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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-6-16, Page 6Llerzea4'� et. CONDUCTED BY PROF, HENRY 0. BELL Tho object of this department le to place et the eer, Woe of our farm 'rattlers the advice of en acknowledged authority on all subjects pertaining to nolle and crops. Addrps's all questions to. Profeaeor Henry G. Beti, In are of The Wilson Publishing Company, limited, Toron- to, and answers will appear in thie co umn In the order' In which they aro received, When writing kindly men.' tion rile paper. Aa apace is limited it Is advisable where Immediate reply le necessary that a stamped and ad- dressed envelope be enclosed with the question, wl€eo the answer will be moiled direct. . Copyright by Wiloon P ublishing Co., Limited II, A.: Would sweet clover have a tendency to erode:ate milk -weed and quack grass'? How long after planting before u crop -can be cut for hay under normal conditions? How early should it be sown, and how muck seed per aero? Answer: Sweet clover makes very rapid. and close growth. I do not know that It will eradicate mills -weed and quack grace, but it will at least weaken those weeds, and make their extermination easier. There are two kinds of sweet elover —the annual and biennial. The annual clover, if planted early in spring, pro- duces a good forage prop by the mid- dle of July, which in many instances Buts from 1 to 11, tons to the acre. The biennial clover produces a heavier growth the second year, but should not be cut short the first autumn. As a per cent ammonia, a per cent. phos - pale 10 to 15 Iia. should be seeded per phorie acid, and 6 per cent. potash aere to get a good catch. should be used. This appears to be the R. K.: I have a field of biennialtype of sail on which your corn has white sweet clover seeded in nate last been growing. Therefore, we would year. Can 1 cut it for hay, then let advise adding at least 400 lbs. of the it grow up again and cut it for seed? above fertilizer per acre. What time shall I cut it so are to give B. H.: I plaited raspberry bushes it time to go to seed? this spring in gravelly soil, using Answer: Biennial clover seeded Iast sheep manure as fertilizer. Can you year should make a good cutting of give me directions as to the best care bay by mid -summer of this year. If this season? tut early it will make a second growth Answer: The raspberry bushes wbieh will flower, but if you ere grow- should receive cultivation sufficiently Ing it for reed. do not rut it for hay often to keep down weeds and to pre- fixed if you with to get the inmost serve the moisture in the soil. Ah"ut' yield of seed. the middle of July we would advise W. F.: World like et -re information edding 300 lbs. of bone -meal per acre in regard to fertilizers_ Jur septi. I distributed between the rows of canes have been told that acid phosphate) and worked in by cultivation. alone was all right. This field has been in corn for the past two years and I have planted it to corn again. this spring. The land is a mixture of sand, clay and gravel. It is heavy beech and maple land, but badly run. down. What is the amount and kind of fertilizer to use? Answer: The fertilizer to be added to corn depends very largely upon the soil upon which the corn is: grown, If the soil is a rich loam which has re- ceived considerable manure, acid phos- phate is probably the only fertilizer that need be added. If the soil is pure clay wh4eh has not received manure for some time you should add from 200 to 400 lbs. per acre of a fertilizer carrying 3 to 5 per cent. ammonia, 10 to 12 per cent, phosphoric acid. If the soil Is sandy or ,gravelly a complete fertilizer analyzing approximately 4 %'. A little fly ,tope ro spray en caws saves them a lot of pestering. But it is even eif great".• value 10 the dairy- man and his hired man. Their morale en hot summer nights it over jemmy - eel by being keikeel and :itched by fly.bitten cows. One cow with a tail eke a bundle of wire can make i nriiker extremely disgust 3 with life. The eow.o need sait it 1 i.a summer as well as any season a•,d the large saltblocks are very handy to have in the lane or pasters. It gives c;ery cow a chance each -day to rbtani some emit and -the biceks Bio not break up easily so that hits of salt ran be pick- ed up by you/try. Sometimes dealers do not lila to handle dairy • butter in crocks b :, pee- ler - u e fer the pound packages of uniform quality put up in neat wrapping paper. Then there are no .