The Exeter Advocate, 1923-1-18, Page 7Address communications to Aaroneial f, 73 Adelaide' St. West, Toronto,:.
M:.u•ke tii
ng Poultry.
Many farmers to -dray like to ship,
their poultry to market instead of
+selling itto the It buyer in their,
own town.
The buying public in all the larger
cities, especially, grow snore-disnrim-'
Mating every year, or at least they
become more particular, and any Toed
try offer -ed for sale must be nearly
Perfect in dressing and conformity,
As a general rale ' home -dressed
poultry'"does not sell as well as city'
dressed, for the reason that the scald-
ing is imperfectly cloneand the
chickens have a spotted appearance
which ` hurts their sale. The retail
dealer, therefore, wants to buy them
at a discount of two to five cents per
pound as compared with city-ddessel'
stock.
In shipping dressed poultry see
that it is thoroughly cooled: before
shipping and wrap the • head of each
bird in a piece of paper to prevent
arty blood from c'eipping on the orbiter
chickens. Pack in barrels or; boxes.
and ship by express or truck.
In shipping live poultry, the fol-
lowing precautions should be ob-
served:
Do not ship any culls, thin stock,; or
diseased chickens, They are not sale-
able and you only pay express use-
lessly.
If you are shipping enough stock to
do so, grade your poultry when. put-
ting it in coops for shipment. Heavy
springers in one coop. Heavy hens
in another; and light stock by them-
selves. Do not .crowd too many birds
in a coop. One dead chicken pays the i
express on another coop. '
en
In warweather especially, many
coops arrive at market with two to
Ave dead in each coop because the
-shipper has crowded too many in a
coop.
Always weigh; and count your pout -
rip, o not guess at every one is filled up by that time.
either the weight or number. If you
have to make a claim against the
express company"•er you have a dis-
pute with your commission -man, -the
number and weight are vera essential
toa a. satisfactory settlement in either
case '
Ship early in the"week. The mar-
kets in the big cities are practically
over by Thursday neon and unless
there. is a short supply, Friday is bar-
gain hunter's day.
Shrinkage is. a big factor in ship-
ping and should` be taken into con-
sideration when deciding whether to
sell at home 'or ship to the nearest
big market. The average shrinkage
on chickens is from five per cent,.on
aged stack up to ten per cent. on
yeung chickens. If you feed heavily
before shipping, the shrinkage will
only be that much heavier.
Turkeys shrink from ten to fifteen
per east, and ducks shrink the most.
The shrinkage on these seldonn runs
less than fifteen per cent. 'The most
popular -breeds of ehickene are Ply-
mouth and Barred Rocks and Rhode
Island Reds, These, if in good con-
dition, always command • the best
prices. Legliorns, ,.Black Minoreas,
Aneonas, and other:` under -sized
breeds, are not wanted except at a
marked reduction in prices, generally
two to five eentw per pound under the
first mentioned breeds,
If they can be ob"tained, one -trip
coops are the most desirable to ship
zn. They weigh about twelve pounds.
SIat coops weigh thirty-five to forty
pounds. At the present express rates,
t costs twenty-five to thirty cents
more to ship a slat coop than a light
one and you then have to pay twenty
cents for the return and you do not
always get it returned.
In shipping fox any holiday market,
ship early, Prices are more likely to
be lower the day before a holiday as
try when you sin D
The "Cheap Feed" is Often
.�` Expensive.
In. buying .feeds, as in 'buying fer-
tilizers, too little consideration is
given to the 'actual feeding contents
of the bag that holds the contents.
Teo often the main consideration is
the price penton. Buyers need to keep
in mind the fact that when they buy
digester tankage, oil cake, cottonseed
areal, etc., they buy protein that will
balance up the : carbohydrates oarried
by the home-grown portion of the
ration.
Many feeders, in past years more
frequently than now, have used a
forty per cent. protein tankage be-
cause they could get the former for a
few dollars Iess per ton than the lit
rock phosphate, will help and should ter. The truth is that unless they
be added, if it is •available. Charcoal
got lat-
ter..
two-thirds (or less) of what
is good, so is soft coal,, but charcoal the sixty per cent, goods cost, they.
es simply an aid to digestion and soft
opal is valuable mainly for the sul-
phur it contains. The four ingredi-
ents • first named, along with charcoal,
can be seeurecc anywhere and cheaply,
and we will do well to supply them.
