Zurich Herald, 1932-02-11, Page 3Farm -Froblems
Conducted by Prof. Henry G. Bell, Dept. of Chemistry,
Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph
1. What fertilizer would you suggest the order named are also removed by
for mangels? How much per acre, and this • means.
would the sante fertilizer be used -for6, Does the gradual .elimination :of
sugar beets? l the bases in the soil occur constantly?
Auswer.—In the demonstration tests , Answer.—Certain of the bases in
conducted .on. a. large number of farms the soil are removed by cropping and
throughout the province by the De- by drainage. Por instance, lime is
partment of Chemistry, O.A.O., best thus removed, and magnesium.
returns from fertilizers used with. man- I If so, does this action create au un -
gels have been obtained where 2-12-6 balanced soil condition in which the
fertilizer was applied at the rate of 375 acid elements predominate?
lbs. per acre. This gave an average j Answer.—The natural reaction of the
yield on loam soils of 49 tons per acre removal of lime and magnesium is to
against 26 tons where no fertilizer was produce a condition where acid pre-
used. On clay soils it gave a yield of dominates.
33 tons per acre against 27 tons where Would a proper application, after
no fertilizer was used. ' 2-12-6 gave liming, of a well balanced fertilizer in.-
very
n.very good yields on sugar beets but crease production to an economical
was slightly surpassed by fertilizers a maximum?
little higher in potash. I Answer.—In the system of farming
2. Will complete fertilizer build up commonly pursued in Ontario, lime
the soil for future crops or are they should .be applied once in tour or five
only good for one crop? , years on the average, in soils that are
Answer;—In' experimentalwork and naturally short of it. Crops are ro-
field demonstration tests considerable kited so as to introduce a legume crop
.information • is • accumulating which once in four or five.years. The second
,points to a decided "atter"-effect from growth of this crop is usually turned
fertilizers. For instance, where - fer- under as green manure. It also adds
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tilizer was applied to alfalfa in 1930 considerable nitrogen to the soil it
giving an increase of 9,200 lbs. (green legumes predominate in it. A fair
weight). per acre, the same plot in amount of livestock is .usually kept
1931 without further fertilizer gave an and manure is returned as generously
increase of 2,240 lbs. (green weight) as possible. In addition to these prac-
over land which had been unfertilized. tices, •suitably balanced fertilizers ap-
In another instance where fertilizer; plied to money crops or to crops of re-
lied been applied to barley on clay soil latively high value has been found to
in. eastern Ontario in 1930, there was increase yields at considerable profit.
an increase of 13.6 bushels. On the Of course, the degree of profit will de -
same • plot in 1931 without any ,further • pend among other things upon the
fertilizer there was an increase of ; quantity of fertilizer employed. We
4,320 lbs. of clover hay (green weight) I mean that while three bags of fertil-
over unfertilized land, In a test con- , Iters per acre may give a highly profit -
ducted by the Department of Chemis- able return on wheat or corn or sugar
try, O.A.C., where complete fertilizers beets, the addition of eight bags to the
were applied to mangels and no fur -1 acre, which would entail a much
ther fertilizer applied for two years, greater cost, would in all probability
there was a gain of 4.1 tons of mangels consume the additional profit. The
the first year; 9.7 bushels barley the! Ontario farmer has to determine this
second year, and 600 lbs hay the third point for himself, in view of the type
year. Necessarily, attention must be of his soil, the cropping system which
given to keeping up the organic mat- I he follows and the amount of fertility
ter of the soil by turning under green t that he is able to return in barnyard
crops or adding all the strawy manure manure and green manures. .
obtainable, if the soil is to be im- 7. What is the maximum phosphoric
proved In its productive capacity. acid that one can use in a potato fer-
3. Should a 4-8-10 fertilizer cause tilizer? For the last two years we
scab on potatoes, used at the rate of have used 4-12-6 for early potatoes and
500 lbs. per acre? ' 2-12-6 for late, and the results have ,
Answer.—We know of no reason been very good. We have a sandy
why fertilizers of any kind should loam soil and usually put on a light
cause scab. Scab is a fungus disease coat of manure.
