HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-01-19, Page 6Use a Strong Dormant Spray,
The dormant sipray ie e spray ap-
plied some thee epf,..i..,00 leaves, have
fella* in the fall and seam time before
growth :begins. in theepring; In Waal
enercle while the tree$ ere derment it
may be epplied ay time during the!
. aderees communieetans to eapan
e . dormant
Layer)period Late fall is a vely
' 's 14y Be Show Birds.
clinistr 73 Acunatee St. We Toronto* geed time for applieation es we avoid
Canada; that limit rieerne about reach- the usual spring rush, EarlY Mr' i• '
widil
ed. do as weild, or we may apply thespray daring the winter if a w
4. But there is an' Aarnost unlimit,ed spell insures the s.pray against ft:Lin-
market foe bacon in. Great BribatTI, lig upon the teee before it dates The
Some people have the erroneous
idea that a well-bred or patzeavinning
fowl is not a aoto d laying one, hut
they may be if properly bred. For
iestance, I hacl a pet a few years
ago. from -which my present strain
originated. This pullet ceenanenced
to lay early and I wished to show her
at eur Barred Plymouth Rock Exhibie
tion. She laid in the crate both going
to and Isoanting from the show, as well
as in the coop while at the show, and
kept it up after returning home, be-
sides whining fleet in her class and
special for best eolocr Barred Plyanouth
Rock female in the show. This in
spite of ;the fact that changing living
quarters usually stops hens laying.
Nature itself is •one of our greatest
allies in produeing a heavy egg-ley-
ing strain in poultry when aided with
a httle nemnon sense in mating, Take, t
for instance, a cow with great milk- I st
producing traits will not produce,' Gr
under normat eon:dithers, any more
tallies in a given time than sena that
gives very little milk. With poultry
this is -different.
Nature hae so a.rra.nged it. that the,. ao
chicken comes from the egg and we fe
ehould naturally expect to get the,
most chicks front the hen that lays jo
the most eggs while a poor layer will ha
leave fewer of her kind and blood in; tit
the flock and by careful selectihns ste
mark, from these heavy -laying birds ,
one can very easily build up a heavy- '
laying flock.
ing
In making my selections for breed-, me
ers I also take particula.r care to use: ca
only early -manning birds that are pee
sturdy, vigorous, active and healthy.' 1
I call my fleck early, selling for mar- 1 ma
ket a that are slow maturing and ,bhe
have other defects, retaining as breed. the
ees only the most desirable specimens, i eon
However, just because a bird is bred: 1
to lay will not make her lay any more ' seat
than a cow will make a record for
milk peoduction if she is neglected. hats
They both require proper feed and in
°axe and one of the most important is
something we all must have near at e
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hand and that is pure fresh water. Ras
. In breeding for exhibition. Barred eee
provided it is that which the British
coasumer desires,
6, In 1918, the year befar;thl war, is net intended for biting, b t f
early spring. •
5. Greet Britain ienporbs normally The dormant spray is a contact s
about 600,000,000 lbs, of baeon every epray, that is, it kills by coming into t
year, rouncity 12,000,000 lbs. a week. eontect with the insect or fungus: It di
imports from Canada were under 24,-, eueking inseets. The San Jose scale is
000,000 lbst—just two weeks' share cif' the most prevalent ana the most int
the normal impart I, jarious of this class af orchard pest.
. 7. A "Wiltshire side" is a trade If it is present in smell numbers, you
term for the shape of the cut. It is may recognize it by small, reddish,
one-half a the carcass without head discolored spots on the tender bark.
awl feet. If present in large numbers, the hark
8, These sides are only give p a light , has a oriusty appearance. If mom -
pickle in Canada. The smokiiig and; trolled, San Jose scale will kill the
cutting for retail ere done by Eng- largest tree in from two to four years.
lisb 'maws. It wilt wits out the cuhrant and gooaet
9. Domestic taste shows a tendency beery patch in a ,short time. Its pres-
o prefer lean, streaky bacon very ence causes the fruit to become knot_
miler to the env -veiling, 'tests in ty, unshaven, rusty and practically
eat Britain. This is due probably warthless-It att lo o e t kinds
to our increase of city diwelleis. and is sure. death if left alone. Only
' 10. Orue type of hog will therefore the: dailitant spray will 'control it; as
tradee. This Insist be the hewn ty enough to kill' seale efficiently.
