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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-11-4, Page 2G , D. MeTAGOART M. D. MeTAGGATte McIaggart Bros. et GENERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS TRANSACTED, NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS SSUED, INTEREST ALLowEp ON DE- POSITS, SALE NOTES P011." CHASED. • — , IL T. RANCE -- NOTARe PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL REAL Ee'reiTE AND FIRE liNSUlts ANCE .AGENT. REPREeENT. ING 14 FIRE •rNSURANCE COMPANDeS. DI VISION COURT oPtleB, ozi'r N. W. 1111Y DONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY ,puBLic, ETC. Mice— Sloan Block --CLINTON • DR. J. C. GANDIIIII Unice Hours -1.8O to 3.30 p.m 1.30 se tine pm. Sunday( 12.30 t 0 1,80 p.m. Other bourn by appointment only. °Mee and Residence—Victoria St • CHARLES 11. MALE, _ Conveyancer, Notarw Public. Commiesioner, Etc. .REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE lather a Marriage Licenses MURON STREET, — CLINTON. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of 11 aron. 'Correspondence .proamtly a,nswered. lnunediate arrangements. can 'be made for Sales Date mt The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. ' ele-A •LW esear.,§Tieeeete," —TIME TABLE— Trains will arrive at and depart front Clinton Station as follows: 13LI5'FALO AND G'ODERICH DIV, Going east, depart 6.33 a.m. 2.52 p.m. Deem West ar. 11.10, dp, 11.15 a.m. " ar. 0.08, dp, e.47 p.m. an 11.13 p.m. LONDON, I-1. Mee & BRUCE DIV. Going Sonch, ar. 8.23, cp, 8.23 0,./D, 4.15 p.m. Going North depart 6.40 p.m. 11.07, 11.11 a.m. The illliCillorY •Mutual FIFO Insirallee Company .1-1e4d office, Seaforth. Ont. HI RECTOR .Y riesident, Janes Connolly, GoderIch; Vice., :lames Evans, Beechwood; liee,-Treasuren Thoa, 1114" $M. forth. Directors: George McCartney, S. forth; D. li'. McGrerr, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, Walton; ‘Vin. ltins. Sea. fsrth; M. McEwen, Clinton; Robert Ferries, Harlock; John &inflows% Crodhagen; Jas. Connelly, Godorich. Agents: Alex Leitch, Clinton; J. W. '110, Coderich; 1d. Hinelney, Beaforth; AV, Chesney, Egmonovillo; ft. C, gees teeth, Brodhagen. ts»y money be paid a may hs ilfid to Moorish Clothilif, Co., Clinton. .r at Cutt's Grotery, Goderich. Parties cloths to 'skeet insurance ei transact • ether besinose win be promptly attended to on application to try of the aturie officers addressed to their respective post offic.). Lessee fed by the dlimeter whe Uses .....arest the scene, Clinton News -Record I LINTON, ONTARIO, ermso subscription -32,00 per year, in mirance to Canadian addresses; $2,50 to the 13,5. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued untii ail arrears are ;mid unless at i he option of tho publisher. The date to which every subscriptlen it void is denoted on the label. Io ertIsalit totes—Transient isiver. liniments, 10 tents per nonpareil line tor tirst insertion and 6 cents line for each subsequent inset - %ion. Small advertisements- not Us tercet' one inch, such as ' Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., insert - 14 once for 35 cents, and each shine - intent insertion 15 cents. Communications intended for publics. tion must, 03 tt gllotanteo o coot! faith, Ile accompanied by the neme 00 s, viten G. E. HALL, M. R. CLARE, Preprietor. 'Editor. Mail eoxes are so expensive nosv that it is worth while to protect them by an oerasional coat of paint. Ordie- ary house paint answers the pnrpose very well, but fee boxes finished in o Japan, etove enamel trinket' a very good refirdsb. It imparts a brilliant, glossy bra*, and stands expoarre splendidly, not neeeteutry to renew the ex- , tetiot metal tvork on latildings every- etwe a three yeas. A. now- that of Mt every yea or to laity math shuns tonsidetably lees betels for the tirmer end thole; but It win save the owner of the building t lth 'at thong Mid keep the painters letis3e, Deleon bet AM stettial peopellee, TattplistitiOttS Veleiele MO been built iikat mime 60 miles 835 hone ever seelOoth teazle and theeetheiffs that ',Mead ova Watert •-•• ihddrese communications to Agrotionlist, 73 Adej'aida St. West, Toronto Winter Plge. As a generalrl, theta is len to be made from winter or fall pigs than from thew farrowed in the epeine., If the spring pigs can be broegbt to A merketable weight before the mar- ket declines the best profit can 1m realized; boevever, this is more or less o tratable. There is a good deal of high-priced feed fed tosthe spring lit - tees during the spring and early van - mem ad when the prices fall thew i$ in many