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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-3-18, Page 2G. 0, MeTAGGART Mi 11, 51eTAGGrART McTaggart Bros. BANKERS -e--) ,GENERAL BANKING BM" NESS TRANSACTED NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON Mg" SALE NOTDS PUR- CEASED. IL T. RANCE .-- eel NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY,. ANGER, EINANCLAL REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INStIlie ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT - /NG 14 FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANIES, DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. W. BRY3)0141E, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARYPUBLIC, ETC, Office— Sloan Block --CLINTON DR. J. C. GANDIER • °Mee Hour8:-1,30 to 3.80 p.m., 740 to 9.00 p.m. Sundays 12,30 to 1.80 mire Other Ileum by appointment only. Office and Residence—Victoria St. CHARLES R HALE. Conreyencer, Notary Public. Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses IEIURON STREET, — CLINTON. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the Couney, of Heron. Correspondence promptly einswered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News-Recoed, Clinton, or bY calling Phone 1.3 on 157. Cbarges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. 13. R. 111GGINS ?lox 127, Clinton - Phone 100. A gent for - The Huron & Erie Mortgage Coe ooration and The Canada Trust Company Ceron'er B. C. Of J., Conveyancer. Fire and Tornado Insurance. Notary Publio Also a numbeer of good farms for sale, At Brucefield on Wednesday each v eek. . ' ,flHM, •• 'A PflUIi .SY,Ej . --TIME TABLE— Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICE DIV. Going east. depart 6.33 a.p. • 2,52 &OJT- West ar. Mete dp. 11,15 aan. " or. 6.08, dp. 6.47 pea. ar.11.18 13.m. LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV. Going South, ar. 8.23, dm 8.23 a.m. 4.15 p.ni. Going; North depart 6.40 p.m. ." 33.07, 11.11 a.m. The MuKillop Mutual Insurance flompany Head office, Seaforth, Ore. Die:Es:Tony President, James Connolly, Goderice; eice„ James Evanin Beacbwood; See.-Treasuree, Thole S. Bays, Sea. forth. Direetorei George isleCceine,y, Sea. forth; D. F. MeGregtr, Seaforth; A G. Grieve, Waltoe; WM. Rine, Sea. forth; M. Maven, Clinton; Robert Ferries, Bedeck; John Beetieweir, 13rodhgan 3e, *Dolmens', Goeeriee, Agents: Alex Leitch, Clinton; .7. W, YeeGoderieh; Ed, Hincheey, Seaforthl W, 'Chesney, Egmondville; le G. Jus entitle Brodhagen. Any money tie he paid in :nay ter paid to Moorish Clothiee Co. Clinton* et at Cutt's Grocery, Goclerieb. destritig to effect, insurance err transact othee bueiness will be promptly attended t, 00 applicanon to Lily of the above officers addressee to' their respective poet. *Moo. Lessee trspiettediy the director wise lives armrest the Beene. Clinton News- Record CLINTON, ONTARIO. Terme of subscription—$1.50 per year, In advance to Canadian addresses; $2.00 to tha 73.8. or other foreign tountries. No paper discontinued WW1 all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher. The slate to which every eubseriptien is - paid is denoted on the label. Advertising rates ---Transient adver- tisements, 10 cents per nonpareil Hnc f or first insertion and 5 cents per no for each subsequeet inser- time Senall advertisements not .to exeeed orie inch, such as "Lost," "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc,, insert - eel mice for 85 cents. and peel, -mem jUt3Lilisertio» 15 cent& Communications inteneed for public lion niust, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name bi veriter. G. E. HALL, IL R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. The ermmon cabbage 'ware is a Valve of the Old Wald and was 'first introduced into America about 1860 at Quenon lei tweety-ilve, yearsit had spread until it reached ell of thie'coutitry etiet of the Reeky Mout.. tainie Addrese communications to Apron Ifele We. Cash In on Good Ste& I. wonder how many of us have • elledan many of our farm opeeatious tee past year aerause we sewed owlet that wove week in gerreireetierri Peer itS •quality, or full Of dirt and half eriatereel vette. We have just pow feinted ep our income foe the fleet nine months of the year 1910, and we haee to Oar eredit a687 mere than we leave twee. made Wore In any twelge Months ot; our faino, and we, lame:been hammer- ing away here for twenty-eight years past • We eid dile, and both ot our boys in the