Zurich Herald, 1919-07-18, Page 5LOCAL MARKETS
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IlUtter „ , 40
Dried Apples 00
Potatoes per bag 1.25
Wheat ------------------2.00-2.11
Barley ... 80
Buckwheat ,.. 1.00
Flour 4.50-0.10
Bram
38.00
44.00
Live Hogs Tob Hama11 _. 21:00
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FORAGE CROPS FOR PIGS
Raise MI the Dairy Calves You
Possibly Can. _
We should ii:Tive to Double Our Cow
Population In the Next Ten Years
—More Immediate, and Larger
Cash Returns, Secured by Sale of
Milk Than .of Crearn Where Loca-
tion Is Favorable.
(Contribu(ed by Ontario Department of
Agriculture, Toronto.)
F.
- OR the farmer who is raising
hogs, one of the greatest
problems is summer pasture.
A new luxuriant growth of
green .grass is soon eaten off when.
the dry hot season comes and it is
just at this time when the stockman
needs some form of eueculent feed
for his stock. When the stock are
running on pasture they are .getting
bade to nature and there is nothing
like good green feed as a conditioner
for the animals.
As for forage crops in this coun-
try alfalfa and rape seem to give the
best results, although anything that
will produce a good green growth in
a dry season is all right. Wherever
alfalfa will grow it gives the best
kind of permanent pasture for pigs,
as there is no danger. from bloat as
Is the case of sheep and cattle.
Alfalfa provides pasture for a great-
er length of time than any of the
grasses and Is green and succulent
even when red clover has become
somewhat dried and woody.
Heavy pasturing of altalfa, is not
good for it and consequently the
number of animals allowed to pas-
' ture on it should be restricted and
Z1ViCh the plants should be allowed to grow
up and. be C la two or three times a
.1•••••............00nsanaemsgsocovelomornmm•Mso.... season, Pigs, fed corn alone on al-
falfa pasture, make fairly satisfac-
Delaware & Hudson Co.'s tory gains since the protein in the
alfalfa helps to balance up the de-
ficiences in corn, although for best
results a little of some nitrogenous
concentrates should be fed. Red
clover in the country gives very ex-
cellent results as a pasture for pigs,
for the reason that it can be grown
in a great many localities where
alfalfa cannot be raised at all and
consequently it's great value. At one
of the Experimental Stations in the
States, red clover was inferior only
to alfalfa, while at another it was
found that it was surpassed only by
alfalfa and rape.
As an annual pasture for swine
nothing Surpasses rape. It can be
Of fice—No. 10. sown both early and late in the sea-
son and as a consequence forage may
be provided for at any time. To get
the best results from rape, it should
be sown in the spring and allowed
Bring your picnic parties to the to obtain a height of twelve to four -
Pavilion on the Beach. teen inches before turning the ani -
Special in. Care should be taken not
Special attention is being paid
to allow the plants to be eaten off
to picnic parti7s. Free tables and too closely as the young plants do
free hot water supply . not get a chance to recuperate. To
Enjoy the breezes right off the guard against this it would be wise
water. to provide a second plot where the
Drop animals could be turned in for a
time. Rape is also grown In con-
junction with oats or with oats and
-field pease, and some authorities
rank rape and oats next to alfalfa
and red clover for pig pasture.
For young pigs in pasture it is
not wise to force them to subsist on
what they can get. They should be
fed a little grain. Pigs that are be-
ing pastured for the purpose of fat-
tening latter should have a limited
grain ration, as this system of feed-
ing has been found most economical.
—J. C. McBeath, O. A. Col-
lege, Guelph.
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KILL ROADSIDE WEEDS
Cultivation Stores Water in Soli
for Crops,
GrasshoPpers Cheaply and Quickly
Destroyed by Treating With the
Poisoned Bran Mixture.
(Contributed by onterio Department
Agriculture, Toronto.)
STITCH in time saves
nine." This is especially
true in the case of weeds.
When one considers that
a single specimen of many kinds of
weeds may produce over 10,000
seeds, and that many of such seeds
may be blown far and wide by the
wind, one begins to realize just what
a source of contamination is a weedy
roadside, a fence corner or a waste
place.
In Ontario if is too common a sight
in the fall of the year to see a furth-
er busy with his fall cultivation, at-
tempting to clean bis field. and pre-
paring a good seed bed for. next
year's crop. At the same time on the
roadside near the field or In the
fence corners or some waste place
near it, such weeds as Perennial Sow
Thistle, Canada Thistle, Milkweed
and Wild Lettuce are maturing seedd
by the thousands, to be blown on to
his well tilled field and reseed it with
enough .filth to markedly lessen his
crop and increase his labor next year.
