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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-6-5, Page 74 . ...100,0.0tYg" Pell$ Mrs- It . 'Chapman, Caistham, writes:aa€`4 was ill with Iseart trouble for nearly two yeers, wai1 part of the time T wha in the aospital a -ad taking (hectors' medicine. All this tilne eroula take raulciug spells and would feel as if1 wore going to die. T would turn blue and get as cold as ice, and then would haye to stay ii bed for weelss at a time_ 1 have had as many as twenty bad spells a •day, -and the last time 1 was ill my husband called M th.o doctor and he said I. would have to go to Montreal .reed see a heart ,apecialist, but that 1 eould not go until 1 was stronger. In the mean. • time, 1 saw your Heart aucl Norve Pills advertised. and 1 thought I would ow them. 1 can tell you that 1 felt Sathe good of them, and after a week's • use I was able to get up, and 1 eau honestly Bay 1 have never had a bad spell sine° and now look frit and healthy. /hi the aiefghbore tvhd live near mesay your Pills £1,r0 amegvel. The reason 1 am sending you this letter is that I know there are a lot of heart sufferers in this world, and 1 would like ahyone who suffers like 1 aid and lived in misery for two years to give them a fair trial." t Milburn 's Heart and Nerve Pills are • 50e. a box at all denies's, or mailed direst on reeeipt of prise by the T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. FRESH MEAT AT COST ALL SUMMER BY C. A. HOGSHEAD., • —eV Since so any farmers have little or no fresh meat during the sentinel • months- because of the high cost of beef at -the butcher shop, or perhaps • because' of distance from the town butcher or both, I thought it might interest some oile to know how so many beef clubs are conducted in my neighborhood. There are some old - clubs. It is not often that one not a member. of a beef club has a chance to join a club. He generally has to • organize a new club. This is evidence enough that they are very satisfac- tory in supplying beef during the hot months. • First, look up eight men who would like to •have fresh meat during the summer, who are interested to the ex- tent of furnishing a beef. Meet and elect your officers, the most important being the secretary: You decide on price of beef, when you Will begin • butchering, how often, what size, whether steer or heifer or both, how • fed, each inah's time in butchering, • whether two men pf the club will agree to butcher 'all the beeves for a reasonable fee- at the owners' farms or •whether each man kills his beef and cuts it himself. Tq have good . beef it should be grain fed -the long- er the better. Each one can well af- ford to feed one bea grain when he remembers that he is to help eat seven ( other well-fed beeves. , d THE SECRETARY'S JOB. The secretary keeps record of •,weight of animal furnished by each member, also what price, and weight received by each member at each but- chering, so that each member at the • end of the season, has had a whole • beef. The secretary books the pieces • as "foreleg," "hind leg," "neck," and •, Two members of our club kill, cut up and divide the meat for our club • for a small fee and do a nicer job •than if Toni, Dick or Harry did the • work. The beeves are killed on the 'several owners farms_ in the early morning (befoxe' the flies -are bad) on Friday. In some clubs each man kills his own beef and takes it quartered • to a central point for further cutting • and weighing. Some clubs use one pair steelyards to do all the weighing for the club. This iS easily carried about. The owner of each animal gets the hide, heart and liver of his own animal: Clubs. vary in the size of beef to be butchered. Some want 300-1b. beeves, net weight; some want 350 pounds, • F und f From. •.COtilSTIPATION • By the Use- of Louca-Liver PWS Constipation is the cau$e o:f moiat sickness, thae• anything else, and ea free. motion of the bowelea at least once a day, should be tae rale of evewone who aspires Co -perfect , health. ,•, , . Milburii 's Taxa -Liver .will regio late the flow of bile to act properly on •'the bowels, malring them active aid aagele,r -in their ieetioe, and by doing "taia romove the constipation and all ets trouble. • Mr. I. E. Cherltoe. 