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'The object of title department Is to place at the ser. /
vise of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
aortioeity on ail eubjects pertaining to soils and crops,
Address all questbene to Professor Henry G. Bell, In
care of The Wileon Publishing Company, Limited, To • -
rontn, and answers will appear in this column in the order ��t....'
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Henry G. coq
II, ria --1, What is the best variety gallons of water. This should .be
of Raring wheat? Would sod plowed sprayed upon the potatoes immediate -
up lest tall be good for wheal? 2. ly after being mixed. Of eourse it is
Ifow &AT should the land be plowed not necessary to mix up all this
for yeas? Should they be sown early quani.ity at once, but keep the, stock
or lata- in the spring? 3. Do you re- solutions of lime and copper sulphate
commend white blossomed sweet cloy- in separate wooden barrels or large
er for pasture? Does it make goad pails and mix such quantities an you
need to spray your patch thoroughly.
The various sprayings should be done
about 10 days or 2 weeks apart, Add
a spoonful of Paris Green to the pail
compertrion with other wheats at of spray solution once or twice during
Guelph, and es an average of three the season and you will control the in -
ye us' test it gave a yield of 41.2 sect pests also,
bush< o
1,� t the
acro., I
° t i• , e rl
a y Currant bushes should
Lo sprayed
wheat and is giving particularly goad When the: leaves are fully out, At
rem"lt , In the West.. Fall plowed this time ,us teal sprays, such ae,
sod, iboroughly disked and harrowed, lead arsenate or diluted Paris Green
should nulls° a good seed -bed for hould be sprayed on the foliage so
wheat.. In order to insure a good as to control the leaf -eating larvae.
stand ..1' wheat, and especially a good After 10 or 14 days another appliea-
catch e,f clover and t}merthy, I would tion of Hellebore spray should be
advice you to fertilize your wheat made, Repeat these sprays if neces-
with .shout 200 to 300 pounds of ferti nary, ,
laser carrying 1 per cent: ammonia, II, II.: -1. What is the bent mixture
and 8 to 10 per cent avarlable pins- for an annual pasture? 2. How do
phoria acid, 2. In preparing the you hill smd in oats? 3. Do you re-
seed -44'd for peas, iT you are sprang commend sedan grass for hay and
plowing, do not go below five inches, pasture?
if the land is of medium loam type. Answer: --1 ..'an annual pasture
As to time of seeding, O.A,C, tests mixture giving good results at the
Rhos. that beat results are obtained lmesent time is composed of ole
when peas are planted about a week bushel of oats, one bnehel of barley
after the season opens; that is, sow attd ono -half b °1 o' rye. %ou
wheat, barley and oats about a week
before peas. Late sowings do not must avoid letting anof this grain
of the straw
give good results a peas sown lc ;wcoalme into head. Otherwise
y l become hard and woody and the
the time indicated, 3. Some stock spreading leaves of the plant will dry
nen claim that their cattle thrive on' tip, reducing the value of the pasture.
sweet do no• . Others ceticl that the' o Smut in oats can be readily con -
timeda not take f sweet clover pas- ,'trailed by dipping the seed. oats in a
tore on account of lite aromatic nil
that the clover plant contains. `I`lue;'; mixture of one pint of formalin to 21
sweet clover plant lasts for two years.' gallons of water. Prepare this mix -
It makes a rank early growth and if sure in a barrel. Put the oats in a
the stuck will eat it, an abundant fairly coarsely woven bag and lower
grr.r,•'h should supply them with a I ,
themsainto this mixture. Allow them
feed, ensi,..;eralile quantity el nutritious "" ty there 16 to 20 minutes and
then take out the bag and allow the
f
I.. ," • I base always farmed au I liquid to drain off. Empty the oats
pay'. r for all. summer? •
Answer: -1. Marquis spring wheat
• scents to be a good variety at the
present time. It has been tried in
clay item. After selling my farm I;' onto tern -
/tweed
dry floor and keep them tern-
ov+d to the city and my lot is sand.+ ed snfrielently often so that they will
Last year the blight struck my potal-I dry out rapidly. The mixture of
toes and they did not do very well. I'; formalin and water contains a very
use manure, Would fertilizer be of , penetrating gas dissolved in water.
