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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-02-28, Page 2Address communications to A ronosora , 73 Adelaide St, Wast. Toronto e a "DIE-HARDS" OF HOG TRA - "Some people objeet to what they call propaganda in favor of the bacon hog, and claim that they can raise the lard -type hog more economically. In .five years' experimental work with six breeds, both fat and bacon type, we have never been able to pick out any one breed as better than others for economy of production. As a matter of fact, strain has more influence than' breed upon this point.". The statement was made by Profess sor Wade Toole before the Western Ontario Dairymen's Convention. He states the case as Professor of Animal Husbandry at the Ontario Agriculture al College, But there is a still weightier reason against the objection to the bacon hog. It is that the lard hog as a paying line , for farming in Canada is "at the end of the rope," but the field for the bacon type is only justbeing opened. This is not a new position, but the fact needs renewed and ever new re- petition so that the farmers may not ! , be misguided. The market for a bog that is, the farmer's product as it leaves the farm—can only be wide and assured when the market for the outcome of that hog—that is, the packer's product in the form of bacon —is also wide and reasonably assured. Only in the home market is there room for the lard types and even that is e declining because of the growing taste ) in Canada for leaner bacon, with close i trimming to remove the fat and with: consequent waste. Supply has already:! r -early overtaken the permanent deli )fhind. j u Packers must moire and more look .• u The chief causes of pigs of the right type not grading "select" are; 1. Overweight—Over 210 lbs. at the market. Fed too :long, possibly wait- ing for a rising market; 2. Heavy feeding. just after Wean- ing; pigs pushed on heavy fattening feeds such as barley, buckwheat and corn too soon after weaning; 8. Poor feeding—Pigs starved or stunted in early life or held until old, coarse and rough before they are up to market weight; 4. Under finish—Pigs not finished to the desired 114.. inches of fat down the back, generally through lack of feed or a mistaken idea of what the finished bacon hog really is. I WANT MY HOTBED READY AHEAD OF TIME. It is a mistake to wait until you are actually. ready to sow seeds before starting the hotbed. Start it up now and have everything in readiness, even if you don't planta make your first planting for a week- or two yet. The heart of the hotbed is the heat - ng material that is put into it. This is prepared from manure. The fresh- er the manure the better. It may be taken from a fermenting pile, or be collected for several days and saved up for the purpose. In either case, all long straw and coarse litter should be taken out. Manure that has burn - d or fire -fanged will be useless for the purpose. • Unless there is a considerable am- cunt of bedding in the manure, it hould be mixed with about a third of is own bulk of litter or leaves, Pile, p the whole in a neat square heap,' nder cover, and in as warm a place; s possible, and give it a thorough wetting to start rapid fermentation.. ter -three or four days fork it over, urning it "inside out," and pile it up in, tramping it down firmly as you o so. Add enough water to make it againthoroughly moist. to the export field as the only one in; a welch they can expect enlarged trade. 1"s the English bacon trade, only' Af our select hogs of definite bacon type t rill serve the best buyers Those who "object to what they call • Jropaganda in favor of the bacon hog" may choose for themselves either the continued raising of a hog of which there are alreedy too many and so choose entering into still keener competition among themselves or they may take the more businesslike way of dropping their prejudices and chang- ing the types of their hogs to conform to market prospects. The average farmer also will have to choose • for himself whether:he wilI iist7n to the somewhat insidious propaganda . of those who "object to bacon hag propa- ganda" -the die herds" of the old tradition --or examine"the reasonable- ness of the public statements made by to men- who handle the product after it son hasorleft the farmers hands: • These in the last resort, must be the men' ts y° who will pay him either a; Agile Ie or a low according as his hogs suit or do not suit their custo•4ner's de- tab zn'tind. A definite premium for• •the W right type is already in force and is n being generally paid by packers who ETOl Complete Radio Nair of Canada and the "United States, showing all Broad'-' casting Stations, giving Cali Minibus and Lo cations. The New Eaton Edition agw �!