cases a lees or a very narrow margin of profit. With the fall litters it is best ecir the pigs to come in Seereendeme but those that come •later, even into the winter, can be profitably fitted tor the market in the epring or later, while the prices are still high. One of the mainmobits is to have good sows. They must be of the meet -producing type as well as the sire, not necessarily anythieg fancy, .1)338 of &ea, strong, robust constite- tions, as neer the perfect type as can be obtained. • The sows should be. kept in the best of condition from the time they are bred until the pigs are -wean- ed, then the pigs will hams a good start when they are born. The pigs must have a warm, dry place to sleep. Beards can be fasten- ed up on their edges to enclose e. pen six or eight inches deep in which the bedding can be placed. There should always be a good supply of bedding furnished and it should be changed frequently. Plenty of thee nests should be made so that the pigs will not 'crowd too much and get over- -warm. It is a very good plan to have an oiler, but a small amount of oil poured along their backs occasionally will keep their skin in good condition, as well as- destroy any lice which may be present. It is by- far the best plan to let the pigs feed themselves from self -feed- ers, the object being to keep them full of the right feeds at all times. As soon as the pigs begin' to •travel around before they are weaned they should have atheis to a feeder 'With shelled corn, tankage, and a mineral mixture. They will begin to eat these while they ,are quite young. II skim - milk is available it will help 'material- ly to give them a good start. Water shopld be before them at all times. With this feed they will grow fat and -will be nice and fat when they are -weaned, practically weaning them- selves. With this layer of fat on their bodies they are able to with- stand the told and will continue to make good gains throughout the win- ter and can be put on the market in the spring or early - summer while the prices are still high. It costs more per hundredweight to raise fall pigs than spning pigs, due to the lack of pastimes. However, this is offset by the higher prices. If care- ful attention is paid to all deteilee it is, in zny eetimation, profitable to raise fall pigs. Duning the winter one's time is less expensive and more care and attention can be given. Why So Many Farm Flocks Are Failures. During our local poultry show a farmer said to me: "We keep a hun- dred hens, but they do not pay—eat least they do not pay as well as they should. I am disgusted with them." He invited one to COMO Out and look them over and said that several mem- bers of his community would like to have some advice on poultry -raising. As a number of those families had children who were interested in poul- try Mule work in our township club, I volunteered to go. Your trouble may not be their trouble, but perhaps the twenty or more farms visited will give Mlle (Idea of a few of the things that may keep poultry profits down. Of course, all of these farms were not losing money from their hens—far from i8—but they wore not reaching the nmximum profit for some of the following reasons:, Poor houses, lin- peeper methods of feeding, lack of care, and inferior quality of the stock itself. Taking the matter of house room first, I found that tee first outstand- ing fauet Was lack of floor space. Fif- teen foams averaged 91 hens each, but the total floor spate in the houses on these farms was less than 3,800 swam feet'. It ehould have been the accept- ed rate of four square feet pa hen. During fine weather it was not tee bad, but when it was stormy teeny of the housee were 'so small that the birds were forced to alt humped up. Many of these houses were always damp, and few were either conveniently ar- ranged or comfortable, In thie theneetion dt, may be said that six mar bouses had beer' receet/Y built in this community, end *bile thee' UoVO Of tYpis anartmed 337 ax - pertinent statione and Dietetical peel- teymen, in so far as their geneeal lithe went, in every single instance the owner bad, either incorporated etnne •of his own ideas or left out something which he considered of miner importance. These, things. had lowered the efficiency of the house to O Marked degree, and in at least one case made it penotically worthless. There tom any number of building types that will fit the average farm, but unless you have time to experi- ment, and are willing to suffer prob- able loss it is to aceept them as they and, The very thing you leave out or change may be the thing which