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CHAPTER XL—(Cont'd) brisk encounter with Mr. Murdock -
Patrician in every fibre, Doro-
thy's whole nature was jarred by
this embodiment of vulgarity, and
the strange, sinister look which
flashed occasionally from his glit-
tering black eyes,
seemed to warn
her that not onlywas the parvenu
objectionable, but he could be dan-
gerous, also.
"Thank you," she replied, coldly,
"I will not trespass on your kind-
ness, Mr. Orawshaw. My cousin,
or one. of the grooms, will satisfy,
me, I know."
Crawshaw's brow contracted, and
the smile turned to an ugly expres-
sion; but he said nothing; and Miss
Leicester, feeling an irrepressible
sensation of satisfaction in that she
had snubbed him, turned again to
Lord Merefield, and to his intense
"delight,. mitered into a brisk eon -
venation.
"I should hate to let that man
do anything for me or for Nancy,"
she thought to herself. "I should
have a horror that, instead of doing
her good, Dr. Knowles would make
her worse, if Mr. Crawshaw went
to fetch him.. How I wish he would
go home! I can't bear to see his
swarthy face and black eyes about
the place. I feel sometimes as if I
could strike him, when I see him
patronizing dear old dad in the
horribleway he does. What on
earth has come over Aunt Anne
that she should be so civil to him.
Brute! I suppose I am very un-
ladylike; but I can't help it if .I
And having arrived at this con-
clusion, Dorothy arose from the
table.
"You will 'excuse me, Aunt
Anne ; I am going into the grounds
to ask Murdock to cut me some
grapes for Nancy. Come along,
Merefield, I want you."
Mr. Crawshaw looked across to
Mrs. Darnley as they were alone.
"Miss Leicester _•tlon'b• yxetly;
cotton- tc'me • yet," he said, with a
sneer.
Mrs. Darnley gave a shiver at the
• words and tone, but made no re-
ply.
"However," continued the mil-
lionaire, as he poured out a strong
dose of brandy and water, "that
don't trouble me much. I can do
without her. Perhaps she'll be a
little more civil to me in the Id -
tem"
He laughed a hard, triumphant
laugh as he spoke.
"You have succeeded admirably."
Mrs. Darnley's voice was soft,
and now she rose from her seat and
moved to the open window, with
her usual haughty air.
I suppose you do not intend to
risk any delay or—"
"Or, •don't be feared, your son
;S safe!" sneered .Crawshaw. "His
reign is over, for goodandall, and
I don't mean to delay any longer
than I like."
Mrs. Darnley was silent for a mo-
ment.
"You gave her the letter1" she
asked, hurriedly, after a pause.
Crawshaw nodded and smiled
once again.
"That was a clever thought of
yours," lie said, coolly. "'Pon my
fiord, you're a born conspirator!"
Mrs. Darnley's handsome face,
flushed; she bit her lips, and looked
oat of the window. Then, as if a
sudden and nnpleasant thought had
just come. she turned to him..
"What if she should go up- to
town, aril---"
Crawshaw strolled across to her,.
his hands plunged deep in his pock-
ets.
"She can go, if she likes; she
won't get no satisfaction from her
journey."
"You mean 4"
"I mean that by this time Mr.
Henry Chaplin and his wife are
well on their way to Australia at
my expense, had luck to him!"
"To such love as yours, what
matters a few pounds more or less 1"'
observed Mrs. Darnley, sneering in
her turn :' now, and with that she
stepped out on to the terrace and
'sailed majestically away.
Crawshaw muttered something,
then lounging through the window,
went off to the stables: He felt
more at home there than in the
house, and he could pose as a great
man over the grooms, who a' few
weeks before would have barely
considered him an equal but who
now bore with his rough,brutal
ways with patience and equanimity,
though. perhaps, Mr. Clsawabaw
would have been not very well
pleased --and amazed --if ho had
heatcl a few of the remarks passed
on him when he had safely ditap.
peered,
"T shall take'Orate up Nnn
er " Dorothy said, as she retraced
her steps, hearing a huge bunch of
exquisite gratenteen trophy of her
"and then Loan come down and
tell you if I want you to go for
Dr, Knowles, Merefield. You will
wait for me here."
- Whore and when would not Lord
Merefield have whited for his cou-
sin? He was overwhelmed with his
good fortune,and felt almost sn-
olined to bless poor Nancy's ill-
ness, for'Dorothy had rarely been
so 'sweet to him before.
