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THE VVINGHAM TIMES
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Octeber 7th 1915
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In the dolry Section or Miele tied
in s number or other loctillklee threugh•
out the country the corn crap is below
normal, and limy farmers would be
ten.merious predicament but for the
amazing auccees of
At corn planting Limo Inst year tbe
weather in Illinois wail cold and wet.
delaying wore end giving: the crop a
poor start, but in the line weather or
April, three or four weelse before any-,
body would Mire put in corn, Weal&
was growing vigoveusly. It came
1 through the winter in good condition,
jand the yield of hay has been far the,
heaviest ever obtained from the alfalfa
fields of the northweat.
In hundreda o individual eases al•
falfa makes up for the deficiency in
corn, so that farmers will be able to
feed their cattle to advantage. It goes
without saying that alfalfa has come
into high favor all over the north, and
farmers are learning all they can about
the crop. This legume ought to net
$50 to $75 an acre where it is cut three
'times in a eeasoa, The return is 475
to $100 an acre in eouthern latitudes,
where the crop ie cut five or six tiraee.
Most of the arguments for vowing
alfalfa are based on the plan of feed-
ing the crop to dairy cows at home.
There is. another side to this, Hamlet
Worker of Onondaga county, N. Y..
sells the hay and. cuts out the work of
running a dairy. He has sold his
cows. His thirty-five acres of alfalfa
this year gave five tons of hay per
acre. for which he has received an av-
erage of $10 a ton. Perhaps his work
on the hay represents two months of
actual labor, whereas when he fed his
mem to dairy cattle be worked from
daylight till dark the year round, and
seven days in the week. He claims the
see,
Making the Little
Farm Pay
A. FIELD OF YOURO seneeive..
dairy never showed more net profit for
a year than does this erop of thirty-
five acres of alfalfa.
All along the limestone soils in cen-
tral New York alfalfa is working farm
miracles. Wherever its culture be-
comes general all crops improve, land
values rise, incomes increase and pros-
perity attends the farm. One-half
pound more of butter and one pound
more of beef for each household in the
middle west is a possibility if only
three -tenths of the land now in grass
were given over to alfalfa, The pro-
tein in alfalfa hay is substantially as
great as that from bran in feedbag ra-
tion. Alfalfa ranges in price from $15
to $25 a ton, but after all it pays to
feed it up as closely as possible to
dairy and beef cattle on the farid.
Whether sent to market or consumed
at home, it has become established as
one of the greatest of the money mak-
ing products and in many cases is solv-
ing the whole problem of farm finances.
The yield of four to six tons per acre
is a common experience all over the
country where modern methods are em-
ployed in raising the crop. At minimum
market prices this means a money val-
ue above that of corn, when compared
acre for acre.
The first step to insure success of al-
falfa is to provide a good seed bed.
For this purpose it is well to choose
land on which corn, sugar beets, pota-
toes or other cultivated erops have
been grown. Through the cultivation
of enese crops the land is clean crop_
,
weeds and usually works down to a
mellow seed bed. The field should be
plowed deeply In the fall, so that the
soil may be exposed to frost and thaws
during winter, and eight or ten tons of
manure per acre should be used. In
the spring the land is to be disked and
harrowed. Then there should be ob-
tained a quantity of soil where alfalfa
or sweet clover has been grown. This
soil contains suitable bacteria. In oth-
er words, It is inoculated, This in-
oculated soil should be scattered over
the surface in quantities of about 1500
Pounds per aere. It must be harrowed
In at once, as sunlight Is deadly to bac-
terial life, The field is then ready foe
seeding, and it will pay to drill in with
the seed 400 pounds per acre of a fer-
tilizer analyzing 2 per cent =male,
I2 per tent available phosphdric acid
and 2 per esent potash. Tveenlie
pounds ot seed is a liberal Supply.
Less may do, and the fernier, If setts -
tied with his soil, may cut out the com-
mercial tertilizer. It is assumed that
the land has been limed or is Sweet
enough for leguminous crops. V there
Is sourness apply 2,000 pounds of linhe
Spring seeding of alfalfa Is generally
favored. Cut the crop when blooining
begins. In order to save the leave
the hay should be raked up soon after
cutting and cured ittiteks. tit starting I Children Ory
Mat With "Alfalfa leek, for the seed of i
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land,
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.• Customer is Always Right".
