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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-3-17, Page 2G. D. MeTAGGART M, Mc'TAGGART roe,. IVICTaggart• Bros. 14. GENERAL BANKING BEM - "lugs 'TRANSACTED. OTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUE)), INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES Pull" CHASED. e- a T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY.* ANGER, FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR. 'INCE AGENT, REPRESENT. 1NG 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION cotnrr orsics. CLINTON. eV. 'BRYDONE. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. NOTARY PUBLIC, Erre, Office-- Sloan Block .-CLINTON DR. J. C. GAND1ER Office Hour -1.$0 to 8.80 pap., 7.80 to 9.00 p.m. Sundays 12.30 to 1,30 Other hours by appointment only. Often and Reeldence--Victorbe 21. CHARLES B. HALE, Conveyancer, Notary Pubile„ Commiesioner, Ete. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Iseuer of blarriage Licenses JOURON STREET, -- CLINTON. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Salo Date at. The Ne -Record, Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. Charges moderate and 'metafiction guaranteed. arlineaft4 lase.'eeen ;15.Tr -T11118 'I'ABLE- , Trains will arrive at and depart from (711nton Statiou as follows: li.D.PFALte AND GODER1C1.1 01V. Going east, depart 6,33 a.m. 2.62 p.m. poing West ar. 11.10, di). 11.16 .kt.m. ur. 6.06, dl. 6.47 p.m. 11.18 p.m. LONDON, 11.1.10ON BRUCE thy,. Going South, a r. 0.13, ep. 8.23 a.m. 4.16 p.m., Going North depart 6.40 p.m. 11.07, 11.11 8..1.11. 'Tito McKillop -Fire Inr,urance Company' Bead office, ,,eaforth, Ont. Difteleault t President, Jamea Connolly, Code/etch; yjee,, Jamas Even' s Beachwood; lieceTreasurer, E. Liana sea. teeth. Directors: George IldeCartney, Sea. forth; I). F. aleGrerne Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, eValtoia Wm, lane, S�a. 2ortll 11. BleEtten, Clinton; Roberi Ferries, elarloca; 3elha Bennewelr, Erodhugera Jae. Conntiiiy, 62oderieb.- Agen5b4 Alex Leiters, Clinton; J. vir; 'co, Goderich; Ed. llincluey, 8eaforth; ey, Chesney, Eginonaville; 81, G, Jar: teeth, lirodhagell. Any money .- be paid :a Mar 1.4 raid 10 toltMaiSh CO.. Cliatea. er st Cutt's Grocery, Getterite. Petlies desiri g te select ineurance er trensact ether business will ba erouitatly atteacled 11,1 Otk a/kV/leaden to 'Ley of the aho-vo efficers addressed te their respective post office. 141",s4 v•In, :ea 1.y tho director who nese aciaest the SCSOLk. Clinton News -Record e - Address communications to Aurenemlea 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Incubator Turkeys, releed my first turkeys eight Yeala ago, I had two hens and a tom, One hen did not hatch an egg, the other hatehed 15 and that aroused my enthusieem for turkeys. I lcepe these poults in a coop with eunway for then weeks, feeding hard-boiled eggs, eorneeread and cottage eheese. Thai is -the ceitical age foe poutes and it lot of care given during this age is time well spent. . The next year I kept six hens and one tem. That year I niarIceted 20 hells at 123 eents a pound and 11 cents for the tom and I considered these good prices then. That was in 1913. A few weighed 15 pounds and I thought they were exceptionally large, Every. year since I have been in- creasing my flock. The last two years I have had Duly 22 hens but I usually have only. 20 when laying season Comes, I keep two toms. I parehase, a tom every year and keep each. tom two years only. If I keep a tom long- er than that, my hent 'get weak, the stink weakens, and they do not ,grow to be large and strong. I am a -thor- ough believer in purebred stock. It Pays. When I first commeaeed raising turkeys, I thought that tome weighing 15 pounds and hens 11 pounds were good sized. Now I consider a 13 -pound hen a small -sized one. My toms weigh from 17 to 20 pounds. Does it pay to use purebred. stock? Well, I know it does. I used to consider a tom weigbing 10 pewees at five months of age a good-sized bird, but now, since I ,have a purebred tom, my young toms weigh ten pounds at then months. Last year I paid s20 fora tom. He then weigbed. 