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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1922-7-13, Page 3isrld ,How I tet the Best Work Out of M Few Horses,. Of all the leaks on the farm,, it ba been raY experience that one of t._ 'worst is the poor use of horses, Ther are three reasons for this: The use of too small or too poo quality horses, the use of too few horses in the team, and the nae too few days in the year of the horses kept. It has: been said that the average number of hours per day worked by farm horses..is three. This does net mean that the days worked are short but that the horses stand in the barn or roam the pasture two-thirds of th time. Maybe you think you axe no mit anything while • your herscs are on pasture, or that you are only out the feed while they are standing in the stable, but on closer analysis you wil see that this is not the case, The cost items oaf keeping a horse are: Feed, interest, depreeiatiou, shoe- ing, and veterinary bilis. In addition, there are repairs to harness, though this is not a strictly horse cost, and some Haan labor, Of these costs, the idle horse is just as subject to those for interest and depreciation and vet- erinary bills as the one that is work- ing. He is also subject to the feed and shoeing costs, though to a less extent. As to deprecietion on laxness, this wears out about as fast hanging in the stable as when in use, Comparing the cost per working' hour of a home working 1,000 hours per ye r with that for one working 2,000 hours per year, we get figures as fellows: cess communications to Ayronomiat, 7i} Adelaide St, West, Toronto y early potatoes: continuedt tend I also kept the team on the road part of the s month: In the tatter part of the he :month the corn was eat,. and put in e' the silo, October was given over to digging and delivering late potatoes, and a team was on the road part of this month. November was, given over to, fall plowing, and the other four months were spent hauling milk with one team, while the other .did chores (the imanure was hauled every day). As will be seen, the work was CO tinuous there being no very sleek tunes nor any times schen we were e overworked. I never kept exact track t of haw many day's the horses worked during the year, but they were in the harness a. part of nearly every good day, and put in most of the time good l full days. They worked probably 240 days or more a year. Siace then I have bought another 100 acres and a tractor, and now I am just making a change in my type of farming. I am substituting hay for potatoes for the money crop. When the change is completed, the year will be about the same in the spring and fell, but in the summer it will be as follows: The latter part of June, cutting and' drawing Alfalfa; duty, cutting and drawing timothy and clover;; the let- ter part of July, second cutting of e alfalfa; August, harvesting grain ahci e third cutting of alfalfa. I started with four horses that h would not average 900 pounds airier I soon found that they were no good] for business, and bought a pair weigh -1 ing 1,300 apiece. Later I bought ante THE CHILDREN'S HOUR What Weltered Tumpty Toad, Tumpty . Toad sat on the garden walk sunning himself, • It was a drowsy day, and Tumpty Toad was feeling mmol, too sleepy to move. Indeed, when two, nigsquitoes lighted on a nasturtium leaf arrear his head; Tumpty Toad only blinked an eye at them. They would have tasted good no doebt, but hardly good enough to be worth the effort of putting out his tongue. Now Tumpty Toad couldn't help' hearing what the mosquitoes were saying, It seemed easier to listen than to move out of hearing. They weren't sleepy, he learned, ie spicae :of the heat They were merely hungry "And nothing biteable in sight, said " one crossly, "but that old toad, "You don't ea1l him biteable," sai the other. "He's too tough for my taste." "Rush," warned the first "He may hear us," "No danger," retarned the second, "Can't you see he's asleep?" Tumpty Toad kept his eyes shut. Not that he wasn't annoyed. No one Tikes to be called tough, even by a mosquito. "Here comes somebody tender*, said the fust mosquito suddenly, "Alia," said the second with satis- faction, And both mosquitoes fell silennt, Tumpty Toad could hear thein sharp- ping their bills. Ile was almost urious enough to open his eyes, Still e felt so lazy! And he could trust is ears to tell him who this tender somebody was. For steps were coming alongthe walk, a big, grown-up pair of steps not the tender ones deeidedlyr-.and a ittle, uncertain. toddling pair. ""Funny toad," said the baby. Tumpty Taad felt a soft little tickle own his hack, 1)e didn't sump or wriggle away, for he knew that the ekie Was the baby's finger stroking and patting him, fie sat very still, not to frighten the tickle away,. d 1,000 2,000. a Items of cost. hrs. hrs. Oats at 40e per bu., , , , $36.00 $45.00 on Hay at $18 per ton .. , . 