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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1922-10-05, Page 7VUnuUClEU PROP. HENRY 3. BELL as More Canadian Fruit—Less Ills; Less Canadian Fruit— M^re Pills. The Sunday School Lesson Y OCTOBER 15. MEN HAVE NOT SHRUNK Golden kingdom of Heaven is at 2 (Rev. Ver.) demands John emphasized the fact that every coming of God in our midst demands' a coming of God into our hearts, as the ruler cf thought and desire. III. The Humility of John’s Message, 15-17. V. 15. The people were in expecta­ tion. The people were stirred by the personality of John as well as by his ! message. strong man be the Messiah Himself? What is his relation to the kingdom ? For a lesser man there would have been a great temptation to magnify himself. V. 16. I indeed baptize . . . with water. Unhesitatingly he bows in the presence c-f a greater than he and; takes the lesser place. Latchet of: whose shoes. It w-as the task of the. ; menial- to unloose the sandals of his i master. John- says he is- not worthy ;to do even that humble service. Else- i where he -likens himself to the friends ; of the bridegroom, not the bridegroom j himself, to a voice -crying in the wild- ierness. The greatness of John is shown in hi® taking his true place rather than the great place. Baptize . . . with the Holy Ghost and with fire. In his work as well as in his personality, Jesus- is- above John. Jesus comes to effect in the hearts of men that which John -symbolizes in the baptism he uses. Jesus kindles. John symbolizes. Jesus creates, John de- I mands. ; V. 17. Whose fan is in his hand. I After the -sheaves had been trodden by i the oxen, the grain was lifted with a | large shovel -and thrown into the air I to separate the grain from the chaff. | Jesus’ ministry is- to- be searching like ithe fire and separating like the wind. ______i Application. As chil-1 John the Baptist was Pharisees man. He was a son of thought themselves entitled to uncon-! from which, after deep The Ministry of John the Baptist, Luke 3: 7-17. Text—Repent ye; for the hand, Matt. 3: Time and Place—A.D. 28; Judea. Lesson Setting—After the lapse of _______ ___ __ 1 years, the curtain lifts food fruit "ellass, too, because in dry-!^in we s&e Jch,n coming from ing fruits by evapOrat»n the water' percentage falls to about 30 per cent/t&trarchs bg- There isn't much protein in fruit, ginning of the chapter all suggest how I grant you that. But there are carbo-' much the world needed the arresting hydrates.” j cry of a prophet of God. What a con- “Don’t take any stock in carbo- trast John affords when contrasted hydrates, myself,” 1 _ gentleman, but his son continued: “Take very ripe fruits, for instance.' They contain, variously, cane and; grape sugar m high percentages. If; evidently spoke these words to the you can’t take much sugar, there are Pharisee® and Sadducees among the . crowd, Matt. 3: 7. Their interest in I John’s message regarding the king­ dom is not moral, but self-regard! ng. They are concerned with their place and power in the kingdom. The move­ ment -begun by John’s message was of such dimensions that they could not ignore it. In John 1: 19 we read of a deputation -sent to John to enquire if That came . . . Baptism with John was a new rite. Ceremonial washings had a place in the Jewish religious, system. There was the -ceremonial cleansing of the priests and the bap­ tism cf Gentile converts to Judaism, but John demanded' repentance of all and made baptism a symbol for all of that inward change cf mind and heart which he demanded-. Generation of vipers. John saw the real motive and how subtile and malicious their spirit was. But John- is no courtier. He speaks the fearless word' to Pharisee as to king. V. 8. Bring forth . . . fruits worthy; of repentance. Repentance is a change; of mind and heart evidenced in a! change of life. This is John’s demand on all. We have Abraham, dren -of Abraham, the containing more than 80 per cent, water are dassed as flavor fruits, those having less than 80 per cent, water,, as food fruits. “Apples, bananas, grapes and figs are, I suppose, the best examples of food fruits. 1 The elderly gentleman who regard- ed with disfavor the diish of fruit which centred the breakfast table, said tartly: “I can get used' to a lot of these new-fangled notions but I think, J can, that your children eat altogether too many apples.” “But, grandfather-----” began the grown-up Joan, while her small Joan looked up attentively and John scowl­ ed and rubbed his eye hurriedly as juice spurted from his sister’s apple. “Teacher say®-----” began Ted, who was older, but his mother shook her head at him. “Fresh fruits are much easier to - ------------------ f----- Dried fruits fta.ll into the seventeen lb- ......