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Zurich Herald, 1923-06-21, Page 2— *dares, eammetaeatema to73Adelaide St. West, Terenta SPEEDING UP THE PIGS. Whet factors make up the economic essence of the pig? Feed, /nen, and horse labor, risk, intee'est, depreciation in capital and equipment, and general overhead cover all excepting the profit, which is elusive and oftenthnes ephe- meral. The thee consideration xnay very well affect all of these items favorably to the grower, the shorter the time 'evolved in taking the pork- ers from farrowing to market the less the expense, Pushing on suitable feeds; though highly necessary, is Dot the only es- eential however, Good management must be practiced, and sanitation dili- gently and persistently exercised. Delousing is good -business pro- cedure if lice are present. Crude oil enlivens the skin but deadens the parasites. It is applied easily by herd- ing the hogs into • a corner, oil - sprinkling them thoroughly and rub- - bing it in with a good Isroone In badly infested herds the ears should he oiled to rout the lice from one of their favorite•dena The leg pits and the tail ends are favorite hiding Places too. Try and get the litters out on clean pastures, preferably those that have not carried hogs heretofore. Empha- size the good pastures: Alfalfa, red and other clovers, rape, the blue grass, especially when it is young and tender, and other green pastures. But pas- ture alone is not sufficient. Neither is pasture supplemented with a quarter of a full grain ration enough to make the pigs go well. Even good pastures on which basal grains are liberally fed—gratns such as corn barley Inn° meize and others—give much better results when there is added a little skim or buttermilk, raeat-tneal tank- age, fish meal or e corelaination of any one of these with linseed -cal meal, corn-eil-cake meal, soy -bean meal, ground soy beans, or wheat middlings. To make rapid gains on pastures, even the geed ones, supplements are in order. Even on good alfalfa pasture, the addition of a little tankage proves, a fine pep producer. To make ghee- that the hogs are, properly supplied with minerals al suitable mixture should by all means' be allowed before them at all tunes.: Even on such a good pasture; minerals have given good results when added to a ration of corn, self -fed, plus a ,supplemental mixture of forty parts of blood meal, thirty parts of linseed meal and ten parts of peanut meal.' The gains were somewhat more tepid, and the feed requirement less. The mixture making the best show- ing was equal parts of limestone, botie, meal and salt. We now suggest that the salt be not over 20 per cent. of thel mixture. A half ounce of potassium, iodides added to the hundred pounds of _minerals is considered good prac- tice, inasmuch as the Iodine supplied, by this potassium compound is often' found to be lacking in sufficient quant tity in the swine 'feeds as usually fed.' Wood ashes may be used in place of the limestone' and rock or acid phos- phate insteadof the bone meal. Do not forget that the pigs need shade and that plenty of good cool drinking water is absolutely essential! to full speed ahead. The wallow of, concrete will be helpful during the hottest months, stimulating the appe- tite and promoting gains. A combina- tion wallow and feeding floor, with house over all, helps solve the high cost of the wallow. Canada's New Wheat Champion HE CHILDREN! HOUR PR FEATHERED FRIENDS --,-- THE' SWALLOW; . BY LEREINS BALLANTYNg. " Each year the Department of Health setencle a lot of money in their efforts to keep down mosquitoes and flies. Those who have visited their exhibit at the Canadian National Ex- hibition realize ' the work they are do- ing. To the boys and girls of our own district there is a very important phase of week in this connection which they could do to assist this splendid cause. The greatest flycatcher which na- ture has provided for our use is the barn swallow. This beautiful bird, With his long, slender, forked tail, his black coat, and henna -colored vett and throat, builds a truly remarkable nest on the side of an old beam of the barn or shed, and plasters it there with mud mixed So well with grasses end resting on a beam or slight projection that it will stemetimes remain in good condition for years. • If they nest in objectionaVepdaces, rather than drive them away7rt3would amply repay the farmer to leave some projections somewhere convenient where they can build without causing annoyance, for they 'are of great ad- vantage both to the farmer in riding him of the obnoxious insects,and his stock in lessening the number which torture them. • All their food consists of insects, and as they