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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1915-09-16, Page 31 LWILDINil VP A FLOCK Ole t;11EE1. How a largo Reek of :sheep wee built up and how it 18 managed, 'Wile told re - coal)! by Charles W. aleues, of 'Mono derega, Y.. a :student. in a talk before the Stockbridge Club at the Matta:seine, tette Agra:tater:4 College. '"rhe rutin - attain intont nee ilampsuire Dewne but, these didn't mealy meet requirements. They were of. varying etZe and the wool uas of varying quaittite awt quelitY. wanted a eviterat purpoile Sheep of 1.1111. form nize tuel a sate amount. and quad. Ly of noel. Therefore, we cruetive our trampshire iiewris eller Itaintemillet, or Vrench Merino, ram;. "However,s i !low have a little 'too much of the Mogul) blued, for 4...1te1 the bileelk hoe e the ehaineteristie folds ill the skin of the Merino. por ties r*a- 8 UVI. Lon :WOWS wine Shropehire blued. Front this eroes We get n 10,11ib in tall weishitin elehit ;et lye. and a ileeeo weighing S 1-2 pounds. "We have two ehe1s-40 sheep to a plied. Both Pincus face and open to the south. Sheet) eliottlil etioiehted to tory draft, 88 we aiways 1.1au to have the ut least our sr fit feet high. ".A.8 to feed, we use mostly alfalfa. We hese :several fielda of it. We finish out with the finer hay, using our coarao haytor cattle. We also have pastures. Our tutal acres, supporting froth 210 to SOS eheep, P to 20 :sieve, and inaille horse. When first turtling the :Meta) into the green pastures, We fpi SIOW. The firet few day* we let them out only a feW houre at a time; .utherwiee bloating le "We have two bucks, and two Pas- tures for them, and we always eeep block of salt in each mature. In wip- ter me grain them enough te keep them in prime condition. In the mouutein pao- tura there is eunning pasture all the Una°. "We used to plan on early lambs, but because of uneultable conditions, they often were stunted. Now we plan to have the Istetbs come, about spring. As soon as the inizes nre able to get mound we arrange so that they can get out to the hay and grain without bother from the sheep. Castrating and diecking is dune when the lambs aro three to four weeks old. Coal tar is put on the wound to keep away thee and prevent meggote. A.bout 20 ewe lambs are kept for breed- ing purposes each year. Vermily we have to ehip our sheep on the boot Before Phi:ming, we feed very little. The sheep will then be ready te eat and put on flesh in the stockyards. KEEPING CREAM COOL. Now that warm weather is approaeh- ' Ing, every possible means must be talten to get cream on the market in good con- dition. The warm daye that have al- ready passed have had a marked effect in lowering the quality of cream now being made into butter. Attention must first bo raid to cool- ing the Cream just as seen as separated. However, the greatest exposure to heat usually comes when the cream is hauled to market, and the cans are left uncov- ered, and exposed to the hot sun and dust. It has been found by experiment that the tentpetature may be evet more than twenty degrees lower ween dampened blankets are thrown over the can or dam pened blankets are used than when the cans are left uncovered.In adeltion, the dirt and dust are kept away from the cans and cream. It is not only to the advantage of the producer to help in keeeing up the qual- ity of the cream so that good prices may continue. but low grade cream cannot be allowed to come upon the market in the future.—R. McCann, Colorade Agricul- tural College, Fort Colline, Colo. rOn CUTWORMS. • Mix hale a pound of Paris green in 50 lbs. of bran (the proportion for larger or smaller quantities Is 1 to 100); the poison should be added to the dry bran little by little and stirred" all the time till the whole Is tinged with the green color, then add water sweetened with su- at home. Ne hat is not needed for the eer. or molasses, till the mixture Is suf- calves should be fed to igs and poultry. 4 -n.•r• 'his the Sugai. for Jams and.Jelliee 41: :V*" IV*5.1n0t•bWII Usi 2 and 5 lb. Sealed Cartons, 10, 20, 50 and 100 lb. Bags. II/HEN I pay for good .fruit, and spend a lot of time vir over it, want to be sure that zny jellies and preserves will be just right. So I always use SUGAR" s No doubt th4 is just what her mother and grandmother did, too, for has has been Canada's favorite sugar .for three generations. Absolutely pure, and always the same, it has for sixty years proved the mot dependable for joeserving, canning ,and jellyguaking. It is just as easy to get the best—and well worth while. So tell your grocer it mut be aregit Sugar, in one of the packages originated in Canada for egykilt Sugar. "Let Sweeten it." 149 CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, - MONTREAL. ,ff•••••••••••••a. there la an increasing scarcity- of cat- tle and sales continue at high figures. Permers should raise all the stock they can to good adva.otage, as if not all are wanted at home. thero will be a quick demand for the surplus from Qin- whore." 1)0 not undertake to raise more than can be cared for In the best manner, Feed properly, keep dry and warm in cold weather, and note what good returns these young growing ani- mals make for the feed and care given. The farm herd should be kept constant- ly improving by thoughtful selaction, breeding and care of animals composing it. It should not be forgotten that swine form a very inrportant feature on the dairy farm where the skim -milk is kept ficiently moistened to crumble nicely through the fingers. If bran cannot" be procured, shorts or flour may be used and for field work may be distributed dry by means of a seed drill. It la said sweet clover has the peculiar quality to keep flies off horses or cattle. 