The Exeter Times, 1921-8-4, Page 2Manag ng the Tractor.
My, net •inconsiderable experienee
svith tsactors les taught me thet the
cooling system is of -considerable im-
parter -we, requiring more care than the
average person would suppose, I have
had my share of troubles due to poor
circulation. In bot weather I find
my tractor eepecially apt to over-
heat, and if it ie. not looked. into at
once there is liable to be serious
troulle`later. Moat tractor overheat -
the idea of painting the silo before
erecting it,
• I bad stored the panels in an empty
haymow. The first rainy day I set my
sixteen-ye,ar-old boy and hired man to
painting the eilo. It took them about
an hour to get started-, bat they soon
made up for lost time once they got
their system going. They used for a
bench an old store box, six feet long
and three feet high.
The boy put the panels on the !bench
and took them off while the hired Inert.
IMPORTANCE OF
PUBLICITY
Secret of Scientific Feeding, The
The leverage. so;-,calle'd 'beed-to-llay „
hen of the Mediterranean breed con-
,
nnuniIy That R It Ow Movies
stunes abolit fakir ounces Of solidvfood' The young peo. le of our"tee
F t°,t Trade is Na. rinelcue'lsYarly)°tIndestma licen for Qamijo time attet:4thingC ic
„5, 11( moving pictures 'in our ilearesi
tienally, Served and grits'c h 11 With, o
. e. ..eee'essei
nary .eare sal ro qQ, abut ten) °,11e.., of t s said ''to f her
Benefited.
citizen (fifteen nouns -Is) ,eggs during mother:
Possibly few people ever stop tO her first layitag year. The average
consider how far and .how deeply +tub- -weight of the above-rf 4 b." d' "I Nvi:Epliietyiliol!:67:;:ouzlt-,rgxi°gHkiwki,jr,::a-s, to
ha S entered het only 'irite mir about three and one-balf pounds pach;i.
" 43, do you want Me- to go ?"
ness. Our forefathers went abo1rt twenty-atimes her weight in solid - 4,j3Q,0.4.W,,',„-Ir,cplieclther,-,,daiughtri 4.1
social life but into every day, busi- therefore, the hen e°1'same alb°:nt asked the 'mother.
their 'affaire in their OVII waSCci keeP-- foed.' The weight of hei' eggs is '..ii, ,dori't like the pieVre"s. as n'ini..4 ai, i
ing note perhaps on the transactions little snore than four tunes her aidland,!Ilfayeaiheenavvendpritigiiiih4
of their neighbors, but heeding little Weight, or six pounds of, grain for Y'0O wOula thiA of thein."' .
in a Practical way of proceedings out- eaeh pound of eggs, she ISroduces-; , Being a woman of rare judgment,
side their munoessata circle or district. It has been Pl'oeied that the less the mothet.'s,,aid, wil go with you to_
If orders came in from a distance prolific layerg have weak assimila- InIOTTOW night," and kept her word.
prises were quoted and the goods 'then therefore, the more food con-
• On her return frona the perform -
shipped with little regard and less sunied the wealoer the egg -producing ;
ante, the mother lay awake a long,
knowledge of the aggregate or aver- organs become. The remedy, there- long time., She had tot,liked one of
age ,current prices. To -day all this is fore, tis to feed the Ilene according to the pietuiee 'mid Wandered what ,cOuld
Changed and facilities are fortheem- their egg production, -Which can only , .
be done to comba,t • th•is eund,esarable
kg- is due to carelessness at ,searte
the einting. They soon developed ing for knowing what is h,eing paid be (sone by earafen)i trapensnag the
words market intelligence has, become ,stronger itayees he „Ivey from . P"ail e ni e Y 'onmec , that
I have used both types of radiators
feature. When 'morning came she had
.a great ee,ai. speed:. my eon would in the wor ds markets. In other stock and -segregates- .g the
Dr°11fie, a I dfi 't 1 f
time or other, the results of which did P, of
aten.do not show immediately.
open the 'crates, put the panels en one
end of the box, and take them painted
off the other end. Ile then stood them
on end to day along the side of the
barn, the second layer bein,g set out at
the bottom about two inches, eo each
layer cortld, dry uniforanly.
