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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-3-28, Page 7x • l i eries , g3 6 � 1 �- 11 47js� rub :f+ �tilUrf}t_ m ' .mese Via" .+lea, + araereeat Conducted by Professor Henry G. Ben The object of this department Is to place at the ser vice of our farm readere the advice of an aoknowiedg authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and grope. • Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, le care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, To rento, and answers will appear in this column In the order In which they are received. As apace le limited it la advisable where immediate reply Is necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with the queetien, when the answer will beeMatled direct. would like to asks you a few qucelions about sweet clover. I hal e twenty :teres which was under sweet clover this last year. It was a real good crop and was CO for seed. It si clay loam and is in fair condi- tion. If I plowed the stubble will the clover (mine up again, or will it come up if it slnot plowed? There: was a lot of the seed shelled in the field. I have some very sandy soil, do you think it would be advisable to sow sweet clover on it? How much sm+eet clover should 1'sow to the acre? Answer: ---le much of the sweet clover seed shattered out in harvest- ing the seed crop, in all probability a considerable qurmfity will cone up next spring whether the ground is plowed or not. The hull of the seed is relatively hard $o that some of the sweet clover seeds may lie in the ground for two or three seasons be- teal It fore they germinate. If you wish to ,put in a. cultivated crop such as corn ! or potatoes, I do not think you need have, fear of a sufficient quantity of seed corning up to seriously diminish your yield, that is, provided you give the cultivated crop early and careful attention, The clover plant is a two-year plant; hence, a couple of years of cultivated crops should kill out. a very large quantity of the clover that would ,tome up as weeds. I be- lieve you would do well to sow sweet clover seed' on your sandy soil. I would recommend that you plow un- der the second crop if you wish to har- vest the first crop of hay. What sandy soil needs is humus, and I know of no crop that will produce as targe an amount of humus in a short time as will sweet clover. It is generally recommended that 20 to 26 pounds of hulled seed per acre be used. If the seed is not hulled, add 5 pounds more. INTERNATIONAL LESSON M ARCH 31. Lessen XIII. Easter Lesson -.John 11, 1-21. Golden Text, 1 Cor. 15. 57. Verse 1. Let not your heart be troubled ---.His talk of leaving them dies not accord with their hopes for the kingdom be has talked of setting up. They are sadly perplexed. They are devoted to him, through the com- panionship and training and love of the few brief months they had known him. Believe in God, believe also in me ---That is, Your doubts and trou- bles because of our separation will be cleated up if you trust God and trust The. •l. In my Father's house are many' mansions -The image is taken from one of those immense Oriental palaces, in which there is room for the king and his son and for all the guests. They are to be comforted with the thought that the separation is tem- porary, and that all eventually to be together. • 3. I go and prepare a place for you -tie had told them of the Father's love. He had taught them to pray to the Father. What more fitting than that he should to talk to them of that time when the children of the Father should be .gathered together in the heavenly home? I come again -- When was that coming to occur? "At the final and glorious coming?" But it would be no comfort to them to look for a day which had not even yet appeared. "At death?" But this 1s impossible, taken in connection With verse 18. "By the Holy Spirit?" "I will not leave you desolate: I come! to you." His final promise when he sent them forth 'wee, "I am with you I unto the end of the world"I Will receive you unto myself -Not only will he come to us, but we are; to go to him, These are words of wonderful tenderness. Where I am, I there ye may be also -All specula- tions as to the nature of heaven are of . small, compared with this simple state -1 meat. Let it suffice that we.are to be where Jesus is, in the place which lie has prepared and where he is King. 4, Whither I go, ye know the way - For nearly three years, by inimitable illustration and extended conference,; he had endeavored to unfold to them time nature of his work and the great - 5, of the Kingdom, !t 5, We ]snow not whither thou goest -All honor to the disciple who is un- willing to let slip by a point which rte does not understand. But Thomas had failed to see the great truth as t Jesus had presented it. 6. I ant the way, and the truth, and the life --Jesus now declares that it is i through him that we come to the Father and through him that we ob- tain entrance into the Father's house. Peter wishes to follow him immedi- ately, Thomas wants to know the way, and, later, Philip wants to see the Father. Jesus answers: "All these questions are answered in ore"; "I am the way to the Father." Christian faith is not a personal opinion or ad - heroine to a doctrine; it is confidence in Christ., time loyalty of the life given to him. 7. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father --If Jesus is the manifestation of God (verse 6), then to know him is to ]snow God. From henceforth ye !snow him, and have seen him -It is impossible to comprehend the infinite God, but it is possible to know the love of God as seen in Christ. These questions in- dicate that the disciples were not A overawed by the Master, but were on terms of comfortable understanding, so that, question and anewer massed easily, 8. Philip said, herd, spew ns the leather, and is sufficeth us --.Philip A will 130 satisfied if he can have at least a pledge of time glorious future re- served for them, 9, Have I been so long time with you, and dos]; thou not tsnow me? --•1, q A sense of disappointment that, after '' all, Philip had not learned the gtae- torr..a truth the Vaster had tried t o un- fold Ile that hath 5oeu me hath seen1� the Father --A plain statement of Jesus' unique relation to God, which lifts him above ordinary men. We can hardly conceive of the holiest of men saying, without blasphemy, "Look upon me and behold God!" 10, 11. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? -he does not say that the Father and himself are the same person, but that they live the one in the other. That this is true is shown by his words and his works. Believe me for the very works' sake -Jesus asks from his dia- ciples faith in his union with the Father on the authority of the testi- mony which he has borne to himself. 12. He that believeth on me . greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father -When the Holy Spirit is sent from the Fath- er, great spiritual changes in men will be produced, greater than exter- nal miracles. The conversion of a sinner, through the Holy Spirit, is greater than turning water into wine or opening the eyes of the blind. To expect that the Christian disciple can work miracles is to take a backward step in spiritual• development. 14. If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do -That is, to nsk anything of God based upon what Jesus has told us of himself and his.. work. To pray in his name is not only to ask for his sake, but to asks in harmony with Jesus' instructions, or according to God's will. 15. If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments -The commandments here alluded to are the charges he has given them while he has been with them. To cherish and observe them is the true indication of their love and I the preparation for what follows in verse 17. 10. He shall give you another Com- forter-It is impossible for an out- sider, "the world," to receive the inner Comftorter, for the great gifts of the Spirit cannot come to an mrspiritual and unresponsive soul. 18. I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you -He comes to them not in the personal, bodily return, after milleniums have passed, but through the presence of the promised Holy' Spirit, as Comforter and Teacher. 19. The world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me -The world, which has only known Jesus after the flesh, sees him no more, but to his own ho becomes visible in the spiritual sphere. Because I live, ye shall live also -Death will be vanquished by him; and his victory includes our vic- tory over death. 20. In that day . . I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you - The day is coming when the subject which so puzzles them will be clearly understood. 21. He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him - Love reveals itself to love. He abides in the heart which responds o him. i(John 15.a 22-24. Judas (not Iscariot)-- ludas of the village of Kerioth is the mean - ng of Iscariot in Judea. Literally, Judas the man from Kerioth. Why unto us, and not unto the world? - Jesus had really answered this in verse 21, but he goes further. Why not to all men without disardmhua- ion t Why make a distinction? The answer is that love cherishes the slightest ,wish of the one loved, tend he who does not love does not carry out the wishes of the beloved. Springtime. This is springtime: all the heart of things Is dancing madly, clapping wild its wings; Bursting with carolling the thongs that bind Rushing with passion love its mate to find, nd all things smile and all things loom so Fray. Ti., like the dawning of eternal day. The Telescope. grain of sand ,has wonders there concealed, And Genius etrolling on the shingly harm looped, gathered up a handful, and revealed To waiting worlds the secrets of the eterst HERE must be no "slackers" this year, either among the seeds or the growers. Every man and woman with garden • space, must produce to the limit of his or her ability. And that is why Rennie's seeds are so essential -live, vigorous! seeds from tested stock, to ensure record crops. !BRUSSELS SPROUTS -Amager Pkt. ye Oz. Oz. 