60.00 59.,00, Peeture 5.00 2.00 Interest at 6%"p on $250 15,00 15,00' b Dep eeiation, 10% a year on $230 , , , . , 25.00 25.00 Veterinary bill , , , 5:00 5.00 Shoeing. . .. ..... . . . . 25.00 35.00. 2 Total ,.• .,.,,,.,,$1;71,00 $181.00 b Gast per hr. worked 17,01 9.05 s then pair weighing about 1,500 apiece nd still later I exchanged the lighterj es for horses weighing about 1,60 P ounds apiece, I had always. heard about how slow ig horses were getting around corn re, and about how working on sof ground bothered them; but I hav never found that to be the case. I did nd that it takes no more swain to eel a big horse than a small one, and ut little more hay. Why? Well, a mall horse doing heavy work must 11 The above figures, while they do not i hold for every community, are as fair to the 1,000 -hour horse as to the 2,000- hour one. You see that the cost is i nearly double for the horse which m works the smaller number of hours. h Applying the figures to a. crop like potatoes, on which about 100 hours of i horse work aro used, we get a differ- d ence in cost of production of $8.05 t per acre, which, though net large, is I worth saving. 1. To get the best use out of your horses is a problem in farm manage- ment. Perhaps' the best way I can illustrate is to give my'own exper- ience. When I started farming I had four horses. The farm consisted of 140 acres, of which 42 Acres were. woods. Three acres of potatoes were raised, and seven of corn, and the o rest was in bay and oats. Later I th raised from 12 to 19 acres of potatoes, p and about 10 to 12 acres of corr., be- va sides the hay and oats, The cultivated. go crops take more horse work anyway, and potatoes take a good deal of team- c ing to deliver. The result was a le �ieat increase in horse efficiency and, hoc incidentally, in income. Then I rented a first one 60 -acre farm and later an -h other, without any increase in the number of horses kept. In addition di to the 260 acres farmed with the four th horses, I also had a team on the road an for several weeks, and took the job of hauling milk in the•winter when there b was too .much snow for the trucks. to My year was about as follows: April., fitting land; May, fleeing land n. and planting early potatoes, corn and oats; June, fitting for late -planted late potatoes, planting them, and cul- tivating cern and potatoes; July cork on his nerve, while a heavy one s at ease doing the same work. As to using more horses in the team there is no reason why many farmers n the East cannot do what is so 'corn - oily dome in the West—drive four- orse teams. By letting one man do all the ng with with the machine, and the other rive the four -horse team, we are able o do a lot more work than otherwise use for fitting a six-foot double -disk narrow. Three horses are needed to pull a, six-foot single disk if it is set up to where it ought to he. Foul will pull a double disk as easily as three the single one, and do twice the work, And the work is more smooth- ly done,. Many people would say that this intensive use of horses'would be hard n them. In reality, the opposite is e case. Regularity is of more im- ortance with horses than are long cations. The work horse that does a od day's work every day, gets fed regularly, and has few days off ex - pt Sundays, lives longer and suffers ss from disease than the carriage se used to, which did nothing fon week and then put in one or two and days. My horses were hard and in fine con. ration to work in the spring when ey had been hauling milk all winter d I would have half of my spring work done before some of the neigh -1 ors had got their horses hard enough stand a full day's work. I do not mean that a. horse should even have •a vacation. It is excellent' if you can turn him out for two or three weeks in the spring or early summer, but this is all that I have ver found necessary, and even that be dispensed with if the horses e turned out nights for a month or in addition to the usual feed of sin asia'some hay.