83 pounds with empty crop. Now he weighs 42 pounds, My young hens last year weighed 15 pounds. The turkey bens do not *ant to set very early. Scene turkey hens will not eat while they are setting and often they will die from starvation. After setting on the nest four weeks they are often very weak and make poor mothers to talce. care of their small poults. For this reason I use an ineubater. An Incubator holding 160 chicken eggs ,will hold 120 turkey eggs. I leave the eggs in the incubator for tsvo weeks or a few days mere if .necessary to find- the een that will iet. As seen as I notice et hen that wants to set I place her -on a nest with a few china eggs. When I see she is ready to set I take the eggs out of the in- cubator and place them under her and as many hens as are necessary. The hen has only to set two weeks or a few days less. e - Here are three reasons why using an incubator is the best way: 1. The turkey hetes will be in a bet- ier condition to care for their poults. 2. A larger flock coming out of the same age. They remain together and are therefore easier to gather in at night. 8. Eggs will hatch, better because they are fresh, Fresher eggs hatch the best. It is possible to move a hen for set- ting when one wants to. Others may objet to that statement but I know it can be done because I have done it and have succeeded. Just keep the hens shut up for a few days. Teach the baby chicks to eat out of 401.117 hands: Teach them to, hear a certain call and they will always come. 1 had 80 poults-lait spring and when I would call "Peet! Peet!" in the even- ings, if they were in hearing distance, the poults would leave their mothers and come flying toward me, because they knew that cottage cheese was in eteNTON, ONTARIO. erms of subscriptiou-$1.00 per year, in advance to Canadian addresses; nze to the O.% or (Aber foreign countries. No paper discontinued emit ail errears are paid unless at the option of the publisher. Th. slate to alach every eubseriptiea is paid is denoted on the label. . etal vet teeing . ates-lransient *deer. tisements, 10 cents per nonpareil hue for 'first insertion and 5 cant ear lino for each subsequent inner - tion, Small advertisements not to eigeed one inch, oat as "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., insert - td ones fee 85 cents, and each abse. ' gent insertion 16 cents. Communications intended for public!, tion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of ehe writer. G. 18. BALL fd. R. CLARK, Proprietor, Editor. Early Ripening of Oats Valuable. The ripening soon of oats 15 very important. Certain varieties ripen from one to two weeks earlier than others, hone there are specialuees for each class of oata Ae a rule, early oats are somewhat =teller In filze than later ones and finer in straw. They shove more vapid growth throughout the entire season and are reedy to harvest, as we have already said, fully half a month earlier than the later oats. Thee is a great ad- vantage when you plan to have fall wheat follow early oats, The early lapelled oats may be 'harvested and the ground plowed immediately arid 'prepared for the ending 01 the fall wheet. You earl hasten eipening at -eats from ft WW1: to 10 days by fertilizing. This moiler a matinee 'induct vellieh on be harneted early, Early hare Vesting ie opeeially valuable where you plan -fall wheat lel follow early (nag, sle3ebt for them. Then of course tha. mothers would follow and I row )10 trouble in gathering then) in. Turkeys have a roving eispositiera Wheneleying season commences, oae should fie up nests for .the turkeys in e dry place and have the opening to the nest partially bidden from view. In dressing tnekeys, they toe atte- fourth of tbeir :Weight. X dress my turicees ready /or the ovee•ance charge 15 aents more a pound. I have aold as high ite ten at Thauksgiyine fee 40 cente a poend dressed. Pricee were even better lot fall. It .do ee not pay to dose a turkey weighing less than 18 pounds alive. Bringing Capons .to the, Front. • Oaponizing was formerly consider- ed a difficult operation, but now with the improved instruments, which per- mit unobstruceed vielon, with good light 'arta a steady hand, any one 01211 perform the operation, The best time is whenever there is a ,surplas 01 -coelcerels two or three months -old. At the age of four months the cockerel's -mascles begin to toughen, An old rooster does not bring a very high price in market, while a capon will bring the top price, and often will weigh, when full grown, from seven to twelve pounds ateord- g to