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Sl .1.�.•-•'Winter Care of Poultry,
Ilneeing the fioek is on important,
matter. The house first of sl1 meet,
", Q ( w ; l w 'fit:"ti '- y1 ^ be ruusonuhty clean and shonei re-
�� ,. cedvo a thorough cleaning al; this time, ''• �k- ��...- ,...,fir. " e°C '- :^•; . or earlier. If tin earth floor ie us,:d 1
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DISINFECT THE STABLES.
The fact that retnilur disinfection
of th'' stables i., not a 000113i711
pt'aet.isc in Cabala is sufficient evi-
dence that we tis farmers are not
thorough or do we appreciate the im-
portance of the health of our animals.
ees in other countries, disease of ani-
mals is responsible for the lose to
farmers of many millions of dollars
annually, Such diseases as tuher-
eulosis, abortion, scours„ blackleg,
glanders, hog cholora, etc,, take en-
ormous toll from our revenues. Again
parasites such as lice, tielcc,, ecce each
year cause the wasto of enormous
._-amounts of expensive feed to• say no-
thing of the losse, in production of
milk, meat, and young stock, Farm-
ers of Caned's., it is your duty and
your best business to stop these
losses. Dunt wait till animals die
of disea•ee or are emaciated and hair-
less from parasites before discovering
trouble. Diseases are spread more
rapidly when animals are confined in
winter quarters.
One of the most important factors
in cheap and healthy wintering of
animals is clean quarters and no
quarters can be kept clean
and free from disease and
parasites without disinfection at
least twice annually. •
The basis of disinfection is direct
eontnct, Disease germs under a
layer of manure, straw or dirt, can-
not be killed by average disinfection.
Hence the first step is the thorough
cleaning out of the barns, scraping
(and washing, if possible), all walls
and floors, and sweeping dirt, dust
and cobwebs from walla and ceilings.
Wood floors should be repaired and
earth floors renewed with a layer of
'can son,
Vhat Disinfectants to Use
nlight. This is the cheapest
the best. Every stable
at least 6 sq. ft, of glass
o head of horses and cattle,
carter this amount • for
(nature hogs. Sunlight
anliness, health, comfort,
er profits.
Fawciale.. -A good whitewash
applied hat to ceilings and walls cov-
ers and kills germs and parasites.
Add drug disinfectant, such as car-
bolic acid, if barns have housed dis-
eased animals. Apply with spray
punip or brush.
8. Drug Disinfectants. All floors,
gutters, and mangers• should receive
extra rare. Disinfect by snaking
thoroughly with one of the coal tar
distillates such as kreso, eve^col,
zenoleunt cr i
e lt•
au e t, etc., npplie,i, in
water solution 11,1c. to ogee varying retro
strength of dieinfcctant. Apply with
spray puinp or sprinnler and brush in.
The health of Animals Branch, De-
partment of Agriculture, 'Ottawa, can
supply free instructions in selecting
ai,d preparing whitewash and disin-
fectants.
isin-
fcctants.
Thoroughness in the above disin-
fection is infest important.
The intelligent stockman intent oily
maintaining healthy stock finds i,t
svi•se to disinfect mangers and :Neil
passages more frequently. A lighle
spraying monthly will suffice. '
Practise proves that disinfe9ten is
cheap insurance and anknvestment
yielding a high rate oe 'interest. If
Canadian farmers eanitedly will but
realize this, our s nitnal cdisec.se and
losses • therefror would decrease
20% per annum.
The Ca
The mr
^s:llity
success
end f•
age
e of the Fall Litter.
asure of the swine feeder's
ay well be taken by his
in handling Isis later summer
1 litters. Here the percent -
of culls and unthrifty pigs is
le .,pally high, -particularly with the
.its fall litter obliged to winter in
cold or worse damp quarters, 'Gen-
erally speaking, no young pigs
should arrive after September, unless
the feeder has exceptional facilities
-for winter swine raising.