army. We made a New Year's resolutilon, and that was 'to plant only the teat seeds obtainable' ' or not plant at all. It cost us a few dollars More, maybe $20, but it has paid, for we have had the best of everything for the family, end also for the sivine, and chickens, • Planting poor seees net only effects the crop, but is also felt in all 'other departments of the farm. A poor - yielding crop of small grain, wheat, Otte, barley, or rye means that the table may suffer for bread, the hens suffer for scratch feed, the sheep get thin and short -wooled, the swine .go shy beeause of 'leek of ground -feed elops. If we fail in a good crop Of corn, the hogs go to market thin, the cream cheques cut in ball, the table suffers for lack of butter, and the horses go to the plow next spring thin and rickety. Dow was it on your farm last year? Was it becaase you eowed bunch of cheap garden seeds that your onions were all 'scallions, your peas never.tender in the noising, the garden lettuce and radishes were tough? It can be thus. In oer garden, we are growing sweet corn of the sweetest variety, and we have grown this same variety for thirty -live years in tie eamily, and know our roasting ears will be top7 petch, and the surplus worth canning for the wintet. We grew 600 bu•shels of wheat. thio year on -a bit less than 16 acres, We sowed the best seed obtainable, pampered it by a 200 -pound -applica- tion of commercial fertilizer, then top - dressed every acre of it with strawy manure. After reclean- ing we sold it for seed, netting nearly $500 more than market price, and notm bushel of that wheat went over 30 Miles from our borne. We grew 50 bushels per acre of a select white oats, reeleaned it all, and sold it for a good sum above market price, enough to pay us well for our extra worecand the growing of better geain. We planted corn that has been grown in the family for. over forty years, improved a.nci certainly acclim- ated to our country, and when our neighbors' corn was in roasting ears from seed secured no one kncives where, we were cutting and shocking well -ripened corn. Thug et goes on down the list Our garden yielded us over three times the quentity of table stuff because we pla.nted the •past season of reliable, tested seeds, id:stead of relying on puff collections slid advertising lists of elmap stuff. The boys have eeturned. We have taken them in partnere with us here on the lame. We hiree them down at the Agricultural College now, aol. that is -where they will help us most in the next few years, but it will be a good helping, we are thinking, and so long as they are reaping good seed there, they shall have our ettppoet, God Wen them. anit, 73 Adelalee et West, Toronto I vender if you ever thealgbt how raueb you hese by planting poor mai frone the field clown to the flower bed? 'Care of Ewee Neer the time of lambing the ewes filtould baye the kind of attendee. that will result in Oxon lambs, plenty of iler the newly dropped Iamb, aml O tairefty eoeclition of the mime, I have 'wee Mee that were eirightly -drieopy 'end tending towards lifelees- nees completely 'changed -In just a 1 env daes itteta little,different care. ' • Onsi essential thing is to give the ewes sufficient exercise. We rover kept the ewes closely confined more than a day or so Mora the lamlas were dropped. They 'alwayshad 'the run ef the large lot, or access to pasture field if the weather was any- thing but rainy. If necessary force Ibsen to go outdoor& In +pleasant weather they .ean be- fed:Outdoor& I have taken Mee out and driven them about the lot in the morning for ex- ercise and occasionally down into the wecallot , Sheep seem to like the cover of a woodlot in both winter and sum - Water and salt are both essential to ewes. They ought to have salt be- fore them nearly all the time. The best arrangement I bay& ever found was a •sheltered box -in. one corner of the lot and another in the sbeep barn; these need .filling about every two or three weeks. • Sheep can go without water longer than most other domes- tic animaqs, but it is neither beneficial or deshable for them to be cut off from their water amply for more than a few hours. Ewes without wat- er acceesible when they desire it, are likely to be troubled with constipa- tion and this should, be religiously avoided near lambing. They need and will drink fresh water twice a day, and 31 the water is colder than ere* well water and cannot =vein- ent/y be ivermed it will be well