HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-05-03, Page 6AN ESSENTIAL FOR GOOD
BUTTER,
Without a Fine quality of cream it
le impossible to make a good class of
butter. Not only must it be produeed
from healthy, properly fed cows, but
it must be cared for so as to preserve
it in fine condition. The production
and care of cream involves many con-
siderations that are systematically and
clearly presented in Pamphlet No. 37
of the Dept, of Agriculture at Ottawa
on "The Care of Cream for Butter -
making," This circular enumerates
the various causes of ill -flavored
create and tells how this may be
avoided, When the delivery of cream
the heap is .0 rg
4 t 5 feet h' h 'e Th heap Sing y
alkL`
ld be # k d over, repeating y AUtO nobuue
should be kept m&$t but not eatur0113
-
sled and after stanching a few weeks
Spon of a
operation about mice •a month for F m' the Movies
three or four months when the com-
post should be ready for use
Adventures of Party
MANURING LAND FOR ROOTS. Camera Men in, Big
The labor involved in growing roots
Game Quest
for live stock stands in the way of a
big acreage on most fermi. As the
GOOD FORTUNE
crop is a heavy feeder it pays well] to
supply a generous amount of ferial-
iter. With rich land a heavy tonnage Four Hours Within 70 Feet
may be harvested from a eomp'ar-
of
of King of the Forest
atively small aria. Fortunately heavy
manuring for this crop is not all taken Taking moving pictures of lions
up by it but coni'iderable is left in from an automobile is an exoiting.pas- Perhaps the baubles of this bejewel Wild Ones Need Apply; No matter
the ground for the use of succeeding time, graphically described by Hon. led crown of the ill-fated Romanoffs what may be the reason for this, such
crops- And not only that, but the ,soil Denys Finch Hatton, in the London are among those known to have been :a policy is illogical, wrong and at
thus m•anu.red and given proper culti- Times, who writes:—My two com- smuggled into the Uuited States from times vicious. .
nation is put in excellent condition for panions and 1 statrted from Nairobi Russia. And there is another theory pre.
by the patrons is done only twice a a heavy yield of grain the following on September 8 with one light car and wailing that is even worse. It is the
wee, st is recommended that it must year. The usual application of barn- two one -ton lorries, The road, for our very last day at the eleventh hour ,appalling sentiment that "the game
be • ept down to at least 48 degrees, yard manure for root crops such as an African bush road, proved excel• we obtained a lion -picture as good as .belongs to the sportsmen, who alone
requiring the use of ice. The circular turnips and mangels is from 12 to .20 lent, and we reached our destination, any of us had ever hoped for or even 'have saved .it." This is a travesty of
urges upon the creamery owner to 'see tone to the acre. Experiments carried the Serenget Plains; in three .days' dreamed. of. 'truth and justice. ..
smile- that his .equipment is such that the on for fifteen years at the Central easy travelling, a distance of Al Close Range. ` The facts are that shooters of game
Experimental Farm at Ottawa and thing over 200 miles. ( We were cruising along the bank of are alone responsible for 90 per cent.
reported in Bulletin 94, "Growing and I The principal object of our trip was a dry river course in the car at about
1 to obtain moving pictures of lions; 11 o'clock; the going, was good hard
Czar's Crown Jewels
"Square ear Plea for Wild Life
Made to Uo . Nationby Dr. Hord day
Zoologist Controverts Claim That "Game Belongs to Sports-
men Who Alone Have Saved It" Finds 1000
Slayers to Every Defender of Game
By Dr. William T. Hornaday.
Formerly Director of the New York Zoological Park.
"Imported Game" Plan Minimized.
Will any free-for-all shooting remain
40 or 60 years hence? No! Nothing
worthy of mention, nothing but rem-
nants of species—solitary specimens,
widely separated. Already here in the
East we are down to a few whitetail -
ed deer, traces of black bear in two
states and a .lot of poor specimens of
ruffed grouse, and the last lone rem-
nants of woodcock and snipe.
Oh, yes! We must not forget the
new dispensation in "game abund.
dance." "Imported game!" It is
bought, or reared on state game farms
at from $2 to $11 per head, thrust in1)
the spring i .to strange "covers" (
'of the slaughter that has brought the .and shot in the fail by "tame" sports.
game of the United States down to men. Great "sport" for men!
'just about 2 per cent. of its peak Hunters Well Organized.
(abundance, and up to date, the
Is it not even yet possible to take
i' sportsmen alone" have saved no hold and "save" the game? No, it to
game whatever on a permanent basis .not! The killing` laws are too many;
of free hunting. the killing privileges are 50 per cent.