11 a sweet clover bunch is hung on a horse flies well not disturb the animal Cattle that gaze is sweet clover all the time have no flies ts bother them be- muse flies will not stay in a field 01 eweet clover. Tie a bunch of sweot clo- ver on tile harness of all driving horses when leaving the farm and it helps won- derfully in preventing their being molest- ed by all kinds of insects. Provide shade for the cow. She Phould not too compelled to stand in the hot sun all day and fight files. It will bo ideal if large, shady trees grace the pasture for the cows. Here then they recline and rest after filling up on the long green grass. A little longer noon hour during the hot weather, with the harness and other encumbrances removed, will assist the horse in going to the field In better shape for the afternoon's work. Keeping hogs enclosed in a small pen and feeding them an exclusive grain ration is not economical; neither is the practice of feeding them on forage crops without grain. A TALK ON HOGS. A few years ago there was -a demand for heavy lard hogs. . Now the tenddricy is toward amooth. even hogs of medium weight, of from 226 to f50 pounds, of early maturity. Hogs of this weight should be free from surplus fat, possess smooth shoulders, well laid in with the line of the body, hams moderately heavy, a firm flesh, with flanks well down; so as to furnish a large development of belly meat. The back should be of good length. 'width and smoothness, showing an absence of large patches of fat above the hams. The best cuts of the hog are taken. from the back loins and sides. hence the importance of good length and depth to the sides. Tho careful breeder of pure-bred swine keeps informed on lust such points and aims to produce in his herd those qualities that most near- ly produce the Market demand. The scrub hog has no place on the farm. and since the packer and his trade have cal - ed for a certain type of hog. It stands the hog raiser well in hand to meet the demand through careful breeding and feeding. Medium -weight hogs, through both are in increasing emand, and will pay well to give them their proper place on the farm. Breeding saws and young growing pigs should have roomy. warm qua.rters and be kept well bedded and and dry. With these conditions they will do nicely in winter, and if fed as they should be can be made to grow and fatten as well in winter as in warm weather. Succeesful gardening is very largely dependent upon good seeds. Poor seeds Always cause disappointment. Even if the plants from poor seeds grow, they are usually weak, grow slowly, if at all, and seldom produce vegetables worth having. When sowing seede 'Select from strong, thrifty, faithful plants and be sure the type is true to the variety. When buying seeds try to patronize reliable firms that have a reputation. Remember. no firin can guarantee seeds to grow, .as there are too many factors over which they have no control. They can only assure you the seeds are true to variety and are viable under favorable condition,s. Ordinarly, with all ages of swine, a bushel of shelled corn, will produce an average of 10 pounds of.Pork, In an ex- periment at the South Dakota Station, on an average for the two years of feed- ing period of 62 days, a bushel of shell- ed corn yielded 11.9 pounds of pork. But when an average of 153 pounds of mills was fed with a bushel a shelled corn, an average yield of 17.7 pounds of Pork was produceae This was a dif- ference of 5.8'' pounds in Paver of the milk lots; or in other words. the milk was equal to 5.8 pounds of pork. How- ever. it must not be understood that this quantity of milk fed to a pig with- vut the corn would yield this amount of gain; but when fed in combheation, as above stated, similar results are to .be expected. Manure should not be allowed to ac- cumulate in the stables for any length of time. Draw often and spread direct- ly where wanted, where this can be done. If very coarse it would doubtless be better to plow under and so may be necessary to, put in largo piles to re- main until time to plow. Pine manure should be spread broadcast and thoroughly incorporated with soil by the harrowing. The aim should be to make all the manure possible .and use it to best advantage on the farm. When this is done it will show its good (-erects in a satisfactory increase of cro a and the demands of trade, have diseosed of imnrovement condition of the so I. the old-thne 500 Or more pound lard hog. It is interesting to note the results of experiments at the Virginia. Station in feeding corn silage "was edonomical to use in coniunction with corn as a maintes no.nco ration, but not so if used alone" Two broad spws were fed for seven weeks during winter•exclusively On,snage the aniounte fed per week being 49 • pounds in one case end 66 pounds in the other. Of this from 8 to 10 pounds were waste bY the animals. The animals boat weight and their general appearance at the end of the expeelment ' was such as de disoograge the Teter° use of silage as an rite:1141V° ration for hogs, though in after -fattening these tools on flesh esi rapidly us did the ones fed corn. show - Ing that exclusive use of silage bad not imnairect the digestion." In tho exneriments in which the silage constituted only a part of the ration. the animals coneumed from 28 to 35 lbs. ()Canasta and 14 to 21 pounds of corn on the alb per week arming a Period of 10 weeks. The animals were kept in good condition through a severe winter on this ration. 