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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-03-08, Page 7sites ' it late V11111,111)1 k rop cries Conducted by Professor Henry G. Dell. The object of this department Is to place at the service of our farm readers the advice of an aoknowl. edged authority on all subjects pertaining to sone and Grope, Addresa 411 questions to Professor Henry G. Boll, in care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, To. rent°, and answers will appear In this column in the order in whIoh they aro received. AG space is limited Pt i$ advisable where Immediate reply le neoeseary that a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with the queatlon, when the answer will be mailed dlreot, Ott$'44liaenee 'aka - it Question ---W. W, there' any Rtes in a mixture p£ 21 gallons of wa- quantity of spring wheat grown in ter to one-half pound of formalin. Kent and Esaex Counties? Would There are other treatments, but this you advise, planting spring wheat in is one of the handiest and most etfee- Kent County on a good clay loam tire, as formalin can easily be pur- soil, tiled 3 rode apart, 4 in. tile? chased at any drug store, Some farmers rsPrefel tosnrin ' the m mixture e of water and formalin on the wheat and to cover the wheat -pile with bags over night, so that the formic acid gas, which is dissolved in the mixture of water and formalin, will be kept in around the wheat as long as Pos- sible. It is this gas which kills the tiny smut spores. Question --i'. G,:—We had 40 acres of alfrtlfa which we eut three times last summer. Am afraid it went into winter rather weak. I have a good supply of manure. Would you ad- vise -manuring this field? Would yea advise liming it? If so, when? Answer:—If alfalfa has gone into When shouldi a, t it b planted a° that ad e pat will be sure to ripen? Answer: --.Spring wheat has been successfully grown in bath Kent and Essex counties. In unit Kett ('aun- ty was growing 1,018 acres while i 1914 there were only 183. In 1911 .Essex County was growing 1,346 aeras and in 1914 there were reported only 177 acres. From a study of the climatic conditions, both the range of temperature and the rainfall, I see )10 reason why spring wheat eaunot be successfully grown in these counties, if proper precautions are taken. According to investigations at On- tario Agricultural College, spring wheat should be seeded as early as the the winter in weak shape it should ground can be worked, I note that be given good care early in the spring, your ground is clay loans and is well if its vigor is to be revived and a good supplied with tile, This ground crop is to be produced. If you have should not be worked while it is sticky, some fairly well rotted manure, I nor should it be left unworked until would advise spreading at least two it plows up into a rough seed -bed. In to foutetons of this to the acre on the order to insure a good stand of wheat, alfalfa field. I would also advise ap- you would do well to apply 200 to 800 plying from one to two tons per acre pounds of a fertilizer carrying from of finely ground limestone, evenly dis- 2 to 3% ammonia and 8 to 10% tributed over the field. When the available phosphoric acid. The am- snow is gone in the spring and the manta will give the young crop a good, alfalfa has gotten a good start, it will vigorous start, while the available greatly help it to top -dress the alfalfa phosphoric acid will hasten its ripen- with about 250 to 400 pounds per acre ing. At a recent meeting of the On- of acid phosphate or bone steal. The tario Experimental Union, Prof. late Joe Wing, the great American Zavitz strongly recommended the use alfalfa authority, said: of Marquis wheat. If this is sown at "The phosphorus generally stimu- the rate of one and a half bushels per lates the little alfalfa plants and acre on well prepared land, there is mattes them hustle to get ahead of the good reason to expect a profitable re- weeds and grass. On Woodland ttu'n. Farm we have used raw bone meal and Question --S. R. P.:—I had a bad acid phosphate with about equal re - dose of smut in my wheat last sum- sults, as far as the eye could see. It mer, What treatment will make it is our practice to put on 250 to 400 safe to use as seed next spring? pounces per acre of 16% acid phosphate Answer:— The disease in your when the alfalfa Is sown on soils well wheat last summer may have been filled with lime. Acid phosphate is either the loose smut or the stinking about the most soluble of the phos - smut or Bunt. About the only cure phatic fertilizers and thus is best for for the loose smut Is careful