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Zurich Herald, 1923-04-26, Page 2Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto SEEDING /SEW MEADOWS, I at the time of last cultivation, will 'One of the interesting and success- also supply pasturage -at a time when 1the grasses are short. $ul features of the Illustration Station i The winter care of the hock is the work.is the comparison between heavy! most critical, however, Proper shel� and light seeding of timothy and clow-; ter is highly essential, but expensive faear Whenne making surveys many, buildings are not needed: Sheep want tionStations each county where Illustra- to be dry under foot, and they do not tion arem rocater it was found stand drafts. They ars amply pro that most farmers were not sowing tected against cold weather, provided sufficient seed to give the best results. the rain, snow, and wind is keptas,out To illustrate the advantage of heavier; of their sheds. seeding, particularly with clover, on each station a small portion of the field is sown to the usual amount used in the neighborhood, which is from. two to four pounds of clover and eight to ten pounds of timothy, and the larger portion of the field sown with a mixture of clover and timothy amount- ing to twenty pounds per acre. Every illustration showed the heavier seed- ing to give the heaviest crops of hay. The difference in growth is so notice- No grain ration has given more sat able that farmers passing can see the; isfaetoxy results in many line between the two lots to a foot. On mems, than a mixture of whole oats experi- several stations the clovers on the light , and bran. Both are easily available seeded portions werewwinter killed, on the average farm. Either half and While the the roots growth formed a pra half or two parts of oats to one of stoodsoto she eand r usually Pwringth- bran is satisfactory, and each ewe rthe severest winter and spring should receive about half a pound of frosts. Several operators report one- this mixture a day. When other rough - quarter to one-third more hay on the ages are substituted for the alfalfa or heavier seeding and have a much bet- clover, it is best to feed grain all win- ter chance for a second crop of hay ter long. Do not winter a flock by or seed the same season. givingthem the run of the straw When seeding sandy or clay scams tack sow eight pounds of common Red To keep the digestive tract in good clover; two pounds alsike and ten ( condition root crops or corn silage pounds of timothy per acre. In some should be fed, in amounts not to ex - eases it is advisable to sow two pounds I ceed two to two and one-half pounds of alfalfa inlay tha, per day. This succulent feed, com- On heavy clay that is liable to be bined with plenty of exercise, is the damp or on light, acidy sand sow best tonic in the world. In dry wen - eight pounds of alsike; two of Red they it is advisable to feed the rough - clover and ten of timothy per acre. ' age some distance from the barns or On black muck or peaty soil sow ` sheds, so that the ewes will be forced eight pounds of alsike; two pounds of to walk around considerable. Red clover; eight pounds of timothy; The closest attention must be paid and two pounds of Red Top per acre.! to the flock at lambing time. Many For a nurse crop on peaty soil, al - lambs and an occasional ewe can be ways sow barley. - saved if the shepherd remains on the job. Then, when the lambs are about SHEEP ON THE GENERAL FARM. a week or two old, some bright day Sheep have one thing in common the ram lambs should be castrated. A withspoultry: a farmer is more likely week or two later all the lambs should to be successful with few than with . be docked. many. In the beginning it is a very; Lambs should be weaned when they good plan to get only a few breeding' are about three or four months of age. ewes, and grow into the business as Unless this is done they will nurse experience shows the way. One of the' until late in the fall, and cause the cheapest ways of starting a flock is ewes to go into winter quarters in to secure young vie,stern ewes and poor flesh. Proper winter feeding of sheep is quite an art, as too heavy, as well as too light feeding is harmful, It is essential that the flock go into winter quarters in a good, thrifty condition.. Clover or alfalfa hay of good quality, together with an occasional addition of corn fodder, is all the ewes will need until about a month before lamb- ing, if the lambs are to be dropped before the ewes get into pasture. April sun le a•shinipg, eolith winds a.blowing sort, Pigeons a.billitag and 'cooing, up In the old barn loft, ' Lambe playing tag round the feed racks, life is a merry Joke, , Meadow lark's song, frons the meadow, down by the old lone oak. Hens all a -cackling and singing, pigs by .the straw -stack's sides, Taking a morning sun -bath; warm oil their fat black ,hides; Indoors, the stanciiioned dattle, drowsy and fast asleep, Dreaming of soft green grasses, and brooklets cooiand deep. Cat on the window sill drowsing, keeping a wary eye On the swallows a -sweeping }ay her, screaming their battle cry, Calf looking out of the doorway, withfoolish baby eyes, Wondering lust what life as, doomed to a sad surprise, Colts a -running and kicking, .outside the barnyard wall, Free from halter and blanket and pr'isoning gloomy stall; Soon flock and herd will be drifting to pastures green and lush, For winter's saws are vanished, and spring is in the flush. :.Raymond C. Rodger. 