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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-5-22, Page 3A NEW LAN DED GENTRY By`3 0.S, Conducted .by Professor Henry G. Ben The object of thin department is to plal.e at the` ger- vice of our farm readers the nonce of an acknowledged authority en all"subjects pertaining to soils and traits. Address all questions to Professor Meer G, 13ei1, !I1 care of The Wilson Publishing Company,• Limited, Toronto, and answers will appear in this column in the order in which they arc received. \Wien .writing kindly attention this paper. As space is limited it is advisebte wherein: - mediate tepiy is necessary that 'a stamped and addressed envelope be euc'losed with the question, whet. the answer will be ,:tailed direct. J. R. S. —I may grow quite <e lot be safe in applying anywhere from 400 to 800 lbs, to the acre, working it into the potato drills or holes before the pieces axe dropped. Do not drop the potato on top of fertilizer. 2. In order to get your tomatoes to ripen of sugar beets this season. Will you please tell mo how to prepare the soil so as to got best possible yields. Answer:.. --For sugar beets a xned- ium loans soil should -be chosen. If earlier apply a fertilizer htgh in grown on a heavy clay the beet roots 'phosphoric acid, say one analyzing tend to become forked, which means from 10 to 12 per cent. phosphoric low sugar and excessive waste, The acid, along with 1 or 2 per cent am - ground should be deeply plowed and mania. Successful tomato growers stirred to a depth of 8 to 12 inches. if use from 300 to 800 lbs. per acre of It will be all the better if the ground! such fertilizer, working it ,into the has been fall plowed', The crop of soil through the fertilizer dropper of beets will depend very largely upon the grain drill or by scattering a the plantfood supply in. addition to handful around the places where the the thoroughness of tt1la.ge that you tomato pants are to be set, working give the seedbed. Keep in' mind that the fertilizer well into the sail so you want to give the crop an early that she available rplentfood may im start and carry it through a vigorous mediately dissolveand help the grow - growing season in order to get high- ing crop. est percentage of sugar 'and largest H. G. R.:—What can I do to pre - yield. . As a general rule it is vent my tomatoes,from rotting on the better to use fertilizer on the beet vines? The rot begins on the Tilos- iielcl and to apply manure to corn som end and gradually enlarges or some ether crop, unless the ma-, until the fruit is rendered unfit for pure is well rotted, then it should be use or market. Will spraying con - worked ,'Tito the seedbed carefully,' oI the diseasejust before disking and harrowing. y_ Answer:—The 'blossom end rot of Some successful beet growers use as; tomatoes is a trouble that is not fully high as 800 lbs. of fertilizer to the understood, It is not due to any blight acre. You will have to regulate the or baoterial attack, but is the result Amount yott use in acc•or&lflee with, of some break in the continuous how recent the land has been manur- growth of the plant. It may be due ed and how rich it is naturally. rr'17e to an over -stimulation of the stock fertilizer should contain from 2 to , growth, which would result troop too 4 per cent. ammonia, 8 to 10 per cent.' heavy manuring, or the application phosphoric acid, and 2 to 4 per cent.! of too large quantities of nitrate of potash. The potash is especially: soda or ,some other nitrogen carriers. necessary for sugar beets since they It may also be clue to irregular water - contain a large amount of starch and Ing. The best preventatives are it is potash that is so closely related Careful tillage of the tomato soils to the 'formation of starch within the' and mulching 'so as to maintain a beet. 200 lbs. of the fertilizer is constant moisture supply and the ,ap- best applied through the fertilizer; plication of a fair supply of well- bal- dropping attachment of the beet planter. The remainder should be drilled into the seedbed with the fertilizer dropper of the grain drill before the beets are planted. If you do not have a grain drill with fertil- izer sowing attachment, scatter the fertilizer broadcast over the field are preparing for beets, either with a lime spreader or by hand, and then work the fertilizer into the soil thdr- oughly by harrowing. Since beets are a deep rooted crop %fertilizers should be worked well into the beet soil. C. W. W.:-1. Would yon advise me to use battle slag on my 'potatoes? Our potatoes were pretty scabby last an:ced.ferti.lizer, so that there may be a regular supply of suitable nourish- ment for the developing plant. The amount and analysis of such a fertil- izer to use to the acre has been out- lined in the preceding question. .. The Pure -Bred Herd. Recently a writer stated that is not necessary for -all farmers to have pure-bred herds of dairy cattle. He explains that the owner of the year and I would like to know what pure-bred. herd s'hould..have the - same to do to get rid of the scab. I had relation to the owner of grade cattle , quite a bit of wood ashes saved up as the corn breeder has to the other last winter and some people tell me farmers who raise crops of market to put them on other crops. 