�Pgrice y1�e5c/► £.A D ON 4✓°r�AF6 TORONTO CANADA • The Turkey and Its Peculiarities. • The wild turkey is a native North America, and years ago -slang from Canada to Mexico, and throu out the vast forests that extend. thence to the northwest, along courses of the ' Mississippi and th Missouri, and to the Rocky Mountain As civilization advanced and'popul tion increased, the wild turkeys race ed and decreased until• now they a gradually becoming extinct. The wild breeds (known. as th North American, Mexican and H duras) live on worms, insects, berrie and grass. They hock togethe in Oetober and direct their Bourse the fertile plains through which larg rivers -flow. Then they .'disperse. i small flocks, eating the fruits of th cultivated lands, and if bu'lg'y durin the winter, are apt to become so bol and familiar as to enter farmyard in search of food. - THE tMATING SEASON: , .Early in spring the. bens leave the cocks, actually shunning ahem; and roost apart. The males, however, ar on their trail, and loudly express thei anger or love, whichever iiy be, in that soft strain peculiar to the cock, expressed by the word ."gobble." The disposition of the female is, as a rule, more mild and gentle than th of the male. When leading out her brood of young to collect their food though so large and apparently so powerful, she affords them very little protection against the attacks of any rapacious animal that may approach em. She rather warns them to shift or themselves, and does not prepare o defend them, With our domesticated turkeys, lay - ng starts in spring. They hide their iests in some retired, obscure place. he hen sits with remarkable perse- erance, and if not removed will al- most i nrost perish with hunger before entire - y leaving the nest. She generally lays n the morning, a ntinues daily, until from, awo..tty are laid in a season, ggsa son ���'verne ccording to the age of the lien. Young ens lay fewer eggs than older hens. In the secpnd laying the hen hardly ver exceeds ten or fifteen eggs. BEST AGES GES POE MATING, The best matings are either two - ear -old year-old cocks with pullets; or a cock erel with two-year-old hens, One ser ice of the gobbler .is sufficient for ach setting of eggs, and a single male an take care of from fifteen to twen-' silty of. the progeny, large hens are needed -i to The Ice Supply. It is a difficult matter -to carry' on• dairying during the summer season: t , Patrick's Day ax without a supply of ice. Indeed, uric' .. '' less one. has a particularly enol cellar, In Honor 1�f fat Audis Pig he • T'Y.`:'3VMYR'rILD JAMISON TEAQH$E1 a supply „of lee adds greatly to th ,eem:fort of 'any household (luting t heat •of the season,' The storage of iee is °a very simple ,platter; any un- occupied corner of a shed will serve Iver the purpose. 'A rough board en- closure ten feet square and eight feet high will .hold, enough ice to provide 50 pounds per day for 130' days, after allowing for a reasonable amount of wastage. The smaller the quantity stared, :however, the larger as the pro- portion r porton of waste. Prevision must be made for , A pasteboard pig bearing the vers given below might be used to sunup 'the guests, A' pig cut from an ad vertising page could, be used as pattern. Shure and ye must be comin' alon To celebrate the Day. Ye may talk about pigs in the goo 0 ould brogue, So place don't stay away. e "Poor Piggie," Should she laugh, Gr on even smile' while saying tt, she be,. - comes the piggie and must .equeal her a best while on her hands and knees Ibefore -one of the n?en. Should she manage to keep a straight face g piggie moat try to make !erne Cotler girl laugh. Seldom will one have to d try the second time; especially if he remembers to scratch his back against the legof her chair; Next you rnight play "Pigs in the Parlor," Partners for this game axe ' found by cutting :heads, tails, legs, t' ears, or feet off cardboard pigs. The boys will search for the girl who has , the piece needed to finish Itis the, March 17th; (Time ---Place--) drainage of an ice storage, Utiles the soil underneath is of open texture, it is well to cover the floor with a Of . few inches :of gravel, A