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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-12-01, Page 2Far it ries Address All Letters to Farm Editor, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. All Answers WiII Appear in this Column, if Personal Reply is Desired, Enclose Stamped and Addressed Envelope. B, ee,—We are planning to grow a emalleacreage of sugar beets this coni - Mg year, and as it will be our first ex- perienee along this, line, can you au - vise us as to what analysis of fertilizer to use? "Which is the best soil for sugar beets? We have one field heavy ground with clay subsoil, the other is blackish ground with gravelly bottom. Answer.—Sugar beets do not .do well on exceedingly heavy ground, For this reason I would advise you to put your beets on the blackish ground with gravelly bottom, provided, of course, that it is not too open and subject to drying out early in the growing sea- son. Moreover, the sugar beet de- velops very largely below the level of the soil. This requires that the soil be deeply worked and of a sufficiently open texture that the beet can de v eloe Its fall growth,. Sugar beets send their roots more deeply into the soil than is generally thought, another retie o- for the more open soil. As to fertilizer for sugar beet„ fee the past four years the Department of Chemistry, Ontario Agricultural Col- Iega, has been carrying on cooperative tests rath several sugar beet growers. Each year a number of fertilizers have been tested. The choice of fertilizers seams to lie bet- 'e 2.12-0 and 2-1G-0. For your type of soil I believe 300 Ibs, per acre of 2-16-6 would give excellent results. A. T.-=.1 am plowing up . ]ow, hear, field of sod, six years old. What would you advise sowing on it for sheep pasture? Is the spring or the fall the best time to apply fertilizers? Answer.—The success of your sheep pasture will depend to quite an extent on the drainage that you have in this field. In any event, the soil should be thoroughly worked in the spring, and if you are planning on sowing a mix- ture for sheep feed for next summer, the probability is that you may be able to work this land fairly well along in spring so as to kill any weeds that may be in it. The Department of Field Husbandry, 0.A.C., recommends for annual sheep pasture, Dwarf Essex Rape, which may be sown in rows or broadcast. If sown in rows, use about itie lbs. per acre for rows 13 to 20 Inches apart. If sown broadcast, use about 4 to 41/2 lbs of seed per acre. This will .come along quickly and make good sheep pasture. ror cultivated crops, as a general ruleetertilizers ,are applied in spring. There is some argument for applying, the prosphate and potash in the fall, although a double application would increase the cost of operation, More- over, if your soil is at all acid in re- action the phosphate which is applied in the fertilizer in the fall would have an opportunity to become locked up in unavailable combinations with the iron and aluminum of the soil. If a fer- tilizer carrying nitrogen is applied in the fall there is danger of the nitro- gen being lost by leaching. We have known instances where alfalfa is top - dressed with fertilizers to advantage 3n the fall, although, comparing results with those obtained from spring appli- eation, there is no argument in favor of the fall application. T. A. ---I have a few patches of sow thistle starting on my farm. Will you kindly let me know the best way to kill thee.? Will salt kill them? If so, what is the best way to put it on? Answer.—It is questionable if any- thing can be done at this time at year to effectively kill sow thistles. It has been claimed that certain salt ma- terials can be applied to advantage on sow thistle patches, but the great dif- ficulty Is that anything that will kill sow thistles will kill all other crops that grow on the soil, for some time. In tests conducted in Perth county during the past three years, most ef- fective treatment of sow thistles was obtained by midsumme. plowing, let- ting etting the land lie in ridges till it was nearly dried, then disking again fn September. In the spring, sow ' a mixed grain after' again 'thoroughly working the soil and seed with alfalfa or clover mixture. In order to give the grain a vigorous start and to in- eure a healthy stand of legumes, apply about 250 375 lbs of fertilizer per acre, On metj.im loam soil, 2-12-6 has been found e Votive. With this aid the grain mak ) such a vigorous start that It success illy competes with the FINIMMirahminilismatomma sow thistle, The alfalfa or legume mixture comes along equally vigorous- ly and to a large extent chokes, out the weed. Weed counts show a. material reduction for at least two years in the section handled in this way. Ia later studies of the field treated we have suggested, there is indication that as the fertility becomes exhausted, the sow thistle comes in, which fact again confirms the logse of the above sug- gestions. B. S. --Have 8 acres ,.t light sandy soil that has not been plowed for years. I would like tut beans in it nett spring, What is your advice as to preparing it? I would like to fer- tilize it. Can you tell me the kind to use, also the best way to apply it and the amount? Answer.