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CONDUCTED E3V PROF. HENRY ,•G.,13E1-1-
The foblect of Ole -department le to plaee Pt the sera
Yiels of our farm readere the advice -of an aoknowiedtled
authodity,on All eitbnects pertainIng to soils and crops.
Address all oueetlems to Professor 'Henry G. Bell, In
hare of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toi'ore,
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J. W. W.: ID have apiece of runout ad about 2. to 3 pee cent. potash. Put
land which is badly Infested with this on when the grain is sown. if
quack grass, which ram;planning on
summer -fallowing. Do you think it
wieuld help build the load if 1 sow it
to buckwheat and then ;plow it under
when in blessom or before, or do you
think it would lessen my chances of
killing the ,quack grass? 1 want to
kill this weed and build the land, at
the seine time if possible, with a view
to planting to oats and seeding with
clover next spring. 1 plan to top -
dress with manure when 1 eed to
oats.
Some have endeavored to
kill out quack grass by a Fmothering
crop, that is, by cowing buckwheat or
rape sufficiently thick to smother the
grass. Others have found simmer -
At fallowing very effective. I would not
advise you to try to mix both methods,.
If you are summer -fallowing the
ground, rake up the root stalks at
least once in three or four weeks and
burn the pile when dry, Then keep
the ground worked at least once in
three or four weeks andhurn the pre
the ground worked at least every two
weeks, so as to prevent the root stalks
that yet remain from getting a firm
hold on the ground.
If you are growing corn or wheat,
or root crops, I believe I would use
the manure there and apply fertilizer
where you are seeding to oats, since
the fertilizer adds absolutely no
weeds- and the ground, if it is thor-
oughly workedashouldhe in fair shape
to grow a good crops of oats, Use
about 200 lbs. to the acre.of a fertil-
izer analyzing 2 to 3 per cent. am -
mole, 8 per cent. phosphoric acid,
you, get a good stand of oats followed
by a good 'catch of elover it should
compete pretty strongly with the
quack grass, and in fact should kill
it mit.
F. J.: What will kill dandelion in
lawns?
Answer: If the lawn area is not tee
targe cut out the dandelions with a,
knife. On large areas praying with
an iron sulphate solution will do a
great deal •towards •killing out this
, pest. Make a solution of iron sul-
phate, eiseolve about 2 lbs. In a gal-
lon of water. With this strong solu-
tion spray the portions of the lawn
where -most dandelions are growing.
This will turnthe surface of the grass
dark, but will kill out the weeds. In
a few clays the grass will regain its
etrength, but the dandelions will kill
out. Much publicity has been giver
to the idea of applying sulphate of
ammonia to lawns to kill out dande-
lions, but there is danger in doing
this, since sulphate of ammonia is an
acid -producing ealt and will, there-
fore, tend to make the soil sour, This
is detrimental to the growth of best
lawn grasses.
R. H.: Would like some Information
about insect pests on vegetables and
flowers, roses- especially, and how to
destroy -them.
Answer: We would advise you to
write the Dominion Department of
Agriculture, Ottawa, for Information
regarding insect -pests on vegetables,
flowers and bushes. They have sev-
ei al good bulletins which describe
this subject thoroughly.
P dill'
The Ideal 13lace for hatching and
rearing summer.chicks is an orchard.
*
. iere an orchard is out of the clues-
. the next best place is a col:n-
atl. lifter the corn is about three
feet high, chick coops may be scat-
tered over the field, and for a week
or so a small run ehould be placed
in front of each coopeso the chicks
may become aequainted with their
home and surroundings. After that
they have their freedom. and at night
they will hunt -up their own coop.
' Avoid overceoweling, and regularly
clean' all filth frorn the coops.
For Aldo the diet in summer is
practically the same asi irewinter, only
there should be less corn and more
green stuff. Theice must, however, be
some corn to balance the Wheat and'
other nitrogenous grains.' The chick
feeds as sold conaneraially have as
their basis wheat, 'corn and oats, all
finely cracked, with other grains
added for variety. The inashe.s are
also prepared,on the sa.me basis, only
f rely 'ground. ,
'TM. ferst few weeks the chicics
should have nothing but the finely
cracked grains. After • that a little
‘rnash may be given in the morning.'
