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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1921-9-15, Page 2VVvvyYvvvvvvvyirry7TTITTY-r1 wimr "<g 0. should be either put into a yard or confined to part of the yard, the rest plants are usually pruned in the fall,' provincee. The bulletin goes deeply into the results of the investigations, describing symptoms, the eoils prie- eipally affected, and the methods that As soon as the breeding season is should be employed in eheeking And over the fowl that are not intended suppressing potato diseases. SEPTEMBER 18 to be retained for future breeders THE SUNDAY SCHOOL tese — should be disposed of. The birds Pruning Berry Bushes. &Wass communications to Ageontanisa a73 Adelaide $t. Wost. Toronto., ma be found in oups eontentedly Hogging Down Corn.. .; It la uot so much the a estio diseusetng the topics of the day aud peeeflueing More perk to the aere but .-° • - - II" of at the same time laying on pork in a most satisfactory neater with very Pee, them one of producing the most at 'i little attention from their boss. ilbe 'lowest coat. Hogg•ing down the,, nom appears to be the answer to the"- Prehlenn esPeeially if we consider the Large Crops From. Fall Plowing, value to the other erops of the labor; difference of opinion plow - There is - tweed in hArielling the corn harvest.' among farmers, in regard to fall The advantages to be gained from: ing. Some claim great advantages, bogging, down ore. may he bred while others say that sprieg- 'dewing summed. up ureter three heads. First' gives the best results. Both clesses, Of all, and one that is of utmost in).- i may be right. In some cases there portance at the present time, 15 that; may be no decided difference in re - the practice is ideal from a labota sults between fall or seeing plowing. saving atareineint. Every foxmer is. The differences are due mainly to aware of the amount of man areig, variations in soils and seasorial con - entree labor that is required to eut,! ditioes. husk" haul 11-1 erll'earu" arzd thil feed' Soils are classified as sande, sadYi it out to the bege in the pen. The , learns, hiatus, silt loams, clay towns,' e pee iee these operations ezial; e'e 4ma .days, as the eve may he. As we. 4rge.'"Y s"."--'=1 c't1d sd: the tl'Ine °4 the go down this liet the qiiantity of fine' year when theee is meaally a ;mar traterbl • or aley inereases and the rush of ozt-efaieer werk.. •' saiis lieanne heavier or more diffieult„ Men there is "-Iv fertritii.." piai7di .ii-' to aieri; eviih ti'dage imolements- , i ter.1,,rtt rialsr. be eensigereel. Ir. fee,iirig Tizie heiii...inese ar ericky nature a • in tho pen there le almoet eiv:iiye eiiiiee oiresal erinelly by the ani - of yahoo:Ai fery. If era: iiniet of if.ay pr.iieiit, is offset te manure intaie iii reitirreei te the et eet extent by goed drainage ef bY • is .aeeorneeehei. it gene an • geevel, easel or vegetable matter which' et: - - oral only ofter many houre (if they may eontein, so thin it, well - mai teat ititegetaer plemmet: dreined elay-loem soil, well supplied' W When harveezieg tater own weea vegetable matter, ratty not dial mei CM: `_ile hopie are making neinere and; belie to any great extent, and may! -deeee,:ting it ,iireezlie Open the leed,'. h4 quite eneliy pulverized by iraplmo They are also leeiving cornstallis ineate; arother clay -loam soil un-' where thee- nem he leaned under with-, iiraimNi. nrei low in vegetable inatteri out first being heeded out to the field.' may give. eerious trouble. The gereral betsith ef any farm ani.d. It is not unusual to find a sanded., mai is aiways to he certeidered. Ii. lean; soii, low in vegetable matter,i. hoggieg doom' seem. the aninzals reM that wig eled and bake coneiderably.i ceieee a great deal ef exereiee witieh ' Shni'e Pudillitittti baking and eleeldinge keeps them mergented aril vigeronsa of a soi: he:meat:es the difficulty of 1" end of r'. '-g ermine in slappy areparing a goal iieetibtel, and may, Yule ae is often the ease, tiiev . he hartafni to-a:rap growth, the ten.' Are working in etenn fields wielett, denim' of a SOH to puddle ie a most ae: ene nay .ienirve. is eif no 3-n`n" !mpcirtar,t fiettor in deteratairdiig the benefit to !dean. i.,igi i eeie ate piowing. 