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The Seaforth News, 1917-11-01, Page 2course, you ea buy cheaper teas, but is undoubtedly the most economical and what appearS to be'''clieap' in price will prove to be extravagant in use. The fresh young leaves of "Salada" will yield you generous value for your money. Bus GOOD flEALTil QUESTION By John 13, Huber, KA., M,D. X Dr, Huber will answer all signed letters pertaining to Health. If your question Is of general interest it will be answered through these columns ; if not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is en. closed, Dr, Huber win not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis. Address lir. John 13. Huber, care of Wilsen Publishing Co., 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Habit is as strong as death. • CATCHING COLDS. As our forebears, who first got the QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. knack of building houses, found them Blow Front a Cow. comfortable, conducive to ease if not to dignity, they became enervated by constantly rebreathing their own pois- onous exhalations mingled with those of their family, their boarders, and such of their animal friends which pain that extended from the place struck up over the eye and brow and they could not bear to see suffer in the through the eye ball. Do you think raging elements without. Then there could be any damage; could an coughing and sneezing, by which parti- abscess be forming without some dis- cies of germ -laden material was dis- charge from the nose or signs from serninated, helped infection along con - the outside. I am taking—for the siderably. In short, people "caught colds." pain; am 1 taking too much. Answer—Have a doctor skilled in Next in order, in the race's evolu- the nose and throat examine you at ton came the fetish about night air. so that sleeping rooms were kept once. Such an ailment lasting six weeks without recovery is like to hermetically sealed. Bedroom win- dows are even now, despite all the mean an abscess in the frontal sin - About 6 weeks ago our cow strucl me with her horn on the left side o the bridge of my nose, "knocking in out." I have suffered since with a ens Health By Agronomist • Thls 'Department is for the use. of our farm readers vvho want the advice of an expert on any question regarding eel', seed, crops, etc. If your question fa of sufficient general Interest It will be answered through this column. If stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed with your letter, a complete answer be mailed to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing Co., Ltd„ 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. *Subscriber:—I have about on acre inclosed for hog pasture, This has been well maimed and plowed and I should 114 to know what to plant to get the best pasture for the coming year. Would you advise me to sow rye or rape in the spring', or is there something better? No better crop ran be sown for early hog pasture next spring than rye seeded as soon as it can be gotten in, if possible sowing this fall. Then the ground ran be seeded to clover in the rye, and some late pasture provided, also good pasture for the following season, Rape could be sown on this ground early in the spring and would make good midsum- mer pasture. It could be turned into about six weeks after sowing if weather conditions were favorable, and would make good pasture for two f or three months thereafter. There e are many forage crops which can be satisfactorilystifctoi'jly uaed for this purpose, but in a case like this the rye would afford an opportunity to get the land seeded to clover, which would also pro- vide pasture for the following season. have ten acres of corn that was just in the milk when the frost came. Would you think it safe to feed this to cattle and sheep this winter, (from shock), or would it be better to let the hogs eat the corn, and cattle clean up the fodder? If not,, fresh air propoganda, nailed down uses—not necessarily a grave condi- tion, but one which may well become come November, and kept so (when properly they should have been nail- so if neglected. There may be pus _pocketed in th----------- nd not et ed up) until March or even A. A. d . n yet, winter and summer, what air has appearing at the nostril. The drug the good Lord given us to breathe, at you mention may relieve but never night, if not night air. cure such a condition, I cannot judge Then people came more and more if you are taking too much; but over- todosage is like to depress seriously the overburden themselves with clothes, in which they- could collect germs, vital processes. that would us be added to the as- Reducing Lips? sortment already existing in the Can you tell me of a treatment house, True, most germs cannot live . that will reduce my lips and mouth? for any length of time outside the liv- Would pinching the lips reduce them? ing animal "h ." And yet one can- Do tell me something and make me not be sure that the germs in one's happy. clothing. are always dead ones. And Answer—Sorry; but I know of no let him who thinks his overcoat is treatment I could guarantee. The! germ -free because it is well brushed, remedy you mention would be likely! turn a vacuum cleaner on it, and note to increase, to have the effect the op - the result, posite of that which you desire. SHORT-TERM AMBITION t! business in which they are engaged! continually more valuable." If girls would only understand tha We see. it so elearly in all depar ments of life! The minister who not constantly gaining new visions o truth and making new applications o truth to life soon wearies his congre gation. The physician who does no keep up with new discoveries an methods finds his patient turning t other and more progressive doctor The business man who is not con stantly on the alert to study ever new suggestion soon finds himself out distanced by competitors, There is a sadder failure still. Th mother who does not make it the grea purpose of her life to keep in toile with her children as their interest broaden comes sooner or later to th heart -breaking hour when she discisv ers that she has lost their confident —that she is left behind. Failures all, pitiful, tragic failures because they had short-term ambi tions, because the goals to which they booked forward were so far short of —eternity! Daffodils in Pots. Daffodils in pots should not be forced. Procure the best possible bulbs. The pots should be well washed and a few pieces of broken crocks placed in the bottom for drainage and over these place a few pieces of charcoal. For soil use composted soil with a good sprinkling of sand, say, about one-fifth. After the pots have been partially filled with soil, set the bulbs an inch apart and all but the extreme tips covered with the soil well firmed, so as to leave three-quarters of an nch of pot above the soil to hold voter. As soon as the bulbs are planted set he pots away in a cool dark place for bout eight to ten weeks, in the means ime not permitting the sou to dry ut. If the leaves are light in color shade or a day or two, giving full light radually, finally moving hit° the full unlight and heat of the ordinary liv- ng room, The cooler the temperature he better—.about 65 degrees being est. "One of the reason why so many girls and women fail to attain real success in business," said a successful business woman the other day, "is short-term ambition, I have girls in my business who have worked splen- didly for three, four or five years, making themselves steadily more valu- able. Then upon reaching some parti- cular position, they've stopped short. I have several who are not worth a bit more than they were fiye years ago. On the contrary they d're worth less, for in business quite as markedly as anywhere else in life decay sets in when growth stops. Sooner or later those girls, although they are doing their work without blunders or notice- able failure, will be compelled to give way to girls who have life ambitions —girls who are eager and interested, alert to make both themselves and the Jellies have highfood value Make as many as you can. They will be worth a great deal to you next winter. "Pure and Uncolored" makes dear, delicious, sparkling jellies. Tho purity and "FINE" gramilation makes success easy. 2 and 5 -Ib 10,20 and 100,11) cartons sacks iso Ask your Grocer for LANTIC SUGA .2401661047.Q.NZI.INea' • what would you advise? I have 'no silo, There will be no danger in feeding frosted corn from the shock to either cattle or sheep at least, provided some other forage is given them in the ra- tion, as clover or alfalfa hay, The frosted corn fodder fed from the shock will be in very much better con- dition to feed then where the fodder is subjected to repeated heavy freezes, 89 is the ease with standing corn. A,F.:—I have 19 August pigs to get ready for market as soon as I can. 'Mat would you advise me to feed, barley, ground, or wheat and oats ground together, feeding in a self - feeder? Barley is an excellent feed, but for best results should be fed in combina- tion with other feeds such as mid- dlings, where available for growing pigs. Barley would be a much cheap- er ration when combined with mid- dlings than would wheat and oats ground together. Sound wheat should not be fed to pigs under pre- sent conditions from either an economic or patriotic standpoint, since all the available supply will be need- ed for human consumption, and the pigs can be grown as well on coarser and cheaper feeds. Barley should al- ways be ground for pigs, and would be better fed M combination with other feeds in a self -feeder, since it is not as palatable as a mixed ration Gettig Winter Eggs By A. We are told that "eggs are goin sky-high" before long. And while thi may be somewhat exaggerated, yet w have to admit that prices are on th upward trend, Not only egg price but grain prices and, in fact, price of nearly everything else. A good many poultry keepers ar asking themselves the question: "Wi it pay to keep hens for winter egg and feed high-priced grain'?" The above question must be answer ed by the inclividual himself, or b someone who. understands local condi tions. But so far as we are concern ed, there is no question as to whethe it will pay or not. We know b long experience that winter eggs ar profitable and with ordinary succes we still hoe to come out "ahead o the game." Plenty of Feed Essential There fa -no magic in getting eggs in winter. But a good many things must be considered. To begin with it is Gallagher. g ward pullets are not the culls, but s / good thrifty pullets which seem rather