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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-3-25, Page 74 i'^LLiI 111SII loll U�U1f�1111ll�� 11►1 1 SII 16iodIIIIIIVullmilliim IIi� �t 1 vt NBar ”' nsa 0 i ro nal a i r cuZt•ura Co 1 ..• 1 e l eGue 1 9' P • lactiniT' d >m � rlh MART IN SlrNO URP aiNT • You'll Find Just What You Want For Spring Painting, In "MADE IN CANADA" Your needs have been foreseen. Dealers in your neighborhood have a e been supplied with the Martin-Senour line. And you have only to name your Painting Wants, to have them promptly filled. HOUSE PAINT :Why should you waste money on impure paint, or bother with mixing lead end oil, when. you eta got Martin-Seaour "100/.. Pure" Paint for all outside and inside painting ? Always the shine in quality, oolor.Sneness and purity. Floor F o Paint the kind diet wears,and wears, and wears BARN PAINT — Martin - Senour "RED SCHOOL HOUSE" is the paint for the barn. It spreads easily—covers more surface—and holds its fresh, bright color against weer and weather. WAGON PAINT — Keep the machines, wagons neandt tole fresh and bright — and protect them a ainet rust andweather—by giving themnoor o f o oat w o Martin-Senour "Wagon and mP]oment " Paint. Write us todayfor eFernier'e Color Set, and name of our nearestl r- dea e aent - ADDRESS ALL ENQUIRIES TO 0 S ai \t_ \• FLOOR PAINT—There's only one to be considered—t11 old o d roliabla BENOUl2 S • +v $4,000 A YEAR 1N POTATOES Rotation. is Important in Getting Maximum Returns From Each Year's Crop. LATEST MACHINERY ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS. "This year I sold from a twelve - acre patch $1;200 worth of pota- toes. . I have paid for the • land three or, four times *ith potatoes, and some years potatoes were pretty cheap" --thus said Fred A. Johnson, of Port Stanley, potato farmer. The growing of potatoes on Cana- dian farms is apt to take one or two forms: it may be a highly -special- ized industry, to which other farm work constitutes a mere ground work, or it may be merely one es- pecially -lucrative phase of manifold farm activity, In either case the result is the same. Possibly no farm crop is, ab all times, more in demand than the modern form of • that esculent first called by the Spaniards "batata," Certainly no crop will show a better proportion- ate profit, all things considered, year in and year out, than the ubi- quitous potato. The writer (las found on Ontario farms, splendid examples of these two .phases of potato -growing. Let us first briefly consider -the case of a man who has become rather an expert, a specialist. I first heard him described in the city of St. Thomas as "Johnson, the potato man," and at once went to visit hirer. Fred A. Johnson lives on a hundred and fifty acre farm very near the village of Port Stanley, on Lake Erie. When he moved to his present.plaee forty-three years ago, he put in' five acres of pota- toes and in no single year since has he failed of a crop. Space for- bids a detaailed explanation of this expert's methods, but a few facts may here be set down that should be of 'value to farmers throughout the Province. Of the entire 150 acre area of the farm, twenty-eight acres are de- • voted to potatoes. Tilos area com- prises two folds of ten and eigh- teen acres, respectively, and in two fields, each of this size, the an- nual crop is produced, part of a scientific rotation. In preparing a field for potatoes, Mr. Johnson frsb grows a crop of oats, seeded down with clover. While the first crop of clover is cut for hay, the second is left on the ground, and the mat thus formed is plowed under the following spring, Clover, by the way, Mr. Johnson regards es abso- lutely invaluable for use on the potato ground. When spring comps, plowing and diming are done, barnyard manure being ap- plied at the rate of twelve to fif- teen loads per acro. Should the supply of manure be exhausted, a fertilizer 3 co aldrin of potash o is •24 ammonia, 1 ti ! 