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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-9-2, Page 2G. D. lileTAGGART D, IlleTAGGAET .McTaggart A GENERAL BANKING BUM. NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED, INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE. POSITS, SALE 'NOTES PIM* CHASED. -- IL T. RANCE -- NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY. ANGER, FINANCIALREAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- ING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT OFFICE, • CLINTON. 3v. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Office-- Sloan Block -CLINTON Olt J. C. GAND1ER Office Hours: -1,30 to 3:30 p.m., 7.30 to 9,00 p.m: Sundays 12.30 to 1.30 Pam Other hours by Appointment only. (Me and Residence -Victoria St. CHARLES B. RALE, Couveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE mid INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses HURON STREET, - CLINTON. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Heron. ' Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be _ made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, oe by callMg Phone 203. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. Win .flvel • -TIME TABLDO- • Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows.: BT/FFALO AND GODDRICE DIV. Solbg east, depart 6.33 a. . m2.52 p.m, Going West ar. 11.10, dp. 11.15 a.m. " ar., 6.08, dp. 6.47 p.m, an 11.18 p.m, LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV. poing South, Las 8.23, dp. 3.23 11 II 4,15 p.m. Going North depart 6.40 pm. AI " 11.07, 11.11 a,m. The IIoKi11op _ !Waal FiP0 Insurance Uomiany Head office, Seaforth, Ont. DIRECTORY: resident, Janes Connolly, Galeria; Vice., James Evans, Beechwood; -Bec.-Treaeurer, Thos. E. Hays See- torth. Directors: George McCartney, Sea - forth; D. F. kfcGreger,. Seaforth; G. 'Grieve, Walton; Wm. Rine, Sea. forth; M. hicEwon, Clinton; Robert Ferries, Hariock; John Benneweir, Brodhagen; Jaa. Connally, -Goderfcb. Ag'ents: Alex Leitch, Clueton; J. W. Teo, Goderich; Ed. flinch:ay, Seafartb; .W,. Chesney, Egmonawille; R. Q. Zar- th, Brodhagen. 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Communications intended foe publics. tion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the /AMA of the writer. G. E. HALL, M. IL CLARK, 1 Proprietor. " Editor, You should alway iteaP a bottle of Chamb &Mooch and Liver Tablets on the shelf, The if Ole folic so often need a re Id and' safe cathartic and they do antsreciate Chamb rlain'e instead of n unbolt s oilseed mixtures, Fof ssoiesch, easeentas eon s ,?..vm, sive ono just before going to bed. All clreasiktuSe, or, send to cliastatuale Media co., is Address comMunioailems to Agrenemist, /3 idelalde 9t. Wet : Termite When ena How to Use Lime. One most important office of ia to keep the sail in a eanitary eon- ditiom Acids constantly tend to feria in a eoil, •ititte 1i 10 nature's natural agamaY to combine with these acids anti destroy theiv tole effect. Lime- stone is our thief eauece of inateatal for ngO Vken there is a defielleneYr and man keened in an %Via &AY to bern and slake it to put it into eandi- Mon for dateibution. The lime in the atone is in a calaons ate fovm, and the sluiced. lime 'goes back to that form when exposed to the Dir. Perfectly air -slaked lime -is iclettleal with the 'origilial limestone in composition. Within recent times we have learned to put limestone into farm for easy disteibution by grind- ing or pulverizing, and the material is just as effective for correcting acidity as air -slaked lime'pound foe pound, if it is absolutely fine. Taste and experience upon tbousen.ds of farms prove that when the limestone has been made as fine as flour it is immediately available for combination with soil 'acids, and this is the chief work that we want lime to perform in the ground. And there the argument startaebe- cease there are degrees of fineness in limestone; there is the old contention that caustic lime destroys the humus; there is varying ease in distributing the kinds oa lime liven the market, and there is the reasonable expecta- tion that when freeh-buenedeime has so much "pep" in its make-up, and limestone seems th have none, the former must be the More dependable. It is acidity of the soil that Ss the handicap, and its correction is the one shatter of interest. The ,slalang of stone lime or the farm is a disagreeable job, and usu- ally is attended by some waste. In limestone sections