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n Hie ehrapnel wounde in arm aud
ehoulder, though not dangerous, were
eortiewhat extensive, and he was new-
ly baek from the hottest kind of fight-
ing: but it wee not at all the fighting
that this particular English officer
was most concerned to talk about.
That he dismissed very shortlY.
"HOW are we gettiug on? Olt,
thereat nothing to worry about in
that direetion, The job just now is
getting aid of Batches; and 1 ean tell
you it's going on at a great rate, I
fancy it would startle even our people,
let alone the people in •Clernmey, 11
tbeY flew the eeact truth about the
rate at which the liens are being
laid out. Of couree, I know nothing
about the figures, but I do know what
l've seen with my own eyes; how
thick their dead tie on the ground, If
their people knew the truth of it,
they'd revolt and call oft the whole
businees. Bat insteed of the truth,
melt, look ut the offieial German cas-
ualty lists, republtstred in our papers
from their' s For the month of April,
prisoners 533. And we and the
French took forty thousand of theta
daring that month 01 course I knoW
the het does not say that it includes
all Hie casualties that occurred during
April; but only that it's the April list,
But you can guess what the people in
Germany are meant to think about it.
533 against 40,000, And the figures
In killed and wounded would startle
them a good deal more, especially
die killed.
Mena, They are driven like dogs to
the fighting. And to what end? Be
cause our cursed Kaiser,eucl the c yea -
tares we eall steteemen are afraid of
their lives for what might happen to
them when the people know it's all
up,
THOUSANDS Ole LAVES DAILY,
" 'Bet pleuty of them know it now,
Many knew before ever I was forced
to 'join up, And perhaps if I had
known less and had never talked of
what I did know, I should never have
been made to join. I talked a little of
what I knew, And that was enough.
In Germany to -day the men who will
tell the truth must be hustled oft out
of the way. That is why I see no hope
for Germany; becauee those left in
the country have no splrit; ean do
nothing, All the strength of the
country, euch es it is, is in the fight-
ing lines; help'ess as slaves. The
others, there in Germany, they are
slaves; starving, starving quietly;
never daring to say It word. The few
who speak soon find themselves hus-
tled to the front line and no more is
heard Of them. They go ou paying the
price; thousands of lives every day;
every single day, The Central Pow-
erscasualties must be a hundred
thousand a week -all for what? The
crazy dream of a few bankers and
merchants, and the cowardly fears of
a few pontEcians and of -of the Ho-
henzollerns. They say the Hapsburgs,
too; but the Austrians woeld be
thankful to make peace to -morrow, but
they cannot. They are as much sacri-
ficed by Berlin as we poor devils here
on the front All the bloody slaughter
of this war, with its milliards of mon-
ey and thousands ef lives lost -every
single dey-what, keeps it going long
after it has been finally decided is not
the will of nationa. No, it Is the mur-
derous criminality and cowardice of
a little handful of men in Berlin who
never have been anything but a pest
in Europe.
WILLIAM THE MURDERER.
"Is not that the greatest, crime the
world has ever known? And is it not
strictly tpue? Does any sane German
suppose the appointed end can be
altered, when the whole New World
Is ranged against Germany as well as
the Old? They know all about the
hundred million men in the States;
and the millions of millions of money;
the innumerable factories and ship-
yards. They know that America can
Put hundreds of thousands of fresh
troops on this front next spring; and
that the exhaustion of Germany long
before then will be frightful; is, in-
deed, frightful nOW; has been fright-
ful for a year and more. They know it
all, and, brute devils that they are,
they choose to keep ,the awful slaugh-
ter going; not because they hope It
can alter the end, you call 'Wait and
see!'; because they fear to face to-
day what they can put off until to-
morrow, -at the cost of another few
thousand decent lives; another few
milliards of money. Never before since
the world began has a twentieth part
of such suffering been allowed to con-
tinue, day after day, and month after
month, to proteot a handful of exalted
criminals from general recognition of
their crimes. The Russian people rose
and smashed the bonds that bound.
them, Yes. But not our people. Our
tyrants have been much cleverer. It
Was only the bodies of the Russian
people that were fettered. Their
minds were free. No German mind,
in Germany, has 'been free since 1870.
The Berlin criminals have seen too
well to that. Our people think they
have been well educated. So they have
-very well, very carefully -for just
what they are doing now; for the
blindest and most damnable kind of
slavery the world has ever seen; for
a slavery in which the will of the
mestere must be paid for daily by
steadily Dunning streams of the blood
of their victims; -victims taught to
bare their own throats to the knife on
the word of command. If your 'arm-
ies eould reach Gerrea,nse itself ,the
slavery might end suddenly. But Ger-
many to -day is one vast prison full of
starving, slaves who cannot lift El!
band to help themselves, and that it
will remain while 'William the Mur-
derer can go on buying a. daily re-
prieve for hia own miserable family
In return for the blood of ten thous-
and of his slaves. Thank God I am
out of it!' "-Sheffield, Edge Weekly
*Independent, .
THE BOCHE FROM MUNICH.
