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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-02-20, Page 5THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 19 T a McGee & Campbell GOING OUT QF LSINESS The jest Vaues offered yep in a 'ices o� Men's ani loys3 ear. rices w< 11 wort looking into. Overcoats. We still have a good assortment of Men's and Boys' Tweed Overcoats. These must be cleared out at once. They are made from the best qualities of Tweeds,two-wayin the collar styles, some with belted backs and others without. We have quoted some prices on Men's Overcoats below that should clear out every Goat in a few days. Don't, wait. $20.00 Coats to clear at. $15.25 18.50 " 14.25 15.00 " " 11.50 12.50 44 449.00 10.00 " ettt 7.50 ALL ACCOUNTS MUST BE ..PAID AT ONCE. Mee Mee & Campbell CZ►OT.t'IZi .S" et A MEN'S MAKING THE DAIRY FARM PROFITABLE, We notice to several of our eastern agricultural exchanges that there le a good deal of discussion belgg had on' this important question, says Hoard's Dairyman. A number et dairy farm- ers declare that it is impossible for them- to make their herd and farm .lay anything like a fair profit, so they ex- press the determination to sell oft their cows and engage in some other branch of farming. We are not here to say that they are making a mistake, but we wish. to say that there is a great difference In the ideas and policies practiced on these extreme eastern dairy farms and those in the dairy districts of Wisconsin, for instance. That difference is perhaps well defined by saying that ou the specialized dairy farm of the east the principal reliance is from the milk alone. You will find but very few young cattle or hogs kept on these farms. The drainage is altogether out of one spout -tile milk spout. It is needless to say that that kind of farm- ing sloes not make a skillful live stool; farmer; neither does it institute a sys tens for the raising of large quantities of corn, clover and alfalfa which are the best kinds of roughage and on which the young cattle and even' hogs The Brown Swiss breed of dairy cattle are noted for strength of con- stitution and lack of nervous fidg- ets, which accounts for their wear- ing qualities. Al eleven or twelve. years of age, a Brown Swiss cow is in her prime. They carry a fair amount of flesh and have great ca- pacity for producing milk and but- ter fat. They are heavy for dairy cattle, an average herd of cows in milking condition will weigh from 1,300 to 1,400 pounds. Betty of Al- lenhurst, the animal shown, won first prize in the heifer class at the Iowa state fair. TUB WINGUA, A. D` A N 0. ••••••••••••:•••••••••••• • • will thrive exceedingly well. The Wis- consin dairy farmer has built up a wide demand for his grade Holstein and Guernsey cows and heifers. Here is a source of revenue that is closely akin to that of steer raising with the double advautage of the milk after the heifer is two years old. To illustrate, the farmers of Jeffei- son county, Wis., realize from their cotes In milk product over $2.000,000 annually, while froth the sale of cows and heifers they receive about $700,- 000. This combining dairying • with dairy stock breeding and raising snakes of the farmer a niuclr better equipped man all around, white it enhances his profits. Most of the milk is handled in creameries, and the skimmilk prod- uct, with the abundant corn crops and alfalfa and clover, enat.•►les the farmer to turn a tine pork crop every year. '1'this all around dairy farming pays well when intelligently managed, with Lite added advantage that the farmer is more his own master, and his calling educates hits more broadly and more ('citt►i►tetel y. • Dairy f.irtners must become better 'toc•k rni:.ers than they have been, tvht'ther they operate east or west, it they xv:tut larger profits and a larger �httrt' le what they earn. A few men rat i4 :t control the butter market or lu►! t; market or the market for cows •' .t heifers as they do the milk market . large cities. • • where a farmer is starting on • a new fares where there are only • • a few acres broken nothing mays • • better than cows and hogs. •Pumpkins may not be very rich • ••. in food value, but steers seer► to • • eat them with the same sort of • • relish that deities have for wa• • • termeions. • •• The number of sheep in the • te world, according to the latest flg• • • urea, Is 016,220,872, •• • • Corn fodder that is, bright and •• sweet and not too coarse is rel. • •• fished greatly by ewes on brisk• • cold mornings. It is not eaten 0 • So well at any other time of day • • nor on a warm damp day. • • Good whole corn, a thin slop of • ground rye and skimmilk and : • green pasture ie a combination • • • hard to beat for pork produc- • • tion. •• • • •••••••••••••••••00••0•••0 LIVE STOCK NATES. • • • • • • ' Keep Hogs In Fat Condi+ion. IIogs that are to be kept over for breeders and fall pigs should go into the winter in gird condition. A 'blanket of fat under the animal's hide is worth bushels of corn in the crib as to protection against the cold weather ►►f winter. Pat can be put on during the fa11 easier than it can after winter t,e:;ius. The fall pig that has not been well fed during the fall months has a winter of misery before it. Its hair affords bot little protection, and with- out a blanket of fat it is in a sacs pre- (licalnent. Fat, vigorous pigs will con- tinue to grow during the winter, but the titin ones are expensive boarders. Older breeding animals will endure more hardship atiti exposure, but they tame out in the siring in poor condi- tion and cannot produt'e as good pigs ns (hose that go lino the winter in :Tatou condition. A chilled body re• drir•es vitality and saps the animal's rr'tit'►•ve ei'&'fgy, and it comes out in the sliriug a weak, entarinted aninnll. THE SMALL SHEEP FLOCK. Easily Handled and Profitable Side Line For the Farm. Those small flocks of sheep which farmers who are running a mixed farm- ing business are keeping are often neg- lected during the winter and conse- quently they do not always cru as well as they are expected to do, writes G. H. Glitske in the Iowa Homestead. This often makes the farmer feel dis- appointed, and he thinks sheep raising is not a paying business, as I heard one farmer say. It is, however, a nice side line for the farmer where mixed farming is carried on and certainly can be made to yield a nice little income where even only a few are kept if they are given a little special attention. A small flock of sheep like this kept on the farm do not add greatly to the work thereof. During the winter they need a little•extra care and attention to protect them from cold, damp weather. They can stand dry weath• er, even though It is somewhat cold, but wet and sleety weather will soon cause them to get sick, and they die very quickly when subjected to such weather. Very frequently the inexpe- rienced sheep .raiser neglects to, pro- tect them against exposures of this kind, and then if a loss occurs and not knowing exactly what caused the trou- ble the farmer often becomes discour- aged and thinks there is no money in raising sheep. However, for the little amount of extra time and trouble sheep bring big returns, and after the simple method of handling them is once learned a farmer can make good money from even a small flock. In the winter is when the sheep re- quire rnost care. They need a warm gable and a dry bed for the night. They cannot stand dampness nuder- foot any more than they can stand dampness from above. Therefore the shed 1n which they are kept should not be leaky and should always be well bedded. During days of sleet and cold rains they should not be left out of doors at all. When there is much snow on the ground it is well to clear a place on the sunny side of a building so they can be turned 'out there ou bright days to take a sun bath. They enjoy this, and it is good for them. By studying the needs and wants of his flock a little the beginner will soon learn to give his sheep the required at- tention and will find the work pleasant as well as profitable. Washing Butter. in winter the water for washing and also the brine for salting should not he below a temperature of fiO degrees tVith regard to the quantity of water to use, stalit'ic'nt water should tie placed tri the churn to thoroughly dont all the butter grains contained therein The butter will require two or three washings in order to remove most of the cheesy matter, which, if allowed to retrain in the Witter, mimes the finished ttr:ticle to become bad. When the Water is quite clear and free from milkiness on being with- drawn from the (-horn the butter should be sufficiently washed. While being careful to wash the butter thole 1. Gthe du not ow t.rwa 1a it or COIOr and flavor will be spoilt doeAuterlcant Cultitatol'. GORGEOUS CHORISTER$. Boy Singers of the Private Chapel in St, James' Palace, There are ten boys in. London who every Sunday and on state occ'aelons wear suits of clothes that in each in- stance cost something like $200, The lads thus expensively and brilliantly attired are the choristers belonging to the king's private chapel in St. James' palace, When arrayed in their state suits they are truly a gorgeous sight. Scarlet cloth is the foundation of this costume. Bands of royalpurple between rows of heavy gold lttce are the