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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-07-04, Page 6uY ti Vit• • ? By Agroaornist, This Department is for the use of our farm readere who want the advice of an expert an any question regarding soil, seed, crops, etc. If your question le of sufflolpnt general Interest, It wIll be answered through this column. If ata!mped and addressed envelope Is enolosed with your letter, a complete answer will be mailed to you, Address Agronomist, ore of Wilson Publishing Go., Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. 21. Ws, --1. What is the best keeping onlon, those grown from seed or from Dutch sets? 2. What is tate best tante to sow buckwheat and what is the best variety? 3. What variety of millet do you recommend and when should it be sown? Can you give me directions for the culture of millet and rape? 'What is the best; soil for all these eropa? Answers --1. Both systems of grow- ing onions are used, Some produce them from seed and others from Dutch sets. The yield from Dutch sets is. usually less than that from seed, but the advantage is that the sets can be planted as soon as the ground is ready In spring and the green onions are ready to use earlier than those raised from seed. As a rule better bulb onions for keeping are produced from seed, 2. Buckwheat can be sown any time early in spring until the first of July. Possibly sometime in June ie the best time to sow it. In tests at Ontario Agricultural College these four varieties stood high,—Common fii•ay, Japanese, Silver Hull, Rye Buckwheat, 8. In Ontario tests the following millets have given good re- sults, Siberian, Hungarian, Canary Bird. Millet can be grown on any good Boil. It can be planted later than most: other farm crops, and pro- duce a fair yield of hay. In order to get a good stand of millet, after the ground is plowed it should be thor- oughly disked and harrowed and if still lumpy should be rolled and har- rowed, The millet is then sown add enough of this sweetened water broadcast at the rate of 20 to 30 to the bran to make it just moist pounds per acre. It. 18 worked into throughout. Place a teaspoonful at the soil by a light harrowing. Under the base (not touching) of each plant no, mal conditions the germination! affected and near the base of adjacent and growth will be rapid. The crop plants. Where the damage seems to should be eat before it is too old else I be along an edge bordering a piece of the hay will be woody and of poor, grass -laud, put some down near each nutritive value. Rape can also be plant along the border. grown on most farm sells but does Use the following quantities:— not do its best on muck soil, The seed bed should be carefully prepared by. For gardens of is acre or less use:— plowing, disking• and harrowing and Bran (or substitute) ,,,.1 quart the seed can be 80w11 in rows broad -1 White arsenic ..1 teaspoonful cast est the rate of 2 to 4 pounds per Molasses 1 tablespoonful acre. A medium loam or a heav • 1 Water to moisten loam soil is best adapted for the grow -I For 1 to 2 acre gardens use:— inh' of rape, .As to variety, Dwarf i Bran (or substitute) 10 lbs. Essex Rape has given hes,. results in`. White arsenic O:,t.a, io, W. 13.1-1.What will eradicateMolasses „._._._ twitch grass from the garden? 2. lion would you treat potato blight? I Many people add to this poison Anse -era -I. Twitch tie quack grass, mash, the juice and crushed pulp of r, eeeeeuiogly troublesome since it some fruit that happens to be handy, p :meanie!: by running rout stalks such as grape fruit, apples, tomatoes, just under the audile of the soil., oranges, cantaloupes, etc., which may Small pieces "!' these roots will begin have "just one by,” and it is consider - t grow wherescr dropped, hence the ed,by scientific people to be a very area at7!ieted with this pest may be good practice. This poison bait is rapidly enlarged if care is not taken eheap, easily mixed and easily ap- to collect every bit of root stock pos- plied. The fact that it is a very old sible, aril to dry aid burn it when the remedy which was standard many geounid is being worked in early years ago has given a sufficient test spring. The only thing that can be of its reliability. One of the best fen - dare *.'o:' quack tc,ass in the garden is tures of the poison is that as soon as to keep its growth down by continual the worm has fed he crawls into the "hoe&r.g. Various methods to eradicate ground from which he never emerges the pew have been !uggested. One is so that the birds do not eat the dead t • .mothering it vitt For this pur- cutworms. There is no neeesellr to hoc deeply.: CP01( an bath is enough flue every sears days at least and alwaysaaftel lain or While ib is possible for verrnh) to a watering in order to break up the live the