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CONDUCTER BY PROF, HENRY G. BELL
The object of this department is to place at the sere
vice of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crone.
Address all questions to Professor Henry G, Bell, in
bare of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, Toron•
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 le advisable where
immediate reply is necessary that a stamped and ad.
dressed envelope bo enclosed with the question, whan
the answer will be mailed direct,
C. K. have ten acres of land
Omit one-half sand loam, balance
light sand, which is pretty badly run
down. Have a good market for ber-
ries and truck and would like to
know ]tow to treat the soil for hest
results for the following crops, which
I have the best market for: asparagus,
rhubarb, onions (bunch and mature),
potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, cucum-
bers, sweet corn, strawberries, black-
berries, red raspberies, and cherries.
Which of these will do best on this
kind of soil?,
assume that you do net
wish to grow simply one crop on your
hum, but you would like to know
which crops you should specialize in
and how best to handle the land,
Two things are especially needed un-
der your conditions, one is humus
and the other pl•antfood. Strawy
manure is of course a splendid source
from which to get humus. Apply all
of this that you can obtain at a reas-
enab]e price. As soon as your gard-
en crops aro off,—such crops as
onions, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes,
cucumbers, and sweet torn,—sow a
mixture of rye and fall wheat, Do
this so as to get a covering for the
soil which will prevent winter wash.;
hen This material coining along
early in spring will make a fairly
wank growth by the time yon have to
plow it under in preparation for your
gardeninn,• operations. You will have
to make liberal use of higlr grade
fertil!.:cr, applying as high as 710
to 1200 .lbs. per acre for such crops
as onions, potatoes, .cabbage, and
sweet corn. Use fertilizer of an an-
alysis running as high as 5% am-
monia, 8;S phosphoric acid and 4 to
0Se potash, working this thoroughly
into the soil at the time the crops are
planted. After your early spring cul-
tivation of blackberries, raspberries
and cherries has ceased- about the
first Lo !Mettle of July—sow the same
mixture of cover crop, plus a little
clover, among these latter crops.
This again will form a cover crop to
turn under the following spring. Ap-;
plying the fertilizer as advised, or a
fertilizer carrying about 4 to i3'%
ammonia and 10 to 12% phosphoric
acid to the cane fruits, will give ,good
results. '.Phis should he applied in
spring just at the time cultivation
begins.
J. S.:—I want to grow some cab -1
bage. I have a piece of clay Joule
soil that I have had in sod and cut
hay from, for two seasons. Could I,
expect a crop of cabbage on this, audj
what amount of fertilizer should li
use?
Answer:- It would be better rf you
could pick out a piece of land that
has not been in sod last season. The
piece you have in mind would have
been all right if it had been plowed'
last fall. Of course it will give re -1
sults if plowed early this spring. Mari
idea was that the sod turned under._
will have rotted more completely had
the fall plowing been done. Under
either case, of course, you can expect
a good crop of cabbage. To assist'
your soil toward this end I would
advise you to use as high as 750 to
1,000 lbs. per acre of a fertilizer
running about 4 per cent. ammonia,
8 per cent. phosphoric acid, and 4 to t
tl per cent. potash, Work this into
tee soil es the seedbed is being pre-'
pared, saving a little to apply around
the cabbage as they are being set•;
Do not let it conte .in contact with' ,
the plant or the plant roots, unless;
it has been mixed with the •soils
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A. J. ll.:—I have eight acres of! f
wheat that I would like to seed this
spring. It was sod plowed for corn, f
then to oats, and now wheat. Most p
of it was 'trtanured last fall. I put
on two tons of line per acre. Do youthink it advisable to seed to alfalfa
in the wheat?
Answer:—I assume your field is
in fall wheat at the present time.
Exceedingly good catches 01 alfalfa g
have been obtained by sowing the
alfalfa seed right on top of the grow-
ing wheat, especially when the wheat
has been fertilized. One ofthe lead-
ing alfalfa growers of Wisconsin has
for years spring top -dressed his grain
with a fertilizer analyzing about 2
to 3 Per cent. ammonia, 8 per cent,
phosphoric acid, and 2 to 3 per cont,
' potash, ming it at the rate of 250
lbs. to the acre, This is scattered
right on top of the fall wheat and
the alfalfa sown. Light harrows are
then run over the patch, turning the
teeth of the harrows back so that
they will not drag out the growing
wheat, and harrowing the ground with
the drill rows and not across. This
stirs the ground just sufficiently to
' bury the seed and work in the fertil-
izer, which results 'in a considerable
advantage in the wheat itself and al -
mast insures an alfalfa catch.
