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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-9-17, Page 3„, ----se-see""•"•":” Efficient Far mg 1‘11.LING THE PKOSPISISITY bulging during Nl4tling. The hulgieg TANKS. !leftdreimeee, and molding followed. The silo is the cheapest and most After the eaQ had fully seteled, there' efficient coarse Sodder Amp bends' is little or no lateral preesure. ing that can be erected on the farm. I The inside of a silo is ne place for A ten of elove hay or corn, fields lazy man during filling time, Only cured and stored in the farm barn, sei, the most dependable werkers fthoisid quiresett least 400 cubic feet of space, be entrusted with the spreading and The sense quantity of corn or clover Packing of the finely -cut fodder. The would occupy but fifty cubic feet of, lazy mau will lean up against the silo Silo space'wall or sit down and loaf, letting the , The storage .ef ilft* tons of clover; cut fodder pilo up, With the heavy or corn made up as dry hay or cornand light portion's separated, and with the leaves all together, soft, spongy fodder, would require a barn 40 x 3301 emu develop in every foot throughout x 16, costing not less then $1,290, The same quantity offoddermade up es' the mass, It can be smoothed over at , m silage could be stored in a silo 10 x 30,the thrie, but the telling evidence of costing not to exceed $300, loafing is generally seen in the mouldy The silo has made possible the ex- sections when the silage le removed. teneive use of plants that are not suf.! The best WIT may be grown, the best of silos built, the cutting xnachin- ficiently palatable in their natural state to be of great value. The ensil-1 ere may be used, yet the silageargely age process, when practiced sure' spoiled by loafers neglectieg .the flowers, mustard, coarse sweet clover' spreading and packing of the fodder and Russian thistle, makes palatable as it goes into the tank. aceeptable ensilage. Aloe the silo' All silage material should be finely cut. Corse stalks and bellow clover may be made to serve a useful pur- pose by providing a medium through: and grain stems must no cut short and which weed -infested crops may be be crushed or broken in order to pack handled, by being' utilized. to /give well, The use of the flexible distribu- tor tube is a great aid in the even sons too wet for haymaking or grain grass, clover and grain crops in sea tor of cut fodder. It, too, should ripening, be ,operated by a man possessed of During the season of 1920 a very sufficient energy to do an honest day's large portion of the cut and stocked work. The highest grade of corn silage is grain crop of the Pacific Coast would made from these varieties of corn that have been lost had it not been that produce a large proportion of grain the farmers had silos. Owing to con- tinued unseasoned weather the grain' in the total weight of crop. . Large - sheaves made a luxuriant growth, de_ growing southern varieties of dent veloping about eight inches of matted corn that give an immense -green. green top. In this condition the crop' weight of fodder per acre, will, as a -originally intended for grain was put! rule, produce a very poor silage. Many into the silo along with such green; dairymen prefer flint varieties and the small stalk varieties of early nia- Material as was available at the time moisture and acid culture were ackle4, turIng dents for silage purposes. From in quantity sufficient to control the, such, a rich sweet silage can be made. The weight per flake may not be nearly fermentation processes. A good silage great as with the late maturing, resulted, the silo having saved the 05 crop. large -growing dents, but when the sil- Suceessful silage making depends: ages are compared on the digestible first of all on fermentation processes,' dry matter basis, the smaller growing' earlier maturing dents and flints have which are largely controlled by the! the advantage. Only such varieties amount of air present in the mass of' fodder. Silos built with air -tight walls will cut off the air supply from the outside and reduce the losses to a as will ripen at least n few wars should be used, even in most northern sec- tions In the early years of silo experiefice minimum. Air -tight, hence satisfac- the practice was to grow big corn. tory silos, may be muck: of wood, stone, Little attention was paid to the grain brick, monolithic concrete blacks 'and tile. 1 yield, and much poor silage resulted from the twelve to fourteen -foot stalks Generally speaking, wooden silos! are cheaper to erect, but less durable! that went into the silo without the than the others. Wooden silos when! very necessary two -pound, well -glazed standing empty dry out. If before! ear. Hard experience has demon - they are filled they