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The Seaforth News, 1918-11-28, Page 7ut to 111 tee by emelt.. 10, a ed iil- ir'+ n. n - ,t l, - et ar in 17t aaa By Agrononnet, This Department le for the nae of our farm readers who want the advice of an expert on any question regarding soil, reed, cropo, etc, If your question le of sufficient general Interest, It will be answered through this column. If stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed with your letter, a complete answer will be mailed to you. Address Agronomist, cars of Wilson Publishing Co., Ltd., 73 Adelaide 8t. W., Toronto, Farms Lett ltortile Than 40 Years fere, There is some excuse for the Ago, ploneeta taking more thiel one gen- Canada has about 28,000,000 acres eration's share of the fertility stored in field crepe of which probably 20,- in soil by the benoficanee oR nature 000,0011 acres are in the three West- during long ages of preparation. In er P r ;n . s, le• the fertility of the pioneer days they needed and had 11. ; utg kept up, is it being ex- some right to more than their share leau,ieci, i; it being increased? To of this store of natural wealth while get an unwell', the C..onlmission of rnaSdrrg tho' rlaee ready fox oeeupa- 1 In servation carried out a survey of tion; but, after that first need is satie- 2,245 farms. We elated questions °of lied, it becomes their duty to melte 2,245 farmers lovated.all over Canada, the Placa more fertile white in their We took them in groups of about hands. thirty or forty -..in all about fill The history of other countries and groups, from British Columbia to other fanners sheds light on our Prince Edward Island. On this point, problems; and we niay be instructed, we made a. definite enquiry of the to our great advantage, by their . ex - farmer as to whether the fertility of perienee, In central New York, Iris fetrm was being maintained or wheat growing was followed success - wee deteriorating, fully for 40 years. During 20 years Here is the answer: 30 per cont, of more the successwas doubtful. Then them reported about the same yield it became definitely unprofitable. per sere as 20 years ego, 40 per cent. With a climate favorable for agricul- reported some increase in yield, and ture'and propitious for crop -growing, 30 per cent reported some decrease. it took 40 years of exclusive grain That is to say, the land, a:5 used by growing to make that system `unpro- 30 per cent, of all the men reporting, fitable, and 20 years more to compel was poorer in its power to produce the farmers to stop that sort of crops, than it was 20 years before. practice. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, From Manitoba, 32 per cent. 02 the Iowa and other Western States either fanners reported about the salve yield have or are making similar history. per acre as 10 years before; not one I have gone over them and talked to man reported en increase; and 46 per the old men; from 30 bushels of wheat cent. reported some decrease. That is to the acre they came down to 14. a summary of the answers to the We can afford to take a lesson question when put under an intellig- from, even our enemy, , Germany is ently confuted survey. a country with a soil which on the We want in Canada more serious whole is' not naturally very fertile. and intelligently* conducted surveys Within about 30 years she has •been of our conditions in order that we may able to effect en increase, of about acquire real knowledge of facts as 30 per cent, in the yields per acre of they are. Then we can come: to cone her crops: elusions and plan our course of action On the.other hand, over Mile areas to deal with the facts' discovered and of Canada our methods of farming properly interpreted: In the West; are: exhausting the fertility of our the lure of land - was for a time farms to some extent, and there is similar to the lure o1; the Yukon; and danger that the fertility of consider - the lure of the Yukon in the main led able areas will he reduced below the on to disappointed men, deteriorated point of profitable farming.