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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-7-7, Page 20, P. MeTAGGART r4, D, MeTADGAWI' McTaggart Eros. 4 sg.--BANKETIS-- A GENERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS TRANSACTED, 4,, NOTES DISCOUNTED, 'DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- BQ SITS. SALE el OT,ES PUB- ° CHASED. — If. T, 'RANCE NOTARY PURIM, CONVEY. A NCElt, FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE AND FIRE "INSDB- NCB AGENT. RE1'RESENT- '1NG 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMFANITilS, DIVISION COURT OFFICE• , CLINTON. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLSCITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC. ETC. Orace-- Sloan Block —CLINTON DR. J. C. GANWER • °Ince lours: -1.20 to 9.30 p.m., 7.30 to 9.00 pen. Sundays 12.80 to 1.20 D.m. Other hours by appointment only. OKMe and Residence --Victoria S. SCULLARD Dffiee in. Dr. Smith' i old stand, Main Street, Bayfield. Office Hours: 1 to 5 and 7' to 9 p.m. Phone No. 21 one62.4. G. S. ATKINSON, D.D.S., L.D.S. (Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons and Toronto University.) Dental Surgeon Has effice hours at BayfleId in old Post Office Building, Monday, Wed- needay, Fridayand Saturday from 1 M 5.30 pan. CHARLES It. HALE. Conveyancer, Notary 'Public. Commission, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses DURO laa' STREET, — CLINTON. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed' Abctioncer for the County ' of Duren. Correspondence promptly matvered. Itninediata arrangements can be inacto for Sales bate at The Ne ws- Record; CI inton, or by calling Phone 203: Charges ' Moderate and satisfaction. guaranteed, • 0,•?* -T, —TIM TABLE— Trains• will arrive at and depart freini Clinton•Station •ita 10noWil: BUIP14'AL,0 AND DC/WM/CH DIV. Going east, depart 6.28 a.m. " 2.58 pga. Going West ar. 11.10, dp, 11.15 a.m. •" al% 6.08, dp. 6,47 P.m. 64 ". 10.03 p.m. LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV. Goma South, ar. 8,23, dp. 8.23 a.m. 4.16 Wit Going North 'departs', Cie 'pm. 11.07, 11.11 a.m. Ilutuai Fie.Insnranoo Company .4eesi office,. Sealorth, Ont. • u Aix • tremetta....11172413 Connolly, Godirlelf Vice., Jamas EVane1Meac1.11,fecoal Sec. -Treasurer, .Thoe. 51:. SlaYs. forth. Directors: George McCartney, Rea - forth; 1); , ,pigGreg• r, Seaforth;.1. LrIeve, Walton; Am, Rawl, Sea- %, rth ; M,iicEtt en, Clinton; Rotten O erries, • I 1 a rioca ; John itennoweir. Lrodhsagdii;1 a. Conr.al.y, doderica. Alen Leitch, Clinton; J. W. ,1 co, f.;oderich; Ea. flinch:ay; Seaforth; 1:heeney. Eamonii7ille; kt. jsz. k,ut,h Brodhagen. /.14 money • be pald :a may he 1001 1.0 Moorish C1t.th,.:4„ Co., Cliatock t I bo Claes Crocery, Goderic.b. Patties des:ci g to sleet insurance • 0 gansact ether busieess gle rromptly atteac:ed tJ on application to 1.y ef the motet ethcera at:dreamed L. their respective post °Mc.). Losees tett the director who uyei nt the'sCogth. • Clinton News,- Record CLINTON, ONTARIO, • Terms of sunsorlption—$2.00 per Year, in advance to Caziadiall addresses; *2,50 to the U.S. or ether foreign , countries. No paper discontinued . until all arrears are paid unless' at the option of the publisher. The • it to to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. eke% Lensing ,lits—Transient advor. tisements, 10 cents per moripareil, line for first insertion and 6 cents' per line for'each subsequent Inser- tion, Smell advertisements not to • reeeed one inch, such as "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., insert- ed once for 35 cents, and each subs& quent insertion 15 cents. *Communications intenaed for publics,. Cori Must, as a guarantee of good faith, bo acconipanied by the FISILIlth the writer. G. la HALL, M. R. CLARK. Proprietor. Rae& Half the value, perhaps more, cif a pore -bred lies in having the animal regiatered. If you don't believe it, keep year eyes open when you attend public sales, The pure-bred that isn't rogietemed sella or much lees then the registored ordinal. Grain is net needed to make first - close tattles if an ribundanee of gond pasture is provided. Cheap at COM 18 !Alla veer, thongin n little Coen may be profitably fed. Rape le 4 Valliabte pasture trap for kirks. • Adoroso-oommoolootion.o to Avoouiroot, 3 Adelaide St. Wept, Teronte • Grass and Clover Mixtures. • 111 is,rge aeatioas Qf Easteen Canaan, the linporiguitte of wellebalanced prase and dome mixture's'' particularly foe pastures, is' nob