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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1922-8-31, Page 3r:2,r rc, ' •i•A,Pit Ifo4,/ Cannot Use prthirig Better Pim:Thee:1, Dyseatery,,,Celic, Pains and; bre:lima in ,the ,Stonaseh, , Cho,lera, Chola ,11,11fahtlana,Cliolera,TVIerhea Summer ! pompleant—encl.: all Loesenesa of the towels than, • • • hlias Kathleen-TWorney, Downeyville Ont.,writes:--" We" 'always keep a bot- tle of Dr. Fowler's Retract of Wild Strawberry on hand and have always found I% to be invaluable in all cases of cholera and diarrhoea. ' Last fall rely mother had a very sev- ere attack of cholera and after she brad • taken our dr five doses .of this media • eine she was 'completely relieved; orclin- - drily, however, one dose is sufficient. We caanot praise this remedy too high- ly for what it has done ,for us." • Be sure and get the original "ID , Fowler's" when you ask for it. Price 50c. a 'bottle; put up only by The' T, Milburn Co Limited, Toronto, Ont. -Sunstroke and Heat Stroke. A good diver is very tender of his horse in hot weather, for he knows that a Very short stretch of work while the •animal is overheated may be the ruin of it. This is just as true of human beings. We can stand a llot of hot weather and a lot of hard work, but there is a limit beyond which we are in very serious danger. Scores ef persons die every hot s,eason from sunstroke and heat stroke and almost all of these deaths could have been prevented. When you investigate such a case you will find that the man did not feel quite himself that day, or perhaps he had but recently re- -covered from an attack of "flu" or some °there vieakening disease. But the work was urgent, sO he went out and kept at it "until he dropped." Poor' judgment!. In sunstrokethere is a severe con- gestion of the braiti. The face' id 'red and the skin is .burning hot. The suf- ferer should be placed in the nearest shady spot; 'lying 'clown but with the head raised. Cold water should be applied (ice if it can be obtained) and eog the case is very serioue it -will pay -,Aao rush the pa,tient to a hospital' where he can have cold.' baths.. But 'it. is very important that the patient him- self be kept from' every exertion. Heat stroke requires, very different treatment. The patient is in a condi- tion of shock or Collapse. The heart is very feeble. The skin is covered with clammy sweat ,,,and the extremi- ties are probably cold. The sufferer must be put at absolute rest, lying down in themoolest place available. He needs 'stimulation. The clamniy skin must be rubbed; it may be necessary to cover him with a blanket while the stimulation is going on. If he is a!bie to swallow, stimulants may also be given by the Mouth, and instead, of cold they should be hot. With both patients rest is, very .necessary and with either it is very, irripeatant :that he take time enough for complete re- covery before being again exposed to the hazards -of. hot weather work. ' Says Sam: Some teamsters make me wish horses weren't so patient. How much a farmer depends on rain can be judged from the fact that under general farming conditions • about twenty inches of water are necessary to raise a crop. Translate inches in -to tons and we have the rather startling figure of 2,270 tons of water necessary to grow an acre of crops. A soaking rain that with- out cost will spread some two hun- dred tonsef water over 'every drought - ridden acre is a boon 'beyond .eeckan- , , frig. , PALPITATION OF HEART SHORTNESS OF BREATH • When the heart begins to beat irreg- . ularly, palpitates and throbs, skips • beats; when there is shortness oi breath, smothering and all -gone sinking senaation it causes great anxiety and alarm, but there is no need- to worry; just take a few 'boxes of Milburn 's Heart and Nerve Pills, and see how quickly they will relieve you of your trouble. Mrs. Alice Bishop, lea Hawthorne .e..Ave., Hamilton, Ont., writes:—''T take pleasure in re Gomm cede, g I burn 's Heart and Nerve Pills to all persons troubled £1S 1 had been. 1 suffered from pftimeation ' of the heart and shortness of breath; my heart would skip beats, and in the night, at tImes, I would have to sit tip to get my breath. I could not go upstairs without my heart fluttering, and my• nerves were all unstrung, 1)oc,OTS did not help me any, but since using your finneha Fillet 1 have felt like Et different Price TiOc.a bo_e at all deehres, en mailed direct, on eceipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. 