HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-03-11, Page 6SOME COMMON POULTRY
MEDICINES
About Which Every Poultryman Should Know,
BY EDWARD A. WILLIAMS.
The following kinds of drugs and hours and then dissolve the salts is
remedies will often be ,found use'fui in warm water and pour down the birch's
poultry plants whore sick birds of;throat, •
considerable value are teeated, or in y Cottoes ed oil and olive oil are use-
any plant for the treatment of a flock.1 ful when hens are egg -bound, for
They Should be kept in a small cup -1 diarrhoea, and for ' external and in-
board, where they are available at all' teased use in dressing torn flesh and
times bound -up crop.
Calomel is a very useful alterative, Bichloride of mercury, a one to one
n diciee for fowls of all ages: One-; thousand bichloride solution, is a
grain pills are usually used, One germicide and disinfectant for extern -
fourth grain is a good laxative. It has al use, cleansing and preventing in-
avery good effect upon the liver. It fection. It is highly poisonous, and
should be followed in two hours by a to prevent it being mistaken for
dose of castor oil, water, it is well to color it with laun-
Cayenne is an excellent liver stimu- dry blue for identification.
lant when given in not too large quan- Medicines in tablet form are desir-
titles, In case of colds it is very use- able, because they are much more con
fel, and is often used as one of the venient and easily administered, when
ingredients in stimulants so often fed in a camped; form. They are admin -
to stimulate or increase winter egg istered very easily by holding the
production. • bird's mouth'o_nen with one hand, and
Catechn is often used to treat severe with the other thrustingthe, tablet far
cases of diarrhoea. The average dose back into the bird's mouth so it will
of eatechu is from two to five grains, be swallowed. The following four
and of the tincture from two to five drugs in this form are useful:
drops. Salicylic acid, two and one-half
i
Castor oil is one of the best and grains, for use in cases of rheumatism.
most common remedies for diarrhoea. Aconite root, one-tenth grain, for
This •iffiiction is often caused by some ; use in fevers.
sour or fetid mass in the intestine; Bismuth subnitrate, one grain, for
a lose of castor oil will oft - •r renxove • intestinal irritation.
this, and thus allay the die •rhoea. It: Iron, quinine and strychnine tablets,,.
is a'sc a valuable factor to aid in the : for use as a tonic. Dose, three per
reducing of an impact crop. A tea- day.
spoonful of castor oil poured down the! The following ointment may be
throat, and then the crop manipulated made by the poultryman, and will al-
until the softened mass is caused to,ways be found useful in treating cuts
move on freely and properly. and wounds of all kinds:
Epsom salts is one of the cheapest ( Oil of origanum, one ounce; crestol,
and most useful of all drugs. It is :three-fourths ounce; pine tar, one
especially useful in liver trouble and! ounce; resin, one ounce; clean axle
diarrhoea. Half a teaspoonful for a! grease (or vaseline), eight ounces.
grown fowl is a standard dose. It can I The axle grease should be melted
be fed by mixing in soft feed; but a and the other ingredients mixed into
much more effective plan is to allow the; the melted mass. Pour into a tin or
bird to go without feed for a few mould, and allow to tool.
= , may be had from it. Here most fail-
ures in farming occur. The elements
in, and the conditions of, the soil that
make plants grow, are too often not
carefully looked after; and in a short
period crops become lighter and light-
er, until profits are impossible.
By adapting a proper system of ro-
The other day a friend' heard a lec- tation, by supplementing the manure
ture during which a thought was ex- . output of the farm with Dime and fer-
pressed that gave him a new line of tilizer as needed, by regularly plow'
thinking. Thus it is that little seed's ing down green crops—by doing all
of thought from others often lode in these things persistently, one can keep
the soil of his fields fit for producing
profitable crops.
But all this requires a long-term
plan. To be a good farmer one must
look well into the future. Farming is
no hand-to-mouth job it requires vi-
sion. Good farmers are being reward-
ed now for practices started five or
ten years ago.
