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5 ih x hid fas ited LF ENT | gfe Ec] 55 ai their name was frequent to. the new Babylonian empire, | the Pliny Soon Jere: near 41 71: toward the Ji fessional ointment keeps the hens free from there will be few, if any, lic the poultry hone. * which the poultryman would have lit tle control. few such losses may be unavold. le and if the hens have a balanced ion, plenty of oyster shell, and are 'not overfat, the loss from soft-shelled eggs will be very cords of purebred swine indicate that 'the home More tham half the pedigreed hogs in quan Canada are born in the spring months. ko ts Of 3,168 animals' considered "8.71 per exported. Spe xi j tent. were born fin the four months 'The pamphlet deals with th | November to February, 68 per cent. vantages of cheese ns & food end sug. from March to June, and rather less du 'gests that move wight be benefielally than 26 per cent. from July to October. the: ec from November to February, 80.8 per consumed nada than at present ig In Denmark thirty per cent. are born Th a It 19 stated ie tend bo Vir] the| fore, force a tax pon all the good pro- wish oheess 1 I cent, from March to June, and 39.6 per 2% fo the ul cent. from July to October, A com- npared ! parison of the percentages will show h ow nearly the Danes spread their breeding over the whole year, thus h 8voiding any rush of young pigs at certain seasons. The same tendency a Is noticeable fin the Danish marketings. 'Whereas in Canada the marketings in the four-month periods ave, November y to February 40.4 per cent, March to June 80.4 per cent. and from July to October, 20.2 per cent., in they are, respectively, for the same { periods, 82.92 per cent., 33.09 per cent, #0 "and 83.00 per cent. Thus again tho fae: Danes spread their operations as near- fow producers . briigily 'as possible 'over the entire year, 1 1ich, -- L poured, avoiding as far as can be done "gluts" o ot ; Irs ata the market, and securing more even - : {48 ohtire. 'prices, While no co-operative arrange- of the cheoss factory, - Some fort mon existe in Denmark for thus car: should be els, by coopermiive 126 | pving on, the Danish hog raisers them. 'torles"at least, to oblige all DAUrons | golves-base their plans upon the needs keop thelr milk in proper shape for | of the market as they know them., An- tho highest quality of cheese, other point is the care the Danes take ido ok single can of inferior 'milk Will 'of liters by broviding seitans boils gs | lower-the price. received and; there- ings for their housing, of course, along , from which they are re as many as five Jit- xs. In Denmark, too, 'market {8 very closes ducers. It would seem wise for the manager of the company to oocasional- ly make tests of milk delivered and | 4, . e op] Then rough the board of directors, | 1v watched 'and. fleniny cress i plan for either : i getting the producer of such milk to | thereby chi. the same time. the breed. clean up or dispose of his product hard by the decline in prices pr 5 3) gi TEE, ] TI 3 6. 'great Sources of human joy the great fiations of the earth erfuination; it wins moat battles. The elimination of excessive Heating | and. of nbanieous combustion in mows et » may 1 entirely if hay is put up only| Shen properly cured. The heating] fq EE Tibia x 'm five, If ai so. It blue | farmers in that country have|* 4 trouble, ®1 could be accounted for was that while dot Spray Injury and Its Control Some Observations as to Its Cause and Some Suggestions on Making Spraying Safer. BY FRANK A WILKEN We often Lear the. expression, The spray was applied with a Small "Wien it isn't one thing it's another," | outfit, so the force of the spray was especially when there are things to not nearly so great as a power Butfit contend with. This expression can'and the spray gun, but parts of the truthfully be used in connection with'tree were drenched, while other parts Epraying; end undoubtéiily often is by were just covered with a fine sgbay. those who have a spraying job to do. Result of Carelessness. © Firvet we get a material that we On none of these test plots think will control the insects or pests | there any spray injury evident, ven in good shape, and we no sooner get! when lime-sulphur was used at; the its use perfected than we find that it' strength of one to fifty on Japiinese itself does injury. A few years ago plums. This seemed to Indicate {thet there was nothing like Bordeaux mix-|a drenching of a tree with limereuls ture and Paris green for the controb o| phur or any of-the polsons. would mot fruit pels, but the development of| cause serious injury. Bue the exper- Bordeaux injury caused a change to|iences mentioned before would indie the use of lime-sulphur and arsenate | cate that the force of the spray in of lead, This combination looked like | combination with the heat of the sun vehi thing until we come to realize! is what would cause it, Those parts of lime-sulphur injury is sometimes | the trees which were not in the path of, a-serfous proposition, the direct force of the apray showed The writen has watched with inter| no evidences of spray injury. Neithey est the change from the use of Bor-| Were those parts of the tree affected deaux mixture to that of lime-sulphur, | Which were protected from the direct and also the developments with refer-| beat of the sm. 'But even with the ence to the limewulphur injury, His| old disc type of nozgle, when the spray observations and experiences are| Id was held too i the tres, given below with the hope. that they sulted, This was plainly may contain some suggestions of value Showy 0 ee outs with reference te eliminating the of dhe rey Scr fl Bar's? we on f lime-sulphur| type has brought about a lot more hi fos stro riviend Nnmeauighits injury than resulted shen the old type when the 'exposed parts of the end|Of disc nozele Was used. This is not trees in the rows had some leaf brn. | because the spray gun is' defective, ing. . For.a long time this was puz-| but because the ome Who Jrindies it is sling, as the rest of the trees and the{ likely "to be careless dnd perhaps a other parts of the end trees were| little lazy, and instead of efideavoring free from injury, At that time the| 0 get the spray to the distant Tarts ordinary large disc noazle was used, Of the tree with a fine mist, he tries so the force of the spray alone could Is drive it there with the forceful considere long-distance spray. Jd Jot bo ore] a a Sante of the Apparently spray injury sometimes : ora becomes so 'serioug that § does as The only way the cause of the injury much damage as the i or dis- pe eases which the epraying i§ supposed the team wae turning to go down an- 0 control, and, therefore, gerious at- Sher Tow the spay vod was kept! oti, ghould be given fo fhe contrel m| Playing on those end troes at very of the injury as well as the fruit peste Sips range, ies gare these raw snd diseased, ends an unusual amount of spray quital 'p) conclusion, it seéms to me that forcefully applied. These row. ends spray injury may be caused under the were also more exposed $0 the heat following conditions: t of the sun, : ot Hot sultry weather at tim$ of spray- At another. time, when" spraying ing, or shortly followi it, in com- very hot weather with thelpinivion with the forcef lication ype of nozzle, the sides of of spray. : Lime-sulphur, even at to a hun- dred strength, it applied foi lly and ufider certain weather conditions may cause injury: ' eter were brown and soft with Lime-sulphur will cause injury eith- injury. Tnvarisbly Shon Spots wereloy with or without ther alsenical. Pn the exposed sides of thie apples. The arsenicals, calcium' gr senate and Cause of the Injury. arsenate of lead do not cause injury, Two years ago the injury was noted| even when heavily applied, except pos- hy move. sepecislly on peas trees| bly dlight, injury' when forcefully it n this phi : Evidently the common fault of most yers. is that they get too close to ir jobs. Spraying' can be done more quickly in this way but not as safely and eff as w : hit! from the, tree and