where the stone was burned in large quantities and the lime was applied ear too freely, it was a common practice to throw the stone lime into piles in the field and let it slake. Reins would cease some of 4.h:a Bane to puddle and get fete una:vailable farm, and the distribution with a shovel was very uneven. The ability of the lime to be dis- tributed evenly and easily through- out the eon adds a great deal to its value per ton, and that is a considera- tion when choosing between lump lime and the hydrated. Manufacturers of the latter article , have been able to push sales extenelealy because they furnished a lime easy to handle and to distribute, and. many farmers have preferred to pay a long pnice for it rather than to slake the stone lime. There was the added inducement that the word "hydrated" had a scientific sound that might easily mean some sort of value added in a mysterious way. It is a good form, •and in actual strength lies between lump lime end pulverized limestone. , There certainly has been unneces- sary confusion in our thinlang regard- ing the fineness to which limestone should be reduced. Experiment sta. tion tests are conclusive that whea it is made as fine as flour there is al- most inunediate availability, but it doesn't follow that we should want all of the stone made that fine. The added expense to secure fineness is worse than wasted wherever an appli- cation is made to last through an ordinary crop rotation, because some of the soluble stone will leach out cif the soil. • The experience of practical farmers has brought probably the great majority of users of limestone to be- lieve that the expense of pulverizing the stone should be sufficient only to reduce all of it to a fineness permit- ting it to pass through a 10 th 20 - mesh screen. We then have a very considerable proportion that is ab- solutely fine and immediately avail- able, and this is in •sufficient amount to meet the soil's need for the time if the application is made heavy soh -alines celled the Moen- , tate Republie, is situated 12.470 feet abcive sea level, In the mavleetplete ' of its capital ice from its northen , Area is ROM tide by side with oranges from the eouth and eaetexe borders, The time te buy a eecona,hand ear is just before you move, to people in : the new n,eighborhood WiR think yeat have had it ell LIM tattle, enough to erOvale coerset parteelea for use in later years tof the rotatian as elieietegeation woes,. • . It must be borne in mind that the limo requirement of a soil continuous, ly increases, and if we apply only enough linie to. cerrect the acidity at a given time, tests made Rix menthe later will' ishow a presence of fl9rne free aed. It would /let be good business to meet the len"ej requfremeat of aialand. TT:axe are regions Whase COIN Etr3 so acid thea the only thing th do for the present ie tadea.end as fen, as poesible epee' aid-tesistant Planta etreb ad red.top grass tend some vegetablee and grains that are lege 6ensitive than the Movers. Theaost of applieatioas, sef- ficiena to torreet idl acidity would be too great for some areas -relate -Iran sources tof Rine. , sa - ' Oa the other hand, most liena lain'g within farms that are kept under a good crop rotationoshoula net lie left acid. 'The handicap uPon Production is too great. • ,Lime in some form should be supplied, anti by far the greatest Peet of these' deficient eats can be made friendly to the •clevees and fully responsive to leetilizers arta tillage by the application of two tone of moderately fine limestone applied once in each mop rotation of four years or so. • Some land is tee „deficient' in limp to grow red clever or to make maxis mum yields ea most crops, and, yet has a lime • deficiency that may be met by a single ton of limestone ma plied in 'each crop rotation. Ceetain- ly, where clover has failed 'one does net go tarries in tabig a ton of burn- ed lime M. two tons of limestone prior to the seeding to clavee and grass. If the applicatien is reasonably heavy, it is most profitable to make it eater a god has been broken for corn. The yield of earn will be greater be- cause bacterial attain in the soil will be promoted, and the tillage of the crop will mix the lime so thoroughly that the clover and grass seedecl with. the small -grain crop which followd .the earn will have every ahanee. If the application is not made suffi- dently heavy to supply the wants of the soil soundly for a crop tetation • the lime should be aapeled when the ground is being