adornments. Old lace ruffles are worn at the neck and wrists, These rufiies are so valuable and so difficult to replace that they are worn only on the roost special occasions. At other times white lawn bands take their place. The boys must take great cure of their suits, which must endurethree years. The "undress" suits are re- placed every eight months. This choir is one of the historical in- stitutions of Great Britain, and many of its old time customs, including the dress of the boys, are retained to this day. The choir has numbered among Its singers such distinguished musicians as Sir Arthur Sullivan, Edward Lloyd, Sir John Goss and Dr. D. J. Hopkins.' It is the right of the head boy to de- mand a guinea as "spur money" from any officer entering the chapel wearing spurs. It is said that when Arthur Sul- livan was head boy the Duke of Wel- lington would always come spurred to the chapel, in order that he might have the pleasure of paying the forfeit to his favorite chorister.-Harper's Weekly. Winter Care of Foals. After weaning, several foals may run together in a sheltered pasture in which there area shed and small yard in which they can be fed and shut at night and in bad weather. The shed should, if possible, face south and be fitted with a low manger and hayrack. Each foal should be allowed daily crushed oats, two quarts; bran, one pint, and plenty of sweet, unheated hay; pure water and rock salt should also be provided. Wheu the pastures become too wet or exposed for win- tering foals on they are best kept In roomy yards with good shelter sheds under which they should be fed on the above diet and a few pulped roots in place of the grass. The yards and sheds require cleaning out once or twice during the winter to prevent the manure injuring the foals' feet. Deli- cate and sick animals should be kept in airy, loose boxes. For Her Husband. Mrs. Irvin Dodd, in asking the Gov- ernor's Council In Massachusetts to release her husband, serving two years for larceny from an express company, offered to sell her raven black hair which reathed to the ground, and give the money to the ex- press iompany. ,Ittdge Ely, who senteit ed Dodd, alto sent a letter to the Oounoii favoring the pardon. Winter Care of Ewes. The farm ewes, if any are kept, should be maintained in good shape during the fall so that they will enter the winter season in a good state of health, vigor and thrift. They should browse over the rape and grass pas- turage as long as it lasts and then should be furnished adequate amounts of grain in addition to plenty of roots, silage and alfalfa hay. Managed in this way the ewes develop into pro- lific breeders that not uncommonly drop twins and triplets. Experienced sheep men maintain that a peck of grain fed to the ewes in the fall is worth more than a bushel of grain that is stuffed into the animrtls during the late winter in a futile attempt to flesh them up before the lambing sea- son opens. UNITY OF LIFE. Cells of Animals and Plants Alike and Governed by Same Laws. Protoplasm, the literal translation of which means "the first man made," was the name given by a German ,sci- entist in 1846 to the shiny, granular, semifluid contents of vegetable cells. It looks like the white of an egg, and it can be analyzed into four chem• tail elements -carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. It is now recognized as the fundamental basis for all life. The smallest particle of it goes through , what is known as the cycle of life - free motion, feeling, feeding and re- produetion When in some uncon- scious way it grows a membrane for "a covering or a little nucleus, a kernel somewhelre within it, science calls it, a cell. These cells are the same in plants and animals. Professor Jacques Loeb showed the importance of this fact. Although plants, he explained have no nervous systems, they have "instine ' five movements." In analysis of in stincts he bound together in the ecu common to them the plant and tbe worm at the root of the plant -as some day, perhaps, the tree of life aa►cl• the serpent may be bound --and he called their reflex actions "tropisms." Then he pointed out that tropisms are mechanical acts -that tooth and fly and ivy leaf move in spite of them- selves in chemical subjection to Tight, heat and odors, which the scientist calls "emanations." -Prom "Man as n Mechanisms" in Metropolitau. Disraeli's Fine Digestion. Disraeli appears to have been en dowed with a most accommodating di gestion. When he visited Spain in 1830 he wrote his mother glowing ac- counts of "the most agreeable dish in the world -an olio. 1 will explain it 1 to you. for Iny father would delight in ' it. There are two