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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-6-9, Page 2[FF' 11Elf EARN, (lad Odors and Flavors in Milk Creamery owners and dairy inape'c- tors ere center exper:enoe enteideu- Mile difficulty in tracing the source of stn unnatural flavor or odor in the milli delivered by a patron. In such cases it ie first necessary to determine weather or not the abnormal flavor m' odor is present when the milli leaves the welder of the cow or develops' later, IR any particular cors is giving milk which is tainted it is not due to bac- teria, but to other'eauses, If the milk from any number on cows shows the taint the feed or some- thing which ome-ti,ing.which the cattle have eaten lin' the pisture is to Iri'ante. Carrots, turnips, wild onions, ragweed cab- bages, off -flavored grain feeds and other strongly flavored substances will rause tainted milk. Certain foodstuffs f.r sows, not ordinarily considered likely to produce bad -tasting milk, will at times do so. Where the bad flavor seems due to feed and there is nothing in the ration subject to suspicion, a change in feed is yet desirable, as the bad flavor may disappear as a result. Cows that are kep« in the pasture will keno reasonably clean, however, if the pasture is so situated that the cows have access to muddy pools or stagnant ponds they will often stand in the water up to their knees, fight- ing flies and plastering themselves with mud. This thud dries quickly and readily falls into the milk pail, It is me of the most objectionable dorms of dirt because it very quickly finds its way through the strainers and set- tles at the bottom of the cans and bottles. It is also loaded with danger -i eus teeterial life which have a deleter- ious etTect upon the milk and its pro- ducts. Cows that are plastered with this kind of mud !should be thoroughly eleaned before they are milked. One of the most prolific causes of trouble during the summer menthe iso that of old, scar strainer eloths which' are rinsed in like -warm water and! bung up to dry. These cloths should be put in boiling water and thoroughly creamed before. being used for another rniikirg. Ordinau'y wire strainers are worse than none at all. They are very difficult to keep clean and are almost,' worthless fee removing fine dirt and dust. There are certain fundamental prin- ciples in cleaning dairy utensils that cannot be ignored,. Milk should never) be allowed to dry and 'become sour. It is impossible to clean the utensils! properly after they suave been allowed to 'become dry and sour. If it is im- poseible to clean them at once, 1111 ihesn with water, and they may be easily cleaned later. Rinse with hike- -warm water before scalding. Then wash with hot water with the aid of some cleaning material.; if possible expose them to stem a 'few minutes and place them in a place where they are exposed to the light and sunshine instil the next milking. The best pre- parations to use in cleaning dairy utensils are the alkaliee and careben- ates, like soda, sat soda and. lye, be- muse they have the power to dissolve the coagulated albumen. Sal sorsa is one of the cheapest and most effective materials, as it is nether poisonous er corrosive. Impure water used in washing dairy etemekls frequently introduces danger- ous bacteria that cause ropiness in the milk. In some instances impure water used in washing the pails and ears las been traced as the source of dis- ease epidemics, As great etre should be taken in obtaining Sure water for teething the pans anal cans as in Ship your lot to ourselves and receive immediate cash payment and the highoet market price. We will treat you right. Wmt.. Stone Sons, Limited WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO Established 1870 etestever providing a stonily of pure vette the Cows, to delnte Tho Wheel Hee. The wheel hoe 1s very useful to both the gardener and the farmer. Its use is possible in many places. With laborshortage the investment of from $8 to e6 10 such a toel pays big inter- est, .. I have been using este of these tools fta' more than twelve years. The first year we had one en the terra I did net know what to do with it. It was un- handy, and I thought that it was easter to use a small garden hoe •adut a four -tined hook for the garden week. We hart a oneefourth acre of seed on- ions, and it was quite a job to keep the weeds out and the soil loosened. Now I can care