The Exeter Times, 1923-8-30, Page 3BLOOD
13 OKIE OUT IN
and BOIL
I F
' Summer Corriplalet is opei of the
•most dangerous diseases of ohilch•ea dur-
the hot Summer mouths, and not ouly
o childrern but the old audethe young,
the etroug and tho weak are all affected
like,
The attack may be slight or it maybe
serious, but you can't tell. when it seizes
yon Whether it will end fatally or not.
Allow the profuse diarrhoea, the vomit-
ing and purging to continue for a day
or two and you will quickly become
tweak and prostrated.
Just as soon as there is a Sign, of the
bowels becoming unduly leoecued up
you should get a bottle of Di. Fowler's
Extract of Wild Strawberry and chock
these unnatural movements and thus
quiokly offeet the yomiting, purging
end diarrhoea.
• Mrs. S. Lafontaine, Great Desert,
Ont., writese--"My baby, when a year
old, was suffering, with Reininer coin -
planet, Two dootors attended him, but
nothing would stop the vomiting and
diarrhoea. A friebd told me to try Dr,
'Fowler's Eetrect of Wild Strawberry
and after the second doe the baby was
better, and 1 can say it saved my baby's
- life. I would not lee without a bottle
in the house for untold gold. • It is the
' best remedy have ever heard of for
•
sumer coneplaffit." -
Price 50o. a bottle; put up only by The
T. Milburn Co., Linaited, Toronto, Ont.
Fall Planting.
There is such a rush of work in the
spring that it is desirable to do any
planting in the fall that can be done,
with a reasonable chance of success,
in order to relieve the pressure in the
spring. Further, there are some plants
which are more likely to succeed if
planted in the fall.
The spring is, how-e'Ver, the best
time to plant trees which are above
the snowline all winter and exposed
to drying winds. They do not usually
become sufficiently established before
winter sets in" for them to take up
moisture, the result being that a dry-
ing out of the trunk begins, and by
spring the trunk has become so dry
that growth is prevented except from
the lower part which is not a satis-
factory condition sometimes; also,
trees planted in the fall are heaved up
to some extent and are then not in"
the ground:deep enough; „and they do
not do well afterwards, even suppos-
ing they lives In the mildest parts of
Canada, such as in the coast climate
of British Columbia, trees can be
planted successfully in the fall, and
in some seasons they, can be planted
quite satisfactorily in other parts of
Canada in the fall, but, taldng one
year with another, it is safer to plant
in spring.
In the case of bush fruits, such as
currants and gooseberries, which be-
gin growth early in the spring, it is
much better to plant them in the fall.
IS they can be obtained during the lat-
ter part of September that would be
the hest time to plant.
Raspberries may be planted with
about equal success in fall or spring,
but the advantage of fall planting is
that, should any of the plants die,
they can be replaced in good time in
the spring, so saving a season; where-
as if the main planting is delayed
until spring it will be too late to re-
plant that spring when it becomes
known which are dead.
If strawberries are planted in the
fall it should be early in September,
SO that they will become well rooted
before winter. It would be advisable,
however, to use pot plants and plant
in August; then one might get some
fruit the following spring. But early
in the spring is the ideal time to plant
strawberries, as the few fruits which
are obtainable from fall set plants
make planting them hardly worth
while.
Spring is the proper time to plant
ornamental trees and shrubs; al-
though, as it will not matter much if
the branches of shrubs are killed back
at first, should the fall be found more
convenient they can be planted quite
satisfactorily then. There would be
the same objection to plaiting
mental trees in the fall as with fruit
HAD A WEAK HEART
FOR TfltIEE IfEhRS
0 VERY NERVOUS
Miss ,feeeie Peterson, Zealeedia,
Seek.,writee;-"I wish to let you know
• .
ow muei nod Milburn's ilenrt and e
Nerve Pine flave done for me, '
For nearly three years I was very bad-
ly run down, had a weak heart, and was
so nervous Seat sometimes .1 would al -
meet faint away,
I heard of many Seople who had re- .
cernicemied your fleart and Nerve Mlle, I
so 1 deeided to give them a trial After ,
I had used two boxes I found (hey had
done me, good, and niter having taken ;
five boxes 1 wafi `•OrDpletely relieved. ;
cen not reeommend your Pills etough,
arid' 1 wOuld advise anymie having a,
NIttati.7 heitr t Or troubled with it (it'V011Sn CiS3
to Witt them" • •
IVIllbern'e H :S• N., Pills are 50e. a
box. at all deellere, or mailed direct on
receipt, of price by The T. Milburn CA.1
timitod, Toeonto Ont.
