Zurich Herald, 1921-04-28, Page 2i 1e, Welfare of the Hone
The Gum's Own Room.
By ADELINE. B. V4'IlrePORP,
Having one's own room is the be-
ginning ,(the very small beginning/ of
course] of having one's own life; for
it sets apart a place where one is to
do and think for herself) express her
own preference in coloring and fume
%hangs, gatherand arrange as she,
likes, her first possessions—the little
personal belongings whirl► have begun
to accumulate. It is to be not only
the place where one sleeps comfortably
at night but a quiet lovely room where
one rests a little now and then by
day; an ideal spot far study, reading,
letter writing, or sewing, and possibly
for what is more im rtant at times i
po ,
an hour's quiet thinking.
Ford the years lived here are the
growing, shaping years of a girl's life,
and every inspiration which comes to
her, whether through church or school
or friendships, will be brought into
this room to be worked out and
thought over until the finest ones, let
us hope, became her own. No other
room in later years, even in memory,
can mean quiteas much as this one
and for this reason dt should be from
the first, whether large or small, an
especially lovely roorn, and fortunate-
ly, it may be so. It hardly matters
how simple and inexpensive the ma-
terials are, such a room responds to
the owner's personaliity more quickly
than any other in the house; possibly
because youth counts for so much, and
the spirit of youth is so easily cap-
tured and :brought into a room's at-
mosphere by the right touch in color
and furnishings.
The freshness of spring and same of
its delicate coloring belong here;
simple, light weight'furnature, ,and the
• owner's careful choice of pictures and
small belongings expressing her own
taste, for the room will gain nnuoh in
personal charm if it is worked out
by slow planning and as far as pos-
sible, by her handiwork.
This last does not mean an endless
amount of old-time embroidery, cro-
cheting and drawn -work, for artistic
bed chambers of to -day have but little
if any, decoration of this kind. Dresser
and table covers, bedspreads and
cushions, are much plainer than of
old, but more attention is paid to hav-
ing these .articles of cohered materials,
to carry out the room's definite •color
scheme. Instead of colored embroid-
eries on white, colored cottons and
linen materials are used in plain or
figured designs, and these are as fre-
quently .selected from cotton dress
goods, or lining materials, as from the
regular drapery stuffs. Whatever
gives the right color -effect in a room
as the thing decorators use. ' Voile,
sateens•, poplins, cretonnes and colored
linens in cheap or expensive qualities
are used and aside from the things
one may buy, there are great possibil-
ities in the home dye pot. Old pieces
of coarse cotton cloth become very
dignified -and attractive when colored
different shades of old gold, pale yel-
low, ,or orange for- chair pillows in a
north room, or shades of green, gray,
lavender or dull blue for use in a
south room. The different shades of
color being obtained, of course, by
using more or less water to each
pound of material to be dyed. A lit-
tle practice gives one courage to do a
room's complete outfit if necessary.
In using these simple materials
their good style is brought out, not by
fancy trinunings, but by raking
them - up carefully, with straight
emooth hems, and often with the nar-
row gimp edgings which cost but a
new cents a yard. These are used on
e indow hangings, bed spreads, box
<::,vers, and so on, and are made to
take the lilacs of hand -work edgings
wherever possible. •
Of oeurse, a well-planned room
never has in it a careless mixture of
colors, nor mixtures of figured nee
terials. Its one color harmony is kept
in view definitely throughout the work.
of fu nisliing . and no other equally
strong color is allowed to creep in.
If, for instance, soft rase is the color
one wishes to emphasize, and cretonne
is to be used for part of the furnish-�
ings, the principal design- in the ere -1
tonna shrill be in soft rose shades.
If this material•"'were used for window
hangings and one or two chair cusp""
ions and a dress box cover, that aan
ount would be all that the average'
room should contain of figured stuff,
the other articles such as dresser and
stand cover and book shelf curtain,
should then be of plain material ex-
actly matching one of the rose shades
in the 'cretonne. This brings the whole
room into a harmony of rose. As a
background for this Dolor, walls and
rugs should be a neutral tone in gray
or soft gray green, and ceiling and
woodwork, cream, while the floor
would be painted a darker tone of
dull green.
In such a room the simple furniture
would be especially good if painted
in pale gray, or gray -green similar to
the wall color, the gray willow chair
given rose colored cushions, and, as
a note of contrast, a blue or green
flower bowl filled with lilacs or sweet
peas would supply the final bit of
color charm.