prepared for the 'small grain crop with which the grass and clover will be seeded, or when a seed bed istbeing made for grass and clover alone. The lime or lineestone should always go on the ground after the plowing has been done, bemuse the tendency of lime is to move down- ward. s.. Farmaniened aim may be put in with the manure spreader Or a lime datetbutor that in provided with a sieve to remove refuse material. The hydrate and the limestone are easily applied through a lime distributor, and the beat results are obtained when the ground is tharceighly disked after the aittributicin. We want A particle of lime in every cubic inch of soil. A high-grade lime marl is a carbon- , ate close in value to air-saiked lame, land air -slaked lime, we must remem- Iber, has practically the same value only as very finely pulverized lime- stone. Wood ashes formerly were an excellent seethe of lime, but have , ceased to have any large connnercial :place. The ashes upon the market I are apt to contain reach dirt and I moisture, and the lime often As kirge- ly in a carbonate form. Possibly athes is average condition 'upon the market have a lime content whose vahie is not ovev one-therd that of pulverized limestone or air -slaked lime, Tho exceptions to abaolute safety COTleerD only (1) the man who might apply,several tons of caustic lime per acre, adding no manure nor soda to supply humus, and (2) the owner of light sanely land, who should prefer a catchall to a magnesian lime if ap- plied in a caustic state. These exeeP- tione, as I have mid, have importance to relatively few people. If you are having soil trouble, it might pay you to leolt into the lime requirements of your farm. CAO'cioe Which is best'for little pigs just weaned, sour or sweet skim -milk? Also for smite nursing pigs? What would make a good ration for weaned pigs? I have plenty of pasture, skim - milk, middlings and bran, I intend to use a self -feeder. -L. C. • When pigs are old enough to wean from their mother I do not believe it makes much difference -whether the milk As sweet or sour. But one thing I should be particular about, is to not feed sour milk one time and sweet milk the next, As it is difficult to keep the milk sweet in the 'sunimea time I would prefer to feed the milk sour, then'the pigs always have the same kind of a ration, This will apply to the sows nursing pigs just as well as to the pigs. It does not destroy the -food value of milk very much to have it sour. Of course, if you leave it until it commences to decompose then it is not as good. ' A splendid ration for 'young pigs eight after they are weaned is skim - mill: and wheat middlings, I do not believe you could get anything better ancl there isn't anything better to feed youtg pigs in a, eelf-feedee than wheat middlings, unless it 15 animal tankage and, tif course, at the present time Oa is very high-priced. I would feed them a very veaseraibie amouet of middlings made into a thick slop with soar milk aiel then let them eat all the wheat !natal:rigs from the self- teedet they desire. Good pasture will reduce the feed bill. The only way to kriow the exaeL value of a tow is to knew how maity Patinas of mine ancl auttet she aro- duces hi a yea", Keeping 41 record is not ,ae Much work as,yea think, ' Foes lubrication, overloads,' alddu5b Ile for the fliat pla.60. tile tractor's worst eriarnyk wawa. ''D,Ohts With BorroWettMOney. All farmers are either doing beet- eI.oesesital/iiersecozeo,wint leer eb4esieencTiareid tthei4tpti t)avle. mak, eer Wiley earn at least Oa Per cent, Wilich is the 'eagle borrowing rata. Se, whether we aae using our own cash or emee Mama fellow', it pays to think a bit about 11,' Befere I bought a team I had Plenty toitinekaisnhg dheortuow°thinegwuo s wjelY,wItIal- waysll°1tpieta cash for what I ibOught, and had the all idea that to berrew money wee about tIM werst forin of bad management :a fernier coati in- dulge in. Now I cae, easily see, After ptlitiYllgfei8,"130faf he eite,thibaattiC?WrIelYOSilt' ,money 50 many easee by not letting a hill stand when the Matter dill not particularly waist tit paid. And I See some instances gime I have becen bor- rowing. where 1 might to 'haveborrow- ilreel.tble more in order to ave te Buying fertilizer is orie iastance that illustrates what I mean by this. Usuelly a fertilizer agent will give us a straight price and -then throw eV seven per pent. for cavil. I believe that it was six per cent. this year, though, Instead of seven. I knew of many fariners