Of the latter only enough should be
given so that it inay be eaten up
.
clean. • '
It is well to keep. the cracked grain
ration constantly before the , young -
Eters zo they may help -themselves at
will. A chick's hrop is very small.
A teaspoonful of food will fill it, and
this digests quiekly When the chick
is active. Consequently" hunger re-
turns about every hour or- two,. and
if food is available the el -non win
-take a few mouthfuls and scamper
off eag-aino After the chicks are about
"Vrir CO, Is
The outlook is for continued
low prices. Ship your lot
now and get spot cash. You
will be treated right:
Wm. Stone Sons, Limited
WOODSTOCK, ONT.,
Established 1870.
dituainwhaimaiinead
three months old, the reghlar s;cratch
food may be given.
Grow .Into the 'i!iirebreds.
The quickest but the'costliest way
to get a herd is to go out and buy an
entire herd of animals, ineluding a
herd sire. A betterplan, however, is
to grow into the purebred business -
not go into it. It takes real ability
to develop a herd ,from a few good
females arid a good sire; anybody
with money can buy good mature ani-
mals on the basis of the records they
have matle.
Uzing a'purebred sire on conn -non
serub or grade stock will workswon-
deis. The animals resulting from
several croases will soon approach
numbred type. Results secured will
depend entirely on the sire. however.
Three things are essential in a good
sire:
. First, he must have geed breeding.
This means a good pedigree. His dam
and grand dams should be good pro-
ducers. He should come from a fam-
ily of consistent producers. Pedigree,
however, is not everything. The sire
must be a good individual. ,Often a
sire with an excellent pedigree is so
poor an individual that no good
breeder would use him. Type is es-
sential if you ever ,expect to sell any
of the offspring. .As ear, as young
sires are concerned, breeding. und in-
dividuality are all we have to judge
from.. With, a bull four years old,
however,there is, another index to his
value.' His -daughters should be good
producers, at least as good as their
dams at the sarne age. If a sire has
these three qualities he Is a good one.
I±.. he possesses the first two and it
turns out that he does not have good
daughters he is no good and should.
not be used longer. .1f, on the other
hand, his daughters prove to be better
than their dame you have the kind of
a sire every breeder is loolcing for;
one that builds up the herd.
"Oh, it's summer, summer weather,
And 31ou'd better b'lieve I'm glad.
Going to the pond with brother,
Tramping all around with dad
Looking in the grass for birds' eggs
- Not to touch them --goodness, no!
611, it's summer, summer weather,
And I love the summer so."
Water Fit To Drith
By Harriet, Bowen
Hoye yet: ever noticed bow oi ten A
farmhouse will be .situated on. a Might -
hill, while the eetheuse will be ;hist,
a little I,ower, while the barn with the
well close :beside it is •at tile bottom
is what we are doing to -day. Thielc
'hew Many of our frm:Ils of a quarter The Early r-Alfe of Saul. ,IsA,et21: 39; 22: 3, 28; 2 'rim. 3: 14, 15;
Tio,•wa fceeelletuacy•e litah°e d•2acsdesoftivPalld°aei(1`=.a114 Duet. 6. 4-9 Golden T
ext—Ifebrews 3. 7 8 i A 'broody laien and man with a
. , , grouch are worse thana aore thumb
le we but realieed the preteeticm Connecting lalnhseeh-Or tile nurideO- Acts 22: S. According to the Perfect But the man who can see stars ;When
a
et the hill? Just, why the well should thrown about, us by even hile -average echool teech e id B „ 41
$,--P-411 manner o -f tile law of the fa' thers• 0± tho sky is pitch 'hiack tho worldes
be ea much inore convenient to the city or town ,e,eovernolent with its tile 'best foc tibe 'ttirY 01` the the Jewish scholars arid teachers best friend e•
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e Sunday School
Lesson
GOOD CHEERFROM
A SOD HOUSE
barn than to the kitchen, is a matter
far the farm women's clubs to dis-
` the thing that interests the
sanitarian is that slope from the out -
to the source of the drinking,
water. .
