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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1915-04-22, Page 6PAGB SIS THE 'CLINTON NEW KRL. Thursday, April 22nd, 1015. IlLTMLUMn +4+++4+++++++++++4+p+++++ •++++++++1++++*++++++++++••no••••'+4*+++++++++++++++$+++f t4+s0"o••••••o•o/oN••••••444or++++++,++++,++++++++f++++++++++++++t+4++4+14+++++4400, N.**+.4•.•,. ••010,•4 HALF .PAGE FOR THE FARMERS s'+i+•t4N+tttt+►++44Ntt00lti••t4••f4o•dti+0•ytt4th4t+t904p4+tO++O+t++t9o•Ott0+4o•••+r•O1t0*N ONo*+N••ONa+vvgem 4Pvon.q mv7•44+oY••••••••••••••••••►•••••••••••••0 O+++t++++t++.+++++4+++tit+++' o ei see ons R ele t o al 8 ;vete ee,m•0000000.000000000•000S•60200.000000001 40000e•00 less nearly self sustaining than in this • ti' Y T m ^4 YOU ' Ir particular area of North Carolina. The bulk of the groceries was always ry bought, but the total quantity eon- • slimed depended to a great extent • • In Your Office'Store, ® upon the quantity of aminal products or Hoole? if so You will be Interested in the • • Model's. •P Tele here Tablet • • Orte, of the simplest and handiest ,p little inven ions imaginable. it • is • in 'de of. sheet, settee oxidized finish, • ®® insuring a smooth writing sura ,,oe, Andd the paper roll attached puns ieuiu the 0 top and cuts off at any length desired. 0 For taking orders or jotting down w notes these tablets area great conven \ •, ie.noe, They tire't•eadily attached to • either desk lir wall phone and their 0use is allowed by all telephone cora p mics. • Price $1. 18I,lcln(tng three extra rolls of paper) 8t m and vegetables raised ou the farm • Where these abounded the consume tion of groceries diminished From • this it would seem that an obvious o way to. effect au important saving in • expenses is to raise more vegetables" • and animal products on the Earn . : Whether it is better to cut down ex - e• pensee in this way or to increase re - 0 ceipts by concentrating attention • cash crops is one of the great problems •in farm management, the answer .to •• which in each individual case depends • upon local conditions. In the past, • bowever, many farmers have not re-•. • )tlized the existence of the alternative. • The two other important items in the o cost ofmaintenance ere house rent •and labor. Both of these it is a corn. • mon error to, overlook in estimating • the farmer's income. Since the house • ty usually goes with the farm and the la- d bor is performed by members' of the : family both are taken for granted. • With labor it is much the same. Tile members of the family secure by their work comfort which tbey would other- wise have to buy, or, to put it another way, if they did the work for some- body else they would be paid. As it is, they pay themselves. It M obvious, therefore, that what ell��to New Era 0 • Agents For elinton v •eecot30•sesse•0tassff•4i01eosee tsemeesoS1 o•eoeseseseecoe•• • 000 00000000000 0000000 0 Making the Little Farm Pay By C. C. BOWSFIELD 0.000000000000000.00000 A little interest and effort on the part of the family will make a success of fruit on a small farm. The work is not incessant, but it is important at times and requires intelligence and en- ergy. Small fruits pay web in almost any locality, and they are so easily managed that amateurs,need not hesi- tate about making this a prominent feature in their program. Raspberries turn many a, rough and idle spot into profitable land. A. farm- er who does not make a few hundred dollars a year from berries is not up to snuff. Black raspberries are usually set two and one-half feet apart in the row, with the rows six feet apart. Planted among the trees of an orchard the red raspberry will do rather better than the black, it is not best to put them closer than eight feet from the trees. Fall planting of red raspberries in severe latitudes is not to be recom- mended. None of the red raspberry family' is of ironclad hardiness, and the young plants when transplanted in the fall are much more subject to severe or fatal injury from freezing than they would be if web established. Spring Planting is by all means preferable in sections of the countr7 where the tem- perature drops to or below zero. The plants of the red sorts are termed suck- ers and should be transplanted at one 7880 01d, at which age they rarely have more than one cane, which should be cut back to eight or ten inches at time of transplanting. Prepare the ground as for a crop of potatoes, making furrows for the plants. Set the young plants in the i%BItETBE8lcloS TORN I0118 SPOTS INTO PItOF)TABLE lawn. bottom of the furrow, but cover only a few inches at first and draw in soil as they grow. While berries do not thrive in soggy land, they like plenty of moisture in the soil, and sprinkling can be done to advantage. In setting out currant :bushes one should be careful to select a place where there is plenty of light