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Chicago. It is an assertion of the custorryr's place of suprem-
acy in the relation between buyer and seller.
Any retailer who slights his cus-
tomer is committing business sui-
cide. The eu,torner wants those
who serve him or her to use the
newspaper as a vehic'e for their
announcements of goods or service.
This is, the modern and right
idea. Newspaper advertisements
give desired business news in the
right place and at the right time.
To ignore your customer's wishes
in this matte- is to commit a costly
mistake—far more costly than news,
paper space.
To the Merchants of Wingham.
Keep your eyes on your customers and humor them. It pays to do so.
Keep very close to them—by means of advertisements in the weekly
"Times.'
FOLLOW LEADERS,
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In the death of Mr. Robert Pearson,
which occurred at his home on the 4th
Con. on Tuesday, Sept. 'Met, Grey
Township. has lost one of its oldest and
most. respected residents. The late
Robert Pearson, son of Robert
, Pearson and Catherine Richardson, was
Ibern in Queen's County, Ireland, in
1May 1848, when the subject of this
sketch was but an infant the family
emigrated to Ohio. Here they remain-
ed for two years, when they carne to
Canada, settling first in Godericb town-
:
' ship. In 1855 .the family moved to
!Grey, where the deceased resided up to
the time of his death. In )873 Mr.
Pearson married Susanna Musgrove, of
Turnberry. The young couple began
house -keeping on the farm adjoining
that of the father of the deceased, and
for forty-two years shared all the Joys
and sorrows of life. By industry and
thrift they were able to possess a
beautiful home, and at the same time
rear and educate a large family. For
many years Mr. Pearson was a devoted
member of and an active worker in the
Methodist church. In politics he was a
Conservative. Besides his bereaved
widovv, he leaves to mourn his loss, a
brother, James, and a sister, Mrs.
Ellis, and a family cf seven children:
Mrs. Wesley Beacom. Hullett; 'Mrs.
Wm. Bremner, Grey; Mrs. A. H. Hark-
ness, Vegreville, Alta.; Mrs. Emmer-
son Vipona, Elma; Rev. Robert Pear-
son, B. A., Calgary; John on the home-
stead and Rev. Jas. 3. Pearson, B. A.,-;
who was in constant attendance at the
bedside of his father during the past
three months. The funeral which took
place on Thursday, Sept. 23rd from the
family residence to the Ethel Cemetery
was largely attended by many friends
1 and relatives of the deceased. The
services at the house were conducted
by Rev. Mr. Johnston, pastor at Ethel,
!assisted by the Rev, Mr. Wren, Bres-
tI sels' a former pastor. Both the
!speakers paid very long and earnest
tributes to the sincere and earnest
• Christian life of the deceased, referring
in very elcquent terms to his devotion
to church work. They spoke feelingly
of his usefulness in the prayer meeting,
class meeting and on the quarterly
board; that the Methodist church had
sustained a great loss in the death of
brother. Pearson. The pall -bearers
were Jas. Pearson, brother, John and
James Pearson, sons, A. H. Musgrove,
Jno. Musgrove and Dr. George Mus-
grove, brothers-in-law.
ie Gained 36 Liol.
Mrs. George Bradshaw, Harlowe,
Ont., writes: "I wasetroubled fur many
years with weak, watery blood and
dropsy. I had nervous headaches,
dizziness and sinking spells, and was,
in fact, a semi -invalid. Doctors told
me my heart and kidneys were diseased
and gave me up. By using 10 boxes of
Dr. Chase'e Nerve Food I have been
cured of Tetley of my old complaints
I and gained 36 pounds in weight.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Daughters of the Empire will be held
in the armouries to -Morrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock.