1 1 Pefe re t a i..... : az e ,I,c.' r, ,n.ril:,:_:,,, 4-4 p.cra:rar umst he , eet seem lelter in- e e'eeeene. ne K:n.,iple. - ,-. " i , .., •,,,,se - l'• - 5 ',reel p ow ,-g ere- 1 : " vim' e' "in trel ne nur" RO ' '10,141* t1113 be :aided to. 74-744 "rase. 2. To pulverize the. ...,,e. in , „ie. _ f . . - lo; •11 ee peinnnted to seedbed for the crop. To coaserve ewer too .eree on area at one time or i .they. will nee a &end: job of pasture , water. 4. To kill inseets. , .. Ligtit sold: that limey', and &Oil .!ini; aril' !...' a wast0 Id g*O0d feed., steep sloe:es that wash, lose fertzhty. r..selts. ; when fall plowed,. because the fine sod The numeer of hogs that an acrei i partiele$ are ternove.4 by blowing and; will carry deeeends largely upon the amsairg l yetete of toe corn oral the MSC andi i The uneven surface of fall-plowedl Ogor Og the hogs, A 11ft-bushel eroP , land catches and absorbs water result-, a corn will cam. ten one -hundred -1 am from ram and snow, while the pound piga from eighteen to twent 1 Y. eoil midi+ fornied by plowing eon - days. Three fail eliotee and six spring' serves this water against evaporation,: pigs may hie counted upen to e!P:trii 7Inii more naoisture v•Ill be available up an acre of lifty-'.ealtel ;•eitin in 4 for the spring Prop. i fifteen to inverts' ;Jaye. i An experiment performed at the One Attalla approximate the amount lidiehigan Experiment Station showed, sif corn that will be hogged off and that fall -plowed land contained marc lay pians to keep them on that areal , water available for an oat crop than until they have eleareti it up. I spring -plowed land, tend the yield of i A method commonly used in the . oats was increased more than nine, cern belt is to roll down a portion of file field. The hoge. seldom bother the busieels an acre by the fall. plowing.' standing corn at they find the knocked] , Freezing, and thawing of fall -plowed. down eorn se much easier to proi•tire.!ii-In'i helps te break .down clods and After the portion of the field i hat wed: letela to put Foils M a better email - roiled, down has been eleured up an 1 tion eif Chit ter spring crops, i additional amount should be rolledi One of the great advantages of fall! ! Raspberry, blackberry and dewberry Abstinence for the Sake of Others. 1 Col-. 10: 23-33- 3: 16 17. Golden Text -1 Cor. 10; 31. being limed, plowed or spaded, and lie soon as the crop is harvested, but c • • L' P 1 t • F th Ch o ova seeded to green crop such as rape or it can. be dote any time before cold from Athens to Corinth. Some years requires that we sacrifice even our rye. weather. later, writing from Ephesus to the own good, our pleasure or gain, foe All litter should be removed from If the raspberries or blackberries Christian eommunity itidtCorinth, he the sake of others, the house and the ceiling, walls and are in hills remove all the canes that recalls his first corning to that eityl "My liberty" to de or not to do is floor thoroughly swept. Movable fix- tures should be taken out and the tame, fruited last season; also, all the weak leaving from eight to twelve ness and in fear, and in much trembl- this ease I curtail my liberty for the "I was with you," he said, "in weakijudged by my own. constience. But ht 7/ H whole interior given a thorough wash, - I If th 0 in; en e had travelled far in strange, sake of another mat's conscience. Paul lands; he had been driven by persecu- reasons also that, in this same ease, . e ing. The best way to do this is to use the hose he you have one, after the rows thin out the canes to eight inch- tion from place to place; he had parted if he partakes of food which has been hose give the building a good flooding es apart. The blackberries require company with his travelling convene; offered in heathen sacrifice, he may be and n,lrab. it dawn with a stiff brash. more room than the raspberries; ions and had gone on alone. It may 1.1aisjudte,ecl. Although the food is good, therefore leave fewer canes. Be sure be that he was discouraged by the i and he has given thanks to God for it, If there is no hose, be even more care- to remove all canes that will interfere small success of his preaohfing in yet there are those, Christian or ful about the scrubbing. After the with cultivation next summer. Athens. At any rate he determined to heathen, who will regard his eatingoof house has been thoroughly cleaned t o more philosophical diseus- it as a. compromise with. idolatry. His gh.,e it a soaking with a good strong Lateral branches should be short- astotnems attempt