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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-4-30, Page 7ago The Colds And Coughs' Of The Children Quickly Relieved By FINE LIVING IN THE COEN Potatoes From Seed Balls, lila rePOrt for 3.92a the Deielnien Hortlattialst sir6 ait interesting afe BY IT M CARTER count of an experiMent ith tat Have you ever though of having .a recreaticorner iu on cornyour kitchen, a shelf for books and a comfortable chair, into whieh, you .can drop noW Dr. Woodvs and then and get awey from the kitehen with your ntincl while youe Norwav body has to stay right there? Such a corner will pay for itself over arid Syrup • °Illy the mothers' know Itow hard •iteas to keep the cbildren from taking eold; they will run out of depth laot oven The boelashelf meat be close :to e, good light; the means of receetition must be where you are to take your little rest, not across the room, from your chair. If there is no eloset bet properly elad, or have on too much side the window, a shelf, six and a clothing; play too harcl and get over. haLf inches wide and at least as long heateci, and cool off too suadonly; got as the sill, can be placed on brackets their foot wet; lack the bed clothes ten inches below the sill. This shelf off a night, and do a dozen things takes up no necessary room, allows the mother can't prevent. sweeping below it, and also opening There is nothing, se good for ail- the window, which elm scarcely be dron's colds, coughs, croup, whooping done if the sill is turned into a book - cough, or bronchitis as is Dr. Wood's seed,• Norway Pine Syrup: It is so pleasant • to the taste the youngsters take it I have seen several of these below - without any fuss, and its promptness sill shelves in various rooms; the and effectiveness in loosening the' , best was a box shelf wide enough for pbleene and healing the lungs and ordinary books, considerebly longer bronehial tubes io such- tbat the than the width of the window, its toe trofible is ebecked before any serious flush with the sill. A piece oa old lingleouble can possibly develop. linoleum had been cut te fit both sill Me. Everett E. Keeteh, R.11. NO. 2, and top, making a flat, even surface lrrederieton, N.B., write:—' My little covering the crack, and was glued on • boy, ago nine years, tea a dreadful and pentane pate clear orange, Sun , cold whieh left him with a very bad appeared to be pouring thiough the 'cough. I tried Da Wood's- Norway window all day long—but never did, Pine Syrup, and after using three as it faced north There were flowers bottles he was completely relieved. I would advise all mothers' to use this on the sill, and. gay chintz curtains. remedy for taeir ehtlaren as it is an Thecost was negligible, the effect - excellent medicine'''. . ahtfel The genuine.is put up only by The The oppression of steady 'work, ne T. Milimen Co., Limited, Toeonte, Oat, The Sower's Song. Now hands to seedsheet, boys! We step and we cast; old Time's on wing, - And 'would ye Partake of harvest's joys The corn must be sown in Spring. Fall gently and still, good corn, Lie wenn in thy earthly bed; And stand so yellow some morn, For beast and man must be fed. Old Earth is aeileasure to see te. In sunshiny ,cloak of red and green; The furrow lies fresh; this year will be ••As years that are past have been. Old Mother, receive this corn, The son of pit: thoueand golden eires ; All these on thy kinaly breast were born, One rnore th, poor child requires. Now steady and sure again, • And measure of stroke and step we • keep; Thus up and. thus down we cast our grain:• . -Sow welleand you gladly reap. —Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Make Your Woodwork Smile at You. There is no satisfaction like that which one feels he looking back into a room just thoroughly cleaned. =Wood- work shows up the results of cleaning, even more than other thiegs, especial- ly if the following mixture has been S used for washing instead of water and seep. To one quart of boil- - ing water add three tablespoons of boiled linseed oil and one tablespoon of turpentine Wipe the woodwork thor- • oughly with a soft cloth dampened in the mixture. The turpentine with the water will aid in removing dirt and grease, while the linseed oil will re- new the polish. Rub dry with a soft cloth. Renew the mixture as soon as it becomes dirty. For white or light celored enamel woodwork use lukewarm water and a n soft cloth. A few drops .of ammonia in the water will help wash ofr the grease withetit_turning the paint yel- bee as stron,g soaps are apt to do. Where the woodwork is very dirty use , aaittle