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catea. to bath the domestic and export we dere not use stuananer sprays strong
clairned as best at the Ottawa con- The aphis is controlled by the dor-
rence. malt spray. Aphie eggs are laid in
11. The standard then set requires great quantities en the twigs Lana the
wl and shoulder light and smooth,
ck and neck to tail '• evenly fleshed,
e long, mecliu,m depth. dropping
aight froan back, ham full, good
arena finish, no excess fat.
12. In the United 8tates hog feed- docrmant slew is lapplied in ,sufficient
etoreditions and niaeket demand foe. strength it kills the eggs. ,
ats differ radicaily hem those in The dormant srpmay kille the nevus
nada and comparisons. cannot pro- which is responsible for apple blotch.'
ly be made. Summer ehrays see almost vvirolly
8. As Canadian packers can pad poison sprays intended for biting M-
y a limited market for lard -types, elects. They axe tof some aid in cont
y cannot indefinitely take them off
hands of enema who mtsguittedly
tinue to produce such hogs. ,
4. Canadian hog production on a
e to hold the British export -trade
not be succeesfulty done by drib -
with a glut at one ,season, nor
the free -and -easy ,supplY of many
ying types of carcasses.
5. There must • be uniformity in
t and West, and both Inuit furnish
ably what the British eonsumer
ts it Canadian fannere are to get
premium which packers. agree to,
after May 1st.
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Prevent Smut by Fumanti
Treatment.
Oat e were free from smut last year
—on seine farina On Other 'farms
they contained as much as one-third
smut. The diffemeace was not in the
Mud ar, elbogether, in the seed, but
la the fanner. Those who =dully
treated their 'seed eats. with termini
escaped thie etevere lose Smut is
mole or less common in practionly
all untreated oats, and many farinees
who know about the treatment simply
neglect to treat the seed.. These who
lave bean peesuatted to apply the
general practice is to appla it &tin I
treatment expaese sarprise at ite
implicity and, ease and are convinieed
hat a gain ,of from (sae dollar to five
oilers per etre has been made, The
treatment for an acre requires only
few cents worth of formalin bucket
of water and a few minutes work
The following method is recommend-
ed; Mix one pint of formatin with 40
gallons of water. Place the grain to
be treated in a heap mi. a clean can-
vas or floor. Sprinkle the formalin
solution over the grain, then shovel
the grain over into another pile so to
mix it thoroughly, then sprinkle and
shovel again. Repeat this until every
grain is moistened by the solution;
then cover the nide with sacking and
leave far three tor four. hours. At the
end of this time, srpread the grain
out thinty to dey; shovelling it over
three otr tow times wilS, hasten the
drying. Forty gallons of the forrnalin
solution is enfficient to sprinkle be-
tween thirty and forty bushels of'
grain.
Never expose wit gnnin to a tem-
ature below freezing. If the grain
sewn while moist, it will not run
freely as dry grain; for...this rea-
open up the drill soneerwhat er
stand will be too thin.
Meat and Canned Foods
Inspection.
The inspection of meat and can -
riled food producte 'carried on by the
young lice hatch out just ete the buds per
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Ivan. Aphis is the cause of the is
dwarfed, misshapen apples so often, as
found. They cause the •young leaves 1 son
to ecunt and 'eventually die If the the
Plymouth Rocks, we harve to make seen
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two different matings. These we call the
the light 'color and the dark color neat- pay
me, and while they are 'bath Barred
- Plymouth Rocks they are bred as sep-
arate, as though 'they were different
breeds. • ., . , •
• I am Mentioning this because I have
founcl from entre own experience that
the light 'color mating lay the best
and I would suggest that all breeders
of ene large flock for market pur-
poses ,only, use the light ,color mating.
They chase /*err releo, and have richer
yellow shanna and skin
Twenty' Points on Hogs and Bacon
Markets. '
Here are twenty points whi•eh. out-
line the present position and the main
requirements of the markets for Can-
adian hugs:
1. -Select bacon hogs must weigh
beheeen 160 and 210 lbs., at the pack-
ingtplants (170-220 lbs. on the farm).
2. Very little more than one-half of
&a hogs now 'being marketed within
the weight -limit to yield 'exportable
"Wittehhe isidee".
8. There is only A very limited mar-
ket for the fat, lard -type of ho '
16. In the common interest' the
beeeding of fads must be discouraged.
