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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-10-4, Page 2• - ..mac. , Address eommunications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide • St. West, Toronto CANADA'S RECORD AT LEADING AGRICULTURAL SHOWS IN 1922. The high place secured by Canada's agricultural and horticultural pros ducts at shows held in Great Britain land the United States, in 1922, is in - I her farm without his advice grated on Alma suffered even more than did! him. I Virgo. His conceit was badly bumped,1 The visit was not prolonged,; andbut she was cut to the heart.' Often soon the widow climbed into her .fii- I at night her pillow was wet with tears.' ver and went hiccoughing toward her One clay soon, following a visit to the' 1 Gorrett ,home, the widow told Deb: When Shall W Home Education "The Child's First School is the EaKnily"—Froobel a "That is the way he does most of r the time," she said, relating the epi "Alma has broken down under the strain, She has a fever and is de- sode to Debby Quatts, her hired girl, 1 lirious part of the tune. who Betty's mother had just gotten the who was of some age, much weight Just as I expected! declared little four-year-old settled down for and very plain speaking. Debby. her afternoon nap. "If I had a • Teach Betty to Pick Up Her Playthings? BY ORA A. CLEMENT. a ou r husband like that," de.: The doctor gave to Alma's case a „ h' times in eleven years, long-tailed L ti belt the widely And now I will -.not much more pionship nine year and taking dared Miss Quatts, "I'd take bins by a n name, than get this room put to rights be- not exhibiting one ye the hair of his head, or—something I and Deb knew it for' old-fashionedfore she wakes up again," she laugh- second the other. No darn man could bullyrag mel brain fever. Thereafter one or the fore hema> iced to her college friend, ALBERTA. They're all alike; cat -fetch 'em!" other of them'was there almost con- Once now a who was Once more Alberta upheld its repu- "A little of that kind of treatment tinuously. Virge did what he could, spending a primaryfew dae teacher, her.w tation at the International Hay and would do Virge a world of good," for he .was not wholly callous. The "Why not leave the playthings Grain Show in Chicago, in 1922, when agreedMrs. Tevis. days dragged on., I where they are and. let' Betty pick dicated by the following summary « ," One afternoon when Virge had gone grain from this province secured no 'You're darn right. indorsed Missthem up when she' wakes?" the friend alONTARIO.Frless than three grand championships, Quatts. "They're all mean coots. to the, upstairs chamber to take a nap At the Imperial Fruit Show, held in one beingin oats, another in peas and Think how pretty Alma was when he 'Mrs.. Tevis and Miss Quatts. were in: asked. London,England, apples from On- the sittin room below. There was a Sometimes I do, but she always g p another in rye. In wheat, Alberta ex- married her—slender and as sweet as g wants to rake play of it and it really tario secured eleven first prizes; nine hibitsgained 2nd, 8th, 10th and 11th a flower. Now leaky at her—growing stovepipe thimble in the ceiling, e-. takes more time to keep her at it than second prizes and one third prize. In tendin u throw h the floor. Possibly of places. In oats, exhibits fro ham! thn't noasaadderaeof everyday. for et the widow lied temporarily forgotten it does to do it myself." addition to this, a splendid eardisplay berta . secured 1st and grand c a h Her visitor said nothing for a few commercial apples and pears was lonship, as well as 12 other prizes neither! He can be decent when he its existence and perhaps she had not. made. Seventy cases of choice pears p "Do you s'pose she is going to die?" minutes and when she spoke again it y from 2nd to 24th. In barley, Alberta tries." was without reference to Betty. "What and apples, and six hundred baskets exhibits secured :1st and 5th places. "It is his unchecked conceit," said of "Wealthy" apples, the only dessert In peas, Alberta exhibits secured let the widow.. "As a boy he was spoiled apples ready at that time made a and grand championship, also 2nd, at home. Now he is merely, an over most imposing exhibit and attracted 3rd and 4th. In rye, Alberta was grown boy whom Alma continues to a great deal of attention. given lst and grand champion, and spoil by yielding to his every while. At the exhibit of Ontario dairy in alfalfa won second place. She thinks his word is law, and he eattle at the National Dairy Show At the International Live Stock thinks so too." held at St