The Brussels Post, 1919-7-24, Page 7Keep the I,'aIl 'figs (]rowing.
"Keep the fall shoats growing an
putting on fat, even if you have to
buy emu at a high price in order t
do it," i, the advice of ,:overs] sue
cessful hog breeders, This is esso
tially true on farms where cows am
kept, and where it is pia:sable t
add skim -Milk to the diet.
"Hogs that are put on the marke
should be grained in addition to thei
summer pasture," is the advice of on
of the most successful breeders, "Fal
pigs that are being turned on pastor
should be. on part feed of cern to kee
then] putting on flesh to fit them fo
an early market. Too many hogs ar
run through the summer on pastor
alone, and then fed out for winter mar
ket when the price is at the bottom
The time to get the fall pigs to marke
1s in the summer or the early fan
when the price is rt the top."
I asked a man who aims to hay
from sixty to one hundred fall pig
keady for market, how he p:nnned hi
feeding program, "I intend to curs
them through the summer on alfalf
and about one-half as much corn a
they will eat: To finish them I win
plant six acres of ninety -day corn om
fall plowing. As 0000 as this start
to dent I will turn the hogs into th
field and let them `hog down' the corn
They will be in good shape when the
go into the field and wild be ready
to take on fat rapidly, and shoull
be ready for the market• by Septet -libel
15 to October 1,
"I know this is a good way to fee(
from my experience of last season,'
ext lamed time farmer. "In April, 1918
I borght eighty head of October pigs
I fed them a hall' -feed Of corn and ru
them on alfalfa until August 20, when
I turned them into a six -acre field o
ninety -day corn. 'Phey weighed one
hundred and ninety pounds each when
they went into the corn, and when I
sold them, September 20 they averag-
ed two hundred and fifty pounds. De-
livered to market they brought ?d9
per hundred pounds. Thus, each acre
of corn, which would make about forty
bushels per acre, made me eight hun-
ired pounds of pork, which at $19
per hundred, was worth ,$152."
Another practical farmer was asked
ie he thought it practical or profitable
to feed $1.50 corn to $18 hogs," and
replied that he thought so. "`I think I
can put two pound's a day on my hogs
until they go to market, and this
amount will mean a good profit to
mne ."
Next +moor I found a man with two
hundred heat] of pigs he had picked
up. These will be fed through the
• summer in order to have them ready
for the mid-November market. "I in-
tend to crowd these pigs from the
start to the finish. I shall try to keep
them growing during the summer by
feeding grain with theft' pasture. I
planted fifteen acres of early corn
which I shall `hog down' as soon 0s
it starts to dent. From the time the
pigs go into the corn field until they
are ready for the market ehey will be
on ftd1 feed, and I believe the younger
I can get 0 hog to market the more
profit he will make me, if I can mance
him weigh two hundred and twenty -I
five pounds or more, it takes feed to
mninlain the hog that isn't growing;
it also takes about so much to put on
the extra flesh in addition to growing
the frame, and the sooner I can get
the hog to the proper height the
fewer days' maintenance I will have
to pay for."
The three letters in the successful
pork -maker's primer, are good blood,
sunmcr pasture, "hogging down"
early corn. The best way for a farmer
to make pork profitable is by starting
with good blood, building a goad
frame on the shoats, mainly with
legumes or rape, "hogging •down" a
field of early corn, 0m1 then tinnily
finishing with a self -feeder on shelled
corn and tankage. L1 this way early
spring pigs from good blood strains
can be made to weigh from two hun-
dred and fifty, to three hundred
pounds 111 teu months,
One breeder advises that he made
his cheapest gain by letting his shoats
run into a field of� new corn, in addi-
tion to giving them access to a self -
feeder with tankage. The next cheap-
est gains be ever made were made
when the hogs ran to a self -feeder
containing tankage and corn, and art
the same time had all the good pas-
ture they wentcd. If pasture is not
available, hogs on feed should. be
given last -cutting alfalfa.