use to make a quick growth and is This gas kills tate small seed spores of
there a special kind for sandy soil,1 she smut disease. 3. Sudan grass
Would it be proper to dreg it in the is giving considerable results under
hill or sow it broadcast? What is long season conditions in Southern
the proper time to spray currant, states. It is relatively coarse in
bushes? quality tinct is not especially adapted
Aaswur';--Oto your sandy garden growth
in season or in quality for
growth under Ontario conditions.
soil gnu would do well to work in a : you would do much better to stick to
considerable amount of leaves and a good grass mixture of clover and
strawy material. You will get good timothy, timothy, possibly adding a little mea -
results from using a moderate ambtmt i dow-fescue for hay, or if you have
of fertilizer in addition to manure and a field that you can leave in hay for
this other organic material. For i three or four years, I would advise
sandy soil the fertilizer should con- you to try alfalfa.
tain from 3 to 4 per cent. ammonia, - ,
8 to 10 per cent. available phosphoric
acid and as much potash as you can
obtain under present conditions, which
would be from 1 to 3 per cent. In
applying -the fertilizer to the potato
patch, you would do well to scatter a
light sprinkling of about 20 pounds on
a 200 -square -foot patch. When you
have opened the holes or made the
trenches, preparing to plant the no-
tatoes, scatter about 20 pounds more
fertilizer, distributing lightly along
the trenches or in the holes, Scatter
a light covering of soil over the ferti- "Hurry, son, or you'll be :the;
lizcr before dropping the potato It's half past eight."
pieces. Finish planting the potatoes
in the normal way and results should After school, though, 1 do things --
be highly satisfactory. Fly my .site or play baseball -
The blight disease is very destruc- Till I hear our Hannah call
Live to potatoes. Therefore, you When the supper bell she rings.
shouid spray your potatoes five or six After tea they light the grate,
tinter during the growing Babson, And I road there while T wait
start:hog when they are just coming For half past eight,
out of the ground. '.Cite spray ma-
terial to combat blight diseases is Seems to me I haven't read
called Bordeaux Mixture. It is Half u page, when I hear pa -
made by dissolving b pounds of lime Put his paper down, and ---"Ma,
to li gallons of, water, and 5 pounds of It's time .for John to go to bed!"
copper sulphate in another pail con- So I have to yield to fate,
tabling 5 gallons of water. Then If there's any time I hate,
pour the two together and add '^ It's half past
eaikte
cs3lark's
Half 'Past Eight.
Half past eight's the meanest time!
When I'm seated in nay chair,
And I see my breakfast there,
Then that little clock will chime!
LIP looks father o'er his plate:
Increase Yields Withoat More Labor
You cue rel.re greater ylelds tivithnut addltlauel LAND, LABOlt
tea 1?T11r, by eying velum/tete:LI fertilizer,
TIMERS b
.ran l ctiectly ,'ormulaied and ini:ecd io insure It couslaut amity of
peter feed throughout the graying scasen. All good fertilizers tercet
nurdam urainriala tlmal will tat only give the plaid. a quick start but
naval 'be conrpnuaded anal fornmlatied ern as to keep in +rowin
4. 3
terr.ughrut ilia; soannu.
'.a'„ have rhe spoelal grade c:r araiyels !4m your sree4al crop and
rem,' Let I1 -.ad sod fare bulletin and ;Meets.
Oiti't'rtRIO FERTID,II.it`..R+, l,tl�%lTl;i)
estt Tol•onto Canada.
da VIIRY back yard should be used for the eulliva ion of fruits and
vegetables" -says the Feed Controller's Bulletin. Market Gardens
a meet be worked to capacity. But all this eiTurt is wasted unless
the seeds sown are capable of producing sturdy, vigorous plants, Plant
kLauua's WarGarden Seeds and insarere a full crop!i
Cabbage pkt.. g oz. at oz, oz.) 3i lb
Dani •h bummer Psounclhead .10 0.90 2,75
Caullifdower
Rennie's Danish larouth-
Resisting 15&.25 1.00 1.85 3.5010:00
Celery
Paris Golden Yellow (f;xtra
Select) .15 •.60 1.10 2.00
Onion pkt, oz, H ib. lb.