"But, look here- I can tell you
somethiag more iateresting than all
that. I've seen a Boole who really
understands the whole business, Ab-
solutely .unlike any other Hun I've
seen. 1 suppose you must call him
a Boehe, because he was born itt Mu-
nich, he said, and served in the Ger-
man army. But I reckon most of his
native Bochery must have been purg-
ed out of him by living among civiliz-
ed oeopie. Then, again, he spoke
English not a bit like a foreigner, and
altogethee it was difficult to realize
that he was a Hun at all. For years
he had been dealing in land and
mines and things in America; doing
pretty well, I should thinka happen-
ed he was on a visit to London when
the war threatened. He'd never tak-
en out papers as an American subject,
you see, •and he was afraid of being
interned or somethine• so he skipped
out of England the day before the
declaration of war and got into Ger-
many. For a long time he was em-
ployed on special work in Germany,
but when the Somme push was on
last year he had to join up, and has
served on different parts of the front.
He was on the Russian front for a
bit, I was wounded when we got this
fellow. I was being helped backa I
suppose there were fifteen or sixteen
of us wounded. together, and we came
on this bunch ot Huns in two old cel-
lars that had had some "Makeshift
head over fixed over them; twenty-
three of them there were. Matter of
fact, the man I'm talking about car-
ried me for a quarter of a mile, and I
believe he could have carried two like
me.
'He didn't look' like a Boche, you
know; more like a Norwegian sailor;
a sort of a vikin.g, you know;' pointed
yellow beard and and light blue eyes;
most wonderful eyea you ever saw,
that chap had. A fine-looking man,
I must say; and how he talked: eVell,
I believe he'd draw crowds as ri pub-
lic speaker; I do really. The other
Boches with him, they looked dingy -
looking, half-starved cattle, by the
side of that man. You know the
beefy kind of animal heads they have.
Among such a gang this elate looked
perfectly splendid. Look here! I've
got it written down here, the sort of
thing lie said. I wrote it that even-
ing in the elearing station. I wanted
to remember all I could, But , of
course, it doesn't give you the way
, the chap talked. And I'll say this for
' him, he was no coward. He paid no
attention to shrap and that sort of
' thtng while we were. going back,
though the Boches with him were fair-
ly grovelling. 'This was the kind of
thing:
GREATEST CRIME THE WORLD
• HAS KNOWN.
"This war is the greatest crime the
world has ever seen. The crirnes that
made. the French Revolution are no-
thing if you compare them with the
crimes of the beasts who are running
Germany to -day, and keeping this war
going. They were only thieves and
brigands when they begait it, and
thought they'd bring it off, but now
they're the bloodiest murderers by
wholesale that the world ever knew,
There never was anything like it
before. They know perfectly well they
have lost the war; they've known for
months that the hot chanees they
ever had have gone, But they are
frightened out of their own miserable
skins -to admit it and call a halt; and
because they are frightened of what
the people might do when they learn-
ed the truth, they keep the thing go-
ing, and sacrifice thousands of Ger-
mans every single day and millions
of money -for wbat? To gliield the re-
putations of a handful of 'princes nnd
politicians. It's the greatest crime the
world hag ever known. Here onthis
front our people are being killed like
flies, Your artillery kills them in
inmehes. There isn't a minute of the
day bet what arms and legs are being
blown off. Our men would. gladly give
themselves up to end it, but you know
they cannot, When there seeing to be
a chance there is always an officer Or
a N. C. 0, about. It is not only your
gees that kill, lelany Germans fall
every day with German 'bullets in
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'more difficult even than getting rals-
.chiesous pigs into carts. One eM•
barrassed otticer found himself at the
task ot translating a proposal 01 mar-
riage front a wouuded English soldier
to a publican's daughter, and of taking
down a favorable reply,
It so chanced that one afternoon
while we were still there a body of
French infantry passed singing. They
were going southwards, the way that
we had come, and they halted and
broke oft into tee village. Our men
flocked out to greet them, and made
friends in no time, oftering tobacco,
the fit•st gift of friendship with the
armies, examining one another's
equipment, in fact looking one another
over in frankness aaad good fellowship.
There were jekesand laughter, and
then men began to exchangeexpere
ences of war. The Frenchmen had
seen more active service, they had
been in an attack, they expected soon
to be in another. We should all be in
it together, and annhilate the Boche.
With that there was much gesticula-
tion, representing bayonet thrusts.
Then a sergeant took a French rifle
and did some bayonet. work; he was
our pride at'it; he had that touch of
imagination which had enabled him
to go at the sacks in camp with. the
look In the eyes and the passion in
all his museles that spoke the presence
et a real enemy. As you watched his
face you could have sworn that you
had only to turn to see the Germans
on guard in the' flesh. There was ap-
plause from the French; then a
Frenchman played the frightened Ger-
man before him with great comic bur-
lesque, and there was applause from
the British. Bayonets were compared
with mach technical talk, and *inch
admired the other's yery generously,
though neither -would' have exchanged
It for his own, and more cigarette -a
were offered and lighted, for the
French officers were giving their, men
rather longer than the usual halt.
