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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-09-28, Page 8R La- r� address pgmmunlratlons to A ronene etc ee Adelaide St. West. Toren"q .. hF1' contagious Abortion. Don't knowingly, have your cow n heifer served by a neighbor's bul ,. Every owner of caws,deeply mares, ewes unlessyou are eeasonabl�y 'certain that and sows should be daepl'y interested ser in.,diseased cows. in the pa'evention of infectious' ` or he has not been v g contagious abortion. It is true that the bull b only a Itis a well known fact that infer- mechanical carrier of the hefeetion, tions abortion causes greater loss to but to make him safe, he should be evade raisers and dairy fanners than treated both 'before and after service, any other single disease, tuberculosis especially if he is serving infected not excepted. cows. Treatment of the genital tract Infectiou's abortion is a specific in- of aborted animails is essential, espe flamnnation of the mucus membrane of cially in cases of retained placentas; the uterus which in pregnant animals however, this is work for the verteri- Leads to an affection of the fetal mem- narian or trained dairyman. Infection branes and often to the premature with the abortion organismoften birth of the fetus. The fetus may be leads to retained placenta and steril- either living ar dead, depending upon ity. Suckling calves from infected the degree to which the germs have mothers spread abortion infection, by interfered with nnrtritaon. tramping through the feed, or manure Animals which have aborted once from infected: cows. It is a great mis- er twice may cease to abort, but they take to feed the milk from infected remain diseased end are likely to in- cows, to sows, unless it has been feet others. Accidental causes may sterilized.. and sometimes do bring on miscar- riage, however, every abortion in cows should be considered infectious. Con- tagions abortion of cattle is a specific infectious disease due to the Bact. abortus of Bang, but in mares it is caused by 'the Bacillus abortus equi. The germs are found in the uterus fetal membranes, and fetuses or in- fected mares. This disease has not yet become very common in ewes or sows; however, it is well to keep in mind that they are not exempt from it. Doubtless the infection is taken up with the food or water, or the ou•,gh the genital organs, which may become in- fected by stable litter, manure or con- tact with infected milking or stable utensils, or using syringes, douching hose or instruments which are not always clean. Treatment—No reliable cure is known for contagious or infectious abortion, but the use of vaccines ap- plied by your veterinarian to herds It is considered good practice to which are badly affected will prove flush vagina of aborting cow until os beneficial, and the treatment is per- closes and discharge ceases, the same haps worth what it costs. However, preparation is suitable for flushing the use of vaccines for abortion is sheath of bull, before and after serv- still In the experimental stage. Pre- ice; use one part Lysol, Creolin, or ventative measures have given the Liquor Cresolis Compositus, in 200 writer best results. Equip your farm parts tepid water. Douching vagina with a separate stall or stable for with this preparation every 48 hours, your rows at calving time. for 30 days before cow calves •may This maternity barn should be so prevent white scours and pneumonia; constructed that it can be fumigated use this same preparation twice as with formaldehyde, easily disinfected strong to bathe the hind parts of and not difficult to keep clean. Keep aborting cows. Wash and dry the calf. the cow in this .barn and treat her Sterilize stumpeef Cord with tincture until all vaginal discharge ceases Thef iodine and with one. art'sell- aborted fetus and accompanying mem- cylic acid and three parts boric acid, beams should be burned as the germs and don't forget that absolute clean - are very numerous in these tissues. liners of hind quarters of infected -cow The manure and litter should be will very often prevent mastitis and placed out of reach of your cows. white scours of calf. In conclusion, The disease has been spread by the let me say, the fundamental principles introduction of an infected animal into underlying the control of contagious a healthy herd. Keep the new cow or or infectious abortion are the same as heifer isolated from balance of herd for the eradication of other infectious tmtil after she calves. diseases. ;aa rir 'Staff of Deliartanentof best it tinets,; Our communities are 'University Staff. $o 'threatened °now .iii this. way thlat The' Press, there is' gradually