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Zurich Herald, 1921-08-25, Page 2teereeere , fp, e Aekirees communications to Ata 00 Cooling Milk Pays. Because, of the present high price of raw mateeial, labor and foodsteff every farmer is striving to make th most of Ms farm by economical pro deletion and increased efaciencY farm management. Thi e is especiall nec y ecauee the margin of Pro- . lit is a.n extremely narrow one. We knoW of no veay whereby the selling price ean be increased more in propor- tion to the et than by raising the quality the product. The quality of milk depends greatly upon the method of production or handling. No matter how carefully the milks drawn from the cow there aee always some bacteria in it; and these at ordinary temperatures de- velop very rapidly. These minute °ne- edled forms are so small that a drop of milk may contain millions. They grow very rapidly at a temperature of sixty to ninety degrees Fahrenheit, and require food .and moisture like higher forms of plant life. Milk fur- nisbes an ideal -medium for bacterial growth and unless ,controlled by some means they will grow or •multiply with gee:, I,- rapidity. There are several methods of keep - any.; down bacterial growth in milk. Ceeting is a very ecenomical and prae- tic:I way which all farmers oan prac- tice with puccese.ful results, making a more desirable product for the con- sumer, as well as making one that is more profitable for themselves. - Cooling or even freezing the milk does not kill !bacteria, but retards their growth. If milk that has been kept sweet or at the desired degree of acid- ity -is allowed to become warmed, the bacteria which have been kept dor- mant will at once resume their growth. This explains why milk and cream should be kept thoroughly ed, and never allowed to warm up until used. The process of -cooling or cream checks the bacterial growth, and but few organisms thrive at a 1 temperature below fifty degrees F. Tiowevee, it is very important that the milk immediately after it has been drawn be cooled to fifty .degrees F., or tn4r44411§••.'1 f<"• " ;Mist, 73 Adelaide St West, Teronts that can. grow at these temperatures s and produce undeeirable effects. 8., Shortly sifter the warm milk is e dream from the cow ,bacteria start e their rapid progress of development, n and many times the milk is :allowed te • remain in the cow been until milking has been eorapleted, This may rem ae hour or more, depending upon number of cows to be milked and efficiency of the milking system. A few hours' delay in cooling reduces the keeping. quality of the milk to a far greater extent than many people suppose. Not only theabacteria are very undesirable, but the butter -fat in the warm milk hee the power of ab- sorbing oetside •odors which impair •the value of the milk to such an ex- tent that it is not desirable to be put on the inarleet. Many gases and edors can be removed by aeration or expos- ing the ntilk in thin films to the at - THE HOUR Oece- upon a time Seek Rehqc. „had eel's about the sees of Brother Neel= and a tail as long as the next rfelleve He'd have had theie yet if hethed not been math a curious deep. ge,a1- ways was lietening and listeriftgto other folks' affairs, sitting with hie tail all curled up under him atedRbie little bright eyes snapping like .edlelse Whenever there was talkiiig or quarreling or singing there was little the fairies, on his own aceoUnt re- solved to do the same, That evening Jack went as usual to he fairy ring and hid in a hole with , only his ears stieking out the top. 'The Ifeiries laughed and sangall the time drawing nearer to Jack Rabbit's hid ; Mg place, And the gebliat, led by the one little gcblin who had heard joafekth. e fairies' plan, dug up through ;the ground till they were right under I .Aid ell at Once the fairies all to- gether jumped' into the hole and seiz- ing Jack's ears began to pull away fax dear life. At the same minute the gables broke through the last bit of 111.e Welfare ...of the Home Little Plays to Act at floxne----By Mary Frances Davis - A prominent eaucetor say e that no knowleclge becomes a useful part of us until we have translated it into action. That is why amall 1,1 children love to play the thing. which claims their interest at any moment. After seeing a parade, a little boy loves to assume a stiff military bearing, seize a stick for te„ flag, impress all avail- able children as soldiers, and start a parade. Every mother a a little girl knows how Very early baby girls be- gin to play at housekeeping. They love to wash clothes, iron, sweep, duet and "mother". their dolls. They should be encouraged in these activities. This is the natural instinct of 1 dramatization, and can be utilized in developing. desirable qualities in a child, and in impressing useful knowl- edge, for the child comes to under- stand through doing. Children lave to fly like birdies, creep softly like mice, and gallop like ponies. After a trip to the