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vice ground for the sowing of alfalfa you i of our farm [ authority on all su Address all [ sary of The Wilson Publish Ing Co! answers will appear in this In which they are received. When. tion this paper. As space ls limited ] Immediate reply is necessary that &° dressed envelope be enclosed with the Co., Limited. Copyright by Wilson Publishing V. B.:--Please give me some sug) gestion on how to treat celery blight. 0 se Answer: --To trel celery bilghs on pk ] » 2 prepare a mixture of Bordeaux which gone of is made as follows: Dissolve 4 Ibs, can get very. good results by a top quick lime in a wooden container and dressing of fertilizer, scattering it at 4 tbs. copper sulphate in another: the rabe of about 20010. 800 Ibs. per wooden pall. Empty both of these acre as soon as the soil is sufficiently into 20 gals. of water. Immediately dry in spring for a team to work on it you have made the solution spray it} without injurying the growing crop. on the celery in a fine spray forcing 1 would advise your using a mixture it down among the leaves as thorough- analyzing about 2-12-2, that is, 2 per ly es possible. This spraying should] cent. nitrogen, 12 per cent, phosphoric begin as soon as the celery is well acid and 2 per cent. potash. started after setting in the field and' M. F.:--I stored a quantity of dry should be kept up at least five to seven black muck last autumn, and as my times. Do not use the Bordeaux mix-| horse stable is about two feet from ture If it has bean standing any length the ground I intend to make a box 3' of time, but mix up fresh material wide by 1' deep, the whole length of every time you have to spray. | the stable and place this directly under K. K.+=T would like to know wheth- | the gutter which is made of 2" plank, er I shall sow oats with the alfalfa the bottom being perforated so as to peed this spring or alfalfa alone. | let the horse urine drain through into Answer:--FEarly oats make very the box below which is filled with dry @ood nurse crop to sow with alfalfa, muck, and will be emptied and refilled especially if you are careful not to as required. Please let me know what sow too much seed. I would hemical 1 should use in the muck to mend not more than a bushel to an make a good fertilizer for potatoes, acre if you are seeding alfalfa at the and other garden vegetables. Would game time. Barley has been used with | it do to mix the chemical with the exceedingly 'good results since this! muck while it was dry before it got crop ripens quickly and is out of the saturated? way by the time the young alfalfa] Answer: I would advise that you add is well started. to the muck soil in question about b 0. L. B.:--Next spring I wish to sow | Ibs. of acid phosphate, mixing it with alfalfa with winter wheat. Would it] the muck before you put it in the box. be advisable after top-dressing with| This will help catch and hold nitrogen farmyard manure? Would it be ad-| from the manure. When preparing visable to sow lime on the wheat, and | this for application to your potato what would be the best time to sow | field, for every ton of the mixture that alfalfa? you have taken out of the box add Answer:--If you have not applied|ebout 150 lbs. muriate of potash. lime to the uifalfa ground I would ad-| This should fairly well balanc- vise that you scatter a fairly heavy|ed fertilizer for potatoes. You should dressing early in the spring before the make a fairly heavy application of this frost goes out. This will sweeten the|to the potato soil, putting at least a ground and should assist the growth| double handful in each potato hil. of the bacteria that are found on the | However, see that this is mixed well oats and alfalfa. In preparing your|with the soil before dropping the pieces of seed potatoes. Three Posts to an Acre. When I built my lane fence, which is about the whole length of the farm, I wondered why I couldn't figure out some way to tell where an acre was located by the distance across the end. Figuring the exact amount of land in farming, showed that I could set my posts so that three of them would just make am acre, This saves me lots of time in esti- mating acreages. When a field is in corn I can count rows and tell about where I am, but in grain or hay I'm ast, 'Work this out om your farm. <BR. z BL Et To reflect back into human lines the last image of their living selves is the work of a master. le Dormant spraying is in order in the orchard, especially if you are troubled with scale insects. nei ---- Parly--that's the word. Write for goed catalogs early, make your choice early, then order early. Plan for a Fe { hotbed and have early vegetables. RN ,hthon0roni Only under urgent conditions should Ct ep mae + bee colonies be opened during the mid- Home economists figure that the dle of winter or when it is very cold, farm kitchen ought to be at least 1756 since undue disturbance may start square feet in area. It should be well brood rearing, which would be very fighted, wcll pdinted, and have a lot undesirable. Brood rearing should not of table space. | start until spring nectar is available. 2 For Hom ov = aa Their Kindness Meant So Much The sympathy of the Institutes of | to them, as we lost. everything in the old Ontario with fire sufferers of | recent fire. The Institute is doing and expressed | w ' the answer will be mailed direct. 