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Zurich Herald, 1924-09-11, Page 7i1 .44 it f Ind are hat cla. 44-444* Address communications to' Agronomist, 73 Adelaide 9t, West, Toronto WESTERN CANADA 'TURNS TO Early in 1923 the Alberta Corn CORN. it was long universally accepted that the area where corn might be raised successfully and profitably stoppedlong short of the line dividing the United States from: Canada. For, years no one dreamed of at- tempting'this crop on a oommercial scale ie Canada. American experts said it couldn't be done and' Canadian farmers believed them : It Iias been only of very recent to learn that the first corn show ever years] that the Western Canadian theists, having arrived at that development where they were Growers' Association, .a provincial organization embracing the entire province, came into being, and this was almost immediately followed by the formation of ,the Saskatchewan Corn Growers' Association.- Steps are being taken at the present tine In Manitoba to form a similar associa- tion. Those who said that corn would never be raised north of the interna- tional boundary should be interested held in. Western Canada was at Prince Albert, in Saskatchewan, more than 200 miles north of the line, where just Agri, sta jn son need of a fodder crop, began as fine corn was produced and ripened at'°al . eriously to question the infalli- as in Southern Alberta. bility f these theorists. ,Though corn t The judge of this show, Professor has bi&engrown on the Western Can- Champlin, of the Saskatchewan Agri- adiar,prairies on a very small scale, cultural College, who was formerly at it was. not until 1919 that a corn crop the North Dakota Agricultural Col - was e nsidered even as a possibility on lege, said: "I once thought that North the peiries: I Dakota was the northern limit of the animals masticate feed when they Tie,four crop years that have elap- Corn Belt, This show has shown that have taken it into'the mouth? sed . nee that time have wrought excellent corn can be grown several "'Ow 'e do chew on 'is bit o' meat, don't 'e, Charlie?" said a cockney girl to her beau, as they watched a zoo crop,''and were merely waiting; for the ';sweepstakes is. the equal to' any corn' lion eating its Sunday dinner of raw feasibility : of its„ horseflesh, and Charlie answered: l i, y production to be of its kind 1 have, ever seen. ,, "Blimme if 'e ain't! 'E's gettin' the prov�. I In the development of dairying the full flayvor ye see!” Richard 0. Marsh's' much-discussed White Indians of Darien. Two of' the boys are shown. catching tongue of the lizard, and the caudal clinmbing appendage_ of the monkey. And have you watched how some Cana ling, like a revolution in Western hundred miles farther north than was man griculture. ; believed possible_ twenty years ago. i' there had .heed of such a_. The Yellow Dent that captured the .of c( ern - far and ds of one hundred acres or more a are now not unusual in West- anada, and practically every has at least a small • acreage this crop. In1.923 there were 148,089 acres has changed that. To -day silos are .devo�e d to corn.in the three provinces being erected so extensively and. rap=� of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and' Al- idly in this Western territory that one berta, whereas in 1915 there were only may confidently anticipate the time 10,169. The annual" corn production when one of these will be the natural! in the same period has increased from • adjunct. of every prairie farm where. 26,900 tons' to 781,800 -tons. a few cows <are kept. -: ' _T! prices received for the 1923' The Corn Belt has unquestionably' W nthe' Wes t `CanadianThe year 1923 saw t corn- cropwere shifted north. '$4.70 a ton in Manitoba, $5.25 in Sas most pronounced and general accep- katc ewan and $3 in Alberta. Itance of that fact in Western Canada Inhe depression in. the rices ob- and the visioning of a broader, more P 'taanable for farm products in that intensive prairie agriculture. year these were much lower than in When this triumvirate of Manitoba, previous years, but even so, in :the Saskatchewan and Alberta, compels - case of each of the three provinces, the ing a , broad area which it was said valueof wheat,accounts for an: dereunevergrow of corn was: prac= would tfcally double that of an acre of wheat wheat harvests of substantially over In' the fall - of 1922 the first corn 400,000,000 bushels, one natter►''y -growers' e association of Western Can .hesitates a long time, `especially in the ada`was'formed' in Southern Alberta. light of recent experience, before come whe •e, on the irrigated lands, an aver-` mitting oneself to prophesy on the a ` .'' fodder corn of.: fifteen- and a future of the territory in corn 'grow ns to the acre has been�acheved ing. E. L. Chicanot. need for economic ilage was very In the same way every animal chews urgent, and the feasibility of corn feed to obtain its relished taste and fodder has brought, the