The Exeter Advocate, 1923-8-9, Page 2Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto
THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE tent on the vagaries of the weather
CROP OF 1924. I man,
It may appear to be a little too i The Leaf Spot first becomes. appar-
early to begin thinking sof next year's ent in the field as small reddish or
honey crop but the successful bee- • purplish discolorations on theleaf,
keeper knows that the success of .next but with the progress of the disease
year's cropdepends upon the pre- • these circular spots rapidly enlarge,
the central portion becomes greyish in
parations made for it and the time
theyare made. A successful season color, while the remainder of the spot
a reddish brown to through
depends to a large extent upon good shades
wintering. Good' wintering depends the margin, which remains purple.
upon three things, namely; colonies , This is a very striking leaf spot. Oc
'yell filled with young bees, an'abitii-, casionally these circular spots fall out,
dance of wholesome stores, and lade-' giving the leaf a shot -hole appearance.
quate protection from the varying On severely affected leaves these
outside temperatures during the win- spots may coalesce to such an extent
ter and early spring. I that irregular blotches practically
The first thing then is to get col- cover t'he etire surface of the leaflet,
enies well filled with young bees and Similar lesions. also occur on the other
to get them before the winter sets susceptible parts of the plant.
in. This means that we must have! Another leaf spot, perhaps not so
the bees produced between the months common in some;, districts, is the so-
ot July and October and in order to: called leaf scorch, The leaf scorch,
do this we must have a prolific queen in the early spring, appears as small
in the hive during • the months of irregular purple blotches not unlike
August and September. The first the early stages of leaf spot. Later
step, therefore, in producing a crop: these spots enlarge and coalesce much
of honey in 1924 is to see that every the same as in the case of leaf spot,
colony is headed with a good, prolific i forming irregular blotches which
queen during the latter part of July, often cover the entire surface of the
Or the first week in August. A good I leaflets, The central portion of the
second year queen will often produce; spot, or blotch, however, remains dark
the required number of bees in the I in color, and this characteristic gives
fall but she is very likely to get lost! us a ready means of distinguishing
during the winter or fail the follow.; these two leaf spot diseases. As this
ing spring. A young queen reared disease progresses all the leaves of a
during the latter part of :rune or July ' plant take on a dry, burned appear -
is the most dependable for she is notance. Lesions occur not only on the
only prolific during the fall but she is' leaves, but also on the petiole and
comparatively young and prolific the fruit pedicel, where frequently sunken
next spring, the two seasons of the I lesions are formed which girdle and
year when brood production counts ‘ sometimes kill these parts.
season. The following seasons two ' f�-
sprays only should be necessary, one
before the blossoms open, . the other I THE CHILDREN'S
after the fruit has been picked.—G. •
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H; Berkeley, Dominion Laboratory of
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Plant Pathology, St. Catharinfbs, Ont,
Stacking Silage..
It is quite possible to have silage of
the best quality, even though you have
no silo, The last two seasons we have
after being cut as possible, and we were sunning themselves. Though
are very enthusiastic about the sealthey seemed lazy, but few of the flies
EVEN AS YOU AND I.
BY EDITH BARKER.
I stood one day at the edge of a
stacked our fodder corn green,
as soon pond watching a number of frogs that
most. Asa result of the attack of both
Every beekeeper should examine his; these fungal diseases, the foliage is
colonies during the latter part of July , impaired and the vitality of the plant
and destroy all queens that show the greatly weakened. In severe cases
least signs of failing, replacing them) the leaves are so affected that the
with young queens that are prolific.' plants die. In any case the plant is
Old queens that are still producing a weakened and the next year's crop
maximum amount of brood can be left • suffers as a consequence. When the
and replaced later in the season by,fruit pedicles are affected, the ber-
younger queens. ries never mature, but become seedy
A good system of requeening the' and worthless.
colonies is one that is combined with I These diseases are rapidly spread
swarm control measures, that is, in- . during the growing season by the
troducing the young queen at the same ' spores which are developed on the
time treatment is applied to control ,lesions of the affected parts, and are
swarming. During the main flow wind borne 'from diseased to healthy
from clover, when swarming is most,
intense and the colonies have larvae
in queen cups, remove the old queen
from the hive and destroy all queen'
cells present. Nine days later again
remove all queen cells and introduce,
a young laying queen. By 'this method
the swarming is controlled and the
colonies are requeened at the right
time. If the old queen is prolific and
increase is desired a frame or two of
emerging brood may be removed with
her and placed in a new hive. This
nucleus can be built up into a strong
colony by fall when the old queen can
be replaced by a young one.—C. B. I
Gooderham, Dominion Apiarist.
STRAWBERRY. LEAF SPOTS. 1
Perhaps the most common of the
strawberry diseases is the so-called :
leaf spot. In this district this disease"
is generally found wherever straw-
berries are grown. In some localities„
very little damage is done to the crop, 1,
but in others whole plantations have
been completely destroyed. As with'
all other fungal diseases, the severity:
of the attack depends to a large ex-'
sults Man fa "mens are continual1 and mosquitoes that came within
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
AUGUST 12.
Martha and Mary, Luke 10 38-42; John 11 1 to 12 8; ,v
Mark 14: -9. Golden Text -- Mary hath chosen.
the good:part, which shall not be taken
away from her.—Luke 10: 42.
coming here to see our'sila a stack' reach, escaped the lightning -like snap LessoLessee:sereitee--Our lesson this
and to ask about our method g '. of their jaws: week brings us to the village of Beth -
square
build a stack about twenty feet Suddenly attracted by the sound of any,
of Olives, on the asnot farofrom Jere of e
square and try ,to keep it perfectly' voices among - the willows that sur- Salem. Here livd Martha and Mary
straight and even on the sides and flat i rounded me, I walked an and dis with their brother Lazarus.
on: top. We commence -. stacking _ as covered a number of boys who were I MARY CHOOSER THE BEZ x> a PART,
soon as we get enough cut and stack busily engaged in frog -fishing. Theyi LUKE 10; 38-42.
it before it dries out. The silage :in l were using short poles upon the end' V. 38. As they went. Jesus is on his
our stack seems to be. sweeter than of which were lines terminating in a way to Jerusalem for the Feast of
some that .is iiia silo There is only "gig" or "grapple." . Tabernacles, in the third year of his
about a foot at the bottom . of our; This "grapple" was made by bind -1 ministry. A .certain village, Bethany.
stack that is sour. I ing together three ordinary fish-hooks,' It was Jesus' last journey to Jerusa-
The first year we used an overshot Upon each'of the hooks there had lent
Jesus was footsore .and heart-
hay stacker to elevate the;bundles been placed for a lure a small piece sore, lie needed refreshment for soul
as well as body. A certain womayc
with after it got higher than a rack, of bright red flannel, It was at once Warned Martha She was the elder
and last year we made a platform evident to me that should a frog swaI• ' sister, and the head of the house. Re
with timbers and planks on top of a law one of these hooks his fate would' ceivehim Received seems a cold
deep wagon box. Next year we intend be sealed; and there would be one less : word. Moffat translates it "welcomed."
to build an inclined elevator with an to help destroy the mosquitoes and' Vs. 39, 40. Mary . , heard his word.
endless apron or chain with slats, their larvae. Mary's sitting at his feet was not the
to be run with airmailgas engine.:The' y seeking of a position of ease. Much
i As, concealed b the willows Thad happened since last they met, and
idea in mind is to overcome the heavy watched, one of the urchins caught a' Mary was eager to hear all, and Jesus
work of pitching the corn bundles up large frog, and exclaiming excitedly had much to say that he could say
on a high stack. ; at the size of it, reached in one of his' only to a loving listener, Martha zeas
The first year we put about twelve pockets for his knife; with which he cumbered about much serving; busied
acres of drilled corn into the stack intended to remove the hind les of and worried with the duties of a host --
plants, thus setting up new infection
in the patch. This accounts for the
necessity throughout the summer of
repeated sprayings in badly diseased
patches.
