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arm Crop Queries -^ A â- â- nti^jT^ - ^v '---"V^ A NEW LANDED GENTRY ^^>:^i^-:ii?2<^;:^. . .. ... . Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell The object of this department is to pla«8 at the «er- Tiee of our farm readers th« a*vice of an acknowledged •uthority en ali subject, pertain.ng to soils and crop*. Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Beil. in I «are of The Wilson Publishinir Company, Limited, Toronto. lln ?"»""» '^'l' appear in this columo In the order in Which the J are recei Ted. When .writin»{ kindly msntioi' uiJg paper. As space is limited it is advisable wl.ert im- uediate reply 19 necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope â- .« enclosed with the QueUiot. whe-- the answer vui be ..-.iil(^ direct. J. R. S :â€" I may grow quite a lot be safe in applying anywhere from of sugar beets this' season. W-!! you 40O to SOO lbs. to the acre, working it please tell me how to prepare into the potato drills or holes before the soil so as to get best po.s.sible the pieces are dropiftd. Do not drop 1 ^** â-  , the potato on top of fertilizer, l. In Answer:â€" For sugrar beets a med-; order to get your tomatoes to rioen' lum loam soil should be chosen. If earlier apply a fertilizer V.gh ' ;- ! ^y S O. S. acquire sufficient English to transact their business of buying and selling old iron and other materials. And their best customers are the farmers. For proof of this statement Just glance at the neit Junk plje you pass and you will see that it is made up largely of binder, mower and other implement parts, which through exposure and want of care on the farmers' part. have been scrapped. These implements were cut off In the prime of their use- ful life. Now this metiU collecting business is a remunerative one, for after a few years of buying for a song and selling at a good profit our Hebrew friend is in a position to return to the land from whence he came, where by virtue of the wealth he has made from the Canadian farmer he Is able to pur- chase a baronial hall, the original baron haviag left his estate for flnan- cial reasons, and being perhaps new engaged as a waiter in a Toronto hotel . - j or possibly employing his artistic ,.,,.,, , , , ^'^•"> along â- Â»^th 1 or 2 per cent am-; all the row is about. It surely cannot talents in creatine studies in black ft'rrS "a dentl o7^to^l'"Tnche"^ '"'^'^'^ Successful tomato growers hamper a man's usefulness in life Just j and tan in a shoefhine parlor ?!â- â-  â-  u „ t â-  ^ C ; "s« f"^"" ^^^ t« 800 lbs. per acre of to have a few Initials hitched on to the ' It wtl be all the better if the ground; ^^^h fertilizer, working it ,into thel rear end of his name or for that mat- been fall plowed. The crop of g^il through the fertilizer dropper of ter to have a -Sir- drum-maJoring in And always ha wenrs a complacent smile. There has been a lot of disapproval S/oms Jack Itabbit'n Rise in Life. Once the funniest thing hapoeneii to little Jack Rabbit I It really did. Jack was an inquisitive l:ttle body and one warm day not longr sgo. finding: a door invitingly open, he hop- ped into the kitchen of a nice little house. The cook was upstairs and Jack wiggled his nose and twinkled his V/E SELL, WE RENT, WE EUY MACHINERY Of all klriUii and for all purposes. S»« ua B-lr^t anj SAVE MiJNEY. B;irns 4 Roberta, Ltd., Tcronts Device for Drenching Stock. We hav« freque.'itly had occasion to drench cattle, horses and pi^ with mediL-ine under the direct on of the veterinary. The greater: obstacle w» have yet encountered waj the danger of the anrmal brea.king off the neck of the bottle. To overcome this dan- ears, and saw what he could see. Then f^'.'^^.