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Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide 8t. West, Toronto.
Buying Nursery Stock, .
Because of the high cost of nursery
stook it seems that plantings have
been reduced during the past few
years. Many small fruit gardens have
not been started. Some orchards have
not been filled in where trees have
died. Commercial orcharda have not
expanded as might have been the case
if nursery stook had been cheaper,
At least $ome of tho nursery cony
panics are quoting stock at reduced
prices, It will now pay the farmer
to obtain cctaings and recent price
lists and make at least some plana for
increased plantings of first-class fruit.
It pays to deal with reliable nursery-
men who advertise in good farm
papers. This is wafer than buying of
brokers who do not, raise their own
steels.
Tree agents are eaten criticized be-
cause of the poor quality of their
stock. But an agent.for a firm of
known reliability is worthy of patron-
age,,. We'should not fail to remember
that meny beautiful shrubs, profitable
berry patches and thrifty orchard
trees are growing now on farms where
they would never have been planted
had.itnot been for the persistent
efforts of some nursery stock agent,
Some of the agents may 'have sold
poor varieties. But let us give the
good on -es a little credit for their
work.
Nurserymen as a whole are very
honest men who are in the business
because they love fruit and flowers
and like to deal in such= products. They
like to give satisfaction and do so in
a large majority of cases. They know
that their beautiful and expensive
catalogues will not bring orders and
repeat orders if they have the name
of sending out poor quality stock that
is not true to name.
Many of the offenses charged
against nurserymen are due to care-
lessness on the part of the buyer.
Possibly they may cover and expose
the roots of trees so they dry out.
Then some of the trees die and it is
blamed on the nurseryman. Some-
times the name tags are left on trees
until the trees strangle. When live
stock get in a young crchard and trim
the leaves from young growing trees,
it elates a tax on the strength of
those trees and many of them may
die.
Trees that are carelessly planted
may fail to thrive. Some seasons aro
more favorable to tree growth than
others. The value of nursery stock
cannot be determined at the time of
sale and this makes the purchase un-
certain and gives a chance for future
misunderstandings. Several. years
after trees have been planted the
fruit may prove untrue to name. Often
this is due to misbakes in the nursery.
Sometimes it is the buyer's fault. He
may forget what he ordered or for-
get which trees he planted in a cer-
tain plot. He may send only a small
order en co-operation with a neighbor.
They may divide the trees hurriedly
without carefully studying the tags
and each grower may plant the wrong
variety.
It is difficult to tell the variety of
fruit a young tree will produce by -
the appearance of a young tree and
only ,experienced fruit growers and
nurserymen are able to•teli and they
might occasionally be mistaken, The
inexperienced buyer has to place all
trust in the nurseryman at the time
of sale and for eeveral years after-
ward, It is not surprising that a few
mistakes occur. It. is a wonder that
so many buyers of trees have such
good luck as they do.
In buying nursery stock it pays to
know the varieties of commercial im-
portance which have succeeded in the
neighborhood-. Do not pick out your
nursery stock entirelyfrom the fine
pictures that appear in the catalogues.
The nurseryman and the experimental
station can afford to make variety
tests. The farmer can only do it on
a very small scale. Even that does
not pay unless there is time for ex-
perimenting and a deep interest in
obtaiuing first-hand information.
Nursery companies .are always pre-
senting new varieties to the public
and often wonderful claims are made.
Sometimes the new varieties which
were so loudly praised ten years ago
will seldom be heard of now. It sim-
ply means that they didn't Intake good.
But the old standard Varieties are still
for sale and proving fairly profitable
whenever planted. Every once in a
while a new fruit proves of unusual
value and good enough to partially
replace some older variety. Informa-
tion about such fruits can usually be
obtained from the experimental sta-
tion. They have facilities for know-
ing how certain fruits are turning out
and may be able to tell more about
them than the nursery catalogues.