Rennie's Rxtra Harly Red .05 .35 1.00 3.75
Radish -Cooper's Sparkler a05 .20 .65 2.20
Tornetta-.Market Iiia .10 .60 1.75
Rennie's I rnproved Beefsteak .10 76 2.50 pmt.
Pansy-Rennie's XXX Exhibition Mixture 25
Sweet Peas-Rennie's XXX. Spencer Mixture, 15
feast's rel atm-Iieunie's XXX Chameleon Mixture. 10
Stockes-Reunie's XXX, Large Flowering Globe
Mixture 20
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Our 1018 Catalogue should be in your hand by now. It is your patriotic duty
to consult it at every opportunity, Our Government Insists we must pro-
duce more. Start right, then, and be sure and sow good seed -REN NIS'S
SEEDS. Zook for the special border r bar atux in
our Cala1
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willY
P u you to do so
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BEFORE H GOES TO SCHOOL
At Iiame the Farm Child klas the Best of Opportunities to
MaSter HfS First Reading Lesson.
By Caroline Sherwyn Bailey.
We find the child, when he is they like to learn their A B C's.
three or four years old, scribbling Letters have a fascination for the
with a pencil wherever he can make small learner.
a mark, and even tearing books and The child who is learning to react at
papers. This is not due to a destruc- home needs to touch and handle let-
tive instinct but to an unexpressed tens, in this way using the sense of
desire to solve the riddle of script and touch in conjunction with the sense
printed words.
Later come more marked expres-
sions of this Ionging to read. Ile
fingers the raised letters on his blocks
and mug or plate. He tries to spell
the signs on the fences and the large
headings in the newspapers and
magazines.
Children ought to have home teach-
ing at this time. The art will come
more easily than it will later and an
early grasp of reading means the
ability to gain before school age, in-
' formation that will shorten the school
course by a year or two. any ext t} t]
He must have a wide command of I him to become familiar with the forte
language before he can decipher the of each. Sorting the letters is the
printed word.
The larger his vocabulary, the more
Mother Goose rhymes and nursery
stories he has heard, the more names
of common things and their qualities
he has been told, the more quickly he
will learn to read.
• The :farm child hes unlimited oppor-
tunity for receiving this first train-
ing in reading.
As early as possible he should know
the names of the home furnishings,
the farm animals, flowers, birds,
vegetables, tools and whatever else
he sees and contacts in his home life.
He should be able to tell. which
articles are hard, soft, colored, shiny,
dark, light, round, square, old and
new. Whatever questions ile asks at
this time should be carefully answer-
ed and he should be encouraged to
speak in sentences, well enunciated,
rather than in disconnected phrases.
The child is like a stranger in a
foreign land, trying to learn its
language and he needs the most
thoughtfullhelp on the part of those
in the home.
of sight in his teaching, Large
wooden letters in sets are most valu-
able playthings for children.
Another help is to cut letters from
a good pattern in very heavy card-
board and put these in a box that has
a compartment for each letter. Cut
a number of each letter to allow for
the child's sorting them. It will be
helpful to paste one letter in the bot-
tom of each compartment of the box
to aid in this sorting.
Let the child handle and play with
these letters first, without suggesting
raises •• t rem. Thos hems'
+text stop.
To teach the names of the letters
show the child one letter and say,
"This is A" or "D" or whatever let-
ter has been selected for the lesson.
Then ask him to tell you its name
Next, show hint two or three letters
including the one you are teaching_
and ask him to find it for you, again
naming it.
This simple method carried out:.+ !" v►acu'ia ;
with all the letters will soon teach z�yt 4 i
even a very young child to recognizey^ i
and name the entire alphabet and,
from touching and feeling the form a
of the letters, he will begin to write
thein spontaneously on his black-
board or a large pad.
