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SPEEDING UP THE PIGS.
What factors make up the economic
essence a the pig? Veed, man and
horse labor, risk, interest, aepreciation
in capital and equipment, and generel
overhead cover all excepting the profit,
which is elusive and oftentimes ephee
moral. • The time consideration, may
very well affect all of these items
favorably to the grower, the shorter
the -time involved in takitig the pork-
ers from farrowing to market the less
the eapense.
skun or buttermilk, raes.
age, fish Meal or a combination of any
one of these with linseed -on meal,
corn -oil -cake meal,' soy -been meal,
ground soe beans, or wheat middlings.
To make rapid gains on pastures,
even the good ones, supplements are in
order. Even on good. alfalfa pasture
the addition of a little tankage proves
a fine pep producer.
THE CHILDREN'S
HOUR
OUR FEATHERED leRIENDS—
THE SWALLOW.
I3Y LEREINE 13ALLANTYN0.
Each year the Department of
Health spends a lot of money in their
efforts to keep down mosquitoes and
I flies. Those who have visited their
I exhibit at the Canadian National
jIx-
hibition realize the work they are do-
ing. To, the boys and ghee of our own
1 eistrice there is a very important
phase of work in this connectioe, which
ethey could do to assist this splendid
tures—and, oh, a, great number of Horne Eoucation
book with ever so many colored *-
lovely things." But she was a little '
lishanfed of herself for feeling; dis- "fhe Child's First School is the Familyi—Froebel
satisfied with wha't, .Aunt Hattie, would
-probably give 'her,- Of course she did Euthanking Your Child,•—gy, Zaliraili E. Ereble.
you CAHT, T�
TO 'EMI.
BY A, E. STEWART.
appreciate useful gifts; but just this •,.., ---- -__.
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once she wanted something beautiful. Luther Burbank says "Whoever be criticizing their surroundings, what -----------
s a gr gulf tt,. e I can they ex,pec the c 1 to e e op was oi a
eat If bc • el th tI ild d v I 1 1 tour of the stables of my
,
' About noon Aunt Hattie came, ttrid Heves, there i
1 environment, selection and crossing o admire al fiene, 'big' 'bay -20,, j.,,ejstopped to
ed it presently,' It was not a 'present
in herhtn.dtwas a package. She open- pRisaenitalliifleaparnovdemhiemietcm HT:, pislintivtroLing. thex,,cveapi:tdaatilluprihdaosseiaohllelicirei?tie.d attittale farmer ri nd and had
, After a short time she said, "Mary after breeding plants sixty years, is expression ',that the parent •acts as a "Yes, he's a line -looking horse,"
at all, but only some embroidery that, Provement, is all a matter of heredity, It is in selection' of the strongest
Ann, I bought a little present for you that what Call be done with plants can Burbank with the child . Is the child said the farmer. "if he was as good
she had brought along to work on dur-
f I sical and mental tendencies and
ing the afternoon., . , types. The stroeees eonvietem 1 have, the training of these toward the best
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be,done witlehumam beings—and must showing a strange' stubborn quality as he looks, he would bring a pretty:
it out from the store. It should be be done if ini; ehritiation is not to be which seems to be the predominant , sum, but lie is not dependable; yoa ,
here soon." - '
I am convinCed, 'is no niere this a him in a case of emergency. He's too
can't tie to him; you can't rely upon
this rnorhing and asked them' to :send
a temperamental, for one thing, and toe
said Mary Aen, easily discouraged for another, Hee,
I overwhelmed be the unfit. Plant lite, j 'tendep.cy? Do not ons dos
e• des' big and strong and sometimes when
"I -low sweet of. you, Aunt Hattiee'l Plastic. Angie:tie weed, 'hut' look upon it as
' tiler: human lif " . - , e • things don't come /IS fact as he thinks
rable trait of determination, and
tl
•ht h becomes angry and.
