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FOR WOULD BE FARMERS.
dlrlould Try it Qutist as Farmhands
Before Buying Farms.
The United States department of
agriculture receives many letters from
city people who bare read glowing ac -
Counts of the wealth that may be
Wade on the farm. A large percentage
of these people have already bought
farm land. Some of them appear to
believe that the reason all farmers are
not rich is because of extravagance.
wastefulness, ignorance and a lack of
business ability. To these letters the
department's specialists reply much as
follows:
"As a matter of fact, farmers, as a
class, are intelligent, industrious and
economical, and many of them are men
of good business judgment Further,
those who have made a thorough study
of the business side of farming know
that it Is not an easy matter to make
money on the farm. Only the dost
practical and experienced forme* are
mailing any considerable profit out of
their business. Most of the money
that has been made on the farm in re-
cent years has been made, not by farm-
ing, but by the rise of price on farm
lands. In the nature of things this
rise cannot continue indefinitely, and
come one will own this land when the
twice becomes practically stationary or
perhaps starts to decline.
"While it is true that occasionally a
city bred family makes good on the
farm, this is the exception and not the
rule. It is always a risk to invest In a
business without first making a thor-
ough study of that business. Many
city people who have saved up a few
hundred dollars and who have had lit-
tle or no farm experience, but who are
imbued with a rosy vision of the joys
and profits in farming, buy poor land
at high prices and thereby lose the
savings they have been years in accu-
mulating. One city family paid $10,-
000 cash and assumed a $12,000 mort-
gage on a farm worth only about $11,-
000. Another paid $2,000 cash and
signed a mortgage for $6,000 on a farm
that was later appraised at $3,000. A.
city family that had saved $2.000 used
this money to make a first payment on
cheap farm land and when their eyes
were opened found they still owed
considerably more than the farm was
worth. For seven years they have
worked night and day to meet the in-
terest without being able to reduce the
principal. These 'instances could be
multiplied almost hadefinitely.
"In purchasing farm great care
should be taken t, get a good farm at
a fair price. To pay or agree to pay
more than the farm is worth is to in-
vite failure. From a business stand-
point no farm that does not pay inter-
est on the total investment, deprecia-
tion on equipment and wages for all
labor performed on that farm is suc-
cessful.
"Even when great care is taken in
making the investment only in excep-
tional cases should the city bred fam-
ily attempt farming. Generally the
best advice than can be given to the
city bred man who desires to become
a farmer is that before purchasing a
farm be work as a farm hand for two
or three years. This will give him an
opportunity to learn at first hand many
things about the business as well as
the practical side of farming. In no
other way, as a rule, can he get good
farm training and experience at less
trouble and expense or without danger
from financial disaster."
Vermin Proof Roosts.
One of our largest ponitry men uses
gas pipes instead of the usual wooden
fixtures to support his roosts and thus
makes them almost' entirely free from
mites and other parasites which are
so troublesome to poultry raisers. The
pipe is bent as shown in the illustra-
tion and to hold the roosts in place
boles are bored at proper intervals,
through which bolts are inserted, pro-
jecting far enough above the pipe to
hold the roosts in position. The roosts
are made as usual and are laid on the
pipe without 'fastening, thus making it
easy to remove them for cleaning, etc.
The pipes need not be over three-
fourths of an inch in diameter and will
be found to be one of the most satis-
factory supports for roosts yet devised.
Cornstalk Disease.
A serious cornstalk disease that has
reduced the crop on some farms in
Iowa this season is under investiga-
tion by the botanical section of the
Iowa agricultural experiment station.
Dr. L. H. Pammel, who is in charge
of the investigations, says that in
some delde the damage amounts to 15
per Dont or more, due to fallen or bar-
ren stalks or undeveloped ears.
"This disease," says Dr. Pammel,
"may be recognized quite readily by
fallen stalks, which look as though
they had been blown over. However,
there is this difference: The diseased
stalks break at the nodes," A. fungous
parasite is responsible for the trouble.
