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The Seaforth News, 1918-01-10, Page 2• 13y Agronomist this Department Ia for the use of our farm readers who want the advice of an expert on any question regarding soli, seed, crops, etc. If your question stamped and addressed envelope 1s enclosed with your letter, a comp! "Don't move! There, that's better. Just keep still a zninuto snore and I'll be done." • �j�%ix"0 4.'�.4'`e@!'t.;23 U,$'.'pk't�;�i�:Pst>.x�,•Fv;'��i is F-,4 l7 Portrcaik5 "Really, you needn't laugh. It's the thuga ivot•yone says so. MieleJim, what are yeti doing?" Young Uncle Jim's keen, speetaeled eyes revealed sudden alarm. ie of sufficient general Interest, It will be answered through tills column• etc, "hold on, Evelinel" he implored, answer wllt'He mnallett`to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publishing Co., Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. W, Toronto. Mistakes in Buying Land. i fertile; but that Is no proof that it is "Batt what are you doing?" One of the first things to consider . worth as much locally or anythingg, s ,Making your portrait, of coarse. 1 when plonnin,'' to go to a new place, near it, While it, may P1° avo a is to find out whether that particular !meal per acro, you may not 1 Eveline made a clash at the paper. or cru s, '!here are evfn U n sectiort of the country is e,tdted to the i nirket f you t p y, 1 c1e Jim, 1 didn t know you kind of farming you propose to do.i too many things .that. influence the drew! Let me see itl" Neat,.iilid out whether there is a good i values of land for atle to try to call'' Miele JIM'S long arm kept the market f th things •11 grew, 'attention to them all The best away paper tantalizingly tit i' reach. ---Compton sense, the rarest virtue un- der heaven.'" This time Mr, Everts joined in the laughter; but Eveline's applause was distinetly absent-minded. Only as she left the room did she give a clue to her thouglzts. "We've enjoyed the exhibition so much, Mr. Kline," she said. "T am expecting to give a little 0110 myself, very soon. 1 do hope you will be able to sumo," "Nothing shall koop me away," Uncle Jim responded, with twinkling eyes, As he took down the "portraits" a few minutes later his eyes were still smiling, Unless he were greatly mis- taken, Evoline's would need 0 rather complete revision before very long, The Load Line, or e tug's yoU will gz t , I o o re c t. Then there is the all-important quos-' to find out the value of the latni "How about a wall( till dinner time, tion, the health of the community, i 6 1 ! Artists can't be bz•oht•beaten, When next, the mortal and social conditions who own land around the picee them the masterpiece is finished, it will be of the. people. are thiukin of buyiug. Ask ti Many people who change locations' all about it, it ought to sell for,', put upon exhibition—not before," are induced to do so by some teal etc, Next, go to the local banker; "It had better he finished pretty estate agent. The individual decides. and ask him what the hind you want soon!" Eveline threatened ominously. that he wants to go to some other. to buy d: worth, and find out how much "It will be. There will be an ex - place to live, and writes to maybe a; murrey he would loan you on it. Then hlbition of family portraits in the dozen zeal estate agents in as many. go to the tax books and find out what libraryiafter dinner, Seven sharp," different places; and the agent that the tax,'s are on the property, and, Uncle Jim fled to Ills den, sacred claims the most impossible things for. what per cent. 01 value property in, from feminine intrusion except by his 'al t' f t ' • the that county is taxed. Better take special invitation, !s to I "Cur °0 and talks nivately to the people, b your impatience, infant, Jose?" Jessica pushed back the pile of papers on her desk and turned a tired face to her uncle, "I've no right to," she said doubt- fully. "Look ab all the work wait- ingl But my head does ache, and you will be here only a few days. I'm affaid I can't resist the temptation," "That's right," her uncle agreed heartily. "I'll give you five minutes to get ready. There's going to be a great sunset, and it will be wonder- ful down by the water, Besides, I have an errand that way." Jessica was prompt; it was not quite