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THS, FARMER'S WORK.
Geod business sense aud taaid ,.
• work ate us touch needed iia
fanning as ever, perhaps more. `s+
Bet the fern t't°s n•urlt IS for i
himself and fatally. it has the ,
charm of hope in it and the :l.
blessing of liberty about it; is L
not mere clt'tatll;lry for ;mother,
with the prospect of the worker
becoming a living naaeitlue that
clay be east aside in later years
and replaced by a uewer aud
more efficient one. 't'tuaus:eels
of men in other trades, profes-
sions and occupations envy the
farmer because of the stability
and prosperity of his business.
It Is time for the farmer him-
self to appreciate and respect
more high
!v this businees. It is
t tbo
time to conduct it and talk about
it so that it will appeal to his
children: no sense in driving
them away from it by neglect-
ing opportunities to make it
easier or more profitable and no
• more sense in talking them out
of it, Inventors and manufac-
turers have put before us many
things that make farm work
easier and more effective, farm
homes more attractive and com-
fortable, farm life the best life
of all. Let us not fail to con-
sider these things. -- National
Stockman and Farmer.
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THE FATAL BLISTER CANKER.
Causes Great Destruction of Apple
Trees In Kangas and Adjoining States.
More than a million apple trees have
been killed in Kansas and the adjoin-
ing states of Missouri, Oklahoma and
Nebraska by a disease known as the
blister canker. This disease, says D.
E. Lewis, assistant in horticulture in
the Kansas State Agricultural college,
was introduced from the east fifteen
years ago.
The normal resistance of apple trees
has been greatly reduced by drought
the past four years, making ideal con.
ditions for the work of the fungus.
The blister canker is a wound parse
site, and experiments have shown that
it is unable to enter the healthy bark
of the apple tree. Entrance is gained
through broken bark and wounds in
which the heartwood is laid bare.
The disease is carried by wind or rain.
The first appearance is in the darken-
ing of the bark near the wound. TM%
dant area increases in size and re
mains moist the first year. but the sec•
end year it becomes dry and cracked.
The disease cannot be successfully con-
trolled by spraying because the spores
are developed in slightly raised areas
one-fourth of an inch In size, which
appear below the outer bark, but over
the surface of the canker.
Ben Davis and Gano trees are very
susceptible to this disease and die in
two years. The Missouri Pippin, dote
atban, Grimes Golden and York Im-
perial are much more resistant If
the infection is noticed before it has
gone to the heartwood it can be cut
out and the wound kept painted with
waterproof paint until the wound
grows over. If it is in the heartwood
It is beat to cut down the tree and
burn It. If the fungus attacks a branch'
it may be cut off and burned.
Exceeding care should be exercised
In the pruning. The pruning should'
be done early in the fore part of the.
growing season, giving the tree a
chance to heal. General sanitary meas+
tires, such as removing and burninlp
all the brush and dead trees, opening
the trees so as to light all parts of the
bearing surface, careful spraying to
prevent other diseases and insects from
harming the trees and cultivatiotlr
where possible, will be of great valu*
as general preventives.
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3 A tight Folding Crate.
Light wooden crates of the taldin"r
type are being widely used by growers
of onions, potatoes, corn for the city
markets and other vegetables and
truck of this sort, They fold up when.
not in use and take up but little space
when they are not filled. They are
rather strongly made and will stand a
THE WINGHAM T!ME
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
o the Editor
In my last letter I drew attention to
he statement of the faience minister
o Russia that financing the great war
-tad been made cotnparatively easy ow-
n;' to the savings of the people since
hn liquor traffic was prohibited. We
;cavo had many demonstrations on a
smaller scale that, the liquor traffic
'tinge poverty and that prohibition
Wings prosperity and ability to pay
taxes. But here we have a demonstra-
tion of the effects of prohibition on such
to immense scale that no doubt can be
left in the mind of any one of moderate
intelligence,
No wonder prohibition brings pros-
perity. Last year t'anadiats spent
over a hundred millions of dollars in
drink. That is the exact sum that the
Government requires to carry on our
pert in the war. But money spent in
drink is like water spilled on the ground
that cannot be gathered up again.
Money spent in drink cannot earn
money to pay taxes or do anything else.
Better is it had been burnt for then it
would hot have made criminals and
lunatics to be a burden on the taxpayer
and would not poison the babes to the
third and fourth generation The Gar -
mans have been styled baby killers bus
the great baby killer is alcohol in any
form. Science has shown that a much
larger proportion of the babies of
drinking, not to speak of drunken.
parents die before their second birth-
day than the children of abstaining
parents.