5 ft hi $85 = or a g CG Poulin'? To stop roup start immediately to Increase the ecratch feed. If possible, feed our skim milk, or buttermilk in wome form. 2 Give them a dose of Epsom salts at onoe, at the rate of about one pound per 100 binds. Feed it mixed in a wet mash about two hours before they go 0 roost. You may have to keep other feed away for about six hours before feeding the salts, so they will -be bun- gry enough to eat plenty. The next day stant feeding ordinary ground sulphur or flowers of sulphur at the rate of one pound per 400 birds, in a wet mash, every day for ten days. Then give another dose of Epsom salts, If the birds are not by this time pretty well over their roup, re- t the treatment at the end of ten again, BE. mut tJ Like sugar, butter, cheese, eto. honey is a highly concentrated food stuff, but unfike the others, it is pre- digested. the and { Vs. 1, 2. That men ought alway 2 i big thing. Jesus does not | "why" we pray but rather "he should pray. f ¥ he I. Praying With Persistence, 1-8. yo to pray . . not to faint. Moffat trans- lates "about the need of a pra ing and never losing heart." It isn unending prayer that Jesus urges fong prayer may be a : hearted Rayer a | ooTH spirit rather than utterance publican stands apart t Jesus commends: The opposition Contrition. The ee always and 10 bie soe can is Jib hehwaen praying . praying sometimes, between | B ful praying end hopeless silence. =A in. their at 'and bearing. judge, which feared not God, neither not lift up . . his eyes; aot bocause regarded man; a man a most is ashamed in the responsible position, yet lacking abso. Pharisee, but because Jutely the qualifications for that posi- he is in 'the presence of God. tion. He repudiates God's moral law kept the Pharisees apart fro and nik claim for justice. a) Tan, Jyayer b the sition and powen were used wi f God. : his own interest. A hard man to move: me a sinner. The publican has not Ve. 8-5. There was a widow; a poor the right attitude and the and friendless woman and therefore of prayer, but also the one who would have enlisted the sym- . - He. confesses pathy of & just judge. He would nt for a while; she could offer no bribe or | corresponding. gain. But afterward; because she did not desist in her en- treaties. The justness of her cause would not let her be discouraged wi iB 35E gE the unjustness of the judge. avenge her. The persistence of woman made her an annoyance. It is his own comfort he consults. Lest . . . she weary me. Lest she wear me out (cover me with bruises). in| Vs. 7, 8. Shall not God avenge his own elect. If persistence wears f Fone the hand heart of the unjust judge what effect will the pensistent ery of God's children have on the lovi heart of the Father. If the judge's a ats oh he oot vhs man, wi | delay discourage 4 elect of God Though he bear long. . Lord put he will avenge them speedily. If jus tice has its long delays, so has loye. God cannot answer immediately: 'al- ways. We must wait long sometimes, y but when the proper time arrives the answer will be as speedy ( ). as ff Ei sudden). the flash of lightning. ' God's dela: are as loving a3 his answers. There- fore they should not make prayer to be faint. Shall he find faith. When the time is ripe for his coming, will it find God's elect praying in faith or waiting hope, II. Praying With Pride, 9-11, V. 9. Unto certain . . as trusted in themselves. From the pavable of per- sistent hopefulness in prayer, Jesus to speak a parable showing the ' er, how much true ba ity ot prayer. hon ema ys Wy condition of those whom Jesus no copfidence and self-satisfaction. And Yespised others; an inevitable result of -admiration and complacency. Vs. 10, 11. Two men . . a Pharisee 18: 1 (bo say, "It is absolutely necessary to pray, and that perseveringly--under all circumstances, never ' abandoning prayer in ir 9 Christ follows the story withthe question, "Howbeit when the son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" Shall Le find the faith that is requisite for this persistent prayer? i sed nce in pray- » idle 4 ai ve m this mountain, remove hence to Ionder place; ud it shall mamove} and nothin all be impossible 3 a . . a publican; one man the 1|"The power of Rp Ap religious man of the day. ures it-equal to anything, It can do belonging to a cass noted for their the seemingly impossible. Fundamental Principles of Co- Operative Marketing \ --rr-- . . By R. D. Colquette, B.S.A., Professor of Marketing Economics, the | that ay ye 1 ful, O ye of} in gn Eh 77 "If yo have faith as 8s 4 ustard seed, shalt say [on this score. A definite and Ontario Agricultural Coilege. ARTICLE V.° {either the association or the member A co-operative marketing associa-| under - certain. specified conditions. tion must have a contract or market. Cancellation can be made only at the ing agmeement with its members by| end of the crop year after due notice which the members agres to deliver; has been given: within specified dates. all their product, of the kind handled! Tho contract of the Ontario Cp- by the dation. Ho the jation| operative Dairy Products Limited, a for marketing. There is new | new organization for the co-operative; in this idea. It has been in operation in Denmark for over 40 years. In selling of Ontario cheese, has a con-, tract which is & combination of these! Californian the contrget idea has been 47 tern in force for over 20. years, All the great co-operatives of that state and; many of the associations that have, within the last few yeans, sprupg up in other states and in Canada, have binding contracts with their members Fad HEE witinilebn i nger that the market will | 'volume handled at good | the management of a co-| bi operative' marketing association is 'saved all this outlay. = The vdlume|d comes forward under the terms of the| contract and the manigement can de- vote all its energy to efficiently marketing the product. Other advantages of the contract system could be enumerated but these must suffice. It is a common saying} * gether, The co-operatives which have | adopted the contract have no trouble ind dl hens Arg nl and permanently successful co-oper- ative marketing associations on this' continent and it is re:ognized by all enthorities as a fundamental to the|l succes of a co-operative marketing enterprise. ; : elf pt? 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