have no really bad habits, these friendly little birds should be encouraged in every way possible. Their great advantage over the spar- row is that the sparrow nests close to domestic buildings , to feed upon waste or food placed for fowl 4rid they eat practically no insects, whereas the swallow is definitely useful, eating no- thing else. Unfortunately the spar- rows, like most lazy folks, despise the industrious ones, and torment and try to destroy the nests to drive off the swallows. These facts have been proven be- yond doubt, and it is up to the boys • and girls, and the ownere as well in each district to protect the swallow family, and to learn those of our birds which are really useful. For ten years Canada carried off , heads that were not true to type. Then the world's wheat championship as; when the grain ripened he carefully symbolized in the highest award of the, selected enough perfect heads to sow Chicago "International," and the re-, the plot next year. And so on, year rnarleable feature in a survey qf this ' after ydar, he assisted nature in pro - decade's achievements was the number, ducing her best until there was no of occasions on which the Canadian: superior grain in the world mid his farmer securing the coveted prize was; half bushel of wheat at Chicago car - an immigrant from the British Isles' ried off the sweepstakes and the silver who, previous to his filing on a West -,.cup of the Government of Saskat- ern homestead, had scarcely the most', chewan. tlernentary knowledge of agriculture.' Plant breeding and selection are, ee1922 the championship was, however, only Mr. Wyler's hobbies. Ad away froin Canacta by a Mon- is aiermmereiai farmer in the itest acid farmer and the Dominon left widest sense of the word and has de- l - the consolation that that state veloped his holdings along. prosperous ad found it necessary to import Can- lines. He now has a thriving farm of adieu seed, produced by the Wheat 320 acres, which ,he operates with but Wizard of Saskatchewan, Seager, little outside help. His farm is divid- Wheeler, to accomplish its end. In: ed into three fields'one-third being 1922 Canada won batk her old place summer followed each year. This year of honor, making her eleventh cham- he raised over three thousand bushels pionship in twelve years, and this time of wheat in the face of adverse wea- the farmer to bring her such signal, thee conditions. He does not stake his .renown was an American fern= who all on grain growing, but is a firm be - had come up across the border to grow liever in mixed farming, hog and -cat - superior wheat. • ! tle raising being followed at the same R. 0. Wyler of Luseland, Basket- time. He and his little family have, eke -wan, his worldly possessions con- in the brief ten years' period, attained sisting of the sum of $400, his other the inevitable prosperity that rewards asset a determination that this sum, sincere and earnest efforts in Western In combination with Canadian soil and Canada'and the man who left Ohio climate, would make laim 'a prosperous with but $400 has now a comfortable and outstanding farmer. During a home on one of the best half -sections temporary land boom he bought a half- in the Saskatchewan district, which is section ,of land on half -crop payment increasing in value every year. for $10,000, and though during the CANADA HAS THE SOIL AND CLIMATE. next few years he saw the value of A survey of the world wheat chain - his farm practically cut in two, he did PionshiPs over- the past twelve years not grow discouraged and, never makes most interesting, most valuable, thought of quitting. To use his own and Meet encouraging reading. The words, he "dug right in and worked signal achievements of British immi- like a beaver." In 1912 he maeried a grants who ogrived in the Dominion girl from his home state who has since ignorant of. Western conditions and thared his tabors and now shares his, farming methods of any sort, pointed the way to fellow -countrymen to emu- late them and should have been the greatest stimulus to further emigre - Mr. Wyler has been a farmer from tion from the British Isles. For awhile his earliest years, and came to Canada it almost seemed as though previous with a valuable store of agricultural farming experience in the United knowledge and a readiness to adapt it States were a handicap in reaching to new conditions and to keep apace out for the premier wheat honors. of new developments. Ile has always R. 0. Wyler has won the honors for been keenly interested in the prodne- the _thousands of his fellow -country - ton of superior grain and is, more or men farming on the Western plains lees, a seed specialist. It was thus he. of Canada. He has