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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-11-11, Page 2Mc'eAGOART M, D, Mt:TAGGART McTaggart Bros. A. GENERAL BANKING 13U3 NESS TRANSACTED. NOTE5 DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS eSeelED, INTEREST - ALLOWED ON Dg- POSI't$. SALE NOTSS CHASED, — II. T. RANCE — NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY, ANCER, FINANCIAL REAL, ESTATE AND VIRE INSUR. ANCE AGENT, REPRESENT. 1NG 14 VIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. ' DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON, .W. BRYDONE. , • BARRISTER, 'SOLICITOR. tePTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Office-- Slone Block —CLINTON DR. J. C. GANDIER 001ce liours:-1.30 to 8,30 p.m, 7.80 to 9.00 p.m, Sundays 12.30 • t� 1.30 Other hour e by appointment only. Office and Residence--Vietoria telk CHARLES B. HALE, ' Conveyancer, Notary Pubeic. Comeniesloter, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses 131.1RON STREET. -- CLINTON. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the -County of Huron, Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangerneuts can be made for Sales Date at The New -Record, Clinton, or by calling Phone 203. Charges moderate and satiefaction° gun ran te eel. gia iLw —mile TABLE— Trains will evrive at and depart tram Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND CODERICH DIV. Going east, depart 6.33 a.m. 2.52 p.m. Going Woet ar. 11,10, dp. 11.15 a.m. " ale e -es, de. 6.47 p.in. ". 11.18 p.m LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV. Going South, ar, 8.23, de. il.23 ite 4.15 p.m. Going North depart 6.40 pm, " 11.07, 11.11- am. The1inKi11oplhtuai Fire Insurance Company ifead office, Seaforth, Ont. Dfleletateelty j 'nee Connoller, GoderIcA; James Evince Beethwood; SeeeTreaeurer, hos. 1E, flays, Sea. teeth. , Directory George McCartney, Sete ' teeth; D. Ie. itcGrogir, Seaforth; J. C, Grieve, Waltoio Wra. 10101. SSA. loth; bd. Mee:acne Clinton; Robert Terries, Hariock; John lienneweir, lerodhagen; Jae. Connelly, CoderIcit. Agents: Alex Leitch, Citnton; J. W. Goderiela; Hinchiey, Seaforth; V4. Chesr.cy, Egnion flia;So, G. Jar- oreath, Brodheoeu. Arty mortify e• be pald :a may be raid to 'Moorish Clothiee Co., Clinton, er at Cu ties Groovy, Goderich. ! Pat tics deeirt ,g to effect leasurance er transact ether busthess will be promptly attended to on application te oey of the above efficers addresaea teen respective pose office. Lessee m4 i el the director who tiers e • ee. ...tercet the scene. Clinton News- Record !ANTON. ONTARIO. 'Perna re etenceeprion—$2.00 per year, tri advance Lo Canadian addresses; e.50 to tee U.S, or other ;foreign tountrin. No paper discontinued tante ad arrears are paid unless at the option of the pablisher. The date to which every subscriptioe is paid is denoted on the label. Advertising ratee—Transiene Delver. elements, 10 eents, per nonpareil lino Mr first insertion and 6 cents- eer 'me for each subsequent inaer- txoxt, Small advertisements not to i.ceect one inch, such as -Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., Insert,. .d once for 35 cents, and -each imbue. guent insertion 15 cents, cemmunicatens intended for publics - toe mese as ie guarantee of good hiat, to aocompanied by the name of wvitg r. ., Gill, HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. It Pays to Top -Dress Land. Polar years ago it paid big. Or, in • ether words, one dollar spent in fertile/Mer turned to five dollars in hay. The hoot of the fertilizer mad the coat of the bay were eabottt the same then. ooze of fertiliger and hay have Jjotlh risen proportionately since then. t :would eeem that there. was still Money in: top -deeming hay ground. chance is but a zizag lane to noe Where. ee • • Truth le the moet effective weapon ;phut one, --e ; •Cleareinees 'is text to godlinose, but clear eoreecimMe id better than a white eollan • , 0 Buy Thriet-Stareps. ' AddrCPS eonorounleat(orm to Aeronorrilet, 7$ Adelaide St, West, Toronto Softeenerding Your Hess, very breeder ece pueebred eogs eat melee a profitable inveetneet 9f a few dollen and 4 feW }leerstime by con- strueting o email ,quetraneane plea on hie form. Such a plant will ogee guard the herd from cleseeee Mere- dueed by stock from other breeder. I have blind it 5 wiee rule to leeep in