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Do not feed the dairy herd as a
herd, for cows differ in their food re-
quirements.'just es human beings do.'
By feeding all cows in the herd alike,
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some are',sure not to get enrouflh for
the greatest profit anti others will get
more than they can u5o to advantage.
Cows need moon watei and Should
rte induced to d rink ;two or three times
a day if possible, 'The average milch
cow requires nearly i_n gallons of wa-
ter a day and mere than two-thirds of
that must come as drink and the bal-
ance from water in the food. Always
provide clean fresh water.
Salt should be supplied at the rate
of five to seven ounces a week, given
as often as twice during the weak. Do
not use a common salt box in the yard
unless all the cows are absolutely free
from disease.
There is no advantage in cooking or
steaming feeds for dairy cows. Some
unpalatable feeds may be consumed in
larger" quantities if cooked but cook-
ing does not ordinarily add much to
.i;he palatability of grains and may'ev-
en decrease their digestibility.
Compost.
Head once, Seaforth, Ont.
DIRECTORY:
President, Janes Connolly, Goderich;
Vice,, James Evans, Beechwood;
Sec. -Treasurer, Thos. E. Hays, Sea -
forth.
Directors: George McCartney, Sea -
forth; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth; J.
G. Grieve, Walton; Win. Rine, Sea-
ford;; M. Mc11wen, Clinton; Robert
Ferries, Harlock; John Bonneweir,
Brodhagen; 'Jaa, Connolly, Goderich,
Agents: Alert Leitch, Clinton; J. W.
Yeo, Godel'ich; Ed. Hinchley, Seaforth;
W. Chesney, Egmondville; R. G. Jar-
muth, Brodhagen,
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paid'to Moorish Clothing Co,, Clinton,
or at Cutt's Grocery, Godsriclr.
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Parte e , act 'n
ell' insurance
surance
or transact other business will be
promptly attended to on application to
any.of the abobo officers addressed to
their respective post office, Losses
!repeated by the' director who lives
:,earest the scene.
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Well rotted manure or other organic
matter is known as "compost," or
when mixed with soil as "composted
soil." This last is invaluable' for use
in greenhouses, hotbeds and cold
frames where a rich soil' is necessary
in order to give quick action. The
compost is mainly used for top dress-
ing a'growing crop, for fertilizing the •drainage couditlo.Ls»t•ea3 'ea. ^,>ii"ai2i its 1 in, in order to increase the growth t9Y o f
1 It s Fertilizers should be used
n weak, he crops, soil in seed beds and Toy, males} title.; i•uuaic?Opulent and subsequently y a , I t P
If it has not tti'veady been clone, ill -nourished wheat makes • an nasus to supplement the manure, or to make
measures' should at once be taken by cessful attempt to face the severity of it go two or three times as far.
.the gardener who contemplates grow- S the Canadian winter. It will be of We said that seine of the food in the singing in a, m'&pie tree,
ing vegetables under glass next spring little avail to soad winter wheat iu milt which the calf drank. went to „Olt, come oat! Oh, come out! Oh, the graves of our dead soldiers. This
M provide himself with n pile of tom- ground that is poorly drained. Use building the bone of the animal. �Bi ne coma out!" the robin was singing, al- is a first contingent, and others will
poste soil. Composted sot is Pro most asplainly as a person , strange
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Conducted by l'rofes$or' 11011,17 '0, I3e11 '
The' object of this department le to place at the ser,
lace of our farm readers the adyl.oe of an acknowledged
authority on all subjects pertaining to sotle and crops.
Address all questions to Professor Henry 0. Beit, In
care of The•Wllson Publishing Company, L!m!ted, Toronto;
and answer`s will appear, in this column in the crder In
which they are received. As space -is limited' Wit; adviin
able where Immediate reply Is necessary that Ia stamped
and addressed envelope be 01109110 with' the question,
Henry .4; Sell when' the answer will.be mailed direct.