- ----7 A friend cf mine said the other day in speaking of the neighbors he knows, “Men have shrunk. They are not as big as they used to be.” There is something in us that makes us reply, “That’s so. Men have shrunk. We have no big men any more.” That is our first, our most natural thought. But it is not worthy of us, and it is not true. I believe if this friend cf mine were to think it over in his very Tho object of this department Io to place at the ser» vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops. Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Boll, In care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toron, to, and answers will appear In this column in ths order In which they are received. When writing k'ndly men­ tion this paper. As space Is limited It Is advisable whera immediate reply Is necessary that a stamped and ad> dressed envelops be enclosed with th-a question, whea the answer will be mailed dlreeL Copyright by Wilson P ublishing Co., Limited you get a grain high in protein and I relatively low in carbohydrate®. Such: nowadays, dad, than when we a feed tends to -upset the digestion of | vzere youngsters,” said the man who the hogs and in actual experiments has s,af at the head of the table, “and they sickened them (Wis. experiments). A mixture of rye and barley} about equal parts, has proven a good feed. ! Rye and' wheat alone are both short j of the bone-forming elements. | E. A.: I plan to snap corn from the 1 stalks just before silo filling. The corn ' will be matured. Would it have as much feeding value as where cut and put in shocks? My idea is to pull only the largest ears and leave the smaller ones go into the silo. Ans.: I would not advise pulling the ears off corn before putting it in the silo. Certainly by shocking it in the field you will lose a lot of valuable feed material in the leaves that dry up and are broken off. Hill® of Ver­ mont tested corn from which ears had ! been gathered, the corn put in silo and ! fed with the ears 'ground, versus corn ; cut when -ready for sillage and put in | the silo ears and allli; afterwards fed I to cattie. His report was that 1 acre i c-f corn -cut when green and put in | silo was worth -over 114 acres of corn, ripened1 ears removed, remainder put in silo and later fed with ground ears. D. H.: What is the value of sugar beet tops as feed for beef cattle? Can i they be safely fed in large quantities, i say seventy-five or eighty pounds per | head daily ? I am thinking of winter- H. A. S.: Can you give me some idea of cost of tiling 160-acre farm, 80 acres muck (not deep), and 80 acres muck spotted with clay and sandy loam with direct outlet into dredge ditch? Answer: A farmer reporting on cost of drainage in 1914 gave a figure of $1.45 for draining 10 acres of muck sail, drains 4 rods apart and 2% feet deep. At this rate, for your 160 acres it would cost you $2,320. The farmer in question reports his results as sat­ isfactory, and his land highly profitable crops. B. C.: Would like to isn’t possible to get a alfalfa and sweet clover, sowing it with wheat. It would seem if sowing them alone late in August will secure a catch, chances ought to be good seeding with wheat. Putting these seeds on in the spring when the ground has become hard and the wheat has got a heavy top seems to choke them out easier than red clover, which seems to start quicker. Ans-.: Alfalfa and sweet clover in Ontario will come much nearer get­ ting a good footing if sown with bar­ ley or oats in spring than if fall sown as you suggest. Fall sowing its suc­ cessfull in many parts cf Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, and may be suitable for the southern coun­ ties of Ontario, but for most of the provinces, spring sowing with a light (ing & load of yearling steers on beet seeding of gram is best. j tops and light mixed timothy hay. Do you think this would make a satis­ factory ration? Also, should beet tops be fed directly from the field, or may they be put into the silo? Ans.: Henry and Morrison in their 'book, Feeds and Feeding, say that an! acre of tbeete yields about 5 tons of1 leaves and beet waste. These have1 now bears know if it seeding of are recognized to-day ais necessary to a balanced1 diet-----” “There’s another thing I don’t be­ lieve in,” the old gentleman said, argumentatively. “Balanced tommy­ rot! All this talk of new inventions makes me impatient. Lots of good oatmeal porridge and meat, and po­ tatoes, and gravy, and1 doughnuts, and pies like your mother used to make! We had' no time to talk of balanced food® in the old days, and we were all healthy, except for rheumatism and neuralgia that one older.” “That’s dad, I agree with you about the oat­ meal. Nothing like well-cooked oat­ meal to supply