quarantine for at least .theee eveeke every hog brought to the imam! The new ;naivete should be closely watieh- ed, so that if any disease symptom appear the 4ifirnals may be dealt with accordingly. A quavantine pen should be from eaehalf acre' to an acre in 'size. The home been should be excluded from it at all times, and ehould not be al- lowed to pasture close to it. Melee beeeders 'locate them M out-of-the- way places, often at some corner the farm, Enclose a well -drained area with a heavy, woven -wire fence, which ethould be high enough to prevent hogs from jumping 'over R. Place an ludiviclual hog house in the lot, and install a dipping tank end troughs, A. etockyards-style platform entoance, ,with thclined chute leading from the platform to the level of the pen, is not necessary, but will pay where many hogs are handled. • Whether you. attend public sales or buy at private treaty, it will Tay you to keep every new hog in your quar- antine pen for about o month before he is turned in with the home herd. On arrival of the new purchase, 'dip him with et fairly strong edep and, if possible, give bine the free he is ac- customed to. No matter•how bealthy the hog may have been, he may Contract disease in transit. You may buy a hog in per- fect health froM a disease-free herd, and yet in a few days he may develop cholera ov some other disease. Careful- breeders quarantine every hog they buy, and every hog they sell is dipped befere shipment. Dipping is praelicee 13 mucheto prevent disease as to cure it. There are eteveval de- pendable dips and disinfectants on the market. A supply Of these should be constantly on hand% • Net only should hogs be clipped with mare or less regu- laxity. depending on their condition, but there sleeping quarbers and pens should be •clisinfected oc,casionally. Dogs and other animals should be kept alany. Cholera germs are often trausplanted from one farm to an- other by cats, rabbite, and even by 'birds. 101 some places pigeons •are a prolific source of cholera iefeetion. These -birds cover large areas, feeding in the barn lots of fanners in widely -separated regions. The lio.g man's antipathy to pigeonseis therefore well founded. Use the shotgun en them if necessary, but be sure to keep them out of the hog lot. Quarantine planes will pay the breeder well indirectly, for visitoes noting such devices will be inspired with tonfidence in the owner's care- fulneas. You will find et easier to prove the health of your herd by showing a quarantine plant, sanitary .hoeses, and modern appliances for the stook than by talking. The cost ol the quarantine plant need not .exesed $50 M $100. Many plants have been establiehed for 'half that amount:, depending upon the .class of- materials used. mhe pen can be used for other purposes; but if there have been thole= hogs in it, disinfect before allowing other stock to use it. Plow or diele up the soil in it each year, and sow to rye, rape', or scene other forage crop. Do not allow a blue -grass sod to establish itself in the pen, so sod is a harbor for disease germs. A quarantine pen is one of the cheapest and best forms of insure ante you can use. Why I IJse Concrete On My Stable Floors. No better stable flooring can be used than cenfent, .and perhaps none other as good, when it comes to sav- ing 'the liquids. In many parts of the country where, gravel and sand ere 'readily obtainable ceineet floors need -not be expensive. Often, now, it costs less them timber and plank floor. Cement floors properly laid are pracbically • everlaseing. Plank and timber floovin•g bogies to rot at once. Ina few yams at best it is down and out and another must be built. A cement floor needn't be more slippery than a arse -eines lorneer flooe, Stock of all: kends can be kept on ceinent \vita the best of results, if bedding is properlyu sed, The cement floor is colder than the plank flame But thee is a matter of uo consequence, Per - *Wetly as -stock should always hare plepty oe good bedding ueder them for thole comeore•and Welfare, Don't let anyone tell you that e cement flooe is too hard toT ft Weenie feet, It would be hard foe e hone M tvot on all day, but in a stall he elands still most of the time, and when tieing this he eannot tell whether be 15 on cement, plank, or dirt, if the ibedcibeg, le suf- ficient I have been using cement flags 101. twelve yearn