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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-04-26, Page 7The volume of applications for new insurance during 1916 was by far the Greatest in the History of the Company. That is the best evidence of public esteem. Lot ua send you some fresh Insln•anae facts MOWN LIFE i3 SEIRA' C 009, EOP,">r M TO Agents wanted In unrepresented districts ►PT,....�.�.� uoaa ,r�.....4�..e ..,,,,,�. s 9.41.024.41..11.201.1123 ESrAeSteHee lose r ill. 11411 ' R MSAYS ,11DY1 0 ,-PAINTs.. IL.. 111N' fir'•. THE RIGHT A. RAMSAY & SON CO Makers of bine Paints and Varnishes e TO PAINT RIGHT For wear and beauty of color they are unsur- passed. Ask your Ramsay Dealer —or write us. MONTREAL TORONTO VANCOUVER oup 2 Condcc2ece.5.>" 1"mo ✓' (eCerta ]aur R, Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially Invited to write to this department. initials ,only will be published with each question and Its answer as a means of identification, but full name and address must be given In each letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct If stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs. Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave., Toronto, A. M. S.:-1, In the vacant spots in and the amount of work done. Part your flower border plant perennial I of this water is derived from the food. phlox in white, pink and yellow. They lik- +z•- - n.t_ buy large plants, 2. Spaying le the best way to water plants. This not only keeps them clean, but, as you know, plants absorb moisture through the pores of their leaves, and they are therefore much benefitted by spraying, 3. Dahlia roots should not be put into the ground until the weather is settled, and the ground warm. They are very liable to rot in wet and cold ground. 4. Did you ever•try cannas for the large bed in the centre of your lawn? Can- nes being large plants need space to 4. A. good ointment for dry skin is made of lanolin, tiro ounces; bore - glyceride, l e on e ounce;cold cream, six ounces. 5, Whether one should drink hot or cold water before breakfast de- pends upon whether the gastric juice is too acid or not sufficiently acid. If one's stomach does not make enough hydrochloric acid, she should drink a little cold water half an hour before meals, because this will stimulate the gastric glands. If one has too much acid she should take a glassful of hot water half an hour before eating, w ,up to the best advantage, and ] II. M.:—If your little girl's school require very rich loamy soil and heat.1 reports are not so good„as you would Sweet cherries are yearly increasin The flow like, the reason may He in her physical in popular favor; and this popula condition. It is not at all likely that frvo: will increase or diminish only a she is wilfully lazy and inattentive, the product put on the market is goo , The first step wouldB' e to havethereby the P increasing g the demand; o family h sicia n rank physician a an examinationpoor,l thereby b e decreasing Y ci easing the consump- for eye defects, adenond growths, den- tion. Not many years ago the sweet and so-called sour varieties were mar- keted at practically the same price per basket; the sweets are much more dif- ficult to produce and to market than the common or sour varieties; and an im- petus was given to planting the sour cherry at the expense of the sweet; since then the sour cherries have de- creased steadily in price and the sweet have inceeased until now a sweet cherry orchard iu full bearing is a de-, cided asset to any farm, �5�F�ffrann. ,�...,.io,;„��y� � PI11119( l�rt§i ijl, s .., , Cofldlieted by Professor Henry G. Pell. The object of thls department is to place at the service of our farm readers the advice of an aoknowl. edged authority on all subJ.eots pertaining to sells and crops. Address ail questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, In care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, To- ranto, and answers will appear In this column In the order In which they are'received, As space Is limited It Is advisable where Immediate reply le necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when the answer will be mailed direct, - Question --G. ll,;.