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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-02-05, Page 7ad dressecmMunications to—Agronomists 70 Aeelalde se west. Toronto WINTER, IS THEIR VACATION. miles to get a new part. Said it the great majority of farmers both - Winter time is usually the rest time ered last year, He would doralrtlesa rot' have bean $20 ahead of the game if these take their summer vacation in he 'had overliiece the ]Finder last, the winter, Tao often this "vacation" winter and replaced the part rich.: is continued until , the spring week his 'memory said had caused trouble; drives them to the field. I before. Many, an implement is allowed to Tools, implements and machinery let or rot clown just .because some . are all too often just as, and where, part has failed and the farmer, thinks' they ;were unhitched from last year. only in terms of whet it would coil to Many less caref al farmers have left load the iniplan:,ret, haul it to town most of their implements out in that and pay the blacksmith,and wood - tool shod which has the sky for a roof: worker good high feee fodoing ,the and possibly one or more barbed-wire job fences for sidewalls! Such imple-I But, with the exercise of a little meets hays depreciated approximately ingenuity 'and a small outlay for seven 'pee cent. since last"ysae. Pretty parts, the •workman he done at home heavytax, isn't it? And they are err- with` the farther: actually earning me- tain'to redeive no attention until the diaries' wages! You can pay yourself day next spring or summer when the, fifty cents to $1 per .hour for good, mush of work demands their immediate .'faithful work and thus got the tools use. Tor the type of farmer who: and implements all ready for the see - abuses his implements this way .there son's work: I -low nice to earn ma - Is little hope of improvement, This chinists' wages for three: or four weeks story is not written se much for .his: and stay right at home where you benefit as for the farmer with a good can stick your legs under your` own enough business head on hire that he• well -loaded table and tuck yourself wants to' develop more- efficioney ink into your own woolen blankets , at his business as a rural gentleman. !night! • PUT wolhxsrior' iN =Ea. Well, pull the tractor•into the shoe, it is high time now to bring that fenced get 'a neighbor who knows how vacation to a close. The first thing to to do it, and learn by acting as his be looked after—if it needs it =on the helper. Overhaul the tractor, repine - putting farm in preparation for ing piston rings and all other parts putting the implements in A-1 shape that are not giving 100 per cent. ser- for spring, is to have a workshop and vice, Grind valves, etc. Go over the have it in order. Frequently I go into gas engines with the same care. Every the workshop on a farm and find that engine should be_overhauled annually 'it has become a catchall -just a junk if it has much work to do. Don't shop, having the accumulations of neglect the truck and pleasure cars. scraps, and broken things for the Lord Then get the disc. More than likely knows how many year! The first: this tool would be fifty per cent. more thing that should be done in such a efficient if well sharpened. See that shop is to clean house. Load all of all bearings are in good shape.' Go the scrap 'end junk onto the wagon or over all of the tools and implements truck and haul it to the junk dealer.- with the greatest of care. Bees. rigid He needs it in his business. You in your service requirements as if don't, I need not suggest that perhaps "you were a government inspector. there is enough other scrap around •?aorsTABLD USE 01° FAINT. after you have taken out bolts, etc., the first thing. If you are inexper- which: may be useful, to make a full After all. of the working and wear - load. ing parts of the implements and ma- Get all the working tools together chines are fixed up properly, go over, and fix them up, getting every tool in there with a•heavy coat of good paint. good working condition—file and set Maybe some of them have gone so saws,grind dr shavelong without paint that two coats will t axess, and he highly advisable, chisels, draw out get cold chisels, pinch Choose thoughtfully the color you and crowbars, a rasp and some want for wood and the one for metal new' files, etc., and have a regular work. Get good quality of paint. You place for every tooL Get a stove in may be surprised to be informed that ate have a floor space large enough to you can sell good' quality paint to your hold a tractor clear -in short, make implements and machinery, when they your shop areal business unit In your need it, at more than $24 per gallon! farm business. What .do I mean? Just this: Good OVA;n17A'pL ALL reouserENTs. I'painting of farm implements, when As you thinkit over you will recall care is taken to get an ample supply that several of your implements need of it into all. joints, and especially repairing, or worn or broken parts where wood, and metal work join, will need,replacing, or the implement prolong the life and usefulness of the needa general overhauling. One day implements sufficiently to repay at in harvest time last Year I called on the rate of more than $24 