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Pros and Cons of Sweet Clover.
Although opinions differ widely re-
gardiug the usefulness of sweet clover,
its utilization as a feed for all classes
of live stock has increased rapidly in
many parts of the country. some oe
its advantages are:—
(1) It is rich iu protein;
(2) Does not bloat cattle as readily
as other clovers;
(3) Is an excellent milk producer;
(4) Furnishes pasture early in
spring;
(5) Is a nitrogen gatherer;
(6) Is a valuable crop for honey
bee;
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(7) Is a splendid green manure
crop,
(8) Grows in many places where
alfalfa or red clover fail;.
(9) Prevents erosion of the soil,
Some, of its disadvantages are:—
(1) If allowed to grow too large the
stems became hard and bitter;
(2) It is harder to cure into hay
than ordinary clovers;
(3) Stock must become accustomed
to it before they will eat it readily.
Sweet clover baa been grown by a
number of farmers In. Dundas county,
Ont„ where illustration work Is be-
ing conducted by the Commission of
An Experiment in Clover Growin0 In Dundas County, Ont.
The crop on the left is sweet clover; that on the right is red clover.
Both were seeded at the same time with the same nurse crop. The red
clover was badly "winter -killed" while the stand of sweet clover is thick
and strong. Under certain conditions, sweet clover possesses advantagee.
over other varieties.
conservation. One man writes:
have had it cue year as pasture. After
the cattle learned to eat it they stay-
ed right on it and it furnished a lot
of good pasture." Another says: "It
has been very successful on gravel
but bard to get a stand in sand. The
cattle like, it as both pasture and hay
and do well ou IL I find It extra good
for milk production and it will grow
where other hay will not grow at all."
Another states: "The .growing of
sweet clover has been a benefit to me,
It grows on soil where I cannot grow
any other hay or pasture crop. I like
it as well as any of the other clovers
for hay for cows. It grows a bounti-
fulcrop but is hard to cure as it has
to be cut before the hottest weather
Comes. As a pasture, it produces
more milk than any of the clovers I
have tried. I had 400 lbs. of seed
from three-quarters of an acre, I
have not had any winter -killing yet."
When common red clover or alfalfa
can be grown easily on all parts of
the farm it may not be advisable to
sow sweet clover. There are, how-
ever, many places In Canada where'
clover and alfalfa will not grow well
but where sweet clover will yield
good crops. The accompanying illus.
tration demonstrates this fact very
clearly. Prejudice should not prevent
the use of a crop that would lie profit-
able
rofitable under such circumstances.
Preventing the Cholera.
Hog cholera is like lightning --you
never know where It ie going to strike.
The only safe way to protect your
herd against it is to take every pre.
caution you can against the disease.
Some hog raisers have taken
chances with cholera and escaped with
);light losses or none at all. But others
have been almost completely ruined.
c that It is this chance t t no good farmer
tan afford to take with a crop that
means so much to his pocketbook and
his success,
The time, trouble and money neces-
sary to safeguard your herd is very
small considering the safety it as-
sures you. Your success in prevent
iug cholera among your hogs depends
on a few simple principles, carefully
studied and followed.
Remember that there is no cure for
cholera Many cures and remedies
are on the market, but none of it is
as yet entitled to your confidence as
a means of combating hog cholera.
The only safe thing to do is to take
measures of prevention. And here are
the simple rules to follow in doing
that:
1. Hog cholera is highly infectious.
Keep posted on outbreaks, even
though they are five or ten miles dis-
tant; and do not allow persons who
have visited infected premises to
come on your farm.
2. Remember that inoculation with
serum or with serum and virus is a
valuable preventive but is not cure.
Therefore inoculate swine while they
ars still well.
3. Successful inoculation depends
on pure, potent serum and virus pro-
perly administered. Incompetent or.
careless use of these products, or the
use of an inferior quality, gives unre.
liable results, and may even do harm.
4. Maintenance of sanitary sura
roundings and adequate fencing to
prevent swine from running at large
are useful in preventing cholera loss-
es.
5. The so-called hog cholera cures
or remedies are not entitled to the con-
fidence of the public as a means of
combating hog cholera. Thus far, no
.medium has been found which will
cure the disease.