entire year when conditions serial which i'oru18 This is bemuse nee fa•vorah1e they seem to do their the dust or ' MOW', tis it is culled, 'were in Juno, How is formed by the breaking up of moot deadly that are cleaned 01)818 a week ami the O U)01) moisture int., nisi pal:helve, le of fumigated every month', are seldom'in- ke,rps the i)om zvaround the icor of the planta from evaporating. fasted with vermin. The writer has found that the use of tobacco atenis in the nest boxes, in- stead of hay or straw, is in itself one of the best insecticides, Javan in set- ting hone tobacco stems are used ex- pose a thick seeding of rape is prob- elusively, with the result that when ably the most successful crop to grow. the chicks are hatched there are no Thickly sown millet is also very ef- lice presentrto sap the life out of fective, 2. Late blight of potatoes them. must be treated by careful spraying with Bordeaux mixture. This mix- ture consists of 5 lbs, copper sulphate, 5 lbs, lime, 180 gallons of water. The lime and copper sulphate must be dis- solved separately, A gallon of water obtained by slaking enough lime with will dissolve a pound of either copper the water to get five quarts of creamy sulphate or lime. When the nut- consistency, to which the other ma- terial late been dissolved mix it' in the proportions indicated, and spray the potatoes every ten days or two weeks from the time they are five inches above the ground, If any plants have missed the spraying and the tops have gone down early from blight attacks, care should be taken not to store stock from such plants with healthy potato stock. W. %y,:-1. What can I do for cut- worms? They are cutting oaf my very little loss from heavies,, crows, tomato plants. I wind them with rats, weasels and minks. Rats will paper but they crawl up the paper and not harm chickens after they are hall cut them just the stame. matured, so long as `some grain or Answer:—For controlling cutworms, other feed is lying about. They never the Maine Experiment Station gives the following advice:— "Control cutworms with a poison bait. This is very easily made up of white arsenic (can be bought at any drug store) some molasses and some- thing such as bran with which to make a mash. Mix the white arsenic and the bran material while dry and put the molasses into a cup or a bucket of water to dissolve. Then A good whitewash is made as fol- lows; 'fake one pint of Zelnoleum, three quarts of kerosene, five quarts of milk of lime; mix all 'with an equal amount of water. Milk of lime is Oriels are added. It is better to ap- ply the whitewash with a spray pump than a brush, as the force will drive the mixture deeper into the crevices, 7onoleum used in the spray will kill the bacteria and fungi, kerosene will kill the mites, and whitewash will give the pen a clean appearance. A good dog and a faithful cat are excellent guardians, and when these animals are well trained there will be loiter about a building where there is no place to hide. It is therefore wise to guard against hiding places. The Wartime Garden, The gardener's best friend is the hoe —so keep it going. Nothing has done more to further the science of farm- ing than the discovery of the fact that if you keep stirring up the soil around a plant it grows and produces better. Thinning should be going on e'uai- tinuously these days, The was r;aai•- clencr must show himself to be n)erei- less in getting rid of all weaklings i'er they serve 110 purpose other' than to sap for themselves the strength which should be reserved for the stronger plants. 1t stands to reason thea if too many plants are trying to take nourishment from the soil, none •f them will thrive us it should, Ordhl- arily in thinning it is better to pull cul the plants in the centre of the bunches which have come up together. In districts where grasshoppers are abundant, farmers and gardeners should co-operate and arrange to fight the insects at the same lisle. The young hoppers hatch in May, As soon as they are noticed to be destroying crops, either of the following mixtures should.be used early in the morning, about the time the insects begin to move about after their nig'ht's rest; (1) Bran, 20 pounds; Paris green or white arsenic, one-half pound; cheap molasses, 2 quarts; oranges or lemons, 3 fruits; water, 2 to 231 gallons, The bran and poison are nixed thoroughly in a wash tub while dry. The juice of the fruit is squeezed into the water and the pulp and peel are added after being cut into fine bits. Then add the molasses and when the whole is thor- oughly mixed, pour it over the dry bran and poison, stirring constantly so as to dampen the bran thoroughly, The other mixture is as follows; (2) Sawdust, 20 pounds; Paris green, one- half pound; salt, one-quarter pound; water, 3 gallons, The quantities given