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CQN UCTED BY PROP'. HENRY. G. BELL
Thu object of this department is to place at the ser.
%flee Of our .farm readersthe advice of an acknowledged
authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops..
Address all questions to Professor Henry O. deli, tn
bare of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Torene
to, and answers will appear In this column in the order
in which they are received. When writing kindly men•
tion this paper. As space is limited It Is advisable where
Immediate reply is necessary that a stamped and ad•
dressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when
the answer wilt be mailed direct,
C. K.; --.T have ten acres of land have been obtained by sowing the
about one-half sand loam, balance alfalfa seed right on top of the grow -
light sand, which is pretty badly ruin ing wheat, especially when the wheat
down. Have a good market for herd has been fertilized. One of the lead -
ries and truck and would like to ing alfalfa growers of Wisconsin has
know how to treat• the soil for best for years spring top -dressed his grain
results for the following crops, which' with a fertilizer analyzing about 2
I have the best market for: asparagus, to 8 per cent. ammonia, 8 per cont,
rhubarb, onions (bunch and mature),' phosphoric acid, and 2 to 3 per cent.
potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, cusum- potash, using it at the rate of 260'
hers, sweet corn, strawberries, black- lbs. to the acre. This is scattered
berries, ,.red raspberies, and, cherries.e right on top of the fall wheat and
Which of these will do best on this : the alfalfa sown. Light harrows are
kind of soil? then run over the patch, turning the
Answer:—I assume that you do not teeth of the harrows back so that
wish to grow simply one crop on your they will not drag out the growing
farm, but You would like to know
wheat, and harrowing the ground with
whish crops you should specialize in the drill rows and not across. This
and how best to handle the land. stirs the ground just suffieiently to
Two things are especially needed un- bury the seed and work in the fertii-
der your conditions, one is humus izer, which results in a considerable
and the other piantfaad. Strawy advantage in the wheat itself and al-
ananure is of course a splendid source most insures an alfalfa catch.
from which to get humus. Apply all D. C.:-1 would like a little infor-
of this that you can obtain at a yeas- mation in regard to Sudan grass for
unable price. As soon as your gard- sheep pasture, and the effect it has
en 'crops are off, --such crops as on ground for following crops, as I
onions, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, intend to put the above into wheat
cucumbers, and sweet corn,—sow a next fall. That is pasture with sheep
:mixture of rye and fall wheat. Do until time to turn under for wheat,
this so as to get a covering for the; twenty-five acres to thirty-five sheep.
soil which will prevent winter wash -1 Answer:—Sudan grass is not a
ing. This material coming along! pasture grass, speaking generally,
early in spring will make a fairly, but is grown for hay. It makes very
rank growth by the time you have to: rank growth, reaching a height orf 4
plow it under in preparation for your: to 6 feet, and compares with some of
gardening operations. You will have the ranker growing millets. It grows
to make liberal use of high grade; luxuriously dawn the south-eastern
fertilizer, applying as high as 750; coast, under semi -axed conditions, but
to 1200 lbs. per acre for such crops eis. not advised where better quality
es onions, potatoes, cabbage, and; grass can be grown. A mixture of
sweet earn. Use fertilizer of an an. timothy and clover, I believe, would
clysis running as high as 5% am - suit your purpose much better in
mania, 8% phosphoric acid and 4 to Ontario, than attempting this newer
Glib potash, working this thoroughly; material which is rank and poorly
into the soil at the time the crops are, adapted to the purpose for which you
planted. After your early spring cul -'r are growing it. If you want an an-
tivation of blackberries, raspberries, nual pasture to use this coming
and cherries has ceased—about the spring a mixture of wheat and oats
first to middle of July—sow the same, with a few pounds of clover seed
mixture of cover crop, plus a .little thrown in produces good annual pas-
eloaer, among these latter cropse tore mixture in about six weeks. Use
Thi:, again. will form a cover crop to 1 bushel of each grain per acre.