breed. The purer the breed the larger the capon.' The •old saying "the proof of the pudding is 'in the eating" is surely true of capons. After being eaporemed the combs and wattles seep growing, eapene sel- dom crow, are gentle and peaceful, can be kept with ether ehickens„ or in a separate flock if more convenient. They need no fattening rations until a few weeks before marketing them. When raised on farms, they 'can. pick their feed almost until the snow flies. If a cockerel is eaponized at four months of age or older, there is danger of death from internal bleed- ing, due to separating the testicle from a close lying artery. But if this should happen there need be no loss, its.he is bled to death and ready for the frying pan or for -canning. If he lives he may develop' into a '"elip," which makes hien useless as a breeder and net much better eating than an ,ordinary rooter. "Slips" are unsuc- cessfully caponized cockerels, as the testicles beginte grow again. At seine markets they are quoted at five cots O pound less than capons. When capons are sold for the Christmas trade they are not full grown, and -are cadled "soft roasters." At ten months old they are sold gen- erally between New Year and Easter. Their flesh remalas sweet and tender. Another excellent use that may be made of capons is to have them take care of little chickens. This they do as carefully and tenderly as any hen, or even better; they may be given chickens from aevenal broods and do not object to any of them, wh.ith is not always true with the hen. As a capon is Jaeger and heavier than a hen, and as it -might unintentionally step on a day-old chick, I have found it best to let the hen take care of the young chicks India they are about two weeks old. They can then safely be turned over to the capon, and the ben is free to go about her business of laying eggs. It is claimed that on farms where capons are used as foster -mothers, aawlcs will never have a chance of stealing the chicks. Any large city is a good capon mar- ket. I have had White Leghorres capons that weighed six and one-half pounds each; Rhode Island Reds, eight and one-half pounds; Wyan- dottes alai Plymouth Reeks, nine and one-half pounds. All were less than ' one year cid, and from ordinary stock, Diarrhoea kills more chicks than anything else. I give black pepper ground fine and mixed with mash 'food, I continue its use for several days. Feeding flavor inbo eggs may seem a foolish thing to tette about, but no- thing is mere cure than that eggs may be spoiled er made delicious by quality of food given. Hens cannot lay in the winter un- less their ration contains animal pro- tein needed to make the • whites- of egg's. To supply this, give hens all the milk they can drink daily or feed them meat scrap or tankage as a part of their regular ration. Early feathering and early crow- ing mean early maturity. Early ma- turity means early profits. Always select the cockerels that feather first and then select from them the one that crows first. - The duck intended for market should be fed 071 fat -forming food during the last three weeks of her life. A good ration for this is meat, scrap, one part; wheat beam one part; l wheat middlings, two parts; corn-, meal, three parts -all by weight. Al small ecreeetage of grit and one part green feed should be added, A. simple brooder is thes made and used by a neighbor: A wooden box about four feet square arid a feet high is used, A few holes are :bored ill 0115 side to peovide air, and then a blanket -le stretched over the -top. An earthen jug filled with hot water is plated insiee to provide heat. It is soneetimes neceseary to ofill the jug twice Lk day to keep up the proper terepeeature. The itleubater cellar. . must have thick weals, a double roof anti good ventilation, in order to keep up the propel.' temperature and not to be affected by maiden Changes of weath- er, The vout pare is all that is above ground. No special design, ie needed 120 long as the principles mentioned above are complied with. The euality of the feedets ie the meet valuable 9101130 113 the Whole enfl- ame+ ot feeding. Vies That Will Beautify Your Home Grounds IIY A1NNE. ROBINSON I bee() fennel that fee the home 11 bge4aVudtey"err' two hfeuteheitiCh 12 cbreep,t*fols. UpPrPaleY- tiQtli worth and nee of culture, the many varieties of vines cannot be ex - veiled" end gee too little etalnetaiated. Vines are (leveled into fruit, shade, and floweriner varieties: Tee popular papa and the mileenalin grown hop are Perhaps the most useful of all vines, But for lendscape gardenieg u shade or flowering vine is more de - The Virginia creeper, a hardy, ease llYagreade perennial, is the favorite for *tiding, I have seen this vine trained •alehg axle -ken were, stretched tile length of a porch where it gave a clenee shade from early Spring until autumn. For -grand a beauty, What 'cait Com - peke with the Boston ivy, as it clings to a liriek or stone surface, seeding its .tender new ehooes upWarcl? Children love a 'gourd vine with ite fantastic fruit, and a package, of ed seed planted along the beck fenee will furnish safe entertahanent on Mother's busy mailings. The dainty clematis, wistaria, cinnamon vine, and honeysuckle Me perennials ;possessing a sweet fragrance and charm which defies description. For neatness, though, the annuals are best, as they ean be taken down when dead, and variety can be had by using different kinds each season. Most people think of morning glories when a -back porch screen is mention- ed, And morning glories are well worth thinking of, with their differ- ent shades of pale pink or deep rose and the deep clear blue which re- sembles a ,bluebird's wing. The moon - flower belongs to this family, al- though it is like the new baby who gets his days 'and night; turned about, These magnificent flowers die not open until sundown, and by the time day morning glories are opening they are closing. They are larger than the conventional day -bloomers, and' more fragrant. The Experimental Farms System. Remark has several • times been made in Parliament and • elsewhere that the splendid work performed by the Experimental Farms- System of Canada is not nearly so widely known and appreciated as it should be. In The Agricultural Gazette of Canada there appears 511 outline of the sys- tem ane the tasks in which it is en- gaged, The Central •Experimental Farm at Ottawa is the headquarters of the twenty branch or auxiliary farms and stations. 21 15 stated that thee is one farm in each of the provincee of Prille.1' Edward Island, New Brunswick and Ontario, two in Nova Scotia, four in, Quebec, two in Manitoba, three en Saskatchewan, two in Alberta and four in Britieh Columbia. There are also two sub-' stations in Alberta, two in the Yukon and one in British Colurabia. In ad- dition, working with the system are 'tobaceo seething at Earn -ham, Que., and Hallow, Ont. At all of these experimental and research work of national importance 10 carried on. Mighty illustration or clemonsteation -stations have also been esthblished in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, •Abberta, and Saskatchewan. Each branch of agriculture is dealt with in actual experiment, and the -results are made public througleethe .press and by means of addresses, clernonsteations, and exhibitIn sh-ort every effeet is made to encoure age, advance and benefit agriculture, the basic indiestry of the country. Clean tows contribute to cleanli- ness of illk. With a etiff brusli one man can sufficiently groom two caws a minute, • If a currycemb is used, take one on which the potties have been worn down, so they -Will net be too ievere en the -cows, The Meg eves in the parlor, Dreadful short of money; The queen was, geoWing everetout Flom eating breed and leoney. For too much bread and honey IS bad for kinge and (amens) They should this° more even trtick So, rieli in vithininee, The butterfly Pee, flowering bean, tend the eanary and cyPreee Ville$ are beautiful and uneoal, ap(1 net so well known, -•• Bet eor goigeolie display ewe 010.941 fregrant -flowers nothing that I know ean equal climbing nesturthans, They generally l'Ofta 12 heigh ef six facia Etna aee covered all sweatier with 'bright, spicy -smelling blossoms 01 red, pink, lemma and mange, They furnish en abundant source of eupply for honeybees, and are ,at their beet if the blossoms gren`kepe picked, Sweee peee 'are also useful. 