D. C.:—I would like a little infor-
elation in regard to Sudan grass for
sheep pasture, and the effect it has
on ground for following crops, as I
intend to put the above into wheat
next fall, That is pasture with sheep
until time to turn under for wheat,
twenty-five acres to thirty-five snoop.Answer:--Sedan grass is not al
pasture grass, speaking generally,
but is grown for hay. It makes very;
rank growth, reaching a height of 4
to 0 feet, and compares with some of
the ranker growing millets. It grows
luxuriously down the south-easbeen
coast, under semi -arid conditions, but
is not advised where better quality
grass can be grown. A 'mixture of
timothy and clover, I believe, would
suit your purpose much better in
Ontario, than attempting this newer
material which is rank and poorly
adapted to the purpose for which you
are growing a. If you want an an-
nual pasture to use this coming
spring a mixture of wheat and oats
with a few pounds of clover seed
thrown in produces good annual pas-
ture mixture in about six weeks. Use
1 bushel ofeach grain per acre.
S. M.:—I have just moved onto a
160 -acre sandy, gravelly farm, and I
believe, pretty badly run. I wish to
sow oats and peas this spring for
quick hay. Are the peas sowed first,
plowed in, and then oats broadcasted,
or can I broadcast together and har-
row in? Tell me just how to get the
best results. What can I put in an
old orchard solved to June grass and
used as a pasture? Don't wish to
plow it, not this year.
Answer:—You can get very good
results from sowing a mixture of peas
and oats for a good hay crop. Use
a ibur•ltul of each to the acre. These
may be sown at the same time. Bes
results, of course, will be gotten b
drilling them an with a grain drill
and I believe in view of the run-down
condition of the soil .it should pay
you well to add 200 to 300 lbs, of
fertilizer analyzing from 2 to 3 per
cent. ammonia, 8 per cent. phosphoric
acid, and 2 to 8 per cent. potash. This
would give early food for the onto
and peas as they sprout and would
mean an add:done' yield which would
pay big interest ate the money .invest-
ed in fertilizers. The beet thing to
do would be to get a drill with fertil-
zer-dropping attachment. Relative
to the orchard, you do not say whether
you intend to clean the orchard up or
slimply let it stand until you can des-
troy at. Assuming that the latter is
tiho case and you do not wish to plow
t this year, I would advise you to
catter some clover seed on tap of
he ground and towleess the soil with
ertilizer at the rate of about 300
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to the acre. You should use
ertilizers high in nitrogen, 4 to 6
er i,ent. and about 10 to 12 .per .cent,
in pho.epltoric acid. It will be well to
apply the fertilizer first, then scatter
the seed, then harrow the sod if pos-
eible so as to work the seed into the
ground slightly. This should make
growth which would give you some
cod hay.
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Most hard-and-fast rules respecting
manure removal are made only to be
broken. Some commercial poultry
keepers --successful ones, too --clean
the roosts only twice a year, in spring
and fall, Mid are clteptical of the prac-
tical features of any other policy, It
is not slovenliness on their part,
either, They dispense with dropping -
boards and let the manure accumulate
hi a boarded -off space on the ground,
Occasionally they throw' abeorbeets
on the pile.
A big Plymouth Rock poultry farm
is proud of its efficient nonuse-re-
inoval system, Through a carefully
planned combination of convenient
toots stud overhead metal litter car•
ries, it removes the manure of 1,600
birds and deposits it in an outside,
covered concrate manure pit, alt in to
thirt
yfive minutes. On a farm where
Leghorns and Reds are both kept,
manure of 500 birds is removed in ten
to twelve minutes.