When labor is so scarce and when
the maximum quantity of grain
should be produced from every acre
under cultivation, no man can afford
to allow weeds to seed anywhere in
the neighborhood of his farm. "A few
hours spent now and again during
the summer cutting weeds on road-
sides in waste places and fence cor-
ners is a good investment for the
future, which will pay handsome dial- appearance, having faded to a more
dends in labor saved. and increased or less dirty yellowish or brownish
crop.—Prof. S. E. Howitt, Ontario color, These tops will be somewhat
Agricultural College. limp and drooping, and in some cases
where the disease is well advanced
will have dropped right over. if a
careful examination of the lower
stems of these affected plants is made
it will be seen that they are black-
ened and soft rotting. This black-
ening and soft rotting is more
noticeable below the soil than above
it. By carefully removing the :mil
from around an affected plant the
blackening and soft -rotting can us-
ually be traced to the seed tuber. As
a rule in such cases the seed tuber
will be found to be in a soft -rotting,
slimy condition, the soil immediately
beneath it being in a wet, peddled
condition due to the wetness from the
soft -rotted seed tuber. In such cases
the disease in the plant has developed
from an affected seed tuber and. pass-
ed up the young growing sterns, cans-
ing them to discolor and rot and
eventually to fall over dead or dying.
Sometimes all the stems in a hill will
be affected and the whole plant die
down. Sometimes, however, only a
few of the stems will be affected and
•the remainder will appear to develop
normally. If the season is a dry one
a number of tubers may be produced
GRAND BEND SUMMER
RESORT
us a card;
E.C.ECCLESTON.
DRINK A GLASS
OF REAL HOT WATER
BEFORE BREAKFAST.
Says we will both look -and feel
clean, sweet and fresh
and avoid Illness.
Sanitary science has of late mad
rapid strides with results that are of
untold blessing to humanity. The lat-
est application of its untiring research
is the recommendation that it is as
necessary to attend to internal sanita-
tion of the drainage system of the hu-
man body as it is to the drains of the
house.
Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise,
splitting headache, stuffy from a cold,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stom-
ach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a
daisy by opening the sluices of the Bra-
tei . each morning and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag-
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
well, should, each morning before
breakfast, drink a glass of real hot
'water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the stom-
ach, liver and bowelthe previous
day's indigestible waste, sour bile and
poisonous toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into, the stomach. The action of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
smempty stomach is wonderfully in-
vigorating. It cleans out all the sour
fermentations, gases, waste and acidity
and gives one a splendid appetite for
breakfast. While you are enjoying
Your breakfast the phosphated hots
-water is quietly extracting a large vol
-
true of water from the blood and get-
ting ready for a thorough flushing of
ll the inside orgaes.
The millions of people who are both-
ered with constipation, bilious spells,
abaraaeli trOuhle, rheumatic Atirrness;
ethers who have sallow skins, blood
disorders anti sickly comPlaxlerle are
strged,te.get a quarter pound oflime•
one phosphate from the drug Store.
'This will coot verY little, hut la sufn"
tient to make RUYON) a pronounced
Clink on the subject ot futernorow
UMW,
TRUWORTHY
.1•—•16
(Enrolled and Inspected)
Bay horse, foaled 1916, standard
and registered, Vol. XXII. Bred
by the late John L, Snyder, at
Park Farm, Springfield, Ohio. Si-
red by Ortolan Axworthy, 3 year
old record 2,074; Dam, Trussoca,,
2.07 by Moko. Dam of Trujolla 2
yeav old record 2,20X, raced in 2.07
at three years. Last season as a
two year old, Truworthy trotted
the farm half mile track in 2.27.
Truworthy was broken to harness
in May in his yearling form and.
trotted a quarter In 38 seconds
one-eighth in 18, with no intention
of searching him He is gaited to
go very fast and he has the Wolin -
atoll to stay on the trot and do
the right thing at all tines. Be
its one of the first crop of foals by
Ortolab Axworthy 3 years, 2.0734,
and considered by many the best
individual son of his sire, Axwor
thy 3 years 2.151/n Remember the
.Axworthy Moko cross produced
the world's champion the Real
Lady 3 years, 2.03. Don't miss
seeing Truworthy as I cannot say
too much for him, TERMS—Will
stand at his own stable at Hills
Green at $15 to insure a living
foal.4BOROE B. TROOYER, Prop.
acres. It Will be well lo -make an
inspection three or four days later,
and if there are many survivors to
Make a second, application.
It Is important to attend to this
matter as early in the season as the
young grasshoppers aro noticed, and
not to wait till they grow big and
have caused a considerable amount
of damage.
The same means may bo employed
for the control of cutworms, making
the application wherever the worms
are observed just before dark in the
evening.—L, Caesar, B.S.A., Provin-
%Jai Entomologist,
TUBER DISEASE DANGER
Blackleg Decreases Potato Yield
Thousands of Bushels.
Raising Pork Is a Profitable Sideline
on the Dairy Farm — Expert
Advises One Brood Sow for Each
Ten Cows on Average Farm.
(Contributed by Ontario Department of
Agriculture. Toronto.)
LACKLEG of potatoes is a dis-
ease that has been causing
heavy losses to potato grow-
ers in many districts during
the past few years. As the name of
the disease implies, there is a black-
ening of the lower parts of stems of
the potato plant affected. . Accom-
panying the discoloration there is a
soft rotting condition followed by
shrinkage and death.