Where it attacks the stalk there Is a
brownish and sometimes pinkish disc
Coloration of the fibers, and a little
mold may alae be found on the out-
side at the baba of the leaf sheath.
The roots are ed and ha e a Plidt-
lilt
web Wow*. hi fir
y. tiatitty- iforkwisitio i ''-
rstanding whirs A* duras. ill
list sosig.
THE WINGHAM TIMES
Build Up The
Home Town
I F YOU want to live in the kind of a Town,
Like the kind of a Town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in a grip
And go on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really new.
It's a knock at yourself when you knock your
town.
It isn't your Town—it's YOU.
REAL Towns are not made by men afraid,
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When every one works and nobody shirks,
You can raise a Town from the dead.
And if, while you make your personal stake,
Your neighbor can make one, too,
Your Town will be what you want to see.
It isn't your Town—it's YOU
BE LOYAL:
TO YOUR OWN
COMMUNITY
Do not suffer
another day with
Itching Bleed-
ing, or Protrud-
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surgical oper-
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Toropaper enclose le box
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KEROSENE FOR CLEANING.
Kerosene has many uses to which it is
never put. For instance, blood stains
on wash material can be removed by
saturating the stained portions with
kerosene and then dipping in boiling
water. Your windows will take on a
wonderful gloss and can be cleaned
without much elbow grease if you will
pat a goodly amount of kerosene in the
water they are washed with. It cuts
all grime and grease. When washing
oilcloth or linoleum put a cupful of
kerosene into a pail of warm water.
Never use soap on these floor coverings.
If your sewing machine runs stifly,
saturate the parts with kerosene and
leave it on over night. In the morning
wipe dry, then oil with a high-grade
machine oil, and the machine will run
like a "breeze". Keresone will clean
your porcelain bathtub and wash basin,
removing that black rim that some-
times forms. If your dustless duster
cannot be found, soak a piece of cheese
cloth in kerosene; then hang in the air
for a few minutes. With this rag you
can polish your best furniture. Kero-
sene will shine up your hot Water
kettle so that the cooly will need no
looking glass. It will take fly specks
off your,mirrors and leave them with-
out a flaw.
ComeU to Win ham on Dollar Day, 24th
Xavier Seguin and his wife Josephine
were arrested, charged with murdering
Joseph Forget at his homestead, near,
Rainy River, by putting strychnine in
his food.
' i1dre. Cry
FOR FI,ETiR'S
° ,tib► S '■ v/ R I A
IN PROSPECT.
THE useful air
We breathe is free,
A priceless boon
To you and me.
Let's breathe a lot,
Pull deep and fast;
We cannot tell
How long 'twill last..
Though now it stretcher
Far and wide.
It may ere long
Be trustifled,
And we may be
Compelled to pay
For what we use
From day to day.
A snap like that
Can't last, I fear.
The end, indeed,
May soon be near.
We may receive,
I grieve to say,
A bill for what
We stow away.
The trust has missed
It's finest bet,
But it will put
A meter yet
On what we breathe
And come down hard
And make us buy it
By the yard.
There are persons who are ill natured
because they were born so and are
glad of it.
Being permitted to do as his wife
pleases is the inestimable privilege of
the married man.
Faith is undoubtedly a very good
thing and makes a Btu anchor, but it
is NO substitute for a lend pipe ehiei°.
The thine- that most of its craft lesitt
brought home to us is the truth about
ourselves. •
RACE POISONING.
To the Editor—
Sir - It is true that the white race
are being slowly poisoned off the face
of the earth, that men are growing
smaller, disease increasing, doctors and
drug stores multiplying, the insane in-
creasing out of all proportion to the in-
crease of population, and the weaklings
and unfit threatening to equal in num-
ber those who are able to take care of
themselves? Is it true that the moder-
ate drinker who probably has never
been drunk may leave behind him a
race of weaklings on account of his
self indulgence? Is it true that where
prohibition has been pretty well enforc-
ed for a number of years that the in-
sane, the weak-minded and the idiots
have dereased in a wonderful manner?
