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The Exeter Advocate, 1924-6-19, Page 6iw L. ,• - Address communications to. Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St.'West, Toronto HAIRLESS LITTERS AND POT- ASSIUM IODIDE. Certain definite abnormalties in pigs, such as complete or partial hair- lessness, undeveloped hoofs, blindness, large flabby and unnaturally devel- oped P d neck and head all arise from the same cause of causes. Pigs so affect- ed usually die although the sow re- mains normal. Pregnant sows which are fed a highly nitrogenous ration, given insu- fficient exercise, and little or no vege- table or mineral. matter are usually the heaviest sufferers. This indicates a deficiency of some necessary element in the ration. Con- trol of the trouble lies in preventive feeding and improved management of the sow. It is imperative that the sow be encouraged to take daily ex- ercise. In so far as is practical, sep- arate the feed trough, sleeping cabin, and hay rack, or if the sow is housed in a shed or straw stack adjacent to or situated in the barn yard, the feed- ing trough should be placed some dis- tance away so that she has noaltern- ative but to take exercise. Close con- finement of the pregnant sow must be carefully avoided. Bran should always . form part of the ration and to this should be added such meals as shorts, screenings, oats or barley supplemented with 5 per cent. of tankage and 1 per cent. of bone meal. Pulped mangels or boiled. turnips and clover hay, preferably al- falfa, are suitable roughages. Min- erals in the form of charcoal, earth, soft coal or wood ashes, etc., should always be available for the sows. If these measures fail, medicinal treatment must be resorted to. Scien- tifie investigation has demonstrated that the addition of iodine in some form to the sow's ration may remedy the trouble. In Eastern Canada where only an occasional litter may be affected, exercise and proper feeds should be successful, but where hair- lessness is common iodine should be administered during the gestation per- iod, or at least for the greater part of it. A solution of one part of potas- sium iodide in a gallon of water may be prepared and when this solution is supplied to the sow in the meal ra- tion at the rate of one tablespoonful per day she gets a daily allowance of. about two grains of the drug, which is sufficient. POULTRY REGISTRATION. Poultryis snow 'well Registration under way. The first inspection of 1924 is completed and the inspectors in the various provinces report favor- ably on the work. The breeders have given generous support to the move- ment and interest seems to have in- creased materially . during the last year. This is no doubt due to the better knowledge gained with respect to registration work throughout Can- ada. Those in direct charge of the inspection of registered hens have tried to impart such detail to the breeders as will enable them to keep accurate records of the progeny of the registered females. Recording forms have been supplied to each breeder, and leg bands, which later are to be used as wing bands, have been fur- nished for all chicks, the progeny of registered females. A11malee birds have been inspected for these matings and in nearly every case the very finest of producing blood lines are to be found behind these males. An honest effort is being made by every breeder to establish a firm basis for his registered poultry, as he real- izes that fraud or carelessness of any kind will later reflect on the strain. The firm confidence displayed by the public generally in registration shows that the work of the Canadian Na- tional Poultry Record Association is being appreciated by the poultrymen of Canada. Reports of fertility and hatchabil- ity are very encouraging and give promise of being very much better than the hatching season of 1928. To hear of 75 per cent. hatches is quite common and riiany breeders are get- ting even 90 per cent, hatchability from their registered birds. Generally speaking, the contestants who have been successful in the vari- ous laying contests throughout Can- ada report active business conditions, which indicates that the egg -laying contests are serving as a guide to the buying public in the securing of re- liable bred -to -lay stock. The Pretty Room the Paintbrush Made BY MARY GRACE RAMEY. This year daughter reached the age' when` the usual hit-or-miss furniture! found in the growing girl's bedroom I wouldn't do at all; in fact, she was quite unhappy about her room and; when I surveyed it with a critical eye I couldn't quite say I blamed herd There was a rather battered