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The Seaforth News, 1918-09-26, Page 2By Agronotr11tt: Title Department IS for the ueq of our farm readers wits want the advice of en eXpert on any queetlon regarding coil, Bead, crops, etc. If your question •iso of sufficient general int4raet, It will be ansvvered through Rh1s column. It stamped and addressed envelope le enclosed with our letter, a complete. Ammer wili be malted to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Pub ishlne Co, Ltd.,78 Adelaide a el Ida St, W., T'arcntq, Ceti The Race Live Without The Cow? they could get along without butter- Certein scientiate have maintain. fat, but this is not poesiblo and eon - ed that milk and butter were not ab- sequently to have vigorous health soluteIy necessary Y ' foods. ,ebe see butter -fat must be a part of the In - the cheaper substitutes will the time whention. Dr, McCollum has called this take the place of milk and butter -fat,, protective element the "Fat Soluble The oleomargarine people have had A'iYFany people to -day are hailing Dr, this vision for some time and the scientists of Germany have claimed McCollum as the saviour of the dairy they could produce a substitute for industry because he has proved to the tante fi•ent soy beans which could not world that the dairy cow is necessary be detected from actual cows' milk ex- to the maintenance of human life in cent by careful analysis. Vegetable a vigorous condition. The only ergu- oils and the cheaper a dznal fats can anent against oleo up until now was be produced much cheaper than but- that butter -fat was more easily di- . ter -fats, so also this aril substitute geated than the animal and vegetable fromk sit at uta fats used in oleo; it would melt at a chew esry thanbanncs cowcan's be milk,prconsequent- orse much lower temperature, Observing peo- ly, Cher cows when aro a role ple had noticed that young children ly, the time is coming economic did much better when a part of food Coedltichens will cause substitution. of; contalnetl butter -fat and attributed it these cheaper products for the milk and butter -tat of the caw, to tho fact that butter -fat was more , easily digested and assimilated. But But another scientist, working Dr. McCollum's experiments indicate along different lines, has proved that the reason was because butter -fat a certain element of butter -fat is ab- contains this vital element fat solo children and health maintenanea of � � A WLD UI�s CUTOUT AND FOLD ON DOTTED LINES The r`arnihand's Wages, The farmhand conies in for maid. arabic discussion nowadays, but he is much better off than met people 'think. The Council of Defence of the State of Ohio hue been melting a sur- vey of labor oonditipns,nnd reports that a married' man working on the efarm for $30 a month is as well off as if he were to receive $105 in a city; Diet a $1 t$ a month feral job equals a .110 citjob; .} that , 49 f $ a ferns job Y equals a $115 city job, and so on, "Not taking t lata consideration,"the report adds, ""the possibility of raising 00me stock or produce on sharps, • which is usually customary." Nor Ilan the married man on the farm job a monopoly of advantages, for the report further finds that an unmarried farmhand receiving $25 is 05 well oft' as if he were receiving $80 in the city; that a $30 job for the bachelor farmhand equals a $90 city job; and that a $40 job on the Perm is ars good as a $95 job in the city, and ao on. The difference in aggregate returns is brought about by house rent, groceries, meat, milk, light, fuel, Unnecessary expensee, and luxuries. A. few repoyts like this regarding conditions in Canada would have good effect in turning the tide back toward the land once the war is over, For the last three or four ,years it has been running cityward strongly. As city labor was taken for the army, for the shipyards, or in the natural course of advancement, farm labor has been called upon to make up the deficiency. Waegs are advancing as a natural re- sult, so that the farmhand. who receiv- ed $25 or $30 a few years ago is now drawing down his $40 every menth— es' good, the Ohio investigators say, as $95 or $115 in the city, depending on whether the man is married or not. Some daly Canada is going to take the steps necessary to enable the. farmhand and the farm tenant to! GOOD HEALTH QUESTION ° BOX By Andrew r'. Currier, lad.It), *)r. Carrier will answer all.blgn.