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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-2-6, Page 7A. CROS' THAT DOES NOr ROD 1 THE FARM. Your ice crop is the only ono you harvest that does not rob your farm' sof fertility, and, considering the ad- vantages of a good hero supply •of ice, no improvement is more satisfac tory than a good ice supply. "Keep Cool" is good advice to the politicalspellbinder; it is exceptional- ly fair counsel on hot summer days, when the glass registers around ninety w the to preservede fruit d the andlvegeta 1 s, wish to and the children want their ice cream and cool drinks. Then, there is the milk and cream to be cooled and kept cold until marketed, On the basis of 220 -pound cakes, it is possible to cut the ice cropat less than twenty cents per ton, and haul and pack it in the icehouse for about ¢2.00 per ton. Where cooperative methods are used, the cost is less. To harvest ice efficiently a few ice. tools are required. A steel scraper, is useful; some types of small road scrapers can be used for this, or a very good home-made scraper may be fashioned of wood and faced with a strip of steel, such as the back of an old cross -cut saw. An ice plow is al-. most essential if any great amount is to be put up. This facilitates the re- moval of the porous surface ice and greatly simplifies cutting Into blocks. Half a dozen pike poles, bearing ver- tical and horizontal books, are neces- sary in floating the ice to the loading platforin. An ice saw may be useful or any ordinary cross -cut saw may be used by removing one handle. The ice harvest may be best carried. on by three squads` of men, each with a team. The first removes the snow, or spongy ice from the surface of the field and plows, saws and cuts the ice into blocks of a size most convenient to handle. If the ice is more than twelve inches thick blocks twenty-two to twenty-four inches square are eas- iest to handle; if thinner, blocks three feet square are best The second squad cuts loose the blocks and floats them to the side of the open water, where they are ready to be loaded on sleighs. Here a tram- way with a pair of ice hooks attached to 4 rope will make loading a relative- ly easy job. Let the rope extend 'across the sleigh from the tramway; hitch one horse to it and drag the blocks from the water into the sleigh. The third gang should be at the ice- house to place each load in position and pack sawdust or shavings round it as rapidly as possible. Eight men with three teams can work most rap- idly in harvesting a crop of ice by this method. The average dairy requires only a moderate amount of ice, or one thou- sand pounds per even'a cow,so that small harvesting' surface usually is arge enough, espee al y if the ice is cut a second time. But it is beet to fill the house at one operation if pos- sible, The number of square feet of surface• required per ton of ice J11, . blockstwenty-two inches square, and of various thicknesses, is shown in the..following table: Cutting Number of Space Thickness cakes required of ice, required per ton, Inches. per ton. Se. Ft, 4 81.3 1054 6 20.9 70.2 8 15.6 52.6 10 12,6 42.1 12 10.4 85,1 14 8,9 80.1 16 '7.8 '426.3 18 6.9 28.4 20 6.3 21.1 After the field has been marked off, a strip of ice, one block in width and extending from the loadingway to the main channel, is cut through and forced under the surface of the ice. This strip ie sawed somewhat wedge- shaped, widerat the bottom than at the top, which permits, it to be forded down under the ice field. The channel is then widened by cutting another strip to enable the long strips or floats to be floated from the main channel to the bank and loading place. The stripes are then pushed with an. ice hook along the channel to the load- ing place, where they are sawed or chopped into cakes. The cakes should not be cut completely through, but should be grooved two or three inches deep with the plow, and after being floated up the channel chopped through with a special tool before being put on the loadingway. Not only will you save much space but ice as well. by properly' packing the ice in the house. You can get only thirty-five to forty pounds in a cubic foot of space if the ice is thrown in at random, while about fifty pounds can be packed in the same space with a little care. This means also, that the air cannot circulate through the ice and melt it. About a foot of sawdust should be placed on the floor of the ice house, with less in the center to permit the cakes to lean inward, and thus drain inward. The sides