el timid and, for some reason, are un - e able to get their full share of' the feed. A variety of grains and other things s are necessary. Practically the same ration is required for growing pullets ei as that which is necessary for laying hens, s Also, moulting hens, The latter require a liberal • t' • Y 05 - feed and good, dry roosting quarters y should be provided if the hens are ex- pected to come through the moult and - be ready for business, before cold r weather sets in. Buttermilk is Valuable si Buttermilk is very beneficial, both 42 EU., an egg producer and growth pro- moter. It also helps the moulting hens to grow feathers. Bear in mind that the latter are under 5 strain so to speak. Their vitality is being taxed to the litnit. The late =miter is very frequently a heavy layer a.nd while she is growing a new coat of feathers, she is, at the same time, laying up egg material for the future, We keep sour .milk before the fowls most of the time, but sweet milk should never be used because it takes a bad ef- fect on the bowels. Be careful to keep. the milk trough as clean as possThere is doubtless a great deal of soft corn in many parts of the country at this time. Be careful about feeding this immature -grain to poultry. New corn, best, is none too safe. In former years e' have suffered severe loss by feeding poultry new corn, es- pecially turkeys. If new or soft corn must be used, we now boil it. This same rule holds good with oth- er things, such as musty grain, mill beans, etc. If any of these are not too badly spoiled, they may be made suitable for poultry feed by thorough cooking. Tl:is sort of feed cal. be used as a mash by adding bran or something similar. Right here we want to speak a word of caution in re - o the use of crushed corn. Wheri the cob is crushed with the corn it should not be used as a poultry food. crushed cob is practically indigestible, somewhat similar to saw- dust. We have known of a number of cases where poultry have died from eating "cob meal." 'They simply can - essential that the fowls kept be is • healthy and of suitable age, i.e„ neith- er too old nor too young. Old hens, fi as a rule, put on flesh instead of lay- s! ing eggs, while small, late hatched pulleor those that were stunted in growth,winter will lay no eggs during the d months. 01 We have tried a good many differ- s. eat kinds of chickens, but have at last sl settled down with the good old Silver Laced Wyandottes and Leghorns. We - have plenty of house -room and always keep the two varieties separate during 1 the winter, when all of our poultry is e kept housed much of the time. -Now, t! we don't mean to say that our selec- h tion of chickens is the best Wefind s I that they suit our purpose best and 0: believe this to be a step in the right direction. No one is likely'to succeed ", with fowls he does not like, e Keep Pullets Separate Don't let the young pullets roost in the same house where the hens are - I kept, until they get used to the.rest of the flock. There are always some backward pullets that cannot "hold their own" with the older birds. For 'these, we have a house and yard where they are kept for a few weeks, separate from the others. Of course, they must have good care and plenty • °femetle. Rember, these so-called back- i N ' t , 0 , t o . f g s i t b Print Name in Water. i It was a British poet who sang something shout a name "writ in We - ter," but it remained for a clever Japanese actually to print his name ' in the colorless liquid. Travelers from Osaka, Japan, tell of a merchant there who has a man write his adver- tisements in water on the roadway by means of sprinking cart with a per. ferated revolving drum. The drum revolves with the 'wheels and as it does so traces oriental characters Wong the thoroughfare, CUT OUT Aisle FOLD ON DOTTED ,LINES ------------ My mother says if I eh up And ratd this way at night, I'll soon acquire a shiny dome Like old Professor Bright, , w1X1. He'll Appreciate Your Good Judgment As Well As Your 'Good Will if for Christmas, 1917, you send him a Gillette Safety Razor! That's the gift that is valued Overseas for itself as well as for the sake of the sender. Few articles of personal equipment are so welcome, for the. Gillette is known up and down the Allied lines, by Canadian, Briton and Anzac, Frenchman, Italian and American, as the one sure passport to a clean and enjoyable shave. Even if he has already had one, the man in whom your hopes centre will be glad to get another Gillette Safety Razor. For under active service conditions, equipment so sought after as the Gillette strays easily and often, and he may now be trying to worry along again without one. So whatever else your box may contain, don't forget a GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR —and a good supply of blades. If you prefer, we will take your order, through your dealer or diredt, and deliver the razor of your choice from our nearedt depot Overseas. Ask your dealer about this when he shows you his Gillette assortment. Standard Sets and "Bulldogs" 'cost $5.00—Pocket Editions $5.00 to 66.00—Combination Sets $6.50 up — at Drug, Jewelry and Hardware Stores. Mails are congested—shipments slow. Send his Gillette early! GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED, Office and Factory : Gillette