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The Huron Expositor, 1922-06-09, Page 3ai ososasary for you to mat Money, safest, moat convent,* aud,,O Is Hank Money Qrdegts ,;, Tbcy.e r ,t up to fifty dollarl, and yo can n r- oik nearest branch at prices rangitg front three ousts, plus revenue stamps. v D' ON B i 5EAFORTH BRANCH, - R. M. JONES, Manager. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. a's . SHE HURON EXPOSITOR DISTRICT MATTERS A COO`) MEDICINE FOR THE BABY Nothing can equal Baby's Own Tablets as a medicine for little ones. They are a laxative, mild but (thorough in action, and never fail to .jeelieve constipation, colic, colds and simple fevers. Once .g mother has used them she will use nothing else. Concerning diem Mrs. Saluste Pelie- tier, Sit. Damns des Anlaines, Que., writes:—"I always keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets in the house. They are the best medicine I know of for . little ones and I would not be with- out them." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25e a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.. Brockville, Ont. THE COST OF A CALF Seed:WW1 Strong WOW Is ati' liibsolote : Give. Your Seed is careful deponona- don Test --ft Slitould Reis 6, I'er ! Cent -,-the Mulbgrty la Ontario-. Houie-made Spray 1tir 1?'lies. (Contributed by Ontario Doptment ofAga) 'Two ears of corn may be used to plant two rows side by side. The seed may weigh the same and look the same, but the results in plant development and yield is frequently vastly different. Two stalks may stand together in the same hill, en - boring similar conditions for growth it pterent Qry astures. good `a$ made and I had several plans and development. One may produce all out and dried, for the investment _a good ear while the other produces an inferior nubbin. Seed With Good Vitality a Necessity. The difference is traceable to the seed. Good vital seed from select stock will generally give strong plants and full ears. Unselected seed will give a few good plants and many medium er ba."ren plants. Enormous loss and waste would be preveutud each year if care were ex- ercised by all purchasers of seed cora. A few hills missed in each row, u few weak yr barren plants distributed over the cornfield, reduces or eltm- fnutes all opportunityfor profit. The interest, taxes and wages have to be Paid in full no matter what the crop is, and the more frequent the missed spaces, barren stalks, and weak stalks in the corn field the less there is to pay with. Give the Need a Gernranatiou Test. All seed corn should be given a germination test before planting. One poor seed ear going into the planter means a waste in land, and labor that ' is best expressed by one thousand weak or'wn-tilass stalks. The cora grower can't afford to neglect the quality of the seed he vows. Plant nue hundred seeds two or three weeks in advance of the regu- lar mare !dentine date, using a box of moist sand placed in a warm win- dow as a germinator. Count the serene plants at the end of ten days; there should he at least 95 of them. If the test shows any weakness dfs- ,.,n i all the seed and secure another gnpp ly with a guaranteed ge'uu nation test L. SI,veusnn, Secretary, On - tare. Departcent of Agriculture, Toronto. of any money. By tate time the first tin -:peddler came along I bad ihallf a doyen skills an ready *salting for hi{n. He wantild, me to take tin pane and pails in exchange fox them but I wouldn't stand for that: It was to he cash or nothing, I said. "Well," he replied "I don only pay 26 cents cash for teem and if there are any cuts in them I'll have to dock you live' cents for every ene," I knew that I had made -a few gashes in some of them in nay hurry to get them off hut I told the fel- low he could look the skins over and count the holes, if 'he could find any. He went over them all very carefully and when he ;had finished he said:— "The aid:"The nearest estimate of this little deal of ours, that I can make, is that you will owe me about 30 cents if I take these skins off your hands.'There is an average of about six cuts in each of them, which, 'at five cents a piece comes to more than they are worth. However, seeing it's you," he went on , laying his hand on my ld"I'll take them and call the er, shoe r • thing square." I His "estimate" sounded so reason- ; able that it fairly staggered me but Now that we have got back to that 1 had built so much on the money "normal" state of affairs in which that I was going to make that I got cheese sells at 12 cents a pound and up enough courage to refuse his gen- butter at about 25, with every other erous offer and to tell him that I line of farm 'produce