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The Exeter Advocate, 1918-8-15, Page 3• BY Agronomist, - This Department is for the use of our farrn readers who want the advice at tin expert on any question regarding'soil, seed, crops, etc, If yours question 4 of sufficient general interest, jt wU l be answered through thicolmn. if *tamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter, a complete answer will bo mailed to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing. Co., Ltd., 73 Adelaide $t. V'.,' Toronto. Save the Soil. turns. And when zi man has on Never before in the history of drifted away from live stock it is a Canadian agriculture has there been the more difficult for him to take u any such a tendency toward the de- the work where he left off, pletion of soil fertility. Thousands Another question arises What of farmers in our richest agricultural goingto be the result regions who wereges It of the prose at one time'growers generation of farmers drifting awa of good cattle, sheep and hogs are be- from live stock farmingon thefutur coming soil robbers. The hi generations ? f i high price of farmers? The di of grain is tempting thein to sell in- ficulty of teaching the corning gene stead of feed out the crops. One ation how to care for live stock May build up his bank account .by sure to hold back the development o that process for a few years, only to the industry for many years. There find that he has really been selling'fore, grain must be grown until th his farm by the wagon -load. Every farmer is affected by reduced fertilit consideration present and prospective, and consequent declining yields. The points to the importance, of maintain when the tde does turn, as it even ing and.increasi.ng the fertility of the tually must\urn, there is going to b land; and this is just the reason why a Mighty problem of restoring th every farmer in. Canada whose land wasted fertility and a mighty hunge Will support live stock': ought to find .for knowledge of live stock feedin some way of utilizing' good animals in and -soil management, his system of farming. The farms '> One thing is certain, that unles on which some sort of live stock may � there is. a 'complete change in ou not profitably be maintained are fe'w ! methods' of farming, grain will neve and far between, ,I be as cheap as it has been in forme The high price of grain has not years. There are too many de continued long enough to enable any-! mands for' it besides feeding it to live one to - s (stock. In fact, there measure its furl effects, norare only two have we any means of ffectminin i ways of increasing grain production; Whether the conditions -which 'are hold -!ono by increasing soil fertility; the ing the price of grains to their present other by better methods of culture. pro - level will continue long enough for the Both of which- are educational ful1 effects to'be realized. One ef�- tosses andn raising slow. fest, however, is plain, that it is Live stock xaising is the best in- checking the movement toward crop I surance against an improverished rotation, stock -feeding and maintain agriculture. Those who.ha�ce.studied. ing the fertility of the soil. Should the problem know that this is true. this continue for years to come, we I Do not butteim youryour acreagem of grain fear that this terrific _waste of fertil- crops, improve your methods. ity that is going on will not only con - the fewer acres and more bushels to tinue but actually increase, the acre. Do not keep too much live stock but use. better filood and It is going to take a number of give them better care. Do not break years to measure the effect of this ! up good pastures and put them in drifting away from _live stock ori the ! grain because they offer a profitable - land. It has been with the utmost I rotation of crops. and become a soil difficulty, even when grain was � robber and a price chaser. The scales bringing moderate prices, that'farm- I are sure to turn in favor of the` live ers could be persuaded to change from 1 stock grower, and as live stock can - growing graip for the market to stock not be increased- rapidly there is' sure farming. Nor is this to be wonder to be sone good years ahead. It is, ed at; for the growing of cattle, sheep l claimed that hogs and hogs is an entirel different type are an exception to Y this rule, that they can be increased of farming. It is an easy matter very rapidly, but, even with hogs, to develop a profitable system of when the supply of breeding stock. grain farming on productive land, but becomes reduced it requires two or' it requires exceedingly good judgment three years