It has been shown that every dollar
spent in drink does on an average a
dollars worth of harm, So that Cana-
da is probably two hundred million dol-
lies worse off every year than if she
had prohibition of the liquor traffic, At
that rate it is easy to see that Russia
can finance this immense war when
prohibiting the use of intoxicants of
any kind. If drink had been allowed as
before there would have been great
suffering and want in Russia and her
=duct of the war would have been
very much hindered for lack of money.
H. Arnott, M.B.,M.C.P.S.
LIFE'S UNCERT.VNTIE~S,
[Detroit Free Press.)
Life's a gerne of wit and Gabor.
Feats of strength and feats of skill,
Sager must prey it with the sabre,
Some the peaceful e~t•aations fill,
Strife's the vet v savor of it,
Ditnculdes that arise
But enrich the flavor of it
And its .•harm is its surprise,
•,
Oft when failure seems the nearest
S n Ir e
Suddenly you come ca to s e
Over you. of skies the clearest
And you claim the viettry..
Never cert- in is the finish,
Oft. when victory is near
Suddenly Sour homes diminish
And disasters r. -appear.
lefe's t. game that all are playing,
Always is the end in doubt,
Bravely then should be a -staying
Till our final hope goes out.
Often when our fight is grimmest
And our foes the field command,
When our light of faith is dimmest
Victory may be at hand.
We then in this game of living
Should go on with pluck and grit
Taking blows sometimes, and giving,
Bravely smiling when we're hit,
With our best of brain andmuacle
We should play the struggle through
Face front always to the tussle,
Doing ali,that we can do.
Many a man who's now succeeding,
Failure for her own had picked.
But, though battered, bruised and
bleeding,
He refused to say,
"I'm licked,"
Governor Alexander of Idaho is the
first htehrew elected to such a position
in the United States.
Canada in 1911 to 1914 issued $340,-
061,475 worth of government and muni-
cipal bonds.
The New York Central Railroad has
received the E. H. Harriman gold med-
al for the best record in accident pre.
vsntion and industrial hygiene for the
year 1914. It is stated that not one
passenger has been killed in a train
accident in four years on this road.
ATTENDANCE', AT BURAie
SIGH 401..5
(Stratford Beacon)
Boys about the age of fourteen in
Austria-fl,ungary are to he excused
from attendance at school while they
are being drilled into the work of ha -v-
esting the next crop. This is an indiee,
tion of the extremities to whish that
country is being brought. But looking
back over the early history of Ontario
bays of that ag•', and even less, did an
important part in the liarvestine
aper•
ation+. They sometimes helped to
gather the sheaves while men set them
up. They helped to mow away tile
grain when it was drawn to the bar.t.
They •
carried water to the men in the
fields, and minded the gaps in the
fences, for their were few gates then,
In the spring they dropped the pota-
toes and in the fall they helped pick
them'
The boy got some practical lessons
in farming in those days. It was per-
haps, no wonder that same of them
sight occupations in the cities and
towns which would be easier, or they
imagined would be easier. We are
told that many boys are kept out of
school now in the rural districts when
they ought to be there. There was a
reason in the old days which does not
exist to the same extent now, although
the difficulty of obtaining farm help is
put forward as an excuse. Every boy
in town and coantry ought to be sent
to school till fourteen at least, as the
law contemplates. The school garden
idea, and the cultivation of experiment-
al plots at the rural schools and the
holding of school fairs are good ideas,
but in addition better provision for en-
forcing the law in regard to compulsory
attendarea in the rural districts
ought to be made, County truant offi-
cers have been suggested, and there
is force in the suggestion, the
leaving of its enforcement to the trus-
tees of the section having been found
not to work as well as it should.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CAST CsiR1A
peat deal of such bard usage as comers
from express and truck handling.
They can be used over and Over again. i
tad ate meeting with much favor
among the growers who make many
iia stents Weekly.
The expense of furnishing paeker5
and crates Is met in this Way by the
grower Who is willing to make a con-
'si'derable first of the season outlay for
Fp*cking crates. These crates are easily
stowed away during the' winter season.
fte-enforoing Concrete Silos.
The teras papers are calling attentiele
to the necessity' of exercising special
pains in re -enforcing concrete silos.
This admonition is urged uponbuild•
era because of olio cracking as a re-
, , ►..` t ' It ie
- * dote to t not t Could the
0. a sante +1P! frl'2 tl 0ed, but gos
cement and proper mixture should be
used end the wap made suflicientiZ •
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Build Up The
Home Town
IF 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.