THE BACON 110Q IN PRESENT -f h Assume,
DAY DAIRY PARIVIING.
The prevail ng low pikes of dairy
produets make it imperative that the
dairy farmer dispose of his produce in
such o. manner that the maximum re,
turn will be ,forthcoming. Although
the cest of milk production has ma-
terially decreased within the last tvvo
years, the market for whole milk,
which has also decreased, is still in-
capable of absorbing this milk at a
figure thet will net the producer a
reasonable profit, more particularly
when the millc, in order to reach its
market, nest be shipped considerable
distances.
The dairy farmer who is so located
where he can cater to a city's whole
milk trade is in a better position to
solve the difficulty than one at a con-
siderable distance from such a market.
Under thelatter circumstances, cream
can be more profitably disposed of
than whole milk. On the other hand,
separated or skim -milk has a very
high feeding value for live stock, par-
ticularly for the feeding of hogs, and '
can be used very profitably for this
purpose.
It is frequently stated that .approxi-
mately 5 pounds of meal are required
to produce a pound of pork with hogs
finishing about 220 pounds in weight.
For hogs finishing at -180 pounds, the
meal required should not exceed 4%
pounds, while hogs around 150 pounds
should not need more than 4 pounds
of meal 'per pound of gain, these
figures being averages, when no milk
products are fed.
It has been found that the feed cost
for a ten -weeks -old pig during the
last year averaged about $3.08. As-
suming that this pig weighs 40
pounds, and in order to reach market
wdight it must gain 140 pounds, and
also assuming that this hog will con-
sume an average of 4.5 pounds of meal
per ppund of gain, this meal costing
$30 per ton, the hog will then cost
$12.53 when 180 pounds in weight.
It has been repeatedly demonstrated
that the addition of skim -milli: to a
meal ration reduces the meal consump-
tion per pound of gain. An experi-
ment recently completed at the Cen-
tral Experimental Farm demonstrated
that in a ration in which skim -milk
and meal were fed„ the feed required
to produce a pound of gain averaged
2 pounds of meal and 4.8' pounds of
skim -milk, with hogs averaging 125
pun s ,
ing that without ht1k these"' hogs
would have consumed 4 pounds of
meal for eetcli pound of gain, it may
be concluded '.hAZ the 4:.8 pounds of
skim -milk eftfected a saving of w
pounds of meal. With skin -I -milk worth
20 cents per hundred and enbal worth
$30 per ton, a pound of gam would
show a feed cost of $.'90 cents as com-
pared with 6 Cents far a etraight meal
ration, the milk thus 'effecting a- SAY-
ing of $2,04 per hundred of pork.
Another teat conducted for a Period
of 90 days with 17 Yorkshire hogs,
which averaged 170 pounds live
weight at the end of the test, showed
an average Meal consumption of 2.5
pounds and a milk consmnption of 4,87
pounds per pound of, gain. Comparing
these feeds on the same cost basis;eit
is found that these gains would cost
4.72 cents per pound of -gain as com-
pared with 6,75 cents for a straight
meal ration. The hogs on this test
were about three months of age when
placed on the test, while in the former
test the 'hogs were fully a month
younger.
A further test with Berkshire hogs
(5) fed from weaning to the tirne they
attained 175 pounds in weight -a per-
iod of 153 days -showed an average
feed constenption of 1.6 pounds of
meal and 5.4 pounds of milk per pound
of gain, this ration costing 3.5 cents
per pound of gain, which is exception-
ally low.
It may be deduced from these tests
that milk products lower meal con-
sumption- that when fed to bacon type
hogs, milk products ensure a select
finished product, other things being
equal, and that, particularly for
young pigs, milk products are in-
valuable.
