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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-11-22, Page 6Ire* nloatlortat to ,�spronomisi, %s Ade aide $t. Wrist, Toros a months, skimmilk eild other protein rich feeds are not so essentitnl, Where Corn is fed during the winter • menthe some protein rich feed should' be fed. to balance the ration. Feeds not mentioned in the above. rations may be used, but :these ' put - lined may bo safely taken ae'e snide in the malting up of the ration, Address commu CULLING THE FI OCIC AND tender, because it is hard to cover them POULTRY FLUSHING BREEDING completely with the plow. The great EWES, point to keep in mind is that no stalks, The culling and flushing of the pieces of stalks or even cobs should be ' breeding ,ewes are two essential face left above ground in the field or along tors in profitable sheep husbandry fences or in the barn or the barnyard By culling, we mean that during the or anywhere else; moreover, all burn early days of September one should ing or plowing must be ,completed by go carefully through the flock and the end of May, for otherwise the take out all non -producing ewes, all borers will change into moths, fly poor milkers made evident by a poor around and lay their eggs. (The unmarketable lamb, and all ewes hav-: moths appear in June and July). ing defective or broken mouths. It is ! Plowing down of the stubble and these ewes that are increasing the other corn remnants plays a great cost of production and decreasing the part in the control of the borers, but Professor Graham, of Guelph states; that the average farmer can keel) seventy-five hells on the farm waste. Above that number ee h hen requires about as much.feed and care e,s, the liens in the flock of the commercial poultryman, The great problea of the poultryman is renewing. the flock. For the early hatches it usually takes six eggs for the incubator for every. pullet that is needed. .. Feed is not all there is to egg pee- ! duction as this example proves. ; Two cows, possibly a Jersey And. a Short - profits from the flock, to be effective, what is plowed under horn, are both eating the same JuneFrom data collected over a period must not be dragged up again when grass, but one will produce milk while of three yyears at the Experimental cultivating the field, but must be left . the other is producing beef.. In feed - „of buried,for if theydragged up ing for eggs a variety: of protein is Farm, Nappan, we found that the are g” ust as desirable as a varfe o average cost of maintaining a breed- many borers will escape destruction. ty ". f ing ewe properly was $10.02 and the An example of thisoccurred this year average value of a grade lamb ready in a field in Elgin County where much for market was $7.20. From these of the plowed stubble was dragged up figures one can easily estimate the 'by a toothed cultivator. In this field loss from every non-producer—oneover 10,000 living borers were found. means a loss of $17.22 and three such If the stubble had been left covered ewes mean a loss of $51.66. In other almost every borer would have per- • words, it will take from two to seven fished. • Hence the cultivation of the lambs to cover the cost of maintain- field should not be done with a toothed ing from one to three non-productive implement, but with a disc, and a disc sr3wves-°� drill, if possible, used in sowing. The goad ewe will produce a lamb Should, however, some of the stubble ready for the early markets of July be brought up it will pay well, and will not take much tine and August, while the poor milker to pick and yields a lamb late for market and burn it. unsightly in, the flock and the non- ! The plowing should be done with a producer is a dead loss. Then there wide furrow plow and should be to a is the ewe that is off -type. -she should depth of at least six inches. It may be culled out of the flock and thus be done either in the fall or the spring raise the standard of your breed. In but if in the fall the earlier the better. the case of pure-bred flock, this is Often the stubble cannot be .covered Unrefined cod liver oil or raw cod very essential to day. The breeder completely unless it is first rolled or , liver oil, is the kindhat contains t disced, or both rolled and disced, orthe who has the right breed type and a in some cases unless a split log vitamines which are good for chicks.: uniform flock will have no difficulty or leveller is run over it to break it The refined oil is not so good. Infer - inTake disposing of his surplusbreeding up or loosen or pull it apart. This is tile eggs tested from incubators are. stock at good prices. Take the time especially true when the corn has good for chicks. They can be fed raw to cull the flock—it will pay you. i been planted in hills or has been cut if the hens are tested for white :dia'ri- Before the breeding season, all high or broken down by storms. hoea, but otherwise should be boiled.' 