turn under the following spring. Ap-! S. M"•—I have just moved onto a
plying the fertilizer as advised, or a' 160-aere sandy, gravelly farm, and I
fertilizer carrying about 4 to 5% { believe, pretty badly run. I wish to
arrnnc.ria and 10 to 12% pbosphorie' '• sow oats and peas this spring for
acid to the cane fruits, will give .goodquick hay. _Are the peas sowed first,
re ie. 'Cilie sbculd be applied in, plowed in, and then oats broadcasted,
erring ,ivat at the time cultivation; or can I broadcast together and har-
ioeg•ins• ! row in? Tell me just how to get the
i_ 5.:--I want to grow some esb• i best results. What can I put in an
bag:. I have a p'ece of clay loam' old orchard sowed to June ,grass and
soil that I have had in sod and cut used as a pasture? Don't wish to
hay from, for two seasons. Could I' plow it, not this year.
expect a crop of cabbage on this, and Answer:—You can get very good
what aincunt of fertilizer should I results from sowing a mixture of peas
use? ,and oats for a good hay crop. Use
A:.: ;: er:--It wouldbe letter if you; a bushel of each to the acre. These
could p'.ci: out a piece of land that may be sown at the same time. Best
has not been in sod last season. The results, of course, will be gotten by
piece you have in Hund would have drilling them in with a grain drill,
been all right if it had been plowed and I believe in view of the run-down
hast fall. Of course it will give re- condition of the soil it should pay
sults if plowed early this spring. My you well to add 200 to 300 lbs. of
fertilizer analyzing fro
edea was that the sod turned under m 2 to 3 per
will have rotted more completely lied sen`, ammonia, 8 per cent. phosphoric
acid, and 2 to 3 per cent. potash. This
the fall plowing been done. Under
either case, of course, you can expect would give early food for the oats
a good crop ox" cabbage. To assist and peas as they sprout and would
your soil toward this end I would mean an additional yield which would
advise you to use as high aa 750 to pay big interest on the money invest -
1,U00 lbs. per acre of a fertilizer ed in fertilizers. The best thing to
running about 4 per cent. ammonia, do would be to get a drill with fertil-
8 per cent. phosphoric acid, and 4 to izer-dropping attachment. Relative
it per cent. potash. Work this into to the orchard, you do not say whether
the soil as the seedbed is being pre- you intend to clean the orchard up or
pared, saving a little to apply around ssmply let it stand until yon can des -
the cabbage as they are being set. troy it. Assuming that the latter is
Do not let it •c's:ne in contact with the case and you do not wish to plow
the plant or the plant roots, unless it this year, I would advise you to
at has been mixed with the soil. scatter some clover seed on top of 1
the ground and to -dress the soil with
A. J. K.:—I have eight acres of fertilizer at the rate of about 300
wheat that I would like to seed this lbs• to the acre. You should use
spring. It was sod plowed for corn, fertilizers high in nitrogen, 4 to 5
then to oats, and now wheat. Most per cent. and about 10 to 12 per tent.
of it was manured last fall. I put in phosphoric acid. It will be well to
on two tons of lime per acre. Do you apply the fertilizer first, then scatter
think it advisable to seed to alfalfa the seed, then harrow the sod if nos
-
in the wheat? •sable so as to work the seed into the
Answer:—I assume your field is ground slightly. This should make
in fall wheat at the present time. growth which would give you :some
Exceedingly good .catches of alfalfa good hay.
vritirr'
Most hard-and-fast rules respecting
:'manure removal are made only to be
!broken. Some commercial poultry
keepers—successful ones, too --clean
the roosts only twice a year, in spring
and fall, and aro skeptical of the Arae
tical features of any other policy. It
as not slovenliness on their part,
either. They dispense with dropping -
hoards and let the manureaccumulate
in a boarded -off space on the ground.
Occasionally they throw absorbents
on the pile.
A big Plymouth Rock poultry fain
is proud of its efficient manure -re-
moval system, Through a carefully
planned c•onfleination of convenient
roosts avid overhead metal litter car -
Tier, it reneoves the manure of 1,600
birds and de osits it in an outside,
,
severed concrete manure pit, all in •
thirty-five
minutes.
On a farm
where
Le h
oras and nd Reda are both kept,
manure of 500 birds is removed in ten
to twelve minutes.