Criminal Wastefulness Charged. I too great; and the game killers are
The "American system of free -for- just 2,600,000 too many.
all shooting" is absolutely wrong. The I The killers are well organized and
areas over which it has practically ex- get what they want, when they want
terminated real game and game hunt- ' it, and as many as they can kill. There
big are very great and their boun• are 1000 killers to every one real de.
darter are steadily expanding. I have fender of wild life. A large number
no space in' which to specify or show , of the men who draw salaries as con.
maps. Aud I will refer byname only servers of game • are afraid of the
to the nearest examples. I sportsmen! In the East there is a
Consider the extermination areas of great combine to get legislation favor
the heath hen, the bobwhite, the ruff- able to hunters and to defeat attempts
ed grouse, and many other grouse spe .to reduce the big bag limits and long
cies, the wild turkey, Gambol quail, open seasons.
woodcock, snipe, Eskimo curlew, gold- I To -day a dozen evil influences are
en plover, black -breasted plover, the sweeping away the game. About 500
passenger pigeon, mourning dove and .men and women still are fighting for
night hawk. the last rights of game. Leadership
Of the big game, the story of slaugh- do Washington is totally absentt. But
ter and criminal wastefulness is too I so' long as the wild life, game or not
long to even begin to tell. Only a few !game, remains alive, we will carry on
remnants of a once glorious fauna ' and fight to procure for it at least a
now remain. semblance of a square deal.
Stamford, Conn. ---To the humane
society people of America, the impulse.
to "Be Kind to Animals" .never gets
beyond the limits of the home town.
As a rule, the rule seems to be: "No
cream is handled in the most efficient
way, that the testing is done accur-
ately, and the the creamery itself is a Feeding Field Roats," distributed ay, I
model of cleanliness and' a standing the Publications Branch, Dept. of and this wbelieved we could bpYided herac- e andy ciiltlierwith
andge mimosa thorns
occasional patch.
abject lesson to the patrons.
FEEDING AND WEANING
YOUNG PIGS.
•The profit one makes in the raising
of hogs depends to a larger extent
than many suppose on the treatment
the litters receive while they are quite
young. Years of experience and
scores of experiments on the Experi-
mental Farms have justified the con-
clusion that the character of the feed-
ing and management of th sucking
and weaned pig has as great influence
on the economy of production Cir-
cular No. 61 of the Dept. pf Agricul-
ture at Ottawa recommends teaching
the litter to eat three weeks before
weaning. The use of a creep which
will admit the little pigs but not the
mother, is recommended. For best re-
sults at weaning times, sweet skin
milk is regarded as a practical neces-
sity, subsequently sour skim milk or
buttermilk may be used. Middlings
mixed with milk are easily digested
and very nourishing. It is recommend-
ed also to scatter a few handfuls of
dry grain from time to time in the
bedding. This ensures the little pigs
taking exercise in hunting up the ker-
nels. Overfeeding is a frequent cause
of ill -health and stunting. If two lit-
ters a year are to be raised it may
be necessary to wean the pigs at six
Agriculture, Ottawa, showed average comps tom a car p
yields of 10% tons per acre when no 1 that we could find them in suitable es of thick bush in the river bed. We
manure was used. An adjoining plot � country. We knew from experience had been out since dawn without see-
manured at the rate of 15 tons per! the great difficulty of getting near ing anything to picture, and were be-
acre, yielded a little more than 21 tons' enough to lions In the open and on ginning to think that our luck was
per acre. Another plot that was given foot to get good pictures, and our ideaout, when we came upon a smallpool
1/a
7tons of manure to the acre and a !was that ii we could happen upon , in the river, with a good reed bed
mixture of commercial fertilizer at i lions which had not previously seen above it. Upon investigation the wa-
the rate of 100 pounds of nitrate of a motor -car they would not connect ter pr ed very
s of br klsh, buttt w g e found
soda,300 pounds of superphosphate 1 this strange sort of aaanal with pian,
back
and might therefore allow us to ap- into the car, we crawled on up stream
pered 75 acre, pounds of muriate of potash proach close enough to them for our and after going 300 yards we spotted
yielded practically the same purpose.
as the plot that received 15 tone of With this end in view we fixed a
stable manure. Other plots were given bracket and a universal joint -fitting
commercial -fertilizer only at the rate for the cinema camera upon the ti
of 400tlpounds per acre and angeed hand side of the car, the operator be-
tt-
e Tittle less than 20 tons of. at it lis ing in the seat next the driver; the
It will therefore be seen that it is
possible to grow heavy crops of
mangles, either with the full quantity
of 'stable manure, or stable manure
and fertilizer, or .from fertilizer
alone.