They are all night in every way, end if they are properly larid and managed no levies can get away. The bedding will soak it all up. And the liquid is woeth more than the solids, pound for pound, on . a basis of cost of the same elements in Gem- meecial eertilizers. Laying the Ceineni; Floors. "PH have to hire a mason!" youl seer: 'No, you won't; do it youreelf. The first thing i•s to put 'underpinning under the stable sills all around, ehoulel there be hone now. This will keep out snow and eold wind. And you can lay the cement mortar right against this and make all air -tight. • If the fioor ie to be pit in an old barn; tear out the plank and timber floor and fill with moth up to within three or. four inclees of the finished surface of floor. This filling must be packed solidly, so no _pare of it Will settle after the floor is fluished. If it should •settle, the floor will crack. 'Water is useful to settle the filling. Y:ou do not need to put any foundation of stones under the floor. But tile drainearound the outehle of wells 'are necessary to preven.e water froap soaking in. If you want a gutter, dig it out of the earth, say eight inches deep and twenty-four inches wide, level. from end to end. The liquid should be absorbed -by litter, and not be allowed to Fun to the end or to drain 'away. Befeee laying the floor, be very par - teenier to -have the grade el the floor just right, so that it will death to the gutter. If you use stanchions, about one and one-half inches' fall from the mangen to the gutter will be all rig.ht. Four and one-half to five feet is about the'right length for the floor. Jerseys 'can manage with four feet of space, but Holsteins will need five feet, or more if they ave large. Your sand must be clean and free from, dirt, and et well be better if you use erushed 'stone Monadof gravel. The mixtuee I use 'is two pails of gravel �r crushed stone to one of sand and ono of cement. Mix thoroughly while dry. A good way is to shovel 14 from one box to another, dropping eaoh shovelful in the middle. If you have one man rake back and forth rapidly as thee shovelfuls fall, the work will be Perfectly done. When the dry mixing is complete, add water gradually, mixing with a hoe. Make it just thin enough so it will pour out of a pail readily, but not rapidly. While the first hatch is being used, have hands mixing an- other. Allow no.mortar to set at all before using. •Ieour inches is amply thick for flOOTS 1.11.1del, cows and horses, and two inches is ,seffitient for man- ger bottones and feedeng alleys. The floor should be even, but not troweled down •smooth. The use of a board float and floe gravel in mortar wilL make a splendid surface that is not slippery. A form of th.e desired length, width, and depth is needed fax' this. Lay the mortarein bottom of gutter, then put form in place, leaning three inches of space on each side of form, These spaces eati be filled as you lay the floor, and a walk behind them can be made at the same time. It is will to shut all wince and sun from the nee* laid floor. Sprinkle it freely with water several times a day for ten days orneore. As soon as 14 53 set you can walk on it. It es better to dry elowly. You will soon see the difference in the the manum, and you will he just like me—surprised to see how much mon manure yore -have, and how much more good it does when the liquids are waged. Poor Chimneys Cause Fires. A summary of the various causes of fire shows that fires which can be traced to faulty cleenneys annually namourit to from ten to twenty-six per cent. of the total number, while in winter the peedentage 1148 1'440114d as high tie -lefty. This is significant when 10 18 realized that most of these fires result from carelessness mid could be avoided by proper ettention. - Chinineye in frame buildings should be bullet stroight up from the ground and not placed on a bracket, as is often the case, and should extend tem feet or more above the peak where- the chimney is in the centre of the 0001, ane thine feet or more above the sur- face when on a flat or slanting roof. Foe proper draft, the mitimumesized opening for the flue should not be less than sioty-four square inches, while the walls should be at least eight inches thick. At the base of each flue a clean-out door thould be provided, if possible, : The joists used, to support the fthors