foot of saw- ed dust should then be put on to receive g' h- the ice. The ice should be taken franc ed a pond in blocks which can be built the up into a• solid mass. A foot of saw - e dust on each of the four sides and s. an equal quantity on the top will pre- a- serve the ice even through a long hot. d- period, provided a roof protects the re . mass from the sun and rain. o IPlans of ice starages of small and large dimensions are contained in Ho Pamphlet No. 2 of the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa. Reference is' r, made to 'ice wells, which are used in to some parts of the Western provinces, e 'These are constructed about 12 feet n deep and a diameter to suit 'require-{ e znents. A well' six feet in diameter,' g filled six feet in. depth with ice, is d s said to hold about four tons. United States Millers Need Our Wheat. The Northwestern National Bank Review, published at Minneapolis, Minnesota, pays high tribute to the e' quality- of Canadian hard spring r wheat in the following quotation from their December issue: "Flour mills in this city are run- ning at• one-half capacity or less, and the output is booked .almost entirely at for domestic trade. Canadian milts, on the other hand, have been reporting '• as large an export demand as they can handle. Even at the high rate of duty it is being found desirable to bring wheat across the border to Min-, neapolis for domestic use, though the amount is not large; there was a no -I ticeable increase during November. Importations into this district --chief ly, if not entirely, for manufacture in: Minneapolis -are reported by the' Customs Service at Duluth as 11, 602,631 bushels 'during 1920; 8,763,- 687 bushels in 1921; 343,165 bushels in 1922; and 1,010,123 bushels for the first eleven months in 1923. thorou hl m i { For the best results this operation 1 ih should be repeated three or four times so that the whole mass will be heated t evenly through and through, other -1. wise the hotbed when made up will be "spotty,' and the results will be very uneven, especially along the edges. For a small frame of two or three sashes half a cord will be suffi- cient. It should be placed in the frame after it is fermenting h?tly, and fiem- l a y' p ked down in a :solid mass one e or two feet. deep. On top of this I put from four to a six inches of soil, six if any plants are h be grown directly in the soil. Per-' ally, I always prefer to use "flats" ! e seed e pans lir tivhieh to start the ung plants, and the greater depth not needed except where radishes,( ttuce, beans,• or some other vege- 1e is to be grown dirctly in the soil, v Where only two or three sash are anted, and there is a pile of ferment e g manure available, the hotbed built directly on the manure pi embedding in it a bottomless fran suitable size, and putting the sol inn of the manure ___i,_'._ ever niay now be intercepting that be premium on its way to the farmer 1'4' That should be enough to prove the °f good faith of the packing industry in on urging a greater production of the era bacon hog, not simply because tt dif- fers from a lard type but because mil- lions of consumers after the packer insist on getting a lean, not a fat, bacon, Seeps for Sale Peel County is noted for its high•enallty seeds. Peel Seed house, Brampton, Ont„ la located in the 'Pry contra oC this dIstria, it has Iarge ¢nanttUee tfie nt Grunm, variegated and Special Alraltaa, led CIovers, Alailce, Sweet Covers, Timothy, etc.. rvhioh to are sold direct to ca'me'o, any part, Si any size tots. write at once for price Itat, PEEL SEED NOUSE, Brameten. - Ontarle hens. While the gobbler has se greater influence on color and shape s' Inc. A frame 6x9 feet will accom date three standard 3x6 -foot sash.h have used this simple method vex effectively. The manure must b actively fermenting, and the pile mu be in the full sunlight. I th After the hotbed has been made up' F, and the soil put in, a thermometer th should be plunged into the bed and• watched for a few days. When it; s only registers 75 or 80 degrees with f inz sash Ieft on, then it will be safe begirt sowing seeds. No plants sa should be set in the frame, however, sa until it is 10 to 15 degrees cooler. po produce big turkeys: Turkeys are more creatures of habit an any other of our feathered fowl,' lid will come home to roost at night if one will make a practice of feeding. them, however lightly, In the selection of breeding stock, e aim should not be far great size. ar active vitality and sure breeding, e male must not be too Iarge. In electing hens, one must not be influ ted by great weight, • Good form, o stout legs, square bodies and casts are needed. Practically . the me is true in the male. It is int- rtant to have an unrelated finale in lie flock, as 'inbreeding will de much rm, ABY CHICKS Queen disCity ibutHatchery, h,Bhieathy Chicks and Ducks, ten varieties. Write for catalogue and price list. 2 Ltnstnore Crescent, Toronto, Ont. Take No Chances C �s` Twist and fuss ±•.