^t!? ^PP^ .o"' drenching grown en a heavy clay the beet roots phosphoric acid, say one analyzing , voiced lately against the importation tend to bev^oaie forked, v.hich means f„m 10 to 12 per cent, phosphoric ; of titles. PersonaUy we can't see what j low sut'ar and excessive w^aste. Th has beets will depend very largely upon the grain drili or bv scattering a! front IJ! tl'r;V"v:i.'-''„^f^Mt^'^^L"rv.'^ ''^""'^^^^ "^""^ '^^ P'^*^^^ ^^^« ^^«! O'- tt« °'»>" hand we do view with Sv» ^.r r-Th' f l!'^ -rJ^^, .w'""^^*" P'^"** ^'^^ '° °^ ^^- '^°^'^^^' ^°^«^" ti^e ^-^-'^^ oi the Landed gue the .ccdbeJ. Keep m mind that the fertilizer weU into the so.il so ; Gentry whom the farmers of Ontario you want t,. give the crop an early ^^, ^^e available plantfood may im- ai^ uncrnsc^uTi; creS. In eve^ town and village you see the creating ing crop. under way. In every town and village H. G. R.: â€" What can I do to pre-' you will find at least one gentleman Our retired scrapman is now in a position to live at ease for the rest of his Jlfe. Wiih our mind's eye we can see him watching his goats grazing on the verdant hills of his estate, we can see his look of pleasure as his eye fol- lows the gambols of his kids both he hopped here and there, sampling several things that appealed to him, looked through the cookbook to see if there were anj new recipes his wife might fa.icy and glanced over tha mcming paper. •, It was then that a neat little pack- age struck his eye. It was lying be-. side a big wooden bowl. Jack rather ! fancied i: was good to eat, so "ne tuck- ed it under hia arm, and then, as he heard footsteps comi.ig down the stairs, he scurried oif as fast as he could. Halfway home he began to nibble ' bits of the package. It tasted rather queer, but he kept right on nib'nlir.g till it was gone, paper and ail. Then he went into his underground coay little ho'.e and fell sound asleep, for bottle tightly about the neck with old rags, thus giving the anima! op- portunity to bite all it pleases, but without damage to the bottle. The rags keeT> the teeth from the neck of the bottle, and the danger is greatly lessened, if not totally re. moved. â€" W. E. F. worked just before vent my tomatoes from rotting on the of Hebrew eitractlon who delights in . that even his patriarchal beard cannot vines? The rot begins on the bios- the name of Scrapinsky, Junkovitch : obscure it. For all these good things Jewish and goatish. Or a.g-ain. we see to ^ell the truth, it made him feel ver>- him testing the luscious fruit of his funny. vineyard. And always he wears a -â- ^ 5oud scream wakened him. complacent smile, a smile so broad "Rabbit's foot and cat's ears I" It was the voice of his wife, sound- ~.g rather smothered. Jack felt start and carrj" it through a vigorous niedia-tely dissolve and help the grow- growing season in order to get hig'n ' • est percentage of .mrrar and largest; yield. .-Vs a general rule ft is better to u.;e fertilizer ca the beet field and ti apply manure to com g,,^ ^^ ^^^^ gradually enlarges] or something just as suggestive. They; are his, received at fne hands of the smothered, too, and very puffy, or some ct.ier crop, un.oss Ih? ma^j ynty the fruit is rendered unfit for} come to this country from Russia, careless Canadian farmer. Then a strange thing happened, he nure is we., rotted, then it should be y^g ^^ market. Will spraying con-! Austria, Hungary. Poland and other! The farmer will continue to plow, began to grow bigger and bigger and â- r.to tne seedbed carefully, trol the disea'ie? j European countries; sometimes with ' sov/ and reap; incidentally he will bigger. Xow he filled the whole disking and harrowing. Answer:â€" The blossom end rot of . suScient funds to purchase an ancient neglect to balld an i:a;jlement shed, room and Mrs. Jack with a scream borne successful beet grcwers use as tomatoes is a trouble that is not fully J horse and wagon and rent a storage j and thus continue the Dusiness of pro- fs!; backward into the entrj-. Now high as_ 800 lbs. of fert.'