While soil may respond to a, ""shot
pie, is the corning into contact with in the arm," the most satisfactory re -
such thoughts. Reading also has this sults come from the right kind of
attribute. These thoughts, often from treatment continued over a period of
unexpected sources, frequently open years. If no definite soil program has
new lines of thinking. We enjoy en- been worked out, this is the season of
larging upon them in our own minds, the year to give the matter hard study.
and they often bring broader and bet- Proper handling of the soil is a farm
ter concepts of life to us. problem of the first magnitude.
THE GATES OF
THOUGHT
J
aur minds=there frequently to sprout
and grow thriftily. Ofttinies these
seeds of thought have been broadcast,
but they seemingly fell on barren soil
until, for some reason or other, per-
haps the manner of presentation, sud-
denly other seeds of the same thoughts
take root and begin to grow.
One of the great enjoyments, and
benefits as well of meeting other peo-
The person who deprives himself of
meeting other people singly or in con-
ference, or who deprives himself of
gaining thoughts through the printed
word, is shutting himself from the fin-
est and richest things of life. These
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Apples Affected by the Type
of Soil on Which They
Are Grown.
The type of soil on which apples are
grown has a material effect on the
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AWARDED MEDAL BY RADIO
or the first time in the history of the world, the award of a medal
for life-saving was made over the radio when, on the night of Feb-
ruary 17th, Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Rail-
ways, speaking from CNRO Ottawa, presented the medal of the Royal
Humane Society to Mrs. K. G. Polyblank, wife of a civil engineer in the
service of the Company. K.
Polyblank was in her home at O'Brien in the
northern part of Quebec Province and as Sir Henry Thornton, in Ottawa,
reached the appropriate moment in his address, the medal was handed
to Mrs. Polyblank who, with a number of friends, listened to the address
"through a receiving set installed in her home.
The deed for which the award was made took place at Long Lac,
Ontario, in the summer of 1925, Mrs. Polyblank plunging overboard from
a motor boat„;to save the young child of a friend who had slipped over
the side. Mrs. Polyblank swam to the child, maintaining it afloat, divest-
ed herself of clinging clothing, and calmly awaited the arrival of
rescuers, being practically exhausted when reached.
The photograph shows Mrs. Polyblank, in her home just after she
haul been presented with the medal,
MOTHER FLIGHTY AND DICKY DUCK
Mrs. Flighty a plump wistfully by until Mrs. said iu
Mother_ Hen. She lived with her seven a sympathetic voice, "Come, you poor
yellow downy chicks in a cunning little lonesome child. Come under my wing,"
house whose pointed roof's sloping and Dicky Duck looked so grateful
sides reached clear to the ground. that Mrs. Flighty smiled to herself.
And across the whole front ran four The next morning the sky was dark
slats of wood. end gloomy. The rain came down in
It was through these slats that Mrs.
Flighty peeped now and again one
beautiful morning. She was cleaning
off her side walls and the voices of
her happy little brood came in through
the open windows.
Suddenly she laid down her dust
mop and listened. A. hoarse voice
mingled with the peals of laughter of
her own children, and peeping out she I have my rubbers and slicker," said
spied a queer little stranger. Her bill Dicky Duck, as he took the basket and
was broad and flat and when he walk- list and waddled away.
ed he waddled from side to side not "Now, after all I think we shall
was
brown
Flighty
THE T. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY
BY MYRTLE JAMISON TRACHSEl'J,
After every tela has 'kissed the
blarney stone, you could have a game
to test the result. Arrange the ,girls'
chairs in one row, the men's facing.
them. Partners nee those sitting op-
posite each other. Pass paper and
pencils. Each player is required to
write a compliment to his or her part -
nee, At the end of five minutes the
"blarney" is read aloud and the player
whose production shows the happiest
•
any, lingering suggestion of foreplay.