While typhoid,egerms may never be.
introduced into your well by this• sys-
tem of drainage, there is alwaye
chance that they will he introduced,
for it is not only the person who is
actually siek ovho is a SOUTCO of
teatime.
Only a few years ago "Typhoid
'Mary" set us all guessing by the
strange tales that were told of her.
To -day we know that there are peo-
Ple who, having once had the disease
harbor the germs in the intestines
for a long time thereafter. These peo-
ple may be perfectly well, but leave
in their tracks a trail of cases due to
pollution of water into which sewage
has drainec1 or through food handled
by the "carrier" whose hands are not
scrupulously clean.
So we may never know until we are
rudely enlightened, just •who will pol-
lute a well. In the days when death
from typhoid was a common thing,
and that is not very long ago, some
people seem to have had a certein
immunity in communities, where the
water was particularly bad. Then
again, one person could have the dis-
ease several times. At any rate,.
esca,pe "seems to have been a matter the latter. Water, and to a less de- to win the empire ,of the world for
of luek rather than immunity, but gree milk, are the chief sourees,, and his crucified Master, -t b while heal Roman, prison that he wrote
this letter to hie younger and dearly
modern science takes little stock in your health officer proceeds to find race barriers, and to build' a temple beloved. friend Timothy. , TimothY/
Pani,been born anbrought writing. Let it alone and by and by
luck; it Prefers to play- safe. i out what you have been drinking. If of humanity, in the midst of which like had b b d
Maristianit nil ht have become the
by His, spirit, werake ,dheen, up in Asia Minor. His, home was in it will dry down so that you clan take
Lyatra (Acts 16: 1), his mother was it all up with a blotter. "
Health protection is an interesting, the source of contagion is a well or God,
subject. We are inclined to take so spring, the officer gefe busy and sees religion
much. for grantecldn civilized life; we that no 0110 else-dritiks water from ofYa Jegwiele ;sect; Baul made a Jewess, his father a Greek. His Too may men of our day are daub -
childhood. no ,eloubt, had been like that bag life's
h fair page all over with their
e ant \VOX' 0 'VI 'groat apost e
Board of Health we would be thank_ , was one ef the greatest Tie They were lioidina farmere' meet-
. . well be found an• the available corrt- • •
ful. for the age in which we lave, eager mentor- to Aot, F •..ti was gran -0,9,0n of 'founder of One big away out West. The room wee
ma, on e taa JI)Ln .es.
to 11,21101d hain.s ef eu•ec, anent, wour14
recommend 'also the follow- of the two Ribbinleal schools vini2oll filled with men. A stranger was there
thOUrral O'Ver,OritieS,1 tlint the 'tfOverne ing: Bo;swortla's iSte„diee in the As bad an extraordinary influence over who was soon to address the meeting;
ment May grew better rather than and Doistles Perranneedhfoe read- the alnids of the people . in the time He had hoped the farmers present
-worse through our intelligem sup- 1:,:'atterson-Sni,,YPI'S Life uncl Let- of Christ. Tirat , he ,Was al'•° a Man would say something about their diffi-
' ' ters ot St Pa Sta ke 's 1 e f of tolerant and liberal views appears .
, 1, r if ee. , . d • culties, inte,ndeng to shape his
is in. the out-of-the-way 11 a R - .., , o r '
re -
that typhoid still lurks. The babbling
1 °es litza.orrx:Dina;S'shca,..,ivs, Pani'r1fromtriciihiLnaeicellyeristriellisd, f5r..018n4,_t4hoe. auchn,YdertelthitietehaTthini,r1 PAaetuSl merles when the time came so that
stuldied the books "which now fogem our they might be as helpful as possible.
viettires,gue well of clear (ttm, water EaeVe; Epil'alltileerll'oe all":,1a-an a e e e Old Tes'tatnent. and in partiaular the ,' But nobody said anything about
brook far off in the ceuntey, ea: the
Next to our Lord Himself the arleient la -WS, which the Jewish doe- troubles. Everything was lOvelY•
is the most likely Place in which to greatest and meet outstanding figare tors bad soug'bt to adalft to the needs Only the best of good things in sight.
