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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-02-08, Page 7"Re-examination" is the big word around Ottawa, Washington, Lon- don and various other points; and perhaps a spot of re-examination. right at home, and right now, might not be a bad tiring for many Cana- dian farmers to indulge in. * * \Vhy not sit clown and give a few honest thoughts to your way or farming? Ask yourself such ques- tions aa these; "Does my method of farming suit my type of land? Does it stake the best nee of my time and labour? Ts it in line with my ability, also nay likes and dis- likes?" * Farming successfully simply de- mands such re-examinations of olcl methods. You won't make money just because you farm as you always have done. Plenty of people found that out thirty or 5o years ago. • * * "I went along losing a thousand or more dollars a year," nays one farmer, recalling the years which followed World War One. "But. I figured that it was just the de- pression, and that things were bound to get better before long." * * * But that depression lasted close to twenty years; and as you'll recall thousands went broke while wait- ing for old farming methods to start making money again. * * * "Well, times finally did change," that sane farmer says now, "and for ten years you just couldn't help making money." But from the tone of his voice, a listener could pretty well tell that he thinks tines may very well be changing once again, ** The exact methods which made plenty of money in the last ten war years may fail you badly now, as costs continue to rise. The fact is that comparatively easy times may very well have introduced some mighty poor business methods into farming. So why not take time this winter to scrutinize your pre- sent methods? It may take a day. It may take touch longer. But it also may serve to keep you pros• perous and out of financial trouble in the years to come. * ,;:* Are you a dairyman -- a cash grain fariner—a cattle feeder—or do you go in for raising pigs? Let's try taking each class separately, * FOR THE DAIRYMAN: The dairy cow is a huge consumer of high-quality rough feed, Therefore, dairying is perfectly suited to farms that have lots of grass, with small fields that can be planted to corn or other crops for silage, It's the sort of farming for the small farm, with plenty of year-round labour. For the farrier with that kind of place—and the necessary buildings —there is. no question about the sort of farming. Neither grain, pigs or beef cattle would be as profitable, But dairy farming is not limited to one type of place. Any far'ni with good land can be made into a dairy farm. A large place with rotation pastures eau produce the bulky feed. But—and it's a big but—you must have the labour, * -. The problem the dairy farmer should give greatest attention is milk and butterfat production per animal. Recent studies prove that one cow producing 41,00 pounds of butterfat makes more profit over feed cost than four cows producing 200 pounds of fat per animal. So production per cow is some- thing to think over tvheu your management plan is being studied. Dairy Farming is a poor aide -line. Either do the job well from. breed- ing to feeding, or go into rotuethirg else --even if you have to find an- other~ farm on which to do it. FOR "I'1.1I GRAIN FA R' b)R: Rich level. land is best fitted for grain raising. It may be almost an essential on farms with no build- ings for livestock. It suits the man Who has no particular love for faun aninlets, or much knack in handling sante. Men who like to plow under big crops df sweet clover or other green fertilizers can make it pay auci still keep up their land, If you and your faun do not at these qualifications, you should consider some change—such as pig raising, which is easily started on grain fauns. You have the hog feed. Mul- tiplication and expansion is rapid. And it requires less capital than other livestock projects. a5 FOR THE HOG RAISER: Raising hogs is best suited to farms which produce lots of oats, corn and legumes. Hogs mostly eat concentrated foods, Success re- quires a certain amount of capital to invest in fences and proper equipment. Good hog raisers like the animals, and so soon learn how hest to take care of them. * * * If your farm produces- hog feed, and you have fairly good luck with pigs, think deeply before going out of that line. For it is estimated that good hog raisers get from $120 to $150 for each hundred dollars' worth of feed consumed. * However, not all hog raisers make that sort of money—or nearly all of them. Suppose you only raise four or five pigs per litter, or are pestered and plagued by disease season after season. In that case, consider some other sort of live- stock before you are stork. * * * The hog farmer, like the grain farrier, can shift to either beef cattle feeding or to dairy farming. The switch to cattle feeding is not too