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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-06-01, Page 2yrs 49,00;„ y i �wr Where the avow raises only a single letter of pigs during the year it is permissible at times to allow her to M r , wean the pigs herself. Ordinarily, however, it is 'totter to see that the Address communications to Agronomist lit , 73 Adelaide 5t. West Toronto plga are indepeaident of their metier Good Hay at the Lowest Cost, itself by throwing out these bricks or at from nine to ten weeks of age: Re - h •otitw Haymaking is a task that must be performed while the heat of summer is oppressive. There is also a good deal of anxiety connected with the op- eration, for a good deal of skill and judgment is, required to make and se- cure hay in good condition so ;a's to give the best results as feed. When the weather conditions may reduce the quality and consequent value of the hay for food at home or commercial purposes, hay may be termed "dried grass," but this does not convey the meaning of all that we want or all that is desired in hay. Grass may be dried before it is cut and yet be un- palatable as food far farm animals and yield little nutriment when it is consumed. As fresh grass is in itself a nearly perfect food for live stock the hay made from grass cut when it is at its best, and cured so as to retain all the constituents of the grass, with only the .loss of the water during the process, is the hay that is not only the most palatable but the most profit- able as feed• - new shoots from t e zo do anything in the way of growing mother and remove the pigs to other until it has time to start these shoots.. quarters.. If the sow can be kept on That may be a matter of a week or dry feed in limited supply, she will ten days. In the meanwhile weeds soon day up, The pigs . may be fed will fight for the possession of the on the same rations as they had be - land and, therefore, if the alfalfa is foe weaning. The pasture ble ure should ovide old be ant too crop there will inevitably howe' ber, or some other legume .crop and giro a short crop following. If, however, we neglect to cut alfalfa emelt after them alit the ailed a can be at olean it has made the new growth the plants up. g will begin to throw their strength to this time to advantage; ill not • duce' the amount of feed allowed the these buds, the main stalk w'i11 sta to crinkle down, and the hay will grow •and produce seed, but the second crop will not be as good for hay as it would The man who operates a large farm and who has a good deal of hay to ease for should have a complete outfit of modern hay snaking machinery, be- cause other work on the farm is likely to interfere with the handling of the hay crop and haying must be done in the shortest possible time. The small farmer can get along with more mod- est equipment. All necessary prepara- tions for handling the hay -crop should be made a few days in advance of the time the mower is to be put in the field. A machine may need • overhaul- ing and repairing, possibly some new machine will need to be purchased, and it is not advisable ;to wait until it is time to begin haying before this is done. Cow -Testing Advancement. Under the cow -testing plan conduct- ed by the Dairy Branch of the Do have been had the first crap been re - minion Department of Agriculture moved, for a seed crop detracts a there was a great increase last year goad deal from the next cutting. Ii' ;in the entire country of the number the first crop is cut at the proper time of herds and cows tested, of the test - then the plants will start off vigor- ing centres established, and of the ously and we shall soon have a good total tests made. ' What is more in- growth for a second, third or fourth portant is that advance is indicated cutting. I always run the cutter bar in the average production both of milk of the mowing machine lather high ;and fat. The report on the subject when cutting alfalfa, as otherwise for 1921 records an increase in seven there is danger of cutting off the buds provinces last year compared with or shoots that are growing to make the preceding year. New Brunswick the next env, thus seriously damag- fell away a little, and the Saskat- ing the following crop: climate Department of Agriculture There are two essays of handling undertook the operation of the entire falls. One is to cut at the time system in that province. In Manitoba, specified above, allow it to wilt, put the provincial dairy branch takes com- it in small