whiting or window cleaner for removing spas. • h_t_host_d_ds woodlands infested with that pope- • lar flowering- plantknown as Dutch- man's Britches, should not be used for s oasture until the grass has gotten a good stela, for this flowering plant is poisonous.. Both the leavee and the bulbs will affect the cattle. If4grass is plentiful the animals will not bother the plant. AND THOBE TROUBLED WITH Palpitotion and Fluttering of the !Heart, Weak and Irregular Pulse, Mothering and Sinking Spells, Dizzy and Faint Spells, Pier- vousnesa and Sleeplessness, Shortness of Breath, etc. matter what, the same thing oVer and over again, the need to get away from it while -one must stay right there— that is what the woman in. the kitchen feels Who is always doing, doing with nothing to show foetit, as women have often said to me—or as others have wailed: "Speeding half a day getting up a dinner that disappears in half an hour!" "I have a neighbor in the country who comes to tne for house cleaning and other work by the da -y. Her hus- band works on a large estate. He is up at four o'clock every day except Sundays; at half past then. He makes the kitchen Ere and goes to the stables. • She gets up as he goes out about astir - twenty. Their breakfast is on the table at five sharp. But before that she had "recided up'. and etartecl either a washing or a cake baldng, which she finishes by eight. At nine, whett she arrives at my house'she has already a day's work behind her, but she puts:, in eight -hours of the hardest kind of cleaning forene, and frisks away home to get her husband's supper, set " a batch of bread and iron a boarder's washing that has to go back the first thing in the morning. " Her day never ends before eight o'clOck iriwittety; stereeetsvezegt.welvet in summer. The only thing that saves her, she tells Me, is keeping a comfert- able cashigned chair in the kitchen and "flopping down every SO often and forgetting it." • MUSIC BRIGHTENS HER TASKS. This woman has only a common - school education and cares little for books—but flowets! aler kitchen win- dow box and plants are so perfect they are almost too perfect; ttey look made up. Flowers, aines, 'hanging basket's, a cat and a dogerrit is through these that she gets away ,While she -stays right there. ' Another acquaintance does a large part of her kitchen work and .41 the family ironing to the accompaniment of music. She placedther phonograph in the dining room beside the kitchen door, where it takes eely a few sec- onds to slip on and start' a record. Her spare pennies go for records, and neighbors who knew of her craving lend her theirs, but only their best. She has long since outgrown jazz. She 'is now. spreading out into col- lateral reading on the great musit clans, singers, and coMposers,-getting books from the library and taking any - %thing' in the magazines she can lay hold of. IVInsitc is her way out into brighter- i"eahris, but . before . she brought it down into her kitchen life she wee developing •a bad case of drudgery. It So happened that somebody sent a•dear friend of mine a 'Shakespeare calendai for the New year and, need- ing one in the -kitcheb, she'tookiaeut and hung it °tree the sink. Then she set heeself the task of learning each day's quotation while .ehe washed the breakfast dishes. - One day,she Nvas-struck by a quota- tion, and all the time she was knead - mg a batch of bread she Iseat wonder- ing what the context was. As seen as the bread was finished she sat eight 'down with the volume and neVer wak- ed up to the world entil she had teed tile last weed of the play. - The • discovery changed her" Whole life. Sheeetherself to use her brains, carry on her 'ilyte:slectual the kitchen along With the work . Under the directien, of a university professor she laici. out a systematiccourse of study n liberature-,-the smile he was giving to his studentsa-and' put it through by herself., Thus the year tukned ont to be one of the "large years" of her life. ut the words that helped hes. most, that she felt to be a direct message to her soul, she found in a couplet in The Elixir of old' Georg,e Ilexbert: Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that alscisth". action, fine. ed.. This wag herme ttea She afaed by ta • I have alwaY's Ief'dnd that ritehen to which she periodieelly re-, oma little soot in but not of, her for rest a body and refreshment ' of mind. Pine Action and fine living Iare not dependent en fine work or fine surroundhigs; tine living in the kit- chen is within the reach of all who will/ make the effort to attain it. "Nature herself offers Us the broad and