•rocks to return and they do not have butter of various shades anal some eroeks whioh are too salty and others not salty enough When the producer has a local trade with private customers it is soon pea- u Pack up your Iot and ship to us. We do the rest—fair grading— highest prices --spot cash pay- ment. Try us. WM. STONE SONS, LIMITED EtwelemcgionsmitMANNINSWESCIEREr CO XX W000STOCK, ONTARIO Established 1870 ' Baby Chicks Ilathurt breeders are the large, early- maturing, trap -nested, hred-to-lay See. . White Leghoree. They are prolific winter layers because they are Canadian and acclimatized to our severe win - tem. For June delivery: 100 chicks, $20; 50 Chicks, $10; 25 Chicks, $5. special prices for larger quantities. Free circular. Bathurst Poultry Farms RICHMOND HILL - ONT. • Bible to find what they like best and make the butter accordingly. During hot weather young ealves' are sometimes staked along the road! with an inadequate water supply. It pays to remember that water is al- ways the cheapest element in an ani - mats ration and yet is one of the most, important elements in making animals grow. In grading up a herd of cows it ie. of course, necessary to use a sire of! tine same breed for each cross. Other- wise you are developing mongrels in-' stead of progressing 'closer and closer' to pure-breds of one breed. Many sec-, tions are handicapped in developing) high -producing herd- because of the; long distance that must be traveled to'' obtain high-quality bulls. In such sec- tions .it will surely pay to own a good bull co-operatively. Fighting the Crow *The Sunday School Lesson jj .IGHT There are preballly no birds whose for another of the crow's vices, for inabite are Wholly good er wholly bad during the eummer Menthe It int s t ac+ Irene the standpoint of man's best compliehed ehieken thief, :So Mach interests, Many s'peeles are reeog, stealth and cunning me displayed in nized as valuable assets contributing this penult that it often escapes -toe largely to human welfare; othere chow tiee and beneficial hawks beer mueh vices and virtues so nicely balanced of the bane and often suffer the sus as to make judgment difficult; while in promo penalty. In some of the eases n few s'peciea their numerous sine reported, poultry -raising hes become brand them as undeserving of protee- well-nigh impossible until the shot - tion. In spite of all that has been gun finally put an, end to the crow's written in its defence, the crow belongs career, • in popular mind to the last or outlawed In June adult May -beetles are eaten group,for its deetruetiveness he at- in large numbers; come caught alive, e tested by the fanner, the poetry raises others picked up as carrion. During and the sportsman. .Notwithetandieg the late sunnner menthe grasshoppers the abundance of the Englieh sparrow form a considerable portion of the food in this province and the enormous supply. The destruction of these in- losses dee to its activities at would sects must be coneideeed as beneficial, seem that the crow is considered es but it falls far short of atoning for serious a pest, if one may judge by the ,wholesale destruction of entire letters of inquiry which ere received, broods of beneficial birds. The erow The economic status of any bird de- always prefers hard -shelled insects pends almost entire n what it and rarely eats caterpillars or soft lY a arty kind. In the fall corn oats. To be ranked as a beneficial larva of a species, it meat either render valuable becomes an important item in the diet service by the destruction of animal and the lose may be considerable when pests (insects or rodents), or in the crows gather in flocks preparatory to the fall migration, ' consumption of weedseeds. Because of the gathering of the clans at the great crow roasts of more southern countries, our winter papule-. tion of crows is very much reduced and therefore the winter food plays iittie part in a consideration of the economic status of the species in Ontario. In March the migration tide starts in. At this season of the year their food supply consists of carrion, waste grain, 'benumbed insects end cold- blooded vertebrates and meadow mice. If the crow is ever to be considered as beneficial it is during these months. April, May and June are busy months in the crow's calendar. Nest- building, egg -laying and brooding, and finally the search for food for the nestlings are the duties which :now de- volve upon the birds. It is during this pealed that the crow commits the crimes which make it detested by the farmer and the bird -protectionist. Un- doubtedly the most serious charge against it results rfrom depredatione fn newly -planted corn fields. The extra work involved in replanting, and the short growing season remaining for. the replanted corn make the damage of unusual importance in this province. Fortunately, reports indicate that seri- ous damage is not general, but depends rather upon local