2. I would corn. Of course, it is not necessary like to get my tomatoes also to ripen for all farmers to be corn breeders earlier. How can I work my tomato but they do wish to have a;place to go land to do this? to obtain pure seed when they need Answer: -1. I would not advise it. applying slag to potatoes. First be- However, this does not meanthat cause slag contains only phosphoric more good blood is not needed in acid plantfood which is of use for mast herds. This blood can be sup - the potato crop, whereas the rapid plied by the use of the pure-bred sire growing, heavy feeding potato re- and good grade herds. The farmer quires a good supply of nitrogen and who owns pure-bred stock is able to supply pure-bred sires to other farm- ers who do not own a pure-bred cow but wish to improve the quality of their herd by the use of a pure-bred sire. The paint seems interesting and if it is correct some farmers. who feel that they have to apologize for their grade cows can now feel that thy are doing all right if they are potash; and second, because slag contains considerable amount of ac- tive lime which .produces ideal con- ditions for the growth of potato scab. Apply . your slag to grain crops that have been well manured. The phos- phoric acid of the slag will tend to balance up the weak point in manure as a grain fertilizer. Use a medium to high grade fertilizer onpotatoes selling a fair quantity of market milk if you wish to get best results. Suc- from their grade cows and snaking an cessful potato growers use fertilizers effort to improve their herd by the analyzing from 3 to 5 per cent. an- use of the pure-bred sire. nionia, 6 to 8 per cent. pltpsphpric acid f For many years, however, we, have and 3 to 5 per cent. ,pctash. You will t :learned the 'difference between pure- - bred and :scrub stook and it has al- ways seex*ecl that the arguments have been all in favor of the pure-breds. It is rather 'clifficul.t fox some farmers to feel that:they are really getting along with their dairy cattle until they are able to own same pure-bred stock. The ownership of a pure-bred herd gives a farmer some business oppor- tunities that the owner of grade stock lacks. The chance of selling stock at auction in co-operation with other owners of the .same breed, is a great, advantage to the farmer in some com- munities, The sales of bull calves for sires often prove .very profitable transactions. The study of pedigrees and .breeding records is interesting and instructive and no farmer really gets interested in such things until be owns a few pure-bred ,animals. One thing is certain. There is no immediate danger of there being too many breeders of pure-bred dairy cattle. The writer believes that farmers with good grade herds can make fine progress by the use of a pure-bred sire but also believes that 9 the farmer who is .able to take up pure-bred stock raising on pt least a small scale should not be satisfied to continue withrades if he is inter- ested in pure-bred animals and en- joys. working with them. There will always be enough farmers' who - do not wish to breed seed corn or pure- bred cattle. The farmers who do take un that work seem to find it very is rcfilable. ict. .wir STAND UP TO EVERY TEST Test thein for quality and workmanship—test therm for speed and mileage—teat their sturdy service and easy riding --and you will End Dominion. Tires "Un- questionably The Best Tires ado". cP Sw r Sold by the Leading Dealer's And always he wears a complacent smile, 'There has been a lot of disapproval voiced lately against the importation of titles. Personally we can't see what all the row is about. It surely cannot hamper a man's usefulness in life just to have a few initials hitched on to tie rear end of his name or for that mat- ter to have a "Sir" drum -majoring in front, On the other hand we do view with concern the growth of the Landed Gentry whom the farmers of Ontario are unconsciously creating, In every townand village you see the crating under way. In every town and - village you 'will find at least one gentleman of Hebrew extraction who delights in the name of Scrapinsky, Junkovitch or something just as suggestive. They come , to this country from Russia, Austria, Hungary, Poland and other European countries; sometimes with sufficient funds to purchase an ancient horse .and wagon and rent a storage yard, but more often these accessories come later. In either event they soon acquire sufficient English to transact