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JUST A BUMBLE .BEE
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Registered Pedigree Poultry. I males there is pertain to be surpass )
Notable progress has been made ut steely of lesser .lineage net qualified i � DRINKS
for regi tr ti M ti
su re
poultry.' raising in Canada in recent of good breeding, but not' tested to
BY JENNIE A. REEHER. years, to which the Laying Contests i the sante extent as registered stock
The front yard of the big farm <ltoney, it is made of wax, and ill is ton ,have • t
to ma etlally contributed. A numbers f.rum breeders of registered
towers, tutee's, narcissus,and 'i' nes'• giea y.increased average throughout, stock.
e , fried t the entrance to the nest and all the Contests has been. reached iu
Dandelions bespangled the grass like close enough to the mother bee that joxi
a few years, yvhich is direct evidence;
golden stars. Chazei•e, the ten -year-old she can eat from it without leaving . 1ti
g of a remarkable improvement in tlie- A 1]Z1i3'o115ir4$14irA Rose
g her res 'ng work behutd hundreds of en ar e
enjoying the morning looking for new; door to guard against intruders. Its ?'
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toss, reprsentinb thousands of fast- ,•
blossoms that might have opened dur- about four days the eggs hatch and ings.• The demonstration rose garden
Ong the night. I the larvae begin to eat the bee broadh estab:lishod last year upon a plan laid
"There's a bumble -bee; let tine kill that forms the foundation of their' u With the atandt d registration from down bythe Canallian Horecul ural
poultry, the standard was raised
holm. shouted the little boy. !borne. Their mother enlarges the cell . Council at the town of Markham, e
"Stop!" I spoke ,quickly, as he as they'row. thus alwny keeping Tee to 200two-ounceaficoeggs as a mini- tern. miss from Tot®nto has advanced
P q y, g yss mute of qualification, and the bird
grabbed a shingle and made for the them covered with wax: At first, she sufficiently toe the rose growers es
"Don't must also conform closely to certain stud
bee. Don t hurt it. Come here to the opens the cell and puts food among standard characters laid 'do many of the leading varieties
lf-
Arch and I will tell you a story about them, then closes it again, but iri a the breed. r own i of, rases, t1 -half acre in which' one
this handsome bee:" few days theyare large enou h t hundred and fife varieties were plant
to
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for
g € o y
"Huh! there's nothing pretty about, stand up, wedged closely side by side, The standard for. the male is still ed last year, is now nal half
es pro -
eta old bu ib:e bee.Theyand then
more severe: He must be bred from fusion,andan d:
n sting,. We, et she feeds each baby bee sep- additional half facie has
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tat have each-
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s likerob their nests r to he 1beenopenedthis •
tores s a td t S fills each little spring. •. The of
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g'e
laid ina
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at east 200 two un e i
otwo-ounce
'1;he honey," hesaidscornfully. with neof the frier is a • ' .
y, � honey and pollen mixed, from hergarden particularly suitable
"And robbers you are, when you do crop, some•titittg similar to the wa a eggs and be free from standard diel• for the purpose and the planting has
y qualifications, To breed such a male been done with • view to showingoff'
such a thing, robbing Mother Nature canary bird feeds"its voting. Soon the
of something site needs in the world's they are fall grown and spial them- 's ,an achievement niter of of an oft; the plants. to best possible advan-
work. Listen fe ate," I continued selves thin, tough blankets for cocoons sial record and a number such males tape. Tire garden occupies an open
held M every Province of the Domm- These birds are avi'1 b:e in large
itA g
hoe
se se was bei ht ,with earl spring round a. little:' v] I '
g y p g bot t is placed •ti
ton of the home and I a visitor, were her eggs Thus,too she is faci t 1 i b dl
eThis big bee we saw is not a 'he.' It in which they go to sleep, Queen will be procurable this year, with sunny spot with a slight southern
is a Queen Mother bee.. If you should Mother pulls the wax from off them authentic pedigree and. tatooed with stops and a broad boulevard of shrub-
kill her; you would destroy the little' and then, she Itas rows of pale yellow the breeders registered mark and bery as a ?refection from north winds.