'ewes selected for breeding purposes • feeding chicks the y have";found should have a short rest in order that, the borers are numerous it will be a mash made of three quarts of yellew' they may maintain their vitality and advisable for a time to grow dent cornmeal and one quart of low-grade vigor; this is essential if they are corn instead of flint, because it is flour will not cause diarrhoea." TheSxpec. ted to give a profitable lamb stouter and so withstands attacks yellow is better than the white`corn- trop. broil, March and April lambs should better. meal. They have had good "-results be weaned during the last week of It will also help greatly in such using canned tomatoes for' , chicks August and not later than the first places if a trap crop of flint—for ex- every day and giving no scratch •.feed week in September. The iambs to be ample,. Smutnose—consisting of about for the first six weeks. Both milk and retained or sold as breeders should be a dozen rows iswater are given after the:firsi,`wee `: wplanted about the"tiiid- : put on after -feed and given a little ole of May and the planting of the All the milk' is fed sour. ` Medical ad= grain so as to develop into strong, main crop postponed until June 1st vice says that the chicks cannot handle vigorous stock. The undesirable or.as late asossible without runningmilk sugar: on p b lambs and cull ewes should be put any risk. The moths then will lay In an experiment where toinatoea mai as, oRn;..gs..tbeyeare lit :: - � #,esr:_,mgs chiefiY •ere he •P•ly rnrn were _given to, the old• bree ams Ewes condition -ae cit and leave the main croplargely i - it. was found to increase the iii a- good: thriving•condition before g y un n ,abil of mating -time. One of `the' most etch- Tested. The trap rows should be cut 3' the eggs. --R: islow in August and fed to the cattle omical methods of doing this. to have and the borers present thus destroyed. a field of rape ready for the middle The above measures involve only a of September on which the breeding small amount of extra work f ewes can be pastured for from four or any farmer. The crop is wellworth this to six weeks before the ram is turned . and therefore we hope that each farm - in with them. The rape is ready for use about the time the bottom leaves er will gladly do his part and encour- age his neighbor to do likewise. ;Now and tips of the upper leaves turn yellow. There is little danger from that control measures have been dfs- bloating when fed on this. Failing covered and made possible the prob- a field of rape, good clover aftermath lee of saving the industry lies with the farmers themselves, no makes a splendid crop on which to `govern- hush the ewe. Care of course is nec- mens can do" it for them. essary at the start to prevent bloat= STANDARD RATIONS FOR ing; the clover should be dry and the BREEDING SOWS, ewes allowed on it only one or two hours at the beginning; otherwise T. K. DOHERTY • of Ottawa, Canadian Conimissioner of the -International Institute of Agri- culture, who predicted that Canada will control the world market for wheat this winter, _I --Ie indicated that Canada wouldprobably shipthree grains, A variety of greens •is. -scorn= hundred million bushels of grain to mended rather than using one, kind. ;the world markets this year, twice exclusively; Professor Graham *ob- serves that hens often go for green feed in the morning the instant they leave the roost, and so advises a little green feed for breakfast when ;the hens are confined in bad weather. They like it three times per day and it is good for their health and for egg production. "• Plenty of green feed has helped pre- vent the bleaching of the legs in 'the heavy -laying hens. This may indicate that the hen that bleaches before lay- ing many eggs may be out of ;condi- tion, due to a lack of green feed in her ration. According to their experi- ments, the early hatched iuilets'which the export predicted for the United States. DAIRY, The .milk stool should not be used as a currycomb. Then 300 -pound cows will give you. six times the profit that twenty 150 - pound cows will return. Pet your best effort in the first two years of a cow's life, After that your reward will come.