to have the wEter acoessible all during taiee, day so they can take it in small amounts. Constipation may be .caused by feed- ing too much dry feed. Bran is me- eellent to feed if one has nothing but dry feed to give, oilinesi is gool also. If corn is the only grain being feed tit will be well to use bran rand eats instead with the other roughage, at least until constipation is overcome, Succulent feeds are excellent and lenshed by the ewes; roots, such as -the mangles, are Uglily beneficial in the winter, as is also good silage. This is a enticed, time in' the ewe's life and proper eare is essential., A large flock of ewes is inclined to crowd through a narrow door or pas- sageway. At this 'stage they are like- ly to be seriously injured by crowding. Handling them quietly and forcing them to pass through in single file will tend to avoid injuries.' In fact, ewes near lambing should be haudled as quietly as possible. They are often of very excitable nature, and anything tending toward excitement ought to be avoided. Dogs are especially obnox- ious at this time, so that in case there are any in the neighborhood that are likely to be bothersome it may be ad- visable to keep the ewes shut in at night. We lost some six or seveen head one year which weie merely chased by dogs less than five minetee. None were injured to any extent, but th, intense excitement just • at that time proved to be enough to cause their death within two days. I tell you it is a sickening -sight to go out in the sheep lot and witness the rav- ages of a worthless cur or two, whether it is ati lambing or auy other time. Dairymen and creamerymen in many districts are troubled every spring by garlic or onion flavor la the milk. This is -due to -life cows feeding on garlic or wild onion, one of the first plants to start in the pasture in the spring. The trouble from garlic is not likely to last very long, as this weed is soon cropped off and lee grass becoines plentiful enough for the cattle to feed on it in preference to onion. Garlie flavor in milk can be removed by heating the milk can to one hun- dred and forty-five degrees Fahren- heit and forcing air through it at this temperature for thirty to sixty minetee. As. this method requires certain amount of equipmen, it is inueh more satieraetory for the aver- ege dairyman to keep the odor oet of milk by a few simple precut:Ions in erd 'management, There are two ways or protecting the milk from garlic flavor, First, prevent the COWS from obtainieg gar- lic; and second, Mai -sage the ,herd on garlic pasture, s9 that there will he the least possible chance of -getting the flavor in the milk. Often the garlic Is found only In one Porta in the Wee tare, end thie can be temporarily fenced off and pastured with other aninials not producing milk. Where garfie is scattered all over the field it will be impossible to keel) (he cows away from it, but by removipg them to some other field three or four boura before eacia milking the flavor will be reduced to a minimum. The odor in milk is strongest from cows wince have just Wee a»il the odor is reduced as the time between the bating or garlic and milkto* is in- . .. ••• treased. In ease no garlimfree pastuteIs available, it would be advisable to drive the cattle to tho barnyard three or four liners before milking and feed teem on hay and silag% As the Sea - Son for garlic trobble le short, this should not cause much iticoneenienee, White grubs requitte three years to 'complete thi 11± o Ode iand Us- ually but Om bleed la destructive in a • totality. An abundance a May beetles, ioe hpizi bugs, Otte Arming ite dicatee that there will be an abund- anCe of grubs the tellowieg Year, Select the breed best suited to your market or the purposes for Which you wish to raise poultry. The farmer Will usually wish a generaapurpoee fowl. that Is vigorous and a good layer. At the same time it- will produce enough meat to belp out with the family rations. An egg • farm that is shipping eggs to a market where white eggs are sold at a premium, win' wish to keep Leghorns. The Mediterranean breeds produce white eggs arid here the chance of selecting the best -liked breed Is en right. Some like white birds and others the buff. Some breeders will enjoy an unusually marked fowl lilte the Ancona, end take mare care of a tlock ot birds of teat kind. . In some seetioes brown eggs are morit .01 demand aim 0 good laying strain of any Americon breed will be satisfactory. If