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CONDUCTED BY PROF. HENRY G. BELL.
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vice of our farm readers the advice of an aeknowiedged
authority on all subjects pertaining to sells and crops.
Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Beii, In
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B, H.: I have a light clover sod pasture? We have about eight acres
which I wish to plant to part early that we will either put to corn or peas;
and part late potatoes, and wish to to hog down. How many hogs would
put fertilizer on same: The ground the eight acres carry if' put to peas,
is sandy loam, What kind is best, and about what time could the pigs be
and what is least amount per acre that turned in? How many peas would
should be used? If I waited until the you sow to the acre? Would you ad -
potatoes were planted and put a vise sowing oats with them, if so
couple of handfuls on each hill and what proportion? Do you think peas
covered with the cultivator, would the are better sown broadcast or in drills?
results be as'good as if the fertilizer Answer: Speaking generally, peas
were broadcasted? I have no fertilizer are best grown for grain which is
drill. How much fertilizer would it high in protein and makes exceedingily.
take to equal ten tons of manure per good hog feed. For grain it is a come
acre? mon practice to sow about 1% bus.
Answer: On the sandy loam soil, of peas to the acre. A mixture of
1 would advise you to use from 500 oats and' peas makes excellent hay
to 750 lbs. per acre of a 4-8-4 fertil- for roughage; if grown for this pur-
izer. I do not believe the top appli- pose about 1 bus. of each to the acre
cation of fertilizer would give you as is best. It is a very good practice to
geed results as you would obtain if .grow a mixture of corn and soy beans
you scattered in the bottom of the for hog .feed; plant the beans at the
drill row or hole which was open to same time as the corn, about 4 or 5
receive the potato pieces, then cover means to a hill of corn. By the time
it with a light sprinkling of soil and the corn bus weld formed ears on it
drop the potato pieces, and proceed the soy bean pods will have become
as usual. A 4-8-4 fertilizer •contains well filled. This mixture is exceed -
about as much nitrogen and potash ingly goad for hogs. In many sec -
as about 10 tans of manure and as tions instead, of harvesting the corn
much phosphoric acid as 20 tons. in other ways, they are turning hogs
B. S.: In the past we have been into the fields; When sown with corn
troubled with cut -worths. Would you it takes about 40 lbs. of soy bean seed
not give us some method of handling to the acre.
these destructive pests. Wisconsin Experiment Station re -
Answer: One of the best methods ports: To make rapid gains, pigs be -
of combatting cut -worms is to make ing fattened on such a pasture should
a soft bran mush and to mix in a receive in addition about at least 2
liberal application of pat -is green with or 3 lbs. of grain daily per 100 lbs.
it. Set this bait out alongside th; live weight.
field which is •attacked with cut- R. F.: 1 would like to know where
worms; If you mix a little sugar I can buy soy beans and what time
with this mixture it makes it all the they should be planted and harvested,
more tasty to the cut -worms. They also what they would yield to the
will ,leave crops to eat this mixture. acre and what price they would be„
A good preventative measure to take how they should be kept for the win-
is to bring the fields into frequent ter and how many bushels to the acre.
cultivation, by so doing the 'harbors ( Second: I have a lot of sow thistles
of these destructive insects are de- and I would like to know how I can
stroyed. get rid of them.
R. IL: Can strawberries be grown Third: Would a hoe crop help to get
successfully on swamp muck land that 'rid of wild oats?
has been well tiled and drained? The Answer: Soy beans can be pur-
An y
eoil.7,seems very loose and is easily 1 chased ft'ort1; ,sem, ede,m,e�r,,e .giuteg
•is,,dLR14p +h'J 'e^y'W4a1Z k• 'iii'. •.P:':QINf 7•a inuvi,nre .......ewC'j...nue.•.s.�''
1 ine of April to the middle of Miay.
Answer: Muck soil is wear in phos- Speaking generally, soy beans yield
phoric acid and very weak in potash.
These are two constituents of plant -
food that strawberries have great
need of, hence if you apply from 300
to 500 lbs. per acre of a 10-8 fertilizer
on a snuck soil where strawberries are
growing you should have good results. weed to gat rid of. It thrives on low
This fertilizer should be sprinkled be- rich land. Speaking generally, a very
tween the rows and worked in by constant working of the ground in a
careful harrowing or other cultivation. sunriner fallow maintained throughout
G. E. G.: Is potato blight carried • the whole summer will kill out this
over from one year's crop to another troublesome weed. Some investigators
in the seed? My potatoes, while a! have found intensive .cropping to be
fair crop, were struck with blights very effective. As soon as one crop
rather late,
making ,_
n u'
g q tie a lot of , is, up
ripe it isplowed and another
small potatoes. Can I safely use, one immediately follows. If the
these potatoes for seed another year? ground is covered badly with this
Answer: There is danger of the po-1 weed, however, a careful summer
fallowing is about the only hope.
