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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1922-8-24, Page 3ofeenrees communications to Aurononilet, 73 Adelaide et West, Torentee , A Live Stock Scheme. enaopezatiou is not yet cemplete— the foolish are aot all dead, There is a matter which has been bropght to my atieution from time te time in the past, but more eividly of reeent date, which I feel calls for seine publicity, says a writer in the "Michigan Farmer," nest what to say and what to leave unsaid is a geestion. hat we no the be we can and abide by . the results. what 1 refer to is the Practiee of selling the -services of purebred sires end collecting in ad- • vanee, fees that represent several VI:nee the value of the eire. Let me •explain it thus; A smooth salesman conies to you with a proposition to •piace a purebred registered sire in —Your neighborhood free of cost to you; Providing you and your neighbors will Pledge e sufficient esember of cows te hie services, Maw* You have purebred sires reached to you through the farm rets, the agricultural cellege, and ave not seen your way clear to take eave of the first cost, So this new propesition looks good to you at first eight and you fall for it end epend dig or eo helping the salesman to interest your neighbore. The resolt 11, he very goon get% away with the 'Cash or its equivalent to pay for the :Services a fifty, sixty, or seventy cows at $3 eaeli for three year or IP each, The next job for the sales- man is to shift his responalbilityi he very kindly offers to sell yen the bull outright for a merely nominal eum, or perbaps without paying any- thing extra, if you will simply care for tbe bull and fulfill his guarantees. Ownership is sweet, so you get a bill aale for the bull you haven't seen, et a, cost apparently of only a few -service feee paid in advance, and lot o respousibility. You may not know it, but the sakes Man's next move ie to find the buil be ham told you eo much about, rio he hunts up the man who hee him to sell and buys lam for the bottom dollar', He is buying him to eell again, se cannot afford any but very eonserva- tive prices, ;109, $125„ $150, delivered. HOW tO U Se 14 Hoe. someme has said that a, gardener ne better than his tools, Even if the tools. thetriselees are all right, ignorance of their care and use maY cause the loss of misch time and effort. In small gandens the hoe is the pine drat teen Bey e large, strong mit good width to the blade will save neatly etrokes that are necessary when the blade narrow and cute but two- ticularly active,. that is in April and May, a supply of unanished grasseat- theims,s invariably had depressing re- eelt Another ill-advised, feature is the rushing a 75...per cent., of the lamb erop to marhet sin September, Oetober and November. Reference is elect made to the unlimited dumping of dinned and frozen Argentine stocka on the laritieli Market. This ha e prae- th beally cut off the enly outlet that irds as much et a etrene. Naturally Australia and, New zealand have, arid to, heaNIF head does cleaner, more effective work because of the greater PlyTieloeshwhaielrVeeit"e„ nenbrpglir ogbttot wwirxeictechteet moment= of its THE-SUNDATSCHOOL LESSON... AUGUST 27 Nehemiah's Prayer, Neb. 1: 1-11. Golden Text—The sup. plication of a righteous man availethrauch in its work. • ing.—James 5; 16. (Rev. Ver.) Lesmon Foreword—Nehemiah hese The Moseie law restedupon thedides comparative prieee that prevailed per been described es• "a eanspicuont, in- ' have vend the berme "strolie" arid th • lit are quoted aft follows: Choice steers, }ace" The wo • alc J wi r reorgemzieg nitv in Jerusalem Of course lie buys the best bulls hale, lent properly, there should he hUndrodWeight On june le this Year, ‘Stallea et the ritirtorman in . ? /he *Peet the sky is the want, 1 r can for the money, but the prefits are ewe of the clopping /notion in a bees oanada 4,0_, Australia $6,30, New „tiler ate eceommoirmaixid strow lead, a first censiderittion7. andi ha tieleiesnrtiey- inabetuipternreaniiedTheareaeapgerineve_eaiwietehenjulasid ,ZstdaealaVi.sir Al. Good otael'as Cans erehip, Eera, as we enN,ehs.re- sold a bell for $150 and learned. tiPo+hae. New 4>rganize4 their relligioushalrleifese. delivery that he had, been aold on te 1 yet impose no fatiguing strain on the eboveplan and that the ealesniau had enough, pressure to uproot the weeds, u2 0 1,9.26A:;:satlx:Iie S.$46"3.1.24.' , New eivil afraiiis.Evii Tidings, 1-4. worker's arma. A. hoer should not Zealand $5,49. Reeently Queenelamd, •Zealand $2.39. Choice lambs, CaPada 'ranch assumed the leaderetrip'' in their. waUed ut of the coinrauld Y . hump over; it is not only tiresome but a450 for him, A friend of mine eold ermeceseary. Australia, sold a thousand covia oet V. 1. The words a Nehemiah. Mout "AlQat mviC'as bend far the range at $2.09 per head, Prime half en the book of Nehemiah is corn- baebwulal4sopoileeeeTaithaa :ogniorefuenri t$y2000elayrt aervoerundwhpie:astirbyethajteereioemwee ei',Ize.ales c': bullocks at $3.89 per hundredweight pined teem his ;personae memoirs. This tew milea away at a cost Of $600. 