While these tests are valuable'es an
indication of what can be done with
skim -milk and milk products in the
production of bacon, the sure criterion
of profit lies in the ability of the sow
to farrow and raise a large number of
pigs to six or eight weeks of age.
The utilization of dairy products for
such a purpose would seem to offer a
practical solution for the marketing
of these products as well as deflecting
the whole Milk into another channel,
and thereby permitting of further de-
velopment cif the dairyindustry
with-
aut fear of the Markets bedoming con-
gested and resulting in a still further
drop in prices.
trees. Conifer S should not be plantedl
in the fall.
Roses may be planted quite succees-
fully in the fall, but, considering the
fact that so many rosebushes are kill-
ed outright each winter, especially in
Eastern Canada, it seems scarcely
worth while to buy plants and then
to take this risk of losing them. It is
important, however, to have rose
plants on hand to set out at the first
'opportnnity in spring, in order that
they might be well established before
hot weather.
The fall is the best time to plant
most herbaceous perennials, and the
earlier these can be set out after the
soil is likely to remain moist, the
stronger plants they will make and
the greater display of bloom there
should be from them the following
season.
The paeony should be planted in
September if possible.
Getting Rid of the Loafing
Hen.
I3Y C. S. PLATT.
In every flock, regardless of the age
of the birds, there are some each year
that quit laying during the summer,
and will not begin until late the next
winter. These hens can never make up
the loss completely, and the good man-
ager weeds them met as soon as they
become unprofitable.
Several years ago I attended a poul-
try demonstration on culling. That
evening I piked over my eighty-six
hens and took out twenty-six that I
thought were through laying for the
season. This was in the latter part
of August. Inasmuch as I was a little
skeptical, I placed these twenty-six
birds in another coop and kept them
for a month longer.
I got more eggs by citing -During
August I had received sixty-one dozen •
AND NOT HAVE
profit to the simple fact that I had
not been feeding loafers.
In order to get the best results from
culling, start about July 1. At that
time all hens that are molting, and all
that show yellow legs (the latter ap-
plies more to the Leghorns than it
does to American breeds. -Editor)
should be carefully picked out and ex-
amined to see whether or not they
are laying.
How to pick out loafers -To deter-
mine this, note the distance between
the pelvic bones and the condition of
the vent. The pelvic bones lie on each
side of the vent, and a hen in high
production •naturally spreads these
apart. The best means of measuring
the distance is by using the fingers.
If two or more fingers can be placed
side by side between these bones thel
i
bird is probably still, laying. if in
doubt, examine the vent, The, vent
of a laying bird is large, white and,
moist, while that of a non -layer is yel-
low, small, dry and wrinkled.
In all culling work the age of the,
bird should not be considered. Any
bird that is layingein November can
be profitably kept over the winter, re-
gardless of her age.
One should have very little trouble
in judging his flock on the above-
mentioned points. All non -layers
should be sold immediately, and if this
culling is done once a month, from,
July 1 to October 1, the poor birds will
be practically weeded out. The re-
maining birds will be profitable birds
for anather year.
susVso.f 8N-1a0z.aWreltiho..aritt thou s J. e.su/sawinhod-see-
moreover that he enjoyed the privi-
-
Mies Ireee A. Matthews, Stayner,
'Ont., eviitee:-"S thought I would
write and tell yoe of the experience and
beatifit I have derived from Burdock
Blood Bitters. • .
•• Some few months ago I was troubled,
with-bad:blood which larolce out on my
face, in the nature of pimples, bells and
di'idign'IovatrinleWandevhilitgtootd5oa, bad "allY
•,was.,aahamed, to go anywhere, an,d
the itelnag, 'and burning caused such a
• terrible eenzatiOn I could get no relief
day or night, •
011S -d'43? a friend advised me to uee
Berclaak' Blood' Bitters treed one
ebottlrxd f alt quite a rehei, and by the
,eime-I•lia&taken 3 bottles I was com-
pletelyeelieved. ,
I. cermet', praise B.13.13, enough and
hopeeanyone afflicted. like I was will
get- theesame benefit I received."