MARKING HOGS FOR GRADING
Hog raisers located far from mar-
keting centres have not received the
benefits of hog grading to nearly the
same extent as those living close to
the stock yards. Tho difficulty of
getting the grading benefits back to
the farmers so situated has hindered
the general application of hog grad-
ing throughout the country. This dif-
ficulty, however, has now been over
weeks of age but if the litters are come by a change in the legal hog
more widely distributed they should grading regulations which not only
not be taken from their mothers until
they are two months o1d. This circu-
lar, written by Mr. G. B. Rothwell,
the Dominion Animal Husbandman,
and his assistant, Mr• W. G. Duns -
more, which is available at the Publi-
cations Branch of the Dept., recom-
mends ideal rations not only for the
weanlings but for all classes of hogs.
It also gives very helpful advice on
how to avoid or overcome ill health.
. THE SUGAR JACK SYSTEM
OF FEEDING.
The "Sugar Jack" process is a me-
thod recently put on the market for
the utilization of dry, coarse and un-
palatable forage. It is an ensiling
r'*cress in which a so-called "con-
verter," the Sugar Jack Converter is
used' to moisten the dry forage be-
fore it is placed in the press oe spall
silo. An experimental investigation
of this process has been made by the
Animal Husbandry Division at the
Ccntrel Experimental Farm and the
results published in a new bulletin
entitled "The Conversion pf Dry
Roughage into a Succulent Feed."
Analysis of the "Sugar Jack Con-
verter" has shown it to consist large-
ly of common salt plus slaked lime and
a little vegetable matter. In fact warm
water alone and warm water with
common salt used toreplacethe Sugar
Jack Converter proved to be as satis-
factory in the processing as did the
solution of the converter. Judging
from the results of practical feeding
tests and from chemical and bacteri-
ological analysis, Sugar Jack process-
ing does not add to or improve the nu-
tritive value of the original roughage.
In the feeding trials the Sugar Jack
re:'i`ion produced considerably less milk
requires the grading of all hogs offer-
ed for sale in Iieu thereof the narking
of same, placing at the same time the
responsibility upon the drover or
shipper 'of seeing that the shipper's
hog grading manifest showing the pro-
ducer's name, the grade or the identi-
fication mark is sent forward with the
shipment. The grading will then be
checked and the information in re-
gard to the grade can be sent back
to the producer. To help shippers Pa about 300 yards away. On one recce -
where they elect to mark in lieu of The largest number sthich I saw to -
grading, the Dominion Live Stock gether myself was a troop of 11 lion- !siren, when we got too near the wind,
Branch of the Dept. of Agriculture at esses without a single male with i an eddying gust gave them a suspi-
Ottawa has prepared a pamphlet set- them. We had left the car behind and , cion, and they were up in an instant
ting forth the regulations outlining a certain 1 1 1' maned lion' scanning the surrounding country
system of marking that is easily ap-
plied and easily read at the point of
destination- The pamphlet, No. 88 of iiim to groan x clecidecl to move out some 400 yards baud, they showed no apprehension legs,
the Dept. of Agriculture, gives d'}a- bush covering a waterhole where he I even when we reached 70 feet,the I We had been photographing busily
grams showing the marks that may be had apparently drunk. F1 'e .arranged i farther into the open, whore they lay
These include cross bars R's a drive which resulted in 11 lionesses down upon an ant hill "which com- closest photographing range, which in-. all this while, but unluckily the cam -
used. , , mended a more complete view of their chided the whole group in our 6 in. I era now jammed, so. that we did itot
V's T's and H's that may be applied i being bolted past us one after the
lens. get this very interesting closing lnci-
After about half an hour they seem- `dent. It was now nearly 4 o'clock,
ed to be temporarily sated, and evi- and after taking several still pictures
dently felt the sun to be too . hot for I of them under the tree we pulled out
full bellies. One by one the two lion-., for camp, leaving the lions as . uncon-
esses and the youngest lion walkedcerned with our movementst as they
slowly away, and lay down under a i had been upon our first appearance
big umbrella thorn near by, leaving in the morning. It had been a great
day. I cannot remember having ever
spent a more interesting four hours
in watching wild animals.
EXTENDING THE PEONY
BLOOMING SEASON
two lions and two lionesses lying
right out in the open teed up on a
bare red ant hill, in a most photo-
graphic position, about 60 yards from
the river course.
