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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-12-06, Page 6Storehouse or Junk Heap, A farmer friend'of !thine broke a piece of harness the other tray,,' Xie was in a hurry to get started, brit the harness had to be fixed. :After a: half q. ie co r Many a well-meaning mother is takes time, but very few point°. in what children's rens is a ins e u Ho* t feed .Plants. enan�ts• g'rewn • in pots thrive n►uch kietter for me if given some feeding,: Plante 'that are kept in pets year after ear,•Xike ferns and begonias, will re- quire ^ instant feeding as well as re- Then more time was lost in locating potting now and then. It is better to laboring under a false idea of h'ld d' a PX r q ire rix the rivets and riveting Machine. Then: ,keep up liberal feeding than to repot Home Education "The Child'° .First school le the esm,f '';--Praohow. Correcting Faults—By Edith Lo ridge Reid.. hour's hunt he found his punch,' k really constitutes a training in .right months if ;properly handled. If' we onto came a hunt for suitable piece of often. Repotting will always ch habits and proper attitudes in her make a child do a thing himself one 11d;drgss c,ommunlcationr to Apren4n�tet. 7g Adgiialdn St, West, To* leather. Everyodd carnes turned up theplant some provided it has not be- child. Often She thinks she Is cor- time in ten and then do it for him the 1 slim 1e, in -`its piece of leather, but they were`come so crowded for root room that it rectin a fault when in reality she is other nine times, it is absolutely en, Ht4N-�HOL LIGHTS HELP but they are all relatively p o neither the right sire nor shape to is already checked. I have aawn g expensive and reliable. Any one who g A Z with only nagging at the child, or at best exgy: wasted all around, just like 'Sown POULTRY PROFITS, P f find and a use. Another hour was last, then the Earns to be kept growing wel' shooting very wildly around the mark. thesub-has a mechanical turn o n l urin the last few years p farmer used a iece of io a nd r in the pans, just g for invention can easily fix u p p a start -s very little soil left Here is Ed Edward He is careless with loot of artificial illumination for pool- genius o ed out. by feeding regularly and well. a home-made device at a very small cul never ,feed a weak plant or ) his napkin. "I've been trying for six h try flocks nee been a topic of keen t I could not help but compile this Imonths to get him to fold it and put Training children is like a business i's` uss h Whenthe idea first be- COS PPE°, man to another farmer of my acqualn-; sick one. A plant should be healthy it in the ring," his mother observed, pro a itioli: we get juat what we go d C p pi . EARLY BREAKFAST 9R LATE SU came popular it was supposed i, osed that bym 10 in several' twice, If, he had broken the sam°. and growing normally if feeding win as we were clearing the table; "but fte.. Ii we Invest patience, 'time and P P l P Poultz ymen are e p y g seinepsychological process the hen , illumination which might piece of harness it would have taken benefit it, and a weak plans is hleely lie does it only about one time in ten." thought in the task of correcting a d believe that she was goinglstems of illuinin him just long enough to'look ;into ai,to be killed outright by even a light Now Edward's mother was actually child's habits the results are inevit was made s through two days instead of one and be summarized) htfollow certain cupboard in the wagon house dose of plant food. Neither do 1 feed sincere in her remark. Imagine! By ably successful, It isn't always easy, g 1. Morning l's �- ------ ---Tetherd The the rivets, punch and riveting machine weak at first and gradually increased, nths on the one little point of a day. The process is purely a evening ,light. g discipline. one, however, and not 4. Night lunch method. ing. the new patch on the -old garment' which is too thin and worn to hold the stitches. naturally the old erroneous adage, "Ari egg a day" would mean two eggs 2. Evening light. ' 8. Combination of morning and or not he had .the plants when the soil as dry. to hos own admission she had struggled nothing worth while is; but a. peek spent in correcting a fault takes less attention and energy that nagging for months with no definite object achieved after all. Another point is `very important in correcting faults. 