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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-4-9, Page 7- _ TE WORST M YET TO CONI :.. . RINGWORM The results of ringworm invasion aro to be noted in many farmyards during the late winter and early epring, Grey colored incrustations about the eyea, lips, ears, or any part of the body where the paraaite can obtain Iodgmept, are noticed. The Parasites have greatvitnlity and will live for a long time after removal from the animale, Enough survive the summer periods to carry iuoreased fection to a serious extent during the peeled when cattle are being fed in stables or small lots in autumn and winter..Cattie and horses running out on pasture during the summer and exposed to sun and rain are generally pretty free o£ the parasite, The win- ter is the ringworm's season of thrifty development "due largely to lack of attention or faulty manage. /rent of the herd. Tr e a t m e n L -Affected animate ,should he separated and isolated from the non -affected. It takes at close ex- , amination to determine which animate are affected, sines the ringworm colonies start from verse small centres and may be overlooked. Where the infestation is small the affected ani- mals can be freed of the disease by thoroughly washing the ringworm areas with warm water aid soap to remove all crusts. An application of a fifty per cent. solution of tincture of iodine applied once a day over the area will destroy the parasite and permit nature to complete the repair. Where the infestation is widespread in the herd a general clean up of the stable or yard is advised, with liberal use of strong germicidal solutions and whitewash. The disease appears year after year in the same stables, due to the fact that this parasite is a hardy one and can live over the summer season on the walls, posts or mangers i f ti,o .+-r,'n• If there is ringworm. In your herd now, get it off your cat - tie and see that the germ of the par- asite is moved out of the stable at the time of spring cleaning. Dollars are lost every spring at public sales simply because animals have ring- worm or evidence of recent infection. Stevenson, the stand is thick, the soli poor or the moisture supply avant the crop may even run small from the same seed. So growing a crop of potatoes. cm medium size is largely a matter of getting just the right stand and the right set for the richness of the soil and the moisture supply, , The selection of large potatoes for seed is both safe and sane. Weak and degenerate plants seldom produce what I would terra large potatoes and diseased plants seldom develop large tubera, The large tubers from any potato crop are the progeny of the most vig- orous and likewise the most prolific vines in the field, and their heritage is passed on to the next generation. Potato seed large—but how large? In selecting seed choose the largest specimens in the stook if you like, so long as these largo tubers conform to the type of the variety. According to the way the crop' is grown it may average large, medium or small, but the larger tubers always represent the most vigorous types. From the average commercial field, potatoes weighing from one pound to one and one-half pounds are a safe -and -sane • Do not be afraid of getting seed potatoes too large. If the resulting crop is too large it is not the fault of the seed. You are not planting it i thick enough. Large yields Came from large seed pieces cut from Large seed ;tubers and planted as close together as the fertility of the soil and the . moisture supply will permit. t• • J A garden'without roses lacks some- thing that everyone enjoys. No plant ;has dethroned the rose as the Queen of Flowers, and.. yet many of our productive gardens yield never a ; ose bloom. We can, however, grow roses inand good ones, almost anywhere i Ontario, lint to do so certain funda- mental requirements have to be observed. Much depends on a favorable loca- tion, It is advisable to keep it away from the wails of the, house. The soil next to the building is usually too dry for roses. The radiation from the building itself Is sometimes very try- ing. This action, together with the confinement and lack of free circula- tion of air, are favorable to mildew and red spider. The aspect of the rose garden should be such as to provide abun- dance of light and free circulation of air, and at the same time sheltered from exposure to cutting northwest winds. A southwest or southeast ex- posure is usually good. It is a mistake to mix up roses with other plants for the reason that roses need all the plant food usually avail- able and the soil needs frequent culti- vation. Beds should not be wider than will accommodate two rotes of plants so laid out as to be easily reached from either side. Indeed a single row might be preferable be- cause the gardener should be able to prune the plants and cut the blooms without the discomfort of crowding between the more lusty members of his thorny family. Better air sir - ciliation is also thus provided. Roses need good soil. Ground that will produce fine crops of tomatoes, corn or even potatoes, with a little special preparation can be depended upon to yield fine roses. The best soil is a heavy loam. Roses require intensive -fertilization. Rotted stable manure and bonemeal are probtbly the best fertilizers, To make a rose bed excavate to a depth of two and one-half feet, then fill with alternate layers . of soil and manure, each -about four inches thick, mixed and dramped as the filling pro- ceeds, until the bed is four inches higher than it wasbeforethe digging began. Bonemeal can be thrown on the pile of excavated earth. A safe rule for using bonemeal is one pound for each two square feet of bed sur- face, hut mixed well through. Moist soils are more or less acid and a few pounds of hydrated lime scattered On the top of. the finished bed will help to modify such a con- dition. The bed in ten days will be ready for. planting. Roses for outdoor planting are found in the hybrid -perpetual and hybrid -tea classes. The forma; bloom profusely in June and rely and soma varieties bloom also in September. The hybrid -tea varieties bloom con- tinuously through the summer and fall months, and the variety of colors and shadings is greater, The hybrid - teas are more tender, requiring bet- ter winter protection, Dormant stock is beet for outdoor planting because it has been field grown and has already survived at least one winter. With most plants it is the custom to set them one or two inches deeper, than they were previously, but in, planting roses tine bud or joint near the root is to be set two to three itches bolow tine surface of the bed, When pinntingr prune the tops to a, ROSE GROWING POTATO SLED—LARGE, SMALL Oft MEDIUM? Do you fancy your roast beef rare, medium or well done? And how about you; potato seed—or is it safe to indulge one's fancies in potato seed? Among potato growers there are some who prefer small seed, some who pre-' ler it medium, a few whose choice is' large seed, and too many who plant' just potatoes. What to select—po- tato- seed large, small or medium? There are two arguments which are commonly advanced in favor of small seed. It goes farther or can be cut to better advantage than large seed, and If small enough to be plant -I ed whole there is less danger of its. rotting in the ground. But if one. expects maximum yields of potatoes' it is poor policy to economize on seed. The quantity of seed planted, other things being equal, determines the stand. You may secure a maximum stand in one of two ways. Plant small seed pieces close together, the small pieces tending to produce hills with few stems or plants; or large send pieces farther apart, these seed pieces throwing more stems to the hill. In other words one -ounce seed pieces planted eight inches apart will give very few more plants to the acre than two -ounce seed pieces planted sixteen inches apart. So one really Cannot economize in seed and get a perfeet stand. Small seed for ex- tremely early planting is a good point if the seed, is planted whole. If small seed comes from good vig- orous plants, the yield will equal that of large or medium-sized potatoes. But the majority of small potatoes do not come from the vigoroushigh- yielding plants, and here lies the dan- ger in planting small seed. As an example, suppose we select our small seed—and by small seed I mean tub- ers weighing three ounces or less— from a field in which there is, we will say, 15 per cent. of weak or curly - dwarf plants. This 15 per cent. of.; the stand in an ordinary field may, produce 50 per cent. of those pets - toes in the crop which,fall below coo -1 inercial size. One can readily see how the planting of small seed from, 'such a field will tend to. increase very) rapidly the proportion of weak plants, Those who favor medium-sized pod d tatoes for_ seed usually advance the argument that the market prefers pod teethes of this size and as "like begets Tikoi° wo inust plant seed of medium; size if we are to harvest a crop that. meets this market ideal. But does' "like beget like" when we are dealing, with sits in potatoes? To a very great extent at least size is a char-! acteristic, determined by such factors as richness of soil, moisture supply,I number of stems In the hill, the sot' of tubers in the hill and the distance; If a potato of medium size from aI normal vigorous plant is planted and grown under environmental condi-] tions coaduclve to good growth, the resulting crop will bo large; and if• between hills. "s�se�i,s'i Gs����ti s6:44.vv�;7 , Ezci two or three buds. By low pruning new growth will start low down, pro- ducing more long-stemmed ° flowers and the appearance of the bed is im- proved by .keeping the growth low. For freedom of bloom, roses require considerable moisture and during a period of dry weather water them as the rain does, by wetting the earth to a depth of four or five inches and letting this answer for a few