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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-05-22, Page 3i osee By Agronomist, This Department is for the use of our farm readers who want the advice of an expert on any question regarding soil, seed, crops, etc..' If y9lir question is of sufficient general interest, it will be answered through'thls column. if stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter, a complete answer will be mall d to, you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing. Co., Ltd.,'73 Adelaide St. W. Toronto. . MakingWork Count for the Most. by, harvesting corn with ho`gs.'Iie this way they needed no' help to pick the Somei. farmersOthers a farm and corn, And the"method isn't waste man e t. own a farm and ful, either: `I have tried it, and I defy waste - manage it. Ther latter works just anyone to find an ear of corn left in, much as the former, but in a differ -the field after hogging down. oat way. I'Ie works his headalong Headwork is just'as necessary to with his hands. He doesn't get up the man who operates a farm as it at four ,o'clock in the morning just is to the man who sits at a desk and because that is the time all farmers rims a .railroad. You must map out are supposed to crawl out. He gets your line of work, and then gather up because he knows that to keep about you help that will efficiently things •runnnig smoothly he must be carry out your'plans. on the job. To get the most efficient labor from the men he employes he Control Tomato Diseases. mustm not only direct them, telling'A knowledge of precautionary them what to do and haw to do it, but he also finds it necessary to week measures to avoid crop diseases is with them and take the lead-in doing highly important to tomato growers. the work, This ;might not be feasible Tomatoes are subject to many die - on large'ranches or plantations where eases any one of which may be suf- the1ficientl serious to ruin: the entire help rand into the' hundreds, but y on farms like you and I know about crop, or at least to preclude the possi- it is a mighty „good plan. bility .of making a profit on the sea - work Plan your work ahead . and then '• sons' the , ` keep ahead of the Work. If you can Use ,the best seed obtainable.; free plan your farm work and direct your from disease, if possible. labor so as to' get more clone than the Choose a seedbed soil not previous - average, then you are the man who ly used for growing tomatoes or re - more than the av- •can afford toe pay feted crops; or, better still, a soil sterilized with steam or formalin. erage wages"to your help. mood farm , Spray plants in the seedbed and. in labor, of any kind, for that matter, is the field wit a good 'fungicide, Such hard to get; but if you can. pay a as Bordeaux mixture. Apply 'thee - getmore than the other fellow, You oughly about every ten days. For et the best help. - g p spraying in the seedbed use the 3 -4 - Try and make everything handy 50 Bordeaux formula, increasing the about the farm so as . to make it strength to 4-4-30 or 5-5-50 for field easier to do the work,- A broken or spraying. The strongerfield con - hard -operating gate that is much centration is preferable only in con - used will waste a Jot of time in the trolling early blight or most. Spray - course of a day. An empty water yang in the field may not be necessary 'tank when the teams 'come in at during periods of drought. night, hot and tired, means that one Keep in check the various insects or more of the men must spend con- at work on the plants. This may be siderable time on the pump 'handle, done by adding to every fifty gallons and all because someone forgot to of Bordeaux' mixture a half pint of put the windmill in gear. It's not the Black Leaf "40" and one pound of big things that are forgotten, but the zinc arsenite or lead arsenate. If little ones that help the big ones spraying is not practiced, dust the along. plants 'with a mixture of tobacco Always have in mind some "rainy- dust eine arsenite or' lead arsenate, day" jobs. If you can't, remember them, put them down in a book. An hour spent in tightening up or re- pairing a machine may save a ten- hour day if it breaks down in the field. An inside job of grinding or shelling corn on a rainy day, even though the feeder isn't quite empty, might be the means of keeping everything going full blast .in the field when the sun is shining. Making hay when the sun shines is only pos- sible by seeing that odd jobs are done when it rains. As far as possible, the man -power you employ should be cut down • by machinery. A gang plow and six horses and one driver will do just as much in a day as two sulkies with three horses and a driver each. You' u well :avethe of could just as s cost that one man. Two two -row cultiva- tors will efficiently cover as much ground as four one -row machines, and by using them you have saved two men and two horses. Your overhead. is reduced in proportion to the size of machine one