easY way—autoinationi. Once an operation is mastered, once a habit is formed, corieciouseess tends to desert it and browse) _afield, and .the" habit rune on of itself almost or sompletely auto- matic. There are innumerable kitchen dp- eratione that can be partially, if. not wholly, autornatizede-peeling potatoes, shelling peas, washing dishes, and the like, They require some attention, but less ancl less the oftener the operation is repeated and the more perfectly it ismastered. Automatization is spon- taneous. We can assist it, however, by the amount ter attention givettto the formation and perfecting of the operation ca habit in the • beginning until it rims without a hitch. . But what happens on .this brOad anll easy way in the general run of life is that our daily operations antornatize themselves, and then the mind goia a -wandering, a-daydrearning, • or spends itself nursing petty -grievances and team And inward teaAnd the kitchen is the choicest hothouse for ll these mental weeds toouriab in, until they shade and emother every healthy fruitful growth of the inner life, The. moral does not have to be hunt- ed with a mieeoscopes-Fine living pays. It pays everywhere. • Most of it peys when carried on in such a wayke as to tathe monotony out of drud- gery. Housecleaning theTurnace. "In the homes where separate heat- ing stoves are used during the winter, 'the housewife just aches until she can take them down in the springs The cleaning of the living -room must be delayed until the stove is out of the way. Then if we get real anxious and take it down a little too early, there is sure to be a cold Sunday with a house - 4111 of company. Tit. Sunday when everyone huddles about the kitchen range while dinner is betng prepared. Of course, we do our best to keep our sweet 'temper, but all the time we are wishing that we had not been quite so anxious to start the heating stove on its summer vacation. We couldn't even put it ap for the day, for it has beencompletely gone over with heavy oil to prevent it rusting during its idleness. , We remembegeonettimesbaclein-oe ' e-ariYrhtotfaekaea'' ping day e when, because of lack of other oil, we rubbed the heating. stove before storing it, with some rancid meat fryings. Needless to say, our stove was ',early ruined because of the salt in the grease. Ever since we have remembered that salt and rust are on the best of friendly terms. We used to think the storing and eleanhig of the stove was e real task, but since having our furnace installed we have found it no easy job to pre- pare a furnace -for its summer idle- ness. - Last spring I accused our furnace, like many other hot air furnaces, of being dirty, but after finishing the • cleaning process I decided the trouble was, in part, my own. - Upon examin- ing the register and pipes below, I found a number of places where ihe dirt was playing hide-and-go:seek. In some places the dirt was almost "felted" together and came out in great strips. A long-hendied brush helped in getting it alt It was neces- sary to -even take down some of the pipes to remove it satisfactorily. A vacuum cleaner would be excellent for this job, but my home is riot yet bless- ed with this. convepience. • " The cold 'air intake pipes were clean- ed, too, and then closed tightly to keep out surnmerts dust and dirt. Of course, I did not do this job- alone: Friend Husband was there and the job was not altogether a silent one. It has .been my experience that with diseard- iag the stove the task of cleaning the farm heating plant is not lessened, but in view of the added convenience and comfort hi whiter, we do not complain. H. BAD BLooD Pimples and Coils? THE TAKE Mrs. Alf. Currall, R.E. No. 1., &- mans, Sask., writes:—"About a year ago 1. was greatly troubled with pimples and boils breaking, out on me, I also had a. very tired feeling which made me feel as if.I,hadn't strength enough to clo any work. This ,was caused ,from, bad, ;blood and a, general run:dtn, ftci, fitv.ripking :ihreelhottles of B.B.B. Ou,nd4lica afliv troubles )1.0.a di, - caritas end new I can do 7ny house - P02 sale by all clrug,tgists and dealersman to wholly 'Ititeliettawerk is not. a: ',1,111s.d.Wtsiati end find it a pleasuro.,''` Put up only by The T. Ifilblen Gee Sotil-daaa1er4,-04Apv0, 'who is not B.B,11,,is mannfactured only ,by The Limited, Te'reatta Oat, kicking egaiiiet'ille-Prieks, has created T. Milburn Oo., Limited, Toronto. Ont., • W Pe 0 'seed balls that formed on some of the varieties of potatoes, that were being growa at the Ex Central perimeetal Fmy Feral On loaland. Although these • seed balls Were quite green