The Exeter Advocate, 1923-8-30, Page 7Address communications to. Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto
lilt T. --Will you please tell me timothy at the rate of 10 pounds per
what timeof the year is best to plant age when seeding down. Or, if ' 8
rhubarb, and how to replant it? I
tiive several bunches but they are not
doing well,
Answer -Rhubarb may be planted
in either the fall or spring. September
is a good month to replant because the
rooes are dormant by that trine Rhu-
barb is a ravenous feeder. It is
necessary, therefore, for best results
to fertilize the soil well before plant-
ing. The plants should be set not
closer ' than four feet apart in soil
that has been well fertilized to a
depth of two and a half feet.
pounds of timothy, 8 pounds of red.
clover and 2 pounds of alsike are
seeded, a good even stand of clear
timothy will be secured the second
year. after seeding. It is seldom that
there is not a fairly clean stand- of
timothy somewhere on a farm; such
area should be reserved for seed pur
poses. It does not mean a great loss
of hay.. as the straw after threshing is
of fair quality and, can be fed unless
badly weathered. It was found that.
a seeding. of timothy alone in• 1920.
gave in 1921 280 pounds of timothy'
-seed, and 2,220 pounds of straw' per
acre after threshing. The harvesting
was done August 4th, and as the sea-
son was dry the seed ripened rapidly.
This. same area produced 151 pounds
of seed 9,11(19,11(12,475 pounds of ..hay peal
acre in 1922. A considerable amount
of other grasses, particularly red top, I
was noticeable in the 1922 cutting. An
adjoining area seeded in 1920 with
the clover and timothy mixture men-
tioned above yielded 186 pounds of
timothy seed and 3,052 pounds of tim-
othy straw per acre in 1922. This
seed was of particularly good quality
and much better~ than the seed from
the area in timothy seed for two years.
The practice here is to leave the
timothy that is to be cut for seed
standing until it is nicely filled and
to cut with a binder. The sheaves are
stooked neatly and allowed to stand
for two or three weeks, or until the
heads shell readily., It is then taken
in and threshed in a threshing mill
of with a flail. It sometimes happens
that birds cause a great loss from
shelling in which case the sheaves
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
SEPTEMBER 2
Paul the Apostle. Acts 7: 54 to 8: 3;` 9: 1-31; 11: 25=30;
13 to 28; Phil. 3: 4-14. Golden Text --I press on to-
ward the mark for'`the prize:9f the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.—Phil. 3 : 14.
LESSON FOREWORD—This week we of. Christ. The knowledge of which
study the life, of Paul, Paul is, after Paul] speaks is the knowledge of. the
Christ, the`mbst conspicuous figure in heartrather than that of the mind.
the New Testament. it was the great .Count . . but dung. Paul does not
achievement of Paul to lead Christian- seek to strike a balance between his
ity to a world-wide adventure. Paul losses for Christ and his gains in
was ledby his experiences to so under- .Christ. His losses are not worth count
stand Christ as to see that he was the ing- They are like things` cast on the
light of the world, and to so under- rubbish pile,
stand. the 'World as to see that its Vs. 9-11. Be found in him . . right -
deepest need was for that light. His eousnesa which is of God. At death,
whole, life wits dedicated to bringing ,Paul wishes to possess, not the right-
Chrise and ,the world together. eousness which comes through seek -
I. HOW ]PAUL FOUND CHRIST,. , ACTS ing to keep the law In one's own
22: 8, 6-10. strength, but the righteousness. which
V. 3. l: am 'vari y a man . . a Jew. heart,
through the power of God in his
Paul,speaks°these words in Jerusalem, for which power faith opens the
whore he had, come for the. fifth and door of the heart. Know him . . com-
lest time, after the third missionary formable unto his death . attain
desirto
journey,• . Friends in Ephesus, Tyr haret in 2the suffering esurrection.sof aul Christ so
and Caesarei' had tried ,to dissuadethat his death would conform in spirit
him from this journey while Agabus, to Christ's death and that so in turn
'
the prophet had said itis going would h h
Christ's resurrection.