•••••••••••Malwar
Windsor, Walkerville and Sandwich
representatives decided to ask the
lerxeriecial Government to form a Metro-
' politan Commission to control varioue
Utilities in the three towns.
i CASTORIA
BAR RATS OUT OF FARM BUILD-
INGS
Buildings, constructed of stone, brick,
concrete and steel are very inhospitable
to rodents. Such buildings not only
make life hard for the rats by limiting
their places of retreat, but they make
it impossible for the rodents to gain
access to the farmer's grains and other
foodstuffs. It is pretty hard to starve
a rat out entirely, but it can be done,
especially in Winter, when it cannot
find food in the fields. Concrete floors
and foundations have been resPonsible
for a wonderful decrease in the rat pop-
ulation of country districts. The farm-
er who has all his buildings equipped
with concrete foundations or floors will
be bothered very little by fats 'unless
he has nutnerous outside places where
they can hide.
Rats may effectually be kept out of
outside granaries by the use of either
an inner or an outer covering of gal-
vanized wire netting of half-inch mesh.
There are various makes of metal
cribs now on the market which are
durable and comparatively cheap.
These cribs are absolutely proof against
rodents ad thieves of all kinds, as well
as fire and lightning, hence they are an
economical investment where the grain
crops cannot be fully protected in any
other way.—Michigan Farmer.
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SONG OF LIFE
A traveller on a dusty road,
Strewed acorns on the lea;
And one took root and prouted up,
And grew into a tree.
Love sought its shade at evening time,
To breathe its early vows;
And age was pleased, in heights of noon
To bask beneath its boughs.
The cloormouse loved its dangling twigs
The birds sweet music bore —
It stood a glory in its place,
A blessing evermore. ,
A little spring had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern;
A passing stranger scooped a well
Where weary men might turn.
He walled it in, and hung with care
A ladle on the brink;
He thought not of the deed he di&
But judged that toil might drink.
He passed again; and lo! the well.
By summer never rifled,
He'd cooled ten thousand parched
tongues
And saved a life beside.
A nameless man, amid the crowd,
That thronged the daily mart,
Let fail a word of hope and love,
Unstudied from the heart, —
A whisper ori the tumult thrown,
A transitory breath.
It raised a brother from the dust,
It saved a soul from death.
0 germ! 0 fount! 0 word of love!
0 thought at random cast!
You were but little at the first,
But mighty at the last.
—Charles MacKay.
Mrs. Walter Ellis, of Malahide, was
burned to death while mixingvarnish On
the stove.
Guelph City Council decided to con-
tinue to pay the premiums on the in-
surance of soldiers Of the first two
tontingetits.
The Indians at the thirtieth annual
eonvention of the Council of the Tribes,
at Deseronto, expressed strong op-
position to the liquor traffic.
Anyone above eighteen is eligible for
the; repel:ye rallitia, and officers are not,
reoirecl td haVe had three years' ex-
perience in the militia.
A CLEAN BARN IS NOT EXPENSIVE.
Every up-to-date dairyman takes
pride in the appearance of the place
where his cows are housed and milked.
Many years of experience have shown
that the following points must be con-
sidered:
Milk drawn from filthy cows, or
from cows kept in a stable that is not
well lighted or ventilated, or that is
filthy from an accumulation of manure,
or milk exposed to foul or noxious
odors cannot be lawfully sold or manu-
factured into an article of food for sale.
1. Keep the. barn clean, well ven-
tilated, web liAlited, • and free from
dust.
2. Whitewash the barn at least once
a year. It will add to its appearance,
increase its value, lighten the dark
corners, and make it more sanitary.
3. It is desirable to have dairy
cattle in a barn by themselves. The
odor from horse stalls, filthy calf pens,
or hog pens is objeetionable, because it
will tint the milk when it is drawn.
4. When constructing a new barn,
or if the old one is remodeled, see that
the walls are smooth and that the ceil-
ing is tight. The floor and the base of
the walls should be constructed of
cement in order that the liquid manure
may be saved and removed.
5. Give the cow a chance to keep
clean. She cannot do it if the stall is
too long or too short or not high
enough. Cow stalls should be so con-
structed that the cows will lie with
their heads in the manger, otherwise
they will be compelled to step back-
ward before lying down, in which case
they have no chance to keep clean. A
large gutter and adjustable stalls that
line all the cows up to the gutter are
important factors in keeping the cows
and floor clean.