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It had been a warm winter, with no ice at all, quite unlike the severe winter we have just passed through. "I'm afraid," said grandfather one day late in March, shaking his head soberly, "that this means no ice cream next July, and no cold lemonade, and no-" "0 dear!" chorused children. "Who ever heard of a summer without ice cream?" "Well," answered grandfather, "Who ever heard of a winter without ice?" "It may freeze yet," put in grand- mother, "Maybe," grandfather said, "hut it's nearly time now for robins and violets," When Ted and Jean and Molly went to beck that night they felt the win- dowpane with their cheeks, "It feels very cold," '.Cel decided. "Maybe there'll be freezing tonight." When they waked there was a queer, dull whiteness on the walls and a canons silenicti. Snow had fallen all night long, and now every roof had A -t } ;fern Codd c tea d . lira .7Wein Aar Mothere and daughters of ail ages are cordially invited to write to this department, Initials only will be published with each question and ite answer as a means of identification, but full name and address must be given In each it"The Bay Is Father Of the Man." "Glut l;nglish t.eaeher," said Dor Parks as he etopped at his unelea shop on his way home from school, "has given us the worst subject for a eomposition yet --`The cloy is Fat.iter letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be marled direct If of the Man.' Of. course I know what stamped and addressed envelope le enclosed. it. means- -thal a fellow is stirs to 1'0 Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs: Helen Law, 235 Use sante kind of a man that he was Woodbine Ave„ Toronto, troy, But I don'C believe ghat it is , aluuy:r true. Sertns to rho that 1'vm X. Y. Z: --A complete reply to your Hanrnesed:....gut you won't be by heard of more than one great nrxtm interesting letter cannot be. stent for a the time you get the Soldiers of the that didn't, amount to much as a boy. few days, as the matter of the in- Soil" at work. Did you know that, I wish you'd help me out, Untie lo stallation of waterworks in your home' the Canada Food Board is enrolling. Genrgn. 1'd like to give a let of has been referred to an expert whose 2'5,000 schuoj boys between the agae! example.,, that g„ 41,est: that old advice will he sent you by mail as of iii and 19 to help on the farms! sayhta.t. soon as received. Regarding the con- this year? The drive to enlist this "Let Me think," said Lamle George, version of the large kitchen into a battalronofyouthful soldiers has began atm ]seeping on at hisvvrk "Bat dining -room and kitchen, your ideae and they should prove of lamellae do a sprawl there ever that bench! are quite practicable, and the result, help to the farmer and his wife, There' Stand up straight! Or you might. be will be an enormous saving of energy is no doubt that there will also be tightening up the nuts on this ma- in heusopnrk. The best location fur, a large number of girls on the farms „]rine. Not Glut way! Don't you the sink would be at the centre of the this year who will assist both in farm-. know that to screw a nut on you turn dividing walls between dining -room ' house and field. These. two classes' in the direction that, the, hands of a and kitchen, so that you could pass will help greatly to lighten the burden' clods move? the dinner dishes through the cern- sustained by the farmer's wife rind j Well, now, the II/at person that municating door, wash them in the they will solve in some measure the; comes into my mind is Will Whit - sink, and put them right through' problem of labor shortage. I comb, one of our Winton Village boys again to be returned to the dining -1 Enquirer:- aWhat about potatoes?" *good fellow enough, but terribly Sable, which I presume you keep laid i Why, potatoes possibilities are end-; slacks -twisted and lacking in gump- all the time, Can you arrange to less, Miss Inquirer. The Food Con-' tion. He never had a sharp knife, or have the cook -stove near the sink? I troller is asking us to eat both fish' a tool that was in order; and if he If so, you could have a place for cook -land potatoes, anti to eat plenty of had any work to do he'd go at it in ing utensils in the new cupboard,, them. Now the patriotic food is not the most awkward, roundabout way which you would find most convenient.] always the most palatable but butte; that you could conceive of. It was If you keep the proposed alterations l fish and potatoes are exceptionally, just the same in school; and it used in mind as ,you go about your house- nutritious, economical and pleasant,' t.n fret, Mr. Iloyt, our teacher, a good work, many devieee will occur to you l and no one should have any difficulty deal. Oat can be installed to lessen work. in making extensive use of them. Do' "One day, in the mental arithmetic Should you care to send me a plan of you ever roast potatoes in their mail' class he gave Will this problem: `If the layout of your house, with the `skins and eat them with a little salt? : twelve Merl can dig a ditch one mile, windows, doors and chimneys mark- If not you are missing something in' thirty rods and ten feet long in eight ed, I will send you a working plan for life. Next there is the, balled po-; days, in how many days will six men the alterations. Should any further tato, broken open to let out the steamvdig a ditch of twice that length? Will questions, crop up, please send them and prevent sogginess. The meta said he didn't know as he could do along. Ito broiled in its jacket is 20 