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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-01-18, Page 6:-1 'Winter Rotary Notes. I It is best to 11i ve treading flocks', mated at least tan :'4ys 4o two weeks before the eggs axe saved for hatch- ing. This 15 aptto eliminate the results of previous matings and, guar- antee a satisfactory per cent. of fertil- ity, of sererai cockerels are mated with a range flock it pays to watch. the birds until they become acduaant ed and serious fighting stops. A. fine young cockerel is often, seriously in- jured by being constantly chased from the feed- hoppers. Because a cockerel is not good enough to; lick the boss of the flack it does not mean that the bird might not he a useful) breeder under other conditions. There is not enough profit, in arti-I ficial .lighting to risk trying it on the breeding flock. It is all right for the flock' of metered pullets that are be- ing forced for winter eggs. The breeders needtheir strength to pro -1 (?ace strong chicks. `When a farmer las 100 hens or less and uses most of tl.em for the, spring breeding. flock, I think he is gaining by leaving poul- try house lighting strictly alone. Sometimes a flock that is heavily, fed on mash` and grain will seem to be lacking in appetite. Renew a pout Lcywan who found his fioak showing no interest in their evening ration: So he stopped passing out the corn and, simply s'iced op a few maagels and scattered them in the litter. The hens went to lied with only salad for sip- per on a Gold winter night. But the next mo ging they were hungry and ready to make their straw litter fly as they dug for the grain., Ori some western poultry farms they are making great egg records and ono of the main reasons seems to ba the number .of days per year the aeras eau use the range. Such birds readily obtain green feed and it seems to keep them laying and the eggs are fairly fertile. In this province we must feed green food to produce fer- tile� eggs far the early hatching. The. green 'feed adds bulk to the ration and helps to keep hens healthy when they are on a heavy winter ration of grain and mash. I think it 'would pay some elevat- Ma to carry a larger variety of poul- try feeds, It is 'often difdoullt to ob- tain certatraingredients for the home- - •,. ,'1,1-ihashes. At the same time the elevators cannot be blamed for not carrying things that farmers' will not 'buy. It is much easier for them to keep a stock of ready mixed mash on hand. There is a fine chance for many sections to practice more co-operation in the purchase of such .articles as. ready -mixed mash, .oyster shell, beef shcrap, fish scamp or high-grade tankage. fin\ r Try plae1ng a far.fui of clover hay or alfalfa iii each sectbn of the lay- ing house and watch tie pullets, work it over. It gives them something to make life more pleasai t on eeld win- ter days. They obtain a lot of useful green feed from . the hay and very lattbe is wasted, as even the tough stalks are a good addition to the scratching litter, Add new litter to the nests often enougli to prevent the 'bare boards from showing. Heirs are oconstantly pecking at the litter and removing it from the 'best et nests. Ib is seen broken up and parked in the cornets. Twisted hay packed into the nests seems to last longer than straw. Any material is all right if there is enough of . it. One broken egg tossts more than a heap'ef nesting littera Broken eggs in the nests' -soil the good eggs and maystart, the egg eating habit. Do not 'bring a bird with, a frozen comb into a warm room for treatment. Rub the parts with snow until they ase thawed and bhen apply vaseline, Thewattles of, male birds . seem to freeze easily' when the driniting'water is constantly touching ` `them on a freezing day.: Rubbing the wattles with suet seems to help prevent frost- ing as the water does not remain long on the surface of the skin pretested in that way. Severe freezing of the comb and the wattles seems to devitalize the male birds and reduce their vigor. This is a serious problem when eggs are being saved .for early hatching. Hen houses must be protected enough to prevent serious freezing of the combs if many winter eggs are ob- tained and they show a high per tent. of fertility. Th-e'male bird with frozen Wattles suffers when they touch the sides of a mash hopper and such a bird is apt to exist- oir a re- duced ration when plenty of feed is needed to maintain vigor. If cackerls were banded last fall with spiral bands be sure that the bands are not resting beneath the spur and very tight. Such bands may cut off the circulation in a bird's foot and cause the foot to freeze. Even if freezing dues not occur, lameness will result. The bands for cockerels must be large and they rest morn comfortably above the spur.. It will soon be time to save hatch- ing atching eggs for early incubation. This means frequent gathering of the eggs to prevent chilling. Store the eggs wheem the temperature will range be- tween fifty and sixty degrees. Eggs placed in a warm froom soon deter- iorate. The freshest eggs seem to produce the largest per cent. of plump livable chicks. They seem to lose rapidly in hateb bility after becoming a week old. The Sunday School Less JANUARY 21 n The Prodigal Son, Luke 15: 11-24. Golden Text—There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.