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AddreM communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto and milk production. Even this was not allowed to stand, and in the early months of 1923 a British Columbia cow surpassed all world butter pro- duction records and is still the world's champion cow. In the consideration of Canada's youth as a dairy country such achieve- ments are commendable, and already the high type of Canadian dairy cat- tle has attracted wide attention and made these animals in great and ex- trie field as small reddish or tensive demand. Each year prime purplish discolorations on the leaf, Canadian dairy cattle are distributed but with the process of the disease all over the American continent and It may appear to be a little too; c i rcu lar spot* rapidly enlarge, shipments have been made to the nrly to begin thinking of next year's, centra j por tion becomes greyish in British Isles and the European con- honey crop but the successful be -| lor wn il e the remainder of the spot tinent. Australian buyers have se- kecper knows that the success of next, ^ a d^ g through a reddish brown to cured animals for their herds in On- yi-ar's crop depends upon tha pre- j mar ^ n wnien remains purple, tario and animals from the same prov- parations made for it and the time Tnis ig * very striking leaf spot. Oc- ince have pone to Japan. Shipments they are made. A successful season iona jj y tnege circular spot* fall out, have been made from Vancouver to depends to a large extent upon good; ^ vi tnc lea f ft s hot-hole appearance. Peru, West Indies and the Hawaiian wintering. Good wintering depends^ , CV erely affected leaves these Islands, upon three things, namely: colonies | ftnoia mav coalesce to such an extent THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE ent CROP OF 1924. in well filled with young bees, an abun- dance of wholesome stores, and ixde- HIGH QUALITY BUTTER PRODUCTION. spots may coalesce .. that irregular blotches practically ^ -j- ne p roc j uc tjon of such superior the etire surface of the leaflet. ca t t le is only one of the phases of the quate protection from the varying simj , ar i esion8 a i 80 occur on the other , j n d us try .The butter product, under outside temperatures during the win ter and early spring. The first thing then is to get col- onies well filled with young bees and to get them before the winter sets In. This means that we must have susceptible parts of the plant ! careful manufacture and skilful grad- Another leaf spot, perhaps not so ing and packing, is as corresponding- common in some districts, is the so- ly high. These qualities have easily called leaf scorch. The leaf scorch, extended the demand for it, and now in the early spring, appears as small Canadian butter is penetrating into purple blotches not unlike many countries of the world, some of \! I Have Summer Hetti | ThisAWnter A Warm house andacooJ cellar day and niht the win- ter t hrtiuftb: And a saving in your coal Dills of from i<j[tsi$ A KELSEY WARM AIR GENERATOR In your cellar will emuro this. The Kelsey is the moat efficient and economical system of home heating ever devised and will heat the smallest cottage or the largest maiuo properly and healthfully. MAY WE SEND YOU PARTICULARS? amusemen t rfoes not nee* to be expensive. Clever mothers de^ vise errands that require a walk, for no child likes to take a walk just for the sake of walking. Shopping of aN kinds can be done by children who need exercise in the fresh air. Botji CANADA FOUNDRIES A FORCINGS LIMITED JAMES SMART PLANT BROCKV1LLR ONT. p ur p e , the bees produced between the months.'"