disturbing. But, in either case, more grass and less corn will be n eeded. Things Were is igger, Brighter, Tastier Then My earliest recollection is of the garden and orchard of niy grand- father's house. The outstanding fea- ture in this memory is the tallest tallest apple tree I have ever seen, apparently of a patriarchal age, but bearing in great quantities wonder- ful apples, the like of which I have never found; golden yellow in color, pear-shaped and • of an unparalleled sweetness and flavor. I have sought in many markets for the lineal de- scendants of these apples of Hes- perides. At times I have seen some nearly as golden in hue and pear-shaped somewhat; but the first bite destroyed hope. Good apples they might be, but not the same. In this comparison I ani not like the German woman who, living in her old age in America, complained that in this country the mirrors were very inferior to those she had used years before in Germany. Others besides myself have remem- bered those apples and sought vain- ly for their equals. Wound all around this venerable tree was a grapevine with coils climbing and clutching it from trunk to top branches, and this vine bore quan- tities of luscious grapes. Perhaps the grapes and the apples worked out some sort of Burbank process Syfra's Sad Saga Syra Marty, who says she was a "beeg dance star" hi Switzerland where "pfpples itt opp uty . number," is very Hauch oppset, Playing featured roles in flolywood, sire'e burning at reports sine was formerly a stripper in a Imo Angeles burlesque show. .A wily agent, she laments, signed her be mail to a one- year contract to dance in "The :Vailies." It turned out to be no Ziegfcldian affair, but a peel palace. But she had to fulfill for e, ontrect, Rare Beauty—You can travel the seven seas for a long time these days without seeing this beautiful sight—once so coni- nnon. It's -the square-rigger Eagle standing out to sea. The Eagle was formerly the German navy's schoolship .Horst Wessel, of their own, accounting for the unique flavor of both. A long loop of this grapevine formed a swing by which one aright explore the air to what seemed a great and perilous height. My grandfather's bonne was like a New England farmhouse, sur- rounded by a garden of old-fashion- ed flowers, and there were many frust trees. There were black ox - heart cherries and, if memory plays me no tricks, cherries, to be at the"): best, should be eaten in the tree on which they grow. There were bushes of red raspberries. What I have said of the apples compared to ordinary apples ap- plies also to the -raspberries; but this comparison of ancient and mod- ern potnology may be influenced by the former's advantage in having its specimens go direct to the consum- er. I will concede that the flowers in this garden may have been no more beautiful than the flowers of this present day and generation, and that the butterflies their were, not much larger or more brilliant in color, The bets, however, I am sure, were bigger and more threat- ening, and I affirm without hesita- tion that modern caterpillars and grasshoppers are unworthy of their sires. Apparently there have been changes in the floral kingdom, too. I never sec nowadays such things as fuchsias and bleeding-hearts. What they tell me is honeysuckle growing around the cottages in summer resorts, a yellow flower well enough in its way, is not the honeysuckle of childhood's happy hour. The latter was a cluster of small trumpets red and pink, super- ior in every way to the pallid sub- stitute. Modernists may claim that the sunshine of the present is not inferior to the mid-Victorian article, but in our garden and orchard it had exceptional material to reflect upon and consequently appear at its best, The sunshine in that garden of many colors as seen from the branches of a cherry tree or from the higher altitudes explored in a grapevine swing was displayed to great advantage and I diffidently express the opinion that it was superior to any that is now offered. It is possible that I am prejudiced, but it is all quite vivid in memory, only sixty-five years having passed. --Fr'otn "First Nights and First Editions," by Harry B. Snaith. Baby Comes Through Nightmare Journey To conic safely through a 15,000 - mile journey --front the desolate wastes of the. Gobi Desert to the hustle and bustle of London --over towering mountain passes, through insect -ridden swamps, travelling alternately by lorry, train, bus and boat, is always something of an achievement. But lipw much more of an ach- ievement if the traveller turns out to be an eight -months -old baby! Little Michael Spencer had been born ouly five weeks when his parents, New Zealand doctor Rob- ert Spencer and his young wife, set out from Northern China --where they had been establishing a hos- pital --on what proved to be at nightmare journey to England. They stayed in tiny mud -hut vil- lages, endured fierce extremes of heat