and air. They do not require especially fertile moil, but they do need the sunlight and air. If possible do not put the bushes where they will be weighted down by snow in the winter, for this breaks the branches. • The ground should be worked thor- oughly and deep before setting out the bushes, for after the planting only a .very shallow cultivation can be done,. as the currants area surface rooting plant. Rotted manure is one of the best fertilizers for working into the land, and after the currant bushes have been set out this will be found excel- lent as multi]. Hardy one -year-old plants are found to be among the best for starting a now piece. The plants begin to bear the year after planting and come into tall maturity in the third year. if tbbes aro given care they will produce paying crops for a score of years. Pruning should be done in the early spring, cutting out all the dead and weak branches and heading back most ,rigorous growth. It wilt be seen that the currant is an easy plant to raise as well as a very profitable one. ,the same is true of the gooseberry. Very few diseases attack fbese plants. The Currant worm can he killed by applying pyrethrum pow- der. If there is any disease found to be among the branches it is best to vat off the afflicted ones at once and, thus prevent the spread of the trouble. '.t18 me1a00a et caring i0r rue goose- berry pleats' are practically the same as those used in dealing with currants. It has formerly thought that goose- berries would cio best in 8 shady place. but this is not true. Mildew will at- tack them if they are kept shaded. The only thing to prevent this is to have the plants kept open at the top. "Plowsole." This is an artificial hardpan very lonlmonly formed in the practice of ,)lowing to the same depth year after year. A packed layer is thus formed by the action of the plow, which acts exactly like natural hardpan in pre- venting the passage of water down- ward and the moisture upward. This :puditlon, or •"plowsole," is more often found in clayey soils and greatly in - :Teases the difficulty of working .them. Of course it is perfectly easy to pre- vent this trouble by plowing at various ieptbs from time to time. In this case lime will generally be found useful in materially aiding the disintegration of the "plowsole."-Purdue Agriculturist. Seed Corn From Shook, Seed corn taken from shock corn which has stood in the field most of the winter has been found to give no better germination test than 1ij2 per cent in some instances. Such corn 2annot be used for seed with any de- gree of success. Corn is not allowed :o dry out well in the shock, and when °request freezing and thawing begins lie vitality of the corn soon vanishes. Cause of Hilarity. "What are you laughing about?" "Blinks bas moved to Great Neck, L. I.." "I don't see anything particularly funny in that" "But he wears a seventeen collar.." - Philadelphia Ledger. THE FARMER'S INCOME. Cash Profits Do Not Measure the Re- turns From a Farm. [Prepared by United States department of agriculture.] Just how much does the average farmer make? The answer to this puz- 'zling question has been long sought by agricultural experts, since it is the ulti- mate test of all systems of farm man- agement. It is simple enough to calcu- late the cash profits received in the course of the year, but these do not measure the farmer's success. The farm supplies him with much besides money -with food, shelter and feel. For these things the city worker has to pay out a large part of his wages. They ,must, therefore, he included in any just estimate of the farmer's in- come. In other words, the city worker is paid entirely in cash, the farmer partly in cash, partly directly in the necessities of life. To obtain fuller knowledge of the value of this direct contribution from the farm, the United States department of agriculture has recentlyconcluded an investigation which included 43S. farm families, divided among ten states in different sections of the coun- try. The investigators found that on these farms the cost of maintaining each grown person was on the average $176 a year. Of this sum only about 22 per cent was paid out in cash. The remainder was furnished by the farm, not in the form of money, but in those things for which the money would have been ex- changed. The extent to which a farm can time be made self sustaining, made to supply, the wants of the family that lives upon it without resorting to buy- ing and selling, is indicated by condi- tions is the particular area of North Carolina included in the investigation. This area, it may be said, is not re- garded as typical of. Southern agricul- ture, The investigators found that the av- erage annual value of the food, fuel, oil and shelter enjoyed by the farm family was $505. Of this sum the aver- age farm furnisbed directly $420, leav- ing only $76 to be bought. The grocery bill wasalways the largest item fu the cash expenditure. ;'iris was even. 