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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-6-21, Page 8L. Address ecommunications to Aeronornei . 73 Adelaide St. West. Torent' SPEEDING UP THE PIGS. skimor buttermilk,meatmeal tank - What factors make up the economic' age, fish meal ora combination of any essence of the pig? Feed, man and one of, these with linseed -oil meal, horse labor, risk, interest, depreciation corn -oil -cake meal, soy -bean meal, in capital and equipment, and general ground soy beans, or wheat middlings• • overhead cover all excepting the profit, To make rapid gains on pastures, which is elusive and oftentimes ephe- even the good ones, supplements are in mere/. The time consideration may ender. Even on good alfalfa pasture very well affect all of these items the addition of a little tankage proves, favorably to the grower, the shorter a fine pep producer, the time involved in taking the pork- To make sure that the hogs are ers from farrowing to market the less properly supplied with minerals a, the expense, suitable mixture should by all means/ Pushing on suitable feeds, though be allowed before them: at all times.' highly necessary, is not the only es- Even on such a good pasture, minerals Beale].to however. Good management have ga ration of corn, self -fed, plus aiven good results when added must be practiced, and sanitation dili- supplemental mixture of forty parts gently and persistently exercised, of blood meal, thirty parts of linseed Delousing is good business pro- meal and ten parts of peanut meals cedure if lice are present. Crude oil The gains were somewhat more rapid, enlivens the skin but deadens the and the feed requirement less. parasites. It is applied easily herd- The mixture making the best show ing the hogs into a corner, oil ing was equal parts of limestone, bone sprinkling them thoroughly and rub- meal and salt. We now suggest that bing it in with a good broom. In the salt be not over 20 per cent. of the' badly infested herds the ears should mixture. A half ounce of potassium' be oiled to rout the lice from one of iodide added to the hundred pounds their favorite dens. The leg pits and of minerals is considered good pxac-1 the tail ends are favorite hiding places tice, inasmuch as the iodine supplied too by this potassium compound is often, Try and get the litters out on clean' found to be lacking in sufficient quan-' pastures, preferably those that have tity in the swine feeds as usually fed. not carried hogs heretofore. Empha- Wood ashes may be used in place of size the good pastures: Alfalfa, red the limestone, and rock or acid phos - and other clovers, rape, the blue grass, phate instead of the bone meal. especially when it is young and tender, Do not forget that the pigs need and other green pastures. But pas- shade and that plenty of good cool tura alone is not sufficient. Neither is drinking water is absolutely essential pasture supplemented with a quarter to full speed ahead. The wallow of of a full grain ration enough to make concrete will be helpful during the the pigs go well. Even good pastures hottest months, stimulating the appe- on wbieh basal grains are liberally tite and promoting gains. A combine- fed—grains such as corn, barley, milo tion wallow and feeding floor, with maize and others—give much better' house over all, helps solve the high results when there is added a little cost of the wallow. Canada's New Wheat Champion • For ten years Canada carried off heads that were not true to type. Then 'the world's wheat championship as; when the grain ripened he carefully symbolized in the highest award of the selected enough perfect heads to sow Chicago "International," and the re- the plot next year. And so on, year markable feature in a survey of this lifter year, he assisted nature in pro - decade's achievements was the number! ducing her best until there was no of occasions on which the Canadian, superior grain in the world and his farmer securing the coveted prize was; half bushel of wheat at Chicago car- an immigrant from the British Isles ried off the sweepstakes and the silver who, previous to his filing on a West ; cup of the Government of Saskat- ern askatern homestead, had scarcely the most: chewan. elementary knowledge of agriculture.' Plant breeding and selection are, In 1922 the championship was, however, only Mr. Wyler's hobbies. He wrested away from Canada by a Mon- is a commercial farmer in the best and tana farmer and the Dominon left, widest sense of the word and has de - with the consolation that that state, veloped his holdings along prosperous had found it necessary to .import Can -1 lines. He now has a thriving farm of adian seed, produced by the Wheat 820 acres, which he operates with but Wizard