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The Seaforth News, 1918-01-03, Page 613y Agronomist the advice the use of our tarns readers who want This rt erttrris for question vt an expert en anyupeUon regarding esti, seed, crops, eto, If your q If fa of sufficient,general intereet, it will be answered through this column. tetf stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter, a comp answer will be mailed to you, Address Agronomist, ear° of Wilson PUbiishin0 Co,; Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. In the production of winter eggs no canslderatiun is of more importance , then the health of the hen, It is! contented, healthy hens that pay the Profit and care should be taken to in-, stare the welfare of the flock. A few hours work un many poultry houses, coupled with an expenditure of a five dollar bilk will trallsform them from an ugly makeshift into a comfortable, profit -paying hen home, and sume- tiines it is not even ueeessary to .pend a dollar. 1f one does not wish to spend real money there is often en- ough hoards that lay around in disuse to go a long ways in doing repair week. Even en corn fodder from which the ears have been husked keep out the cold and prevent thai"te when set about three sides of aha house, Provide for Ventilation 11 is better to leave an pen space' le the front of an otherwise closed house than to board it up tight until no air or sunlight eau enter, In such e house colds are the rule and disease' germs thrive. No hen can work pro -I perly under such conditions and if you really canna afford a window or two, leave an opening that will admit light. Leave an opening in the front of the house anyway. 1 Too many winter houses, and for that matter all poultry houses, are built too narrow and too high. Build your house at least twelve feet wide - and sixteen feet is better. Then make ,it only high enough to work under comfortably. This naves ma- terial and at the same time allows the perches to be placed far enough from the front, The wide house also constuves floor space and"a house six- teen feet square has many advantages over one twiee as long and only half as wide. Uee plenty of litter in the laying house but be sure that it does not bo - come wet and mouldy. Damp houses bring about this condition and floors should he higher than the outside yards. Evan in houses where no damp- ness is noticeable the litter becomes badly damaged and will draw moisture after it becomes finely pulverized, The Best Breed vs. Good Care Tnst what we stove learned from the various egg -laying contents about which are the best breeds would be difficult, indeed, to dete'•mine, but one thing stands out (nearly and that is the fact that almost every known breed -- at least, every breed that is in any- thing like general use --can be relied upon to produce good returns if the keeper does his part. Practically all of the better known breeds have won iu these contests under identical con- ditions, so if your Rocks lay less than your neig'hbor's Reds, do not be in -a hurry to change breeds. It may be your own fault. - Skim -milk in copious quantities is a valuable egg feed and many farms can supply it at practically no expense. Where it is not -at hand a portion of meat scrap added to the ration usually pays. However, do not get the idea that milk will also take the place of water. lliilk is a food ----water a drink Corn has been severely criticised be cause of its fat -forming tendency but • do not let thisdeter• you from feeding corn. Fed rightly it is a great food and no one ever found a poor hen that was laying eggs enough to be profit- able. It is usually the old- hens that become toe fat, but feed enough corn to aid in keeping up the body head ' when the weather becomes cold. Corn and wheat are two great feeds. I Lice by day and mites by night, furnish the uuhappy conditions of j Poultry kept under insanitary sur ruundingw Treatments for lice are not effective for mites because the ; latter 104"k only at night, making raids et the fowls from their hiding, places in ceovices o8 the roosts and cracks of the building. To destroy' mites and keep the flock free of their. depredations insem:hide spray- and a' sanitary building ere necessary. The presence of mites is indicated`: by small Week and white specks on: the roosts --•the excrement of these insects. Tho first step into get rid of; the Biding* places so far as possible. Th- roosts ehou'ii1 he taken down and' ail Ur.,,ee4' sary boards and boxes re- moved, In heavily infested houses the mites are to be found in all parts' of the building, including