their business of buying and selling old Iron and other materials. And their beat customers are the farmers. For proof of this statement just glance at the next junk pile you pass and you will see that it is spade up largely of binder, mower apd other implement parts, . irhteh through exposure and want of care on the farmers' part, have been scrapped, These implements were• cut off In the prime of their use- ful life, Now this metal collecting business Is a remunerative ono, for after. a few years of buying for a song and selling at a good profit our Hebrew friend is in a position to return to the land from whence he came, where by virtue of the wealth he has made from the Canadian fanner he is able to .pur- chase .a baronial hall, the original baron• having left his estate for finan- cial reasons, and being perhaps now engaged as a waiter in a Toronto hotel or possibly employing his artistic talents In creating studies in black and tan in a shoe shine parlor. Our retired scrapman is now 1n a position to live at ease for the rest of his life, , With our mind's eye we can see him' watching his goats grazing on the verdant hills of his estate, we can see his look of pleasure as his eye fol- lows the gambols of his kids both Jewish and goatish. Or again, we see .him testing the luscious. fruit of his vineyard. And always- he wears a complacent smile, a smile so broad that even his patriarchal beard cannot obscure it. For all these good things are his, received at the hands of the careless Canadian fernier. The farmer will continue to plow, sow and reap; incidentally he will neglect to build an implement 'shed, and thus continue the business of pro- viding scrap for the junk man's' suc- cessor. INTERNATIONAL - LESSON MAY 25. Lesson VIII. Repentance—Jonah 3: 1-10; Luke 13: 1-5; Acts 2: 37, 38. Golden Text, Mark 1: 14. Jonah 3. 1-10. The Repentance of Nineveh. "Yet forty days." Jonah had no message of mercy or of !lope. He did, not bring to Nineveh the whole of the truth with •yvhich he had been entrusted. Jonah repre- sents very perfectly the spirit of many of the Jews scattered through- out the world in the period of Baby- lonian exile and after, who desired the overthrow of the heathen nations and the. triumph of Israel over the enemies who had so long oppressed them. Their. feeling was a perfectly natural one, for they had undoubted- ly suffered great wrongs. See, for example, Ieeiah's prediction of the doom of Assyria (Iso. 10: 16-19 and 24-27), Nahum's vivid portrayal of the fall of Nineveh (Nal. 2, 3), an;d the "burden -of Babylon" '(Isa.. 13; 14). But the Lord had given to Israel another message for the, hea- then world. Israel, as His . people and His servant, was to be for "a light to the Gentiles" and far "sal- vation unto the end of the earth." Jonah had left out of sight in his preaching the mercy of Gad. But his stern and unqualified denunciation of doom stirred the people of the; great city. to repentance, and with fasting and in sackcloth they cried for mercy to God. "Let them turn every one from his evil way." The king's proclamation shows an appreciation of what re- pentance really means. The' Old Testament words mean simply "turn- . ing" and "being sorry." It is turn- t ing from sin, turning to God, seeking to do God's will. In his ignorance, - the king could' not give the people •� any assurance of God's mercy. The prophet, if he had been so disposed, might have done that. But the king said, ."Who knoweth?" It might be, he thought, that ` God would regard their penitence and `would have mercy upon them. "And God repented." He was sorry for them, had compassion upon them, and turned from His purpose to des- troy them. Luke 13: 1-5. A Solemn Warning. "Sinners above all." The reference is apparently to events which had recently happened. The •Galileans had been notably rebellious against Roman authority, and Josephus men- tions more than one maseacre in which they suffered. This appears to have been a case where, by the orders of Pilate, the Roman governor, a number of Galileans were slaugh- tered while offering sacrifice. There had also been an accident at Jerus- alem, when eighteen persons were killed by the fall of a tower. It was the common thing in those days to re- gard calamities of that sort, or sick - nese, as a punishment for sin, That was the way in which Job's friends regarded his sickness, but the book of Job is written as a protest against its application to him. Jesus says here, "Think y etiralt they were of- fenders above all?" "T tell you, Nay_: but except ye 'repent, ye shall all likewise perish." It is true that calamity and suffer- ing often seem to be the judgment of God, but it is likewise tr. e that the pit'EARI WANTED We are in the market for Cream all through the year. We pay the highest market price. In business since 1905. Drop us a. line for particulars. Mutual Dairy & Creamery