�!d lettere pretalning to lifealth. Iff 7080 aaeptton le of general let«rept it will bo enamored through these Colttatael R not, it Wtll.be answered personully if stamped, addroseed envelope le ow cloned, Dr, Currier will not preeortbe for individual cases or make dlagaeat«. Addres0 A And F u er• car o Pr, raw C t « t Wilson rr , W PabUahJng Co, 71 Mdelaldr 9t, Wok, Toronto. Ph 'si cu Changes y Which Take Place r k After Middle Lifa, By middle life the tissues of the body have reached the culmination of their development and from this time forth the period of degenerat- e. N tion has its turn. That which is' moat to be (heeded from this point onward le malignant disease. Or- gans which have been overworked or abused, the stomach, lip, tongue, in- testine, and in women''the breast and' uterus, now may become cancerous, and •other organs or portions of the body which may be subjected 'to ore or less persistent p' irritation aa(e in clanger from the same merciless ene- my. The arteries of the body are susceptible to degenerative changes from ?piddle life otiward, either:under, going softening or becoming harder by the formation of new tissue or the deposit of line salts within their walls in the latter case becoming brittle like pipe steals. In any case the arteries beconte perilously weak and the degenerative changes take Place so gradually that they are usu- ally quite inappreciable to the patient. Should the heart 'of a patient who is thus diseased become suddenly. or un- usually active the extra force which it happens to exert would be likely to produce a break in one or more of the weakened arteries. The arteries in the brain are particularly weak and' that is why so many people who have passed middle life have apoplexy. This is also the period of rheunra�- secure farms of their own. The help bents, and neuralgias and gout and' may come in the way of advance loans of obesity which snakes people clumsy on land, stock or machinery purchased,' and awkward and illy adapted to en - or in grants to soldiers returning lure pain and stiffness of joints, from war service. It is inevitable muscles, and nerves. that it is coming. When that time In this period also are the diseases comes the farmhand wilt loom Larger. of the bladder and prostate gland ac - on the industrial and economic hori- pompanied not only with the annoy - eon than ever before, and he is no came of frequent call's to evacuate the inconenicuous figure even now. i bladder hut with pain, haemorrhage owl e1°. In the meantime the duty devolves and other disagreeable symptoms. open him of giving good service and Sometimes these things can be pre - saving every penny fur the nppovtun_ vented and sometimes not. Perhapa ity which will undoubtedly be his in they are penalties for past sins which the near future. and the like should not be left to ---:+— ,THE 511N 15 ORIGHT,TNE WATER'S WARM, 1 THINK A SWIM WILL DD NO HARM,1 tatD FORWAae - 50 ONE FOR THE MONEY, TWO FOR'fllE SHOIY TllRfe, TO GET READY,AND IN I GO - solutely necessary for the growth of i ole A) which is not found only in the Topics in Season. adults. This man is Dr, ltreCollum,I leaves of plants, consequently it is the Johns Hopkins university. Bp! hest argument against the substitu- ofcareful experiments covering the t tion of Oleo. period from 1907 to 1917, Dr. McCol- lum proved there are two what he calls ""protective foods," Without a certain amount of these protective foods in the =1iet children cannot short time before intelligent citizens develop, neither can adults maintain school teachers, colleges, universities and the reading public now under•- stancl this idea and are spreading the pospel of truth so it will only be a understand this idea and when they'd° vigorous health. It used to be thought they will hesitate before they sub - that a diet of tubers, grains, roots stitute oleo for butter, even though it and meat could he made a perfect diet is much cheaper. but the experiment of Dr. McCollum The dairy cow will not be put aside in feeding various foods to young ani- because we can imitate her products, male for these ten years proved that She is necessary to civilization and, they cannot develop unless these pro- no matter what conies, is destined to tective foods are used. endure, When the people under - And these two '.'protective foods" stand the importance of butter -fat in are obtained so far as known at the a diet, especially- children's, they will present time front only two pourers—' be willing to pay n sufficient price for the leaves of plants and the butter-' whole mills and butter -fat, so Haat the fat of milk. 1f people could con-' dairy industry cannot be driven to the sume enough of the leaves of plants11 h Isubstitutes. Madonna lily bulbs may be planted this fitonth. Most other bulbs should not be put into the