HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1921-8-4, Page 6Address eemrnenications to Antos...aim:. 73 Adelaide St. West. Tortoni:*
Our Export Trade in Cattle. lion three hundred and sixty thousand
doltela
Apaza from the Britieh embargo "
question at present under investiga-
Allowing Hogs to Feed Themselves. "
time Canada's export trade in cattle much of the lehed eeederee stock:
is brought prominently into the lime- can be eaved by
light tear the Fortiney tariff reeently
ado:reed by the United States Con-
gress. Th4$ plaees an inereas.ed duty
on all niaaner of irt!es of agrietzt-
tura' pradoetien, among which come
eattie. not linended Per breeding,' with
A :duty of :10 per cent. ad valorem, or
thirty de:litre on every hunired dol -
tare the eattle may be worth. To what
exttnt. tide will affeet Canada's ex-
port trete in Live en.e.k with the
rained States lias a course yet to
be ;ideal:lite-lei, hut it its worth observ-
ing that if ea: per eent. had been paid
upon the 2;0.4,000 head aif cattle sent
armee the border !leer year at wieleh
breed -hi 821,2atatiei, d.uty emounting
to, So.:WO:X:5 wouid itate eririehed
reatei Stave anis:eons. In thIS
Scille, facts presented hy the
Lite Steak Cemmisiderier tit Ottawa
are wathy ,er note. Previous tc. 1911.
G -.oat Britain toa-,0k .00 per !eit. atf our
Of live stork arid the United
10 per rent. Between 1890 and
el the lezeinese with Great Britain
reasged front e7;0011 heed te 1:14,-00,1
I. Then it hemer. to ,leelint Mei in
Lett, da, experts, att malted to liae795,
out iii the fa:hese:4 yew they fell te
1.4:004 heal, There lets been no re -
?every to speak ef einee. Ir. hall the
shipments to the, trd.tal. Street took
• ..inerreal bound, tile tete! heitie
..Vd.,140 heal. For tie, :hot lite, years
the
ti e wee se -ea ly aaevorel theee
figures alai than in 1ie19-20 ttere was
another Ng leapthe reader ef each.
•tte geteg tierese the herder to the
soutle out of a tetel expert:IV:et: of
578.852h9a.L,Lo:r.4
oniy 11:70,1 to go ehewliere. i.
1920-21. the rnimher atairee to the
State, te eoaania heed. hut :it that
the deity that woull licive to he paid Ati
no) per eent. atie value wee!" rtatela,
here eteted, te upwarle a she niil-, naniten Experimental Parnis.
the adoption of
modern methods. This is particularly
true in the reeding of hogs, which it
has been found make economic -al gains
when allowed to take food as they
desire it rather than to hand -feed the
animals at stated periods. The self-'
feeder for hogs is not mi untried apd
pliance. By its use the animals are
allowed eonstant aecess to a supoitr:
of meal, which is given in dry form.
The feed is kept in a hopper which'
may be replenished from time to
time. From the hopper the feed falls,
into the feeding trough as consumed,
by the animals.
A eelf-feeder to be sizates.eful must"
be ...heap, strong, eapeadous, portalile,
c.a.Sy to construet, weather -tight, easy
a regulation for different textured,
meals, and most important a all so
zzsrenged that the contents will feed
ineo the troughs without any stoppage
eeused by the biocking of the meal
hl the hopper. Further1 the troughs
must he eonstructed tu ensure the
minimum Z:311:n7nt of waste such AS
;night he (weal by the animals nosing
the Meal over the sidea er sailing it
by etenglieg in the troughs.
A eelf-feeder can he readily made
he any handy man. For an average
farmera strueture 4'x4' and 4' high:
eiandal ne satisfactory. The feeder
sawed rest on three *zee o 2"x4"
see:it:ince The was and floor should.
have frallieS of the seine tiviterial and
si, eahl be boarded with tongued aed.
groeved material zno as to be water -
The roof, which should extend,
well over the trough, may constantly
fern the door or lid of the strneture.