The Players should be arranged in a
circle. They must then be numbered
off by counting 1, 2, 8, 4, 1, 2, 8, 4, and
ete., around the circle, Thea leader
then explains all theones are potatoes,
the twos cabbages, the 'threes corned
beef, and the fours onions.
The one who begins the genie stands
in the circle and calls out, "Potatoes
and .Qabbages" whereupon the pota-
results gets a small Irish flag as prize: toes and cabbages must quickly change
PIG'S EYE, seats. In the scramble the one in the
For the "Pig's Eye" game the girls centre tries to get a seat.' If he
are sent intq one room. A sheet with succeeds the player left without a seat
a very tiny hole in it is herd at the then cats out a„ different combination•
doorway. Each girl in turn shows an Any combination may be called and if.
call
eye at this hole and 'r yei inStew"—ten Cohs every one
the boys write the plone
down their guess as to who the owner
of the eye is. Nothing should show
but the eye itself so it will look small ,and other vegetables added to the
like es real pig's eye. It will be amus-
ing to discover that we may not know s"`"'''
SARDINES.
what sort of eyes our dearest friends
have. The boy who gets the smallest , This game can be payed best in an
number of correct could be given a j old of nooks, fashionedcowt house
and that has unexpeeted'1 coy
pair of old spectacles. If you care to
you could reverse the game and let ners. One' member of the party is
the giris test their power of 'discern chosen and given time to hide. Then
moat.
FAMOUS GUESTS.
If you want to try your hand at bur-
lesqueing you might let several. of
your friends in to the secret before-
hand and ask them to •help, First you
needsortie one to play the songs. You
could announce to the guests that sev-
eral famous Irish people had come to wish to disclose it to another player
the party. When the music is playing near him, he can go away for a few
minutes and then return when no ono
is looking. -
Each player then crowds in to the
gesture, he breaks the sword into hiding place and as the games go on
the players become packed in like
pieces.Then there's "The Wearing o' the• "sardines!' The difficulty of keeping '
quiet under such circumstances can be
Green." A very excited person could imagined.
rush in and tell in pantomime about
the hanging. "The Irish Wash Wo-
rrian." "Kathleen Mavourneen," "Sweet
must exchange seats. The company
may be counted, off in fives or sixes
g
all the rest o in search. The prayers
should separate as much as possible
and should not hunt in groups. If a
player finds the person hiding he must
take his place with the hidden one as
quickly as possible and mut try to
ai'oid betraying. the .hiding place to
the other players. If a prayers dis-
covers the hiding place and does not
"The Minstrel Boy" comes in. He has
a proud, defiant air and a huge paper
sword, but when he sees he is about
-to he captured, with a grand', majestic
MENU.
This is that mysterious sounding
Rosie O'Grady," "Mother Machree,,, menu that was to be served cafeteria
"Kathleen. Argon;" and others 'that style. The Blarney sandwiches are
you can think of might be acted out. made of brown bread baked in' round
CONUNDRUMS.
Conundrums with a basis of Irish
geographical names can -also be made
very amusing. Such riddles as those with shredded lettuce and oil dressing.
given below will form an entertaining They may be tied with green ribbon
series: !even though they`may not then seem
What city of Ireland floats? Cork. quite so much like rolls of• sod waiting
tins, with a filling of tongue chopped
with olives.
Sod sandwiches are ro'dled sand •
wiches made of white bread- spread
What part of Ireland is lowest, cos- • to be placed on a new lawn.
mographically? Down. I Shillalabs may be either cheese •
What part of Ireland is celebrated straws or candied orange peel.
for its eats? Kilkenny. ' Irish Greens are squares of green'
What part is it that no one of the gelatine in which are moulded canned
name of Dare may visit? Kildare. ! pears and white grapes. On the top
At what point is the weather -always of each square is a liberal' mould of
huge drops and formed little puddles good? Cape Clear.. !whipped cream tinted green with vege-
all over the barnyard. What .town should be a favorite table or mint coloring.
with milliners? Trim.