"Pork cannot be grown profitably
without pasture," he continued, "If
alfalfa is not available, or if the
feeder is a tenant who 00111101 sow e
alfalfa, it will pay to sow repo, I fi
have made tests to learn the wane of
rape compared with alfalfa for hogs,
0
separntor at just its worth in savi1
d 11010, which is surely five 1e din a clay
runt would amount in a year to 511,25
A
o! At that rate, in two 00 three years th
separator will have earned its reset
1-; And sura figuring does not conside
o' the saving ill Indterfilt. Se it wan b
o seen that if one plans to make goal
I butter a separator is a hhereesity.
t After the milk le brought from th
c; 6000 while still warm, it should b
e' strained through a wire strainer an
I cheesecloth combined, to remove al
e of the lurking dirt that may have go
p into the mills. After separating al
✓ of the milk from that milking, th
0, separator should he -taken apart an
o thoroughly washed and cleaned, ac
-! cording to the directions which ar
furnished with the machine.
ti It is surprising how many person
1;merely pour some warm water throng
the separator end., take a ehance."
o I remember a conversation with en
s lady about the ]seeping and ripenin
s of cream.
y "Why, before I get a chance to even
a start to ripen my cream," she told me
s "I find that it has `turned' a goo
1 many times lately,"
"How IIov often do you plan to churn?'
s I asked her.
e "Well, lest winter I used to chur
. about twice a week, but new I mus
y churn at least three times anal some
times four times a week," she told m
c "I can't see why it acts so," she coo
r tinuecl, "but it seems that every tin
that I get a certain amount of cream
c collected it sours :before I am ready
So I have to churn before it gets to
, sour or rancid. Even then it does no
have that clean sour taste it used t
n have."
I did some hard thinking, becaus
f: as far as I knew she was very pat
Pitch Your Own Vacation Camp
by NORMAN KING.
A camp may be any Mae(' r: oil: In,
the country where e a stop is made from
one night. to cue z:ummc,•, but the.
camp 1 hat gives the least Pent and most
helps the health is that made in a
Leek,
If you are camping in a bungalow
e. or a eottege you have "civilized fix -
Mae," as my 11,1 guide used to say.
IIe 0101011 that it wag no test to one's
woodcraft to live under' a good roof
1- with dry floors and real furniture.
The tent makee an admirable home
• for the summer camper:, You may
remain 0 • day, a week, or month by
lthe shore of river, pond, or lithe; or•
d may pick up at a couple of hours';
notice and make camp at some other
locality.
The modern girl can °atilt herself,
din accr,rdance with the dire tions in
this article. Tho help of father or
e brother is, of course, not to be dospis-'
: ed.
1 If your camping vacation is to ha.
h• of more than a few days, by all means,
take a tent, If you do not expect to
e' stay more than three or four days»
and you have no tent handy, or do not
wish to be bothered with carrying'
1 one, a short, sharp, sheathed camp
axe will provide your shelter. Select
d a boulder or lodge with an abrupt;
side, cut -long poles and lean them:
, against this at a height, for you to
';pass beneath when et•tnling erect at
O the place where they rest against the'
ledge. Bold stakes in place at they
_ base with. stakes, place them two feet,
e apart, laying five of these in position.
Thatch with hemlock boughs. Oyer
e the boughs scatter pine ner•.ilos thick-
ly and then more boughs on the top;
this covering being placed with tips)
o towards the ground, like shingles,'
t your shelter rvil1 be waterproof.
0, To make it windproof you cdcse the,
back end with upright poles a foot)
ei apart between which you weave more
_ boughs.
I Such 17 1
ocular in her huttermalcing. I won
dered if it could be something wrong
with the separator. We went to the
machine and took it apart.
Well, it was coated with thick curds
of rancid cream and sour milk tha
had been left there by careless clean
1 ing. It was a wonder to ole that the
cream did not conte out of the spout
sour.
"`Now this looks as though ,it had
not been washed and cleaned as it
should have :been," I told her. "Don't
you wash it at least once a day'?"
I "Now I can see what the trouble
is," she exclaimed. "Mary, come here,"
she called, and the hired girl came in.
"Mary,"she asked, "don't you wash
this separator every day as I told
you to?"
"Well, it's like this," and Mary
hung her heath, "I've been so busy
lately that I could not wash it every
day, so I thought that if I ran some
warm water through it that ,it would
go all right until I got a chance, but,
honest, I never let it go over a week."
1 Mary was a new girl and never had
worked where butter was made, so she
' did not realize the importance of. a
clean separator, but we had found the
s e ter is not advisable for
more than 0 week at the most, as its
• is not sufficiently dry or ventilated.