per gallon a gond farmer. friend. The knotter on -for the paint. Then the added pride the binder was causing a lot of and self-respect . which • well -painted trouble, Ile had monkeyed several implements . give the farmer are of hours with it and then had to stop greater value than the actual increase the harvesting and drive fourteen in intrinsic value of implements. POULTRY. different size frelde is well illustrated by somedata worked out with a group A cellar with a little ventilation is of farms. On eleven fields with an an ideal location for an incubator, average size of 5.7 acres it was found The temperature will not vary great- that one man plowed 1.64 acres in ten ly and the floor is free from jarring, hours. On fifteen fields averaging If the machine must be operated up- 15.2 acres in size, 2.08 acres were stairs do not have it close to the stove. turned over in ten hours; in fields Avoid heavy walking and: slamming averaging 29.8 acres, 2.71 acres were doors. Keep the room temperature plowed in a ten-hour day. as uniform as possible as the outside In other words a man did 27 per air is constantly passing through the cent. more work in the medium than incubator: Regulation is difficult if the room is hot during the day and cold at 'inght. Chicks often knock down the ther- mometer at hatching time. Then you have to run the machine by guess work as the door cannot be safely opened when the chicks are emerging. WiLL BE GIVEN COMMERCIAL TEST ROTOR SHIP TAKING CARGO TO ENGLAND Anion F ottner's sailless wind rotor vessel, "Tee Beckon," has been chartered to carry a -cargo -of timber from Danzig to England. The strange craft has given satisfactory results In tests, but this is the first time it has come in competition with the regular sailor steam vessels. The Bucken is propelled by the action of the wind on large rotating cylinder masts. It is shown above together with its inventor and navigating officers, • An Honest -Doctor. "The thing I liked best about that doctor was—lee was honest with me," said Jahn Buck. "I tell you, it's rare to fend a really honest doctor." Is that so, I asked myself. John was recounting his experience with an em- d inent specialist whom he had consulted about treatments for his steadily in -1 creasing deafness. The'specialist ha$ bluntly told him that he'd better not waste his money on treatment for his trouble was incurable. And now comes John to tell me that it is rare to find a really honest doctor. Ie that so,1 I ask. I know doctors, I know a lot of them and I know them in a way that, John Buck never can know : them, I stripped of all their airs and myster-I ies. And I say that it is not rare to find an honest doctor. John Buck gone ht have o • g me to a doctor special- izing pecial-izing in ear diseases a man just as: HORTICULTURE AND �°Ii YA NHIP honest as the one olected, yet onel whom cherished the belief that certain _.Some one has said that it is bad enough to be poor without having his poverty proclaimed to the world. All proprietors of fine looking homes are pot wealthy, but when a bare, unat- tractive place is observed one's pity is likely to be aroused for the unfortun- ate occupant. A half-hour's walk on the streets of a town or village, or a drive of a few miles into the country in almost any direction, maybring one face to face with homes showing widely varying degrees of beauty. What may be taken for an evidence of prosperity may be only the result of well arranged planting done from time to time at very little expense. Many a town has benefitted permanently by a campaign of "paint up" and "plant up," and no one ever regrets respond- ing to such an appeal, A neat lawn and a few flowers and shrubs can transform a bare, unat- tractive place into a loveable spot of which every member of the fancily will be proud. Indeed it is largely the planting about the homes of England that has created the charm so charac- teristic of that wonderful country. Whether it be. the larger estates or the humble dwellings, the same apprecia- tion of horticultural beauty is shown. With the ageing of this country sim- ilar results may be looked for. In fact many sections, particularly those that have come within the influence of a horticultural society, show tennis- takabie signs of rapid advancement in home and town decoration, We have abundance of beautiful planting ma- terial' proved by our Experimental Farms quite hardy, and soil and Cli- mate favorable for their highest de- velopment. All we need is a resolu- tion to work out a planting plan be- fore the arrival of spring, order the stock and have it put in at the be- ginning of the growing season. By this means many homes may be made more attractive and the reputations of the owners protected against the charge of indifference and neglect. —Canadian Horticultural Council. Hatching Eggs. Breeding' hens gave good hatching eggs when they were removed from the laying pens in October and placed en free range, where there was an Iabundance of green feed, so says Prof. W. R. Graham of the 0. A. C. Poultry Dept. The hens were fed whole grain, mash, and given water to drink. They moulted quickly and, as was expected egg production was completely stop- ped. These birds when placed in breeding pens in January