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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-04-19, Page 6rx 1 f 'a. Y CONDUCTED BY PROF. HENRY G. BIELL The object of this department Is to place at the ser• sloe of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops. Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Bell.In care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toren - to, and answers will appear In this column In the order, to which they are received. When writing kindly men• tion this paper. Aa space is limited it la advisable where immediate reply Is necessary that a stamped and ad- dressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when the answer will be mailed direct. H. W. --J have three acres of black about 250 pounds of fertilizer mays - ,loam soil which I want to seed to al- falfa with oats this spring. I cut hay from this field, the neat season it was used far hog pasture. • Then it was well mnanured twice and drilted to corn with fertilizer, $50 pounds per and potash separate. What 20010 ot- arre of sixteen per cent. phosphoric the best analysis for making p acid. Have again manured it this ash and ammonia as strong as pos. winter. Will I gain by sowing festil- sible for celery? fertilizer fixer with the lime, and is the common Answer -For a celery lime the best to use? Id dobest tohave sone anal - 1 The Sunday elate°i Lesson APRIL 22. Moses, Liberator and Lawgiver. Lesson 117,=:.E>�od,2:. 1 to 19; 25; 32: 1 to 33: 23; Deut. 34: 1 18. Golden Text. -Fear ye not, stand still, and see the'salvation of the. 13. r' �xaid . 14: Lo �l. Lessor Fonmwortn-Moses may be APPLICATION. described as the founder of the Israel-! The story cif Moses and, his amazing ite nation. Only. a gigantic personal- achievements is •so replete with reli- ity. could have achieved what he gione teaching that the difficulty is: achieved. He found the children of one of selection, The following les Israel in Egypt reduced to slavery, sons, however, are of paramount im- broken and spilitless.'He succeeded in poltance., inspiring them to confidence in Je- 1. Let us ` have reverence for the hovah, in the sure hope that he would little child, -no one can forseq the deliver them out of their bondage. vast enterprises that God will ask the The successive stages of the escape young child .to carry through for the ing 2-12-2. This will • feed tendefrom Egypt, with all its exigencies and forwarding of the rage. One can - plants and give them a vigorous start dangers, required the leadership•sof a not calculate the influence of a child. T. B. -Can you please tell me the plan of consufnmate ability and that The attention of Christian people is psr sent. o f f si tilizor to make?Ion leadership Moses, through divine being directed persistently in the di - tend to buy my anrinontia, phosphate grace, we catchable to aPglimpse ofrovide. In t him on ed educatition on. Professuld oreservation Ellwood, writ- one rit one of the critical moments of the ing as a Christian sociologist, declares Exodus. I that "child welfare is the central I. Encouraged, 10, 18, 14. problem of civilization, and social sci- V. 10. Pharaoh; the official title of encs shows that it is impossible of the kings of Egypt. All the kings of solution without a normal family life. - Answer -Do not sow fertilizer with lime. If you mix these two you will injure the fertilizer materially and Will' not get as good results from it as. you should. The lime reacts on pounds, sulphate of ammonia 111 marshy lands, northeast of the Nile that the fertilizer turning the soluble tankage572 pounds, acid sits and had. reached a point near o remember that ono you sou es a Egypt were called Pharaoh: Rameseo Leadership and fax -reaching ysing about 4 pbr cent. nitrogen, 8 I or his son, Merneptah, have usually u 2.adersh.po not come by chance, per cent. phosphoric acir, 6 per cent. been regarded the Pharaoh of the but are servicethe result of patience,hang , potash. To compound this material Exodus, but it is difficult. to identify p - you would have to make a mixture with certainty which Paraoh is meant. line, a One hears the untrained training fth about as follows: nitrate of soda 133 The even- IsraelEhad ans marched after tem.the ygelists doingmuch good. It happens had escaped out of Goshen,the g a occasional but'it is well of Jesus' main plant food back into Ap l form in which pounds, phosphate 1,000 pounds, potash 240 delta, e pssen Suez, when aEgyptian ideas was to educe.' and train the it is insoluble. Apply lime any time dis- pounds. This will total a few pounds: army suddenly appeared in their rear. ciples to carry on his work after his over 2,000 but will give you the anal -I The Egyptians naturally would not death. On the whole, the work of the ysls that I' have recommended. wish to lose the valuable slave service Christian eburen will be best carried G. W. D. -Would you kindly tell b which Israel o .rations d in the ewsroI on3by highly trained men and women. now, spreading it broadcast on top of the ground. When the ground is suf- ffciently'dry to work apply the fertil- izer and work it in carefully by disk - building le ren ere i Egyptian Th r tness of a leader lies in • me if buying pigs that weigh f y ui ing p the clarity of his vision and in his de - With the Red Sea and possibly ort afraid th t tempt ing and harrowing. pounds each at $5 apiece, and f eedtng i strong frontier fortifications in front, votion o the cause so a no Ground limestone is one of the very the following feed: Chopped wlteetl and the well disciplined, well equipped •tion of the world divides his heart for good forms provided you do not have screenings at $30 per.: ton, shorts at Egyptian army in the rear, escape a moment. Moses set at nought the to haul it very far. If you are far dis- $80 per ton, middlings at $85 per ton,I seemed impossible. !riches, the high offices that might tant from the source of supply it may feed flour at $40 per ton, oil cake v. His 13.-M ees himself were not equal flinch.!head!ha va thebeen his ad he simply acquiesc- and pay' you to buy ground burnt lime, $60 per ton, chopped oats and barley since 56 pounds of the latter material at $85 per ton, would be a paying; the most still not in the sense of l "remaining might tand the eahave�ath se phence of • to is equal in strength to 100 pounds of proposition and what amounts of the, i stationary" but of "continuingfirm." side as refute. ground limestone. I foregoing feeds along with water 1 The Israelites were not to loe their' 4. Moses brought the world, "eternal R. R. -I would like to get some in would 'make a satisfactory ration for courage nor to be seized with panic.: gain" because he led it into a new 'formation on sweet clover. When '18 growing and also for fattening Pigs?,The salvation of the Lord; the deliver- ,thought of God, and taught men that the best time to sow it and how much, Answer -It is rather difficult to once wrought by the Lord. In the: while human oppression was a cruel to pmt to the acre? I have a field that give a definite answer since there are earlierortions of the Old Testament thing,:freedom is useless without is sandy and sowed it to sweet clover so many variable factors that may the term "salvation" usually alludes:obedience to divine law. We need to last July. Some of it cams up but upset the accuracy of the same, but'; to physical deliverance or material' learn this lesson to -day. Of what 11-b trot very thick on the ground. I sowed we may be able to give you some helpl'v 14nThe Lord shall fight. In that fee quarts to the acre. Will it winter-- by referring to two publications 064 age it was believed that each god was ficin very much? Do you think it will comparatively recent date. obliged to fight the battles of his peo- come on better this spring, as I sowed At Missouri Experiment Station by, pie. His fortunes were bound up with it whew awful dry? I feeding hogs through self -feeders the fortunes of his people. In their Answer -The best time to sow they began with an initial weight of, defeat he was defeated, and in their sweet clover is in the spring with' 77.4 pounds per hog and within sixty victory he was victorious. Moses be some grain crop such as barley, wheat days had a final weight of 178.9 lieved, however, that Jehovah would or oats. As a rule from 12 to 15 pounds. During this time the pen be more than a match. for the Egyp- tians even though they were one of pouthe per acre should be sown. If was fed 1,015 pounds of grain. Feed th-ground • and the drainage is none too good,' 5.6 pounds, tankage 1 pound. l ll f Agriculture Erten p bulletinsd for pigs 60 teamty. II. Directed, 15-18. V. 16. Thy rod. Moses' rod was orig- avail is it to throw off the yolce of Nicholas, and take on the yoke of Lenin without spiritual sanctions? I Keep My Tile in Order. My drain tile are about the best in- vestment I ever made,- and I want them to work. So every year I try to check up their performance during April. With the frost coining out and the rains coming down, I find it easier then to locate obstructions, clean out there is a danger of the heaving of Ohio College o gricu clogged tile, fix broken places, and see Soil in the spring billing the clover cion recommends that the outlets are working properly: stand. However, since your soil is such as you mentioned a ration of anally given him by Jehovah, Exod. 4: A few hours' .time