The Brussels Post, 1919-3-20, Page 2aita
Jri
,
Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell
The object of thi.$ department is to place at the ear -
Tice of our farm readers the uteeiee of an acknowledged
:authority en all subjects pertaining to soils and crops.
Address all questions to Professor Henry. Bell, in
Care of The Wilson Publishin Company, Limited, Toronto,
and answers will appear in this column in the order in
which they are received. When .writing kindly mention
ibis paper. As space is limited it is advisable where im-
mediate reply is necessary that a stamped and addressed
envelope be enclosed with the question, whet the answer
will be .nailed direct.
atacildi:a64
The Business of Farming.—V.made, with the object of finding what
How to know what to use --When i to use and how much. First the crops
it comes to using fertilizers the prat -I were analyzed and it was found that
tical business farmer is faced with: certain crops removed characteristic
the one great question. "How shall quantities of plantfood, as shown in
I know what to use?" This question! the following table:
is asked in various forms, one man! Now this was true of crops whe-
asks, "What do my soils need?" an -I ther grown in England, Scotland,
other, "What will pay?" United States or Canada, or in any
In our prcv,ious work we have out-, other part of the world; hence the
iined the great primary essentials chemist argued that if the soils were
which to a large extent determine the analyzed and the crops were analyz-
profit of the use of fertilizers. In- ed, that the exact amount of plant -
deed the • actuallydetermine the food to apply could be determined and
b `
profit from the crop that is grown. { proper methods outlined. However,
actual application of this scheme of
doing things did not bring satisfac-
tion, for several reasons. Some of
the most important reasons for this
discrepancy were as follows:
• (a) The mechanical condition of
soils was so variable in different
areas of similar types of soil and
these variations in mechanical con-
ditions had so much to do with the
growth of plants that the variations
in chemical analyses had very little
bearing on the situation.
The soil must be in good mechanical
condition if air is to circulate therein
and if sufficient moisture is to be
held in which plantfood can be dis-
solved so that it can be taken up by
the crop. These are nature's de-
mands. They are no humanly ime
posed regulations, but they are uni-
versally required. Moreover, for
many crops the soil must have a
sweet reaction, hence sufficient lime
must be returned to keep the soil
from becoming acid, under which con-
dition neither the free battens, nor (b) Various plantfood elements
the bacteria on the roots of the were held in different soils in clif-
legumes would thrive. ferent chemical combinations, some
In our last article we tried to make of which could be used as plantfood,
plain the nature of the essentials of while others could not. Chemical
plantfood whether found in the soil, analyses of soils did not distinguish;
manure or in fertilizers. Lack of between the available and unveil-'
this necessary information has .i at able forms in which the plantfood was'
times resulted disastrously, because; held.
the full -importance of the plantfood! It was no uncommon thing for'
which the crop needed was not real -I chemists to analyze soil samples and;
ized. It is our object to clear up this! report that the elements were found,
lack of information. , in sufficient quantities in a certain:
You will remember that nitrogen; soil to grow highly profitable crops.'
was the kind of plantfood that caused; When this chemical analysis was'
the growth of stalks and leaves of forwarded to the farmer sending ln'
plants. Phosphoric acid was the kind the sample, he was disappointed at
of plantfood which ripened the crops' times, because he knew that, although
and materially increased their root; his soil may be reported to contain
growth, while potash was the food, sufficient plantfood, it actually did
eines a's'h``' '
1t!a'ry'•✓«�. i' �~.R:t.7,�-+i.-mar—n.l.�',•r �*
•'!:"yw�a�.s...n�'. ewi,`•." "6'y^,.�• *ia.�.*''n`
7.93t6a'o° d s.�°a �G`ms`?F!S"•cid^o 2a c.�u3.
"Malting two blades grow where only one grew before"
Don't Exile h lent With Fertilizers
Let the other fellow risk his season's erop and living --you stick to the
tried and proven winner, Gunn's "Shur -Gain," New fertilizers face you
at every turn, but remember, for a completely balanced soil food made
by men with many years' experience with Canadian farm needs, you
can't beat
Fertilizers
Get your requirements in at once before It is too late, Gunn's Shur -
Gain Fertilizer's not only mean an early start for your crops, but a
steady stream of plantfood right through the growing period, meaning
strong, fuii-headed, disease -resisting growths. We have a mixture to
suit your soil and crop.