Zoo, they have many glori- ous aftermaths of pleasure in roaring like the lions, climbing like the monkeys, and imitating the antics of the bears. A wise mother will fortify her nerves, and encourage her child in this, for in assuming the roles of various animals the child is corning to understand -them, and to make them a part of his general knowledge. Children of kindergarten •age, or even younger, love to "act" the stories Jack Rabbit. Pehaw, but he wee, a erieth and got hold of his tail. And the• ses tee! busybody, sure enough, Ile even went listemn- %s' louand aerating in one operation. Dairyin would do well to consider what th expect to accomplish by aeration a cooling. Odors will be removed, b aeration, but the milk must be aerat while it is yet warm. The so-calle cow odors are removed in the be and quickest way by keeping manur out of milk. Coling and aerating should always be conducted in a clean cool room which is free from all dirt and contamination,. There are several types of coolers on the maeket but not all of these could be used economically by th farmer; many farmers who retail thei inlik cool it -with a cone-shaped cooler the inner part being filleca with ic water and, the tank or milk receive at the top has small openings at th bottom near the outside through which the milk discharges in fin streams directly upon the cone beloev which is cooled by the ice watek. The nilk is then drawn off at the bottom of the cone and stored in a cool place until needed. Another ecenomical and practical • way of cooling milk and cream is to lace the containers into a tank h more than once nearly got caughtend. popped into . a pie. But he al ways managed to run pretty fast, and after a erhile folks really got used to the little chap sittihg on his •bind paws taking M all the news. The creatUreS; too, didn't pay any more attentiOr to him than if he'd been a: tree stunep, "That's only little Jack it!!' -they'd say to one another and go aight on with their speechifying. But not satisfied With all the things he heard in the woods and in tlea4vii- eti lege where he visitea, Jack teed to, staying awake at nights and tryirigato l hear what the goblins and fairies were e m' n up to. For many, any nights he ey listened to their secrete and fiesti n,d thing you know the began trying -to mosphere. Fortunately, the constru tion of modern coolers is, such as make it posseble to do the cooling and ed st put into practice the fairy..charrnetin spells he had overheard. One.elay he enet old Mr. Hedgehog. Mr. Hedge- hog wished him' geed -day and asked him what all the news as. Instead of answering, Jack stoPped short and twinkled his whiskers. "Abra—cabra dalara cob!" mumbled Jack Rabbit, arid., poPi! 'away flew Mr.; Hedgehog 'as invisible as air. He; didn't knew he was invisible eitheio and while Jack Rabbit laughed and e laughed and aal the -creatures ran r; around telling one another that , a ,1 ghost was in the wooels that talked e like Heney Hedgehog-, and poor Akrs'. t r Hedgehog when she heard her hus-- a band's voice and bumped into some- thing she couldn't see in the peeler e fell into a swoon from which the ene tire village could not arouse her. Now it happened that a little fairy, chanced by and heeeck all the confu-1 sion and putting two and two together decided that some one was practicing; Imagic. for all that they were an small they tugged and tugged till between them Ithey nearly tore Jack in two. `Weyer do to let the fairiee get furned the goblins. Whatever is holding him!" gasped the fairies, .And they pulled and pull- ed till suddenly they all fell leeer in a Iheap. The goblins had. pulled Jack's tail clean out. But before the fairies rerovered their breath the little rabbit was half way across the forest cry - mg in three different languages. •And next morning when he saw how the fairies had stretched,his ears, and. he looked at the poor little piece that the goblins had left of this tail, he cried soLetineoever efter that he ran away from e-verybody and minded his own besiness. Which is a good thing. Clean Milk from Milking - Machines. . I e An excellent gradeof milk can al- ways lchinbee ifobtainedetriotattention the i e n:ilgkiivnegn e -very day in the yemto the proper - ic 1 e tuna n g of the machine and of the other utensils which come in contact with the milk. The essential steps in cleaning, milking -machines ere as follows: (e) A rapid but careful washing of the machine by ,drawing through it immediately after each milking (a) a pail of cold water, (b) a pail of hot alkali Water, and (e) a pail of clear hot water. (2) The immersion of the teat -cups and all rubber parts in a good steriliz- ing solution (chloride of lime) be- tween rankings, allowing for the escape of air from the tubes so that the solution can reach all parts. as much lower as 'circumstances per- P old -water is pumped into it in suoh It. The importance of immediate c cooling was shown by Dr. Conn in his a experiments. He