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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-09-29, Page 2^tierces cc,mmunications to Atilon°mis'., 7$ Adelaide et West, Toronto- Suitable Quarters for the Rog. hogs could be saved if hollow tile Peeper er housiai is essential ill pro- houses, equipped with proper equip- P guniversally a eonted. financial returns r d ter in a may Avoid Overloading Your Truck. A man I know, who •owns a• 200 -acre farm, bought a three -ton motgr truck some time ago, Every thing went well for six weeks after he began using' the truck. Then something happened, One day, sho'tly after harvest, he loaded five tons of wheat on his truolt, put- ting an a high pair of side boards to hold the load, and started •to market. About half -way to market, coasting wlonghill,in which there was a sharp turn, something snapped, and down Tractor Experience. 1 cci� _ [! _v _ �(I!l., tr"u...,.n,» Whon we purchased our 'traota'r we had hand a stationery gasoline' : sacrifice, and which we use for belt By Earle W• Gage power, such as silo filling, Aecozdc-) ingly we bought a small tractor, A to on engine whirl we did not caxe tcl 'luted Grain Growers orf Canada,. World's. Greatest Union with six-thou.s�and mile tour of Confuter with a sesraicioua aye, and its support, two plow bottoms, and have used it convinces me tllia,t that country not ars arming the farmers were all roc only for plowing, p+i]werizixug, anti only has the world'e greateet forme s' Pow. Advontuxes in ;the same c1•iree- scimila' work. We also use it for co-operative orgiiizetlon, but that it tion'load hrd a bad recamd in Canada, hoisting 'hay an the .barn, has at'ta•inecl man-size 'proportions, But the initial difficulties were aver The tractor permits us to rush the writes Earl W. '(a•ago, of Michigan. It come, success brought friends, end the work in spring, when the strain an is past evperirnontal i ocrttiilaty, Fund company gradually.estabi.ished fi the horses is heaviest. r . tient, were a gen friable swine production, The largest' i bi h h pi ' h st Co illustrate Is a "trust writ►. troth in it," as a foothold. PeraNel organizations were a e abtainecl only When a hundred or more p gs Y i cold mi win One spring, for one reason or an- • middleman tostifiad .to zno wb. hind started in Saskatchewan and -Albertit" when dry, comfortable and convenient' be farrowed n the the truck plunged into the embank- other,we found ourselves with sixty equal success.. The Sas- hause conditions are provided. It; house that is unheated, withoutmerit at the side of the road. Thebeen • put •cub o'f •'bus nets by 'it. an,cl ilei. wkth ng P of :a singlepig, there is likely to acres of corn unplanted, and rho I. tc<itcihowan company still maintains it a mistake to think the hog does. lossg n of driver vas seriously hurt, the truck tenting season p y ly The United Grein (,rowers, Limited,' but the Manitoba from the be something in the construction badly shed and the wheat P includes sixty thcauyancf active mem . not need to be protected x We have abou ninety b �d twenty thousand assoc.late th H b a that house to rete near over., commend itself to farm- was • a' y sora : up, wee er. awing been originally err in a region of cold winters and was scattered„so widely that "very little of it could be saved. That man, when he got out af• the its special identity t inet acres of drained - anci. Alberta institutions were anialga- marsh which is a little late in getting err en Y thousanlcl mated in 1916 into what is now United native of comparatively warm s into eonditiom., • So we took ;our own members, a fatal of eighty gain Growers,Limited." mates, nature has not provided the spring tractor, and my son-in-law brought producers and eonsuniers. This iilcm- with mum in the way of payers' That very thing happened, not one hos riot did what most men unsex bershi, includes one in three •af faun Now Dominion -Wide. hog but several,and not on p his tractor, •and the two machines wore P tive covering. It is true it has layers season merely, si•milar circumstances would .have run full 'blast until' the corn was in. owners and tenants of 1Vtan:itoba, Sas-` The co aiierative movement is no of fat, when it is fat, which offer one farm only, but many, with a type done. $e resolved never again to {Without the tractors, we would have icatclic4van •and Alberta Tho company banger confined to the prairie pro - a•- has •a peu up capitalization of about inces. It is firmly established ' On protection, but there is not the thick, of house designed by the Iowa Aeri_ overload his „ nam capacity. farm animals are provided. Again, it' ed the "Iowa Hog House. Its test, "I've learned my lesson," said he: is recorgnized that the best way to not merely on the station farm but an "The truck manufacturers told me how guard against the ravages of disease other Iowa farms, has been so satis- much the truck wqure safely .tarry: pxobabIy saved