101, love aeeerettleg, and are fine 'fon cutting. I gee 'most satisfaelory results by planting the nfixed seed. Queen of -all climbers ie the rose. Single varieties -come in white, pink, y,e1.10w teed crinison. A new Sbre is advertised which is guaranteed to bloom all summer. This seems almost too good to be true. However, baby ramblers in my own garden bloomed for over a -month last . spring. A toabinent o foal °leer and many waterings were perhaps the secret of their long- season. On account •of ehorns, climbing lone an not Se good when grown by the porch. Their place is tee the side of the house, and where they get plenty of moraine sun. ' A rose arbor is a noel arrange- ment that can be developed in two or three seasons by starting plants at intervals around the framework. When in *bloom, a more beautiful spot canna be found. To add. to the charm, if indeed more charm be needed, plant nasturtiums between the plants, and let them uo the rosebuelies as a trellis. And what was on-ce a rose alto will be a nasturtium mibor. If you like a riot ef color, add a few blue morning glories. A trellis of pink ramblers grows near my kitchen window where I can admire them at any time during the day. Especially during ea -wind atom do,I enjoy them, a.s they sway in long graceful reaches and seem to defy the elements. 1. TOPICS IN SEASON Currycombs s-hould be working overtime at this season of the year. Heavy -coated horses should always be elippece when the shedding begins. Running water in the home -al- ways in season.. ' 'Stumps make good fuel. Pull 'eni 017 blast 'elm Paint puts a different face on fartn buildings and implements. In buying new harness get the kind that will wear longest and need few- est repairs. Hard water will tom scale in the boiler of het water -heating plants. Get rid of the trouble with a good scale destroyer. There was a time whell locks and bars were not needed, but no more. Put good locks on the house, granary; basement, hen house and garage. The 5ttorri season will on be here. Are your farm Ibuildtings equilmed with lightning rods? Better see ebout it. Also, take out insurance against lightning and tornado losses. Bind logs well an the sled or wagon When hauling wood in poles. Many a bad accident has been caused by a wooden upright giving way. Upee a strong •thain or load binder. Steers wintered mainly on silage will go out on grass in the spring and suffer practically no loss in weight when the change is made. Those which have been carried through the winter on .grain will lase when 'placed on spring pasture be. cause of the watery coral:Rion of the grass. Another good boot for a silo. Tell the truth in advertising. The most important thing to be learned by the man on the farm who has something to advertise is the knack of describing his goods accurately, in- ste-ad of making general claims such as "best," "selected stock," etc. Gen- eral claims do not interest the reader, whereas actual :details make the read- er see the product, in his imagination. Letters and circulars used in answer- ing inquiries should give full details -pedigrees, guarantees, qualities, how payment ie required,neethod of shipping. Why not call the "movies" to your aid in selling? • Have a slide made showing your firm, its stock or the dairy, . Arrange. With the local Move engept-etuie house in your nearest town to show this between pictures, and you will find many eustomen will be attracted by this novel means of publicity. A geed slide would be a berry patcb, or a corn -field, with the pride of corn or iberries. A "tican?" could be arranged by having a box at the door over which a sign is placed read‘ing: "Shall we send you a mace list of our farm products delivered -to your deer?" This is the time oil the year when some sort of coetrivante, either rub- ber boots or an overhead cable, should be mod to get the cows 10 anel out of the stable. Maly of you have seen a cow lift her head As high as she could, tevist her tail three kinks high- & than het back and wade through a barnyard too dirty for any animal except a crane or n stork to go theough, The cow does this While the 01211101, 00 the hired man 'climbs along the eine of the barn trying to get to the been without being mired him - tele. When the cow goat in the bath, and whet the mate gets ready to milk, the cow has a mud -encased mitten and 12 the heir on the udder is long and the man has to milk shortly after the tow has gone into the barn, he has one unpleaeant time, Poesibly tilis ie atother place evhcre a milking pachine is cleaner than hand milking. How a person can cx,pect to enjoy milk produced under these conditions, or hotv lie