has made the house successful. A common belt is in buEding houses too high, wasting maerial and leaving an excess of cubic space. This takes mare feed in order for the fowls to heat it. Peculiar designs, extra height, and freak construction cost more, and usually detract ,frore the worth of a poultry building, and if we remember that the plain shed roof is as good as any, and better than most, 'that square construction is the theap- est construction, and that the type of house designed by our experiment sta- tion was built to fit the needs of that partithlar locality, we -win seerld less money and have better homes for our hens. Another feature that is of common occurrence is the practice of locating the poultry house in out-of-the-way .places. None of these houses on the farms visited. had feed bins built in them. Where the feed must be carried from the barn or crib twice each day, too much extra work is necessary. This is especially true when the men- folk are busy and the work of caring for the hens falls on the women. Every house, of whatever construction, should have built-in feed bins capable of holding at least a week's supply of grain. It should also contain a mash hopper, for a pert of the hen's ration Meet be ground feed if maximum re- sults are to be attained. Even of it is -nothing more than ground corn, ground oats, and wheat bran, this ground feed iti essential, for a hen cannot turn enough whole grain into eggs to reach the most profitable point in ptoduction. Except on a very few of the farms visited,no mash or green food was given the hens, It is a significant fact that those few farms that were doeng this showed the best prate. One farm was getting good results from cabbages, beets, turnips, and other vegetables which had been grown and stored for the purpose. Another sprouted oats daily, while another de- pended on mangels. When we -consider that' as much as 25 per c'ent: of the hen's rations may be composed of such feed, and that it invarlablY increased egg production and the average health of the flock, the result of this lack can readily be seen. Most of these farms could have raised the quality of their stock to an advantage by the introduction of high- elass melee, and all of them could have stood a rather severe calling among the females. The best proethere 011 some of them would have been to sell .,the flock outright, and replace it with purebred stock after faults in housing bad been earected, or to hatch eggs from purebred, vigorous breeding stock, and gradually get rid of the mongrels. However, even these might have bee n made to pay a better re- turn for the time and money invested af some of the foregoing hue:trances had been eliminated. One of the hardest things to correct on these farms, and in fact on all farms where poultry is a aide line, is the variety of personal attention the hens receive. Mother is busy, so she tells Johnny to run and feed the hens, the job falls to Sister the next day, and perhaps the hired girl hs s her hand in it too. As a consequence, the hens go for days, or even weeks, without the per- sonal attention of the person most in- terested in them. It is diffieult to get around to this, and perhaps the best method is to turn the -poultry work over to some member of the family that has sufficieet interest, and whose time can be .best spared, Usually the job falls on Mother, whether she is busy or not, so every conveuience should be provided that will aid her in calling for the hens. Of these the feed bin, the mash hopper, and the water fount are the most important. preventive of diarrhoea. Warmed castor oil is necessary when this con- dition shows itself—usuelly by ex- crement of yellowish color—a tee. - spoonful and a half for a hen, two for O rooster. Food should be Welted to dry rice and corn. Each bird should be given, for at least three days, pill8! made of- a heaped teaspoonful of pow-, tiered chalk mixed ,with one-half tea -I spoonfel of powdetecl ginger. This I combination 11 harmless, so no exact! number ef pilisheed be named. HI diarrhoea develops into dysentery, five drops of chloranodyne, obtainable at any drugstore, should be given on O lump of sugar. Use seven drops for vooster. Follow the dose with a tea- spoonful Of tepid water ea each bird. While thie medicine is timing adminis- tered, soft food is most suitable with a verse small amount of grain. e To .strengthen birds'the following powder may be used, a tee:goat:fel for the hens or roostast Ten" teethe of licorice, teito Minces of enietied, eight ounces d fenugreek, /our ounces of geetlan, two ounces • of ted