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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-03-19, Page 6**+�.w�e:crpce:reur�agw NOTES OF SC NCE HOW TO CUR1 TtuIEUII A TTS The spirit level and sliding rule have been euin'binec' ill a new foul.' • jfi e Disease is Always Rooted. The goverment of Peru has established a national aviation selxtol at Lima There were .t,`_'?tl accidents virus- ' ill g 1,753• 'deaths in • British co'J ,, mine, .last year. • •. Powdered 'bora:: :; rrinlilcd on a cured. by liniments and rubll lig, r i K,� erlookin the medical fact that xybage: can yr • refuse pile ~vial the trouble is footed in the blood, rlrai e away tiles. Rheumatism can only be cured by .A shirt has'lieea invented withacrloa•nsilln and enriching the blood, need,:. band adjustabl,> to fit level a: thus driving out of the•system the sizes of necke. lieatlese eae.sa e Composed chiefly of rice and wrapped in oiled paper, are -made in Jaya. tcases of rheumatism because they The addition uf, a little vinegar t go straight to the root of the trou- rto water in which it is being cooled I ble in the blood Every dose helps in the Blood, Which Must Be Malde Rich and Pure. There are still many people Who imagine that rheumatism can be poisonous acids which cause • the rheumatic pains. Dr, Williams' Pink Pills curs the 'host obstinate e. will make tough meat tel der.- More than one half of the rail- road,: ad:; of the world are in. North Ameriea and mere than one third in Europe. With but three horses' to each 100 residents, Switzerland has the smallest equine population of any nation. Aluminum can' be rolled into - sheets one twutlmuusandth of an inch tri thickness that are as strong as tin -foil. C'harooal made of peat and form- ed into briquettes has been used successfully for melting iron ore in England. A strip of land six miles wide and about 50 miles long in the Trans- vaal supplies about one-third of the world'•'gold. - Clothing ,can be made resistartt'to fire by dipping in a solution of a pouno of amliioniuin phosphate to a gallon of wai cr. The National Library in Paris contains the oldest map of the heavens, made in China in 600 B.C. showing 1,460 stars. An outbreak of diphtheria in an English town was traced to the habit •oi£ school children wetting lead pencils in their mouths. To protect fruit trees from cold cr heat there has been patented a frame over which curtains, mount- ed on rollers, can be drawn. A large railroad in Brazil is gradually converting all its loco- motives into oil !burners and -an- other is experimenting with them. • rIn Denmark there, is a two-story pig Sty that will 'accomodate` 1,500` animals, and” in which nearly all the work is done by electricity. Because of the -amount of nitro- gen they .contain, mushrooms are more nearly like .animal food than any other vegetable food substance. Mining experts in the Philippines agree that a steady increase in the gold production of the islands may be expected fur an indefinite ��e riad, A.patent has been granted for a glass refrigerator, built upon a steel frame and with an insulating air space between the inner and outer walls. Plants are forced by a Danish scientist by administering chloro- form,. his theory being that brief periods of rest are followed 'by quicker growth. An Englishman has invented a -machine that utilizes waste strips of wood by dovetailing and glueing them together into boards of any - desired width. The outer walls of a new safe ars perforated to permit the gases of an explosion to escape and thereby thwart a burglar who tries to blow it open. Official estimates place the num- ber of horses in the world at 100,- 000,000, of which Russia has about 25,000.000 and the United States 24,000,000. A British patent has been grant- ed the French inventor of a gun carriage, either or both of the ,vheels of which can be folded fiat against the :ground to steady it. '6 Ear Defenders for Soldiers. to make rich, red blood, and' this new blood expells the poisonous acid, bringing health and comfort to the tortured victim: Do not waste.time and money in liniments and outward applications,. Give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial and thus drive- the disease out of your ,system. Here is proof of What Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. can do in cases of this kind. Mr. Rich - aid Palmer, Wroxeter, Ont., says: "For moths my life was made mis- • erable through -a •combined attack of rheumatism and- sciatica. The rheumatism seemed to settle in all my joints and the sciatica pains were so great that I could scarcely hobble about, I am a farmer, and sa you can understand'that in my condition I was unable to do my ordinary work. Neither doctors nor various remedies .I. took did me any good. Finally I was induced to try: Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and for this I have much to be thankful for, as after taking a few boxes the pains began to disappear, -and by the time I had taken nine boxes every twinge of both the rheumatism and the sciatica had disappeared -and I was able to go to work again as usual, and have not lost a day through illness since. I am thoroughly grateful for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for me -and hope my experience will benefit isoane other sufferer." It is the curing of just such cases as these that has given Dr, Williams' Pink Pills their world- wide popularity. You can get the Pills from any medicine dealer or by mail :at 50,cents a .hox Or six: boxes for $250 from The D.r. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. "Why, look here," said the mer- chant who was in need of a boy, "aren't you the same 'boy who was in here a week ago 1" "Yes, sir," said the applicant. "I thought so. And didn't I -tell you then that I wanted an older boy 1" "Yes, sir. That's why I'm back. I'm older now.w FERGUSON'S GRADES MOH at is important that you buy the best seeds, the seeds that are sure to grow. You cannot go wrong when buy- ing E'erguson's Pine Quality Seeds, Sent i'ostpaid: BEET: Ferguson's Selected Globe. Pkt. 10c., oz. 40c. CABBAGE: Ferguson's Copen- hagen Market. Pkt. 10c., half -oz, 350.. 1 oz. O0c, LETTUCE: Ferguson's Way - ahead. Pkt. Sec., oz, 30c. ONION: Ferguson's Excelsior. Pkt 25c, PEA: Ferguson's World Record. Pkt. 10c., half -lb, SOc., 1 Ib. 50c. TOMATO: Ferguson's O.K. Pkt. 15c., half -oz. 75c. Write for our big FREE Catalog on "Seeds of Known Quality" DIMITY & FERGUSON, 34 Jacques Cartier Sq., Montreal. C�� An interesting invention which has just been adopted by the Bri- tish Admiralty is the Mallock-Arm- strong ear defender. It has been found that the heavy guns eause by their terrific din such mental -shock that in some, cases men are incapa- citated for a -time. The earpiece is no larger than the cotton -wool. ' plugs hitherto used, but contains a diaphragm of goldbeater's ":skin, which, while readily responsive to ordinary ,volumes of sound, pre - tents any abnormal sound from reaching the ear. This effect is brought about by a • "shop" eeach side of 111.5 liapihragm, which limits the distance through which it can vibrate, While the ear., receives tread.ily and clearly ,a word of eon - wand, it is protected from the noise of the discharge of a gun... . Vernon iras sanetionedexpenditure of $1.05,000 on a drainage system. Some people would rather he avow than ,good. a,000 AYEA1N POI „,,;.,„,,,,,., Rotation is Important hi Getting Maximum Rettlw'ns. From Each Year's Crop. : ATE+ ST MACHINERY,. BSSENTIAL TO SUCCESS, "This year I sold from a twelve ti•uili'soil clean;.,you lie • tl not bother toes. I have paid for th:e land , There, is. no hand -.picking on this three or four times' with p'otatoel,, potato'Idi'ljrl,. A four-hot:se potato - and some years,,, :potatoes were !picker is• user an American ma in a John ori cheap"—thus o - Por5tanley,i po ate ! wonderful wmanner�s the 'Work Wthelcst el' farmer. 1 slltf.re uproots , the .fnotatoes, they The growing of potatoes on Cana- are . thrown 'on a revolving chain- dian farms is spit to take orib' or t,-, carrier which deposits them in a forms : it may be ,a highlyeapeei::tl •box •carried below the driver's ized industry, to which other far,: ; seat.' A boywalks behind the ma - work constitutes a .mereround' chine, -removing the ftllerlr boxes work,or it may be merely one es-' and replacing them with "emp- pecialy-lucrati e phase'ofyn4anif,, d = ties," which have previou ly been farm activity. In 'either case r'.. deposited at intervals along . the result is the same. Possibly . rows.. farm ,crop is, at all times, more -+; "That machine cost me as much demand ..than the ,modern form •'x' as•a:binder, but 1 wouldn'tbe with - that. esculent first called b.y the out it at any price," Mr. Johnson Spaniards "batata."- Certainly : v crop will show a better proportion ate. profit, .all things coirsidere:i, year in and year out, than the ul.;i- quitotis potato. The writer has found, on Ontario farms, splendid examples of thesetwo phases of potato -growing. Let: us first briefly consider the:case of a man who has become rather an expert;a. specialist- I first heard acre patch. $1,200 worthdif pots, spraying for rot or blight." said,. "Nowadays �rs •one must use the latest machinery if .he is to keep ups with the fast -changing conditions. Growing. over twenty-five acres of potatoes, we can never go back to the ,old system of stand -picking." The Johnson potatoes are stored for the time being, and later on marketed. Mr. Johnson has over forty private customers in the city of St. Thomas, including hotels, him described in the city, of 8t. f colleges, stores, etc., and, as he Thomas as• "Johnson, the potato t says, "St. Thomas -will. take all the roan," ..and at once. went, to potatoes I can send it." Besides, him.. Fred A, Johnson lives on hundred . 