We steamed slowly up to within 20
man with the gun for repelling any yards of them, and, turning the car
boarding parties was to be in the left- right-handed' came to a halt broad -
hand rear seat back of the camera , side on with the camera and .450
man. We subsequently found that
this arrangement worked very well.
bearing upon the mildly interested
group. The camera started with a
On the Plains. slight whirr of gears; one lioness got
September is at the very end of the tip and walked off to another ant hill
dry season. We found the plains 30 yards to the left, the other one, af-
themselves very bare and holding out ter raising her head for one sleepy
little game. In the open bush of the look, lay back and closed her eyes.
surrounding country, however, there }4 iOne th ome show oflion sat interest,e bs while the
erving us
were immense herds of zebra, wilde-
beest, and congoni. As we drove the other continued to look in the op -
car through them they did not dis- 1 posite direction. We realized that we
turb themselves more than enough to Iliad here the matter for a perfect lion
keep out of our way and to make the � moved picture,
s and ly fter our takinof earshot and out
car feet we
. the excuse for an occasional gam-
bol. Zebra and wildebeest form the 1 of sight to prepare more film and
staple food of lions; and so- apart more cameras, praying to the God of
from the stories we had already been the midday sun to keep the drowsy
told of this district, we felt fairly con- ,victims under his spell. Our prayers
fident in finding some during' the fort- :were answered. We were photograph -
night which we had allowed ourselves ing those lions for four. hours in many
for getting a good picture. And find positions and at all distances from 50
them we certainly did; for in the 14 yards to 70 feet.
days we were there we saw no fewer I During that time we were lucky
than 70 lions, counting males, females :enough to get a picture ,.. one lioness
and cubs, in varying groups, from making an unsuccessful stalk of some
singletons • up to one an
gazelles, while her companions watch -
troop of 20 which was seen when it i er every move of the game with the
was my ill fate to be engaged in re- greatest interest, and paid not the
firing one of our lorries. I faintest attention to us in the car
mar
very well, and that as they looked
very hungry we ought to shoot a con-
goni for them as bakesheesh when we
had finished taking their pictures.
This seemed to us an excellent sug-
gestion, and gave me the idea of try-
ing to get a picture of the lions com-
ing on to the kill. So we went oft in
the car and shot a congoni on the edge
of the plain, not more than 600 yards
froin. the lions. Tying the antelope to
the car spring.by a slip knot we drag-
ged him down to where the Hots ,were
lying, and loosed him as we passed in
full sight of about 35 yards.
We then drove the car up under a
tree about 40 yards from the kill' and
got ready to take the picture. We had
r more than a minute be -
ked that the lions were behaving
not waited for
fore a lioness left the group and cau-
tiously crept up to the congoni, final- the largest lion to bring the remains
of the congoni to them in the shade.
After a few minutes.he picked up the
half -eaten carcass of the large ante-
lope 4u his mouth and carried it to the
Not Swell Enough
Tetbury, Eng.—'W1 en the Prince
of Wales won a steeplechase here
recently a local farmer who had
never seen the Prince or any of
the royal people asked a neighbor
to point hint out.
A slim young man in very ordi-
nary riding costume, who was lean-
ing against a wall at the moment,
was indicated to the farmer as his
future King. The worllhy agricul-
turist at first thought he was being
joked with, but being assured of
the identity of His Royal Highness,
buret out:
"Lor! and I've bin a -looking for
somebody all poshed upl"
ly taking possession with a little rush
from six yards off. The others came
up one by one, and the feast began.
were after a cer am r ac.- ` Every now and again a blood -red face
whose skin we coveted• more than his ! with concentrated gaze for enemy was lifted to take a look at the car as treeas easily as a retriever carries a
picture, and we thought we had run malt, apprehensive and alert. So un- we crept up by stages to get closer hare, but • with a slightly straddling
dense patch of easy were they that they eventually pictures. Intent upon the business in swagger due to the oongoui s trailing
to the top of the shoulder, the centre
of the back, and the top of the rump.
Cross marks from one to• five are sug-
gested, which means that by cross
marks alone fifteen farmers' might
ship their hogs in one car each carry-
ing his own identification mark. It is
suggested that the narks be made
with clippers or scissors, but at sea-
sons of the year when the hair is
short and thin, it is also recommended
that paint be used. The pamphlet
offers additional useful suggestions
for carrying out this marking system.
Religious Unity
New York Herald-Tribune.—(There
is no excuse, said Bishop John M.
Moore, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, for "sixteen varieties
of leIethodists, or fourteen kinds of
than silage and was much more ex- Baptists, or a dozen kinds of Presby
pensive. The production of milk and
fat from the consumption of the un-
processed dry roughage was equal to
that from similar roughage processed
by the Sugar Jack system, and the
dry roughage was equally palatable.