for five acres with a wheel hoe under ordinary conditions, and have a lot of time to do other work. In using your wheel hoe it pays to look out for the dirt on •the wheels. A rim of dirt a half inch thick will throw the blades out of balance enough to spoil its work, This will bappen if the soil is a little wet or if there is a heavy dew. Take a dull knife err a stink and keep this wheel surface clean anal your hee will work far better. When you buy extra blades you can save ley filing the rivets off and using the old eastimg and replacing the blades only. Then it is eeonomy to get a rblacle about est inch longer than you wish, and cut the end off a half inch. Thus a eeven-meh blade will cut dee indhes, and'be thicker all the way up. If it stints out a little too far it wilt prevent any strips of weeds being left between the rows. Let me say here that I am talking of a double wheel hoe—that is, one that straddles the row of vegetables instead of going in between. I like tkis kind because it does not matter if the rows are net exactly parallel, or if one row runs further than an- other. Anyway, it is not possible to get as close to a row with a single wheel hoe as it is with a double one. On part of the blade of a wheel hoe there is an upright that cuts the soil and weeds next to the row. If this is left sharp a good many vegetables are ruined by cutting the edges or sides. File this blunt and save this loss. An onion, for instance, will be spoiled if the outer layers of skin are injured% When I file or sharpen my hoe I grind down the lower side—as it sets on the ground—and then smooth it down on the opposite side. I think e better edge can be put on this way, and it Lasts longer. I take the blades off sometimes, and put them on the grindstone or emery wheel, After you use a wheel hoe for a few years the spindle becomes worn, and this prevents close working aground vegeta'blee, because the wheels do not carry the rest of the hee where you want it to go. I bush them when they are worn by using a layer of thin sheet iron or tin. It lasts a seeeon, and makes the hoe work almost as well as new. A washer on the end of the axle will help too. One can buy new axles for less than a dollar, but the other way is about as good, and ler cbeaper. For the ordinary sandy soil the one drawback to a wheel hee is that the soil le eat off in a thin layer on top and then dropped back again, and the weeds go right along with their growth. We have got around this by making rakes to go on behind the hoes. A block of weed about five inches long and art inch and a half square had five or rix imch nodes bored through it, and No. 8 wire cut in pieces about covert inches long is put through the hetes .and fastened secure- ly with a staple. This is bolted in one of the slots to the rear of tlhe blade, and by bending the wires a little they will break up this slice of soil and so leave a fine mulch and also kill the weeds. This beats the rakes furnished with tome hoes, be- cause they tan be easily adjusted by bending the wires. I like to have some sort of a box or Saves Axles and Harness 'nen, emr en sleet Wheels turn easier and axles wear longer when they are properly lubricated with Imperial Mica Axle Grease. Its powdered mica flakes form a glassy surface for grease to work over. Timis friction is reduced and wear retarded. It costs Less than any other grease because it lasts twice as long. Imperial Fwreka Harness Oil keeps your harness pliable, strong and new -looking. It gives leather a rich, black, lasting finish, protects it from violative, and adds yearn to its life. t is easily applied and is a big money -saver on repair bills, Imperial Mloa Axle Grease and Im- perial Eureka Harness Oil are the first choice orf teamsters, farmers and liveryman. A dealer near you carries both ,in convenient silos. earieeiele • MX?',N<'1/#l, Ull,,.l,Xtitf'flg;li', •( ,+t otr the handdea of my bee to put amen stones tend trash in as I go along. If •this le just perched aside w•bect the work is drone, then the e!arne /stiff has to bo puehed around again the next time. 