broilers are to be Pro- duced them is nothing better. thee the White Wyandottet or Barred Rooks. A black feathered breed is not re; de- sirable for raising broilers because 00 the black p11 feathers which InP)re tee Ippearpnee 01 the bird oti the, =r- ho. Smith's System. Prineipally because that wesea his name, We'll call 0101 Smith, Smith bought an antomobne. He paid $2,160 for it, lie' allowed no one to drive it but himself, lee kept it in a emir gar- age -ea weathei-proostructure with a cement floor. • Every 500 miles he elmnged the oil In the crank mise. For the fine 1,000 Mlles he ran the car no Meter thaii 25 miles an hour, Then he bought. a, tractor for his farm, It cost $2,900. He hired a tramp Mechanic at $3.50 a day \ to run it, When not in use, he left 11 3» the old Mural batik of the barn. As loig 08 nothieg went wrang, no one thought of even clutegieg the oil,. The second. (ley he took the imaviese plow on the - farm (1001 ,10 an ced alridle field, put the (Inks down AS tar its they would go, mei said to the driver; "Now, Step IM het', liet'S See *hat ithe's geocl for." e• Smell is rather a common name, The Fear of F4i1Ure Makes , Aloy t hihota Sccess Once knew' a num who bee 0, geesi Job, and did it well. Ile be.,rd (vie (lay teat the Wee wee considm lam tee a inueb Witte& ono, 0733 a imieli more cliflicelt ,one, 7Io atc began telling Ina friends that lio dir 'want that kind of a job, • because It wouldn't 'develop lain along the lines he wanted to developlansola The tratilyas that, deep down iu his marrewbonee, the. man eideet , went Wet 194 because he wee afraid he couldret handle it Anil he 00)1100. 317113831 this rear by saying that he Wasn't biterested in le But the job was offered to him. And. he togs it, and made geed, No ouo was more surmised than he was, though of couree, ekter it was done, he, pretended that he knew ell along he coalci do' it, 1 That man almost permitted his own tears to, [Mare him out a 0 chance to get ahead, Ana how glad he was aa terwerethat he hne:. But here 10 the point; 'o linmediately he took the eerd Job, this mann ifeeret fear that he couldn'et make good was awallow.ed up in the horrible' thought that hie associates would look clown on him if he- didn't make good. That forced him to try his best, which is something that few or us do meow ive know we have to, The solution ot the problem is to have a goal that you are definitely commit- ted to—a, goal that other people expea to reach. Then the chances are you will reach it. And don't forget that It is jdet as useful publicly to hang up a goal for yourself in farming as it is in any other line 01 business. Should You Spray? More positive proof of the benefits derived trom repeated sprayings in ap- ple orchards could not be obtained than the following results obtained by O successful fruit grower. Three lots of Ben Davis trees were sprayed 0110e, twice and -six times, respectively, and the results were clearly demonstrated to a large crowd at pinking time, The trees sprayed six times yielded 28.3 barrels; those sprayed twice, 16,6 barrels; and those sprayed once, 10,3 barrels. At the current wholesale price this would amount to $128.83, $46.00 and $27.17, respectively The fruit sprayed once or twice was scab- by and wormy, and the foliage of these trees had fallen; the apples sprayed six times were smooth and clean, the foliage was still vigorous, and there were plenty or fruit buds showing. Which an goes to show that you can "get by" with half-hearted spraying, but when it comes to showing prate you cannot hope to stay in the race un- less you do. The orchardist who cares for his fruit will win -out every time. This life would be just one long laugh And all our wishes would come true; If we -would just accomplish half The things that we iftend to do. 1 THE CHEtlifUL CHEW The WiSe wpiter$, 10% m.dviag, On hien,/ Wee tr4ig1'vt zwoict I; re!..1 To 'heed their words might cure ,our woes.