When at last they moved off they
were followed by many shouts of geed
luck, and were watched on their road
until they grew dim through the dust
and then disappeared. The battalion
fell at once to talking of the attack,
and when it would be, and whether eve
should ever come across those good
fellows again. Who knows., it might
be in German dugouts!
Sure enough, a day or two later
came the order. The battalion was to
push up to the front, where everyone
was full- of rumors. We said good-bye
to the village, to the pigs and the good
cure's wine, leaving many questions
still unsolved with him, and to be de-
bated should we ever come again
(which we never have, and many of
us will not come now), and so we took
the road once mbre. We 'were soon
among the preparations for the great
attack; as we moved up the road a
sudden whirlwind of smoke and fire
would rush out beside us from whet
seemed to be a ditch, or an arbor, and
a shell wOuld whirr off in its gigantic
arc -shaped flight, till we heard it
crash far away on some enemy strong.
hold. You jumped at that first unex-
pected whirlwind burst from the
quietness of the roadside. It was the
sensation, a hundred times intensified,
of a grouse getting up from the
heather at your feet. But there were
many such, and we grow accustomed.
It was our batteries, and some French'
heavies mixed with them, registering
systematically on every hostile tactical
point. Weesaw aeroplanes sometimes
In the distance. The way was being
prepared for us infantry with care and
method. We wondered as we marched
when our turn would come,
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The battalion sat down at the road-
side, waiting to be packed off to its
allotted barns and lofts, and as it sat
there the good people came out, at
once, with jugs of water and milk and
even beer, though this last British
discipline forbade tie to touch. The
:soldiers in their turn offered cigar-
ettes, and began to talk in that
pigeon French which has become
famous and current everywhere be-
tween lia-vre and Festubert. Already,
as we still waited by the roadside,
before we were in ottr billets, the
village and the battalion were on good
terms.
The peasant of that part is known
to be a thrifty race. It is, then, the
snore noticeable that every family of
that village treated the British sol-
diers as if they had been their own
:sons and brothere. But the generos-
ity was not all on One side, In their
spare time the eoldiers were very
seedy to do any work that they could
about the eottages and farms, the
work that the sons and brothers now
-with the army of France Once did. So
It was no uneommoir thing to see them
busy peeling potatoes, or sawing wood,
or helping (with great entlingiagre) to
put refractory pigs Into carts. In e
little they were as nateh part of the
daily life of that village as if they had
lived there for yegrs, and would ntg
suddenly march out of it one day jut
as they had ratirched in,
THE CARE Or COWS,
Wholesome milk cannot be produced
trent eick or ailing cows. It is there-
fore important that the dairyman
secure a healthy herd and provide
conditions far maintaining them In
the proper manner,
I a the Eitable there must be good
ventilation to insure proper health
and vigor of the herd, Oxygen is as
much a food as meahand plenty of air
Is needed to eupply it Carbonic acid
and other impurities east off daily by
the lungs are poisonous and must be
gotten rid ot.
It Is impossible for tele cow to reach
her maximum production or long
maintain health, in the abeence of pro-
per ventilation. It has been advised
that an animal ehould have as many
cubic feet of sixtce as the number of
pounds live weight. Space, however,
is not so esseatial as the frequency
with which the air ist changed. We
know the etable is properly venti
lated when we fail to detect any.
strong or disagreeableodorsupon en-
tering it, and when we find no mcds-
ture collected on the ceiling and walls.
When windows are used the cold air
enters the stable near the ceiling.
drives the warm air out at the other
side and the cold air at the door is
left undisturbed.
HOW TO VENTILATE STABLE.
To preserve the heat derived from
the bodies of the animals, and at the
same. Hine remove the impurities, the
King system of ventilation is to be
recommended. That consists in al-
lowing 500 to 1,000 cubic feet of space
for each animal, and making provision
for a change of air at the rate of 3,000
cubic feet per hour for each animal,
bringing in the fresh air at the ceil-
ing aud removing the cold air from
the bottom of the stable.
Plenty of windows should be pro-
vided, Sunlight is a disinfectant, and
acts as an iuvigator and a tonic. Light
in the etable facilitates work, and by
showing up the dirt is a stimulus to
cleanliness. It Is suggested that
three square feet of window glass be
provided to each animal. Windows
should be placed both sides of the
stable, and the number can scarcely
be too great.
Each individual in the herd must be
healthy, and any animal suffering
from a constitutional disease ehould
be gotten rid of. Tho disease most
common to dairy animals is tubercu-
losis. To guarantee the absence of
tubercle germ the herd must be sub-
jected to the tuberculin teat and and
the reacting animals eliminated.
The milk from fresh cowa should
not be saved until from three to
seven days efter the birth of the calf.
Household Hints.
Equal parts of sewing machine oil
and vinegar make an excellent dressing
for linoleum.
To take out serving machine oil spots,
dampen them 'went ammonia, then
wash with white soap and water, using
first cold and then warin water.
The sweater hung carelessly MD
loses its shape; if slipped through a
large embroidery hoop hung in the
closet, it will not be stretched,
You will find the round hard shell
of a salt -water clam a more efficient
pot scraper than either knife or
clothespin.
