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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1920-4-15, Page 6CONDUCTED BY PROF. HENRY 0. SELL 't"`he oMJect of this department Is to place at the sere Vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged Authority on alt subjects pertaining to sons and crops. Address alt questions to Professor Henry G. Beit, in 'taro of The Wilson. Publishing Company, Limited, Toron, to, and answer*, will appear in this column in the order lin which they nee received. When writing kindly men - Con this paper. Ale \pace Is limited It is advisable where. Immediate reply Is necessary that a stamped and ad, dressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when j;he answer will be mailed direct. IL Q.:• --I have a field I would like and 2 per cent. potash. Drill this in to get seeded to alfalfa. It was fall - Plowed. Rad oats on it last year and corn the year before. It is pretty at the time the seed is sown and the added plantfood will give the young clover a quick start, If you are go - good sand loam. and nice and clean, ing to seed the ground to clover this but has been cropped quite heavy. I spring, sow it right on the rye and would have barn -yard fertilizer that if the rye is drilled I would advise II could cover it with. Will you give you to Barrow the field with the drills me the best method and time to seed so as to give the clover seed a light this field? Would you advise innocu- burying. However, do not do this lation of this field? with a heavy harrow, since it would tend to drag the seed in too deeply. A light weeder or harrow with teeth turned back will accomplish best re- sults. Very good stands of clover have been obtained by this method of seeding, N. Y. Z.:—I have a lot on the river flats that is mostly sandy loam with some places that are somewhat gravelly and some places are rather heavy soli. Rye was grown on this land last season; have missed two seedings. Soil is not as productive as it used to be.. Have grown 125 baskets of corn per acre on this land; cannot grow more than one-half that amount now. This field was fall plowed, have no manure for this land. What kind of fertilizer would you advise my sowing, if any, and how much per acre, and how best to ap- ply same? I want to get clover growing on this field as soon as I can. Would it be alright to sow rye this fall after corn, and seed to clover the following spring? Would you ad- vise using lime or acid phosphate on this land this spring? What form of lime is cheapest for best results? Answer—I would advise you to use for your corn, about 300 to 400 lbs. per acre of a fertilizer analyzing 2 to 4 per cent. ammonia, 8 per cent. phosphoric acid and 4 to 5 per cent. potash. This .is best worked into the soil in question by drilling the fertil- izer in with a grain drill with fertil- izer compartment. This gives it a broadcast application which means that it is available for plant use as soon as the roots are sent out by the growing corn. If you have a corn planter with • fertilizer -dropping at- tachment, one-third of the fertilizer could be put on in the row .with this planter. It will give a quick and ac- tive help to the young sprouting corn. You could very well sow rye among the corn at last cultivation. Let the rye stand over winter and seed clover on it early in spring. I would not advise the addition of any further acid phosphate than what is contain- ed in the fertilizer recommended. If you are going to put on lime, apply it in the fall after the corn is cut or early in the spring on top of the rye. The ground limestone is pro- bably the best form of line for gen- eral use, although air -slaked burnt lime has an especially good effect on a heavy clay soil. Answer:—As soon as the ground will work well in spring, give it a good dressing of manure. Work this into.the soil by through disking and .narrowing, working the seedbed down until it is as smooth and fine as a garden. If you have 'a grain drill with fertilizer -sowing compartment, drill in about 250 to 300 lbs. per acre of a fertit•azer running 2 to 3 per cent. ammonha', 8 per cent. phosphoric amid, and 2 to 3 per cent, potash. This can Ire clone at the same time that you drill the nurse crop (barley, or wheat, sown at the rate of about a bushel to the a:re) and the alfalfa seed, I would advise innoculating the soil of the field if it has not grown clover for acme time. In fact, it would be a valuable precaution in putting in .the alfalfa. Write the Bacteriologi- cal Department of O.A.C., fora eni- care and follow their instructions very closely in treating the seed. Long- time experience shows that best stands of alfalfa are obtained where 5rnnocuiatioa has been praeticed, have a field that is most- ly light sandy soil sown to rye very te last fall, that I wished to seed to clover in the spring. I have missed two seedings of clover an this field. 