'"11 Aunt Anne asks for me, say
that you don't know where I am,"
she commanded, as she moved
away. "Thank Heaven," she com-
muned with herself, "Derry returns
to -night. I am always afraid of
Aunt Anne when ha is not here 1"
She smiled to herself as she went
up the broad, old-fashioned stair-
case, and then the smile died away
as she came to Nancy's door and
knocked at it softly. There was no
sound from inside, -and putting her
hand on the knob, she turned it
slowly and gently, only to find that
the key musthave beenturned in
the lock, for the door would not
yield. '
Her first feeling was one of alarm,
her second one of'pain. Nancy had
never barred herself from her in
this way before. Dorothy's loving
heart was vaguely hurt, and alto-
gether there was something strange
about the whole affair which she
could not understand.
As she stood there hesitating, her
maid came out ofan adjoining
room.
"I beg your pardon, Miss Dor-
othy," she said, in a whisper, "but
I fancies Miss Hamilton have drop-
ped off to sleep. She said as how
I was to give you her love, and
say she should try and get a. hour's
rest if she could."
"Oh, very well Baines; see that
there is no noise made outside the
door. 'I do not want her to be dis-
turbed," and Dorothy, giving the.
grapes,to,the -ma-i seemed and re-
-aced her steps slowly.
Something very like a tear grew.
in each eye. She had become so.
linked to Nancy—their simple lives
had been drawn so close together
during the last few months—that
she felt strangely rebuffed and sor-
rowful at the first break in their
affectionate intercourse.
"I know I don't 'know anything
about nursing as - she does,', she
said to herself, "'but I—I think I
could have done some little thing'
for her .if she would only let me go
in."
Then, as she went downstairs, she
cleared the shade from her brow,
and brushed any reproachful
thoughtfrom her heart.
"She does it because she knows
wouldfret if I. saw herand,
ill;
after all, she is best asleep, clear
Nancy. She will probably be quite
her old self to -night."
If Dorothy could have penetrated
the thickness of the door that di-
vided her from her friend, the feel-
ing of anxiety and pain' she had suf-
fered at the bare suggestion of ill-
ness would have been intensified
beyond all description.
Nancy was not asleep ; she -was
not even on the dainty, white -hung
bed where of late she had passed
such happy nights, visited by girl-
ish, joyous dreams.
She was .sitting on a low. chair,
her red -brown tresses strewn in
rough disorder on het shoulders,.
her two small, cold, trembling
hands supporting her aching head;
her two large, lustrous eyes fixed
on the carpet at her feet, with as
expression so strained, so unna-
tural, that at ono glimpse the
blot -it -est intelligence might have
,read the despairing agony that
crowded her breast.
How she struggled from the rose
garden to the safe haven of her
own room Nancy never knew. She
hoped to have escaped detection,
more especially from Dorothy's lov-
ing eyes; but to her sorrow that
was not to be.
The first free moment she had
from Mrs. Darnley's strangelyy per-
sistent claims on her courtesy,
Dorothy flew up to;Naney's room,
and arrived just in time to see our
pour heroine stagger, rather than
walk, up the stairs, with her white,.
fixed face, and horror-stricken
eyes.
Her dismay, as we know, was
more than great; and Nancy had
to curb her agony to try and soothe
the golden haired girl, who had
never seemed so dear to her as now,
in this, the most supreme sorrow
of her young life-
But ono Dorothy was gone, and
the key was turned securely in the
kelt, Nancy hail no further need of
restraint, and with one broken
moan she flung herself into the low
chair, trying in vishi te still the'•
nein' in her her burning . throat and
temples;and and to steel herself. kr
themot, to Darltley's return.
Derry! Ah, what a world of
misery was written in that word!
"Thou hadet thy short sweet fill of
half -blown joy."
The lino ruslicdto het, mind,
Sweet, indeed,'indeed it had been,
and: ;short! Born for one day, and
killed the next!
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HEALTH
A POUND TOO MUOW%.