the food principles. But speaking of fruit,” and the son tactfully guided the subject away from fried foods and rich gravies. “Fresh fruits contain from 75 per cent, to 95 per cent, of water. Those i and a few such ailments must expect as one grows just where we were wrong, began the old with the gloomy tyrant Tiberius, the I adulterous Herod, the shuffling poli­ tician, Pilate! I'. Fearlessness of John’s Message, 7-9. I V. 7. Said he to the multitude. John fruits like plums, raspberries, peaches and apricots which have a low sugar content. “The apple is a mine of food value. The juice allays thirst, contains min­ eral salts and is a little higher in calories than the orange and is easily digested.” “Of course, apples are extremely he’were the Messiah, good,” began the mother of the little J to be baptized, flock. “Apples and cherries have more sugar than other fruits,” said Ted, unable to restrain himself. “And I heard1 one of the profs say in a lecture that while fresh fruits were chiefly cf value because cf their minerals and carbohydrates, their acids formed carbonates in the body and their alkalinity helped regulate the body processes. ” The old gentleman regarded his grandson for a minute, then reached for an apple. “Maybe so,” he murmured gently. funny?” They rolled on the hay and shouted so loud with laughter that the horses and the cattle down below pricked their ears.—Violet M. Robinson Youth’s Companion. up in Might not this fearless and1 heart -cf hearts, he would see that he 1 J 1 ir _. • _ 1_ TT2_______O 7 seeding of grain is best. R. H.: I have about a half acre of sunflowers in, and they look promis­ ing. Would like your advice on how to get the seed off without wasting them. Ans.: About all I can advise is to cut the heads as soon as they are well filled and turn down, but before ____ __ ___ ____ ____ ___ they scatter seeds, handling them like about half the feeding value cf beets, ear corn. Store them in shallow piles They can be fed green or put in the on the bam floor and when dry, put sdlo. them through the threshing machine. In preparing the machine, regulate it to run much slower than for grain. A bean thresher should shell sunflowers well. D. A.: Could you tell me if boiled rye will injure four-month-old pigs,1 and how? I have rye of my own but no corn, but have been told that the rye will cripple the pigs. Ans.: The d'anger in feeding rye •alone, either ground or boiled, is that Fed1 green they tend to purge the cattle, hence they should be fed with straw or hay. If the tops are decayed there is danger of poison. There is an acid—oxalic acid—in beet tops which in large quantities is pois- ! onous. German farmers put 7 lbs. of common salt to each ton of beet tops to counteract this acid. Wisconsin Exp. Station found that by mixing beet tops cut with an ensilage cutter, with equal parts of com, a good, en­ silage was formed. The Vim of New Ontario Home-Makers. By Gibson Scott ern home-making, Mr. G. W. Lee of the T. & N.O. Railway and Principal Casselman of t-Wmal School are rendering assistance in their power, by word and deed. Men, women and girl®, government, college® and raiitezays, all meeting in a splendid bit of nation-building co­ operation, -augur well for the future cf the North.--------o-------- Storing Potatoes. Potatoes, says the Dominion Horti­ culturist, should 'be stored in a cool, well-ventilated -cellar that is perfectly datk. Instead of pilling the potatoes against the wail, or on the floor, slate ■should 'be nailed a little apart, say about six inches from the wall, and a temporary fl-o-or should be put down about the -same space above the per­ manent floor with cracks between the boards. If the piles have to 'be made very large, square ventilators of wood made cf sliats and running from the top to the bottom can be put in here ____ ________________ ’ ” ’ . These, currents .running through the proceed!-'! with the ventilation afforded at the Ings. How the Institute is contribut- j sties and' bottom, will keep the po-ta- !ng to better home life for its mem-| her®, fostering neighborliness and, hospitality, helping newcomers in the community, advocating more practical training in home-making in rural schools, will be dealt with in reports from the districts through secretaries. Recreation, supervised play, ized sports and games, the health, and child welfare will be thor­ oughly discussed- with Dr. Helen Mac- Murchy, Chief of the Child Welfare Division, Dominion Government, Ot­ tawa, and Dr. Mary Mackenzie Smith present. How the Branch Institute can bring the best results in departmental and college service to the doors of the homes of their own community, and the present and future possibilities of the work will be discus-s'ed by Super­ intendent Geo. A. Putnam