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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-5-30, Page 3.. t I e-" ..Nid'"'' w? By Agronomist, vice Thle Department Is for the use of our farm readers who want there tion of an expert on .any question regarding soil, eoed, crops, etc, If your q f 1 Is of sufficient general Interest, It will be answered through this column• stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed with your letter, a complc to enswer will be mailed to you, Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing Co„ Ltd., 73 Adelaide 8t W., Toronto, It EN. LURE �' A KITCHEN GARDEN. THE L1 Rl; UI �t 1 t- • d ac ! we hu Imeantime •'u �,• . d a n the For foto . a ,,. nus w e have lin I garden blot only 20 x 25 feet. On this grown tomato plants, each plant with smell tract of ground we have grown :a piece of paper wrapped around alai all the vegeables, except potatoes and, extending from just beneath the soil sweet corn, needed for our family of to about two inches above, as a pro three persons. Furthermore, the tection againat cut -worms, A dozen surplus garden products given away red -pepper plants --more than we would, if sold, have more than paid; needed—had been started. By the time for all the roasting ears and potatoes the first tomatoes were ripe, the gar - that we bought. The results we have; den is made up of beans, tomatoes, ebtained with our small garden can! cucumbers, peppers, and perhaps some be greatly increased where more gar late beets. Again the garden seems den space is available and there is the' full so that a visitor viewing it for spare help to take care of it, i the first time would conclude that we bast year in this little backyard , had grown no early garden. garden ^we grew lettuce, radishes,' By the time the bunch beans ure onions, peas, beets, bunch and stick: gone, the taller varieties grown beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, red Pep-; around the edge of the garden and al- pers, and celery. ! lowed to trail on the woven -wire fence Peas, to be at their best, should be are .ready for use, and continue gathered while still small and tender.' throughout praetioally the entire sea - Furthermore, the chemical changes ,'son. Beans and tomatoes make up that take place in this vegetable are the most of the lute stammer garden, more marked and more rapid than-in_but before cold weather head lettuce almost any other. There is all the' and celery are grew'ing between the difference in sweetness and in flavor: row, of tomatoes: Celery, as every between peas that Have been off the experienced gardener knows, heads wine from twenty-four to forty-eight best in cool weather only, the growth hours when compared with those gath- }fere being made principally in Sep- ered in the forenoon and served at temben the midday meal. Su we say that While we enjoy growing all vege- for one who really cares for peas the teble.s for which we find room, toma- best way to hate theta is to grow, toes afford us our greatest pleasure them, and largest profits, In growing peas we have not found For tomatoes the most satisfactory the strictly dwarf varieties 'Best. I Stake that we have ever tried con - Personally n • ,amt •e refer the 1 . Personally we P 1 sists of two pieces split from heavy kinds, as they require less roma and I boards, such as are used in shipping yield more abundantly, If bits of boxes. One piece is sharpened and brush are not available for sticks, a P feu short kindling pieces may be this nailed to another. Two 4 -foot drivel into the ground on each side Pieces will give a 7 -foot stake, allow- s£ the rows about l3 or 10 feet spa^t, ing one foot for lap. The shoulder, Binder twine or ootid of any kind may, 'formed where the pieces are nailed to- titan be strung on those, a round be.'gether, affords an excellent place on ing added from time to time as the which to hammer when the stakes are being set. We keep all suckers pick - vines gain in height. !ed off the tomato vines, allowing only Our little garden spat was not ata" one or two main central stems. Dur- ing the growing season the vines should be Pone over, suckered, and tied up every few days. Cloth strings 1—from rags of any kind—should be used so as not to cut or otherwise in- jure the vines. after having spread s In the autumn 30 wheel -barrow loads of well -rotted stable m.