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There can, be no greater mistake
Ethan giving morn food than young
,pigs can comfortably clean up at each
Meal.
The first six months of a calf's life
either makes et' mare its future de,
veiapmont,
cen food is a good appetizer. I
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Address oommunloatlons to AOrenomlet, 73 .Adelaide St. West, Termite,
Oats and Peas'For Silage.
In dietricta where eerie' foots make
corn an uncertain crop, oats and peat'
oan be grown profitably 101' silage
Oats and peas withstand light frosts
.and make en excellent growth, even
with low temperatures, When unfav-
ormble weather for harvesting clover
sets in, such es a long rainy spell, the
clover can first be, put in the silo
after which the outs and peas can be
harvested. In sections where corn
will not do well on account of a lack
of heat, oats and peas, as a rule, will
Produce more tonnage and the silage
will be much better, being nearer a
balanced ration, A dressing of barn,
yard, manure will increase the yield,
especially on new lands which have
not been inoculated by clovers. Oats
and peas contain more than twice as
much protein as corn, and therefore
make a ration which is practically well
balanced in itself. As a food for dairy
cows it is most excellent, and will sub-
stitute the best of pasture.
In the fall of 1918•• I had an occasion
to test the worth of eat and pen silage
compared with corn silage, I had been
feeding corn silage to a number of
dairy cows, and on the twenty-first of
January came to the place in the -tile
where oats and peas had been put in.,
We noticed,at once: an increase in the
production of milk from eur herd.
One cow which was nearly dry, giving
about fourteen pounds- per day, rose
quickly to twenty pounds per day; an-
other increased front fifteen pounds
to twenty-four, pounds, and similar
increases were noted. by other animals
of the herd. This was ,sufficient, evi-
dence for us to prove thatoats and
pea silage was superior to corn silage,
especially when given as we were
feeding.
Our method of sowing is to work
the ground as early in the spring as
it can be plowed and harrowed, then
sowing one and one-half bushels of
peas to one and one-half bushels of
oats per acre. The oats and peas will
germinate even when the ground is
cold and wet, and late spring frosts
will not destroy the plants. The crop
will come on in mid -summer, and
when the peasare well .podded and
most of the pods filled, the crop is
ready for the silo. It should be .cut
and put in the silo whenstili green.
Do not allow the forage to become
dry and then be obliged to add water;
the natural juice of the plants is the
best and cannot be replaced by,adding
water.
Oats and peas can be handled much
the same as hay when made into sil-
age,- 1t is better to cut, however,
when the dew is on to prevent peas
and oats from shelling. The land is
cleared in ample time to prepare the
ground for winter rye or wheat. This
is a, special advantage when consider-
able land is being fanned and Iabor
is scarce and hard to get. Oats and
peas .are much .easier. to .raise than
corn as they can be planted fully a
month earlier and will not be damaged
by frosts. More than that, no culti-
vation is needed, and where quack
grass
is bothersome, a heavy Yield
will choice out .and destroy the quack
grass.
Working and Printing Butter.
I have often wondered if the aver-
age farm buttermaker realized the
importance of working butter proper-
ly, after it has "come" in the churn.
I have found that there are many
b_ttermakers who do not think that p
it 18 necessary to bother with a butter,
worker. I know of a certain lady who
has a good reputation es a butter,
maker-, but I have noticed .,that her
butter sometimes has a pale, salvY
look to it, I did not know the reason
for it until I saw her working her
butter She took it in her hands and
kneaded it and squeezed it in iter
chopping bowl, and after she thought
that it had received enough working
sho took a handful and pressed it into
her butter -mold to print it, By then
it was a greasy mess,
One can realize it better when he
understands that the temperature of
the hands is around 100 degrees P.,
Whereas the temperature of the butter
should be in the neighborhood of 55
degrees. Such a ditferellee, of course,
makes the buttermelt more or less,
which spoils the grain. Then, again,
in looking at it from a sanitary stand-
point, working the butter with the
hands cannot be as clean as when
using a butterworker, as the butter
'Is more apt to absorb,impurities when
made soft by t he heat of the hands.
It is true that bread is often made
with the hands, but, although it would
certainly be cleaner notto use the
hands, bread or Any mixture made of
flour does not have the absorbing
tendency of butter or other grease -
like substance.