yet clearly realized. If it were, the commonly used mix - three 'cihresisting of timotby and red elover or timothy, rd clover and al - sake 'would be Seen lese often thap le new, the cage. These mixtures may yield, the amr after they are sown, one or two erops of hay composed largely of clover; the following year or years tih,e hay mops secured will consist almost e elusively of tiniothy. As' timothy, however, produces a rather seant and slow-growing aftermath, it foliewe that fields sown to tioners -and time othy and harveeted for hay furnish a paeturee.after the hay crop has been taken off, bhat becomes nomparatively poor, both in quality and eeterns, as soon as the clover has disappeared. For this and other reasons it pays well to add a few other grasses and also other clovers of a persisting na- ture to the ordinary timothy and clover mixtures. On land of normal fertility a clover and timothy mix- ture, sown primarily foe hay in a ro- tation will prOduce more hay if a lit- tle meadow fescue and perhaps elm orchard grass ere added. On account of their rapid growth after •cutting, the latter greases also help a field to produce mem pasture after the hay crop has been removed,. The same emetic:, also to other greases, known as bottom grasses, web as Kentucky Blue grass, Red Top, and other, and also to White Dutch eleven For permanent pastures it is of still greater importance that the mixtures Sown contain a variety of grasses and clovers. It is obvious that the most valuable permanent pastures are thoee whieh provide green pastumage from the early epringemtil late in the fall. Under the -circumstances it is equally obvious that the most valuable mix- tures for permanent pastures are those which contain early as well as medium late and late pasture plants. This is a point that is too often overlooked in Eastern Canada, It is not se in Europe, where the great value or pastures of proper composi- tion is being moee appreciated and where, as ingortsequence, pasture mix- tures holding ten or more grasses and clovers are cammion. As an example may be mentioned that Sutton & Sons, Reading, England, recomm.end, among, others, a mixture "specially adapted to produce the most profitable crops! four to six years grazing or mowing", whieh •contains seventeen different grasses and clovers, and for perman- ent pastures on medium soils a mix - tore which consists of not less than twenty-one different posture plants. It is inmoesible in, a whort article to discuss what particular. grassea and clovers ought to be reco.mmended as additions to. the timothy and clover mixtures now commonly used, as dif- ferent rates and eorthinatione of quilt° a varied nature are required for dif- terent soil and climatic. conditions. Furthermore, such a diseussion 1'5 out- side the scope of this article, the ob- ject of whieh is sienplar to empha.size the advantage of including a greater number of grasses and elovess in mix= tures then is now the case. I:tinder the Miele nein() of "geeen duke." 'Usually Where there is a (le- mma for this 'cage of decks they will 1)rllb4PiIelbtatt Eegs ierten,Itteesgead Ithe Mat lef praduetion is meterialla • less, . s Rotor,—Ip elate of the number that eat sell broilers the bulk of the mckerels will- be soad aa roasters -weighing freest 4afato 13 pounds in the feta In disposing of roasters it pays to crate feed, The lest pound ol flesn is the. cheapest port a the -whole car - 0853 and enhances the value of the entire bird. Do not dispose of Any class of poultry stoelt without special feeding; and for the larger ,cockeeets, especially, the mete feeding system is best. Tuelters and Geese.—Geese are be - corning more popular each year and (leserve more attention on the aver- age farm than they have received. The grass feeding habit of the game is at added reason for goose flesh being one of thee cheeast poultry meat pro- duced. Turkeys oontinue to he our highest priced poultry flesh and rib doubt will maintain this Position for some tinie, foe the ravages of blackhead each year:seem to make it harder to pro - dame -turkeys. In marketing turkeys anima mem than any other class of poultry meat, it is essential that they be well-fed. Turkeys cannot be too fat and in disposing of them keep in mind that turkeys are ueed for festi- val occasions. Have them • ready, therefore, in plenty of time for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and do not leave the marketing of them too near the time at which they' are re- quired for eating. - • , For further detail,- write the Poul- try Division, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont., -for their bulletin No. 88, "Preparing Poultry Produce for Market." Marketing the Surplus Stock, Eistribute the sale of market birds over as many of the twelve months as possible. Sell when the price is gond and the bards ready. As tar as pos- sible, get out of the -habit of market- ing everything in the fall of the year. Whtch the markets and have your birds ready when you can get the priceS. Hene.