'Be very sure the fault is: a real' one, that it bears di- rectly on character training. If it ie not one .on which you are willing to expend time and patience to correct, then why mention it at all? But. if a habit is really annoying and one. that will prove embarrassing to the child and his friends through his life, then attack it at once and definitely and finally uproot it. Concentrate on that one thing until you and the child have conquered it, and never again will you matically. Anything worth while . have that particular trial to meet. ' leather. If he had found the, leather,. strength of the solution should be Sr>, At the next meal I watched were in their places on .a shelf in while'an application once in two weeks Edward. It was noon and before ed one of psychology at. all. These possibly explain themselves.! front of his benelr, and the otaly lost' at first may be increased to weekly, was quite through his lunch !his boy Atpresent we can find records at P y P • time would have been the minutes and with heavy feeders even to twice Where morning light is used the lights actual! consumed b the labor itself. a wee1.. chum rang the doorbell and Edward most college plants and experiment are turned on about 4.00 a.m. and orf One ma hadjust as much stiin"2: as i For mixing into the soil, bone meal dropped everything and dashed to stations which all point in the same at daylight. This system has an ad- I a u h school, of course, without folding his direction—more winter eggs. I vantage where electric lights are used, the other. The forrner'keepe a junk is a safe fertilizer. Most of the pre -1 napkin: At dinner that night, we The underlinprinciple of artifi- ` No dimming device is required as is pile, the latter a storehouse. His hum- Pared plant foods have it as a base. were going for a ride and everyone y g necessary with evening lights. Feed ber supply is neatly piled—oak planks ,Nitrate of soda and ammonia are'good hurried, Edward included, and no one tial illumination is a problem in feed -i y for floors, wagon tongues, azid 80, a ori, nitrogen carriers, and will make the paid anyattention. whether he folded ing. It is said that the crop of a hen; and water can be put in the pens the are in one pile, fence boards, in an -.:foliage luxuriant and a deeper color. is napkin or.not. Without elis orat- tvill contain only enough feed to keep night before and the attendant gem other. His tools are neatlyarranged Too much nitrogen is likely to give the digestive tract busy for a period away from late hours at work. This. in racks in front of his work 'bez eh. foliage at the expense of flowers, and ing any further, you mothers get the of four or five hours, In other words,. system has a strong appeal to the, Nails,screws, bolts and sta les are to dull the colors of some of the fol point It would have taken perhaps in the short winter days a hen goes hired man whose interests in the even -p a week of time and sit sorted and in boxes upon their proper , iage plants. Bone meal is rich in' right there at the table and patiencetoan to roost about 4.30 or 5.00 p.m. We ings are not in the chicken coop. shelves. Eachpiece of machineryhas :phosphorus, and has some nitrogen. g keep have always attempted to send her . The evening light is often used P active boy right there also until he to bed with a full crop, but now we see where gasoline lanterns are used. The its kit of tools which are never found had learned to fold his napkin auto- that this supply is going to be wi well on lights are put in at and allowedoutside of the tool box. There is only one difference betwe en its way before midnight. Then where i to stay on until 8.30 or 9.00 p.m. A, eh dimming device is necessarywith these two men. One takes a few min- is the heat and energy to come from'i utes after each job to put things back for beds maintenance? We know that system in order to get the birds to: r roost. With lanterns this is accom-I where they belong :.The other would plished by gradually turning down the! rather spend an hour hunting for things before he 'begins worlennat light. A combination system is commonly i least that's the impression you get. ice, One knows where to lay his hand on est be supplied and the natural secretion of turning the lights on in the morn - find it he knows he does what he has in store. not possess t thingf he doei not I ilind asewing, six -in six-inch turn the ehems, ands to must be kept up. These functions we ing when going to do their chores , The other hunts around a while; then, measure widths in seams.—M. R. M. find take from three-fourths to four'- and again in the evening, not finding it, he thinks that perhaps fifths of all the feed consumed. The The night lunch system consists of ; he has it, but still he is not sure, so Do you want something with a kick excess, if any, will be used for pro- allowing the birds to go to roost as he buys new.