conditions. Where crows are numerous and corn fields few, the damage may be eonaiderable. The bird protectionist finds much to criticize in the crow's crimes against smaller birds. These species are put Total extermination would be ilia& visible, but the sagacity and intelli- gence displayed by the crow give ample assurance that man's best ef- forts will still leave sufficient numbers for esthetic and ornamental' purposes. It distrusts and avoids marl, but soon learns how harmless are the scare- crows, bits of dangling tin and other', devices used in an effort to frighten the birds from Yields of grain. The first step toward erow contra' on the farm must be the destruction of crow's nests. If the trees of the wood lot shelter the nests of a half- dozen pairs of Crews the farmer is sure to pay a heavy toll in the loss sus- tained in nearby corn fields and in the poultry yard, He is also robbed of the services of many smaller birds whose work is important in the control of plant pests, Where the crows have been allowed to nest undisturbed for several seasons, the Tarnier will usu- ally find it time well spent to take an occasional hour in ridding the farm of nesting crows. Shooting through the nest, in the spring, with .4 shotgun will often kill the entire brood of young crows. The most serious: damage will be done in the vicinity of the nest. Where co-operative • measures -are taken by large numbers of farmers to reduce the number of nesting crows the results are particularly gratifying. For the .protection of the cern crop there seems at ,present no better meth- od than that of tarring the seed corn. to flight and their nests robbed of eggs The time and labor involved are about or nestlings. Many of the birds thus the same as in the formaldehyde treat - attacked are themselves decidedly tient of grain and when properly done beneficial to man and the damage done the results usually justify the adds- in their destruction is at once ap- tional item in the cost of production parent, of the crap. Place the corn in a tub So serious is this phase of the cues- and cover with lukewarm water and tion that some of the leading orni stir so as to moisten the corn thor- thologists of this country declare the oughly. Drain immediately and stir crow to be the most destructive native in one tablespoonful of coal tar per enemy of smaller birds. bushel. Spread out to dry. It can The tastes acquired in the robbing then be used successfully in the corn of the nests of wild birds may account planter. s VJiQllct'�i IP0d11.1) Buttercups. It has been commonly supposed that chinks should not roost until they are about half-grown or they will have crooked breasts. We believe that when a chick is well feathered out that its wings are strong enaugb to lift its body up on the roost and that nature made those wings strong so that the ,chick could get up off the ground at night and thus avoid as much danger 'as possible. When the chicks have learned to :roost it is much easier to protect them from mites. If the perches are painted with kerosene oil the mites will be killed and if the birds use protected roosts they will not be injured by the mites, Lice are also easier to control if the birds are on roosts which con- tain no crevices in which the lice can hide and the birds do not crowd on the roosts and become overheated as they do on the floor and this helps in keep- ing down colds. Some breeders do not like to have the chicks roost at an early age and they protect them by providing boards raised a few inches from the floor on which the birds can spend the night. We .believe that vigorous birds from mature breeders can roost at an early age without the danger of deformed' breasts. Made by The Canadian Steel and Wire Co., Limited HAMILTON. ONT. k.;ur s for this better, stronger, vA' heavier galvanize feria. h a r ga n arc- Io buys in largAmantities, sec raa newest freight la and can sell to you cheaper rin atY6na else, W.1 ..✓ ,, t x, ., - :. J. Once on a time, so the fairies say, there were no stars in the sky; only a big round sun aid a big round moon. Millions of miles below was the big round earth. Up fn the moon two persons lived, the Woman in the Mom and the Man in the Moon. The the sky, hanging out the stars as he went. Oh look,"said the people on h the P P earth "See the little bright lights up in the alkyl" After that whenever tbe moon grew toe big.and bright the couple would pare it dawn and cut out more stars from the parings. One spring day the Woman in the Meon decided to clean house. She swept and dusted and beat end washed until her husband was out of patience with her. The dust made hint sneeze, and the furniture tripped him up. Ile woman bad beautiful long hair and