` Not only does milk build up good brain development in the consumer but the dairy business needs such brains to carry it on. Nature, appar- ently*, tries to care for her own needs. lay early and take a rest will produce strong. hatchable eggs. The thing that compels us to cry Nursing for a 450-1b. sow: there is danger of loss. Oats and barley, equal parts... 7 lbs. The two main factors governing the 3 lbs. profits from the flock are (1) demand RSkiit ntillc 22 lbs. and supply; (2) economy of produce 7I`s• tion. The breeders individually can- This is a ration when the pigs are not control the former but by a sys- young. Increase to 15 pounds' of tematie method ofbreeding, feeding grain as the litter grows older. Corn or buckwheat might be used as one- quarter of the ration in place of bar- ley. Whey, tankage, or oil cake could take the place of skimmilk. In sum- mer, green clover, alfalfa, peas and oats, or rape would largely take the place of skimmilk and roots. Per 100 lbs. To get a clear ides- of them it is nec- Equal live 1 lbh. q parts barley and oats.: , ,11b. essary to keep in mind that the borers Whey 41bs. winter over and remain until the end Or skim milk 2 lbs. of May in any part of the corn plant Or shorts or middlings 1 -8 -grain ration above ground large enough to conceal Roots lbs them; hence they will be found in the • stalks stubble, cobs or any remnants Cured alfalfa or red clover hay. All of the crop left in the field or else- they will eat in winter. In summer 2 where. They will also be to some ex lbs. grain mixture per sow per day, tent in stout weeds growing among the wnen on pasture of clover, peat and corn, Control measures, therefore, oats, or rape. consist mainly in so treating these Mineral Mixture: that the borers will be destroyed. - If there is a silo this is easy for all that 4 bushels charcoal or hardwood ashes is necessary then is to cut the crop 8 pounds salt 2 quarts air -slaked lime low, ensile it, plow the stubble under completely and not drag it up again and weeding, the latter can be influ- enced to a very great extent. HOW TO CONTROL THE BORER. The methods of control are simple, inexpensive and not contrary to good farm practices, so says Prof. L. Caesar of the Department of Entom- ology, Ontario Agricultural College 1 pound sulphur when cultivating. The cutting knives A smalluantit of bone q y meal may and fermentation kill all the borers be added to the above, that go into the silo and the plowing + In feeding breeding sows the main destroys all left in the field, provided factor to be kept in mind is that everything is kept beneath the surfaced ! all timesP be at c they should kept in as If there is no silo, or if the silo will , healthy and thrifty a conditionas not hold all the corn, the task is some-' possible, Under -fed sows do not pro times tattle harder. .In such cases duce or rear str the field must of course be thoroughly: Over -feel sows do "dairying" ,so hard is not so much the economical production of human food, but, more particularly, because dairy products are so essential to the best development of the human. organism. The shortest way for the dairyman to increase his bank account is to join a good cow -testing association. The pedigree that appeals strong- est to the average farmer is the pedi- gree of perforelance. Remember that good ..•breeding re- quires corresponding good care. The scrub cow shivers when she sees the scales and -Babcock tester. • Give the scrubs the plank. Keep chummy with the butcher so long` as you Have non-profitable" cows,. in the herd. It is fatal to the daisy business to fall in love with a scrub co*. a ch' .r p r event creoeete ti orn 'r'unning. down the stovepipe, take .a length of stovepipe and cut a hole in it six Care of Spray"MaChine>r inches deep and five inches wide. Then y take another pipe and cut it down to The winter care of spray machinery nine inches long. Cut a hole in it the is very. important. Good orchardists sarne.as in the other. Make the short know that as soon as the Iast spray length large enough to slip over the ing ` is finished in the summer thelonger one, and put a handle on each spray machinery should be thoroughly'/side of it. Put two flanges on the cleaned out enough clear water first pipe to keep the short one from run through to clean thoroughly all sliding up or ` down. Now, all you hose, spray rods, nozzles and pumps. have to do when the draft is shut, is All drain plugs - of engine cylinders, to slide the ` outside pipe around till