—W. F. Messenger: in it? Try milk. • duction, or in the case of a hen, for usual and putting the lights on about reprodi..ction. We find that in the 8.00 o'clock for an hour while the amount tit ofeexcdays the hen hasea small birdsiare en a feed ofe scratch feed.; !Market-Tvae Demand! in Hogs is Clearly Known. amount of excess food to be used for This system is most economical on production, due to the short feeding fuel, the lights being on but for a hours and the long hours of inactivity. short time. The economics of artificial lighting It is considered that a fourteen -hour reveals an increase in winter produc-; day is possibly the correct length of tion which means.an increase in eggs lighting.. We would not recommend when the price is high. While a slight using lights in excess of that amount. an animal body makes demands on the food and stored materials first for body maintenance, In other words, heat must be supplied. Broken-down tissue' must be replaced, energy must use d by farmers wno make a practi —A. H. English farmers learned during the war that sulphate of ammonia, of which the country had been exporting thousands of tons, was good for in- creasing crop production. •Now they are using 230 per cent. more of this product than before the great conflict. increase can be expected in early pro- duction this is not great enough to add materially to the profits We FEEDING BIRDS UNDER LIGHTS. Birds under lights must be fed more really take the heavy spring laying than they otherwise would and must and distribute it over the winter be kept constantly busy. The birds months while prices are better. are in heavier production and are ex - Electric, gasoline . and kerosene Posed to just as much: severe weather, Overseas Trade Will Not Wait for Breeders' Experiments. a THE CHILDREN'S • HOUR %,.. 9 BIDE -AND -GO -SEEK WRITING. Little folks love jokes just as much as do grown-ups, and they are always anxious to turn the tables on their playmates, and even big folks. Here is a little surprise trick that you can fool your little friends with, and perhaps papa and mamma. Let us call it hide -and -go -seek writ- ing. First, squeeze the juice of a A professor at one of the Canadian' should be kept in mind is that types lemon in a thoroughly clean ink bot the being sure that every trace of ink agricultural colleges recently remark, ed: "What I should like to know is for 'markets must conform to con- has been removed. With a new steel sumers' taste and national likes or dis- pen point write with this fluid on likes. For instance, a well known ordinary writing paper. why June grass, the nzo'st perfect feed writer states that in England the we know, in a dairy cow is converted types of the Yorkshire and the Berk- The writing will be invisible ave will have t into rich milk and in a beef steer into shire have been quite reversed within poo. be careful After ave prime beef." - the last 50" years. He says: "The large plenty of the fluid on your pen. This pertinent question is evidence The grain ration should be increased. of the newer spirit and trend; every - !cal and successful is electric currenlights are used, but the most econom- where visible in livestock work• It is Fourteen pounds: of grain per day to t..true that all foods"'and feeds—when consumed We find many people using gasoline' each 100 hens would not be too much consumed take on the character ,of rights and having excellent results. This should be given in four feeds.things: very dissimilar=nneat and hair Theyare not satisfactory,' The common practice where morning and horn azid: tissue—wiFtin h' quits as satisfacto Vii however, for a large plant, due to the lights are being" used is to. feed the. of the self -same animal. The teclini Iabor'in tending the lights. Kerosene. night before for ,morning. Grain is cal explanation of this Is an. matter. barn lanterns do not give verysatin- fed again at 8.00 o'clock, right after gi factory results: Automatic devices dinner, and again before the birds go for scientists. But the result. s'sdine thing which interests intelligent 'live - can readily be arranged for electric to roost. The last feeding should be stook men in what is confessedly the lights, thus reducing materially the - the heaviest, with a liberal feeding in most practical way—through their: the morning.If the birds do not con - labor. Where electric current is avail-' sume large amounts of grain