If you intend to camp in one spot!
t
f'
tl
ri 0001a. With sails of snow, like my baby's
' by lake o• river, a large 0x9 wall ten
t is, best as it is more roomy; but i
you are planning to journey abou
from one place to another on lake o
river, seeking new fishing ground
and change of scene, or seeking berry
fields, a small A -tent is best necause
it may be put up and "struck" o
taken down, in one-quarter of the time
that you can handle the wall tent with
lits trouble rows of tent pins and stay
ropes.
The A -tent ordinarily is held in po-
sition by three poles, two uprights
one at each end, with a pin in the top,
this pin passing through:poles in the
top pole, Such poles are heavy and
take up considerable room in a boat
or are heavy to carry if you pack
your outfit. Phey are also too cumber-
some for canoe traveling. A long and
strong rope may be threaded through
the pole -pin eyelets at the top•of such
an A -tent, the rope passing down from
the outside, running beneath the width
of the tent and out the other hole.
I£ the rope is on top it will make
the tent leak in a rutin. Fasten the
rope to two trees, tightening it h lit-
tle .every clay if the weather is dry,
or loosening it a trifle of it is rainy,
for in wet weather it will shrink and
may break apart in the night, during
a rain 0nal'drop the tent on you, a
most uncomfortable predicament,
For a camp-sito always select a
slight knoll if possible, even if you
have togo back a hundred yards from
the water. A slight knoll or bit of
rising ground is easy to find no matter
how slight the slope all around, if it
will shed water. Pitch your tent on
top of this and in rain storms the
water will never gather under your
tent. To keep dry is the first health
rule of camping, Cold air will never
hurt you, but dampness is dangerous.
If you cannot find a little knoll, the
next best thing is to dig a trench
around 3 -our tent and a little ditch
at the lowest point of ground so the
rain will run 011 the tent into the
ditch and be drained away and any!
water flowing Clown :from higher;
ground will go into the ditch instead
0'f into your tent. °
Never toss the refuse from your
camp cooking into the water near ,you ;
unless it is a swiftly running river,!
and never toss it near you on the.
ground. Refuse tossed ,into sill water'
will attract water snakes; thrown un I
the ground it will decay and be un
lerithy and attract flies and mosqui-;
hoes. Mosquitoes may bo malarial,
flies always carry poison germs. Keep;
them away, Cover the flap of your
tont with mosquito netting to keep
hem out at night and barn a fire of
rotten wood, green leaves and grass
over hot coals or •anythfilg that will
nuke a heavy smoke oe smudge. Such
tt fire near w11er0 ,you are eating will
rive -away the bothersome insects.
t is no more work to be comfortable
1011eit camping.
The best method of handling re-
use is to dig a hole a hundred yards
from camp incl throw it in there,
overing with boards or slabs of barn.
The camper is judged by the sort
f fire he is able to malee. The am-
our cannot make a practical fire, the
derail camper works wonders with
is fires. Anyone can pile up branches
ncl mance n blaze, also a great 50401(0,
elides the little smudge fire to drive
way gnats and mosquitoes, there is
to cooking fire and tbo night oe
amp fire.
The night or camp fire shoaled be b
oil: twenty feet from the opening 1
cause, and after that there was no
more trouble,
I have mown of others that seem
to be careless in a way similar to that
I of Mary, though perhaps not quite
so bad. But such methods, while sav-
ing work and time ,in one way, cause
a heavy loss in others.
y,
- There are slackers even in poultry-
dom. As a rule hens do' not show
great artivity during hot weather, but
there are some which become so lazy
that they are not worth their feed.
Those are the hens that cut down
their egg yield, Hot weather is worse.
for hens than cold weather, for during
the winter month a hen with any life
in her Will busy herself to keep warm.
Some hens that are bordering on the
molting period, having laid heavily
the previous months, aro now sort of
resting up, They deserve it.
No one can lay a similar charge
against the lice. Ilot weather and,fhlt}a
are their delight, They are wide
awake, and 110 good poultryman will1
permit them to take control of hie
lhonneries. Get busy.
Rats, weasels, slinks and opossums]
are full of life, too. This is their busy
month. Bo equal to the occasion,
Deny them qum'terk.
Cull the flocks. Dispose of all the,
old stock that is not intended to :be'
carried over, It is a ]vise move to do
so before the fowls go Into molt.
Separate the cockerels from the pul- t
ets, and give the cockerels some extra
feeding, They need it. Market all
110plus cockerels as soon as they are
t.
