HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-09-25, Page 7Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto
PICKING APPLES IS AN ART. a number of years and then he used
Picking apples is a fine art. To again in the original nerd
begin with, one must get them off method that could be resorted to on
nd the part of the first owner of a tried
without injuring the tree at all, a
that requires no little skill. And then and proven sire... Another method ,that
the fruit itself 'must not be bruised should prove workable is for two par-
that
ties conveniently situated who have
or damaged in the least, and
requires still more skill. valuable tried sires to exchange ser-
vices for such of their own animals
" For the protection of the tree, care
and good ladders ar 11 as are closely related to their own
e a that are re- sires. Following out these sugges-
quired, but they are enough, If one tions would extend the usefulness of
has the three-legged stepladders, some
of them fairly long, aood: share' of a bull, for instance, from the usual
the fruit znay be picked wit' three or. four years to seven or eight
ladders touching the trees to any ex- years.
tent. Thatalso does away with the The greatest possibilities, however,
knocking orf of apples, which is sure
to happen more or less when the long
,orchard ladders are leaned up against
a tree laden with fruit.
The fruit in the top of the tree
must, of course, be picked from a long
orchard ladder, provided the trees are
full sized, but if one has the type of
• ladder with the side pieces coming
together in a point at the top, and if
care is used in placing them against
. the trees, little damage will result.
The picking of the last few scatter-
ing apples in the high and outlying
branches -is always a problem.
If one will equip his force with one
'or two of the so-called apple pickers
the work may be done quickly and
efficiently. These pickers are of var-
ious type's; but in' general are some
sort of.ewire basket with wire fingers
to slip around the apple and pull it of him.ianyone1
L leewise, looking for
in extending the period of usefulness
of proven sires are in getting the new
breeder to appreciate the value of
these proven • sires and to buy them
whenever possible in preference to the
untried young sire. Instances with-
out number could bequoted where
money has been lost and years of
breeding have been wasted, so far as
improvement of herds and flocks was
concerned, through the use of untried
sires that have proven misfits.
On the other hand, many good
proven sires that have been offered
for sale have gone to the slaughter
house for want of •a buyer. In the
interests of the breed and the ad-
vancement of breeding generally,
every owner of a tried and proven
sire should, when he is through with
him, endeavor to put him in the hands
of someone who can make further use
off. a new sire should see that the supply
The last factor in this problem of of tried and proven sires is exhausted
getting the crop off without injuring before purchasing a young unproven
the tree is to see that the fruit spurs
are left.
In preventing damage to the apples
themselves a few simple rules are all
one need observe.
Don't pull the stein out of the apple.
Don't toss the apple into the basket.
Don't pourthe apples from thebas-
ket into the storage box or barrel, or
if you do pour them let it be done
very carefully.
To insure leaving the spur on the
tree, but picking the stem with the
apple, simply place your finger or
thumb .alongside the stem, give' a
quick side twist to the fruit, and the
stem will separate at the joint be-
tween it and the spur.
one.
This system is followed as between
the Central and Branch Experimental
Farms, and has given excellent re-
sults.
ROBBING AND HOW TO PRE-
VENT IT.
Bees, like some people, if given the
opportunity, will steal from one an-
other rather than work. This, how-
ever, happens usually only in times
of scarcity.
A robber'bee is characterized by its
nervous „actions.. It will fly cautiously
up to the entrance of a hive, and
when it sees a ,bee coming towards it;
it• will quickly: dodge back; or it .will.
LENGTHENING, THE PERIOD OF search the. walls of a hive in .the hope
Iv
of :,find' : g` some unguarded crack
USEFULNESS OF SIRES. through which it cam crawl. An old
It is a lamentable fact that many offender has :a shiny appearance, the
sires that have later proven to be result of crawling through cracks or
vlauable breeders have hada limited being roughly handled by the guards.
period of usefulness to their breed On leaving the robbed hive, it has a
due to the fact that they- were dis- plump look and unlike the inmates
osed of before their breeding ability which come out leisurely, it is in a habit. .
to make an effort to do so.