You will see from this description
that such •a room as this is not built
up out of one which is already furn-
ished. It has no mixtures but shows
a definite plan throughout. This is the
secret •of a suocessful room.
In deciding about the use of color
in your room, you may have it in one
of two ways. The first method is to
paper or paint or lalsomine the walls
in a soft hazy tone, which must be a
yellowish cream, ,pr a •pale soft buff
in north or minim rooms, or a cool
gray, gray -green or hazy blue tone
for a south room, or one having plenty
of sunshine. With these soft tones on
the walls, you would then have gaily
figured window hangings, chair cush-
ions and so on, with the principal
color of these repeated in plain ma-
terials for other articles.
The other method is to use an all-
over pattern of flowered paper on the
walls, :the design being usually of
spring blossoms with yellows or pinks
predominating if the room is north or
dull, and with„blues, greens or laven-
ders as the principal color if used in
south or sunny rooms. With this
figured wall, window draperies, bed
spread, cushions and so forth, should
all be sof plain stuff, either white, or
of cottons matching the principal
color in the paper, and on a much
flowered wall there should be only
one or two pictures used, if any.
You can- manage either of these
methods if you remember first: for the
plain -toned walls, be sure to use only
soft tints, never the strong colors.
Tones which make your walls look
like a lovely fog of smoky yellow or
dim greens and grays are what you
should have. Foe the figured -papered
room consider its size. Small rooms
cannot stand large patterns and aE
wall -paper patterns and colored blos-
soms should be very indistinct or the
walls will soon be extremely tiresome.
Ceilings are cream, or as white as
the background of the figured -wall
paper.
Woodwork is usually ivory white
when used with creamy or yellowish.
walls, and a very light gray if walls
are gray.
Floors are always darker than.
walls and walnut brown, or dull olive
green are good colors. -
Fight the Corn Borer. -
Observations recently made in Elgin
County, Ontario, particularly in the
district of St. Thomas, by olfieers of
the Entomological Branch of the Do-
minion Department of Agriculture,
and others, indicate that the European
Corn Borer found in Canada for the
first time in August, 1920, has come
through the winter in a very healthy
condition, The Department urges,
therefore, the assistance of all farm-
ers in affected districts, inn...the efforts
which are being made in controlling
this dreaded pest and preventing its
further spread.
The borer ox caterpillar is the de-
structive stage in the life of the in-
sect” and it is in this ,stage at the
present time within corn stubble,
pieces of stalk, old ears, or other
parts of the corn plant which were
large enough to shelter it during the
winter. Farmers, therefore, should
realize the importance of destroying,
at .once, preferably by burning, all
unused portions of corn stalks, cobs,
waste, etc. Crop refuse around silos
and also that left during the winter ie.
infested corn fields should be carefully
gathered up and destroyed by burning.
Folds within the infested district
should be kept free from weeds, as
the borer has been found in thick
stemmed grasses, ragweed, smart-
weed, lambs' quarters, •etc.—Arthur
Gibson, Dominion Entomologist.
Send flowers when the sick friend
gets well, instead of when be doesn't
An optimist is a roan who believes
he can grow even better vegetables
than the catalogue shows.
'After years of experience in raising
poultry .on the farm, I find that my
best aid in clearing the poultry
houses of vermin is the kerosene
brush.
For the eradication of the pestifer-
ous red chicken mite T take an old
brush and some kerosene, and go over
all the roost supports, joints, seams
in the nest boxes, uprights, anti wall
cracks with a penetrating coating of
the kerosene. It is sure death to each
and every mite it touches. I find that
this is all the care needed in the hen
houses, winter andsummer, after the
spring and fall cleanings and the
usual whitewashings or creosoting of
the interior surfaces, nestst, and
roosts. I examine the roosts octagon-
ally in the winter, every three weeks
in the summer, brushing the seams
and joints with the kerosene. If there
are any mites, they will appear. If
none, you can be thankful. But if
their numbers seem legion, go over
every inch with kerosene.
And this is not its only use. If the
scaly -leg mite appears in your flock,
take up the kerosene brush again and
paint the scaly leg with it, being care-
ful not to touch any of the feathers
around the knee joint. Usually one
applioaition will kill the mite that
works and causes this scaly appear
ince of the legs; but if net, 'I continue
the applications until the legs are
cured.