five minutes later that the two were on their way to the wharves. Even before they caught the breath from the bay a bit of coloi' crept into the girl's race, and a little of her weari- ness fell away from her. But the trouble in her eyes was still there. Her uncle, talking lightly of one thing' and another, was in reality waiting; and presently the outburst Caine. "Uncle Andrew," Jessica cried pas- sionately, "how do you stand it?" "Stand what, little girl ?" her uncle replied. "All the sin and suffering and pain in the world. If I find it so hard here where I see so little, if I feel the burden of it all the time, how do you stand it over there in China?" They were clown by the wharves then, Before them were a dozen ves- sols rocking slowly on the tide; some, already loaded, lay close to the water, but many of thein sat high, and. all those showed marks npou their hulls. Her uncle pointed to one of them, "Do you see those marks?" he ask- ed. "Do you know what they are for?" The girl shook her head. t specs section o country is one that gets the most consideration this tremble tllait to pay two or three I Uncle Jim was est00100cl in the in far too many instances, As I times the value of the property • funnily as e rising young biologist, to t have had some experience with this, 11 An, thee big mistake manly' people say nothing of boing' a very lovable want to give some advice to peoplemake in buying farms, is to buy a too young fellow to bunt. His invitations who contemplate moving to a new expensive farm for the amount of cap were never slighted. Even Mr, Evu is location: ital they hate. You can take a very; homed the procession to the library Never buy until you are stare that) li'tic money and buy a large or high - yea have the kind of land you need, primed farm. You pay down all the "lie probably has pie tures of our -for your particular kind of farming; - money you have as first payment, skulls or something equally artistic!" don't buy land with the idea of grow-' then you find that yon have to go inn; Eveline grumbled. ing crops that you -know nothing debt for your supplies. When your; But there were 110 pictures what - about. When you go to a new 1000 fa, st note comes due you camp not meet' ever; indeed, at first. si};'ht there was tion to look at a piece of land -with it; hence you lose what you !!aid down] nothing unusual; then Jack gave a the idea of buying it, never he in too ' on the place, If you had bought ashout_. IIs had discovered a sheet of biga hurry; better paya few dap' smaller and rhea er farm you would Papel covered v;ith Uccle Jim's y' y p scrawling'writing, under a big inter hotel bill than to lose a few thou=and, have had no trouble in meeting theg dollars in the deal. j payments. Better buy a small place rogation paint. Now let ine say that it is an easy' at first. And never pay out all your Adore,' " he read "'Darling matter to get fooled in regard to vat!-, money ---keep enough to run you until Crazy over--Crush—The thing -Ens- ues in farming land. You may seen you mance a crop. You can makepant. Garnish plentifully with' farm that looks as good as farms sell- more money if you have a little money italics.' ' " The buy's voice, full of per-' ing for $200 per acre near your old to use as you go. Go slew at first; it plexity, cleared to a whoop of joy "I home, and in fact it may be just as' is the safest way. know—it's Et !" "Never mind," Eveline retorted, i - coloring a little over the applause that; deal note comfortable than if allowed greeted the recognition of the salient; to be outdoors. It is the comfort- characteristics of her vocabulary "Here's another, Us fellers—Play ball winter laying. —Punk— Bon ehead.