Very little children do not reason
Their reasoning powers are not devel
aped • They do as they are told or do
not do as they are told according to
what they find out about the discipline
of their elders. A child of two years
will learn obedience if he is trained
into a habit of obedience but he will
bo disobedient if he. -learns that the
l;overnment' over him is lax. He has
a;z excellent
met. �o ,� If he tries] to
ran away the day before yesterday
when he had been told not to and
managed to do it two or three times,
he will keep on trying and will payno attention to a command. If he finds
that the day berme yesterday and
yesterday and every other day when
he ran away that he was brought
back and spoken to unpleasantly or.
punished, he will soon get into a habit
of obedience . about running away.
But that does not mean that he will
have the habit of obedience about
other things. He does not reason that
far. He has to be brought into a
habit of obedience with every single
thing he does, until ,the habit of obey
ing a command is a fixed one.
Physical habits have to be incul-
cated before mental habits, because
in infancy the child is purely physi-
cal. Mental development comes later
and with it'must come the establish-
ing of mental habits. The infant must
be taught the habit of sleep at regu-
lar hours. This can not be done by
putting him to bed one day at five
o'clock and another at seven.
Fear is a habit—of mind. Sulki-
ness, obstinacy, • selfishness, inatten-
tion, are all mind habits. Constant
example is the best antidote for such.
habits. The child who lives in a home
where cheerfulness is the keynote no
matter what the difficulties, is more
or less bound to be cheerful. . Sullen-
ness is pretty sure to fade away under
the influence of a happy smile and
pleasant words. Ridicule does harm
instead of good, since it engenders a
habit of self consciousness and re-
sentment.. Scolding is worse. Nothing'
but steady, happy molding will do the
- viee t0 one',y family and to one's'
neighbors is a habit that later will
develop into service for one's commune
'ha and to humanity at large. Genese
osity is a habit. So is selfishness. If
the child is encouraged to be gener-
ous with playthings, the man will be
with hie house, his automobile, his
money and his self,
' Those who :are molding the clay
ehould not be chary of praise. Espe-
cially in overcoming a bad habit, The
ebild who habitually uses good man -
Acre will riot expect praise for doing
what is all he knows how to do.
Sunshine for Chicken Roosts.
I Moet'" chicken roosts are forever
hidden from the sun and cleaning is
a doubtful process, but one poultry-
man has devised a plan by which he
sterilizes the roosts in the sun and
air after spraying. • This is adapt-
able to small houses only.
l:le nailed a cleat below one end of
the roosts, clinching them together.
Then the other ends were allowed to
project through the side of the house
so they just came flush with the out=
side. A stop board cleated them to-
gether at that end and also closed up
human "clay" it is not so .easy to be
gin over. The clay hardens as we go,
Habits are necessary bat they ,trust
be good habits. If we had notthe
habit of cleanliness we should have
to think about cleanliness and to use.
will power and energy forcing our,-
selves to cleanliness. With a habit of
cleanliness we wash ourselves and
clean our teeth without exerting eon -.e
scious.nergy to make ourselves do
it, With the habit of good table
manners we behave ourselves with
becoming propriety and do not have
Thumb -sucking is` one' of the most
easily acquired of baby habits. It
a bad habit.misshapes It missha es the mouth,
;
pulls the gums out of .chap ncour.
ages adenoids. To break it, the child
must form another habit with his
hand --•the habit of keeping it away
from his mouth. The only way to do
this isnot to allow his hand to reach
the mouth until he has forgotten the
ecame known. Early disposal is hurry and takes wing with difficulty
sometimes due to a . disinclination to owing to itsload.
risk the insecurity to life and limb It is the beekeeper's duty, there -
entailed in keeping aged breeding fore, to prevent his bees acquiring
animals around, but more often is such dishonest habits by seeing that
due to the gradual impotency, inadvis- no sweets are left exposed at any
ability of inbreeding and the lack of time; that all cracks and openings in
the walls of the hive are closed with
mud or clay; that when hives are
opened the work be done speedily;
that feeding, if any, be done in the
facilities for keeping two herd sires.
