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CONDUCTED BY PRO. HENRY G. BELL
The object of thle department Is to place at the ser.
Mee of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops.
Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Bell, in
Care of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toren•
to, and answers will appear in this column In the order
In which they are received. When writing kindly men.
tion this paper. As space Is limited It is advisable where
immediate reply is necessary that a stamped and ad.
dressed envelope be enclosed with the question, when
the answer will be mailed direct.
Subscriber:—I have one acre of
sandy soil which is shady. Would the
shade interfere with the growth of
should the soil be:prepared? What is
should the soil be prepared? What is
the best variety?
Answer:—A moderate amount of
shade cannot be of injury to raspber-'
ries or blackberries provided the
shade is not caused by large vigorous
growing shade trees. If such is the
case they will undoubtedly be sap-;
ping the ground of a large amount of
moisture which will mean the partial
starvation to the cane end bush fruits.
You will recall that the raspberry in
its wild state grows fairly close to
forest trees and that some of the
best berries are frequently found
where there is partial shade.
As to the preparation of the scdl,
practical cane and bush fruit grow-
ers advise deep fall plowing and
evorking of the soil until it is mellow,,
before the cuttings are set. In order'
to have sufficient plantfood for the
young cane or bush to get a vigorous
start, it is good practice to work in
aa'bout 300 to 500 lbs. of fertilizer
=eyeing about 3 to 5 per cent. am-
monia and 10 to 12 per cent. phos-
phoric acid. This should be worked
In along where the rows of canes are
to be planted. and can be accomplish-
ed by scattering the fertilizer along
these rocs and then working it in by
harrowing. When the time for plant-
ing comes, strike out a light furrow
and set the climb in these tjurrows,
drawing in die earth and pacbbking it
ti¢••ltt]y, Miert people prefer the rows
to lc 4.'� feet apart and the cant
to be set1. fool: _ , 10 ;,t.,hcs apart in
the vow.
to. 1:.lI:ir,:ro are
Cath1rrt .(d .'c:Y,ra.;olti nurntioned 'fur
rasni: _4.1 i. e r.
Farm I5,y:--t to F:nt i, Blake a 14:1,.•
ales on a ;alai er ltd that has been
in acrd yteirs..i':. };,u toll me how
to pre'i):a:'r ''hami:d and the hest
kind rf cls yeret c to iciest. 1
%vo; !a , c d, , /0111 :,10,4. ,AV-
aai 1141 kete.. t ., , 1 -ant to
'fhe field
1sas in 'a-,er. The soil 15
ssady ion::. I> ,2nuk1 good for
potatoes?
?r.: 1 it garden plot
plowed a 1 ,eutli six to
see a- eei. ae the sail is
d:•r vete., eerlees If you have a
19; nits i, r, .. ou the ground
St the .ii' of ,a ,l1;a.i:+la,i<.LGdy telt
te'a '..-. .r:d sole,rpir' iing., it on top
of the t,.:.v;ell l:ua,_;. 'Work this into
the sail it di :,; 5 and harrowing.
Get enough high grade fertilizer to
put on at least 500 lbs.4o the acre.
In buying the fertilizer ask for an
analysis which runs from 4 to 5 per
cent. ammonia, 6 to 7 per sent, phos-
phoric acid and 4 to 10 per cent. pot-
ash. Scatter about 3-5 of this over
the surface of the ground after you
have harrowed the manure in, and
give the plot another harrowing to
work the fertilizer in,
When you are striking out the drill
rows for your various vegetables,
scatter a light dressing of fertilizer
down the drill row where you intend
to drop your seed. Be sure to pull in
a light covering of soil on top of the
fertilizer before the seed is dropped,
then proceed as usual. When cul-
tivating time comes just before the
third cultivation, scatter a little fer-
tilizer up between the rows and work
it into the soil when cultivating.
As to the varieties the On-
tario Department of Agriculture
recommends, for cabbage, Copenhagen
Market, or Danish Ball Head, for
tomatoes, Chalk's Jewel, for carrots,
Chantenay, for beans, Davis, White
Wax or Refugee, for beets, Crosby's
Egyptian or Detroit Dark Red.
In preparing your potato field pro-
ceed as advised for the other. See
that the fertilizer is worked well into
the soil and use good seed. For or-
dinary garden purpose possibly Irish
Cobbler is the best all around potato.
