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Gontlucted by Professor Henry G. Bell.
The object of this department Is to place at the,
service of our farm readers the advice of an acknowl-
edged authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and
crops.
Address all questions to Professor Henry G. Sell, in
caro of The Wilson Publishing Company, Limited, To.
ronto, and answers will appear In this column In the
order in which they are received. As space Is limited
It Is advisable where Immediate reply Is necessary that
a stamped and addressed envelope be enclosed with the
question, when the answer will he mailed direct. Henry G. hell.
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Question.=FI. T,: ---What is the value
of sweet clover for roughage, as •a
pasture, and its effect on the soil?
Whet, should it be sown, and how much
per acre? Would it be all right to
sow with other clover and grasses?
Answer: - The attitude toward
sweet clover is turning from one in
direct opposition to one of consider-
able favor. The plant for a long
time was looked upon as a troublesome
weed, but it is now regarded as a
valuable source of roughage and good
material for pasturage and a form of
legume which is beneficial to the soil.
Sweet clover plants grow exceeding-
ly rapidly and will thrive on soil of
low fertility. On account of its !rapid
growth if it is not cut sufficiently
early it will make hard empalatable
hay. For roughage sweet clover
should be cut at the time the flowers
begin to show. Sweet clover plants
contain a peculiar organic matter
known as Coumarin, which gives it a
characteristic odor. At first this is
distasteful to cattle; however, they
soon learn to eat sweet clover hay and
actually prefer it later to poor forms
of hay. If a good seeding is obtain-
ed, sweet glover will cut at least two.
or three crops a season. If cut
early and handled carefully the hay
will retain a large percentage of the
leaves which are most valuable in the
fending ration. As a pasture, sweet
clover is valuable especially if pas-
tpre is' cut over with the mower suf-
flciently often to keep down plants
which would grow up and become
woody. Again the livestock pastur-
ing on the sweet clover have to acquire
a taste for the plant.' Sweet clover
has a beneficial effect on poor soil, In.
our investigation of the question of
legumes improving the fertility of the
soil we were not able to obtain de-
finite figures as to the amount of
nitrogen fixed by any of the legumes
under all conditions. The consensus
of opinion is that if the soil is rich the
legumes will tend to get a large
amount of nitrogen from the soil like
other grain crops, but if the soil is
poor, by virtue of the bacteria growing
on the roots of the legumes they can
make use of considerable of the nitro-
gen of the air circulating around the
roots of the plants. Under all con-
ditions of course, the growing of
legumes adds organic matter to the
soil and organic matter is exceedingly
valuable, in that it gives the soil we-
ter -holding capacity, plantfood-retain-
ing capacity, opens up heavy clay
soils, binds together sandy soils and
forms the home and food of bacteria.
In seeding sweet clover, Michigan
Agricultural College advises from 15
to 20 pounds per acre of hulled
seed, or 20 to 25 pounds per acre
of unhulled sweet clover seed.
TIME FOR INDO OR GARDENING
Preliminary Sketching of Rows and Space to De Devoted to
Varieties Means Time -Saving Labor,
Seeds for planting' the home vege-
table garden should be ordered et once,
so as to be on hand ne soon as the
weather and condition of the soil
make planting possible. Before c
dering geed the borne gardener shoubt
look over his plot, measure its area,
size up the soil, decide on the best
location for each vegetable and deter-
mine how much -seed he will require
for the space available for each kind.
Seeds cost more this year than in re-
cent seasons and they may go ]nigher,
so it is well to he prepared,
It will be helpful to make a rough
plan of the proposed garden. On this
plan indicate the spaces to be used for
each variety and also by means of
colored pencils or symbols show where;
a second crop is to be planted or in-
terplanted between growing rows, and
also arrange for the second and third .
crops which are to follow those
previously harvested. Such a plan
will enable the gardener to keep the
ground busy all season, supplying
' fresh vegetables during the summer
and producing in the late fall root and
other crops for winter use,
Once the preliminary spading and
working of the garden has been done,
it is as easy to raise two or three
crops as to keep the garden clean of
weeds for producing only one picking.