'Two years ago this field was sown to eats and harvested a light crop; last season had rye in this field and an- other light c: op. Last fall we applied 5{t0 nee nds ct hydrated lime per acre, and 250 pounds of acid pheephate per acre. and so ed one and a quarter bushel;; of rye per acre. Ncw, I have t'ao pians for managing this field. One is to seed to clover in the spring, and pasture during the eentmer, and not rut the rye, but let the cattle and sheet) eat it. The other plan would be to actin to clover and cut the rye. ;Which way would I be most likely to get tee cicver? Caul('you advise any bet ; ay .to manage this field? d'f I fail to get clover this year, how wood x e e thunk beet to proceed to get a cetcia of clover? At.±:ver:—•I believe you would be arra . ••e4y to get a good stand of close: ii. you wot.ld cut the rye this spring, and keep the cattle and sheep of; the pasture until it becomes fairly welt c ta`:.:'ished. If you fail to get a good catch of clover this spring, fall plow the lanai and next spring seed it with a spring sown •crop, at nal i. h time put on about 250 lbs. of fertilizer analyzing 2 to 3 per cent. atanwr:a. S per cent, phosphoric acid --' When a farmer has just a day in which to build a hoghouse, he doesn't usually want to be bothered with a let of studying over plans and di- mensions before he starts in. I hap- pen to know a man who had a lot of odd lumber on his place that was lett from building a corncrib, and so he naturally couldn't expect to con- struct a shelter with a set design. He did the next best thing, though, and ;put some of the stuff together into :what his neighbors termed a good house, and did it in a single day. In the first place, he wanted a hog - house for his spring litters, to move around onto fresh ground as he 'hose. With this in mind, he gathered up all the shiplap left from the corncrib, and after looking around, found an gold cellar door, still in good shape. For a dollar he got two fair sized beams at the lumber yard, that had been car stakes in shipping. And in 'addition to buying 'more 2x4's to go ;with what he already had, he !bought a pound of eightpenny nails and two pounds of tens. The rest he furnish- ed from around the farm. Two frames for the ends were first Slade, and the car stakes laid down to receive them. The stakes were fastened down solidly with •cross- pieees and corner braces after the distance had been determined. With the 10 -foot ridgepole cut, he proceed- ed to set up the ends, and to brace them in place temporarily, then ,cut 2x4 crosspieces for the middle. The slltplap which he had was 14 -foot. 4atuff, so he planned to have the sides stun up and down, and cut them 7 feet long. This made the ends have a .Slant length of 6 feet 8 inches, and the spread at the bottom was the same. The plan of the structure e wa fi to have it large enough to house two litters, and so braces and a partition were next put in, and the ends all hoarded ftp but the doorwa s. The onlythirds' left towasS do to cut and rot 1 " • rrea leaving a ;:face on one side, where the shiplap only came. down halfway. By bending some old tin into a V-shape, and slipping under the ends, a trough was made for the cellar door, which he put on with hinges, to serve as an extra door in good weather. The ridge was also covered with tin. The place was water -tight from rains, and it could be moved any- where an the farm in a jiffy. He gave this rough estimate of what the house cost him: 230 feet .shiplap at $35 $8,05 75 ft. 2x4 pine culled at $209.00 2ieces car p stakes • • .. 