Co. 743-745 King St. West • Toronto, innocent suffer with the guilty. Such experiences do sometimes lead men to repentance, but Christ's warning is addressed to all, for all are in equal need of repentance. There is a graphic picture drawn in Acts 2: 37-42, of the scene 'which followed Peter's preaching at Pente- cost. Many were convicted of sin, "pricked in their heart." They came to the apostles saying, "What shall we do? The answer was, "Repent ye and be baptized." Repentance was the turning of heart and mind toward Gad revealed in Christ. Baptism was the open profession of Christ and sign of reception into the company of thosa who believed in Him. These were the conditions upon which the apostle could assure them of "remis- sion of sins," and "the gift" of the Holy 'Spirit."_ .. _ Jack Rabbit's Rise in We. Once the funniest thing happened to little Jack Rabbit! It really did. Jack 'was an inquisitive little body and one warm day not -long ago, finding a door invitingly open, he hop- ped into the kitehen of a nice little house, The cook was upstairs and Jatk wiggled his nose and twinkled his ears, and saw what he could see. Then he hopped here and there, sampling several things that appealed to him, looked through the cookb$ok to see if there were any new recipes his wife might fancy and glanced over the morning paper. It was then that a neat little pack- age struck his eye. It was lying be- side a big wooden bowl. Jack rather fancied it was good to eat, so he tuck- ed it under his arm, and then, as he heard footsteps coming down the stairs, he scurried off as fast as he could. Halfway home he began to nibble bits of the package. It tasted rather queer, but he kept right on nibbling till it was gone, paper and all. Then he went into his underground cozy little hole and fell sound asleep, for, to tell the truth, it made him feel very funny. A loud scream wakened him, "Rabbit's foot and cat's ears!" It was the voice of his tuife, sound- ing rather smothered. Jack felt smothered, too, and very puffy. Then a strange thing happened, he began to grow bigger and bigger and bigger. Now he filled the whole room and Mrs. Jack with a scream fell backward into the entry. Now his head bumped against the ceiling, then it popped right out of the roof, and after it his shoniders. His poor house was a ruin. And poor Mrs. Jack! Where was she? Jack could not stop to look, for, you see, he never stopped growing. He shot up as tall as a tree and out till he was fat as a house. He gave a hop and landed a mile from his hone, and still he kept grow- ing. Now he was tall as two trees and every hop carried him ten miles further. Then he stopped growing. He began to cry, for he was so lonely away up in the air and so big. And as he did not know what else to do he kept on hopping and at ten miles a hop he soon got to—where do you 'spose? The Kingdom of Giants! And a giant little boy just danced with glee when he saw Jack. "What a dear little bunny!" cried the giant little boy, hugging Jack. And he was a dear little giant rab- bit, for the package he had eaten was yeast. And no wonder he rose up so high. Anyway, he lived happily ever after—or pretty happily, I guess! Every dairyman should devote him- self to the work of instructing his neighbors by example and precept. WS. eau., WE RENT, WE 8IUY MACHINERY OP all ;kinds andfor all purposes. See us First and $AVik1 Mata OF. Burns 4 Roberts, Ltd Toronto Device for Drenching Stack..;. We have frequently had occasion' to drench cattle, horses and pigs with medicine under the direction of • the veterinary, The greater:t obstacle we have yet encountered was the danger of the animal breaking off the neck of the bottle, To overcome this dan- ger, we 'have wrapped our drenching bottle tightly about the neck with old rags, thus giving the' animal op-, portunity to hite all it pleases, but without damage to the bottle. The rags keep the teeth from the neck of the bottle, and the danger is greatlr lessened, if not totally re- moved.—W. E. F. If you ever give your boy er girl a pig or calf you should see that they get the money fox it when it is sold. If not, their sense of justice is liable to be greatly stirred and what might have been an inducement to hold them to the farm becomes a club to drive them from it. Bid Money, Raise Rabbits Wits ye pay $Ci a pair for all you raise from our Stock. No duty to Canada, Literature andcontractioccoin. 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"Neu -Tone" Tho sanitary, washable FlatOilFaintfor interier Decorations. 4,30 1 ARM A give you surface protection for everything about the house —for outside wood, brick and stucco—for metal roof and metal trimmings—for floors, walls and furniture. Paint for protection as well as for appearance; And use the Paints and Varnishes that have proved their protective qualities under every condition of climate and weather the time.tested M artin-Senour products. 