Is it true thatmany of the great nations
of Europe have become so alarmed at
the degeneracy caused by the use of in-
toxicants that they are trying by
posters, handbills and other means to
warn the people of their danger?
If these serious statements are even
half true and they are wholly true,
what kind of people are we that do not
rise in a mass as the people did in
Russia and demand that this poisoning
of the nation shall increase. It is very
humiliating to find that nations that we
have been calling "Heathen" have
mare care for the national welfare and
stability than we. China has conquer-
ed in her war against opium. A large
colony of negroes in New York with
property valued at many millions are
`found to have less than half the num-
ber of saloons that the surrounding
whites have. Now we have the news
that Russia has abandoned the use of
intoxicants of all kinds. Recently the
great cities of Petrograd and Moscow
have refused, by a popular vote, to
allow the use of even beer and light
wines.
In view of all these facts is it not
time that we ask the Legislature, by
an immense petition to do something
to save the nation before it is too late?
They waste their time andthsi'country's
money over chi4dish immense, compared
to this great ,r►htionel evil, kohich they
seem scared to touch.
Ii. Arnott, M.B.,M
END OF THE EARTH.
The Latest Figuring Puts it Only Two
Million Years Away.
Scientists tell us that life on the
earth began about 2,000,000 years ago.
It has generally been accepted that
life win last for 05,000,000 years.
Ninety-five million years Is a fairly
long time. None of us who are aye
today need worry about what will take
place 95,000,000 years hence. Even the
most altruistic can scarcely be inspired
by love for an inconceivably remote
posterity.
But the French savants are alto-
gether
ltagether disturbing. Here comes one, M.
Verronet. who says that the earth will
permanently freeze within the next
2.000,000 years and that life will van-
ish. This is bringing the tragedy near-
er home. We would glady accept the
older reckoning.
Verronet places mankind of today
about midway between the beginning
and the end. He computes that in the
future life will exist as long as it baa
already existed. He specifies only one
forty-eighth as long a life as those
who have studied In the past.
There is only one consolation to be
derived from the Verronet reckoning.
As far as the influence of today is con;
cerned 2.000,000 years is as good as
95,000,000, In either event those who
are comfortably laboring today cannot
expect to be lovingly remembered
when the cataclysm of ice makes the
earth a barren wilderness.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
HIS TWO TENSE MOMENTS.
One Was a Ninth Inning and the Oth-
er at a Dinner Table.
I beard a prominent Cambridge man
tell of the two most tense moments of
his life yesterday. But the tension in
eagh case was different.
"I doubt if I ever shall forget either
occaslon." be said reflectively. "They
were big moments.
"The first was when 1 was in college.
I was captain or the baseball team
that year. We came to the end of the
ninth. We needed one run to tie the
score and another to win the game.
Two faro were down and two on the
sucks when I came to but. And for
once in my career I did it. I lined out
a three bagger, right over the railroad
truck. When I felt it go—well, that
WM.One occasion.
'_And the other." He chuckled. but a
-tow • 8'ush crept over his rtreeks, "It
was thirty year's ago, soon after I left
'allege. Is` went over to see a girl I
thought was pretty nice and to meet
ner folks for the first time. I went on
I Sunday. All the men were' away.
tad they had duck for dinner." He
-topped. "Ever carve a duck?" he
''ked ureaningly. "No. neither had i
'afore. Nor have I since." His flush
tcepened. "I never even went to see
hat girl again," he added plaintively.—
i:oston Journal.
Men and Oaks.
Once as 1 was botanizing under an
ink I found among a number of other
plants of similar height one that was
lark in color with tightly closed leaves
Ind a stalk that was very straight and
,tiff. When I touched it, It said to me
in firm tones: "Let me alone. I am
not for your collection, like other plants
to which nature has given only a sin-
gle year of life. I am a little oak."
So It is with a man whose influence
is to last for hundreds of years. As a
child, as a youth, often even as a full
grown man nay, his whole life long—
be goes about among his fellows, look-
ing like them and seemingly as unim-
portant- But let him alone. He will
not die. Time will come and ' bring
those who know how to value him.—
Schopenhauer.