Paul, Minn., Ontario cattle Show Chicago, 1922 Alberta stock "Yahl" sneered the old . maid. won two' championships, two lst ,on the following places; "When he is hungry his wife has got whatt 'ro near ner moaning an y prizes, three 2nd prizes, and five 8rd Galloways, 1st and grand Cham-, to eat, and when he sleeps she, must blaming herself for the trouble Virge have no idea in the world that the prizes, besides securing several other ionshi • Shorthorns, a 4th and a 7th snore.. Ketch me catering to any darn walked into with his eyes open, and are, by rights and inheritance, poor, awards in "string" classes. In the prize Herefords 2nd, 9th 'and •11th] man that way. What was it riled his then trying to tell him she loves him, machine -hatched little orphans." p mighty near makes me bust right out "Why did you put them with the bellerin'! Loves him—the brindle cat's hens so soon? Would it not have been foot! I swear, if I had a husband like safer to have cared for them yourself that I'd snatch him around by the hair until they were a week or so old, and of the head till he learnt some de- strong enough to run with the older cency!" And a good deal more of this chickens?" sort. Betty's mother laughed, "That By and by Virge quietly descended shows that you do not know chickens. the back stairs, and passing part way I tried that plan the first year I used around the house, stopped at the open an incubator and I• learned something. window of the sick room and listened It is only for a few days that a foster mother can be introduced to incubator chicks. If they are put with her dur- ing the first few days of their lives the hired girl asked. "I am afraid so " returxied lVlrs did you do with those cunning chicks Tevis. you took out of the incubator this "It oughter be him!" said Deb 'em- morning?" she asked. phatically. "When I look at her lay- "011, I divided them up among three ing there, as thin as a shaving and or four hens who were simply wild to with her eyes blazing with fever, I be mothering something. Now the lit - feel just exactly like I don't know! tle ones are cuddled up snug and d warm under real feathers, and they Dairy Herd Class, Ontario stood sec- ond in the exhibits. At Chicago, where the International Live Stock Show has become the places; Grades, lst and 4th, and bile this time?" Shorthorn special. Mrs. Tevis gave the . desired in - The livestock exhibit was prepared formation. by the University of Alberta. "Huh!" ejaculated Miss Quatts. "It greatest world's show of its kind, On- The grain exhibit at Chicago was might just as well have been the en - Clydesdale achieved great distinction in • made up by exhibitors from all overs handy hour selected for the eclipse Clydesdale horses, carrying off the: the province, and was in charge of 1 of the moon or b'cuz Wednesday don't Reserve Championship, two lst prizes, r the field crops commissioner of the come on Saturday. But, just the same, three 2nd prizes and several 3rd and' Department of Agriculture. I betcha he ett the peaches!" 4th prizes, all classes being very p "He was devouring the biggest one NOVA SCOTIA. strongly contested, The winnings of the province of The outstanding achievement was ; Nova Scotia at the Imperial Fruit the awarding of the champion carlc.t' p at the show to Ontario, and the carry -;Show, 1922, were as follows: ing off by an Ontario breeder of the'• British Empire Section— grand championship wether under! Dessert apples, best 20 boxes, 1st two years. and the grand champion prize. mule b'cuz a mule will stand just so ship of the show by the same exhi-� Culinary apples, best20 boxes, 1st much and then lash out, while a wife biter. This was the first time in the' prize. will endure anything," asserted.Miss history of the show that the top! The prize consisted of a gold medal Quatts. and £50 cash in each class. prizes were all won by one man.. � Some days later Mrs. Tevis made a The province was represented ins In the Overseas Section, Nova Sco hurried trip to the city, grumbling to the following classes; Southdowns,' tia took third place, being preceeded by herself as she went and chuckling at Oxfords, Lincolns, Leicesters ands Ontario and British Columbia. 