'Iho stones well geese the hoe to jump out of the greund when a Wheel hits them, and they are no good anyway, Put therm rias the box Y Y. as you Beene to them, and just tip the hoe ever et the end of the row and they're emptied{ When you buy a wheel hoe there may be e lot of attachments for it that look good, I have a small set of disks that I have used, Two small piowe came with it, and the rakes that I mentioned ccbuvo. There ore four or six smell cultivator teeth neat I And handy, and like them very much for digging up soil that is -bard- 1•y packed. The hoes just take the surface, and sometimes deeper work- ing seems the proper treatment. The wheel hoe should have an adjustable handle, In some week you want the handle higher, and in some lower. Ansi you may have a boy who wild want to run the hoe, reed he will be shorter anal so want lower handles. The Spur of the Better Thing. We have been going along in a steady, every -day sort of a way, with very commonplace hens, By feeding them well we make them earn us some money. The good wife kept the ac- counts, and she was a good book- keeper; but neither of us paid the slightest attention to the cost of pro- duction, We fed out of the fawn grain and bought a few things we did not raise. We did not think it amounted to much to figure up the cost of a dozen eggs. The day came when a new light broke in on us. We determined to know more about cost, .and when we found out, we said: "New we must have some better hens. This working for nothing and boarding ourselves is done with." And wife and I hitched up one night after supper and drove three miles to get a few sittings of Brown Leghorn eggs. We got them of a man that was making a success of his business, and who had choice, weliebred stock. The looks of his flock of itself was enough to spur us to better things. The man whose heart is not stirred by the appearance of a big flock of hens, all of uniform color, shape and general characteristics, had better not go into the poultry busi- ness; he will net make a suceess of it, That was the incentive with us to get better hens. The chicks we got from the eggs we set did well. Some of those hens stayed on the farm till they were old and they did well till the last. I have no idea how old they were; but I presume they really were too old. We loved thein so we could not bear to see them go. It is nota good thing to /save favorites like that among hens. Keep them until they nave done their best, then let then go, is a better rule. But since then we have wanted bet• ter and better hens. I wonder if we ever get to a place where that is not true with the ambitious man? Always better and better poultry, and that is what makes the poultry world more successful—E.L.V. Parr& With the tering of warm weather it will be nese-stony tohave abide for the chickens, lven more susceptible to the heat of the sun are ducklings, On commercial plants low shelters covered with boards or Marian are provided, if there are Ile trees or }shrubs to give protootiare Some e'uch OM may i s followed ore a small Place, but often it is 4uito Pees/hie and more sntlafsotory to -furnish na- tural shade, which can be done by growing artichoke*, sundoweic, or something of that bind. The arta. chokes cant be allowed°to grow right in the hien yarn if protectee. until they get well started, for this hens will not ! eat the leaves, Of course, • the Jerusa- ' rem artichoke is meant, the so-eatled iFreneh srticheke being an entirely different plant. Jerusalem artichokes ;novido good shade when planted rather closely, Arid ones started, will woo up, year after year. In fact, there is some danger that they will multiply and spread so fast as to Imola-to a nui- sance. At least some ehrould be dug out each Beason. The sunflower has special merit in the fact that the seed's snake excellent poultry food. Truth to tell, the sun- flower is not appreciated as it ,should be, but of course the Russian or mam- moth variety slwuld be grown. These tall sunflowers sta'ndiing close toge- ther make a good summer hedge and screen the poultry yard as well as providing shade in the fall. Fresh water is needed as much as shade. It is best renewed several times a day, but if this requires too much labor, a barrel may ebe, elevated on blocks and a small• hole bored nears the bottom. A plug with a groove in one side can be driven into the hole, thus allowing water to drip slowly in: to a basin underneath. There are patented drinking fountains on the market which will hold enough to sup- ply a large flock all day. Vermin are not a pleasant subject for discussion, but they must be reck- oned with when worm weather comes, for then they multiply with almost un- believable rapidity. This is especially true of the reds mites which collect on the fowls