ground until Oct- ober. Before frost, make cuttings ofs the heliotrope, verbenas and other tender ' planta which you will want for setting out early next spring. The Italians have manufactured a substitute for Huger. It is derived from grapes by evaporating the juice. It is said to be particularly valuable The French Department of Agricul- ture reckons that a toad is worth $9; a lizard, $9; a swallow, $20; a tit- mouse, $S; a robin, 24; a bat, $30; an 111 the refuse of crops that are through eteiting should be burned as, soon as dry enough, Cabbage stumps, cucumbers, melons, tomatoes in the preservation of fruits. wa y cheap cay. Raspberry Rust. CIPodfra k'e Prices of horses have been advanc- Shorter days and cooler nights sea to put new life into both the poultry man and his stock. Plans should b d I To control white grubs, plow the in- s Tested soil deeply before October 1., r: and while plowing turn the poultry o 1, hogs into the field to destroy the ing steadily. War interfered with horse -breeding operations in France and Great Britain and drew heavily on their existing supply. It is are - ported that in Great Britain heavy draft geldings are bringing from 5800 to' $1,000 each, Tractors are being used in hauling munitions and draw- ing artillery because enough horses cannot be secured for that work. There will be large shipments of horses abroad after the war, which will take some of our heaviest and best animals. For that reason, it is essential to take good care of every colt. The most critical time is at weaning. Large numbers of stunted colts get their first set -back when taken from the mares in the fall. Teach the colt to oat grain, if it has not already learned, and when once taken from the'mare, do not let it return. Let- ting it get back to the mare after starting to wean it may ruin the mare, and it will make the colt mean. Milk out the mare's udder for a week or so, and if it becomes caked apply lard. No single piece of farm machinery has increased more in use in the last two years than the mechanical milker, In this country, where the labor short- age became critical early in the war as a result of the enlistment of farm laborers, the milking machine is the one thing that has everted a dis- >rstrous drop in dairy production. On hundreds of Canadian farms wo- men, with the aid of this machine, do the milking. As the war progresses, many more dairy farmers will be com- pelled to adopt the milking machine, or curtail operations, or go out 0f business. The dairyman who thinks the initial investment is too great or the cost of upkeep too high makes a mistake. In the United States a leading west- ern_dairynran who has 100 cows has operated a milking machine of six units for four years. To -day the ermine] parts, all but the rubber por- tions, are still in use. 'The rubber artawere p renewed nine months ago, On another farm where forty cows are milked, upkeep cost has amounted to 10 in four years. Still another dairyman, who has used a milker three years for a herd of thirty cows, spent $8 this year in placing the ma- chine in first-class order. Potted strawberry plants set out ow will produce fruit next season he same as field grown plants set out est spring. AN`E Sd. Th Highest Pelee* Paid' Prompt Returns—No domealselon P. POULIN lac CO4 9.0>;aaaeconie Marked steatxaal laid for the winter campaign, an ' when it is thought best to introduc new blood into the flock, the orde should .be placed now so the:: there cal be a better selection. Dispose of all stock that has not been profitable. There is no bettei time for culling than now, just befor ;this surplus stock starts into molt. The molting season has arrived and it is important that the birds Shave special care. It ie...a good plat to keep pieces of rusty iron in the drinking vessels so as to give the wa- ter a tonic effect. Young turkeys that have reached September in good condition have passed the critical stage, and during this :month will make wonderful strides in growth and development. March -batched pullets are showing every indication of early laying, if they have not already started. If pro ierly grown they will not only be steady fall layers, but reliable winter layers as well. Remove the male birds from the flock and keep them separated until the first of the year. Clean up all rubbish piles about the houses this month. Rubbish harbors rats and other enemies of the poultry yard, may not he escaped and the best you can do is to watch them and try and make the symptoms as mild as nos- 1 in thefoe- smearing '- feet 'ot'. fo In o eoo�liGr t g la ort g w a intess. s o r � pipes,.cigars