through Which theeeehininey passes Obeid hot have their ends enoported In the brick, eve the chime ,T may Set- tle, leaving at 'these points cracks through which fire tan creep. to the joists; furthermore; no other wood - week should conee in mated with the ela !me ey, • To obviate the fire 'haztard,in brick elvinineys it fis suggested that a fire- clety er tern -cote& flue then be used ne thew constructon, The Inning serves ee o live envoi-Mee'and gives' a flue, of unilovre dirneeslone. The. ordleaver bniclx himney will not do' this. It es possible to use fireebrick in place of the fire -clay or terra-cotta tile, with the same result. Yields of Bush Fruits. At the Central Experimental Form, the average yield of the Herbeet veep - berry for two years on one tow ninety feet in length was at the rate of more than 206 bushels per acre. Under field conditions, cultivated raspberries pro- duce from 50 to 100 bushels of crop per :tore, according to the season. Goodeberries ot 40 pomade per loathe' yielded at the rate of 900 bueliele to the acre: Red currants gave 202 bushels to the acre in one instant° arud 409 bushels he another. ifh.eie figures are falcon from a new bulletin imued by the Exp•eximental Farms at Ottawa on the subject of "Bosh Fruits." In this pamphlet -the cur- rant, gooseberry, raspberry, black- berry, dewberry, and loganberry are Meade i4isuch a way eve to meke clear Ole best practice it their cultivation and to underetand the merits oe the different worthy vatieties, 30 18 point - en oat thee the thenne, gomeberey, and raepberrn grow Weld eihnoet. if not quite in the Arctic Circle. The treatise is the :reedit of experiehents carried on at the Central Eximement- al Fenn and the widely separated branch farms and sea:tome This pub- lication whiele fe designated. Belletin No. 94 and ia av.aeleeldo at the Puble. catiorie Beanch of the Depaetment oe Agriculture at Ottawa, onectins also a Menefee on the common .cliseasee of berth fruits taid the ineecte affeeting there with Methods of coldaiee To get green poultry 'feed, beriee ifa the best grain, Cover ee mucli tie ueedee With very warm water PI4 et !need or timely -four hours, Then draw off the water fto•el empty the met lut9 x shallow box with holee in the hettone leeep the..•greirl .quite moist Wee Warm -neer and turn free quently 'isci it; will sprout evenly. Set in a Sunny ,or wean place, cover with sacks, end io Afew daye it will germ - Mate and state growing. When heel:thee gx.cen sprouts .shovv,. use as feed. neve a numbei. of 00.Xes it the work to keep a eupply. • , • • Fertilize the Orchard, In the.November issue of the Ann memo Fruit Grower, we find the bi- llowing question from a eubseriber in "My trete an about thirty years old and have not been bearing very even 1atej,. Phe foliage doesn't seem to be very strong and the fruit is rather email. • I have done some prune Mg, but they are still rather thiele in the -centre of the trees, I think. Mat treatment would you use? The omen arcl is in and and ie too steep to culti- vate." . • The answer will prohably be inter- esting to our readers., We quota. poet of it as follows: "Judging from the description of your orehave, I would say that your trees are starving for want of plant - food. There are hundredoforchards .over the country where the tree e are in this, condition, but Af proper meth- ods of fertilizing and can oe trees are need, these orchards can be made 00 produce very profitable crops. Of course your trees should be properly, pruned. Thin out the sureflus limb growth, particularly in the centre of the tree. Let in some sunshine and ate. Your fruit well color better one have less trouble from fungus dis- eases if the head of the trees es. open. "As your orchard is too steep to cultivate, I would advise leaving it in sod and depending on fertilizing. 