13v using the silage a savo Ing of nearly rme-third in the cost of feed with effected. Experiments at other etations have not generally been very favorable to the USO of silage as a feed for swine: nor do the results of experiments at the Virginia Station do more than indicate that silage is worthy of consideration as a component of a cheat) maintenance tenon, to be used for such purposes as earryine brood sows ever winter, and not for fat ':• When used for fattening hogs, four beunds of potatoes is considered eqaul to ono pound of corn. Thus. when corn is worth 40 tents it woeld he profitable to feed potatoes If they could be puts. chested for 10 cents. In the Mae of breeding sows there is at:tether factor that enters into considera. tion. namely`, that the sarcettlent nature of other forms of food treed. When fed in The Castle also contained a gritivihnoreataiontyui. condition so diet better nee is made of prison. intensive systent of poultry Coltneetien with skim -milk and buttermilk intisetlill of horrors until it Was Mire tulture Is teat:Used two ingredients are tiler tridoubtedlY make a alpleielid chased by the Earl. Of.Shrewsbury and lacking in the ration ef the laYing hen A SPLENDID RECORD Most people know that the Canadian Pacific Railway traverses over eleven thousand miles of country in Canada, encounteni even tropical and arctic, weathers; cuts its way through the rugged and difficult country along the. shores of Lake Superior; crosses the endless Prairies of the west; and fin- ally runs through the glories of the Canadian Rockies where the road in some &Lew has been hewn out of the -mountain sides under towering peaks; through great canyOns; and in other places tunnels and spiral rails have to be negotiated, all necessitating eare in operation, But in spite of all these difficulties the Canadian Pacific has not killed a single patasenger in a train accident during the past two years, which is a record 'Canada can place against the recent boast of the Pennsylvania Railroad not having killed a passenger in three years. Espeeially'so when it is considered that the latter road has not the same climate conditione to •fitee and the easy country through which it tra- verses. 1 eeee• •••oeee+40 • • o<>••••••040.4 THE . 1 • POULTRY WORLD “Pes ael:••* BACK-YA.RD CHICKENS' CABE. (Prof. A. C. Snath, in N. Y. Sun). The back lot poultryman has these three woblerna: Jeirst, sanitagion; sec- ond, enforcing exerciee sutticient to main, tam vigorous health; third, supplying 0, natural variety or foods. When rowis are kept in confined yard space both the acmes and the outdoor uns must be kept in a sanitary condi- tion. This 'really means notning more than keeping them clean. How erten to clean is a aebatable questIon, and the answer largely depends upon the climate and partiiy upon the encironment. The ideal housekeeper cleans every day; so does tho ideal poultrymen. Unsanitary conditions of any kind must not be tolerated, especially during -warM months. Daily removal of all refuse ie advisable, since it greatly reduces tho clanger cd disease and or the multipli- cation of lice and mites. Clean iloors, clean nests and even clean walls are con chicly° to health. The litter on the floor and In the nests* should be removed and burned every two or three weeks, depend- ing upon weather, size of the flock, eto. At this time the house should be spraY- ed with a...good mite killing disinfectant. Many good disinfectants may be pur- chased. Those who -wish to manufac- ture one may use whitewash or kerosene, with enough carbolic acid to give tho mixture a distinct carbolic odor. Spray- ing is by far the quickest method of ap- NiTtin.ppbltied .4. • The Chair of Torture. The most prominent building in the aatient city of NureMburg is the cas- tle One of its two towers was uSed :1t1is reciulred hntil..4ra, emulsion also is an excellent mite kill- er, and with the addition of carboic acid becomes a disihfectant. Boost and nests need an 'application more often than the rest of the house. In the warm- est weather paint or spray tho nests and roosts with these mikteres every ten days or so, while mice a month will do for the rest of the building. A tender forage crop which will answer the double purpose of purifying the sail and. absorbing and turning' to e.ccount the fertilizing value of the fowls' drop- ping should be sown. This crop will be soon consumed or uprooted, and there- fore, 1t Is advantageous to have at least two yards for each flock. In this way green food is S3upPlied constantly with the least possible labor. Por quick growth sow oats or millet, although al- most any email grain will answer the purpose. It Is well to sow winter rye or 1Vileat late in the summer in one of the yards, so that a. supply of green food may be early in the spring. The method of feeding sheuld be such that the fowls are compelled to take a normal amount of exercise. Exercise is essential to the health of the hen, but if the hen has plenty to eat sho has little inducement to exercise. Unless she is in tile best of health she will not lay, hence the need of exercise, reed- ing small grains In litter is the most gen- eral practice. To feed sparingly at rnorn- ing and noon and give a full meal at night is a good rule. linterniSe of the most vigorous kind may be induced bY burying the grains in the earth. This is generally done after the fowls ate on the roosts. If given grains In po other 'why the fowls will be eager to dig them up. The amount of exercise that the fowls will be compelled to take depends upon the depth at which the grain is burled. Every populat. poultry keeper has his method of feeding and his individual preference as to graina. Corn, wheat, oats are mostly commonly fed, but to theae barley may be added. 'Whole corn is almost too heavy and too hearty for the fowl . on range and certainly should not be fed to those closely con- fined. Wheat at present prices is al - meet prohibitive and, barley may be used instead. Dry mash can be fed economically only henners. metre: should, end In many cases will, comprise a conaider- able portion of the diet, if these are rich, that ie. enetttin mneb t.lereity ree, tee .he dry mash should be light or bulky. Table scraps usually consist of pastry, vege- tables and meats and the atnount of eaeh ehould be roue•hly considered at nest In making up the dry mash. It usually pays to chop tho table waste to a semi-eintil state, add to this a little bran, corn meet, ground, oats or a little of the already ntlxed dry mash. After mix- ing all thoroughly wfille dry add a little boiling water, mix to a motet but crumbly state and feed warm, but not hot, If they are fed liberally with such a maeh the fowls+ will not exerciev, Therefore, when table waste forms a large part of the daily ratios% it sheet?i be fed at night rather than in the morning. The fowls will then Come from the roopts with empty crops, ready to rustle the litter e-e-Offele.