The farmer who expects to order
nursery stock of certain new varieties
should plan, if possible, to visit' a
practical grower who already has
fruit of that variety in bearing. A.
very short visit will bring out points
about growing, packing and market-
ing that variety of fruit 'which will
prove useful information.
In the modern nursery every.posdi-
ale effort '1s made to keep the buds
and scions carefully separated, The
trees from which they come are care-
fully marked as to variety. It gives
the buyer of nursery stock a large
measure of safety. In the future
growers may not be sorry if they
make a few additional plantings of
standard varieties during the coming
spring:
eneneee
Fine Feathers or Eggs.
The exhibition and bred -to -lay qual-
ities can be combined to some extent
and it is often done, but the combina-
tion is not frequently obtained in the
low-priced stock which makes up the
bulk of the utility of farm flocks. Too
often the farmer who wishes heavy
egg -laying stock will buy an exhibi-
tion cockerel in preference to a cock-
erel from a high -producing hen.
The fine-looking bird may have no
pedigree of value and yet it will look
better. It is true that cockerels from
high -producing hens seem to have the
power of producing high -producing
pullets. It might not always be true
but it is the one cheap way we have
of trying to improve our farm flocks.
A cockerel from a fine laying hen is
well worth trying out as a means of
producing a more profitable farm
flock. Experiments have proven that
it often works suocessfully.
For example, the Barred Rook is a
breed rather difficult for some begin-
ners to handle because of the double
elating system. They find it hard to
produce the beautiful barred to the
skin specimens which -will. At the
same time we find the Barred Rock a
great favorite on the general farm.
The farm flocks are not bred for ex-
hibition but for eggs and meat. This
year I have seen several farm breed-
ers buy exhibition males with great
pleasure and turd down males from
a bred -to -lay flock because those birds
were not as pretty and not barred to
the skin like the fine quality exhibi-
tion stock.
Of course all bred -to -lay birds
should be very typical of the breed
they represent. They must not look
like scrubs. But when a hen lays two
hundred eggs or more she is of great
value as a breeder if she is vigorous
and her progeny are also producers.
Such a hen should not be discarded be-
cause her head points and color are
not a sure guarantee of a prize. If
she can produce cockerels of great
vigor and fair type for the breed,
those cockerels should be given a
chance to produce line laying pullets.
The best of them should he used even
if they are inferior in markings to the
birds in a prize-winning strain.
Every year fine -appearing birds are
being located which are also good lay-
ers. Our best exhibition strains cen-
tain some good- layers and they are
being located and used to good advan-
tage. But the buyer of a new cock-
erel must not expect exhibition ap-
pearance in the bred -to -lay bird,
especially if the bird is bought at a
low price. If you wish winners you
must go to the specialty breeders who
are in that business. If you wish lay-
ers you must obtain stock of a bred -
to -lay strain. Then do not kick if the
bred -to -lay strain of cockerel does ot
-win prizes. And do not expect the
pullets from the exhibition cockerel
to be high egg producers.
The combination of prize-winning
and heavy laying is sometimes com-
bined but as poultrymen we must have
an aim with our birds. We can have
the best success in winning prizes
when we strive for prizes alone. We
are the most sure of high egg -produc-
ing flocks when we breed from the
best layers and do not worry too much
about the exhibition points. The breed-
ers of one type are apt to make fun
of the breeders of the other, But both
have their place in the poultry world.
What we need is more flocks with as
much beauty as possible cohirbined in
herrn that are high normal layers with
the ability to produce offspring of sim-
ilar quality.
"Pere
It doesn't pay dairymen to let their
cows drink icy -cold water, because a
reduction in the milk flow is almost
sure to result.
There .are two reasons for this. In
the: first place, every hundred pounds
of milk contains about eighty-seven
pounds of water; if the cows are
forced to drink -cold water, which they
do not like, they will not drink all
they need to produce a normal flow of
milk. In the second place, much of
the food energy which should 'go to
making milk has to be used to warm
the cold water taken into the body
and to overcome the .chill imparted to
the body.- There are other economical
ways of warming water than by the
use of expensive grain.