bringing the guessed I would 'hold the skins over same price •as it did -in the "good old for a while to see if the price of holes wouldn't come down a little. faof the problemeons ago and the farmkeeper He went off with a kind of a grin on facing instead of ohne horse ahis face and, later on, my father sold two cars of one horse and the skins for me in town. They buggy, it'sstrangero'Cha we are not didn't came to very much but it was seeingtrs letters from dairymenofand better than that tin -peddler's "ebti- others, cs4imatin( the Cost pro- mate," clueing a hundred pounds of milk, as This reminds me of the farmer out `heir habit was a few years ago. in Saskatchewan Who, last fall, ship- milk,Nn matter ut,L high the price roe pod half -a -dozen cowhides to a dealer cream, omeen or cheese, there i ' d. was always someone ready to write • In Winnipeg. Several days later he to the farm papers giving the result got a bill in which the freight charges .. of calculations along this line. And , were balanced against the hides and showing to be in debt to the con- a, 'rhe Mulberry. The old timn fruit -hearing mul- berry has lost its place in the gar- dens of snnthcrn Ontario. Better fruits have crowded it out, until it the concluison reached always was i; rarely sell in the modern garden that the .producer was los'ititg money. ( cern to the amount of one dollar and or fruit plantation. Sometimes plant - When milk was selling at $3.50 a cwt. I forty-three cents. (Another "esti- ell ❑s a food tree for birds lay bird I remember seeing an estimate •plat- I mate" in which it was proved that allin uuh,ets or by those desiring to ing the cost of production at $4.25. m it cost more than the hides were play with sills worm culture in this The different items entering into the ; worth to carry Cheto Winnipeg.) northern climate. During the past coat were all given and there was i The farmer wrote to the dealer tell- year, through soutltw•esteru Ontario nodisputing the truth of it, apparently, lag him that he had no money with mulberry t: ees have been offered to The figures there and they say' which to pay the bill, so he guessed the public by traveling agents. The Lh figuresuwerern't lie. Why these I'he would "have to send him a few experiences of the past with the mut- more hides." berry as a fruit producing tree and farmers didn't "go broke", ;losing fifty By figures the dairyman can prove as a food producing tree for silk cents on every hundred pounds of to the mi'ik-consumer that it cost him worms in Ontario and the United milk that way, I could. never make I at least eleven cents a quart to pro-. States would indicate that nothing ooh. They must have had some other l 1 duce rhe milk with which be supplies very great by way of achievement or his customers. And then this con- profitis likely to follow the plant - sumer who, we will say, happens to ing of any of the mulberry varieties be a shoe -dealer, turns around and in Ontario. One tree for the birds is charges the dairyman ten dollars for probably all any one farts can af- a pair of boots, because 'he has "esti- ford. As for the development or mut- mated" that they cost him almost berry plantations for silk culture, that 'much. He considers the high sac her hardly seems profitably po sibl- le cost of living, what he 'has to pay for food—arid drink—and he adds another Bella Of 1Oraln ti --L. of Stevenson, e a culture, Sec - dollar to be on the safe side and to Tm'onto. Agriculture, be sure that he will win out in this game of "estimating the cost." It's hard to see what is gained by this sort of thing, anyway. Mostly it just makes a fellow miserable and gets him to thinking that' be is poorer than is really the case. Let's `sheer up and cut out the figures until we're sure we're capable of getting the cor- rect answer. ttIPalFp '41.,0040: Peas, Oats end Corn Qui '4 t6:$alte Succulent. Nourishing Otrnd — Weed Seeds Spread 'by Manure — Whal to Plant In a Latflu,•,Ciardeu. (contribby ntfasDera.ttnent of agriculture.' When the pastures dry up In June, July. August or,, September, the silriokage is noted, in the milk can and on the ribs of. ail the live stock. source of 'income which permitted them to indulge in the luxury of keeping and milking cows. And now that 'prices 'have come down, as I say, it's surprising that some genius for figures among our farmers is not supplying us with esti- mates as to how many years will elapse before all our fanme are mortgaged and the Russians are sub- scribing to funds for "starving Can- adians." The fact of the matter is that yam can get any kind of a result you want on an estimate if you 'go the right way about it. You •first decide on what your