'tat • , SatingtEMINIVI' 4 * ye> Sunday School gra, • LJ . `,.`" “Capon Farniin Is Easy,and It Pays Me eVry Well." "There are six, reasons why 1 rale capons instead of roosters," said Frank Nutter of South Portland, Maine, to a bunch of fellow farmers a a local meeting one night, : "First, the quality of the meat is a hundred per cent, better. You know in a minute when you pull your knife across a goockpiece of steak, and when you get held of a steak off some old bull. There is jut as much difference between: the meat on a capon and that which comes from a rooster. Once ,eat real capon, and you.never will call for -an'y other kind of poultry meat. "Second the capons grow faster: . take full brothers, and the one raised not caponized will be anywhere from fifteen to thirty per cent, lighter than the capon at ten months and at'least ten per cent. lighter at six months. "Third the capon eats less for the growth it makes. It does hot waste ite= energy fighting and running around that the 'rooster does. Every- thing he gets to eat goes .to build qual. ity meat and frame. , "Fourth, the capons can be kept in larger flecks with less trouble: They • can, be run with the rest of the flock, while the young rooster is either try -t . mg to lick every other male in the flock or has half of his growth beaten out of him every day. "Fifth, if you want a real large carcase to roast, you can keep the ,capon until it is twelve or fifteen months old and it is just as tender as a brailerm whereas the rooster grows very little after he is six months ald, _ and then he gets tougher every clay. "Sixth, and very important, is the market. There are many advantages the capon has Over the rebster on the market. For one, you can hold him over. You don't have to sell him in. the fall when the poultry market is loaded with fowl and everybody else is sellinc, roosters and poultry. You can mar- ket capon any time from Thanksgiv- ing to Easter. Also, once you have sold anybody a capon he will always give you preference. Then,„ too, you get more per pound for the eapone It -weighs more, and more per pound combined means a,lot. This difference in price will show more and More' as people get their first taste, of capon "Yes, Frank, that may be all right for you to say," interrupted one of his friends, "but the rest of us are not all as hancIfy at performing this operation you are, and it looks to me like quite a job. How many do you lose in the operation ?"." "Well," said friend Nutter, "I knew you veould aek me :that, ;am I have it all figured olift, as near aspoesible. On the first fifty that 1operated I did not lose one. On the next fifty I lost five, and since that 1 havehiot lost a single one, and I have raised over a -thou- sand in the last six years: "I lost so many in the second' fifty against none in the first because I had not learned that, while there is nothing difficult in any part of the operation, one must take each 'step carefully, and do each right. - "I had never seen the operation. I learned of it at a.lecture, I once at- tended.made notes, and when I got home I • folloived these Testes step by step, and that is why I was SO SUCCOSS- flal 'with the first fifty. Men I got so confident that I became careless, arid tried to eliminate some of the steps, and had to refer back to the notes to get st-raight again. I have these notes right here, and I am sure thal; any oneeof You an do as well as I'did if you will take them home and fallow directions; _ "There are a number of caponizing sets on the market! which are good These sets are :fully equipped, and give full instructions with diagram as to how to use each instrument, als how to fasten the ,bisd on the tab' eit board to opes ate, T se notes 1 have however, will he very helpful in addi tion to the instructions given with th instruments. So here are my notes "First, select cockerels at the age when the face begins to redden, and the comb and evattles just begin to grow, for the average strain of the general-purpose breeds, Stich as the Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Ieland Red's, Or WyandotteS and -the l'ike. ' This will be when -they are about five