T. A. 8.—I had an unsightly ap-
pearance of locusts, willows and brush
this spring in front of my house along
the roadside, and spent some time in
cutting same down. Now the stumps
are shooting out branches, and by an-
other year it will look just as un-
sightly. Isn't there something I could
apply/to the stumps to prevent any
new growth? '
Answer—The best plan, and per-
haps the only plan so far as willows
are concerned, of getting rid of the
plants, is to dig them' out root and
branch. By digging around the roots
s team of horses with a chain should
be able to remove each plant success-
fully. Indeed it would seem that a
neat appearance of the front of one's.
house could not be seeped except by
complete removal of the roots and
levelling and seeding in.' the usual
manner for making lawns.
'SAVING. TIMOTHY FOR SEED.
Tests made at Experimental Sta-
tions go to show that it is quite profit- should be taken inside to a loft and
able for one to grow his own timothy allowed to stand until they can be
seed. This may be done by seeding threshed.
Storing Spuds, and Other Jobs
Good stable manure is becoming
such a scarce and expensive com-
modity that home gardeners who are
so situated that they cannot procure all
they. require for their gardens must
try to replace it with other humus-
i"ormin� material.
For ehia purpose there is nothing
better tthan the leaves which in fall
athe in drifts along our roads and
the trees; when properly stored
ex }eecome in time . a rich humus
which needs but little stimulating
dressing of commercial fertilizer to
make it a manure substitute that is
• i, even superior to some animal ma-
nures.
The question of storage requires
some consideration. Where the gar-
dener's grounds are commodious there
should be no difficulty in selecting
some out-of-the-way place for the
compost heap, but in the small yard
it may take some thought and a little
trouble to concoct a suitable -recep-
tacle. Tramped firmly in boxes or
barrels the leaves can be left in some
out-of-the-way corner, or a hole can
be dug for them; tramped firmly and
some. soil spread on top, they will in
the course of a season become a solid
block of rich black humus. A large
bin or crate can be readily made by
fixing four strong posts in the ground
to form a square and then nailing
boards or wire netting round them.
Another method of storage is to
build a wall of sod, either in the form
of a square or an oblong. In this the
leaves are tramped firmly in layers of
about one foot. On this is spread three
or four inches of fresh manure, then
snore leaves as before, alternating the
layer of leaves with manure to any
desired depth, the whole being covered
with a roof of three-inch sods. Late
the following summer the entire mass
Is turned over and mixed thoroughly,
e
and it makes a pile of unexcelled'ina-
Aerial matter. -
POULTRY -HOUSE FERTILIZER.
But where no place is • available for
composting the leaves they may. be
dug into the, soil as they are gathered.
The best plan is to open a trench along
one end of the patch, into which a
'thick layer of the leaves is spread,
--,etrvering them with the next spading,
continuing until the entire area is
finished.
In whatever way the leaves are
composted or piled, ' -a little air -slaked
lime should be used as, the Work pro-
ceeds, scattering just sufficient be-
tween each twelve -inch laye_• to
whiten the surface.
Where chickens are kept their drop-
ptng.I snake ae„splendid, fertilizer if
properly cared far. As poultry ,ma-
nure ,its very stiong in;am onia, its
loss must be prevented. That can only
be done by keeping it dry. It is usual
to find air -slaked lime bcing freely
dusted on the boards, but this is alto-
gether `wrong. The "lime certainly
keeps the house sweet, but its action
on: the droppings sets free the valu-
able ammonia, it is driven off as a gas
and thus is lost Gypsum or -land
plaster" should be used instead, dust-
ing it over the perches and boards
daily, using more when the manure Is
erape.d off. Gypsuin will do all that
air -slaked lime does ° in 'keeping the
1 AT EXHIBITION
ri, t,m tut:(1 nItr) waslou Sights,, hti
•P. sontl for l'arnlOgtn'..