^" P P Later wHch haye forcenturieg been eminent J ' POULTRY No matter how careful you have been to disinfect your houses, paint Home Education J "The Chlld'i First School I* the Family" Froebel." The ChUd Who Read* Too Much By Marion Brownfield . The modern child reads more than . playing outdoors has become wlui*. ever before. Children or. the way to school, muaic lessons, or .e dentist's carry fiction to read during every un- occupied minute. Even children who dislike to study because it is some- thing they. must do as well as some- thing "uninteresting," will read every ^ boyg and ^^ can b p rov id e d with spare minute. They are the despair of j ou tdoor occupation; raising flowers, parents and teachers, because thrill- , vegetables, chickens, rabbits and vari- ers with the same fascination as the^s other peta. They will be more movies take the precious time and enthusiastic if there is a. definite aim, eyesight that should be used to pre-jfor instance to cheer up the sick or vent failure in school! J aged friend. Children, too enjoy fin- The most common type is the child ancial profit from a garden-. They who a little delicate, develops into a 'should be encouraged to market their book worm. Ill health causes this' produce among strangers to test theif child to feel disinclined to exertion,: initiative and courtesy. The family and reading is easy entertainment. 1 grocer and restaurants may become Of course the more he reads, the loss, regular customers. One boy develpp- he feels like playing. Reading thus: ed a little nursery business by special- constantly reacts against his health.) izing with pine trees he had studied- ' As reading is enjoyed as a diver- 1 about in school. Another outdoor oc-. sion rather than as study, this should cupation that brought profit was be borne in mind when trying to ! gathering water cress in a brook and" - aj .top. therefore. In producing a crop ; often ^^j tion of the by the peri od 1898-1902 was exporting of honey in 1924 i 9 to see that 'very ' M fc however. remains dark 20,168,000 pounds worth $3,905,000.1 colony is headed with a good. FOttlalg ; d thig characte ristic gives i n the year 1922, Canada's butter ex- qu-rn during the latter part of Jly ^ d mean9 of distinguishing ports amounted to 21,994,578 pounds or the rtrst week in August. A good "f * rea y second year queen will often produce tho required number of bees In the fall but she is very likely to get lost P lant , during the winter or fail the follow- < ance - I * b ! nS , ' leaves, but ' during the latter part of June or July! : is the most dependable for she is not; les ' on ? only prolill,- during the fall but she Is | "ometimes kill then part*. comparatively young and prolific the spot diseases. As this valued at $8,243,148. This went to disease progresses all the leaves of a the United Kingdom, the United dry, burned appear- States, Belgium, Bermuda, British :cur not only on the Guiana, Honduras, Barbados, Ja- on the petiole and maica, Trinidad, China, Cuba, France, , where frequently sunken' HongKonjr, Newfoundland, St. Pierre and and Miquelon, and other countries. In the new trend exhibited in recent surface of the B^ KW 3 ** d USC 8nd *" "? f&^SS. portion of the by the period 1898-1902 was exporting '* a angerous time or , - .. -. f. ." They seem to thnve in warm weather, multiplying rapidly. So it Is an ex- cellent plan to handle some of your birds frequently, examine the skin be- low the vent and around the abdomen to see if there are any signs of body break the habbit Too often parents will say, "Don't read this fine day. Run outdoors and play!" But if there is "nothing to play" outdoors, other than to make up some imaginary playmate in a yard that seems com- nplace by daily association, it is out by amateurs. * _ _ . w^i A_ . . Ji .,.,', selling it to a railway dining car. Young children need to have o^ door occupation that is purely enter-' taining. A swing, teeter-totter and a* sand pile are among these. Both* croquet and tennis court* can be laid. fruit trace of these parasites, it is a good plan to go over your birds with some good louse treatment. There is probably nothing better hardly a counter attraction for an en- thralling fairy or adventure story. The only real cure is to provide some outdoor occupation equally as enjoy- able as reading. At first especially, Plants and animals should be ob- served. Contests to -name the most, birds or common weeds furnish incen-^ tive. Small bicycle and coasters are* lust as necessary for girls as for thei;* lice or louse eggs. If you find even a thg counter attraction needs to bej brothers, and nearly all children lov* more next spring, the two seasons of the these fungal year when brood production counts impaired and the vitaUty most. "ictimcs k u,u ,-. -"" TJVlZ: than one of the following methods: As a result of the attack of both years Canada may be said to have J Q{ ^ ** P greatly weakened. In the plant severe It is or mercuric P ointment well fascinating than later when | on outdoor "gym" the leaves arc . so affected that the be plants die. In any case the plant is', Western provinces and the cattle and 1 _ . , ..