shown the road to carne to buy his first sample of regis- others who may be farming in what tered Marquis wheat from Seeger they find discouraging conditions, Wheeler, carrying it away in a twenty- proving that Canada has the soil and pound sack. Ile planted this in a climate for siaccess providing the small plot, and throughout the grow- fanner brings in the right personal Ing season gulled out the plants and qualities to complete the combination. prosperity and triumphs PERSEVERANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND ENERGY. The Change. "I left the old farm., confessed an Oedinary Man, "to esea,pe the endless work, the long hours, the saeage bite of the winter mornings and all the rest of the dull monotony of the treadtill existence; in short, to be master of my Own destiny. Now, here in the city, I am not obliged hi do anything I do not wish to do, except grind day after day humped over my desk, ride back and forth in street ears with a well-nourithed booby standing on ray feet., or feet, as the case may be; melt or congeal, aceending to the season, in an apartment where I do not even know' the titunee of most of my fellow dWellers, but sem well acquaitted with the subjects about which they upbraid each other, .66rcely and frequently; get flirt OVer occasiorially when I stroll out for an airing, ,or held up and otherwise made little of. , "In other respecte 1 am as free from Lu e as a bonny bird. Arid by saving up my money carefully all the rest of the year I am able to goback to the. old home neighborhood for two weeks every sweeter and struttingly.. run it all 'over the folks there, mhst of Whom could buy Inc and never remeinber they had paid Out the rooneett" Arrested . Who was it oft robbed Farmer tinke, Stole mower, plow and rake And many move farm implements Slyly as ang snake? Who took them off before hie eyes? A rogue he'd not mistrust Because they went :Met flake by flake— It was that robber Rust. But how wise Ilinke has foiled the thief, And trialsee no More cOmplaint-- He's coated all his linpleMents With rest -arresting paint —Ootar 11, 1toesiier THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT. 'book with ever so nianY colored pie, tut'eSegandp oh, a, great atutiber lovelythings," Jut she was a little ashamed a. hetself for feeling die- satiefied wtth ,What Aunt Hattie would Probehlk etre her: Of course she did appreciate useful gifts; but just this once she wanted something beautiful. About Poen Aunt Hattie came, and in her hand was n package. She open- ed it presently. It was not a present at all, but only some embroidery that; she had brought along to Work on dur- ing the afternoon. After a short time she field, "Mary , Ann, I bought a little present for you this morning and asked them to send it out from the store. It should be, her'ellowsweetso°n"-of you Aunt liattiea' said Mary Ann. I In the afternoon while the little girl, was playing in the small yard in front of the house a boy rode up on a bicycle and handed her a package with her retitle written on it. i "Oh, this is my present!" she cried in delight and began to open it at once. When she saw what it contain- ed, she cried, "Oh!" again, but this time not from happiness, but from disappointment. And such disap- pointment! I IThen she carefully tied the package, again and went to her own little room, , where she sat down and cried. "How could Aunt Hattie have bought me such a present!" , she sobbed. "How, could she have thought of such home- ' ly things!" Presently she sat up and dried her' eyes. "I must not act this way," she said to herself.' "If anyone is kind! enough to give me a 'present, I must thank her for it, no matter what it is.", As soon as the tears were. all gone. from her eyes she went into h I er's room. Aunt Hattie was still em- broidering the table cover. "Aunt Hattie," the little girl began, trying bravely not to cry, "thank you for the onions. Mothe,r or I will make a cream dressing for them, and we, shall all enjoy them for supper. I "You thank me for what, child?" exclaimed Aunt Hattie in amazement. And then she laughed heartily. "Not onions, Mary Ann," she said, "hya- cinths!' "Hyacinths !" cried Mary Ann. "Is that what they are? Oh, how wonder- ful! And I can have abeautiful flow- er bed all my own!" . And when the spring came the love- ly blossoms of the hyacinths were enough to delight any little girl. Peo- ple passing in the street often stopped' to look at the beautiful flowers. "See that delicate pink one," said a lady who passed one day; "it is as beauti- ful as the sky' before sunrise."