pepper, four MOOS Ot bthethealethe pound of fine middlings, all grand vevy thie and thaeughly mixed, Metallie tenenic, running $200 in ettlue to the ton, has been discovered 011 8114 Queen Charlotte islands, New birds should be placed in quar- antine for a couple of days before quartering with the other stock, as a slight told may develop into mild roup which is likely to spread quickly. A satisfactory roup powder can be made by mixing three ouncee of licorice, three ounces of aniseed told three ounces of gentian -with eight ounces fine middlings and six ounces of locuet-meal. The combitiatith be ground till it ie a powder, and the dose is one teaspoonful to eight •birds. Stewed linseed (flaxseed) 15 very strengthening to a sick bird, Place linseed ie a pan, more than covering it with told water. Put on a slow fire eo that it will simmer for half an hour. Give as hot as the chickens can eat it—from three te six teaspoons to a hen, X1.0111 seven to ton to a tooster. When fowls have men in tile threat, or a discharge eroin the nth, thils, a few crystals of permanganate of potash dieeolved ill water, to the cellent theatment. A eeathet dipped In thia solutiot end pawl into thent or mai:tile will almost always atm thin and Watery discharge& A,hundanee.of sharp grit Is the best iQirowth of the Grain Elevator. The green elevator system has grown enormously iri Canada ante &- verged Tepidly in the leet eew mos. This growth aiel development have se fa 'been meinly copliath to the Prairie Proviathe of Maaitoba, Saeltetchowart and Aeberta, bet the 878801)3 15 tettratet: hie more and more atentien in the ether provieceg, particularly in On- tario, where averal wheat growing and ehipping centres, notably Tormito, are agitetieg for the erection of ele- vators. No 18 ih only in numbers that the sgstern bas extended, but the in - mecum in size hsbeen ouch that some of the arecturea emafairly be term- ed mammoth, such for instance 40 therm at the bead of the hems. There are, aceerding to the Hon. George Lagley, Minister of Municipal Af- fairs for ,Salcatchevitan, not fewer than 3,600 (thiety-six hundred) eleva- tors 10 8110 three provinces referred to, front 40 to 00 feet high and eapable of storing from 20,000 to 30,000 bush- els a piece on the average, a few fealhing to twiee the greatest enura- erated capacity. In other words, up- wards of 110,000,000 bushels of wheat can thus be stored at the one time. These feats and figures are taken from an interesting artiole by Mr. Langley in the September /ember of the Agri- cultural Gazette of Canade. BY the tame of the Caneett Grain Act, the owners of. the elevators, Mostly pri- vate individuals or Incorporated cent- panies, are compelled to accept all grain offered by fames, unlesz wet pr unstorable with satiety, hence the general and -common use of the sys- tem. The elevators are all licensed by, and are under the supervision of the Board of Grain Commissioners of Canada. "They are rubber. Weather won't hurt 'em." So some folks leave their, machine belts out ill the wet and the, cold. Think how few years the belt' 'has lasted that has been served that, way; then take in the new one you had to buy, and see how much longer it will last, You will find it will last from one-third to one-half longer. te#W,yst.,^fteleers,010 1 THOSE WHO" APPRECIATE . Winal3 Nyl4 a giA., 1 lime than rnY Aunt Mane -whose bed Was in the kitclien, sit with bee feet ill the oven and read Teeny/me, Burns, f4tirl gooil magaziees, while the estuary trilled in the seuth wiedow, Mother knitted ett her etheterpath, atal we Anther' played "thhool" withthe theirs and drop-leef table, Thenhferward evening MY mother would take a ehovel of glowing cot& from the tove, thenefer them to the stove in the aiding reerni lay thine big sticks of wood on, and eoon a bright bleze wouldelluenine the room. Clearly I remember that rem: mother's bed in the corner With the trundle bed under it; the black wal- au8 boolteetee; the cane seated chairs; the welnut centre -table with its chen- ille cover and tallith coal 011 lamp on a red and great crochet mat, and the pietures of Queen Victoria and grand- mother en their walnut frames on the wale We children would play In' the fire- light while Mother and Aunt Mary spread the drop-leaf table and pre- pared the sapper. Father's corning was anneunced by the fieree -otamping of snow on the doorstep and by the cries of delight with which We chil- dren greeted his return. Perhaps it Is selfish to judge of our own comfort and comparative peace *by the awful situation of others, but after all, only by contrast