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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-12-11, Page 6Address commuIications to Agrono A Breeder's Problem. There axe many who do not believe very strongly in a careful, scientific breeding. There are many scrub cows that are enormous producers, both in quality and quantity, of milk„ Then there , are many pure-bred cows that are poor producers. A ease has come to our notice of a pure bred cow which produoed about twelve thousand pounds of milk in a year, mated with a sire whose dam 'produced eleven thousand: pounds in a year, and the result was a daughter which was cap- able of producing Less than six thou- sand pounds of milk in a year. It is , because of occurrences like this that; some dairy farmers look with some; suspicion on scientific breeding of dairyeows. 1 The . principle of atavism, which is; breeding back to some primitive type, is well shown in such cases. This. principle ,is frequently shown, not only in the breeding of cattle, but in the ; breeding of all other animals. In such cases the sire and darn that bred back should never again mate. It may be 'that the fault was not exclusively in either, but in the combination of blood. The intelligent breeder will see to it that such offspring is sent to the shambles. The experienced breeder can usually see before the calf is two weeks old whether it will be suited to dairy pur- poses. The dairy animal will have a thin neck. There is a 'peculiar soft- ness in the skin .of a good dairy ani- mal that all expetienced animal breed- ers will quickly notice. It is a fact that a great deal de- pends on the way ealves are brought up. The; best st heifer calf may easily be spoiled by beano fed forte ' nog rooa, or; by semi -starvation before it is a year old. Both of such procedures are in- jurious to the calf's digestion. If this is ruined in calfhood, the cow will be a poor eater, and therefore a poor producer, no matter what the sire and dam may have been. It would also seem to go without; saying that a great deal also depends; on the way the mature animal is fed. l Fine blooded animals require the best of care and treatment if they are to do their best. If the owner is not able.; or prepared to give his cows the re quired treatment, or is too negligent, to do so, his fine -blooded cows are car -1 tain to sink to a level with, if not; below, that of the scrub cows. And so: it often occurs that the best bred ani- mals -are often branded as cheats, only; because their owner dicl not properlyk treat and sustain them. Row Our Silo Ras Paid for Itself. It is to me a great mystery that so, many farmers are still without silos.i Having been in use for a quarter of i mist, 73 Adelaide SC, West, Toronto a century, they are certainly beyond the experimental' stage. They have brouglut, success to agriculturists in, every country. Most £atrniers who have found their silos unprofitable have not used them rightly, or have made some serious mistake in their construction. Before building our silo we had only ten cows; yet, to provide ample for- age for them, winter and summer, good years and bad, was sometimes difficult job. Now we have 20 cows, and it is easier to provide feed for- them orthem than it was to Provide for tho other ten. Besides, our silage -fed vows are in better condition, look sleeker, and produce a higher grade of milk. For the last two years every cow has produced on the average of 400 pounds of butter per year. This butter, we have ascertained, has cost us ten cents a pound less to produce than butter coming from cows not fed silage. Comparing figures with one of our neighbors who has no silo, we find that each of our cows cost us, per year, $13 less to feed than his. We are also able to produce beef $2 cheaper per 100 pounds than he can. Figuring at this rate, we came to the conclusion that our silo earned, last year, at least $260. Moreover, we saved much grain feed by giving the colts silage, and also the horses, when not working. Indeed, I believe that our silo has saved enough to build a new one each year for the Last four or five years. Sometimes when the corn crop has been short we have made good silage from millet, clover, oats, or rye. We have fed this with success even in winter, but mostly we feed it during the latterpart summer,after the o f corn silage is fed out. In fall, again, we fill the silo with corn, and if this is not enough we refill it later with cornstalks taken from shocks in the field. The stalks, if soaked with water, can easily be cut, and make good silage. We always try to have a supply of silage for summer. The cattle need aool succulent feed duringhot C weather, and what is better than corn silage? Some summers, also, the pas- tures dry up, and then silage comes in handy. Besides, high-priced pas- ture lands do not pay. Since we began feeding silage in summer, we have had only half as much pasture land as formerly. and our cows have milked as they never did before. A piece of land for raising silage crops will pro- duce five or six times as much feed as will a pasture of equal size. Every farmer