91 •counse your tree; shou.icl be thorough- ly sprayed. You ,will be surprised what a big difference this treatment will make in the first year. It well pay you many times over for the fertilizer and trouble. As it is now, your orchard is:not a paying proposi- tion. By giving it the right care and following this method of treatment, you can make it o beg payer. Just remember ,that land that has been planted to corn so much that it has become peon wile not raise a goad corn crop, particularly if the former does not cultivate it. The same thing applees to an orchard. You have got to give the trees some attention, and if you do you will •be paid handsemely for everything you do for the orcherd." The right way to live is as if each day were our hest and last. Memory is the lever by which we make the .engine of time run back- ward, ROSE PERENNIAL woof, The' Winn gray slot) yob Nee- before 'What ogee woe a thrifty farmer's deter; • onotlees ce1hxt Ond Oelittored ,etones • Shen' skeleton 11OPes with eline-pielted beam, e • IWO bucked against et ,crunebling woll • blecoinaut bay, unprtmed ond tail A, seilediediaineng moes-roee bulge 'elee delicate buds in faintest flesh; Centched by the *enables and wood- ,bbee, WhoEfe euvlaue fingers tear and twine, There NIRAS the huge barn; here the yard, Where the grim farmer labored hard From damn to :dark, aead Twee knew A dream beyond the crops leo grew, The Auk he raised; the silver store Under the looee beard in tho floor. To and fro, to and fro, The feet of his little wife would go, Alletlay %lig and half tete night, Up a flight mut deiwn a flight; Pantry to kitchen, pen to been, Collar to garret with loom of yard; In to the babies, out to the men, Doven to the pasture and back again, Palms were never planned, you find, To save ehe steps of wornenkind. One •can trudge and drudge through • en is long life's course, If ehe. deseovere it hidden source To seek 'when •tile epirit le faint and / dry, Here was her rose -bush growing high That he :never knew—for he never • eared— This was her joy n•o mortal shared; Her Maids were never too stiff or ,tird To foster beauty the soul desired; Neyer too worn the busy feet, Never too dull the old heares beat, For it furtive trip teethe litble shrine That made the moment a Pause divine. Here by the bush one glimpsed the hills, ' Where forests crooned and ran free One brenehed deep drafts from a windswept sky, Sunset, nemenglow, mystery. This was hex' rose -bush by the wall. Gone is the farmer, :farm and .all, The herd, the croPs,,ithe silver Store, The children grown return no inore To the hearth deserted, the loveless place, Haunted by one enduring grace— A dream of beauty torn with brier, Clutched in ram as it elanehers- higher. —Abbie FartvelI Brown. A fellee isn't thinken' mean, Out fiserinO His thoughts are mostly good an' Out fishine He doesn't knock his fellow men, Or harbor any grudges then; A feller's at his finest when Out Rehire. —Edgar A. Guest. Uses for the Cam era on the Farm Outside of farm and ho•me machin- ery, I doubt if there is any device mare useful orr the farm than a cam- era—and I am not in the camera busi- ness. I never eold a camera in my life, though I have bought several and sell have them all, using th,em for different purposes. The most useful purpose that a camera serves on the foam is in tak- ing pictures of liveetock. A man can not always find a geed Market for his purebred livestock right in leis own neighborhood, and if he is negotiating with a buyer at a distance, a good photograph will clinch the bargain where pedigrees and description will not. It is true that atile, horses and other livestock are not eesy to photo- graph—they haven't learned to pose like human beings; but a goad farmer Will soon learn to take as :gooa pic- tures of them es the average pro- fessional photographer th the towns can take. It is largely a matter of picking out the points you would like to see, if you were the buyev, and then posing 000 animal so that those points will be visible. A study of some of the good animal pictures in farm pa- pers will help. Some fanners that I know use photographs to sell seed... They make more or less of a specialty of growing seed. They photograph their fields of ewe, alfalfa, anti other crops, and send these pictures, oT cuts made from them, to prospoetive seed customers. The customer As , unconseithely in - pressed with the idea Haab seed from fieldlike those most be pretty good. Photographs are often the determin- ing factor profitable selling of favm land. Pictures oe the house, the ban, nod outbuildings, the fields aid the garden, bele) the prospective binier, if he is at a distance, to visualize. the place. Real-estate dealers have rec- oenezed this for 55 long {bre; fen:leers might as well make a profit in thiS "LY. Acamera, however, has a great; many :uses that ave ii,ot connected with