The idea still prevails ip sone dis-
tricts that the only requisite for hog.
farming was a large wallow full of
cozy mud, where the whole herd could
live when not busy getting its feed in
dirt and dust. Farmers now realize
that hogs require just as much care
and attention as other animals. The
progressive swine owner now pro-
vides a shady grove instead of a wal-
low, feeds on a concrete platform, the
herd gets good, clean food and water
and sanitary .sleeping quarters, all of
which bring good returns for the time
and money invested,
Anti -hog -cholera serum is the only
recognized preventive treatment at
the present time. .It is not a cheap
treatment, but it is less expensive than
cholera losses.
The treatment is dependatls, but be-
cause of that we must not ignore the
very important matter of sanitation.
Keep the hog pens and lots free from
refuse, trash, and stagnant water in
which cholera infection may lurk. Ten
or fifteen dollars spent in cleaning up
the hog premises, and disinfecting
them, may avert the need 'for spend-
ing a larger sum for inoculating the
herd, Briefly, sanitation should come
first; then• proper inoculation when
the danger is near. With such a policy
every farmer can make his hog -rais-
ing operations safe from cholera,
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In extreme cases the flavor and
odor of the feed have been imparted
to the egg. Onions have been fed in
sufficient quantity to bring about this
effect. Those who, desire to produce
a first class article should not give
feeds of high and objectionable flavor
to their flocks,
In. no case should tainted feed be -al
lowed to enter the ration, Feed also
has an, influence on the color of the
yolk, Corn fed exclusively will give
while wheat fed alone will produce a
a deep yellow or highly colored yolk,
much lighter yolk. El fairly high
colored yolk is usually preferred and
can usually be obtained by feeding a
moderate amount of corn. Plenty of
green feel also enriches the color of
the yolk.
The truly greatman -as always
irunitele—the measure of his own at-
tainments alongside of the grandeur
of his id.cals keeps hire so:
!Pa
When the eaif is three or four days
old is the best time to pencil Yts horns
as they are soft and held just by the
skin. We have tried cutting the hair
around the buttons' and rubbiug the
caustic on until the button shows red,
but all this time the calf may he jump-
ing and floundering around in such a
manner as to take considerable
time and then not make 'a every good
job.
What we use is sandpaper (medium
cut), tie the calf in a.cbruer, and get
on its neck, '(you take hold of. it solid.
this way), take a strip of samjaper
and rub it across the buttons a few:
.times until the spot ala -cost bleeds.
Take the caustic and dip: it into warm
water and rub on in good shape, This
method is much quicker, does not re-
quire cutting the hair, wird does a fine
job, We leave successfully penciled
calves four weeks old by this method
and have had no failures.
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THE CHEERFUL CHEM
I hope that when
they sigivb-1 Mars
They'll 'e.sk w1 - t prices
are u'they're
there. ---
And i P they re low I
think I'll 'o
Provided I can pay
the Fare,
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Canada to be buNztant
Fur Market..
Canada is now exporting to other
countries, according to Dominion
Government figures, 414,000,000 worth
of furs and skies in the -course of a
year, and a number are brought back
into the country, purchased by Cana-
dian dealers at foreign sales and re-
sold to Canadians. The value of furs
and sllns exported during the fiscal
year 1918-1919 was $1$,737,02L Of
these $9,743,464 worth went to the
'United States, $3,7783,955 to Great Bri-
tain, and 3230,202 to other countries.
Some extent of the values to which
these exports have risen can be ob-
tained front the fact that the value of
the export of furs and skins in 1917
was but 35,837,383. 'During the month
of Meech, 1919, the value of these ex-
ports was $2,080,704, as compared with
31,420,168 in the corresponding month
in 1918. It has been estimated that
eighty per cent. of the silver foxes of
the world come from Canada,
For nearly four centuries. Canada
has been one of the largest and most
productive Ae1ds at the fur trade, and
it is impossible to estimate the num-
ber or the value of the costly pelta
taken from the traps of the Dominion
in this period. Yet, until quite recent-
ly, the fur trade was hardly orgauiaed
on a business basis, and beyond the
trappipg and taking of the furs the
various phases of the industry passed
elft of Canadian hands. Traders
bought from the trappers and then the
raw materials, went to the large for-
eign markets.