having 10 cows er more needs a silo. Without one it is hard to do a profitable dairy business. A good silo will stand as long as any other building. We built ours seven years ago, and it is still in good czn- dition. Orafrrn Many a dark and gloomy stable could be made cheerful and far more healthful to the cows and their care- takers by the expenditure of a very few dollars invested in a number of generous -sized windows suitably plac- ed. Germs causing practically all of the dangerous diseases thrive in the dark, and direct sunlight is an effec- tive germicide. Not only is sunlight health insurance for stock, but the cheer, comfort, and contentment that sunlight affords counts profitably in milk and meat production when the animals must spend the major part of every day indoors. The same window opening properly screened in warm weather affords free circulation of air, while barring out flies. The objection •sometimes raised against large windows as a means of losing much warmth by radiation at night can be readily met by using inside hinged wooden shutters, or spring -roller building -paper shades. "Lord make it fit— The work of our hands, that so we may Lift up our eyes and dare to pray, The work of our hands—establish Thou it." Potatoes at 36 cents per bushel 'FIIE cost items of Mr. Jos. lI Loughlin's potatoes, Dundas Co., totalled $85.50 per acre, in- cluding $18.00 for fertilizers. Fertilized Potatoes yielded 285 bias. per acre._ • Unfertilized Potatoes yielded 80 bus. per acre. At his rate of 'gain, what would YOUR potatoes have yielded? .Didyou use Fertilizers r' He .Did Write for our free Potato Bulletin Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau Of the Canadian Fertiliser Ass'n. 1111 Temple Brig., Toronto, Ont. • sea d'.....,awn....-...v..v�.�-_.,.�..,..w•_,r•.v..w d If the pullets have not been treated for lice it will pay to give them the blue ointment treatment at once. One application wiII protect them until late in the spring and it may be only lice that are keeping down the egg yield. The pullets that lay first will pro- bably be the best breeders in the spring and it will pay to band such birds and use them exclusively in the breeding pens. Even though trap nests are not used the farmer will doubtless be in the poultry house often enough during December and January to spot most of the pullets which frequently go to the nests. If the farm flock is to be improved the work must start in the winter with careful selection and management of the pullets. Do not lose eggs during the cold weather by allowing them to freeze in the nests. When eggs are worth six or seven cents each it does not take many of them to pay a farmer very well for his trip through the snow to the poultry house. Smothering Out Quack Grass On My Farm. It seems to me I have never 'seen the treatment for quack grass which I have been practicing for some time with gratifying results, mentioned in any farm paper, I do not use the spring tooth, and have observed that the farmers who do use it have plenty of quack grass. For several years I have been fol- lowing the practice of always going the same way over the quack with wheel or disk harrow, smoothing har- TOW, or cultivator where there is quack. Go the same way in the row when cultivating every time. The idea is to keep crowding it under and cov- ering it. If one goes the opposite way in the row alternately, it just puts the quack in good growing condition. I prefer the disks to be dull, so as to not' cut the roots when disking, be- cause the more you cut the roots the more quack you have. Sometimes. quack is hard to pull, and at other times it pulls easily. One should watch and take advantage of it when it is weak. &le --'-- Ivory-backed or ebony brushes can be quickly cleaned by rubbing dry bran into them and shaking them well to remove the grain •afterwards. Lots of people dislike using water and am- monia, because they believe it injures the hacl s of the brushes. THE CHEERFUL CIERUF) A cold has made me lose' rrtyy ` voice This re.ally,‘is 'e. boots to rna I'm in the, 11me.light _I `tow at last And how 1 love the syrrmp2.tley. Farm. Meat for Farm Tables. We have discovered in our neigh- borhood alan for - providing gen- erous P g' a g erous and comparatively inexpensive: meat supply for our tables, I known many who raise cattle but who rarely Trill a beef because they feel they can- not afford it. But they are among those who waste too much of what to the packer is valuable .by-product— namely, blood, entrails, feet, head, and Borns. Let me tell you how we manage. Our poultry and pork are home-grown, killed and prepared. For our beef, mutton, and veal we aim to co-operate with at least three neighbors, and each one of this group of four families butchers one small) young beef and one or more veals and fat sheep each year. A suitable butchering shed was pre- pared where the work is conveniently done, and provision is made for sav- ing all the blood and every part of the carcass. The bones below the knees and hocks, and the feet, are cleaned the same as hogs' feet, and boiled until the meat,. is perfectly