The disease is usually first noticed
in the young growing crop when the
plants are from four inches to a font
high. In looking over a field in
which the disease is present, it will
be seen that the tops of certain plants
have lost their bright dark green
Conserve the Soil Moisture.
Moisture is the most- important
soil property. Without it a crop is
absolutely impossible, no matter how
much fertility may be present. With
the proper amount large crops are
obtained, while on the other hand if
moisture is excessive or deficient the
yield is diminished according as the
excess or deficiency increases. If all
the water necessary for the produc-
tion of a full crop could be collected
on the surface of the ground at one
time, it would be from 18 inches to
24 inches deep, depending on the
crop and the season! During the
growing season only 10 or 12 inch
of rain falls in Ontario, and this is
only half the amount required by the
crops. Hence it becomes necessary
to store up in the soil as much of the
winter and spring rains as possible,
while at the same time guarding
against excess.
The amount of water a soil may
contain depends on the pore space in
the soil. Sands have least pore
space, loams and mucks most, and
clay is intermediate. The porosity of
a coarse sand is about 35 per cent.,
of a loam or muck about 50 per
cent., and of a heavy clay about 45
per cent. From these figures it will
be seen that a soil may contain near-
ly as much water as soil grains.
Since the plant roots require air it is
not desirable to have all the soil
pores filled with water; some free
air space must be left, hence drain-
age becomes necessary.
There are three ways that water
may be lost; first by run-off, second-
ly by drainage, and thirdly by eva-
poration. Of these three the greatest
is evaporation. It may amount to
half the total rainfall. As long as
the soil is wet in the spring we want
all these at work, but as soon as the
soil is dry -enough for cultivation we
want the losses cut off. And cultiv-
ation is the only direct means by
which this can be done in. summer.
Cultivation should begin just as early
as the soil is dry enough. To delay
one week may cause the loss of as
much as 1 el inches of water, and
this is as much as falls in the month
of April, a very serious matter when
the needs are so great and the supply
so limited. In the fall of the year
cultivation should be deep to increase
absorption and retention of water;
in the spring shallow, in order to
produce a dry layer of soil on the
surface to cut off evaporation.—Prof.
W. H. Day, Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege.
A Cheap and Efficient Method of
Controlling Grasshoppers.
Grasshoppers may be easily and
cheaply controlled by poisoning with
the bran mixture, which is made as
follows: 20 lbs. bran, 1. lb. Paris
green, ee gal. molasses, 2 gals. water,
2 or 3 lemons.
The bran and Paris green should
be mixed thoroughly together when
dry. This should be done the night
before using. In the morning squeeze
the juice of the lemons into the
water, run the pulp and rind through
h meat chopper and add this and the
molasses to the water. Stir well and
then pour the liquid on the poisoned
brae and mix so thoroughly that
every part is moist and will fall like
sawdust through the fingers. The
mash should be applied early in the
morning between five and seven
o'clock, by scattering thinly over the
infested field, in the fence corners
NOTICE.
On and after this date I Mr. E.
D. Squires will not be held resp-
onsible for debts incurred i.)y my
wife, Mrs. E. D. Squires.
E. D. SQUIRES.
Dated. July 2nd, 1919.
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MilIM•0111111•,
on such plants which may mature
and appear alright at harvest, but if
the season is a wet one the disease
will spread to the tubers and cause
them to rot ID. a soft, slimy condition
before harvest, or If they are har-
vested before the rot is very notice-
able in them, they are liable to rot
in storage or to carry the disease
over to the next season.
It is tubers from such affected
plants which are mostly responsible
for carrying the disease over from
season to season and spreading it
from district to district. Such tuber.
if used for seed purposes, will give
a considerable percentage of black-
leg -affected plants. Consequently,
the greatest care should be taken in
the selection of seed tubers. If any
indication of rot, either wet or dry,
is found on a tuber, or any brown
discoloration of the potato tissue
when cut into, it should be discarded
and not used for seed purposes.
Though spraying with Bordeaux
Mixture will help to control fungus
diseases, such as late and early
blight of potatoes, it is of no use in
controlling blackleg. Blackleg is a
bacterial disease that gets into the
plant either from an affected seed
tuber or from the soil. Tt works from
below upward and by the time it
gets much above the ground it will
usually have killed the plant. Con-
sequently, spraying the tops of po-
tatoes 'will not prevent the disease.
To prevent the disease developireg,
plant only sound, healthy, well -select-
ed seed and do not plant on land that
has produced blackleg plants the
previous season.—Prof. D. H. Jones,
0. A. College, Guelph.
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Farm Tractors.
Interest in farm tractors has in-
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creased rapidly in Ontario In the past
two or three years. In the early part
of this year the Ontario Department
of Agriculture held 32 courses on
farm power in different parts of the
province, and there was a total at-
tendanee of 12,270. No greater in-
terest has been shown in courses ea
and on roadsides where the insects axty other subject, and much useful
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