HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-04-19, Page 7Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell,
aervThhe object of this department is to place at the,
edod of our farm readore the advice of an aoknowl.
0 authority on all aubjtota pertaining to soils and
crepe.
Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, In
caro of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Tie
rontor and answers will appear In title column In the
order in which they are received, As space Is Ignited
It le advisable whets Immediate reply le necessary that
■ stamped and addressed envelope bo enclosed with the
Mutation, When the answer will be mailed direct.
______„� henry G. Ren
Question._d,�. A. 13.: -Cat you tell It destroys iron of tin. Si ce it is a
me the cense of scabby potatoes and cl��•n n
�lr co treat ground .so as to prevent
potatoes from becoming scabby? My
potatoes seem to grow fairly well, but
are always very scabby
Answer: --Scab on potatoes is a dis-
ease caused by a parasitic fungus,
When once it gets into the soil it re-
mains there for some time, Potatoes
030uld be grown in a rotation and
should be kept c,ff soil known to be in-
fected with scab. Jt is not advisable
to use wood ashos or lime on ground
to be put to potatoos, as they make
conditicus right for the development
of the scab. Fresh manure tends to
produce suitable conditions for growth
of scab.
If potatoes are planted on clean
grofoem-
alinnorl corrOsiand vo subliated mate at ath r cost of
$1.00 to $1.50 per acre, no scabby
potatoes will be present. The formalin
treatment may bo used, but we prefer
the corrosive sublimate treatment,
since it controls a number of other
diseases besides scab, It is as fol-
lows: Dissolve four ounces of corro-
sive sublimate (purchased at any drug
store) in 30 gallons of water. Soak
the seed potatoos one and one-half
hours before cutting. It is advisable
to dissolve the corrosive sublimate in
one or two gallons water and add suf-
ficient to make up 30 gallons. This
had best be done two weeks before
planting and before 1 otatoes sprout.
The mixture can be used but four
times, after which it should be thrown
a`^
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from stook. andlchildrenl. be Do not 'le
any leftover
treated. potatoes that have be
Question ---E, L, M.:-Ilow mu
corn for silage should be sown to t
acre, sad how far apart should t
rows be?
1!'i11 corn in drills produce mo
silage to the acre than if sown
hills?
Which is considered the best meth
of seeding?
Has the corn planter any decided a
vantage over the ordinary seeder?
Answer: -The rate of planting co
for ensilage depends largely on t
fertility of the soil. Plant closer
riph than an poor soil. The r0
should be planted at whatever distan
is convenient for cultivation, usual
not closer than 30 inches, Corn c
be planted closer for ensilage th
if desiring for husking. If the grou
is fairly rich, drop the seed from 8
10 inches apart in rows. If mu
corn is desired in the ensilage,
should be planted farther apart than
forage is the main consideration. M0
ensilage will be produced in drills the
in hills. Unless the ground is lik
to be extremely weedy, we would a
vise drilling for ensilage.
The. ordinary corn drill is the be
machine to use for seeding, especia
ly when the corn drilled. I am n
quite certain just what is meant b
"the ordinary seeder," but if a "job
or hand planter is meant, one impor
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Another important feature in favor The wool growers of Ontario will
of the milking machine, says a cor- have an opportunity this year of dis•
respondent of The Nor' -West Farmer, posing of their crop at even less ex -
is that when one comes from the field, pense than those of other provinces,
tired and hot, it is easy and cool to let who co-operate under provincial men-
the machine do the work, as compared agement, provided they send their pro -
with sitting down among a bunch of duct to the central grading and sell-
COWs, ing station at Guelph. The charges
Kindness is a first a±sential. Let made 'by the other provinces have
the buyer of a wild, panicky heifer lose been $L00 for membership and one
no time in courting and winning her; cent per pound for the handling of
attention and affection. Then when the wool, while in Ontario the price
the young cow has milk she will be will be, in all, five ceps per fleece, to
ready for milking. She should at this: cover insurance on the wool, cost of
time receive much caressing and pet- twine, and wool sacks, cartage at
ting, and be made to feel that she is of Guelph, and all labor involved in
consequence. Upon sitting down to handling the wool.
