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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-11-08, Page 26 •. tthi f, . 't Le ve&' Not Tea, Leaves intermixed with dusty Dirt aid Stems hut all Virgin Leaves, Slav the reputation 0£ being the cleanest, and most perfect tea sold. a 147 BLACK, GI3EFN 013 MIXED. SEALED PACKETS ONLY. GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX 13y John S, Huber, M.A., M.D. Dr. Huber will answer all 'signed letters pertaining to Health. It your question Is of general interest It will be answered through these columns; if not, it will be answered personally if stainped, addressed envelope 1s me closed. Dr. Huber will not prescribe for individual eases or make diagnosis. Address Dr. John 13. Huber, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide Et., Toronto, For that ft,L.ieh befalleth anan befalleth also the beast. THE CUP THAT CHEERS. Tea and coffee are generally drunk however tired and umvilling those tis - for the pleasure and the sense of sties may be. When the stimulant is. well-being they give; yet both these stopped, or, if after a time in spite beverages are mostly stimulants, of the stimulant, the exhausted tis - with practically no food value, sues refuse to do their work, then When a tired woman prefers to the weakened body rebels and refuses food cup after cup of strong tea she to work again until it has been is cheered, perhaps exhilarated—yes, fully restored—recreated—by rest, times actually inebriated; and this sleep, change, fresh air, abundance to the jeopardy of nerves and mus- of nutritious food and by hygienic cies. So that her constitution must living in general. If these salutary sooner or later break down, if the means are not forthcoming, disease tea tippling habit is persisted in. perhaps fatal, is inevitable. Then is there a case of hysteria for QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. the doctor, possibly even case of "incompatibility of temper" that has Feels Dizzy. to be dealt with in the domestic re- I am 54 years of age and am trou- lations court. In like manner, when bled with dizziness, In the morning a man under stress of business or on rising I have to hold on to some - who is going "the pace that kills" thing to steady myself; and on lying drinks daily anywhere up to a dozen down I seem to lose control for a cups of strong coffee in order to moment or so. What can be the keep up under the unnatural etrain, cause of my trouble. he is, as stere as fate and the tides, Answer—With such a symptom at going to pay the penalty for his in- your age one must consider harden- toxication—for that is what it all ing of the arteries, of which dizzi- amounts to. There are plenty of nese is a very frequent 'symptom. other intoxicants in nature besides You should be undee the care of a alcohol, good family doctor. The natural forces of the human Rabic Horse Bites Cow. body are able to do normally just so much work; and their ability to do Sometime ago our cow was bitten this work is directly in proportion to on the neck and foreleg by a horse the energy derived from the food sup- having hydrophobia, But where the ply taken into the body. A machine cow was bitten there was no wound is kept going by the fuel in the en- made in the flesh. We have waited 25 gine; it may be made to go faster by days before using her milk; do you means of bellows. Coal is the fuel; think it is safe for us to use the milk the bellows stimulate the flame. In now? Our veterinary told us to wait the man machine, food (meat, vege- 21 days. tables, cereals) are the fuel; tea, cof- Answer—By all means use the fee, alcohol and like stimulants are milk after 25 days. You were wise the bellows—they are not the fuel. to take precautions. And when the No amount of such stimulants adds to skin of animal or man has not been' the living tissues (the nerves, mus- perforated by the bite of a rabic ani cies, organs of the body); they mere- mal, the danger of hydrophobia is ly goad the nerves, the muscles and slight and certainly after 21 days' the organs to undue, unnatural effort, negligible. THE STORAGE OF POTATOES By Louis It is of great importance that all the potatoes raised this year should be stored under proper conditions. Even when every precaution is taken the wastage of potatoes during the winter is considerable; under bad conditions of storage it is very great indeed, In order that the best methods may be adopted by the small growers, those who have not had the experi- ence in the storage of potatoes. should know the chief causes of the wastage. These causes are: 1. Sweating, heating and consequent rot: often due to insufficient ventila- tion. 2. hutting: due to potatoes getting wet at the time of putting them in storage, 8. Injury from frost. 4. Decay: owing to . disease in the tubers at the time of storage. 