Butter handled with the hands is
very apt to have a greasy, saivy tex-
ture, and it also has ,poor keeping
qualities on account of being subject-
ed to extremes in temperature.
I have noticed that quite a few
farmers who have a fancy print for
their butter do not realize that, al-
though the mold may be supposed -to
print' a certain amount in weight (in
my neighborhood the one -pound seems
to be the most popular), it does not
always make the correct .weight, de-
pending somewhat on the firmness of
the butter and the time of the year
that it is made, and also on the way
that it is handled. A very fancy print
is more ,inclined to vary than one that
is plainer.
I know a farmer who had a nice
hotel trade for his butter. He was
really a good buttermaker and had all
the necessary equipment. He had a
very fancy hotter mold which made
a "hit." But he lost his trade at the
hotel and at other places. To -day he
is selling milk instead of butter. He
never has known the reason why he
could not find steady customers for
his butter. But one day I was talking
with' a man who was a guest at the
hotel, and he told nee that he had
seen the hotel people weighing the
butter, and there had been times when
.it was as much as two ounces under
weight. The hotel people, of course,
thought they were being cheated. I
know the farmer who .made the butter
was honest, but I remember how., he
printed it. He.would ;take a piece and
press it into the mold hard, slide the
ladle along the edge to even it - off,
and wrap it in parchment paper. "Of'
course there trust be an exact pound,
because it was a pound 'mold," he
thought. •
I know. a woman who, makes nice
butter. It is printed in pound lots,
but I found that T always got a pound
and two ounces when I weighed it.
No doubt, you can hold your trade
better by giving • overweight than
underweight, for the 'average person
does not like to feel that he isbeing
cheated, but it is not very good busi-
ness to give a pound and an ounce
when you are being paid for one
ound.
I am,, one of the users of a self -
feeder. Mine is not an expensive one.
I made it myself. My first experience
with .it was with 16 hogs. None of
them weighed over 160 pounds. I
made it five feet long•,.and it fed from
one side only. There are two compart-
ments. At first I thought it would be
too small, but now I see that it was
plenty big enough. There is only one
reason,for having more room, and that c
is to allow a larger amount of feed r
to be dumped in at one time. m
As a matter of fact, a feeder of this s
lend is used all the time, and there
are seldom more than two or three
pigs eating at one time. So what is
the use of having a feeder `so big? pl
I don't know of any.reason,. And what in
is the use of five or pix compartments b
for the pigs to look into when they in
feel a little hungry? I don't see any. u
So last fall, when I got my 16 pigs in
m1 clover, I threw the corn for them in
over the fence every couple of days, ly
and kept the Solt -feeder full of tank- e
age. I hauled a tank of -water out, an
and let it drip a little all day into a r
trough for them. So they had water
and coria and tankage with clover ed
forage. What more could a pig want?
My feeder cost in actual .material
purchased about $,4.. That was for
matched siding used in it. The 2x4
stuff was on the- farm, and the roof
was also a piece, left from roofing the
hen house. Most farms have this same
material lying around ie a pile, to
just why should we pay $20 or $80 for
n feeder is not quite clear to me, My
hogs grew faster than I ever had any
grow before, and I know the :feeder
paid. I also think that a $8 feeder
made them grow just, as fast as a
$80 one would. So I'm $27 ahead,
and that is just about the price of
another pig' --at present prices. •
musty interior. Facing the: seuth we
"had practically forty 'feet of glass
-windows which .with the addition . of
some thirty feet of double -weight mus-
lin sashes, gave our hens a moderate
amount of fresh' air"during'the 'day,
In edditibii to --this; the •glnss'evindowsm
have screens -back of the- and -the
windows themselves are placed •on
hinges, so 'that during good weather
they can lie safely opened without the
risk:. of. having vermin enter- the
chicken house. • .
We. have- a large. piece - of heavy
anvas"which is stretched odder the
oosts at night: and removed in the
°ening. This. leaves the -entire neer
pace for scratching and- does away
with; nsuch of the weekly Cleaning so
very essential in poultry raising.