Reacting a fetv simple words follow
the memorizing of jingles and play
ing with the alphabet, This, too
may partake of the gals° of play al
though it follows important educe
tonal principles.
The mother should have duplicate
of the picture books with large print-
ed text from which she has read t
tiro child and whose rhymes and shor
ententes he has learned.
Cut up these books, mounting th
ictures on heavy cardboard and back
ng each word, also, with cardboard. I
ossible have a large, heavy envelop
or holding each pieture and the
words that make tap its story text,
A short lesson in. reading each day
may begin with the child's looking a
ne picture in his book and repeat
ng its jingle, pointing, us he has
eon taught, to each word as he
pealts it. Then open the envelope
ordaining the duplicate of, this and
eying the picture in front of the
bild, help to group the words under it
s he sees then. in the .took, Name.
ach work as it is placed and enconr-
ge the child to name them too.
This exercise will be a most de-
ght£ul game for a child of only foul
ears. With astonishing' rapidity
e will be able to group more and
tare words aid recognize. and name
them.
Special teaching of words shoufd
allow that of teaching the letters,
Tell the child the name of the word.
sk him to repeat the name. Then
neottragc hint to find the word among
everal others. This method is help-
ul in teaching verba, pronouns and
repositions.
As soots as possible teach the child
o pick out the separate letters in
melt word and then sound them in
hear p innate combination -that. to,
according to the sounds of the letters.
This begins spelling and gives the
child a foundation Tor rearlieg, phone.
taeally, new \verde with which he is
not familiar,
The. old•fashinned game or ana-
grams is a wonderful help to Ilene
reading. Children met sort the
Cun0: ezed hY Pim T�
Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially Invited to write to thla
department, Initials only will be published with each question and jts answer
es a means of identification, but full name and address must be given In each
letter. Write on one side of paper only, Answers will be mailed direot if
stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed.
Address all correepondente for this department to Mrs. Helen Law, 23'6
Woodbine Ave, Toronto.
A Wheat Saver: --i ou're a very up-
to-date and prudent person, Miss
'Wheat Saver, and it's a pity there
aren't a few more women whe look
at things in the same light. Your re-
quest for oatmeal recipes is very
timely. We're getting right back to
that good old stand-by these days,
aren't we? Oatmeal and onion sopp
really tastes much better than the
name would lead you to believe. Fry
two large slices onions, Add a quart
of water, half a cupful of chopped
celery leaves, salt and pepper to taste,
and one cupful of oatmeal, Bring
to the boiling point, cover and allow
to simmer for two hours. Strain, add
two tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup
and serve very hot, Oetmeal pud-
ding is particularly rich an protein. It
i mad i
n nuc
s e h the same manner s
ea
plain rice pudding. Brie to a boil
P g g
one quart of mills and add half a tea-
spoonful of salt and one-quarter of a
eupfal of oatmeal and one quar-
ter of a cupful of brown sugar. Stir
until it reaches boiling point, Put
Into greased pudding dish and babe in
a moderate oven for two hours. As
It begins to crust flavor with vanilla
extract. Remove from the fire and
spread with a tart jelly. Both these
recipes are rather out of the ordinary
and serve as excellent dinner dishes.
Rural Teacher: -Judging from your
letter there is nothing to prevent you
from starting a school garden this
year and you will be doing some-
thing very much worth while if you
tiTrue Patriotism
13y Katherine Glover
The farmwife and I fell to talking
of neighborhood things. I told her
I had been staying at the hotel in the
near -by town and she said with genu-
ine concern, "Well, isn't that too bad
when you might as well have come to
our hotel! Travelling men who havo
been all over the country eay it is the
best in the whole of CUlla a
follow out your present idea. The From her window 1 could see the
children,ec'a1 ' you will i}ko it, especially .a.l y if 3 hotel, a mete shriek, One. could
Impress upon them tltalt tlmry are do imagine there being a friendly host
hlg it for the sake of the children of .u,lu� would make one feel much more
Invaded countries. In connection welcome there than at a hig, glittering
with one Ontario school two and a; hotel but one could hardly call it "the
half acres were cultivated last year. best in the whole of Canada." But
The total expenses amounted to $74. there was somethingso warm and
The sale of. potatoes netted $252.40, genuine in the farm woman's recam-
and of the beans, $1,44, so that after. mendatian, it made me feel sorry I
everything was paid the boys were had not put hat• famous hostelry to
$32''2.40 to the good. The total the test,.