Their careaSses de not yield the.right
ctinforrnation far "Wiltshire side"
17. Conformation or shape fit irn-
poetant. as weight. .Two sides from
differing breeds may apparently have
the proper length wee all but if the
shoulder of one is too thick, the belly
too thin, or the back too fat it will'!
reduce the value ,of the parte from
which the high-priced, well-balanced
leaco-and-fat eats ,atee taken.
18. Parmeesproducers are most
likely to get the rigart bacon types
among wen selected Yorkshires, Tana
worths or the bacon sub -section of
the Berkshire breed.
3.9. Other breed's are uosuit-able end
the .averege farmer oannot sifted to
breed tthem.
20. The two inter -naked and es-
sential halves of the livestock industry
are:
a Production mid merketiag of
farm nit:male;
• 2. Manutactuee and marketing of
'
win, but if you can't' win keep sweet
and ta• to learn why. Any one can
win but it take k a true fancier and
e,portsman to lose gracefully and pro-
fit thereby.
Everybody who has a few good
fovds in his breeding pens can profit
by shovving them. Whether you ea.is-
ed than yourself or bought them off
Some other breeder, you will never
know juet how good they are in com-
parison with your neighbors' fowls
aimless you show them.
If you purehasecl your exhibition
stock, depending entirely on the pest
itecordis of the Midis or the say-so of
the man selling them, it will pay you
to make a careful study point by 'point
tii cornparing yam, birds with the enes
shown against you. Agile the judge to
phew you the strong and weak points
tin your bide, and he will, usually give
you a lot of valuable pointera.-
We have often run across people in
fihe show -room who were there for the
ljrat time. They started with a setting
Of eggs ter whirl they paid a good
:sake and from which they expected
04, lot of high -Ass ehew birds,. One
phould begiri the study and cutting of
these Nate when still email ehkks,
and watch them untit, ready for the
, ahow-room. Mx your ideal! * mind
and donstantly eetect; the oates that
have developed the most nearly to
that ideal.
We always give first places to the
Made newest staadard shape. Some
beeeders Plaice eater first, but it is
neilaibr admitted that "color makes
variety while shape makes the
,One.ted," Also observe the birtilsoheaci
gsointo carefully, for nothing catehee
fbit jedge's eye quiekta than a welt-
ered head with good woe milts and
tteattilea See that the births' are prop-
teely conditioned l'or the sbow-room
'tor codition tis half the battle. 11Iany
an inferior bird in tbang-up condition,
earefully gleamed, hite won over hircill
'that have been grossly neglected
tong those lmee
the showwrooni determined tie
Feeding for Egg Production.
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It can be definitely laid down that
the egg yield of the average fleck of
fowl :would be inareasied materially by
feeding a larger tsepply of animal
food- So Says a circular styled "Bed
Scrap versus SkinaMiih for Egg Pro -
&lotion," just issued by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, the
author of which 'is the Superintendent
of the Dominioe Expeinmeabal ittbation
at Cep Rouge, Que. The three main
supplies of euirnal toed required hy
laying hem are flesh green cut bone$,
beef scree), end &kite:milk, and of
these the last mentioned has peoven
the best stimulant to egg productiont
The milk me,y be fed sweet or sour,
but always the sena, as any alteration dieoraerl
carefully
iS liable to /lead to bowel trouble. It hanilse'll S
e little ,gerl will tune. !from ati i
should also never be allowed to treeze, elabratielY dressed doll to levieth 1 thaiolttater
If milk a net anatilable in stifficient 'ft3Te'", I', .°n a, l'a'g di°ellt,_ Oe dllilid
quantity, then either beef sere) taxmen slam a tame, auseiver of ve...H-"u- til-ig.,H11:7.erifi
gem banes can be fed: to: ,,la: (311:1011101RrAgt4 t(' Play. wItivr- .Grante
.siapeily the deficiency. ' Buttertifilk iel a'13 lgathel* 1)..°P.i t3IFIL14.iii 63.4y :111:it,;,kti ifjeil I .ssilliit:Alviryy:
beneficial, The main poiet i$ that, in', ftitveellN ja.,41,,,,,„„veunt40: '
order that hens may de their best, 1 t‘`""' ''; ""'"' '"rtfl "It' 6114 l'elll'ailldier sive wed
they meet be given aelinal pro Lein to I it'f, the day using the box in witieft ite
at liberel exteet. These a•ro the cone i "line for 'a b°1'lit' :Ultel. '864' 'illtunkeld ff.lor°Toebdil! 11