— Youth's Companion. " Combined Silo and Storage • 'A Kansas farmer, desiring to make his silo space available for the storage of wheat, corn and other grains wheel it was not full of silage, built an ele- vator shaft and installed an elevator, 'between his twin silos. Either one or! both of the silos may he used for grain.I The owner, who feeds quite a lot of ! livestock, found that on occasions he was short of grain -storage room and at other times short of silage room. In years of large grain production he seldom made much silage. He could hardly afford the building of both silos and granaries for the maximum pro- duction of grain and silage •on the farm, so hit on the plan of combining the silos and grain bins. The silos were made of concrete, twelve feet in diameter and thirty feet, high. A concrete elevator shaft was -made by connecting the two silos withi two concrete walls as they were builtI The silos stand four feet apart. This ' BY. EVA Mary Ann was a little . irl who lived in the shabbiest chttage. ,n Maple Street, but it was a.ve,Fergi cottage, and Mary Ann was 8- girl-- , - toys, Forther plaything and boks, of, eitcre, but hid to werk nerd. not strong, and Mee ei up before daylight to help, breakfast. ft en got Pr with This morning eves ary Ann's birthday.. While she Was busy help, ing her mailer cook the breakfast the paused atmoment before the kitchen window to look out at the morning sky. "How lovely!" she cried, and then she thought: "To day is my birthday, and I wish that some one would give ine a present as beautiful as the sky before sunrise" She turned away from the Window and began to set the table for break- fast "Aunt Hattie," she was think- _ ing, "always gives ' me a birthday present, but it is nearly always some- thing useful—a gingham dress or a ,cook apron, or something like that" And then she began to think about what she would like to have: "A piece of pink hair ribbon, a beautiful story - Home Education "IThe Child'ii First School la the Farrilly"—Froebel. Burbanking Your Child—By Zahrah E. Preble. Luther Burbank says "Whoever be- criticizing trieir surroundings'what, Levee there is a great gulf between can they expect the child to develop plant life and human life is wrongexcept an undesirable critical attitude Racial improvement, like plant int- toward all phases of life? prevenient, is all a matter of heredity, It is in selection of the, strongest environment, selection and crossing of physical and mental tendencies and types. The strongest conViction I have, the training of these toward the best after breeding plants sixty years, is expeession that the Parent acts as a that What can be done with plants ean Biinbank with the child. Is the child be done with human beings --and must showing a strange stubborn quality be done•if our civilization is not to be which seems to be the predernieant oyerwhelrned by the fit, Plant life, y? D� not consider this a I am convinced, is no more plastic, flagrant weed, but look upon it as a • than human life." ! desirable trait of determination, and What can you do with your child by judicious selection of intereste to improve him for his own sake and train it toward that end, thus "bur - foe the sake of the future race? You banking" what otherwise might re - have already furnished him with her-, main a weed forever. Opposition or edity: those strong and weak teridene .forcing will not do the work, only care - cies which are •born with the child.; ful, patient understanding and direct - These tendencies are not yet characs ing accomplish the best result. teristics. They are merely sign posts Consider what Burbank did with a which indicate the way that young wild Mexican grass. In, eighteen years nature may be turned by careful rut- its meager seed had become full ears ture or careless neglect. You know, of corn under his skillful handling, what happens to a garden which is You have more than etghteen years left to its own devices, and that even in which to "burbank" the promising in the most carefully tended garden 1 traits of your child. But remember, \ weeds will spring up. But the good patient training and interference are gardener does not deny the flowers two very different things, and produce their proper amount of water and widely opposite results. •• care in order to starve out the Weeds, I Look to yourself first to see if you He putts out the latter by the roots., are a good gardener. before you at. In the matter of cultivation of your tempt to experiment' with nature. g p ou can -------------- chi ds hfe, qualities, the environment has a last- any more than the gardener can live ing and formative effect. Much can the life of the rose or cactus. But as be done to overcome even unfavorable the gardener can make the rose more physical surroundings, if the mental desirable by training it to shed its atmosphere is made harmonious and. thorns, and the cactus a friendly, in - the child taught to look for and 'see stead of an unfriendly plant to mare advantages and beauty everywhere. 