Twin Outcasts.
"What,is your friend's business?"
"He is a critic."
"I have a friend I would like to have
Min meet."
"What does he do?"
"He is an umpire."
Quite Modern.
"What are you doing?"
"Waiting for my ship to come In."
"You are waiting a long way from
the ocean."
"This is an airship."
Too Good to Keep.
"What are you promoting?"
"Just a gold mine."
"Any gold in it?"
"Think Pd be selling stock in it If
there were?" y "
THE WEAK SPOT
IN THE BACK.
When the kidneys get ill the back
gives out.
But the back is not to blame.
The ache conies from the kidneys,
which lie under the small of the back.
Therefore, dull pain in the back, or
sharp, quick twinges, are warnings of
sick kidneys—warnings of kidney trouble.
Plasters and liniments will not cure
a bad back, for they cannot reach the
kidneys which cause it.
Doan's Kidney Pills reach the kidneys
themselves. They are a special kidney
and bladder medicine. They heal the
diseased surface of kidneys and bladder,
and help them to act freely and naturally.
Mrs. Chester Romain, Pert Coulone,
Otte., writes: "I had been troubled with
sore back for over four years, and could
get nothing to do me any good until
I heard of your Doan's Kidney Pills.
I got three boxes, and took them and
now I am completely cured."
Doan's Kidney Pills are dOe a box,
3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed
direct on receipt of price by The T. Mile
burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
When ordering direct specify "Dean's,!
Cured of Piles
and Eczema
By IIsing Three Boxes of Dr. Chase's
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Mr. Abram Buhr, Herbert, Sask.,
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troubled with eczema and' piles and
suffered greatly from the itching,
burning sensations caused by these
annoying ailments. I sent for a free
sample of Dr. Chase's Ointment, and
this did me so much good that I
bought three boxes more, and after
using same was cured of both eczema
and piles."
This is the kind of letters we receive
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by the use of Dr. Chase's Ointment.
No matter how skeptical you might
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that Dr. Chase's Ointment is un-
doubtedly the most prompt relief and
certain cure for these ailments.
If you have doubts send for a fres•
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was convinced of the merits or this
treatment. For sale at all dealers, "mr
Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Ti.
route.
TO OUR OWN.
[Baltimore Sun.]
All day long there sings to me,
Far and near and sweet and true,
Thoughts of things that ought to be,
Dreams of things we ought to do.
All day long above them all;
Sweet I hear the message fall—e
Serf or slave or kin or. throne—
Let's be loving to 'our. awn!
She that waits when evening creeps
Up the sunset mantled steeps.
Those who chatter by her side,
Waiting, too, with eyes, brown, wide;
All day long in dust and strife
Something whispers, soft of tone—
In this vale of love'and life—
Let's be loving,toour own!
They that need it, let them feel
That their faith is ryorrn the while
They have many wounds to heal,
Let us help them with a smile;
Up and down the world it goes,
Life's low message—zone to zone—
As with lily and with rose—
Let'§ be loving to our own !
_" RIST,AMO 1HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD, ii,
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February I I th, 191 5
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
►THERFI are individginls such pool!
den,. nstrators that they can't eve
show the point of their own jokes,
Nobody would be guilty of writing
an anonymous letter. That's why it it
anonymous,
One-half of the w- orld knows how
the other half would live if it were'
running things.
Too many people keep all their coutu
tesy for their acquaintances and all,
their indifference for their families.
— I
�f�ll
The reasoq why some men are fast-
may i.e because they are trying to get.
away from their reputations.
We all consider reform an extremelt •
good thing for our friends to invest:it
gate and seek to practice.
The only reason, probably, why all .
our'friends haven't an ax to grind le
because they can't find the ax.
Most people will speak the truth—tos•-
a consideration.
The Miracle.
"I understand Miss Brown is much
improved in healt Ii."
"Yes, indeed, and in every other
way."
"Glad to hear it"
"She is ten yetis younger than, she
was five years ago."
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