here would make sufficient for a fair-sized community and it might best be handled in this way. GOOD HEALTHUEST N X — Q lO BOX . _ By Andrew F. Currier, M.D. Dr, Currier will answer all signed letters pretainiug to health. If your question Is of general interest it will be answered through these columns; If not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is en- closed, Dr, Currier will not presoribe for individual cases or make diagnosis, Address Dr. Andrew P. Currier, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Infant Feeding No. 1. This subject is of great import- ance at all seasons, but especially so during the heat of summer when the sensitive digestive apparatus of babies is thrown out of equilibrium. 1 ]b. It would seem unnecessary to urge 1' quart that every mother who is able to nurse to moisten her baby should do so. The food which is supplied by her body is the natural and proper nutri- ment for her child. Occasionally it is not nutritious and cannot be used, somewhat more fre- quently i•t is insufficient in quantity and has t obe pieced out with cows' milk, rarely it must be suppressed in the interest of the mother's health or life. It is a sin against society, against nature and against God when a wo- man with an ample supply of breast mill: deliberately elects to suppress it. to suit her convenience. It is next to procuring an abortion, which so many women do merely be- cause itis inconvenient to have babies and bring them up. v I appeal to every honest, decant, woman who has a baby or is about to have one to see that her baby is nourished at the natural source, so �✓ 4.i L+J far as it is within her power. The,,—ands ,•a pigs die a week or Every hog raiser must remember If this source fails the next beat two naps firth Crone mismanagement that the fat of milk is absolutely ne- thing is to get a wet nurse, or if this of the awe. The C 0ss, constipated, cessary for every young growing ani -1 is impossible to use the milk of ani- fleaaty soyamay kill anal eat her pigs mal if it is to develop normally and et once, of have little milk for their nouri.slmcn , ff the sow is heavily fed fust after farrowing, her milk ki;h her pigs, or they sour and fail to thrive. The careful man will let thc sow have only luke-warm water to dr •sic, without feed, for the first t . -i''0 hors; after that he will feed very ilghtl : for a vveelc or two, sive feed during pregnancy and after farrowing, and will provide a patch of or .s, peas and rape, clover or alfalfa, for the sow and pigs, Ho si:1 ):cid malum; 'ern the exe1u- _" -" milk is poisonous, Piga will have piles or protrusion of the rectum, and Cabbage Plants they may die or fail to thrive if fed �! unscreened ground oats, or emelt bran or' boiled potatoes for a prolonged period of time. They may be killed, too, by slop from dirty, germ• -infested barrels and troughs; while sour or de- composing slop partly made of tank- age will cause ptomaine poisoning, which ie fatal. It is better to feed the tankage dry, from self -feeders, if the slop can not be fed fresh. Sanita- tion of beds, pens and yards is not enough; it must include barrels and troughs, and prevent access to con- taminated yards, old wallows anti run- ning Streams, prove prolific as a breeder. Grain does not perfectly take its place. Leaves and grain fed together, the whole plant utilized, may prove fairly effective as a ration, but milk can not profitably be withheld, No wide- awake swine raiser will sell all of his milk and try to raise his young ani- mals with substitutes. Pigs will die if allowed access to their dams after weaning. The old .'.f '.Q! i'rrit,;A early and late r;.•1 ire,. t5r. ser hundred, mail t're- ..,1.1. R:a)s 1,er ihou0and, express ' Iso . a.niiatuw'er, Brussels Sprouts and Ontro Planta. 1`iento are being ehippcd 4000055. fully to all party or Canada. Ask for Price 118), r£erold's Vanua, i'ruft1and, .Ontario ;Dept. "Y" 271agara District Farmers who ship their wool direct to as get better prices than farmers who sell to the general store, ASP ANY FARMER! who has sold hie wool both ways, and note what he says-- or, better still, write tie for our prices; they will show you how nnuch you lose by sailing to the Genera2 Store. we pay the highest prices of Any Ann in the countrytn,dare the lurgestwaol mitred the sin uiue dap wool its received, Shipnsyourwnoi today—.you wliibe snore than pleased Myatt do, and ars assured of a square deal froth us, a H. V. ANDREWS 13 CHURCH ST., TORONTO Economy With Grain Bags. fly reason of the unusual heavy de- mands on the jute supply of India, and on the Calcutta bag industry, farm- ers are advised to order, as soon as possible, all the new bags they will need for sacking grain and other pro- ducts, and in addition to prepare for use all old bags which can be made