1 such as beets, carrots, cabbage, par- snips, rutabagas, and turnips. If you will follow this plan it will ' save you money in buying seed and much work in planting. Don't be - tempted to try too many novelties. " Stick rather to the standard varieties which have made good. If you do not i know which the standard varieties are, you can easily get a pretty good idea by comparing the descriptions in three or four different catalogues. Those which you find recommended in all you can usually depend on. I AndPLAN YOUR GARDEN. one last, but by no means least, thing to do in getting ready for a worth -while but thoroughly practical • farm garden is to plan your garden in advance. This is the hardest thing of all to get the average man to do. He will �,ym,:'•��;:,':;:�c: 49,•, •:�::.p.•: buy a lot of seed without having cal- culated, in even the roughest kind of Nova Scotia's Prettiest Girl, way, how much of each thing he needs The Bluenose province recently set; or should grow, and when planting about to select from its young woman- time comes stick them in. Two or hood its prettiest specimen. The choice three hours spent some evening, with fell upon Mica Lillian Corbin, of Wey- a pencil and a piece of paper, making mouth, in the Land of Evangeline. The a rough plan of the garden, space it Halifax Herald is arranging to have'is to 'occupy, what is to be planted in, her portrait palated and forwarded to it, how many rows of each thing will the Prince of Wales. be wanted, etc., will save ten times that number of hours in useless plant kinds of surplus vegetables profitably, ing, weeding, and cultivating all sum - because the time does not have to be mer long. of the garden is taken to make a long trip to townand Making a plan of course much higher prices will be really the first thing to do. I have obtained than could be had from the purposely saved this until the last local retail merchants. because I want you to be sure to re - out in such a way that most of the To repeat, the garden should, be laid member it. _ _, ." cultivating can be done with a horse. Plan a Plant Treed. For this purpose the "hoe .harrow," or of the {finest contributions to harrow -tooth cultivator, is very con- the Onecof in cont we live is venient. With it you can do finer work, closer to the plants, that with the proper ornamentation of our the ordinary horse culti . r�A•nis vremises with trees. •• A tree invari- implement is good not only for gala I ably bate. presTses Itself asst he supreme den use, but equally as valuable for' cottage early cultivation of potatoes and other ! rounded lig stately trees gives .out to the passing world the beneficent in- fluence of a pure home life. Every member of the family should be inter- ested and plan to take part in tree- planting this year. The best time to fertilize fruit trees is just before the buds show pink. breed them to a purebred sire of the Sheep should be sheared as soon as mutton breeds. the weather gets warm enough so that .A. purebred ram is relatively cheap, there will be no further danger of and without one a flock soon degen- catching cold. About a week after erates. shearing, the whole flock should be The early lambs are the most profit- dipped, as the presence of lice and able, but the production of such lambs ticks keep the flock thin. - requires considerable experience and' The following are excellent rules for better equipment. It would probably the guidance of beginners in sheep be better for the beginning farmer to husbandry: breed his eines for late lambing. 1. Use good purebred rams. Sheep are the natural prey of para- 2. Select young ewes. Yearlings, sites, which flourish chiefly. during the two -year-olds, or perhaps three -year - hot, dry months of summer. For this olds, are far more desirable for start - reason sheep should not be allowed to ing a flock than older ones. drink water from old stagnant pools, 8. Discard broken -mouthed ewes and but should at all times be supplied ewes with bad udders. with pure, fresh water. 4. Choose ewes having good size, de - Another summer precaution is to sizable forms, and dense fleeces. insure plenty of green feed. Pastures 5. Feed the lambs especially well are likely to get scant in. July and throughout the first year because a August, but the forehanded farmer sheep makes his greatest growth dur- will have a field of rape ready for ing this period. them about that time. In the fall, rape 6. Give the flock good care through - which had been seeded in the corn field out the entire year. field crops. • PLANT FEW VARIETIES. Another great danger to • avoid, in the planning of the practical farm garden is that of planting too many varieties. it is always a great temp- tation,when you are making out your seed order, to try this, that, and the Why Farm Gardens Fail BY F. F. ROCKWELL. other thing which is lauded to the I • skies. Don't do it. You may be Spring tonic for mother: a nice new tempted to get a lot of early, medium , hat. early, mid-season, main crop, and late _ varieties of each of a number of vege- tables. But they all result in nutltiply- ing your work unnecessarily; and tion of a great language. Less than then, especially if you- happen to have twenty-six fundamentals are neces- hot dry weather, you will find them all