of the ice should be smooth. • Any projecting pieces should be trimmed off before insula- tion is put on. If' sawdust or mill shavings are used a space of at least twelve inches should be left between the outer walls and the ice stack. It is easy to calculate how much ice the house will hold. Allowing forty- five cubic feet per ton, an uninsulated house 18x12 by ten feet high, with one foot around for insulation, will hold about thirty-eight tons, while the same f insulated 11 hold ' e house, i -will. sized about forty-three tons. THE FOUR VALENTINES BY CLARA PETERSON. There once lived in a village a ser - Main rich young girl, the Lady Lou- alta Lapidee, 'who was very fond of sweets and pastry. Twice a year, she had her huge pantry stored with sup- plies: for making them; but several tunes the flour had run short. When the St. Valentine season came round Lady Louella made up her mind that that should not happen again. So without saying anything to her cook, and without knowing anything her- self about weights and measures, she sent a large order to the mills. She wondered Very much :when a wagon leaded with seeks of flour drew up before the door. s "O dear, dear mel" she said to her- self. "What shall I do with it all?" But she had ordered the flour, and yethere was nothing to do except take Forty large sacks were carried into the storeroom. "My stars!" said Lady Louella. "I must take a long walk and try to think what to do with all that flour." As she strolled down the road the first house that 'she passed was a paper ,hanger's shop; the windows were full of wall papers of all pat- terns, The second building belonged to a banker; there was a pile of gold coins in each window. The third be- longed to a dry -goods merchant; in the windows there were war: figures of ladies in Velvet gowns. The fourth: building was a bakery, and in the win - slows of that there was nothing at all, All at once an idea occurred to her. She turned round and went home and wrote four notes and sent them, to the houses that sire had just passed. In each note she said, "I have more flour han I know what to do with and shall fe glad togive away thirty sacks at ve o'clock' to - night." The notes made a groat stir when they were delivered. l "The paste that I can makel" said the paper hanger. ' 'i can sell those thirty sucks And have more gold pieces for my win- dows" said the beneer "I will give away a pound of flour to every customer and so Increase my trade," said the merchant. The baker was the most excited :of all, for he had almostrun out of flour. "But now," he said as he caught his little daughter, Irene, and whirled her round and round, "I can get more flour." At five o'clock Lady Louella sat waiting in her parlor. She wondered which of the four men would come in resporse to her letter. There was a knock at the door, nad a -few minutes later the servant show- ed howed in five visitors -the paper hanger, the merchant, the banker, the baker and little Irene, the baker's daughter, who had begged to come, too. Lady Louella was astonished; she had no idea that so many people wanted flour. "Could you really use thirty sacks of flour?" she said timidly to them. "I could, indeed," said the paper hanger, the banker, the merchant and the baker almost with one voice. "0 dear, dear hie!" said Lady Lou- ella. Here was a pretty state of affairs! The lady looked in a troubled way at her guests, and her guests looked at her and at one another. No one knew what to do.. Then little Irene stepped forward and raised her hand. "Please, Lady Louella," she said. "What is it, little girl?" said Lady Laueila. "Day after tomorrow will be St Valentine's Day," said the little` girl. "Suppose you say that' you will give the flour to the poison who sends you the best valentine?" Lady Louella was delighted. "Just the thingi" she said. "I will give the, thirty sacks of flour to the person who sends me the sweetest -yes, the very sweetest -valentine on St. Val- enthne's Day." The four men agreed readily . to that. Each of them wee perfectly surd that he should' succeed. Late the next after noon they came again, but this time. little Irene was not with her , fa herr t The men laid their offerings before Lady Louella. With a pink spot in each cheek she began to unwrap ,the packages. Phe paper Banter's valerrtinn came first. Tt was made of layers and lay- ers of delicate silver paper, and cm each layer was painted a tiny wreath of flying birds, rose and green and .A young boar of eight months owned by the Ontario Agricultural Coll- ege and of which