*Vi An i f . - ,1 1 tit . i ! , 1 n , , < nil n u i r v Every beekeeper should examine his colonies during the latter part of July r - ---* - .nd dcstrov all queens that show the weakened and the next years least sign,' of failing, replacing them ' suffers as a consequence When the; herd with young queens that are prolific, fruit pedicles are affected, the ker- Old queens that are still producing a ries never mature, but become seedy maximum amount of brood can be left and worthless. DAIRY Cleanliness is the most Important factor in the production of clenn, wholesome milk. Much of the dirt and filth that gets into milk mid pro- below the vent, or else dust this! duceg deterioration comes from im- nd replaced later in the season by younger queens, These diseases are rapidly spread same section with sodium fluoride. If i proper methods of handling after be- to add a small dairy 1 X"" want to do it with the least dis-j ir .g drawn. The in- turDnnce of the birds, do it while they; However, brushing off the loose milch cows lni are on **" P erc ^ es at night, looking' dirt and dust about the flanks and over using a dim flashlight. J udder and wiping the udder with a Even more prevalent in the hot; dry cloth materially assists in lessen- I THE CHILDREN'S HOUR EVEN AS YOU AND I. BY EDITH BARKER. I stood one day at the edge of > a number of frogs that" Though* to make Canada one _..._ , during the growing season by A good system of requcening th* spores which are developed on .... world , g foremost dai coun . colonies IB one that is combined with lesions of the affected parts, and are . swarm control measures, that is, in- wind borne from diseased to healthy troducing the young quoen at the same plants, thus setting up new infection time treatment in applied to control in the patch. This account* for the dwarmlng. During the main flow ' necessity throughout the summer of from clover, when swarming is most repeated sprayings in badly diseased J atote tt . uer an hng a numbe of f ro ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ E rao p , t th ^ dfy ^ m8terl , 88S18t3 m lessen . I P ^^ themseh , eg ^ year, and tho tendency is more ac-j gather are the red mites, those little ln g the danger of dirt getting into the, ^ j but few of the uated at the present time in the bloodsucking rascals that live in the ml j k at m ,lkmg. Cows during the , ' mo3quitoes that came wi per centuated determination Stacking Silage. cracks and crevices of the droppings summer season, if stabled at night | boards during the day and travel in| O r confined to a yard, become more or hordes on the bird's body at night to i r . s dirty about their rear quarters suck' the blood and irritate and pester an d should be thoroughly cleaned be- the hen. Fortunate it is that these fore being milked, little fellows cannot travel over ] milk my cows in a clean, sanitary It is quite possible to have silage of grcasy surfaces. All we have to do to stable I spray the cows before milk- ; the best quality, even thou**i you have contro l them in to paint the perches, within reach escaped the lightning-like snap, of their Jaws. Suddenly attracted by the sound of voices among the willows that sur-* rounded me, I walked on and dis-' covered a number of boys who were- tVYhei/tallV so they"cannotj b^ 1 ? engaged in frog-fishing They. intense and the colonies have larvae patches. I n silo. The last two seasons we have | perch 8uppol . t8 an d nests with a waxy switch dirt Into the milk while milk- were U9m K short P oles upon the end. in queen cups, remove the old queen] Control These two diseases are stacked our fodder corn green, as soonl paint or penet ratlng tar paint ing. I do not allow feeding to be of whlch were nea terminating in a from the hive and destroy all queen ' controlled by the same operations, after being cut as possible, and we, We used ^ Mnk that kerosene done nt milking time. I remove the "PK" or grapple, cells present Nine days later again When the first symptoms of cither! are very