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efficient farming cold wether is not a handicap to machine the tongue has if i egg pro as it stimulates the ap- the shelter keeps tools fit which a story recently filtered in of betaken slipped over a bolthead heavilv must auction sale when a grain dri which tongues may then be placed against petite and a hen to lay heavily must had been in use for thirty years sold the wall or stored up among the raft- be a heavy feeder endurance is nec- for 41 a neighbor of the family complete out of the way essary to stand up under the heavy holding the sale bought the drill he wagons which are not going to be feeding and make a good record for had used it and knew that it was well scd during the winter months can be the year the average hen of the worth the monev u s readily stored by dissembling heavy breeds goes broody four times that machine had never been allow- the boxes can be swung up overhead per year and some may go broody nine cd to stand around in the field or in in the barn and the removal of a bolt times a hen loses twenty days or been two will take the running gears allj about a dozen eggs every time she kep under cover a its just a nice rainy day job goes broody at the same sale which was held by to take a wagon apart grease the- thejourfinger spread means that the widow of the late charles stein a keins and put the parts away and it the ovary of the hen is functioning twentyfouryearold corn binder sold will be well worth the time for many the twofinger spread indicates the for 99 a twobottom gang which had seen fifteen years vice brought 45 a nineteen- farm wagon brought 80 a yearold fanning mill sold for 26 a the barnyard it had always them under a roof layer is flat on top when the bird is hens with it is much easier to keep bolts and viewed from the jront its drawn up tight if the implements are taken apart occasionally for in twentyfiveyearold side delivery hay t xty tevtenwitsmascuhne heads should be culled out rake sold for 50 a twenty-seven- u 5 good layers are flatbacked with yearold hay loader sold for 37 and j slfuti nd they are close the old family car which had been in way one will cricounternhe loose h fthvria birds use for nine years brought 100 bolts whereas if the machines are leatnereo the close feathered birds bolts will j are apt to be late moulters a hen may t t i r n never given an inspection t it is significant that some of this dr out and become lost moult a primary feather for each machinery brought more at public y sqoner 01 later make their j broody period up to september first you can count the new feathers and determine the times the hen has been broody crowheaded birds may be caused by close breeding overcrowding or poor feeding they throw slow feath- when laden tables challenge wherever the neighbourhood gathers to eat church socials anniversary suppers picnics is yours the baking people ask for are you proud of it bake with quaker flour and your bread cakes and pastry will always bring you fame among tha cooks of your community auction and after many years of use k smashup than t cost stein in the beginning a farmer most of the machinery was purchased m- vi oi k at one time this man had no real by neighbors who knew what they i n i w i v 4 ot implement shed but he took nearly all were buying they knew that stein i i l u i i j r of bis machinery apart every winter always took the best kind of care of r vi ii i iu i an gave it a thorough overhauling all his equipment and the principal qnd a j t he it much ering chicks which means low winter care he gave his farm machinery was int various arts than production that means low annual shelter and plenty of oil l pajnt machine intact an1 he production overrefined birds lose in these days of highpriced build- using od machinery which his weight rapidly they of ten lay profit- 1 ing material it might not be advisable father had used years before ably but mature too early an early- 1 to rush headlong into the construction j he took all of his wagons apart once maturing barred rock pullet at the of an elaborate implement shed at- a year and soaked the felloes and hubs college plant began laying when a lit- j though it might very well prove a pro- j jot linseed oid for several hours tie over three months old the first fitablo investment if there is very pa the tongues and double- much machinery to be housed but trees wit hot oil and stored them there are a great many places where among the rafters in his shop his farm machinery can be sheltered if equipment was like new the wagon just a little thought and consideration boxes were given an annual scrubbing is given to the problem i always the sameafovmjs the best deal with the dealer who sells quaker flour if you do not know his name write us und we will direct you a product of the quaker mills peterborough and pskloon est distributors stouffville sti bros uxbridge w s lapp poultry a healthful food i and a coat of varnish and one old very few barns are so designed that wagon that he had used for nineteen there is absolutely no waste space i years still bore the name of the wagon much of this waste space might be and the dealer from whom he had pur- utilized for machinery storage a lit- j chased it the wagon would have tie work in preparing the machinery brought considerably more than he for storage may be necessary but gave for it nineteen years before it much can be done along this line was worth more and just a little care to draw on their reservesto produce sixty eggs she produced were without i physicians say that of all the meats market value and weighed about an poultry meat is the most healthful ounce each i but in order that the meat may be a good producing hen will have a j mor tender no fowl should be cooked waxy skin on the face and the eye will and placed upon the table the