the Department of Animal Husbandry there states "This young hog isthe type from which to produce bacon hogs. lie is out of an even litter of sixteen pigs. Note length, smoothness, balance, and gen- eral conformation." turquoise. "How lovely!" said the lady. The merchant's valentine was made of ivory -colored lace asthin as a cob- web, and gilt threads were woven through it. It was decorated with Clusters of little velvet violets, white and lavender, purple and gold. Lady. Louella was charmed with it. The banker's offering was very handsome. The foundation was a piece of heavy goldcloth as large • as a plat* in the centre was a perfumed rose with golden petals, and at the •heart of the rose lay a .milk white pearl Lady Louella clasped her hands in wonder and delight. Thi.baker's valentine was in a white box. When Lady Louella had taken off the cover she sat and stared. Then her eyes began to twinkle. "How sweet!" she said. Then she picked up the contents of the box and took a big bite. For the baker's val- entine was very sweet indeed; it was a heart -shaped chocolate cake cover- ed all over with trailing vines of green and with little frosty pink -and -white flowers of cocoanut. "Oh, how delicious!" said Lady Lapidee. "Dear me, how rude I am to � begin eating it right away! But I could not help myself." Thenshe ad- ded, "You will have to admit, gentle- men, that this is the sweetest valen- tine of the lot." The baker beamed, but the other three men looked terribly disappoint- ed. "We didn't know you meant that kind of sweet," said the merchant, the banker and the paper hanger all to- g "I didn't know it either," said a voice at the door, and little Irene came running in. She had not been able to stay at home any longer. "Well, I didn't mean that kind of sweet," said Lady Louella. "But some- how this valentine seems the sweetest in every way." Irene's face shone. "I just knew that nothing could be better than one of father's good cakes," she said. So the long and the short of it was that Lady Louella sent for a knife and then cut out the bitten piece and sliced the cake and passed it round. bankertemerchant, The hand theP a- per hanger had to admit that it was a wonderful cake, So the baker, aided by his little Irene, won the prize, He offered to The ,ay cool hLesson EEBRUARX 10 The Failureat Kadesh, Num. 13; 17 to 14; 4a; Pout. 1: 26-40, Golder; Text -The Lord is with us: fear them not, -NUM, 14: 9, 1Po Gesso pair when sexes nre equal, and become very much attached to each ether and remain faithful, They show a great attachment for their home. The gander is a most gallant bird, constantly guarding his mato, Geese are good watchers, always on CON'rnN.UATION or MEI STORY. --•.The day opportunities recur, with everY the alert, and no matter whether it Is first chapter of Deuteronomy contains dawn there are other opportunities night or •day, they will given shrill a brief and extremely interesting ac- which aro unique and supreme and yell at the approach of A stranger, count of what took place after the come but once. A choice which seems Geese are natural foragers, Green giving of the law at Sinai. There trivial may have eternal significance, stuff Is their main diet, and they was the appointment of men from all And only by divine wisdom may we thrive best when given good range the tribes, "wise men, and understand- learn to select that opportunity which with water convenient, Their ideal ing, and known," to help bear the is momentous and rare. It is easy to location is in swamps and marshes, burden of government. (Deut, 11 9- be wise after the event, but true great- although they do well on upland pas - 18; compare Excel, 18; 17-26. Then ness .of soul is revealed in the ability tures and hilly farme if water is pro.. followed the departure from Horeb, to do the right thing in an emergency. vided. For years 1t has been the be- ta the second month of the second 2, The Wrong Use of Facts, The lief that geese impoverish land. On year of the wilderness period (Num. majority report was essentially a the contrary, geese enrich the land 10: 11), the long journey "through all statement of Iota on which all were over which they roan. that great and terrible wilderness,-- agreed. Yet it was an evil report, Good, large fat geese usually sell by the way to the hill country of the false' in the impressions it gave be- well on most markets Old geese lay Amoritee," and the arrival at leadesh, or Kadesh-barna, a distance describ- ed by a modern traveler as "ten or eleven days of camel riding" from Horeb. There they