At two times :frequent manure re-
moval from dropping -boards is of
especial importance. One•6s the warm
months when mites may become a trig
drain on the flock. The pracbico of
some of the commercial poultry farms
is to clean daily, and to paint the
roosts every fortnighh'with a coal -tar
disinfectant. Of the two measures,
they declare dally manure removal
does more to defeat the tnites,
Special roast -cleaning tools are on
the mariret, or they can bo improvised
at hone. A good scraper helps to
make the job easy, When the hen-
house has hoard floors, at cleaning
time manure will sometimes be found
dried to the floor in spite of the deep-
est litter. Water will soften the ma--
rhd, and permit $ thorough elute,
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FROST CANNOT DESTROY
We have a quantity of dried carrots available for cattle feed. All
that is required Is to soak in water to bring the dried artists back to Mee.
fresh sliced carrots. Frost cannot hurt them, and there is no waste or
dirt. 200 lb.& of these goods equals a ton of the raw article. We are
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for the fresh carrots. Try a sample bag and you will find them much
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BELLEVILLEE, ONT.
Cord or
Fabric,
cA well shod horse travels
sorest and farthest?
rrHE car equipped with Part-
ridge Tires runs almost free
from the delays and inconven-
iences caused by tire troubles.
Partridge Tires have so unques-
tionably proved their depend-
ability and economy that
they are to -day recogniz-
ed as "the most service
for your money" tires.
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ing job. At cleaning times it always
is a wise precaution to disinfect.
The plant -food value of poultry ma-
nure is appreciated everywhere. The
poultryman close to town or city, or
in a district where intensive agricul-
ture rules, never has trouble selling
it at a good price, The range of
Prices is 50 cents to 1L25 a barrel,
with considerable quantities sold •at
$1, More poultry keepers choose to
use it on their own land. It must be
stored in a protected place, as it
quickly loses its value when exposed
to the weather.
A Rainy -Day Magician.
The clouds were gray and weepy.
faced, the woods aloof and cool;
The flowers looked mussed and sleepy -
faced like children tired of school,
Then Robin, Spring attending him,
cams hippy -hop along,
With nothing recommending hitt ex-
cept his little song,
He filled a dreary vale or two with
tuneful exercise,
Then ran a merry scale or two to
cheer the rainy skiese
The skies composed right wittily a
rainbow in reply;
The meadows answered prettily with
bud and :butterfly,
Nob one for dilly-dallery, Friend
Robin looked around—
Then drew his well-earned salary, a
worm, from out the ground.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 11.
Deborah and Barak Deliver Israel—
Judges 4: 4-5, 31. Golden Text
—Psalm 46: 1.
4; 4-6, New Deborah. The first four
verses of the chapter are the intro-
du•etion provided by the editor of the
book. They tell us sof the evil -doing
of Israel and the oppression of Jabin,
king of Hazer, land his captain, Sisera,
whose home was in the northern part
of Palestine (see Josh. 11: 1-16), and
over whose king and people at an
Joshua itad won a great
earlier time
victory. Now they had recovered
power and were using •it against
Israel. The historian tells us that
the king "mightily oppressed the
children of Israel" (4: 8). The Song
of Deborah (chap. 5), says, the high
ways were unoccupied, and the travel-
lers walked through by -ways for fear
of their enemies.
The people, hold miserably in sub-
jection, lacked food, and, they had not
oven weapons of war with which to
fighb their oppressors,
Deborah was a prophetess, She was
inspired by Jehovah. Because the
people of that part of the country
hert be so ins fired they
o i t ey
invested her with authority, They
came up to her for 'judgment. Her
home was between Ranuth and Bethel,
a little to the north of Jerusalem,
67, Called Barak. Deborah had
courage and faith in Gocl. But she
needed the strong hand of a capable
Acj
Address all communications for this department
Mrs. Helen Law, 235 Woodbine Ave., Toronto.
The Tans' Grandmother: Please
give u list of pretty names fur boy;
and girls; we went something un-
usual.
In your quest for something "un-
usual," avoid names that are made
up by relatives or friends, and a'.uid
also peculiar spelling of old and
familiar names. In every case the
child's last name should be taken into
consideration, for the given nam,: and
the surname should harmonize.
Choose carefully before going outside
the realm of such good old standbys
as Margaret, Elizabeth, John and Ed-
ward, which combine well with most
family names.
A well-chosen name is an asset not
to be overlooked, for either the sight
or the sound of it makes a pleasing
impression, often paving the way to
pleasant or advantageous things,
while an absurd name may become a
handicap, sometimes a veritable bur-
den.