.uzcr to the understood. It is not due to any bHght , yard, but more often these accessories viding scrap tor the junk man's come later. lu either event they soon cessor. If you ever give your boy or girl a pig cr calf you should see that they get the money for it when it is sold. If not, their sense of justice is liable to be greatly st rred and what might have 'oeen an inducement to hold them to the farm becomes a club to dnv« rhem from it. &igMQn8jf,Re!S8Ra!i!i!tsfQrUs CVa ?ay SS 9 !)9tr for all ysu rate fram our aiocii. Noauf/toCi.iJSj. L.;tfatjra •lid contract icccwn. ftol.^I^iF"e5 DETTCIT FOCD 4 FUR S3CtET» BOX 80s DETKCIT, MICH. Feathers Wanted Highest pricea paid for best srade new eoose. duck, chicken and tu.-key Geo. H. He€s. Son & Co., Ltd. 276 Davenport Road. Taror.to acre. You v.iil have to rejulate the amount yo;i use in accoi-z?.nce with how recent the land has betfn manur- ed and hcv; rich it is naturally. The fertilizer should contain from '2 to 4 per cent, amrrionia, 8 to 10 per cent, phosphoric r,cid, and 2 to 4 per cent. suc- or bacterial attack, but is the result', of some break in tlie continuous ! growth of the plant. It may be due! to an over-stimulation of the stock | growth, which would result frcm tool heavy manuring, or the application 1 of too large quantities of nitrate of potash. The potash is especially, ^^^^ ^^ some other nitrogen carriers, necessary lor sugar oescs smce^they y^ ^.^j. g.^^ j,^ ^^^^ ,„ irregular water- irs'. The best preventatives are contain a large amount of starch and it is potash that is so closely related to the forni.'.tion of star.h within the beet. 200 lbs. of the fertilizer is best applicvl through the fertil'zer dropping attachment of the beet planter. The remainder should be drilled into tlie see-l'De^l with the careful tillage of the tomato soils and mu'chinjr ro as to maintain a constant moisture supply and the ap- plication of a fair supply of well- bal-i anced fertili7.er, so that there may be| a retrular supply of suitable nourish- 1 . .... , - ., . , .„ ment for the developing plant. The; fertilizer drorper of the grain drill ^^^^^^ and an.lvsis of such a ferti!- before the beets are planted. If you do not have a jarrain drill with fert'l- izer sovnnc: attachment, scatter the fertilizer broadcast over the field are preparin^r for beets, either with a lime spres'.ltr or by hand, and th work the fertilizer into the soil thor oughly by harrowing. Since beets are a deei rooted crop fertilizers m. r, r. j. .t . should be\vor'..cd well into the beeti ^^^ P'-"-<^-B^'-'<J Herd. soil. I Recently a writer stated' that it LNTEKNATIONAL M.\Y 25. LESSON GREAfil VMNTE9 ^^â- e are In thi market for Creani all ihrcuiCH th8 year. Wo pay cbe highest market price. In business since 1905. Drop us a Una for particulars. Mutual Dairy & Creamery Co. 743-745 King St. West - Toronto Lesson VIII. Repentance â€" Jonah 1-10: Luke 13: 1-.3: Acts 2: 37. 38. Golden Text. Mark 1: It. izer to use to the acre has been out- lined in tha preceding questioiK 9 â€" . â- ets' \-â€" '^ ^^£^ <^aA 1 ^â€"~y j innocent sutfer w.ith the guilty. Such i experiences do sometimes lead men to â-  repentance, but Christ's warning is addressed to all, for all are in equal neeil of repentance. There is a graphic picture drawn Jonah 3. 1-10. The Repentance of '" A'-''^ 2: 37-42. of the scene which xNineveh. "Yet fortv days." Jonah fo'-owed Peter's preaching at Pente- ha J no message of mercv or of hope, '•"o^t- Many were convicted of s=n. He did not bring to Nineveh the "Pncked m their heart " whole of the tnith with which he; '° ^^^ apostles saymg. "-What shall had been entrusted. Jonah repre- '^« ^°\ ^ne answer was, "Repenc sents verv perfectlv the spirit of >7 ^"'i °^ baptized." Repentance was , .