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Era Newmarket Aurora October Time for Springflowering bulbs lie warm sunny days of the next three to four September and Octo- can add untold beauty to give the whole family the garden not only next chance to become artists spring but for years to the garden as a come For color they can Planting the spring-flo- reds yellows or- bulbs is an escel- pinks whites blues lent way of getting the of the spring- children interested in gar- ering bulbs Even a five or six- worth of yeareld can easily plant daffodils hyacinths any of them At the same irons sciUas crocus- time you have a fine and grape portunity to tell the planted during ren about the miracle of In The Garden By John Bradshawr fTi Farm Report By Wall More space needed for big corn crop Agricultural Representative for York County A yield of corn Is In Ontario this year Dr world would not be YORK COUNTY- DAIRY TOUR UTICA NEW YORK Wed Oct 23rd Via Air Canada Viscount 175 COMPLETE Breakfast LEAVE MALTON 8 AM RETURN MALTON PM Same Day NORTH YORK FARMERS FEED GRAIN LTD Old Don Mills Newmarket year the children can watch for the first leaf to come bursting through the still family meeting look through the various bulb catalogues and then decide ted in the catalogues of re liable bulb dealers These are usually described as flowering size but in re ality they are so small that theyll not produce normal flowers the first season Tuberous begonias should be allowed to keep on grow ing until quite later in the fall if weather conditions permit For instance when I was living in British Col- want to be alert for heavy frost predictions Light frost will do no harm but a really sharp freeze could be fatal Just as soon as the foli age of the tuberous begon ias has been blackened by frost be prepared to dig the tubers immediately Be sure to dig with care for its very easy to injure them A garden fork rather than a shovel is by far the best tool for this purpose Lift the tubers with as much soil as possible and place them in shallow box es or seedling flats Store them in a frostfree loca tion such as a tool shed or garage where theyll grad ually get a chance to ma ture Youll discover in two the foliage will pull away easily Then thoroughly wash all tlie soil from the tubers and euro in the sun for five or six days until they are hard and dry Na turally you would put the tubers indoors at night Be Corn silage is rolling this week year crop Yield is good and i Voiii v I lias matured nicely for silage This is the stuff that makes beet cattle put sin the pounds And pasture bunker silos for storage They can lower storage costs and allow switch to a Asm programme without Ih farm to build tower silos if tins experience however to avoid the problems The key points are a well drained site concrete flour well sloped good packing and a plastic cover put on just as soon as silage is all In Self feeding used to go with this kind storage i it created more problems it solved A and loader silage junker i will hold between and tons of silage ling Its early but moisture content isnt too high is being stored as high moisture corn A for high moisture storage is that harvesting and in the winter the picker can be in been a problem Various types of remitters and hammer mills have been used A little different College of sab recent ly that the crop certainly looks good but might ma ture later than usual The first frost will determine the slate of maturity the grain will reach Storage of the corn crop could present some prob lems to fanners this year If the yield is large they will have to provide extra storage space Com could be coming out of the field wetter than usual and farmers will have to store it wet or make provision for drying it Drying grain Is always expensive Dr Young cau tions farmers that a drier and the necessary acces sories could cost several thousand dollars Working Die equipment ear Dr the first step in wwWfring a drying ays- silo on the farm will serve the if it in good The silo must keep air out completely Doors walla and upper sur faces of the grain must be well sealed it the grain is to be preserved with- tor Blip IW MR J DEVINS FARM selected GALVANIZED STABLING as the very best for his modernized I beef operation Plan To Attend The FIRST EASTERN CANADIAN CHAROLAIS ASSOCIATION CONSIGNMENT SALE Saturday Oct 12 at 1 PM On The Lochlo Farm Of Mr Jack Devins 27 Highway 5 Miles North of Schomberg LOCHLO CHAROLAIS FARM SERVICE CENTRE Old Don Mills South of Davis Drive Phone 8959810 of the old stem from Ihe tubers or their decay could destroy them For storing the tuberous begonia tubers safely and without shrivelling the best way I found is to store them in that remarkable substance called vcrmicu- lite It consists of thousands of minute pieces of mica mount of oxygen Vcrmicu- is about the most ster storing medium you For storage containers you can use wide mouth jars tin cans stone crocks seedling flats and so on You merely spread a one layer of rounds each Fortunately for us with our modern homes having dry and warm tuberous begonias dont re quire very low temper for storing The CO degrees that Is Ihe usual average temperature in the basement is Ideal for win- Wilcox not one of the jet set hut a farmer from the area brought in his plane for a binding at North York feed and grain building east of Newmarket recently to pick up Home supplies Hie trip from licet on to Newmarket took 15 minutes Mr Wilcox and his plane are the exception rather than the rule lint North York Farmers handled lie modern situation in a modem manner Joe Hall vicepresident of the company greets Mr Wilcox on arrival Dairymen to visit Utica NY NEWMARKET York County dairymen have been invited to see how three top New York dairy- The invitation sponsored by York County Purina dealers is open to district farmers at a cost of per person A chartered Air Canada Viscount will leave Toronto for and surrounding This one day tour sched uled to start at am Oct ober will include a breakfast on the plane a roast beef luncheon at Tinkers Dining lounge near and the return trip scheduled to return to Toronto by t pm the same day In Utica the tour in cludes a visit to dairyman Ed owner of milkers and new vibrn feeding system for sllago a chat with dairyman Dr Herb owner of -ISO- milkers and a slab silo with a capacity of tons visit with dairyman Marks Treat alfalfa right Winterkill in alfalfa is heavily depen dent on the food reserves tin plant can store In the fall Tills food supply acts an to help resist low winter temperatures and allow for In spring Culling or alfalfa In September could cause considerable damage says Professor It Ontario Agricultural Col lege of The crucial period In Hie early fall during which alfalfa may lie damaged varies from area to area Cutting or grazing this time may cause com plete winterkill of the crop or severely reduce yields Mil His tire lining made to ilutuuiitnc when alfalfa stum I not be touched In 1 1 if Mount Fores district and la of central and eastern Ontario mast dam age in dnii In alfalfa about It Make sure its here when its needed Plow down fertilizer this fall NEWMARKET BRANCH Ontario 8952349 Farmers In area ate these days unions vegetables Severn farm hands prepare sucks unions fur shipment In various purls of country FARMERS GRINDING MIXING SERVICE ON FARM MOLASSES BLENDING Complete Feeds 5 Mobile Mill Concentrates HIENERGY MILLS LTD Change In hours at nuclear plant TORONTO Effective October tuaa there will a change in the visitors hours the Pickering Nu clear Power Station and Ihu popular weekend bus tours of the construction site will bo discontinued until next summer White Public Officer for the Nu clear Power Station an nounced changes and said the now hours of oper ation for the Visitors Centre will be fioo am pm seven days a weak