Girls names not n general use, are
Adelaide, Agnes, Alice, Barbara, Bea-
trice, Christine, Clara, Dorothea,
Eleanor, Emilie, Frances, Grace, Ger-
trude, Helen, Hilda, Ida, Isabel, Jean,
Janet, Jessica, Julia, Laura, Lucy,
Lou:se, Marion, Mariam, Olive, Paul-
ine, Ruth, Sidney, Sylvia, Theodora,
Ursula and Winifred.
For a boy choose one of these
names: Alan, Alfred, Arthur, Bert-
ram, Charles, David, Douglas, Donald,
Edgar, Edwin, Francis, Geoffrey, Gor-
don, Horace, Lawrence, Lewis, Mal-
colm, Oliver, Paul, Philip, Richard,'
Robert, Stephen, Sylvester or Theo-;
dore.
In naming a boy, a family name
(sometimes the mother's maiden
name) can be used with good results.;
Everett Smith is a good example.
)
Nicknames and abbreviations have
their place in the family circle and
among friends, but the child's name
should always be registered in its
correct form, not as "Louie" for
Laura, "Flossie" for Florence, and
"Willie" for William. ,School work
and, later on, business letters and let-
ters sent to strangers should he sign -I
ed with the name in its correct form, I
for a communication signed "Cad
Elite" does not seem of so much 'inn;
portance as one signed Catherine.
Elite.
Wooten and girls err in this respect
far more than Wren, but they are
realizing that while we may prefer
to be "Lou," "Mamie," or "Sadie" in
the home circle, Louise, Mary and
0
Sarah are better for business pur-
poses, as "Johnnie," "Wiille" and
"Bobby" learn early in life.
Ruth: You should accept the firiet
invitation that a young man oifere
you even though he may not be. just
the one you would choose. It is only
courteous and fair. It may teach the
"right man" too, to be a little more
prompt. I think you did right in that
other affair but, my dear, are you not
a bit young to be thinking so seriously
of such things?
Story -writer; The only way to dia-
cover the value of a story is to send
it to the magazines. Type it care-
fully, numbering the pages; put your
name and address ,at the upper right-
hand corner of the first page and the
number of words at the left corner
and enclose a self-addressed and
stamped envelope in ease of rejection.
Use paper 8 inches by 10 :end fell
twice. As you have not given me any
clue as to the stature of the story, I
cannot advise regarding the most
suitable magazine;. Don't be dis-
couraged if your brain -child retuned
just send it out again, Best of luck!
fxiscouraged: My ;nether is obi -
fashioned and will not try any of the
new devices that make howelteeptag
easier. We have just installed elec-
tricity and can afford lata of new
things, What can I do?
Youth laves to experiment and ven-
ture and I have the utmost sympathy
with you, dear. On the other hand,
Experience, which your mother repre-
sents (this sounds Ike an allegories)
play:), knows much of which Youth
is still ignorant, so I cannot well lake
sides. I will, however, tell you of an
expeOience of a friend of :uire who
visits her mother on the old farm
every summer. When they installed
electricity she wished her mother;
would buy some of the new hoesekeepe.
ing devices but her mother, like yours,
would not. So s'he arranged a corn:
promise. In her own home she al-
ways drained her dishes in a wire,
drainer, and though her mother did
not approve, she did it when she
washed her mother's dishes. So *eel
morning she said: "Mother, I'll agree;
to do the dishes your way- if you will;
give this vacuum cleaner I have sent
out on approval just one trial." '111:,;
floors all had heavy carpets and'
sweeping was hard, backbreaking,
work. My friend cheerfully kept heel
part of the bargain and did not even{
ask her mother how she lilted the
vacuum cleaner, but it did not go
back to the dealer.
man, a trained soldier and leader of
the northern tribesmen. Therefore,
she celled Barak, whose home was in
the north, near the Jordan river and
the lake of Hulah, and who, no doubt,
hail been one of those to suffer most
at the hands of the Canaanite enemy,
"Deborah" means a "bee," and "Par-
ak," "a flash of lightning." This com-
bination of the .bee and the lightning
gave promise of a stinging blow
against the oppressor. The bu.sy
activity of the woman, her wis-
dom and resource, and the
strength, determination and lightn-
ing -like swiftness of the man,
made for victory. Mount Taber, at
the north-east end of the plain of
Esdraelon, was ehosen as the rallying
Point. Barak was bidden to call the
tribesmen of Zebulum and Naphtali,
over whom he had already some in-
fluence and authority. The chosen
battlegrotmd is the banks of the river
ICishon, always treacherous in times
of flood but well known to the meet of
Israel. Deborah's instructions to
Barak are given as the word of
Jehovah.