5. Sprouting of tubers in the spring. It is not possible to prevent alto- gether losses from these causes, but by using the best methods of storage, it is possible to reduce them very materially. This may be done by taking care to guard against losses from each of these causes: 1. Sweating and heating occur if the freshly dug potatoes are piled in too large piles, so that the air can- not circulate between the tubers, The risk of loss from this cause is great- est in the fall, immediately after the tubers have been dug, and it is, there. fore, important that potatoes when dug should not be put in unnecessarily large piles, nor kept in an ill -ventilat- ed room. 2. Rotting from getting the; pota- toes wet. If the potatoes at the digging time are allowed to get wet and to go into storage in that condi- tion, rotting is sure to occur. Be careful to have your potatoes dry be- fore storing, 3. Injury from frost. Potatoes are easily damaged by frost. If they become frozen, their market value is destroyed, Therefore, take every. precaution to protect the tubers from frost before and after digging, 4, Disease. There are several dis- eaees of the potato.which destroy the tuber, and if diseased tubers are mix- ed With the sound ones, the disease spreads rapidly; therefore, it is neces- D. Sweet. !sary to sort the potatoes carefully, eliminating all of the disease, the cuts, culls, and dirt before ,placing them into permanent storage for the win- ter. All of the cuts, culls, mis- shapen and diseased tubers should be fed to the poultry and live stock, but, 1 should be steamed or boiled before, being fed, as in this way you increase the food value, and also destroy the' germs of the disease, so that it will not get into the manure and thence' into the land. 5. By proper ventilation of the cel lar or storage room, and by holding the temperature as near 35 degrees FREE TO GIRLS Lovely Big Canadian Doll and Splendid Big Doll Carriage This Doll is made 1n Can- ada, 1s 15 In- ches high and is fully joint- ed. The Doll Carriage has steel frame a n d wheels and leather, ette seat, back and hood, It is 24 inches high, just the right size for, the 14ig Doll. It you will sell 20 packages of our lovely embossed By Agronomist This Department is for the use of our farm readers who want the advice of an expert on any question regarding sollsped, crops, etc. If your question Is of sufficient general Interest, it will be answered through thle column, If stamped and addressed envelope le encloeed with your letter, a complete answer will be mailed to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing Co„ Ltd., 78 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, L.F,;-1, Will frozen corn make good silage? 2. When is manure most valuable, when fresh or after standing some time? 3. What is a remedy for the zebra caterpillar? 4, Also for wire worms: Answer :-1, Frozen corn, if handled sufficiently early will make a fair quality silage. When the corn is frozen it is best to eut it at once, or as soon as possible, before the leaves are entirely dried out. Corn cut under such conditions•ehould be put together in large bunches or shocks, so that as little drying out as possible will take place before it is cut, up and placed in the silo. If handled in the above way, very little loss will be occasioned. 2. From the stand-' point of obtaining the most organic matter, manure is most valuable when it is fresh. From the standpoint of obtaining the most available plant-' food, it is most valuable after it has stood for some time, provided that the manure is protected from rain and snow and sufficiently packed so that it will not burn or fire -fang. 3. I do not find any insect catalogued under the name of "zebra caterpillar." I assume from your description that you refer to the army worm. This worm collects in large numbers in meadows and pastures for about two weeks- before it begins to migrate. The insects hide during the day, but begin feeding about sundown. There are several methods of combatting the ravages of this insect. One is by sowing broadcast a mixture of bran - mash, mixing about -25 lbs. of bran with 1 lb. of Paris green, and a pint of sorghum or molasses, with enough water to make sort of a loose paste. The insects eat this poisonous mash readily. If you can discover where the insects are working in tha mea- dow or pasture, have the section of the field rolled or dragged with a log drag. This will kill a great number. In case the attack is under way and the army of insects is moving toward a corn or wheat field, have a furrow plowed with the vertical side of the furrow toward the crop. Spread dry straw along this furrow and sprinkle the straw with kerosene. As the in- sects fill in, light the straw and re- peat the burning out of the furrow until the attacking host of insects has been halted, 4. Wire worms are very hard to control. A careful sys- tem of crop rotation should be estab- lished so that the field that is infest- ed with wire worms may be plowed up and worked, at least once in three or four years. This will upset the dwell- ing place of the wire worms and should clear the soil of the pests, The addition of fertilizers has boon found to control