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The Exeter Advocate, 1922-10-5, Page 3Addrees corrimunicatione to Apron° „ mkt. 73 Adelaide se West., Toronte Liberal Feeding Pays. The fall freshening *owe are cam- ing in and will eontinue to eeme in for several montha up into the winter. Geed liberal feeding methods, prace teed hefore and continued after freshening, will inerease the efficiency of millproduetion of Ontaxio ewe. What constitutes good feeding erne - twee? Follow nature closely and we will find the �w doing her best dur- ing the autumn and winter if summer conditions regarding feed are applied. These eonditions are an abundance of pa,latable, bulky, succelent feed made up into a balanced ration, hTat.ure herself points the way. ITL the springtime acoess -to pasture grasses allows the cow to have an abundance of succulent, bulky, pala- table feed, balanced to meet the needs of the cow for maintenance and to furnieh. nourishment fer her calf for a time, A manufacturing phut or any ma - thine is most efacient and economical when running near its full capacity. The cow is a raahuf.acturine plant taking the maw inaterials prodUced on the farm, the silage, the hay end grain anti coeverting thein into milk. In order to allow the vew to manufac- ture milk a certain amount of the feed geee to maintain her body. Ordinatily this amount of feed used for mainten- ance is about fifty to eixty per cent. of the ration fed. But the mille pro- duction occurs after the needs for maintaining the cow have been sup- plied. Hence it is short-sighted econ- eray tet to feed additionally to the of taped y prodnetion of the sow. On too many farms is this a vomnion raisteke made in feeding not alone the tows, but all live stock. Be a good liberal feeaer. Many Ontario cows are fed a ra- tion then will maintain their bodies but which will not allow them to pro - e 1 cloak -roe -me with the possibility of easy transferenee of bedbugs, lice and other pests by the tontact of clothing; and the dnot from dry eweeping. Eaell of these insanitery conons and practices suggests its own remedy. Every child should go to seheol this -fall in a 'building Which is safe frem danger by Are and which is clean and sanitary in every respect. His per- ents and the eemumuity owe hint at 'east that elude and the responsibil- ity for the protection of the health of the ached children of their own trict is aquaxely up to them. duce a full flow of milk. °theta axe fed half a ration and the milk ficar is reduced to a minimum. What hap- pens when fed as last mentioned? Can the eow automatically etop giving milk? No, she gives milk and will continue to give milk for some Valle at her own body expense, losing :in flesh in order that the mother instinct to nourish hex calf is saddled. How- ever, she will gradually adjuet herself and give the -milk corresponding to the amount of feed. Heavy milking cowe, seVerral weeks 'after freshening, even when quite well fed, continue to lose weight and flesh because of this mother fenction. On the other hand, what happens Veer* the eow is overfed? The excess feed is simply used for body fat. Hence over -feeding or feeding a fall ration is not harmful before calving when nearly dry beeauee the •excess feed is used to supply nourislamena for the unborn offspring or to repair musele and time and even to put on extra body weight. Feed a baloncecl full ratioa for the greatest eanionly and efileiency. Too often the cow capable Cif milking sixty pounds is getting the meed of her twenty -pound sister, and often the twenty-1:1)1=cl sister is getting the re- lieve. Feed individually and -weigh don that her sixty -pound sister shouldl yet= milk and feed always, First, feed all the rouetimese a cow will dean up. Second, feed one pound 'of grain daily for eaeh three to three and one-half pounds of milk, or one pound of grain daily for each pound of butter -fat produced per week, and third, feed all the eow will take without gaining in weight. For greatest ecenorny for autumn and winter and even year around feetimg silage or beets are al- most indispensable, a legume hay, alfalfa or clovers, and grain mixtures to balance with the rougbage. xna- terial. Is Your Schoolhouse Clean? The rnodern mother is beginning to question the :gilt of the state to inane her ehildren go to school in buildings Where they are subject to unnecessary risks of danger by fire, from insani- tary suigoundings, and from the dan- gera of contracting serious eammue- ieable diseases. And the mother who is unwilling to e:cpose her children to such dangers should Ask about the buildings in which they attend school this *ill, making sure that -the fall cleaning of the school buildings has been attended to and that both build- ings