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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-07-12, Page 6I Made Living and Workrooms of My Open Porches POULTRY the espensiveness- of barnyard rail - sure, •the grower, 'nepecial1y',in the It seems to be the..goneral opinion, specialized fruit districts; must relY that mites and lice (probably thee largely on cover crops. Cultivation worst enemiekof poultry) are one and sliouid'be stopped end ono of these the sante thing. Shell, however, 19 not crops sown, from the ist to the 15th the„ease. Mites are entirelydifferent of, July, depending ',on the district. By Nell B. Nichols in habits and modes of living, and: Rye and Hairy. Vetah make an ideal must be destroyed, by different meth•.I:combination; rape Is good or buck- umber of dishes to be washed, if pose ods. Both lice and mites reduce the wheat for'poor lend, but' the main, bT dream -house had a fireplace, n extent. Y nest in, er ant of • Y ex thin is `togrow something that, can an books,and t p t sible, during the hot. weather.. - vitality of the fowl to such an g . • ni ain hot bis that it easilysuccumbs to disease. •. for everyoccasion. I Bacon and eggs wtthpip g be plowed under; 'a crop. of weeds is ern a verandah dreams with, three suits and st • berry'am taste mighty, The louse is a vereesmall insect of better than. nothing.. An .overtvinter- odinar from my . ut on the verandah summer a creamy color, has•sis legs and, con verandahs—which.. isn't so fine out. � lag crop should not be allowed to .grow ordinary trary to opinion, can not suck blood. fpr long in the spring as it will then bad—a fireplace, and enough reading mornings, especiallyif one watches aof the fowl, feed- food and material: so that I can refresh my the sun come up. The birds giveIt lives on the body compete with the _trees for o Or two every day. free concert at this hour. Of course, ing on the filth, ; dried blood- scales moisture at a time When they need Awith a story o from the feathers. and scurf of the Andbecause I so thoroughly enjoy liv- I'll _adult that the wind drives us in both. Mese acutely. Plow..down the & in the summer, the house for some meals, but not skin. Lice breathe through pores in .cover. crop in the fall or early spring Ing on my verandahsthe sides of their bodies. Almost an •you about these little every day. And this living on ver -Y before it has made much growth.—D. I'm m going to tell insect powder or bust will kill them. • ts. In the beginning they were andahs saves mo considerable work • Rtmball, Dept., of Horticulture, aoon m On - cleaning, because less dirt is tracked Hens will dust themselves, if a dust tario Agricultural College. inside, box is provided in one corner of the ; I try to serve meals that can be poultry house. When hens -are dusted Remedies for Potato Pests. carried to the verandah easily, since with insect powder, the dusting must The leaves of the potato vine must I cook in the kitchen. Casserole dishes: be renewed in from ten to fourteen are fine for serving at verandah meals. days, in order to , destroy the young be kept green and healthy if a rd'oxi- mum crop is.to 'be obtained. Both in - Frequently they contain both meat which may have hatched out during sects' and diseases should and can be and vegetables, the hearty portion of that time; Lice do not live in cracks fought and conquered if the well the dinner, and they,can be carried and crevices of the house, and there- known and thoroughly tested preven- out in one .dish. My tea wagon is a fore spraying' will do no good.' for on id The mite leas 'der and is red in fives and remedies are used, says Mr. great convenience in serving, rigid pblood,;t W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticultur- ist, dishes and food used erre car color. when gorged with for in his bulletin on "The. Potato in to the verandah and back to the kit- has the sucking mouth parts (the Canada.” Spraying for ,the Colorado ellen in one or two trips. louse has biting mouth parts) and On ho still days, when canning feeds on the blood. of the fowl. The beetle should not be, delayed. until the hot, vines are badly injured, but prepare - tions should be made to spray as soon as the: larvae or young bugs hatch. Fortunately there are good remedies for this insect in Paris green, arsenate of lead, and other insecticides. The longer the spraying is delayed the greater the loss will be. If cheap help can be obtained, it is advisable to spray the vines when they are quite small,' or to pick off the old beetles before they have deposited their eggs. With this verandah, like any other and raisins, mending, sewing, and young which may have hatched n the To wait until the foliage is partly three small structures, none of the being glass -enclosed or the least bit unuanal. , My back verandah is my summer wP orksho The first improvement