The nights are hot, and therefore
rho. fowls should be given as nearly
utdoor conditions as it is possible.
Here in where the open -front scratch -
ng shed proves its worth, Cut clown
1111 heat -producing food, feed plenty
crf green stuff, see that there is a
lentiful supply of fresh water within
each, provide shade, and there will
o fewer slacker hens and consequent -
y more eggs,
1> ;i141”Lt.nt:, 11111, tit0 1ii'!'e hold
very (( • n !mikes into th gamut,
siding leak from 1171' tent The :slant
float be enwmt*h to hold a 1714114 4,1
log.. ' cry green and tough wood like
ha=sty d or e m t1 ng teat ,logs not
burn c r, i',, i, he.t. file up the green
V .
]n„•+ and Lund the file in front of this.
'the back w•e'.1 throws ti noel Biel the
light toward par tent and nuance; a
cheerful plies,to sit tub sate If you
have several shays of rain, rig up at
shelter twenty feet above it,•.I over
thin by mean; of hemlock boughs
fastened to lung poles,
A cooking fireph,1' rimy he built
of flat .;tones or *f two flatleucd and
the wider enc., further bark. For •e
crane the old, green crotched stitches;
may be use•.], bat the gneene i wood
burrs 'n17 time and may dump your
good stew or chowder into the ere,
An it c n red to rest on th cr;,t n .
1' best, flake pat•hu:.ler lt. e the ler.
ter �S, have plenty of them to h u':
together to hang a kettle as 1'b.,:e to,
or far from the fire as you wish.
The cooking fire -should be male of
hard hoed, to avoid flame.,, Tac beet
cooking is done over glow , el
Piste 0111. other soft woods lvil! not
-make a good bed of coals. Start. with
kindlings, pine needles, dried leaves,
little dead twigs and over these l:,y
your hard wood. When ye c have a'
good bed of coals there will Le little'
or no flame and a small 11010,1:1 of,
smoke but an intense heat, really;
more heat than softwood in a mass of
flames will give.
n
For a long stay,t n•
g nail boxes to a ,
tree to hold your staple groceries, and;
drive in nails air your kitchen lutftt,�
se trip of tarred paper above and
below will keep out eats and ether
insects, as they will not cross thee
tarred paper. Below that, probectl
from squirrels with either tin or bark
ed wire. A dozen sheets of sticky fly
paper is better than anything else •toI
put around the trees above and helots:,
as neither animals nor insects 3vii1:
get across it.
For a stay of two week, or more
it is worth while to make a shelter;
outside the sleeping tent, and make a
rough table and bench for your dining
Tito (z., ,'t Weft Pe1•r9aalleett "rfx 1
Latin eues:,;aety.
rerent1 (P":'.". fa] lKtnj 8t, Wast,
ee t Maga.
c ..steric,
I., rlre.
o oa r' 1.. 1 ' 005,
lnt•lrest 1„ .� •, 1,• ._ ;corny.
Paid up •Capitol 5;2,178.
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lti'i'I•:R.Q.A'1'1<IltiAL LI."'SON
JLTI.Y 27.
i.: pmba' 1t' th' in::C4hie-t, :,aft:e,:t ','l Christian Fellow -hip -Acts 2: 42. 4P,
1111'it corn fors able la 1 .,ver .invented 47; Phil. •f: 10.20. Golden
by Mari. Text, 1 John 1: 7.