Building, Montreal 274 _...441aillt.4-. ar • 41 not see the difference between cob meal and cern titeki. - • - • '• A Wheatless Ration While wheat is one of the best egg- produeers known, when fed along with corn, we have cut it out -of the ration entirely, on account of the cost as well as for patrioticreasons, Instead,we use bran and boiled oats. This, with a little corn meal added, makes an ex- cellent morning mash. Sometimes we use boiled vegetables instead of oats. When the hens are kept housed, as they must be, when the weather is severe or snow is deep, it is essential to vary their ration. We sometimes add raw cabbage (chopped) to the mash. A little salt or a dash of eons pepper helps to give it a "tang" that is greatly relished. Green stuff, or a substitute for same, should be provided, Pure water, with the chill removed, should be kept within reach. Don't fail to provide some sort of place where the hens can get all the exercise they need. We have regular scratch -sheds attached to each house, but in former years the floor of the poultry house answered very well. Every fall when dry leaves are plen- tiful, we storelarge quantities to be used as scratch material. Rye in the sheaf, or other unthreshed'grains are used, also. Smell grain, such as kaffir or even millet, will answer to make the hens work, but will not take the place of corn, Pall Feeding Important Sharp grit is an important factor. Again let us impress upon the minds of beginners the importance of a gen- erous ration, right new, forboth old and young, Don't wait until winter to begin feeding for eggs. The fact is, chickens are more often under -fed than over -fed, at this season of the year. If judgment is used in the selec- tion of feeds, it is next to impossible to over -feed a moulting hon or a grow- ing pullet. As to hopper feeding, don't do it un- less the fowls have been accustomed to it, from the time they were hatch- ed. Otherwise, they seldom know when to stop eating. A warm mash in the morning., with seratch-feed and "grains" through the cl/ty and a full feed of warmed corn at night (never feed frozen corn) will give better results as a rule. We usually allow one quart of shelled corn for every ten fowls. A large handful for each hen is a safe rule, but may be varied. Many men insist on feeding .silage to horses so as to redace feed costa, Many men have fed silage to horses 0, for years with success. Many men ..1° have poisoned horses by feeding them 01 accidentally moldy silage, Right there is the trouble, Horses are so valuable and eo easily killed by damaged feed that caution has repeatedly been urged in the use of k silage, On the average farm it is 10 hotter not to feed it at all than to feed in it and lose even one horse. Those who are deteraurted to feed silage should follow a rigid aystem of close- ly scrutinising every forkful as it is taken from the Bile, When a little moldy pocket of silage is discovered it t :Ss" 711 Make Bigiorofits From Furs br trotitritiing to the ,World'a Biggest For !lose 145. 1', ;For big trapping ro roux tura to on se'n'oeY,Inwo :rob 8.1 became wo pox horeet.prioon. rtil,"1741?flioTTI:VrrTnellx",1 ..nxima.° noon, °kiln ,.rtnnk, fox, muskrat and oxner0xuro 14',17%,Nghvgegrg:11.nd 0000 money =ma aoi litflirifft Fon PftElE BOOR Fat. -4033702 '217:.2M3 =elle FUtiVrEll BROIL st 00. 450800500 SkItany 1.2704.1 54. Lola "').tkiat , Feeding the Calves. Remove the dairy calves from the cow at birth. Do not allow them to puck, unless weak or unable to drink, or unless the cow's udder is severely ceked. Mother's milk for the first four days, at the rate of 8 to 10 pounds divided into three or four feeds, is essential. Feed whole milk for the first ten days, then start re- placing part of the same with skim milk, so that when the calf is on month of age it may be receiving i two foeds daily twelve pounds of skim milk, plus a tablespoonful of finely ground scalded flax -seed jelly. At three weeks old feed a smal quantity of whole oats in the mange/ Fine clover hay and clean water might profitably be kept before then from this time on. During the next fifteen weeks grad ually increase the skim milk to 15 1 20 pounds daily, Add to the flax seed jelly other constituents to mak a cream substitute as followei—Fin ground flax 1 part, fine ground oats 2 yo parts, ground corn 2 parts. Feed in the milk divided into two feeds daily at the rate of one-eighth pound a the start and increase to 1 pound. Replace the whole oats at fom weeks of age -with a grain mixture a equal parts bran, rolled oats and ground corn. Start the calves on ne-eighth pound per day and increase radually to 1.14 pounds daily at wenty weeks of age, when the ekim- ilk may bo gradually out off and this rain ration increased proportionate - Do not oxposo your calves to heat nd flies, but during extreme beat eep them in a dark, cool box until ur months of age, atter which they ay have a night paddock. If fall - Colds And How To Prevent Them, Tho condition that we usually callIat cold is really not cold at all. is a heat rather than a cold, One does not "catch" cold; instead, the cold catches the -victim and gives him a fever. One "catches" a cold because for some reason the skin lacks resistance, ,Apply a cold -water compress to a person's hear for several hours and