-ipoi't-- Airships ; %did As the poultryman starts the new year, it is advisable that he start oper- ations on a well -planted system. Sys- tem saves both time and money, and makes the work more pleasant and much easier. At this time of the year it is not always the most pleas- ant task to go out to do the chores among the poultry, but the man who takes a deep interest in the work goes about it cheerfully, just the same. On days that are intensely cold, or when there are high winds or cold rains, or if there is snow on the ground, it is best to keep the fowls in- doors. If they have plenty of house room, and a good supply of litter to encourage scratching, the hens will not only busy themselves, but will warm up their bodies and feel a great Buttermilk is equal to skim -milk for feeding hog's, while whey is half as valuable. Whey, being low in pro- tein, is not well suited for young pigs and should be fed to older animals. To keep the hens out of the hog house, hinge the doors at the top, so they will swing both ways. The hogs can push them open and the doors will swing shut after the animals have passed through. There isn't much curl in the tail of a hungry pig. Corn, when fed alone to young pigs, produces relatively slow gains at a able, contented hen that does good Keep up the good work of culling. Get rid of every undesirable fowl, so as to cut down the expense and en- courage the workers. Follow good •"'Rational— Graft— Statesmanship business principles. vs. Politics -Yellow Journalism— Gather the eggs several times each Sound—Sane---True Democracy—Rant day, and especially when the -days are --a ou het! Jack grinned; then he hunted up the next. very cold, Eggs that are intended for incubation should be field in 'a temperature of 50 degrees. There is something wrong with pul- lets that do not start laying this month. Either they have been hatched very late, or they have not bee11 pro- perly fed and cared for. One clay about a year ago found me( Do not ship dressed poultry to mar- ket before the middle of this month, with a lone dollar in my pocket and unless by special order. Many poo- no work in sight. • After doing some; pie have not yet fully recovered from herd thinking as to how' I could add; the holiday feasts, and chickens do not to my available funds, I thought of some pine stumps on land belonging high feed cost, One lot of pigs whleh to a milling concern. On inquiry I was fed nine parts of • corn and one found that the owner would be very) part of tankage gained nearly twice glad to get rid of those stumps. as much as another lot on coral alone, Accordingly, I invested my dollar in, and required almost' twenty per cent. as much dynamite, fuse and caps as it• less feed fora pound of gain. would buy. That wasn't very much, It's a poor practise to purchase hogs but it was sufficient to blow out and in small lots and hold thein in local break up three full loads of the stock -yards four or five days until a stumps, that I was able to sell at $1.50 ' car -load shipment is collected; facili- per load as fast as I delivered them, ties for feed and watering are inferior in small yards, the hogs make uo fur- ther gains on their feed and often suffer actual loss of live weight. Local buyers would do well to specify a cer- tain day for the delivery of hogs from the various farms and load and. sbip without holding. Fanners also 'formerly reposed. could club together to make up car- The average -sized stump in 'this load shipments 011 regular week clays. part of the country will yield a good one-horse load of the finest kind of firewood. When the stumps are blasted out they are broken up into pieces about right for firewood, The SELLING STRIPS Turning a Waste Product By Lawrence GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX Ar, Iluber will en Muestioa is of senerei if not, it will be anew tiosed, Dr. Huber wil Address Dr. Jolan 13. 11 Ile ,101;0 11, iluber, Mee., ALD. saver ani elgaed lettere portend:2 i to Jfealth. 11 icon interest it will be immured through those columns ; erect personelle if Skean/ad. addros5ed cuvolope is e4' 1 not prescribe for individual caeca or tnalce cileguosle. unser, ware of Wileou Publtebing Go„ 711 Weet Adelaide Et., '1'orouto, Every child has the right to be protected from disease. Baby's Development 11, •arms. Seizes and carries oh;jects to Second a endMonth: Squint in occasion- mouth. Enlarges Its vocabulary til until the once of this month, Baby with the consonants 1 and le now recognizes human voices, turns Sixth Montlt: Raises itself its head toward sounds, Pleased with ting' posture. Loughs unci t'aisesiu ansit- d music and with human faces—not„ l 's ti Com nares AERIAL TANKS FO THE ALLIES ,ARMORED AIRPLANES 1;i THETI+1CHNICAi, NAME. These !!lactones Are to do Work Like 'l'hnt of the Land Buttle- ohiips. The eonstruetion of aerial tanks; or, to use the technical