sary for big successes. maturing at once. For the practical farm garden I would say not over two varieties of bush beans, a green and perhaps a yellow; one of beets; an early and a late cabbage; one kind of chard; an! early and a late sweet corn; one var-1 iety of cucumber; kohlrabi, which is i very easy to grow and develops early in the spring; one loose -head and one i butter -head lettuce.; two or three kinds i of Muskmelon, if you have plenty of 1 I used to wonder why so many good The health experts say that much of room; one kind of early white onions farmers who have well -kept farms the ill health found on farms—despitel for summer use, and one yellow ford fall winter; a little parsley.; i er have gardens that amount to a the fact that the farmer gets plenty lent and parsnipsnter; for little early spring new row of pins. Some of these fellows of exercise and spends most of his I have in mind always plant good- time in the open air—is really due to sized vegetable gardens, but they don't lack of green vegetables in the aver - get enough out of them to keep,a pet age farm diet. Here again it seems rabbit from starving. Others don't to me that ordinary horse sense should know anything about gardening, and have told us tldis'long before the food are too timid to give it a trial, or per- experts found it out for us. haps they aren't interested. Another REASONS FOR FAILURE. sort of Chap is the one who has tried Sometimes the reason for garden having a farm vegetable, garden, made failures is too little knowledge; but a flivver of it, and then quit in disgust far more often it is the result of at - and has never tried again. This lat- tempting too elaborate a garden, and ter class is much larger than you as a result giving it up on the grounds might suppose. that it was more bother than it was Probably some of these fellows worth. never figured out their garden prob- But no reason or excuse justifies tem from the money standpoint any intelligent farrier from going To grow your own vegetables pays. ahead and having a successful garden. It pays in dollars and cents which Any intelligent farmer can succeed will show on the right side of your the first season if he will give half. ledger at the end of the year just as the thought and study to it that he tiurely as though you had received it gives to his crops or animals. for corn or hogs. The Department of It would be foolish to plant a gar - Agriculture has made thousands of den on one farm that would perhaps careful investigations in all parts of las just the thing for the farm next the country which have revealed that door; and so, if you are going to have farm incomes depend to a very large a garden, the vary first stop is to de - extent on what farmers produce for termine what type of garden will best their own use. When you stop to fit the actual conditions which you think a minute, you can see why this have to face. the first Should be so. All the artiole�a of food] In trying to determine this, you buy you pay for at retail prices. i factor to consider is how much hand. Affil the articles of food you sell you' work can be put into yotir garden. pie at wholesale prices, Another thing to be given careful 'with common. consideration is whether or• not theta ordinary Cod . So 'it only hikes Ordr y climes to figure out that all the articles i is any loeat market for surplus vege- Of food yea can grow, which will cut'ta%he Palin garden may pay a very our 'buying just that much, will pay just as well and lois as really.. as,handsomecash profit in addition to though you got retail prices for them., supplying the home table. In recent tut the cash return is not tho 'only years the roadside automobile stands advantage there is in growing all the have made it possible to market many taltie& she farm falnily can lase. iikl it No, i 'git. plentyi sowing, and again in June for winter; 1 plenty of peas, not over two or three varieties, dwarf or bush, according to I how easily, brush may be obtained -to support .the latter; pepper plants; a� few radishes (usually altogether too - many are planted) ; plenty of rota -1 baga for fall and winter use; plenty of spinach, which may be easily calmed) for winter; both summer and winter squash; tomatoes, early, and a main crop variety; turnips, extra early for spring, and a good winter vaxaiety.for planting in July or early August; and maybe one or two kinds of water- melons. In getting most of these things, order enough seed for two or thress plantings. . This, of course, does : not apply to things like squash, musk' melon, onions, pumpkins, and water- melon; but of most of the others,two or more plantings should be made in order to give a continuous supply throughout the summer, and a large extra late planting of all the things. which can be easily kept for winter, Irrigated Farms in Southern Alberta Zn the Parsons Vauxhall Disttriet Sow River Irrigation Project An especially good location for mixed farming and dairying. .Splendid op- portunity dor young men now living in districts where good land cannot be bought at reasonable prices. THIS TS NOT PIONAI81iING, the first 10.000 acres are fully settled antt another 10,000. acres now ready for settlement; maximum distance from railroad, seven miles. Good roads„ telephones and schools. Basy pay- ments, extending over 18 years. 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