for production to get back to make live stock yield; maximum re- on a normal footing. ce. 11 p., is nt y e r - is f y n e r g r r r "I would like to know how to do good farming without sheep," says Mrs. George McKerrow, of Wiscon- sin, one of the' best and most widely known sheep breeders • of American. "Why?" he continued. • "Because my sheep use up the wastes of the farm. They clean up the•grass, weeds, brush and gleanings, and in so `doing turn into cash what otherwise would be lost." "Sheep," ho says, "make tho most economical gains of any kind of live stock because they c'ean up the odds and ends. They are particularly useful on the farm in the fall of the year,. for they turn into mutton the things' that otherwise would not be used. At the same time they save the feed stuffs that. would be given them if they did not have access to these other things." ' After harvest, Mr.'McKerrow's sheep are turned into the oat fields for a few hours the first day; an hour ar two longer the second day;,and the time gradually increased until at the' end of a week they have' complete possession of the fields. The lambs are permitted to enter the cora before it is cut and they clean up on the weeds and lower corn plant leaves. Lambs do not pull down the lower ears of corn as do the sheep. Roots axe grown for r f the cattle e and sheep ' el on Mr, McKerrow's place, and after the larger roots are hauled into `storage for winter use, „the sheep are turned into the field and eat the smaller ones .that remain. Both the sheep and lambs' are. turned into 'the aftermath Partners who' shiptheir "wool direct to us get etter 'prieen theta ffarinere who ®e11 to the general store. • ASK ANY FARMgRi who has sole hip wool e way* and note 'what he eaye..•"' or, better still, write its for feu; prlcen; they will show you how ' much you lose by selling to the General Store. We pa, the highest rices o y in the couutry andmr la rice Sag dealers in Canada.,ot Pane tst4"obl milted thesams pnya'ereesa "rop ShipuF1 our woo ay woolimrgcy11jb- yy� more than pleasedifyoiOe Nndtttbt aseurccl of a aquare, deal fr•ofat iw. of the meadows and this brings th into winter quarters in good con tion. Another profitable practice on th farm is that -of plowing up dfie'lds th become weedy after harvest. The fields are sown to rape and turnip and later the sheep are turned i They eat the rape and turnip tops with relish and will later hollow the meat from the . turnip, leaving , but a shell. Mr. McKerrow has found that frequent change of pasture Is bene ficial to the sheep. A thirty-six-inc woven wire fence in twenty-ro lengths Is moved about, thus prevent ing the too short ,cropping of th grass;' and furthermore' reducing th internal parasite 'plague to a mini mum. - Water is also an importan consideration, and ewes particularl should have water the,me 'as dair cows. W "I would not go - so far. as to say that -there should be some sheep on every farm," declares Mr. McKerrow, "for peculiar' conditions might not make it practical, but I do believe that there should be sheep on the vast ma- jority of farms in' this country. They turn- waste into cash. The sort of saving that the good housewife Is making in her kitchen can be practic- ed with corresponding effectiveness by the use of sheep on the farm. dr Grass clippings are an excellent green feed for chickens. The back yard poultry fiock of a family often lacks sufficient green feed with a consequent reduction of egg and meat production. With the ea.3'y avail- ability' of lawn clippings the poultry man can always have green feed through the summer for his chickens. The frock can be fed daily as much of the green clippings as they will oat. If any continued bowel trouble shows, tate amount should be reduced. The remainder of th clippings e can be al- lowed. lowed to dry.and fed moistened dur- ing ethe time between lawn cuttings. ,a�ntotrnts in 'excess can be dried for wish® use. Dried grass clippings a g° ood , green food for winter. To' n be dried and stored in seeks. ks. he a {lied clippings, moistened and eta t' flock, t o `f o are a Veryfair iii sub- stitu succulent Or the ccullent bison feeds of ei rdmer. Pay More and Eat Less. "One could eat two meals in succ'es- sii;On cry easily in London,and leave tilp ta�r'le slightly Minus the serfs-sat- isiiO4li to be got by unrestricted fay American Cafe, writes . :Bolton, a newspaper cor- " rI addition one has to � j13 It ! wage lots a areal ted States or the ....rutsjuy..,roLD191? C4�"f',QuT ARIL) FO dig tiOTthi LlM COLD, FOiV!/,fib--.-_-.:-.