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Zurich Herald, 1924-03-13, Page 6ir• !k� bey heel. Use your feet Iclghtl , a lip • y • • . broad toes, flexible sole and goy tend that yeti weigh about three hun- 7 *"'� 1 i rates' died and fifty pouhds and wonder how 2 Y ea i s 01 d' But y e' Weelta the bed can support such a weight +* not toe out. If pur arches ah,•. will a het e o ter ed es Qf the weight 'l o wipe your mind clear ore your carer; she fed top ened, actual outer edges of ytlU4r t'e'nt,, a,n order that it may be fresh to grail= A c. v e l y On ing rpea cerise; file with them when you get up'? Railroad Man Attributes Good Health and Strength to Tanlac. Seventy-two years of age, but still in possession of the priceless boon of good health and actively on the Job with the Central Vermont Railroad, where he has worked for 40 years, is the remarkable record of H. H. Moore, 24 Messenger St., Albans, Vt., who at- tributes his present,. health and strength to the use of TANLAC. "I have never in my life seen the equal of TANLAC," said Mr. Moore recently. "After spending a lot of i' w • money on things that proved 'o>itlx- less for stomach trouble of the most obstinate kind, TANLAC made me feel. like an entirely different man. For nearly two years T had; been gradually getting worse, and my strength and vitality had got so low it was hard for me to attend °ta ,my duties.. Indigete tion, constipation, and nervousness • made life miserable before I found TANLAC, but now my health is •nor- mal and I' feel happy as I work. I shall always be grateful to TANLAC." TANLAC is for sale by all good drug- gists. Accept no substitute. Over 40 million bottles sold. Take Tanlac Vegetable Pills. Address communications to Agronomist. 73 Adelaide St. West. Toronto .r - O.A.C. METHOD OF FEEDING CHICKS. N ee is tuna til the chicks 1\of d • un g are nearly three days old. Water mayl be given to drink• if the chill is taken off. The chicks are given the feed upon clean boards about 8 inches wide.. There must be plenty of boards so that there is room on the board for, every chick. A board 3 feet long and 8 inches wide will give room enough for fifty chicks on the start, so says Professor W. R. Graham. The chicks for the first few weeks r' ould be fed about six times daily at ✓ ;alar intervals. Give the first feed a, the morning as early as the chicks en] see to eat and the last at night e 'ate as possible. If growing chicks, it. February one feed may be given at night using artificial light. Many chicks are overfed on the stn t. We have adopted the plan for ih: first five or six days in the brooder of weighing the feed. An experienced :feeder may not need to weigh the feed, but the beginner generally does better by weighing it. We allow one ounce of the dry mixture for every fifty chicks at each feed; that is, no chicks, icor their first five days in the brooder, get more than six ounces of dry feed to fifty chicks in one day. The plan followed is to moisten the first feed with canned tomatoes, the second with eggs, and the third with minced laver, and then begin the series over again. The above amount will not satisfy the chick's appetite. They will create a great noise at every feeding time, but it gives a chance for the chick to ab- sorb completely the yolk in the body. After the first period one should feed two or three times each day all that the chicks will eat. We begin giving a drinking vessel each of ' water and sour milk, when the chicks are about a week old. Many give sour milk to drink at the start, but we have obtained slightly better tr results by not giving the milk for the first three or four days. When the chicks pass the second week, sprouted grains may be fed, also a little cracked grains. The change should be made gradually from tomatoes, eggs and liver over to sprouted grains, tender green grass, if available, and a little grain. If leg weakness is noted, the tomatoes and sprouted grains should be increas- ed or the chicks put out of doors on clean tender grass. It is best to rear the chicks on new ground each year, and never to brood two lots of chicks on the same ground in any one year. Many chicks are sent in for examination each year that have troubles due to land infection. It also will be found advantageous if feeding chicks from trough or boards out of doors to move the boards or troughs a little every feed. Like- wise it must be remembered, when the chicks are fed indoors, to keep the feed boards clean. Grit is always in easy access of the chickens. It is advisable and•neces- sary to add a li'tle oyster shell dust or fine