radiators, etc., should be removed to allow complete water drainage to pre- vent freezing. The winter time is a good time to overhaul the pump. It should be ee- packed, tightened and thoroughly oiled ing place by putting shallow pans, so that no delay willbe caused by. partly filled with cornmeal or flour, sticking 'vald`es or pistons when it is :in a place where cattleor, fowls can't necessary tostart spraying again. get at it. After a few days I mix dry Hoops around thespray tank should cement with the contents of the pans be tightened ule ;well and the inside of --one part of cement to five parts of the tank should be painted to prevent -meal. The cement hardens in the drying. • stomach` and in a short time -death The urgent necessity of spraying follows. It is best to follow this plan which sometimes develops requires late in autumn, as the bodies of the that the spray machinery be kept in pests can not always be reached. Dur- the best`of order if crop values are ing winter decomposition will be come not to be decieased. plete without noticeable stench. -R. R. you can see in. This will make a draft above the fire, sending the smoke out before it has time to condense. To get rid of rats.I establish a feed - Ditching With Dynamite BY GASTON FARMER Late in fall or early in winter, do this, holes were,placed thirty inches farmers everywhere begin to think apart and three feetdeep, each being about land Clearing and drainage. One loaded with three sticks of 40 per of the most important of these peob cent. dynamite. The charges were fired lems is ditching -a job that is costly electrically, and -the result was a ditch and disagreeable to do by hand. ee four feet deep and seven feet wide, But most of the difficult ditching at a cost of forty-five cents a lineal jobs can be done with dynamite ata yard. cost which is even more economical In another section of the swamp than ditching by hand. where there was heavy undergrowth, There are two methods of ditching a thirty-foot section of ditch was with dynamite. They are called the blasted. The charges were placed propagated and the electric methods. four feet deep and thirty inches apart, The propagated method is }•where• a four sticks of 40 per cent. dynamite. line of holes, eighteen to thirty inghes in . each hole. In this section there apart, is loaded with straight 50 or were four gum trees ranging from six 60 per cent. dynamite and fired at one to eighteen inches in diameter. Special time. That is, by firing one hole, the charges 'Were planed under the largest shock is carried on down the line. This and the whole section fired with a method canonly be used in wet soil blasting machine.. The result was a where the dynamite is loaded u " er clear. ditch eight feet wide and r ong, thrifty litters. water, the water careyin the feet dee' At a cost g s�ck p of seventy-nine Huse Education "The Chlld'e Pint ch'RPile the FamHNY"--F-i ►abb1.' Use the Mirror as an Object Lesson ----By Zarab B;' Noble Little Robert came tramping„ into "They're dirty too," he admitted. the room where his mother and I were "All right. NoW who's the 'hey? talking, ,She took one look at. the Whats his name?" messy little figure, and exclaimed He smiled shamefacedly iv at my angrily—"Robert! You are a naughty, bad, dirty child! I told you not to get dirty, and now look at you. T don't love you any more." The child looked down at himself, mh d his moth- er'ands words ontand tonequivere. "I'mat not dirty, was why, she thought 'you were not •," •- Muvver—jes my hands, see!" He held telling the truth. ;Now you know the out two grimy little paws. He was truth, " so you can go and tell her that"sI honestly sincere, in his denial, but his you are- dirty boy, brit that you are sorry. He nodded, and started to climb down from the chair, when he `glanced once more into the mirror. "You have a lot of powder.on your . face," he said."' image in the mirror. "Robert," 1 nodded. "All right, You see you just didn't know you'were so dirty, did' your? Not until you saw yourself. But Mother could see your and she - knew that you were dirty, and that mother was too upset to see that fact, "Don't lie about it," she said grimly. • He looked at her -piteously, - and tears came ,.into his eyes. "I'ni not dirty, Muvver," he repeated. ."Jes my hands and I can wash 'em." . His mother glared, I felt that pun- ishment—unjust punishment, for the I laughed, "I guess T ought" to have -. child was not aware of his own condi- looked at myself. Thank you, Robert, tion—was in the air. I could not help 111 take some of it