decided to go away for a while. So was dressed in yellow; the man was he got into his little cloud cart and fat and jelly and laughed a great went off for a ride. deal. They spent moat of their time pole eshing the moon. They tended it so carefully, in fact, that it grew larger all the time. "The moon is getting eo big," the woman said to the man one day, "that it will soon be too bright and will keep the people on the earth awake at night. What shall we do?" The man thought a minute and then he began to laugh. His fat cheeks shook to hard and hie eyes shone so bright that the people on the earth said to one another, "How wonderful the moon is to -night!" "I have an excellent plan," the Man in the Moon said. "I will trim the moon down until it is shaped like a slice of watermelon. Then I'll make other moony out of the trimmings," So he trimmed the moon until it was •draped just like a elite of melon. The woman was very much pleased with her new house, "Look," said the people on the earth, "we have a new moon to- night." The Man in the Moon and, hie wife stat on the ateps of their new moon hoose, and the man tried to make iittlo moons out of the shavings. Snip, snip -went the eeissors; drop, idcop went the little pierce that fell 641 'he eut. "Oh, look what I've natter the man said after a while. He held up a little six pointed star. "Haw pretty," the woman salts. "A sky full of little stars like that will be Mach prettier then a elcy full' of little rations)' And elm set to worts ea eyiy hap out out ;stare.Attar they bad nfsed tip all the teianoihuge, the Mar in the Moon took his little cloud cart, hitched 1t toa bxeontj start went sltianming along ever When he came back he found a pile of golden shavings out in the yard. They were the little pieces that he had trimmed off between the points of rho -stars during the winter. His wife had' swept them up all over the house. "Cart them off somewhere," she said. "They aren't big enough to make stars of, and they are just clut- tering up the noon." So the man loaded his cloud cart with the little pieces of gold and took them out into the sky and dumped them there. Dowse, down len the little golden pieces; down faster and faster througih the clouds. A saucy breeze ensue chasing along the sky and helped to carry them down, Fast- er and axtill faster they whirled until at last they lauded on the earth. The next morning when the ebil- dren ran outdoors they were aston- ishee to find myriads of little yellow things shining in the thick grass bike pure gold. They ran eagerly to peck them up. "What beautiful new flowers!" they cried. Sure enough, during the night a fairy had touched the little piens of gold and changer! them. Every sin- gle . shaving had become a bright yel- low flower with a green stem, "They are ahaptul like little caps," said one of the children. "And they are as yellow tut butter)" said another. And that is the way—at least eo fairies always tell the tale—butter- cups first carne to be. Intorerop the apace in your garden. Keep all the .ground busy, Try out a new vegetable or two this year, Variety is the "spice" of gar- denIng JUNE 19, Making the Social Order Christian.St. Luke 4: 16-21; St. Matt, 25; 34-4Q. Golder Text—St.IVistt. 25: 40. .Connecting. Links -•-The essence of these my brethren, 'ye have done it Christianity le lei the spirit not in the unto me, i i -pit forma of life. It is possible for the It follows that the Chret an spirit Ohms len spirit to exist and to mani- will ulwetys manifest itself in this way, fest itself in any recognized or and that such kindly, helpful, hearing established order of society. Even .a ministries aro the true activities of Blame and his master may live to- Christie -kingdom, By them, far more gether es brothers beloved (see Phile- than by theories and experiments, is mon 16). The king,, the feudal lord, the'social order being; made Chrlet:an. the artisan, the physician, the eoldier, They represent the neediest forces'of the serf, the Prieet and monk, hermit and missionary, have all entered into this,brotherhood. It is possible for this kindly Christian relationshipp to exist in the factory, the forest, the geld, and the mine, between employers and employed, just as perfectly we be- tween fellow workmen in the same craft. Tho Christian spirit is the spirit of love and service. St. Luke 4: 30-21. As Ills custom was. Jesus did not despise the religion of the past. His custom was to go to the synagogue eervice on the sab- bath day. There, too, the opportunity was offered Him' of teaching the peo- ple. On this oceaeion He was in Hie old home town of Nazareth, and was invited by the chief ruler of the syna- gogue to read the Scripture and speak to the