95, North St., Halifax, NQ., vrritest-a hare been botlieed with constipietion tot a inlet- • ber or years, but sinee etarted to telse Milbure's Lars -Liver Pills hevo,forind suelt relief I 'will never be witlieest them," :Price 25c. e vial at .01 nefled direet receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited) Toronto, Ob.L. KtowN RQT $1:01,\TE FRUITS. Brown rot is found annually in the • petiela plum and (amity oreleards .of ()Mario. However in most yeers the attacks of' this fungus are not severe and it is only when weather conditions are extremely favorable to it &Ye's °patent that eerious ePidemics of brown rot Occur and greaaa financial lees to the grower •results. a The (Teets -active attaele •Of this fungus has assumed two feriae -one an infection of the blossoms, causing blossom blight, inia•the other a rotting of the fruit as it approaches maturity, . Blossom blight, especially on cher- ries, is often severe if damp, muggy weather prevails at that time. Again if the same weather conditions pre- vail at the time of ripening Of the fruit brown rot sets in and great loss to the crop wall iesult unless careful, evell-timedsuitable sprays or dusts are thoroughl?; applied; a 131ossem. blight is generally initiated as a browning of the calyx 1613e1 but later may spread to involve the whole flower and the stem which bears it. Such blossoms are killed and are therefore worthless from the stand- point of fruit production and they also serve to spread the aisease through- out the orchard, since countless num- bers of spores are produeed thereon. These spores are carried by the wind to • the fruit where they germinate under favorable conditions and cause infection. Systematic pruning that tends to produce an open head is of prime im- portance, in controlling brown rot, as bad air drainage favors this disease. Thorough applicatione of lime mils phur or Bordeaux inixtuee just before the blossoms open (when they show white) ; just after the petals have fallen and when the shucks are shed should give good control. About 3 to 4 weeks before harvest if damp mug- gy weather prevails an additional spray will be necessary. Many grow- ers are applying dust instead of spray for the later applicatione. ,In such cases a dust may be applied at any time up until harvesting if weather conditions Warrant it. In the Niagara peninsula peaches generally are not sprayed for brown rot, as they receive only the dormant application for scale and peach leaf curl. If, however, later applications are applied, self -boiled lime sulphur, wettable sulphur, or sulphur dust should be used., The Bast brown rot application on plums is generally de- layed until the shucks are off the rui t. The brown rot fungus lives through the winter on the mummied fruit that hangs to the tree, or falls to the ground. „Muramied fruit that falls to the ground and is net too deeply bur- • ied will give rise in the- apring to microscopic, stalked, cup -shaped fruiting bodies which produce- the spores that iiiitiate blossom infection. However, ifethe mummified fruit is plowed deeply under they are unable to sigoduce spores. This is the reason that Plowing and cultivation of the orchaad in the spring until after blos- soming time is recommended. Such practices tend to bury the mummified fruit and prevent' the ,prod'ection of Sisetres.-(sarven N. Berkeley, Path - SUMMER HOUSES FOR HOGS. I use eummer cabins for my brood sows and produce pork eeonomically," is a statement recently made by a hog raiser to 0. group of about forty neigh- bors. From the nods a assent and from the discuseion which aolloWed it WAS easy to eee that confidence in the movable hog houses was a',bout unani- mous in that gathering. The same etatement made in that community ten. years ago would have caused a heated argument, s • The attitude of the average hog raiser toward the entail movable hog house has changed. To -day the average man knows that by putting a sow out in a clean mov- able house he is eubjecting her to about the same conditions as when yea.re ago he got such nice litters by letting his sows farrow in a plum thicket or a straw stack. He realizes that the aittle shed is getting back to nature ead is even better than a straw pile; because the sow and pigs are protected from severe cold and rainstorms, ;More and better pig$ are raised. ` These house$ may be used in a num- ber of different ways with good re- sults. They may be used vera satis- factorily for farrowing. If used for early farrowing several of them should be placed side bY side and banked with straw. For late farrow- ing they need no banking. They may be used to house the sows which have been farrowed out in the central hog house and later moved to oaclean field. Small houses are being used quite extensively as a part of a definite system of hog -lot , sanitation. In following out one popular plan of hog -lot sanitation the central house is scrubbed with boiling lye water and sprayed with a good disenfectant. The pens are then bedded With clean bedding. The sows are thoroughly brushed and their feet, legs and ud- ders are washed with soapy water just before they are placed in the clean pens. When the pigs are from ten days to two weeks old they are talsen,awith the sow, out of the central house for the first time and are hauled to a small shed in a pasture where no hogs have been since a crop was grown. There the pigs are kept until they are about four months old, at