The Exeter Times, 1920-11-25, Page 7Ett rffl
Tuberculosis hi Poultry.
"Chickens, roosters, hens, turkeys,
sell sorts of barnryard poultry ere sub-
ject to a particular kind o4! tuber-
culosis and may show extraordinary
symptoms suggesting some kind of
paralysis, During the epidemics of
infantile paralysis which have occur-
red at intervals since 1908, many
aaffeeted fowl were sent .in to medical
laboratories or deseribed to physi-
cians as perhaps suffering from in-
fantile paralysis, but, in the vast ma-
jority of cases, tuberculosis was found
to be the cause of the trouble, "con-
sumption," as it would be called if
it were the human lung that was
affected. This tuberculosis of poul-
try, although a true tuberculosis, is
due to a germ called the avian or
bird germ which is not the saute as
that which causes human tubercu-
losis. This bird germ is related to
the human germ but so distantly that
it cannot cause human tuberculosis.
There are three tuberculosis germs
to be found on many farms—the
avian, just described, which grows and
produces tuberculosis in poultry only;
the bovine germ, which grows and
produces tuberculosis in cattle, in
hogs, and also in the humtin, particu-
larly in children; and the human
'"' `'' germ, which grows in the human
only: the latter is found active in
about 1 per cent. of the population of
the northern half of Nortli America.
The avian germ in poultry often
gives no symptoms of its presence
until the fowl is opened, when white
spots on or in the liver may be found.
The birds may be fat and well to all
appearance. City health officers are
consulted at Thanksgiving and Christ-
mas by purchasers of good looking
birds concerning the poultry, turkeys,
and so forth, they have bought, ask-
ing about white spots in the livers,
whether it is safe to eat these birds,
and if they can get their money back
from -the farrier or butcher who cold
it to them!
If cooked, s'ich birds are perfectly
safe for food. Even if eaten raw,
they could not convey tuberculosi to
the consumer, for the avian tubercu-
losis germs, present .in those white
spots, do not hurt human beings.- In
facf, teat from the farm, whether
yien y bird or beast, cannot be
blame at,lefo
r the spread of ,tuberculosis
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at
it
in the human; of the animal products.
it is only the cows' raw milk that is
dangerous, or products made from
raw milk.
The really dangerous tuberculosis
•germ on the farm is the human germ
-=the one that produces human tuber-
culosis or so-called consumption,
Next in order, only about one-tenth
as dangerous to the human, is the
bovine germ, chiefly affecting cattle
and hogs, but also producing About
7 to 10 per cent. of the tuberculosis
of the human, chiefly in children'
(they get it only by drinking raw.,
milk); finally conies the avian germ,
which hurts only the birds.
Sick fowls of any kind should never;
run with the others. Very valuable •
birds may be isolated and kept awhile'
to see if they will get well. Unless
they are valuable birds they should
be killed at once—and be ,sure to ex-
amine them to see what is the mat-
ter with them. Better still, send the
fresh -killed bird, carefully packed, to
the Veterinary Division of the Agnd-
.cultural College, with a letter de-
scribing the .symptoms. Specialists
there will tell you what was the mat-
ter and advise as to how you can
stop further trouble.
An expert says that avian tuber-
culosis in poultry can be readily de-
tected by a test with avian tuber-
culin, a test which is made quite
'easily on the wattles or combs of tiie
birds. In this way a valuable flack
can be tested out, and the disease
birds eliminated.
If you have birds that are doing
poorly, showing diarrhoea, tending to
be lame, losing weight, perhaps tu-
berculosis is <nt work, The disease
is no doubt transmitted' in the drop-
pings from bird to bird. So, if you
observe this disease amongst your
fowls, you should remove the healthy
ones to an entirely new place, where
the ground is not yet contaminated
with droppings from the sick ones.
New chicken houses are best but the
old houses may be used again after
thorough scrubbing with a strong so-
lution of lye in very hot water. When
this is dry, follow with whitewash, to
which chloride of lime has been add-
ed, two ounces of chloride of lime
powder to the gallon of whitewash.