"Oh, dear, dear! - No food in the
If you'd rather have a sitting down
house and the ground so wet and not' What county is a female connection.supper you could have small cut-out
of th town ust named? •�1ntz ixn is d Sh
one of us with a pair of rubbers. I'll e o n j pigs for place care an use a Sham -
one
never be able to do my marketing!" (Aunt Trim). I rock—real or 'made of green. crepe
And Mrs. Flighty gazed anxiously out What Irish bay is . a good one for paper or evergreen woods -fern for the
detectives? Clew. centrepiece. Pennycla pipes filled.
of the window. ! p Y p �
"Oh, let me do your shopping! See, What town is like a pretty woman ' with small candles might be used as
caught in a" hog?•Be:fast (Belle fast). favors,
What Irish mountains lament the Nothing could be more appropriate
dead? Mourne. f than potato ;sled and served in a nest
Give little clay pipes tied with green of lettuce. Deviled eggs or cold boiled
' ribbons for the two c.eve.rest sets of tongue might be served with bread
at ail as Mrs, Flighty had taught her be happy to have Dicky Duck stays g g
children to walk. They picked their with us. He is so willing to help," answers• and butter sandwiches or in place of
i IRISH STE the tongue and eggs, sandwiches of
way along daintily and when they said Mrs.. Flighty. And.by the time � g gg '
spoke their voices were sweet and she had wiped up some puddles of I There is enough movement and lettuce, minded barn and pickles or
gentle, water that had leaked in, Dicky 171rck' scrambling in this game to break up cheese and nuts could be served.
"Flipper" called Mrs Flighty, who
s
contacts with thought cost little, but keeping quality of apples according saw the stranger, "come here at once."
add richassetsto1'f which44
came waddling back. Taking oft his
rubbers and shaking off his slicker
he hung then both in the corner to
eemed to get ver flustered when she lJ' their creations are those of tested
rrc life w rc none can Who is that strange child?" she
to a new bulletin on the cultivation
whispered leaning down toward him
steal, but we alone can dissipate. of thea e in Canada issued by the p g
apple After all, l+ife is but living, and liv- Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa. Fruit and keeping one eye on the stranger.
ing can be rich or poor, as we open grown on the lighter soils, it is claim- "Why, Mother, that's • Dicky Duck,.
or shut our minds to the great fund ofand he has dome .to stay," answered Mother Hen, smiling tenderly at him.
infinite thought available to us, Each ed by Mr. M. B. Davis, the -author, Flipper. So Dicky Duck lived happily with
is the gatekeeper of his own mind. does not keep so well as that grown •"Come to stay!" exclaimed Mrs. Mrs. Flighty, and when. it rained he
___ _may en heavier soils. However, too heavy Flighty. "Tut, tut, tut, tut -tut, and always did. the marketing while the
ew Plants Registered by the
clays which tend to bake should be who invited him? Did you, Flipper chicks and their mother kept dry and
Navoided. A sand, although not as de -
dry.
"Here aro .your groceries, Mrs-
Flighty," he said.
"Call me Mother Flighty," said the
Canadian Horticultural sirable as a good friable loam, is
Council. superior to a heavy, stiff clay. Apples
generally are adaptable to a wide
At a recent meeting of the Plant, range of soils but some varieties are
Registration Bureau of the Canadian quits exacting in this respect. The
Horticultural Council with headquaar- I Northern Spy does best on a moder-
ters at Ottawa, a number of new var- ; ately heavy soil with a heavy sub -soil.
Flighty?" • warn in the little house with the
"No, but he has come to stay. He pointed roof and sides that reached
says so," said Flipper, "and he's the clear to the ground.
rnos't fun."
