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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1919-06-12, Page 3v. Keep. the Garden Growing, •A good many of us get rid -of -inuc of our gardening enthusiasm whe the hot weather comes and the gar den looks like it would be hit har by drouth, or the quack grass en croaches, or a wet spell lets the weed get ahead of us. It takes courag then to push `right in• and insist o, making the garden continue to - giv a good"account of itself.' Still w want garden truck all the season and a good supply for winter, use. A lady remarked the other day tha she canned alinost� everything, even rabbits •,and squirrels, and always; had plenty of Variety an, her table and had little to buy of anything she . could raise,,; This is the true spirit fe,r all of us to imbibe,• and then the high cost of living will not frighten us. There is not much that we will need in the vegetable line- that we annot grow if we determine to work or it and if we will go at' the can- ning right --there :is -.nothing we, .cab, not• can -and ]lave for winter ,use _lar some other crop that is not liable It to attack by ,the same - insects, for we rd are pretty apt to have a supply of i -' these on hand by the time the first d crop" is off the ground. Plants that c - have the aphis' on them badly will the money which he spent for milk and butter would have paid for a cow. He made no improvements, not even the planting of a fruit tree; spent the winters in idleness, and got deep- ly in debt. He sold his farm after four ` years, and, of course, _blamed the soil for his failure. He has gone to find a better place. He has a small family, and with a sufficient number of pigs and calves to consume even ' the waste he. could have" lived in -de- pendent Yrayer—.Matt. 6: 5-15 k Luke 18: 1-14. pendent of the credit merchant. Golden Text, Phil. 4: 6. Whatever place he may select as his Matt. 6: 5-15. The Lord's Prayer. home he will be a failure without a Do not pray, Jesus said, "as the hange of management. hypocrites." They pray "that The other nad only $150 in._ cashI may be seen of men." They fter paying his and his family's, a. reputation for -sanctity which ransportation. He investe l this as, heighten their influence amon ne=half paynisnt ozl a 40 -acre farm � people. - Better the secret prayer with a two -room dwelling, a pretense] which God hears, the prayer in Y f a barn, and a weak rail fence as I the. heart speaks and the soul to store of improvements. He out to Him in •desire and faith brought • his . mean_ and lard for The is there need - of "vain repetition rst year. With. these exceptions he of "much speaking," for God - ad• everything to buy -on credit, ewes the need of those who call. upon horse. He. soon saw the need ' of . a The, model prayer which Jesus ow, so bought one on the install-' His disciples, is remarkable fo ent plan. When he - had paid all simplicity, its brevity, and its com- et $5 the cow died. He sold the prehensiveness. Calling upon the alf to complete the payment, and i heavenly Father, it pleads for the ought another cow On the same plan reverence due to His name, for the s the first one. I coming of His kingdom, for daily He has sold butter enough to go, food, for forgiveness of sins, ..and for long way toward buying needed ;deliverancesfrom. evils This>,. ' pplies••and-cattle'• to' the :Anfou t. of° prayer. that teaches to pray." 80 Three ears ago he . borrowed I, P .Y • y 1 t>[lce l fs; 1-1 1. Para�ales � of 1 • INTERNATIONAL LESSON JUNE 15. s provide a cure death to any other el same ground is used. Cucumbers are crop subject to aphis attacks_ if the. a tion to a foreign power. The •Phar- isee exalted himself in his prayer, the publican humbled himself, parable illustrates well the saying of Pasha 51: "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and - a eon - trite heart, 0 God, thou wilt not de- spise." Compare also Isa. 57: 15. The old English poet, Richard Crashaw, writes: "Two went to pray? Qr rather say One went to ,brag, the other to pray. One stands up close, and treads on high Where the other dares not send his they eye; desire One nearer to God's .altar trod, The other to the altar's "God." mail Perha s no ra er of g the B -prayer penitence has e best' planted where no cucumber has e been grown for at least a year pre-' , vious. Late -planted cucumbers will .i° often bear surer than the early- t planted, and one year I got the very fi hest results- from. some vines that h came into `, bearing in September,' a though they will,not stand frost and c should be bearing before :there is danger from frost or even very chilly m nights. j Late planting for canning. I have I c 1 found very effective. I have planted a 1 beans,. beets, corn and some other' a quick -maturing crops so they would Icome .into canning condition along in a r August. ani, September; and then"': d' , ,u p a • lot of canning: all at once. ! If our gardenhas been well re-.: T - mono and h h I •.Paned .,before , planting '. I e soil with � p op arc using ' tlr p g • and has beets pulverized manure will be a .help g es producing his own able presents an argument from the To journey the livelong `day, In a curious carriage all made leather They hurried away, away.! .