particles to the ration daily. A certain amount of lime is necessary. Mouldy feeds, dirty feed boards, and musty litter are to be avoided. Moulds kill large numbers of f chicks. Be sure your house is clean and the litter not musty. Do not use cut barley or rye straw as litter for baby chicks, be- cause the beards may get into the chicks' eyes. " Good clean alfalfa makes the best chick litter we have used. When it gets soiled or dirty re- move and replace it with clean litter. As the chicks get older the number of feeds per day may be reduced, so that at an age of seven weeks three or four feeds per day are sufficient; in fact, after the second week hoppers of crushed oats or dry mash may be placed in the pen. The feeds of moist mash are contained at whatever am- ount the chicks will clean up. Using the Human Machine Is It Kept Oiled and Clean and Used, Not Abused? BY IDA S. HARRINGTON. When "the forties" or even the thir- ties, find a woman with the spring and elasticity gone from her body, it na- turally suggests the question, "How did it happen?" The home -maker her- self will say, "Housework did it." The physical culturist will, say, "Lack of proper exercise did it," and will pre- scribe "daily dozens" and deep breath- ing. One flaw in the prescription lies in the fact that any system of exercises must be practiced regularly, as an extra to the day's work, either in the morning when one is hurried or in the evening when one is tired. An- other flaw lies in the fact that the most conscientious followers of set- ting -up exercises continue to do. their household tasks in the same hard old ways. They see no relation between • • physical culture and household routine, Does it not suggest itself as con -a- nion sense that the remedy for ills that come from wrong posture lies in making the physical tasks of house- keeping a means of physical grace? Posture Perfect health is impos- sible with poor posture. 'Unfortunately these are two "wrongs" to choose from and only one "right." The first "wrong" is the slouching "self-pity" posture. The shoulders *re bent, lungs cramped, head andabdomen sagging. There Is a general settling of the body, suggesting the small boys query, "Mother, have you' begun to shrink yet? Grandma has!" The excuses offered for this pos- FRESH 1008 and plenty of them every mond' in the• year if you will rear Chicks, feed and 'care for them as instruct - et In our fuexpenstve, effeetive Coldbelit1!:'oultey Coudse, given by mall under the direction of the ex• pert poultryi ien4. 4e0. N, Miller and Prof. C. I. Graham. Particlt- lars gladly /Waled. Write Shaw aoultey S44hool, 46 Moor W.,'leeente ture are, "I feel so tired all the tune,". and "my feet trouble me so." The wo- man who maintains this posture is hard to live with because she is so sorry for herself. She has, indeed "let down," mentally and physically. The other "wrong" is the "Phar- isee" posture. The form is held rigid- ly erect, chest high, shoulders tense, back scooping in at the waistline, toes turning out, weight on inner edge of feet. The mental attitude back of this posture is, "Of course I'm tired, and of course my feet ache but nobody shall catch me slouching!" The woman who maintains this posture is hard to live with because her nerves are tense. Her over -erect posture is the result of will -power rather than vitality. Both "wrongs" assign to the mus- cles the work of holding the body up- right. • Right posture is a matter of body balance, not of muscular effort. Muscles are needed for other things than maintaining the perpendicular. Standing. With the best manage- ment in the world a certain amount of standing is unavoidable in the daily routine. How do you stand? First, measure yourself against the wall (head, shoulders, and heels touching) and see if you are as tall as you ought to be. Next see whether you can be tall without being tense. To make this test, have the small of the back as well as head and shoulders touch) the wall. If you have a bad ease of "swayback" you may have to move your feet some distance from the wall' before the small of your back will: touch but little by little you can learn to bring your heels nearer the wall without hollowing the back, until they actually meet, At first this will give you a feeling of tilting forward but it will help to balaneo you with your Weight on the balls of your feet. Feet. How are yourteet$ ,Are you entirely unconscloue of them? It not, !t because o have _ y av abused them? ne-tnake,.. }. er is anystronger ng r than ?stet. est, .. _., secure "�b 6, U e ainletib feet h choose your orf h rhoe,l with