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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT.. THURSDAY. MAY 31, 1917 Conducted 6y Mm J&O&n Jaw ( Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially Invited to write department ..litlals only will be published with each question and i™ answer as a means of Identification, but full name and address must om given In each letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answere will »• mailed direct If stamped and addressed envelope la enclosed. Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs. Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave., Toronto. "Reader":--1. Eggs should be pre-! water and a good soap. Dry skin care-served in water glass during March, I fully, apply to the spots an ointment April, May and June, when they are : made of 1 ounce soap liniment and 1 cheapest. 2. Protect the young j ounce ether well mixed, and allow it to cucumber plants from the striped j remain on during the night. Wash beetle by covering them with wire net- j off in the morning with warm water ting. Spray with Bordeaux-arsenate ! and rinse with cold. Continue this of lead as soon as the plants appear; i treatment until the blackheads have again at the appearance of the third | disappeared. To contract the pores leaf and a third time before the plants i wipe the face with a little alcohol begin to form runners. See that the spray strikes under the leaves as well as on top. For the cabbage worm, dust with tobacco dust, pyrethrum, hellebore or spray with arsenate of lead or powder with dry arsenate. "Enquirer":--Balfour is pronounced Bal--as in balance--foor. It is very hard to convey the exact pronouncia-tion of Joffre by phonetics, but the J is soft and the re is hardly sounded at all; it is almost as though it was written Joff, with the ffs a mere breath. *Viviani is pronounced J. D. V.:--The following are the dates at which the several nations entered the European War: 1914, July 28, Austria and Serbia; August 1, Germany and Russia; August 3, France; August 4, Belgium and Great Britain; August 8, Montenegro; August 23, Japan; November 5, Turkey. 1915, May 23, Italy; June 3, San Marino; October 14, Bulgaria. 1916, March 8, Portugal; August 28, Rumania. 1917, April 6, United States of America; April 7, Cuba. A. J. L.:--1. In the partly shaded location you describe, you should be able to grow lettuce, early or late cabbage, cauliflower, or spinach. Do not try beans, eggplants, corn, tomatoes. 2. Dahlia roots need warm soil and warm weather, so it is not safe to plant them at this time. "School Girl":--The cause of the so-called "blackheads" is the clogging of the pores with dust and grease, which hardens and pits the face with tiny black specks. The first step is to thoroughly cleanse the skin. Every night wash thoroughly with warm de cologne. Frequently pimples appear with the blackheads, and when this is the case make an ointment of the following ingredients, 2 grams beta napthol, 20 grams sulphur precipitate, 20 grams potash soap. Mix thoroughly and apply to the pimples at night. This preparation may be used at the same time as the blackhead ointment. Do not be discouraged if you see no improvement in your complexion as the weeks slip by, It sometimes requires months to get rid of pimples and blackheads. "Perplexed":--1. A felon is fection of the tissue around the finger nail. The constant application of wet dressing, equal parts of alcohol and water, may check it. If it progresses a surgeon should be consulted, as the infection may cause great trouble. 2. Worry can check the secretion of gastric juices and also impair the/'normal motion of the stomach. 3. Greens and green vegetables are the best source of iron for blood building. 4. The eyes should have a rest from reading and from all kinds of fine work. Out-of-dpor recreation, such as gardening and almost any form of outdoor employment Will be found beneficial. "Housewife":--Onions and water will remove the smell of paint fi room. Slice several onions, put them in a pail of water and stand the pail in the closed room over night. W. A.;--Probably the reason baby cries when you lift him is that you hurt him by not lifting him properly. •Hi lifting a baby, grasp the clothing just below the feet with your right hand, slip the left hand under the baby from below upward until the head is reached, supporting with the hand and lifting the child on the left arm. - FOOD SHORTAGE SUGGESTIONS The Food Value of Buckwheat is High, As It Is Both a ducer and a Heat