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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1922-09-07, Page 4in ham Advance netted at hureday Mornln aurra,, Fowler etion rates: — One year, 13i:X Months, $1.00 In eciVancet, Advertising Tates on application. Advertieemente without specifie di- ction, will be inserted .until ,forhid itL cleorged aceerdinglY. "kangc or contraet advertise- ente be in the offloe by IMP. rton- -BUSINESS ..CARDS NArkellinOtela Mutual Fire IUSUraloCe Co. Established 1840 1-11ead 'office, Guelph Risks taken on all classes of insur- able property on the cash or premium note :system. ABNER COSDNS, Agent, Wingliam DU LEY 101 ;ES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds Bought and Sold. Office—Mayor Block, WIngham __ STONE _ . 'BARRISTER AND tSOLICITOR, Money to Loan at Lowest Rate. WINDHAM R. C. t R SS actuate Royal College of Dental Surgeona Graduate Univeratty of Toronto Faculty of Dentletry FIC E OVER H. E ISARD'S STORE D UM'1V Tv. A. lAr1111111,71.4 B.Sc., M.D., CAW Special: 'attention paid to diseases of Women. and Children, .having taken pottgraduate work in Surgery, Bac- teriology and Scientific Medicine. Office le the. Kerr Residence, between the Queen's Hotel and the Baptist Church. Aii bubiness given careful attention. Phone 54. -P0 Box 113 obt. ond • M.R.C.S. (Eng). L.R.C.P. (Lend). PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON' (Dr. Chiehoira's old stand) Graduate a tfotromity of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate o the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office Balance: Second Door North of Zurbrigg's Photo Studio. JOSEPHINE STREET PHONE 20 arg ei C. Calder. General Practitioner Graduate -University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Ofilee--2foseph1ne St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephoees—011ice.281, Residence in J. G. STE Real Estate Agent and Clerk of the Division Court. flOce up:Aare in the ChishoLta Block, WINDHAM, ONT. D . F. A. P KE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Osteopathy, Electricity. Ali diseases treated. Office adJoining rastidenon, Coaro Street, next Anglican Church (former- ly Dr. MatDonald'e). Phone 272. PrOpagaftiug CUrrants., The tonal method of propagating eurrants is by rneane of 'cuttings. The -best time to make the 'cuttings is in -the autunin, says the Dominion Hortie eiritarist in his bulletin, The Cultiva- tioe of Bush Bruits, as curranta begiit to gnaw very early in the stpring, and Aonte the buds have evrollen they can- not be rooted stmeessfully. Wood of ihe current season's growth is used, -Which may be cut early in the autumn as soot' as the wood lia,s ripened. The euttings are tritele by cutting the wood into plecee about eight or ten inches loag.' The base of the cutting Should be inede with square cut belolei the last bud, allowing at least half _in inOli of wood above the top bad. if • lie euttinge are not planted at once,1 bat are heeled in, they shouldbe tied: rn itendles rood buried upside down' in -warm, wellehained soil with abontl three tinthes of soil over them, They, cun be le4t6 in, good cenditiexi Over wilder by? learying in the send in a cool eelk.„.r, or they may be left outside, aftec callousing, if cevered with from leer to five more inches of soil to pre- veitt thee drying ea, t eatiefeetory way of 'treating etone et, ,ann. wi.ndow Iedgee ie with sale solutiori. Thie ahead. be Very eteeege leart of telt being dis, solved ln two parte of het Wats', Ap. , ply &ito waten estate to Vie stone Mad 1,vhiete dry the ni*ing of Mebane' ttesitiale, Evety few elltenitlie the fetritetteneet me rleo, vepeal- eta/ deigirese cemmunicatione to Agroteembit. 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto . .TONES -vIsyrs HIS WHEAT lama. Wheat is retire Venerall7 fertilized in Ontario than any other farm evil°. Most farmers are of the (mingle that it pays better to fertilize wheat then the other ezeps PC the rotatioe. Aeitte from the matter of eeofit, whieb inust come frena either increased yield, bet- ter quality, or both, there tare a num- ber of questions that arose in the mind of Mr. Jones as he welked across hiS wheat field. Within certain Nmits, it makes lit- tle difference how many pecks of wheat are seeded per acre. The num- ber of heads developing per square yard of ground is not so much depend- eut on the number of seedplanted as the ability of the soil to produee strong vigorous plants. For example, eight ar nine pecks per acre of seed do net commonly produce