R EAL Towns are not made by men afraid,
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When everyone 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.
Itisn't your Town—ifs YOU
BE LOYAL
TO YOUR OWN
COMMUNITY
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DEADLY SHRAPNEL.
Good "Man Killers,' but Their Effec-
tiveness la Limited.
Shrapnel, sq called after their tn-
vector, the British General Shrapnel,
are thin eases of`tough steel coutaiu,
lug a large »umber of bullets—in the
Iiritish artillery 203 and in the French
and German $U0—with a small burst,
lug charge at the base of the projectile,
The bursting charge breaks the thin
L for-
ward
steel case, when the bullets sweep
with the velocity imparted to the
ti
projectile by the gran, Shrapnel are
regarded as good "man killers," but
they are quite ineffective against
buildings, where shells are deadly,
For the attack of field guns and build -
lags and for action against troops lu
o
nc.ntbcs most armies employ h twit z,
ers, which are short. squat gusts that
the their projectiles high in air ,
high angle fire.
In the- Batista army every division
hits fifty-four field guns and eighteen
howitzers, These howitzers are of 4.5
inch caliber, firing a shell 4.5 inch in
diameter tied weighing thirty-five
pounds. They have a range of 7,200
yards. which is 1,000 yards greater
than the range of the British field gun.
The defect of the howitzer is that
Its shell is very heavy, and conse-
quently much fewer rounds can be
carried than with the field gun. There
is no security that 4 single howitzer
shell will do twice the damage of an
urdlnery field gun shell, though it
weighs twice as much.
The French do not employ a bawitz-
er in their field artillery. The Ger-
mans ase a heavy pattern of six inch
caliber, firing a shell of about ninety
pounds, aud a lighter pattern of 4.2
inch caliber. --New York Sun.
THE RED CROSS,
its Real Origin Dates to Napoleon's
Italian Campaign of 1859.
The Red Cross owes its real origin to
the great aud terrible campaign of
1839, when Napoleon made it his boast
that he would free Italy "from the
Alps to the Adriatic." At the great
battle of Magenta 10,000 Austrians and
some 5,000 French soldiers were left
dead and dying on the fields.
A Swiss gentleman, named el. Henri
Dunant, made a pilgrimage to that
battlefield aud was an involuntary
eyewitness of the awful carnage of the
battle of Solferino, a battle which last-
ed some sixteen hours and left some
30,000 dead and wounded. Henri Du-
nant realized that the medical service
of what was probably the greatest
army in the world was absolutely in-
adequate to cope with the casualties.
and he was at once compelled to take
some action to rectify the matter.
The result was that he wrote a
small book for private circulation. en-
titled "Un Souvenir de Solferino;' and
this, with his private appeal. Vaulted
in Napoleon III. commanding Dunant
to his presence, where, with the great
lifarshal hfacalahon, they seriously
talked matters over.
The result of this was a conference
of the powers, called together by the
Swiss federal government, at which
Henri Dunant placed his proposals.
Out of this Geneva conference of 1864
resulted the Geneva convention, under
which all medical supplies and person•
nel in war time are protected.
April 1st, 1915
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Constipation, Indigestion
and Horrible Backaches.
Searched for a Cure for Years—Advised to Try Dr, Chase's:
Kidney -Liver Pills and Was Cured.
Where there is poison there is pain.
This le a provision of Nature to learn
youagain: t conditionsthat are likely
Y
to prove rerinus.
Constipation o f
the wun
doubobteelsdlyis the -
greatest source of
disease and suffer-
ing. By using one
of lir. Chase's Kicl-
ncy-Liver Pills at
bed -time as often
as is necessary to
keep the bowels
regular. you can
cure constipation
and the consequent
Indigestion, and re-
' move the cause of .backache, rheuma-
tism and other painful diseases.
"Daily movement of the bowels" is
the greatest law of health, Dr. Chase's,
PROF, SMITH,
A Prehistoric Lake.
One of the most interesting remnants
of a prehistoric lake in the United '
States is that now known as Estancia
valley, •which lies south of Santa Fe
and east of Albuquerque, N. M. Prom
examination of the deposits in this see*
tion geologists are of the opinion that
this lake existed at the same time as
Lake Bonneville. in Utah. and other
ancient lakes of the arid west during
the cold. humid glacial period.. The
theory of the existence of an ancient
lake in the valley is based on the pres-
ence of shore features and lake sedi-
ments. Sea cliffs, terraces, beaches.
beach ridges, spits and bars are found
on all sides of the lake fiat at altitudes
between 6.100 and 6,200 feet above
sea level. --Argonaut
Charlie's Bargain.