6. An abundance of bedding in the
cow stalls makes for clean milk, clean,
contented covvs„ clean floors, and the
saving of the liquid manure If bed-
ding or other absorbents are, placed in
the gutter, the liquid manure will be
absorbed and held at the bottom To
some extent that practice prevents the
eows from soiling themselves.
7. The manure should be removed
daily and the manger kept clean. Cob-
webs should be swept down and be-
spattered walls washed.
8. Manure should not be placed
against the barn or where the cows
will be compelled to wade through it in
going to and from the barn.
0. Even le hen the cows live out of
doors in summer and are in the barn
only at milking time, failure to clean
the floor and gutter regularly will re-
sult in foul odors.
10. During the -summer months Cows
should not be kept in the barnyard
over night, They should have a clean
place to lie.
NON-FATTENING FOODS
Many foods which are nourishing do
not produce fat. The two kinds which
create fatty tissues are fats of all kinds
like butter, lard, drippings (food cooked
in them, arid the large group of toads
classed a starchee. If eaten in excess
stanch will be laid up in the body a
superfluous or stored fat.
Following is a list of nourishing foods
which will not produce excess fat:
Light meats, like thicken, White -fish,
lean beafi all vegetables except pota-
toes, parsnips and other starchy kin*
treat Of all kinds except bananas, grains
Or cereals, extent oatmeal and rice; ,
Milk, in small quantity, eggs.
MIIk anti eggs will fatten unless ex.
ereitie i$ taken or the body is in a very
rundown condition. Cocoa is a fatten-
ing drink also.
TUUKISII DELIGHT.
An Englishwoman (litres an Inapree-
sion of Harem bite In Turkey.
The • Turkish proverb has It,
"Friendleas surely he remaineth who
demands a faultless friend"; and, ac-
cording to Grace Ellison in "An Eng-
lishwoman in a Turkish Harem,""
the Turka'coroe near to that Coveted:
perfection,
Mies Ellison has Seen Turkish life
through rosy spectacles; she wishes
to remove preIudices and to delete for
ever that Miannderstood word "ha-
rem," and to speak of her friends in
their Turkish homes,
Of a truth the Ottomans are a hos-
pitable race, Frain the moment when
her friend Fatima heard she was in
Turkey, and came, greatly daring the
conventions, to /etch her from her
hotel, to the moment she left the
country, she was an honored, wel-
come guest.
She sat in the place of honor, and
wag waited on by het hostess, who
Placed her entire. coldly trousseau at
her disposal; beautiful embroidered
silks and priceless jewels which lay
in a room which had no looks and in
a house where, all day long, the doors
were left open for all who would to
eztter.
Her host, a widely read and Intel-
ligeot officer, who had served three
Years in the German army, and who
encouraged his wife In her advanced
ideas, would not permit his guest .to
stamp her own letters; in Turkey
there prevails an (from the guest's
point of view) admirable custom that
a host should pay all his visitor's
bills.
To the uninitiated, harem means a
collection of wives. By the laws of
Islam a Mussulman is allowed to have
four wives if he can properly house
and support them. In practice, it is
extremely rare to come across a
household in which there is more
than one mistress, though every man
expects as a matter of course that he
will have to keep his mother. This
presents no difficulties to the bride;
she is glad af the companionship,
and her relations with her mother-
in-law are mostly surprisingly har.
monious to our may -be prejudiced
eyes.
Knowing her western curiosity to
see a household of two wives, her
friends made inquiries, and et last
feund such a menage. The man wee
a Dervish, the two women had been
friends before marriage, and his first
wife had chosen her successor, whom
she nursed and eared for, for Allah
had blessed her and she was to be a
mother.
An Attentive Deughter.
"I don't see why you are not as
considerate of my comfort as you
used to be eef your father's," remark-
ed a husband to his wife, who had
shown signs of negleet. "When I
come into the house I have to Jaunt
for my slippers and everything else
I happen to want, but when 1 uset
to court you, and your lather woult
come in from the city, you would
gather up his things, wheel his eas3
ebair to the fire, warm :his slippetre
and get him a head rest and a fest
rest, so that all he had to do was to
be comfortable."
"Oh, that was only to make him
go, to sleep sooner!" was the yews
wife's satisfactory explanation- 4 -
London Mali.