•tour • thesurface, the e swat t entire garden patch was spaded good and deep. This fall clean-up and spading of the soil of the entire garden are of much importance for several reasons. The turning over and mixing of the soil and manure allows the rain and melting snow to fill the kubsoil with !moisture, the plant food in the ma - mare is less likely to be lost by wash- ing and leaching, and the insect pests that have hibernated in the leaves, ' rubbish, and top soil atie in great measure destroyed. Last, but not least, the lower soil stratum turned up better receives the frost action, and in consequence is in condition to be much more easily brought into good tilth in the spring. When the garden soil is handled as I have described, we find no advantage' in respading or preparing the seed are in the whole garden has been bed much in advance of planting un-' planted and that there is no room for less the spring is so dry as to en -I anything else. A little later, though, clanger the moisture supply by evapor- I rows of other vegetables are seeded ation. But should continued drying.; right in between these, just as if they weather prevail before planting time,' were not there. spading and a surface mulch check the escape of moisture. In any case, nothing is gained by trying to hurry! plants into the ground before condi- tions are favorable for their growth. From our little garden we have! averaged annually $60 worth of vege-I tables. Furthermore, we have had, vegetables of a quality such as we! could not have bought o1 the mar-! ket, Best of all, we have added to turally fertile, but a few loads of manure the first year, followed by from 20 to 30 wheel -barrow loads of stable manure each year thereafter, keep it productive. In spading it we have always gone as sleep as the spad- ing -fork tines would allow. In the soft, mellow, humus -filled soil spading en s this depth is a comparatively Y to P t ' 1 uo sail and task. Beginning with good deep tillage, the conservation of mois- ture, i • not dif- ficult. a • season, s •e even to dr tut w , y ficult. After each rainfall, and as soon es the ground was dry enough to be worked, it was stirred so as to pre- vent the formation of any crust and to provide instead a thorough dust mulch. A slight sprinkling of the garden every few clays induces a shallow root growth, and more harm than good is dole, We practice level planting exclusively, making no hills or ridges. With this method and in rich soil, rows may be only half the ordlnary distance apart. In planting the earliest vegetables ro th plan let later growths we always a to e 1 Y p g come in between, For this reason, to one unacquainted with our plan, it s when the earl let- sem that v would s a Luce, radishes, onions, beets, and peas By this time, it must be acknow- ledged, things are pretty badly crowd- ed, In our little garden we have lia.d 20 rows of vegetables all at once, with double plantings, such as tome- toes, set in the radish rows. Neces- sarily, this condition made even hoe- ing difficult, so that most of the work of cultivating, for the time being, was done by using a hand weeder and spading fork, Soon, though, the rows our health and happiness while doing, of radishes, early peas, lettuce and our hit in 'food production and con onions—ten in all—were removed, servation, Have a. Bird Sanctuary. It is patriotic to save the birds. Birds eat; insects. Insects destroy about $1,300,000,000 worth of grain, built, vegetables, and trees every year. Now the birds can save all that money but they can help to save a big portion of it. In the great scheme of nature, birds were created to ]seep the insects in cheek, They can do it and do it well. But much mismanagement, lack of • foresight and many other reasons, we have wiped out nearly ninety per cent. of our bird life, Now, it's up to us to use all means possible to bring back the right balance of bird life, When ,you destroy the balance of anything, something happens. The balance of: bird life has been upset; that's one of the reasone why the farmers of the great potato bearing countries are compelled to pay mil- lions for materials to kill potato - Du S. Quail, rose«broaated grosbeaks ant other species coIlelder potato - A NT E IPEOCFiA r Y MlOhpet Prloerr haal Prompt ititturgs-No Commisrten PPOUAI & CU ta) BgApo0ing* Atteceiset p Wel bugs the greatest delicacy, but we haven't enough of these birds to do the work. What are the worst enemies of birds? Dian, cats, English sparrows,' teed squirrels, continued rains and late cold weather in spring, floods, ice . &tortes, rats, snake's, Cooper'e pige-' on, marsh and sharp -shinned hawks; and in some placee blue jays, crows, grackles and cowbirds, ' I How can cats be prevented from getting birds? Get rid of the cats,' or use tin funnel -shaped guards around trees and poles; able by plant- ing a Dorothy Perkins rosebush around trees which roltaitu nests, What birds walls instead of hop? 13lackbird, crow, meadow -lark, cow- bird mud ovenbird. Should bird -hooses be cleaned in the eprIng? The inmost manufeetur+l for of bird -houses anti a sincere lover of birds says, "Nor" anal , we agree ' with ]rim, Leave the houses alone. Why get mad when an idea strikes, you? It may be the leaking of you. A good emttaloupo is slightly soft wban pxeeeed with the fingers, Rua It Itis It allght fragrance. 