serviceable, Very large orders have been placed for sand -bags for use in mining trenches, one English order alone being for 150,000,000 bags. C Fruits and .vegetables supply the body with necessary mineral salts, starch and sugar, and those who eat plenty of these will seldom require medicine of any kind, The milk of asses and goats has curd or casein which quite resembles that in human milk, but such milk is usually hard to get and hence we must usually resort to cows► milk, preferably from cows that are dry fed. Grass fed tows often eat plants which injure their milk as an article of healthful food, but the same plants which when green are injurious may be harmless when in the form of hay. Milk is a complex and perfect food containing albumen in its cheese, fat m its butler or cream, sugar; water and mineral salts, and these are all the body needs for its upbuilding. It varies greatly in the proportion of these constituents, some containing more cheese than others, some more fat, hence all milk is not equally suited for nourishing babies. At different periods in a baby's life more of one constituent is required than of another. Casein or cheese in cow's mills is usually too tough to be digested by a young infant's gastric juice, and hence this substance must often be diminished. Milk spoils very quickly unless it is, kept cold on account of the action of the bacteria which gets, into it almost as soon as it is drawn. These bacteria may be destroyed or prevented from growing by the ac- tion of heat. The process of doing this is called pasteurization by which it is heated to 140 degrees F„ forty minutes. Crean) or fat may be added to it un- til] its total volume is three per cent. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, M. R.—Have been advised to rub My baby girl, who is four weeks old, every other day with oliva oil, in order to strength her bones. Is it desir- able? Answer—It will do no harm, but I think cocoanut oil is preferable, it is less greasy and at has nutritive value, as well as the olive oil. CUTOUT AND : FOLD `ON DOTTED ,LINE5 rot1 • 530471 MRWAae . Y;I e t ,1 i to .1; Biu L When Willie saw this funny beast, e gave a mighty shout. -r o ever saw an elephant ' ilii illl91 a, piggy'ds11Q11t.Z" >-14:j The Southern Ccancula Power 0031, Limit' Controls Water Powers 04 the q1. 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Particularly at that time of life during the teens, which we call adolescence, the body and mind work best through periods of hard, fatiguing activity, followed by profound relaxation and indolence. All patience should be shown to adolescent boys and girls who choose to get thorough their tasks in this manner, al- though to their parents it may be somewhat irritatiny and inconvenient. There is, however, a fatigue which is dangerous and which should be met at once with proper remedies, for the longer it is allowed to persist the more difficult it is to overcome. The symp- tom by which it may always be known is the lack of power the sutYerers have to become rested again. It set- tles down on then like s permanent condition of weakness and discourage - meant. Children suffering from this dan- gerous fatigue awaken irritable in the mornings, have poor appetites and lit- tle interest in anything which they dd. They perform their home teaks and their school work in a blundering, in- attentive -way. It lays them open to diseases of all kinds and makes re- covery from these diseases more un- certain, slower and less complete. Morally, it leads to dullness, indolence and failure all along the road, The explanation usually made for fatigue and nervousness in children is that they are studying too bard. As a matter of fact, this is seldom the . cause and if they are taken out of school, little improvement occurs un- less in addition to removing .them from their studies a number of other changes are made in their manner of living. I believe that if you will search your memory and experience you will decide that among all those run-d'own youngsters whom you have 1 seen taken out of school, the only i ones who have improved have been those who at the same time were sent' away for visits or put on diets or mule! to sleep on p000118s. The truth is that' hard study will not hurt any normal' boy or girl if it is done under health- 1 ful, happy conditions. Yes, it is trying conditions wilder which school life often proceeds, which usually result in dangerous fatigue' and nervousness—sometimes running' on into that twitching disease; known; as Saint Vitus' dance, or into tuber -I culosis. The causes are threefold and, lie in the faulty hygiene of the home,' the poor hygiene of the school and the system of marks or competition with other pupils .and examinations w1)101) are often pushed to a senseless and ' truly criminal