can we measure. I am grateful for many things, among them, for the ability to perceive beauty and happiness in the midst of what are called poor circum- stances, I wouldn't "take a farm" for the memories of our old kftehen with the bird cage and *ow a Tennyson. It is something to be a descendent of people who knew how to make a kit- chen bloom with intellectual charm. These simple things have always been my eteek-in-trade. I thank God as I grow older I can again find heart to be grateful for them. Much a the world seems lost th 'the simple joys that give real flavor to life. I believe what made my mother and her friends BO exquisitely humorous and keenly alive was that they were not tired of talk and residing and sight-seeing. The world a nature and et people was not worn out for them. Life looked at them with meaning in its eyes and every bird and flower and animal and There ere many -reasons why co- operative creameries and cheese fac- tories should handle the patron's but- ter and eggs. No additional equip- ment is necessary; there are facilities for storage; patrons can save time; poultry su,pplies can be purchased, col- lectively for patrons; eggs can be shipped in thine ear as dairy products. Vegetables from Your Cellar All Winter First, everything possibee should be done to furnish storage quarters that are clean and sanitary. You should 110 more think of storing vegetables in O cellar where they had been stored for several years without giving it a thorough cleaning outa than you would think of putting fresh milk into O bottle that had not been washed, and for precisely the same reasons. Scene weeks before freezing weather I open up as much as possible that part of the cellar where we store our vege- tables. I clam it out thoroughly, sweep down the walls, and give them O good whitewashing. This is usu- ally only a few hours' work, and cer- tainly it is time well spent. Many good storage cellars are spoil- ed by being left unventilated so that the moisture has no way of escape. I use a. sim.ple device, the suggestion of which I got from a- government bulletin a numeter of years ago. I removed one of the lower panes of glass from one of the cellar windows, cut out a board.to take the place of the glass, and cut a round hole -in the board which wiE let a five -inch stove- pipe through. just inside of the win- dow I put an elbow, and on this an- -other length of. pipe which extends down to within g few inches of the floor. Near the tap is an ordinary damper, so that the size of the open- ing can be regulated. Above where this pipe comes in is another short piece of pipe to let the moisture and warm air out. This arrangement gives a continuous circulation of Mr which need be shut offonly in quite severe weather, when there is danger of the temperature in the storage room going below thirty-four degrees. The cellar is kept perfectly dark. The bins for apples, fruits and all kinds of vegetables, 'excemt potatoes and other roots, ere raised a fewinch- es up off the floor so that there is a free circulation 'of air under them. The pert of the cellar used for stor- age shohld -be shut off from the main cellar, especially if the latter contains a furnace. This may easily be done by putting up 2x4a and covering them with rough boards mid with sheathing paper on both soles of the scant:liege, so that there is a dead -air space be- tween, Wheie there are move cabbages or root crops than can be accommocleted in the celler, they can be kept by dig - &storage . 11 11 1 ' nsd place, at the bottom of which is placed a layer of straw or leaves to keep, the contents dry. This pie should be filled fast beeore the APPeeeell ef , • only with straw or hay. As the tem - iterative goes down, cover with a lay. er of eoil, after this another layer or hey, and then nnothee of soil. A pit of this lcind in a shady place will keep the contents in perfect con- dition through the winter, Ventilation should be supplied by inserting a piece of pipe or a weeder' flue which can be stopped with a bag et the upper end in very eold weather. .A.s to the dedividual vegetables, the folloevieg is my method of handling: Beane: Wo pull these tip by the rote, or reinove the pie e after the vines have become dry, and store then in an ale,v, open shod. Later on lit the /all, when the peels httve be - mime dry and brittle, the beans are threshed out and put awg tor fettive WM. Beets, casette, parenips, ttunips, end matabagas are all taken up just before the ground ie likely to fteeze, We take the tops off, but sol too teeth, ea the yoOtit will not bleed, Those are stored in