Zurich Herald, 1921-05-05, Page 2CONDUCTED BY PROF. HENRY G. BELL
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vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops.
Address all questions to Professor. Henry G. Bell, in
care of The Wilson publishing Company, Limited, Toron-
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In which they are received. When writing kindly men.
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G. M.: I would like' to know about Work this thoroughly into the soil by
growing alfalfa. The land is sandy .careful harrowing.
and dry, slopes to the south. Should W. W; How much does grain in
1 seed to alfalfa in the spring with corn silage depreciate in feeding value
gate, or would a fall seeding be bet- from time it is put in silo to the time
ter? Should I use lime and manure, it is fed? Corn dented and glazed
Dr both? What kind of alfalfa seed when cut. How does field corn com
should I use? pare with regular ensilage corn in
Answer: In Ontario, speaking gen- feeding value, foreautting in silo?
erally, it is wisest to practice spring Answer: Actual analyses of acorn
seeding of alfalfa. Two hundred miles silage show that ensilage is higher in
south climatic conditions are such that feeding value than is an equal weight
there is sufficient length of growing of green corn just cut. Provided that
season before the heavy frosts set in the corn is past the glazing. stage
for the young ,alfalfa.to make rooting. when it is put in the: silo, I see no
1 would advise seeding with barley, reason why deterioration shouad take
wheat or oats and my preference for place in the silo. As a matter of fact,
, next year's crop would be in the order the ensiling of oorn is carried on pre -
named. cisely to prevent deterioration. I do
After the ground is plowed, broad- know from actual investigations and
c:, at Hine at the rate of 1,500 to 2,000 from records of actual tests, that en -
lbs. per acre working this in with disk silage corn which has a :considerable
and harrow. An application of ma- per cent. of fairly well ripened grain
nure is very good practice at such a
time. When you are sowing the alfalfa
seed, apply about 250 lbs. per acre of
a fertilizer analysir_g 2 per cent. am-
monia, 8 per cent. phosphoric acid, and
2 per cent. potash. If you have a fer-
tilizer sowing drill this will give the
fertilizer the best application, if not,
sow the fertilizer broadcast as you did
the lune and work it in by harrowing
thoroughly. This harrowing can serve
to cover the grain and alfalfa seed too.
R. H.: I have five acres of alfalfa
sod that is getting too thin to leave
for hay any longer. Did not get this
fall -plowed and would like to know
if it would do to plow this spring and
to plant to potatoes? It is high, sandy
loam. Would you advise plowing
early, or wait until alfalfa got three
or four inches high? I want to culti-
vate one year and reseed to alfalfa.
I also have some new ground of high
sandy loam, which has been pastured
fore
1
ars, • that I would your ad-
vicey
Vlee as to putting to peas or beans.
Answer: It would be all right to
spring -plow your Iand for potato
erowing. I would advise 1 wing ass
arly ens the: land will workd#edeeidalee
4siner .a,aain..;na a seas.. nr- 'pe Tn
growing potatoes I would 'advise you
to apply 50.0 lbs. fertilizer to the acre;
use a brand analyzing about 4-8-4.
Fox the peas and bean land; after
spring plowing, work the soil down
- into a smooth seed -bed, following the
plowing immediately with about 1,000
lbs. of limestone per acre, this will be
worked in as you diisk and harrow the
field. Just before the beans and peas
are sown, broadcast about 200 lbs. per
acre of fertilizer analyzing 3-8-3.
Have YOB 110tiey tO rn
; Have you. money to 'burn ? Neitherin .the city. Hay, espe zany of the
have L Do you like totake a ff>,ii'•
new, crisp $100 bill :or':a bright'fresh
$500 Victory bond, set a match to'it
and watch it curl up in flame ? NeitheiF'r
do I '
clover and alfalfa vara.etles:, is subject
to spontaneous .Combl.stion, whether it
is in maws or staolcsi' The first cutting
of alfalfa .is 'believed to he the most
dangerous in this respect, but ,any hay
The Sunday School Lesson
MAY 1
Bible Teachings .About Education. Deut. 6 4-9;. Proverbs
3: 13-18, St. Luke 2: 40-52 Golden Text
Prov. 4 7.