-4-0.44-11ela Things You Ought To Know Pittsburg Hebrew Inetitute erect - lug headquarters building to cost $100,000, Duchess of Manchester will beild, a hospital in London to cost $1,000,000. Chicago averages 0,000,000 tele- phone calls a day. New Yorit's Statistical pay yell tea 1915 calls for $108,000,000. London In 1914 had 6,410 tires, Buffalo ie to bave A. new Labor Temple. More titan 250,000 seals ore yearly killed off Newfoundland coasts. An electric fire alarm siren invent- ed by a Denver man bas been beard 11 miles. A seedless totnato a large eize has been bred by aa amateur horticultur- ist in California. Coffins are being made a paper in France, cheapness eud lightness beilla their advantage. The vast forest areas ot Russia in Europe will cover nearly 000,000,000 acres, or 36 per cent• ot the entire area of the country, are aptly tertned "Wooden Russia." The total nuraber of visitors to the Panama Pacific Exposition hat: reach- ed 11,000,000. The serfs of Russia were liberated fifty years ago in March by Alexender He grandfather of the present Czar. These serfs were not sasses to be bought and Bain; they eould only be traesferred with the land they tilled. The ukase of the Czar gave freedora to 50,000 serfs in the Russian Empire. Fort Riley, Kane has the distinction of being the geographical centre ot the United States. Boston has a population of 725,828 according to a State census taken this year. deteriorate by enabling the bacteria to Multiply raptuly. On a back but or in confined area the care of Young chicks is problem that is not nearly as easily solved as the care of grown birds. Pastures not runs, is what a chiciceu needs to be grown economically as well as .healthily. There. fore duplicate natural conditions as near- ly as poesible by compelling exercise as with grown fowls and furnish, subtitutes for the ,green fooda and insets. To be entirely rid of rats a good att. must be kept. When tbe neighborhood is overrun with rodents every mewls of prevention must be used. Uraln must be kept in rat proot containers and fed in rat proof hOppers. Starve the rats out and they will disappear. To over- feed in the litter means a meal or more for the rats. Put the chick houses away from other buildings and. mime the coops above the ground sufficiently high to lot the light underneath. No rat will etay there. To get a nonschicken eating cat raise one. or more kittens with the chicken& Poisons may be used by placing them tinder wire cages so constructed that rats may enter but fowls and chicks cermet. Cement walls which extent two feet or mere below the ground lovel and a foot or more about the surface do much to keep out rats. Pine wire nailed to the sill and extended two or more feet below tho ground level will also keep the rats out. Covered *windows are about the only pro.. tection abainst bad, cats. Methods of preventing and destroting mites have already been given. Body lice may bo destroyed by using any of the many good kinds of lice powder on the market or by applying a littlo finely powdered sulphur through the fluffy feathers at the rear of the body. A. little lice powder or sulphur in the nests is a Preventive. A dust bath of coal ashes will assist in eliminating body lice. -43 • THE HOUSE Or THREES. potatoesi tem -s th heel, the sYstem in geed for or hi the other served as or match in the earth to secure their teed like tantsage or oil meal is ettSfidttO Talilt)t, in whose possess Plinlisecretiattute/o 1" ret oh, espechilly If 0, ittio cone etre ed balance the starchy nature of the Dote,- t its now lie, Ono of them was Om Imagines, forsooth, that wo Shall de- Iti15,1egre.git/ordaYatitli green foods already Inentiohed,• ground Moving pietures lave un c ion these rel- Intone ore green arid eniznal foods. The St. Louis holds fourth position, not only in matter of population, but also as a manufacturing centre. Krupps' works, ,the great German. gun manufactory, le said to cover 1,000 acres of ground. - Even before the war rush commenced the firm were employing 60,000 men at their main works at Essen, and thousands of oth,. ers in their collieries, ship -building yards, and private testing grounds. It is estimated that over 40,000 cannons are turned out every year. She& his 21st birthday, June 23, the Prbace of Wales has been one ot the richest princes In Europe. He then eame into the unrestricted possession of the revenues arising from the Duchess of Cornwall and Lancaster, which were settled on him by Act of Parliament at his father's accession. Those revenues during the past few Years, owing to a number of leases on the London estate having fallen in, have increased enormously and are estimated to amount to £2,000,000 $10,000,000 yearly. Curious Architecture of England's Most Peculiar Building. The most peculiar house In the Un- ited Kingdom is probably the trian- gular one at Rushton, in Northamp- tonshire. Its design is supposed to typify the trinity. ' Thee singular building has three stor- ies, and each etory has three win- dows on each of the three sides, whtle each of the windows in two of the three storiee is in the shape of a tre- foil—the three leaved shamrock. ln each of the other windows there are twelve panes, arranged in three fours, and the patios throughout are trian- gular. Three gables rise on each side, and from the centre, where their roofs meet, a three sided chimney sur- mounted by a triangular pyramid ter- minates in a large trefoil. The smoke issuee from three round holes on each of the three sides of the chimney. Three Latin inicriptions, one on each side of the house, have each thirty letters, while over the door there is another Latin inscription of three words, the English of which is, "There are three that bear record," and on each side are the carved fig- ures of three angels bearing shields. Inside the house each floor contains three three -sided a•partments. The length of ee.ch of the walls by out- side men-surement is thirty-three feet four inches—that is, exactly thirty- three and one-third feet. — London Televaoh,. Pittidelothes Man—Come, seer, jump in and have tench I know' where eve can get dims° meal for 60 'cents. Officer Mulrooney--Not loife. I git euougb. coarse h.ome these days! IN Tilt CLUTCHES Of RHEUMATISM The Great Suffering of a Calgary Lady Before Relief Was Found. ..ampamitsoniipmaimempoom.rolaemsolporsmall,./....."