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Flesherton Advance, 7 Aug 1919, p. 7

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mm Profits in Turkeys. For those who are favorably lo soon as possible after harvest, eon serving the moisture and making cated for raising turkeys, a more j plowing easjer. This early disking profitable side line can hardly bei also starts "the growth of volunteer _ found. Given plenty of range, where ; wheat, and tends to have the fly em-| to catch, and your yirt in IHpatriu-l lowing the event comes the necessity Oie turkey can find grasshoppers and ] erge early, or it exposes the "flax- tion as an individual only commences! for stabilization, in order that the other insects, green vegetation and | seeds" to unusual conditions which are seeds of weeds and grasses, acorns j fatal to a great many of them, and' nuts of various kinds, the cost The ground should be plowed to a of raising them lis very small and the : depth of at least si\x inches, and all Your Place in Repatriation ".i:: "'."â- .;.'':r.;r«,lhr.":;:r *^ tion that is in Christ. And this is the truest worship, to love, to restore. All Canada's sacrifice in blood and | Old things have passed away and, and lo bless, service will have been In vain if outjbejjold, all things are become new. of the turmoil men have not come i This is what has come to pass in Can- to a realization of the fact that we ada. The dawn of a new era has are every one his brother's keeper, come. Canada cannot go back to the The old selfish attitude of "let j old conditions, if she would, and she George do it" must find no place in | ought not, if she could, this new era of re-construction, says 1 Definite events mai'k the culmiina- a Ariter in Canadian Municipal i tion of every struggle for some par- ^ Journal. There is a task for every i ticular goal in the world's journey . as soon as possible before they eat hand to do; a vilion of work for each; to proper ruling. Immcdiutely fol-;too much feed. None that are less than eight weeks old should be dispos- ed of Invest Your Money In 5'/j% DEBENTURES lulorest payable halt yearly. The Great West Permanent Loan Company 20 King St. West Toronto Office u All ducklings which are to go tov market should be fattened and killed where the plans of the Government . goal attained be not lost. Canada leave off. | must not lose the opportunity of ob- Organizations, churches, niunici- ' taining for succeeding generations palities, employers and indiviiduals, | working and living conditions which profit very large.â€" the stubble and volunteer wheat burieti aH working towards the one end was will guarantee proper development Grain, stock and general farms are ! und»r at least three inches of soil, the ideal of the Rep'atriation Com- 1 for the people. «specially adapted to turkey raising, | This will bury practically all the flies, mittee, which has been steadily urircd and it is on such farms that most of | so that it will be impossible for them upon platforms and through tlie spirit the turkeys are found. Little h;i.s ever i to reach the surface. If the plowing' of the press during the past twelve The stientific placeinont of men in Lambs kept for breeding stock should be weaned when from four to Even on the best of range, growing j "^0 months of age. The lambs intend- turkeys should have one good feed of j «*^ for market, on the other hand, corn each <iay, wheat or oats and pre- 1 f ouW '»"am marKctable weights be- ferably all three, either mixed or fed \ fore they are five months of age and ..„,. ., ,.<.^t„;., .In.. «,,„t>,^r. r.r. fi,n nBvt i ^'hou^d be wcaucd .It the time they are one a certain day, another on the next j ilay, and so on. sold. ieen done in the way of raising them is done about three or four weeks in confinement, and has resulted in | after the disking, dt gives the vqlun- failure where tried. Plenty of range ' teer wheat and weeds a chance to lis essential to success. In selecting turkeys for breeding, ' more easily controlled. months, From end to end of Canada the gos- .„e .cieuui.c Placemen wu n.en u. Although growing goslings ^ill i I;^'nbs a wea.