�' v...�:,""�,�. as he may.. your t horse cannot got away from the Safety Snap on Rei- ter Shenk. Now nock tot preWarhe � iCea. Shank complete, for 55 cents; 30 rente rCes( of Fort Wflllau1. Scapa only sell at 10 rents cacti. Per your protection, the Safety Baiter Shank is now supplied with blue thread running through- it. Insist on the genuine. They coat 110 more, Send a pont oar Pori, for book M. stable helps, showing the newest mousy -saving: horse ' Leiff $enc fi Water St., u++ tt Stratford, Ont. 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The motto "Gaid Mille A Failthe" ("A thousand wel- comes to all") will probably need to be given verbally in English. Sham- rocks, potatoes, pipes, Irish hats, and pasteboard harps might be used as decorations too. But plenty of cut- out pigs are necessary, for this is to be a "piggie" party. The brogue of old Ireland—the speech of the evening—will keep the minds and tongues of the early guests busy while others are arriving.. To make true Irishmen' of the guests, they should be given an opportunity to kiss the ":Blarney Stone" the first. thing. The. stone in this instance is a pyra- mid of stones. Some of the "stones" are pieces of taffy candy, - colored moss -green and wrapped in bits of paraffin paper with twisted ends. Others are bits of pebbles or small rocks wrapped in the same manner.' The guests, in turn, are blindfolded and aIlowed to kiss the Blarney Stone. Then they are told to take a' piece as a souvenir. Should they draw a piece of taffy, they are hi luck; if they have a stone, they may be• aIlowed to try again later. Of course, any amount of blarney is per- n>iissible after one has kissed this famous stone. "Poor Piggie" is a variation of an I old game that never fails to bring screams of laughter. The players seated in a circle; A boy is asked to, be the poor piggie. He gets down en his hands and knees before one of the, young ladies and squeals in his most pathetic manner.. While he squeals, makes faces, and does anything else becoming a pig, the girl must show her:' • appreciation by continuously stroking his head and murmuring es - r These pigs are to serve as models. A small potato and fruit knife are given each couple, also a few strips -qf green paper and toothpicks. The boys carve pigs from their po, tatoes, using the toothpicks for tails and ears. The girls may make dress- es, fluted ruffles for the pigs' necks, or any other sort of decoration. When the work of each sculptor has been sufficiently admired, ask the guests to bring their chairs into a close circle, to play "Moving Figgie Up."- Take. as many of the Rotate piggies . as• your two hands tau pos. sibly Bold, and pase'them'to your next neighbor on the left. They are to be passed on around the circle as rapidly as possible. Should" a player drop a potato piggie,> he must recover it by his own efforts and without ' putting the others 'down. He then starts them all on their wav at'ah Aur n8 must leave the circle. His chair, how- ever ,'remains in place. When someone has left the circle have a helper quietly take him into the dining -room and serve him with refreshments. As others drop out they should be spirited away and served without letting the others know what is going on. Those who are left in the circle, and are trying so desperately hard to retain their hold on the, slippery piggies and get them across the ever-growing num- ber of empty. chairs, will eventually wake up to the fact that they are the are;"grane" ones. You night serve refreshments cafe- teria style. White and green signs set up at intervals along the table call attention to the food piled before them. The signs bear the :legends; Blarney Sandwiches, Sod Sandwiches, Shil-alahs, and Irish Greens. In spite of • the sound of the, names the food is most inviting—and digestible. , P Stato,Disease-Investigation."That noise was in the bedroom and Investigational work carried on by } we can't get out the window, the. Department of Botanyof the THE CHILDREN'SHexa is a Knot -h l On - teeth o e, we will fun ( carie Agricultural College during the HOUR in here fora while until everything past six years has brought out the, is quiet;" said Billy. 