WINTER* WIIEAT POINTERS
Ontario farmers at this Buie are careful to avizid 'using sprouted seed,
busy with their preparation of the In eprouted seed the little germ cover -
winter wheat areas. They are tatting ing is broken,. 'If 'seed'. bee been_
Special oars to give the ground the sprouted, and the sprout has been
very, best preparation, since winter broken off, there is little likelihood
wheat this year means money, Prices that it would produce a good healthy
are high and there seems every indi- plant.
cation that they,'will. remain 80, In You took good care in feed up the in a cereal mush once during the
Met, wheat prices leave but a very fele young calf or the`Ypung..pigs early in day?
times surpassed that obtained at. the tate sprlhg, because you determined, to .� i thattill cer-
present.titne, The United States has have sirong;'vigorous stock. The same Did Ii keep in mind while
just harvested a moderately large crop care should be falcon in the feeding df eals are good feeds in. themselves,
and the government is calling for an the wheat crop if beat results are to they do not take the place of meat,
increase of over 20% of the 'crop pro- be obtained, milk,. eggs, •fruit, and vegetables ?•
duced in 1917. Uncle Saul aims at Many farmers are interested in fer• Did' I keep in mind that ehildrep
over a billion bushels of wheat slue tilizers this year, but unfortunately who do not have plenty of fruit and
coining year. not all understand what fertilizers are, vegetables • need whole wheat bread
Now, .there are ways and means by or! how they should be used, • Pettit'. and whole grains served in other
which the average farmer can increase zers are carriers of plant -food in such ways ?
THE CHILDREN'S FOOD PURE RIC BLOOD
Qulestions Eye]'
Did 94c11 child take about a quart
of Milk in one form or another 1
Have I taken paha to see that the
milk that oomes'to.my house has been
handled 1n a clean.way ?
If I was obliged to serve eklm•lnillc
for the ealce of cleanness or economy,
did I supply, a little extra, fat in same
ether Way ?
Woe the fats which I gave the child
of the wholesome kind found in milk,
Cream, butter, and ehlad oils, or of the
'unwholesome 'tied found lii dougitnute
and other fried foods 1
Did I make 'good use of 411, Sidra.
milk by using it in the prepargtien of
cereal tnushag, puddings, or. other-
'idea
ther
wlee ? '
Were all cereal geode • thoroughly
cooked ?
Was the bread'soggy ? If'so, was it
because the loavea were too largo, or
because they were tot cooked long
enough ?' " ''. "
j)ttl I take, pains to get a variety of
foods from tale cereal -group by serv-
y Mo -. `
t$er $hpOld Ask Herself. � , 4 ��Y EN I S DISEASE
i 11e4 blood,—that is, blood i31al ie
altayt-tare or impoverished) thin and
?ne—i8 responsible for more alt-
ptenis.than anything else,
11 affects •every organ and function,
In some eases it ceases catarrh;
others, dysnepeia; in others, rhouma-
tism;• and in still others, weak, tired,
languid feelings and worse troubles.
It is responsible for ruts -clown
conditions, and is the most common
cause a disease..
Hood's Sarsaparilla is the greatest
purifier and enricher of the blood the
world has ever known, It bas been
wotdel'fully successful in removing
scrofula and other !rumor's, increasing
the red -blood corpuscles, and building
up the wjlole system, Get it today.
both his wheat and his net profits Be form that the plant -food guickly dis-
sure to see that the seed -bed has very solves in the soil moisture and can,be
thorough preparation. A rough, lum- l used by the crop. Now, some of the
py wheat seedbed leads to uneven elements of the milk width •the calf
planting, since many seeds are buried drank went' to betiding • its flesh,
too deep and others fail to get suf. Other food in the milk' went to build-
licient covering, ling the bone of the animal. It is
If, after the ground is plowed, it has somewhat similar in the food of the
been carefully disked mid harrowed,' plant, So that the farmer may know
possibly rolled and harrowed also, the the relative amount 'of::plant-grower,
kernels of soil are.packed sufficiently , plant -ripener and plant -strengthener
so that the moisture supply for the that the fertilizer carries, the'Domin-
young growing wheat will be-suiiicient. t ion Government in 19Q9 decreed that
This moisture supply Is all important, this'should be stated' on the 'bags in
b it is the carrier' of plantfood `which the fertilizers ane sold, and that
Did each child have up egg or an
equivalent ameuut of meat, fish, or.
poultry ?
cid any oltiid have more than Rife
of flesh foods or eggs ? If s0, might
the money not have been better spent
for fruits or vegetables 7
If I wee unable to get mals, meat,
fish, poultry, or eggs, did'; serve dried
b9ans, or other •legutnes thoroughly
cooked and careft(lly seasoned ?