'kind by depriving it of its spines, so True enviionment is more a matter of you can train, your child's tendencies mental attitude than most people real -1 and mind to make of him a better ize. If. the parents are constantly citizen. h'ld • • ' leaves ample room for the operation! of an elevator that will handle -several' hundred bushets of grain in an hour, The power for the elevator is furnish- ed by a tractor that is owned by the farmer. When the silos are filled with grain - a special. silo door with a spout for letting gram into a wagon is placed in one of the lower door holes of each silo. On one side of the elevator shafti and under a dumping platform is a pit into which the grain from wagons, is dumped. The pit has a capacity of 200 bushels A spout is arranged: from each of the silos to the ptt so, that grain that is likely to heat in the, bins may be run through the elevator occasionally to be aired and cooled. this way kafir may be stored in the; bins if it is run through the elevator occasionally. The elevator will also handle ear corn so that it may be stored in the bins By arranging silos in this manner, storage space for several thousand bushels of gram is provided with only the additional expense of an elevator exceeded those realized in March in spite of an increase in the available supplies. Steady _development of the overseas trade is stimulating interest m feeding:. Combining . "through -billed" with public sales of hogs, the increase for the four months of 1923 approximated 131,000 head. Despite the increase in - offerings, prices were higher on bacon quality hogs at all yards. A sea- sonal increase in dcgnestie demand, and a better tone to the British .bacon demand, are quoted as the underlying strength, The sheep -and lamb movement' in the four months this year showed over 9,000 head heavier than„in the corres- ponding period last year. Prices were materially higher at Toronto, Mont - heat, and Winnipeg; and about steady farther west.i, • . li The export trade n ve stock and live stock products showed a. heavy in- crease in Api61., this, year compared with the sante 'month last' year, al- though exports of sheep and mutton were lighter. There has been a mark- ed increase in shipments of beef to Britain and a decrease in shipments to the United States. shaft and an elevator between the •ts silos —R E. Deering. Halley's, comet returns at intervals This Year's Live Stock Market. There is an optimistic tone to the summary of market conditions for the first four months of the year issued by , the Dominion Live Stock Breach, as the following ma -citations will indicate. Sales of cattle at the public stock yards this year were 204,900 compared t with 460,900 in the same period last year. Cattle on through billing this year were 11,786 compared with 6,097 FARMERS' POOKLETS last year. This year a steady increase month by month is recorded. A -general improvement was appar- ent in.quality and weight, giving proof that stall -feeding was more general of about 75 years. Automobile Supplies We carry a full line of used auto- mobile parts, magnetos, carbur- etors, gears, and new accessories t low prices. Toronto Automobile Wreckers 179 Queen St. West Toronto during the winter •of .1923 than dur- Don't Judge Y- our Tractor by Your Auto . _ els9,,i_e the heavy' increase in 'vol- . While the automobile has had a lot to do with familiarizing faemers with the operation, maintenance and repair of the gas engine, it has been some- what misleading to farmers when compared with the tractor. The two machines work very much alike, but their respective jobs are very much different. The 'automobile coasts down the hill, it operates on smooth level road. In fact, it operates under full load only about 10 per centof its time, while ' the tractor is piffling its full load about 95 per cent of the thne, If the automobile was loaded to its full ca- pacity and run in low gear every day that the tractor is plowing or doieg other work, the comparison would' be a different one at the end of the year. 'KEEP THE IDLE TRACTOR COVERED. The tractor is atlewed to stand in the field without cover too often. It hag to bum the cheap fuel and too often uses the cheap grade of oil whieli is quite experisit*e ia the ' end. Very often a farmer, after runtnnghls car 3,000 miles, finds that it develops a knock It is immediately taken to the garage for repair. Too often the same farmer heats his tractor knock- ing a little and he looks out and sees about eight to ten aeres of land yet to be plowed. He thinks: "Well, finish the pion/tag before I get the tracter repaired," Before the eight or ten acres have been plowed Ins engine hes turned over as much as the auto- mobile engine runs in 3,000 miles. Transitiseion and engine beariegs protected from shocks by pneu- nutria tires n the automobile. The trattor i8 often rut in high gear over hard roads without thee proteetione. Across the fields en the sod would be mnelt better for it ,.