Why had she ever known that he Ina former article we spoke of
cared for her? Why bad elle not the dangers that lie in wait for the
boon lett t„ lgiluaw.wu, 'k v overeorpulent, and especially the
known the exquisite joy that his danger of self -treatment or quack
passionate vows, his tender kisses, treatment, The advice cf a reput-
had awakened, and to realize she able physician is as much needed
must lose them now was an angu- fn tills condition as in one of acute
ish immeasurable. illness, The'reason for this is that
At one time she felt with a wild, the treatment is largely dietetic,
tumultuous throb, that the task and must be based on individual
was too great, that she could not needs, but it does not fellow that
carry the sacrifice out; then her the viotim of oncoming flesh is pow-
crless to do anything for his own
uncle s pale, worn, lace flashed to y
her mind, the memory of all he did relief, On the contrary, his des -
for her returned to clamour in her tiny lies largely in hit own hands,
ears; and. Crawshaw's cruel black To begin with, flesh -making, like
eyes shone before her, speaking most bad physical tendencies, can -
only too plainly that he would give not be attacked too early. If a de -
no mercy, and that on her, and herr termined fight is begun on the first
alone, the verdict rested. And then extra pound that appears,—begun
another vision would rise; a stern, and kept up;—the engagement will
handsome face, whose lips melted be comparatively easy. But it must
into a smile of tenderness, whose be remembered that the first attack
deep -gray orbs gazed into' hers as of fat is a very insidious' thing.
though'to search into her very heart It seems quite safe to wait a lit -
itself. Aix! how dean that vision tie before stopping candy and
was—how inexpressibly dear—gray- pastry and sweets. Your . friends
en on her soul for ever ! It was her tell you it is very "becoming." You
lover's countenance; her hero—her hear round you the pleasant words,
ideal—hers !—no, ,no; he was hers comfortable, "plump,"well-
no longer; she must shut out the covered, and a bland and fatal`
memory of those eyes, she must ease envelops you, till one day you
wipe away the image from her eatoh sight of yourself in a glans,
heart—henceforth he was nothing and lol.you are fail
to her—she belonged to another. Then you wish in vain -that you
A shuddering sigh broke from her had started to fight when there
poor, pale lips, a wan , smile played were only a few pounds arrayed
for an instant over them. against you, instead of forty. But
"But Dorothy loves him; I—I it is never too late to mend—or to
s"mend-
really have saved.her pain. what- If real! and truly make a
ever comes; that must be my coin- Y fat,
fort." bee -line for your doctor. Implore
of him a diet list and
Then the pent-up agony broke at an exercise
last—she flung out" her, arms with a sheet, and live by them. If, on the,
gesture of desperation. other hand, you are wisely taking
"Olx; Derry, Derry! My dais.things at the start, a little deter -
ling 1—my darling 1 I cannot let you nunation and restraint may serve
go; T shall die if ;I lose you now!" Y0Cut off ruthlessly your candy,
The words sank away into a cakes'pies,puddingsesslyand sweets
moan, and, erduching on the floor generally. Dnot touch a:crumb
beside her bed, Nancy hid her face betweenymeals, and learn to take
on the silken quilt, and wept such your tea and coffee if you must
tears as had never come to her eyes ake them—without sugar. Sugar in
before, even though all her early
share of life's sorrows; tears that beverages is only a habit, anyway:
sprang from a broken hestet; a As you cut down your diet you
heart brays.. strong;": ;+tle...yet must add to your exercise. Most
crushed' beneath the binder' that' Peel)?
Tied
with•tak-'
had fallen upon it. ing exercise whether they do or not.
They hear so much about it that
CHAPTER XII. ; they are convinced. they must be
doing it. In many 'cases it is a
The rest of the house party a ,r- mere farce -languid movements
rived at the Hall in good time for about the house, deliberate stroll -
dinner ;
troll -dinner; the Misses Chester were in ing outdoors. That must be
marvellous spirits, but Lady Bur- changed. Move briskly, walk fast,
ton was blandly annoyed, and Mrs. breathe deeply if you would reduce
Fairfax downright irritable, and your flesh.' Follow up the daily
the cause of this was not very dif- bath with vigorous rubbing with a
ficult to determine; neither Lord rough towel, take a course of ex-
Merefield or Mr. Crawshaw had, ex- ereises before dressing, and then
hibited the faintest wish to attend
as escort. to Lady Burton and her
fair Amazonian daughters; and in
the absence of Deiiick Darnley
Mrs. Fairfax had been left without
an available cavalier, which was as
unusual as it was annoying to the
prett" faded little matron.
Dorothy was out on the lawn with
h guests return-
ed;
whents
her Pathe
e
she had been pouring out her
anxiety to him about Nancy's ill-
ness, and both of them were re-
joicing at that very moment, for
she had just shown herself at her
window, and waved her hand to
them.