piles, then cover with caps pieta charge' of the field work as well and let it stand for a few days. Then as organizing and supervising the test - on a clear dray remove the caps, open ing centres, while the Dominion Dairy up the piles, air and sun the hay and Branch complies the records and pays then put it in the mow. The other for the testing. The other provineee method is to cut it in the evening or all co-operate with the Dominion de - early in the ]Horning after the dew partment in the conduet and diirec has dried away and put it in small tion of the work. • windrows. Then when, by taking a The policy in force requires the wisp of it and twisting it hard, no farmers to supply the necessary equip - moisture can be seen on the outside, ment to weigh the milk, and to keg. it is ready to 'be put in the barn. The samplesfor three days during eats e first is the safest way so far as the month, While the Dominion . Dairy present crop is concerned, but the Branch, through the provincial dairy objection is that if the piles remain Of course, the time when hay should on the ground more than a day or be cut is a matter of much importance. two the alfalfa underneath will be I always begin cutting clover when killed and the field will be badly about one-third of the heads have turned brown. At this stage it is spotted. Alfalfa is no more difficult to cure than clover, provided there is promoters, organizes and supervises the testing centres and compiles the better portion of the lawn.- records received' at the Ottawa office.: •Butchers Can Help. In Ontario last year, due largely to' the District Representatives and the • It has been pointed out that but - about eighty per cent. water and can- provincial Dairy Instructors, tile work chers in small towns have an unusual not be stored safely if it contains over the same amount of heat, wind and nearly doubled, and in Quebec the pro- opportunity to influence the improve- sixteen per cent., so the problem of sunshine. In fact, it is scarcely as vincial Dairy Inspectors conducted ment in live stook grown for meat curing clover bay is simply that of j difficult. Whichever method is adopted i campaigns which resulted- in a re- purposes. One progressive firm of but - evaporating the difference between the great object in curing alfalfa is markable increase. The advance made chers has a number of well-bred young to preserve the leaves andit should is shown in the report by statistical bulls which they seek to introduce into not be allowed to stand until after tables, recording the number of :herds the herds in the communities from po They have begun to fall which they and cows tested, the number of cen- which they secure their supplies. The advantages of dusting that are sprayed; worms; ,four per cant, and. will do shortly after the new shoots, ties established, the number a tests, Whenever they buy a sire for slaugh_ generally appreciated are: sound fruit, 74.4 per .cent, or more from the root are an inch or so in and the average total aroductien of ter they always make an effort to re 1 Greater speed in application. A than in sprayed. art of the nu ri- •lk and fat m sae a as tla with thin better. The Tobacco of Qua1iy LTINSand inp'kgs. r� Transplanting. June Grass. Many times June grass will die out' on small portions of a lawn and it is difficult to reseed these poor paces. Some people have resodded these poor spots, others have attempted to re- seed Neither way is very satisfactory. The resodding always shows plainly in the old lawn, more like a pateh on a man's coat. An excellent way to handle these poor places or any other places where June grass has failed to catch and.do well is to take email pieces of June grass sod, put them down on the ground where the grass has failed, and then chop them fine with a sharp shovel or spade, strike hard enough so the sod,is thoroughly mixed with soil underneath, then pack the ground, either by tramping on it or rolling it. The June grass roots have thus been transplanted into the soil and will usually make a quick growth and be- fore the season is over one cars scarce- ly distinguish these patches from the eighty per cent. of water and.about sixteen per cent. or less. In order to do this quickly or in from twenty-four to thirty-six hours, it must be done through the leaves. As soon as the What Dusting Will Do A Summary of Tests in Fruit Pest Control It is generally conceded that two 6. Leas liability to trouble and men and a team can prune, cultivate breakdown. A dusting outfit in