bonto she has founded. I think her sleeping babies. They must be kept carrying all the identification marks Practically all classes of roses are to
lack and yellow suit is handsome. I warns, and so she broods them a guaranteeing theft breeding, Abe found in this garden, contributed
noticed you liked the black and yellow night and day."
gala
The number will be limited ,this by nurserymen in lIaHi nd, England)
sweater your mother gave you, Any-' "Dees she still keep the honey pot?" year, but the supply will increase"as Ireland, the United 'States, and Can-:�
stow, why do you want to kill the bee?" inquired Charlie. the number 01 slaughters of registered ada. The garden is open to the pub-'
I smiled at him as I questioned, 11 "Oh, yes, there are yet many cold dans that qualify in the Contest• in-' lie, and being close to the public' high.'
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Don't know," answers
"guess it's because it might sting me." She could not cover all the cocoons if
"She never would, unless you hurt they were flat, on the same level,
her or invaded her home," I replied. therefore the two outer rows ate
"Now for the story. First, do you higher than the centre ones. The lar -
know what C0000ns and larvae are?", vae composing these rows have been
"Yes, indeed, we learned all about fed a little better than the others, thus
them in Nature Study at school," said making then grow taller, Queen Bee
the little boy. !knows her business, you see. In the
"Fine, then you will understand groove thus made she sits—the groove
;everything I tell you. You know how is always made so her head, faces the
s hen broods her eggs and little chick entrance—flattening and stretching
ens to keep them warm? Yes, well. her abdomen until the central cocoons
,Mother Queen Bumble -bee does that are covered, and then putting her legs
'very thing, She hovers her eggs and over the raised outside ones, site clasps
d Charley, days. But here is something queer: creases. ;way it is expected that a great man
• •" 1 thorn close to limei des. Thus all tai
"How do you know that she does,,lcept warm"
Aunt Annie?" said Charlie, his face Why, she must love those babies)
aglow with interest, 1 of tiers," exploded Charlie. ` I never
"Because wise men have watched realized before that a bumble -bee
ler do it and have written in' books
knew anything, I like to hair about
all they observed," I returned. "This her' Go on. Aunt Annie."
bee you wanted to kill, came from the There isn't murk more,to tell. In
test last August, a fine largo young a few days the poring bees come out1
queen only a fsw days old, Her coat; of the cells and then the queen has
was fresh and glossy, her life free p `-n.y of h, .per,, This brood is much
fromany care as she flitted around a:1 smaller -sized insects than those hatch-
day sucking nectar from the flowers, ! ed later. The queen keeps on layle 1
and flying in the warm air where one ergs which the workers care for,
day she met her mate. She was store`viti'e they also gotten much nectar,
ing
-up energy for the future," 1 and pollen. The big honey pot is;
"Where did she go at night," asked, Iroken up and the wax used for other;
the child, "did she go back to the v••10. In a few week.. the co'onv has
nest?" !meet: until there are hunch. •_as 0r t
"No, she never went back after, busy bumble -bees in it. In the late
leaving it. At night she crept in a; 1evaer a dozen or more larvae era'
crevice on the south side of a building,; ;ed in such t way teat they grow iib:
or wall, or some such warm place.''azg:, tine qu,.ens and are sent Cr"'
But later on the weather began to the nest as esti; our queen mother last
grow cold. Can you guess what she year. The weather will soon be cold,'"
did? Bees cannot endure cold you so Queen Mother lays no more eggs.!
know, , One day she Leaves the nest and wan -
"She might have holed up for the* dere among some late flowers, enjoy -
winter, like the chipmunks do," he ing their nectar. The sky is blue, the
answered. air warm, but the bee is old and rusty
"Good guess, Charlie, that is exact-' looking. She goes to sleep among tiro
Sy what she did. She went searching flowers, the cool night comes on, but
Around, as soon as the September she never wale:nc:; her work is done,i
chill came in the air, until she`fotnd al her busy little Iife ender;." 1
small hole extending far beneath -, "I won't ever kill another bumble -i
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roots of a tree. Down at the furthest bee," snid Charlie, "but tell me, auntie
end of it she snugly slept all through' whrt jgeed ere they nnyhow?"