care. AO. �� �► ,�� laila1.1 !Vie. ^10e-'24: li tutted, Ube, alive. Get back the power te earl The two greatest handicaps of the them under as the baby does':to grip Canadian housewife to -day are poor the ground, to use the great toes as feet and tense nerves. It is in her levers. If you must stand, use both pwn power, and hers alone,' to over- feet to support you. Don't slump first ,come them by saner methods of work, on one heel and then on the: other.: rest and play, Equipment and posture, Does your r. equipment help or hinder good pes:: POULTRY ture? If table or sink are too' low for My program of feeding includes the standingerect and ifyou went sit.,RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE ( )' buying from my local farmer's ex- they must be raised. Casters On• ;.a', change and mixing the feeds myself. table or a box are small investments „I want a clean, tight floor, where the compared to the cost in health of.do.grains can be heaped in a great pile .ing without them° and shoveled over, For scratch feed 'is good - r • ted' . Folks who want the very best use Saving steps. How do you walk?' I know of nothing better than equa ""So many steps to take," you say And parts of good whole oats, clean crack yet you multiply them needlessly when, ed corn, 'and wheat. I will let.th you toe out and advance on the bias, other fellow have the other things. If you want to go straight ahead, why feed this grain in deep litter and keep not aim -straight ahead? Get the, the birds just hungry enough to eat spring back into your step by really, up' what I give them and work dilli- using the foot and leg muscles. Don't gently for the scattering grains. hoist yourself along by your arms. Scratch.feed is fed twice a day, only They are needed for other things."' •".At times when wheat was high in Stair climbing. How do you go up-' price, I have fed a mixture composed stairs. With the back bent, the lungs of;one hundred pounds each of wheat cramped and the breath held, making and barley. At present prices, I am it hard work? Or easily erect; breath- leaving' out the barley. ing naturally and making the muscles Dry mash is kept in the hoppers all of feet and legs do their full shire? ;the time and the birds have the priv- Those steep back stairs that have ilege of eating as much as they will. seemed such a trial may really prove A very fine laying mash is made by a means of physical race L . The x r mixing one hundred pounds each of P Y g e l>; cise you get in climbing those stairs gluten feed, wheat bran, ground oats and beef scrap, and two pounds of fine salt. T used that ration for a number of years. Later I cut out half of the beef scrap and fed the birds all the skim -milk they would consume. This is a very intensive egg -making ration and birds.must be kept in good health to consume it, hence I feed a wet mash Why I Take Auto Insurance 1 I have driven a car for eight years. - In that time I have covered fully 100,- e 000 miles, with no serious accidents, and only one that could be called such. My driving has been about evenly di- vided between country and city. I have never been able to get com- paratice statistics on rural and urban • in the right way is the same exercise which you would pay money to learn: in a gymnasium. Sitting. As in standing, there are two "wrongs" and only one "right." But the difficulties are increased be- cause we have all kinds of chairs to reckon with. Chairs are rarely select= ed with reference to the support they once a week, composed of equal parts give the body. Your chairs may be of'bran, middlings and corn meal, the too low or too high, or the seat may liquid;used to mix the mash contain - be too shallow or too deep. But white ing epsom salts at the rate of one ever the type of chair, we see women `pound for each one hundred birds. I sliding forward until their `weight measure out the amount of grain to rests on the end of the spine; the legs be prepared, dissolve the salts with are crossed, the supporting foot toe- water and mix the mash. I like this ing out (which throws the burden on way:to administer the salts rather its inner edge); head and shoulders•than in the drinking water. are bent over a heavy piece of sewing Every day, unless the weather is pinned to the knee. Yes, "sewing is very cold, I feed something in the line hard work" under those conditions. of green stuff. This is grown on the Less common is the over -erect sitting ,farm. Cabbages are used during the posture which tilts the body forward fall and early winter and hiangels are on the thighs, tenses the shoulders, stored to'round out the latter