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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-09-18, Page 2Address commu aicationa to Agro ernist,7s Adelaide St, West, Toronto SOME SILO AIDS. To save time and annoyance, and to. lessen the risk of the undertaking,one fanner .has provided the outside wall of his silo with steps made from iron rod and mounted ladder fashion from' the ground to the top. Directly underneath the dormer through which the blow spout of the, filling machine is inserted at filling! time, there is a broad step or seat l upon which the operator stands when I assembling the outfit. This idea naturally lends itself to any type of silo and is worth bearing' in mind. The writer once saw another kink' that should be noted here. The silo was. of wooden staves and required frequent painting. Since no ladder of the ordinary length would serve the painter's purpose, the owner laid the track from three old barn doors about the top just under the roof and on this mounted .the car wheels from one, of the doors. These were attached to a wide plank and on the lower end another wheel at right angles was also mounted a:0 that it would ride against the surface( of the. silo. ' This plank was also pro-1 vided with a hook with block and tackle. When the silo was to be paint- ed a seat of a wide board of sufficient length was attached to the tackle with two ropes, the painter seated himself and drew himself upward with the! tackle, This had a lock and he could remain at any desired height. Move- ment about the silo was accomplished by : his feet which were encased in rubber -soled shoes. It will pay the silo owner to keep these tips in mind. —D. R. H. BARRELING APPLES ON TREES. If you want to have good apples, be- gin barreling them while they are still on the trees. No amount of good care in `barreling will make up for lack of 1 care in picking, or picking at the wrong time. 1 Apples are not ready to be picked when they cling so tightly that spurs are broken from the trees. Neither is . the color of apples which eventually turn red a reliable index, since the in- tensity of the color depends on the cloudiness or brightness of the wea- ther. ea- ther. A good indication of maturity is a ground color ' which, when the fruit is ready for pieking,'.ahould be turning from clear green to a whitish. green or greenish yellow, Yellow, green, and russet varieties of apples are generally ready to pick: when they have reached their proper; size and the.stems separate readily from the spurs. In picking apples, the stems should be separated from the spurs . either by giving the fruit a alight rotating motion combined with a sharp upward twist, or by pressing with the thumb or forefinger at the joint of the stem and spur. In picking use both sacks and bas • - kets. The baskets are handy for gath-, ering fruit near the ground, while the sacks can be used for ladder work.1 Some folks thing there is more danger of bruising the fruit when sacks are, used, In emptying either basket or 1 sack, avoid dropping the fruit. If a basket is used, it.should be lowered to the bottom, of the lug box or other receptacle and emptied gently, There is a certain type of sack with a drop bottom, so than the fruit can be .emp- tied without bruising it. Step -ladders are especially good for, work m small trees and for picking from the lower branches: -of <, larger trees. The good type are wide and flaring at the bottom, narrow at the top, and supported with but one prop. In small orchards apples are usually packed :right out in the open, but in large orchards and the sections where the weather is bad, fruit is often packed in central houses, tents or sheds. The use of packing houses is increasing. The houses afford shelter for a supply of unpacked fruit which can be handled during bad weather. If there is a packing house there is also a better opportunity.to put in sizing machinery and other labor- saving devices. Two types of grading or sorting tables are used—the apron table and the canvas or burlap table. The bed of the apron table is slatted, so that the trash can fall through, and is in- clined, so that the fruit as it is graded rolls to the Iower end, where it is low- ered into the barrel by means of an apron. While work can be done rather rapidly with this table, the fruit often crowds past the sorters faster than they can handle it. . The canvas or burlap table is made by stretching the cloth over a rec- tangular frame. This type of table is fitted for running the fruit from the apron into the barrel. The apples must be sorted by hand into baskets. The most common practice in barrel- ing is to separate the fruit into two' standard sizes. The first size includes, apples from two and one-quarter tol two