• Before any one can realize the full profit from the farm tractor, he must first realize its job and give it proper care. The operator of the tractor should also appreciate the fact that the machine he is driving should not be over -loaded. • ! If three plows on a steep grade are; more than the tractor can pull with ease the machine is being overloaded and one plow should be taken off. The amount of land plowed With the two plows will be about as much as with the three, owing to the fact that when over -loaded the tractor travels slowly and the drive wheels slip badly. The lighter load will net damage the ma- chine like the heavy load will, and the profit from the tractor in the long run will be greater. Poor oil, for instance, will cause enough repair bills when used in the automobile, but will be far more costly if used in the tractor engine. The tractor operates 'under full load all hours of the day and runs at the maxi- mum temperature: It therefore needs an oil film between the piston and the cylinder which will stand such tem- perateres. THE NEGLECTED iNsTBuCtioN no0X, Too often 'the tractor operator doesn't know Where to find the instruc- tion book which came with the ma- chine. As a general thing, the stand- ard farm tractor instruction book it written by eorne of the keenest minded engitieere in the country end the leadc contains good infoematioe. More of these instruction booln would be read if the agent who sell' "a tractor would go over the iinpoetant things with the tractor purchaser, Much of the tractor trouble may be leid at The door of the salesman who failed to ie feem the farmer about the neachiiica urne over the previews offertnge, the average price during April, and the bulk of sales, checked at higher levels than during March. While quality gained recognition in higher prices, the common classes of cattle sold at heavier discounts in April than during the• th Expert stok of both finished and feeder type and qual- ity were the backbone of the market. Evidence of a continued strong de- mand for store -.cattle is revealed in the fact that the average prices 'paid for good feeders and stockers in April Corrugated Galvanized Steel Flooflit Direct from Manufacturers tO Con. sunken Write for Prices Sintoo4 Telwis o Formers The Metaflc Roofrng CLImItod st. 11.94 King St W Toronto Spridn Triintlorni Intho old rellnido, moth rointnly fax o5 t,V10,"sp1itA, rutin, rInglotte, Irony gron'th. and lonitranNininf &lot ertirol, known for icon Ilion fat), yeArrr A 4 rondoll'n Sinririn Coro, It loops tho bonito Working,— nofl lording, Wlint it ton don° for °thorn, 11 0111 do for yon, .1<r!en 11ottlo of • !tenth:sir s Spavin Treatment . 1, :i- snypo ono too I Soldtddy whon tiro rood. orkt0. A bottrOriery ii;•Ve(111001i0 no yon, XtIrl 'worth winlo • IO 1, tradY, Asir yOnr notflor talon yon aro In town. ;Tont tbioNlvatiooraht oot 0•061)1,1 yo‘l. ' troitInirtryititort, nitt. frIOO 'dopy` of 'IA "Iren,tiin on nit yoor droft/fdryd, 050rite UR. Ntagelse fOr Horn tnirittiont Olso `Iltunnorr for IhritOrrndO,. • ,0116 ri:.11.,KENDALL ON:if:4NY, . • . .•.,kapisbuon'Pails, V1,1, SENT FREE Any of the following may be had free on application to the ' Publications Branch Department of - Agriculture Ottawa, Canada. Alfalfa growing In Eastern Canada.' Crop Rotation for Central and Eastern Canada. ' Potato, The, It Cultivation and Varie- ties. The All -Year Hog Cabin. The Feeding of Sheep. Keeping Dairy Herd ftecord's. Why and How to Use Milk. Why and How to Use Cottage Cheese' Winter -Egg Production. Pceiltry Keeping in Town. and Country, The Farmer's Poultry flouSe. SimPle Methods for the Storage of Ice, Deitern y ui Commercial Cattle. Dressing and-Cntting Lamb Carcasses, Bovine Tuberculosis. , Feeds for Wittering and "Winter Fat- tening of Beef Cattle' in Eastern,.. Canada, New Varietios and S(;lections, of Grain. The Root Vegetables Act, 1522, Illustration Community Work M Dun, dasC°ntitiletrY''FTintilirlin TheVVIg of Steers in Tic,\IV),otetorfilQ tIieuDebetvelSilon of Hortieelture, Dominion Experimental Perm, 1921. Report of the Poultry Dividen, Dornin. ioa Experimental Perms, 1921. List of 200 Available Publicatiene. Nen e • 1 • • • • • • • • • ost Office • No. Proviece (No postage )'e(luited) 1, •