selection top -dressing when there is abundant lime in the soil , . On our farm we give the alfalfa meadows a heavy dressing of phosphorus (phos- phoric acid, and this practice pays We11:' If the alfalfa field is fairly heavy soil and it appears to bo pretty cioee- ly compacted, it would greatly help the alfalfa to work the field by har- rowing with the teeth of the harrow turned back so as not to tear the plants out. This also would stir up a soil mulch and help retain the wa- ter that is so necessary to big crops, of seed from grain which is healthy, followed by soaking the seed five hours in cold water and then 10 min- utes in water at 180 degrees Fahren- heit. It is most likely that the disease in your crop was stinking smut ar Bunt. This attacks the young wheat seed- ling and the seeding parts or spores are carried in sacs which take the place of the wheat kernels. Ex- perimental tests show that the best method of killing Bunt or stinking smut is to immerse the seed 20 min - FREE TO GIRLS R'e 1,311 glue this beautiful prise free of all charge to any girl or young la45 Who will sell 40 sets of Easter Post- oards at 10 rent.. a set or lovely 12x10 Inch colored Oilograph Pictures at 10 cents each. The Extension Bracelet. Ss or rolled Kohl plate mud ills any rim. Send us your name and we will send you the cards or pleturea, When sold• send us the money and we will Mend you the bracelet. Address, 'HOMER -WARREN 00. oxis T, 130. TORONTO, OEM. There was a noticeable decrease last year in tiro number of deaths from hog cholera in places where it was long prevalent. We suspect that a closer attention to sanitation had a great deal to do with the change. Milk, shorts, and finely -ground oats make the best feed for young pigs, and • very little is required the first few weeks after weaning. Care should be taken at all times to have the pigs clean up the feed in the trough after every meal. The feed- er must use his judgment as to the amount of grain to feed. Among the new war measures adopted by the Indian Government'are the severe curtailment of railway services and the organization of In- dia's industrial and natural resources, with a view to increasing the output of munitions. Tom 1 11VAM-r PIRS.JoNFs To WALK OVER -ro TNe DRUG s'roRg. w1Tel ME - WILL `IoUTAICE CARa OF HER BABY UNTIL, WF come 99ACW KI rcHF-I<rrcHEy krTrOy -100— )11 <00-1"L L cA7cH 4011 I'LL CATcl-1'101) 'AWN Charcoal sharpens a hen's grinders. The colder the day the more corn needed. A ealad of chopped cabbage puts a good keen edge on the bird's appetite, If you can't get milk maybe you can get whey. It isn't quite up to the mark of milk, but it makes a fair sub- atitute, Cracked corn should be sifted be- fore being fed eo the poultry; the amount of meal saved will more than offset the labor. Growth and development require both quantity and quality of food, in order to build up good solid frames and give strength and vitality to the growing stock. Don't let any cabbage or other roots go to waste. Tie a stout string around the roots of several cabbages, and hang them in the hen -house so that the hens can just reach them nicely. 1 Have you ever found hens on the floor under the roost, dead? Uusually thea en which dies this way is rather well along in years and has been fed i freely of food that makes fat, She became too fleshy and died of fatty degeneration. It seems sometimes as if it makes little or no difference how dusty the windows of the poultry houses are. But it is a fact that clean windows tend to health and happiness, That makes it worth while to clean the darkened windows often. When hens eat snow, somebody is not on his job. Water is what the birds need, not snow. If you have customers who like rich brown eggs, that means that you should keep some Plymouth Rocks or Brahmas, fred Don't give the ewes corn. Corn makes them feverish and inflames the udders. Inflamed udders are a bad thing at lambing time. Neither crowd nor pinch the sheep in fodder. An unruly ram is a good candidate for the meat shop. A ewe that is soon to yean should not be too fleshy. If your neighbor keeps sheep of the same breed as yours, be sure to have yours marked. Sheep will break out sometimes, and if two flocks become mixed it is a hard matter to divide them. The right kind of sheep in a neigh- borhood where there are the right kind of dogs ought. to be a winning /reposition. Unfortunately opinions differ as to dogs. Silage is sometimes fed in small quantities to sheep with fairly good results. Be sure the silage is of good quality, not moldy or soured. Start, on a very small quantity daily and gradually increase. Start giving a pound or two to each matured sheep daily. Pregnant ewes have Leen fed up to four pounds or four and one- half pounds daily with no bad results. Of course, clover hay and a few oats and if possible a few roots should be fed as well. Be :ore the silage is good. Under no circumstances feed sheep spoiled silage. Save the wood ashes and keep them in a dry place. They are a splendid fertilizer. 