her the first few times do not begin! With handling done at this small
milking suddenly and harshly, but price, and the market for the wool
slowly, waiting for her to become ac- I right at their door, the Ontario sheep
customed to it. 'men will have an advantage over the
"I raise all' my cows and make it a !nen of the Western Provines that
rule never to buy any. It is a lesson v will offset the latter's advantage in
I have had to learn." Thus spoke a I cheap growing of the wool. The
keeper of a large dairy. Ile voiced Westerners have such confidence in
the feelings of many who keep cows their system of marketing this pre-
fer profit, and the practise has more duct, and are so satisfied of the su-
than sentiment in it. If the calves peh•iority of the East as a place for
and young stock are not kept growing, marketing, that they are this year
with plenty of good food, up to the renting 0 warehouse in Ontario and
time of becoming cows, they lose, and paying the freight from the West to
it tells upon their quality in the dairy Ontario, in order that their wool may
throughout their milking life. Many be marketed here. The knowledge
men who breed high-class stock and of this fact should be enough to induce
raise their calves, lose sight of this all Ontario wool growers to take pat
very important truth, and fail to in the new movament immediately by
secure the mature animals that the applying to the secretary of the
Canadian Sheep Breeders' Association
for apglieation forms incl rules gov-
erning these co-operative sales.
breeding ought to produce,
A Wisconsin cow at 19 years of age
produced 427 pounds of butterfat for
the year. She had been fed silage all
her life. There, says The Breeders'
Gazette, is the answer for the ocees-
lonal skeptic one still hears sometimes
saying that silage is not a success,
that the acid destroys the teeth, and from five to fifteen acres of
eats out the lining of the stomach. Pasters
land in the production of either moat
Food Value of Beals.
It is estimated that an average
acre of beans produce as much real
food material as is usually obtained
The Food: or milk. According to recent deter -
Question a Vital One. urinations and prevailing'
Everywhere, the woeld'a reserve p]' for os
stn tly of foodstuffs is being rapidly much onsumptionod could be a ho -
tamely p1 P� man consumption be obtained
reduced. Recent advices indicate that from the purchnse of beans with
the wheel production of Argentina, twenty cents ars from the purchase of
New Zeeland and Australia is esti- cheese with forty-three cents, of beef
mated et only 70 per cent. of last steak with seventy-nine cents, end of
year':, production, The factors tend- eggs with one dollar and six
int' towards reduced production, suchnone
f cents.- Field beans approach animal
as labor shortage and increased cost foods in nutritive value. They con -
of need. will adversely affect every tain a high percentage of protein, and
department of the fern. This means in this respect surprass the cereals
that supply will nut overtake demand commonly used as food such as wheat
for son(' time to come. and oats. There is a higher pe'eent-
11-twill be both patriotic and profit- age of protein ;in beans than in the
able for farmers to put forth the ut- boot cuts of meat, but it is not quite
most effort to increase the food sup- so completely digested. -Prof. C. A.
ply. Unlimited food is a vital neves- Zevitz.
sity to the successful prosecution of -.
the war, and its production is true Iron Ore Deposits.
national service., irrespective of the Vast iron deposits extending far un -
reward that may be looked for 1n der the ocean have been -found in New -
dollars and cents. foundland, On Belle Isle one operate
Fiat tering. ing company has driven out udder the
water to a distance of fully four. miles,
A struggling young author of an and a thousand feet from the ocean's
Iowa Loren took leis first effort to the floor has been rewarded by securing
post -office with great ceremony, a superior grade of iron.