demonstrated that at a temperature of fifty degrees F. bacteria in milk multiply- fi-ve times in twenty-four hours; while at seventy degrees they multiply 750 times in twenty-four hours. Milk may be kept sweet for quite a while at forty to forty-five degrees F. because the lac- tic acid bacteria. er the principal bac- teria that 'cause the 'souring or° practically stop ,growingaa,t these tem- be peraturee. But dependenee cannot be P baaede..cOr t,e* *11.0410#44arthezehi atett'inan e"ii.'ele.74-s"ii". of bacteria pr way -as to enter the bottom, forcing e warm water out at the top. Water should be pumped into the tank at frequent intervals in order to keep the containers of milk and cream at as low a temperature as is possible. Lowering the temperature iof reelk and cream tends to keep down the bacterial taint, keeping the milk sweet and avoiding the great lose by souring, as sour milk or milk high in cterea will not be as valuablato the TPc.114a'ffdd.tr-4eneetleaatbe,tazior-lt gliaseateide as' -the lo --count educed under favorable co diti Poultry culling is a summer job. After the flock starts moulting is the proper time for selet-tian ef egg pro- ducers. Under natural conditions the hens lay best in the spring. The points to be noted in culling are: Absence of color in: 1, vent; 2, eye ring or lid; 3, bill beak; 4, leg or shank. If the hen is producing there will be an, absence of color. The head of • layin,g hen is large, the comb and iteittles are flushed and the eye is pie minent. On the 'contrary, the hen il• is not laying has a small shrivel el comb and a white scurf on the coMe and -Wattles. The lay bones or pelvic arches, after the laying season are farther spelt. After the moulting season they are nearer together. A one - finger width indicates a poor layer, two, three, four -finger widths are the best layers for all flooks. The width between the breast bone and keel bones (lay hones) indicates the hen's capacity. The best produc- ers have a width of four or five fing- ers: To tell if the hen is moulting, open the wing and note the ten prim- ary feathers, If the hen has eight she has started to moult. Five old and five new feathers indicate the hen is half through the moult. The hen never lays when she is in the moult but will when the feathers are com- ing back, The smell dry vent indi- cates that the hen is not producing. If the abdomen is soft the hen is a better producer. Don't keep a baggy hen. We could buila a line poultry house on every fa.rra in the country on the amount of potellay lost last year. More atteretion should be given to proper housing, beeeding of one strain, pro - •per feeding and ceiling the flocks. For the amount of money invested', poultry can be made the best produc- tion on the farm Buttonhole the Judge. When a judge finishes tying /abbots on a class of stock at a fair, he 'usu- • ally explains, to the people who are Watchiag, his reasons for placing one • animal ahead of another, If he doesn't do so, ask him to, *Thee* is no 'better way to learn the pellets a a good animal. 111 • Naito' judging 'will start at the Ottnadlan Natiotrai Exhibition Friday, espt. Jima The following grain mixtures are recommended for fitting the ram for the mating season: equal parts of oats and wheat bran; two parts alfalfa meal and one part corn; equal parts of corn. and eihneal; equal parts of field peas and oats, or equal parts of corn, eats, wheat bran, -and oilmeal. Use'ne sheep for service until one year of age. As a yearling, a earl' may be mated with as many as thirty And this conclusion once reaehed'it was not hard for her to find the cul- prit, Changing Henry Hedgehog to his visible self main she hurried back to her companions and told them ef Jack Rabbit's prank: • The fairies were very angry and ee- solved to teach Jack a lesson. And a little goblin, who was listemin.g to; 3. A -thorough weekly overhauling of the teat -cups and tubes. (4) The daily scalding and thorough drying of all metal parts coming in contact with the milk, except those parts kept in the sterilizing solution. Care. must be exercised to maintain the sterilizing solution at an effective concentration. 4torOoatele....Latt...thiel BY' 'ESSI . HALL If it were net for the fact that's varieties of mosquitoes carry mal germs our mosquitOes might be c pared to the family watch dog evi "hark is worse than hie bite." W the bite of a mosquito is irrita and poisonous to a few persons, greatest annoyance to most cm from his incessant buzzing. The i ing from a mosquito biteemay be lieveci by rubbing with moiste toilet soap, by using a dilute solut of 'ammonia or a 5 per cent. solut of carbolic acid. Oil of citronella sprinkled about will help in keep mosquitoes away while sitting on orch, but is not effective in protect - ng etie during a night's sleep. A few reps of the following mixture prinkled on a cloth hung on the bed rill keep mosquitoes at a distance for long tinie: 1 ounce cedar oil, 2 unces oil of