and surroundings are in a safe and sanitary condition. The school :board officials are res- ponsible only to the people who have elected them. So, after aijl, the res- ponsibility for insanitary sehool build- ing and lack of proper protection of the health of school childreen rests squarely on the parents. In rural districts, the prbicipal dan- gers to the health of school children are to be looked for in the sebool well, the cotillion drinking cup and towel, the crowded and poorly ventilated echoolroorn, badly fitting seats, crowd- ed cloak -rooms, and open or insani- tary toilets, In -villages and cities having buildings more than one storey high, there is additional danger through fire. If the school water -supply comes from a well on the school premises, it should have special attention before opening day. A properly constructed well has waterproof walls lined with stone brick, or cement, and which exten:d for net less than six i -riches above the surlace of the ground. It is fitted witb, a pump and has a waterproof, top, so that waste waterr runs away from the well instead of back into it; and surface water, after -rains, cannot carry pollution into the source of the drinking supply. Where a well is thus peoperly constructed, all that is necessary is to pump it dry and to allow the fresh water to celled before etched opens. If the well is of the aommen open variety, several things may have hap- pened clueing the sunnier vacation. Rains may have washed dist, manure and other surface. material into the water. In hunting for water, turtles, rabbi* mice, rats, snakes and other living ereatuees have either jumped or fallen into the well and have been unable to get •out. To drink water containing their (keening bodies is not only extremely unpleasant, but it may be very dangerous as well. An open well ebould, therefore, be pump- ed dry and thoroughly cleaned before sehool opens. The -top sihould be made entirely safe for little folks, and con- structed so that teurnace and waste vrater can not carry with it into the drinking water the washings of many dirty little feet. With a safe and clean water -supple assured, it is next necetseary to know that the water is distributed in a cleanly manner. Every mother knows that if ene child at echo& develops a cold, or a case of measles, whooping - cough, diphtheria, Or other commun- icable disease, that it is likely to run through the entire school. What the mother may nce, know, is that these communicable discasce are spread eiainly by the socret.cns of the nose ancl throatan that cne of the coin- eacrieee source3 cf preading these in- " fections is by the use of the connnon water pail and tommon drinking -cup, Sanitary water containers supplied with an approved type of faucet, can be obta,ined from almost any hardware store. In the absence of this conven- ience, the school water pail ehould be supplied with a cover and a dipper which is not used for drinking. Eaeh child should be required to bring his own sup and be taught never to use one belonging to another. If, in ad- dition to this, the teacher is instruct- ed how to look for the suspiciously reddened eyes, the discharges from the nose and throat and other signs of the first stage of a disease, and to exclude children showing these symp- toms Alain school until the disease or the danger of inaeeting others is past, it will be possible for the sebool to go through the winter without an epi- demic. Mothers must, however, co- operate with the teachers in order to make this possible. Quite as da.ngerous as the unclean water supply is the open or insanitary toilet. There is almost nothing so dangerous to human beings as to take their own excreta in their food and drinking water, It is most unpleas- ant to think about, but typhoid fever and dmagheal &seat:es are eontracted in that way. To be safe, a toilet needs to he fly - proof. Flies breed and thrive in an open privy. They fly into the school- house, take a bath in the water pail and wipe their feet on the •thildren's lunch or on whatever feral may be ex- posed to them. The result is, that infections present in the .excreta can be and are spread by flies. Another danger from the insanitary toilet is pollution of the water supply by surface washing or through the ground. The preeenee of toilet sew- age in drinking water has been dis- covered by throwing powered dyes in the toilet, Seieral days afterward these colors have been found in wens miles away, showing conclusively that the rains have washecl the toilet sew- age into the ground from which the wells drew their water -supply. In crder to avoid this possibility, the toilet must be constructed tin sueh manner that the sewage will be ren- dered harmless, and can be safely dis- posed of in