�-', I'LL GO AND r? EO QW n• MOTHER'S MUFF, 11- tNI1 THE FUR t5 JUST THE STUff re MAKE A TALI DRUM MAJOR) HAT WE HAVE NO URUN -BUT WHAT OF 111AI. To - Blast Big Stumps. About the first work I did with dynamite was to tackle a big field' of stumps. For tthis I used a 40 per cent., grade. which is about the proper thing to use for stump -blasting on ordinary soils. I find that on low, boggy ground, where the stumps are very large; and tough, it is more economical to use a higher grade of dynamite, such" as 50 or GO per cent., placing it under the stump and firing electrically by a blasting machine. Al'1 very large tough stumps over three feet in diameter, such as: oaks, hickory, and elm, should be. blasted. only by this method. The - distributed charges will then all go off together, and the combined effect of the 'several charges so dis- tributed will give a much better blast than putting the entire charge in one hole' bored directly under the stump. A few months ago a neighbor of mine excavated a ditch through a low bottom field of his which was very much subjected to overflow. In the digging of this ditch he encountered several large willow stumps - which were at Ieast oneghundred years old but still in a pretty sound state, of preservation. Knowing that I was accustomed to using .dynamite lie ,called upon me ' to. blast out 'these di_ stumps standing in water, for it was too wet and boggy to get them other - is wise: at I find that blasting for tree -plant - se ing, either for fruit 'or shade trees, s is one of the most profitable ways of n' C using dynamite.—R. W. Getting Even "Yes," remarked a conceited young a bachelor, "I` have the greatest admir- ation for the fair sex, but I never ex - h' pest to marry—oh, dear no!" di "Indeed!" remarked a lady. "Then I am to understand that you not only e admire women, but you have a sin- e cere regard for them as well," y y H. V, AWbRE WS 13 s :!-itiRCII ST., TOM:Mt() a " One of the most important th i in the opert,tion of a dairy is cleaning of the daily utensils, '1 must be cleaned and. rinsed t ougltly imanediately after being u this will prevent the'water in milk fromevaporating and the'" matter sticking fast to the uten If it is found impossible to wash. utensils at once, it will be a g plan to rinse them in lukewarm ter so that the greater 'part of milk will be removed before' it had a chance to stick fast to the or cow. Hot water should ne be used until the milky substan have been removed with the lukew water first, as the hot water' will coagulate the casein in the' milk t o nge ller )reference as bee F ,hey spring settixi of strawberry plant hor- over fall set: I could never sed who sees; was to be gained by fall setting a the dlnarily practiced. Late Augus solid and early; September is the' seaso nils. usually ernployeci for this, To 'h tie sure, when weather and soil condi ood tions are' favorable, and good plant v a_ set, quite a fair growth .will be mad the both in root am crown, 'growth suf has ficient to mature a fair crop of ber pail -ries if allowed to fruit, But if` per ver witted to fruit the. first season an in ces ferior stand of young plants mus arm necessarily result. The _cultural con ditIons required, in each instance are altogether incompatible. The object or purpose, sought in each case is h ll w o y unlike. Then, too, I figured that spring set plants make all the growth necessary under proper conditions of" soil and culture, hence, what was the use of ot endeavoring to establish the new plantation at.a season when favorable weather •"conditions were so much more problematical. Another thing, the labor of .creating a fine mellow he root pasturage with plants occupy - Ps lig the ground, would be greatly aug- a mented. Indeed, 'I figured that to ot. or; ot ail onl at f us n_I ly of d' FALL SETTING OF STA ' , RRI mm m etorore ou refe h aha n about five inches, when the greu,td s was plowed and floated down with, a t plank drag, Other showers follow- s = ed in 'a•week .or so of sufficient mag t nitude to moisten the surface so that n a fairly good soil plant bed was; e secured A shower came just as the work of setting was begun; just els- e ougb to crust the surface when the e weeder was used to re-establis'h the - loose surface.. ,7This loose surface - soon dried out so that it bothered - some in setting, for additional work - was made necessary that none of this t dry soil gat next to the roots. Then, too, the job was more'or less tin pleas - lent as, a fresh breeze blew the dry Particles into our faces. ,rust how the experiment will turn out, future developments only can re- veal. Only light showers have fall- , since the setting was finished. To 1prevent crusting and consequent