the long winter, while the snow was They are most important to the
piled a foot or more deep over the' fa;•mers, All bees fertilise the flowers,'
ground outside. One warm April day I that is, help them so they can bear
the Queen mother awoke, "No more seed; but the bumble -bee 15 the only
easy times for me,' she might have one which has a tongue long enough to
said, if she could have talked like a `fist the honey from red ':over, and,
;boy. She crawled out of the ground (thus fertilize R. Not a head would
and filled herself with honey from the'bear seed unless a hnhrble bre hud'
early spring flowers, then started tot first visited it, and therefore there
seek fora nest." !would be no clover. Most farmers
"I've seen 'em, I've sten 'eme, know this but few know the story of
Shouted Charlie, jumping up and the life of the bumble -Use."
down, "big bumblebees, alone, hunting' „There comes papa, and I'm going'
around, going into, and coming out of to tell him all about 'em. Wait,
Toles. Sometimes they get into the daddy!" and full of enthusiasm he left
}louse onto the window and we killha11Fe.
are, while I sauntered toward the
'them." I
"Oh Charlie," I said, "don't ever do i
that again. Now listen! The queen! Egg'Laying Contests.
finally finds a place that suits her; : During the season of 1923-24 twelve
often it is an abandoned nest of the egg -laying contests were conducted by
wood mouse, in a log, or bunch of the Poultry Division of the Central
grass, or under the roots of a tree, Experimental Farm. A Canadian
j.55he clears off the floor, then arranges contest was herd at Ottawa, and the 0
the bits of moss and grass in a circle other eleven were ptovincjai, These
around it. Then she goes away to contests, which have been carried ocs
gather pollen, which is, as you know, since 1919, are intended to encourage e
the dust of flowers. All kinds of bees and improve the breeding of poultry, t
gather it to feed their young. We along lines of egg production, to pro-,
call it bee bread. Did you ever see vide reliable information for breeders,
bee bread?" land a medium of qualification for the;
"Yes. Sometimes it is in honey -registration of poultry. According to
comb from a hive of bees father has tiro 1924 report of the Dominion Poul
smoked out and put in another hive, t-'
ry Hurbandman the contests have
It doesn't taste good," brought about a remarkab:e improve-'
!'It tastes good to the baby bees, ment in the breeding of you:try and.
Queen MoEher gathers a lump of pal- have done mush to stabilize the in-'
len , mixes it with honey, then fastens dustry in Canada. The increase int
In breeding up to the excellent rose lovers will visit the ground, this
standard demanded in registered year:
Effective Methods of Controlling •
BY E, S. I-IOPKINS.
if it is too
BY JAN.. HE M14IINGWAy,
It mayseem at first glance a da\ing tins to serve with the iced drinksthat
idea, 'but upon reflection you will find i are needed on the very hot days.
it an attractive and sound one—that! . Loganberry Punch. Rub tt banana
of serving an iced drink for the sutra -i through, tho colander. Add it and the
mot dessert. In thesummertimeto juice of one lemon to each quart of
thirst quencher is far more acceptable loganberry juice. Serve with cheese
at the end of tho meal Llfan atiy ad -1 crackers. •
ditional nourishment: White Grape Juice float. Seed and
The old standbys are always well- halve white' grapes. Cut two or three
come—lemonade, orangeade, ginger bananas into tiny dice and .add fruit
ale., grape juice, icedtea, coffee and to prepared white grape juice.' Serve
choeo:ate, and 'currant or raspberrylwith lemon makers,
shrub and a wafer oil• a cool' or, a
y Iced Cocoa. For an fell cocoa drink
piece of plain un -iced cake make al that is different, ti to
ul
satisfying ieuough dessert, for anyone.; n , mix together r a water
Bet there sire many variations of of cornsyrup, a cupful of warm water'
these drinks •that may be served and half a cupful of cocoa, Schen lis
solved b it
o Lolls
ru and chill he
he . y p
Then
w none i.r Fr
w sl es .o ti dessert a bit freed two tab:espooufuls of strong elf; mare rbeto lei I foe, For every glass to be setited
Sherbet ale is delicious •and tmfi'eslt- three tablespoonfuls of the syrup and
lug.' mace a large spoonful 01 orange three of shaved :ice, Fill up with rich
of lemon ice in each glass and ib milk and shake well
up with ginger ale. Serve with roll-'
Iced Coffee de Luxe. PIsce a large
ed wafers. The very nicest ice to
serve is one made with equal parts' spoonful of collee ice cream in a glass.'