"]low much postage will this re- There are five well-established re-
wire?" he asked of the postmaster. ligions in Celina -the Ganfuciar Bud -
"1t is one of my manuscripts," dhis t, Taoist, NIohM,�mmedan and
"Two cents an ounce," the post- Christian. There is "P state religion,
Master. "That's first-class matter." but there is a movement on foot to ei
"011, thank you!" said the writer} have the first named adopted as the s
delighted. state religion of the republic.
QU1CKGROWIN SEEDS
Early Valentine Bush Beans, ready to piok in 36 days, 4 ozs. 15c, Ib. 400
Early Model Blood.red Table Beet Pkg, 10c, oz, 20c, 4 oza. 60c
First and Best .Cabbage, solid heads , , , „Pkg. 10c, oz. 80c, 4 ozs, 90o
Early Clem Red Table Carrot ....... . . . ...Pkg. 6o, oz. '26c, 4 ozs, 66c
Citron for Prseerving, rod seeded Pkg, 80, oz, 16o, 4 ozs, 40c
Early Malcolm Sweet Table Corn .,,,,,,.Pkg, 10o, Ib, 40o, 6 Ibe. $LO0
Prize Pickling Cucumber (great cropper) Pkg.,6c, oz. 20o, 4 ozs. 50o
Earliest Wayahead Head Lettuce . , , , ..,.Pkg. 10o, on 30c, 4 ozs, 90c
Early Hackensack (Sugar) Musk Melon Pkg, 5e, oz. 20o
Rloherd Seddon Bush Garden Peas ,,.,,4 ozs, 15o, Ib40c, 5 lbs. $1.75
Sleet Yellow Dutch Onion Betts ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ib, 35o, 6 lbs. $1,70
Earliest Scarlet Olive Radish Pkg. 50, oz. 10o, 4 ozs, 30c
Extra Early Milan Turnip (earliest grown) Pkg, 5o, oz. 200, 4 oze, 50c
Giant White Feeding Sugar Beet, for cattle 4 ozs, 16c,
%2 Ib, 25c, ib. 45c.
Rennle's Giant Yellow Intermediate Mengel
Rennie's Derby Swede Turnip, for stock feed ,
improved Jumbo Swede Turnip (Elephant)
%o Ib. 25c, Ib, 45c
Vs lb, 37c, Ib. 70c
Vs Ib. 37c, Ib. 70
Rennie's Kangaroo Swede Turnip (very hardy) ,,..%2 Ib. 35c, Ib. 650
High Grade Compton's Early Yellow Flint Seed Corn Bus, $3.25
5 bus. for $18.00.
High Grade White Cap Yellow bent Seed Corn Bus. $2,75
Earliest Six Weeks Seed Potatoes Pock $1.00, bus. $3.50
Extra Early Eureka Seed Potatoes Peck $1.00, bus, $3.50
Seed Corn and Potato Prices do NOT include freight charges.
Pakro Seedtape. "You plant it by the yard."
2 pkts. for 25c. Ask for descriptive list.
Rennie's Seed Annual Free to All.
Cotton bags 30c. each extra.
Order through your LOCAL DEALER or direct from
E6E' SEDji
Wm. RE 1N1IE Co., Limited
King and Market Sts., Toronto
Also at MONTREAL WINNIPEG VANCOUVER
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COST OF GROWING POTATOES.
Careful Record Made at Fredericton
Experimental Station.
In potato -growing provinces
New Brunswick there is always m
or less discussion as to what it sho
cost to grow a good crop of potat
and statements vary from as low
$10 per acre to as high as $125. N
turally there will be much variat
in cost according to local conditio
and especially to the ability of th
lend to produce without expense
fertilizing. It should be borne
mind that it will usually cost the p
tato specialist more to grow his cr
than it will the farmer who folio
mixed farming and makes his pota
crop merely one of his many activiti
ith a view to getting actual fig-
ures under average conditions in New
Brunswick, a careful record has been
made at the Dominion Experimental
Station, Fredericton, for the pa. two
seasons with an acre of land set apart
for this particular purpose.