who wait 'till the harvest to pay the Xertilizer hill and also the seven'pee cent. ineerest. • In most cases we will say that this time le fur months. It might be more, and is less a good enemy times, as July ist seems to be the date here for settlement of fethilieer 'accounts. How- ever, a bal of $100 for commercial fertilizer would cost just three Claes the interest that a bank would charge. One can borrow the money' of a bank and have it three times as long Inc the same amount. To me these little nte5.tev,s of $4 and $3 mean easy n Tbe public sale is another place wheee money is thoroughly wasted. Bills will come out an.d state terms of sale as nine ninths on a note or three per cent. off for cash. In this case it is a aoas to pay cash when your note costs less than regular in- terest rates. One's credit Is as good at a bank, usually, as it is with his neighbors; it is simply a question of which cost less. All sake do net have the same term.s. With some it is Cheaper to pay cash for an article, while in others the owner Is willing to 'hold the notes himself; and since he does net want the money, there ismo inducement offered for it. , In dealing with some firms it pays to barrow money to pay the bills. If you have thirty days to settle or can get three per cent. or five per cent, for a cash settlement, it is easy to see which pays. One firm in 'my home town now offers five per cent. off on anything sold if cash is paid before leaving the yards. That is thally five per cent. intarest Inc a day against six per cent. for a year. Now, I don't want to infer that we should borrow alS the money we can, or that it is wise to get in debt aa much as possible. There are times, I am sure, with most farmers, -when it might the *better to lose a little interest than te tryto stretch our credit to far. However, I believe most of us who are trying our best to get there on the farm will find a lot mare credit waiting us at our banks than we ever supposed there was. The efficiency of the average farm horse can be tiecteased 25 per cont. by the observatice oe these eiraple pre- cautions: Water your horse frequently clueing the hot weather. This will overcome the danger of heavy tanking at in. frequenl intervaa. 'Feed regularly a ration uniform both as to kind and amount, to lessen; the clanger from colic and other storn-' etch troubles. Clean the collar every time ±1 18 put on, and keep it bearing' surface hard and smooth. Sponge off the horse Nen he comes Ati from work, espeeially where thel cellar ana other parts of the larehe.ss have left Mavlos. Sponge ant his mouth, nose, and eyes. Soak his feet thoroughly with (mid water, but de ±1.1171 thO hose on his body or legs. Wash his shoulders every night for si fesv weeks with cold salt water, Allow him to stop in the shade fete a few minutes whenever possible.' Watch the horse for drooping seers, unsteadiness 'of gait, short,. quick 'breathing, awi a etelden eetasing to sweat. They mean that the horse isi getting too hot, aq that he must have1 shade, cooler ale, and 1.‘eet immediate -I ly. If the hers° suffers a heat stroke, protect him Mein the sun, romeve the harnese, apply cold water 017 ice to the head, wash tut his mouth mut nostrils, and evolve his entlee body. Groom the week Isoowe thoroughly, This Will in- crease his health, vigor encl power. . Remembet that the horse preduces the greatest aliment ef' not power when delving a lead at a moderato gait, benee you got mon ofit ,of. bine by immesh* the los.d rather thaa tile Saved of, lam work hone. .• Provide as .cool a plaza as paeeible, Inc the lame at eight, or he will noti iti cenaltan to eland the heat end' work next 'day. Financial Notes Ottawa -From the trade statement just issued by the Department of Cus- toms, it is evident that Canadians are buying tremendous amoulits of goods still from the United Statea Hering the four months ended July 21st last imports into Canadd totalled the large sum of $473,572,580 against $284,897,- 013 in the same period last year, Ex- ports Irons Canada underwent a de- cline of fifteen millions in the same period, this year's four months ,show- ing being $342,112,423 against $357,- 883,897 in first four months of last year's fiscal year. Total trade amount- ed to $825,267,761 againet $658,787,- 357 in same four months a year ago. Toronto -Present indications point to the fact that Canadian newsprint Mallefectaxare at the beginning a 1001 Will be quotina $100 per ten for ilewsPelea Wben eewSPrInt clialbed