Sir Humphrey's good-natured
face wore an expression of vexa-
tion so new to it that Dorothy,
twining her arm in his, and her
mind freed from further care on
Nancy's account, determined to
know what it meant.
"It is nothing, my darling," her
father replied, hastily, but that did
not exactly please Dorothy.
"You don't look like that for no-
thing, dad," she observed; "quick,
before the others come!"
"Well," Sir Humphrey said,
slowly, "I have been a trifle asham-
ed and disgusted, that is all!"
"You 1" Dorothy's tone was pride
itself. "You ashamed, daddy !"
"I was in the stable yard just
now; I rode Cherry in there to
save Foster the bother of coming
to fetch her at the steps, andI ar-
rived just in time to see Mr. Craw-
shaw behave like the brute he must
be; he had chained ins collie upall
this long, hot dar. Foster tells me
he has been itching to let the poor
beast go, and then, because she
happened to jump at him, to wel-
come him, 110 doubt, he kicked her
so severely. and so savagely. that
I am much afraid it will be all over
with her."
(To be continued.)
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WESTERN RN ASSURANCE
COMPANY
(armiam .AND M.11,f1,2NHU
INCORPORATED. A.D. IASI
HEAD OFFICE - TORONTO
Statement for the Year Ending December 31et,.1910
Fire and. Marine Premiums $2,699,598.6o
Interest and other. receipts' ....,, 76i531.63
$2,776. Igo. 28
Fire and Marine Losses r..r $1,602,537.79.
Fire and, Marine Expenses...... 950,893.80'
$2,553421.59
Profits 9n Year's Trading ...... ,.,.....,...: $222.698.6,1
Assets $2,213,438.28
Unearned Premiums and other Liabilities ................. t.513.385,6z
Surplus to Polio holders...,r... , ,.,, . t 01.700,062,6$
Losses Paid Sinop Organization of Company,.,,., .Ss4,009,727.18
UIRsCsORS.
President, Hon. CEO. A. COX. Vice -President, W. R. BOOK.
nobt, Blokordike,.M.Y.; B. W. Cox, D. B. Hanna, John Hoskin, HAL, LLD, Alumlaird, Z. A. Lash, N.C.LLB., W. B. Moikle, Geo. A. Maltuw, Augustus 'My.re,
Frederic Nicholls, James Herr Osborne, Colonel air Henry Pellote, C.v.O., 0.. R, --
Wood,
W. B. MEIKLE, General Manager. C. C. FOSTER, Secretary
THE FARM
Useful Hints for the Tiller of the Soil
SPRAYING.
Two classes of enemies attack
fruit trees and plants, viz: insects
and fungous diseases. The appli-
cation of substances, usually liquid,
to the tree or plant for the purpose
of preventing or destroying these
constitutes spraying.
We spray to destroy insects and
to prevent fungous diseases. Spray-
ing is.no„longer an experiment. It
is an established fact that intelli
giving rise to threadlike projections
which penetrate the plant's tissues.
The main fact to be borne in
mind is -this: The spores which may
be present in innumerable numbers
may be destroyed .or their german-
ation -prevented by the application
of certain substances known as
fungicides, while existing as spores
on the outside of plants, but after
these have penetrated the tissue of
leaf, stem .or root, spraying is of
allclay long treat yourself as the no -avail. In other words spray -
policeman treats the tramp -with gent and persistent spraying' always ing fol' plant .diseases mast be
the order to "move on: —Youths pays. The 'effects of spraying arefwholly prevention.
Companion. cumulative. The effects of spray- I, The following formula for. Bar-
ing last year and this year may re deaux Mixture is used as 15 pir-
IN EXERCISE IS•HARMFUL stilt in an increased -yield next ventiveof fungous diseases, as.po-
tato year. An.instructive.bniletin issued tato' blight, apple scab, etc. Yari
"Office workers should not take by the Wisconsin Horticultural So- l ous formulas are quoted, but the
after their day's
exerciseclef has .following n to sag re -
Y work," y, the � g y following is now accepted as safe
says Dr. E. A. Walker of Boston.
garding spraying: The
in
insects af-
'and reliable •
"The root reason is that though fecting "fruit• may be divided foil Copper sulfate, five pounds; fresh
headwork is not exercise in the convenience into two classes, which lime, five pounds; water, 50 gallons.
sense that it develops the body, it are distinguished by their mode of I Either arsenate of lead or. paris
most decidedly is exercise in that feeding, vfz, : eating or chewing in green may be safely combined with
it quickly induces fag and physical sects and sucking insects. bordeaux Inixtlire. In fact, in all
lassitude. So it is almost pathetic
for a man to expect any good to
come from taking more exercise
when the exercise involved` in the
day's work has already tired him
out.