man can handle. Many farmers saved labor last fall Five Rules for Shearing Sheep. Ute hand -driven clippers. The old style', shears are -slow and it is hard to learn to use them properly. Driven clippers are cheap,nand anyone own ing sheep can well afford to buy such a machine. Often several farmers combine to buy a machine. Choose a warm, sunny day for the shearing. Drive the sheep into a small enclosure adjoining the shear- ing floor where they can be caught easily. Have the shearing floor clean; remove each animal to it as' soon as caught, Commence shearing at the head and shear back. Hold the clipper bac close to the body so that there will be ne double cuts in the wool. Sheep. should' be .held firmly, for they will tear the fleece apart if they are al- lowed to struggle when partly shorn. After each fleece has been removed, generally intense. e1 skin .trouble take off all manure, tags, and wet that does not itch is not eczema. He - wool, and sack these separately. Tie 'zema is not eatchinf and when corn - the fleece into a neat bundle with the pletely healed ,itleaves no scar; ex - flesh or inner side out. Use paper capt when the scratching has been twine for tying. Binder twine should 'se severe—with dirty nails, perhaps never 'be used, for strands of it will —as to cause a break or ulcer l the get into the wool and can not be re- true akin. All kinds of eruptions ap- moved. They will not take dye and pear in eczema—just redness and will therefore cause a severe -cut in heat, burning, tingling and irritation the pnice of wool. a. blisters, papules (pinhead sired) The tied fleece should be tramped or pustules (pus 'blisters)., Or large firmly into regulation wool sacks.. areas of inflamed Skin, The trouble' These are large and hard to handle, may appear in any part of the body— but buyers prefer wool packed in them, By John, B. l-,.±b-er; AM,M•D .•'i-tizta tee w ' �T+p" '�^� �' - TA -� ,J•J' �; .'k'97 1:��, '. Dr. Huber will answer all signed letter's pertaining 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. Huber will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis. Address Dr. John B. Huber, M.D.; care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto Eczema, In most cases there is a predispo- VARICOS.E VEINS? USear This Icon-Silestlo LI/coil'stoeistne s -NaTe eter, as they y retie bi - we,) h,ki or .l, iLtc1•' ° 40)5itlS'[a4eX,11 1 ueod 'Rice e. ie9' ,ri al Nays fits.halto mrnsure;e co3cYure; aTm, - light a-nt Cur- able. Gismo„ contains' No Rubber 1,500,000 SOLD , Z001Tert/041..; cost ea,60 each, or tw60o forpotpatheidsane ee.a s, . Write .for.. Catalogue and Sell.-irl'eeaurement Blank, conies Limb Specialty On S14 Now Birks meg. =entreat, Re: I am asked to write about eczema sition, which ' makes the skin very An ounce of assistance is worth a susceptible to:the action of external pound of advice, or salt rheum or, scald or tetter. This irritants, such as heat or cold, areas is. a skin inflammation, in which sive use of water,'. strong soaps, dyes there is redness, discharge or matter, or chemicals, Or there is a favoring "weeping" or sealing, `crusting, thick- condition of the constitution, such as ening and swelling of the skin; and poor or injudiciousnutrition, digestive always itching, perhaps sight, ':butor-,nervous disturbances, exhaustion, or a tendency to gout or rheumatism. Wc'cannot say that eczema is here- d,itary; but the children of eczem- atous parents certainly come easily by attacks of this disease. There aro hundreds of skin frequent of which the' two most are eczema and syphilis. Eczema in- variably itches; syphilis almost never does. Other skin troubles that may be mistaken for eczema are erysi- pales, the shingles, the hives, psori- asis, ringworm, barber's itch, scabies and favus (et scalp trouble that but more especially in the skein folds shows powdery, canary -colored, cape h 04-91' For pig feeding nothing combines. with corn to give snore satisfactory results than skim -milk. This corn biniition makes a palatable ration, , re- sulting in a heavier consumption of feed and more rapid gains than from any other ration. All of the cereal grains such as wheat, rye, barley,. and particularly Dorn, are, low in pro- tein and give better results when fed with some nitrogenous feed such as skim -milk. When used as. a supplement to corn' and other cereal grains nine pounds of skim milk is equivalent to one pound of tankage; 3.7 pounds is equi- valent to one pound of middlings; 9.3 pounds •equals one pound of oil -meal; 10.7 pounds equals one pound of soy- bean -meal. and flowers of sulphur. 