Absolute cleanliness is an efficient aid
against all diseases.
who were dominated and led by the
Pharisees. Jesus says in efPeet: "We
have each filled our place and done
our divinely appointed work, As chil-
dren o£ the heavenly wisdom, we need
No apology, Our works, as wisdom's
works, speak for themselves,"
Verses 20-24 are placed by Luke
(10:
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in a different il4 ens CUxax1GC la
12-16)eonneetion
and are connected with the mission
of the seventy, The places mentioned
were on the western and north-west
ern shore of the lake of Galilee, and
were the scenes of much of our Lord's
ministry. Their opportunity to see
and to hear had been very great, and
Igreat also would be their respon
1 sibflity.
11: 5-30. At that time. Luke (10:
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21) shows us that these words. were
spoken on the occasion of the return
of the seventy disciples from thed
m'is'sion, which had followed that o
the twelve. The rebuke of Caper-
naum and its neighboring towns ma
indicate that Jesus was at this time
greatly disturbed and disappointed
He had hoped fora widespread re-
sponse to these missions, and a. great
movement among the people, but it
had not come. The rulers were ob-
stinately opposed to Him, and the
mass of the people was under their
influence. Jesus had, however, this
one great consolation, that the" truth
which He preached was being reveal-
ed to the simple minds of these dis-
ciples who believed in Him. Hidden
at might be from the wise, but it was
beingmade known to babes.
12: 14. The Pharisees. In strong
contrast to the patient faith and eour-
age and hope of Jesus, which He
sought to impart to His disciples, is
the growing hostility of the Pharisees,
chief representatives in their day of
the old Jewish faith, Because Jesus
showed them no respect and paid no
attention to their claims of spiritual
authority, they hated Him and would
now destroy Him.
Mixing Poultry Manure.
On poultry and fruit farms the ,poul-
try manure is a valuable asset for
fertilizing trees. The Massachusetts
station recommend the following
mixture: Hen manure, 1,500 pounds;
high-grade sulphate potash, 170
pounds; sixteen per cent. acid phos-
phate, 330 pounds. This makes a total
of 2,000 pounds of fertilizer for orch-
ard use. The approximate analysis
is nitrogen 1.1 per cent.; phosphoric
acid, 8.3 per cent.; potash, 4.5 per
cent.
Poultry manure spread an straw-
berries seems to induce a rapid weed
and grass growth and is not condu-
cive to the production of large quan-
tities of fruit. The Massachusetts
station 'recommend the fallowing
mixture of poultry manure when it
is used on strawberry patches: Hen
manure, 1,000 pounds; nitrate of soda,
100 pounds; ammonium sulphate, 100
pounds; high -grads sulphate potash,
200 pounds; -acid phosphate, 600
pounds.
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Have the ducks warm pens for the
winter? While it is not necessary
to keep ducks bellied oxeept at night
and during the coldest weather, re-
, member that any tl .
ainseer
quarters will surely cause bead eolds
and roup. Be euro that the roofs are
tight and, if possible, that the wa11s
are covered with tar -paper. A good
coat of paint vi•11 make the houses
ship-shape, and fill up the cracks
-, where vermin lurk. No roosts are
necessary, but since the ducks spend
all their time on the ground and their
feet are very tender, see to it that
r they have plenty of straw or litter
f and all the bedding they need,
a Do not keep ducks with other poul-
y ! try, for it is mistaken economy. In
thefirst place, ducks require differ-
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iffer-.' apt food, which they eat very slowly.
IThey are timid, and should not be ex-
cited or confused, as would be the
case if they were kept with hens, A
very smallchicken can drive a duck
away from the feeding dish.
Ducks should not be fed sloppy or
gummy food; they will not eat it.
Nor should whole grain be given
them. Soak corn for several hours
before feeding time. Chopped tur-
nips, beets, tipples, onions and cab-
bage are fine for ducks. Many breed-
ers advocate a combination of earn -
meal, cooked vegetables and bran, fed
in equal parts. Add a little salt
twice a week. During the laying sea-
son it is well to add raw cut bone
and meat :scraps at the same intervals.
Pekins have to be fed oftener than
Runners.
Have a box of charcoal and an-
other of sand near at all times. And
do not forget water. Dueks noad
plenty to drink, even more than
chickens. Change the water in the
pens several times a day, and take
the chill off in cold weather. It is a
mistake to add gait to the feed, but
it should be kept always available in
a separate dish.
If ducks are well eared for, as they
ought to be, they will begin to lay
during the winter, the Indian Runners
several weeks before the Pekins.
