked from daylight till dark the year round, and seven days in the week. He claims the see, Making the Little Farm Pay A. FIELD OF YOURO seneeive.. dairy never showed more net profit for a year than does this erop of thirty- five acres of alfalfa. All along the limestone soils in cen- tral New York alfalfa is working farm miracles. Wherever its culture be- comes general all crops improve, land values rise, incomes increase and pros- perity attends the farm. One-half pound more of butter and one pound more of beef for each household in the middle west is a possibility if only three -tenths of the land now in grass were given over to alfalfa, The pro- tein in alfalfa hay is substantially as great as that from bran in feedbag ra- tion. Alfalfa ranges in price from $15 to $25 a ton, but after all it pays to feed it up as closely as possible to dairy and beef cattle on the farid. Whether sent to market or consumed at home, it has become established as one of the greatest of the money mak- ing products and in many cases is solv- ing the whole problem of farm finances. The yield of four to six tons per acre is a common experience all over the country where modern methods are em- ployed in raising the crop. At minimum market prices this means a money val- ue above that of corn, when compared acre for acre. The first step to insure success of al- falfa is to provide a good seed bed. For this purpose it is well to choose land on which corn, sugar beets, pota- toes or other cultivated erops have been grown. Through the cultivation of enese crops the land is clean crop_ , weeds and usually works down to a mellow seed bed. The field should be plowed deeply In the fall, so that the soil may be exposed to frost and thaws during winter, and eight or ten tons of manure per acre should be used. In the spring the land is to be disked and harrowed. Then there should be ob- tained a quantity of soil where alfalfa or sweet clover has been grown. This soil contains suitable bacteria. In oth- er words, It is inoculated, This in- oculated soil should be scattered over the surface in quantities of about 1500 Pounds per aere. It must be harrowed In at once, as sunlight Is deadly to bac- terial life, The field is then ready foe seeding, and it will pay to drill in with the seed 400 pounds per acre of a fer- tilizer analyzing 2 per cent =male, I2 per tent available phosphdric acid and 2 per esent potash. Tveenlie pounds ot seed is a liberal Supply. Less may do, and the fernier, If setts - tied with his soil, may cut out the com- mercial tertilizer. It is assumed that the land has been limed or is Sweet enough for leguminous crops. V there Is sourness apply 2,000 pounds of linhe Spring seeding of alfalfa Is generally favored. Cut the crop when blooining begins. In order to save the leave the hay should be raked up soon after cutting and cured ittiteks. tit starting I Children Ory Mat With "Alfalfa leek, for the seed of i ' Kg 'PLETCHER'S' 1104 varieties, and do not nes soggy ; land, WeleetWitelleielleeteee./VeleleleerWeeseteeseceeeelele .• Customer is Always Right". HIS is the text or matt of a great and famous department store in Chicago. It is an assertion of the custorryr's place of suprem- acy in the relation between buyer and seller. Any retailer who slights his cus- tomer is committing business sui- cide. The eu,torner wants those who serve him or her to use the newspaper as a vehic'e for their announcements of goods or service. This is, the modern and right idea. Newspaper advertisements give desired business news in the right place and at the right time. To ignore your customer's wishes in this matte- is to commit a costly mistake—far more costly than news, paper space. To the Merchants of Wingham. Keep your eyes on your customers and humor them. It pays to do so. Keep very close to them—by means of advertisements in the weekly "Times.' FOLLOW LEADERS, eleeeeeleeeetieeideeetsetetveterives•ereeteeptet..ex.4weeivareeebeelevesitieeteiteieet,•etileivtetediedueeeeseeemelaweeel idIMIMA1111.11.0.1110MIN, In the death of Mr. Robert Pearson, which occurred at his home on the 4th Con. on Tuesday, Sept. 