It ripens early and yields well.
Leaf mould is exceedingly good for
garden drops. Pf you have a quantity'
of same, scatter it over the ground
the same as you would manure and
vsork it in.
T. F.: I have a five -acre field in
earn last season that I thought of,
sorting to wheat. Would that be a,
gouel rotation? What fertilizing
would the field need? It le rather
heavy clay and was well manured last
spring.
Answer: --It would be good practice
to follow corn with wheat. On the'.
heavy clay sail what you need .is a
fertilizer which will give the wheat a.
good start and ripen it -early. For this
purpose I would recommend 200 to
400 dhs, per acre of a fertilizer analyz-i
ing 2 to 3 per cont. ammonia, about'
e per rent. phosphoric acid and 2 to t
per cent. potash. If you have a grain'
trill with fertilizer dropping attach -I
inept, the fertilizer will be best
dropped by this machine. If note
scatter the fertilizer on top of the
plowed ground and work it into the
soil by harrowing and disking.
Can You Grow
Potatoes .like this?
With a re"aonably good :.oil end rainfall
and the liberal use of Hareb•Davies Fertil-
iser, you can be sure of a potato crop sup-
erior in both quantity and quality. The
potato shown In our illustration was grown
by a New Brunswick farmer who is a con-
sistent user of Harab-bevies Fertilizer.
He sent us this potato as a good average
sample of itis crop. There's no magic about
it. Iiarab-Davies Fertilizer is simply en
efficient plant rood, containing Nitrogen or
Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash in readily soluble form. Its record
of success is its truest recommendation. Write usto-day for our booklet,
"Fertilizer Results by Satisfied Users." It will be sent free on request,'
and it will give you evidence in the shape of signed letters from farmers
in all parts of the country who know
by experience bbw profitable Harab-
Davies Fertilizer is.
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than the utterance of the lips It!
meant the denial of a form of false
teaching, current at that time, which I
declared that Jesus was merely a
man upon whom the Spirit of Christ;
had rested for a time, It meant also
the open acknowledgment of Jesus i
as the Son of God in a time of perse- ;
cation. And it meant the faith that
Jesus in His human life and death'
was indeed the revealing Word of
God, God's love incarnate, In Find -
lay's great book en this Epistle he
says of those who make this confes-
sion: "Understanding as these do
as they alone can do—the transcen-
dent greatness of the Saviour and
His infinite preciousness to God, they
realize the love of God which gave
IIim to the world."
17-21. Herein Is Love Made Per-
fect. Findlay sums up the continu-
ous argument of vs, 15-21 as follows:
"Love lives by faith, love casts out
fear, love unites God and man with-
in one breast," Of love made per -
feet (vs. 16 and 17) one may quote
the words of the celebrated painter,
G. F. Watts, written in his old age:
"Religion is :nothing unless it is the
music that runs through all life, from
the least thing that we can do to the
greatest. After all there is very lit -t
tle to be said; we know we have to t
desire to live well, to love goodness,
and to aspire after it, that is for
God; to live in love towards all, and
to do rightly towards all, that is for
man." (uoted in Stoddart's New
Testament in Life and Literature).
Because as He is. They who love
are like Christ. Therefore will they
be told to meet Him in judgment, for
He can not condemn His' own. So
they who love, abandon fear, whether
:for this world or the world to come.
Perfect love casteth out fear.
If a Man Say. The final test is.'
the practical one. If a man hate his
brother he does not love God, If He
love- his brother, earnestly seeking
his brother's good as he seeks his.
own good, then we shall believe his'
profession when he says I love God.
Look Out For Pneumonia Ili March
BY JOHN B. HUBER, A.M., M.D,
There seems to be a feeling among It is by breathing fresh, clean air,
farm folk that because they live in and living fresh, clean lives, day and
the open country they are not apt to night that we avoid pneumonia and
— -- - ; suffer from diseases which become other diseases.
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INTERN .1.TION A I. f.ErtBO4.
MAUCH '1s
Smug Writes _about Christian Love.,
1 Sohn 4: 7-21; Golden Test. -
1 John 1: 11.
'sees icor Love 1:. of God. All John's
argu=.Hent:, are ba:ic,.1 upon this cent •
-
ra; face resealed in Jesus Christ.