final figures are to be and then you go on adding costs until you reach them. To the man with.i'mag, ination there is never any difficulty about bringing up the cost of produc- tion until it more than equals the selling price in the case of any' par- ticular article, from a veal calf to a bag of potatoes. I saw an estimate the other day, in a farm 'paper, of the cost of raising a heifer from the time it was a calf until it was of producing age. A farmer LINGERING WEAKNESS FOLLOWING DISEASE Due to the Fact That the Blood Has Become Thin and Watery. In almost every case the victims of bad taken two he calves wanted to Is grippe, influenza, fevers and con- knowfer a hat ;her and to tagious troubles are left weak, ailing fedwhat be ehdhid is charge for ateland despondent after the disease it- thethedand labor. This forthe estimatefself has disappeared. They do not editor gave him one calf: pick up strength as they ought, and 460 lbs. whole milk 8 q'00 remain tired, listless and discour- 16,00 aged. The only reason for this is 24.00 that the blood has been impoverished 20.00 by the ravage of the disease' through 9.00 wbdeh e victim has passed. 14.00 Strength the fold activity will not re - 12.00 turn until the 'blood has been rester- all t11., `11"4 away and, Furthermore, f,i'e, 6.00 ed to its normal condition. The it leaves 1111, coat rather harsh and 4.00 blood can be enriched and ?ui,ified causes dust to adhere; however, it Is - quickly and surely by Dr. Williams' very beneficial and practical. „n Pink Pills. To enrich the blood and Shelter from t. hot 4m of sum - strengthen the nerves is the -hole rater muss be prov Lled if ettiri'vil and mission of these pills, and thousands economical production is to be have found them- beneficial after lis- expected. ease had left them weak and run down. Among those who have prov- ed the value of these pills in oases of this kind is Mr. Charles A. Turner, light -keeper, Thrum Cap Light :Sta- tion, N.S., Who says:—"In Jan., 1917, I took a severe cold which I neglect- ed until it developed into pneumonia, which confined me to bed for some weeks. When I was able to -get up and sit around the house, I found that I was not regaining any usual strength; in fact I seemed to be growing weaker and was reduced al- most to a skeleton. I took an emul- sion, but it did not help me. Then one day a friend who came to see me said, `Here's some Dr, VW1'lliams' Pink Pills; twat the thing to put you on your feet again.' I took "them and then got six boxes more and soon tint area crop of alfalfa when could feel they were helping Me. By ti 'the time the last box was etmpstarting the bloom. tyy I The value of the meter tuck as was doing ink Work 'again and feeling fine and I had gaained in weight. My an aid in marketing farm products health has wince continued good, and is now well eelahlislind. In bringing I ;give the credit to Dr. Williams' this about improved roads have been 3000 lbs. skim milk 1500 lbs. grain 2000 lbs. hay 8000 lbs. silage 280 days pasture Labor Bedding Housing No grass, no talik, no beef, or at least not enough to be really profitable, is a condition both undesirable and too frequent in the experience of many farmers. Live stock to be profitable must be fed liberally.. Maintenance rations --dry pastures are nothing more— never sake beet or milk, and never can be profitable. Feeding Soiling Crops Prevents Losses. The•farmer who provides green or succulent feed to carry his lieu stock tit full capacity during any period of pasture shortage is not only u,aklog his operations profitable, but lie Is preventing losses that liberal feeding alone can prevent. The farmer who takes time 4y the forelock and provides a summer silo does not worry about drought. know- ing full well that; hie slack feed re- serve is standing ready. The man without the summer silo must do the next best thing, provide ample green crops that are palatable and succu- lentto do what the pastur'a fall to do. A few pounds of green yeas and oats, green clover, gr.en alfalfa or green corn In addition to the dry pasture pickings make fur content- ment, it full milk pail and thrifty young stock. flow to Carry Over Ten C.o.s. If a farmer has ten rows he should figure on the erne from elle half uci a providing ample green teed to carry them ten days Peas and oats mixed one and a half bushels of each, and sown as early as pps- sible in the spring, and followed by a second seeding ten days later, will provide for twenty day's of an early drought. An area of alfalfa near the feed - yard is especially useful during July and August to keep the :deck going until the early- corn is ready. Sweet clover is more useful as a pasture Plaut than as a crop plant that may be cut and taken to the feed rack. Clovers, peas, oats and corn will furnish all the succulent Deeds that are necessary providing or course that the stockman undertakes their production in due time each spring. Crow a few additional acres for green feed this spring, ar.d If drought occurs you will be fortitled against loss.