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When I flat started market garde
ing 1 considered any mcnoy apent•i'
eentuiners a dead foes. I soli] local
and bargained with every dealer
whom I sold,' to save boxes, btrce
eratea, bnekets, and beige in which t
handle my products, In those clays
wouldn't have considered buying
c'Ontaincr of any kind, any more Lha
the fellov.a who set mut the fir
orchards, which are new being a
down for toe' handles tent fire woo
would have eonsidere41 spraying then
Gate -poets, granary floors, gutters,
ae,cap weg te, hone nate hug.
wallows, hotbeds, ice -houses.'
Lawn -rollers, manure to ave -
meets, perch floors, porch steps, wed -
ways, root cellars.
Grading of Dairy Produce, x ih
°lik d ieruding of all ]finds of com-
modities is becoming the rule in l 11 , pita,
p
cxrerting eountrtes. Dairy produce
is usually among the first of the ex-
ports of any country to come under Septic tames, sidewnllts, steps, silos,
such cleeslflcation, Sutter and cheese Emokt .ho1em cs zprayin t'n'ko, spring
cannot be exporter) from New Zea- nnprovetmete, , aYieet t se pools
land, Australia, or South Africa un- Tanks, tree repairing., vctitn'b'o cel
1049 it has been grades, • Denmark, P
Gwcien, and Sultana exerelee a strict lass, wel covers, whet net7
ecntrol over exirorts in butter and
I n tiny :ti few lee; pennies into it, choose, It is the better and chec•�e trete Omelets cellar, fruit, potatoes
n» but by getting a lot inure pennies out front these eteuntl•lee then eom-ete ete., can be put into storage In th
er of it. You ran often reale a Mat of most strongly with Canadian, Lam fall and held for higher priee8 Iate
ly ,100 to C00 per tent r.n the actial cost oda is the only prominent exporter in the season..
to of your containers. of dairy produce without -a. system of Manure pits? . Concrete h just th
)tout er fruit cellars? Wi. 0 eon
The Sunday School Lesson
AUGUST Ji4.
Mts 14� 1-28. Go/den Text --St.. Matt, 4; 10.
Connecting Linke—Paul and bia told do verse .by the Roman poet Ovid,
company, leaving Cyprus, had trailed that 7,eua end Vermes (Greek wanlee
northward to the mainland of Asia for' Jupiter and Meroury) had onoo
- Minor, to Perga"in Pemphylia, Thence visited those z'egaons in human form,
, he and Barnabate had gene up through and the sirple-num)°d folk might well
e the mountain passes into the interior havo believed that they had .come
r to the city of Antioeh of Pisidia. pin. Iiarnabas, the' taller and more
John Mark, for some unknown reason, dignified of the two, they'supposod to
e, left them nt Perga and returned to be Jupiter, or Mons, father of the
a JeruKalem, He ''withdrew from thorn gods; and Paul, more slender, shorter
bent amphylia : and went net with in stature, and more ready . and elo-
thom to the work" (15: 38), and this ccuiu�ent in specie)), to be Mercury, or
act did not commend him favorably Bermes, the. messen.ge'r and spokes -
to Paul. For it wise never Paul's way Tritan of the gcdte, We also 'are men.
to turn hack from ,any enterprise in It was some time 'before the two mis-
which he had engaged,, however dill]- eionaries knew what was being said
cult or dangerous it might.be. and done, When they did know they
That Peel went forward 'under dif- Wore horrified, and running in among
fieultuie is certain. He was suffering the people tried to prevent the surf -
from some kind of illness-, possibly the flee which was about to ern made in
malarial fever which is se oommon.in their honor, . They would have no
those regions and espeolally along the Wee honors. They sought only that
sea coast. Writing afterwards to the all teen might know and honor the
Christian people of these inland'aities Lord Jesus Christ whom they preach -
of Roman Galatia, he says, "Ye ]snow ed. Getting the attention of the
that it was owing to an infirmity of crowd they tried to persuade them of
the flesh that I ,preached the gospel the emptiness and folly of their idol -
unto you the first time: and that atry, and that they should turn to the
which was a trial to you in my flesh ye living God, the Maker of heaven,
earth and sea, and the Giver of all
the good gifts which' Nature supplies
for man's need.