To make sure that the hogs are, cause. i..4.1. s.,,, while the little girl 1 What care you. do with yOur child bY indicictus selection of interestsi leY 'Jae ) - the
properly supplied with miaerals al
suitable mixture should by all rnearisI
b II ed. before them at all times.
e a ow
Pushing on suitable feeds, though Even on such a good paetere, minerals,
_highly necessary, is. not the Miler es- have given good results when added,
atential however. Good managenient
to a ration, of corn, sele-fed, plus a
The,. greatest flycatcher which na-
ture has provided for our use is the
bara swalloev. This beautiful bird,
with his long, slender, forked tail,
black coat, and henna -colored vest and.,
throat, builds a truly remarkeble nest
and handed her a package with furnished him with her- main a weed forelie" 0 •t" re_ simply tears them to pieces. n
was „playing the small yard in front to improve him for his own sake and train it toward that d th "b •
delight and began .te open it at These tendencies are not yet eharetaa in"' Ira ac ' " d the judge
Comes to. hauling a heavy loac p
hee, have already otherhand , he wants to be
of thelouse a boyi•rodg up on a bicycle for the sake of the future race? You banking" what otherwise might
• ‘‘40/1, this is' My present!" slie cried cies evhich are born with the child., fill, patient undersianding and dire,ct-,1 steeP Pada') he. gets tired easilY and
I p ,op. or as to when he has done enough. If it
P
• , stop and rest, and if I don't
I u
name written on it 1. y
ec ; lose strong and weak tenden-1 f orcing will not do the work, only care -
comp ish the best result,' W.antS to
he • 'throws up' and
muse be practiced, and sanitation dthe
supplemental mixture of forty paras on the side 04 an old beam of the barn I once. When ehe saw what it contain -
this' titiThey are merely sig a posts, Consider what Burbank did with •a, '
Delousing is good business pie- meal and ten parts of peanut meal. mud mixed so well with grasses elle] time not from bappiness, but from'
again, but which
nature may be turned by careful cul-; its meagee seed lead become full ears
mg een years e
I won't pull a pound.
I But look over here, I have some -
gently and persistently exercised. of blood meal, thirty parts of linseed or steed, and plasters it there with; ed, she cried, "Oh!"indicate the way that young: wild Mexican grass. In ' ht
e 1 ture or careless neglect. You anew' a corn under his skillful handline I thing worth while to show you.
eedure if bee are present. Crude oil The gains were somewhat Mere rapid, resting on a beam or slight projection disappointment. And such disap
parasites. It is applied easily by herd- The mixture making the best show- that it will sometimes remain in good 1 pointment!
condition for .years. . • Then she carefelly tied the package left to its own devices, and that even! in which to "buebank" the promidingl
I what happens 'to a garden „which is. You have more than eighteen years, -- - - - '
P.1 "Here's a horse that is a horse; I
could herdly run the farm
without
enlivene the skin • but deadens the and the feed requirerneut less.
ing the hogs into a corner, oil- ing wee equal part of limestoneebone If they nest in objectionable places, again and went to her own little roona,
in the most carefully tended garden1 traits of your child. ` But remember I him. No, he is not so nice looking as
sprinkling them thoroughly and rub- meal and salt. We now suggest that rather than drive them away, it would I where she sat down and cried. H at
"--° , weeds will spring up. But the good: patient training and interference are: the other, but what he lacks in looks
ierdener does not deny the floevers two very different things, and produce' he fait" .0
bing it in with a good broom, In the salt be not over 20 per cent. of the amply -repay the farmer to leave some, could Aunt Hattie have bought me, ire worth.'
"--e .etheiee proper amount of ,weter and widely opposite- recealte. ' • I. "I have seen this fellow pretty eired,
badly infested herds the ears should mixture. A half ounce of potassium projections somewhere convenient such a present!" she sobbed. •• l'I wi.
be oieed to rout the lice from bne of iodide' added to the hundred pounds where they, can build without causing could' she have thought of such haine- ane but I never knew him tco tired, to.
their favorite dens. The leg pits and of minerals is considered good prae- annoyance, for they -are of great ad- ly things!" ^He pulls out the latter by the roots., are tae geed gareener. before you at- 5 pull,'
care in order to starve out the weed -eel Look to yourself-firse t 1 ea if ' '
° s - e"" t rt the nest t-ime1I told him to go
the tail ends are favorite hiding places tee, inasmuch as the iodine supplied vantage both to the farther in riding Presently she sat up and dried bee and when it cornea to a 'Ouch
In the matter .of cultivation of your tempt to ex 1. t . with
penmen en nature. .
too. by this potassium compound is often him of the obnoxious insect% an is eyes. I must not ac this way,this fellow w cl p
oul pull the world off
8 e `child to bring out the best potential You cannot live yo hld'a life, your c 1 .
