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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1922-3-23, Page 2TTT',TTTV T 1/17 T T' f • Andres* aemmu. ntcatlone to £tirofQm t. T3 tattetaleta ea Weis. Toront• Horse -Sense in Building Fences. M) grandfather tells me that he ucecl to figure an building new feu se's every • tern y: este--arn it took , some tett.* yaful planning to make them, hold up good and: strong that long. Re fanned for more than fifty yeere on the same place, so he had to build new - THE CHID REN,'S M HOUR. P P 1 Janet's Good plea. w ' l� Olt day long the rain had fallen and as eight closed in it shouted no sign Shall We Cultivate Orchards? in the dark unless a sword ar thin': feures five times in his own farming a weariness. but beat with the same j , Mous patter a i , feed is kept. Inane, fainters feed their, experiences. He started out with rails } menota. ga est the .win - This question can not be answered ere s to hogs, siaee , or steers and and ended up with oak. pasts and•barb- dela and on the roof. OA the street definitely with "yes' or "no" and latah thus do their ran ettrig through these etc/ Rix •. Think of the labor it took the people were hurrying with large n she steel€ as a final settle , . . assay c eninlale while other farmers haul the, 1,, replacing those fences, -and the cost meet. In order. even, to approach an wer, 't is necessary to knot suet! ,-� ' ! The t' f evineh is a us heel nsuch territory s coserea in tsae� f these two g p' s an crops to market •and, sell feed ins,eac i in money* involved? ,:ea Animals• a quer 1011 o : H ed to noel „ i from Ii htniva, Most of those eteeses that shetnight go somewhere•to get term "cit ovation," a11d :hat othertmetliads of rrihe most larket ng can be anssver.o hit ham pretty hard because it was in Warm, but where should l, and ego' had practices are fo:lawed in the a7senae, ed only by feed records and without the da' when lightning instill= was bidden Janet o for a doctor, Janet of cultivation. d them it is impossible to form eerie a unknown. I saw hili_ skin eight leaf- g I ere one moxnina after a bad storm. and her another were strangers in the Cultivation 3s a method of handling:' close estimate, . They'd gotten too epee to the wire eat and Janet did not know where soil in an or:hard consists of early' Feed• all classes of stool; out of any doctors lived. Ab! here else a liinlals bundles wider them' arms. On this eold, dreary night .a little child was out, Wielan, , to be sure, spring aowin establishment of a' ing a or. fence. P• g, a common crib or bin, butsseighlnn Faraiming certainty has been Telenet Place, tbere was a sign which rend; d�nst-raulall after a few weeks and the treasuring the daily ration fed to each; amazed in the last ten yearF, even in "Dr: A. F. Dowell"; that soundeeId e ma 1te"anee of this dust layer testi/ class, is a .common way of keepn:g a` the fences that are built. S3 ho would a Luce name and nice people always tate n �xnmer, at which time a cover; record of feed. This May be cannel; - have nice names, the child thought ci op is planted and allowed to remain ;flee ration method, Another way is to',, rave thought of' a steel post twenty on the ground through the winter. have separate bins out G W111ea1 e: ca i years 'til , Now farmers are killii:A She was a frail, pale -faced child two birds with one *tone; they tea -with very little clothing on, and what One modifica3ion of the cultivation cats; of stoc1,::n fed, .and to measure' their fence oats with sledges by draw she had was ragged and dirty. In hex method is to use clover fox a cover; file Meed 4s it Ss put info these bins, posts el pests "o the hand she clutched the money her creno, prow alternate strips in venter- This may be eared the Ian method.`Aod ttheyhe eare using horse -sense in mother heel given her with which to nate yearn. leave the a"1 's e strap a s;�e first method a.; ordinarily �set for Patting up that kind, for fence posts i pay the doctor. She i eached the steps, full eeason witiront plowing, but cut hsy-s and si.ag.. and the se, weer up, and trembling, rang the bell. the stover era allow it to remain on grains, while a s oribination of the two made out of steel or concreie will last. No n the ground. This plan lessens than will At any set of farm buildingt. ilii longer than any mall oil earth rosea, i" answer, She rano again. Then c1st of ?valvst:0u materially " Tl•.erte's one other advantage that�tiae swift sound of feet; someone 5 haav Q :, bars in my ch'seken crap, and is worth z ;;Teat deal, schen steel posts opened the door,. and before Janet had Centrastezl with the eultivatea .1 keep track�Rf the feed as we carry' i'l a used. YOU won't have any losses tinge to open her mouth, said "No, the or" ir, d is the one left in sod. See.