term, armoredta1r- draps arms when pleasure 1 great. p11unce, that will taceompany the in- however- pinasute, j fantry 111 the air just as the tunics go however with all it • sees, Sleeps image of ,father in mirror with orifi- forward on the ground, is boing cone Tickle sometimes five or six hours. sidered by the Freneh aviation author- Tieltle it about the eighth week and anal• lues, Tho Germans have been using yet appeal to them, it will laugh. Clasps with its fore- QUESTIONS AND ANSWER'S.I airplanes or this typo, reeognieing the finger at eighth week. First con- Have it Stripped off. value of this aid to an attack by In- sonants from forty-third to fifty-first I lta.ve been troubled for the past fatitry. days as am -ma, to -hu, goon, art. These machines, tieing tic researlly of Third Month: Sixty-first day, cry 4 years with an elongated palati. I considerable weight, minuet fly very of joy at eight of mother and father. have painted it with various reme fest and are useless for scouting or Eyelids not completely filled when it dies. I have been advised to have it fighting in the air with enemy planes, looks up. Accommodates its eye- snipped, but others claim thie would But the effect on the morale of troops sight to light and distance at ninth cause 80 impediment of speech, .1 of airplanes flying over the heads of week, Notes the ticking- of a watch find it worse when I lie -clown at night.' the foe, pouring into their ranks voi- at ninth week; listens with absorbed Answer—Bo sure first there is no leys from machine mune, was amply attention. Now some considerable infectious inflammation of the up-: demonstrated ie the biotics its Mane baby! per air passages then have a gooddere, when Br'iti'sh and French obsorv- Fourth Month: Eye -movements per- doctor snip it off. Applications hay- Won and fighting planes abandoned feet, Objects seized are moved to- ing been tried end found wanting, this' their legitimate functions and took ward the eyes. • Grasps at objects too is the best way. It is possible Tor an part in the infantry attacks. Being Of distant. Enjoys seeing itself in mir- extra long palate to obstruct breath- the lightest construction and wholly ror; girl babies exhibit this phe- ing seriously during sleep, No unprotected, they were easy 1115(01(1 for nomenon earlier and more insistently, speech difficulty will follow amputa-'rafts and machine gun fire. than boy babies. Can grasp with tion, . thumb contraposed to hand at four- Winter Itch tcenth week. Can hold up head I have the winter itch of which you plane in connection with the infantry without support. Sits with back write an itchy stinging sensation the protection of the croft by means supported at fourteenth week. Begins nearly all the time; and my finger of light armor ds being considered, imitate, nails look like warped planks after a This principle may be nlso applied to Fifth Month: Discriminates stran- rain. My hands crack easily 111 win- other classes of planes. To -clay gess, Logics inquiringly. Takes ter. I have to be careful about put -French tactical aviation possesses the pleasure in crumpling and tearing ting them in water, My sl(in is smooth' list multiplaeo machines. newspapers, rings a bell with zest; enough in the summer but chaps with:The IIreg'uets, the Samsons, the likes to pull hair; has been known to the first Norther in the Fall. Cauclron, R -IF are of ihs greatest efld- pretty nearly if not altogether eviscer- Answer—Eczema, fissured, of the ciency. But experience 'has demon - ate an adult ear or uproot a mustache. hands; sun mailing you 0410100. As: strafed that artillery observation ma - Can sleep ten to eleven hours without you note, water malas the ailment; chines are 110001• sato from attacks of food. Desire shown by stretching out worse, always sloes in cases of errcma' the enemy fighting planes, no matter e... _ __ _ I how vigilant are the escadrilles, whose When Your Shoes Get Wet, 1 duty it is -to defend them, This fact has made it evident that it is noees- Nlany who do not like to wear rub:- m- ' to build machines that are able ;!lust Protect Airplanes. To utilize to the utmost the air - "They are the marks that indicate the capacity of a vessel—the amount of burden that it inay legally carry. hers talcs a chance of. not getting • 10 defend