When itstd a suah it is wen to pro -
vile a prop to heep it open when nee-
eteery. Illestrated .construction de-
tails for a self -feeder are presented in
Exhibition Circular No: 03, of the Do-
C.POlditS I
Cream of tartar given in the drink -
Inc water every new and then wards
off disease and keeps the blood a
the fowls in proper condition.
The inferior laying hen of the meat
type has thick, beefy pelvic bones,
with hard hittioe at the ends. Such
hens are not heavy layers. Sell them.
They usually weigh heavy.
Goad :eying is not indicated by the
amount of eaekling a hen does. In
this reepeet, sometimes, hens are liars.
The lien that makee, a lot of fuss over
an egg la usually, but an ordinary
layer.
There is nothing better for either
old hens or chicks than dandelions.
Grub out a basket of the roots and
tops. Chop very fine and feed. Many
times my flock of hens has gone to
laying at once after a long period
of rest when given a fevr feedings of
dandelions. Chieks thrive wonderfully
on curd cheese and chopped dande-
lions, and especially when a few table
or meat scraps are mixed in oc-
oasionally.
Bit-arbor:ate of stela is of great
value when placed in the mash or
.deinkirg water. It will eleanse the
:,rt•estive tract of any sour or decayed
eenetanees, and keep it in a healthy
• eetened condition,
f:ggs remain fresh even for weeks
: - the warmest weather, and clo not
apereciably lose in weight nor condi-
tion even if sent across the 'continent,
when no males are kept in the flacks.
However, it is always best if eggs
are rnarketed within a week; the
sooner the better.
Water -glass is the great egg pre-
servative. It is a syrupy fluid whith
oan be purchased from druggists.
Add one part of the substance to nine
parts of water that has been boiled
and allowed to cool before mixing.
Thoroughly stir the solution while it
Is being mixed and pour it over the
eggs, which have already been packed
in an earthen or wooden vessel. Keep
in a location where the temperature
never rises above 60 degrees F. The
eggs should nat be more than a week
old. Infertile ones are better.
Hints on Plow Adjustment.
A few simple rules which are es-
sential in the adjustment of plows for
tractor plowing are given by Donald
McDonald, a well-known plow man.
1. Adjust the springs till the weight
of the plow beams and botemns is
practically balanced.
2. Hitch plow at a point on tractor
drawbar midway between horizontal
centre of tractor and hoxizontal centre
of plow.
3. Adjust vertical position of hitch
so as to be substantially level en work-
ing position.
4. Set levers for first position and
open first furrow.
• 5. Change levers to working posi-
tion.
6. When plowing is finished, set the
levers in transport position and, take
plow and tractor to nearest shelter...
Co-operation, not oompetition, is the
life of business.
Don't pray cream on Sundays and
skimerailac the ret of Ube week.
Fattening hogs gained as follows in
Missouri tests: •
23 per cent. faster on a ration of
corn and middlings than on corn.
32 por cent, faster on a ration of
corn and linseed oilmeal than on corn
alone,
32.6 per cert. faster on a ration of
corn anal tankage than on corn alone,
a 5 per tent, faster on a ration of
corn and soybeans than on corn alone.
37.6 per cent. faster on a retina of
corn and germ oilmeal than on corn
alone.
74 per cant waster when sell' ded
than when hand fed the same ration.
Self -fed hogs require no more feed
to produce a given amoimt of gain
than when hand fed. When each feed
is placed in a separate "self -feeder"
the hogs will choose the different
feeds, so that the gain will be both
rapid and economical. The saving of
grain resulting from the use of pas-
ture crops is from twenty to fifty' per
cent.
The kind of forage crops best adapt-
ed for hog pastures is illustrated, as
follows:
Blue grass produced 324.6 pounds
of pork per acre.
Clover produced 567.7 pounds of
pork per acre.