and 4igarot Sleep must be' eneouraged at all enet it is mare important than :hood, and: If there is worriment it must be uneondi- tiona'1ly dismissed; exposure• to, cold and wet and even clangas Sir the' weather ere sure' to bring, oar 'rheum- atic troubles, hoirce tie' cl'othi'ng must be adapted to the season and' suitable' medical' treatment afforded. Increase in the. blood pressure means change in the arteries, hence toads must be made from time to time and suitable exer- eise, diet and mechanical and phy- sical treatment prescribed. Diseases of the bladder and prostate gland are amenable to relief in their early stages hence the first appearance of trouble is a danger signal, Frequent- ly one who has any of these discuses or tendencies must change the entire current of hies life, give up his occupa- tion, change hie residence, or be separated from his family and friends. These hardships are often justified, however, in the relief they afford to bad symptoms and the months or years they add to life with corre- sponding increase in happiness, use- fulness and power of influence. Questions and' Anewersi. X. Y. Z.-1—Does indigestion af- fect the nerves? 2—Which sold foods are best for• indigestion? 3—,Does butter• affect indigestion•?' 4—What part of dandelion is used for medicinal purposes, and how?' -6—Am forty, weigh, 168 pounds: and ant five feet and six filches in height. How could r reduce my' weight?' Answer—I'—ft very' often does, ld—The question is too general. In- digestion is relieved in one• person by omitting one kind of food,.<ulid in ea - other by something' eisa, ff—If you mean by your insiigestioen' "'Does butter cause li clinetrtion7"" My reply would be that good butter seldom does, The strawberry, bed still needs cult!-, Spraying with potassium sulphide sible. Malignant disease may some- • eating. keep busy until the ground •which wilt appear every season. The ments of irritation, curing indigen- best plan is to pull up and burn the tion, omitting unsuitable food, keep - plants and all diseased leaves tilled (freezes, Light frosts do not count September is housecleaning month in the garden, and a good cleaning up m there is just as necessary as in the -'house. The most important thing is e,to prevent weeds going to seed arrests the spread of the disease times be forestalled by removing ele- havei g fallen. Set out new healthy! Canada's Answer. plants in a different part of the gar- den. Spray the new - plants several "'The Canadians have made for times eaten reason with weak Bare themselves an imperishable name in deaux mixture; if used full strength' the history of arms; they have been r the foliage will be scorched, associated with many of the most I grubs. Lay aside the apples that fall off •' when you are picking and do not put e, them in with the first -grade fruit. The slightest bruise will shorten the keeping qualities. Did you forget to cut out and burn 1i the blackberry and raspberry canes that have fruited? Better now than !never! I A recent Swiss decree provides for 1 compulsory crop production by all 11and-owners, with the 1914 acreage as a minimum. All grail growers who fail to deliver the required amount in - Ito the hands of the authorities 'must i pay four -fold the maximum price as indemnity for their deficiency. Ripen late tomatoes by pulling the vines and letting them lie with the fruit on in a cool shed or in the lease- anent. Many of the fruits will rip- 1en. Cover the vines in the garden with blankets when frost -threatens and you may be able to save them for a week or two. When frost has touched the tube- rose, elephant's -ear and Madeira vine, take up the bulbs and store them. When dahlias and cannas are frost- bitten, cut off the tops, leaving about six inches of. .the stems, Remove the roots in a clump with dirt attached. Spread roots out in the sun to dry, then store in a dry, well -ventilated cellar, on the floor or on shelves, Keep the varieties labelled. Weevils may be killed in beans and peas by the use of carbon bisulphide. To treat these put them in a jar, tub or other vessel which can be covered tightly. Put into a glass about one tablespoonful of carbon bisulphide for each ten gallons of space in the enclosure, and place the glass in with the beans. Allow them to remain in the fumes of the carbon bisulphide over night, then take them out and place in dry storage quarters, Do not take lamps or lighted matches near the material, and do not breathe the fumes. Returns from sheep are quick and profitable. It is not nagessary to keep a ewe lamb a year before it returns a profit. A lamb weighing seventy- five