of Saskatchewan, Seager, little outside help. His farm is divid- Wheeler, to accomplish its end. In' ed into three fields, one-third being 1022 Canada won back her old place summer fallowed each year, This year of honor, making her eleventh sham- he raised over three thousand bushels pionship in twelve years, and this time of wheat in the face of adverse wea- the farmer td bring her such signal ther conditions.. lie does not stake his renown was an American farmer who all on grain growing, but is.a firm be - had come up across the border to grow liever in mixed farming, hog and cat - superior wheat. ; tle raising being followed at the same R. 0. Wyler of Luseland, Saskat- time. He and his little family have, chewan, his worldly possessions con- in the brief ten years' period, attained sisting of the sum of $400, his other the inevitable prosperity that rewards asset a determination that this sum, sincere and earnest efforts in Western in combination with Canadian soil and Canada, and the man who left Ohio climate, would make him a prosperous with but $400 has now a comfortable and outstanding farmer. During a home on one of the best half -sections temporary land boom he bought a half- in the Saskatchewan district, which is section of land on half -crop payment increasing in value every year. for $10,000, and though during the CANADA RAS THE SOIL AND CLIMATE. next few years he saw the value of A survey of the world wheat cham- his farm practically cut in two, he did pionships over the past twelve years not grow discouraged and never makes most interesting, most valuable, thought of quitting. To use his own and most encouraging reading. The words, he "dug right in and worked signal achievements of British immi- like a beaver." In 1912 he married a grants who arrived in the Dominion girl from his home state who has since ignorant of Western conditions and /hared his labors and now shares his farming methods of any sort, pointed prosperity and triumphs. the way to fellow -countrymen to emu - PERSEVERANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND ENERGY. THE CHILDREN'S HOUR OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS-- THE RIENDS—THE SWALLOW. BY LEREINE BALLANTXNE. Each year the Department of Health spends a lot of money in their efforts to keep down mosquitoes and flies. Those who have visited their. exhibit at the Canadian National Ex- hibition realize the work they are do- ing. . To the boys and girls of our own district there is a very :important phase of work in this connection which they could do to assist this splendid cause. The greatest flycatcher which 1 na- ture has provided fore our use is the barn swallow. This beautiful bird, with his long, slender, forked tail, his black coat, and henna -colored vest and throat, builds a truly remarkable nest on the side of an old beam of the barn or shed, and plasters it there with mud mixed so well with grasses and l resting on a beam or slight projection that it will sometimes remain in good condition for years... If they nest in objectionable places, rather than drive them away, it would amply repay the farmer to leave some' projections somewhere convenient, where they can build without causing annoyance, for they are of great ad-; vantage both to the farmer in riding him pf the obnoxious insects, and his stock in lessening the number which torture them, All their food consists of insects, and as they have no really bad habits, these friendly little birds should be book with ever so many colored pic- tutees—and, oh, a great number of lovely things." ;`Beit she was ei little ashamed" of `herself for.`feeling 'dls- satisfied with wbat:Aunt. Hattie would probably give her. Of coiiree she did appreciate useful 'gifts; but just this • Home Education. "The Child'a.Firat School` is the •Family"—Froebet, r Burbanking ^Your Child By Zahrab E. Preble. once sh About noon,Aunt Hattie came, and Heves there . is a great gulf. between can they expect the child to develop. In r a a a• o plant life and human life is wrong'. except an undesirable critics art a e' ed it presently. It: was not a present ,racial improvement, ,'lilco plant im- at all, but only some embroidery that provement, Wall a matter of heredity; shehadbrought along to wark,on, dur-, environment, selection and crossing:of ing the afternoon, 1, i. types. -The strongest conviction I have, After a' short time ,she said, Mary after breeding plants sixty years, is Arm, I bought a little present for yea e wanted, something beautiful,' LutherBurbank ; says "Whoever be- criticizing •. their surroundings, what encouraged in every way p Their great advantage over the "spar- row is that the sparrow nests close i to domestic buildings to feed upon waste or food placed for fowl