brass bed, a hand-me-down from former! grandeur which had lost some of its rods and was altogether hopeless, though the spring was good and quite; comfortable; also a shabby, golden -I oak chiffonier, with a scroll top --how did we ever come to buy these things anyway? A small desk in dark mis-' sion finish, a table or two from sonici nondescript period and a funny little old dresser, which, had been mine when a girl,, completed the inharmon- ious effect. The curtains were dis- carded lace affairs not suitable for any spot in the house, so they were used here. No wonder daughter was discouraged and that keeping her room in order bad grown to be a mat- ter of duty with no pleasure in it. But where was the money to come from for the pretty set she so longed for? That was beyond me until I took father into my confidence, and together we decided to try our hands at making new furniture from the old. The attic, like those in many old homes, contained the leavings of past generations. Here we had an old hope bedstead which had been forgotten for years; they are quite the thing now, though used with a spring instead of the "ropes, and they are very comfort- able as well as pretty. The spring from the brass bed 'fortunately was the right size, and with four large hooks forged by the blacksinith from heavy strapiron and screwed to the side rails, -it could be used very well. MAKING A START. A funny little .old-fashioned wash- stand could take the place of the un- couth desk most satisfactorily and the table would easily stand a coat of paint. My old-fashioned bureau when deprived of much of its ornamenta- tion was quite presentable in line,' though sadly lacking in finish. The scrollwork was removed from the chiffonier and the high inartistic back! entirely taken away and 'a plain piece. of pine board substituted. It was! shaped to conform with the simple lines of -the other furniture. To be' quite up-to-date the 'mirror Was re -1 moved from the chiffonier and; the' molding painted to match the rest o.f, the pieces. Then it was hung by a colored cord above the chiffonier. If the bi-:rears had been a suitable shape .t would have been treated in the same way, for it is very much the thing just now to hang one's enirror:s "fiat against .the, wall. Here we had a• start, but such a'start! ,Almost every. plee'e was of different wood and the ' finish; sad:y marred and scratched; daughter thought her room was to be more of a mess than ever. But with scrubbings of strong soda water and much scraping and ,sandpapering, all done in the cellar, every piece was finally cleaned and ready for the paint. For economy's sake we used a first coat of inexpensive paint as near the desired color as could be ob- tp.ined. This was gone over with sandpaper when thoroughly dry and then two coats of enamel given. For our color we selected _a. soft greenish blue, of egg -shell gloss. This gave a more subdued finish than regular enamel. Of course each coat was thoroughly dry before another was given. Decoration was a matter of discussion; some voted for stenciled flowers, but daughter wished striping of a rather light, creamy yellow. Father, who is clever at work of this kind, purchased a regular striping brush for a few cents, and after a little practice was able to give the furniture quite a professional finish with the narrow stripes. THE FINISHING TO-JCHES. While father was busy in the cellar with his cleaning and varnishing I had not been idle. All the blue and white cotton rags I could muster, with a few yellow and cream, had been transformed into serviceable crochet- ed and braided rugs. Any woman who can wield a crochet hook will have no trouble in making these rag. rugs which, by the way, are extremely smart and used by the best decorators with the simple painted furniture. Little Swiss curtains with over - draperies of inexpensive cretonne were the chief expense in doing over the room, as new materials had to be purchased for them, but they added so greatly to the freshness and charm. that we felt we were well repaid for the additional cost. The overdraper- ies were tacked to a valance hoard. Hung ha this way the , drapery com- pletely conceals the window trim. Daughter is so'proud of her smart little rboni these days that no amount of work seems too much for her to at- tempt to increase its loveliness. Dustless Concrete Floors. Concrete floors are a mighty desirs able feature in,iinany'farm buildings; everyone wants them and everyone should have them if at- all possible. But nice as they are, dustless cone erete .floors ave better still. And it's a very easy matter to make them dustproof. Here is how to: do it: When the floor has perfectly dried, paint it with boiled linseed oil, thin- ned. to the " proper consistency with gasoline. To obtain a glossy surface, which many will prefer, several coats should be applied. it is better to point with pride than to view with alarm. THE CHILDREN'S HOU THE RIGHT KIND OF OIL. "It's a fact," 'complained Harold, "whatever I try, The goal line I somehow cannever • get by. While Richard, and Walter have con- stant good luck, Promised wheels of success for me always get stuck." "I can vouch for the reason." 