days. t. thebedsarefrequently 'a If rakedfro n. y 9 dust •mulch is created that helps re- tain the moisture. Light soil requires more water but a well prepared bed obviates the necessity of constant sprinkling. The Only Thing Lacking. "I can give you thirty dollars a month and board," said Farmer Bent - over. "Fair enough; "replied the applicant for the hiredmanship. "Now if you can husk Dorn with an automobile and will provide me with one I'll take the jab:' When Iacing a new belt which is to go over fixed pulleys or fixed shafts, the following rule may be followed: Cut the belt short so that it will be tight. To do this, stretch a light wire over the pulleys and get the exact length the belt is to be when stretch- ed. For each foot of wire make the belt from one -sixteenth. to three- sixteenths of an inch short, depending on how likely the belt is to stretch. If the wire is twenty-four feet long, for an average belt one should allow one-eighth inch per foot and so cut three inches shorter than the wire. New. Weights for Bacon Hogs. A change has been made recently in the weights of hogs grading as select. According to the new stan- dard, hogs to some within this class will weigh 170 to 220 pounds, off cars at stockyards, or 180 to 230 pounds, fed and watered, at stockyards or local shipping points. To come within this select bacon class, the hog must have length of side. The standard • i length o the he ideal "Wiltshire" re", is $6 g inches from neck to knuckle bone. The' -hog should be of uniform depth with trim, straight underline; the head should be of medium length with a slightly dished face, broad forehead,' and rather small firmly attached erect ears fringed with fine ,hair; the neck should be well muscled with no tend- ency to arch on top and below, in the vicinity of the jowl, should be trim and not heavy or flabby or coarse; the shoulders should be smooth and compact; the back should be slightly arched from neck to tail with -a well sprung rib dropping straight; the ham should be smooth and tapering, having no excess bulges of fat. Well finished hogs are of medium width throughout, indicating a full deep loin and a: long well- developed rump; finish is of the ut- most importance.. Promises make and debts promises. To get rid of rates, use equal parts of cornmeal and plaster of Paris, ap- plied in spoonful amounts in the fields and ditches, about buildings, and in and around the burrows. For Horne and Country A Variety of Good Deeds to Their Credit. One of the best records of all the objprt properly. The W. I. sent the nineteen branches of the Women's In- child to the Victoria Hospital, Lon- stitutes of Elgin, as shown by the don, where ala operation was success - recent historical survey made by the fully performed rnd the eye straight - members in that county, is that of the ened. They have also sent several third oldest, Rodney, which has a donations to the local Children's variety of good deeds to its credit. Shelter. Organized in the spring of 1906, it It was the W. L which organized began with a membership of 38. the Girl Guides, the Boy Scouts, and Burin* the Great War it devoted the Horticultural Society of the 'own itself almost entirely to Red Cross and placed electric lights in the perils and war work, and every appear for They have also managed the Oli1 supplies or money met with a ready Boys' Reunion for several years.. response. Mr. McGugan of Toronto has oirer- In 1912 the W. IS' built a grand- ed prizes amounting to $50 a year stand in the agricultural grounds. for five years for an oratorical con - On two occasions they put . n a test open to the school. children of sale of articles made' in the Institute the Township of Aldborough, and has for the Blind, selling about $400,00 asked the W. I. to undertake the man- worth of their baskets, aprons, agement of the contest. This they brooms and other things. For a number of years they -have assumed the management of the 'Pub - did very successfully last year and and planning to hold the second con- Now Billy had no idea how eider test in May of this year. was made but he was a bright little lic Library and, have pis, employed a They have brought Government Pig and always on the alert to learn man to ke:p the cemetery Iavrn in demonstration -lecture courses on s"mething. Greer. The members of the Institute Home Nursing, Dressmaking, and Do- One day in the early spring, he and were instrumental in securing medical mestic Science to the community, and his mother were walking through a inspection for the schools of the town themselves study at their regular grove when Bi,ly discovered that a and surrounding country. , monthly meetings whatever subjects number of the trees had queer little One little girl in the,town, the child they consider will be for the good of tin things driven into them, about a of Foos parents, was so very cross- hone and country, following the prise foot from the ground. "Troughs," ho eyed that she had to placea hand ciple of co-operation by all, and "If heard the farrier call them. Queer. over one eye before she could see en you know a good thing, pass it on." mime, Just above the trough small ;toles had been bored in the trees and front these holes something that, look - The Sunday School Lesson A,PRI Elijah and the Struggle With Baal,1 Kane 16: 29 to 19: 21 ch. 1; 2 Kings, 1: 1 to 2: 12. Golden Text—No xnan can serve two masters. Ye cannot serve . x sc and manixmon.