^^^^^^ po..itions, the r:.fht man in the rrght usually pick up enough about the farm kePtforJoi,r°r n ve days at least on job; the improvement of living condi- to sustain life, they will not .vrow ^'^ ' '^,^;'''' ''?,f "/". ^Vil^I" Tl o 1-^ I- u i ui- 1 • 1 1 J * woll nn,! tliei-ofnvp will lint lie -m nro- "^'"h as I'.u H strange place. ri;e ewes tions by establishing a standard of ; well and theiefo.e vw_y_not^h. ,is pro^ , ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ working men's houses; the care of pel of Repatniation has been preached, i those disabled by the war, which will start their growth and they are then and it is now up to the man in the make them self-supporting; the cvi- street to go out and live up to the ploycrs' reaWzation of their true re- the most important factors to be con-| After plo\ving, the ground should' ideal. As far as the Government is | lation to their employees; more wis- sidered are vigor, size, shape, bone, i be worked until it becomes a good | concerned its scheme of Repatriation I dom in education; a greater brother fitable as they would be of fed, each ' , ., , , , dav, one good feed of mash or grain. ''« f'"' ^^ ^^ pos3K)le from the iie sure to make full use of all tho ^^^'â- 'â- ]- " ^he teed on this pasture be table and kitchen waste, lawn ,rim- j fj't^'-';, /â- '•«"'. f rnuch tiie better, for mings, waste vegetables, lr>:3 and ^^is will help-check tne milk flow. The other foods, by feeding thtm to the ! ''"â- â€¢'â- '' »"'• '"'"''s should not be turned early maturity and color of plumage. ; seed bed. All the time, however, de- deals with the return of our fighting i hood in our social reactions. All these I'owls and chicks and turning *hcm 1 â- " 'o!^"'l-r again, for a ^ The body should be deep and wide, the struction of the volunteer \\ heat men to civilian life, medical care, pen- ; things are rendered possible because into high-priced poultry meat ••»"'* j ,^.^/', i'.^^j; '^ .^^^^^^ back broad and the breast round and i should be kept in mind. H ground i aions, vocational training, the estab- ' the war has "set a tide running in the eggs. f IT^,,! Hi JZh.-a A\L,th«^L. Tfhl iull. The hs:;J should be of good size, niion which wheat has been grown i^lishment of employment offices, and Miearts of men," which is without] Do not allow growing chicks to I ,'o f "^^ uitebrue aisiuraanceb , n laa *nd of a clean, hii-ilthy appearance, j left to be planted to spring crops the refitting tho returning man in every ' parallel ,in history. These things are i crowd in coops. Be sure that every A strong, well-made skeleton i.>» following year, , it is of vital import- way after his demobilization, from i being done and the vision seen during sleep-ng plac« is sufficiently ventilat- shown by thick, sturdy shanks, andiance that the flies be destroyed in | pensions and artificial limbs to re- j the war will not be forgotten, and ed, .so that it does not get too warm straight, stron- toes. It should be the ' these fields. Fields of this character education, establisliing his home, and 1 the anguish, the pain, and the death at night, for if the growing stock is aim of the bri?eder to have a flock of, should be plowed or listed late in the ' <^-i,_ pure-bred turkeys even though they summer before tho near-by wheat is are sold at regular market nrices. The seeded. If these unplanted fields are male at the head of the fleck fihoiild by left undisturbed, the flies will emcr.ofe all means be a pura-brcd of the best from the stuhble in the spring beiore type obtainable. i weather conditions are such aa v,i!l The male is one-half of the flock, permit plowing, and migrate to the lamb. .At weaning time the ability of a ewe to produce a good lamb is often ruined because the necessary care is line anguisn. ine pain, ana tne ueaini"!- "'h'"-. '"i '^ -"^ t.'""'"& -»--â- â-  -"i^^. . , .