At two times frequent manure re-
moval from droppingeboards is of
especial importance. One is the warm
months when mites may become a big
drain on the flock. The practice of
some of the commercial poultry farms
le to clean daily, and to paint the
roosts every fortnight with a cowl -tar
disinfectant. Of the two measures,
they declare daily manure 'removal
does more to defeat the mites,
Special roost -cleaning tools are on
the market, or they can be improvised
at home. A good scraper helps to
Make the job easy. When the hen-
house has board floors, at cleaning
time manure will sometimes be found
dried to the floor in spite of .the deep=-
est litter. Water will soften the mas
rterial, and permit a thorough e1ean-
sower AaIx MINN myttam agert>ctt"trell
Spout's Dston er Cond
will knack ,it in very short' time, set the first siva of
cougqh. or Doha in your horse, give a tett (wow,. of
"SPORN's. . I4 will apt on the glaudR eliminate the die -
case reran and_proveat teenier destruction of booty },y di�4
ease. 51'01•XN's'' has been the standard remedy for.uDe
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CHEAP CATTLE FODDER
FROST CANNOT DESTROY
We have a quantity of dried carrots available for cattle feed. All
that is required es to soak in water to bring the dried article back to nice.
fresh sliced carrots. Frost cannot hurt them, and there is no waste or
dirt. 206 lbs, of these goods equals a ton of the raw article. We are
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frHE car equipped with Part-
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Game as Their Name
ing job. - At 'cleaning times it always
is a vette precaution to disinfect.
The plant -food value of poultry ma-
nure is appreciated everywhere. The
poultryman close to town or city, or
in a district where intensive agricul-
ture rules, never has trouble selling
it at a good price. The range of
prices is 50 cents to $1.25 a barrel,
with considerable quantities sold at
$1. More poultry keepers choose to
use it on their own land. It must be
stored in a protected place, as it
quickly loses its value when exposed
to the weather.
A Rainy -Day Magician.
The clouds .were gray,and weepy -
faced, the woods aloof and cool;
The flowers looked mussed and sleepy -
faced like children tired of school.
Then Robin, Spring attending him,
came hippy -hop
along,
With nothing recommending him ex-
cept his little song.
He filled a dreary vale or two with
tuneful exercise,
Then rase a merry scale or two to
cheer the rainy skies.
The skies composed right wittilya
rainbow in reply;
The meadows answered prettily with
bud and ;butterfly: .
Not one. for di1•lyidaller; Friend
itobin looked around—
Then drew his well-earned salary, a
worm, from out the. ground,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 11.
Deborah and Barak Deliver Israel—
Judges 4: 4-5, 41. Golden Text
—Psalm 46: 1.
4: 4-5. New Deborah. The first four
verses of the chapter are the intro-
duction provided by the editor of the
book. They tell us of • the evil -doing
of Israel and the oppression of Jabin,
king of Hazor, and his. captain; Sisera,
whose home was in the northern part
of Palestine (see josh. 11: 1-15), and
over whose king and people at an
earlier time Joshua had won a great
had recovered
�
victory. Now they h
power and were using . it against
Israel. The historian tells us that
the king "mightily oppressed the
children of Israel" (4: 3). The Song
of Deborah (chap. 5), says, the high
ways were unoccupied, and the travel-
lers walked through by -ways for fear
of ' their enemies;
The people, held, miserably in, &tib-
jection, lacked food; and they had not
even weapotm of war with which to
fight their oppressare.
Deborah was a prophetess. She was
inspired by Jehovali. Because .the
people of that` part of the country
believed her to be eo inspired they
invested her 'with authority. They
came up to her for judgment. . Her
home was between Itarnall and Bethel,
a little to the north'Of leruSalern.
67. Called Barak, Deborah had
courage and fettle ifY" God. But she
needed the strong hand of a capable
Address all coxnmuntbations for this department to
Mrs. Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave., Toronto.
The Twins'. Grandmother: Please Sarah are better for business pur-
poses, as "dohnnie," "Willie" and
"Bobby" learnearly in life.
Ruth: You should accept the fleet
invitation that a youngman offers
you even though he may not be just
the one you would choose. It is only
courteous and fair• It may teach: the
"right man" too, to' be a little more
prompt. I think you did right .in that
other affair but, my dear, are you not
a bit young to be thinking •so'seriously•
of such things?
'Story -writer: The only way to dis-
cover the value of; astory, is to send
it. to the magazines.. Type it care-
fully, numbering the pages; put. your
.name and address Batt the upper right-
hand corner of the first page and the
number, of words' at the left corner
and enclose a self-addressed and
stamped envelope in case of rejection.