encamped and re - share it with the other men, but they rained for many days (ch. 1: 46), Shook their heads and declared as they' and it was there that the events de - finished the chocolate and cocoanut scribed in our lesson took place. crumbs that he had won it fairly. ( At Kadesh (see map) the Israelite Then they all went home, and the' people were on the extreme southern baker and little Irene spent many! border of Palestine, and they seemto happy hours turning those thirty sacks of flour into loaves and cakes and puddings and pies, -Youth's Com- panion. Honey as a Food. IKr. R. F. Holterness, the well- known apiarist of Brantford, Ontario, had the following to say of honey as have contemplated invading the coun- try from that direction. Ian aediately, to the north of them lay the wild pas - tura lands of the region known as' "the Negeb" or "the South" (Num.! 13; 17.) In it the desert gave place to the mountain range which extended, northward through the whole of wes- tern Palestine to the Lobanons, broken only by the transverse valley of Jez- a food in an address he delivered be -1 reel. The spies sent out from Kadesh fore the Kiwanis Club of his home found a people tall and strong, the city: An -writes, whose cities on the northern Honey as a food could not be cam- side of the Negeb were "great and fenced up to heaven." Num. 14: 1. All the congregation. This is thename frequently used by the writer,to describe the popular as- sembly. We may imagine the people gathered in some public place to hear the report of the spies. See ch. 18: 26., The whole story in chs. 13 and 14 should be read. Twelve men, repre- senting the confederated tribes, bad been sent out to "see the land, what it is, and the people that dwell there- in." They were to report as to the numbers and strength of the people of the land, and what sort of land it was, whether "fat or Iean." They are said in one passage to have spied out the land as far as "the entering in of Hareath," a mountain pass in the extreme north of Palestine. It is hardly likely that they traveled so far, but by inquiry of people in the nearer parts, they could have learned much about the parts > more remote. Re- turning they brought grapes, pome- granates and figs to show the fruits of the country. But they said, "The people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fenced (or pared he said, to such food as lean meats; the latter is protein, honey a carbohydrate, with phosphorus, iron and vitamins, which were so highly prized by dietitians. But honey was better than almost all other sweets in that it was inverted sugar -in other words it was largely pre-digested and ready for assimilation. The production of honey took noth- ing from the fertility of the farm, and it displaced no other crop. It was therefore a wealth -producer. More- over, honey was a by-product, and the primary object to the existence of the bee was to pollenize blossoms so they would set seedand fruit. This was practically true of plum, cherry peach, apple and pear blossoms, as well as clover, alfalfa and buckwheat • The coal -ail light's a -burning bright; (It will, sometimes, when it feels right) ; Pa sits there reading, slick as sin, The latest' poultry bulletin; Then, halfto ma, and half to me, Pa up and speaks: "I see," says he, "As how correct illumination Will make hens lay like all creation; walled) and very great." Caleb and Guess I'll have the hen -house wired.' Joshua alone showed a more coarag- Ma stops and peers and sews away, I eons spirit. "We aro well able to Does ma, and then I hear her say: I overcome it," they said, and that was "4 wish I was a: blamed old hen: no doubt true had all the men of Is - Maybe they'd wire the homestead, rael been like them. I't was Caleb then!" who, an old man, forty years later, asked permission of Joshua who was A -Valentine Party BYEMILY .ROSE BURT. If you want an excuse to dress up, plan 'a regular old-fashioned Valen- tine party -oh, perhaps a little bit modern in places, but, even so, all bound up with hearts and darts. For invitations paste a frill of white lace paper around the edges of a pale pink or lavender correspondence card and write on the card: On Valentine's night to Valentine Land For the next stunt the golden num- You're being invited;. pray, under tbers in the window literally figure. stand. 