Soaking curtains. which have never
been washed it tesv hours in a strong
selution of salt and water will take out
the lime In the dressing and Make
there easier td wash,
When giving sticky medicine to chil-
dren, heat the spoon by dipping it in
hot water for a moment, then pour in
the medicine and bit will Slip easily
from the spoOn,
A Tactful Chill
Little Charlotte accoMpanied her
mother to the home of at acqualat•
ance. When the 'dessert course WeS
reached the little girl was brotighl
While the men were
down and given a place next to her
so employed, ther
anat the table, The 'tutees was
the officers Were making friends with Me:wommuch given to talking, and
the curs, At firt,t he was shy of
lislt officers, believing them to be un-
catitured barbarians, with a taste for
ItOrceplity, but he eaded by inviting
them to his house, where every sub -
Jed, from religion to political econoiny
Was discussed over a bottle of Quin
Quinn Dibonnot, There 'acre dittitss.
too, that fell ttatepectediv upon the
THE RATION FOR THE HERD,
The bill of fare should be ample in
amount and well balanced. Changes in
the ration should be infrequent, but
when necessary saould be made grad-
ually. Feeds which laave soured, fer-
mented, or in any way spoiled, should
not be used, nor those that will affect
the character or taste of the milk.
Rape, cabbage, turnips, if fed at all.
should be given immediately after
milking . Malt sprouts should be fed
in limited quantity. Wet brewery
grains should be fed in tight man-
gers, in limited quantity and should
be obtained frequently from the source
of supply.
Silage should be ted after, and not
before nor during milking, in order
that it may not taint the air of the
stable, and be absorbed by the milk.
Silage, no doubt, affects the taste of
milk, as do other foods, but Oats taste
is not objetclona.ble. Garlic and oth-
er weds in the pastute often cause un-
desirable flavors in the milk. In these
cases the trouble may be neutralized
by taking tbe cows from the pasture
several hours before milking.
The impure -air let the stable is one
of the main causes for the bacterial
infection 01 milk. For this reason
no dry or duety foods should be fed
during or for one hour before milk-
ing.
Cows should be supplied with water
from wells, eprings or running
streams. All pond holes in the fields
should be fenced off so that the cows
cannot gain access to them in any
case. Cows should not be permitted to
drink from pools of stagnant water
in the fields or in the barnyards.
Watering troughs should be kept clean
and supplied with fresh water from
day to day.
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS.
Following is the dry cure for hams
as 'reoommeuded by President II, J.
Waters, of the Kansas Agricultural
College: For each 1,000 pounds of
meat use the following: Forty pounds
common salt, 10 pounds New Orleans
sugar, four pounds black pepper, one
and a half pounds of saltpeter, half a
pound of cayenne pepper, 'Weigh the
meat and take such part of the ingre-
dients as that is a part of the 1,000.
Let the meat cool thoroughly. After
mixing the ingredients, half the am-
ount ehould be rubbed well into the
meat. Put the meat in a dry, cool place
e -never in a cellar. Let it remain two
weeks, then rub on the remainder of
the cure and let it lie about six weeks,
when it is ready to hang. It is import-
ant that the meat be well rubbed each
time the cure le applied, and that
plenty of the cure be forced into the
hock end and around the jointg. Less
cure should he used on thin siden than
on the joints. The heavier and fatter
the Meat the longer the time reereired
for curing, The warmer the weather
the quicker the meat will take the
cure. These arrangemente are esti-
mated on the basis or about 200 or
225 -pound hogs, and ordinary jimmy
Febreary and March weathee.
quite forgot to give little Charlotte
anything to eat, After some time htld
elasped Charlotte could bear it no
longer, With the sobs rising in her
throat, she held up lter plate as high
Ete ale could and Gelid; "D0e6 ncybebr
Want a clean plate?" -Argonaut.
Click -Your wife said she bought
offieer8, ae a nettle of the battalioe's her hat for a song. (laek---Yes, but 1
friendehtp tlith the village, ilutiei _110.4 to ftlritielt the aotes.-Pnalc.
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It deans thoroughly,
safely, hygienically —
it's economical to use
because a little goes a
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MIW WINZNIRP
1
an imported sheep is a superior
mal. Look for something beeide there- '
show that the late moneys,
not substantiate this belief, nsiohliteequttlef
it le, and begin to lay as coon as the early
cord of importation.
Sheep raisers should have two pae-
tures and several email lots. Two pas-
turee are beneficial in making a
change. Ewes, when raising lambs,
should be put in small lots to prevent
their disowning them,
The United States Department ef
Agriculture in 1855 found that it re-
quired four hours and 34 minutes of
human labor to produce a bushel of
corn, In Minneeeta it ha6 been foutd
that 45 -minutes is the time required
to produce a bushel of corn now, or
only one-eixth as long as in 1855. in
other words, a day of human labor
now is worth more than six times ae
much as in 1855, due to the isee of
more and better machinery, better
varieties of corn and better' aoil mane
agernent.