gr'gwing up a feel - in' this we 'have not found yet any lag in our women's organizations that this is a problem that requires the ee-operation of the lien's o.rgeniza= •griculturdiw danger of overlapping: The field is just beginning t9 be covered and there, is more than eno•'ugh for each orgaab- izaleen to do. We believe that "all our strength lies in our union, all our danger lies in discord." Education. It will be sufficient to touch upon two or three of the broader aspects of education as it affects rural life: (1) There .i,s the necessity of techni- cal or practical education. There may be a danger of over -emphasizing cer- tain phases of technical education as applied to agriculture and even home- making. We must 'bear in mind first, .last and always that the .studies of agriculture and household science are primarily intended to broaden and bal- ance the child's sphere of knowledge and experience and to open for him a wider field in, his choice of life -work. It should not be the ,:object of such training to make farmers or me- chanics or dressmakers or cooks or homemakers. If so, we are in danger of producing many of the misfits I before referred to. There is, perhaps, a danger also in this kind of education to place an undue valve on the material and econ- omic side of life to the exclusion of what may be called the cultural or spiritual side. It would seem that our civilization has run amuck through this same error. upon the boys and girls, It will give Undoubtedly we have to give eur them a. sense of responsibility that attention 'to the material 'side but will help to prepare them for the lives there is grave danger of blunting the of citizens. delicate sensibilities of our children The Homemakers' Organization. Cows which have aborted s'hou'ld not be sold but kept in the herd until they become "ceased aborters" unless they fail to conceive when bred. About one in five or six have latent or active in- fection, and infection probably through teat in adults and is situated in udder •of non -pregnant, and in womb and vaginal discharge of preg- nant cows, but B. abortus disappears from uterus soon after parturition. Or germs enter cow through food and attack fetus in utero through blood. Young animals may be infected by milk, or in utero, but infection does not last long. There are many healthy carriers never showing signs of dis- ease. Suspicious symptoms in a herd are abortions, retained afterbirth, steril- ity, nymphomania and mastitis in cows; while B. abortus causes in calves through milk white scOurs, in- fectious arthritis and pneumonia. Parents as eaters The Desire to Phase— By Minerva Hunter. tions and ;here is a steady tendency The telephone gave a sharp ring, towards community cluta. It is felt Mrs Kent lifted the receiver and her that we must do something better. It old schoolmate beard' this one-sided with. this in mind that the idea of 'conversation, "Yes this is"Mrs•. Kent. is • the Community Bird Club vane, and "All right, Mrs. Dake.» "He did!" for these reasons: "We'll have it replaced to -day, Mrs. (1.) Bird study offers a source of Dake. I cannot tell you how sorry I personal happiness and a resource for am that it happened." "Have you enjoyment throughout life if begun sent him home?" in childhood. As if in answer to her question the (2) It fosters fine qualities of char- side door opened and Hilman went to eater—kindness, gentleness, sync-' his room. pathy,humaneness and a reverence+ Half an hour later when he had de- fer for life as opposed to present day ten -I parted, for his father's office, Mrs. denies toward selfishness, lack of Kent sat down beside her guest thought for others, brutality ' and suppose you have a pretty good idea. cruelty and a callousness toward life. what hashappened," she remarked (3) It affords a healthy form of re- with a rueful smile. creation for mind and body. "1 should say that Hilman broke a {4) It •opens up other fields of in- window." exclaimed his mother. terest ' and can be macre a' sort of "Exactly!"ext a anchorage around which can be at- "That ' is the 'second he has broken tached literature, music, .scientific this vacation. We made him pay for knowledge and much else. the first out of his savings and (5) It can afford a common, meet- thought that lesson would be enough, ing-ground•for inen, women and ehil- but he has done it again. Why do :ren. boys enjoy destroying things? Tell (6) It is a vital problem in agri- me, Susan." culture as evidenced by the efforts "I hardly think Hilman enjoyed it. put forth by our government, provin- I heard his explanation and it seemed tial and federal. • efforts me he d'isevery �the have to be largely: unavailing if the