3. If the ground is infested with
wild oats, cut out the grain •crop as
Are the Children Well Nourished
Many mothers announce with pride
that their ,child eats anything. The
child has been bleseed .with good
health, consequently the mother over,
taxes its digestive tract by giving it
foods which are suitable for the.adult,
but not suitable for the. child, .'Th'at
child is likely to suffer in dater years
for this unintentti,onal failure. upon
the mother's part. Its digestive tract
is immature and delicate, so it should
not be expected to assimilate with
ease the same foods as the adults.
Another difference which must
never be lost siight of is that the child
is 'building a house in which he is
going to live, while the •adult, in a
sense, is merely repairing and. 'heat-
ing his completed building, , •
In order to have a eatisfactbry
house, the child must select material
which can be used to makegood bones,
teeth, blood and tissue, If an infant
or young child is given a diet lackisig
in mineral matter or that is lacking
in irony calcium, phosphorus or potas-
sium, he is in danger of 'being anaemmic,
underweight and in general below par
physically.
Mineral Foods,
from 10 to 15 :bus..per acre. They
form pods and ripen like peas and
can be threshed and stored as grain
if •allowed to ripen. Some people cut
the plant for hay.
2. Sow thistle is a very difficult
tato blight epore being carried over
itt your potato seed crop. I would
certainly advise if the potatoes are
swell, that you get fresh seed and far ,as possible and introduce such
:at it with formalin: 1 pt. or 1 lb. crops as corn, potatoes, roots and
r: ixtu.re with a barrel of water gives other cultivated crops. Such treat -
a ratrly :strong eolution. Dip the po- meat will greatly weaken the vitality (
tatoes in this mixture. A handy way of wild oats in that many of the young
is to set the bag of potatoes right
in the barrel of formalin .solut%an,
After it .has been there about 20 min-
ute's
inu des lift it out. '.0liis. formalin is a
gas dissolved in water which pene-
trates the lodging places of the spores
and kills the spores, One 'cause for low egg production in.
C. J. S., R have a piece of ground, the average flock during the summer!
about two acres, that is a little wet months is the fact that the broodyi
hen is not quicicfly "broken up" or got-
ten back to laying.
Careful records have shown that
' Answer: As soon as the ground is the average broods* hen, if placed in a
dry enough to work have it broken up broody coop the first day she goes
and seed it to rape. Dwarf Essex broody, will lay again in ten days.
rape is •consid'eered a satisfactory var- Ifshe is allowedto stay broody ten
iety, ,Seed should be sown_ about the days and then put it a broody eoop, it
same time as turnips. Sow either will be twenty-five days before she
with drill or hroadca•st. This should will ,commence laying. • If allowed to
give you a good pasture mixture for,stay broody twenty-one days, it will
the late 'su er orear"break early fall, be thirty -11. e days before she aviill.lay,
S. J.: l)o field peas
as take good hog It is therefore essential to
Does your child have some food
from. each of the following essential
mineral groups each day?
Iron -containing foods: Lettuce, on
ions, asparagus, endive, sp,inrach,:kohl-
rabi, pumpkins, artichokes, celery and
rhubarb. Figs, pineapples, apples,
pears, plums•, strawberries °and goose-
berries. Egg yolks.
Calcium -containing foods Oranges,
figs, pears, cherries, pineapples, cit-
ron, currants. Savoy cabbage, cauli-
flower, onions, . lettuce, radishes, cel-
ery, endives, spinach and turnips.
Cheese and milk. .
Phosphorus -containing foods: Black
radishes, artichokes, kholrabi, oaul'i-
flower, asparagus, cabbage, onions,
rhubarb, carrots, turnips, spinach.
Egg yolk, cheese and'mill;.. Pears,
apples, apricots,.. oranges, figs and
plums.
Potassium -containing foods: Plums,
apricots, figs,. nears, cherries,` pine-
apple, oranges and apples. Rhubarb,
cabbage, turnips, spinach, beets, cel-
ery, tomatoes, lettuce •carrots, endives.