they are pockets. - able two forty or fifty W. T. lights Is not the broad reason for the dif- will light a pen 18x30 quite nicely..; sure to lose in weight and go to pieces faring uses of the same feeding ma- point ia= These lights. should be arranged at a', in the spring. A dry mash is kept be- aerial by different animals due to what fore the birds at all times, It is ad - of the slightly forward of the middle is becoming better known as "type"? visible to increase the corn content of house and spaced about evenly In hogs the effect is very plainly ex= from the ends. This reduces the ten per cent. to aid in maintaining amplified. In a wide sense general shadows to a minimum. A single light body weight. The common practice hog feed fed to a "select" type tends in tends to produce more shadows. The where evening lunch is being used is lights may, be fastened to a rafter or' to feed three times a day on grain. In joist. • It is not necessary to drop the' the morning about three ' pounds; at light closer than six or six and one- noon about two pounds, and at dusk half feet from the floor. A reflector about three pounds per hundred birds. will aid materially in lighting up the Then when the lights are turned on a floor area. One gasoline lantern will feeding of about sixpounds, illuminate a pen 18x20 quite effi- ciently. Since lighting is essentially a feed- ing practice it will be seen that it mornings when the water freezes over must be very regular and never fail - night. If there is snow on the ground ing. This has led to the use of sew dump the water in the evening and eral automatic, devices being invented,. fill the dishes with snow. This will to turn the lights on and off. This is give very good results until water can practical only where electric lights be supplied a little later in the morn - are available. Many large plants use ing. Do not neglect the green feed a time switch. This is an instrument and oyster shell:' designed to 'turn the lights on and off y automatically. While the original LIGHTS .IN SPRING. cost is rather high it is doubtless a Many persons using lights have had good investment on a large plant an unhappy ending to a productive where many birds are being kept. We winter by turning the lights off too 'have, however, many simple home- suddenly in the spring. Any sudden made devices which rank with equal change must be avoided and we usual - satisfaction' and at a much less cost. ly take from two to three weeks to These usually consist of alarm clock complete the change, cutting them attachments. Possibly the simplest is down gradually a few minutes each an ordinary tumble switch set out day. This should be done about April from the wall, The alarm clock is then 15. We plan on having the lights off placed so the winding stem in turning by May 1. The early and late feeding throws -the switch over. I have seen must be continued even after the several modifications of this same idea lights are turned off. In additoin to the above methods, care must be taken to keep a supply of clean water before the birds at all times. This is sometimes difficult in Distributing Liquid Manure.' A prosperous farmer who owned. two hundred acres of valuable land also maintained a large herd of dairy Cattle. The barns were carefully cared far, and all refuse was collected in a manure pit. One end of the pit contained a sump in which the liquids ran. Since this liquid represented the most valuable part of the manure it was hauled out onto the fields as fast as it ac- cumulated. But ser much time was consumed When disposing of it in the usual mari- ner than, a snore economical means was sought, • The farm` ownerhad a two- .ton ,truck, which Was a ser' of a gen- e • l- ur pose eonve:" anee.de- cided � was cided tope ui this with t k and, !1 of P a tall , by means the exhaust gases from the engine, spray the liquide over the Melds: The ta*k held Throe handred ' 4 - Ions. A, Ia net six-eightha of and ftli :LVAHt,xblLrt in diameter was attached to the out- let. The exhaust pipe was continued back of the muffler, and it terminated just beneath the rear end of the tank. Fifty cents paid for a heavy gal- vanized iron dustpan of suitable type. This was soldered on the pipe and the seam also soldered, so that the ex- haust would emerge and spread fan - wise across the upper side of the dustpan. A short piece of Bose was attached to the faucet and brought to within two inches of this outlet. After reach- ing the field, the driver set the faucet to discharge the proper quantity, then went on over the field, the exhaust throwing the liquid over an area from sit to fifteenfeet wide, depending upon the rate of discharge: The great problem is to learn how to gain wealth honestly onestly and efficient- lyandto distribute it justly while at the serae t zta i e wahine to live to- gether as neighbor* we Yorkshire pig furnishes a striking in- stance of this transformation. In 'times gone by (never, it ishoped, to return) the typical pig of the breed this is thoroughly dry, press it firmly with a hot iron . and you will be sur- prised to see the writing plainly: It would be fun to write several was considered to be. one short in the lines on a sheet of paper and when .