which time they may be allowed the freedom of the old yards with no bad results. Disease is reduced to the minimum where movable houses are used in connection with a systematic method of raising hogs in a sanitary way. Roundworms ead filth -born diseases are prevented. As a 'result of having available plenty of pastuee another link he the chein-of economical production is pro - aided, and one of our cheapest and best feeds is used to a greater extent. These facts are the basis upon which the principles of a definite sys- tem of hog -lot sanitation have been worked out. The idea being none other than to raise more pigs per sow to a marketable age, to raise them in a eeasonable length of tirne and at a cost sufficiently low to insure a fair profit. and some want 400 pounds. (All beef is the same price). WE BEGIN BUTCHERING IN MAY. Our club begins butchering the lat- ter part of May, kills one beef every two weeks until four have been killed. By this time harvesting, haying, etc., are over, and we kill no more for three or four weeks. Then -we kill one every two weeks until four more are killed, thus having beef for silo filling, corn cutting, wheat sowing, etc. Then •we meat, settle up, and the thing is done. In this way, when each one does his part, you have a most satis- factory source of -meat supply. A word as to keeping: You may a refrigerator, an ice -box, or hang the meat down in a well near the water, hi an earthen or wooden vessel. Better still, if you fill an ice -house, dig down into the ice, having beef in bag or in a vessel. Cover over with ice and it will keep a long time, provided the ice does not. melt off. We cut our steak ready to fry, pack in half -gallon fruit jars, bury in the ice, and often , draw out a half -gallon jar without disturbing the rest. Haveaan understanding about age or animals. If you kill old or poor beeves, you will be dissatisfied, Sometimes, •when you, do not have ice you could also have an ieo club, too. _we . The, Big Idea in Corn Cultivation. Ti is reequenlay a long time betvseeu a discovery of a principle and the pat- ting of of that principal to me. There is the case of the dust -mulch theory of cultivation. They ueecl to tell us that weeds Wer.0 a good thing' because weeds spureed on the faerner to keep the cultivators'•going. BLit long and exhaustive teials have shown that with weeds otheewise eliminated cultivation does the crop no good. Out in Hawaii they are now using paper instead df the plow in pineapple and sugar -cane fields. Cheap paper is made from sugarcane • bagasse. Spread down the rows, this- paper smothers cett"the weeds and a mum crop is produced with a nraii- MUM effort. The -soil is flOt' etisOrai at all. The big idea 10 cultivating any crop is to ,keep down the weeds; yet with corn, ,one of our cultivated crops, old- style implements, designedprimarily to produce a dust mulch, are still in use. ,Somebody may yet hit on 9 bet- ted implement design, for weed -killing purposes. Then will pass the -old dust7 naulch theory, and attention will be centred on weeds, where attention be- longs. - Last year 1 discovered one farmer who had stepped boldly in thie direc- tion. He led me out to see a magnifi- aent field of corn. "This field," he said, "I cultivated with a mowing machine. • I not need the whole machine of course. Just took a wheel. This wheel dragged up and down a row is about as good a weed killer as I have ever found for certain friable types of land." If man had not become a hunter Lor meat he would still be in the for- est. -:Dr. Havre/ Campbell. She Was thtrd With r richitis Fir• $ix Ye rs Bronchitis should never be neglec- ted, but should .he checked immed- iately by the use of Dr. Wood's Nor- way Pine Syrup„ and thereby prevent it beeoming ehrenie, and perhaps coessisag it to develop into some seriosie lung' trouble, ' ' Mrs. ,Toslah W. Batley, Newington, Cate serif-co:7-). f'torn been bothered, witi bronchi tie every Winter for six years, ' ' ' Dexieg the evening, and it the eight, I would hevo a slight fever and 'choke rip with a sort of wheezirig in my elicat, I fried 'several cough mix- tuees, but flaw seemed to do me no °ed. • A friend .advised -tee to try a oath) of Dr. Wood I's- Nerway Pin- yrup; 1 did so, and after I had taken fear bottles I got better -right away." • • _ , • Pelee. 