or six weeks old; and from then until they are from eight to ten weeks olid they will weigh from one pound to almost two pounds each. If they weigh two poundsrbi:Moree-they he:tally will no rnake such god capons, and it is hard ex to do the operation well. If imde a pound, ie also much harder t ,operate. The larger breeds, like th rahmas, usually will be seven to nin weeks old, and weigh ahont a pound and a half to' two pounds. "Seeend, starve the birds thorough ly. This is -err impertant, as' it ernp ties the intestines and gives you plenty of room to operate. To starve coop the birds up for Dt least thirty six houre witheut Ladd or -water, grit or green food. Do not !allow them to eat anything. After twenty-four hours they will become very hungry, and will eat eeery thing in sight, even their own droppings. To avoid this keep them either in the dark or in slat -bottomed coops. "Third, by killing the first bird be- fore operating, by bleeding in --the mouth, it will not be wasted, as it can be eaten afterward., and this will be very helpful, in taking .away the nervousness of the beginner, and will help him to get more familiar with the looks and relative position of the vari-: ous organs. "Fourth, beginners should eu.t the birds on both sides. "Fifth, !about the only way that the bird can be killed °aright is by cut- ting the artery which follows along the backbone, and if any eare is Used at all this cannot be done. "Sixth, all of both organs should be entirely.removed, or it will result in a. slip which has none of the desired qualities of the capon.- . t -"Seventh, operate one sunny, day or use .a good' spotlight' or an electric drop light placed near the opening, so you can see clearly inside the bird while operating. , -"Eighth, it ,is hest not to try to sew the. opening Bp. after. the Opera- tion, as once the laird is removed froth the table the muscles which have been stretched while the bird was on the table will fold back and cover the opening better than you can do it by sewing. "Ninth,, the birds can be fed imme- diately after the operation. It is bet- ter "not to give too '• much food and water at the 'start, inCreasing gradu- ally fora day.or,two until they get all they want. . - • - "Tenth, if any 'wind' "bags set in under the skin after the operation, by cutting a small hole in the ,skin the air will come out and -very "seldom trauhIe,agaim • If it recurs, let it out the second time. *. Once -usually stops this troable. * "Although theee • instructions rnay seem complicated. and the operation hard, M.:reality , it: is quite simple. Failures .seldomahappene as the birds can stand an ,untisnal. amount of man- handling with.apparently no ill effects. The firSt one will, seem, hard, but the rest will come easy. „ "As a matter of fact any one of you fellows can do ,as well oar better than I did, because I am an exception- nddY Pooh han.d at that kind of work, and I found it very easy to learn." SEPTE1VIBER 3 Nehemiah Rebuilds the Walls of Jerusalem Neh 4.. 7-16 Golden Text—Our Godshall fight for us, Neh.4: 20, Lesson ForeWord—Neherniah eee,ure "Deprived of the able-bodied men who ed from Artaxences, the Persian king' hid .been sent to work on the walls the anointment- n's governor of ef Jerusalem these little (frontier) 5 the district of Jerusalem, On arriving towns could not hope to defend -them - o sn Jerusalem, he inveetigated the selves against the gathering foes. e walls and found that there had been, Wherefore they 'address themselves no attempt to reItinild. them since their through their leaders to their fellow- ' destruction by the Babyloniana, He townsmen sojourning in Jerusalem, - then convoked an assembly of the 'Ye must return unto us.' e leading people in the city-, and by a convincing acicires, persuaded them to 'The Precautions, 13-18. V, a3. Lower places . . . . higher places. Here again the Hebrew text iS obecure. The Revised Version suggests I a good meaning, The houses and] buildings, for the most part, closely! adjoin the walls. Nehemiah chose the • open epaces where the buildings were et well clear, of the wall and there he stationed armed detachments. in these a -pen spaces the buildings would not interfere with their movements. 