'Met, Grey Township. has lost one of its oldest and most. respected residents. The late Robert Pearson, son of Robert , Pearson and Catherine Richardson, was Ibern in Queen's County, Ireland, in 1May 1848, when the subject of this sketch was but an infant the family emigrated to Ohio. Here they remain- ed for two years, when they carne to Canada, settling first in Godericb town- : ' ship. In 1855 .the family moved to !Grey, where the deceased resided up to the time of his death. In )873 Mr. Pearson married Susanna Musgrove, of Turnberry. The young couple began house -keeping on the farm adjoining that of the father of the deceased, and for forty-two years shared all the Joys and sorrows of life. By industry and thrift they were able to possess a beautiful home, and at the same time rear and educate a large family. For many years Mr. Pearson was a devoted member of and an active worker in the Methodist church. In politics he was a Conservative. Besides his bereaved widovv, he leaves to mourn his loss, a brother, James, and a sister, Mrs. Ellis, and a family cf seven children: Mrs. Wesley Beacom. Hullett; 'Mrs. Wm. Bremner, Grey; Mrs. A. H. Hark- ness, Vegreville, Alta.; Mrs. Emmer- son Vipona, Elma; Rev. Robert Pear- son, B. A., Calgary; John on the home- stead and Rev. Jas. 3. Pearson, B. A.,-; who was in constant attendance at the bedside of his father during the past three months. The funeral which took place on Thursday, Sept. 23rd from the family residence to the Ethel Cemetery was largely attended by many friends 1 and relatives of the deceased. The services at the house were conducted by Rev. Mr. Johnston, pastor at Ethel, !assisted by the Rev, Mr. Wren, Bres- tI sels' a former pastor. Both the !speakers paid very long and earnest tributes to the sincere and earnest • Christian life of the deceased, referring in very elcquent terms to his devotion to church work. They spoke feelingly of his usefulness in the prayer meeting, class meeting and on the quarterly board; that the Methodist church had sustained a great loss in the death of brother. Pearson. The pall -bearers were Jas. Pearson, brother, John and James Pearson, sons, A. H. Musgrove, Jno. Musgrove and Dr. George Mus- grove, brothers-in-law. ie Gained 36 Liol. Mrs. George Bradshaw, Harlowe, Ont., writes: "I wasetroubled fur many years with weak, watery blood and dropsy. I had nervous headaches, dizziness and sinking spells, and was, in fact, a semi -invalid. Doctors told me my heart and kidneys were diseased and gave me up. By using 10 boxes of Dr. Chase'e Nerve Food I have been cured of Tetley of my old complaints I and gained 36 pounds in weight. The regular monthly meeting of the Daughters of the Empire will be held in the armouries to -Morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. •••••••••••Malwar Windsor, Walkerville and Sandwich representatives decided to ask the lerxeriecial Government to form a Metro- ' politan Commission to control varioue Utilities in the three towns. i CASTORIA BAR RATS OUT OF FARM BUILD- INGS Buildings, constructed of stone, brick, concrete and steel are very inhospitable to rodents. Such buildings not only make life hard for the rats by limiting their places of retreat, but they make it impossible for the rodents to gain access to the farmer's grains and other foodstuffs. It is pretty hard to starve a rat out entirely, but it can be done, especially in Winter, when it cannot find food in the fields. Concrete floors and foundations have been resPonsible for a wonderful decrease in the rat pop- ulation of country districts. The farm- er who has all his buildings equipped with concrete foundations or floors will be bothered very little by fats 'unless he has nutnerous outside places where they can hide. Rats may effectually be kept out of outside granaries by the use of either an inner or an outer covering of gal- vanized wire netting of half-inch mesh. There are various makes of metal cribs now on the market which are durable and comparatively cheap. These cribs are absolutely proof against rodents ad thieves of all kinds, as well as fire and lightning, hence they are an economical investment where the grain crops cannot be fully protected in any other way.—Michigan Farmer. •DR. A. W. CHASE'S CATARRH POWDER Co is sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blower, Ideals the ulcers, dears the air passages, stops drop- pings in the throat and_permanent- ly cures Catarrh and Hay Fever. 