to $100 per On meey ef the mama feeturers at the time' thovaht that' the Peek lied been reached, Since that time, however, corulitiOns have irr1- proved for the newepvint manufacters er to 311311 usi exteat that many of them agar° that $1.00 is hewer now than 000 per ton was bAgif toysat Nelson, B.0, -Western Canadien mines are still experting coal. A ship recently: left British Columbia fov Sweden with 4,poo tons of Nina, An4 It is said that oWing to the embargo On Atinntle Ports, there will he further lean shilnlieets from ,the Pacific IS bottom; can be secured. The Canadian Collieries et Nanahne, 13,0,r which elliPPed this cool are in a position to export large quantitieg and, WM the Prices obtainable in 'Europa will likely do so. At present, prices of coal in British Columbia ere lower than anywhere in the world, it ;le claimed. Sweden has been 'buying coal from Australia at A price delivered ef from $45 to $50 a tone and. English coal 's even -higher. • • The general concensus ,of opinion in banking circles appears to be that tight money well obtain loeally for spine time to eome. Owing, to the high. Cost of labor and large wage increases it is taking a great deal more money than formerly to peoduce the eame qeantity of goods. Th:s means -that industrial plants require more work- ing capital; and that the banks -are called upon for funds to, that much greater extent. Another factor in the •setuation is Che crop movement. As soon as the harvest is over tremendous shipmeets of grain will commence from the West to the East and the seaboard. The banks bear the thief burden of financ- ing the crop movement from the bane the grain leaves the farmers' hands until the price is remitted by the buy- ers. This takes a huge sum of money, and if the crop is as large as expected this year, it will temporarily tax severely the cash resources of the country. With these extraordinaey demands for funds it is unlikely that there will be a great deal of money available during the next two months for stock market transactions. - jff On farms where many of the cows are bred Co freshen in the fall, there may be sante difficulty in making but- ter come during the late summer and early fall. This is due to the fact that late in the lactation peeled, the fat globules are smaller than earlier in the' period, and correspondingly harder to gather in churning. There are eeveral other causes of difficult churning, also, but usually such a con- dition is due to one of three causes (1) the temperature is not right; (2) the cream is not the peeper richness or aaidity; or (3) the churn is too full. Use a thermometer Msteaci of guess- ing at the temperature. Set the sep- arator to skim good rich cream -30 to 35 per cent. is best; sweet cream is more adhesive or sticky than sour cream and therefore harder to them but if the temperature and richnese are right, this is not often trouble- some. The churn should be from half to three-fotirths full. Occasionally difficult, churning is due to certain abnoe•mal germs that get into the cream. When this is the case, the cream takes on a soapy con- sistency. This is the worst form of difficult churning to overcome. Scrup- ulous cleanliness and disinfection of the stable, utensils and all surround- ings are the only practical remedies for this trouble. The cream should be chinned with a steady motion. Too slow or too fast thernieg will not agitate the cream so as to cause the butterfat to sep- arate. The fat globules of Jersey ,and Guernsey cows are larger and separ- ate more easily than those of the Holstein. Certain feeds, such as grass, silage and athev succulent feedsatend to praline a softer butter, while dry feeds tend 1:0 produce butter of greater firmness. This ia one reason why the churning temperature is usually high - 01 in the winter than during the sum- mer. Cottonseed meal is known to produce harder butter. - • _1. 