Control—These two diseases are
controlled by the same operations.
When the first symptoms of either
leaf spot or leaf scorch (small purple
discoloration's) have been noted in the
patch, spray immediately with a 4-4-
40 Bordeaux mixture. It will be gen-
erally necessary to continue these
sprayings every two or three weeks
during the season. The following sea-
sons, spray with the same mixture
before the blossoms open, and again
after the fruit is picked. To obtain
good yields from a strawberry patch,
the leaves must be kept free from
these two diseases, and if the above
spray calendar is carried out faith-
fully, a good, clean strawberry patch
will result. Generally after the sec-
ond crop the plants are plowed under.
When setting out a new patch,
never use plants which show symp-
toms of either of these diseases. A
new patch should be sprayed every
two or three weeks during the first
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We fed the last of it the first part the unlucky amphibian, g I ess and friend for her guest.' Como
f June. W did not find bit f Ito him .dost thou not caro.:
Mar-
of
+He ,oi,^i stack,
.,fw the ex -
^o Vainly struggling against what, tha's word is for Jesus, not Mary. , "Is
ception of about a foot on the sides must have seemed to him the ape' it all one to you," she says, Sheeraws
preach of certain death, the frog, the guest into the family quarrel.
and top. 'o feed closed and opened his golden eyes, and practical nature misjudges both Jesus
from the stack It is not ly ass o big I thought �tasittwould the blood from his lacerated lips flow- l and y42. d 41,Martha, Martha; said in
ed over the grimy hand of his cap -
be. After we get down a few feet tor. I gentle tones. ,Careful and troubled
' Horrified at the cruelty of the child,: he bconicthey sec-
tions as we feed from it and cover the I stepped forward and grasped the' pressed, and, secondly, that . all this
cut with hay or oat bundles. The stack wrist of the hand that held the knife. I business springs from loving hospital -
will retain enough heat all winter to ` "Don't you know that is very cruel?" see thataMary, inult is herown wayiiisre.
prevent freezing, excepting a few I asked. see that
the soul of Jesus. One thing
inches on the face that has been cut.' `Awl" exclaimed,. the lad, "frogs zs needful . . Mary has chosen that
We do not contend that this method abet got no feelin s. I good part. Jesus bad more to give to
should be adopted where it is possible' I pointed to the blood that stained, this home than this home had to give
to build a modern silo. But in this ' the child's hands. to him. And Mary, in her soul -hunger,
way the small farmer and beginners "A frog," I said, "has a heart and, had sought the priceless • gifts that
can have a nice supply of succulent nerves, and in its body the blood flows I Jesus had to bestow.
feed for his stock even though he can't' even as in yours and mine. And when
afford a silo.—William E. Smith. I hurt he suffers pain as we do."
Then after glancing at the swollen
A Labor -Saving 13i1Push. blotches on the bare legs of the boy,
II continued:
A wire brush with straight or curv-
ed handle can be made very useful
about the farm in cleaning hardened
mud or dirt from plows or other im-
plements preparatory to putting them
away. It is also useful in cleaning
caked mud or accumulations of dirt
mixed with grease from the chassis of
the farm truck, the tractor and the
running gear or other farm machines,
especially prior to repainting them.
Too many of us allow our old habits
of thought to act as barriers to our
II. MARY DOES THE BEAUTIFUL THING,
MARK 14: 3-9.