'in:e apparent In the farm furnishes directly in food, in fuel, in shelter and in rent is an impor- tant part of the farm family's income. On the other hand, it must be remem- bered that the farmer has capital in- vested in his business, the interest on which must be earned before he can truly be, said to he making money. In the proper relation of the three factors -interest on the investment, cash re- ceipts and direct income from the farm -lies the secret of successful farming. Homemade Plumb Bob. While you can get along vu a farm without a plumb bob, it is nevertheless very handy when dying certain kinds of work, and it is a part of the every- day equipment for rough and ready lean carpentering and building. The one illustrated here is ensy to make. Very little material is required. Take two ordinary laths, get them set tree ;with the try -square or T-square :mil attach the bob with :t string. By 0,dIla the illustration as p guide you can make a very servieenble help.-lftu•m Progress. MAKING ACID PHOSPHATE. importance of the Product in the For• tilizer Industry. [Prepared by United States department of agrlctntura.f The mailnfaetu 8 of acid phoeph,ite has come to play such an imperrnnt part in the fertilizer industry lit the United States that the dieter( bent "f agriculture has •lust lsuad n bulletin on the Mailent whloh is designed tenth for manufacturers and for Ilrugre,.at•e fa rulers. Phosphate fuels, it lo sold, has almost entirely di.pllh•,sl hens. eger composition or tue rock' 1s of importance, because not only the phos- phate of lime but all the impurities as ;welt are acted on by the sulphuric acid used as 0 reagent and influence the finished product. Of all the impurities occurring in phosphate rock compounds of iron and aluminium are the most dreaded Even in Small quantities these elements are apt to cause a certain amount of re- version and in large quantities may render the product sticky and unfit for use. By careful handling, however, phosphate high in iron and aluminium compounds may be made to produce high grade acid phosphate, On the other hand, carbonate of lime is desir- able when the quantity is not excessive. Both the "den" end the "open dump" systems are in general use for making acid phosphate, each baring certain advantages. In' the "den" system after the rock and sulphuric acid are thor- oughly mixed the compound is dropped into a closed brick, lined chamber or "den." where the cbemical reactions raise the temperature to a high point' and are completed in twenty-four hours or so, the product being then ready for shipment. In the "open dump" system, as the name Implies, the mix- ture of acid and rock is dumped on an open pile and may require a month or even longer to become fit for use. The fumes given off in the process, more- over, may become a serious nuisance In the vicinity of towns. On the other hand, the removal of the acid phos- phate from the den is troublesome and when done by band sometimes danger- ous. The cost of producing acid phos- phate, the bulletin says, depends ou a number of varying factors, such as the size, location and equipment of the plant and the cost of sulphuric acid. Exclusive of office expenses it may be said to range from 26.20 to $S a ton. The product is sold on the ba- sis of its so called available phosphoric acid content and is worth at the fac-I tory from 40 to 56 cents a unit, or , twenty pounds. The phosphoric acid' content runs from 14 to 21 per cent of the marketed product. Easier Way to Lay Flooring. Laying a floor bas always been a hard job for me if the lumber was warped. But I have just completed a corn crib in which I used the cant hook for forcing the flooring into Place, and I was surprised at the ease wltn'wnfen the wore was uone. eu uoe ing it the chain was anchored to a window sill or studding. The handle of the cant hook was placed against a flooring board and the hook caught into a link of the chain. The handle was then pulled back, forcing the flooring boards into place. When doing this a block should be placed between the hook on the chain and the window sill and also between the cant hook handle and the flooring. -Correspond- ent of Missouri Valley Farmer, Thd Boy's Idea "•01a?" "1 don't see why the men who wrote the rules of grammar didn't make '1 done' and 'bas went' proper. It's easter to say 1L that way." - Detroit Free Press. 