1.00 Labor, nails, and cellar door.. 4.35 • Y�oriftrt' $22.40 Small eggs stand shipment better than large ones. This is a good rea- son why we should have better ship- ping cases if our eggs are larger than common. Theorizing about hens is all right, so Tong as we do not neglect them. But to allow the roosts to remain uncleaned, the nest boxes reeking with filth, and to neglect the ventila- tion—there is no excuse. There should be practice with theory, and then some good may come out of it. A dust bath prepared in the follow- ing way will rid the fowls of the small brown mites, as well as the deadly' lice which stick close to the body of a chicken, sucking the vital- ity and life out of the victim: Place a large, shallow box upon the floor of the scratching pen—a good size is( 2 x 3 feet, twelve inches deep. Half' fill with a fine dry dirt, and acid equal; quantities of sifted coal ashes andt =slaked lime to complete the filling of the box. Into this stir a small quantity cf tar, carbolic acid and turpentine. The box ehonld be placed where the sunlight will .reneh it 'ea part of flee day, and need not be ` renl?rashed mere than twice a item a; z: 1:ept t.r;..er cover. every Fad S4. uld a Carden It has 1;:.• 11 ray eaperienee that the farm gare.en can b•;' nuule one c; .f tee best -paying parts et' the r'urnea:n fact, for its size, tlio lr;i;t pr fztablo. plot of ground ou the place. But most farm gardens 1 have ever seen were away below par. I've had occasion to see man; of them, and. I've had my own fur years, So I know what can be done. I'm not making the mistake of thinking that we farmerscarr follow the advice viae of use the de - some garden writers, and u tailed, elaborate plans prepared for us, I think the biggest mistake with most farm gardens is that they are not given any thought, because it isn't realized that they are worth giving thought. Certainly, the farm garden should supply the farm table not only •during the summer, but also during the fall, and most of the winter months as well. Most farmers have the advantage of a good cool storage cellar, where vegetables and canned supplies may be kept in good condition. There is such a. great variation in the conditions determining what should go into a .farm garden that it is hardly necessary to make any set plan. I recall the "garden" I used to have, when I first began farming. It was typical of many other farm gar- dens I have seen. What we have done. since then pretty much covers the whole argument of why a good farm garden pays. In common with most of my neigh- bors, I reckoned I wasn't "goin' to let the growin' of garden sass interfere with my farinin'," and I put in my field crops before I did any garden- ing. I would get around late in May, or maybe in June, to buy a couple of dozen tomato, a hundred cabbage, and some lettuce plants. In addition to these we planted plenty of peas, beans, sweet corn, turnips, radishes, and cucumbers—several long rows of each, at the edge of one of the regu- lar fields. Our garden used to get just nicely started by the time dry weath- er cane. As a result, half of the things would fail to do anything. The beans, sweet corn, and tomatoes might come along all right. If they did, we had several times as much as each as we could use. But when Henry got back from col- lege, where he'd taken a course in vegetable -growing, among other things, our "gardenin' " had to be changed. Nowadays we figure that the vegetable garden is a very real part of our. regular farm work. "What we don't have to pay to the grocer and the butcher we can leave with the banker," Henry said, "A dol- lar saved on canned goods: in the k .pn4•a.l y. Z+F jure syr - `e ed • ae on extra. .'all," clyllar Tor wheat or petatees 'n the And geuerally a':; considerably easier to save this dollar tlia'.n to grow ii doily •'s worth of must field crops, It the prices we 'farmers get. But we don't let the vegetable gardening upset our farm Work—not a bit. Our plan i; simple', but. it works; and it might well be followed by many farmers who never have wanted to "bother" r" with. areal a : e- 1 table garden. We get moat of our vegetable gar- den planted before wo can put in our regular farm crops. I never realized. till Henry proved it to me, that many vegetables can be planted safely just as soon as the ground is dry enough to turn over nice\ Our garden. patch is a we'll -drained, sheltered slope that wae can plow before the other fields are ready, We have all the seeds on hand; , Henry orders them a month ahead of time, so as to be sure of getting just what he wants. As soon as the gar- den patch ,is fitted we take advantage of every odd half-hour or two to go ahead with the planting. As the seeds and garden tools are kept in a nearby shed 'we can make the spare minutes count. But we don't attempt a city man's garden, with every square foot crop- ped and intercropped. The rows aro mostly 36 inches apart, so we can cultivate with a horse. Some of the smaller things are put at 18 inches, but even