V. 3. Being in Bethany. This beauti-
ful incident takes place in the last
days of Jesus' ministry. The plot of
"Come with me and let me show the priests and scribes was gathering
you how much more useful live frogs round him, and the shadow of the
are than dead ones" And I led the cross had fallen across his way. House
of Simon the leper; who had been a
way to where other frogs sat sunning leper . and had been healed by Jesus,
themselves undisturbed. John tel
In shade e were e mea an a azarus, w om
ming, but a frog fully as large as the Jesus had raised. from the dead, was
one the boy still held in his hand was there. It was a feast of friends within
catching such of the insects as carne a circle of hate. A woman. The Gospel
i within his reach. of John says that it was Mary. An
As I kept on explaining, a light of alabaster box; a flask. Of spikenard;
genuine, pure anointing oil. Very
I understanding came into the eyes of precious. All the accounts of this in -
the boy as he scratched absently at a cident stress the costliness of the oint-
mosquito bite upon his leg. Then care- men', John says that there was a
I
is us that Martha served at
I I theh d mosquitoeshum-th 1 d th t L h
progress. I fully he removed the hook from the pound of it. Brake the box. Mary
did not simply break the ' seal, but
broke the narrow neck of the flask
itself, so that, instead of using a few
precious drops of the odorous oil, she
might lavish the whole on Jesus. On
his head. In the ancient w orad
The Dairy Industry of Canada
•
In the year 1922 the production of
dairy products in Canada accounted
for an income of $250,618,000, consti-
tuting the second largest item of Do-
minion agricultural revenue, being
subservient only to the returns from
the field crops of the country. In the.
year 1910, when statistics of value
were first compiled, the value of the
dairy products of Canada was $30,-
433,644, the figures of 1922 showing
an increase of over seven hundred per
cent, for the twelve-year period. Be-
tween these two years lies the his-
tory of a rapid and sensational
ascent to dairy eminence.
Every province of Canada engages
extensively in dairying, as is evident
from a division of the Dominion total.
Of this value Prince Edward Island
accounted for $1,800,000; Nova Sco-
tion for $4,400,000; New Brunswick
for $2,000,000; Quebec for $64,000,-
000; Ontario, $132,000,000;. Manitoba,
$13,500,000; Saskatchewan, $9,300,-
000;
9,300;
000; Alberta, $14,600,000; and British
Columbia, $8,900.000.
It is of comparatively recent date
since Canada. turned her attention
seriously to dairying. Whilst the in-
dustry • on a high standard has long
been established in the East, no spe-
cial mark was made in, achievement,
and it is.'only a few years' since the
West diverted its attention from the
exclusive raising of cattle and wheat,
on a large scale, to the gentler phases
of raising dairy cattle.
It is impossible, however, to over-
look the part the Western provinces
have played in raising Canada to the
eminent position she occupies to -day
in the dairy industry, and the signifi-
cant _development of the dairy indus-
try there: The pace set would :mem
to have administered"a stimulus to''
the entire country.
FIRST :REAL -ACHIEVEMENT IN 1913...
The first real achievement in the
production of a high type of dairy I
cattle in which 'the Dominion
at
was to
win such` renown was when' the Prov-'
ince of Alberta developed thee"choir
pion milch cow of the British Empire;
in the shape'of Rosalind of Old Bas -
big in 1913. This showed other prov-
inces what could be done and; spurred.
them to emulation. In 1920, Ontario
produced a world champion milker,'
Bella Pontiac, and since that time
Canada has gone on improving her;
stock and never permitted the first
honor to be wrested away • from her.
A Quebec cow later made a new offs-
cial world record for combined butter
and milk production. Even this was
not allowed to stand,and in the early; ,pagan
y and Jewish alike, it was a custom to
months of 1923 :a British Columbia' refresh guests in such a way. John
cow surpassed all world butter pro- ( adds that the house was filled with the
duction records and is still the world's odor.
champion cow. I Vs. 4, 5. Some that had indignation.