0 31a 10 and dissolved ( )t ( o d phosphate (06%) is applied by mesas of a fertilizer drilll. The two -horse cultivator, and this oper- ation is repeated from 'five to seven times, at intervals of ,a few days. Owing to the close proximity of the United States gardens, with their early varieties, Mr. Johnson prefers to handle late potatoes. Planting, for the most part, is done the first week in June. Just here it might be mentioned that, on this favm, seed -cutting is done by hand, the proprietors having found that, no matter how efficient the machine used, spuds went to the fields with- out the necessary "eye." As Mr. Johnson said, "When every potato means two or three cents, one must be careful that there is an- eye on each piece planted," The planting is completed by about the loth of June, and thereafter comes con- tinuous cultivation. After the seed has been planted for a week, the ground is harrowed lightly, and a week or so later a cultivator, with hillers, is used. Once the plants appear above the surface, cultiva- tion continues at intervals of one week during the entiie growing season, A one-horse hiller is used after the plants attain a fair growth. Then coaled spraying. "We use an American machine," Mr.,.Johnson said, "a one-horse af- fair, by means of which the driver, with a simple pressure on the foot brake, directs the spray over eight rows on each trip up and down the field. We use a paris green spray for brigs, as, in nay forty-three years' experience I have never had a ease of blight or rot. In the last two years 1 have sold 15,000 bush- els of potatoes to my St. Thomas euetomers alone, and I have yet to hear of one single bad potato. This year we will pick about 6,000 bush- els, as usual, and I. venture to say that here won't .be a quart measure full of potatoes unfit for the best market. If you select your seed and keep your plants healthy and your soil clean, you need not bother spraying for rot or blight." There is no hand-picking on this potato farm. A four -horse potato - picker is nser—an American ma- chine, also—and does tho work in a wonderful manner. As the steel share uproots the potatoes, they are thrown on a revolving chain - carrier which deposits them in a box carried .below the driver's seat, A boy wanks behind the ma- chine, removing the filled bodes and replacing them with "emp- ties," which have previously been deposited tot intervals along the rows. "That machine east me as muoh Md. binder, but I wouldn't be with- out it at any pricey" Mr, Johnson soil is after manuring or fox -tills- said, "Nowadays ono must use the ing, thoroughly cultivated with a latest maohinery if he is to keep up with the last -Changing conditions, Growing over twenty-five e acres of potatoes, we _tan never go hack to the old system of hand-picking." The Johnson potatoes are stored for the time being, and later on marketed. Mr. Johnson has over forty private customers in the city of St. Thomas, including hotel's, colleges, stores, etc., and, as he says, "St. Thomas will take all the potatoes I can send it." Besides, should he care to neglect his local market, he can easily dispose of his crop each year in . answer to• -de- mands made upon hien' by United States dealers and buyers. ' Now, as to seed—you couldn't sell Mr. Johnson any, be your specimens ever so perfect. • He be- lieves in seed • selection from his own crop, and his great success has justified bit policy. On no account would he buy seed from an out- sider. No variety, he says, will ever t`run out" if properly propa- gated by intelligent selection. His favorite `late" varieties are the Worley and the Carmen, the latter of which he has grown continuously for a quarter, of a century. Mr. Johnson will not put the Carmen on the market till after the month of January, as not till then, he be- lieves, does it attain perfection for table use. The writer regrets that he is un- able to reproduce here a portion of what is probably the most complete and unique book of farm accounting to be found in Canada. "My books show that my first sale from this farm, forty-three years ago, was 54 lbs. of wool at 54 cents a pound," read Mr. Johnson from his ac- counts. "From that date on, I can.show a written record of every transaction made on this farm, if. only for a postage stamp." Mention must needs be made of this home, built, in no small mea- sure from "potato money." It is surely one of the finest to be found on any Canadian farm, Such con- veniences as a private acetylene plant, dumb waiter, wood -elevator from cellar to kitchen, and hot, cold and soft water on tap, all con- tribute to a hoane-life which appeals to the visitor as truly admirable, So much for one who has m,ad'e itis twenty-eight acres of potatoes the object of special study and ex- periment. Let ata now burn for a Moment to the caseof an .Erin township farmer, Mr, Charles Bald- win, who runs on ordinary mixed farming principles some 200 acres near the village of Hillsburg, On- tario. Above all, first and fore- most, ore most, be it understood that Mr. Baldwin is a successful, praotioal, all-round (armor; his work with