Therefore. beciOoe hire is of God, he
segues let us love one another. He
has already declared love to be the
true law of life, the commandment
*heel 1- o' ! ';:d yet ever new, the
law of 1: it,::• . '.51ecrnod, the light,
of daily eele a tee hart (2:.7-11).
Again, he ; az •:seem d love to be the
sign that see ,,r,, rhe children of God.
the ovule i .. ti• ,r r,e hove passed
from deo is `o lir,:, that we have
eternal Lfe abiding in ss (3: 111-13).
For love is life, true life, normal and
healthy life, and it is life eternal.
Here the apostle finds its source in
God Him,elf, For God is love, and
love is n" Ged.
If, therefore, amt's is to be the law
of our co:mnoe life, the law of citi-
zenship, the regenerating force in so-
ciety, the cure fur all human ills, we
must find .it not in economic theories
or movements, or in social change,
but in seeking after God. That will
always 'bo, indeed nest always be,',
Bret. Out of such real and rightly'
founded love will come whatever is
is confine at the ammo old price sol-
o,tatl 100% Fare auger Oene Treacle.
trao It regularly, Food it to your
Cows, .Pigs, Horses, Sheep
fate watch; them take Or, weight.
Sprinkle it over straw, old stay, and
47.11 o l:ar 502505. zt
Keeps Stock Healthy
Iillilids Flesh Faster
Coes Give More Milk
Tt Oa* do;ea cost of fording. A. vain -
WOO conditioner at deci,ledly reasonable
teat. Made of pure 5il5 ... Inc molassole.
z"+t's it by Ilse barge'
0t,teleed frena an lira-claee dealoraa.
eerie ose Scalpay circulars and ortee,
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1')8 et, Pei . 't, t. , `, t.i n•rr,rb Clue,
needed to remove social wrongs and;
to establish justice in the world. For;
love is the fulfilment of every law,'
whether human or divine (see Rom.'
13: 8-10).
And every one that loveth is born
again. He has passed from the old
life of selfishness and self-seeking'
to thr new life of, love. Through the
love that is now in his heart he knows
God, as otherwise he could not have
known Him. John himself had learn-'
ed to know God in Jesus Christ and
in the love of Christ, The supreme
fact of both philosophy and history,
as of religion, is that which is reveal-
ed in Christ that God is love. 9-10.
God hath sent. We see and know
Cod's love in Jesus Christ. It is true
that God's love is taught in the Old
Testament (Duet. 7: 7-8; 10: 15; Ise.'
43: 4; 63: 9; Jen 31: 3; Hos. 11: 1;
Mal. 1: 2), but it has its supreme
and perfect manifestation hn Jesus.
Christ (see John 1: 18). And Jesus
came to show us that love that we
might know God in Him, and receive
Ilia love as the law of life, and so that
we might live through him. It is
through our roeognition of this great
love and our participation in it that
we are drawn from folly, and indif-
ference, and carelessness, and even
from positive enmity, to nearness to
God, Christ in all His unselfish min-
istry, but most of all in His sacrificial
death upon the cross of Calvary, has'
made known this marvelous love of
God. It is indeed as though He had
cast Himself upon the altar as a pro-
pitiatory sacrifice that men might be;
reconciled to God through Him, Com-'
pare v. 10 and 2: 2,
11-12, If God So Loved Me The
l
argument is complete. Love is of
God,—therefore let us love enc an-'
other. God has loved us 'with the
great love manifested in Jesus Christ,
—therefore we also ought to love one
another. But no man has even seen.
God. That, indeed, is true, but where
love dwells there God dwells, as IIe
r in Christ, If we love one another',
God abicleth do us. This is the anystery,!
the certainty, the glorious revelations
of love.
18-14. Of His Spirit. The '.history
of Christianity, in spite of its wit-!
nese .to many failures and to many'
errors, has abundantly demonstrated
the reality.,and power rat' the Spirit of
Christ. It is this Spirt in the heart;
workin all
g virtues land all goodness,
inspiring love and faith and hope,'
that gives the ultimate assurance of
abiding. i g in Him who is love, and of
Iris abiding in us, See Rom, 8: 16,1
15-16,; Whosoever Shalt Confess.'