The Spinster's Hint.
A maiden well advanced In years
used to wait every morning for the
postman, a bachelor of about her age,
and ask him if there were not a letter
for her. Several weeks passed. thus,
but the anxiously expected letter did
not arrive. Finally one morning the
postman said to her:
"Well, tomorrow you shall get your
letter if I have to write it myself."
"That's right; do It." replied the old
maid. "I shall be delighted to ac-
eept it."
"Well," said the postman, small/2g.
"what do yoti want me to write—a
business letter or a love letter?"
"If you mean bueiness, please write
a love letter!" was her blushing reply.
—London Scraps.
Ownership of the Air.
Our ancestors must, have foreseen
the aeroplane or they would not have
embodied in the law the principle that
he who owns the land owns the col-
umn of air above "usque ad coelum,"
or up to the skies. This can be traced
back as far as the reign of Edward I.,
and from this time every authority to
the present court of appeal 'has em-
phasized the right of every citizen not
only to be king of his own castle, but
of the sky above it.—London Chretacie.
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Salt Rheum
FOR MANY YEARS»
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Salt Rheum or Eczema its one of the
most painful of all skin diseases, and it
not attended to immediately may be-
come very deep seated.
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past forty years, and is the best blood
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Mrs, William H. Powlie, Cole's Island,
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from salt rheum for a good many yeah*,
and was so bad I could not do my Owes
Work. 1 tried a geed an medicines,
but they all failed to do inc any good
until I tried Burdock Blood Bitters. /
had not taken Mee bottle until r foutid
a great change, and X am most thankful
for trying it. / hope that every other
sufferer from salt rheum will try B.B.B."
Burdoek Blood Bitters is natinufacttie-
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MURDERS AND SCIENCE. Italian physicist, A. Lechanarzo.
A son killed his fathercut kijseneddlit,
into 130 pieees, buried them separately
in the garden, and gave out that be'
was visiting friends in Paris. Six
months later a farm labor dug up a
human hand. • A medico -legal expert.
examined it and noticed several rather •
unusual callosities on the palm. He
asked the son to give him his
father's stick as a memento. The -
handle of the stick was a curiously -
carved knob, and this fitted•exactly the'
celloused palen The son was convicted,:
of the murder.
If a roan is found shot through the -
head with a pistol in his hand, what
more rational than a verdict of suicide?'"
In real suicide the weapon is held ao.
firmly that force is required to dislodge
it. Several experts have tried to make
the hand of a corpse grip a weapon,
but have never succeeded, and their
knowledge of this fact has often opened
the avenue to detection of murder.
A man rushed frantically to his
neighbors, saying he had found his
wife burned to death in their home. A
doctor examined the body and pointed
out that burns made before •death al-
ways contained serum, while those
made after death contained none; that
the:burns of this woman's body con-
tained no serum, and that therefore she •
had been killed and then set on fire.
The man subsequently confes‘ed that
he had strangled her and set IfeYttly
on fire in- the. hope of concealing his
crime. —Tit -Bits.
Science now opens the lips of (lead
men and virtually makes them tell who
killed them,
A man was found walking away from
a spot where the body of a man, he was
known to hate, was discovered; and he
had blood -stains on him and on his
pocket knife. He explained these by
saying he had stolen a rabbit, made a
stew of it, and burned the skin and
bones to escape detection. The story
seemed too slender, and he was con-:
vicced, Then along came a Physician
and proved that the blood -stains on
maa and knife were really rabbit's
blood and not human blood.
The American professors, E. T.
Reichert and A. P. Brown, are the dis-
coverers of the distinct characteristic
crystallization of the blood of each
species of animal. They can even
differentiate with certainity between
the :blood of men and women and of
persons of the several races.
A mother was aecueed of killing a
little girl. The coroner's jury, for lack
of evidence, rendered a verdict of
"Murder by persons unknown." A
suspicious neighbcr, a year later, found
a bleed -stained knife hidden in a wall.
The* mother said she had "used the
knife to kill a rabbit last week." An
expert tested the blood and pronounced
it human blond shed a year ago. The
terrified mother confessed her guilt.
The method M determining the age
of a blood -stain was discovered by the
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