Use paper 8 inches by 10 and fold
twice, Asyou haveno given not me any
clue as to the nature of the story, I
cannot advise regarding the most
suitable magazines. Don't be dis-
couraged if your brain -child returns;
just send it out again. Beat of luck!
Discouraged: My another' is old-
fashioned and will not try any of the
new devices that make housekeeping
easier. We have just installed elec-,
tricity and can afford lots ofnew
things. What ' can I do?
Youth loves to experiment and ven-
ture and I have the utmost sympathy
with you, dear. On the other hand,
Experience, which your mother repre-
sents (this sounds like an allegorical
play:), knows much of which Youth
is still ignorant, so I cannot well take
sides. 1 will, however, tell you of an
expeeience of •a friend of mine who
visits her mother on the old farm
every summer. Yflien they installed
electricity she wished her mother
Nicknames and abbreviations have would buy some of the new housekeep-
their place in 'the family oircle and ing devices but her mettle; like yours,
among. friends, but the child's name would not. So she arranged a com-
should' always be registered in' its promise. In her own home she al-
correct form, not as "Lollies' for ways drained her dishes in a wire
Laura, "Flossie" for Florence, and drainer, and though her mother did
"Willie" for William. School work not approve, she did it when she
and, later on, business letters and let- washed her mother's dishes. So one
ters sent to strangers should be sign- morning she said: "Mother, I'll agree
ed with the name in its correct form, to do the dishes your way if you will
for a communication signed "Cad give this vacuum cleaner I have sent
Hite" does not seem of so muchlen- out on approval just one trial." The!
give a list of pretty names for boys
and girls; we want something un-
usual. •
In your - cutest for something "un-
usual," avoid
an-usual,"''avoid names that are made
up by relatives or friends, and avoid
also peculiar spelling of old and,
familiar names. In every ease the
child's last name should be taken into.
consideration, for the given name and
the surname should harmonize.
'Choose carefully before going outside
the realm of such good 'old standbys
as Margaret,, Elizabeth, John and Ed-
ward, which combine well with most
family names.
A well-chosen name is an asset not
to be overlooked, for eitherthe sight
or the sound of it makes a pleasing
impression, often paving the way to
pleasant or advantageous things,
while an a ;tame maybecome a
b suxd n
handicap; sometimes a veritable bur-
den.
Girls' naines not in general use, are
Adelaide, Agnes, Alice, Barbara, Bea-
trice, •Christtine, Clara, Dorothea,
Eleanor, Emilie, Frances, Grace, Ger-
trude, Helen, Hilda, Ida, Isabel, Jean,
Janet, Jessica, Julia, Laura, Lucy,
Louise, Marion, Marian, Olive, Paul-
ine, Ruth, Sidney, Sylvia, Theodora,
Ursula and Winifred.
For a boy choose one of these
names: Alan,, Alfred, Arthur, Bert-
ram, Charles, David, Douglas, Donald,
Edgar, Edwin, Francis, Geoffrey, Gor-
don, Horace, Lawrence, Lewis, Mal -
corm, Oliver, Paul, Philip, Richard,
Robert, Stephen, Sylvester or 'Theo-
dore.
In naming a boy, a family name
(sometimes the mother's maiden
name) can be used with good results.
Everett Smith is a good example.
porbanee as one signed Catherine
Flite.
Women and girls err in this respect
far snore 'than • mon,. but they are
floors all had ' heavy carpets and
sweeping was hard, backbreaking
work. My friend cheerfully kept her
part of the bargain and • did not even
realizing that while we may prefer ask her mother how she liked the i
to be "Lou," "Mamie," or "Sadie" in vacuum cleaner, , but it did not go
the hone circle, Louise, Mary and back to the dealer.
and leader of
man, a trained soldier
the northern tribesmen. Therefore,
she called Barak, whose home was in
the north, near the Jordan river and
the lake of Hulah, and who, no doubt,
had been one of those to suffer, most
at the hands of the Canaanite enemy.