Jews from Antioeh, commissioned,
no doubt, to follow up the apostles
and to make trouble for them, now
appear upon the scene. In the riot
which followed, Paul was stoned,
dragged out of the city, and left for
There were several Antiochs in dead. In telling, some years after-
those countries. This one was in the ward of these missionary journeys
old country of Phrygia. The wild ; rid Tabors, Paul says thlat he was
and lawless people of the neighboring oo lamer Mabe dant a sn, in psis
regions of Pisidia had been .subdued eons mere abundantly,,dhs ft. Of tee
by the Romans, who established a Jews measure, in deaths oft Of the
chain of fortified' Jews fsa timeseT received I eaten
.poets to maintain stripes save one. Thrace was I'beaten
order, and included in them, on the with rods, once was I attuned, thrice
north side, Antioch and Lystra, Hence I suffered shipwreck, a night and a
the writer of this history joins An- day have I been in the deep; in jour -
1 -7.
with Pisidia, noyinge often, in perils of rivers, in
1-7. Itn. Ieonium. This city, now perils of robbers, hi perils from my
called Konlch, lay some ninety miles countryman in perils from the Gen -
southeast of Antioch of Flsidia. To. it tiles, in perils in the city, in perils in
Paul and Barnabas came,. when forced the wilderness; in perils in the sea, in
by the 'hostility of the. Jews to leave perils among false brethren; in labor
Antioch. Here they met with friends, and travail, in watt -lungs often, in
one of whom, by name Onesiphorous, hunger and thirst, in fastings often,'
is mentioned in an early Christian in cold and nakedness." Out of such
story tallied "The Acts of Paul and
Thecla,"
The Jews of Iconium, like those of
Antioeh, resented the preaching of
Is, --- grading or control, thing f?1• malting them, Manure. in
0' Top trieee for Handy Weights of The Dairy Produce Act passed at concrete pit is all saved; not merely
1 ('ood Finish. the last 003110n of Parliament is the the straw, but all the real life of, the
a outcome of an agitation among tate manure, which would otherwise b
11 There is in the •country to-do-, an dairy associations, prodtucers, and caused away by rains, The less from
•Il
large et unusually arg e supply of heavy, older other bodies, supported by a resolu' loathing amounts to $2.60 a ton,
et steers. This is due to the fact that tion introduced into the House of
d last spring many feeders, rather than gammons during the session before
le take the loss occasioned by a drop last
•
Ilut, as I learned later, the money.
I was saving on containers. was lost,
two or three times over, in other
ways. flow, if I were starting over
amen, I meld figure to a ntsine
ri i a part cf ;he cost of making a oro
just r s 1 world fi cure fertilizer
spraying exl.er.-e; for I know fro
c'' r..a.;: tett .Toon, r,�evt, brigh
con friers cf the right kind for th
crc_p r' tee market help get mor
me ^ asap.
C" ° 0, the big grower and th
an 1, reeeialist have to buy ne
r : k ge3 for ,hipping their stuff
r,:: i •t. But there are thousands o
growers who, year after year
dept i el nrakirg the same mistake
mete --the mistake of failing to roc
sn stat every dollar spent o
• iii come bads with bi
Z. E.e-r first-elass stuff, prop
Orly 'e 1, will not fetch top price
1 el : you put it out in clean, at
t..; t.e peekages of the right kind
And don't forget that this applies It;
your Loral market as well as to the
bid 1 etributing centres.
in market quotations, derided to hold ' ailing upon the Government. to
their feeder stock and later turned it establish a .grading system for all
out to pasture, butter and cheese to be exported.
But the demand for these cattle at This resolution received unanimous.
present is weakened for several res- approval in the House of Commons.