Try and get the litters out on clean found to be lacking in sufficient quan- stock in lessening the number which said to herself. "If anyone is kind qualities, the environment has a last- any more than the gardener can live break."
rtg. balance if the harness didn't
-, ing and formative effect. Much can the life of the rose or cactus. • But as
pastures, preferably those that have tity in the swine feeds as ueutilly fed. torture them. - enough to give me a present, I must
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not carried hogs heretofore. Empha- Wood ashes may be used in place of All their food consists of insects, thank her for it, no matter what it is.' be done to overcome even unfavorable the gardener can make the rose more My friend stopped and lovingly put
size the good pastures: Alfalfa, red the limestone, and rock or acid Phos- and as they have no really bad habits, As soon as the tears were all gone h sical surroundings if the mental desi ble by trainin it tb shed its' his arm about the neck of his favorite
and other clovers, rape, the blue grass, phate ineteed of the bone meal. these friendly little birds should be from her eyes she went into her moth -1
atmosphere is made - harmonious and thorns, and the cactus a friendly:. -thane, and t, e orse returned. •t
and ()thee green pastures. But pas- shade and that plenty of good cool Their great advantage over the spar-Ibroidering the table cover. i the 'child taught to look for and see stead of an unfelendly plant to =Inn-. the farnier's cheek.
especially when it is young and Mader, . Do not forget that the Pigs need encouraged in every way possible., er's room. Aunt Hattie was still em- vie by gentlyrubbing his nose agams
advantages' and beauty everywhered kind by depriving it of its spines, so
ture edam Is not sufficient. Neither is drinking water is absolutely essential row is that the sparrow nests close "Aunt Hattie," the little girl begari,
True environment is more a matter of you can train your child's tendenci Yes, some horses are very like aome
to cry, "thank you' . • . • e8i people.
pasture supplemented with a. quarte e to full speed, ahead, The wallow of to domestic buildings to feed upon trying bravely not ,
of' a fall gesin ratiori eneugh- to make concrete .will be helpful during the • • I 'II mental attitude than mostpeople real- and mmd to meke of him a better
waste or food placed for fowl and they
the pigs go Well. Even good pastures, hottest months, stimulating the appe- eat practically no insects, whereas the
•
ize. If the parents are eonstantly citizen. e
a cream dressing for them, and we
OD which bezel grains are liberally tite and promoting gains. A combine- swallow is definitely useful, eating no- shall an enjoy them for supper.
Some pecaile won% do what they
could so easily do, and others will give
ample room. for the, operation exceeded those realized in March, in their -money, time and talent freely
fed—grains such as corn, barley, mile. Lion wallow and feeding tier, with thing else. Unfortunately the leper- "You thanle me for what child'," leaves
• and wish they could do more.
, .
industrious ones, and torment and try And then she laughed heartily. "Not hundred bushels of grain in an hour. suPP rey clay Irreene of .t.het me of that first horse. They are big
maize and others—give much better house over all, helps solve the high rows, like most lazy folks, despise the exclaimed Aunt ,Hattie in amazement. of an elevat'Or that will handle several! spite of an increase in the available There are many people who remind
results when there is added a little coat of the wallow. lies St e
The power for the elevator is furnish- .
to destroy the nests to drive off the onions, Mary Ann," she said, "hya-
ed by a tractor that is owned by the
"Is farmer.
swallows. - i the."
These facts have been proven be- "Hyacinths!" cried Mary Ann.