elesions i ea need after en experiment I 'lle'r unehe for the beentifal boat he
in fowl feeding conducted at Cap I had esOlt ‘4,141% ,",
Rouge tor five y,eare, For small back,' warm tne 'coati can, flee piey-ma. i;ilefestrIgel:
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heee evoke table scraps hare been1 belittle, lie stroplel he given blockst petrini,s,s,*3
found satisfeetory, but for the aver- 1, balgat* heads, claY, PaPer, stissors ae no tram
age farm flooks where greeter outdoor , a,na clts'Y'ens, a4„'s°, "14:sleellanelnIS aftit and Plan
;veep le to he beta, the levees de not retes from whim '16 lll'at'S' chime, ordeelinee
ruefully .centain sufficient meat. In' When the chblid nay safely be left toys intust
order that the birds may obtain Qicnn 'a" 1 •'' th . 'eery oi, out of doors, night int '
milk in the etnatity they tea,' it is he shotelidebe then. th-din the ,eontlettetts are entforo
well to Inn it before them in an open presenee of an &chill. He reelizee ciatitn of
pert. rtish scraps and ilsb meal ean greater satisfaetfon if thrown np•on their ',Vivi
be used to a Iireited extent, Preell his own ateoercee. The cliilate powev orie anoth
imeat avant art adeitable only in to a corpeortrAbion .i.:4 wvik Tr ,i . y i.' • a
Weather,
parente, ireeteed of sitting quielle by, impoesible
trolling. fungus but cannot wholly, Dommion Department a Agricultuee
control it because we dare not make! is a matter closely related to the
them sufficiently strong. I health amid physlical we'll -being of the
To sine up, then: The &meant! people of Canada. The Vete,rinegy
,spray controls San Jose scale, oyster'. Director Generaa has at his command
shell scale, all the scales at minor im-.1 for thie work a small wally ,of trained
porbance, aphis, pear Nana, apple: inspectors who are constantly on the
blotch and various other fungous I alert to detect disease edixi to eatfe-
growthe which disfigure fruits. In eap. guard the consurnerr. Every abattoir
senee it may he called life insurance; and recogitized: slaughter house is
res the trees will beam* 'worthless if', sPeeted and the meat that goest out is
it is not •appliecl. It also controls an -I ataxtenech The canning factories and
rearacnose on raseb•ereies and Mack_ I their products also come under .oairefuil
cape. It must be applied during the' supervision, and eertificates me given
dormant period _ as it, is used- in guaranteeing that the products :are
need strong for dement eplayinet '''-'il Ind Canned Feeds Act•providei 'that
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etrength_enfficientaa burn foliage. o ' • whelesonte. in every rase:hot. " Every
Commeeeial lime -Sulphur is genee.... animal intended for slaughter is ha
ally Used fee:this ,sipeay. It should ae, snected, anti Panted uPen. The Meat
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Observationt and actual . practice I no animal that has entered the yeah
ha,ve eonvinced the writer that a weaklier pens of en ineipected 'establishment
solution for ' this &relent spraye is shall be removed unless perinissiOn
time end money throvni away.. Use lin 'writing ibe 'granted by the inspector.
ane part lineetsulphur volution to Animals that ,are found to hte ever eo
abput eight parts water. Retnernber tliglitlY affected by disease are ret
that the San Jose senile ie literally a .leeterl. , Not tnly the ,aninealls but the
hardened reprobate. He envies paes carcasses after death have to be pase-
tective armor on his back.. The spray 6.a as ,sotenid. If the inspection, War-
mest be strong enough to penetrate rants, the meat is marked "Canada
this armor. Aphis eggs are protected Anitroved," and then inay either be
by a comparatively hard and varnish,. :eiPonted or eold for home consump-
ed case: To clean them up use splay tion Sausages; ,eannect Meats, and
strong. The fungoide are very tens Portions intended for cure, may he
teetotal of life. Kill them. with a shang •prepared only from carcaisee ,07 per
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solution Miseible oils are DASD used times thereof that have been so meek -
for this .spray with goad renal be, espe- ed. There •are at present in Canada
daily on apple end peaty trees, upwards' of :fifty inspected establish -
One or two cautions: do not use
lime-seaphur volution for any spray's
on grape eines, Grupe e `do not need
a dormant:spray end limeesulphur ia
stimnier spray for grapes ie injurious.