The matter of mineral elements in
the: hog's ration' is important, especi-
ally: in' our•'north country. where, for
months at a thee the ground is frozen
so that begs cannot room in it
The exact proportion of the ingxe-
clients used to make up a mineral
mixture, however, is not so important
The object should be to see that min-
eral . elements such as the hog's sys-
tem demands for proper development,
and such as ' are not provided in the
food in sufficient quantities, should
be available in some other form.
In ashes, sat, lame and sulphur will
be found most everything that is
needed: Soma bone meal, or ground
were fooling themselves. The cost
per ton for bags and freight NOS just
the same as for the better goods, and
it was just as much labor to handle
a bag of the forty per cent. Its feed-
ing value, so far as protein was eon -
o the
As a guide to follow the following cerned was only two-thirds
f
formula is good: Wood ashes; one higher grade and higher priced goads.
bushel; chharcoal, ` one bushel; rock It always pays to figure the coat T
phosphate,' one bushel; salt, one peck; per ton of the particular materia•I:that
lime, one; peck, and sulphur, one peck. is sought in feeds. Do not consider!
it on the basis of price per ton- Al -
the young trees.
It is bad practice to allow sheep
or cattle to pasture- in the woodlot,
because they destroy the young
growth which should come on as soon
as the heavier. timber is removed.
Of the hardwood trees the hard or
sugar maple is the most valuable.
Besides supplying sap for sugar
making, the wood is. valuable for fuel,
the manufacture of agricultural im-
plements, furniture, haedwood floor-
ing and distilled products. Other vela -
able hardwood's are birch, beech,
brown and white ash and elm. Bass -
woad and poplar grow more quickly
than other deciduous trees and are
useful for reforestation. Among the
conifers spruce is the most important
wood, supplying•.the bulk of the tiro-
bar and rough lumber for building
purposes. Besides, it is useful for
pulpwood and pit timber. Pine is not
often found' in Tarin Wloodlets, but is
useful for manufactured lumber. Fir
and hemlock are used mainly fon;
building lumber and pulpwood. Cedar
makes the best shingles and is also
used . for telephone and telegraph
poles, cross -ties and fence 'pcsts,
ain�arack, although not a common
wand, is very durable and is- valuable
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The Farm Wood Lot.
According to.bhe 1910..census the:
value of „forest produote produced ,on,
the farms of the United :States east
of the Great'Plainns was close to $200,-
000,000, In 1918, over 100,000,000
cords of wood were burned on Am-
examsfarms or scold of tih•e farms' to
town and city dwellers, Throughout`
Eastern Canada the value' of forest
products soldon the aYerage farm is
probably greater than in the United
States.
Except in the snore thickly settled
sections of the oounta:y lucrative em-
ployment is round for farm labor and f•
teams during the winter months cut-
ting and hauling logs, ties, pulpwood,
pit timber and cordwood. Even in the
thickly populated ; portions of the
Eastern Townships of Quebec where
the farms have been . cultivated for
well over one hundred years, it is
quite common for farmers to handle
from 100 to 200 cords of firewood in
a season. This" year, stove and furnace
wood is selling for from $10` to $14.50
per cord, This'will give an idea of
the important part the farm wood lot
plays in: helping- farmers through
periods of depression or financial dif-
ficulty.
In many' sections •consideerable rev-
enue is derived from the sale -of mapl
ringer products.
Forest areas conserve moisture
springs and wells, act as windbreaks
make the landscape more attractiv
and utilize land unfit for cudtivatio
Every- farm` should have at 1
enough home grown timber to suppl
fuel, fenoe pasts and lumber for re
pairs to farm buildings.
A little care given each year to fi
protection, proper : thinning and util
izing' of the timber would near
double the yield from the average
woodlot, Instead of slashing hal
grown trees of the useful maerketabl
varieties for home requirements, if
the less valuable varieties, windfalls
and trees showing signs of ins
damage and rot were used, the re
raining trees would make more rapi..
growth.