'following facts; •1 But right in that little ltnot.hole That selected, certified seed polo- THE GREEDY MOUSE. Roily had set a trap for Itaugllte toes give emu. ch better er results than the uncertified seed potatoes which have been . commonly used by the'farmers of this province in the past. - That Northern -Ontario seed pota- toes give as good yields on the aver- age as those imported from the marl - time provinces. That in certain sections of old On- tario excellent seed potatoes can be produced by continued selection and` roguing., , Powdered Skim Milk. The comparative values of nowd ed skim milk and powdered butter -I milk were found to be about equal in experiments carried on at the On -1 tario Agricultural College. The av- erage total gains per pig were 1.21.6 pounds for'those fed on the skim milk' powder and 122.8 pounds for those fed on buttermilk powder. Although' the feeding value of these products is l good, the market price for hogs and' the high cost of the skim milk and buttermilk powder makes its use pro- hibitive as live stock feed. There are two main points to be con - We Have an Asparagus Bed sidered: First, the selection of birds that have the characters desired; and secondly, a further selection from these of birds that can produce off - spring as good as or better than Mother had raised d Id " BY" MARGARET HENRY. hemselves, so says Professor W. R- an so a para- raham of the Ontario Agricultural gus as a money -making proposition ollege, when she was a girl and thought it :would be nice to start a bed for us Many are of •the opinion that "like ''dhildren to have for our own. She eget! like. In general, this is true, planted a package of seed and before ut it is true for general and•not far she covered it, she .planted radishes, articular qualities. It is true that lettuce and onion seed in the trench male White Leghorn mated to White with the asparagus seed. The aspar- eghorn females will breed chickens ages is slow to germinate and makes hat are White Legh°ens, or that have very slow growth above ground' the bite plumage, yellow• legs, and white ems year, so mother planted her early adobes. But of these offspring there garden "sass" in. with it to mark the will be no two chicks exactly alike•, rows so she could hoe it and keep We find large and shall Leghorn!; down '*the weeds. $he could; 'have mast of them never go broody but G C b a L w e bought 'one-year or two-year plants nisi) eggs. And we find a great a aileat a very small cos oar' and thus gained a year or more oil duced by different hens. Selection is made on the basis that like will produce like, htit experience some do; some bay Iarge eggs, others from thenursery 11 t s variation in the number of eggs Ora- the crop but she wanted to start from the seed; All summer mother kept the plants clean and well hoed find the next has taught all breeders that to se- spring they were spaded up and set cure uniform superiority, they raust in the permanent bed. There were atm on the selection through get- over four hundred plants and it made orations of poultry. If we soled a large bed. We kept it hoed elean birds that have laid better than 200 and forked up with the potato fork and mato these to a male f eggs in twelve conseeutive months; all that summer and put GU the drop. strain, we de not expect,. to ,01; an pings from the clueken coops on it. la the fall we pet to a toyer of daughteis that will lay 200 or more ewe and eakings, • eggs a. Year/ but we do exPect nen The next spring we raked the eover the averages a better production than up In rows between the plants and had no selection been mede. beeeed se • ease— The reading habit is a profitable The third S1111111101" WG cot the YOUng + The third fall it was very bushy and rank and we cut the, stalks with ,a scythe and later burned then', The fourth spring the bed was a mass of nice fat stalks every morning and we arranged to sell it to the gro- cers and hotels. The early crops sold for 20e a bunch, later it was 15e, then 2 for 25c and at the end of the season it brought 10c a bunch, We cut it every morning with a knife, going just below the ground. ft was sorted, all inferior • or spindly stalks being thrown out sod then' tied in bunches for the market. If