,Burdeek .131eod Bit,ters is mannfee-
terech oely- by The T. Milburn Co,
• Limeted: ,ror,outo, Ont. ,
"
HOGS
• I have never seen a more practical,
effective, and at the same time econ-
omical farrowing outfit, especially for
the hog raiser who has ,not more than
a dozen or fifteen sows than that used
by a young Hampshire breed& in
Indiane,
A dozen individual houses; a strip
of concrete 12 feet wide and 70 -odd
;feet 'long, and panels is all there', is
to .it, • The total cost was less than
$300.
For sthe spring farrowing season
;the hauses are arranged end to end
along the noeth side of the strip of
conceete. There is no projection to
the roof at the ends of the housee.
They cen be butted riglit up againet
each. other.
Straw and manure are piled up
along the north: side, making a snug,
warm place for the sowe and pigs on
cold March days. •
The houses are rectangular, with
gable roof, the long slope to the back
of the houise and a shorter, sleeper erre
to the front.
Both front and rear sections of the
roof can be lifted, It is convenient to
work around: the SoWs at farrowing
time, and the .sun shines into the
lionses on the nice days.
After the louses eire placed along
the concrete; the panels are set up,
dividing 'the strip of concrete into
twelve open lots that are 6x12 feet
The panels are held in place by slip-
ping them between the houses, and
tacking each panel to the house to prii-
vent the sows from working it out.
The other ends are fastened with the
farmer's friend -baling wire.
"I used different outfits for farrow-
ing quarters, bit this is the best one
of all," Said Mr, Gardner, "I had 12
sows that farrowed 110 pigs last
spring, and 1 still have 95 pigs, al-
though the pigs came in early March,
when the weather was cold and rainy.
"It is easy to keep this outfit clean
and sanitary. The only part of it
„can t move to the fields for the fall
farrowing season is the concrete. I
move the houses out to fresh pastures
in the spring, as soon as the pigs get
a good start.'
• Politics and public good ought to be
synonymous, but too often they are
opposites.
e Sunday School Lesson
SEPTEMBER 2
Pa.id the Apostle. Acts 7: 54 to 8: 3; 9: 1-31; 11: 25-30;
.13 to 28- Phil. 3:4-14. Golden Text -I press on to-
ward the mark for the pr ize of the high calling of God
• in Christ Jesus. -Phil. 3: 14.
LEsSeN rorcivoae-This, week we of Christ. The knowledge of which
study the life of Paul. Paul is, after -Paul speaks is .the knowledge of the
Christgthe most conspiciums figure in , heart rather than that of the mind.
the ,New Testament. ,It wee the great; Count . . but dung. Paul does not
achievement of Paul to lead Christian -I seek to strike a balance between his
ity eto •a• world-wide adventure. Paul losses for Christ and his gains in
was ledby his experiences to so under- • Christ. His Josses are not worth count -
stand Christ as to see that he was the ing. They are like things cast on the
rubbish pile.
Vs.. 9-11. Be found in him, . . right-
•
eousness which, is of God. At death,
Paul wishes to ;posseSs, not the right-
eousness which comes through seek-
.
ine to keep the law in one's own
2: 3 6-10strength, but the righteousness which
comes through the power of God in his
V. 8. / am verity a man . . a Jew. heart, for which power faith opens the
Paul -speaks these words in Jerusalem,
door of the heart. Know him . . corn-
corne for the fifth and
eformab/e unto his death, . . attain
last time, after the third Missionary
!unto the resurrection. Paul desires to
journey. Friends in Ephesus, Tyre;
share in the sufferings of Christ, so
and Caesaree had tried to dissuade that his death would conform in spirit
to Christ's death and that so in turn
he might share in the power of
Christ's resurrection.
Vs. 12-14. Not as though I had al -
temple by taking Gentiles into it, stir-
ready attained. Paul has net yet
red the people to violence against him,
reached all his desires. I follow after
. .
from whom Paul was rescued by the that I may apprehend; but he
Roman soldiers. Paul speaks hie seeks to attain what has not yet been
words of defence from the stairs of attained. He seeks to lay hold on it
the castle. His first words declare as a prize, just as Christ had laid hold
that he is a Jew, for he had been mis-
on him for this end. One thing . .
taken by some for a foreign desper- forgetting . . reaching forth . . press
ado, Acts 21: 38. Born in Tarsus. toward the mark. A high call has
Tarsus was the capital city of Cilicia come to Paul from God, through
in Asia Minor, a great commercial
Christ. To answer his call is the su-
and university centre. It was part of Preme desire of Paul. So, like a
runner in the race, he never looks
Paul's training, as apostle of the Gen -
back nor thinks back, but thinks only
.