When the silos are filled with grain the four months 0±1928 approximated
yond doubt, and it is up to the boys that what they are? Oh, how wonder- When
special silo door with a spout for 131,000 head. Despite the increase in
and girls, and the owners as well in full And I can have a beautiful flow -
each districe to protect the swallow er bed all my, own!. letting grain into a wagon is placed offerings, prices were higher on bacon
family, and to learn those of our birds And when the spring came the love- in one of the lower door holes of each quality hogs at all yarde. A. sea-
ly blossoms of the hyacinths were silo. On one side of the elevator shaft sonal increase in clomeetic demand,
enough to delight any little girl. Peo- and under a dumping platform is a
demande.are quoted as the underlying
and a better tone to the British bacon
pia passing in the street often stopped pit into 'which the grain from wagons
to look at the beautiful flowers. "See . is dumped. The pit has a capacity of sar,aalletni
Canada's New Wheat Champion
For ten years Canada carried off, heads that were not true to type. Then
the world's wheat championship as when the grain ripened he carefully
symbolized in the highest award of the selected enough perfect heads to sow
Chicago "International," and the re- the plot next year. And so on, year
markable feature in a survey of this after year, he assisted nature in pro -
decade's achievements was the number' clueing her best until there was no
of occasions on which the Canadian superior grain in the world and his
fanner securing the coveted prize WaS half bushel of wheat at Chicago car -
,.,ret from the British Isles, ried off the- sweepstakes and the silver
who, previous to his filing 011 a West -I cup of the Government of Saskat-
elementaret knowledge of agriculture.- Plant breeding and selection are,
.ern homestead, had scarcely the most chewan.
In 1922 the championship was however, only Mr. Wyler's -hobbies. He
uverseas is in,feeding. . and strong, neatly dressed, careSully
Combining "through -billed" with manicured and sweetly perfumed, but
public sales ofaho , the increase for they eimply won't do the work -that
needs so badly to be done. They make
a nice appearance, but there their use-
fulness ends. "You can't tie to 'enre"
Poultry Marketing Co-
whjch are really useful.
THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT.
BY EYA M. CARROLL.
e s ieep mid lamb Movement in
that delicate pink one," said a lady bushels, spoutthe four months this year showed over
Mary Ann was a little girl who who passed one day; "it is as beauti- from each of the tilos to the pit so 193,00nOgirlageavdepieeacialttyheaanningeoccoo‘rvroerse-
lived bathe shabbiest cottage on 1VIaple ful as the sky before sunrise,"—' that grain that is likely to heat in the
Street, but it was a very neat cottage, Youth's Companion, bins may be rim through the elevator materially higher at Toronto, Mont -
and Mary Ann was a neat little girl, ---,e.— occasionally to be aired and cooled. In real, and Winnipeg, and :Moat Steady
For he playthings she had a fele toys Combined Silo and Storage this way kafh• may be stored in the fareterszepeeert. tradet in live stock and
and books, of which she took excel- re. bins if it is run through the elevatorilivTe etee:knpredl?ete.e.hewea a heavy hi_
wrested away from Canada by a Moll- is a commercial farmer in the best and lent care, but most of the tame she aal • - occasionally. Tbe elevator will also
crease i April this year compared
tante farmer and the Dominant left evideet itensemf 'the word and has de- had to work hard. Her mother was A Kansas farmer, desiring to make handle ear corn so that it may be with the same month 'last year, al -
with the oonsolatima that that state, veloped his holdings along prosperous not strong, and Mary Ann often got his silo space available for the storage stored in the bins.
, though experts of sheep and mutton
had found it necessary to import Can -1 lines, He now has a thriving farm of up before daylight to help her with of wheat, corn and other grains when By arranging tines in this manner, were lighter. There has beet a flint-
adian seed, produced by the Wheat 320 acres, which he operates with but breakfast. I it eves not full of silage, built an els- storage space for several thousand ed increase in shipments of beef to
Wizard of Saskatchewan, Seeger, little outside help. His farm is divid- This naming was Mary Ann's, vator shaft and installed an elevator bushels of grain is provided with only -Britain and a decrease in shipments
Wheeler, to accomplish its end. In, ed into three fields one-third being birthday. While she was busy help.: between his Win silos. Either one ot the adclitiOnal expense of an elevator
1922 Canada won back her old place summer fallowed each year. This year ing her mother cook the breakfast she both of the silos may be used for grain. shaft and c:._____.n elevator between the
of honor, making her eleventh chant- he raised over three thousand bushels paused a moment before -the kitchen The owner, who feeds quite a lot of silos.—R. E. Deering.
pionehip in twelve years, and this time of wheat ia the face of adverse wea- windove to look out at the niorning sky:, livestock, found that on occasions he
the farmer to bring her such signal, ther conditions.' He does not stake his "How lovely!" she cried, and thera was short of grain -storage room and Tlus Year's Live Stock
renown was an American farmer who all on grain growing, but is a firm be- she thought: "To -day is my birthday) at other times short of silage roome Market
had come up across the border to grow Hever in mixed farming, hog and cate and I wish that some one would give, In years of large grain production he
.