tender and slips easilyfrom the bones. The meat is then seasoned with salt, pepper, a pinch of sage, a little flour, a minced onion, and a beaten egg stirred in. This is carefully mixed, then dropped by spoonfuls into hot fat and fried. Thus handled, what is too often wasted is to us about the best relished part, of our beeves. The water is then 1 evaporated from the oil in which the feet an bones'cooked d leg were c o ed b y boiling, and the neat's-foot oil result- ing is strained and bottled for harness and leather dressing. The heads of beef, sheep, and calf are carefully cut up with a cleaver on a block, and are used for head cheese, hash, and sausage. The tongue boiled and served cold is a titbit high in favor. So, too, with heart and liver— every bit becomes appetizing meat for our family. Instead of the customary way of frying liver. I slice it thinly, season, roll in flour, and fry in boiling fat like doughnuts, putting in the oven to brown, and turning when one side is browned, It's then no longer beef liver. The heart I stew until tender, then bake with a dressing made of bread crumbs, seasoned as for chicken and made rich with butter. This makes a dish fit for a king. The tail goes into "ox -tail" soup. All bones are ground for the laying hetes, and the best of the entrails be- come tripe or sausage casings. Of course, every ounce of tallow leaf and "rough" 'is rendered, the best going into a lard compound shortening, and the poorest for soap -making. All of these too often wasted by- products supply us with practically half as much value in meat es do a quarter of the animals butchered, and the variety furnished is much appre- ciated. In cold weather some of the choicest roasts and steaks can be kept for fu- ture eating, some of the remainder is corned and some dried. According to our reckoning, this plan of farm meat supply we are now making use of furnishes us about three times as much choice meat as we would get for the same expendi- ture were, it bought at retail prices, as practiced by many.—L, A. "Two things stand like stones. 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But here is the problem, My father, boon ,in Ireland, was a fine, strong man who carte over here the picture of health. When we all grew up to from 11 to 18 he contracted a cold resulting in his death from oonsmaption, Does that doom all of us ? iio was very careful and since he died, three years ago,, we are nervous. None of us so far as I know, ever had a cold; but does the first sign of a cold doom us to that disease? I have hoard so much about the disease being hereditary that it is in my mind all the. time. Please uplift a sad imagination that I have upon myself." Answer—My good friend, consume= tion is in the vast majority of cases neither a fainily nor a hereditary dis- ease. It is in most cases acquired after birth. It has been,learned be- yond peradventure that the parent very rarely indeed transmits to the offspring the germ of. tuberculosis (consumption), though a tendency to the disease (that is, a weakness of the body by which it may become fruitful soil for the implantation and the growth of the weed -hike germ) may be transmitted. I am sorry to say that one of the races which are 'prone to such ten- dency is that of your forbears. If, however, no one of your family has shown any sign of the disease since Your good father'sa• years death three ago, you may be sure he has not trans- mitted to any one of you the disease itself. Tuberculosis has often been called a house disease for the reason that any careless sufferer may emit in his sputum the germs which others may inhale. But the germ of this dis- ease cannot live and be dangerous for more than a few days outside any liVing body. Therefore three Years after,o fear. Banish you need have i - o ea an sh fear front your �and. For herein lies a potent predisposition to disease. Live the hygienic life, watch out (but not, to any morbid degree) for the early, signs of tuberculosis, go to a good. doctor at the first sign of trouble, and; there is no reason why you should not' all,, the five of you, boys and colleens all, live to :fourscore alai more. Questions and Answers. My little grandchild aged iii, years has had epileptic fits oceasionoljy for the hist year or -two and is, extremely nervous alithe tinie, When she was born she was injured on the back of the Beast by the instruments used by the doctor. Do you think this injury has caused the fits? Please let me know if theselits can be shred, an the. child is remarkably bright, perfectly healthy and normal in every wa/y with the exception of being nervous. Answer -Are you sure The ohild was injured at birth? In some cases' of childbirth instruments' have to be used if the mother's life is to .be saved. 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Gillette Service means shaving comfort, No Stropping—No Honing, the elimination of the unnecessary, the saving of time. $5.00 at dealers everywhere. !MAD CANADA a7 r�fiJri9 ��r�„�.»