Rape and oat forage produced 354.1
pounds of pork per acre.
Rape, oats and clover forage pro-
duced. 414.6 pounds of pork per acre.
Soybean forage produced 117.6
pounds of pork per acre. Rye grain
forage produced 211.7 pound S of pork
per acre.
How We 'Handle Straw.
We always fill our empty barn
mows, sheds and stable lofts with
straw to fuUest capacity when we
thresh our small grains. In one we.
store oat -straw for feeding with hay
and corn -stover to the horses cattle
and calves. Another one holds our
wheat -straw for bedding, strawberry
and raspberry mulches, nests for the
swine and calves, and scratching
material for the hens.
Another mow holds the rye -straw,
coarse and long, which is the best
material we can find for the winter
,poultry houses in which the hens,can
dig and scratch and never wear the
fibre into dust and short cuts. Last
autumn, when we shredded into our
barn a quantity at corn -stover, we
busied ourselves at no other task than
to keep pitching bunches of wheat and
oat -straw into the open vent of the
blower, mixing it automatically with
the fodder. It made splendid feed, and
helped to keep the fodder from peek-
ing and molding in the mows as so
often happens.
This season we shall store a quan-
tity of straw in reach of the blower
andmix this with corn -stover half and
half. Makes it go farther in feeding,
and is a most splendid feed, for winter-
ing the animals that do little work.
For moles and pocket gophers, dis-
solve strychnine in boilin,g water;
soak sweet corn in it twelve holies;
put a few crane in the gopher hills
and in all of the mole runs. One
treatment puts them all to sleep.
• Supremac.y of Marquis
Wheat.
The farther it goes the better it
goes can fairly be said of Marquis
wheat. Born in Canada at the Ottawa
Experimental Perm, it has come to be
recognized as the standard Wheat of
this country, and wording, to the
Weekly News Letter, published by the
Department of Agriculture at Waeli-
ixtrtoze D.C„ hae been found by the
specialists of that Department to be
the teading variety of conireen wheat
grown in the Northern Great Plains
of the United States,. This has come
about in the last seven or eigat veara.
Marquis wheat having been introduced
to tbe States in 1913, It is hardly
necessary to refer to the many victor-
ies that have been gained by this var-
iety at the annual soil products expo-
sitions held in the States. They have
been thoreughly chronicled as they
occurred and have redounded to the
credit of Canada, particularly of Sas-
hatehewan. Frequent efforts by gen-
erous advertising have been Lade to
introduce new varieties, but Marquis
has held its own and is to -day more
extensively grown in Saskatchewan
and in some districts of Manitoba and
Alberta than all the other varieties
put together, Hundreds of varieties
of foreign nal domestic wheat have
been tested by the Washington ex -
perks, but for growth in the northern,
States none have proved the superior
of Marquis. The better varieties of
Durum wheat have proved more than
the equel of Marquis in one or two
particulars, but every one has been
proven by experiments to have a smal-
ler loaf voleme. Data obtained
at Washington on rust infeetion
showed that Marquis had a less per-
centage than any other ccartmercial
variety of common spring wheat ex-
cepting only Durum. Each wheat
sample was analyzed for nitrogen and
the erede protein content determined.
Marquis wheat had an average protein
content of 15.3 per cent, Other eon -
mon spring wheats rather less. It
must be understood that these samples
ware not all taken from stations or
districts favorable to the growth of
Marquis.
Thresh Your Own Grain.
If you own a gasoline engine for
pumping water, sawing wood, cutting
feed, grinding grain, etc., there is no
more profitable investinent than the
purehase of a small grain separator.
Much grain is lost annually, or the
quality of the grain is reduced, due to
inability to secure a thresher at the
proper time. From experience, I know
this to be a fact.