which thrives in an alkaline soil. If , Answer.—Results in our demonstra•
potato seed is not treated and is plant- tion fertilizer tests throughout the
ed in a scab -infected soil that is alka past three years point distinctly to the '
line in reaction, there is every chance value. of 2-12-6 fertilizer on potatoes
of a scabby crop being harvested. under general conditions. In our tests
Many potato growers find that by turn- of 1931 where 2-12-6 and 4-8-10 fertil-
under a second crop of clover in pre- izers were compared, we found the
paration of the potato seed bed, the latter gave a little higher yield on
desirable small degree of acidity lathe light soils and loamy soils, but the di?- in sheer woolen, now .so modish. For: Job's' comforters—wa, the
soil which produces clean- potato stock ference on loam soils hardly over- the darling pleated'collar, you could the ccs forte ;.or the sin a man coni-
mreautes from the decay of the organic came the rdifference se ine cost ofo nd to I use pique,linen or self -fabric in a' mits--o,' the sin which his parents
matter. � iter. The reverse order was found to ; contrasting -color. !commit.
4. How does 6% potash in the fertil- prevail on clay soils. From the rather The used Ivooli The Greek view was in some
izer, say 2-12-6, applied at the rate of extensive investigational potato work 1 crepe. originalge collardresswas dlmo brown green, Previous state of las thate man did
extra200 lbs. per acre, help the grain to pY conducted thatby this
leasti12% phosphoric • wool crepe. The wide brown belt vas' something wrong for which he is inane
t` pay in his next incarnation. "Who
cash in a spring crop, say oats?opinion as'shiny patent leather. 1 sinned this man or his parents, that
Answer—With oats. at the present acid can be used with good results in Spanish tile wool jersey with brown he was born blind? v. 2. So strong
low 'prices it is difficult to make a fertilizers for early potatoes. It wouldertlinen collar and brown suede belt is were the old legalistic of
Profit from the addition of fertilizers appear that while your choice of fertil cunning. the disciples, that the sight tendenciesosuffer-
directly to this crop. From results ob- izers for the early potatoes, namely 4- A dark green tweed -like woolen the drowsed, not '.he impulse to beep,
tamed recently in• our demonstration 12•6, is quite as we would recommend, with vivid yellow pique collar is an- but the desire to discuss.did 'not mean
work, it would appear that oats can yet the results of our tests indicate Jesus' answer (v. 3)
other scheme you'll like. that sin does not bring suffering—
.
Aneent Mexican Art
A decorated skull .unearthed by Professor Alfonso Caso leader
of expedition in Mexico. This unusual specimen is adorned with carved
sea shells in the eye sockets, a piece of flint in the nose cavity and
the whole finished off with turquois.
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hat New York shoot
Is Wearing ' Sunday S
Lesson
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BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON'
Iidustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur -
niched With Every Pattern
Sounds of Night in the Jungle
It was early spring in. the tropics, daily UPou Pay ear instantly Orystall-
The final period of pipe and addle had ized Some vision of the past --•some sir,
not yet arrived,' so that there was no cumstauce or adventure'fraught with
hum from the underworld. The flow similar sound, Then, appreciably as a
of sap and the spread of petals were second thought, came the keen concert -
no less silent than the myriad (area• tratlon of every sense to identify this
tures which, I knew, slumbered or new sound, to bear it again, to fix it in.
hunted on every side. It was as if I mind with its character and meaning.
had slipped back one dimension in Perhaps at some distant plaoe and
space and walked in a shadow world„ time, in utterly incongruous surround -
But these'shadows were not all color- Ings, it may in turn flash into cow
less. Although the light was strained sciqusness — a memory -simile stinatt-
•
almost barren by the moon. mountains, ' laxed by some sound of the future.
yet the glow from the distant lava and I stood in a patoh of moonlight lie-
craters; still kept sometliink of color, teeing to the baying of a hound, or so
and the green of the leaves, great and I thought; that musical ululation
small, showed as a rich dark olive. The which links man's companion wolf-
afternogn's rain had left each one.wards. I turned to the Indian at MI
filmed 'with'. clear water, and this elbow, full of hopeful expectation.
struck back' the light as polished sfl- i With his quiet smile he whispered,
ver. There was no tempered illumina- 1 "Kunama," and:I knew that. I had
tion. The trail ahead was either black a frog of size and voice well in keep -
or a solid sheet ofl fight. Here and heard the giant tree frog of Guiana—
there in the jungle on each side, where Ing with these mighty jungles. I could
a tree had fallen, or a flue of clear imagine the great goggle-eyed fellow
apace led moonwards, the effect was of sprawled high near the roof of the
cold electric light seen through trees jungle, clutching the leaves with its
in city parks. When such a shaft vacuum -cupped toes. The moonlight
struck down upon us it surpassed would make him • ghostly—a pastel
simile. I have seen old paintings in frog; but in the day he flaunted splash -
Belgian cathedrals of celestial light es of azure and green on his scarlet
which now seem less imaginary. body.