It does not necessarily follow that
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Poultry World
11
HOW TO PICK HEAVY LAYERS.
(By Charles L. Opperman, Poultry Hus-
bandman, Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station).
Until recent years the general shape
and the conformation erf a layer was
considered of special value in determin-
ing the probable produetion of the bird,
Even at the present time there are quite
a. number of breeders evho hold that
these external characteristics are much
value in selecting high -producing hens.
According to the standard that has been
devieed, tor this selection, the ideal bird
must be wedged or V-shaped when view-
ed from the top, side and rear. Froin
the top view the back should form the
wide end of the V'. the side view should
ehow the wide endor the rear; and the
rear view the same as the side. When
a bird conforms to this V-shaped type the
supposition le that the abdominal r-
ions, where the organs ot reproduction
ere located, ale well developed, thtte
malting possible high nroduction.
Other poluts of importance in seleeting
by conformation and type are, first,
length of body. In the Ideal bird the
body should be long, so that it shows
heavy development in the rear, Second,
large comb and wattles or Drtgat red
dolor; third, tall carried high rather than
low; fourth, head of medium size 'with
short beak; fifth, legs short, strong and
well spread; and sixth, size, which zneau3
that the birde must be well no to the size
and weight of the breed vaeich they rep--
esent.
While the results of numerous investi-
gatiens have proved 'with more or less
certainty that a, hen may conform to the
above requirements and btill fail to be
a. ;good producer, it is logical to assume
that birde which possess these qualities
and at the same time manifest the other
characteristics discussed In the article,
should be better fitted for heavy pro-
duction than the hens whichdo not con-
form to the egg tyee requirements.
THE EARLY LA.YEI-tra
The pullets that begitt' to lay early in
life, say from November 1 up to Thanks-
giving, in the majority of eases turn oet
to be good producers. lit a test con-
ducted by the writer, 101) per cent. or
the pullets producing 200 or more eggs
laid their first egg during November,
the same experiment, practically 50 Per
cent, of the pullets which, laid less than
100 eggs, did not lay their first egg until
:January, -alid over 20 per cent. of them
laid their first egg during February and
March. These figures are from tree, -
nest records of the birds, and clearly in-
hclieceavlye italymetr. the early producers im the
The practical 100S011 to be gained trent
these figures is that the progreeelve
poultry -keeper who Is not ina position
to trap hts blria, will watch his pullets
in the fall and mark the early, produc-
ers so that he will be able io mel1 them
out the following year for the breeding
pen. Such a nractice does not necessar-
ily mean that all the birds he selects mill
lay M or more eggs, but it is logical to
assume that the majority ot them will
be good performers.
Early production is not the only in-
dication that the poultry -keeper should
rely on in the selection of good laYere.
11 is but one of' several characteristics at
Iii s command to check up the probable
production of his birds. All early lay-
ers that are marked ean be observed to
determine whether they anolt early or
late. Trapnest recorde show that .the
high performers usually molt late.,
The writer recalls an incident of a 250 -
egg hen that did not molt until cold win-
ter weather set in. She shed her feath-
ers to rapidly that it was necessary to
keep her in a fairly warm room to pro-
tect her from the Old, The boardel-
hens usually have a new coat of feath-
ere and look like the finest birds in the
floek When the hard-worleirae layers are
ragged and covered with mn-reathers.
Appearaeces iit this instance do not
count for much, since the worst looking
hens are quite apt to be the most profit-
algeb.eervaelons made in connection with
trap -nest records showed that none 0C
the birds whieh were half through the
Mit by October I Were good produe-,
ers, also that only a small .percentage or
believed by some that late moltere do
the late molters were producers. It le
not begin laying until late in the follow-
ing year. Actual records, however, 30
rnoltere, or. soonev,
Bla EATERS LAY WELL,
,
The appetite and general actions of a
hen imucate het* abdity to leer a good-
ly number of eggs. The hard-woraing
hen is almost always a high produeer.
She is first off the roost in the 'morning
and laet to go to bed. She is a heavy
feeder, since high productiveness necee-
Mtates the ability, to assimilate herge
quentitiee uf food. The (Door layer is
generally of the opposite type. She is
Inactive, n relativety email eater, and
thev
apencie.
snct large portion otime on her timon the
perethee the darkened portions uf
h
In practically all yellow•eleInned
rietiee of poultry the shanks, beak and
region around thee -cult undergo a change -
in color when the hens are in heavy lay-
ing, Instead of the rich yellow coke
-
that la asaociated with thc-se parte in the
yellow-ekinned varieties; there is a meld
eading of color in the regions mentioned
during heavy production. This change
of color is so consistent that it is possible
to ttee it a9 a basis for aelectiug good and
poor producers. From various obser-
vations recentiy made along these lines,
the following interesting correlations
etave been noted;
',the color of the vent appears to be
the most accurate indication of produc-
ing ability. Records mace trout ail
birds from November 1, 1014, to October
at, 1015, show 98 of the birds had pale
vents at the end of October when the
records -were made. Over 90 per cent.