Were vegetables and fruits both 011
the clliid'e bill of fare once during thin.
day ? If not, Was it booause we have
not taken pains to raise their' in our
Mime garden?
Did either the fruit or the vegetable
disagree with the child ? If so; ought
I to have cooked it more thoroughly,
chopped it more finely, or have re-
moved the skins or seeds ?
Wee the child given sweets between
meals, or anything that tempted him
to eat when be was not hungry?
Was he allowed to eat sweets when
he should have been drinking milk or
eating cereals, riteat, eggs, fruit or
vegetables ?
Were the sweets given to the child
simple, 1, e., unmixed with much fat
or with hard substances difficult t0
chew, and not highly flavo4'ed ?
Was the food served in a neat and
orderly' way and did the child take
time to chew his food properly ?
MENDING MELISSA'S DRESS.
Elizabeth sat on' a hassock mending
Melissa's dress, Melissa was her
oldest and largest doll, and Elizabeth
did not know how she had managed
to tear her new summer dress. Still,
it did n,matter much slow it happen -
the village, an e paice e rom
the wagon just before I got here.
Teaser saw it fall, but it was too large
for him to. carry, and he made you go
and get it before I could go for it my.
self."
"Oh, then ,she's mine, after all 1"
said Elizabeth, and she seized the
beautiful new doll from her perch on
her father's other knee and hugged
him and the doll at the same time,
"And Teaser knew it all the time -and
was trying to tell'me 1"
because A little later, when Elizabeth looked
The plant obtains nearly all of its the analysis should. be guaranteed. ed, after all. The only thing to do was deeper into the box that the doll had
food through a ta when itjs isfoed dis ' t liz r ow, the-
contaiffafarmer
2 to 4% that
nitrogen, We to mend the dress, and since Melissa come dresseshe found of them she prompt-
ex -
can be to o . uponlywas not able to mend it herself Eliza -
solved in the soil moisture and root shall say. That means that the mix- beth was trying hard to do it for her. ly gave to Melissa to take the place
juices. If this very simple enplane- tore contains 40 to 80 lbs. of that hind Besides, it wasElizabeth's birthday, of the soiled and torn dress that was
tion were fully comprehended by all of plant -food, which causes the wheat and she was going to have a party in now fit only to be thrown away. And
Ontario wbeat growers, it would 011- plant to grow rapidly. Manure on- what a merry birthday party they had
urinate a great 'lumber 'of failures. (tains to the ton about 15 lbs. of this
Winter wheat cannot grow in a pool kind, of Plant -food:` Of course every
of water. It has to face the rigors of bit of stock utanuge-.skettld,.yg?"•'•"'-
a rather severe winter, hence bad-.,?�;;;rl siit'ea3 on the ground and 'worked
the afternoon, 01 course Eluate 1l
ityic ifite ns ra!neteis-Melissa and the
cissa •that afternoon, and Teaser enjoyed
t 11 Melissa towear a torn dress
no allow
It was a beautiful summer morning,
and it was the hardest thing' in the
world to stay in the house on such a
morning, let alone mending a • dress
that should not have been torn, Just
outside the window there was a robi-t
new doll enjoyed it 1
To Tend Heroes' Graves.
Some twenty women gardeners who
have been trained at Kew Gardens,
London, are going to France, where
they will take up the duty of tending
TIli1>a TABLE.--,
Trains will arrive at and depart
from Clinton Station as follows:
BUFFALO AND GODEIUOIi DIV.
Going, East, depart 7,88 a.nt,
rr 41 5, 58
pan.
Going Wast, ar, 11,10, dp, 11.17 a.m.
" r' er, 2.58, dp, 6,45 lam,
depart 11,18 p.m.
LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV.
Going South, ar. 7.88, dp, 7,20 pim.
" " depart - 4.12 p,m,
Going North, ar. 10,80 clp, 11.10
•l`toijtg'North, ddPart 6.40 p,151.
of a combination o me
well drained ground so that the plant is composedo could speak follow.