•" KNOWN i'lBE" = oRLDOV EVI The Gillette Safety Razor makes a very acceptable and servis.eable Christmas gift. You get the full, pre-war value for every dollar you spend on it. 539 :17=7=.11.1 Pity any inane In Platte County,' Mcissouri, lives a fernier Who has worked all his life with the idea of retiring 'in his old. age and buying a home in Kansas. City. He has reached the 'point at which this ambition may be easily realized but for one obstacle—his young sen and daughter firmly and vigorously refuse to give their eon.- refuse onrefuse because -what do you think ?--they are afraid the city would he dull! They are very sure, at any tate, that it vroulclii't give them' the satisfying social life they enjoy in th'oir home neighborhood. Their mother is partly responsible for the attitude of the children who won't let Dad leave the country. She was one of seventeen, mothers who met one day to make plans for build- ing a social centre annex to Second Creels Church dear Ferrelview, the oldest country church in the county. The seventeen had observed the wan- ing influence and the gradual abandon- meat of many rural'churches, and especially their failure to touch the lives of the growing boys and girls. They decided that Second Creek Church should not succumb to'creep- ing paralysis, but should "eontfe back" to the position of vitality and helpful- ness it held in pioneer times. Plans were made for a social centre annex to the church, consisting of an up-to-date kitchen and a community dining -room and auditorium. Modern plumbing was to be installed, with lavatories, drinking fountains, and in- side toilets. A hot-air furnace was to replace the stoves. These improvements would cost $1,- 000. The figures was low because the farmers ,in the neighborhood had offer ed to' contribute labor and materials. Nevertheless, the raisingof $ 1,000 was a task not to be lightly ac- complished by a'itandful of busy coun- try women in these clays of scarcity of help. "It will take a long to raise•' $1,000," suggested one of the swatters. "Our children would grow up in the time it would take for that money to . trickle in from socials and bazaars. 1 sst of e that we look on this as a busi- ness i- ness 1 t oposition and go at it just as - men would. !1 + Who ever heard a.. men waiting for public improvements until. they . fiad raised the money by pie suppers? I propose that we borrow $1.,000 at the bank and give our per sonal,notes for it. "If we get in debt we'll have to get out. Our good names will be at stake, and we'll work like beavers to make• up the payments. If we get a loan we can start building right away. We can have our improvements and be getting the good of them while we're paying." Everybody gasped. But the more the proposal was threshed over the more sensible it seemed. The neigh- borhood needed social enlivening at once. The women adjourned to put the proposal to the president of a bank in the nearest village. They got the loan. That was in 1017. The annex, com- pleted in a few woelcs, was equipped with a kitchen containing a gas stave, a cooking range, hot and cold running water, and every convenience for pre- paring and serving meals. The larges dining hall is also used for a Sunday - school room, and as an anditouium for lectures, farmers' meetings, concerts, amateur theatricals, community din- ners, and Christmas trees. "The big thing about modernizing" a country church is making up your mind to do it," said Mrs." Joe Couch of Westdall, Missouri, who is a leader in. the social activities of the enlarged church. "Once you've dbcided to go ahead you'll get all kinds of co -opera- - tion. We couldn't have improved •our church but for the help of our bus - bands, 'brothers, fathers, and sons. "They contributed teams, labor, and'. material to the value' of several :hun- dred dollars. People who had never taken much interest in the church - added their bit. The building of the annex stimulated the spirit of co-op- eration and teamwork, not only in the church but throughout the neighbor- hood. I think any band of church women could do what we did." The annex has more than fulfilled expectations in supplying the commun- ity with social life. To the dinners given in the new dining hall, people come from a radius of twenty miles. They arrive by motor car, by mule team, and 'on foot. The young hue, band and wife who have just moved. into the' neighborhood shake hands; with scores of new friends, Lifelong friends meet and talk across the table,: Tho young people sit around in con, genial groups. The Ladies' Aid has met payments; on the loan easily. The women got out; a cookbook which they sold through-• out the country to raise money. They, have had entertainments, bazaars, and; • sales of food, garments, and fancy ' needlework. One day of each month: they meet at the church to sew on gar- ments which are sold for the church fund, Meanwhile there is "something• doing" --some social or educational, gathering—at the annex every week., And that is why :theahoy and girl in the home' of at least one farmer in 1 Platte County, Missouri, are growing. up ,andynot i n theand wholesomely • on• the. farm, 1 Time .rind tide wait for nc man. but, One, and rare a':tplied to farad tasks;