citronella, 2 ounces spir- ts of camphor. Since the mosquito is the means of ransrnitting malaria from one person o another every effort should be made o get rid of it. To control mosquitoes is necessary to get rid of all tin ans, old pails, unused barrels and se rth,,in which even the least bit of in or other water may collect. It also necessary to care for all pools other' bodies, of water, beeause mos- uitees breed in water. They will en bred in chicken pans, water oughs and so forth, if the water is t emptied and replenished every' y or so. Water barrels should be covered th wire netting of at least 14 mesh - to the inch. The easiest and most ective treatment for ponds or Maine is to stock them with top nnows, gold fish or other small fish. ese eat the larvae and thus prevent sir development into mosquitoes• 1 ponds, ,fountains and streams ould have dean sides with no vege- tion growing down into the water. is the marshy edges that give quiet °Mel ferY, tuberculosis or other diseases is aria usually overlooked, flies are tolerated oin- in many homes as constant comean- lose ions: The fly's habit of feeding in hile ralerd succession en human excrement -Hag in open, cloiets, sputum on walks or the in spitoons, slop, garbage, the food nes .on our table or en baby's face means tch- that unless every effort is taken, re- much -nauseating objectionable dirt ned will 'tee eaten even when no disease ion germs are present. If 'every person ion could just realize that the innocent- 11, if looloing fly that rests On the pieCe of; b ing bread we are, eating or drops in our; the milk, has probably left there soine-I fr thifeg from the privy vault or step ki barrel we would net tolerate them in ra our houses. Flies prefer to lay eggs in horse th manure, although they will use any ou kind of manure or decaying vegeta.ble ni matter. They lay frorn 100 to -150 eggs in two batchea at an interval of a few days. From these eggs, flies mature ready to lay eggs in about two weeks.. •In controlling the fly nuisance and danger, first, the number ef flies must be kept as low as possible by treating or. disposing of their breeding pieces and by killing them, particularly in th i early spring; second, privies must be made flytight and thave eutomatie- ally dropping seat covers so the peat can not feast on body waste and thus peek up and •transfer germs of ty- pheid, or dysentery; garbage pails mist be kept covered and other filth disPosecl ef; flies ,must be kept out of the houses and food must be carefully covered. • Most housekeepers realize the importance of having the house carefully screened, or killing with poison bait, sticky fly paper or by swatting all flies in the house, of pro- , they know. Mother Goose rhymes are enjoyed 'by ail the little folks and Imethers will find that -children take , keen delight in dramatizing them. !After the children are thoroughly familiar with the incidents of Miss Moffett, Jack limner and Jack and Jill, let them be those characters. In , ear own nueseryt we find tine a happy ; way to spend rainy morniogs. Little Miss Muffett sits on a foot -stool, in- dustriously eating, makeebelieve curds and whey from a large tin plate, with a small tin spoon. We all recite the a .- rhyme together, and at the thrilling worde, "there came a big spider and sat down beside her," little brother lowers a whisk brocen. Miss Muffett, much frightened, jumps up, dropping dish and spoon with a pleasing clatter, and ruches to a far tomer. Thee we all laugh, and the .cavildren shout, "Play it again!" Little Jack Horner is easily drama- tized. He sits cross-legged in a cor- ner, with a bright colored candy box, which plays the paft of the Christmas pie. As we recite "he put in his . thumb and pulled •out a plum," the hero holds aloft a small rubber ball, and cries, "What a great boy am All of the simple nursery rhymes may be played in like manner, There is a large field, of material with dramatic possibilities which may be so utilized Pitting Roots. In a properly constructed pit, fie roots or potatoes will keep through° the winter months as well as in t best of cellars. The pit needs to well drained and constructed so as maintain a temperature at which tl rofi 'contents will neither sprout ix freeze. To accomplish this, a systei of ventilation, as well as watchfulness is a necessity. The site that lees suits the requirements is the side o a hill or the top of a knoll of a sand or grairelly nature. Dig out a shal low trench 8 inches deep, 5 feet wid and of tate desired length with th earth thus removed thrown back fret) the edge. The roots may then b piled up in the trench to a point abou four feet above the level of th ground. A pit ,of this height an width will hold about a ton to each 414. feet of length. A layer of abou four inches of -straw will do fax the first cover. This shoeild be held ie. place by a layer of about 3 inches a lose earth. -In the latter part of November the •covering- of earth should be increased to eight inches and the ends covered in. Another layer of straw and of earth is advis- able when steady cold weather sets in, and the ventilating holes should not be choked but covered with straw. As the weather warms in the spring the ventilation should be eleared. These are the outlines of a pitting system described in a ,circular written y Mr. F. S. Browne, assistant to the Dominion Agrostologist, Ottawa. . Ten Rules for the Shipper. • 1. Be sure that your product is in, perfect condition. 