DRYDEN OBSERVER They Cost Older Omizr.o at Least $28,000,000 Anvually. They Ars Bén ¢ Reducers of Legh ghaate Jrop Yields Mare Alter Harvest Tillage Is Needed wandelion Control -- Why a $5,600 Bull Was Sold for $48. (Cemtributed by Ontario Department of ) Agriculture, Toronto.) A superficial survey of Southern Ontario shows very cleariy that the weed plants have gained so much headway on very many farms as i) kmve become the largest profit-rob- ging faetor. Thistles, ragweed, mus terd, ete., are crowding out the waedul food plants, reducing yields smd making work more difficult. wos Little Farm Help and Too Many Boge. LE Ba the old days when labor was more plentiful and gang-ploughs for afeey harvest tillage were found ia use en every farm, clean, weed free flalds were to be seen on every hand. Farms that were models of cieanli- megs and the pride of their owners ute mo longer so. The men of ihe . etd 'mehool and the condition of premdant, willing help on the farms ows gome. The presence of competing Weeds does not worry the present day mer to & point of action. Shortage # help, apathy on the part of ia swuers, neglect to make DOZious Bylaws operative, and the bets bin dog, have been the chief egaWributing faclors favoring the wholesale weed development that is new experienced by this provinee. Aamesl Losses Run te Millions af Dollars. " The average lo.3 per aere on oul- tivated and grazing lands is difficult te detevmine. On the well kept farms Re sonual loss caused by the pres enga of weeds is noi less than two &ollers per asre. On the farms that keve been poorly managed for & 'pumber of years the annual loss fpom weeds may be as hign as ten dollars per acre. Taking the lower ggure of two dollars per acre as the minimum loss, on the Southern On- terio farms that have an aggregate drea of 14,000,000 cleared acres we e & loss of $28,000,000 per year. He weed increase which has been #9 id during the past ten years will, @beoked, cause a direct los ; 4 Ontario farmers of $100,000, 0 Her amnum. Lil tho Plough and the Harrow Ua ) opt @oing. [+] ® a the moxious weed robbery that wh. perpetrated on the Ontaris from April to October eagh yoir just because he is willing to be sebbed were stopped, money for Rouseheld # comforts, ° taxes, ets, would be more plentiful. After bar- vast fllege, sutumn ploughing and tie leaning up of the fence TOWD ; eoodsides in good time will hel» eagle the advance of weeds. The golelture of no province is so rich t it ean afford to tolerate a weed mulsance that is costing many mie Hoas each year.--L. Stevenson, Set webary Dept. of Agriculture, Toronto. jand- t PANDELION CONTROL. : 5] Four or Five Sprayings With Irom sofphate Will Bo the Trick. Littte attention was paid to the @¥adelion as a weed thirty years aga, Wut with the clearing up of lands and cmmoval of obstacles to the spread ei tho weed great increases of the fiui-. omee I seen in grass land every- where. The dandelion cannot succeed eu lapd that is well cultivated, bus agoees of grass, whether pasture folds, roadways or lawns, are usuale heavily infested. Large areas cal. #ot well be treated unless the use of the land is such as to permit heavy empenditures. Small areas, guch a8 fawns and portions of golf courses, #say under proper management Be Rept free of dandelions. 3 @praying with iron sulDhate, four of five applications during one ses~ will generally free a grass ared £ the pest. But the treatment must Be repeated overy third year. The fre: spraying should be applied just Wifors the first blooming peried of ¢ dandelion and followed by two hoi ai intervals of three weeks. a applications should alse »a given during September or Octoe wor. Spraying should not be dons @mring the hot, dry period unless water can be applied to keep the gas growing - vigorously. Grade as that are sprayed usually black- hn soasiderably after each apyliea- , but this burned appearance dis sers afer a few daya. Areas at ave being sprayed for the eradi- sion of dandelion should be well ertilized, and grass seed should be #pplied to keep up the required num- ber of grass plants to form a good turf. White clover is killed by irom sulphate spray, so cannot. succeed under this method of dandelion con- #¥ol. The strength of solution to use i 1% pounds to one gallon of water. --I, Stevenson, Secretary Dept. off Agrisuiturs, Toronto. ? Wy a 95,000 Bull Was Sold for $50. Wien g certain farmer a few yea®p o sold his registered Holstein bull té his local butcher no records had ? made by 'any of the bull's C<hiters. Within, a year eleven of the daughters freshened at the ageg of two aud three. Records were ade of milk sad butier-fat produse on, and to, thé astonishment of eperybody the average milk produye- don was ~14,602 pounds and the gerage butter-fat production was §78 pounds. ) © But before amailable the bull was dead and his ide had become