We always -keep several dust boxes
aced h convenient speta, priinorily
the sun,.and have found.this the
etter method o£ - any so far fen' -keep -
g the birds free from, lige. We also
se air:slaked Brite very,freely on the
terior walls and ceiling of the Build
gsr Each.§•pring, we' very thorough -
spray roosts;.nests acid in fact the
mire place with crude carbolic acid
d flake naphtha which will kili.any
nites there are in the house. •
We try to have all our' chicks Batch-
by the end et the'middle of April,
therefore the latter part of February
and the first part of March, the hens
showing de inclination to set, are
placed in a room by themselves. This
is, considered a little early to set them,
se additional caro is necessary in ar-
ranging the nests that they might be
warn{ and comfortable,
About October 1st, we dispose of all
old, hens, as by that time the young
stock has begun laying.
Out accounts for 1919 return these
figures: .
Value of eggs for year , , , ; • . $892.96
Chickens sold 165.88
Chickens eaten 00.19
Total 044,52
Peed 164.80
Profit , . , , , , „ , , . , , , $470,72
Young sows intended .for breeding
purposes need to be well fed during
the first eight or nine months of their
lives. If they ere stinted at this
period na amount -of heavy feeding
later will Induce them to make the
ewe -growth, They must, however,
be allowed plenty of txerclse, or they,
1 becomefat and. lazy.
On looking .bads over our records
we found that Jenuat'y 1, 1919, we had
a flock of 100 Plymouth Rock hens,
all laying steadily, some young stock
and a clear field to work in,
Our hen Irotsc. Is a comfortable
building, 12x32 feet and has the al -
moat prleel808 factor or n cement floor,
thereby doing away with a damp, wit
The Little O11 Wonsan and
Her ;Very iB g Basi et•,
A little Ohl Woman with'a very big'
basket went trudging down the road''
After a while ehc met Pink Pig,
"Whet Is in your basket, .1.141a 0Id
W4sgalx't" oeked g,nic Pig. •
''Don't be so eeriplts, the Little Old
Woman aneweretl,.
"I'll give you a penny if yeti
only lot me 1001• into Your haske
said Pink Pig.
"Very well," was the skewer. "Fol-
low me,"
So Pink Pig followed the -Little
Women down the road. Soon they
White Tien.
"What's in Your 'basket, Little
Woinau?" asked White !Ten..
"Don't be so curious," the Li
Old Woman replied.
"I will give you a penny," s
White lien, "11 you will let rue 1
into your basket!"
"Very well," answered the Little
Woman, "Follow Pink Pig,;' So Wh
Hen followed Pink Pig, and Pink
followed the Little Old' Woman, a
away they went down the road. So
they met Black Bowwow. -
"What's in your basket, Little
Woman?"' Black Bow-wew asked.
"Don't be so curious," answered
Little Old Woman,
"I'll give you a penny," said Bia
Bowwow, "If you'll let me look i
your basket!" '
"Very well," answered the Little 0
Woman. "Follow White Hen."
So Black Bowwow followed Wh
Tien, and White Hen followed Pi
Pig, and Pink Pig followed the Lit
Old Woman, and away they we
down the road.
After a while they met Gray Pu
"What's in your basket, Little 0
Woman?" asked Gray Puss. He an
fed at the closed lid.
"Don't be so curious," said the L
tie Old. Woman as she fastened .
lid down tighter,
"I will give you a penny," er
Gray Puss, "if you will let me loo
ltli.SSAGES IN STICKS ,
ANIS 'STONES
,Cite arrival 01 the first warm days
of spring uaekes every pereell,W}sh to
get outdoors into the woods and fields.
'There is .no. other time of the r
will when country walks are more delightYe
a
i!" fill, and the boy or girl who forme the
lgrtbit of walking severa1 miles a day
in tWa soft spring air will be amply
repaid by the exhilaration and the
Old sense of ,physical well-being that are
sure to follow. .
Walking with 80010 congenial `,friend
ox friends ie far more enjoyable then
wallcing•alone; ,aiid, eines there are
Often times when some member of the
party wishes to linger behind the
others,, teepees them or to branoh off
for if :short time in another direction,
it is a good plan for a group of girls
to arrange among themselves a simple
systemdirection of signalsthat that shgirlallhas indicate
the ,
when she set out and when sho ex-
pecte to get back.