gave excel- lent hatching eggs during. the season. Birds with a ration' in which there was plenty of clover leaves, some canned tomatoes and raw liver, gave fair hatching eggs, but they were, not con - in the small size fields and 65 per cent. more in the large than in.the small! fields. Applying the same yardstick to the cultivation of corn brought the same difference, Using a'one-row cativo,' for in fields averaging 6.2 acres, a day's cultivation 'covered 5.8 acres of I find it pays to wire the thermometer ground. In fields aderaging 15.1 acres to the tray where the eggs are turned this same cultivator would tend -6:2 the last time- Then it will stay up- acres, whereas in fields 25.2 acres in right and you can keep the machine extent, 0.1 acres were tended with the from becoming foul: or five degrees 'one -row machine. too het at hatching time. These' data lead to the question,. The air around an incubator is im- especially if a man in a general farm - proved if you -use high-grade oil and rug system fads himself with a lot have a fresh wick for each hatch. The of small fields: "Can I afford to re - burner can be boiled in Trot soda water arrange my fields and eliminate the to remove gummy accumulations• extra. work .entailed in their plowing Te ! the wick will turn easily and and cuitiva.tion?" - the tame is more easy to regulate. . I The answer to this question depends Do not worry too mach if a few on the shape and contour of thefarm, chicks die in the shell: I understand the condition of the fences and the . many experienced poultrymen are sat-, farming system. Certainly every farm - laded if they obtain close to 'fifty per `ex should give the matter some cent. hatches as an average for the thought if he has hot already clone so seas,eii, Of course, the fer-tilityof the and when the fences rust out or wear 'eggs is much higher and it must be out so reconstruct them as to' make that even, the. best of poultry keepers 'tite.fields larger and more economical - cannot be ,sure of hatc1Si'ig'every egg. ly worked if it is possible to do so. Breading: stock will produce a larger Ong' ` very good farmer 'et hey ac- per cunt, of fertile eggs if they are quaintance has recently rearranged his allowed free range as soon as wee-•feeids so as to eliminate point rows, then conditions are at all favorable, He finds that he can flowed() ',more Balanced rations in the winter laying pork in less time than he did before, house are necessary, but fresh green Incidentally he has enlarged acid grass, angleworms and exercise on the lengthened his, fields somewhat in the soil is the original formula :for poultry process, thereby niah(lig h's labor vigor and thrifty chicks. much more efficient. Size and Shape of Fields. ' In these days of high-priced labor on farms elector like this. ie of mach more importance than it .formerly was.—Fs S. P. The disadvantage of small'lields on a farm is a herdshieethat any efficient (armee finds it difficult to overcome. Few :farmers try, -to check •up on the extra time they do; spend because of short Tuns and extra turns, The'effieieney of et man's work with in the cold. Stant, and, therefore not entirely de- pendable. There, is now under way a series of experiments with sixteen pens, on as .m:any rations, in the hope that some one may produce hatching eggs of reasonable value, Size of Flocks. There is some inclination for farm- ers to keep poultry in a large way, and moreover, a few would with very little encouragement, make poultry the, major part of their farm activities.: It would be better on the average, if the people increased their flocks' gradually every year from say one hundred laying 'hens to one thousand laying hens, so. says Prof. W. R. Gra- ham raham of the 0. A. College. Courtesy is the quality, lb cliieseps ai r. oman sono t •" when` a .d.e:uartin w g g kieros t soldier wLo neve. aiiswerc;l the cook -Souse can. . Ties isIern- est stands at the o en door and lets, gu P1 I erg i se: try wee tiiohled in the snow with; the 'aid Of a spoon and knife. treatment, we will say aural massage might do some good. The man could; give John a number of expensive• treatments, honestly take his money,! and honestly leave him as badly off in his ears as ever. The rare thing in doctors is the one! 'who is both wise and honest. That is' the man you want for your family; doctor. If you wait until emergency, is knocking claxnor'ous y at your door your chance of getting the right mane is very poor. Quite likely you will get; one who is neither wise nor honest, for plenty such are now collecting a living from a long-suffering public. Don't wait for the emergency. Look, around you now, while all is calm and; the whole family rests placidly uncon-I scions of its good health. Choose the; doctor upon whom you would call with' greatest confidence, the one in whom you could confide your 'fancily troubles, the one you could trust to take care of wife or little babe, the one you feel; sure would be square- Then go to hint and say, "Doctor, I'm John Buck. If ever I need a doctor you're the man, I shall depend upon you and you can depend on me." -Dr. C. H. Lerrigo, Experiments With Wheat. A long series of experiments with wheat have been conducted at the Do- minion Experimental