Neither rent of land nor deprecia-
tion of machinery was included in the
calculation, for these two are items
sebse
like Bone spavin is generally indicated
ore by well -marked lameness for a few
ukl steps or further, then going sound un-
til again allowed to stand, a bony m-
ils la•gement on the front, inside and out-
a- side part of hock.
100. Rest, blister with 2 drams each of e
ns biniodide of mercury and cantharides fo
e mixed with 2 oz. vaseline, repeat in In
ve about 2 weeks. If this fails to cure th
in have joint fired and blistered.
0- The tractor fits in with the spring
oP work in a way that is hard for the
ws horses to do. The horses have spent
to the winter in comparative idleness and
es. are not in condition 'to go out and do
the hardest kind of work. They will
tire, while the machine will not.
More horse power is necessary for
the use of larger machinery, which in
turn does farm work more thoroughly
and at a lower cost per acre or per
ton of crop. More horses, heavier
horses and horses in better condition
all through the working season will
lower production cost. Prepare the
'IOW TO SET A HEN.
As the time approaches for th
to become broody or sot, if care i
en to look into the nest it will be
that there are a few soft, d
feathers being left there by the hen;
also o the hen stays longer on the
when laying at this time, and
ing approached will quite likol
main on the nest, making a cru
noise, ruffling her feathers and
ing at the intruder. When it is
that a herr sits on the nest from
to throe nights in succession, and
most of the feathers are gone
her breast, which should feel h
the hand, she is ready to be tran
red to a nest which had been prep
for her beforehand. Tile n
temperature of a hen is from 10
107 degrees F., which varies eli
during incubation.
Dust the hen thoroughly with insect
powder, and in applying the powder
hod i henbythefeet,the
l the
down, working the powder well
the feathers, giving special atte
to regions around the vent and u
the wings, The powder should
he sprinkled in the nest.
The nest should be in some quiet,
out of the way place, Where the set-
ting hen will not be disturbed, Move
her from the regular laying nest at
night and handle her carefully in do-
ing so. Put a china egg or two in the
nest where she is to set, and place a
board over the opening so that she
cannot get off. Toward the evening
of the second day quietly go in where
she is setting, leave some feed and
water, remove the board from the
front or top of the nest and let the hen
come off when she is ready. Should
she return to the nest after feeding
remove the china egg or eggs and put
under those that are to be incubated.
If the nests are slightly darkened the
hens are less likely to become restless.
At hatching time they should be con-
fined and not disturbed until the hatch
is completed, unless they become rest-
less, when it may be best to remove
the chicks that are hatched first. In
cool weather it is best not to put more
than ten eggs under a hen, while later
in the spring one can .put twelve or
fifteen, according to the size of the
hen,
Among the advantages of keepi
pure .bred fowls as compared w
mongrels are:better results in bre
ing; more opportunities to dispose
ggs for setting, at high prices; un.-
rmity in the eggs and a better ap-
earance of the flock.
Sunlight, ventilation, fresh air;
ese are the prime essentials to suc-
cess With incubator -hatched chi
Fowls may survive for a generation
two without full provision for all th
but they gradually lose vitality a
eventually die off.
Chicks should not be fed before
hourse have elapsed after hatchin
but fine sand should be available
soon as possible. This helps dige
tion.
Farmers who intelligently feed and
e hen cure for their pregnant sows, so aft not
s
tisk- to overload them with fat, .rut instead
seen give them feeds for the development of
owny bone and muscle, are on the right road
toward the praduetion of strong,
nes healthy it'.
t e !thy in tors. Their prep. redness
on be- progremme, however, does not end
y re- koro.
eking Two weeks before farrowing, the
peck. sow should be put into a farrowing pen
noted so that she will became acquainted and
two contented in her now quarters The
that farrowing pen should be dry and free
from 'from drafts. Provide the pen with'.,
of to guard rail made of 2 x 4 inch planks
sfer- set eight inches from the wall and
ared eight inches from the floor to prevent
no
• the sow ftom crushing the pigs
0 to against the wall. Use only a small
ghtly quantity of bedding; leaves or straw
are preferable. See that the sow has
plenty of fresh water.