the roof.' Where they are les' numerous the in- • festetio e meetly are confined to the roosts and nt.ste and the walls irnme- dietely adjacent, For small coops e. hand atomiser will suffice for apply- ing inset .:;.ides as sprays, but for larger homes a bucket pump, knap-' sack sprayer or barrel pump is desir- al+le. A rather coa'ee sprey should be applied from ail angles and ther- oughly driver!, into the cracks. The floor also should be treated, as many mites fall to the floor when the want.; t are being removed. Of the several ntateeiale that have proved effective, one of the se=c•alled wood presetvere, consisting of certain coal tar products, known as anthra- cene oil with zinc chlorid added, has given particularly good results. Its repelling power lasts for months. The cost is about $i a gallon, but twice the quantity may be obtained by reducing with equal parts of kerosene. Crude petroleum is almost as effec- tive, retains its killing power for sev- eral weeks and in most localities ie. very cheap. It will spray better if thinned with one part of kerosene to four parts of crude oil. Both of these materials often con- tain foreign particles which should be strained out before spraying is begun. It has been found that one thorough application of either of these ma- terials will completely eradicate the mites from an infected chicken house, bolt ordinarily it is advisable to make a second application a month after the fust, and in some cases a third treat- ment is required. These subsequent aptlieations may be made with a brush, •using the materials pure and covering only the roosts, their sup- ports, the (walls adjoining and the nests if they are infested. This method of application is effective for the first treatment also if the houses are not heavily infested. Poultry should be kept out of the treated buildings until the material is well dried into the wood. Used as a dip crude petroleum will else destroy tate small mite which causes scaly leg. In dipping for this mite the solution should not be allay- ; ed to reach the flesh above the infesia- Lion or to get on the feathers. r� r The lo.;ses +caused by ex warble each year aggregate millions cif dollars. Not only is the ]tide of the infested animal pallet n1 "d by the emerging larvae, causing a ieductiou in value of one-third 't, the presence of the grubs in the animal's back is a source of loss w 1 eh can not be neglected The lait4er 17 very often overlooked. The poor o0n,utien of the unbind, its inability to ta!ee on flesh, or poo' showing at 00 milk -pail, are factors attributed •e:+ other causes. Most un- informed cattlemen a.'.tril rite these conditimia to poor clue, lack of proper nourishment. ew ;+llysielogical troubles. Tho pres0:ee of fifty or Misty burn- ing, running udders un the back of the animal teems a matter of small importance. and is considered lightly by most people, But. Mr. Farmer, bow much would you accomplish if you had fifty ol• sixty badly on your back? The two conditions are analogous and conducive to the same results. The ]rase, causing all of this trou- ble is one resembling, in the adult 5tage,the horse bot -fly, or as is some. times called; the "nit" fly, but some- w7uxt larger. The adult is seldom seen about the cattle, It is thrid and 4'a1ue of Frosted Wheat in Animals Feeding. Live stock offer a means for the dis- posing at profitable prices of grains • injured by various causes to such an extent as to render them unsalable, through the ordinary channels, fa' the maximum market p'r'ices, From thee, to time there are districts in which steamer froate injure the f mills, re -1 ilueiug the grades of all grains and! particularly afrea:leg the market' value of wheat, Since the cultivation' usuajly given preparatory to the grow -1 ing of wheat is such as to make it a somewhat more expensive crop to grow than (oars° grains the loss in- curred by injury to the crop is great -i er, and a means whereby the dam aged grain may be profitably xnarlcet_, ed would solve a serious problem. Such a means lies in feeding the low-. grade Wheat to live stock. ! The feeding value of frosted wheat has been underestimated in the past, as is shown by the remarkable gains secured in several tests conducted at the Lacombe Station during the past several years. The first experience secured in the feeding of frosted wheat to cattle was in the year 1900- 10. No comparison was made that year with other classes of concentrat- ed feeds, but a carload of cattle were purchased in order to take care of an amount of frosted grain carried over from the season of 1907, when summer