1 Say there are six windows, an even That appropriate costume you must number of slips; bearing some digit wear - Comic or sober, freakish or fair. Into the atmosphere of an evening of fun their "dress -up" garb will lead them: Everybody is going to feel very cheerful if you put pink and blue Jap.. anese lanterns over the electric lights and make a softly curving ceiling from lengths of rosy cheesecloth by draping it from the center to the, side walls. In each window should sit a great gold heart -mysteriously numbered by the way. When the meeting comes to order, so to- speak, the first stunt is the grand march to show off costumes to the judges. The next stunt is indeed a heartening one, Each person draws from a hat at randoma sealed enve- lope with n heartfelt wish contained in it; this invelope is to be pinned to the shoulder of the next person ahead in lino. When all are thus adorned, they form a circle, facing out, and the leader within the circle touches some one's back with his wand, The circle in tato wheels about, and watches the unfortunate victim open his envelope and perforin his wish in.the center of the circle. As all are in the same boat, it behooves each one to be sym- pathetic. From the performer's ac- tion the 'rest guess the wish. Such wishes as these are good actable ones. Wish i h bad a day I vg 1 Wish I had a cat! Wish I knew how to make many' Wish I had red hair! Wish 1 had a piece of apple Piet Atter this, choose two captains, who in turn "choose sides" till everybody is in line for a re1'ny race in "spoon- ing." Set up asmany milk bottles as there are groups, place the members of each group in line, with a big Spoon in the hand of the first in line. The game is to fill the spoon with water from a receptacle provided, run with it to the milk bottle, empty the spoon and return, handing the spoon to the next in line. The group filling its bott1e first by means of this "spooning" process is proclaimed vic- torious. • from one to six, is passed around. The persons matching numbers with the window numerals take their stands under their respective numbers. The assembly in each of these groups is bound to be delightfully mixed as to ' costume; for instance, possibly Peck's Bad Boy, a Quaker lady, a little Dutch maid, a pirate (of hearts), a lady in hoopsltirts, and a clown -may find themselves together. ., Each of these window groups is asked to pose itself as a composite Valentine in a pink frame provided at the end of the room or on the plat- form, The refreshments are very tiny sandwiches (Valentiney,'if you like), and each person receives an arrowful of them the arrow a feather -tipped wooden skewer. The ice cream looks like a romantic lace -trimmed Valentine -a slice of pink ice cream surrounded by a lace- paper frill, with a little celluloid Cu- pid pushed down ,flat in the een',I' of the pinkiness and coldness, Tine cook - les are heart -shaped, and there are motto hearts and eandy kisses. As a grand finaleforthe evening, "Post Office" is announced. Every- body shrieks a little with thoughts of the old-fashioned method of playing it, but it proves, to be merely a win- dow'where you go to receive a parcel - post which on being package g opened; is some sort of joke favor. This could very well be introduced earlier in the evening, so that there would be plenty of Ulna' for the juices to fur- nish their share of the entertainment, In any case, everybody is warranted to go away happy from Valentine Land. then the leader of Israel's armies, to go up against one of those same walled cities of the eolith and take it for him- self and his family. (See Josh. 14: 0-15.) V. 2. Mnrrnacred against Moses. , They were a difficult and stubborn ,people to govern, and the patience of !their leaders must often have been , sorely tried. Every unaccustomed privation, or suffering, or obstacle in their way, called forth not high re- solve and steadfast purpose, but mur- muring. And always they blamed their leaders. Or they found fault with the Lord himself for having brought them into trouble. Better slavery and the flesh -pots of Egypt, than liberty and the trials of the wil- derness. See v. 3 and Deut. 1: 27. Vs. 5-9. They aro bread for acs. So said Caleb and Joshua. They meant "We shall eat them up." Their defence or rather, "their shadow," is departed from them. That is the overshadow- ing and thus protecting power of their gods, in which they vainly trusted, is gone. "And," said Caleb and Joshua, "rho Lord is with us." Compare Deut. 20: 1-4. See also the great assurances of Psalm 46 and Isa. 41: 8-14. V. 10. The answer of the fear - stricken niob to these brave words was to "stone them. with stones." Some- thing of that sort is too often, even In our own day, the answer of fear to the exhortations of courage and hope, But, in some mysterious way, out of that conflict of faith and unbelief, of courage and .cowardice, when faith and courage : appeared to be of no avail there came the manifestation of the glory of Gad. Those who entered into the "lent of meeting, (Rev. Ver.) the wilderness sanctuary, snw the vis- ion of that glory. is there not in this narrative some provision, and some understanding of the glory of the cross? As they were stoned and yet glorified, so also was he, their Lord and ours, crucified and yet triumph- ant. API'I,?CATION. 