^ , .... .,„ . y,;„ j „(t ' -11 1 f 1. â-  11. i- 1- * ov<>rlipn<-o<I if mnkP3 IPS'! ni ofitable ' ""^ taken to see that she is dried olt .will hear fruit in the mitigation of overheated it makes less piontaiile and by constantly seJcct'u.T: the best late-sown fields of wheat which were; jng with human factors. finally finding him a. job. Over and above these tasks there ! sorrow, because they have not been are many others, which can only be , in vain. carried on through tha co-operation, | Repatriation is more than trans- good will, and energy of the individual , pcrtation. It includes the ostablish- â€" the empiloyer, the municipality, the ment in ci\'il life of all returning men churches, and all organizations deal- : who have sacrificed their positions to females of a similar type and mating free from infesta1;ion in the fall. This' these with a pure-bred male, one can jg one of the reasons why gome late- soon have a flock of uniformly large,; planted wheat fields which wor-; not early-maturing, strong-^boned. long : infested last fall have been dar.iaged and deep-bodied turkeys of the same ; by the' Hessian fly this spring color. ; The second factor in controlling Fifteen turkey hens can .,afcly be (he fly consists in delaying the plant- mated to or.a viKornu.s torn. If 25 or inj, of the wheat until the vast maj- :30 hens arc kept, two tonv< should bejority of the flres have emerge.! and used, one running with them at a time, laji-f their eggs. SBy for one ilay, v.'hile tho other is I confined, ami tho other the next .lay.] Separator Preventu Waste. The toms will fight during the raati'.ng| season. ' 'â- '^ these days of high-priced butter- Turkey hcn:^ like- nothi'ng better] fat no farmer can alTord to feed it than to hide their nest half a mile; to the hogs. .\ cream separator is so from the farm buildings, usually in a|m"eh more thorough than any other patch of gra;s or weeds. To locate | system of securing cream tltat, with these nests often proves a long and } a herd of four cows or more, it soon tedious task, th? better method being | Pays for itself. The system of letting to follow aech hen as it separates from i cream rise in crocks and then skim- the flock and starts towards her nest.l ming it off is the most wasteful of all. not letting her know she is followed.] But the fact that you have a sepa- A still easier and quicker method than: rator ia no proof that you are not this would be to confine tho hens early,} feeding butterfat to the hogs. T have some morning soon after they havei visi^ted dairy farms where the sepa- come down from i-oost, and lei; them I rator was not even screwed to the out late in the afternoon. Those thatj floor. On a cold day I saw one owner are laying will t^ien make for their move his separator nearer to the nests, that they may hide their eggs stove, while this same machine has with the other.s. often been carried to a place near a If many turkeys are kept, the use i window on a sultry day. This ma- of a breeding pen will be found a I chine has never diye good work; a great convenience. This pen should: separator must always stand firm. cover a sufficient area, say an acrej -A solid foundation and nlacing the for fifteen fowls, which would give | separator so that the bowl is perfectly them room for exercise. -A hog-tight j level are tho two essentials. A con- wire fence, three feet Wgh, will holdjcrete foundation is best, with one of most turkeys, and if any persist in : heavy planks a second choice. We flying out, "the flight feathers of one made the foundation for our separator wing i;hould be clipped. Nests should by pouring concrete into a frame four be scattered about the penâ€" those inches deep and somewhat bigger in which turkey hens take to most i»cad-; the other dimensions than *the base ily being barrel.^ turned on their sides of the separator, and nests shaped in them with strav/. j V/hile the concrete was still slushy Turkey hens, ch,'.:ken hens and in-; we sunk two 2x4 timbers down to a cubators" are commonly used to hatch.' level with the concrete. When the. During the early part of the layin.gj mi.xturo was thoroughly hard the lugsj season it often happens that one has of the^separator were fastened to the on hand a nu.mbfr of eggs that should t.imbers with wood screws. There is be incubated before any of the turkey no v.'obble to a machine on such a hens are through laying their first base. litter anJ become broody. A foundation wjiich permits a ma- in such case and also when it is ^ chine to wobble or vibrato excessively desired that the turkey hens lay more,' makes the separator harder to operate. j go to the front. It puts upon the] Home is the central idea of Repa- Government and the citizens of Can- tniation. The boys are coming home, ada the necessity of .insuring adequate Home is being prepared for their opportunities for all returning men to (ifcming. The people saw a vision