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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1915-03-11, Page 6• • s THE CLINTON NEW ERA.: Thursday, Ma'rch' 11th, 1915, —� PAq'e .. it444title+tttt44t44tt440000.00000•0N00•0N01M4.• tONt/Niotoo4*tH+t4tN �4h4ot4ottt,oo444t4�000000ft4N•tioNo4tt440tt444t41•00000•00100i000•00•00000• +++•••••••••••••••••••••••••••44 l iAHPAOEFORTITU3• •000•0000NN04040oObtt44b444o444.44t4N444g44N00•000000N000N00o♦ OOt000N4•0000e•1e'••aw'i•• r4••OrOO•00000.00000••i000►o00000••001001000 ++.lull••••alit•!*t4OtNN0 imak 000000000000000 0 0 0000000 0 0 0 , Scientific Farming 0 00000000000000,•00000000000 CUTTING BACK OLD TREES. 'Whether It Be Profitable Depends Upon 'Their Present Condition. Whether it is likely to be profitable to cut , back trees and forte beetle de- pends en9rely nem their cuudition. I If the trees are 0 good dist wee :part.' say thirty-eight to forty feet, and are in a favorable )ovation for cultivation and spraying and are fairly rigorous a thorough cutting back and pruniug would be likely to be successful end profitatble. Ou the other hand. if the trees are close together, say thirty feet, and have lost all of the lower branches because of overcrowduti;, with many dead and blighted branches. there is eunsiderable doubt whether the cutting back and the forming of a new head would bring the desired results. A tree that is in good condition for im- provement should have space enough in which to develop and should ha{Ve a few live brancbes within eight or ten feet of the ground. If the trees have a trunk bare of branches tc a height of fifteen to eighteen feet it is difficult to develop good low heads Open the Fees. If these trees bale some fairly vigorous branches within a reasonable distance from the ground the following suggestions for pruning can be made: Remove all dead and diseased branches. Prune out any upright Teething Time Troubles Baby's teething time ,is a peri- od of anxiety for mothers unless d ,kept sweet an 11 is C t msCp hob Y eso his bowels regular. No other mod; eine has been found so Valuable during' the teething times Baby's Own Tablets, They make teerch.ng painless and by their use baby gets his teeth so easily 'that the mother scarcely known they are coming.' ,Concerning the Tables Mrs b`• Goldsmith, Nelson, B. ,, writes; "Baby's Own Tablets are a mother's greatest helpduring the teething per'od." Tne 'I al:lets are sold by med.cine'dealers or by mail at 25 cents te - , boo from The Dr. Williams' 'Medicine Co,, Biockvil.e, Ont. del-leKeleisIelsistele2-I-I-1-1ed leleI I I -2-3-i• ALFALFA AND PROSPERITY.. • alfalfa thrives Wherever a pros- perity follows. • No other plunt X • has so fattened the soil and •' made so mach of history as al .. falfa. Te Argentine Republic, ;; in South America, has put itself -- upon the map almost like a mi- '" racle, and alfalfa is probably -• more responsible for this won- derful growth than any other s. single thing. The American des- .. ert has been made rich and hab- itable by alfalfa and water. It is the surest thing known that any section which systematical- ly encourages the production of alfalfa on soil well adapted to it 1• has a sure mortgage upon the future.—Rural New Yorker 3�2-i-I-I`I�I ÷.1-1-i-1-1-1-1-14 -1-1-1-1-1-4-1-1-1. PORCHES AND SCREENS. Their Advantages In Both Winter and Summer Weather, (Preparedmen the DnttedagriculSrates depart - In regions where the winter is severe storm porches prevent a great deal of cold from coming in when the kitchen door is opened and can be used to good advantage on the farm. The walls, sides and roof should be tightly made of matched boards, should fit closely together, and if fastened with screws they may be easily taken apart in the spring and stored until fall. A window should be provided in the door or in one side to admit,ligbt. A vii the normal stl'lli(i _at Duro wire. Stretch the woven wire on the post and staple g stn le it tightly to the post so that it can be readily removed and rolled up when you wish to move it. A fence moved itnn this kind be readily t of t s from place to place and set up with- out a great deal, of labor. Controlling Plant Lice. Many trees and shrubs are loaded I n lice. On those each season with p n t affected last year one is likely to find small black., shiny eggs at the .end of the twigs. As soon as the tender leaves begin to unfold on this shrub the eggs hatch and the leaves shortly become loaded with ' lice. Why not, therefore. trite hedges and shrubs and bnru the trimmims,'burning as well as oruntng fruit