-,nout, considered t heat/ in the jowls daddy conies home from work to -night, o y y j to ask him what is on the sheet. When 'rd thick in the shoulder, with back he tells you he can see nothing, pass wide and fat, legs long, bone round the hot iron ever the paper and sur- -and coarse and a carcass of immense prise him by letting him read :it. weight, mainly comprising lard, hide Try this, too, when your little and; bone. At the present timr the friends come to visit you in the after - large. Yorkshire is . an animalof a noon to play games. With the lemon totally different character -.' ..'well ink write the names of half of those formed, compact, finein bone, deep in present on a slip of paper and pass carcass and carrying much lean . meat them to those 'whose names you did . in infinitely better demand at not write. When they press these the two small trucks we had the year much higher prices." Would thatnet slips with a hot iron, they will learn previous figuring be better expressed by saying that the who their opposite player will be in ' cost, repair, .and market type of the Yorkshire breed PP P y gasoline. was altered to suit consuming taste? the next game. It is well known thaton this con - to become muscular tissue of lean with tinent there are two well marked var- then there was a terrible 'bang.' I ran as fast as I could and hid in some bushes. In a few 'minutes I peeked out. What I saw I shall never forget! The big man was going away with Mrs. Roily Rabbit's hind foot hanging out of his big packet. That was the last I saw of her." I Fooled Dad. My dad doesn't believe in bothering with accounts, but he oemes to me time and again and asks how we are coming with this cattle deal and -that crop. I'm for accounts; and exacting ones, all the time. Because we keep accounts we know the cheaper method of fattening our cattle. We know the, cost of hired labor at harvest of each crop. We don't need to gamlile and wait for high markets, for we sell when our cost figures are covered by a fair margin of profit in the market. • We've learned what crops in differ- ent fields pay more mor the fertilizing costs, and why. Labor and time ex- pended are all flgared out, Not a 'sale or purchase is made but is entered in the right departmental: --column. My account of ,Mother's chick ,in. cubation and-finalsale was proof that when she thought she was making big profit she was barely covering costs. Accounts showed that her vegetable city sales were bringing her big pro- fit. She added acres on both sides of her vegetables patches and made let. tuce her star seller and profit winner. I've proved to Father that one big truck of high • horsepower did more service and cost less in upkeep than The "Why" in Export Bacon Hogs This is the profitable part.. • ; Must be long and !of good quality. elt A "'W'iltshire side" of bacon as exported is sold in one piece, shoulder, middle and ham. The diagram tells why Canadian hogs should be long -bodied. ' The best weight "Wiltshire side" is about 60 lbs.; this can ,,be cut from a 200-1b. hog of "select" quality. WHY ROLLY RABBIT LIVES ALONE. "This is surely a fine evening," said Bruin. "The cool air makes my bee many farm improvements, and have made farming 100 percent. more ins teresting to me.