Ask your dealer about Gunn's "Shur -Gain" to -day and write us for
interesting Booklet, "Bumper Crops."
GUNNS LIMITED WEST TORONTO, ONT.
norm., 11112101MIONSIM.V•VIIONIFIVIOVVO/12(4.01.11.
WHAT YOUR CHILD UN DER SIX SHOULD EAT
First Symptoms of the Contagious Diseases of Childhood.
By Helen Johnson Keyes
(So many enquiries have been received regarding a recent announce-
ment in this column that we decided to publish this valuable information
in full for the benefit of all our readers.—Editor.)
The child between twelve and eigh- Corned beef, dried beef, game, kid -
teen months old should have five feed- ney, liver, ham, sausage stuffing.
ings daily, with about four hours be- Fried vegetables of all kinds. Cu-
tween them. To eight ounces of milk cumbers, onions, celery, radishes, let -
may be added two ounces of barley, tuce, tomatoes, beets, eggplant, corn,
wheat, arrowroot, farina, or other pineapple.
farinacious food. This should be Tea, coffee, and all alcoholic drinks,
cooked very thoroughly and then Salads, cheese, rich cake, pastry,
strained so that it is thin like a jelly preserves, jams, and candies.
which will pour. The exact amount Suggestive Menus.
for twenty-four enty-four hou rs should be made EIGHTEEN MONTHS TO TWO
up at one time, and, after it has cool- YEARS.--Breakfast:Soft boiled eggs
ed to body heat, it should be added to or cereal or scraped rare beef. Bread:
the ]Wilk and p;isteurized with it. and butter. Glass of milk. Dinner;
At the midday feeding this should Boiled rice or baked potato or broth!
be preceded by beef juice, beginning with barley or rice in it. Dread and;
with ono tablespoonful and increas- ;butter. Custard. Glass of milk.,
ing to two ounces. If the baby does Supper: Bread and milk. A table -
not like it alone, a
TWO YEARS TO SIX 'Y EARS—
Breakfast: Soft egg or cereal or a
`small amount of beefsteak cut fine.
'Butter and bread, glass of milk.
Dinner: Roasted or boiled beef, mut-
ton, -lamb, or chicken. Baked pota-
toes. One green vegetable. Tapioca,
I rice, or sago pudding or cooked fruit
pulp. Supper: Bread and milk.
First Symptoms of the Contagions
! Diseases of Childhood—Measles.
I The first symptoms of measles are
a cold in the head, red, watery eyes,
sneezing and coughing, white spots
on the inside of the cheeks, dullness,
'headache, backache, sleepiness.
The rash usually appears about
the fourth day, first behind the ears,
on the neck, or at the roots of the
hair on the forehead.
Measles is very contagious from
the onset of the symptoms for about
three weeks.
It develops from eleven to fourteen
days after exposure.
It is often followed by broncho-
pneumonia, an exceedingly dangerous
complication. Deafness, eye weak
ness, throat trouble, severe Warn -
;mations of the intestines, and tuber-
culosis of the lungs or of the bones
are some of the dreaded after-effects
of this disease—to which at one time
,parents actually exposed their
children.
It is specially contagious between
the ages of six months and eighteen
years.
Mumps,
Pain in the jaw just below the ear
is usually an indication of humps.
Sometimes there is headache, back.
ache, vomiting, and low fever. Dry
mouth, swelling.
It is mildly contagious from the
first symptoms until about ten days
after the swelting subsides,
It develops from seventeen to.
twenty days after exposure.
In young children the disease is not,
likely to be followed by complica-
tions, although occasionally deafness
and kidney trouble" result. When'
people suffer from it after they are
eleven or twelve years old there are
serious dangers which require the!
most careful attention of a compe-
tent doctor,
It is particularly contagious be-
tween the ages of four and fourteen.
Whooping Cough.
A cough, which instead of pasting
away,incre `s f r'.
fist of three or four
weeks, when flie whoop is beard first,
is whooping cough.
It le ver cont• 'ilii from the tat
ogle m fit .