Those who are not used to gardening
or who wish to have their children
take an interest should have some one
to do the heavy spading or breaking
up of the soil. This work frequently
disgusts novices and children who
would continue an interest in the gar-
den if the task was simply to cultivate
soil already broken up. A couple f
hours of labor would be sufficient for
a small back yard. In case of a
patch from twenty-five to fifty feet
and upwards, it is cheaper to have the
place plowed and -harrowed at a cost
of about $1.50 for that area and more
in proportion to larger extent.
The questions of how much space
and time one must have for certain
sized crops and results are important,
but just now these 'can be deferred,
since out=door work is impossible on
account of the hard winter and late
spring. Indoor gardening such as
the seed buying and planning spoken
of is possible.
Many plants can be started in the
house, both vegetable and flower, and
be ready to plant out when the ground
is dry and warm. ]Oven without a
(hotbed one can get earlier crops of
tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, pep-
pers, eggplant end lettuce by starting
seed early in boxes in the house
Early potatoes sometimes are forced
in the same way.
Seeds so planted germinate and are
ready for transplanting by the time it
is safe to sow the same kinr, of seed in
the open ground. When danger of
Speaking generally, the bulls of the
seed are so hard that frequently the
seed does not germinate until the
second year. Sweet clover seed
should be sown atsout the time time
as other clover is sown in the spring.
A mixture of sweet clover and other
clovers would be all tight, but speak-
ing generally, it is not best practice to
sow sweet clover seed with a grass
mixture. The grasses tend to offer
too strong competition for the young
sweet clover plants. Care should j
be taken to inoculate the soil at the
time of seeding, so that the right kind
of bacteria for the clover vvll1 be pre-
sent in'the seed bed.
Question 1.-W. T.: -Are oats that
are mowburnt till they are light brown
on the hull good for seed?
Answer: -Oats that are burnt until
they are a light brown color should be
carefully tested before they are used
for seed. Count out two lots of 100
each. Place these between wet blot-
ters or damp clotlis. Keep near a
source of heat such as a stove or
furnace, for a period of a week or ten
days. At the end of this time count
the seed that have sprouted strong
and you will have the percentage of
seed that will germinate. Speaking
generally any sweating of oats in
bulk to such an extent that it discolors
the hull of the oats is very detrimental
to the vitality of the seed. If you
have to use the oats for seed and find
the germination is only 50 per cent.,
necessarily you will have to increase
your rate of seeding to double what is
normally used, in order to he sure of a
good stand.
Queation 2,:-S have a field of stiff
clay land which was ploughed once last
fall. What is the best way of work-
ing it into a seal -bed for the oats in
the spring?
Answer: -In preparing fall plowed
stiff clay land for a seed -bed for oats
this coming spring, I would advise
that you apply 1,000 to 2,000 pounds
per acre of air -slaked burnt lime. Scat-
ter this evenly on top of the plowed
land as soon as the soil is sufficiently
dry to work. Follow the application
by a careful and thorough discing and
harrowing. This air -slaked burnt
lime, besides correcting any sourness
in the soil, will gather together the
tiny soil particles and make the crumb
of the soil a little coarser so that air
can circulate better in the seed -bed.
When you are seeding to oats, I
would advise also seeding to clover and
timothy. After you have taken off
one cutting of hay plow under the sec-
ond crop of clover to increase the
organic matter. Your stiff clay land
will not greatly improve in texture u:n-
ti11 you have increased the organic
matter or humus within it.
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Symptoms of acute indigestion are:
uneasiness, lying down and rising; op-
pressed breathing, eructations of
gases or attempts to vomit, pain
usually continuous but varying in in-
tensity.
Give 2 to 3 oz. oil of turpentine in
a pint of raw linseed oil as a drench.
Foment the abdomen. If pain be
give n e 2 dram of the solid ex-
tract
s n d
tract of belladonna. Repeat if neces-
sary in 2 hours. Give rectal injec-
tions...
Pampered stock, like pampered peo-
ple, soon decline in vitality.
A wordless argument in favor of
clipping the horse in the early spring
is an overcoat covered with hairs.
Make haste slowly with the team
when the first warm days come. You
know how easily you get thud your-
self an such days.
The betterthe a sire the higher the
dividends he will pay and in no line
of -live stock does this hold more em-
phatically true than in horses.
More horses, heavier horses and
horses in better condition all through
the working season will lower produc-
tion cost. Prepare the horses in the
early spring for a hard summer's
work by regularly exercising and
'gradually increasing to heavier work.