1.. . . set the Pebple after their fam- ilies. The defence of the city and the Alninnolte. Some commentators operations on the walls was distrihut- 61 have conjectured that Tabiah was the ed according to families. The defend - private secretary of Sanballat. If ere were s,tatforiee in front of the r this were the case, he had a double places where their respective families o animus against the Jews,—the race were at work , rebuilding the walls. &hatred betWeen the Jews and'the Am- Strong family feeding would thus ell - e menitee, and the feud between the sure a strong defence. rebuild the walls and thus ensure the city against hostile attache, I, The Dangers, 7-13. V. 7. The leading adversaries of the Jews are introduced. They ba.ve al- ready been mentioned in 2: 10-, 19, 20 and 4: 1-3. (Sanballat.) In 2e, 19, he is called the IIaronite, that is, a native of Beth -I -Toren, a town eituated about 18 miles north df Jerusalem, and be longing to the Samaritans, Tobiah; is called in 2:10 "the s,ervant, the ,r4U1Olyt]i' , %Purl' Jews and the Samaritans: Arabians; t V. 14. Nehemiah sought to put heart the lawless Bedouin tribes whoroamed into the vaorkers and defenders by ap- over the Arabian steppes. Ammonites; paa.ling to their faith -In Jehovah, and - a people.who dihed on the east side of to their love of their kinsmen., Fight - the Jordon, and who were the tradi- for your brethren. It would appear tional foes of the Israelites. :Aehdo- that Nehemiah consiclued -that the dites; citizens of one of the principal :eery existence of the Jewish cOmmun- Philistine cities. They were . . . ity in Jerusalern was at stake, - wroth. Their indignation wasaroused V. 15. When our enemies heard. The ' because.. in proportion as Jerusalem opposing forces had contemplated a was strengthened, their own indepen- surprise attack, but when they learn- dence would be weakened or threat ect that the Jews were aarare of their ened. "Balance of power" was as real plans and -were prepared to resist a problem for them as for us. !them, they saw that they were foiled , V. 8. -At first their opposition was and gave up the notion of an inune- shown,chiefly in taunts, eh. 2: 19 and diate assault We returned . . to the 4: 13. ..Wheal they saw that their wall. The news that their adversaries taunts availed nothing, they held a had abandoned their project was sure council ire which it was eiecided to to travel back to Jerusalem. It per - muster an army and hinder the re- mitted the Jews to coPealehe4A once building of the walls by force. !more upon the building operations. NIT Good dairymen recognize that cows kept in good flesh develop increased capacity for milk productionandin- sure, implovernent in the upgrading of the herd. The production of large, yields of milk,. places ,a -heavy drain upon the physical vitality of a cow, and only bY proper feeding can she continue to produce economically. Pastures dewing the summer sea- son are bound to decline and despite good management gradually become less nutritive. To keep, the cows good flesh and 'insure,large yields of milk during the .late summer,. and fall Months requite, that the pasturee be supplemented with other feed. e, Dairy cows have, been bred for milk producing purposes to stichan extent that they will sacrifice their own bodies for milk production, Profitable dairy cows, like any delicately made machinery, an not for any length of time withstand. heavy work unless Well cared for and sepliet1 svith the neces- sary material for replacing the bodily tissues which are constantly Wearing out. A large number of dairymen plan to have their ° cows come, flesh in the fall and early winter. With this 'Prac- tice the cows are on pasture wipers the pasture is on the decline. During th e • firet, feev nionthe of.the g-estation per- iod the cow is hot drafted epoin for -- • • "!!'e, ! A e!'"iiSelf!'rreatis!",,,,,,',,ilanaii„'":".