Whatever kind of signals you decide
to use, an emblem that shows the
identity of each one of the party will
be necessary. ' .A branch from some
particular' tree snakes a good sign-
ature. A twig of ash, fist example,
-placed between two stones of a pile,
shows who placed it there. '
If a 'girl wishes to inform a friend
who has lingered behind which of
two iutersecting trails she has taken,
she sharpens a twig to a point and
places it between two stones so that
it points toward the trail that she has
taken; then she adds her special mark
of identification.
The most common messages in. the
woods are those that indicate identity
end direction; it is less often neces-
sary to leave information relative to
time. For that, make two piles of
stones; the number of stones in one
pile denotes - the time: at which the
message was left; the other heap car-
ries the arrow and signature. It is
generally ,better to separate different.
messages in that way, and not to
complicate matters by including a
time signal with a direction sign.
If you wish to inform the friend
who follows that you will return to a
certain place at a designated hour,
leave three piles of stones with a
pointed twig fastened in the middle
pile, together with your signature.
The stones behind the arrow that indi-
cates that direction show when you
left, those in front of it, when you
will return. Those signals can be
easily and quickly arranged, and
the friend who follows will be able
to read your message at a glance.
For example, suppose that a girl
who follows finds that the trail has
two forks, and that in the intersection
is a twig placed among stones and
pointing in the direction of the right-
hand trail. She 'also finds a mark of
identification. Behind the arrow are
ten stones; ill front of it, three.. It
should be clear that the person who
left the message has taken the right-
hand trail, that she started • at ten
o'clock and will return at three.
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met
Old
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Old
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into your basket!"
"Very well," answered the Little
Old Woman, "Follow Black Bowwow."
So Gray Puss lollowed Black Bow -
wow, and Black Bovewiew followed
White Hen, and White Hen followed
Pink Pig,.and Pink Pig followed the
Little Old Woman, and on they went
down the roaa. People turned to look
at the funny sight.
After a while they came to the
market plaee. "Now,"- said the Little
Old Woman, "glve me your pennies,
and then you may look into my bas -
So each of them gave -the Little Old
Woman a penny. Then she opened
the basket. Crowding eagerly round
her, the four sinimals peered in.
"0 decur cried Pink Pig. "There
is nothing at all in yet= basket, Little
Old .Womenf"
"Nothieg at alit" echoed White Hen.
eNothing at all!" cried Black Bow -
"Nothing at all!" wept little Gray
"No, nothing at all," said the Little
Old Woman. "But then, there soon
With .that she putegerae,pennieseaf
her bier). with the othet lout pennies
and bought in the market a large
bone, 'a Piece of cheese and a little hot
bun; and put them into her basket.
After that.she And Pink Pig and Black
Bovrwow and White Hen 'and Gray
Puss Went but into the woods near
the market place and had a picnic
"But next time don't be so curious,"
the , Little Old Woman said as she
munched her hot bun, "for you might
not fare so•well."
•
Meat scrap or skim -milk help to
make early broilers..
A small hopper containing grit,
charcoal and granulated bone tends to
correct leg weakness.
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An Old Idea in New Clothes.
In the shade of the old apple' tree,
Where the snow and the rain blow so
free,
It's no plane to store
The binder and mower
And implements there that you see;
For the rust and the rot, you'll agree,
Are worse than hard usage would be,
And the paint that they wore
Is a shade, nothing more-
Just the shade of the old apple tree.
Ten 10,000 -pound cows will produce
as much milk as twenty 5,000 -pound
Cows; it takes only one-half the feed
to feed the former as- is required for
the latter; and, 'besides,one man can
milk ten cows, while it takes two to
milk twenty.
My Tractor Does the Work of Six - Horses.
The tractor is the greatest adver-
tiser that. has ever: been found for
extensive and intensive' farthing. I
believe that by the use of a tractor
modern agriculture -' has been 'made
successful. From my experience I
derive the opinion that it, takes a
farm: of 125 acres or more to make
the tractor pay iike,most purchasers
expect it to. But there is a tractor
for every farm and for every pur-
pose.
The farm on which' 2 use my tractor
is about 200 acres, 'AM this. would re-
quire every bit bf six good horses, be -
Cause I put-netulyeall'is grain. Be -
,sides, 22 would require ail'extra hand
and team during the' seeditlgarid 'har-
:vestingg time. •What it would cost to
keep those six horse$ I can't tell you,
but • I- know they tvoulcl cost about
three -times what it 1? costing'me nqv.