find it. Large eitieS/ 'and the snialleri of the New Testament is that of paral, of their "In time in l'what llas come Far a long time one little old man
to be known as the Mishua, the cen-
cities, too have a regular system of A tharaugh-going Jew of a etriet
,
inspection and Protect their drinkingi Jewish family, an ardent ,patriot, a a - pare an the Talmud., e border sat still listening,
. , . . , ., . ., e , tr 1 Ind °meat , „ ,,, , .,froni °eh
From ehia ,oahool ea Gamonei pau then he .bobbed up and said:
water not only- that which Is "pad" lover of his people and, of their an, -
(or Sauli, as he was then called) was
taken to became an officer oe the tS1.1-
promo council of the Jews, the San-
hedrin.
22: 28. Free born. Paul's father
must, therefore, have a.lso been a Ro-
Which. are found; 'within the city limits.
into h9mes, but the wells d hegs' eientefaiith, a Man ,of (pick iropulees,
an '1 I zealous for the cause :which he had at
i heart, indomitably persevering, and
Most people don't realize tilese;axrictouede yet with a deeply affectionate and
generous nature; he nttraots and, holds
icnartehiws irthesnNevehtici. vtehrei'eciatYse of typhoid our attention -from the first, The ,first
that occurs in, a city is reported to the, tiwee le.ssons of our present seeiee
Bea,rd of Health, and contrary to thei show him to us as the Jew and
accepted belief , that inunici em-
ployees are chairawariners, this de-
paetinent ,of, the public weal, at least,
is very much on the job.
When a case of typhoid is discover-
ed—usually with the help of the
Board of Health laboratory which
diagnoses the case macroscopically. in
order to -supplement the finding of the
doctor in charge—there is a quiet in -
man Citizen. The Romana were mas-
ters of all the lands about the Medi -
"I ,Ieve in a sod house. My neiglia
leers live in socl houses. We hold our
meetings in a so& house. We've got a
bigajeb, and were wo•riting at it every
day!"
Not a word of complaint! Just ,one
stronig,, true, clear note of courage arid.
phar4sQ, the lessons. 4,I.tat sameNv, as, tr,,eiirs,..noan, sea, and, of /a..rige parts of good cheer! Those men saw, not the
the gebreatian praa.cbr ea,d, teacher .a•utioPe and. we,stern. .A.sia ,and sod house of to -day, but the
• ' northern Africa. The privileges en- comfortable honie,oe the morrow; not
'Itravelter and miseitonary. • , •
joyed by those who had the rights of the deep, learsn wireg,rass of the
theits'iwernaisfic..aPantelle lofv41°thefil•go'tsipseal7nicelsies,raglYe were very great, present, 'but the 'waving grain and the
for the whole.world, and.n•ot for the found afterward in his travels, when whisoering meadows -of ° the years to
in difficult a,nd, dangerous places, that ' -
JOWS andl Jewish proeeCtytes, only. It come; not the cluck of the lien that
-- he could rely upon protection from
was he who conceived the noble ame makes believe she wants to sit, but
bition to .be an apa$aeo to the Geetees,, Roman office -re, and magistrates. Hie
called Of God to •hat great task. RFOM ioihreeekpeloopaarne mgaalureyliilmandaspp,
all the world, nor let aner. other hen
would not sa't. her time out for
the .narrowest of Jevrish circles he Taonadch his
that
vestig-ation ,of 'the .reason. We get eltetpped forth as the leader ef a eat . . . k
Roman citizenship gave him protec-
. heod and. good will. His ambition was et
than; in his great ,missionary woe .
the end f Paul's life and.
t' b th
typhoid germs in but one way, and, an arna Inoyment ro 'are
that is by, eating -or ,s11.•inking—usually" , g ,ess ,en was near e en . a ,
2 Timothy 3: 14-15. From a child.
sit; not the grouch of the man whose
heart is so little that a thimbleful of
good cheer, would fill it to the brim.