per cart.; it. in his head,, and the teacher Peggy: --Here are some good rules more nourishing than the peeled po-' told him to go to the board. for your household, Miss Peggy, It is facto, Have you ever tried potato "I can ase him standing there nosy,' wonderful how a motto hung up in the biscuit? It is something like the; in his lop -aided way, chalk in one kitchen pulls you up in some little old-fashioned potato scone that le as hand and eraser in the other, fi "urrnr popular in Scotland as oatcake. Sift b g together 1 cupful mashed potatoes, ]. acrd then rubbing out. He reduced cupful Graham flour, 4 teaspoonfuls' the length of the ditch to feet and baking powder, ? teaspoonful salt, 1' divided it by twelve, in long division; and then stopped and wanted to tablespoonful fat, ee cup milk. Toss "what the question vas. After the !snow dough on a floured board and roll ., lightly to }= inch in thickness. Baketeacher had repeated it, he divided by for twelve to fifteen minutes in greas-,' eight, in long division. Next, he When too much is served at a meal ed pans. started to multiply that quotient by six, but changed his mind and rubbed tremendously excited. Ted rolled joyfully, and after dinner father and out. Finally, he did got the answer. east, Molly rolled west, and little Jean the hired men turned in with them. He had spent nearly an hour in arriv- rolled south, down the long slope of so that the long -empty ice house be- ing athe fact that for half as many the lawn. Laughing and shouting, gan to fill very rapidly. Before the men to' do twice as much work it they followed the little balls with snow had left the fields the ice house would take four times as long. care, pushing them whenever they was quite full, and the hired Wren had"Mr, Hoyt told him that the trouble stopped. pounded the great snowballs Math shovels until the snow was packed al- most as ]card as ice. Then the chile dren helped to pile in the straw on top and to pack it; and at last they shut the door. "I can just taste that July ice cream!" said Molly happily. "I can taste it too," Ted agreed, "and I've also learned a new way to play marbles." extravagance through the day, isn't it? GOOD FOOD IS WASTED If it gets into the garbage pail If allowed to spoil in the home If ruined by /careless cooking By careless paring and trimming "Mine's as big as a pumpkin!" cried Molly in a fesv minutes. "Just watch it grow!" They pushed harder and harder, and every moment one would call to the other, Presently, from the bottom of the yard, came a cry. "Oo-ool" Jean sang out. "Somebody come! My marble is so big I can't get it. up the !till!" Sure enough, Jean's snowball had ' grown so fast that now it was entire- ly too much for her. Tedenran down, th h h d about one of those efficiency experts with him wasn't stupidity, but heed- lessness, and that if he didn't over- come it he would go through life a failure. "Up to the age of eighteen Will hadn't changed much. At that time he went to live in some town just out of Toronto, I never can seem to remember the name, and I lost track of him. "A year or so ago `I was at the Matson Company's plant in Toronto, and some of the men were telling me ' laughing, and rolled it to the top of a room in w ic. it is use a metalthat. had been there for a week in - cover that radiates the heat evenly ' the hill. Then they spied grand- stituting all sorts of labor-saving dee father. has been patented, vices, and, in fact, revising their "Will you look at his marble!" Smut in oats may be prevented by whole working system. They didn't screamed Molly. And indeed grand- soaking them in a solution of form- happen to speak his name, but they father's ball was a regular giant, and aldehyde. Spread the grain around did mention where he came from, and was getting fatter and fatter. thinly on the barn floor. Tape a I knew I had heard of that place be - "Forward march! to the ice house, pint of the formaldehyde and mix it fore. now!" said grandfather. And the with fifty gallons of water. With a "They were scarcely done talking children, who had forgotten all about sprinkling pot moisten the oats well about him when the expert camp through the room with the superinten- dent, and you could have knocked me down with a feather. But I stepped right forward and put out my hand. 'Isn't this Mr. William Whitcomb?' I said. "'That's what they call me of home, sometimes,' he said, looking at me pretty hard. " `I knew I couldn't he mistaken,' I said. "'But you are,' he said. `I'm Wil- liam Whitcomb, although a man by that name lives in my town, and I've been taken for him a thousand times, I'm net at all proud of the resem- blance,' he said. "It hurts me in my bueinessa "Then he laughed and went on, leaving me to infer that in Will's case the boy was father to the man. "I guess that is the rule, Don. No sedoubt there are exceptions, as you ei say, But in your composition just co bear down hard on the point that if o a boy wants to be one of those excep- tions he had better take himself in hand before it is too late." the ice house, went to work with a vim, trunling their big marbles gayly toward the open door. Most of the morning they worked and leave them a couple of hours. This will not injure the germ of the seed at all, but will kill the smut germs. THE CHILD'S ALLOWANCE Iry M. A. Bartlett. Every child should have an allow- birthday party, and each child was ante. The amount may vary accord - expected to contribute tea cants to - Mg to individual requirements and ward a present. All her money was as - family finances, but whether it be ten banked. Tearfully she sought statatce from her mother, hat she cents or a dollar a week matters little found her true to the agreement, so long as it is regularly forthcoming "You must learn, dear," said the and is the ehild'e own. It may be sympathetic parent, "that you can't given weekly in payment of specified save all your money and spend it, too ores or errands, but it should not -just a$ your brother will find that include payment for extra worlt. he can't spent his fifty cents and then One mother of my acquaintance pre- have it to put in the banks. However, nted each of her children on their I will lend you ten cents you •ou can ghth birthday with a small leather- er- repay me next week. Make an item vered account book, a bank which of it ht your account," co not be opened until it contain- The lesson was a hard one to learn, ed five dollars, and a savings bank but eventually it was mastered. They book with five dollars deposited in the knew the value of a cont. child's name, Recently I saw their bank books. Prom that date the child received lin four years the little girl had saved each Saturday twenty-five cents from $25, the bey $80. The latter was two both his father and his mother. This years the elder, and his income had fifty cents was to cover all small ex been greatly augmented by outside penditures - entertainments, gifts, work; but his expenditures also had Sunday school, pencils, candy, etc.,--- been greater., as I saw by their ace and the remainder each weeks was to count' books, The latter were models be saved. The child was taught to of good boots -keeping. keep an accurate account of. every Parents compla.itr that their chil- eent he spent, and of every additional diem think they are "made of money," penny he, earned. At the end of the! that they have no idea of money value. month the mother carefully audited If such is the case, it is the parents', the account, { not the children's fault. Give them At first the half dollar a weeks 1 an allowance for spending money. Be seemed a email fortune to the child firm in year refusal to grant more . _ . _ - -. - __ ch a heavy white blanket like eide down, and every fence post wore a tall white cap. "The heaviest snow I ever saw so late in the year," father remarked at breakfast. "Well, it looks as if the ice house would stay empty, sure enough." "No ice cream in July," began little Jean, but grandfather suddenly pinch- ed her cheek. "Plenty of it," he said. "That is, if you three chicks are willing to play marbles a while." "Bunt )row can playing marbles fill the ice house?" cried Ted and Molly in one breath. "Now, grandad, you're making fun of usl" "Not a bit of it," he answered. "Put on your togs, and I'll show yon," Ten minutes later, coated and hooded and finished off with good, dry rubbers, the three dashed out to their grandfather. "Isere;' he, said, "hold out your hands. 'There's a marble apiece for you. Go to work and roll them." The children looked astonished. Each little right-hand mitten was clasping a snowball. "But, grandfather," Ted begau, doubtfully, "Roll your marbles," said grand- father, "and roil them carefully, Then you'll sea" So the three obeyed, puzzled but Velvet Eggs. Is your husband's breakfast ever spoiled because his soft-boiled eggs were forgotten and left in the kettle too long? This can be so easily avoid- ed it you will provide a dish or kettle that holds just a quart, have your water boiling thoroughly, so that the steam pours from tho spout of the teakettle, put two eggs in the quart veesel, pour the boiling water over them and set on the table, Allow to stand from three to five minutes be- aecusiomed to asking for every cent,, that the allotted sum, except as a fore serving, and they will be just bu(e,lre soon learned that in order to loan. Let them learn by their own like velvet. The good part about this fill his bank he would have to "think I experience how to handle money to method is that they may stay in the twice' before purchasing new knife the bast advantage. At the same dish as long over three minutes as or a package or gum, j time arouse their interest in saving you want, and they will not become One of the girls showed a tendency .nntil it. becomes a habit to lay aside hard if you do not cover the dish, 1 toward miserliness. 'Chu first woolssums ]mart of their income, The value always serve them in somethingshe depos!ted her rvhelc le h• ants in' of $uch training ran only he fully ap- pretty so they may go on the table in the bank... only if; ragret li long he -1 preciated by those who have haci it to the water. Each person has a repo fore. the week was unit . Thr. °thee !learn in early 'manhood, and woman,.rate dish, as it is hard to regulate the children were haying cionly. kind she hood or by those who have never propel. amount of water after two or had no money, 'Biers erre to be a learned it at all. throe egge. a