HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-12-06, Page 313y Agronomist
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of se expert on any question regarding soli, seed, crops, etc. If your queetlon
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A.D.:---Which would be better for a well prepared seed -bed. Consider,
sandy loath, to spread well rotted able care must be given to the cultivee
manure on this Call or in the spring? tion of the crop. When the plants
Would it be advisable to use fertilizer turn yellow, harvest the whole plant,
on such land in the spring? This land leaving the beans in the pods. If they
is level and well drained, intended for
potatoes.
Answer;—I would advise putting on
the immure in the spring, Bo sure
to store it protected from the rain and
snow; otherwise you will loso a lot of
the available plantfood by leaching.
In order to get largest yields of best
quality next spring, you will do well to
add fertilizer to this soil, In tests at
Fredericton, Now Brunswick, last
yoal•, the Experimental Farm got an
increase of 00 bushels and 33 pounds
of carrots per acre by adding 050
pounds of fertilizer to the acre along
with 80 tone of manure per acre. This
1n nose was in addition to that obtain-
ed by the manure alone. In the same
test, the addition of fertilizer to ma-
nur•e'returned a gain of 124 bushels
and 44 pounds of turnips to the acre.
Potatoes require largely the same eype
of fertilizers as the foregoing crops.
The addition of sufficient fertilizers
Will undoubtedly give you good results.
H. 13.:-1. What would you advise
sowing on low muck land to give por-
manent pasture? 2. Could you give
sue culture directions for lentils? 3.
What will rid a field of twitch grass?
Answer: -1, For low ]and grass for
permanent pasture, I would advise you
to sow a mixture of—
Red top 10 lbs.
Timothy 41bs.
Alsilce clover . , 4 lbs.
White clover ,., 2 lbs.
Total 20 lbs, per acre
are threshed out, the lentils •do not
store so well. 8. To get rid of twitch
grass or quack grass, it requires per-
sistent acre, Various methods aro re-
commended, Some get good results
by giving tem soil good preparation
and then seeding it to a very heavy
seeding of rape, millet or sorghum.
The idea is to smother out the grass.
Others get good results by summer
fallowing, raking up the pieces of
roots, drying and burning them, as
often as the material can be gathered,
Subscriber (--I would like your opin-
ion of alfalfa sowed on disked bean
ground in the spring. Do you think
land should be plowed?
Answer: -If the land where your
beans were grown last year is of a
clay type, it should be plowed in the
spring its preparation for a seecl,-bed
for alfalfa. It is almost impossible
to give too much care in preparation
of the soil when alfalfa is to bo grown.
It might be of interest to you to know
that on the Cornfalfa Farms, Wauke-
sha, Wisconsin, where approximately
81)0 acres of alfalfa are grown on a
500 -acre farm, greatest care is given
to plowing, disking and harrowing the
soil. Swartz Bothers, the operators,
report that at seeding time they also
apply from 400 to 00 pounds per acre
-0f a fertilizer carrying 2 per • cent.
ammonia, 8 per cent. available phos-
phoric acid, ancl under normal condi-
tions 2 per cent. potash. This addi-
tional available plantfood gives the
young crop a vigorous start. The
Swartz -Brothers have been growing
If possible, provide suitable drainage. alfalfa for the last twenty years and
2. Relative to culture of lentils, French have made an extensive crop of it
advises a light and dry soil. Grow the during the last ten years. It is no
lentil~ in rows about 18 inches apart, uncommon thing•.fo• them to cut from
planting them 3 inches apart. The six to seven tons bf excellent alfalfa
seed is planted about an inch deep on hay per acre.
All other kinds of farming are more
or less of a gamble, but the man ';rho
is in dairying is reasonably sure of a
fair return for his labor and capital.
There is no Sure way of telling
what a cow is capable of except by
weighing and testing the milk. There
is no connection between the length
of the tail and depth of the milk
pail the cow will fill. Some of our
best milkers have been bob -tails.
At the same time a wide space be-
tween the back ribs is a good thing
to look for in buying. The main
thing, .however, is depth and width of
rib and space between ribs and hips.