potatoes is in the way of a little extra attention to a very common crop. ' Three ysare .ago Mr. Baldwin sold the potato Drop from afifteen acre tirld for about $1,000. How snueh prat? you asst. Mr. Baldwin puts it this way': "Frankly, I reckon that the po- tato crop paysall farm -running and minor expenses, leaving the returns from other farm work for any other use we desire," By 13. B, 14Te1Cin'non, in The Canadian Countryman, THE FATE 0F AZUMA; The South At'ri.iadl M jtljo.nitil'e. ORAFTPR, T. tak"Sbtotrtaty o U psa1mwingln g brute, and On the etiliseso, the extraordinary still' tune et Afroveldt, raem 1 ea 00 other aenne, the votee or. n which . was a 'element nt o 1e, sounded lamest et metalllo and lila wtvthanti 'fury were Lloro ed byha t t that lie was 0010 aptly peaceruiman, not 'given to DOt • ing, or even to war, but the cringing in; nate, 'o often apparent in his rate, was missing, ea he gave the men addresseda lo'with his fat that tient him reeling This paalnsilbrute"was a Boer, and 'what had roused tJew'e ire was the act that Ise had (relight him In the act of maltreating a Kaffir woman, The Boer is et anon a fatalist and a respecter at Pluck, (he dem net unfortunately, think the Engliehnnan plucky, or used not to, that wee the trouble), and he de.: Bested for •a number of reaaone. First e all, evidently It wee the will of God that to should not beat this woman; secondly he .recognized that this wee not one of the ]rated Englishmen, and he imagined that ho wile a Garman; thirdly, greatest treason of ell, the young tune's gets were - strong, and a few more knocks of the kind were not to be looked forward to ',,loll 'rtieaeur0, lie relinquished hie hold on the ,vaman, who stood, boldly defiant, gazing with Mato at ter tormentor, with deep gratitude at her rasoue r while e h e wiped the drdps of blood that, werefall- Ing Sam ht.naked back and dripping davubet arms witIthe end her (skirt, The young German Jew s bot tn walk of, lie didn't, drink that this than would touch her again; instead It 'zee l;he Boer who slouched away and the wo- man and the man stood alone on the side of the road in the glaring sun, "Haven't you anyone who . . , 1 mean, can't you get someone to bathe it -wa- ter?" he earl, eeeing that she did not un- derstand. The woman smiled and ad. enticed towards him, She did notmind her wounds now. Had 0hte,not ]tad many tahteh had terminated less speedily? for she was in the employ of a family of Transvaal -Botta the moat cruel b and e. n arias of ell. she laughed, and as she did so he no- ticed how e a, young she t mea, how beautiful, if one osa say beautiful 'P a .woman who < a e w lids alt the chdractecisaiea of a racep os• sensing all the reverse . Bisor<ls was the accepted ones a nu P f ," t . She t yno "Sale to look upon,' u h tun but Aho was of that tawny breeze and her shape wag est that of a bronze statue whilea were her yes we liquid and foil of intelligence, almost of sweetuesa. Phe name up uttering one of the dew ward he s a knew. to u ,u v, b t • which sufficed. to Proclaim him master, "Baas -'Rasa-" she said, and sneering kissed .his boot. Don't,Iort't do that." He dre,a• away, and shook his head then be pulled out sante mine, a handful of them, 'front •his ,Pocket. Her eyes gleamed for a moment at the unwonted eight, but she also shook. her bead. She would not take theta, and the young man passed along the road and into the farmhouse ^,,'here be had lodged last night, the neat night of his arrival. III a ,few momenta the incident had Poesed out of hie mind, Adolph Lich •was the son of a German Jew, a Jew of Frankfort, a retired Revel- ler, 'wbo Irac7 made a fai•tutle, and, more then that, waa counted .a 'vary reapeet- able man, Thrs Ltedla 'tall trace their ancestry for several generations, but also they bad not risen to the digutty of that modern corporation of distinguished moneylender avith 1'lostocratic proclivi- ties called 'bankeca, No Lieb had ars yet moved in the smart world, but all had had a certain standing In the town of Frankfort. Year's ago one had been a goldbeater, centuries before that, one, bad had the astute Inspiration of change iltg monies, in a euDerbly honest man- ner, which had precluded. hie making a great fortune, for when a Jew doesn't make money it is not beeauee he can't, but because he 'won't, and there are as many honest Jaye no honest Ohrietiame. And Adolph's father had followed :tie family's tradition's, and given .good Jew- el', •For the money; at reasonable prices, and was consequently the delight of the