receive attention,,strated that there is more milk, beef and the hoops are tight, they will keor butter in a cubic foot of silageep1 made from corn that consists of big silage perfectly, for the wood will swell sufficiently to make them air- juicy stalks. tight. Silos made of other materials,. The greatest quantity of digestible dry matter is obtained from a corn if properly constructed, are always air -tight. Silage will keep perfectly in a silo of any kind which is air -tight. On the leop when it has reached the condision to cut for husking, ripe enough to complete'maturity ie the shock. An- other heed, spoilage alyswaresults other .advantage in growing earlier maturthg when at enters the silo at the sides, varieties is that such can lbo ensilaged in September and the land or at Alm bottom, and often cause large losses, a few small openings will allow sufficient air to enter to spoil the whole mass of ensiloed material. . The top of the ensiloed material will seal itself through decay of about a foot of material, less when very green crops are used, and more when more matured crops are put in. Spoilage prepared for fall wheat an imporeant factor now that the European coo borer bee beeome n menace to corn growing over a 'ride area, The freezing of rent after it has reached the denting 01 early gime stage, does not materially injure it so far as silage making goes, if the DI can be cut up shortly after can be largely eliminated by cutticrop c e thoroughly the last few loads of silage freezing. It is alwayadvisable to as they are cut up, by covering the sil- age with a layer of finely cut wet etraw. Silos less than twenty feet deep do not give the same bigh efficiency as silos over thirty feet deep. Height is run the risk of frost, rather than en- siloing the corn in an immature state, Canada's Production of Butter and Cheese. Canada turned out 163,456,759 required in order that. the weight of pounds of creamery butter valued at the inass may be sufficient to compact $56,894,008 last year, compared with the cut material and reduce the 310152,501,900 pounds valued at 553,453, - content to a degree not favorable to 282 the year before. The price of but - extensive fermentation. The deeper ter in 1923 averaged 34 cents per the silo of any given capacity, the pounds against 35 cents per pound smaller the cross or top turface ex- in 1922. Of last year's Production, posure. This is important, since silage Quebec manufactured • 60,179,616 will spoil rapidly if exposed tithe air, pounds valued at 520,741,454; Ontario, The modern peaceice is to build the 54,773,180 pounds valued at 519,443, - silos high, and of a diameter that is 505; Maritime Provinces, 6,319,574 in keeping with the daily feed ve'lpounds, valued at 52,352,521; Prairie quirements, the aim being to have ti° Provinces, 39,223,225 pounds valued silo as small in diameter and as high at 513,106,043, and British Columbia, as it is practicable to build. The deed,' 2,961,154 pounds valued at $1,250,485. silos have the distinct advantage, in Of cheese, Canada manufaetured 11 that a better silage can be made and p01 cent. more at an increased value there is less wastage on exposed top: of 31 per cent last year compared surface. Low, wide dlarnater 811°S with the year before, the total menu- nre easier to fill and empty, but do , factures in 1923 being 151,483,353 not pack well and surface waste quite, pounds valued at 528,629,366. The ay. heavily. erage price of cheese last year was 19c The well or walls should be smooth compared with 16c in 1922. The Mari - and vertical, The structure should be time Provinces produced in i923, 2, - true and of uniform diameter through- 671,238 pounds of cheese valued at out to facilitate the undisturbed sets 5514,404; Quebec 46,770,556 pounds tling of the formenthig mass, Any ob-' valued at 58,763,782; Ontario 99,535,- struction, such as a bulge or cavity 405 pounds value:: at 518,842,102, and interferitig with the settling will show , the Prairie Provinces 2,216,058 pounds considerable spoilage at the time when valued -at 5438,023, the silage is being removed. If the; It will be noticed Quebec manufac- sides or walls are not vertical and tured the most creamery butter and parallel, good results cannot be ex- Ontario by far the most cheese. pected. The outward pressure of the cut Cost of Rearing Pigs. fodder duririg settling la approximate- A record of the cost of keeping a ly eleven pounds per foot for each foot sow for a year and feed consumed by of depth. herself and litter at the Lonnoxvillof .At the bottom of a thirty-foot silo, Quebec, Experhnental Statiot, showed the pressure on each square foot that each pig at weaning age had cost would be over 300 pounds. A silo ten 52,29, Four Yorkshire brood sows feet in diameter and thirty feet