—Dr.. J. hearth, and parts of the Yukon loft W. Robertson, Chairman of Lands with less material subetanee that Committee, Commission of Conserve - could be called wealth than it had be- tion, 1 WhenosTmgs over six wee'cs of age aro to be fattened thea- fed three times per day -with :..anon of one part corn meal end ate part bran. Geese which have been Pas- tured through the summer can be fat- tened on a ,ration composed entirely of corn meal,.This should be given over a pitied. of four or five weeks, " gem of a/I kind'. Better quality prefenad. Writefor prions.. ST.ANFOMETS, Liraaited 128 Mancfielti, St. - Montreal FursZ will nag manlier market vricoa for RAW FURS and GINSENG ROOT 21 yearn of reliable trading, Reference—limon Bic. of Canada, N. SILVER 220 St. Paul St. W. Montreal, P.Q. N EGGS and Oh FEATHERS POULTRY, Highest Prices Paid Prompt Returns—No Commission P. POULIN & CO. ae rrondecota0 NGvr,et - ASontroall if YOU Want the Highest Market Prices k1p all your F to us ---We pay all express charges. ABBEY FUR COMPANY (In business for 30 years) LOUIS ABINOVITCH, Manager 310 8t. Paul St. W. Montreal, P,Q. Reference, Bank of I3ochelaga., St, Henry, Montreal. Arrange 16 attend the Ninth Awing TORONTO i� STOC SH .oJnion Stock Yards, Toronto. Judging 10 a,ni,, Thursday, Dec. 5th. :4uction Sale .of Prize Winners 10 a.m., lrr•tday, Dee, 0th. Everybody Weldone. Admission Free. depending upon the condition of birds whenh t e forcing begins. Sometimes young geese are nia keted as,"green geese." Then th fattening process begins when th long wing feathers have developed until they reach the tail. The birds can be penned up and fed the follow- ing ration with goad results: Four parts corn meal and one part beef scrap, given three times per day. A sprinkle of salt, added to the wet mash is good for the birds and acts as an appetizer. Ducks fatten well on the,mash com- posed of one part corn ineal,end two parts bran. About five per cent, of beef. scrap and a little_ fine' grit shouti be addccl to the mash to bring the best results. Green food should be given Occasioxally to help in keep- ing the digestive system in good order. In fattening both ducks and geese the principle ,is to increase the amount oa food consumed and reduce the exercise. Sanitary conditions in theya r r dls and pens are very neces- sary. The profit in fattening either ducks, and geese can be determined by comparing the cost of good quality corn with the price that will be re- ceived for the ducks. At the pres- ent price of feed it requires more than the usual amount of skill to fat- ten thebird atprofit,but under- fed i e r - s a i de fed birds never pay so it is un- doubtedly best to give the geese and ducks a certain amount of fattening and then endeavor to place them on a market where quality stock is ap'- precia.ted. Dime in Old Plaster. ,FR4E TO iR s 13ig ]Doll anttl X9of Cara'fagtt 1, chew tall, haslJointedlestp o, •and same and, natural boa ti .iageid Rfet. The ! - Dolterr' age had ,steel !rams andw,hoelk an elleqieeae,balite 'au f6:9 hood ectnltietete, s 84 !nohea high and 1e Just the right eine for the Big Doll, duet send we your nano and address and we will send von a0 1'aokageo of lloovely embossed mss Post Card° to 0011 at 10. wife• a paokap•o, When' they art bold send ue the money and we will send you the, Big Doll, with send charges ''densyou�the Dollt'ao0,u °lege 'without any charge if you will chow your Doll to lour friends and got ust three of them to cel ourcards and earn n sew too. Send us your name and ad- dress :to -day so you can geOyour Doll and Do11oarriage oldest a.ddreso sOmrix -WAuanie COMPANY Vent, 100, Toronto .A31 NIGIff IPREW 1H1S FUNNY MAN T OH E BARN'—AND GEE Vdell I WAS FAS1 ASLEEP IN BED 1 DREAMED TWAT' rT WA5 ME — Doing Over the Old Barn. For a moment when I name in sight of the place I did not recognize it, so changed was St in appearance. The buildings did not look like they used to; the fences were different, and the fields -had been arranged on a new and more economical plan for sav- ingtime and lessening labor. But the' barn was the outstanding feature of the -place. The old barn lead stood in the midst of a low, wet place, quite a d'iettance from the house. The man who owned the place be- fore it changed hands must have travelled many miles every day to do the chores. This old barer, was taken down and the solid timbers moved away to a Site 200 feet from the house. Such of the old fsalls, beams and other timbers as were of the right size and length were worked over foe the new frame. The woods •afforded logs for what more heavy timbers were needed, as well as for the siding. These siding boards were ,all outfaced, so that they could be painted. Some of the old siding was used in the new barn, although much of it we'd worn very thin by the weather. A base- ment