Th Aet 3
sons. Under norma'] conditions the to bring Canada
re cutlet for much of the heavybeef was into Inclwith other countries and to
p' to the United Slates, but te Young' enable Canadian produeers to meet
cm Emergency Tariff, which imposes a' their competitors on even terms. No
me duty ef two cents per pound on meat' new principle will be introduced in
t
and 30 per cent. ad valorem on live! the application of the Dairy Produce
o cattle enteringthe States, has dosed; A. All butter and cheese are graded
in a more er less crude manner at
° that market Shi mein to ath ex �
• P °r ; present. The Act will simply
port outlets such as Great Britain is. P Y provide There is nothing that so contributes
0 serious) handicapped byhigh freight! that the tedgrexpg should be dopa hye to the success of exhibitions, as sueh,
w y Pp g )disinterested. experts, and that the
and ocean rates. Then in the domestic; work shall be based on definite sten- apart from the entertaining features,
to market during the warm season there; dards which everyone will understand as efficiency in judging. It means the
f is alwa
Wallowing pails for swine -hog
heaven, one man calla them—are ab-
solutely essential in every hog lot;
not merely desirable, but essential,
Hoge will wallow, and if there isn't
a •cement tank, there will be an old
mid-liole in less than no thee. Mud -
holes mean filth, disease, lost dollars.
Any man with average intelligence
can do his own concrete work. Special,
complex jobs may require a skilled
workman, but for most farm jobs,
"every farmer his own concreter,"
Efficiency in Judging.
ys a redurWan m the eo11 me- Further, there area number of grad- encouragement of emulation, the sat -
tion of beef, with a marked preference, ing services already in existence in isfaction of fair-minded exhibitors
I for smaller cuts. There is, therefore„ Canada Creamery butter is graded themselves, the exaltation of justice
- a demand in the domestic trade for; in the three prairie
11 lighter weight, well finished carcasses. i Butter provinces and in
g These can be obtained only from then Ontario. onand cheese sold by
- lighter weight but well finished ani-! auction at Montreal are also graded,
s mats. For some time past to ' 00 thetgrading of cheese is sick.
- have been paidforP _ bandy -weight Prices r on 3n the province of New Brunswick,
bandy we ght eat-: Under the Dairy Produce Act the
tie carrying .good finish. ;factory making the high grade article
For some years before the war our' will receive full credit. It has been
market demand had berme gradually! contended for years by those Teepee-
haneina from the heavvwei
B : how do ycu tell what kind of
a ee stainer to use for any erop?
Thee are several ways cf getting a
Nee en this: First, study the market
rep,:,ts in your feint paper,• in your
ern„1' town daily or weekly, and in
the leg city dailies, Those reprrte
r.•. ion ,he type of package, such as,
f„ , 1 t t : e: Patches, 11 -qt. t :skets.
On: n , 100-1b. sacks. Potatoes, hulk.
le nee there is not space in this
,rfiele re de;eribe all the available
crntair.•-rs, we can take a general lock
at a few to illustrate some of the
thinee to follow when deciding haw to
"put up” your crrp for nes: ken.
The first point to consider is wheth-
er the men in question is of such a
nature as to he benefited by abundant
ventilation. Most vegetables that con-
sist cif fruits or leaves will quickly
spoil when the free circulation of the
air is cut off. Take tomatoes, for in-
stance: When I first began to grow
them I put them in tight boxes that
held abort a bushel. Although they
were sold in nearby markets, the few
hours in the tsoxes spoiled a good
many hundred pounds of fruit during
the two seasons before the cause was
realized. After that we used slatted
crates; but the•.e were objectionable
because the sharp edges cut and
bruised ninny tomatoes. Then we
tried a crate with rounded slats, and
fount) it a big improvement.
For the fancy extra -early fruit we
made thin partitions, to slip in length-
wise through the middile of the crates,
to prevent the tomatoes on top from
resting en those in the bottom. The
result woe that every 'fruit reached
its destination in perfect condition.
That meant quick sales for the dealer
who har•.:lled them; eonsequently, a
prefer°nee for our stuff when the sup-
ply was plentiful, and better prices
when it was scarce.
So you see it does pay to watch the
container end of the business. Of
course, each grower must work out
what.. wad best suit his own needs.
Of mune, where tomatoes are
grown in large quantities for shipping
or for running, baskets are veer].
Barkers are, o nthc whale, for the
general run of vegetables and fruits
the meet convenient and the most
ece;nonii:al containers.