dur- do bettor than to take up life where ing the war and that vision is a Can- [ they left it off. Repatriation is a ada made fit for the returning men, ' social and industrial task, which will who have achieved such resplendent never be solved until the returning glory at the front for their country, men feel that the opportuivties for and themselves. i advancement which were within their Repatriation is an attempt to make grasp when they went to the front tangible that vision. It asks whether are returned to them. or not Canada is ready to receive the , When it can be said that no citizen returning men. Is Canada able to who took up arms lost gi-ound in the give them the opportunities for em- struggle for existence; that no v.-idow ployment eommensui'ate with their or fhild of a fallen soldier has been services? Is Canada organized to , bereft of the opportunity to live^in 1 make use of the energies, the courage comfort, and to obta.'n the education ! and the amhitionr of the returning that would have been certain but for I men? Have the returning men gi-own the sacrifice of a soldier's life; when too big for Canada, as she was, and positions of i-esponsibility throughout ,is Canada to-day capable of measur- Canada are as free to tha returning ing up to their needs and their ideals ? men as to those who did not go over- The men who went over the top , seas, then Repatriation will have been faced a thousand deaths and in exal- , accomplished. tation overcame death by the mere | Rcpatriat.'on is the biggest task fact of seeing beyond it. Death has , Canada ever undertook. It is not a no fears for them. But it may be that ; thing for an hour, b\it it is fprover. they are more fearful of the monotony i It is a national stock-taking. The of the task of living. Government has prepared the ma- Thus, repatriation suggests a chinery to receive the I'eturning men house-cleaning on the part of Canada, and fit them back to civil life, but the growth and never is as strong when ' P^Pfny- A little care at this time " , will be v.'ell repaid. Two or throe days after the separation the ewes should be milked out. All of the milk need not be drav.n from the udder, but enough should be taken to leave the udder soft and plial;lo. Mark with colored chalk ewes needing no further Keeping Quality of Silage. "How long can silage be kenti" asks a dairyman who wishes particu- larly to know whether it w,i.ll remain â-  attention. In about three days the in good condition over the summer ! ewes .should be milked out again and if the silo is not opened. i the drys marked. Further attention Silage in a good silo will l-.cep al-j should be g.iven four or five days later most indefinitely. Like cannetl goods, j to those not dry. No efforts should it w.ill keep for years in practically as j Ire spared to maintain every breeding good condition as when put up. But ' animal in a sound and useful condi- in ordinary farming practice, where tion. there is stock to feed, little i^ gained by attempting to keep silage too long. Better feed it the winter after .it is produced and grow more the follow- ing summer. But if you are putting up silage with the intention of kecp- I ing it two or three years against a against the home-coming of the re- turning men. Canada has to take stock of her possessions and her equipment in the light of what will be required of Canada by them. persistent co-operation of the people of Canada I's necessary if Repatriation is to be a suiyess. Mr. Citizen, what are you doing about it? l>frERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST 10 Winning Others to Chrisit â€" Acts 16: 9-15; James 5: 19, 20. Golden Text, Acts 1: 8. Acts IG: 9-15. The Winning of One Paul was upon his second great mis- by their decision, but mindful of the directing agency of the Spirit of God and the immeiVate duty, the four friends began thei^work in Philippi. On week days they labored, earning their daily bread, and on the Sabbath they joined the company of Jews whose open-air place of meeting was by the river. Here Lyiliia heard of Jesus Christ and believed, and by bap- tism she and her household were ad- mitted to the Christian community, which beginning at Jerusalem was thus extending itself throughout the world. Lydia was evi'dently a person of some importance. Her original homo phesus, in Chicks and fowls in confinement during the hot weather must have lots of green food and meat or milk, or both. If they are on free range they, can obtain much of their meat food in possible shortage of feed, fir.