themselves, You will see that they are not the caught in a storm and once in a while! The problem of construction ie still same; the limit of safety differs in dif- the shoes get wet, Drying directly far from being solved. It is necessary ferent vessels. But wherever the line over a register m near the stove' to have specialized planes for recon - makes the leather hard and brittle, 1111 naissance, photography and artillery putecl, and it is a ohne to send that which case it will soon crack, so dey i regulation, and there must also bs vessel to sea overloaded. However slowly in warm air, stretching upon 1 planes 'for infantry 1iason and trench great the amount 0f cargo waiting to be transported, no vessel can carry more than its own appointed share; no matter what the urgency, to carry mere is a crime. "It is God's world, child, not ours. We have a certain amount to be re- sponsible for but not more. To try shoe trees. An old-time and very good method used by our forefathers is to fill the attacks. Requirements of Service. dalnp shoe with hat oats; the grain The first class must be able to fly high and fast; ecoid that at.com b b the"t d thelig t as ; the s - 0000 a 110 5 m01S bra an leather is lett pliable. After shoes pany the infantry, muss: crawl and go are wet give them a treatment of ye slowly. To crawl at a low altitude low vaseline. This will not injurele 00 )1C1, l, course, they must be armored,' otherwise they to Lance more than God gives us, to the finest , ' bet, of of rse is not are quickly doomed to destruction. risk health and perhaps even life, and feasible for colored shoes, as it dark- Armored Plaines existed in 1914, and Into �3oliars and Cents. in consequence the defeat of God's ens tan or brown and makes gray or even have d the war, but little by little Plan for you or for me, that is to load champagne nzudcl amd dirt lookin they have disappeared. C. Longstreet y dr g' !they days of attack the French pilots our lives beyond the safety do Colored shoes are best dried by in the moral world what is a crime iii stuffing with tissue paper, after whisk ale forced to fly for hours at loss than the physical world. Here's my man they should be treated with the dregs- 300 feet from the enemy trenches, fill - coming, Will you wait here for me'f ed with machine guns. For several ing intended for that particular lcath- I'll er back in ten minutes." months the Germans have employed er and finish. Her uncle and the other man die- an airshipof the Junker type entire- appeared behind a pile of freight. 111 short, in less than a half day, I converted my original dollar into $=1.50, With that capital I purchased a larger supply of explosives, and repeated the operation on a larger scale. Bef01•e 1 I finished I had a pocketful of money in the place where the lone dollar had IVSPoiry When the roughage for dairy cows is clover or alfalfa hay, the grain rations may 200 pounds corn- and - cob meal, 100 pounds ground oats and 100 pounds gluten 'Teed; or 250 pounds corn -and -cob meal, 100 pounds wheat bran and 100 pounds gluten feed. Bulls, like bad eggs, are best left strictly alone except when it is neces- sary to handle them. Give them plenty of exercise and keep them where they can see the other cattle and the attendant. Let them have no chance to try their strength and they will not be so likely to manifest it in an ugly disposition. There is not much milk in timothy ' hay. a Instead of feeding it to dairy cows, give it to the herd bull and use smaller pieces can be used in the kitchen stove, and the larger ones in the sheet -iron heaters commonly used in this'loeality. The wood readily sells for $1.50 a load hero, although I am told that in the large towns a two -horse load of the wood brings $8. It takes about six stumps to make a two -horse load. They can be blast- ed in from one to two hours' time, and at a cost that will enable the blaster to more than double his money by selling the wood, It is easily possible to make money both ways in a business of this kind. Men that have stumps on their land are usually willing to pay a fair price to have then taken out. This will at least cover the cost of the work, and the amount realized from the sale of the wood should be clear profit. It seems strange to me that so many farmers permit