Farm at Bran- don, Man. A seminary of the work performed is given in Bulletin No, 42, New Series, just issued by the Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa. It is a bul- letin from which wheat growers can gather a vast deal of information. The period covered extends from 1889, the first year after the fawn at Brandon was established, to 1928, and the var- ieties tested number no fewer than 173. Besides recording the tests and their results, the bulletin deals with seed, frozen versus unfrozen, hand se- Iection, home-grown versus changed, and control of smut; with seeding dates, rates and depth; with summer fallow and substitutes, including cul- tural tests; with cultural experiments, treatment of stubble land, _treatment of sod land, preparation of seed bed, types of drills, cultural treatment to control rust, and cutting at different stages of ripeness; with manures and fertilizers, barnyard manuring, green manuring and commercial fertilizers; with rotation of crops, early rotations, rotations under test fronti,i110 to 1921, and with 'cost of production, wheat on summer fallow and: with wheat on stubble land. • My Chore Hours Are Shorter. Although we are keeping the usual` am6unt of live stock, which consists of about thirty hogs, leaving four• brood sows, a flock of forty sheep and from ten to, twenty bead of cattle, the time required to do the chores has 'Practi- cally been cut .in two by the simple method of petting in water tanks where each kind of stock can have: ac- oess to it at all times, and by building Self -feeders. T know that it. is,worth the time of any busy farmer to see how be can simplify his chore job by installing there two -labor-savers.. THE CHILDREN'S HOUR , SALLY SQUIRREL'S VALENTINE It was the clay before' St. Valen- tine's Day, and, because Fzedd•e Squirrel- liked little; Sally Squirrel' very much, he • thoughtit would' lie nice to send herr a valentine, Of course there were no letter -boxes in the woods, where Master Squirrel could mail the valentine lent there wee an oldwalnut tree with a hollow trunk and, as Sally lived with her Papa and Mamma in the top of that very tree, Freddie decided to place the valentine ice the hollow 'trunk set the base where Sally would be sure to find' it in the morning when she scampered down to: the ground. So, when evening came, he put on his little snowshoes, for a. heavy snow had begun to fall, went out as he had planned and put the precious valen- tine carefully' in the hole at the foot of the tree. Now it happened that a naughty lit- tle Bunny saw what Freddie Squirrel had done and decided it would be great fun to play a trick on him. So he told a number of his' little friends that Master Squirrel had put a valen- tine in the hollow trunk of the old walnut tree, "Suppose we wait till midnight and them take the valentine and put a funny' picture in its place? Sally will think that Freddie did it to tease her," said this mischievous Bunny. So they waited until they heard the deold owl boot twelve times and then they knew the hour was midnight.; The snow lead been falling steadily for hours and was by this time quite an. The rabbits had no snowshoes and they found it hard work struggling through the deep drifts and by the tines they reached the old walnut tree, some of them were quite tired and out of breath. They wondered if the joke really was worth so much discomfort.' n ani unhappy dis covTheery. they They made hopped around the tree - several times, ' looking for the hole but there was no opening to be seen Anywhere. "Why," said the naughty little Bunny, "I am sure we have the right tree! And I know there was a hole FUN FOR .THF,, VALENTINE PARTY o J Since Cupid and poetry are insepar- able in our thoughts, what could be more fun for a Valentine Party foi young folks or: grown-ups than • Poetry Party? it will furnish no end of 'novel ideas for entertainment, and surprise you with the poetry making of soma of your:friends. Invitations for sea:an affair should contain such lines as, Corrie to my party, and for my sake, Some lines of poetry try to make. Decorate the rooms lavishly with hearts,bows and arrows, cut ram red paper, and have several pictures of Cupid pinned on the walls. Around the roam should be displayed several pattern, verses of poetry to show the guests what they are expected to welts. Four lines should be the limit, the sentiment of the 'verse fie keeping with the occasion. Verses like the fallowing could be written or printed on stiff white paper and mounted on the walls where they are easily read: Through all the years I will be true, In days both dark and sunny; I'dd share with you my every joy And also half my money. Dan,Cupici is a wise one, And when he shoots his darts He's .careful in his aiming, He always hits their hearts. The year is full of holidays, But none is quite so dear As one that's. meant for. lovers; Saint Valentine draws near. 0 little old Cupid, I say you are smart, Though some call you stupid, For you stole my heart. Present your guests with pencils and paper pads. Give them a stated number of minutes to complete their verse making.. When time is up have each exchange verses with the person on his right. Then have all the verses read aloud. As they are read