part of arms and neck, and is as fatiguing. as the .cold season. I simply hang u,p a the first. It is this tense posture,' head of cabbage, leaves and all, or a combined with hurry, that makes the large>mangel. Wurzel and the hens do nervous woman declare that she can't the rest.) Every year I grow sun - iron or wash dishes or pare potatoes! flowers and the heads are cut and sitting down. thrown to the hens during the moult- ing season. There is always a box of wood' ashes,:for the hens to flutter in ;and pick out the bits of charcoal. Hop- '�.ks,of kilt and ground oyster shells Restful' sitting depends on picking' out a good chair and: using it • : The seat of the chair should ' be deep enough to support the whole of the thighs, and the height of theme. try` are also.always at hand. Clean water should make it ;easy•to' rest both feet rounds out thebill of fare. - There must on the floor. A good 'position is • to cross the' feet so that both rest on. their outer edges.If it seems neces- sary to cross the knees, at least make it as little harmful' as possible by toeing in with the under foot and resting it on its outer edge. Lifting weights. How do you lift weights? When the vacuum cleaner. is far easier' to keep them in perfect must be moved where it cannot be 'condition by a small amount of con - pushed, do you crumple up at the Stant' care than it is to neglect them waist line, start lifting with one side' for a while and then try to obliterate of your body and, when the job is `scars and scratches. half done, bring the other side .into : Floors that have been finished and play? Try bending both knees, hold- waxed should be rewaxed every ing the body easily erect, and use both month, or more often if wear requires arms from the first moment you begin it. If floors are reasonably clean, to lift. This is the most revolutionary. they can be wiped off with a damp of household exercises and will not cloth and then waxed. If they are come at the first trial but it is worth dirty, the dirt apparently being mixed acquiring. It distributes the effort with the wax, wipe the floors care - of lifting. Furthermore, practice in fully with- a rag. wet with gasoline bending the knees while keeping the and allow to dry before applying wax body erect, with back and abdomen again. flat, will help you to acquire body bat floors that have never been finished ante. Do you ever, in carrying a may: be made to look well by applying heavy chair, support it ''with the mus- a coat: of paste wood filler. Wipe off cles of your abdomen, allowing your the surplus and allow to dry for arms to remain slackers? The pos- twenty-four'hours before applying ture that results is not only unlovely wax. but harmful. Make both arms help, The best wax for floors is the paste keep off your heels, don't screw up form._Apply with a cloth in a thin, your face and the task will be bene- even coat and then polish with a dry ficial rather than harmful. cloth or weighted brush. If a•second Reaching. How do you reach? Do coat is necessary, allow the first to you make it hard by standing a foot dry two hours and then apply a sec - or two away from that high shelf, set- ond_ coat in the sante manner. For a tling back on your heels, protruding .final polish, place a piece of carpet your abdomen and dragging your ribs wider the weighted brush. up with your arias as you raise them? The weighted brush is almost neces- Or have you learned to make it easy sary.for waxing floors, and one will by standing squarely in front of the' last' almost a lifetime. They can. be shelf, keeping the body balanced and .purchased for about $4 or $5. raising only your arms? Stoopint,t. How do you stoop? Is that Blowtorchingthe Weeds. low oven a grievance or have you made it a means of physical grace? •' No matter how zealously one har- Does a look into the oven suggest a crumpling up of ydur body and a rush of blood to your head? Or do you drop' easily to one• knee, do you keep' erect, do you go on breathing? Scrubbing. How do you scrub a table? With set jaw and tense fore- arms, using • a back -and -forth 'motion? Or do you know that the scrub -brush Won't get away even if you hold it lightly, that scrubbing in circles will be plenty 'of it, and I warm it during the cold weather. Caring for Hardwood Floors:' Hardwood floors add greatly to the attractiveness of a home, but they should be kept in good condition. It rows and cultivates the fields, weeds usually go to seed along the fences. A thrifty patch of quack grass between the posts where it is hard to eradicate will pollute a lot of ground the fol- lowing