—A. H. S. ev cultivating, and haying; can August, harvesting grain,_ digging and ar delivering potatoes, and one team on so, the road. In September digging of gr The young foal will make more use of these summer days if he is kept in the stable during the day. Flies and hot weather are not c:antributing lec- tors to a healthy and vigorous growth., The mare and foal stabled during the day, given• a couple of grain feeds, and then turned out at night, will do better than the ones left out all day. A. ration of- four-fifths parts of oats and one-fifth part of bran by weight forms a good geed at this time.' Careful •breeders ' have probably nad their mares and fowls in during the day since the firsst. of July. If the; mares have been needled for work, a moderate amount has not hurt diem! and they are better off than they I would be if left -in a pasture 'all 'dirr-1 ing the day. The foes are big enough n now so that they do not need the marc., A Word Of Warning. A word of warning, Garden Man, With pailor hose or sprinkling can: Four liberal drink on, garden land, 9e else, I pray you, stay your hand. l'er if you :only wet the top - The thirsty roots get scarce a drop; ,end, struggling upward after water, II Icy hoe os` draught are doomed. to Cleaning Weedy Corn. One season the wet weather kept us out of our cornfield until the weeds grew very thick. It looked' as though they would take the crop.. Ordinary cultivation would have done very little, if any, good, so we I hitched to the lister with one horse, and ran a shallow furrow between the rows, the, dirt, of course, being thrown each way, covering the weeds. As soon as the dirt settled a little, we took the five -shovel cultivator and, letting the horse walk down the she - low furrows, practically 'leveled; the ground between the rows, - By this time the weeds had been. given such a good worrying that the to ordinary four -shovel cultivator was put in the field, and the ground worked b to a good advantage where it would have been impracticable without pre •vious preparation. Plow Points Wear Rapidly. icTice, funny toad;" said the baby. "See if it doesn't want a fly," said a big grown-up voice that belonged to the big, grown-up steps. That was thoughtful surely. Tumpty Toad was almost exeited enough to open his eyes. Still he felt so lazy, And he could trust his nose to tell pini when the fly was near, The mosquitoes stopped sharpening their bills, "Ready?" asked the first. ""Go!"' said the second. Tumpty Toad heard the hum of their wings as they passed. It was a hun- gry hum. And it was headed straight for the baby. Tumpty Toad opened both eyes wide, He had forgotten all about being sleepy. Close beside him on the walk, stooping to hold a big fat fly inviting- ly .near his mouth was the baby. Such a gurgling, laughing' dumpling of a baby*, The first mosquito had settled on one bare little foot, and the second was lighting on the fat little hand' that held out the fly,. But Tumpty Toad didn't wait to look at the fly. He darted, out his long tongue, once, and wiped the first mos-, quito off the baby's foot; twice, moll hooked the second mosquito off the; baby's hand. Bite the baby, would' they 7 "Serves them right for being hun- gry," thought Tumpty Toad. IIe darted out his long tongue again and the big fat fly followed the most quitoes clown Tumpty T'oad's eapaeious throat. And that was the very best place for them all, if you ask mel` Tumpty Toad winked at the nasture tium leaf, where the mosquitoes had Sat. "I'm not as sleepy as I look," said Tumpty Toad. My Crain -Tight Hayrack. I have found that it has paid me to make the floor of my hayrack of good material, At the time I made this one (four years ago), flooring a f'he ordi- nary yellow pine east about $50 a thousand. A good rack builder told me that it would be the very best thing to get edge -grain tug for the flooring and to get narrow pieces. So I bought four -loch edge -grain flooring at $65 a thousand. I am very glad that I did it, as my reek has to stand out part sof the