The cosh of keeping any tractor is not
.very laxge.- When Ian -t piotving'I nee
.abeut'20 cents' worth of kerosene to
the acre, The lttbrtctlt;tyg oil, gasoline,
and ,grease amount to about 8 cents
an acre. This makes about 28 cents
to the acre for plowing, and plowing
10 acres a day costs abort $2.80. I
always consider a day's work to cost
me about $2.80, whether: I ata plow-
ing, disking, or reaping. Except when
I am doing a small job, the cost is
according to the load.
The tractor I chose ;for my 200 acres
in cultivation was a 12-20. The rea-
sons I chose this matte were First, it
wee the proper size for my farm;
second, it wasn't a cheap and halt -
constituted tractor but; 'bolted by
years;of oxpeelence; third, I con5111010l
the type al motor it had, as 2 believe
it takes a four-oylinder four-cycle
motor to mulcts the small tractor suc-
cessful; fourth, this traotor is •easily
aecossiulo to all leetts by 0813' lifting
up the shies of the ]wood, which makes
it easy to take it apart and to replace
any worn parts; fifth, it was 02 the
four-wheel constt'tsction, 415 I believe
that every tractor should have lour
wheels; :lath, it was of a very simple
and durable construction, t o I believe
that the fewer parts{ it tractor has the
less 2101.8 aro to weer oOt.
I put nearly all the fields 3n grain,
and attend to every acre myself, ex-
cept during reaping and threshing
time, In summer I plow every acre
with it, and do all this myself, averag-
ing about 10 acres a day with a four -
disk plow. The last two years I plowed
500 acres on the average of 10 acres
a day; counting delays, breakdowns,
etc., and at the same time keeping the
tractor in A-1 condition, I don't claim
to be breaking any records, but if you
put these figures before the ordinary
small -tractor owner he night consider
then well 'worth looking at.
After I ant through plowing I -disk
my land and put it all in good condi-
tion for seeding time. I do all this
with the tractor. But when the time
comes to seed I rent a fete Horses, as
I need them only a short time. I
figure that this is cheaper than the
equipment would cost to fix up a good
rig .to seed with my tractor. But I
expect some day I might also do this
job with a tractor. When reaping
time conies there is nothing that beats
a tractor in pulling a reaper. I have
seven speeds of my tractor and I set
it to go about 8,5 to 4 miles en hour
and you ought to sec tha bundles conte
out.
Otte thing that will eel my utoy
shorter than that of some 02 your
readers' ,is that 1 will not lie able to
tell you anything about breakdowns,
as i Haven't had n breakdown in Ilia
two years T have owned my tractor.
Now, I don't want to claim that T
haven't had any i'opeir bills, but they
have been small, became I altvey5 re-
pair and replace in time. I look my
gcter over every new mid `then, necl
2 look lot went karts that need re-
placing. So I keep my tractor always
in good shape, mud avoid Large repair
bills. I do .4111 the repairing myself,
and don't let anybody oleo fool with
it. ':This to Ano thing that cuts clown, 1
rile i#n,� cu.ro m ;,eta ,.
I ata very enthusiastic over .ad=
farming, and it can't be boat in my
opinion if the farm is any way doeont
and the man operating it uses just a
little common sotto; that is all that le
required to make a modern tiaotoe a
5000085, Machinery ,in a :few years
is going to playa still greater tale
ire modern agriculture, -.-+B. L. W,
Experiments in. Agriculture.
Almost every farmer. in Canada is
interested itieeme phase 4f the agri-
cultural work carried on by the
Dole uuoe ?Experimental Per= Sya-
ten both et Ottawa anti on the twenty
branch farms distributed between the
Atlantic and the Pacific, The work
covered on these ferule includes in-
vestigations with live stock, field
crops, fruit growing, tobacce, begs,
poultry and, in fact, all 'branches of
agriculture adapted to Canadian con-
ditions, The Report of the Doininion
llxeerimental Farms for the Fiscal
Year 1919 is obtainable from the Pub-
licetions Branch, Department of ,4 gri-
eultu e, Ottawa. This report records
many valuable and interesting expert -
mote that aro under way, Among
these are experiments in feedinglive
stock for market, and summer and
winter experiments in fattening swine.