frosts injured gram over a consider- able territory. This frosted wheat was salable through the elevator at thirty-five cents per bushel. Taking the increased value of the cattle in the 'spring as compared with their value at the time of purchase, and having paid for hay, straw and salt, it was found that a bushel of wheat when marketed as beef Was worth $L28. It has been argued that cattle would not thrive on wheat as the only eon- -centrate, and that it would require to appears only when everything is quiet. ' The e,rge are clepu_ited upon the stairs during the spring and summer, and the : nnimal, upon licking them, carries the egg or larva into its mouth, The young maggot 11115000 into the gullet, Froin the gullet it migrates slowly .through the tissues toward the back. It arrives beneath the skin, and a lump or exclesence begins to appear about` mid -winter. This lump gradually grows larger until the middle or lat-' ter part of April, 1511011 the full-grown grub, which caused the lump. emerges through a hole cut in the hide some! ! time previous, and falls to the ground.; 1 It then burrows into the ground and trtutt.fr,rme to a pupa, and the adult two -winged fly appears from three to, six weeks later. This complete., the +` life cycle, which ',temples about one i year, be mixed with oats or burley in order to be paiittuble Zhia has not been the experience at Lacombe as 110 dif fieultyehns been met in getting the de- sired grain consumption daily even when wheat alone was fed. hi this paiticular test eight mangle of grain was fed daily to 1800 -pound steers, while do the test conducted during the winter of 1016-17 eleven pounds of straight wheat w118 fed daily to si:eers weighing around 1200 pounds at the finish. In this latter test, eo)npari- son in gains was nude between a group receiving wheat alone as the only con('.entrnte and another group re- reiving oats and barley in equal parts. The average profit for these groups - was $27.01 per head in the ease of n.heat and $26,50 per head in the group fed oats and barley, a differ- ence of $1,41 per head in favor of the group of steers receiving the frosted wheat. The bulky kidders given were the same in both rases, the cattle hav- ing free access to feed racks where they could eat at will. For some years comparisons have been made co to the relative value for hog feeding or frozen wheat versus oats and barley. In each instance it has required less grain to make one hundred pounds of pork with frozen wheat than with oats and barley. The first test to be carried on with these two classes of grain as fed to the hogs, was 111 an extremely cold period of winter. It was found that seven hundred and fifty pounds of wheat produced one hundred pounds of pork, while it required ten hundred and six- ty pounds of oats and barley to put an an equal amount of gain. In the win- ter of 1016-17 twenty hogs were feel oats and barley in equal parts and ten per cent. tankage, while forty-one head were feel on frosted wheat, with tankage in the same proportion as in the case of the oats and barley fed group. Valuing grain at one cent per pound :and tankage at $1.80 per hun- GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX 135 John li. Huber, ➢4.r'., M.D. Dr. Huber will answer all signed letters pertaining to Health. It your 4nestion is of general interest it will be answered through these columns ; if not, it will be answered personally 1f stamped, addressed envelope is ea• closed, Dr. Huber will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis. Address Dr, John B. Huber, care of Wilson Publishing Oo„ 73 West Adelaide Et„ Toronto. The parents young; the children healthy; earthly ,paradise.—Victor Ilugo. Baby's Developmeit. First Month: Baby is sensitive to , light as early as the first and seconds; days. About the eleventh day it j takes pleasure in the light of a can- dle and in bright objects. It hears! on the fourth day. During the lost two Zteeks of the month it discrimin- ates sounds. It starts at gentle` touches the second and third days, It! shows sensibility to taste about the; end of the first weeks Strong smell- ing substances produce mimetic (that) is, grimacing) movements the first day. During the first few days it evinces pleasure in nursing, in its bath, in the sight of agreeable objects; ! on the other hand it can evidence dis- comfort from cold, wet and tight cloth- ing. Nor can eny words be unmis-1 takably more eloquent than the ex -1 pression of its sense of outrage by 1 reason of delayed alimentation. On the twenty-third day it can exhibit, tears. On the twenty-sixth day -1 Mark that blessed date in the calendar —it smiles! Within the first month it can utter vowel sounds. The; memory as to taste and smell is first; active; then, in order, 'as to touch, 1 sight and hearing. The movements of the eyes are not yet co-ordinated; and no mother need worry at this time about squint, The reflexes begin to be active. Baby sleeps two hours at a time and sixteen hours in the twenty-four; illus far sleep and paha lum together make up its main inter -1 est in the universal scheme, in which; it will later take so world -compelling: a part. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Baby Sleeps All Night. When I put my 411 months old baby i in the hammock at ten o'clock after a good nursing, it does not wake un- til 7 in the morning, And then It does not cry or seem to be hungry. Answer—All right, mother, don't worry. Doctors are now advocating no feeding at all at night, unless baby makes a strenuous and unmistakable demand for. a 2 a,m. repast. Yours is a good hefty baby. Most babies weigh only 16 pounds at 0 months. Some Baby. - My baby weighed 914 pounds at birth,• now, four weeks after, it weighs 1.21!1. It has several white spots in its mouth and I ani afraid it is going to have a sore mouth.- Is there any way to prevent this? He is otherwise perfectly healthy. I have no appetite for solid food; is this just nervousness or do I need something to give me an appetite? I am myself only eighteen. Answer ---A model baby, sure to take a prize in any baby competition. Two pounds —yes, positively-- two full pounds heavier than the average at birth, and holding its own well and strong at four weeks. Wash out the mouth with a solution of boracic acid (a teaspoonful to the pint of water that has been bailed) ; add a few drops of honey to this, so that baby will like it. You nurse baby yourself; that is splendid, Am mailing you in- formation as to what you should eat and drink and much else helpful. Something Terrible, I am suffering terribly day and night. My hands, arms, elbows and neck itch terribly. I scratch and bleed terribly. My health seems to be good except this terrible trouble. Is there a remedy for this terrible itching and scratching? Answer --Relief goes by return mail; try to hold on until it comes! VIOTHER.WISDONI • What Ey Ur, .Elena t Sadler OAA y? l" 1 believe. the girl "wctil es up'" d r 11)81(0lteyes - '`+, "comes to" lu bit earlier than dots the instead ot• eoutpellcd . ahoy are reruly boy, and eager to assume responsibility ant shore seems to he an inherent t- aro happy if. you treat then] like eon- cone( in the normal 41151 to bear re- 1(1(108, Nothing is mare injurious to sponsibilitles earlier than the boy. their i!evelclpntont and to the Peace of You have no doubt heard a ne!ghber the home than an attitude °f dkstrust matte the remark: "Olt, my boys gave and er'itiiiism (03043rd thane maturing 110 Olid o'f troul,le--.)attest more than children• ray Birk,,' . Your daughter's labor should be Now, Mother Nature is wise in this, light until she is well established in for the real responsibilities of the the changes which make her a woman, world—the real worst of, the earth, in She should be given i1 monthly period faa3. the only world that really counts of rest, clur'ieg which, for at least two, _ai'e thus\ that lire uurserl ands days, she is not allowed to do heavy nurtured, Loved and labored for by ttdcleuly Tato' Lillie Girl aticl ,14. Wr By' Helen Jot � t:iricl$ils,* G;<i1.1'c� Ttti�tiarct to + i!itathet,,, Boy l3eeolno Differing, Your little girl !tad grown to be a counter(. She was obedient, reliebit, loving and she confided to you her pleneures and pains, How you had conte to depend upon her although she was only thirteen years oidl Your boy, too, about a year older, was faithful in all the work which .you and his father gave him to do. Your love and your wisdom in bring- ing' them up were rewarded; you were contented .and at peace. Then suddenly every thing was dif- ferent. Your little girl burst into tears one day when you asked her to sweep the hall. Now, she only half hears what you say to her end pleads, "I forgot!" when you call her atten- tion to the tasks undone. Her teach- er complains of her inattention and her reports are poor. She walks es if in a dream, tells you very little about herself und goes off alone when- ever she can, About the same time your boy be- gan to ask for all sorts of impossible things and to sulk when he did not get them. For instance, there is a horse in the barn which is frill of tricks and which no one except your husband takes out; but thie