I dont know how much of a job it
is to -paint a silo, but I do know how
long it would take a fireteclass painter
to clo the job. The hired man and my
son paieteci our /4x30 -foot silo in just
six hour,s per coat. They applied two
eoats in addition to the wood preserva-
tive, which I will leave out in my ;cal-
culations. Sever -al painters told me
that it would take two good painters
a day to put on each coat after the
silo was erected. The greatest time is
used in putting up ;scaffolding. In most
instances -where ;speed, is desired, and
I d
the others al 11 th d afterm'an she calie'd at everYt(lnEe In
on farm
f- t, -n. and I find' that while best layers, and, .place them in a sep- - •
of the utmost knportance to every
man engaged in the 'sphere of produc-
tion. Markets intelligeace services
have been established at many centres
and, ,set far as Cana,da, is concerned,
especially at Ottawa. One el the
most useful, as -well as one of the
most neoeesary, is the service in con-
ne,ctioaa with the federal Fruit Branch,
Sixteen years ego the branch com-
menced issuing monthly reports from
Jame to October, showing loo,mmercial
fruit conditions, crop reports and
market values, These consisted of
only a few minieographed sheets. As
time went by it was found that these
were neither instantaneous or full
enough, The reports were therefore
increased in size until now they cern-
from twelve to sixteen printed
pages, detailing fruit crop
, so cut oute secon - the community, inviting the mothers
to meet at her 'home the t ft
noon ha -ma -irate their severng with them
if they chose to do go.
the honeycomb type will cool more
in the third pen. ,Feed the> best lay -
tong -as they a -re kept in pooci working
, next ,er-
arate pen, leaving' the poorest layers -
effectively than the pipe systera, so
ers their regular amount of the saane
order, honeycomb radiaors- get out kind of feed they have been taccus-
of order easier, The reason for this toed to. (about...tour -ounces ta, day
Is that most water contains limestone to each hen) reduce the rations of
or other minerals which 'are erystal-
flsnd the haat. The surface through
the next: best lot to •about three and
,conditions
one-half ounces, The third pen or
which. the water passes in a honey- poorest layers' should be fed about
comb radiator being much smaller three oianc,es a day.
thafi in the other type, sediment amin carefully note the increased num-
ledge much sooner, causing clog•ging. her of eggs in the different pens and
A's a preventive against clogging I graduallY'add to the rations, in pro -
find Chet soft water is much better portion to the number of eggs laid.
than well water for tractor use. Ditch The 200 -egg hen will require nearly
or river water should not be used six om-toes of solid food a day. The
reeler any circumstances, as it always grain feed, except the mash, should
ventairre sediment. be fed in, a good, clean litter which
A funnel us•ed in handling illbriCallItS 5h011id be - at least six inches deep.
should never he used to fill the racli- on extremely high work, a. swang,ang .
an. Canada, the United States, and all Thus, the liens .are forced, to exercise.
ater. It is certain to carry oil in with seaff°1d w°uld 1!° used.
'Ter the figures to prove that I competing countries. Notes are also This promotes vigor and utility. The
the water, which will form a thin given on transportation, the package proportions of the grain. fed! in the
• • inade money. It vsould cost to -day
film all over the -cooling surface. -as
film will catch and hold any sediment two days' labor for two painters, or
that is in the „ter, and ek,g„,g,iieg is $28, not considering the paint. Now,
• then well started. what dist it coat to paint inbefore it
was erected'? The hired man was got -
1 also want to caution .against put-
ting bran, cern meal, or other, foreign
substances In to the radiator to ,seal
sap smell leaks. Thi e practice, while
it naay serve the pimpese for a short
time, paves the way for expensive re-
pair bins keter. A great many ,cf the
se -nailed. radiator -repairing fluids and..sible .for me, end I believe for Many
730fiVierS. are but little better. When other farmers. Very fan farmers.
anything of this nature must be used, have ladders long enough to reach th.e
shave uP finezobaT of coarse laundry top of a tall silo, and besides, it is
soap, and pat it into the radiator. This practically impossible. -to paint a silo
wig stop -small:leaks in a few hours, from a. ladder. A awinging _scaffold
but for a radiator of the honeycomb is not to be found on many farms, and
ting $80 a, month, and the boy $40 per
month. At this rate the labor cost
for painting the silo before it was put
up was- just $4, which makes a. saving
of $24. You niray say that I could
have painted the silo myself, even if
it was up; but this svould. ,be impos-
type I do not recommendthis method.