—tf I plow in a full cro0 of clover, would I have to do this inthe summer z inmer to get the full be it, or would it be as good lif It let it grow on till the fall? Or, on the other hand, would it be as good if I took a crop' and plowed in the after- math? I have no stock except fowls and two horses, therefore little stable manure. However, I intend to use a lot ref phosphate. Answer;—At the present price of food and its universal scarcity in most sections, I would advise G. H. to feed the firat crop of clover and plow in the aftermath. If he does not have en- ough stock to consume the clover it will pay him to make the hay and sell it, and to buy feed and plantfood in the form of fertilizers. Stince he has l:ttle manure I would advise him to use a fertilizer containing 2 to 4% ammonia, 8 to12%phosphoric acid,and if he interds to plant potatoes, truck or root crops, from 1 to 3% potash, This will supplement the plantfood in the soil and that turned under in his clover. It is very questionable, and especially at the present price of practicaif anyone c and plow undo a full crop ofarm feed and f clover or any other cover crop, for that matter. Apply the fertilizer at the rate of 200 to 400 lbs. per acre. Question—H. B.:—What distance apart should the rows of Indian corn be planted and what distance in the rows? How many kernels should be put in a hill? I wish to get as much ripened corn as possible. Answer:—The farther south we go the farther apart the rows of corn Tlenryy G. Bell. and the greater the distance between the hills. For instance, in th., South- ern part of the United States the rows are frequently five feet apart and four feet between the hills, As we come North this is reduced to at least 36 inches and some men even plant closer. The number of kernels to .the hill and the distance apart depends very largely on the type cf corn and the fertility of the soil; ordinarily the richer the soil the closer the corn can be planted. H. B. says he wishes to get as much ripened corn as possible, If he does not care for the size of ears he can plant much closer than if it is large ears that he desires, The Nebraska Experiment Station, U, S, A„ found that 3, 4 or 6 stalks to a hill gave practically the same yield but the weight of ears was less with four that with three and still less with five than with four. One -dant to the hill gave but two-thirds as much corn as did three plants. Two plants gave 10 bushels less to the acre than did 8, 4 or 5. The corn was planted in hills three feet eight inches apart each ray, I would recommend that H. B. plant his corn 36 inches apart each way, un- less the sail is extremely fertile when he might plant a little closer, and plant three to four kernels to the hill. If he wishes to drill it, the stalks should be ten to twelve inches apart in the row, unless the soil is exceptional- ly fertile, when this distance may be reduced to 8 to 10 inches. English Grammar. Grace's uncle met her on the street one spring day and asked her whether she was going out with a picnic party from her school, "No," replied his eight-year-old niece, "I ain't going." n "My„ dear,” said the uncle, "you must not say. 'I' ain't going.' " And he proceeded to give her a little les- son in grammar: "'You are not going. He is not going. We are not going., You are not going. They are not going,' Now, can you say all that?" "Sure I can," responded Grace quite heartily. "There ain't nobody go- ing." The term "Yankee" is supposed to have been derived from a corrupt pro- nunciation of the word English" by the Indians. According to .Iosepllus the walnut tree was formerly common in Pale- stine and grew luxuriantly around the sea of Tiberius, SWEET CHERRIES: SDI AND VARIETIES G. A. Robertson, St. Catharines, els very re not suitable fore cutting astthey arey, but a so tender and easily bruised. If the bed is eight or ten feet in diameter, place a ricin us (castor r oil lent in plant) the .centre, surround with two circles of cannas, say, the inner circle King tal diseases, and things of that kind. Humbert, outerAlphor.se Bouvier; and' If she is free from these, it will be er g amuzns for the base or outside necessary to look elsewhere for the circle. As the canna is a tender !cause of her failure to do well at her plant it cannot be transferred to the !studies. In the first place, is she pro - permanent