4 - The Welfare of the Home A Sp!eiall Corn& for the Baby By LENA MARTIN SMITH, We farm women do not often live in houses whioli afford an extra room for a nersery. • Baby meet- live close to mother, whether in bedroom ov living roam or, kitchen. Still, when preparieg for my facet baby, there floated in my happy &came, pictures ,of furniture designed fov use tip a baby's "own roon ." Bow 2 longed to fit up a eorner last foe him' The nerseries I had seen behregecl to feteedr, whose incomes were greater than is realized on our farm and, I knew- it would be poor judgement to skimp on soft little flannels in order to display a few bibs of white furni- ture. Besides, those same "bits" bought en a shop were beyond our meane. Still I Wanted I:pedal fitting's fee my Baby and I est my mina at work. I found a discarded •canvas cot wall two nice laeg pieces of wood alone; the tides that would make four of the nicest kind of bed posters. In a discarded iron.ug board I saw long • pieces of smooth wood that I knew could be used to build ft screen. A Line old-fashioned washstand I could use, as the foundation for a toilet band, A solid old kitchen &air I knew could be remodeled for baby's. -"nuns - Old chest of demi:ere that had been used kat storage, eompleted the list of things to ,be conveveed into that "nursevy," perthosed 55 Nth of white paint which with three coots would make a smooth egg shell vreeltable finisla, ifieo bought nursery cloth with winch to make the top part of me screen and, 4 .scarl for the ,buteam ". , I The Favver ramar, Elizabeth !Mks doesn't know llOY/ to ANA GP, . And dusting she Iles te deltara , Seggeattalai gI fliShwashieg MOWS her to weeP, But 015, aeIv elle cleans Up the oar! Young Percival atria* IS • to water wirers% And keeps from Its preeenee afar, aflintlees he looke on as saimao 11 04155, . But eh, aow he washes the earl aehoshaplatt Jinks Mindy at all, Afi many good how:Molders ere, .itt, vain for hie help. will the femily 01511, But oh, bow he nibs up the tax! The chest of drawers was cleaned and painted three coats ,of white, the long &essay scarf added and there was an ideal Wardrobe for Baby's clo•thes, bed' clothes 'and for many of my pee - pared articles for confinement. • The bed for Baby was male into a strong frame, tacked with clean can - Vale, draped with old white 501101 cue- tain material frostily laundered, filled with a tick al sun -fragrant oat straw and feathar mattress, peas and wool- len blankets, all made foom old ma- terials ca hand, whith 'were tbleachn and .etterilleed. The screen we made into two sec- tions, and while it gave so real news - erg atmosphere, a Was also very ser- viceable foe the bath and for protect- ing the bed from light and too strong draughts. The toilet sthial was relieved of its extra pieces) cleaned arta painted. It feints/led a handy pleas for Baby's basket and the lAtle drawer Was dedi- cated sto such En:tales as .absorhent cotton, extra papers of safety pins and so oto. The lege of the chair were slim:ten- ed "And the back pertly emoved so it would tako up •les space, It is o l•oVely low chair foe mc to alt ott When handling ley wee one, These pieces I have grouped all In one corner in our bedroom so that Baby's bed is very dose to mine. The pieces for the Loilet meet be Ian -toyed close to the hin 6 or tho bath but are quickly atel; beat mite place 'again I have been snood at my friends •esteltimatiens ea delight twee this little nursery desigegd Inc the neW wondei of the world, „ Overgrazing will ruin the best :of aasturee. MEDICINAL ROOTS, 11E13138, • DADIi$ AND BERRIO$ IA)onidi tholthivoirnvalle7rtelcvliceszlt:olt)Liellst and S'Oeolenealded Irs the beet niedIcal boolcs arO eelabinal in Xfoodis Stir- eeparilla, la builds up, the blood, improves the appetite, invigorates the digestion, tones the okomath and (met nerve strewth ee AS to pretnoto permanent focal health.° gati Merit- ed and hold the pethio of talrAO_,.....gbfb• orations, You should give it Ari a gentle thorough °Atha -et -le rnany reeonenend Hood'e the Tele of Man was prectleally ars lionnocItirpeeilairitdt lienpitlelrg7cd6ho5ai,isiae aut laiatialllotShe.00:31.$1;51110eth,s. -- 000, plus an annuity of $10,000 a year, The Hot Lunch in the School During the last few years there hoe been a vete? great many improvements made in the aletrat echoel. In place of the unsanitary school, house and poor teimhere, proper ventilation and tight and a arst-claes teething staff have been rated in. But still the Xra- tarn is not contented to sit back arel wateh,-the people desire atilt further to improve the conditions ie the karat diethicts, ,and this thee by installing a permanent system 'by which the .chilatenenight he given a vairm lunch tut ntote. They are mat .doting this in terms of' pies and puddings., but are giving the children good strengthen , - ling soups •witth acaeional dishes 'of rice and macaroni.' Under the best home conclitions,, the rural school girl's or hoy's lunch is unsatisfactory for many reasons, chlefest, it is 'always a cold lunch. Even where a thermos bottle is car- ried, the