The Exeter Times, 1919-5-29, Page 3rm.. p
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Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell
The object of this department ie to place at the ser-
vice of our farm readers the uta?ice of an acknowledged
Authority cit all subjects pertaining to eons and crop.
Address alt questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, in
,rare of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toronto,
and answers will appear in this column in the order in
which they are received. When writing kindly ittention
this paper. As space is limited it is advisable where in: -
mediate reply is necessary that a, stamped and addressed
envelope be enclosed with the question, whe'_ the answer
will be ailed direct.
J. IL:—lfindly advise ine through
your Farm Crop Queries column how
is the best way to get rid of quack
grass? Does quack grass injurer, the
crop or doers it just starve tho soil?
Answer:—Quack grass appears 'a
little harder on the ground than
timothy, but in the green state it
contains 1.1 per cent. more nitrpgen
than does timothy. Otherwise I do
not believe it -,is hard on the ground.
The growing root stalks sometimes
have been known to grow through
sections of developing potatoes, The
greatest injury the quack grass does
is to use up the soil moisture and
•plantfood and thereby starve the
crops that are forced to grow whege
it is eempeting. A dear and defi-
nite statement of methods of com-
batting the grass has been published
in 0. A. C, Bulletin 188. It is as
follows: "As soon as the crop is har-
vested plow lightly, then harrow
With the ordinary harrow, and, if
. necessary, with the spring -tooth •cul
tivator. This shakes the roots free
from the soil and makes it possible
to rather them up with the horse
rope. Burn as soon as they have
dried sufficiently. Repeat this pro-
cess two or three times. If the wea-
ther at this time should happen to
be dry and hot, so much the better.
Late in •the fall rib up the land into
drills, and allow to stand over winter.
The frost, in all probability, will
render material assistance in the
eradi at, on. The following spring
aiow. about.thc enol of May, cultivate
v`eiT, and tut in 'some hoed crap, or
summer fallow, sowing buckwheat,
'the crop to be plowed in. A care-
fully cultivated crop ' of rape ist re-
commended as being particularly ef-
fective in destroying this pest."
3. J. D.:—.11 have 11 acres clay and
loam, rather flat and with :hard pan
about•21et feet below surface. I have
failed to grow crops on this land,
have tried peas, wheat,, oats and
'barley. It looks dark on surface and
is rather fertile looking. Peas slid
• well for a while but about blossom
time turned yellowish brown in pat-
ches, which seemed to spread in size
and eventually were a failure. Fall
wheat was very thin and did not
ripen even or yield. Oats were short
and very delicate straw. Last season
I ;,put two tons of fertilizer on but
without any apparent improvement.
I have this fall plowed and wish you
to suggest my best course for this
season. I have also seeded with cloy.
er and summer fallowed, but without
any available benefit. This 'field had
been under pasture for a long time.
Answer:—Your clay and loam land
is in need of drainage. • It is un-'
doutbtedly sour, both of which con-
ditions bring .about the results that
you indicate. The reason the crops
turn pale and die out ie that after
germination they are unable to de-
velop deep and substantial root
growth because the water in the soil
shuts out the circulation of air there-
in. The sour condition ,ofthe soil
which results from becledrainage, and
from 'continuous pasture, makes it
impossible for the bacteria on the
roots of the legumes to reproduce.
Therefore, peas and clover fail to
grow on your soil. The impervious
subsoil or hard pan is in need of
breaking up as far as possible so
that the roots of your erop may have
more room to expand. I would ad-
vise you to do as follows: Since
spring is pretty well advanced, and
you have had the ground thoroughly
fall plowed, seed it to buckwheat at
the rate of about 1% to 2 bushels per
acre. Buckwheat is a medium shallow
feeder and should produce you a good
paying crop of grain this' year. It
also thrives on slightly acid soil. As
soon as the buckwheat crop is off
put in tile drains and apply at least
1tie to 2 tons of ground limestone per
acre, •scattering it as evenly as pos-
sible and working it into the soil by
disking or. harrowing. This should
put your ground into good shape
for a profitable crop of wain next
year.
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E.m ling the House
By ADELINE B. WHITFORD.
