ill FROM A GOOD SOURCE. Putting On the Emergency Power in Farming -- Making Canada the Granary Of the Empire. By H. H. Biggert, Hamilton, Ont., Buperintendent of the International : d company, of Canada, Limited, writes, +The hidtory of pil great wars has - ghown that the ii at home behind the plow fouglt shoulder to shoul- der with the man at the front be- hind the gun. In times past, with- out the first the latter would have starved, and without the second the former would have been destroyed. Such a crisis has not yet come Jn the present conflict, but the si- lent appeal of the mother country all her colonies has been heard around the world--an appeal for supplies, for bread, for hay, the hor- pes, and for moral support. Already across the border the American farmer 1s fortitying him- self to meet the increased demand which will be made upon him for his produce. He is increasing his acreage and everywhere is re-echo- ing the appeal to him to improve "his methods in order that his acre- age yield may be increased. The im- pulse which is swaying him to ans- wer emergency fall should meet with double respohse from the til- of the soil in this country, where not only the dictates of busi- ness urge them on, but where there is the added incentive. of the high- er consideration of patriotism. As @& man doubles his strength when tightly pressed, or an engine ex- ceeds its rated capacity when for ged ahead, so should the Canadian © farmers multiply their energy and Strive to excel their past good re rords as producers of the world's bread. The recent appeal of the Hon: Martin Burrell, minister of agricul: ture, showed definitely the business Rdvantage of beginning at once tc prepare for a greater acreage of 'Wheat. "The only way to get more wheat," he said, "is to properly and most carefully handle the stubble land. Let it be the de termination of every farmer to make The Great beneficial. tea and coffee drinking. for a while and used to comfort. ' 9 "There's a Reason Tea and eoffee contain "caffeine'"" and "tan- nin," two dangerous drugs that «nerves, stomach, heart, liver and kidneys. Postum, made from prime wheat and a small per cent. of wholesome molasses, roasted and skil- blended to produce a delicious, snappy flav- our, is absolutely pure and free from the drugs, '"'eaffeine"' and ""tannin" or any other harmful in- gredient "There's a Reason" for Postum © --sold by Grocers everywhere. CANADIAN POSTUM CEREAL CO. LTD. WINDSOR, on: his wheat acres in 1915 yield as never before. It is certain that an increase of many millions of bush- els can be insured if every farmer on the prairies will carefully eon- sider the following suggestions and put them. into 'practice immedia- tely: > "The summer fallow--- Get. the summer fallow into good shape; let it be ready for the seeder the 'foment the snow goes, and put it into .spch shape as to be free from weeds; "ready 'to absorb moisture, and as safe as possible from eva- poration. "Stubble land--Every acre of stubble land in good enough shape to be fairly safe for wheat should be plowed right now; plow not less than seven inches deep, and deep- en if the character of the sofl and moisture content will permit; deep solls- should be plowed deeply, shal- low or, light soils with a more shal- low furrow; do the plowing well, every acre should be harrowed with- in two days after plowing and pack the land if possible after harrow- ing. . "Spring work--Farly 'seeding is the next consideration; make every preparation now and this coming winter, to lose no timé when the spring opens; be sure the seed 'saved is clean, and of high germinating quality; get the best variety possi- ble; do the work well at seeding time, cultivating or disking before seeding always means bigger and bet- ter crops, and in districtd where the crops were a failure this year the methods outlined above are. particu- larly necessary." We would emphasize especially the necessity of frequent disking, and the almost essential use of the land packer as a safeguard hgainst drought. Many thousands of farmers, for the first | time, last year staked their 'tops on the land packer, and owing to the unseasonable dryness which wevailed this season, it is estimated wv many authorities that the use of his machine, wherever used, thade a lifierence of six to twelve bushels ner acre, At the price at which they are disposing of their wheat his year the packer has proved an nvestment worth several hundred er cent. to them the first year of its use. Preparing The Seed Bed. Emancipator said = "You can't fool all of th people all of the time." For a good many years a lot of people have been fooled. in the belief that tea and coffee were good for them--that they were harmless--even It was only when the scientific research of the medical profession began to lay bare the bones of the tea and coffee skeleton, that people awoke to the fact that much of the Nervousness, Indigestion, Heart Disturbance, Short Breath, Headache, Bil- iousness, Sleeplessness, ete, were directly due to The proof came to these tried the easy test of quitting both tea and coffee POSTUM If you'are a tea or coffee drinker and feel aches and ills you can't account for, try the simple ex- 'periment for ten days. Then you'll know the way In those prirts of the country which people when they vitally affect ~~ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1014. do fall plowing and fall seeding, the way the seed bed is made and the way the sowing is done this fall will determine the crop per acre next Year more than next vear's rain fall, hot winds or frosts. In an éxperi- ment not long ago described hy F. L. Peterson, of the University Farm at