to some extent the attacks of wire worms, L.R.:-1. I have a five -acre field in alfalfa but it looks very thin. It was sown last fall, How can I improve it? 2. Can you suggest a remedy for ox -eye daisy and wild mustard? , Answer: -1, It is late to do any- thing on your alfalfa field this fall other than covering it with a light dressing of strawy manure at the rate of possibly four or five loads to the acre. In the spring 12vould advise you to top -dress it with fertilizer at the rate of 200 to 300 lbs, per acre, the fertilizer analyzing at least 2 per cont. ammonia, and 10 to 12 per cent. available phosphoric acid. After you have broadcasted this fertilizer over the field, follow it with the har- row, harrowing with the' rows of al falfa, if the alfhlfa has been drilled in. The teeth of the harrow should be set back so as not to drag the young alfalfa plants out of the ground. The cultivation will do them good bs will the addition of the available plant - food. 2. I assume that the ox -eye daisies are growing in your alfalfa field. If such is the case, frequent cuttings of the alfalfa should prevent much seed dropping. It would be well also when fertilizing the field in the spring to scatter some fresh al- falfa seed over the areas where the alfalfa has not grown, or where the daisies have killed it out. If wild mus- tard appears in the grain field, the field should be thoroughly disked immedi- ately after the grain is cut, so that the wild mustard Seed will have an op- portunity to sprout and the young plants can be killed by the plowing that follows. If the grain field is in- fested with mustard, it should be sprayed before the plants come to the blossoming stage, using the following solution: Add 75 to 100 lbs. of sulphate of iron to 52 gallons of water. When this is sprayed over the field it will turn the grain a slightly dark color and will kill to a very large extent the mustard plants growing. The grain will quickly recover, while the mustard will die out. . If the mus- tard is among the, alfalfa crop, I am afraid the spraying with iron sulphate will injure the alfalfa, so that all that can be done would be to have the mus- tard pulled by hand, under such condi-' tions, F. as possible, you can keep the pota- toes from sprouting. Selection of seed. Seed for next year's planting should be selected from hills that produce all nice, true to type potatoes. These should be selected at, the digging time, and stored separately in crates or boxes, and by storing them in a well -lighted room where the 'temperature can be. held at from 34 to 40 degrees, with a little ventilation and this seed plant- ed next spring, the grower will make a start toward improving the quality of his potatoes, instead of as in the past, simply planting the culls or runouts. Keep a quantity of browned flour on hand for making gravy and you will be surprised at the time saved. As far as known, only three con- ditions are necessary to produce spontaneous combustion in hay -mows or stacks. These are the presence of moisture in the hay, the presence of a great enough bulk of the hay to retain heat, and sufficient ventilation to supply the necessary oxygen. e eli Age to Breed Heifers. I have had a number of years of ex- perience in raising and developing dairy heifers, and have found it best not to have them freshen before they are two and a half years of age, says a successful farmer. I have had heifers freshen at from one and a half to three years old, but those calving while young have been hindered con- siderably in their growth and develop- ment and have not made as large cows as those freshening at an older age. I have also seen heifers which drop- ped their first ca1T at a year and a half of age mature very satisfactorily and make splendid cows, but they took one to two years longer in maturing. These cases of course are rare. In freshening at two and a half to three years of age the heifer is more ma- tured, and therefore in condition to milk much better than if younger. In the City of Kerman, Persia, there are 1,000 rug and carpet loons. He'll Appreciate Your Good Judgment As Well As Your Good Will if for Christmas,• 1917, you send him a Gillette Safety Razor;! That's the gift that is valued Overseas for itself as well as for the sake of the sender. Few articles of personal equipment are so welcome, for the Gillette is known up and down the Allied lines, by Canadian, Briton and Anzac, Frenchman, Italian and American, as the one sure passport to .a clean and enjoyable shave. Even if he has already had one, the man in whom your hopes centre will be glad to get another Gillette Safety Razor. For under active service conditions, equipment so sought after as the Gillette strays easily and often, and he may now be trying to worry along again without one. So whatever else your box may contain, don't forget a GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR —and a good supply of blades. If you prefer, we will take your order, through your dealer or aired, and deliver the razor