'Twas Grandfather Doyle. "You never have yet used the right kind of oil. • The reason your two friends the race never lose, 'Perseverance and Pluck' brand of oil 'tis they use. While the lubricant you on your axles, bestow, Is `Sometime -I'll -do -it'; of course, they won't• go!" " r see—now," said Harold, "how a race one can spoil,— • And hereafter I'll use the improved brand of oil!" Adelbert F. Caldwell. THE TRICK IS TURNED ON BENNIE FOX. School was out in Woodland. and all the little. animal boys and girls were hurrying home. At• just• his usual time; Willie Woodchuck. went romping into' the door;. of his, little wood-eolored house. "Please, mother`, `I am so hungry. Can't I have some bread and honey?" he asked. "Yes, Willie, you may if you will be careful with the crumbs," answered Mrs. Woodchuck. "I will be very careful, mother. I'll take it out doors to eat," said Willie. And so in a few minutes Willie was out in his swing munching a nice big slice of home-made bread spread all over with honey and he certainly did like honey. Just then Benny Fox came along on his way home from school. How good that bread and honey looked to Bennie. It just made his mouth water, and his dinner pail was empty. "Willie, let's get your little red wagon and take. a ride down the south hill," he suggested. - "That will be fun," said Willie. "Just wait a minute until I get my wagon.", So, laying his bread and honey down in the swing, he scamper- ed off, after it. As soon as Willie was out of sight Bennie Fox grabbed the bread and honey and ran down the road. "How fine my scheme worked," chuckled Bennie to himself as he climbed upon the stone wall jus+; around the bend in the road so that he might fully enjoy his delicacy. He was just ready to take- hili, first big . bite when he spied snnething. hanging from the branch of the tree above him. "What can that be," he wondered to himself. He had never seen any- thing that looked like that before. It was like a big paper sack full of air, but there were some little black holes in it and he could hear a funny buzz- ing noise on the inside. It really was the "oddest looking thing he ever saw. "When I finish my bread and honey," he thought to himself, "I'l climb up there and see what that is." b And he turned quickly to take a big c bite of his bread and honey without even looking at it. Then "Ouchie Ow, Ouchie Owl" Somebees from what Bennie thought was the big paper bag up in the tree had flown down to get some of the honey that was on Bennie's bread. They had stuck fast and when Bennie had taken the bite without looking, he had gotten one right in his mouth and it stung him. Off the stone wall he jumped and down went the bread and honey with the rest of the bees into the dirt. Ben- nie went crying home with a very sore tongue and he thought he never would try to play a trick' on anyone again. g more money wth diversified farming. We thought we'd like to raise fine hogs; .blit ,gettiii'g started took ready cash, ana with the low price for our wheat we had mighty little ready money. I' wondered what I could do in m own hone to earn more than I wa already earning—about $8 . a week— with butter and eggs. It occurre to me that the only real • accomplish ment I had was cooking. We Ive near enough to a city t have a ready market for whateve we want to sell. • First came the idea of cottage cheese. Every morning I fed th chickens quantities of sour skim -milk They didn't really need it, for th wheat was green and fresh, and ther was ample corn for thein. I can mak a good cottage cheese, and I remexn bered that Mr.. Hill, the groceryman, had told me once that he had a regu lar demand for good cheese, He offer ed me 10 cents a pound; and I four that I could easily make 473'2 pound a week. I added nearly $5 to rn weekly income. One day when I saw the two him dred fat, plump chickens sputtering around' in my back yard it dawned on me that they weren'-t making money enough for us. I thought of making pressed chicken. I fished out the kettle, contracted with the grocery to furnish 10 poundt, at first, at 50 cents a pound—a clear profit of 25 cents a pound—And went to work. I make my chicken by boiling the 'fowl till the flesh fell from the bones, grinding it with the coarsest knife, covering it with its own liquor, and allowing the mixture to stand and mold overnight. All fall I've been building up• a trade. Frequently my sales run into 50 pounds a week. I figure that I'm adding $12.50 a week from pressed chicken to my income.