The Bee Division gives a preliminary
report of its experiments with two
queens in one hive, and in the Division
of Economic Fibre Production the var-
iety test and the prairie flax straw
experiments ere outlined. Throughout
this publication there are many vale-
able conclusions stated which are
based on the experimental work con-
ducted at these farms.
Dutch Give Portable Town
to Stricken. French.
Many a Canadian tourist will be sur.
prised this summer to find just out -
tilde the war-torn city of Letts, France,
ROOTS, BALKS, HERBS
Known ty Passers unequaled Value
In $prjna Ailments
Are prominent ingredients o'l
Hood e Sareapas'ilfa, in whish they
fattreoti8oye, combined as to be aiioit ef-
This great blood -purifying and
strength -giving medicine is easily
the leading proprietary medicine
for: the blood, stomach, liver • and
kidneys, whieh almost universally
san
needd s attenttake 1t itt theaftesprriyenga, r Thwithou-
ion .y
entire satisfaction for that 'tired
felling, that loss of appetite, that
eruption on the face or body, and
that low or 'run-down condition of
the system so common now. And
they enthusiastically recornniend it
to others,
Begin taking it at onoe,' three
times a day after meals. It is
pleasant to. •take and 'cmakes food
taste good,",.
Ir you need a laxative or other -
tie, take Hood's Pills, You will
fnti them gentle and thorough.
a quaint Dutch village. The village is
a gift from the people of !Tolland to
the returning citizens or Lens. The
hoasee, all of wood and of an ingeni-
ous, knockdown construction, are now
awaiting shiptuent from the Netllan
lands; where the parts were sawed and
fitted.
Welfare of the Home
Baby's Second Summer.
•
By IDA M. ALEXANDER, - M.D.
If the teeth -have been coming in at
a normal rate, the baby should have
eight teeth at ten months -of age and
the really healthy baby has not been
cross, because he had has plenty of
cool water to drink, If the teeth have
come .in very slowly, I take it for a
sign •that the baby's stomach very
slowly is getting ready for more food,
and more caution is necessary •in in-
creasing the baby's food as to variety.
If all has gone well, one more meal
may be changed from nursing to
spoon feeding. If it is now summer,
then this feeding had better be a
sauce made of good prunes, that have
been cooked until soft and, then put
through a colander. Cut slices of
bread thin, roast them in the oven
till they are a light brown and soften
the bread with the prune sauce. This
should be one meal. In winter, clear
broth with the toasted bread may be
used and the brothmay be made with
fresh beef, veal, mutton or chicken,:
When the third meal is changed into
spoon feeding, gine wheat cereal that
has been boiled one hour, or oatmeal
that has been boiled for four hours.
ing, and the baby, intereated in man3
things in the niorniiig, will not miss
that morning feeding very much; the
mother having gradually cut off 'ons
feeding and then. the .other will not
have 'such bard work'to "dry up het
milk," as 'elle calls it. Nature is
very, sensible, if you 'will work with
her instead• of against her. When
baby is put to the breast less encj less
often, she will -take more and more
time to make tip the baby's mills ,sup-
ply, until' at last the breast milk ceas-
es to come at all. It, is so much -easier
for both mother and baby to change
to the new foods gradually and take
never more than one new food at one
week.
You may find it hard to keep the
over -wise ,people from interfering
with the baby's diet. "Oil, give her
a taste of that cake, it won't host
her!" one will say. "Why I gave my
babies potatoes long before they were
as old as your ba -by," your sister or
mother -may tell you. I know o, e
mother to whom I had given ' -special
instructions. as to diet and s'.hc had
promised to let me decide the rate at
This is to be served tvith•whole mills, which new foods should be given.
When the fourth meal of the day When the threshers were at the 1pi;'e,
is dropped off, let this be the night the kind neighbors, wee•acre hst.pie�
g her, fed the baby. when the mother
nursing, because if the mother is tired, -teas - busy, in spite of the -mother's
she is giving tired milk and tired milk orders 'against it, • and their excuse
means a baby that is eestiess at night., .was "it' won't hurt her `any." She
Better make the night feeding one ,of lyse' restless all night and eke: the
oatmeal gruel and milk, or the plain next dap, but the kind neighbors did
milk, got foot the doctor's •bili nor did they
Last of all, drop the morning nun- help het with the extra work,
.THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
Jonathan. and His Armorbearer, 1
Sam. 14: 1-46. Golden Text,
-• Joshua 1: 6.