was put under the new barn, with a thirt afoot shed attached. The: whole was given a fine coat of reed paint, and trimmed with white. It looks fine now, and it is as good as it looks. the Inside are some devices to save time and strength. Stairs lead from the r- basement to the first floor and up to e° the scaffolds. Good swing stanchions When a ceiling falls, as they some- times oto, there is the slight consola- tion that the old plaster can be used to advantage in the garden. Crushed limestone spread over the soil is beneficial; it is slow in its ac- tion, but is beneficiai just the sanie, accomplishing the same result as burnt lime, but requiring more time to do it, So it is with old plaster, which is slower in its action than lime but in time produces the same result. If old plaster is to be had do not neglect to work it into the garden, breaking up the lumps as fine as pos- sible. Next spring after the garden has been linked- ith the old plaster a lot of decayed leaves may be worked in. Sheep manure should be applied 'lib- erally to bhe growing crops and the abundant crops will more than pay foe the trouble. The Sahara Desert is three times large e the edite' as ar s M 11`ariean Sea. g When T see a farm of poor eoii I know just how ethe farmer looks. When 5 see a careless, shiftless, im- varmer in town I ca provident farmer n fella that the soil on his farm is poor; he is surely a poor, soil farmer. The thrifty, enterprising farmer, 'who steps lively and wastes no time, can be counted on as a good soil farmer, anti the •soil of his farm will be Round to be good. Naturally, soil may be good or •bad, but llnally it will be whatever it is made by what I call a good soil or poor soil farmer, make it comfortable for the cows and easier for the men folks. Feed ear- ners and litter earners lessen the labor necessary to' feed the s!tou'k and elean the barn. A drilled well near -by affords water. Altogether, it is a good, labor -'saving barn.—E, L. V. To Keep Chickens at home. 'A yard surrounded by a five foot fence will under most conditions keep chickens at home. If the liens show a tendency to fly over such a fence the flight feathers of one wing should. be clipped, . A fence .made of woven wire is preferable' to a fence made of board or other: material. A board should not be used' at bhe top of a wire fence, as this gives the hens a visible place to alight and tends to teach them to fly over. The larger the yard ,which can lie provided the more contented the hens will be, It not only gives them greater 'opport- unity to exercise but often makes it possible to maintain a sod on the yard, 'which is advisable. "Seed corse selected at husking time should be stored where it. will thor- oughly hor- n l o h dryout before winter. The ears should not toue'h each other dur- ing the drying process. The ears can be suspended in a well ventilated shed or attic. Seed 'corn that is thoroughly dry will not be injured by freezing. GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX By Andrew F Vr. Currier will answer all elgne inaction is of general interest it wit 11 not, It will be 'answered personally closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe Address Dr, Andrew F. Currier, carr Et. West. Toronto Measures for Preventing Infections Diseases. Currier, M.D. d letters pretetning to Realth. it boot 1 be answered through theao columns; if stamped, addressed envelope Jo en" for Individual cases or make diagnosis -of Wilson PubiLbins Co., 73 Adelaide Armed with the facts in regard to the nature of infectious diseases we are in a position to eliminate them to a certain cxteht.' This must come about, first by' keeping the body in so fine a condition for its daily work that it will be able to offer success- ful resistance to the great army of disease germs ever lying in wait to attack' it. A good engineer never everlgoks the requirements of his me, - chine, he gives it pure water, good coal, good draught; he keeps it clean and well i1 oiled,he is constant] on y :, the look -out for weal; spots and when he finds them he remedies them at once, if he can. In this way he gets the maximum of 'efficiency from his engine. Precisely in the same way if one would keep off disease he must have proper food, exercise, sleep, clothing, recreations and everything else which will enable his physical organism to work smoothly. There are also extra precautions which he might take but in the majority of