and Energy Producer. By Henry G. Bell, Agronomist. Buckwheat pancakes may form a welcome substitute for breakfast wheat cereal and bread toast, while wheat ranges around the $2.50 a bushel mark. Buckwheat characteristics strongly recommend this crop for cereal production . Buckwheat is a dry grain which can be stored. After wheat, corn and rye, buckwheat contains a maximum of food in a minimum of volume. Buckwheat is strong in both flesh producer and in energy and heat producer. It compares with wheat as follows: 9.0 13.0 1.5 3.0 1.7 Market All roosters, old hens, early broilers, green ducks. During the first week in June, kill off, dispose of or remove from the flock, the male birds after the breeding season. Their presence in the flock after this date causes a loss of bad effect upon the egg crop. Besides, any method that points the least bit toward cruelty should not be permitted. Oentlenpss is n virtue that even hens appreciate. The mash for the chicks may consist of equal parts of bran, middlings and cornmeal, and half part of beef scrap, but the composition is more or less dependent on the feeds that most available. Pullets that are stunted by poor Buckwheat yields from 10 to 40 bushels per acre. Buckwheat requires from 3 to 5 bushels of seed to the acre. Buckwheat suits poor, light, dry land. It produces larger yields where additional fertility is supplied, 200 pounds per acre of fertilizer supplying one per cent, ammonia, 8 to 10 per cent phosphoric acid, gives good results. This should be drilled in when the buckwheat is sown, or braod-casted and worked' into the seedbed by disking and harrowing. You can increase the effectiveness of high-priced farm labor by fertilizing the buckwheat. A yield of 20 to 30 bushels per acre uses the labor much more profitably than a yield of 10 bushels per acre. Finally, buckwheat should be sown later than corn and t;je small grains. It is therefore an excellent crop for "filling in" where other crops fell. Buckwheat is quoted in Chicago at $3.20 per bushel. Buckwheat Strong Points. Strong food is compact volume. Food suited to storage, therefore, valuable for export. Thrives on comparatively poor soil. Makes quick and reasonably large returns. May be planted later than other crops; hence can be used to fill in "where other crops fail." Buckwheat matures in less than 100 days. Tomato Culture. Tomato seed sown in boxes ing the plants when they ar i the i with fruit- Another method is to make ; Henry G. BelL S^-Cond uc ted by Professor Henry G. BelL The object of this department Is to place at th« •ervlce of our farm readers the advice of an acknowl. •dged authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops. Address all questions to Professor Henry O. Bell, In care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toronto, and answers will appear in this column in ths order in which they are received. As space is limited it is advisable where immediate reply Is necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when the answer will be mailed direct house in March will prodi___ that will fruit the same season. Plants the shape of a funnel, setting this over dy to be set out can be purchased fach plant._ A barrel hoop on supports seedsmen. In buying plants select strong, sturdy plants, avoiding the tall drawn specimens that are frequently offered. Where tall, spindly plants of tomatoes must be used pinch off the top. This will check the up- another form of the same pis When grown on a large scale field culture is the system practised. The plants are set out in long, straight rows, cultivated by horse, and the vines are given no support. This system may be used also in small gar- right growth temporarily and give the plants an opportunity of becoming stronger. It also causes them to branch. There are several systems for growing tomatoes. Some prefer the one stem system; one or two stems only trained to a long stake. This keeps the fruit off the ground and lets the sunlight and air reach all sides of the plants. Another system is to set the plants under trellises made by running nar-strips of wood along stakes about half feet above the surface ! from 112 to 115 days _ planting the potatoes, good method of application is to drop the seed pieces of potatoes and ccver them lightly with soil, and then dust the fertilizer along over the hill and drills and finish the covering. This addition of available plantfood will give the crop a strong, vigorous start. This land would do well for beans, Question--R. E.:--I have a piece of land