—The best prices are received for hens in the spring of the year. A good plan is to cull out all the.hens you do not intend to keep over for breeding purposes another year and sell as 56011 as the egg Yield drops; This will occur after the breeding sea- son is over and usually- along about the lst of July for the poorer ones, the better layers a little bit later. Whether th.ese bird's should be kill- ed before selling will depend upon the demands In some large cities a bet- tor price is paid for the live bird than for the dressed. The kitting, there- fore, will aepend upon the prices paid. Which Hens to alarket.—When toap nesting is followed the matter is simple, for the non -producers can be pecked out at any time. Where trap - •nests are not used the eelection is made much mere --emyeraent if leg bands are used to clistinguieh the hens from the pullets, and th,e early -laying pullets from the later ones. With them marks the hens and the low- produemg pullets can be disposed of. The aim should be to keep over the, summer months only the 'birds that! are paying -Well for theie keep, and' that are to be kept for breeding ,pur- poses the next spring. In the oaee of Leghorns or other light breed's, it may pay to keep all. ,pullets over the summer, but this must be determined by the number oa eggs they are laying 55 soon after their egg emanation oomes below their mst of keep even Lee -erns should be dispbeed Broilers.—Broilers are chackens weighing not ever four to five pounds to the pair. In recent yeara the de- mand ard the prices have risen for brollers and now for those who ate close to a good broiler market it pays to sell thole cockerels as broilers rather than held them until fan aid 80111 the as rosters. it is a good plan, therefore, to get rid oa as many cockerels as you intend to sell, during the broiler stege, if the price available at that time Maass it worth evhile, and meetly it does. The selling of broilers at this thee of the year Ott,P8 down on the feed hill, and leaVes more MOM for the pellets to Mature, Duelts,—The only Hine to sell mar- ket deselte le When they axe -about ten We -eke ef age, Mel. oan be trietiteted Preparing for the Next ,laamb Crop. Successful sheep husbandry re pur• es careful preparation lor the next lamb crop. It matters little what time ef the year it is, whether the eeves are just bred, the lambs just weaned or the lamb crop jest duo, preparation for the next crop should be kept in mind. So time is more important than during the previous lambing sea- son. At that time notes and records, should be kept of all important items regarding the behavior of the ewes, the number of lambs each raises gad whether they are good mothers or not. whether their udders are healthy and well-balanced, or eny other valuable notes of this kind. Any ewe that does not successfully raise her offspring shou/d be culled rather than re -bred. Great care should be exercised in the gelectrion of the ram to be used. He should be a typical, uniform; good- sized, purebred animai, full of vigor, actiee, and in good bloom. It is wonderful the influence a ram may have upon the offsprin:g of a fleck of ordinary ewes. The selection of the ewes is also a very important feature in eonneebion with the lamb crop. This selection may be done when the previous lambs are weened and ,again at 'breeding tlina, The shepherd has in maid at this time uniformity in type. The more uniform in appearance the ewes are, the mere uniformity will be shown in the offspring and hence the better the prices to be obtain.ecLwhen marketing time arrives. Nothing at- tracts the buyers like upiformity net mai in. good condition, ;but in size, age, appearance and type. The ewes teeth should be examined and if any defects are found the ewes .should be culled. As a rule ewes are not profit- able for breeding after they pees five years of age. Not Only should severe culling be done to the mature ewes but careful selection should be mac- ticed in choosing future breeding ewes for