2. Handle as little as possible, to avoid bruising. . 3. Take up directly with the rail- road details ef crop to be shipped, and service required. Give ample advance o ice, so that proper car servioe can e supplied. 4. Get a written acknowledgment one railroad, covering number and nds of cars to be supplied and the tes to apply. 5. Load containers in car so that ere is proper air circulation. With - t this, icing or heating will be al- ost worthless. Shoot Before You Set. Id From niany experiments all over the ut country has corne the approval of he "shoot before you set," for the results be following blasting have shown that to when setting young trees in soil ie underlaid by hardpan, it is ptable r first to blast the holes with explosives. I n Also, this shattering and thorough , opening up of the under soil allows,. . ti for the best of ,drainage and aeration,, 1 f two important factors in orcharding. y If instead of merely spade -digging, Treeset therein will usually make - the holes are shot with half a. car- e tridge of farm explosive per hole, a 1 •enough more rapid growth to make it , e come into bearing a year earlier. t I A number of years ago in planting e some apple trees a friend of mine liv- d ing in a distant state, set some trees ; , with the aid of explosives, as well as t, some without, and when I saw them • last winter there was a great. differ- ,' once in their growth and- general ap- , lpearance. His trees set in blasted . I sites were outstripping those planted Iholes prepared in the ordinary way_ with a shovel. To get rid of an under layer - of hardpan it is only necessery to pullet I a hole and load 'with sorne lowegrdde dynamite. One coairnon-sizecl • I nwiotll ,sbhraetatke,reitd car- tridgeIwill be found sufficient for pre- paring a touple of holes. The work should be handled during a dry period. , the drier the better, for while wet son does so r yin eat uznir and ie . , After loading, the tamping should be done thoroughly, as a tightly tamp. ed shot will result in much sureeloe results by holding the force of the ext. plosion in the under soil -where IA is desired, and the more thorough the shattering the easier will the tree roots be able to penetrate in their search for food. Fuse burns slowly, averaging, as I remember, about two feet a minute, so that after lighting there is an abundance of time to get away. With a proper shot there will be no throw- ing of dirt, but merely a heaving of the soil, for a large portion of the explosive force is downward and side, wise. Soon, after the shot it is advisable o take a pole and tamp the earri to e t e 'my am pockets that may i we een formed, for if this, is not done he settling win take place during the first season's growth of the tree : id the earth may settle away from 1' a tree roots. After this tamping the site is ready to ibe dug out and the tree set. ' • Spray Again for Codling Moth. A eecond spray against the second rood of codling moth, to he applied bout the third week in August, is cemmencied. Owing to the extremely arly season, the spray that normally meld be applied, during the fleet week August has been set ahead. two or ee weeks and this leaves an espe- ally long period for the one epray p ewes without injury. As a two-year- i used until eight or ten years of age s 1 old a ram is at his best. He can be d if properly mana.ged. He should never t be allowed to becenne too fat or to be a used excessively. A ewe should be 0 at least a yeaxling before raising her i first lambs; otherwise, her size and vigor will be so stunted as to result t in smaller and weaker lambs. t Grass or stomach staggers is tom- t mon where lambs and ewes are turned it into rank, wet growth of clover or c other green feed. In some instances to the heads and* ears swell enormously ra and the lambs die, Last year there is were many lessee from that trouble or when lambs were turned into rich ,., meadows and stubbles after haying ev-t and harvest. One should very gradu- tr ally accustom all animals to rich pas- no, ture. Physic the lambs with castor- da oil or Epsom salts. -The dose is one ta.blespoonful of oil and up, and one wi 01121Ce of Epsom salts up to four es ounces for an adult sheep. Keep the eff lambs off title pasture for a time. f cou •-•••••:........................... VA Exterminating Quack Grass. Te I have never seen published in any paper a method I have used success- fully for exterminating quaek grass quite eheaply. I plow the ground just deep enong,h to get all the roots and when dry go over it with the potato digger, shaking all the soil off the roots. In a clear hot day the roots will be (ley and dead in. an hour. If not they can be raked together and hauled off. The extra work with the digger was weal repaid in the crop of potatoes as the yield was double what it was When the digger was not used, There was not a spear of the muck left in the potatoes or in the oats the following season.