1 times during the return journey. The combined winnings in the twos Shropshires, and the exhibits won in! Afterwards there appeared at the all classes eight championships, thirty -i sections were two firsts; three seconds,! Gorrett place apleasant-spoken stran- two first prizes, twenty-five second prizes, and several third prizes. In the Shorthorn and Angus classes of general cattle, Ontario again stood! not exhibit at the Imperial Fruit country. Followed considerable speak - high, and the fact that Ontario Show, 1922. It might be mentioned, ing, and presently Virge sold the farm breeders were chosen as judges at thisI however, that at the show held in to Skerry after this fashion: show attests to the character of the 1921, New Brunswick apples achieved stock that is being raised in this: a notable success. In that year her province. exhibits of McIntosh and Fameuse— At the London show, one thing was t'fvo of Canada's most famous varieties brought out very clearly, and that was of apples—obtained first prize with the need for establishing grades and gold medals and two special prizes of uniformity in order to compete in the £5. Third prize medals were secured when I left, and remarking that that for a little while to the weak, hopeless form of fruit yielded too uncertainly in voice begging and pleading for this latitude to be worth fooling with. " for- giveness. And seemingly the scales I betchal Nice, clever sort of a fell from his eyes and he saw his wife they will adopt her and follow her husband—treats his wife withadesk as the gentle girl he had sworn to obediently till half-grown, like chick- consideration than he would a work chick- ens hatched under a hen, but after a week alone they seem to get used to being orphans and they will not fol- low a hen no matter how much she coaxes and clucks and scolds. Isn't it odd?" She had the playthings all in order and settled herself with her mending in her lap. "Instinct," said the teacher. "Nature puts an urge into the little chick that makes it seek a mother at the time it needs her most. And if you are to five thirds, and £183 cash. ger who introduced himself as P. J. NEW BRUNSWICK. 1 Skerry. He had a mind to quit the New Brunswick fruit growers did roaring city and settle down in the British market. For example, in but- ter, Australia scored 100 points against 97 for Ontario, and won first, second and third prizes in the salted, as well as the unsalted classes. The same thing wee true in cheese; for Golden Russets. BRITISH COLUMBIA. At the Imperial Fruit Show, 1922, British Columbia suffered from the feet that the Okanagan and Kootenay South Africa winningfirst viz and growers were practically unrepresent- prize, ed, although, in 1921, they were very Ontario corning second, with another successful. entry being highly commended. A special prize of £20 was awarded This competition with producers to Creston for the best British Colum - from other countries opens up to our bia exhibit in the British Empire• sec - farmers a vision of what world trade tion, The variety was Cox's Orange. means, and what must be done in In the Overseas section, Creston and order to compete. Kelowna each won a first with Cox's SASKATCHEWAN. Orange and Spitzenberg, respectively. At the International Grain and Hay Creston won a third with Fameuse Show, Chicago, IlI., 1922, Saskat- apples, and a first and third in any chewan growers won eleven prizes for other variety, besides a first for pears. wheat out of 26, thus maintaining the Two special prizes in this section were province's reputation for the produc- awarded to Creston for the best Brit - tion of the finest hard spring wheat. ish Columbia apple exhibit. Many successes were also secured in At the Portland, Oregon, Interna- tional Live Stock Exposition of 1922, British Columbia live stock winnings were as follows: In the classes for Clydesdale horses the winnings were, Senior and Grand Champion; Junior Champion and Reserve Grand Champion. Also seven firsts and a number of second and third prizes. In the classes for Dorset sheep the winnings comprised two champion- ships, and 14 first and - five second prizes. other sections. The complete list is as follows: Threshed wheat, Sweepstakes, lot and 5th (Hard Red Spring) ; 6th, 12th, 13th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 25th (Re- serve), '7th (Hard Red Winter). Threshed oats, ilth, 18th, 26th, 29th, 84th; threshed barley (two -rowed), 8th; threshed rye, 12th; threshed clover, 9th; threshed peas, .1st. • In connection with the above, it may be stated that Saskatchewan growers have won the wheat sham - PRESCRIBING FOR VIRGIL BY TOM P. MORGAN. Virgil Gorrett was indulging in one of his periodical pouts, and the more his wife strove to placate him the stronger grew his determination not to be appeased. When Virgil felt that. way, whatever Alma did was in his estimation done wrongly, and that. which she did not she ought to have done and ` according to specifications furnished by himself, Upon this occasion she had ventured