05e. a bottle; the large aceonly size 60e.; at up oaly'by-Tae T. b,al. burn Co./Limited, TOrMato) Ottt. Fixing p th e Old Home The netural beauty of the location of oar homeatead ehould have made it attraetiye, but liecause of dilapidated felloes, lack of shrubbeey, holes in the lawn and mud at the doorways, it was not. So roy first work after gaining possession, was the removal of some of the fences and the straightening of others, the plentiag of shrubbery which I obtained for the asking, building gravel walks from the en- trances and leveling the lawn, all of which cost me enly my labor, It has resulted in an irnproyed appearance which new draws favorable comment from passerby and, in the end, im- proves the value of the whole farm. --J. B. When we moved on our present farm, the front yard was filled with stone which were once the wall of an old hall. Tho yard wan also very uneven. We removed such stone es could not be covered, -filled in with dirt, making the'yard level, Trees and shrubs Were planted, while a vine, supported hy -wire, forma: an arch over the gate. Evergreen trees now form a row along the driveway. Trees and brush, not tonehed for years, were pruned. An old silo pit, 'from which the silo had been removed, was 'filled with earth and planted to flowers and vines. This has brought about a won- derful transforination in our home. -J. II. D. 1 moved on this farm three years ago. While the buildings were good, the yard was literally filled with old machinery and other rubbish and in- closed, with an old stump fence. • I moved the machinery out of sight, burned the fence and raked the yard. Some shade trees were set out and old rose bushes pruned. When the grass started, we had- the aatisfaction of knowing that our neighbors appreci- ated the change -,T. G: The yard of an old neglected home was plowed and graded. The house was painted. A hedge of lilacs were planted on this slope. At the north side of the house shrubs that did not require much 'sunshine were planted. Along the borders, spirea were put in. Near the house a bed of giant pansies resulted from two , five -cent packets of seed. 011 the end of the front porch boxes of climbing nasturtiums were placed. These were supplied from three packages of seed. Maples from the woods were also planted, in the yard, while a few rosebushes, secured froin a generous neighbor, found their proper piece in ' the arrangement. Whila the results were transforming, day's work with tho team and the nee.- essary farm tools. It hes brought us Much eomfort.---IVIrs, A. lea. hah Never would you swiped that there Was an old house within the converie lent farm dwelling we now live in. When we bought this farm ten years ago, 1 could just hear some old trell- ises calling out for vines to twine around them. Soon I had clematie and honeysuckle running riot over these snpports. How much they did add to the appearance of our home. Spires; were planted in front of the porch with ferns between. The spirea is beautiful in the spring with its sprays of white blossoms, while the ferns stay green until the fall frosts are here.- A rose garden has also been planted at the rear of the house. From our dining -room windows we can see flowers in bloom from the earliest tulips to the latest chrysantlenums. I love the perennialmid am using more of them every year, as they re- quire less care than the annual. Through replacing the little porch with a deep verandah that extends across the north side of thehouse and around to the east side, we secuae a great deal of enjoyment. In remodel- ing the old house it has given us a handy kitchen with a dumb -waiter and a basement that occupies nearly the full floor area inclosed with high, dry, smooth walls. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bath and sewirig room. Closets and draws are abun- dant. Furnace heat, electeic lights and running water complete the mod- ern home. We thought at first we could not efforcl to make these changes, but by doing much of the work ourselves, it has cost us comparatively little and we are glad we did it. One can find saore elaborate farm houses, but every dollar in this come from our hundred - acre farm. -J. E. M. Farmers' Days at' 0.A.C. The 0. A. College live stock has always enjoyed an excellent reputa- tion with the farmers of the province. It has never been exhibited at the fairs, but we are going to have a live stock parade at the College or. Farm- ers' Days, June 1.2th and 13th. With 100 • head of excellent College stock lined up on the campus it will be quite a little show in itself. At the same hour the departmental floats will ap- pear in parade to illustrate the pro- gress of agriculture during the past half century. Farmers from all coun- ties are coining. All roads will lead to Guelph during the 0.A.C. Semi - it cost us just a little more than a Centennial. Por Hot an GIRL'S JUDGINtioefalsaraiores. This year a number of counties of Ontario are having competitions fee' girls in judging household exhibits. In most cases these competitions are organized by the Agricultural.Repre- sentative, a coach for the girls being sent out by the Institutes Branch for a few days' instruction previous to the competition. In a number of dis- tricts, the Women's Institutes have assisted materially veith- this work by offering prizes, catering for the con- testants on the day of the