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pared by malting a long flat topped may have suitable growing conditions. and Phosphoric acid. g (tire words -.
pile of alternate layers of manure and I Volumes have been written about i i the say, t s phosphorus from this
d which is
Uest varieties of wheat. The Cana- same kind of a compound "I can't stand it much longer;"
grass sods turned upside down, or if sighed Elizabeth. "But I just'must
this cannot be had use earth. The 1 dian farmer is fortunate in that be can used by the plant to give strength to menti this dress so that Melissa can go
sides of the pile should be made as: refer to his provincial- or Dominion the growing plant and to hasten its to the party. O dear," It's such a
nearly perpendicular as possible and tests. On both the experimental fields maturity. The per cent. of phosphoric job!"
the top, flattened to permit of the I of Ontario Agricultural College and acid (P205) shown by the analysis onThen, just as she was putting some
rains soaking in. It is well to build the Dominion experimental farms, i the bag; will tell you how much of this more thread as her needle, Tease
the pile in a. shady place and, if the'f there is in the
water is available, to give an oc-
casional good soaking.
After the pile has been built and i After these have been carefully
has been allowed to settle for a couple I stn thdice basis the;nen aesults tions nabtaine re made
of weeks it should then be spaded I For Ontario the following varieties
over; that is; throwing the entire pile have been found to give good results:
a shovelful at a time over into an- Banatka, American Banner, Imperial
other place, in order to thoroughly in -
Amber, Yarroslaf, Crimean Red: The
corporate the manure with the soil, first variety of wheat is especially
All weeds and other vegetable de -
oris from the garden should be thrown good milling wheat, shite it is hard Speaking generally, wheat smis are
into the pile. There is nothing bet -
Most
flinty and melees strong dour. :fairly well supplied with potash, so
ter for this purpose than leaves. Do Most farmers know that Dawson's � the lack of this plant -food for wheat
Golder. Chuff is one of the good varie-. ' is not seriously noticed, as yet.
not burn leaves that fall in the ties. This is a heavy yielder, but pro- 4 Now the plant never uses pure nitro -
duces a rather soft gralu. 1 gen, which Is a gas, or pure phosphor -
There 1s something beside variety, us or potassium, which are metals.
We
iton fertilizer carries
however. All cows are not record- 11 a and a of t
loading varieties of wheat are caro -
fully tested .year by year. Only those
that show superior value are getained,
kind o plant-foodr
came bounding in through the door. `
mixture. "Don't you dare to bother me, Teas -
Under present international condi-
err"'said Elizabeth. "I'm as busy as
trans, there is a'great :scarcity of the I can be!"
next plant -food ingredient, potash.
But Teaser was not to be put off in
Some fertilizers offer one per cent., that way. He jumped round the room
but many are sold with only the first in little; short leaps, stopped in front
two ingredients of Plant -food in them, of Elizabeth long enough to bark
Potash causes the formation of starch
sharply, and itch bounded to the door
or the filling of -the kernel. It also and back again.
gives the plant power to resist disease. "Yes,''yes, Teaser," said Elizabeth,
"I know that it is a beautiful day, and
I went to go out and play with you,
but this dress simply must be mend-
ed."
Teaser barked again. No doubt he
knew very well what she said, but he
had no idea of giving up so easily:
Suddenly he seized Melissa's dress it
his teeth and pulled it.
"Stop, Teased"' tried Elizabeth.
"Stop, I say, or you will tear it
worse!"
j3ut Teaserdid not stop. IIe only
pulled the harder. Suddenly, with 'all
extra tug, he pulled the dregs from
few that produce extraordinary high root growth and consequently' add to Blizabeth's hands and dashed through
milking records, upwards of twenty i the humus of the soli, in so far AS , the door, with the dress flying behind
.thousand pounds gr' over a year, These , they produce this result, but they are bim Elizabeth leaped from her has -
are very valuable and their calves ale' not essentially a source of humus, sock and ran after him.
eagerly sought as breeding stock: !They should be used then intelligent- "Come back l Come back 1" she
It is just the same story with wheat. !They
knowing that they are concentrated -cried, "Carle back here this instant,
Just because a sample of wheat is of ' plant -food. Teaser !"