loss of soil moisture, the weeder has been used to re-create a loose surface. Be- cause of the deficient rainfall it may be necessary to reset quite a number- of umberof plants. This will be dobe as soon as it becomes clear that the plants first set are not starting out vigor- ously. Of course, it is not expected that plants set this late in the season will make much growth in the short time before freezing weather sets in. This i,; not expected. Neither is it neces- sary to the success of the plan. All that is required is that the plants get their root system established and be ready to do business next spring. It will be imperatively .necessary to supply winter protection to these fall set plants. They wouldn't be worth shucks if not fully protected from the injurious results of exposure to ,win- ter's frost and sunshine, and the .heav- ing action upon . the soil of "Sugar Weather." One of my helpers said, when I cautioned him against getting the plants too deep: "But just wait till the frost gets in its work." Our reply was to the effect that it would never do to let frost get in its work. _ The plants must be fully protected against such harmful agencies. Whatever may be the outcome it is certain that one feature of advantage will be a success; we will have a start of a week with our spring work. Es- tablishing the new strawberry bed - n spring, coming as it does right long with so much other similar work, adds largely to the strenuous ife of the season. If this job can e transferred from this busy- time to season more convenient,, a very de- cided advantage will be gained. After all due care and protection, pring growth may show up plants ot startira�g out with full vigor. These may easily be replaced with plants ram -the . propagating bed and a full tend made secure —M N Ed t n SO that it eticles to the pail and will therefore require a great amount of washing before it can all be. -remov- ed from the vessel. After thoroughly rinsing the uten- sils in the lukewarm water, they should be thoroughly washed in h water, using some good brana of alkali washing powder. There are many good' washing powders to be found on the market that will answer the purpose and make this part of t dairy work easier each , day. Soa or powders that contain grease as part of their composition will n make a satisfactory bread of soap .powder to use in this work and n nearly as good, as a genuine alk powder. It ,is e good plan also to have hand several good stiff brushes th are adaptable to cleaning the. aerie utensils used daily. If steam is 1 stalled it can be.used very effective In sterilizing the utensils, but course this is not always installe and it is necessary therefore, to fol low out the rinsing and washing pro -I cess, as I have described. Never wipe the utensils after washing them in the hot water. . The heat impart- ed-by mpart ed .-by the steam or hot water will make the utensils dry very quickly. They should be placed upside down on the racks so no dust or dirt will get on the inside of them. This is just as important as the cleaning process. Never put• covers or lids on the cans or pails; but give them free access to air and sunlight at all times. This keeps them bright, clean and sanitary. Camera Used to Candle Eggs. Bad eggs are unfailingly detected by the camera. This has been dem- onstrated in- France, where experi- ments are being conducted with a photographic egg -testing apparatus says Popular ..Mechanics Magazine The idea of utilizing the camera in- stead n stead of the human eye for candling is a new one. ' So far it has not been carried past the laboratory stage, but its commercial utilization at present, it is of more than passing interest. Eggs are,held in a half dozen oval holes provided in a metal plate. Their Iarge ends point toward a common centre. While intense light is passed through them, they are photographed. A powerful lens is used and an ex- posure ranging upward to three minu- tes is made. The result is a picture that shows the size of the air chamb- ers in the eggs. place a piece of ground in as excellent a condition as is possible when larger, deeper working tools may be used, is practically out of the question; hence,. sizing the matter' up in the light of the experience I then had, I decided that the fall setting of strawberry plants had nothing to offer us. But for some time back I have been looking at the proposition in the light of greater experience and can now see how, if fall setting can be made suc- cessful, the plan offers one very decid- ed advantage to us, viz,, the setting of i the plants will come 'at -a season when other work is