111 Vey best nheth d for carrying
on the ,imp ,u., _a C,:• i1 (coir of f•,,,0. In Acts 2: •1: :441, -t7, there is
' p:eture of the fellow:hip of the fir
is to , ,sir up in teems r,f tw•n. One
tam w. ill do a111 the wort 1 llri,.tau" community in ,1, 1 7.:,here
t one deco
chile the rt!•er two will d0 nothing I'hrle were daily n•eetfnct•s, in while
except leaf, 11 1, :,nd rush to the table •
they ate together in simple fell„:
when meal; are ready. Cl 514(9. disthu11,0; of rant: and clay
On the next
day the other two will do all tins }laying leen laid axle The x900111•
work. 11y alternating' ill this way yellmingled fi•eriy with their,liseiples an
get the mon 11 nut 02 camping to0I irstraeted them. There were prayer
you have one whole rix • of n',�,ltd»:v
and sonars of praise and .cords e
nothing; 1" 4:, and ev::nyon 1(4 worn:- 1'1' a 1111: £4r a11, IB , a.t: '' there wee
'ng d.:y yr:11 hays posh+v of 10i01re 011,' 1 x,10 001140.,.; therm, those wh
between mods for little fleeing tripe 111 a " n. t.i rh 'm and et
and game-' and the 1,11x• days but 51•,111 n :nine, 1;114 1101 t Ir erents wee
brighten the pleasure of the free 'lave, I'- "a! tv°I"mcil (11113• t. ell the pl'lvi
1f t,vo farm girls can make camp 1e:ees and happy cum0atie:>hip of thi
with two farm mother.., no mare ideal new hfe. This was the beginning u
varatien can be inhaa•iae,l. , a m00 131 11 which was to sprea,
s
" rSt:aulpetl and
Self -Ad dies ed"
"And that was what she said!" de-
clet ed 3lary, triumphantly. "Didn't I
tell you last night, Uncle aim, that
Mos. Barnes 10115 a horrid, disobliging
100111an. and that 1 lcnew it wouldn't
do the haat bit of goad.. to ask ]ler 19
help?"
a "Why, yrs," said Uncle Jim, slowly,
et oyer the 41p of his newspaper, "If
1.. I r1':member correctly, you- did say
11 something like that. V,'ell, then, con-
uL;timhs, my dear. That's :an -
s Mime •r et:unpe•t and self-addressed en-
s ielope 1,1mc back."
<l Congratulations?" said Iblery. "I
s ue: you didn't understand. I said
f thr,t 11 r:, *Barnes had turned out just
e as li 1111 tu1,1 disolaiging-„
" "`As. you exile, ted her to be," finish-
!
e
Boy Scouts, (ldrl Guides and Coup rapidly to all nation.', :aid which i
try Folk's Ciubs, under wis" leader- Yet to r'rm (100 the 1000171.
ship, tan have no better fun thin Phil. 4: 10.•21. Your Care of el(
camping, Paul was writing from a Roma
prison, into which he had been eas
`p� upon his arrival in Rome in the yea
Y 00 or al A.D. About eleven year
' -'esoace } before, on his second missionary jour
yzei el 011,,.0 ne3, Paul had come over from Asia
•
i�.
n
frlse fr`
The Land of Nod.
Would you knew the way to the Land
of Nod,
Where the 111 et f ries dwell,
Where dear little darlings, misty -
eyed,
On snow -shite ponies 01059113
ruse
To the soenl of a drowsy bell, bell
hell.
And the hum of a sea4110 shell?
There is a way to the Land of Nod,
By a slowly ebbing tide,
On which the boats go dropping
clown
into Macedonia u1 h ached m
al had re t}
1
Gospel to the Philippians, founding
there the firet C}:r than Church ii
Europe. He had leen driven (rem
Philippi by pc eeaution, but returnee
thither some five er six years later
• He speaks of the Philippians in terms
of warm appreeiatinn of their ,en
stant and unfailing kindness to him
I and of the care whirl) they had of him
: Seo 2 Cor, 11: 9, and compare verse
1 15. When he first left them and went
,;to Thessalonica they bad sent him
gifts (v, 111), and again when he was
in Corinth. But during his long im-
prisonment in Palestine they had
"lacked opportunity" to help }Bim.
Nov, hearing that he was in Rome
and in prison, they sent Epaphroditus
with gifts for him. Paul says, "Ye
have revived your thought for me"
(v. 10 in Revised Version), and speaks
• of that which they sent as "an odor
of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable,
wellpleasing to God."
ad Uncle „rim, briskly, "Yes, I under-
taad. 1 merely connected 11 with
. 0:111 :thing I heard the other day.
Every day we send out mental messag-
es all round us; and we always inclose
1 ;tamped and eelf-addressed envelope
which 'ri s us in return something
of the same 101141re as the one we dis-
pate.]- ,tncst we sent for, really!
"I dem't believe in swallowing
things whole, you now, and sq I've
been teat hing myself and my own
reactions- :'nd I'm getting a good
droll 0f cmusement out of 'them.
There', tine, newsboy, for example,
e jest outside my office building who,
for some- 1 reason, has seamed to take -
1 a particular luney to me. Whether I "
buy or not. he always gives me a
1 "And there's one of my clients who
• I 00011 began to send him back a
59eelal greeting, too, though it wasn't
-; until recently that I realized it was
, in his own self-addressed envelope..