—Plow the soil as early as it will work in spring: Work it down thoroughly by disking and harrowing. You had better have the soil tested for acidity. This your Agricultural Repre- sentative can do it you take a sample to him or you can do it yourself with the Reaeto Soil Test put out by the Department of Chemistry. Beans do best on a soil of medium sweetness. On a similar soil to that which you describe, best yields were obtained where a half ton limestone was ap- plied per acre as early as the soil would work in spring. At the time the beans were planted they were fertil- ized with 4-12-6 fertilizer at the rate of 250 Ibs. per acre. This fertilizer was applied through the dropper of a combined grain and fertilizer drill with all tubes running. Autumn Now let the rain sweep over hill and lane, And fill the lake. Now let the seeds of spring Fall from flower and tree. This is such a rain As wakens whitecaps; woos the trees to sing, -Makes the sad leaves gone sun And sap of youth; washes them once more green As at their birth that they forget the dun Days coming and their death, and what winters mean. I have been happy. Let the wild rain rip Rodks from the hillside and uproot old trues; And after rain let winter's fingers grip The whitecaps and the fallen leaves and freeze To -morrow's sudden brook. But you will know What seed survives the cold, what fruit shall grow. —David P. Bereubel'g, in New- York Sun, remember by-' SERVICE Not gain, but service, is the true object in lite. If gain is made the object in one's life, one must inevit- ably fail, for the simple reason that the best things of life are not to be gained by striving for them; they are of a texture that cannot be grasp- ed, One may strive for bread and win it, but one may strain every nerve to breaking in the pursuit of happiness, and he will never over- take it. On the other hand, if ser- vice is made the object in one's life, that life cannot be a failure, for the reason that on has chosen the only path above which the windows of heaven are always open. The hap- piness that eludes the grasp of every man who strives for it descends, like the gentle dew of heaven, upon him who is striving in service. IIe also gains what he strives for, and more. Adventure 13y'Wilfred J. Funk, in. Light Lines and Dears, You take n home in a valley With the Bush of an inland rain And the South -wind, and a rose -sweet Vine for an anchor chain. But I'll take the roaring typhoon On the road to Ninh-a•fu, With a drunken star to steer me, And a leathery, deep -lunged crew. But I'll take mine in the movies, If it's all the same to yea!) MUTT AND JEFF— By WHAT Pt THAT WAS: aC f4EVGt;w '[tE.AUt€:43 %4 3 e.ucl JS PooD SEASbeeeee t'f341eAt i.Y to i"T4i GARLtc TpysTe 0141 14, TON tGI•it* x 4t. PAT' dmrLe -row OPTEt' Rom NOM BUD 1111111! 1 Los Angeles Housewives Remembered A post-box on a Los Angeles golf course gently reminds the absent-minded husband to mail those letters handed to him by his wife 'several hours earlier. ; A noble thought we'd say! 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Sunday School Lesson November 27, Lesson IX—Steward- ship of Life—Mark 1. 16-20; Acts 26: 12-19. Golden Text—First gave their own selves to the Lord. -2 Corinthians 8: 5. ANALYa IS. I. MY BEST TO THE HIGl4EST, Mark 1: 16-20. II. OBEYING THE VISION, Acts 26: 12- 19. INTRODUCTION— To be generous with one's money is not all of Chris- tian stewardship. Not of our money, but of all of our being was it said, "Ye are not your own, ye are bought with' a price." Tile question is not merely, "What shall I do with my money?" but "What shall I do with my life?" The answer to it will be in terms as varied as Hien are different. I. MY BEST TO THE HIGIIEST, 11'Iark 1; 16-20. Jesus' plan was to go front place to place preaching, teaching, living the gospel of the new kingdom. He need- ed companionship. Ile must inspire others with his own ideals, enthusi- asms, plans. He must train them to carry on the work when he was gone. On the shores of the Lake of Gal- ilee he found four men, two pairs of brothers, vs. 17, 19. They probably knew•Jesus before. John's Gospel tells how two of them met him at Jordan - side. As fishermen, they would pos- sess certain qualities of body and mind which would make them effective as religious leaders. They would have great powers of endurance, patience, promptness (the net must be thrown immediately the fish were running) bravery, Living close to Nature iu all her varied moods would develop a ca- pacity for the spiritual. Jesus said, "Follow ine, and I will crake you to become fishers of men." What "fishers of men" meant, they would not clearly understand then, but the phrase would appeal to them. Whatever this new life which Jesus offered would involve, it would, in some way, be similar to the old. They were to learn later—what we all learn when we put it to the trial ---that those qualities which a man develops as he faithfully does the task in hand, will make him more effective in what- ever work his master gives him to do. The way toget a better job is to put our best into the ono we have now. "Straightway they forsook their nets and followed him," v. 18, "Fol- lowing Jesus" means, first of ail, mak- ing up their minds to do so, They decided—and then acted. To follow Jesus meant, for them, to leave their work and their homes. Their work gave them a livelihood precarious enough, but it was all they had, and they could not afford to lose it. To Western minds. the sudden cuttine NFSCOU SCOU A Tip Far Lost Hunters . Hunters loet and uncertain of the compass directions may fix North with their watch thus: Place it flat on the hand, stand a snatch upright over the end of the minute hand and turn the watch Until the match shadow falls along the hand. A. tine drawn across the centre of the watch and ztiidwaY between the end of the hour hand and 12 o'clock runs North and South; North lying on the side on which the hour hand is farthest from 12. Even on cloudy days the watch will show a faint shadow. This is a Boy Scout stunt, and one that every Lone Scout should learn and remember for use in an emergency. 1 11 -Mile Night Hike to Church A party of nearly 90 Winnipeg Rover Scouts hiked sixteen miles be, tween midnight and morning to at- tend a sunrise Rovers' Own, or church. service, at the little first settlers' church at St. Andrew's. We certainly hope that all Lorries are as keen to "Do their duty to God" as were these Rovers. • Silver Wolf For Dutch Chief Scout The Silver Wolf, Scouting's highest honorary decoration was presented by Lord Baden-Powell to Admiral Ram- bonnet, Chief Scout of the "Neder- landsche Padvinders," the Boy Scouts of Holland, Do you know what the "Silver Wolf" is? It is a Scouting Decoration awarded at the discretion of the Chief Scout for exceptionally valuable work on behalf of the Movement. It actual- ly is a small silver model of a wolf, which is 's- spended around the neck by a green and yellow ribbon, and it is much prized by the few people who have been decorated with it as it is the highest honour that The Boy Scouts Association can bestow. Memorial to Malta's Chief Scout The Congreve Memorial Hall. "'id Archway in memory of General Sir Walter Congreve, V.C., I(.C.B., a form- er Governor and Chief Scout of Malta, was recently opened by Sir David CampbelI,. Governor-General and pre- sent Chief Scout. The hall is to be used as headquarters of the Malta Scouts. British Railroad Scot Societie,t A Scout Society has been. formed by Scout members of the Great Western Railway staff at Paddington, London. Other important divisional points such as Swindon, Bristol, Newport, Birm ingham and Swansea .are organizing similar societies. Former Enemy Sons Meet As Friends Among the 3,000 Boy Scouts at the Dutch National Scout Jamboree held this summer near The Hague were boys from England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway and, Hungary, Young Spanish Life Savers That Spanish Boy Scouts are not be- hind those of other lands in life sav- ing skill and courage was shown this summer at a Spanish bathing resort when two young women were swept several leunclyed yards from shore by a strong tide. Two 14 -year-old Scouts; went to their aid, and after .a long struggle got diem near shore, where other Scouts helped, One young wee man recovered;, the Scouts persisted four hours in a fruitless effort to res viva' the other. No effort was mads by onlookers to assist in the rescue. Lollies, prepare yourselves for suck ane h emergency as this! sl { Where the Modern Boy Finds Adventure .. Rescuing a man from a ledge half way down a 400 -foot cliff; fighting hey fires on farms; searching for a child lost on the moors; rescuing a valuable horse that had fallen on its 'back in a narrow ditch --these 1932 camp good turns remind that English Boy Scouts are not far behind their Canadian brothers in finding adventures in Scouting.