8-9. If Thou Wilt Go With Me.
Barak did not lack courage, but he
saw with a soldier's understanding'
the magnitude and peril of the enter.
prise. If this woman of vision and of
faith, through whose lips Jehovah
spoke to hint, would but go with him,
then he felt assured of Jehovah's
blessing and so of success. Deborah's
answer was prompt and spirited, "I
will surely go." But, she said, the
honor of the enterprise will go to a
woman.
10-11. At His Feet, that is, "after
him" With his little army of, ten
thousand men, ill-equipped but stiinu- regarded as justifiable and praise-
lated to enthusiasm abed daring by the worthy ,in the minds of the people of s
presence f th
p o e het•aic woman who that primitive age .(gee Si 24-27), It f
promised victory, Barak marched to has taken the world a long time to 0
Tabor. learn the lesson of forgiveness to an i
12-13. They Told Sisera, Nothing is enemy and to overeotne the passion
said of the king's participation in the of revenge anti hatred, and not even p
battle. Sisera appears to have put yet is that great lesson rightly learn-
great dependence upon his chariots, � ed. The student will elo well to corn- c
but owing to the marshy nature of pare the Song of Deborah with the r
the country end the river floods they lesson story, and to notice its intense
'wore probably of little use. The He- sty, lie passion, its graphic power, and
brews had no chariots until the time its dramatic qualities which find
of David (2 'Sant. 8: 4), The cheriob exproecion in successive vividly pre-
had a light wooden body, open behind, stinted scenes, proceeding rapidly to a
a single stout axis with two six to climax in which the tidings of defeat
eight melted wheels. T'te pole was and death roach the mother of Sisera i
fixed into the axle, bent up in front, and her companions, who are eagerly a
and fastened by it band of leather to looking through the latticed windows
the front of the. chariot, Two horses; for the return of the victors.
were harnessed to it; or rather yo'ked,l o
for traces were not used. In Steers's b
chariots of h -on the woodwork was; Awell-kept
waodlot or a plantrttinrt
probably strengthened by metal' of forest trans on the steep rook` o r.
plates, Two or sometimes three men' tions of the farm will help make t
p the c
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whom was the driver, a second the
shield -bearer, and the third, the
fighting ratan armed with bow and
spear.
14-16. This Is the Day . . Is Not
the Lord Gone Out Before Thee? De-
borah's faith was simple, direct and
very great. She was led to believe
that this was the divinely appointed
day, and like Moses and Joshua, she
believed that Jehovah went before the
armies of His people into the battle.
For among the earliest ideas of the
people of Israel about Jehovah was
this that He was a God of war, fight-
ing His people's enemies. "The Lord
•is a man of war," they said. He is
"Captain of the Lord's host;" He is
"the Lord of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel," "the Lord strong
and mighty, the Lord mighty in bat-
tle." Go even in Christ:an literature,
in the imagery of the Apocalypse,
Christ is "portrayed as a warrior ride
ing on a white horse to the final con-
flict with Anti -Christ" (Rev. 19: 11-
16).
The Lord Discomfited Sleets. The
battle was fought, no.doubt with
courage and file]ll, but it was the in-
visible leader who gave the victory.
There was a storm, a heavy fall of
rain, a swiftly rising flood, and the
enemy was caught upon aoft and
treacherous ground, amid mmaiwhes
and quicksands, It seemed that
heaven and earth had conspired to
overthrow and destroy the enemy. It
was surely theeLord's doing.
The lesson story goes on to tell of
the flight of Sisera, and of his murder
in the tent of Heber, the ICenite, by
Jael, the wire of Heber, a murder
winch seems shocking to us but was v
KEEP TRYING
"When first the child begins EO
imitate,
Do not the little effort under -rete.
Do thou the same, it will the more
delight him
And ever to renewed attempte invite
hem."