daait industry •needed nutrients along in a phenomenal manner. The horse starts eating: by giving a ,� side chew to the right or left: He con- tinues the work on the other side of his mouth until the muscles tire and the flow of saliva from the glands is about exhausted. Then the opposite Enamel wears away slowly, dentine side takes up the process for a similar faster, and cement faster .still. Rough time, until the feed is fully insalivated, ridges are left in the wearing .pro - ground, and swallowed. But the cess, and do the work of cutting and grinding is not done between perfectly grinding feed. In carnivore, where level molar tables. In the horse the tearing and crushing are` requisite, upper jaw is wider' than the. lower, the' molars are sharp,; pointed, and: ser - and the teeth grind in somewhat scis- rate; in omnivore, whose food in gen- sors-like fashion, not completely cross eral, the. teeth are mixed, in character. ing one another. The result is that As the horse watches you while sharp points of enamel are left un- making some of these• examfnatfons Formerly there were no silos. Corn ddities in Cows, ,and Horses Mouths BY DR. A. S. ALEXANDER. A perplexed and agitated lady who had been, trying to detect the inten- tional errors ' in some prize puzzle asked my assistance. "I've corrected all of them," she ;said, "except that plaguey one of the cows head. For the life of me I can't tell"what's wrong wittl it, unless it be the expression of its countenance—for I never saw a moo -cow show such a hideous grin. Do, please, look at the picture and tell me what is. incorrect!" Well, I did• That alleged cow had a most fearfal and wonderfully con- structed visage, for the lips gaped backward and provided for the same purpose as the papillae. There are no papillae on a horse's cheeks, and the ridges of his hard pal- ate are smooth. When they swell just behind the upper incisors, the horse- man calls the condition "lampers." Be- hind the hard palate the soft palate slopes downward and backward like a curtain between the mouth and the vestibule of the throat (pharynx). During the act of swallowing it is raised to permit passage of food. At other times it lies upon the tongue and prevents breathing through the mouth dart and disclosed a set of huge..in- or vomitting visor teeth in both the upper and the' I know of an ignorant "quack" who lower: jaw. 1 mistook the soft palate for an abnor- All you real farmers know that mal swelling or abscess in the mouth there are no incisor or pincer teeth in of a horse suffering intensely from the: upper jaws of your cow and sheep. sore throat. He punctured it in three They wear eight incisors, the same Placeswitha red-hot poker. Only by as we humans: We have four above inserting a silver tube in the windpipe and four below, but in the ruminant was the poor beast kept from dying. animal, all of them are in the lower; . Your cow's tongue is thick and jaw. A dental pad or cushion of rough, like :a coarse rasp, with the geiStle replaces the incisor teeth in points directed backward. The tongue the upper jaw. " Probably . you have of the horse is quite different, being no1ced ' that the incisors are some-' long, slim, and smooth: The cow curls what loose, shovel -shaped, and directed that rough tongue around tufts of forward.. That is so they will; not grass when grazing, pulls them 'be - injure the dental pad. 1 tween her incisor teeth and dental The horse, on the contrary, has six pad, and then crushes and breaks them rigid upright incisors in both • upper off. The horse scoops grain into his and lower jaw; and in the male there mouth with his lips, and nips off is in addition a canine tooth, or tush, grass with his double set of incisors. on each side, above and below. 1 Nature has provided different meth one farmers do not know thata ods of grazing and taking feed into cow's incisor teeth naturally are some- the mouth so that your various ani - what loose. I have several times beenmatsmay subsist in the same pastures. asked what disease caused the loose- Your sheep nibbles close to the sur - n discovered for face of the ground. • Its upper lip is the first time onexamining the mouth cleft, and each section is moved at will of a sick cow.. It is also erroneously when eating grass. ' believed :byseine men that silage loos- Mr. Hog goes the sheep one better, ens"" the teeth of cattle or causes them fol he digs under the surfacefor such to Amp out. Were it so, thousands of •`- • '- ee white grubs (from which, silos would not now be benefitting by the way, he contracts his thorn- ' favniers and livestock throughout the headed worms) various roots and cer� land. ' tain miiiei•als he needs to correct the. The mouth co/Aril/isle/11e other, in-' dyspepsia from which he usually suf- teresting: things. A man whose cow fees. To prevent hogs from •excavat- took sick once wrote me that on open ing your pastures, you insert rings in ing its mouth he noticed a number of the strong nose