these we get through with our light horse and a 1.2 -tooth harrow cultivator, with the outside teeth re- moved. We keep a wheel hoe in the tool shed, and much of the work is done with this. It can be used at odd moments when it wouldn't pay to stop and harness a horse. Enough horse cultivation is done, however, to keep the soil loose, and in shape to run ever easily with the hand ma- chine. We put in onion sets, peas, cabbage plants, cauliflower, and parsnips 36 inches apart; onion seed, Swiss chard, lettuce, beets, carrots, turnips, and spinach '18 inches apart. An extra early planting of sweet corn is made just as soon as it's safe to take a chance. After planting, the vegetable gar- den doesn't take much time until after the rush of sprixer work is cleaned up, and potatoes and corn are in. Then we plant anothersection of the gar- den to sweet corn, tomatoes, beans, pole' beans, summer squash, winter squash, melons, and -cucumbers. We don't plant our garden as a cash crop, but we do sell some vege- tables to folks who •conic and get Address all communications for this department to Mrs. Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave., Toronto. President: There is a fascinating amount of fun to be had frons a com- bination Pi -and -Pie Party. Here is one that would answer your problem. It was planned by the young folks' society of a small church, many miles away, along the following lines: In the first place, the invitations were lettered on flaming yellow post- ers stuck up around the village. A black silhouette of a little boy con- suming a huge wedge of pie flanked the words which were in the form of a newspaper paragraph thus: A pi -and -pie party is to be held on Friday evening next in the Parish House. Everybody interested in either variety is invited to come. The costume de luxe will be news- papers worn as best befits each indi viduab There was plenty of fun on the ap- pointed evening in seeing the ways in which newspapers had b een adap- ted ted to this new use. They were tied and pinned over the ordinary garb, and in some cases were sewed on. Several lads wore cocked hats of newspapers, many ladies wore prize,. folded fichus. The first amusement was a stunt to break the ice, which hardly needed any more breaking in this case. Slips' of paper were passed in a basket from which each person selected one. It find that their newspaper is The Morning Herald, or The Evening Re- corder. A suggested way of acting the former is to get all the group to crow like a cock. To illustrate the Evening Recorder all may pretend to be writing up diaries or casting up accounts. Any number of clever ways to act the following will occur to you: The World, The Sun, The Star,"The Times, The Telegraph, The Press, The Journal, The Post, The Observer. The next amusement was a pie con- test of a different sort from the first one of the evening. A plate full of -generous wedges of pumpkin pie was brought in, and contestants were called for to tackle the pie -eating. At a given signal all the contest- ants bit into their segments of pie, and the first one through in a given time was awarded a prize. Another award was offered to the person who had achieved the cleanest face in the process. A jolly plan to follow is to appoint a number of editors from the throng —say a sporting editor, society editor, woman's page . editor, news editor, etc. Each editor 'then chooses a staff, and leads in a general enter- tainment stunt. The sporting editor puts through events ,of various sorts, such possibly as a saw -horse race, a pirate race, a high -brow race, .a standing low jump, was announced that this was renily etc. a collection of pi, and nius�t be The society editor whispers : a bit straightened out. I of scandal to her neighbor, who re - Upon looking at their respective r peats it in turn te 1;he next • ';':;,..:;,-2,1 slips the players found that there and so on until it has gone 'convpletel, was a letter of the alphabet on each around the circle. The last person' one. In their normal order these let- to whom it is whispered tells what ters would spell a sentence. A good'she thinks was told to her',. and •corn-' one to choose would be a well-known pares it with the, original 'statement,' proverb, such as, "A stitch in time to'the aniusente'tit of all, i saves nine,"or "A rolling stone A cartoonist contest may be intro -1 gathers no moss." t duced, a,,., given out for ` "i .a .Subject to If there are enough people, two illustration, 1'ossibi Brie' arson