we could not;take it to market every day, we put it in the cave with a damp, cloth over it; The first year we sold over $15 worth besides using it nearly three times a, day on our table and giving M lots away to our. friends, It has been Late one afternoon Rally Rabbit and Bruin sat reading the latest edi- tion of "Woodland News" • . . "Little Glennie Squirrel, who lives near Woodside, fell out of a hickory nut -tree and broke his leg. Doct Woodchuck set it for him and he now doing nicely," said Bruin, read- ing a part of the latest news. "Too bad for such a little fellow Perhaps we can get over to see hi to -marrow. Isere it says that a robbe held up Jimmie Fox and stole his gal. watch and chain, when he was return Ing from Glenwood. That is not fa from here. We must be carefu Bruin," said Roily, Then a gentle "tap, tap, tap." When Roily opened the door they stood a little mouse with his cloth_ all ragged, his face dirty, and with very hungry look upon his thin face thieving mice, so that was the last ol Mackie. ahd Mouse, " -Underground Garden Irrigation. °r Where the natural rainfall is insufs is ficient for intensive gardening pur- poses one of the best and most effec- tive ways of furnishing the moisture • to the plants is by underground irris, m gation. This will be found advanta- r gems for three reasons. In the first place the water thus supplied reaches - the roots, where it is wanted, and r there is a minimum loss by evapora. 1/ Ural. In the second place water is sassed, and in the third, there is crust to form on top as there is when s forming altereate ridges and fur. g rows. These will differ probably ten inches in height. It will be necessary „ to go again aver the ground with the to .&t? It is little I have eaten fo several days," begged the little mouse "Come right in, poor little mouse and we shall see what we can find,' said Roily kindly. for the hupgry mouse, and how he di eat. When he had finished, his littl stomach was so full he just could no eat another crumb. With, an envious eye he looked at the remaining food and Rolly's well-filled cupboaed. wished he could eat more. "Oh, Mr. Rabbit, thank you to neueh. Already I feel much better,' said the mouse. "You are welcome, Mousie. I am always glad when I can share with others," answered Rally. And IVIousie went on his way. • Late that night IV/sickle Mouse (foe that was his name) met an old friend, Billy ,Mouse. He, too, was very hun- gry, just as Mackie had been thht afternoon. lister, and the second covering should , result in furrows twenty belies deep, or better. In these the two -and -one- half -inch tile is laid. If the furrows sl are ea -thee close together the tile need d be laid only in every other one. They , are suripay laid, with the joints as " dose as possible. The far end of each is plugged with concrete or clay, The front eeds are finished off with a T °Ssection and another section, added to ',bring the inlet well above the top o/ , -the ground, Then the ground is !leveled again and Planted in the oral - I If wathr is pouted into one line for a few minutes it can be filled. It wil, , then soak into the ground in all dime- ' tions, Thereafter the water is added only 'when necessary to keep the sub- eoil in the proper condition. In the fall the lines need pot necessarily be removed, but left for use the follow - "I know where there is a lot of goo ings to eat, said Mackie to cultivate, plants oecationally for hoine cute, frost, "Do show nse where," said Billy ouse, "1 SIM nearly starved." Right then Mackie began to feel as f could eat a little more himself, off they started for Itolly's hones. Wetly they tip -toed clear around the ouse, ut couyl find no way to get in. "Let's climb in the bedroom window, It's not closed," whispered Billy. "All right, but we must be awfully quiet". answered Whale. In a 'very few' minutes they were both nibbling cheese and all the other goodies. Suddenly they heard a noise 'Bun, Mackie, run," said Billy, hi a hushed yoke, "Yes, but Where."' /liked littackie. the Dominion Experimental Station, Ca Roil e, Quebee, that well develop- ed heifers, over six months of age, hae:ruerrsb:ident. tgera wreinrellreadbleinainanmlopteorif flire0811ht' Single board shed than if closel These are the days when the inn' man should get listes the orehard an eut out the blight milkers from trun limbs and brandies., Good books are worthy friends f en7 man. TbeY hells Yoe, forget you benefieiat things one can ,h,e,