The fact remains, however,' that thax is moist trout rant or dew, or not Connecting Links—The ideal, human were to learn to ltnow and love t'hel'
anadians are burning u money to- thoroughly cured bei'oro being put up, society will ;be intelligent, as well as God of their fathers. Moreover the
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d needlessly 'and inexcusably,' The is, likely to ferment and generate suf. industrious. It will value learning as tea:chfng was to be not ,'simply by
as y
• inOntario � alone, in 19 9 Relent heat to cause,a fire:: 'Phorougli • it values labor, It will seek the lessons learned m• school, but else by
loss from file O z ac n , 1 ,
drying in. before placinb• in the barnbarnand healthy .der*elopuieiat and growth of tape enol ,eonvers,ation, in the house
was $10,514,232, caused by a -total of
9,396 fires. Eighty per cent of the
fire loss is preventable, This means
that Ontario people burned up money
to the extent of $2,311, needlessly:anid
wastefully, each day in the year, An
end can not be put to this tremendous
waste too quickly.
Lightning has long been. suspected
-of being the chief cause of fires upon
the farm. This question of the financial
loss to farmers by lightning is most
important. Farm `.buildings are good
targets for thunderbolts. Because of kerosene .should be kept a safe dis- soul, both head and ]leant. The fine this fact,the house barn silo and all taaice front any; dwelling. No light of art of living togeclzer requires not
other strctures shouldbe rodded. Nor any kind should be permitted near to
merely diligence and skull, and of:ec-
hould the work stophere.Wire-them. No automobile or gasoline en- sfveness in toil but also goodie» and
ssympathy, and patience. We have
fences should be grounded. it is a gine should have its fuel tank replen- fallen upon 'times in which society,
well_ known fact that horses and cattle fished while running. It .should always both natioiyal and inteenational, has live a true life. See, especially 1: 7i'
g with a •storm be borne in mind that the vapor from become exceedingly complex, and the 3:1-10; and 8.
frequently drift alonb
Often a gallon of gasoline, when.mixed with .right ordering of it demands the high- Wisdom is here presented as the
until they come to sonic barrier.
ecomes air, has an explosive power equal to est wisdom. We have become familiar source of true happiness; as the great-
with'fence, all sorts of theories, some of est wealth, and the most prec_ous+ of
them exceedingly ,crude or even fan- all treasures, Wisdom promotes
tastic, of reform and reconstruction, health and long life, as well as• pros -
and have heard again and again the perity, and is compared to the tree of
cry of red revolution: Our safety lies life in. the garden of Eden. Those
in education, and a broader and better who ate of that tree would- live for
education, and 'an education founded ever, and so those who lay hold upon.,
upon Christian faith and morals. In �visdoni find life e:ter:nal.
an educated Christian people lies our • One •can understand from this how
hope for the future. it is that the New Testament writers
the addition of common salt will ren- the mind as well as of flee body. It
cher hay less likely to ovezheat. The:
will recognize that physical health
main: factors leadingto spontaneous and industrial efficiency are promoted
by education, and will seek the best
ignition of foods 'and fodders may rbe,xiieane and' instruments of education,
given, roughly; as moisture, bacterial filie 'trai.ning of its young folk will be,
activity, germination and storage i:n. together with the feeding and cloth -
large heaps. Where stared lots am-
ount to_some hundreds of toms, spon-
taneous combustion niay 'sometimes
be under way for two or three months
before becoming apparent externally.
ing of them, its chief concern.
But this training and education will
be twofold, having -regard for char-
acter as.well ase efficiency, and aiming
at the making both of good workmen.
and good citizens. It will seek the
and by the way, both evening . and
morning.