istic
I There is an optim
superior wheat. 1 tle raising being followed at the same me a present as beautiful as the sky' seldom made much silage. He could! m - e to the
tone
summary of marltet conditions for the
R. O. Wyler of Luselaud, Saskat-e time. He and his little family have, before sunrise." I hardly afford the building of both silos I first four months of the year issued by
chewan, his worldly possessions con- in the brief ten years' period, attained She turned away from the window, and granaries for the maximum PreeI the Dominion Live Stock Branch, as
fasting of the sum of $400, his other, the inevitable prosperity that rewards and began to set the table for break -I duction of grain and silage on the the following quotatione win hedicate.
asset a determination that this sum, sincere and earnest efforts in Western fast. "Aunt Hattie," she was think- farm, so hit on the plan of combining Sales of cattle at the public stock
in combination with Canadian soil and Canada, and the man who left Ohio ing, "always gives ine a birthday 1 the silos and grain bins. yards this year were 204,900 compared
climate would make him a prosperous with but $400 has now a comfortable present, but it is nearly always some -I The silos were made of concrete, with 160,900 in the same Period last
,
and atAstanding farmer. During a' home on ane of the best half -sections thing useful—a gingham dress or te; twelve feet in diameter and thirty feet year. Cattle on through billing this 5fitlia,' BOOKLETS
yaesar were 11e/86 compared with 6,097 et A g2 '14 7" tfl
temporary land boom he bought a half: in the Saskatchewan district which is c.00k ' apron, or something like that."' high. A concrete elevator shaft was
, t I t year, Tbis year a steady increase • we"
section of land on half -crop payment increasing in value every year. And then she began to think about' made by connecting the two silos withmonthby month is recorded. .
for $10,000, and though dttring the CANADA HAS THE SOIL AND CLIMATE, what she would like to have; "A piece two concrete Wa11S as they Were built.' A general improvement. was appae-
next few years he saw the value of A survey of the world wheat cham-
to the United States.
Halley's comet returns at interval
of about 75 years.
Automobile. Supplies
We carry a full line of used auto-
mobile parts, magnetos, carbur-
etors, gears, and new accessories
at low prices. -
Toronto Automobile Wreckers
179, Queen at. West Toronto
of pink hair ribbon, a beautiful story- The silos stand four feet apart. This ent in quality and weight, giving proof
'SENT FREE
that wae more
his farts practically cut in two, he did pionships over the past twelve years during the winter of 1923 than dim-
. stall -feeding general
thought of quitting.. To use his ownand most encouraging reading. The Oil Your T
like a beaver," In 1912 he married a grants who arrived in the Dominion
not grow discouraged and never melees most interesting, most valuable, ,t dge
words, he "dug right in and -worked signal achievements of British imini- e
girl from his home state who has since ignorant • of Western conditions and
shared his labors and now shares bis farming methods of eny sort, pointed
prosperity and triumphs.
PERSEVERANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND
ENERGY.
the way to fellow -countrymen to emu-
late them and should have been the
greatest stimulus to further emigre -
Mr. Wyler has been a farmer from tion from. the British -Isles. For awhile
his earliest years, and came to Canada it almost seemed as though previous
with a valuable store of agricultural farming experience in the United
knowledge and a readiness to adapt it States were a handicap in reaching
to new conditions and to keep apace out for the premier wheat honors.
of new developments. He has always
been keenly interested in the produc-
tion of superior grain and is, more or
less, a seed specialist. It was thus he
eame to buy his first sample of regis-
tered Marquis wheat from Seeger
Wheeler, carrying it away in a twenty -
pound sack. He planted this in a
small plot and throughout the grow -
R. 0. Wyler has won the honors for
the thousands of his fellow -country-
men farming on the Western plains
of Canada, He has shown the road to
others who may be farmiag in what
they find discouraging conditions,
proving that Canada has the soil and
climate for success providing , the
farmer brings in the right personal
Ing season culled out the plants and qtallties to complete the combination,
The Change.