••••••••••••••• HOW MEN DIE IN BATTLE. (Buffalo News.) THE NEW BRITAIN ...41ronn.enworwro. The war,' whicn traustorralug everything, late tranefernual Englend. Oit,urboptniwiteleloarnes today, wo weoeelhltvtoor itottiatoliti be' Again, the same people with the IMMO conditions and the same days Qt looking at things that we were a year ago At the first touch of war the antag- onisms of party ehrivelled up. TheY :ortxr% prretfb."emosbibellrininghotwmaornel.y Gateteata )31ral'• tab, as never before in her history, became a pelitleal Unit The elate wits wiped clean at it stroke of all the bar. ren animosities and contentious of faction. In the House et Coraraons, but latelY wilirlpool of strife, and throughout the coulary, where passion only a few daye earlier •bad been wrought up to little, if at all, below bluotielluogodpoototicheen,coneord, was absce A getteratioa hence we may again have puttee in Britain. 1Vleanwhila we are heading straight, if not for 4 dictatorship, at least fee some Bert if Men who tile in battle ale eery reach ComMittee Pulylio Safety wall all This, theft, Is one of the first re - hut •absolute Navel's. Halts of the war for Great Britain, The country has found out, is disen- chanted with, and utterly revolts from the politiciens and their party game. It will not return to the old moorings. It will, on the contrary, insist on some very radical changes iu the brae ard methods and machinery of our pliblic life, But the political unity of the nation, induce4 by the outbreak of the war and coufirnaed by all that has happen, - ed sin.ce, found a far more momentous counterpart in a social unity, One or the compensations of war is its virtue as a purgative of self. It has vilibly in tae past twelve months drawn all classes closer together and evolced it 'spirit of genuine fraternity. Melt and poor beneath the compulsion of a com- mon afflication have realized that they are all alike Britons and bound as such to stand together and help one another and the nation through the storm. We are not a social •democracy be- fore the war. We are well on the way towards becoming one now. We :Os .1! be one before the long -distant peace is concluded. Already some. three mil- lion of our best men, *awn from every occupation ana every rank in life, have mingled with one another, have lam ii - ed to undereta,nd and sympathize wall one another, in the new armies. Are oteter three millions may yet have to be added to them. And this great force of hard, clean men, with all the nonsense of social distinctions anoele ed out of them. trained into an equal brotherhood In the eaverest school oi courage and efficiency, Is the backbone of Britain during ;the war, and will continue to be its backbone throagh the not less anxious decades or peace, The war has fused as nothing else could have fused us into one people. Of what account is "the guinea. stamp" to -day? Gone is the vicious considera- tion that wealth has alway-s claimed and receivedan the plump security of these islands. Duke's ,son and cook's son are fightiug shoulder to shoulder; great ladies slave like barmaids at re- freshment buffets; a shopwalker arid a grocer's assistant 'wear the V. C. — the new patedt of nobility. We have learned in the first year some memorable lessons. We have learned particularly how much the State can do for the common weal that it has never done before, If the 4 - • spirit of oast° and the worship of wealth have sensibly weakened among us, so aeso has the fetish of property. Private ownershie of the services and utilities that are indispensable to the life of the community has disclosed some staggering flaws. An industrial system that still in the main regards money as the beginning and eta', of the relationship between employers and employed has bitterly and to our national humiliation revenged itself upon its creators. Is there anybody who after the ex- 'perience of the last twelve months does, not look upon the duties of the State in regard to land, rabies, and railways —to take but these examples—from an angle that would have seemed in - -credible a year ago; who does not real. lze that in the wholesomely economical and disciplined future that awaits us we shall have to pour all our resources and "Socialise," as it is called, many of our productive agencies to keep going at all; and who does not see already that the'old days of happy-goeucity in- klividualism have vanished? But another and a not bee vital rce velation of the war has been the /change it has wrought in the* states and activities of women. There weal oeople before the outbreak who said that women could not vote becattoe 'they could' not tight. We all know bet- ter nom. We all know that you cannot wage •'war without the help of women, that their fire and self-sacrifice and tompassion and organizing , tektite eale an essential part of a modern na- tion's military. strength. The war al- ready has done more for the sex than anything they could do for themselves, and in the aew Brttain which is now being hammered on its anvil—a Britran antolerant of party politics, socially re- made, pivating,upon Its citizen soldiery, Icondemned for,•Its everlasting benefit • to thrift, and pursuing, perforce, vast schemes of economic reconstruction -- time, and all ems as tittO to ehe use of The question of short versus long 1 in this new Britain women are destined Dr. Williaxas' Pink Pills. I have alto perieds of practice in tra.ining the hu• more and more to share in the oppor- tunities and responsibilities af mei.