stumps to remain in their fields when the stumps can be taken out at no expense to the farm owner. By that I mean the stump wood can be sold for more than it costs to blast it out. I believe that if farmers owning stump land knew this, there would be more clearing done. t OUT r OUTe AND F OLD 'DOTTED ,L1 alfalfa, clover, vetch. etrw-p011 or „, ,� u ,� ,'� ;w..,,;� , ___ ” u velvet -bean hay for the milkers. • ge Skim -milk, if made into cottage-� cheese, furnishes nearly seven times as much protein and nearly as much energy as the dressed pork 1t would produce. Ae. far as possible, there fore, skint -milk should be used for human food and only the excess fed to live stock, ()Zee 40) Sheep can be wintered with a smal- ler use of grain than is needed for other' live stock, All depends upon the kind of hay or other roughage used. Coarse -stemmed hays like timothy, red top and blue -grass have very few leaves and therefore are poor sheep feeds, Timothy is un- palatable, causes constipation, and the dry timothy heads work into the wool, causing irritation to the skin, lessen- ing the value of the clip and snaking fOIQHEST PRICES PMD Por POUL'ItRV GAMS EGGS et PES THERE Pima, write for particulate. ;a. ] 041,111 do 00., i en553imas '14Terkbt, 5X9atres4 shearing difficult, When timothy or other coarse -stemmed hay is fed to sheep in winter quarters, supplement• ary protein .feed is. needed. From one. quarter to one-half pound of lineecd. meal per ewe daily should be used, de- pending upon the size and condition of the animal and the other feed used, A shed opening to the smith, built, in the corral, protect:; sheep frau cold' rains, This equipment:, including fence and shed for 100 mature sheep, costs about $125. It. affords dog pro- tection, simplifies the breeding of ewes, the feeding of grain, the wean- ing of lambs, and safeg'u 1(',114 iartei )si . exposure to severe weather and, if well drained, provide=) dry querter14. Instead of keeping the pancake griddle smoking on the ,tor•" while waiting far a. lige comer, ,lust slip it into your , 0e11 and elite the door un- til you are ready to 0„e it again. , Onaina feel Hoye _ 4 ene Out' Will was fishing in the brook, When 'las-a-lack he snagged his hook, But did he hesitate? Not he; Just waded in and set it free. To wear wet shoes is to court a cold, for the foot are very .....;,. , ly trade of metal, all of wltose`machin- Jessica waited, watching the vessels and dampness close against them con- cry, motor and guns are protected by 111 the bay. ti• It a shell proof armored covering. They f ttl t ld gats are thus able in the very fare of mi- ls 0 peculiar ac to one seldom Fencing in the Garden. 4 cold when the shoes become damp with infantry to attack without much Another year's use of our fenced -in salt water. This is because the salt Clanger to themselves. It is to must garden has proved that the expendi- is in itself a tonic, and the one with this emergency that the Allies are tune for fence wire, posts, and labor damp shoes usually walks upon the now emisiderang the building of aerial required to fence it was a good bus- dry sand after, so the moisture is 101)lcs, iness move, says a successful farmer, pretty well absorbed. .e. ---- Our Our garden is twenty rods long and With the coming of cold weather The Battle Front. four rods wide, fenced with strong coughs and colds 000 sure to he preva- . . . The true battle front of this four -foot woven wire that will turn lent, !risky induced by wearing damp war is in the soul o1' the nation. -- Lieut. -General Smuts. hogs, chickens, or any stock, with the shoes. Coughs and colds lead to strand of barbed wire six inches above more serious complications, There is 1 n !nut's neat one time foe, now the woven wire. The ends are en- a deal of truth in the advertisement g g closed with substantially glade panels which says, "It was the rough That staunchest friend of the same fencing, which allows of carried him off.” And strong fore fighter (who recalls their easy removal for plowing and Take good care of the shoes; alter - cultivating. ' mate one pair with another frequently, There is no longer worry and darn- and one stop will have been taken to - age from our 010(1 poultry, stock, or ward maintaininggood health. dogs, or those of our neighbors, and