trees? ,0000000000000000000.000000 0 0 0 c Farm and Garden 0.00000000 BLIGHT AMONG POTATOES. How Disease Can Be 'Prevented Dur- ing the Present Year. A recurrence of late blight and dry rot among potatoes can be prevented next season. Clean seed is the great essential. Seed treatment is not effec- tive for this particular disease. The late blight dry rot exists to a considerable extent among storage po- tatoes, says E. C. Stakman, assistant plant pathologist of the Minnesota experiment station. St. Paul. If such lots are used for seed next season the disease may again be very destructive, good plan is to have the storm porch 324 en OLD APPLE ononAitn. `consist of a permanent light wooden growing brandies in the center of the • framework. to which the solid sides eon be screwed. These can be replaced in tree that exceed a height of twenty teat, or, in other words, cut back the summer with fine wire screens and the top to side branches so that the tree solid door with a screen door. The doorway into the house shouldcan be sprayed readily from the tower also have its screen door. This will of In some cases where the trees have ! seethe the double screening of the kitchen or other outside door, which is been mach weakened there may be so desirable as it is much more era - water spouts growing upward from tient than the single screen door in She old branches. In cutting back the keeping out files. Such a "screen trees some of these should be saved porch" is particularly desirable in the and allowed to 821 the space left va- warmer sections of the country where 'cant by the pruning out of the dead the "fly season" ie long. Where n and weakened brunches. The lower storm porch is desirable, but not feast - side branches that may be left upon ble, an extra door of matched boards the trees should be pruned sufficiently attached to the outside of the door 10 enable one to cultivate and spray 1frame answers the purpose. the trees well. If these lower branch- I There should, if possible. be a screen - es are very thick they should be thin- ed porch opening off from the ldtchen ned out somewhat to permit light to on the side which is not exposed to enter, and if they extend to a eon- the sun during the hottest part of the siderable distance beyond the trunk of day, where in warm weather much of She tree some slight cutting back may the kitchen work may be done. There be required. In a general way the ' are some advantages in having the object is to secure a shortened but well screened porch on the side toward the ,balanced frametdork and to retain as garden and opening into it. But, on imany of the small spurs and side the other hand, if it Is completely branches as possible. Where a large screened, has no outside door, and no apple tree is cut back to mere stubs openings, excepting into the kitchen. of branches ten to twelve inches in and Is large enough to offer a place diameter and without any small side where dish towels and mops can be branches it is almost impossible to dried, supplies stored and garbage and form a strong, satisfactory new top other forms of waste kept temporarily, upon the tree. the number of times the outside kitch- The pruning should he done during en door mast be opened will be reduced the winter and early spring before anyand thus the danger of letting flies In growth takes place. Whether any will be lessened. In cold weather the fruit will be borne the season fol- screens can be replaced with window lowing the pruning will depend upon sash or solid sides and the porch made condition of the trees. If the lower use of as an extra storeroom. ' branches are vigorous enough to carry 1 ' All windows and outside doors should fruit buds there should be some fruit be screened. Cloth or wire netting to mature. If the lower branches that tacked on the outside of windows will. 'are left after pruning are very weak serve. but it is much better to have little fruit is likely to be secured the wooden or metal frames the full size Mist season.—M. A. Blake, New Jersey of the windows covered with wire,net- 'ExperiSnent Station. 1 ting having sixteen meshes to the fin - ear inch. This will protect against ••••••-.+.•..,•r•••••,•..... . , • both flies and mosquitoes. Each screen 1SOME should be fitted to its special window, FARM NOTES. and both screens and windows should t be so numbered that they may be ta•-►""''"""••-'"° **''' " matched up without difficulty. Springs. , Kansas has just taken a silo census. 