'and fifty acre farm vele. near the village of Port Stanley, on Lake Erie. Wibenn he move'' z,.) bis present place forty-three 'i.e,ss ago, be put in five acres of pt,il toes, and in no single year sh->- has he failed of a Drop. Space f bids a detailed explanation of t expert's methods, but a few fat:>ts may here be set down that •she ',l be of value to farmers through( :0: the Province. Of the •entire 150 acre area of lie farm, twenty-eight acres are,;4e- voted to potatoes, This 'are.a•.Cr:a- prises two ,fields of ten and eirh teen acres, respectively, and in two fields, each of this size, the an- nual crop is produced, part of a scientific rotation. In ,preparing a field for potatoes, Mr. '.Johnson first. grows a crop of oats, seed:ed4fiwu with clover. While'the first.crep of clover is cut for hay, the second is left on the ground, and the mat thus formed is plowed under the following spring. ' Clover, by the way, Mr. Johnson regards as abso- lutely invaluable for use on the potato ground. • When .spring: comes, plowing and discing are clone, barnyard manure being ap- plied' at the rate of twelve to fif- teen loads per acre. Should the supply of manure be exhausted, a fertilizer consisting of potash (24%), ammonia, (10%) and dissolved phosphate (66%) is applied •'by means of a fertilizer drill. The soil is, after manuring or fertiliz- ing, thoroughly cultivated with a two -horse cultivator, and this oper- ation is repeated from five to seven times, at intervals of a few days. Owing to the close proximity of the United States gardens, with their early varieties, Mr. Johnson prefers to handle late potatoes. Planting, for the most part, is clone the first week in June. Just here it might be mentioned that, on this falin, seed -cutting is done by hand, the proprietors having found that, no matter how efficient the machine used, spuds Went to the fields with- out the necessary "eye." As Mr. Johnson said, "When every, potato means two or three cents, one mus be careful that there is an eye on each piece planted." Zihe planting is completed by about the 10th of June, and thereafter conies con- tinuous cultivation. After the seed has been planted for a week, the ground is harrowed lightly, and -a week or so later a cultivator, with hillers, is used. Once the plants appear above the surface, cultiva- tion 'continues at intervals of one week during the entire growing season. A one-horse Biller is used after the plants attain a fair growth. Then comes spraying. "We use an American machine," Mr. Johnson said, "a one-horse af- fair.; by means of which the driver, with a simple pressure on the foot brake, directs the spray over eight rows on each trip up and down the. field. We .use a paris green spray for bugs, as, in my forty-three years' ;experience I have never had a •case:of blight or rot. In the last two years I have sold 15,000 bush- els of potatoes to my St. Tholnas customers alone and I have yet to Bear off one single bad potato, This year we will pick about 6,000 bush- els, as usual, and I venture to say that here won't be a quart measure full of potatoes unfit for the best market, If you select your seed and keep your plants healthy and shon'Id he care to neglect his local market, he can easily dispose of his crop, each year in answer to de- mands made up -on him by United States dealers and buyers. Now, as to •seed—you couldn't sell Mr. Joihnson any, be your specimens ever so perfect. He be- lieves in seed selection from his own crop, and his great success has justified his policy. On no account would he buy seed from an •out- sider. No variety, he says, will ever "run out" if properly propa- gated by intelligent selection. His favorite "late" varieties are the Worley and the 'Carmen, the latter of which he has grown continuously for a quarter of a century. Mr. Johnson will not put the Carmen on the market till after the month of January, as not till' then, he be- lieves, does it attaint perfection for table use. The writer regrets that he is un- able to reproduce here a portion of what is probably the most complete and unique book of farm accounting to be found in Canada. "My books show that my fust -sale from this farm, forty-three years ago, was 54 lbs, of wool at 54 cents a pound," read Mr. Johnson from his ac- counts. "From that date on, I can 'dhow a written record of every transaction made on this farm, if only for a postage stamp." Mention must needs be made of this home, built, in no small mea- sure, from "potato money." It is surely one of the finest to be found on. any Canadian farm, Such con- veniences as a private acetylene plant, dumb waiter, wood -elevator from cellar to kitchen, and hot, cold and soft water on tap, all con- tribute to a hoime-life which appeals to the visitor as truly admirable.