that has been run for years without clover or manure. This land is quite sandy and contains practically humus. Now, if I apply 12 good ,___is of manure to the acre, which oats, and even" meat. ; wouid be the most profitable crop for Beans are also of value from a soil j me ^ rajse corn or potatoes? I raised cultural aspect, as they belong to a corn on similar land last year that most important class of agricultural went 60 crates to the acre, with plants termed legumes, which are cap- manure. Would this ground hold i good Question--M. A. C.:--My seeding I taken to see that the fertilizer does with grain last year was a failure. It I not come in close contact with the did not catch. Wpuld you recommend ; beans in the soil. manuring and plowing the stubble for | Question--R. M.:--I have about six-potatoes this year? Would it do for j teen acres of wheat that {s bad]y ml beans where potatoes grew last year? gd Jn the Jow j and j don>t wigh It was a big growth of clover also ^ p]ow ^ wheat up on account of ured, plowed under and potatoes; expectation8 of a high price next ig, year. Do you think it would be ad-J visable to drag up these low places and i sow to Spring wheat? Could it all be harvested together? If so please tell me where seed could be procured and how and when it should be sown. If spring wheat is not advisable how would either buckwheat or beans be? Answer:--If it is not already too late when you read this answer and you can secure the seed, I would advise the sowing of spring wheat where the winter wheat has killed out. It is almost impossible to tell whether the spring wheat and winter wheat could be harvested together or not. This would depend entirely on the weather and whether the two wheats ripen at the same time. In fact, I should expect them not to ripen together. You should sow the wheat at ed under and potatoes planted. I want to reserve an old meadow to plow under for corn year and will also have to plow last year's potato and corn ground for oats this year? Answer:--The land where your seeding failed, if plowed up and then carefully manured, should make good potato ground this ysar. I would advise in addition to the manure about 400 pounds of fertilizer carrying 2 to ia, 8 to 12% available , phosphoric acid and 1 to 2% potash. , , ' Scatter this down the drill rows when trellis 1 Beans a Valuable Crop. Beans have a two-fold value. They rank among the valuable foods, con-!__ taining a higher percentage of protein j loads" of able of taking up indirectly the free nitrogen of the air and storing it in tubercles on the root system of thi plants in a available form of plant food for future crops. The last week of May or the first week in June is usually the most suitable time for planting, although the time of planting may vary slightly according to district and season, but should not be delayed after the soil has become warm and dry. of the best yielding varieties beans are Pearce's Improved Tree. Schofield Pea, Medium or Navy, Common White Pea and white Wonder. These varieties require which dollars a year to Canadian ; feeding during the first few weeks of farmers through the sale of partially their iives will prove a decided disappointment from the standpoint of incubated and bad eggs in the prodi which is marketed. All old hens should also be marketed at this date. The proper way to carry a fowl is to place it under the arm, the head pointing to the rear, and the feet held firmly by the hand. In this way the bird can be carried for miles without the least discomfort to it or the person carrying it. In former years, the common prac-l£™ contains' thirty-three and tiseAvas to carry poultry by the legs,j tMrd cent of mercury. head hanging downward. This was a i _.__ bad mode and one that never was used i _. . D , „ _ _ by regular poultrymen. When the Flsh Pond For The Farm- head is hanging downward there is no- I Why shouldn't a farmer raisi thing to prevent a rush of blood to it, as well as chickens ? Given proper and it is the belief that many cases of j fresh water supply and reasonable their egg production, The most effective method for body lice on hens is the application of a dilution of either mercurial ointment or blue ointment. Mercurial ointment contains fifty per cent, of metallic mercury". Blue ointment is a mixture consisting of sixty-seven per cent, of mercurial ointment and of thirty-three per cent, of vaseline and, there- vertigo can be traced to such acts of carelessness. But still more cruel is lifting the body by their wings. Should the