1i accuracy or atroko will our°, tkis. ono and good bullocks at $2 per hundred- is shown by the we a the personal Saw a• bull last fall a poorer iedividual than either One Of these. He came front Canada and I do not know what he coet the buyer, but he cost the com- munity in which he was placed $800. SO reeolt .for the feta now for the comments. Any method that encourages the use 0 purebred sires will mean muebl to the community in which it le ap- plied. These buile will do a lot of good in their respeetive communities. The *11 used in financing the deal is admirable and makes it easy for any ominunity to own a good sire. But he deplorable thing about it is that any eoranuiraty of farmere slieuld al... law themselves to be thus duped betel Raying three priees—one for'thebnul and two to the selesmare A litthh coniniunity eo-operatian would secure the same results and Save the emu - =lenity two-thirds of the caek. But for leek of a little initiative, A little local leadership, A little eommunity to -operation, it pays an enormous toll and allowe itself to be exploited out- landishly. Oh, will we farmers ever come out of the wilderness? Will we ever get our eyes epen, or will we forever be content to bold the bag? Verily, co-operation is still an infant. The fools M eur own pack are net all dead. On hens and chickens there are' found seven speeles of lice, on ducks, geese and turkeys, three. These Hee stay On the fowls prae.- tically all the time. Therefore, th,e only effective treatments are those which are applied directly to the fowl. At present the most economical and the most effective remedy le sodium liouride, a white powder which can be purchased at any drug store. •A little of this powder held, between the thumb and forefinger and dusted among the feathers 'next to the skin on the head, neck, back, breast, under the wings and below the vent will keep these various kinds of lice under control. One pound of sodium fiouride is con- sidered enough to treat one hundred fowls. ly at night, and hide in the Mites are those insects which infest poultry on ' crevices of the roosts and nests dur- ing the day. They can best be con- trolled by keeping the poultry houses and roosts clean, and by spraying the roosts and nests thoroughly with crude oil, kerosene, or scme heavy coal tar preparation. tSg' 0:4Pe ark Whenever there is a variation in the butter -fat tests, the tester. is usu- ally to blame. There are, however, a number of other things which will cause a variation in the test. One of them is the Babcock test itself, which will sometimes give readings that vary one-fifth of one par cent. on the same sample of milk tested and duplicated at the sante thee. „ The fat percentage will Mao change when the milker fails to milk out the strippings, the riehest part of the milk. Dogs chasing the cows, or the milker using the milk stool on his cows, or permitting loud talking in the stable at milking time will also cause variations in the fat test. Cows in heat, those that hold up part of their milk, and others that are underfed or slack in their water sup- ply will show a variation from their learmal test. The Farmer and Poultry. The average farmer .knows how much seed he SOWS to the acre and the value of the crop he harvests; the daily milk produebion of each cow and the cash returns for the milk sold to the feceorye or the number of bar- rels,of apples' harvested from each tree and the different varieties in the orchard. Hoer many farmers in Can- ada know h‘ow many eggs they are getting from their pou'try flock, how many hens have actually laid elering the year, or whether 'their poultry is; pure-bred? •• It has beeli said,that the farmer has neither the time nar the inclination •to give poultry the attention -it deserves. 'Mellen has cackled but not laid eggs,' just as a horscr would continue to graze and roam about if not broken! to 'harness. The -reef ry has been loft!. to the women z.14 ehileren on the: farm and as long , • there have been. sufficient eggs to take to the village Store rev • as of lngh Pro- duction to trade fir ,eurchandise, • the ^^ poultry hal been voted as useful but ever as something to be developed as a farm asset. During the last few! years the prices ruling for eggs andj poultry have attracted the attention" of eorne farmers and as a result eve find in a report recently issued by the Ontario Department a Agriculture the phrase most commonly used in the report% from the various counties on erop and stock production "poultry is ono 'of the bent paying thins on the farra." The mere keeping of poultry is not rufiltient, however; the business mint be undertaken with the saine thorough and efficient management as is applied to other farming activities. It is an easy matter to produce eggs but it is