To ensure strong fall litters the
ems should apend the summer on
pasture with as much range -as pos-
sible. Glover, alfalfa, rape or grass
may be utilized to the exclusion of
meal for the first two months, provid-
ed the pasture is abundant. For tise
duration of the gestation or carrying
perfect, the .use of a little meal, once
daily, will be amply repaid. Shorts
and bran, equal parts, with a hand-
ful of oats per sow, fed a. few pounds
y'ttily, is recommended;
One very fertile cause of unsatis-
factory fall litters is found where the
sow has produced a litter in the
spring, been heavily milked, and bred
in a thin weakened state, and at, the
same time properly nourish the litter
elm is carrying. Ordinarily, bread
the sow a few days after weaning.
If sho is much pulled down in flesh
delay beele:ling even at the expense
of a hoes' fall litter.
When the sow farrows, if in
August, September, or later, observe
the following facts: --
1, See that the youngstors have ex-
ercise and plenty of it, right up to
snowfall
2, They' must !have a warm, dry
plate to sloop. One thorough chill-
ing, such as may be cosltrncied on a
wet, cold fall evening, where impro-
per shelter and little bedding ,are sup-
plied, will ruin the sucker or wearer,
for good ancl' all, Given a dry iletee,
wc.I bedded, the fell be.: eo Prior;
for the little pip;.
re • rt. the pifoa to t'iii, wheit two
nr to ee i,'eeic,i of age. If two or three'
<o'•.s re erew at nearly the latae time
01111 if th^v are acquainted, place them
tee:eller with their Utters, Make a
hole in the fence and ,give the little
one, the run of the barnyard or ad -
e ining field or paddock. Proviu"e a
.mall self -feeder where Lhe o.iws can-'
net reach it, aucl keep a mixture of,
,licrte, 2 parti; ground corn, 1 part;
ground oats parts; before the lit-
tle pigs at all times. Skimmilk in a
trough, similarly situated, will also
prove popular and highly beneficial.
4. elangels or sugar beets fed tops
and all will he relished by the saws,
as well as a few cobs of corn daily.
A meal sop containing if possible,
milk in some form with a mixture of
shorts, ground corn and ground oats
should be fed- twice daily. Feed for
mills.
Winter Care of the Fall Pigs.—The
winter quarters for the three or four
months pigs must be dry above all
things. A lots sleeping berth built
in an open shed covered over with
•straw and kept well bedded, with dry
straw, provides comparative warmth,
d'rynoss and fresh air. Access dur-
ing the day time•to a shed in which
they may root in straw or litter after
a few handsful of ants or whole corn,
is highly to be recommended. Either
the self -feeder, or trough may be used
to advantage. Ashes, sods, earth,
etc., should be constantly accessible.
If any one feature shoulfl receive
emphasis, over all other in connection
with the rearing of fall pig's, it is
that of dry quarters,
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,It Pays To Care For Farin 'Tools.
Farm machinery represents a fin-
ancial investment. Taking proper
care of it results in a monetary gain;
leaving it expose(} in the open at all
seasons of the year must mean
economic loss, not only to the farmer
but to the whole country. It is gen-
erally •recognized
en-erally'recognized by authorities on
agriculture that, if exposed in all
sorts of weather, farm machines de-
preciate.anore than they do from fair
wear and tear. That is to say, the
farmer, who is careless in this re-
spect pays for more than twice the
number of implements than he actual-
], requires. At the same time great
manufacturing plants and small
armies of workmen have to be kept
busy replacing these losses, which, in
thousand's of instances, are purely
and simply the result of carelessness
and neglect.
To house implements properly, it
1iltay nut h;:.iecessary to have a special
implement shed. Many farmers can
itellize an unused barn floor, or a part
;of some other building. Poultry or
:other live stock should never be al-
lowed access to the building, or part
of a building that ]las been set aside
:for machinery. On most faros, how-
ever, a special implement house is
desirable. A suitable building, if
L.)
carefully planned to conserve space,
can be built at* a reasonable cost.
,.lasts can be obtained :from the
Central Experimental Farm at Ot-
tawa.
Before implements are stored for
the season, -they should be carefully
cleaned and oiled. It is a good plan,
after removing all, dirt, to wipe the
entire machine with an oiled rag and
to grease all wearing parts with tal-
low or axle grease. Further, it pays
to renew the paint on the machinery
at regular intervals. Paint orf good
quality, applied to well -cleaned sur-
faces, is an excellent protection, as
well as improving the appearance of
the machines. Then, too, it is an
advantage to attend to all necessary
repairs duffing the winter when the
machines are not rccuired. This will
save much linin and annoyance in the
busy seasons.