the differeut bins in the eeltate Wo 11881 80 041108 thou with sand, but df late year!" we have used, (instead of the -sand, fresh, clean, spagnum moss. This seems to hold the right degree of moisture, -and is much easier to handle than send or soil. We store most of the cabbage crop in an outside trench for spring sales, but what is wanted for our own winter use is kept in the cellar by fastening three Or font heads together and hanging them from spikes driven in the joists. , The stems- and roots are left on, but the outer leaves are cut off. Cauliflower cannot be kept through the winter, but if some ,of the least mature heetde are taken up and heeled - in in a cold -frame they may be kept a good many weeks. If cold -frames are not available, they may be kept in a cool shed with a dirt floor, 00 even in O cellar. The celery we handle in three lots. That wanted -for earliest use is banked up with earth where it grows, and later covered with leaves or hay as freezing weather approaches. This branches out as et grows, anti is used directly from the garden. The second lot we put in a trench in a well - drained part a the garden. This trench should be deep enough to cover plants up to the tops of the leaves with such soil as adheres to them left on. We take great care to see that the celery is dry when it it stored in this trench. This trench is covered over with bog hay as severe winter tomes on. This 'celery often lasts us up to Christmas. The rest of the crop we store in the cellar. We have 'several long- boxes, about eighteen inehee deep and a little over a feet wide, in Which we place a couple of inches of sand and pack the plants in tightly, with the roots and soil left on. Eaeh _box hes strong; rope handles so that we can pack the cel- ery in the garden and then carry it down teller. Onions mey be stored in the same place as potatoes, but shouid be put in open slatted crates to give lath air oat -elation. They ehould be taken up as soon as ehe tops die down, and dried out thoough1y on a shed Iloor or in an open bit. As then as the'', tops ere dim enough to rustle they aee cut off about an inch above the bulbs. We leave the bulbs there until there is clangey of !heir freezing, when they are put hi onion crates, Which can usu- ally be obtained front any • grocery' store and seined revay in the cella. Pumpkins the squashes, unlike most, other vegetables, should be kept where! the temperature is high ad very &MI A good place to put them ie en the attie near the kitchen ehinmey, or near the furnace in the cellar, These should be gathered before the danger of the first real frost, as a slight nip will cause them to decay very quickly. Pumpkins and squashes shotild be handled with the greatest 181'0, as any brnis.es, even though they may not show at tire time, will cause decay spots later en. Thou.gh Most folkii do not seem to realize it, tomatoeft may lee kept fot eeveral weeks. The day befere 'we expect the first real killing inlet we eethee all the ripe and nearly ripe fruit front all 4700338 11 few of the best plants, and etore them in eold-frames, where they ate eamied With eleati White straw. Thayeare loft here, be- ing covaed with eagle when there is danger of freezing,- and gradually 0133e11 up tot eciverel weeks. A. eew of the voter best plate I take em reeth arel all, mid leeng them up, • inskle down, hi the cellar, after removieg pat el 'the tope ad the Male gun fruit Tee finites feet oh the vine will Optima') 10 miptin tor several weeks, "moon ane oireumetanee Wes impore tante The great regolefible job of life bIos In Me &see week, •it bane, in the fielde tied in the workshops. It eonsimte of tieing well end gladly whet eve cell common things, that is doing them to the glory of God," It meene 501130. 81)1119 very reel, Something wheth the thellew Ambition of nee and ethiety help" um to forget. When we 887, bY the work of our hande, to shelter, to educate, to 44tiPire those who make up our household, we are doling a beautifhl service. It is this that glorifies what 1 teve called the donmetio sense, the seese of joy in simple neceasaries. The war may hove Aitken a little sante' ,into Us about the actual value of some things we have held cheap or taken for grant - 011, ameng them the chance to have something to cook and to have some- thing to eat, in a free kitthen. Life may get down to a simple human basis again and teach us how to value what we have. Surely eomebody will al. way be coming at twinght to feel his heart leap at bhe sight of firelight and the frageanee of something being cooked by ,eomeone who is slot une