—Luke 15: 10. as soon as possible he said farewell to the old Nome and the old life. In his foolish way of thinking, he wished to see and know and taste life, and that, he thought, gourd not be done at home. Doubtless the father who saw him afar off when he game back, watched him tillhe fadedof. out sight. Doubtless the elder son was too busy in the •fields tosay good- bye. The prodigal went as all prodi- gals ga, with full purpose,. gay cloth- ing, lothing, and: jaunty step . and light heart. Wasted his substance with riotous living. The prodigal's idea of liberty is license, the unrestrained following of one's desires. He wasted not only substance, but soul. II. Thinking Herne, 14-17. V. 14. When he had spent all. When', prads'gais scatter money, they gather er friends of a. dubicus kind. It did not take long to drain the ' prodigal's purse, A mighty famine , - he began to be in want. Famine was common then as now, ,in Eastern lands. The 'famine aggravated: his poverty. V. 15. Joined himself to a 'citizen of that country; became the slave of a Genital() master, a great degradation' for a Jew, for the prodigal • :who hadl Lesson Setting—Our lesson to -day is one of the three great parables spoken with a common purposein them all. They ane the parable of The Lost Sheep, t'he parable of The Lost 'Silver, and the parable of the Lost. Sen. The Pharisees murmured against Jesus because he kept com-1 pany with. publicane and sinners, peo- ple beyondthepale of respectability. Jesus answer is that lost people need saving and saving can only come by, seeking. True religion is a eeeking, not. a separated thing. God is a seek- ing, not a separated God.' Itis one thing to keep company with sinners for the sake of the evil in them. It is another thing to seek the company of sinners for the sake et the good in them. L Leaving ' 11-13. Home, g V. 12. Father,give me the portion of goods. By Mosaic law, each child got one portion, while' the eldest • got two portions, These portions were often distributed during the father's lifetime: -'l'V."13. Took his journey into a far country. It would take some time to convert bis portion into money, but Pyr Pt>.h for laii►rf ir+93e,plsafet4 con- 416611.414 on-Jt :<1nd i tn'eit'oug. rAtiPz 1us. 1 .. or_e 1-° M'C a egg 424'1 . t3i: � :aatO .MC C B, °df1tF titn el''$a Itt 7iOU N'ost "" G^eaamd Se **era $Dvnrrse3aess ip2tATf PO• Z 0144 05 Al ka, 14:644d ''xDl� tdrakat goxd.iio Parted with money a nd character still retained his racial pride. Seat him to feedswine; another step downward. Ho must feed animals abhorred by the Jew, V. iG, No man gave unto him, He finds the fax country not only food- less, bub loveless. The husks' or carob pods whiell the swine ate are all that stands between him and actual star - V. 17. When he came to himself. The first step towards corning to God is coming to one's 'self. Ile realizes that his great adventure has :become a miserable' failure and begins to con- nect that failure with himself. It is not a failure of money or food or friends, but a failure of himself. Tlie fault does • not rest with the far coun- try, but with himself. Trow: many hired servants c . have bread . . I perish. Be is now thinking of home. The lowest menial at home has made a better bargain with life than he has. There is more than, hunger for bread in these words. There is a great con- fession of failure and folly' on the part of the prodigal. III. Coming Home, 18-24. V. 18. I will arise and go to my father. David Smith sees in these words only a resolve far bread only, but it seems rather the first step in an. open confession of error. It is his heart, not his stomach, that leads him hemewerd.