When the spring worst begins it is
high time to give the horses' shoul-
ders proper attention, To work a
horse with a sore shoulder is barar-
ous. The collar should fit so that
one can. easily get the hand between
the bottom of it and the horse's throat.
Tf it is too large it will be sure to
make the neck sore, and if too small
it Will choke when the horse pulls.
Never use a pact under a collar so as
to make it lit; a pad hoops all air out
from condor the collar and the shoul-
ders anon scald in hot weather. The
first thing to do when going to work
a colt is to see wivethee there is a col-
lar to fit him. If net, go and buy
one. -
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Take only healthy birds for breed-
ers. A. vigorous cockerel and yearl-
ing hens are best. If pullets are used
have them well matured. In light
breeds, nate one male to 20 females,
and in heavier breeds one male to 15
females,
Undersized or very large eggs are
more apt to be infertile than medium-
sized
ei im-
p e n dt
sized eggs.
The poultryman maks his greatest
1 y e g ea
profit from the chickens which are
hatched before May 1. The early
hatched cockerels are sold as broilers
when the broiler market is at its best.
The flood of late hatched broilers
brings prices downy and congests the
market. The greater returns received
from enriy hatched broilers go far to-
ward defraying the cost of raising the
pullets. These pullets in turn begin
laying when eggs are bringing the
highest prices and when there is the
greatest shortage of strictly fresh
eggs.
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Shear fairly early, at least before
the very wean spring days arrive, and
thus save the ewe discomfort and loss
in weight. With wool as valuable
Pea pound as butter, the greatest care
should be taken to produce the clean-
est, best fleece and properly to care
for the same after shearing, (:o -
operative marketing will add from two
to eight cents per potmd revenue from
your wool.
Clean all vermin from the flocks
and herds before the young stuff
comes. Feed is too high in price to
Waste on lice and ticks, and the new-
ly -born animals will thrive better if
they are free from them.
Undocked and uncastrated grade'
lambs are always au indication of
primitive methods in the handling of
sheep, and no farmer who takes an
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interest in his frock will neglect the
performance of these operations,
frost is over and the soil is dry en-
ough to work, therefore the home gar..
dener starts his early garden with
seedlings well above the surface.
Transplanting, if properly done, in-
stead of hurting, seems to help such
plants develop a strong root system.)
Garden enthusiasts should get a good
deal of pleasure from this kind of
preliminary indoor gardening. They'
also can use boxes to hasten the.
blooming period of many sorts of
flowers.whiclt stanch transplanting,
Any sort of wooden box filled with ,
good soil answers the purpose. The'
following directions for making seed
boxes and handling the plants should.
be carefully followed.
Seeds of early tomatoes and cab-
bage, as well as cauliflower and pep- I
per, should be planted in a seed box
in the, house at once. The seed box
should be three to four inches deep.,
twelve to fourteen inches wide and
twenty to twenty-four incites long.'
Special boxes can be bought cheaply,'
if nothing suitable can be found'
arnund the home. A layer of about
ono inch of gravel or cinders should.
be placed in the bottom of the box, I
then it should be filled nearly full of
rich garden soil, or soil enriched with'
decayed leaves or manure. Bonemeal,
sand and backyard soil, equally 'nixed,
is good.
Soil should be pressed down firmly.
with a small piece of board and rows;
made one-fourth to one-half inch deep
and two inches apart crosswise of the.
box. The seed should be distributed!
eight to ten to the inch in the rows!
and be covered. The soil should be
gently watered, so as not to wash up 1
the seeds, and the box set in a warm
place in the light -in the sunshine by'
a window being best. Water enough
must be given gently from time to;
time to cause the seeds to germinate
and grow thriftily, but not enough to
leak through the box. If a piece of
glass is used to cover the box it will
hold the moisture in the soil and hast-
en the germination of the seeds.
When the plants are from an inch to
an inch and a half high they should
be thinned to one or two inches apart
in the row, so as to give them space
enough to make a strong, stocky
growth. If it is desired to keep the
plants which are thinned out, they
may be set two inches apart each way
in other boxes prepared as mentioned
for the seed box.
When the weather becomes mild the
box of plants should be set out of
doors part of the time, so that the
. plants will "harden off" in preparation
for transplanting to the garden later.