not such an easy matter to produce these eggs econominelly. Bei this we mean getting nitorbriurri produetion from mei individual hen at a mini- mum cost for feed. This 'can only bee done through the systematic breeding' of birds from good laying strains and the keeping of an accurate retord of production, cost and revenue. There are farmers entering their floeks in the Canadian Record of Performance for Poultry and the number is in- creasing every year. The average production per hen on the farms in Canada is between six and seven dozen eggs. No hen should be kept over and fed a second season that does not lay well in its pullet year. It does not pay to keep hens merely for the purpose of cleaning up what would otherwise be wasted; un- less that waste is being converted into a marketable food product. The interesting of some of the young people around the farm in sueh a thing as intelligent poultry breeding will be an influence towards keeping them on the farm, and will help in the building of character. --Dominion Live Stock Branch. — School Days Ahead. These hat, busy days are not con- ducive to meditation about school, neither on tbe part o.E the boys and ,girls who in a few weeks will be back at their books, nor on the part of the parents who pay the bills. But the: days go on and if net already arranged! by ey each individual in every pen one Farmers and poultrymen, generally, can tell the value of the strain as believe that laying hens produce mare for it is time that teachers be selected well As that of the individual bird eggs, when given free range. The to carry on this very ilnporbant work' for the coming season. fernier toile me that a man who under, stands hoeing will do fifty per emit. more Work in a given time than a beginner. Mileh depende on the hoe's sharp- ness, The American factory meclumic is reputed to spend three times ae weight. The Branch, is decidedly op- Pronoun "I," in the first seven ghee - as to the outlook, and indie tare of the book. `The words,' are, therefore, to be understood as the Re.. cates that United States buyers are vised Version tranelatee it, "the his - busy in Western Canada. tory' ef Nebeirdele '• The month ChisIeu, in the tweptieth year. The ramith Ohisien eorresponds roughly to Handy Stoneboat. The following gives details for the tioth fon' rnonth . e ens year refere obviously to the uevh time as the European workman eonstructioe 0 a handy boat which, twentieth year of Artaxerxes' eeign sharpening his tool% but he prodecee will save mueh work in, removing' Among the ancient:, dates were nam 'nearly twice as Illeeh PrOd}Kt stones from nods. ed by eeckoning from the time of the thereby. The same principle appliee t T accession of the reigning monarch, I to the use of garden toele; keep tbem " a er a " hardwood was ineShushan the palace. Originally sharp and In gocel working order. planks two inches by twelve inches seeeeen or euse was the capita; a A good, fine file is the best sharperi..j by six feet; one hardwood plank two the iciugelom ef Elam, a territery in inches by SIX inane by twenty-eiglit the mountaincres region to the enet er for your hoe—nn Wee for the spade, grass Shears and lawnsinower.inches; two three.euartee inch by five- of Bahylore After ite capture by inch bolts with washers, Cyrue about B.C. 546, it beeame the Hold the hoe preferably in a This stone boat is very handy in capital of the Pere! n E . a mpire Here vise, and aim to keep the bevel fiat and at an angle of about tortyifive moving stone which are one to three Artaxerxee built a eraendid palace, feet in diameter. The best asset of and in that palace Nehemiah held. a degrees, Though the hoe wears.fenter, it pays on better, easier work) to" the machine is that it requires no labor 7viStv. o21: Ihnighthell,5errtry. of Shushan there or "back work" in loading or ueloacis have the square edgeinside. Keep the en a number a Jewe who had pointe of the blade square by cares ing'' It costs practically pothing and been on a visit to Jerusalem. There, fully shaping them with the Ale, can be made from. materiale on every Nehemiah eagerly plied thern with Learn ?,ques one, to bee both right and left -banded, a3farin• It Is better for the tool as well as or oareil It is made by rounding off an end' .dr, 3. The deputation told Nehemiah a twonnee,.h;,,ow miserable a etate Jerusalem was ecomemical a etrength, plank and boring Don't use one file forever. ParVc- hole in that end for the chain to ''"; in particular Mel; told him of the ulerly if it is used on a number of . which the team can be attached. The; ii8a'sdelett8/11 t lir the in abit*nt's of 'Ter' tools and for various purpose% a file and thaes°eIte?.1 ?tile reldetls flind planke are placed side by side four: defences gets dull, and wastes time for its user, ' tion and reproach, Thisg reeitaee to ' inches apart. The inside edges are Clean it out occasionally with the bevelled. Tbe short plank is bolted the inhabitants a the city. They were the end oppoeite the round' a poor people and in very depressed point of an awl, and uee a tittle mod acrQss i fortunes. Ryle says that "the afilics chine oil when filing the hoe. 