and one-half inches, and the sec-, and two and one-half inches or larger.! The apple grower must get a grad -1 ing machine which has a big enough capacity to handle his crop, and one that can be operated most economical- ly. Look for one of simple design, not requiring too much adjustment . and: not apt to bruise the fruit. The life of a machine, and the various methods, of feeding fruit to the machine, should. be studied carefully.. Upon all. these,{ things s depend the total dailyoutput u g R and,: consequently, the cost of opera-, tions Only small machines a can he op crated; by. hand Dower- Some of the! simplest types have a capacity of per- , haps 100 barrels a day. In most cases,' however, the gasoline engine or elec- tris motor is preferable. The first step in packing the barrel is to face the first and perhaps thea second layer of apples. Thatis, ar-1 range the layers in circles with stems' down. For facing, only apples of the l best size and quality should be used,. because the trade expects and custom-' arily demands an attractive.pack. But! remember that the general quality and • size should conform to the grade in! the rest of the barrel. There are other standard practices in filling barrels,- such as "racking," or settling of the' fruit by rocking the partially -filled barrel, and "tailing," which means ar-f ranging the last layer of apples in concentric rings. 1 POULTRY. Ordinary culling practices simply involve looking the birds over at night when they are on the perches and eliminating those which are obviously out of producing condition. It be- comes, however, a much more serious problem to attempt to handle every bird in the flock, make a careful ex- amination and make a final deter- mination as to the fitness of the indi- vidual for future breeding. Here is a simple practice which will. eliminate the shock to the birds: Con- fine the birds to the laying house the night before they are to be culled. This culling must be done in the day- time when the birds can be carefully examined. Secure a large catching crate. A good thing for this purpose is a live -poultry -shipping coop, double deck height, commonly .known as a turkey coop. Make a hole in one end of this at half the height of the coop, about eight inches wide and ten or twelve inches high. Provideit with a slide door. Set this coop so that this opening on the end is directly open to the hen exit opening in the poultry house. Scatter a little grain in the coop. Open the exit door and With a little en- couragement the birds will pass out the exit door and enter into the coop. Whena convenient number is thus confined, the exit door can be closed and the hens can be culled and taken out of the coop through the door at the top, one at a time, handled care- fully, examined in minute detail' and a determination made as to what is to be done with them. The culls" can be cooped up in sep- arate coops, teady to go to market, whereas the good 'birds can be dropped into. the yard or, if their future quer- ters are ready for~ thein, they can be transported and put in their new houseow Tf Ws operation Is carried on in a quiet, gentle way, the handling of the birds at thisseason will be followed by no loss' in production, $.1 Nine 101414i CaII on the urveyor. The payment of half day's work of meant the changing age for my neighbor to put in a main t farm. His eye tol water should go to tl in the direction of E. for some reason he gineer and found th, as well go west and trench and buying t many extra rods. veyed the whole d', depth of cuttings every 100 feet so there was no trouble to get the tile in properly. In my own case I had a drainage problem and had two outlets that could be used. One was a fifteen -inch tile along the border of the farm and the other an open ditch at the end of the place, My plan, as my eye told me, was to run a main tile the length of the farm along one side and drain into it with cross ditches. But the surveyor soon showed .me that I could cross -ditch right into the 'fifteen -inch tile and save 160 rods of six or eight -inch out- Ret. I had plenty of fall. Besides, large tile is a better outlet than an. open ditch. • The saving is hard to estimate but the cost in my case was $1.5.0. A. good many drainage jobs are jumped into without much previous thought or planning and surveyors can earn their charges and much more on many farms. The eye is not a sure Deuge of levels, and natural `slopes of the land do not seem always to till the story.