at the me tiof harvesting, October 21, they were careftilly gethered arid stored in paper bags, which were pineeci in a warm, 'room with the tops' left open. When the balls bean to shrivel the eeeds were extracted, waohed, and • spread out to dry on muslin, X1 order to obtain tubers of a desir- able size tho drst eeason° tbe seed. was sown in flees in tbe greenhouse the last week in Merch in a manner quite similar to that of sowing tomato eeed. When th'dente were sufaciently grown they were pricked out into tats two by two inclieo apart. These were again trensplaeited into strawberry boxes in warm beds and growo along In this 'way until Jutte 15, when they were planted out the field, rows 36 inches aperkand so inches apart in the rows. By planting thee the plants had reaceVci b,eight of. ten to twelve inches; Tile same cultiyation and caee that was given the main potato crop was all that was necessary, While a wide variation Was aound thenialtat ve of geotle it was the rare exceptioe to find a plant that laCked vigor or sllow: et indications of plant diseases, aech •as, leaf roll 9r mosaic. In fact ifienY of the plants did eo wail that 'alley Produced seed balls. ,414 THE TWO-PIECE CHANEL - COSTUME. These „ two-piece dresses, like the soft Kasha, fabrics iri many of thena have captured the fancy of the upsto- Out of Eve hundred hills it waa pos. the -minute i'voinan. The costume may silae in 1923 to select sixty-five -hills be developed in One tone or in eon - that gave proftise et being of v,alue. trasting materials as shown. Skirt The yield from- the individual 9iiiL No. 1088 hangs from a fitted bodice, ranged in weight from a few ounces It has the popular inverted side plaits up to; fare pound, fifteen °paces. and an inverted plait at centre front, boclings of King Nebuchadnezzar, And 'Quite a number of tubers weighed be. thus giving the required fullness for in an hour of great crisis, athBel- larger percentage of the balance run is Of the slip-on type and may have tween nine and ten ounces, with a the new mode. The blouse, No. 1088; sheziar's feast, he alone could inter - pg gave thedivineany j dognmdeernftusr. visions sa 1 of fo ning a good table size. An illustration. long or short sleeves. The large but - in the 'report of the products shows tonhole through which the tie passes the glorious kingdom of God which yet to be. three good-looking Green Mountain is an added feature and -permits the 7" 1. DANIEL'S RESOLVE, 8-10. V. 8. Daniel's great service to reli- gion consisted in. his resolve to abide by religious principle at the Baby - le Sunday Schoo Lesson MAY' 3 The 13enefits of Total Abstinence, Daniel 1: 1.20. Golden Tetr—Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank,—Dan. 1: 8, ANALYSIS. 1. DANIEL'S RF,;SOLVE, 8-10. II. PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH atitNitnee, Book of Daeiel has, in the Eget Por - 11 -17, INaeolsuesteN—The writer of the teen of his -work (Chapters 1-6), used and handed down to us certain records regarding, the Jewish hero Daniel who, when carried captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, rests to high eminence at the Bahylonian court, and by his nobility while at the same time materiallt; assisting. the progress of their holy religion. ehieeng example to the people of God . . of character and gift of spir- itual declining to conform to the laws or the , court. Being kindly disposed to Dan itual discernment became a great and lel, he. urged, compliance on the ground Daniel wished to preserve tlif* inphi manners othis own, people, and he did not believe that exeeIlent service te the king depended on ltiaerious living. Ife remembered, too, that the portion of the majority of his etmetrymen was poor in the extreme. Therefove, he made up his mind not to conform to tbe royal orders. Let ue note the ial- poriance of conviction in life. It is through conviction that God layt, hold of us and eses Vs-, 9, 10. The prieee of the eunuchs, or chamberlain of the coert, f•elt that Daniel was taltirig a serious step by clicaeeeirligtvcilailtpteeptoiiiistetiettdreriitndbtetbrietsatiulatevi"nt: et the =peeved appearaece rOIUSed to compromise the puritayt and and bbs teedlesetPePl'TIVQ.11°UisiltdS;b1:1111:1tf:rt:kitlillaardioiedri otnliyuo tete: 1:11Nievfkoel rioneefhgf ptB1 Jewish OVal lOirr:1Cr tpilionfwilatsPenirde :add rnwPs arouleuliev rdn *ate rweht.r)altit:awsudt:getvr:Ded°. ut abtkei as ng simplicity nd s hi. iLfe and tidnetstpre. tapedalireolmketpliet hpiazgas°nnwl porullde. alil'Altai711. l°111'Ql4 THINICING' As a loyal Jew, he had his simple Vs. 11-18. Daniel's answer to the