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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
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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
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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.
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MR. FARMER
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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
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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
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Every year -a pig race is held at
crone-surMarne. north of 'Prance, a
prize of -2,0011 fran 400, dollars 1)0.
ing awarded the lucky rider of the -
winning pig. This race is held in ac-
,corriunce with the terms of will of
•who dcei forty-two yeIll's ago. Ile or-
-del -0d that anumgst the amusements
•44 the+. animal fete he included .
a rate, with pigs. to be ridden eithetj
was not to he liandeei to the •winning I
jockey i`xcept. condition that he
for wo years. alter t he rave. The
791111101)1110Y aCcepted the eeevntrie
twotre..-4, anti Wyse singular races have
hoett held regularly OV(.1' Since.
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-Vet:. papa; tvi.ls show;nge him my
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fore the war. He thought of the men
and worhen who merely accepted the
world made beautiful to live in—by
the sacrifices- of others in the past --
accepted it thoughtlessly as a place
in. which to enjoy themselves.. He
thought of those who were willing
—for the sake ot money --to make
this a poorer, sneaner, Unhappier
world. He thought .of all the brave
lives now baring their breasts to bul-
let and shell, now literally pouring
out their heart's blood "to make this
a better world." 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. His dough -
at last pointed out that a one-'
rey room could be built at one
ner of the house and heated frem
s room is plainly but comfortably
nished. It has linoleum .on the
ch
of
tor
'ab
las
Inu
ed
in
ple
the
ter
thesto
cot
Thi
fur
1- floe-
reading table with, books and maga-
• zines ,and papers, comfortable chairs,
a rattan couch.* neat muslin curtains
and a few good pietures., The touch
has cushions with Nvasha.ble covers.
Everything has been selected. with • •
. the idea tloat it is not going to be too
in nice con..4.:tiJn if men eorrie in for
an hour's rest at noon after 'work in
the fields or at the barn. A second;
hand but good talking :machine helps
Third. wholesome and satisfactory
meals are furnished regularly. 'what
bigger inducement could be offered
Fourth, a standing_ .offer -0-41
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.made for every idea which .is prac-
tical enough to adopt that Will make
the work easier or will sive unneces-
sary expense.,
Revenue From New Brunswick Forests
During the past Year -the 'forest reV.-
enues of the Province" of New Druns-
wick. from Crown Lands: reached the
, highest figure in the. ,history of tli•oa
province with the -exception 'of the
years 1913 and 1914, when thefe were
Very heavy reVenues in the form of
bonuses, censequent,upen the renewal .
of. tiniber licenses:: The-. forest revs
enues for the -pear enled October 31,
\re/odes $36;55:- frotn-pfe ,fire'
.during. the preceding year.was
$4,43.S -3S. ',These 'figitres show the ex-
etez,1 is dependent. upon its reventes
frotn. Crown te.:1.ar•r.ihti:Is. to
_of CIA tlotA
. organized-- fc'rest service, 'IN Ilich is ex -
4 -No life -is wasted in„the great
i The gem too -poor tp pplish in'
itself •
--Philip James Bailey.
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