1. Oppoi'tuat.itii. When God sets be- fore us an open ,' •ot "to doubt would 1 be disloyalty, to falter would be sin." The:wilderncss wandering need not be aimless. When, we are guided each day nearer the ideal of heart's desire, the pilgrim way is a starch of pro- gross.' There cause of its false emphasis. There a greater number of larger eggs and were dangers and obstacles in the are more reliable than young ones. way. But the most important element! Young geese do not lay so many fen - in the situation was disregarded. Ev-: tile eggs, nor produce so many gos-. ery day we see events, truths, social liege the first breeding season as they. and political conditions, with same) do the second. essential element left out, leaving Geese sometimes begin laying in them distorted and false. December, then stop, and begin again And so the purpose of God was for in February. Generally a goose will the moment thwarted by Israel's cow-' lay from twelve to eighteen eggs be- ardly acquiescence in a.. vicious and fare becoming broody. The egg re - 'dangerous half truth. "The worst ene-I cord of the goose is from twenty to mics of Christianity are those who' forty eggs in a year. condescendingly praise its civilization,' Unlike the bill of other fowls, the and then class Christ with Socrates." goose's bill is provided with sharp, This is to "damn with faint praise" interlocking, serrated edges, which and there is a tremendous lot of this:are designed to cut and divide vege- nowadays,-,the measuring of society' table tissues. The tip of the goose's by city slums, of political Iife by its! tongue is covered with hard, hair - party heelers and hangers on, the like projections pointing toward the church by the focus of inquiry on' throat, which serve to carry the bits "What is wrong with the church," and, of grass and leaves quickly and surely all sort of pernicious stuff, of the, into the throat. character of a people by the morale' The best gander to use in the breed - and methods of its hijackers, or of the ing pen is onewith large dimensions, progress of the race by the fiendish -'quick gait, sparlding and clear eyes, nest of war. I a hoarse and ever -ready voice, and a 3. Courage. It is cowardice that bold, defiant demeanor. The best goose shuts men out of Canaan. But it is for breeding is the one that has good the vision and daring of youth and of . weight, is steady in deportment and faith that "sees life steadily, and sees' has good breadth of foot, as this last it whole." Moses and . Joshua and quality is conceded to indicate the pre - Caleb faced all the facts, believed that sense of other excellencies. Gad was mightier than all the powers! Geese require fresh air in plenty, of evil, and wished to enter Palestine' and will not •bear confinement in tight immediately. Canada is a goodly Ca -1 houses. A good place for them is a naan. "If the Lord delight in us, then i Pen under an open shed from which he will bringus into this land, and they can run into the barnyard or 'give it us." But its wealth to -day is, fenced -in pasture during the day, in wrong hands. Povertyvice, , politi when they can not be given free cal patronage, trade restrictionsmill-' tory agitation, gambling habits, traf- fie in liquor and drugs are among the Micro -Organism in Creamery giants of• our heritage. The church is Butter. able, if she is willing, tog o up and; Examination for yeasts and moulds possess the land. The Lord our God conducted by the Bacteriology Depart - hath set this land before us. Inept of the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege during the period May to Sep- tember, 1928, was carried out with samples of butter sent to the depart- ment from the Provincial Butter Softness is ono of the chief causes Grading Station. Six hundred and of loss in Canadian bacon. All soft eighty-one samples, from sixty-six bacon sells at a discount, Pigs fed creameries, were analyzed during heavily in early life, particularly on 1923, compared with 639 in 1922, 574 fattening feeds, and at the same time, in 1921 and 316 in i920. closely confined in pens without ex- A summary of the percentage:of ercise produced a soft bacon. Ex- samples showing comparatively low perfinental work at the Ontario Agri- yeast content during the four years in cultural College has proved this fact which the service has been available as well as that pigs grown to 100 tom creamerymen, follows: 125 lbs. weight on mixed feeds well 1920 1921 1922 1928 balanced with skim -milk (about 2eil Total number of lbs. milk to 1 lb. of meal) or tankage samples (Starch up to 10 per cent. in the ration may test negative). 