fotel-laws, and his eimple, earnest. cliamberlain is to allow the matter to habits of prayer end. worship, and be put to tbe tet. For tee days he these he could not part with Without 'Will live oilly on pulse, or cereals, with disloyalty to God. water only, inetead of wine, to drink. And this loyalty to God had its ae- iey-ehat time it vrill be seen whether propriate reward in the gifts of spa- costly food and wine have anything to itual insight and discernment which do erith physical fitness or pleasieg God besthwecl on him. Daniel alone appearance in the king's presence. could explain the dreams and fore- Vs. 14 15. To this proposal the The ' potatoes of remaraable size that were grown front the seedlings in one sea- son. Early Feeding of Calves. Not alone thonld a, dairy calf be well bred, but also well cared for in raising if a good prOducer is to be obtained. Bereft of its dam, when a few hours or perha.ps days old, the efaciency of the ly, giving number and size of such pat - method of hand teeding that follows terns as you want. Enclose 20e in is o; the greatest importance, Deal- ing with this subject in Seasonable Hints', Mr. Geo. W. Muir, of the' Ani- mal liusbandra Division, • describats the system followed at the Dominion Experimental Farm, Ottawa. A table covering. practically half a year, shows the different quantities of Whole milk that are given In tire first six weeks and after that skim SELLsi bkt tatesn'inl dry meal. Amplifying the. details supplied by- ta,e table, Mr. Muir says, that jf the calf is not left vsith the cow a day or more, sb that it can get a proper feed of the first milk. or colostrum, care isataken to see' that it gets a feed or two of this milk by hand. It is continued on its dam's milk as long as possible. If this for any reason is not available milk from another comparatively fresh cow is used, ' small quantities being given three times a day and care taken to avoid over -feeding. Changes. are made gradually, reducing for a day or two rather than increasing the amounts fed. Cleanliness is a first considera- use of the ever-yeuthful 'Windsor tie. The collar may be fastened close about the neck end a. long, earrow tie used to finish it. Cat in sizes 34 to 44 inches Mist. Size .38 requires 251,, yards of 36 -inch material foi the blouse and .yards for the sltirt. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain - stamps or ceizi. (coin preferred; wrap it Carefully) for each nuanber, and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilsen Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide •Ste Toronto. d Orders filled by return -mail.. ' tion, the milk being fresh and the pails well scrubbed out after each feed- , As'regards fat substitute the home - mixed used at the Ottawa Experiment, al Farm is two parts each of finely ground oats and corn meal, and one part ground fax seed, and a pinch of salt and bone meal. If eorn is not treely- to be obtained more eats with hulls sifted out can be used and for ground fax seed in similar circum- stances, two partssround oil cake may be substituted. Scalding water is ; poured over the mixture, which is well stirred, sufficient having been made in the morning for a day's feeding. This mixture is fed the same night and the following morning in milk, HELPING THE R OBINS TO NEST By 'Winthrop Packard. In a Bird -Lore census taken not Most of us nowadays have a birdt long ago, it was estimated diet the bathein the Yard and it is an easy robin was, the_most numerous can bird, the house sparrow coming next. The robin, in one form or an- other, nests practically all over the continent of North America and the bird one of the most friendly that we have. The poet Wordsworth once referred to the English robin as thing to put a dish of clay or loamy soil beside this and moisten it to the right consistency. The robin will come and take it by the mouthful— poprechap, he has no other means of gettiug lenand begin the nest, perhaps on the, porch but melte likely on the near -by ehade tree. Usually the mud is built up like a shallow 'cup and then "Honest Rol3in, who loves mankind. previous year's growth—are embed -- soft grasses—dried grasses of the both alive and dead," and the words ded in II and skillfully built around un - might apply equally to the Ainerican til the ,completed structure is mud robin, for the 'bird lones to nest not belovs but softly lined and built uli only ja.oula gaYdens but in our e91...._e., with these grasses. From that time terolfeteenanad inlu.iboinn ov,u,iii•iv.seeriye.ultiio.iais.eusucner until the eggs are batched the lees of the porch, a nook under