and they I eat practically no insects, whereas the swallow is definitely useful, eating no- , thing else. Unfortunately the spar- rows, like most lazy folks, despise the industrious ones, and torment and try to destroy the nests to drive off the swallows. These facts have been proven be- yond doubt, and it is up to the boys and girls, and the owners as well in each district to protect the swallow family, and to learn those of our birds which are really useful. THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT. BY EVA M. CARROLL. late them and should have been the greatest stimulus to further emigre - Mr. Wyler has been a farmer from tion from the British Isles. For awhile his earliest years, and came to Canada it almost seemed as though previous with a valuable store of agricultural fettling experience' in the United knowledge and a readiness to adapt it States were a handicap in reaching to new conditions and to keep apace out for the premier wheat honors. of new developments. He has always R..0. Wyler has won the honors for been keenly interested in the produc- the thousands of his fellow -country - tion of superior grain and is, more or men farming on the Western plains less, a seed specialist. It was thus he of Canada. He has shown the road to others' who may be farming' in what they find discouraging conditions, proving that Canada has the soil and climate for success providing the farmer brings in the right personal qualities to complete the combination. came to buy his first sample of regis- tered Marquis wheat from Seager Wheeler, carrying it away in a twenty - pound sack. He planted this in a small plot, and throughout the grow- ing season culled out the plants and ' he hand was package Shepen 1 it d toward all phases of life? It is in selection of the strongest physical and"mental tendencies and the training of these toward the best expression that the parent acts as a that what can be done. with plants can Burbank with the child. , Is the child this morning and asked them to send'be;done with, human beings—and must showing a strange stubborn quality it out from the store. It should be, be done if our civilization is not to be which seems to be the predominant herasoon. „i overwhelmed -by the unfit. Plant life, tendency?.. Do not consider.this . a ow sweet of you, Aunt. Rattle, I are convinced, is no more plastic flagrant weed, but 'look upon'it aa a said Mary Ann. than human life." desirable trait of determination, and In the afternoon while the little girl What can you do with your child by judicious selection of interests was playing in the small yard in front to improve him for his owe sake and train it toward that end, thus "bur- ,ee-...::• of the house a boy rode up on a bicycle for the sake of the future race? You banking" what otherwise might re - and handed her a package with her have already furnished him with her- main a. weed forever. Opposition or. name written on it. ' edity: those strong and`weak tenden-' forcing will not do the work, only care - "Oh, this is my present!" she cried cies which are barn with the child.' ful, patient understanding and direct- once. delight and began to open it at These tendencies are not yet chafac-' ing will accomplish the best result. once. When she saw what it contain- teristies. They are merelysignposts Consider what Burbankdid with a ed, she cried, "Oh!" again, but this which indicate the waythaun wild Mexican ,. y g grass. In eighteen years time not from happiness, but from nature may be turned by careful cul- its meager seed had become full ears disappointment. And such disap-, tore or :careless neglect. You know of corn under his skillful handling. porntment! I what happens to a garden which is You have more than eighteen years Then she carefully tied the package left to its own devices, and that even' in which to "burbank" the promising again and went to her own little room, in the most carefully tended garden i traits of your child. But remember, where she sat down and cried. "How weeds will spring up. But the good patient training and interference are could Aunt Hattie have bought me gardener does not denythe flowers two verydifferent things,and produce such a present!" she sobbed. "How their proper amount of water' and widely posite results. could shehavethought of such home care in order to starve out the weeds:` Look to yourself first to see if you home- ly things!" I He pulls out the latter by the roots.I are a good gardener before you at- Presentlyrshe sat up and dried her eyes. In the matter of cultivation of your tempt to experiment with nature. - eyes. I must not set this way,"she child to bring out the best potential l You cannot live your child's life, said to herself. "If anyone is kind qualities, the