foolish boy has begged to drive him, Moreover, one day after having been punished for insisting on this privilege, he ran away and was found some days later in a lumber camp, earning good wages and indifferent, apparently, to the anxiety he had brought into his home. After you begin to recover from the -confusion which it has caused you, to have your world turn a solnmersault, a feeling of anger rises in your heart. What wicked children you have after ail! No, they are not wicked. They are simply passing through a change so enormous that scarcely an organ or a blood vessel in their. bodies- is the same as it was last year, Some are larger, others are smaller, and some. are learning to perform entirely new functions. If your world ha., turned one sommersault, theirs has turned several and then a series of hand- spring's! Wise Parental Guidance Be glad that you live on a farm: At this age more than ever before or afterwards, this boy and girl need wide spaces, freedom, variety and exercise out-of-doors,- Perhaps they have had those privileges all their lives but you mast manage to make them different now. They are filled with a passion for different things just because they are different. They crave what is unusual, startling and r'llin ', th r S S ou may disapprove of this but you might as well disapprove of an eclipse of the sun! Your boy and girl crave them so intensely that they will get them in some way; it is your duty to ' see that it is in a wholesome way. Let. them have their clubs and their parties an their visits. Something new, too, should be put into their work. They should be given a sense of partnership with you and their father in whatever they under- take; fax the age when they will work contentedly under authority, is tempor- arily passed and they must be inspired iHIGHEST PRICES PAI© Per. POULTRY„ (SAME, Oq9 & FEATHERS Please writL for particulars. , IT ea d. sa, �ouirx u fs oaoux. Meek**, ti atonta'eet YD °us >y , This le one of the easiest Meted pests to control that we have. In the winter and early spring all the insects are in the larval stage in the backs of the cattle. If every one owning cat- tle would squeeze the grubs from the backs of hie animals and destroy them, there would he no lxueleus for a new generation, and consequently no ox w511)10s the next year. When the grub "ripens," i.e., when it natures, a large hole appears in the lump, bordered with pus. This condi- tion usually appears in April aid May. When It comes, wrinkle up the hide containing the grub, get the two thumbs and first two fingers on each hand b eneath the lump, and squeeze. e. The grub usually flies to the ceiling like a wad from a pop -grin; now tramp on it, and the job is completed. I3 fa 4 tip.,,V V 1737-10 tt CUT OUT Af'ID FOLD ON iX T! eDr g fEN S,.. 0WAVAte ,A See how Ispin this lariat,. . ' It's real wild western, u, is it not? And ;lust to show hew well I cast, I'll rope my dog and make him fast, world nor take Mardi exercise, She women, And so it is not to be won - must be protected.lronl nervous worry, dere( at that girls early begin to play nagging and teasing at these poi'ioda, at motherhood --•the real (work and the for only so will the new function biggest world on earth. develop properly, I No mutter how big or stow olda buy At the same time, however, replete - bee that too much cocelling will make this holds even out in the {machos, out her selfish, Every (1111 thinks about 111 "no man's lane.— his dying breath herself when she is adolescent and it i0 is used to nnntrinttr' t110 one word that not well to indrease this tendency by, meant everything to him when he cut constant references to her bodily and his finger, or as a youth when his mental states. A mother must learn pride was hurt, rho word mother: And to take care of her daughter almost, 0 0 i repeat, no wonder that Mother without seeming to do so. Nature lin1cs this inherent Instinet �• --t the r at x ` Great Promise ou'sc r he e h °1 e x ''s A Period ocl C, t t •ith ul. eve wv y 1 w B Y , p When animals come to maturity must love, nourish and cherish the their horns, fangs and claws develop. 