Egg whites, milk and cheese.
If sections from these four groups
of food, rich in mineral matter, are
included in the child's menu, the re-
maining groups rich in sodium, sul-
phur, chlorine and magnesium will be
likely to be present in sufficient
quantities.
Not only must the mother plan the
child's menu so that it will :furnish
the mineral matters to make strong
bones, teeth and good bloot but she
meet supply the; ;efi ld"-'a't cis or
—... „4,—.6.&- ri1 r„sugars that
axe essential for the complete develop-
ment of the body.
Proteins.
There are animal proteins and plant
proteins. Some' of the' days, potein
should come from each •of these
groups.
Animal -proteins: Milk, -fish, cheese,.
meat, eggs.
Plant protein: Breakfast foods su.oli
as Gats, wheat, barley, nuts, dried
beans.
. A child up to nine years of age
ehould use milk laud eggs to furnish
the major part of his animal protein
and cereals to furnish the major.• ,part
of his vegetable protein.
A pint of milk a day is the nkin.i-
mum quantity for the growing child.
A food expert says that a family. •of
five should not spend anything for
meat until they have purchased three
quarts of milk.
Fats.
Soane of the days, fuel ahauld be
supplied by the foods that are rich
in i5at.
Milk, cream, butter and bacon are
the fatty foods most suitable for the
child. These furnish the touch talked
of vitamins that ,aa^e vital for health
and growth. •
Too match fat, however, will cause
the food to remain •overlong in the
stomach and as a result there may be
serious digestive •dlisturbances. There-
fore give a •child very little fried
food, Let milk, cream and butter
furnish the essential amount. •
• Starches. .
The starchy foods supply a large
portion of ' our daily fuel. They are
'comparatively inexpensive heat pro -
diners. These are:
Vegetables such as potatoes, macar-
oni, breads of various kinds, breakfast
foods, such as oatmeal, eornmeal, etc.
Dried peas, bean and lentils.
The body can use inose starch than
fat or.. isugar as fuel without disad-
vantage
isadvantage to itself.
Sugars.
Especial care must be taken to
avoid highly sweetened food in a
ehildva diet since it destroys the desire
( for less highly flavored but more nen,
essary -food. Sweets should never be
given between moats. A pure .sweet
may be used as a dessert at the end
of a meal. Foods containing stager
are:
Sweet fruits, vegetables, honey,
molasses ,and syrupa, desserts, sugar.
The infant and pre-stehool child
must be dealt with under a separate continually of the time when their
heading as their diets are necessarily! fathers lived in tents, or in booths, in
more restricted than the school child's I the wilderness, in the days of Moses,
t. 1:
wholesome respect for at natural awe for a
The Sunday School Lesso :
MAY 8
Rest and Recreation. Lev, 23: 3943; Deut.' 5; 12-15
St. Mark 6.: 3I, 32. Golden Text—Zech. 8: 5.
Connecting Links -•-The social order on • the Sabbath day Ile was teaching
in the, synni•gogt es. Now Ile invites
Isis disciples to cross the lake with
Hien to'a gullet and lonely place on the
northern shore.
Such rest and quiet : s needed at
times by all workers, and especially
by those whose work bwolves great
nervous.•strain. The conditions of toil
roust be made such as to permit both
of the weekly day qf" rest; and of other
periods •of resort to God's resting -
places by mountain and lake and
stream, It is in these quiet places
that there is time fox thought, that
peace steals in upon troubled and
Lev. 23: 29-43. The Feast"of the weary hearts, and God draws"very
Lord. The book' of Leviticus contains 'near.
the highly developed and completed
legislation of the dews, having special A woman sat with' her child near
reference to religous worship. Much the open window and earnestly toiled
of its provisions have to do with oc- at her sewing. Every once in a while
casior.�s of great solemnity, but the she booked through . the window to
brighter side of .life is not ,overlo•oked where the stars twinkled subove, Not-
! or forgotten, It is in this book that icing thee movements, the child at
we find enjoined' •con�sideration for the length said, "Mathew, why do you look
poor, the stranger, the hired servant, at the sky so often?" "To resit my
the deaf and 61ind, anrd the aged, We eyes," said the mother, "and get the
find not only justice, and honesty, and larger vision." It is a rest far tired.
clean living, and right domestic and
social relations required, but also
kind�ne'ss ant thoughtfulness and:rev-
erent piety.