the eaves, human oversight and interference the -or even go inside of the banding itself. better, although .the brooding mother Recentl3r One is reported to have bird, will besvery fearless as the pro - flown in at the open window- of a cess of incubation continues, but af- , church dating service and to hive be ter the young are hatched out a gentle gun to build his nese on a cornice just friendliness wisely offered will be Well over the pulpit. ThS'avaidow was left received and appreciated. partly that time bn and the The task ,of feen ding a estful of famieta.Su family 02 -young ins WRS ctess- open from young robins is a great one: Every fully reared in this .admirable one of them will eat`at least its own weight in Insect food daily. Earth- tuary, The nesting robins may be as'sisted worms, rolled. fir gait., are well liked by providing nesting places; a shelf by the youngetorsa Cutworms, iuch- up under the eaves will often tempt worms, inealwormsle-almost any soft -I teem or a sheltered platform set on bodied, non -hairy catertallars 'may be the limb of -a tree. If there is a trellis given freely. Nor need one have any in the garden on which a:rambler rose- fear 'that the family will be pauperized bush or honettsucke 1inis, one, of by any such charity. This teeding-will these sheltered Wives set at the -top of it fortes an adidirable site for a robin's nest One can aetist also by putting out nesting material. la the case of the robin .the first 'requisite is made -good, plate, old-fashioned, }slack sticky niud, for the robin Makes the foundation of hie nest invariably of this, In sandy eountries and dry weather the tetras often have consider- able difficulty iii getting mud for their foundation. In one oe her books Olive Thorne Miller tells of e robin that Wet his feathers, then roiled in the duet end went to (be nesting Site, where he picked the xeSaltant mud from hts plumage eed uSed it for the foundation of his nest. help the youngsters to grow up with, very friendly feelings toward the hu- man family end in no other waysan you so readily gain the confidence of the parent birds. Oftentitnes, ' disaster overtakes a robin family; for some reason the Par- ent birds do not return to the nest and (heti the human neighbormust take ettarge of the young. If worme of vari- ous sorts are tot eeadily available, bread and milk will nourish tho robin children eery well. They grow up rapialy and presently will learn to flY, but al -though they by and by get their own toed themselves they still will be York friendly with those who have fed them, They should be allewed. com- chamberlain agrees, and grants a ten days' interval during which the test shall made. At the end of that per- iod the resulte completely justify Dan- iel's prediction. He and his compan- ions are superior in health arid in every other way to the other youths. V. 16. But a greater result also fol- lows: "�d reaavrenitnirlankdni)Isideocimge, .aand Daniel had underetanding in all Ionian court.. There was every temp- sions and dreams." Plain Irving nun- tation to become lax, and, as we say, isters to high thinking. Daniel's man- "te do in Rome.as Rome does." It was ner of life, his refusal of the Ring's the practice 'at. Nebuchadnezzar's wine, ;was rewarded by the faculty of court for courtiers and favorites of spiritual discernment. TheJewishthe monarch to dine sumptuously at people knew that spiritual life was his table, and to drink the royal wine, promoted by simple habitsof living, and when Daniel was exalted to a whereas in heathen countries luxury place at the court it was expected that he, would act like the others. But Daniel felt constrained by moral and religious reasons to protest against the cuseem. His ovsn religion forbade the eating of foods which had been offerill in sacrifice to idols, as some of the king's "dainties" were. Feasts ineheathen lands, it must be rex-Ile:re beeed, had usually an association with heathen gods. abhorrent to the wor- and wine degraded and lowered the inoral standard. Therefore, they said: "Let us not take after their ways. Let us not become commonplace or ordi- nary, but let us aim at high things, lifting up our eyes to th•e hills. at is a delusion to think that strong drink or riotous living promote intelligence. It is the other way about: "The secreb. of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his &veil- -shippers ofethe true God. Moreover, ant." ' Manure and Fertilizer. farmers WOU1 Mr. E. S. Hoakins, Dominion Field Hugaanerman, in the current 'Member of Seasonable Hints, published by the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, tells