time, and where other newer but cheaper racks are exulted open, so that grain can't be hauled loose, mine is still in good shape, and edge -grain stuff does not sliver up, when shoveling on the floor, as regu- lar flooring docs, This is another case where eeonomy', consists in paying enough to get high: grade material, It goes against the grain to do this sometimes, but I have, rever bought a quality product yet' that IF regretted afterward, Isere is an idea in fastening the floor of a rack down that is worth while' I blind -nailed the whole top, and And that it pays. This menus slanting the palls, and I feel that this will partly prevent their pulling out, as they do When put in straight from the top. A neighbor who has just made three racks used screws on the last one, This serves the same purpose, as the screws do not work out either. lot of farmers have found that the hayrack with a tight bottoxn and a set of sideboard" makes ,a fine box for loose grain hauling. E, Rogers. My "Birthday Book." Do you ever forget when y'eur cow: is going to cslve, or when your sow; is going to have pigs? I have, and *i 1 aametimes used to put it down ono the calendar and in ray notebook, too. Then, 'tenant'', the calendar would bel . used for something else, or I'd lone" evil. the leaf out of the notebook, Now I', cl• 12. 14 �Rev.'er.. liege .found a muoh better place to Lesson sson Foreword—Remember hat;" rhe Faint of the =.fir. -,i.`" There would keep these records, and that is in a, the Book of Daniel w;as written to he seniething greet: te. etet r breeding book, minister tomfort and enaauragement !gee in the a i fl one no R `e e a i i a.y of part of the I have lined it so that there is a toluern who, through per: tieution, were hand. The I z :doh: an Paltate:, were space for the name of the animal, the to fall awaty from their rein; Sous li ilt et' tired; ars! the =.1 ; to a faitll, In to -day s Ies^� n, en:2nurage-. tair height, were d: , €'erg date bred, the sore, the date eon.,meat isP �.• rri. 'fence ception taken mace, and the date birth v uy showing that who. the 'writing =teed lot quite vieihie "non may be expected, ever profanes the religion of the Jews, the white l anckgr rund. Written. The is doomed to punishment, 13el ha azar, word means properly "stomper." In A year or so ago I had two eows,� in his profanity and punishment, ig, Belo -ton the characters were stamped that were about two months late in' an instance of this. ';in them. while the clay was :till sat, freshening, and I felt pretty sure that I. The Cause of the Handwriting, 17-23,° V. 25. The exact meantime 4,f the my records were wrong. It caused in7 In this section the reason for the wards written is difficult to cleterniine, convenience, ee 1 .resolved to work , appearance of the mysterious hand is'. Re : ;vis the repuas d cot ix' why out a better plan. ! set forth. , Be:, hazzar was puzzled At tint and Probably some farmers would needy V. 17� The mat;ieians o. Bra=;yion why ra, Daniel wassneed ei to interpret a record for each of the kind of live- have failed to explain the har,+Iwvriting; The v or+l,., which are Ike the stock kept, but I find ono book suffi-M1and note Belshazzar offers I�ani,�l an nam sot Iielartivv, appear lre the dent for my purposes. 1 6 r Xet a reward if he can do so, V.iAa n e' f AireetheigHIebre wr*wei ht Most farmers figure that a cow's thy gifts be to thyself. Daniel; "minahei TekeI; in :lraniie comes - gestation period is nine months and a°dejecta the gifts and honor which �ho"pends to the Fx:i -een ""shekel. " I'phar.. sow's four months, This of course is' king has proffered him, Yet I win s sin; denote the Hebrew "half-rnin,•ais," read, No reward wus necessary to Although knowing the aerse of each not exactly correct. I find by carefully; induce him to interpret what tial,ao.j in itself the kine• could attach watching that in most cases they will baffled the others. i come mighty close to the exact num- V, 18. The most high; a title fre no meaning to the words as they stood oktio bex of days. Two sows that I watched (Penile' applied to God in theOld in , A`.this 2P•c�''inneene itana. in its nett the idea farrowed within an hour of the 1X2 Testament, It denotes Iois auprya,aaacy!et' numbc�rinr*. Fieneo-' Ihano, Dan;•ays that days expected. With cows the time. Iva