'd /2e Meru:ft' a °x89 tonal C.ReCe '....1+'.CME1 i5�-45e4'etf"IeeZ.MaefreMie,.e-Ya lifecreaSea) Impaction mayre- f the Colonbe 0 npre- sent sent for some time without marked symptoms, then slight, colicky pains. Sitting on haunches, pressing croup against any solid object, little or no passages of faeces, a general fullness of the right side of the abdomen, are other symptoms. Give a purgative, follow by 2 -dram doses of nux vomica 3 times daily, feed bran only. ive rectal injec- tions. If pain be well marked give 2 drams solid extract of belladonna. Oats is the principal grain for horses, but a little bran or oil cake might profitably be added to put the horse in condition. Boiled oats might be fed occasionally, and care must be taken not to overfeed on hay. Don't buy a field implement without a spring seat. Why? Because if you come in leg -weary from the field the v0 ZIP ra6,7e 01bfla4Ct0d4Y 10h4 ),sr hay- - Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially invited to write to the/ d,,partment Initials only will be published with eaoh question and Ira answer as a means of identification but full name and address must bo elven In each letter. Write on one aide of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct If stamped and addressed envelope le enclosed. Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs. Helen Law, 76 Castle Frank Road, Toronto, Mrs. F. M,:-1. If lemons and oranges are placed in boiling water or in a hot oven for five minutes before squeezing the juice can be easily ex- tracted. 2. Vegetables should not be served in individual side dishes, but should be placed on the dinner plate with the meat.3. A child's d's Ta m chances are the horses will not get the o' Sha1-ter hat after being washed attention they should have in the way should be stretched over a dinner of grooming after a dusty day in the Plate to prevent it from shrinking and hot sun. losing shape. 4. Cornstarch added Cribbing is a vice that is hard to to the flour for pie crust will make it be kept in a box stall without mangers more flaky. If you are using pastry or racks. In the majority of eases flour add one tablespoon to every cup the vice can be checked by buckling of flour; if ordinary flour add two a strap rather tightly around the tablespoons _ordinary every cup. 5. The horses's throat. Do not have it so task of washing the family handker- tight as to interfere with breathing or chiefs is easy according to the follow - swallowing. ing method: In a vessel contemns Wheat must bo fed carefully to at least two gallons of warm water, horses in order to avoid digestive Put four heaping tablespoons of any troubles and skin eruptions, As the kernels are small and hard they should be rolled for all farm animals. If ground too finely the meal must be mixed with coarser feed to avoid forming a pasty mass in the animal's mouth. Wheat has feeding value •about equal to corn, but, for horses, Il oats are preferable. When He Sat Down. A local magnate, who rarely makes a set speech, was asked to deliver an oration at a war fund gathering to which he had liberally • subscribed. When he returned home his wife in- quired: "How was your speech received, Richard?" "Why," replied her husband, "they congratulated me very heartily. In- deed, Sir Riehard Lucre told me that when I sat down he said to himself it was the best thing 1 bad ever done!" He—The fools are not all dead yet. She --That's as true as you live. Free Prize t #. Girls Beautiful Doll and Doll Carriage This lovely Canadlan Doll Is 16 lnehos tall and looks just like the picture, She has jointed arms and legs and natural looking head, stands and feet. She has a pretty dress with lace and ribbon trimmings. The Doll Carriage has a steel frame and wheel% and the seat, book and Hood are made of leatherette It is 24 Inches high, just the right size for the big doll. Any girl will be proud to own this lovely Doll and Doll Carriage. Suet send us your name and address and we will send you 80 paokage8 of beautiful, embossed Easter Post Cards to sell at 10 cents a package, or lovely 12x10 inch colored 0110 - graph Pictures at 10 (lents each. When they are sold, send as our money (three dollars) and we will send 811uoharges prepaid and we send you the Doll Carriage also just as soon as you show your doll to your friends and get three of tllenl to pell poet -cards or Pictures and earn prizes. Write to us to -day so you can get your Doll rind Doll Carriage quickly, Y ll MER=WARREN RE3 CO. DEPT. 137. TORONTO. 