Next to a copy of any of the -well delusion' and a snare to 'anyone who
iIlusteatcd, well colored seed Bata -1 cannot imagine how they would loose
logues, which come out in quantities �' when used in' large quantities. Indeed,
about the first of February, there is the unimaginative person usually has
nothing more stimulating to the im-i two chances for disappointment in
agination than one of those folded -I the house paint selected: the first
in -and -out, forty -two-color paintfrons making the above mistake of
cards, such as we pick up in the! buying colors which are too strong;
hardware shops, or the .drug stores,[the the second, .from an attempt to use
about the last of April, or the first; some unusual combination of colors,
of May. I with an idea of making the house ap-
At the close of the long, gray vin-( pear striking by this mark of so -cal -
ter season, you and I intinctively led originality.
turn to color, and while the seede The architect, er tradl house -
catalogue lures us with promises i painter, knows that success, and sat -
which can only be fulfilled in the slow! isfaction, are only gained from study -
processes of nature, end even then i tug the problem from a different
seldom as gloriously as we had anti -1 standpoint—I might say by letting
cipated, the paint card .imposes no; the house and its surroundings decide
conditicns of time or quantity, but,' what the color scheme shall be. He
trusts us implicitly and proves it by I will consider the style of its archi-
throwing every combination of the 1 tecture as a :whole, and pay attention
rainbow into our hands at once, and' also to the smaller details ,siich as
telling us that, at the price of so doorways, windows; porches. He will
think it important to take into con-.
sideration the color of whatever
buildings there are near the house, j
and what its background is; whether,
the house is seen against other build -
It is just possible that while, we.lull ings,- woods, hills or distant fields,
:now that this is the language' of whether shadowed by trees and vines,)
1.e painfk card, we do not . dweIl or stands out bare and alone, an ob- .
theughtfully enough upon all that its elect which must rely mainly on its
tench per gallon, we may on this very
day carry home one or any number
of its hues and spread them out over
large surfaces, to be looked at inde-
finitely.
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of sunlighte white is of nearly middle
value, where vines and trees ipake it
green and shadowy; it is always more
cheerful than light grays and greens,
which clo not reflect surrounding
colorir,
We should always use emphasizing
paint for window sash. In colonial
effects this may be white or medium
green, and for other styles of houses,
a dark green or bluer which is nearly
black. Well-pahited window sash are
a rich, crisp finish to the whole house,
and any painting scheme which does
not include this detail has missed an
important feature.
It is wise to have nothing whatever,
to do with the blue -toned grays or
slate colors; they do not reflect other
colors, and are chilly and disconsolate
in themselves. There 'are, however,
many fine tones of warmer gray,
those for instance resembling old-
fashioned rubber . gum, putty, and
dull sand color.
One of the handsomest groups of
faun buildings which I have ever
seen, had its barns, small buildings,
and silo, of a. middle -value gray or
putty color, with white trim; the win -1
dow sash was dark green, nearly;
black. The .f rM house was white,'
its roof a weather -stained gray. Ver-
andah roofs and roofs of the bay;
windows, were painted a green of
middle value, a Little duller than ap-
ple green. As the building was, old-
fashioned, the doors were carefully
sandpapered, and painted the same'
green. For'every gallon of dark gray
floor paint, a full pint of this green
was added, thus harmonizing the ver-
andah floor with the dolts, though
the floors were several tones darker.
The window sash were green -black.
There were no blinds but the interior
shades were olive.
There were a few trees near the
house, vines over the verandah, sim-
ple, well -kept grounds and driveways,
and from the top of the gray silo,
which looked from a distance like the
tower of some old castle, there floated
the three finest colors in the world.
If one can imagine the whole, it is
unnecessary to add that it made a
beautiful picture, and one which was
interesting as far as ,it could be seen,
proving that even a grow a of old-
fashioned buildings, if painted in a
carefully chosen color-sceme, may
come to have distinction and an indi-
victual style.
It is not the unusual which secures
these results, either in house paint-
ing, furniture or dress—not the strik-
ing, startling combination but .the
right one, the sensible one—even the
usual one, done well.
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A Pointer on Tying Fleeces.
Some weeks -ago a party of county
agents- were being shown through a
wool -scouring mill in a 1a.v' e city.