—I. S. All these little accounts mean more intelligent farming, with a complete knowledge of all branches of farm cost. The, savings made have paid for my typewriter, book supplies, and stings feel much better. Those hor- rid bees! I'm afraid I shall run every time a see one now." "Oh, they won't bother you unless you molest them," replied Rolly Rab- Before it freezes up store a wagon bit. "But when you do trouble them, load or two of good, tough, green soda they are saucy fellows." away in the barn cellar, pit or shed.. Roily had just brought a chair out Such will be very useful to toss into on the porch alongside Bruin's. He the pig pens now and again during had finished up the supper work and the winter months. The pigs need. was ready to enjoy the evening with mineral matter and this is an easy, cheap and efficient way to give it tq. them. Sods for the Pigs. his guest and newly made friend. • "You have a very pretty place here for your house," said Bruin, "and such near neighbors." "They are old settlers around here. Sammy Squirrel lives over there," said Rolly Rabbit, pointing to the north. "Ho is a good fellow and makes a fine neighbor. "Over there, pointing to the east, "is Willy Woodchuck's house; and just beyond there is where Charlie Chipmunk- lives," "What a fine lot of neighbors," he said. "Yes, but it doesn't seem like home inter -larded fat, or streaked bacon. ieties in some breeds of swine of which any more," said Rolly with a sigh: Fed to a heavy Duroc-Jersey, or Po Berkshires are the outstanding ex- "You look so sad, kind friend. May land -China the same feed becomes fat, ample, one definitely lard type and the I ask why?" questioned Bruin. lard and grease. True, an excess • of other approximating the bacon type. "I do not like to bother others with fat -forming foods would tend to make; It will, of course, be possible to keep my misfortunes, but seeing that yon a bacon hog fat, but in the main, if on , selective mating within these ask me, I will tell you," said Roily care is taken in this regard, "type", breeds so as to produce a clear line, 1 Rabbit. "Perhaps you have noticed is the first requisite in the production for that is the way in which in the' that I live alone here." of a market class. past 'breeds have been evolved. But' "Yes,' said Ernili, "and ever since Type is not breed, though itishard it is a long and costly process so far I came I have wondered why" to know where type °hardens into., breed and where breed blends with type. After all, both are the result of fixed characteristics; breed definitely' separated after selective crossings and, carried on from generation to geneta- tion and type perhaps the same thing within breeds but not yet clear in the line though in the process of becom- ing clear. In the bacon hog we know that the characteristics or the marks d a type to snit Canada's best market—and it must be clearly understood 'that other; types are as important for other mar- kets -are the long body, with an in- born capacity • to form lean, tender flesh quickly. In addition the "types' must be ready to take a "finish" es Would Craze Him No Doubt. Wifle (in Humor for fun)—"How de you like my new Egyptian Vase effect dress? Of course, it'sguaranteed not to crack nor. craze." Hubby --"Won't crack nor craze; eh? as Canada is concerned, Our markets "This is the reason," exclaimed It'll craze me' to pay for it, 1 don't is clearly set for one type. We must Rolly. "It happened just about this doubt. get that type on our farms by the' time last year. Mrs. Roily Rabbit and Democracy loses muchthrough its shortest possible method: II were out after some early el'ewber- One thing is sure; the overseas ries. We went to the patch where we apathy toward experts, baconmarket will not stand still for had always picked them. Finding us the long years necessary to build-; none, we wandered far away to the Co-operatives can weather the. ing' up. :new types from lard hogs. In; edge of the Big Woods. We were both storms when founded on the rock of fidelity, but not on the sands of dicta other, words, if Canadian farmers ins very careful, for we had heard of some large numbers do not "get after" this of our neighbors who had gone out trust. valuable overseas market in bacon by there and' nevor came back. Just the shortest possible route and furnishwhen we were both real bines picking it With that which it demands some; berries, I looked up and saw--" other farmers will. That has been the] Here big tears began to roll down secret, of Danish success. I Roily Rabbit's cheeks. Bruin felt very Why bother with what will not pay?, sorry for hint Let us in Canada feed our hog feeds to But Roily went on, "I saw a big man There are said to be 8,424 aPtfkeit types: that we know will suit our trade with one of those horrid hang -bang languages and dialects in the worst#, azul, yield, year in year out, the margin things pointing right at my wife, I Of which America has ;1;824, Asia t)874 near to 200 -lbs, as can be, What over ' cost that ther,warld calls profit. was faint and hollered 'run.' Just Europe 5 ", and. Africa 2'78, Whatever progress is made in our rural program will come largely aid the result of education and organix*" tion.