plowed ground. These toilets are not expensive to build. Foe temporary purposes, a barrel of earth or lime should be placed in every open toilet and each child taught the necessity of throwing in a shovelful eac.h time the toilet is used. The open toilet ehould tale° be screened ote bonded up camefully so as to prevent flies from breeding in it or tarrying pollution from it Another source of danger from the dirty Open toilet is the moral conta,gion. It is next to impossible to teach a child cleardinese and decency in the school - ream and from books when he gets a daily Weston in filth and indecency from the eutbuildings. Dangers to the health t of school &lichen, in the scheeloomn itself, are the possibilities of aceident by fire due to leaky stoves and improperly eons tructed furnaces or exits of bend- ings; lack of proper ventilation caus- ing a predisposition to disease and favoring the speed of contagions; ba,dly-fitting seats resulting in crool.- ed spines and cramped lungs; crowded The fall and early winter months are the eeason. when many cattle are lost without geed cause, because the farmer does not -watch out in feeding; a little thought and extra care will save these valuable animals. Choke in cattle is usually the result of the ani - mars swallowing such onjecte as ap- ples, turnips, beets, potatoes, and the like; it in,ay be ceased from, eating straw or ehaff. This condition is no- ticed most often in the season when animals are cesteured where these fruits and vegetables may be reached, and when the farmer is feeding the surplee mine to etock to the unout atate. Choke in cattle doez not always show the same symptoms; in fact, it is rather difAcult to determine the ail- ment in some tees. When the choked aelinal drinks water it will return through the mouth or nose if the choke is complete, the Animal will usually bloat, due to the, gas that is eonstantly being formed in the welch as it cannot pass upwarn through the gullet as it normally does,. The breath- ing may be faster than it ordinarily is. If there is plenty of assistance at hand it may be 4dvizable to have the animals head held securely, and then with the aid of a mouth gag, to hold the animal's mouth open, the band being passed over the base of the tongue in an effort to grasp the ob- jest and remove it. If the choke is too deep for that, it inight be well to use something to lubricate the gullet, and for this the following may be used with good results; Olive oil, giyeerine, slippery elm tee. Any of these may be given in small doses of hue to six ounces. Of all these, slippery elm is possibly the best lubricant of all. This may make it extssible for the animal to pass the object into the stomach. If the object ef.ia be felt, a gentle pressure may be exerted upward on it. Under AO conditions ahould two hard objects be cracked together with the region of the choke between them, with the intentien of crushing the mass; neither shoukl a whipstalk be passed down the entimans throat, as many farmers do in such conditions, If a veterinarian is to be had, he can give the animal a dose of apomorphine hydrochloride, which may remove the choke. Do not give the animal large quantities of a drench. If the animal is in such condition that it is not likely to be relieved, it is best to have it slaughter -I rut once, not only putting it out of its misery, but also saving the *excess for meat purposes. Preservation of Fruit and Vegetables. Farmers' wives, and, in fact, house- wives generally, would probably find a deal of worth -while information in Bulletin No. 93 of the Dominion Ex- perimental Farms. It deals with the Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables for home use 'and gives the results, with the recipes, of experiments in calming, drying, pickling and preserv- ing carried on by the Horticultural Division of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Facts will be tound there relative to sterilization ler the peevention of spoilage and souring; for die methods best followed in can- ning and jelly making; for the pre- servation of vegetables by fermenta- tion and salting; for home drying, and as to the relative value of different varieties of fruits and vegetablee when canned mid preserved. The bul- letin can be obtained at no cost by making application to the Publications Branch, Ottawa. 