It pays to keep the sow quiet. As -
head sistance at the time of farrowing
into should be at hand if needed, but the
ntion sow need not bo helped if she is get-
nd0r ting along well, In cold weather put
also the newly born pigs in'a well warmed
basket, and after farrowing is over
the pigs should be placed with the sow,
care being taken that each one gets to
a teat. When the afterbirth is
passed, it should be removed from the
After farrowing the sow should
have nothing but water and a little
thin slop for the first day. The feed-
ing for the first three or four days
should be light, and the time consumed
in getting the sow on full feed should
be from a week to ten days, depending
on the condition of the sow and the
size and thrift of the litter. It takes
plenty of sow's milk to make healthy
growing pigs. If the pigs begin to
scour, feed the sow less and give her
plenty of strong lime -water,
It is very necessary that the little
pigs have plenty of exercise and all the
sunlight that can be given them. Do
not allow the pigs to run out during a
cold rain. If possible, provide green
feed or roots. These keep the sow
healthy and cheapen the ration En-
courage the pigs to eat grain after
they are three or four weeks old.
Build a creep for them so they can
feed alone. At this age feed for bone
and muscle. Give them all the skim -
ng milk you can. If skim -milk is not
ith available, give them some meal and
ed- plenty of pasture in season, In about
of eight or ten weeks the pigs will have
practically weaned themselves,
that are largely in the hands of t
individual grower. As a general run
however, it would be fair to charge
rent 10 per cent. of the value of tl
and special potato machine
will depreciate from 25 per cent. to 5
per cent. per year if used steadily fo
ten clays' each season. In 1915, th
depreciation of the potato digge
alone, used at the Experimental Sta
tion, was $0 per acre.
In 1915 the acre was planted wi
Green Mountain, Irisl] Cobbler an
Empire State. Seed, cultural opera
tions and harvesting cost in a
$67.03. Eighty barrels of 165 pound
cac11 of marketable potatoes were ob
tained and sold for $1.75 per bar
rel, making a profit. over cost of pro-
duction of 90c per barrel. Some bur -
eels of culls were sold for $3.50, so
that the total profit for the acre
amounted to $75.50,
This lance was rather wet naturally
and during the very rainy weather of
June and July was several times
flooded, causing missed hills and in-
ferior plants generally. This land
was originally cleared many years
ago and after cutting hay for thirty
years it was allowed to grow up to
spruce, birch and alder. It was again
cleared in 1913 and grew buckwheat
in 191.4,
In 1910 en acre was planted with
Green Mountain seed.
The total cost amounted to $82.33,
the increase over 1916 being due to
high priced seed, higher priced fertil-
izer ingredients and very dear copper
sulphate,
One hundred and twenty barrels of
marketable potatoes were harvested
aid could have been sold at $2,25 per
barrel, making a profit per barrel
over cost of production of. $1.50%,
plus six barrels of culls at 50c, $3,
making n tot.! profit of $190,20,
Market price when potatoes were
dug was $2,25 per barrel. Later they
could have been sold at $3.25, but they
are held for seed.
This land grew hay for many years
and was broken up and grew potatoes
with 750 pounds of fertilizer in 1918,
corn with 18 tons barnyard manure in
1014, oats Without manure in 1915.