the suggestion that the poultry might be made to return a better profit if the boarder biddies were culled out and sold, and the layers provided with more suitable rations, better quarters, and so on, all as a result of words spoken by the Agricultural Represen- tatives Home Demonstrator a few days before. In thus saying Alma had no selfish motive, for the egg money was not diverted to her use and benefit, but lost' its identity in the gen- eral farm fund. Virgil's objection carie chiefly from j the fact that he had not thought of the innovation himself, and, •approv- ,g of it, riassed the discovery on to la he The price, a good one, for Virge prided himself on being a shrewd bar- gainer, was agreed upon. The larger part of Skerry's funds, so he stated, were at the moment in the form of bank time deposit certificates which would not mature for some little while. If he should demand the cash on them before the expiration of that period he would forfeit the interest. In the interval he would pay Virgil $100, cash in hand, to bind the bar- gain, and complete the transaction when the certificates came due. Mean- while he wished to board at the Gor- rett home and pay for the privilege. He desired to begin certain improve- ments at once. When Virge triumphantly related certain of the -details of the transac- tion to Alma before' it was consum- mated and she offered timid objections he was at once convinced that he was driving a good bargain, and replied in substance that women knew nothing about business. Learning of the pros- pective deal, Aunt Tevis hastened to the Gorrett farm and endeavored to reason with Virgil, and had her 4ob- jection snorted down. "Aw, let him go ahead and get stung!" advised Deb. A little 'later Mrs. Tevis reported to the hired girl: "Mr. Skerry is making a lot of changes; putting in running water all through the house—you know Virge has a windmill and tank for the love, cherish and protect as long as his life lasted. Presently he stumbled blindly to the barn, scrambled up into the loft and tumbled face downward in the hay. Lying thus he shook with sobs of re- morse and beat his hands on the hay until the dust thereof stuck to the tears that wet his face. Came a day not long afterwards when Mrs. Tevis took her pen in hand and wrote, in part as follows, to one Paul J. Skerry, son of one of her niece's first marriage; — if your vacation did you a tenth as much good as it did Alma you can feel that your time was well spent. THE . CHILDREN'S Virgil is going his best to make amends, and not only says that the un- finished conveniences will be complet- ed, but actually seems trying to find others to install for Alma's comfort. j have informed the creditors that I will be responsible for any debts he may be unable to pay, but it is my in- tention to let him do all the paying he can without my aid. . Alma is growing plump and her color is like that of a young girl. Little Alma has learned to love her father. Come down here next summer for your vacation and get acquainted with the real Virgil. As Deb says, "Darned if he ain't got the malcin's of a man in him!" Your affectionate grand -aunt, LYDIA TEVIS, stock—" , "And lets Alma pack water from the well!" concluded Miss Quatts. "Yes, and Skerry is installing a portable plant and having the entire house wired .for electricity." his wife. Therefore he opposed both "Gee -whiz!" commented Debby. the idea and its purveyor, and without "He is going to put in a heater with analyzing his feelings was disgruntled registers all through the house. A big because Alma had accepted anything, porcelain sink has come for the kit- even advice, that he had not graciously chen. He plans to add a screened deigned to hand down to her from his verandah at the back, repaint the superior altitude. So he growled that the poultry was nothing but a bill of expense, anyhow. Furthermore, he didn't thank Miss be successful asp' It y woman you must work .with Nature—you can't oppose her." She drew a thread thoughtfully and then went on: "It is odd, and it is still more interesting to watch the same thing in children. Did you ever think what a powerful urge there must be in the little child to keep him trying to walk in spite of the discouraging falls he gets? "All through Betty's childhood and youth she will be led by instincts and desires through which Nature strives to prodhnce and develop perfect wo- manhood. And in handling children,. as in poultry raising, it saves us much pain and trouble if we work with Nature. • "Just now Betty is passing through what students of child life call the `imitative age.' She