They should lay from the latter part
of February or early March clear into
July. It is as easy to get winter
ducks' eggs as it is hens'. Since
ducks lay on the ground, the import-
ance of clean straw and litter, and
a good deal of it, will be seen. Re-
member this: the eggs won't hatch
well in the spring if the ducks aren't
cared for in the winter.
Ducks can no more be neglected
than can horses or •cattle, but if a
man gives ducks good quarters and
the right kind of feed, they will pay
him for their keep over and over
again. Good care always pays.
Clean up the orchard and garden.
Do not let fruits and vegetables lie
on the ground to decay. Such prac-
tise is bread and butter for the bugs.
'THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
NOVEMBER 28TH,
How Jesus Was Received, Matthew
11 and 12. Golden Text—Matt.
11: 28.
lished, in that way, but that is what
Jesus wanted him to see and believe.
It was not by arms and munitions. of f
war, but by the ministry of love, that
His kingdom was to be won. The
work which He was doing was the
evidence, and such work in every age
Do not burn leaves, but save them
or the garden. Mix the leaves with
a little soil or manure, pile in the
arden, and scatter just before plow -
ng. Plow theta under.
is and will be the evidence of His —"
church's right and power.
In vs. 7-15 Jesus bears striking
test -in -may to the character and the
greatness of John. Those, he remind-
ed the people, who had gone out into
the Jordan wilderness to hear John
preach had found no weakling, no
child of luxury. They had found a
11: 1-6. In the Prison. The great great, strong, self -forgetting ratan,
preacher John, whom men called the and a prophet, a man of vision and
Baptist, the man of clean heart and
prophetic visions the forerunner of
Christ, had been imprisoned in the
castle of M•achaerus by Herod An-
tipas, because he had boldly rebuked a new day was dawning and a new
that ruler for adultery. The story of order corning in which new powers
his imprisonment is told in 14: 3-4. would 'be recognized arid a new stand -
To John's prison his disciples had . and of greatness. The old barriers
come with news of what Jesus was , to the kingdom of God were being
doing, and John had begun to doubt.' broken down, its doors were soon to
He had believed and declared that' be thrown wide open, and John him -
Jesus was the long promised King! self by his preaching had prepared the
and Saviour who would restore the way for the change. Already the
throne of David, re-establish. the in- violence of the new order, the vice,
dependence of Israel, and set up a lence and conquering power of faith,
aighteous and glorious dominion. But! was taking possession of that king -
lee saw that Jesus was taking no steps ' dom, and it was not to be, as John
in that direction. He was not gather- i thought, a kingdom of Israel, but an
ing an army, or leading in a revolu empire and dominion of faith and of
`i,apn, or asserting His c1ai i. to a
throne of that sort. What could He
mean? Had John, then, been mis-
taken? He sent his disciples to Jesus
Himself to askthe question.
The answer of Jesus was to bid
them simply tell John what they had
seen of the work of His ministry—
His healing and His teaching, and to
big him have faith. It was hard to
of faith. The promise of an ancient
prophet (Mal. 3: 1) had been fulfilled
in him. He was indeed great, one
of the greatest of the old order, but
the Spirit of God to extend over and
include all men.
11: 16-19. Wisdom is justified of
her .children, or, as in the Revised
Version, " by her works." John and
Jesus were very different in their life
and manners, John the man who lived
an ascetic life apart, appearing only
to preach to the multitudes, and Jesus,
who sought the companionship a His
believe that the world could- be saved, fellows and lived and ate and drank
";he powers of evil overthrown, and with them. But neither had pleased
he kingdom of God's people estab- the Jewish authorities, nor the people
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)Henry G. Bell, B.S.A., Director 1111 Temple Building, Toronto m make cure that you don't climb over
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Farms in Three Counties of On-
tario Prove Value -of Fertilizers
Tests of 1920 vision convince farmers of Ontario
carried, out under scientific super
e
of,the value of fertilizers in hastening maturity and obtaining
larger yields and bigger ears,
The demonstrators report:
1. "The greatest difference of all between the plots was in the
xnaturity of the corn and the yield of ears."
2. "These two plots of corn (lst-fertilized, 2nd -fertilized and
manured) were eight to ten days earlier in ripening."