Davis, California, he says : "As the pressure for supplies be comes greater it becomes more evi- dent that the world cammot afford lire farms skinned over with care ldss culture. * In an actual experiment a gain of 200° Per cent. which was 1 mnde in the productiveness of wa cer tain areas, 100 cent. was found to be due to better plowing and har- rowing, 50 per cent. to. better cul- tivition, and the rest to better seed- ing. A lesson or two like that in every community would soon work its way into farm operation in such a way that' several costly practices, sanc- tioned by time and custom = would become in a short 'time as histgri- cal asicradling wheat and - thresh it with a flail are' now. The great economic law which makes a man's land profitable is not so much the price he gets for his produce as it is the difference between this price and the amount: spent in producing this produce. The above experiment was apropos of the tractor--a mech- anical way of plowing and of disk- ing-a mechanical way of massaging the land, so to speak, and of drilling ~--a mechanical way of sowing the seed. In the cost of raising a crop, just the same as in the cost of mak- ing carpets, shoes or wagons, hind power and animal power cannot com- pete with mechanical power. The mechanically prepared seed bed not only costs less in its preparation, but it gives more in its harvest. Oats and oil are.in the throes of a little war of their own just the same as the human back once combatted with the reaper knife. This strife is fast becoming more acute because the price of horses is being accentuated every day by the number being sold yt of the country for cavalry mounts tH be used abroad. The drain upon the Canadian horse supply will soon be such that wherever possible me chanical contrivances will be used to do their work. Were we to begin at ones, it will require five years to re plenish the drain which the war has wlready made wpon the horse supply of the World. The United States gov ernment department of agriculture has estimated that it costs $75 to $80 per year to keep a horse, and in the study of horse utility for a period covering six years, it was found that ie averaged only 3.14 hours of work per day as his contribution to lessen- ing the high cost of living. In con- trast with this it was found that he ate up the entire yield of one out oi every five acres which he helped to cultivate. It has been shown, for every hour he worked it cost abot sixteen cents; whereas, a full horse-power hour can be delivered by high-grade oil engine for only two cents per hour, in both cases interest, fueli food and depreciation being in cluded. Again, in plowing, a team of two horses can plow only about two acres per day. In doing this, they travel Sixteen miles, which is a good day's pull for horses with a load. An oil tractor, on the other hand, will plow deeper and keep it up twenty- four hours each day until the work is completed without feeding, resting, or growing thin. While it would not be wise to dispose of brood mares and blooded stock fo satisfy the de- mands of the war, in the end per- haps the increased prices which the present horse purchases will undoubt edly bring about will be beneficial in forcing thousands of farmers to adopt a newer and more economical form of power. Everyone who cultivates 160 acres ' or more is a candidate for a share in the millions of dollars which the country-wide adoption of this method of plowing "will ultimately save, too, Insuring Crop In Advance. After plowing, the first duty of a man is to guarantee the work by pro- per cultivation and disking and pack- ing. The disk harrow and packer are two of the leading nature aiders in farming. It is said that rightly used the disk does more to increase crop profits than any other farm fmplement and should be used on every farm. It is one of the simplest implements made; one of the easiest to obtain; simple to run; will stand much hard work, and lasts a long time. It is so inexpensive that if used on a fair sized field it will 80 increase the pro- duction that it soon pays for itself. Aiter the seed bed is in a condition satisfactory for the proper develop- ment of the seed, the next important step is to be sure that the seed is sown Just right. It % only within recent vears that definite, decisive tests have been made between sowing with a drill and sowing broadeast, but so one-sided have been the vari- ous tests in regard to these two meth- ods that broadcasting is fast being numbered among the many old meth- ods which farmers are now discarding. Broadcasting requires more seed, and vot it produces a smaller crop of low- er grade grain. The reason for this is that the seed thus sown is not dis- tributed evenly over the ground. It does not all start from an even depth, nor does it begin germinating uni- formly. By the use of an ordinary dyill, even 'without the more modern attachments] the seed is deposited in fine, slightly compact, moist soil, all of it at a unifdirm depth. It is thus carefully covered by the cover chains or press wheels, it all has an even chance of germinating, and 'all the grain will tend to ripen at the same time. It requires, furthermore, much less sded to get a good stand with a drill than by broadcasting. ; Proper drinking snd packing and proper sowing are the best ways to help nature give a good erop. There is Very litule more expense in doing it right than in _doidg it wrong, and the returns are much greater, Our work begins this fall in our plowing and seeding, and our oppor- tunity to help will come next year at our Yarvesting and sling. We have more at stake than our #rofits. 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