0 i,$ -rte PRe-r'l'y WATCH, Loo 1r- sere goad soap or powder dissolved and one tablespoon coal oil. Plunge soil- ed handkerchiefs into this and bring slowly to a boil, then put them into clean strong suds and very little rub- bing either by hand or machine will make them snowy white. 6. Colored clothes should be ironed on the wrong side. 7. Boil a slice of raw potato in fat which has been scorched or has, a burned taste and the flavor will be restored. 8. Sprinkle starched clothes with warm water to make them stiffer. F. R. E.:-1. If you wake tired it is probably due to one of the follow- ing causes: (a) insufficient sleep; (b) the poisonous influence of stale air In the bedroom; (e) a late and heavy supper; (d) general nervous condition. Remedies for the first three ars obvious, For the fourth it is usually sufficient to rise promptly, to dress briskly, thereby improving the circula- ti reak- on, and to take a nourishing break- fast. 2. To gain weight, eat raw eggs and milk, cream, rice, cereals, olive oil and grape juice, butter and starchy vegetables. M. M. R,:-1. Towels which are to be given to a prospective bride should be embroidered with the initials of her maiden name, not that of her prospec- tive husband. 2. Nothing you could give your college friend would be more highly appreciated than a knit or crocheted set of afghan and pillow in the university colors for the inevitable college couch. A pennon macre of felt in the colors is also most accept- able. G, Ii.:—I. David Lloyd George was born in Manchester, England, in 1843, of Welsh parentage. Itis father, a poor and invalid schoolmaster, died in early ]manhood, and David was brought up in humble circumstances by an uncle in Wales. 2. To venti- late a room without draughts, take an old window screen, stretch thin mus- lin or cheese -cloth across it and tack it in place, and put it in a window as you would a fly -screen. 3. A secre- tary "pro tempore" is a secretary "fur the time being." 15-2,Paryt3 Sometimes a cow is uneasy, steps or moves or even kicks when being milk - See if there are stray hairs on the udder that nye being pulled. Re- move them by the use of shears and note if the cow is more quiet. Don't neglect to have the box stalls ready for the cows that are to calve in the early spring. "Lest we forget" let me again urge that if the stables are not quite warm enough, blanket the new-born calf. Pieces of old wool blankets washed clean are just the thing. This is im- portant. These blankets are easy to make. Pasten them by strings, tied at the neck, around each hind leg, and under the belly by the,fore legs. As the calf grows these strings can be let out. 14Iy calves have grown and worn these blankets until they were a mere patch on their backs. "The dairy cow," says Professor Dean, "will help the farmer solve the labor problem by furnishing remuner- ative labor all the year round, on high priced land we can see no other solu- tion of the labor difficulties on farms." Antelope's Long Jump. Some kinds of antelope can make a leap of thirty-six feet in length and ten feet in height. He Didn't Like It. Willie," said the teacher, suppose I had two squash pies and cut one In six pieces and the other in twelve pieces; which pie would you rather have a piece of?" "The one cut in twelve pieces," re- plied Willie. "I don't like squash pie." FREE TO BOYS This eplendld Rapid Fire Cannon shoots ten wood bullets just like the real Alachtne Guns, if 301 will sell 20 pe.c313,055 of our lovely embossed Easter Dost cards at 10 cents a package or love. ly 12x16 Itch colored °Roars h PSetures at 10 cents each, we will send you, with all charges prepaid this Rapid Pore Cannon, a supply of bnllote, and Pour Soldier targets. Send us your aalme and addrese and we send you the cards or pictures to sell. When geld send us the money and we gond you the prize 050011y as advertised. Write to -day and be first to 2'01 the Gun. ROMER-WARREN CO-, Dopa. 136, Toronto. (44a NIce R3N6S- -1 5>+1= WI-4AT VdotDLRFUI- 1 '--) )-0,16S 1 NoV4 IF THEN I -L oN1-'1 NURR'1 AND C0&UE- l'3ACI<d s Conservation of Eyesight. Every sue realizes what sight means for the eomfcr't and efficiency of daily 11fe, Man is not 0311012 better ot]' tvitllout 1115 01705 than a submarine would be without her periscope. A blind hermit would Soon die for the want of food. One's eificieney along moat lines neiwadaye