of orange and lemon juice with he Fi:•1 with ice cord coffee and told with
beaten white of one egg added when whd m. gel ke
the mixture is half frozen. 11)ciousippeaccomeroapanimenAnt for
caeialteris a iceded
Peach Delight: Take a quart of •Coffee 01 chocolate.
sliced ripe peaches end rub thein 1 Tea Punch.- One cepi'ul of sugar
throughthe colander. Sweeten to and one oupful of hot tea infusion,
taste, flavor with a few drops of al -1 When this is quite :cold' add ons cup-
mond extract and add a quart of rich'ful of orange juice, three-quarters of
milk. Fill glasses three-quarters full' a cupful of lemon juice, one pint of
of this mixture, top with whipped ginger ale, one pint of water, one
cream and sprinkle with sliced` blanche' tablespoonful of chopped preserved
ed .almonds,' Serve very coed, !Finger and a large piece of ice. This
Liquid Gold. Make a very thin sus- is a most refreshing drink.
tard, using only the yolks sof the egga I Mint Sangaree. Make a fruit lem-I
and no cornstarch or other thickening, onade of lemon, orange and pineapple
Flavor it with rose or any other flay- juice. Colora light green with a
oring you wish. Dilute with cream' harmless vegetable coloring paste and
thick. Add finely: chopped and mint flavoring to taste, ,.Serve
AFRAID OF THE
HEART
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"He has} a spell back in 1900 and
i,\'Cr since then we've been afraid of
his lieart."
Mrs.' Blink was explaining to me
why Hiram tools such care of himself
On general princip?es•I approve of all
persons of either sex taking good care
'of their bodies. ' I was a little sus-
picious of FIiram though, 1 remember
a 're'lative' of my own who had been
1 "afrald of her Heart." Everything
Put of the way meant a little flurry of
faintness. Someone must rush to the
medicine chest and get a little bottle
of Digitalis Gx. Two drops of the
mit
actons liquid and the patient was
as well as ever: Later, as I learned
more about the heart, I knew that the
medicine had nothing to do with her
restoration excepting •as it' gave her
confidence enough to throw' off the
false alarm that had caused her dis-
aster,
Take ,care of the heart, by all
means, but don't—be afraid of. it. If
you think it below par let an up-to-
date doctor; examine you. The chances
are that you can go right along doing
'your regular work so long as you avoid
strain, worry and excess. A heart
that• is just called upon to do what it
is used to, gets along very well, even
ff it does have a leaky valve. It is
when you puff and strain and over-
exert that the heart suffers. Live on
the level and you get along all right.
Remeinhei•' that the very best treat-
ment for heart strain is a few clays of
absolute rest in bed that will give the
tired muscle a chance to "come back;"
and remember that the person with a
weak%heart needs regular exercise and
regular rest. Don't be afraid of your
heart. Find out what it can do and
govern .your work acconlingly,—Dr.
0, H. Lei'rigo.
Demonstration Flower
Gardens..
At a meeting of the Plant Regis-
tration Committee of Lh.e Canadian
Hotaticultural Council held recently in
Toronto, it was brought out that the
demonstration gardens, particularly
at Ma;.'khane Mimcio and Galt are
making excellent progress. Markham
garden is devoted to, roses, the Mim-
ico garden to dahlias .and the Galt
garden tepeonies. At that meeting
a score card for judging these gardens
was decided upon. This provides 50
points fur general appearance, includ-
ing 20 points for care acid lay -out, 15
for arrangement, and. 15 for number
and quality of varieties; and 50 points
for care ant cultivation divided into
15 for correctness of naming, 20 for
condition and 15 .for neatness. The
The most effective method of con-, cultivation, especially immediately
trolling weeds is, thorough and fre-i after plowing in order to prevent al
spent cultivation of the land. Usually; green growth. The whole work,.wil
this can be given most- economically be wasted if green growth is allowed
by adopting the propetgcu tura:l meth- - at any time because the roots will then
ods in connection with the regular ro-1 be revived again and their life pro=
talion used on one's farm. Occasion- longed.