extra work and time taken in preparing it, and in the child's eyes, the embarassing tontrast wieh hie schoolmates' cold repast makes it un- desirable again. Again theenios bot- tles are very expensive in the hands of children. - It commonly happens that the lunch is frozen on the way .and may remain so until noon. At best, it is difficult and expenaive to put up lunehes that are well baloneed. The tendency is toward too much bread and cake and too little of vegetables, fruit, rirotein and liquid foods. A Successful Experimeut. - In one district echool the senior teaeher, who had just elosed years of experience in eity sehOole, was struelt with the lack of "attack" during the afternoon sessions. The vigor seemed to grow weaker as the afternoon wore on and a seemingly unwarranted a- mount Of effort was necessary to get any work done. • - • . At a Parent -Teacher's meeting the teacher broached the eulijeot and gain- ed the support of the parents: The mothers were enthusiastic. If suc- cessful, it solved tone of their constant worries, for bread and butter, a cotkie •anel a little frrta from home with the school's hot (EA would supply their children with a wholesome luncheon. In the experiment, it veas desirable to work out the problem from the standpoint of the one-romn dietriet school and the' conditions that prevail there. At such it might be of value the Movement Inc the Betterment of Rural Schools. Therefore the item, of time mast be given first considera- tion. Although the good derived might justify some little sacrifice of time, there is so much work to be done in the six hours for instruction that none can be spared. This extra work . - must be done outside of recitation hours, which means before ttehool anti at recess, as there are no "study - periods" for the teacher of the rural school. School Lunch Recipes. Re:ince to be used must he of very simple operation, anti finally these were chosen: 1. Potato soup. 2. Bean soup. a. Vegetable soup. 4. Rice, boiled in milk. 5. For mem, three quarts oe two quarts oS Yalta?, four ounces sugar and four ounces cocoa are used. At recese heat a little water ad make a cocoa paste with the cocoa, bet water and swans At 11,15 an older pupil lights the fire, sets the lcettle contain - Mg the milk arta water onto it with the flame turned medium. . At 11,45 the cocoa paste is tamed into- the big kettle. 6. Two pounds of beef etevs, cut rather small, with a little fat and a bone or two for flavor, one quart car- rots cut in &terra pieces, 0110 pint of onions ellotel, two quarts of poto.toes, in pieces the size of a walnut, a little flour and five ortearte of water, Put the beef Alld water on as soon as pos- sible in the morning. At reeess put all the vegetables in and stir up tbe flour thickening. At 11.45 stiv in the thickening and add salt and pepper, turn down the fire. 7. Macaroni is put 00 in four quarts of water, cold, at them. Milk and chees.e, salt and pepper added at 11.45. Three pounds cif mamma and 1/4 pound of cheese with one quart of whole milk and two ounces of butter are used Inc twenty-five pupils. No Time Wasted. These recipee have proved satisfac- tory in .regard to time, taking abso- lutely maims away from the regular routine of .school duties and very little of the recess periods. Equipment wits the next question to be 'solved. A two -burner kerosene stove, e second-hand kitchen table and a. second -head cupboard were pur- chased by the township trustee. He provided also enough cheap, large oat- meal dishes an,d cheap teaspoons for the entire school. Masa are all the dishes that ere needed, as even the cocoa %nay be seraed readily in them, A twelve -quart granite kettle, two t:n. dishpans, a Large spoon, a granite soup ladle, two paring knives, a quart dipper, an old fork, a two -quart basin and cover, three trays, from the five and ten cent store, and three dish towels completed the equipment and. it has b•een seffieientt for every need. In organizing this effort, a week's menu was planned and necessary pur- chases Made. The menu is repeated the next -week, with possibly a change on Friday. It is sent home to the in -other so that she may plan the lunch to supplement the hot dish. The fol- lowing has worleed well: Monday, potato soup, Tuesday, macaronA and Cheese or stew. Wednesday, vegetable soup. Thursday, rice, Fricla.y, eocoa or bean soup. All supplies that may be obtained in the district are brought by the piapils. Whole milk and clairy batter are sup- plied at -wholesale maces. 