of your choice from our nearest depot Overseas. Ask your dealer about this when he shows you his Gillette assortment. • Standard Sets and "Bulldogs" cost $5.00—Pocket Editions $5.00 to $6.00—Combination Sets $6.50 up — at Drug, Jewelry and Hardware Stores. Mails are congested—shipments slow. Send this Gillette early! GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED, Office and Factory : Gillette Building, Montreal 274 AWN Sending chickens to market which have not been properly fattened is a wasteful practice. The weight of healthy, well -grown chickens can be in- creased from 25 to 50 per cent. in two weeks by proper feeding. Throe hun- dred and fifty to 400 pounds of mash, moistened with skim milk or but- ter -milk, and properly fed to good fowls will produce 100 pounds of poultry meat in from 12 to 14 days. Proper feeding of the chickens before marketing improves the quality of the flesh. "Crate -fed" and "milk -fed" are syponomous with "high quality." Cottonseed meal is very rarely used in the rations; fed hens. Like linseed meal it is a concentrated protein food and when fed in the ration is liable to give the hens too much vegetable fat and protein for their own good. A hen requires considerable protein in her diet•to enable her to lay well, but under natural conditions she obtains this protein in the animal form from the worms and grubs she picks up, therefore it is advisable to make up this lack of protein in the winter ra- tion by the use of beef scraps, green bone or milk. Fowls will keep themselves free from vcrntlh during the winter months if given a convenient place to dust. A box thirty inches square and twelve inches deep may be built in one corner of the pen, or such a box may be made with legs so £15 to raise it sixteen inches off the floor. Al- most any fine dry powder will make good dusting. Material. The particles should be fine enough so that they will .choke up the breathing pores of the parasites which live on the fowl's body. Equal parts of loam, sand This Watch Free TO ANY BOY ,Xmas and other Post ,Cards at Seo. a package we w111 send you, «, with all char- ges prepaid. our lovely 15- i inch doll told we 1111 also send you the splendid 24 In, doll carrlag' If you will ehow your doll to your friends and get icer 8 o1' them to sell our Xmas Cards and earn prized also. Send us your name and address and 'we will send you the cards to sell. When sold you send us the money and we send you your prize. HOMEIt-WARREN CO Dept. 84, xorouto. Willie wants to dig a cave; My! at the rate he's going down 'Twould not stuprise me in the least If he'd tome out in Chinatown,. Tills "Railroad Icing" watch is .a.n absolutely guaranteed tlmelceeper. It is stem wind and atm set, nickel ease, Send us your name and address and we will send You 35 packages 02 our lovely Xmas post cards to sell at 10 cents a set (0 lovely cards lit emelt set). When sold send us the money, and we will send you the watch, all chargee prepaid, 11014ER-WARI1EN CO. DEPT. 85, TORONTO. HIGHEST PRICES PAID For POULTRY, GAME, EGGS & FEATHERS Please write for particulars, P. POUT.IN S CO., 30 Boaseeoitre Iltarkot, llOoatreal $220.00 IN PRIZES To the Grand Champion Steer and Heifer at F T;rirrtnt Stook Show Utiioii Stock Yards DES 7 and 89 1917 Good Cash Prizes for all classes. If you have not received a premium list and entry blank, write today, Make gig Profits From furs try Shipp ng to filo Wortd's Biggest Fur douse L'or big,Neieg frog, ]r uaoh, Ohne yolu• fu,e ao un nt ones. *5 aro bi' 5o.t baenaon wn pay 111 tboot yrlena,,. w.. oodv uraklnamw,'5' 11gpri050eoa g ell, t, to for naw prfeo 1751 r1 raa. nnnn, ekank, mink, ax, sanilrnk and Other fere. *0 pay top PP loos sod sand nWnay tame y eve roaolvs ohlpnnont. wRiTte FOR FREE DOOR ,111.3111 umlit11%"'^`-"g ° V.111011' suORsaw0o.w0..41.2 r",non om11a0011 [rlasr En. Loeb. pin, e] and sifted coal ashes, to which has been added a little kerosene oil and the whole thoroughly mixed is often used for the dust bath. Wrights of Timber. Weight of one cord of green spruce pulpwood is shout 4,500 pounds. Weight of one cord of dry spruce pulpwood is about 3,000 pounds. Weight of one cord of green white - birch is about 6,000 pounds. Weight of one cord of poplar pulp- wood is about. 3,200 pounds, Weight of 1,000 feet of old growth spruce logo (according, to Maine or Holland rule scale) is about (1,000 pounds. The weight of green lumber may be reduced from 30 to 50 per cent, or more in seasoning, while the strength of small clear .pieces may increase in seasoning up to double the strength when green, Clothespins will not freeze to the line if they are first boiled in strong east and water and then dried. About :!our.fifths of • the Italian army is drawn from the agricultural classes, and as a result requests :for leave of absence to allow of the tend- ing of crepe are numerous, bat only n small percentage can. be .granted. (,----;, COItNME�1I..a1LL �y Alt OUND FOt 1) l As a substitute for wheat, cornmeal 10 110* receiving special