'points, one bolt in each plank. I. think every garden worker Shaul& deuoteri the evil plight within When a stone is to be moved the tion" have hie own hoe, particularly if tbe ° planks are opread so that one goes the walls: the `reproach,' the scorn - workers aro of greatly diiteirent; on cath side of the stone, A chain to Iseil attitude of the enemies without" height. I have said that a hoer should, wbich the team is attached is fasten-! ikeeecoPradi;119: itio-9.til'he wail: cc,jfiJerusalem. not etoop too much, but he will have ed to the hole in each plank. As thel temple had long thebook rebuilt,ziraa IPhoes to if the angle of hoe-bleele with. the team goes ahead the planks close to- thing had been none as yet to recon - handle is too acute. The blade should gether and the stone is lifted and. street the defences' of the city. The moved to a 'desired point. To unload; was were just a* the Babylontans eat at just enough lese than a eight' the chain is removed, from ono plank' had left them in B.C. 586,—a heap of angle to give the desired cutting effect so the team can spread tbe boat al.'" ruins* when the gardener stands comfortably . 1 1 V. 4. Th ' tidingss r lowing the stone to rest on the ground.e eeeet—the exact angle will depend on lpatriotio heart a Nehemiah, and like his height, t a true Orient.al, he gave vent to his 1.m...m.m.....S.Sumn........•••••••• •••••••.,..........S...4..•........nrwno Let's not forget that pettir‘g pro-' feelings vehemently. After the filet Better Livestock Market ' duces more milk than milk stool paroxysm of grief he recollected bis rnauipulation. soul in prayer—a prayer which may Prospects. ••••••.....k be considered a model of true devotion. The Dominion Live Stock Commis- To keep cabbage from bursting, pull II, Nehemiah's Prayer, 5-11, sioner has directed attention to -the each head just enough to break a large V. 5...The prayer opens with an ad - disastrous effect the rushing of un- =deer of the smaR rootlets, but not drees to God, naming his attributes of finished grass cattle to market has eziough to let. the head fall or lean to iriight and majesty on the one hared one side. This will leaven the amount and of faithfulnees and mercy on the upon prices and the trade generally. of moisture and pleat -food taken into other. Ryle points out that the Divine Many recent reports have shown this. plant and the development of the forgivenese alone could vouchsafe the Market conditione in Canada show rip head will be slower, consequentlytherestoration whilth Devine power alone favorably -when compared with those bursting vvill cease. In suoh cases *Dula effect. prevailing elsewhere, and the tend- the cabbage will remain perfect and vi 6. In tee first eau a tee verse ency of prices downwards toward the uninjured, and this gives the gardener there is the humble approach to God usual autumn levels might be thecked, an extra amount of time to use the which isefollowed, in the second half, if not completely arrested, were un- Waage or dispose of it. Heads of wth a confession a sin. Confess the age bo , n lose sins . . „ Israel. The experiences of showitig the first split, can beakept for the exile had pierced the heart of partially off the market at that sea- several weeks, without damage, by Israel with a deep sense af sin. The eon. When the situation has been par- this method. afflictions and desolation of those long years in Babylon made Israel feel how terrible a thing sin is. Before the exile the religion of Israel was a joyous affair; after the exile it be- came iriuch more solemn. Israel's con- science had been awakened and became aware of sin. V. 7, The sin of Israel which had brought the sorrows of the gine upon them is now specified. It was a la* of fidelity to the law given by Moses. 0 eovenante—that God wound under. take to show favor to his people no tong as they remeined faithful to Eire. But they heel not been faithful; hence their punishment. V. 8. Nehemiah proceeded tie Appeal to God en the ground of an ancient promiee made by God. TiliS promise Is set forth Deut. 30: 1-0, will scatter you, The threat of disPereion eniong the natioes waa frecineritly made before the exile as a warping against sin. (See Deut 4; 27; 2a: 64; " Jer. 9: 16; Ezeli. 