I made in it was to apply some paint,. I tackled the floor first, giving it a couple of coats of paint in a battle- ship -gray color, the kind which does not show dirt and dust easily. Then, with a little . assistance, , it was screened. With wire screening? Oh, no; not yet. I had to convince skeptical men- folks that this verandah, which had vegetables or fruit, I have moved the mite has eight legs. Mites live in the served as an appendage to the house on which the milk pans and cans, brooms and mops, overshoes and boots kerosene stove on the verandah, so all cracks and crevices of the house, the work could be done there; but, as where: they reproduce and, go to the a rule, there are too many breezes to birds only at night. Therefore, spray - had been stored, could be converted make this satisfactory. Other duties ing: la the only way to destroy .them, into a useful room. I had to prove that I have found can be attended to' and treating the hen does no good. A that the dust would .not blow in by on the back verandah are these: Iron- thorough spraying with a' good coal - the bucketfuls every: day of the. week. ing,. kneading the bread, churning, tar product, or' with kerosene, is effec- The first year inexpensiie mosquito snaking fruit and vegetables ready tuaL Every part of the house should netting was used to keep out the Rtes for canning, shelling peas, stringing be soaked, after it has been cleaned, and mosquitoes, but wire screening beans, paring potatoes and other vege- and a second spraying should be given was added the next year. tables and fruits, stemming berries in about twelve days to destroy the i eaten is too late. By the time the poi room one of the first problems was to darning, I meantime. Home Education "Tee .ONlides Flest School Is .60' Fainily"—Froebel.' Children • Need ; a Lot of Lowing. , BY MRS. LYDIA "Why don't you :.go to bed with me?" objected the, nine-year 'old boy, "you go up with' Kenneth every night." "But. he is younger and goes to bed earlier," the mother explained. "You are a big boy: now."." "That doesn't .make any .difference," urged' the oldest boy, "I like to' •be tucked in just the same." find furniture for it. Drawing regi- Then there is the front verandah—, a meats of rockers out on the verandah my summer -living room. It has not Cultivation and Cover Crops to sway in a few hours, and then drag- been screened yet because the flies and, til the Oreh3lyd: ging them back in the house again, mosquitoes do not bother us there., did appeal to me. It is such a On it is a comfortable porch swing, The handling of clean, cultivated waste of energy. Moreover, if a' ver- a ,mighty commendable outgrowth' orchards calls for careful, frequent audah is worth having it is worth of the barrel -stave hammock that working and in practically all cases furnishing, oven though cast-offs from was neither comfortable to lie in nor a system of cover -cropping or green son takes effect the vines are badly injured and the future crop is much lessened. Paris green should be ap- plied in the proportion of eight ounces or more to forty gallons of water, with about four ounces of lime to neutralize the effect offreearsenic on the fol- iage. If applied dry, a good propor- the house are used. attractive to the eye, a few comfort- manuring would be of. benefit. The tion is one pound of Paris, green to The furniture for my verandah able .chairs, and a small table. These,land should be worked up in the spring fifty pounds of 'slaked lime, land workshop consists of an old but, strong and the floor are painted a dull gray.' as soon as its condition permits and plaster or any perfectly dry powder. dining -room table painted green, The cushions are of gayly colored hereafter cultivation needs to be fre The dry mixture should" be applied kitchen chairs, a small table to be used red and white and black figured cre quent enough - to maintain a dust when the' vines are wet. Wet mix - as a buffet or serving table, and a big, tonne, the table covering is of black mulch or loose layer of soil on top of tures may be put e. at any time when comfy rocking chair painted to match. oilcloth bound with scarlet bias tape, the ground and only deep enough to the weather is fine. Arsenate of lead If your handy -man happens to have a and the long cushion -like pad on the form this mulch. paste used in the proportion of two to three pounds to forty gallons of water, little spare time, perhaps you can coax wall seat is of black oilcloth, which is The amount of rain which falls him tobuild you a table and benches net injured by rain. This bench seat during the growing season in Ontario or powdered arsenate of lead, at the which you can paint. Or if you prefer is lir reality a box. It has a lid that is at best . rarely sufficient to supply adheres betterrate of one tone and a' half pounds, . to the foliage