and Assist­ ant Superintendent Miss E. M. Chap­ man, to whose -sound judgment, exe­ cutive ability, and genial person-alitiea so much of the success of the whole work is due. Those two staunch friends of north-' The past war these non­ study centres have been so With the coming of that pleasant autumn crispness in the air after the harvests have 'been safely garnered in for another year, come also thoughts and plans in the farm homes for the great Annual Women’s Institutes Con­ ventions, It is on occasions like this that the full magnitude of Ontario begins to be realized, developments among sectarian, non-partisan for rural home-makers great that it is now necessary to have five cf these gatherings to meet the expanding needs of increased numbers in branches and membership. The first program to hand is that of the Northern Convention, delegates to wlhilch will represent an area sev­ eral hundred miles in extent. This takes plaice at North Bay, October! 18th and 19th, 1922, and turns the, flashlight on the fundamental lines i cf work being carried on in that in-1 teresting part of the province. The Institute’s relation to the home and to the community will be the main' ®'nd there through the piles. their oi gan- school, toes in much better condition than if they ere in a solid heap. Another good plan is to keep the potatoes in large crates made with -slaits close enough together to prevent the potatoes from falling oiut. The temperature should be kept as near 33 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit as possible. Autumn. Roger in the corn-patch, whistling lively songs; Pusisy by the hearths ide, romping with the tongs; Chestnuts in the ashes, bursting through the rind; Red leaf and gold leaf, rustling down the wind; Mother “doing peaches,” all the after­ noon— Don’t you think that Autumn’s pleas­ anter than June? —Thomas Bailey Aldrich. —-----#-----— Did you select your seed corn or did you just gather it? I A Double-Barreled Mistake. “Mary, I have a plan,” said Father Bell to his wife. “Let’s take Tom and Dulcie and go Down East and spend; Old Home Week on Uncle Henry’s; farm. I haven’t been there since II was a boy.” ;-----—--------»---------— ------’ ----- Tom and Dulcie, who had spent most agricultural botany, which finds ex- of their lives in town, were delighted.1 presision in the study of weediSj pois- When they reached the farm they onous plants, economic pliants, shrubs found Uncle Henry and Aunt Ellen and trees, and, on the other, with waiting on the porch to greet them. I pl--- ~ -------- Dulcie went upstairs with mother,; diseasies attacking vegetation. In its but Tom stayed to hear father and anti-weed campaign the division car- Uncle Henry talk. 1 ries on a deal1 of correspondence with “Dulcie,” said Aunt Ellen, “don’t farmers who send ’n spescial weeds you want to take off your traveling ( for investigation, and in identifying clothes and put on some country J and suppressing plants that by reason things ? I have a little rough-and-; of their poisonous properties endanger tumble costume all ready for you.” Dulcie gave a squeak of delight as . x - „„ she saw a little dark gingham dress division exercises far-spread' influence laid out on the bed with a sunbon-' in the study of diseases of all classes net beside it. When she had put on her new things ( Aunt Ellen said, “There, go anywhere you want to.” Dulcie was off like an arrow. After, she had explored the house she ran out to the huge barn. There were! horses in one part and cows in an- states that many enquiries were re- other, and in a third there were moun-' ceived during the year relative to tains of golden hay. j weed's, poisonous plants, wild rice, and “Oh, may I climb up on the hay?”! other topics such as chicory, table Dulcie asked a farm hand who was mustard, oil-bearing seeds, silk trees, feeding the 'horses. ! henna tea, caro'b trees, orris root, “Climb all you want to,” said the hellebore powder, and Canadian wild man, and Dulcie began to scramble up.; flowers. No fewer than 686 specimens The great mounds of golden hay were sent in for identification. Seeds rose almost to the ceiling of the dim, still barn. “I must go and get Tom,” Dulcie thought as she reached the top of the lowest mound. “But first I’ll have a few bounces.” Suddenly, as she bounced gayly up and down, a dark object came rolling from the mound just above. Dulcie gave a very high bounce, and the thing came down in a heap beside her. Then she saw that it was a with overall’s on and a pulled over his face. “Good morning,” she timidly. “Hello,” said the boy is a shy, gruff voice. They were silent for a while. Dulcie was thinking, “I wonder if Tom knows there will be another boy to play with.” Presently the boy got up and swung himself into