'Vegetables are ,brolight When available. , Whole milk and geed butter contain vita - mines necessary to growth and no subeatutes for than sh,ould be used in feeding children. This menu re- quires only one-half peeled of butter every two weeks. The older pupils of the school were divided into four committees, aversg- 5. Cocoa, ing four to each committee. A com- a Beef and vegetable stew. nlittee is on duty one week. Their du- Ivtacaroni or spaghetti creamed ties ate to help prepare the food, serve with cheese. boys carry in a pail of water, dispose the diehs anti wash the dishes. The 1. Patato soup is made simply. Foe 02 garbage and dithWater and keep diced raw potatoes with es the eil stove clean. They also help twenty-five children, three pints, onion in three quarts of cl/of'hiptiorl'atteorf,' serve the pupils and teachers. The ath prepared ,before school, .and put on girls help prepare the food, do what la the twelve -quart leettle at recess, watching is necessary, help Farm the 10.15 a,m, At 11.30 a gall'on of whole food and wash the dishes. Once a week milk, two otence,s good butter, salt and the ,connnittee renovates the cupboard pepper are added and the Inc turned, and k'tchen, The committee is under low. At twelve this is piping hot and the close supervision of the teacher at is a great favorite. all times alai the teacther fills the navy beans and la Pound salt clishes so that all burns, are avoided How Expenses Arc Met. 2. Semi soup requires two pounds of I better lio,up if put to soak the aftet-' three •cents a dish and the second pork, it (and justice upheld). This may be cut in. very small pieces, As to expeimes the first month the or left whole. The beans will make cost was a very small fraction over 'float befoth and, put ot to boil 41.$ 5000 slightly under three cents a dish. The as possible in the morning. Salt the pupil pays the thre,e cents a day and soup at; Tense, and serve at neom an amulet is made of the number ai 8. Vegetable eoup requires move clays lie is serve,c1 the hot dish, At the time than any other dieh but may be end of the month a statement is nsade managed Mealy by n forethonght..,' out for each family with a record of Prepare the vegetables the'afternoon the number of days each child has before and have them thanding in cola been s,ervecl and credit given lor any water, or 'better have an place pupil material supplied. This goes home er two help before school in the morn- with the report caret and the monee Mg, A fifteen ce,nt soup bone, ten may he rent when the card is retuned. mecliu,m sized aotatoes., five onions, This bookleeeping es very simple, all 1.C\V carrots, celery leaves, a little ncords ateleept in one tablet and each chopped cabbage, may be mit filth the .menth's reeord is complete in itself. big Icettle with aeven or eight quarts: Some of the pleasmit effects -noted of water before seho,ol. At eecests put ave the imprcived afternoon eonditions, in a piet of tomatoes, a half tupful the lengthened leech period, better so - of rice, with salt and pepper. This • &lability among the boys and girls at makes a thick' miktly flavotad. eoup, the luncheon holm and the gratefel guaranteed to proeleco any cheeks. appreeiation of the echeol patetaol. Sometimes the soup May be made with The work is done in a small roam, two pounds of veal shoulder and, a ,aniainally intended for it teseacra • lc/made. The lean veal is then saved, etudy, To avoid odors where there is • diced and mixed into boiled rice the no such room available a tin hood with next day, This Is a dtls,h meth ,a 'chimney 'naming out a tin 'window -when one quart whole mornin ',ship end is iltils:p;C;paill'Aedetit'l'f°:fvrienb71 athilLits°7ow'ens- ed 'by the ,older pupas: w:1010 tpainceezsoeeltiloei 4, Two p,oun.de of rice,asisi put on at INSCIC8S in five quarts of water, boiled till half past eleven, tenk, About a plain a week Is nsott, two .ounces. of better, end Pfs'asillnantite' bAiamtl-ebiliwinti7.1rat= NIVV1171e(111 Obsethal3eetieu:ntee added, If moat is eat added, vv.]. on many aseasione the community and e little elenteniet may be served 'mode the kager stove. to those who like it. Riee sure to wey mit of the countreee stick to the kettle melees Watch:0, mei grc..11est rralems has been eettted 11 "trtisty" Mast be asks,i to wskli it, one lilt's rlistrict schOOL Wo real- ' n:Tllll1nrnI:ansi%0 hIA te11:°11%3tliee'il.a th4iteee11%:a:Ia.antiat1,10,0113 rsesssty, aftot5 which la reallY varY -hut litA your community?