—Matt. 6: 24. - CONTINIIAr1oe or TIII: STORY - We must now follow for a little more than two hundred yeafs, the parallel history of the two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. Xarael was the kingdom of the ten tribes, had much the larger, territory, including all north of Ju-� dab and east of Jordan, and was rich er, more populous, and moreowerful than Judah. But Judah hadthead-1 vantage of being more isolated from the outside world and less subject to Re temptations, and Judah's kings in -n herited the ideals, the ambitions, and the prestige of the great reigns of David and Solomon. The kingdom of Judah remained, therefore, compar- atively stable, and its royal line, with one tragic exception, unbroken for three hundred and fifty years. But Israel's kingdom was torn by frequent revolutions, its dynasties were short- lived and evil, and it came to a dis- astrous end when invaded by the As- syrians after two centuries onlyof troubled existence. The historians have little good to say of the kings of Israel. Jeroboam set an evil example for those who came atter him, and was remembered as the man who "made Israel to sin." $1s first ant was to, fortify Sitechem and make it his capital. Then he established national sanctuaries at Bethel in the south, and at Dan on the slopes of Mount Hermon in the north, so that the people might not be tempted to go to Jerusalem to worship, thus recognizing how strong a bond of unity lay in the common religion. By his endowment and pa- tronage of the northern shrines, he hoped to break that bond. At these shrines he set up images of Jehovah in the form of golden calves, thus de - ..a r.... -..t,- n,.a grading the worship to a level with that of Baal, be made new priests who were not of the old priestly families of Levi, and changed the date of some 0f the anci nt festivals. : 20. Ahab se ears i some Ch. 1 8 1 pp n respects to have been one of the best of the kings of Israel. His father was Omri, the founder and builder of Samaria xe himself fought cour- ageously and successfully against the Syrians who invaded his country and besieged Samaria, and at one time, as Assyrian records show, his armies fought side by side with the Assyr- ians against Assyrian invaders from the east. His treatment of the van- quished king of Damascus was gener- ous and kindly, and he ?roved a brave and faithful ally of the good Jehosh- aphat, king of Judah, whose son mar- ried Ahab's daughter. The evil influ- ence in Ahab's life was the clever and unscrupulous princess, Jezebel, daugh- ter of the king of Sidon, whom he married, and for whose god Baal he built a temple of Samaria, 18:29-33. iifount'Carmcl was a high promon- tory, or spur, of the central mountain range, soma distance north of Sa- maria, which extended westward and overlooked the sea Its sides were clothed with vineyards which gave to it its name. Here it was that the king called a great assemblage of the people of Israel. V. 21. Elijah; a man of Gilead, bad appeared as the leader of the pro- phets of Jehovah in their protest against the bringing in by Jezebel of her god Baal and goddess Ashtoreth, and their prloets and prophets. The immediate result appears to have been a bitter persecution of the champions of Jehovah, the alalighter of many of them, and the flight of Elijah, Some had escaped, but were in hiding under the care of the king's t&teward, and probably with the knowledge of the king himself, who cannot have favor- ed the persecution, but was morally too weak to prevent it, Elijah, before his disappearance, predicted the drought which afflicted the land for, three years, In the third year he suddenly appeared and challenged the. king and the Baal worshippers to this meeting at Carmel; There must have been widespread discontent among the people or Jezebel would have; sought to prevent the meeting. Per -I haps she thought, however, that her, numerous prophetti' would gain an; easy victory over Elijah. I V. 22, I only. At Carmel Elijah stood alone, Had he failed, his life would have certainly been taken by the fierce partisans of Baal. There were other prophets, but they dared not show themselves, and many people who had not bowed the knee to Baal (19:18), but they dared not yet to take his part. He stood alone, sus- tained only by his faith in God, and he stood firmly, not halting (that is, "going lame") between two opinions, as he said. the people of Israel and their king were (king. Vs. 38-89. Let it be known God does not always reveal himself in this way, nor does he always decide