Touch a drop of in,k, with the finger
and it will .trail a splotch of black
all over the sheet unon which you are
pay our taxes and let "them" do the that source until it ishnade safe. But
rest. The earnest, .honest labor of it is the experience of most health
many lives is summarized in the medi- , officers that water is polluted because
cal knowledge el to -clay; the plodding of the easyegoing methods still pre-
conscieritions work of many more valent in the less protected sections.
it w' at Jesus hacladeelared it would , •
e , .an y ,a. goof., M0 Or e a ' gloomy forebod•ing and' their words of
be; a world -conquering force.
are fortunate in having, both in LuIces •
We been carefully taught in the holy
Acts 21. 39 A J T •
history in the book of Acts seriptures. The Old, Testament stor-
and in hies, poetry, a.nd 'Prophecy were tam -
several of the Epistles deflnite state 1.1ar to him, and Paul urges him to
continue in those things whieh he had.
carries that knowledge into the daily So if the country districts value the ments about Paul's ear'llee life Here -
discouragement. These men can cluck
all eight, but they are not worth a
cent for anything, else. They will not
dig,and they will not sit still. If they
life of the community. But of all the health and lives of farrn dwellers, thet Luke tells us (chaps. 21 an,d 22) of ,t us learned, and which were able to womld! only keep still, they might
, make wise unto' salivation, not in hatch seinethin,g after a •while..
Paul's return to Jerusalem after his
wonders of modern sanitation•perhaps 'wells and springs should be kept free ( i
th' 'nal great missionary Journeyand themselves but through the faith of Blessed is the men who can see
,
none is so striking and far -Teaching from all contamination arhieh might
of the niot h -
as the romance -of typhoid, and its drain- into them through the soil or . Christ. What Paul says here about life?, brighter side..
eradication from the earth; for that from the surface.
How the Fishes Got Their Colors.
_Long ago alai the fishes thate laved
in the cool, clear waters of a Certain
mountain lake were silvery browri—
as larown, as the Indian children who
came and peered at them.
.Often when the little Indians push-
ed their 'canoes out over the lake and
p -addled round among the water lilies
the fishes -vrould hide under the lily
pads and -listen to their talk. Some-
times the boys arid^ girls pointed to
the sunset colors in the water, or to
the shadows of the gay autumn. trees.
Sometimes birds of bright ,pluniage:
went skinuning across the surface of
the lake, or, the petals, of lovely wild
floivers. dropped in'to the crystal
water. At those times the quiet brown
fishes, listening under the lily pada,
Wondered; why they, too, could not be
bright-colored and fair.
• One day they gathered: in a cool,
shady spot where a willow tree trail -
edits boughs in the lake anal there
talked the matter ov-er.. They said
there surely must be Beene way by
which they could color their coats;
yet none of thein'conlet suggest a way.
But after a while an idea came to
,
them. • Sleeping in the sunshine on
,a•leg in the lake were two big mud
turtles ancl twenty little ones. The
fishes swam to the edge of the water
and asked the big\ turtles if they
would go into the fields and bring
them some bright flowers so that they
could dye their dull -brown coats and
make them beautiful..
The obliging turtles were very glad
to have a good' excuse 'for going to
land, for they ,had long wished, to see
something of the world; so they l'e'ft
their children fast asleep in the warm
sunshine and, swam to the bank.
Once ashore they moved slowly -
along, enjoying the new sights and
sounds as they went. - Now and then
they stopped to r•est in a conrvenient
d
pudle of water. They had dinner in
a patch of wild strawlaerries with
their cousins, the land turtles, and
enjoyed therciselv,es ,inemensery.
Then they found the fields rwith the
bright-colcvred flowers dancing in the
breeze. They ;picleed the flowers, piled
them on each other's; back and set out
for .their mountain lake. Sometimes
the flowers fell off and the turtles had
to pile them on again. But they kept,
on their way perseveringly 'until they
ch
reaed the lake.
The fishes, swam out to nitet atalr•
friendS and were overjoyed to see the
bowers. They colored their dull.coats
with the bright bleaeomas -some yele,
Iow, some green, some with spats of
orange ancloblue. A few of the fishes,
it is true, did not wish to edlor their
coats; thee() Stayed' dose at home in
the shadow of the big rocks. ,
When the turtles saw' how beauti-
ful the fishes wete they, toe, grew dis-
contented Then they- got more flow-
ers and' painted red mad yeIlbev mark-
ings on each other's shell and gave a
bit of 'bright 'color to the baby turtles
that were sleeping in the sunelline.