prac- and 'fertilize more than twenty-five .tics. is a .reliable_ machine �tnd is not aea•es of orchard, but that they could responsible for delays due to leaky not with one liquid spray outfit do valves, blowouts, etc -a which frequent - full justice to more than twenty-five ly occur with high-pressure sprayers; acres. The limiting factor of an 7. Simplicity and .speed: This makes economical unit is therefore the spray a greater appeal to the grower. More rig. fruit growers will dust than will spray A dusting outfit' cart easily take even if `the total cost is the same, be - care of sixty acres of orchard in one cause it is less trouble. This is highly season, and if dusting is equal in pest important, espeoially in an orcharding control 'to spraying, the change' to community where it is desirable in the dusting would have the effect of in- interests of every individual to im- creasing the economicaa unit of fruit prove the standard of product in the orchards and make cultivating the entire •community. Of these advan- limiting factor in determining the tages the first and last are probably maximum area that one team, two men the most important. - and equipment could care for, or the It is most curious to find that on eoononxieai unit for fruit production. averaging thirty experiments con - But the tractor, especially the lighter ducted in New York, Miohigan, ,Illinois types, has come to the aid of �bhe. fruit .grower, by supplying this limit- age gives the following: An average ed cultivation factor, which performs, of sixteen years of thirty experiments, more economically, an increased am- shows percentage of 56.5 on scab; 21.4 ount of work than men and teams can per cent. on worms, and 222 per cent. perform. sound fruit, on unsprayed orchards; The reputation of dusting has in the on sprayed.fruit, 15.6 per cent. scab; past been the reputation of sulphur 5.2 worms, and 71.5 sound. As against dust; it might be best to enumerate this consider the results over the some of the advantages, questionable same period of years of dusting, name- ' and disadvantages of dusting. ly: Scab, 15.6, or the same •as when • and Nova Scotia, that the total aver - length. hof th I t re that sire e place t a something dustrng ou tfit is capable of treating' These figures refer to the 90-10 sul- • stent is separated from the stubble s length. The greater p mi ceases ment in alfalfa is contained in the years. It also gives the average 4Cae This same firm also takes pains to from five to ten times as much orchard' phur dust only. It is curious t6 find the svgply ofevaporation water from below e l leaves. In feeding values these are duction and increase of seven herds display in the windows of their shop y pp while the evaporation from the leaf or vineyard as a spraying outfit in a that the percentage of 'a le scab in worth more than their weight in bran. in 1921 compared with 1919, each the carcasses of well-fed animals. given time. I the dusted and sprayed plots is exact - 1 always prefer to cut timothy when showing a marked increase; the num- This display is brought to the 2. More suitable timing of applican ly the same, while the dust is slightly it has reached the stage of full bloom ber of herds, cows and tests by pro- tion of feeders with appropriate cards tions. Owing to the rapidity of ap-I superior in insect contra] and in total and the first blossoms have begun to winces in 1919, 1920 and 1921, and the showing how the animals were fed plication the grower can time his ap- number of sound apples. At the Nova Scotia Experiment Sta- tion during the past three years, con- siderable work has been done with a new dust solution devised by Prof. G. E. Sanders. This is in the proportion continues as long as it has life in it. To secure this quick evaporation air must have free access to the leaves. Hence the problem of curing clover, fall. At this stage the •plant has at- number of cows tested with the aver - hay is to keep it in as loose form as!tamed its maximum growth and it age production of milk and fat at the possible. When the crop is heavy and also contains the maximum of digest- four principal centres in Ontario. In the sun hot, the leaf structure of the . upper part of the swath is often killed ible nutriments. The plants have been 1919 there were 2,416 herds and 22,517 l the provinces. In as shown by the leaves becoming nxaitrition until herdng a lie storing i t of blossoming 1921, tested were in l tested with Sasltat brown or black, while those in the: , point under