Prov. 3: 13-18. HaPt?y is the Man
That Findeth Wisdom. The flet nine
chapters of the book of Proverbs have
been appropriately called the "Praise
of Wisdom." The writer seems to
have been a teacher of young men, for
he frequently uses the term "My son"
in addressing his pupils.
Wisdom is to him the divine plan
of the world. It is personified as God's,
architect or "master workman." It.
The farm supply of gasoline and highest perfection of both mind and stand's for the divine order' in both
nature and human life, for both God's
work and God.'s will. A man's wis-
dom, therefore, is in seeking to know
God's will and to do at. It lies in
ordering his life according .to God's
plan, for thus, and thus only, can he
'charged with electricity under certain
storm conditions. If the fence in the
'open field is well grounded every 'ten
rods, and at every corner in yards, a
lightning streke will becarried. harm-
lessly into the ground.
Where grain is being threshed,. the kind. which burn slowly, are equally
machinery should be grounded to Pre- '
vent ignition of the dust from -static dangerous. Safety' matches, which
electricity. 'It should also be equip- can be ignited only by contact with a
on it, makes materially better feed ped wwith a spark arrester. Lightning prepared surface, are the only proper
than the same weight of •corn without plays tso many praml?s, and singles kind to use.
ears.i There is little difference in the .out the farmer too conspicuouslyas a The damage, wrought by sparks on
feeding value of various types of corn
victim, for any of these precautions to wooden shingle roofs calls attention to
provided that you pick a variety of be overlooked or ignored. the desirability of using some fire -
corn that will approach maturity at proof shingles on farm buildings of all
the time it has to be cut for ensilage While lightning is.thecliief cause of hands. These cost but libtle more than
This can be greatly assisted by apply- farm fires, it fs not the only one; by wooden shingles, to begin with; they
ing fertilizer high m phosphoric acid any means. After lightning come de wooreduce the premium on insurance
to your corn field. This additional fective chimneys and flues, 'sparks on policies .incl minimize the possibility
plantfood will hasten the ripeningof' wooden roofs, and matches smoking, of fires. The combination of a defec-
corn from a week to 10 days.
that of eighty-three pounds of dyna-
mite, -
Open lanterns should never be car-
ried about outbuildings or left to hang
where there is the slightest possibility
of fire being »caused by them. Parlor
matches, or the old-style "seven-day"
K. Ss F.: I have about three acres of
land where the muck has been burned
off, which ]1 sowed to sugar beets last
spring, but they didn't come up. Later
I sowed it to millet and it didn't come.
Could you tell me the cause, and what
to do for this piece of ground?
Answer: There are probably two
reasons why your cropsof sugar beets
and millet did not grow on the muck
soil that had been burnt over. First;
the burning left nothing but loose ash
which did not pack thoroughly enough
for water to rise through it. If such
was the case there would not be suf-
ficient moisture to - produce germina-
tion of seed. Second, the burnt -over
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4,awoal contain, .�
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'r laSit--
f0od. Theaternal which burned was
the nitrogen carrier. There is very
Iittle phoaphoric acid in muck soil and.
extremely little potash, therefore the
ash that is left is .poverty stricken
as far as plantfood is concerned.
About all you can do is to plow the
soil deeply, bringing. up a' little of
the subsoil. This, mixed with the sur-
face soil, will in time give it body.
You might apply 200 lbs. per acre of
fertilizer high in phosphoric acid and
potash. This will help.
Garden People.
The walks are swept, the carpets laid
I.i gray and brown; the beds are made.
Cur garden soon will ready be
1 .1r entertaining •company: -
Pete Parsnip, slim, and Bobby Bean,
And little Tillie Turnip -green;
Good 011ie Onion, sometimes tearful,
And Tom Tonrato, bright and 'cheerful:
:Late Cabbage, with a curly head,
.eknd Polly Pepper, dressed in red;
.Rob Radish, too, whose obey is brief;
And sweet Letitia Lettuce leaf;
Then Ruby Rhubarb, pink and flat,
And Susie Squash, in ruffled hat.