fowl struggle when thus handled, it is a very easy matter to snap the cords of the wings and thus permanently injure the bird. Poultry roughly handled lose confidence in their attendant, and loss of confidence in the hennery often has a space for a pond, quantity may be had in two or three "John, did you take the note to Mr. Jones?" "Yes, but I don't think he can read it." "Why so, John?" "Because he is blind, sir. While I wur in the room he axefJ me twice where my hat wur, and It wur on my head all the time." „ . A Question of "I's" "Pink is the proper color," the little rabbit politely informed Araminta Jane. They were having a most delightful afternoon tea. Dorothy Anne, who had been feeding them dainties-- bits of cake, goosetea and crackers-- had quite suddenly decided to see whether any of her flowers were up and had left the white rabbit and the china doll together under a large tree in the orchard. "I am sure blue is the proper color," Araminta contradicted, still very politely. That was how it started! Both were sure they were right and soon they made such a noise that a little squirrel Came to see what the trouble was. "Brown!" he maintained stoutly when they told him of the argument. A crow hopping after a fat worm, stopped long enough to caw, "Black." And ne was upheld by the raven, who happened along soon after. "I'll go and ask the owl," offered the squirrel aft^p they had argued them- selves hoarse without coming to any agreement. "Surely I know, for she picked me out herself from brown and black-eyed dolls," Araminta sobbed. "Surely she must know that blue eyes are the ! Back scampered the little squirrel. "He says it's a question of 'I's'," he announced breathlessly. "Silly, isn't that what we all know. moisture sufficient to grow crop of potatoes? Answer:--If you have potato seed, by all means potatoes would be the most profitable crop for you to grow on the land in question. I would recommend adding fertilizer to the manure, as per answer to M. A. C. Under normal conditions you should not have any trouble from lack of moisture. If you have to buy potato seed, at present prices it may be more profitable to grow corn, but this you will have to decide from your own local conditions. If you seed it to corn, I would advise adding about 200 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, spreading it broadcast and working it into the ground before you plant the All that is necessary to do would be to harrow or disk up the ground and drill in the wheat. Perhaps you will be able to secure spring wheat seed in your community or from some of the elevator men. Unless you are able to get it close at hand it will be too late to sew it. In such case, either buckwheat or beans will make a splendid crop. In fact, I would prefer the planting of beans as they can be put in any time up to the last of June, just so they have time enough to ripen off before frost. In this case the ground should be thoroughly disked or harrowed up and ■orked down, after which the beans may be planted in rows 21 or 28 inches A grain drill with part of the grain tubes stopped up offers the best of planting the beans. When planted this way some fertilizer can also be applied. The best way prob- ' ably is to stop up the fertilizer tube directly over the row containing the beans but allowing the fertilizer to in down the tubes on each side of the ie dropping the beans. Question--J. B. H.:--Isn't it considered poor policy to plant corn in ground that grew sugar beets last if only a light crop? There are of the ground. Two strips are run! reach the proper stage of maturity about two feet apart, braced with for harvesting. corn. It should carry from 2 to 3% j two fields which are desired for cross sections very two feet to form j After planting, but before the plants ammonia and 8 to 10% phosphoric | and beans- One is sod and the oth-a rigid frame or trellis. The tomato , appear, which will usually be from acid. j er grew beets last year, soil about the plants are set out under the middle three to six days, depending largely! Question--W. A. C.:--I would like to same. Both corn and beans require of this framework and trained up upon the weather, it is advisable to ! get your opinion in regards to plant- j rich ground, which one will be best to through the centre, the frame support- harrow the soil lightly with a slant-! ing beans in hills, planted 28 inches i follow beets? ___' _ leach way. Do you think the yield Answer:--Regarding beans and corn ~ [ would be as good as if they were drill- following