Be the -causes what` they may, the fact
remains that, in many cases, better
use could be made of many of the out-
standing sires in the country that evening; and that entrances be con-
meet with slaughter while still in sistent in size with the strength of
„prime breeding condition. the colony. Should disease be present,
With most classes of stock, proper these measures are doubly necessary
care, comfortable quarters, plentyof toPrevent not f onlY robbing
and its
exercise, and due cautions on the part disastrou"s results, but also what is
Ofthe attendant reduces impotency in infinitely worse, the spreading of the
the animal and the risk of attendants disease.
being injured by aged sires to a mini Should robbing start, prompt ac -
mum. Also in most classes of stock,
the get of the sire mature sufficiently
early to enable a fair estimate to be
made, through the get, of the breed-
ing ability of the sire before the lat-
ter has to be disposed of to avoid in-
breeding. Such being the case, it tage, as the bees of the colony will
would seem advisable for the breeder attack them as they crawl through
to study his breeding results closely the wet grass.
and retain as long as he possibly can Should the robbed colony, however,
those sires that show outstanding stand in danger of being overcome,
merit, carry it down into the cellar and
Co-operatibn with neighbors or leave it there until the uproar sub-
other breeders (where accredited sides. Coal oil wiped over all junc-
herd regulations will allow in such a tions of the hives acts as an excellent
way that sires may be exchanged for repellant.—A. H. W. Birch, Apiarist.
tion is necessary. Contract the en-
trance so that but two or three bees
can enter abreast; then strew a hand-
ful of coarse .. grass over it and
sprinkle with a dipperful of. water.
This puts the robbers at a disadvan-
Your Baby's Habits
Mother is the Moulder of the Human "Clay"
BY, DELLA T. LUTES.
There is a little pottery in our town
where some -ambitious and imagin-
ative girls "turn out lovely things. I
went dawn there recently t6 see ,them
work. I watched the big lump of dull
looking clay placed on the wheel—a
stupid thing it seemed, lopping this
way and that and having to he held
firmly in place by the hand of the
potter. Then'the wheel began to turn.
and the clay to ,take shape. • It was
a vase the giri was modelling and at
first it was rather a bulgy affair with
humps on its surface here and there
and not giving much promise of its
later lovelihess.
Round and round went the wheel.
Firmly and deftly the 'fingers of the
potter molded and pressed and shaped.
Never for a moment did her eye leave
the work, she 'vas doing. Finally
grate and lightness took the place of
ugly, lumpy form. Symiiietrieal and
loq�iy; the creation was finally placed
before rat. Later in the week I saw
the vase again, a thing now of exqui-
site' coloring and glaze. The hand of
the potter had shaped .the clay to
grace and beauty and • applied the
finish; the coating of color and,smooth
! shininess that covered all its gross
beginning.
The likening of the molding of hu-
,man character to the potter's wheel
is an old simile but I do not know a
better one. The infantis but a bit
of clay, lumpy, loppy, ready to be
made into anything at X11. The hand
of the potter IS all powerful with this
human clay as with the bit of earth.
i'oRMiNG OI-IARACTL'R..
Characteris f rm
s for ed thl+ough habit.
Habit of thought, of act, ..af deed.
And habits are formed ininfancy,
childhood and youth. This is the
molding period. Then the clay is wet,
pliable. If the potter lets his clay
harden it must be wet up again and
TRAINING SHOULD BE POSITIvE.
Child training should be positive in=
stead of negative as far as possible.
Of course if a child contracts a bad
habit that habit must be broken. Or,
in other words, he must be given a
good habit to take the place of the
bad one.
Reading is a habit formed in child
hood or never. Church -going is a
habit that must be begun early and
kept to steadily through youth. Ser -
pt c
the weather, The inside cleat rested
upon one below it to support the
roosts at the desired height.
When cleaning time came the own-
er -just
wner-just pulled out the roosts their full
length, supporting them by a stake
underneath, and proceeded with the
cleaning outdoors. When finished and
aired, the roosts were simply pushed
back into the building onto their in-
side supporting cleat.
Artificial Light in Summer.
Although the use of artificial light
in the control of egg production is
largely confined to the late fall and
winter months, it has been found that
it is worth while to use some artificial
light as early as the first of August.
Observation of the way hens lay
leads to theconclusion that although
marked changes intemperature tend
to bring about corresponding changes
in egg yield, there is quite a tendency
for egg production to anticipate some-
what the seasonal changes in length
of day.
Spring egg production reaches its
peak considerably in advance of the
longest day of the year and the low-
est point of production comes some
weeks before the shortest day of the
year.
Reasoning from this basis one may
explain, at least in part, the favor-'
able; results in- ege laying which fol-'
low the use of some artificial light as
early as August,' while ' the natural
daylight still exceeds twelve hours.
Try �Short-`Chain.
..,� l '
An eight -foot log chain has been
part of my farming outfit for six
years. I had a grab hook and a round
hook welded on the ends.