happy at having th cook it. The people who say that everyday life is staled ere people wile have not been tired and hungry and sleepy in the right way, It Is not a feather in anyone's cap that they need -sight- seeing and entertainment to keep them front seawall -ling ow getting nervous. The domestic:nem is not a dull con- templation of domestic duties and de- tails but rather a sense of 'apprecia- tion of home privileges, of Watia WOMB, good beds and appetizing rneels; of household interests, good reading end peeastiet companionship; of memories anrday dreams, friend- ship and love. These make up home life in its best and fullest sense. -- B. B. K. • The Milking of Cows. Shall cowe be milked twice or three times a day? To the average reaeler this may seem of small concern. To the fanner and dairyman it is a ques- tion of eansiderable interest. • Tests have recently been made in Nova Sco- tia, Quebec and Ontario. Profeesor Baton 02 Macdonald College says that It has been found from the standpoint of economy and safety that a cow gie- deg 60 lbs, of milk a day s-hould be milked 'three time. Both Professor Trueman of the Nova Scotia Agricul- tural College and Professor Barton are agreed, however, that unless the udder is over -distended there is little or no advantage to be gained by milk- ing three times a day. These author- ities are quoted in the September number of the Agricultural Gazette of Canada.. Professor eVado Toole also contributed th a solution of the them problem by giving results of tests made at the Ontario Agrieultural College. The tests ave to be continued and Professor Toole hopes to be able to give a more definite opinion MI., other year than he does at present. In the meantime he shows :that three Hood's Sarsaparilla Makes Food Taste Cood Creates en appetite) aids digeetiom purifies the blood, aed thus relieveg ecroeula, catarrh, the pains and echos of rheuxustiem and gives strength to, the whole system. Nearly 50 yore' phenomenal math tell the story of the great merit and duccees of Hood's Epr- staPttrillas 8 ira Just the modicum), you need now, Hood's Pills help --fine laeultiVe or eathartio, according to dose. Relieve headaehe, restore comfort. bigleplass pureehred• coves gave moret by, thriee than by twice milking a,daY. ROs present conclusions, however, are the same as those of Profeseas Bare ton and Trueman, A Week's Beef in Cold Storage. How long would the foods in cold storage to -day last us ie every other 31108118 of supply were closed? Prob- ably few peop/e could answer. C,ompared with the holdings for Otheber, 1010, according to• a state- ment by the Dominion Department el Agriculture, our present, storage of heel' is 15,642,955 lbs. lees than it was O year ago, "or only sufficient, if all other spaces cie supply failed, to meet the domestic deemed for slightly more than one week." "However, present slaughterings• are going largely directly into con- sereption," the Department's state- ment ades. "Only from 30 to 40 per cent. otthe visible kelt per annum does actually go into cold storage before entering into domestic consumptions and a large part of domestic demand is invariably suppllied by local trade and from farm killings. In view of the heavier operating oasts, combined with the lower status of hides and the more eusettled eondition of the over- seas market, when compared with con- ditions in 1919, the market tnovementh to date have been well taltee care of at fairly limn prices" --a condition of' affairs; considering the steady retail price of meats. which is the "golden mean" for producer and consumer. Gather bacteria now to inoculate legumes next spring. Soil containing legume bacteria, 12 dried and stored. for at least a year, will produce nod - on the next crop as well as fresh soil taken from the field. The man planning to seed soybeans or eweet clover for the first -time next spring thould get ;his inoculating soil from scene neighbor's field this 211. Soil so collected may be put into bags, ane allowed to dry in some convenient storage. A pound of soil for each pound of seed is inae than enough. The Welfare of the Home py Charlotte L. Macintosh. The Choice of Children's Books. One day recently, an aunt, one of those family -institution aunts to whom everybody takes his troubles, said to me: "Why is it that our chil- dren are still belug told stories and given story books Which are full of perm:Moos rubbish? I've just return- ed from visiting my nieces who are 'lewdly so thoughtful about the wel- fare of their children. that I expected something better en their nurseries, but, instead I