high were used in the experiment. naeh will have to stand an outward pres- sow raised two litters and raised an Huse 011 the lower foot wall of app real- average of 18.8 pigs, which were weans finitely 9,430 pougds, The pressure ed at from six to eight weeks of age. on the tenth section is aboat 6,600 The feeds used consisted of middlings, pounde, or 210 pounce, foot. These oats, barley, oil, meal, tankage, clover presorts indicate Oat the Silo wall hay, roots, and skimsmilk, besides pas - must bo strong and secure. Square turage for four menthe, The par- eilos failed to be fully efficient, large- ticulats given • are trom the annual ly hese they were 'lot built stiff report of the Station issued by the enough to Wind the preseure without Department of Agriculture at Ottawis, One of the newest ideas throughout England is the sale of miulature busts of the Prince of Wale& all proceeds to go to Lord Iiaig's 225,000 campaign for the benefit of British ex -service mbn, We Are lifting Our Mortgage With a Stove Lid BY MRS. GR A tourist camp near our little farm has furnished us an idea that is pay- ing off the mortgage for us. My hus- band and I are towe-bred. s We plan- ned when we bought our farrneee raise pigs and chickens and .keep five. or six cows. , We have discdvered that there is real money in, see* good tllings to eat to people in the tourist camp. A similar trade could be built with town -folks from any farm pro- perly looted. Seine hikers warted.to know one day if we had any chickens for sale. They said they would call thr them next day. I baked bread and two green apple pies the next rnorning, and when I saw those articles on the table beside my dressed chickens the thought suddenly occurred to me, "When those people call for their chickens, perhaps I can sell them some bread and pie?' I set the stage properly, dressed chickens close to pie and bread. They bought the whole display. So the idea was born. The next day I carried bread, pie, and fried calces down to the camp and sold two dole lars' worth. In less than a week I could see that the business was too much for me, so I drafted the "gudeman." Ile got eggs, vegetables, and apples ready; I bakbd a quantity of food; and away we went at ten o'clock. We have adhered to that hour ever since—ten o'clock every day but Sunday. Another of our first plans was always to take orders for dressed chickens. We don't take them unless ordered, because they won't keep. Believe me, we used to sit and look at each other on the way home some days when our sales amounted to fourteen dollars and sometimes as high as twenty. We soon began to pay up some of our bills. We had borrow- ed every cent for stock and equipment. That was the first year, and last summer was thes second. We started June 18th, and in ten weeks we took in 51,000 in round numbers. We 'fount a screened -in' back verandah, and there we did most of our work, baking in the kitchen range. We also had an oil stove with an oven. When we took orders we serupulous- ly filled them—all but once. Some peo- ple who didn't eat meat on Friday ordered a quart of baked beans. Some- how we overlooked this order, and when we got to them, the bean kettle, like Mother Hubbard's cupboard, was bare, Suffice it to say, they would have nothing more to do with us dur- to Section 12 of the Regulations under Ing their stay. Fortunately this hap- the Dairy Produce Act which reads: pened to us only once, "No cheese shall be graded until it I always baked a quantity of food, is sufficiently mature, in the judg- and if I had orders I baked more. The ment of the grader, to permit of the idea is to have food on hand. There quality being properly determined." are many who won't give orders, so The Commissioner says that during we sell them as we find them. At the his recent visit to the United King - beginning of the season I bake less, dons he was more than ever impressed baking more as the crowd increases. with the necessity of Canadian Iso - Itis better to have too little than too tories stopping the practice of ship - much, for things must be fresh. ping their cheese when only a day or We take the seasonable vegetables two old. He further states that fee - and fruits and eggs. Of baked foods tories that pursue a reasonable course the first favorite is pie—apple, berry, in this matter and keep cheese until it lemon cream, vanilla cream, custard, is properly matured, will receive the pumpkin, and chocolate. 1 usually bake protection to which they are entitled. e‘en bread mostly apple and two other kinds one,; Henceforth shipments of cheese that day, and so on. I've baked as many asare too green for grading will be 28 in one day. I carried them in bis-:-evisrehoused at the maker's expense cuit boxes last year, with a pie tin, until they have become reasonably ma - inverted for a cover; but next ture. Mr. Ruddick believes every in - season I'm going to have a thinertelligent operator will appreciate a make a regular pie carriee, like a system that places all factories on r bak is next, and this is so Brown the same footing. simple any child .