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The Exeter Advocate, 1921-6-9, Page 2t --711t1 v 41 • 0: die ,4., aaafft - 4ddress cowmen:cations to Agronom:la,•t 7.3 Adelaide et. West. Toronto. Bummer, Work in. the Orchard.perly handled, and marketed from the Summer work in the orchard may early spring to the end of June, when be divided among four different head- Prices are hfgh, Every poultry breed- ings: spraying, cultivation, cover er, however, may not be in a position gape, and thinning, with porata]y to take advantage of this trade, pruning in sortie instances, Market early cockerels as broilers -- Far too many male chicks that would The first is a spring operation be available for the broiler market which it is usually neisessary to carry ere carried over to the soft roaster on into the summer, as at 'least onet stage or even )anger, with the exam- spray eteuld be abeut two or three: eons idea that the bigger the bird is, weeke the the alcom is off, and mart the larger the profit. It. sihai ld be consist of bordeatix or true salphurl borne in mind that the Larger bird Teixeira with some arsenical poison; is growiaig sand feeding on a fast de., added for biting irseete and nicotine. alining market and will probably reach sulphate added for aphis control, if r it at the lowest ebb. The sale of cock - they are present at that time. For erets as broilers will carry the cost fuller paartieulars re spraying waste of raising the pullets to maturity," your reaves: Experimental Foam! S perintdrdent. Time to hatch—To catch the best i Cultivation market they must be hatched before in orchards, except) the Inst of April, and take about two these in Cel mulch. . should be prat xnaiithe to reach the desired weight. bees lira za c until abeut July The males of almost any pure breed nest. By tail t toning a goat duett are in damsia& Even Leghorn% at this r> utah during ears steamer the trees;, age win be eagerly. aces ted on the ran be ltsdIse:i theelash that tr, :ng, market. � plump i t' . axed well dressed, time in lute Jane when they he•ivy;• The broilers may rinn with the rest 11111111tali 'Tian i, �wo.e�t..a r,. triltiAr�„rsPqal :r< :• almac:a•'�s•.rt�.".t•°.. = o,aVnr!rtF�ah it 5./r .0 1M4' 44001411=41,j►n i+A rtr�iici llt� ilAsr. it n !.•R- Via-:Mt•t� -1ki WNW aallosly►Mein. 011.1-44_4:4"410",wooer; roMi.:0#9.ri4ti.ost.0 _1$411i•,z,t+rAbif430tl4i�.'v`i s9! Manufactured by THE; CANADIAN STEEL AND WIRE CO., Limited Hamilton Canada. Thinning the Fruit Crop While the majority .of fruit growers. devote special attention to pruning, cultivating, spraying and fertilizing' they do not look upon the thinning of the fruit on the trees as of equal importance, yet with the single ex- ea.w?�e of trait are be d«scouragxng.',�# t eeption of epxaying no one thing will Es eri :.2r iia d are e tvlaera wliater he flock of chicks and be fed the do more to insure high-grade fruit F ,. v i same �ni t aapproeoldug one pound in than proper thinning, aleny growers, is.tics s u fa. lar, eah:vatiean .s ding-. weight and should then be separatedwho have never practiced careful et : n'usal ebela tale first week of July and pieced in small yards or ens, thinning, the oa bar i sowed too some covers fed only soft m�a.sh, ooitsisting of two practice hesltevo, that because the c: �, .arca as ripe, vet- h, eleven or, parts corn meal two .arta' and ee hes tierer became popular a -U. tt i Peas, ts:N r':cation laaigely de -,buckwheat ata oneP aro that it is not very valuable after all. dpart ground oats However', a visas to the farms of those) m alp ro she rheapatess of the ` or similar fattening ration rnlred �,L -Far rc.. ,,a}i: , , t n � � who are selling their fruit at top a..t' f t, b ra es of seeding' with sour milk or trutteriitilk. '['he, price* fine them pr >t ds em in <,�.� perp :: re - reeosanue ileo): bink- : mash should be fed fairly thin and in flavor of it. It is mostly a feof I as,• „, 1 l , tare. 2 pounds, carim- troughs, three tinges 4 day. Give the son vitae:. p, ...cis; red Clover, 12 birds al they will eat, then clean out po'..a::, , s� nar.er veva,i ?