—M, C. The 014- sits like a parasite, run- ning itis toots out into the country and draining it of its .subetance. The city takes everything to itself—materials, money, reen—and gives back only what it does not want, • th Al sh ta It sp ( -s load cannot shift or settle in transit, t 6. Pack and 'brace contents so that b causing breaking of packages or bruising of produet 7. When using ice or heat, prepare the car in advance. Pre -cool the pro- duet,.Makeifpetosesxibale. 8check or count of contents of shipment, while it is being loaded. .Hed.•. Have arrangements made for im- mediate unloading of shipment at des- tination; if there is any damage, delaylb may greatly increase the loss. 10. If shipment is reported "off eon- I ;le dition" at destirationearrange for ini-1 e mediate inspection. Get a govern- I w ment inspectien report, if possible, as in such a report is admissible as evi- thr dence in court. ci • to afford protection against the cod - Getting Rid of Rats. ling moth. To be exact, this spray has to protect the growing apples ainst codling moth f». -'..the middle ag, tectpeg food from flies and of coveringiThis I have finally gotten rid of rats, is whet did the work: Three cups the baby with mosquito netting if he sleeps on the porch. But there is inueh more wori io be done on farms in the matter of melding privies fly- ght and caring for Manure. TO con- olthe breeding of flies, 'manure can Seattered thinly on the fields every chday, This, however, is practically im- possible for busy farmers in the spring when possible manure should be stored ill a ,prepared manure pit or tight: bm ox, or removed from the stables, piled and treated. with borax. Eleven pounds of etude connnercial boree, which may be bought for a few cents a pound, is needed, for every twelve or thirteen bushels or sieteen cubic feet of stable manure. Sprinkle this ever the manure pile and add a little water to carry the borax down into the manure.' This kills the eggs, and maggote without injuring the manure as a fertiliA zer. t More than fifteen, tons of •Manure so treated sheuld be applied to the acre, ti ots where larvae may mature nn- I tr ids turbed by the current of the stream be or by the fish. Mosquitoes only choose quieteunsturbed water for laying their eggs, If fuel oil or some other low grade 'oil is poured on the surface ' of water, the larvae are killed. The best ell is one that spreads rapidly and does not evaporate toe quickly. An ounee of kerosene to 15 square feat of' water surface is about the ale- ount that is needed' and such a IBm will stay about 10 dept., House flies are the filthiest and most dangerouS of household pests. Because the disease laden filth they carry on their stieky feet and moist spongy mouthe can not be seen with- out a microscope arid because the fly's part in caeryiteg typhoid fever, dyset- of corn meal, three teaspoons of of July until picking time. I am- not werrying very =oh about plaster paris. "Stir together and then I Put away 'a dark ince171a Pall' is year, ,but belated meths a the in a third generation of codling neoths Place pan underneath a box with a hole in it just large enough for a rat to enter. Have the box with boards on all side e as though you did not want the rats to get in and you'll find 'that they will get the corn meal Be careful that no chick or animal can get the corn meal prepared this way, as it will bake in their storna,chs and kill them as it does rats,—H. J. Hart, Homemade Horse Liniment Aqua aminonia, one ounce; turpen- tine, one ounce; linseed -oil, six ounces. Mix, and apply by ‘rubbing. The 'bot- tle should be kept well corked.. 11 a stronger liniment ie desired, a 'little more turpentine and ammonia me' be added. This, will blister if used freely and rubbed in, especially if it is covered to eeeeent evaporation. ; second 'generation work up to about picking time as the eideworms usually , show. l' sun of the opinion that an extra spray put on th about the there, la Year 'gong week in August will pay for itself end am so advising, not , as general practice, but an emergency I spray for 1921.—H. ; • — I• Pull Weeds Now August is an ideal' time to inake war on weeds. At this Wee they are matuting, =tiny of them ere blooming, Soon they will begin to scatter seed. But if they are cut or pulled eat and exposed. to the hot Auguet sun, they will die, and in a few years yen; can eliminate litany of the worat ones entirely, Of COUrSe it takes. persis- tent effort really to coated thane Ind it pays.