3. "The differences in maturity of the ears for silage purposes
were distinctly it favor of the fertilized plot."
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Safety First a Farmers Hunt.
There comes .a time in the fall or
winter, after the crops are in the
barns and the hard work of harvest
is finished when nearly every farmer
thinks of getting out his gun and go-
ing after the rabbit, the grouse, the
woodcock, the squirrel, the fox, pheas
ant or some kind of native game.
A few weeks ago I was hunting do
strange territory and found only two
little bunnies, while a farmer friend
went out with his beagle and located
five. He knew where they lived and
they were there 'waiting for him. The
city man had passed them by many
times.
When one ratan hunts with other
hunters, a great deal of care 'must
bo exercised. Not that I mean to
preach a sermon on safety first with
the gun, but I have noticed that a
good many accidents occurred in cer-
tain places and under certain condi-
tions, hence there are some cardinal
"Don'ts" that I want to present.
Don't get the habit of carrying
your gun with the safety off or the
hannner up. A good shooter throws
the safety as his rifle or shotgun
comes to shoulder. It is an easy
habit to get and it .is a safe one, too.
The hunter who thinks he has to go
into the brush with his gun all set to
shoot at the first movement, is the
one who .causes the accidents, and he
generally gets less game than the
hunter who takes more time, is more
careful, and plays the game safely.
Probably more accidents happen
when the hunters are crossing a fence
than at any other place. Possibly
there is a fox hurrying off in the -dis-
tance, or a rabbit skipping ahead of
the dogs, and every one wants to get
over the barrier rapidly and get in a
shot. Right there is the germ of a
shooting accident,
for
to .clamber er over
with the loaded' gun in hand, per-
haps with the safety off, gives every
possibility of a slip and a fall that
may .discharge the 'gun. The sane
way to get over any fence is to go
through a gateway if possible, and if
it isn't possible, set your gun over the
fence first and then
climb over your-
self,
Some hunters have the pernicious
habit of getting,over first and then
pulling the gun after them. In that
ease the chances are that the niuzale
is directed in the direction of the
body, and many an accident is the re-
sult of this foolish carelessness, Put
When going from one piece of
woods to another, hunters often show
the greatest amount of carelessness
in the manner of carrying their guns.
The weapons are shifted into easy
positions with the barrels in a hori-
zontal position that makes the range
of the gun cover some companion's
body. The proper way to carry the
gun, when with one or more people,
is to ' see that the muzzle is aimed
downward or upward. Not .straight.
up or down, but pointed so its muzzle
is looking at the ground or at the
sky. With a very little care on the
part of the hunter•, a gun can be car-
ried in an easy position so that its
load would never go in the direction
•of another member of the party.
Accidents generally come as a re-
sult of thoughtlessness, If one mem-
ber of the party :sets out carefully
the others will follow his example.
Sometimes a hunter will walk ahead
of me and let me gaze into the muzzle
of his loaded gun. It sends .such a
chill through me that I ask hon to
shift his weapon. He is invariably
glad to do this. I have thoughtlessly
dgne the seine thing myself and have
been •goad of the correction.
Some hunters never carry their
guns right when walking along a side -
hill.' They "tote" them any way that
happens to suit, and perhaps a slip
is all that is needed do cause a fall.
Falling with your weight on any
weapon is pretty liable to damage it
in some way, to say nothing of the
injury it :night cause by exploding.
The gun Should be carried on the
downhill side of your body. Since the
direction of fall will most likely be
uphill if you should slip on a wet
stone, the gun will be safest on the
lower slide.
le
Another
problem is to carry the gun
safely in a boat, wagon, automobile
:or ether eonveyance. If the arae is of
the magazine type, it is better to keep
all cartridges in this magazine,
throwing the top one into the cham-
ber when ready to shoot. A. loaded
shotgun in, a boat should be in some-
body's hands while the other member
of the party does the rowing,
Important Notice: The advice of
all fur companies is not to trap early
thie year.
Wait until fur
prime,
and. better prices will be secured.
Every year many stains taken ate
practically worthless, and the trap-
pers complain because they receive
such low prices, Conserve the fur
crop. It is it valuable one. Use eont-
nion sense.
Christmas Gifts from the Farm.