In the consideration of Canada's They were astonished at the costliness
youth as a dairy country such achieve -I and lavishness of the act. Matthew
men's are commendable, and already says that the disciples were indignant,
the high type of Canadian dairy cat- while John makes Judas the spokes-
man, and adds that Judas said this,
tie has attracted wide attention and I not because he cared for the poor, but
made these animals in great and ex- because he was a thief. If Mary had
tensive demand. Each year prime' given this as a gift to the poor, he,.as
Canadian dairy cattle are distributed j treasurer of the disciple band, might
all over the American continent andhave enriched himself. The disciples
shipments have been made to the I
misunderstood Mary's gift, as Martha
British Isles and the European con- had misunderstood her sitting at the
foot of Jesus. The disciples say "Why
tinent. Australian buyers have se-
cured animals for their herds in On-
tario and animals from the same prov-
ince have gone to Japan. Shipments
have been made from Vancouver to
Peru, West Indies and the Hawaiian
Islands.
HIGH- QUALITY BUTTER PRODUCTION.
The production of such superior
cattle is only one of the phases of the
industry . The butter product, under
careful manufacture and skilful grad-
ing and packing, is as corresponding-
ly high. These qualities have easily
extended the demand for it, and now
Canadian butter is 'penetrating into
many countries of the world, some of
which have for centuries been eminent
in the dairy industry. Between the
years 1868 and 1872 Canada exported
an average of 15,097,000 pounds of
butter worth $2,7.60,000per year, and
by the period 1898-1902 was exporting
20,168,000 pounds . worth $3,905,000.
In the year 1922,.Canada'•s butter ex-
ports amounted to 21,994,578 pounds
valued at $8,243,148. This went to
the United 'Kingdom, the United
States, ; Belgium, Bermuda, British
Guiana, Honduras, Barbados, Ja-
maica, Trinidad, China, Cuba, France,
Hong Kong, Newfoundland, St. Pierre
and Miquelon, and other countries.
In the new trend exhibited in recent
Sears Canada may be said to have
only set out to make a mark in the
dairy, industry. It Is only of late
years' that dairy farms have come to
be established at all widely in the
Western provinces and the cattle and
wheat farina to add -a small dairy
herd to their 'establishment. The in-
crease in the number of mileh cows in
Canada from Confederation to 1922
I'as been at the average rate of 4,793
per year, and the tendency is more ac-
centuated at the present time in tho
determination to make Canada one
of athe world's foremost dairy coun-
tries.
this waste?" as Martha said, in effect,
"Why this idleness?" To the poor.
Some people are never mindful of
home missions until the collection
plate is passed round for foreign mis-
sions. Mary alone saw that the su-
premo need of Jesus at this crisis
was love that made itself known.
Vs. 5-9. Let her alone , . . a good
work. Jesus cornea to Mary's defence,
aggaiiist the disciples, as against
cella. His first defence is that it
was a "comely," "beautiful" act, inas-
much as it expressed love, The poor
always .. but me .. not always. The
second defence is its timeliness. Jo-
seph and Nicodemus show love for
the dead body of Jesus; Mary showed
love for the Master while he yet lived
to be helped • by it. Done what she
could. The third defence is°its per-
fectness. Mary had done all she could
do. She could not save him from the
brutality of his foes, but she can show
him the love of a friend. To the bury-
inc The fourth defence is its "help-
fulness." She had helped him for his
stern ordeal of death and crucifixion.
A. memorial of her. What the disciples
proclaimed a fault would be her glory
or all time,
APPLICATION•
Hospitality is a virtue that is ,com-
mended both in' the Old Testament
and the New, and there are many ex-
amples of it,—the delightful primitive
story of Abraham and the Angel
(Geis. 18: 1-8), and the beautiful pa-
thetic account of the great woman of
Shunem who constrained the prophet
Elisha "to eat bread" (2 Kings 4: 8) ;
and in the New Testament, Zacchaeus,
and Lydia, and the people of Melita,
and Gams, and as' in our lesson, .Mar-
tha who received Jesus into her house.
Hospitality is a gracious form of un-
selfishness, it is evidence of a certain
great -heartedness. This was one of
Martha's excellences.
