- Wanted | 20 sive Be tis hin ee SS Pr tee co ikempgnens teabasion: i Line. es —_— ‘oronte to ADIAN_ PACIFIC Be ‘Expected from: Poor Seed. {Contributed by Ontario nt of Agriculture, Toronto.) There is much difference in opinion as to the best variety to grow, and the selection generally hinges on two points, viz..—the value of the land and the cost of labor. If you have to pay high for labor and your land is high priced, then grow the ews tie yielding variety that you can fing, taking a chance on its yenching pyahrnd Production per acre you must e. If you are on low cpriend land, then select a good yielding variety that i mom fe mature sie and also mol eavy corn, full 3 rerey is hard to handle, N “4P've Never Advertised in Twenty Years” * “Yes, I'll admit times are a bit slow with me but I'm hoping for the turn of the tide.” Waitng for their ships to come in has spel- led disaster for all too many Canadian merchants. Don’t think ‘along the lines of the man above. Advertise! = £ Advertising in The Banner will keep your : name and store constantly before the people in this town. Advertising is a wonderful business- building force---and profitable to use. Talk it over with us. \Y PROGRESSIVE MERCHANTS. ADVERTISE ni makes @ richer silage. True, it will not produce as much milk per acre as the large heavy yielding variety, but what it does produce is produced with the aid of less supplementary . So if you have abundant land, the early maturing, high quality var- feties will be most. suited to your need; On-the other hand if you have few acres and must get the most out of the area irrespective of labor cost, then you-hud best select the heavy yielder variety. Test the oe Corn. Test for germination every ear * corn that ye used for seed. It doe not take very much time to do it. Testing seed is the only insurance you have for a perfect stand. Why take a chance and loose by spending your labor on a field with only half as many plants as there ‘should be. Better test the seed, and get started right. Two weeks before you figure on planting corn prepare a seed box with moist sawdust or sand, plant a representative sample, give it care and watch for the sprouts. Be guid- least omce every half hour, using liberal quantities and rubbing it} thoroughly over the hands and face. Care should be taken to have a su& ficient fmantity of a mixture when) on an extended trip in the wooils, At least-ap ounce per person -per day ie irs or se Shall be admitted Free of (a) araratae residents of the United States must declare all articles acquired abroad, In their baggagé or on their per- ns, whether by.-purchase, VISITORS FROM SOUTH SPEND A LOT OF MONEY IN CANADA They tell us that there’ are one hundred and twenty million people in e United States; and some of them boast of—others Capieee ie mon- ey they spend in Can gift. or otherwise, and whether necessary if the flies are anyway a- | But shaking it all ree nat- dutiable. or free of duty. Fx- bundant. The mixture should be car- ; aking them some late- emption, however, will be al- ried in a small aluminum flask or | 0 e has been shaking hundred mil-| lowed by customs. officers of, | screw top t in; but not in a was bot- cn ly—we will call . o- oat say that articles aggregatin f °o tle as it is apt to break. 4 eon nm of ose on cent of them $100 in value if suitable for per- Panes ee sonal or household use, or as Ontario Boar weltey Meets Approval come across the line. That means a lot of money for those who are wide enough awake to peach for i That is a crude way ot el it, oy but it makes it: plainer for many. mos Our persona! opinion of the average s citizen” will not. be as promulgated, but the fact remains ee that they bring a lot of money into 5s Canaia—and are willing to spend it souvenirs or curios, and whether intended for the personal use of the as gifts or presents to o srovided the urticles are not bought on com- mission. for another pereen, nor intended for sale. But articles so exempt from duty must be declared.—Grimsby Independent. nee Of the ~ eyer-incres intereds: pelng taken by hog producer: a5 used is manifest in the formation of Bacon Hog Clubs under the policy of the Ontario Department of Agricul- ture. Already one‘hundred and ninety such clubs have been supplied ‘with ; ari Increase of almost one bun- Canadians, near. the border, spend a wn ‘ . ars: lot of money over there. Whether] pROTECTION AGAINST MOSQUIT- printing: base Gen sca i Brahe they get value or not is not the point. OES j ete : d But to offset the good Canuc ng supplied with the Certain protectiye mixturés , ap-} best animais available as quickly as n-are-of great value! possible. : black- Coincident with this increased in- es and similar pests, espécially;) terest in the type of boar being used when the insects are'very numerous,| isa culling as