—Earl Rogers. The number of eggs consumed per Year on farms averaged 28.8 dozen per person. The per capita farm eon - gumption of fowls averaged nearly one fowl per month, The consumption of c : gg s and poultry was found to be the greatest in seasons of lowest prices: Miss Annette E. Buck, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the first woman to ascend to the summit of Mount Robson; the highest peak of the Canadian Rockies. She was accompanied by Mrs. Monday, a Canadian. How to Hang Your Pictures BY LUCY B. TAYLOR: • Pictures give a room"thought" and add the touches that suggest interest and life. It is quite possible`te decor- ate a room, have it perfsetly "correct," and yet have it stupid and uninterest- ing. , It is the humanness of a room that gets our interest and makes us feel at home.. - The little picture over the mantel or on the table, the colored print on - the n -the bedroom wall, may go a great deal further than we ever • expect iii giving to that particular room the air of be- ing really "lived in." Whether in color or black and white, it represents thoughts that greet us pleasantly an& arouse similar and stimulating ideas; within us -But it doesn't do to pick out pictures I essly arty 'nor •4.thano+ tea riends:�care eso_ ..�kie , �u •� l s y.: are not genuinely good in some res- pect, it is better to have something else that gives a spot of color and I life; for a poor picture is like a poor' companion—it grows constantly worse to us. The duplication of ways and means; in reproducing pictures has done marvelous things in placing at our' disposal the loveliest of reproductions, both in color and black and white. There are now several museums that carry a full line of prints of their paintings. These include landscapes, sea pieces, and subject pictures of leading artists, as well as some of the best of the •historical pieces.,` Every good and really great piece of modern art owned by a museum is pretty sure to have its color or photograp c' re - such, fully that shed. tints e cut e est - production. And it is picture as these, framed, and hung ca in the right places on the wal make a room look right and fiir There are also many onnt1 rnlnr for size and shape and then adjusting your picture accordingly. For ex- ample, there may be a sofa, a chair, and a table, up against the wall. The natural thing to do is to hang a fairly large picture over the sofa—one that will take the same feeling of length— and then possibly over each of the other two objects a smaller picture: This repeats the feeling, of size- and shape that has alreadybeen establish- ed by the sizes and shapes of the fur- niture, and kelps the essential har- mony. That's the whole story. Follow Hanle Education -The C11110 Flet School le tho P,pmiiyo—Froeb.l..0 Cu -operate With Nature By Ora A. Cicinent. "Goodness, ,taking care of children then can be taught habits of order and Means spending all your time making cleanliness which will stay ,vith° them, somebody do something he doesn't all their lives. Though too small to want to de," exclaimed young Mrs. do actual work, they are pleased to do Lane as she tools Daddy's letter- little, step -saving tasks for mother, if opener from the baby and motioned th. task is a matter of imitation. This Billy and Sister to continue their task imitative age is a period of golden of picking up blocks and toys. opportunity. "Right on top of this lovable age comes the individualistic age, when, almost overnight the child becomes distressingly selfish. He wants the best of everything for himself and will fight to get it, He eeent„'the attention mischief and tease and hurt one an- '""i adulation of adults and will try to other? It must have been Bedlam all the time." "T suppose it was noisy, and I don't doubt. that I was sometimes worried— and cross. But I have forgotten that for Johnny that he should get so far part of it.. That is one of the nice beyond control. It is not her fault, things about growing old—you forget though. Johnny's Mother Nature is so much that is unpleasant. preparing him for the battles of life; "But about the children—I learned she is teaching him to think and to one thing while I was taking care of act for himself. mine that helped me : a lot, and it was "That the process is painful to his that Mother Nature keeps a firm hand parents and friends does not influence on all her babies and is quite deter-: the •old Dame for one "instant. She mined they : shall grow upto be note; knows what slie is doing. Soon his. mal'ohealthy human beings. So that I selfishness will be controlled by con- working against Nature is very much! scious self-denial, and Johnny will be- like swimming un -stream, while co- I gin to show real character. His boast- operating with: her makes the care of 'iul contrariness, which challenges children comparatively easy." every spoken statement, will soon be "I don't know what you mean," the tempered by reason. daughter confessed. "There are many things you can `:Well" R_ explained her mother, "after , teach him at this age. He ap nreci- R g watching six of my own and many of ates praise for his individual effort my friends' and neighbors' children go and will spend tremendous energy to through their childhood, I have decided, gain it. He can be taught to take re- that all children pass through certain' sponsbility: The irresponsible and stages of development, and during I untruthful young people, who are al - each stage it is especially easy to'!together too numerous to -day,. were teach them certain things. 