the permanent support for wining u'nisltncworth Old -Tine Corn Bread. the plants effoftrt of fencedbying'the infeitself.eie Fur- Hotel and restaurant men ns well thermore, our chickens can now have as housewives will find the following free range for a much greater portion. corn bread excellent for serving cold of the year than before the hen -proof on wheatless days. In olden tithee the Saturday's baking was incomplete if this corn bread and a big crock of well -browned beans werenot ',eked; If one of your horses steps on a One quart rye flour, two quarts In - nail, remove the nail as 50011 as pos- dian corn meal (yellow), put in deep allele and thoroughly cleanse the pan; scald by pouring over it just en- wound. aaf the horse limps, investi- ough boiling water to merely wet it, gate the cause. The removal of the not make a batter, stirring conetant- nail can easily be accomplished by the ly with a spoon. When it is cool en - ordinary claw hammer, a small block ough so it will not scald the yeast add of wood being used as a fulcrum over cite -half teacupful molasses, two tea - which to pry. If the nail is not too spoonfuls salt, one of sodu, one cup large a pair 02 pliers is suitable for yeast. Make as Stiff as can be stir - this work. red with n spoon by adding Marl)) wa- If not cared for immediately the ter and let rise over night, Then wound may cause lockjaw or penman- turn• into a large, well -greased pan, eat lameness. For cleansing the smooth the top with the hand dipped wound a syringe and warm water may in cold water, then with a spoon spread be used if caro is' taken to cleanse melted drippings over 1110 top, Lot it thoroughly. The bast method is to stand fors while to rise again, 111011 apply liberally and coal -tai' product, i bake in a moderate oven slowly for as it is effective in breaking up the in- five or six hoot's. If preferred, gra- feetion, If a nail wound 1s given hath i'lour may be used instead 01' rye. immediate 1111)1 careful attention the This bread in olde'a tines was baked life of a horse is usually safe. in the iron kettles 011 the hearth before the 'fire and mals heaped on the lid, To heat clisitee quickly put them .... into hot water. This is a safer and Cost of tt Soldier, bettor plan than heating them in the oven. It costs Uncle Sem approximately $5,000 to put a soldier in England, as It is not a bit too early to get in against $0,700 to place a Canadian touch with dependable nursery cwt- soldier in the same place, according to ems and seed houses to get prices 0000111 figures given out by the War and full information about the trees, 1)epartanent. So it is expensive to shrubbery, flowering plants, and wade train and equip a man and send him that will be 'wanted early next spring. overseas, unless he is physically fit Do it howl anti stays so, garden fenoe was erected. If a Horse Steps on a Nail. no more That Britain once was pitted 134810011 Boer), Has shown—where'er the battle lines extend, Veering as each day's grim award may bend, Not there alone is kept 1110 turning score, But in the hearts at home, that of their store— Their much, or little --stand to freely spend.. . , True battle front is in the nation's soul. 0 Soul of England! Ev'n where flesh is weak, A spirit sword it wields ---thine ancient wont! There is one other such full civic roll: I"ar, far away, yet in vain to seek— Across three thousand miles--a battlebattle' front! —Edith M. Thomas, Choosing Clotitee. Price cannot be taken as an indica- tion of good clothes, although quality is often expensive. There are, gar- ments of certain cut that demand top• notch prides and yet that could not bo taken as an indication of what is good in clothes, The newest invariably comes high, and yet upon examina- tion eve find we are paying not for material, not for durability, not ale ways smartness, but rather for new- ness, To the woman of limited income it is infinitely better to sit hack and analyze the make-up of the lately ar- rived style before she Invests in 11. The far-seeing woman can visualize herself as looking outlandish nest' 1411-. 5011 111 something that is quite in 'lie order of things this acasoo, It ie a good plan, :Ids, of painting a next year's portrait of yourself in this year's clothes before you put go,' Inciaay into thorn.