•.__ One big brother and three quite stns y oug i_ a air of ore-. red: , 44: , h a,well F P I cell Tlae unjust judge. • The par- Five little brothers „set ut together hq s. Besides W been more often repeated than that Invest Your Money IM 5 54 % DEBENTURES. The Great West Permanent Loan Company, Toronto Office 20 King- St. West 4 Rebuilding French Houses. 'there are 550,000 buildings to be re- built in the devastated districts of France, according to statistics given the Chamber of Deputies by M. Le- brun, minister of liberated territories, says a Paris despatch. Three hun- dred thousand buildings were totally destroyed, while,250,000 were destroy- ed ih part. hick j of the publican, and it has often been' goes the last Uttered prayer . Nor `about to . meet its , God. And it has s" or many times been the wisest and, best knows to whose lips it has come. They have Him. ' put to the test and have proved the gave Saviour's words that "fie that humbl- e its eth himself shell be exalted," of the soul "Sh 'ray-. Five :Little Brothers. 11, MR. FARMER • INVEST YOUR MONEY In an IrnjjJement Shed Ask your LUMBER DEALER 4 g kept stirred during the earl y part of where the ]ants r meat and lard he has sold some ho s' p need feeding, or g . less to the greater witness. If the the season 'we must not neglect it where two crops have been ! at fancy prices for breeders. His less P grown one , proves the, case, how - much more now. or all this' early work will; be after the other,' especially 'f -they are' first horse a plug died just when he! 'nein will the ! lost. As the ea d g greater be : If the -unjust and selfish judge can be was needed the most but he bought the seasonson advances the j both, or either, heavy growers. Bone - need for quick cultivation after each meal is a valuable fertilizer a good mare on credit to replace hi•m. • rt lizer for garmoved by continual pleading that will -.� .ralp is most imperative. p , I do not like to let a crust form at all, but I want to get out with my five -prong cultivating tool and stir that soil just as soon. as it is dry enough so it will tilizers I have used it with good eel I. had much sickness and one death, all not pack den use for it . is concentrated contains, both phosphorus and nitro- I poultry house, and barns, and added the good and just God be moved to gen and is aafe to use by those not another room to •.his dwelling. He act on behalf of His own! Men ought, versed in the use of commercial Nu.' has a family. . of small children, has and , He has built up-to-date fences, a; not be denied, how much more . will together. ogether, it will be neces-. feet and know that it pays well if ca sary to go over it again in day or judiciously used. Where planted . in! Pri two for this moist soil will settle drills or rows the bonemeal can be aed allow some moisture to pass up i sprinkled along the row on either.re to the' a r if th• • is is not done. After side' and` then ;stirred into the .soil. an the soil gets dry down as far as .stair Just a thin sifting.four inches wide ter red it_does not matter if it is ' not will b - 'f pplied to each side i pia using him heavy expense. He has anted fruit trees 'every year except - g one, and has already begun to alize a profit from hi•s orchard. He s paid for his farm, 'owes no man i "The Pharisee" belonged to a ything, and does not believe -a bet --1 ect society of men who were zea place exists for a poor _man. Hei to maintain the ancient laws and ns ahead and always has a de-) toms. bf Israel's religion. In t ed end in view. origin, one hundred to. one hund Which of the two men makes the' and fifty years before. the birth ter citi•zen? Christ, they were sincere and hon — , even if narrow, champions of 'the tient faith against Greek. and of innovations. They became, f,9r. op. oaft" •r•.. � time, an active political party, `'� now, 'under Roman; rule, :they w chiefly , interested in preservi How I Made My Poultry ,.Pay. , . through .a display of religious form The first Of January, 1917, 1 bought ity, their hold upon the minds of young, Plymouth _ Rock_.pullets,,-c-ommen ,peoprle, and their influe ave _them ,good.care sand--fed.