than to buy 'verandah furniture—and 1 opens. In it I place the cretonne-, the needs of the tree and crop's() it naris, green and le a good poison to. envy you if you can do so—there are covered cushions, the magazines, and must be carefully conserved. By early use. It does not, however, appear to some charming sets in the :hops these other verandah furnishings which' cultivation loss of water stored .in kill quite so quickly as Paris green days. I would not withstand the rain at night.] the ground during the spring is re - and a good mixture to use is eight If the verandah is to be enjoyed, it A bouquet of flowers In the common, duced to a minimum and cultivation must be equipped with furnishin earthenwarepickle jar of a small sizesounces of Paris green and one and a gs often, enough thereafter to keep a half pounds of paste arsenate of lead about which one need not 'worry when sits on the table. I painted this green crust from forming on the surface of to forty gallons of water: there is rain or a heavy dew. The blue to match the peropi<,box in which flow- th and white checked gingham cushions ars and ferns grow. in my rocking chair launder beau- Awnings may be used to protect the most of the rain which may fall third ' I Keep.the Weeds Down: tifull and for added protection from' verandah from the sun, but I prefer to: ing the summer. The growing' season, An apiary in a weed patch is bound rain the feather ticking is covered use vines for this purpose. I like` cultivations should be shallow because' to fail. Bees must have air when with waterproof sheeting. There are climbing roses and honeysucklee,1 many small feeding roots grow near they are flying freely. If weeds grow two small linoleum rugs on the floor—' clematis, woodbine, 'the ornamental the surface and would be destroyed by high, they cannot properly ventilate rag ones would do as well—and a gourd, or any other of the vines fes-, deeper working. These roots will their hives. Combs melt and the whole small gray pickle jar for flowers. tooned along wire netting about two probably die during the winter or be, colony may be practically ruined. There are apple blossoms, lilacs, feet wide. On the sleeping porch,; broken in plowing, still they are very' I know one case where a few hives daisies, and all the other varieties, of course, canvas curtains are essen quickly formed again and give the, were kept in the shade of orchard until: the season ends with asters,' tial to keep out the rain and dust. tree a wider and better feeding area., trees where weeds grew high. No goldenrod, and autumn leaves. I If you decide to try out your ver-' Further discussion of .the many in -,honey was ever` secured. The bees Instead of using cotton and linen andahs as rooms, give them a fair trial. direct benefits accruing from cultica-, sent out two or three small swarms tablecloths on the verandah table at; That means, give thein furniture of, tion are unnecessary here. However, each season.'Sometimes the whole the 5011, will further conserve 1s water and in addition will After that, the mother saw to it that the biggest bay .got a bedtime hug and a few minute's , quiet 'Calk. withher, and was more particular to show him affection. e From the little toddler to the over- grown, awkward school child, most children are hungry for affection,>Oler children know that we love thein, but they like to hear us say so. They know we think snore of them than any thing else in the world, but they want us to show it, ,Few children want a sentimental, gushing sort of love; hut They heed and appreciate conitarit, unobtrusive evidences of our affection. Love can often cure an' irritable temper, and 'soothe delicate nerves. One mother had this experience, and said, "When my little girl's face grew. flushed and her voice rose high and sharp, I stopped my work, put my aria around her and talked in a low, tender tone about,, her games and dolls. I th could feel e little -form relax and see the tense, vivid face grow calm and happy as she felt my love flowing not to her." "I like to visit her," la+ngheel one make the LION RO'B]IRTS. . friend to another as she entered the cheery home, "because someone is el - ways loving someone else," Wo are se busy and try so nerd to be efficient' and successful that some- timee we:forget "that "Folks need a. lot of loving every minute` Tho sympathy of others and their smile! Till life's end from the moment they begin, it. Folks need a' lot' of ,lqjing all the A rosy -checked, curly-haired , little girl came dancing into the room where her mother was working and throw- ing her ;Arms around her mother; said, "Oh,•muvver, I love' you so nisch I don't know what to do!" The mother returned the caresses and smiled, "That is just the way I feel about you toe, dear. What happy times we shall always have together!" The mother was laying a foundation for