"Osie takes it that young people
have had sufficient outdoor exercise
reasonably to develop their frames
before beginning' office work. ` So
when once they have started in. the
office in earnest it is . much . better
for them to realize at once that their
days of hard physical strain are
over and that henceforth they must
confine these efforts to .week ends
and holidays.
"Tho body and system easily at-
tune themselves to circumstances
even to overcivilized andconse-
quently rather unnatural circum-
stances, and indoor headworkers
will soon find that a good state of
health can be maintained -with little
or no exercise."
WESTERN ASSURANCE.
COMPANY.
The Year 1910 a Good One for This
Company.
Oa this page will be found a re-
port .of business done, profits,,made
and losses sustained by the West-
ern Assurance Company during
1910. •
The year's premiums amounted
to $2,699,598.00, which, with inter-
est and other receipts, totalled
$2,776,120.28 as the ydttairf!evenue.
Eire :and Marine losses were $1,-
602,537.79, expenses '$050,883.80 —
total expenditure $2;553,421.69, The
year's profits were $222,898.89...
The assets are now $3,213,438.28,
which, after deducting liabilities,
give a surplus to policyholders of♦
$1,700,052;60. This Company has
paid to palicyholdortm]nee organlz
ation in 1851, eonsfelctably oven
' lea the an
4000 000.00 In see, t
5 A
nual meeting Hon. G. A. Coit vial
re-elected President sial -Mr. 'W. It
Brook, Vioe•Proutiontt
Eating insects consume the af-
fected tissues, commonly the leaves,
and thereby hinder the functions of
the plant. The common example is
the potato bug or beetle. Insects of
this class are destroyed by poison-
ing their food••' Sucking insects do
not consume the external tissues of
the plant, but feed only on the sap.
In order to accomplish this the in-
sect thrusts its proboscis through
the external` coverings and ` sucks
the juices in the same way as a mos-
quito sucks blood. As these insects
s_1(5' not consume the tissue of the
leaf or branch, poisons are p1 no
avail. We must .therefore attack
the insects. This is clone by cover-
ing them with some substance which
will penetm'ate their bodies, or with
substancewhich closes their breath-
ing pores. To repeat:
1—Biting or 'chewing insects ''are
'destroyed by placing poison on the.
parts on which the insects feed..
2—Sticking insects are destroyed
only by attacking the insects, and
for this class 'poisons are of no
avail.
Apple scab, brown rot of plums
and peaches, potato rot, blight, rust
and other destructive plant diseases
are commonly ascribed to weather
conditions. Indirectly this it often
true, but neither rain nor drought
nor any other atmospheric condi-
tion is ever directly the cause of
plant diseases.
Rainy weather does not directly
cause phlnl rot, but provides ren-
ditions favorable to .the develop-
ment of the fungus," and probably
unfavorable conditions for the de-
velopment of the plum and its abil-
ity to resist the invasion of the
disease.'
Fungi (plant diseases) are propa-
gated by spores, minute bodies
whieh may float in the air and are
usually too small to be discerned
singly without using a compound
miarasc
0 e.
r
alight These spw.�es g t on leaf or
fruit and tinder favorable conditions
of heat and moisture germinate,
orchard spraying operations it has
come to be a common practice to
adcl either paris green or arsenate
of lead to bordeaux at every appli-
cation. By, this means biting insects.
and fungi are controlled at a single
operation. No other fact is more
important than this izi spraying.
Arsenate of lead is a poison for
bitilig insects and is Tess liable to
injure foliage than Paris green. It
remains longer in suspension. It
adheres better to foliage. 1t may
be used for any purpose for .'which
parrs. green is employed in liquid
sprays. The, formula is t Arsenate
'of lead, two to three pounds; water
50 gallons.
quickly stops condhs.curca col
the (brunt nud loads. • . • torsi
eCi teats.