In them, in the sununer--and there are more of these each year. We take in $100 to :x150 th.s way, We put zip (or rather "Ma" does), and storefor winter, vegetatdes which, if boziiht at the store as eanned goods would at least 'coat $1110 to $150. What we eave en our grocery and meat bills during all summer and fall I don't know, but 'with otic man, and sometimes two, besides the fancily, it is n very eonsicterable atnount, And yet, the t.ntire garden occupies a sheltered little ,spot that's less than an acre in, size, and which we formerly used for a night 'pasture. So, altogether, it looks late a pretty good proposition, doesn't it? And'tt h o .sty I believe Why i t pays y every farmer to have a real vegetable garden. Save a few loads of the very best manure you've got for that garden. You can't put it anywhere it will make more money for you than night there. I know it pays, because I've fanned both without a garden and with one.—J'. S. INTERNATIONAL ' LESSON, APRIL 18. The Victory of Gideon's Band, Judges 7. Golden Text, 1 Sam. 1•1: 6. 1. Jerubbaal, Who Is Gideon. An interesting story is told in the pre- vious chapter (chap. 6) of the coaling of a prophet to teach the religion of Jehovah, and to permute the people to put away the Canaanite, or Amor- ite, deities which many of them were worshipping. About the same time the caul carne to Gideon to be Israel's leader in the fight against Midian, together with the assurance that Je- hovah would be With him. Acting with promptness and de- cesion, on the occasion of the next raid, Gideon called together the hien of his own elan and sent messengers to the three northern tribes summon- ing themto a meeting with him. Then he sought, according to the custom of the tunes, to assure himself by signs of the presence and favor of his God. The place chosen for the camp was by the spring of Herod, at the foot of Mount Gilboa, in the eastern part of the great valley of Jezreel. The Midianite camp was three or four miles to the north. 2-3. Too Many. The Midianites far outnumbered the men of Israel and they were trained and hardy fighting men. Under ordinary conditions of battle Gideon's army would have had small hope of success. He determined, therefore, to use strategy, and for that purpose required a small number of men upon whose courage, prompt- ness, and readiness he -could rely. The story, with ,simple faith in the ever- present help of God, regards. Gideon's plan of action as a divine inspiration. It was the Lord's command. Whosoever Is Fearful. Gideon must have picked men for his daring and perilous enterprise. 4-8. Yet Too Many. By a further test Gideon chooses the most wary, alert, and soldierly of those who re- mained. The greater number threw themselves down upon their knees to drink and put their lips to the water, having laid their weapons aside. But there were three hundred who, with the caution and vigilance of the true soldier, held fast to their weapons, while merely stooping and carrying the water with the hand to the mouth. 9-15. The Sanie Night. Gideon receives another sign which he re- gards as an assurance of victory. With his servant he went in the dark-, ness into the Midianite encampment, and overheard the telling of a dream which promised him success. -4t was quite in line with the thought cf those times to attribute extraordinary meaning and importance to dreams, and we do not need to doubt but that they have had their place in the all - wise providence of God. -At any rate Gideon returned to his men confident and hopeful. 16-21. Three Companies. The plan was to approach the enemy in the darkness from three sides. The sig- nal for simultaneous action was to be the sound of Gideon's trumpet. roach was made The app , there was a solitary trumpet note, ,then instantly the blare of three hundred trumpets shattering the stillness of the night, the crash of three hundred breaking pitchers, and the sudden flash of as many torches. The startled Midian- ites heard what seemed to them the shout and noise of attack of a great multitude, they saw lights advancing from three directions. Panic-stricken they rushed hither and thither, in the darkness they turned their swords against each other, and were soon in i headlong and disordefly flight. 22-25. The Host Fled eastward to- . ward the fords Of the'Jordan and their native wilderness. The Israelite warriors Who were waiting in Mount Gilboa joined in the pursuit, and Gideon tent messengers to the men of Ephraim inviting their aid. 