walking over the of: call, he was ated epherd ha et the time farm after an- April rain pays me sandy I see no reason why this should pounds corn, 35 pounds ground barley,) 17 his e the rod may have been that well for a drain left out of order usu- ally unless for some reason water 15 pounds tankage. The wheat and) ordinarily used by shepherds. It •weal is held back on the field. Remember the barley combined will to some ex -1 a club about 21 feet long, with a ally means a few bushels off the crop that sweet clover is a biennial, that tent substitute for the corn. I note large knob at one end, into which were I yield somewhere. -M. H. is it lasts only two years. You can you have left out of consideration the! driven large -headed nails. This was increase your chance of a good stand feeding of animal -protein source such used as a weapon against robbers and g to the sries by putting on about 1,000 pounds of! as tankage. Modern , pig feeding shows i told in1Exodusc cor114os1e; rod was the It hence I opens and at the time you are sowing would advise you to include"it in your 'Inc grain and sweet clover app-y•cons era ion. lime per acre any ttine before spring this to be highly pro, h1 t "Pa Some things are so simple and so practical thatthe poultrymen who find them out smile -and maybe keep quiet. One of these is judging the egg -laying ability of a hen by the size of her crop, Have you ever tried it? If you have not, the experiment will be aneye opener. I have used this plan for the past two years and find it absolutely de- pendable. It is only a few moments' work for me to step into a house in the evening, after the birds are on the roosts, and run my hand gently but quickly under the rows of crops. All the hens with crops as large as an average -sized egg are earning their way. The others are loafers. Surpris- ing as it may seem; in the same hen there is little variation in the size of the crop from day to day, except in molting time, when the crop is much smaller. As the hens with small crops are found, I move them to coops for the daylight culling tests the following nioriinng.,.or to pens• with trap nests. The hens with -large crops need no further attention, aside from supply- ing their usual needs. In Case the Eggs Get Chilled. If• everything progresses smoothly, a sitting hen will usually return to her nest in the course of fifteen or twenty minutes, but occasionally she forgets, or by some mishap she is pre- vented in doing so, and remains away for an hour or more. In instances like this a good many believe that the hatch is lost. I am not able to say lust how long the germ in an egg will ive after it becomes cold, it will de- pend on how long the egg has been set, and the vitality of the germ, but life will exist much longer than many would suppose possible. Last year in April, a neighbor, by oversight, shut hsitting hen off her nest at night; she ad been sitting about two weeks. The eggswere from pure-bred stock, had cost quite a little, and he naturally was anxious about them. , When the accident was discovered in the morn ing the eggs ware thoroughly cold and probably had been for ten hours or more, but they •were at once placed tinder the hen, which in the course of time brought out eight apparent) strong chicks. They did not hate until the twenty-second day, due to the chilling, but they were an agtive instrument by which he worked mir- acles. Elisha used a staff to do won- ders. The sea. The Red Sea, or as the Hebrews called it, "the Sea of Weeds" lot of chicks and every ono of the .1 corresponds with the modern Gulf of Suez opposite a place called Migdol was raised. A few years ago, in turning the had 9)v. fortifications owhere the gdefendsthe their eggs in an incubator, I neglected to, de's against nomadic invaders. close the door of the egg chamber, and V. 17. Harden the hearts of the did not discover it until nearly night.) Egyptians. The Hebrews, with their This was in Marchand the weather' strong sense of the sovereignty of quite cold, but 1 got better than a six- God, referred things done by man to ty per cent. hatch of the fertile eggs. the direct operation of God. Thus These chicks were not quite as strong when the Egyptians were emboldened as usual, but they did fairly well. For I to enter the sea in pursuit of the Israelites, their•'action was regarded at a part of God's plan . for Israel's deliverance. God hardened the hearts of the Egyptians- only because they had first hardened themselves. Get me honor upon Pharaoh; by over- throwing him. A. race of helpless slaves were to be victorious over the powerful Egyptians and the Egyp- tians themselves would ascribe the victory to Israel's God. sitting hens it is