- bite.; field, the trou peas, Ile hue.; eve. ]. =a has. \V Wbere t grAllow no feed tore main before the birds between meals, there le aeeel ...anger of least of plant if jour nnilk is given for dxdnk it fo'd asrag. water, the winter rye win xadd to the palatability of the,. u aket execaaent over crop, but is meat and beaten the gain in weight,! of et% teacme al esseepirg tree rows rr d an a bu ndaxac:e of green feed.. should.; 41;01'4-4; t tr.0 ., as at that time it be available or provided. Killing and marketing—Broilers Exult will find thinning as profitable are exeec dirg.1y tender and great ravel as those who have a trade that is should tie exercise) in plucking. It willing to pay for the better quality, nary be advisable to market alive i1 yet there are numerous benefits from the price can be adjusted to compen-: systematic and careful thinning which sate for the time saved the *slipper, the prudent grower cannot afford to but if shipped dressed theyshould be overlook. In these days of advancing carefully packed and graded so that prices and demand for superior qual- each package is uniform in quality ity ever; effort possible should be and weight. made to produce what discriminating By marketing the surplus cockerels, buyers want and are willing to pay as broilers, a quid; and profitable re- a fancy price for. There has uever turn as effected, and an income pro- been a time in the history of Can- vided at a season when there is not adieu fruit growing when proper much return otherwise from the pool- thinning of fruit crepe would pay as try and when the funds are often ac- large cash returns as it will at the ceptabie to provide feed for the grow- present time. Let us, therefore, cone liars stock. cider same of the good results which The sale of cockerels as broilers can reasonably be expected frons has the added advantage of helping thinning our 1921 crop. to distribute the produce over the First of all, and probably the most important of all in practical value,, thinning greatlyincreases the size of the fruit which is left on the tree. This is more important with sone fruits than with others, but with every fruit it tends to improve the quality and Increases the value for; a discriminating trade. The value of'. peaches, for example, will be mere en- hanced than that of plums, beeause! buyers are much influen^ed by the; mere size of peaches, while they are not so likely to pay so great atter-! P b"l` tion to the size of plums. In some markets a mere increase in the size of an apple, peach or pear may raise it from a lower to a higher grade, from choice to fancy, thus greatly increasing its value; and everyone knows how the fancy fruit dealers vary their prices directly with the size and color of the speci- mens, This, of course, is due to the fact that mere bigness is not a true index of quality, and that, as a rule, medium-sized apples, peaches, pears and the like are of finer texture and flavor than the very large ones. In many instances the increase in size of fruits left on the trees is so great that a larger number of bushels are'actu- ally harvested than in the case when the entire crop is left to ripen, and alanost without exception the fruit on. the thinned trees will sell for more money. . With• certain varieties of peaches, pears and apples the color of the fruit is greatly improved by thinning. This is one of the most valuable . effects, and along with the increase of size adds commercially to the value of the product. Even the trained scientist as well as the practical grower. seem unable to account for the improve- ment in color other than it may he due to the fact that in taking away some of the fruit it allows the sun- shine to reach the surface' of those fruits left on the trees, or perhaps that the better coloring of ; the fruit has an influence en the color. One thing we do know, .however, the color is there,. and that is the important item in securing top prices. During years when the trees jet' an exceptionally heavy crop, thinning prevents - seelous damage from the breaking down of limbs end crotches. This is not always a logical argument unless we remove an unusual amount of the crop :from the branches that are less able to hold the heavy load, for if we remove only a comparatively small proportion• of the specimens we will have as much, if not more weight, left on the trees, and as a matter of dollars and cents it will seldom pay to 'take off sufficient fruit .so that the trees will not needs seine prop- ping. 'Inn other words fruit trees will not carry more fruit to. maiturity than some of the weakest ,crotches and Dimas can pi'UrerIy hold up. Besides 'inerccasing the size" ,and he:- proving ie proving the color of the fruit, careful. ir,i s et little growth itsc Ta al ing is an opts .ition 'which will a1* p y lazy rtee orchardist if judi-8 e' <• aQ�a;'ie;i. Af.er the June drop has reinoroali its ;l;a�, a, F'I trees should be gone over ar,d, where there is a heavy crop, sects c¢ the fruit should be removed, laving net more than two to a clust ter, jail if a really high class pro- d act is cies'ired, leave only one fruit to a cheater. Where thinning is practiced, there is a Rnl€ ler percentage of No. 8 and waste fruit, which means higher prices per acre for the crop. The orchardist who adopts thinning as a regular •orchard practice is bound to be in the front )site when it comes to the pack out returns. . • `affinr ` pruiiiii 'a 'zloty generally conceded a plata in moot young lessening