Where possible, it is bed to park
one's pr7duct in small containers that;
wild go to the consumer as a package.
This may involve the expense of
several times as much money for ren
tainers as would be required for ship
ping the same product In bulls, in
baskets, or 'baste-
rsut tea extra
price rereived will almost invariably
pay any additietnal ecst se enol• times
over. More important, It elves; you a
than; a to build up a name with the
peepte t hn use your peoducts, This
is n simulative asset that will lie
worth hundreds el doliars as lime
goes on.
i fennel that a simple printed card
with trade mark, rind a word about
quality and Location of farm, placed.
in the bottom of peach baskets,
brought enough new trade direct to
the nrebard, tho area season, to pay'
the printing hill ten times over. And
all these visitor eurtnmere would
thereafter ask for "C. V.-...
Ripened
on -this -tree" peaches, •whenevce they
boogisI from their local dealer.,
in ,'•,»elusion, 1 want to repeat th
my e:perionce shows that the snob:
grower who thinks he is going l:.
save money by using only second-
hend containers, and who fails to put
up such of, his products as'•he can in
"carry -home" packages, is on the
wrong road. The way to get bigger
profits from, what ypu grow is not by
and the confidence alike of exhibitors
and the public. It is further an ex-
ample of uprightness, as well as of
aptly displayed knowledge, that con-
veys an inestimable lesson to the
young and plays a part beyond value
in the formation of character. The
work therefore performed by federal
and provincial governments in send-
ght class; sible for the work of instruction in ing out qualified and impartial men
of steer to the lighter weight, well! this country that if butter and cheese to undertake the duties involved is
finished animal. During the war the were always paid for strictly accord- of transcendent importance. Before
need for beef, as for bacon, was so' ing to their merits, that it would have this work was systematically taken 1
insistent that there was re levelling of a greater stimulus in bringing about up judges frequently owed their ap-
pr3res to a groat extent. Conditions' an improved quality than all other peintment or selection by favor or to
are again normal and what is now re- agencies combined. local popularity, and it is to be feared
etairrd may be taken a, an indication The regulations which will make results also were sometimes due to
ef what will eon:n:an•I the best pricesi the Dairy Produce Act effective have favor or the recognition of a quid -pre -
for r,ma years to cone. 1 not yet been drawn up. A draft will quo ideal. The judges being officially
Finish has always been strongly ad -!b submitted shortly to all i
voc,ted by packers' buyers and item the dairy trade.
will always be a big fader in deter- -
min ng the price. Finish, however,
dee, not nese=_sari:-, mean extreme; Fifty -Six Uses for Concrete.
weight. The farmer who markets` Barn approaches, barn floors, bases tended. There is another point and
entree, well-bred, thick -fleshed ani-` for machinery, bee -cellars• that is, while fairs, the community,
mal which will drese out a high per -I Cellar steps, cellar walls, chimneys, the interests concerned and the exhi
centz ge ce chaise ;reef will -command; chimney -caps, cisterns, cistern covers, biters are all benefitted, the judges
the top price. 1 coal houses, cold -frames, cribs, crib and thels'erveceproflib:bythe experience
— , floors, culverts, cyclone -cellars. and knowledge of the conditions and P
requirements obtained. The cost is
else lessened to the associations con-
ducting the exhibitions. It is hardly
necessary to say that the greatest
care is taken in making the appoint-
ments, regard being had both to prac-
tical -knowledge and to character.
appointed naturally command the res-
pect that authority confers. The sys-e
tem that has now been in vogue for,
a number of years is not only being
followed this year but is being ex -
despdeed not nor abhorred• but ye e•e•.
cowed me as nn angel o:! 'God, even
as Christ Jesus" (Gal. 4:'13-14), That
is to say he went up through the
mountains of Antioch, hoping in its
higher altitude to recover from his
sickness, and was received with open-
hearted kindness and faith by the peo-
ple to whom ho then brought his go-
nd message
ter
TRUST THE PILOT
When the tologi'am came
her mother was dangerously ill,
leen was in a small Southern
Tho only train had gong, She w
have to wait until the next morn,
To go in an automobile was put of th.
question; rain had fallen for a wake
and the country roads were impale=',
able,
While she stood .hesitating in the;
station a stronger spoke to her. "Ma-
dam," he said, "there's an aeroplane
in town.. That would got you home in
a few hours, I know the pilot would
take you."