— 'wept tkey 1l Sea dirrerent thirvp 00 • For That Spelling -Hee, We are rrequently asked to innielY liets of emeriti for spellingemes. There is ne better wity to keep up intereet in (spelling than the good, old-tashionee W07 of choosing eiclete and ene side tryieg to spell the other clown. The following 1101 1» a fair one for gram- mar echool grades, but nearly all are words that some people sometimes have trouble with, They have been, noted down from time to time tor this purpose. It you °alveoli this list cor- rectly you can- spell anything. The words marked, with asterisks elicited be spelled with capital letters, 6.11 others are net: Deleterious, Divine, Shoal, Oleomar- garine, Doutrism, Rheumatism, Calen- dar, Seize, Ankle, Phlegm, Anonymous, Diary, Dyspepsia, Arctic, Coyote, Hem- orrhage Repellent, Regrettable, Dirig- ible, Stupefy, Cincinhati*, Embarrass, Essence, Proceed, Bicycle, Judgment, Paralysis, Mosquitoea, Parallelogram, Bananas, Etymology, Peninsula, Wool- ly, Vagary, Discipline, .Millennium, Panegyric, Wholly, Illiterate, Whether, Siege, 'Reminiscence, Guitar, Deena mous, Dairy, Neither, Pumpkin, Lose, Bolshevist, Loose, Eleemoeynare, Chauffeur, Disease, Nickel, Parallel, Supersede, Ambassador, Liquefy, Mis- cellaneous, entrogem Bronchial, Pro- nunciatiou, Geranium, Percheron*, Diagonal, Separator, Gyve, Rhinoceros, Ptomalue, Pleurisy, Fricassee, Pan- demoriltini, Catarrh, Scissors, Deceit, Porraerly, Bryn Mawr*, Harass, Grammar, Bronchial, Anelysis, Egypt*, Nuisance, Winnipeg*, Decease, Re- lieve, Receive, Precede, Synonym, Liquidate, Erysipelas; Ensilage, Brom ehitis, Chesapeake*, Varieties, Wyan- dotte*, Assessor, Usually, Gestation and Incubation Periods Cows, 28'8 days; mares, 340 days; ewes, 150 dam sows, 112 days; hen eggs, twenty.one days; pigeon eggs, seventeen days; turkey, goose, duck and guinea eggs, twenty-eight to thirty days. 4.— "I will not berrow trouble," said the thrifty woman, "even if I have torgo without et." Priming the Orchard Those who have large orchaeds usually say when asked as to the proper time of yeaT -when pruning Should be done, "The best time of year to prune an apple tree Is when your pruning lenfe Is sharp and your pruning saw has been fitted." The facts of the case are that the ma11 spends a 71000 7, share Ice 1101 time in taking care of the orchard, primes it when he has a chance and no other work is pressing. The pruning, however, in most farm ote chards is done in the latter part of February mild March because of the fact that other work presses at other times in the year. TheTe is Much diScussion as to whether the small farm orchard should be retained. .Someeeiconom- ists claim the mall farm orchard cannot be given sufficient care to make it pay. Moreover,. it requires a spraying outfit and if the trees are of a -number of different varieties, it means that the entire orchard can- not be sprayed at the same time, but that it must be done pieceonea). They reason that it would be better business all the way, round for the general farmer to buy what flea 110 needs and to cut down the lousy old trees and make them up into axe and barnmer handleor wood. 11 is our opinion however, that small' farm orchards contribute a good bit to the. pleasure of Vying on the farm and lena variety to the bill of fare, yet one of two things must be eon& Either the orchard must be cut down or the owner must prune it, spray it, and take care of it. I !lave heard people say: "If I have, to go to putting any spray on my trees in order to get apples, I will cat the trees doarn." Yet the fact of the matter is, that apple trees re- euire both spraying fend pruning in order to produce a crop that will wain rant their being retained in a pro- duction role. from an excessively tall tree as eern pared to one that is low down Some make the mistake of eutting off lower branches, thinking thereby to make it possible for the horses to work oloser to the tree. This is a very serious mistake since the soil 111 the orchard is of little use as a crop producer and it does not take very much barking of limbs or trunks with levees and whiffletrees to spoil a tree. It is erruch better to keep too fnr :from a tree than too close to it Fourth, the most impotent min ciple of all in pruning is to make the cuts on the limbs as close to the trunks:1s poseible. A leng protruding stub is an eyesore to a man, and a body sore to the tree. It dries out, water entere the cracks, decay seta in and in a few Years a good wind comes along and over goes the tree. Pruning even o few trees is uphill work unless one has one or two special tools. Mter I attended my first orchard pruning demonstration, I weet home end commenced to prune with the old hand eirate After 1 had pulled crettia lung or two and a tea- spoonful of eteelust, I maele tip my mind that if this was the proper way to prune trees I would rather use the axe close to the surface of the eon. I :found out, however, that the hand- saw is not a very desirable