=;t make I tho form of bugs and worms and can a very careful inspection of the Siilo, add to thd'r vai-iety of grain the vari- being sure that all the walls and doors | ous vegetable growths that they ob- casings are air-tight, and then pack j tain by foraging. This is equally true the silage especially well. j of the fowls. be incubated undar chickens or in the it is doing noor work. Vibration, -. . . • - „â-  u- i i i â- *" " â€" •- •' " '"â-  oe .ncuo,n,Lu ui.u. , .^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^,^ ^^,^^ ^,,^, [ Churches in Asia Minor which had ; xhe word spoken by the apostles was Asia, and she was probablv a Jewess incubator , | causes a port.'on of the skim milk and ! P"''-^'^, '^A^"'""^- ^^J^^^^ About a week before the poults are ' cream to mix again and a considerable! ^ecn established by him and Barnabas^ „„t the only agency in her conversion, due to hatch, turkey hens enough ' amount of butterfat is lost in the skim " y^'' "^ two before Paul had de- ^ The Lord Himself in His Spirit was T^,,l,i 1 „ ..lln.vM,! fn -t tn like ^11 milk ^"â- ^'' '° I""^''""'^ '^'^ ^''*'"^^ '" "^her .working with His servants. Of Lydia h\"" Po s laltd "â-  ih'^ ' n .bV o:V.., is another thing „ot ' PaHs.of that country, but there had ; jt i^ s'^id "Whose heart the Lord given a few .ggs frora the'incubator ' to overlook in a machine that operates i ^een indicatiOMs of Providence whch â-  opened." Wer faith was openly Con- or from under the chicken hens, and at .Is high speed a.s a separator. About; ^e cou.d not ignore. Which directed , fe.sed in baptism, and the first-fruits a lowed to hatch the poults themselves, ' every ten days we rut kerosene !»« steps to Troas on the Aegean Sea,, of her changed life were seen in the orV^^iolifn Tinwlv hatched noult can through our machine to cut the grease, | a. ^^i! "l,''c^fouth of the entrance to ready and cordial hospitality which be is by them. Lice are a Cfimnion an setting hens, and are one enemies of young jwults. To prevent, est and most common cau.se of loss in their getting a foothold, dust the hen operating cream separators is turn- thoroughly with some good Lice powd- ing them too slow. tnnoyanco to know of one jnachine that was injured i "'""S- and the three travelers vyere,, â-  of tho worst through this neglect. But the great- J*'"!'' »t Troas ''.y Luke, the author | ti er before she is placed on the nc.^t, | One of the little instruments that and once a v/eek thereafter until she, inriicates the speed of a sc;^arator is is setting. The nesting material : a very useful thing to have, for in should bo kept clean, and it the eggs! most makes of separators slow turn as founded which endured persocu- ion and continued faithful for many of the gospel which bears his name j years, whose loyal and disinterested and of the Book of Acts. The en- affection was proved to Paul again and trance of Luke into the little company I again in his hours of need (Phil. 4: is marked here by the sudden intro- j io-20K May we not suppose that diiction of the pronoun "we." (vs. j^ydin i,orself was one of those whose 10-13). I thoughtful affection and care for him No doubt there had been much con-| Paul speaks of in his letter which he Now is the Tim To prepare your stock for tiic To be held at UNION STOCK YARDS Show Early preparation produces the prize winner.s. Premium List, which will be ready for distribution in tliree weeks, carries moi-e classes than ever before. become dirty they should be washed i ing means ii loss of butterfat. I have versation and prayer together as to wrote them fi\)ni a Roman prison. with lukewarm water. I noticed also that thorough cleaning If the weather is warm and dry j twice a day is considered unnecessary no shelter .is required, as the poults' by some people, who are sati'sfied with} do better in the open. Should it be| one washing and one flushing out. But matter the direction in which they should now who had sent a rhcssenger there with • proceed. The vision which "appeared gifts for him? (Phil. 2: 25). See' rainy, however, they need