— suefered 1! ram ahaeinia and she has of Work le obviously one having fer- mata mizsoles for any particular kind THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT London Daily Mail. given the Pale to my daughter who give Dr. Welliams' Pink Pills a Der the of Olin in .archery was selected as Offers Suggestions for Fruit gained in elesh and 'become a strong, avaohieg aptilleation. Some interest - beat and they will speedily restore untrained persons were divided intet In an edvite circulated Attroughout Preserving. healthy girl." If you are Buttering trora allteummeee_ carried mit by Dr. K S. Lashley, of Ing experiments On this, subject tvere John Hopkins University. AS(14181- tteM or any Weakness of the blood all Medbine dealers or by mail at 50 woo groups. One group shot five Canada, the Fruit Brandi Departtnent arrows with the English lo•ligbow per at, Ottawa seggests as being best foe The Dr. Williams' Medicine Coe Brook- day; ahother twehty shots per day; preerving purposes, certain branle or subject of ebservation. Twepty you to 4health and strength. Sold by au the third,lOrty shots. The results peaches: St. Johns, lillbertas, Craw- ly\ ille, Ont, showed tonclusively that the group fords and Smocks, and or Bradshaevs, Gages, Lombards, Veins cents a box or six boxea for $ . y time in praotice than was required' by 717auhlee.advice is timely atel to it maY lie added that many of the most etto. Silent Tragedies. , shooting only flve tittles a day in1Prov- life of bygone days that is perceived racers the St Laairence Gran- aliko. Few eau comprehend the tragedy Wit° do not tee it, whielt is, perhaps, stance is largely robbed of its dream - just te well, gine tale actual cercune tic veneer and robbed of heroics that the artist and the writer give it. The powers of visualizatiou lio not enable us te picture a man receiving a bullet tor a principle, whose wound is cauterized by hope, Patriotism, sac- rifice, eneelfislintes and all those fine nensibilitiee that move men to death Itleafrahl. in battle than any other man of the Will Levlugton Comfort came more nearly to describing a soldier's death pen guile, tut used too nlanY words- Verchatagen came more neerly re- prezenting tne actuaelty on canvas, but Ms colors were too bright. Tho standard of dying is then some. what vague to us. But we should say the tennis champion, Anthony Wild- ing, died well. Though he was killed in action months ago, his story has just reached England. Ile commanded a tie:itch party and because his range Was imperfect he Wilt a platform to raise the eim Be- cause be would not ask anothee to ex - Prise himself to the'fierman fire lead- ing stood head and shoulders above the "dirt lino" from alie in the morn- bg until 4.30 o'clock in the after- noon, when a shell dropped into the treneh beside him, leaving not enoueli of him for his comrades to bury. Beside Lb cap and side arms, laid 'aside durfng the 'heat of action, they found a letter to his mother and this note to.tho "next Ile west:" 'Per really the first time in 71a month*. bave a job en baud whieh ils.likely to end in gen, I aed whole outfit being blown to hell, However, it is a eporting chance and it' we sue. - coed Wo will help tate infantry no end. I know the job exactly and the objects in view, from my study of them, which is the only way to play businesz or war. * "lie Just crumpled up and flew into pieces," says the comrade who carried tlee recollection home to I:Mg:laud. "The sportheg cnanee" Wile against him, but the hearts of rod:blooded men warm more than a little when they hear how ho took it when the chance came. Wilding was a splendid member of the brotherhood of courage. There is still a very prevalent belief that rheumatism is due to told or wet weather. This belief is probably due to the tact that 'when the blood is thin and watery tilers is an acute sensi- tiveness to atmospheric conditions and a ,oliange to wet weather often means a return of the excruciating pains, Rheumaasm, however, is rooted in the blood, and it tan only be driven trete the system. by •bullding up and enrich- ing the blood. Hot baths and out- ward applications of liniment may give temporary relief, but cannot cure. If the ,disease is not attecked through the blood, it simply fastens itself more firmly on the system, and the sufferer ultimately becomes hopelessly crip- pled. The truth of this is proved by the case of Mrs. Frank Ford, of Cal- gary, Alta.. Mrs. Ford says: "I was an almcist lielpless 'cripple from rheu- matism. It seemed to leave settled to every joint. My •arms and hands had to he bandaged. My 'ankles were so swollen that I had to use crutches. Atter :doctoring for a long time and growing steadily worse, ahe doctor ad- vised me to go to Banff Springs. I stayed there for eight. weeks taleing daily baths and returned home ,poorer in poOket by abtout $150 and not one, bit improved In health. I then entered a local hospital, but did not derive any benefit. I was tn such 'constant pain that I 'almost wished to die, and I felt sure I would be a lifelong 'cripple. Hams •at this stage that a friend who had been greatly benefitted by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills urged me to try, them. I began the use of The Pills and after taking them a few weeks the swelling in the Joh:to began to go down and the pain was relieved. This greatly encouraged me and I contin- ued the treatment until In the Course of three months the euro was COM - piste. I had thrown away the crutch- es, would walk anywhere •and do ray own Imusewerk, and I never felt bet- ' or In my life than I do at the Present AN OPEN LETTER r".