Every outdoor tank from which
dairy cattle are forced to drink in cold
weather should bo fitted up with a
tank heater to take the chill off the
water, so the cows will drink all they
need, This applies to all livestock—
not only dairy cows,
The reason for increased flow of
milk whore -tows have drinking cups
in their stalls is due hi part to the
fact that the water has the chill taken
off, and in part t'o the fact that the
cows delnk mare Weter than if they
had to walk soma distanoo for fit, par-
tioularly out into the colts,
S, even S'll'a for Reasons,
There are many advantages in 4110
non of a farm trader.
1, it does work when it sholild be
done,•
It2,
does Thewortrt!act, mpt' only ennsues when
3. Tho nutmbee of teams May be
reduced.
4, Ono mail handles more horse-
power. man5, It will do belt work; saves an
label
0, It will, work any length of time
on the hottest der,
7. Tractorsaro adapted in size to
any sized farm, etc.
The great disadvantage in the use
of the tractor is the lack 08 competent.
operators.
Convenient Sanding Block.
It is impossible to use a piece of
sandpaper efficiently with the hand,
or to use it in connection with a block
and attempt to keep it in place by
hand, Shop workers will therefore
welcome the sanding block suggested..
A slot is almp1y chiseled out in an
ordinary block of 'convenient sine and
a strip of lath or weed is fitted into it.
Sandpaper is then wrapped about the
block with the free endsextending
into the slot and the steep is screwed
in place in the slot. This will draw
the paper taut and a perfect sanding
block will be the result. The sand-
paper can be changed when necessary.
For sandpapering floors, ai handle may
be hinged to such a block.
Every drinking tank should be shel-
tered from the wind, even if there is
a heater in the tank, No heater will)
keep the cold wind from chilling a
cow. The best place to water dairy
cows in cold weather is in the barn.)
Individual drinking cups -are worths
considering because they save time;
and labor, save fuel that would bei
needed for heating water; increase the;
flow of milk, and prevent spread of
disease in the herd,
A number of tests showed that the
cows in a certain herd _ gave two'
pounds more milk a head after drink -i
ing cups were installed. In a herd of
twenty cows, this rate of increase)
would mean forty pounds more milk
a day, At three and one-half cents
es pound, this would amount to $120 cents;
ninety clays. 1
The saving in time, after watering
was done ewer with, amounted to an
hour -a day. At thirty-five cents an
hour, that would amount to $31.50 in
ninety days, The half -ten of . coal
saved would amount to $7,50,
The total afiving for the herd would
bo $165 le ninety days. Drinking cups.
can be Metalled for less than ,$00,
which means $65 at least fn pocket.
Seediiti g ' 1115 acres of flax in one day
is quite a record, This le claimed by
an Ontario farmer, wilo used a light
Lractor pulling two twelve'frrat double-
dick drills,
t I JACK'S HE1F1 R
e
It surely was hard, writes a coryes-
pondent, that Jacic's heifer ehoould 1,e
killed, too, when the railway had paid
us 00 small a part of the value of nil
the other stock that it had Milled be -
erne. In the spring we had lost a
handsome colt that had seemed certain
no grow into a handsome horse. Forty
dollars was all the 'railway gave us
for the volt, and while our elaim was
pending it had killed -a promising
young cow, But all other losses were
as nothing compared with the loss of
Jack's +heifor. '
Poor little Jack,'his grief was piti-
ful. I thought and thought about the
;natter. At last, more because I 'emot-
ed to give the children something to
do than because I expected any fav-
orable result, I told thorn to go down
to the hawthorn tree and write to the
president of the railway; perhaps he
would see, that Jack got something
like the vlue of the dead heifer. So
off they went, Fannie taking the paper
and the pencil, Helen silent and sore
rowful, and little•Bob, scarcely under-
standing what it all meant, walking
beside Jack, That was election day in
town, and we were all so busy that I
forgot about the letter. I. was start-
led; therefore, when the children said
that they had written and mailed it.