rock throwing because his first ex told him he was likely to forthcoming. The interest and effort of the people is not perience effortTheir can be will put to break a window." tha fr mminute tvhatofh Yes, I gatherlikeded t o e said," the mother agreed, "but he went on playing just the same. Sometimes I lose all patience with Hilman. If you can think of some explanation that will give me sympathy for him, Susan, please tell me what it is." "Even if it brings you up for criti- cism?" Susan's eyes twinkled. "Yes." Mrs. Kent •consented. "It may be if I can criticize myself I can understand Hilman better." "I remember that when you were much older than Hilman you were de- structive in a far more serious way than he." "How?" gasped Mrs. Kent. eWhen I knew youat boarding Rural Life and Activities for Women BY MISS ABBIE DELURY, DIRECTOR, HOME -MAKERS' DEPART- MENT, UNIVERSITY OF 'SASKATCHEWAN. The greatest incentive tb agricul- tural activity on the part of the indi- vidual farmer is removed if for any reason the homemaker fails in the performance of her duties or in the creating of- a proper home atmos- phere. This fact is recognized by the Departments of Agriculture in the different provinces of Canada and in the United States, also more recently in England and Wales, iScotland and. Belgium. The 'Rural Women's Organizations originated with the women as inde- pendent organizations depending on their own efforts; their work was recognized as such a great factor in the success of rural life, that now de- partments of agriculture initiate this work and give it financial aid as part of the work of the State. The Sol- dier Settlement Board also recognized this fact , by the establishment . of a Horne Branch. The Rural Homemaker's Drawbacks. The homemaker fails sometimes: (1) Through lack of proper training and experience for her. duties; (2) In rural life, through discour- agement, lack of incentive, monotony, overwork, need of change; hence ac- quires an unhealthy attitude of mind toward her duties; (8) Because of .a lack of 'home- making instincts, misfits. How the Women's Organizations Can. Help. by giving too much prominence to The Homemakers' Organization can such things. Present-day education in no way bo looked upon as a subsi- calls for more cultivation of the finer dized organization. True, they receive sensibilities. a money grant from the Department Good Literature in the Home. of 'Agriculture' but, it must be pointed It has been felt at all times that out, this is to help in the interests of our agricultural people are often the Department of Agriculture. More placed at a disadvantage with the than that, the women through their dwellers in cities on account of a lack organizationsevery year, return to of a certain kind of culture. This is the province in the form of expendi- not so true as it once was but is true ture for certain provincial community to a certain extent. The means' of needs, three or four times the amount much culture had always lain at their of any grant received. doors and has :been ignored, particu- ee_ larly in the last two or three gen- unfinished Stock Depresses erations. 1 refer to the reading of good literature in the homes. This is a practice that has gradually been The Dominion Live Stock branch dying out. One great reason for this merket reports for the month of July is, perhaps, that we have been placing are on the whole somewhat encoueag- the responsibility for such things on ing., While prices for all manner of our schools and educative institutions, stock in the East were lower than just as parents have gradually been they were in July, 1920, they were for unloading many more of their respon- all, excepting 'calves, a little higher sibilities on these same institutions, than in July of last year. The same and therefore neglecting the true and ;is true of the market at Winnipeg. natural source --the home. '. That isAt Calgary and Edmonton there was why homes are ceasing to be homes in a drop all along the line, excepting the true sensee of the. Weeds and are for good lambs at 'the former `place losingtheir:' hold on theyouth of; our all more select hogs at the'lattei:: Once time. Without home educattou, more the complaint 'is made of the other., farms of education . must fall sending of unfinished grass cattle to to a large extent because they can be, market, but the most depressing effect at best, only helps and extensions of at Toronto was the heavy receipts of the others. The discouraged woman who has come to look on her work as merely drudgery acquires this state of mind through living in isolation— she cannot see her work as an import- ant part of a great whole. Markets. The Work of