• tiles, that he had lived in a great Gen-
.
e y. Brouqht up . . at the feet
of Gamaliel. At the fitting age, he
had come to Jerusalem to be educated
by the great Gamaliel. We get a
glimpse of Garnaliel in Acts 5: 34.
Taught according to the perfect man-
ner; and therefore was not likely to
be guilty of doing dishonor to the
Temple.
le6., 7. It carne to pass, that, as
I made my journey: Paul, having de-
clared himself a Jew, now proceeds to
tell how he became a Christian on the
way to Damascus as a persecutor.
There shone . . a great light. Even
at noon, when the sun was at its
height, this greater light came. Heard
a voice. The original words make it
clear that Paul heard words, while
his companions heard only a sound
without hearing the words. Saul, Saul.
They were words, not of anger, but of
loving reproach. ,
light�f the world, and to so under-
stand the world as :to see that its
deepest teed was for that light. His
Whole' life was 'dedicated to bringiag
Christ:, and the world together. '
. •
L 110,w PATJL FOUNDc1-IRIsT, ACTs
him from this • journey, while Agabus,
the prophet, had said his going would
mean imprisonment to him, Acts 21:
11. But Paul would not be persuaded.
A false charge of having polluted the
of the goal to be reached and the prize
to be won. These words show the
dauntless spirit and quenchless hope
of Paul. He is Paul the aged and
Paul the prisoner. But his spirit is
as eager as ever in the service of his
Master.
APPLICATION.
Paul, the Tarsian. The pre -Chris-
tian days of Paul are full of interest
for us. No man leaves all his past
behind him. The interests of the
earlier period have a modifying effect
on all subsequent experience. Paul,
the Christian apostle, seems, and is,
a very different person from Paul, the
Pharisee; and yet it is possible to un-
duly minimize'the things that are com-
mon to both ptriods. We can be sure
that it was not only as a Christian
missionary, under obligation to de-
fend himself, that lie was glad and
proud to remember and tell of his
status as a citizen of Tarsus, and
SIGHTS AT EXHIBITION
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Soortil Building, or send for Catalogue. •
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•
Messiahship and resurrection 13aul had
denied. Whom thou per,secutest. The Age again, neentaear emancipa_
leges and immunities of a Roman citi-
persecution of the disciples of Jesus
tion of thought there waS when lie
was a- persecu roe 0 esus miss • 'neard the Gospel mid learned the truth,
Ot s N ce 'To Eat
.W1 t hall'l "clo? These are -the word
ta, s
s of Christ, here can be no doubt that
7 ' of surrender. His proud -will has been weee he earlier learned at the feet a
Anything You Like
eggs from- the eighty-six hens, or
about eig•lit eggs per bird. During
September I -received forty-two dozen
from my sixty good, birds, et. again
about eight eggs per hen. From my
twenty-six culled I received four dozen
eggs, -oe'-less that: two eggs per bird,
in September, and I noticed that these
were laid by only a few individuals.
I was so impressed by the practical
possibilities of the proposition that I
resolved then and there to practice
61101'014h culling the next year, which
I did. ,
i'mfits per bird increased -My flock
the next year eonsisted ol' over 800
birds, lied my summer egg pieduction
wee increased a.pproXimately 15 per '
lent. per individual. My profits, per:
hird, from June to November', emourite
esi to srety cents more per bird than '
they had even been before, and as the
priers were about the same dering,
that season as they had been nrovious-1
Iv gave all credit for the incree,se in)
,0 t th 7
In the 'case of heartburn there is a
mewing and burning pain in the stom-
ach atterided by a disturbed, appetite,
aaused by the ger:tend acidit,yaris when
reo much food is taken it is liable to
ferment and become extremely sour,
vomiting occurs, and what is thrown up
Is sometimes sour and bitter. •
Mr. Joseph II. MacDonald, Christ-
• mas Island, N.S., writes:--" Two years
ago I suffered all the time from heart-
burn. I took one vial of Milburn's Laxa-
Liver Pills and heve never beep troubled
since.