money-rnalcing. I don't know any first-clase farmer; who hee built alt his fano es a fine, modern business, who wouldn't give a I•ot foe a set el, photo.grephs showing how that farm' grew—lphotographe oe new buildings as they were put up, of nevi notelet- ery purchemed, of fields thee made especially big yields. It would be a hisiary of his business, pretty neatly a history oe hie life,—and a carreita woUld have given it to hien. , Then there .i,s the,. &Oen pictures °lathe wife of the thildren as they grow up, with eheir pat and at their Plan—they'll be worth a lot eome doy, when the •thildree'perhaps are settled on lanes al their owe. It lute been my observatioe, tete that:a cernera keeps the boys •tend girle out oe reisehiel, andlteepe them inter- ested in the home farm when other - Wise timer would be tarkieg peewit go.' ing off to town, 1 believe in Machirig chileren to go Minting with a Omen, The so-called box caanere,--a camera with fixed focus and without bellows —des well enough fax' saap-shots and is better for children to u,se than a more complicated instrument. If you want to do really fine work, however, it is not satisfactory. At the other extreme, so far as cost and complexity are concerned, are the extremely rapid cameras with focal - plane shutters. These Will make ex- poetres •ais brief as 1-1500 of a second. They are used by newspaper photo- graphers and other persons who have need of an extremely rapid machine. It would be a mistake for the average farm OWn4T to buy such a camera. Th.e most eatiefactory all-round camera fie a focusing camera which has a view -finder and a focusing scale in front, but also a ground glass in the back. The best photographys :focus their views on the ground glass, using a view -finder tine Beide only in case of einergency. A camera of this sort can be obtained which will use roll films, glass plane or film packs. The plates er pet•cks are needewhen you employ ,the ground glass. A awing - back is ueeful on a camera, and is practically essential in taking photo- graphs of buildings, silos, or other tall objects; oth•ertvise, thre picturee wile be distoeteci, If you are gonag to take pictures seriously, it is worth while to put money elite a good lens. All the better cameras maw be o.btained with Impious lenees. For farm use, 11 "hard" lens with considerable depth 00 field is de- sirable. The shutter should be be- tween the two sectione of the tens, It would take too intich space 'to ex- plain just what el "hare lens em- bodies, but aey good optical or photo.e graphic mienufacturer will inform any: inquirer which of his lenses are ieleard"1 and which are "seft," Both types of Itos an in ementennese, but the "soft" lens would not be very useful in •farm ph otogrephy. I A camera taking pi.ceurese5x7 inclues in 'size is best 10e pholographe leaned- : ed for publieatiori, but for other pur- , poem a smaller cement is just as ' good. Three standard mizes ate 314 ! x 114, 314 x and 4 x 5. The largee the picture, naturally, the more expensive are flints, plates Mad ether 'supplies, Cameras smaller than the ones mentioned, however, ave not sat - isle ctory foe 411 -round use. Plates and films both, give good re- melts. Plates are mach lass expen- eive, and they lye lees bothereonee to handle in developing by hated. On the Obilee heed, filene egg lighter, are deeit breakable, and Kee'llelt eubject to the epreaclieg of light on the negative duo to refleetion fecou the back of the plate, - Any cement teeduitee earetul and ihtellegent eland:ling ito give s•atisface tory service, ,As a ride, the mere exe pensive. camera, being More eempli. aged, 19 more diffioult to ,openee, following direetfoos, and by 1/Vaal:feet any one can loath to use it eamora-to ekeelllent attest ta More Returns frOjn 1-11)Por, ductive Apree. The average hay acre produces 421. meetly •oree and n quarber tans of heO, ATKI this ,eiren in 5e011005 Where stock is lcePt PriMmily for the manure. pre - dewed, •Crepe of tine size cement com- pote successfully against the att01.5- 1405 of •eweedollar wheet. With grain high In price, stook of all kinds must consume more buy, more roughage and less grain 'that en yeare Past Therefere, the first step ta atternpi:- ing tow groin erops end to keep stock at the same time, must be to produce betteremy end more of it.per acre, eo as. to release more lan•d foe