bed before June 1st. It i perly nourished? Does she take just flowers during July, August and Sep- the right quantity of food at meals and tonher, Be ,careful to cut out all1of the kind suited to her age? She dried blooms abci seed pods. It en-1should not be permitted to nibble be- conrages freer blooming. I ttveen meals or to have too much f K. MeL,:-1. Here is a remedy for i Sandy. Too much food causes poison - brittle nails which I hope you will find lug of the brain, while too little or of effective: Oil of pistache, r� ounce;; unsuitable variety causes the brain to refined table salt, '14.i dram; powdered;function freely owing to lack of t!liPaziorn That some source of sedime milk does obtain even under the rigid conditions possible in a stable is evident from air examin of any sediment diets through the average mills has been pa and there is no doubt that thor straining will add to the clean] of the product even after all pos precautions have been taken, presence of slime in the septi bowl after skimming is another that some dirt has found its way the milk betwei,n the time of it cretion and its arrival in the mac provided the receiving or supply has been clean up to the time w separating started, The separator' ne doubt remove great deal of the foreign matter occurs, but is incapable of thio out much hof the undesirable bact that accompanies the dirt which ters the mills et milking time, so importance of cleanliness in ea for the cow and for the milking u ails is very great indeed. The assurance that milk deliv at the dairy, where pasturization to place, is free, or reasonably free, sediment, should be worthy of sideration by the wholesale purcha who, in his turn, should reap a be fit from the ultimate consumer whom he can guarantee this milk h.:ving been clean, and thus safe f the time it leaves the cow's udder til it arrives at the consumer's re once. The farmer's part of the undert ing to supply pure, wholesome m must start with the taking of p cautions previous, even to the sec tion, of the milk. He should sati himself fully that his cows are enti ly healthly; and in order that the small amount of dust that will in- evitably get into the milk pail may be as harmless as possible, he must provide for a plentiful supply of sun- light in his stables. Then if the cattle are always kept as clean for a little eheaner) all the year round, as they would keep themselves on a good, well -drained pasture field, and the milkers obliged to wear well - washed clothes, and take a bath fre- quently, the chances of the milk being satisfactory are pretty good, Of course, aeration el the milk and thor- ough cooling must also be attended to. ti nt 111 Mat COW ation which ssed, ough Mesa aible The a" rotor sign Into s se- hine, can hen s that wing eria en - the 14 ring ten= ered kas of con- ser ne- to as nom un- sid- a1S- ilk re- re- sfy re- UI111111111111111111111111111(111111111111111111111111111111111111111(11111111111111111111111IIIL lyci�fi'lx,;ii t3, I�. hllij lr Let Us Nope This Rain' Won't Reach The Poison 106 chlldreu were reported poi- soned in the last three yeara by arsenical fly destroyers, 'p4 this is but a fraction of the actual num- ber, Arsenical fly poisoning and choiera infantum syrhpte a are al- most exactly the dame, ipgnosls Is difficult. And first ald u arsenic poisoning must he Relate danger, subject theour fo ppof,sonfoustfly catcher B theefly anre d embalmstlitsich boclyt and the deadlygeruia it carries in a coat of disinfecting varnish, Government Ieeues Warning au 1pm',btftol toouio,• 61Io rvskom 4,, Prlpur' 8 f ,..,� pion wm,od. 1 e 1n 6a, nitm';iu°,4,, 44 bo e, ,n.4l, nornr4,. $4,,,,,t,.gnie,14L, wr,•gb InppNw at°man ep, . Ip too fwq Wnt,4namrla lin et,4,eut nrwdgt poi. �nWttopu�umeral, `bv cue ebobm lefnatum.a 1, Le4"a c n„nlosItI en ne a gab. tb'ea:trundi ll, >. 