The powder shaker, with a good
commercial louse powder, is the eas-
iest remedy for lice. But with a farm
flock on range, with boxes of ashes
and dust baths available, it is seldom
that remedies will have to be re-
sorted to. The average hen will take
care of herself under ordinary condi-
tions. I use the powder on the set-
ting hens at least three or four times,
being careful to make the last appli-
cation a few days before the eggs -are
to hatch.
The Strawberry Plantation..
Whatever else is neglected, one
should not fail to start a strawberry
plantation during the spring: Any
fairly dry area will .grow strawberries.
The ground should be one on which
water will not stand during the win-
ter to form ice.
Manus e at the rate ef ten to fifteen
tons per acre may be applied and
plowed under, or even more mine be
used to advantage if no other fertil-
izers are to be used. It is usually
considered wise to apply five hundred
pounds of a 4-8-4 fertilizer, per acre.
That is, one containing 4 per cent. of
nitrogen, 8 per cent. of phosphoric
acid and 4 per cent. of potash. How-
ever, if the soil is in gooa.. tnlnty
this is not necessary and manure alone
may be ell that is necessary. All fer-
tilizers should be scattered broadcast
and harrowed in,
'Thorough preparation of the soil by'.
plowing and working deeply' is advis-
able. The land is filially levelled with
a smoothing harrow and the plants set
in rows three and a half feet apart
and fourteen inches apart in the row.
Closer planting is unnecessary and
does not permit of easy cultivation be-
tween the rows and opportunity of
pieking without tramping on ilhe vines.
The planting ie done"''by pushing a
spade into the soil, pressing it ba one
side and dropping a plant with roots
spread fan sisspe into the opening,
holding the crown of the plant to the
tap, of the level soil and pressing the
earth firmly around the plant with
the heel ,or some other way, and fin-
ally levelling with loose earth around
the crown of the plant, This ie quick-
ly done. The importance of pressing
the soil firmly around the plant is
very great and the plant should be
sufficiently firm, so that if the plant
is pulled by -a leaf the leaf will break
before the plant will pull out. Only
young plants should` be set; that is,
plants of the previous •season's growth.
The planting sahould be done early, in
fact, the earlier the better. Much of
the failure with strawberries is due
to late planting. This is a job that
can be done in the early spring, the
sooner the plant becomes established
the earlier the formation of runner
plants, and the earlier these runner
plants form, the larger and better de-
veloped are the crowns, without
which strong stalks of well formed
fruit are impossible.
The summer ,cultivation should be
shallow to kill weeds and form a loose
surface in which the plant can root
without difficulty. As the runners
develop the cultivator should be -nar-
rowed, so that the runners are not dis-
turbed after they commence to form
plants and great" care is necessary to
avoid disturbing the plants at this
time. Some of the runners may be
shifted to give a more even distribu-
tion of plants along the row, and some
hand hoeing will be necessary to pre-
vent weeds from growing later.
It is wise to plan for a new planta-
tion every year, as it is difficult to
keep weeds under control the second
year without much hand hoeing.
It will be found that the Senator
Dunlap is one of the chest varieties to
plant. Blossoms are likely to develop
en the .spring set •plants and these
should be removed to throw all energy
into the development of runners as
early as possible.
Success is ten pee cent. opportun-
ity and ninety per cent. intelligent
hustle.
Visit
My � t t®� England's Glass -House Farmers
The little river Lea, rising inesiourth-.
ern Bedford, flows eastwardly across
Hertford to the border. between Hert-
ford and Essex, where it is joined by
the Stort, coming down - from the
north, and, turning south in a broad,
flat valley, it reaches the Thames near
the eastern limit of London, a total
course of some 50 miles.
In this Lea Valley, there has grown
up a great 'glass -house industry; more
than 1,000 acres now being covered
with glass in a district some 12 or
13 miles long, in which are half a
dozen towns and •cities of 5,000 to`50;
000 population each.
The men engaged in this industry
had • become so impressed with the
value of scientific research in the
problems related to their work, large-
ly as a result of the Rotharneted in-
vestigations, that in 1913 they decided
to establish an experiment station in
their midst, having for its sole object
the study of these problems. They
therefore organized an association
for this purpose, under the name of
the Nursery and Market 'Garden In-
dustries Development Society, Limit-
ed. In the spring of 1914, :a site of
about two acres, within the limits of
the town of Cheshunt on the inain
London to Cambridge road, was pur-
chased and buildings were e;eeted,
consisting of an office, one botanical.
and one chemical laboratory, five cu-
cumber and five tomato houses, and
an isolation house for pot experiments
and disease 'inoculation work.,
The county councils of Hertford and
Essex made small grants in support
of this work; the Duke of Bedford
contributed ;$2,000; the members of
the society raised among themselves
about $4,000 for construction and as
much more for a maintenance fund,
and the National Board of Agriculture
and Fisheries agreed to furnish nearly
$10,000 for construction and realr ten-
•ante. The equipment was not com-
pleted until September, 1915, and by
that time the war had seriously inter-
fered with the work, although the
work was kept alive and some pro-
gress was made during the strenuous
period of the war.