a La-rger crop than do six peoks, although -there may be more plants. In the case of the lighter seeding, the plants stool more until about the same number of heads are produced. The fertility of the soil apparently e governs the stooling of wheat. -Fertiliiers .promote a heavier root growth; and greaieti; Stealing wi.th leas winter killing. The quick start Whichfertilited -teelnat is able to make in the spring 'hieures an easier turity, and, often, escap.e from de- structive rusts and drought. Fooling The Hessian Fly. The Hessian fly is one of the worst of Wheat pests, and yet it is fairly eaey to control, if the habits of the in- sect areunderstood. Ixi =der to re- produee and cause destruction, the adult fly rnust lay its eggs on young wheat frA the early faii. ...Apparently the wheat plant alone suits this pur- pose. The eggs develop into larvae whech go down into the base of the young wheat plants and destroy them. To avoid the fly, wheat must be seeded late enough to escape the egg -laying tseasori of the fly. Delayed seeding is more liazazdous from the standpoint of winter -killing. Careful preparation of the seed -bed, and plenty of avail- able plant food in the soil overcome the haw -Heal) of a late seeding and the fly is avoided. A Big Help in Growing Clover. A common complaint is that it is harder to grow clover than it used to be thirty or forty years ago. This is undoubtedly true. When the land was first cleared, clover grew easilY, abnn- lantly and luxuriously. But on our Ontario soils, erop after crop was re- moved without replenishing the plant - food supply of the soil. Furthermore, lime was rapidly renocored from the sail by leaching as well as by the erope. Sour soils developed, on which clover does not succeed. Satisfying this need for lime is often the first requirement in suecessful clover grow- ing. But there are also soils where clover fails -because a phosphorous hunger. On ouch soils a fertilizer eon- tainbag this plant -food will make a better stand of clover, larger plants that are not so easily heaved out by frosts, and a consequent greater Yield of hay: Fertilizing for the Whole Rotation. The effeets-ef fertilizer on wheat in a rotation are by no 'means toonfined to the wheat crop. The influence may extend over several years euecially if clove.r follows wheat. The inerea,s- ad clover crop is often very striking. The larger tops and root systems when plowed under have an accumula- tive effect on the corn, potatoes, or Whatever crop follows. The question naturally wises.; Is it desirable to make a heavy u.pplication f fertilizer for wheat, providing more plant -food than the :wheat can -utilize, or shall each temp in the rotation be fertilized with a smaller amount ef fertilizer? There are certain advantages in the first method. Less labor is involved, and the indications from experimental work on this point are that greater returns are secured from the rotation a$ a whole. An increeste ef a beshel of wheat is as good as two leashels of corn or nearly three bushels of oats, and more easily obtained on most eolle. Therefere, it may flae profitable to make the larger fertilizer application on wheat, especially if followed by clover. Acquiring the Habit The statement, "if you use fertilizer once you'll have to use, it always," has a grain of truttli in it. 11 -.fertili- zers are profitable it is, of course, good business to continue to use them, just as it is good 33,11•SilleSSto C.011tit1114 spraying potatoes or te.sting seed Corn. Any of these praclices can he diseon- tinned, diedieihleion about them. The farmer who obtains: creased yields from improved practiees finds it difficult to go hack to the old order. In any sound system of farm management, the use of fertiNzer is likely to become a pretty well defined habit. - 'Effect of Fertilizer on the Soil. Thegeeetion does fertilizer injffee the soil, is as o/d end as definitely answered" as the question, 'does -wheat turn into _cheat? Nevertheless, the claim is .soreettimes made that fertili- zer causes the soil to lose its organic matter, and to -run together. When this condition occues, the ,fault cam generally be traced to the farming system, and not to fertilizer usage. One of the best proofs of the value of fertilizer in keeping up the organic matter of the soil is in a plot an Ex- perirnent Station that received fer- tilizer witiou.t manure for fifteen years. Every crop grown was remov- ed, and yet at the end of the period, this plot contained 15,000 pounds more per acre of organic matter than