"Oh, I wonder if T could!" cried'
Kathleen.
Tutting her courage in both hands
ehe'aonght the aviator. He agreed to
take her home in less than two hours.
At the last moment she held back,..
looking at the frail craft that was
to carry her through the clouds. "It
seems so dangerous;' she said; "I'm
terribly afraid."
"You need not be," said the pilot.
Ho seemed a mere :boy, but his young
face showed firmness and resolution.
"I've been in the army en actual war -
fere," he continued; "I've taught
many men to fly; since the war I have
carried a thousand passengers safely.
So far es human skill can go you
are safe."
Kathleen took her placein the aero-
plane. The engine throbbed faster
and faster, the plane was rushing
arias the field; then suddenly the
trees began. to drop below her, and
they were off. At first so great was
her anxiety and her fear that she
.could not look at the earth outspread
beneath her. When the plane would
drop a little or the -wings sway :aha
found herself clutchirg at the sides
frantically. Presently she related and
even found courage to smile. "How
fooliehl" she said to herself. "No-
thing I can do can possibly make any
difference. I must trust the pilot"
Trust the pilot! It dawned on her
that -this was just the word she need-
! ed. She was like a child cast adrift
in a world no longer stable and se-
cure but shifting and changing like
the aeroplane that rushed her along
through space. And she had done no-
thing except let fear and anxiety tor-
ment 'her—fear and arxiety over her
future, aver her profession, over her
relation to others, and now'over this
last threatening blow teat had vatted
her home.
Trust the Pilot. He, had carried to
a safe landing an unciue:ewyl multitude
that had faith in Ilim. The Pilot's
hand was the only firm thing in the
changing world. It was time to give
up ber' tormenting fear:., and to rest
in the faith that is an as:uranoe of
things hoped e'er, She would trust
the Pilot.
She leaned back in the seat now and
looked down over the side at the
rivers and woods beneath her, at the
towns like neat toy village,, the roads
like winding •brown tape, the fields
like squares in a checkerboard, A
drifting gray cloud shat out the sun
and enveloped her in its ominous chit'.
The world was blotted out. 'Then the
aercplane came out into the sunlight
above the cloud that lay below them,
a floor cf opal and pearl. •She gazed
down at it, fascinated. All her fear
was gone. "Trust the Pilot," she
whispered; "Ile knows the way
through the clouds.'
Before rhe thought her urney
could he half done the aeroplane was
settling down in a field at the edge
f her lrunie town. Her father, who
lad lecetved a telephone message, was
waiting with ee automobile to take
her hone. "Mother is a little better.
The deetor has hopes," were his first
tvor•ds.
Flit befm•e Kathleen left site stop-
ed to held eta her hazel to the pilot.
Thank you for a wonderful trip," elle
aid. "And I wanted to tell you I ha.l
fete to think and I've horned to cruet
he Pilot:'
IIe saw the double significance of
it wm;is, and a smile lighted his
bcy:•sh foes. "] ]carr;.] that kris
ago," ho sail.
Salesman Who Succeeded.
lie ballevcif in the things he wee
ry ing; to ecu .
uatomer's time,
Ile was tactful, and knew bow to
l+proat)1 people.
Ile crit noir w r: to 0 c
ut was nllie'k rind to t
heroic effort the church was born, and;
by such patient labor and suffering.
was the gospel•carried abroad.
Paul and Barnabss to the Gentiles... 21-28. They returned again, revisit -
Paul
The salvation they ]asked for was the ing those whom they had' led to faith
revival and restored power and. glory in Christ, exhorting and encouraging
of their own race and nation, and it them to continue in the faith, and
was intolerable to them that there helping them to organize themselves
should be proclaimed the coming of a Into churches that they might carry]
kingdom which was to include the on the work when the apostles harp
Gentiles as well. It is difficult fee us gone, It is interesting to note that'
to realize how intensely and passion- the fast ordained leaders in the
ately they fait about this matter, and, a title s is Paul were called elders,
therefore, how bitterly they opposed a title which was g so ales in those
gospel with its universal an- crllu by village rra istrates and coon
cal APp)ication.