"Deborah" means a "bee," and "Bar-
ak," "a flash of lightning." This cam-.
binatien of the bee and the lightning
gave promise of a stinging " blow
against the oppressor. The busy
activity of the woman, her • wis-
dom and resource, and . the
strength, determination and lightn-
ing -like swiftness of the man,
made for victory. . Mount Tabor, at
the north-east end of the plain of
Esdraelon, was chosen as the rallying
point. Barak was bidden to call the
tribesmen of Zebulon and Naphtali,
over whom he had already some in-
fluence and authority. The chosen
battleground is the banks of the river
Kishon, always treacherous in times
of flood but well known to the mesa of
Israel. Deborah's instructions to
Barak are g':ven as the word of
Jehovah,.
8-9. If Thou Wilt Go With Me.
Barak didnot lack courage, but he
saw with a soldier's • understanding
the magnitude and peril of the enter-.
prise. If this woman of vision and of
faith, through whose. lips Jehovah
spoke to him, would but go. with him,
then he felt assured of Jehovah's
blessing and so of success. Deborah's
answer was prompt and spirited, "I
will surely go." But, she said, the
honor of the enterprise wily go to a
woman.
10-11. At His Feet, that is, "after
him." With his little army of ten
thousand men, ill-equipped but stimu-
lated to enthusiasm and daring by the
presence of theheroic he oic woman who
promised victory, Barak marched `tio
Tabor.
12-13. They Told : Sisera: Nothing is
said ofthe king's participation in the
battle. Sisera appears to have put
great dependence upon his chariots,
but owing to the marshy nature of'
the country and the river noon's fnere •
were probably of little use. The He-
brews had no chariots -until the time
of David (2 'Sane, 8:4).'The c'haricit`
had a light wooden body, open behind,
a single stout axle with two six to,
eight spoked wheels. Vie ,pole was
fixed into the airle, beret up in front;
and fastened by a band of leather to
the front of the chariot. Two horses
were harnessed to it; or rather yoked,
for traces were tat used, Ia Sisera's
chariot* of iron the woodwork was
probably strengthened by metal
plates. Two or eonietimes three men
were Assigned to each chariot, one of
whom was the driver, a second the
shield -'bearer, and the third, the
fighting mean armed with bow and
sp ear.
14-16. This Is the Day . . Is Nat
the Lord Gone Out Before Thee? De-
borah's faith: was simple, direct and
very great. She was led to believe
that this was the divinely appointed
day, and like Moses and. Joshua, she
believed that Jehovah went before the
armies of His people into the battle.
For among the earliest ideas of the
people of 'Israel about Jehovah was
this that He was a God of war, fight-
ing His people's enemies. "The Lord
is a. man' of war," they said, He is
"Captain' of the Lord's host;" He is
"the Lord of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel," "the Lord strong
and mighty, the Lord mighty in bat-
tle." So even in Christian literature,
in the imagery of the Apocalypse,
Christ is "portrayed as a warrior rid-
ing on a white horse to the final con-
flict with Anti -Christ" (Rev, 19: 11-
16);
The Lord Discomfited Sisera. The
battle was fought, no doubt with
courage and skill, but it was the in-
visible leader who gave the victory.
There was a storm, a heavy fall of
rain, a swiftly rising flood, and the
enemy was caught upon soft and
treacherous ground, amid marshes
and quicksands. It •seemed that
heaven and earth had ,conspired to
overthrow and destroy the enemy. it
was surely the Lord's doing.
The lesson story goes on to tell of
the flight of Sisera, and of his murder
in the tent of Heber, the Keriite, by
Joel, the wife of Heber, a murder
which seems shacking'to us but was
regarded as justifiable and praise-
worthy in the mindg of ;the people of
that primitive unitive
age (see 5: 24-27). It
has taken the 'world a long time to
learn the lesson of forgiveness to an
enemy and to overcome the passion
of revenge and hatred, and not •even
yet .is that'great•lesson rightly learn:
ed. The student will do well to eom-
pare the Song of Deborah with the
lesson story, and to notice its intens-
ely, its passion, its grapivic puwui, -•ul.
its dramatic 'qualities which fend
expression in successive vividly pre -
limited scenes, proceeding rapidly to a
climax in which the tidings of defeat
and death reach the mother of Sisera
and her eompanions, who are eagerly
looking through the latticed windows
for the return of the victors.
A ',well -kept woodlot or a plantation
of forest trees on the deep rockyp ox-
tions of the fame will help maks the
place more attractive.