By MARION
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I had gene to her home ,in the early
autumn to'board because I had mueh
writing to do and needed quiet. At
the same time I needed the sweet
pure country air. When we first be-
gan talking of Christmas, fully six
or eight weeke before that date, Ruth,
my friend, began the old-time plaint:
"I know I shall get a lot of pretty
things :from my city friends and rela-
tives, and what on earth can I get in
this aid ark that is fit to send them?"
"This old ark," was the village gen-
eral stare, where we were when we
brought up the subject of Christmas
giving.
"Ruth Preston," I answered her,
"with all the opportunities you have
for making the most delightful, un-
usual and really worth -while gifts,
you should worry about Storekeeper
Wiggin': limited stock of cheese and
chewing tobacco."
"What do you mean?" gasped
Ruth.
"Well, you never lived in the city,
cooped up in an apartment, or in a
house in a big town where the near-
est woods and nearest garden were
miles and miles away? Did you
now?" She admitted that she never
had.
"Imagine that you did live in sucla.
a place, What would you say if you
were to receive a beautiful little baby
fir tree eighteen inches high, a lus-
cious deep green, growing in a pret-
ty little wooden tub painted deep
red? Suppose it came to you care-
fully wrapped in wet burlap so that
the express people could see what it
was and keep it right side op?
"It would " be pretty," admitted
Ruth,
"And suppose you lived in a big
elevator apartment with a tiny kitch-
enette and a new maid every week or
so and all the goodies you had you
made yourself or got at a cafe or dug
out of cans with a can opener. How
would you like to get a great brig fat
mince pie, packed in a box so care-
fully that it couldn't crush Or break?"
I had set her to thinking. Soon
after that we brought up the subject
once more. I sent back to the city
for two dollars' worth of narrow, red
ribbon, holly ribbon, Christmas labels,
tags and stickers.
"What are you going to send him?"
I asked Ruth one day as she mention-
ed her very wealthy 'brother who had
lived in a distant city for twenty
years.
"Oh dear, Tom has so much money
that anything I could afford would
look cheap!" she complained. "Neck-
ties are silly and I don't know the
latest styles. I'd love to surprise him
once—"
"Make fifty of those old-fashioned
big sugar cookies, such as your
mother used to make for you and Tam
when you were youngsters.. I know
how they taste—want one right now!
Wrap each one in white tissue, stick
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a tiny fancy label en, to fasten the
tissuetogether,
peek. the m
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a box and send them along to him.'
Watch his mouth water!
Ruth did it and the letter she got
from her brother brought the qui.
tears to her eyes..
To my brot'her's wife I sent a small
crate of mixed vegetables. She wa
delighted. I sent them early enough
for her to use them for the Christ-
mas dinner. There was a small
squash, some choice potatoes, • onions,
beets, carrots, turnips, a cabbage,
some apples, a dozen hard winter
pears and a little jar of delicious
crabapple jelly tucked in.
To our old school -teacher, still
striving to teach the young idea how
to shoot, Ruth and I joined in mak-
ing a big, rich fruit cake.
To a friend who had a number of
small children, Ruth sent half a
dozen jars ofpure hooey.
J on y.
I don't know how many little jars
of jellies and chili sauce and baby
pickles and jams and other preserves.
and condiments we sent along for
preseruts.
To a doctor friend the one who
sent me to inhale the country air for
six months—I sent two dozen big,
rich duck eggs, quite fresh. On each
egg I pasted a tiny sticker, a little
Santa or "Christmas tree or stocking
or something of that sort. I placed
these an a wire case which hoick each
egg firmly, marked them plainly and
they reached the good doctor without
a break or a crack.
Every year Ruth's great aunt sends
her something of value. This great
aunt owns a string of business blocks
in a' big city and keeps a lawyer busy
attending solely to her estate. At
my suggestion, Ruth prepared a goose.
for the oven, stuffed it, sewed it up
in a white cloth, and packed it in a
box, the earners of which she filled
with apples and onions for roasting.
This she sent to Great Aunt, not with-
out fear and trembling. "The very
idea of sending her something to eat,"
she gasped, "she'll think it an insult,"
She invited a select few in to dinner,
she wrote, and boasted of the "home-
grown goose straight from my dear •
niece who lives on a farm." And alI
her guests raved.
To friends who had children we
sent baskets of native nuts: butter-
nuts, hickory nuts and the like. We
also made some delicious molasses
kisses, wrapped them in waxed paper,
packed them with •sprigs of evergreen
and sent them along.