A. good watering should be given just
before the plants are taken out of
the box for transplanting, so that a
large ball of ea>:th will stick to the
roots of each one,
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Coni'eyedbyiYwio7&Cen.Genu'p
Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially Invited to write to this
department. Initials only will be published with each question and its
answer as a means of Identification, but full name and address must be
given In each letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be
malted direct If stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed.
Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs. Helen taw, 75
Castle Weenie Rcad; Toronto,
A, 1!. B,: --•-This plan has been tried
by a mother and was successful in
curing her little daughter, who had
violent spells of temper. When a fit
of temper came on, the mother took
e basin of cold water and sponged the
little girl's face and neck, holding the
cold sponge especially long at the
temples, behind the ears, and at the
back of the neck. In a few moments i
the tense little muscles relaxed, the;
eyes grew less wild and the child'
would lie down. Then the mother I
would take her daughter's hand and'
talk to her lovingly but firmly on self_
control. After six or seven treat-
ments a complete cine was brought
about.
L. D. M.:-1. The milk bottles that
are used for Infant feeding can be
thoroughly cleaned by rinsing first
with cold water, then washing with
hot soapsuds and a clean bottle brush.
Rinse the bottles both inside and out-
side in an abundance of flowing clean
water, preferably under the cold water
faucet; examine each bottle to see
there is no cloudiness or speck re-
maining. Then place in a bottle rack
and set in a moderately hot oven for
an hour. The bottles will be sterile
and fit for use. Bottles may also be
put aver a fire in a boiler filled with
cold water, to boil for half an hour,
after which they should be carefully
drained and kept dust -free. But the
oven method is preferable. Cool the
oven slightly by opening the door a
few minutes before removing the bot-
tles; this will prevent the cracking
that alight result on sudden exposure
to the colder air of the room, 2, To
tell when a child has scarlet fever the
following should be noticed: The
hatching period is from a few hours
to several days, no longer. Then
comes a scarlet rash, appearing first
on the neck and chest, then covering
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
APRIL 8.
Lesson II. Jesus Raises Lazarus From
The Dead -(Easter Lesson) -
John 11. 17-44. Golden
Text -John 11. 25.
Verse 17. Allowing a clay for the
journey each woy, this means that he
died very soon after his sisters sent the
message.
19. Jews -Remembering the re-
gular association of the name in this
Gospel, we see a contrast implied be-
tween the impotent comfort of an out-
worn system thejoy
in sorrow that Christ bears.
20. The active Martha behaves like
Peter in John
21,7 and Matt.14 28).
Mary, like the beloved disciple there,
waits for the Master's call,
21. e As verse 32 shows, this was
what the sisters had been saying to
one another ell through those days.
In the Greek there is a little untrans-
latable difference, individualizing
Mary's words: she puts my in a more
emphatic position.
22. Shalt eek -Literally, Shalt
have asked. The phrase is inclusive,
and covers What she thinks he has
been asking already.
23, Jesus would draw frotn her by
an ambiguous phrasehow t far she
really ventures in the vague !lope that
her last words have hinted.
24. Her venture has been too much;
r ultimate
1• on the eat t1
ails lack
she fg
Hope, but dares not anticipate any-
thing more.
25. Compare Paul's preaching of
1 "Jesus and the Resurrection," The
`Resurrection is not a future event: it
is a present Power, and not merely a
feet, but a Person. Paul preached
this so urgently that 1114 enrolees
hearers in Athens thought "resur-
rection" was the name of a goddess!
(Acts 17, 18.1 Shall he live --As the
met verse shows, Jesus means that
death will not deserve the name; it
will not interrupt life, but only 8115055
its sphere.
27, I have believed -The tense
plies a faith previously won, and abide
Ing still -PI have learned to believe."
She pronounces Iver creel( as it has
come to her; the Lord bad been giv-
ing her an imlalication of it which was
tit present more than she could take
in,
43. Tho shout was to help the faith
of the sisters which we may believe
was needed in cooperation. Lazarus
was "sleeping,' and must be awaken-
ed; the I,orcl acts in eccordeuee,
44. Bound -Long swathes of linen
were wound round and round the body.