A. small separator will do just as
good work as a large one, but, of
course, not so rapidly, though you will
be surprised at the capacity. One that
can he easily operated by an eight or
ten horseleewer gasoline engine will
thresh from 400 to 500 bushels of
grein or more a day, and the work
can be done far more cheaply than
with the hired thresher. Better still,
we have the satisfaetion of knowing
that we can do the work any time we
get ready, not having to wait from
ten days to three weeks for the neigh -
b h d th • -a t •
•
which often means e lot of lost or
damaged grain if a rainy spell should
ihappea to come while waiting for the
I outfit,
Another advantage of the small in-
diriduai separatoris tha.t after we get
g through our own crap (if we have the
tine to spare and feel diepised to, do
so), we can step outside and threelt a
crop or two for ma: friends or bors, tl1 af whiehpa 'ay
clear cash znoney,
Pure and Wholesome Food
Products.
A very apparent effect of tbe work
of the Department of Agriculture at
Ottawa is the improvement that has
taken place in the eleanliness and
purity of the people's tooth -Especially
is this true of the work performed by
the Live Stock and Health cf Anirnale
branches. Better equipment at the
stock yards hes been brought about As
well as improved faeilities for trans-
portation on the one hand and, on the
othon rigid inspection at the abattoirs
• and sIaughter-housee insures heelthy
and waolesome meats for consumption.
It is impossible to overestimate the
value of the work that is thus being
accomplished, At the canneries also
cleanliness and wholesomenees are as-
sured by the regulations that are en-
forced by inspectors and eupervisora
under the immediate eontrol of the
Health of Animals Branch. Eggs and
poultry, under the Poultry division a
the Live Stock Bauch have been ad-
vanced in publie estimation. In by-
gone times householders always had
e tain suspicions of the eggs supplied
at the breakfast table and used in
cooking. They usually expected one,
two or three, and sometimes more, in
a dozen, to prove unpalatable, and
were rarely disappointed. To -day
they buy and cook with eonfidenee. The
sante is true of all other articles of
food watched over by this and other
departments.
Marketing Home Products
By Grace Vale Grey
If you are interested in finding a
market for your wares you will find
four methods of selling: Direct sales-
manship, through manufacturer's
agents to whom you pay a commission,
through advertising, and through per-
sonal letters to desirable people and
business concerns. Without a doubt
the first method, that of selling direct,
is the quickest and the cheapest.
It is quite possible to sell to a few
persons or to one large coneern; and
if you prefer the latter course, it will
be well to cela upon the leading gro-
cers of nearby towns and 'cities. You
will doubtless find that dealers are
willing to enter into arrangements by
which they can depend upon a regular
supply of reliable products.
Should this be your first venture in
the business world you may say, "I'm
timid, I can not talk to strangers, and
pride keeps me from telling my own
local dealers that I want to sell my
home-made goods." This is a wrong,
as well as a false, attitude. You have
a perfectly good business proposition
to make and good business men will
take advantage of it. Have tonfidence
in yourself; that is all that is needed
to start in the business. You will find
nice people everywhere. I have always
been courteously received by business
men, whether they were butchers,
grocers, commission men, express
company employees, or heads of de-
partments in large, wholesale stores.
Provide attractive labels for your
goods, whether they be eggs or pre-
serves. It is wise to use the name of
your farm, so that customers will soon
get used to it and order "Pine Crest
Preserves" or "Shady Lawn Broilers."
If you put your goods out in an at-
tractive form, guarantee their super-
ior .quality, secure one good grocer in
each town in which you sell, and fill
your orders promptly, you will be
surprised to see how much you can
sell.
In selling directly to the consumers,
the moneyed people are most likely
to want your products, and these are
the people whom you should seek.
Many housewives are out of toWn dure
ing the summer months and would
gladly order their winter supply of
fruit and vegetables from a reliable
person. Call upon such people if it
is at all possible to do so, taking with
you samples of your products put up
in an attractive form. YOur goods
are worth more thin ordinary canned
goods and you do not have to compete
with thein. You never see "fancy"
coeds on a bargain counter; so do
not put g cheap price upon your pro-
ducts.