25e. a box ; blower free. Accept no substitutes. All dealers or Edmansoth Batas & Co.. Limited, Tortmt0. SONG OF LIFE A traveller on a dusty road, Strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and prouted up, And grew into a tree. Love sought its shade at evening time, To breathe its early vows; And age was pleased, in heights of noon To bask beneath its boughs. The cloormouse loved its dangling twigs The birds sweet music bore — It stood a glory in its place, A blessing evermore. , A little spring had lost its way Amid the grass and fern; A passing stranger scooped a well Where weary men might turn. He walled it in, and hung with care A ladle on the brink; He thought not of the deed he di& But judged that toil might drink. He passed again; and lo! the well. By summer never rifled, He'd cooled ten thousand parched tongues And saved a life beside. A nameless man, amid the crowd, That thronged the daily mart, Let fail a word of hope and love, Unstudied from the heart, — A whisper ori the tumult thrown, A transitory breath. It raised a brother from the dust, It saved a soul from death. 0 germ! 0 fount! 0 word of love! 0 thought at random cast! You were but little at the first, But mighty at the last. —Charles MacKay. Mrs. Walter Ellis, of Malahide, was burned to death while mixingvarnish On the stove. Guelph City Council decided to con- tinue to pay the premiums on the in- surance of soldiers Of the first two tontingetits. The Indians at the thirtieth annual eonvention of the Council of the Tribes, at Deseronto, expressed strong op- position to the liquor traffic. Anyone above eighteen is eligible for the; repel:ye rallitia, and officers are not, reoirecl td haVe had three years' ex- perience in the militia. A CLEAN BARN IS NOT EXPENSIVE. Every up-to-date dairyman takes pride in the appearance of the place where his cows are housed and milked. Many years of experience have shown that the following points must be con- sidered: Milk drawn from filthy cows, or from cows kept in a stable that is not well lighted or ventilated, or that is filthy from an accumulation of manure, or milk exposed to foul or noxious odors cannot be lawfully sold or manu- factured into an article of food for sale. 1. Keep the. barn clean, well ven- tilated, web liAlited, • and free from dust. 2. Whitewash the barn at least once a year. It will add to its appearance, increase its value, lighten the dark corners, and make it more sanitary. 3. It is desirable to have dairy cattle in a barn by themselves. The odor from horse stalls, filthy calf pens, or hog pens is objeetionable, because it will tint the milk when it is drawn. 4. When constructing a new barn, or if the old one is remodeled, see that the walls are smooth and that the ceil- ing is tight. The floor and the base of the walls should be constructed of cement in order that the liquid manure may be saved and removed. 5. Give the cow a chance to keep clean. She cannot do it if the stall is too long or too short or not high enough. Cow stalls should be so con- structed that the cows will lie with their heads in the manger, otherwise they will be compelled to step back- ward before lying down, in which case they have no chance to keep clean. A large gutter and adjustable stalls that line all the cows up to the gutter are important factors in keeping the cows and floor clean. 6. An abundance of bedding in the cow stalls makes for clean milk, clean, contented covvs„ clean floors, and the saving of the liquid manure If bed- ding or other absorbents are, placed in the gutter, the liquid manure will be absorbed and held at the bottom To some extent that practice prevents the eows from soiling themselves. 7. The manure should be removed daily and the manger kept clean. Cob- webs should be swept down and be- spattered walls washed. 8. Manure should not be placed against the barn or where the cows will be compelled to wade through it in going to and from the barn. 0. Even le hen the cows live out of doors in summer and are in the barn only at milking time, failure to clean the floor and gutter regularly will re- sult in foul odors. 10. During the -summer months Cows should not be kept in the barnyard over night, They should have a clean place to lie. NON-FATTENING FOODS Many foods which are nourishing do not produce fat. The two kinds which create fatty tissues are fats of all kinds like butter, lard, drippings (food cooked in them, arid the large group of toads classed a starchee. If eaten in excess stanch will be laid up in the body a superfluous or stored fat. Following is a list of nourishing foods which will not produce excess fat: Light meats, like thicken, White -fish, lean beafi all vegetables except pota- toes, parsnips and other starchy kin* treat Of all kinds except bananas, grains Or cereals, extent oatmeal and rice; , Milk, in small quantity, eggs. MIIk anti eggs will fatten unless ex. ereitie i$ taken or the body is in a very rundown condition. Cocoa is a fatten- ing drink also. TUUKISII DELIGHT. An Englishwoman (litres