pounds and costing twenty cents a pound, will clip five pounds of wool next spring. At seventy cents a pound the wool would be worth $3,50, or twenty per cent. of the original in- vestment. At the end of that time the owner will have a ewe worth more for breeding purposes than the aver- age ewe that he could go out and buy. It is true this ewe lamb con- sumes a certain amount of feed which possibly should be charged against her, but since there is pasture and forage going to waste on every farm each year, it is hardly necessary to exact a heavy feed bill. Many people find it possible to keep one sheep for each head of cattle their pastures will carry, at no additional expense. If they could all be con- vinced of the actual need for a great - y increased supply of wool next year, many of them might adopt such a pre- etise very much to their own profit and to the assistance of the Govern- ment. When sheep are properly mulled they are mortgage lifters and sing thrift, Candy Makers On Half Rations, h b b 0 T 0 B Candy manufacturers in Canada' ave used, in the past, eleven per cent, f all the sugar consumed in Canada, his has been reduced to a maximum f 51a par cent, by the Canada Food nerd, owing to the sugar situatlon, --a— Save The Seeds. It is not difficult to save the seeds of annual vegetables for next year's gardens, They must be thoroughly dried before they are put away for the winter, Spread the seeds thinly in a dry, airy place, out of the sun, on a sheet of paper until they aro dry; do hot use heat. When dry store where there is little variation of temperature, If moist when stored oil allowed to Collect moisture they will become mouldy or start to getmi- to te, Flower seeds may be saved in the same manner, To renovate velvet with salt—?tub it briskly with damp salt and then brush with stiff brush, Works well with velvet hats, a a' y glorious passages in the record of the System in canning saves more than war, and there is no force fighting for the product. I the Alliance which has a richer share 4—The root of the plant is useful', and also an extract is made from the eaf, which is often used as a mild kind of vegetable tonic. 5—I would not advise you to at- tempt to reduce your weight. There is nothing out -6f proportion. of honor," says the London Telegraph. "Four years ago Canada had an army of barely 3,000 men. Since thor 400,1100 men have crossed the sea to POISON OR POETRY? By 1400100 White Watson Quite recently the question wa agitated 'at a teachers' convention a ' to the advisability of teaching literate. titre that 'le °over the pupils' heads."' Much diesuesiou, Pro and con, fel ow I ed,• What le there that is good that be not over our heads? The stars,, lieaven's promisee, God himselfl At what ago, 'then, should these subjects be brought forward? We all'know that the earlier beautiful impreeelone are made;• the more indelibly will they be imprinted on receptive brains. Pill the mind with the beautiful if you would crowd out the evils For it is , when youth's pennant is flying that the 1aeither is enabled to plant for e lifetime. An instructor In one of the middle grades recounts her efforts to incul- cate into the !Wade of her children some of the masterpieces of Shake- speare. She, wisely eliminated all Acte and scenes, making fascinating stories of the plays. In a very short time they were familiar with the dif- ferent plate- and characters, and most apt with many applicable quotations. Memorized then—though over their heads—the children retained the quotations; for• years, --probably for a lifetime. Wax that teacher gratified with her after -harvest, when she learned tliat many a dance had been refused that a "fest of Shakespeare" might be substituted? Truly! Avery morning during school sea - Wens, that teeober• wrote on the blackboard somas beau tiful selections from different authors. Five mi- nutes• befbre dismissal for the • day, two, or. three slips were drawn from the, pile containing the nalne5 of the different; pupil's Those whose names were ch•a•wrr recited the literary gems —but ait.liad been prepared. Al- though there was no place in the course of study for this period, she made one. And that without inter- fering perceptibly with the daily pro- gram. Once a child learns the, beautiful'; rhythmic, swinging lan- guage of the world's sweet singers, the, thiest Iras 'been created that will' never agaite satisfied save from the same source, 'A .lady was obliged to spenel some. time in a little• wayside station. 