„ So much for one who has made his 'twenty-eight acres of potatoes the object of special study ,and ex- periment. Let us .now turn' for a moment to the case of an Erin township farmer, Mr. Charles Bald- win, who rune on ordinary mixed farming principles some 200 acres near 'the village of Hillsburg, On- tario. Above all, first and fore- most, be i,t understood that Mr. Baldwin is a successful, practical, allyround farmer; his work with potatoes is in the way of a little extra attention to .a very common crop. Three years ago Mr. Baldwin sold the potato &pp from afifteen acre field for about $1,000. How much profit 1 you ask. Mr. Baldwin puts it this way: "Frankly, I reckon that the po- tato crop pays -all farm -running, and minor expenses, leaving the returns from other farm work for any other use we desire," Mr. Bale'. sin each year plants by hand ,sem twelve or fifteen acres, mostly of the Delaware variety, which he finds very' popular on On- tario. markets. Like Mr. Johnson, he finds heavy fertilization' very essential and profitable, and is a firm believer, .also, in, the virtue of consistent, thorough summer culti- vation of the potato ground. "We find. potato -growing to world in well with grain crops," Mr, Baldwin said to the writer. "We' generally sow grain on potato 'or turnip ground ,and get excellent re - suits," How elan the ordinary farmer market a big potato crop 1 Mr.. Baldwin, at the time. of my visit, was throwing all his energies into the forwarding of the scheme to ire A a $f:r Ya•,1t�3 -The t4 diiii6''d Lfij�,t!�. p{,ti f `C 6 Ica �i !fi d, el. 'Hos ii n F$ C L1 v 1,.i'11.minis b 4 quual form a Hillsburg Potato Growers' Association. "We grow good po- tatoes," he said, "and we want the public• to feel assured in dealing with us. There are far too many varieties at. present, and the only remedy I can see is local organiza- tion, whereby all the growers of one locality will produce the same variety of potato." Already this article is over bounds. Little needs to be said. re- garding the ,actual profits from po- tato growing. Nearly every farmer has at some time or another gone heavily into potatoes, and, gener- ally, with gratifying • results, This year, if ever, would seem to be an opportune time for the extension of the potato-grbwin,g industry on the ordinary farm.—By. H. B. Mc- Kinnon, in The Canadian Country- man. ountry man. ESCORTING AMMUNITION. Soldier's Story of Wartime Trip Down River Nile A private in the 7th Manebesters, who is stationed at Khartoum, gives an interesting account of his journey with a special escort, from Khartoum to Cairo, with ,ammuni- tion for the troops. "1 formed one of the escort and it took u -s seven days and nights to reach Cairo, We had some wonderful experiences. We were on the Nile from Wadi -Halla to El .Shallal, and at the latter place we visited the ruins of Philae. , The best part of`the journey was from Luxor to . Cairo - by train. The route is by the side of the Nile, and here surely is the land of milli and honey. wawtrate 414` TCAVAr'S1a1159 m-,, nnro vur "s'YiT..'iR' vr�•r "Amongst the couxitry people here contentment holds :way, Very small girls act as goatherds, just starting to toddle, leading a Frig cathol along as though it were a Pomer anion. 'We met with great hospitality from various high officials at dif- ferent stations along the journey, My impression of Cairo is one of delight. At one part of the jour- ney I slept twenty yards from the Citadel Mosque, one of the -sights Of Egypt. We visited this ancient place and the sight was grand. The floors are of marble, and are cov- ered in parts with luxurious rugs. At this -temple• the Khedive of Egypt worships. It is thousands of years old, and there are many le- gends connected with it. - It comes within the battlements from which all Cairo oan be seen. with the Pyramids in the distance. The health of the men in camp at Khartoum is very good, but at Cairo, I believe, the hospitals are fairly full. 777711 .11111 Ifl "Let 'me see some of your black kid -gloves," said a lady to a shop assistant. "These are not the lat- est style, are they?", she asked, when the gloves wee produced. "Yes, madam," replied the shop - man, "we have had them in s'tcck only two days," `'I didn't think they were, because the fashion pa- pers say black kids have tan stitches and vice versa; I see the tan stitches, .but not the 'vice versa." On being assured by the she enan that vice versa was ,. French for seven buttons, she bought three pairs. SMOTHERING OF ASTU IA STOPS QUACK THOUSANDS CURED BY "CATAHR1101011 Count Ten—Then Relief Conies Front Chronic Asthma. Nothing yet discovered can compare with Catarrhozone in bad, ugly cases of Asthma. Catarrhozone is the one remedy that can be sent quickly and directly to all parts of the breathing apparatus. The effect from Catarrhozone is a quick one—you feel better in no time —keep up the goad work, use Catarrho- zone as directed and you get well. If your case is curable, if anything on -earth can rid you permanently of Asthma, it will, be Catarrhozone. 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