of the results Of thirteen years? experiments at the Central Experi- meetal Farm to test the value of man- urehand commercial fertilizers. An application, he says, of fifteen tons of manure iri a rotation of mangers, oats, clo-ver hay and timothy hay has given, ever a similar unmanursd. rotation, an average increased crop worth at pre- sent prices $3.67 for each ton of man- ure applied. The commerciaa fertil- izersehave given overtunfertilized land increased crops worth 92 per cent. more than the cost of the fertilizers 'applied to the land. The experiment has ehown that farm manure is of the greatest' value, but that as Mr. Hop- kins says, where it is, insufficient cern- mercial fertilizers intelligently applied twill also give profitable returns. Next to farm manure alone a combination with fertilizers proved almost equally productive in yield,ealthough not quite so profitable. It, however; was made apparent that the oat erop does not yieldremuneratively to either manure or .ceminercial fertilizers, and that, therefore, the materials should be ap- plied to either the root or hay crops. On the unmanured land the hay crops alone produced a profit. The lesson particalarly derived is that manure being so valuable the greatest . care should be taken in storing it and -In its application. Although commercial fertilizers have given good retuens, Mr, Hopkins suggests that before pur- (toeing any quantities for field crops,' Bic) s ileadaches Are Caused 'By CONSTIPATION Once you allow your bowels to ae- &me) constipated you will be troubled with bilious and sick heedadhes. For relief you must help your liver to resent° its proper 'functions by remov. ing the bile that; is circulatingbs the blood and poisoning the entire 'system MILBURN'S WILL. DO THIS FOR YOU Mrs. A111116 Putney, 265 Perth Ave.; Wienipege Mau.' writes;—"For years was troubledwith severe •bilious headaches', but sines t liave‘.taken yeur Milburn's I,axn:Liver Bills 3 lieve been completely relieved of my trouble, I cannot say enough in theil praise."' - 11 advised. to un - el ake a small trial on the r own taaa. Annuals. Both for garden decoration and for cutting for the house certain annuals are indispensable. These mey include the asters, stocks, derides, cornflowers and coreopsis. Gypsophila and phlox Drummondii are equally desirable, but no list is complete without sweet peas. There are well-known flowers not strictly annuals that naight well be in- cluded hete, viz., antirrhinums, or snapdragons, aquilegias and wall- flowers, all el which are best grown from seed. Certain annuals, once they are introduced into a garden, never fail to put in an appearance each year. These include pot maxi - gelds and candytuft. One of the 'charms of flower gardening is that it grows upon, but the beginner must be cautioned about the over -anxiety to get the seeds into the ground. early. Annuals are often sown too soon in the open, and the result is premature blooming and a poor display. Whatever the weather may be does not interfere with the sowing of seeds under glass. They, can be sown in pots, pans or boxes; a very convenient size box is 14 inches long, 9 inches wide and 8 inches deep. The box must be well-draited with gravel and rough leaf -soil. A suitable compost for sowing consiets of two parts of loamy soil and one of. leaf -mould, with one part of. coarse sand. Pass this through a fine mesh sieve for put- ting the coarser material in the bot - ton of the box for drainage.. Fill the box lightly with sit, then press down moderately firm with a fiat board. With many seed§ it is a great advan- tage to sow under glass, afterwards pricking off the ,seedlings and teens - planting outside.' Antirrhinutre are best grown this way. The tall var- ieties are very beautiful for mixed borders, but for general bedding pur, poses the intermediate section is the more striking and at the same time the flowers ars o2 great value for cut- ting. Larkspurs are among the most popular of all blue flowers. They are •perfectly hardy, and the fine spikes of bloom are most graceful for room decoration, while 'very delightful el-, facts can be obtained by putting thlso annuals -in beds by thenteelves.--.Care Hort, Council, An Interesting New Shitub. new foam of' the mid ve dogwood shrub ' has been 'diecovered in the Wooaa at the Paciilet Cratet, It is: a, variegated, foe,nt af trs dogWOoci Oor'' nue Nuttellii. It bas been eeeepted for 'eeeerd Ify the Canadian Horticul- tural Colleen Mule. speeimen plant bee been altieed imaer test at the tniver- 4ity Ireete at Vancouver, with it ` to Its altimate registration,