"Shoo, shoo 1" cried Mrs. Flighty, An Ad Brought Me $100.
and shook her skirts as Dicicy Duck, I
who ran behind the little house and learned it pays to advertise when
' 1 t f Iplaced a small ad in our home town
ieties of hortxct tural plants wereBaldwins and Kings develop best on peelcecl out at mus. r'rigi y rom daily last fa'1 hoping to dispose of
eased for recordin Amon these g around the corner, '
pg. g lighter soils the color of both of these d h'
were a new geranium named "Crerar," t varieties being greatly impaired on
which was originated at the Central , heavy lands. The McIntosh is adapt -
Experimental Farm; a garden rhu- able to a wide range of soils, growing
barb of excellent quality named "Mac- well at Ottawa on light sand and in
Donald," a strawberry called "Van-' other parts of Ontario on heavy clays.
guard" of special earliness; "Viking"
a new raspberry, and "Logarne" a How I Swat Chicken Lice.
thornless loganberry. Besides these f Last spring I noticed that our hens
there are a new primula, a dogwood, were unusually lousy and the henhouse
an apple and two peach trees, a new; was infested with mites. I mixed
dahlia, and several other flowers, All; equal parts of crude oil and kerosene
these newly originated plants will now, and thoroughly applied it to the in -
be subjected to thorough tests in the terior of the henhouse, worked it into
trial gardens established by the Coins; all the cracks and crevices, spread it
cll. The Horticultural Council main -;ever the ceiling, the floor, the roosts
tains the =e trial gardens at the dif- end the nest boxes with a bucket spray
fere+nt Experimental Farms and Agri-, pump.
cultural C9o.Ie es and :ants sent by
I followed up in about rten. "Oh;" sighed Mrs. Flighty in a re- The most practical time to fight flock
g 'plants , days with a similar spraying. Phe ;ievecl voice, "Dicky Duck has gone iseases is before they develop., This
their origllaatora to the Council aro, kerosene penetrated the lumber and hisfamily!), Arid she called . • _ is
tested hi the gardens with a view to;lyack to y cvl_itetvaslr, vthich is also a etrong g d
the clad oil formed a coating over to her family to hurry, hurry: And' infectant, has been a help to me in
reglsbraation, if eatisfactory. By this the surface, making it inmpossibe .for theydid,though disliked up and
means rapid improvement is beingthere,hurry g they keeping nay Hoche of 3,000 hens
mites to live 1 the' new playmate
When they were almost home, Mrs. Slack one and one-half pecks of rock
Flighty glanced, behind her and was lime in four gallons of witer aid add
the crude oil and kerosene mixture.
leaving their
"I've heard of hens hav!n to bring g several bushels of potatoes an w ite
up duck children," she murmured to onions. I told the prospective customs4,
herself, "but I have too large a family , ex's that they might drive by in tire.
of,nay own to take care of any stran-• afternoon or evening and get them
ger. Besides, I do not care for him." . fresh from the garden.
That day Mrs. Flighty served lunch To my surprise nearly every cus-
early, and directly after started out toner wanted either some fresh_ to -
for -a walk, her family tripping along natoes, cucumber's, eggs, corn, green
daintily behind her, and anmong then beans (Gee, but how I sold the green
waddled the unwelcome Dicky Duck. beans!), butter and chickens. I could
When they reached the pond, Mrs. have easily sold ten times what I did,
Flighty, who worn a distressed frown if I had of had it. I sold over a
on her face, grew quite cheerful, I hundred dollars* worth as it was, and
The ducks were all in stviiiiuming I learned some things -I didn't• know.
blissfully, and when Dicky Duck saw a—Mrs, M. A. B.
then he sidled down to the water and% .
swam out to them. i A Henhouse Whitewash.
brought about in the quality and var-
ieties of flowers and other horticul- building tl_n hens came in contact wi
turned, pC•ants grown in Canada,
While on the roosts and about the coming:
A Big Farm Problem,
When, way back near the beginning
of things, the Creator made farming
the #fret business, Ile gave as its set-
ting a foundation that is altogether
different ;from that of other businesses..
Thio foundation is soil—a medium fill-
ed with life as wonderful as is the un-
conmprehexisible magnitude of heaven.
