HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-12-03, Page 7BY W. Pi KIRKWOOD.
Does it pay to pick stone? Some- it has been blown out of its soil bed,
times it does and sometimee. it doesn't..
If the stones are not too large or too
deeply imbedded, clearing up a piece
of stony land may be one of the least
expensive ways of adding to , one's
productive acres. But if the atones
are large and lie deep in the soil,
clearing may prove more costly than
buying additional acres.
it is sometimes 'advisable to de the
xnud-capping and beforehand
-after the earth around the rock has
been .dug away. There is less clanger
in this, and the pieces do not scatter
so far and are more easily picked up
for leading on the wagon.
Maud -capping means the placing of
a charge of the explosive on the sue,
The 'equipment you need in going face of the rock in..a compact heap,
after a field of relatively small atones covering it with from eight to twelve
Tying near the surface consists of a inches, of stiff znpdr and then explod-
crowbar, a pick, a round -pointed, long-
handled shovel, chains, horses, &stone-
carrier, a stone -boat, a wagon, and a
lot of good, wiry human muscle.. A
little explosive, with caps and fuses,
should be used for the large and
deeply -grounded s'peeimens•.
In this equipment the only imple-
jag it. For this kind of work 50 or.
60 per cent. dynamite is best. If the
breaking is to be done before a boul-
der is lifted' out of the ground, by a
charge of lower percentage dynamite,
Bey 40 per cent, the soil must be dug
away from the stone all around and
1 1 down, to the bottom; to give room for
ment that needs explanation is the expansion.
Mone -carrier. This can bre made of Big boulders and the use of ex-
two pieces ofone-inch gas -pipe about plosives add .greatly to the cast of
three and one-half feet ion , with a stone -clearing. In some experimental
heavy network of strong Wire, about work the cost of clearing an area of
18 inches wide, between. If you have large stones ran to $102 an acre, On,
no gas -pipe, two stout wooden sticks this area 38 per cent. of the stones.
will do. A. carrier of this sort is very had to be taken out with explosives.
handy; lay it on the ground, roll the The remaining 62 per cent. had to be
stone onto it, and then two men—or pried out with crowbars or else mud -
four men, if the stone be large -can
lift it and dump it on �a wagon.
Three or four men make a better
crew for stone -picking than two,` if .ing of another field, containing an
there be need of pushing the work average of 524 stones to the acre
rapidly. In any case the larger crew against 260 for the field of larger
makes the work easier. Twa nen can stones. In this field most of the stones
loosen the stones and drag out the could°be removed with picks, shovels,
larger b01ilders with horses and chains and orowbaes, and the cost was only
while one haul's, and another can fill $16 an acre. In other words, the field
up the holes when not needed to help of smaller stones, though it contained
load. more than twice es many was cleared
The first thing to do is to loosen the in fess than one-sixth of the expense
stones. Most of this work can be done of the other. In this field only 3.8
with crowbar, pick, and shovel. The per cent. of the stones had to be pull-
tougher
ulptougher cases can be hauled out with ed out of their beds with a team. The
chains and horses, after the ground stones were not trifling; however. Of
around them has been dug away. Here! the 524 to the acre, 256 could be
and there, however, is likely to be handled by one man in loading, 118
found a big fellow which even horses required the muscles of two men, and
can not budge. When this kind of al 150 needed even more muscular
specimen is encountered, the only energy than two -men could command.
thing to do is to use dynamite or some A stone -carrier was used effectively
similar explosive. in the clearing work done in this ex -
Usually the employment of dyne- perimental work. The work was fur
Write means putting a charge of about ther lightened by the use of a plank
40 per cent. dynamite under the stone in unloading stones from the wagon
to blow it out of the ground and then to the rock pile. With this it was pos-
mud-capping with 50 or 60 per cent. sible to roll large boulders from the
dynamite to break it up. Better re-
sults are obtained with a smaller am-
ount of explosive if the mud -capping
and cracking are done after the stone
Is out of the ground. Work of this
n kind has to be done with care to
avoid flying fragments of rock. While
it is easier to break up a -stone after explosives, caps end fuses
capped after the ground around thein
had been dug away.
Contrasted with this was the clear -
wagon to the top of the rock pile and wind began to rise which blew tl
thus build a higher and more compact two balloonsabackward and forward.
pile than could have been made ether-
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Substitutes for Green Feed
in Poultry Feeding.
leering the winter months, when it
is sotnettimes difficult to gel; suitable
green feed for poultry, certain substi.
totes may be used. In order to test
the relative values of cover heavies,
sweet clever -meal, alfalfa meal and
tomato pulp for this purpose an .ex-
periment was conducted in 1928-24 bar
the Dominion Poultry Husbandman,
at the Ottawa Experimental Farm.'