he says,in. the letter above ' good will be "evil spoken of. See disinfectant. One of the coal tar pre- ened by cutting them. back from one quoted, "I deteriined not to know Romans 14:16, and the whole argue parations will be found satisfactory to four feet, depending upon the var- anything among you save Jesus ' ment in chapter 14. The highest for this purpose, this should be ap- iety and the bud development. The Christ, and HMI crucified." But, after Christian law is that of love towards idea is to reduce the amount of fruit a while Timothy come from Thessalon- . one's fellows, and to glorify God. "Do plied with a spray pump so that it to such a quantity as can be properly ica, bringing good news from the all," Paul says, "to the glory of God." will be forced into all the cracks and developed. It is simply a thinning ehureh there, and Paul was comforted,"Glve none offence," ort as m revised crevices of the building. If there is and encouramel. :yews -ion, "give no occasion of stumbl- no spray punap, use a brush, but be process. Unbranehed red raspberry. The eity of Corinth presented grave in,.. He declares that be has made sure to get it bno the.se cracks and canes should be cut back to a height' , and difficult probients. It was a busy this the la -a- of ids own life. "Not," crevices. , of four or five feet ! commercial eity, a sea -port on tile he says, "seeking mine own profit, but The limn should be left standing) Remove all diseased canes anti any G -reek Isthmus, having six or seven the profit of the really, that they may, for a vouple of days to dry out, Imre- in which tree crickets have deposited hundred thousand ed a population, It be savel." Paul is the unseltieh, high. eggs; such cams will be weak. Burn gathered into itself much of the best minded Christian gentlErna'i. lug it wide °Pen to all' the sun and all prunings to prevent the spread of and of the worst of tbe ancient world.' The generous and kindly teaching el air to enter freely. It ehould then be ineeets and diseases and also to get Unfortunately that worst WaS vet,* Paul, who wows the example end given a good appliaation of whitewash.the brush ' had indeed, arid Corinth became notor- spirit of Clirist, may well be applied e la tee, nee hoes, ice s and' dropping out of the way. e moved aQuarantine of the Corn boards which have been re - should be teeoted in a similar I Borer. and the bags will .fintl this new ready : plowing is that this work is out of . hail. in a Ae lert tim. f spring rush, thus giva Soe praetice the syetem of etreteh-i a better dietrilmtion of labora mthe Way ethe iner a temperary fence „through the! - cern by weaving, hog wire in between ,• .. . ... a . ceeeine to, reene • this fenee very substantial as a "e as iiellom atienapt to go lieyereil ge P`I there it This is an important matter, eseeciaI- , Iv should the following. epring be late necessitating hasty spring plowingor workieg the ground when it is -too wet. Fall pica -Mir, buries many weeds be- fore tley mature seeds, which gives better eontrol of these pests and causee them to decay and be changedi to plant food before seeding the land., If dene at .the right time, fall plowing' may destroy insects and worms by expoeing them to the elements and tha eyee .of the birds that feed upon them. In regard to depth of fall plowing, care should be taken not to go too, deeply into the subsoil at any one time and turn too much of this raw soil up toward the surface. It is safe, to .plow as deeply as the surface soil-, will permit, especially for beets, po-t tatoes or corn. . o. the tieelonire. Some believe it a Me kneek down some corn eteing the ,ienee system, espe-. chile. at first wh...a the idea is rather ne to the hogs. 'When that part ofe the fieid emit has been fenced off is ' ea-ered up the fence is moved over' and the ral".".artiA teltMed to enter the 110.. .e.nea, ei P. The fence system; Tee '"n'e '1r'' woe/. bit+ ie thought mane to be the hest. Altaeh the logs are apparently: glad of the '.pportunity to obtain their • f I their'.: • : ner it has Leen the experience of feed- ers that they should be provided with other things beeicies corn, which in' high in carbohydrates, but dees not incet the protein requirements of the: hog Thai or vie element may easily le supplie I met the hog allowed to ob•-! tain it his appetite and body neetis require. NVe are likely to eonsider the hog es animal