They wanted to learn things that they
could take back to help their home
folks. At one point the manager of
the mill called their attention to the
kind of twine to use in tying fleeces,
He picked up a handful of partly
scoured wool- and pointed Mit Clark
fibres. These, he said, were the fibres
from binder twine which were left
in the fleece when it was.unbound at
the warehouse or mill.
It is the custom of the fleece
handlers to cut the cord holding the
fleece together and pull it out. If
common binder twine is used ,some of
the fibres are sure to catch in the
' fleece and be left there. They do not
take the ,dye and so are very objec-
tionable to the woolen manufacturer.
He will not pay the price for such
fleeces that he will for those which
do not have the fibres mixed with
the fleece. The manager of the mill
said it did not pay to pick out the
fibres, and showed how a good cotton
or paper string pulls out of a fleece
without leaving fibres. If a few cot-
ton fibres should be left it should not
be harmful, as the cotton takes the
dye.
I The paper twine has a hard, smooth
surface and is best from all stand-
points. It probably costs no more
than any other kind of tying mater-
ial, probably less than binder twine
since it has soared to present prices.
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Do not ]et ewes and 'lambs run on
old pastures so full of parasites which
will prove 'destructive to young
lambs.
What would you think of a man
who refused to join the local cow -
testing association because it would
make it impossi e for him to s_ea. his
poor cows to fiis neighbors.
statement .implies; for if we realized
as we look at those fascinating bits
of color, one-half by two inches in
size, that, they only represent a mil-
lionth fraction of the gallons which
we are to "spread but and look at in-
definitely" we , sholtild hesitate longer
than we do over the privilege of be-
ing entrusted with so much liberty.
An old-time artist, upon being
questioned as to how he obtained cer-
tain results in color, answered, "I
mix the paints 'with brains'." To-
day's house paints come ready mixed
but "brains" are still needed to direct
the buyer to those few charmed gal-
lons which really should be hers,
When once she finds and uses them,
she will discover that she not only
bought weather -proofing, but at the
same time, and at no extra cost, se-
cured for her property a pleasing
outward appearance, which has sud-
denly given the whole place a touch
of distinction and individuality.
In every paint pail then, there is
something more than paint, and the
householder must not choose at ran-
dom,
Ono of the first clangers offered by
no paint card lies, as has been said,
In the fact that its many color satin-
les are so reduced in size as to appear t
perfectly harmless, No matter how o
lovely tho cleare,. reds,' greens, yel-
lows, yellow -browns and dark grays
may be ,in the tiny patches shown oli t
the advertieers' folders, they- are ai
form and color to be made interest-
ing. This takes really close study.
Now as to the; matter of strong
contrasts of color which have been
used to give importance to house
."trimmings," they should be avoided
always.
The legitimate use of contrasting
color is only to accent cave -moulding,
window and door openings; to use it
for cutting up wall spaces by bands,
and zig-zags, cheapens the whole
effect.
The most carefully planned paint-
ing to -day, makes use of but three
colors at most: a roof stain of med-
ium tone, the wall coloring. and the
"trim" -meaning the outlinings of
eaves and openings. "Trimmings" of
fussy woodwork and contrasting
colorings are.no longer considered in
good taste. We are learning to 'culti-
vate vine and tree -shadows, letting
these play their part in exterior housedecoration,
There are, several reasons why a
white house with green blinds seems
right in any Canadian landscape. One
is that it is purely a colonial inheri-
tance, having come to us fr ;sit a time
when green and white and a' dull red
were about the only colors our coun
rv's paint resources afforded. An -
,:r reason—an artistic one -,is,
that white reflects any color near it,
a.nd also shows shadows clearly; on
hese accounts it •is only sharply
white where the sun strikes it. Out
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON
JUNE 1.
Lesson IX, Faith, What It Is and
Whet It.Does, Hob, 11:1-40; 12;1, 2..
Golden '.ext --John 14: 1.
11; 1, Now Faith. Writing to the
persecuted Jews who had embraced
the Christian faith,'the nuttier of this
epistle shows them their fellowship
with the inen of faith of every former
age, with Enoch and Noah and Abra-
ham and Moses, and many another
Who had believed and suffered and
served in their day and generation,
their faith in God enabled them to
do the present duty, and to look be-
yond the present to the future glori-
ous fulfilment of God's promises.