To ruin up: Proper case of i'arm
machinery necessitates a suitable
building where the implements will be
protected' from the sun, wind, rain,
snow and live stock, when not in use.
In addition, it should be kept clean,
well oiled (painted, if necessary) and
in good repair.—A.1),
The Self -Feeder Pays,
With the ingredients of a good ra-
tion constantly before then(, placed so
that they may eat at will, hogs will
make gains more rapidly and more
economically than when fed ,by hand.
The time needed to bring them to a
certain weight -will be shortened and
the labor of feeding them will be re-
duced.
Nevar plant bulbs so they will come
in ddt'oct contact with manure.
Boe keeping, that is, producing
honey, pays better in proportion to
the investment than tory other rural
business. And the value of the bee
in the pollination of fruit blooms
exceeds its value as a honey producer..
Turnips will withstand hard frost,
but alternate freezing and thawing
injures them. Gather, top door store
the roots in diantes or pits, cir in on
outdoor storage cellar. Do not place
them in the storage room in the base-
ment of the dwelling as they give off
Odom that penetrate throughout the
house,
the top of the earth should ).e re -1
moved and fresh, dry sand or gravel
put in to talce it; place. If thin
sand or gravel can be artificially;
dried, so much the better, Newj
metalling material (hay, straw,;
leaves, etc,) should be put on the;
flour and ehoull be changed or new:
material edded as often as le neces-1
racy to keep it clean and in good con-;
tdition, If the house has not been
whitewashed this, fall, it should be
whitewashed now after sweeping
clown all cobwebs and dirt from the
walls and roosts. A whitewashed
hen house is not only cleaner, but is
lighter and more cheerful for the'
fowls, an impurtaat matter.
Th a sun slut only lights the poultry
house, but warns and purifies it.
Therefore Cha windows should be
clean se that the rays of the sun can
get in, and the glass should be so
arranged that the sun can reach every
part of the floor at some time during
the day. All poultry houses should
be eauioned with platforms under the
roosts, high enough so that the fowls
,can use the floor space under them,
which means they must be about two
feet from the floor with the roosts
six inches above the platforms. This
enables one to keep the floor litter
yin the best condition and to keep the
house more sanitary, especially if
'these platforms are cleaned every
two or three days.
The care of the flock is important.
The fowls may'4iave a good poultry
house and plenty of good feed, but et
they are fed iriegulariy or are fre-
quently frightened, the best results
in egg production ere impossible.
Dogs should t_sver be allowed to run
into the poultry house and stranger.
should lie kept cut of tlse pen;. The
cnretaker should be friendly. _w,ti . the
fowls and should feed at reula'•
hours and do other work in regular
order, so as to affect the life' and
habits of the fowls as little as pos-
sible.
It is generally supposed teat egg
production in winter depend's almost
entirely on some particular method
or trick in feeding. That is' ry no
means true. We must have pullets
hatched in the early spring and must
give them every opportunity to grow
and develop. Then, if they are pro-
perly housed and cared for, they will
Icy if properly fed. In the case of
hens (females more than one year
old) those which complete their new
coat of feathers before the cold win-
ter sets in, and which have not been
injured in any way, by disease 00
otherwise. during the first year, are
the only ones which can be expected
to lay well during the winter,, even
when well fed. Egg production is
more than luck. -
The poultry keeper who provides
fowls in winter with the same variety
of food they can obtain in the sum-
mer on the range, so far as that is
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possible, usually has goon nae, a ,f tattle Nt, i•las
other conditions. are favorable. There Francs 2,3(5,aun2.1.1„,:i:5;',1., 2,011.On0
is no one kind of grain which will 111111,..
menu 1s,nno a nen
i Mamark 30,000 45,500 1 s73,uuu
furnish all the different food elements Sweden 005,000
t'aste's
THE TRAPPER,
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Trapping For Skunk,
Skunk are usually found around
old barns and buildings, hollow logs,
oldparose fences and cross hedges.