an adjacent plot, which had reeeived no fertilizer. Good. farming practice in Ontario wheat soils requires the conservation and 'building up of the organic matter supplyby tillage, rota- tion, legumes, and care of animal ma- nure. Red Fields and Sour Soils. In the early summer months many fields from a clista.nce present a rusty red color, due to the presence of red sorrel, indicator of a. sour soil. Be- cause of the fact that there is appar- ently more and more sorrel each year, featiNzers have been accused of cause ing soifl acidity. Probably the name of one of the principal fertilizing mate- rials, acid phosphate, rims had a good deal to do, with t:his There is very, good evidence that fertilizers do not cause soil acidity. A.:Ielot which received over two tons of sixteen per cent. acid phosphate in fifteen years was .actually less ackl than adjacent plots that had xeceivect.no treatment. In some laboratory-. tests the applica- tion of as much as five tons of acid phosphate on an acid soil actually re- duced the linie. requirement of that soil. While the limestone requirement of a soil may not be increased by the usegef fertilizer, it maybe very desir- able to lime the eoil in many cases to get the_full benefit of the fertilizer. Control of Production. The marketing of farm products is made difficult largely because of the uncertainty in the size of each of our many crops from year to year. Were it possible to reduce to a nieety the amount of earn, •wheat, apples, poM- toes and other -crops grown, then some of the problems of distribution would not be as formidable as at present. To think that such a control over the production of agricultural erops coeld be had would be the height of folly, There are too many factors over whieh man has nothing to say. The amount of rain, frosts, sunshine, etc., are all given to the just and un- just in such varying quantities and times from year to year, and their in- t:titmice oe produttion is so great that it 'beelines impossible to teckoe, ac- curately how 'crops turn out until they ere aetually harvested But any approarl toward uniform- ity would aid si rnatketing, and it seems possible that the farmer ean help an appreciable amount in this direction. There is little question but that production varies most on the more poorly farmed farms. The field lacking drains will not ,give the uni- form yields that ean be secureci from land adequately tiled. Soil that has been intelligently handled and eye. tematically fed stable manure, green crops, lime, and where needed, coin- mercial fertilizers, will respond more regularly than wrll soil lacking this at -teatime Then, too, the use of high- grade, carefully selected, disease-free seeds makes for egops with e,ompara- tively narrower production limits. The oareless selection of seeds very fre- quently cuts into the erop yielkl twenty to forty or mere per cent It would appear therefore, that the general adopt e of a (higher etanderd-of farm- ing wohld rezult in a more 'uniform prothietioti wlnch, an turnewould make easier tit distribution. a important matter mar- • keting Fa mg Versus Agnculture In former years, when men essayed tit,intheae days of modern tools -Good Mother Earth to tickle, It was not eatinted as a "trade" Towield the scythe and sickle. To steer a Pleer and drive a nag with the feet loam -weighted, Pled: heel; and forth behind et "dreg" As "Hopping eleelso" was -rate& " He .outtpod, tittiwu ahead of brain, ..;The :doughty sot (Ai', 14b0J7 . :-,'clitxy4illt ott4t, thiotto Minolta tu41„ Aa llikeWisa. did inc neighbor. 1-1‹ viod!br.totOhe 'the wernie.oia, flies. WhiCh ,yearly -sttere alarming,. . And,though 1ie oOlittlie.:county. kat toil Wks classed as, 4. taming." And more progressive ,seeding, We learn our precepts. in, the school, And through constructive reading. A good *nth teepee fills the need, And is,a potent '1actor In teeing trope -teeth fertile seed, As much so as the tractor. Where formerly we cast aside_ All scientific data, It now affords us joy and elide To rake a Meath potato. So, raising live stock, corn Alla 1) In epite of pest and vulture, Ie a "profession," if' You please And eleSeed agriculture," THE WINGHAM A ANCB A LAY rrrday,Setette her 71, 022 My. Lot and Yours By Bertha Lee Smith In the bustling city, where I had gone foe the day, I was taking a short cut through a side street. The hot waffle man had • guided his old horse pp to the curb, and the children were thronging around him, some with pennies, some apparently just with ap- petites, all drawn by