133: PREENSHIEILDS AVENUE,, 0 sic ", 041 MONTREAL; a"Ti eIR soU1. SHALi, 1 • AS A WATERED OAR ,QEN" Bodies, have been of little account in the last few years. We have Seen them thrown by the handful like grains of sand on the balances, I ow many, many bodies' have, been bent and twisted and destroyed In the storm of war? They broke.and died, but the soul lived, and no tempest of ,shrapnel and maehine''•gun bullets .was able to touch it:: Bodies bled and rotted in the trendies of Europe, performing thereby the highest ser- viee given to a body to perform. Souls grew beautiful and Christlike there, and were taken from the broken castle of the body to dwell on the banks of the Rivet' of Life with God. A body is meant to, serve --some.. times in mire and blood.The soul is meant to be always beautiful and clean and pure. Let us not mistake the nature and the end of each; let us never conclude that, because the body may walk in the mud and -per- form the h,'ghest service, the soul may reach out its hands to sin and still please God, A watered garden— bew.mueh pre- paration and care the gardener has put into it! How much 'personal in- terest and planning! How much dig- ging and fertilizing and pulling of weeds and carrying away of rubbish! Can a soul be mode beautiful with. less care and labor and time than garden? A watered garden -how beautiful it is! The plants are full and round- ed out with leaves. There are blos- soms and flowers everywhere. Color and order mark the whole ineosure. Oh, that we might enter the realms of the soul and find it always so! A watered garden—how the fruit grows and increases! Every plant and every stens bends with it. It ripens and in gathered 'day -by day by the gardener. How pleased he is as he takes it home! "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth' forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither." A watered garden—O precious spot to the gardener! Every hour that is his own he spends there. He knows and loves every plant—guards it and watches it with tender care. Every blossom brings him joy. May Gad grant that in these days our souls may be to Him as watered gardens for the sake of Jesus Christ who died and watered the garden of souls with His blood. We will give our bodies freely for whatever ser- vice duty requires of us, but let us keep our souls clean for Jesus Christ. The Weight of the Load: "The weight of a load depends upon the attraction' of the earth. A ton on some other planet, where the at- traction of gravity is less, would not weigh half a ton." Margaret Langley looked up from the little book she was reading, and then slowly and thoughtfully she re- read the passage aloud. "That's very interesting es a fact in physical science, isn't it, Laura?" she said. "I wonder if it isn't just es interesting and a good deal more ,ielpful in the spiritus). realm." "Our burdens, you mean?" queried her friend. "Yes, and aur little worries. If the `attraction of the earth' were re- moved, for example, how much should I worry about whether my new dress would be done in time for to -morrow evening, or whether my dinner would be successful, or whether the famous . general with whom I hope to impress Mrs. Porter will find that he can stay over for it!" She smiled whim- sically. Laura smiled appreciatively in response.w "Over at our house," she confessed honestly, "we are fairly sick with anxiety for fear Tom won't make the best fraternity at college and father won't get the raise in sal- ary thatehe has asked for, There is the `attraction of the earth' in the worries, all right, and perhaps it is responsible, too, for a part of the load. Wouldn't it be nice to move to that planet where things weigh only half as much!" she added, with a.,- laugh. ' Margaret nodded. "Or where they don't weigh at all," she said. "It is marvelous how many cases there are Iin which it applies, as you think it out. But what I wonder about most Is sorrow and suffering—real burdens of that sort. Mrs. Thaxter, for ex- ample. She is bearing up so wonder- ; fully under the death of her two sons. I wonder—" "You know what Bishop Burns says about her," suggested Labii quickly, "that if ever a woman lived 1 right here and now in the, kingdom of heaven it, is Mrs. Thaxte.' " .!'Yes, T reriembez ---anti that is the , secret, is11't ftt t, Cried !4laigaret, with kindling eyes. "In the kingdom of , heaven you don't have to bear the eterlit t of the earthly cares; iilld¢e'" e 'i i11i ge. 18 gr , of the parable. In our daily material lives we have no way, of counteract- ing the force of gravity. that is drag- ging at the, box, for in. Lance, that wo are trying to Lift 13th ytzi 91g.,fg{.l',". itual liveg, 1n" order ti; fres Oi*seives'! from every weight, we have only is obey the commands: ".Set your often.; tion on things above, not on thing* on the earth.' "