If you live in the maple belt, you
surely have some maple sugar left.
If it is black, melt it over and re-
cast the cakes. They will be delicious.
Or melt them and stir them into the
soft maple sugar and let your friends
use them for genuine maple fudge.
If you have popcorn, tie up four
bunches, six ears in a bunch, with red
ribbon and send it as a present.
Country popcorn "tastes different,"
you know! It does. I've tasted it,
IN HIS NAME,
, I •saw the thing, with my own eyes,
at a big Pair early in September. It
has stood but, everesinee, as the big-
gest and: best exhibit there; an ex-
hibit of manliness and tenderness and
love. Compared with these, what
s were hogs and corn, cows and aero-
planes?
j . They had come to the fair for a
well-earned vacation, But it wee not
a rest. Rooms were hard to find;
meals were high priced and not over-
ly :good. It is hard work tramping
city "streets and fair -ground avenues
all day. ` The children were not used
' to their shoes, They became tired
easily. They could run all day in hoar meadows and pastures, but an hour
on the pavements wore them out.
1 They became fretty and peevish; one
was suffering from the whooping-
cough. She should never have been
brought, but it was either bring her
along or the whole family stay at
home.
The baby show appealed to the
woman. Site had borne a half-dozen;
only three were left. The tears came
to her eyes, as she thought of the lit-
tle mounds in the cemetery back
m home; of the little hands which once
clutched hers; of the warm lips which
had long been cold. Perhaps if there
had been baby shows at the fairs in
1 those days—and she could have at-
tended—those little mounds of earth
would not exist to -day. Through her
tear -swimming eyes she looked in at
the baby show which she could not
attend because of the affliction from
which the smallest, dirtiest and tired
est of the children was suffering.
And then He appeared. I do not
know his name. I do not know whence
He came. I want him to remain just
an intangible, unidentified He, with
a capital H. He looked as if Ile had
never had a care in the world. He.
was foppish. He was frivolous. The.
girl He was with was a vain peacock.
She brushed by the woman and the
child whose cough was causing
mothers to gather their little ones
to them and scurry away.
He grasped the situation in a
glance: The poor, tired mother, her
dreams, her regrets, her vain long-
ings; the afflicted, tired child. The
peacock walked on. Somehow I hope
He never met her again.
"Want an ice-cream cone, honey?"
He said, stooping down and patting
thei whenit paroxysms were
child et pa xy ms a e
at an end. "I sure do, only nobody
will eat one with me."
God teaches the little children whom
to trust. The child put her hand in
his and was content.
"I'll take good care of her," Ile
said. "There are slides in the play-
ground and swings. I was a laid once
and I had it, too. Let me take her
a while."
I watched diem, and He was as
tender as a mother; a gracious, rol-
licking playmate. The tired lines
were wiped out of the tear -stained
face of the child. She was too young
o know about Prince Charming. But
He was that, in very truth.
I saw horses for which $50,000 had
been refused. I saw millions of doI-
lars' worth of stock. But I saw God
there in the children's playgrounds,
and Heaven in the thankful eyes of
the mother when she returned to
claim her child.
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Blackie. —~
Onoe upon a time there was an old
mother lien who had twelve baby
chicks. They were all fluffy and yel-
low except one who was so black that
he was called Blackie.
Every morning the little girl whoaxn
lived in the big fahouse came out
to feed the chicks.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck," said the old
mother hen, and "Peep, peep, peepl"
cried the baby chicks as if they were
saying "thank you" to the little girl
for taking such good ,care of them.
"Peep, peep," said Mackie, "now
that I have had any breakfast I'm go-
ing to take a. journey." And away he
hopped from his mother and little
brothers and sisters as fast as he could
go!
By and by he came to a hole in the
fence and out he went. He found him-
self on a nice green lawn and very,g
near a lovely b flower bed full of
pretty red and yellow tulips
"What a fine world this is," thought
Mackie, "I'm glad I ran away from
the old chicken yard, fotr it was never
so wonderful as ,this," With that he
began scratching around the tulip bed
to find something more to eat.
Just thein a terrible noise sounded
quite near him.
"Bow, wow, wow!" It was the little
girl's fat brown puppy who was jump-
ing about on his funny big feet, his
tongue hanging out do much excite-
ment.