great ladies of Frankfort. Noweddiug of any 'importance took pplace its Frank• tort or the vicinity without Heinrich Lich having contributed to its magni. licence and it had .been known that he had been sent fOr to Cologne, and Ham• bung, .and even Berlin. He had wonderful. ly good' testa hi'm'self, and knew the Metes of the renowned families or hie native town so well that be never waet- ed their time nor ,hie by offering them anything that would not suit them; .while, as he said; 'Tam word impossible,' that le Dot in my dictionary. If there is a red sa'ppbire anywhere, anywhere, then Heinrich Lieb can get it. If Reinrleh Lieb doesn't get it, then the thing doesn't ex. est" And apart from the snot that he avae an honest and artiaito jeweller, he was sympathetic. It was told that a great :lady, 'whose pee -ties were more sought at - ter Man time of royalty, had once ex- claimed: I love old Lieibl" And 'while people laugghed, they had me deretood what the Green meant. He was a charming old duan to deal with, and many a friendly chat bad passed bet'weed him and me women cua'touters; while, over Wedding presents and the re -setting of heirlooms, men high up in the e0ofal and financial world would give him a glaze et wine and offer him a good cigar, Hie shop wee a email, unostentatious one like lila home on the Judengasse, and ho pretended that he ,vas a poor man knowing that nobody believed him, 11 000eslonelly ho had advanced money on jewels to sane some deoaden't house of old name and standing, it waau't in the toast Ghat be woe a pawnbroker, but merely that he had dose ]'t out df Bind- ltee8 of henrt, otter giving mora than oke vltluo, and keeping -the jewels jeal- ously guarded from any human eye till such tune ns they could be redeemed;' If nets 05 Wile kind enhanced the good feel- ing that everyone bore him, and teems. ed life trade, it wan but Pet. It had been a grief to him when be fin- ally decided to'retire froth. bush:eve that. neither of hie none would continue it, yet he knew that it was the natural cense, gnence of the education bo had given them.. lie. had mitt titter to the beet schools whielt would admit. tradesmen's acne and Jewa, anti to the Unlversity, and'. made then] brace!, After all they avoulci have enough to do ns they liked; only o his eldest son, Adolplta, who was the cleverest, be had +aid something 'whish 'the boyhad never forgotten, He had Wm: m, 'When T die, far simple 'mottle, trade,. mets aileron, ,yon will bo very ,voll off ; but I tell yon thin 5500, if YOU dont make auoney, then you loan alto of the ggreeteet plea0Ures ]n life, the greatest pleasure. Theta la nothing, netting like it in thr world, it is better then love for is is mere lasting, ,and (:hen love -ca1111ot b110 money, and money tan buy love." • Ile laughed wl0n be said this, ne ill it were a joke, but the truth in it. impresee( the boy; only it seemed to him that it little would not be enough, that tee make a, tittle an:oney and work vary hard for it waa not wotbh the trouble, thin to be the r'chect: elan in the world, and know how to spend it-tha:t would be magnificent, And while old Lieb began to Interest itllmself in pollute end sunned mimetic on the terrace, of the beautiful Mum he had wilt in the country, a few races Prom Frankfort, and entertained, meth hie uha•rmi,rg and uusophlstieated wife, a eitelo of tho pettier°. of Frankfort trade, big .wino anerahnnte and tebnreo mrr- dna.ntcs, tjti'dtnre dealers led hotel Beep - era more o' 1n nx clu ai ho kind, trusts tarsi of 1itaniate, whom he helped, and nerd• atonally an tmpacunlous Prince Cr Ilra.f whom 'he. Nee' helped, young A'dotplte yo - !Sowed an Cavitation item 't'to son of hie arbor's agent .in Sollth grime, to visit ]rim there to too the country. 'elit'e wee egissmt bane before the Boer War twee d 01 Ie w u Old L b was to 'willing th t hi eat q i v g a e r phluld PO. Jfe had oorer 8009 u a nt W110 as a matter of actw e ei reply middleman between hien and o of the diamond mine owners, andwho had a Mail ere in <moor the diamond Mime. All that 110 know about him 'wee 'that be •w all A'fel d •• r married Was ken e., that 1 e waa and hadalargo•Pami!y, and that a sent a t hin1 very .good diamonde at very tow 1.1 3. a matterof e p ec, As at feet v:' to h thouht the Cate i m n 'white. d a o as toe w a t a 1 t ILA ganel'ally preferred to buyoldones here and there and to aesset them, "They are different to 'women," he would say, "they Improve with age.' Adolphe's mother didn't like the idea et t all,, arid hiasisters Implored him