0 A Dram yew land before your ,land drains you. October is a good month to start with pure-breds. There are eleven other good months. IDOBBIN AT THE . FAIR 1 Peer old Dobbin at the fain Shining, sleek, in Wry hair, Neatly groomed from head to tsil Yet how little the avail! Once he entered head on high, Admiration of each eye, Now he cones with drooping eere At the klughter, jests and jeers, As the dashing autos go Through the gates of county show, And alas! -what has he done That he sieend be the butt of fut? Fat and "comfy,” good to see, As of yore, yet, somehow, he Dom t feel just quite at home Where the whirling autos come; Like cat in strange garret three, Poor old Dobbin at the fair. Onee he held proud reputation Of bed famly horse around, And he felt in all the nation, Not the equal could be found, Of his pretty, gracious lady, Who held the reins Just as she should, Idy each neat manipulation Showing gentlewoman's blood. Now a hot tide through him eourses To his brain, for wellbred hems Feel the stigma and the shame, When low -bred people make them game; And he beam a "female" gay In yonder auto coarsely say, "See, oh see, that `one -hose shay'!" Like a fossil Dobbin feels When the boisterous laughter peale, And he sees her pointing there To his turnout at the fair. Yes, indeed, like a hack number, Poor heart -broken Dobbin feels, And he knowe he ne2er can lumber Past those flashing, dashirg wheel Worst of all to see his lady, Laughing -steak of latter day, And he hopes he may not =Tiber This old earth long, anyway. But presto, change! New "env" and courage Breaks in on hie doleful dream, They are passing—famous judges— Geetlemen of old regime. They lift their hats high to his mis- tress; Pat his flanks as on they go, Saying, "Yes, a -true fine lady, Debts all paid and nothing shady In her life, as all well know." And so with bead high in the air, Proudly Dobbin leaves the fair. • 6, *0.o Hogging down, or pasturing oft corn, is a practice that is gaining every year. Tests have shown this plan to be economical; it saves labor of harvesting and feeding, the hogs; make good gains, and the manure isi left on the ground. There is one precaution, theugh. Doi not let hogs cover too much ground ati oue ff • time. Par field to be hogged down by uee ol two - foot woven wire fence, held by anchor! posts at either side of the field and supported by occasional posts or tied with binder twine to hills of cern. Hogs should be turned in when cerni' is in the heed dough or almost mature: stage. All or part of the field may; be hogged down. From four to eighti acres can be fenced off at a time.. When the area its cleaned up, fences! should be moved to include an equal' area of standing corn. • THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON OCTOBER 15. The Ministry of John the Baptist, Luke 3: 7-17. Golden Text—Repent ye; for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand, Matt. 3: 2 (Rev. Ver.) Time and Flacon-A.D. 28; Judea. demands John empliaeized the fact Lesson Setting—After the lapse of that every- cerning of God in mer midst seventeen years, the eurtain lifts den -aurae a coming of God into our Ththageaeinwciahalatramwoeteessreeetbefiothaiuntilgee:xnro-gieanegvderniSrini,jdhjeeisa.irrpittes.,::nmilleit:1,51:ernif7. thought and tetrarchs and prieets given in the leen - john's rvieS'sag'e' ginning of the chapter all suggest how i much the world needed the artasting V. 15. The people were in exPecta- terYrast°f.TelaPnrcrffe•oteell GelenWelloantirliklet%du" Pert°11°°' nalYe Pe°P°I 3.1°47111awerme edas 1)14 theis with the gloomy tyrant Tibeelue, the Ilies'5'age" ;Might ri°t this featie'ss and tf:jaltrie,,,mtizered, the pe,„.., strong man be the Meseta* Himself? 'Wind le hie relation te the kingdom? of John's Message, r ‘,...e:Idor a lesser man there would have L Fearlessness V. 7. Said he to the multitude. john tbeireflaseiat great temptetien to maenley evidently spoke these worde to the' Ph2riwe$ c'e Saddues ar"ng the'water. Unhesitatingly he bowth s in e crowd. Matt. 3; 7. Their interest in Ire: 10. with indeed baptize • g - Johns message eegarding the king- Janes the lesser place. Latchet of dom is not moral, but ?elf -regarding% whole) sheen, It vies the Lk <1 the aTliheltbepanv,hergunint"e jkicatnr5daorah Thhe mlove. menial unloose the sandals? a his m of sueh, dthmessae was master. Joni says he is not vrorthy immest t to do even that humble serviee. Else - ignore it. In John 1: 19 we read et a cf the ar'deg'room, not the where he likens hunse.f to the friends eo Pbtlrbiaonp:zeed.nt te Baptasni wient7 irjeo:n 11)nrbywi in his taking l'ds trurIthl:egpercflvedin- he were the Messiele That Caine • • ereese, The grea,tneee ot John is was a new rite. Ceremonial washings rather thee the great /Allen Baptize 11;oltnna lamere was the oerenflenialons with the Holy Ghost and with the J • • cleansing of the prieete and the haps fgerviet" /Inn enhiaseellii°Irsicies11:boweeeellaoansn.ijlieshul: tism of Gent! all made baptism a sere: otol jor o 7alpilet, tnnlveaffuseecte.ulJtellseush:n7ille°s.f:Jmolieun that inward change of mind and heart symbolizes. Jesus creates, john de - d nid°4 1.