the tinkle of the bell end the tantalizing odor of the waffles. Two small boys eagerly grasped the waffles their mine had purchased. The larger one swallowed his tid-bit in one all -satisfying gulp, but the -little follow with the auburn curls slowly nibbled around the crusty . edge of the hot delicacy, prolonging the pleasure. Noticing the eyes of the other waffle -eater fixed on hire, he paused and aslc.ed.: "Was your's gbool?" "Hub, lots better'n youe'n," retort- ed the other, strutting off towed the corner with never a backward glance. This incident remained with me all afternoon, and even while I passed away the time on the return trip by glancing over some farm papers I had purchased at the news-stand. The papers seemed to be filled with ad- vice to farm women. Now, really, I don't mind advice; it interests me. it is often instructive, sometimes help,. fill, and I like to give it myself. But after that day in the hot eity some of it just put my disposition on the bias. Especialy so with one article that pointed out that the feria. wOmen (statistics quoted) was backward in the use of modern implements, .im- prevident in supplying the table with nourishing food, and untaught in 'sanitary methods of living. It seems to me that the pease bas al- ways used the conditions of farm life for "fillers." When some space must be filled, they talk about farm women! Myst the press laughed at us, then it pitied us, and stated in -exact numbers the percentage of us who ended ottie lives in insane asylums. Our dreary lives were berribaned our bedraggled skirts painted, out, our galoshes gig- gled over (until the city ,flapper be- gan to flop around in them as we never did), and our idioms of speech were noted. Now I will confess that this public expression is veering, nor to nor'west, and efficiency is the slogan hurled at us. True'we all have the most nourish- ing foods at hand, but the majority a us do use them; good, clean, raw milit with leorne-made yeast bread satisfies hunger better, and With much lees trouble, time fancy desserts or sauces with a milk foundation that are so nutch written about and advocated. Crisp radishes pulled while the dew is still on the leaves are palatable at our noon -day dinner, wltlhout being cut into imitation noses to garnish some ether dish. The same paper that ad - Vises us to centralize all kitchen furni- ture so that steps may be saved, will then go on and describe and illustrate the making of intricate desserts, col - 0%10 entrees, and camouflaged vege- tables. Perhaps the brain -weary eity worker does require some temptation to eat, but the best way to deal with a farm fainily appetite 18 to have en- ough to go around twice. After arranging everything so that all walking in the kitchen is done in a straight line, no matter if a curve might lead us te the Wonderful sight a blooming holly -locks wider the window, the water -system is the next point of attack. The clredgery of pumping and lifting and carrying is poietted out. On one of you trips to eeetby elle; tint teke time to iritit vote gyinnasiule; there you Will find mealy' eity housewives busy "exereis- ing" to Teduco weight, Watell ttheee exereisee Cloeely, and tethat de yeti seat Lifting, earrying, arm exereiseti emiloe to pumping, why, yea, there they ell ure, Now, I do want the cistern water piped into the kitchen, and when one .tcan afford it, I think there should be Water on both Roomette water to be cOnneeted with the water -heater, the bathtub and the Sewage system, but no expert can coneinee nee that I should draw the drinking water from a. faucet. I prefer to get it directly from theAeep, drilled well. yentothat the farm women do work long hours, and many eedite 'what would be reel hardships to a cite -bred women, with a kitchenette education, but -lima of the. satisfaotion in living- that is gained! Things sprout into being under our tOnch, we have all around 118 the results of our handiwork—green. lawns, flaunt- ing perennial; sturdy vegetable rows down the garden, the waving trees of the north woodlot in the -background, and the all -satisfying odor of well- filled bins and cribs and mows. I do take more steps around my big farm kitchen with its tables and sinks, its cabinets and cupboards, its range and oil -stove, the rocking -chair -by the window with the magazine rack at hand; than any cite housekeeper could possibly take from her perch on a high stool which gives her command of the whole -warlsing equipm,ent. But I don't have to go and "exercise" to keep it. Farm work accomplishes