Do not attempt to use a darn -ant
spray solution after vow% ,starts.
Harvesting the Farm Ice Supply
A Cominuoity Job—rBY Earle %Y.? , gage
When Jaek Frost snaps away in straight a line without the aid of the
January and Febroaey, ith a sign le laighteed,ge. After the first line is
Lot the farmer to prepare for next cot to a ,surffielent depth it can be used
eurnmerh heat, and the ice season is as a guide for the horse marker, if
at hand. There is no crop that the this tool is used.
farmer harvests to -day that is Pre'. After the field has been lined off in
dewed so ale:Apia arid brings higther one direction the croes-knes should be
retuirns thee the ice crop. It take,: made.
no fertility from fare eoil, Care sheltie be taken to have
of depl eting the pocketbook, a°and
iew9laeitchrlgiskta earn° epslitsolreldh:)4e
the farmer and his family in making' the use of a square. A squase suitable
earintry life more comfortable and the' for the purpose .ctan be made easily.
farm ltooducts mere valuable• First nail the ends of two boards to-
Coeoperation in the ice harvest gether with a single nail Meaux° a
work is mome important perhaps than distance et eight feet on the outer
e common community co-operrition edge of one boaed and six feet .on the
at threshing and hayieg thne. It is outer edge of the other, then nail a
,best that the ice be cut end hauled third hoard diagonallyeacross the,two,
to the Stowage house quieldy for the artjusting it until the, two wanks are
two reasons of permitting other ice exactly ben feet athart on a etraight
to form while it is yet cola, and. of line, The boards then should be nail -
preventing waste if the feeezing ed together securely, forming the de
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weather is passing. Then, too, the sired squeee. If t'he first croso-line is
work can be .cleste .nruch more effi- drawn with care it is easy to draw
ciertla when there are enough men, the remaining lime parallel.
and teams to do all the essential op a The size of the 'cakes cta de,penele on
mations at the same time. the thiclenese of the ,ice, as well as
To harvest tee mat efficiently a ?pen the tools available for harvest
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few ice tools are neededt A steel mg, but in any ease it is important
scraper is desirable; -some types of
small road scrapers ,eath be used for
this work, or a very good home-nande
scraper may be fashioned of wood
to have alt the cakes of the samte size.
In order to simplify the handling and
packing, many farmers, especially
those who harvest a comparatively
and faced with a strip of steel, sueh small cluantitY of ice, ,eut the cakes
as the back of an old crosscut saw. A71 twenty-two inches square, a size that
ice -plow is almost essential if amy is easily handled with a limited =-
great quantity of ice is to be cut. It; mut of equipment,
facilitates the removal of the .porous I Aftee the field has been marked off,
surface ice and greatly simplifies cut- 1 a etrip of ice, one block an width and
ting into blocks. Half a dozen ice extending from the loading -way to the
pike poles, bearing vertical points and main channel, is cut through and ,
horizontal hooks, are necessary ht forced under the suala,ce of the sur
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floating the ice to the loading plat- rounding ke. This strip should be
form. An ice saw may he useful, or sawed somewhat wedge-shapedovider
an ordinary crosscut sa-w may be at the bottom than at the top, which
ujsed by removing one handle. allows it to he forced down intd.er the
Ice eutting, is best donducted with hfiemtw.e. as "sinlanfr. the header" anti
Id with ease The operation is
three squad of mene each with a
tea,m. The first squad removes the it eperts up a small .cleamiriel the width
of the. proposed' cakes'. The 'channel 15
suow or spongy ice from the surface
of the field and plows, saws and cuts ivid'ened by cutting another strip to
the ice into blocks of a size most con. enable the tang strips or floats of ice
venierrt to handle. If the ice is more to .the
to be floated from the main channel
than' twelee inches thick 'blocks two bank or, loadbegavay.
The strips of - ie.& are then pushed
feet square on the surface would be
most converiien.t to handle; if it ,is the bank,
with tan ice hook ...teng the •chann.el to
thinner .than twelve inches blocks where they are sawed -or
three feet square can he peeked con- eheaped into cakes. The narrow than-
ventiently. net. .out at right argl.es to the main
channel, has the advantage of, allow -
Tile .second squad efts loose the
blocks and &ate them to the side of ing the operiator to get closer to the
the open water, where they ere ready cakes and' to handle them roma eastly.