1 not handled rightly at this age. The "Of course, at first, the baby's at child asks imeim:erable questions, and tention is chiefly occupied with learn...! your greatest possible .mistake is to ing to manage his hands and feet. We ignore, ridicule or evade these clues - do not usually interfere with this pro- I tions. Give truthful, serious answers, cess, though sometimes people urge a 1 drawing him out when you suspect.. baby to walk too soon, and sometimes I that some troubled thought lies at the sickness prevents him from walking' bottom of the questions, and m later when he should. I years you will not have to suffer that "Usually the four-year-old has worst of all hurts, the knowledge that learned to use his hands and feet, and your child's confidence is being pur- his chief delight is in their use. Move- pesely withheld. ment of the arms and legs is what he "Besides these there are other -but, wants, and he imitates the motions mercy, child, see what time it - is! If his mother makes as she works about I sit here lecturing, James will find the house. ' During this period chil- • no dinner when, he comes home" "Oh, I hope it is not as bad as that," her mother laughed comfortably. "In' fact, I do not remember it in that way at all." "But how did you manage, Mother, when there were six of us to get into gain them by `show-off' antics. He bul-* . lies the younger children and teases the older. He becomes a family nuis- ance, and his discouraged mother wonders what she has neglected to do the lines and spaces of your furniture - --•- = a groups as well, as. you can, and if they are well spaced the pictures will be too. e e S e ime a o 1 a m„ m' o t s n odd' .'goo m co s m p T e a tabe in the„corner, a chair, ;aa i1�+and', perhaps a bed alori tithe wall. "Then group one; two or three of the smaller pictures 'in` a longish -looking group over the bed and balance the wall with' one well chosen, with regard" to size over the 'table. _Then . your walls will be pleasing. The possibilities are innumerable; Choose good pictures, study your wall spaces, and try to maintain a feeling of balance. Ono could write volumes and say no more! Ask the Agricultural Repre- sentative. se re-sentative. In most every section wheat var- ieties show an adaptation to a soil fertility range. The kinds that do best on poor land fail to make so good a showing on rich land. This is an- other matter about which agricultural representative advice would be desir- able. As a rule the earlier wheats make their best showing on the poor lands.. .The richer lands with a greater] moisture -holding' capacity can more' safely carry the later -growing var- ieties. We need more men who do not fear to break new ground, to blaze new trails, to lead i1.c people on to a larger aiid more satisfactory ` progress.- Arthur Capper. FRUIT NOW SHIPPED IN NEW TYPE'OF CAR The development of the, Niagara Peninsula as• a source of fruit for the markets of the Dominion is becoming more pronounced, through the co.opera- tion of the fruit growers, the dealers and the Express Department of the Canadian National. Railways. • For this traffic the Canadian National Express hos designed an entirely new style car which has:eiready given satisfaction. No ice is used .in theeecas,Pa natural air -cooling' -method being used. While this does not develop es low a temperature as ice refrigeration, the process is more natural, and as a result, the fruit does not deteriorate sa quickly when reproved to the warmer outside atmosphere. There are thirty of these cars in operation between the Niagara Penin- sula and ,points in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime Provinces and the North West, and they received several tests ;under the most unfavorable conditions ons possible, before they were finally adopted foto service. Stringent Measures to Prevent Spread of Corn Pest. On account of the danger of further distributing the European ,corn borer, a.peet which is seriously menacing the corn -growing industry in Ontario, stringent regulations regarding the transport of corn from infested to un- infested areas are being enforced by the Dominion Minister of -Agriculture: Last year, during the sweet corn season, the Department