(or man) on make The End is Not Yet. it, it is just a sour -milk graham Some farmer with a statistical turn bread with a cupful of bran added, of mind has computed that a gallon of baked in a loaf. It's delicious and gasoline will milk 300 cows, hale four recommended by doctors. Whenever tons of hay, mix thirty-five cubic feet tourists broke camp they usually of concrete, move a one -tun truck bought a supply to take home, It fourteen miles, plow three-fifths of an makes wonderful sandwiches. We mix acre of land, and make enough eleo- four loaves at a time in a crock, put tricity to keep eight lights going in a them in four pans which just fit the farmhouse for thirty hours. And the oven, placing them on the bottom terse Thee four more, placing the first ones end is not yet on the top grate; thus we're able to Cleaning up dairy herds is one of bake eight loaves at once. the best methods of advertising dairy When you say brown bread and products to a discriminating pubile. ACE BATES. I learned that one should make things good, not stint them. Ask enough to make a reasonable profit, and they'll sell fast, I've never for -1 gotten the story about my grand- mother, who was a famous cook. Someone said to her: "Why is it, Mrs. Blank, that your cooking always tastes so good? And my grandmother answered: "Because I put good things in it; that's why." We don't try to soak people be- cause they're tourists. That's piggish and unprofitable. We've never tried it, but we've seen it tried, It may work once, but not often the second time. • White bread, rolls, and cookies we, don't bother with. Bakers can make these good and cheap, and they can far undersell the private individual. These take much time and stove rom, which count in a rush. One should have a variety. It takes some time to sell one thing. One can! sell several articles almost as quickly,' and have more cash at the close of the deal. Also, one should be business- like. We feel that this is as legiti- mate and honorable as any business, and conduct ourselves accordingly.1 There is much pleasure in this, as welll as profit. We meet strangers, get ac -1 quainted, try to give them a good opin- ion of our locality and make many good friends. This' is a cash business; no credit asked nor given. Credit makes customers and poor friends. We in- quire of our customers whether they'll be in need of any article produced on the farm in fall or winter, and can dispose of our winter products in this way. I mustn't omit to mention that' cleanliness is very essential. Vege- tables are severely scrubbed, eggs well washed, food containers are dust and fly -proof and clean on the outside, and we ourselves are clean as to dress and persoe. Bungalow aprons are approved apparel, and may always be neat and elean. One lady became my customer be- cause the first bake -lady who came along had dirty finger -nails. People may be made of dirt, but they serious- ly object to eating it. Maturing of Cheese. The Dominion Dairy and Cold Stor- age Commissioner, Mr. J. A. Ruddick, in his last News Letter calls attention baked beans, people alt up and take notice. I bakod my beats by the Boss ton method, soaking them overnight and starting them on top of the stove when the oven was being used for other things. Next come fried calco—not dough - tuts, but our -milk fried cakes, After that cup cakes—spice, ra1l, plain and chocolate, These I carried in aloe boxes, which I got from the store. Than Inhearbrit and cheese, with plenty of ahem, Breeders with early hatched cock- erels often hold thein too long, espe- cially if they have plenty cf feed and do not need the money. Then they find that the price per pound drops until the four and five -pound birds bring 11() more money than they would have brought es broilers who weigh- ing two or three pounds. Seventy-five per cent, of the world's yield of gold in 1928 wee produced within the Beitish Empire, The Sunday School Lesson SEPTEMBER 21 Jesus Makes a Missionary Tour, Mark 1: 35-45. Golden Text—Thou most make me clean.