amount of work done was 1288 hours,; That glow of local pride shining in
so that each boy received 2u cents an tit° °yes of my hostess, the faith in
hour for the time�he put in on the! the thing that is a part of one's sur -
work. Everyone who passibly ear!roundings and the willingness to de -
should grow something this year and' fend it, is one of the great world
the country school is in a }deal post- forces for good or evil. It can stir
tion to have a small garden. us to splendid, impereanal deeds for
Mrs. R. A. S.: ---Surely you are a our own cunununity or it can drug us
ie • k e < s t
littlem� en when r tin a it y
to h you v that t
to sleep lee in the face of a • •t
a.c crying needs
s
out f the question" for women t
3 g
keep pigs and that it is unrfasenable •for change through our very accept -
to osis them. Iaeten to ono woman's ancc of the ways to which we are ac-
customed.
record, Last summer she kept be--; I have been in the countries now
tween two and three hundred •pigs; struggling ill terrible wars booking
just beyond the city limits of Toronto, into the faces of the common soldiers
She has ten acres of waste ground' in France, in England and in Ger-
and buys garbage from the city in ' many, as they went back and forth to
summer for feeding purposes. Last sulci from the trenches, and into the
fall she sold seventy-nine huge' faces of these splendid wnm°n who
weighing about 9,00 pounds at an are bearing so gl,rluusly the heavy
average price of $13 each. During' ltirdens of war, I saw the same look
the year she made $1,000 in this way, of the farmwife who glowed with
This patriotic woman has five boys pride over the perfeetion of her vil-
at the front and one at home helping lige hotel. Only it is for love of
her. If one woman can do all. this. country instead of a tiny village
surely others could keep at least one; community that these .soldiers and
Prg.
words, name them and group them
into sentences. Small pictures can
be cut out and mounted and the
nouns naming each can be picked out
from the game of anagrams and laid
underneath the pictures.
In a surprisingly.short time, a child
will be constructing sentences, read-
ing them and spelling the words.
The main trouble with our attempts
at teaching a child to read at holy
in the past has been that we started
with an entire, confusing page full
of text. To begin with letters and
words simplifies reading and ac-
complishes quick results.
Two copies of a good primer or
simple first reader should be used, one
cut up and the pictures and words
mounted for constructing the stories
as in the case of the nursery book,
Soon the child will be able to read a
printed page without .the help of the
duplicate words.
Six months of this home teaching
should give him a grasp of print and
phonics (the science of speech
sounds) that will enable him to do
r
these •vvromcn are •aroused."
. - }'esterday they were just folk ills°
sample reading directly front a page ' you and me doing their village tasks
of a primer. es best they eould contributing to the
Helps to home reacting can be ob-: upkeep of their communities because
tained from the school supply shops of the lode they bore them. Then
in the larger cities. There are large almost over night their local pride be -
cardboard letters, small pictures with came that tremendously larger force,
descriptive words in Lig print on patriotism, which, roused to action,
cards to accompany them, sets of can weld peoples together fn world
Words in script and print, and large, wars, can topple kings front their
script copies for a child to trace in thrones and set up new repuldics and
learning to write. The new primers fresh ideals of democracy.
and first readers are full of bright It is such a pulsing, changing, vital
pictures and are as attractive as a hour in which we live that there is not
picture book for a child. ! one of us whose efforts are not need-
s& short period of teaching re" -ed to mold and shape our communities
ing each day will send the child to to the new developments of the times,
school, when his school days come,: We need to watch the achievements
many Ieagues ahead of the others. i of other people and other communities
One reason for a child's difficulties in , than our own, to be wakeful to our
his first school reading is the fact that' shortcomings and ready to stand
he must have group teaching. One shoulder -to -shoulder to put our neigh -
of a class, he struggles along without' borheod in rank with the mast pro -
individual instruction. Why not gressive.
give hint this personal help at home.? If you will look carefully at any
He will never learn more easily or community that has forged ahead,
from a more beloved teacher than at usually you can pat your finger on a
tome front the one who should under -i few wide-awake, active men or wo-
1
stand hum better than anyone else. I men, sometimes it may be only one,
who with their own ideas and energy
them. They were not to gad about. have started the van of improvement.