They showed me a copy of it. It read:
"Dear Mr. President. Won't you
The Growing Child ---Article VIII.
Retardation.
Retardation is that condition or
state in which a child finds himself
when he fails to be promoted to the
next higher class is school. He is
then known as a "repeater," and some
children "repeat" a grade two or more
times. In every school system there
is a certain percentage of retardation.
11 the system is good, from a hygienic
and educational standpoint,- the am-
ount w111 be comparatively small; if
it is bad, there will be a much larger
amount of retardation.
The cost of retardation to the state,
to the parents and to the child is very
great, whether the cost be measured
in dollars or in values less material,
but equally important.
To many .children the failure to ad-
vance with the class to.which they be-
long is a source of keen mortification,
and the repetition of the same work
has a deadening effect. Such children
are apt to lose interest and ambition,
and the effect on their character, is
very -detrimental.
The causes of retardation may be
found in the child, in the school or in,
the home; may be mental or physical
and may -be unavoidable or prevent-
able. df a child is actually of deficient
menbality, retardation will inevitably
show itself sooner or later. The only
thing that can be done in such a case
is to place the child in a special class
or institution where he will receive
such training as will fit him for any
work which he is capable• of doing.
However, many .children are retard-
ed who are quite normal mentally. The
child with defective vision or hearing
is very apt .to fall behind his class
because he fails to see or hear many
things which the other children learn
through sight or hearing. If he has
obstructed breathing, due to adenoids,
the sluggishness and inability to con-
centrate his attention may be- partly
responsible for his failure to make'
satisfactory progress. Defective teeth
may possibly react on his health and
frequently do keep him home because
of toothache. In many eases malnutri-
tion may be ono of the causes of re-'
tardation.
The 'physical defects enumerated do
not in every case cause retardation,'
but they are en often associated with
it that their recognition and correction
are imperatively demanded.
General Home Care.
To secure the best results in health
work among children there must be
close co-operation between the hone
and the school. The work of the teach-
er will be much less difficult if the
child has been trained in hygienic
habits at home, and the mother will
find her efforts supplemented and her
work strengthened by the teaching of
hygiene in the schools and the over-
sight of hes child by the medical in -I
specter and school nurse.
Among the factors affecting the
health of the cliild which are entirely
controlled by the home,. sleep is int-;
portant. Children from six to ten
years should have about tea or eleven'
hours of sleep in the twenty-four, and
from ten to sit;teen years the amount
of sleep should be about nine hours.'
Every child should sleep alone (as far
as this is ,poseible) in a quiet, well-!
ventilated tont. He should go to bed
at such an hour as will make it pos-1
sible for him to secure sufficient sleep
and awaken naturally early enough to;
get to school on time without undue
haste or the neglect of any duty he
should perform before leaving borne.
'The more outdoor life a child has the
better he will sleep usually. On the'
other hand, a heavy meal in the even -1
ing, the use of tea or coffee, much
home study in the evening, obstructed
breathing, earache, toothache and
ilar conditions are apt to interfere
with the child's sleep,
If It sleeping porch is not available
the windows in the room should bel
open so that the child ncay have plenty;
of fresh ah. He may be protected;
from drafts by the use of serene, and
from cold by soft light covers and
hot Wallin bottles, when necessary.
During the day living' rooms and
schoolrooms 01100111 be flushed several
times with fresh air'for a few minutest
se a tin=e by opening the windows.
A child's clothing should be sash as
is prevent any part of his body :from
chilling, but at the same time should
not be so heavy as to cause hila to
perspire en slight exertion. The habit-
eel use of too heavy clothing predis-
poses to "colde," while to thin cloth -
leg attunes a heavy drain on the child's
vitality, To attempt to harden a child
by undue 'expOsuro- 15 not wise, In
winter long,stokings should he warn,
end the feet should he protected frons
wetting by rubbers.
The feeding of -children is of the
greatest importance, and apart from
the quantity and quality of the food
the time and manner ' of the meal
should receive much consideration.