the mound of hay above them. “I wonder if I can get as high as that,” said Dulcie. The boy threw himself face down and reached toward her. “Here, I’ll help you,” he said. “And then I’ll get my sister to play.” “Oh, so there’s a girl too,” Dulcie thought. With the boy’s help she scrambled up to the higher mound. “What is your sister’s name?” she asked. “Her name is Dulcie,” said the boy. Dulcie gave a little gasp and peered closer at her companion’s face. “Why, Tom Bell'!” she cried. “How could I clothes ? boy.” Tom’s saucers, he said. Then Dulcie explained about Aunt Ellen and the gingham dress and sun­ bonnet. “That’s just what happened to me,” said Tom. “Uncle Henry popped me into farmer-boy clothes' before I could say Jack Robinson. Ho J this tousled boy ragged! hat said rather I Agricultural Botany. Among the most important work performed by the Domi-niion Experi­ mental Farms is that of the Division of Botany.. It is the function of that division to deal, on the -one hand, with plant pathology, which concerns the the life of farm animals. In the work of plant pathology the I of vegetation, as well as of forest trees. The activities carried, on last year are duly set forth in the report was wro'ng; he spoke on the spur of the moment, as all of us do, and we do not express the deeper, truer thoughts and feelings of our hearts. Take that man himself. He has not shrunk, in his lifetime. To my positive knowledge, he is a bigger and a better man than he was a few y*?ars ago. He is a 'better man than hi® father was. He has done things 'his father never did do and1 never could have done. But his son, standing on the shoul­ ders of his father and reaching up high, with the present-day opportun­ ities which have come to him, has made a big mark in the life of his day. And if we go up and down the world we will not have to have a very i big lantern, nor a magnifying glass 1 to find scores and scores and thou- j sands and thousands of men who have , been no less successful than this friend of mine. The world never had as many big men as it has to-day. If we are honest with ourselves and with the men of the younger genera­ tion, we will! say: “When I was active- i ly engaged in running my farm, I did ; the very best I could. My heart was ! in my work. I put the very best there i vzas in me into everything I did; but ! my boy is a better farmer than I am. ! He grows better crops than I ever did, and does it easier. His stock iis better. ' He occupies a higher place in society I than I did. His home has more con- ' veniences in it. His children have ! advantages I could never give him, and they will be able to do still finer, and' greater things to-morrow than he is doing to-dlay. I boosted my boy as high ais I could; he will boost his boy still higher than he can reach.” And it would be strange indeed if this were not true. For this is all in accordance with the great plan upon which men are bound to work. There is, there can be, no backward tracks. Every road that was ever hewed through the ■ wilderness was chopped out by men ! with faces straight ahead. Blazed ’ trees are there to stay. The man who ' leaves his ax-mark on the trees and ■ comes out on the other side of the big weeds is a better and a stronger man than he was when he first set foot in the forest. It makes the pulses run faster to 1 watch the progress that is being made : in every field of human endeavor. Oh, , men have not shrunk. not a city the desert, . „ _ _ ___ __, ___ __c meditation ditional privilege® in the kingdom.' upon the ways of human life, he came John says that character, not race, forth to preach. His teaching maybe determined, the individual’® relation to summed up under two head's—rapent- the kingdom of God. These stones to ance and1 the coming King, raise up children unto Abraham. John 1. Under the head cf repentance he takes broad ground here and takes denounces tin—a generation of vipers the same ground a® Paul in his dis- who hath warned you to flee from the tinction between one who is a Jew wrath to come. There are those who inwardly and one who is a Jew out- wtou-ld tell us that cur Breaching wa-rdly. . ' should be wholly occupied without liv- V. 9. The axe is laid unto the root, ing the ideal. Let the real alone be- I The kingdom does not bring an easy cause people do not like to hear about privilege for the Jew, but a keen edge their faults. 