lo be pro- tected, for nothing is more injurious than for them to become wet and chilled. Fighting Hessian Flies. Hessian fli"s come from two sources â€" the stubble of tho previous crop, and volunteer wheat. To control the danger, a concerted fight must be made by all wheat growers. If only a few clean up, thc'r crops will be damaged from He.s.'ian flies which have developed in the ns:ighl>oring fields. The person who is bothered with Hessian fiy this year must start immediately after harvest to prac- tice methods of control which have been found • i>actical and effective. The slrl-'i-Ie should ha disked m to Paul in tho night" determined the ^ what Paul says of Ihcm al,=o .'n Phil. They went over the sea to; 1: 3-11. It was a great thing indeed aside from, sanitary reasons which in Macedonia, and thus for the first time; to be the means of .'i.iving a .i^rcup of themselves are important, our experi- ! carried the Gospel into Europe. Thi.^ j people of whom such w.irds could be ment station has demonstrated that] little .incident, apparently, in itself so , written, more fa' is lost when the machine is washed only once a day. Who would think of letting the m.^lk pails st^nd overnight without wa.shing? Wouldn't they be harder to wash next morning? Occasionally we have allowed ours to stand overnight, but it is so much more difficult tho ne.xt morning that v.e feel it is t.'me lost. We always separate right ,'.ftcr milk- ing while the milk is still warm. If i'o gets cold it is best to warm it before separating, as warm nii'lk skims more closely than cold. When tho separator is installed on a solid foundation, kept well oiled, level, and clean, it puts money in tha owner's pocket. small, became one of the great turn- [ Jamcn 5: 19, 20. A Great .â- Vchieve- ing-points of history. "Lydia, a seller , ment. Tho turning of a clnglo soul of purple," is the first recorded con- frnm sin to rightiousness is indeed a vert to the Christian faith en Eur- ' great achievement. It is like the opean soil, first of tho vast multitude j taking of a new city for the Redeem- which in tho centuries F.ince have be- cr's kingdom. It moan.s a defeat for lievcd and suffered and labored for Uio forces of evil. It means victory, the maintaining of that faith and the accession of strength, recovery of spreading of it to the ends of the 'that which had been lest, an increase earth. For it was here determined | of human re?ourrc=;, encouragement that the Christian world for two thous- \ for all who do well. It means to and years should be not Asratic but! "save a soul from death" and "hide a European, and, as a consequence. Am- multitude of sins." .^nd it means crican Unconscious, no doubt, of tlie vast "joy in heaven." The glory of heaven itself is greater, and its joy lis in- extont and significance of tho move- created. mcnts whiih v.bre to bo set on foot! There is no finer or richer happl- ••M:\tinB Two BUides Glow Whe-ro Only Ons Grew Before" m \n Yoyr Fail No oinp OntftHo Rrnws .«h()ws bctlor proflis with proper fertillzlns Uian Fidl Whpat. HfituiMs 12 to .10 exliu bu.iliols per acre â€" with the same labcr r.^pl, remfiiibct- ni'f proven over tirul oi or .ififain. Sown with llie seed. "Bhiu-Uain" yertlUier .•.tintn the pliuit '.'ft with \1k"1"oii5i urnwih, Klves Htiong. nmncrous rnollftf; thut sliiikd off tliK heaving ami inot-.-'iiiipplnB In- tiiuni-'es of fiosl. aiiJ suiipUcs the rich, bahira-ed noitrlshiiient needed for a ncavy crop. "Shiair-Gain Fe ys' rn zers ^ ^^' They ai .<5^ lated by th \r6 compounded by experts who know from ac- timl field experience what Ontario farms need. f are concentrated, fltiely Krouiul. quickly a.s^lml- ^_ â- â€¢ th* soil. They give nitrogen, the stalk-framcr; r phosphoric arid, tho plant ripener and root Invlgorator. and uota.sh for Hlren»lli nod lilsease resistance. F rty years of pu*"i:ei*y. SEEDIIV^G THV?E IS NEAR GET YOUR SUPPLY NOW This advertldement will be waated 1/ we don't 'fnpr«88 yon with the dan/ter III Ji.Ia.v In ordering, rl.^kiim sliUiplnR dclay.s. la^it-mlmito rush aiul Hcniclty of matfrinlH. l.'on't lit lh< olliir fellow heat jou out. (Set early ubipping liihHounnn^ 'let vcvir â- â- Shiir-Qalii" now. .See or phone your dealer to-dny. GUiSs&SiS UNITED- WEST TOROm

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