conggrregation. He chose the sixty-first chapter of Isaiah and read the great declaration of that prophet's mission to bis people. Inspired by the Spirit of the Lord it was leis to pro- claim the coming of a great deliver- and clothed • the naked and ministered ante a deliverance, it is true, which to the stranger and the sick and the was never realized in a material way prisoner, are the great words of inva by the people of Israel, but which tatting Conte, ye blessed of my Father. Jesus now declares is to be realized They have the greatest of all human through Hie ministry. For Jesus has come to preach the gospel (Le., good tidings) to the poor. He has a message of healing for broken hearts, and of deliverance for "0 Miss Norton, I am so discour-. tweet" Mary walled, "My last plan - 1 t s s knockd t vto a cov a , jir 4 rhoirest!eWow al knowted 1h shall nevelr}cur ire any good in the world." Minn Norton's smile was youth s thetie, but it was aloe amused. "You do? slip said. Never' Iiow s that? "Because I shall never be able t i get away from home. It Isn't that I don't lovm all --of eaursI dui Isar mye othewn pleasure .J'd ,prefere to ,131•4:1; right there. But, Miss Norton, I wards pro hiss and of reform. The nations' to be of service to, the world:" Ilex of taro world can do without flee shone, and lien vaico deepened almost reverently ns sho said the words; then it changed unhappily as elmemetinued: "You sou how it turns • out: I wanted,to go to France es the other girls did. I had my plans all'' made, and then mother wasn't well, and we simply couldn't got a emend; the remit lutioreary agitator, the preacher of clase hatreds, even the clever theorist, but they cannot do without the men end the women of theetindly heart and the open hued, The greatest evils end greatest dangers of society are those of greed Mel hatred; and these evils are . not confined to any one class. Tho way of so I had to stay at home and just knit safety IS the way of unselfish kindness aud do thing's like that, It's always a and love. If commerce and industry that way. Other loris do the big things, And I have to do the little ones," "What's the trouble this time?" "Ole, another of those .wietehed lit- tle things—ineasiesi And nowt Said laet•night I got it letter from Dr, Iiathleen Mason Baying that I might come down to Toronto and do some: who refaces to he governed by this special work 'under her—a perfectly is not s true vewonderful chancel And, today Tom lacanoe downs with the meshes, end that For those who have fed the hungry meant Betty and Jack, of eourse. I can't leave mother all alone." I.1'er voice broke in a little sob, "I am so diseppointed l" . "I know, dear, I know." Miss Norton joys, the joy of service to those who,. placed her hand' sympathetically on need, and they have the bright hope the girl's, "I happen to have been of an immortal inheritance in the through it, too. So I'm going to tell Kingdom of God. you something that was a great help A»plication. to me in bearing my disappointments. those held captive by the world's However ably Jesus might deal with It was a sermon that i once heard on greed and cruelty. He ,has Tower to the broad principles of the Kingdom, the text, 'The path of the just is as open eyes that are spiritually blind,, He never forgot that hi improving the the shining light. that shlnetlr more and to give freedom 'to those who are social order our elealings must finally and more unto the perfect day,' bruised in sin's prison hawses, He, he with individuals not with s batract too, like the prophet of old, is sent to principles and relations, but with men "I don't remember all of it ur even preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and women and little children and the half of it, but this phrase stuck in my the downing of a new era, the long- conditions in which theylive. In pole mind: 'Not lightning, you notice,' said sought and-longhoped-forage of salt. iti�eab •economy. it .used". to • be the the. preacher, :but light.' And he went ration. For those .e o woul ' listen'• fashion to talk about the "eeonemic on to tell us that we want to .do big to His w rds nd eiieve, that new menet. There i&•no such craatnre: Be- spectacular things that will flash era was already Riegun. • hind all discussion. of sociology° or across the world like a shaft of dight - All bare Him witness; • The•wordsof' political- science, '.or even= religion is Jesus are not reported.in full; but we "the throbbing .