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The stomach Is very movable, be- ing in the upper part of the abdominal cavity, extending from right to left and held In place by the food tube or gullet, and by loose brands or ligaments attached to the dia- phragm, to tate liver on the right, and the spleen on the left. letters pertaining to Health- It your be answered through these columns; If stamped, addressenvelope is en- ter individual cases or make diagnosis. of Wilson Publishing Coe 73 Adelaide Though so loosely held, it is in Motion most of the time, particul larly when fond is churned about in it, and undergoing digestion. The tissues of the stomach and its ligaments stretch &wily and, lacking the resiliency of an elastic tissue, they do not return to their normal bound- aries after a certain number of stretch ings , The stomach of a full grown adult beide one to three pints, and you can imagine how much it is distended and CUT OUT ARID FOLD ON DOTTE.D ,LINES I get my thin from my ulama, My egep aro pa's, you seal So knit them both together, and Ilse product --well, it's oto, Blesse' Be Illusions i met an 01,1 friend the ether day I lean a b .en nn, I ittdtr t stem aim, clic' wasa girl ,s•i•etw y ,il•A age, le r feet not sinee ,he loft. the eitl Matte !village e a I,rt followed by •a sitowe' of old shoe , 11 "• :Int xf,ssi ishes. s. VV' bad b, m r 1e, it at et. and t i !IMP'S, and, eenr I { new all le•r beent ht n ral,,t thent,11s SIie vtis the most oproni'ti, lardle. I've ever talked with. - - i 1 a,ow e pei•festev ht tn. Ate i tilt Ied 1 la. fully te me. here', 1 mat . e l ud in tiv sky. tee tit lik alike en every ,Ubieet aryl .lain r. su ttni,le and gnneil,tl..'. IIi.: P'eSpeet f,)q w,ahah is divine. 1 shell have noth- . ine hart. -duo :}tine, w•ithr.ot: even the shadeww of ea eleild to mar my, life." I was yeurng enoughthen iu ,lust drink ii lett, :Iand my heart was sof Itio,1 with etey 1 u;ould have conyid- er l p i oil g lier to got aloha atul .-Httlihe. only Ids eartt Were toe) hilt alOI he had a budding. mu 'settee. that th high ',heel letys tinle fun of. Life Intel v.flr tend ti le 1 ;undines sn ,tt l'.d eo,I le me and as every. OW. 1 kul•w', brn,b y, had PlentY of clouds, 1 decided to go into the hr I.•ing let.iness" re -soon :as pt-.sible. I eta 1 wits e: i• es I met detest, the •,th r dal'. "Do tell m e Inti 1 said t13 tto011 as p eiminars ere 4,inge were over, •It <c•,• you had any el ud . or has life been the perpetual etral Int hiny afrair tiles e;pteled. '•elan•, I het had e I' ud, ate i thtirMentottns and blizxurds and torrolo Was I ever iool enough to think that any eetiple .>uld live together without at- , 7119,Therie titsturiesn es? Mother says I aced to talk such twaddle, but. Iee I:newwe better se many years, I ain.twee I was born With the ku:aw- b•. • 0 1 spring rt an you, too 'Eel mo tt it." 1 eharged. "TaBced it no nee+ I got to believing that all I bad I,, ria was to get Married and all my tr+:ubles would melt away. I've had ci grudge against you fol• some • time on that wore. It watt such a • disappointment to find out matrimony • is nor a perpetual sunshine -maker." 1 Isn't blame you she laughed. ^Ise t it ridiculous the ideas young girls have? Why, I thought, front the novels I road, that after you got married you revel. lost your temper nor were selfish nor jealous, nor did any of the other provoking things that make for friction I awake with a jolt, th"ugh, before the honeymoon •v• . a cr. Why, were a crappin g over ntbether I should use a little toletu and he should dein)out o f - saucer,1 fore we to Niagara his a got t, g u itww+ left honey- - ilrtt r 1 off r our aur. •- h S m0 mtriP 1 einsisted dthat powder would spoil niv skin, and IQvowed I'd not go around with a shiny nose to , please any man. We scrapped about pretty much everything the first five years, and then we gave up trying to make one another over, and decided that as we took each other for better or worse, wad better make the best of the worst Since then we've been . tolerably comfortable, and are really overtaxed by those who eat and drink tive operation van sometimes n, (`'ginning to have a strong affectionto excess.cesshdiy done, for one another, bassed on mutual re - It is not unusual for guzzler, of Marty eases, however, are unci re_ sped. and forbearance• beer, wino, whiskey, in, etc., to drink liewed by a prnperiy adjusted belt.."I often wonder," she continued, 5 g"when I hear women moaning about several quarts at a sitting, and for. and this should be tried it, pref<rerer g I the lost happiness of their earl mar - 1 v pP o n > tali n when ilei t an e t 1 those who ai•e intemperate in eating, p rigid life, whether that are. fools or to eat far more than the proper rape- liars. I don't believe any roc le is city of the stomaeh. Ql l STIoNS AND ANSWERS P ecstati • 11 • happy at first The • 'v The kidneys and intestine: du Diet'. best to relieve such sinners, but all these organs are sooner or later in- volved in the penalties of over -eating. and drinking. Continued abuse of the stomach must ultimately result in persistent n b J. K Am weak and pot able i 1 1 • adjusting .in •• to • h done. my housework well. Get very short • tau much r J 1 t e cl u It's only after you get to know that you of breath and my heart beats rapidly. I feel better when I can lie down and must expect to give and talcs, and tale a rest. Please tell me what is trot to expect divinity in common, ww Tong with nu,, yellow, teeThe clay, that you