The hest way is to locatethe leaks
and have them soldered. After the
radiator once becomes thoroughly
clogged there is little to do- but to
take it to f.I.D expert cleaner. This is
usually quite expensive, but it is plies only to panel s -dos: I was able
very few farmers would care to us,e
one. The great majority -would pay
the extra $24 rather than risk their
lives on, a swinging scaffold.
Another advantage 1 found was in
trimming the silo,. This advantage ap-
cheaper than' buying a new one.
There are many other things that
will cause overheating on most trac-
tors besides poor circulation. But if
the eanse is aot removed at once, bad
circulation will result later, owing to
the fact that boiling crystallizes any
minerals in the water. For this, reason
the radiator should: never be permitted
to boil if it is possible to avoid it. The
rasEator should be kept full at all
time -s; as there is no more coolin,g
surface on the average tractor than is
absolutely necessary. Keeping the fan
belt tight will help, too.
One a the worst things to cause
eve.theatir,lee is a slipping clutch. This
can be recognized by a slowing up in
the traction, the speed of the motor
remaining unchanged. When this 0C -
euro, stop the motor at once and
tightza up the clutch,. Too much, too
little, or improper grades of lubricat-
ing oil often cause o-verheating. You
can detect this by the smell and by
the unusual amount of smoke. Lubri-
cation trouble must he corrected at
once to avoid damage to the motor.
Pad valve settings will cause heating
and loss of power, and are indicated
hp a peealiar c-reen sound of the ex-
- ploceicras, and by blue smoke being
blown batik threugh the carburetor.
By taking oft" the cylinder head, grind-
ing the valves, thoroughly, and remov-
ing any carbon depoeits, this trouble
ean ba corrected. , before putting on the first coat, With
Fatitsr ignition causes overheating wood preservative the same results
at. times- This may be due to a nam- are obtained as with a primer, and
her of causes—broken or defective the nest is less, Besides, there is the
spark plug pool. short en._ advantage of preserving the wood
cuits and improper timing being the from the destructive. action -of the
worst offenders. Ignition troublel silage juices,
Brushes 100St fia 21112,011 now that it
pays to talse care of them, When they
ere to be lcept overnight I remove as
Much paint as possible ihy rubbing on
an old board, then hang them in water.
hie is important, as the bristles are
eesy to get out of shape if eirnply
placed in the water,- It is not a wise
plan to keep them in water more than
a day or two, If brushes rare to be
kept for a long period of time, I clean
them with turpentine Or asoline, then
wash thoroughly with warm water and
soap -and hang Up to- dry, if I am
going to use them again in, a week Or
two, I dip them in kerosene, painting
this on an op board, theii, hang them
in a pail of icerdserie. Before I use
then again alvi,'.-%s-ranioVe the. coal
I heel en idea boat '
to have the ribs painted white, a dis-
tinctive style in silo-trimxning. The
average ail° books very bare and plain
if painted a solid -color. It is next to
impossible to have it any other way
unless it is painted before it is built.
I believe that I had the most attrac-
tive silo in our community after it had
been painted in this manner.
Theugh I am not an expert painter,
I oars offer a few hints that may prove
helpful in doing outside painting. I
found- that the wood:pa-es-el-native acted
in a double capacity. I purchased all
the preservative my dealer had, which
was only enough to cover about one-
third of the silo. I put these panels
on the lower part of the silo. After
six seasons I am satisfied that the
preservative was a profitable invest-
ment. My only regret is that I could
not buy ;enough to cover the entire
surface. I can easily pick out the
panels that were treated with preser-
vative, as they are lees in need of
paint than the others.
The explanation is that in, painting
new wood it should first be primed.
The pores are open, and absorb so
much more of the oil than the color
pigment that the 'color is left on the
surface without enough, oil to hold it.
Consequently it soon wears off, Sonae
painters take paint with an equal
,arneurit of linseed oil, and apply it
to new wood and allow.it to dry well
situation, insect and fungaus diseases
and other relative matters. The data
for these reports ' are supplied by
federal and provincial officials and by
the Canadian Fruit Trade Oommis-
sioner in Great Britain. Apples being
the foremost exporting fruit from this
country receive particular attention.