the confidences and trust of future ;years when she viould' wish to keep evernear her daughter's; heart and guide her life. ' Children grow up so quickly, plump little legs run away in long trousers, little pink ;feet fit happily into wed- ding slippers, and then we wish we had taken more time foe just loving, As they,grow older a reserve conies to children as their armor against the careless world, but this will gladly be laid aside when alonewiththe mother who has done a lot of loving. • THE CHILDREN'S HOUR r. eaer OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS— THE CROW. By LEREEINE-,BALLANTYNE. The crows have been flapping over the woods and fields these nice warm days, preparing to build their large nests of sticks. They build in the .deep. shadowy branches of tall trees in for- est or grove, and their nest is any- thing but a work of art. Unlike many of our birds, they are only partially migrant, a large number of them stay- ing here all winter, and it is very pleasant to hear their "Caw, caw, caw," resounding through the hills when the snow begins to disappear.' Handsome as they look in their fine black • coats, they are not a very popu- lar bird with, the farmer. You see, when one gets a reputation for steal- ing, no matter how. much good one does, .it is very hard to live down that reputation. So it is, with the crow. He was not satisfied to eat field mice, rodents, reptiles, etc., which he likes and does eat, but he foolishly helps himself to the young corn and sprout- ing grain peeping through the ground, and now, no matter how many field mice or cutworms Mr. Crow eats dur- r« nett and off their hands, one may see them ,at their. games. They play hide and seek. and other contests, just as intelligently as you or I would play them. The crow is so well known, descrip- tion is unnecessary, for it is found all over this country and thrives in the midst of civilization, The raven, which belongs to the earns family; has . de- creased with the ; advance of civiliza- tion, but this' is not the case of the ordinary black crow. Despite all said against it, it does a lot of good, for the food it likes best is rodents; reptiles and insects. t DROP THE HC:E When called upon to c-e'ate for the commercial, world, the artist takes a modern viewpoint. 11 is just possib e that the great Sdvertisiiig business, - with its wide demandfor exacting workon the part of the artist has brought the mal with the brush, or chisel, or pen, close to the locomotive, the automobile the Nkyscraper. But when these same men go into the rural field to visualize the :agri- cultural type they invariably bring forth alio antedated sickle, the ancient hoc and Father Time's old scythe. Because of this tendency on the part of these temperamental specialists, we are particularly interested in what Dr,. Galpin, of Washington, said re- cently on the need of recognition by artists of the modern .field of agricul- ture. here are his words: "Agricultural science has trans- formed farming from a traditional craft to a creative- process. Artists have an opportunity to symbolize this new thing and express it in commun- ity houses, schools, churches, . and structures, everywhere that farmers are now building. "The demand for better rural art is ;e- in the rural school. Educators are at their wits' end to oonvoy to farm boys and girls the miracle of .the life in which they are immersed. They need the magic of art One stroke from the artist's hand is worth at this point a hundred lectures from the educator." Samples Sell My Apples. Instead of selling what apples we can and giving away the rest, we give away w a we can an rest. Twelve years ago, when our farm apple orchard began bearing fruit, we started to carry a sample case along with us on our market trips. We gave with each apple a printed card telling our name, address, farm name,where we lived, and that we sold good apples and wanted to hit the apple appetite of hungry humans. It worked fine and still works. Last year 'we sold all our apples almost be- fore we knew where they went. We started our sample plan on a small scale, with a market basket under the seat of our motor car. From this basket we passed out to every hungry, looker a fine eating apple, and gave him our card. Now when we go to market we take a bushel basket of good eaters along with us. They are fair .samples of the ones we have in the crates for sale—a bit overripe for marketing, but in fine shape for eating. Last autumn, when we had•flnished a day's -marketing in our city of twenty thousand souls, we slid our motor ear into a handy parking place along Main Street„ and at every ask- ant look passed out a red apple and our card. This demonstration only le Often Assisted "Does gasoline ram tale automob les alone?" "No, it's often assisted by fools." Sour milkf chickens is said to took about twenty-five minutes, but it cut down ` cannibalism. It furnishes brought results. While we were busy animal terotein which poultry seek in next morning about the farmyard a devouring one another. 