This lard is ori a slope, fairly well
drained and except for'weshing out
slightly between the rows felt no bad
effects front the June deluge.
h0 horses in the early spring for a hard
e, summer's work by regularly exercis-
es ing and gradually increasing to
he Heavier work.
machine'
0 The Early Potato.
✓ For the earliest crop only the meet
e vigorous seed should be selected as evil
✓ conditions are not so favorable to the the
- starting of the plant, in early spring erg
as slightly later, hoe
th For the early crop a well -drained,
d fairly light soil should be chosen and
- cultivation should be sleep so as to en -
11 courage drainage through the early
s weeks of the plants' growth as the
ONE OF THE HEROES.
chic Signal Act of Bravery en the Part of
or Young French Soldier.
is,
nd Writing from Paris, a United Press
correspondent tells about the heroic
24 exploit of a young French soldier,
g, Marcel Marco, who, now lying in a
as Paris hospital, wounded in many
5- places and severely burned, has been;
the recipient of the French Warj
Medal, conferred only for some signal;
act of bravery.
When the war broke out, writes the
correspondent, Marcel was a stripling,
slender as a girl, with beardless face,
eyes largo and black, and hands
The remains of the yolks in the
newly -hatched chick will keep the bird
alive without other food for over two
days.
Chicks that die before they are two
days old are usually weaklings, whic
could not be saved easily, The
probably come from eggs that had to
hard a shell or else from eggs laid
diseased hens.
An occasional drink of sour mil
I be beneficial to young chicks, a
Lactic acid in sour milk attacks th
anism which causes white diar
a.
One of the chief causes of trout1
h chicks is overfeeding. Over
ding can be noticed at once, f0
chicks will lie down a large par
the time. A healthy chick will al
ys scramble into the thick of th
wd when food is offered.
oung chicks should not be give
d that is liable to become sogg
ore it is digested. •
or young chicks provide lots o
it, and warm air, a south exposure
light, dry soil for scratching. Th
s or brooders must be roomy ant
t so that sunlight will get in. By
Hing these often, chicks are not
le to suffer from lice and ether ver -
h white as a woman's. At Verdun one'
y day he gladly faced almost certain
o death. He emerged with a 'body like
by a sieve, a leg broken above the knee
and a shattered hand.
k A few hours before the French
s evacuated one of the hilts in front of
e Verdun the commandant of a battalion'!
r- picked the young man for a dangerous'
mission. The French planned to steal;t
e away from the hill silently during the
- night. Marcel Was to stay behind,
✓ conceal himself, and take special note
t of the emplacement of artillery when t
- the Germans arrived. Then when a
e night came he was to fire off a color -1 s
ed light, so that the French could get: 3
n the range of the German battery and,
y destroy it. a
Dlarcel hid in a hollow tree. Through a
f a knot hole he watched the arrival of b
, the Germans and the placing of the , o
e artillery. At nightfall he crept out, o
c set off a yellow light and dodged back i h
into the tree. a
Soon he heard loud shouts all about, e
him as the Germans searched the t
woods, Then he heard a crackling. b
They had set the woods on fire to f
burn him out, as one does a rabbit. He wh
gave himself up for lost. to
Another sound crashed in his ear. li
The French were blazing away in re-' ec
sponse to his signal, The smoke was r
"We are generally too low in our
ms, more anxious for safety than
allaity, for place that purity."-
oorge Eliot.
Combating Fly Nuisance.
One
of the most potential carrier's
of infection during the heated term is
the fly. Typhoid fever, tuberculosis,
infantile diarrhea and other diseases
may be transmitted through the
agency of this pest.
Our efforts against the fly should
begin at its breeding places ---garbage
and manure, Our stables can breed
enough flies to infest every home,
Each household should have a water-
tight eovered garbage pail. Screen
all the doors and windows in the early
spring, Fly swatters and fly traps
are adequate and effective weapons
of defense,
Keep all foodstuffs under cover.
Sweets are especially attractive to
flies, By all means protect the milk,
as germs deposited in it by flies
multiply rapidly. Keep the ice box
clean and free from odors; the door of
the box should be tightly closed,
Remember that flies are the baby's
worst enemies. Screen the crib and
coach from, their attacks.