"And ther's one of my clients who
alnays cornea to ole 113 if he thought
I knew everything about the subject
in hand. I'd do almost anything
rather than disappoint that man and
Amite his , onfldence. That's what he
draws in his envelope.
"And the he's another person -did
you ever experience that kind, Mary?
-who looks me over critically from.
:head to foot when I begin to' tail.
There's nothing in the world, as far
as I know, that dries up.the-springs .
of one's'
inspiration like that critical
stare. I am just as stupid as that
person expects Inc to be! And I send
bark her envelope."
1 "Why, that must be why everybody
s1 A good supply of butter helps th
food supply but this and canned evap
orated milk spoil quickly in hot wea
•Ither unless.( you learn the trick o
keeping them.
.Within •two or three feet of th
i water dig a hole below the water -line
The water fills the hole to a sleight
of a foot. Then you place rocks in
,I the water until they conte just above
1 the surface. You may place your
!crock of butter, your can of milk, you
package of pori: and such other foods
as spoil quickly, in this "`refrigerator.'
Have a cover to put over the top and
roll a heavy stone on this. Everything
I. will keep here as it would .in the
•average refrigerator except in the
case of thunderstorm, when the milk
will spoil, but in that case it ryould
spoil anywhere about the camp.
hioke n little shelter under some
tree near the camp and put in several
bushels of dry pine needles, pine cones,
birch bark and tiny dry twigs. Be
sure that this is covered over so that
it 0001101 get met. Never use this for
ltiadling your fire in dry weather.
Save it for rainy days and for such
emergencies 0s when (7011 Conte 110100
after dark and it is difficult to find
lnndlings.
For a party of four you 31111 need:
ffour quilts,
utwo blankets, two
,
blankets two e - c -
o sh n t hon llc d axes (lte
enure you are likely to lose one), 11
short -handled hoe for dfggfng tretwh-
es, plenty of rope, extra salt of old
clothes and underclothes, plenty of
fishing tackle, frying pan, two genes,
00110; peat, eight tin plates, four steel'
knives and forks, plenty of nods 111141
spike=, six cheap spoons, two large
spool,, one clasp knife, two hatcher
generis eight S pot hooks, five pint 11,1
11199004, 0110 toaster, two c 11 e; 0:114
'soup, t3vo bars snap that will flottt,i
four dish towels, four Turkish towels,
rags for dish cloths and a small kit
containing gauze for bandage;, cots
for injured fingers, needles, thread,
safety -pins, court -plaster, carbolated
Vaseline, Jamaica ginger, and Epsom
salts,
For supplies take five pounds corht-
meal, four doulile loaves of bread, two
pounds coffee, half pound tea, four
cans roast beef, peck potatoes, half
pec: onions, five pounds sugar, five
pounds salt pork, four cans evaporated
milk (which is much better than the
condensed milk), four calls clangs, four
cans baked ,beans, three pounds crack-
ers, salt and pepper. A girls' camp
will doubtless include other •dainties,
es they are called.
These supplies, with the butter,
eggs, and milk you may purchase now
and the from the fare
n rez's, together
w:1t11 the fish you should catch, should
ln'ove sufficient for four hungry boys
o• five (7) hungry girls for a tn'ee-
week trip. You will be surprised to
find how little space they take. Pack
]lean in so0p boxes if you go to your
0mping place by boat; pack the bed-
ing in one bundle and roll it up with
he tent. You hill then have plenty
1 room in your boat.
Stretch a long rope out in the sun
mi every morning hang your bedding
pen it. The best beds are made by
overing the ground inside your tont
1117 dry pine needles at least two
oet in depth, and ever chase spread
layer of just the tips of hemlock
ranches about a foot in depth. This
lakes, for the active camper, what
e gown,
Till the sleep -river grows so wide,
wide, wide,
f One scarce can see to the farther
side.
e,. There's another route to the Land of
• Nod,
Up a mountain steep and hdgh,
And warm -clad climbers, hand in
hand,
Go softly up to the starry land,
1'j And there on blue cloudlets they
lie, lie, lie,
1 And cra'sc by blue islands of the
sky.
And so they come to the Land of Nod,
By the shimmering, star -lit way,
And niddy-noddies came in hands
And take the white -robed travel-
ler's hands,
And with them inDreamland eamland they
play, play, play,
1 Till they melt into mist at peep o'
day.