,of these 98 birds produced from 140 to
260 eggs, and °lay 8 per cent., of them
laid less than 140 eggs. The average
rtroduction of the 278 remaining hens,
which had yellow vents when tne obser-
vellum were taken. was approximately
105 eggs, and the .average for the 98
having pale vents was 191 eggs. This
gives a difference of 56 eggs per bird
in favor of the, pale vents.
In the test there were several differ-
ent bleeds and it Is interesting to com-
pare the produeleon of the various breeds
as shown by the color of the yents. ln
the Plymouth Rock group 83.6 per cent.
of the birds having pale vents laid from
140 to 230 eggs; 16,4 per cent. of the
birds showing pale vents produced
140 eggs or less; 70 per centof the hetut
having yellow vents laid from 0 to 140
oggs. The average ceroduction of the
Rocks having yellow vents was 119.3 egg:•:,
i‘ het °as the average for these having
pale vents was 176.3.
Of the 98 Wyandottes 63 had pale
vents and over 70 per cent, of these pro -
ducted from 140 to 260 ;eggs. The aver-
age productlon fel- the pale and yellow
Nerds was 167.2 for the former and 140.8
for the latter.
The average production of the Rhode
Island Reds having pale vents was 171.0
while for the birds of the same breed
with yellow vents the average yield drop-
'. elt1 htlolelcg
practically all of the above ob-
servations are based on the color of the
vent, the reader must not lose sight of
the fact that this eame variations is
manifested in the thanks and beaks of
yellow -skinned varietiee. In other words,
the rich yellow color of these parts seems
to fade out with heavy meditation. Arm-
ed %Nitta this knowledge the practichl
poultrym-an can examine hls birds dur-
ing October and eeleet those which show
a marked' fading of color in the parts
mentioned, with ehe assurance that 75
per cent., or more, of those seleetea are
his best producers.
• • 0.
Home Remedy iior Whooping
Cough.
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1.anner's Wiles View
; et Production Issue
444+4 $4-+4+94G++* +++++-444-1r*
"As far as 1 can see, well produce
only half what we did Met Year, ami
knosv we shoulddouble last year's
crops,"
The farmer's wife reeled her heed
lightly on a beeket of eggs. She wee
beautiful with that infusion of intel-
lectuality which adds namely charm
to PhYdeal grace.
"Wee thought It all over, but I don't
bee itow we can clo otherwiee.
five girls, the eldest fifteen, and
thcs"re tdl gt zehool, Met 'baby, We
earl get no help. lety beieband'e as
badly off outdoors as 1 am la. The
coid weather has kept seeding back,
and it looks as if we'd have to ploW
under the fall waeut, and he declares
Ile won't resow it, for seed grain is so
hard to get, and so high-priced."
ICILLUNG YOUNG STOCK.
Then the tail; drifted to the ;daugh-
ter of young Animate.
"It's itext to a crime," she said,
now. "Only yesterday we killed a
j•oung heifer ourselves, She'd have
been milking in a few mantes. I said
all I could, but the melt don't seem to
see things the way we women do.
They kill because of the high price of
beef, and then grumble because they
have to pay a lot for a mileh cow. It
events to me that there ought to be a
law prohibiting the slaughter of heifer
calves. There's always money in butter
and milk, with the certainty of beef
later on."
"You say you need help -if guar-
anteed .help could be sent you would
you take it?"
One waited a little anxiously her
l'eldY. It canto from the husband
Aerating near.
DUBIOUS Ole HELP.
"They're more bother than they're
worth," he said. "It's easier to make
less work to do than to make more
and pay somebody to help you do it."
His vision of the need for sacrifice was
less clear than his wife's. She looked
troubled. -
"The girls—" she said, hesitating-
ly. "Another girl put amongst them
sometimes makes trouble."
"No, no, not a young girl like that,"
oue interposed, hurriedly, " but a
woman who realized- that it is ae much
her patriotic duty to help you leash
dishes and cook and care for the chil-
dren as it Is the patriotic duty of you
and your husband to raise more food
this year than ever befcre, It we
could find such women for you, would
you Welcome them? Women, you
know, who would help you plant and
care ,or a.good-ezed vegetable gar-
den„ too." •
"A think, 1 know we would," said
the calm-browed mother of five. "Pen
haps the women's institutes' can help
us fn working out some Scheme." ' •
And with that we parted, to meet
again next week; hoping that ea,ch
might report even a little progress
made. . •
The British Medical Journal of July
bet gives; a rural remedy for whoop-
ing cough, communicated by Dr, Ho -
veil. The treatment is externally' and
is derived from garlic. The cloves of
garlic are .peeled, then cut into thin
slices end worn under the soles of the
feet between two palm of eocke (it
placed next to the skin the preseure
produced by walking* is apt to cauee
irritatien of the skin). The garlic can
ueually be smelt in the breath within
half an hour after slices have begun to
be worn, and the whoop and spasm
venially disappear within 48 hours. The
garlic /Mould be worn for a week or
.1.0 days or longer, according to the
severity of the case. Among the
French-Canadiane onions are ueed ex-
actly the feame way. Garlic may aleo
be adnienistered by eating it as a form
of bread settee, made by chopping rip
the •peeled cloves, boiling them in
milk and mixing them \cite bread
crumbs.