Napkin -Compare John 20. 7. It
was a handkerchief, named from its
use for wiping away sweat, and now
used to cover the face of those whose
toil is done. Loose him -The Lord's
attention to a homely detail like this,
or the child's need of food in the
Jairus story aillark 5. 43), emphasizes
the sense of mastery. There is no
mighty wrestling with Death, as in
the case of Elijah: the Lord of Life
has only to issue his command. Seo
. John 5. 28.
Readers will not overlook Brown-
ing's "Karahish the Physician,' in
which the deepest lessons of the story
are wonderfully handled. Its prob-
lems are, of course, manifold and can-
, not be mentioned stere. The Evange-
list'spurpose is the main thing to re-
member, as expressed in John 20. 31.
Compare 2 Tim. 2. 18 and note how
this story corrects a perversion of the
great truth it is meant to tench.
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Give the live stock buildings a thor-
ough spring house-cleaning. Dis-
infection of the walls and floor with
some cheap disinfectant will plievent
the spread of any contagious diseases
and will increase the health and vigor
of the stock,
One cause of cream failing to ripen
properly is keeping it at too high a
temperature, This interferes with
the ripening, and also gives the but-
tertP 5,
an oily flavor.
The value of accurate knowledge
properly recorded bad a clear demon
stration at a recent farm saleca f cat-
tle.
t
tle. The owner says that the Bab-
cock test and his scales made hien
$500 that day in the sale of ten cows
and heifers. This may be readily
accepted when it is known. that one
cow, without et pedigree, sold for $210
on her record as a milk -producer.
To give proper care to milk you
must have the equipment with which
to do it. The dairyman is keeping
his cows. on expensive lend. He is
selling all of his crops through them.
What be, gets from milk is his reward.
Surely then, it is worth while giving
the milk proper care in order that the
resultant product may bring the best
price possible.
Watch closely, in the increase this
tuning, the results of the matings
made last year. Live stock told
feeds are sure to be high for some
years to tome turd time or motley
Should not be thrown away on in.
discriminate breeding
the face and body, This eruption
peels as seales and flakes. There is
fever and quick pulse, and the "straw-
berry tongue." The glands in the
neck are swollen and there is sore 1
throat. The discharges from the'
nose and throat are more dangerous;
than the rash -more catching.
D, G,: --Try these games at your
party for boys anti girls. 1, "Pic-'
tuned Verharium." You take some
long word, such as "Caribbean" or
"Beloochistan", and by rearranging
the letters find a number of smaller
words, such a,s cat, loot, bean, belt,
and others. Then from advertise-
n.ents in the papers and magazines
cut out pictures which represent the
words and paste them on cards for an
exhibition. From these pictures the
guests are supposed to guess the
smaller words and then pick out the
individual letters and guess the whole
large word from which they are taken,
i2. "Geography." Take each letter
of the alphabet and in five or ten min-
utes' time write down as many towns,
,seas, rivers, etc., as you can think of
whirl' begin with the letter chosen.
3. "Change Places," For this the
players sit in a circle and there must
be a leader, who tells a story. The
story teller goes very rapidly, invent-
ing as he goes along, and suddenly and
'frequently introducing the phrase
!"change places." No attention must
be paid to this unless he adds, "The
King is here." Then all must jumpI
upp and try to take different seats
;the confusion the leader tries to slip
into a seat, and then the one left
without a place has to start a story.
It adds much to the excitement if the
leader sometimes seems on the brink
of giving the sentence which means a
general move, such as "Change places,
From Erin's Green Isle
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NEWS JIY MAIL P110111 IRR•
LAND'S SHORES,
fiappenings !n the Emerald Isle of*
Interest to Irish-
men.
,fames O'Boyle, of Killala, has been
appointed food inspector for County
Mayo.
A pork merchant at Ballybay, paid
a farmer tit Dunrogwootl I; 20 for d
fat sow,
The Town Council of Portadown
has arranged to invest LI,000 in the
new war loan.
Major Robert S. McClintock, of
the Royal Engineers, has been made
a Brevet Lieut. -Colonel.
A war bonus of five shillings week-
ly has been granted by the Cashel
!Guardians to all their officers.
A milk depot him been e:•,;;1!,lished
by Lady Eva Wyndham -Quinn, where
the poor can get milk at ie1::onable
phone
The price of pork in the 51 naghan
`markets has advanced from 122 shil-
lings to 128 shillings per hundred
weight.