competition, furnishing material to be judged, etc. In South Samoa the Institutes are themselves organizing a competition. These girls' judging competitions not only provide practical follow-up work after courses in domestic science; they establish in the minds of the girls standards of quality ancl a pride in producing only the best. We feel that any assistance along this line is a worth -while piece of home economics work for the Woinen's Institute. LOCAL EXTENSION WORK. The Westbrook Beanch of the Fron- tenac,Women's Institutes did a unique piece of extension work when, in con- junction with the pupils of the short course in home economics at the East- ern Dairy School, Kingston,they served tea to about eighty ladies of a nearby township who are considering forming a branch of the Women's In- stitutes. Tea was served at the close of an address by Miss Chapman. The Dis- trict President received the guests ,while the local President presided at the meeting and the Vice -Presidents poured tea. Junior members of the Institute provided a musical treat during the tea hour. The meeting. served greatly to fos- ter the widening influence an Institute should exert. It also stimulated a spirit of co-operation and illustrated the beauty of its being more blessed to give than to reculast-in this mer- cenary age of the world a free-will gift to humanity. The Institutes of Frontenac greatly appreciate the aid of -the Principal of the Dairy Schooi, Mr. 'Gaeta in making such a gather- ing,exeseible. STANDING COmm'ITTLE WWI< IN A DRANGkr INSTITTrItt, ocastsioaally tile question erases as to tic4' sacinding cominittees ems func- tion in a branch Institute. In an In- 'el:auto of small membership,. the Ease- ' tem of having five or six Separate I attending committeee may ilot be work- , able, We have castes, however, wheee Ithe standing committees have beca , definite strength to the Institete, °II !these Dryden furnishes perhaps the moat auidtnfldillg oeample, with Coins C.untr mittees, on Better Scheele, Home Econ- bmics, Public Health • Pabliagf and Immigration. The School Committee inet the teachers upon their arrival for the fall term and found temporary board- ing places for them. They arranged a reception for the teachers and par- ents. At the opening of the new school, this committee arranged the refreshments and the entertainment, taking care of a crowd of about seven hundred people. elaerhaps in this fea- ture, as much as in any other, the In- stitute won the warm appreciation of the school board. A piano was pro- vided for the school, the money being raised partly through teas given by thanInstituto and partly through a dance given by the teachers, with which the School Committee assisted. The Home Economics Committee has been instrumental in introducing sewing in the public school. The primary teachers volunteered to give an hour a week to teach sewing to the senior girls and the Institute pro- vided the necessary supplies, also gave prizes for the best work done. The Committee on Public Health assisted the Public Health nurse at her baby clinics, sent home -cooked dishes to a tubercular patient, bought linen and other supplies which the nurse requires/ for a patient who had not been in town long enough to be settled. They served tea to the moth- ers at a baby contest at the fair. They arranged for addresses on -dental hy- giene and goitre, these addresses be- ing given by a dentist and doctor at the regular meetings. When the school nurse found a number of girls who were under, weight, the Institute, at the recommendation, ad the health committee, gave pri+ to the girl who gained the most Lam thinking mills. This committee presented the school • children with weight charts and per- suaded those undee weight to take ineThato psculiboiloclity Committee attended , to the advertising ol meetings and • made the doings of the Institute known theoughout the community. The duty of the Committee on Im- migration was to visit flow families, introaueo them to neielibore put in touch with thr'eicburCheociee4,1, assist in Limes of sicisness, and intro- duce the public health hurse to them. DOring the year they called on about two dozen families and found that Iwcoltheeii:atitiv8ar8ri,ces were welcomed by the i Nete.