ally, where some noxious weeds be -1 In the fail this land should be plow -
come unusually troublesome it may be ed again and :'eft rough over winter
nceessaey to summer -fallow the land If manure is available at this time of
but, as this teethed involves the loss the year, it could bo plowed under at
of the revenue from one crop, it is this, time. If it is not available, i
desirable to rise ;,other methods if at may be applied in the winter or in
all possible. '
dates and walnuts, just a sprinkling � with a sprig of fresh mint be each
1 of them, and top with whipped cream glass,
1 dusted with macaroon crumbs. ServeOrange Rickey. Fill oaoh g:ass' ons -
with brandy snaps. These little snaps, third full of -"crackedr oe. 'Add orange
are so cal -ed because they are ,used juice untii.the glass is''half full, then
after as an accompaniment to that fill to the top with ginger ale. Serve
spirit when it is served overseas. I with little nut cakes,
The recipe was given me by an Eng- Mint Chocolate. Add mine flavor,
' lisp_friend. To make them, heat half ing to the fceci chocolate.... Top with
a cupful of morasses to the., boiling' whipped cream. Sprinkle with a few
t poiist.and add a third of a cupful of tiny little green mint candies:
butter. Remove from the fire, and: Fi•uit Limeade, Maks your limeade
The
when the butter is melted add gradu-' of fresh limes. Add s:ieed straw -
ally, beating all the time, a cupful of berries and .grated pineapple, (
flour mixed . and sifted with two -1 Serve with fruit cookies,
I
I' make a vary delicious fruit cooky.
using an old aunt's recipe and they
1the spring and then disced in, Th
Where a rotation of three oe four land Should be cultivated in the spring
;ears duration is practiced, cons}st- several times before the time of seed
in of one year in corn or otltar inter- ing the intertie .:ed crop.
tilled crop, one year in grain, and one! It will be understood, of course, that
or two years in hay, it is necessary to this method is suggested for land
prepare the sod land thoroughly in troubled with couch grass or similar
preparation for the intertilled crop, • weeds ha -ring underground root -stalks,
and also to cultivate the intertiilod 11 the land is free from theca weeds
crop itself in a most thorpugh manner. this work will not be necessary.
This is'the most convenient time the If mustard or similar weeds are
control the weeds and the opportunity prevalent it is advisable to merely
should not be overlooked: In the four- disc or cultivate the corn ground or where year rotation, the timothy sod may e other' inteiLiS:ed crops have
be plowed, in many districts, by Aug- been grown, rather than plow. Tho
ust 1, while in the case of the three- reason for this is that the surface
year rotation, where two cuttings of layer of soil has already been thor-
clover ai;e harvested, the plowing will ottghly cultivated and the majority of
not be possible until about September the weed seeds contained in it germin-
1. Where couch grass is present or ated and killed. It is a mistake,
where there are any other• weeds hav- therefore, to plow up a new layer of
ing underground root -stalls, it is soil on such land which will contain
very hnportant to get the land plowed an abundance of viable weed seeds.
early and to cultivate it throughout Anodic:.Anodic:.effective means of checking
the remainder of the fall. After the weeds is to hand pick isolated patches.
land has been plowed it should be This work'can often be done when the
harrowed in order to hasten the rot- weeds are first seen, but if it cannot
ting of the sod .and if couch grass or be done then, 'it may he done later
other similar weeds are present, it when other work is not pressing. It
should be disred in about a week's may seem like small business to pick
time and the dewing continued at by hand a few weeds, but such a work
t
about one week's interval until the is a very profitable investment, and
sod has rotted sufficiently to enable the returns if not apparent in that
the 11P,5 of the eu:tivater, When this particular - year, will be realized in
is possible, the cultivator should. be later years when such patches would
substituted for thedisc harrow in otherwise have infested larger areas
order to bring to the surface of the and seriously reduced the yields of
ground the underground root -stalks. crops. In any event, the longer the de-
Some objection may be taken to the lay in eradicating the weeds, the
use of tate disc harrow owing to its greater amount of work there will be
cutting the roots of the weeds but it eventually. It is simply the opera-
rppsars to be necessary to mss this tion of the same principle as that
implement as early as possible after' which is familiarly. known by the ex -
plowing and before the sod has rotted pression, "a stitch in time,"
enough to permit the use of rho eniti-E It is important to use at all tines
vator, in order to check the top clean seed grain, clever and grass
growth of the weeds. In fact, the seed. It is simply a waste of effort
basic principle in killing weeds which to world the land to eradicate weeds.