` : Will say . . I have sin- ned. His first words are to be wards of confession, How different from the proud words with which he went away, V. 19. No more worthy to bp; sailed thy son. Ile feels that he has for - felted his place in the home. He has no"longer any rights, there. Make me asone of thy hired servants. He is - willing to accept any place that his. , father sees fit to give him. It is his father's will, not his own, that is to be supreme.. The least that his father will give is, more than he deserves. V. 20. A great way off ;'his father saw him; because all this time the . father had been waiting and watehing.l foe' his return. The shepherd seeks anxiously for his lost sheep. God must wait longingly for: the lost soul. Had.I compassion. His father's love goes out. to his son, raggedy footsore, gaunt and miserable as he is. Ran, and fell en his neck. He does not wait sternly fir words of confession or turn away. He not only, sees his son, but sees through him and reads' all the inward story. V. 21. The•son said. He begins his little prepared speech of penitence. V. 22, But the father said. His fath- er interrupts the unfinished speech. He does not wait till he asks a slave's place, but immediately proceeds to give him a son's place, Bring the best robe .. a ring .;. shoes. All three things signify a restoration of the prodigal tehis filial place in the home. The restoration is immediate. It is complete. It is loving. V's. 23, 24. Bring hither the fatted calf. Itis also a joyful( restoration: There was always a ealf fattening for festive occasions. This my son was dead; to all intents and purposes. This saying of the father gathers up the whole parable. A sinful man may :for- get or despise his sonship. But Gad eannot forget his own fatherhood nor_ the saaship of the sinner. His love seeks. His love searches. His love waits. His love has compassion. His love restores, Application. We have been so accustomed. to the tible usually given to this "most beau- tiful anu precious of all the parables" —the Prodigal wan—that we are apt to overlook the truth. that it is equally fitting, and perhaps more so, to, emit it the parable of "The Loving Father." Tho father in the parable well and truly represents the lave and longing of a normal human father for his children—of course, there are some who fall 'below this eberectera Our Lord takes this tender relation- ship at its best, and says to us, God is like that, only better: "If ye then, being evil, know -how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to thein that ask him?" The best of all "good things" that the heavenly Father gives is love, forgiving love. Eliminating the illiterate for race improvement, _____ Practical education enables no to take advanba:ge of the experiences of other people. The• ' man with calloused hands is often more refined than one with manicured nails, for refaneinent is a mental condition, not a physical one: First prize live stock, corn, or ap- ples es ase commendable attainments, but first • prize boys . and girls should be the heartfelt desire of every parent SNOI( makes Xittfin. tl Weal ad eoantry irea " 'OGDEN'S LIVERPOOL' �JtlIIiI lsimp\5alhIIIn u alinnemmtil0meulmnnnW00nmuamnlgl�aN 0ses!a For those who roll their amt. ASK FOR OGDEN'S FINE' CUT (In the green packet) IT IS THE BEST Fundamental Principles of Co- Operative o- 0 erative Marketing g By R. D. Colquette, B.S.A., Professor of Marketing Economics, Ontario Agricultural College. ARTICLE II. A co-operative marketing associa- tion, to ensure the greatest degree ,of success, must be founded on a special industry. It must, as Powell says, crystalize around a specific economic problem. In other words it must be organized on a commodity basis. Organisation on a commodity basis means simply that a oo-operative marketing association must confine its marketing activities to a single productor a group of products hav- ing similar marketing problems. The outstanding .examples -of successful co-operative marketing organizations on this continent have strictly adhered' to this rule. Grain has one set of marketing problems, livestock an- other, fruit another and dairy pro- ducts still another. If an association of producers solves the problems con- nected with the marketing of a single product' or group of similar products it will have done all that can be ex- pected of one organization. align. P ani g One of the thief reasons, therefore, why organization according to product is so successful is that the marketing of each product os class of products has, its own distinctive problems, When the producers of a product org- anize to market it collectively they have a common motive for holding together. That mative is the solution of the marketing problems d the Partidti'ar product which .the" their asso- ciationha cites. It is chiefly because men have not realized that their industry, such as growing fruit, dairying, grain grow ing, etc., is not local in its marketing aspects that the country is strewn with the wrecks of local co-operative efforts. ' lif there