AS for the fatheS, they were pleased
and proud. ,
Nc,w, all day leng in the singing
brook that ran into the clear lake
till other Pthes, the trout, played
like a white eibbeareateider the ripples.
When they saw ,fiheelake fishes they,
!too, wanted betantifial .aolore. They
did not knowabhatasing flowers, but
one day, atter They had puzzle& over
the -matter for along this, they found
W-e.y to thane'? their color. :ia
It was on a ne day after a storm
the trout went zign,agging up the
'br'ook in a coMpany until they reach-
ed the spring where the Strea.m began.
There they saw, resting -in the clear
white water of the spring, kilie end of
a wonderful rainbew. Eacleivard and
forward through the rainbow colors
they swam until the bow faded. But
when the trout startectaiownthe creek
again they found to their. •joy and
wonder that, instead: of theing plain in
hue as before, they were Of 'a; beauti-
ful bluish tint on the upper part a
thebody, with sides of ailiverr, marked
with a band of red and:With spots of
darker color. To this day they are
known as rainbow trout: ,
And that is the Way, so It is said,
the fiehes got their colors.
.Best Shade Tree, and Why.
Forty-seven years ago the writer
bought this farm. There were no
,buildings, so a two -acre field ,was se-
lected for the home grounds., As soon
as the buildinge were finished ancl the
front yard leveled We ,began to plan
for shade.
My father, who in his younger days
had been a nurseryman;'aid: "Son,
it you want the best shade,. the clean-
est aind 'most interestin,g and' the
longestjlived trees, plant the sugar
maple." Believing ,the advice was
good, I acted upon it., •
We (my father and ,T,) went to the
little run on the side hill where the
young sugar maples grew tall and
straight in the rich mellow soil, ansi
there picked outterenty-five trees that
seemed to us to be the pick of the
woOde. These were carefully taken up
and cut to about twelve feet in height.
We properly pruned, the root,s and
carefully set them in holes fifty feet
apart.
On the left of the driveway from
the road to the barn, which was smith
of the house (Which :faced east), we
set a rove of cut -leaf or weeping birch.
This is one of the most ,pepular of
the weepieg trees, clean, slender,
graceful and a rapid grower. Its
graceful drooping branches, silvery -
white bark and; delleate foliage make
it the most •attra,•ctive single tree I
know o±.
. Along the fence, between:the gala!
dens andr the paddockty the 'barns, I
s,et, sik cherry trees and they have
riaemea a wise•seleetiona for they have
turiaiShed shade 'for the paddock, have
been, a favorite 3. es ort for; th,eechildren,
Who' teeated Upon the leiseioue fruit";
Init best of,all have attracted thehirds
and taken them away fron•i the gar-
den and other fruits,: 'which they
scarcely touched when they could get
the therries. O •
On the west side of t•he paddock lies
. hh . d Pi Ills friend may very well reflect the
against 111M by bigoted and
minded; Jews, who hated hiin for his.
narray'r-' lessons of his own childhood, andi we
other naticnis d f d cl ' to, do not need to doubt the genuine aril
preaching- a gospel af salvation
-sincere piety of those simple, Jewish
Je-ws the future glary a the Kingdom
of God. Paul was rescued from the
mob by the captain of the Roman
troops which !held the castle, or cite,-
It is alway-,s there. The sod liouse
serves its piirpose ,and arnmbles down
into a little heap 0±duat; but close by
'
g homes which was fed upon the sub- stands the better home built by hope
the Gentiles would' share with the erne
an' id pure teachings of the Old a.nd. hard work, by courage and the
Testament. ' will to win out. Busenges seems all
Deut. 6: 4-9. Thou shalt teach them. on the slum to -da Fa "
devout Jeveish homes, a sineere ef- shadow. The tug ofy.1ifeLi122-1111aurridP'.erDao
In the time of Chris,t and eVer since,
del, of Jerusalem, and! was aeterwaed w -e say, it. 'Broody hen, old fellow.