cartilage, or sever it slim -necked 'tweets" growing from with nippers made for the purpose. ee lining the Do you know that the hog's nose also Gh the' k5 mucous membrane I is fitted with a bone called the os "Although 1 snipped' all of them of'f,'rasiw-r`z; which helps him to root for a with scissors, she is not -a bit better" living? That is a hidden point the he said, Arid leo wonder. These were anatomist can disclose. When -telling not waits, but fleshy protuberances' you of it he will likely mention two calledpapillae p re by the bones called.the ossa cordis, found in. � Ideal; ;the Creator to help keep the feed in the' the cow's heart and not in that of mouth acid between the grinding teeth other animals. during 'mastication of cud. Y.8u cats! Nature has supplied all sorts of pre. also see 'a single row of very large' hensile and accessory organs that papilla l on the nsida of each cheek every animal might obtain feed. Thus in Ilii a otint for the long neck of the ''b l i , . Hee with the grinding surface's of we ec g James Cossets, who w,,: 102 list liZret•eli, Is S;Lslcritoo.e s olrtpbt in.t,iiiiEait. OW molars,; ' irafl'e tho immensely strong trunk of The or sedges of the' g r e came from Ireland wtien he was seven ears old when Toronto had only hard palate in the roof of your cow's the elephant, the inquisitive, insertive c i :three grocery stores. Mr. Cassels is shown with his gieat•granddeughten. month have. sawlike teeth projecting proboscis of the ant -eater, the fiy- off to prevent them from causing, lacerations which may 'become Infect- ed and induce troublesome pores. While talking about chewing, can Borne Education "The Chiid`e Plrst SCh of 10"-- �' p the PgA11i1ly FrogDel The Rights of Children --- By Elsie F, Kart auk Does the adult arrange his daily life to fit in with that ofthe child or must the child fit his to the adult's? The following' illustrations may serve- iito show that in some cases, at least, the child is not considered, A nightly sight from my window is that of little children, in company with 'their parents, hurried along so fast that their little feet barely touch the ground; And where are they go- ing? To the picture show, of course —an unfit. place for a little child: It is genemal1y over heated or draughty, the air is bad and the music jazzy. Most likely the picture is not of the kind that will foster his taste for good. If he falls asleep he escapes the jazz and the picture only to suffer a rude awakening and to be dragged out again in the chill night hir. His rest has been broken and his nerves strained. A little ;boy, four years old, whose friendship. I have won, comes often to the home where I live. His parents are young and sadly .lacking in the understanding of children. They e.,.- pect him to sit perfectly still and let thein talk. He has: nothing with which you tell how the grinding tables of to play and besides he is tired as it is mais are kept.' rough? If smooth, they would not perform their work. You have heard that the "nether and the upper millstone" in the grist mill have raised. to be chiseled` rough now and then to keep them efficient. In ananimal the roughening process occurs automatic- ally. The grinding table of the molar tooth is composed of material of dif- ferent densities interposed or folded alternately into the structure. Of good and the prospective prices are . • ` these,_ enamel contains about 96 per 'encouraging. There will likely be a THE VISIT TO OLD MOTHER cent. of mineral matter, dentine 76.5 per cent, and cement` 67 per cent. "Mother," he finally ventures. No notice is taken of him. "Mother," this time his voice is "Keep still," replies his mauler. .. ,i( "Mother, "I told you to keep still," answers his trnother, A whine from the child' is followed by, "I'll spank you if you don't keep still." An impatient . surly cry -frons the child results in e spanking and more noise. His parents and their friends consider him a very naughty child. I will cite.one more instance of in- justice to children. Another couple, who have a little girl three or.four years old, visit this same home. Un- like the little boy, she has been trained or perhaps cowed into absolute silence, She sits in an erect position in a straight backed chair, until, her senses deadened by the vile. tobacco smoke in the room, she falls asleep. Her par- ents, unmindful of her, play cards and gossip until a late hour. The next day. the mother telephones us the usual story "I don't know what is the ,hatter with Jane to -day, She seems dull and. listless and if anything goes wrong she cries." If :a mother. but realized the effect that long, peaceful, regular hours of rest have upon the health and dispo- sition of her child, she Would arrange her recreation time to fit in with the little one's waking hours or else sacri- fice it entirely. ' After a little pause, 14i her, 1' Tests With Winter Crops. Winter wheat is sure` to be one of the best of the cash crops on the