grain produetton, Top -dressing a good sod with fertil- izer gives wonderful results. This has been Meted out at rnany o0 the agri- cultaral experiment ,sibation,s, but no- where is At better illustrated than in the test at Cornell Agricultural Ex- perimental Station. To show the re- markable results, we present the fol- lowing data: (1) In this test every 100 poun•de a high annearge emereete fertilizer pro.dueed one-quarter ton of hay, and laber brought 5 substanbial increase in the following cern ,crop, without fur- ther fertilization; (2) The top-dreesed sod, when turne ed under, enoreased the orgaree mat- ter of the soil by an amount equal to that contained in a ti -ton application 01 manure. On the averoge farm, hay is feel to stock and the manure returned to the land. Thus it happens that the food in the 'fertilizer may be used again andeyet again. In the Cornell experiment the ammonia applied in the fertilizer was apparently all re- turned in the increased hay crop— none was lost by leaching. If the ma- i:pure made by this hay were carefully saved, a part; of this ammonia (not more that, SO per cent.) would come back to the land and would become part of the •circulating medium of plantfood, thus being used over and over. The same may be said: of the phosphoric acid and potash. The first east is not a measure of the -final, cost. • The Farm Business. , • A farni, to be successful, should maintain its productivity and should return a reasonable wage for the labor •of the farmer and his family, after paying farm expenses aled deducting a fair rate of interest on the invest- ment. Four impereant factors in the suc- cess of the Arm business are eize of business, yield of crops, returns from live stack and effloierey in the use of labor. What is the. 'size of your farm busi- ness? What part of your investment iaen land, :buildings, live stack, machinery and other capital? Is yew: area properly proportioned to the varioue erops with regard to profits? With regard to labor die- tribution ? How do your crop yields compare with the average yields of the local- ity? Whet elases •of Live ,stock return you the most money? How de the returns from your live stock compare with the average of your locality? How many acres of crops do you raise penman? Per horse? Is your farm eo organized that eaeh part of the businese is yieldeng satis- facteey returns? -How mach hove you left for your Hood's Sarsaparilla makes Food Taste Good Creates en appetite, aids digestion, purl Iles the blood, and thus relieves scrofula, catarrh, the pains and aches qf rhenniatista and gives strength to the whole leVetenl. Nearly 50 run's' phenomenal Sales tell, the story of the great merit and suocees of Hood's Sar- saparilla, It is just the medicine you need now, „ llood's Pills laxative or cathartic, according to bum. Relieve headeche, restore comfort, own Idoor, after deducting from your total neelpts your yeines expenses, value of labor performed by members of your family and interest on your investraent? How much does the farm contribute toward your family living? - What Fertilizers Are— What They Do. e Fern-I:leers ore plandood earriere, pure and eimple, They carry just the same plant/food cen,stituents as ane supplied by barn manure, but in large ex quantities and in,more concentrated ' form. Ammonia, which causes the growth of the straw of grain, the vine of potatoes, and the stalk of cern; Phosphoric woke winch increases the yield -of grain, hastens its ripening and fills the kernel; •and potash, which gives the plant power to resist dis- ease and materially assists hi the formation of starch in the grain or tuber, and strengthens straw. Fertil- izers earry their guaranbeed perceo- tage of plantfood in an 'available form —that is, in a. form in which ammonia, •phosphorie acid end potashwill clis- selve in the moieture of the soil and in the juices of the plant roots, Farm crops cannot feed upon solid particles of soil. In meter :far food to enter the planf, it must dissolve in water or plant root juices, ea that it can be taken into the plant in eolution. Fee- tilizers supply this readily nutritive food to the young plant the same as, the cow supplies readily digestible food to her calf.