enthusiastic about the re- pa j nt cd on the perches would do the m ilk from the stable as soon as' remove all queen cells and introduce leaf spot or leaf scorch (small purple suits. Many farmers are continually tricki but it does noti for it does not drawn a young laying queen. By this method discolorations) have been noted in the coming here to sec our silage stack reacn a n o f the mites and it evapor- the nwarming in controlled and the patch, spray immediately with a 4-4- and to ask about our method. quickly. Any of the so-called In5ect p egts of Canada and the United Stat es. colonies are requcened at the right 40 Bordeaux mixture. It will be gen- We build u stack about twenty feet pe rcn paints are excellent to use for time. If the old queen is prolific and crally necessary to continue these ) square and try to keep it perfectly t h} s purpose. increase is desired a frame or two of sprayings every two or three weeks straight and even on the sides and flat The summer months are generally As a result of an International con- enKrging brood may lie removed with during the season. The following sea-] on top. We commence stacking as. considered rather a slack time on the ferenco on insects of importance both This "grapple" was made by bind* ing together three ordinary fish-hooks* Upon each of the hooks there had been placed for a lure a small piece of bright red flannel. It was at once evident to me that should a frog ?wn f- low one of these nooks his fate would be sealed ; and there would be one lesa> her and placed in a new hive. This sons, spray with the same mixture soon as we gel enough cut and stack poultry farm, but to the energetic, to the Northwestern States and thej to help destroy the mosquitoes nucleus can be built up into a strong ' before the bloHsoms open, and again; it before it dries out. The silage in ambitious poultry raiser, there is lota Prairie Provinces of Canada, recently their larvae. colony by fall when the old queen can ' after the fruit is picked. To obtain be replaced by a young one. C. B. good yields from a strawberry patch, ' the ' leaves must be kept free from these two diseases, and if the above Goodorlium, Dominion Apiarist. STRAWBERRY LEAF SPOTS. Perhaps the most common of the our stack seems to be nweeter than to do-repairing the plant, painting held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, plans some that is in a silo. There is only; the buildings, putting the roofs in were perfected for conducting experl- about a foot at the bottom of our shape, mending fences and gates, set- mental work In the control of these ting broken window lights, plowing insects. The experiments are to be and seeding the yards to summer carried on in such a way as to render stack that is sour. spray calendar Is carried out faith- Tho first year we used an overshot fully, a good, clean strawberry patch hay stacker to elevate the bundles crreens or to permanent sod, market- the results comparable in all the dis- wlll result. Generally after the HOG- with after it got higher than a rack. I j ng the surplus cockerels from the late tricts involved. For the purpose of strawberry diseases U the so-called O nd crop the plants are plowed under. | and last year we made a platform ^ , hatched pullets, and there is no better plotting the occurrence of the prin- leaf spot. In this district thig disease When setting out a new patch,' with timbers and planks on top of a time of the year to hunt up a better cipal insect pests of common import- .....,,..-., 11., /. . , , M*l. .. t - _1 A____l_l___1 I %f I ,___*_ Jt 1s generally found wherever straw- 'never ur.e plants which show symp-j deep wujron box. Next year we intend, ma rket for your eggs, berries are grown. In somo localities j toms of fither of these diseases. A; to build an Inclined elevator with an vrry little damage is done to the crop, new patch should be sprayed every; endless apron or chain with si 'K Gift of Shire Horses to Canada territory affected has been prepared. but in others whole plantations have bren completely destroyed. As with all other fungul diseases, the severity of tho attack depends to a large ex- tent on the vagaries of the weather man. H. Berkeley, Dominion Laboratory of The Leaf Spot first becomes appar- Plant