Y
for at least two months.
It develops from seven to fourteen
days after' exposure. •
Babies under two years of age are
more likely to catch this disease than
any other contagion, and for them it
is very dangerous. In the ease of
older children it is seldom fatal, but
lung troubles, convulsion, and ,in-
testinal inflammation do sometimes
follow it even with them.
The horrors of whooping cough
have beim greatly reduced by the use
of an lnnoculation against it. This
is used both as a preventive—like
small -pox vaccination ---and as a rear-
eery after the disease has started, Shu
add it cold to the spoonful
that gives strength to the trop to; not produce paying,, crops. Hence, the bottle of milk and cereal, after pas -
of cooked fruit pulp.
resist disease and materially assists idea of anyone analyzing the soil and teurization. In warming the bottle
in the laying down of starch in the! telling exactly what to apply in be sure that it is not heated above
grain or fruit. + order to get certain crop yields fell one hundred degrees, as beef juice
When the question conies up,; into disrepute, and the idea of soil becomes indigestible at higher tem -
"What fertilizer shall I use," you analysis as a final court of appeal in peratures.
should keep in mind the actual nature' order to find out what to use was set. Beef juice may be made in two
of fertilizers. There is nothing mys-I aside. ; ways:
terious or wonderful about them.1 It is sometimes hated for one who' (1) Broil very slightly a piece of
I lean steak an inch and a half thick,
then squeeze out the juice with a
meat press or old-fashioned lemon
squeezer. This will make about four
ounces of juice. Add a little salt or
celery salt, but no other seasoning.
(2) Chop finely one pound of lean
raw steak, and let it stand in eight
ounces of water in a covered dish
from six to eight hours in a cold
place. Then put the meat in a piece
of perfectly clean, coarse muslin, and
twist out the juice. Season with a
little salt or celery salt.
Once a day—preferably half an
hour before the first morning feed—
give from one to two ounces of
orange, prune, or ripe peach juice. If
the bowels are too loose, discontinue
this until they are normal.
Twice a week a soft boiled egg (3
minutes) with dried bread or un-
sweetened cracker crumbs grated in
it may be fed ,instead of beef juice.
; When the child is eighteen months
old the milk need no longer be pas-
teurized, and it should be taken from
a cup,
Three meals a day, with a glass of
milk between each, may he begun.
Cereals need not be strained, but may
be served as porridge with milk over
them—preferably no sugar. If the
teeth are well advanced, from one-
half to one tablespoonful of raw
scraped beef or mutton may be given
at the midday feeding three times a
week. Chicken or mutton broth, from
1 which all the grease has been remov-
ed, may be given on the other days.
Well baked bread which is not too
fresh may be spread with butter and
accompany each meal. The pulp of
prunes or baked apples, a tablespoon-
ful at a time, may take the place of
fruit juices.
Frain the ages of tura to six years
the child will require more end more
solid food. Milk should continue to
be the chief article of diet, however,
At least a quart a day should be,
drunk. Cream is valuable, and
should be put on cereals and baked
Potatoes or mixed with broths. Two
or Lhrure times a ween soft boiled,
poached, or soft scrambled eggs are
tweeted. Beef, rare mutton, or the
white meat of a chleknlx can be taken
once u day, but 011 no account veal or
pork (except dry, broiled bacon). Po-
tatoes may be taken baked or mash-
ed, but never fried.
Most children dislike green vege-
tables, but they are most important
in small quantities.
The only desserts allowed should
be custards, junket, rice pudding
without raisins, and home-made van -
Ole ice cream,
The evening meal should consist
only of bread and milk,
The following articles should be
forbidden children until they are six
Years old at least;
What Crops Remove From the Soil.
'field Plantfood Removed.
Crop per acre. Nitrogen Phos, Acid Potash
Wheat 20 but, 41 18 17
Corn 40 bus, 50 21 23
Clover 2 ton 83 18 88
Sugar Beets 10 ton 30 14 71
Oats 60 bus. 48 18 40
Barley 60 bus. 61 24 47
Then typical soils were analyzed and they were found to contain the
same plantfoods in the quantities shown in the following table:
Plantfood Supplies in Soils.