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Russia.
Russia did not break into Eurepean
history erail comparatively recent
Ruric, a Varangian chief, seems
to have been the first to establish 51
governmmir, about 81.2, nitric's de-
scendants ruled amid Many ups and
downs till 1598, at which tittle the'real
history of the counrry may be seli to
begin. Nehth the soloary excepting of
the Mated States of Amertca, the
progress of Russia ender Peter the
Great, and Catherine II. is unequalled
for rapidity in the history of the world,
• .4,
''Papa, 'why di5 you marry mam-
ma?" "Besause, my dear, I thought
she was the most beautiful woman in
the world at that tithe." "Well, isn't
she?" -Judge.
' p'flpt
fiere
,
2 and 5 fl, Cutohp...
O. 20,60 totd_199 lb. Bag*,
Is made in one grade only—the highest. So there is
no clanger of getting "seconds" when you, buy
,Redpath in the original Cartons or Bags.
"Let Redpath Sweeten it." • 6
Ca0a4a Sugar Refining Co, LintitearIVIontreaL
• • •
or, -
Bride Broder.
GORE) BABY'S HEALTH
IN THE SUMMER
'Ate summer months are the most
elanzeis to children. The corn-
pltri,nte of that season, which are eihol-
era infantum, colle, diarrhoea and
dyuentry, come on so quickly that of-
ten a little one ie 'beyond ald before
the- mother realize& he 15 111, The
mother must be cu her guard to.pre-
vent these troubles, of if they '
come on ouddenly to cure them. . No:
other medicine is of such aid to
mothers during hot weather as is
Baby's Own Ta.blete. They regulate
the stomach and bowels and are , afb-
solutely cafe, „Gold by mediclui,
dealers or by mill at 25 cents a box
'frond The Dr. Williams' Medicine 05.,
Brockville, Ont.
IF YOU WERE A BOY,
;If you were a boy this morning.
I wonder what you would do.
Was ever a day more perfect, .
s 'What ever the ettei- more blue?
I'm speaking to you, grave senior,
I noticed you as you went
Hot, footing it .into" the city, • •
TO add to your cent per cent.
I noticed your sober manner,
Your very important looks,
Aeul I noticed your boy beside you,
The sehoolliWY With his 'books,
saw -and you saw -where the river
Steeps down to the "swimmin' hole,"
Another- boy playing "hookey",
A boy with a fishing Pole.
If yint were it boy this morning,
I a cinder what you would do.
I saw you stoppinfg to whisper
A. word to the boy with you.
It seined to Inc then you toldatine
That the truants boy was n fool.'
That nothing' ripens manhood
Like the montents spent in school.
With the fresh blue aky above you
And the green fields under it,
How dare yeti utter such nonsense,
0 liar and hypocrite?
If you ever° a. boy this morning,
A boy with a heart and soul,
You'd be, in spite of a licking,
The boy with the fishing pole,
(Philadelphia Evening Ledger)
• *•
The Monroe Dootrine.
President Monroe in his seventh an-
nual message (Dec. 2, 1823) laid down
the principle of what has since been
known as the "Monroe doctrine," thus:
"We owe it to candor and to the ami-
cable relations existing between the
United States and those (great Euro-
pean) powers to declare that we should
consider any attempt on their part to
extend their system to this'hemisphere
as dangerous to our petite and safety.
With the existiag colonies or depend-
encies of any European power we have
not interfered and shall not interfere,
but with the governments wile have
declared their independence and main-
tained it and whose indepeadence we
have on great consideration and on
just principles acknowledged we would
not view with any interposition for the
purpose of oppressiteg them or con-
trolling In any other manner their
destiny by any European power in
any other light than is a manifesta-
tion of an unfriendly disposition to.
Ward the United.States."
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THE I.)IFFILII.4.,1 PART,
(flotrolL Free Press)
"Are potatom hard to rain?"
'•_1 don't know. 13ut the priee ef pg.
la te('tt ie.'
ENTERINC THE CHURCH.
(I30,etc11 Transcript)
"whet beiturn er Sam Bailey elnce be
entaler de church?"
'1\ ha, he abet got out yit-he done
eol twit yoala yo' recollect', to' dot job."
• -ere-a- - • •
THE BMITHS' ELOW.OUT.
tgaittmore American),
"The tentinee had a MU blow-out the
r night."
-Was it their claughter"s birtlulay cele.
Matiour
"No; it was their automobile tlrett,"
A HOT .ONE.
(Puck) •
The Landlady -I heard you singing in
your room this °Veiling,
The Fourth leloor Back -Oh, 1 sing a
little to Mil time.
The Landlady --Permit me to say that
you have an exeellent weapon,
--ee •
CAUSE FOR GLOOM.
(Washington Star)
"Why my you so gloomy?"
"They tell me I'm too old to enlist,"
milled Mr, Curnrox. "I kind of thotight
let like to have somebody bossing' Inc
around besides mother and the girls."
. Train. Nvkaes. '
The old picturesque lbglish habit
of naming trains of special importance
seems to be dying vat fast in these
materialistic clays. While America
keeps up the custom, we hover speak
now of a "Zulu," a "Plying Scotch -
mall" or a "'Wild Irishman," We do
not Call Cttnard specials "Herring
Pond Limiteds," and even the train
long and affectionately known front
ite wonderful engifte; as the "Charlea
Dickees," has nOW Merely a nuMber
and a time,-Westmititlter attzette,
It's all tight to cox wood and SAY
nothing, but foam, n man •says nothing
without *yen tawing 'weed,
SLIGHTLY CONCEITED.
(Judge)
Sho-The man 1 marry must be bold,
hut not audacious; handsome as Apollo,
yet industrious as Vulcan; wise as Solo-
mon, but meek as Bic:sees-a man all wo-
man would court, yet devOted to only
the one woman.
lie -How lucky we met!
A GOLF ENTHUSIAST,
(judge)
Ittelt-He says he goes in for golf,
eise-Ple does; he plays the nineteenth
hole.
ea -
THE DOCTOR WAS RIG•HT.
(Puck)
"The doctor seal he'd have me on my
feet ut two NVOelts."
"won, did he?"
"Ile sure did! I had to sell -my car to
pay -1113 bills!"
GOOD NEWS.
(Boston Transcript.)
Traffic Cop (to speed -law breaker)
-You'll get $50 for this in the morn-
ing.
Motorist -Glad to hear it; I need
the money.
FARM ITEM.
(Baltimore American.)
Thomas -Do you think the fighting
nations will cede any territory?
Pete --'Why they're all planting acres
by the millions.
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FREE.
• (Louisville Courier -Journal)
"Is this a free translation of Homer
you have maw?"
"Guess it Ise" gloomily responded the
author thereof. "I don't seem to sell
it to anybody."
4 • •
WISE SENATOR.
(Washington Star.)
"Don't you love our song, 'Tile Star
Spangled Banner:" "
"1 dos". replied Senator Sorghum.
"Then why don't you join in the
chorus?"
"My friend, the way for me to show
real affection for a song is not to try
to sing it."
• ..-
LUCKY.
(Puck.)
Wife -Big checks for dresses will
not be in demand this season. 1
Husband -Thank heaven!
MISUNDERSTOOD,
'(Judge.)
He -Didn't 1 hear that your son ex-
pects to be a veterinary e
She -,-Why, no -he hasn't even en-
list ed , yet.
• IN EXTENUATION.
(Lite:)
"I understand the, (irabitall estate Is
very large."
Lawyer (apologetically) -Yes, it is,
1;ot, you. see, 1 have had cliarge of it
Such a short
AN AWFUL BLUNDER.
r3oston Transcript.)
"Weil, I've succeeded in settling that
Hooper case, dad."
Senior Par tner-What! Good heav-
ens; boy, I gave you that ease as an
annuity.,
IMPOSSIBLE.
(Life)
Spink -Jones told nee to -day that he
isn't drinking any more.
Spank -i don't see how he could.
STRICTLY NECESSARY.
(Baltimore American)
"Wes that operation strictly news -
'01! course it was. The doctor needed
the money."
PROOF POSITIVE.
(Boston Transcript)
"The people in that flat opposite
bought their piano at auction."
"1 suspected as much; it's going, go-
ing. going', all the time,
WISE SENATOR.
(Washington Star)
"Do yea find, that your constituents
agree with you?"
"No," replied Senator Sorphtun.
"But that doesn't cameo me any ap-
prehension. If they refuse to be guided
there's plenty 01 time for me to corne
around and agree with them."
"FAN N ED" Heal .
(13althnore American)
She -Well, not many polleemeM this
warm weather would have done what
the paper says a kind policemen aia to
the poor druulten man lie fOund asleep, on
a doorstep.
Ile -What dal the kind policeman de to
the poor drunken Man?
She -The paper says lie fanned, him.
SURE TO(sbt,ildtA0GREE.
"Why do you object to serving on ilm
settle jury with your wife?" ,
"Il's a 011110 useleF.:s procedure, your
Boner. The Jury NVOlild never reeeli a
verelet." -
•e.
NAMING THE: BUTLER.
(Boston Transeript)
Miss N'cwrich-"Pa, 1 do wish -smit
v.oulon't SCP111 afraid of the batter, and
for goedneise take don't say 'sir' to him
Newrielt.-What'll I call him., Sally?
Miss N. -What's his name?
l,L.:.riel\-t3ali"
riissleyriali-
qllen rail him
Cick-Your wife said she b
ought her
hat for a. song.
rloet-Ys,
but I have to furnish Ow
CAU Rt von jEALOUBV.
(V7ushiliAtOn Star)
,.;try• wife's always trying to do some.
thing to make the neighnors jealous."
,"Sigq mine," trolled -Mr,, Vronslots.
"she has hirnrAl thr, hark lot Into a gar.
den, and this !manner v..e'rei ..fring to raite
liy4A valt:Atpt,gatles."