leather. Because there were no records, a $5,000 pil Aad been 2018 £08 SFO coins these © records were Ey Deerrtioal 4 Pracaid A TLL {his wii OF Clean~----13¢ With ( Cleaning. y Ont Agriculture, (Contributed by In the Co. built their 191) there w gold in th 19320 this nu 175,000. il greater than ten years, out#in the year. These {i indication its place « 8 implements short life, usually re per cent. Housing. down in the man ing the oi Oils and most ca is be tion, wre. 7 getting ti in sealed Mechanical { Some mecha fresh oil certain well that Not long heard one © gas past the pis i: was found t and badly scor ation revealed t had stopped Ww drained and w kerosene. Th and fresh oil was again tur that particular en apart when, gearch, a small The bit of chaff wou kerosene pags but gylinder oil. Equal care as to he observed as {0 ¢ on your hands or ¥ using to fill the gr may be sure you scored bearings. gee that there is no and then turn them gee grease squeezed O01 ing. This makes sure t ting where it will do go wasting money to buy a grease because they cons a low grade soap and a of water and will fr greases also contain 'are certain to spoil t ed surfaces of ant Ale Cleaning. 3 Bo not neglect the air sleamer. If water is used, for exa it s be eleaned out at no the evening. It to not allow it to ge eleaners drew the pads. This type sh and a more mod place. In some possible to ruin a t by working it witho performing its functions, The above does 3 cover all the points but does emphasize most commonly negle Kendall, Farm Mechanics' '0. 4. College, Guelph... 3 no Mark xcellent Feeding What Krperiments With Show---Duying a Farm. 2, (Contributed by Ontarfo Department of Agriculture, Toronto) Farmers, like others, are prone to put off to-day what they can do to= srrow, and, as a result, often neg- t to get seed grain ready for sow- until the fine days of early ing call them to the land. Mueh may be saved and the rush of e work lightened if seed is pre- pared in the late months of winter for spring prepatation will likely result also ia sowing. This early seed the seed of different "crops being sown at the right time to insure the satest yields. ry » the Very Best seed. The fArst step in good seed sclee- should be the obtaining of the gt variety for sowing, a var- whose yield is high and whose ity of grain is good. Varieties of h as O.A.C. No. 72, Banner, No. 3; varieties of bar- wheat, such as Marquis, rve, such as 0:4.C. No. 61; of field peas, such as Cana- ity, Arthur, Potter, a Vine; varieties of field beans, the Common White Pea ieties of buckwheat, such to Ontario conditions. Be Poor for Seed Mut ood for Feed. : 1, shrunken, or broken sesd iay plump, scund seed. Et) e ©. A. College, Guelph, rave shown, however, that there is Hzperinients Show. g qualities of seed of oats, ring wheat, peas and field tested, and it was found I In every single in- ge plump seed produe- rield of grain per acre um sized, small, nh, or split seed. Im sur classes of grain, seed surpassed the by 28 per cent. and, in the ° three classes ef graia, s shrunken, broken, or split sed of 84 per cent. h selection. Large plump ced a larger, mors vigor- re productive plant $han 1 from small plump, n, or split seed. kt cmbered too (hat gest and plumpest c. ion eliminséss the of the weed sceds wich cen in the grain bafere hn . gown oniy tha best r, he hag plated sU insurance possible on future of his crops. --W. J. Sguie- I, G. A. Qollege, Guelph. Si BUYING A FARM, of Farm Property. ortant decision Hest 2d on to make iu ihe noon whisk te live @arn a living. The Judgment i king the selection of a e or break a man, ®May i ife lo poverly er to icts where the soll over a large ares er en ooo BROS ed the task is not so great y.-But in districts where var- 5 types and grades of soil exist a gor farm and a good farm may lie iz by side. The good farm will no doubt help to sell the peer ene, which, by the way, is always for male. fies Your Prospective Farin In July. Farm purchases are most {fre- guently made during the winter when the opportunity for close exam- ination is least. This should not bs go. If farms were purchased ef the basis of the crop showing during the montk of July there would be fewd® regrets. If a man contemplates pur- ehaging a farm in a district whees he has lived for a long period, he will know the soil and disizist come ditions. Knowing conditions the pus #haser will hand over his money with his eyes wide open; if he does mot knew conditions in the distriet he will be handi: his money with his eyes closed and must depend up- on the honesty of some one aise. Purehagers of farms are advised te iive and work in the district of theie ghoiee for at least a year bafore im- vesting heavily.