sometunge-worth while and the farm wife ge_s her physical culture away froth the poldelied "gym" floor-, I don't suppose that I could, touch ;the &me ten times with the tips ofmy fingers without bending. my knees, but I can pick up a basket of chips from the woodpile without sitting down to it.. Now that I have unburdened myself somewhat, I will grant 'Many things to thenewspaperarticles, I believe in effediency in work and in living. Farm life ie'a true partnership of all the members of the family. It can be male a happy and paying one. ant glad that improvements in work- ing eenditions are being advocated and being made. Reading andmusic gen take one out of the 'every -day slump of mind, and- can now be had and en- joyed by any farm family, thanks to the rural mail earrier, the phone- grephe, and the radio. Then wheri snow and 'cold come, take your ,annaal vacation. Just nike it, -whether you can affoed it or not. Go to some city, visit friends or relatives and do ecene sight,Seeing or attend some farmers' conventicin Lake the short courses in an agricultural talce anythieg, but be sure to take something, Get Out, CrOWC1 in all the plays, lectures and concerts that time will permit, Bet at hotels and restaurants, and mingle With, peo- plee foe fettle lifs is in a way a soli- tary one. When, tired out, you are at home againwith the wend of' familia duties, yeti will fled that yeu have gained 'enough of e mental stimulus to lait yen through the Year, can' not get the viewpoint of these women. who hnte farm life, eand spent 'some twelve years living among the cave -dweller occupants of the Modern eity office building. I had to work eight hours a day, and spent the remainder of my waking hours in try- ing to keep body ad clothes le con- dition for another day, A theatre, a coneert, or a restaurant dinner was as much Of a .red-letter occurteeee then ae it is now, when I live'ffOn the farre, Pereoataly, I prefer the farm and its hard work to any office wok. I wish that every woman who leeete the farm might be able to werk ir. a city for while, Then if she still hated the faxen:heaven and &firth eheidd be moved to keep her away freni it wery effieirtrileY' flErctfrice leitewn A 111411kiftd 1ui lighten year 1abor, i, 4,4 0.4 2. you want to and cat, afford it; but let me pump a tin -Cupful of water, (near and sparkling, from the well, while my eyes linger on the ercof of a ripening field a wheat, coming ap againet the breakwater of the wire fence, and like the small boy I will say to any eity worker: "Lots better'n your'n." Culling Improves Progeny. Hens that are been loafers usually begin by July to quit their job of egg laying f,{1DCI start moulting, taking most of the summer and fall to finish the replacement of old feathers with a new coat ,of plumage. This is one of the oubstandivg characteristics of the unprofitable hen, and the poultry- man who keeps close wateh of his flock may use it to his advantage in -culling out the undesirable birds.. But this is not the only dependable indication of what may be expected of the hens in a flock. There are several things that the wide-awake poultryman looks- for 'at this season. The low producer, hav- ing small demand for the yellow color- ing matter manufactured be her body, puts it into her lege and beak, making them a rich yellow. The busy hen uses the color in teaching up the yolks of eggs and her legs and beak become pale. These birds with pale legs and beaks may not look so well or so healthy as the others, but they are the ones it pays to keep.' .1n fact, the hen that is rnost`beautiful in summer and fall should always be under suspicion. On closer examinatioii. it will be -found that the loafer has a scalyand shrunken comb, while :the busy hen will have a plump eorniaof a bright red color. 'The- hen that leas Stopped ammasentammemnammememanunna laying will have her pelvic bones 'Con- siderably eontracted and the dista-nce between the bones of the pelvic arch _and the lower end of the keel will be materially reduced. She should be an early candidate for the kettle. The heavy layer will show no signs of moulting at this season, although she ,may have been produicpg .since last fall, but will stick to business until late fall, sometimes rounding Out a full year of continuous egg produc- tion. This year-round laying not only means more eggs, but also that a higher price is received for them as a, large preportion of them are laid in winter, late summer and fall when pricesare up. The early moulber lays • most of her eggs during