large dishes, one at each i3'nd of the table. The top one contains bouilli beef, boiled pork sat- sage and black pudding. The other is a medley of vegetables and fruits, gen- erally French beans, caravanseras and whole peas. Help each person to a portion of the meats and then to the medley. Mix them up in your plate together and drown them in tomato sauce. I have eaten this every day. It is truly delightful." -London Stand- ard. Feeding the Horse. Theoretically give the horse water first, then hay, then grain, says Farm Journal. Most of the hay should be fed at eight, and when there is much hard work to be done best give but one to two pounds of hay for the horse to masticate while cooling off et noon, then give the drinking water and then the oats. Some cold water may be al- lowed when the horse comes in and before he takes the Mall aniotant of 1uy. Big Meteor. A meteor weighing 10 tons fell to the earth in Allegheny Valley near Etna, Pa.., the other night. The fall- ing body came hissing hot, lighting up the territory for three miles about, and with an exp losive Sound striking ..... the earth. It teemed largely of metal lie formation, with a little lava eon - fleeted with it. The quriosity was visited by people from many miles around. Natural Spectacles. Many birds are provided with natural spectacles, a transparent mem- brane called the third eyelid. This third eyelid when not in use Iles folded In the inner corner of the eye. Two muscles work it, spreading it over tbe cornea or folding it up again much more cleverly than a man can put on or take off his spectacles. But for its third eyelid the eagle could not look at the sun. The spectacled bear be longs of Chile. Its Latin name Is Ursus ornatus. It is binek and around its eyes pale rings are drawn which have exactly the appearapce of a pair of goggles. •••••,,,,,,••!,••••,••666.1•••••••• q 1 1 p 1 1 1 [M 11111 11, 1 1111 I�, 111 11,11111 r+.i r, i lir �� l■ m 4 1 11 11 11 1 Y.II I ;i.l. 1.10111,11, Disilllusioned. "She had played in ameteur theat- ricals and threatened to go on the stage if her parents wouldn't let her marry the duke." "And what did her parents do after that threat?" "They let her go on the stage, gave the duke tt check for a front seat curl were not at all surprised when he sailed back to Prance the next morn- ing." --Cleveland 11111$ Dealer. Before and After. "Bobby, sora have been lighting with ,tjlat Stapleford boy again. Did you count ten before you struck him, as 1 have always told you to (lo?" , "No, but 1 was told Unit somebody counted ten n fter he landed on inc."- Chicago'l'ribune. His Title. "No, 1 shall never merry," sighed the old bttehelor. r1 10 Np11itCr gazed l at filmstOI lfl 1. ly. 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Next Twenty Five Prizes each $1. in Cash and ONE THOUSAND PRIZES IN NEW AND USEFUL KITCHEN UTENSILS To be given as follows: - 100 PRIZES to the zst loo correct answers received by us on Wed., Feb. Sth. 100 PRIZES to the zst zoo correct answers received by us on Wed., Feb.12th. 100 PRIZES to the zst zoo correct answers received by us on Wed., Feb. 19th. Send in as many replies as you like, but all answers must reach us by three o'clock on Saturday, March 1st. All' the replies will be thoroughly shaken together and the first thirty three correct replies will receive the cash prizes in the order drawn and the next Seven Ilundred will each receive a useful Kitchen Utensil. 1033 Prizes. Answer Today. You know how good Fun -To -Wash is? The prizes are awarded on the sante, strictly honorably methods employed in the manu- facture of .Fun -To -Wash. The Only Conditions. With each reply must be enclosed one "Mammy head" cut from a sc. or roc. package of Fun -To -Wash washing Powder, and not more than one answer to be enclosed in each envelope. Each contestant receiving a utensil prize during the month must send in another answer to enable them to compete in the February cash prizes drawn on March 1st. Be careful to address Contest Department. STANDISH MANUFACTURING CO., LIMITED. 11 Colborne Street Toronto. am .-----41 ----e-ee-":„., l �t�'pyo- �a/, .w,, �i.+1�47•S;l'h�:W '- , • .� ''# :' x�'„1, ti,. a �4 t h_.'. . :110.1:10tIO.iPS >�S1' _/ y'fit:,_SS}tilt fi �`; „ti�ti.':or:P.s:-.;k1"143:•"17:::::111-L4);'11:41:11:vEt.:3''Iltiritat f-1itA,tyl ✓f 3c 4 4 .~ ®a��_ r 4, i � a .� �'� a It r•r�eP ,i�.1.-.- 1-,. y it_ ar �� F p �I.:1�j ,''fr�'�a �qi 11\ 4 It jtl�- el 't4✓a.,:S^ h _„ Total Assets ..7.1t1 Over -...„......"*"‘_:„1::: �._- <ywp $48,000,000. Ca ital Paid Up $3,000,000. Reserve $3,750,000. 1 1 • . • • Express MoneyOrder Service . _ . 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