the lamb crop, always being careful to retain those as near the ideal type as possible, Too much emphasis cannot he laid upon the cul- ling process. After the culling and selection work has been completed the ewes are pre- pared for breed.ing. They must be well fed and put in good- condition but not overfat. As the breeding time ap- proaches they should be flushed 011 some geed, green, succalent pasture. As many as possible ehould be bred -at the same time so that the lambs ar- rive in a group and the lambing period will not then be speead over a long period, Which is objectionable. % As the lambing period draws near the shepherd appreciates the fact that his busy time ie approaching. He looks to the increased ccenfort of his flock. If the larnha Atre to be Imen in the baen,s the buildings are thoreughay cleaned. and disinfected; hurdles' lamb -creeps, feeding mica, disinfec- tants, record -books, docking and ease trating tools are all put in readiness for the ;coming harvest, which will represent +his profits on the Inesinese. A rub -down after the day's work is appreciated by the horse. • War-61)1es are detrimental to theifti- nese, as well as to the 'hide of the animal. Every g,rub sgaeezed out and cleetroyecl is one lees to matter° and propagate its +epeeiee. 04 DACil E ! Nearly e ve ry one ,-har cippitegotearlascheadaehee • at times. Cleorderedatern. • nth—gunk& liver does It. • Cheer tip here,the real relief --Ch alu b ort alrl'e Steensch and Liver Tablets. Thor put the stomach and towels right. 5.11crustiets. brroad frabi Chamberlain NIcalicine Co., Toren& HAMBERLA1N'S 0TABLETS 1 1 Contraing Rab4it DisPase$. ' In its natural enviroteleset orebbit wial leave 4 herroW hrteeh heal/ .fer a home and it will Mtge a range over plenty of territory and a, cleanse aeleet a wide variety oa food. When rabbits are kept la confinement 'in the meal type 02 hutch, each breeellog rabbit has A rano consisting of twelve square feet of board floor, It 'is evident that much attoetion must - be given to rabbits In 'britches el: they Cermet lee expected totholve. Many rebbit breeders have started 01.11; with pleety of enthnelasm and geocl breeding' stecke uoly tI delft gradually eut of business avith the death of the Bret rabbit from disease: Often before .the tut. rebbit dies it will be bumping its hea' ageinst the ton ef the leuteli because of the ace gen-111111410n of manure on the floor. Rabbit hatchet eh-ould be 'cleaned eversefew days and then sprayed with one of the emximercial coal tar dein.. fectents. This destroys disease gnats and gives the hutches a more agree- able odor, Thes.e.almead be e singles of hutehes se that some oa them.cen be empty at Certain times. The empty hutches can be placed wide open in the sunshine. This helps to disinfect the hetet end gives the hunber. claim to beeeme thoroughly dry. I believe that the hutch lam of raiseng rabbits is zilch an unnatural environment that it will pay rabbit beeedees to have a few fenced pleb in whiM the breeding stock can often be placed for exercise. It gives them a chance to get their feet on the ground end this seeine beneficial for all kinds of animals. The yards can be enclosed with strong wire aid a treech can be du,g around the outside and filIM with stone or any material that will keep pests front digging in and the rabbits from digging out. Of cottage, the hutches will still be necessary but the yards will be used as exercise runs in evinch the breed- ing stock ea,n be placed in turn. It will improve their vigoi and aelp in keeping down -disease. One success- ful breeder has such a system of yards on welh.chetined, soil end the -rabbits have es -deep .buerow in the ground an each yeed. They seem to enjoy the chance of retuaming to conditione more or less natural and 'present the owner with large litters of husky young rabbits, Siek nrhbits can somethnes bc cured but the best method is to keep them free from disease. If doctowing bee comes a. conatant practice in a rab- bitejr it means that something is wrong with the breeding stock *1 the sygtern of management and prompt measures must be taken Or the losses will be large. Rancid butter can be sweetened by washing in lime -water and rinsing in clear, cokl water or by soaking in water to which a handful of bicarbon- ate of soda has been added. Then wash in sweet milk. Butter will remain fresh longer if put in a creek contain- ing charcoal. At no time of the yeer detect clean- linese count for more in the poultry beeinese then during Wenn