an Inapree- sion of Harem bite In Turkey. The • Turkish proverb has It, "Friendleas surely he remaineth who demands a faultless friend"; and, ac- cording to Grace Ellison in "An Eng- lishwoman in a Turkish Harem,"" the Turka'coroe near to that Coveted: perfection, Mies Ellison has Seen Turkish life through rosy spectacles; she wishes to remove preIudices and to delete for ever that Miannderstood word "ha- rem," and to speak of her friends in their Turkish homes, Of a truth the Ottomans are a hos- pitable race, Frain the moment when her friend Fatima heard she was in Turkey, and came, greatly daring the conventions, to /etch her from her hotel, to the moment she left the country, she was an honored, wel- come guest. She sat in the place of honor, and wag waited on by het hostess, who Placed her entire. coldly trousseau at her disposal; beautiful embroidered silks and priceless jewels which lay in a room which had no looks and in a house where, all day long, the doors were left open for all who would to eztter. Her host, a widely read and Intel- ligeot officer, who had served three Years in the German army, and who encouraged his wife In her advanced ideas, would not permit his guest .to stamp her own letters; in Turkey there prevails an (from the guest's point of view) admirable custom that a host should pay all his visitor's bills. To the uninitiated, harem means a collection of wives. By the laws of Islam a Mussulman is allowed to have four wives if he can properly house and support them. In practice, it is extremely rare to come across a household in which there is more than one mistress, though every man expects as a matter of course that he will have to keep his mother. This presents no difficulties to the bride; she is glad af the companionship, and her relations with her mother- in-law are mostly surprisingly har. monious to our may -be prejudiced eyes. Knowing her western curiosity to see a household of two wives, her friends made inquiries, and et last feund such a menage. The man wee a Dervish, the two women had been friends before marriage, and his first wife had chosen her successor, whom she nursed and eared for, for Allah had blessed her and she was to be a mother. An Attentive Deughter. "I don't see why you are not as considerate of my comfort as you used to be eef your father's," remark- ed a husband to his wife, who had shown signs of negleet. "When I come into the house I have to Jaunt for my slippers and everything else I happen to want, but when 1 uset to court you, and your lather woult come in from the city, you would gather up his things, wheel his eas3 ebair to the fire, warm :his slippetre and get him a head rest and a fest rest, so that all he had to do was to be comfortable." "Oh, that was only to make him go, to sleep sooner!" was the yews wife's satisfactory explanation- 4 - London Mali. The Spinster's Hint. A maiden well advanced In years used to wait every morning for the postman, a bachelor of about her age, and ask him if there were not a letter for her. Several weeks passed. thus, but the anxiously expected letter did not arrive. Finally one morning the postman said to her: "Well, tomorrow you shall get your letter if I have to write it myself." "That's right; do It." replied the old maid. "I shall be delighted to ac- eept it." "Well," said the postman, small/2g. "what do yoti want me to write—a business letter or a love letter?" "If you mean bueiness, please write a love letter!" was her blushing reply. —London Scraps. Ownership of the Air. Our ancestors must, have foreseen the aeroplane or they would not have embodied in the law the principle that he who owns the land owns the col- umn of air above "usque ad coelum," or up to the skies. This can be traced back as far as the reign of Edward I., and from this time every authority to the present court of appeal 'has em- phasized the right of every citizen not only to be king of his own castle, but of the sky above it.—London Chretacie. Suffered From Salt Rheum FOR MANY YEARS» Burdock Blood Bitters Cured Hor. •1•••••••••......