the yield of fruit and the; notion that it requires an unusual'; amount of skilled labor which pre- vents the practice of thinning fruit! #Toni becoming more popular en many; farms, it is not to be expected that grow« era who have had no experience in finding fancy markets for high-elass year, rather than selling so much in orchards, es it is difficult to do much the fall when cockerels are usually pruning when there is a crop en the sold. trees. Mid -June is a good time to go-----�: over the non-bearing trees and shape ccI have always held, and still . Id u those straggly fell h y hold, they are inclined to produce a long, `that the raising of hogs ia, year by willowy growth with few laterals, nip year, ane ox the, surest aha safest ;e- ta the terminal but.', which will int venues for the arm, and that Tire le - ante a laterals growth, probably that velopmsnt of our export bacon trade 9 , :ieltead of continuing a long, is one of the most profitable and do- pentieble industries that the country as a whole can get behind. But, un- less Canadian farmers are prepared to accept responsibility ity for the future Broilers. of the Canadian bacon trade, by sup- portiri+g it through steady production, If broilers are to be produced in year in and year out, under adverse any great number, they can be sold to as well as under satisfactory *melt. advantage only where there are a. tions, we can never make a success of considerable number of buyers who the business, It is useless to attempt are not obliged to consider the price to build up an industry if the produc- and with the exception of a few health ere themselves are not prepared to ar,' pleasure restarts this class of buy- carry it through to suooessin spite ie is not numerous outside the larger of all difficulties that may e experi- ca+es. eneed and all competition that will ''he broiler is a very profitable ad- have to be faced."—H. . Arkell, Do- of the poultry business if pro- minion Live Stook' Conamissoner, barren branch which it would be nec- essary to head back severely in later years. - T e ght Tires, to sit your car and the roads you travel If your car is a Fora or Cha-.vaolet, Gray -Dort or Overland, the DOMINION "Grooved" or ',lobby" Tread give you non-skid, non sideslip Tires of consistent quality and proven mileage. Oz—you may find that DOMINION "Chain", "Grooved" or "Nobby" `.trend on the rear wheels and DOMINION "Plain" Tread on the 1.1::':2;1' t, are the ideal combination for comfort and mileage. If you drive a heavier car lake the Studebaker, McLaughlin, or • Packard, you will have the utmost satisfaction with DOMINION "Royal Cord" or "Nobby" Txeada—the supreme achievements in tire building. The best deatere throughout Con-uela have DOMINION TIRES, DOMINION INNER TUBES and DOMINION TIRE ACCESSORIES, TIRES su thinning enables the grower to get rid of ill-shapen and defective fruits which proves a decided help in put- ting up a good pack at harvest time. The new,rigid and high-class systems of grading fruit crops that are being adopted by so many co-operative ship- ping a.ssoriatione demand that the quality of the fruit can be unproved, Then, too, it is a question if the speed with which the fruit can be picked, graded and packed will not nrore than repay the grower for the labor used in thinning. This is a point upon which there is always room for argu- ment, though in these days of high- priced labor during the harvesting season it seems a reasonable Conten- tion. Another advantage in thinning fruit is the fact that it aids in hold - ng certain diseases and insect pests in cheek. Some seasons this advan- tage is much greater than others. With such fruits as peaches and plums where disease often starts at a point where two fruits touch and give the disease spores a good Iodging place and where moisture is held for their germination, careful thinning is. valuable. Damage from certain in- sect pests that live in apples ,any also be minimized if the fruits that have been attacked are taken off the trees before other specimens have been injured, Some authorities claim that thin- ning tends to enable the trees to bear more regularly and produce, more uni- form Crops, They argue that there is no reason in the nature of things why trees should not bear annually, but the formation of the fruit .spur is usually such as to preclude the production of fruit on the some spur every year. The real object of thin- ning in such eases is to encourage some spurs to bear one year, and ethers the next. TMs means that when fruit is thinned one should re- move all of the fruits from some spurs in order that they may produce fruit- spurs the following year, In some in- stenos where certain varieties are carefully thinned, the trees bear' with great uniformity every year. This is especially