thiel Co...3114 vtototia St.. Tore 10
1 house sweet and.clean. In the spring
the manure will require to be crushed
mean impi isonrnent to him, Acts 21: a Whig t share in the power of
11. But Paul would not be persuaded.
A faise..eharge of having polluted. the
temple by taking Gentiles into it, stir-
red the people to violence against him,
from whom Paul was rescued by the
Roman soldiers. Paul speaks his
words of defence from the stairs of•
the castle. His first words declare
that he is a Jew, for be had been mis-
Vs. 12-1.4. Not as though I had al-
ready attained. Paul has . -not yet
reached all his desires. I follow after
that I may apprehend; but he
seeks to attain what has not yet been
attained. He seeks to lay hold on it
as a prize, just as Christ had laid hold
on ,,him for this end. One thing .
taken by some for a foreign desper- forgetting . . reaching forth .. press
ado, Acts 21: 88. Born in Tereus, toward the mark. A high call has
Tarsus was the capital city of Cilicia come to Paul from God, through
in Asia Minor, a great commercial Christ. To answer his call is the su-
and university centre. It was part of preme desire of Paul. So, like a
{ Paul's training, as apostle of the Gen- runner inthe race, he never Iooks
tiles, that he had lived in a great Gen- back nor thinks back, but thinks only
tile city. • Brought up . . at the feet'
to be the wool to These be s ed art show e the
of Gamaliel. At the fitting age, 11,dauntless spirit andquenchlesshope
had come to Jerusalem to be educatep' ' p
by the great Gamaliel. We get a t of Paul. He is Paul the aged and
glimpse of Garnaliel in Acts 5 se.. { Paul the prisoner. But his spirit is
Taught according to the perfect man- as eager as ever in the service of his
nor; and therefore was not likely to Master.
be guilty of doing dishonor to the APPLICATION.
Temple., Paul, the Torsion. The pre -Chris -
Vs. 6, 7. It came to pass, that, as tian days of Paul are full of interest
I made ray journey. Paul, having de -{for us. No man leaves all his past
Glared himself a Jew, now proceeds tobehind him. The Interests of the
tell how he became a Christian. on the { earlier period have a modifying effect
way to Damascus as a persecutor. ! on all subsequent experience. Paul,
There' shone . . a great light. Even! the Christian apostle, seems, and is,
at noon, when the sun was at its l a very different person from Paul, the
reducing it to a fine powder on .a hard height, this greater light came. Heard i Phariseeto
; and it is possible
yet un -
floor with the back of a heavy spade a voice. The original words.make it duly minimize the things that are com-
a or club. Before usiegt add half its clear that Paul heard words, while mon to both pe riods. We can be sure
weight of acid phosphate end you will kis companions heard only a sound that it was not only as a Christian
have an excellent hatelizer for all, withqut hearing the words. Saul, Saul. missionary, under obligation to de
They were words, not of anger,. but of fend himself, ' that he was lad and
garden vegetables.
The time will shortly be at hand
when the harvesting and storing of
the potato crop will require attention.
The earlier varieties must have our tion of thought there was when he
first care,, but in taking them up to ' Meted the Gospel and learned the truth
store, the main guide is the weather of Christ, there can be no doubt that
and condition of the soil. - Of all mis- what he earlier learned at the feet of
takes made in dealing with potatoes the great Rabbi, GamalieI, tinctured
none is greater than working among his doctrine.
them, and especially digging them up, Paul theCl ' t' P 1
owing reproach. proud to remember and tel of his
Vs. 8-10. Who art thou .. I am de- status as a citizen of Tarsus, and
sus of Nazareth.. It was Jesus whose moreover that ..he enjoyed the privi
Messiahship and resurrection Paul had leges and immunities of a Roman citi-
denied. Whom thou persecutest. The ren.. And again, whatever emancipa-
persecution of the disciples of Jesus
was a persecutiontofJesus himself.
What shall I do? These are the words
of surrender. His proudwill has been
broken by love. His hard heart has
been melted. Go into Damascus . .
