The Exeter Advocate, 1922-11-23, Page 6Address communications to Agronarniat, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto.
Odd Jobs With a Tractor. He adve tise:i the place fox sale at
By doing odd jobs when general a barge in, and spent the best part of;
'gvork was slack, John Semon has made a Year ge.ting rid of it at a hugs'
u tractor pay on a farm 'where the saeriace. i
zteighhers said it would be a bill of }Te was frank in explaining tile;
expense.- reason for se'e'ing to the young farm-
"MY farm contains only seventy er who finally eoncluded to "try it a;
ecres," Semon explained retentlY, whirl," a
"and if plowing and general field work" eYou en keep chickens in one place
cuss all a tractor could do, I could not' only so long,'" the disgusted man said,'
afford to have cue on the place. I "then the ground goes stale, lice fill:
realized: this, and before I bought mine up the building's, and with the ground
I began to devise odd jobs to keep is sour and not draining properly, the:
busy. buildings seen become dam?'" I
My first odd jcb was c'eas'ing a Ta;. young man said nothing,. but he,
strip of timberland. nd. After the trees" used the pessimism of the owner to
were fe,led aand nd sawed, I used the trees
toe es loading the logsthen again in pry off a few Hundred from the price
laaulin; them to the mil!. Afterward,, and took the place, s
I bean to pull stumps,. With .a little" "The first thing I did,," he says,
akin u' handling, I found that the ma-' "was to get a spraying outfit and go.
chine world make an even pull, and; over all the buildings with a disin-
daveLop a great deal more power than' rectant whitewash. It tool:. Half the
a team. I cleared the piece in four, time that it used to take with the
days, thereby saving a asretes time brushes. I found that the whitewash
'with team and man -power. did ust two things for me: It killed.
In fesaing the :and, 1 breve:at the rile vermin at:d it dried up the :in
tactor into aetion again. H„ming tcrl r• The brightness of the interior,
the posts, stretching aha, are' draw- I ' a cure, goes .a long way toward
g the wagon about. The same year "n'na a ury. I ime rte the whites
did road work, dragging stones wail; yea hum, is noted for taking
*madam, ditching and rolling. I not tiasnandss out c.f bald Places.” i
only improved my awn highway, but T., sass as; up the soil he used lime
was able to take in some money be- eleedite eagle of si as amid be p.oweda
a;dea. Ctlies yeals and rens reteived a lib -a
When marketing time entre arc.und ",:.gal ap-',..ation of gravel and sand!
I rigged up a couple of wagons and ted were the spade;'. This guerilla'
hoo ed :an the tractor. With this out- teal geed, drainage is the future. The
at I hauled my own grant and that runs were then stalled to alfalfa and
of my- neigh'Zors. On my return trips clover, or oats, as the ease might be,
1 brought back fertilizer in the same and the low ng epiing el.' spaded,
moaner. up.
I u e,i the maatire again in bring- Tale yoar-t; Earner is raising more
ing in any winter's fuel. loading and chielters in the run -dawn farm than
hauling logs, etc, Then, with a neigh- his rre>ie;:e sor did, and he is havieg
bor's gala,, used the naaelune in cut- tee beat el success, because he is tak-
ting. ing preventive measures. Be uses the
I have found the tractor O.K. in eteineectent whitewash once each
bet work, Many times other farmers month en the interior of bis buildings.
and i work together at :his. If he has As fast as the green food is con-'
e feed sermder, crate:', eta.. we ex- sunied in one of the runs, he turns
change labor and save meray. the fowls into another and seeds it
In nearhborbood work tech as this dowu..
I sifter.- exchange tractor power for : "Yes," he said, "if the other fellow
teams. y hadonly thought a little 'wi: le abo8t'
"These are but a few of the manygetting out of tbe hole, he would have
gobs which my machine aloes,' con used some whitewash and he would
tinued Mr. Semon. "I have rigged up' never have let ltis soil get infested.
a number of home-nnade devices at It is all foolishness to talk about
practically no expense, and every day moving to new land every so often
I fid something new to which the' with chickens, If you want to keep
tractor can be put. For many of the land right you can do it, but you;,
these jobs it replaces horses, doing the can't let things take their own way,
work cheaper in a great deal less if you you'd succeed,"
time."