year. Therefore it is a good plan to burn these protected strips .in the fall as ,soon as the vegetation is `dry enough to burn. One method used success- fully for several years by one farmer bring into play the ball-and-socket in is to use an ordinary gasoline blow - your shoulder which is there for al torch. Due to the intense heat pro - purpose, that your jaw has nothing to d'ate'd, grass and weeds that aro not do with the case? even dead can be burned clear to the tin. as can investment, :Resting v sf r c run thus l >- nt. H b rl s destro in Have an g you � i y g y seed discovered that to postpone a five -I lehieh May have previously fallen, minute rest period when the body is With the toreh in one hand and a poisoned with fatigue is penny-wise' wet gunny sack in the other, this and dollar -foolish? Do you know that ' farmer goes up one side.of the fence real rest depends on three things:' With i the flame close to the ground. He Atte r', fresh air and relai:ation? Are 'leaves -•a continuous trail of fire that Atter jaw, r is reached, he crosses ou„ rest b. . y y lying �vxth set aw the fence corns frown on your forehead, thinkingof over and goer back on the other side, the jobs ahead and supporting the ,either to:,finish any spot wh'eh may bed instead of letting it support you?'have failed to burn or to extinguish Or have you learned to let go, to pro-; tiii, fire in any smoldering post.: you isaptpoitrted in the results when,' gttiekly' burns itself out. But when auto accidents, but what reaction I get from drivers, together with my own experience and observation, leads me to the conclusion that the major- ity pf accidents occur on open country roads. A driver of an auto bus recently recited that the majority of the acci- dents of his line occurred on the open countryroads. He andothers point z d z out the same reasons for this that I had observed from traveling over our rural roads. In the first place, less provision is made in the country to give warning to the driver. Chief among these is the lack of lights. In cities lights are always burning at street intersections and frequently between. These lights aid in the identification of unlighted objects, either moving or standing. Not a few accidents happen in the country from lack . of • these lights which, of course, could not be econ- omically provided. The end of a cul -1 vert that restricts the average width of the road, trees by the roadside, turns, unlighted vehicles, etc., all con- spire to make driving dangerous and accidents easy. Pedestrians walking on the highway is another source of danger to they night driver. This is particularly true where one happens to meet the pedestrian approaching from the op-; posite direction. In turning off the strong light one often cannot observe' a person walking as well as he should. This situation moved the writer to' provide a spotlight which keeps the I right hand side of the road well light- e ed, even when meeting other cars, and' his own bright lights are,off. This decision was quickly arrived at after an experience on 'a country! road. There was a slight turn in the road to the right. Just around the bend three men were standing. The head lights were angled to the left of these men naturally, and when I T -f swung into the straightaway it was only by the quickest redirection of the car that I saved myself from running them down. I then and there decided to provide a spotlight which I have since had in commission. Road intersections are often diffi- cult to locate. In this respect, travel- ing- is much improved, but still there are many places where one cannot discern the crossroads and an on- coming auto hid by bushes or a' corn field, or other obstruction may be un- observed until too late. We have mentioned ditches. These furnish a real source of danger to the country driver. In the cities the curb tends` to hold :one to the street.': But during wet weather in summer, or icy weather in winter, the ditch is the bogie'nan who keeps the driver won- dering what is going ,to happen. I would mention the greatest men- ace to country driving, and that is the speedster. A few experienced peo- ple can drive hard and fairly safely; but the majority of those who exceed the limit do not know how to handle cars, and, when the machine is travel- ing fast, they, too frequently, get a lit- tle excited and lose their head. Then things happen, and they are just as apt to happen to the other fellow as to the one who is at fault. Our laws cannot be too strictly enforced in this matter of speed. In spite of the good work our provincial and county auth- orities