-ivre'eitilseei, ,,staatisa any large amount of nourisfhment for the coming calf, but as 'it 'gradually develops more nutriment is required. Cows several months along in preg- nancy should be well fed to keep up their own bodies and give their unborn offsprings the necessary food for prop- er development. • Jt is the usual practice among dairy- men to discontinue graining their cows as soon as they stop milking th!ern. If the cows are hi good fleslf and on good pastu,re this practice is all -right, Nit if the cows are in low flesh aftjr sev- eral months of heavy milking, it is advisable to keep on with the, grain for a time at least. The grain ration aesists in balaneing up the pasture. Cows kept in good flesh reproduce strong heaVy calves at birth and come to their Milk in better condition for another year's work. I do not feel that feeding grain while cows are dry is an unprofitable practice. It pre- pares them for profitable production a little later on. Keep the cows in good flesh at !all times and nmoh les,s troleule will be encountered during the fresh- ening and milking period, , Bumble -foot can be cured by open- ing arid draining the abscess in the foot. Theri place carbolated vaseline iti the wound and place a bandage se- etnely around the foot, The pus that forms in such a wound is clieuselike and requires a wide incision rather, than just.a pin prick to remove it. . . . V. 9. We Made our prayer. The task before Nehemiah seemed almost sup- erhuman. Hostile forces might arrive at any moment. The inhabitants of Jerusalem were poor and dispirited. Hence Nehemiah had re.course to pray- er. Prayer receives a noteworthy prominence in the books of Ezra and Neliernieh. See a watch. Sentinels were posted to observe the approach of the advancing army and to prevent • asu.I.P1r0Judi 1.8eattck. Vsaid. Not only was •there opposition, without the 'city, but there Was diSaffeetri021 within. The people—Judah-were spiritlees and fatigued. They complained that the task of clearing away the rubbish and rebuilaiing the walls was too much for theV7.11. Our adversaries said. "Alfter mentioning the source of weakness within the walls, Nehemiah describes the danger without" (Ryle). The in- tention of their adversaries had been reported, ne adot; by people • who came up to jetsfsaIem from the outly- mg dastricts. -Since`„the Jews learned of it, the element of surprise was eliminated from the contemplated at- tack. V: 12. Ryls says that: "to discontent within; and the, schemes of the foe without, is added the panic of the Jews in the outlying. -districts." The Jews which dwelt by them. Some Jews from the districts where the hos- tile armies were being mustered, had Come up to Jerusalem to assist in the work of rebuilding. From all places, etc. The Hebrew text at this point is very obscure, The meaning seems to be, as one commentator suggests: Even SD, they went about their -work armed vs. 17, 18. V. 16. Half of my servants. Doubt- less these were the armed retinue which Artaxerxes had given him on leaving Shushan, 2: 9. One-half of them were set to work upon the walls; the other half remained under arms and were ready for any emergency. The habergeons; coats of rnail, here in the form of strong leather jerkins. The rulers were behind, etc. Stationed in the rear of the workmen, the.leact- ?rs of the people could issue commands in ease of an attack. ' Application. Paul has a right to speak to us, for he has left a deep mark on the history of the church, and the world. 'Something, made him great. Was not tone element of his power his:profound eon:Victim-1' that he h,ad a misiaion; to ;which he was appointed by God? The reference material in this lesson di- rects us to Paul's letter .to the Cor- inthians, in:which we ffrad him saving, ,"We are Gods fellaw-werkere! In ;another letter he, says, we are "work- , era together with Him." . In Ephes- hans he declares we are "created in !Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should .walk in them." God is the, architect, we are the builders. He is I building, His city, and He puts honor i on us n using our service. This 'spacious thought that God is working 'out an age -long purpose, and uses our slight contrimution, puts valne on Our 'lives. It is a great, liOpekal thought, ;and it supplies inspiration to men to work and sacrifice, as Paul and Ne- hemiah did. - . Lime in the Soil. compounds, and is destructive of cer- One of the keenest, and at the same tune one of the most valuable lines of research followed by the Division of Chemistry of the Dominion Experi- merital Farm system,.is that of en- deavoring to ascertain the best me- thods of preserving and reviving the productiveness of the soil. Bulletin No. 80'entitled "Lime in Agriculture" tells of the important part that is played in this direction by lime; how it corrects acidity or sourness of the soil, and how