Open spaces should be' avoided a
much as possible because once a gra
sod is formed the growth of the tree
is checked.: Tops should be lopp
to ensure more rapid decay and t
lessen the danger from fire. The main
idea ' is to keep a blanket of leaves
and wood on the forest floor to hold
•moisture and encourage the growth of
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,: � �'to balance the.ration:
That is what counts, and what is
Bene is my .method of breaking bought—not -
calves to milk. `
Put the heifer in stanchions with
her left side nest to a partition, Put
on halter with long, tie -rope, bring
head to right as fax as possible, put
the rope around right hind leg from
the rear and let it come out under cattle infested with lice and'
-other
sopa around leg, Pet leg in right o- parasites is an application of raw lin-
-rope
oil. One quest of the oil is suffice
sitaon to milk,. draw Tope tight and
tie"' sccuieIy to something behiivci 'merit for eight or ten cows. Apply
heifer: Sit down and.: mill.: The the oil with a brush or rag: "Especial'
ife . care ori, a taken oma _e t
so many dollars a ton.:
Lice on Cattle.
Every satisfactory treatment for
fence posts, ties, mine and 'crib
w k timbers.
Wherever there is plenty of mois-
ture a second growth usually springs
up where the heavy timber has been
removed. Because of their rapid
growth the spruces, firs`: and poplars
often supplant the original hardwood
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To Decrease Shrinkage.
Every farrier knows the large
shrinkage which often occurs in cattle
between the farm and the stock yards.
This -shrinkage, however, can be re-
ducecl by proper feeding previous to
the moving of the cattle, and also in
the management during that period.
Where cattle have been fattened on
grain and grass, it is advisable to
place them in a dry riot a day or two
before shipping, and feed all the tim-
othy hay they will eat, and at the
same time "cut heavily on the grain
ration.
Cattle fattened in a day lot on grain
and clover or alfalfa hay should be
changed to timothy hay at least
twenty-four hours before shipment,
and their grain ration should be re-
duced at least fifty per cent. A full
grain ration should not be served the
animals fax at least twelve hours be-
fore shipping. Some good cattlemen
substitute oats fax a portion of the
grain ration at this time.
Wherethe animals are fed on sil-
age, clover or alfalfa hay and some
nitrogenous concentrate, it has been
found advisable to omit the nitrogen
ous concentrate for at least a day pre-
ceding s'hipping. Timothy hay should
also displace the leguminous My and
the` silage should be cut to about one-
third of the regular amount;
Parents as Educators
The Educative Value of Mother Goose.
BY ANNA MAE BRADY.
Every dad should have access to and Jill, and Little Mies Mullet, have
a well illustrated copy of Mother as well defined places in our minds
Goose, not only because these little as Othello, Hamlet or Lady MaeBetih,
jingles represent the heart beats of Our children of the pre-school and
the race but because they have within kindergarten age are in this same
them great educative value. The tiny stage of development, • They toe are
babe is lulled by their rhythm, to susceptible to rhythm, they love to
which all the primitive in him re- swing and sway and hop to music,
spends and his eye is caught by the and their ear is also caught by the
pictures long before he is able to sound of rhyming words. They need
interpret there. Grown-ups never mate? ial like Mother Goose, fax it is
outlive them. r9 Poor indeed is the to them what Shakespeare is to the
child who is denied this foundation of adult. Because there rhymes are the
the classics. . product of many minds they ere rich -
Mother Geese represents the first er than anything one person can give
them.
These jingles came down to us from
the primitive races and Mother Goose
attempt of the race -to give us a liter-
` attire. Away back in the beginning
of time, long before the days of books,
these verses developed. The race no? was only a very clever teller of these
doubt was in that rhythmic stage' tales,—a woman who made so many
where people Loved to swing and 1 •children happy that in her honor we
sway their bodies to music; queer call them 'Mother Goose rhymes.
mu'si'c it was, too, fax we hear that} The child who is brought up . -on
it was often made by beating stones Mother Goose learns[ to read natural -
or sticks together, but always the ly. He memorizes the jingles from
rhythm was the appealing thing. So, hearing mother say them and: locates
too, the sounds of rhyming words them by the pictures. Finally he•sees
tickled their ears and when they were them as word units and is able to
forests.: Fully stocked with trees an Handle the cattle quietly so that so. pleased- with them that they re-
acre of salt woods will grow at the they do not become excited or heated, peated thein over and over, handing
rate of one to two cords "ger year will them down from generation to gen-
supply posts :or pulpwood in 15. to
25 years and saw logs in 20 to 40
years. Hardwoods.grow at the rate
of one-half to one cord per year; a
cord being equal to abort 500 hoard
feet Of raw* lumber. 13y proper inan-
No' Meed for. Microscope,
Scientific Barber - "Do' you know
that when the 'edge of a razor Is ex-
amined under a microscope ' it ' has
teeth like those of a saw?"