°PettalY° °I all that which John symbolizas ha tha which he deinamled. Generation of roane4. vipers. John saw the real motive and, v. en, whose fan is In his hand. howl suBbutlte Jtionhcln inisalinocimeouthrteleirr.epirilet tAhaeteeoxtehne, eheeees tee been trodden, by speaks the fearless word to Pha,risee lenge ennteetlleagjithrn wttyyts itiftelytodtl'eitheisr as to king. of repentance. Repentance is V. 8. Bring forth .. . fruits worthy:1%r, guteistr.a.thetXrain tftubPi°inrattirni7velyi co.hf annguendot peel. hearTh the fire awl separating e e Application. on all. We have Abraham. As •elan_ dren of Abraham, the Pharreees,maTn.b NewaswBesapetistInwIlSof tahl naetzcieitty, thought theentelves (?.atitled to 'anee'anI from whichefter deep meaiditiowd ndiert privleges in le "an upon the ways of leensan iife, he ceme John, sai.a that chareeter, not race, forth ee determined the individual's relation to :summed up preach. His tenehing Huse he the kingdora under two heeds—repent- ef Gel These steneeo.t.a, area and the veining Ring. raise up children unto Abraham. Jeteme 1. under the head repentense he takes broad ground here and takes 'denounces ohnoa getter:teen or vipers the seal(' ground as Paul hi his distfwho hall warned You to flee frim the tinction between one who is a Jew wrath to tome. There are note who inwardly and one who is a Jew out, would tell us that our pceaching "dlr.' The axe is laid unto the root.1, ing the ideal. Let the real alcne be - The kingdom does not bring an easy cause privilege for the Jew, but a keen edge people do not like to hear nnout the faults. John the Baptist lost no test that will remove lives that are not time in whiteavashing sinneitt. He fruitful in good. IL The Faithfulness of jeenes Message, 10-14. letoo,,,iced,,dvietvil in the face and called it 2. tinier the head of, "The Ring," V. 10. The people; the tommon peo- he intimated that there was one yore - tele as opposed to the Pharisees and hag after him who was mightier than Saddricees. If John does riot wart the Inc. John was -willing to be the morn - favor of the great, neither is he a, ing star to the sun of righteousness, demagogue flattering the multitude. He was willing to decrease in order He lays his finger 'upon the besetting ,that a worthier might increnre. It is sins of each daze, and he demands a:a true nobility wbich enables any one change. 1 to recognize superior nierit and to V. 11. He that bath two coats. Thesegive it a mune honorable place. It is were undergarments. John demands, the dead opposite of that green envy unselfishness from the people. 1which overwhelms so many small V. 12. Publicans; the taxegathermen minds. Can we be big enough to The Roman taxes on the Jews were acknowledge the merit wlneh isgathered by men who severally con- ,perior to our own? tracted to raise a specified sten from, He also intimated that this superior a specified area. All ever this sum one would exercise a superior mfiu- belonged to them. These men m turn enee. He himself baptized with water, engaged Jews to do the actual coiled- but this coming one would baptize ing of the taxes on the same principle. with the rieler Ghost and with fire. Inevitably this led to injustice and ex- Water rnayeleanse in the rough, but tortion. John demands of them hon- fire will entirely disinfeet. 'Fire is esty. I the symbol of enthusiasm—that glcri- V. 14. The soldiers likewise. They :cue dynamic which ever since has were not to bully the poor nor levy:made possible the thrill of great con - blackmail on the rich, nor to mutiny, e:rations, of mighty conquests, of against their superiors, In all these stupendous martyrdoms. In corn yielding forty buehels all) acre, from four to six hogs can be carry more hogs. It will take from! Encouraging Pupil caxeied per acs to re. Heavier el yids will Study Instrumental hogs to dean up an acre of good corn. six -to eight weeks for feur to six Music Tankage or skim-railk should be supplied with the corn, unless some crop such as rape or soybeans, was seeded in the tarn to furnish protein at harvest -time. My Time. The Time of Day I do not tell, As some do, by the Clock; Or by the distant chiming bell, Set on some steeple rock; But by the progress that I see In what I have to do; It's either Done o'clock to me, Or only Half -past Through. Parents as Edutators Doing it for Others—By Lydia Lion Roberts. BY LYDIA. LION ROBERTS. From the time the children went of the fire't. to kindergarten they began to meke all sorts of things a,nd being them So all -through the echool days the chtildmen have made duplicates of pic- tures, frames, blebtere, boxes, ealere m proudly hee to Mother. And each dere arid watt/work. some of these, time I would say, "Now make another were always given