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have •underground root -stalks is to while at, the. same time pollutingits
prevent their sending up top or above- with dirty seed. The supply of tna-1
ground growth. If this is continued nure should be rotted on farms where
long enough the roots will die.. The weeds are prevalent in order to pre-,
p
iocees is facilitated by any method vent this means of spreading weed,,
f cultivation which will tear out the' seeds over Litz farm, but where weeds
rnots and leave theon the surface' are net present it is a mistake to roti
of the ground where they will he hili- ` the manure owing to the losses of 1
ri by the sun. It is imperative to give manurial constituents incident to the
he land very frequent discing and rot -Sing process.
gmememege-
thirds of a cupful of sugar and three-
.quart'ers of a tablespoonful of ginger.
Drop single portions from the tip of are very popular. with my patrons,'
a spoon onto an inverted baking pan,1 The recipe calls for a• heaping cupful
two inches apart, and bake in a slow of butter, one and a half cupfuls of
oven, Remove from the pan with a sugar, two eggs beaten separately,'
long-headed knife and roll over the three tablespoonruls of. sour milk, oue'
handle of a wooden spoon, I small teaspoonful of soda, one pound
Little waters and cookies may be of raisins and as little flour as possible
made on a cool day or early in the; to make the batter stiff enough to roll
morning and put away in air -tight out. Bake in a moderate oven. �.,.
Have You a Foot Scraper?
• If the then folks had to sweep the,
house ,just one week there would-be
inure factScrapers at the doors of the
farm hones. A foot scraper costs
practically nothing, and yet it will
save a great deal of dirt from .being
taken into the house.
Several things may be used to make
a good foot -scraper, One may use ae •
old plowshare or any piece of metal,
or they may be purchased chouley.
However, the blade of an old. shovel,
upturned and set in the edge of the .
concrete stop will meke a dandy foot -
scraper. It should lean sightly out-
ward so thea faliing dirt will clear
t] -, step, A box may he set under the
scraper to catch the dirt and when it
is full it may be conveniently emptier.
A foot -scraper not only prevents it
great deal of work for the women-
folks, but it also saver aloe leather by
more cleanly removing manure and
outer leather -eating substatst'e$ from
the soles. --H, I. H. •
1 A .Surnaper Drink '
It to the floor of her nest. Upon top production betwee cn the flrsf, and fifth'
of this Sump she builds a circular wall years of the co t este is 57 eggs per'
of wax, then in this cell lays her first bird. The repot', which is distributed;
batch of eggs, about. a dozen, and - fin-
ishes Publications Dept, by sealing a cover of wax over Agricu turn, Ottawa, gives a detailed
it. The whole thing is small, about accountof tit, 1923-21 eentests in
the size of a pea. As soon as it is winch t'sgo h tore: part and laid
completed the mother, like a tiny hen, an ave age of idol; egg's per hen,
sits on those eggs night and day, on•y
One bird in tri:• Nees. Scotia section
leaving; when the sun is high to get laid 313 eggs in 52 weeks. Out of
honey for her own food. But you, know 1'088 bards laying 200 eggs and over,
that at this time of year cold storms,. 753 qualified for registration,
lasting for several days, are liable to Tufa 1 et ..: problems will he numbcome. If the bumblebee left her eggs more easily solved when we have eon,
at such a -time they would chill and t-Sneedour sales agencies that we. arc
she would perish.. Therefore she patting up on honestp z.
builds a honey pot and keeps it filled when they uncleretard ded ata they con
and thus has food for stormy days," dispose ofour fruits to an desats.,:e,
"How big ie. the honey:pot, : Aunt! — -_. w
Annie, and what is it made of?" said One part of borax to two of h ue,v
Charlie, his eyes •sparkling. ; +cr 0;, -carina is an eme-..ant ren:ody
"It holds nesrly a thimbleful a, for a sore throat.