1',n,lnxe Ne, mor, be m,oa e, p=In4„I, i44m Made In Canada b panne buap,mr bowl, n"a If otter meaouree aro 4ot g S y E THE 0.8-. W. THEM; COMPANY M Walknrville, Ont, American Address Grand Rapids Mid, 8 HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllilllflllif Iilflhll]dill]lllllllllllllllllllllllliliIlll111111 /kw Al The man who keeps cows is well fix- ed for raising hogs. Hogs will eat alfalfa hay, and pay well for it. Tim' was proved the past winter on many farms where economy was• practised by substitut- ing hay for part of the corn and tank- age• or other millfeed which it was customary to feed. It is essential that the brood sow be d a well balanced, succul-nt, nutri- ous, milk -producing ration while ckling the litter. Dairy by-pro- ots, such as skim -milk, buttermilk or whey together with meals such as shorts, ground oats, barley, oil cake and the like, are all highly suitable for the feeding of the sow at this sea- son. These are also splendid feeds for the litter at weaning time. If dairy by-products s ar P e not available, digester tankage may to some extent supplement these feeds. Kitchen slops, ground barley and shorts formed the greater part of the ration of a pig which took first prize at a recent show. The pig had the run of an alfalfa pasture, with a stream at the foot of the hill in the same lot. P ap,e Sell off all hens in their third year, as soon as the rush of laying is over. The last call for hatching is now on, Chicks hatched after the first week in May cannot be expected to prove good winter layers. Brood d chi cks that are closely h ouse_ Y ed And fed too heavily are very likely to develop weight too fast in propor- tion to their strength. It will cost the farmer no more money to raise pure-bred poultry than it will to grow stubs. Turkeys do best when kept separ- ate from chickens. If the two are kept together the turkeys are likely to take chicken diseases. Dampness lice and filth are deadly es to poultry of any kind. Since hens on range produce more gs at a lower coot and fewer young ns die than do those kept in con- ement, poultrymen yn are urged topro outside yards with plenty of en feed for laying hens, Hens on ge produce 15 to 44 per cent. more gs at a feed cost of 15 to 36 per t. less per dozen than hens kept in i finement, n Spring fowls require more care - attention than at any time in the All the accumulated debris of er lies on the surface. Then i mes a warm spell, and the surface he ground gets muddy, ,rhile the of winter sticks to everything touches it. This is the time to the hens clry and to give them g I heavily and set ereely; when in full fo r bloom a few hours of hot sunshine as- eg s;sisted by the presencs of myriads of he d I bees will set a fair crop. This may fin rlbe followed by a Week or ten days of vide I cold wetweather, v cath r e with h i perhaps rh A s a - P few re 'der gre g oa of frost, but ' i the calyx of the blosso n properly lift j eg tle blanlcet to protect the tender fruit, ( sen mid this drops only as the cherry con !swells or as the stem of the improper_ I ly fertilized fruit shrivels and drops; fol hence plantin•; an orchard near a body year fof water which will windily the tem - peratuz•e, will often insure com when a few miles inland the few de- of t grees difference in temperature may filth shorten it materially, if not destroy- that ing it entirely for the season. keep Location: Sweet cherries should be; dram; powdered slam, 3¢ ; planted on a deep, dry, well drained I nourishment. In the second place, I soil. No other tree fruit will re i dram; white wax, 114 drams; carmine,' are you allowing her to have too much I spend any better to good treatinent 1,4 drams. Rub well into the nails I fun out of school? If she remains but planting on an unsuitable sol ' , at bedtime, also after bathing the I up late at night, and does not get suf-1 is hands. 2. Lotion :o1' red, oil nose:1fieient sleepdisastrous,veand a wet subsoil c trill y in awell-ventilated room, I prove fatal. Therefore, when shoos - Sulphur precipitate, 1 dram; spirits of . she will be unfit for nchool work be- ing a location, a high, dry, sand or I camphor, 1 dram; glycerine, 1 dram; : cause of physical exhaustion. As !gravelly knoll is, best, ands v rise water, 4 ounces. After bathingto automobile rides it is true that the proper the nose in very hot water, mo the ' • plenty of it air which is , beneficial. Close underdrainage proximity will prove;town p Famish y 1 offs to a tott'n lotion on with absorbent cotton. 