cases does not. Ile can take better care of this skin, which is one of the avenues fpr the elimination of poi- sons, by more •Frequent and thorough bathing and scrubbing, especially with learnt water and plenty of soap. He can be more particular about the functions of his bowels and bladder which are identically es important to his well-being as sewers to a city. He can accustom , 7limsel2, : to deep breathing, flooding his blood current with 'oxygen and getting rid ore pois- onous carbon coinpounds. It is from the want of this vital oxygen that so many people are dying to -day of pneumonia. Furthermore if it is true tbat germs are so omnipresent and se malevolent, so a'bundarlt in the mouth and nose and :so prone to mi- grate from this base to the parts of the body which are e more vulnerable, y v nerabi'e; tire-negleet is inexcusable if they ale not destroyed before they have had an opportunity to accumulate and ,move on, In other rvords the daily toilet of the mouth and nose with suitable sprays, atomizers and mouth washes is as important as, is even more important than the use of the tooth brush. Good atomizers are easy to get and there are many con- binations of antiseptics which will effiolently disinfect the upper air pas- sages, destroy germs And prevent much of the sickness which is now so prevalent. Menthol, eucalyptol, thy- mol, abaci, boric acid, carbolic acid, salicylic add and many other anti- septics are available and should be used freely especially in the presence of such epidemios as we are now con- fronted with. Children should be taught the disinfection of the nose and mouth from their earliest years and if this habit is carried through life it will not only make life more comfortable but in many cases, it will greatly prolong it. Questions and Answers. X-1—My twelve year old daughter has sm y atoms of goitre. Gould you suggest something which will keep it from enlarging? 2—Are acid fruits, including toma- toes, useful for one who is bilious? Answer—1—If your ohiid has goi- tre, the proper thing would be to place her under the care of a physi- cian an w;ho understands the treatment of that disease. If you care to read my article on goitre, send stamped, self-addressed envelope and you will receive it. 2—I do not •lnioty that tante acid fruits have any particular relation to biliousness. Drugs, like mercury and ipecac and a few others, are useful in the treatment of biliousness, but one should take them under the direction of a physician. G. El. N.—I ani told that if two cakes of yeast are eaten each day tor several months„ it will cause reduc- tion of enlarged glands and will also increase the weight. What is your opinion as to this? Answer --My opinion would be that it would be an undesirable form of "treatmelnt; •and the constant :fermen- tation and gas which it would pro- duce in the stomach, would be most annoying and uncomfortable. F. C.—I asn troubled with costs.. Will you kindly advise me in regard to their care and cause? Answer—If you will send stamped, self addressed envelope. I will seed n ,try•article on corns. E. ;113,—My baby is 18 months old, s ftisocoughs everyday. Seems bright and well otherwise. Please tell me what I can do for him, Answer—If the phrenic nerve is slightly compressed, it iviil usually stop hiccough. This nerve passes down on either side of the neck, and could be compressed by passing the fingers gently, but firmly, along each side of the tech. IN4 HERMi Ddi One Speck of Dirt Too Smail to See May Baring Disease to Yo! and Your (;piaci. They are worth every ounce of the wisest love and ulanost care we can give them, these price- less little ones from heaven, Hy Helen Johnson Keyes. To see one's child suffer from ptom aide poisoning and understand it cause would surely cure any ntotho of carelessness with left -overs. Yeuats are familiar to us in Idodl Perm, massed together in great multi tudes in the cakes which make ou bread light, but even they may be come unwholesome, when, for i stance, they ferment fruit juices. Mold, unlike bacteria and yea spores, is visible and spreads sickly green danger -signal over th food it is poisoning. It is the duty of very farm moth to control the growth of. these"orgy isms, . The difficulty or impossibili of getting ice on farms melees the problem harder but it must be faced and conquered or we shall have con- tinually -recurring cases of indiges- tion, followed by chronic sickliness and occa Tonal