7/ __ Z__! test that will remove lives that are not time in white-washing sinners fruitful in good, ............................" II. The Faithfulness of John’s Message, 10-14. V. 10. The people; the common peo­ ple as opposed to the Pharisees and Sadducees. If John dice® net court the favor of the great, neither is he a demagogue flattering the multitude. He lays hiis finger upon th© 'besetting sins, of each ellass, and he demands a change'. V. 11. He that hath two coats. These were undergarments. John dtemandlsi unselfishnesis from the people. V. 12. Publicans; the tax-gatherers. The Roman taxes on the Jews were gathered by men who severally con­ tracted to raise a specified sum from a specified area. All over this sum belonged to them. These men in turn John the Barotist lost no He I locked evil in the face and1 called it ! the devil.i 2. Under the head of, “The King,” he intimated that there was one com­ ing after him who was mightier than he. John was willing to be the morn- j ing star to the sun of righteousness.; He was willing to decrease in order that a worthier might increase. It is! a true nobility which enables any one| to recognize superior merit and to give it a more honorable place. It is! the dead opposite of that green envy ' which overwhelms’ so many small! minds. Can we be big enough to! acknowledge the merit which is su-' pertior to our own? for the twelvemonth ending March 31,; engaged Jews to do the actual collect- ; ing of the taxes on the same principle. | Inevitably this led to injustice and1 ex- ! tortion. John demands of them hon­ esty. V. 14. The soldiers likewise. They were not to bully the poor nor levy blackmail on the rich, nor to mutiny against their superiors. In all these 1922, recently issued from the press and which can be had from the Publi-I cations Branch, Ottawa. The report i uui ; ill t He also intimated that this superior! no, one would; exercise a- superior influ-, en-ce. He himself baptized with water, I but this coming one would baptize' with the Holy Ghost and with fire.! W’ater may -cleanse in the rough, but; fire will entirely disinfect. Fire is' the symbol' icf enthusiasm—that glori­ ous dynamic which ever since has made possible the thrill -of great con­ secrations, of mighty conquests, of stupendous martyrdom®. The Thresher, the stars had melted to a silver band Like a circle gleaming on a shadowed hand; Things took chape a dPsky blur; kitchenward began a stir; Squatted shocks seemed waiting on the stubble land. With the thrill of things in store, waked you to the day; When the thresher whistled it was on its way. rich tn -oil and not lacking in protein. On the other hand, fat fowls should have a ration rich in- protein to supply material to grow new feathers. Such feed's are cild^p-rcc-ess oilmeal, wheat bran, meatmeal, skim-milk and clover- meail. It must be remembered that! feathers contain a large proportion of- nitrogen. ' ■ I do not call a molt healthy where! the hen shed® most of her feathers! before the new crop arrives. To show; that it is not in accordance with the: natural laws, consider the partridge,! which is known as a wild bird. After! laying from fifteen to eighteen -eggs,! she hatches an-d cares for her young,! then starts to molt. The process .is' very -siovz; the feathers dlrop one by! one, and at no time does molting I interfere with the flight of the bird.: Her molt is healthy because it is na­ tural. Then why, in the healthy mc-lt! cf a hen, should net there be a rapid' growth cf new feathers to take the Wide grain wagons, single file; shout­ place of the -old one® ais fast as they I dro-p ? j A very fat fowl is able to shed its _ ’®, but unable to renew its coat, while a very poor one will not have the strength to shed its coat. The best condition is between the two ertremes. To a great degree brood iness influ-' ences the time of nrnlt. Hens that' ■shed their feathers late in the season Clanking, huge and engine-led, take less time to molt. Tests show ■ that in every ca®e where the molt ap- ; peared not to be influenced by the . feeding, late molters completed the I work in less time than those that molted earlier. The early molters lay more early winter eggs, but they are not, neces­ sarily, the best year-round layers. When fowls molt naturally and well, I were exchanged with botanical gar- i dens in over a score of other countries. 1 Experimental seeds were distributed to different farms and stations, while . the major experiments and- investiga- ' tions were carried on at the Central l Farm, Ottawa.. Much valuable work was carried on in forest pathology, especially as regards white pine blis­ ter rust in Eastern Canada and on ■leaves of black currant bushes in British Columbia, and as regards armillaria root rot and needle blight of -white pine in Northern Ontario. The work conducted of more general public interest was that of potato in­ spection and certification. The extent I to which this work was carried on is verified by the fact that 2,646 fields embracing 7,900 acres came under in­ spection. That the work is having a beneficial effect is proven by the in­ creased percentage of fields that