tool for Iran pruning. Its set is too narrow and the saw always binds in green wood, sa, pruning saw that can be set to 0117 angle desirad is a tool that will pay for itself 111 one day in the added work it will enable the oper- ator to accomplish. A palir of prun- ing s•hears is also clesirable for nse on small L4mbs, but one shelled net allow himself . to be tempted to use 11 on 0 limb that is too large, because while it may cut the limb, the shears ma7. be eliminated in the act. Some primers, especially amateur's; practice putting some kind of mat - meal on the cut, ,mich as paint, Cre- osote and so foath, but if the cuts 10.72.0 .been properly made, the heal - ng -over process ie net hastened to any extent by the addition of the pre- servative. Vnee many people assotiete the treatment of the trunks with pruning the trees, it, may be well to caIl attention to the fact that white- washing does but little good, except as it gulaes the eee of some hocturnal visitor searching for an apple tree in the auturrm twilight. When you A few commots• pr ei pl es of- prtIn - 1 ing tire: First, do not cut the back- i bone entirely out of the tree. • The old idea of pruning wee to cut the middle out of the tree, retaining the lower timbs with their laterals as beeritig aurfaces, This let the sun- light in but it made a tree that de- veloped weakness, especially in its ability to withstand storms. These lateral limbs veould vow ape when they weve eveigibted doWn with fruit it would not take very '503011 of a 'wind to break clowe a limb. In later clay ruing, the celitral part •of the tree It will benefit the trees more, al - Whitewash the trunks of the trees— clonn. Put on lime -sulphur histeeid. s eetalited. Seemed, lembs thet cross th000u hgiutiddoe.es not make quite such a g If the farm orchaed is worth One - thing at all, it must be gieen some cave to justify its retention. Wise pruning is one of the factors ,that make§ foe a good yield.. Cet out dead limbs first,- and then live ones that are out a place. Above ell, be sure that the cuts aro made as close to the trunk as poasible so that heal - ng May be rapid. A tree Well welt - PA is eht0 in:hired much less by in- sects 1131111 one whose limbs,ilre donee, dainp attcl dark, should be cut away since It se neces- sary to got as much sunlight into the tree as postiltie. Some tree prutors thielc that the measure ee their priming le the Size of the bush pile they leave at ilhe foot of the tree, it may be suggested, however, 111 paseibg 'that thete As a great deal of, difference between a tree basher Mut a tree prandr. A good rule to follow is not to tut 'off a litab with- i 073 311 good reat011 for it, Tided, WI 1,reeS 611e7110 be headed back sowie. 14 costs sonie mete to plek the apples t 1, :co Children, Cho 'reaching History 40 A Oltild I 'had a proarima 61013370 for history, and considering that a itiistory weetteition in thew days so hardly more than A struggle to se - cite "the leseen" as nearly verbatim etislatpomseyiboltinkiriu(liiglanilitointid vtratOotroriryk good, Pool" tittle youngeters that wei More, TN bOld to flAaW plenil of battle grounds', to learn, the numbers killed allid wenn:circa on tile 'opposing side, and to reit o lengthy lints of dates, ad- jusiting rite proper event to each. 72e bad so jilitle idea of the relative iranortuneo of the eyelets that ehe inerning Of a tiny village by the Indians eeteneff to es quite ao mein- entous ite the ogerentler of geobeci A child bas Utile background of knowledge. Dates -mem nothing to hien; and peoper name, if he knowe nothing of th04rs. bearete,. alight juat ss well be Greek. In teaching history to children, t'here is lust one Oct that we own peer - ally depend epon, end that iti their unfailing intecoest in liecialc The mbildrens librarians say that they eannot begin to supply the demand lee silent interesting biloigraphies, 'atoll -es od people and waat they dici, told in a simple way. "Columbus set sail from Spain to ley to find China," wall make a eailel listen. "An attempt was made by Spain to discover Chloe," *ell make him wonder how soon he can get awayl If I weee going te teach the history of Cano.de, to boys and girls of nine or ten, I would 177 10 do it by induc- ing them to read simple, picturesque, well-written storiesi of the men n0»have made eur meetly what it ie. Then a would let the children talk of what they had read and ask questiens about it. Some oa these qUettiOnS 3 would