Woman's Organization in the Community. When she finds herself working along with other women (1) to pro- cure proper and sanitaryschool equip- ment, (2) to establish • a hot and wholesome noon luncheon, (3) to have medical inspection of the schools, ,(4) to establish restroonis for the com- munity, (5) to undertake the estab- lishment..of community halls for the use of their people, (6) to start or procure libraries for the public use, (7) to procure nursing help for the district, (8) to establish cottage hos- pitals and help to maintain them, (9) to hold fairs of different kinds, (10) to have child welfare exhibits' and in- struction, (11) to assist the less for- tunate, (12) to co-operate with and assist other organizations in their works, and (13), best and greatest of all, to create a better and healthier community spirit and - to minimize the spirit of hatred, prejudice axed intoler- ance of different kinds that disgrace our tommunity and national life and to further in its stead a spirit of love and open-mindedness and an atmos- phere of hospitality—then her work 'becomes elevated and transfigured in her mind and that is all that is net- eesary. Overlapping. There are so many institutions organized for public welfare that the The ' Women's Organizations with the aid of the Department of Agricul- ture can 'help all these classes as well as the homemaker who has made a greater or less success of herr work, and these are in the majority in our thought arises in the minds of many province, They can all be helped by: people that there must be much over- lapping and therefore waste of time and material. Our department to- operates with every possible depart- inent in the province: The provincial Department of Health; The Education Department in many linrys; The Agricultural Societies; Tire Gi'a1n '(coverer; The Itsd Onrsa "r 'l eachete k%tered Nersee Affiliated With 'the Proeitetial Cern/Wit; the greater 'home education. The home is responsible for the time spent out- side of school—for education and re- creation during this time. There is, the report says should have been kept no greater instrument for culture of ion the grass for another sixty days. heart and mind than a love of and,l At Calgary the uncertainty of feed familiarity with good literature. prospects in 'some districts led- to Our Women's Organizations have farmers sending their cattle in, and been doing much to stimulate dove of the report notes that with the run of reading. Many of them have organ- i half -fed grass cattle arriving, the ized local libraries and put their 'com- i market in the latter part of the month munities in the way of getting cir-, developed a 'decidedly weaker turn. At culating libraries. Our university Edmonton the market was flooded gives a grant of dollar for dollar up with a lot of thin grass cattle, many to ten dollars spent for library y books. in .particular being from the Peace This is a step in the right 'direction, River district. The market for calves but the community library can never everywhere was erratic and tending Western cattle, mostly heavy, rough, fat steers. At Winnipeg a volume of unfinished cattle was received which the department through: (1) Literature sup$ted ftonti time to time as need arises; (2) Extension lectures and demon- etrations•, (3) Correspondence with clubs and with ,individuals; (4) Conferences and conventions. They can help one another' it uteric organization (and this is the greatest good that a .rises from ot+gaiizatioit) by working together for common b t- trests atidi by each giving the beneitt di herr kgovibRige end' experionoo for take the place of home reading and, slightly to a decline. Lamb prices at we are trying to make ourselves active: Toronto fell off a bit towards the end in this direction. We have talked this • o f the month owing to heavy offerings,. matter over with our clubs for years, i but at Montreal they averaged from but sometimes some definite action is, $1.18 to $1.42 per hundred over the necessary to get a movemen,' ander • corresponding month of last year. Hog way. For this reason I should re-, prices were fairly steady and inclifl el commend that a yearly grant of ten to strength, but, the Montreal, report dollars be given to each club to buys contains a warning which might well works of good literature for reading! be heeded. "Hogs," it says, "are in - in the club and to be used in the homes •variably scarce during July and prices keep tip, and farmers, hoping to cash in on the high prices, send in their light- unfinished spring hogs. These We al] realize, I believe, that the find a limited market until the supply question of recreation and how tine! becomes too