When thoir den has been found, hales
should' be dug nearby in the paths
they are most likely to run over, and
the traps placed in these holes. The
traps should be covered with diy
grass and dust in order that the
ground look as natural as possible.
Just above the trap hang a piece of
rabbit, chicken or bird on which is
sprinkled a few drops of Lho best
skunk bait. This process of trap-
ping the skunk has proved its suc-
cess over and over again.
When the real cold weather sets in
or there is a deep snow, skunk gen-
erally den up sometimes as many as
fifteen or twenty in a hole. When the
den has been found, the animals can
be easily smoked out and caught, if
the right kind of smoker is used.
The skunk furs are always\in good
demand and there has always been
fine profits for the trapper in this
animal. Traps should be visited
every day if possible, or, at most,
every other day, for a skunk caught
is liable to gnaw off its foot and get
away or have its fur seriously dam-
aged by other skunks attacking it in
the trap.
In preparing for the market, skunk
skins should be cased pelt side out;
all superfluous, meat and fat should
be scraped off before shipping. Care
taken in preparing the skunk for the
market will reward the trapper well.
The Food Board Says
While there has been a numerical
increase in live stock in Canada and
the United States, owing to advanced
cost of feed and the eagerness to
realize on the high market prices,
there has been a tendency found in all
the live stock markets for farmers
to ship cattle and hogs before they
are prope}•ly finished. Loss of
weight approximates 10 per cent.
Far-sighted live stock men make
every effort to finish their cattle be-
fore marketing.
Figures showing the enormous de-
ficiency of live stock in the principal
countries of Europe most affected by
the war—with the exception of Aus-
tria-Hungary, Russia, Turkey and the
Balkans, reliable figures for which
are impossible to obtain—were given
out by Chairman H. B. ' homson of
the Canada Food Board at a recent
Live Stock Cunference in Ottawa.
These decreases are 110 follows:
required, and st otdy one Icuul is fed,
the fowls eat more than they should
o ' cer-
tain
to
get enough i
in the odeag
e
elements of food, and in that
way overtax their digestive organs,
not only causing lack of production
but ill health. The poultry keeper
who feeds in that manner loses the
price of his feed and the profit he
might make from his hens. As al-
ready stated, egg production is never
a matter of luck.
itifecrella0
hingtlmn ,702,500 140,22,
tter•nt,tny 2,:ea,f,,n(1 111,:ieli.tlua
ll nl land 2O o, t u 0 102.0111
Leading Live Stock Producers, in-
,
-
cluding the members of the Canadian
Live Stock Council and representa-
•fives of the Meat Packing industry of
• the Dominion, in conference at Ot-
• tawa as to the best means of meeting
the e.ituation presented by the enor-
mous live stock shortage in Europe,
drew up a memorandum to the Gov-
ernment in the form of five resolu-
tions which include the following
points:—
That a policy o.f rural credit be
sanctioned and supported by the Fed-
eral Government;
That steps he • taken to establish
credits in this country with France,
Belgium and Italy;
That a Government agent, prefer-
ably Mr, H. B. Thomson, Chairman
of the Canada Food Board, in the
continuation of his present capacity,
be sent to Europe to secure fullest
possible recognition of Canadian in-
terests in supplying agricultural pro-
ducts;
That the Government provide nec-
essary marketing facilities, including
adequate controlled temperature
space in railway cars, storage wat'e-
houses, and ocean going vessels;
That the Govermnent give encour-
agement to a campaign throughout
Canada for increased live stock pro-
duction, in view of the enormous op-
portunitles now presented to the
Canadian live stock industry.
In his reply Sir Thome White
Acting Prime Mille:der, said many of
these points were being provided fol
and whatever further possible would
be done.
Farmers' Account Beak.