C'cfes•1tii meant to John much more..
epidemic in crowded towns and cities, Pneumonia is also called lung fever,
where dust and dirt harbor billions because the disease settles for the
of germs. But I want to tell you that most art in those precious organs
it is just as easy to get sick on the
farm as it is in the city. Sometimes
it is easier,
Itis not your geographical location
that makes you immune from disease.
It is your•physic.al condition, and the
conditions existing in the house in
which you live. And it is just as easy
to prevent or to catch disease on the
farm as in the city. The same pre -I
cautions will prove equally effective(
in both ):laces.
Farmer folk are not altogether free
free, pneumonia; and as the country
air is generally considered freer of
germs than city ale, one wonders
how anybody in the country could
suffer an attack of pneumonia. I will
tell you,
One winter night I stayed in a cer-
tain farmhouse, The people were I
good, clean, decent people, and very;
prosperous. Their home was well..
constructed and comfortable, anti'
their scale of living was above the
average. But when I went to bed I'
learned seine things about that house
that went far to explain how I hap-!
pened to be called there.
I was taken to the guest -roam, and,
as I always do in the city, I prepared.
to open a window for the night,'
Imagine my despair when I 'found
that that all four windows in that
bedroom were nailed down beyond
any power of ,mine to budge them,
Being used to sleeping .in the fresh
air, I therefore spent mat of the
night either dreaming horrors or
meditating over my misspent past.
In addition to that, I nearly suffoe
catecl, All in alI, I had a• very bac]
night of it. In the morning I under-,
stood, so far as that particular farm
was concerned, the saying that the
country air outdoors is so pure, The
people there kept all the bad air int
the house.
I have since learned that it is a
common practice among farmers tot
nail down the bedroom windows come'
November, and keep them that way'
until spring, That kind of existence
is not really living et all; et is just
hibernating, bear -like; and the result
is enervated bodies which become
o pneumonia, con tam +
ideal abodes for s
p p
tion, grippe, and many another kind'
of germe
by ich the breath of 'life is sup-
plied to our bodies, But eve have
hero really to deal with a general in-
fection (that is, a "catching" mal
ady); and sometimes, besides the
lungs, other organs are 'gravely in-
volved because the germ and its
poison (its toxin) reaches those er-,
gans by way of the lymph and blood
channels. That is -why, after re-�
eovery takes place, we have to be
content for a long convalescence. For
the heart may continue to be very.
weak, dangerously so, perhaps; or
the kidneys may be act•'ng so badly
that chronic disease of those organs,
may supervene; or the cline=tion may'
become seriously impaired.
Pneumonia has an enormous death
rate. Sometimes, and in some local-
ities, this exceeds the death Tato of
that disease which since the begin-
ning of human history has been con-'
sidered the Captain of the Men of
Death—the name John Bunyan, who'
wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress,' gave!
to 'consumption. Pneumonia, ee
pneumonitis, is of very wide distribu-
tion. And now about the predisposi-
tfl-ins to .pneumonia. Men are more
likely to suffer than women, no
doubt'by reason of the greater phys-
ical hardships and outdoor exposure
which most men endure in life, Dur-
ing the winter months' ---but especial-
ly when the weather is changeable
and unsettled, as in November and
March—there is much pneumonia,'
During a long and even stretch of
moderately cold weather the disease
is net, however, suffered so much.
Colct and wet, especially when the
extremities get chilled, lower the
vitality, and so make the body sus-
coptilile. Gold along does not en-
gender pneumonia. Arctic explorers
have bean amazingly free of lung
fever while breathing the germ -free
Arctic air; but when they have. re-
turned to civilization, where the
germs are, they have been as like as
anyone to suffer.
A tired body is easily susceptible,
Unhealthy conditions a£ the nese and
throat--catarrhs--help bring on lung
fever. An injury to the chest, such
as a hard blow, may invite the d.i
sease, Alt too often preumonia is
a
terminal affection where there is
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MRsHELEN L' AW
1 /Ce°arw�i',
Address all communications for this department/to
Mrs, Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave., Toronto.
Subscriber: Will you kindly give me
a little advice on growing asters?