devoid of ail sense, however, he has often ehown bettor judirinc0 :I/n-erning the choice of his heel than some of the eemalled higher en:rrella Sinue farmers planted see- beans in their corn last spring and thus have provided as very good protein supple- ment for the eorn feed which may be of considerable value this fall in hog- ging off the corn. Alfalfa fields ad- joining the men -mate be utilized to supply the protein. Probidely one of, the best eystems i3 to place Rena. feeders in the eorn fields and Ilse ;tankage, shorts, or oilmeal. • Plenty of good fresh water should always be availaiee. Troughs may be tplaced at convenient: places in the :field and daily attended t6. Provided with the corn, evater, and a protein feed, tire 'begs- May' be cie,• ipentied upon to balance their, own rin o , tion. They will work in •the con, mos • 'Is frequent visit t� the watering .trough and eccesionally drop over to the eeIf-feerier for their protein hands' out, The remainder of the time they • Honey for Home Trade. If the colenies are thoroughly dverhauled in September, and found' to be strong with bees and heavy with winter stores, little if anything more; needs to 1.e, &me this month. Ceara must he taken to store all sur-; plus extracting combs away from the" regag-es of rats and mice, and get things abcut the apiary and. honey' house in shipshape for the winter. By all raeans eultivate the home and nearby market, rather than to send to, commission men, and if one produces a really excellent grade of honey,' either comb or c7rtracted, Iteal trade at top-nnteleprices can be established,. and all dispute; with far-ay:me com- mit:elan men will be avoided. Attractive illustrated folders on the' :Coed value of honey, with, some photo; reproduction e of the apiary••and ro cesses of extracting., will do much to' establish a trade. Glass containers; are the best for liquid honey, and fedr' this purpose ,some beekeepers have', found it both convenient and ecommide eal te use the ordinary jars, which earl • terward 'utilized by the housewife'', • ereserving time, or for a number of 1 • mi us for ts vices. 4To manse a man to certain well-knownforms of unitise - of behaving like a Cerir•thian was to meat and social indulgenres of our accuse him of leading a low, sheltie- , own day. The argument of liberty is less, and immoral life," It is prohable often an argument of rank and brutal elmining it is a good plan to note what the European corn borer earried on Ae a result of the scouting work for that, Otsthi(s'iCiltly tliglit2aoul. makes ono 1,- rt,"F"ilia" Pnseltoi.In'"ItIlird_rtwt At the time of this annual house ,odtsidteuthe Jewish colony:, et it ,selftehrees. It means t‘i have iet right iie repairs to the houses, fixtures and les the Dominion Department of Agri - his fineet and most effective appeals: evneetliiitm4 another man's man;u:onsilewneoe los rename are needed and have them made culture, it has been found that this, for "ltd., chastity and temperance. !hurt hy it or not." IS it not better to as soon as possible. Also clean up and . inret has spreati into new territory, 10: 23-33. "All things are lawful:hi say with Paul: "it is good not to eat burn any accumulation of rubbish, Ms year. On account of the danger No doubt Paul mean e all things clean,' flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any - of carrying the pest into uninfested wholesome, and useful But of such' thing whereby thy brother stumbl- leaving milling under whieh vermin' d seeehiech 311t.e. otlg :1(1911711.."Th:e2tle)niple of God." Paul may hide. A. eiean house free from t dittricts a Ministerial order was piths- ntlazieig:40trtligin.g)sr Ihali.ernhitulthanere e e r dem 4Ingi mites is easy to keep oda/1,10d on August 26, 1,921, prohibiting the t rig%freely do, there are ecnne wbieli is speaking here of the Christian colt - Then see that the pullets are healthy' renzoval or corn, incduding SWC0t COra, t' lel j; enmity or church. He has been ex - and free from lice, when they are put! arel seed earn 1111 the cob, corn stalkeo re do dct Thee; "are not expedi- or his own sake horting to unity, to the banis'hment of in, nni the prolelem of v:inter mere is: eta.. from the following townehips in and for the :aka the Province. of Ontario: , , of others that he s0 SOtret xve li g .1 • • la .1 ' I ie. 1' trife, and to the pit:ling away Ilf any - 4.1 A ...t4houlti not The doing