At the end , of the .narrow channel
there should be , inclined track or
to be loaded on the wagons, Here a
tramway with a' pair 'et ice limilte loading -way •in .whith the takes are
attached to a rope will make loadieg neaten either by hand, or by a hotse.
a reltativelY east' Matter. Let the lane, This track mayloact directlly into the .
extend across the wagon trent the lee house or to a plata:ern from which -
tramway; hitch, one hoese to it and the ealceS are loaded un a wagon or
cleft. the blocks train the water on to singe, •
the wagon: or Sleigh. The third gang The cakes' should not be out coal
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of men should be at the icehouse to -pletely through, but should 13-e grooved
place .each load in position and peek two er three inches with the plow, and
eawdust around it as rapidly as pos- affer being fleeted up th'e channel
work most rapidly in
the. Eight men:with three teams earl „chopped through with a special' tool
Mr -vesting a before being. put on the leading -way,
crop of ice by this inethod. This practice eaves time and labor.
In instantes where the ice is not -With regard to the cost of harvest-
fannees
quite thick enough to suit the need, ing ice, the locaticm of the source of
shonld staaPe, the snow oir supply is, of course, ;the deciding fee -
the surface the day before starting tor. When the pildacreek, river, lake
euttingt if indieations are that the or other body .of water.is heated near
night WI be severely cold. The snow the farm, the cost of gathering Should
acts as an insulation and retards he very ,sanall--altmost neg•ltigible_
freezing, and when it is removett, not the eost increasing as the clistanee
oniy is the entire mass a ice better grovss geeater,. Investigations of the
ltepartment Of A,grieulture show that
ice has been ,eut at.a, pric.e as low as
Gee cent , for a take of two hundred
.and twenty pounds, making tbe ice
cast, exclueive ef hauling and pack-
ing, nine cents a ton. The nsual price,
however, was found to average about
tea cents a cake, or eighteen cents
per ton. To find the total cost. of
.storing ice, the charge for haulihg end
parking must .be added; this brought
the average to about a ,clolitar a •ton.
Loss ef ice by melting. depends part-
ly upon the manner of packing. The
eakes should 'be placed. cle:se together
SD that the mass will he tight and
solid as possible,Ahus,pbeventing the
cracks anci openings that will allow
air to. circulate. Perfectly' cut, rec-
tangular cakes can be closely pacical,
which put home the great peed of
having the 'cakes cut in regular size,
• In beginning, a layer of dry sew -
dust about a :foot ,thick shout(' be
placed in the bettoin of the ice house,
•the depth of, the sawdust being a few
inches lase' in the eentre than at the
outer edge, so that the cakes will
have a tendency to Slide teamed the
walla The sides of the mass' of packed
ice sheet& be stinooth. Any project-
ing; Pieces , should be trimmed off be-
fore the mass is coy
g. insulation. If sawdust er mill. shave.
Ttte. net,traleee meet be .clahe .carefelly tugs a.re eised , a eparee of at least
So that an eakes 'be weetenguler, „twelve indhee Meet be left between
Which aids in e,c°119111''oal handling' and the sides of the, ice, etech and the
packing. in the ice home If. the uvitsof th,e; •,buditaling. phis spate.
proper start is Made in, marking. off 'should be fined With dry 'sawdust. or
the field'', n't trouble 11;e exiter- theevings as the paelting in the centre
ienced; but if pea sabiequent eettinge preteeae, •
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61.1 be entrucnit. Success In Marking In packing emais quantities of tee
intents, and tram 82 plants that re- rozen, but a few inelves thickness. is
.neeteet to the. branch, the output was' ad'ocli,:s.uvali pon.Ide
talacd. ,ret $175,133,000. In till, upwards • the .strrow may he
.01 theee.linndreth men are engaged in '
the Werlc..of:inspection.,..01 beim; vet-
erinary ,:greteretes and well pested on
the duties they have to perform. -•
. , r
ave o the shore, but- on large
fielde, 'eepecialty if the snow is deep,
it is impracticable to -scea,pe it en-.