Round Peggy Pumpkin, hiding pies
Frain Pat Potatoe',s Irish eyes;
And little rosy Bessie Beet,
Wiiihall the eugiar she ,can eat.
They will not toil, batt day by clay
Well work for them in earnest ivrayl
Breed Draught Horses.
The future for the breeding of the
right type of draught horses should
be encouraging. There is a scarcity;
there is ae. increasing demand,—but
both of these statements refer to the
right kind of horse with size quality,
as the leading causes of 'fire. .Spon
taneous combustion is another deatdly
cause.
Shall we continue to burn up our
money on the farnis, wastefully,
shamefully, when of evert dollar that
we burn up eighty cents- c.oulddbe
saved and put to work •to increase pro-
duction and life conveniences.
The menace of spontaneours comib ls-
tion is fully as great on the farm as
tive chimney and a wooden shingle
roof is most dangerous. Usually when
an improp,extly constructed chimney
develops cracks above a wooden
shingle roof it is merely •a matter of
time before sparks escape through the
openings and, dropping upon the dry
wooden shingles, start to burn up the
house. The fermiers who neglect. to
prevent such a catastrophe aa'e'crimin-
aaly careless.
A half -pound she nkage she,
:..�:,. , , t ,,+,.''tee. •.,t
'&l�weSl•a'.F1n:,ci-+_11{' �b ��,..
of each dressed'heal ern '
fatteningshould
Fowls . cooped—for
he fed lightly three times a day for
the first week.. Overfeeding, especial-
ly at -the start, will cause a loss of
appetite .:'
Old -newspapers are handy for rub-
bing the dust off window -panes. Sun-
shine can not penetrate through dust
—and 'sunshine is important to the
health of fowls.
A box of charcoal niay stand -un-
touched
un -touched for weeks by many of your
hens. Use powdered charcoal in ;the
dry mash—it has to go down with' the
rest of the mash.
The brooder house floor should be
made of boards; if half-inch wire net-
ting is first tacked across the joints,
and the boards over that, rats will be
unable to gnaw through.
Clipping the wing -to prevent the
fowl from flying, is not .advisable, A
Destroying Orchard Brush.
Undot.iate:dly much damage as dome
to orchards by the insect pests and
Abe fungous diseases that, breed mi l:mu7.h them in learning it by heart (v. 6). and atnwash'ed places that vermin
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.' t1,�4 sire harbors yotorabbits �vht Fh The first Isdeclaration iss that Jehovah, breed andnev disease aces Let in the
a e•en0 is past• "til' young tteas. the God of Israel, "One" For light—open the windows ---this is the
Freshly cut orebore' nulsh° inay leaf' Israel'He alone is God. The, prophets light— for the unhealthy room. ' We
'out-and.form+a'breeding place for the'
very diseases that careful spraying is
necessary to prevent in the trees.
Obviously it does not pay to spray
brush piles so they must be destroyed.
This means that the best time to
destroy them is as soon after being
out as possible. Of oourse, green wood
does not burn easily but such piles cam
be burned by starting the right kind
Deut. 6: 4-9. Hear, 0 Israel. The represented Christ as the perfect ex
book of Deuteronomy, in its present
form, comes to us from the early part
of the seventh century before Christ.
It is a new edition, ;prepared by dis-
ciples •of the great prophets, Amos,
Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah, of the an-
cient laws of Israel of vehich Moses
was the founder. Its laws are on a
very high level, and are accompanied
by exhortations to obedience, based
upon love to God and gratitude for all
His great kindnesses to Israel. The
book makes love the strong bond
which binds Israel to .ehovlah, and
ample of wisdom, and the source of
wisdom to all who follow Him. In
Christ they recognized one who per-
fectly did the will of God. In Him
they saw perfect faith and perfect
obedience, and they sought to .be them-
selves led by His •Spirit. Christ cans
"the power of God and the wisdom of .