far less pressing. With a large amount of work of this sort to be done in the spring some of it ' must necessarily be neglected; ,hence, any pian or system that promises to; relieve the pressure of, work at this time is worth a fair trial. As time passed the attractiveness of the plan increased until I decided to try the plan- out. So this fall an acre of new bed has been set as an experi- ment. Conditions of soli and weath- er were not ideal. If file plan is a success this time, it will be possible i to make late fall setting' successful a under average fall weather conditions, so it seems tome: 1 To begin with, the ground used was b a n remained almost dust dry. Then a f shower came to moisten the soil down s in peas this summer. As the rain- ' fall has been deficient' since pea her - vest the ground was not moisture - saturated as may be secured under ordinary spring conditions. For se-vseral weeks after pea harvest the soil A Patriotic Urge Colonel Grimbattle—Why so gay? You were in deep mourning the last time I saw you. The Widow Lookabout—I was. But since the soldiers began to rendezvous here I've been called to the colors. GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX By Andrew Dr. Currier will answer all signe question is of general interest it wi •if not, it will be answered personall closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe Address Dr, Andrew F. Currier, care St. West, Toronto. F. Currrer, M.D. d letters pretaining to Health. If your 11 be answered through these columns; y if stamped, addressed envelope is en - for individual casea or make diagnosis, of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide the material causing them is used up, and then die out. This is so for instance, with some of the nervous diseases of childhood and early life, St. Vitus' dance and others. Medicines nes are: sometimes given in this disease and sometimes seem help- ful, though I would not recommend the patent medicines advertised to cure it. 'If a child with this dis- ease has good food, plenty of sleep, sunlight and outdoor exercise, is clean in his habits, and is kept free front 'bxcitement, he will get well in. nine cases out of ten without a drop of medicine. Epilepsy may disappear after a few years with good hygienic care, though I am aware that frequently it does not. It is so benefited by careful reg- ulation of the diet' and habits, and I am free to say there are some power- ful medicines now used for 11 which are apparently of great value. It may be too early to say wheth- er they will cure it permanently or not, they are not likely to cure those cases in which the cause of the dis- ease remains, for instance pressure upon the brain by a depressed por- tion of the skull. QUESTIONS AND ANSWEIIS E. P.—Two years ago, my husband, Remedies for Nervous Diseases. In no class of diseases are medi- cines more hopeless and useless, so far as cure is concerned, than in those which involve the brain . and spinal cord and the nerves proceeding from them. I don't mean that medicines are powerless to relieve some of their symptoms, but I do not know of any that will cure 'them, when once well established, any more than they can cure cancer. Neither do I include in this sweep- ing statement the milder forms of neuralgia; which are often •.relieved and cured for the time at any rate, by' external or internal remedies. In a great many cases it is a waste of good money to buymedicines, and to expect thele to cure :.disease will almost surely be disappointing. Three medicines and perhaps four the world could not well do without, I opium to. relieve pain, quinine to cure Malarial poisoning, mercury to cure syphilis, and salicylic acid to euro rheumatism. We could manage to get along if most of t'he others were clumped into the, sea. More • than thirty thousand different proprietary medicines are made In North Aniericn; who would be foolish enough to imagine that they would do what they - are advertised to do for those whb bay and take thein. If the iotiey spent for them were used to haying good simple food, how much ; butter ,everybody would be, ex- cept, of course, the patent medicine makers, 1Sorno nervous diseases are self- limited,- they bm'u like a. dandle until who is forty -jive years old, began to have epileptic fits,` and nova' he has at least two every week, Wo have not yet been able to find any help for him.; h ,A,nswor—If you will send a stamp- ed and addressed envelope, I will be very glad to Send you an article , on Epilepsy, which you may read. as Popularity. It is possible for a person to be undeservedly popular. His popular- ity may not be