to friends or play - one just like that here at home andj mates, and also used for birthday give it to someone who will enjoy it." 1 presents. I remember one cold day Often the second article was made in, when the oldest boy had to stay in a different color, ea: the child was en-, the house because of the cold, yet the eouraged to think out various irad time paesed quickly to him for Inc was pavements. If we did not have ex-. busily woeking on five new pinwheels actly the same materials in the house that he had just learned to make. as were used at the tschool, we woulci Every little while a child'e face would hunt until' we found soinethilig almost he pressed against the window pane as good, or that carried oet the seme and a voice would tcall eagerly, "Is idea in a different -way. When I men-, mine clone yet?" The boy was very -Honed this plan to ecu of 9.4e teachers pleased and Frond to think the chil- she approved of it and told me she' dren ciutcloore were waiting so allele t .witshed all the mothers would do the eously for his work. same, for the child really understood' Thus • practice makes perfect and then ust how the work was done, ancll little fingers end hearts learn to work in the 5SC011C1 trial corrected mistakes for the ealeaeure cf othens, A consistent effort is being made in some of the larger eentres across the border—and the scheme is -well worth adepting in our Canadian commun- ities—to encounage pupils to under- take the study of either a vocational Or an avocatio-nal activity. The old-fasetioned idea of after- school rehearsals in feet disappearing, and the more progressive idea of recogekizing the orchestra rehearsal as a regular classecom period is taking hold. Credit is given to this study exactily the same as it is given for the so-called important subjects. Be- cause of this fact a new hiterett has arisen, and pupils are not only willing but anxious to become members of the orchestral class. In some districts :the school Systems provide musical instruments and instruction, but in the great majority pupils still provide their own, and parents pay for the instruction, The ensemble instruction is given by the regular High School teachers, and each year there is a strong tendency to select for this work teachers who have hada special training in instrumental work. The question arises: How much of a student's time should be given to the school orchestra? In nearly every community the orchestra performs not only at schtchol functions, but also at civic functions as well. In addition to the annual conceits, echooltessetablies, rehearsals, pageants., etc., the average player gives many hours not required of other studen,ts. Is it not unfair when school authorities fail to receg- nee this type cf zervice? It is a fact hat where reaeg;nition is not given, orcbestras de not develop. How im- pel. t it becomes for musicians vho o interested in the development ofmusic irattruction to be unceasin in their effoots to force a proper recognition of this service. The possibilities of the work under proper supervision are unlimited. There are some who predict that be- fore another gerieratire has passed instruction in Instrumental music will be a regular past of the High Sehotol curriculum. Elementary schools have encouraged the oeganization ef after- school violin and piano cleaves, with a view to determining the child's na- tural tendencies. After a short period of study, if the pupil ehows talent, he is encouraged to study privately. This system cannot be operated as success- fully in High School as it is in the glementaa-y s.tchool, because more de- mands are raa.de 021 the time of the student. Hence the necessity for forming elective classes in instrument playing and giving the proper credit recognition for this study. What, then, is the most effective method et accomplishing this result? First, the study must be made so at- tractive that pupils will elect music in preference to some other subject. Seeond, upon proper recognition of the status of music. Third, tt public opinion must be aroused to the point 'whe're active effomt instead of idle talk becomes thte motto af the great populace. The results accomplished in the past wareant the effort which should be made in behalf of the stu- dents to accord them a richer and broader education. By using manure on wheat fields it is possible to lessen danger of Hes- sian fly. Churning troubles are not always due to the same thing. If the right temperatures have been observed and still there is trouble, to.:y using corn- meecial starters to ripen the cream. Whatever be your talents, whatever be your prospects, never speculate away en a chance of a palace that which you may need as a provision against the workhouse.--Bulwer. n