Chapter 23 contains a calendar of
the great feasts or holidays (that 'is,
holy days) of the Jewish year. The
seventh month began in September
and would' include . also the first part
of October. In this month the people
celebrated the end of the fruit hair -
vest, and the end of the summer.
(Exod. 23: 16). The feast of taber-
nacles, or feast of tent's (v. 34), was
a grand ,camping out for seven or
eight days. Men, women, and chil-
dren, who had been cooped up in their
little villages and towns, trooped cut
into the country. They made rough
shelters of boughs (v. 40), and had a
merry, happy time. • The older form
of the law (vs. 40-42) provided that
the first dray should be kept as a Sab-
bath, a day of solemn rest, but a
later statute (vs. 36 and 39) appears
to have added a second Sabbath.on the
eighth day. (conupate also Deut. 16:
13.15).
These happy days of play and wor-
ship were also to •remind the people
whieh provides labor will also provide
fdr periods of rest, and,not only the
rest of sleep, but also that of recrea-
tion. Not only the love of play, but
the necessity for play, lies deep-rooted
in our human nature. A. well -ordered
day for young folk will include work,
play, and sleep. Work drains ,on:e's
energies, play and sleep renew them.
Every home to whieh God has given
boys and girls should make provision
foe healthy recreation. Both in work
and play not prohibition of what is
good, but 'wise regulation and control,
will he the way of wisdom.
Application:
Youth restricted
the time to cultivate a when the Lord brought them out elf
the land of D t S then);
3
sp 1ioli-
gyp . ee a so en
eciral feature of the
foods. Disparaging remarks about day which was to be Observed every
good food should never be permitted.
Most aversions to particular foods are
acquired early in life.
A auggeetive menu for the school
seechildu:
r tentionedeatitalt',.went,,ineral,
.-.m toast; butter, Thai c, plan. or avos e"�
-with cocoa.
School lunch: Pea soup, (made with
milk at school or -brought in vacuum
seventh year. ` Deut. 5: 12-15. The
sabbath day. The word "sabbath" is
taken by us from the Hebrew lan-
guage in which it means rest. The
Sabbath day is the day of rest. There
is good reason to believe that this law
was actually made by Moses, but the
•xwncv.--� w•bo•err•,n g _.,3cv♦:am�1.• .days..,p�
every months as holy days may be
much older. It iseoms.to have been
originally connected with the n,cw
moon day, which was likewise kept
bottle) , celery -and -nub sandwich, (holy. The lunar month of twenty-nine
bread and butter, •braked custard. I days might thus have had five holy
Supper: Poached or soft cooked egg, days, the new moon day, and the
potatoes ar rice, spinach, carrots or
similar vegetable, bread and 'butter,
plain .cake or a simple pudding,
plants will be cut off as soon as the
germination.
Broody Hens Cut Egg
Production.
in the spring but it dries up later on.
f want to sew it to some kind of hog
pasture. What would you advise?
.. s.t.di
I3su : 1. o
r2 i.
tip" the broody hen the first, day she
show symptoms of broodiness.
The most efficient way to "break
up" broodiness is to put the hens in
a good broody coop. A broody coop
is nothing but a slat -like coop made
out of lath ilr such a way that a space
equal to the width of a lath 'is .left
between the laths on the four sides
and bottom,
This coop should be raised several
feet from the ground ,and placed in a
shady place where the braod!y hens
can see the rest of the flock.
Feed atvl water the broody hens and
after four days reteaee them. Gen.-
etally this treatment is tufficint. If,
however, any hen wants to •set again,
put her back in the coop for two more
daps,
This treatment will not retard the
foint,artlon of eggs anti everywhere has
proved most satisfactory. '
A esreching wa ,'en advertises the
w
shiftlesenese of its owner:,
The Pair By the Pool.
At the edge of a pool, where the
blue water was crystal clear and slim
green rushes grew, a dragon fly and
-a frog were sunning themselves, ane
on the end of a water weed and the
other on the edge of the bank. The
sunshine tirade gold and purple lights
on the dragon fly's wings and 'burnish
ed the frog's brown back.
Now and then the two glanced at
each oilier with interest. Presently
they began to talk to themeeives..
The dragon fly slowly opened and
sltu•t her beautiful wings. "What a
morning!" she said, "How sorry I
reel for those poor creatures that do
net get above the level of the ground."