"When Arab the child 1)040to
imitate,
Do :not thelittle effort under -rate..
Ito . thou ,the same, it will the maw
delight him
And ever to renewed attempts Invite,
hum."
The way lay through a cheery hart
of the city, down, a long hill. Masi,
plots and flower beds bordered thepath and sonizetxnes little children
played among them.
The sunlight flashed an arrow of
gold down the incline, and I . could
see a child alone, sitting upon the
• pavement. Apparently he was most
latent. ' Ilia hands were busy and hie
sunny head bent close over his under-
taking..
As soon 'as I approached he seemed
to realize my presence, though he was
.too busy to look up until I was quite
close to him. He was very smallt
brown -eyed, and very winsome.
His hand grasped a piece of crayon
and as his eyes critically surveyed
his drawing on the walk, he said, in.
eluding me now within his glance:
"I've made another kind of an 'Ss."
"So you have," I replied, but the
questioning look in his eyes made Ise
inquire;
"What troubles you?"
"It's -it's another -kind," he replied
uneasily. Before him was a well -
drawn letter -"S" about a foot high,
exexcuted with the swinging stroke of
a strong and skillful arm; beside it
executed with the swinging stroke of
the letter. He saw the difficult curve '#
to the left, but he could not make its
so turned to me for help. •
"Shall I finish: it?" I asked.
With a sigh of relief he yielded the
crayon.
"Who made this one for you?"
"A span," he answered. Evidently
he was acquiring his instruction as
the opportunity permitted.
"There!" he cried with •satisfaction
when I made the required stroke.
"There it is!
"How old are you?" I ventured, for
he looked too little to be concernedwith difficult curves.
"Most three, I think," he said.
Later I learned from his proud lit-
tle mother that he knew "nearly all
of his letters," and that he had learned
the letter "5" soon after he was two
Years old.
An unusual child? Yes, but with
greater possibilities come graver re-
sponsibilities. ,
Parents soinetimes fail to
that the young child needs widely ur
led activity and constant direction to
awaken and broaden his interest
rather than. the over -stiff ` latic -
which induces him to "go fe' 4vithi te
some one kind of play.
The ordinary interests of a three-
year-old boy lead him to convert the
dining room ehairs • into horses, or
the sofa into an automobile, He first
takes an interest in things that move,
then in things that make a noise. By
imitating in his play the life about
him, a child unconsciously develops
some understanding of it; then when
one phase of activity ceases to inter-
est him, he turns to another to "play"
that while his interest lasts.
The young chikt is- tremendously
alert, vital, experimenting at life first-
hand: LIVING! For most of them ex-
perience must be the great education-
al factor. Froebel appreciated this
fact and chose the windmill with its
attractive motion as a symbol of the
child's experimental interest.
The wise parent always avoids ex-
tremes with even the "most unusual"
three-year-old; but has care far his
normal development, since that is the
raost urgent need for Iittle folks.
Encourage the experiments of
children, but never force them; let
thein keep trying.
It Pays to Plan Your Work.
In present times of high production
cost, many farmers are finding that
it pays to re -arrange their farms with
regard to economy and efficiency of
operation. It has been noted in a
number of cases that well -arranged
farms have brought a higher price on
the market, particularly where there
is easy access to the fields from build-
ings and highways. It takes an aver-
age of 58 work hours to produce an
acre of corn on rectangular fields,
containing 10 to 15 acres, while the
time required in irregular fields of
the same area was 61 hours. Where
tractors and large horse-drawn im-
plements are used, the advantages of
the long and regular shaped fields are
very evident. Many farmers are now
draining wet epots, removing trees,
stumps andbr
brush,
and straightening
fences so as to make their farming
operations easier. In the olden days
it didn't matter if it took a few inorerdw
hours to do a certain jet). With the
present scarcity and cost of tarns
labor it does. Oftee the land reg.
claimed pays the expenses of rear...
rangement the first year.
'1'116 horses cf nation; ale itg..
strongest forts.
et -
Reaching the top of a ladder it an
incident, but staying thereis an
achievement.
Economy is not always doing with-
out things. It is making them do the
.best they, can.
The world's nut ti°sae are said to be
capabte of supplying airartsbuient to
its entire population,,