at night and flii themselves with blood. They are harder to fight than common lice because they leave the hens or chickens in the morning, hiding under the perches or in cracks in the walls. The simplest way to deal with these pests is to use earbolineum er some such thick mixture on the under part of the perches and to spray the walls with a prepared lice paint, which can be put on easily with a common spray pump. Leven if the house becomes badly infested, all trace of vermin may readily be done away with by this plan, without an excessive amount of labor. Mix cake batter with ice cold water instead of milk. Your calces will keep fresh and moist much longer than if mixed with nvilk. From a humble beginning with 460 members in 1913, Manitoba at the end of 1919 had enrolled upwards of 80,- 000 boys and girls in farm dubs. In Saskatchewan their growth has been Blower, but they are now gaining ground rapidly. RESTORING THE APP LE ORCHARD TO PRE-WAR PRODUCTIVENESS By C. W. Baxter, There is no doubt but that a con- siderable portion of the Joss of fruit trees, especially in the province ori Ontario, during the severe wintry of 1917-18, was the direct result of war cernditions. In 1914 the crop was large, and when ready to harvest war had been declared and marketing was in a chaotic condition. Later, owing to the great need of ocean eteamship space for the transportation of troops and materials necessary for the Enc- eeseful prosecution of the war, an embargo was placed on the importa- tion of apples into the United King- dom; and with restricted markets many fruit growers became utterly discouraged and neglected their orchards. The weather during two growing seasons was also unfavorable, and scab developed to such an extent as to reduce the vitality of the trees, and many were consequently unable to withstand the severe winter. To ascertain to what extent drudt growers in the provinces of Quebec and On- tario miight (profitably undertake the re-estab!iehment of apple orchards, therefore, it is necessary to consider conditions affecting the industry as a whole; aleo other industries correlated to the fruit andnstry. For several years prior to 1914 there was a great demand for nurse ery stock, but, following the big mop of 191.4 (which on account of lack Of proper marketing /acidities resulted in unprofitable roturne to the +growers, many of whom concluded there ,had been everplantin.g), this demand auto- =Meanly auto-ensue# ly stopped, The nurserymen continued to core for their plantings for two or three years, but eventually had to consign largo quantities of nunnery stock to the brush pile. renewing the cessation of hostil- ities dame a renewal demand /or nurse ery stock and, as the supply was very filar short of the demand, prices ad. v.nded. In fast, HO.great was the ad- vance that, together with the labor shortage, the time did not appear op - Fruit Commissioner. of the orchards which had suffered from neglect and frost injury. Having regard to these conditions, the Fruit Branch has endeavored to emphasize the importance of growers giving the necessary attention to their orchards in order to produce the maxi- mum amount of first -quality fruit, as well as the advantages of proper meth- ods of grading and packing, and the great need for proper marketing facilities. During the past winter officers of the Dominion Fruit Branch, in co- operation with the Provincial Depart- ments of Agriculture, have held meet- ings in the various parts of the pro- vinces et which practical demonstra- tions were given in the proper meth- ods of grading and packing, and the advantages to be gained by having all apples packed in a central pecking +house. Where convenient, dentonstra- tione were also given in pruning. Spraying and oor operative marketing were alae thoroughly discussed. 'lbe attendance at these meetings, and the keen interest taken in all subjects diel - cussed, indicate that greater attention will be given oreherde during the pre- sent season than bas been given for several years, amyl as the .supply of nursery stock will no doubt ibe greasily. increased within the next two years and the price eorros+pondingly reduced, orchards in Ontario and Quebec will undoubtedly be re-estaibldehed very soon. Growers have every reason to feel optiane'lst;ic es to the /utur•e of apg e growing in Canada. The industry as a whole made no progress dotting the past eight years for the reasons air reedy stated end, although prices for many agricultural psoduetts have de- clined during the past year, the price for the best quality of apples hate not shown any eorresponding decline, nor is it Likely to do se owing to the fact that produoitlon, even under fawn -eine ccteddtione, at the present time le esti- mated to be not greater than it wee' portum to urge the re-establishment twenty -dee yeate ago. ttla"'"' �r`4 ref ..1,'V`:' . A•• 0'01, - `.