—L. Stevenson, Serretary, On- tario Department 'of Agriculture, Toronto. Hunte-niadeeipray Keeps Flies Away. By preventing flies front torment- ing the cows a much greater flow of milk is obtained during the summer mouths and the remainder of the lac- tation period. The following home- made mixture has given good results. It is better than several other mixtures tried and quite as efficient as the prepared sprays costing a dol- lar per gallon. It is nulls as follows: 1 tea quarts of any standard coal tar dip, 11 quarts fish oil, 1 pint oil of tar, 1 quart coal oil, ri pint oil of eucalyptus. Mix Ins ten gallons nr lukewarm soft water in which a bar of laundry snap has been dissolved. Spray twice a day. in the morning after milking and in the afternoon when cows are brought in for silage or green I'oval. When a half -barrel c.'ri with spray nozzle attachment is uw•r1, Iwo non can spray a herd of forty cows in ten minutes. This mix- ture is not pe:1,,I and does not keep TOTAL ....$112.00 Now there doesn't seem in be any- thing very much out of the way in any of the above items. But if that chap can get his neighbor to give 'him one 'hundred and twelve dollars a piece for raising those calves for him I miss ,my guess. When cattle were selling at their best that would have been a fancy price to pay for any two-year- old grade 'heifer, let alone paying it out for :her keep. Butit's a good ex- ample of 'the way estimates are made. The figures seem to be alright but any practical man knows that there must be a flaw in the thing some- where. It never actually cost that man $224 to keep that pair of heifers Tor two years. If it did there would have to be 'a general assignment among the farmers who sold grade' heifers last fall for $20 a head to the drovers and butchers. I remember the !first time I got tangled up in this eestimating'business. It was when I was about 12 or 13 years old. My father 'had given me the chance to make some money by selling the skins of the young calves that arrived in the spring of the year. A br by q pseetlager �mtV 'Niue fib' to turn. back ,lilt On seventh anorilOSS after it, had ted the vena l fn' three thousand tfailea, The Wenatchee is a"uew host, d in the open sea averaged, seventeen knots per hour, but attie itoith tad did not tire. It flew in gl'ea'n .* cies" around the steamer, and be aigie of iia (peculiar black head, fin Contrast to the natural stiver•awinte plumage, it was easily distinguishablle Intim other albatrosses in the wake of the big ship• Itnporling (tun it. A cmtsignilleril o1' liv.r• 'knit from Spokane has been receive.l 11y the l'rnvtncial Came Huard, , un r.'l.'ase in the rpt Inds district. These binds were given in exchange for titon,fo• liar pheasants. Awe her r•unsign- nu'nt is expected from the Ks'+tern States in exchange for phea snidis. LORD ROSENBERRY HAS A POSTILION TO DRIVE Here is a delightful picture of a farmer great fsgure in'British politics taken from an English paper, which reads like an echo of the past: -."Late in the evening, when the country is lying asleep under the stars, through the quiet lanes round Epsom, in Surrey, often rolls an old fashioned carriage with a crest and a coronet on its doors and a former prime minister sitting inside it. "Sometimes, to the surprise of strangers, instead of a coachman on the 'box there is a postilion on one of the two bay horses -tea small, neat figure in .peaked cap, blue coat, white breeches, and riding boots, rising up and down with the movement of his mount. "The great Victorian who so hikes :to drive in the evening before going to bed, and who, when the nights are not too dark, likes to be driven in the old-time way 'by a postilion is Lord Roseberry, who lives at The Durdan•s, just outside Dpsom. "In the spring evenings Loral Rose- berry, who is 74, drives out in search of th4 song of the nightingale, and when front surae copse or thicket the silver notes of the bird are heard 'pouring out in a rapturous melody the carriage stops and the elderly peer sits and listens in delight to the song enchanting the still night." Al Convincing Argument. "What's this?" said John Smith. ns lie came upon his wife's new sew- ing machine knee deep In a snow drift. "Oh, f lust put it nut there to keep ynnr mower company," replied his wife. There was no market for veal ea