for us would have paid ovc'neis is to provide sanitary conditions.! factory that the station is recommend and the capacity was stamped on the the first cast and. operating expenses ten per cent. on the stock investment, year. The United Fermiers of New These considerations, together with' ing its use by farmers who want truck, just as # ,eight -car builders of both tractors for two years, beside setting aside a reserve fund at Brunswick and of British Columbia the possibility of saving much labor. build a substantial, permanent houseI the close of each season. are extending their co-operative ac - in a well-planned house over a poorly: far their swine. That this new type mark the capacity on the Tars they When our stationary engine wears A Gigantic Enterprise. tivaties. The dairy industry'of Quebec P build. But I thought I'd save •a few out, or we can sell it to advantage, we planned one, makes it important to! of house is so warm, even in the dead trips getting my wheat to market, will use a tractor for belt power, but Nearly seven hundred country els-' is well organized on co-operative lines, give much thought and study to the' of winter, without artificial heat, is when baooee! I'll never overload 1 do not believe that a tractor larger waters are opemated by the combine in, the movement has a stxvng foothold again." (than a three -plow bottom tractor the three provinces of Western Can in. Prince Edward Island, and a start A possible accident is*only one big would be economical under our•condi- ada, two large private elevators at has been made in Nova Scotia. Se the reason far loading a motor -triadic to tions, or the conditions in vogue on the head of the Great Lakes. The co-operative spirit has caught all Can - its rated capacity,, and no more; That the average, dairy farm. Far two Dominion government has a series of ada. is enough of a reason of course; but years' work nwe paid .only about $50 elevators, government owned, so that "These organizations," continued for overhauling, and the tractor is to- these farmers are able to store each Mr. Crerar, "created, developed, and day in excellent .condition. season, without speculative aid, a directed by farmers, have demonstrat It depends largely upon the care a major portion of their crop. They are ed that they can safely enter the world OM- tra�etor receives. I know of eases where not at the mercy of gamlbiers of the of commerce and distribution and ched a machine was ruined the first week grain spit. pets successfully with old -established because of insufficient oil, and the The United Grain Growers operates 'business institutions. ideaSlowbut sure - bearings burned out. The inexper- a grain exporting business, with head- b the co-operative t idea is making ienced operator will also forget to use quarters at New York City, which headway against the :old capitalist system in Canada, and it has at last enough water; he may even allow the prior to the war was one of the large aroused a promising interest in urban mediator to become dry, It is also est grain exporting concerns on the communities and business centres.. necessary to keep the transmission continent, and during the war was "Much. remains to be done in the way of`co-ordination and consolidation, but there is no reason why within one or two decades the whole agricultural This gigantic structuae of team- population of Canada should not be work has been erected in the short linked up in vast co-operative organ - period of a few years, amid a field izations which will undertake all its coat of hair or wool with which other i cultural Experiment Station and "s truck above its rated lost at least two weeks, which means with reserve funds of an- tarso where the United k armexs' Co- much to us, as we are always in $3,000,000, ' danger of an early frost. The crop. other $2,000,000, while the assets are operative Company of Ontario organ of silage corn 'which those two weeks mare than $12,000,000, and pay their cies but a few years ago, increased its • a dividend of from eight to turnover by live hundred per cent. last problem of housing swine. 1 due to the fact that it is built of hol- In 1918, a swine expert, through low Olay tile. gu ationaires sent to men whose' The windows in the roof also add to names were obtained from county ad-- the warmth of the house and especially vanes, published a survey of one hun-Ito its sanitation. They admit sun- dic1 and ninety -the farms in which shine, a broad belt of it eight feet there is the other reason of shorter he presented a table showing the vari- wide the full length of the house, life• of trucks thus abused. Any otter our causes of litter losses. which sweeps every nook and corner made truck will last for a long time; The average number of brood sows. of every pen and gives every pig if it is not overloaded, and if the' op - in the herds was fourteen. They far sun bath at some time during the day. erator keeps it in repairs and operates ops rowed an average of 9.63 pigs, and That makes for warmth, for physical weaned an average litter of 5.72 pigs. ` comfort, for germ destruction, for The total loss was 24.95 per cent. The Health and for strength. various causes and the percentage e All these things have been secured,' the loss due to each are given here-, not at a prohibitive cost, but at a with; I cost that is well within the reach of the substantial farmer who wants toFarrowed weak your teams day m and day out, Crushed by sows 29.13 build a hog house that will stand for ing • • • - 22.84 fifty or a hundred without currying them, without dee- Farrowed dead. ......... 