God" (1 Cor. 1: 24), and in Hiin were
"all the treasures of wisdlom and
knowledge hidden" (Col. 2: 3) . .
A true education, therefore„wi11 not
leave Christ out. The knowledge of
Christ, and of God in Christ, will be
makes love, therefore, the ruling mo- its crown and completion, Knowledge
tive of conduct for all good Israelites. without the highest wisdom would he
The section of the book included in barren and unfruitful.. St. Luke 2:
chaps. 5 to 11 has as its text the ten 40-52. Luke's brief narrative of the"
commandments (5: 7-21), and con- childhood of Jesus culminates in verse
tains a series of finely conceived and 52, where He is' presented as a healthy,
impressive exhortations to loving well-trained and well -brought -tip boy,
obedience, fidelity, and grateful re- advancing in wisdom and stature, and
membrane of G'od's goodness. in favor with Gcd and man, to a
The pas -sage before us is held in strong, intelligent, religious reel social
high esteem by ,all good Jews, and -is manhood.
committed to memory and recited by Application.
them. They Often carry oat literally In a new country such as -ours we
the commands' of v:ernes 8 and 9, writ- have to guard against many dargers.
i n strips oftin
pace
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h• 1 passage the ingthe whole enot h
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parchment and upon door posts. We ignorance. An igiiorazit pian is den -
ourselves w'ould do well to imitate gerous. It is in the dark, unswent
taught that'- He was God of all lea-
that
must maintain in our land an ag°gres-
tions, and Creator of the world, and .sive policy of: Christian education; we
that other so-called gods had no real .must keep the newcomers from South -
existence. ern Europe and from.: other countries-.
South -
The commandment, Thou shalt love where there is little education, well -
the Lord thy God is declared by Jesus informed. We are not afraid of the
to be the first and great command- light, we welcome it; but we have
nient of the len', and, is joined by Him every reason to dread the darkened
with Lev.,19: 18 and .34(Matt. 22
mind.
37-39).
Thou Shalt Teach. This i•s first of --
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all a command addressed to parents. The tracking of wild animals. ss
of fire. Do not try to build a little fire They are to teach the laws of rel great sport; but difficult unless one 1s
under the brush and expect it to Q•ion an l good morass to there ehilclren, able to ideai'tify ,the tracks. Boys .will
spread. Such fires will soon flare up
and die out and the time will be
wasted. First build a good fire at the
edge 'of 'the brush or the side from hi our application of it, all tliat Inc
which. the wdnd is 'coming. Feed the Bible teaches regarding our 'duty to
fire with sticks and dead orchard
God and to our fellow men. It is,
brush until a nice bed :of coals is evident from such passages as 4: 9
and Exod. 12: 25-27 that the teaching
foaming. Then the mass of green bush was to include the history as well as
can: be rolled over on the hot bed of the laws, and much of the history con- -
sound feet, and clean bones. The better method is to spread out ;,the coals and it can frequently be burned tamed in the Old Testament books
11 will haling f and cut the feather portion from in a short time It will not burn a,s seems to have been written with this
The reference is primarily' to the ten find realpleasure in 'Making a study
commandments given in the preceding p
chapter, but it may very wall include, of animal tracks.
culls
wi never ming a air price- wing n teaching There are too many of them now. In each quill, leaving bare quills. When readily as dry wood and it takes somteac
e g p uu
pose in view. The ail -
fact, the posit depression in draught1 the.wing is closed it rarely shows that time to produce the bed of coals as
it has been tampered with. Of course,
only one wing is thus cut, and that
should be the left one.
Rats can be cleared off the premises,
it is said, by making whitewash yellow
with copperas and covering exposed
horse values has not been dale to an
over -supply of good horses, but rather
to a surfeit of poor ones with the
buyers not interested.