`Save Grain by Clean Threshing.
There is no doubt that a great deal
of grain goes into the strawstacks
every threshing season, Not so much
as some people believe, and not enough
in many cases to make it pay. to thresh
G '
the , tiawatacks for the grafi in them,
but enough to make clean threshing:
necessary.
Before the threshing season mated,
last year, twenty-two states of the
Republic to the south, where efforts
toward cleaner threshing were carried
on, reported an aggregate saving of
15,000,0(10 bushels of wheat. Other.
states, although they 'did not give)
figures, reported greatly reduced har-
vest losses. In addition to wheat, at
which the clean threshing campaign
was especially aimed, there were cor-
responding savings of other genius
which are harvested and threshed in
nnle'h the same manner a15 ]wheat and
'usually- with the same machinery. An
average of several thousand tests
showed that -raking shock rows saved
about one bushel of -grain 1111 acre. In
the past this operation has been an
infrequent practice, Figuring this
year's wheat crop at about 71,000,000
acres, a saving of one bushel an acre
would mean 5100,460,000, at 52.20 a
hushes, A corresponding saving might
be effected in Canada.
The time of tlu•eshing depends on
weather conditions. In regions subject
to heavy rainfall only a shall part of
small grains is threshed from the
shocks. Threshing from the stack re-
quires extra help to do the hauling and
stacking, but less help at threshing
time. Besides, stacked grain can be
threshed later when help is not so
]card to get. Grain threshed out of the
shock must be very day if it is to keep
well ,in storage.
In some small neighborhoods sever-
al farmers go together and buy a
thresher, running it with their trac-
tors. In stili other instances an indi-
vidual owns a small thresher, costing
$800 oe so, and threshes at hie own
convenience, using lois tractor or gas-
oline engine for power. This plan
is to be encouraged hi many neigh-
borhoods,
The cellar lvindoss should be just
00 carefully fitted with wools as nee
the other windows in the .house.
1
and I find there is little difference in
the feeding value,"
Separator Pays For Itself.
Nowadays 1111 soelns foolish to think
of separating the milk :aria cream by p
the old-fashioned method of shallow- r
pan setting, ]3t' this I mean putting .b
the mills in pans about four inches 1
deep and lotting stand until cold, then
skim:ming the cream that 'collects on
the top. While mice :butter can some-
times be made from the cream obtain -
g
a
ed by each methods, considering the h
loss of time and butterfat, the modern b
cream separator soon pays for 1teelf, 11
Jt; one r00kot15 the value of a cream 0
Malco a sprinkler for your flower
melon by tatting a lard pail and with
small nail punch a number of holes
1 the bottom, Fill the punctured pais
,y setting it }n n larger pail of water,
ft it anemia sws119' it back and forth
ver ,your plaints,
Epaphr*ditus had journeyed seven
hundred utiles to bring these kindly
gifts. While in Rome he had been
busy ministering to Paul and helping
in the work of the Church. Paul calls
him "my brother and fellow -worker
and fellow -soldier, and your messeng-
er and minister in my need" (2: 25.1
I But he had been taken seriously ill
and was near to death. "For the work
lento
Christ,,' Paul 51(70, "he came nigh
(unto death"(2: ani rcaabl• having
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encountered severe hardships on his
long journey, but even in his illness
his character shines forth 'brightly,
for he was "sore troubled," not be-
cause he was sick, but because his
friends in Philippi had heard and
would he aflame (2: 20),
If Epaphroditue 1, a fair sample of
the Philippian Christians, then they
were good fellows indeed, Paul speaks
particularly 0f their "fellowship in
the furtherance -of the gospel from
the first day until now" (1: 5), and of,
their bellowsllip in his uhliction. (4:'
: 151. It was that 40nac of comrade-'
ship, much more than their gifts,'
which pleased and ronlfo'ted him. He
could havedone withoutthe gift, f0
l r
he had learned self-denial in a hard
0011co1 (vs. 11-181. but their love for
hint and care of 111111 and thought for,
hint wel'e unspeakably precious.