•••••••• the Women of Canada, ,Oonoern. ing the Need for Fig1ttIng Men. A year ae,a the thunderbolt of war fell MAU us out of it clear sky! After ate first MUMMA of enrpriee and colt- fuelon had passed, we asked, "llow ;let 11118 found manY AO - Daring the year that bas passed, ewers. The trained nurse quickly Pro1 ed lit r value, Other women were called upon to organize and direct Red CroBs and elt. John Axnbulauce worlc or Patriotic Soeicties, while all gave time or money or personal sertriac itt e'n''''rlcitarcl'ilpsaltrjeltivteesfy few came the need for the supreme sacrifice—tbe eending forth. of husband, son or bro- ther to the fight. The first appeal for volunteers was limited and did not eppeur very urgent. All honor to time(' wile heard and obeyed the earli- est eali of ifaelphe aud whose women sent them forth with pride to fight ia the front rank of the Canadian fercee. To -day the ieituation lia,s changed. We have learned, atter a year of war, that. our task is hareer, our danger more real, than we thought a year ago, We have "given" gladly: now we are called to "give -up," one ser- vice must fulfil itself in 'sacrifice, .Moet urgent of all to -day is the call to give up ungrudgingly our husbands, sons and brothers. We are callee to ereate in our bomes such au atmos- ebere of self -devotion. that our men and boys may feel their resolution to qffer themselves in their countrY's lervice is sitnply what we expect of thee'll7t1le tl'oes not mean that women eitould be 'constantly urging their men to enlist, for it is doubtful if the pa- triotic persistence of a wife or Mother would produce anything but a reluc- tant and resentful recruit. The eaen of Canada have not shown themselvett lea: patriotic than the women of C4uaki)iir.aeodnalwe, ettoeisuata,skltinogulistelllvaerso wol:etehaesry our self-eacrifice is falling short of the for slur men to obey their country's call to service? 'Why is tbe calla° urgent. now? The answer is simple: it is because our existence as an Empire is at Itelt went into war to keep our sol- etnn pledges tq our allies; and this •reason still holds good. But there are now • other reasons which did not exist a year ago. Bel- eium with her rataged land and ex - led people cries aloud for juatice. What do Canadian women say to the epeeale of her outraged women 'and nottilated children? They have suf- fered for us: what are we willing to euffer for them? The women of France and Russia end tlte United Kingdora have long ago heard the appeal to give up their men, and have responded noby. What gui Canadian women do? Beyond the keeping of our pledged word, the woes of Belgium, and the example of our Allies, there comes to us to -day the knowledge that tve are called on to fight our own battle; not to send help to Belgium or France or even England, but to fight for our -tell national existence. We are told by the men who know that wo eaanot win in this war with - quit? n‘Torehmoiedn. back our men, we are courting defeat: and defeat means, not vague misfortune to the Empire at large, but a very practical result of a Canada governed by Germans. Do we want to know what. that would mean? Then let us look at Belgium and learn. how the yoke of tile conqueroe galls the neck of a freedom -loving people. Defeat would mean for us a period of bitterest shame and discontent, and then,. an- other war. Can we risk it? We are risking it it we do not make the path of service easy for our men. But the most compelling call for service rings out from the graves of those who on the fields of Flanders, at Langemarck and Ypres, and Festu- bert, have blazed the trail to glory with their life blood, Can we. make their self -surrender of no avail by holding back the men who would take up and complete their splendid task? There is a saving which is losing: Is it worth "saving" our men .from death if we lose their reepect? There Is a loss which is gain: even though • we learn to face "Desperate tides of the whole great world's anguish, Forced through the channels of a slit-, gle heart." We are called to scale the gleaming peaks of :solaisacriSce in the come pany of our brave sisters of the Al- lied natioes, dorat will the women of Canada • .THE GREATEST RAILROAD. Africa's Famous Capp to Cairo Line Will be Unique, When all the great railroad trunks of the world have been built, a decade or two hence, four of them will appear upon the map in heavy black, indicat- ing that they surpass all others in lin- portance. These will be: The Pan- American, from the arctic wastes of Canada to the Strait of Magellan; the Transsiberian, from the Atlantic to the Pacific across northern Europe and Asia; the Tranepersian or some other line, from the southeast of Europe to India, and the Cape to Cairo. The Pan-American and the Inclo-Ete mean railways may surpass the (Jape to Cairo as commercial arteries, and the Transsiberian will doubtless fig- ure more potently as a strategic line, but for the sheer interest of the coun- try traversed—for the picturesque vari- ety and romantic appeal of the pano- ramas running like double cinemato- graph films past the car windows—the 'great African trunk can never know a rival. Six thousand miles across 65 degrees of latitude; a score of climates, and the leads of a hundred different peo- ples or tribes; the second longest of the world's rivers and two of its larg- est fakes; the greatest dam ever built, conserving water for the world's richest lands; the most imposing and ancient of 'all temples; the greatest waterfall, and the most important gold and dia.mond mmes, end finally one of the last great expanses of real wilderness, the only oboe in the world where Vhe wild beasts of the jungle may be seen in their primitive state from a tradn—all these seen, traversed or expealenced in twelve days! Surely there can never be another such rail- way as this.—Lewis Freeman in World's Work. Why Athletes Get "Stale." eessful mokers of most:ries have fee tether elf other groups for the Immo eietere bolded on securine front Oar d S ar (Pure Cane). Cu in aecuracy with less eXpenditure ot It is only the life of violence, the Mulroon- by aearly all our tragic writers, attd amount of improvement. A report on late lig with. nte. ,tnily one may say that anachronittne on yer matic art dates baek Ma many years of Practice continuing for manY dart food at ne the art of sculpture. To the trag- 18 in accordance with the results Of ic author it is only the violence of lhabitS in Men, the length of praotice ly great effieleney of ellen periods fettelgteatioiriundgellijasmu,gitarna v4iti.1 Lstattgetiter; It Is well-knowri that the elightest or - the experirnents says: "The relative - "wen dominates the stege, and that dra- Sugar which tests ovor 99% pure hag mov- er failcd the housewife. (4redin*s every - Where eon fill orders for tills sugar. The best way to buy It is le the original seated naoltoges 2 or 5 lbs, cartons, le, 20. 