From the outset the work has been
closely associated with that at Roth=
costed., a part of it beingconducted
in the Retharnsted laboratories. With
the Boll of the war increased interest
was taken in the work of this station.
The number of shareholders increas-
ed, and the larger annual subscrip-
tions permitted the employment of
Specialists in entomology and plaint
diseases. ,Sonne idea of the character,
of the work may be gained by tete fol-
lowing brief summary ;of the work rn
ported .for 1919: I
In an experiment on slow versus
forced growth ef tomatoes tht fortingI:
of the erop by raising• the heat caused
an earlier ripening of a small part
of the •crap, but decreased the total
yield by about 10 per •cent.
Houses. in which the moisture in the
air had been increased by overhead
spraying have given somewhat larger
June pickings of tomatoes, in three
seasons out of four, than those not so
treated.
In experiments with fertilizers on
tomatoes the emission of nitrogen in-
creased the yield, while the omission
of potash •caused a material reduction
in yield. The largest yield was prQ-
duced by phosphates and potash com-
bined. No further increase was pro-
duced by the addition of manure to
the chemical fertilizers.
In. the ease of cucumbers, increas-
ing the temperature above 85. deg. Ir.
sufficed to prevent the leaf -spot, dis-
ease, and considerably increased the
weight of the early pickings as well
as the total yield.
Experiments in soil sterilization are
being made in •co-operative commer-
cial' greenhouses, under the guidance
of extensive research conducted in the
Rothamsted laboratories, iia which the
effect :on the soil and on the growing
plant ,of a large number of chemical
substances is 'being studied in com-
parison with steam.
Most of the difficulties encountered
by the gardener, under glass, are due
to microscopic- soil organisms. These,
under the glass -house conditions in
which the natural action of such
lorganisins upon each other is inter-
fered with, attain an importance that
is not reached in the open field.
Among these are the nematodes
(small eelworms that infest the roots)
and the bacteria and fungi that cause
the "damping of" of seedlings, and
some forms of blighting of the ma-
ture plant. Alt these may be reached
by soil sterilization; but there are
other organisms in the soil that are
beneficial --for example, the nitrifying.
bacteria. Flow so to adjust our treat-
ment as to hit our foes' without injur-
ing our friends is a delicate problem
of strategy callingfor the most elab•
orate scientific research. To the solu-
tion of this, problem a very large part
of the resources of the Rothamsted
Station are now being directed.—
Charles E. Thorne,
Vis°.
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WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO
LSTAgLISME0 1870,
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ISSUE No. 17—'21.
Address communications to Hoist- 72 Adelaide St. West, senorita,
be of value only in cases of Fermenta-
tion, and then only for a very short
period of time. Extensive tests have
proven that it is .eliminated from the
body in the s,ame form that it is taken
in and has abut very little use in a
swine mixture.
The minerals that are most likely
to be deficient are calcium or lime,
chlorine, sodium and: phosphorus.
These are the elements that enter into
the formation of the skeleton in the
larger amounts. .It may be poesible
that iodine is sometimes needed, but
this only in sections where there are
hairless pigs, and that is due to the
fact that in some sections the soil is
depleted in these elements and there-
fore the crops' do not contain a normal
amount. This can be easily and
cheaply supplied. The following ma-
terials furnish the minerals common-
ly used very cheaply and at a very
slight cost: Sodium chloride or com-
mon salt, ground rock phosphate,
ground bone meal, either raw or
steamed, wood ashes, and many others.
Common 'salt or sodium chloride
furnishes both sodium and chlorine in
sufficient quantities. Steamed bone
meal or ground raw bone meal furn-
ishes both calcium or lime and phos-
phorus; wood ashes or kainit furnish
potash, but this is not so often needed,
A very good mixture consists of equal
parts of salt and steamed bone meal;
enother of salt and raw bone meal;
another of salt .and wood ashes; .an-
other of salt and raw rock phosphate
very finely ground. All of these may:
be mixed equal parts and fed in a
self -feeder.