The frog raised his head and .,gazed
at the gaudy fly.
"How glad I am," he Said= ,aloud,
"that I don't have to go hdr,rying:
about from one piece to another with-
out ever 'knowing tin it el cf the cool,
sweet earth under my feet or of the
water over my head."
Just then .e Bight wind began to
stir; it swayed the weeds and 'rippled
the face of the pooh, The dragon fly'
spread her wings and sailed away.
"I wonder what kind of creature he
was talking about," she thought; "the
poor, &ow thing. Oh, the beautiful
sky!"
The Ting made a sudden leap from
the bank; there was a splash, and he
was gone.
"Creatures that do not get above
the level of the ground'," he repeated
as the ripples closed: in over his head.
"Of course .she meant terrapins and
mails. I suppose she stays in the
air so much that she is light-headedd
and does not speak plainly." Then he
gurgtled with eontembnient. "Oh,, the.
good brown mud at the bottom of this
pool!" lie said.
Men, how many hours a day do you
work? A TJ t5. govcrnntent survey
found that 130 housewives out of 645
have no time for daily rest or recede -
time while the others average one
;hour daily for the same, attd all aver-
age fifteen. hours . to their working
day.
Paint Now. - •
A farm building covered with a
goad coat of point is worth more than rest of the ten eommian.dments, in
if it was unpainted. It will last longer, Exod. 20: 8-11, wher. e reference is
it will look better it will sell fear made to the story, of •creation, iia which
more. Paint, therefore, is an invest- God's wort: in making the world is,
pre ented under the figure of the
tocol, not an expense, Yet twenty-four week—six days of progressive labor]
per cent. of us use no paint at all. leading to completian of the work, and l
Paint is used cis farm machinery a seventh day of rest. This is taken.
for two reasons: First, to proteet it to mean that the Sabbath day of rest
from rout. .Second, it makes it sell
better (because it looks better). These
facts are fairly well recognized, as
seventh, fourteenth, twenty -first, and
twenty-eighth days, which we now
know were kept sacred in ancient
Babylonia. The law of Moses., how-
ever., ultimately made the atabbath to 1
be observed every seventh day, irres-
pective of the days of the month.
This law appears also, with the
is divinely sancti•oi ed.
St. Mark 6: 31-32. Come Ye Your-
selves Apart. Jesus knew and felt •
sixty-seven per cent of us paint our the need •of rest, both for Himself and
farm implements and double their life. for His disciples. His. ministry had
been, from the beginning, one of
strenuous labor. The thronging mul-
titudes throughout the week gave Him
no oppprtunity of rest or leisure, and(
eyes to take a wider view, and it is a
very real rest for the soul when we
look at things in a comprehensive
way. The cares of the world are so.
many and the ;calls of the world • are
so insistent and imperative, that we
need time for, meditation and prayer.
We need to get a true perspective.
No joke is a good eve which makes
srornebody feel had.
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What, then, is the cost of painting?
And why is it we do not paint oftener?
We believe that the labor 'problem
is at the bottom of the gilestion: "To
paint or not to paint?" A painting
job consists of one-third paint and
two-thirds labor. But where shall we
get the labor?
A gallon of paint will cover two
hundredand fifty to three hundred
and fifty square feet -'-two coats. That
is, a clauble coat of paint ten feet wide
and twenty-five to thirty-five feet
long.
It costs you $2.25 or less, perhaps•.
If you have it done by a pofessiomal
it well oast about $4,50 far labor.
' Half of us have our own painting
done, The other half do it in OUT
spare time. Some of us paint in the
spring—about twenty-five per tent.,
another twenty --five per Bent. in the
summer, another twenty-five per cent.
in the fall. The rest of us paint as
we get a chance or not ,at
A banker saw the increase loan
value on painted, builddtatg,s is twenty-
two per cent. It tin also, no doubt,
he proven that no part of a building
brings .a better return for the money'
invested, than does the paint. Some
claim, with good reason, that an in-.
vestntetnt in paint pays four and a hal:
per eent. dividend—,shout the same
as a government hood.
Let us use ,good, paint, for the paint
is"only one-third of the'cost. A good
paint will last five, seven or even
ten or fifteen years, but a poor paint.
will be gone in tree. The better the
paint you spread, the farther you
spread your labor cost.
There's no plats like' home to use
paint Paint now --now is always the
best time to paint.
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ns in love with a good girl. •
God rover made a gymnasium. He
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