in such a way as this, the issues between faith and unbelief. But Elijah's case was a desperate one, and the lightning stroke from heaven that kindled his sacrifice, was to him and to the as- sembled people, the answer of God. APPLICATION.. God has usually advanced his own cause through the instrumentality of great personalities—Moses, ses, Elijoa h, Amos,Paul But even such groat men ould be powerless if it were not that the people were already feeling after thm e sae truth- Your great men like Paul, or Luther, or Calvin, or Wesley, light the fuse, and the explosion takes place. EIijah lived in a rough age, a rude and primitive time when the light of true religious faith was very dim. Therefore his treatment of his fallen priestly foes furnishes no guidance to us who follow the method of Jesus., In the past men have justified re- ligious intolerance and persecution by an appeal to Elij ah's order that the priests of Baal should all bo slaugh-- tered. That was an unenlightened view of our Christian 'faith. Let us quote Farrar again: "Far wiser is the' humble minister in Old Mortality, when he withstood Balfour of Bur- leigh, in the decision to put to the I tudlem Castle." "By what law," asks sword all the inhabitants of Tillie - Henry Morton, "would you justify the, atrocity that thou would commit?"; "If thou art ignorant ox it," said Bal four, "thy companion is well aware of; the law which gave the men of Jer-' icho to the Sword of Joshua, the 80111 of Nun" "Yes," answered the divine, "but we lave under a better disposi- tion which instructeth us to return) good for evil, and to pray for those, who despitefully use us and perse- cute ,us." BUYING TOWN. PROPERTY BY HILDA RICIIMOND. Every spring qulte n es farte who have endured a hardfowinter with little help or who have had illness in the family, or who want to Imre the'homesteed toryounger hands and move to town, seriously consider buy- ing a home In the nearest town and taking life easy, 1 Some farmers start in an aver- cautious way, and are the bane of every real estate agent. They set a price, usually an extremely low price, and refuseto consider anything above that figure. ICnawisig the value of land well they refuse to believe that town property has advanced, and argue that it is highway, robbery to oak such prices as, town residents expect, Real estate in town has kept pace rising in value with country places, and the farmer who wants to buy a modern house in n good location must pay for it. It is far better to buy a place in good repair at a fair figure than to trust the glib -tongued agent ' that "a couple hundred dollars will fix up this place all right," when the paint, the plumbing, the foundation, the furnace and the plastering are de- fective, Materials and men are hard to get, and the than who expects to repair an old or run-down house must multiply the agent's statement by about ten and then not be surprised if it runs beyond that figure. HOW FAR TO 30Ii000? The distance to the stores, to church, to school, to places of busi- ness and to work, if the farmer ex- pects to work or any members of his family expect to work, should be taken into consideration. The number of mail deliveries, the drainage, he fire protection, the possibility of rent- ing a vacant lot near by to have a garden, the neighborhood, and a dozen and one other factors enter i»to the faraftsmilf action or dissatisfaction of the y. The majority of farmers think the edge of town where they can enjoy all the advantages of town and coun- try combined is the ideal location, but usually such a selection results in dis- satisfaction. The keeping of a cow that seems to promise so much fails, because there is no cow pasture within a mile or so; keeping a pig gets the owner into trouble with the town laws; the mail comes later than it did on the farm; the dust is unbear- able on account of the great amount of traffic where all roads lead to town; deliveries from the grocery store are few and very uncertain; water, gas and sewage problems loom large in the housekeeping problems, etc., etc. The wise plan is to select a con- venient house as good as you can af- ford, in a good location, for such a house is always saleable, and if the farmer decides to go back to the farm it is easily sold. Varieties of Barley. Variety is not everything in the growing of grain, but where condi- tions of soil and climate are the same there is a wide difference in the yield between some of the better varieties and the commoner sorts grown as "just barley" in some parts of the country. Manchurian, known as Ot- tawa No. 50, says the Dept. of Agri- culture at Ottawa, is one of the most desirable varieties of barley to grow. Tested side by side with other good sorts it has year by year yielded higher crops. This is a selection from a kind of six -rowed barley supposed to be of Asiatic origin. It ripens early and stands well on the straw of fair length. It possesses one weak- ness in that in windy climates the heads have a