on have nerve enough to sell it 'for Ittiman consumption, 18 0110 of the things to be wondered at. The remedy? Pave the bon lot, or get rubber -boots eor the owe, , leniteltig amps by drainage. There •••••••••••1•••••1.1101.1.1•MMII, cern be no question that by draining land that is slow in drying off in, the -spring we may be able to get on it from two to -three weeks earlier than we otherwise •could. Not wily that, but the crops we get will be far bet- ter than we could expect from heavy *soil. It -does not take meny crops to get back the money spent in drain- ing. The field which has been drained will not need more than half so much -cultivation as one that is not drained. Another argument in favor of drain- age is that it 'advances maturity of crops two or three weeks, often a matter of great importance when frost comes early. Yoe- can prove that hay, oats, barley, peas end ceem will make twice as heavy a growth by Slay 1 on the same foam 'by commie •ing results eicle by side on drained and undrained land, The old saying holds good: "Seeing is believing." Farmers may be misled through the statements ef seed dealers in regard to mixed seeds. As an illustration a sample labelled "mixed alsilce and timothy," when analyzed -contained eighty per cent, timothy, ten ,per cent: alsike• and ten per tent. impurities. Ordinarily when alsike and timothy are sown in a mixture there should be approximately fifty per cent. of each seed. Another Ample, marked "mixed red doer and timothy," ebowed ninety-one per cent. timothy and five per cent. red elover with four per cent. impurities. White sweet clover (hulled) showed fifty-five per cern. good seed, terenty-seven per cent. shriveled and the 1'01110115de im- purities. To be absolutely sure, send a sample cif the seed to your provin- cial college for examination. --a-- What Fertilizers Are. Fertilizers are prepared plantfoods, just like malted milk is prepared human feed. Fertilizers are made from blood, tankege, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, cyanamid, bone, acidulated ground phosphate rock and salts of potash. They are scientifically prepared under chemical control, and the per- centage of plarafood they carry is guaranteed under the Dominion fertil- feet, law. " The analysis ef the fertilizer refers to the amount of the plantfeed con- stituents that are found in the fertil- izers. These constituents are am- monia (nitrogen) --the stalk grower; phosphoric 'acid -the plant ripener, and, potash -the plent strengthener and starth former. For average gar- dens it is well to use fertilizers carry- ing 3 to 6 per cent: ammonia, 8 to 12 per cent. phoepherie acid and 3 to 6 per cent. potash. " You can buy fertilizes from fertil- • izer manufacturers, seed houses, de- partment stores, florists, hardware stores, general stores, etc. After the seed bed is well prepared, stetter one-half the amount of fettle, izer over the ground before planting. Rake it well into the Oil. When ready to plant, make your farrowe end scatter the remajeder of the fertilizer ilg'ntly in the furrow. Rake 0 light covering of fine noil over the fortilimer before dropping the seethe 'or setting bulbs, or plants. . Now s & Time to Thorea Still Time to DO Your Winter Spraying, itrulvteltir'ers1"07 ytehr !Zeno titota.0-14.YefetWe tea, ogre of therm Emit lige fl aeCitiefl adYftttigtg0 over vegetable ms ope in that Oven e 55221311 52321911215 gen be henclled and 00h1 t/e 21 profile, provided i0ie of good quality. Foe many years, ein-ce we reelly learned totakecare of our few dozo frueasiictet oeeeif.'ineVi ebT t, eataier WiZedwe "pear:, intlfortel wben we took the titti. tub that there was not enough fade on our piece "to tether with," we sel- dom lied enough for our own needs, and that was So pot that it hardly Paid to 'try to save it. The most importent• thing we •did to e0 or fruit trees to produce, after many yeare of neglect, was to give them ft thorough cleaning tip for scale. The coanty reproentative de- monetrated on some trees belonging to a neighbor, and the results were 50 astoniehing that we decided it would pay us really to look after our own tree, Fortunately, the San eose Seale, which is the worst enemy of tree f ruits, and attacks them alt, can be absolutely put out of business by winter spraying. Oyster -shell scale and •blister mite will also be cleaned