Swat the fly before it swats you.
Food and War.
One of the first elements of the
health of a nation at war -or at peace,
for that matter -is its food. It can-
not be healthy and strong without
good food and plenty of it. There-
fore, agriculture and gardening must
be intelligently and intensively stim-
ulated, so that larger crops shall be
brought forth.
The housewife's task will be to
economize the food supply and cook it
with skill, so as to make her meals
tasty and digestible.
The streams from which our
domestic water supply comes should
be carefully guarded against pollution,
so that communities shall not run the
risk of being infected with some dead-
ly disease.
It is estimated that nearly half the
body-building food and 70 per cent. of
the sustaining food on Canadian tables
is derived from grains such as wheat,
oats, corn, rye, barley, rice and buck-
wheat, and that these grains are to the
human machinery what coal is to the
manufacturing industries, the great-
est source of heat and pewee:.
Wanton destruction of food is an in-
jury to our country just as positively
as destruction of munitions or arms,
for in the last analysis a nation that is
well fed is the nation that will prevail.
THE IRISH QUESTION.
As Viewed By a Writer in The Youth's
Companion of Boston.
Will the affairs of Ireland ever be
peacefully settled? Perhaps -al-
though no one to -day can tell how the
feat is to be accomplished. The dif-
ficulty no longer lies in the unwilling-
ness of England to grant home rule to
those who desire it, but in the violent
differences among the Irish people
themselves as to the degree to which
home rule shall be applied to the is-
land.
Tho Nationalists insist that Ireland
must be treated as a unit; the Ulster-
men declare that they will never con-
sent to be ruled from Dublin. The
Nationalists angrily refused Mr. Lloyd
George's offer to put home rule into
mmediate effect in all except., the
northeastern province of Ireland, and
he people of that province, now as in
1914, seem ready to resort to civil
war if home rule is forced upon them,
The difference between the people of
he two regions is religious as well
s racial, and cleavages of a religious
ort once established are the most
opeless of all.
The Nationalists have a real grieve
nee, for their home -rule measure has
ctually passed Parliament, but has
eon suspended for nearly three years
11 account of the serious objections
f the Ulstermen. But, on the other
and, would not the Nationalists show
fairer spirit if they permitted the
xclusiot of Ulster? They have ne-
urally protested in the past against
sing coerced into submission to a
ori11 of government they disliked;
y, then, insist on coercing Ulster in -
submission to a government it dis-
kes? We in America cannot of
mese fully understand line depth of
artisan feeling that invite: env F•en.l-
e eettlelne:nt of the Inuit question so
fficult, but w, dei kn' w ,!:Z‘i!:Z‘t gat
eling exiits, and WO 001 with c•t
c dangers to which it learns, 1l.l
adlock strengthens the hands .r,1 in -
wit
foe
the
of
weather at that season is usually wet. wa
Before planting potatoes in an un- cro
tried soil it is well to 'test for sour- Y
Hess by the litmus paper method, and foo
if lime is needed, add it. The sets bef
for the early crop should not be put F
in deep as the potato need, heat, light lig
and air in growing. A depth of two and
to three inches in sufficient for the pen
early planting though five inches 'is buil
better for the main crop, which is ilea
planted when the ground becomes liab
warm old dry to a greater depth, min
For quickest results, the seed po-
tatoos should be spread out in a light .D
coo me before cut-
ting, so that short sprouts may .form,
then at least two sprouts should be pars
left to each ser. Cutting sprouted "leen
seed must be done by hand and care- g o0
fully, so as to avoid breaking tela and
shoots, and as a matter of fact 10 not r
machine will satisfactorily take the 0r 11
Place of the good hand worker for They
preparing potato sets, cspeeially when sub;
the price of potatoes stands as it does
at present.
train
Results of previous years show that cord
at 01110 weeks after planting, in an in th
early section, one may look for a good class
price in any year, and the early crop that
should be well worth growing in 1917, mitre
Places to Save.
y0ue1
two
1 place, for some ti
•
raft Horse the Most Profitable.