Aster culture is earried on some-
thing like this: A piece of land suit-
able for wheat growing is selected,
it is plowed in the spring, dished and
harrowed 515 soon 08 weather condi-
tions will allow and marked so as to
make the rows about sixteen inches
apart and the plants are put out eight
to ten inches apart in the row -from
the fifteenth to the twentieth of
May for the earliest ones, the later
varieties following two or three weeks
later.
The seed is sown preferably in a
hotbed about the twentieth of April,
The seedlings kept growing slowly
until time to plant out. Some people
prefer to transplant theist much as
we do cabbage plants, thus making
the plants stocky and more easily
transplanted, should the weather be
dry at the time of planting out. It
is necessary to keep the plants cool
in the hotbed, taking the sash off en-
tirely on all mild days, covering them
only when there is a possibility of a
slight frost. Keep the plants short -
stemmed and hardy.
Two colors are preferred: pink and!
white. The leading seedsmen have
special strains they advertise for this
purpose. There is not such a wide
difference, however, in their selection.+
on laude where asters have not been
grown before.
Their principal properties are: Length
of stem with a single terminal bud,
and the two colors as already men-
.
They are cultivated much as onions
are, preferably by hand, because the
horse is very apt to mutilate a great
many of the plants by stepping on
them,
In all the largest cities wholesale
flower dealers are very anxious to
contract with aster growers for the
sale of these flowers, providing they
conte up to a certain standard. That
standard is size of flowers, length of
stem and color, It is considered
among the growers of asters that the.
process is such a simple and satisfac-
tory one that even the uninitiated
succeed as well as those with a wider]
experience. The chief difficulty Iles,:
and it is a difficulty, in keeping the,
plants free front stem rot. It is no
uncommon sight to see an anter patch
rendered useless by this so-called un -I
controllable aster trouble. The di-'
sease affects the stent about one;
or two inches from the surface of the
ground and no remedy so far has
been discovered of either checking or
controlling it. Tho safest and
simplest way to avoid it is to keep
planting on new lands, that is to say,.
The Gift of the "Gabs"
Can you make a speech?
Wily should I learn the art of
speech -making? 'Isn't enough mis-
ery being inflicted on the publlic at
the present time? Besides, It is
work, not talk that is wanted.
One can almost 'hear' these coin-
stents ns some readers catch sight
of the title of this article.
Have you ever thought, however,
how the ability to make e speech
might help you in your business and
social life? It may 'he safely he said
that there are scores of men who owe
their prominent positions to -day
chiefly to their aliilit.y to say the
right thing publicly at the right mo-
ment.
This is an age of advertisement.
Advertisement of the right sort
spells success, and there never was a
tine when publicity was so valuable
and the Press so powerful. And
because of this combination of things
the man who can be relied upon to
speak well is asked to speak often,
and little by little ho emerges from
obscurity and wins a reputation
w'in'ch naturally brings mulviut : stent.
Again, to speak in public. cdeman&
methodical thinking as one of the
first necessities. In order to express
oneself intelligently to others it ,is
necessary to train the mind in a sys-
tematic manner --an advantage of
great value when compared with the
slipshod fashion in which some peo-
ple grasp at the lin:st idea which pre-
sents itself, It trains one quickly to
seize upon essential inforntntion, and
the necessity for modulating the
voice and for using good English has
its effect in social life, making con -
1 versation and argument pleasant and
convincing to others.
Public speaking, too, gives corn-
: mend of temper and control of per-
sonal feeling, while for memory
trang speech -staking may be
strongly recommended. On this point
Mr. H. Reginald Gibson, in his book-
let on the art of public speaking,
saga that
heart, stomach, or liver trouble, hard- IAfter recovery the home is thor-�
t
ening of the arteries, Bright's di- oughly disinfected. But use onlyi
sease, diabetes, or. some other serious fresh air and dear Lord's sunshine—
malady. Many of our elderly people nature's disinfectants, better than
suffer thus of "pneumonia of the any others and making the nae of
aged." It is indeed an odd experience! others unnecessary. Fresh air, the
in medicine that many of us do not sunshine, soap, water, and lots of
die of the ailment by which we haves elbow grease will assure against
suffered most; secondary affections further cases developing,
carry off most sufferers from inpur- Remember that it is only the dis-
able maladies, charges, and not the breath of the
Bronchitis sometimes precedes for sufferer, which are contagious. There -
several days, an attack of pneumonia. fore, when coughing, sneezing, or
In most cases, however, the invasion spitting, a cloth or a handkerchief
is abrupt, with a severe chill, last- must be put in front of the sufferer's
ing .perhaps an hour, and with a sud- face. Old cloths than can bet burnt
den oncoming of high fever and are right.