•�.'.' a' -ens'; —s., -„a"^ „n.{ i, The Right Tires, to Inuit your car and the roads, you travel If your car 10 a Ford or Chevrolet, Grey -Dort qr. Overland, the DOMINION "Grooved" or "Nobby" Tread give you non-skid, noes sideslip Tires of consistept quality and proven mileage. Or -,you may And that DOMINION "Chain", "Grooved" or "Nobby" Tread on the rear wheels and DOMINION "Plain" Tread on the front, are the ideal combination for comforeand mileage. 0 you drive a heavier car like the Studebaker, McLaughlin, or Packard, you will have the utmost satisfaction with DOMINION "Royal Cord" or "Nobby" Treads—the supreme achievements in tire building. The but dealers throughout Canada have DOMINION TIRES, DOMINION INNER TUBES and DOMINION TIRE ACCESSORIES. DOMINION TIRES ARE GOOD TIRES M1111111111111111111121e an The Sunday School Lesson JUNE 12. Making the World Christian. Isaiah 11: 1-10; Acts 1: 6-9. Golden Text—Isaiah ' 11: 9, Connecting Links.—Those who ?rave Lord. That will be the king's supronie found the true and the living God: virtue, and implies ail other kingly want to make Him known to others, virtues._ For the king who fears God The people of Israel found Him in will be just and merciful. many experiences of their history, but the following sentence ex ass in a especially in the two great deliver..g' pr arrees, (roan Egypt and frmn Babylon fine poetic figure the directness and It came to thein in the teaching of tiro I authority of the kinget commands and {'laws. So also verso 6 declares the great probes of the last centuries character of His rule --weigh shall be before Christ, that they should tell one of right and truth. The wolf, these experiences to the world. They leopard, lion, and .bear and poisonous had a story to tell to the nations, and serpents represent the fierce and war- a song to snug which all the world, ring elements of human society, which should hear. 1 shall be tante$ and made to live et Israel has been entrusted with the peace. • saving and enlaghtening knowledge of ` The entero sticture here presentee of the true God who can save,and so m rte reign of ti re great Deliverer is of a transformed society, in which peace to be "for alight to the Gentilea," anid with justice shell prevail. Mount Zion, for "salvation unto the end of the the place of Jehovah's temple, is con - earth." calved as, swelling and broadening . until it fills the whole world, anis the "The Lord hath made bare his holy temprideof the Lord ,becomes the holy area in the eyes of all the nations• The rod of His mouth. This and And all the ends of the earth ehall see' «They shall not hurt nor destro in all} the salvation of our God." my (holy mountains y For the earth shah be full of the Go also Jesus would ha„e Ilia dis-1 knowledge of the Lord, as the ciples tell the story of His redeeming waters Dover the sea." end saving work. They had been with; Him; they had seen and heard; they, Acts 1: 6-9. The kingdom to Israel were to be Isis witnesses, telling His ; Been to the last the disciples of Jesus story to the world. The apostles and expected) Hbn to establish again the ministers of Xenia Christ have not kingdo us.,of David and to ,be a rein only the story, of God's great work for Mang with court and army and royal Israel in Old Testament times to tell,`;power Jesus. made no attempt to set but also that of Christ and .His work! up seen a kingdom, yet He did sneak for the Kingdem of God. i of a kingdom of God, and He did as- Isa. 2; 1-10. There shall come forth Beet high authority. His kingdom was a rod out of the stem of Jesse. Isaiah to be .of a new age and of a new was expectinlg the !birth of a child of order. It was .to make real and sca- the royal line of David., who would ben prelim the will of God in the lives of the Saviour of Hisprelimople, end who. /non. It was to be, as men came would be a great and just and glorious elgwly.'to understand, a mightier pow - king. First to the weak, capricious ' er than that of any earthly