Regularity of feeding should not cease
when the child is weaned. Teach him
to expect his meals at regular hours,
and his appetite and digestion readily
adapt themselves to a schedule that is
strictly adhered to. Let the meals be
cheerful, social occasions. The food
is more easily digested when eaten in
a happy atmosphere than when con-
sumed in gloom or acrimonious argu-
ment.
The question of recreation for a
schoolboy or girl is sometimes a diffi-
cultproblem. Outdoor play and sports
are ideal, but the 'Iniovies" and simi-
lar entertainments have a strong ap-
peal. A child attending school should
not go to evening entertainments of
any kind on any evening except Friday
or Saturday and the child should not
keep late hours then or go habitually.
This applies to children in the upper
grades. Younger children's entertain-
ments should be very infrequent, and
never in the evening.
Open-air Classrooms.
Open-air classes were originally in-
tended for tuberculosis children, tub-
ercular convalescents and the pre -
tubercular. It was felt that their
physical condition should not inter-
fere with their education nor their
education Aggravate or intensify their
physical disability. Hence open-air
classes were established in order that
these children might be educated
under conditions favoring their re-
covery. The 'work was then extended
to include anaemie, delicate and "run-
down" children, and has included nor-
mal children. Indeed, some of the best
private schools in the country con.
duct all their lower classes in open-
air rooms.
Whether these are called "real open-
air rooms" or "open -window rooms,"
the principles upon which they are
run, the methods and the results are
much the same, provided sufficient
window space is available to allow the
room to be properly called an open-air
room.
Excellent work may be done in an
open-air class located on the roof of a
building, on a sheltered balcony, in -.a
tent or shack, or in a regular class-
room with all the windows removed
from their frames. There must, of
course, always be a roof or some kind
of covering to prevent rain from fall-
ing into the room, and there shoub.1
be some kind of wall or screen to
serve es a wind -break. '
In some cities the new school build-
ings are equipped with one or more
open-air classrooms. Sometimes large
hinged windows, reaching almost from
the floor to the ceiling, occupy one or
more sides of the room. Such rooms
can be immediately converted into
open-air rooms.
lf'or the complete success of open-
air classes it is essential that warm
clothing and good food•bo looked upon
as necessary adjuncts to the fresh air.
If the child is allowed 06 become chill-
ed, the good effects of the fresh., air
will be nullified: A warm outer wrap
and covering for the head, felt boots
or other protection for the feet, a sit-
ting bag, blanket and any other cover-
ing needed for the study or rest period
(sometimes spent in lying or sleeping
on cots) must be provided for each
child.
Food furnishes fuel for the body and
hence is a source of heat. Children in
open-air classes need extra food for
this reason, as well as to help in their
upbuilding. Hob soups, cocoa and
similar simple, nourishing waren foods
should be supplied,
The teacher of an open-air class
should be particularly well qualified
for her work, She should know seine-
thing of food values and the general
hygienic requirements of children. If
she has, in addition, an instinct for
social service, her value will be all the
greater, An open-air class furnishes
a splendid opportunity for the forma-
tion of invaluable health habits,
In almost all eases the results of
open-air classes have been very good.
Tho children usually gain in weight
11101'0 rapidly than the average, the ap-
petite improves, nervousness decrees-
es and the blood taltos on a much
redder Inc.hThe pupils generally are
more alert and interested, semetimes
advencing more rapidly in their grade
thatt other childc'en. '
To the more Or loos fancily cr 00111-
reullity spirit developed in an open-
air • class the children respond with
hei.pful to-oporatinn.