it were of the sows A number of formulas for such mix- acers are tures are given in‘a pamphlet on the @ sews with methods of protection against: mos-| Young sows, eg Bitters that are well quitoes and black-flies, just issued and w ere grading ashigh by the- Entomological Branch of the f vaclects In seme rs Dominion Department of Agriculture. een ned. desire ie A mixture pene phe by the auth- perating ap > enie exch: rf ei or ig composed of $ ounces @f ofl of ae ‘splendid sence eg hae cok ar et b vot spirits of camphor. tained. Now is th. ng ity ras 1 of off of tar, % an ounce of off of) hel e tints for the hog sackgocont nal from 4 to 6 ounces of ho-has n 1 castor oll dollars that are spent over there tt is up to us to show visitors from the south that there are things in this country worth { tlh It is not necessary to tell the av- erage “denizen” of Canada that ev- ery dollar spent here by any outsid- to the But realize that it meana something to them. t has been remark time and time again , tourists from the sout “Oh! if ET eould only take that home cite me.”* Make it a Lege b=) = ° 9 o cS “to see that tbe in the type. of breeding stoek a a | ed by the performance of the sample i tested. Good seed corn is not abun- | dant this year, sc be careful in your | purchase. Soft or moldy seed corn | never produced a strong plant. Don’t {forget that, first of all, your crop ‘depends upon the vigor of the seed | that you plant. | Preparing for Corn. | Clover Sod ploughed {n September jand surface worked until late Octo- ber, and then ridged up and left ex- ‘posed to the frost action, until dry | enough to harrow down in the spring is a successful method for corn. The | application of not less than 2 lof good. stable manure should be | made in early May, and the land re- ' ploughed and worked down to the ‘fine tilth:- of a good seed-bed. | Planting. |} When the White Oak leaf is as large as a black squirrel's foot (last week in May) plant the seed in check rows 40 inches apart, using machine | Planter or drill, cover two inches deep an | Cultivation, Start cultivation by going over the area with a weeder just before the corn comes up. Follow each week with machine cultivation to keep a dust mulch and prevent weed growth, luntil such time as the | tillage. ;eutting the roots of the piant | esting Chickens for Bacillary White Diarrhoea. This diseage has played havoc tn ij many poultry yards durin | been spread around largely through | the exchange of breeding -stock. | Chicks and eggs for hatching, from | infected breeding stock, have carried | the bacillus pullorum from one end of the country’to the other; so the | } | large financial loss to many poultry | owners. | | | ing | dnee normal eggs. The bacteria pass | with the ova and.are sanittons or \in the shell of the egg. the | ess hatches the chick is aineaity infected. | Chicks less than a week old have ; the following post mortem lesions:— (1) Enlarged liver with red _ + | (2) “Congested 1 un, gj i] Chicks over one week old show:— Ag Enlarged liver with greyish | 43) Friable nodules in the lungs. occasionally in the brag and hings. | Diarrhoea does not always have time to develo, 80 tt the chicks die look for the lesion The only really succeasful way to combat. white diarrhoea is to elim- inate the breeding stock infected with bacillus pullorum. These trouble pro- ducers may be found out by applying the agglutination test'to every hird on the premises. Eliminate all re- actors to this blood test and be care- ful in your purchases of eggs, chicks, or breeding stock. The disease wil! yenson, Dept. of Extension, O. A. Cc. Econonty In Food Production: The dairy cow is the nost econom- ieal animal for the conversion of farm , §wine are in'the pro- ‘products from the hen “ee —1it costs money to make | corn has grown too large to permit of further Corn tillage should always | de shallow, much damage is done by g the past | few years,and, like tuberculosis, it has disease is now wide spread and causes | The bacteria responsible for the |} trouble (bacillus pulorum) centralize | in the ovary of the mature hen, caus- lesions in that organ; and its in- jabdility to properly function and pro- Contributed tart nt of say ggg we Cultivating, or intertillage, is so generally practiced with corn growing that we assume it is necessary for Teason. But there are seyeral rea- sons, the most important of “which are to conserve moisture and to dé- stroy the competing weeds that the corn may have the best possible chance to develop Intertillage Mensa: = Intertillage also assists the freeing surface soil will, in- case of heavy rain, take up and hold more moisture than a hard or uncultivated surface. “As fast as moisture evaporates from the surface more water moves up from below. This is as nature in- tended it should be, and was quite