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J i 10080843000000004 So a Fk THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Used in Millions of Tea-Pots Daily Its Intrinsic goodness in Tea Quality ~ makes it the most Economical in Use = = -- EJ » 948089004459:52 39997898 - 00000006 STLTCB0000000800 000008000 60080(/¢ 26868009 wiay Fair 1920, Surin ie / 5 r B.C. APPLES, 10-tb box B.C. Onions DL k 1 $3.50 .06 Cash with Order ~ Otherwise usual prices D. W. S(T, Dryden 19095600 FreReNDOREDINIES TIN POVDRIGOT DC B9DO000C ~ 90000900 svesecer D000 0003000020 ¢ sevoases sos0e0e 00006000 Iea000 Phd INOCULATION OF SEED Nitro=Ctr tures 3 for i {Increasing Lo- | gume Product on. Friendly Bacteria Perform the Trick ) --Preparation and Distribution of Cultures Described--How to Pre- cure Supplies. KY | (Contributed by Ontario Department of Agriculture, Toronto.) EGUMINOUS crops, such as | alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, : vetches, etc.,, have long been | known, under certain condi. | tions, to leave the land on. which | they were grown in a richer con- ! dition than it was in before the crop. i The necessary conditions are, in addi- tion to the soil being in good tiith and well drained, that there: should . be in the so" certain species of bac- [ teria known as Legume Bacteria. young roots of the legumes where they produce little swellings or no- dules, singly or in bunches. On clovers these podules are very small but numerous, while on peas and beans they are.comparatively large and few in number. The bacteria in these nodules fix the free nitrogen of the atmosphere so that the plant can use it as food. Without tlie aid of the bacteria the plants cannot do this and no crops other than the legumes can do it, even with the bac- teria present in the soil. other legumes are-successfully grown in crop rotation, the bacteria are us- ually present. In new soils, however, or when new legume crops, as al- falfa, are grown in old soil, the appropriate bacteria are apt not to be. present and in such cases some meth- od of inoculation should be adopted to supply the bacteria. Numerous experiments "and prolonged exper- ience have shown that the best way to do this is to inoculate the seed with the necessary bacteria. For cially grown cultures of the bacteria ariginally secured from the nodules plant which is to be sown, are ap- 'I plied to the seed shortly before it is 'p'sown. J are carried By this method the bacteria into' the soil with the seed, and in ample numbers to prac- { tically insure infection of the roots, with comgsqIRn increased growth of the crop. The" ER Laboratory ef the Ontario Agricultural College has prepared and distributed legume nitro-c¢ulture to Canadian farmers each season since 1805. For ten years blanks -were sent to those farmers reported the results of the seed. in- oculation as to whether it had been of benefit to the seeding. During this time 27,750 cultures were sent out, and reports received showed that 89 per cent. alfalfa and 70 per cent. red ing seed inoculation. The cultures for inoculating soll are grown in the oratory on a specially prepared "cul- | ture medium' and each one contains a sufficient number of bacteria to iG- 1 oculate a bushel of seed. For inoculating the seed, the enl- skim-milk, or whey; or whole milk, then mixed thoroughly with the seed, "which is allowed to dry a few min- utes and sown in the usual way. Cultures 'are distributed from the 'Bacteriological, . Laboratory for in- oculating" 'seed. BF alfalfa, red clover, white clover, crimson clover, alsike clover, sweet clover, vetches, peas, sweet peas, cow peas, field peas and 80y beans. 5 Each kind of seed requires a dif- ferent kind of culture. The cultures are for use on seed only. There is only one size package, this being suf ficient for 60 pounds of seed, though 'the entire culture may be used om less seed without harm. The cultures are sent by mail with complete diree- tiong for their use. Price.--A nominal charge of 26¢ for each culture is made to cover ez=- pense of preparation and postage. Application' for Nitro-Cultures.-- Applications for cultures should "}state the kind and amofint of seed to be inoculated and the approximate date of seeding. Applications should be sent early, and should bé accom- panied with remittance to pay in full (twenty-five cents per culture). Ad- dress as follows: Prof. D. H. Jones, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada. It is tmportant that the ap- | piication should staté.plainly the kind "nd amount of seed to: be treated, and the Name, and Province 'of the applicant. tation as shown by the following: sreducts which we have made use of aany times. We made many tests im '| Ontario which proved to us that evem Jialfa screenings would produce & sreater grawth the first and secomd year after being treated with the treatment." Mr. J. B. atin, Fort Williaga, Ont.: 'The cultures were used oB peas' of an early variety. .The larger portion "of the seed was inoculated, way as a check plot. In twelve weelip Jthe whole field had reached maturity with the exception of the uninocuiate ed strip which was still green. was not aware that the use of cyle tures hastened maturity of this jas. "legume, but it appears from this expergs ment that the crop was not only ing proved in yield, but growth and mae srop grown from inoculated seed gave :xcellent results and in future cui- tures will be used on all legumes grown on the home farm."