environment has a last-; any more than the gardener can live enough to give ore a present, I must' . thank her for it, no matter what it is." ing and formative effect. Much can the life of the rose or cactus. But as an soon as the texas were all gone bo done to overcome even unfavorable the gardener can make the rose more Asfrom her eyes she went into her moth-; physical surroundings, if the mental desirable by training it to shed. its , atmosphere is made harmonious and thorns, and the cactus a friendly, in- er sroom. Aunt Hattie was still em -1 the child taught to look for and see stead of an unfriendly plant to man- br"Aunt Hatthetie," tabletcover, advantages and beautyeverywhere,' kind by depriving it of its s ines s0 "Aunt Hattie," the little girl began, True environment is more a mater of . you can train your child's tendencies_ trying bravely not to cry, "thank you mental attitude than most people real -1 and mind to make of him a better for the onions. Mother or I will make !zee If the parents are constantly citizen. a cream dressing for them, and we shall all enjoy them for supper i "You thank me for what, child'''. leaves ample room for the operation! exclaimed. Aunt Hattie in amazement,1 of an elevator that will handle several• And then she laughed heartily. "Not! hundred bushels of grain in an hour. I onions, Mary Ann," she said, "hya- The power for the elevator is furnish- cinths." "Hyacinths !" cried Mary Ann. "Is' farmer. that what they are? Oh, how wonder- l When the silos are filled with grain full And I can have a beautiful flow -1 a special silo door with a spout for er bed all my own!" letting grain into a wagon is placed And when the spring came the love -lin one of the lower door holes of each 1y blossoms of the hyacinths were' silo 'On one side of the elevator shaft enough to delight any little girl. Peo- ! and under a dumping platform is a ple passing in the street often stopped pit into which the grain from wagons to look at the beautiful flowers. "See is dumped, The pit has a capacity of that delicate pink onee, said a lady 200 bushels. _ A spout is arranged 1 ed by a tractor that is owned by the Mary Ann was a little girl! who who passed one day; "it is as beauti- from each of the silos to the pit so lived in the shabbiest cottage on Maple fil as the sky before sunrise."— that grain that is likely to heat in the Street, but it was a very neat cottage, Youth's Companion. bins may be run through the elevator and Mary Ann was a neat little girl. occasionally to be aired and cooled. In For her playthings she had a few toys Combined Sita and Storage this way kafir may be stored in the and books, of which she took excel -' bins if it is run through the elevator $fine occasionally. , The elevator will also lent Bare, but most of the time she had to work hard. - Her mother was A Kansas farmer, desiring to make handle ear corn so that it may be not strong, and Mary Ann often got his silo space available for the storage stored in the bins. up before daylight to help her with of wheat, corn and other grains when By arranging silos in this manner, breakfast. lit was not full of silage, built an ele- storage space for several thousand This morning was Mary Ann's vator shaft and installed an elevator bushels of grain is provided with only birthday. While she was busy help- between his twin silos. Either one or ing her mother cook the breakfast she both of the silos may be used for grain. paused a moment before the kitchen' The owner, who feeds quite a lot of. window to look out at the morning sky. livestock, found that on occasions he 1 "How lovely!" she cried, and then was short of grain -storage room and; she thought: "To -day is my birthday, at other times short of silage room.; and I wish that some one would give In years of Iarge grain production he me a present as beautiful as the sky seldom made much silage. He could before sunrise." hardly afford the building of both silos' She turned away from the window and granaries for the maximum pro-; and began to set the table for break- duction of grain and silage on the fast "Aunt Hattie," she was think- farm, so hit on the plan of combining, ing, "always gives me a birthday the silos and grain bins. I present, but it is nearly always some- The silos were made of concrete, e vo ee in iame er an it get •The Change. "I left: the old farm, confessed an Ordinary Man, "to escape the endless. work, the long hours, the savage bite of the winter mornings and all the rest of the dull monotony of the tread- mill existence;. it. short, to be master Dfmy own destiny. Now, here in the! city, I am not obliged to do anything I do not wish to do, except grind day after day humped over my desk, ride back and forth:in street cars with a well-nourished