'In that same house remain, eating It is amazing how easily fired is
and drinking such things as they that flame of local pride which smold-
give' (Luke 10. 7). They were not to
ndulge in the usual custom of accept- el' within us all, It takes just s
ng invitations from the villagers, for
spark sometimes to set it going. The
t was etiquette for the people to in- spark may be lighted by nothing
vite a stranger to eat with them, one greater than a "get. -together" effort
iter another. The heralds of the among the women to bring some sort
.+aster hast no tame for such palaces'• 1 of wholesome amusement into the
11. Slialsn off the dust fora community to handle the problems
testimony unto them -This is illustrat- of two or three poverty-stricken
ed in the account of Paul and Barnes! families,
has at Pisidian Aettoch (Acts 13, 51), `'Ve are in too complex a period of
when the inhabitants had cast them
out of the city: "They sluoek off the the world's development for any one
dust of their feet against them.' This to b° able to sit entirely apart and
as a =helical action indicating settle only his or her own problem.
hat they would have no further inter We need constant sharing and eom-
course with them. 1 perison. We need to get out in the
12. Went out, and. preached that open and look around us with the eyes
men should repent -The burden of of someone else.
their preaching is identical with that! We should keep ourselves alive to
of John the Baptist and Jesus. Their': the new ideas that pour in with every
chief mission was to reach the inner' newspaper and journal sed toms to us
ife to produce change of mind, change by every wayfarer who stops at our
of purpose, change of attitude toward door. We should keep our local pride
ife, the forsaking of sin, and turn -
lig unto God, out in the sunlight, an active, stint -
13. They cast out many demons, tinting urge to development rather
aid anointed with oil many that were than shelter and pamper it until it
4ck--They closely follow all that grows narrow and resentful of any
esus did. But we have no record change:
that ,Testis anointed with oil, All his -w- e,- -----
cures, with rare exceptions, were im- home.
mediate. The only other place in'
ie New Ttestment where oil is used • Home is in a furest or far in foreign
t healing the sick is in James b. 14. I lands,
The use of oil was common an a medi-' Home is where the ..tines are or the
al specific. Its use was symbolic of • busy clanging street;
upernatural healing. :Home is where a friendly hand touches
In verses 14-29 there is given an other hands,
ecount of the murder of Jelin the Home is where there's laughter and
aptist. by Herod, The report of the, where glad hearts heat,
onderful works of ;Testis ceuecd'
erod to believe that ,Toho the` Home is flanked dry other homes or
aptist, whom he had slain, had risen; hitt° an wind and sun,
from the dead and had resumed his'
reaching, Marls gives the fullest dome is sl•ateld cwn.utiful or very
coount- of what led to John's impri- small and dear.
nnntent and his execution,
Home's where seine sail's waiting with
30, Told ham all thinly:, whatso-; a smile when, work is done,
ever they had done and whatsoever Home is where there isn't room for
ley had taught--Thepiaee to which' loneliness or fear.
ie Twelve returned is not slated. It
as probably (apernaum or its neigh- .Ittyhe home's a palace, where wide
orbood. They gave a full report. halls ar°,
oth of then leashing and their A palsies fair and baamlleii •neath
works, Nothint, i said et their sate-;
ess or or th, .11,t:,ier's estimate of skies of shoeing is uo;
wir labors, It ens ne doubt a tour Maybe test a little house set heneatiu
f profound frivol': to hie work, I a star••--
tcy no doubt rrcumded their varied' Monte is where there's laughter and
experiences and revolved from him j a kiss for you,
ino necessary cnuusel or approval; -----.-.--•.•.- -
vhleh their report reryrrirecl. dire' "This life were brattish, did we not
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
MARCH 17.
s Lesson X[. --Jesus Sending forth tate
-, Twelve-lilark 6. 7-13, 30
Golden Text, Matt„ 10. 8.