begin to be hap- womenwho insist they were Answer --DIY opinion we": Le drat, happy at first but hate lost their hap - t• l dilatation, the organ loses its natural You ate. iymg to catty , n„get pines. have either forgotten the ear - shape, emtatunt fermentation seed t, load than you are able to t trey, If 1 g` you rouid get :+ re.t for a fes wv„olcs, ly days, or they are so much more formation balloon it into a great bag• miserable now that their first state having• somobady de Sour work fvr and it enrroavhes upon neighboring seems happiness by comparison. you. and just play and sterlw fol• a organs and causes unlimited discern- Something is wrong, though, if time, I think you will get c new. ,tart. fort. t should be glad to h. it tt you are you don't keep getting happier. And From dilatation to relaxation of the site to do fits. in many eases fife complaining panty loose supporting bands of the stomach, - , ' would find the trouble at home if he is bWatt a step. ,stopped to search for it. .For I've. heat the handy begin to give way, Destroy The Cutworms. noticed that the one who does the there is nothing to bring them back Early though the season is, the in-' talking is usually the one who is in to their normal state, sect world is already "on the ,doh.” the wrong. I am happier every year; Thi. more they are pulled, the more Cutworms destroy thousands of dol-, in spite of the clouds which still show they stretch, and the le able they lara' worth of vegetable craps every indeed. b believe I'm happier be • Become to sustain the ower -distended years. Gardeners must aid iu the cause of them, for each ono shows me and over -weighted stomach. i eampaign to save the crops by de-' something new. I used to think it was Then the latter drops, sometimes : stroyhlg these pests. Watch for their a pity girls could not see thing, horizontally and sometimes bow or appearance as they are already at • straight before they married, tint T stern, first, the intestines can offer work. They cut through the stems' don't now, though. If I had fore little resistance, and in time the' of the young beans and tomato plants'' seen the stormy time I was gouts; tar stomach distends and drops until it at the ground line during the night • have at first I wouldn't have had the '.taches the pelvis. ' ane leave the young plant dying on' courage to take the plunge: do I Others who suffer with falling of lite ground. Investigation ire thegae,s, for the good of the human tae* the stomach are the people of lax loose soil twill generally discover the it is better to have youthful ilio fibre, who have little muscular miscreant a few inchee- away. half ail 'sionr."-••-_Tl, IL strene* to begin with, and who have inch tar so below the surface, when he been overpowered by hard work or can he summarily squashed. They improper fond. !can be killed wholesale by scattering. Included in this group, arc hard- along tilt row,pot ]lied twit row u working women burdened with the follows: Bran 20 ll ;., cheap molasses ' tate of familks, among the poor and, 1 quart.: Paris isle nal. white areetie, neglected, ;half a pound water tont 3 It, recently has this conlhtiot' gallon,. Mix the bran and Palls been accurately recognized, only re -!green tan' white arseniel Ihwnu lily eenily have the stomach and its ills- in a wash tub ww•hdle dry, Di,„,iwe the. orders formed a groui• ed dixeases for nto.a„es in aha• water rod twat 1hr careful int estign ti On Ibran and poison with the .darn til The X-ray, and andaminal surgery, rieg well so ::s to damp,e be Ie.sie have illuminated the subject, •and though we are far from getting tting ideal, thor4nl,y, results in the treatment of many stunt 1 iV ur time tool: Soak &teases, we have certainly made � groat tains and will gain tnuelt more, I An excellent war -tithe cant, hookl Seine of the eymptotns of felling. of I hae been issued by the Women's In, the stomaeh are general discomfort, stitutes of Ontario and a opics may be i want of smhition for ordinary duties.' secured by Writing id the Ontario De• constipation and poor nuirdtinn, pertinent of Agrioniture for (limiter ilio t•c t t y 1 SIP `.11 No 11 Varions ways and means of tea tno1: ma ac e tea snr• gieal, or instrumental.(staving and substituting vire suggest:� If the abdomen is opened, u reparaded. It is reor po ioy<to ha -w Plugnc for British Mourners. ••11e Pied for Freedom and Bettor i, the inscription on the income—IA plaque or medal in bronze which we ltd be given to the nest of kin of earl., man of Great Brilu n's 1.141.e., lute Callen in the war. The eined sold dignified deeign of the r shows Brittutnra, w it'll her lion - teudant, holding a wreath of loe! above the field or pastel eurlo..ile., or name of the dead here, Fedi ooted will be cusi with the medal, E d tel Preston, of Liverpool, rerpool, •; ,•r err i,;, t:{w'e1w tillknown sculptor, \w`rt 1,1,- 10,250 prize olreeed far th ,i+t, competition with more than si.o, eluding ninny soldiers at Gm :!•.ret Scarcityof material altee,sat l; welt delav the distribution of who e he tv e . irrer1 heirlooms. looms.