'When tankage is worth $2 a hun- Where plants are likely to suffer dred skim -milk is worth twenty-two. by drought some means for irrigat- cents a hundred; when tankage is ing should be provided. If this is worth $4 a hundred, skim -milk is impracticable, plant and cultivate in worth forty-four cents a hundred. the best way to conserve soil mats- When middlings are worth $1. a hun- dred, skim -milk is worth twenty- seven cents a hundred; when oil -meal is worth $2 a hundred, skim -milk is worth twenty-one cents a hundred; when soybean -meal is worth $2. a hundred, skim -milk is worth nineteen cents a hundred. When cereal grains are worth $1 ahundred pounds, skim -milk is worth twenty-eight. cents a hundred pounds. l How Weeds Are Spread. tore. Nitrate of soda is preferable to other forms of nitrogen (ammonia) for fertilizing tomatoes. Avoid a heavy application of stable manure. Do not use potassium chloride, nor manure or compost containing eld to- mato vines. Keep the field in a sanitary condi- tion. Examine it regularly and re- move all rotted fruit and sickly' plants and destroy them by burning or burying. If buried, they should be covered with a disinfectant, such as lime. Practice crop rotation. The less often tomatoes follow tomatoes or re- lated crops, the less likely is the crop to become diseased. While the observance of these pre- cautions will not guarantee a crop free from disease, it will go far in that direction. limit of production. We keep horses mofor the work they do. We know the Most farmers would say offhand that a foal •grows a little faster if the mare and the foal run in the pas- ture all summer, In practice, how- ever, it is found that the foals of work mares often outgrow those of the idle mares. The work mare's foal is given better care, and that is pro- bably the secret, as the foal that runs out sill•- he'time is apt to be neglected. It usually gets no grain until about weaning ,time or afterward, and it is exposed to the daily torment of blood -sucking 'flies. On the other hand, the work mare's foal is generally shut up in a partial- ly darkened box stall by day, so as to be handy, for suckling the mare at noon, and for the further reason of keeping it from trying to break through Barbed-wire fences in trying to reach the mare. The dark stall keeps the flies away. At night the mare and foal are turn- ed together in the pasture, where the youngster runs and plays, and thus gets the necessary exercise. The work snare's foal is also .,handy at the barn three times a day when the other horses Are fed, and it naturally comes in for its share of oats. Doubtless the idle mare supplies her foal with the greater flow of milk but the practical outcome is that her foal frequently does not grow so fast as the theoretically less favored work mare's foal. Let us work the mares and feed the foals. 'It is not nature's way, but we are not doing things according to . the undisturbed natural procedure when we farm high-priced land to the REAM WANTED . Mee are in the market for Creep all thrgkµgn dile seer. Wi pay Lite highest mar @tt pr es, Fn business atimoe 1906, 1 Drop us a line for 6artleulars, i i Mutual Dairy & Creamery Co. 43.743 King at. Wgst , Toronto horses that do the ferni work can also reproduce, and thus replace themselves and supply a surplus of horse -power for sale. If one farmer manages it successfully, so can an- other, We -will eventually weed out the mares and the families of mares that prove to be shy breeders when sub- jected to the constant and strenuous exercise which farm work imposes. We will discard one by one the mares which habitually lose their foals :be- cause of hard work during preg- nancy. Farmers will gradually learn of the limitations of safety in working in -foal mares. But the absolute economy in working .brood mares, and the profit from breeding work mares, will certainly bring the horse- breeding business in Canada to this practical and' satisfactory basis, and' selection will eliminate the mares that do not fit the system. ��-- Do not let ewes' and lambs run on old pastures so full of parasites 'which will prove destructive to young lambs, T,tE CHEERiUL.CHERUB T'lyreal self'must'.be, an' ageless' A `' imp --- Whets I looked in the 41%L,ss and saw, 'south Bled It lto¢'hed !'roma my „eyes rr-ialiciovsly:• Yd hate to berold . like ,yol it said, '� itTfa"a. the armpits or the bend of the elbow shaped crusts and a mouse -like (in front)', or of the back of the knee, or the creases in the neck. The papu- les form appears mostly on the trunk; the pustularmostly on the head, face and neck of the poorly or improperly nourished infants. Adults and :elder- ly -people are more prone to "rear ec- zema" where there is dxtensive. crusting .(generally 'in the legs), which crust, when it comes off, expos- es a most painful, raw, oozing red surface. Thenthere is fissured ca- seate, cracks resetting at the knuckle points, the mouth corners and the finger tips; this is frequent among. those whose business requires them to be in intense artificial heat or to have their hands constantly in water, smell). Further information on this subject will be mailed on request ser companied with a stamped and self- directed envelope. Questions and Answers. Question—How long can an opera- tion be avoided after the discovery of i. appendieitts .? Answer—It is best not to avoid. operation, ' In some cases that has got to be done during the acute at- tack. Where, in the judgment of the family physician, operation is post- poned, it had better be done between attacks. A diseased appendix is just like so much dynamite—ready to ex- plode on the slightest provocation, end from using strong soaps and lye. and sometimes with fatal results. 