the Rush sea- son. The hen that can keep up pro- duction under the comparatively un- favorable conditions' that obtain out- side of the. natural 'breeding season has outstanding vigor and stamina. The wise poultryman will lose no tune in bulling mit these poor pro- ducers of cheap 'eggs. He will start this summer building the foundation for a flock of long-distance layers. The birds teen be selected new and next spring, after a sheet rest in the winter, their eggs will produce a high pementage 01 strong, healthy elheks that are almost certain to make better records in flock production. If good sires are selected the improvement Will be surprisingly rapid. New buildings costing $1,500,000 will be opened by the Canadian Na - tonal Exhibition this year, including the Coliseum and the Pure Food build- ing. Prestune not upon your friendships. Parents as Educators Cultivating a Child's Sense of Humor BY EDITH LOCHRIDCrE REID. We are all familiar with the old say- ing that a sense of humor is a sav- ing graze, but even though we adults, mother's and Leachers, appreciate this trait, too often we neglect the oppor- tunity to encourage it in the child. All Children love a joke. Even very yqung children are quick to -catch a pun OT a -play on words. They are always ready for a good laugh, and they -are all the happier if some one will enjoy the laugh with them. Fortunate indeed is the child who has a teacher who indulges a sense of humor in both herself and her chil- dren. And if these same pupils receive further encouragement at home through mother, they' develop a clean wit which is a joy even While they are t email. The children who daily play' under ray window,make remarks th,at1 are clover enough for any writer to uee in his daily nevrepaper depart- ment, but I am not eurpised at their remarks when I know the teacher who has thenaie eherge at least,foue houre each day. She is always bubbling with mirth and never allows the tire - tome details a 'routine to dull her perspective. - She nevelt loses a ebanee to tern a word or a phrase at the pro- per raoineet so that the children catch the lemon Alitt they grow to like this game lef Matching wits with the keenly alert mind a the joking teach- er. I visited that teacher's room one day and the elate was writirig a tornpe- sition on "Mother.' Ruth raised her hand and asked, "How do you spell 'awful'?" Mies Allen looked at her moment in surprise aed then said, "Why Ruth, You don't Mean you're ueing that word in a talk about %Gen. er'S" Ruth's eyes &mod end a broad stnile broke over her fa,ce as she re- plied, "I just asked that on 'purpose fo tee You loOk. MrpriSdd. I know hew to epell that Wtteed and I'M saying my mother doec alhfrttrl else 'things lee me." The idea was that the child planned to use that word (this is net the place to discuss the propriety of its use) and when she saw the oppor- tunity for a joke, she felt at liberty to share her diseovery with the teather because there was that certainty of appreciation Which Miss Allen had en- couraged, Yesterday that same crowd of -6hil- dren to which I have previously- re- ferred was exploring the mysteries of a new house in process of mostructioe. The carpenters had laid the shingles' around the top of the roof in bunches just as they came from the lumber yards, and DeTothy had never happen- ed to see shingle's in that shane be- fore. So she said carelessly, '1 didn't know shingles came that way," aiel 13ebbM catching the Temark quick as a wink, -shouted How did you tan* they same, in paste board boxes wrap- per in pink tissue paper?" Now Bob- bie goes to schoel to Mies- Allen, and in addition he eonies from family who although very modettle endowe,i financially, have a wonderful faculty of getting fun ,out of life. They call construct a glormuely happy home On the'very foundiatiCe of adversity, sim- ply because they neje in that wonder- ful saving grace, a sense cif humor. - Aide from teaching the children this happy trait, it is a most helgul factor in adding zest to the daily taso-s of the teacher. A good laugh is a tworidid nerve tonie, AS any physician will testify, and the tension of ever- lasbingly-keeping-at-it can be relieved many times during the day by the Well.direeted habit of roaming off for a moment into "lighter vein." Some children as 'well as adults aite merii iichly endowed tby nature than °there with thie eherableristic of buitior but it is wonderfel whet cultivation of even the, tiniest getin will produce even in the etobeetest and Seemingly drilleet individuel,