In trying to combine P. number of"
necessary food r values in one summer
drink for my three-year-old daughter
I evolved the following nourishing, re-
freshing drink for adults as well as
children:
Juice 1 oransae, juice I lemon, '1,
cup sugar, 2 eggs, yolks and whites
beaten separate:y, 1 quart milk.
Beat alt ingredients together. The
White. the egg. willr'se to the top of
the pitcher, Cracked ice is added for
ridu'ts.--Mrs, P. W.
The unveiling or the Arms ainn::ne:TY• erected to the memory of Canadian soldiers who fell hi France during
the world war. Canadian Couuuissiou:r General Roy is shown speaking.'
CLIP
I gardens will be visited once er twiee
-.�"aarr�• j
:cell "
�lushJP�ihfc�7m•
at the most appropriate seasons. The
character of the awards to be given
is to be decided at a later meeting of
the Plant Registration Committee.
Water for the House.
A. western stockman who keeps itis
windmill going practically all of the
time has arranged so that water from
the pump pusses through the kitchen
in the house before it enters the stock
tank, thus insuring a supply of froslt
water in tho house at all times.
An inch -and -a -half• pipe leads from
the pump into the kitchen through the
basement. Through this the water
enters rite bottom of a small steel tank
in the kitchen. This tank is one of
the hot-water heater type. The bot-
tom of it is on a level with the faucet
at the sink. A pipe leads from the
bottom of it to the sink faucet.
Prom a -'point near the top of the
tank an overflow pipe leads out of the
hou•:e through the basement and to the
stuck tanks in the barnyard.
As an accessory to the equipment a
. coil of pipe was installed in the incom-
ing water line in the basement. This
• is inside an iceless ice chest. Foods
are kept cool during the warm Solt -
mer months by the incoming cool
CHARMINGLY SLENDERIZING. 1
Plaitedfrocks are the sucoess of
the season, and this clever frock of
printed crepe glees a lovely long line
to the figure. ` The arrangement of
elm plaits contributes a panel.efect
to both the front and back of the
frock, which is particularly flattering
to women of generous propoielons.
The centne front is' cut: rather low and
opens back to form revers, to which
a close -fitting collar with pointed ends
is ' attached. .. The sleeves are made
,short and trimmed with a cuff, and
shaped patch pockets are attractively
placed over the plaits. The diagram
shows how easy this frock is to make
and tits small front view pictures it
buttoned high at the neck and having
long sleeves. s Sizes 40, 42, 44, 45 and
48' inches bust. Size 42 bust requires
4% yards of 40 -inch, or 392 yards. of
54 -inch material. Price 20 cents.
Our Fashion Book, illustrating the
newest and moat practical styles, will
be of interest to every home dress-
maker: Price of the book 10 cents
the copy, Each copy includes one
coupon good for five cants in-the'pur-
chase of any pattern. •
To removCle "Stine" from
oth,
The "shine" can be removed from
a blue or black garment of serge or
similar material by thoroughly press-
ing it on the wrong side with a very
hot iron and thick, 'ret cloth betwaan.
This makes plenty of steam, and the
steam is what will remove aha shine.
Press until the garment is dry, but
don't remove the intervening cloth
and press until the material is "bone
dry" and hot, for that will bring back
part ofthe shine. At once hang the.
garment up in such a way that it
will not wrinkle. Let it hang until
absolute:y dry—which may mean all
day or over night,'
• Before green appieA; blush,'
Before green nnts emhrown,
Why, one day in the country
Is worth a m
Christineonthin G,town. Rosset'.i.
The wise mother provides her elafl-
dren with simple attractive -garments
which aro easily laundered, saving her
time and energy for more vital things.
The hen isegaining in the farmer's
dsteem every day, Phe' is Makin;,
money, and money talks.
Blessed aro the' merciful for they
shall obtain mercy,—Matt. 5:5.
Absolute zero, or coldest possible
temperature, is minds 473 degrees.
The coldest nrediunt'used in industry
is liquid air, which :is 116 degrees L',
below zero,
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