--them-i:-i•n- the great J�wisi� counci which eggs. In three weeks they were controlled purely' Jewish affairs of ing finely. I then bought :two i religion and morals. While there were_ ubatars. I set my hens'- eggs • and still good men among them, many ed some others to fill up the in -I were merely wearing.a mask of pi•et y .eubators. I set four hens at the. .and well deserv.�ng the name of hypo-'• same time. I crite which Jesus more than once ap-, a y first hatch came .off the middle; plied to them. They "devoured quill=' February. I hatched 266 'fine ( ows' houses and for 'a pretence made ' t ks from 389 eggs. I divided. the; long prayers." ks• amongthe four., liens and a� ' a The publican was a tax collector, 11 d *brooder. I kept part of the in the employ of the Roman .Govern P • s in the brooder at night until', ment,. and so was looked upon as a' h were six or seven days old, then' traitor to, - or as an outcast from, his t e , them to the. hens. For their own people, who hated their' subpe feed I gave them finely crumbl- ...,_. gg shells •and prepared chick feed, ty of fresh water and fine .grit. Aft, they were two weeks old I kept in a - small building with clean r for them to work in. .I - gave plenty of milk._ raised 460 good chicks from 553 . At 3 months old I sold all but' inlets which I kept for winter rs• I received $1P.6. i4) for the hells and you> chick$, _the_bens bii e n. � - $1F;.80, which, after I deducted ';:i4' for the feed, eggs and. oil .for the in- cubators, left $111.80 for my work, for four months, - and my 8 pullets. i Then I }',);•an to feed for winter laying. The' first of September I gavel' them a noon mash of beef scrap, chopped bones and bran. After we. - .butchered our hogs, I fed* a mash of "turnips, potato peelings, table scraps and meat - cracklings, with a ta}sle-. spoonful of sulphur once a week. My, pullets b_e_,gan_to lay Dc.cember firsts - I sold eggs as follows: 'December, $18.60; January, $28.63; February, $35.75;' March, $4Q:•.5; April, $38.94:. $162.37 in ii%e months. I sold the 87 hens for $73.95 so the total for..hens _-and eggs.. -wits -..$•236.32. The' Witt.- .- of -. for the hens being $f33, I ' had to my credit $173.32 for the hens and eggs, $11.80 for the young chicks, making the total for all $285,12, in sixteen months. . therefore, "always to pray, and to faint." Faith in God means. trust and confidence in Him . es not despair -of His goodness but - keep watch, wait patiently, and k on praying. "Pray without .ceasi of • 11.1 t For. Plans and Price,. Wby Life Is Sweet With heavy heart the chaplain turr..ed away from theline of freshly rnsade graves at which he lad just ▪ It had not been one of the war's great battles, but it had taken seven lives, and each life taken meant a heartbroken home across the water, and"each life had been laid down before its owner had had a 'fair chance to.live. One of the seven. was a young man who bade fair to make a great difference to his generation, had he Iived=the kind. of fellow of whom his friends, in describing him, almost invariably said, "He? Oh, he's a prince!'' -and he was. On the way back the 'chaplain turn- ed to the sergeant in charge of the funeral squad. "Sergeant," he • said, "I wish ybu'd tell me Why you fellows volunteered for this war? . Why were you so keen to get into• .it ?" The sergeant answered slowly: "I guess;.. it's simple enough, chaplain. We... saw, something' that hail to ` be done or everything' would go to pot. So. naturally eve wanted •to have a hand in it to: see that it was done right." "You mein, do you," the chaplain asked, "that you did it to make this a better . world ? "Yes," said the sergeant, "I' think. hat's it." The chaplain thought of .laws :be_ . ficiat And one wee fellow no size at all. The carriage was dark and none too roomy, And they could not move about; not such The file little brothers grew very will will eep �. ng, e , sough 1 stirred again until- a rain if-" it is nbt of the row. too long in coming. Poultry Weeds and � y -manure is good but it is grass use up plantfood very strong and should,be' mixed with • and make the plants grow weak• and dry dust and worked over until it is, bet spindling even• if there is plenty .of all broken up And fine. - Then scatter moisture in the gr nd, so we must along the row to a width of six inches. keep down the weeds in wet spells as on each side, not over a quarter to a much as possible for best. results. We half-inch in depth. Stir into the soil "can shave the weeds off at the stirs: at once. It is never a ., . �....