not thought Jtg ack pwouldduelcbe kite imekingoot Lieb ,.nr. Adolphe wee beginning to kook his heels about in Fraakfort, Imbibing a' taste for doing nothing, for onter'taleing aetresaee at fashionable restauranta, and -•moat useleea 000upatiou of ale -for learning the violin. WhenggagAmae lbeCgine,to learn the vice 1a'bh ould�eay� ]tile everything e bougit the" old most expensive box available, for hie family to enjoy the Opera, Now, why should my eon inherit my taste for music and not my taete for dia- monds," la;monda " be would say, "there you are, if a young aeon y can �. et hold a on g i f the wrong inheritance i bo too from h epa ra t n a ha does." Antihs Iliad torn himself away from faecinseWlating Frankfort, where, ale though hie position was not in the greatt world, it was yet an enviable one, and met his friend at Liverpool, returning from a business visit to London for ]tie father, and the two young men sailed together. Before he started, old Lieb had a serious and characteristic talk -with ]tie son, dwelling on 1110 old age, and the chances and acvidenta of life and death, which might make 11. that they should never meet again. Re recommended hie mother to him Specially, "The young, they oan al yget e ' an on and you and your brother and slaters all. love each other; but Your :nether -I Let Yon always to think of her fret sed Yourself afterwards. How good she le ' 1 'altat you w Il never kn ow." b T oil: "And sea your a p 3 r Y ea open out there, who knows, you might se somrb n g -a mine perhaps, what caI tell? Well, write and tell mc. You do net caro for business horn 1 Frankfort web perhaps You 'will rare ter itu o "s t there. e, 1J ere le good in ovary place,, also money Is be in made in every place, embalm even the desert One day diamonds will be made with ganef:" And Adolphe promised to •keep fila eyes open, witbout the least Intention of doing an, and started out Pull of ewpeotatfon cl pleneure, and with a. leiter of credit on a Oape Town banker, which was 111 pro• Portion with 1t1s father's means and ]ria affection for him, He took hie eiolia'with ]Tim, which amused hie father. But to the 'town -bred European, accuse toured to the luxury of Frankfort, to its pretty architecture, its wealth and amusement, there was nothing very at- tractive iu thearidity of SouthA fr•icno The buildings warn hideous, and the want of vegetation, or eutivated gardens, ape preened him. Nor did he find htmeelf Par - tit -early in sympathy with the people 'whose guest he ,,•as, They did not under. stand him nor he theat, le is nearly al. 'Ways 60 In a new country. One under• stens neither the pathos nor the humor of a country in 'which one bee not been brought up til] one has lived in it a long time. Ile'would have Sound rho ,,ume thing in Leaden or Amertca, and though lin 'would not have owned it, he wee home- eie'k, His friends lived. ab Kimberley, and It woe somewhat of a relief when hie host one day euggeeted that be and hie eon should acocmpany him to Johannes. burg. Ile lilted 7ohanneabu great deal (better than Kimberley, wha ich was a dried-up arid -looking place.. + Here there were allots of activity. ivity,and the presence of .little ysrdene sun of rosea and oarnatlons were Mika pools of 000t wa- ter to one's eyes, after dust and heat. They had travelled by coach, and it load been something of a new experience to be carried waives a swollen river they came to in a @coking -case ,worked by pulleys. and the novelty of the experience when they once slept in an outman in .the open aveasa ed each one in a lcasoe, gave him something to ,write about to hie father. PIso place nvhero hie hoot twee to .meet the entne•owners atm a'ferre, situated a dew inilee , out of .1011amm:tin rg on the. Riot river, nestling discreetly among the bilis, with something of the taciturnity and the "leave are alone" look of the Basra ihemselvee, 'but the want of oomfort of the house, with its wbitawaehed walls• and floors strewn with cowdung, iia rough. benches and ohairu-enade of 'rim' (hide) instead of cane, placed against the wall, the dull, surly look of the owners, the dirt and ,eenerltl want of sweetness, tilled him ,with dreariness. Tv ]rim it'seemed absurd that while meet° could be ba5ps arid comfortable in Europe, they should put op with emeltthings as this, Little did he imagine that one day every fibre of hie being. every interest of bia mind would' be centred on just etch a place tie this. and that South Africa would spealt of Adolphe Lieb almost with' bated breath, ae they 'would .apeek of a dung, who had also 'partaken something of a euperna, turel ebaraoter. And two thine atruok him with teams force ahem he had been in South Africa. 