part of the swath are 'scarcely, is reached after which the see& begins chewan excluded, 5,194 herds and 47; changed in calor. Hence the value ofi developing and drawing upon the nu- 895 cows. In directing attention to the redder in lifting the swath and I trim -eat the stalk which .becomes the necessity of the.proper feeding of allowing free access of the air. Unless t eoucentrated in the seed•. From the milch cows, the Dominion Dairy this is done the clover is sunburned, cell the soluble nutrition in the stalk Branch urges farmers to keep a re - and if the leaf structure is killed be- hgradually diminishes •and the woody fare the sa is out of the stalk it is fibre, wich is insoluble in water, be- impossiible to make a good quality of gins to 'increase and continues until hay, nor can the curing be done in the seed is mature. Hence the proper cord of the feed of each cow, and sup- plies forms free of charge for that purpose. any reasonable time. It is impossible stage of growth at which to cut Low -analysis fertilizers are the to cure clover hay properly during timothy for hay is immediately after shoddy of eonimprovement. — — clamp muggy weather. It is, however, full bloom. Timothy hay does not require as' The alfalfa enthusiast should keep an easy matter to cure it in clear s his plow -points sharp. sunshiny weather•w�ith a fresh north much sunshine for curing as elaver� or norbhwest wind. In fact, it is easy and alfalfa. If the day is bright and o cure clover hay as it should be cured l breezy I proceed as follows: I start if the atmosphere is very dry with the mowing machine in the morning sunshine and any kind of a breeze as soon as the dew has dried away and The problem, tioblem therefore is to keep the stop the same as soon as T think there cess that it is quickly converted into during t clover so loose during the curing pro- is sufficient timothy cut to handle and the percentage of dressed meat. plications to better suit the weather From the figures given the producer and the stage of the front. is able to understand how it is possible 3. Less waste time. Dusting opera - for the butcher to pay better prices for tions should be done during weather properly fibred and properly fed stock. These butchers say that this work pays them and they feel it has been instrumental in improving the herds in their section. Tobacco dust win get rid of red ants that are so troublesome in orchards ane gardens. Hoe the dirt away from thirds that of a sprayer, the cost of both m the control of fungous diseases the roots. of the trees, sprinkle a few upkeep is less, the gasoline used is and biting dissects. Which demon - spoonfuls of dust around on the top less and the duster is a longer -lived strates dusting is at least equal to of the soil, cover with a thin layer of machine. � spraying in all controls, save those earth. Sprinkle the water, or let the G. Lighter weight of dusting appar-' of sucking insects, especially the ram carry the dose home This also atus• A dusting outfit with dust and Payne and green apple bug, but. the •controls the red ants which bother operators on it does not weigh more difference is so slight even in this, as to be more than offset by the differ- ence in cost of application and amount unfit for most agricultural field opera- tions, such as immediately following of four. per cent. metallic copper and a rain or very early in the morning, one and a quarter per cent. metallic while spraying operations require the arsenic which has been demonstrated best of weather. as effective as the 90-10 sulphur lead 4. Lower cost of machinery. The arsenate compound. kia1 eost� of dusting outfit is two- This dust is equal to liquid spray, roots of asters in the flower garden. Parents as Educators Fear a Menace to Children—By Bertha Mason than one-third the weight of a sprayer ready for operation, so it can be taken over hills and over wet •ground where a sprayer would mire. Rules for Feeding hairy Cattle. he' day. If, however, I have The Dominion Animal Husbandman suspicion o au weather sap It is surprising how many children would "obey," not seeming to consider sets down in No. 68 of the Experi- hay th the evaporation d the moist-, machine before I think there is half u the leaf and before thel leave their homes to enter into a that su'bmhssion is:not alwaysiliscip- mental Fenn circulars three very con - lea thra gh enough down, as it is ]better to secure larger social sphere with fear instilled line. To the teacher it was pitiful. else ryand explicit