(Tito Lind,)
please melee the railway pay me for
0
mhy, cowbut'that thwase braina has jeutyst, k11unci;140
Oi
wouldn't have taken a thousand dollars
for her, This was how I got her,
When I was a little boy •I lead $2,50
thee T pati earned sine way and an-
other; so I bought a pig with it; alio
Was a daisy, toe. She would' eat any-
thing you'd give her, for we tried her
on everything—even en burnt ginger
cake, When site got to bo. well grown,
what do you think she did? She went
and ate up a whole !look of little
turkeys and was about to begin on the
old hen; but father caught her at it
and said she must surely die, It was
just about hog -killing time; se -he
gave me $15,00. I forgot to say she
had some little pigs of her own. Any-
way; they killed her. When I got my
$16,00—oh, but I forgot; I never got It
in money, for father said I had bettor
have some more stock, So he gave
me the nicest heifer you ever laid your
eyes on. She was a real Jersey, and
we called her Step-and.fetch-it, be-
cause she torrid step round so lively,
We children fed her every day till she
was as fat as butter, So after rt while
she got to be most a cow; and the rail-
way ran over her. Now, Mr. Presi-
dent, please excuse this long letter.
And, Mr. President, won't you make
your railway .pay me for my cow? lily
father's name is John C. Case.
'`Your affectionate frlend,
"Jack Cl. Case.
"P.S. We children all saw it, She
jumped up in the air at least twenty
feet, and when' 'She came down she was
dead. We saved her horns,"
"What a letter to send to ,the presi-
dent of a railway!" I thought with a
gasp• I did not tell my husband, What
was the use? We should probably
never hear of it again.
But two weeks afterwards we stop-
ped at the post office en the way to
prayer meeting and got one letter
that so aroused my husband's curios-
ity that he felt obliged to open et on
the church steps.
"What does this mean?" he asked.
I picked up from the steps a slip of
paper that he had dropped, and my
husband read part of the letter aloud:
" 'Dear Mr. Case, In consequence
of a very interesting letter received
from your aon and read at a meeting
of the board, we have decided to pay
you a larger suer than 'is customary
for the loss of your Jersey heifer—'"
The slip of paper that I had picked
up was a cheque for $75.00 payable to
our Jacicl
.
The Separator That Steals.
11 -and. separators used for separat-
ing cream from milk, skim clean when
operated correctly. Frequently, how-
ever, one finds that a separator is not
showing the highest 'efficiency pos-
sible. A number of causes result lir
decreased separating efficiency.
Meuse when lower in temperature
than 85 deg. F. does not separate weld
.because the cream clogs its outlet,
causing nlueh of the whole milk to
leave the bowl through the skimmed -
milk outlet, thus increasing the am -
mutt of fat in the skimmed mf11s.
When the bowl is run at a speed
under normal the separation of cream
is not thorough, and consequently
skimmed milk will test much higher
than et should.
When the float is not used and the
mink is allowed to Clow into the bowl
at a rate greater than for normal in.
flow, the whole milk crowds out
through the skimmed -mills outlet, giv-
ing a high per ceae. of fat in the
skimmed milk.
When the separator is not in a level
position there is considerable vibra-
tion imparted to the bowl. Thie vi-
bration causes 111010 or less of the
whole milk to be thrown out through
t:he sloimm•od•anilk outlet. Vibration
may also come from excessively worn
bearings.
If a separator bowl is not thorough-
ly cleaned each t•inte .it is used, about
three times as much fat is lost in the
skimmed milk ss when the bowl is
properly cleaned.
The foregoing brief explanation
goes to show that a separator in order
to give the best results in operation
.must be firmly secured in place and
quite level, most be properly cleaned
each time it is used, and must -be op-
erated at the required speed. In ad-
dition the temperature of the milk
must be at least 85 deg, F. and the
inflow of the milk into the bowl not
greater than normal. Furthermore,
the beatings of the machine must not
be allowed to become worn too much
•before they are repleted.
Dwarf Apple Trees.
Dwarf apples are 0.IC. for the man
who wants fruit in a hurry. But the
trees are more expensive and more
trees are needed to the acre, The
yield per tree is less than for standard
trees, but the acre yield is not so
much but
as you might expect,
If dwarf trees are et too low, the
scions will throw out roots, and the
trees will no longer be dwarfs. You
have to keep these roots cut off,
The best proposition is to use dwarf
trees for fillers, to bear 'before the
standard trees are old enough. The
dwarfs have to be cut out when the
other trees begin to crowd them.