One pen was given clover leaves, fed
in the hitter -once a day, another' was
given clover meal mixed in the wet
mash fed at noon, a third pen receiv-
ed abfelfa meal' in the same way, and
to the fourth pen tomato -pulp mixed
in the wet mash was fed. Allc • the
hens ' were fed a standard scratch
grain and standard mash, beef 'scrap
was kept continually before them, and
they had both milk and water to
drink.
The '&lover nieni gave by far the
best results for production, cost of
producing eggs and profits. Tomato
pulp came second, alfalfa meal third
and clover leaves, last. The hatchabil-
ity of the eggs from the birds fed
tomato pulp was, however, exception-
ally poor.
Rats and Fruit..,
With even the most diligent care,
the storage house will sometimes be-
come infested with rats or.mice.
Apparently once they get started
on an apple or pear diet they become
confirmed enthusiasts, and any other
feed meet be tempting to induce them
to touch it.,
The meet hopeful plan of attack is
to start •a many-sided campaign, put-
ting out simultaneously two or three
aerie of traps and several kinds of
poisons; each kind conveyed on two
or three different baits. This is fax
more effective than putting out one
poison one night and another the next,
and a trap the third, for the enemy
seems to soon learn that we are after
him and Is more wary than ever:
Guard the Register.
,In homes where there is a pipeless
heater or any kind of heater which
requires a register in the floor, i she wanted her mother to meet some
articles of v'a'lue are sometimes drop- of her newly -made college friends, so
ped through the grating. Mrs. Brown, the two of them went calling on these
who had such a register, had her bus- ' friends in their • coons,
band fasten a piece of wire netting In the room of one of he daughter's
over the register. This can be "sew- friends the mother sat .and looked
ed" on by running fine wire through about but. said little. As they came
it and the grating and pulling it down away she said, "I hope you do not,
snugly, or, if the exposed wire is un- under any condition's, make e confi
sightly or there is danger of marring dant of Hellen. She is bright and has
the floor, the top of the register may attractions, I will admit but ..."
be removed and the netting fitted to "Why, mother," exclaimed her suar-
the underside. • prised daughter. "She is a peach of
a girl! One of the most popular girls
Irish. in the whole college."
foreman looked him up and "Well, I was thinking of the pic-
"Are you a mechanic?" he
TOWER 4F PI SS
The Mind May"Be Like the Pictures the Eyes Enjoy.
BY JOHN W. HOLMND.
I ish thatreader of this had thoughts like the pictures they
w every
page might read this &•tory. It made had chosen and at which they
me do some hard thinking about LOOKED.
real things.Not long ago a certain school boy?
The mother of a bright college girl began to slide down in his grades.
recently went to seeher daughter and Flimsily he was "flunked" and left the
spend a few .clays en the campus. Thee school. A teacher who loved the lad,
girl tools, especial delight in bnking hunted hire up and visited him in his
hermother to see the eights and hear room.. One look around the room res-:
g veiled the reason of the seholastic'
the sounds of college life. Of course felluxe of the youth The walls of thei
resen were literally papered with pie -
tures of
ia:-tures'of vulgar suggestions. Without
a doubt the pieturees got between the
lad and his school books so that his,
brain cells did not care to "bother
with" grammar and rnathematics.
WHY HE "•UI.ED.
Students of psychology tell us that
we remember a greater. amount of
what we see than of what we hear.
The percentage is something like
three times as much. If that is true
then we are just about what we SEE.
There is a record of a very Old prayer
that ran like this: "Turn away mins
tures she has in her room. Every- eyes from beholding vanity (what-
thing is suggestive of •nudity and some
of the prints she has are positively
vulgar. I am wondering 11 her
thoughts are not a good deal like her
pictures?"
"I never thought of that," admitted
the daughter, who knew she had every
reason to trust her mother's judg-
ment.
They went to the room of another
girl. Here, as before, the mother
keenly took in the general tone of the
room. On the wall of this girl's room
hung a picture of Sir Galahad, and
another of Watt's "Hope." There also
were various high minded mottoes and
baeutifully lettered sentiments on the
wal•Ps.
As they left the Hall the mother
said, "I like Ethel! I am glad you and
she are such good friends! I am sure
that your father and I would be glad
if she could come and spend a vaca-
tion week with you."
