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Zurich Herald, 1924-05-08, Page 3n lj► Uwe ell' Ut MIA 111e sea' led it.; sect and ed,' b a' 1111' nd vei he )t - les ny, eh ty ar as n,' ve in a a !y A Adetrose communieetlone to. Aa onotm4T,, 73 Adelaide 8t. West, Tor"ants A JOURNEY TQ THE HOME OF INDOLENCE. Lemuel Sprowl still owned a small interest' in a farm oil the road that branched off the main pike in the direction of the poorhouse. For some' years he had been unable to pay in full the interest on the mortgage. Neigh- bors ventured the assertion that it would be only a• question of time when Mr, Sprowl and his wife would be compelled to reliquish the place, and become guests of the county. Happening by on a hot summer day, we left the fiivver to cool under a wide -spreading oak at the roadside and went in to` have a look at the property. Mr, Sprowl was on the porch, taking his ease in a broken- down, upholstered chair that had seen better clays and which, its present oc- cupant found occasion to inform us, had been picked up at an auction some three or four years previous "for the price of a two-bit piece." "I . set this here chair on the porch when"I brought, it home," he drawled, as he saw us taking note- of it, "and somehow 'I haven't ever got around to carryit into the house. • 1 dunno• as it makes much difference. Sort of need something out here every summer. What can I do for you, stranger?" We made known our desire to look over the farm "Nothin' easier," he replied. "There isn't any place around here that offers greater opportunities. • It's a little too • big for me to keep everything just shipshape. But a younger man like you—" He eyed me critically, "Yes, you might get along on it pretty well." Ile led us out to the barn, where we entered the milking stable over a broken walk that held abundant possi- bilities for broken bones and twisted ankles. "I keep thinkin' I'll fix that place," lie said, "but somehow I don't get to it. I dunno, though, as it's any killin' matter, so long as you know right where to. step." Hearing voices beyond the stable, we inquired if he kept a hired man. "Not regularly," was the reply. "I dump the manure from the stable out in the yard, and twice a year I get some one to haul it to the fields. Saves a lot of fussin' to do it that way. I'm late, though, with it this. summer. That waste's been lyin' there most of a year.' It3 should have been seen to last spring." "You'll have to straighten that silo, won't you, before you can , fill it again?" we questioned, as we noticed the Leaning Tower of Pisa which rear- ed itself in the barn lot next to -a feeding shed. Pruning -for Fine ,Rnsea, The rose grower has it in his power, at this seasgn of 'the year to prepare his plants for a heavy, crop of modere ate quality or a smaller crop^of .super- ior blooms, It inust be observd, however, that the amount of pruning that should be done toe rose bush depends somewhat upon. the, variety of the rose. Roses of modern varieties bloom on wood of the current year's to 15 gallons, by measure, of fresh paw green ,pound, salt 1 pound, Water 8 gallons. Twenty pounds of eithery of these baits is sufficient to 'treat five acres of growing crops. The ncastili�s'ing is the best time for broad - g, In. the Prairie Provinces what is itnovvn as the Griddle mixture has proved effective, This is made by adding 1 pound of paris green, or white arsenic, and 1 pound of salt, "I quit usin' silage two or three growth. That is to say, the buds that horse droppings, sufficient water only years back," Mr. Sprowl advised with start from the old branches this tong make the mixture moist bei an air of wisdom. "The fellow who spring will produce the 'flowers ,this Added; put up that silo was a stock -feeder year. Rose growers will have - oh- Olclpastures should be plowed to a and he put it pretty near in the mid- served that the strongest new woad depth of at least six inches and im dle of the lot. Handlin'. dairy cows limed the finest bloom comes from the mediately followed by harrowing. hadto lug the feed clear across to, buds that are close to the ground. It �- -- the milkin' stable. I couldn't seo any sense in makin' a slave of myself for the sake of a parcel of cows, so I quit fillin' it. Yes, I've been noticin' quite a while that she's gettin' a slant in strong growing varieties such as J her. It seems. I could never get time B. Clark and Frau Karl Druschits, to tighten them hoops , when they should not be pruned so severely. ' It should have been looked after. is always desirable that the bush Fermin' in summer don't have much when it develops should have an open let up to it, you know. I guess that's centre, so as to let in the sunshine. to forty tons per acre, according to the reason I never tended