is one lesson that has been more conclusively taught by experience taws any other it is that marketing problems cannot be solved by isolated local associations, each handling a small volume, with, a car- respondingly heavy overhead and with little possibility of competent man- agement. The rule is: Organize by the commodity and not by the local- ity. Of course there is a limit to the area ever which a •co-opeatative asso- eiation can economically function. With most products, however, it is not difficult to determine what :area should' be covered. The three prairie provinces,for example, form a distinct production area for a distinctive pro - duet, hard red spring wheat. A co- operative association for the market- ing of hard red spring wheat slhould, �herefo xe, cover e that area. In British -Columbia there is a tree -fruit section including the Okanagan and adjacent valleys. The Okanagan United Grow- ers, splendid example of sufeessfui to -operative effort, covers that terri- tory. For the marketing of 'dairy products, Ontario would appear to be a logical area of prodesotien to be covered by a single marketing organ- ization. emborshi purely 1VL p i a a a pu e y co-oper- ative marketing organization is .con- fined. to producers of the product handled by it. The idea is that they bind themselves together to yell 'the BUMPER CROP HIGHEST YIELD LOWEST RATES TO MARKET I SHOULD WORRY! cAN' EXPORT GRAIN MARKET • •.448 2011 ,, gZt 23 . ; $se1$ .L 69) kl az 1 )j 3f• 033? .11' 454 484 120148 ern b -/Ks Lear< ay 7-il Is . P cxv/E 4440 ®N product collectively instead of dump- ing it on the market in competition each with all the others. Their prim- ary interest is the sale of the product of their labor and no one -who is not a producer of that particular com- modity can become a member of the marketing organization or have any voice in the control of its policies. By the same principle the assoeiia- tion does not purchase the product of non-members. If it did so it would ,peculate and a co-operative market ing association never speculates. It acts as the selling agency for its members and is organized for the sole purpose of selling their products and their products only. The control of the association is confined Aridly to its producing members. Voting power cannot be" secured by purchasing stock, If stook is sold to nonmembera it is of al special plass, something like munia cipal debentures, which carries no: power. The one member, one vote system is rigidly adhered te. As organization may cover a con-, siderable, and sometimes a very large, area, local matters are looked after by local associations, which, by fed.; eration, form the central selling agency. Such locals must have full control over local ,natters and be fully responsible for financing local plants such as elevators, cheese .factorie-s, etc. The. central does not finance ori control them. They finance and con,' trot the central. Through it they co- 1 ordinate their efforts in dealing with all altiers of policy which are not local ilut which concern' thein' all. Local associationsare ed into! g rou p districts for the purpose of electing directors to the central board. Repre- sentation on the board must be byl districts so that control of the central will not get rote the, hands af. men representmgronly sections of the ter- ritory covered. Representation should:I, as near as possible, be in proportion; to membership -so that member has his proportionatevoice in the con- eachl trot; of the associaltion's, policies. The board of directors, for. eonvealienee,� appoints an executive from amongst; its members.. The executive "gives to the association that Constant and, ole -I tailed :direction which is necessary to, success in 'business. The executive elhouhid consist of the most alible of the' men constituting the lboaed of direc-1, tons, :irespeetive: of the districts which they represent, 1t is directly -1 reeponsible to the board, to which" it should report frequently for approval' of its actions and for instruction. teSaaf a: 1. NEW HOMES FROMI O1LD ONE BY CHELSA C. SIIERLOCE. Five years ago a friend of mine commenced to plan a new bars. For several evenings we talked it over, discussed dimensions, blue -prints, ma- teriols. Then, :meshy, sold to me; "I've given it all up. Prices are too high. We'll have to wait till the war ends, then thipgs;will come down in a burry." ' Well; a year rolled ,around and still. my 'friend was doing without that barn, when he reallycouldn'tafford to be without it. But he stubbo,tly refused to "pay the freight" demand ed for building material. One :after- noon my friend came into the city' he lives only a few miles out -and'' as We passing