-Ais Institute with a. re sal memberehip would naturally teature strongly a Committee pn A gr;culture. The Provincial Committee would also be pleased to Iteai'. from any Istituto having an ective Committee 011 Loges. - Tat -ion, day oo JUNE e1dI Encouragesx es, P0a111-1 Golden Text—I will seek that which was bring back that which was driven away, Ezekiel was a priest of the temple in Jerusalem,whowas carried cantive to Babylon in B.C. 597, when the Chaldeans fleet took Jerusalem, 2 Kings 241046. Five year later he was called of God to be a prophet to his fellow exiles in that far-off Tand. Beaore the final destruction of Jeru- salem in B,C. 586, he had the hard task of rebuking false hopes of a speedy deliverance and restoration, and of endeavoring to justify to the exilethe doom of their leelovecl city, chs. 1 to 24. After the fall a the city he bears to them messages of hope (see ells. 33-89) and portrays in bright colors and with an archi- tect's exactness arid fulness of detail, the rebuilding of the city and temple and reconstruction of the national life in a golden age of the fature. His ministry continued for a period of rather more than a score of years. Psalm 137 presents a vivid picture of the exiles in Babylon, their home- sickness, their passionate love for the city of their fathers, and their hatred both of their Babylonian conquerors and their treacheeous and heartlees Edomite neighbors, Chapter 34 of Ezekiel is the "chap- ter of the Good Shepherd." Compare John, ch. 10. The prophet denounces the evil eulers of Israel as false shep- herds. They have been utterly selfish, caring only for their own enrichment and the satisfaction of their own de- sires. "Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do' feed them,selvesl should not the shepherds feed the sheep?" Ezekiel believes that rulers should care first and before all else for the well-being of the people, and especial- ly for the weak, the erring., and the .needy. He declares that Israel's princes have not done this. They have fattened themselves, but they have not fed the sheep, and they have no care for the sick,- and the weak, and the mjured, and those which have been driven away or lost. The calamities which have some upon the people he charges to the folly and selfish greed of the rulers, vs. 11-19. Behild T. The promise of God is that he himself will replace the false shepherds and will care for his flock. His especial care will be for the lost and the wandering. They are to him objects not of wrath, but of compas- sion. He will "seek them out" and will deliver them. The promise is espe- cially for the scattered exiles and wanderers of Israel, whom God will bring again to their own land. The picture which in presented here is one of delightful security and peace, "in a good fold, and in a fat pa,sture," and uuder the over -shadowing, ever - watchful care of their divine shep- herd. Vs. 25, 26. There is a prediction in vs.28 and 24 of the coming Messianic king, foretold by Isaiah and 1Vlica-h and again by Jeremiah. He will be, SQ to epeeist' aa gindexeshepheed, car -J ing for the fah& of God' weed evrls make with them a "covenant of peace," ensuring peace and prosperity for the days to come. All "evil beasts," that is, probably, foreign invaders a.nd oppressors, will be driven out of the land, and even in wood and wild- erness there, will be no fear of harm. The land itself, lei this brisshtea fu- ture,will be made abundantly pro- dective. God's each favor s will be sphooniu,seet 0011fa .fi.er:oeil9y4,..0,,, "There ohall 01 We still wait, as leraet waited, for this age of material good which 'will be extended to all. Perhaps when man have • learned to live together as brothers it will come. Our lesson wihl suggest that much may be done by' Our rulers towards this end, that gov- ernment is for the peoples -for all the .people --and that the chief care bf government mut alwaYs be for those who -need. Not wealth for the few,, but welfare for all, must be the aim, The ideal of the good shepherd is the ideal of the right-minded ruler. APPLICATION. The colony of Jews was planted in Babylon, and perhaps it was only then that they bethought themselves of the strange import of their prophet'e message. But Jeremiah was -not amongst the captives. lie stayed with the "dstegs" of the nation. He went with the "dregs" into Egypt, an exile, too, from Palestine. A. younger man heard the voice of the Lord in the land of captivity. He knew Jeremiah well, and his blood ha.d oaten bounded faster through his veins, at the sound of the master's heroic voice. It was the task of this younger prophet-. Ezekiel --to carry on his older broth- er's work, and to sustain the sinking hearts of his fellow -exiles in Baby- lon. Let us set down in order the different messages that Ezekiel de- livered. 1, He supplemented Jererniah's pre- diction that Jerusalem would fall, The first half or Ezekiel's book is concern- ed chiefly with the impending down- fall of Jerusalem. 2. But Ezekiel was mainly a watch- man, or pastor of souls in the, land of exile. His duty it was to prepare the people foe their new role in human history. He never halted in his be- lief that somehow the nation would be reconstituted on the soil of Palestine. There God would give it a second chance. 3. Consequently Ezekiel's message was one of hope and restoration. 