true with peach, trees, and it would seem that the same practice might apply with some force to fruits of other kinds, espeeia•1ly varieties that have a tendency to bear heavy. crops of fruit one year and little or nothing the following year. There is no dispute of the value of thinning for peaches and pears, but for many years growers of apples have hesitated about thinning, claim- ing that the practice did not pay so long as the fruit was shipped to mar- ket in barrels, but the selling of extra fancy fruit in boxes is forcing the question. The fruit must all be picked sooner or later, and it does not cost very much more to pick it early in the season than to pick it late. Turning now from the advantage of thinning fruit to the methods used by successful orchardists it may be said that the work is performed in essentially the game way as the fruits ire harvested; that is, the fruits are taken off by 'hand and dropped on the ground where they may be left, or gathered up and burned to destroy the insect pests or disease. The first con- sideration is that of removing the fruits before they have become a tai: on the tree sufficient to reduce the yield of the crop. Peaches should be removed when they are about the size of a hiekory-nut and apples before they have reached twice that size. The main thing is to disc -laminate be- tween good and bad ,fruits and to leave the specimens on the trees well distributed. Several special imple- ments have been devised for use in thinning fruit, .'but a goad pair of fruit shears will prove about the beet tool for general, use: ` it requires more discrimination and judgment to thin fruit than to pick it. In the thinning of peaches, it is a good rule to allow none of the fruit to hangcloser than four inches apart. This means that in years of heavy setting •as much as two-thirds of the crop sahould be removed iii June. On some of the best fruit farms in the country this practice is regarded as indispensable. No accurate estimates of the cost of *thinning fruit can be given, because so much depends on the form of the tree and the quality of the fruit to be removed. The tet salt also depends upon the kind of help one is able to get and thewages paid thein for dicing the work. Lege peach trees will probably cost nearly one dollar to thin with wages at prey- ent levels; apple trees of correspond- ing; size will cost about double that amount. TIE SUNDAY ScBOQI JUNE 12 Making the World. Christian. Isaiah 11: 1-10 • Acts 1: 6-9. Caaolden Text. Isaiah 11: 9. Connecting Links. .Those who have Lord. That will be the king's suppreme found the true and the living God virtue, and implies all other k&ngly want to make Him known to others. virtues. For the king who fears God The people of Israel found Hun in ''ill 'be just and liiercufulR many experiences of their history, but t 'The• rod of His. mouth. This and especially in the two great deliver- he following sentthe expres,e in i antes from Egyptfine poetic figure the directness and , and from Babylon authority of the icing's commands And It carate to them in the teaching -of the laws. So alsoverse 5 declares the great prophets of the last centuries character of His rule—which shall be one of right and truth. The wolf, leopard, lion, and bear and poisonous serpents represent the fierce and war- ring elements :of hnxnaa satiety: which shall be 'tamed and made to live at ,peace. The entire picture here presented of the reign of the great Deliverer is er a before Christ, that they should tell these experiences to the world. They had a story to tell to the nations, and a :song to sing which all the world should hear. Israel has been entrusted with the saving and enlightening knowledge of the true God who can save, and so Is transformed society, in which peace to be "for a light to the Gentiles," and with justice shall prevail. Mount Zion, for "salvation unto the end of the, the place of Jehovah s temple, is con earth," "The Lord bath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of aur God." So also Jesus would have ;Elis cis- ciples tell the story of .His redeeming amid saving work. They bad been with Him; they had seen and heard; they Acts 1: G-9. The kingdom to .tsrael; were to be His witnesses, telling His Even to the last the disciples of Jesus story to the world. The apostles and expected Him to establish again the ministers of Jesus Christ have not kingdoms of David and to be a real only the story of God's greet work for king with court and army and royal Israel in Oid Testament times tat teIl,power. Jesus trade no aattem(it to set but also that of Christ and His work up such a kin?doin,. yet He did sueale for the Kingdom of God, of a kingdom of God, and Re did as- Isa, 2: I-];0. There shall cone forth sort high authority, His kingdomsm was e