There has gradually . dawned a
realization of the money lost in this
way, however, and in future Canada
will market her own furs and Mont-
real become one of the most important
fur markets of the globe. For years
London, St, Louis and New York have
been the selling centres to 'which
Canadian furs have travelled and St,
Louis had the world's premier fur
mart. The auction at Montreal will be
conducted by a large company capital-
ized at 35,000,000 and will be largely
co-operative in nature. It is the In
tension to hold three auctions a year.
The opening of a Canadian fur mar -
net is a natural development of arti-
ficial breeding and fur ranching. This
industry is fairly general throughout
Canada, and in Prince Edward island
the industry which has been in opera-
tion for more than thirty years, has
assumed very important proportions.
In 1914 there were in the island xto
less than 250 fox ranches with acerb,
4,600 fexes,
Excellent ltttle cheese balls can be
contrived with cold mashed potato
and odds and ends of cheese. Grate
up about 111b. of the latter, add it to
a" goodly quantity of mashed potatoes,
a teaspoonful of °bopped parsley, and
one shall onion, finely chopped, Add
seasoning if required, bind with a lit-
tle milk, form into balls, roll in bread -
crumbs, and fry In boiling fat. If
these balls are preferred baked, they
can be left in a moderately warm oven
for about twenty minutes.
Making the Farm Home Livable
We are all beginning to realize that
no home property is made beautiful
simply by the spending of 'money.
Some of the barest and most unborn -
like places you have ever seen were
those which had a group of expensive
new buildings set up, on the windy,
treeless knoll of some 400 -acre farm,
all looking like newly painted boxes;
expressing money and prosperity, to
be sure, but never to look like home
or be attractive enough to make you.
wish you could live there, until the
owners are willing to let their love
and longing for beauty and color and
eomfert, in every day living, mix with
the hard work and run over iuto the
joy of planting 'trees, vines and.shrub-
bery, laying out good drives, opening
up the front door, furnishing the ver-
andahs, studying the beauty of right
colors and simple furnishing Indoors,
upstairs and down, in short, putting
life and charm into the place by -the'
hundred and one little things, which
are not half as much a matter of
money as they are a combination of
home love and the wish to have the
daily surroundings comfortably and
artistically right.
Seeing visions of what your place
may become, and being willing to put
daily labor and thought into it, is all
that the beautiful art of home making
needs, and there is never a better
time to put this advice into practical
use than right'now. With spring days
just ahead this month is a good time
in which to plan all the general im-
provements for the coming year—or
better still for the coming five years.
If you will take the trouble to mea-
sure off your grounds and buildings
and then lay out your plan on paper,
allowing, say, a scale of one inch to
every ten feet of your property, for
a sketch of the grounds, or ys inch to
every foot for indoor house orbarn
plans, you can start on the plan of the
grounds by blocking in the objects
now standing, such as trees, buildings
and fences, and then as you plan for
new buildings, driveways, or garden,
shrubbery, or tree planting, change
after change inlay be made iu your
drawings, until you find the most con-
venient arrangement.
Drawing rough pians to scale isnot
difficult and should always be done be-
fore starting work on grounds or build-
ings, for it gives you and your 'work-
men a much clearer idea of what you
want, and where you want it -and for
the indoor changes is absolutely neces-
sary, or you will have all kinds of dis
appointments.
_ There is one form of farm improve-
ment which I would specially recom-
mend for this spring—an improve-
ment which got only adds charm to the
place, but one which brings it up in.
value. How about changing the ap-
pearance of "the frontyard, the back
yard and all the paths, and door-
ways?" Surely fifty per cent. of our
home places need .just this kind of
improvement to make them look pros-
perous and attractive.
Many a farm house which has every
other appearance of prosperity, will
have poor door steps, neglected, rag-
ged 'paths, sagging porches on poor
foundations, or,only blocked up at the
corners, And sometimes even rather
pretentious front ;porches started well
but were never finished, hang: ont from
the house only supported by a few.
bricks or stones—useless; homely
things which seem to have been wait-
ing fon years to have a mailing, a foun-
dation and a flight of good sate steps:
In many- places . every one goes to
the side or back door; and here too,
there is often neglect and. careless
building: A sandy backdoor vard, a
few loose boards instead of a walk,
some snake -shift steps leading up to
a platform. porch which Is neither
covered above nor enclosed below.