Did she fail to get a due sense of
proportion? Was it that the work of
providing bodily comfort for her
guest crowded out the more gracious
spiritual attentions of a hostess? It
would seem that in her care to pro-
vide an elaborate menu, she had not
, leisure or spirit for that fellowship
' and interchange of thought for which
her capable mind so well fitted her.
j Did she worry? Did she fail of the,
duty of happiness? Our Lord's 'gentle
remonstrance indicates that she was
too anxious and troubled.
If mysticism is a passion for inti-
macy with God, "that strange, mys-
terious life behind the brain that cries
out for the living God," then Mary in
her deep longing for communion with
the Lord Christ was one of the first
Christian mystics. She "sat at the
Lord's•,feet, and heard his word." The
Master said she had "chosen the good
part." This element of the Christian
life does not 'seem to be so much
valued to -day as formerly. This les-
son gives Christ's approval of time
spent in spiritual fellowship. Prayer,
as communion with God, as the desire
for the "friendship of God himself,"
and not at the desire "to beg things
from God" is akin -to the spirit of
Mary as she sat at the feet of the
Lord.
Doubtless the anointing was a token
of gratitude. Reading thefirst three
verses of the twelfth chapter of John,
one feels that both the supper and
the anointing were heartfelt expres-
sions of appreciation. The generous,
uncalculating tribute of devotion,
"ointment of spikenard, very costly,"
witnessed to their great happiness in
the restoration of Lazarus. But
Christ saw in it more than grateful
recognition of his miracle of com-
passion, it was an anointing before-
hand for his burying. The love that
instinctively impelled to the act taught
a greater wisdom than she knew.
The two sisters represent two types
of character. There are differences
of temperament, and this maker, for
the interest of human relationships.
It gives an agreeable tang to friend-
ship. A symmetrical, harmonious
character is to be desired. Here Christ
praises the spirit of devotion, and the
spiritual was always to him the prim-
ary thing. But he believed in "doers,"
too.
lip of the frog he held and set it down
in the soft ooze at the edge of the
pond..
"Awl. Come on, kids," he yelled,
"let's go and play at something else"
Gift of Shire Horses to Canada
The Minister of Agriculture, Hon,
W. R. Motherwell, stated in the House
of Commons recently that the five
Shire horses, donated to Canada by
the . Shire Horse Association of Great
Britain, would be located at the Do-
minion. Experimental Station, ' La-
combe, Alberta. The sixth, "Snelston
Topper," donated by Mrs. Stanton of
Snelston Hall, Ashbourne, will be
assigned to the Dominion Experiment-
al Station at Lennoxville, Que. This
disposition, the Minister stated, was
in conformity with the wishes of the
donors that the animals should be lo-
cate in districts where some atten-
tion had already been given to the
breed.
The horses reached Canada recent-
ly in Charge of the Dominion Animal
Husbandman, Mr. G. B, Rothwell,
Those destined for Alberta will be ex-
hibited at various western shows this
summer°
With consign
inont of Aythershirehorses cattlecame a, a number of
sheep, and a few swine, purchased for
use at the Central Experimental
Farm, Ottawa, and at various Sta-
tions.
The best way to get results from
your labor in these days of labor
shortage is to do things right, even
if it takes a little more time to do
them that way.
•
The, farmer should no more think
of keeping a , scrub cow than the
manufacturer would a machine which
is giving only half the . normal pro-
duction.
Only the female palm tree bears
dates.
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Mitia Veinier
A Waren house and a cool I --
cellar dayand
cellardayand night the win,
ter though: Anda Ravin( in
your coal bills of from rfo sq
A KELSEY
WARM AIR GENERATOR
in your cellar will ensure this.
The Kelsey is the mostefficient
and economical system of
// home heatine ever devised
end will heat the smallest
cottage
roperly orthanti he lareal lheshffmual lynsion.
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LIMITED
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