1 a weight and pulley, or other self dos - The Sunflower State now boasts 7,137 i ing devices are very desirable for silos, having a total storing capacity screen doors, which should close tight. of 900,000 tuns. In 1909 there were ly and preferably be latched only sixty silos In the state. The silos are all said to be grasshopper proof. and as most of them are now full Kau- sas should have very little to worry about. The potash people are putting up tbe price on account or the war. A ton of farm manure carries ten ' puuutis of potash, but if it lies in the ruin this element will be ensiled out and targe ly wasted. Steady the potash market by saving the home supply. Cattle will not eat mil the aifalln stems, bat the horses IiLse them. And they are excellent hay. When you sell a quart of milk for 7 cents you are Monis more food for the money than the buyer can get Itt most other forms. It is twice as cheap as mutton or fresh fish, sir times as cheap us dried beef, nenrly three times as cheap as beef chuck, 40 per cent cheap- er than pork loin. three times as cheap as beef sit'loin and nearly three times n rheep as eggs. The staples that volt less in proportion to food value Than milk ere sacb things as potatoes; rice, dates. cornmeal, prunes, cheese, ■chest broad and beans. The above tinmes will hold good in the average Irtel ion of the reit r: ur refit ..,... grapevines. Tney win supply tue nec- essary potash for them, and 1f the same amount of poultry droppings is added to. the ashes the undesirable, rank growth that too much ashes some- times cause will be kept down. n.. Currants need little protection ex- cept from deep snows, which some' times break down. the branches when setting in the spring. Watch the mulched strawberries. The mulchbe too heavy, and if may warm, muggy weather prevails there' Is danger of injury. There is no one who ought to have a better garden than the farmer who has all the land necessary with teams and usually help to care for it. Cold frames, hotbeds, greenhouses aad mushroom caves are all used for forcing rhubarb, but. lacking these, one may utilize an ordinary root cellar: ror a nesttess cow. Tie the cow securely and then take a strap long enough to reach around her body just back of the shoulders. Slip a common snap on the strap and let it hang down below her belly. Buckle the, strap closely. Then take SEED POTATOES. especially if weather conditions favor its spread. It is therefore of vital im- portance that healthy seed be used. The Minnesota experiment station pathologists have been misquoted with reference to methods of securing such healthy seed. The soaking of seed po- tatoes is necessary in controlling some diseases, but treatment with formalde- hyde or corrosive sublimate will not prevent late bligbt. Seed potatoes should be secured from fields which have not had any of the disease during the past year. If healthy tubers are planted and the vines thor- opghly sprayed with bordeaux mix- ture the disease can be controlled. Hog Fences. A good permanent fence for a pig lot can be made as foliows: Place posts four inches by seven feet high one rod apart. Staple a string of barb wire two inches from the bottom. Two inches above it place a ribbon; of twen- ty-six Inch woven wire and six inches. above it another string of barb wire. The post will project one and one-half feet above the height of the fence. II0W 10 Cure riKKuratism a small strap with a ring on it and buckle around the cow's right front leg jest above the hoof. Then draw her leg up and snap to the ring. She may jump around some the first time, but will soon stand still, and yon can milk her without fear of being kicked. When she finds that the milk- ing eases her and she is not whipped she will stand without the leg being raised. Seed Potato Importations. The cultivation or potatoes, which were originally introduced into Ger- many from the United States, has been brought, to such a wonderful stage of development that two distinct classes of potatoes are raised, the one rich in carbohydrates, but poor in nitrogenous. matter for the fermentation industry, and the other rich in nitrogenous mat- ter for eating purposes. Curiously enough, seed potatoes are now imported into the United States from Germany because our farmers allowed this vegetable to degenerate to such a degree that it has substan- tially lost all value for seeding. The science of fertilizing achieved the amazing result that Germany's soil, although cultivated for almost 2,000 years, is today more productive than the virgin soil of the 'United States and Canada. Deserted farms like those of the New England states and the state of New York are unknown in the empire. Chemistry is not only educating the farmer in scientific fertilizing, but pro- ducing the requisite artificial fer- tiUzers.