x The first lies for s ; Never olnge Ica structurehf is destroyed he the hot ane on two loads of hay thoroughly • into their thoughts• If all mothers Tho child's effort to see resulted in an feed; the second: Feed according to Pun. With favorable weather clove] well made than to have twice the ld realize that feac�' is a most inevitable nervous strain. Through r b the condition above 'described can cart the individual needs and desires of s -a ety partly spoiled with a rain menacing disease surely fewer chit- fear of consequences if he answered ba cwt one evening, bef, relied or put in shower. I start the teller about one oxen vrould enter the kindergarten questions incorrectly he was no doi:bt ealailni�n th asidtohhelliours ofefeed- d emelt windrows defore dinner the fol hour after starting the mower. If the �, silent at times when he could have g y re - lowing day, and hauled 'during the ,, a with atemblin�in and the character of the feeds. timothy is very .heavy it .is given a� Mast kindergarten ox primary. responded, And' he probably tirade g afternoon. second bedding, going hn the opposite teachers have at some time felt the other mistakes through nervausxiess. bandmanlative tothe po points last, Animal i en Where one has only a few acres of direction. Theis about Hoerr I start ing of seeing a child'show fear. Pre- It 1 t h h t clever probably the best method! of th• e rae and about el hour inter com- icof aateachex wonders why she and l itq ~ n Fre- handling is to cut it allow to encs hatxlhii: and clean u the last n the whole -hearted, loving m g p does nets wilt, put it in emelt piles,,then Cover swath before night. After the fray is res onso which mast children read - it Wirth hay caps'and let it go through in the barn the latter is tightly closed' it give to the effects of a so read- the sweating process in the piles. at night. There is no danger of heat-; ilietic friend. No child can give his I begin cutting my first erop of ing or moulding in the avow if the ] thetist c attention when there is present a alfalfa when. it is about one-fourth in tinxothy is rut when the bloom is on dread of what might happen if he bloom. When the time for harvesting the head and mowed awayawithotii: any; makes a zyaista1 e. Be that sensation alfalfa approaches it begins to prepare rain or dew on it, 'Phe hay will come' fear over= so vague it will check Naturally it was impossxble to ae- of died but two: I was now an debt two ply green in of cc' thoughts and re- 'curatel diagnose her case as she liaci Make a thin paste of fifty poundsa for t as though it were a ear the and in the winter bright f; n i calor; ready expression of the g Y if " ' h �d t d lime in boiling water, or one- dollars and fifty cents.and nothina• to event h tformi�g a buds near the and it will I raid Hatt ,, 1 root, thus 'forming a o1 f quick -lime may be slack alfalfa, is cut before it f foul I t the is notonly teachers who mus t o t that sold contend with ennsequences of such a changes in feeds are liable to oause of my mother, I could hardly wait un - coarse. A few days ago I ,caw a child not only a loss in gains or production, til they were batched, As I was se Who was ill scream and pull the covers, but will often induce ailments such honest about promising to pay for my over her head as soon as the physi-' as diarrhoea, bloat, milk fever, etc., eggs nay brother suggested that I v clan neared the bed. "If You don't all of yv'h%chi, are described in the dr- pay for the rent of the incubator,. hush the doctor willd ' which I did. the grab your coker with suggested treatment an When they hatched the chickens tongue," said mother. Of, course remedies, _---,._ �-- were healthy and so very hungry that • the child's fear was'only iixcreasecl ; A Durable =hitewash. I fed them too much and they all of acreage that one outfit can handle. economically. THE CHILDREN'S11 H. OUR A Money -Making Stunt. One spring a few years ago I re- solved to make some money. I thoughii, that keeping • chickens would' be an easy way. I decided to have Plymouth Racks as they are quite large and would sell for more than a smaller chicken in the fall, Atter I had thirty eggs which I had bought ill lie worth as much much to food natural,,normal mental develop- worked horse into a serious nervous y ra a show for it but two thickens and the town. If the and the stock will relish it almost as state. 