Weather. POWIS kept M eloeed, stilling, Sleeping quaeters (gimlet be in a 'really heelthy eon -0410a, or give troy goad reearne. It would be -much better to haee the windows rennaied- from the poultry home, t* have them elemed 8111 oto - el ovvay 111 mine place 'wage thee could Pot ae dadeaged untaa needed agaise arld 'pieces of wiee Detting put in the place of eln.e wiedoese, This will keep out any vermin and at the -same time allow more fresh air for the fowls, Many of the 1ome3 amens adult fowls in the sultamer seaSen are the result of unh.ealtay roosting quar- ters, The poultry houee should be thee - ()uglily .cleaned. Give the reoste good e.c+at of kerosene or some liquid lice killer, clean mit the nests and burn the old nesting material, then gave the nests e theigegh white -wash- ing inside an -d met, leeving them to dry In the eun for a While, A thorough spraying witle whitewash of th,e whole interior of the house wiN malce the place mere genitery. If the floors -are of earth,' remove a few inches of the top soil and Mplece with merle fresh sandy soil: If they are of wool or 'cement, scrape and sweep them clean, then wish with a fairly .strong dis- infecting soluble's. +Sunshine, ceartin- ed with freeh air, ats one of the b -est germ destroyers we have, but it is possible to have too much sun for the fowls if some Idled of shade is not provided in very WATITI weather, to be used when neadal. Colony houses scattered through an orebard make a very desirable place for fowls or growing chickens. Al- ways provide plenty of pure drinking water in clean pans aid keep it is a sheltered plate, out of the sun. 13e Osee the adult birds are 'not too heavtly fed, especially on corn or buckwheat' or any of the fat -producing foods. Select the fowls that you do not in- tend to hold over for another breed- ing season and sell them early while the price is high and 'while they are in. good -condition,before they com- melees to moult. es The -fowls "Midi are to be kept over asebreeders, and also growing chick- ens intended for stock birds, should be given liberal range. Fre range where there is an abtin. dance of green food and animal food in the form of insects, wanes, ets., to be had, is very essential to th.e best growth, health, vigor and vitality in stock intended for either -breeding or laying purposes. It has been figured eel; that the loss in 'bruised hogs ameents to hall a tent a pound of meat for each -animal marketed. A steel fence post, with the top six inehes bent slightly inward for carrying a few strands of .barb wire, designed in this way to give better protection to orchards and gardens, has been recently placed on the Can- adian market. The Welfare of the Home Is Marriage a Help or a Hindrance? The platitude says that "when pov- erty comes in at the doer love flies out of the window(' but it does not say truly in all eases. Indeed, marriage, as is well known, is really an inspiration to financial' and final- achievement. This has been demonstrated many, many times. But the skeptical are not content merely to accept the examples of success achieved in life by life partners; they must take for illustra- tive purposes those' men who, burden- ed by large families, are "in the rut." A young man, Who bad hired out successively for three years in order to get a -start on a, place of his own, found that he wag het One whit better off financially Ikea he had been on the day when he began work. His in- tention had been to work anti save faithfully and these to Marry. "How about trying it together ?" :he asked lais prospective wife one even- ing. "As you think best, aohn," she told him. Thereupon they Were married—and they succeeded splendidly. They were good:, conscientious workers. The wife showed herself an excellent house- keeper and economizer, and the hus- band was well versed in managing and dairying. At the end of three years the plate they had leased on emetieally nothing Was their cwn, tlee cattle 'were their ownesna they them- selves were well on the road to what. is gen.erally termed a good living. Theirs 18 a typical Case. On the other hand', there me, quite naturally, as many who have failed irreparably under the same conditions. But the failures did not pull together. All unmarried man is restless and seeks excitement elsewhere than in his own home, with the result that by inerea.sing degrees he becotnes stranelo to his own hearth. It is for this reason that many men de not 'wish to be "hookea up," but prefer to 130 eestless, foot -loose and free. Eventually, however, they find that men are +better off at home, both fin- ancially and physically, thin when roaming over the globe, and still bet- ter oir with good Wives and comfoet- able' times oa their own than without these Meetings.' Nine-tenehs of all wanderers Wertdily advice yoUng man to stey at home and settle down, la- menting that they themselves dia not receive such maid ;advice when *1 a eimilar age. Investigated cases prove that, though "thed'etown," married men do not gen- erally (Deplore their' condition, and that, with a few exceptions, they are happy in having assumed pooped- bilite. A yoUng Men, who hatt been considered seinewhat "Unsettled" be - Mee his merriage, 't,thas eskect how he liked married lite end its duties. His replg wag a eurptise, "Why," he said ,"I torgiaer get- ting Married th•e best thing I ever did lo ity Ohl I delat moan," he latetened to adcli, "that I ant better off merely becauee I am compelled to stay at home. I mean that I am hap- pier. Before my marriage I consider- ed the least sacrifice as something very groat. But now I have some- thing to work for, and sacrifice is often a joy. Something to 'ba con- quered is something to take infmite pi -meta -re in." Another • instanee oa the good in- fluence of home was that of the men who bad a great desire to wander. From the age of sixteen, he had wan- dered frcrm place to place, finding work in Tinley localities but occasion- ally returning to his home terve. His frequent hotne-comings were surmis- ed to be due to his desire to see a certain young lady who had always interested him. Finally ehe consented to marriage, provided he would stay at home and settle down, Sometime later he went away to work. Friends d-eclared he would never give up his wandering, although they admitted that he was a good husband, and al- ways careful to provide his wife. When- his distant work was completed, he returned ana declared he had never been so lonely in all his life, Except in eases of absolete necessity, he 'has not been tievey since. A. wife may be a -burden or a help to her -husband. She may be the itispira- Con of his life in more ways than me. Those who are inclined to point to- ward the life of a man with a large family and smell means as an example of merried life anti "living suicide" are the pessimists of society. They ao not thiek of th.e chances which come rather to a man who is married and permanently settled than to the one who is not tied down by respon- sibility and, therefore, not always to be relied upon, A heme is something to work for— me of the really worth -while things in life. .But a house without a wife or children is not -0 home; it is a mere shelter from storm-. On the other hand a hearse that holds -a fainily can be a heaven ot merely a place in which to stay. Whieh it ball be depends 1.1130/1 both husband, and wife. Wonderful things have -been acoont- plashed by men who have married without means; and a couple, by working tagethee, have accomplished things which would have been impos- sible were they still single. When Sohn Flaxman, one of England's groat artists, neareleci Ann Denham, both wore very poor. Sir Joelem Reynold -so meeting the bridegicom, remarked that the -artist's career was mined, Memel wont home and told- his wife whet tlee beelieler, dind aid, and she veglied brinnely: "Apd a great artist you +shall be, mid visit:Aortic, 100*, id that is necessary M netato elod greet." Hee reeolVe that his marriage should hotmin, bar inieband mr e made hetrug. go and econoneite With hit, throtigh geod betel ilea lead, tin% at lett they rotted drain their 'label% unoti the gene Mit of the Modttaiti oellati nate, I1 I. Ti'E CHILDREN'S 'HOUR 9 - Oalvee IllelArant lied item reading fairy setoriefs which Unele Abner liad maimed in a rather renienatuble Pa- -Alone It meet hew been. remarkable, foe he imicl so leimeela, and Miry books am pot tonspen in the jangles of Afrim by any mama. I3ut if I era to 18.elelter Outwittlehie1:11rYenetatraYislertalg" 1° 'The 2s1 remains that Oliver had begin to believe an fairies and obey up at 'nights to get a eight of some, "Bat the only thing diet bothers me," he eomplained to Johnny Giraffe, "Is that na never see my!" Oliver woo a bit ethorisighteci`anca having leis -long trunk to look down we:3 Sert Off a dleadventage, too, "Then, Pen liable to mare them," lee added miserably, ;pa aolinny was forced. to admit that they both weree rather abler and ugly, awarding to fairy standards. But Johnny