15,58 it wisely. But the man who overloads is generally guilty of other charges reckless or. careless driving, and little attention to the upkeep of the truck. And no truck can suffeer .abuse for fthat mater long; it's the same principle as work- ..... twenty yeast, or Y tering their aa g ents, exposin 'thern • ox li vs,.,ucu Eaten by sows Aborted Scours Thumps Necrobacilloses Cholera Miscellaneous 10.00 The comfortable hog is the profit- ts all sorts of rises on spPea y par e- 4.59 able hog. The hog that does not need ments, straining them to pull heavy 4.55 to stare away quantities of surplus loads in soft spongy places, and aot 3.43 fat to be drawn upon for warmth when: score of other evils. A truck is i cli 1,78 the temperature falls below a cam- 1.6 am so well fitted as a horse, to stand'su 1. 6 fortable degree is the hog that is us- abuses, for the horse has in itself the 1.01 ing all 'the feed it eats to build hard, abuse. to adapt itself in a measure to 5.46 high-priced port. A hog is not com> abuse. Not so with trucks. " Dehorn stock. There is a third reason for Ieading Hog down corn. This survey was made on farms on fortable and contented in a dark, trucks only to capacity, and that is' Select seed -corn. which a good many hogs were raised damp, unventilated house..A hog in effect the roads.Heavy trucks as is seen bythe eeeon , the size of the breeding such a house cannot return .a respect -Start a flock of sheep. herd. Undoubtedly, they are managed able profit to the hog man. A well- loaded only to rapacity, wear istiedue Market fat hags and "grass -cattle." 1I b 'It h �s roads; but most of the damage is due Cull all hens that do not lay, but lie. Attend fairs and county club con- tests. Build fall and winter vegetable storage. Locate your supply of pedigreed have "Veen kneeked to pieces in less • e well greased. considered so good as to be called over Our traotor burns kerosene, and this by the allied governments. It is now fuel smudges the spark plugs badly. a leader in the grain world. It is our practice to clean the plugs lamming orning to insure good ignition during the day. When the tractor is not in use, it is well sheltered and under roof.—W. F. Now Is the Time to by men who raised hogs extensively and take better care of them than or- dinarily is the ease. Which fact leads us to wonder how many millions of dollars worth of built Anise insures we ui oe •to overloading the trucks, and to reck- A poorly arranged and improperly less droving If drivers can not learn equipped hog house Wray be the cause to avoid these evils; laws will eventu- ally make them do so. ;. long as it is used. Molting hens require liberal feeding to quickly produce a coat of new feathers and return to laying condi- tion. Sunflower seeds have been found of great value at that time, At least ten per cent. •of beef scrap in the mash Possibly, more good foam tracks the flower garden. Td- the first. place than their 'allotted time -11e i�u of g t a 'supply : of eeleuaictehyde for there are the bulbs which are to overloading, than because of any other treating the wheat toprevent smut. furnish the early spring posy garden. thing. . The railroad people have They should be planted about the need- learnedthatit is "throwing it in at To 'protect my roses during winter dle of October. They ,like rich soil the door, and shoveling it out at the I cue them back quite short, take an but must have a layer of sand, gravel, windows" to overload their care When empty box, fill it with leaves and turn stone or broken tile under them so will truck users learn the ,same les- it ever the bustles. This'protects them that they will have good drainage. An ideal setting is ,a shallow layer of sand on top for the bulb itself, a is desirable at molting time. It seems layer of rich loam for the roots, and expensive to feed beef scrap to henssome coarse stuff under that for that are not laying, but experience drainage. proves that the sooner they are Then there are the window boxes through the molt the better for the which are to brighten up your home health and egg production of the flock.; through the long gray months of the Growing stocks on the roosts can be; winter. They should be very care"'corn fields after harvesting, and clear satisfactory method