kingdom and unprincipled Ahez,. and a fterwarrrt or empire -a kingdom of the Spirit. to the well-meaning but weak Hines Josue' did not answer His ditelples' ldeh, he predicted the coming of this queseon by a direct negative. He king,d hef did thseems to have expected not desire to destroy their national He wotild come goon. As time hope' offreedom and greatnees. But went on he projected Ilia naming He didplace before them two, great farther into the future, and dwelt. immediate experiences end duties—the upon His. character and His reign, with'first, the receiving of power through high anticipation and confident hope, the gift of the Spirit of God, and the of great things. s000nd, bearing witness to Him an the Micah (6: 2-6) a younger contenr- world. porary of Isaiah, repeated the sane Thus, and thus only would His king- prediction. Jeremiah (23: 6-6) -took dor be established in the world by it up and made of it a message of Doan-' the work of His Spirit in the hearts fort for those of hie time who suffered of men, and .+ by witness -bearing. And at the bends of their enemies defeat, thus would be fulfilled the old pro.. humiliation, and exile. Ezeldel, among pphetic vents) of justice, peace, and, the the first of the exiles, saw Him in a knowledge of God filling the whole brighter future as a second David, andworld. as the good shepherd of His peopleApplication. (34: 28). Others, who followed, pre- It was Mr. Beeeher who once said., served and heeded down this great " As soon as a tree ceases to grow it hope to later generations, and seven begins to rot." There is no such thing hundred years after Isaiah, Jesus of es standing still either for the indi- Nazareth gave it a new measting, a viduaij Ohrretian or the Church at new direction, and a fulfilment in His large. We /nest be continually reach - Kingdom • of the Spirit• ling out, extendicig our activities, and In Isaiah'a expectetipn, the eoandng seeking new fields of usefulness, If. King is to -be richly endowed with the ever a Christtian were to say, "I will ep.irdt of the Lord, with such wisdom cultivate the Christian graces in my and understanding such counsel and own heart, and let others look after might, such knowledge and, reverent themselves,” we know that person piety, as only God Hlrnself can impart. could not long remain a Christian. We By these high qualities and gifts He live by growing, We eamtot efford to will be prepared for His kingly office, be provincial in our outlook. As long to rule wisely rind -well. , to there are parts of the world un- In verse 3 reed (as in. Rev. Vers,): Christian or others only partially His delight shall be in the fear of the Christian, that tack is our challtenge. The Celestial Surgeon. If I have faltered mor0 or less In my great task of happiness; If. I have moved among my.race And shown .no glorious morning facie, If beans from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning aided, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain, Lord, .-Lite •Most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit broad awake. '-•--Itobert Louis Stevenson. Potatoes may not be es eheap next fall as they .are new, Bartter insert a few. One million dollars la the enormous amount welch the farmers paid during the last three years for the transporta- nee of weed 'seeds to leor't Willman and ext Arthur, Resolve to do a little readjze each Clay, if ibnt a single sentence. if you gain but fifteen minutes a clay, it will make itself felt at tibo end of the year. Horace Mame. Loss than, fourteen years ago all the creameries in Saskalehewam did not, produce 100,000 pounds of butter, and last slier more Man 6,000,000 poerrda of creamery (butter was trade trt'Sas- kataheven,the.output doubling every- three verythree soars in that period. THE TOYS What tell meartin'g parent has not said to himself. Gone, lot us join ie the (great spring urge; let us clean upl. here are the child's toys. His out- grown baby basket is full 03 truck„ wise that is tit anti for burning. Who sees Nino play with tbie junk any snore? Let us up incl oast them. out While he is busy elsewhere, Such a peculiar collection, to be sure. Now rite Japanese what -is -it neer worked enter the first day; that - can be ,*pared. And than disgusting old chewed -up cork, Cork? Where, did it come from? No medicine bot- tle *ernes in that size. One sees few good eorks any more. He playa with it in his bath, too; well, let it