Giraffe had very sharp eyee and was aim an good terms with th-e birde (having so Long a neck), and Johnny agreed to help Oliver find a Miry. Witlehie head among the -tree tope, es he nibbled the feast young twig's, 'he kept a shame ear up for fairy news, an.d 'one day from a family of friendly parakeets he lammed that the fairies were planning a merry dence,for the following night in the quietest tattle tomer of the forest. Joheny hastened to Oliver with the good news and the two meld, seareely , eat, so ex -cited did they become. Both determined to hideneerby and get a glimpse of the wonderful little people. Long befere 12 oktiock the two big, little jangle boys etryle away front their homes and went tiptoeing through the -forest. Cautiously they concealed themeelves in the thiek trees and; waited for the fairy folk to make their appearance. Some one else was waiting—the old witch of the wood. Grumbling and mumbling, she croticbed an tile other side of the little -clearing. For twenty years she had been working on a spell to- destroy the fairies of the -jungle and at laet-eat last she had founa. the right formul-a. The - little ereatuies were always- trying to. -keeppeace among the anim.als of the wilds and thwarting the Wicked plots of the old witch herself, so that she was deter- mined to destroy them. A little of the powder she had pre- pared would turn them all ineo frogs, and so anxious was she to try it 'that she fidgeted about ,and Oliver Ele- pleant's sharp ears caught the craclet- ing of the twigs. , "See what that is!" he whispered to Johnny. Jelemy's bright eyes soon spotted the old witch erouthed in, the hedge end he was just about to tell Oliver, when up from nowhere, ap- parently, floatel the fairies, their lit- tle red lanterns twinkling like fire- flies in the dark. Oliver could not see them distinctly, but the little vague dancing forms delighted him. A. fierce whisper in his big car almost made him sneeze. , "Blow!" cried Johnny Giraffe. "Put your trunk hig,her .than the fairies' heads ana blow!" With -out stopping to. think Oliver obeyed and a mighty good -thing it ALL RUN, DOWN AND WORN OUT Reenlist, you hem not thoroughly purified your banal, but have Allowed to yerastie in it the amemulationa of waste platter that cause weakness, loss of appetite, dull lieadaohe, broken Eska1131 backache, eruptione and humors mid other tronblee, 'Peke Hood's Sarattparilla, the medielne that renovates, strength - QM, tones—it will build you up, make you fool better ell over, llooa's 'Pills help ite 51 etonatcb- toning, digestive cathartic, tem, for just above thc fairies Baw the witeh with ber shaker of ma& powder. Away she blew into the top af a tree -and the powder was, scatter- ed 15 -every direction, net one epoch falling an th,e little fairies, though all of them web blown creme Al) old. wise man snatched out his spreatage and caught sight ofthe witch'Itiowing through the air and of the giraffe anti the big frienaly ele- phant, arid (illicitly told the queen of their deliverance. Ana after that Meer Elephant and Johnny Giraffe ,often visited the fairies at nighttime O and the little creatures perched on Oliver's trunk and flew close, so he meld see hoiv lovely they were. As for the old witch, Oliver threw her , Into the deepest pool in the jungle and she was putout, for witches clis'ap;peer at the first touch of water—a fact to remember if you ever meet one. Last Year's Yield of Potatoes. Dominion statistics show that 1920 eaw the largest crop of potatoes in Canada -on recoil], both as regards the average yieldper acre, 17031 bushels, and the total yield, 183,831,400 bush- els. It was thought that large gem - titles would be lost in the winter by rotting and freezing, but the mildness of the -season reduced the tomes so incurred to a minimum, As a come- quenee the surplus in the hands of farmers on March .81, 1921, was ex- ceptionally !ergs, the largest on re- cord in Mot excepting cnly 1910awhen it was 44 per cent. compared with 40 per cent. this yeae and 25 per cent. ^last year. Last yew, the sus:pins en the date mentioned was. 31,646,000 bushels while this year it was 53,- .313,000 bushels. The loss frem frost and rot up to March 31, 1921, was only -16 per cent., or 20,686,000 bush- els. As a consequence of all this there has been something like a glut of potatoes and quantities have been fed to live stock. This year there has been a decrease in the number of acre; sOWn; -consequently, it is safe to pre- dict that the next annual