unnecessary deaths. Foods require to be used up almost at once unless they can be kept very cold and covered. The utensils used in preparing. and keeping foods must be of the kind which eontain no insanitary cracks and crevices where crumbs and drops may lodge and grow old, breeding poisons. The baby -bottle with the wide mouth ought to be the model for ail milk -containers. The housewife should wear tub dresses and wash them so frequently that they are clean. Her hands and nails must be spotless when she cooks and even so, should not be used as tasting implements. Our mouth al- ways contain the germs of diseases which most of the time fail to develop their deadly possibilities within us because certain curative force; are at work in our bodies de- stroying their power; but transferred from our mouths into food and thus into other people's stomachs. they may produce the disease of whieh they are seeds the curative fo ass being absent or weak in the :yetems of tate victims who cat them, Rata mire and oven pet animals should be rigorously kept out of the kitchen. They are carriers of dis- ease germs. So much 'has been said and written about the nastyfl its foul 1 habit Y, s and ite power to infect the food and the bodies of the babies, children, and grown-ups on which it alights that one may indeed say that no woman is a good mother who does not screen them out of her house and use every method of driving .them from the neighborhood and from her children. They are the great carriers of typ- hoid. Dust is not dangerous in itself, it is dangerous because in it grow death - dealing bacteria. A mother must know how to sweep so as to collect e dust and destroy it, not merely scatter -'it. She must diligently Grub,. -floors and corners with soap rid water and expose her oms, particularly her kitchen and entries, to bright, direat sunlight. After food has been cleanly prepare and served it must be cleanly eat, Children shoul.i he obliged al- ways to wash their funds and to rub and clean their nails before min to thetable. ab. a. o t M s bacteria g re conveyed from the 'hands to the outh and thus eaten. Children put eir hands without dainty scruple, and on everything. Dirt crowds der their nails and may contain aotenet, which lodging on their food d passing into their digestive tracts e likely to cams cramps, nausea an all the e s m totes y p of indigestion. A child-seeialist once said to me i that if all children in Canada were forced to wash their faces, hands and nails before eating :there would be a truly amazing fall in the death rate, How =eh knowledge alld wisdom go into the making, of a good mother! Constantly I am surprised ley dis- covering new things which a good Mother should know and dol The truth is, there is scarcely any know- ledge, scarcely any skill which can- not be used directly in bringing up children. Two strong children went from !home one summer to visit an aunt. Two days after their arrival they were taken violently ill with cramps and vomiting, After a week of ill- ness they recovered, with the help of a doctor, and by following; his very wise counsel to go without food en- tirely for twenty-four hours and then to begin with the very lightest diet. After a week, however, one of them fell ill again in just the same way. The doctor happened to be broilher-in- law of the aunt and he quietly made an investigation of leer kitchen, for hp had often been called into this household to euro cases of acute in- digestion and ptomaine poisoning. Before very long he found the dee planation of these many illnesses: There were saucers of leftovers which had been standing uncovered evident- ly for more then twenty-four hours; yesterday's milk was beginning to sour in the pantry; a loaf of bread which had not been put away in an air -tight box was coated with mold. The doctor's imagination pictured .a dish of scalloped fish made from some scraps of canned salmon left -overs, some inside cuts of that moldy loaf, plus the souring milk. -In his fancy he saw every one of the family ill after that feast and being a man who believed in preventing illness, if he had a chance, instead of waiting for in to develop and then curing it, he took the left -overs and the milk and the bread and pitched them out into the place where such things be- long. Now this article is not intended to discourage .thrift, it is just a remin- der of those tiny disease -carrying organisms, bacteria, yeasts and molds, which develop in foods if these are exposed to slow heat, dampness and air, - When foods "spoil" bacteria yeast or molds. are spoiling them. `These are hundreds of varlotiee of batters, many of which are useful, even necessary to life. I am now speaking about the poisonous bacteria which breed in foods, dust and dirt, and which cause more deat!