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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-12-06, Page 313y Agronomist This Department Is for the use of our farm readers who want the advice of se expert on any question regarding soli, seed, crops, etc. If your queetlon of sufficient general Interest, It will be answered through this column. if stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed with your letter, a oompiete answer will be mailed to you, Address Agronomist, care of Wlloon Publishlnd Co„ Ltd., 73 Adelaide St, W„ Toronto, 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. HIGHEST PRICES PAID For POULTRY, GAME--, EGGS &.FEATHERS Please write for nartieulare. r. VonrZN 4 Co., 30 Iloaseeonre :Slarket, Niontrc,el HUGHES PRIC s PAID For HAW FURS and GINSENG IV. SILVER '- 280 zoo St. ]caul St. W. Montreal, PA,;. Pel'erence,.1.7nlou Bk. or Canada OUR ADVICE Ship to us At once and Reap Benefits of High Prices now prevailing. t°r Ino Isla, and Shipping Teas FRES IOW on iAlm AnderwlNNlPCii Canada s.;1tt1r,.''ci 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. N PO La Dm tit) +a CUT OUT AND FOLD Cri'? DOTTED ,LI1E$ uuGra +.rm�,d•-3ca-cu.as, c,a.r.c,�uc. �s=,vs¢u»•'!,:marnams,....a, - :-rte-.:... 7=TWE?r'- rt" 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. .3 Ur, Huber will answer ail signed letters pertaining to Health. 11 your 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, "itis. Madel aici' OWNEWMATI M �, ��u,,cgyr gi /day v lteee Fe • Go in NOW and ick out your Vi rolaa eke for Chrisitmas It, will be de verec whenever you wish. Victrolas $27.50, $.41 10, $63, $79, $117.50, $2.25, $2:'5, $365, $370, W.15, $320 Vidor Records -90c for. 1.0 -inch, double -sided. Viclor- Vidi:rola and compete outfit of F9 double -sided records, 30 se1ec'iions for W,O:l. EASY PAYMENTS, 11. DESIRED 'Write for Catalogue lintin. over 'IVO Vi, ttrr iit'coi'Js ?a. censer G am".o pho ie Co pF ly MONTREAL LIMITEl) 601 Lenoir Street (080.02 rr+uil��tlF86iE9! �$ 4d t:iA t°rffi ft {5yy �„'�A c{ttc' f: -d ��G 1taaX' to �n�e } �k lettee 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 - — 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$,