The Athy District Council have asla
ed the owners of woods to allow thl
poor to take the fallen timber. for fire-
wood. -
TIIE 1%'OSIEN OF GERMANY.
Endure War's Burdens With Courage
in Poverty, Misery and Sorrow.
"The women of Germany want
peace with growing intensity," - says
an Englishwoman who recently man-
aged to escape frotn German: "So-
cialists and Rennin Catholics, though
usually opposed, are now united in
their advocacy of peace, Both parties
have sent petitions, aliened by millions
of women, to the Government in Ber-
lin, praying for a stoppage of the war.
"At the beginning of the war the
German women sent food to the men
! in the trenches, but to -day the case. is
;altered, and it is the men in the
!trenches who are sending food home
' to the women and children, whose
' plight is so hard.. There would hare
been a revolution long ago if there
' the King -will come soon,' or some- had been enough able-bodied men at
1 thing else of royal news, to which 00 home in the country. But there are
j attention should be paid. only boys. old men, cripples and wo-
THE KATY THAT DID,
I There was once a tizne when there
g'eren't any katydids. There were
katies, dear, yes! Ever so many. But
every single katy was n didn't! Do
you know what it was that they
didn't?
They bed hopping parties, of course,
and swinging bees and tree -climbing
contests. And the papa katies went
to the club, while the mamma katies
had afternoon honey in one another's
homes; they brought their sewing and
talked about the children, quite like all
the other insect families. And their
only didn't was -they didn't sing!
You've no idea what a difference it
made. Why, the woods seemed just
as still! There were bees huinming in
the sunlight, and flies buzzing and
crickets chirping. But they weren't
noisy, you know, compared with katies
that do. They made just nice, soci-
able sounds, to say that the wood was
beautiful and wasn't it lovely to be
alive!
Oh, all the other wood people had
voices, some for the daytime and some
for the night! They trilled and pip-
ed and fluted, and sang solos and
choruses -all but the katydidn'ts. But
th]atllifts
were busy with their
hunting and their housekeeping. So
theydid not
mind not
g
musical.
And the only times that they did care
was when they saw a party of wood
people on their way to singing school.
The woods was a wonderful phaco.
There were trees and bushes and flow-
ers and grass. And every tree and
bush and flower and binde of grass
had the finest juices for eating and the
cosiest nooks for sleeping, No won-
der that the wood people were ]sappy!
The- trees and the bushes were all
glowing with reel and gold that day.
And the flowers were gold and purple.
Golden leaves covered the ground.
Even the brook that ran through the
wood was dotted with tiny gold ships'
that had once been leaves.
All the wood people were busy spin-
ning warm wraps and making their
houses 8(105 for the winter. On every
side you could Hear the whir of spin-
ning wheels and the sound of hammer-
ing.
They were so busy that 00 one saw
the hunter. No one paid arty atten-
tion when he stopped to light his pipe.
No one noticed the lighted match that
lie flung away,
The match fell on a leaf. The flame
burned to the enol of tine nfMob, then
-it set fire to the leaf.
Now, the leaf hay by n beep of grass,
and the grass lily next Biome stieke,
and the sticks lay beside sonic dry
Mathes, and the dry bushes lay be-
neath some dead trees. If the flame
burner] the loaf, the leaf would light
the glass, and the grass would light
the slicks, and the sticks would light
the 1111.1 bashes, and the dry bushes
\vouid light the' deed trees, and the
deal trees would set the whole forest
_ _ men.
"�ithough the German women are
afire, and all the wood people would sad at heart," she continues, "and al -
die! though they know that this state of
And no one of all the busy wood pee- things cannot continue much longer,
ple saw the burning leaf. Did I say ger theycan only just keg body and
no one? Ah, but one little katy did! soul together ae it is, yet they pre-
no
a weak little katy! And such serve outwardly as good spirits as
a timid little katy! The other katy- possible, and make pitiable efforts to
1' because
afraid to hap very far or to treated well, though I had to starve
high. with the rest.
"The German people are not allowed
to know whet their losses have been.
neer! But there was no one else.iThey know, however, that they have
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So- been colossal,
They can see fcr them -
The little katy hopped upon the selves the maimed and the (Tippled
burning leaf and caught it by the stem.