Having little, they became heirs of
all things, and the sojourner dwell-
ing in tents looked for and possessed
the city of God, His faith became for
him the title -deed of wealth as yet
unrealized, the evidence and assur-
ance of the glory which was to be.
Faith is the certainty, of hope, the
open eye of the soul which looks!
upon realities unseen and eternal.'
For the Christian it has become a
personal relationship to Jesus Christ,
in whom and through whose Spirit;
he sees the working of those powers I
which are building a new world, in
which he himself shall have, or ra- i
they has already, his citizenship.
2. A Good Report. The great men!
of Old Testament times, the "elders,".
have "had witness born them" (R.V.)'
in the narratives of the Old Testa-
ment, in respect of their faith. It;
is because of their faith that the his-;
tory gives so good a report of them.
The difference between Moses, of
good repute, and Pharaoh, of evil re-
pute, is the difference which faith in,g
God makes.
3. Through Faith We Understand
The tremendous fact of God's crea-
tion of the world is not proved by
historical or scientific evidence. It is
known and . apprehended by faith.
And yet how certain a fact it is, and
how " sure our knowledge of it! By
faith we understand,
4.,He Being Dead Yet Speaketh.
Faith is the secret spring of right-
eousness. So Abel's faith wrought
righteous deeds, and assured him by
a good conscience that his offering
was acceptable to God. And so it
is that his voice speaks down through
the ages declaring to every genera-
tion that the only gift or offering of
worship pleasing to God is that of
faith and well-do:ng. For (v. 6)
"without faith it is impossible to
please him."
7, By Faith Noah, warned of God,
prepared the ark which saved his
family from the flood. In a world of
uncleanness he had kept himself
pure, and so had already in himself
the assurance and the enjoyment of
the "righteausness" which is by faith
and which is yet to all the whole
world,
8-10. So "Abraham" obeyed what
he knew to be the call of (sod, and
led his people out fawn an idolatrous
and corrupt •community toa new and
strange land, where he might worship
according to his conscience and found
a new society devoted to the service
of the true and living God, He was
only a nomad shepherd, chief of a
nomad clan, dwelling in tents, but
"he looked for a city which hath
foundations, whose builder and mak-
er is God."
18, Thase all died in faith, not
having received the promises, but
!having seen them and greeted them
!from (R.V,) That : has been
Ithe experience of faith in every age.
The Kingdom of God is taming, but
i its fulness and power and ' glory is
not yet. The city is being built, but
its walls and its many mansions are
not yet complete. There is much evil
in the world and men are slow to
Ilearn tho ways of God. The best
which the world looks for and alon-
j izes for lies on before. Faith sees
the promise from afar, but holds that
promise in possession as the dearest
thing in life. Though "strangers
and pilgrims on the earth," the men
of faith desire and seek, "a better
country, that is an heavenly," And
therefore, the apostle makes the
great and significant declaration that
"God is not ashamed to le called
their God."
There follows a further list of men
and women of notable faith, the
saints, the heroes, the martyre, of
successive ages, to whom now the
records of history do light honor.
The promise led them on as a star of
hope. Pit now in Christ there is
i'u;iiiment, their hope finds uta j'rsti-
• fication and completion in Him. All
cf redemption, all of power, all of
goodness, all of spiritual strength to
overcome the world, which they had
sought, is to be found in Him, "Cod
lehaving provided" in Him "some bet-
ter thing for us, that they without
us should not be made perfect (v. 40).
12. 1.2, Witnesses, The figure is
drawn from the enciont races in
which swift and hardy runners con-
tended for the prize. Great multi-
tudes assembled to witness this fas-
cinating sport. The runners laid
aside, the outer garment and every
impeding weight, that they might
run lightly and freely in the great
contest Such is rhe life of faith.
The witnesses are the great multi-
tudes of the faithful who have gone
before,. Jesus who started us in this
race waits at the end with the laurel
wreath which is to crown the victor,
that is immortality with Himself in
heaven. He has set us the example
of'faith, courage and steadfastness in
trial and suffering. He is "the author
and finisher of etir faith."
Do you object to a fly lighting on
the end of .your nose, and then trans-
ferring its proboscis to some other
tender spot when you wave your1
hand? If not, just think of the many
flies which are teasing the life as'
well as the good nature out of your
cattle in the moist woods.