Plantfood.
Soil Nitrogen Phosporie Acid
Sandy Soil Low Low
Loam , .. Pair Medium to Low
Limestone Soil Medium to Low Fair
Clay Fair to Good Fair, frequently
Muck and PeatyHigh unavailable.
Low
Potash
Low
Fair
Low
Fair, frequently
unavailable.
Very Short
They are carriers of exactly the same
plantfood as is supplied 'by manure,
but in a much more concentrated
form. Complete fertilizers carry
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash,
in forms in which it will readily die -
solve and become available as plant -
food. Now, plantfood in this form is
very closely comparable to rich,
easily digested food which you feed
to youi1 stock. The reason for feed-
ing this easily digested food to the
stock is to give them a healthy, vig-
orous start in life. The same reason
to a 'large extent underlies the use
of fertilizers on crops. Fertilizers
are not stimulants, they are food.
Frequently we are asked if a man
uses fertilizers once will he always
have to do so. There is absolutely no
compulsion as to the use of fertile/ -
era any more than there is as to
matting a good livelihood. If a man
follows a business today tvirere he
can make a fair return for his ef-
forts, there IS no obligation whatever
that he shall continue that salve busi-
ness to -morrow, but the probability
is that he will do en, because lie.fnds
it profitable. This is the hails en
which to place fertilisers, If the use'
,;
r iltzt. s returns a refit no
of. £e.t 1 /none
further argument to induce their use
is necessary. If. properly used they
are just as sure to return profitable
results as is good food sure to give
strength and energy to a man as he
takes it day by day,
Within the memory of some of the
oldest Ontario farmers there was a
great cry raised regarding soil
analysis. When the theory of plant -
feeding and plantfood supplies in the
AO was first developed in Europe,
during the early part of the 19th
Century and its teachings 'began to
take root in the eastern part of the
North American eontinen't, it was
thought that ahemicai analysis would
le the great saving agent, hence
'great au -entities of Ann a;lojlrnait were
has not sted.e•d chemistry to fully
appreciate t. a importance of this
fact. Let us illustrate. Let us say a
man who is rot informed on general
farming principles buys a piece of
land in a certain moderately good
territory. He determines to- raise
meat stock. Not knowing the breeds,
he picke up a lot of calves, some of
which do fairly well, others of which
never make satisfactory beef animals.
Now he has a type of animals from
u.'hieh t i produce meat,—he has cat-
tle; but the farmer who knows, could
go to his barn and tell him that he
might foal A.re.shire or .Jersey calves
all the t ... y 'i'.l tot produce
geem mean. Hee %, ,l:•.re-J out
came., mamma a meael na:•.,nt. of
i _ f M t set•.
A . rsults
w',ul'i r=:rent.
In
t ; n
r of
the Mat
tee rigi, :,' . ,c, ',,J1 .:ere
ag'lln. t fere tl'.7: tee „part,
• Armin, e. .r,•. _,., then at eer-
.1n times o' the yr, u.•-.chanta of
all aorta, are in the t. , .it of ;ming
through their steed:norm; an'l t:,king
stock or finding ','
they heve
on hand of the vcut,w: article, .which
they sell. Now cede is good practice
and is very largely comparable to
soil surveys which our Provincial
Soil Departmentli are just getting
well under way. This gives a certain
type of valuable ,information, but
while the merchant's taking of his
annual inventory tells him what he
has on hand, it does not tell him a
thing about how many pairs of shoes
or how many hats or automobiles or
automobile parts he can sell during
the year, nor does chemical analysis
of the soil tell anything but the total
ailment of plantfood of certain kinds
which the crops can take out of the
eon,
(To be continued,)
INTERRNATIONAL LESSON
MARCH 23.
Lesson XII. Israel Warned Against
Compromise—Josh, 23; 1 to 24: 28.
Golden Text, I Cor. 15: 33.
23: 1-13. The "elders" were chiefs
or leading men of tribes and clans
who had authority both in civil mat-
ters and ,!n war. The "heads" were
the representative chiefs of family
groups or small kindred clans. The
"judges" were either the heads of
clans and tribes, or were men spec-
ially chosen for that office, as in
Exod. 18: 21-22. The "officers" were
police marshals, who preserved
order, had charge of processions and
made proclamations. e.