The man with a small acreage can
well afford to buy dwarfs. I have seen
several good -paying orchards.
ood
Sarsaparilla
aces Food
• Taste Coed
Creates an Appetite
Aids Digestion
Purifies the z food
Promotes assimilation 00 as to see
cure full nutritive value of food,
and to give strength to the wltolo
system. A well-known Justice oil
the Peace in Indiana says Rood's
Sarsaparilla made "food taste
good," as after taking three bot -
ties he eats three hearty meals se
day, works hard and sleeps well.
It will help you to do this. Fifty
years' phenomenal sales prove its
Merit, Prepared by educated
pharmacists. Get a bottle today.
A cellar is usually considered the
best location for an incubator. But
any vacant room wel be satisfactory
if' it has some ventilation and the
fancily will co-operate -by walking
quietly about the house and not bang-
ing doors. Incubator thermometers
often require so much observation that
it takes many trips down the cellar
stairs to keep the machine regulated.
Many poultrymen and women have
avoided that work and brought out
good hatches by running the incubator
in the kitchen.
Of course, an incubator cannot be
located. near a stove as the teniper-
atpre of the outside air will have a di-
rect influence on the air in the ma-
chine. In some homes when an incu-
bator has been in the kitohen they
have discontinued using the kitchen
stove for three weeks and used an oil
stove for cooking. Then the house is
heated -by a furnace or stoves in an-
other room and it is possible to keep
the kitchen heat uniform enough so
that the incubator can lee fairly well
regulated. Buyelaters of hatching egg boxes can
save money by purchasing thein in
quantities and ordering early so ship-
ment can be by freight. Nothing is
gained trying to ship hatching eggs
without proper packages. It takes
too much time to make home-made
packages and the breakage will be
large if they are trade wrong. One
setting of eggs sells for enough to
buy about a dozen or more packages
and it takes only a few minutes to
pack and address a commercial con-
tainer.
Never try to hatch eggs that have
been chilled. It is a waste of eggs
and time. When saving eggs for
hatching they must be gathered fre-
quently and stored where they will
not be too cold nor too hot. A temp-
erature of about fifty degrees Fahren-
heit seems the most satisfactory.
Even then eggs for hatching should be
stored no longer than necessary as
the fresher the eggs the better they
are apt to batch.
Yellow Corn Better Than
White For Feeding.
Yes, it is a settled fact that yellow
corn, or red corn, or white corn, which
carries a large amount of the yellow
coloring matter in the kernel is, from
the nutritional stand -point, superior to
corns that do not carry the yellow pig-
ment. It appears that the fat soluble
vitamine, which is so essential to the
life and well-being of man and of rats,
guinea -pigs, (nice, rabbits, chickens,
pigs, and presumably other forms of
livestock, such ns sheep, cattle and
horses is associated in some manner
and in sone feeds with the yellow
color. Yellow sweet potatoes contain
considerable of this essential vitamine.
So does yellow butter, wherein it was
first discovered.
These are just the days when the
government bulletins are interesting.
A man I know who is around among
other farmers a good deal says he
seldom sees a government bulletin in
one of these homes. And yet, there
are many bulletins, all full of good
suggestions, to be had simply by writ-
ing to the Department of Agriculture,
Ottawa. Write and ash. -for a list of
government public:tlions for fanners,
and then make selections from the
titles given_
How about the herd boar? Got him
out in a good-sized yard, away from
the rest of the herd. Remember he is
Half of the breod•iug-pourer of the herd,
and that his influence on the profits
for the year amounts to more than
that of any one sow.
The ideal soil for a peach -orchard is
a warm, gravelly hillside. Even sandy
soils are excellent for peach -growing
if the sand is not too fine and the
drainage bad. Heavy, cold clay soil
is unsuited to the peach. Plural trees
are naturally adapted to stiffer soils
than tho peach.
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