This indicates capacity to store and
digest food. The "milk veins" are
also important.
• If you want large milk yields you
must have at fairly large cow, Other
\things being equal, a large cow will
produce more, at less cost, than will
0 smell cow.
If you killed a cow which was giv-
ing three 'gallons at a milking you
probably would not find more than
that many •quarts of milk' in her ud-
der. The milk is produced while the
process of milking is going on. The
act of milking transforms tiny cells in
the udder into the form of milk.
Every dairy farmer should test his
cows and weigh their milk, He
•- should (lo this for his own satisfaction.
He should do it for financial reasons;
a cow, proven as to capacity, by test,
will sell for two or three times the
price of an unproven coNe.
Hubbard squash and cabbage make
- excellent green winter feed for hens.
It is just as important to provide
green feel and animal feed for hens
. • hi winter as it i$ to supply a milch
cow with roots, silage and chop to
make her milk.
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No reliance can be placed upon a
fowl that is not pure in blood. There
is a downward tendency in the haphaz-
ard mixturd of breeds. The purebreds
of to -day not only possess the strong
constitution of the crossbreds, but they
combine with it wonderful powers for
the production of eggs and tine grow-
ing of meaty carcasses; qualities that
are more or less unsatisfactory in
mongrels.
It was purebreds that solved the
possibility of winter egg production.
Mongrel hens are not found in the list
of phenomenal layers, neither are they
a factor in establishing poultry farms.
In fowls that are pure we have
habits, abilities and characteristics
practically the same. This enables us
to feed and care for them more intel-1
ligently.
There is ordinarily more profit in a
dozen l.urebreds than in fifty dung -I,
hill fowls. As a rule, mongrels are of a
hardy nature; they are not inbred.;
The continual mixture of blood avoids
any bad effects such as come from
close relationship.
In purebreds we also have beauty.
The tmiforntity of marking, color,
shape and size makes them attractive.
What success would the broiler
plants have if mongrels and not pure-
breds were employed4' , Uniformity
of size and condition is of untold
value in shipping carcasses to market;
and so it is with egge; and surely we
can not expect uniformity if we use
stock that will produce all sorts of , t
sizes, colors and conditions.
PATENT YOUR INVENTIONS
Rpm your (Ample oven:.
usselMeeobe tveleabie.4t
$eolllet of ifformatiea fro.,
StanloyUightfoot u ns'pon illAins.
Tim old horee, if given proper caro
and treatment will in almost .every
ease stand as much hard work as the
Pang animal and, considering the
price of horses at the present time the
old horse is worth just es much to the
farmer as the young horse, as far as
work is concerned.
Of course if the old horse is offered
for sale he will not bring as much
as the young one, because the most of
his life lies in the past, however, con-
sidering everything if he be given the
proper care he will pay his way and be
a profitable and faithful servant to the
farmer.
With many, as soon as a horse be-
i gins to grow old, say from 12 to 14
years he is neglected and does not re-
ceive the care he should have, nor the
care that he was given when young.
He is no longer groomed as regularly
and thoroughly as formerly. When
not in use he is left to run in the pas-
ture during all kinds of weather, and
if a little crowded for stable room ho
is many times left out for the winter
to find a place of shelter around the
old straw stack, or behind a bank
some place.
Many times the old horse does, not
receive the kinds of feed that are best
for his particular case and, if the teeth
are a little long and this is often the
case with the old horse, he cannot
grind the feed se he did a few years
past. When the old horse has reach-
ed this stage he cannot masticate his
food as it should beconsequently a
portion of it does him no particular
good.
Then again it must be remembered
he will require a longer time to eat
his feed than when young. Unless
some ground feed is given him and he
is given sufficient time to eat it when
being worked, he will. fail to get the
full benefit of his meal, and in a mat-
ter of a very short time he will begin
to lose flesh and will no longer pre-
sent the fat, sleek appearance of form-
er days.