Pathology, St. Catharines, Ont. two or thrne weeks during the first' to be run with a small gas engine. The season. The following seasons two idea In mind is to overcome the heavy sprays only should be necessary, one; work of pitching the corn bundles up before the blossoms, open, the other on a hi^h stack, nfter the fruit has been picked. G.j The first year we put about twelve As, concealed by the willows I. watched, one of the urchins caught a. large frog, and exclaiming excitedly* at the size of it, reached in one of his * pockets for his knife; with which h < intended to remove the hind legs of the unlucky amphibian. Vainly struggling against what must have seemed to him the ap- proach of certain death, the frog; closed and opened his golden eyes, and _ the blood from his lacerated lips flow- The Minister of Agriculture, Hon. The p'rincipal pests discussed at the ed over the grimy hand of his cap- ance to Canada and the United States, a base map of all the international W. R. Motherwell, stated in the House Conference were grasshoppers, the of Commons recently that the five western wheat-stem sawfly, the pale Shire horses, donated to Canada by western cutworm, and the Hessian fly. the Shire Horse Association of Great The Bureau of Entomology of the The Dairy Industry of Canada In the year 1922 the production of.tton for $4,400,000; New Brunswick dairy products in Canada accounted j for $2,000,000; Quebec for $64,000,- for an income of $250,618,000, consti- tuting the second largest Item of Do- minion agricultural revenue, being Hubservient only to the returns from the. field crops of the country. In the year 1910, when statistics of value 000; Ontario, $132,000,000; Manitoba, $18,600,000; Saskatchewan, $9,300,- 000; Alberta, $14,000,000; nnd British Columbia, $8.900.000. It is of comparatively recent date j since Canada turned her attention were first compiled, the value of tho' r)ousl to , lulryln(t . whllgt the " dustr >' oov the figures of 1922 showmg bcen an increase of over seven hundred per cent for tho twelve-year period. Be- tween these two years lies the his- nnd sensational , n the Eagt no acrcB i of drilled corn into the stack, j Britain, would be located at the Do- United States Department of Agri- We fed the last of it the first part minion Experimental Station, La- culture was represented at the con- of June. We did not find a bit of comb e, Alberta. The sixth, "Snelston feronee, as well as tho Dominion mold in the whole stack, with the ex-, Topper," donated by Mrs. Stanton of Entomological Branch, ception of about a foot on the sides; Sne , 8ton H all. Ashbourne, will be ___+____ and top ' I assigned to the Dominion Experiment- . . , , . , Instead of Soldering. When you have a leak in your steel It is not nearly so big a task to feed a i' station at Lennoxvillo, Que. This from the stack as I thought it would dis p OS | t | oni the-Minister stated, was tor. Horrified at the cruelty of the child, I stepped forward and grasped the wrist of the hand that held the knife. "Don't you know that is very cruel T" I asked. "Awl" exclaimed the lad, "frogs ain't got no feclln's." I pointed to the blood that stained the child's hands. "A frog," I said, "has a heart and nerves, and in its body the blood flows exclusive raising of cattle and wheat tory of a rapid scent to dniry eminence , ,, , urjfc 8l . alp _ fo , he , er } ^ Every prov.nce of ( anadn engage* of rHJsi da , ( , RU|e extensively in dairying as is evident; rt , 8 imp08l ,j Mt .. however, to over- from a Hivis.on of the nonunion total , ook the part the Wf8tr . rll prov | IM . M Of this value Pnnca Kdward Island hnvn r | liy ed In raising Canada to the ccounted for $1,800,000; Nov. Sco-j emine ,.. t p08il|on s ,,e o,c,,pie. to-day In the dairy Industry, and tho slpnifl- cant development of the dairy indus- try there. The pace set would seem to have administered a stimulus to the entire country. HKKT HKAF. ACHIEVEMENT IN 1918. The first 1 real achievement In tin production of a high type of dairy cattle in which the Dominion was to win such renown was when the Prov- ince of Alberta developed the cham- pion milrh cow of the British Empire In the shape of Rosalind of Old Hun Ing In 1918. This showed other 'prov- inces what coulH Be done and spurred thtm