On- tario farms in 1924. The yield will be., THE CHILDREN'S HOUR very good ' acreage sown to- winter wheat this autumn, so says Dr. C. A. Zavitz of the 0.A.C. The results of COON'S HOUSE. It was the bright rays of the morn - experiments show that it is important ing sun as it peeped through the leaves to sow large, plump, sound, well ma- of the tee.es of the Big Woods that tuned, unsprouted seed, free from smut first awakened the three Iittle Wood and impurities, and of the best vane- eland boys, Jackie Rabbit, Johnnie ties, if the highest returns are to be Muskrat and Willie Woodchuck. They secured: •stretched themselves upon their bed In time for seeding' this autumn, of leaves, gave a big yawn and sat up: Wood - valuable material will be sent out from "Where am I?" asked Willie Wood - the College to those farmers residing chuck athi r sleepily. �� in Ontario who wish to conduct experi "Youtell me and I'll tell you, worn next to the cheeks above and you may be able to see the. "soot balls" menta upon their own ,farms through answered Johnnie Muskrat. the tongue below, and; unless filed off hanging 'into -the pupil from the inner the medium of the Experimental Un - had haven t_fargotten that duck- worn by a veterinarian, seri- loll: The material will be supplied, mg we had last night have you Aedge of the iris in his eyes. And if Willie?" ?" k d Jackie Rabbit. "i oust interfere -with. mastication. It y n r h t touch f thosefree of charge to those who wish to i ie. ase ac ie takes a horse about one and one -half you appen o uc one o long charge, mb on a hairs below :the eye, and it. causes the conduct the experiments end report „ to again." don't believe I shall ever cli hours to eat six pounds of dry hay, I horse ',to wink, you wi11 understand :the. results in. the early autumn of g, g and ,more than half an hour to eat 1925. Any Ontario farmer may ap- "That's 'right, we did have a cold that it is a"tentacle"with a sensitive , bath last night," said Willie. "But the same weight of oats. nerve -ending,' and serves to warn the ply for the material for any one of Inyour cow the motions of chew- now that we have learned our lesson � animal of .dangerous objects. It acts ing are more complex, being -trans- in exactlyvthe same way as the whisk - verse, longitudinal, vertical, and'. r " somewhat rotary. If; you watch a' ds on pussy's nose; ea tho'se� ropes dangling from an overheadbeam that llama at meal -time in the zoo or a' warn a brokeman on a box car to duck moving picture, youwill be interested his : head to keep from being struck to note that the lateral moveinents of by a low bridge. the following seven .experiments: 1.- Three choice varieties of winter the jaws are regularly alternated If the horse is old,you will observe from one side to' the other. Old Shap snaps his food gives it that the hair on the temples is gray, "the once over," chews in fall direc-' es in an aging man, and the depres- tions, and gulps it down, unless he sion over each eye is quite deep,. en_ usesthe slower process of cracking less it has been pumped full of air, ,a and grinding' bones with the tremen- trick thehorse "gyp" calls "puffing 7• Mixtures of winter rye and hairy„ The horse also has two vetches for seed production. tion 'we'll find home, decided Johnnie for the latter purpose. The hog is false nostrils or pouchesnof `skin over -The size of eachplotis to be one Muskrat, pointing to the east. "We dously strong teeth provided carnivore the glims. omnivorous, and combines • all methods lying the true nostrils. On the floor of rod wide by two rods long. Fertilizers can find some berries in the woods for of mastication. each nostril, near, the front, is the x;,=11 be sent by express for Experiment breakfast; and maybe we will be home No doubt you have heard about a' - - „..mow.,. 2. One variety of winter rye and one of winter wheat. 3. Spring applications of five fertil- izers with winter wheat. 4. Autumn,• and spring applications of nitrate of soda and common salt with winter wheat. ' 5. Winter emmer and winter barley. 6. Hairyevetches and winter rye as fodder crops. I'm- hungry. I wish I had some of mother's cakes,” he said, rubbing his stomach. "Such luxuries," said Johnnie Musk- rat. "You will probably get more than that when you get home for running away." • "We didn't run away, we just drift- ed away," corrected Jackie. "But I feel like I would get the spanking all the same. I'm hungry, too, and no porridge in sight" "I thinkif we go right in that "direc• horse having "wolf teeth." On look- which should not be mistaken for an ing closely you may perhaps see one ulcer demoting glanders: in each upper jaw, just in front of the' You have of course noticed.' the which will accompany the `fertilizers.1 tvooas. first large grinding tooth. "Wolf "chestnuts," one on each foreleg' above : The material will be sent out in the Soon they came to a berry patch teeth" are present in the mouths of the knee, and one on the i ner