Get Out the Old Whitewash Brush,
Two years ago a certain poultryman,
threw up his hands in disgust. With' place acid save thousands of dollars
vermin infesting bis buildings ands for himself.
dampness hanging like a. fog cloud in' It pays to dig out the old whitewash
his broader house, he could not make brush now and ta.en—ar better still, a
a success of his business. ' 1, good spraying outfit.
He added that his father used to
whitewash his barns and stables, and
that by remembering that one feet,
he had been enabled to reclaim this
Since it will be to the advantage of
Ontario potato growers to get rid of
ail undersized and injured potatoes at,
home, the best method of feeding this
product to the pigs will be of interest
to many. Potatoes are peculiarly
valuable as a supplement in fattening
pigs. The best practice is to cook the
potatoes, drain off the water and then
mix the potatoes with grain at the
rate of about three parts of potatoes
to one part of the grain. The writer's
method of doing this is to boil the
potatoes in a feed cooker and then
do the mixing in a barrel with a piece
of board of suitable length. Thus
prepared liberal quantities may be fed
to fattening hogs and also to brood
sows and small pigs. Raw potatoes
should not be fed. to live stock in too
large quantities because of the solan-
ine which, if consumed too liberally,
is apt to produce harmful effects. This
crystaline compound is lost in cook-
ing.
for school taxes, and then: well, the
barn is crowded, badly crowded
That's what you are thinking. Confess.
Say, friend, think again—and while
you are thinking, look me in the eye.
You know mighty well that old gar-
bage man is so stingy he wouldn't
stutter on account of the waste of
breath, and will not feed bimself
enougo, let alone a horse; you know
he cusses like a pirate when he is
mad; and he is always mad; you know
he 'never used a blanket on the last
horse he had, and the beast died early
in the spring from exposure and mal-
nutrition. That's why he wants an-
other horse now.
What's that? The garbage man is
not so bad as painted? Well, grant-
ing that he is not; granting for the
moment that he is a near -angel with
stub wings sticking out through the
holes in his sweater-, don't forget that
your farm is the old horse's home, and
that he loves his home just as mueh
as you do, if . not more. He grew to
horsehood here and knows every cor-
ner and fence -post. If you sell him
to any one
you ou will break his heart.
He depends on you, he has every conn
fidence in you. He has given you r
twelve long years of his active life, 1
and if he had kept books he could
prove you owe him $2,400 at least,
Don't break his heart.
Personally, I don't think your barn
is crowded. Why not slip those colts
into that box stall..and tie these two
mares over in that double stall?
Make room for the old fellow inside
when the weather is bad, and give
him the range of the pasture when
the weather is fine,In two or theca
years that he has left _to live
you can pay him back a ; little of that
$2,400.
Make room for the old horse, friend.
Where you are his ago—seventy in •
your ease—the boys and • girls will
make it a' corner for you and try to •
pay you back.for the years that yot1�
labored for them without,pay.
Selling the Old Horse.
If you don't mind, friends, I'll `put
in a word for the old horse—that old
bay fellow, you know, with the en-
larged knees. He has worked for you.
some'twelve years, I understand, and
has been satisfied with his board and
room and a set of new shoes now and
then.
During .those twelve years., if I am
rightly informed, nineteen hired men
have kicked, got balky, and lain down
on the job, but the eld bay' has never
done any of those things. I am told
that in the same length' of time three
hired girls- have run away, but : the
good horse has never done that either.
It is alsosaid that you yourself have
been away two winters, two months
each time, but the faithful nag lids
stuck to the farm and kept things
running until •ayour return.
He is eighteen now, or is it nine-
teen? At any rate he is about as old
in horse language as you will be at
seventy in man language—He He is„ still
doing his best, but of course his .:best.
is not good, and, if I'm alive at the
time, I'II say the same thing about
you when you are seventy. What are
you going to do with him?
I know what you are thinking of
doing with him. You are thinking of
selling him for $15 er $17,50 if you
can get it, to the old garbage man in
town. He could, do the garbage man's
work all right, you say, it would not
be hard on him, you need the money
CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY M.A.
`' RiSET1NG..
Executive committee of the million dollar co-operative convent',
launched by Hon, Manning Doberty for marketing dairy products, . This
company will do for dairying what the Niagara 1'epinsula Growers are do-
ing for marketing fruit. Front row, left to right, E. H. Stonehu;se, Wes-
ton, seeretary, and John Beatty, Mallorytown, president; back' row, D. Z.
Gibson, Caledonia, J. A. IkteFeeters, Toronto, and Wm• Newman, Lorneville,
directors. ,
Keeping Potatoes in a. Pit.