You ,can also go to your nearest city
and intuview the managers of the
best hotels and restauramts, the stew-
ards of social elubs and the managers
of railroad dining -cars. Cater to a
good trade, for a large number of
people are on the lookout for -the best
products. Go to see these people on
your own initiative or ask a friend to
reconiniend you to them. If you
really tan produce something better
than ordinary, you will have no diffi-
culty in seeing these people and sell-
ing to them.
Delic.atessen shops, tea-rooms and
clubs pay big prices for home -prepar-
ed food. Your express agent will give
you the names of such private custom-
ers, for express companies are willing
to co-operate in every way possible to
help the farm woman place her pro-
ducts and to assist city folks to get
country food. Go to the express com-
pany in your town and talk to the
agent. Without a doubt he will be
able to put you in touch with desirable
customers, Having secured their
names, write these people what you
.have to offer and payment can be
made through the express agent. This
is the safest way to transact business
between people unknown to each
other.
The second methixl of selling your
goods is easy but expensive. There
are malty salesmen who would be glad
to push your goods, particularly if you
have a good novelty. Salesmen sell
on commission, twenty per cent. being
about the average. There are also big
jobbers who sell to retail stores. The
jobbers Will be able to bring you big
orders if your products merit it; but
here again the expensive commission
must be considered and only a large
output justifies this form of selling.
Many people prefer advertising in-
stead of the direct salesmanship or
manufacturer's agents. Some of our
biggest country trade has come about
through advertising. To build up a
trade in this way have cireulare, de-
scribing your products, printed, and
mail them to possible customers living
within reasonable distance..The man-
ager of your telephone exehange will
get you a list of such people. Your
paenphlet can be in the form of a let-
ter, with a description of the varieties
and a price -list. Give it a "catchy"
title, so people will want to Teed it.
A folder of small size -containieg
about four pages is a good form. In
this folder or leaflet, tell the reader
who you are --that is, give. enough in-
formation about yourself and your
experience in ,oanning and preserving,
or as a grower of fine poultry to give
strangers confidence in you. Do not
be afraid to spend ten or fifteen dol-
lars in mailing leaflets; they will not
cost much to print and one -cent pos-
tage will do for a leaflet of this kind.
Roadside advertising also pays, A
blackboard, with items and prices die-
tinctly written upon it will attract the
eyes of all who pass by, while con-
siderable business can be obtained by
letter -writing. The letters must be
businesslike in appearance and ex-
preesion, and should, be typewritten.
These are but suggestions; other
ways may present themselves,, but it is
no trouble to find a market if you just
start out determined to find one.
he Welfare -of the -Home
The Imaginative Time—By Anna Mae Brady
Kothera, did you ever stop to realize
the importance of that period in your:
child's development when his little,
raked is free to wander over tae hills;
of fancy and he is finding so much,
difficulty in linking up the real anal
the unreal? It is the opportunity time:
of life and every one- of us to whom'
is entrusted the eare and development,
of a lett° Child needs to study and
understand it in order thee we maye
zneke the moat of it.
All of us are dreamers of dreame,!
ead it is well that it is so, for every;
werthwhile act that has been given;
• ,
mind of some person. Every hook
that was ever written, every picture!
painted, every field :cultivated, WAS:
first j11.St a flight of imaginative faney.
All al lee go this far, but it is not,
enough to dream; we must do as well.i
The successful person II the one who
thinks over hie dream. and erganizes,
his thinking until titaky it is no
longer a dream but a reality,
We grown-ups would give the gold
of MitIAS, were it passible, ir we might
have developed in us the power of
vision, the power to see life imagine-
tively. Yet our little tots from three
to six have this power to the nth de-
gree, and instead of fostering and
organizing it we do our best to stifle
it as a trait not to be.deeired, Thq
reed of genius lies in maw or out
children, and parents and teachers
who do not undeeetand, de their at -
most to crush out tlie very thing
which later they wish there to have.