It is, lie seal, "not because I desira
a gift," but "fruit that may abound
to your account." ]ie did desire that
they Anna be the hind of people who
111,0141 be thoughtful 'and generous,
and would do kindly deeds that would:
be to thc'r cecina die desired that
their credit account sh0ulil be large,1
that they might have a rich reward'
front ('recd. For, he :said to them, "My,
God shall supply all your nee,] ac-
cording to his riehes in glory by Christ
The relatioh of Christine love and
fellowship existing between Paul 0113
the Christian folk of Philippi is ex-
ceedingly beautiful. It is just such a
relationship as should be everywhere
between fellow -members of the •
Church and between the members and
the pastor of the Church, When
selfiehness and strife enter the life
of the Church it decays and dies, Bet-
ter to bear all things, and endure
offences with all patience, than to
destroy such a fellowship!
Writing Under Difficulties,
loves mother ::0!" crieed Mary, eagerly.
"She brings out thbest in people.
I've heard people say so again and •
again. That's because she •looks 1
it, i:=n't it? And probably that's why
she gets on so well with Delia, Lots
I of ether people have tried Delia for a
cook but couldn't stand her because
of her temper. You know mother
; never loses 110ra-so there's no temper
envelope to come back."
"E::actl ,- .creed Uncle Jim with
a smile. "You've got the idea, MaryE
Ann, Moreover, you're already touch-
' ed on the other side, which is the
really important one: not the kind of
Ienvelopes we receive, 1(04 those we
send out to other people. Suppose we
tried to get ours there first? Eventu-
ally, we'd raise the level of the whole
transaction,"
"Yes, I eve. But to take a concrete
ease, Uncle Jnn, what sort of envelope
as you call it, could I have sent to
Mrs. Barnes? I couldn't think, `She'll
be tweet and generous.' I know her
too weal,"
"You u nim though, o ht thou clink some- .
g
thing like this, mightn't you? 'Nos
body could be intentionally disagree-
able about a real charity like this..
Of course she'll help if she possibly
can. It's ) pt mvile _e!' "
"Humph! said (lacy-, doubtfully. -
Uncde ,line laugh of What do you
really think as you 10) round to get
contributions?" he asked,
"Really and truly," said Mary, "I
gum; I think, `I hate to ask you, and
I'm tic you'll Mae to help, but I
think it's 3'tlnr dirty, :end I'll be furi-
ous if you don't; :aid I think myself
quite superior to you!' Well, no won-
der I get the. results I do. 1)ty envelope .
says, `Return a disagreeable answer •
in two minutes to Mary Mason!'
You've given me a great deal to think
over, Uncle ,Tim."
• "At least," said Uncle. Jim, "that's
what the flattering little envelope that
you solid me always calls for,"
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To Get Most Out of Manure.
A sut,seriber w•ho ren.: a dairy farm. -
thinks be is not getting such good
results from manure as ho has a right '
to expect, and wants to know how '
to get the most possible value from
it. At present the manure is piled an
the barn lot till time to haul .it out,
and a good deal of juice runs out of-
into
finto a gulley. He says he is a ..,
sifilated that he can not very hell
haul manure and spread it as made.
Undoubtedly this friend is Iosiug
much of the "goody" of his supply of
manure. The liquid manure "front
cows is worth fully as much ass the
solid, and ho loses nearly all the liquid,
It would pay to make a good concrete
foundation for this mal7inr3o to rest on
on and to put Some kin] coI a coven+'
over ft. Use enough budding so that
s
bye manure will cortaf1 straw enough
o absorb all the liquid and hold it.
o far as laossihle nmol the mimeo
Out to land that is sooei tale plowed,
m
o that the newly spaced nliuee wiit
Don be mixed, with seil, In tthis. �cvay i
he manure will go further, It would!1
a so pay to add about forty minds ox
cid phosphate to aaeh ton of Manuria
1ldword W. Croft, a nowspnpernunt,
who was a passenger hi a biplane from 1
Champaign, 111•, to Chicago, wrote a
11111nber of pages of copy wllilo travel-
ling from 7,000 to 8,000 foot In the air,
sometimes above the clouds and flying
at 90 miea an aqua, using 1i typewriter
steaiipe to 'a bo 'rd, with the board
strapped to his knees and himself
strapped 111 the biplane,
The use of passenger cars and com-
mercial twits in cities and country
distnicts has displaced many millions 1
of horses. This is an enormous say-
tug in ,grain, time and labor..
Rub soap on, under and around the
fingernails before going to work in s
the garden. Then when you have s
finished your work, the grime corn t
easily bo removed. Tho Satn0 rule
holds good when 90115111ng n stove, o