11: 16.) V, 9. Cat out unto the uttermost part of the heaven. Driver says that tins is to be we:nine-eel as "the far distant regions of the world; v;here as the Hebrews supposed, the solid vault of heaven meted ;men the earth," However remote be the piece of Israelle banishment, God will 'branr it back and vesit it again with His bounty. The place that I have chosen; Jerusalem with ha temple where wee the visible manifestation of the Da vine presence in glory—the Sheeb- linale ' V. 10. Thee* are thy servants. Al- though they have sinned ami received the Jan puniehment on their sin, the Israelites are still Otein servants. By their 000fession of sin they have "re- turned." unto God and so, the condi- non being fulfired, Nehemiah ciaitnel for hie people the fulfiliment a God's promise. V. 11. Nehemian aancleded with the supplication that his prayer and that of his countrymen might be arise ered and particularly that his sbeeees to the king Artaxerxee, on behalf cf the community in Jeruealein elleadd enteceseftel. The king'e cupbearer. The ;office cf eupbearer, Herodotus states, was "an Lon= of Po small ace ;count." His prinedpal duty was to taste the wine before be handed it to the king as proof that it wee free frem poison. Ile had, therefore, to be a trustworthy person and• :nen frequently on vonndentsal relations to • the king. Application. Nehemiah was not the fire* I h patriot to pray en behalf of hi; p. eeple The Old Testament is 4011n this lit: urgy of interceeeione Maws on mazy oceasions interceded. His prayer a.ftec the idolatry of the golden calf, was an agony of desire: "Yet IIONV, if thou wilt forgive their she—and if not, blot me, 1 Tway thee, out of thy book which thou haat written." Intensity, earnestness in prayer, ie certainly one of the great lessons to learn from these prayer% Importune city, and perseverance in prayer was the man seeking loaves at night, and the widow seelcing redress from the unjust judge. Paul says to the Col- ossians (ch, 4: 12), "Ertapluas, who is one of you, a servant crf Christ, salet- eth you, always laboring fervently for ' you in prayers, that he bath a great zeal for you." Gladstone) Lord Salisbury said, was "a great Christian." We are told that Gladstone "rarely made an important speech without a few moments of sil- ent prayer before rising to his feet." And in his diary, Gladstone wrate: On most occasions. of very sharp pressure or trial, Tome word of Scrip- ture has come home to me as if borne on angel's wings. Many could I re- collect. The Psalms are a great store- house. In the Oxford eon:lee-et of 1847 which was very harrowing, the verse, "0 Lard God, thou strength of nier health, thou bast covered my head in the day of battle." On Monday, April 17, 1853 (his first budget speech), it was, "0 turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid." finished tattle kept either wholly or Ea Laying Contests and Their Value to the Poultry Industry The Federal Department of Agri- culture through the Experimental Farm's Branch is operating ten Egg Laying Contests .at the present time. A laying contest is located in each through which Registration can be ob- tained, By breeding males from regis- tered females to females with official records, that are registered also, we hope to be able to very. greatly in - province and the competition is re- crease the production of the poultry stricted to residents within the prove flocks throughout Canada. ince itself. The Canadian Contest is As weekly reports of the eggs pro.. conducted on the Central Experiment- duncedtestthebyepchperson bewishedarewissuedfto eoe purchase eggs or stock can tell at ' a glance where the best prochicing strains can be secured. By comparing these reports from year to year any person can pick out the breeders who al Farm at Ottawa and is open to the world. . Each contest begins November 1st and continues for 62 weeks. Ten birds constitute a pen. Egg laying contests are valuable in that they show the relative value on are doling the consistent breeding different breeds of poultry to produce' work. To breeders who make a high eggs and also show where the best,' yearly average, even though they are strains of these breeds can be found.: not necessarily leading, the person As the birds are all given the same who wishes to purchase good stock can care and attention arid a careful 're-! be almost sure of getting birds of a cord kept of the number of eggs laid good laying strain. Iwithin the pen. ,The pen that is com- laying contests prove that thig belief In a good many districts the sante posed of ten good producers is much is not well 'founded. A pen of White 'more valuable from the breeding Leghorns in the Canadian Contest in teacher 'wild be invited back for ani standpoint, than one that has one or 1920-21 laid 2,255 eggs and in the other year. We are wondering in this two outstanding birds, some good pro- present Canadian Contest a nen of the connection, if it would not add much ducers and three or four poor pro- same .breed have 1,844 eggs at the to the school week of 1922-1923, and dileere end ofethe 37th week (July 17th). In to the spirit of co-operation between' Hiesh. production coupled with uni- the British Columbia Contest a pen 'parents, teacher and students, if thel formite throughout the pen is the of Barred Plymouth Rocks had 1,859 families making up the school district' ultimate object of the breeder of bred- eggs at the end of the 361h week. All should get together and