found their little one immersee in the old tale of fear, cruel- ty and wicked stepmothers. Moreover, these stories Were in the most won- devfuEy illustrated books! In thoosing the books great interest had been shown in the artists who bad made the pictures but open indiffer- ence toward the stereos." "That' answers the 'Why'," I ven- tured. As yet, few of the best story books are "Wonderfully illustrated" and con- sequently lose the opportunity to cap- ture the indifferent. purchaser. Of cease, this indifference is not 'Men- tioned. Devoted 'mothers would shud- der at the thought of bringing harm- ful playmates into the lives of their children; and yet through the caveless purchase of books they often intro- duce their Miele ones to -vicious cona pany. The advertising mover of .the illus- tration is the caese of much of the trouble. "Here am I," ales the pret- tiest picture book en the shop. counteit, and the purehasee looks no further. It is quite likely that this saene hook is the usual vasion of Cindaella, en- cumberee with the odious step -mother, not at all necessary to the plot, but -contributing feoin one generation to another to an 'unwholesome prejudice. The charming /nth version, which en- tirely onats this character, is not -no easily found by the casual bayete If, however, the casual buyee wishes to become more purposeful, there is a long list of books full of helpful direc- tions which may be aonsulted. For the sake of brevity only four are mentioned. These books are sug- gestive and contain many delightful stories. It is almoet ea -stain that one or meee of them can be found in any libray, end a study of the sug- ',sequins and lists which they conthiu will be of greet assistance. Story Telliag in School and Horne, by E. II. and G. ee, Partridge; Educat- ing by Story -Telling, by Katherine Dunlap Cathay; Stories to Tell to Ohildren, by Sam Cone Bryant; Chil- d -rens Stories and How to Tell Them, 117 J. llerg Esenwein and Marietta. 1 Education Through Stories- ! The average child, by the time that i he is four or five years old, has devel- oped a craving for stories, If he is attending a kindergarten this ,instinet is developed and at least partly sates- fied there. -But even in that case lie has the right to his half-hour at home when Mother or Father read or tell etories, either at bedtime or any other more convenient time. • little"; halt -hour parents 11y, 12 CahrneLftitillig9 planned for, nmer be nide an impor- tant introduction or addition to a childet, education? And this does eot mean that the material chosen need be one bit less attractive to the child. But if a mother, instead of merely pieking up at random any one of the- c.hild's books—which may be good, bad or indifferent—and reading mechanic- ally merely to satisfy his demand,, gives the matter just a little thought,. the "story time" may be made very valuable as well es entertaining. There is a- vast treasure of fablesee, folk -lore, fairy -stories, poetry and myths of all lands and ages to draw front, which will lurnish the cline's imagination and gave him an instinct for the worthavhile things in poetry and all literature. The libraian of any large library 31-111 1)0 glad to furnish a list of the very best juvenile books to -be read* to. small. children. But there is a great. deal of material for fascinating (dor- ies, history, nature study, manual training and other subjects which is. •not 5»Buell convenient fain, but any mother who is interested can find it with the help of the librarian or by conealting the tables of contents in bound volumes of the best children's magazines; she can retell the material thus gained in a eagle form suitable to her own child. It is worth while for ay parent to give same time and study to planning: definitely the ground to be -covered, for if all the reading develops 800)10 general scheme and is not purely hap- hazard, -a very great aed telling addi- tion to a boy's or girl's education may he made with stay slight effort on the part of the parent. The foll-owing references may he, helpful to parents. What Shall Wo. le.eacl to Our Children? by C. W. Hunt; The Children's Book, by Homo E. Scudder; Home Book of Verse for Young People, by Burton E. Steven - eon. "No more headache for you---tako those" nowt 4081 "mother" the headaehe without removing the atom Talto Chatobertalree Otottitmili end ',leer Tohlota. 'they not. only wire the hoatleoho buteiveyou a buoyant, healthful holler Natutio thet tone thn 1/Yer, sweeten the etofistoli end Oconee the hotvehe Tkl, that, .88 Dtttgotak ty mall OIAM1311nAIN MS» MS CO Totatti., Ont.