It is very nice to be able to eat any- I
thing you like and not have heartburn i
;
any more I
•
,Milburn's Laxa-Liver are 25a a'
vial at all dealers, or mailed direet on
receipt of price byT1ie 'TS Milburn Go., 1
Limited, Torento, Ont.
broken by love. His hard heart has ee reat R bbi G 1' 1 '
been melted. Go into Damascus .
• his doctrine.
It shall be told the. The persecutor
,
Paulthe Chiiwa
stian. Paul s al
enters Dareastus led by the hand. great ch,ri.atiart Everything else
II. Ito w PatiP sERvED cgRisT, ePdS/Ihseis ntolinhanteiv:e Theiact.lovCehoristfChwraisst everything
ie coiinum,til:ses jostIn:a. r7k-14h. d i•eceiv
seems subordinate' to this great deter -
1 d 1 urged and impelled him to. all
. a
Vs. 7, 8.,T1 s passage ie.taken from that heroic missionary life of piiva-
a letter written by Pauli a prisoner in tion Sind peril.
11
orne, o eCh rist ' i in n Paul -has no honor and no friend but
acknoevledeseent of their kindness in Christ. Christ was to him both Sav-
sending a gift to him. Among other Jour. and Lord. "I live; yet not I; but
things he werns them against teachers Cluest liveth in me: and the life which
who .would make Judaisin greeter I eoef live in the flesh I live by the
than Christiaaity. What, things were faith of the Son of God, who loved me,
gain . • counte,d loss. As a Jew, Paul and gave himself for me." Gal. 2: 20.
had all these things which the false "For to me to live is Christ." Phil 1.
teaehers eounted important -he Was 21. In his lettere he likes to' introduce
a Hebrew of the Hebrews, a Pharieee, himself as the servant,the slave of
he was zealous unto Persecution, he Jesus Cliriet. In all this he is an in_
was blameless in his observance of seizing example to modern Christians.
the law; but when he earne to Christ,' Personal loyalty to Christ -this was
all these things, on which he prided the outstanding fact in Paul's life,
hiniself, were as nothing. All things (See 2 Cor. 5; 140.5.) It may be that
. . loss; not only the things of his sometimes this important aspect of
pest, li-Ce, but anything in his present Christian life has degenerated, and
life in which he might glory, wore also become too sentimental, but in the
counted lees. For the excellency of manly, wholesome, reverent, passion -
the Snore/edge of Christ; for the see ate devetioe of Paul is to be faired the
premo worth of all these things that secret of hisenarvelous power and the
h h d leturned in Chin t d
e a s an learnedchutes reat need to 1
Beauty is only skin deep -
Keep the skin clean, fresh and
beautiful with Lifebuoy.
The smooth creamy lather of
Lifebuoy wakens up the skin.
Lifebuoy, makes soft white
hands -to
Fresh, wholesome bodies.
Lifebuoy's health
odour is delightful.
THE LAWN --- A FOUNDATION
FOR THE LANDSCAPE SCHEME
By F. H. Presa.nt, Department of Horticulture, Ontario Agricultural College
No other part of a landscape and strengthen the growth of the de -
scheme is so much a feature as the sirable grasses while tending to keep
lawn. It is the foundation, as it were, down weeds.
upon which the scheme is built and its Once the lawn is established, it must
importance is first, last and always. still be cared for and to properly
However well executed the rest of the maintain it -the 'following things rnust
plan may be, unless the lawn is well all be considered:
made, well cared for and well arrang- 1. Weeding -A weedy lawn le un -
ed the whole scheme loses some of its 'desirable; dainielions and plantains
effectiveness, often too much.