"But," you say, "it I encourage this
will it net make me* child untruthfol?
Already he juggles the truth in most
alarming ways." As mothers and 1804-
er$ et children, we must be ,able to
distiaguis'n between a flight of fancy
mil a deliberate Intent to deceive.
Fortunately for us the latter ca.ses are
very rare, If in doubt ask the chil
if it is a flight of faney he will tell
What we need to do is to help the
cialcl see his vision clearly and then
furnisa him with some plastic material
with Which he can make his dreams
come true. Fairy tales are excellent
for the imaginative ail& He is liv-
ing in their world and they help ex-
plain for him that almost inexplicable
thing called life, Free Nand cutting*
clay modeling and the send table fur.,
nisli material whielt wM enable him
not mill to see the picture more clear-
ly, but \till also lead him to be a doer
as well ,eS a dreamer, both of Which
are necessary,
The imaginative period, the oppor••
tardier thee, comes but mice, so let ue
make the most of it.
Extension of Canada's Seed
Trade.
During the year 1920 Canada's ex-
port seed trade made a considerable
advenee, owing in no small degree to
the efforte of the Dominion Depart-
ment of Agriculture and the Depart-
ment of Trade and Commerce. The
Canadian Trade Commissioners sup-
plied lists of prospeetive eustomers
abroad for Canadian seed. These were
communicated with and their require-
ments placed before Canadian export-
ers. In this way an increased export
of seeds was brought about to the
United States, Great Britain, France
and Newfoundlami. To Ireland alone
approximately 100,000 bushels of fibre
fax seed, worth about $1,000,000, was
exported. In British Columbia, field
root and garden vegetable seeds,
amounting to 150,000 pounds, were
marketed through. the United Seed
Gowers, Limited, Penticton, B.C. Some
75,000 poundal of mangel, swede
turnip, and field carrot seed, grown by
the Experimental Farms, were sold at
current wholesale prices to farmers'
organizations and individual farmers.
It was deemed advisable to confine the
marketing of this seed to Canada, so
that farmers might have the exclusive
advantage of using this high quality
seed. Circulars detailing the available
seed potato supplies in Prince Edward
Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
and Quebec, proved an important fac-
tor in relieving the shortage in On-
tario. Demonstrations conducted on
117 farms in Ontario and Quebec with
mangel and swede turnip seed resulted
in showing the superiority of home
grown seed over foreign. Seed labor-
atories are now maintained by the
Dominion Department of Agriculture
at Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Calgary,
and at those points some 28,000 tests
were carried out. Samples ef wheat,
oats, barley, timothy, and clover were
tested for vitality and, at Calgary,
investigation was made into the effect
of frost on germination.
Our Insectivorous Birds.
It inay appear startling, but it is
a fact that if all the insect pests
ravaging our crops could be sup-
pressed, and all the plant and tree
diseases eradicated, and the increased
revenue derived by the country there-
by .could be turned into the Dominion
Treasury, there would need to be no
question of taxation. This idea is
largely substantiated by the fact set
forth by the Entomologist of the Do-
minion Department of Agriculture
that a conservative estimate of the
annual loss in Canada to field, orchard
and garden crops due to destructive
insects is upwards of $200,000,000. As
our authority says: 'T'o this huge de-
vastation -must be added the enormous
annual destruction caused by forest
insects, stored product insects, etc."
Upon this statement the Entomolo-
gist founds a well -sustained argument
in favor of the protection of insecti-
vorous birds,such as the prairie
horned -lark, the relein, the somewhat
despised crow, the red -breasted Nut-
hatch, the Western Tanager, the
:Myrtle Warbler, the Chickadee grouse,
gulls, and many other kin,cla. In the
State of Iowa it has been estimated
that tree sparrows „annually devour
something like 895 tons of weed seeds!