best to have a separate room for this special pur- pose, and then sometimes a nest of eggs will become exposed by one or more of the setters going on with other hens. A sitting hen should be off the nest for fifteen minutes every day, when not severely cold, but if she is off for several hours I should pro- ceed with the eggs just the same, al- though the result might be quite dif- ferent from these two instances men: tioned above. -V. M. L I always had trouble with scours and thumps in young pigs until last spring, when 1 weaned 93 pigs from 13 sows with no setbacks from either cause. If I can pull the pigs through past weaning time I don't worry much thereafter. Scours result from indigestion. I fed my sows no tankage, because feed too rich in protein will cause the pigs to scour. Middlings and oil meal made up my slop feed, and I never used more than a double handful of oil meal at a feed. A sudden change from sweet to sour milk will cause trouble. I kept the pens clean, changed the bedding often, and didn't allow the pigs to chill. - I kept the pigs from getting thumps by avoiding high feeding and by see- ing that the pigs got exercise. These ideas may seem slmplo, but they have the endorsement of old-time hog raisers. I know that I would not have had so many 200 -pound porkers in the cornfield last. September and October if I hadn't attended carefully to the little pigs' feed and exercise in March and April At such a time as this it is all- important to lower the cost of produc- ing roducting farm products, and no field of agriculture offers greater opportunity in this line than does the production of live stook. ie6Ua No, i6 -J"28. Giving. I prayed for great things -gave the small. I prayed; no answer to my call. I prayed that I might give great things. My prayer was heard. On airy wings There came to me from God's own hand My heart's supply, my se'ul's demand. -Margaret Olive Jordan. The following of carefully planned rotations will tend to standardize pro- duction and, therefore, prices. loo kI IIO I1il4 { E vo`fit tE 1y{{, {yt�i t}�iter 1{ 7 Soap that soaks clothes clean different from anything you have ever used before Rinso is an entirely new kind of soap, every granule made of pure materials perfectly combined. Just by soaking, in its big lasting suds, the most ground -in digit is gently loosened and dissolved. Only the very dirtiest places need to be rubbed at all. Rinso is made by the largest soap makers in the world, LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED TORONTO ¢arotraStf.i ,tirUTOP'4'•-',P6.OG.te4. w' ..Ts1'ar4iW-S' st :Tar. R304 Bargains at Farr' ' . Auctions Every spring and fall there are farm auctions in most localities, and you can often find bargain at them if you aro careful in buying. It .an (teen covering ll, fl experience g she years, I have noticed certain peculiar- ities about the farm. auction, and some of these follow, In the first place, 'junk always, goes for far more than it is worth, Of course, this, ie partly because junk- is worth so little, but even if one puts an extravagant valuation on it, it goes above this at most auctions. Worn-out pieces of harness, old irons, broken scythes, etc., are lumped to- - gether and often the bidding is spirit- ed. Such stuff as .the .,writer turns every year or So (to get rid of It) will often bring several dollars at auction. Good stuff seldom brings what it is worth for use. I have seen mowing= machines which I know- had not rut over thirty acres of grass go for $25 -• (cost $48 new), and at the same auc- tion an old worn-out one go for $12.50. High-priced machinery usually goes for a smaller proportion of its initial price than small stuff. Plows, harness, walking cultivators and other small: things that are in constant use have a tendency to go for all they aro worth or more. Bobs seem usually to go for fax less than they are worth. I have seen a set of good bobs sold for $1.25 and others for $2 to $4. These auc- tions were in the spring and the snow was gene. The bidders did not want to haul them home. There seems to be a strange lack of foresight among auction crowds which makes a tool that is not needed during the next two or three months go for much less than one which will be needed immediately. As an example of this, I attended an auction for the purpose of 'buying a nearly new corn- planter. There was a chattel mort- gage on It and the price went up enough to cover it. I paid $42 for it, I think, and the next year they cost $90. I do not know just what they were worth at the time I bought mine, but I think it was over $80. It was practically new. THE TIME TO BUY. There were also a hay -loader and side -delivery rake to be sold. This was