--Prof. 0). H. Jones, O. A. College, Guelph. _ These legume bacteria penetrate the On old soils, or. where clovers or . such seed inoculation, artifi- , on the roots of the same species of | who received cultures, on which they 'clover gave increased returns follow- Bacter iological Lab- ; ture is simply 'mixed with a little tor the number of cultures desired Post. Office, County" Letters received from those whe have received these cultures speal - very highly of this method of .inocu- Messrs. 'J. J. Murray & Co., Seed Merchants, Edmonton, Alta: "We wish to congratulate you on your . bacterial cuiture than the very best - quality of gills seed would without but part was planted in the ordinary. : turity were hastened. The part of tho | , boy; a girl is sent to them." HE FEELS NO PAIN. Extraordinary Canadian Who Mysti- | fies Mospital Nothing more serious than mumps | was the cause of a Canadian soldier being discovered who is claimed to be the most remarkable man in the | world. This is an unquestionable conclusion to be drawn from a de- scription. of the extraordinary wai- rior given in the London Lancet. | The man was originally a Breten | sailor. He emigrated to Canada eight years ago, and enlisted in the Cana- dian army. Later he developed mumps and was sent to a military hospital, where his remarkable quali- ties were discovered. It was observed that the patient was a well-developed, powerful-look- ing man of a very cheerful, even tem- perament, good natured and far re- moved from the ncurotic or hysteri- cal type. But he was found to be almost entirely devoid of sensation. He is insensible to pain and has undergone serious operations without any anaesthetic. His body is plenti- fully strewn with the scars of wounds and burns that he has inflicted on himself for bets or to astonish the onlookers. The author of the account in the Lancet tells of seeing him hold a burning match against the skin of his arm and then pick off the char- red fibre. He has never suffered from headache, toothache, or pain of any other description. i 5 J Authorities. fs ! The patient possesses no sense of touch. He cannot distinguish between heat- or cold, whether in the tem- perature of food or of the weather, and fever and chills cause him to perspire or shiver, but without any sensation of cold or heat. No sense of muscular = position seems present and the man says that he can not tell whether his arms or legs are moving or not. He has no sense of fatigue and the only way that he is made-aware of failing strength after prolonged and violent effort is by his falling to the ground. He is unable to find his nose with- out guiding his hands by sight and if he be moved about when his eyes i are closed he is ignorant of the fact. All notion of smell is absent. Even . fuming nitric acid was: ineffective when strongly inhaled. The man is mentally sound and rather above than below the average of intelligence. As a child he appears to have had a slight sense of touch, and he dates its complete disappear- ance from the time when he had an attack of yellow fever in Sangal at the age of seventeen. His sight and £ hearing, however, seem to be normal. What Are "Young Mountains'? Mountains are wrinkles of the earth's 'crust, caused by its settling on the cooling and contracting in- terior. They have been slowly and "by .successive uplitts. From the very first the rising land is attacked by the agents of denud- ation /(i.e., laying bare the rocks through the action of water and tke atmosphere); but this attack in- creases as the mountains grow high- "er. Glaciers extend down the val- loys; streams cut gorges across the ridges, and the durable rocks are etched out into ridges and peaks, while the weak ones are cut away, | forming valleys and passes. In this stage the surface is so irregular that the mountains are unsuited for hu- man habitation. Such mountains, of which the -Rockies, the Andes, the Alps, and the Himalayas are ex- amples, are called 'young moun- tain." When the uplift finally ceases the denudation continues to broaden the valleys and lower the peaks and ridges; the glaciers disappear, and in time even the highest peaks may come below the timber line. Such mountains, which have lost the rug- - gedness of youth, may be called ' ma- ture." The Appalachians «nd the mountains of New England, Norway, and Scotland are examples. Their slopes are forested and their valleys tilled. Further lowering reduces the mountains to a series of low, rolling hills, and sometimes to a surface, almost as level as a plain (called a '"pemeplain," almost plain). . The mountains are then "old," and are, like plains, adapted to dense settle- - ment. New. York City, Philadelphia, Baltimere, and Washington are sit- udted on such old, worn-down moun- tainst: These ancient known jas the Piedmont. belt, extend east..of the Appalachians, from New England, to- 'Alabama. In Ontario we have no. "such worn-down mountains, unless it be the Muskoka district, but this has rather been a plateau than a mountain: region. All" the moun- tains ©f Eastern Canada are old - "mountains. Nova Scotia. is almost wholly the worn- -down extremity of the old Eastern mountain syytem of "America. "A Popular Novelist, 'From our smallest province, Prince Edward -Island, " Canada's "million acre farm," known 'guthers," L. M. Monigamas who in 1911 became Mrs. (Rev.) "Ewan Macdonald of Leaskdale, Ont. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton, P.E.L, where. her father, Hugh J. Montgomery, 'was a mer- chant. Owing to the death of her mother 'when was was only a few months old she was brought up by 'her. grandparents at Cavendish, P.E.I. 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