•, among children and among grown-ups v Intim the children need, than has seer been put 'en record. Twenty -thousand of therc bacteria might scarcely cover the head of a pin, none the less, they have the power to bring deeolatinn into families, robbing.. parents of children and children of parents, r I. MOY1✓MJ NTS. IN RURAL HOMES That there aro large opportunities in rural real estate, aside from its worth as a strictly agricultural pro- poaltion, is the opinion *2 a young man who speaks out of a profitabio experience. ' He was teaching country school, about six miles from a fair -sizes city. Near the scene of his duties was an eye -sore in the form of a dilapidated old farm house. The ten acres of gullied, worn-out land ad- joining it were the remnant of,.a good farm, the main part having been sold off by the shiftless owner who bad inherited it. His present holding was mortgaged, and he wanted to sell his equity and move to town. In connection With this property, a rather hold idea had developed in the er ,school teacher's mind. by the time his n term expired. He laid it before a W banker of hie acquaintance, with the result of securing financial backing. The young man bought the premises in question. Por the purpose of his plans, he divided it into three parcels. One contained the old farm ]house and some tumble-down sheds. Upon pes- session being gained the place was cleared of everything except the house and a few trees that were worth saving. By previous investiga- tion be had found that the frame- work of the house, which ryas of the massive hype of a former day*, was stil•1 good, By throwing a deep verandah across the rambling front, putting an new weatherboarding, and a roof of stained shingles with projecting eaves, the architectural appearance was transformed. The exterior was painted in harmonizing colors, and the interior was largely torn out and rearranged. The chief attraction of the property 'had been the location— not alone that It fronted on: a main pike that was in first-class condition, but that most of the acreage lay on a beautiful knoll that sloped en gracefully from the highway. The improvements included. grading and gran SOw.nr order: a space„ about tit., hit o add ,afros:ring here a lit- tae a t, ,bei t ,d a Igor. er bed or two: The place wit o 1, crtised as a country Bolas. and found a 'prompt customer at the phot asked Be- fore extavetion could be started on a second parcel the buyer of the first bad persuaded a friend to come out and be neighbor to hien. The latter. preferred to make his own improve- ments. The two men took over the third parcel, dividing.it between them as addition to their grounds. Within a few months the ,yn' ng, man had cleaned up several times the amount of a year's salary at school teaching. Several similar enter- prises which he has since put through—thongh not with the came promptness as the first—have been very profitable. Ile was led to make his cri,rinal venture by chance reading of a rang- famine article, telling of the oxtenr• to which wealthy people were acquiring Country homes for year-round oecu- paucy, since the coming of the auto- mobile has made them independent of public means of transportation in going to and front the city, where they spend their Business hour.. The article insisted that there was a general tendency, though perhaps not yet manifest everywhere. among city people to live in the eotnrtcy. The sre. incentive. were fresh air, the ch^tms of nature, more elbow room, and `he interest and pride u hith gees r •.a owning an estate, if only of a few acres. In the belief cf the school teacher, who is now giving his whole time to the business, there will be an in- creasing demand fur such property within reasonable distance' of every mportant town, and that fancy prices for acreage are to be realized. His choice is for sites that command a good view and which permit of pleas - mg effects as observed front the high- 'way—on the theory that the average person likes both to see and to ba seen.