25, rind 100 113.41r.r. Girls' Banks fit Germany. There is a, kind of savings bank 'for girls In Gerituoly which might well be Arnitetted In ttils country. on the birtlf a a girl the pe.rents can insure her in one of these banks for a sum that will gixe the child on the completion of her vighteenth year a smell capital to start in life with, to follow her profession or 'finish her Studies or to servo as a dow- n. ellrionS ganle, Wagg—Yea,- it's or in the event of her Martiage. The annual pretnium Is a fixed Sinn and 1.:11rtititegi!tbaelran qua ' sildit, AA after the : id a burden. it certainly must prove it coMparatively light aad scateely prey60 ti011ill; hail proeeeded some distance the, the r a deal, and the grpontee tend tO pin no. faith on your Sleeve. . great hole to a. girl when she arrlycli at tee age of discretion to find herattli num. lailma:igict suddenly fell to pleces,—Chigag6 auto.b ide' —New 'York American. et. uoule olobe-Zenteetek trees of a *outs Mee feu! of hat cent- - * the etory of animals and of speech the aneedote that appeals. And he ' chair of torture. It ivas very lletttr- gather' on range, but nrobably they -.itIvilill periods required is ueually too great d t th lb N- with blunt topped alfalfa or elovt. b dd URI epparently for the study of rapt& light it witnessing the very same of barberians, With whom Murder, centsi per bushel—it ig lust poesible that i P11.0tograpliilig BulIetS. tOuS, At the Ttri00 mentioned—namely. ' matte and studded over the seat Unit d pose'. acts that brought joy to the hearte Mittlnillin cdlielelleY2) not in a full measure. lienides the 23 llv fully on good results would be obtained I ttn a e maY 0 ed to the es . An Ancient Phrase. supply of potatoee and pure/menu* suchdi mf rt However, the greateet deficieney le 'most able of making platures at the rate. Of 0 • - tame° and treachery Were matters h • i The frequently quoted "I do not Pin bY dieposing of at rout a part oo the ; &hikes, To st`taM Vtestill WaS tightly mash or fresh vegetables; may be steed, ly moving objects. An apparattla cap - tootle ae raiddlinge. tankard and oil meal ' bound and ti , an n a shortme s .o o likely to Miter in the 011POIY antmel 100,000 a second has been made. With of daily occarrence, w ems. t ar iny 'faith upon your sl d eve" is trace Them* fed in the forin of slop to Bokt8 begEth to manifest itself and in time food. A substitute for this defielen4, it egyenty-tWo Satires of a revolver fig= bloodshed, battkery and 1 r 41 diet were taken while the bullet moving •word thrust 'nett theelives °airiest ef In sentiment to feudal times, wheel the durine the :gestation period. However, if • became unbearable. During its con- ucred ands wholesome; but green bone ten incitee. Pictures ora bullet passing one lista a cooker on hand, so that pota-' tinitance the torture was increased in fed sparingly when :meet; milk, godd speeetiiii a etick of wood showed a cure: us flOW on and tears "are ted, illOTO 110 querition but what the I ing passeA between the legs aria lintel easily Obtained. ftbl alt 1) the that stick an woe( During the warm weathee especatilv if ou its way 'before the, tvood ;VINO Valdritttal.—Maeterlinek. foot!0 1114 (1, small outlay of laher and several ways by meant; tif wedges be- any forM If cheap, and other pre; ara- lotio condition. The bullet Pane% e°111- te-day; teed invisible and. almost Welt Can tie boiltel And mixed with other 1 partisans Of a leader used to wear las badge pinned upon their eleoVes. Sometimes these badges Were changed for spetifle purposes, and persons learned to doubt; Melee the phrase, "You wear the badge, but I do not ite- suer of it email quo.ntity daily will hrieg '13 reere being applied to the tharabs ft mak, hied is kept in 0111'11.4..1e s tlgise w1V aigne of distress; then Amite tirty; ehouid bo toilette:1 two of three trinee Wigg.-18011tling (laity, as snarly Irene are broody at this time. The germs' of fiegge left undee these hens are likely to atart. Mere - over. Mitt aulakly causes the easta to ..eeeeee-ee•eee peed re...Wee even when they are worth out wedding A cards sel emits; per bushel. UelltlI they began to bleed. 1 raltlif Nr11,VS AND VIEWS. retould tide admonition be heeded. I'll te, th,.1 beqt calves. More than Mrek, I IWO l'il solvow, and endless 10 Joy. -- 0. 114 DUEL IN AIR Eye -Witness' Account of British Victory. A private in the Leicestershire Regi- ment gives the following description iti it letter home of the bringing down of a German aeroplane east or 'Mlle- beice oa July 25, which vas reported in a despatch by Sir John French: I was seated in the doorwuy of my dug -out admirteg the elliltlel; Anti Waithillt; the aeroplanes. Suddenly noticed on0 of ours aud 11 German ono naParently manoeuvring for Positions. The excitement was intense—weeder- ing who evottal get higneet lira. Then eta of the gouts mother of .aur -air- men absolutely hurled lammet at the Taube. When! I have neeer seen anything mate so fast. Ile •eame like a tlash—like itawk after he quarry. We then anew that it Was all over, Crack, crack, crack went our nuues machine gm, and he also dropped a bomb. Immediately the Taube, set lire, turned upside down, throwiegeut the observer, whom we could plainly see tumbling down, turning over mei over, while the plane came 'gliding down and trashed into the earth, a mess of flaming wreckage. This makes the third plane I have seen brought down, but thie was the most awe-inspiring, for It Smelled ft real fight, and it happened vo close, too, And that rine of ours; it must Lti vied: n going over a hunared miles ter hour; and the -other onet latel just iltaoeolidobtaithiinotf the GerMan, Obit, busy ttit our other ar-