—Mark 1: 40, I, JESUS THE MAN OP PRAYER, 35-38, II, XFISUS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN, 3945. INTRODUCTION—Mark 1:21-24 COn. tains the record of a whole day's work of Jesus. The scene is Capernaum; the time is the first Sabbath which Jesus spent in that city. In the morn- ing Jesus attended the synagogue and taught. At midday, Jesus leaves the synagogue, and going to the house of Simon and Andrew, heals the mother- in-law of Simon. At sunset, extras ordinary scenes are witnessed'in the usually quiet streets of Capernaum, "Working all day" is the title that might appropriately be given to the picture of Jesus in these verses of Mark. But the next morning, when the crowdsreappear,Jesus is gone. The Streets are again thronged with peo- le waiting with their eick, but the Heler is nowhere to be found, Anxiously Peter and his companions go in search of Jesus, and find him in the solitudes outside of the city, pray- ing. This brings us to our present lesson. We are now to see Jesus as a inan of prayer. I. JESUS THE MAN OF PRAYER, 35-38. V. 35. The prolonged labor of the day before had curtailed Jesus hours of rest. Nevertheless, long before day- light, he leaves the city for the solitude where he can find a time and place for God. He must pray in order to fit him- self for the day before him. What did he ask on handed knee in that dim hour, While the first faint morning airs were stirring in the leaves. We are not told, but we know it must have beeu to be wholly surrendered, to be utterly guided by the Father's will, to be given strength for all that the day might ask of him. Men sometimes think that work can serve as a substi- tute for prayer. Our Lord did not think so. Who ever worked as he everked? Yet he also prayed, for1 prayer is not work, or anything else but ararer. as they still do in China and in many other heathen countriee. Whenever, therefore, any of the above symptoms occurred, it was at ono concluded that posseseion by demons had taken plaee. Jesus saw in all this, the signs of s fearj'ul domination ovsr the souls of t'he sufferers, commanding the demons to go, and bringing back to the disordered mind, the sense of Godeff love and power to save, Mark sees in these conquests of the terrors inspired by jdeeomnoorsivi, etehseiamhsensitp.wonderful proof _ Vs. 40-42. These verses tell also how Jesus cleansed a leper. Strictly speaking, the leper had no right to leave his seclusion and to appear am- ong men. But necessity in this case knows no law. The leper flings him- self at the feet of Jesus, crying, If thou art clean11. i only" willing, thou canst make pity of Jesus, that at this moment he does not even hesitate to touch the ,leper. He knew it to be God's will that 'at that moment he should touch the man, and should say, "I am willing; I be thou cleansed." 1 Vs. 43, 44. But Jesus sternly charges , him to say nothing about his cure, but to go at onceto one of the priests with the offering required in the law of Moses, (See Lev, 13:49; 14:2-32.) He was to do this "as a testimony to them," that is, to show that he is cured, or to show that he is a pro- phet of God in Israel. (See 2 Kings 5.8,) V. 45. The healed leper does not re- main silent, as Jesus commanded, but proclaims his cure far and wide. The result is described in the present verse. Jesus cannot enter any of the cities for a time. The popular excitement is too great for men to listen calmlyto his message, and he chooses the quiet- er places for his work. 1 We use the AZICIER''leprosy" for a articular disease; apparently the Biblical writers, even in the Lew (Lev. elm 18, 14) used the term for several distinct maladies. Setting aside the leprosy of the house (Lev. 114:37) and the leprosy of the garment , (Lev. 13:47-59) as peculiar and ob- scure, there remain several skin dis- eases as well as more deeply seated affections of the human body. The, plague on the head or beard, "the' scall" of Lev. 13:20-37, was, according to many physicians, some variety of contagious and inveterate ringworm.' The disease is still common among' poor Jews and Moslems. The same, classes are affected by lencodermia or vitiligo, which produces a discolora- tion of the skin such as is described, in Lev. ch. 13, or it maybethat Lev„: ch. 13 includes also psoriasis or Eng - What is called leprosy to -day is a lish leprosy. disease that produces commonly, a, thickened condition of such features as the eyebrow, the sides of the nose,' the cheeks, the chin and the ears. The; thickening gives to the hands and feet, a lumpy appearance. In some cases the joints of the fingers and toes are affected and parts fall off, while lumpe on parts exposed to rubbing often be- come open sores. At the same time the thickening extends to the mouth and throat, and the voice is reduced to a husky whisper. These are the obvious features of the disease, but sometimes they are entirely absent. What is fundamental is that in every leper the nerves of the skin cease to act, he loses his sensibility, and there is a profound lowering of the vitality and efficiency of the organism. Vs. 36, 37. It seemed extraordinary, to Peter and his friends, that Jesus should absent himself when all the. world was waiting for him in Caper- naum. Had he not an engagement to keep with all these anxious souls who were lining the streets with their sick? But Jesus had, also an engagement to keep with God. 17. 