f bi • d . Olairlotteville, Houghton, Middleton,' whist might be to him quite inflOCetA ruptdor defile the Imre life of Cruestian Towz:send, W:lisinghem north, Wale. and harmless, or eshiah would give foldevship. lie has laid flat founda- lueleen south, wenneand egooemouse.him veal pleasure, wculd mum harm teen; they fire the builders of this Diseases of Potatoes. Late Might of the petato is oe of the 41!,-eas(,s ilia (muses serious loss to the grower. How serious the loss may be le told in a newly issued bul- letin prepared by Paul A. Mruphy, Plant Pathologist in Prince Edward Island in conneetion with the Domin- ion Experimental Farms. In Prince Edward island the potato erop covers Arounil 30,000 acres, the yield from whieh is about 200 bushels an acre and the total produetion 6,000,000 bushels. Were it not for late blight the yield per -acre, according to the writer, would be 290 bushels of sound potatoes, meaning nearly a third more. The extent of the loss at 75e per bushel is $2,5d5,000. In Nova' Scotia and New Brunswick the loss is estinaltea reepeetively at 30 per cent. and 25 per cent., which entails a sacri- fice of something like $5,000,000, or: eight .mullions and a half for the three. Maritime Provinces. :Spraying withl home-made Bordeaux mixture, vorn-I • posed of two pounds copper sulphate; or bluestone, two pounds quicklime; and 40 gallons of water, is recom-!: mended as a remedy. Late Blight is not quite so serious in Ontario and; Quebec, but there are other diseases. that are troublesome, sueh as Leaf , Roll, which more or less wideepread in Canada. and the lose -Irene which in southern Ontario in one year is esti-: mated at two and a quarter dollars.; Mosaic, the loss from which in a single year in New Brunswick and; Quebec is caleulated to have been 5i per tent. or 1,525,000 bushels, and in - Ontario a ie" per cent. or . 00,000 bush- els; Black Leg, from which the losses, in Ontario are recorded as greater; than in the Maritime Provinces (where the losses have also been .considerable, in seine years), and the . Curley Dwarf! with its relatives, which are found; more frequently in southern districts; on Ontario than in the more eastern f.., 0 0 -OA or molt Ea be the -eet cense, th:$ emaple of Gore He would, ul I'll. CauntY uf l''''"f°1k1 c3331 --a , oral** ment of his own time. -Ail teem teem peva tete do mays offly north. Dunn, Raieliam tied 'Walpole, lin things edify not." The man who re- what is fine and pure erel stronet thd 1-'0111'11Y of linldintancl• ';11.1'l ItIde1gn,gards life seriously', 11•110 bas high In the midst a EN, commuility, and Romney in the Cetinty id Kent. ideals and ambitions in life, will eeek emelt ei Hie temple, (a, I dwells. Hie The order is etip)leinentary to the not nuoeily to avoid what Le unlawful pr t .ti..! , mulT4.-; all r --t ,r,, i. The wel- otehaniineouniiil which was paeeed on • er harmful, but to 11 V1 end Ile wle ' te 1, .,f . - t“ttin.in .. .-, 1,1:a1 to Hint, 1 , 1... . - pereens deeirine - I m . . ; , • .. ,tde..1, 1'11.1.1 ..." ei iie, or eel ilea,. ^,'Ail T.. I, • • ' eit welfare detailed information cementing this lidihet in eh"1"`er ' 11 t ' ft. ''-' ' ' l '.:1 ' ' . . ...1 .' ' 1 '1' ''' 'IL i do ,,,, et , t• iiieitek, et.. aim. Ina, iehane wee .iring al, emoe quarantine should apply to the De -'1n tae uhChtY 19 h • r(naor ee1vie0 t) Cl111 tilli-k.Inross..,, difile the entionon life - • e !law of cormusuellent.; and ('1l1, th atinoan."knThgatto tr)::01'EaS Othe'itih' eflla.11-odatn,trtul(;; pertinent of Agriculture, Ottawa. . .. . ' tions, but also the higher epiritual law gambler's den, the brothel? What 0 The Advantages of Stacking lof choke and selfeeontra Adddd au, t Grain. tole would place the law of love, the , the LI; h.paoliisiotil?a'Wbyhalrounfktehilenesseslhsohr 1 e. n 'napes° to help, greed winch fattens on the misery of Ref ,t. ntiy a test was vonducted oa adored et r° 4-- _ lt no man seek his own, ' others, or indulges itself in houndlees shocked -threshed. and stacked grain but each his neighbor's good," (Rev.1Iuxury, while others starve and freeze whieh had grown in the same field ' versa "The earth Is the I mid's." (see1, and die? True temperance is self - under the same conditions. The sheek-d:control, guided by. love, and possessed ed grain was threshed as usual, while Psalm 24). Paul applies 4 what he hasofof a sincere desire to promote the the staked