"I left the old farm, confessed an
Ordinary Man, "to escape the endless
work, the long hours, the savage bite
oe the winter mornie.gs and all the
rest of the dull monotony of the tread-
mill eaistence; in short, to be master
of my own, destiny, NOW, here in the
city, I ain not obliged to do anything
I do not wish to do, except grind day
after day humped over my desk, nide
back and forth in street cars with s
well-nourished booby standing on iny
feet, or feet, eta the case may be; melt
or congeal, according to the season, it
an apartment where I do not even
know the emmee of most of inea fellow
dwellers, but am well ace -painted with
the subjects about. which`they upbraid
each other, fiercely and frequently;
get rim over occasionally when I stroll
Out for an airing, or held up and
otherwise made little of.
"lti other respects 1 am as free from
care as -a bonny bird. And by saving
up my money carefully all the rest of
the year I am able to go back to the
old home neighborhood for two weeks
every summer and struttingly run it
all over the folks there, most of -whom
could buy me' alid never remember
they had paid out the motley."
Arrested. -
Who was it oft robbed Farmer Sinks,
Stole mower, plow and rake
And many mere farm implements
Slyly EIS any snake?
Who took them off before bis eyes?
A rogue he'd not mistrust
Because they went just flake by flake—
It was that robber Rust.
But now wise Macs has foiled the
thief,
And makes no more complaint --
He's coated all his implements
With rust -arresting paint.
—Oscar IL Roemer.
-actor by Your Auto Despite the heavy increase in vole
ing 1922.
ume over the previous offerings, the
average price during April, and the
While the autoniobile has had a lot Before any one can malize the full bulk of sales, checked at higher levels
to do with familiarizing farmers with profit from the farmetractor, he must than during March. While quality
the operation, maintenance and repair first realize its job and give it proper gained .recognition in higcattle sold at prices,
of the gas engine, it has been some- care. The operator of the tractot the 00101000 classes of
heavier discounts in April than during
what misleading to farmers when should case appreciate the fact that
„ the previous month. Expert stock of
Any of the tollowing may be had free
.
on aMilication to the
Publications Branch
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa, Canada.
compared with the tractor,. The two the machine he 18 driving shouldnoli both finished and feeder type and quae. Alfalfa growing in Eastern Canada,
machines work very much alike, but be ovei-loaded, it were the backbone of the merket. Orop Rotation for Central and Eastern
their respective jobs are very much If three plows on a steep grade ore Evidence of a continued strong de- Canada,
different. more than the• tractor can pull with mend for store cattle is revealed in Potato, The, Ite Cultivation and Varie.
The automobile coasts down the hill, ease, the machine is being overloaded ftheie gfecieedt tfheeadtorthseanadvesrtaogeehepriseleheisppasiidi Tittelesid. 1..yeat Hog cabin, ..,
and one plow should be taken off. The
it operates on smooth level road. In
fact it operates under full load onl The reeding of Sheep.
y amount of land plowed with the two
Keeping Dairy Herd Records,
Why and How to_Use Milk. '
about 1,0 per cent. of its time, while Plows will be about as much as with
the three owing to the fact that when
the tractor is pulling its full load
about 95 per cent. of the time. If the
automobile wag loaded to its full ca-
pacity and run ire low gear every day
that the traetor Is plowing or doing
other work, the comparison would be
a different one at the end of the year.
KEEP THE IDLE TRACTOR oevemee,
The tractor is allowed to 'stand in
the field withaet cover too often. It if used in the tractor engine. The
has to burn the cheap fuel and too tractor operates under full load all
often uses the cheap grade of oil hours of the day and runs at the maxi -
which is quite expensive in the end. mum,temperature. It therefore needs
over -loaded the tractor travels slowly
and the drive wheels slip badly. The
lighter load will .not damage the nut -
chine like the heavy load will, and the
profit from the tractor iii the long run
will be greater. -
Poor oil, for , instance, will cause
enougis. repair bills when used in the
automobile, but will be far more costly
Very ofte0 a farmer, After running his
ear 3,000 miles, finds that it develops
a knoelc. It is immediately taken to
the garage for repair. To often the
same farmer hears hie tractor knock-
ing a little and he looks out aud sees
about eight to ten acres Of land yet
an oil film between the piston, and the,
cylinder Which will stand suoh tem-
peratures.
THE 'NEGLECTED INSTRUCTION BOOK.