off." interfering. His mother smiled quizzically at "Robert," I said gently, taking one me. "Your lesson hit three ways,', of the dirty little hands in mine, and she said. "T didn't stop to thiiil. that leading him over to the mirror, "Stand he couldn't see anything but his hallos. up on this chair and let's play a game. I'm sorry,' son, that I said you were You look in the glass and then tell me lying to me. Now go aud'wash your - quite truthfully what you think about self and put •on a clean pair of romp - that little boy in there." ere." He looked, half fearfully, but my "You will find the• mirror better smile reassured him. than punishing," I said. "And don't "Is he clean or dirty?" I asked. call the children vain, and make them "His face is dirty," he replied, "and self-conscious, when theylook in it to his hands are dirty," see if they are all right. Just teach "How about his rompers and his them to criticize that image, and try knees?" I suggested. to improve upon it.." Bay of Fundy Tides. The tide is out; the wet gray stones That firm the slanting beach Now glisten in the sun, and white gulls circling 'round Are watching for the shining fish en- meshed in nets and seines. Down at low tide between the rocks all barnacled and mussel grown Surprising shells are found—rare pink and lovely shapes; A sunfish whose round back is like a rainbow tinted spider's web, And a green lobster that's been wedged against the rocks By . pieces of a broken mast The fog has lifted and is rolled in small white puffs Above the. soft blue horizon. Now when the tide- is in no beach is visible.' The green bay stretches full, Aand surf Booms with a deep note ,against the cliffs And splashes :in••a foamy spray ,high in the •air, Hidl'n"• the g.. rocks •and ehoai. that at ,bor der Fundy's shore - Little. sailboats bob about on white - capped sparkling waves. Now. is the bay more beautiful When :tides are high, or when they're low? Some one who loves it less more easily could tell. —Erica Austin Selfridge. Would Take'It With Him. Reggie: Hope I won't leave a—aw— vacancy by going just now; Miss Sharpe. Miss Sharpe: I think" you'll take it with you, Mr,. Sapp. Your land needs no fertilizer if you need no crops. Fine woodeashesinixed with turpen- tine will clean brass.; or steel. What becomes of a man's word when he won't keep it, and no one else will take it? Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the• chosen people of God.—Thomas Jefferson. When anything boils over on the stove, cover it at once with salt; the U THE ' CHILDREN'S HOUR BRUIN SEARCHES FOR A NEW HOME, The day was beginning bright and, sunny. Little rays of early morning sunshine danced around the door of a big bear's home out in the Big Woods. Let us call` this big bear Bruin, for that was the name by which he was known to his woodland friends. Bruin's home was a leafy shelter on a hillside of this Big Woods and Qui" story begins just as he was getting up on this fine morning. As- Bruin -thrust : his .head through g the door, he blinked, rubbed his eyes, and stepped :outside. -"Oh; what` a fine mornin ". he said, d. stretching himself; and yawning a a,lia. did :o .::: "1 h d` a :.:: s..._ a . s lezidzd see : p 1 p. last night." Then lie shook himself `vigorously` and,; his hair` was combed 'for the day. (Boys, don't. you wish you were both- ered no - more with combing. your hail' than was Bruin?) This hillside had been Bruin's home since he 'could remember. But on 'this particular morning he seemed to feel differently about it. His home did not hold him as it had before.' He wanted to leave, to get away and see what the outside world was like. To himself sand the brightly smiling sun he said, "I wonder what is over yonder mountains?.I never have been half that far from. home." After thinking a few minutes, he continued, "Then, too, my cupboard is empty. I must go in search of food, ' and I may as well search for a new home." With a last look at the hillside that had been his home so long, he ambled off through the' Big Woods. He did • not stop to.pack his suitcase or loci; his door. But started right in the direction of the Big Mountain. The shadows had not shortened very. much when he became hungry. "What am I to have for breakfast?" he thought. "Some bread and honey: would suit me best of all, but where will i• find the honey?" He had gone but a few' steps when a drowsy "Buzz, buzz, buzz" told him a story he remembered right well, Only last winter his' mother had taught him how to:. gather the honey which the bee stores in trees for; win. ter