1 race! So, too, with the boy! Sometimes he! A little bit of tl girl unwittingly seems to be an animal possessing and assumes this responsibility and gots employing all these weapons upon us' obedience from her (lolls, kitty, etc., at once! Thus nature makes a man' and doesn't ]hesitate to spank if they out of him, The tendency will net do not mind. And while they do last for more than a few years, for bet understand it, it la nevertheless then he will have learned how to use; true that just as it is inbred in boys then wounding appendages or not to! to chase and bunt, so it is theirs to be use them at all. conavetenthamos. with playing with )nape -be - In the meantime, let him work off : H his excess energy and reduce the full -1 Think back, if you Will, just as far ness in his blood vessels by a normal, as your imagination will stretch and but not excessive amount; of worse and during the long years of the last Eu - by all wholesome sports, Swimming ropean glaciation, when everything is the very best sport in which he can, was covered with • ice and snow and engage. No exercise lessens to the our forefather's' only domicile was the same extent a boy's temptations or. mouth of a cave, and we see the father fills his heart with a purer joy. 1 and big brothers watching the cave— He should understand his own na-1 protecting it from intruder, be at man tore. If his father does not speak! or beast; many times freezing in their with him about these things, ask the very tracks while on vigilant duty doctor to tall( frankly with him as man —and just inside the cave's mouth is to mat. 1 found the mother guarding, nursing Plenty of wholesome, simple food and otherwise caripg for iter little and almost no pastry, soda water or' flock. So down through the ages it candy should be eaten by the young, has been woman's chief duty to care folk. The bedroom windows ought to for the fire and keep the home. It be wide open and in mild weather they has been inbred in the race for thou - can sleep out-of-doors. Daily baths,' sands of years: preferably in a tub, should be taken - And now, finite last and all the time, and at a temperature cold enough to our girl„ must understand that their be bracing. These are a real help to-; chief work in the world is that of ward moral control. Of course your the hornemalice. And in view of soeh daughter should not take cold baths a thought it 1;; important that she is during her monthly periods. early taught to make good along these Try to seize all the good traits lines. which are manifesting themselves in! Pity the n nater and twice pity the your children and as much as possible' girl .w'lto rea.hes womanhood as did dredweight, the cost of One hundred pounds of pork on the oats and barley group was $6.41, while with 1011001 the. cost was $4.90 per hundred, Taking the higher grain value pre- vailing last year as compared with the arbitrary costs used in this table, and estimating low-grade wheat at $1.00 per bushel, oats at 48e. and bar- ley SOc, the cost of making gains on the wheat ration would figure out at $7.62 per hundred pounds of pork, and $8.00 per hunched pounds with the oats and barley ration. It should be remembered that in stating these costa the figures relate to the cost of the gain made and did not include the cost of •.the pigs at birth (cost of maintaining sow), nor loss, labor and interest on the money invested. Considering the average prices of pork for the last three years in con- junction with the average value of wheat in which the grade has been re- duced by frost, it is apparent that the feeding of frozen wheat to -stock is the beet means by which the grower can effectively dispose of his damaged wheat.—Experimental Farm Note. Music Makes a iliac No Less a Man. Once in awhile you come across a man who thinks that to be an organist, a soloist, or to attend symphony con- certs and recitals is effeminate. Hie attitude toward anything very musical is abput the same as it is towards "chokers;' monocles and spats. 0'.f course there are plenty of boys in their teens who foal that to have to practise on the piano an •]tour every clay leaves them open to be dabbed a "sissy." But music does not make any man less oil a mat, In the ranks of the Allied Armies are hosts of musicians and music lovers. Among those re- cently announced as having died from wounds received in action is Private Tames Francis Adkins, the boy chor- ister of St, Paul's Cathedral, who received the Carnation medal from King George for his soh singing at Iis Majesty's Coronation in Wa t- minetexAbbey, He was tite sot of a church organist and himself an organist at the time of his donning g khaki. Ixam) S ofp le this sorb which ; 1. are now numerous speak for them - waives, to ignore the disagreeable ones. Most, one girl who cone index my obsei- of the latter will be shed like a snake's � vation who utterly .