"Well, Mother! And what gave you
such a case on Ethel? She is not so
wildly popular in College and is a
perfect 'grind' at her books."
Said the mother, "I noticed the pic-
tures which she had in her room. I
imagine Ethel's mind is very like her
choice of pictures and sentiments."
The daughter said nothing but long
;afterward she learned that her moth=
er was right. These two girl friends
The
down.
asked.
• "No, seer," was the answer. "Oi'm a
McCarthy."
Weak and delicate stock are the
first victims of contagious diseases.
THE TWO BALLOONS
This is the story of two air balloons,
one red; and the other yellow. They
were given to Dick and Edie at a chil-
dren's party that they went to one
summer •afternoon. There was all
sorts of fun at the party—Punch and.
Judy, races, and donkey rides—but
more than all these they Moved the two
big air balloons that were given to
them by their little hostess as they,
were leaving.
Dick and Edie played with their
balloons till hedtime, and before they
went in from the garden they tied
them to the post of the verandah. It
was such a lovely night they thought
they would be quite safe.
After the children had gone in a
"What a grand night for -a5. fly!"
nse' said the yellow one. "One could fly
In counting the cost of these clear-
ing operations every item of expense up to the moon in no time.„
was included—man-labor, horse -labor, "But the children would be so sorry
to find us gone in the morning,” said
the red one, who was very kind-
hearted.
"Never inind the children," •answer-
ed the -yellow one.' "I want to see he
world."
Then a gust of wind came, and the he started for the earth. He found it
two balloons were torn loose and began easy to go down because the gas was
to mount up and up, higher and high- slowly escaping from him, through
er, till they looked like little specks. the opening where he had been tied.
It was getting dark, and lights were "Good-bye!" cried the yellow one,
beginning to twinkle .from the houses. "You are very foeiish and will never
Floating past a window, the two bal- I rise in life. But the reii one did not
loons saw a little 'boy getting ready hear—he was already out of sight.
for bed. He had with him a large Now the proud yellow balloon float -
wooden horse with a broken head and ed on till he was close to the church
no tail, and he was taking it into his steeple and the golden bird.
little bed to cuddle for company. "Good morning!" cried he to the
"What a silly little boy," said the weathercock, but there was no answer,
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tons per acre, but the latter having a
larger percentage of moisture con-
tained a...lower percentage of dry
matter.
On heavy clay the average yield in
green weight of sunflowers, during
the four years of the experiments,
was 19.44 tons and of corn only 9.53
tons per icrer In actual dry matter
sunflowers have .yielded 3.51 tons
while corn yielded only 1.85 tons per
acre. It is clear, the Husbandman
points out, that on such heavy land
sunflowers are a much more profitable
crop. Another interesting fact is that
on the clay land where the rows of
sunflowers were not thinned the yield
was 19.44 tons per acre, while where
thinned to six inches, apart the yield
was 14.35 tons per acre.
In the report, which can be had free
on rpplication to the Publications
:Branch, Ottawa; graphs are given in-
dicating at a glance the yields of
water, dry matter. and green weight
in tons of both sunflowers' and corn
on heavy clay and f;.rti1e sandy loam
as well as a great deal of other
valuable information.
The Fertilizing Value of
Wood Ashes.
Wood ashes may be used to advan-
tage as a fertilizer for most crops on
light and gravelly soils, or on vege-
table loams inclined to be sous. Thy
are especially valuable for clover,
corn and mange's or for orchards and
for grapes on sandy loans. In a new
pamphlet prepared by Dr. Frank T.
Shutt, Dominion Chemist, farmers are
papers from the woodshed to burn m advised to conserve this home source
the garden, I found in it, and kilned, of potash more careful er, not merely
a dozen half-grown mice. For several collecting the ashes from house stoves
days I have been trapping in the but burning the brush piles gathered
woodshed and in an upstairs store- in clearing' land and pruning orchards,
Getting the Rats and Mice.
With the coming of cokl weather,
the cellar becomes an interesting and
attractive place: ' The shelves filled
with canned fruit and other delicacies,
boxes and barrels of potatoes and
other vegetables, a collection of un-
ripe tomatoes, bins and trays of
apples, all look mighty good when
storms begin raging.