rapid pulse, Within a. few hours Those who do not need to 'be with
there comes an intense, sharp pain pneumonia patients had hest not visit
in the lower part of the chest, and on thein, certainly not people worn out
the right side in most cases. This or' otherwise susceptible. On the
tabbing pain ss increased by breath- other hand, there is no reason for
ing and coughing. Then the suffer -ignoble fright as if the plague were
er's cheeks become flushed, life ex- about.
pression anxious, his nostrils dilat- A special word at this time about
ing. I will not here describe fully grippe: Pneumonia and the grippe
the symptoms—enough only for the are the two diseases especially Pre
family to realize that in such a ease n winter months. Plain,
no home remedies will do, that the Spanishvalenti, ortthe Russian grippe—they are
doctor has to be summoned at once. all the sante—,is an epidemic disease
Until he comes put the patient to which spreads with great rapidity.
bed. The specm bill must be a day and a night fluenzm, Coldificgerin theis holdthe is gener-
nurse,for even in the favorable cases ally the beginning. Then there are
there may be sudden heart failure orpains al'1 over, esnecially in the ]teal
stopping of the breathing. Fatalities and the bones, chills and high fever;
have resulted from sleepy, tired at- suffering oftentimes grtite prostrat-
tendants, however anxious . to be ing. The eyes are watery and in -
faithful, relaxing their attention for flamed, and the handkerchief is or
but a few minutes. ought to be in constant requisition.
The patient's mouth is kept clean;
water or cracked ice is given in
abundance; the diet is milk or broth,
with perhaps eggs. Everything pos-
sible is done to preserve the suffer-
er's strength; unnecessary move-
ments are prevented. Sleep is of
g,Ieat value; but the position has to
be changed from time to time, very
gently, so tliat there will be no
hypostatic congestion" in the most
dependent parts of the lungs. Spong-
ing with cold water, or alcohol and
In most cases there is bronchitis and
sore throat.
In some cases the digestive appar-
atus is badly affected: nausea, vomit-
ing, colic, collapse, sometimes; debil-
ity, invariably.' Too often alas,
grippe leaves in tits train chronic ill
health a wobbly heart, a pathetic list-
lessness in erstwhile strong men; and
in marry cases where pneumonia does
not intervene, latent tuberculosis (con-
sumption) has to be forewarned
against. That is why I am always
water equal parts, or vinegar and, advising a long convalescence, at
water equal parts, lowers the fever, least until the doctor finds the pulse
relieves the nervous symptoms of the return- to normal apd the heart to
delirium, and improves the heart arc- be again acting right,
tion. Influenza is not one of those infee-
How shall wo prevent pneumonia? i tions which, like smallpox or measles,
In the first place, predispositions confers immunity with its first at -
have to be guarded against --an easy tack; second and third attacks are not
thing to say but very hard to put into uncommon in the individdual. And
practice for everybody; for in this the carriers of the influenza germ
anxious, workaday world it is impel- are probably numerous; like the
Bible to remove all the agelii:les which typhoid carriers they may not -them -
weaken the body anti lay it open to, selves be sufferers, but they are walk -
germinal attack. i ing 'germ granaries. Be careful
Perhaps I could give no better ad- therefore of the man who carelessly
vice than that you keep yourself in coughs, sneezes, or sputters while ho
as good physical condition as pos- talky; and do yourself never go about
sible. The better a. per'son's general without your handkerchief in con -
health, the 'less liable he is to fall vic-
tim to any disease, because a good, Grippe is preventable, therefore
strong body, which gets plenty of don't contract it, Don't let your ,p`ltys-
nourishment, (rash air., enol exercise, kcal resistance become impaired, curd
will fight off diseases to which a don't seek crowded places.
weaker organisation will easily fall
victim.