up ,at the same time. We never did any epraying against inseets or dis- eases that gave us such 'complete and satisfactory results as winter spray- ing has. Anyone ean be successful with win- ter spraying who will -do the wok thoroughly. But every bit of the sur- face of trunks and branches must be covered, because the spray, in order to work, must form a thin coating aver scales and eggs. Every insect must be touched. - The two standard sprays for winter use are lime -sulphur and miscible oil. While either tan be mixed at home, we havefound it much more setise factory, and in the enda cheaper, to use a ready -prepared spray. It might be different if we had a big orchard. We have used both the lime -sulphur and the oil sprays, and have found that the latter gives just as good re- sults, and is much more comfortablu to spray with. A miscible oil is one that mixes With water. The prepara- tion we use, which is made esp.eaially for winter spraying, needs only to be stirred in- col -d water; one quart of spray to four gallons of water, and it is ready to use on any kind of emit 4*IitO have used several kinds of spraying equipment, and the net re- sult of oar experience has been that Ft portable, hand -lever pump is the 'best thing to get for 0 small home oreherd. The small hand -power com- pressed air sprayers do not give pres- sure enough for -practical tree work, in spite of many advertising claims to the contrary. There is a new type of double-acting telescope pump that gives excellent pressure, and can be used with a bucket or a "knapsack" trees, It is also all right fora few On the who* if there are a seore or more •of good-sized trees in your orchard it will be best to try to ar- range with someone who has a regu- lar power malle, to spray them for you. Squab Raising for Profit. Pigeons are a common sight en the average farm. Likewise, RS common- ly kept, they are a 50111 1110U source of annoyance and waste. They -do not return any appreciable sum to the farm income., and the damage they do to farm and garden crops, ;both in the field and after harvesting, more than offsets any advantage derived from them. Full many a ton of good hay has been lost by allowing pigeons to roost in the haymow. Confined to a house of their own, or a corner ef the poultry house, and given intelligent and systematic handling, the farm flock of pigeons can be changed from a source of waste and treuble, to a source of in- come which will more than repay one. One farm boy, who heard that his father was going "to get rid of the pigeons" set up such a racket that he finally secured permissien to keep the pigeon flock provided be kept them shut up and out of the barn. The indulgent father doubtless thought that the boy would soon tire of them. But not this boy! He renovated one corner of the poultry house which had been little used for several sea- sons. He put in 12 partition from the rot of the house, took out the drop- ping boards and -in their place built nest boxes against the rear wall, He also •built a small covered fly -way in -front of the pen for the pigeons, He had heard something about there be- ing" money in liaising squabs, so he determined to try to make some profit out of them. He soon found that the common • farm variety of pigeoes were infer- ior squab praducees. So he purchased Lk few pairs of mated Homers whech had been bred especially for size and PrAbinifidc tyeebdolngis earning almost, as much from his equities as his sister is earning from ho pen of petatey, The svelte are killed at four week.; of flee ined are shipped, dressed, to a city -commie:ace merchant. The price received per acizeu depends aeon size and quality of flub. Some shipments Test seed -corn. Treat seed -oats for mut before drilling, • Sot hens. Eleven eggs eve enegh -for an early •Setting. Put up lightning -rods, and take out. fire insurance. Provide dependable fire -fighting ape paroles for your farm home. Kill grabs he Intake of cattle, Squeeze out the grubs and kill theta, or equirt tome keresne -Min the hole at the top of eitele lamp. Use a sInall eil-ean, • Ixave your son'a geed reputation and employment. If you have been able to- afford a elle fee yam+ eerie, you Are 'ready, net', to efferci a bathroom end a teTtleelmelneewrieeedieeeset eyetetee SPRING AILMENTS Believed 3»' A eYell-lenown Medletne ef Sueerlative Molt, $13einel