A telephonic news letter is, also is-
sued every Monday and Thursday
during the fruit shipping season. In
addition epecial circulars are dis-
tributed bearing on special anattere,
such as tariff routings, car supply,
ocean space, and so on.
ehould be remedied et once, a$ it will
not get, any better by negleet; and may
cause maich expense later,
Any type of tractnr or motor with
whiels bave bad experience will de-
liver llfaraurn power only se leng
is kept properly cooled.; art.d while
raany of these troublenamed do not
directly aftect the cooling system, they
wirt do so in time it neglected, With
he present cost of operating a trace
tor, I find it difficult to do to profit-
ably, unless the repair costs are kept
flown, to a minimum.
P
led My Silo Before it Was
Pulite
-litter should- be made to conform to
the climatic conditiens; for inetanee,
during very svaxrn weather, less corn
should. he fedi, and vice versa -when
the weather is cold. However, it is
safe to feed a well-balanced snatch
food for the morning meal.
The mid-day food should be a m,agh,
neither wet nor dry, but just enough
liquid. to moisten the mixture which
should consist of one part -wheat bran,
one Part term -creel, one part hulled
oats. Aad enough flaxseed -meal to
,allow a teaspoonful for each hen, a
tablespoonful of salt, and a like am-
ount of flowers of sulphur, should be
,added for 100 hens. Stir the mixture
thoroughly before the liquid (prefer-
ably sweet milk heated, to scalding
temperature) is added. The flaxseed --
meal and the -sweet milk exe valuable
substitutes for meatmeal. Do not feed
more of the mash than the hens will
clean up readily. •
The evening meal should consiet of,
equal quantities af Crooked corn and
-wheat; but where the nights are very
twarm, ,the corn should be eliminated.
/When the nights are very told feed
the cracked corn exclusively. Beer in
mind that inferior feed of any kind
is not profitable at any price.
Booming the Export Bacon
Trade.
Necessity knows no law and while
the war was on speedy delivery of the
articles needed was oftentimes cf
more eonsidena,tion than the price.
Besides, there were immense lessee
through the submarines which
creased both the demand and the
urgency. Now that trade is returriing
to something like its -normal: ;condition
price and quality have again become
the all-important consideration. In
recognition of this the Live Stock
Branch at Ottawa, in conj-unction with
the provincial dense lanents of agri-
;culture, are making extra efforts to
maintain that quality in Canadian
bacon that years ago procured for it
a steady outlet in the British market.
The prime importance of these efforts
is proven by the fact that in, the cal-
endar year 1920 our exports ;of bacon
reached the respectable total of $34,-
000,000. As a step in, the direction
indicated and to stimulate interest in
the type and quality of hogs that pro-
duce the kind of bacon, acceptable to -
the British consumer, attractive
prizes exe to be -offered for competi-
tion betweeri members of the bays'
arid girls' pig club who enter exhibits
at the eehool fairs. One object in this
undertaking is to encourage the com-
munity spirit, which is justly regard-
ed as the 'greatest force in promoting
uniform and profitable production.
Judging contests will be a feature of
the competitions. An appeal is meole
not alone to the local far/Tiers but to
the people generally to do all that is
possible to old in the movement So
that Oarra;da may secure and maintain
the premier position in a market that
imports five hundred million pounds
of bacon annually.
a diffinfit task, so Stben I put tin myi
yeari ago I [hit npon the ---!---0---t-stes
plan of ;painting efore it WaS put, An efficient, aiir,active hotese le an
•ap, Titer may panel like a laity etory, occnootio ass,et for the- farmer, acit
kat; itV70.01E,:4 94 very 181:1,t...,'SS1Cilly, 1.1ECI:aS eXtravagn.ce as some seem to
Tvso nelphibore and I nurchaesea
Intel silo§ tbe, summer ef 4; The
01-!Fee mall tiitet-Itt •ti -!114 'ea4
ol as
4erecl: etp:7 f+,,119 'trail we could get
the foundations, ft)nilt, I bought WOO
prepesesatiya to pub on panels, It
wee in einplyingl3ctie that I conceived.