to follow. protected from lice by spraying thelfully prepared. Remember that these; the fence rows. However, sheep are roosts. Teach them to roost early and; plants will have to live and bloom not such scavengers that they can It is a mistake to put tiff plowing it will help to prevent colds. Colds! under abnormal and unfavorable con-' thrive en refuse and weeds alone. In until late in the fall or early spring. usually came from overcrowding in ditions, and they should be given order to get sheep to eat leaves on The ground is often heavy and some - the corners of colony houses or brood' every advantage. The earth should shrubs, the tenderer grasses must be times actually too wet to plow in the soaps. Early roosting is sometimes . be very carefully prepared. One, scaTee. Goats are better adapted to fall, but the action of the frost will d wheat for:ealanteng tills fall, also son?• Sheep Keep Weeds Down. Sheep eat more weeds than any other class of livestock, except goats. from cold, as well as mice. I never lose a bush. To central black -knot on plum trees, prune out the knots before the spores of the disease have a chance to ma- ture. An annual inspection of the strewn with the wrecks of co-operative failures among farmers. It will trans- act a business of more than $100,000,- 000 100,000;000 this season,, since it will handle Canada's greatest grain crop from farm to remotest export point, con- serving profit to the individual grower. This is the great combination which is being used as a pattern by the American Farm Bureau Federation in their present organization schemein the middle west, a eonyniittee visiting Canada and studying at first hand the plan. It is ,estimated that • it will save $35,000 000 a year in commissions alone to farmers of.six ceutral states, to say nothing of the former 5peeula- tive profits, where farmers are under the domination of grain pit barons. Development of Co-operation. One of the most remarkable de- velopments in Western Canada within the past decade has been the develop- ment of co-operative effort among the farmers. Although this has expressed itself most notably in. the success which has attended the farmers' own elevator companies, yet the success Sheep will eat ninety per cent. of all has been equally as pronounced re- traublesome weeds. They will destroy trees and the removal and destruction garding creameries, live stock selling, weeds in pastures, in grain fields and of all the 'mots in the fall is the most wool and sheep associations, cheese factories and stores. "The farriers' movement has now reached a stage when it is definitely clubs form an invaluable social nexus recognized as one of the most import for a scattered rural population. They ant factors ienthe national life of Can- hold regular meetings and e:lueative ada," advised Hon. Thomas A. Crerar, debates; propaganda is carried on to late minister of agriculture and presi aid the movement, and efforts made to selling, buying and distributing acti- vities." The economic aspect of the Canadian farmers' movement is but one aspect of the new era. To -day the farmers' political activities bulk even more largely in the public eye. The transi- tion from economic organization to political action was both inevitable and simple. The organized farmers found that as long as paramount fin- ancial and manufacturing 'inteleats largely controlled and influenced "the - legislatures of Canada, especielly.the federal government .at Ottawa, there must be adefinite limit to their co- operative "Scheines. When people have learned to co-operate in: business it i; an easy • transit'ion to work together in governmental affairs. Aim of Farmers' Movement. "The ultimate aim of the farriers"' movement is the improvement of ci- vilization," advises Mr. Crerar, "thrquglr an improved economic order and the establishment of good citizen- ship as an ordinary practice of life, and their organization is planned to run parallel with the .popular and rep- resentative institutions of the country,. the municipal council, the provincial legislature, and the Dominion parlia- ment. The local .organizatious and a cause of crooked breasts but it is; quarter of very thoroughly rotted: clearing brush land than are sheep. repair all damages, or most ox it, at dent of the United Grain Growers. "I1 elect good candidates for local offices better to have a few crooked breasts manure, and the rest equals parts of Some farmers consider sheep neves- least, if the plowing is done early. began in an effort at economic organ- In the provincial field, farmers, teen birds with colds. I leaf mold, and sand makes a fine; sary just as a means of controlling In the spring, ground should not be h g liens of the American breeds fatten; combination which will furnish all the weeds. plowed unless it is dry., :•- sily and it often pays to place them food necessary and wal drain pro - i,: good market condition, even at the: perly. Heavier