Here ;is one farmer's method of
storing potatoes out of dcors; He digs
a hole about six feet wide acid from
three and a half to four feet deep in
some dry spot. The length of the ex-
eavation depends upon the quantity of
potatoes to lee stored. He .fine the pit
with potatoes and heaps them as high
as they will pile, They are then
covered about a foot deep with old
coarse hay. About a foot of dirt is
piled over this lay, excepting along
the ridge where a strip about a foot
wide is left uncovered for ventilating
purposes.
This man
finds that the important
paint in keeping potatoes is to have
them dry. The moisture from the
sweating of the tubers 'will escape
throughtbe hay along the ridge of
this pit. It is left in this manner until
the ground is frozen quite hand, -when
the exposed bay is covered with dirt
and then a couple of feet of coarse
hay, or •straw, or clover chaff is piled
over the entire pit and allowed to ex-
tend about it from four to six feet
on every side.
To prevent water from finding its
way through the hay before the ridge
is 'covered with dirt, two wide boards
can be nailed together V-shaped and
placed lengthwise over the opening.
His Machines Always Work.
John Loke, a farmer I know, bas a
method of machinery repairing that
has saved hint a great many dollars
during the past two years. His sys-
tem is simple, inexpensive, and may
bo copiedby any farmer, This is
how Loke does it, as he told it to me;
"Whenever an implement is brought
in from the year's service in the field,
I go over it carefully, searching for
broken and worn-out parts. When
soch a part is located, I make an item
of it in my notebook. I set down
name, size, and price, if I happen to
know it. Below this I write the ad,
caress of manufacturer or dealer who
would likely have repairs in stock.
"I go over each implement in turn,
and 'hen they are all stored away I
have a complete list of repairs needed
for the following year. My next step
is to search catalogues and to call on
the dealers. I .compare prices, and
when I go to town I give the order for
as many parts as I can get. As a re-
pair is •secured, I cross off the item in
my notebook. This is to prevent buy-
ing the same part twice. Having the
whole winter before me, I am able to
select what I need at ai greater saving
than would be the case if I waited
until the spring rush.
"As a repair part is secured I go
to that particular implement and
mend it. In this way my tools are
soon put into good condition. I find
the method especially good for de-
teoting worn-out parts. While going
over a machine I often rind something
weakened or worn until it is liable to ---`------
break at any time. I order such parts, Jesus the Great Missionary, Luke 8: 1-3, 26-33, 38, 39.
and have them ready, so that when a
oe
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
NOVEMBER 26
break occurs I can fix it without loss Golden Text: The Son of man carne to seek and to save
oftime,
"This may seem to be a lot of un-
necessary detail," continued Loke,
"but it is quite easy once you form the
liubit, With such a system you can
start in when the spring rush comes,
while the other fellow is rigging up
bis machinery."—F. R. C.
Present prices for farm products
would be all right if other things
would "deflate" accordingly.
It is human nature to require much
from others but to lay light responsi-
bilities upon our own shoulders.
Lowering the cost of production is
a present-day economic need. It can
best be done by getting more eggs per
hen, more milk per cow, and more
grain per acre, and caring for less
chickens, cows and acres.
Profitable Way of Marketing Farm Products
The marketing of farm products is
one of the most important things in
the farming business. It is at least
as important as raising a good crop.
I think a weekly home market in
every town and city where there is
a railroad would benefit the farmer to
a very large extent. The farmer would.
be able to take advantage of such a
marketing system in many different
ways. The main idea would be that
the farmer could sell his own products•
himself, or hold them if the priceal
were not rigbt.
It is quite different at the present.
When the farmer ships some of his,
products to some large market com-
mission house, he does not know what
is done with his goods. When he gets
the returns, he many times owes the
commission house money for shipping
charges. The goods often do not bring
the cost of shipping, not speaking of
the basket, the cost of raising the
procl lets, etc.
There are also a lot of farm pro-
ducts never shipped nor used, as small.
amounts are not profitable to ship.
However, if there were as home mar-
ket you could take down what . you
had, large or small, and it would not
cost anything to get it sold, as you
would do this yourself.
There would then be many farmers:
who could buy their needs from other
farmers at the market place, while,
now it is often a problem to know
where to buy some of them. The
-neighbors do not have what he wants
and the farmer cannot spend his time
looking for it: all over the country. If
it should happen that the goods want -
•
ed were not on the home market, one
would at least be 'able to learn where.
to get it.