I use this chain four times where
I use the twenty -foot ones :once.' It's
easy to carry, quick to hitch on any
tool and will stand any pull.
Wlien I take a few sacks of fertil-
izer to the field and want it moved up
to where I work, the short chain
quickly connects to the drill and the
wagon moves where I want it without
unhitching. This chain will get a load
of poles or a log . where I want it
easier than a long one.
Maybe you've broken a chain which
can be fixed up into a short one.
You'll never regret it.—E. -R.
Home Education
"The Child's Flat school 1s the Family"•—Frontal,"
Wet Blankets-- •
Agnes ...rushed excitedly into the
room, intent on telling the family
about the tennis match. She had not
finished two sentences when Jack, who
had reached the fastidious stage in
his existence, interrupted.
"Gee, you're -a sight! Mother, can't
you make her fix her hair better? It's
forever tumbling down; other chaps'
sisters don't look the way she does."
Mrs. Norris said gently, "Jack, let
Agnes tell her story."
Agnes made a grimace at Jack, but
went on with her tale, an account of
the game, she had won_ against odds.
She was making a verygood narra-
tive of it, but now it was Big Sister
I who said, "Don't talk so fast. No-
body can understand a word you say."
Agnes ignored this too, but when a
minute later her father remarked
mildly, "Daughter, bully is not a nice
word for a young lady to use," the
child, already overwrought with the
strain of the game, burst into tears,
y Ethel.: G. Peterson -
I.,would rush in all eagerness to
share my news with 'Mother. Prob-
ab:y her first ,comment would be,
"Alice, your voice is several 'octaves
too high. Get it down."
A little subdued, T would recom-
mence, only to hear, "That word is
accented on the first syllable, not on
the second."
When I had been stopped several
times in that fashion, my enthusiasm
had evaporated. Mother, noticing
this, would laughingly say, "Now go
on and tell me about it. I simply
wanted to call your attention to that
word before I forgot.'
And many times I too flounced out
of the room with the silent resolve
never to tell Mother anything again.
Now, I know that it was Mother's
love for me, her deep desire that I
should excel, . that -made her critical,
but to this day I have a fear of her
criticism of any talk I may give, or
any article I may write -the -childish
impression is still too strong, And
as a consequence, Mother has been
hurt many times at my reserve over
my personal affairs.
So I have firmly resolved that both
for my sake and theirs, I will not
"wet blanket" my children's first en-
thusiasms. If criticism must come,
let it be later, after the first excite-
ment has worn off.
and left theroom, sobbing out, "When
I tell you folks anything again, you'll
know it."
The family commented in resigned
tones on Agnes' dreadful temper, but
my sympathies were all with the .girl,
for I remembered my own childhood.
I was the intense, emotional type, my
mother calm, reserved, and a purist
in the use of English.
THE CHILDREN'S
HOUR
IN .A11 the way, Jackie Rabbit was very.
ARE YOU' POLITE AND COUR-
TEOUS?
Are you courteous, day by day, and
do you make a constant effort to be
so? Even common courtesy and po-
liteness are not found as often as they
should be. And yet anyone Who is
cominuously courteous is making him-
self, thereby, very popt•'ar with every-
one :he meets. For courtesy and po-
liteness are great assets that often
have a real, monetary value. It pays
to be polite. A business concern,
where politeness and courtesy e: are
practiced, is • one to which customers
are naturally drawn. And, more than
that, it makes for acquaintance, and,
later, possibly, friendship: Also your
exercise of politeness'and courtesy at
all times will make you a lady, or a
gentleman, in the fullest sense of the
words, in the eyes . of, others. If we
wantao be workers;, wh ' o leave behind'
a "mark of progress 'and betterment,
we should be polite and courteous at
all times to everyone. It takes brains
to be clever, but it takes character to
be a real lady or gentleman. •
ON THE WRONG ROAD.
At the crossroads the sign post was
down, and Jackie Rabbit, Johnnie
Muskrat and Willie Woodchuck all
wanted to take a different road home.
But when Johnnie Muskrat drew the
longest in the."cuts" they started off
down the road he thought was the
one that would' take them back to
Woodland. These three little Wood-
land boys didn't like it one bit to be
lost, and hurried along so they could
get home. before dark.