At last the silence was .broken, and; .At a turn in the trail we squatted
like the first breath of the trade -wind and waited for what the jungle might
which clouds the Mazaruni surface, I send of sight or sound. And in whis-
the mirror of silence was never quite' pers Nupee told me of the big frog
clean. again — or so it seemed. My : kunama and its' ways. It never came
Northern mind, stored with sounds of , to the ground, or even descended part
memory, never instinctively accepted ;way down the trees; and by some un-
a new voice of the jungle for what it • known method of distillation it made
was. Each had to go through a re.' little pools of its own in deep hollows
ference clearing house of sorts. Any s and there lived.: William Beebe, in
strange wail or scream striking sad.' "Jungle Peace."
February 14. Lesson Bit -Jesus and
the Man Born Blind—John 9. 1.11;
30.38+ . Golden Text—I am the
light of the world: he that foiloweth
me shall not walk In the darkness,
but shall have the light of life.—
John 8: 12.
ANALYSIS.
I. THE BLIND MAN CURED, John 9: 1-7.
II. "I WON'T BELIEVE, John 9: 8-34.
III. WITH CHRIST, OR AGAINST HIM,
John 9: 35-41.
INTRODUCTION—Chesters 7 and 8
show the gradual hardening of the
Jewish hearts against Jesus. Many of
his own disciples no longer walked
with him. The shadow of the ap-
proaching crisis was already darken-
ing his way. He knew that the end
could not be far off. The "man born
klind" is a tyge of the Jews who re-
ceived Jesus. The Pharisees in the
story represent the prejudiced stub-
bornness of those whose hearts were
hardened by Jesus' life and teaching.
L THE BLIND MAN CURED, John 9: 1-7.
of the sacramental tendency of this
Gospel. Only . after the rite of bap-
tism does the believer enter fully into
the new life.
II. "I WON'T BELIEVE, John 9: 8-34.
The story begins with the healing
of physical blindness, but it soon shifts
to the Jews who, in spite of the con-
clusive evidence, remain stubbornly
unbelieving. They fastened upon the
work involved in wetting the clay on
the Sabbath, and made it the basis of
the charge against Jesus, v. 16. "A
good roan would not break the Sab-
bath," said some. "A bad man could
not work a miracle," retorted another.
So the controversy went on.
Failing in their purpose, the Jews
degenerated into abuse, v. 34. They
hated Jesus. Therefore they would
neither see nor.admit any good in him.
What about our attitude toward the
deeds of people whom we dislike?
III. WITH CHRIST, OR AGAINST HIM,
John 9: 35-41.
34 6 3 . _ It is probable that the blind man
was at the entrance to the Temple.
On the Sabbath, however, he would
neither be begging nor receiving alms.
The rapidity with which the news of
his cure spread suggests some reli-
gious festival—perhaps the Feast of
Dedication, 10: 22. The "disciples"
(9:2) may have been the Judean
group, and not the Galilean. Would
fishermen be interested in the theo-
logical question?
The question which they are made
For little daughter of school age, to ask in the story indicates the two
why not this darling coat -like dress?. main views which the people of John's
Yoa can carry it out so charmingly ; t ouble in The Jewish viehesus w—as as olds as
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benefit most profitably from the re- that you could, get slightly larges Style No. 3465 is designed in sizes
sidual effect of fertilizers applied to yields by substituting 4-8-10 for the! 6,8, 10le and 12 years.
the crop preceding If, however, oats late potatoes on the light soil. This Size 8 1�'a 54 -inch
are grown as a cash crop, 200 lbs. of will depend, of course, upon how j material and requires yard , yardsr54-inch
fertilizer to the acre may be of advent- heavy a coat of manure you apply. In material.