111.,. was simply an open shed, but it come mended a beautiful view, satisfying•• in its blissful promises and restful to, overtired eyes. While waiting sheturned hack into the little shed where• her attention was caught by numer- ous writings on the painted wall's„ Curious as to whether they were up- Iifting or the opposite, she made it tour of the shed. Obscene language met her eye in every direction until, out -weary, she turned again to the rand outlook, the hopeful uplift. ereagain her attention was arrested y seeing two different handwritings- ne was a regular scrawl; the other hectic underneath, was neatly pen- ciled. She drew near. The first wee most objectionable; the• other read; "Count that day lost whose low des- cending sun Views from shy hand no worthy action donee" fight in the ranks of the Canadian g corps, and to -day It is ever its 11 strength. That fact is announced by b the Duke of Connaught," 0 d T/ie Plain Truth bout Shoe Prices EATHER is scarce and is growing scarcer. A large part of the available supply must be used for soldiers' boots. Importations have prac- tically ceased and we are forced to depend upon the limited quantity of materials produced in Canada. The cost of everything which goes into a pait of shoes is high, and is going higher. Workmen by the thousands have joined the colors, and labor is increasingly hard to get. It is not merely a matter of high prices, but of producing enough good quality shoes to go around. These conditions are beyond the control of any man, or any group of men. They fall on all alike, No one is exempt— neither the manufacturer, the dealer, nor the consumer. You must pay more today for shoes of the same quality than you did a year ago. Next Spring, prices will be higher still. These aro hard' facts. Thej• We not yield to argument. They cannot be glossed over. We cannot' change them, much as we would Wish to do so. But you, as a wearer of shoes, can help to relieve them if you will exercise prudence and good judgment in purchasing.See tiwt you get real value forr purmoney. Spend enough to get it, bit spend nothin foe fine.(; Jae-- tee thatthe iiiar� u actu -er's trade -mark is stamped upon the shoes y'oub uy.�`Hi h prices are a temptation to reduce the quality ll�t order to make the price seem to But no manufacturer will Stamp his trade-marrk upon aproduct which he is ashamed its fteknowleclge. Remember this, and look ;For the trade -mark. It is your best assurance of ;real value for your money, A ,,)DEN McCREADY `Skoem.aker9 to !h® Matto ' xarntrrsu - WINNIPko • EDMONTON VANCOUVER I 11 •� �I rryaofe yll An opportunity had been given—. -""""3/ that of passing a thought on to anoth- er; but how differently it was used. Ono person had been taught the beautiful; the other had been fed on husks! Whose fault was it? Was i1 yours, teacher? Was it yours, "parents ? There are many long hours --pain. filled, brain -perplexed, heart-weary— for life's travellers. Have you he:p- ped to supply them with nourishing thoughts that will enable the travel - lora to meet with -calmness the dis- quieting demands? What of the boys "over there," able-bodied, fun -loving, fearless - hearted, doing not their bit, but their all? What of the nights for those boys ,on lonely guard, or lying on the white cot of pain and mother -long- ing? Teacher, parent, have ,you shielded them as best you could, by fortifying them with a wealth of in- spiring, hopeful, encouraging wor,l:s of the world's great ,.houghs -giver•.;? Have you strengthened them fur the long weary nights when the bravest of boysislonely, depressed and hun- gering for the far-off home? What of life's night when we all must await Our summons? Can we, through an- other's beautiful influence, see the coaling dawn? We Live Because Britain Died, England was no mare a military na- tion than America when the tear be - ban, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. She learned to fight by fighting—and dying. We are profit- ing to -day by her tragic rxpe encur Thousands of American lads will come home to us Alive mei. whole be- cause nthognnde doun bloc's -brothers si'6ili l e BBrliish Isles have boen kil- led and neat laterl--•"441 t 've l'ouphi he how to escape. Iirll.ain made tier armies while France atnd her own navy held the g'ap, and then she poured them into France end Fland- ers by the million to fight back the eruption of Cave Men that th'r•;'atened l.jo submerge civilization. Do not' pe hilt rhUi>alb plante 'tog to sped. Cut out the seed stalks , Ama, t aaTci, p-TaAett'thick Gsliceti i' aofni rinkipe spotot oton wit iteis goods will remove he ne et, and peach stains wet with' cold wat8p es? ode thickly with cream of turtae d placed io the sun will disappear, ,