CONQUERORSOF ROI3SON'S LOFTY PEAK
Members of the first parties of Al Lowergoup, right to left: Back row, reach the peak of Robson; A. I3. Mac -
pine Club members to climb Mount M. C. Getide,s, Calgary, who also took Csrtlzy, of Windermere, 13.C., who is
'Robson, 18,068 feet high and Monarch , part in. first asoent of Mt. Gentle, in credited with taking part In first act-
or .. ''anadian Rockies,s- ! , ,
o the LUpper lslzoi,ol rasps, National nazis, T, 13. Moffat, nal official ascent, Miss Annette I+7,
graph shows first art on snow ride Calgary; -1. T, Lainbart Ottawa; A.'
g p party g � y, , Buck, Bzoaltlyn, NX., and Harry
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at the summit of •Mount Robson, with, t rinuan, Calgary, and T,, 13. Porter,
Conrad fain, noted Canadian guide, Is • Saskatoon.
the lead. tine r right, Miss M. fl•, Front row: `,r, Saladana, guide and
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Gold, o4 df a member o the racket _W. A. n i
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much in. doubt about their being on,
the right road. Several times he .
scratched his head and. wondered.
Everything looked strange to him,
even the ^big trees looked different.
Willie ,Woodchuck didn't have much
to say about it, but he, too, was rath-
er doubtful and all the time his fat
little legs were getting more tired.
It wasn't long before they came to
where the woods were thinner and a
little way farther on there was only
here and there a tree. • :Finally they
came to the open fields where there
were no . trees at all. .
"I don't think this is the way home,"
said Willie Woodchuck, "mother :al-
ways taught me to beware of the open
fields. She said a man with a gun
could easily see, you there." '
"Don't be a coward, Willie," said
Johnnie, "Let's go on a little farther."
Soon they came to a village, buil it
didn't look at all liketheir own little
village in Woodland.
"This isn't Woodland," said . Jackie
Rabbit. "We must be a_' long, long.
way from home.'
"Yes( but: where where?" lAmenLeo
Willie Woodchuck."I'm getting awful-
ly tired. These houses,_;areaso :big;
twice as big as ours, and they are all
built on stones. I never saw stone
houses before. On the sign it said
•,Stoneyville, and this must be the
place. We must have come the wrong
way." ho lives in Stoneyville?" asked
Jackie Rabbit.:
"I don't know," said Johnnie Musk-
rat, "but. I'll knock at this door and
see if ,they can tell us the way to.
Woodland." '
It took a lot of courage for Johnnie
to go up to the door, but he knew he
should for it was his mistake. As he
went up the path, he was saying to
himself, "I won't be a coward." But
all the time his knees trembled and
he wished more than he had ever
wished in his life that he was home.
At the end of the path Jackie and
Willie waited for him.
"Rap tap tap!"
In a minute, but it seemed like sev-
eral minutes to Johnnie Muskrat, the
door opened and there stood a man
whomhis mother had always taught
him to fear. Of course Jackie and
Willie saw, him too.
It is hard to say who was more
surprised, the man to see these three
little Woodland boys in his front yard,
or the boys to learn that a man lived
in that big stone house. Added to the
Woodland boys' surprise, they were
terribly frightened. To think that one
of them had dared to knock right on
a man's door!
But they didn't stop one minute to
consider it or to ask questions. They
took to their heels as fast as they
could go, dodging behind bushes and
bunches of grass until they had left
Stoneyville far behind.
Feed the Pullets Liberally.
It is easy to make the mistake of
not feeding pullets on range all that
they ought to have at this season.
n the .first place they are, or should
e, growing rapidly. This inesus that
heir ,reinirz.ments for maintenance
re increasing steadily, Furthermore,
he natural feeds that have been
available to them :are no longer so.
p:entiful.
It is probably true that thousands
of pullets will fail •to give maximum
egg production this fall because of
oo little feed during the last of the
rowing, season. Nous will be in-
ured by overfeeding.
Especially should liberal` grain
ceding be practices] in order to keep
he pullets in good flesh and to pre -
are them for winter egg production.
In looking for a place to sell fruit
microscope is a good instrument to
se, states one successful farmer. It
may be there are people c.oge by who
would be willing to pay a geed price
or fruit if they knew about;
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t+I coinera to B.obson's peak to se- f
cure the `first pictures of a climbing
the molding begun ober. Witli the 'third party to reach R;obson's summit; Mrs. W. A, i3, Munday, first woman. to
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