•mass of humanity, .mag, but that God doesn't oak it of can. imagine •that. Ile sppgqke• of• the tempted, sinning;,sorrowang,�sut%ring, most. of vs.. He wants a stoadg day- " - an heaven and -His love • ear 'straggling and striving." The some by -day light, shining. more and more, men,_of buman•love and service,•of the problem is not merely intelleetual; it until it is perfect day for everyone. coming age of justice and freedom is 'human. It will not,suffice to cherish We don't notice the lamplight or the and the healing of the world's sor- great edeas and noble ideals. If they streetlight or oven the daylight nearly rows, "Words of grace" fell from His are to count for anything they must so much as we do the magnificent sheets of lightning that flame across the %%hole sky; but we Live by the other light, and we measure by candle power etilil 'Not lightning, but light.' '� Keep the Young Folks Interested. meant to other men in terms of The question of keeping the boys that are above all else pleasing to God.; have n e and: girls interested in the farm is an Theyare to feed the hungry. give'food, drink, shelter, clothes and cam-} important one, and I llelievr, it rests drink to the thirsty. show hospitality.' Many of us have not time to with the spears to a great extent as to the stranger, clothe the naked, visit read and .ponder as .we should like. p the sick and those who ere in prison. )The pressure of the days upon us is to whether or not our bays and girls For those who de these things the; so heavy that we got little chance to bocome.interosted enough with life on kingdom of heaven is prepared. Even i examine the perspective el :life. But the farm to take away the desire to though they have not known or heard deeds of charity and kindness, words leave it for the city. of Jesus, or have net known that in! of encouragement and help, the atti- Perhaps the nrethnd used by the this way they were serving Hime they) tude of hearty and-ractical goodwill, writer would be of interest to Lome, will receive this great reward. For these must become the habitual char- for it has worked out well for us. Three yearn ago- I said to one of m daughters, "Cora, I will give you y t3g y your pick of ono of our registered Jer- sey heifer calves I wilt give you tbe calf with the understanding that when this calf grows up and bee a calf, riot calf is to be yours, and when you sell it you are to give me $105 for its mother; the rest will be yours, 1 will have the cream the cow produces to pay for her keep, but you are to have all the Mere -aim in value except the $100 to pay for the calf." When her heifer freshened hurt No- venebcr she was placed on test for the register of merit and will produce over Sue hundred pounds of 'butter as a twotyear.olil heifer. Hor bull calf was sold this fall for $300, which gave Cora $200 clean money, after paying $100 for hie mother. The distances that pleas should Later I gave ono to another ono of enough room for proper growth varies my daughters, also one to toy eon, the g fi same bargain was made tis with the with the different crops and with the first. The interest these children take different varieties of each vegetable: DI general, plants of bush beans should be three or four inches apart; beets,( carrots and salsify, two to four inehes; endive, eight to twelve inches; kale, eighteen to twenty inches; kohl rata, cannot t e married on on a hasis o unselflsh kindness, then either we ought, to have no commerce and organized industry or Christianity is 'impossible as a law of life, Either supposition is inegnceivable, ' The Christian law . of love and kindness rust be (Ire 'Mw of 'business as well as of home and neighborhood life, He lips. But among those who heard be expressed in our contacts with' our were townsfolk of oramped and nar- fellow -men. 'The enthusiasm for burn - row vision, who had no heart to under- anity is one thing; the enthusiasm for stand or care for these high things. the individual, man is quite another." They were only disposed to criticize, But Jesus brings us all right up and to make little of Joseph's son, the against um problem of our own per - one -time carpenter. St, Matt. 26: sonal dealings with our neighbors in 34-40. this memorable picture of the last Then shall the King say. In this judgment. He says that live vire to parable Jesus sets forth the things' be tested on the basis of what they Jesus had so identified Himself with acteristics of our relations to rho humanity and human need, that He brothers and sisters among whom God or ours should be a placed' us, could truthfully say Inasmuch as yd.' has p have done it unto one of the least of i fearful looking for of judgment." Finishing the bate Hatched. Late hatched chicks may need some forcing to bring them into fair condi- tion before the coldest days of winter. Possibly the pullets cannot be expected to lay ,before January 1 and yet the laying will commence sooner if these birds are