--L. Steveuson, Se¢- retary Dept. of Agric .liure, Torewds. Fix Harvesting Machinery. A rainy day spent in putting thet mowing machine, hey loader, bindes and other harvesting machinery inte i s ig a mighty good izvestment of t This is more true this yeas than usual for two reasons -- firgt, labor is mueh scarcer, and theregfore the less of any time wasted will be greater, and, secondly, the parts may he herder tc get than usual, due te a phertage of supplies in many lUnes. Tope fought may save some adie worries. : Millet is a splendid smother erop and weed seed destroyer, espeslally when eut thickly for hay dnd eut eariy. aa d PORE WT NEARLY THREE MILLION SOULS IN PROVINCE Ontario's Population Shows Increase of 15.89 Per Cent. in Ten Years Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 4--Ontario's pop- ulation is 2,929,054. In 1911 it was 2,627,292. In ten years, therefore, the population of Canada's greatest Prov- ince has increased by 401,762 or 15.89 per cent. The increased popiluation in the metropolitan area of Toronto has been largely responsible for the bet- h as 0.A.C. No. 21; varieties and Wild Goose; varieties and Silver Hull, are all well experiments conduet- ° 11's seed gelection of seed | In this experi- egual numbers of seeds wers r goed, the very ter showing, along with general in- creases in the larger towns and cities, and in New Ontario. Where Grains Greatest In addition to the two electoral dis- tricts of Fort William and Rainy River and Port Arthur and Kenora, where the urban population is greatest, New Ontario's greatest gains were in the constituencies of Timiskaming with 50,997, a 36 per cent. gain; Nipissing, 58,725, a 34 percent. gain, and Algoma : West, 33,602, a 17 per cent. gain. Eight of the twelve electoral con- stituencies of North West Ontario show an increase in population, ac- cording to the latest bulletin of the census branch. The figures follow: Some Figures Algoma East--1911, 37, 699; 40,579; increase 7.63 per cent. Algoma West--1911, 28,752; 33,602; increase, 16.86 per cent. Fort William, Rainy River -- 1911, 182,158; 1921, 39,683; increase 23.24 per cent. : Nipissing--1911, 43,679; 1921 58,725 increase 34.44 per cent. Parry Sound -- 1911, 26,5647; 1921 127,028; increase 1.81 per cent. | Port Arthur and Kenora--1911, 39- 1109; 1921, 43, 887; increase 12.21 per 'cent. Tamaskaming--1911, 87,380; 50,997; increase 36.42 per cent. A BUSINESS FORECAST In the annual review of business conditions of the past year and fore- cast for the coming year, Bradstrees's "says as follow: 1921 1921 1921, 'for future business, oné who has ev- "ents of the recent past in mind must be impressed by'the fact that most ideas of real progress in domestic and indeed in foreign trade revolve about the question of costs, whether of raw materials, labor, transportation or sell- quarrel with the desire of organized labor to get all it can in reason, but any one who remerbers the futile s stand of the railroad men against the : July reduction must be impressed with "the fact that any trade that insists on ! beinz placed on a wage pedestal of its own is bound to suffer ultimately. In this connection, the stand against re- ductions of many {miners who talk of demanding advan- ces next April must seem puerile, es~ pecially in view of the depression and trades for a year past. In the popular mind, also, the average retailer is a market and of belated reductions fail- ing to find the sale they might have realized earlier before purchasing the farmer and short time or unem- ployment in industries. The foreign situation seams to have many more elements of strength than of the department of commerce as to rect, a beftér demand exists than. a year ago--at a price. | The political situation abroad looks far bétter than one or two years ago despite the woe- ful condition of the central European exchanges. The collaps of the print- ing-press brand of money should have some lesson for our owu "medicine men" and quack doctors who would create values by flat. With protection guaranteed by the Stronger powers against incursions of the eastern own combination of socialism and murder has failed to bring about the millennium, central Europe should rally because its people are mainly workers and have not arrived at the {po®it, reached by some advanced | thi | lieve men can live by agitation alone. | POISON DRINK TAKES | NEW YEAR TOLL New York, Dec. 81.--The worst is jet to come{ This is the view of New Year's eve taken by city officials still "dealing with the dead and injured laid low by wood alcohol in Christmas drinking bouts. Despite the death toll, New Yorkers ~ont:nued to swallow bootleg liquor of 2 hevy ¢ with which the New 1 Tear is usually ushered into this city. One officer said yesterday that his agents had traced one of the largest where from are h 3 Ly yy 1 Canada to the Bahama af 'Chatham International Bobsleighs are made of 3 1 In any effort to weigh up prospects ing. 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