3, i good, of course, but long and frequent where a requisite number of good ick - The amount of water required by the tides keep the child in rt state of 'ors may be had, an frequentand. L body daily •is sufficient to balance the - nervous tension and excitement, which rapid shipping facilities is desirable. loss through the sl in, kidneys, lungs ; is the reverse of good. In short, the ls and other exceretot;y organs, This manner in which you aro bringing upStreet cherries e las bloom veryearlyea sly, 1s has been ehow':n to be about two and the child mast be scrutinizecl�o disasnearliny asltthe st23ryesesfromsay one-half quarts, the amount depending cover the cause of het• backwardness I timi aid. of thAoil, and much upon the temperature of the air sometimes as late as the varieties of May.1 1 � at school. • tMost of our popular varieties bloom i 1 su du There are two forms of strangles or distemper, viz., regular and irregular strangles , The symptoms of regular iform are: cough, inti nrrftine 66, fever, difficulty in swallowing, nasal dis- , charge, swellings between jaws or 'about throat, which form into absces- 11 In irregular form the same symptoms occur, with less difficult breathing, and the abscesses may form any place, externally or intern- ally. Attend to comfort,apply poultices of antiphlogistine to throat, lance ab- scesses as soon as ready, give 2 or 3 drams hyposulphite of soda out of a spoon 3 times daily, do not drench. If breathing becomes very difficult send for veterinarian, Go easy with the horses at the start and see that collars fit. Farm horses usually could haul larger loads on the country reads if waggon tires were wider, and less damage is done to roads by wide tires, Varieties: In choosing the varieties !tie from a commercial standpoint, annual I mg bearing is the most desirable, and coupled with this a .fruit that is good' size, color and flavor and also good in ;need shipping quality. The tree should be field tt rapid grower, strong and hardy. The I Te varieties that so far T have tried that ' Pupi conform to this standard named in the : is ,en le of -ripening are: Black Tm•tarian, ; Th Napoleon Bigarreau (white), Elkhorn est nt and Windsor. I have also fruited : The Lambert which ripens after the Wind- 1500 t 01', and is promising', being of good as if ire incl flavor, and T may also add i 3,000 Bing, both of these being grown. in the !jinni) west, the latter ripening about the 1 are y ante time as Elkhorn, and is an excel- l were eptly flavored cheery. ! 800 fe w to stand on and to work in clur- the day. omen feel just as men feel; they exercise for their faculties and a for their efforts, just as men do. acher—What does gender show ? 1 ---Gender shows whether a man asculine, feminine or neuter, e beings that can leap the great. •e insects, the flea and grasshopper former can hop over an obstacle lines its height, which is the same a man could hop over a mountain feet high. A grasshopper can 200 tithes its length, How tall 1 ou? Four feet? Well, if you a grasshopper you could si et. leap ra iIEeEfi, AID `IOU ,NAVE My pot1151%0.1 PEA r VEo TOM, AND I PUT 17 R16Nr LACK 111 y011R Di2AwaFt W1)ege I POUND IT -- 0 Ft - 'NURSES WANTED Torgnto Hospital for Incurables' Train- ing School Por Nurses, affiliated with Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, New York City, offers to women having one year's tiligh School education, n Three Years' ourse In Nursing, The pupils receive ie unitgqrm of the School and a monthly lowande. The intermediate year 1s ,out in New York, Applications will be Coote-, 130 DunnhAvenue ITorontot, Atlas Look OM The krrc14,E1M 5IIEL1= — OR ol,.1 THE. WItiVOVJSILL 1141TIIIE DM -A -Room -- 1' OR' -•Toff- 1.00t< UPSTAIRS 01,1111f... -'top OF M'1 ' DRESS F I `lot) M1614'r l.00K I•- 14E- 70 P DRAWE=R. op T»E. S t E.V-BO4Rp - fq --ru.,�'IICCseca,cu Biliousness; The word "biliousness" has ha. varying fortune in the language o medicine. At one time it was me to define en indisposition of pecullat character, and at another physicians rejected it because they believed that it implied a wrong cause for the eon. ditlon in question, Although., the, pendulum is swinging back in a;avox of of a judicious use of the word, the latest medical dictionary cautiously defines it, as "a minor. ailment, thought to depend upon a slight disturbance of the hepatic functions," , Whether h e r r0 e' 1 named properly mod o • however, the condition certainly ex fats, and it is quite probable that the