—G. E. S. Tremble They Now! With hearts uplifted, not in pride— not pride, Merciful God! -.hut gratitude to Thee— God of the nations struggling to be free— Now, at long last, the turning of the tide Proclaimed by signs of victory far and wide, Hail we in thankfulness—rejoiced to see Thy Guiding Hand revealed in destiny And the approaching doom of those who Thee denied. th Milk rapidly develops great rel- to oniof rl bacteria as soon as it is 'tti.i. s standing in a warm condition. That a is w•]:y 1 insist that when baby's bot- ro tie has been wanted for a feeding p what is left lir it must be thrown away, riot kept fur the nest feeding ed 14fany .a fatal ;ate of diarrhoea has en res;lted from the practice ',f nvarm- ing cahy's bottle twine or more, ;This sc of ' f .inert nes n • d t refer � f t, wee' ' nu n c g o ori' r •; once after i a_tt r7zatior,) Ice a cream which has melted into a warm m fluid and is then'refrozen is very th dangerous, for freezing does not kill in bacteria; it only cheeks their farther un development. Many epidemics of b indigestion which have swept through an villages after a party or picnic have ar been due it the feat that the ice a cream eaten was refrozen in this way. Other bacteria develop in meat, fish and in canned goods which are allow- ed to stand in the cans after they are opened. These are ptomaines. 16.3.P Cabbages furnish a great, succulent food for dairy cows but usually they are worth so much for human food that it would be impracticable to feed them to the cows. Cabbage should be fed rather sparingly. It will not do to give a cow all the cabbage she wants to eat, especially at first, be- cause it will taint the milk and the cow will not do well, but a compara- tively small feed of cabbage in the morning to take the place of roots 0r Of corn silage would be very bene- ficial. They are net only' a good food but their succulency assists dig- estion and a cow would eat more dry food and digest it better by including cabbage as a portion of the ration. If you would attempt to feed a eow nearly an entire ration of cabbages you would be very likely to get ex- tremely poor results because of the large percentage of water. . Thera would be so little dry matter and food Nutriments in the cabbage that a cow couldn't eat enough to produce a good flow of milk for any considerr..rle length of time. That, I imagine, is the reason why some people have had poor results with cabbage. You get the same results with beet tops. Peo- ple harvest their beets and then. they turn the cows Into the beet field and if them are plenty of beet tops they think they don't need hay or grain, but they snake a sad mistake. It would be much better to haul the beet tops up and feed a small feed in the morning together with hay and grain, and the same principle will hold true with cabbage, but rest as- sured that if cabbages are properly fed to dairy cows they will not dry them up but, en the contrary, they will stimulate the flow of milk. Save Wood Ashes. Save the ashes from wood $les. Store then in boxes or barrels in a dry place until spriltg, when they should be spread over the garden for their high fertilizing value, Recruiting Officer: "But what would a boy (like you do in the Army?" Lad: "Don't ,you need a caddie to carry your swords and things?" Do not apply paint to concrete work before the concrete has hard- ened, as paint retards the setting of the concrete, --- The entries vh' t s t rch have u ,1 st closed for Tile Toronto Fat Steele Show to be held at the Union Stock Yards, De- cember 5th and Otlt, indicate a splendid display a of finished d live stock, This, despite the fact that the man- agement have discontinued the offer- ing. of premiums for female cattle in the hope that animals suitable for breeding purposes will be kept on the farm for that purpose. It will be well worth anyone's time to take in this glow and also to be present at the Auction Sale of Prize Winners which is attended by buyers from all over America, They denied Thee who broke the Ordinance-- Simted the great sin against the Holy Ghost— Deified Might—abandoning Right for Wrong— — Tremble they now, seeing Thycause advance Resistless, knowing full well theirs is lost, Hearing Thy Hosts singing the Triumph song. Bulbs Are Satisfactory. Apart from their beautiful flowers, the charm of bulbs' is that put into any ordinary soil that has merely been freshly dug over, sound bulbs will not fail to flower without any further attention. 'Indoors or out suer' cogs with bulbs is almost certain,