('oiled as a probe - old skin. Overcome evil with good. boner nurse, coria when she was asked Never is the heart so quickly moved . what she could do to' earn even her by religion, by all nobility and beauty i ear fare back home she ad - as it is during adolescence. Feed mitted that elle wits helpless. And your boy and girl with stories of brave; in my effort to help the girl to earn men and women, with pure and cheer- a bit for clothes and car fare I sug- ful religion, let them read poetry,; gested that isle help me for a short make music and commune with the time in my hone, and imagine my gentle loveliness of nature, which is; consternation when dm turned and always gracious and benevolent on the 1 said, "lh•. Smiler, I do not know how farm. Thus they too will grow • to do any snit of housework, for my graciously. I mother scrubbed '1ii'1e I studied ' Shakespeare." a The girl. in the mesh or seventh P r ; grade should have eve,y opportunity r"3* . t" • along the lines of seedy of languages, • 4. it 't^, (rant( c etltrt.l t an. lc and other g, - .� music ha nnct" besides that, in oidex• that the No animal on the farm requires education may be well balanced, she better protection :tram exposure than should humane acquainted with bed the bog; none for which a beet is more making, dusting, arrangement of the necessary; nova so much in need of dining -room, wasltilu; of di,Jiee and the pasture, but the -v can make Wrote', ether light household duties. • sunshine as the little pig. One of the __- -,- first requisites for success with hogs. is a shelter where the young pigs can • be kept warm and well supplied with' sunshine and fresh air. A little pig takes cold very easily and recovers. slowly. To prevent taking cold he must be. kept dry, warm, away from drafts, and be provided with fresh air, Most good hog raisers try to have their. spring pigs farrowed in March o• early April. Without good warm buildings this is impracticable. Breed- ers find it necessary to have their pigs come about this time in order to have • them large enough for the fall de- mand. Early spring pigs have several marked advantages. In the first place there is usually more time to care for them in March or early April, Pigs farrowed at this time are large enough to begin to eat a0 00011 as the �p1astures are ready, and thus got the longest possible season, or nearly so. Not only can they make more use of economical use of the feed, because they will lee finished for market be- fore cold weather' sets 111, when grains aro more expensive, If these pigs are crowd°id, many 0f then Can be marketed the last of October, and for the last tel years the market for October has averaged higher than for December, Without a good house two litters a year cannot be raised to advantage, This is be- cause the spring pigs must be put off until so hate that the fall litters do not got well started before (told weather. No piggery is Ext for the purpose un- less it admits direct --sunlight to the !Hoer of every pan at the time the pigs aro farrowed, furnishes plenty of fresh ale, and provides for exercise in the 011ei1 air, Dryness, sunshine, r freedom from • th fresh air, , drafts, and exerei50 are important in raising pigs. Fragrant Freesias. Nothing hi the, bulb Intl is more acceptable during winter end spring than the fragtant',et•;:as. A few of the sweet scented' iaowers will scent a whole hou_e. The little bulbs can be planted either in puts of earth. nr bowls of fibre and they are as easy to • grow as any house plant. I''rnm nide to twelve bulbs can be placed in a six inch pot, covering th ,a bait an inch with light, rich soil. (:dth rich com- posted soil and about ,s' ftf(h sand is best where it can be obtained. The pots or hotels of fibre Or:mid be sent away until growth is well stalled. Be sure tto give ample w Iter at all times, t6'heu growth is well started] put the pots in a 1, bglrt enemy wfndoty , A committee 1s en404ell L1 the re- paration of a report in regard to licensing of the sale of cereal foods in smaller packages than 2(1 pounds weight. In pruning cut ]robs ('1n.ee, so as to leave 110 stub or knot. A protruding Itnot will not heal. A wound cut close will allow' the growing layer to close over the wound. Keeping out the burrs and slaving the fleeces loalc as neat as possible will make broader competition for the steely which means bight.: prices and more money. Mamma wat0 11n01'eased 11 value 1,y $4.48 annually for every thousand pounds live weight of steers over that recovered from animals standing on earth floors in tests conducted at me Experiment Station. In the ex 1 - meat 58 stove were fedi, The co, of concreting was about $4.50 a steer. f00din ' periode would - t oaths p ixri Two s g p titere'fero pay foe the expense of th+z concrete 'floorr- aw t