6hough gt the tip14 he d[<I ,pot 'kn,y, 3tav :they ilial mpresse Timm, hdE 'tylia i liy. ng t ley mould have on his future '(1'10, One 'wee that when they heard he 'wae Gelation, the Boer farmers treated hint with a great deal more consideration than they did hie Engtieh friends. Later be understood -ibis 'better, There le no doubt that le Jamleclon hart oat ruebed , where ( vernm1en- .feared11tread, tL e Germans would have u<ooFlishad courte- ously, and on 'friendly - what the British did &y testa or at ]east ,would have gradually occwpted In the Transvaal very much the 'same .position which we now occupy in Ttegy'pt. While the greet - est 'eolonlzero in •tire world, we nee up• dou'irtedly (the most tactless. 'Remodel.. petite we have nothing to do with, we are utterly without aavolr faire, eve treat everyone se iff they had reached the same standpoint as oureelveo. 'whe'thei 'they are'black or white. "What: don't you do tie we do? then you 'must learn to do SO at once for it is the seT nh aleY t 1 smust do tit that wa.y, it may not a ea n right toyou, it museto right, and you 111see it pre. way," And, if opinions differ: "You but it sBrttii' therefore e to deorat of our slow progreee, that le why India c 'Ia1is era snch miles ibehind America. The A.ai don't n teL on -did 3natorinl being teed again and again, they take them materials athand and use them to tbe beat of their a:bllity'tunY uao the esutiouanees of the Scotohman b r : the aiGo a< and Instinctive Y f discipline of the Gorman tiler 1 t• eC.lci p ' randy of t] Irl n to alias the a PoP t lin .a he n a1 n the S.an the Pole,e g o tit Swede, and. the Italian ]for their own Perpoare but they do not say to thea One and that: Bo Antorsan, give np your notional diapoaltuas, your risatOlI S, your hi - athlete. Above all they don't ,=ay tile fatal word: "Wa li " wbieh 'n e.' very harmfuliq enuutrieia where diet :- con• si<lered tie a ,providentially instituted pro• reetit's agalnet etiolate, The .feature which atruok bine, although he did not 'know it, .was one which bad caused him a feeling of •,malaise" ,before, the h other ,which in a ,v 'nllu .e a i inciting Y c d every arose , it , lila ime aI m e i ng et1 to success, sometimes impeding We triam• 131ra1 march -yet, Perhaps not the whole of lits life: the day came when lie relin- qu'ahed this, the mental lever of ]tie am- bitions --it were the 'realizst'on of the want of 'prestige his 'people, he andhie 'friends eeeloyed, lleeauee they were aim - ,ply tradesmen. Adolphe was, like so ,many dews, a climber at heart, 'The .e,v has been obliged to aim at great wealth, and at ,position, dor even then he le not able to run his race fairly 'wtth the world, haw 'then does he fare without tlteae? levee_ in Frankfort, Adolphe had belt twinges of envy and jealousy. His edu- retire, his manners, lits intelligence, even hie looks -for the was not furiously aemitic in appearance -seemed to jnatify that he should move in a more rarefied atmosphere than that of the tradeemen'e eons of the town; yet it had been impos- sible, abuse's, when he had tried to enter clubs oe a more exaluatve sort, or, as he had onto dreamed to do, to enter the Army. (sate had etre.* him a blow, and be ;had found that it 'was impose:1bl° for 11im to soar Above the ]taunts of Sia race, hie trade. Even the affection and esteem in 'wltiob his father 'wed- held made no difference. Like en ineeet tied to a pin iby a thoughaleaa child, he 11ad dotted that he could go no further, that If he tried to gobeyond the limits he wae pull- ed back 'witch a jerk, a-tth the danger - metaphorically ,peeking-ef losing a Ieg. And hate, in the'Tren,evaal, he no, 'teed it even ,more. 'In Chia confusion, this eon- filetingg medley of authorities and rulers,. in Which it 'seemed that the Uitlandere 'wotiked one way, the ,Boers another, a,ud the British .government a third, enols one ohooicmating the other, while none dared really advance, only those were respect- ed who had enormous wealth or govern- ment cpoeitione. While -thought grew and. developed in hie active brain, and matur- ed dike grain 1n its sheaf, the incident of the Kaffir woman and the Boer 'was the one that auntie it 'burst. (forth into aorrua• eating fame, a Tama around which pre. sently ail- his future nm'bitions centred and warmed themselves. (To .be eontianod,)• Some people would rather be happy than good. 