permitted by hirn to a address fort has been Made to keep this corn -
m ' °
the mend. "-Mese words are repeated -an vntl? a gnuchl 1/0/1'.t
•enoWid, from the castle stairs. To the neo,rnin, d ' Th 1 d Get
g an • everano.. aw an a,'hustle on.
captain's inquiry as to who and' what
.
he was' he made the ant -wet of this etently rea-d.'" It Wouldbe-innothing is doing- it ie- a geed tine to
the,prophets and. the psalms are dili- "But there is nothing cloingl." When
., - ,• ..,
verse. deed if the Jaws did not thus learn get re.ady Then go out and start
Tarsus, the city of his birth, was
much that is good'and as a meornetl
atter of •na.
•
ia
the chief city of the province of
fact there has been developed in many s eeerl :mese-a-al to
must have belonged to a colony a hearts -and homes' a real faith in God, ' Too inanY of,11 ' -et- - - '`
drop the big blot cf ink on the 'pac'e.
°ride, M Asia Minor. Paul's family .
and a sincere desire to do good. We,
Jews whielehad settled there, and he
held by inheritance *the rights and gift ee the knowledge of Christ,
. who have reechoed the inestimable to speak the Nvord \ vhich s en ds the
cold chills up the other fellow's hack-
),
privileges o a free citizen of the should seek to know and to under -
Roman empire. He must have been
stand better the people from whos-s
familiar with the Greek language homes came both Jesus and Paul.
from his childhood. In the schools Application.
and, in the university 'he must have be- There may he men who, as we are
come acquainted, with Greek and Ro- sometimes told, are beyond church in -
man literature, and with the phil- fluence, but there are few with whom
()sully and, poetry both of the east the church has not had its opportun-
ancl the west. The university of Tar- ity. Abel the ;worshipper and Cain
sus rivalled, indeed the two other the murderer; Moses the man of God
great seats, of learning of that age, and Pharaoh the oppressor; Elijah
Athens an.d Alexandria, and was reek- the prophet and Ahab the idolater;
-Miriam the prophetess and Jezebell
the serpent; Nero the incarnate de-
mon and Paul the apos,t1e; Wesley
the evangelist and Voltaire the
mocker; Chalmers the savior and
Napoleon the destroyer --all these
men were ehildren, once. In their
cradles there slumbered the energy
which afterwards went forth for
blasting or for bles.sing the world.
pried superior to them in love of learn-
ingby Strabo, a well-known ancient
writer. Tarsus received students
from all parts a the world, and, sent
teachers abroad to many lands. From
Tarsus Paul went to continue his
studiee in Jerusalem] under the great
Jewish scholar, Gamaliel, and so be-
came an accomplished scholar both
in Greek and Hebrew. '
a low cut in thelhills, allowing a draft
of air ,through. Here 1 set a row of
twenty-five Lombardy poplars, fifteen
feet apart. ,They 'are pleasing and
graceful trees and Serve admirably as
a windbreak.
At the extreme southern end of the
grounds is a beautiful cold, clear,
never -failing s,pring ' coming from
under a large lemilder setting back
about twenty feet from the „highway.
Here was a slight indentation of the
fence, leaving the spring aCcessilale
from the road. Here was placed a
granite horse .trough into which un-
numberesi lips have dipped.
Mose by, and a little south of this
spring, I set a weeping willow. The
tree must have been suited' with its
new home, for it settled down to busi-
ness at once arid to'day its ;shade cov-
ers the entire space ocCupied by the
spring and trough, and autoists find
here an ideal spot for rest arid re-
freshments; and if one -hale of the
slips' that have been taken cfroni
the ad trees have lived and grown,
there must be trees enough some-
where for a good-sized forest. •
Now to return to the maples: At
the age of twenty-five years we ±oupd
every tree alive, wella'forttied (due to
judielons pruning) and averaging
about twelve inches ,in &AI -net%)
Myriads. of feathered friends have
been c.rsterecl in those spreading
brat/41es; ' children and lateivilehtios
alike have gathered beneath their
IralveneddILedashttt,tthok
dey, aoti
n,tlae sarbIlya
cllre:ishve
hs.
ing litter COt th0 POW -try houses,.