liver, whether or not it is primarily at fault, is, often concerned in the digee. tive upset, The functions of the livs er are manifold: it secretes bile, atore4 up sugar, and destroys many poisons, either derived from without the body' or formed in it, especially some of the waste products of digestion, which it converts into urea.. If any of these functions become deranged, the sys- tem suffers. If something interferes with the secretion of bile or with- its passage into the intestine, the symp toms of jaundice appear. If the liver is unable to store up sugar, diabetes results. If it cannot destroy the poi- sons that are taken into the body or that are accidently formed in it, an in- disposition or actual illness follows. When we speak of a "sluggish liv- er" we mean that the organ is unable to dispose of all the poisonous waste products that occur in the system; the result is that acute form of auto- intoxication which we call a bilious at- tack, The symptoms are headache, dizziness, spots or zigzag figures be- fore the eyes, irritability and depres- sion, indigestion, nausea and perhaps vomiting, and often a pasty complex- ion and a yellow tinge to the whites of the eyes. Associated with those symptoms, or preceding them, there is constipation or irregularity of the bowels. And that is no doubt the cause of the whole trouble: The intestines are slow in disposing of the waste products of nutrition, and so a larger amount of poisonous material is carried to the liver than that organ can easily dis- pose of. Some of it therefore enters the blood stream and causes an attack of billiousness. That checks the ap- petite; fewer waste products form, and thus the body rids itself of the excess already y pxesent. When an equilibrium is restored the "bilious at- tack" is cured, Lowered Resistance. The things which reduce our per- sonal resistance to disease are many and varied. Conditions known as "depressed vitality," "lowered tone," "general debility," "weakened 'con- stitution" andsimilarterms, imply a condition in which the resistance to disease in general is reduced. The principal causes which diminish resistance to infections are wet and cold; fatigue, insufficient or unsuit- able food, bad air, insufficient sleep and rest, weir and td execs ses of all kinds. 'The campaign: against tuber- culosis has been of great value to the public at large in teaching it the value of fresh air, sunshine, good fobd and rest in increasing our resistance to infection. All diseases, however, are not the same in their behavior. Typhoid fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and cholera for example, have no re- lationship whatever to bodily vigor, and these often attack the young and virgorous in the prime of life. The most robust, for instance, will suc- cumb quickly to any of the above dis- eases if he receives a sufficient amount of the virulen disease germs and has not been rendered "immune" by inoculation or a previous attack of the disease. One only has to consid- er how readily smallpox spreads among unvaccinated lumbermen, a very rugged class of men; how readily typhoid fever is contracted by un - inoculated soldiers, another peculiarly rugged group; and of how measles has carried off as inch as one-third of the vigorous population of certain south- ern islands where the disease had been unknown and where there was no "im- munity" against it, to realize how true the above observations are. A Good Fire. Once a householder secured a color- ed cook at an employment agency and brought her hone with him. She know nothing about gas stoves. Se the new employer took her to the kitchen and explained the range, So that she could see how it was operated lie lit each of the many burners. While still explaining, a message called him from the kitchen, and he left her, say - Mg: "I guess you will find that it will work all right now, Mary." He didn't see the cook again for four or five days, when, entering the kit- chen, he said: "Well, Mary, how's the range do- ing?" She replied: "Deed, sub, dat's the best stove I ever see. That fire yo' kindled fo' me fo' days ago is still a-burnin' an' it ain't even lowered once." There are plenty of people always ready to do the farmer's thinking for him, Do not let them. 1)o your own thinking. It Wdl, pax,