"What are you icing out of the hen
yard?" he said. "Go right back or I
shall make you!"
"Peep, peep, peep," cried. frightened
Blackie and away he ran without look-
ing at all to see where he was going,
Before he knew it he hopped right
into the middle of a puddle of water.
Little chicks do not like water at all,
so poor Blackie was more frightened
than' 'well Ile fluttered his ]disks
wings, took a great hop and up he
jumped en to a .smooth ,stone in the
middle of thepuddle.
p ddle.
"Peep, peep, peep, Mother, Mother!"lee cured, But Inotluar hen was far
away in the hen yard and mold not
even hear him,
The olid tabby 'cat ' Wee curled tip in
the nuns on the steps of the farm; house
porch, not far away. The little gitil
had given her a good saueer of milk
and she was napping after her break-
fast.
"Peep, peep, peep!" cried the baby
chick from his stone in the puddle, "I
want any mother!"
The old tabby cat heard him and
carne down to see is she could help.
She put one paw into the water, but
drew it out in a hurry and shook off
the drops, then she sat down as if she
were trying to think of some other
way for tabby cat did not like to wet
her feet.
"Peep, peep, peep! I want my e
another, I'm afrakl I'm going to i
drown." t
Bang! went the screen door and
down the porch steps ran the little
girl! How she did laugh when she e
saw little Blackie and the trouble he d
was in. u
"Never mind, Blackie, I'll take you
back to your mother," she said and
picking him up very carefully, she
Get every pies of farm machinery
under cover before snow flies.
ry, if cold. Oil usually flows slowly
n cold weather. It will pay to change
o a lighter oil for winter use.
Light creosote oils .properly injeet-
d into wood apparently will prevent
ecay until the wood wears out, or
ntil it checks so badly that the un-
treated portions are exposed.
Mulch strawberries with straw,
carried him back to the old mother leaves, cornstalks or wild hay as soon
as the ground freezes.
hen.
Wintering Bees.
Large numbers of colonies of bees
are lost in Canada every winter
through lack of proper Dare ;and fore-
thought. Serious losses are due to
want of timely and intelligent pre-
paration. lir. F. W. L. Sladen, Do-
minion Apiarist, its Bulletin Number
43, 2nd Series od' the Experimental
Farms, makes the statement that long
and cold wintering in many parts of
Canada, is not so hard on the bees
as might be imagined. In some re-
spects, he says, wintering is easier
here than in mild' countries, like Eng-
land or in the •Southern States, This
is because bees rest more completely
during the winter in Canada. One of
the most important things for good
wintering is it populous colony, con-
sisting mainly of young bees; an-
other is an abundant supply of whole-
eonte stores in the combs, and the
third is an adequate protection front
the colo.
This bulletin, entitled "Wintering
Bees in Canada," is available at the
Publications Branch of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Ottawa. In de-
scribing the wintering of bees in the
cellar the t e temperatt>ref or the cellar
cellar the temperature for the cellar
precautions as regards the spring
management of bees are recorded in
the bulletin.
Put the necessary winter overcoat
on the strawlberries,
Protect raspberries, blackberries
and bush fruits from severe winter
weather by bending the canes down,
pegging them with ~sticks stuck into
the soil, covering with earth. If Banes
tend to break remove earth near the
roots, on .side towardwhich the plants
are bent. Bend all the same way.
Clean ditches and tile outlets this
fall before the ground freezes. If
absolutely safe, open ditches should.
be burned out now so they will be
ready for use early in the spring. A
single tiny fill he the ditch where the
wagon or car crossed last summer
may hold back enough water to keep
you out of the field a week later than
your neighbor next spring. The outs
let from the tile should be clear, since
water allowed to back up in the tile
and stay at this time of the year will
freeze and injure the tile.
That old straw stack left over from
last year is good for use as a mulch
on winter wheat or winter rye -fields.
Where the winter wheat or winter rye
has been sown in corn stubble or
grain stubble, a mulch of about two
tons of old straw h. m acre will be a
distinct advantage to the crop, be-
cause .it will protect it during winter
and will also aid in holding the mois-
ture about the roots in the spring. In
November and early Dezember is a
good time to spread the straw. There
aro several good straw -spreaders en
the market,