The radine ihurean sight, Under
perfect, conditions, is esSistOged at 45
miles; from tbe tOp of Mount Everest
ting thio distance Would be
V101?3,41x
:et
International Standards for
Eggs,
Increased 'consumption was one of
the thief topics of diecuesion at the
;last international Poultry Convention
held in London, England, in 1919, By
reeolution .of that :convention the dif-
ferent gov,ernmente were requested. to
name delegates to a committee to Con-
sider the question of iaaternatiopal
standards for eggs as a basis for in-
creased tconsumption. This commit-
tee, representing fifteen different
Countries, Met SOITIO months later, re-
viewed the entire situation, die,cussed
tentative steandards and rf,trbk note of
eggs graded in accordance with exist-
ing standards. This committee will
make its final repert at -hp World's
Vt.ultry dongresi to he '1.1.eld. at the
Hague, Holland, next month, Mr. W.
A,. Brown, chief, of thc Poultry pi-
vlsion. at Ottawa. testifies that during
the cieltber-at'ionS' of the' ,coreentbee,
°anemia's standar,cls for eggs formed
the basis of ,diseuSsion,,base4 as they
are upon quality, edibility, and scien-
til4o stuidy;: the salient elements in the
sale of any food product: The display
af 'Canadian eggs, graded in accord -
ante With these etendteede was care-
fully p,nalryzed and favorably corn,
rnented upeni,
Curiosity and conjectate followed
and the next afternoon found every
one of those mothers at the appoint-
ed place. When all the 'guests had
arrived, their hostesS told. thern of her
conversation with her ,daug ter and
her subsequent visit to the mov1ng7
picture theatre, then described in de-
tail the picture that had distnnhed her.
Her audience were both ,surprised
and ,perplexed. They discussed the
subject at length from every point of
view, and finally sledded. that as mov-
ing pictures ba.d; taken such a holci on
the people of this day and generation
the pictures had marvelous po,ssillail-
ieies, and could be an influence for
either good CT evil. The wonsen also
realized that it would, be almost im-
possible to keep their young people
away from the pictures and finally de-
cided upon a moving picture house for
their own community.
. The co-operation of the men was
next sought and the women found
them open to eon-vicition and ready to
help in every possible way. Finding
that a good moving picture anachine
could he bought TOT $1,000, fifty men
were asked to loan $20 each for the
Bees ..Help Fruit Growers.
Failure of some varieties of apples
to set fruit may beed-u-sx to lack of pol-
lination, Some varieties of apples
ere self-is,terille, and cross p,allinatiten
is absolutely essen,tial if a set of fruit
per:chase of the inachine, and the
response, Was: unaninteus. ,
, An old...schoellanise which was o
have been:torn down was repaired and
put"..in'Properi,,e,rder. The women Made
,ciartein'Suid the Machine was placed.
Arrangx-ifients were made for se -cur -
the Young people attended to the
tickets *and Management of., the
At.lAd#4g12,IPre,
fittlrer." and'''Son.S; ' all ''attended the
Performances
Those who owned talking =thine
loaned them for the performances, al-
though, later on, when the success ef
the movement was assured, a second-
handi piano was added and the musi-
-clans ef the community took turns in
playing.
One evening, after the pictures had
been shown, one of the boys suggest-
ed that chairs be 'placed 'against the
wall and the floor cleared fOT daneing.
The older people agreed end wisely
refrained from showing their disap-
proval of the modern dances. Later
an, they claimed; the floor and were
soon engaged in the various, move-
ments of the old-fashioned "square
der -mesa' ,and other singing games. It
was no time befo-re the young,folks
joined them, fend motheee, were
sought as partners by their eons,
while fathers ,claimea their daughters.
The plan has been working for two
yetire; the olds* sehoolhouse has been
thoroughly repaired, e new. ileor 'and a
:platform or stage being not the least
of the improvements. 'The men of
the commtmity agreed to contribute
halL the cost of the picture machine
if the women would contribute one-
fourth, and the young folks paidthe
remaining one-fourth. The returns
from suppers and it fair provided the
fourth paid by the women, while the
young 'people made up -their Portion
by giving a few plays anda very en-
joyable concert. •
Every memberof that little com-
munity atterbasnha meetings- held, in
the told schoolhouse. The moving pic-
tures shown there are often education-
al, aml always enjoyable. The people
have ibecome ;better acquainted with
one another and there is a neighbor-
liness which is admirable; in fact, the
ieeminunity is happy and prosperous
and no one wants to leave it.
Watch Your Money Grow.