tirely off the fields. It becomes nec-
essary, therefore, to pile it in winch
tows. . Windrows 'of snow, .of course,
°navy. eonsiderable space, so that dt
The VVelfare of th
Toys and PlaY-Materials--By
The child instinctively attempts to. direct t
/
develop his mind through cantata with about, vv
Inc eevironmenb. He wishes to gain others
knowledge of it, to 'come into 'sympa- Lterest w
may plEt
Seltf-eff
child's i
exitressi
unagmateott is valet keen, consequ ten, ., with the
ly 'his toys •slioulel 'he wisely selected" grew, „s„, tll
They .should.be 'simple and very darn l'a'"!nlY, _
able. There should be dolls, doll let* ma's
uliiiture, bans, carte, boater wagons inin a in
,and other toys whiph 'nay be tueful lose keel
to bine forts lie
"The toe finiefleett toy ehille the
imaginatton." and the child teepee*
ii$ seen to fintl more enjoyment with
a crude toy ot his own consibruction,
.
e Home
is necesesay to allow for an fate -eased
area of ice. - - -
The distance between the windrows
Ellen Creelmark.
It is best, however, to run them at
depends upon the depth of the snow.
he child by con3thincus remarlos i right 'angles to the main tchanna
ttyheexpts;edsosinsgy.Zaelgentiise ainad.; atIrieer bg.eht, sIN,Velied,...adlatiiitl.eyhelvdiiicisieicitari:siesefiiht.oee:Tiidn., Theathele;
hen the child appeals to Iliem, b
y with Min, but not for him, 1 main thannel, -whereaa it they run
oft is the law of pregress, The, parallel to the maigit channel °nay that
deas are vague, ,his facility of I portion of the sedate:between, can be
on ertlithe, bIlt he is satisfied cut before caenitig another"' channel.
eesults he eeellizes SS he out As the weight of the windrows of
its stage, unless serneone in • snow is usually sufficieitt to make
destroys his satidaction by, the ice on which it is piled beneath
ake, building or modeling for the surface f the - a it is best,
lore peineet form than his. To in order to. prevent the water from
1 delight •theaugh his own ea. overflowing the cutting surface, to tout
childhood. The elekl, if nat, the windrows,
I
an ireepariable loss to him, a deep groove, or to out through the
is i netural need of everyone ice parallel to and on both sides of
guided', acquires habits 'of . kfteT the meow is off the ke field,
inset.. He frequently finds it is ready to be marked for '
urroueded by a mese of play,
au i.entely room. His mind
tired. tend confused, and he
ay indifferently without hie-
zecitatis desiree ,
th,children an .etbractive nee -
Metier, how siMple, with
but riot neceseartly an expo],
patent, a feveraters, necessary depends ..112,rgely on getting the first it iS a ,q,onutron. eustoan to pour water
, -
appbtass ,of all most 'be en- line s.tratight,''ivhich may be done by over the stack or masts of packed ice
,,
Plaeing' a shake et each ezci. of tile and Otiow it to freeze said befoe
nust ibe no infringing upon pazipot,ed line to serve as e guide. putting , the gnsulation in piece. :rt
a, ,c, alleys, luctirvid,4,1 toys A straight -edge, consisting of an the weather is severe the mese of ice
t, 1* eppropriated Witheeti, orditeiry , itoarti 'about fourteen feet will freeze late a selid bleck thin
i ot. the enema There nen t, long, is then aligned with the two greatly ink:reasing the keeping qual.
deanery aristributioe of toes stakes eaa the cutting tool or hand- itiee,
materials. but a degree of. Plait run Wang its edge, atter which
s timieg tile day, nal .alt! the :, beeTo. is limbed :forward and
be pet inae illeir lee t , a. igned with the two stakes.
(ha Militate It these rates this is continued yeti' the entire (ids -
ed, intermit TM play, appre- tante between the statue haa beat
coefidetece, gratitude for coverett, Anether way is to thatch
lease, end good will towaras a line beavveen. the stakes and do the If refining the s•ito, 1";e sere and use
or may he tropeoted, With- marking with a handlatow)% but thi4 pleatty of water, Mouldy silage re.
igu ‘ (,1,6 des1red virckgrost 1$ nitthod is not go satiefacteee, sirae sfeita from wry', intim, tee ay *hem
i'
r 1 the hand -plow an not be vim hi, so enteiel
thistle reiration with it -,--end to fulfill
apart in it.
Toys ,ancl play-materiale offer him
one ineans of expression The thildre
Order
even. hi
There are' few farms which would
not be improved with a eteetelt of new
fencing. Get the tests out of the
sivenee this whiter,
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