due to good qualities, but to wealth • or other advantages. Many people honor a person for sel- fish reasons. They think it pays them tohave his good, will. A humble person may after all have as many real friends as an honored one. The friends of the former are generally true, being friendly because of admiration for him and not because they are seek- ing worldly favor. He knows who his truo friends are, but 'the other doesn't. When an apparently popu- lar man fails in a financial or any other way which reduces him to a humble position he soon finds who his true friends are. Unless he is a very bad -character, one with only a few friends is ten- eraily a man of better principle than is one with only a few enemies. The former usually doesn't seek popu- larity, but the Iater generally does. It is easy for anybody to become -popular if he has the advantages. When a person has only a few ene- mies they generally have good rea- sons for being such. It is found that many a popular man will be very generous in his dealings with people wants he v s forfriends rlends bu tun unmerciful when dealing with those whose friend- ship - he doesn't desire. One per- son may truthfully say of another that he may have acted good with nearly everybody else but that he act ed meanly with him, Individual Churns. The cr"eam-gathering-truck stopped the weekly ar daily churning for us,'. and the idea of table • butter became a question. The creamery had that fixed before they 'asked ds for our crm. Theao nice -looking, high-class cream. cry butter wrapped in tissue paper and packed in ice, right to our door, every time they came for our cream, was their answer. We tried it. Fresh and clean as it was, it did not fill the want for good country butter. It is out of the question to make a churning each week with the big churn, and pack it down until used. We have a gallonand a half glass churnewhich we bought at our hard- ware' store for a small amount two years ago, long enough ago to know that our investment 'is a success and that it is the real way for the farm- er to arm-er'to have butter upon his table. This sterilized glass churn is cap,. able of marring clean butter, and it is operated easily. -G. W B;, Corks if, steeped in paraffin oil for a few hours will make excellent fire - 1 lighters, "Country of Mine." Country of mine, that gave me birth, Land of the maple and the pine, What richer gift has this round earth Than these fair, fruitful fields of thine? Like sheets of gold thy harvests run, Glowing beneath the August sun; Thy white peaks soar, Thy cataracts roar, Thy forests stretch from shore to • shore; Untamed, thy northern prairies lie Under an open, boundless sky; Yet one thing more our hearts Im- plore— - That greatness may not pass thee by! Helena Coleman, The Farmer's Office. Farmers are not slow,, in recogniz- ing the value of an .article or method for the improvement of their business, so they are buying typewriters and other office conveniences, and they're using 'em, too. The typewriter isespecially useful, as it writes letters in a standard way that indelibly stamps the sender as a business man. For the sake of the letter alone the typewriter is well worth owning; but it has other uses which help prove its value. Carbon copies of all letters written can easily and conveniently be made by inserting a sheet of carbon paper and a "second sheet" under each letter written. Cart bon copies are accepted as evidence in the courts. Card index records can be printed by the typewriter; also bilis, loose-leaf records,~ etc. The first cost may be`"a bugbear to many. This is a needless fear, as a good rebuilt typewriter can be pur- chased for about $25 or $30. The repair expense is usually very slight if the typewriter is oiled occa- sionally and used with reasonabble care. It will be necessary to pur- chase a new ribbon once or twice a year, r, depending on the amount of writing done; but this is a very small iteen of expense. To Conserve Fish Waste. The Canada Food Boatel has been; advised by Messrs. 'Ernest Smott & Company, engineers, 1+'all River, Mass,, . . that they are prepared to install equipment in Canada for the reduc- tion of fish and fish waste to fish meal, . fertilizer, oil and glycerine. Consid- erable research, has been conducted along this line by private parties and various branches of the Government; in Canada, but great quantities pfihe, material are still being wasted, "An easy job will sunt me," ''How‘j about winding the clocks every week ?HI "l might make that do. But what'd, the matter with tearing the ise,volii off the caloaatlalis ev+rry rnotstb:ar' ` 44 4 4 J 1