to emulation. In 11)20, Ontario pro luonl a world champion milker, Hcl'n Pontiac, and since that time Canndii lui- gone on improving her htork n:\il never permitted the first ho cial mark was made In achievement/ to bulld B mdrn B n . But In this and It is only a few years since the) wa V tn * 8mft " farmcr_-and beginner West diverted its attention from the! can h ve nice supply of succulent u' u t f, r WC KCt n * * fMt in conformity with tho wishes of the watering tanks, feed troughs or dip-' evcn a8 in y urs and mine - And when the bundles come out the way they, donora that the animals should be lo- ping vats and haven't good luck using hurt he ** P**" we do." were put in. We cut our stack in sec- caU>d , dlstrlcts where 80me atten . so i der> try thls: Then after glancing at the swollen tions as we feed from it, nnd cover the, Uon had a i ready been given to the Take a small piece of lead, Babhitt blotohes <>" the bare legs of the boy, cut with hay or oat bundles. The stack' -,.,,, will retain enough heat all winter to prevent freezing, excepting a few inches on the face thnt has been cut. We do not contend that this method should be adopted where It is possible feed for his stock even though he can't afford a silo. William E. Smith. Only dates. tho female pahn tree bears breed. 1 metal or solder the lead out of a .22- contlnued : "Come with me and hjt me show live frogs The horses reached Canada recent- ' calibre rifle shell will do. Cut this so ly In charge of the Dominion Animal that you can put It through the hole, y u how mucn more Husbandman, Mr. G. B. Rothwell. letting it stick out about an eighth of are than dead ones." And I led the Those destined for Alberta will be ex- an inch on each side. Now hold an wa ^ to wner other frogs sat sunning hibtted at various western shows this iron against one side and hit the other themselves undisturbed, summer. I side of the lead plug with a hammer In the snade mosquitoes were hum- With tho horses came a consign- until both sides are riveted smoothly. m ' n K- but a fr K ' ul 'y as lar * e as the ment of Ayrshire cattle, a number of This will stop the leak, and it won't one the b V sti11 ne 'd in his hand was sheep, and a few swine, purchased for come off as the best soldering some- cntchlng^such of the insects as came use at the Central Experimental times docs. You can also mend all the ~ Farm,. Ottawa, und at various Sta- leaky pots, pans or buckets around the tlons. house by this simple method. A Plain Talk. The world luui for in just 'ii.it WB have for It; It Is R j i' ( wiitapeirlnc gallery which fUiyr* buck ttu> pchoee of our voUve*. If we laugh, K laughs book; If we cune, It . n; > buck. Therw b, no ]oy like that win rii come* from a useful life; the perpetual effort to do our level bt; to try to get ahead wttluout cro<W(llnc others hnck, and Injuring ihlr opportunllM or Intnrforroe with their rights; making, the mot of ourseJvoa not only wtthoul nmkinx anyone elae the pooror, but by helping them an we go. tt'Ueo man gcnw upward im can c.r7 a acnre of others with him. If be will. n ' s reach. As I kept on explaining, a light of i understanding came into the eyes o the boy as he scratched absently at a , mosquito bite upon hia leg. Then care- ; fully he removed the hook from the | lip of the frog he held and set it down j in the soft ooze at the edge of the pond. "Aw! Come on, kids," he yelled, "let's go and play at something else " r tr The t 'n wrftnr! AWHV *rnm h r I I ne COniruri lor 1 o i o 1 tor rrinde ft nov ffl ' " 6W hol P |tftl wtu ' ave a record for oombtawi butter Th 8tal6r " 8t ' io *" h NEW HOSPITAL FOR KITCHENER for tho new St. Mary's Hospital to be erected In Kitchen er this year, has been awarded. The ii- 100 p.i ii'-iit* and will be equipped with the moat modern hospital auu'Uinvi'g erecting the. building. The future great general Is now slumbering In the ranks, the daring and resourceful execu- tive tn some humble clerk In shop or factory. The greatest artist, the greatest nvusioian, the greatest writer. Inventor, orator, statesman, scientist the greatest achiever in every Held that the world has> yet een may to-day be working In sonve- humble capacity, be dreaming of the bright future he will some day realize. O. S. Martian. ISSUE No.