During the recent war when sager
was wanted for the.boya "over there"
these giants" were inducted into the
'service 'and furnished 112 pounds of
fine pure seVeCtS:
And to-daY, were 1 to show this row
of trees to a stranger, he could but
say with us: "You could not have
made a better selection"; for he would
see tw-entyrafive , giants averaging
about twenty-six inches in diameter,
sound anti thrifty, apparently good
,for another generation.
Sunflowers As a Sila,ge Crop.
Much interest is being taken both
in Canada and the United, States in
the value of sunflowers as a silage
,crop, particularly in districts where
corn is not a reliable crop. The claim
is made that sunflowers are a hardier
erop than ,corn, withstanding both
,drouth and frost to a greater degree.
Insofar as 'the claims put forth for
,sunflowers an a food for cattle are
virtually of „recent origin, experiments
and iiiveengation regarding them are
practically in an introductery stage.,
It is interesting to note, however, that
an analysis, of sunflower silage fed
at an Idaho agriculteral experimental
station indicated. that ,cempar,ed.
favorably with corn allege. In, Can-
ada also studies of the relative value
of sunflowers and corn,for silage per -
poses sue.:geit that in riutrition there
is not any great .differenek; althotigh
corn is to he preferred where it pan
be plentif011y mid eaaily grown.
Where this iS not the ease, 'sunflowers,
are an excellent sebetitOte. •
Don't always stew your rhubarb—
.
the kiddies may like it better served,
AS .o. zunimer drink, and it is just as
good for them Cut up some half-
dozen atickS of the fruit into, enbes,
pour oyer 1½ (Marts of water—ht
must be boiling—and add sugar
taste. Slice in a lemon, and let the
beverage Stand fort'eeood, while be -
fete using, When it can be strained'
off arid served, as required.
to let our thumb and finger s_aireed
the dark lines trona top to bottom of
life's white sheet. But what is the
thingto do just now?
Lay the- bintting paper „of fogget-
fulness carefully over the word whiah
was so thoughtlessly epokene act- love
and hope and good cheer wipe it all
up. Then' write something that, will
put fihe into the heart of the one who
Is to' read your message! Say the
thingL which will help othersro. look
away from the sod -house to tiie fine
home of the morrow! Help men, to
see grea.t ,fields of corn, with ears of
golden yellow hanging down where
mow the wild gras,s,grows rank.
Stop clacking! Kill tliat grouch!
Go eat arid do with all your might the
thing which will pierce the shadow of
the present moment and let in the
sunlight of the better slay, waiting.
to get through the clouds!
Junior Farmers' Competitions
In ancient days experience was thc
sole instructor of the -farmer. To -day
many are the facilities Placed in his
way for starting and continuing on
the right lines. Nor are these facil-
ities confined to the very young,
' Throughout life opportunities are of-
fered to profit by the knowledge and
achievements of oth ere. An inter •
e -sting, phase of what may be called
continuation studies is supplied by the
junior Farmers' profit competitions
that have now been established, at
least in Ontario, for several years.
They are conducted under the direst
supervisionof the Agricultural Repre-
sentatives and have proved of the
greatest value, not only in fostering
interest among youthful farmers in
;field traps ,ancr live stock, but also in
encouraging them to kean accurate
' farm records and to•follow improved
Methods of management and feeding.
The competitions are open to men
under thirty years of age, but win-
ners in'previous 'yeare are ,:exeluded.
tia*t .year in Ontario there were 240
contestants in the various eorripeti-
tione, which iriclucled acre profit com-
petitions with barley, turreips, corn
for stag, sugar beeta,, petatees, oats,
hi dairying, in "baby beef' production
arid in feeding hogs, all in a peofitable
'way. The prizes consisted in the ex-
penses col:heated evi4,h a two weeks'
eouree, including transportation and
boatil, either at the "Oniterio Agricul-
tural College ca. the Keinpiville Agri-
caltterai Sehool. Last year 31 agpir-
ants from western Ontario won ,their
miy to the College and lg from, (taste
ern Ontario to 'kite, Scheel,