booby standing on my foot, or feet, as the case may be;,melt or congeal, according to the season, in an apartment ; where I do not even know the names of most of my fellow dwellers, but am well acquainted with the subjects about which they upbraid each other, fiercely and frequently; get run over occasionally when I stroll out for an wiring, or held up and otherwise made little of. "In' other respects I am as free from Bare as' a bonny bird:' And by saving up my money carefully all the rest of the year I am able to go, back to the old home :neighborhood for two weeks every : summer and struttingly rue it all over the folks 'there, most of whom could buy me and never remember -they had paid out the motley." Arrested. Who was it oft robbed Farmer Binks, Stole mower, plow and rake And many more farm implements Slyly as any snake? Who took them off before his eyes? A rogue he'd get .mistrust • Because they went just flake by flake:— It was that robber Rust. But now, wise Binks has felled the thief, > . And makes no more 'complaint-- He's coated all his implements With rust -arresting paint, —Oscar H Romer. thing useful—a gingham dress or a tw a f t d t d thirty f cook apron, or something like that." high. A concrete elevator shaft was And then she began to think about made by connecting the two silos with what she would like to have: "A ptece two concrete walls as they were built. of piuk hair ribbon, a beautiful story- The silos stand four feet apart. This • the additional expense of an elevator shaft and an elevator between the silos.—R. E. Deering. This Year's Live Stock • Market. There is an optimistic tone to the summary of market conditions for the first four months of the year issued by the Dominion Live Stock Branch, as the following quotations will indicate. Sales of cattle at the public stock yards this year were 204,900 compared with 160,900 in the same period last year. Cattle on through billing this year were 11,786 compared with 6,097 last year. This year a steady increase inonth by month is recorded. A general improvement was appar- ent in quality and weight, giving proof ,that °stall feeding was more general i during the winter of 1928 than due - Don't Judge Your Tractor by Your Auto • j in Despite the heavy increase in vol- ume over the previous offerings, the average price during April, and the Before any one can -realize the fullbulk of sales, checked at higher levels profit from the farm tractor, he must than during March. While quality first realize its job and give it proper gained recognition in higher prices, care. The operator of the tractor the common classes of cattle sold at shouldthat heavier discounts in April than during also appreciate the fact the machine he is driving should net bot finished and feeth.d r typeet stock of be over -loaded. both finished feeder • and goal ity were the backbone of the market. If three plows on a steep grade are: Evidence of a continued strong de - more than the tractor can pull with mand for store cattle is revealed in ease, the machine is being overloaded the fact that the average prices paid and one plow should be taken off. The; for good feeders and stockers in April amount of land plowed with the two plows will be about is much as with' the three, owing to the faot that when! over -loaded the tractor travels slowly and the drive wheels slip badly. The; Iighter load will not damage the ma -1 chine like the heavy load will, and the' profit from the tractor in the long. 'run - will be greater. Poor oil, for instance, will cause' While the automobile has had a lot to do with familiarizing farmers with' the operation, maintenance and repair 1 of the gas engine, it has been.. some- what misleading to farmers when i compared with the tractor. The two machines work very much alike, but their respective jobs are very much different. The automobile coasts down the hill, it operates on smooth level road. In fact, it operates under full load only about 10 per cent. of its time, while. the tractor is pulling itit full load about 96 per cent. of the time. If .the automobile was loaded to its full ea- pacity and run in low gear every day thatthe tractor is plowing or doing other work, the comparison would be a different one at the end of the year. KEEP TIM IDLE TRACTOR COVERED. The tractor is allowed to stand: in the field without cover too often. It has to burn .the cheap fuel and too. often uses the cheap. grade of oil which is quite expensive in the end, Very often a feigner, after running. his car :3,000' miles, finds that'`it develops a knock. It' is immediately 'tarso' to the garage' for repair. Too often the same farmer hears his tractor, knock- ing a little and he looks out and sees about eight to ten acres .of land yet to be