imitates every- thing she sees you do." The mother smiled knowingly. She loved the baby's little make -believes. "She plays set table, and sews, sweeps, kneads bread and makes beds as you do. If you work with Nature now you will save yourself and Betty a great deal of grief in the years to come." "You are thinking of the playthings on the floor," exclaimed the hostess, "Yes. While Betty wants to do just as you do, train her in habits of order- liness and cleanliness. The imitative age will not last long. After that, about the time she goes to school, there will come a period when your little girl will be lawless, careless and self- ish, inclined to puther will and her judgment against yours in everything. If she has become orderly and neat from habit before that time comes it will be a great comfort to you and of inestimable value to her while she is going through the trying 'Big Injun' age. If she has not, you will have to make up your mind, to pick up after her for many years to come, for there will never be another time during her childhood and youth when it will be easy to teach Betty the lessons of order." "Thanks for your little lecture, Grace," 'said Betty's mother as she rolled two little stockings into a ball. "I had never thought of it that way before—I shall begin at once to train Betty to `follow'." house, and so on." "Whew!" ejaculated Miss Quetta. Thus things proceeded for a space. Aunt Tevis went to the Gorrett place Dritt for dipping into his affairs. every little while and generally ; took Those officious Home Demonstrators Virge aside and spoke her doubts con - and Agricultural Representatives` cerning the whole matter. Who knew were nuisances, coining around with but that the stranger was playing their confounded theorie's and telling some sharp game? It seemed to her real dirt farmers how to farm. • And that the improvements ought to wait so on, to considerable length. until theentirepurchase money was. The tirade was of sufficient loud- paid. Thereupon Virge would distend ness to enable the Widow Teviss, who his chest. He was capable of looking had come over in her hiccoughing fiiv- out for himself. . Nobody could put ver from her farm to fetch a basket anything over on him. of her big; blushing peaches, to hear Then one night, for no apparent as she stepped up, onto the porch and reason, Skerry disappeared, leaving no stood for an instant or so, listening; trail, behind him. �� shamelessly. There were flivvers "Virge is acting like a crazy man, enough passing along the road tot reported Aunt Tevis. make the sound of one unworthy of ' "1 betcha he blames Alma for it all," notice. Virge did not own one. Nor commented Miss Quatts, and stated did he raise any peaches. I: the case accurately. In a little, while the visitor backed if Alma had not displayed so much 1 off from the porch, and then stepped interest Skerry would not have gone { up on it and approached the open door to such lengths, Virgil raged. He was 1 with tread unnecessarily heavy for so ruined. The cost of the materia] was j slight an old lady. Virge ceased his unpaid. Certain of the ;jobs were not I disgruntled' declaiming. He was not yet finished and must be carried especially fond of his wife's aunt. The through to completion or they would efficiency with which she carried on be' total losses.' Six million children are born in China every year. It costs $1.82 to keep a rat for a year. That looks high, but if we lop of the dollar the rat is still an ex- pensive luxury. The eighty-two cents would pay big interest on money in rat -proof cribs and bins. HOUR THE TOOLS OF ANIMALS. Did you know that many animals have tools and machinery for making things? All the silk that is used in the world is made by worms. The silk worm has a set of machinery for spin- ning silk. It winds up fine silk threads as it spins them. Men weave these threads into many beautiful kinds of goods. The wasp knows how to make paper. He picks off the finest bits of wood with his mouth, and then gathers them into a little bunch. He makes this into a soft pulp, and from the pulp he makes the paper with which he builds his nest. It is very much like common brown paper which we use. Indeed, the wasp was the earliest paper -maker in the world; and the first wasp made just as good paper as any wasp can make now. Hornets, which are a kind of wasp, make for themselves large, fine houses of paper, in which are doors and windows and many cozy rooms. The elephant can draw up water with his trunk; and so we might say that he carries a pump with him. It is with a pump something like the elephant's trunk