a particular variety is no criterion, .Fertilizers -may be new to some On• Teaser looked over bis shoulder and
that it is of first-class quality. You tario farmers, but they are not new in
should use.a fanning 'mill to sift out ' their use in wheat -growing sections.
the small and shrivelled grain, be. 'England has been using immense
cause inferior plants take up soil , quantities of fertilizers for nearly 100
room, absorb moisture, consume plant- tyoars. So have tile eastern provinces
food and fail to return the good re -,'of this country and the eastern states
sults obtained from superior seed, If of our neighbors to the South. The
autumn; rake them into a pile and
permit them to decay, as they make a
splendid fertilizer. If a neighbor
wishes to dispose of leaves induce him breakers. There are soma that give ,from 40 to 80 lbs, of nitrogen, from
to dump them on your compost pile. I ten, twelve and fifteen thousand 160 to 200 lbs. of phosphorus and pas -
Maple leaves make fine material for
the compost heap. Pile them up and pounds of milk' in a year, and then'sibly 20 to 40 lbs. of potash. The rest
let them rot over winter and they will .again there are.some that do not give ' of the ton is made up of the carriers
be ready for use as manure in the enough milk to pay their board and ' of these various plant -foods,
spring: A little lime spread after the are an actual expense to. the farmer, I Fertilizers will not supply humus,
leaves have been turned ander will be Ta counter-balance'this, there are a as manure does, They induce rapid
sufficient to neutralize the soil. Oak
leaves are more acid and a propor-
tionately larger quantity of lime will
be required.
Proper gardening requires a long
period of preparation. ;Tow is the
time to begin preparations for another
year.
Clinton
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CORM iCc ilielLEoo, Clinton
tried to bark, but, with the dress in.
his mouth, he did not succeed very then guess whose hand it is. For
well. Out of the yard he ran and every hand guessed correctly a point
down the road, with Elizabeth, now is scoredforthe band. After all of one
on the verge of tears, calling to him side hashown a hand it is the turn
in vain as she pursued him. of the other side to go out and do the
Not far from the hound Teaser sud. same. The side scoring the most
you have time, by all means test the State of Ohio, which produces large denly stopped in the middle of the Points in the end wins,
vitality of the seed, that is, count out quantities of winter wheat, makes Highway. He dropped Melissa's dress If the feet are to be guessed instead
100 wheat seeds. Place Omit between i wide est; of fertilizers, Prof, Thorne, and began to sniff at a parcel that 02 the head. s, the screen should be
damp blotters, and keepO prem near Director of Ohio Agricultural Expert- looked if it had just fallen from a raised a foot or so from the floor so
the stove. In about four or five days mental Station, has recently pointed Passing wagon, 9t first Eiizalteth wit's that the shoes may be seen under -
the wheat should havo sprouted suf.
I out that if the farmers in the 'county se eager to pick up Melissa's dress, 'loath and the' rest of the body hidden,
'latently lot you to count the number where the experiment station is now more soiled and torn than ever, Obstacle puce—There is plenty of
located followed the, fertilizer prat -that she did not see tate parcel; but laughter in this game. Those who do
W.ESTWA7,;D.
(InLthe terminology of the trenches
"He went West" means lie died.")
Crimson the trail that westward runs
From the shot swept sky and the
flaming guns,
From the haunts where death keeps
vigil still
With fiery breath and steel's hot will.
Crimson the trail to the sunset far,
Countless the feet on the pathway
are;
Westward. is peace beyond the din
Where the gray ranks meet • in the
dawn mist thin.
Crimson the trail to the quiet skies
Where the great guns' threat into al-
lence dies,
Where wounds are healed with a holy
balm
And the fevered rest in a slumber
calm.
Iorious the trail that the brave heart
takes-
Though love behind knows the old
heartaches—
Over the hills where the sun goes
down
To vales eternal of bright renown!
—Arthur Wallace Peach.
The Immortal Few.
"Father,' said Chester, 'what is a
diplomat?"
"A diplomat, my son," answered the
father, "is 'a man who remembers a
.1moti lnie int t).ng..-amu c+o "gets her
age."