„ Discussing "Waste Forces Of Human Nature" in the "London Observer," Prof. L. P. Jacks credits Baden-Pow.li with making through Scouting "one of the greatest discoveries of modern times in the field of utilizing human forces otherwise wasted," i.e., con- verting the play hunger and love of adventure of the boy into self-control, courage, loyalty and readiness to ac- cept responsibility. Scouting Popular in irsia There are 5,000 Boy Scouts in Per- ' ria, and their number is growing rapidly under the enthusiastic leader- ship of the Persian Crown Prince. Scout troops have been organized at. the English, American and Armenian missionary schools. The latest country to be added to the list of "Boy Scout Countries' is the Azores Islands, in mid-Atlantic, el the coast of Spain. This place is the scene of the famous fight between Sit Richard Grenville on board the "Re venge" in the days of Queen Eliza beth, e ben he defeated a whole Span ish fleet with his one little ship. In spite Of the "Depression" Scout ing continues to grow steadily all 'vel the world, and there are over two mit lion active Scoute at the present time .and another two million ex -Scouts whc have grown into useful manhood. Have you ever considered that if only costs you Fifty Cents a year te be enrolled as a Lone Scout and 'le leave all the privf.' It is not necessary to spena a le money* on uniforms and equipment you do not desire to do so, although, of course, we always Iike to see Scouts in unifotnl. We shall welcome inquiries iron any boys between the ages of 12 ane 18 who cannot join an ordinary Troop and suggest sthat you write for par tieulars to -day, to The•Lone Scout De partment, The Boy Scouts Association 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2.—"Lone B.'' strange, For the single men it was simpler. One at least was married. ..hey were gripped by the persuasive power of Jesus' personality. The man himself made an irresistible appeal to them. Isit not so still? Farther along the shore Jesus came to James and John mending their nets with their father, Zebedee. They, too, answered the call. In the East to 'leave one wife was one thing, to leave one's parents quite another. "Let me first bury my father" was the young man's way of saying that he could not leave home while his father was alive—at that moment probably quite well. Zebedee, how- ever, was, fairly well off. He could pay for his help, Nevertheless there is a touch of pathos in the line, "They left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants." When youth, answering some "call" Ieaves house, it is the parents left behind who often suffer most, To follow Jesus means t,, give up whatever may stand in the way of the particular service which the hour calls for. Some men Jesus called away from home. It is signifi- cant that it was only some. Each indi- vidual situation requires its own pe- culiar action, For most of us, the call is to witness for Christ at home— the most difficult place. What did Jesus ask from those who would follow him,—answers to a List of theological questions, such as the churches ask? No. He asked for a -personal loyalty and companionship. away from work and i' „ants J Fnr has demand:, we have substituted FISHER na y'l.L `I'Attt Mtsrr TO TOW'S Torateeleeete, ete'Le Bre cfeA2`1 Alaeour TeVer GAteett FLAVOR IN'115G Foots: (�� nllTllitiilfinn1111n1 I 1 ti a s141Fe-*HAT lei-Weei t<NOW A Seale VAtTOR"t iuetS 'z a- . itJ 11-AISmrr18feet/00 01e 8- 2-` aNiFF-SN1FF- vmety-W+W; G ARU Cr! too often orthodoxy and respectabil- ity, the characteristic qualities of the Pharisees. These men gave the best they l'ad to the highest they knew. Jesus. II. OBEYING THE VISION, Acts 26: 12- 19. No two people are altogether simi- lar. Therefore their religious exper. iences will be different. The call that changed their lives for the Galilear. fishermen had in it nothing pectacu- lar. They went away with Jesus of Nazareth, who appealed to their greatly. It was afterward that they came to know hint as the Christ of God. Paul, on the ether hand, had all overwhelming revelation of the once crucified Jesus as the now triumphant Christ. He had been definitely resist- ing God's will, and -the disturbing voice of his own better nature, v. 14. But he was performing thoroughiz the task which he believed was hi; duty. God called hint to a double min. istry (v. 16) to be a minister of the word, a humbler office than that of deacon; a witness by which he wa: raised to the level of the apostles, USEFULNESC A school in which. the ability of being useful is imparted, the spirit of independence Iearnt, and the habit of persevering effort acquired. --S, Smiles, 11 Distance Lends Relief.