to it." We For this reason, when a branch is the'' ''Dominion Horticulturist, who continued ori our way past the out- cut off, the cut should be made a half further • advises, if impossible to ob- buildings. inch or so above the bud an the out- tainbarnyard manure, the turning "Looks as though it was about time side. Pruning should not be done nudeof of a crop of clover and the you cut your weeds," we observed. until the buds are commencing to use of; a fertilizer composed of 200 to "What's that you're tryin' to hide in swell. One may then be assured that 800 pounds of muriate of potash (or that jungle of burdock?" he is leaving uninjured wood. It is 25 to 45 bushels of wood ashes), •200 "Oh, that!" Mr. Sprowl's tone was not necessary to wait until the buds to 300 pounds of either ground bone one of mild' surprise. "Why, that's near the ground are bursting, because or?acid phosphate, and about 75 to those higher up open first . and, if a .1o0 pounds of nitrate of soda, to be fairly long stem is left, the lower buds :applied at time of planting. Planting do not break at all. By cutting of the stems fairly low, the lower buds are forced into growth. Experience will soon teach what is the best method of pruning for the particular conditions desired. In pruning, the strongest healthiest stems are left and the weak ones cut off close to the ground or bush or larger limb. As a safeguard against mildew and black spot it is well to burn all the pruned wood and to spray the bushes with a fairly strong solution of Bor- deaux mixture or other suitable fungicide. Instructions for making and applying fungicides as well as insecticides for rose plants are given in Bulletin No. 85 of the Experiment- al Farms, "Hardy Roses," available at the Publications Branch of the De- partment of Agriculture at Ottawa. This bulletin also names and describes the best varieties to grow. Control of Grasshoppers. therefore pays to shorten back the CLlltivationn of Strawberries..: wood to within a foot or so of the Strawberries require a moist, rich root. This applies more especially to rather light and loamy soil to produce young plants. Older plants of the the`hest results. The land should be good condition and free from weeds. A heavy application of ma- nure should be worked into the soil at .the; time of planting, using well ratted manure, at the rate of thirty • what these automobile fellows call -a. chassis—only in this case it's part of a lumber wagon. It was so hard to get it in and out of the shed I took to leavin' it out here. I dunno as it improves it any, but when I've wanted it I could hitch on in just a jiffy— standin' where it does. My, but them burdocks do grow tarnation fast, don't they?" Reaching the end of the row of buildings we faced the open field. A hundred yards away there stood a three -section crib made of fence -rails and holding several hundred bushels of corn. "Some of my last year's corn," Sprowl explained with a bit of pride. "So long as I've got that crib full of corn," he explained, waxing facetious, "I feel like the tramp who always car- ried a silver dollar which he'd never spend. There wasn't no judge, he said, who'd send him to jail for havin' no visible means of support." "But the rats and mice?" we sug- gested eyeing the makeshift crib. "1 suppose there may be one or two around," he admitted, "but if they're out there we don't have 'em in the barn. I can't see that it really makes much difference." Taking .leave of Sprowl, who had led us backto the vicinity of the bat- tered 'chair at-tered'chair on the porch, we thanked him for his courtesy. Again he sur- veyed us with close, scrutiny. "Fermin' is no work for a slug- gard," he advised soberly. "If the bank takes a notion to let you lift this roof from over my head, I hope you'll remember what I've told you. It's the truth. I ought to know." POULTRY. One hundred baby chicks when hatched will usually weigh between seven and eight pounds. When the chicks have reached an age of•tw.lae weeks they should weigh between one hundred and seventy-five and two hun- dred pounds. For sake of comparison we will take a calf at birth with a weight of eighty pounds. Should the calf make the same rate of gain as the chick, it would at twelve weeks of age weigh a ton. This will help one •o understand why broods of chicks Vary so much, and will also assist the feeder to appreciate the opportunity a hand to display his skill, so says Prof. W. R. Graham of the O.A.C. Poultry Dept. The use of the incubator and brand- er has forced the poultry keeper to study the methods of growing chicks. A mother hen and her brood, when al- lowed to range, can be fed many feeds, and the chicks do well simply because the hen and the chicks balance the ration by catching insects and select- ing tender green feed and, it may be, several other things that we have never observed. There is a great variation in differ- ent broods of chicks reared by the artificial method, and many broods. have a high mortality and a very unthrifty appearance. The chicks can be reared easily with, reasonable care and attention. The use of a little common sense is essential. One should remember that, given a brooder, a colony house, and say three hundred baby chicks, it is the duty of the operatorto keep the chicks.com- fortabie, and that every need of the .body ,must be taken to those chicks. There is no clucking hen to pick up bits of gravel or to catch insects. 