eihnente awe am) to an MI,. pure, impoverished, devitalized con- dition of the blood. Among them aro phnpies' belle and other eruptione less ofappe- tite, that Heed feeling, it run. dawn eondition of the system, and sometimes cltronie wealtiaesSeS Made worse. Ilood'a Sarsaparilla combines the roots, balks, herbe, berries and tith- er medieinals that have been found, in many yeers of intelligeat °bee-r- eale/I, et) be most effeetive in the treetment bee these ailments, Successtal peysielans prescribe theSe ingredients Cor disease$ of the blood, stomach, liver and kidneye, i and n (macs where alterative and toeic effects are needed. Homers Sarsaparilla is the spring medicine that purifies, enriches and revitalizes your blood, increasing power of resistance to disease. For a laxative take Hood's Pills. doing the pest year have brought him el. each for hie squabs, Less equipment is needed for a pen of pigeons than fo a pen of fowls, A pen 8x9 feet in size will accommo- date twenty-five pairs of pigeons, As many as seventy-five pairs can be kept in a single -pen to advantage. Nest partitions must be provided, usually two nests to each pair and some breeders allow three, Just 123 soon as the squabs In one nest are well feathered, the parents often start anothee nest. Perches aro nailed against the side walls. Theo are merely small pegs stuck in the wall or inverted V-shaped perches made from small straps of lumber. Long perches across the pen are to be avoided, as the pigeons must have unobstructed flying nein. Tuning ithe Tractor. With passing along the road ore day lag spring I heard the "popping" of a tractor, over in Smith's barn-ict, It was yet too early in the 'season for active farming operations and I grew envious enough to go over . and sc.?, what he was .cloing. • "I'm tuning her up for the spring plowing," he informed me. I noticed the smooth easy -running, ,engine. "She seems to be in tune now," I remarked.. "Yes," said Smith, "but rye spent the forenoon in getting the result. I found three lo -o -se tape, 1111:1 A mixtere of dirty oil and boxing cuttings the engine. After that was remedied, I located a rough spot in the cylinder." I watched while be 1215111 carefully over the tractor. He tested eacb tap with a wreneh, oiled the bearings and mopped out the grease tulle with a nose elobh. He found a twieted reel, and removed it. "I'll gab this- fixed to -night," he raid. "It's net serious, but some day whey. I am bus -y it will 'bnealc, anises it ie remedied." Afterward Smith explain- ed his plan. "Each epring,• before the eroaping season comes on, 1 take a day off to tune up my tractor. In spite of good rare, some rust is sure to gather, mut such pla-ces usually •cause nimble later on. Grease a.nd all whicii was net re - 1 move,d in the autumn will become ',hard and troublesome, Then, too, , slight breaks occur during th-e sum- mer, and were *probably forgettee. This tuning day brings each one of these defects out. I previde myself with an ma -traction book, a wrench, 1 Oiler, and several strips of sandpaper, '2 atart the engine -and lieten. I have trai-ned my ear to observe the :mune of the motor. If there 05 a "knock" I begin with the rings and cylinder. If the -explosions are muffled, or eemed (lead, I look for filth, dirty oil or rot. Sometimes smooth bearings d-evelop rough spots, these should be noted arta rep -aired at ence. "I notice when the maehlre rattles, it is a sure zign of loose belts or hood. Leos -e chains will .also came the trouble. Sometimee, when the meter does net pick up as it should, I rule kermene oil through the bearing e112' - faces. This cats 110203' rest and cleans out filth. "If there is trouble which I bla net understhied, I stop and etudy the eia• gram of the machine, in my Metier- tien book. I trace eael part and learn what work it p,erforms. In many nen I can lecate the trouble witheut toe- ing the Whole rig apart. Another thing," Smith cautioned, "When erae• tors leek old because they are not 'painted, I find it 11 good plan to peel my machine a coat of good paint ,?....w1.1 seasen." • Nearly everyone has ripeing, tearing headaches at tunas, Diiordored atom- ach-aluzgish liver does it. Cheer sip I hero', the real relief -Chamberlain's Stotunoh and Liver Tablets. They Pot the stomach and bowed right. 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