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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-11-29, Page 3110.44414.44 447464444.� 1 "SALAD Sealed Packets Only . Never in Bulk Black—Mixed—Natural at4ura l Green E 212 (Dominion Experimental learnt Notes.) ECONOMICAL HOG FINISHING, In choosingfeeds for fattening o choice is ofnecessit snore i limited than inhe case of other classes of stock, With young pigs, where skim - milk and pasture are available, the use of the higher priced meels and concentrates may, In view of high prices, be limited and full benefit de- rived from the former cheap, honie- preduced feeds. With a reasonable amount of wheat middlings, shorts or ground oats, good growthy pigs may thus be produced. For the finishing period, however, a mare -concentrated, more rapidly fattening ration is re- quired. The swine -feeder at once asks, "How can I profitably finish hogs at present feed prices?" r Corn, barley, oats, middlings and shorts are possibly the five most de- sirable grains and meals for hogs *Ice' Pastern Canada, With corn at from $88 to $90 per ton, barley $60, oats at $65, approximately, and with. the two former meals most difficult to procure, some cheaper grain must be used in the. finishing ration. Wheat middlings and shorts, even though high in price, ($45 ap- proximately), must be relied upon for the major part of the meal ration. At the above price middlings offers diges- tible nutrients at a lower net cost per ton than any one of the grains previ- eusl mentioned. B 3net cost is meant t the total cost of the digeaitibienutri- ents, less their manurial value. Oats or barley one part, shorts and middlings two parts, with some milk product or, lacking the latter, ten per cent.• oil meal, should supply as econ- enhieal a growing ration as is general- ly available. With the likelihood of a material drop in the price of oats, and .the more problematical prospect of cheaper corn, when the new crop moves, the above ration could be gains, stood first in economical pro- auction per 100 pounds gain, With the Meal ration valued at $28 per ton (1915 prices) and the buckwheat screenings at $14 (nominal) the cost Per pound gain was 4.7 cents in the ease of the pigs fed the former and 2.7 cents for those fed the latter ration. On the actual prices paid or charged for meal skim -milk and roots, and figuring on the basis of total gains produced by the two lots, buckwheat screenings showed a comparative val- ue of $27.60 per ton. The swine feeder would be well ad- vised in making inquiry into this par- ticular feed, the eastern distribution of which is controlled by the Live Stock Branch at Ottawa. From the latter source further announcements may bo expected in the near future. WINTERING BEES OUTSIDE. (Dominion Experimental farm Notes.) Experiments in wintering bees out- side, placing four colonies together in a case, were started at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, in the winter tint. of 1912.13 and have been con- tinued , every year since. Compared with bees wintered in the cellar, the outdoor -wintered bees Stave, on the average, come out in Spring in better condition, judged by the proposition of colonies found to be living in the spring and the number of combs in each hive found • to be•covered by bees at the first examination, made towards the end ot April. The wintering cases employed were large enough to take four 10 -frame Langstrottt hives with •a space for three inches of planer shavings at the sides between•the hives and the walls of the case, and also three inches un- derneath the hives, and ten or eweive inehes on top, The top packing was placed in bran sacks for easy removal. The outside entrances to the hives, cut in the case as far apart as practi- cable, measured about 8 inches long by 1 1-2 inches high. A piece of wood revolving on a screw reduced each entrance to 8-8 of an Inch wide by 1 1-2 inches high during the cold wea- ther. Sheltering the apiary during winter sinammaimivesimastmem YOU WILL MISS SOMFTI-UNG iF YOU FAIL TO ATTEND THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TORONTO FAT STOCK SHOW ......... UNION STOCK YARDS TORONTO MORE ENTRIES THAN EVER BEFORE, INCLUDING TH5 BEST THAT ONTARIO PRODUCES. Judging commences 10 a.m. Friday, December 7th. Auction safe of Show Stock 10 a.m. Saturday, December 80th. improved. Corn, shorts, and oats, equal parts with. skim -milk, is an ex- cellently balanced ration. The addI- tion of corn, even as a small propor- tion, to the shorts, middlings, skim- - milk ration would distinctly improve it as a finishing ration. Corn, must, however, reduce materially in price to bo considered an economical hog -feed. At the present time feed wheat, as procurable in Western Canada, forms en excellent hog -feed, as bas already been well demonstrated. To the more central and Eastern sections this par- ticular feed is not generally available. In many localities, however, an eleva- tor by-product known as buckwheat ttcreenings, may now be purchased. 'Further information concerning the distribution of this material niay be had from 0. E. Austin, Manager Gov- ernment Terminal Elevators , Fort William, Ont., or the Live Stock Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.. Analysis Of this particular grade of screenings reveals the following con- stituents; Wild buckwheat. 58 per cent; broken wheat, oats and flax, 29 per cent; weed seeds, 9 per Cent; chaff, 4 per cent. In view of the weed seeds present it should be as finely ground as possible. Experimental evidence, as afforded by swine feeding testa, at the Central Experimental 'Farm, would go to prove that this material is of considerable value. During the winter of 191445, 1:1 aft experiment Calculated to throw light on the various grades of screen- ings, buckwheat screenings compared favorably with a standard meal and milk ration. Two of the rations com- pared were as follows:—No. 1—,shorts, three parts; corn, three parts; oil meal, one Bart; plus skint milk. No. 2-•--lefinely ground buckwheat screen- ings plus skim -milk. Without enter- ing into the details of this test it niay Tie stated that the pigs fed bucicwheat eereenings, while not so fat as those feat the regular meal ration, and stand- ing therefore slightly lower in total from wind was found to be very im- portant. At Ottawa the wintering apiary is thus protected by a close board fence 6 feet high, eight feet high would be better for an apiary of fifty or one hunered colonies, and Norway spruce trees have been plant- ed close to the fence to take Its place in years to come. An important advantage of outside wintering over cellar wintering was found in the protection afforded by the wintering case and packing dur- ing the spring. The colonies thus protected always built up much faster in the spring than those that were brought out of the cellar and given little or no protection. The hives were left in the Wintering cases until June, the cases being deep nough to take one super. There was a somewhat greater con-• gumption ot stores during the winter in the colonies Ieft outside than in those wintered in the cellar, and breeding commenced earlier in the outside wintered Colonies. Young bees were usually emerging at the date (average, April 11th) that the cellar evintel'ed colonies were brought out, these latter colonies having eggs only at that time. The bees got their first good cleans- ing flight shout the middle of March, three or four weeks earlier than the date the cellar wintered bees were brought out. From the date of this flight onwards they did exceedingly well. The, arrangement of four colonies together in each ease ie a particularly good one, because they keep one ane.. ther warm. They are placed beck to back, with the entrances on the two opposite sides. Bees have also been successfully wintered out-of-doors at the Experi- mental Farm at Brandon, 24Ian,, where the cold is .still greater and steadier than at Ottawa, and at the Experimen- tal Stations at St. Anne de la Poca- tiere, Que., and Fredericton, N. ii, NOTES. Whale oil soap makes an excellent wash for trees and shrubbs where in- sects and eggs effect the bark and for smearing on the trunks of trees to pre- vent the worms from crawling up, Calves should not be given quite enough milk to satisfy their appetites. Each Calf should be fed separately, carefully regulating the amount of milk by the size of the calf. The fat that his been removed by the amount of milk by the size of the calf, The fat that has been removed by the separa- tor may, iit a way be supplied by add- ing a handful of corn treat or flax, - seed Meal to each bucket of milk. Af- ter drinking the milk the ealf will be Rept busy eating the meal Instead of sucking another salts ears. The milk shouldlwa b i � yd citw its it, hilt ncdei' givers to the calf directly frons the se. l.arator Wdt*zt it is frothy, Tito Oblo ex)lerinient station advises thq uee et 400 to 500 pounds per acre of ft Mixture of tato porta of wood aches and one part oP acM phosphate sr bononleal, ae a fertilizer on the spring crops, Experiments at the eta - tion show that MatMilt does not pro- duce its Pull effect except when rein- forced with phosphorus, SOL •iERS OE• THE MARCH, Distances That Trained, lia,rdened Men Can •C ver in a Day, The Army Drill iBook tells that trained and hardened infantry can cover from twenty to twenty-five miles a day when in small bodies. As the size of the (emmenia increases the distance covered becomes less, as the rate is lowered and time is needed to get all the units into and out of camp. With a regiment or less of average troops—regulars—marching aver. o itsregrliars•--marching over as �.1- age roads, the rate should be froth two and three-quarters to three ntlles. an hour, while a division cannot be expected to accomplish more than twelve and a half miles aday. Of couree, all these figures will vary with different conditions or roads and weather. Untrained troops could not approaaeh them until hardened. Though they might do better for a day or two, they could not keep up tho steady pace of the seasoned regulars for a long distance, Marching with full equipment Is hard physical work, and, like every other form of labor, requires a proper period of training'. The seasoned torte will keep up a steady pace, with ten minute baits every hour, a fifteen mInut stopbeing e sing made at the end of the first half or three-quarters of an hour. Green•troops are apt to straggle badly.—Outing y. thing ltithgaziit©. HOW to Cure Biliousness Doctors warn against remedies containing powerful drugs and alcohol. "The Extract of Roots, long known as Mother Scigel's Curative Syrup, has no dope or 1' strong ingredients;; it cures indigestion, biliousness and constipation. Can be had at any drug store." Get the genuine. 50c. and $1.00 Bottles. 3 NOT FATAL. U. S. Soldier Not Injured by Passing Shell, (Special Cable by the Associated Press.) With the American Arniy in France, Nov. 18.—The experience of an Anl- •erb an sergeant in a support trench has demonstrated tbat a shell can go within a few inches of a lean and not hurt him, Recently the sergeant was ete.nding back of the lines holding his rifle out of the mud by the sling. Bud - dozily there was a rush of air and the rifle was almost pulled from is hand, followed byan explosion xl oso i lnihmu 1? the d twentyr inthe yards rear. The ser - fcant was knocked down, and when e acrambied to his test he discovered that the shell had clipped off the rifle stock, leaving only the barrel in his hand. The Ideal 'Tis said— Paper will be used for wool! New dress and suit fabrics are to be made of it! And just as soon as the machinery can be set up! Now is it or is it not waterproof? Lets hope 'tis, FOOD CONST RWATION You can aceto your full share in this important national wit-thmvar measure, tins - benefit bout In leacher, end in health if you We the proper ceonotnio and labor-saving niethocls in the prepa.ratlun of the staff of life --broad, THE CANUGK BREAD MIXER is the groat modern exponent of cheap - better, cleaner, digestible home-made bread. Cut your bttlter's bill In half, and el, Latinate your doctor's account. Save your money, and. buy Victory Bonds. Solt; by your local dealer, or may be ordered direct from us, delivered, all charges paid. Four loaf Size .... $2.75 each Eight loaf size $3,25 each The principle of .gavine• and ocenonty as praclhlsod by users of tate "Canticle" will eventually win the war. Give your rife a "Canticle" for Christmas. Christmas giving for 151.7 must he confined to useful -not luxur- ious --gifts. E. T. WRIGHT CQ,, Limited., Hamilton, Gan, sols$otTs, -+--*------•1111. Ancient Town Where Matilda 0111....._,..,_ Soissons, one of the many unffortult- ate cities of Northern. France, around which the varying fortune of the French and German armies have eddied and flowed since the first days of the war, is again in the zone of bombardment. The Stational Georga- phicSocietyof Washington issued the rollowing war geography bulletin on this city between Which and Rheims the French have recently snored a not- able victory, advancing along a front of nearly 25 miles: "Although itt remained untouched when the Germans made their first sweep through Northern France, ad- vancing to the Marne, Soissons was sorely buffeted in the bombardment which accompanied the battle of the Aisne, and was further damaged dur- ing the week's Battle of Soissons at the end of whish the French were forced to retire across the Aisne at a int .o p to the east oflie t city, • in Janu- ary, 1915. "Bombardments, sieges and pillag- ings are part and parcel of Soissons' history. Indeeih, few cities in Europe possessing as •little strategic signifi- cance as this place have suffered as. greatly in war, In eerie! Roman days the place was known as Nowiodunum, chief town of the Suessones. Hero the last of the Roman governors of Gaul, Syagrius, was defeated toward the close of the fifth century by Clovis, the Frank. And in this city, which wit- nessed his triumph over the foreign roe, Clovis was wedded to •Ciotilda, she about whom so many romantic legends have been woven and who fin- ally prevailed upon her husband to renounce paganism and embrace Chris- tianity. Long before this notable event, however. Soissons had become an important pace in the chronicles of the Christian faith, for it was here In 297 that the famous shoemaker nobles, the.brothers Crispin and ('rispinian, suffered d mart n dem. "Among the many stories told of the trials and triumphs of these two apostles Is one which relates that the Roman itrefeet Rictiovarus command- ed that they be east into a cauldron of boiling tar The brothers emerged un- scathed and refreehed from the bath, much after the manner of their Jewish rorerunners, •Shadrach, Mesheck and Abednego, from the fiery furnace in Babylon 'Rictiovarus, upon witnessing tris miracle, cast hlmselr into the caldron and was consumed. Batt the Martyrs were subsequently beheaded and their remains rested for a time in the city of their execution. "&crosii the Andre frons Soissone is the suburb of St. Medard, famous for Its -celebrated abbey, whirl► Was one of the wealthiest and Most influential in all France during the Middle Ages, It was in this institution that tho .Rc. man Emperor Louis the Pius "as held a prisoner 'bY hie two own sons in the ninth century, and here also Abolard, the great teacher, was confined for a time after the tragiv denouement of the ileloise romance, „Soissons was the milling point for Napoleon's shattered army after the battle of Waterloo, During the war ot 1870 the town capitulated to the Germans after a three days' bombard- ment Only a few years ago a monu- ment was erected in a public Square of the city to the memory of times citi- zens wlhohu the Teuton invaders shot. "At the time of the outbreak of the world war Soissons had a population of 15,000, Its chief industries were iron and copper foundries, boiler factories, and the manufacture of agricultural implements, straw hats and glass. Its grain market was important and It was famous for Its Haricot beans," Shot the Fish. Instead of using nets or the conven. tional hook and line, the natives of Guiana shoot the fish with bow and arrows, says the Popular Science Monthly, The arrow used is designed especially for this purpose and is about five feet in length, with no feathers. The head, wlaielt is barbed, is made front sheet iron and is provided with a socket which is slipped over the head of the shaft and with a light, strong line about ten feet long, fFIFLSALE) Rook and Stationery Business IN HAMILTON Established 12 years In good central location.. Wei be sold at a sacrifice. Good reasons for selling. Apply pp Y to • THOS. FRENCH 90 JAMES STREET NORTH HAMILTON, ONT. ummEsmaasmsrgarmaraitr 4-4-4-44Ps 4+-4+44.44 P4-+4++44+ Our Railway Men in War • i 4444- -44444-4•44F4-4.1.444444•m•4• Few peel IP realize tl;e Vital •'mportance •whieh• railways have come to ;,lay in the operations of the armies in Europe. in the "arl5 da}s of the v:ar the Allies on all fronts sere in their respect under a tremendous handicap as compared to tate long -preparing and thoroughly pre- pared Germanic Allies. Strategic ratlt•ays rr.diated in all biro ctinns from Berlin like a great evbw eb. '�o • e' Now three, ]hal' • 5 - • n i0 l - t a t trains the s at s front re ii•ans•ort an much as a hundred , load ,1 motor lorries. In acldlti."t to had weath- er the lorries will knock « road to pieces, and frequently traffic becomes impos- sible. twit?h the steel ribbons repairs are headily effected, and weather conditions have comparatively smell effect. Railways of all kinds, light railways and heavy railways, have displaced motor lorries, and have even entered into conhpetition with the Front Area Horse Transport, The ability of a modern army to fight le rneasur'd by materials with which it is supplied. This war has been called a, tzar of material, and the transporting of that material is vital. Training in buitd!ng railways of the highest steed in Canada has naturally restated in fitting Canadians pre-emin- ently for this work, and without undue egotism it is Pate to say that the Rail- v.ay Bridges and Corps from the great M W.lZ.HAMiLTOt'L `Df N.C. MC KAYI',w4c�vv6,e, MCWMWIGMOf{E Na1lFota<. V+�`,:• 1st ip,!N. N•B, In tate above picture are shown the members of the milk committee, appointed by the food controller, which has mads a careful study of the milk situation in this country, considering Ruch questions as supply, malts of production, utilization, etc. P. 13, 'Tustin, of Winnipeg, the chairman of the eommittec, is one of the fore- most experts on dairy and faint matfett: in Canada. He is honorary secretary for Western Canada of the Royal Sanitary Institute. He is also ac member of the Institute's examining hoard for Western Canada. Mr. Tustin is chief of the toed and hairy division of the city of Winnipeg, and manager of the child welfare bureau of that city. W. A, Wilson, of Regina, is dairy commissioner of Saskatchewan, and has done much for the dairy industry in that prairie provinces. Dr. flouche? and Dr. McKay aro medical health of- ficers of Montreal and Ilalifax, respectively, commissioner Wigmore of Bt. John, N.D., and Aid. Nainhlton, of Vancouver, have both given much time to a study of the milk problem, l:, 1I. Stonehouse, of 'Toronto, ttrid John Dittgitani, manager of the Ottawa Dairy, represent the milk producers and the milk distributers, feep*ctively. 166, .... '--", , mines 110101 sill r COMPooho TQ o bingos R4NTq'sn ifN• M t,. ..r� 9esta''''eca.' K ,n bey Canada's taverna yeast for ever A Cluartoe Sf t* centuryr, Woad baked with Royal Yeast will .Hoop fresh and moist longer than that loads with any other, so that a Patel week's supply phial easily be made at one baking, and the Islet loaf Will be Jest: as ggod as the first. MADE IN CANADA WGILL.EtTT COMPANY' LIQ vntrtx'IPTIO 'I'QRQI"TTO. ONT. MatvTiticnt. A Dominicn, thrnusi> their ability to lay lallroads in .groat haste, havelaced an important part in achieving the great successes which have fallen to our Arm - les in the. Western ]''rout this year, The Canadian Railway Troops 'were or- Katrizeil and rapidly increased In numbe.. In November, 1516. (Tho Canadian Rail- way Construction Corps Is n Included In the Canadian tailt•ay t 'Creel,' ) Though working under continuous sh'll fire, these were building light ratiways at the rate of approximately one hun- dred miles over shell devasted ground Per month. it is impossible to Imagine the pitted state of the ground, and the difficulties must be seen to be under- stood. A battalion played a part in t'ie battle of Alessines, Every preparation was made by the battalion in anticipa- tion of the battle hoisting on 7 Jutin. On the night of tho 6th the battalion surveyors slept In the front lino trenches and the first line went over the top; the battalion survey party wag sur- veying the lite to the village which was expected to be captured. The survey of the line was completed on the night of the 7th, and very soon the lite was con- structed and trains running over it, Two weeks eater the battalion constructed numerous additional lines in a very bad cc untry. Throughout the heavy oombardanent which aria iters e ddo our u advance,the battal- ion had charge of the maintnancof all the lines In the forward area, and not- withstanding with tondlhs damagen by esaen shell firee repairs were affected so quickly that not a. •singlo car load of ammunition was dc•- ioyed. and many hundreds of tons of am- munition per day were carries] to the guns over lines built by and. maintained by the battalion. The work of all the battalions under the Canadian Railway harps Is done, under equally trying eouditlons and oc- casionally even more difficult circum- stances arise. The Buns, by means of aerial observation spot tate advancing railway and throw over plenty of shells to batter up the Line and hamper its construction. Casualties are, of course, unavoidable. Ameriean locomotives aro chiefly unrd to pull 't tyre of truce made in England. Thousands of tons of shells are thus hauled to feed our guns. No complaints are now Isearl• of a shortage q 1 t&Kra O � e Ne E f t] 1111 Iti n 1 s not therefore rot 0 surprising sin that the artillery t el ne t„ new form of transportation. Canadian Railway troops are playing an important part in the great ncltetnn of the big advance. This is another sphere where Canada and her sans are .doing their bit in the effort for the rawly resit - station of a lasting peace, --Sheffield, Eng., Weekly Independent From All Over the World. Despite the TT -boats and subntar Ines the shops are offering madame just now— Warm quilted sacques and wrap- pers from Japan. And the daintiest of hand -embroid- ered lingerie from the Philippines. Front i"algiaud come smart new sports hats—lovely velours and soft scratch felts in soft, pretty colors. SERIOUS ILLNESS AVOIDED :riany a serious Illness has been avoided th' o db prompt o i it us Y e of Dr p i Williams' Pinki Pills. s, Th ae i e pills actually enrich and purify the blood, and in this way build up the system, tone and strengthen the nerves and invigorate the vital organs. .Serious diseases generally come from some supple disorder that has been negected. Therefore any thin- ning of the blood should be looked upon as a warning sign, and more serious illness should be avoided by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. in the case of young girls and women the blood is peculiarly liable to get out of order—to become thin and wat- ery—and to lead to a general break- down in health. This can bo avoid- ed by the occasional use of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. whist are suit- able for the most delicate constitu- tion, These pills will give you a new appetite,, improve your digestion, tone and strengthen weakened nerves, banish depression, and lack of energy, clear the complexion of pimples and blotches, cure palu in the back and general weakness, eeuse the disap- pearance of headaches, dizziness and heart fluttering. Give these pills a. fair trial and you will soon note a 'tvonderfuI change in your condition. Your spirits will brighten, good health and strength will return, and you will feel like a new person You can cone firm these statements by inquiring among your friends almost anywhere, as thousands and thousands of hope- less sufferers have been restored to new health and energy by using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. You can get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail. at 50 cents a box or feix boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville, t 1111 .�• M :. 1111Poultry- 1111 World .i. � GREEN FOOD FOR BENS, (By Al, I,. Chapman, Judge, Breeder and Writer.) Green food for poultry throughout the year is a necessity. It is unfor- tunate that green food is so generally considered a mere accessory, resulting in widespread neglect of the poultry man's cheapest source of food. The lower cost of maintaining fowls on open range is due in a large measure to their heavy consumption of tendo'r, nutritious plant growth. All fowls need a certain amount of bulk in their rations. Grains and meat feed alone forth a ration too highly concentrated for proper diges- tion, Green food is not exactly a sus- tainingration, ta an but more especially it is a stimulating corrective to the di- gestive tract and a tonic to the gen- eral system. Fowls fed liberal quan- tities of green food are less subject to disease, they become more vigor, aus improve in stamina, lay more eggs, and their chicks live and thrive welh . Dining the summer months when the fowls have ample range they pick up enough green food in the grass, weeks and vegetable growth. But where they are confined to runs which lack desirable green food, it will pay to supply succulent foot;. Lettuce leaves, beet cabbage to pt3 leaves , to- matoes or melons are relieheti by foWis, and Will form a large portion of tho ration during the warm weather, when green foods are most needed. Corn or apple robs are excelent;, es- pecially if the cobs are cut into fine pieces, Corn husks and corn silk of fresh sweet corn are relished, Corn fodder may be cured for use in wlifter and it is a v,aluable substitute for green food. W.heu the ears have been pulled the corn stalks should be cut close .to the ground and stood tip in shocks until quite dry, when they are tied in bundles and set aside until needed. if this is too bulky, strip the leaves from the corn stalk; when dried out thoroughly they are put away for winter use. TO CURE LAWN CLIPPINGS, Lawn clippings aro valuable as a substitute for green food during winter months, if they have been properly cured. To them it- la best to rake the clippings n s in.o small heaps, left in the sun for several hours, when they may be stirred and allowed to remain till evening. 11 they are fairly dry by evening they should be put in ae esket and hung so that the air will blow through them. Lawn clippings thus cured can be ator- ed away in barrels or boxes for winter feeding, and when taken out they riil1 have a nice green appearance. An excellent method of feeding, lawn clippings consists of taking a piece of inch mesh poultry netting about four feet long and two feet wide, laying it flat and covering to a depth of several inches with the clippings. This In roiled very tightly, fastened tip and hung inside the poultry house within reach of the fowls, thus providing green food at all times without danger of waste or soiling, sugar beets or mangels make ex- cellent green food and should be put away in a cool place where there is no danger of freezing. In the fall when cabbage plants are pulled the poorly - headed ones should be set aside for poultry. Dig a trench wide enough and deep enough to covhtr the cabbage head. Place the cabbage down in the trench and cover with soil, leaving about half of the roots sticking out in the air. Cabbage put away in this manner, if in well -drained location, will keep all winter. TO FEED VEGETABLES. Small turnips, potatoes, or other vegetables may be used by placing them in a. roti of wire, or fastened to a nail, to keep them from becoming' soiled or 'wasted. Very often It is ad- visable to boil mall potatoes and feed hens as a waste mash, Ont, The Length of Revt)intians, 1''or its size and slgnifiemice the Russian revolution was ogle of the quickest and least sallgni11AA1'y (fit re- cord. Six days practleally saw the end of it, whereas more than three years elapsed between the storming of tit, Bastille and the prociamation of the French republic,. It took six days or barricade fighting in 1830 to persuade Marto X. to abdicate, but Louis Phillippe fled in 1848 after only two, though the subsequent state of Mega lasted four mouths. England was ten years in estab- lishing a commonwealth, and five weeks suffered to convince Janes 11, that P'rench soil was healthier for him than English. The Italian wars of liberation occupied most of 1860, and the insurrection in which the Greeks deposed Xing Othe in 1862 was over in fourteen days, The quickest revolution on record wag that of Portugal in 191.0, which was over in a day, ---London Observer, Itelland and Flowers. Tt Was only after the fall of Con stantinople in 1453 that llollantl he came such a gay land of flowers as it porn itt, :tiany Dutchmen went to the east during the years of the great cru- sades, and those of thein who loved beautiful things brought many hone again with them. Not only did they carry away with them silks and em- broideries, jewels, spices and fruits, but in the bottom of their ships they 'brought seeds. When these seeds were planted itt the richt soil of holland sttclt wondrous flowers appeared as had Stover before boon seed in that north- Ieril country; '.l'lttl people bceame wild- ly enthugfastic over the now cetera and *cents and foliage brought to thein from the east. nttd In ltdllami there sprang up a 'great love toy gardening. The baseball player hates to go out on strikes, but the chronic borrower gets used to it. THOSEAWFUL CRAMPS Suggestions that may worst Much Suffering Marysville, Pa.—"For twelve years I suffered with terrible erantps. i. would have to stay I 1 itt bed several days . every month. I tried all kinds of remedies and was treated by doctors, bunny trouble con- tinued until one day I read about Lydia E. Pinkham'e \r(ge- table Compound and what it had clone for • others, I tried it and now I am never troualedwwith with and feel like a d fiercnt woman. I cannot pLaiso Lydia P. Pinkhtam'e Vegetable Com- pound too highly and 1 am recommend- ing it to any friends whin suffer as 1 did.'.' --Mrs. Gnoixc;i1 Tl.. NAYLoit, Dox 72, Marysville, PJs. Young- women who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, hcadacl ar dragging -down sensations, feinting spoils et, indigestion should take Lydia P. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound. Thousands have been re. stored to health by this toot and heals u 1tetly, 'nitrite for free and helpful advice to ;I`t yydia 1':. Pinkhtttn Medicine Co. (Con. falential Lynn, Matas. Oni weibetu. Open and read such letter*. A RI r1 WIFE, (Baltimore lillir•rtean) "So many young men Waite smelt tans 1 rovident tnarriatxes." "tour runt didn't Ice's just stuped with tile welts ," A HOT 'COMl -BACK. (Baltimore, . iarrican) Ue -' oat women have a. mania fur get. tion .;heap things. Site ---Yes; I suppot„t (lint Is how I earn, to 201(11 ' you. NOT 1,10K ED YET. (Boston Tr•ansfcrii,t) Carey-•\Yhirti ye're linked in A. fotght ye ought to say ye've had enough. leola!>:eeehur if 01 can spars At an Ol'm nut licked, yet. ---,---.,--.f s sr- - SURE PROOF, (Washington Star) Do you th nit Higgins Stas great in* telleetled strength? "Ile must ]utve," replied Miss elayvnne. "IIs itis itlntseif un its stead all the time; and that is a great burden." TRAIN HIT AUTO. (Ily Times 5vuolal Wire) Rochester, Y. Y.,Nov. 15. --Mrs. Grace Goodwin, wife of ert Goodwin, a well- known orchestra lease, and )airs. Karry X.ettneweg were killed and four others wire injured, one perhaps fatally, yester., day afternoon 'when a Lehigh Valley itatlroati limited struck an automobjie at Mortimer a. station near stere. ♦ -. 4 •1111.-•.+ THE: BEt.8T ,OF, TRAiNI•NG. (Buffalo Express.) "Her voice has been well trained." "Why, I've nover heard hor sing." "That shorts the training." 4 ED T HER 1 Y. (Washington •Star.) "Do you believe in heredity?" "0f course I do," replied the gentle egotist. "Why I ani one of the brightest boys you ever saw," QUITE A SPORT. (Boston Transcript.) Doctor (to anaemic patient) You must take an interest in outdoor sports. Patient—I do already, doctor. They provide my main reading every day. CAST DOWN SORROW. (Washington Star.) "You won't have a chance to drown your sorrows after the town goes dry." "You can't drown your sorrows,"an- swered uncle Bill Bottictop. "A sorrow's like a sponge. Tho moro you moisten it the more it metes." MRS. PECK'S LAST WORD. (Boston Transcript.) Heck—I suppose you always let your with have the last word? Peck Yes, and I'm tickled to death when she gets to it. iMPO&SIBLE. (Life) She—Don't you think you ought at least to, nhadto 01100511 looney to sup- port ane"? 1{e --•It wouldn't maks any diffcronce; even then I couliah't support you. GHOLLEY'S REASON. (Baltimore n tin re Amora _an ) "'hat on earth made You enlist, ti ley?" "So, the oth•th fellahs,,aod the wouldn't laugh any snore' o.- rziy watch." Choi - girls atrlst- DOING HIS 'BIT. (Life) "Why don't you do your bit?" "Yo gods! I am! My wife is test- ing every war -time recipe." LOST H15 NERVE. (Baltimore American.) "1 had an experience yesterday which made me lose my nerve." "Dear me! What was it?" "A seance with my dentist." 4-♦ CASEY'S "BULL.'' (Boston Transcript.} Cagey (on retiring)—Whatever ye do, Norah. don't let me overslape in the inornin'. if ye don't wake your- self, wake me, anyhow. THE OTHER HALF. (Judge.) 1Irs. Highbrow—Wouldn't you bo interested in knowing how the ,other half lives? Mrs. Lowbrow—Not in the least; but 1 am really curious to know where he spends his evenings. A VALUABLE MAN. (.Birhningha:r. "Age-ISeraid) Pate had been kinder to me, I wuutd hive married 11 $10,000 't year man," sat:i, Mrs. i)uuttvaitc, "You did marry a 810,000 a year man." ansuueretI Mr. Dubwalte with dignity. "The fact that I didn't get it is no re- flection upon me," HER TROUBLE. (Boston Transcript) Mix. A.—Are you troubled =eh in yetis neighborhood with borrowing? Mts. L —5"es, a good deal My neigh- bors never .seem to have anything t omit. MORE IMPORTANT. (Baltimore American) "I told that woman I would m:dce any sacrifice she demanded if she would oriy coma' into -nay home." "You must have loved her a great deal." loved cher, nothing! 'We watt,ted a goer cook." NOT SUITED. (Buffalo Express) "Why didn't you toss a ruin to decide rr)tieth to do?" "•1 did, but the darn thing didn't come dawn the way I wanted it to," • NOT HER 1~AULT. (Baltimore Age-lfet•ald) "Madam, this note is Overdue." "'fell, it isn't my fault. When I signed the htLeful old thing, haw ,lid 1 know that 1 wee going; to be invited to such n lovely house party that I would f inti ai about it?" Wi1Aro Eve is .Buried. J.: a :,t u. ludo( iliiper:ant town rue d e t. lt,l'e Ihuman race, apart, front 1 silt.; 1114! lh; ine:pal lauding place for pin.' ill+: to the hely clew. (; oee b"..tide e.,e ale is le etc, it i' ; 'ilia LI' all 1!;ve, 'Tt,t' r. ue.'t mother or niauk:ntl, Elie a pied Mosletnaht, lie.; ;t. to 1 ,.' I.'•.'d et• .. 1,•; a;rya, s 1,a: ii:"•,n: 't Yiat'it, o',+1 to lion. et liege tyle. .. .. ,. , • t �1ranteter (gazette. 11, 'trbon's the bleemtlt' war go tet ever"' "llttnno, We've platted 801115 left:Allis in front of our treneh." "flltomin' Opththlici s! We've i 1itnted leernc"—Casell's Saturday Jourunl. 'Whit wilt yell 11x'.- ror breakfast?" Inquired the waiter. "What's alar 1191) Of my sitting tare and gne hew? You ,^;t1 :ahead and bran:; mo what the lust* allows Tor iti.day,'.-.•'tv;lshin ;lton Btu,