224 587 618 868 be flniehed on corn or barley and still Percentage of produce a Arm, high-quality product. samples show Close confinement in pens from wean- ing until marketing has a tendency to produce a soft, flabby product. Marketing immature, unfinished pigs should be discouraged. They kill a low percentage carcase and are gen- erally soft and so do not grade select. Unthrifty hogs generally produce soft carcases. Exercise and thrift go to - range. ing less than 100 'yeasts per c.c. of butter . 6.5 10.1 29.4 18.3 Percentage o f samples show- ing lees than 500 yeasts per c.c. of butter . 21.7 27.8 54.2' 40.7 As yeasts in pasteurized cream but- gether, and thrift and firmness are ter indicate carelessness or lneffcien• inseparable, cy at some stage of the manufacture Feeding on meal and meal alone has ing process, these figures show that a a tendency to produce soft bacon, slow but steady improvement is being Mixed feeds are safer than exclusive made each year. The marked int - meal rations, provement which is noted for 1922 Beans produce soft pork. Buck was undoubtedly largely due to the wheat fed alone has a similar ten- exceptionally cool weather which pry den-cy. Fed in a mixed ration, it is veiled. ail right and gives good gains. Ger In addition to the above, bacterial tain oily by-products should not be 'counts were made of 205 "starch toss fed in large quantities but only as a negative" lots from 56 creameries dux: small portion of the ration. ing June and July. Counts obtaine4 Exercise, rapid growth from wean- ranged from 2000 to 24,000,000 per ing up to the finishing age on a mix- c.c. of butter; 120 lets, or 58,6%, give tura of feeds, and a satlsfaatory de ing counts of over 100,000 per ex.; 59 gree of finish evenly distributed snake lots, or 28.8%, givingcounts of over for quality of product. Starving, 500,000 per c.c.: and 95 lots, or 12.2%, stunting, holding" crowding with giving counts of over 1,000,000, per o.o, heavy feed when young, lack of var- iety in feed, holding for a higher mar- ket all make for a. low-grade product. 0 Winter brings the farmer tiro to think. Good books give him some- thing to think about. A doubtful egg is a bad egg, even if . it is a good egg. Candling is the sur- est way to take doubt out of the egg - case. The honey -bee has been accused of spreading fire -blight of fruit trees. Other insects comprise 50 per cent. of pollenizers, though, and they are eq- ually guilty; A good dry mash for Leghorns for winter can be made of one hundred wrounds of round oats fifty rounds of heat bran and thirty pounds of beef scrapp. Tho grain ration can be two pounds of corn to'one hhun- dred pounds of wheals Another good dry mash can he made of equal parts of ground corn, ground wheat and `are smno thingsin life which ; ground oats plus twenty per cent, by be done stow or never, Every weight of beef ecrep. In view of the fact that this butter was trade from efficiently pasteurized cream, as indicated by the starch test of the butter (tests made at the grad.. ing station) and without the use oe starter, these high bacterial counts in., dicate heavy recontamination after pasteurization duo to carelessness, inn,s proper sterilization of utensils, and probably also contaminated 'wash was tee at times. Butler made in the 0. A. C. Creamery, frontpasteurized sour cream, without the use of e. start- er, usually shows a bacterial count of from 5,000 to 25,000 per c.c. In order to determine whether there was any eoxreiation between the base tenet content of this butter and the grade, both when nosh and after holding, it was scored' by Mr. John Scott. Official Butter ut er Grader , inn Juno and July on arrival at they Grading Station, and again in November, hay. ing been held at a temperature of around 15 deg, F. meanwhile. A suns- ruaryof the scorings of the fifty low- est and the fifty highest bacterial corn. tent lots indieate the superior quality of the low count lots.