—Henry G. Bell, B.S.A. Facing the Future. Let me but live my life from year to year With forward face and =Thiel:ant soul; Not hurrying to, nor turneng from, the goal; Not, in,inourning for the things that disappear ! le the (Um east; nor holding back in tear From what the future veils; but with 74 wtele And happy heart, that pays its toll To youth and age and travels on with cheer. —Renee Van Dyke. A goon name in our own neighbor- hood is far -more to be desired than preferment •arnong strangers. There is no sweeter sight in all the world than the lights in one's home upon returning alter an absence. The Welfare of the Home Do 1 Understand MY Children? By ANNE GOODWIN WILLIAMS. "I just leve Miss Brown," said Betty Jane, "she's the understaneingest per- son I ev.er knew!" What a wonderful tribute! Is there linyorte of us grown ups who does not long to deserve just this Ent of 0» - prevail. from 'tem little children we Mee? As we recall cur own ehildhOod ea- periences, do not the times when eve were misunderstood stand out very distinetly and very bitterly en our A mother toleeine ee it little thild who was -angered almost , into hy- sterics by having his lisp mimicked and mocked. "Do yen want me to thing far you?" little John asked a guest in the friendliest fashion,. "Yes, indeed, you darling, I want youto thing for me," the visitor said laugh- ingly imitating lee lisp. The child's ears were keen. He recagenizecl the correct pronunciation although his lips eould not yet form it aied his f,a,ce reddened as lee said in a grieved voice, gidel thay tieing. 3 timid thing." "Oh, you preetous lamb, thing for me or, thing foe me ---I don't care, I just adore that lisp of yours." Did he get the seng—the child's offend gift to• a guest? No, emphatic- ally no. Sh•e had killed the joy cee self eogressioo, She had •grieved the boy and made him milky and she had truly been guilty of are act of rude- nes5 to a trustieg little child. And yet she thought that ehe loved children! 'But she 'lacked the emdev- stendingeef the sensitive nature of a little child,: Ridicule is Veil harder to ,enduro when 'eine is four years old than when he is feurbeen *r forty. But rude end cruel to it is to laugh at the mistakes of children; it es far worse to laugh at their fears! Just beeatise We know that thew are no gehline luthieg in the dark, we find it difficult to understand the agoey, tho actual suffering of a sensitive, timid child who As forted to fight.for his fears all alone. Ail lovers of children condemn the • ignorant nurse who threatens, "The Boogey Man will get you in the dark to -night if you don't mind Inc." I know one mother who tame 'home after making some afternoon calls and found her little eon ie •bed with a high fever and in his delirium he cried out over and over again, "Darn let the policeman get me—Don't let him take nee away from my mother— Don't let him—Don't let him!" The thoroughly frightened nurse confessed that .ehe hod put him to bed as a pun- ishment and had left him there, say- ing, *Now 1m going out •bo get the policeman to take yet avvay 80 yeti won't see your anoeher again." She had len him there alone, thinking that his screams of terror evlion is door opened or elo•sed, would "teach him 4 400(1 lesson." Derelli Canfield Fisher's "Uodee- stood Bobey" is a most delip;htfel ,study of a 'child who was simmer/lea misunderstood, a stoey so tharmingly told that ,grown people and children eat read it together with great en- joyment. And, after all, is not that the great secret of understanding—the deang of things together, talking together, walking together, sharing ench other's joys arid Kira:eve? "Never mind, honey," said wee Leis to her dearly beloved kindergerten teacher, "oeoer mind if yoe are ltheree. T will tele the children a stay to -day 'and you won't heye to talk." Isn't this a true illustration ce the mutton deethe to be of servire whieh we so long to have underlie our nlationship to the ehildren who are, Ettlo childten for so :WY few yearee you fee bilious, ilioadaohy" and irritable— for that'sa sign your liver is out of meet, Your food is not digeetingeolt stays In the stomach a sour, fermented mass, eamsoning the system, e wit take a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach land Liver Tablets— they Melee the Hem' do its work—they cleanse and sweeten 040 etemach and tone tho whole digostiVe syetcm, feel fine in the rnorningt, At tI dein/Outs, Mc., or hy mail from Citittnberlain Medicine CoMpany, Toionto 14