are doing, the fool speedster is the biggest menace to the open country driving that we now have. Finally, the rate of speed allowed on country roads adds to the possibil- ity of accident. When a car is going twenty or twenty-five miles it is easy to avoid smashups, but increase- that speed to thirty and thirty-five miles, and the chances are increased by geo- metrical progression. Recently I was obliged to travel by auto some eighty miles . at night, when a sleet was falling and freezihi to road and windshield. The cleaner would not -remove the ice from the glass, and, after many stops we were Obliged to open the windshield and faee the driving storm. The sensation and narrow escapes of', that night made it real easy to extend my auto insurance for another year.—B. W. Wiring Frames. The value of good combs containing the maximum number of cells of worker size and well anchored in the frames is well known to the pro- gressive beekeeper. There are, how- ever, many beekeepers who either do not use any system of support within the frame or are applying a system that fails to give the support neces- sary in order to stand the rough usage of the honey extractor, the combs must be well reinforced; otherwise they will break and in some cases be thrown completely out of the frames. When foundation is given to the bees it must be held in place or the re- sultant combs will be made crooked. The foundation also needs to be sup- ported or the weight of the bees will cause many of the cells immediately below the top bar to become stretched and in some cases cause it to break entirely from the frames, especially if the summer is very hot and the honey flow heavy. These stretched cells will either be used for drone production or for the storage of honey. This, of course, will reduce the area necessary for the production of worker brood. To secure the support and rigidity needed for the combs it is necessary to adopt some system of wiring the frames, either horizontally or vertical- ly across the frames and these wires firmly imbedded into the foundation. There are several methods of wiring; more than can be given in this short article. The two following methods have given very good results: In the frame of Langstroth dimensions four wires are generally used but these do not prevent sagging below the top bar. Better results are obtained by using five horizontal wires with the top wire one-half inch below the top, bar, the second, one inch, below the first and the other tb_^ee at, equal dis- tances apart, the lower one being about two inches above the bottom bar. The other method Is four hori- zontal and two diagonal wires. The first horizontal wire is about one inch below the top bar, and the rest at equal distance apart. The two diag- onal wires are run from the ends of the lowest a st horizontal wire in the frame to the centre of the cop bar, where it can be fastened either by a small staple or nail. Number 28 tin- ned wire is used and in all eases is made as.tight as possible. In -Jumbo frames five horizontal wires are used in addition to the diagonals. \ertieal r wlr'nl, has not proved very satisfac- tory, Imbedding the wires into the foundation can be done with the spur, wire imbeddor, or by electricity, the; latter being the quicker and giving) the best results. Where the diagonal wiring is used the sheet of foundation is better placed between the horizon- tal and diagonal wires. Few beekeepers use supports in the 'shallow extracting° combs but it • is safer to stretch two horizontal wires across the frame, as it makes the comb that much stronger. Although vertical wiring of frames has not proved very satisfactory, a foundation in which a number of ver- tical wires are imbedded permanently, and which is giving good results, can now be purchased from some of the dealers in bee supplies. The Sheep's Feet. During the winter, when; the hock is confined to the pens, their feet will require trimming to keep them in good condition, so says the Animal Husbandry Department, O,A.C. Weak pasterns and some of ;thecommoner diseases of the feet may be prevented by a little attention in regard to trim- ming. A strong, sharp pocket-knife may be used for this, or clippers made for the purpose 'nay be purchased: Not only do the toes grow out very long but the sole of the hoof will turn, under. ' Both should be pared, giving' the hoof the proper shape. The .par- ing may be done more easily, after the sheep have been. running out in the wet grass or snow for some time, as this tends to soften the brittle hoof.' 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