excess. Children frequently start off the day with insufficient breakfasts, ars! rive at school chilled and perhaps with " wet feet and are provided with a mur- derous basket -lunch of pickles, ham, cake and candy. What wonder that their heads ache and that they believe' that their studies—which are indeed difficult and painful under these cir- cumstancee—al's the cause of their ill health! They feel far too side to eat supper but are hungry by bedtime so they eat a generous slice of pie before sleeping, A bad digestion nrakos a I person feel cold so probably they do not open the windows very wide and, the pie, plus the poor ventilation, pro - t duces restless sleep. So they go, from .inson Keyes. day to day, in a widening circle of ill health, The schoolroom, perhaps, 15 heated by an unja.1keted stove. Close be- side it the air is so hot -that the Chil- dren are drowsy; in the back of the room the youngsters are shivering. In both places the air is poisoned by the breaths of the children and the burn- ing up of fuel in that same stove -- which equals twenty-five men in its power to exhaust pure air. The desks, very likely, face the door, and windows on both sides shed cross lights upon the children's work, caus- ing eyestrain. It takes so long to put on coats and routs that outdoor' recess is omitted much of the time. The only wonder is that any study progress is made nisei even a tolerable health maintained by most of the pup- ils. The system of promotion is too apt to be a scramble by the children to get ahead of one another instead of a serious pursuit of knowledge. They wear themselves out in the nervous excitement of doing better than some -1 body else. Those boys and girls who happen 'not to be good recitation -1 scholars often fail in this scramble, and grow despondent and ashamed. They are frequently the most prom- ising pupils in the school but nobody knows it because we are all blinded by the false standard, we have set up. By discouraging them, testing then by what they cannot do instead of by what they can, we thrust them into t the ranks of the nervous, the tired and the discouraged. Before taking your run-down chil- dren out of school try this cure: In the bitterest cold of winter let them sleep with wide-open windows.' As soon as the weather is milder put their beds on a porch. If you have a bathroom, let the day begin with a cold plunge in the tub or a cold show- er. Give them a breakfast of well - cooked cereal with cream on it, and 1 .eggs and toast—no fried foods or sweets. See that their feet are dry - shod and their bodies comfortably clad for the trip to school. Prepare them nourishing lunches of well -baked bread spread with butter, or sanwiches of chicken or beef. Do not include ham, pickles, jams or candies, Chil- dren should not drink tea or coffee; instead, give them a bottle of milk or cocoa. Fresh fruits will supply all the sweets they need, in the best pos- eible form. When they must have cake let it be simple. Nuts and raisins make an excellent dessert with real food value but they should not be added to a meal already heavy with Meat, This is true, too, of cheese. Cheese should be added only to a light meal of green salads or vegetables or fruits. Then let the mothers of the com- munity form a mothers' club or a parent -teachers' _ association and see that the school stove ie properly jacketed; that there are always two windows open, one at the bottom and one at the top; that the closke are turned with their backs to the door and that the windows on the right ride of the 1100113 are darkly curtained, al- lowing the light to fall only from the rear and left side. If the school has but one room, urge the fathers to build on a second one where an oil stove and a few kitchen utensil's can be kept for heating dishes for the midday lunch or even for simple cooking. There will be few tired or nervous hildren in a community where such Tome and school hygiene method are practiced. There is a tendency for farmers to keep their lambs until they weigh 100 pounds or more, instead of selling them when they reach a weight of seventy -live to eighty pounds and bring the top market price, Packers will not pay the top price for lambs no ditfetenoe how fat, if they weigh. over eighty pounds. The reason is because the best cuts of meat can he obtained from the smaller carmme%, - In addition, the one who sells March lambs in June or July when they have attained seventy -live or eighty pounds, instead of waiting until fall to dis- pose of .hem, avoids the clanger of disease in the last two summer months, Lambs make very small gains during this period.. They make the cheapest gains under five months of age. They can reach the neces- sary weight by the last of June. or middle of July if feet liberally with grain, pasture crops and milk from