The unbelieving Jews stirred up
trouble, and the multitude of the city A true servant of Jesus Christ will
was divided. However, it was pos- seek no horror, and will accept no
stble for them. to continue a long time popularity at the expense of his Lord.
to speak bc.dly, preaching and teach When these people wished to honor
Ing before they were driven from the Paul and Bandies by sacrifice, the
city by a combined attack of hostile arostlea rent. their teethes and res
Jews and Gentiles. They went south- trained them. The true servant of
ward and eastward to the cities of. God wants to see Cud glorified, and
Lystra and Derbe. ; is not thinking cf himself. It is said
8-20. At Lystra. The healing of : that Rapael, the great artist, was in
this man, a cripple from his birth,, the habit of wearing a candle in 1
was certainly very wonderful. Theret cap se that 11' ehadow of hims•"'
is no adequate natural explanation of; might fall across the canvas while
such an event. When the people saw; be was painting. We have to be
what Paul had done they were so' careful lest our selfish desires ob-
startled and amazed that they! trude themselves ani we forget to
thought he and his companion must bei honer our Master. Campbell Morgan
gods. Paul had used the Greek lan-' once said, "Many is prr.',ihet has been
guage which they all understood, but spoiled by going out to dinner," Paul
they in their excitement broke out in' and Barnabas meant to put God first,
exclamations in their own native. Ly -land would not accept any popularity
caonian speech which the apostles did ;wheel would hide the tc:,l purpose of
not understand. There was a storyi their preaching.
Hogs of the Right Type. ! ti
A retarn to normal market condi-' po
tions in Canadian baecn makes it im-I
perative fur packers again to discrim-Jfe
Mate in price against heavy and light Ipc,
and short and thick market hogs. The' bu
reaction in the export market espe-
cially against light weight and heavy
weight products is very severe, and TeWork in Silo -Filling
Dairy houses, dipping -vats, dram -
le outlets, drinking troughs, duck
nds, engine houses.
Farm buildings, feeding floors,
eding troughs and mangers, fence-
sts, field -rollers, foundations for
iidings, fruit cellars.
;.eriously affects the demotic trade.
During war the demand for ail fats
and most strikingly for pork almost
"evened up" the price between select
hogs and lights and heavies. The dif-
ference between prices for the: pro-
d+r it of selects and of light su:d heavy
hcgs is, however, now (August, 1921)
4o great that packers are being forced
to make a difference in prom of
selects and light hogs of from $1 to
$1? per hundreiw•e:ght and in heavies
lean $2 to $3.511 per hundredweight.
How much further this will oe forced,
tirno only will tell At present the
grading is being done on weight alone,
but it must be only a matter of a
short time before quality is given
equal considetration. It will. however,
take a little time to create standards
of quality. In the meantime anyone
wishing to escape the loss due to the
present differences in prices has only;
to market the right weights. But
grading on quality must soon enure. !
Pw•kers have always realizes)' thatl
this. condition must return. During'
and since the war they repeatedly'
warned breeders not to be led astray
by the temporary state- of the market,'
which permitted one price to be paid!
for nearly all classes of hogs. The!
man who maintained the well known'
standards and bred the hog for the
C, iiarllan Wiltshire side will nowt
her.cftt. So, aka, the man who be.:
mole lax is going tar, suffer.
I' is all-important that fnsme're
whr, are new firteding type's and!
act ti of bags that do not, make se.eot
Wiltshire eldr•s should get rid of them
arid st,,cle with the --breeds ctrl types
that 1.o.
—141
Weeds,
It i 3mposei.blc• to e'stirrate 0041
approximately the lona, calved by
weeds to Camden :sericulture. A ';
Intir recently published , the Pelted
State animate, imatte, the ;gaged d 1ra 111C. d
tr weeds in the country at more tin
$3n0e100.ano. t keg age to w•e• l,t,.
wipe, t rated ,.1:e annur.I lige to
f.rrrtt ef :. utchowr'n ciao to
: u s than $25,000,1 rtt:.
i t' t .:.ra i , loss in one provinc e,
+;e total in all Canada mud be tre-
t'tt!ndous. There are tuany
in the Dominion that. s=tand high in
weed production.