'rine feed must bo taken.,to'the chick. At present the Dept. of Poultry Husbandry at the' O.A.C. is conducting e series of experiments, the object be- ing to find a shnple, inexpensive meth- od of growing a normal chicken. It May take years to get the answer, but each season we add n little to our knowledge. Celery Culture. Any good rich garden soil will grow good' celery. It is a gross feeder and piust have an abundance of fertility to draw upon if tender, well-develope Stale aro to be obtained, Tf the sot becomes dried out, even wtth an abundance of plar'it'food present, sue. culent stalks ere not likely to develop These two things, plant food and ISSU 110.1i1.«�'ut4. moisture, are essential in order that growth may go on uninterruptedly Hot dry soils can be made cool and moist by water or by mulching. It is not a very great task to keep a small area in celery watered during the dry periods. When preparing your new vege- table garden set aside some good well rotted manure for a row of celery. Dig or plow out a space about 18 inches wide and about six inches deep and into this scatter the manure about four inches deep. On this place your good garden soil, and mix thoroughly with the manure, and to this add acid phosphate at the rate of 500 pounds per acre. If the gar- den is one which has been well ma- nured for years scatter a coating of manure broadcast and work it into the soil adding acid phosphate aft well, and on this good celery can be grown. A well-balanced 4-8-5 com- mercial fertilizer, at the rate of 2,000 pounds per acre, scattered broadcast and well mixed with the soil to a depth of five or six inches, will grow good celery without manure if mois- ture conditions are right. Celery seed will germinate in any good garden soil in about two weeks after planting; during this time the soil should be kept damp. The seed box may be set any place in the kit chen, and when the seedings appear, in a bright window or hotbed. In two weeks the plants may be singled out and transplanted to one and one- half to two inches apart. In another month these will have developed into good plants for setting to the open grounds. It will be seen that it takes about two months to develop good plants. Seed sown on the first of March should develop plants for set- ting out May lst. For later plantings and fall crop, seed started the middle of, April or: first of May will give good plants for setting in June. e Cylinder -Head Bolts. In refitting a stationary engine with a beer cylinder head it was found that the bolts set into the jacket were a little too short when the thickened gasket was in plane. • To unscrew them a few turns so that they would serve, a nut of the right size was out half in two with, a ha&k saw, and this, when turned on the bolt, gripped with a pair of pliers. The open side "gave" enough to grip the threads tightly and to tarn the bolts. This prevented dam- aging the threads as the only other means would have been to use .a pipe . wrench, Locusts or grasshoppers lay their eggs in the late summer and autumn. of one year and the young appear about May in the following year. Every kind of field crop suffers from their presence. A leaflet issued by the Dominion Entomological. Branch states that in Eastern Canada" the following mixture broadcastedover infested fields has proved effective in control: Bran 20 pounds, paris green or white arsenic half a pound, molass- es 2 quarts, juice of oranges or lemons 3 fruits with peel chopped fine, to gallons of water. The bran, and paris green or white arsenic should be mix- ed while dry. Another bait that has answered well is: sawdust 20 pounds, spring. done preferably on a cloudy day, -andthe young plants should not be allowed to become dry at any time. After'iplanting the plantation should be given- e. thorough cultivation with a fine-tooth cultivator and this cul- tivation should be continued at inter - welled two weeks through the season, acid after each heavy rain. The blos- soms 'should be picked off the first season and the ground kept free from weeds:.