It shall be told thee. The persecutor
enters Damascus 1 y
There in the dark he received his
great commission.
when it is raining of when the soil is
soaking wet underfoot. If we wish to
have our potatoes in the best possible
condition throughout the winter, the
crop must be left severely alone while
they are wet. In light sandy ground
the tubers, as a rule, come out' clean
and free from any heavy deposit of
soil, even though the latter may be
moderately wet, but in heavy land the
soil will not fall away from them as
it should do unless it be moderately
dry.
When digging we should always
choose fine dry days for the operation.
Get as many taken up as possible dur-
ing the early part of the day, bringing
them well to the surface and spread-
ing them out to dry as digging -pro-
ceeds. Then before evening they
should all be collected together and
covered over on the ground. It is,
however, a better plan if, after being
exposed for two hours or so, they are
taken into an - open shed and spread
out to dry there. In this way much
time will be saved and the tubers will
then be handled in the finest possible
condition. Some gardeners pull up all
the vines before beginning to lift the
roots, but this is not a good way of
going about it, for there is nothing
left to guide them or show where each
hill of roots is located, and the conse-
quence is that an innumerable quan-
tity of them are spoiled with -the fork.,
The' proper way of going about the
work is to push the fork in behind
each hill and throw it forward. A few -
inches must be allowed for the crowd
of tubers which cluster near the base
of the stems. Be careful not to get
right on top of them with the fork, it
is best to push it in: a little to the
side.` When a' quantity has sheen dug
and is - spread on -the surface, they
should be sorted over.
NEXT SEASON'S SEED.--
The
EED -.- -
The seed for next season is now
se-
lected, choosing second -size tubers av-
eraging two: or three ounces each in
weight and taken from those hills -
which yielded well and heavily. The
main crop is then picked up to store
for winter.
In wliatevet• place i't:rria be decided
Y
to store the -best tubers,. they must
never be put ;..;say >.ntil's�ott are car-!
tarn they are thoroughly dry and then
there will be no danger of any great
loss or deterioration taking place. An
open shed .:where the sun will -not
reach them is an ideal place in which
-to dry and cure the tuber's. before
storing. Immediately they are dry
all light must be excluded, for if ex-'
posed to bright light for many days`
they will become green, thereby int -
pairing their flavor. It is an, edvan-.
tage to have them dried:and stored
away as (sickly as possible, Those se -
ed b the hand. , tri ran. au was a
II. HOW PAUL SERVED CHRIST, PHIL.
3: 7-14.
Vs. 7e8. This passage is taken from
a letter written by Paul, a prisoner in
Rome, to the Christians in Philippi, in
acknowledgment of their kindness in
sending a gift to him. Among other
things he warns them against teachers
who would make Judaism greater
than Christianity. What things were
gain .. counted loss. As a Jew, Paul I
had all these things which the false
teachers counted important—he was i
a Hebrew of the Hebrews, a'Pharisee,
he was zealous unto persecution,: he
was blameless in his' observance of j
the law; blit when he came to Christ,'
all these things, 'on which he prided
himself, were as nothing. All things'
loss; not only the things of his
past life, but anything in his present
life in which he might glory, were also
counted loss. For the excellency of
the knowledge• of Christ; for the su-
preme worth of all' these things that
he had learned in Christ and learned
great Christian. Everything else
seems subordinate to this great deter-
minative fact. Christ was everything
to ' him. The love of Christ constrain-
ed him, urged and impelled him to all
that heroic missionary life of priva-
tion and peril.
Paul has no honor and no friend but
Christ. Christ was to him both Sav-
iour and Lord. "I live; yet not I; but
Christ liveth in me: and the -life which
I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the. Son of God, who loved me,
and gave himself for me." Gal. 2: 20.
"For to me to live is Christ." Phil. 1:
21. In his letters he likes to introduce
himself as the servant, the slave of
Jesus Christ. In all this he is an in-
spiring example to modern Christians.
Personal loyalty to Christ—this was
the outstanding fact in Paul's life.