—Mrs. G. D. B. • Tell Theon So. Tell the hired man he has done well when he does a good job. He is human, like the rest of us, and it will inspire him to do well all the time. Talk things over with him. Give him a chance to express his opinion about how work shall be done and what new plans shall be developed. If you have a tenant on your farm, tell him you are well pleased with his way of doing things, if you are, and it may pay to stretch a point on this score. Tell your tenant that you will put on some better cows this year, oil do some other thing to increase _the effi- ciency of the place. There is no surer way to hold a good man and to insure his doing the best po>rsible for the place than to .give him the best pos- sible cows to work with, or extra good tools of any kind. Some women would be wonderfully glad if they knew their husbands ap- preciated their efforts to keep the home nice and to have food that just fills the bill. This is not so easy for the good wife to do as you may sup- pose. She must not only have good food, but she must be prompt and on time. Then men folks are not always as considerate as then might be in this direction. They are very apt to storm round a good deal if things dol not come round on tick. When you ee the wife sweating and getting red n the face, help her and keep the men usy resting till the call to dinner omes. 'THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON d. 0 r e. • e e e d 9 Y POULTRY If eggs are dirty, don't' wash them., Washed eggs deteriorate more rapid -I ly than unwashed, and detection of a few washed eggs may cause buyers, to penalize the entire lot. Unusually large quantities of wash. ed eggs are reported this spring. Al- though dirty eggs are discounted in price, washing eggs will generally cause_ producers a greater loss. Only clean, unwashed, high-quality eggs bring top prices. Production of clean eggs is accomplished by keeping hen house floors and nests clean, athering the eggs daily and keeping the laying hens during muddy wee ther in dry quarters until afternoon, when most of the eggs will have been laid. Producers will find it more profitable to use the soiled eggs on the farm, and to market only the best quality product. The kindliness you radiate is the my kindliness you retain. 0 — - I Make $20 a Week More. I am making nearly $20 a week more than I did last year. And I'm not working much harder than. I did either; I've just learned to think. You see, early last fall, my husband. decided . to abandon exclusive wheat farming and see if we .couldn't. make o • JUNE 22 Reforms Under Ezra and . N Nehemiah, chs. 5, 8 and. unto me, and 1 will return hosts.—Malachi 3: 7. The reign of Artaxerxes I, king of Persia (Ezra 7:1), began in B.C. 464, more than seventy after the re- turn of the exiles under Zerubbabel and Joshua;. andefifty-two years after the completion, of the building of the, temple.. it was early in this reign, about B.C. 458, that Ezra, a learned and pious man,' of one of the old priestly families, came from Babylon to Jerusalem with a large company, Ezra, ch. 8. He had made a special study, in his Babylonian Jewish home,. of those books which the exiles had carried with them, and especially of the ancient laws of Israel., "He was a ready scribe in the law of Moses." In the king's decree which authorized his journey he is called "the ,priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven." Ezra came to Jerusalem on a mis- sion of reform. For he "had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and' judgments." The .king's decree authorized him to appoint. magistrates and judges who would enforce the law, Ezra 7:25, 26. To the task of teaching and reform he set himself with prayer and with zeal. The journey from Babylon was begun with a solemn fast that, he says, "We. might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way." He ad- mats with refreshing frankness that, s having said to the Persian king, "The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him,' he was after- ward ashamed to ask for a military escort on the long and dangerous jour- b ney, but God brought his company Conviction on the part of Christian safely upon its way, Ile inauguurated