`A few trips through the patch to. phiee the runners properly should also be made. In selecting runners for .. propagation select good-sized healthy plants. Better Prices for Lambs. The sheep raiser has it in his own hands to decide whether he will take the to price for his male lambs next fallor sell them at a discount of two dollar's or more per head. The decree has gone forth that a cut of i¢2 per hundredweight will be made on all buck iambs purchased after the mid- dle, of .July. It may not be generally understood that wether lambs make tliiclter and better carcasses than do rams, and that the meat is of finei flayo'i. The operation of emascula- tion; is: not only as necessary with lames as withcalves and pigs, but it ` j erg simple' and: subject to as 1-ittle loss. A pamphlet entitled "The Great Neglect in Sheep Husbandry,' .'describes the operation and shows how to take off the tails as well. Un- less a flock owner can afford to take a low price for his lamb crop he had better make sure of the highest re- turn by trimming his lambs this Folks who want the very best use RED ROSE ORANGE PEKOE T.9 Making Liars of .Our Children "I'll teach you to lie," said an angry father, who was thrashing his twelve -year-old boy with a big stick; "I'll teach you to lie!" How little did this man realize that he was, indeed, teaching his boy to lie, by making him afraid of him and thus afraid to tell the truth! Childhood is timid. Children have not yet developed their moral faculties to any great extent and they will usu- ally take the safest, easiest way. They, naturally, are always trying to pro- tect themselves. A well-known woman writer once undertook to classify lies. She listed lies of vanity; lies of flattery;..lies of convenience; lies of interest; lies of fear; ; lies of malignity; lies of male- volence, and lies of wantonness. Mark Twain in taking account of stock counted eight hundred and sixty-nine varieties of lies! There is no question that there are all sorts of lies, and that truthfulness as a principle and as a policy is un- known to multitudes of people. Often the reason for this is lack of proper training in childhood. A great many men and women have grown up to be- lieve in the lie as a policy. They be- lieve that it pays to deceive. Yet the reputation of always, everywhere, under all circumstances telling the truth—the exact truth --is worth a thousand times more to onethan any temporary gain from deceit. One of the most dangerous of all characters, in business or in social life, is the man or woman who is indiffer- ently honest, or who will tamper with the truth. There are multitudes of people who began to lie in childhood from fear of punishment and the desire to ward it off. It is not always so much the actual suffering of the whipping as the anticipation of it that is so dread- ful to the :youthful mind, There is something inside the boy and girl that protests against such an insult, as they regard any attack upon their person. It is the worst policy in the world to matte children afraid of you by telling them to tell the truth or take the consequences of severe physical punishment. I know of no quicker way to make a real Iiar of a child than snaking him afraid of you by giving him a beating every time you find him. telling an untruth. Don't delude :yourself that -beatings and other severe treatment will make your child truthful. In almost every case they have just the opposite effect. Timid children are proverbial liars, be- cause, they are the little victims of fear, and when in terror of punish- ment they will do almost anything to avoid it The, lie doesn't seen so bad to a child as it does to you, and yet my adult 'friend, are you sure you are always truthful? I know many a par- ent who punishes his child for lying who does the same in his business and social life, but in a more polite way, perhaps. A man will lie in his ad- vertisements, in his misrepresenta- tions of the merchandise he is handl- ing, in cheating customers in different ways, by covering up defects, in sell- ing r"foreign" silks made at home, and all, sorts of "imported" articles made iii this country. I know a boy whose father had been abroad and had brought home with him precious works of art, and he was one day showing a friend about his house. The boy heard him say, "Thiss picture is the work of Rem- brandt" (or some other great artist,) "I paid 110,000 for it," A little later the father called the boy before him to punish him for lying, and the lad said, "Father, how much did you tell Mr:.Blank the other day that you paid for thatpicture?" "Ten thousand dol- lars," was the reply. "But you know, daddy,:that you didn't pay but $4,000." "Yes, but it was worth $10,000; I bought it cheap." Now what sort of an example in truthfulness is that :father setting his bay? "V 'iters" (The Truth) is