�.,,�-, _ _ _good idea to face when the ground is 'wet, .without give' plants a heavy dressing of this ifi jury to the soil, but we cannot dig manure when they, have been dry for in the soil without compacting- it and a long time until after it has rained. pit will not come back into good me- If the ground is dry when applied, too chanical condition again for a to time. I once and often the result - will be for There is a knack about hoeing to, drooping and sometimes .dying plants lac be effective. I have knoicn people to where thrifty ones were before. n hoe and leave the garden with spots ' add unstirred and with ,the weeds either, One Way pf Making Good. cut off above theground •ere or sir sel-- lous eus- heir oomy, : And he wee one began to pout, Till' the iggest one whispered, :"What . do . you wry? - • Let's leave the carriage and run away." So out they scampered, the • five to- gether, red And off and away they sped, of .When somebody found the carriage est, of leather an- Oh, my, how 'she shook her head! her 'Twos her little boy's shoe, as every - a one knows - but • And the five little brothers ere I five little toes. " Fl ng',� , the' ExEmpres- E were rice The ex -Empress -Eugenie who- was 93 on May 5, strikes all who see her as the picture of. good, but not robust, health. .Prince and Princess Napoleon are still. residing with "1ler Imperial :Majest'y;" as M. Pichon (the French Fereig-n Minister) . styled her last trtunm when telling a great gathering f, Alsatians and. Lorrainers in -Paris -- hat she had presented to the French rchives the original letter written to ier in October, 1870. by the King of russia (then at Versailles) declining er appeal to him not to insist upon he annexation of Alsace and Lor- c-! rajne. not cut , II is a case of two farmers who r-t-11,-t't 'c t-yvh�priother would wave been under the writer's observe- �1 systematically •cover every inch of , tion for a few the space with an even *stroke and lances prove Years. Their exper-� chic the work would he � failure P o e that a farmer's success good • for -a long-- � chic time. It pa- a careful to do good as much on goo work for the other kind - has to be' his management as upon the crops .he produces. 4Lt}1._acame from .the• --same this done over.:•again before the. job js` distant vince• about "-six spay hardly finished. I aim to cut the' years ago, gay and ought land near us. • weeds far enough •below the surface The one houg t a•n improved farm first to keep them from starting up again . of 60 acres for 80 -i eel e from "the same roots. Of course paying two -i plan thirds cash d vs to b or depends about where we shave them at the surface s an agreeing to pay the l Aft balance in two1 tEmporar� � bi ou ht i them in wet weather it is only a annua payments. He makeshift. and has to he well 'clone, g improved implements with him, and was able to cultivate more t lute as soon as we can get apoorly equipped fthon t it. " ► acres than a - A good -many crops mature quick.Ile planted armer. I q I p 1 largely of feed crops, eggs ly and we should plant such plots,, corn, peas, peanuts, and his: ,1-t.. once. - In •0t-1er--to- 41--_.i,'fiia`Trocruect much' more thpot. he c apd $7-._p end in gather or houce lave effectual] I ie an he could Y plant -with •this properly. Qther farms view and make the erops-.ni:ituring.ers._produced the -some crops, so only together come together in the g►, ��rden a dull market existed for them, and as 'far_ as possible. Even when in no profitable shipping facilities were single rows or beds we can easily ;t convenient. Besides his two horses he plant ag On, and I prefer to plant to i kept no livestock, not even a pig, and The First Line, of Defence A lilt:rttiful supply of ammunition is the first line of defence • against the enemy. 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The chaplain clench - "After these sacrifices," he said to the sergeant, "God pity any miser- able wretth in the future who for Money would try to make it a poorer world!" "I guess he'll. need all the pity he can get, all right!" mild the sergeant... Bolding the Hired Man.. The problem of hording hired men *as solved by one farmer by four carefully thought out methods:, He declares that these four methods may be used anywhere. First, he pays a. fair wage by eque promptly the first day tireach- onth, even if he has to borrow oney at the bank to do it. Second, he makes the rest hours the help comfortable. by satisfac- le sitting room of 'their own. This t point is one of which he makes ch. For years the hired tilp stay - around the barn, were in the way the kitchen, or came into the fain - 'living room. This was not always asant and prevented the privacy family really desired. 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