grain was allowed for six weeks. The testh NN'ere then' to stand ' said above to a case of conecienlee i common good,ip ficati whieh had arisen in the Corinthian a mak kind lif , Church, The question was whether or! To abstain from eom°e-n.thing for th made on fifty bushele grain. The shocked grain tested nearly ici,,jort a Christian man might eat without! sake of others is a Christie": obligee - fifteen per cent. moisture, weighed enmseat .enhich lied been slaugh-t tion. It would seem as if there had tereenci fifty-five and a half pounds per bushel' , or drhidt a%feill:hillih tlieledit01 temples ti t been some in the Christian Church at een offere i Corinth, who had insisted upon their and graded number two on the mar- !there. Such meat :nil had woerre offer!. i rights. Of such, Paul must have been Itet. The stacked grain had only a' ed for sale in the markets d , thinking bv..ihen he wrote: "love seek - little more than thirteen per cent.1 at public banquets. A Mall alighterpvree-! th n sumably, buy or use them without' .iiriett?n: itno.owsno.o"k Now if Paul had moisture, weighed fifty-nine pounds wenoestretehltir Never per bushel and graded number one. iltinowing their history. Paul counsels belongs to others,"e •Seedmen and growers of pure-bred. inrst the freeiuee of them. "Eat, ask- , have understood hi.3 position; but he all its intso quest on„1" Fer the earth and , geee further and insists that love is grain also are practically unanimous i in their agreement upon the advisabil- slin itsPerlofdiumeeolosanG. oci's, and nothing I willing to give up—to deny itself—to Ara you being Leib/mei by •a hull? I abstain for the sake of others. Depend ity of stacking. This is rather signifi- But if a question is raised, and our upen it, the man who is continually cant and their experience must be don- neighbor be offended or hurt, by what! saying, "I'll have my righte" is not sidered valuable, you have done, Paul counsels abstin- posseesed by the spirit of Jesus Chris. y R ich Vein of to6-- pper Found • Snetiands. A rich copper vein has been dis- eovered in the Shetland Islands, ac - THE CHILDREN'S HOUR hen. a eingle thing any one said. Ills eording to reports received in London, the woods had dug a hole and planted those he had had. Poor Oliver Ele- pheint—he had enormous tries for a !whole four weeks, 'eause lie eouldn't 1 enemies slipped op before he emild Ping. The lode was said to have been Once upon a time, longer than lonigsee theni and nipped pieces out af Preyed to yield a high percentage ago'Oliver Elephant had ears about him, and bis friends were ell mad at of copper. as large as. a muffin, not one bit big- • him because he wouldn't answer their Experts who are erecting., a plant ber. It was so inconvenient for him where the discovery was made said questions. How could he, I ask, witia to hear 'came when some littlecrea- half a million tons of aro were in i out a single ear? ture went to speak to him Lenl have, sight. A. London syndicate has ac- So finally he just went camping by to get down on his knees and put his - [ himself -tight where the little man of ,.... quirecl the rights to the property; trunk to his ear to find out what' -, the woods had plantedhis oars. Evcry ii- they were saying; and as for his ap- - ., ti 11 pearance, well, it was just ridiculous.' day 1 ly and Oliver was tempted two or . , they grew larger and inore shaim- One day as he was looking eadly in , i three times to pick them, but teeitsur.- . • a forest pool anti wondering why I i i :1-3 ' ed .himself because,. of couree he could e , . ears were so small for the rest of him, i Margaret Wright North. the little old man of the woods came i not put them back, and a disconnected ear is like a disconnected telephone— The Welfare of the me Controlling Children—By The adage that a man is not fit to , command others until he can command ' himself is never more true than in the training of children. A mother who has acquired self-control has mare than half won the struggle of control- ling her children. In the .course of a conversation the other day, a mother remarked to me, "I don't see why Charles has to pick just the time when I am busiest to be the rnoet exasperating." What a pic- ture tl at gave tee of the mother! I could see her in the afternoon sit. ting quietly with her mending basket,1 answerin Charles' interminable quesa - g tions with tact and patience entering; into his "pretends," and making the child feel that his mother was a real pal .and playmate. Then I could see her a little while later, bustling about the kitchen. get- ting supper, Charles still asking ques- tions. After a fe-vv half-hearted re- plies, mother turns on Charles with an impatient, "Charles, if you don't stop asking me cll.