sarae show femininity and character an age of from five to six and a half months is about right for laying the active busy hens have the laying tem perament the hens should hold the pigment showing that they are re ceiving plenty of feed and do not have fertility at 100 a barrel in the early months of the past year a bacterial preparation was put pi the market by a toronto firm extrava gant claims were made regarding the aisles and alleyways in barns and and shelter had made that possible granaries are often used for storing and the shelter had been nothing more a grain drill or a mowing machine i than a utilization of waste space in perhaps only one machine is stored in several of the farm buildings a space which might well accommodate let us use more of this space on three to four if they were properly which we are paying interest and rent stored it isnt much of a job to re- 1 we pay for the space whether we use move the tongue from a mower or a it or not and that space can be made grain drill and then move them up to return good dividends in longer life closely together the space taken up and more efficiency in our farm equip- by the tongue of a mower will very merit few of us ever get out of a easily accommodate a- grain- drill and farm implement all of the value that a hay rake the bolts holding the the manufacturer builds into it we i received asking for an opinion regard tongues in place can be replaced in can easily- get fifty per cent more ing the claims made in order to com- ply with these requests it was neces sary for the bacteriology dept of the o a college to make a bacteriolog tl and chemical analysis of a sample of the preparation this was done with the following findings chemical tests showed no ammonia no nitrite and the eggs k day it is killed it will require at least 24 hours for the muscles to relax the old country way of running out in the bprnyard to kill a chicken for dinner simply because the minister made his appearance all of a sudden might be well enough for the minister but not very appetizing for the old folks with poor teeth and an expert knowledge of what quality is in a carcass fatter flesh is desired there is a marked difference be tween white and dark meat the for mer has much less fat and a corres- ornamenting the home grounds whether one lives in a plain frame reach a conclusion quickly and act house or a niore pretentious dwelling under the impulse and their homes he can have a very attractive home by i usually show the result by effective planting the grounds with either flow- decorative planting most of us on ers shrubs or trees or a combination the other hand must think the matter of these nor does one need a large i over before taking action it is tit property to get good effects so long i this season one has time to reflect and as he has a bit of ground a few rods in extent and sunlight four or more hours in the day no one questions the advantages of a well planted home and few are satisfied with a bare un attractive property but the planting season goes by year by year and no thing is done to make improvement i when the summer arrives and ones neighbors have fine shows of flowers admired alike by themselves and those who stop to take a peep it is as use- benefits to be derived from the use of pondingly large quantity of protein this preparations as a crop improver the dark meat has a much larger pro- request portion of meat bases but as these when applied to the soil from farmers agricultural represen to plan for the planting whether it be grain in the fields vegetable seeds in the garden or ornamentals for home embellishment in a broad sense orna mental planting is as important as the others not only does it add value to the property far in excess of the cost but it tends to the enjoyment of a fuller life for who does not enjoy beauty for itself nor respond in emo tion to the commendation of admiring friends this is the season for the less to regret ones oversight as if a study of the horticultural reports and selling crop had been omitted in the bulletins for a knowledge of plants planting the planting has to be done shrubs and trees and of thehursery- in spring or fall to get results desired mens catalogue to find out when and some persons it must be admitted i how the best things may be obtained bases are often considered of little tatives and newspaper publishers were y t is to be seen that the white received asking for an opinion regard- 1 meat to be preferred to the dark their respective places the nuts turn- withjust about two per cent extra ed on loosely and a tag labelling from effort thats certainly worth while where to keep valuable papers business you know exactly where to go for your papers if fire consumes your dwelling and few country houses are ever saved if they catch fire you will not have to worry about your documents if some emergency makes it necessary to bor row money on real estate you can lay your hands on your abstract at once dont put it off begin today to while still young but fullgrown the chicken is best suited for food as it grows old the flesh loses its flavor and increases in toughness the reason why fat birds are better than unfatted is that globules of fat way are distributed throughout the mus cles displacing to a considerable de- fell moist soft and limber and if the head is allowed to remain on the car cass the eyes will look full and bright as the fowl stales the eyes shrink and the feet become hard and dry if the feet show a bright smooth sur face it indicates young age but when the feet are shriveled it shows the fowl is old if the body turns green ish and dark decomposition is under a farmer who is rated as more than ordinarily intelligent and progressive came into my office to talk over get- c ting a loan he was buying an adjoin- p everything in a safe place some- ing farm