he will begin to complain that his forehead 18 sore and painful; he will have neuralgic pains in his forehead; the skin aud the flesh become sore, Sometimes 11 is necessary to keep an iec bag over the heart. When the ice bag has been kept there half an hour two or three times a day for two or three weeks, the patient, in most cases, begins to complain of soreness in that particular region, That pain is called "rheumatism " for lack of a better term. It is not' rheumatism at all, but simply a painful, sensitive' condition due to the lowering of the blood temperature in that region, which permitted the waste matters to accumulate in these tissues, and as a result the nerves and other tissues have become abnormally sensitive. Thus in a general way we may say that the cause for taking an ordinary cold is lowering of the temperature of the blood, either locally or general- ly. If a person has been perspiring from exercise and sits down and lets the wind blow on him he soon begins to feel chilly. WI 'lo he was exercis- ing, his muscles ware generating heat. For a muscle generates heat just as a dynamo generates electricity. By its action heat is generated, just as by the revolution of the armature of the dynamo electricity is generated—and, in fact, in a very similar way; not in the way a stove generates heat, but in the way a dynamo generates electric- ity. - If a person perspires when exercis- ing it is because he generates more heat then is needed to keep the body warm, so it is necessary that the body should be cooled, and perspiration is simply the effort of the body to cool itself. Bathing the skin with water and allowing the water to evaporate also has the effect of cooling the skin, Now when the perspiring individual ceases to exercise and sits down the effect is that of putting out fire or blowing. out a light, The extra gen- eration of heat ceases, so the evapors,- tion goes on without any extra heat being produced, because the skin is wet and'the clothing contains mois- ture and the evaporation causes a chilling of the body. It takes but a few minutes to pro- duce this result; then in order "to warm the body up, the muscles are set into spasmodic contraction. There is shivering and sneezing, which are signs of a general spasm. When one sneezes he does not sneeze with his nose, but through it. It is the entire body that is exercis- ing. Every muscle contracts. The feet are lifted up from the floor. There is a jump of the whole body. t would be quite impossible to hold nything steady in your hand when ou sneeze; but the motion is parti- ulerly of the expiratory muscles, here is a sudden contraction of hese muscles, with an explosive ef- ort of nature to warm the body. When you sneeze you say, "Oh! I m taking cold:" That is a mistake, ou have taken cold. Your tempera- • ure has been lowered and you already ave the cold and the muscular spasm the effort of nature to cure it. Now if you want to help nature, e best way is to keep right on ex- cising. You feel a little shiver arted here and there and you feel illy. Now set your muscles to ork as hard es you can, That is e quickest way to stop the shivering, Certainly one can prevent himself om taking cold, One sits in church odrraowd.rft blows on the back of his ole. Ile says, "I ant going to get cold. I shall have a stiff neck to- . You do not need to have a cold. st make the muscles contract as rd as possible; keep them working they will keep the skin warm and u will not take the cold. And the best of it is that one does t have to take gymnastic exercises walk in order to exercise. Ono can perfectly still and work eo as• make himself •• perspire freely—by tilting every muscle of his body nse. Tho hands can be kept straight the [Mem, with the muscles perfect - rigid, Make every Muscle of the dy rigid end you will see pretty on that you aro breathing hard. etty eoon you are taking deep oaths, You may say that it is and to do that, but nevertheless one n sit quietly in church or other theringe and look the speaker in face and at tho same moment work hard as though he were running to eh a truth, or one may sit at his k end dietate important letters or - Pere and et the same time be da - hard physical worlc, Thum one clops not need to'taks cold muse he is sitting still, for one does need to be idle and relaxed just 11080 ono Is silting ettlipli40 for the Tinnily are re- coivecl frietion-toP tin cans. These, when the tops are carefully removed and the cans thosoughly cleaned, may be used again for the preservation of fruits and vegetablee in the household, a 5 1 a Y h is th 6 er o st eh W '01 '• fr an a O m " ru e ha so no 00t sit to f 111 te at ly bo Se Pr br ga the RS cat dos Fla bee pot bee dropped calves keep in a clean, bright, coinfortable, warm box stall, Feed a limited amount of roots or a mix - tore of roots and ensilage, FeeJ salt ln gaantities regularly and wa.er no regiere must he rejected, Silage should be thrown dfiwn by daylight so that in- spection easy, Of °eosin the general quality of the silage must be as perfect as possible, and that is determined by care and thorough tramping as the silo is filled. Get ready for the War Loan 11110HEST NIMES PAM For POULTRY, GAMS, EGGII & FEATHaRs Plesio write for oartloulars, v. spouznq It 00,, 80 Eonocoourti Praaltet, rttOntreal