'swat the fly of bulging eye, Fence -jumping cows are often the grout early morn till Bite at night; result of poor pasture. Look after I'll boldly bat the robber rat, •the pasture instead of the cows. And hold the work.a great delight. The Hunnish mouse and chicken louse Shall know the force of angered might The tater-bug and melon thug I'll rush to liingdoin-come on sight. The cabbage pest and all the rest. I'll kill with club or poison blight. And now I trow this solemn vow RVrll busy mefrom morn till night. If you ever glee your boy or girl a pig or calf yeti should' see that they get the money 'for it when it .is sold. If not, their sense of justice is liable to be greatly stirred and what might have been an inducement' to hold them to the farm becomes a club to drive them from it, In his 'struggle against weeds a farmer is more Iikely to be success - efforts fol in his o s if ha clearly how weeds gain an entrance on to the farm in the first instance and how those already there spread from one part of the farm to an other. Weeds may gain entrance to the farm or be dispersed over a wid- er area in one of the following ways: As impurities iii the seed sown. Most samples of agricultural seeds contain weed. seeds in greater or less amount, which are sown with the use- ful seeds and thus the weeds may, quite unknown to the farmer, gain an entrance on to his land. The seed sown should be absolutely free from weeds of all kinds—a condition of things which is seldom realized. By the agency of threshing ma- chines. The threshing machine should be thoroughly cleaned before it is allowed to begin operations on the farm. In stable manure, and feeding stuffs. Hay and feeding stuffs often contain weed seeds, some of which are liablg to find their way into the manure heap and eventually on to the land. Some seeds can pass through the bodies of animals and afterwards germinate. By the action of the wind. Many seeds, such as those of dandelion and thistle, are furnished with a tuft of hairs which enables them to float in the air for long distances. In other cases the seeds or even the whole plant may be blown over the frozen surface of the snow: By the agency..ef' animals. The seeds, or those parts of plants which. contain the seeds, as in the case of Blue Burr and Burdock, are provided with hooks by means of which they become attached to the wool of sheep or the clothing of workers 'on the farm and tin this way may be carried into fields whore formerly they did not eaciet. By cultivation. In some plants, especially those with creeping under- ground stems, such as quack grass, the broken pieces may ,be carried all over the field by farm implements 'and thus dispersed over ;a much wider. area than the parent plants origin- ally occupied. Boars should be kept thrifty dur- ing the summer, but should not 'be ellowed.to ,fatten, Wfeet wopfcl you think of a man who refused to join the local cow - testing association 'because it would' make At impossible for him to sell his poor cows -to :.his iteilg eters.'. R 01'1 ' MARATHON BRAND Ready Roofing, Asphalt Slate Shing - lee, wall Board. Building Papers, Roof Paints, etc. Write for prices and samples Savo money by buying direct. ihiDERMli) itROS.'a Saimost. Feathers Wanted Highest prices paid for best grade new goose, duck. chicken and turkey leathers, Geo. IL Rees, Son & Co., Ltd. 276 Davenport Road, Toronto M R a FARMER INVEST YOUR MONEY In an Ask your LUMBER DEALER For Plans and Prices. DOMINI icycle Tires "Unquestionably the Best Tireg Made" For speed, safety and thoroughly satisfactory service, be 'sure to ride on "Dominion" Tires. The extra mileage makes theme the best and cheapest to buy. i° DOidHFiff01flp�� RUBBER Sold by the Leading Dealers .21 IN'I'EHNATIONAL LESSON MA/ 25. Lesson VIII. Repentance—Jonah 3: 1-10; Luke 13: 1-5; Acts 2: 37, 38. Golden Text, Marie 1: 14. Jonah 3: 1-10. The Repentance of'. Nineveh. "Yet forty days." Jonah had no message of mercy or of hope. He did: not bring to Nineveh the whole of thetruth with which ,lie had been entrusted. Jonah, repge- seats very perfectly the Spirit of may of :the ;fewsscattered through- out the world in the period of Baby- lon,.an exile and after, Who desired the overthrow of the heathen natipits and the triumph. of Israel over the enemies who had so long oppressed them. Their feeling was a perfectly natural one?'for they had undoubted- ly suffered great wrongs. See, for example, Isaiah's prediction of the loofa of Assyria (Iso. 1a.r: 16.10 and 24-27), Nahum's vivid port'—ya'l of the fall of Nineveh (Nall. 2, 3), and the "harden of 'Sabyias's" (Isa. 13, 14). But the Lord