-; it over there, said a farm woman, ,o ; a doctor is not home*"and a;laistxned the mulch waAa:es with it the idea of no eve know exactI . haw emelt we feed frolaiee/ lightning killing the stock Es cry door. steel post on the farm is insurance' ' stirring of the sell, but, as a means oi.r hens;" € against that, for the post grounds the Poor Janet weary void h of moisture control, they application of ,mother farmer has an oat bin in' wires and sends 1[r• I.i htniarg down a blanket of grass, hay, straw, or' his borne barn and feeds nothing but where he belongs, If lightning strikes el:niter material, about the base of , his horses Rut of it. l nrthermore,i too.,fence, it can travel early the die= teas trete extending out from the trunk; silage is mostly fed. to dairy cattle,, Vince, to the next post. It won't run t4a a diatanee soinewl'at be�yord t<ha while most of the feeds bought are' around the whale Earns. ---C, C, S, length of the iimbe. This mulch is , intended for a single class of stock , ;renewed and maintained permanently. of and an, therefore, usually be charged'; The advantages cultivation are,' directly to that class. Iy and Late Layers. in brief: It increases aeration of Foil; Where this simple method, will riot,Undea the supervision of the Do - and sad, she slowly went down the stops again. "Oh, dear'." sighed the child, "If only I could find a doctor. Then she broke down utterly, and risking to the ground, cried bitterly. "My dear little girl, what is the matter?" asked a kind voice. Janet looked up to see a kind faee. Increases the moisture content duringapply the ration method will he found minion Poultry 1lusbandmaxi, . expert-: bending over her, Aar; starte growth early In spring, practically as east's de careful feeder, meets have been made at the Cexrtral Come, get up, and tell me all about a m5ee it possible aetu wly to cotter al will figure Iris daily: rations closely. Experimental Fares, Ottawa, to deter- it," said the stranger; and taking hold n:o:.sture it fall. The disadvantages And he will use a ration that is well, mine which hens would lay best duh of her hard he helped her up and led are: Ie is more eitpeusive, it makes the balanced, and will make it up from ing the summer months, also to aseer- her over to a Waiting' motor ear, ground P y t* •o ,nd soft at s p ata -ir. time in biome' the most economical feeds on the mar- Min if there is any relation between Seated in the ear, Janet sobbed out. 'teaselzs, it !Resets mete. i3 keg. When he has done this all that is waiter and su;ewer hying, that is, to her sad story. Ir. s© -na tcls;'a the are: f m a feed record standPoint out if a hen Rat lays during the "Well, that certainly is too bad; �' . u . g e neede3 ro 1? Solid grimed for spraying; wirelfalls its to multiply this daily ration by the;; winter will be nmega likely to lay bet- but I am a doctor, and if you tell me ere net so basely bruised; cheaper on Lumber of days it is fess without any ter or worse during the summer than where you live I'xn sure I will be able rough .. 'al ° prevents s� lash v .. g . and compute the total a hen that fails -to lay during the win- to cure your mother;' .�sg an3 lea y ,gnu, pee fiat eh�inge, nd then to p 1118. its i:. advanta^es are: Danger cost of each feed in the ration. ter months. It has frequently been Janet's face broke out into smiles, of damage to trees in caw of fire, Figuring feed rations and reeords 4. claimed that a. hen will lay just as. "Oh, sir, if you only would," she more danger from mice; moisture furnish some good practice in farm many eggs whether she starts in No- said gratefully. h Planning the New Hone A great number of farm homes will , bathroom need not be large. It is re•babl be built this year and also: possible to install a bathtub, lavatory p a of old houses re- and closet iu a room six by eight feat, an equal number although n xoom eight feet by eight: modeled. It pays to spend consider -i feet is much better. able time in planning, it should also 1 Besides arranging for the bathroom be remembered that a house is not the planning may be earned a step built for the present alone. A house farther if the fna .ces will permit, by in order to give;the best service must having the "meshing in" dorm, That actually be built ahead of the times• is, the waste pipes and water pipes Perhaps this is impossible, but we which are usually concealed in ibe should at least plan for every eonven- walls and under the floors man be put ience possible. It does not cost much in so that the fixtures can be attached lackiai suet N y as n i fail, a i u laevo bo or a ire rember or April. On the contralti) The kind daetor took er bonne and to plan. for these things although we at ally time. The "roughing; in" can g, t. a n , arithmet c If you a Y fi StieeSsiv@. in the family, have them antero ran these experatnents show that the pan looked after her mother, One morning may not be able to install everything usually be clone for $50to $75. tion.tooThey will ntl Clean cultivation, sod mulch, cleats Th ''ll ii d e tine'' let which does not start to lay until Janet found a large basket of food nosy. Of conte, if the bathroom is on the cultivation with cover crops, and cul- tivation every other year were the met -hails compared by expert orchard- ists with a mature orchard of Bald 'ES ing The sot? oreiutrd was left pernlan- entity in sari. Grass was mowed when too long to permit orchard operations and left on the ground. The Richard in clean cultivation was plowed everys spring and cultivated every two weeks till. September 1. The cultivcultivat- edorchard in