It is obvious therefore that if the
horses are to be serviceable until a
good old age, they must receive as
good care and treatment, if not a
little better, in their declining years
than when they were young. They
must not be neglected whether at work
oe not.
The Melting of the Bells.
They have taken the bells of Flanders
And melted them into guns,
They have branded the bells of Flan-
ders
And trained them on her sons.
The tower of Bruges is silent,
And widowed shall she stand;
No more shall the voice of Roland
Sound "Victory in the land!"
Proud Ghent and prouder Antwerp
Are silent on the Scheldt;
They have humbled the bells of Flan-
ders—
Art sleeping, Van Artevelde ?
Now this is the condemnation
That follows them through the
years,
That they shall be blind to beauty
And they shall be deaf to tears.
And through the coming ages,
When wonder and woe are theirs,
Forever the bells of Flanders
Ring louder than their prayers,
—Mary Eleanor Roberts.
Three-quarters of a child's growth
takes plate duriug sleep.
Beware of the solicitor who offers
remedies to he put hi hole's bored in
trees for the purpose of destroying
insects or disease. Direct applica-
ion by spraying is the only preventive
iscovered up to the present trine.
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Willie ran with all his might,
Steady blew the breeze,
Snap went the string—and Mr. I{ite
Carne down among the trees.
free
If sett are breeding for speed, make
long-legged melee and females, Most
of us would not care for that kind of
sheep on our farms, We do not want
fence jumpers, but quiet, yei'vigorous
sheep. For this, sheep with short
legs and compact bodies are best,
Every year or two some one sug-
gests that the forests be used as sheep
or goat ranches. The forester's say it
is impracticable. Why not use farm
pastures instead?
A narrow gateway for sheep leads
to a big lot. of trouble.
A sheep corral is nothing less than
insurance against sheep -killing dogs,
which have constituted one: of the
{;'neatest obstacles to sheep -raising,
Sheep may be driven into the coral at
night, since sheep losses usually oc-
cur at night.
Be euro there are no ticks utl the
sheep when they go into winter qual•-
ters.
It will nest good money to winter a
lot of ticks and there is no profit in
them.
A ticky flock will come .out skin
poor in the spring no matter bow you
feed.
Lambs make greater gains in feed-
ing than old sheep, Ilence it would
be unwise to prohibit the slaughter
of lambs.
Ewes clue to lamb in the latter part
of winter or early spring should be
given nutritious food for toning the
system, developing the young and
growing a coat of wool. Nitrogenous
foods, such as oats, alfalfa and bran,
are valuable for that purpose.
The Tool Box In The Kitchen.
"Every well-appointed kitchen has
a tool box all its own," declared one
housekeeper, who says frankly that
she gets more pleasure out of work
done in her kitchen than that which
is necessary in any other room in her
house. "I am talking about house-
work, you understand, not about read-
ing or studying or playing the piano
or anything of that sort," she explains.
"One thing which I consider' an
absolutely necessary part of the
kitchen paraphernalia is a tool box.
Mine, which really is a deep drawer
over a build -in cupboard, contains twat
chisels, a large one and another smal-
ler, a funny little tool the name of
which I have forgotten, but it is a
wooden handle with a lot 02 queer
little things that can be fitted into
the end of it for various purposes, a
saw, a large hammer and a tack ham-
mer, a large screw driver and a small
one—and there are two still smaller
ones that belong to that handle full of
tools that I mentioned—a monkey
wrench, a pair of tweezers, a plane
and a few other little things which any
amateur carpenter or real one needs
at various times.
GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX
137 John 13, Huber, 14.A„ 14.0.
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question is of general interest It will bo answered through these columns
if not, it will be answered personally 1i stamped, addressed envelope is err
closed. Dr, Huber will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis.
Address Dr. John 13, Huber, care of Wilson Publishing Co„ 73 West Adelaide
ate Toronto.
Cat out worrying; it help.: disease to (leveled.
WHOOPING COUGH.