inspectors dis- covered corn on the cob, infested with the caterpillars of the pest, being car- ried from the infested areas by motor cars. The regulations make it illegal for tourists and campers to carry corn from • the quarantined areas, because of the danger of the spread of the pest in this way. The regulations provide that corn may n.ot be moved or shipped by grow- ers, produce dealers, or others, ,from the following area under quarantine "Brant County; Bruce County; Duf-• ferin County; the townships of Clarke, Darlington and Hope in Durham County; Essex County (including Peel Island); Grey County; Haldimand County; Halton County; Huron Coun- ty; Tient County,; Lainbton County; Lincoln County; Middlesex County; Norfolk County; the .townships of Pickering, Whitby East and Whitby West in Ontario ,county; Oxford County; Peel County; Perth County; Waterloo County; Welland County; Wellington County; Wentworth Coun- ty; the townships of Etobicoke, Mark- ham, Scarborough, Vaughan, and York in York County, and the town- ship of Brighton in Northumberland County." From the counties of Elgin and Middlesex, which are the most heavily infested districts in the province, corn may not be carried`. even to other counties in the infested district, Except from Elgin and Middlesex counties, corn on the cob may be ship- ped from the quarantined area to the Toronto and Hamilton markets, but may not be ..hipped north or east- wards. Violations of the regulation 'are punishable by a fine. ,Exports` of Live Stock and Meats. Our exports o, domestic live stock and meats, according to ' Dominion Live Stock Branch reports, to 'Great Britain during the first seven months: of the year compared with the same' period in 1928 were: 40,026 cattle compared with 84,152; 2;351,200 lbs, of beef compared with 5,108,500 Ibs,• 62,411,600 lbs. of bacon compared with 57,408,800 lbs., and 3,201,300 lbs. of pork compared with 1,738,700 lbs. To the United States during the same periods were sent: 45,082 cattle compared with 84,152; 20,708 calves compared with 13,745; 390 sheep Com- pared with "3,817; 7,411,200 Ilse. of beef compared with, 3,923,700 lbs,; 253,800 lbs. of bacon compared with 91,900 lbs.; 818,900 lbs, of pork com- pared ompared with 412,000 lbs., and 25,600 lbs. of mutton compared with 60,600 lbs. I THE CHILDREN'S HOU UR AT THE CROSSROADS. "Bee, five, bee four, I wish 1 had some more," sang Willie Woodchuck as he finished the last sugar cookie that Old Mother Coon had given him. "Me, too," said Johnnie•Muskrat, "I'm still a little hungry, but I'm tickled that we are on our way home. I don't think I want to go sailing on a log again." "Mrs. Coon said we would be home by afternoon," said Jackie Rabbit, "but we must walk fatter.".. "I• can't walk much faster," puffed Willie Woodchuck as he waddled along the road that Mrs. Coon said would take them back to Woodland. and home. Soon they came near the crossroads where she had said a sign post would tell them which road to take to Woodland. As they came to this post they were very puzzled. No, it was not because these three little Woodland boys could not read, for they were the best pupils in the Wood- land school, mischief excepted. But. a big puff of wind had blown that way. or someone had hurried around the corner too fast. The sign post which was to tell them the way home was topsy-turvy. On one board was -printed "Stoney- ville" and on the other "Woodland," but they both pointed "hitch -a -cue". angles toward the blue sky. "Well, well, well, this is a real mix- up," said Jackie Rabbit scratching his head. "We can't follow the sign post to Woodland, because it points up to that big fleecy cloud. What had we best do?" "I think this road goes to Wood- land," said Johnnie Muskrat, pointing to the right. "I'm sure it is this one," said Jackie Rabbit, pointing to the one to the: left. Willie Woodchuck said nothing, for he was getting too tired to bother to think. "That's more of a puzzle still," said Jackie Rabbit. "Perhaps we had bet- ter draw cuts. We will go with the one who gets the longest cuts." " "Fine," agreed Johnnie and Willie. When Willie had caerfully prepared the draws, Johnnie Muskrat pulled the longest orie, so off they started down the .read to the right, hoping to reach Woodland before the sun went down. From Weeds to Hooey. Sweet clover through its dense Smothering effect the second year of its growth sickens and discourages weeds. Such rampant fellows as thistle and bindweed become greatly weakened. And while the land is becoming en. i•iched and weeds smothered, an enol MOW honey crop of highest quality is produced: Moreover, having bees on hand to harvest the honey crop helps greatly the yield of seed. Bees carry the pollen from floevae to flowev.