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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 Pol- 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 nonton t . , Gold, o4 df a member o the racket _W. A. n i G E fD. ri ands Vanco vat i rpacker:y, u , ria tyatthostzmntit.--- C 1`1.Ct, photos. 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; I b t a t t g f t a u lard, Calgary photographer, who pack, - 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 p Russia in Europe and Asia hat opulation of about IdA,000,114(),