"Will you kindly send me -a. copy o}'
your Farmers' Account Book of which
we were told by our pastor?" That
is the way a letter recently received
from a farister by than Commission of
Consrvation reads. It shows how
the clergy are sotontlieg the efroves
of the Commission. to encourage busi-
ueesldko-habits among farmers, The
1'at'mers' Account Beek; which con-
tains blanks for a simple but ceni-
pr,tlltail5ive eystetit of farm ace:mute
will be sent on request to any farm-
er who states the number nl' acres o"
land Ile it'or);O,
"Where silage is available, it can
be used te, good advantage as the
basis of the ration," states a report
on feeding silage to horses.. `For
several years the experiment station
has fed a number of horses each win-
ter on a silage ration. The horses
so fed have for the most pate been
young animals from two to five
years of age. They were carried
through a feeding period of from ten
to twelve weeks on silage and straw,
without grain. A. ration consisting.
of a fair quality of silage without
straw was sufficient to produce slight
gains in weight, and leave the horses
in improved condition at the end of
the eleven weeks feeding period. The
horses were allowed all the silage
they would clean up, and' oat straw
he excess, the refuse being used;, for
bedding,
"Ohre should be taken to avoid
feeding silage evltich is very 50110, ao
digestive disturbances are apt to
follow, especially when a fell feed is
allowed, With a good quality of
silage, as high as forty pounds per
head daily was oonstnned by horses
weighing 1,500 pounds without any
signs of digestive trouble. Frozen
silage should neves' be fed.
"In these experiments the Horses
were allowed to rust loose iu a shed,
with adjoining yards for exel'ai'ae,
They were :fed from n common trough
and had access to water at all times."
(looec'berries are absolutely depen-
dent; on insect fertilization, and the
wholesale dropping off of gooseberry
flowers:, which is frequently attribut-
ed to other (mesas, is netlally clue to
the fact that enfavoralblo weather
lows prevented the lines trete doing
their bock,
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CO-OPERATIVE IESTI G PAYS $50,000,000 i
lyra ANIVjf:tt(x FORTUE
FUTURE
By leer'
ptr 21 0 . .1. ; i' . ave - u • ;d of
mqk per v , r lief• it cru a111-4
dairy p+ , i n t iu of gi, .0,000, i
the reseili ,d ee meoetitt. tem: t eteng
iu
Cana,iii. 1hit d ai.•y farmer: have
enforced wine,: 1914 the strietest
ecuna.my in predeetien of all dairy
products, as a war -time pleasure,
and by weeding out the st,,,dt^r cows
from their herds are not only able
to preduee more milk with refs, ❑ani -
her of cows, but to s• curd a high: r
price for it.
When the farmers lo.,llod nb- ut
them for ways and ntear.s u!' solving
, their vier -time labor and product,.. ;
costs, in no line of aviculture! work
did they find a greater opportunity to
increase production than in the tm-
prevemont of their dairy herd;. The
average yield of milk per cow in
Canada was at that time only about
4,500 pounds per year. Compare
that with individual records of over
;25,000 pounds of milk in :a year and
herd records averaging over 10,00Q
pounds for each cow down through
the herd, and you have a picture of
; the achievement of these farmers
! and of the wonderful possibilities for
the improvement of the average dairy
herd throughout the continent.
Canadian dairy farmers have found
;the keeping of herd records, more
commonly known as cow -testing, the
safest and surest basis for that in-
telligent breeding and selection which,
1 with proper feeding, is sure to re-
' stilt in an improvement in production
that makes the difference between the
i general average yield and those
which are at the top.
In Canada various plans have beer
tried since this work was first cont-
menced under the direction of the
Dairy Branch of the Department of
Agr'"ulture, which in 1904 star, ed on
a small scale to promote and extend
the work of .keeping herd records, re-
sulting• finally in 1917 in the opera-
tion of thirty-five dairy record cen-
tres, each of which was placed in
charge of an experienced man who
gave his entire time to the work of
cow -testing within a limited area,
and whose business it was to see that
the samples were properly tested.
There were also a large number of
small associations, or groups, for
' whom the testing was done by some
individual qualified.
In 1917 there were nearly thirty
thdusand cows under test record in
' connection with the organized efforts
of this branch. There have also
;been many hundreds of cows tested
independently by owners who were
not connected with any of the dairy
. ,cow -testing cosec
la-
reurd centres or
lions, but who have been interested
by the general results which they
, found, their neighlsors achieving.
the av-
erage
n teas started c
Since this work r
yield of milk per cow for
, Canada has increased fully thirty per
I cent. This .means that the total
ivalue of the Canadian dairy products
wee greater by at least I$50,000.Otln
in 1917 than it would have been if
there had been no improvement in the
herds since 1904. Tha increa-e in
the yield of milk from individual
herds has been much more striking
because the general average inti':udee
' all those Herds whose production of
' milk has remained stationary, or
nearly so.