and cold, lumbered in lorries over dusty mountain roads and were jam-packed for countless miles in overloaded, evil -smelling buses and trains that crawled through lands of mystery. Once, Michael went for over 150 miles clasped in his mother's antis on a truck carrying gasoline drums ---and carne through his reek- ing ordeal with a smile. On another dramatic occasion, when staying overnight in a primitive native 141- lage, his mother was bitten by a scorpion as he lay beside her in their squalid bed, and, straight away, with an amazing and cour- ageous grasp of realities, she dis- cussed with her husband how he would best be able to continue feeding their baby—after she was dead, as she frilly expected to be! Fortunately, it wasn't necessary. After five weary months the little family reached England safely and Dr. Spencer lost no time in seek- ing a home for them. He is there to study surgery. And no doubt one day, when little Michael has grown to manhood, he will speak with pride of that pilgrimage he made with his parents, and of those first few weeks in his life which he spent 'in a mud hut with paper windows, in a remote Chinese vil- lage where his mother was the only white woman for hundreds of miles. BONE KNITTING NEEDLES 'If,your,knitting is suddenly halt- ed by a broken bone needle, slip the needle into a pencil sharpener and give it a new point. A few twists and your needle is probably better than when you bought it. You can use the office -type shar- pener or the small handy ones you buy in the five and ten cent stores. These are just as helpful and can be toted around in your knitting bag. 7LUNDAY.SCF 1001, LE,SS:;FN by Rev, R. B, Warren, B.A., B.D. Jesus .Meets Hurnarr Need 1Vfemory Selection: And Jesus .. . was moved with compassion to- ward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things, Mark 6:34. Jesus was moved by any type of human need. Sickness, bereave- ment, banger ---all called forth His compassion, 1-lut before Jesus did any mighty work, He tried to draw out faith on the part of those to be helped or their friends. The les- son of trust in God is one which we all must learn. In Matthew 13:58 we read, "He did not many mighty- works there because of their unbelief." Jesus worked in response to faith. Now He pro- posed to feed a multitude of five thousand Wren besides-cliitdren, with a lad's lunch of five loaves and two fishes. Science would say "Impossible." But the disciples made the necessary preparations. We should like to thir; than here was more than bliud obedience on the part of the disciples and the expectant multitude. There was at least a measure of faith. Everyone had plenty to eat and each disciple filled his basket with unusual frag- ments. Have faith in God! He can meet your every need: spiritual, physical, financial, social. He cares for you, "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass." Psalm 37:5. \Ve roust learn a lesson, too, from the lad's lunch. The boy ltad only enough for himself but he un- selfishly gave it all to the Master, Jesus took and blessed and brake and gave. The multitude was fed and God was glorified. Truly "little is Hutch when God is in it." If we will consecrate our all to God, F[e can use us to bless many. 7e,: tures At Sportsmen's Show Among the highlights of this year's ('anadiatn National Sports- men's Show, to be lteld March 9 to 17 at the Coliseum, Toronto, will be a stage and water revue, a con- servation show, cottage show, dog show, boat show, motor show, travel show, an Indian village, May's tropical exhibition and a hobby show. In addition there will be a sports demonstration area where all sports such as golf, ten- nis, judo, badminton, archery, hog- lag, o ..lug, fencing and so forth will be demonstrated by e :pert' and champions. Again this year the four floors of the Coliseum will house hun- dreds of commercial exhibits includ- ing all the most up-to-date equip- ment for fishing, hunting. boat ug, camping, golf, skiing and other sports. One of the focal pouts of interest during the eight day show will be the big stage and water revue in the arena of the Coliseum. The pro- gram here will again feature Sitar - key, the amazing seal, as. the star. The program will also include canoe tilting, log rolling, swimming, diving, demonstrations of fly and bait casting, trained horses, per- forming doge and other thrilling acts, During the last four days of the show two dog shows will be held for the benefit of the Humane So- ciety. Some of the most outstand- ing canines in both Canada and the United States will be on display. . :Profits from the show, as has been the case in the past, will be used by the Toronto Anglers' and hunters' Association to carry on an extensive - and varied program to conserve our natural resources and our wildlife of forest, field and stream. Notice in hotel: Chaperone your lighted cigarettes. 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