soil will not dein so -- "- present feed prices. There is no den° well and is apt to sour. Some coarse; mand for skinny poultry and the pro -r gravel or stone in the bottom of pots' deicer can expect little success if such; and boxes will help. The bottom of birds are sold. But the hen that is' the container should always be per - bagging down with fat is not liked forated, for water should never be by the best customers. There is a`! allowed to stand in it. If there is a' happy medium that about describes': pan under the box or pot there should The Welfare of the Home MARTYRS AND MENACES By Margaret Steel Hard the prime market fowl. i be some stones or other supports nil; are all familiar with the mem-The mistaken devotion which takes e it to keep the container above the' orable scene enacted in Mrs. Ruggles' for granted that:all restriction to a Last Days With the Garden. !water. t kitchen (The Bird's Christmas `Carol) •child's desires means deprivation, It is a great protection against in -I `— Sec s to craps: and not plant them in the same place It is well to break the horse to driver rules of polite behavior in the minds ishment, .allows him to develop an in- single n- s This ill k of her nine harem-scarum youngsters dividuality which later will sap and when Mrs. Ruggles, distraught and de -which cannot bear to see a child suf- t and diseasesrotatethe Breaking -a Horse to Ride. 5 termines, struggled to implant the fer temporary disappointment or pun - in successive years.sin le an douole s tva make 11 otherindividuals with Aprotective measure against lir' g 1 during the space of a few fleeting prey upon a hien quieter to ride. ' hours. The scene was occasioned by, 'whom he tames in contact.. sects is deep fall plowing. Many of Horses usually buck through fear.. the garden pests winter in the ground In breaking one to ride, take plenty' Meir almost immediate -appearance at The mother who trails after her and are killed when they are plowed of time and do notfrighten hint. Put'.: bfrt. Bird's dinner -table and. their t children all day, picking up mislaid u and exposed to the cold. The mother's terror ' lest they eon playthings and articles of clothing, P Pan the saddle and lead him around; themselves in too outrageous aWien- slowing also works against the weeds. until he becomes accustomed to it. Do : who makes countless trips upstairs in' such as the mustards, will retain not have the girth too tight. The neTo-da mothers are confronted with answer to repeated calls after they y, are supposed•'to have gone to bed, who rises to stout doors left swinging as they' rush in and out, who responds wearily and patiently to ceaseless de - viands and questions flung at her as ization in 1905 to combat w at many western farriers thought were oppres- sive monopolies and special vested privileges on the part of the railways, manufacturers, elevator companies, and other interests who between them had a large 'control over the markets, transportation and finance. "In 1901 the first Grain Growers' Association was formed at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, and in 1905 the Grain Growers' Company was founded with headquarters in Winnipeg. Its early trials were many and severe; the Winnipeg exchange closed its doors against the'farmers, the banks and business community viewed it their vitality even after they have horse may be tied up for a time and; the sante problem; though in a less been buried in the ground for many later turned into a paddock with the acute and humorous degree. Children years and sprout readily when brought saddle on. { go forth to take part in a larger group up again to the surface but many Next accustom the horse .o being, than the immediate family one, and. others die from one year's burial. In mounted, getting on and off a number ; unless -we have managed wisely and a garden which has been kept free of times. The assistant should have at she tries to read or write, and who. of weeds from frost to frost—not o the lioxse's neck surely from the very beginning, we has never really known a moment's lead rope tied around Waffle- are beset with the same misgivings just through the growing season of and run through the rings of a s repose during her children's wakeng snaffle - same of thevegetables—fail :eared la u which Mrs. Ruggles endured; the a1- hours; instead of being a martyr is a s° e g p , bit, If the horse attempts to P y p, most certain knowledge that they may menace for her children will become and the crops rotated there should be mulish him with a jerk on the bit.,. cause us mortification and chagrin. ' very little injury from insects or dis- Let the assistant lead the horse i may be in the home that this the careless, arrogant, selfish men and ease and very little trouble with around with rider'until the horse is. It Ywomen of the next generation. `weeds. The fall plowing will also ,realization comes. How many mothers, ' g