that many insects gather honey from the flowers. The mosquito has such a trunk also. By the side of his trunk he carries a pair of lancets with which he cuts a hole into the skin of his victim. When these have done their work, he pumps the blood up into his mouth. The cat uses her rough tongue both as a brush and a comb. When she makes her morning toilet, she gets off the dirt and smooths her coat with it, just as the stable boy cleans and smooths the horse's coat with a curry- comb. When she wishes to smooth the hair of her head, she must use her forepaws for a comb. because she can- not reach her head with her tongue. There is a kind of fish which uses its mouth as a gun for shooting flies and other insects. It can shoot them not only when. they are still, but when they are on the wing. It watches thein as they are flying over the water an hits one of them, whenever it can do so, with a fine stream of water from its little gun. The insect, stunned by the blow, falls into the water, were it is quickly ^„alight and eaten by the fish. There are . many other animals which have tools for doing certai kinds of word:. Sortie use their tools in building nests or: hcnses; others i gathering their food; and still others in defending themselves against 'the! enemies. Nature has given to eacl animal the. tools which it needs. trios ro POULTRY. A Pretty_Fall Fashion A navy and white costume for cool fall days is composed or a striped skrt. and a coat trimmed with white strii:es and suede belt.. The sleeves have tiny turn back tiffs. • ratted through a flock of fowls is by means of the common drinking vessel. No drinking fountain has yet been devised that will not be contaminated by litter, manure, etc., being scratched into it, unless such vessels are set upon a table low enough that the fowls can fly upon it. Therefore, a harmless antiseptic should be used in the drink- ing water. Permanganate of potash is the best harmless antiseptic we have tried. We used it daily for chicks, putting it in ' their drinking water, and the result was that they were free from colds, which are so common among young, growing stock, especially during rainy and chilly weather. We noticed that the chicks were more vigorous and active, and from babyhood to matur- ity kept in the best of health. A crate of cockerels, from a man who was raising poultry for us, ar- rived on the farm in a pretty bad con- dition. Fully two-thirds of the birds developed colds, and some cases were quite serious. The sick birds were placed in separate enclosures and were given no other treatment than per- manganate of potash in their drink- ing water. With the exception of one that was too far gone, all birds re- covered. One hen on the farm had canker in the mouth, and another had a "rat- tling in the throat." These were at once removed to separate quarters and given the permanganate treatment, and in about two weeks' time their ail- ments were gone. A ' neighbor had two cases of chicken -pox, and we prescribed, along; with a physic of Epsom salts, and carbolated vaseline rubbed on the sores, that nothing but permanganate water be given for drink. One bird was worse than the other, and its head was dipped into the water. Both cases rapidly recovered. Another hen with a -cough 'and a yell that could be heard a hundred yards away, was successfully treated in the sante way—she was given no- thing but the 'permanganate water to drink. A friend assured us that he cured two cases of roup by first pressing the nostrils of the bird so as to loosen the discharge, and then plunging the d• head of the fowl into the permangan- ate wer for about half a minute. This, he said, distributed the solution through• the nostrils and the canals: Perniaogaoate of potash (potassi'1m permanganate) is a, dark reddish purple crystalline substance which can. be purchases,. at any drug store. n For convenience sake we put an ounce of permanganate of potash into n ` a quart !ottle of water, and let it set over night, so that' the crystals would r dissolve. '-This made a stock saturated *solution, very heavy hi color. When t the bottle was., about two-thirds empty it was again.filled;With water, and this was kept up until the solution became Ourforefathers reasoned that much was made. Two teaspoonfuls of this of the sickness among fowl was due to e water sclution is enough to color th impure . water, and they reasoned in an eight or. ten quart pail. This right. The most sure and rapid vary ' g was the only drink - the fowls got dee- by which infectious diseases are trans- ing the entire year. • very light in color, when a fresh' lot