—Popular. Science Monthly. MOVABLE DOG 147440E. Short posts can be used. but the long posts ,nos be need some time later 10 case it is desired to piece afore ivlres. on the fence 9, keep ep in cattle tn' hurees, A good toovatee'fence eon be made in.inset-Mellytt tbi. Same i by 9+t' small ' poet elu'pela tutor I nil d irr I 1 ,,1 ,pito III,/ {,aonu,; „t, 11)11, ;1,,"1 f The Disease is Always Root- ed in the Blood, Which AL st nn., Made Bich Better Farming. Better farming in conjunction with favorable climatic conditions is noted in 1914 crop returns. Official figures say the average yield per acre of all the staple crops was nearly 10 per cent greater than a year ago and in most instances greater than the ten year average. and Pure, There are still' many people who imagine that rheumatism can he cured by liniments and rubbing, overlooking the medical fact that the trouble is rooted in the bio: d Rheumatism can- only be cured b•' cleaning and enriching the blood thus driving out of the system thi: poisonous acids which cause the rheumatic pains; Dr s Williams' Pink Pills cure the most obstrna'te cases of rheumatism because .they go straight to the root, of the trouble in the blood. Every d ise kelps to make rich, red blood and this new blood expells the poison oils acid, bringing (health at d comfort to the tortured victim. Do not waste time and money in liniments end outward applicators Give Ar. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial and thus 'drive, the r'disease out of your system. 'Here is proof of what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can do in cases of this kird. Mr. Richard Palmer, Wroxeter, One., says; 'Por mon'tihs my life was saye; `iiror months my life was made miserable through a co^abin- , ed attack of rheumatism and sci- atica- The rheumatism seemed to settle in all my joints and the sciatica pains were so great that I could scarcely 'hobble about. I am a inserter, and so you can un derstat:d that: in my condition I was unable to do Imy of d nary work. Neither doctors nor Various remedies I took d d me any good (Finally I was induced to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and for ,hie I'have much to be thankful for, as after taking a few boxes the pains began to disappear, and by the time I had taken nine boxes every 'twinge of both rheumatism and the Sciatica hod disappeared and I was able to go to work again as ususl, and have not lost a day through illness since. I am thoroughly grateful for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for me and hope my'experi .encs will benefit some other sufferer." It is the curing, of gist .fuch cases as these that has given ,Dr. Williams Pink Pills their world- wide popularity. Yon can get the Pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville Ont. Kansas Silo Census. Kansas bas 7,137 silos. This is some thing like fifty-one silos' to every coun ty ,in the state, but there are twenty-. one counties having less than a dozer and several havingno silos whatevet within their boundaries. Five of the rich Kansas counties have more than 200 silos and are reporting constant increases. The silo is changing the sky line of the Sunflower State, and it is changing other things as well. For one thing - the stave, pit. brick, concrete and other forms of silos are helping to make Kansas one of the really prosperous states of the Union. It might help for the agricultural au- thorities in other states to make a census similar to the one just complet- ed by lianas. Comparisons are some- times stimulating.—Farm Progress. ,este•1 siol e°3rFd»2» "1•••••••i•d see eSe ORCHARD AND GARDEN. s Chop every old. useless and dying tree ant or the orchard, keeping a mem- 'orendum of the number of trues thus removed and putting in an early order for others. Wood ashes are good fertilizer for New Columbia Records For February On Sale To ay 85cNo Records offer the same value -none 85c wear so long a5 Inc famous Columbia Double Disc Records. They are the best —up_ Records on the market today. —CTP — The name Oolumbia stands today for the best records nn the market. And that in every detail, In a c;olumbia Record you have tbe best record it is possible to get at any price. You have the finest recording, years ahead of any other. You have many of the biggest and best artists and hands, moat of them exclusive. 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