Speaking of the robin, an investiga-
tor in Toronto found that a „single bird
kept in -confinelent at 165 cutworms
in one day. Another authority states
that a brood of prairie horned -larks
consumed 400 cutworms in one day.
This same authority, namely, Mr. Nor-
man Cricldle, Dominion Entomologist
in Manitoba, declares that six crows
are capable of consuming three bush-
els of grasshoppers in one season. It
is recorded that in certain places in
Manitoba areas of growing grain have
been saved from destruction .by the
pestilent grasshopper owing to the
presence of large flocks .of gulls. In
light of these facts it is gratifying to
be informed by the Dominion Ento-
mologist, Mr. Arthur Gibson, to wit,
that the importance of protecting our
useful birds is becoming more and
more recognized, especially by farmers
and fruit grawers.
1. THE CHILDREN'S
HOUR 11
Once upon a time there eves an
ambitious mole who wished to amount
to something in the world, He felt
eare that there WAS more to the earth
than the dark underground tunnels
thet his family inhabited, although his
father told him repeatedly that there
was nothing above ground worth look-
ing at.
The moles are nerd -working little
people, and this particular family
were employed in A mine and dug
early and late far their living. One
day as the little mole was at work In
a lonely earner of the mine he met
the old gnome who eraployeal them
and got into a conversation.
The old gnome was in a particularly
good humor, having had mushroom pie
for leis dinner, and as there was eo
one about, he condescended to be
pleasant to the littlo mole boy. When
Toreany—that was the mole's name—
asked him about the earth, he de-
scribed, at great length, the forests
and meadows, the trees and blue skip ihr
the sun and the stars, and he even"'
told him about people—which was
funny, for gnomes do not usually be-
lieve in people.
Tommy could scarcely wait till
evening that he might tell his family
the wonderful story. But his father
fell asleep in the middle of the recital
and Mrs. Mole was so busy ovegi, her
house accounts that she only fitelded
once in a while without even heiteing.
Tommy was discouraged, and all the
next day he was turning over in his
mind ways and means of seeing some
of these things for himself.
One day instead :of going to e•ork
with his father he pretended to have
an errand to ,do tor the old gname.
He dug up and up and up till at lest
he -amid poke his head right oat. de
looked all around; then he was so dis-
appointed that he flopped down on the
ground and cried. Imagine!
"Everything's just the genie!" he
wailed dismally.
"What's the same?" A little fairy
on her way to visit a sick bird family
stopped beside him.
"The gnome said the trees were
green and the sky was blue alai
everything is brown!" wailed the mole
again. "Axe you a person?"
"Not quite," laughed the little c.eas
ture softly, "I'm a fairy!"
"Well, you're brown, too!" the mole
sat up and viewed the little fairy dole-
fully.
"Why, I'm pink!" cried the fairy in-
dignantly. Then all at once she began
hopping around in an excited oircle.
"I know what's the matter! I know
what's the matter!" she laughed.,"You
wait here!"
Off like a flash she scurried, and just
as the mole was about to do down
into his hole again she returned with
—what do you 'epose? A dear little
pair of "spectacles.
For, of course, dear heart, a mole is
almost blind and everything does look
brown to hizn—that's why he thinks
the whole world is like his dark, damp
home underground.
Now these were magic specs and no
sooner did Tommy look through them
than he saw all the beautiful things of
which the gnome had told him—the
blue sky, the green trees and, best of
all, the dainty little fairy. All day he
ran hither and thither, admiring
everything he saw, and when night
came and the stars came out over the
treetops he mulct not go to sleep at
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Will never live undeaground
again!" he said delightedly. And lis
never did. In fact, he got a position
as chief clerk in the fairy bank and
lived happily for the rest of his days.
Isn't it a pity that all moles cannot
have fairy specs?
If itt fortune pursues you and you
lose everything else, keep your temper.
Canada needs more people and capi-
tal to develop her featile lands and
natural resources, and presents oppcn
tunities unsurpassei by arty country
in the world.
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