38. Jesus explains that he must, not return to Capernaum. His prim -1 ary task is to preach to the souls of men, not to heal their bodies. The stime is short, and the message of the, Kingdom is urgent. He must go on; that very day to preach in other town -1 ships of Galilee, for how otherwise sholl he go over the cities of srae . Then Jesus tells Peter that it was tol prepare by prayer for this missionary, Journey, that he came away from Capernaum that morning. Similarly, we find Jesus spending a night in prayer before be chooses his twelve, disciples. (See Luke 6:12.) 22. JESUS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN, 39-45., 17. 39. We are not told the length or, extent of this journey, in which Jesus, now visits the synagogues of Galilee. His task is to proclaim the nearness, of the Kingdom and to lead the souls, of men to God. But in the furtherance of this task of leadingmen to God, he: heals whenever the sick are brought to him. In particular, Mark records. that he cast out "demons." It was universally believed teed "evil spirits": entered into people, and produced de- rangement of mind, convulsions, hys- terical cries, and spiritual distress. Men lived in terror of these demons,' Rations for Laying Hens. What was regarded as the best ra- tion for laying hens was fed for two years in succession to birds in the Egg -laying Contest conducted at the Nappan, Nova Scotia, Experimental Station. The scratch grain mixture consisted of 100 pounds of wheat, 100 pounds of corn, 50 pounds of oats, andi 50 pounds of barley. The dry mash, which was kept constantly before the birds, consisted of a mixture of 100' pounds of bran, 100 pounds of mid -I dlings, 100 pounds of crushed oats, 1001 pounds of corn meal, 50 pounds of oil, meal, 50 pounds of beef scrap, 50' pounds of blood meal, and 15 pounds of chaccoal. These :este r were sd constantly from the 1st of November, when the test commenced, until the fourth of September the following year. During the reinainder of the year the 50 pounds of barley in tho. scratch mixture was replaced hy 50 pounds of oats, and in the ?dry mash the 100 pounds of crushed oats was dropped and substituted by 50 pounds of bonemeal. The green feed used dur- ing the winter months consisted of mange's, while in the spring months sprouted oats were used instead. Each pen consisted of ten birds, kept con- stantly housed hi a shed roofed build- ing 10 by 12 feet in size. Nearly two- thirds of the front of the house con- sisted of glass and curtains. Hoppers supplied with grit and shell were pro- vided for each pen. 1Restraint for a Cow. Sometimes it is very desirable to know how to restrain a cow from kick- ing, without casting or applying hob- bles or chains. When a cow gets a caked udder, and one teat or quarter must be drained through a milk tube, try the following method which has always been successful with us: One person grasps the cow's nos- trils with his left hand, using the thumb and two fingers. He raises her head, just as though he was going to drench her, except that he holds her head around more to her side. When the milk tube is to be inserted, the person holding the cow pinches the nostrils as tight as he can, and the effect is much like twitching a horse. Of course, there are cows so vicious that only tying up the hocks will re- strain them, combined with the above described method. But it is renuiek- able how this simple mode of restraint will take a cow's nund—if she has one —off her real troubles, end how much can be accomplished without getting her frightened or Stubborn. Hints Abut About Horses. Do we owe a debt of gratitude to Horses? Are they not faithful. obedient, un- complaining servants? Do they not us us, andis not their welfare in our hands? Will you do all you can to help good and regular meals, a good table and bed, careful ,grooming and sensible treatment. He needs three meals a day. A troop -horse's daily ration is 12 lbs. of hay, 10 lbs. of oats and 8 lbs. of straw. When he is working hard he needs food and water every two hours. It is cruel to keep a hard-working animal thirsty. Hay dipped in water will keep him cool if he cannot have a drink. See that the manger is kept scrup- ulously clean. Hems are extremely clean feeders and will not clear up their food if there is dust it the re- maining portion of it. A piece of rock salt should be kept :in the nom. ger. Tho horse enjoys it, it doe good and proniotes appetite, Green feed fresh from the fields in late summer and early fall helps to prevent the usual decrease in dairy production at this time of the year. • If the breeding of thoroughbred poultry