On July 81, 1833, Horace Smith
THE FAMILY TIE
In youth we do not realize the!.
etrerigth of the family tie, just because1
it is ever-present and all-enfolding.I
The new and transient connections of
•syinPathy- and affiliiVAllat We are
widely. forming „seem to us more irh-i
portant and niore real than the ties'
of thlood,„ it,astoniShes ta-findethatt!
we can confide.in our friends much.,
more freely then,we can confide in the;
members of our own family. The boy,
or girl that we have known six months-,
seems nearer than our brothers and,
tsisters much nearer than ;our fathers
and mothers; he seems to feel, :to
want what we *ant, when the peoPle-
at home ere likely to smile at our lit-
tle confessions and evidently and core-
pletely misunderstend. It puzzles us.,
Are all families like' that? Is home -
quite what it s,h,ould be?
Life flow e on, and we find that sonic --
how friendships slip away. Absence
causes 'terrible break e and changes.
Vie.. voice that seemed to echo every
se.ntiment of our hearts grows care --
loss and remote. The ear that was.
always open has become tin:different,
distracted " by a thousand utterances
that flow from 'other tongues than
-
ours. Tastes ,change and friends
change with them. Those whom we
loved an,c1 who we 'thought loved ars,
and -who clidelove. us, form new con-
nections of.their own, and if we
not forgotten, we at least experience
that chilling of tenderness which. is-.
•almost worse to bear than its failure. •
Then it is that family tie -makes:
its gentle strength felt, Just [because
it is so' elastic,' we find that it can he-
[ stretched indefinitely without break -
ring, and still; and ,always draws us,
back. Perhaps our brothers and sisters
did not quite understencl us; but we
are not so sure as we were that any-
one else ever did. At any rate, we.
find that with the paeage cf years old ,
thoughts, old faces, el,d voices grow -
wonderfully sweet. And we Eee—
alas, how often too latei—that the tie
of blood is the one that lasts longest
and holds strongest of any in the -
world. For the tragedy comes when
we do not learn to prize those who
-
loved us most until we have lost them.
Summer Rush to Arctic
OilfieidS.
44
walked into the bank of his villag-e The rush to stake all claims: in the -
and deposited a $5 hill. It immediate-
ly began eompounding at a ve,ry low fields, has begun inearnest, and each
rate of interest. On November 12, day now sees- the tide of fortune seek- '
1912, over seventy-nine years later, ors :sweeping northwara trona' Editions
the holder of Mr. Smith's bauk-hook ton, Fort McMurray, Peace River -
withdrew the sum of $112.47, and on Crossing ' and other points. The
ex -
June 8, 1920, closed the -account with marchers: also include scores of a further withdrawal of $134.46. No perienced, mineral prospectors bound
money had, 'be,eri deposited other than for ;the sub -Arctic in quest of gold.
the original $5 bill, but in eighty- Every town, hamlet, trading post,-
seven years it had multiplied about and -river is squirming with activity'
fifty times and grown to ,tho total of men striving desperately to be the
first into the Arctic with the breaking'
long
Of course, Horace Smith died; 62 the ice in the Great Slave Lake.
No
before -the account was closed. More t, since the gold rush of 1897 to the
than likely he forgot ell about the Klondike and Alaskan gold fields has
there been such an immenee micro -
existence of thie nest -egg. Yet it is
saveenlyllagsllhbeforehifor!-a-l'he yisw'utVennityane,fivt Hardiness of Young Trees.
e
to make him free from financial Owing to tendency of young trees
than a fifty-fifty proposition that he to grow late in the fall there is great
worry at sixty-five. And it is better
will he, alive to, enjoy the results, of
his foresight. 'Statistics shday that
Fort Norman Northwest Territainee,
sum of $246.98.
Isittle Candle By My Bed.
Little candle by illy. bed.