had given to Israel another message for the hea- then world. Israel, as His people and His ;servant, was to be for "a light to the Gentiles"" and for "sal- vation unto the end of the 'earth," Jonah bad left out of sight in his preaching the mercy of God. But his stern and unqualified denunciation of 4re. is =u'rf 4l 4 'i doom stirred the people of the great city to repentance, and with fasting and in sackcloth they cried for mercy to God'. "Let them turn every one from his evil way." The king'sproclamation p shows ale appreciation of what re- pentance really means. The Old Testament words mean • simply "turn- ing" and "being sorry." It is turn- ing from sin, turning to God, seeking to do God's will. In his ignorance, the king could not give the people any assurance of God's mercy. The prophet, if he had been so disposed, might have done that, But the Icing said, "Who knoweth ?" It might be, he thought, that God would regard their penitence and would have mercy • upon them. "And God repented." He was sorry for them, had compassion upon them, and turned from His purpose to des- troy them. Luke 13: 1-5. A Solemn Warning, "Sinners above all." The reference is apparently to events which had recently happened. The 'Galilean 'had been notably rebellious against Roman authority, and Josephus men - taxa more than one massacre in which they suffered. This appears to have been a case where, by the orders of Pilate, the Roman governor, a number of Galileans were slaugh- tered while offering sacrifice. There had also been an accident at Jerus- alem, when eighteen persons " were killed by the fall of a tower. It was' the common thing in those days to re gaud calamities of that sort, or sick- ness, as a punishment for sin. That was the way in which Job's friends regarded his sickness, ' but the book of Job is written as a protest against its application to him. Jesus says_ here, "Think ye that they were of 'fenders above all?" "T tell you, .Nay.: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." It is true that calamity and suffer- ing often seem to be the judgment. of God, but it is likewise true that' the innocent suffer with the guilty. Such experiences do sometimes lead men .to. repentance, but Christ's warning Is addressed to all, for all are in equal need of repentance. There is a graphic picture drawn in Acts 2: 37-42, of the scene which followed Peter's preaching at Pente- cost. Many were convicted of ain, "pricked in their heart.' They came to the apostles saying, "What shall we do? The answer was, "Repent ye and be baptized," Repentance was the turning of heart and mind toward God revealed in Christ. Baptism was the open profession of Christ and sign of reception into the company of those who believed in Him. These were the conditions upon which the apostle could assure them of "remIs- cion of sins," and "the gift of the. Holy 'Spirit." Device for Drenching Stock. We have frequently had occasion to drench cattle, horses and pigs with medicine under the direction of the veterinary, The 'greatest obstacle we have yet encountered was the danger of the animal breaking off the neck of the bottle. To overcome this dam, ger, we have wrapped our drenching bottle tightly about the neck with, old rags, thus giving the animalop- portunity to bite all it pleases, but without damage to the bottle. The rags keep the teeth from the nook of the bottle; and the danger is great- ly lessened, if not totally removed.-- W. emoved.-W. E. Every farmer ought to have a workshop, a library and a pair of rub- ber boots. The library is a dandy place to spend the evening with the farm payer gr. a good book, It j_s al- most equal to the workshop for a rainy day session, Of course you know what to do with the beets, It would ,not hurt to lave --a pair far each one of the fancily, with rain coat to snatch. .Probably they 41 enable you to sped latero Clays in the library and the workshy,.: "Protection" For Your Home -- No "Free Trade" With Decay Everything with a surface needs surface protection. Not only the outside of your borne, but every part of the inside—the floors, walls, furniture, woodwork and meta parts. To paint, means protection and pre- servation and money saved on repairs, for wear and decay always start atthe,surface. To leave a surface unprotected by paint or varnish, means "free trade" with decay and waste. "1001 Pere" Paint The Paint Lor wear and Weather. Senonr's I: Scor Paints The old reliable -- et wears, and weave, and 'I Weam. J5Neu.'folie" Thesanitary washable Plot Oil Paint for Interior Decorations. :'Weed-Lac",Stains: Improve the eats -- roacv, the old. "Marble -he" The ons_watfark floor finish not row Orr scratch white, under battiest wear. r°Varnoleunt" Deautifiesanci preserves Oilcloth and Linotou,a. They are4he-greatest material protectorsyou can use—and the cheapest -because they spread easier, cover more surface and last longer. tae Vrrrfd'l>' Ae Ti • tr IMI'�aba,.`f GREENSHIEL DS —EgLLo iet ah .ien6 UR O* MONTREAL;