^ . . , , , , munv of the Jews scattered through- ^^o turning 01 heart and mind toward b't- {or '»-•« pacKajre he had eaten was out the world in the period of Baby- '?'^ revealed in Christ. Baptism was -^east. loryan exile and after, who desired ^^^ <>?e" profession of Christ and °" *" sigm cf recepton into the conrcanv his head bumped against the ceiling, then it popped right out of the roof, and after it his shoulders. His poor house was a ruin. .\nd poor Mrs. Jack! Where was she? Jack could not stop to look, for. you see. he never stopped growing. He shot up as tall as a tree and out till he was fat as a house. He gave a hop and landed a mile f from his home, and still he kept grow- \r.z. Now he was tall as tivo trees and every hop carried him ten miles further. Then he stopped growing. ! He b^an to cry. for he was sc lonely away up in the air and so big. .\nd as he viid not know what else to do he kept on hopping and at ten miles a hop he soon got to â€" where do you 'spose? The Kingdom of Giants! .And a giant little boy ijst Thev came danced with glee when he saw Jack. '•â- ^Vhat a dear little bannyl" cried the giant little boy. hngiring Jack. .•\nd he was a dear little giant rab- ROOFIM© MAEATHOU SaA17S Ready RuuIinK .Vsp.najt Siato Sh'.r^g. les. Wall Board. Building ^a•^.•.-a Roof Paints, etc Wrf-e fur prl-es and samples. Save money by tuying di.-ecL McD£RMlD BROS." '"'*•'' the overthrow of the heathen nntions C. W. W.: â€" 1. Vi'oM you advise, is not necessary for all farmei-a taj and tiie triumph of Israel over the mo to usejj Our potatoe.s year and to do to !tet quite a bit of wood ashes saved up ' a^ the corn breeder has to the other! e^^amp'e- Isaiah's prediction of the last winter and some people tell me farmers who raise 'crcps of market; <l"""> "^ -Assyria (Isa. 10: 16-19 and^ to put them on other crops. 2. 1 would, corn. Of cc'urse. it is not necessary, 24-27), Nahum's vivW portraj-al of like to set my tomatoeii al.so to ripen for all farmers to be corn breetlersi thi fall of Nineveh (Nah. 2, a.), and earlier. How can 1 work my tomato but they do w'.=h to have a place to go ! ^^^ "burden of Babylon" (Isa. 13, land to do this? I ta obtain pure seed when thev need! 14^- But the Lord had given to .Answer:â€" 1. I would not advise 'it. j Lsrael another message for the hea- applying slag to potatoes. First be-] However, this does not mean that 1 then world. Israel, as His pe<;ple cause slag contains only phosphoric , more good bl >od is net needed in 'ii'-J H''* servant, was to be for "a | acid plantfood which is of use for most herds. This blocd can be sup-i iiffht to the Gentiles" and for 'sal- , the potato crop, whereas the rapid I plietl by the use of the rure-bred sire_ ^'a'-'Jn "'ito t'^"-" «'•-' '^- ,^'^* earth."; growing, heavy feeding potato re- an\l good gra.le herds. The farmer] J^"'^ ^a^ '"^'"^ cu- oi sigh; in his | quires a good supply of nitrogrcn and who owns pure-hrcd stock is able to preaching the mercy of God. But bis \ potash; and second, because slag supply puro-bred sires to other farm- i stern and umiualified denunciation of ; contains conslderabl? amount of nc- erii who do not own a pure-bred cow! doom stirretl the people of th? great , tive lime which produces idea! con- , but wish to improve the quality of| <^ity *" rep<?nUnce, an<l with fasting; ditions for the tf^^tli of potato scab, their herd by the use cf :i pure-bred | ««<' '" sackcloth they crieti for mercy ; .Apply your sUitr to grain crojis that sire. The pc.