was more generally conducted on business principles, 'when engaged in largely for the sake of expected pro - we would not hear of so many aisgustecl or badly disappointed breed. ers. A large proportion of the be- ginners commence with an enormous amount of self-roeceit and ealeo ideas and a very email amount of expels. lenee, and until this is directly and completely reversed, success insd profit will never be attained, TRAINING OUR CHILDREN TIIE DIMAKFAST— FLORENCE J. MINS. "You are not going out of th house until you've eaten your break- fast, Leon," Bald his mother emphatic- ally. Leon let go of the front door handie, threw down his cap and school book, and went to the dining room, scowling. In about three minutes be was back again, Nis mother had gone upstairs, but she heard him. I "Leon," she called, "you haven't finished? You can't have eaten any- thing itt all I" "I've, had all I 'want," was the answer, and the next, =Anent he was gono. With slight variations this scene had been eriFted every morning dur- ing mY three weeks with the Thorn. tons. More than a year elapsed be- fore my, next visit, but I soon found plenty of evidence that the perform - since had been continuous. Another nine months passed; again I was with these friends. But 81 change had taken place, Each morn- ing Leon sat quietly down to break- fast when I did, his mother sitting with us though she had eaten previ- ously. He ate each course in turn slowly with evident enjoyment. I was surprieed and so glad that, on the morning I was leaving, I could not re - 2 ram from commenting on the trans- formation. Leon had gone to school and we were just sitting dawn for a final chat, "It came about through the Parent- Teacher Association," said my friend, smiling. "If Bob and I both go we have to take Leon. One evening vee all went and listened to a particularly clever lecture on 'Nagging'. The next morning while Leon was dressing, he said, 'Mother, the man last night didn't say anything about breakfast, did „ ,hBer?' e eldest?' I said. "'Yes—well---that's, the only thing you ever nag me about.' "I was amazed, and for the mo- ment, angry, "'Do you think that's a very nice way to talk to Mother?' T asked. " didn't know you didn't want to tone.talkabout it.' he said, in a perplexed "'All right,' I said, you had better try to eat your breakfast properly every morning so that we, shan t have to discuss the subject.' "But after he had gone to school I thought the matter out. Leon was right. 1 did nag him about his break- fasts. What was mare, they were a source of daily worry to me. I often felt that he was going out without being properly fortified." She pawed thoughtfully. "You know," she continued, "Bob has to leave here before seven, and 1 like to have my breakfast with him. It hasn't seemed wise to waken Leon so early so of course he had had to eat his breakfast alone. 1 had not been particular about having him rise at any regular hour and often be had to hurry in order to reach school in season. Usually, by the time he was dressed, some of his schoolmats would he here waiting for him. "As I thought about it I realized that these conditions were far from being conducive to a quiet, orderly breakfast. I therefore determined to change them, and I did. Leon gen: up regularly now at seven o'clock. By half -past seven he is ready for his breakfast, the other children have not yet arrived and he doesn't feel hurried. I can't eat a second meal, but I can and do sit at the table with hine I plan to talk with hire, at this time, about things in which he seem; pars icularly interested. "At first, when I sat down in this way numberless little duties would suggest themselves to use and it was hard not to get up and be about them, but I have learned to be deaf to most of these calls, and it has paid. Leon eats his first meal of the day properly. He looks better and he i hotter; he has ngsasraie.:0 self-control and is doing bet- ter work in school, and, --I don't have to ete Iodine is the sovereign remedy for goitre and lump jaw. Apply the tinc- ture externally every other day in goitre. Give a pregnant sow or owe or nanny goat one grain of iodide of potash daily in feed, water, or salt during the last half of pesgietney to prevent goitre or hairlessness of ea: - spring. For same purpose give preg- nant cow 20 to 30 mains of iodide of potash a week during a like period. For remedy of lump jaw or "wrindee tongue" give cow one dram of iodide of potash twice daily in ‘vator, uidlor direction of the veterinarian, who should also operate upon tho adoeteil part, Iodine tinctvire or ointment also cures rinp;worm.—Dr. A. S. Alex- ander, The Uneorseted Figure, Wee Cricket "eModness, Miss Wasp, you've not a hit stylieliserion't you know the Blender waist le en tirele out of date?"