tendency to break oil' and the kernels to shell out. Another sort that has stood the test well at Ottawa and the other experimental farms and stations is known as On- tario Agricultural College No. 21. This also is a selection from an Asia. tie sort. This variety resists wind better than Manchurian and it drops its awns more readily In the thresh - Mg, It is blamed for being more liable to smut than some of the other kinds, but this Is readily overcome by treating the seed with biuestone solu- tion made by dissolving five pounds of bluestone in fifty gallons of water, or formalin may be used in the pro- portion of one pound to forty gal- lons of water. Whichever solution is used should be sprinkled over the pile while it is being turned back and forth on a floor until all the grain is moistened. It should be dried by turning from time to time before sowing. If we knew the inside history of the other man we should never envy him, a One-half olive ail and one -ha -ker- osene will cure warts on humans or beasts. Have tried it, and it always cures, Billy Pig Learns Cider. BY ENOS B. COMSTOCK. This is the story of little Billy Pig and a very funny mistake he made, not such a stupid mistake either, when one stops to think of it. Billy was very fond of apples. He would go a long way to get to an orchard if he thought he was to be rewarded by finding a few nice red apples on the ground or somewhere within reach. May had a most de- lightful recollection of having once found a pailofnice sweet cider on a doorstep and lie had gotten a delicious taste of it beforo being driven away. c'1 like water ' etckted down into the troughs and dropped into the pails placed on the ground under them. "That,n' said Mother Sow, "is maple sip. In the spring it flows up through the trunlzs of the trees and, in order; to get it, men tap the trees as you ran them. You may taste it if you like." Of course Billy "liked," so he took a drink of sap from one of the pails. Ho was somewhnt disappohtt-, ed, He liked the flavor of apple cider much bettor, The next day, as Mrs. Sow was strolling about the field, near the orchard, she saw Billy standing by one of the apple trees looking 'anxi- ously down into a pail placed at its Thle little building Is a miselon church o t Tulin Lake, llritlsh Columbia, ease. A tiny trough led from the which is almost out of touch with elvlliention. IE Ls reached atter a week's tree Clown hi to the pail. "Why, hilly," travel 1111 the Ilootailnqua Ulvor, where e trading post is located, said his gentle mother, that is an apple tree1 If you want to get sap, you must tap a maple tree." "But, dear mother," replied Billy, very seriously, "I do not care to get tap. I want to get some nice apple eider. If maple sap comes from a maple tree, why doesn't apple eider, come from an apple tree. Isn't it apple sap?" "No, apple cider comes from apel pies, Mother Nature sent the sap up the tree trunk and along the branches' to the blossoms and finally into the apples themselves." 1 Billy Pig gave a very discouraged grunt, "if apple -tree juice is apple cider," he complained, "why isn't maple -tree juice palled maple cider?" l But Mother Sow heard the farm -1 er's wife rattle a pail down in the; pig yard and toddled of to see if there was something to eat. So Billy{ Pig's lesson came to an end, --•a Dairy Record Keeping Pays. The milk and fat records of the Brampton, Ont, Cow Testing Asso- ciation, says the Dominion dairy News Letter of March 10, show very clearly the value of selection, good feeding, and pure-bred sires of milk- ing ancestry, in obtaining high aver- age production in dairy herds, Al- though the farmers comprising the Association have been using pure- bred sires for years and have been selecting the best and eliminating the poorest cows as opportunity afforded,' they have been testing for only two years in an organized way. in 1922, in six herds, number 84 cows, the, average production of milk was 8,046 lbs., the percentage 8.76, and the fat production 808.2 lbs. In 1028, six herds numbering 98 cows had an average production of 8,885 lbs. milk, 8.82 in test percentage, and ;'20.5 lbs. fat, The increased production in the latter year over the preceding meant an additional average income of over $100 per herd, Twelve herds, con- sisting of 170' cows, had an average production per cow in 1923 of 8,580 lbs. milk and 820 lbs. fat, which is more than double the average produc- tion of all dairy cows in'Ontario, The cows, it should be observed, were fed with succulent, high protein rough - ages and good grain rations, Broken phonograph records may be softened by placing in hot water, theta while warm they can be out in pieces of any desired shape, You can use the pieces for sueh.purposes as make ing scoops for the feed bins, and fun, nels. In tnal,ing a funnel, 1 cut t@ desired size, bend into shape, lap 1, edges, then draw a hot iron down tba seam, thereby welding it. Many user. ful toys eau be :made for the chile ,ren, -.-hl, A. S.