"He that hath fought for you." It
is a common thing, in time of war,
for each of the opposing forces to
claim that God is with them. It es
better, surely, instead of such a
claim, which might seem boastful, to
seek most earnestly and humbly to
do right and so set ourselves on
God's side, for we may be sure, what-
ever our boast or claim, that God is
for and will defend the right, The
causes of the tear which Israel wag-
ed for the possession of Canaan are
largely unknown to us. It is pro-
bably not true to say that it was an
entirely cruel and unwarranted in-
vasion of territory to which Israel
had no moral claim or right. Cer-
tainly Moses and Joshua regarded it
as the land of their fathers, promised
them by Jehovah, their God: That
they were sincere and honest in that
belief there is no doubt. If there was
an entire disregard of the rights of
the small nations which they drove
out or dispossessed, then we must ad-
mit that a serious wrong was done.;
We could not acquit of the charge of
barbarianism and cruelty those who
committed to fire and sword a whole
city with its people, as for example,!
Jericho (0: 21), and Ai (8: 26-26),�
and the fact that they thought it to
be' pleasing to God does not justify
the act in our eyes, At the same time
we must remember the custom, and
standards of conduct of that age, so
long before Christ, and their ways
of thinking, which were in so many
respects different from ours. Our 1
judgment must be reasonable and
which ease it does away with the
frightful spasms and shortens the
• course of the illness.
Scarlet Fever.
Vomiting, fever, sore throat, and
prostration are symptoms of scarlet
fever. The rash appears from twelve
to thirty-six hours after the first
symptoms—sometimes not till the
third or fifth day. It is seen first on
the neck, and spreads rapidly to the
entire body.
It is contagious from the very be-
ginning and long after the patient
has seemed to recover, sometimes
even fourteen weeks. It is a germ
which remains about the furnishings
of the sick room when there Inas been
110 disinfection, and contagion from
these has been known to occur two
years after the sickness.
It develops from two to six days
alter exposure.
It is followed by many serious com-
plications, such as inflammation of
the kidneys, rheumatism of the
joints, heart weakness, thin blood,
and bad conditions of the throat. It
is a frequent cause of deafness and
deafmutism.
It is most contagious between the
ages of one and five.
Wooden. handles should first be
moistened ;and sprinkled over with
fine, clean, dry sand and then driven
into place, and they will stay. The ef-
fect of the sand is like that of fine
teeth biting into the wood and metal
parts till both are firmly hound to-
gether. Of course, this does not ap-
ply to all wooden 'handles, but only
those in common every -day use.
N.0.
SED POTATOES
inoses, 3iebrons, Cobblers, belawares.
Green Mountains and 5ih•er Aollars.
Strict attention large or small orders,
F. L. ESTASROOKS & CO.
(Dealers in ITay, Potatoes & Produce)
SACI<VILLE, N.D.
POTATOES
60 New Varieties can positively be
grown from ono Packet of Hybri-
dized Potato Sleds. ItIvery hill will
be different. All colors, shapes and
shoe. May be 'worth e gold mina.
Don't miss tbese rarest end most
wonderful of Seeds, Packet with
Direetinno, 10a, 1 for 60e., 10 for
11.00, with our booklet, "Making the
Ga P
idea ay."
Et1166BY'B mum STOKo
bout, tS 360 noreltester St. W.
MOId'1'BB.aX., our.
t O i wi �4'ti t
IS .i T
We pay the best price for Spring
Muskrats
Send any Fre you have. You aro
assured of eatisfactian in price and
treatment. •
Ap3BRY FUR COMPANY
31$ St. Paul St, W., Montreal, Que.
ill busiaees for 30 years
it fere oe; 3rtnlr of I-tooftelaga,
St: newt.
balanced. Above all, we must reeog-
nice the sincerity, the faith, and the
really ltiglt ideals which were the in-'
spiratiolt of the leaders of Israel in
Me age. It is by such faith and ouch
ideals that progress is made possible.