You're lovely thing,
Sometime.s, like a lily tall,
Blooming in the spring;
Sensetinies. lilce, a daffodil
On a hilltop far;
Sometimes like a beacon bright;
Sometimes like a star;
Sometimes, when the tight is dark,
Stea,difast in your place, "
Like a small white angel near,
With a shintng fa,ce.
is to be obtained. Other varieties aro ;trot cf every 100 men who pass the
;only partly self -sterile, and again age of ten years, fifty-eight will be
cross-pollination is necessairY• living at sixty, and fifty-one will still
What is true of applee also ap- ,
. be mingling with Other folks; at sixty -
plies to oth.er tree fruits—such as five.
peaches, plums, cherries, etc. A bee- A saving of $60 a year,. er .$5, a
less country must in time surely mean month, if persisted . in -for twenty
a fruitless country, .
years and compounded at ,five per
The numerous white,t showy, flower-
clustere act as a guide to, th e insects, c'esunati. owf°12$126;01aal.'6,11rit.A.1° iahdedistitielgall It:cline
,
end inaY attract them far away. When years would bring the ;amount up to
a bee alights 0/1 a flower, the insect's $4,185, and, if savingat this rate were
hairy body may he covered with pol-
. continued ' for forty years the come
len from another variety of apple. As forteme figure .,of $7,610 would .he
the bee works its Way down to the
bottom. of the flower to get the nectar,
It ru,bs its dusty bedy against the
organs of the flower and cross-pol-
lination is accomplished.
Weather conditions during blossom
time have much to do -with the setting
of the fruit. If the weather is clear
arid warin, bees are active and cross-
pollination proceeds rapidly; wet,
cloudy and cola, the insecte are not
4ative 'and usuallY [9.- Peer set °I fruit flvo end one-half per cent. insteadt-of
But the Odyssey of the Yukon is be-
ing rewritten in the present rush in
terms of modern transportation. Thc.
oil seekers -making their way north
danger from winter injury. If the
travel in modern sleeping cars to the
trees enter the winter with well ,rie.
end of ,the northern railways- and
aonmedl!txcohl'Uutueraetesvredlgtrhe,cietirfcazscivi.‘tvhistiittionuelt thence
in comfortable river steamers -
and motor launches. One Canadian
injury than when the bran-ches are in
oil °emperor is sending fits' scouting
a green, sappy condition, caused, by a
late growth, parties into the territories' In all -metal
By planting. cover ,eraps, in the aeroplane,
orchard lThe moment the traveler leaves the;
ate in the SUMMCT Or early
in the :,13.1,,,tt is possade to stop 'river highway, however, he is face to
growth in the early fall, which will face with the still unconquered North.
Portages must be mega -Wiled with
permit the 'weed to. [becorac thoro-ughs
grea,i hardships for those -who are
ly ripened and mature. In, the east
transporting heav,y oil ma,chinery.
such cover ,crops na;ay 'he planted eo
Thay,get, a taste of the once frightful
as to live through the winter,- and
"Edmonton Trail" to Dawson City, the
pbssibly he turned under in the spring
geimmest joke of the gold -seeking
end. used as green Manure. These:
, , • northland, - vshere men-, died; by the
realized. If a man 41,o,es .not want to scores or.went raving ana,c1„ and 'where
• [II • 'fir ti the survivors- who ' struggled.
obligate. snenseis ,enee ,a:ny svecific mount of soil ,water mai ote s
amount Year by year, lie still has little frost, and ,tend to dry the soil. This!
througa,rrivecl at the' Alaskan gold-
execnse 'for poverty at eixty--five, be,- reacts on the trees, checking growth' h.
• fields on to two years late,
Cpaouusne00 d nt
totalre s„,t11,
f $1Joreeepieee aagt ,eeomo:f ancl, indu.n
cing early rineing of thelm
„ But en n
have lear.ed the- perils of
twenty-five will return no less than
$7,040 at the en,d of forty years.
The fractional per Cents. of•Interesit
should not.he -overbooked. If the $1,0C
above :mentioned were compounded at
45 gecuTect.. ,$trong, cold winds May
often prevent the bees from cross-
pollinating one side Of.tbe apple trees
and this may account, for Inc set of
fruit on only one, side of ,the trees.
Aetual counts afid obstervatiOns,at
bloornin.g time hare slieWn 'that the
lioney-thee is decidedly the most int -
portant insect in .the work of pellinat-
iing the , fruit flowers. Many ,connts
have shown that front seventy-five to
ninety ',per cent, pf the, inse.cts, pol-
linating the blossoms were ,hotney-.
bees. •
. For a. Stall F1o9r,
In the eki horse ba,111 father used
thlocks tut froni old pests or rails to
floor, the stalls. When buzzing wood
we -cut up a number ,otf blocks eight
inches long, The dirt floor was dug
put to allow for a base ef gravel ten
inell'es '0;9(4? with 4,sci/14 three
anclies 'deep,
ef 24 -inch timbers was
paled to the walls to frame the bleClc,,s
in, The ..hlocks wore set on end and
trimmed: to fit as -dlosply as possible,
The craeks 'were filled with sand and
well tamped. This geve a geed 'cheep
eerviceable floor 'and., one that Waes
as easy onhorses as concrete, accord,
ing to Our „experience.--,--°, L 11.
five per cent., the sum at the end of
forty years wouldbe increased by
$1,47.3.