• The, weekly home market -would also
bring general merchandise to the mar-
ket place. Many would put lip booths
and many .bargains would ,be offered,
and mach motley...would be saved by
farmers and town peopie'and'be much
to the advantage' of both:
" The next' thing is how to start a
weekly home market, This Steil be dome
in a few days. You don't have to wait
until next summer,• there, are` many
things which you can sell every week,
even in the winter time. There are
eggs, butter, vegetables, grains,' pigs,
cows, horses,, sheep, fat hogs, potatoes,
chickens,etc., to start the market. A
committee of farmers could be ap-
pointed to get together with the to`can •
official to buy a piece of ground to'
hold, the market an. M ke a few ar-
rangements for the up -keep of the'
market,, like renting certain plaoes at
the market ground
to
People who'
would like to put cup booths, etc. Then
have the market place divided into
sections. , At each section a certain
kind of goods should be sold. Then a
day should be set on which to hold the
ni rket. The market could be opened
at 8:00 axe and last until noon or 2.00
p.m. Arrangements could be ,made to
have.the market place under cover for
protection in bad weather. Also, it
would be importantto arrange that
not any of the neighboring towns
would have a market on the same day.
Thu ;system is in full swing in
many countries of Europe, and there.
has proven a big advantage to . farm-
ing..
Oldest Waiting:
The British lyluseum 'contain;; the
oldest known example of Chinese writ-
ing in the form of inscriptions on ani-
mal' bones.
Each of -us adds, an iota to -the
world's fund a knowledge but we can
add more'' f We make mote use of that
:which is already available, •
Do .not use drinking cups or towels
which •have been used by other people.
Many disease are transmitted in this
way.•:
"Pth sonaliy
was — quite
— I always — thought - the 'C -Cattle Embargo' business
justified!„
-Ridge; ell, in London -Opinion,
that which was lost, Luke 19; 10 (Rev. Ver.).
Lesson Setting—Following on the,not be disembodied and driven into the
story of last lesson we find Jesus with abodo of evil spirits.
his disciples on a second preaching! V. 32. An herd of many swine; for -
tour in Galilee, He went preaching- bidden by Jews and belonging pre -
and bringin taled f the bl tot'
kingdom of mastery of xosuspears an every
ministry of mercy to the woman in the' step.
house of Simon was but part of al V. 33. The herd ran violently .
wider ministry of mercy to woman- � into the lake. Some would explain
kind u=dder the burden of sin, sorrow, this by saying that the demoniac in
and infirmity. We also find that the ails last paroxysm of deliverance, rushs
ministry of grateful love at the hands i mg among the swine caused their pre-
of the woman was but part of a wider capitate flight, It is better to confess
ministry' of womankind to Josus, The ignorance and emphasize two things
wealth of substance and. her.rt was at —the desperate condition athe man
his disposal. This is but another phase and the complete deliverance that
of the world-wide scope of Jesus. It carne to him through Jesus.
was in this tour that Jesus speaks V. 34. They that fed them ...fed.
that series of parables beginning with He sits at the feet of the Saviour;
the sower and the seed, that show the clothed and in his right mind. The
true nature and significance of his
kingdom.
g gas news
o le sums y Gren Iles.. He suffered them
d. We find that Jesus' The
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Goi
1. Grateful Women, 1-3.
V, 1. He went throughout every city
and village. In this tour Christ covers
the district in thorough fashicn, rath-
er than choosing strategic centres, and
we learn that • tile;s multitudes were
drawn to hdm. Preaching and sheaving
the' glad 'tidings. This -explains-'the
gathering of the rialtitudes. It is a
new word and a glad word that Jesus
speaks. He has something to bring
s
the burdened people. The twelve
were with him; as helpers and Jamm-
ers."
earners.
V. 2. And certain women, which,hacj+\
been healed. Jewish. -religion had no-
thing but contempt for women. "No
woman was allowed to come closer to
a rabbi than four cubit's distance."
Jesus has a place for them in his
mercy and his work. Mary called
Magdalene;. from the town of Mag-'
dabs, not the nameless woman of Last
lesson. Out of whom went seven
devils; an extreme case of demoniacal
possession, but not of immorality. De-
moniacal possession whatever it. was,1
was never confounded with wicked- j
ness. Joanna the wife of Chuza; who
was with Mary Magdalene at -•,the
sepulchre. Susanna. We know nothing
more of her. Ministered unto him of i
their substance. The women were g wo-
r
men of means and gladly helped ed Jesus.