people in all lands, that war is a vie- d( mission in Jerusalem by prayer lotion of Christ's spirit and an out-. (Ezra, eh. 9) and his earnestness and rage on brotherhood. We come to the deep feeling wade a profund impres- question of Bible study to -day, its Mon upon the people. method and importance. Neh, 8:1-8. The last verse of the 1. Our study must be intelligent. preceding chapter should be read with We read (Neh. 8:8), "So they read this chapter. The of this assem- in the law" of God distinctly, and gave bly is the seventh month of the twen- the sense, and caused them to imder- tieth year of Artaxerxes, that is the stand the reading." Here we discover B.C.the key to our study to -day. We are to read understandingly, in such a way as to reach the "sense" of the Bible. In the margin of the Revised Version the translators have inserted an alternative reading for the word "distinctly." It is "with an interpre- tation." That is very sugges'tve. We, have been restored since the destruc- toot,, need an "interpretatiof "the tion of the city by Nebuchadnezzar in Bile. But why? Here are two or B.C. 586, unless the story told in three reasons: ;Ezra 4: 7-23 represents an attempt at (a) The Bible is not one volume rebuilding earlier an the reign of written by one author, but a library Artaxerxes. This gave the people re- of books or pamphlets, dating from newed courage and hope. The walls many different times and circure- provided security and a means of de- stances. Would it not be well to learn fence against the attacks of jealous how it all came about -that these par - enemies. The governor rendered an- titular pamphlets were finally sewed other great service to the people when together, because they were concerned he persuaded rich creditors to release with the one subject of religion? the mortgages which they held on the (b) There is a great variety of fields of their poorer brethren, to set literary forms in the • Bible. If we free those who had been sold intoIinterpret myth or poetry as sober slavery for debt, and no longer to prose, we shall miss its meaning. Just exact usurious interest on loans made, reflect for one moment on this fact., to those who were in distress. (See that we have in the Bible, such liter - ch. 5.) , ary forms as the following: proverb, ehemiah, Ezra, chs. 7 to 10 13. Golden Tent .— Retu unto you,saith the Lord The. governor, who is called by hie Persian title Tirshatha, associate himself with Ezra in �m portan task,an n d joined ' with t`' hit and jhi y' Levites in proclaiming this day a hole' day, and a day of rejoicing. The pee- ple had wept when they heard the great and inspiring; story of the day* of Moses and of Sinai and the wild- erness, and when they realized:how far they had departed from the law of their God. But the injunction o • • err leaders was "Neither ye sore -7,10r the joy of the Lord is your strength, APPLICATION. There is something very instructive and inspiring in the narrative of the lesson passage --."the children of Is- rael," gathered together as one com- munity to listen to the exposition of the Law, under. the guidance of Ne- hemiah and Ezra. ' These were "rest letter" days surely (read chs. 8, 9 and 10), and at the close came the signing of the solemn league and covenant to be faithful to the Law. We see here} the value of a common religious ink, pulse. Princes, Levites, priests and the people generally, were all moved by the desire to ascertain the divine Will and conform to it. A mass move- ment of this kind is of incalculable value. For example, the organization of the early church began'after the experience at Pentecost. Scotlanri:, as wept by the Reformation due. England was saved from bloody'revo- ution by the evangelism of Weslqy9. If we are to be preserved from ti!. ravages of war in the future, it will e chiefly by means of the common year 444, fourteen years after the coming of Ezra. Nehemiah, a Jew of high official rank in the Per - elan court, is now governor. Like Ezra, he came to Jea+isalem with a sincere purpose to help the people. His first task had been to rebuild the walls of the city, which seem never to The book of the law of dioses was drama, a ic, elegy, history, chromate the same, or almost the same, as the. ogy, legislation, sermons, apocalypse, Pentateuch. It was a collection of I letters, etc. These need to be "inter - the ancient law codes, together with I preted." the history of the beginnings of the} (c) The Bible sprang out of rel Israelite people, revised and adapted ous "experience, but not out o thea to the needs of this later age. Ezra religious experience of one man or now brought