'city truck carate whirling into our driveway, carying a business man who ing a season, he gets very little credit, An ordinary spray will not stick to had been handed a handsome red and with all his faults he is not such the, leaves of cabbage and so a sticker Wealthy apple the day before. He op - a bad fellow. must be added. One of the best, cheap-' erated a fruit store in connection with There is one veryinteresting bit of est and most easento procure is soap. his game parlors, and had something mealtime, I have a white oilcloth cove, ehmr own, and colorful, downy cush-; it is desirable to call attention to aI colony would desert the hives. The historyconnected with the crow fain Add enough so that the spray liquid like three hundred young men visitors ering—,-one of the inexpensive decor - ions that fit into the hollows that even condition arising from clean cultiva-Downers thought a hole for the bees sly. • If one is fort:mate enough to is slightly soapy and the poison will daily to his establishment. He figured ated kind with a painted blue and. the best regulated chairs have. If you tion which has seriously injured some: to get in and out was all that was hide and remain very quieein a field .stick much better. It lessens the sur- he could retail our nice red apples at orange border. This is cleansed by aren't quite certain at the start how orchards in British Columbia and needed. Nothing will induce' swarm. being wiped with a damp cloth, Paper'much you will enjoy the outdoor Oregon while there is good reason to ing quicker than lack of air. Swarm - napkins are used many meals, and on, rooms, move slowly—that is, buy new believe that .numbers of orchards in ing will always reduce the honey crop. exceptionally hot evenings paper equipment gradually or use old. In Ontario are likewise suffering. The; I have kept my bees in open space,. plates take the place of the china ones.; the end I think you will agree with' condition referred to is the burning shaded' from midday sun, and then MMy rule is to avoid all unnecessary me that a verandah can be part of the out of the humus or decaying plant given extra ventilation in summer, 1 laundry work and to decrease the home -a vital part—if given a chance. material from the soil by constant, always give full opening for entrance, cultivation, without in any way re- I and when a colony has been very Control of Potato Blight. .Warm, humid weather appears to placing it. The mechanical form cf.the strong 1 have often placed blocks an Dealing with the early blight or leaf, favor the spread of late blight. Under, soil suffers, it bakes easily,. is unreten- I inch thick under the corners of. the spot disease and the late bli ht or rot such conditions, myriads of spores, tive of plant food or water. and finally; hive, so air could enter all around the of the potato plant Mr. W. T Macoun, germinate, and the disease spreads becomes dead, or burned out. Orchards hive. Above all things I aim to keep Dominion' ' through the tissues of the leaves and under such conditions have yellow, un- weeds down all around, so there will Horticulturist, points out in his bulletin "The Potato in Canada;' rapidly destroys them. Spraying with healthy foliage and make little or no be a free sweep of air about the hives. that, while much of the premature a Bordeaux mixture, consisting of growth, even with the best of culti- —A. H. killing of potato vines is due to the four to six pounds of copper sulphate vation. Formerly barnyard manure e early blight, which is frequently the (bluestone) and four pounds of un-' was easily and cheaply had so there Most of the luxuries in England taken for the late f hthe latter - slaked lime in forty gallons (a barrel) ' was not much trouble rectifying the are taxed three or four times as much is by far the more serious disease, as it spreads with much greaten rapidity and, in addition to the killing of the tope, causes the rotting of the tubers., The late blight usually appears be- tween the middle of July and the first of August—sometimes earlier or later, depending on the season and the part of Canada. 