plowed. He thinks: "Well, finish ..the plowing before I . get the tractor repaired. , Before the eight or ten acres have been plowed hie engine has turned over as niuch_:as the auto- mobile engine runs in 3,000 miles. Transmission ancl= engine beatings are protected from shocks by pneu- matic tires in the automobile. The trader is often run in high gear over hard roads .,without these protections. Across the fields on the sod would be much better for it, Corrugated Galvanized Steel Roofing. Direct from Manutaciturera to Con. sumer. Write for Prices Special Terms to Fanners The Mettaiiic Roofing. Co. Listtltad 308E 1194. King St. W., Teronto enough repair bills when used in the automobile, but will be far more costly if used in the tractor engine. The tractor :operates under full load all. hours Of the day and runs at the maxims ',mum temperature it therefore needa•. an oil film between the piston-gnd the cylinder which •will stand such tem- peratures. THE NEGLECTED: INSTRUCTION i?OOii. Too often the tractor operator doesn't know where to find the inst,a:e- tion' book .which 'carnewith the ma- chine. As a general thing, the stand ard farm tractor instruction boob ie written by some of the keenest minded engineers in the country and the boob contains good information. More of these instruction boon. 'would be read if the agent who Fa:Ile a. tractor would go over the important things with the tractor purchaser. Much of the. tractor trouble may be laid et the door of the salesman 'elm failed to infers the farmer about the.; machine.. exceeded those, realized in Mardi, in spite of an increase in the available supplies. Steady development of the ating interest in feeding. Combining "through -billed" with public sales of hogs, the increase for the four months of 1923 approximated 131,000 head. Despite the increase in offerings, prices were higher on bacon quality hogs at all yards. A sea- sonal increase in domestic demand, and a better tone to the British bacon demand, are quotedas the underlying strength. The sheep and .lamb movement in the four months t'hid year showed over 9,000 head heavier than in the corres- ponding period last year. Prices were materially higher at Toronto, Monter real, and Winnipeg, and about steady farther west. The export trade in live stock and live stock products showed a heavy in- crease in April this year compared with the same month last year, aliee. though exports of sheep and mutton were lighter. There has been a mark- ed increaser in shipments of beef to Britain and a degrease in shipments to the United States. Halley's comet returns at of about 75 years. u Mendell's Sparta Treatment is talo old reliable, ' safe remedy for all CMOS of 8pov1n,. 8141[10, club. ringbone bony growth and lameness from other a4u3ds, known for more than forty years n+ Kendalls' spavin Cure. '. It keeps thebowiesworking—not. %Wing: Wbat'it Una done for others, it wItl do tor you. Keep a bottle of Konda91'6 ;spavin+ Treatment handy so you can ueeit quickly wbouthoneed arisen. A bottle may Savo a hornet fgr.you.. 11'o worth while to ho lastly. Ask your dealer the, nest time you are in town. Tear thisadvertim,nent sato remind you.. Sold ovorywhere, Oat a aro copy of'''A'treatise on • the Horse" at your druggist's, or write us. lteguiar" for: florae tteatmdn also "Refined" for Itgnaau 1100 DR. S. J. RRelt? ,11.7: COMPANY, encsflur2 Pct3*,, 'YC., ILSS.A. intervals Automobile Supplies . We carry a full line of used auto- mobile parts, magnetos, carbur- etors, gears, and new accessories at low prices. Toronto Automobile Wreckers 179 Queen St. West Toronto • FARMERS' MEETS SENT FREE Any of the following may be had free on application to the Publications Branch Department of Agriculture Ottawa, Canada. Alfalfa growing in Eastern Canada. Crop Rotation for Central and Easters* Canada. Potato, The, Its Cultivation and Parte. ties. 'l1be All -Year Hog Cabin. The Feeding of Sheep. Keeping Dairy Herd Records; Why and How to Use Milk. Why and How to Use Cottage,Cheese ' Winter Egg Production. Poultry Keeping in Town and Country. The Farmer's Poultry House. Simple Methods for the Storage of Ice. Deltorn Your Conamercial Cattle. Dressing and Cutting Lamb Caroaase-s. Bovine Tuberculosis. 'Feeds for Wintering and Winter Fat- tening attening of Beef Cattle In Eastern Canada. New Varieties and Selections, of Grain. The Root Vegetable's Act, 1922. • Illustration Community Work In Dun- d'as• County, Ontario. The - Winter Finielhing of Steers. Western Quebec. Report of the Division of Horticulture, Dominion Experimentai Farms, 1921. Report of the Poultry'Divielon, Do -min. Ion Experimental Farms, 1921. List of 300 Available Publications. Name 'est Office I.R. No. Province .... (No postag( required) ISSUE No, 24—'23