Good lawns do not just happen;
they are made and developed and yet
with very little trouble often they can
be brought about. Where horseqeower
are usually the most troublesorse
weeds. Beth may he spudded out, or
for dandelions an effective treatment
has proven to be a 25 per cent. sole: -
dada *terisron sulphate applied in three
and farm implements are available applications during August or Septeme
lawn -making can be easily handled by ber. The grass does not appear to be
just applying the same principles as injtired and the dandelions are very
would be used in making a small lawn noticeably -reduced.
by hand work.
Drainage is necessary but in many
cases is cared for by the natural slope
of the ground or the type of soil, for
usually the house site has been chosen
on well -drained land. Preparation of
the land by plowing, harrowing, grad-
ing and rolling, etc., follows. And to fill in any weak spots and to
here a point should be strongly em- steengthen the whole lawn surface.
phasized: It is that care must be 3. tTse of Manure and Fertilizer -
taken to remove all stones, sticks and After a dry summer it is often par.
rubbish before preparation is coin- ticularly desirable to use an applica-
pleted. In regard to grading, where tion of manure in the fall. The best
the lawn is large and not desired per- form to apply this dressing is as corn-
fectlY level, the natural contours of post or very well -rotted, short manure.
the land may be followed more or less. Weed seeds are to a great extent
Long, swelling, easy lines of grade are eliminated, the appearance is not so
desired where space admits, although unsightly and it is not hard to clean
in general a level effect is maintained. up in the spring after such a dressing.
When the grading has been accom- • In the spring, frequently, about 100
plished and the seed bed put in the lbs. of nitrate of soda per acre is used
very finest possible condition -by culti- just when growth is first starting.
vation and, if the land should be poor, This may be followed in two weeks
10 to 15 tons per acre of well -rotted by another application and a month
manure plowed under or a good le- later by a third. But if for the sec-
gurninous cover crop plowed in will end application, or it rnight be corn -
help bring this about, it is ready for bined with the first, some such fertil-
izer as tankage or fish meal were used
it would come into availability over a
always a variety of opinion expressed. 1 long period and as the grass plants
Almost any time would be all right, needed it.
provided the proper conditions of 4. Rolling -At least each spring
moisture and temperature could be ob- rolling should be practiced, when the
tabled. The spring offers the best igreorunadlsois,
suni
s
time for this temperature -moisture u 11
relation and is usually tho best time rgoriubusg duringareboh
bothering summerngtliegwith
grass roots
toeo sow lawn grass seed. Success ili;
often attained through summer or fall heavy roller on moist ground tend to
seeding or sowing just before the first control this pest to quite an extent..
5. Watering-Facilitiea for water-
ing are often not available but during
very dry seasons if the lawn could
have just a very few good soakings
It would be able to come through the
make your own mixture. Remember
season in good shape and to do this
even under difficulties would often
that those grasses with underground
stems are best as they Spread quickly, 4,P;aY f°1- one who appreciates a beau -
are tenacious and succeed on a great -I'll lawn'
variety of soils, Of these, Red Top
(Agrostis alba) and Kentucky Blue
(Pon pratensis) are about the best for ,
general purposes. The following mix-
ture, including English Rye Grass
which lends quality, and White Clover
-the latter may or may not be used
according to your own desire ---3 re-
commended. • Amount per acre: Kee-
tuck3r 13111e Grass, 80 Base Red Top
Grass, 20 lbs.; English Rye Grass, 10
lbs.; White Clover, 2 lbs. After sow-
ing, tho grass seed should be lightly
covered. In the case of smell lawns a
fine-toothed relce is very effective for
this. Rolling after seeding is a de-
batable point, let your awn farming
practices guide you le this matter. •
'When the grass has reached 4 to 5
inches in height it should be cut with
a scythe, If a lawn mower is used
It must be voi-y tharp. Weekly cut-
tings in moist darep weather Should
follow, as frequent cuttings thickeid
2. Renewal of Bare Spots and Re-
seeding -If bare spots should occur on
the lawn fill them in with good fertile
soil and re -seed. Likewise it is often
necessary and desirable to apply new
seed at intervals over the whole lawn,
giving a crop of new and fresh plants
seeding.
Now, as to time of seeding, there is
snow in the fall. Careful work is
needed in sowing the seed so as to get
an even and sufficient distribution of
the seed.
For a good lawn grass seed you can
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