Too often the tractor operator
,doesn't know where to find the instrue-
tion book which came with the ma -
to be plowed. He thinks: "Well, I'll chine. As a general thing, the stand -
finish the plowing, before' I get the ard farm tractor instruction hook is
tractor repaired." Before the eight or written by ;Some of the keenest minded
ten acres have 'been plowed his engine enaineers in the country and the bc,ok"
has turned over as much as the auto- contains good information.
mobile engine runs ie 8,000 miles. More of these instruction ho ±3
Transmission and engine bearings would be read if the agent who sell: -
are protected Trona, shocks by pneu- a tractor would go over the important
rnatic tires in the automobile. The things with the tractor purchasei.
tractor is often rum in high gear over Much of the tractor trouble may be
hard roads without these protectionslaid at the door of the salesman who
Across the fields on lhe sod'would be , failed to inform the farmer about the
Much better for it, 1 machine. ,
Corrugated Galvanized
Steel Roofing'
Direst ffrone ponotocturors to Coia-
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Special Terms a Fiumerl
The Mietelige CatE
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operation.
Wane the title of a bulletin just
issued by the Dominion Live Stock
Branch, "Co-operation in Marketing
Poultry Products," would indicate thet
its contents were Of interest to those
engaged with poultry businese, never--
theless, the majority of the principles
laid down are applicable to any form
of agricultinal co-operation, The
writer, Mr. A. Benson, District Poul-
try Promoter for Ontario, hits a vital
point when he says that while there is
evidently an earnest desire an the
part of producers to improve existing
marketing conditione, there appears to
be a lack of uniformity of thought and
ideas as to naethods of procedure, and
the limits of the field in which co-
operating producers can hope to
achieve the greatest and most perinea- -
ent success. It is evidently with a
view M help in remedying this condi-
tion of affairs that the bulletin has
been written and published. Not alone
are the fundamental essentials to suc-
cess and the principle of co -Operation
laid down, but details are given relit-
tive to organization, to the loyalty,
and confidence that must prevail, to
the methods of management that must
be adopted and maintained if success
is to be achieved, to warehouse meth-
ods, to marketing, to grading and
standardizing of eggs, to pooling, to
financing, to the survey that should be
taaen of conditions and territory to be
controlled prior to organization, to the
cast-iron conteact that should be made
between members, and to the. attitude
of producers; the whole concluding
with the rules of a suggested market
agreement for local units.
A Chemical Fire Protector.
After "aecouple of accidents with oil
stoves in his home whieh resulted in
small fleas a Western farmer leas in-
stalled a unique and inexpensive de-
vice for protecting his home from fire
with chemical fire extinguisher.
Why and How to Ilse Clottage Cheecce, In the basement was placed a thirty -
winter Egg Producti on. ,gallon hot -water -heater tank. Near the
Poultry Keeptng in Town and Countee. top was mounted a small air -pressure
The Farmer's Poultry House.
Simple Methods for the Storage of Ice.
Deltorn Your Commercial Cattle,
'
Dressing and Cutting Lamb Caeca:tees,
Bovine Tuberculosis.
Feeds for Wintering and Winter Fat.
tensile of Bief,, Cattle in Eastern
-New Varieties mid S'elections of Grain.
The Rept Vegetables Act, 1922,
Illustration Community Work in Dan -
dal County,' Ontario.
'The Winter Fint!shing of Steers in
Western Quebec,. ,
Report ef the Division of Horticulture,
Dominton 'Hap erim metal Farms, 1921.
Report.of the Poultry Division, Down..
ion Experimental Farms, 1921,
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gauge. Below this, near -the centre of
the tank, a stem ercoe an old auto-
mobile inner tube wee mounted in the
tank for pumping ale into the tank.
nem near the bottom of the tank a
half-inch pipe was passed up through
the floor into the kitchen of the house.
To the eed of this was fastened a
stopcock and twenty feet of- half-inch
rubber hose. A,quarMr-inch 'hose noz-
zle was fastened to the -end of the hose,
The tank was filled about two-thirds
full of te chemical fire extinguisher al,
eeady preparea and air pumped into
the tank until the pressure reached
forty pounds on the gauge. The tank
is kept pumped up to this point all
the thne.
With title pressure anel this length
of hose it is possible for the Canner
to reach any part of his house And put
out any fire' that may start The
eemipment makes available a qurek
method of stopaing fires.
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ISSUE No. 24—'23, ai.d Training of Performing Animals.
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