II. A Raging Demoniac, 26-33. 1
V. 26.They arrived at the country of
the Gadarenes. In v. 22 Jesus says,
"Let us go over unto the other side of
the lake." The pressure of the: work
was telling on -Jesus. ,He
"was feeling
the need of rest and unbroken coin-,
munion, and seeks to get'. away from
the milt -dude with its ceaseless dis-'
V. 27. There met him . , a certain
man. ` The picture ' of this man
vivid one. Ile was possessed of a
`devil. He was a terror to the neigh- I
borhood. He .hard defied all efforts to:
bind him, with chains. He wore not
clothes, but laved in the caves used
for tombs: In his frenzy he would.
cut ,himself with stones. Whatever'
demoniacal possession was, there is
no' doubt of its effects. ,It alienated a
man from God,` his 'fellows:, and him
self.
V.:28.'He'cried ',out. It was a.cry
of fear and -answer'to`Jesus' word'of
authority, the'motive of which the
man did not yet understands Torment
me ' not. This man, at war with: so-
ciety and , everything else;, cannot
think : of power;used for any 'loving
purpose. Thou son of God. In the'
intervals between attacks thea, man
may have heard of Jesus 'and his won-
drous works and div ned that this
was he.
V. 30. What is thy name. Jesus
seeks to establish a. point of connect
tion with him. Legion; said' to terriry
Jesus. • The Roman legion was asso-
ciated, in'the>iniedts: of'the people with
cruelty and violence.
dad 1, They"besought him. That is
the,d�emons speaking through then
Would, not command them :. . ino the
deep. They entreat that they shall,
people who had no compassion on the
demoniac are not prepared to have
him recovered at the expense of their
property, and ask Jesus to leave,
IIP. A Faithful Missionary, 38, 39.
V. e88 e ro. , ught hi
that he88m.
be withan him.besoComing tom
Jesus had brought this man his great
:deliverance,. But might he not suffer:
egain if Jesus departed. The only safe
course to him seemed to lie in being
always with Jesus. Moreover, love
and gratitude, for his deliverance
prompted him to follow, But Jesus
sent him away. What a splendid ser-
vice this man' could have done for
Jesus wherever he went. His story
would have been a great confirmation
of the claims of Jesus. Moreover, his
love would have been a great source
of comfort to Christ amidst unbelief
and opposition.
V. 39. Return to thine own house.
Jesus was -thinking of those at home
and the great sorrow that had been
theirs and the great joy that now had
come, making the hale anew home.
Shew how great things God had done.
The man was to be not a foreign butt
a home missionary. His work was
well done, for the people who Zesaught
Jesus to go received him gladly on
his return.
Application.
Jesus was the great missionary of
all times -the inseiration and. example
for all those
�, who would disciple the
nations.
Jesus was an . itinerant missionary.
He did not retire to a: sacred spot and
await for j'eople to`•oome to him. He
went out into the highways, to the
villages, :towns and cities of his na-
tive country, seekiiig men for his
kingdom. In .the, •same spirit St. Paul
Tent' f a'th making Rome hisfinal ob-
jective, In tive same'sp''t our chureh
of to -day does not confine itself to
the islands of the sea \*here our evork
began, . and where many remain non
("5hristian` still- but our church goes. to
the great: cities of the Orient and seta
up the etaniclard ef,the cross where the
prospect of' at rapid spread is Most.,>
hopeful. ;
Jesus.:was. supported in his mission- :
ary enterprise: 'by certain women and.. -
others Our Lordgave up his •work
as a cawt"penter. ; He had : still to live
and' believed that ;they who' preached
the goapel,sihould:"live by the 'gospel,.
We know that he so believed because
St. Paul in 1 Cor. 9: 14 quotes .hire to
this effect,Are we taking our true
pl'ae ,as supporters of that great mis-
sionary cause which the Lord Jesuit
still ' continues through his church?
Do we contribute ;of our substance as
the, -Lard hath prospered us ?
France's iron Resources.-
France's total iron, resources reeent-
1•y were ' estimated in excess of 5,500e a=
000,000 metric tons °exclusive of newly
dis'oovered mines and daposita in Al. -
;geria and Turtle.
None of us will get very far if we
rely alone on or'r roan experience,
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