And some men spend so much time
hustling that they haven't time to ac-
complish anything. '
Certain potentates in Europe- have
discovered by this time that it is much
easier to bring on a war than it is to
stop it.
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Conducted by /1xd.TieGna Jcuv
Mothers and daughters of all ages are cordially invited to write to this
department. Initials only will be published with each question and its answer
as a means of identification, but full. -name and address must be given in each
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Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs. Helen Law, 233
Woodbine Ave., Toronto.
Mother:—Here is a. sample day's Word game—Choose sides and ap-
diet for a three-year-old child. Break- point a scorer and a timekeeper. A
fast, scraped fresh apple or, orange player from A'a party is sent out..of
Juice, ' strained oatmeal and top milk, the room while B's party picks out a
milk to drink. Morning lunch, milk, letter. The A player is then called itt
biscuit. Dinner, poached egg, tender and the timekeeper says "Go." The
vegetable put through sieve, stale letter is told and then he must say as
bread and butter, corn starchpud- fast es he can as many words begin -
ding, mint to drink. Supper,rice and
Mug
with that letter
he calln think
top mills, seedless jam sandwiches, of on the spur of the moment, At the
milk to drink. end of a minute the timekeeper- stops
School Girl:—Try the following him and his score is counted. One of .
games at the party for your school B's side then goes out and does the
friends:— same thing. So on the game goes ua-
Hands and feet guessing—To play til all players alternately have had' a
this game divide the party into two turn. The scores of each side are
bands. One is sent out of the room, then counted, the one with the great -
the other stays In it. Plano a screen est number of words winning. Z and
(one of the folding kind) in front of X may not be chosen.
an open door. The members of theMrs, S. D.;ch•box fare
band that has been sent out of the aro very importan—Lunt, andbilis you of are a
room then walk past the open., door wise mother to pay special attention
behind the screen ]folding up one of to stent. Pennies agent in the candy
their hands as they pass. The mein. store at noon can undo all the good of
bers of the band left in the room must the nourishment taken under watchful
that are going to grow. If you find
that the' wheat sprouts but 80%, in-
crease' your quantity 20%, if you ox-
peot to get a normal staid,
Most farmers have wheat drills, but
many good farmers have to rely upon sti'ated. Ohio Experiment Station has
sowing the winter wheat on the her- increased' its wheat yields from 12 to
rowed ground and then eovorieg 1t by 14 bushels per acre by proper tern-
harrowing and rolling. If such is the lization; Indiana, 11.6 bushels; and
case, be sure •to take care that the Missouri, froni 4 to 10 bushels where
seed is thoroughly covered. There careful tests have been carried out
should be very little 'difficulty this
Year as to the seed sprouting after 11
15 planted, because the land has been
blessed with seasonable showers.
In preparing the seedbed, be very
tires of the station, .they world have
increased their wheat yields 1.4 bush-
els per acre. It is not a questfan of
theory, it is a point already demon.
Teaser barked again and 'danced not know it are sent out of the room
round her in such a way that site had and let in one by one. The boy or girl
to notice it, She picked it up and ran,who is called in is shown two.or three
with it back to the house, • small objects, such as a footSt0o1, a
"See, mother!" she aided. "See vase, mills bottle, etc,, that have been
what Teaser found 1n Lim road, where Placed in a line on the floor. The 'or -
he had dragged Melissa's dress—tile der is, . walk blindfolded past those
horrid thing 1" objects without touching thorn*' The
. The parcel bore no address. It was Player is accordingly Ulindfolded, but
before the hazardous trip is begun ell
Lhe obstacles are removed, The boy
, org irl will pick steps very carefully,
trying to sidestep what is really not
there at all. At'tho end of the genie,
when all the players who have,been
tricked except the last one whose turn
resent
are s . there a very
titan iP
great deal of merriment,
If strati an increase can be anomie long box, wrapped in plain brown
listed an the Outarlo'farms this year, Paper, Wit could it_tle 7 Who could
the farmers of the province can take have kat
great advantage of the high prices Melissa's mother decided to open it,
Perlia
t a name or an
Perhaps
which moat prevail. this coming year. phar'o would be k
op'
Even though the hog furnishes th'
most meat Por a given amount of feed
and will produce it in the quickest
time, it is pointed out that this meat
should be produced mainly from food
wastes and not from good• grain that
would furnish food directly to man,
The great economy in poria production
i
comes from the fact that p ga,furnish
a food' by-product from these wastes
and do not ;teed the high-grado feeds
that beef cattle must have.