"That ye turn not aside," A )sigh
standard of righteousness was set ! -_ ---
before them in their book of law, I The shell town newspaper can bo
From that they must not turn aside., made one of the largest faetors in
They will meet temptation in their the uplift of the conunmlity, In many
association with the Canaanites, andlocal towns the local paper is now
especially in their acquaintance with 1 the vital spark that keeps business
the seductive and sensuous rites of; going. It is the organ of the social
Canaanite idolatry, but they must re- life of the community and it keeps
main true to their own God. "Cleave friends from forgetting each other,
unto the Lord your God" is Joshua's 1 The local paper keeps the former
earnest and insistent command. Icitizen interested in the old home
"One man of you." Joshua knows I town even after he has moved to the
the strength of purity and fidelity. M city, Without a live local paper the
Samson lost his strength through; small town lacks one of the most
drunkenness, David through lust, I necessary agents for its welfare,
Solomon through luxury. Joshua be -I Why does the local paper appeal
to the reader? The boy in France
may tot worry over the future of the
Genntan colonies in Africa, or the
boundaries of Siberia, but he does
like to know that Bill Jones is paint-
ing his barn and that Tom Smith has
opened a new grocery on the corner.
Boost You Racal Pa
Jer
sieved that a man of Israel, true to
his God, will be strongr than a thou-
sand, and he was right.
"Snares and traps." That is ex-
actly what the intimate association
and intermarriage of Israelites with
Canaanites proved to be. The people
of Israel were ensnared in the vices The small town paper appeals to the
and idolatries of the Canaanites.) citizen of the community in the same
How often this brought trouble and manner as it appeals to the soldier.
disaster upon them may be seen in It is the story of much of the life
the book of Judges. See for example,' around home and everything that
Jud. 2: 3, 11-1b; 3: 7-8; 10: 0-8. I tells of home is very interesting to
14-16, "Not one thing hath fail- all of us.
ed." Such was the splendid testi- Confidence in the local paper 1s
atony of the old warrior about to lay, necessary if it performs the highest
down his arms and commit his soul service. "Well," says Johnson, "they
to God. Not one thing hath fared
of .all the good words of God, But had a big fight at the school meeting
just as sure as the good wh,ielr is the last week." "Is that so," responds
reward of truth and faithfulness, so,Brown, "I didn't read anything about
sure is the evil that is the penalty of it in `The Bugle,' and of it's not there
falsehood and a broken covenant. it didn't happen." Brown had faith
24: 1-28. In his second speech, is its weekly paper. A paper that
Joshua reminds the people that their can hold the confidence re its readers
ancestors "served other gods," and has a great responsibility to them,
that Jehovah had taken Abraham as the renders will take its state -
and given him this land and set him
upon a new way of faith. He recalls monis without question and act ac -
their bondage in Egypt and their; cordingly. A paper that does not
great deliverance. IIe reviews incl- enjoy the confidence of the commune
dents of their wars and victories. In'ity Wright better not be printed, even
all he shows the hand of God, IIisthough it is somewhat of a financial
loving care and His bounteous good -;success. The place of the paper in
nese. Knowing how deep-rooted are the lives of the
the tendencies to polytheism, he people in the cam-
the
again fidelity to Jehovah, and munity can be made so important
challenges them to snake once for all that the value of the influence can -
their choice between Jehovah and not be computed in money.
"the gods of the Amorites." He de -i Co-operation between the people of
claims his own choice for himself and' the town and the publisher of the
his house, and the people respond' local paper is important. There are
heartily with theirs. But Joshua' two sides to the proposition. First,
rays, ' Y e cannot serve Jehovah; for we have emphasized
Ile is a holy God; He ,is a jealous the obligation
God." IIe means that they cannot that the publisher owes the people of
divide their allegiance and theirear- the town and his duty to furnish
vice between Him and another. They them with the hest pee -Able service.
answer, "Nay, but we will serve Je- Next comes the duty of the people to
hovah."
Varicose Veins ?
t EAIt TEAS
Von -Elastic Zoned Stocking
SBNITA$i1, as they may
Ile waehe0 or boiled.
8.133-VSTA151 1., laced like
a. legging: always fits.
COr'17'OslWAL1.E, mad e
to measure; 110111 and
durable,
COOL, contains 70 P.UB-
13BR.