engraved upoin the buildings and gates of one, of our great universities, and above a' principal entrance to the college yard'Wo read this legend from a great Hebrew poet: "Open ye the gates that the right- eous nation which keepeth truth may enter in." No self-respecting gate upon the globe will open willingly to those who do not keep the t, uth•-- "truth in the inward parts," es Heb- rew sages used to say,. --truth in con- science and life. Hoene Education "The Chad's First School le the Farnliy"--Froebel." Suringtirne Gardening—By Sophie Kitchener "See, what a wonderful garden is here, Planted and trimmed for my Little -Oh -Dear! Posies so gaudy and grass of such brown— Search ye the country and hunt ye the town And never ye'll meet with a garden so queer As this one I've made for my Little -Oh -Dear!" Training that associates itself na- turally with the season of the year is particularly apt to make its im- pression on a child. The child is sen- sitive to the natural changes in the world about him and there is, value in any "lesson" that can be correlated with the lively interest he takes in the weather, the sky, the trees, and the plants. In the spring, for instance, the child loves to play in the little rivu- lets that form from the melting snows and the rains. He bridges them; the dashing torrents he dams to turn his little waterwheels; on the quiet navi- gable ones he floats his paper boats. He is conscious of the special tang he feels in playing in this mud and water. He is unable to know it is the "liveness" of waking nature ap- pealing to him, but he senses the mes- sage and responds. The mother, too, if she be a lover of nature, thrills to the same mes- sage brought by other couriers. How much more the child's half-conscious love will mean to him if she realizes that he shares her own appreciation and if she takes care to foster it until it becomes actual knowledge of na- ture. into the glass which wan then put on the window sill in the sun. As the days went by the child could` observe, the tiny shoots coming from the seeds. First came the root, then the leaf shoot which unfolded and. grew until little leaves began to show. These grew larger and larger and the shoot grew stronger and stronger until it overtopped the glass. It was then time to put it in the ground. The mother showed the little girl how to plant itand together they planted other beans to grow as the, first had done. All the while these seeds were de- veloping underground the- child knew what was happening and eagerly waited for the first tiny leaves to appear above the surface. She cared for the garden herself, watering it' faithfully. Later in the summer she was rewarded with a very small crop' of beans, for this was but a small garden in a yard at the back of a city house. But how much she had learned, and what a joy it had been! Feeding Poor Hay. While the general farmer finds economy in feeding his lower grades of roughage, so the fact should not be overlooked that such feeds do not have the full nutritive value that number one roughages have. Other- wise, there would be no difference ini the market price of these different' grades of feeds. The value of the' various farm feeds can be roughly' gauged by the condition of the ani mals to which they are fed. Watching closely his stock, the feeder can know, quite accurately whether he is treat-' ing the animals to the quantity of, roughage they should have. Keep the Sheep Dry. A practical sheep man advises that farmers owning flocks pay especial atm tention to the ewes in the period pre- ceding the lambing season. Dry beds are important. The wind and rain should be kept out of the quarters in which the ewes are housed. Another, essential is exercise. To provide for, this, the eyes should be allowed ac- cess to the barnyard or field. Oats and bran, equal parts, make an exe cellent feed for the ewes at this sea-, son, while legume hays, particularly, alfalfa, make first grade roughage feed. One mother of my acquaintance realized the value of such timely training. She purchased for her lit- tle daughter, a book that told the story of the bean. It told of its der velopment from an insignificant pebble -like thing into a lovely tall vine with flowers which, in turn, pro- duce the bean that people use for food. The lima bean was pictured as a baby that grew and grew. The child was interested, so the mother got some lima beans, quite a while before it was time to plant them outdoors, and put them between a roll of good blotting paper, inserted in a drinking glass, and the wall of the glass. A small amount of water was poured Train your child in the way of truth. � Teach hint that the world lit:tens when truth speaks. -O. S. M., jai atIcdess. 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