down the greet we noticed a man nailing big posters on the front ,of a brick atone building. "Logics like: a sheriff's sale,' doesn't it?" asked my friend, shuddering. He had never forgotten'the time 'back in the nineties when he Ilea amen' geld cwt We went over and read the sign' out of curiosity.: It announced ' that the streets were toga be changed and that the°building waauld be sold at publie auction the fallowing-Mend!ay.:., . "Looks, like pretty good stuff at that," commented my friend. "Isn't more than Mac or eight years old, I'd say." We went on down the street -Every building was similarly placarded; "Looks like an awful waste," I add- ed: : "But that's what the old-aimers get for not laying out the city right in the first place:" ' My friend nodded, said nothing, turned around and went aback to the first building. "Say," he said, almost in a whisper. "I'm coming down here Monday and try to buy it. Why, there's almost enough material there to build my barn." ., We went over at carefully. ; It: was a .large building containing three good-sized stare fronts. There had been rooming quarters on the floor above: •In, one of these rooms we pulledoff the plastering and found that the .bricks were three deep: On the lower floor and in the basement they were six deep, and faced all around with the best quality firebrick. The following Monday my friend bid it in at $500. Within twenty-four hours a contractor paid him $100 for one-third 8f the: front; a glass and paint store paid him $266 far the plate glass in the front of the building, and hesold all of the doors, thirty -odd in number, for $1.50 each. Twenty-four of .the upper windows brought $102, for the glass was extra heavy plate. Three sinks and two toilet basins, brought $50, and the steel posts on the front of the building were sold to a bridge and iron concern for $35. The drainage and sewer pipe in the building my friend kept to; use in the milk -room of his barn; gas -pipe sold to a plumber brought $59, and the old fixtures went to a junk dealer for. $12. There is no need' to add any more details; my friend got all the material he could use for his barn free and he took in nearly $750 for the material he sold—ii clear profit of $250 cash, not counting what he kept. It didn't east- much to tear down the building, for everypurchaser had to take out what he bought, and that made it easy for iny friend and his hands to get the brick they wanted, The rest of the help was hired at fifty cents an hour. The point is simply this: Look around you. There is hardly a town or a village in the country that doesn't contain opportunities like any friend found. Of oeurse, not all of them are o b e due to. changing • g t streets or grades. Some buildings have been abandoned, fires have partially de- stroyed others, and some have been condemned. , I know a man who built a $10,000 house, and the timbers and inner lum- ber came from a neighbor's barn that was built' fifty years ago. The central selling agency has full control over all anatteas concerning the sale ea the product. It establish- es,grades, provides facilities for mer- chandising the product, and, if a trade mark is used, owns and controls it, stipulating the conditions by which local affiliated associations may apply it to their prodauot, The next ,article will deal with pool- ing and merchandising, the methods by which a co-operative marketing association haiulile and sell the pro- ducts of lbs members to their mul)atal advantage. '9 dt,P1)7 Epsom ,salts are a -cheap remedy to keep on hand to help in toning up a poultry flock that has., had -,access to spoiled feed. The osoasional 'use of the salts is a help in reducing losses from soar crop ea indigestion dare to overfeeding, A hen that has been crop. bound is benefited by epsam wilts. The usual dose is half a teaspoonful for a mature hen The salts can be dissolved in Naim water and poured d awn the throat of the bird, Then eau know the hen has received adose. • She may not eat enough of a mash containing the salts, tl flock can be allowed: to go hungry; about'haif a day followed' by a moist mash con- taining epsoon was for every bird, When the salts areused as a pre- ventive, place about three teaspoon- fuls in a gallon of water and allow the birds no ether drinking water, Many of the cases of tab -called cholera are really only bowel trouble, due to faulty feeding methods. Often' the u se ,of epsom salts will improve such conditions.. Epsom salts can be pur- chased in one hundred pound bags for less than four cents per pound, so the coat of ,,sing"this in poultry doctoring is very reasonable..., Says Same A wintec without books' is- like fishing 'iisaaatict .hooks.. .