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One .. term he served as :justice of the peace, but aside frim, that I never knew of his being elected to any place of public trust. But this father end :mother slid raise men and women. They had seven children, five'girls and two boys, and they are all citizens of the highest type. Some of them are on the farm; others are teachers, and one is a civil engineer in the employ' of one of the largest railway lines of the ,country. The old man is now well past eighty and proud of his success. He never has been what the world mould call a successful man, but as a matter of fact, thea world never will know just how much it owes to him. He has left his im- press. on his time most effectively. And the fine part,, of it is, those boys. and girls, now men and women grown, all recognize what their par- ents have done for 'then.. If you were to speak to any one of them about this, you would hear something like this: "Father taught school himself in his younger days. In fact, he taught in our own district in the winter a number of terms. This was an ad- vantage to us. He always attended to it that we had our lessons, and we -,, had the best of books and papers ail the time on the table. Father often had literary exercises at the schoolhouse, and when he ,thought we '" were getting tired of that, he � eald; urge us to go around to the bonzes of the neighbors and hold little meet - `Inge with. the boys and girls there. We had music, some readings and pieces to speak. He urged us to think for ourselves and learn all we could about the farm end the cut -of, door life that we ,could. Whe.r Old enough we were sent away to high school or normal school and both father and mother did all they could to help us along. 'Mother kept us well •clothed. We did not always lame the finest cloth in our clothes but it was good and clean. We kept sone sheep and their weal made our ch the; and some besides. We owe c r cry - thing to father and moth r" .And every year r there is :4./cmc- co-ming. , ricmc- ! coming. No matter where t '�'� ,,,, s and girls are, when the call c cel they rally at the c11 farm hone. It is a great day, a day of to n serer the stones cf cl len times ani n 'D - lig, the me_t.rg tegc`-her Sometimes 'in counting el), t te'' wealth of the nation tee many things that 'do no:: an,crnt to half as mach as this old nail'.; cro;� cf boys end girls. Why .s it wo n ways think in terms of dollars . n.1 cents when reckoning -up our rs- sources? It is so, and yet, money and land and stock and bank a:ve :lit; are all so ehcrtlived! We h::r: tha •i now; a day or two ricre ^:': i that' are gone. But intslrity cn th'r r;rt '— of the boys and f;: ris ta: •a M, ed citizenship, kind, true. and :;ving hearts are of a thou:and twee; \_•lora value than any material coeeforta ;,•a may possess. This is no fancy story. 14 a a 17.a.1 you right to the door of th s holed farmer man; and I tel you one thing, you will have to be quick at thinking and up-to-date in your know 1edee cf current events to leeets up with lane. With all las white hairs lie '_.vee in to -day and the w:rld is better for his presence ar:cr,g us.—E. L. toz,ffe. A.j frl,scirev4;144 I our. A breeze came to the v,indovr in a merry mcod one day. It tossed aside the curtains and whispered, "Who will play?" And Rags, the puppy, heard it, and Fluff, the little cat. (These two were always ready for anything like that.) Their mistress heard the rachet, and said, "That noise must stop!" The breeze hal. .eased the kitten up to the bu, moo. ; Iyags was en e eurtcu and the curtain on the floor. Wind, curta:n, dog and kitten —they were a 1_�*e ,j foboldur. The breeze was bialy w:lyded and, -...., 4•:„,.. .... tk'a.a ,.awtivL. the curtain made a curtsy, and not a word could say. Miss Fluffy's little:cat tele taus only just "Miaow!” but Rags upon has hind legs made a boar•„ ow -wow! Wheri tillage hsgins,` other ante • fo}low. Th c Farmer?, therefor', are the founders of }1l:rn^.a civ•iliration. —Daniel 1lebster. A man avho httd a fi:ic fieri of a1� falfa on his farm posted this sign: "Lime, ,phosphate, •cc 'servation oil moisture, and inocula teen got this alfalfa. Think it over." Softie hien are like the stump the old fanner had in his field—too hare\ to uproot, too knotty te' *lit, and toe wet' and soggy to burn`" The neigh.' bore aslced hint what he did about it. "Well, now, boys," he answered, "ii you won't tell the secret NI • tell yod. I just plowed around