So thought Mr. Rat, for,he prompt-
ly discovered a secret passage to this
storehouse of mine. He evidently
thought he was established for the
winter, as he went about feeding sys-
tematically. Beginning on a large
Irish Cobbler, he ate a part of it each
alight. On a shelf I had arranged, for
niy own use, some choice apples of
several varieties. Taking a fancy to
an especially fine specimen of a King
of Tompkins' County, he ate a portion
pf that also each night. Not succeed-
, Ing in shutting him out byclosing
what was -supposed to be his entrance,
.secured a trap. Tying onto the pan
h bit of bacon, I waited for the morn-
ing. The bait was gone, but the trap
had not been sprung. After a number
of days ---during which I saw Mr: Rat
Several times—by carefully oiling the
parts of the trap, I succeeded in mak-
,
Ing it so sensitive that one morning
I found my quarry dead, caught by
the end of the,nose, There have been
no signs of rats about since.
Mice have been quite plentiful about
,the house—driven in by the :cold from
the garden and grass, where they
have been feasting on corn and other
delicacies. Taking a barrel of waste
xoom. The battle le almost over, and
I am looking forward to a peaceful
winter.
A good autumn sbgan for the vile
lager and the farrier is "Death to than ashes, as their content of potash
rats and mice.]' Keeping this in mind, is in a soluble form and immediately
and acting on it vigorously, much available for crop use, and besides
good food" will be saved for poultry, they neutralize acidity in soils. The
and saving the resulting ashes. Stor-
age in •a shed or receptacle protected
from the weather is essential There
is no more valuable potassic fertilizer
pigs, and people; and many buildings,
and much other valuable property,
will be saved from serious injury.
Corn and Sunflowers on
Different Soils.
Average yields of corn- and sun-
flowers for four years at the Central
xperimentaa Farm at Ottawa, on
sandy loam, have led to the Dominion
Field 'Husbandman expressing the
opinion in his 'report for 1924 that
there is no object in changing from
corn to sunflowers on land where the
foriner yields satisfactorily. Corn is,
moreover, he adds, an easier crop - to
handle than sunflowers and produces
is slightly better quality of silage. On
sandy loam the average yield in the
quartette of years, of corn silage Was
ashes from soft woods are lighter
than those frim hard woods, but Dr.
Shutt states that weight for weight
they are not much, if any, poorer.
According to the pamphlet, which may
be obtained free from the Publications
Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa,'
25 to 50 bushel' of wood ashes per
acre will furnish ample dressing for
even very might soils. On heavy soils
ashes are not needed as on such they
may destroy good tilth. They should
be broadeaSted on plowed land in the
spring, preferably on a quiet, damp
day, and thoroughly r harrowed in.
across a wide river. It was beautiful,.
for they rose so high the red one
thought that at last they must surely
reach the stars. Once the yellow one
got caught on the bough of a tree, by
the string which still floated behind
him, and he was held there for quite
a long time.
"You must wait for me," he .cried
to the red one. "You can't go without
me. You would never find your way
to the moon without me to show you
the way."
Another gust of wind set him free
and they flew on together. It grew
lighter; the houses and gardens be -
'came visible. The rising sun shone
on a gilded weathercock that was on
the church steeple, making it look like
gold.
"Look!" cried the yellow one, "I
shall fly and visit that beautiful gol-
den bird. I am sure he will be pleased
to see me, because we are the same
color, and it shows we are of royal
blood."
"I shall not come," said the red
one. "I can see a dear little girl sit-
ting in a garden below. I shall go
'and visit her. I like children better
than golden birds, so good-bye!" And
yellow balloon, "to take such a hard
toy as that to bed."
"He looks like a dear little boy,"
said the red balloon softly, "and I
think the horse is his oldest and dear- yenow balloon got as close as he could
est toy." `• to the weathercock, and 'vas just
On they floated, and passed the win- about to shout "Good morning" in a
dows of a large girls' school The very angry voice, for he thought the
dormitory windows were all lit up, golden bird very proud and rude, when
and they could see the little girls in it veered quickly round and' the end
their white nightdresses, and pigtails of its very sharp and pointed tail
down their backs, jumping over the pierced the side of the balloon. There
beds, and chasing one another round was a loud report, like a pistol shot,
the room. The door opened and a the poor balloon got smaller and
lady came in; all the little girls pop- smaller tin he was only a piece of
ed quickly into bed, and covered shriveled tissue, and then dropped
It only veered first one way and then
another with every gust of wind.
"Good morning!" again cried the
balloon, but no answer. Then the
themselves up. There was just one
tiny girl who had not time to pop into
bed, and she began to cry.
"Silly little thing," said the yellow
balloon; "there is nothing to cry for!"
"She is so tiny," said. the red one;
"and look, the lady has taken her on
her lap and is kissing her, so she will
be comforted. _ I am so glad."