go. But the ingenious little tin quinine -pill box; how he liked ill Does lie know' how to work the cover yet? Clever little hit; might amuse him some time, Put just that one aside, And, by Jgve,,our old friend, the trick coat - /winger. ' So .this was his hiding place for many months? Keep it, by all meaxys. One might go travelling; and: if tem gods aro kind, one might even: remember to take it along in his hag - Hut whet might these—er—w<odon legs be? Oh, stocking stretchers, in- deed. Smail size; they can he given to the poor—or don't the poor have' oolblen stockings? w tockings Well, these things cost money, Set then aside inn perhaps some neighbor can use Ah, !here's his string of buttons.. (remember when he was sick and his Mommy strung up eight lovely big - pearl +buttons that belonged on her summer skirt? They kept him from crying 'so hard. What an anxious time! * * * He took them tri bed. with him, like the child In Coventry Patmore's poem. They make . you blink, and it becomes necessary to stop and clean the epeetaeles. {Sup- pose some buttons are broken and the rest too scratched anddull for use, still they are precious and !bound not be scorned. Next an unspealcarbly dirty wasltrag rabbit. But he learned its name among his first words. Surely there is a corner in some old trunk for the poo; shabby creature. That avers 'rl- phabat book be can still use; the cardboard horse, too. le doll, little glass bottle, bent tea strainer—nahy, be cut teeth on every one of then. There are a thousand things in the basket! Ancient soap dish, wooden cat's tread, fancy bottle treasures all, of a bygone day; treasures yet, if you dare to admit it. Half a candle, leather strap and e. round little, red littlee wheel ---put them been into the basket! Say he loves them still, say you haven't time to sort them over, say anything but that they we doomed. Take the vic- tim that your vicious tyranny hats exacted from ins ,carry collection and reeks off to your impious bonfire. Yet stay—here comes Trouble on the run with great tears spilling: "Daddy, no, no, nol Mine!" And his grubby fingers clutch at yours in frenzied appeal. Who said trash, and wbo said junk, and who is the judgr of values? Alt, crabbed worldling, fewer things seem worthless when your years are said with, a one and a two and n three. War on ;Hawks. The skill in protecting men and munitions from air raids suggests a protection dram hawks. Why not camouflage? If the hawk does not see the chicks there will be no raids on the flock, Possibly one of the rea- Sona for the popularity of the Bnrred Rock on the farm is the fact that the yowug stock are dark, with occasional blotehes of tivlrite. As they grow older the black and whitO bars ap- pear. Both combinations of color seem to fade into the landacaye and the +birds are visible for only a short distance. In our experience Barred Rocks have suffered much less from the depredations of hawks than White Legharns which can be picked out against the rango for along-•distan.e. The same might be true of any of tiie darker breeds as against the white breeds. In raising white breeds they can be protected in the same manner, only the camouflage must ire furnished by the poultryman. In other words, shelters must the provided to enable the chicks to hide from hawks. Rasp- berries form a dense shade and if the chicks are allowed to range among the heavily leafed canes, they wild be fair- ly well protected from the attacks of hewhos. Evergreens, sunflowers, and rows of corn will help to keep hawks from seeing the chicks. Sometimes steel traps on fence pests will catch hawks. A. good watch dog cam be trained to start for hawks whenever they swoop down unoe the range. A shot gun will frighten them and sometimes score a hit, but no farmer can keep enecrgh shot guns Jowled to produce an •anti -hawk bar- rage whenever these'birds of prey en- proaieh the poultry range. Bright pieces of metal or pieces ;of broken mirror ewingkng from a pole will sometimes frighten them, and some brooders have successfully protected their chicks'by suependin'g bits of pa- per to "long &tehngs running across the yard. Undoubtedly camouflage is the best method of ,saving the chicks. Give the young birds a shaded rings) and they are not vdedble for et long distance from the faint. This will increase the. difficulty of thehawk seeing the ebielc atnil decrease the number of visits that -ho will make to the farnnj"""