this eondition is reveal- ed by lihe use of litmus paper. Acid Soils are especially to be found in wet low-lying, or badly drained lands. In iemedying this state'ofaffairs an ap- plication of lime is most effective; also in improving the tilth-of certain soils removing their stickiness velien wet, and rendering them mare mellow when dry. Lime, in addition, has a tendency to decompose the insoluble potash '6tenisch So Bad cod Only Eat Light Food Mr. William Kruschel Morden Man writes:—''Sometime ago I had quite a serious case of stomach trouble, (In- digestion) and was also troublecl. with gas in my stomach. ,I could $carcely eat anything outside of light food, a.ncl even then generally had pains rater each meal. el had tried many di,f- ferent remedies, but without' any im- provement, aed had almost given up hopes of ever getting well. Finally a neighbor tecommended Eurdock Blood Bitters to me, end after tieing it for a short time I Tele much hotter, 30 1 con- tinued its use until I WU: completely re. tic•ved. 1 can hollowly say that Bur- dock Blood Bitters -hes done wonders for me, and will highly reeommend id to all with similar troubles to mine. Por the past 43 years, Burdock Blood 13itters ls boon put up only by The T, efilburn Co. Limited, Toronto, Out tain organic acids that check the de- velopment'of nitrifying organisms es- sential to the supply of nitrogen to field crops. An application of lime in fair quantity renders the soil slightly 0 alkaline, upon -which 'those organisms in the soil haVing as their function the s fixation of atmospheric nitrogen also depend for their best development. The bullentin gives a practical illus- tration of this by saying that it would s pay farmers failing. to get good crops of clover, alfalfa, peas, or beans to test their oils t whetherth ° aotal eaett:r me Painting Pointers You Might Use 13y H. H. And are you going to tackle your painting job yourself? If so, and you don't happen to have worked with a painter, here are a few pointers pick- ed up by personal experience that may help - Here are the things you will need: An, extension ladder. Putty to fill the nail holes. A good putty knife to scrape off rough, peeling paint. A brush for the "body" work, Four - inch, good grade. A similar 'brush for the "trimmer." A small stiff brush for window sash. Two small stiff wirehooks on which to hang the paint pails. To order the right e -mount of paint, measure the surface, not making any allowance for -windows or corner -board,s. Take the total number of square feet to your dealer. He can reckon the number of gallons needed. One gallon is usually reckoned to eover a little more that 300 square feet, two coats. A. let depends on the surface. If the wood is old and spongy, all heti' are off. Better order plenty, with the privilege of return ng the unopened cans. Next, get a quart of shellac; also a gallon or two of boiled linseed oil. Use the shellac on knots that show paint- ing. . ow through the old paint.It will "kill" them. Let it dry before paint - Use the oil to thin your first coat. No rule as to the amount, If your paint is quite thick, a pint to the gallon will do. Paint is right when it runs in a smooth stream off the !brush. When it breaks and "rains" it is too thin. Paint is too thin evhen it runs on the waN, -after being spread on. In that eare the bes-t thing is to let it stand overnight, pour off the oil that gathers n top, and work It to the right thick- ness by adding oil a little at a time, tirring thoroughly. Mix your paint in a good-sized pail or keg. Pour it back and forth, and stir it with a ladle,' until it pours mooth and free from lumps. Then dip your brushes in the paint, ne to each color. Fill the bristles are acid, and, if found .to be so to apply lime as a remedy. The bulle- tin, which wiul he sent on request ad- dressed to the Publications branch, Ottawa, prapound!s methods and rates of application for each of the different forrns of lime, and concludes pwith clear, specific information 'as' , to the use and misuse of lime and lime cern- Potato Leaf Hoppers. One of the great troubles of the potato grower during the past few years has been hopperburn or tip burn. The latest thought of plant ex- , pests is that this is caused by the potato leaf hopper. While the trouble is largely clue to the leaf hopper, it is