report, that is fee the year ending March 31, 1922, will show a diminution in the mer- chantable quantity and in the surplus, the annual average of which for ten years has been 26,343,000 bushels, or less than fifty per cent. of what it was at last reports: The average an- nual merchantable quantity in Canada for the same period was 69,730,200 bushels. In 1920, that is for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1921, it was 106,608,000 bushels. Lampblack 01 tar stains: Saturate with 'kerosene. Wash with soap and water. Making Better Silage With Less Work That many farmers- make extra of course comes in the tendency to make the comp.arison with the figures for water per .cent. instead of the figures for dry -matter per cent. A change from 80 to 60 pee cent, water seems rather srnala, but a chaege front 20 per cent. dry matter to 40 -per cent. dry matter obviously means, if the total amount ef dry matter remains the same, that the total weight has been out in hall. TMs bit of arithmetic points to an important lesson in silagearnalting. The lesson- is to let the water content go as low as -possible without trtjunne Now for the sila,ge problem. We will the silage quality, before starling to aesume a ease: Suppose that -d field of fill the silo. During this period of growth the corn is actually gaining in feeding value as well as getting rie of an'immense tonn.age of water. Ha1? the labor of overbeulingamay be saved, and a better product secured, by mak- ing a rather dry as against a rat'nee wet silage. This bit of conimonly misundereteed silage arithmetic also gives rag to heated arguments'o-ver yields of elage corn. The men accustornea to male.in:7 a dry silage talce's with a grain of sei; the story of big tonnage put out te; the Man who makes eloppy eilees, neither party appreciating the that thitting the moisture t: from at) per cent, amen to 60 thr coot, —about the two extremes encountzral in actual practice—meet a red-us:that of just 50 por cent, in weight per age. The same question le invong 1 when it -comes to tezzling. A ave silage has only half the feeding velum pound per pound, as has a dry slave .All too frequently this distinct:en 1, net .appralated when the material Ls doled out name; the feeding platform. Maybe the milk pail wilt show en tl difference, but only a little s'lee arithmetic will point to the. came. I: takes 80 pounds o -f wet silage to gio the seine feeding valee as 40 with the lower percentage of tvat as per the problem with whieli te) Work for themselves by tutting their vane too green is clearly shown by a simple bit of arithmetic. Making silage of green men means hauling a rot of water from the field to the silo, and, furthermore, the nutritive value of the silage per pound is greatly reduced. I have tried this problem on a lot of silage experts who were not convinced mita they had figured quite a while for themselves. So get out your pad anel pen -oil and you will be surprised at the results. ' corn when cut at a certain stage yield.s 20 totes of ensilage with SO pee cent. water content. Suppo.ee we de. eide to allow tho corn to tand in the field and dry out until the water c.en- tent has decreased to 60 per cerit.-To simplify the problem we will stemma also that there is no further produc- tion of dry matter. Hu -ch would not be quite the ease, but then this is a problem of 'arithmetic. The problem is, how much eve* this 20 -ton yield shrink in.weight with the dropping of the water content from 80 to 60 par cent.? Men eccustomed to handling sila.ge all their lives eome back as a rule very glibly with an answer. They reason this way: The difference between 60 and 80 per cent. is 20 per cent.; 20 per ,cent. of 20 tons -is 4 tons, and this they figure will be the amount of shrinkage. The emblem is not so simple, nor go unimportant. The tate solution of it is as follows: The silage in the first place con- tained 4 tons of dry matter and 16 tons of water, or 20 percent. (Dry matter and 80 per -cent. w'ater. In the second. -case there is the same 4 tone of dry matter, but only 6 toes of water, 011 40 per cont. dry matter and - 60 pee cent. water. The silage loses jta one half its weight, the 20 tons theleking to 10 tont. The nallal °trot' started out. ,171C SucceaseanBe E5s , flood Thee Amezin4 Siert°. oSccess mlard 521In Two %Om What thoso Mtn 'taro dono, 1405 1000 dot In your tt:tavo at home you can may roaster thinsocroth of selling that ntak,t Star Sdesmen. 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