The way lay through a cheory ,part
of the city, down a long hill. Grate,
plots and flower beds bordered the
path and sometmes little children
played among them.
The sunlight flashed an arrow of
gold down the incline, and I could
Aft e 'child alone, sitting 'open the
pavement. Apparently he was most
intent. His hands were busy and his
sunny head bent close over has under-
talcing,
As eaan as I approached he seemed
to realize my' presence, though he watt
too busy to look up until I was quite
close to him. ' He was very smart,
brown -eyed, and very winsome.
4Iis hand grasped a piece of crayon,
and ae his eyes critically surveyed
his drawing on the walk, re said, in-
cluding me rem within his glance:
"I've made another kind of an `Se"
"So you have," I replied, but the
questioning look in his eyes made me
inquire:
"What troubles you?"
"It's -it's another kind," he replied
uneasily. Before him was a well -
drawn letter "S" about a foot high,
exexcuted with the swim:lins stroke of
a :strong and skillful arm; beside it
executed. with the swinging stroke of
the letter. He saw the diffleult curve
to the left, hut be c•auld not enaice it,
so turned to me for help.
-Shall I finish it?" I asked.
v ith a sigh of relief he yielded the
cr•syun.
'•Who made this one 'for you?"
"A man," he answered. Evidently
he wa:- acquiring his instrenction as
the opportunity permitted.
'There!" he tried with satisfaction
when I matte the required trolce.
.:There it is!"
"H,,w old ore ou ". " I vertu"ed, Far
he looked ell too tittle to be veneer ::••l
.with tiifii'ult carves.
"Piest three, I think," he said.
Later I learned from his proud lit-
tle mother that he knew "nearly all
of lee letters," and that he had learned
the letter "S" soon after he was two
sere old.
An unusual child? Yes, but with
greater possibilities come graver ro-
scnneibi]ities.
Parents sometimes fail to realize
that the e o:mg child needs widely var-
ied activity and constant direction to
awaken mid broaden his interest
rather than the over -stimulation
which •iodates him to "go far" with
some one kind of play.
The or,''rsiry iatercels of a three-
year-old boy lead him to convert the
ctin]ng x,om chairs into horses, or
the sofa intra an automobile. He first
takes an interest .in things that move,
then in things that make a noise. By
imitating in his play the life about
him, a child unconsciously develops.
some understanding of it; then when
one phase of activity ceases to inter-
est him, he turns to another to "play"
that while his interest lasts.
The young child is tremendously
alert, vital, experimenting at life first-
hand: LIVING! For most cf them ex-
perience must be the great education-
al factor. Froebel appreciated this
fact and chose the windmill with its
attractive motion as a symbol of the
child's experimental interest.
'Ihe wise parent always avoids ex-
tremes with even the ``most unusual"
three-year-old; but has care for his
normal development, since that is the
most urgent need for little folks.
Encourage the experimonte of
'children, but never force theta; let
them keep trying.
It Pays to Plan Your Work
In present times of high production
cost, many farmers are finding that
it pays to re -arrange their farms with
regard to economy and efficiency oe
operation. It has been noted In a
number of cases that welt -arranged
farms have brought a higher price on
the market, particularly where there
is easy access to the fields from build-
ings and highways. It takes an aver-
age of 58 work hours to produce an
acre of corn on reots.ngular fields,
containing 10 to 15 acres, while the
time required in irregular fields of
the same area was 61 hours, Where
tractors and large horse-drawn im-
plements are used, the advantages of
the long and regular shaped fields aro
ery evident. Many farmers are now
draining wet spots, removing trees,
tamps and brush,and st.•a,] '
t htesun
,�g 8'
ences ea as to ake their farming
peratians easier. In the olden days
t didn't matter if it took a few more
hours to do a certain job. With the
resent seareity end cost of farm
la bar it does. Often the land re-
feinted pays the expenses of rear.
angetnent rho first year.
The homes of a nation are its
trongest forts.
Reaching the top e4 a ladder is an
nciclent, but staying there l's an
chievententt.
Economy is not always doing with-
lit things, It is making them do the
est they cab.
'l'ho world's but trees are said to be
enable of supplying nourishment tis
s outlier poptilati'on.
wet•e assigned to melt chariot, one of plate more Attractive.