attention. Hitherto the Canadian housewrfe'has not been fully alive. to its possibilities ars an article of diet. It has been neglected utmost entirely es a bread, ealco and cereal flour. Let us loots a moment at this meal, which is the corn kernel dried rued ground to vary- ing cialtrees of. fineness, It is rich in starch, protein and fat. This makes it One 0'f the most nourishing grains. In addition, the starch is of a most digestible kind and more adaptable to all forms of cooking than potato or ' fico 81.01011, Proper Cooking Enhances Flavor Those who have continuously patr- onized the ready -cooked breakfast foods may have forgotten just how good plain a rnmeal mush tastes. it must not have lurnps, be ne1thee too thin not' too thick, and it must be cooked enough to do away with any raw taste, The fireless cooker, or the double boiier, brings the hest results. .Tho heal should be sprinkled into ra- pidly boiling salted water and allowed to swell and cook slowly for forty mi- nutes 01' more. As it "sets" quiekly, it should be eaten at once. Brown sugar, syrup or cream add to the nourishment as well as give flavor. Gook a double quantity and pour the extra amount into shallow muffin tins or a shallow oblong cake pan. These cornmeal patties can easily be turn- ed oat and fried for a succeeding breakfast and are much easierto handlo than plush poured into a large dish and sliced. When ready to use the mush in the oblong pan pour over it some bacon fat or other dripping and place in oven to brown and heat. This :flat cake may be turned out whole on a platter and served with bacon or ham and eggs. Cornmeal as a War Bread It is possible to use one-third corn- meal in every loaf of whitebread, thus saving wheat flour. One can also make countless varieties of corn- bread, such es the quick -raising muf- fins, "corn -pone," made in a frying pan or flat baking pan, or in a bread loaf, etc. Such breads need not be eaten at once, but can be made in ade vane and eaten cold or reheated. Cornmeal also is an excellent pan- cake flour. No white griddle cake can compare in flavor with those made of cornmeal and sour mills. In- deed, equal quantities of white 'and cornmeal flour can in most eases sup- plant all wheat flour in various re- cipes. The resulting food will be richer in flavor and coarser in texture, which will mean greater health than if finely milled white flour only is used. The Inexpensive Cornmeal Dessert We have forgotten the favorite "In- dian pudding" of the old clays. Modern fuels and the fireless cooker have shown us that it is not necessary to steam these puddings eight or. ten hours, but only three or four. The Indian pudding can be varied by us- ing chopped dates, raisins, prunes, candied ginger, cranberries, etc. It is particularly adapted to cold days and the unfillable stomachs of little boys. A more dainty dessert can be made by using part cornmeal and more beaten egg or gelatin. Cornmeal may be used in place of bread crumbs to very great advantage in snaking desserts such as those called "betty" or layers of fruit and crumbs with seasoning. For instance, sliced apples, cranber- ries or prunes may be used in alter- nate layers with cornmeal, sugar and a sweet sauce and baked. Eaten with cream or hard sauce we have a hearty dessert at very little cost. Cornmeal may be used in place of crumbs for breading croquettes, fish, vegetables, etc. Slices of eggplant, for instance, may be dipped in egg batter and cornmeal to great advan- tage, saving white bread for other purposes. On fish it gives a more crisp and attractive coating than flour. Cornmeal is ground in different fine- -misses; What is called "stone ground" is the best for cereals and bread. The white cornmeal is more .delicate for desserts and as crumbs, blit for the greatest nourishment choose the most yellow variety very finely ground. Determine this fall to conserve the wheat that the fanner has raised at such cost—make this a cornmeal'win- ter and you will be surprised at the variety of your table and the health of its members as well as at the lower cost to your pocketbook. War Work of Universities. The universities of Canada have been tremendously depleted by the war, Of the 14,000 undergraduates 10,000 are men. There are now at the front 6,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduates. Of this number 800 have already been killed while 400 are with °" the staffs. The schools of applied science particularly have been badly cut down. All the serums and toxins used by the Canadian armies have been matte in the laboratories of our own universities. These institutions also have don great workin the re- education of crippled soldiers, Six of the universities have sent hospital writs to the front, When only a few cabbage ere being stored in the cellar, leave the stalks and roots on. They will keep 12111111 better when handled thus, Righbush cranberries can be"grown in the garden, and the plants are not only attractive in the autumn, but furs. nish good material for sau ie and jelly.