As to the germ itself, we must pro -1 A Farmer's Gifts. `
Geed much as we do against the I will sing you n snag of a farmer's
germs of consumption, grippe, and
life:
all other maladies in which the upper Iso has happy eighteen, a lousy wife,
air passages are the infection centres, A flock of hens to lay him fresh eggs,
the lurking ;places of the reapecbivo A tall red calf with wabbly legs,
micro-organisms. The sputum is in- Some little fat piggies running about
variably cast into a vessel containing With curly tail and saucy snout;
fluid, which vessel is invarta'bly, H•e has lion»s of Fr, ft i<nd flowers, roc
scalded when emptied, Yolt%ow' fond' xed and white and blue.
Those who nurse pneumonia, pa-! A handy stream, rod, hook and line,
tients must keep their mouths and A gun, and Monty of animal sign,
throats very clean, by means of A noble horse to rine when he wills,
dentifrices and gargles. A good, A lovely view of the distant hills,
mouth &foanser is a normal salt solo -1 A faithful clog to keep ,harm away;
tion (half a teaspoonful of table salt. Books to read on a rainy day,
to a tumblerful of water as hot es Plenty of sunshine and good fresh air,
can 'bo borne), or a glass of water And God to watch over him every -
into which a few drops of tincture of, where, '
ldoine 'are placed. Tile 'hands should
bo washed frequently with soap and Lots of land and big muscles will
water, after each ministration encs pay, but less land and plenty of active
invariably before meals. brains -may pay better.
sperienrce of twenty
years of constant public speaking has
convinced him of the inestimable
value of speaking without notes. "A
speech made with their aid, or repeat.
ed from m.•mory, lacks altogether
that spontaneity and freshness of at-
tack which constitutes so great a
, charm."
While,i t ie not suggested that every
individual can become an orator, it
is quite poseihle for the large malar--
ity, by care and practice, torttain
to sufficient dexterity in the art of
public speaking to be of real value.
"Don't allow yourself to be dis-
couraged," says Nr. Gibson. -Stick
to it and speak persistently, even if
you shake for an hour before doing
so, and apparently lose your bear-
' ings every time. No doubt your Audi-
ences will suffer for a bit, but. that
of the case, and, little by little, this
j sensation will vanish, and you may
look forward to some day taking ab-
solute pleasure (in addressing an as-
sembly.
One word more on . this point.
Start as early as you can, and there
is no better way than joining some
good literary and debating society,
which is almost invariably most
courteous and forbeaning to the ora-
torical aspirant in his maiden ef-
forts,"
Blasting Pmbedded Bouldi res
First, use a slender, sharp -pointed
steel probe with which to locate the
edges of the stone and determine its
1 size,
If the atone is not more than two
or three feet in diameter, put down
1a slanting bore hole under the stone
with one and one-half or one and three-
fourths -inch bar and sledge. Load
one or two cartridges of dynamite in
the holo, being careful to tamp the
charge in well, It is important to got
the charge tee against the underside
!a the stone if possible.
If considerable dirt is between the
charge and the stone, the blast will
probably turn the stone out on the
surface but will not 'break it, Ilow-
' ever, after it is out, it is usually it
very simple matter toe break it with
a mudcap charge.
If the stone is large, say from four
to ten feet in diameter, it is advisable
to dig a hole down alongside of it;
then from the vertical hole, dig a San--
nol reaching to a paint near ihc. ren-
tre underneath the stone. Load the
charge of dynamite in the end of this
tunnel. The size of the obarge will
depend upon the thickness of the
stone. If it is a flat stone twelve or
eighteen belies thick, one or two
cartridges will usually be 'sufficient
to break it, If it is four or five feet
thick, however, it is sometimes neces-
eery to 08e as much as fifteen or
twenty pounds of dynamite. Only
experience in estimating the ger will
serve as a guide in this connection.
After the charge lute been placed,
it is important to fill the tunnel solid-
iy ` Feist earth so that the charge
wilt exert itself aSgaa'„'.J° 'eta" utono
rather than blow out through the
tunnel,
Charges of this kind can be fired
with cep and fuse unless the size and
shape of the stone makes it advisable
to use two or more charges placed al
different points under the rook, In
that ease, it is necessary to use oloa-
tried'etan , r
Af0
s e
wh ll
r
are connected
up together by means of tate cap
wires or connecting wire and fired
with a blasting machine,
is one of the inevitable necessities