; These farmers have not' found that'
the plans for improvement of a dairy
herd need be elaborate or expensive,
but should take cognizance of the fact)
that there are good cow:; and poor
cows, judged by their milk produce
tion, ist all breeds and that it does not
follow because a cow may have a
lengthy pedigree that her perfor-
mance at the milk pail is up to the
mark; that there are scrub pure-
breds as well as common scrub's. It
requires some moral courage to dis-
card the expensive pure-bred scrub
after she has been shown up in her
true colors, but it is the right thing
to do, nevertheless.
These dairy farmers believe that
there is only one true standard, and
the test must be prbduction. This is
not an argument against the pure-
bred animals as such, but rather an
attempt to place performance ahead
of pedigree. Ancestry is an import-
ant consideration, but unless the re-
cord carries with it some account o1'
production, it lacks tine only import-
ant feature, and the man looking for
superior animate gets no information
from it that is of real value to him.
He may have personal knowledge of
the strain in question, but that is
another matter. In war times we
have learned that the son of the mil-
lionaire has no more tight to loaf
than the sots of the farmer, which is
, equally true in the case of the pure-
bred cow as against the common
grads 102011001.
Any plan which has for its object.
the improvement of dairy stock must
provide for a study, and record, of
the performance of the individual
sew, as well ars deal With the manage-'
ment of the herd, including its care,
and :feeding, and tlse 'breeding of ani -
mels to replace those which are dis-
carded fn the "weeding out" process.
Individuality can only be determined
by the weighing and testing of each
cow's milk.
It is quite practicable for individual
farmers to test their 00511 herds, and I
many in Cenrda are doing this, but,
some form of co-operation has been
found an incentive to 0 more work-1�
able plan of eunununiLy effort, thus,
raising the general average yield
rather than 111e goo,:.al irddvi:iusl
W. tla0e
nw•^al:c. lite ,s,sp,-:'.'.n for high -1 There is al1veys a kind of solemn
t 0,; r. pat mem: lee 110;ught about sty i the email; ee anything, and.
by eo ,p, »cilli, tff.r', one neif'l,i,or pertCillariy in the ending of the
eek ii w du 1R-1 :kr than his neigh...!;.ear. 19e look l,acltwaxd and realize
bur, 1 h. pithy and aofelieive to; Itasv intacii ha0 been left undone; we
thr: 1,t:e. 'ncernst of all dairy iarm0r0.l lank forward to the futulu and won-
The drinc.lid fur thio cow-testdng der whether 00 cart succeed in ctp
work ao , hneals. B
the nflh:.l'clsbeets foun:10d great themselthat
pr
ves the oetesltnitigowsour, befoidre are theehind cloudsare.
forced eu ivaeag+trate a new system 1'et tlrla ir, a gloomy condition, and iC
tart,ii t;itit the 191st wnrlc. The profits nothing, Wo cannot recall
ibciry recon] centres were abolished the past, we can only ask for pardon
and the services of cheese and butter -1 to rest over its failures and -33 bless.
malar, enlisted, •the farmers paying! dog to c'l'own its sucaasses. We can.
these men, or these daulifled to test not govern the future, we can only.
the nsiik. at •the trate of ten cents Per pray for courage to go forward and
cow 1n'ted, This plan makes it: do our best. As men and Christians
worth the while of the tester, and; we should, like St. Paul, forget the
the rate i:; not over'y excessive for; things that are post and reach for-
the farmer to pay. Each testers ward unto the things that are before
provides his own outfit. i us. In other words we should plan
The milk factcny is the natural i for the future,
centre of herd record work of a❑ Now, this planning is limited .by
kinds. The samples may ba con-� certain facts: First, we cannot tell
veniently collected here on the mslkl what the future may have in store
1
or cream wagons, and it is likewise for us. Our pians may 'be com-
easy communwith the farm-. p)etely upset by God's plans. Second,
ors wtoho are patronicates of rho factor a we may not he able to attain in any
An increase in Production of th measure the excellence of our plans,
herds in the factorymilk district means! Mau's ideals are always—must AI-
not only greater returns to the farm -I ways be—higher than any possible
ers themselves, but likewise a larger; realization. Third, we do not know
output for the creamery or cheesehow long eve may live.. The rich man
factory, thus themselves,. but.
s larger rev-
enue for those who depend upon it
for their profits.