And, being complex and mystifying,
it is not easy to know how best to
handle soil, that satisfactory results,
dismayed to see .Dicky Duck cheerfully. two pounds of salt. Let the mixture
This r terns_Cee and id them f 1 n saved me the
lifting his little wings to help bin over Stand several Bouts, stirring' it now
work of handling each ben separately.
Mrs. B. A. N. •
sir
Two Cistern Ideas.
Run the overflow pipe in farm cis-
tern to within two inches of bottom
and the rains will keep the cistern
c"+lean.. Make a slot or low spot in
cistern bottom forth() necessary clean-
ing it must have, I didn't do these
things and so have more work to do.
E iL
the little hummocks of grass as he andthan until .a smooth Bream of lime
hurried along to join the Flighty is formed. When ready to spray, mix
family, in four gallons of lime-su;phue solo-
"This is almost more than 1 can tion and fill up the barrel with water.
stanch," said the Mother Tier_ impa
tiently. "If he only had a sweet voice
and walked more sedately 1 could
stand it, He is a nuisance)"
That night when all sevon of the with butter, sprinkle with flour, dash
Apply with a, spray pump.
Line baking dish with mashed pota-
toes. Put canned neat into this, dot
downy chicks were snuggled up undor of pepper and salt, Cover with ricer
their root
MEN'S AND YOUTHS' OVERALLS.
For work around the garage, or
general wear these. overalls will. give
excellent protection. Also motorists
-will find them a useful garment to
carry in 'the' car for emergencies.
Made in apron style, they have a Iarge
bib, and susp•eirders attached •to the
back -which button onto the.bib. There
are two cheep, roomy, set-in front
pockets, and two large patch hip pock-
ets, with handy rule pocket on right
leg. Striped denim or heavy khaki
are the most suitable nmateriais for
making these overalls. No. 1207 is
in sizes 34 86, 88, 40, 42, 44 and 46
inches breast. Size 38 breast requires
8% yards 27 -inch, or 3% yaeds'32-inch
material. Price' 20 ce_its,
Many .styles of smart appeal may
he 'found.
c.Jarr, xiesigners originate their patterns
in the heart o' : e sty .e eon res, an
popularity, brought within the means'
of the average woman. Price of the
book 10 cents the copy.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plaine
ly, giving number and size of such . .
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) fox each number, and
address your order to Pattern Dept.,
Wilton Publishing Co., 73 West Ade-
laide St., Toronto. Patterns' sent by
return mail.
See
Has Handy Scading Bench.
I have made a folding bench whieh
makes hog scalding easier. This bench'
is six feet long, three feet wide,'
twenty-six inches high, and is made
similar to a folding cot.
I used three -by -four hardwood for
the sills and legs. Legs are held in'
place with one half-inch bolt through'
each leg, six inches from end of sill.!
Two of the legs are inside of sills, and
two are outside, which makes it pos-
sible to .fold them back. The legs are
thirty inches long, with a cross -piece
four inches from the top to old legs.
from spreading. The top of bench is
made of two-inch elm, with one end
cut out rounding, in which barrel fits.
The real convenience of this bench
is found in handling heavy hogs. The
two legs can be folded back and the
hog pulled upon the bench to the other
end, when we raise the lower end and
pull the legs :forward. This makes it
easy to get, the liog in place to scald.
When not in use•it can be fouled,
and takes up little roam. --A, A.
A Winter Salad.
An appetising salad ,es eciall:
Pp b' r p I',
suited for luncheon or supper, is made
as follows: Mix together cold bailed
rico and half the quantity of cooked
green peas (eanne.d peas may be
used), Moisten thoroughly with any;
good boiled salad' dressing, to which .a
sprinkling of granulated sugar ' ie
added. Heap the mixture over lettuce,
leavee if lettuce is at hand, or else
garnish with • pimento olives cut in
halves.
hr's wing, Dicky Duck stood biscuit slough, and bake. f th ' t d