were certified' last year compared with the number so passed in the previous year. As regard® percentage passed, Ontario came first with 88.6, Manitoba following with 84.8, succeeded by Nova Scotia with 75.4, New Bruns- j wick with 67.2 and Prince Edward Island with 56.2; -but as regards yield per acre of certified s-eedi and of gen-, era! crop New Brunswick led with tern rapidly. A hen’s system may be Quebec coming second, and then reduced- to a low stage, by lack of Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, a-nd Ontario. In Nova Scotia the Garnet; Chili variety formed the larger pro-! portion of potato inspected and they; are not so prolific as some of the white varieties grown in other prov- Inces. Full particulars of the work- performed under this head' are given in the report as well as of the success' met with at the Illustration Stations j in the increased growth of crops by. the employment o-f nitro-culture, and of the investigations carried on in many directions at the Dominion plant pathology labcratories at Charlotte­ town, P.E.I., Fredeuicton, N.B., St. Catharines, Ont., Saskatoon and In-1 dia-n Head, 'Sask., and Summerland, B.C. i I ( know you in those funny I thought you were another eyes were almost as big as “Well, if it isn’t Dulcie!” When fall arrives all nature pre­ pares for the coming winter. Fowl's respond to this call by shedding their old coat of feathers, which has d'one such good service for a year, and grow the new crop which will afford them' protection dturing the cold day® of; winter. Therefore, fall is the natural molting season. Just how the hen goes through her. melt determiines her success at pro­ ducing eggs during the winter. It is; largely man’s ability to breed and; feed' that gives results.. A hen that possesses a good diges­ tive system, and a good circulation of blood, will be able to take nourish­ ment out of the food and to distribute it to the different partis Such a hen can grow a thers in a short time. High-producing hens moiter®. feathers at one time, usually late in ■ of the .body, coat of fea- are quickI rT. They practically shed all - the season. The early molting hens ; drop only a few feathers -at a time and, as -a rule, are poor layers... Not only what you feed a molting; fowl, but how you feed it, influences ■ the system and condition. The aim must be to build up -the reduced sys-! Keyed in tune and eager, how your heart 'beat high! Mother smelled of spices as she passed you by. Long and white the table spread— golden pies and snowy bread. Yellow fields and listless leaves and heat-blue sky. Father raised a warning hand, “Hark,” you heard him say. Then the thresher whistled it was on its way. Like a blade it cut the air, sharply calling; then Sheathed1 itself in silence but to sound again. Wheels awoke upon the read; dust in murk-gray spirals flowed; ing came the men; i And a bustle stirred through all the beat-bright day ! When the thresher whistled it was on ■its way. Came a gush of sooty smoke from the farthest hill, And your heart beat faster with a wilder thrill. feed, or by 'broodiness.. Under such circumstance® the muscles holding the feathers relax, the feathers loosen, and when the new feathers start to. grow, as the system is built up, the ■ old feathers are pushed' out of the! way. The hen that goes broody in the latter part -of the summer and . __________________ gets in poor -condition, molts when; it is scarcely noticeable that they are her system is built uip again. Food j molting, except in the accumulation of. containing a great -percentage of fat; feathers about the place. Yo-ung hens x as a rule, be -avoided as much! molt more quickly than older ones. Hen® are likely to lose weight while molting, but regain it before molting is over. must, u as possible. Fowls should be fed according to! their condition. If they are poor-r-due' to a long period cf laying—they1 should have a ration rich in oil, with; a moderate amount cf protein Oats, and sunflower seed, for instance, are' I sun- caught stacker, glowing red. Came the keenest blast of all, herald­ ing and shrill: “Gleaner, garnerer am I; king of all to-day.” the thresher whistled it was on its way. So --------------------- It will help the day’s work if each cf us will start out with a happy thought in the morning, —Gertrude West.----------<J»--------- Recipe for dog-bread: Seven and one-half pounds coarse ground wheat; two and one-half pounds of any good i wheat flour; five pounds chopped lean beef; eight fluid ounces of molasses; three pounds of water; two ounces of salt, and four ounces of baking- powder. Bake one-half hour in the oven. This cake may be made in one or more pans according to the size you want it. It becomes very hard and keeps well for a romg period.