=nt seems interesting j to God. ! have been well manured. The phos- and if it is coirect some farmers who "Let them turn every one from his ! phor.ic acid of the slag will tend to feel that they have to apologize for evil way." The king's prochmiation i balance up the weak point in manure their grade co.vs can now feel that shows an appreciation of what re- â-  as a grain fevtilizer. Use .1 medium thy are doing all right if they are pentance really mean.?. The Old i to high grad.." fertilizer on potatoes selling a fair quantity of mirket milk' Test:i:nent words mean simply "turn- | if you wish to get best results. Sue- f,-oni (.heir grade cows and mak.-ng an' ing" anJ "being sorry." It -s turn- j cessful potato growers use fertilizers effort to improve their herd by th.-, inj: from sin, turning to God, seeking 1 analyzing from '.i to 5 per cent, am- use of the pure-bred sire. '. to do God's will. In his ignorance, ji monia, 6 to S por cent, phosphoric acid For many years, however, wo have j the king could not give the people! am! 3 to 5 per L-ent. potash. You will learned the tlifference between pure- any assurance of God's mercy. The ! bred and scrub stock and it has al- pi'orl^et, if he had been so disposed, ' ! ways seemed that the arguments have n>.i?rht have done that. But the fc'ng ; ' been all in favor of the pure-breds. It' said, "WTio knoweth?" It might be, is rather difficult for somo farm-^rs to ^ ho thought, that Gcd would reg.inl feel that they are really getting aloi'g their penitence and would have mercy [ with their dairy cattle until they are ! upon them, able to own some pure-bred stock. | ".Ami God repented." He was sorry The ownerslvp of a pure-bred herd; for them, had compassion upon them, | gives a farmer some business oppor- 1 and turne-d frc-m His purpose to des- tunities that the owner of grade stock! troy them. 1 lacks. The chance of selling stock Luke 13: 1-5. .A Solemn Warning. ; at auction in co-operavicn with other : "Sinners above all." The reference ' owners of the same breed, is a great, is apparently to events which had i advaiuaare to the farmer in some com-; recently happeiud. The Galileans munitie^. The sales of bull calves had been notably rebellious .igainst for sires often prove very profitable ; Roman authority, and Josephus men- transactions. The study of pedigreesj t'ons more thau one niossacre in and breeding records is interesting | which they suffered. This appears to ; .and insti-uctivo and no f.".rmer really 1 have been a ease where, by the i gets interestetl in such things until! oixiers of Pilate, the Roman govt rnor, ' he owns a few pure-bred nnimals. a number of Galileans were slaugh- ] One thing is certain. Th?re is not te red while offering sacrifice. Thsre immediate dan^rer cf there being too had also been an acckleiit at Jerus-! many I recders of pure-bred dairy alem, when eighteen person.' were caKle. The writer believes that killed by the fall of a tower. Ir. \v.a3; farmers with good grade herds can the ccn!mi>n thing in thc>so d,"»ys to re- â-  make fine progress by the use of a! gar>,i calamitit.s cf that soi-t, or -vck-! pure-bred sire but also believes that; ncss, as a punishment for sin. That the farnicv who is able to take up was the way in which Job's f ; 'ends : pure-bred stock rair'ng on at least a j regarded hi* sickne-..^, but the bc-?k* small scale .-houM net be satisfied to; o* Job is writtan as :\ protest a;i.air t .And no wonder he rose m so high. .Anyway, he I'ved hanpilv ever after â€" or pretty happily, I of those who 'oeiieved in Him. These guessi Every dsirymsn should devote him- self to the work of instructing his nc'crh'scrs by exaniile ard prei-ept. MR. 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V-,v; always be enouph fanners who tk);bLit except ye repent, not wish to breed seed corn or pure-: Hkev.is; perish." bred cattle. The farmers who do take] It ij! true that calamity ?.nf\ s;;ifo â-  up that work seem to ftnd it verv in;; often sc^tn to b."^ the judxm?-it 01 profitable. ' Gcd. but i; is likewise true that the m MARTIN -SENOUR <?«. MON'rRE.\L» GREENSHIELDS AVENUE,.