Now they left the houses and were
out in the open country. They sailed
over fields and treetops•, and once right
Tho fat -content of milk varies
from month totnonth. It is highest in
Xoveniber, December and January,
and lowest in August, From then till
November there is a gradual increase
19.41 tons and of sunflowers 21.68 in quality and cjuantity,
rapidly to earth.
The red balloon had fallen slowly
and gently till he was just over the
garden where the little girl sat. She
saw it coming, and held her hands out
to reach it. Then she took it indoors
to show her father. He tightened up
the string on it, and so stopped any
more gas escaping, and all the sum-
mer it was the little girl's companion,
and helped to make her happy—and
so the red balloon was happy too.
ever may draw one away from that
which is best) ."
PICTURES THAT UPLIFT.
Ulysses said, "I am a part of all
that I have met." To much care can
not be taken by parents to see that
what their children meet through the
eye be of such character as will pull/
their minds to high and noble things.
We are animals without trying but
we are moral beings only through
conscious effort.
Every eye that read this page will
see in memory some picture that hung'
on the walls of the old home—perhaps
a picture of a beautiful landscape, a
scene portraying love -and true affec-
tion, a country road winding past al
home or a church. There it hangs
before you, forever in your mind,
forever a part of your life.
Happy are the young people whose
parents have the insight to hang the
walls of their early homes with noble'
pictures.
Pictures were once the possession
of the rich few. Now the humblest
farm home can have prints of the
masterpieces for a few pennies. Alice'
Cary said:
"Of all the many pictures that hang.
on memory's wall,
The one of Home and Mother is the
noblest one of all."
ik
an afternoon and evening function. It.
may be made sleeveless or with ,short,
sleeves and is- fashioned of figured'
velvet, having two semi -circular side
draperies of plain georgette, through,
which the design of the material is
plainly discerned. The draperies are
placed one above the other, and are
stitched to the frock across the top`
and'down the sides about three or four
inches from the edge, leaving the ends
to fall in graceful cascades. The V
neck and long unbroken line at centre
front and back are particularly be-
coming to the figure of large propor-
tions. No. 1233 is in sizes 36, 38, 40,
42, 44 and 46 inches bust. Size 40
bust requires ale yards of 36 or 40
inch material for the plain dress, or
5% yards for the dress with double,
side draperies. Price 20 cents.
The designs illustrated in our new
Fashion Book are advance styles for
the hone dressmaker, and the woman
or girl who desires to wear garments
dependable for taste, simplicity and
economy will find her desires fulfilled
in our patterns. Price of the book 10
cents the copy.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Pattern Dept.,
Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade-
laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by
return mail,
THE Glass -Topped Sills.
GRACEFUL SIDE
FLARE.
The window •srlis in my kitchen have
Double sido draperies are here been fitted with pieces of glass, and 1;
charmingly adapted to the matron, can now set pots of plants or flowers
and give lines of flowing trimness. on thein without marring the delicate
This type of frock is chic, distinctive gray paint. I also had •a piece of glass
and slenderizing, and will grace many fitted to the top of my white -enameled
. heat and Mrs. Saunders (centre) with (left to right):
Regina, Saslc. Dr. C. E. Sounders, discoverer of marquis wheat, a >
; erops
J. C. Mitchell, thrice winneur oa.tlre Woiid�s best wheat •irriae. Prof. Manley Cl>amplin, M. P. Tullis, cr ps
NWilri P. >I.Auld, deputy agricultural minister, and J. S. Field, winner of the wheat prize in 1920.
refrigerator, which pretects it, and
I can set anything on it without
harming the surface.
In the autumn I break off choice
pieces of ivy from the vines outdoors
and put them in water in the house,
where they_ throw out roots and keep
fresh all winter. They can then be
transplanted in the spring.—Mrs.:
J. T, M.
Turkey growers of Manitoulin Ise
land, Ontario, are determined to make
turkey raising one of the premier in-'
dustries of the Island end to this end
recently formed the Manitoulin Co-
operative Turkey Growers' Associa-
tion, for which incorporation is being
applied under the Ontario Companies
Act. Assistance in the work was
given by representatives of the Do-
minion Live Stock Branch and the
Ontario Department of Agriculture. •
Icelandic blagnosis.
Formerly criminals in Iceland were
put in the lunatic asylum. Tho Ice -
lenders could not understand any toe
being so foolish as to commit a crime
and being an exceedingly kind,-heartf
folit thought all criminals must be '
carte,
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