have them numbered one, two, three, and so on, and let one person collect them all when the reading is over. Then put to a vote of the guests which poem at the base, leading into the' hollow they liked best. The verse receiving trmek." the largest number of votes gets first But the ether bunnies were quite prize --say, a book of love lyrics. The out of patience and began to grumble. verse receiving the smallest number "I don't believe he knows one tree should win a book of humorous verse. froth another," said one, Later in the evening out the vses "I thiclk he was trying to play a in 'two vertically and distribute them game on us," said another, among the guests, one hr-lf of a verse The upshot of it was that they all to a man and the other half to a girl. decided they had been tricked and Let them match them for supper they resolved to get even with the partners, naughty bunny for playing a joke on After supper is served will come them. distribution of a box of valentines, They caught him and rolled him placed rah en empty fireplace if the about in the new fallen snow. They room contains one. If not, let the box put snow down his neck and pelted be in one corner of the room, explain - hien with snowballs until he was glad ing that Cupid left it there when he to run from them as fast as ever he made his airplane delivery of vaien- could. tines. Of course, you know and I know, For a valentine frolic for the grow - that there was a hole at the base of ing youngsters give a Hit the' Heart the old tree but the snow had drifted Party. Cut a large picture of Cupid so deep that the hole was completely from a magazine or draw the outlines covered. Really none of them were of a. Cupid on white paper and cut it very bright net to think of what had out. Make a large circle on the pic- really happened. ture where the heart should be located The next morning, when little Sally and make an inner circle for the Squirrel carne scampering down the centre of the heart of Cupid. Mount inside of the trunk, she was surprised it on the wall of the i•oonr where the to discover that the hole was closed party is given. Arm the boys and and the base of the tree buried deep girls with bows and arrows purchased under snow. But she was more sur- at a ten -cent store. Give each of them prised and very much delighted to five chances at Cupid's heart. The find her lovely valentine. one coming nearest the centre th, She never knew how near she came most times should be adjudged the to losing it and that the heavy snow winner and receive a prize. Som storm had been her friend and pre- grown-up can keep' a score on the vented the band of naughty bunnies shooting. from taking it away. As for the small tots, there is no What Freddy did to the other bun- end to what they can do in the way of ries later en is a story not to be told making valentines with sheets of tint here.—Enos B. Comstock. ed parchment paper, scissors and mucilage If the tinted parchment paper is How I Get More From not handy, then let them color large sheets of white paper. Manure. Then comes the cutting of the paper I am sure that I am getting more in the shapes desired. A square is value from my manure supply than the most popular, about eight inches I did before I changed my methods, of in size. Next comes the task of writ - handling it, .I have no manure shed, ing or printing -a valentine verse in and it is not convenient for mete haul the centre of it it to -the field as it comes to me from . There are many suitable verses. the stables. Formerly, I piled it in Tieey should be composed of small shallow layers where it was most cos- words the small boys and girls are venlent. But, I observed when load- familiar with- ,ing on the spreader that much of the When the verse is safely written horse manure was fire -fanged, and bend back the pointed edges of the that it appeared to have little life, square toward the .centre. You will have a nice valentine. To make it •more fancy a short piece of ribbon may be inserted iei each side of the folded •square and the ends drawn together and tied in a bow. Ga Game of Hearts. ` I then, upon the advice, of the Agri- cultural Representative, piled it up near the batn with vertical sides. The pile was made as deep as it was con- venient to pitch, arid frequently I would tramp the pile -down to make it firm. Built in this manner the ma- nure would leach very little and the fire-fanging seemed ,to be prevented; especially where wo mixed the ma- nure from thehorses and cows.—R, J. Foliow!`ne the Style, laabbit—"'Groat Scott, who are you?" It—"Why don't you know me? I'm The sills plush of. every Penman and wiiss porcupine, and I've' had my quills.. Wagner parlor car is mnde of Angers bobbed---tee-heel": • gloat hair. From- different colored paper cut. out as many 'hearts as there are guests. Put these in a bailee. aced shake veal. Let each guest drew ono.. Colors rndiicate the fetnrce of ash., ones who draw, thus: Silver heart means happiness in store for you. Gold. heart, money. Black heart, a warning; beware of n xivai. .. White heart, peace atter storm. Creed heart, jealousy will control P00 • - Blue heart, sortie hard times ahead, 'lied heart, brighter day -corning, Orange heart, yen will' me it' one you Love.: