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The problem is to produce more
with less men to do it. Now is the
time for action. Thousands of sturdy
Canadians are teething for the fight.
They are learning the war game; not
the way it was fought in 1812, neither
as it was fought in 1900. No, not
even the way it was fought last sum -
leer, but the way it is fought now, to-
day, in France. Antiquated methpds
have no place in the face of German
shot and German shell. Antiquated
farming methods have no place in the
face of the world's present food needs.
With the result of the war depending
upon an unfailing food supply, it is no
less important that we be as insistent
and alert in agriculture as in fighting.
Let us subject ourselves to a search-
ing investigation to determine wheth-
er we are efficient or whether we are
hindered by some old method which
we cling to, simply because it is
easier than to bestir ourselves to make!
a change.
Without any attempt .to set things
down in the order of their importance
I wish to mention a few things that
make for efficiency on the farm. First,
have the work planned ahead; it is a
very noticeable fact that the best
farmers know mouths and often years .
ahead, what they are going to grow
in every field on the farm. That is
one of the particular reasons for a I
rotation of crops. It systematizes
the work so that the farmer knows in
advance, what help, seed, fertilizers,
and machinery he will need. There
never was a time when it was so im-
portant to know one's needs in ad-
vance as it is to -day,
the best of them this process of clean-
ing- does not consist simply in blow-
ing out the chaff and screening out
some of the eeeds. It is rather a
very careful cleaning and eeclearinig
process in which frequently e large
share is discarded and a smeller part
of the most select, clean, pltunn and
heavy kernels are kept for seed. The
discarded portion is as good for feed
as it is before passing through the
mill. The praetice of treating seed
grain for smut is becoming quitegen-
eral and should be adopted by all
i
growers of grain, It is a cheap, easy
and effective method of insuring and
increasing yield. And incidentally it
will reduce the fire hazards. Two
disastrous farm fires occurred in one
county this season as the result of an
explosion caused by threshiug smutty
grain. • The losses sustained from
these two fires would have purchased
the formaldehyde to treat all the' seecl
, The Seed Supply
Get seeds ready for use. Now is
the time to get good seed corn and
seed beans. Get seed corn now, be-
cause chalices of getting it in the'
spring are pretty slim. Only a frac-
tion of the corn in Ontario is fit for
seed. Thousands . of acres did
not have an ear of ripe corn. In all,
however, there are a good many thou-
sand bushels of corn that will make
seed if handled properly. There is
the point. Not nearly enough will be
cured for seed, unless each individ-
ual farmer will take it upon himself
to go out after his seed and save it
n.ow.
Too often grain goes into the
ground just as it came from the
threshing machine, weeds, dirt,
shrunken kernels and all. The better
farmers use a fanning mill for the
cleaning of all their seed. And with
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WIttlre ele4 ,AritY on fati a tad will cot rnitee . • tie Johe Heber,' ALA,. at D.
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do so for many yea.
The time to keep up horse produc —
tion is when the average mae wants to
quit. It pays in the long run.
Tell the boys never to fastee, the
loose end of a halter about their bodies
when the other end is fast to the colt,
Terribl, things have happened that can be carried on without much
way.
Use good horse sense and a brush
that is not too stiff when cleaning off
the colt.
One of the first things to consider
when buying' e horse is his feet. Poor
feet will make a horse that is other-
wise good, ur
a faile.
Have you ever visited a farmer who
raises fine horses, and found that all
the work on the farm was being done
by undersized, bony, spavined horses,
while the good animals were being
sold? The farmer has a right to the
best, whether :for his own work or for
sale.
Old Dobbin may not have so many
parts as an auto, but he is largely
automatic, and makes a good sparking
plug.
There should be no horses in
winter, If yours are necessarily so,
cut the ration cloven to- the actual
needs of the animal, and give them ex-
ercise each day.
The supply of heavy horses is limit-
ed, • The demand for efficient Svorkers
Dr. Huber win answer all eigned letters pertaining o fi,ealth. If Yon?
Question is genera'. interest it will be answered through these colunms ;
k not,i will be me,,sered personally if ai tamped, addressed envelope eovelopejseA•
e,„,... r,i,,,iu„orw„, not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis.
seddress Dr. John le Huber, care ot Wilson Publishiag Co„ 73 West Adelaide
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the farmer's poeltetbook.. Sheep rais-
ingA sound body in a child assures its niature health, efficiency and
hired help, which is now scarce and •t longevity.
A few good sheep will fleece -hue
expensive.
During . the winter months proper
exercise for breeding ewes is of equal
importenced with feeding. Animals
enclosed in small lots without suffici-
ent exercise are weak at lambing time.
They produce little milk and a high f
death rate ocelots in their Jambe.
Make such preparations now that
every, lamb may be closely looked
after for the first few hours after it is
born. Cold weather wail prevent
preparations later. .
Hang a small bag in a convenient
place and in it pet every shred of wool
that is found loose or caught here and
there,
A miniber Of Sheep farmere. are
'making some profits this year that
speak :Well for the sheep industry. The
gross income of one farmer from sheep
leas been 200 per cent of all his 'eX-
penses, including interest on ingest -
meet, feed and. other expenses that
should be charged against the enter-
prise.
grains in that county for two -years.
"SAFETY FIRST"
Ensure Early Sowing
Another point of great importance
is to get crops in, on time. This re-
quires that the soil be well drained.
A careful investigation along this line
carried out on a hundred farms in the
Sa blew Valley indicates that crops
are sown from five to ten days earlier
on tile drained land than on land not
tiled. This is a great .dvantage for
oats and barley. Nor does this tell
1 the whole story, for even though pee -
pared earlier, tiled land is generally in
much better condition to receive the
seed than. is untiled land at a later
date. As a further assistance in get-
ting crops in on time and in the best
shape as much plowing as possible
, should be done in the fall. This is
'decidedly the best thing to do for oats,
!barley and spring wheat. The right
t kind of a seed bed for these crops is
I a moist, compact soil. This can most
easily and certainly. be obtained by
fall plowing.
IMuch more remains to be said in
connective with our responsibility as
"soldiers of the commissary," but let
us sum up the above and give it our
honest consideration. As was fore-
cast in the beginning it is a rambling
series of suggestions on increasing
farm efficiency- for the season of 1918.
The meat of the argtunent may be
summed up in these words: The
farmer's part in the great world war
is tremendously important and to
measure up to the emergency requires
unceasing study, careful planning and
vigorous execution.
Itain a considerable proportion of the
Among farmers generally it is the
common practice to sell the hens that
are past a year old for poultry whenl
they stop laying in the fall. Under
t e usua conditions this is good
policy for as a rule only about half
of the noels lay well enough the sec-
ond year to be profitable, and the,
farmer who has pullets enoug-1_ to re -1
place all his old hens sees no advant-
age in keeping any of them over.
This year, however, those patriotic
poultry keepers who desire to do their
part to increase the poultry and egg
supplies will find it desirable to re -
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yearling hens. Farmers will find it
to their interest to hold. all the good
yearling hens they have, making such
addition to their poultry house equip-
inent as 'Y properly
accommodate both pullets and hens.
Overcrowding must be avoided, as
neither pulletsnorlienswilldo their
best.
In selecting hens to keep over, pre-
ference should be given to those,
that moult in September or later, for i
they are as a rule the most per-
sistent layers. Such hens may not be
at this time the best 'looking in the
flock. They are likely to be rough in
plumage, with somewhat shrivelled
combs and pale colored legs,. Thee
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FURS
Thed Fox, Mink Beavers,
iViarteris, Muskrats are now
Wanted and are in good
deniand. Write for our
Priee CSendar, and
ObAPPing Sta.:40401'Y.
HOERNER WILLIA1VISON sat Co.
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ngs, owevel, are mere y mei en al
to the non -laying and moulting period.
Hens that appear in prime condition
at this time are those that moulted in
the sin/liner because they stopped lay-
ing early. The exceptions which it
may be desirable to retain are! hens
which reared broods in early summer
whilean nioulted ng the
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By. Ella E.
The above words meet the eye of
the beholder at every turn these days
and probably have some degree of in-
fluence in preventing accidents. Yet,
since familiarity begets contempt the
legend loses its force, and, seeing, we
see not in the true sense of the word.
Neither do we stop, look, and listen
as we approach a railroad creasing,
much against the wishes of the en-
gineer, who would be spared a great
deal of nerve strain if we did so, or
at least gave him a signal to relieve
his fear that the approaching train is
not observed.
By exercising even a reasonable
aniount•of caution many serious acci-
dents might be prevented. The un-
avoidable accident is in another class
and will be left out of the argument at
the present time. But every day we
read of horrible suffering and ofttimes
of death brought about by a purely
preventable occurrence induced solely
by thoughtlessness on the part of
someone. Perhaps all he people in
the world will never come to fully
understand how dangerous it is to use
coal oiror kerosene for kindling afire.
Yet few neighborhoods have been
fortunate enough to escape at least
one horrible example to demonstrate
the fact. Usually- it is the mother of
small children with her little ones, one
or more of them, who becomes the vit-
tim resulting from her own careless-
ness.
The open tub or pail of hot Water,
the imperfectly covered cistern and
the teakettle pulled by tiny fingers
from its resting place, kills or dis-
figures for life scores of innocents
every year. Even the tea and dofilee
pot and the leettle of not soup pre-
pared for the family meal are often
means contribut:ng to a sad accident
where little ones are too young to
understand the danger in familiar; and
1 object like
seeminglythese.
The awful results n-hich follow teach
the lesson of carefulness to the par-
ent, suffering too late to save
innocent lives.
but
But not all the preventable accid-
ents are those which claim children as
their victims. Older persons often
suffer grievously from the results of
their own carelessness. During the
past summer a number of such cases
have come to people within almost a
single neighborhood, and not one of
ibem was caused by an automp.bile
which so frequently is the instrument
concerned in accidents, preventable
and non -preventable these days.
Rockwood.
A middle aged woman on a step lad-
der washing windows over -reached to
get at the very top of the glass, threw
the ladder out of balance and came
clown with a crash, breaking her right
leg at the knee. Result, weeks of suf-
fering and a probable stiffened mem-
ber, to say nothing of the expense
in dollars and cents. Another wo-
man reached for the dishpan hanging
in. the cellarway, lost her balance,
and fell down the stairs, breaking both
wrists.
Such an innocent thing as a shoe
string may become a trap for the un-
wary, if not properly fastened. The
death of a young woman, and a broken
hip for an older one resulted recently
in both instances from tripping on an
untied shoe lace. Sickness in one case
sent grandma hastily down stairs for
a simple remedy for a child. Slipping
on a pair of shoes width were left un-
tied in her hurry, che foot caught in
the hanging string and she plunged
down the stairs, with the above result.
An obstinate top :on a fruit can re-
fused to budg•e•anel a man's strength
was called to assist in removing it.
The modern Samson in his effort to
loosen the metal, twisted away the
whole upper part of the glass, result,-
ing in a badly lacerated •hand. .Such
an accident would not have been pos-
sible with the up-to-date clamp fast-
eners. Possibly the lesson taught, if ,
there be one, is, throw away the ag-1
gravating old-time jars and buy new- !
THE CHILD'S DIET
From the Third to the Sixth Year.
Select from - aniong these articles:
Breakfast: Cracked wheat, corn-
meal, horeiny, oatmeal (each- cooked
3 hours the day before they are used),
served with milk and sager, er bet-
ter and sugar, or butter and salt. .A.
soft boiled or scrambled egg. Bread
and butter, bran biscuit and butter. A
glass of milk.'
Dinner: Plain soups, rare roast
beef, beefsteak, poultry, fish, pota-
toes Stewed;.with milk or baked, peas,
string beeee, strained, steered: toma-
toes, stewed carrots, squash, white
tlJrnips, boiled onions, mashed cauli-
flower; spinach, asparagus tips, bread
and butter. For clessertS: Rice pud-
ding, plain breed and butter pleading,
custard, tapioca pudding, Stewed
prunes, stewed apples, belled apple,
raw apple, pears and cherries. Bread
and better.
Supper: Farina'cream of wheat
(each cooked for 2hours), from 2.to
3 tablespOonsfel with milk and sugar,
or butter and sugar, or butter and
salt. Stele tread and butter. Bread
and milk. Milk;toast. Scrambled
eggs twice a week:. Custard or corn-
starch. Bread and butter. Biscuit.
A glass of milk or malted milk or
fashioned and better ones. Men are
often guilty of gross carelessness, in
ethe care of animals, which, when un-
ruly, maim. and kill. The gentle bull is
an example•of the danger of taking
chances with animals of that kind.
The vicious one is watched lest the
caretaker be attacked unawares, but
it is the one supposed to be kind,
which brings down the greatest num-
ber of victims.
A f • chastisinghorse
in its stall for some supposedly good.
and sufficient reason according to his I
own thinking, stood behind the animal
and grasped its tail in his hand while
he administered the punishment. It
was a gentle 'horse but in its, fright it
kicked with both feet, strilsifig its own-
er in the abdomen resulting ' 1 th
I e it too much to say that half the
accidents are preventable? Overmuch
caution makes life miserable, perhaps,
by hindering one from even really
feeling free and unrestricted, bet a
moderate degree of thoughtfulness in
matters occurring every day would
save a great deal of suffering.
When the child has lied egg for
breakfast this food should not be re-
peated in any form for supper. Reel
meat should be given but three time
a week. When the child has a chop
for breakfast, he Should have ,poultry
or fish for dinner. Carefully select-
ed fruits, such as the apple, a pear or
a peach, may be given at 3.30 p.m.
supplement by a biscuit or two or by
stale bread and butter if tt's found
that their use does not interfere with
the evening meal.- •
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Gets Dizey.
I ani 28 years old. 1 get dizzy and '
nervous at time, when 1 gtop. and get
up quickly/. 'This makes my a
hert
flutter. My doctor says I am anemic
but that I have no organic disease.
am 5 feet and 6 inches tall and weigh
only 113 pounds. Do you think that
beerizzsi6
y,wolLillicsi ?help to ageseeente those
dizzy
Answer—People get dizzy for var-
ious reasons; in each case the cause
must be ascertained and- if possible
remOved. The trouble may lie in eye
strain or in errors of refraction, need- ,
ing glasses. The ear May be affected
with Menieee's Disease. There may
be stomach or intestinal dyspepeia, .a ,
clogged liver or constipetion. The reason may lie in the immoderate use egesu,
of aleohni, tobacco, tea, coffee—Or
beer. In your case the anemia would 't
e
seem to be the -case. You should, a et
weigh at least 20 pounds more. You's
khe
doctor seems a good man; get him V;
to build you tip. Mailing you fueth-
er information.
Headaches.
I am the mother of 3 children;
they have. not been as strong as we
scould wish - and consequently have
caused us a little more anxiety than ',„
the average. For a long time I have
had the most dreadful- headaches at
the slightest worry or•exertion Also
this last year I notice I am growing
thinner. T. am ill everg morning, an
tired out 'and at times horrid -
le• faint -
Ansever—I sympathize \vit.') you.
Ain mailing you information -which
aM sanguine you will find helpftil,
Odd; isn't it, how everybody's childeer
always cause a little. mere anxiety
than the ;average.
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eeffe,
Nobody can tell just what price
hogs will command next fall, but this
much is certain—people will eat pork,
if they can get it. So, go ahead and
breed for spring pigs.
When the pigs begin to show signs
of weak legs, you may know that you
have not given them the chance they
need to walk around and exercise.
Hogs running in a pasture rarely get
weak in the hind quarters.
Cooking feed for svvine'is not ad-
visable, because it lowers its digesti-
bility. This means that the swine
will require more food to produce the
same amount of gain in weight. The
cooking raises the expense of produc-
tion and Outs down the peolits.
Potatoes, field peas, and roots, used
as feed in sortie localities, are more
palatable and have their water con-
tent lowered when coolced. This also
makee it necessary for the swine to
consume more feed.
Cooking feeds 'requires a special ass-
paratus, and takes much time and lab-
or. All of these things' add to the
expense of precluction.
It is usually profitable to heat
drinking water and water used in
mixing feed, especially in cold weath-
er. This decreases the amount of
reed recmires to keep the body warm,
It's advice when you give it and a
lecture when -you receive it,
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And bend with many groans;
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON
DECEMBER 30.
Lesson XIII. God's Redeeming Love
—(Review) —Psalms 123 and
124. Golden Text, Psa.
130. 7.
The confidence of the prophets. A
large part of the message and work
of the prophet ,steitesmen who have
been studied this quarter is summar-
ized in the toPic: "God's redeetning
love." Those great leaders of their
nation and of humanity called the peo-
ple to justice and righteousness in
order that they might know God and
experience him by thus expressing
his nature in human relationships.1
They procleimed the terrible wrath of
Jehovah upon those evho -Worked un -
justice and idnrighteousness. They
described the anger of God working
out historic consequences. They
.corretly interpreted the moral nature.
of the universe. This 'd a geeat
advance in religion but there was)
something more, in their message.
Underneath this' preaching of right-
eousness and of the consequences 'of
in is a confidence in the lovingkind-
ness of Jehovah. Even' in his anger
they saw a beneficent purpose. It
was not vegeance, but restoration that-.
they proclaimed. The climax of this
tnessage„ included the powerful en-
; emies of:Israel—those great conquer-
ors who were about to grind her be-
neath their iron heel. The prophets
saw them turning to God and included
them in the great fellowship that
; should dsvell with. him. Have we•that
message and attitude for our foes?
It is essential to the building of a new
world order.
A great advance. To call the peo-
ple from immoral idols who could be
bribed to a God of righteousness and
justice was an immeasurable progress
M religion. There is a still greaten
gain in the knowledge of a God of lov-
ingkindness. The gods of a primitive
religion are terrible. The men who
worship them live in a hostile universe
which hurts them continually, so they
propitiate their gods by bloody sacri-
fices, even offering their children upon
the altar. From such a religion met
turn to skepticism. Then the heavens
are brass. There is no answer. The
wise man is but an infant crying in
the night and the universe ignores his
cry. But the prophet, proclaimed
the confident knowledge of a God who
was the helper and defense of ernene
who was the friend and comrade of
their struggles, who was on their side
when they were seeking justice and
righteousness because they were then
expressing Ins nature. This concep-
tion of God was fulfilled in Jesus's
declaration. of the Father which calls
men. to live in a new world -with g' God
whose name is love. Small wonder that
the English abandoning his conception
,of God, cried mit, "The great compete
ion is dead." Those t6 -day who feel
a -personal fellowship with. God are
called- to develop a similar fellowship' '*
on -the part of the connnunity and ,all
humanity to be achieved through
working out his great purposes with
The basis of redemption. With the
certainty of the lovinglundeess of G96
comes the possibility of redemption,
It is Love that bears all things and
still cleaves to the sinner. After
he had denied it, Peter'well knew its
nature and says,."the longsuffering of
the Lord is our salvation." Redernp- `.?
tion is a peocess. There is a grefft- •
purpose behind it all, but it is depend- •
ent upon us. It beaes with our frail-
ties, teaches, and leads us. In the
day of our weakness, in the time when
the consciousness of universal sin
bears hard upon us, when it seems as
if there were no outcome to the sting-
gle of humanity, here is a ground for
confidence. The Eternal Love is great-
er than the needs or weaknen
es'of me
Here is plenteous redemption, grace
more abundant. It is a challenge
not to idle trust, but to renewed effort.
Dairy heifers should have all the
roughage they will consume during
the winter, preferably alfalfa, -clover
or cow -pea hay, with a small amount
of grain hi addition. The liberal use
of roughage is cheaper than using
more grain, and at the same time it
develops the digestive organs to the
maximum, :which is .desirable when
the cow comes into milk.
Next to live stea,in, sunlight will
kill hbout as many germs as any other
thing that can he employed around
the dairy. .
A big lose aniong dairymen is the
constant sacrifice of bulls when ma-
ture and at their best. It is a com-
mon practise to buy a young bull; use
him two years and sell him without
waiting to see what kind of calves he
has produced. After he has 'been
'sold for beef, it 'fs often discovered
that his daughters have reel merit.
It is dangeroas to stop milking a
cow all at once and ;think she is pro-
perly dried off. Skip one milkieg,
and then partly draw the milk next
time. , After a bit, let a whole day go
by, and thtts gradually come to the
end.
On bright days in winter, id the
cows out into a lot on the surmy gide
of the barn, for exercise and -fu ah
air, and throw the barn open foe :tir-
ing. The choressin the barn can, be
done more easily when the cows are
out, Be sure the lot is protected
from winds. ,
Getting the Most Oil( of Skating.
If you have a suspicion' that some'
member of the family, in the role ef
of Santa Claus, is going to give you
a pair of skates this Christmas, why
not hint that you would, like a pair
of flat hockey skates? Th•esO have
flat runpers, and are meant to he
screwed"' permanently to a pair of
shoes, 1-10Cke'y skates 'put more pleas- ,‘
etre into skating than you will ever-
understand until you try them. TheallID:
never come off, they are much faster,
and you can twist and turn as meth
as you wish with mach mote case
than with the old style rockers. You
can start quicker, stop quicker, and
they do not slide out from under port ‘eee
as •the rockers are likely to do. The
first day or so they may seem clinetegeee;
but after you become used to them it •'!'
is a certainty that you will never
back to any other kind., With .them
you can lace' your shoe e tightly and
hove A much firmer support for your
ankles. "
:Better put a long copper rivet
through the center of each heel, bes
f'ore you ecrete the skates in place,
then the heels can not come elf,