Weeds cause a direct, actual nlonc.y
lose such as those due to drought,
hail or :Frost. There is also a loss in
depreciation of property badly infest-
ed with weeds.
After being with a silo cutter for
some time I find there are a few
things that must be observed by the
most of us that will pay you to know
and look out for, and if they can be
discovered through someone else
they are the means of saving much
time. In this case I am one of the
four owners of a cutter that we use
for our own work, and because of
that we are looking for the very best
ways of doing our silo -filling and also
saving time and labor.
The first two days that we worked,
there was one man to feed and an-
other to cut the bands. The third day
we were short a man, and I hurriedly
had a pilo of shingles moved up close
to the side of the feed table of the
cutter, and found that by fastening
the cutting knife on my wrist I could
cut bands and feed as well as two
men. After that I did both jobs. It
takes fast work, and is ]larder than
moat any other place on the job, ex-
cept tramping when one is short of
help; but it saves a man, and under
the conditions the band cutter and
feeder are in perfect working unity,
and so one does not Walt on the other.
After the first experience we made
a temporary platform and staked it to
the machine. It was about five feet
long and probably thirty inches wide.
It sloped a little toward the carrier
oral the feeder, so that the bundles
that were thrown en the table were
apt to slide toward the feeder and
just where they were wanted.
In unloading the wagon the driver
can help the work along by going slow
enough on the unloading So the feed-
ce can take care of it.When one man
fecr " anti carte ),ands he cannot spare
mem: tem. i,r taking inc bundle from
ander ;teeth e one. The efficient run -
sir of the cutter depends upon keep-
ing it hit 1 1i3O time. I don't know
c " itt any herder on it than run
at the. faster speed it will reach
when running empty.
One thing that I have been trying
tri get our ret to do is to keep away
free' a loefin; t i, n. There; et no need
fee a man to ride from the field to
the cutter and flack when a 'boy can
as well drive the team, for that is
all there is to do. They have the un-
loading man make it his business to
unload, and that only. If he gets too
tired, have him change off for a while;
but, one man will soon learn the wane
of the feeder, and the feeder will
come to knew what to expect of an
unloacler. Thos will make quicker
and easier work for both.
There is no reason why the driver
should not help put on the first part
of hie Ioad in the field, though I can-
not get that idea to working yet. A
driver has a nice rest while going
from the cutter to the field, and can
surely niot be overworked. Then there
is less waiting, and the two men who
are loading in the field will have a
better chance to keep in shape.
Handling heavy corn bundles all day
is no fun, and a loader in the field
gets as tired as anyone on the job
if he has to work all the time.
In some cases it may be a good
plan to change your man from .one
job to another every few hours, and
yet this is not always the best, be-
cause when a man becomes accustom-
ed to a certain kind of work lie knows
just how to handle it. When he
tackles another job it is new, and he
must get on to it before he can be-
come really efficient. In the thresh-
ing rings this idea of one keeping
the same work for the threshing sea-
son is followed sometimes, and seems
to be very satisfactory. There is n0
assigning of jobs by the owner of
the farm, as each man kr,crws just
where he is to work.
A little pulley at the top of the sir)
and a long rope that can be handled
from the: ground cave time and
muscle, and •,iso rbb•k of injury to man
and machine when the :blower pipe is
r:.lend. We have found that this SWOP
pulley will allow the distributor• hood
or funnel to be lowered to the bottom
of the silo, and the sections of the
distributor hooked on piece by pieeo
and drawn up to be hooked on the
blower pipe all at one time.
Sharp knives are something else
that ought to he looked after tare -
fully. One whr, works close to a cut-
ter for half-day will notice the dif-
formica in the way it runs. A half -
day's work is enough for a set of
knives without regrinding them. Srotne
cutters have a device on the machine
that can •be set in notion at any time,
and so an extra mean can grind a set
of knives while the machine is run-
nine. FJso good hard grease for, the
grease 'cups. 1 like a •graphite hard
oil, es graphite. is certainly an im-
provement on the straight hard oils
that one buys for automobile grease
cups, and it lasts much longer.