1,500,000 SOLD
ECONOMXCa5, coat $3.60
each, or two for the came
limb, $6,60, postpaid.
Write for Catalogue end
5e1f-Meaeuternent Blank
Corliss Limb Specialty go.
014 blew Birks 1i1da'.
meatreal,
MUSKRATS
In Big Demand
Highest Prices
Assured by
Sending to
Wageer9 Brasier
& Company
84 FRONT ST. EAST
TORONTO
Established 1907
Send a Trial Lot
Results 1,tVi11 ]Please You
-'J
our, awie:iitioisa- 'Feral earsr;:nueu
.i; "1<. Gros Saver
r
Top -Dress Fall Wheat
With. Fertilizers
I``rosts and thaws have done con-
siderabio damage to Vail Wheat ley
Leaving the soil.
,cipring top -dressing is often the
life-saver
e
A1CPi'sIlrJE"S t}R
ki li
Top -dressing with
Fertilizers
Increase in yields Obio Expert -
wont Station for a period of 2
yore was 13.2 bushels per acre. ,
per
Ontarioacre, .Agricultural College
reports au increase off 8.3 bushels
-
Make sure el your green mach and in.
crease your wheat yloldtido airing by
locdine the weak pl.nto.
IT' PA 'S TO IrOJeTSLJZJ'i
Write lar l'amrhlet Its, 1--"I••erxling tot
k+cod'.
The Son and Crop
ItHA1 )rovtz)Lt eat B 1reiau .i
of the Canadian 11erthiscr Aseociatloti
11105, TEMPLE' Rano.,'ronoNTo
the publisher of their community
paper.
The cost of publishing papers has
increased because of the increased
price of paper, ink, labor, and in fact,,
everything that goes into the menu -
facture of a paper or magazine. The
local paper depends fee' its income
{ on the business which it receives
Ifrom the community. Subscriptions
are not the biggest item in the re-
ceipts, but they must be paid. Often
a farmer with abundant funds well
!neglect the payment of a newspaper
subscription until frequent duns have
been received. He may feel that it
lie only a piece of paper and as long
as the editor prints a bunch of them
anyway the small subscription fee
from one subscriber will not worry
the 'publisher. Multiply that feeling
a few hundred times and ,!t will cause
the publisher enough worry to pos-
sibly put Mtn out of business. Pro-
bably nothing in the newspaper busi-
ness can help the editor more than
prompt payment'of subscriptions.
The merchants of a 'email town
soon learn to appreciate the value of
a live local paper. Their advertising
patronage 1s absolutely necessary to
keep the publisher In business, It is
a well known fact that a man must
advertise to improve his business as
aeon as that business reaches a stage
where he is prepared to deliver the
right hind" of goods. Honest adver-
tising in the local paper will create
confidence in the publisher of the
paper as well as improve the, busi-
ness of the advertiser. The local
merchant should do all in his power
to make the advertisement clear and
free from the slightest tinge of ei
misleading -statement. This is an
important factor in making the local
peppy,. a success. Many a customer
who has been cheated at a sale has
lost all faith in the -paper in which
he read the advor•tisement. The pub-
lisher owes ,it to himself end to the
community to refuse questionable ad-
vertising and also all copy from local
merchants who niay have disregard-
ed the troth in writing their -adver-
tisements,
The farmer is vitally interested :in
the small town paper becausesuch
a paperdepends greatly on tine_ pat-
renege of the farmers in the come
enmity. The paper keeps the farmer
to touch with all meetings of a busi-
ness or social nature which occur in
the towel. Thus the farmer c • es able
n a e
to do his part in the life of the com-
munity to a larger extent than as if
the town. had no live paper to keep
hint posted on local events.
The life of the community dee
manes that there be some method of
informing the people of what is go-
ing on. Tho local paper fills. that
place and as a real factor in the de.
velapment of a town and a .£arming
own:utility, it deserves the co -opera
tion of every fanner,
4 .�._..,
I (,mlieve 111 a spade and an acro
of good ground. Whoao cuts a
straight path to H,ie own living by the
help of God, in the so and rain and
sprouting grain, seems to me a Hair.
vernal. 'working oten.•—Bmersau,
r
v