(See 2 Con. 5: 14, 15.) It may be that
`sometimes this important aspect of
{ Christian life - has degenerated, and
become too sentimental, but in the
'manly, wholesome, reverent, passion-
ate devotion of Paul is to be found the
secret of his marvelous power, and the
church's great need to -day.
,lected for seed are notso carefully
dealt with in this respect, in fact,
they are all the better for becoming
quite green, as in this condition they
seem 'to keep must hatter .and are not
so likely to sprout prematurely. They
should be spread out thinly in shallow
boxes and may be fully exposed to the
light. It is an advantage to have the
sets nicely sprouted in the spring be-
fone planting and if proper accommo-
dationis available they should be box-
ed for sprouting in the fall or soon
after they are lifted and sorted.
-For our purpose shallow/boxes are
necessary and if •the ends are three
inches higher than the sides they can
be tiered one above the other and still
admit light and air to all the tubers.
A dry cellar wherein air . can be ad-
mitted, hut quite cool, though exclud-
ing .frost, .is a first class place in which
to keep them, choosing a spot where
they will 'receive plenty of ,light. If
temperature e and other conditions are
right, they will, by planting time, have
made short sturdy shoots. :Two good
strong sprouts on each tuber are
ample. - I
�y.
•
' ...
Says Sam: -If you're -building a
house,, and a fellow will show you
where youive got the foundation
wrong, you'll thank hint. But if you're
building, .say, n marketing organiza-
tion, and he show's you a fault at
rock -bottom why,'. dere him., he's a
knocker!
We have graduated Item the •clays
when business • is buSinem" to the -
days where our course calls for hum-
ble devotion to that .new classic,
these is is service." •
Do It Now.
The "Do It Now" sign is very often
found in business offices for the pur-
poses of getting things done quickly
so that the big boss can go golf play-
ing, or to give the impression that the
place is a busy one.
While this sign is used mainly for i
impressional purposes in offices, its
might be' used to practical purposes,
around the farm buildings. It magi
pay to wait in some few things but
when it conies to repairing ward re-'
painting, a stitch in time saves nine.!
The longer a sr -tall repair job is left
the longer and more expensive the job.
will be. Our sense of economy may,
indicate that building materials are
tco- high -to do necessary repair work.;
If' that is so, our sense of economy
needs adjusting.
Your implements may need ade-
quate shelter_ your chicken coop may
make it necessary .for your chickens
to spend their winter shivering; your,
barn may be leaking and thus cause
loss in hay and fodder; and even your.
house may begin to look a little the'
worse for wear, If that is so the :time
to get busy is now:
1 To keep in repair is greatest econ-�
he
omy;•� to regal tiv �et repairing is net
essary shows good judgment, but to
leave repairing i;ountil it becosttes a'•
'big' job, is the grossest taste and
extrava mice.
g {
When it comes to keeping things in
shape, or putting them in shape;,-
"Doi
It Now" is good, sound business
a.dvi ce. l
Co-operation is the •
Co opo. wt. of the y gol-
den rule in the commercial world.
Beauty- is only -skin deep --
Keep the skin clean, fresh and
beautiful with Lifebuoy;
The smooth creamy lather of
Lifebuoy wakens up the skin.
Lifebuoy makes soft white
hands—
Fresh, wholesome bodies.
Lifebuoy's health
odour is delightful.
Home Education
'The Chhid's First School is the Family"—Froebell"
The Story Hour—By Mrs. Grace P. Abbott.
It has been one of the many ' ro-
mantic fancies of my life that some-
day, seated in front of a glowing fire-
place, I would observe that holy of
holies, the story hour, with ray fair-
haired boys and girls gathered at my
knee. My girls, it is true, are fair-
haired and dearly love stories though
they are young yet, but they do not
love "The story hour" as I had so
many times visioned ' it. Then, I was
the story -teller and they the starry-
eyed audience.
I know that I am not alone in this
disillusionment -far I have seen other
mothers try the same thing and then
abolish the story hour, saying regret-
fully, "Somehow, my children don't
care much for stories. I guess. they
aren't like I was when I was a child.