rod out of the stem of Jesse. Isaiah. to be of a nen age and of a new Was expecting the birth of a child of order. It was to make real and su- the royal, line of David, who would be preme the will of God in the lives of the aaviour of His people, and who men, It was t a be, as men came would be a great and just andglorious slowly to understand, a mightier pow. king. First to the weak, capricious, er than that of ane earthly kingdom and unprincipled Ahaz, and afterward or empire—a kingdom of the Soria rit. to the well-meaning but weak Heze- Jesus did not answer His diseiples' kiah, be predicted the conning of this question by a direct negative. He did #king, and he seems to have expected not desire to destroy their national that He would come soon. As time hope of freedom and greatness. But went en he projected His coming He did place before theca two great farther into the future, and dwelt immediate experiences and d.utieseathe upon His character and His reign, with first, the receiving of power through high anticipation and confident hope the gift of the Spirit of God, and the of great things.second, bearing witness to Him in the Micah (5: 2-6) .a younger contem-iworid, porary of Isaiah, repeated the earnel Thus, and thus only would His king - prediction. Jeremiah (23: 5-6) took dem be established in the world by it up and mado of it a message of coin.. the work of His Spirit in the hearts tort for those of his tame wlao suffered' of amen, and by witness -bearing. Anal at the hands of their enemies defeat, thuswould be fu]filled the old pro - humiliation, and exile. Ezekiel, among phetic vision of justice, peace, and the the first of the exiles, saw Him in a ktiawtedge of God filling the whole brighter future as a second David, and world, as the• good shepherd of His people' • 1pplication.. (34: 23). Others, who followed, pre- It was Mr. Beecher who once said, served and handed down this great, "As soon as a tree Ceases to grow it hope to later generations, and seven' begins to rot." There is no suck thing hundred years after Isaiah, Jesus of an standingstill either for the indi- Nazareth gave it. a new meaning, a viduai Christian or the Church at new direction, and a fulfilment in His large. We must be continually reach- Kingdom of the Spirit, ling out, extending our activitiex, and In Isaiah's expectation the coming seeking new fields of usefulness. If King is to be richly endowed with the - ever a Christian were to say, "I will spirit of the Lord, with such wisdom eultivate the Christian graces in my and understanding, such counsel and i own heart, and let others look after might, such knowledge and reverent 1 themselves," we know that person piety, as only God Himself can impart. + could not long remain a Christian. We By these high qualities and gifts He ! live by growing. We cannot afford to titz]1 be prepared for His kingly office, 1 be provincial in our outlook. Aa long to rule wisely and well. as there are parts of the world un - In verse 3 read (as in Rev. Vers.) : Christian or others only partially His delight shall be in the fear of the Christian, that task is our challenge. ceived as swelling and broadening until it fills the whole world, and the. world of humanity •becomes the holy temple of the Lord, "They shall not hurt nor destroy h all my holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the " know> edge of the Lard, as the waters cover the sea, A Grain -Tight Hay Rack. I have found that it has paid me to make the floor of my hayrack of good material. At the time I made this one (two years ago), flooring of the ordinary yellow pine cost me about $60 a thousand. A good rack builder told ine that it would be the very best thing to get edge -grain stuff for the flooring, and to get narrow pieces. So I -bought four -inch edge -grain flooring at $65 a thousand. I am very glad that I did it, as my rack has to stand out part of the time, and where other newer but shaper racks are cracked open so that grain can't be hauled loosemine is still in good shape, and -edge -grain gstuff does not sliver up when shoveling on the floor, like regular flooring. This is another case where economy consists in paying enough to get high- grade material. It goes against the grain to do this sometimes, but I have never bought a quality product yet that I regretted afterward. Here is an idea in fastening the floor of a rack down that is worth while: I blind-naiiled the whole top, and find that it pays. This means slanting „the nails, and I feel that this will partly prevent their pulling out, as they do when put in straight from the top. A neighbor who has just made three racks used strews on the last one. This serves the same pur- pose, as the screws do not work out either. 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