n11 the earth and thus�elathe3 the day of the Babylonian kingdom is not less than 280 days, except in and re. er neer God ,arm; fete . re.3. Its allotted time is y ' gave, etc. Nebuchadnezzar' kingdom' , ' , , rare cases. Calves have been carried, with its splendor and preeperity w s �©L n,«7. Tel.el :Weans in " for eleven months and have lived and by Daniel attributed to the providence '"w•'f*1 ' n" i , i coat matured. Mares require an average' of God. a a viii a l]canac 1 <.e. i:gyres that of 330 days,—R. E. i V. 19. Nebuchadnezzar is portrayed of the stanc',ari.Behtleetzar fella short as a typical Oriental despot whose V. a •u S. Peres. There is a -thimble play ! sway over his subjects was absolute. upon this wcrd. It sugge to in its Whom he would he slew, etc. "His root the idea of "division." and thea ! personal will was law in all things" also it suggests "Pre: ions." Hence ; (Driver), In a capricious mood he Daniel predicts that Be', iazzar's king- ,' would have one subject executed and doxn is to be divided among the Per - 1 another elevated to honor. dans. In B G. 539, Bahe:un fell before V. 20. His heart was rifted up. See Cyrus, the Persian iii v �aose empire Deut- 8: 12-1? and 1? 20 H had TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL SON Y 16 e Handwriting on the Text God shall bring eve. every hidden thing, whether ie'. It be good or rent, with wbetheY it be Parents as Educators Preparing Our Children for Citizenship BY ALICE WINGATE PRARY Our children are given regular in- struction in citizenship in school, but the best that can be done for them there will not atone give them the urge toward helpful service in the community that they might have with the thoughtful eo-operation of their parents. The talks, songs and pag- eants of school have served to widen f their vision and strengthen their .gran wh a'become so elevated above his sue"ectthe Medes formed 'an important and some for the little girl it world have1 influential element. in his pride, that he dealt arrogantly. . been if someone had insisted on the with them, and forgot the obligations Application. charm of offering a neatly made gift,' he owed them as their king. His wind The noble self-restraint of Daniel, that Grandmother's pleasure need not' hardened, ete. In this respect he was his purpose to "scorn delights, and be marred by apologies, Organfza-)like Pharaoh, Excel. 7: 13 22. He at- live laborious days," the murk derided tions are too often hindered by the i tTi'buEed his sun cess to �himseif and Puritan element in life, is in eternal welrt zneaning but unskilled volunteer; overlooked God who gave it. As a conflict with the luxurious, Sybaritic worker. The community life of the' xesul,t he became insusceutible to di- conception of life as a Sultan's feast uture will be enriched by every ohne,acces there ount afvine nhis depositios, He wasn isogiven 1 have been manyIn this conflict hbattg sh , ithe lost land. o has learned to take pleasure inIch. 4: 28-33.wan, and the war is still on. In the careful, finished work. !!! V. 21. Driven from men. Nebuchad- conduct of one's personal life, in eat - "We require from buildings as from nezzar became insane and his insanity fag and drinking, and managing an en," writes Ruskin in "Stones of : unfitted him for human intercourse, human appetites and desires, and also enice" "two kinds of goodness. first' His heart . . like the beasts. His mind in public life in the enactment of Paws the doing of their practical duty well,' and disposition were reduced to the and statutes far the Gammon welfare, hen that they be graceful and pleas- level of the beasts,—irrational and there is urgent need, of the Christians of acceptable service, that the doer ing in doing it."This is one secret' age' Apparently Nebuchadnezzar interpretation and enforcement et himself suffered the hallucination that Daniel's practice as opposed to Bel - he was a wild Lest. The wild asses, shazzar's indulgence. shall find joy in his work rather than Driver characterizes the wild ass as To most of those who read this,the seek all his pleasure as a thing apart. j "an untamable animal which roamed present practical application is ast This we can emphasize to our little in the open plains; to dwell with the assuredly personal abstinence from cirtizens, showing thein as • consistent- y wild asses would thus be a special wine and other intoabs nts, and the 1y as •possible.that we do find jay m mark of wildness and savagery." They full measure of one's infiuenee for to - duties. fed him with grass. Apparently Nebu- tal prohibition, •in the interest of pub - Our children will receive theirehadnezzar imagined himself an ani- Ile welfare, and specially for the pro - est their mal and so he was treated as an ani- tection orf people with strong appetite est foundation in the matter of : maid His body, etc. He dwelt in the and weak will, and helpless de end,- iesponsriibiiity toward the community:mai. fields and shared in all respects ents injured by these. p p from thestress which is laid by happy. the life of the wild beasts. For the ---.► example and persistent teaching on neglect of his person see eh. 4. 33, Good schools are the greatest de. the safe -guarding of the community Till he knew, etc. Reason was restored fenee of the nation. weldare by the right sort of homes. to Nebuchadnezzar when he acknowl- Short sermons catch the most sin. R ead them 'Mrs. Kate Doutglas Wig- edged the true God from wham he n's alarming story "Mother Carey,s derived his kingdom. Hers. , 2 Belshazzar had not profited of the dramatic events of the past Fathers and mothers can help them t express their appreciation of the tim and country in which they live in terms of every -day service. To teach thenr-that they have an importan 0 e m V t t part in keeping a happy, well -ordered home and that the atmosphere of a community is the atmosphere of its homes, is to -day a foundation for sub- ttantial citizenship later. To add to this a sense of responsibility toward a younger child in- one's own family or a friend's or toward animal pets, is at least to start the habit of con- sidering the interests of others, Just to keep emphasizing these two points day after day so thatthey become a part of the children's Iii,ves is no small sk 1 itself. However eager a young person may e to serve his community, his impulse wilt be dissipated or accomplish harm rather than good unless his efforts Many farmers who are using tree_ tors . are learning that plow points wear out more rapidly when propelled by the tractor than when horses pull the implement. This is due to -the fact that the tractor travels more rapidly and the increased resistance due to speed wears out the points much quicker. It therefore becomes necessary to sharpen the. plow points ` more frequently than is the case when slautliter. 1 using horses. Jette gi C are intelligent. In Maud Lindsay's 1i tale of "The Giant Energy and the Inc Fairy Skill" (an effective' story to hi read to children from five to ten) the s fairy teaches the eager, clumsy giant m to so direct his boisterous impulse to co serve, that after flays of patient effort h he is welcomed as a' helper instead of of being merely tolerated by those gen prm erous . enough to overlook his Dare-. u lessness. A ten -year-old who was Ye crocheting, a gift far her grandmother ou remarked, "Even if it isn't done welt th Grandmother will like itbe because it's my work." Iiow much more whole- hickens." Theirs 'was a home whose ght could not by any poseibility be by his father's fate; despising all these Mother Carey gives the .kevaote sacril�egg'he had committed a against Jehovah, warningsgrievous V. 23. Belrshazzer's sin was twofold:. (1) he had taken the holy vessels which were dedicated to the service at Jerusalem's temple, and used thea as wine ,cups at a drunken oarnursa;l. (2) In spite of Nelbuwchadnezzar's awful fate for failing to recognize the God of the. Jews as the only true Gad, Bel- shazzar continued to worshirp other gods. Daniel reminded him that these other gads were "mere nothings." II. The 'Interpretation of the.Hand- writing, .24,28. V. 24. Part of the hand • literally, saying to her children when they nave into the village of • Ileulaah, "We nst make it a' home; as beautiful and niplete as we tan.afford. One real Ito me' always makes othere I am sure that! We cannot be,happy, or osperons, or useful, or sniccessfui, less we can contrive to make the flow House a home, The river is. r river; the village is our village; ie people are our neighbors; Beulah longs to us, and we belong to eu�lah.:" Convenient plants. suppe=rs for tonin o