1-3, He told not his father. When
Saul came up from Giigal to join his
son at Gtbeah he had only six hundred
men left out of his army of three
thousand. The •Philistine fusee was
very large in comparison with the
combined numbers of Saul and Jona-
than, but the numbers given in 13: 5
may have been increased by a scribe's
error, Thirty thousand chariots would
have been of little use in that ragged
and mountainous. country. Besides
three bands of raiders had gone out
from the Philistine eamp in different
directions, thus materially reducing
the numbers of the main body. 'In
any case, however, Saul must hems
been in great anxiety and distress of
mind, and it is not at all likely that
he would have given consent to so
rash an adventure as that- proposed
by his son. So Jonathan, and the
young mail who bore his shield -and
weapons, stole away on their daring
expedition without any of the people
knowing.
Saul .tarried itt Gibeah, his tent
pitched in tate shade of a pomegranate
tree. With itim was the pviest Ahlah,
or "A1lijah," a groat -grandson of 1011,
wearing au ephod, that is a sort of
cloak or coat, covering the shoulders
and secured rotnid the 'waist by n
girdle, which was the distinctive
priestly garment.
4-5. Between the passages, or
"passes." These may have been ra-
vines running down from one side 01
the other into the stain valley, by
means of which 3t was easy to go
down, cross over, and ascend on the
other side without being seen. Two
sharp tori.s, or rocky crags, are men-
tioned, "The one erng rose up 041 the
north in tient of Michmtish, twad the
other on the south in front of (leba"
(see Rev. Version). The mein valley"
is described by, Kelman as "the gully;
of lefiellmualt;' and as "not like a
valley, but a crack in the rocks, hum 1
deeds of feet deep;"
6-10. "To save by many or by few.",
These words o2 coinage and of faith.
have been abundantly justified both
in Jewish and in Christian history.
Victory has not always gone to the
greatest numbers or to the strongest
battalions. Compare Judges 7: 4-7
and 2.Chron. 14: 11. Before the battle
at Beth-horon, in which the 1.ttle band
of heroes -under Judas Maccabaeus
faced •a big army, Judas is said Is
have spbken these great words: "With
heaven it is all one, to save by many
OT by few; for victory in battle steed-
eth not in the multitude of a host,
but strength is from heaven." (1 afesr.
8: 16-21; compare bleb. 11: 34.) -
"This shall be a sign." It was char-
acteristic of the faith of that age to
loop for indications of God's will in
signs and omens. Ccmeara the store
.of Gideon and the sign, cr otnen of
the dream in Judges 7: 0.15,
11-18. "We will she;v yon a thhlq•"
The Philistines indulge itt :nlrrineent
and scoffing -at the expense of the tee:
who are coming toward them up Os
harrow pass in tate rocks. In that
barrow space they could go but one
at a time, and Jonathan, who ryas :t
sturdy fighter, cut theni Clown. Tlis
brave servant followed him clo"ciy.
The two, with God, were a host th ;t
day.
14-15. ••A half sore of land, Thu
two adventurer: had reached the tort
of the ascent and wire cngagng the
I',hilistine garrison, which must haus
been totally unprepared fo;• so amaz-
ing
t .ing nn assault, Already twenty mei
had fallen, when suddenly the ear h
quaked. Panic seized the 1'htli+ti:n±
garrison, already alarmed, n .g the;,
took to flight. mitering hither mid
thither,
1.6-46. The wat,'hmei. of S.a,tl saw
tlio tumult and flight of the enemy and
told him of it. The absence of Jona-
than and his servant was discovered.
Where were they? 'What had hap-
pened? The ,priest was calllc;l to briny
the sacred ophod (not the ark) and
consult the oracle, Then Saul and his
melt joined in the battle, tromplotin;'
CM? rout of the enemy, So the Lord
saved Israel that day.
Bat Soul's rash and foolish oath
(v. 34) nearly cost him and his people
the life of his gallant sot, See vv.
25.46.
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