VOYSe 7. He calleth unto him the t
twelve, and began to send them forth
s by tato and two -Itis work in Nazar -I
eth being defeated, he leaves the town
attd begins a teaching' tour among the
o villages. Tho Twelve havo an af-
t ficial position, He has ]lean prepar-
The farm child has a better opport- s
unity than the city child for acquiring
a large vocabulary to help ham to p
read at an early age. The whole i
earth with its products, its varieue p
kinds of labor, its changes in color f
and temperature, its animal and its
structural life, lies at his doorstep.
He is curious and eager to know
about ail these. Tell him every- I o
thing that he desires to know about i
the farm and help him to retell it.; b
This is the foundation of home read-; s
ing. i c
The two next steps in teaching a',1
cha'.d to read are simple memorizing c
and a familiarity with the form of a
Totten.. �e
The little' chile] should have a good a
book of illustrated Mother Goose rhy-
mes and some picture books in which l.a
the rhymes or a few lines of. text are y
printed iu large text on each Hage h
underneath the pictures they describe. n
Such books aro veil inexpensive.
Read these to the child until he is
able to repeat them and find the pie- f
=TN to which they belong. Then en-
courage him to point to each word out A
the page. as he repeats the jingle, e
The rhymes or sentences should be s
very simple :and short, and the aim f
of this step is not at all to bring p
shout a parrot -like effect of reading
through memorizing but to help him t
to recognise the word unit: on the e
printed .pages as a preliminary tel
reading the wards.
Tneidenlally, though, the bright
child will learn unconsciously in fhis
way, to read maty words.
We thought for a while that
&en diel not need to loam the
alphabet. We have found out now
that it is not only necessary but Ilea
ing them for missionary service and
e now sends them forth. Matthew 1
- gives the fuller account (Blatt, 9. 35
f to 10. 40). They go forth two by 1
e two because each can help the other. 1
Thus hey cover six districts, Auth_
ori °rover the =cleans mats----Klatt-�
hew end Luke state that: their mission! ss
also included healing and preaching. J
3, Nothing . . , snve a staff
only -This was an emergency call,
and they were to be content with the n
simplest outfit. 'Usually journeys tl
in the East were most', carefully pre l
, pared for. But these men were to
subsist: off the people. No bread-' c
This they could obtain wherever they, s
stopped, No wallet or haversaek,!
used to carry provisions. No money's
---Literally, brass or copper, for it
would be unnecessary. In their B
puree -The girdle worn about the I3
• waist in the loose 'folds of which .13
money was placed.
9. Shod with sandalsThesimplest, p
protection for the feet. ,Shoes also a
were worn by Jews -.costly shoes. I, s
such as were in use among the'
Babylonians, furnished with upper!
leather. Put trot on two coat, -_Per-, tl
Sona of distinction sometimes wore
two Unice. They were to encumber. t]
Themselves with nothing that would tv
he unsuitable for plain men going b
about among ordinary folk. In the "
rase of tho poor the eine was the c
only garment.
1:0, Abide till ye. depitrt thence -in-
:Arad
tl
stead of restlessly c•hangiug• from
Tl
hobs° to house. +het reeve to Ira snt,is
tied with the hospitality afforded t
t
lute cen.lectme that titer meet was sometimes have
not wilhout Ste mistakes ied blunders,' Intimation clear, of wider scope,
bet not IN ill10111 the, accompaniment of; Hints of occasion, im"mite to iso°
the pr,ner of tnnT, T)'I'd s of t1115,1 The soul alert with nettle diseontent
tlst rvanreliving ieu r by a group of
Christian prearltres avrntkl be erI price -',r
'And onward yearnings of unstilted'
dose o,"
loss value to ns to -day •