the right thing bela the soil surface is covered with d lutely bare condition, and then plant corn the object of growing corn and nothing else on the land, we must save the moisture, prevent its escape develops a root system extensive moisture is lost from.the fallow field if there is no cultivation during the weather, and we know that field will retain the soil in a mellow condition, How Moisture Evaporates. If we set a pan of water on the unprotected surfoce soil it will loose one-half inch of water daily during the dry weather. A similar pan of water set in the corn field or wheat field where it is protected by the growing crop will not lose as much in a week. From the foregoing it will be noted that the most import- ant tillage to save the moisture for the corn plant is done previous to the time that the plant has attained a height of 12 or 15 inches. When the corn is that high it has developed a root system large enough to prevent loss of soil moisture. Tillage done after the corn is 15 Inches high has its main benefit In removing the weeds that compete with the corn for moisture and nourishment. All taken by weeds directly robs the corn crop. In. experiments that were conducted to determine the influence of weeds on corn yield it Was found that shal- low cultivation gave an increase of 63 bushels of corn per acre over where weeds were allowed to grow. Deep Cultivation Not Necessary. There is no real necessity of cul- tivating deep, unless it is to cover largo weeds. If the work is done In proper time the weeds will not get large and shallow tillage will take care of them, and at the same time the cern roots will not be injured by the cultivator teeth. Broad cut- ing cultivater teeth that do not loosen the soil more than two inches deep give conditions most favorable to the full development of the corn plant. The type of aie best ing usual- ly spoken of as “ her’ up deep,” t her down Poms " increases the labor and reduces the yield Frequent Cultivations a Benefit. Up to the time that the corn shades the ground cultivate frequently, and not over two Inches deep; after that, continue to cultivate shallow princi- pally with the object of destroying weeds.—Department of Extensfon, O. A. College, Guelph. GQNEERN Fan PUN ruvuLInk. The Best Hatches Are Generally Due to the Vitamines In Grass, Cab- bage, Sprouted Oats, Etc. The’ old-time poultry man knew that it was necessary for the breeding birds to get outdoors during the hatching egg preduction season, if the results were to be really favor- able. Why the outdoor life made the difference he did not know, but we have learned since that the outdoor life had Httle to do with the hatch- ability of the eggs.. The success was oe to what the hen ate while free utdoors. Green grass and clover, eatibans, leftuce, kale, sprouted oats carry the fat soluble Vitamine D, which is essential for fertility and hatchability ef the egg and the uti- lization in the body of phosphates of lime, so essential in bomes. The fat soluble Vitamine A is aiso present in all green feeds, and to a lesser extent in turnips, mangels, and rut- abagas. Theuse of green feed in some form is absolutely essential if the hatchabaity of the egg and the be chick is to reach a high winter and early spring are due to the Breeding stock mot receiving the vitamine eaprying green feeds. 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If one puts a bit; of leaf or gravel or grass stem into a) bee hive, if the object isn’t too large! and heavy, the bees will pp it out- as the hive is clos Se ent crac 4 point ‘inside the hive vegetable waterproof glue called pro- French-Canadian agricultural ex- polis, which they gather —_ fe ae pets, theolegiatis, atudents-and:oth- a a ang aon hago a weather,| ©*3» touring the country under the auspices of the University of Mont- real express unanimous amazement at the agsicultural development of British Columbia, the scenery of Al- berta, the prairies of Manitoba, the beauties of Northern Ontario and the vastness of the country in gen- eral. A similar excursion left To- ronto recently under the auspices of the Teachers’ Federation of Canada also over Canadian Pacific lines, and will return ‘the middle of August. Sometimes a big grasshopper or a emall mouse will creep inside the ive for shelter. The bees promptly sting the intrudé& to death, it mpletely over with propolis, liter- any Tombaltning it. Such objects ‘are often found in the hive by the bee- keeper, sealed up as airtight ax @ housewife could seal a can of frult with aeeling wax, Di winter many old bees days es Seeee out the accum- winter. The ap-to-date STATISTICAL NOTE the golf courses every afternoon would furn- 4 is bigs’ sat to mow 78,000 lawns, ‘a ’ Tugs and wash ‘789, 234 ease ae ere Sst 0 Ro cleaner, eeee ey. ee s ‘The Label Bert man Rds wes aati