She spread her wings, acid whizzed in-
dicln is were alwae s laug nag ec be jocular. From first to last I was
she was
climb veryh' 1 Shewasdreadfully
afraid now. Why, her heart knock-
ed so hard that it nearly knocked her
everywhere. They speak of the dead
to the air. Straight over the brook in terms of indefinite millions. There
she flew and dropped the burning leaf h less 'Gott Sts it England' duethe
heard. Perhaps it is partly to
into the water! • the fact that German women who
There were plenty of wood people wrote to prisoners interned in Eng -
who saw that, T can tell you! They land, asking whether they wanted
came crowding out of their houses, anything, received the reply tllz'L the
crying all together: prisoners ie the hands of the British
had all their wants supplied, and the
only grievance they had was that they
wanted something to do, the time
hanging heavily on their hands."
"Did you see the fire fall into the
water? Who found it? Who caught
it? Who put it out?"
My, how the katydidn'ts swelled
with prided Their own little katy
had saved ane forest. Such a fine little
katy! And such a brave little leaty!
All the forest should know. Old and'
young, they found their voices at last.
And they shouted over and over again:
"Katy did! Katy did! Katy did!"
And that is how there came to be
katydids!
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DMow;
The man who snakes the most sat-
isfactory returns out of hogs is the
man who is in hogs all the time, and
only to -the extent that his farm will
New (and Old) Notes.
The new English currency notes are
an improvement on the old in texture,
style, and design. Green and brown
coloring, too, add a lustre to the value
of twenty shilling: , while the repre-
sentation of the House of Commons.
on the notes is a reversion to the time
when Parliament was depicted on
many official documente. There is
nothing really new under the. sun,
however, for current'y notes formed
part of the Chinese motley system be-
fore the year 2097 B.C. They were
known as "flying' or "convenience"
money, Manufactured by the ancient:,
conniently . mulberry tree -and deeigned in green
of thick, coarse paper ---.product of the
For
veOntariocarryfar
mere, the bacon
type of hog is beyond question the
ibis, they would present a quaint no -
type to be produced. That is the type peat•a11ce if planed side by side with
which both the hone and the English the currency notes of A.tl. 11117. In
market calls for, and for this type the. Asiatic Museum at Petrograd one
these markets will pay a premian. treasured currency note of 13139 B.C.
The bog is essentially a by-product is on view. The British Museum has
one specimen of fourteenth-,•entury
menu facture,
1t e n' the Earand a means of turning it
t
valuable account commodities which
would otherwise be largely waste,
such as whey oe skim milk, small po-
tatoe5
,gtin shelled
in the field.
The !tog, like other meat animals, ,i,II amusing story is told ill named
renders it possible to make a double to the days when Mr. Lloyd George
was a young countte solicitor in
Wales. Driving home in his dogcart
one day ho came 10l•ns8 a little Welsh
girl trudging along so wearily that he
offered her a lift. Site accented silent -
Site Wouldn't. '('alk.
profit out of coarse grams -ono pro-
fit in a real "home market" for the
grain itself, and another in the man-
ure produced in feeding,
The bacon type can be produced at
least faa cheaply na the fat. ly. All the way along Mr, Lloyd
For the production ofthick Ilse bacon George tried harsh to engage her in
hype of hog, one finished at 1711toconversation, hut could not get her
too Pounds, hurley is one of the est of
to say enytltin5 more than 'Yen;" or
feeds, and writ! give a greater 514111 ,No."
for the amount of feed used titan ° o.ne days afterwards the little
will 00111; hut barley should i,e 0111011 ghl'r mother happened to meet lain,
with other grate to increase its "Do yon remember that my little girl
palatability, in a goileral way eat drove home with you the other day?"
estop is the best grain for 51'0W1115 she said smilingly. "Well, when elle
hogs, and barley :anti cern and shorts -got home she saki, 'Mamma, I drove
for M215hu1g, liillt in all eases adds from Scheel with 11r, Lloyd George,
-to economy in production, the lawyer, and he kept touting to ire
and 1 didn't know whatever to do fee
it. you 1c11.,w Air, Lloyd George charges
y. 37.01 wheneee'r yeti tall: with him, nail I
Led: '; 1,115 nor,ey:
A1,11nge for. be tell
The nasty chid. tushes Be, wi„iir le
e1'.
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