yes pink pi)," an essential factor. from the surplus stock of, this kind any medicims dealer or by mail at 60 Children Cry was what we got out of their hides, cents a box, or six boxes foe '$2.50,FOR FLETCHER'S at from 25 to 80 cents apiece. from'�e Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., vL,^ � A S '�" `e'f R 1 A Well, I thought my fortune was as Brockville, Ont. sit that time and the only revenue you can .get these pills through a , tIA,Rtk Weed Seed Spread by Manure. It is quite generally known that ween seeds pass through the diges- tive tracts of animals and still remain viable. The manure will contain these seeds, and the result is that a field may become infested with weed plants, some of a very noxious char- acter. In spite of this fact, precau- tions are not generally observed In the feeding of screenings which con- tain seeds of noxious weeds. As a result of experiments at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, It was foiled that In feeding certain seeds to cows the germination may even be increased after having passed through the digestive tract. Curled dock, a very common farm weed, germinated only four per cent. in its natural condition. A quantity of this seed was I'd to a cow, and 100 such seeds were placed in, a germinator. Ninety-eight out of the one hundred grew. The same is true to some extent of lambs' quarters, often known an pi:weed. The seed of this weed germinated 62 per cent. before feeding, Si,. per cent. after feeding. The gerteinatlon of quack grass seemingly w':': not much affect ed, as a germina;i•n of R5 per cent. was secured befo''- feeding, and 80 per cent. after feedmg. The viability of Canada thistle v• ed was decreased to some extent. In;' enough seed re- mained to infest :, :field. In view of the foregoing figures, the farmer simnel be very careful in the use of screr•,.c•.gs. They should either be ground to the very finest possible conditinr ;o as to crash all weed seeds, or a they should lie fed to such aria„I:, as sheep, which grind up and Ilia• Ighly destroy the ordinary weed s"'ls. Whet to Ilan( Carrots, beets ter ase rimy h. 1. part. of Janne. Golden leinia: the supply fur I Early ntnirle provide snhsl tl •..' Fresh and er: means of savint. winter ase. Saeed sawn in hr planted in Il 4a111'•w'l,:ui d••ep• the soil over . "firmed" more • 'rhe Home t' The hone ver he it family tut, hers of the fano do en shnrild lab vatiou. There outdoor ere n' working in the I. lines of !stye'' I' greater return.. employed_ When potato, - tall start ser,':. mixture. Children �_ hildreII Orr ®A8 7E0R1A In Late Garden. d celery for win. ated in the latter corn to keep up summer. ins and peas to for vegetables ac the .red prodnc•ls for d snn,n,er Oltenia iy stirred soil anal 'an in spring, and seed 4hn:iP1 lie 'fully th:.ii it sea nth. etnbl- harden. hie ,taro''❑ sitar ld .st and all n,em who ere able to part in its culti- ao belt' r form of than l,ndrraD' :e garden, and frw ;..11 work will give for the time .'re shout sit inches ,;.g with Bor'dea,t Naturalliiiii $oiltil-; flavor lb your Saran "ar e -and tbt results, are • Certo aup$lieS.the.nstu element of fruits that "jell”, This element is, Certo is just Natur'e's ort GSA centrated in handy form -s 5Wu y free from preservatives or at,e.. Certo makes 50% arore.ian or ieUy from the same amount pf fruit. . Economical, saves time and worry and never fails. A booklet of complete recipes with'. - every bottle. At your grocer's. • Makes Delicious Rhubarb Jam 4 level cups (2 lbs.) Crushed or Chopped Rhubarb. 8 leveled cups (31/2 lbs.) Sugar. 1 bottle (scant cup) Certo. The "strawberry"'variety gives fin- est colored jam; cut in short lengths without peeling and put through . coarse chopper or chop by hand. Meas- • ure chopped or crushed rhubarb into large kettle. Add sugar, mix well, stir hard and constantly, and bring to a vigorous boil over hottest fire. Boil hard 3 minutes with continual stirring. Take from fire; add Certo, and stir tt in well. Skim and pour quickly. Douglas Packing Co., Limited, Cobourg Selling Asenta: W. G. Patrick & Co., Limited, Toronto and Montreal 17 '5 MAS a NALOES Master Four, 22-35 Special New McLaughlin -Buick Four Lives Up to Reputation Made by its Predecessors Fulfilling the promise for service- ability made by McLaughlin -Buick Fours of other years, the new Mc- Laughlin -Buick four -cylinder car is held with high regard by motorists everywhere. In every respect it is reflecting the ex- perience and knowledge gained by its designers and manufacturers in build- ing McLaughlin -Buick Valve -in -Head ass Fours and Sixes for many years. E. IL CLOSE, AGENT, SEAFORTH, ONT. McLAUGHLIN -B IC K '