If roup is to be good it must never
be allowed to get uold in the sauce-
pan, but must be strained off di-
rectly it is snfliciently rooked.
Boiling liquids,' jellies or fruits
may be _turned into glass without
breaking the vcssel..i£ you press"the
bowl of a spoon on the bottom
while filling. •
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household accoums are paid onee
a month, and all the servants'
wages are paid monthly, but his
Majesty's private accounts are set-
tled every quarter.
The clerk in. charge of them
makes out a statement of thio ac-
counts, which is submitted to the
King, who then gives hie cheque
for the total amount to the clerk,
by whom they • are discharged, It
may be mentioned, says The Tat-
ler, that the King never bargains
about the price of anything he pur-
chases. If the .price; charged is ex-
orbitant, the tradesman loses the
Royal custom; but this, however,
rarely or never happens.
- While household' accounts for
food, etc. are paid onee a month,
some article's aro supplied by con-
tract, such as coal. A great deal.
of work is also doi'e at Euck]nghara
Palace by contract, such as win-
dow -cleaning, chimney -sweeping
and carpet -cleaning, and the glass
frames of a number of pictures are
also cleaned under contract. •
With reference_to the private ac-
counts of his Majesty, it is inter-
esting to note that he is scarcely so
extravagant' as his father. The late
King rarely wore the same suit of
clothes more than half a dozen
times, and often only once or twice,
whilst King , George frequently
wears a snit three or four dozen
times before it is removed from the
Royal 'wardrobe. ns a matter- of
fact, King George spends a trifle
less thazl $450 a year . on clothes,
which is four or five times less than
the late King's expenditure in the
same direction. 0f course, the cost
of hie Majesty's uniforms amounts
to a considerable sum, and his Ma-
jesty is an excellent customer to
his bootmaker. For some of his
walking boots he pays as. much .as
five guineas a• pair, and his boot -
maker's bill runs to about $300 a
year.
SCOURS IN CALVES.
Infectious diarrhoea is quite dif-
ficult to . eliminate from a place.
Newly born calves should be re-
moved shortly after birth to a lot
or pen as far as possible from all
infected calves. feed boiled fresh
milk. Immediately after birth tie
the naval cord three_ inches below
the abdomen with a strong cord that
has been boiled ; thencut off the
cord below the knot one-half inch
and sprinkle over the remaining:
cord and belly some of this: Tannih
acid, one ounce; boric acid, one
Ounce; iodiform, two drams—mix
well. For the calves already in
feed, keep them away from alfaded,
others, change their pen often and
clean out all the old pens freque
t•fly. Keep the calves in clean,
place. Give onlyfresh, bof
milk -whole or skimmed—and
a
h.
tie shelled corn after the milk 0
given. Give the calves a little good
alfalfa hay. Do not depend upon
drugs, but rely upon cleanliness
freshly cooked milk and frequent
changing of the calf pens. It he
well to encourage the eating of
grainand hay; as much as possible
for the calf does not begin to xis-
minate until it has solid food in
its stomach.
RHEUMATISM IN PIGS. . _:-
Rheumatism is commonly caused
by allowing hogs to sleep in damp,
filthy and improper ventilated quar-
ters. The system of ventilation
should be such that there will bo
no direct currants of air striking.
the animals. The sun should have,
free access to the houses at all
times. This will keep the sleeping
quarters in a dry, sanitary condi-
tion.
When affected with rheunmatism,.
tiro animals generally become un-
thrifty, wed fail LO .make proper
nae of their feed, the appetite be-
comes dull, which gives rise to the
rough, scraggy coat. Prevention
should be the first aim of the own-
er, and to accomplish this, the
yards,- pastures and houses should
be made dry and clean. ])asap bed-
ding and cold floors should be avoid-
ed. If the hog house has a cements
floor,' false wooden floors should
be provided, especially in thc'sleep
lug apartment of the buildings
Other treatment is of little avail.
if comfortable sanitary quarters are•
:not :provided.
To keep the whites of eggs from,
falling after being whipped, try
•welding, while whipping, a: pinch of
ere= tartar.
-Eggs are good baked. Cover the,
bottom of a pio plate with a good:
grl1vy, broak the eggs and drop the.
whole into the gid,vy. Bake until:
the whites arc act, :;. ;
'When iutting up
school chil-
dren's iuncheens, vary the white:
wheat bread with whole wheat, gra-
hem, rye or Ilosstee neitr7s bread..
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