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Tn ease the snare dies Or itas u4 milk the foal MO be raised p11 milk, i cows' i] the attendant t 4o . fI t ducts the work patiently 1y and intel- ligently. te l- lisnt Moose the molb of a cOiv that dbias yeae tlY calved, - rete - baub]Ytieornfsatwlf'ocrl g mia i smisilk1llal Vr le rich in sugar, a s.P Dor 3n f e �R eot ettthe milkwith no1as osO1 /auger and dilute avith warm m wait a :Ova m11k a t this 1 eof a tool short intervals frm a scalded nuns lug bottle and large robber nipple, Be careful to keep the 'bottle and nipple scrupuloueana on of lime waterslycltp" each. Add pint o1 the prepared milk and allow ,half e oupful once an hoar at first, writes Ivir, A. F, Alexander. 1>,s the foal grows, gradually crease the amount of milk fed and lengthen the intervals between meals. In a few da, 9 footlinAy given six times; a day and, late3,' four times daily, The foal 'will soon learn to drink from a pail, if al- fin - Until attendant's lowd e- Orseatto firstsu,1. th g Until the bowels move freely, give rectal injections nigher anti, "morning. If the foal scours ab any time give two to four tablespoon: fills of -a mixture of sweet oil and pure castor oil, shaken up in milk, and stop feeding milk for two or, three meals, allowing sweetened warm water and lisne water in- stead. Let the foal lick oataneal as soon as it will eat'antl gradnallyin- r in- crease .themo n d' wheat a nut and ad bran. In or six weekss some e sweet ' kim milk may given andd e amonnb gradually increased daily until, in three months of BO. it may be given freely three timesa day in plate of milk. T foal st to new � 110 p at this age also will be eating g free- ly of grass, grain and bran. At all times supply pure cold drinking water. Let the foal run our in a lot or grass paddock fur exercise. Accustom it to be hand- led gee 1quantities I dsural of. nutritious food often, eeping alt feud vessels clean, and the foal should thrive .and develop well. Remember that a colt should at all times be adequately 'Fed so as t-' - develop it perfectly. Practically half of the hill weight of a horse is gained during the first twelve months of its life. If stunted dur' ing this period the colt never de- velops properly: it, therefore. paws to feed generously. Three Good Rations. The 'best rations for the dairy cow, according to the most recent investigations of the Nebraska Col- lege of Agriculture,are as follows fara 1,200 pound .dairy sow of tela proper sort and producing 30 pounds of milk daily : Ration No. 1• --Twelve pounds of alfalfa, 3 pounds of corn silage., four pounds of ground corn, and three pounds of bran. Ration No. 2—Where silage isnot available. Fifteen pounds of alfal• fa, six pounds of ground corn, eight pounds of corn stover, and two pounds of gluten :meal, Ration No, 3—Where neither sit• age nor alfalfa is available. Twelve pounds of millet, twelve pounds of sorghum hay, two .pounds of ground corn, and three pounds of oilmeal, Proper Distance for Planting. Currants and gooseberries, three to four feet apart. Raspberries and iblackberries, three to five b four to seven feet apart. Strawberries for field culture. three to five by four til seven feet apart. Strawberries, garden mature, on•e to two feet apart. Dairy Wisdom. Clean the stalls every morning. Avoid direct drafts on the herd. Balanced rations balance the dairy profit—in your favor. Clean hands, clean teats and clean milk pails ---clean auilk, clean I :.ream and clean butter. d Little Bobby Beatem went, with his mother to buy a pair of knick- erbockers. When he ,had looked at all the varieties in the store, he was still dissatisfied, "I want that pair in the window," he protested. "'These are just exactly like them," assured the clerk, `:but if you want that particular pair, I'll get them for you." And he produced them, much to Bobby's satisfaction. They • bore asign which read, "These knickerbockers cannot be beat," "Now," said the farmer to the new hand from the city, "1 w'a,ut con to clean tip the pigsty and the the henhouse and al stable and 1 a the other houses ot the stook," The now hand woirked vigorou couple of days. Thele.'is suslypvforea's'eda before his employer with (both eyes nearly closed, his mouth swill-14 redelumps ail over his aloe all nedik •,i,•nd Bands. rGilt o hiy , t .i a id Tut i money,"h ora > Jt'ig0 yy,, " "What' - 11 t i ,the mot Iy i t tt 9 q . et1 j�ic fs3mel, T rlou t lett'ew what s the anabter,'a sl td lfa yio-. OOMYl "'but it ha,peped wl1Cih 1 stater-' ed in to clean e 'beehiya•,