numerous and then there outside of school shall be spent is a is either a severe cut on light hogs, or bigger problem than ever it was be- the whole market is lowered, some - fore. The casting -off of the. parent of times both. Efforts' should be made to this responsibility has given commer- have these ,pigs finished', before they tial interests their opportunity and are sent to the market." they have seized it with a vengeance --so that naw we are finding our leo- Your trop is only half taken care ple dependent on—not their homes or of when it is harvested. The other any inner resources which they them half is marketing, selves may have—.but ori those com- mercialized forms of .amitusement- What can be the outcome but a lower- ing of ideals and perversion of the —a selection could be made from headquarters if thought necessary. Community Bird Clubs. It does not pay to tie yourself so close to your farm that you cannot enjoy the beattties of the surrounding landscape. eee echoed we attended" many mad -night' feasts together. Palmeri salad -a'' "Uhl" shuddered' Mrs.• Kent ' "As I was saying, salmon salad Wal the ef dash ail' these vels. Yore knewchiit would at make you sick;re,but atkU you never refused' to eat it." "Bray, wise friend, what has s'eheon salad to do with, broken windows?" , "Salmon . salad injured our diges- tion; a broken win'dew injures a house.- I had rather break a window than ruin:, my digestion." "It is more sensible,". Mrs. ,Kenf agreed, "but you see I almost had tq eat salmon salad. The aerie nevea. would have understood if I hadn't, Why, I believe they would have hatesl4',, me' . "I gathered from what Hilman said that e trouble in 'his ease: "What?" th "A desire to please and be under,' stood." "Yes?" questioned the mother. "When all the other boys threw rocks at the tin Sign on Mrs. Drake's;: garage, Hilman could not endure be, ing different and risking being mis- understood. He wanted'' to be pleas- ant and friendly and agreeable." "You are right," Mrs. Kent nodded., "and new that you have disc:oyered the cause,'can you prescribe a cure?"' "Of course Hilman should not ]break, windows. Make him pay for _every, destructive act, just as you are now• doing, but retnein!ber he is a human being and dislikes being different and • for that reason he is likely to follow the crowd even when he knows better. He is going through a trying time in his effort to adjust himself to thb'' ways of the world. The",desire to please is commendable; not'for any- thing would you have him rude or un- - pleasant: Grown people cannot 'al- ways tell where the line is drawn be- tween politeness and destructiveness. Deal firmly with Hilman, but always remember that this sin is really an overworked virtue." Proper handling of the colt begins with the dam. If she is fed right and given the proper care before foaling, other things being equal, the stage is all set for a good colt. Proper feed for the mare means. plenty of milk for the offspring, and a 'setback at this tender age can hardly be compensated later on. We start feeding the colt from the time it is a .suckling. At the age. of . two months. we start the colts on' a little crushed'oats and molasses, placing the feed within a creep,, gen eralTy built under the shade of a tree and out of the reach of the nares.. Colts are weaned in October and November on our farm. They are then from six to eight months of age, and we aim to wean a bunch of colts at one tinea, so they will not miss their dams so much. eel' re .«, r... rr: isezl7 i+ e""' ..-'— - C • p"Trl►'I�oruftl- 'RADS w lee . ex • M r. of .i' TROUBLE AT len .CR,OSSl ta-eTONas . ,t make i 'totter for sn bod ate it �x be bad tor l!'eits♦ auto Stdoesn I, �: v r' ee ane d s 7V'cfdbp!cr,'tke 4d. ' ' r ,f neglect any one of these factors is to invite failure. By strong colonies we mean popu- lous colonies. A colony cannot be too strong in bees for the winter. These bees must be comparatively young in order to live through the winter until brood rearing is safely commenced the following spring. To get the hives filled with young bees every colony Must be headed with a young, vigor- ous queen• during August and ` Sep- tember; therefore, all colonies core tanning old or failing queens should be requeened s not later than the last week 'in July. Colonies with 'bees covering less ' : than eight full-sized Langstroth frames at the beginning'•- of October should be united•. A colony of bees 'should not have less than forty' pounds of stores to carry it through the winter until new honey is coasting in in 'the spring. The honey stored in the brood chamber is usually of uncertain quality and de- ficient in quantity; it should, there- fore, be