'half btishe :o. qui r merit, ater the. same physician remarked od in seven and one-half gallons of .ei:pe?rience, has prepared well a, Clic f xr.:ss it is made fi.om. I All teaolters and public .welfare L,p Y , .4s long as I was this much in debt " " " " "' -c rs will testify that many parents to me, "Why dont people teach dill-, water, keeping the vessel well covered works , : ' 11 . To this is I decided that I might as well buy, of the ca 1: a; e (determines in a large and .relativesthreatenc en with which some more or wow ,n p • ' __ added .ire peck ori common gait, 1 l "' lif d i 1 children dren that we want to help not hurt and stirring as c�sioxim y f 1 ld 't be apt to 1 ineastne its value at maturity, the1 us direful punishments to be ad- .tshent? He then cited many instances' even pay m debt withl two chickens, s, l ,•l varix had threatened children has beets dissolved' in hot water; threep . Y ge l r,rulerttt daitto encourage nc will. exercise par- xHanistered by policemen, doctors, where adults h In a< few weeks the second bunch • 1 i ]ancare to oncotic a e strong hone goblins and numerous imiig- with "the doctor" if they didn't obey.' pounds of rice flour, boiled to a thin hatched and they]roved to be just as Where calves aro turned toshould t cu g I aril niitscial�ar clevelopinent, To a•rhheve teacliebein s. For obvious. reasons such -a -Course! paste, which should be stirred in while 1 versa soiree arrarci e1nents should; , maty gn treatt:i as the others, But I was In pas g this > itirr�ese <t' ays111-ba1aiicecl grain ra-, five-year-old boy entered a prim- is very 'unfair to the physicians and : hot; oro -half pound �o�f Spanish Whit- y each iconmded so theiv at freging. rl .f1 S. more careful this tune, bort should ibe supplied,. regularly. I' room in September. ;Ihs eyes were the children .xvho gain such hainifuI ting and ono pound of clear glue, each calf will receive its reporter gain-, ! ay t z tin coiice tions. thorotagFy distelved in boiling water. 'Sometimes. I would get very discour- x to rind that a ration compounded of weal:. That, however,'didno e pl p i articulaxl suitable aged as I thou ht of the heavy debt cunt of feed. I find it a good plan equal arts of round oats, cornmeal evident fear of the teacher, If Every child should learn that un This formula is 9 �.;,,, i t a row of stanchions with q . p g his o - it inevitably fol- for interior work. Mix well in the over it y head. For every day the debt ,,t,ain and brad, with a small allowance of she approached to 'help him hem pleasant consequences e y was growing larger, for as the chick- 0, shallow trough in front tor oil ,rata gives es spt:endid rr sults, I ariably crouched to one side and low certain actions. Ent to teach a order mentioned above and allow the nr rthan child to fear individuals, real or fan- i iixtur�.• to stand several days before ens grew they ate 'more, never: once:, responded with more About the last of October I sold alt if smile to her efforts cifu], is air injustice to the child, to' it is applied., It should be put on with and a questioning teof than but three chickensq toput him aCease. Of course, she call- triose who are to share the responsh- a brush or spy as lion as it: is posy raostar. I had all of my honest debt*, child's mother. During the bility of guiding him and to each siblo to benvie the mixture, ed upon the ell g to ]coker the oalves while they are eating. The stanchion should; be par- titionrxi off in such a manner so that the 101Ves cannot lick or sunk ono an- other while the taste of their dinner i.r still in their mouths, With such an arrangement a number of calves can be pastured together without their coal/trading bawl: habits, XCe*.ng tit mind that the first year feed this ration txvieedaily mamounts that the calves will readily consume. The man who succeeded in putting 4,1.I" in fertilizer was a real bene- factor. Tuition often brings, better ;Nag - menet than intuition but both aro val- ualel paid and ten do - llars a� forty oat* i left as :a profit, 1 intended to riti: "now much more cleceitt were it to , y,. p but as ceratin. see schoolhou,sos strewed will] green rhac.�cns the next year boughs :and bowers than with bloadly. tan•res prevented I raised ctiae sir►- birchen twigsl"—Mantaigue, i Stead. conversation the mother said, "We want liinx, to mind and we told him you would ahnu.t beat him to death if he didn't. I'think he believes us, too." She seemed quite proud that her boy member of the society of which he becomes a part, It is through knowl- edge and not fear that he learns self- control and respect for principlos bf right and laws of ]society,