In England whooping eo igh---per- portussis incubation or hatching period
tussis --occasions more deaths than (the time between exposure to the in-
does measles or diphtheria or scarlet faction and when one shows the first
fever or typhoid fever. 800 of our own symptonms) is from a week to a fort -
children p
children dies aunnally a!' it. Nor is •sinceigtheIf exposulsixtee'en therdayse is
hano occasionassed
this taking into aeeouni the diseases to worry.
which may be complicating or sequel mileSTIONS ANI) ANSWEIRS.
to pertussis --emphysema, hemoi'- Subnormal Temperature.
rhages into the brain, hernia, broncho -
Will you kindly advise mo if any-
pneumonfa, mastoid abscess, tuber- thing can be done for subnormal tem-
cuWho' , porature of one and one-half degrees.
any -
Whooping ado r•nugh is even more ser I are 55, weigh about 100, work in-
ions for adults, in old people Ito has side do nut drink, use very little
Neon fatal its Itself r» � it has led to the
development of such "terminal alim- tobacco, sleep fairly web. I had a
encs" as pneumonia. Pertussis comes nervous breakdown 15 years ago from
oftentimes in epidemics, which vary overwork, worry and other causes.
greatly in contagiousness, . intensity Answer—Subnormal temperature
and mortality, The :specific germ is may be occasional and not serious.
spread, just as in dipheheria, in the If persistent the reason is it is due
secretions from the mouth and thet to alcoholism, melancholia, innutrition,
nose that are sneezed (incl thus wasting diseases and chronic poisons
atomize,1'or sprayed out) coughs' and mg in dangerous trades. A persist -
spat out, or carried aLout in handker_ ent subnormal temperature of one and
chiefs, on toys, drinking cups, roller one-half degrees is a more momentous
towels aed the like, which people who matter than the same above the nor-
ei me in contact with the patient mal. You should have your family
handle. Except for the droplet in- doetor give you a good overhauling. I
fection which results from sneezing am sending you the principles of the
and coughing (and weigh is always to i Hygienic Life. Leading• that should
be obviated by the handkerchief or help considerable. Almost all indoor
other cloth hold before the patient's workers suffer from lack ;of exercise,
mouth and nose during these acts) Blood Pressure.
pertussis is not an air -borne infection, Do you think a blood pressure of
The infection is got either directly (by, 125 serious?
contagion) in kissing and the like; ori Answer—Na. But it is below par,
Indirectly, as from toys and the like. slightly. dIt should be about 140. The
It is a person to person infection; and; conditions your doctor mentioned (15
the germ is not likely to live and be pounds under weight and anemia)
noxious more than several days out -I would account for the reduced pies
side a living body. 'He who keeps,' sure. Leading the Hygienic Life :
beyond speaking distance of the' should help greatly to your restore -
patient is not like to be affected. The tion.
"We always keep a box of nails of
assorted sizes on hand, also small
boxes of carpet tacks, brass -headed
tacks, brads and screws of several
sizes. Then, too, we keep a. few coils
of wire of different sizes, and we find
that all of these things are wanted
often enough to warrant our keeping
the supply up to date."
•
High egg production is more a ques-
tion of breeding than of breeds, of
heredity than of types.
The sheep stables should have fre-
quent cleaning. When the manure is
allowed to remain too long it gives
off ammonia and other foul gasses
which injure the sheep.
A Story from Galicia.
A good story is told concerning
Commander Locker-Lampson, whose
handling of the British armored -car
section on the Eastern front during
the Austrian -German advance in
Galicia called forth such warm praise,
During the height of the Russian re-
treat, when our allies were streaming
away eastward, one of his Tommies
was overheard enquiring somewhat
anxiously of another who were our
rearguard.
"Those who have the worst horses,
I should say," gruffly answered the
man' addressed, gazing with ill -con-
cealed contempt on the fleeing Rus-
sian cavalry,
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WTIY CHILDREN.