Animalswill consume about one
pound of sit ;mixtures each month;
this can be provided for in this way:
Mix a pound of the mixture with an
amount of tankage that they will eat
in about a month. If., they are eating
about fifty pounds of tankage per,
month, then add two pounds of the
mixture to each one hundred pounds
of tankage and you are certain- in this •
way that they get that amount. If
they are eating more, increase it, and
if less, decrease it. This should be
very well mixed and fed in a self-
feeder; most animals will eat about
this amount of it, if it is fed alone
in a self -feeder; this .will depend .,
somewhat upon the individual.
It is not ad_visa'ble to -attempt to
furnish all the minerals that are
needed by the •anginal in -this "way, but
there are certain' feeds that are very
rich' in minerals, and Much • of the
mineralshoulsuppliedthri u
s d be gh
them. Among these feeds are -alfalfa
and clover hay, bran and soy beans,'
The hay can be, and should be,.fe-d
to brood sows in a rack during the
winter months, or when they are nol
on pasture; sows will consume about,
one to one and one-fourth pounds per
each one hundred pounds of body
weight per day when it is fed in this
way; the use of pasture crops,• such
as alfalfa, clover, rape and the like,
also provide large amounts of miner-
ala for the breeding and growing ani-
mals. The mineral requirements for
swine need occasion- the breeder no
alarms; it can be very easily handled,
and quite inexpensively also; all it -
requires is to little good judgment in
the selection of feeds, and possibly
some simple mixtures that we have
outlined in this article..
Minerals in Swine Ration.
It is true that mineral requirements
for swine is practically a new thing
in feeding swine, yet it promises to be
one of the foremost steps in improved
methods of securing maximum growth
and health. Practical feeders for years
have been allowing their hogs • acces's
to wood ashes 'end to charcoal or soft
coal and the like for the supplying • of
these minerals. Such substances have
been very good, and did supply some
very os,sential material, and yet in the
few experiments that are being made
at any of a the stations at this time
will bring out some very valuable
facts. Up to this time it seems that
about the same errors are being made
in the. use of minerals to swine that
were originally made in the earlier
feeding tests, in which they attempted
to argue from the complex to the
simple rather than from the simple
to the complex, which seems to` be the.
logical way to approach these subjects.
It took scientists many years to
awaken to the fact that some things
about our common feeding practices
would never be understood until we
began with the use of a very simple
ration and then worked • into a com-
plex one, so that an accurate check
could be made upon the true value of
various feeding materials, under vary-
ing conditions. The wonderful dis-
coveries made during the past decade
have been ample proof that this was
the proper method of making the
feeding trails and more actual history
as to the value of feeding material.s
than has been accomplished during
several such periods previous to this
time.
It is a common practice for some
swine feeders to feed certain minerals
not for any specific action which they
expect to obtain, but simply because
it has been a time-honored custom.
Such agents as sulphur, copperas,
charcoal, seem to have very little, if
any, beneficial action for swine, and
may, if not given properly, actually
prove harmful, and yet swine breeders
have long used them in their tonic and
mineral mixtures. We must depend
more on our late experiments to tell
us about these materials. At this time
sulphur is rarely used as a medicine
by veterinarians, and then usually in
an ointment for its effect in killing
parasites of the skin. If it is taken
into the animal's body in fairly large
doses over a long period it may bring
about a serious blood condition. It
turns the feces, ,or manure, very dark
in color and gives it a very foul odor,
and should be given in -very small
amounts until we learn more about it.
Copperas, or iron sulphate, is a com-
mon remedy, :and while it may be
given in shall quantities for some
time, it can not safely be given in
very large doses; our latest informa-
tion on iron is that it is a food rather
than a tonic or a medicine, and later .
day veterinarians use it in that way.
It is also thought to be a worth de-
stroyer, but tests have proven this.
without any foundations, it is very
readily changed into another form
when exposed to the ordinary atmos-
phere and if it was to be given it
should be kept as nearly dry as pos-
sible. With the knowledge that we
have of this material at this time it is
doubtful if it is advisable to feed it.
to swine.
Charcoal is found in two forms,•
that which is made from wood and
that from bones. The action ef char-
coal is that of • an ,absorbent, and its
function in the intestinal tract is to
absorb any methane gas that m,ay be
generated in the intestines. This can
Well -ventilated quarters that are
clean and cheery, and supplied with an
abundance of bright straw litter, tend
to make healthy lairds, and such are
the birds that lay the golden ,eggs..
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