The use of draft stallions has been
istently advocated because that
TIS the most money for the aver -
farmer breeder, It is well under•-
1 by lholsemol that draft horses
colts eat somewhat more hay but
much more grain t:.a] light horses
ght colts of corresponding ages.
are more easily confined, less
ect to accidents and more readily
ed to work than light horses. Ac-
ingly there is not much difference
e cost of feeding colts of different
es. Most men of experience claim
draft horses may he somewhat
cheaply produced because they
safely be put to work a year
ger. Many draft colts coning
years old are doing full work on
and harrows this spring, putting
tits, and are considerably larger
light colts at throe years old,
1 is the earliest they usually begin
work. The demand for draft
s is still unappeasable. Anything
quality, and in good condition,
ring 1,000 1 ounds o' more, is sell-
as high as the trade has ever
n, $276 to $800 per head being
nt prices -Breeder's Gazette.
of the momtains in Ceylon has
meltable shadow, Instead of ly-
n the ground, it appears to ries
e a veil in front of the observe'.
s titre to mist.
Recent accomplishments hold out doses
the hope that practical use may tele in o
timately be made of every idle and than
apparently useless element of life rvhicl
around tis. Seaveeds are being turn- farm
ed into useful drugs and fertilizers, horse
useful products are being made from with
sawdust, they are blowing coal -dust w ale
into furnaces and getting more heat ing
traits than from high-priced fuel; in- know
vestigators are getting new and vahl- cum%
able products from coal tar, and now
Australia has turned its national nab- One
bit pest into a real income -bearing a ren
asset, and the world may be encour- ing o
aged to seek farther for utilizing up lik
heretofore useless things, . This i
hurting his eyes. Ile hoped it shell in
would end his existence before the di
flames reached the tree. Then there t'e
was an air -splitting bang and th.e tree th
fell into a thousand pieces, ;de
When he regained consciousness he fu'
was in a farmhouse. Ilis light had tel
enabled the French to- destroy the so
German battery and to recapture the roe
position. They told Marcel that they tvl
had found him unconscious in the to
btu•ning wood, with the fianles licking
his legs, cr,
of
'Teens A11 Arranged.' 03
Imes, the p.seient of the eeteendets,
nether they art Sinn Fe;1,01e er ir-
concilable Ulote m n. It Inet (11-
ady produced 55 sit retia telt ee
1 k civil war seems a1mest certain
issue.
Fortunately, the National! t teed., -
s are wise enough to ogee •1 , u!,..
'eel ion to 139l onc.tl.t )1'i con(1101
the war, but the problem le one of
e chief aneletic'' of a 1111 d t:tay sr•^civ
"1111en he came in we all clapped" t11
said the little school girl, who was Pe
telling of a visit peid the ec•hool by
S11 ex -inspector.
"What did you clap for?" asked her
adult companion. Gei
"Because the teacher said we had in
to," 'ems the reply. nus
ter
Cycling and Walking spa
tie
It is calculated 11)80 When a man can
walks a mile he takes 2,2811 step-, viva
but when he rides n hie•, c•le w:tln a:1 hal
average gear he covers tl table 511'11 ., , 1 I
equivalent of only 027 st0n11, Lee
ed already. .n•1 none too vet -tale or
rmalent Parllcllnc scary talon -wt.
Latest Hun Trick.
A Rusreelan oifk•lal massage see, 1the
mans 1001imie to he indefntig .07
the invention of infnm ni., and cruel
es com111000ly incompatible -with in-
national law and 11115 chive r,,us
nit. They leave in the abandoned
aches or 00 the field of battle
dies,-luunniess and ordinary in ali-
rance, which explode after being
f burned. Russian soldiers �vhe
„c •r them without suspicion have
l seriously wounded or .mutilated