the law before the con-, even one nation. The Old Testament gregation. He read in the ears of ell, tells the story of the religious develop - who could understand, standing in the ment of Israel for twelve hundred broad place (Rev. , Ver.) or . public years or so. The New Testament grew square, inside the city gate, upon a in the Graeco-Roman civilization. So high platform which had been erected we need to study every book of the for him. -j Bible in the light of the age in which Vs. 8-12. "They read -in the book." I it was written, just as we need to ask The scene as described was an im-; ourselves for example: "Why did Paul pregeive one. When Ezra opened the write his first letter to the Christiaa. book all the people stood up., When converts at Corinth?" or, "Why did he invoked God's blessing upon them' Johii write his first Epistle?" People they all answered "Amen," lifting up: do not "know their Bible" siniply be - their hands and bowing their heads in cause they can quote unrelated texts. worship. Then Ezra and his associ-' from different parts of the Bible. No ates read and explained to the people rather, we must learn the meaning of the meaning of what they read. They any verse or text as a part of th probably "divided the people into com- narrative to which it belongs. Wb panies, which, after listening to Ezra, would think of twistingone sentenc g from a private letter written to -day, without. reference to the circumstances behind the comiminication as a whole' 2. While we must seek to study the Bible intelligently, it is just as impor- tant that we should study with the spirit of reverence and humility: We guage was slowly changing. Old terms have in it the story of man's sei.rab • had become obsolete, old customs had after God,—a long, toilsome, prayer= ful story it is. It is the narrative of mail's spiritual pilgrimage. On thua other side it is the attempt to pretax to us the divine effort to bring ma* educative, work, and rendered a ser -into fellowship with God. That is the' vice both to religion and good Citi- Bible. Let us study it with aevoat zen:ship. minds and chastened spirits. • n dmil'erent parts of the Square with their respective instruc- tors. They "gave the sense, so that they understood the reading." Much of the language of the ancient law was probably strange and unin- telligible to these people. The lan- passed away, and old laws were re- tained, but with a new interpretation to fit.the present need. Ezra and his fellow teachers thus did a ' great ti Wafer in the Kitchen from an OutsideaJell. A dug well, walled- with sewer, tile, with a pump in the kitchen,is here th described'by a fernier: Im "A good well -digger dug , the well d at the rate of $1' a foot in depth, and -co also placed the tiles in position. 1 of used eigh t sewer tiles, twenty-four inches in'diameter. Seven of these se were in the ground and, eanh crock ve was. two feet in height. This made a at TI ai w jo 01' sh to O all lig at night by raising the pump handle all the way up to open the valve. in- side, as should be done for ,rrfoty. "The benefit of having the pump o sink directly in the.k'it'chen, can ardly be overestimated, especially, Liring zero weather, when you art mpel}ed to waste a couple of ketaatar; hot water to prime it, if outside. "The: one tile above the ground has veral advantages. It is of a coi'1- nient height for a person to work . It gIves''a good, platform 'to set essels upon, and is much cleaner. le ground dirt can not get on if, d it is out of reach of srnail animal3 hich are very apt to fall in. Thi int . between the first and second! ocks . from theetop was Temente, ut. All other joints were left ope* permit easy passage for the watered um. water is as clear as crystal an the 'city :folks' who visit us, dei ht in drinking it." well fotru ren feet deep, ..f , cue lef t one whole crock projecting out of the - ground. • well was installed during that awfully hot and dry period of the summer. of 1916 and we were in teed grateful to discover 'water the next day to a depth of eight fent. Several wells in ``the neighborhood ,vent dry during this drought. "Mie exposed. portion of: pipe under c+ -'c n'. . e the``•house' was.. covered., vi:'ii...ne-s .Above scene may soeni peaceful, but such is roti e case. lntlea,l it iswith crs- i:he scene 01 much partpapers and boarded ,up to'. prevent n t cis activity for it is of the iirills o the 1'ii,;et SouuQ freezing limed winter comes,es ectal- Lumber Company of Victoria, 1.3,C. P ly if we forget to let the water down to Thisisay ofprizes, but ne o a has yet entered one for beating a trate the crossing.' tee e