Customer•—"T don't need a nuero-
he ei can only move her leg up and sdi nd b t 1 t ' k he ap- agement .rocky, waste and swarneY scope to know that."
plication,thoaough on the upper parts band, if allowed' to grow n lander
down. Usually in from one week to p
n days
of the week and along the l 1— fro
• r, spend is capital. 1�cn•- a•
I have seen ilei: li�ek' a her the poll tot of the tail,. At ,. .,
Mess first, It is not necessary to mis-
use a heifer. if broke in this'way.
,.
h�e base
eration, each generation refining yet
leaving the plot unchanged.
These rhymes while but a sentence
or two in length are well-nigh perfect
in construction. They: will pass -any
test to which we submit adult litera-
ture. There is a plot, introduction,
climax; and conclusion. The chalet -
recognize the same words in
rhymes. This equips him with a
working vocabuiaay which is of in-
estimable value when he enters school.
Best of all, it has not been work, but
only play.
The song of the bird was originally
a cry of alarm.
One swallow devours about. 6,000
flies in a day.
far in while income we ealn and what u e 1
tendon should .al•so be given to the p b s life lasts we have a clearpi
c- thein in. Always try kind -
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to the heifer stands like an old m forest may be made to ' The . Tittle differenwe between what 'bee's --dance on and off again, yet so 3
y' yield a,tvorth- vhat cl ax�1 ti
vow._
e y are ley representeed that: an Lime which. gives new life to land is
--- :� - -- It would require fourteen days, p`a- equally necbssary in the human ra-
y , to ture of them. With only a few words
travel a mile at sn:aal's" dee. tion. It builds p
alds bone: Sour land crops
p
Dairying will grow as a basic• farm-
ing industry becausesnakes it possible
great savings in the production of about two weeks and thereafter about you are' just ready .to speak rashly.
-merleall' farm. crops, once a month in the winter. 3. Hold ante. your heart when evil -
shoulder. toy's, the falls of the :' udder
to describe them, LittleBo.Peep, Jack are :deficient in it.
and -the escutcheon. Be sure to use'
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raw linseed.oal, and, not boiled linseed 1. HOW on to -.
your brand whet you
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The- latter will irritate the skin:. are about to deo an unhiird are. '".., ' ... • ,°. . -
The -treatment should be repeated i 2 H ld
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1d. Up Your reeders
Maintain • their health --- insure , the fertility
and hatchability of their eggs, It's easy,
Re ul : r
-1s uersrtteapd to put your fours rix' perfect con
dition•and: keep them strong and vigorous. ' IVtakes'
'em` lay more "eggs= --fertile eggs --the • eggs that
produce big hatches of worth -while chicks: -
`',%our Monty beck If YQU Ars Net: S;itfsticc'
kYacre+ itr Catrsnds .8oId by .benlers at v'erry ainsee
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persons invite you to join their ranks:
4. Hold on to your virtue --it is
Above all price to you in all times
and places.
5. Hold on to y-ouv foot when you
are on the point of forsaking the path
of tight,
, Ilold on to the truth, .for it -will
serve you • well, ; and do you good
throughout eternity.
7. -Hold an to ,our tempe`c whteti
you are excited., ow angry, -ar'others
are angry with ,you.
8, 'Hold. on to your ideals, for they
can be realized.
9 hold on 'Pour good ebi�.1 ler
fo+r it is and ever 'sillbe your hest
-wealth.
you have no stand ee which i.e
place the :drinking water pail try n-
ine; a square wooden just ,„little
1ta,krgc;' bran tho diameter' of the ,Til.
Set the water pail in the box' and. it
will not be tipped over Cram .liens
jumping :on the edge as is' the case
when a -half empty pail h setting by
it'sclf.
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