Agriculture is the backbone of the
nation, ,aricli it's -a backbone made, up
of at least throe vertebrae—a 'fertile
soil, an active brain, . and an. 'active
body. •
How moiny crops are these that can
beat 820 tons to the acre? With ice
eight inches thick, that Would be the
acre yield of a well'harvested ponol pi
creek. The teernmercial , value Wq.uld
average ,about 88 a ton. That wordc
make ‘an, tacre tot :ice worth $2,4:78,
course, farmers would not .expect to
sell the ke for that, :and, would, d
nee
Only a eraell part of an acre, pllij
that 4e what the ice might cost
'tanners if they had to buy it during
siza,Ling slaye' of thie eta -rimer,
pairing warns weather the ie of' Ice
In, c9oling milk and cream ter
nientif often ',Ale ineune p4 searing
these prod -eels ;feels', epoiling,
should be .eeoleelSto a temperature of
fifty degmes ora even lowee, before be-
ing ,shippexit p insere itt being saveet
whet it arrives at its deetination,
woo, .
, The. cove,r, . crops starts
,promptki into ,grOWth as soon ae
planted, thus insuring, an even stand
.ta• check ,ont weeds. It will therefore
the North since then and have token
advantage of the .experien-ce. Royal
Canadian Mounted Police will not poi- ,
mit persons -to leave the "jumping off"
places, in the North this • time Unless
insure a heavy .groural-cover for the
they are physically fit, properly equip,'
winter, acting as a protection to the lied for a year's stay in ,the north '
country and well supplied with fun -cls,,
roots, serving as a protection against
thawing and ;freezing,.
No Time 'to Look.
„It is a good old. saying, "Look be-,
fors you leapt'? And yet, times, come
"ft.rherk there is no time to look; you
have to Jump; tancl do it right off,
, We found it so one day swhen we
were hacking Into a 'barn -with a team
and wagon velth hay -rigging on.Our
then lese than, tweutysone !seas
on the wagon, aiandling the reins, I
'<IOWA en, the grouricl watching
the perfOrillatice,
It was a performance-, all right, 'Ile
stringers under Ibe bridge had liecome
decayed tend. ,clown went the team,
wagon, boy and all, Wonder what
the average boy wo-olcl have clone?
But e'er ibp,y, was1 ot c)f the average
sort: He Starch to the rigging and
went down with the wagon. IThealled
to the Itorses quietly, so that theydid-
mc get excited; he dii not show any
exeitenSent bilnself, • ;Nnd -Wat4i theY
the t)ette,m, be got, down end
,egan Ip PlArAYel the tangle, Because
9 had been sq cool, very' little dam-
age came to' teem, Wagon or boy,
It. pays tz, ,school one's self to meet
thing -is liks Shot which come up sod -
dearly.
The two chief posts :of-entry:nit° the.
North are Peace.- Riven.; .about 300
mules northwest of Echnontou, and
Fart McMurray, almost an equal otts,
twice dee nokh,
esolewa
abilitstakeny, innto
h
inrcica, Littlg-urch
hY
flee mother for the first time, During
the long sennoe the child grew more
end more fidgety, and ltept
about; finally she became very g-reatly
interested la a stroll, tear in Iter (tress,
and: atter looking at this absorbedly
for a little 1;vhile, she jumped to her -
feet on the seat, and, to the great
reoetifica,tion 01 bei- mother, cried out:
Ties aeybody 111 this crowd got a
pin?"
'Pile finest laces in the world are
worth .inuch more than their 1,veiglit
ill gold,
,cari not be relied upon ,e,S;
an .ageney to, tr.anefee pellet from
apple tree . to apple tree throughout
the .orcharel. Tiaie, work inuet ' be ace!,
eain.plished by insects, ancl the honey- .
bee is by odds the most iniperoant of
thern I
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