The cost to grow . and maintain
horses is on the •decline, a fact that
has its interest to ,both the farmer and.
the •city horseman. To the breeder
and stallion owner the coming season
looks attractive; to the farmer, who
has been wise enough to retain a few
of his good mares, the way seems
clear. We have all too few good
horses, but our trouble in the past has
been rather in our even greater lack
of good mares. It will pay any farm-
er wito has the facilities for horse -
breeding, to eonsider the improvement
of his mares, with a view to future
markets. For the good draught home
has a certain future.
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The bulk of the milking in New
Zefalamd is new done with the machine.
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There are more than
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places with it. It should be poured
into the crevices frequented by rats..
This is worth trying.
The color and brightness of yellow:
legs can be restored by scrubbing with
Castile soap -suds,' using an old stiff
toothbrush. The legs should then be
thoroughly dried with a woolen cloth,
and anointed with olive oil. This
should be repeated every other day for
two or three weeks. -
Nevv-laid eggs kept in a cool place,
a starter. But it gels the brush out
ofthe way in .a short time and that
is what is needed.
If brush is burned in am orchard on. f— - --
spots where a tree is missing the fires
cannot be too large or other trees will
be scorched. A i'ong-handled fork is
hel,pfuI in thi,owing in the rim of brush
around the fire wlrich doesnotbitrn.
`After'a good bed of coals is obtained
the brush from other heaps can be
pulled by hand or hauled on: a stone -
boat and rolled over on the coals'. If
brush" fires are located near dry grass
they must be watched carefully. A
broom and a pail of water are fine to
beat out fires when they start in dry
grass. The wet ;broom will hammer!
dren were to be 'taught by story as
well as by precept, instructed both in
the history and in the law of their
people. Through that instruction they
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13Ig money ran still be made
on these -skins. Ship your lot
to us and make sure of re-
ceiving the right 15rice. Re-
turns sent the same day ups
shipment is received.
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WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO •
eSTABiLISI-IED 1870
will remain quite -unimpaired for the out small fires rather quickly. But
best part of a month, if stood • upon
their ends and turned every day or
two. When allowed to remain on their
sides for any length of time the yolks,
which are heavier than the whites,
press against the •shell. The shell, un-
able to resist the action of the yolk
upon, its tissues, admits air and de=
when a grass fire gets a good start in
the 'wind it is sometimes a dangerous
proposition and such fires sometimes
cause severe financial loss.
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Europe Coming Back,
That the nations of • Europe are
,slowly getting back to normal eon -
composition quickly follows. So long diti'ons is pointed out by the depart-
as the yolk is kept suspended among
the white, the egg remains good for
any reasonable time, either for food
or incubation.
i pur-
suits,
is, of all industrial p
suits, the richest in facts and the pooh..
est in their comprehension. Facts are
:Bike ,grains of .sand which are moved i per cant of their foraner xiet require
by the wined', but principles are threw meats, and Peaand which formerly
raised 28,000,060 lbusfli4s of wheat, as
now importing flour.
aMny farmers feel the need of of.
water system, and realize its value,
Mit think that it is too einpenswe. They
are overlooking the fact that' there is
a successful and •imaetterd water sys-
tem which, is 'withuit the reach of revery
termer, Ask yotie oorahht3' n; presesiba.,
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ment of agriculture aht a stateliient
showiing that the United Kingdom is
importing as much wheat as in pre
was times. Germany's population has
been considerably decreased through
loss of territory and war, nevertheless,
it is now taking wheat ,at seventy-five
per cent. of the pre-war iniporbaitions.
Holland and Belginni are taking fifty
same ,grams temente& into rooks.
A than oral be as wise ae en owl
about the way to laisre stops snd, the
way tosell thorn and get good matey.
for them, and then make •a downright
fizzle, after ala, of farming because he
doesn't know how to snake the most
of hiving.
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