answer; eon)* I would leek them. to try to answer for themselvem, a would say nothing about exact data, but I would melee four or five general divisions ea our hieery, ouch as dis- coveries and settlements, Indian wars, English eonquest, etc.. and put s copy into every book. There would not be many stories crit our Canadian heroes that the children weual not seen be able to put into their proper divisioes. Then if mere than one book bed been rend, I would go through the stories rapidly in their cheonological order, bringing ont eny infermation thot the children might have gathee.d and occaelonally addeng a ev rcl to connect the stories or to make sortie point clearer. What would this aceemplish 7, At ITCH! ITCH! !TON ft 800MQ Sometimes As if You Would Fly Ceet 9f Yew' Skin. Eezema or Belt rheinn not m 041 itokes, but it also has, 00561, 4ris (tod te3eg over end over ageilla, Sometimes it oovers the whole 1004 an4 canoes intenee antieriLtb Yon bayO found that local gone have La lasting effect, Asa yea want perinanent Take llood's Sarsaparilla, give 51 4 good fair trial, because you omit thoroughly purify your blood or 024' eruption will continue to ionoys, peg - haps agonise you. Tbia great meol- clue has been sneeesefully used in thousands of eases. To mare and keep the boweia normally active, take Hood's rino, they are gentle arid thorough. Ile end ol the reading tlie 01711004 would be on good terms with twentr five or more of the chief actore the etory of Canada; thee would at( prepared for a eeeee h3ly10ry4i ma best of all, they would look fore ward to it, not with dread, but mitii plressarit anticipation. • What Do You Do With Your Straw?, In planning how much you. intend to put into umehinery for the coming season, it raight be well to set aside some money foe the purchase of &raw spreader. This le just a rue- geetion, but 3 believe it is a Wise one. There are two ways to knead straw —with pitchforks Or with spreaders eepecially designed for tile purpose. If your idea is to get it on the laird' any old way, hit or miss, in buriebee and bare spots, use a ,fork. If you want a nice, even job, and one that will arineresults, by all means use e, spreader. I believe that the inereasea yield due to the applieation of straw would pay for a spreader in one grotve ing season. Certainly a few years' nee will psy yon bark in till, Capacity of Cisterns. Cistern problems do not often :else, but when they do it is welil to be pre - Need. Dere is the method: Determine in feet the {Remoter of the cistern and also the height to the arch. Multipiy the diameter by iteelf and by the height. Take four-fifths of the produit. Divide by tour, the number of cubic feet in a standead barrel. (A standard barrel contains 31.5 gallons and is a little move than half as big as the familiar beard known as the togsheade The Welfare of the Home Taking the Indigo Out of Blue Monday. Ilenseivives will agree sat it takes some management to turn "blue Mon- day" into a lighter shade of indigo, but many families and een)nunities are solving the proiblem and, it es in- teresting to see how they do it. With a good laundry available, mat or all of the work. can 'ae done away from home, het the great ob- lection to this plan is its expense, which has been lessened in sone localities through co-operation. Co- operative laundries are often run 111 connection with a creamery, using waste steam fram the creamery. One neighborhood solved the prob- lem, by sending a committee to corder with the local laundryman, who agreed to make a rate et six eents 1 pound Lor flat awl rough -dry work if tbl, people would furnish their own 'mind- !.ry. bags and do their own delivering. The first week twelve families took advantage of this offer, and the num- 15 intreasiq: They are planning to work out a system of co-operative deliemey, se that it will be necessery for a member from each home to make a trip to and Stern town each week for laundry. But there will elways be intlated ,ininines not in toutal with Itiondrieg, and for such :families equipment for home-laundey work is of great im- portance. First and foremos.t must come a good suppler of runnMg water (both hot ancl -cold), soft if poesiblo, but plentiinl, no matter what Its quality may be. Arrangements ehoula be made foe doing the work under convenient eenditions, wed in this re- spect the detached laundry, prepetly equnpped, is ideal, :for it can be plane ned to that it is cool and airy in gummier, warm