depends a great deal upon the strength of the sight, The perfect young eye leas a wide margin of endurance and few of us realize when its strength is being used 11p until it is crippled. Now that the price of paper ie Hoa]'. ing higherand higher, small type le being introduced in all kinds of read- tt. 1, .n'•t th•-. nye if worked long at a time to deciphez +.. ..1' fig..lts, This causes tlerveroua clisturbwlee., headaches, in - di digest n, sleeplessness 1 essness, etc, We had better be a little liberal in paying for edition of books, magazines and other reading matter with legible type and economize in other ways --tobacco or imitation flowers on our spring hats, for instance. Save your eyes from dust as much asossible. If you have to read when riding in tars or trolleys do not rest your book or arm on any part of the seat, but hold it in your hand or hands Ho that it will move with the body and not be going one way while the bead an& eyes alt' swinging in another direction. Never read with e bright light shin- ing down over your head. Try and hold your reading natter at an angle so that the light reflected from the paper will not shime direct- ly i ect-ly in your eye, The color of the paper is worth con- sidering hn account books and such things. The contrast between a pure white paper and a jet black handwrit- ing or type causes a little confusion along the lines between the white and black. It is easier to follow let- ters or figures if they are brown on a light batf paper. Practical tests will soon convince you that the lines under the latter condition will be more dis- tinct than when the sharper 00311. asi of black with white is made. The desk upon which you have your reading matter should be of a mater- ial that will not reflect the glare of the light into the face, which will ir- ritate the eyes. When you have to seek artificial aid by the use of glasses, there is no one too teamed in the anatomy of the eye andthe many abnormalities to which it is subject for the task of giving ad- vice. Often more harm is done by glasses selected by those not educat- ed in medical science than would be done without the glasses. Further- more, one is misled by a false sense of security, while an undiscovered diseas- ed condition of the eye runs o1 until it is too late to remedy it. Never forget to take the best care of your eyes. They are good and necessary friends. THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER. Very Religious, a Valiant Fighter, and of Wonderful Endurance. . A correspondent of the London - Times draws this picture of the Rus- sian soldier: The moujik is intensely religiuus, and both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic services held each Sunday in a field hospital "somewhere in Vo'hy- nda" are crowded to overflowing, while, even were it not so prescribed, the men would never dream of ending the day's work without the evening prayer and the National Anthem. Isis religion is so simple and natural that foreigners mistake it for hypocrisy, " but it is a part of the man, and he crosses himself as readily when passe Mg one of the graves --now, alas! only, too numerous, 1111 over the fighting area—as when the bombs. and shrap- nel are falling all around. Intemper- ate he is if given the chance, but ex- isting regulations preclude such indul- gence, and he fights quite as valiantly without his vodka, though it was free- ly predicted that no Russian could do - so. His language is rarely obscene, and never blamphemous, and his talk, as the :sisters who nurse him through his wounds know best, is as that of a lite tie child. Ignorant he to beyond even the rank and file of other armies, but, though his mild works very slowly, he is filled with curiosity and anxious to learn, lie is extraordinarily enduring, not se much in hospital, where he only comes to when his nerve is broken, as in the trenches, where e his officers tell wonderful tales or his bravery en,1 iu difference to either danger or disown - fort. Even when wounded he can be a Stoic, as those realize who have tak- en him in a motor ambulance over such roads tis satisfy the authorities in Russia, An oc,•asionel groan is the utmost est,reesion • of the agony h unust. saki when the eve bllinps ave the bad plans:, and even "that is rare ly eu.ar 1. IIs goon to 1110 war', Jr not eagerly at least without the least attempt •.tt rhirli- his part, lk..1, ", :1; ; n neete+sal';w in Eneltw tint Il .,f ih1' tallish .alle=ges hat e; nal t ilea .100i s to women student 1.8'1 ol•,t:tine•d from seeds of 13's it 7 t tial+ c i'; poen found ann'Et tut' linseed oil l i.. .11 :1 i'il:tlt-t1ni11iC1'a.