which a cover crop was used received twenty pounds of crim- son clover, was.sown July 10. Yield of fruit is, of course, one ot'. the best yardsticks by which to meas- ure the merit of the various practices. Judged in this way, clean cultivation trade an average yield for ten years, of nearly double the yield on sod. The growth of trees was also greater on cultivated trees, There was, however, less variation from year to year on, the sett oreherds. Also, this orchard suffered less from frosts and freeees than did fertilized trees in clean culti- vation. There was a larger percent- age' of ercentage'of cull apples on the sod orchard than on cultivated tree,. Better . still than clean cultivation was the modification of this method, clean cultivation followed by a cover trop. The yield was a trifiie higher than from the orchard in clean culti- vation without a cover crop the tree growth was a �iittle better, and the washing of soil not so bad. , . -them a multiplication and addition." near spring never catches up with one and. clothing an the doorstep and at Assume for the purpose of the prob-s that begins in November or December, tbe bottom was a cheque signed "Dor.. leans that the surae ration was fed on! To help solve the problem, -the pullets tar LoveI1."Ve= a Plaatton. each of the thirty-one days of Janu-i and hens in these experiments were --Y--- -- .try, and figure the price of oats at, divided into three groups --those that To Itmprove an Axe Handle, Determining Dairy Costs. In the feeding of dairy cattle, the largest single cost is the feed cost, and the dairy business is conducted Take plumbing, for instance, no first floor the "roughing in" is very farm house should be built 'to -day simple, consisting merely of the sell without some provision being made pipe extending through the reef. The for a bathroom and the necessary other piping ,rise easily be put in from plumbing for the kitchen and laundry, the basement at any time. One thine started to la its November those that The value of planning is forcibly ani- should be remembered, however, in arty -ora cents anti corn at Ninety Y Ydhen I buyanew axe or ut anew s on an one wbo has had anyplanning f 1' plumbing, 1. tbe s p pres� ed y a 1 g o xnba sg, tl 1t I e sal eight cants a bushel'if yAu prefer that: started an January, and these that gotP p method to the rico per ton method. to work in February. The birds that Middle in an old one, the first th32ig I experience in instilling plumbing in pipe which, connects with the closet is •t id r 'started in Noveilsb+wr laid an that do is to procure a piece of baling wire the type of firm house built twenty four inches in diameter and has en- largements at the joints which rebate a six-inch partition to conceal it. If tbe `'roughing in" cannot be done when the house is built, a "chase," that is an opening between two studs and covered with a panel, can some- times be left in which the pipes lead- ing to the second floor can later be placed. This will save mutilating the walls when the plumbing is finally in- stalled and will also make the pipes very accessible when in need of re- pairs. It should be remembered, how- ever, that this "chase" must be six complete bath room on the second { inches deep in order to hold the soil floor will be found very useful. The pipe. One more pointmere s eons e a-; about six feet long,manic a small hsaarit tion. It is the question of 'aeiglting; month ani December an average each years ago. It is almost impossible to thesv i *his of feed, of 14,$ eggs and for June, Jany, Aug -on one end cf the wire, through which locate a bathroom in a convenient'. and estimating e t, a small flat -headed nail s driven into lace or to get the piping in properly, One will need to weigh or measure a; est, and September averaged per birdp p y' ration a few times until one becomes' 32.8 eggs. The January birds in that the axe beadle. I then proceed to Even though the plannli in may be it accustomed to estimating its measure` mwrth, and February averaged each wrap the wire around the handle., later coisideration, something can be er weight, but it is surprising how 14.5 eggs and for the four summer' *fallen about two and one-half or three done now that will make it easier to soon the eye becomes trained to months averaged 30.1- The February measure with practical exactness. 1 group averaged in Febraery and An illustration will drive this point, March 21.75 eggs and for the four home, and siniiler eteperienees will summer months 27.5. This appears to occur to eery reader: indicate that the earlier the bird be - Two colle e gins to lay :after November 1, the ore g students were worki >�' m in the college dairy barn, and were -in-' eggs will she be responsible for in the structezl to weigh the feed fed to each+ year and especially in the :sulnnier cow, After they had done this for a months. It is also generally conceded time one of the students began to that the bird that lays late in the fall argue that it was useless to carefully -not moulting until near 'winter—is weigh the feed each time, and to prove the heavier layer. It is not a good his point be turned the face of the plan to kill in the autumn those hens scales away from him and instructed that are not fully feathered, as they the other student to record -the are usually the best layers. Dairy experts are constantly called upon to explain why apparently clean milking machines. so often give milk with a high germ content which is very annoying to the man who is trying to produce high-grade milk. This con- dition is due to the fact that even though the machine may be serubbed and as thoroughly cleaned as other ;milk utensils, still there are many places which may harbor baetea-ia that later conhiaminate the freshlyedrawu milk passing through the maehine. Thews bacteria, it is asserted, must. be killed, and it is pointed out that two methods are giving the best re- sults at present, The usualprocednire after cleaning the machine is to place the tubes and teat -cups in a sterilizing solution, usually a strong brine. Some dairy -men use commercial hypochlorite solutions, but these soon lose their strength and fail to sterilize the tube.. The addition of hypochlorite to the brine is said to give satisfaction as the hypochlorite sterilizes the brine. Platting here -tubes ,iii tiwatee and beat- ing to 160 to 170 degrees P, also kills all the bacteria, but the rubber parts of most inilktng machines soon de- teriorate with this-, treatment. Passim; a stream of cola water through the tubes continuously 'ha:s been found: to give some satisfaction through checking the grow th o hc. bac=teria, Directiene :fer c•>eenn•uig milking inee weights as be measured out the grain and fed each cow, and without know- ing what the scales were recording he fed some twenty odd cows and gave each one the right amount as recorded by the student watching the scales.` This feat can be duplicated by any farmer with only a little practice. The matter of feed records is there- fore simple enough and requires little enough of time, and, furthermore, to feed stock without measuring the feed is like paying out money without counting it. chines emphasize the importance of cleaning the milker tubes before plac- ing them in the sterilizing solution; releasing the ale from the tubes so that the solution can reach all parts; the use of brine as a basis for the sterilizing solution.; and cleaning the stanchion hose and check valves on the pail lids in order to prevent leak- age back into the machine from the air line. The inwestigatoes find that it is a relatively simple matter to produce continuously milk containing few bac teria with any of the standard makeses of milkers, provided certain very simple details in' the cleaning process are cared for each clay. Records show- ing that this can be done by ordinary dairymen now extend over five and Six' years of ccn;llinuous observation, Power and Farming. It requires more power to carry on the bueinesse of agriculture than is required by ail ether industries coin - billed. A hundred yeses ago one.fam- `rly living in town •demanded the sur- plus farm prodnets of four families living in the county. To -day the con- dition ondi'tion is reversed - and gate farmer grows sufficient on his land to feed four city families. The increased use of Bower on the' farm is Ilio reason for, this big change, inches of handle has been covered, I install later. First, the location of the insert another small mail around which bathroom can be planned. This may the wire is bent, eat off and hammered be on either floor, although I think for smooth. Owe must be taken whii,Ic the country a bathroom located on wrapping wire around handle to keep the first floor which is easily aeees-j the wire tight and close. sible from the rear of the house would Any one who uses an .axe, especially be found the most convenient. How - for epltitting, knows there its a great ever, an additional closet, or even a deal of wear on, under side of handle. This is where the wire wrapping pre- vents any wear whatever. In ten min- utes time an axe handle can, in the above way, be made to last as long as three handles not similarly treated. l A. G. Parents as Educators The Can of the Clock—By Nelia Gardner White Dear Mother: Have your children ever said="I' can't come just now, Mother I'm busy with my blocks!" No doubt the' building of blocks' was at that moment very important, ---more important than we can realize. But more important still should be the response to the de- mands of time. Some of us axe marti- nets --always insisting on the accom- plishment of a given task at a given time, till our children conte to look upon time as a relentless, hateful - giant. I think a great deal of the slothfulness of this world comes from that arbiC-iary insistence that things be done on. time. The things hated in obrldhcod are gladly cast aside as soon. as maturity comes. But isn't there some way to make; ptinstua'lity and a well -ordered life a beautiful and desired instead of a dreaded thing? For it is beautiful. Time is not hard and relentless; if it is used rightly, life becomes smooth, peaceful and happy; if used wrongly,. life is a tangled mass of fretting and discord. You've seen folks who al- ways had to rush to get to places on time—whe rushed to get their meals ready—who rushed about t}: eir elean- ing and their sewing. It is an un- lovely quality. It is nearly always, you . ou come .ctewn `to the facts the. result of previously not hawing done things on time. Their- clothes weren't, in order for calling=tlxe dishes needed weren't clean—their materials had not all 'been purchased for the proposed sewing ---there wasn't any scouring. powder on handfor scrubbing. Not one of :us wants a child to grow. up to • that :kind of e person, who neither h oyes nor gats happiness_ 'However, that state is only a natur- al one, arising from a :failure to appre- ciate'tkne importance of time. It is not the "rusher" ivhohas the root Pcfoi ening cum. friends often looks like sa .iflt 0 g;•O^;i111.e taste than re- forming c-n..cives• but this task is never given u5: leisure time. It is the one who does each task as it comes, does it thor- oughly, leaves nothing for "some other tune." - Of course, we're all only hu- man and we all have lapses, but it's just in so far as VV meet duties un- afraid and willingly that our ;work be - conies easy, a pleasure instead of a dread. But how can we get our children to see the importance of this? First, :I think, °emphasis should be placed en the pleasure that accompanies that instant response to the call of the. clock. The "Come this instant or you won't get .a bite of supper!" is only too common. It seems to pie it's only fair, while the child is young, at least, that he shauilcl be told that supper time is near at hand, that shortly he'll be called in from play. rPerhaps you re can let hiknow of something he likes that's going to.be for supper. You'll find that he comes much more readily when it is time. And soon promptness beconn;es a habit. Pleasant habit.' cling tp us. Why 'not _;workto in+ake into pleasant habits all necessary duties that have tobeobserved through life'? Wonderful results come from the ex pendii.ure of a little patience and. time. You car have, a• game of going -to - bed -time, an exploring trip of Kiri. Seali of wash-up time and an indepen- dent, grown -lap ,event: of dressing time. Pun+ctua+lity really isn't hard if we can only remember that the accomplish- ment of things at a certain, time is what we desire, not the acecniplish went of things because we order there done at a certain time. Let us keep: ,this lcsslesson.in our mother conseiottsnesis if we „vatiii children to lit ohne men and winner whose lives are smoothly peacetol, ordered so that thetheymay find time Col' things that make for culture ; ti,i soul - growth, In many poultry houses that are properly constructed little time has been spent in making good nests to go with those houses. A poor system of nests will mean broken eggs. Open nests soon become dirty in winter from the hens roosting on the sides of the boxes. The hens will scratch in the litter in an open nest and kick the eggs against the sides of the box. Then t+he eggs are broken and it helps to start the egg -eating habit. Nests should be in portable sections so they can be taken outside occasion- ally for sunning and spraying. When nests are nailed to the poultry house walls they form cracks and crevies where notes and lice hide. Some of the bast nests we have seen were built so the hems could enter from. the rear. These nests were slightly dark so the hems could not easily see the eggs. The liens like the seclusion of such a nest and it reduces the danger of egg eating. There should be about one nest to every four bens as thia prevents crowding, which is anether cause 'of broken eggs. Nests need a steep sloping roof ea. the hens will not roost on them. They must be deep eneugh so the eggs will n,ot roll out, but not too deep so tele hens will jump on the eggs, Twisted hay maks a good nesting litter, h,,t. the hens will gradually pick it out of the nests so that more is needed every few weeks. A straw litter packed into the :cornea's of the nests is about as pern-ianent as any. The changing of litter does "not take long and broken eggs result from a lack of nesting ma- terial. So it pays to watch the nests and keep them in the eondtition that means perfeetly clean and unbroken. eggs. For Economical Seeding. The development of power teeming equipment still goes on. One of the latest devices is a seeding attachment which can be ccunnected directly to a sipilce-tooth harrow, thus making a superior combination for seeding and euvering of . grasses and legumes at one operation. The attachment is made in vaelous lengths go as to fit two, three or four -section harrows and can be used equally effeebively with any one. The power, for operating the seed -hole agitator is derived from two wheels, one at each end of the ma- chine. The whole n-tgebnne is built close to the ground to prevent scatter- ing of the seed by- the wind. Combining farm operations so they can be •conducted simultaneously is a very effective way of reducing Mahe cost of crop' production. Progressive farm- ers will readily 'recognize the value of the new inaehine and will undoubtedly find it of great advantage, Direct from TRAPPER to MANUFACTURER J. SCI:I'.t1VARTZ & CO: 266-968 Zing St. west zzazr rriC5'Ua2NG smit imes Toronto, Ont. Fine: 1+7x., 7,arge .Dark $3,00 Fine Ex. 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