-motions I'll send you to bed; you drive me wild." There is • a momeet of silence and then another ,question.., "What did I tell you? Now :not anothee. word." Another Moment and then a .hesitant "Se Mother?" "Charles! Go right upstairs, take your clothes off atd go to bed." Now where was the fault.? - Was by. And the little old man of the Charles being "most exasperatng" or woodsno use. is a second uncle to a fairy,' The little man of the woods had was it just that Mother was not in the which makes him quite magic. mood and lost her patience? "What's the matter, big Oliver Ele-, gone on a journey and just as Oliver ' That mother was expecting too phant?" asked the little man of the Elephant was growing very much lig Lene at the size his ears worn much of her child. She wanted him to woods. Oliver put his trunk behind: reach•n g i appreciate the strain that getting sup-: his ear and got down on his knees, fer i ""he came back. said the little magic man of per put upon her mind, body, and' the little fellow was no bigger than a I Well, a"'t nerves. Since cooking was outside bisi wafflc. the woods, didnt I ell you they I " experience, he could not put himselfl "Beg pardon?" said would grow? Are they all right? Oliver Ele- 1 1 , in her position. Even if she had quiet-;•phant, politely. The old man of theOliver could not hear a word he said . but he nodded hard, and the next thing ly told him that she could not play' woods repeated his question and Oliver : he was .eitting down three yards off with him any more, giving the reasond Elephant asked him how it was Ms with a terrible headache. The man of he would not have been able to change ears were so small, when all the rest ' ' e his play without her help. He was so of him was so big. thwoods had wished his ears back so I - filled with one idea that a new sug- "If they were larger my nose or my quickly that the shock had upset Oli e ver gestion was necessary, trunk wouldn't seem se Elephant, but hayricks, how happy long -I" wailed t How easy it would have been, when Oliver Elephant, The little man of the he was. He could hear even the grass - o, she eouid not work with his chatter woods shook his hhoppers singing in the egeesand as head wisely. • going on, to have suggested that he go "They didn't grow •long enoug,h, for his looks, well you know yourself to the front window and count the they must have been picked too soon how hoer, becoming they are Yes, that's number of white horses going by he said slowly and sat dthe way Oliver came to -have big eerieown on a trse while she was getting supper; and tell stump to think. After a while be I And you can ask the little ma -n of the , , how many windows he could see in the began to dance around 01' - • El h woodsif you do not. believe me houses across the street; or that he in excited dreles. ....___±....._-. show her how nico a house he could ee have it I have it; we'll plant'em. h " ens. ;mild with his blocks, again and then when they are hpIn Ifive:opt days laid juone egg onght e. county, sixty-eiculle est . Because the mother expected the enough I'll pluck them and wish them ' ' child to ha.ve the self-control which back on youAt least a fifth of Ontarios flocks are ," • • - • • - - • she herself laeltedof that kind Cull 'ern', displeasure and re- Oliver Elephant was a hit wearied, ' - - sentment replaced the syMpathetic but when the little man of thewoods i --- eriennlinees of the afternoon, and assured him that he could Wish' his' Lower freight rates help the cattle Charles was unjustly punished. . - ears off without hurting him he, just business some, Feeders, toe, are Let us remember that children are heaved a big sigh and told him to go cheaper his fall, and if breed, short very much like rivers, it is impossible ahead. So the little man did and the headed steers ave.purchased, the buy to stop them, but comparatively ease" next thing that elephant person had er should make out a let•better on the to change their course, no ears at all and the little man of deal than he did a ye'). ago,