just at the time when tools were skyrocketing, but the auction was in the winter, and no one seemed to want to bid at all. I had a good loader and side -delivery rake at home and did not need them any more than a cow needs side pockets, but I could not let them go for nothing. I did let the loader go, as it needed some repairs, but bid in the rake at $16.50. I hauled it home, left it out -behind the barn, and at the beginning of haying a man came to me, gave me $50 cash and hauled it away. There were at least two men in the crowd that needed those tools," and one bought a set of new ones the following summer at a price around $200. Whether it is lack of foresight or lack of cash I am unable to tell, but I have found it good policy to go to off-season auctions to buy things I need, as they always go cheap. This is almost a universal rule. Wagons seem to go pretty cheap. I have three wagons, 'two of which were bought at auctions. I paid $26 for one without a box and $30 for one with a double box, spring seat and whiffltrees. The gear alone," without box or whiffltrees, at that time cost $65. I have used both of these wagons (six and eight years respectively) some of the time on the road hauling. stone, and they have stood out-of- doors a good deal of the time, LOSS IN SELLING VALUE. It is a well-known fact that the first year after one buys a new machine there is by far the greatest loss in selling value. ; Often after one year • you can not get more than one-half or three-fourthsof the price paid. That is the very time I like to buy. There is also a lot of difference be- tween auctions as to the possibility of picking up bargains. Off-season auc- tions are likely to be unsatisfactory to the roan sellingandcorresponding- ly satisfactory to the buyers. If the clay is very unpleasant, there is likely to bo a small attendance, hence prices should be lower. A small auction will draw a smaller crowd, with the same result. If the weathertempts you to go to an auction, and you have not much to . do at home, be sure that you will have a lot of neighbors in the same boat, and there will be a crowd at the sale. An auction at an out-of- the-way place will be poorly attended, though since the advent of the ubiqui- tous flivver it is hard to imagine an out-of-the-way place. 011 the other )rand, you can not put a mowing - machine or a grain -binder in a flivvor,- and many who will bid will let these implements alone, WHEN Arm WHAT TO BUY, Buy bobs in the spring, 'wagons in the fell, horses in the fall (if you have plenty of fodder), haying tools in the fall or winter, eo. They will be cheap then. I have found it a good rule not to go to an auction unless •I need somo- tiiing. Then 3 go for that, look it gyex and buy It only, if it suits Inc. Thenmake a valuation in my own' mind beyeatl which I will not gge `and stick tp it, If bargains appear -in • the meantime, I may buy thorn for epeou- lotion. -0, H. G. III. Delivered, 10-22. V. 19. Up to this juncture, the angel. of. God and the pillar of cloud had gone in front of the Israelites, but now they moved to the rear. V. 20. Between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. The cloud served as a wall of separation between the two armies. It is difficult to in- terpret the. Hebrew text at this point, but wo may suppose that the dark side of the cloud was turned to the Lgyp tjans andprevented them from seeing what they were doing while the light side turned towards Israel and showed them the way even in the night. V. 21. It represented here that a strong wind drove back the waters in such a way as to permit the Israelites to pass through the sea. The miracu- lous element would then be that God should send the wind at the opportune moment. Geographers maintain' that near the Suez the water is shallow and that a strong wind, blowing in the right direction, might lay bare- the channel and permit a passage. ' In modern times Arab tribes havo been known to cross the sea . under these circumstances. But. as Driver says "he fact of the Israelites' passage of the Red Sea can be questioned only by an extreme and baseless scepti- cism Irrigated Fr•i®na:'s i1 Southern Alberta In the Pamons Vauxhall District Sow - Sliver Irrigation l rojeot An eePeclally seed location for mixed. farming and dairying. Splendid - op- portunity for young men now living indistricts whore good land cannot' be bought at reasonable prices. THIS 1S NOT PXONEE11ING, the Bret 10,000 acres are fully settled and another 10,000 acres now ready for settlement; maximum distance from railroad, seven miles. Good roads, telephones and schools, 'Est y pay- ments, extending over 18 years. 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