and needed a few thousand body may have to settle up your estate dollars as he was in a hurry for y want to make t as cas as the money my first question was as to his abstract of title he scratched his head in despair possible for your widow and children in that case get together your in surance policies contracts notes its somewhere about home but mortgages accounts bonds abstracts where was his ejaculation blamed dceds and au other va papers if i know ill ask mary and mak them safe you will never from the delay he and mary must regret it and you may be thankful have been on a par about knowledge nil the rest of your life for the few of their posscssior- for it was not to work h b be found and a new one had to be made in a hurry a valuable docu- a demand for small cheese ment costing perhaps 50 had beenj thero a very large and unsatis- mislaid hopelessly fied demand for a cheese of good qual- there are people who come in with hy we from five to ten pounds ratchewed rambeaten pocketsoiled th h been abundantly demon- tattered legal documents and unblush- stratad at th finch dairy station ingly spread them out for people operated for the past thirteen years whose time is valuable to decipher by the dairy br 0 the dominion one client took from a dirty pocket a iepl q agriculi tobaccostained document and without no nitrate present bacterial cultures j gree the moisture found therein the on various solid media showed various blllk is not onl therefore increased decomposition bacteria and moulds to but als0 when the flesh ls cooked lhc be numerous nitrifying bacteria j fat does evaporate to the finch dairy station the finch dairy station owned by the dominion dept of agriculture and operated under the direction of the dairy commissioner has been dis- posed of and will no longer be oper ated as a government factory this station acquired in 1912 it is believed has fulfilled its mission of- demon strating the advantages of a well- conducted factory equipped to- take fowls must be rugged i advantage of the best market- for constitutional vigor is the natural milk cream di sheritance of all fowls unless theyj lta years of operation many ex- have been enfeebled by constitutional injudicious vigor may the same breeding none nitrogen fixing bacteria none extent as water but melting softens be maintained by selecting the strong- j ch chemical tests of cultures made in the the tissues making it more digestible j est healthiest and hardiest birds for necessary specific liquid culture media showed ammonification as a result of the action of the decomposition bac- i and finer in flavor- periments and investigations relating to the manufacture of butter and cheese were carried out new- pro cesses and appliances were demon- i breeders tm spring and by kiifing 7ff strated and the dair industry of wellgrown birds with goodsized j the weak and sickly in the fall fresh the dlst ln which it was situated masses of moderately fat flesh are i blood frequently introduced keeps up llas been z improved more economical than either young or j stamina health and vigor and enables- in amouncln the transfer of this overfattened ones at ordinary re- j the birds to resist sickness and sud- tail prices fullgrown fowl is the only j den changes of weather much better j poultry which compares in real econjthan fowls injudiciously bred the factor of heredity must be rec- paration plot tests were conducted at j p but y chicken medum- and only by intelligent brced- the vineland experiment station on i sized turkey goose duck and guinea ing a systematic lines can quality some crop plots the report from fowl often ns economical as the be maintained the standard of util- these tests at vineland shows that more expensive grades of other meats ity is demanded and to this supreme plots receiving no treatment did as some fullgrown birds can by proper i test must all classes of stock be a11 expenditure including the price well as those that were treated j cooking be made to equal the meat brought nothing else will do or en- for tne w old factories the farmers are advised to leave all of young fowls dure no matter how choice the breed- fp to another factory m wonder working preparations for testing tlie ace of poultry i ing it will be of little worth unless lhe neighborhood that was cosed and soil treatment alone and to keep their one way of testing the age of backed by utility this alone can de- 1 cve ox on both capital money in their pockets until values dressed poultry is to take the end of termirie the value of blood many a l malnt6na account either for are demonstrated by the agricultural the breastbone farthest from the head flock of hens condemned bv the breed- ordlnar potion or for experiment- college j between the thumb and finger and at- 1 er would pay a good profit if given a m t rsra ictory began in 1912 with the teria but no nitrite nor nitrate forma tion nor any nitrogen fixation even after six weeks cultivation in ad dition to the laboratory test which was anything but favorable to the pre- om with the cheaper cuts of beef and pork but young chicken medium- plant to private ownership mr j a ruddick the dairy and cold storage j commissioner stated that the station from the beginning to the end has cost the country not a single cent and its final disposal leaves a balance to the good the accounting during all these years has charged the institution with uie ureasiwuie nutiiesi iron me neau iiock ot liens condemned by the breed- between the thumb and finger and ater would pay a good profit if given a1tj tempt to bend it to one side if it chance utility covers the breeder as- ure large numbers of cheese of this size were made ft finch every year and sold to eager purchasers rostly the consumers themselves dr j a ruddick com menting on this phase of the work of the finch station points out that with a