I used to sit by the hour and listen
to my Mother and I well remember
once how—": "By the hour" was
probably how it seemed to them and
not to their mothers and they probably
listened much as do the children of
to -day, by doing all of the talking
themselves.
It took me a rather long time to
learn my lesson. I hated to give in
to the fact that I was beaten and I
would not give up that story hour,
but at last I• was forced to admit my
defeat in order to keep the hour that
has now become an .. even more pre-
ciousthing than I had visioned it.
I have come to a happy compromise,
which is really what all great happi-
nesses are based on,—we make up our
stories together. I start in or one of
the -children starts, or sometimes we
all just sit there ever so quietly until
a new thought conies along and hops
right out of us. Or sometimes 'vie
have great fun telling nursery rhymes
in turn, ---each one thinking up here
while the one in turn before, recites.
The littlest one of us, my baby of
three, has to be started on her rhyme
quite often or switched from her fav-
orite recital, the "Now I lay me,"
prayer, whichshe cannot distinguish
yet from good old Mother Goose. My
other daughter loves to tell stories of
real life as she sees it, stories about
good little girls who drink all their
milk every day for weeks and weeks
and weeks- and grow fatter and fatter
and fattier until I am afraid they will
burst of goodness or too much milk.
I get in one or two short funny stories
each night but they must be very short
and very funny.' The ones which can
be illustrated iii life by the making of
faces' or gestures are the most popular.
I have learned how to tell a story
and make it interesting •(stubborn.
pride in my romantic fancy brought
me to it and for once I can be thank-
ful for my stubbornness) but more
than that I have learned how to ob-
serve the story hour and make it
happy.
Let it be the children's story hour,
guide their shapeless thoughts into
laughing channels but let it be their
story always and you will find that
they will love that time at your knee
by the soft firelight quite as well as
you and be willing to sit there for the
hours that we all think we so vividly
remember. -
Shop Tools.
Of course, you have a shop., . And
after you have it, what -ought you to
have in it?
First and foremost, a set of bits. and
augers, of all sizes; and don't get1
them at the five -and -ten -cent store,
either. Get some good ones while you:
are about it. Back of the bench nail!
up a strip of inch -board with holes :
in it to stand the bits up -in., Get al
good stock to go with, the bits and
hang that up on a hook close by thew
bits. A -couple of nails driven into thel
wall an inch apart will hold the'
augers.
Then get good saws, rip and cross-,
cut. Farmers as a rule are pretty,
short of good saws.
No reason why they should be: A'
saw is one of the most indispensable
tools on the farm. Some hooks back
of the bench will hold these, at they
don't run away with some, careless
man.
A equple of hammers will come
handy, one for the house and the other'
for the shop.
Keep on getting tools, a. few at a
time; until you have a set of strong
chisels, a standard square, a spirit
level—and be very careful of that, for;
it is a valuable and delicate instru-
silent—two or three whetstones coarse
andfine, an adz, a small bench -vise, a
try -square, a bevel -square, a compass,
a saw -set, - a cold-chisetl, a
screw-
driver, ai
na l set some rat-tail three -
cornered and at files a �ti roood
lisp.,
and finally a drawshave andSOlt • i
e
good planes.. A good jack -screw is
also a farm necessity. ---Farmer Vin-
cent.
The spirit, of co-operation' 'demands
that everyone who j ae'tici} ates •iib the
;rowing, transporting, p epiarhng ttiid
marketing of goods is entitled to a
fair return for lila effort, and no more.
Feed Floor Buys Itself.
I think that a concrete hog -feeding
floor will pay for itselfin about five
years. I built one 36x40 feet. I be-
lieve the feed it saves me has easily
paid for the materials In the few
years that I have had it. It makes
feeding easier. You don't have- to
get so dirty, especially in the spring,
and the feed is always cleaner. On the
ground some of the grain is bound to
be wasted.—J. H.
Money grows on well -kept berry
bushes, even iftheir fruit goes only
into desserts, jellies and jams for the
home.
If a drawer sticks, try rubbing the
edge of the two sides with laundry
soap.
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