Plant Lice and Their Control.
Every gardener is familiar with
plant Tice, which present themselves
in great numbers in the form of sof 1 -
bodied green insects, clustering about
the tender ends of growing plants.
Besides the green lice, OT aphids, as
they ere more correctly called, there
are varieties which etre reddish, brown
or black, and others again covered
with a powdery or woolly substance. '
Plant lice do not disfigure the
plants by eating the leaves as do some
insects. They are destructive, how-
ever, by their habit of sucking the
juice from the stems. Because of
this sucking habit the ordinary poi -
ern usually sprayed on plants is net
effective in controlling them. It is
re:Assary to spray with a eclut,ion
that burns the body or other -wise in-
jures it .by contact.
There are two preparations of the
, t mmercial products, Whale Oil and
Nicotine Sulphate, either of which
will destroy plant lice.
In the ease of Whale Oil Soap 1
pound of soap should be dissolved in
boiling water and diluttxd to 0 gallons.
Tine is the strength for the green
aphid, but for the black or brown'
aphid a solution cf 1e, this strength
will destroy then.
The Nicotine Sulphate solution,
which is Obtainable from nearly all
seodsmen, is prepared in the propor-
tion of I ounce to 8 gallons of water,
A aprtay should he applited' in a line
mist with an ordinary spraying ma-
chine, of which there aro many styles'
available at the seed stores,
flog raising is a sort of safety
valve in the dairy business. They
usually go well. together and some.
times they aro inseparable,
Name your farm and place a well -
painted sign up over. the gate. Then
use the name on every occasion,
That's one of the beet ways of creat-
ing a reputation fox your produce.
Oita
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The Runaways. s
I'd liko to sec+ ail the shoo in the 1
world
Go hurrying up the street, 1
The slippers hurrying ire,
And never a sign of fora:
Mother's slippers tap -the -tapping;
Sitter's Banda% clap-tle : clapping;
Father's rubber boots .i;.:alp-thump-
thumping;
The gardener's brogans c't"np-chump-. t
clumping;
Baby's bootees whish ved,h-whisking;
Indian moccasins swiss-:ai'h-swisit-
ing; lr
Brother's tennis shoes slap -slap -slap-
ping; a
Grandpa's gaiters flap -flea -flapping;
Grandma's ":bedsrclee" temp -plump- 11
plumping; vi
Tho postman's aretics stump-stump-
stuinping; e
Japanese pattens ctrkcrick-°lashing; d
Little ahsrp Fren h heels tick -tick -
tacking; • 11t
Soldiers' thicksoles tramp -tramp- re
tramping; to
Sailors' wide soles stamp -stamp-
s tamping
Oh, what a merry thing 'twould be ti
When spring is its young cls young Can in
be,
And !glad and giter the weather,
If up the road and down the lane,
Over the mountains and back again,
Arouncrthe corner andunder the stile,
Arid over the desert for Many a mile,
The .shoes of all the wide, wide world
Should run away together!
—Louise A. Garnett.
Tho hog seems to get a as
overseas easier than 'ny otherLuse
of live stock we can produce, and an
export trade is now our best hope,
Ile concentrated tint what he was
ening•
Tie was reliable, and gave :rhe Lha
nprts.-ion that he stood fur good
flue.
Ile ay:in:ac::rd a customer with the
cnvictien that he t 1 wi
er, and temally he did.
IIe was always looking for the ratan
the other end of the bargain. IIe
altscd that he could nut afford to
ake a dissut.islded ctustomer.
There is no way an earth of get -
ng dirt out or milk equal to keep -
g dt out.
In the city ice is solii by the pound;
0n the farm a liberal, summer supply
can be secured for o -few heirs' labor
during the winter.
Burnt forests proviee no freight
traffic, neither do they pay wages to
tine workman, profit to the norrihent
or 'avenue to the (levernmant. Viva
is the great enemy, tnkir.g eighttimes
a.e much toll as tiro axe, 1e, Is to the
interest of every cilisen to reduce
this loss,
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