sugar beets, the U. S. De-record that they all forsook him and ed? They could be worked both ways partment of Agriculture studied 115 fled, which Mark places after his an<] kept much cleaner and less seed farms aid found that, following sugar words. But let the scriptures be ful- would do xhe geed is s0 high in price beets, the yield of corn was increased " i this year it would be quite a saving in by 12 bushels to the acre and beans 5 sprf t^*^^ ^ crop- Ibushels. This would indicate that Answer:--I am very much in favor J either corn or beans could be planted purposed to keep his disciples out of temptation, that he might deliver them , , ,. ' from evil and keep them for his work. °* Plantlng the hill, especial-! in the ground that was in sugar beets. We must assume^tha" he "made them! on lalld that is Jikely to be weedy ; From these figures we ought not to understand it was his will that they; or where disease has been prevalent, j judge that sugar beets make the soil should hide from a very real danger:! As a rule, the yield will be almost as ; rich in fertility but rather because - , nothing less, surely, will explain their high as if they were drilled and fre-! they are cultivated during the summer Lesson X -Jesus Betrayed and Denied , absence from Calvary. The one who, quently better as disease is not so like- i the soil is put in better tilth for the --John 18. 1-18. Golden iwithi the best of motives, ran into; ly to spread from one plant to another. ! growing of the following crops. I Text-Isa. 53. 3. | ffifi*™ experience from doineso : 1 Would SUggest the seed be testsd to > WOUld recommend that the sod ^uM Verse 1. Brook--The term implies ; pjrst he endangered himself and his!learn what Percentage will germinate, j be put to corn and that beans be put ravine that was dry except to the comrades by hewing at Malchus's and sincc seed is s0 high-priced, that in the sugar beet land as beans do not rains. Its Old Testament name Kid- head. Then, to preserve his conceal- j the drill be also tested to see if it j do well on freshly turned sod or where been turned into a Greek ment, he three times disowned his! plants the quantity of seed desired. 11 too much fresh manure or organic A JL'r-T a meau \ . a5s Br?ok-„ Master. Better have "forsaken him, would also put on about 200 to 300 i matter is added to the soil. If about fMark U~4W»fu5ar th & P «L 'S?d fjed"--as Mark put it, who had pounds of fertilizer to the acre. The | 300 pounds of fertilizer analyzing ^l\¥-tlVg SToC'd e frS? ^SoJTJob"6 ™y be PUt °" br0adcast and W*h * ph°Sph°riC add m USed °" ^ -it record (The New Century Bible). The verb is changed to the acHve ' worked into the *round before the corn land and probably 200 to 250 on 2. Probably Judas went first to the there it is "not one of them was lost "' ■ beans are planted, or it may be put the bean field, good crops should be house of the supper, and then went 10. Having a sword_See Luke 22 on as the beans are planted if care is | secured this year. straight for Gethsemane. Jesus oft- 38. The earlier Gospels do not name '------------------------------.....------- - ----- times resorted thither--This is one of the aggressor, nor the officious slave tooth harrow theinstances of John's exact knowledge who thought to please his master by a ^ harroT of the incidents which attended the special show of zeal. Peter fortun- g ndrrow Jerusalem life of our Lord. All the ately escaped doing more damage. As Evangelists narrate the coming of it was, he came very near being de- Judas. John only remembers that tected (verse 26) and suffering for it. the spot was one belonging, it may be, The Jewish leaders were contemptu-friend or disciple, where Jesus ously indifferent to the disciples: if was in the habit of going with "his dis- they could smite the shepherd, the cipies, and that Judas therefore knew flock would be finally scattered! Dan-the place and knew that he would ger to them came rather from the mob probably find them there (The Handy that followed. Commentary). j u. Only Luke knows that Jesi d. Ihe magnitude of the preparation healed Malchus. He got the detail-made to overpower resistance was due ; so the present writer believes--from to the fear that the Galileans would j Paul, who was there and in the thick rally to him. Cohort (margin)--! of it. He heard and quoted those last the proper color for eyes." Presumably the Jewish leaders had j terrible words about "the authority of Just then back from the garden aske.d Plla*e to put a company of his darkness" (Luke 22. 