given heavy rations to de- velop them as large as possible before they have to be housed for the winter. Pullets that are late -hatched and underfed in the fall are nearly always a loss as they frequently become stunted and do not.. Pay any eggs until Thin Out Garden Plants, Do not allow your plants to grow too large before thinning them. Nearly all home gardeners plant enure seed than necessary, he order to get a foil stand of plant). As soon us these are large enough to handle easily; all ex- cese plants should be pulled out,leav- ing enough space between each pleat remaining for the vegetables to de- velop properly. If this practice is not followed, not only do the crowded con- ditions cause a tall, spindly, unhealthy growth, but the excess plants act as late in the next spring, weeds, using up the plant food and Boiled oats will be consumed in' moisture that ehouid be available for 'large quantities try the late -hatched the crop birds. Place a pail of the Data on the range where they can have access to stand in the row in order to have them at all times. A large capacity crop can be developed in that way. Boiled pumpkin mixed with bran is an appetizer of which the birds will eat a great deal and it also expands the crop and ,gives the bird the large capacity which stimulates rapid growth. Send the late -hatched stock to bed with a full crop. It pays to examine the crops of the birds after they go to roost and note the condition of the crop. If the birds liaveplenty"of food 'before them and some individuate go to bed with half -full trope it moans that those birds are net good feeders and they should be culled out as soon as they aro largo enough to bring at least their cost of production on the market. The problem of late-hateltos checks is serious on the farm as too many of the young birds come in that duns. Frequently they are underfed, espe- cially if the corn crop happens to be leas than usual. It pays to feed their well or they eannotpay for the little that they do get. Shall 1 Borrow to Learn? A young man who was going in debt for his education, gave the follawing mann for doing sot "By-the'time I finish 1 shall bo in debt $800. To have waited until I earned this mount be - lore going to school would have des hayed nil several years. I can Pay it basin in half the thee attar I run through -college because of inereasod earning power. I, therefore, consider in Jereeys is gratifying to me. They have something to think about. They study pedigrees. the correct type, Seeds, care, oto„ and• believe ate, they .. are true Jersey scant!. This plan will work out with any four to six inches; leaf lettuce, six to bine of stook, only so thechildren. got eight inches; parsley, three to 813e1 what they wire promised. I believe that inches; parsnips, three to four inehes; making your son or daughter owner of radish, one inch; spivath, three four something good and helping them get inches, and turnips three to to feat results in dollars and cents, will go a inches. very long way indeed in keeping thorn Leaf lettuce ta generaliy thinned Contented on the farm, and ultimately several t'rnies. The first thinning is make them :live wires for better farm, not done until the plants are of such Ing. size that it few removed here. and there may be used as salad and will give room for those remaining to grow larger. Later ri second and Carel .thine ring takes place, again giving room !lore is how I handle caeca whtch for further growth. By this method a aro troubled with scours. At the great dual larger crop may be obtain- first appearance of troubio X Peed the ad from a limited space than if the wolf raw eggs, I give one each night small plants were given maximum:die• and morning in its fend of milk until tante at the first thinning. the calf has recovered. One or tufo Radishes and cerrots aro ari;hnarily egg% will not be enough but several not thinned until some are large should be fed regularly twice each day enough to use—unless, of eourse, the until there is no furter tracer' of tiro seed has been sown exeeptionelly thick. ailment.: H. 13. K. Thineing of "apmach, too, is elelayed until the small plants removed acro urge enough to use lis"greens" St 11 potatoes aro boiled 'slowly Instead' Many gardens are through when the of rapidly, they will not become drat crepe are taken off. Planting the crumbly, and will eoolc in loss time. same vegetables ten d'aye apart as Before taking balled potatoes item the bong. as posel'blo will prolong the pe- oven, pricit with a fork to let the steam Mod that I cavo at ]east a year In my life Orden.for Srosh, .greeri'fnod drorn„the ,hocomingisoggy, I'ro-.... them front rom How I Treat Calves for Scams. ---g._- Bay Canadian products,