and protected in winter, A basement laundry is. perlinps next in !convenience, while a laundry opening out cia the kitchen also has ita good points.; any one of these ar- rangements keeping the steam and wash -day odors and activities out of the dwelling part of the house. The washing machine for domestic aso is not an experiment It has been on; the mantet foe more than hall a century. It does its work rapidly and suocessfully. The theory of the machine, whether &wen by haucl-power, water -power, gasoline - engine power, or electricity, is the egitation of clothes rind water and the foreieg of a soapy sciltition tbrotigh the clothes, Every housewife should own a wringer, even if sho bias tie washing =chine The reversible hall bearing one with eide gprings is best. Some clothes wringers have an emergency arrangement en top whereby the ten- sion may be released should a engee be caught between the roller% Wring- ers should be oiled fin the hearings end the rubber rollers wiped off .after using. They ehould be viewed to prevent dirt fearn gathering, on them. Mangles ee ironing machines are operated by 'electricity or by engines, or by hand. The rollers of the mangles are heated by means of gas or gasoline, or may be made of liar& highly.polished wood, depending epos pressure, instead of heat, for smooth- ing the clothe. Beverityofive peat cent of the ironing foe a amity can be dono on a mangle .and done it about one-fourth tile thno required to do it by hand, rn addition to the mangle, it is well to beet seamed ironing-boards—a nat. row one for skirte; a sleeveaboaed, a little oval silenn held up ht the air by two supports so that the artiele can hang free; a bosom -board, small and oblong, for telart-bosome; and either a small rolling -pin ot 17 niece a broom -stick, padded and covered, to slip into tight, elosecl.places. Poldeig ironing -boards may be pur- chased pr made at home. They permit. Iof garments being easily slipped off or on. Any handy man can. put ail! justable supports on the old irOki•Ing- board which you leave always used propped up on chairs and table. Then you cen get the beard at the 1 proper heieht and gave much hea- acae. Fortunately much of the -family laundry can be put In good enough ehape for use by careful foldirig; this evil' do away with the need of honing, and the plan does not mean Beiftleseness—only common sense. If 'padding for the ironing-imerd meet be purchased, "choose silence idea, such as is imed for dining tables. Two thicknesses of new cloth will roa.ke the boeird eoft enough. anstead of tacking the covers o1. ironing -bora -as, cut them so that 1110173 are about faur inches wider than the board, and sew tapes along the sides so that they tan be tied on. Four or five tapes on each side will be suffici- ent; made thus, the °avers can easily be changed. Unbleached muslin, sixty inches in evidth, is the best choice, if new material is purchased; this width will cover th.e length of the board wirthooruta ?leviers: -...sta»d, use an orainney tin layer-eakepan fastened to the iron- ing the board with stout -nails; set the irons in this. It protects the board and prevents the iron from slipping to the flow. To insure against fire, place a sheet- ef esbestos under the nara A large ser-ew-eye inserted in one en4. of the ironing -board -allowe the board to be hang upon a nail, thereby keep- inogthe ends from contact with the dor. Next to mangles the moll -heating irons are the greatest etepesavers., 00 the irons can be kept at the pro,pee temperature without the continual walking back and forth between stover and ironiegeboard. They are limited by gee, electricity or kerosene. . Irons should be kept in a dry place. When about to rise them, as Soon 1121 they are, warm, rub lightly with par- affin or beeswax tied in thin cloth. Thenirub the irons over some cleansing powder, or coarse sett, sprinkled o11 a newspaper. Clean the irons in the same Manner tvhen your werk is fine islied; wine cold, store hi a eovered, hox. 411 100)11137 equipment should be protected from dust, It saves time in cleaning when it as next needed, You ehould elweye kelp a bottle of fil,allaberle a'e Stereaek and Net Tel, etjo on tile olielf, pho t'Or folk to (Itoneii t t d a eae ostbAriia an,t feyr0 epreolake Mem ovlein 0 hieteed oinoueonit oilseed Pfttufee Y'Or et e al no b tf0020100082d,eatoftatien, giveonafttettefore gOlDff tO bed, AI Oraaalett, 88a, 80: 823118180 20651858101N EPICINE 00, TORONTO to