supplemented with either good clover er buckwheat honey, or, better still, with a syrup made of two parts of pure, granulated sugar to one part water. The colony should be given enough honey or sugar made into syrup to bring the stores up to. the required weight. Even if a colony has enough natural stores in the brood chamber it is advisable isalale to give it at least ten pounds of sugar made into syrup in order to postpone or mina mize the consunt tion of poor F 'honey and thus delay a possible attack of dysentery. There are two methods ofr o c p ode - t ing the bees during the winter: either to place them in a cellar or to pack them .in cases outside For outside winteringe the bees should be placed. in the oases during the latter part o4' September or early in October and the packing placed on the bottom and all• four sides. The ,bees should be fed the required amount of stores as ' :. rapidly as possible, then the top pack, ing is put in place. These bees will require no further attention until the following spring. Bulletin No. 43, on "Wintering Bees in Canada," can be had free upon application to the Publications ,,Britneh' After weaning, the creep is gradu- ally closed off and the animals are fed three times a day, more feed be- ing required to replace the milk. In another month or so, however, we cut it down to two feeds a day, and this system is continued until the colts are coming three -years old, at which age we break them for work. When the 'colts are a year old we separate the stallions -and mares. If one is raising grade horses, the colts are castrated at this time, and then permitted to run with the mares. None of our male colts are used for breeding service until three years old, and then only lightly—say one service a day', and not over forty in the: sea- son. We examine the mares befdre breeding, and if they are not all right we use capsules. In feeding our mares we use roiled oats, which we roll ourselves. Some require a little corn, the amount de- pending upon the condition of the individual. Roughness, all they want, consists of mixed timothy and clover hay. - A very important part of the daily schedule in handling brood mares is giving them plenty of. exercise. If this is neglected often, ;it will mean failure, and I find the best form of exercise is light work. Daily exercise is just as essential as daily feed. for it speeds up it sluggish circulation and. aids digestion: Exercise is essential for growing young stock, too, and for fitting a,show herd. When a mare is about to foal, we keep her in a clean, dry box, stall. When the colt is dropped, one of us is always On hand to paint the naval immediately with iodine. , We also give a'hypodermic as soon as possible, and later 'on one or two more. '" The value of such a treatment is seen in the fact that we have not lost a colt from navel disease since 1813. Preparing Bees for Winter. Now that the honey crop of 1922 is practically all gathered it is time for the beekeeper to begin his prepara- tions for the crisp of '1923. The •bee- keepers' s'ueeeee depends largely upon the condition of his bees in the early spring just after +coming out of win- ter quarters, and this condition in! turn depends upon the ,iit~epatations &err for the winter. • Three things are essential for suc- cessful wintering;; namely, strong dol- ones consisting :mainly of 'young bees, suffloientwholesonie stores, aitd ogle-, quate ptotettirin :from 'the cold: To Department ''of Agriculture, C. B. Gooderham, Dominion Apiarist. Demand for Draft Horses. • An unusually bury' season 'in thy. lumber woods is expected 'next ' Winter,•:4 twit of tlxe ,buildrn tredve ° le� The activity g SG greater than it has been for years aitkl. is using up lumber at a rapid rate.,,Tn the city of Ottawa, for example, r estimated that the 'constiuetion year will equal that of the entire five , erecedirig years.. Building cotast itc tion work is being done on a• %irn - ax: scale not only in other cities;; lint tri;.` many towns and villages. .To ;reel rn ish stocks of lunt'ber will be 'made capon thean:ti, munbuueal adtta which will provide work for„natyhtefet, .ti is as well as draught ;horses: ready for this. dehand,,” faritieep have surplus' horse stock, •W4Ukl do well to get the animals fitted fare sa'lct. Even a plain-herso, if 00114:arid' ,carrying; a little fat, will 'fill tha litctraie buyer's eye and will thie: ant\t ntx btlfg ti. good price if up to tlrauglit iK+t fight, i.; Beep on .just as 1on as you,c� then loop on a little longer. D tenee wins.. It doesn't teke a son of• a prophet to tell that there's; no profit hi a to'q+i; that dosis niore..to X*�::Yi than ;her milli, set fair.