"Papa."
"Yes..
"Charlie has bought mining stock
for 10 cents a share. Don't you think
that is a bargain?"•
"Well, I don't know. He is certainly
easily sold, whether the stock is or
not."
BAD BLOOD
Is The Cause al Baits and Pimples.
Kidney -liver Pills will help you to
form this habit, add to your years,
and bring comfort in old age.
Professor A, T,Smith, 1 Mt. Charles
street, Montreal, and formerly of Bos-
ton, .Hass., writes:—"I suffered for
many years from lead digestion, con-
stipation and horrible backaches. I
have been treated by many doctors,
without any re alts, One day a friend
in Boston advised the use of Dr.
Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills• After
using two boxes 1 noticed great
im-
provement, and after the fourth box I
wascompletely ' c :rc
1 13 t d, My digestion is
good. I never feel any pain in the
back. My head Is clear, and I feel Iike
a young men. I think Dr, Chase's
Kidney -Liver Pills are one -of the best
medicines on earth."
Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, one
pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all deal-
ers or Edntanson, Bates & Co., Limit-
ed, Toronto.
MAY GO TO COLLEGE NOW.
How the Dominion of Canada assist-
ed a poor, struggling chemistry student
to have his third year at college in
luxury was brought out in the Public
Accounts Committee on Monday. fey
acting as a middleman, E. Powell, clerk
for a member of the Government from
Carleton county, was able to make
$9,000 for a few hours' work. He told
how he had been summarily appointed
agent for Bauer & Black, of Chicago,
Then the orders from the Militia De-
partment for medical supplies promptly
came in, the Chicago firm delivered the
goods, and he reaped the profits, with a
minimum expenditure of time and labor.
Powell told the committee that 'the
total amount of his orders from the de-
partment was about $10,000, that his
average profit was 28 per cent., that he
had now $6,300 in accrued profits in the
bank, with over $2,000 still due him
from the Militia Department
Powell said that he had never acted
as a commission agent before, and that
he had done the $40,000 worth of busi-
ness "as a side line" while working for
'When boils or pimples start to break
out on your face or body you may rest
assured that the blood is in an impure
state, and that before you can get rid of
them it will be necessary for you to
purify it by using a good medlcine that
will drive ail the impurities out of the
system.
Burdock flood Bitters'is a blood puri-
fying remedy. One that has been on the
market for the past forty years.... One
that is known front one end of the country
to the other es the best blood purifier
in existence, It Cures boils, pimples and
all other diseases arising front bad blood.
BOILS MEM
Iver. Andrew B. Collier, River Glade,
N.B., was troubled with boils for years,,
ht fact, did not know what It was to be
of them until he used Burdock flood
Bitters. it cured him,
PIMPLES CURED.
Mr. Otto Boyce, Y'arker, Ont., had
his face and neck break out with pimple*.
He tried several kinds of medicine With
out success. Two bottles of Burdock
Blood Bitters banished them.
B.B.E. Is manufactured only by The
T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Out.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA,
Mr. Garland, M. P. He is still clerk in,
the store.
The publicity given the drug transac- •
tion has brought results. It was an-
nounced to the Public Accounts Comit- •
tee of the commons this morning that
E. Powell, clerk in the retail drug store
of W. F, Garland Conservative member,
had refunded the $6,300 profits front
the Drug transaction. It is agreed that
the investigation by the Opposition
brought in this conscience money.
Unit Void in the Chest.
?'I am happy to tell you that I used
Dr Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Tur- -
pentine, and was promptly cured of a
very bad cold in the chest,'" writes Miss
Josephine Gauthier, Dover South, Ont.
You can depend on Dr. Chase's Syrup •
of -Linseed and Turpentine to relieve
and cure all inflammation and irritations -
of the throat and bronchial tubes.
From 189E to 1904 the number of
motor cars produced in the United
States has reached only 12,000 annually,
but in the next year alone, the number
almost doubled, with 22,500. By 1907'
the production .had toucheda39,000; in
1908 it was 50,000! with a second hun-
dred per cent. dump the next year to
109,000. The figures of the following
years sound almost like a fairy tale::
173,000 in 1910; 200,000 in 1911; 840,000
in 1912: 430,000 in 1913, culminating
with the half million of the past year.
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and sell at reasonable prices
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to your wants in the Job Printing line and all
orders will receive prompt attention.
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