Wastes on farmo and in the towns
matte good hog teed; by-products from
canneries, bakeries, fisheries, packiifg
planta and thelike can be utilized as
hog feed and to better ammonite ad-
vantage than in any other way, Dalry
Wastes are' particularlyvaluable, as
hog feed and promote rapid growth
with a good money return for every
gallon fed.
The farm orchard furnishes large
quantities of wind -fallen or defective
fruit, which is relished by hogs, and is
beneficial if fed in small quantities
frequently, and not all at one„feed.
Garden wastes, tops , of vegetables,
culls of all sorts, even weeds, are read-
ily eaten, -and such as may not be
oaten will be worked over, going into
to the manure
•a a ht e
the bedding and dd
bd
B g
eare
Kitchen wastes all excellent
source of food for hogs, but Should ba
kept at a minimum, because practical-
ly all food prepared for man's use
should be eaten by him.
A,merioan troops will go into action
With long' and sharp knives in their
legging:.. Now listen th.the German's
110w1 :about uncivilized warfare,
address iitsido. And when they took
off the wrapping paper and removed
tl,e coven, what do you suppose they
found ? A beautiful doll, about the
site of Melissa, dress"cl in the love-
liest clothes I.
„Ohl Ohl" wasall that Elizabeth
could gasp; and '.eager, who was
much excited over the box and its
wrappings, barked two or throe times
as loudly as he could.
Just then 'Elizabeth's father. came
in.
"Would you like that doll 7” he
asked.
"Like it!" .cried Elizabeth, "Of
course I would like it, but of coarse
I can't have•it I Some little giri has
lost it—•or some little girl's, fathoe was
taking it Itonte to her,
Then Elizabeth's father laughed,
and took her on ono knee and tine won-'
408101 doll on the ether ;slice,
"Well," be said, still laughing, "that
stow Intl itch come to your bhntbda7
party, I WAS bringing her bolo tient
eyes in the.morning and at night, and
a. nice lunch is the very best rival of
a penny candy store. Here are some
bills of fare'that can be 'made up from
dinner left -overs:
Crisp rolls hollowed out and filled
with chopped merit or fish; season
with a little salad dressing; a peaoh
and an apple.
Co1d slices of meat loaf, soda crack-
ers, buttered; stewed fruit put in a
little jar with screw -on top, and a
piece of giugerbread.•
Baked -beans sandwiches, orange and
a.couple of pieces of candy,
Hard boiled eggs, rye bread and
fruit.
Mincer] -beet sandwiches, apple
sauce (in jars) and cake,
Honey and nut bran muffins are a
valuable addition to the lunch box,
Here is the receipe: '/e cup honey, 1
cup flour; from % to iA teaspoon soda,
1/a teaspoon salt, 2 cups bran, 1 table-
apoan melted butter, 114 cups milk, lid
enc $Hely chopped English walnuts,
n. Add the
Sift t
flour,
soda and salt
s
together Har the
g
..
and mix. thorn with the bran.
other ingredients and bake for 25 or
80 minutes in a hot oven it gent tins,
This will make about 20 muffins,
Many women with disfigured complexions
never neem to think that they need an occasional dleansing
4,ialde as well as outside. Yet neglect of this internal
bathing shows it,self in spotty, and sallow complexions—es
well es in dreadful headaches and biliousness: It's because
the liver becomes sluggish, and waste matter accumutatert
which Nature cannot remove without assistance. The best
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remedy -is Chamberlain's Stomach andLiver Tablets, which
stimulate the liver to healthy activity retro yefermentatiop,
gently cleanse the stomach and bowels. and tone the whole
digestive eystem, Sure, site and reliable, Take one at
night end -you feel bright and sunny in the morning. Get
Chamberletti a today—druggists 25c,, or by mail from
Cllamberlate Medic -Me Canip,tny, '7'orente is
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