1f You Wish to Be Well You Must Keep the Bowels Regular. If the bowels do not move regularly they will, sooner or later, become con- stipated, and constipation is productive of more ill health than almost any other trouble. The sole cause of constipation is an inactive liver, and unless the liver is kept active you may rest assured that headaches, jaundice, heartburn, piles, floating specks before the eyes, a feeling as if you were going to faint, or catarrh of the stomach will follow the wrong action of this, one of the most important organs of the body. Keep the liver active and working properly by the use of Milburn's Laxa- Liver Pills. Mrs. Elijah A. Ayer, Fawcett Hill, N.B., writes: "I was troubled with constipation for many years, and about three years ago my husband wanted inc to try Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, as they had cured him. I got a vial and took them, and by the time I had taken three vials I was cured. I always keep them on band, and when I needa mild laxative I take one." Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25c a vial, 5 vials for 51.00, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The •t' Milburn Co., Limited. Toronto. 0n0, 1•e•s••es••scoo®•o®s1®s•eee•0OPHOom•o©••peoesoceseee• : • 1 "Want" or "For Sale" l •• • • •Advertisements, of Every Kind •1 • • • • • _"Cs • ria.- : �r: • 0 it i- • • • • i1r , l'+�'et • �11. r•!et • • • • A SQUARE PE •• • • in a Round Hole • • You may be alright,- but if et a you are in the wrong position e : you are !Ikea square peg in a • •• round hole. You want a po- • sition • where you fit. 0 0 This paper is read by Intel. •• • ligent business men, and a Want Ad. in our classified ' • • columns will reach them. •• • • wit • • • • Bring^^�Most11 �S'attifactory� Results from �-• guano and apatite ase 0omre of t'' "• e • o Ilhoric acid, and 0 knowledge .d the a e O••c••ess•ss•••easseeDeeeer•••••••••SO•e•s••e••OeO•O. Bud, the Modern Way Direct from PAGE • (F1REIGIIT PAID) You want the (NEST FENCE at the LOWEST PRICE The biggest real value for your money TUFA -WHY go to the dealer? He doesn't make fence. He only sells it, You may pay him a profit -but he can't add a cent to the WORTH of your fence. He only adds to Ito cost. `fIUY-help to pay the Organizer 52500 yeas? liedoeso,t WHY -help to pay the Swleeins.nager's $35:10 salary? make fence. He merely sells it to the Dealer. He Ile doesn't make i ty. fence. Be merely bosses gets a fine living -by raising the PH.ICE (but NOT the Organizer -n i'n setic to the Dealer -who• the QUALITY) of your Pence. finally sells to YOU. You pay hits, well. 50% to 75% of all money you pay Dealer for Fence -gees to these 3 Men. Yet the 3 together can't add a single dav to the life 01'your fence But they can and do -add many cents per rod to price 'When you buy .. t DI 1213 0 T from PRICE LIST W' y emoo?' PAGE, ysu Sive the "mtddleG AOL your longe HEA�?'Y FENCE SPECIAL FENCE. WHY pay P A G E prices for fence money to the man as et titan Spacing rely le 010 Na.r aid Delbm. HaLnw 1•e. re. not half as geod2 who rotas, makes ben 8atrht. Inelineyeri of 6oH.oetah 0■Lvb IIp80811l1,0501 apiil. 'V13Y giro rho dei 5 31 22 8 9, 10 10 10.31 18 -bar, 48dsch ».... $30,44 for dollar bills 501 the Fence. Who 6 40 22 6 7, d 9 ! ». 24 20•bar 60 inch - - .51 - GOc? Thiol: tibia pate into it at rho 7 40 22 5,335, .T -3 33,5 6...._.,_ .26 3 -In.. ...„.,. 30 over;. ffinil Yonr 7 48 22 5, 635 715, 9, 1E, 10....-,.- .26order with caklt, 0) U d L IT Y and 8 42 22 6, 6,, d, 6 6, 6, 6 ..�... .29 12 -It. Cate......... 4 35 chests, vl ones^ or V n L.II I] yoti any - 88 42 1614 6, 6, 6 6, 6, i, �6 .31 13-44. Gate .,.,,�...,L.�.. 4 60 'express coder or Por. There's only • 4, 5, 5A, 7, 8A, 9, 9.......... .30 14 -ft. Gate 4 85 ,bank oral] to hor - 8 47 16 4, 5, 5 7, 8 ; 9, '9....-.... .32 Set tools ....._....._. 8.00 riearesb f P A 4111 8 rano small groat 9 48 22 6, 6, 6, 6,6, 6, 6, 6 ..... .34 251be. Brace Wire........,..... .75 BRANOH, between you n•nd 9 48 16A 6, 6, 6, 6 6, 6, 6, 6 .36 25 1be. Staples...........-.,.:_. .80 ' Got the BEST 9 52 22 4, 4,-5, 5115, 7, 8 9,'9 .34 tie. The rose of 9 52 16: 4, 4, s, 5A, 7, 81; 9," 9 .36 F7a1, C1] et the .x000 lu000y 10)0 10. 48 16 5 3, 3t 3, 4, 534, 7; 73( '8 .38 LOwI1ST. PRIOR. 'UGH OUAT 17 Y;,, 30 52 4635 3, 3, 3, 34, 515, „,7, 834 9' 9 .38 3)00ightl Paid,,u 11 55 1635 3, 3; 3, 3, 4, 534, d, 834, 9, 9 41 -510 nodose tinct. 1100 LILS1T1511d 01.01'. New Ontario Prices oh Request.ALL FULL No 9 GAUGE en arida. FREIGHT PAID ON ORDERS OF $10.00 OR OVER sl l9' age 's,R ore Fence -: --td Dept 1 1187 Xing, St. W,, TORONTO 54 I 37 O1lnrch SL"WALI'{L+'IFII�L.L++' 99 The New Era Job Department If it is Any Kind of Job Printing We can do it At Home Cards. Bills of Fare Ball Programs Bill Heads Blotters Booklets; By -Laws Cheques Counter Check Books Deeds Envelopes Legal Forms LFuer Heads Lodge Constitutions Meal Tickets) Memo Heads Milk Tickets' Note Circulars Note Heads Notes Pamphlets Posters: Prize Lists Receipts; Statements Society Stationery Stock Certificates Shipping Tags Wedding Invitations Etc., Etc., Ec. Everything from a Calling Card to a Newspaper. 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