4. A very important part of Eze- kiel's preaching was his doctrihe of individual responsibility. Had men not preached to the individual before? Jeremiah saw plainly that religion was more an affair of the individual than of the state, but it was reserved for Ezekiel to put this truth in the sha,rpost possible way. What is the place of Ezekiel in the succession of Hebrew prophets? Opin- iorts differ on details, but all agree that Ezekiel must be placed high on the roll of honar. But for him, the religion of Israel would have dwindled and died in Babylon. On all sides were the evidences of the all-powerful paganism. • That religion was a gor- geous and successful affair. But ,Ezekiel taught his people that the Lord was mightier than the idols of Babylon, stronger and more nioral than the gods of the cruel empire, that for the time being had every- thing on its side. Ezekiel's great merit eves that he answered perfectly to the need of the how.' in which he lived. He bore his people on his heart. Costly Cockerels. walked buyer oe day and found him eakedtthe store of a local lahigl,oum eggs. "Do a n separate grade for eachlef those four cases?" I inquired. "Five," he corrected: "don't forget the discard. That grade will not go to market, of course, but it costs the farmers of Canada a grand total of $500,000 a year in round numbers to produce it." "That's a lot of money," I finally contrived to remark. "Isn't there something farmers can do to relieve themselves of the burden?" "Sure there is," he snapped. '"It is merely a matter of general agreement to 'swat the rooster.' And if every fanner in this community would put that advice into execution 1 could throw away that candling device and buy eggs blindfolded. "Why, do you know," he contimaed, warming up, "that the average tem- perature of this section of the coun- try during July and August is suffi- ciently high to start the process of incubation in a fertile egg? "I would not say that a fertile egg would hatch at a temperature much less than 100 degrees, but I do know, from my own experience, that incuba- tion often begins .at 70 degrees. The strength of the embryo, of course, de- termines just how long it will develop before it dies from lack of beat. but it does not require many hours for it to -reach a point where it will be candled out al a shipment, or, at least, take a low grade And a weak on- e • loryo Will livelong, enoegh to form a eb)leoi"onldtV;ity'llonsgi'Eetlerikiel:ine what ntartmg dcys July arta Aug est would do to eggs,' with the theemometer seldom register-, ing below 75 degrees. I can aesure you that cold -storage operatore have very good reasons for preferring the soling -laid eggs eveo though they have to hold them, much longer before' placieg them on the maaket." "Aseteming that the weak ainhno of 80 egg becomes chilled ana dies withiu! 011 houe or go eater it in Inid," 1 in- I snared, "(lees that make the eggs morea1usbl' V et' 'e'tt eh" he exetalmod rel , • (Inn es consnle aide af a 11111 to kill the embryo of an egg in the early stages of its development. "On the other hand, assuming as you said, that the embryo of the egg died within an hour after it was ex- posed to a temperature of less than 70 degrees; you still haese to contend with the possibility of the dead em- bryo setting up a process of decay. And that is ,what really happens in the production ef a rotten egg. An infertile egg will deteriorate, of course; but its contents do not often decay, they merely dry up." Four of my neighbors have talking - machines that use the same records. • They found that the ,expense of pro- viding new eecords was aigh. They worked out. an exchaafge, so that each family has anew set of records' every few weeks. Now -they all enjoy four times as many records as beforeesand the.cost is low, The exchange is not permanent, but just to keep the re- . cords in circulation. Broken ones are replaced, natural 'wear is forgotten. ' ---E. R. Wa'STietthEe0 With) ECZEMA For Fifteen Years No res( day or night for thoge •efaietea witk this teerible skirl disease with its unbearable berrsing, ifeheue earl torturing day and night. Relief is gladly, wen:anted Axd there ie no remedy like Burdock Blood. Bit- ters to drive the eczema out of the sydtnrn Mr. W. IT. Selraltz, Clothing tier- ehaot, Pembroke Ont., ''Having been been timubled witle eczema. for Aftesa years durin' wilieli time rle avers thieg 1 could tallea. yr, !,nelnding <factors, bet vt,iihd'ut getting anything to do ine much good, I lin: ally decided to take 'Burdock :Blood lters„ awl •WAS Cert ainly earprieett to awl that two weeks alter 3; Ilea. etarted to take it Iyeee relleved,of. nly erosible, Tana was nine motetae ago and have not arid e elan of it 20050. 'surely wish to --thank you for Oral raonaeefi'd lueUiCine eta eteorgly xeriommeed it to anyone suffering arote tha resale trouble as 1 hri(L'' B.is matraftlatured only by the fiburn Coe !Civaited, Tex.:veto, Oat.