ntrast-
age. Whether or not it will pay will the tests conducted to which we have g
depend upon the type of soil and state referred, no manure was applied. In HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
of soil fertility. If grain has been the event that you have a fair coating I Write your name and address plain-
_.,4zt., t_ apply, n_12.r, will give ,-. .,,.;,,m number and size of such
Enclose 20c in
ELOQUENCE OF WORDS
By words we have it in our power
to make such combinations as we
cannot possibly do otherwise; by
this power of combing we are able,
by the addition of well-chosen cir-
cumstances, to give a new life and
force to the simple object; in paint-
ing we may represent any fine figure
we please; but we can never give it
those enlivening touches which it
may receive from words. To repre-
sent an angel in. a picture, you call
only draw a beautiful young man
winged; but what painting can fur -
nigh anything so grand as the addi-
tion of one word, "The angel of the
Lord?"—Burke.
Resourceful and bold as this man
proved to be, he could not but have
felt keenly his excommunication. His
hope of employment would now be
gone. He would be shunned as the
outcast he was..One could imagine
him moodily wishing that he had been
left as he was, where he could at least
have had society provide hint his liv-
ing. But, meeting Jesus, who, hear-
ing of his punishment was probably
looking for him, he found a friendship
which more than compensated for any
loss which his loyalty may have caused
hint. To hint as to many another, be-
set by life's misfortunes, Christ be-
came "all and in all."
the meaning cf
Jesus, summing up
the "sign," declares that his coming
into the world is like a judgment. It
brings out the characters of men, v.
39. No one ever comes in contact with I
him without being compelled to side �
with him or against him. The choice
he makes determines his destiny.
for .it does. He dd mean, however,
to discourage the tendency—still am-
ong us to think uncharitably of suf-
fering as punishment. Let a non -
churchgoer, say, be killed in a motor
accident on a Sunday and some one
will be sure to say, "God's judgment!"
We are not in a position to say. Our
duty in such a situation is made
clear by Jesus' reply to his speculating
k not-
4tUWJ4 from u' «-.- frequently -- manure
the last few years without the return you a better balance of plantfood w to 'patterns as you wane•
of much fertility, the available potash manure than 4-3-10: stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap disciples,hdovsuch things happen?.' but
of the soil will undoubtedly be con-; it carefully) for each number, and "Whyt can I doh to h SoPe •w"l theu
sisy lowered, in which case afer-1• address your order to Wilson Pattern works of God be mads manifest.
tilizer such as 2-12-6 will pay well. Mahogany Used as Fuel Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto The elaborate process of wetting the
5. In how many ways are plant food f the Republic of •r- --- clay—sealing the man's eyes, sending
rinterior� THE LOVE TREE him to the Pool of a'lcalil, is symbol -
elements taken from the soil?
Answer.—Plant food elements
In the
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are Panama one often sees valuable ma-
hanbeing used as fuel in the ear- Love is'like a tree vegetating of ism. The clay symbolizes the act of
ogy 1 creation, Gen. 2: 7. The Christian,
the man whose eyes Christ has opened,
is a new creation. Sealing the eyes
that our spiritual blindness
Itself
ep
removed In crops which are harvested boneros or charcoal burners, dpi fig
front the soil both in the straw stalk ho cooking for the villagers and
e fruit grain or seed. e is mi
are also removed in the bodies olive -1 est charcoal, but theCanal
-roots through al
our bstriking deep-roots
and often oontiuuing to
grow greenly over a heart in ruins.
it is the blind-
er is this passion e m
"Where did you find your won-
derful follow-up system? It would
get money out of anybody."
"I simply compiled and adapted
the letters my son sent me from
college."
GROWING IN DARKNESS
Kind hearts are gardens,
Kind thoughts are roots,
Kind words are blossoms,
Kind deeds are fruits;
Love is the sunshine
That warms -Into life,
For only in darkness
Grow hatred and strife.
and in th , d They lantern. Mahogany ,cheap means "No now age ever starts from
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ed nitro- slakes�e b means "sept" John saw in the value pular contribution to the future."—
.soil
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gen especially is troduce other fuel so as seated than when It Is God. T e•commas
soil through drainage water. Small, valuable timber. shadow of reason.—Victor `
Hugo.
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