53; Col. 1. 13). danced Dorothy Anne and Elizabeth l soldiers at their disposal, to arrest a ' The cup--John has not reported the and Ruthie, her little friends. "Oh, danSerous character-whom theywould,; Master's earlier use of this phrase look at Dottie's new doll Aren't her °f c?Vrfe' hrm^ to,h™ for tnal- T«ey (Mark 14. 86). loo* at Dottie s new doll. Arent her ( would be under their own chiliarch | 15. The other disciple was the auth-(verse 12), but Judas was guide. Note 1 or (John 21. 24). He was known unto how eager the Jewish coalition was,! the high priest: the word is that of eyes the most beautiful blue!' claimed Ruth, picking up Araminta and dancing up and down with her. "But look at the eutie rabbit with its cunning pink eyes," Elizabeth said, "Dorothy, what color do you think eyes ought to be ?" Dorothy looked carefully at the big brown eyes of both her little friends. "I-!" she started to say. The little squirrel, who had been waiting to hear the answer, suddenly chuckled to himself. "Now I know what the Owl meant," he whispered to the rabbit as he scampered past him. Do you? each section sending its own servants! 5. We have not sufficient information to tell where the traitor's kiss comes in: this narrative is manifestly independent, and the eye-witness who writes here does not seem to have seen that incident, which was reported by Peter through his pupil Mark. 6. This is told to bring out the absolute voluntariness of his surrend- "Once before, the majesty of " ' Luke 23. 49, and implies mere casual acquaintance. That was an eye-witness is much more portant than that he should be ___ apostle. Court--The quadrangle round which the house was built. 17. The maid--Compare Rhoda ii Acts 12. 13. Thou-also--She there fore knew that John was cne. "Ir the original the question is put in i form that suggests a negative words had overwhelmed those who 'Surely thou art not' " (The New Cen had come to arrest him (John 7. 46);tury Bible). I am not^--Peter proband it would have been so now, had not! ably thought he would not be allowed he willed to be taken" (The Cam- to stay to "see the end" (Matt. 26. bridge Bible). i 58): it was a typical example of doing 8. This gives us the other side of the i evil that good might come. a light smooth- j operation will break the crust, destroy weeds, help warm the soil and stimulate rapid germination of the seed and growth j What the cream separator has done of the plants. As soon as possible ] for farmers in the way of improved after the beans are up, and can be seen \ and labor-saving methods of creaming in the row, the singla and two-row i milk, the milk machine will do in milk-cultivators should be used. It should ] ing cows, which is one of the most be the aim of every grower to keep the ] troublesome jobs on a dairy farm, soil stirred on the surface. Thus as j W. H. Johnstone of Moose Jaw, promptly as practicable after _each j Sask., who uses a three-unit milking time to prevent the form-1 ing of a crust the soil should be stirred ; i by means of the cultivator. The work of; < cultivation also should be kept well in ( hand early in the season so that little i cultivation need be giveji after the | { blossoming stage of growth has been' l says that two m achine, weigh milk and strip twenty iws per hour. He used the machine l thirty cows the first morning. A test of the whole herd does not ve the needful information; this after of cow-testing is a strict ques-an of individual capacity. * i Sixty patrons of two creameries in Little Things. | prj^ Edward Island averaged 8,84 The song of a bird is a little thing, j pounds of fat per herd, after two yet it brings us a wealth of joy. years of cow-testing these sixty herds A ray of light is a little thing, yet; averaged 955 pounds of fat; this is a it lightens the dreariest spot. ! gain of seventy-one pounds of fat per The laugh of a babe is a little thing, ! herd, or eight "per cent, it it touches the weariest heart. [ When we consider that a five-dollar And in this big world cf Ettle things I calf may grow into a hundred-dollar each, human life has its share to pro-1 cow, it seems preposterous to send it nde. | to the butcher. So each human soul in his tiny j Too many farmers do not realize iphere must make the most of the life i the feeding value of skim milk. They he holds. j think that because the fat has been re- --*---- moved a much larger quantity of milk Unpreparedness for peace will be | should be fed. As a result, the calvcj nothing short of criminal madness. j are often overfed.