• Salt Rheum or Eczema its one of the most painful of all skin diseases, and it not attended to immediately may be- come very deep seated. Give the blood a good cleansing by the use of that grand old tnedichte Burdock Blood Bitters, This stedble remedy has been on the market for the past forty years, and is the best blood cleanser on the Market to -day. Mrs, William H. Powlie, Cole's Island, N.B., writes: "I have been a sufferer from salt rheum for a good many yeah*, and was so bad I could not do my Owes Work. 1 tried a geed an medicines, but they all failed to do inc any good until I tried Burdock Blood Bitters. / had not taken Mee bottle until r foutid a great change, and X am most thankful for trying it. / hope that every other sufferer from salt rheum will try B.B.B." Burdoek Blood Bitters is natinufacttie- ed only bv The T. Milburn co., Limited. Toteater, Qte$, FARE $20 i JJ.1.1J1,11J.1 .i.L .1.141 ..r*f..tti:Filk---:..1 TUESDAY -THURSDAY TO CLEVELAND EVERY .,, ry ' ,..:, ... - .......„ '17 AND SALUR7 sh.,,A3, Leayee Port Beelletv avei:st Tuesday. Theoday and Saturday . . .,67:"'...°1911;;;;."":;.. M. v.......,rmil 4.z. . THE ST e AMER "STATE.- r 40 F _.,...„ ... (June need IQ AepRomber 40) AnLAnlearvveZerCiloaerfslaldndleevyliiirriMonwotdriy:, oWirane,c1gmngimcla,v' an.a Fr.iday: . . . . . . • . . . • 1061;30030° AAP.: mBlIM... fAll Eastern Time) Fara 42.25 one way. $o.00 round trip. •Conlsoceotts.at Cleveland for Bur - 010, Cedar Feint, Pa -in -Bay, Akron. Clumbus. Cincinnati, Fittaburgh,_ Wheeling all &OS and a aouth of Cleveland. Ask your ticket agent for tickets Via G. & 13. Line, Iri, EXCURSION TO CLEVELAND—EVERY SATURDAY Ittii; Steamer leaves Port Stanley, Solturday, MOD P. ,f. and brings you back borne 6230 'Fuesdayk.skil' mom*, affording two days In Ms Sixth Larva City In the thattd &atm Fare $2.Z5 or the IP Round TripFor furtlier hiformatiottaddrese G. W. PleaSeliCa. Canadian Agt., Port Stanley, Ont. 44 THE CLEVELAND & BUFFALO TRANSIT CO. CLEVELAND. OHIO ilet, ik MURDERS AND SCIENCE. Italian physicist, A. Lechanarzo. A son killed his fathercut kijseneddlit, into 130 pieees, buried them separately in the garden, and gave out that be' was visiting friends in Paris. Six months later a farm labor dug up a human hand. • A medico -legal expert. examined it and noticed several rather • unusual callosities on the palm. He asked the son to give him his father's stick as a memento. The - handle of the stick was a curiously - carved knob, and this fitted•exactly the' celloused palen The son was convicted,: of the murder. If a roan is found shot through the - head with a pistol in his hand, what more rational than a verdict of suicide?'" In real suicide the weapon is held ao. firmly that force is required to dislodge it. Several experts have tried to make the hand of a corpse grip a weapon, but have never succeeded, and their knowledge of this fact has often opened the avenue to detection of murder. A man rushed frantically to his neighbors, saying he had found his wife burned to death in their home. A doctor examined the body and pointed out that burns made before •death al- ways contained serum, while those made after death contained none; that the:burns of this woman's body con- tained no serum, and that therefore she • had been killed and then set on fire. The man subsequently confes‘ed that he had strangled her and set IfeYttly on fire in- the. hope of concealing his crime. —Tit -Bits. Science now opens the lips of (lead men and virtually makes them tell who killed them, A man was found walking away from a spot where the body of a man, he was known to hate, was discovered; and he had blood -stains on him and on his pocket knife. He explained these by saying he had stolen a rabbit, made a stew of it, and burned the skin and bones to escape detection. The story seemed too slender, and he was con-: vicced, Then along came a Physician and proved that the blood -stains on maa and knife were really rabbit's blood and not human blood. The American professors, E. T. Reichert and A. P. Brown, are the dis- coverers of the distinct characteristic crystallization of the blood of each species of animal. They can even differentiate with certainity between the :blood of men and women and of persons of the several races. A mother was aecueed of killing a little girl. The coroner's jury, for lack of evidence, rendered a verdict of "Murder by persons unknown." A suspicious neighbcr, a year later, found a bleed -stained knife hidden in a wall. The* mother said she had "used the knife to kill a rabbit last week." An expert tested the blood and pronounced it human blond shed a year ago. The terrified mother confessed her guilt. The method M determining the age of a blood -stain was discovered by the .••••••imomea PRINTING AND STATIONERY We have put in our office a complete stock of Staple Stationery and can supply your wants in WRITING PADS ENVELOPES LEAD PENCILS BUTT -ER PAPER PAPETERIES, • WRITING. 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