Frostbitten Plants.
Suddenly sometimes the weather desired -It is well for us,
changes when it is least expected and then, to study these principles.
many house plants are frost bitten. The first is this: I must be moral-
When plants have been touched with
ly and spiritually ready. The foolish
'frost take them to the cellar or to any virgins had neglectedre to carry oil en-
d cool place, where the tempera-
tff all ough to replenish their lamps. They
ure is above freezing; cut o
black parts bark to where the stem is were not strengthened by high ideals
green and pull off the frosted leaves, as they started out. They did not
Keep the plants in this dark place know the love of God, and their
for a day or two and gradually bring loyalty to Him had all gone. It is
them into the light, not exposing'. the old lesson which we are learning
them to the rays of the sun until new; 110W from the world's struggle—thy
growth has started, lesson of preparedness.
A second principle is assurance.
Plants frozen in frames as a rule!
should be left where they are, keeping God is working His pu poderout, and
the sash covered with mats to ex- because He is God and therefore per -
elude the sunlight until the frost has feet, that purpura 01051 be for the
disappeared. If continued cold final happiness of all His children;
es
ria er; cover the sea.
ing should he increased. and again, because He is God, and
r therefore ail -powerful. His purpose
cannot be defeated. It is this truth
that has always saved good men- in
the world's history. They ca ied:
"One thing we know, that the Lord
God has a plan and it will finally he
revealed," And so strong did this
make ti.enl that they did nut care
very much what happened to them.
Whether they weie here or there,
whether they were at reit or in can-'
filet, whether they had frienJs tee
were alone, mattered little, -so long
they trusted their leader. Soldiers
know what it is to go out, almost
blindly, and oh y commands, when
they trust their commanding - of-
deer. And if I am convinced that all
the forces nt' life are under the mast-
ery of the Ring of kings:, who loves
ant :ores for 115; people, then 1 can
go forward and meet anything rid
every nuc witho:'t a tremor; and nay
life will work ac.elf into the plan t.f
God and become a part of it. I molt
have assurance in that final triumph
of God's will, which is righteousness •
and peace.
A third principle is fellowship with
God. The Father or His children
sloes not use them n3 pawns to ace
eomplish Hr: purpose, We are not
atoms in the. working out of blind
fate. We are not even dead stones
fa the formation of a mosaic or un=
conscious threads in the weaving of
the tapestry of the fu'Iure. Rather
are we living stones, ourselves build-
_- ing up the temple which shall at last
be the glory of God and humanity.
I am a worker together with God, not
only to work out with Him my own
salvation, but to help in the estab-
lishment of His kingdom of universal
righteousness.
And this fellowship with God leads
to fellowship with men. We are all
workers together. We are all alike
God's children, workers in the strug-
gle to make life eternal a real thing.
No man can disregard, or think less
important than lois own work, that
which his brother -man is doing. And
if any man fails to do his part or
cannot see the vision, 1 must help
him and try to bring him to a realize,
Lyon of his privilege. It is this that
sweeps aside the pride of life and
banishes men -made distinctions from
05.
And the final principle to guide a1f1
orreject our offer. se in planning, for the future, is joy. ft
10 a glorious thing to journey en to a
- — country Which we know we shall
finally reach. It is an inspiring
thing to know that life has a great
meaning and a perfect eousummatiof.
How can I despise my life when I
know God has given it to mo a.na
that He calls upon me to use it for
the building up of His and my Icing-
dom—mine because Rio, for He is my -
Father? 11 is a joyful thing to
prepare the world for Christ's second
taming, and to make our planning
for the future a part of God's great
plan for the happiness of all Hie
people.
All we can do is nothing worth
iTnless (rod ;.teras the deed;
Vainly we hope for the harvest -tide
Till God gives life to the seen.
S:e, nether, enamel' draws the time,
The time that shall surely be,
When the earth sisa'n be filled with
the glory of God
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