'Although it is too late to get the best results after the disease --which makes itself known by a dis- agreeable odor. has begun to spread rapidly, it may sometimes be checked by thorough spraying. Keep`'Kendall's always in the barn. A strained muscle, a sprung tendon,a jolt or a knodt demands immediate attention.. A few hours' delay will result in a long lameness—perhaps. in the loss of the horse. Kendall's Spavin Treatment has saved more horseflesh than all the other known remedies. Under- the name of Kendall's Spavin' Cure, it the fortyycaeold standby of horsemen,,. farmers and veterinarians. Gat a bottle of Kendall's today. Ask, too, for the Free Book or write for it to DR. B. J. KENDALL COMPANY, ENOSBUi5GFAY-La, Vt., U.S.A. 4�d ISSUE No. 26-12a. of water,will protect the leaves by lack of humus. Now, however, due to as before the war. killing the germinated spores. Mr. Macoun testifies that, in a three-year experiment at the Central ,Experimen- tal Farm in controlling late blight, there was an average difference of 94 bushels per acre of marketable pota- toes in favor of the sprayed. Directions for making the Bordeaux mixture are: dissolve the copper sul- phate by suspending it in a wooden or earthen vessel, containing four or more gallons of water, warm water pre- ferred to cold; slake the lime in an- other vessel; if when slaked the lime is lumpy. or granular, strain through coarse sacking or a fine sieve; pour' the copper sulphate solution into a barrel; half fill the barrel with water ;I add the slaked lime; fill the barrel, with water and stir thoroughly. Be, sure not to mix the lime water and 1. the sulphate of copper solution before diluting, and carefully note the quan-( tities. A stock soltttion of the copper sulphate and lime wash may be pre -I pared and kept in separate covered barrels throughout the spraying season. - Says Sam: A man can't be a real good farmer without being a'. good father. The .best stock on the farm isn't in the barn. London sehool children, on the aver- age, are twelve months in advance of children of the same age in New ,fork or Paris in intelligence. The propor- tion of "dull scholars in London schools is only one in every ten. TOTAL IMMIGRATION FOQ �, keeUIl ).*”.tVia; Mr?:, iafg 11e aFI, gbdi (NC/2645E Of 1,200 '0222X) CHT J Ars OF Thi Z� EN WEIZE.R IT I SP-! FPQM' UNITED'STATE3 FI OIVI OTH EIZ COUNTRIES I CP E JANUARY /Q23 E8,QIJAQY 19223 MARCH /Q23 at autumn time when the crows gather in large crowds for their holiday sea- son after the young are all out of the kat price for them. Fie took a few crates of Wealthy along back withr' him, picked fresh from the trees. When we happened in later. in the week to see him, he was sold out. He bought other varieties too. We had Spies, Kings, Macintosh, Reds, big: red Baldwins, Greenings, and Winter Pippins, thinned so they were very large and fine. We picked these carefully, stored them in the • dry, wrapped each in a paper, and packed them in open crates in our cool back porch'to ripen. One day we passed a sample to a department store manager in the city, He bought a bushel of choice ones at $3, boxed them up, and sent them. to an, old apple -hungry friend of his out West. Then he had us bring hila ten bushels to store for winter in his city cellar. He told us they were finer flavored than the apples he sold from his counters. Carrying our cards in their pockets people came to get first-hand fruit from our orchard to thicken •agile butter, to dry for winter and to make into choice cider, These customers took all the windfalls for canning. It was our "sampling" that did the whole trick, for they usually brought along our card. One day we passed a country school-` house en our way to market.' The - thirty pupils, out playing, began yell- ing for apples. We beckoned them to come ahead. Each youngster was given two apples. We had no samples in town that day, but we got several orders from that schoolhouse district for winter apples, as we gave each youngster our card, which they must have taken home. Giving away samples, and selling fruit as good as the samples, has solv- ed our apple -marketing problem.— George W. Brown. Scrubs can multiply just as fast as pure-breds, but they. never get the right answer. 0ccasione, like clouds, pass away: Arabian Proverb, face tension of the water so that it five cents each all fall, if he could get will form a film instead of gathering them. He got them all right, for he in drops.—Don B. Whelan. offered almost twice the regular mar - CANADA ATTRACTING MORE NEW CITIZENS An indeease in.the number>of immigrants reaching Canada i5 •shown In the chart, made up from official figures. The greater part of tate new Cana•' 'Maas are from the•Brlttah. Islee, bringing -to Canada welcome contributions of British traditions When it is ice-cold, nothing' else is so sure to please—at home parties, when unex- pected guests drop is and for just the family. And nothing is more convenient to serve—ordered by .the case from your dealer like groceries, and a few bottles kept on ice in your refriger• :tor. Moreand more a favorite, every year for 22 years -- since the first Canadian plant was established is Toronto in 1901. Choicest products from nae - ture make it wholesome. Our sanitary plant, with sterilized bottles, makes it pure. THE COCA.COLA COMPANY Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver oe..:; QM,Ar i ris'�'.t°"°' '' „a eneeeeefeelegee