Rain and hies and not sunshine have
about an equal chance to enter the
kichen door, while dogs and cats and
chickens are free to shelter and bur-
row underneath the parch. Although
this may seem a most disagreeable
picture It is by no means an uncom-
mon one --and It you will study doors
and door yards for a while you will
see that even the average house yard
and entrances aro not nearly as well
planned and attractive as they should
be.
Wehave believed too Iong, I think,
that beauty in the back yards starts
with a flower bed, and it does not. The
first beauty of a door yard, especially
the one near the kitchen, lies in its
neatness, and in a durable kind of
neatness which almost keeps itself
clean. In the old country this means
stone walks and stone steps, and neat
brick or stone edges to the wanes,
with grass plots and flowers on the
filled in ground. In this country, we
could do the sante or use cement in
place of stone.
But it is useless to think that a door-
way can be neat if bare clay and sand
and dirt and barn trackings are a part
of it. And if housewives want to
know how to lessen the number: of
their floor cleanings they should study
path and doorway improvements; the
possibilities of the cement floored
porch 8 to 10 ft. wide, enclosed to the
ground; stone or cement walks to out
houses, the well and the barn yard,
and thick grass lawn between the
walks. Or if here is no porch they
should use a wide cement platform
floor about the kitchen doorway with
cement walks and grass lawns beyond.
This kind of a door yard" keeps loose
dirt and barn litter at a distance and
once finished requires very little care.
Front doors in country homes seem
to be seldom used, and the front en-
trances are often quite neglected, but
whether used or not the steps and
porches should be finished and en-
closed below for look's sake if for
nothing else. . Placing a removable
lattice at the ends allows a good stor-
age place under the porch for old lum-
ber, ladders, storm doors, etc.
When once the porch and dear -step
foundations, and walks, are well done,
not only at the front but at the side
and back of the house, then fill in good
soil and slope it away from the house
for a smooth lawn, not too large to be
kept mowed and not broken upwith
flower beds. •
The general flower garden should
be. placed by itself at one side of the
grounds where it can be enjoyed from
the principal windows and the veran-
dah, but the finest effect far giving the
place a homely leak' w,i11 come from
planting flowering shrubs and "vines
along the house and'porch foundations;
with larger ; groups near: the door
steps and at the corners, and Iower
varieties of hardy plants " along the
driveway. Tree shadows playing over
a well -kept lawn are decorative enough
for that, and remember that, nothing
does more to make a place look well
kept than trim, smooth lawns and true'
edges -along paths and driveways.
There are three things which will.
help us to work wonders in our spring
improvements, cement, paint and
white wash..
After all no ,matter Trow high the
prices soar, there is one inexpensive,
old fashioned piece o1 work in which'
a whole family may engage; It Is.
called "straightening up" in spring
time.
The Welfare of the Home
Drink Plenty of Pure 'Water.
By Ida M. Alexander, M,D.
I have boon, telling you what your body, yon are laying the foundation;
health needs a're, as regards sleep and for disease, Begin now to obey your
food, Now I want to talk about that body's demands, Driuk waterwheal
simple thing, water. Yon carry it in your body demands water, On the
toilsomely, you cook with it, wash other hand, when you are hungry, you'
with it, clean with it --but yousel- will know it because your mouth will,
Om drink enough of it, Witen I say water in the thought of food just as
enough, I mean two quarts a day. You the sourness of the lemons makes.
bailees!, in water for the outside of your monde water, The taste of
your body. Well, I have still more broad and butter will be wonderfully
faith in water for the inside of the sweet and cake and sweets will not
body, You have beard of the rosy appeal to you at all. You will want
complexion of the English woman. real food. When children want cookies
I was in London in winter and if I did and cake they are not hungry, They
not drink mush water it was because should have a drink of water to put,
I was breathing it in all the time be- into liquid form the food they have
cause of the humid atmosphere. The eaten,
same is true in Prance, We who live - Don't think that a 'baby taking mills
in the dry air- country .must make up never needs water. I saw a baby that
for the lack of moisture in the air by had never had a drink in three months
drinking more water. When you can- It looked like a starved baby. It was.
not breathe water you must drink a starved baby, for he food was not
more of it. . You must get it inside put into liquid form so the little eells
of you if you want to be rosy eliee'ked of the body could trate it up. The
and healthy. baby was stating.