lower order in' which the applications are with just heaps of big fat juicy bar- received and No. 4 this autumn, and for Experi- I forlVGa bee-ee-ee " said Willie Wood- ment No. 3 next spring. All seed will y be sent by mail except that for No. 4 chuck .as they started off through the comparatively few horses. They are faceof each hock joint; and. the "er- small,; insignificant vestiges of the got," or horny spur, that projects from seventh grinder or anterior premolar the skin in the "foot lock" of each fet- teeth of the prehistoric horse. They lock joint or ankle, that has derived do not weaken the eyes or cause "mcon its name from these locks of hair. It was three weary,huh and blindness" (periodic or recurrent oph- These excrescences are considered ves- each of the past four years, the high y thalmia) although there is . ari'serron-' ti mal hoofs or foot pads of theaverageperP 1 homesick little boys that slowly plod- eous belief that theydo. Neither need historic horse. Chestuts are missing dura yield acre was pro - • through the woods, hoping to find ig d by the O.A.C. No. 104 variety.' g they be extracted, unless they happen on the hind legs of a'jackass' and some This new hybrid wheat will be inelud something that would tell thein the to interfere with the bit.of the over- I mules. They' are small in the fine-' ed this year in Experiment No. 1, i way. Late in the afternoon as Jackie I I Rabbit was hopping wearily in the head check rein of a trotting horse: skinned thoroughbred horse,' and ,the1 lead he spied a path. The hog is the only domesticated ergots help to protect his fetlock.' What is the Best Breed? "Hip,Hip, he Balled as animal still possessed of anterior pre Sometimes, after a hard race, they are P ' Wood - molars. They are present at birth as found bleeding from contact; with then of breath. At this season of the year many pec- Johnnie Muskrat and W'iilie Wood - tiny, sharp teeth, and often are nipped kshall 1 as long .as the supply ries, and the three little Woodland boys ate their fill. But in wandering lasts. arour..d the berry Of all the forty varieties of winter patch they soon lost wheat which have been tested at the their way: The path in the woods College under uniform conditions m, was gone and they were really lost. s der_._ .Y:se .. geeasagelha aeSseeseceeee.., -Peak." r,. keep'" 1 "But which way shall we go?" asked Tt is a perfectly natural question Johnnie. and one that sometimes puzzles every "Let's see, the last tracks go this poultryman. Since not all persons to way," said Jackie Rabbit. So off they whom a beginner might put the ques- started to the right. tion would .give hint the sans answer,' They walked nearly .a mile through it is likely that eventually he will have the briers and brambles before they to answer it for himself. It is import- came to a little log cottage hidden in ant, therefore, that he have some facts the bushes: After many whispered on which to base a decision. i pleadings with flee others, Jackie Itab- It may fairly be assumed that egg bit summoned courage to knock:it the yield is the point of most interest,; door, since few hens would be kept if they, boys!" smiled a big motherly did not produce eggs, After studying Coon as she opened the door, "What the records of several thousand hens can I do for you?" entered in the International Egg Lay -I Her friendly smile gave Jsekie more ing Contest, from 1911 to 1919, Dr. L.' courage and he said, "We are lost and C. Dunn concludes that the similarity hungry, Cite you tell us the way between the chief egg -producing home?" breads—Plymouth Rocks, Wyan-i So in her motherly way, she told clothes, Rhode Island Reds and Leg-! them the direction carefully, gave horns --in the averagenumber of eggs each two sugar Cookies and a.. glass of they lay as' pullets amounts almost to milk and sent them on their way. equality,i Among these four popular breeds Age and ;g Production. there is then little choice as egg lay -t Though it is well known that pill- ers under contest condition's, The de- 'leis lay better than do old hens it is cision es to which is best for env worth whsle to consider just how rapid poultryman will depend rather on the is the falling off in egg production as number of hens to be kept, the mar- age increases. ket demands with respect to egg Niter' From the Missouri Agricultural Ex- and, last but not least, on the prefer-, periment Station comes a report based se' of the owner. y g production enc on the stud of a good many trap -nest records, showingthat eggduction All Wool and a Yard Wide: !during any year is 88 per cent of the The value of an article l,' not in the preceding year's production when ex - article itse.f, It is in the easterner's pressed as the number of eggs fee each tion of the article. If he doeni't lien. Some of the hens observed had see value, it isn't there, so' far as tilt Individual records extending tiv6,r a silo is concorfied. !period of eight years. 1 1 '1 1 4 1 1 w 4