familiar with the weight on Iris back, s entertaining a taller, have suffered The mother who determines that help to meytov 'the soli and make it then dismiss the assistant. If the i .vexation because of the wilful de- het children must abide by the stand - mare workable horse becomes rebellious, pull his head and interruptions of an ill -be- and which requires painstaking effort •; tia hot- dolet himDands n p and responsibility, who denial -As the If you are counting en having sharply to one side, not ;, hayed child? How ,many have e.cpei p Y, _ - bed or cold frame next spring, now it down. The first few rides should fenced the disagreealde surprise of same degree of courtesy and consid is the time to prepare it. The pit finding the habit of untidiness, mean- eration to be extended toward her as should be dug and the inside of it g siderateness and inattention, over- she extends to her children, who ex- mulched. Also cover some of the dirt looked at. home, beccme _appalling pects them to respect her rights as outside with a heavy straw mulch the walk, next teach the trot, and t niblir blocks at school Outsiders truly as she respects theirs, will find or manure so that it will be avail- d be d stu g herself blessedly mortifiaa able for use :n the Gyring when the rest of the gre,rnd is frozen. The frame can he built now or in the win- ter in- ter,:if you think. you will have more time for indoor work then. The: c: it stir', ;.titch to be done in be in a small enclosure. The gaits should be taught separ- ately. The first few rides should be then canter. Spurs should not usemingled 'in i esse y relieved of the 1f look upon this child with until the horse' is well Broken. dignation and pity. Indignation that A few rows of trees Oon the side of his parents have allowed things to l the prevailing winter winds will maker, a world of difference in the comfort. of the farmstead'. come to such a • pass; pity that the child must face existence se handi- capped at the start.. tion and ehagrin and she will know the joy of a certain sureness and repose which will increase her days in the land ,of the living no matter how filled they may be°with maternal clutees, throe h a workingalliance with labor which may be developed and extended, have gained control of the govern lent of Ontario, the largest province in Canada, and in the prairie provinces their political influence is such that they can secure favorable co -aside 'a - tion for any reasonable legislation which they ask for." Thus, the slogan of modern Canada is, "In farmers we trust," and the sane and satisfactory government of distatbution, including the elimination of unnecessary middlemen and increas- ed profits to producers., testified to the desirability af• this type of organiza- tion. - Found It Worth While tow pack Light Soil. In my farming experience it has appeared that we must take advantage of every opportunity to inform our- selves on the best methods of doing our work. We learn much from other farriers and from our county repre- sentatives and the experimentsta- tions, but to make the greatest success we tan not allow 'o-urtiselves to go to sleep. I think I have learned a little lesson by accident which will mean tics niurll to my success at farming light soil as any other information which I have aocured from any tither source. - After preparing a field for rye it became necessary to haul across the land loads of corn for the silo. The men in driving did not keep to a nar- row track and as :a result a rather wide strip of soil was thoroughly packed end when, the ,seed was put hi this soil was very firm despite the light nature of the Bind, Now the lesson which I learned was that when this field was harvested there was a, splendid stand of rye where the soil had been thoroughly finned and not much of a or'op elsewhere. This observation set nee t.o t.hiniting and, I concluded that if tie worked in a small spot it oughtto work all over the field. I therewith procured one of these heavypackers. and tried the plan nut with very sates- factory results. A number of neigh- bors were reeently'surprised at restilte on a field where the packer was used and where a splendid stand of sweet clover is the result. It must be re- membered, however, that it requires considerable power to pull the packer whore the soil is loose. Three, and still 'better, four good horses are necessary to get on nicely. But it means the difference between success Bind failure in farming this type of laud.—N.B. .e. 11lelaantcq o'lia is often a reselt of bibousnesa. Lice and miles .thvivo only at the expense of the poultry; anybody can chose whether to raise vermin or; chickens, The way to make money out of the prorduction of milk is to begin et� home. Wood out unprofitable pro ducrrs. No veal busindss het will] keep a worienan hi his employ a week ip he is an. unprofitable pro- ducer, and the cow i; ''lie dairyniana etaoliiae;, the lair:ynian's workman.