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Everything with a surface needs surface
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floors, walls, furniture, woodwork and
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wear and decay always start at the surface.
To leave a surface unprotected by paint
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The man who ventures ,is' the .only
mart in all the world who has a good
time.' Mori than that, he is the only
man who does anything to make the
world happier or better,
A good way to keep from. being
drowned is never to go near water,
Sit on the bank dangling your feet
in the water and you will get no-
where. Shove out into deep water
and you will get somewhere, just as
surely as day follows night; and the
harder you work with your paddle,
the farther you will go and the bet-
ter time you w,iIl have.
The man who ventures may make
mistakes, but there is not much in-
store for the man who never makes
a mistake. Mistakes are the result
of trying to do something. They help,
not hinder. They show where we
misses it and how we' may hit it fair
and square next time.
How many times does a man who
never did any such work before
whack at the head of a na,l before
he gets so he can hit it every time!
Oh, the sore fingers we all have while
we are learning to strike twice in the
same place! But the only way to
learn is to strike and strike again,
finger nails or no finger nails, until
we know wkere the head •of the nail
is and can hit it squarely.
''Some things you attempt may be
so big they will get you down; but
it is no disgrace for a man to be
knocked down in a fair fight. What
puts the brand of shame on him is
to lie where he fell and let all the
dusty feet of the men pressing on
toward success daub him over from
head to foot. Getting up is the best
thing about falling.
Out back of my neighbor's house
is a pile of big "chunks of wood.
Every one of them has been hacked
and pounded by the axe till it is
like the face of an old veteran of
many wars. And the more scars
there are on those blocks the finer
the story they tell.
There is another farm where you
can not find such a pile of knotty
sticks. Why? Because the man who
lives on that farm did not quit until
he had split the last one of the•
blocks, And ,if you ask that man:
how those knots burn, he will tell
you that when winter comes and he
wants a fire that will drive out the
frost and make the chimney roar, he
goes down to the shed and hunts up
one of those hard, tough, ugly -look-
ing, knotty sticks and lays it on the
andirons and sits down to toast his
shins!! Good-bye 'wintry wind! He is
happy because he has mastered the
knots!
If you want to be happy—really
and truly happy—do something worth
while. You may come out of it all
covered with scar: and scratches, but
you will -be happier than you ever
were before.
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Thinge You Want to Know.
The temperature for churning
should be frcm 52 to 56 degrees at
this time of year when cows are
fresh and feed is watery. Under aver-
age conditions churr,ng should re-
quire from twenty to thirty minutes.
A shorter period indleates that the
temperature is too high; the result
will bd inferior butter.
A good sheep dip is made as fob.
lows: For 100 gallons of dip use four
pound's of unslakod lime and twenty-
four pounds of sulphur made into a
thick paste. Acrd thirty gallons of
water and boil for three hours. Add
seventy gallons of water. The dip
should be lukewarm when used.
There are good cclnmereial dips on
the market.
The best time to castrate pigs, as
a rale, is about weaning time. Lasses
seldom occur from castration if strict
sanitary measures are observed, and
disinfectants are used Iiberally. If
inexperienced, have a veterinarian or
good live -stock roan do the work.
Keep the pigs in a clean pen for sev-
eral days after the operation. Should
1 any tumors or abscesses form, they
I must be opened and allowed to drain;
then wash thoroughly with a solu-
tion of standard sheep dip, two table-
spoonfuls aft dip to ane quart of
water.
Repairing Grain Sacks.
The next time you have sacks to
repair, instead of asking the women
folks for a needle and thread, just
mix up some flour and water into a
thick paste.
Turn the sacks wrong side out, cut
patch considerably larger than the
hole for each place to be mended,
cover the patch with paste, slap it
in place and press dry with if hot
iron, but do not scorch the patch.
The sacks must be turned right side
out before using, so the patches will
be on the inside.
Give this method a trial and you
will find that the patches are just
secure, and that they will last
just as long, ass If you had spent
hours of time in sewing them in
place,
.holland has thirty-eight qualified
women lawyers, nineteen of whom
`i 'thee but are not allowed to hold
Oats in the courts of justice.
Feikci poste Are too costly to leave
out in the weather to rot, Where they
are to be stored for some time, they
ought to be covered' over to shed
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