You know your body is made ftp of A great deal of the ""crossness" of
millions of tiuy� cells, each cell able brbies and little children 13 thirst.
to take tide food needed tor itself, but Dear mother, won't you please prove
the food must circulate in the blood the truth of what I ani telling you by
and for that reason it must be In giving the children a drink of water
liquid. form. To put the food into when they are cross? Wherever I
liquid form it must be dissolved in go I see Iittle children :suffering be -
water, Now, you see, when you da not cause the mother does not .realize
drink enough water, you are really how the children need water.
starving your body, The food rilttst One night the baby in our coacb
have 87 per cent, water for its sotu- slept such a restles' sleep, and `ile
tion, Think of this one whole minute was crying so much that she kept
---87 per cent, of your food need is the many of us awake. I watched for the
need of water, ;nether to give the baby a drink (I
If you are not drinking enough drank about half a pint myself) but
water, that is, if you are starving the little one -year-old did not receive
yourself, you will know it by these a drop. Sometimes I ask the mother
signs. You will have that "tired" feel to give the baby water. Do you think
lag. You. may be nervous or "blue," I should interfere every time? Would.
Your appetite becomes poor, Steep the mother understand that I wanted
will be fair batt you will be tired when to help leer and the baby?
you wake and some mornings, there Remember you cannot have a thirsty
may be a dull headache. You are con- baby without having at the same Ina•
stipated, or have alternate spells of meat a starving baby. Yoe Meet give
constipation and diarrhea. Your once water to "put the food into liquid
pretty complexion becomes brown and aorta" or no food will bo digested.
If you have been so spoiled that you
cannot drink clear water, then snake
vegetama
Lite juiblece Insteadsoup(no of water. Drinkanddring the
potato water instead of throwing jt
away, Drink two quarts of water a
day.
join aur Good Health Club by obey
ing the first rule of the club. The
only rule is to drluk two quarts of
water a day, Get just as many mem-
berg to join as you possibly can and
be a conscientious member of that
club.
I wish you all good health, for than
you will be happy, too,
your skin dry,
"Oh, I never get thirsty," I can hear
you say. 'Why, bless you, you don't
know when you are thirsty, Nine out
of ten people don't know hunger from
thirst. When you have a stgnawing"
feeling in your stomach, or a "gone"
feeling or a "burning" there, you say
you are hungry,' don't you? Wrong;
You are thirsty. Next tine you get
the feeling, take a drink of cool -water
sipping it slowly, smacking your lips
over it. In ten minutes, the "hungry"
feeling is gone because it was net
hunger but thirst.
When you give Rood to a thirsty
Do Horns Tell Age?
Y ran across an interesting iter. in
"The Breeders' Gazette" the other day,
and it occurred to me that probably.
there were some of you who are as
ignorant on the subject as I was. So I'
clipped it out and here it is:
"Most people `read' the rings of the
horns incorrectly. At about two years
of age a small ring appears at the
baso of the horn, and another at three
years. Then these two preliminary
rings fuse and almost disappear; but
a. deep ring soon forms, and indicates
the fourth year. Correctly to judge
age from the horns, one should count
the smooth tip and the first slightly
marked ring as representing three
years, and add one year for each ad-
ditional ring. In the aged animal there
is a marked depression or lessening in
circumference at the base of the horn,
which, together with the loss of the
broad parts of the incisors or great
wear of the teeth, may be accounted
unmistakable evidence of advanced
age."
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"It is but common to believe in him
who believes in himself, but oh, if
you would do aught. uncommon, be-
lieve yet in him who does not believe
in himself. Restore they faith to him."
Baked sausages melte a nice change
from fried. They should be Pricked
in the usual way, placed in the oven
in a well -greased tin, and little snip-
pers of fat added to start them cool;!~
ing.
ICROSSED EYES
C N BE
CURED!
I have cured
hundreds of
cases, and all
withoUt pains
chloroform, and
in nearly every
� case, in one visit
to ray office.
Write to MISS
R. KNORR, 97
Joseph Street, Kitchener, Ont., ane
of my recent patients. Ask her about
my skill. (Enclose stamp for reply.)
If you need my services, call orwrite.
Only an overnight trip from Ontario.
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cough or cold in your horse, give .a'few doses of
31OHN'S."' It will act on the glands, eliminate disease
germs and prevent' further destruction of body by disease.
SPOHN'S" has been .the standard remedy for rasnnee-
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