have a real to -lay birds and the only way to at- the above birds are under strict con - surprise party for the one who is to tain this end is to practice the breed- •finement. _Five birds in the Canadian have the supervision of the children in ing of high producers. Certificates of Contest laid every day during the 9th charge the next ten months? production are. issued to birds accord- -four-week period (June 13th to July Somehow we have a feeling that ing to merit, and by breeding these 10th) and the winning bird in the such a celebration would make the females to males of desirable breed- Ontario Contest has 28 eggs to her h el bax inonay o ntuch furthor ing the egg nroduction of theks would help materially in building up should be very mateeially increased. a GOTTIIMMity Epirit. With that devel- oped, the district will be in a position The securing of the high preclucing to undertake other worth -while things. female is but the „first step in this • breeding work. Realizing- the need of more advanced work along the line "The moon has practically no air or of poultry breeding the Department of water," says Dr. Crommelin, of Green- Agriculture is about to undertake the wich Royal Observeleey, who states work of issuing Registration certifi- that, for thia reason, there. can be no cates to birds of high production. The form of, animal life there. egg laying contests serve as a medium credit for the same period. Thus, the laying contests show that birds in strict confinement can and do produce' eggs in large quantities. The objects of the Laying Contests are to aseist poultry breeders in bet- tering their breeding stock along egg producing lines, to demonstrate the producing ability of different strains and different breeds of hens and build up a larger and bettor industry. the burden of our Lord's parables. of THE CHILI)REN'S HOUR L. 'J How a Little Boy Rose to Musical Fame. 'Way back about the year 1770 a country blacksmith in a little place near Exeter, England, began to miss his horseshoes, which were myster- iously disappearing one or two at a time. Keeping watch, he at last dis- covered the guilty culprit to be a harmless little boy about six years old. Following hint home, his parents were duly informed and the boy was commanded to tell what he had done with the stolen horseshoes. Leading the way to an upper room, he showed them. From the twenty or thirty he had taken he had selected eight and hung them up by strings, and these when struck lightly by a piece of iron, gave out the notes of the musical scale --the largest one gave the deepest tone, the smallest one the highest. On this crude instrument the boy had taught himself to play tunes. The minister, Rev. MT. Eastcott, was appealed to in the matter. No doubt he gave the little chap serious admonition on the sin of stealing, but after that he had the good 'sense to advise the boy's parents to give him a musical education, and so they ap- prenticed Uri to an organist in Exeter named Jackson, the sante Jackson, by the way, who cbmposed the "Te Daum ixi F," which has long been a favorite, with many church choirs. When the; boy had grown older and his appren- ticeship was finished he went to Lon- don, where he wrote a great deal of music for the theatre, that is, inci- dental music for various plays new' and old. Ile also wrote aigreat many songs which were very popular in their day. One of them, "The Bay of Biscay," is not yet quite forgotten. The boy's name was Sohn Davy. Tuberculosis in Cattle. Every farmer and cattle breeder can have, and keep, his herd free of the commonest of all live stock com- plaints—tuberculosis. How this can be done is described in Pamphlet No. 16 of the Dominion Department of Agricultere, entitled "Bovine Tuber- culosis," prepared by the Health of Animals branch under the direct sup- ervision of the Veterinary Director General. The pamphlet cqnveys the knowledge in the form of questions and answers. These cover particulars regarding the Accredited Herd plan, its benefits and cost, the. 'compensation paid by the Dominion Government for animals slaughtered, an explanation of the Bang system, sanitation, the tests required, and so on; also muni- cipal testing requirements, the object and nature of pasteurizaticn, the Supervised Plan of Testing, testing bei private practitioner with department- ally "supplied tuberculin, and how swine and poultry be'eorne infected. The one great truth to be learnt from the pamphlet is that to have healthy live stock of. any kind, strict regard must be paid to cleanliness, to sanita- tion, to ventilation, and to light. The first thing that a government inspec- tor will do is to look around to see that the buildings are clean and can be kept sanitary, and TO 10eate the manure pile and ascertain where the drainage goes to. Satisfied on these points he will commence the test. The old pedestriao who puts on new shoes at sunrise never boasts how many miles he will go bene sunset.