their mothers, The marrow from the soup bone analtes a pleasant addition to Soup. itTie Superior Sex "'You are late agate, • said Grana as 1 entered, "What is 11, this time?" `-' I explained elle reason, A certain amount Of tact w118 necesznly, for my wife docs sant care for any remarks that reflect Upon her sex, "Owing to the present abnormal stale of thing,, my dear," I said, "our oli'ic), ie almost entirely staffed by women, In many wage this is an im. provement, Their refining influence upon the dress and deportment of the male members, of the staff' is notice- able. But there aro,,I regret to say, 001tuiu dr'awbacics, A.cllnit'tatily cur superiors in many respects, iu others they are not, I am afraid, equal to the situation. Take, for instance, mat- ters of detail where you --•I mean they -•-should excel. I asked itiiss Philpott to write a letter---" "Diel you post that letter for me this morning?" asked Clara, "11' Mrs. Roberts doosn't get it, she won't know where t0 meet me t0-m03'row,'3 I told Clara that I had posted the letter, although naturally I did not re- member doing so. A man who has hundreds of petty details to deal with every day develops an automatic memory ---a subeonscluus mechanism that never fells him, I explained this to Clara, "Not once in five thousand times would it allow me to pass the pillar box with an un - posted letter in my pocket. Perhaps it is the vivid red—" "And perhaps your vivid imagina- tion," said my wife. "Well, I am glad you posted the letter, for Mrs. Rob- erts, as you know, never received the one you posted ten days ago." "I took that matter up with the local postmaster," I said. "He explained to me that letters are now almost en- tirely sorted and delivered by women, and he was afraid mistakes some- times happened. And just to satisfy you about this one, which I put as uoa.l in my breastpocketat the back of my other papers—" I produced the contents of my pocket. As I expect- ed, the letter was not there, "Why do you carry- so many papers in your pockets? What are they all about 9" "Candidly, my dear, I do not know. Without the element of surprise, life would be unbearably monotonous. That element I deliberately carry with me in my breast pocket. When a dull moment comes I empty my pockets. It would surprise you—" - "Nothing you do surprises me," said Clara. "Now go upstairs, please, and make yourself tidy. Have a dull mo- ment—not more than one, for dinner is nearly ready—and get rid of those papers." Although my wife has not a logical process of thought, at times she makes sensible remarks, I took her advice. As I anticipated, I had some sur- prises. A few important business memor- anda, a sugar form, two income-tax demands, l; number of private letters and an unpaid coal account made up the collection. There was really no- thing I could part with. Luckily, I found two duplicates of the coal ac- count. These I could spare. As I opened one of them, Mrs. Roberts's letter fell out of it. I had just time to catch the post. I managed to reach the front door un- observed. , My wife opened the dine-' (' ing-room door to tell me that din- ner was ready. I told her I had for- gotten to post a very important bug - nese letter, "A most unusual occur - 00000," I said. 0 "Mary can post it for you. Din- ner's on the table." Clara extended her hand for the letter. I explained that it was so very important that I could not even trust Mary. "Mary's sex is, of course, against her," said my wife, "but I'll tell her to hold the letter out at ar'm's length. You can see her all the way from the window and watch her put it in the pillar box," A little emitter 15 sometimes neces- sary, I find. "Strangely enough," I said, "the five -thousandth chance has come off, It is true the letter is important, but the business is yours, and the letter is addressed to Mrs. Roberts. I forgot to post it this morning." "I know you did," said Clara. "You left it behind, and I posted it myself." Here ); saw that I was going to score, "Then what is this?" I asked in triumph. "This," said Clara, taking it from ono, "is the letter you forgot to post ten days ago." Clu istimt Character. That over night a rose could come , • one time did believe, For when the fairies live with one They wilfully deceive, But' now I know this perfect thing Under the frozen sod In cold and storm grew patiently 13' God, My 01)6(1101wonder grows;to since knowledge came Old fancies to dismiss; And courage comes. Was not tho x080 A, Nor (11(1winter dt know,doing tristlds? weary while, What color and perfume With this completed loveliness Lay in that earthly tomb, So maybe I, who cannot see What God wills not to show , May some day bear a rose for Him It took my life to grow. Poultrymen should grow a ton of mensal beets ;Cor each 100 hens for suequlent flied for winter,