NEED MiLI
The most important part of milk as
a food for children is that which
furnishes the vitality of the child. It
is found in two substances, not very
well known, which diet specialists call
"growth getters" because they beget
growth. These two substances aro
found in mills more plentifully than in
any other food. One of them is in
solution in the liquid portion ofthe
Milk and the other is in the fat,
When the cream is taken from the
milk half of the growth getters are
taken with it; and butter made from
the cream contains practically all of
those that the creast contained. Skim-
med mills has the other half of these
mysterious substances, and cheese
made from this skimmed milk retains
only a portion of them. Skimmed milk
is better than no milk fur a child, but
not nearly so much growth will be
made as when whole milk is fed, Yet
milky cream, butter and cheese all con-
tain this growth getter.
Milk is a Food
Milk is a food and not a beverage,
and children who are drinking tea and
coffee its lieu of milk are being de-
prived of their most important food,
with the possible consequences of less
than normal growth, with bones that
are weakened or crooked. Not only
does the milk furnish the vitalizing
substances that promote the function
of growth but it supplies the materials
from which the growing body is form-
ed. Such is the ease with the forma-
tion of bone, made up largely of lime.
No other food contains so much lime
all ready for use by the body and at
so low a cost es is furnished by milk.
The muscles growing to keep pace
with the lengthening bones need the
protein furnished by the curd of milk,,
and the muscles make more rapid
growth when fed on the protein from
mills than on that from other foods,
Eggs, cod liver oil and—to a lesser
extent—meat all contain the growth
batter which' is found in the fat of
milk. The whole cereal grains con-
tain the one found in the watery part
of milk. Thus it can be partly sup-
plied in whole grain flours, meals and
breakfast foods, This vitalizer is
found also in dried beans, peas, lentils,
meat and eggs.
But to give the child milk is by far
the surest and simplest: way of seeing
that it has the necessary growth get-
ter.
There is likelihood of a present-day
tragedy in this country the childree
are given less mills. If the lives and
the health of the children are to be in-.
sured each child must have milk and
have it i... bu lance.
Do Not Tax Children
Only thoughtlessness or selfishness
can make the children pay the first
and the worst war tax through the
taking away of milk or lessening the
usual quantity oe this most necessary
food. The ill effects of this depriva-
tion would not come swiftly enough to
warn of the harm that is done but
with a dreary slowness that is not
likely to be noticed. Little by little
the child's health is undermined but
even when the break comes, whether
it seems to be due to a contagious dis-
ease or to a severe cold, the real cause
may never be thought of—that the
child bas not had enough food of the
kind tl:at a child needs.
Without milk children cannot thrive,
and even though they may be getting
quantities of other food substances'
those who have studied the problems
of child nutrition point wtt• that slow
starvation results, or at best such
poor development that the child is
stunted.
Parents are said to be changing well
formed food habits in order that the
little ones may have milk that they.
need. It has been Lang recognized that
food prejudices are among the most
difficult to overtime, but it is urged
that the grownups of the household
roust be self -forgetful enough to adap
themselves to changes in their ie.
fare if by so doing the children may
have their milk.
In many families to -day in whicl
both milk and meat have been abun
dandy used the problem arises as t
which one must be reduced. From th
point of view of the pocketbook an
fl•oinn that of patriotiarn—the gzeate
good to the future of the country
—1
milk be retained, or even increased
the family diet. Without questic
mills is a cheaper all round food tin
neat, and, although the children mu
have milk, adults can use milk as
sup;iloineut to a decreased meat diet
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ROYAL JEWELS.
European Monarchs Disposing
Valuables in Hard Times.
In times of stress the Eng
workers deposit what Mr, Wemn
called their "portable property"
the pawnshop, and the French at
Slate establishment more euph
ously called the moat -de -piste.
Royalty cannot descend to t
shifts, although sante of the eros
heads of Europe, through pressu
(card times since the beginning o
war, have had to dispose of their
els.
The Czarina of Russia took
by the forelock by selling hors b
the war began. Now the .king o
vara t hits sold in Holland Pearls t
value of half a nnilliou stt
Doubile % these are the famous
pearls of his family, which, acco
to tradition, bring Misfortune to'
owner$,