little pushing and advertising younger man could hardly have peered j there is amost no ljmit to thc extml through the dirt to get thc right that can be don with cheese of this class it requires more apology thrust it into the hands of the abstracter the abstracter was an elderly man with failing eyesight and it was al most impossible to erase enough of the tobacco to make it readable even a meaning protect acaixst fire just why a little more care is not labor to make the smaller than the regular size of cheese but this to some given to deeds mortgages contracts j extent is offset by the fact that the abstracts notes and returned cheques j imrll cheese requires no bandaging ifj is hard for me to figure out the very a cold curing room is available the least every farmer ought to do is to finch station found no difficulty in encase each and every valuable docu- obtaining from three to five cenfs a i ment separately in a stout manilaj pound more than the current prices imvelope and write on the outside for a cheese of the cheddar type dr i wllt it contains of course this is ruddick believes that there is an opj no prikiaiition against fire or theft but portunity for owners of many fac- it docs enable other members of the tories to very considerably increase i family to recognize at a glance that j their revenue by going into the mak- this is no paper t be burned at house- j ing of this class of cheese moaning time better still is a tin box that rats bristles mid mice can not invade any kind wheat is about equal to corn for of tin box with lid will do but it is swine oats if ground and well to have some airholes in the lid hulls sifted out is one of the best to prevent mustiness in damp weather gra feeds for little pigs ior alfalfa hay fed in a rack is splen- the such boxes arc made especially legal papers j dd fqj watering brood sows safety deposit boxes i cutting is preferred the best plan of all is to put your too much bedding in the hog house papers in your own safety deposit causes the hogs to sweat badly there- box at thc bank along with your should be just enough to keep hogs bonds and securities even if you j from piling up t have jio bonds it pays to put your always figure on having hogs ready legal documents in a safe box at the for the highest market of the year i bank your will and excry farmer j then sell when ready after a hog is should make a will should also be in 1 finished gains in weight arc slow and this box when you want to transact costly j making of cheese principally with a small amount of butter the following i year a beginning was made in the selling of cream and a little later r as milk also was sold the receipts of european fowl pest has been found miik lhe first vear amounted to a fresvv killed nmlltrv ittackng poultry in the states of new iu ove two million pounds by freshx killed poultry j ncw jersey- p and five md j pounds had been received and last year 1924 no less than 11318016 the dirty egg is more or less an bends easily the bird is very young i well as the breed outcast with no hope of improving its the same applies to a green goose c status no matter how fresh and at- if the bird is a year or so old the a serious poultry disease tractive it may be in other respects it bone will be brittle and if the bird j a co disease known is in bad repute with the local buyer is old the bone will be hard to bend and the stigma holds fast all along and is apt to break the line the feet of i connecticut in order to keep the disease out of canada an order has been issued by authority of the ani mal contagious diseases act to pro hibit the importation into canada of live chickens turkeys and geese from these slates unless accompanied by a certificate from an officer of the un ited states bureau of animal indus try to thc effect that the birds covered patrons during by mch certificates are free from this 0r72109s or similar contagions diseases of poulj try and have not been exposed to in- it j fection the prohibition was brought l a w j into effect on thc 5th of january did you ever see an old bent rusty apply to ontario agricultural v road 0f cou pounds of milk were handled during the thirteen years of operation the output of the station was 1519828 pounds of cheese 2521182 pounds ot butter 1343882 pounds of cream and 3525305 pounds of whole milk the total amount of money paid to the this time was 1- college the bacteriology dept of the on tario agricultural college offers full service to the farmers of ontnrio dur- j ing 1925 during 1921 the bacteriology dept have and have you ever stopped to think what trouble it might cause if it is ift there when the road be comes muddy a vehicle might run over it and turn the point up tha mud will hold it in this position perhaps a horse may step on it and get it into font out to farmer applicants legume his foot lose months of work or pos ted inoculations to the amount of s get lockjaw and die or a child c15s lactic culture starters to the may be walking barefooted and tread amount of 1s9 were sent out to creameries upon it and the injury may provo fatal a doctor may be called upon mi carisiabel iankbntal bible lecturer is now in new and canadian tour several hundred morbid specimens to come quickly to attend to some very of poultry animals plant and mis- s person perhaps a member of icellnneous samples such as milk your own family and be delayed by the j cheese butter bee combs preserves getting into his tire or you may soils silage etc were received hytho get it into your own tira and have of lcndon nteriaionally known orator and i oepartmert and reported on eighty- hour or so of unpleasant work v r american i fvc sam of f uii w were a little york which is her first stop j examined of which seventy were conjavc you demned for pollution j troud later on trouble removing it- may or your friends a lot of