use. The taste for that sweet still lingered. �. "I'll get some," he thought, and with that he began searching for the bee's home. Climbing the tree he found the door to it near the first branch. • ' It was winter time when his: mother had shown him how to • gather the honey from a bee tree, but this he forgot. odor will be killed and the spilled food Carefully he put his paw as far down can be :.cleaned up easily. • 1 into the' hole.. in the tees, ne bo could reach, east as he remembered her hav-. Plow under the leaves in the cherry ingdone. orchard, for the leaves are the chief', Down, down be nshed his paw, but, p p source of infection of,cherry leaf -spot; could reach nothing. 'Then all of aW disease which causcs cherry leaves to' sudden lie felt i piercing pain in it, fall. in early summer, 1 "Gr -r t ruf-gruf-sur-wheh.ieliou 1" hire exclaimed pulling his, paw out ` • ,• , quickly that he scratched it against the division.. of labor, it is Inc past to g create: He stands close to nature; he the tree. obtairi5 froth the eat 1 To'-his,5urprise olid pain, instead til' e The glory of the in • - �kl h" plowed after the crop has been remove I"feed and consequ not search for any waves from hole to 'hole in cuff efenti cents a lineal yard, The trees and eptly do not take. force to set off the charges. I undergrowth were no hindrance to the ed. In addition some method must bele much-needed exercise, exPI osive. T e practiced of disposing of.• DDLCCTRIC FIRING idtTrtdp. ,; h y had to'be cleared p g the stalks 1 In winter months some palatable from the chanhel however. • and ears er cobs. The beat is • . all � to run s roughage in small quantities should.{ The electric method may be used ' : , T'hexe are nttllions of acres of land of theist through a cutting -box or, be fed to give a little bulli to the ra- under any condition. It consists; nsists;; of in Canada which could be drainedd shredder, feed the cattle all they will; tion: w o . loading -into i Where well -cured Alfalfa of red lading each hole 'with electric oa s festively and economically eat, .• throw the rema' • iy :. by dyna� remainder , into the clover hay are .available either an - � which are conirected and-fi • � , manure fired by a finite. Natural stream channels. can u and haul this out and plow wers the purpose verywell. hootsare blasting machine the lengthofi It under before the end of .lila: " the easily be deepened, �iwidr:ned, and, May, If of special value to, the brood sow in section shot being limited b the't - t i'or any• ' wintee _ . y a straightened in this way, where 'labor - for reason the stalks are fed winter as is pasture in the summer, parity of the blasting Machine i- ' Bole the � g n,itse, ere will not work. In fact -..the. worst. y'uneaten portion should I I not Where .skim mills 15 net available, The cost of some of the dyne fife �: conditions for. hand lab._ ., be thrown out ,into the mor ate usually manure but tankage is •, a fair substitute for the ditching done en ni farm . l• Should he kept separate y . will per the best fqr dyayamiteballn one place, } and drawn nursing sow. Where great alfalfa haps be. Interesting. It was deer I I 'out and burned. _ -able„ recently. saw asand-bei reanaved by . It is better to burn or red' Clover, or peas and, oats or rap; to have a canal through 1,000 - ` the remnants ., _ , pe g .. yards of dythamite and the fall of the Creek rn to Pio* them ing the stammer swtYmp In one section of the place.: Tei�"iiticr'eased: twelve inches its that point.: q tanarta available dta.t farmer is that ' sir earth the bread and seeing it covered with honey, le was the meat. The food which was not, he . causes to be'=-llal h 'Waldo Emerson:' cow sled with' bees, et felt to him as p if each bee. was sending long needles It is occasions y' to give down deep iiato his flesh, Ilo howled animals 'physics. horse or tow with pain ;as he hurriedly: hobbled one to two pins linseed oil, or, dowat: tl>e tree en .bat three; feet, : r. twelve to sixteen' � `°Owhew. hat Epsom or W shall Ido? he Glauber salt in of tepid growled tis :he brush d furiously at water sweetened classes. Sheep the hees. But the more lie brushed, Ily necessary of raw ounces of three pints with' m. take four tri six ounces of these niedi-, the more saucy they beeame, i "ilei help. " tines,,hogs .two to,fottt ounces.. Castor p, hale" �h, please help me, oil is best for young animals. Dene he begged as the bees :grew hi numbers is one to four tablespoonfuls. -1)e, A. and soent„tl to come at Mill {coin every S. Alexander.' I side.