greatly aggravated by hot weather which frequently occurs when the hop- per is most abundant. Careful experiments by entomolo- gists have shown that the leaf hopper found on potatoes are !the same as thos,e found on young apple treed earlier in the season and -as the poa t.atoes appear above the ground th ,e in- sects leave the apples and begin -feed- ing and laying eggs on the potato vines. Tests show that this pest can be readily controlled by a spray con- taining- five pounds of carper sulphate, ten poen& el' lime, two and a half pounds of powdered arsenate of lead and fifty, gallons of water. As 'the hoppers congregate on the lower 8,ide of the' leaf, it is very csetiljal to spray from below rather than from above, ceeral t brush, and lay theniotill full of:paint, flat on a board overnight. This will keep the bristles from 'curling. If the -bristles pull out, go and buy a horoughly,,well into -the heel of the Johnson 1abent,te ;or: sh. You'll save both temper d Now do all Your patching. Nail down looae clapboards; putty all nail holes and little cracks; scrape off the spcts 'of peeling paint. Cover these patches with a primer coat of the proper color; shellac the knots; take the windows out and paint them, first resetting any broken or loose glass. Then begin the big jab. Set the ladder up at the rear end, where your first mistakes, if you should make any, will be out af sight. Work from the tap down—always!. And take a nar- row strip of perhaps a half-dozen clapboards clear across the entire end Or s,ide you are painting. Paint the • eaves first, down to the weatherboard. • Then the clapboards in the gable, than a part of the weatherboard. Keep a rough rag in your pocket to rub off paint that gets over on the weather- board as you paint the ends of the clapboards. Don't hurry; don't sweat; you're doing fine! The right way th paint siding is to , give the brush, filled at the tip with I paint, a tong sweeping stroke under- ' neath the clapboard at the top, a.nd so down for the width of the strip you are going to paint aero -ss the wall. Fill the ends of the siding, next to the corner boards, with paint enough to cover every spot. Then, with long sweeping, firm strokes that end by lifting the brush as it is tra- veling direct with' the grain of the wood, apply enough paint to cover the surface well and evenly. Paintneeds rubbing in , If it is "slopped on" it peels off in a hurry—as it will do if the 'surface happens to be a bit damp. When you have finished a strip, get down on the ground and admire your work. If the lower edges of the clap- boards are covered, if the paint looks even, and without brush marks, if it does not "run," if it, dhows a clean line 'between the "trimmer" and the "body"—then you have done a good job, far better than I did the first time I tried it. If it's a two -coat jab, don't hurry the second coat. Let the first dry thoroughly. It can appear dry on the surface and still have a film of soft paint next to the -wood. Do just as careful work the second coat—a little neater if you can. Paint the doors one at a time, so that you'll have a chance to get in and out without marking up the fresh paint. e -.I It has been found that the all drain- r,teidobfiLoniss tehxec,ecireinItk, fccliase of an auto - scaly legs, or for paintini:gher.oco°sflttsr,celtcoff., • Tile drains, laid right, are snore nealey everlasting than any !other farm improvement. r to control mites. A rough scaly condition of a hen's legs is often thought an evidence of age; but it is in reality a diseased con- dition.brought about by the activity of a mite which harrows under the acales of the legs rind sets up an irritation, Inally resulting in the condition indi- cated. Dipping the legs end feet once or'taviee in crude oil or a'half-and-half mixture of kerosene an,d linseed oil will usually auffice. Kerosene alone works fairly well, but lacks body and may cause blisters if it gets into the feathers. Red Clover Puts Nitrogen , in the Soil. At the Ottawa Experiment Station red clover was turned under each year for nino years on a sandy soil. At the end of this time the soil contaiiied 472 pounds of nitrogen per -acre more than at thebeginning. An oven at least ten inches from the floor niakes it easier for Mother. , • IJ ATTAC S . 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