Besides, the Sugar Jack system re-
quires much more labor than is neces-
easy in feeding either corn silage or
unprocessed roughage. As a matter of
fact the Sugar Jack process is simply
a development of an old,f'ashioned
method of feed preparation long since
discarded in favor of modern methods
such as the. Silo, .The bulletin is dis-
tributed by the Publications Branch
of the Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa.
HOW TO COMPOST PEAT AND
MUOK,
Peat and muck, when composted
With barnyard manure, make an ex-
cellent fertilizer, particularly for clay
and Pandy learns. Instructions for
composting are given in a new bul-
terians.") Can we look forward then
to a series of religious coalitions
which will reduce the 164 independent
religious bodies listed in Dr. Carroll's
survey to a dozen or less? Perhaps
not. The Roman Catholic Church,
with its 16,735,000 conmmunicants,
will, of course, stand apart, and there
are numerous other groups—the Two -
Seed -hi -the -Spirit Predestinarians, the
Budhist Oriental Temples, the Shaker
and Aniana comrnnuities, the Latter
Day Saints (Mormons), the Pillar of
Fire and Pentecostal churches and the
Spiritualists, for example—which are
not available for any conceivable
scheme of amalgamation. But if the;
tendency continues, and if the advo-
catets of unity gain adherents in the
nextt few years as rapidly as they
have in the past, there may wall be
important developments in 't1iis direc-
tion:
Bliss Carman Honored
Ottawa: Bliss Carman, sometimes
letin on Manures and Fertilizers, -called the "poet. laureate of Canada,"
available at the Publications Branch,has been awarded the Lorne Pierce
Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. First,! medal of the Royal Society of Canada
peat or muck, is spread on the gieund1 in recognition of his contribution: to
to a depth of 1 or 11/2 feet, making the, a,nadian litteratur'e. This medal is re -
heap about e.
to 14) feet wide and as, cognised as the highest literary dis• pati • by NEW INHABITANTS POP DEVIL'S ISLAND
long as necessary. Their a layer of tinction a 'Canadian can win,
e Some of the 418 convicts sentenced to the trench. penal colony in Guiana, leaving St. 1tf 'Y'in De rte to be
• tnarsurs is put on from 8 to 12 inches .,-.-..-.---.,.....r.,�..,
. —r,_.•, theship • .S. Martiniere. France certainly cannot be co emended for her method il"i treating
trhxek, allot altarxuata layers of peat or Bobby, (to }lis sisters beau) Say, takenout to prison sh p S
afraid o' Lit?" her criminals.
Muck and manure are continued until Mr, ITangoff, ain't you
other of about 40 yards' distance; and
was but little consolation to us for
not getting the black lion to think
what a wonderful picture of them we
might have got if we had brought the
tripod camera with us. But fate had
held better things in store. After
varying fortune with the camera, on
ground. After giving then ten min-
utes to settle down we moved right
up to them again in the car, and were
received with the same apathy as be-
fore. It was clear that they in no way
connected the motor -car with man.
A Decoy,
About 2 o'clock my gunbearer re -
Leaving Their Horne Land For Sultry Penal Settlement
Of all the perennial flowers the
peony is perhaps the most gorgeous
and the most generally grown in Can-
ada. The shortness of its blooming
season has been charged against it,
but by a careful selection of varieties
the season may be extended to a con-
siderable length. Both in vvhites and
pinks there are both early and 1atc
sorts and there is some yaritior!
the reds 'also. The blooming dates d
different varieties grown at the Kent-
ville, Nova Scotia, Experimental Sta-
tion, were recorded by the Superin-
tendent, Mr. W. Saxby Blair. These
are published in his report for .• 1926.. Jn the white varieties there are al-
most two weeks between the dates of
the earliest and the latent coming into
bloom. Festiva Maxima, one of the
best varieties yet produced and for-
tunately one of the cheapest opene,d
its first budis on July let. Two days
later Duhhesse de Nemours commenc-
ed to break open. A week later Marie
Lemoine was showing fine color and
on the 13th of the north Couronne
d'Or was coining into bloom. Of the
pink varieties the earliest to open, Wee
Edtu1 s Superba on July 4. The fol-
lowirg clay Marie, Crt usse broke from
the bifid. This was followed, the next
day by Triomphe de 1'Expos}tion da
Lille and on the 13th of the month
Marquise d'Ivry and Rubra Superba
commenced to show their 'beautiful
color, Livingstone. one of the deep
pink sorts broke bud on the 11t1x, But
two varieties of the red ate reported.
upon, Henri Donley broke bud on July
4 and that fine old standby Felix
Crouse three days later.
S'elftnado men generally 014 04,
'varsity tutors to make 1lholr° ay:a.: