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DIRECTORY :
President, Janes Connolly, Goderich;
Vice., 'James Evans, Beechwood;
Sec. -Treasurer, Thos, E. Hays,. Sea -
forth.
Directors: George McCartney, Seas
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W. Chesney, Egntondville; R. G. Jar.
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any of the above officers addressed to
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:,earest the scene.
—TIME TABLE,-,
Trains will arrive at and depart
from Clinton Station as follows;
BUFFALO AND GODE1tICH DIV.
Going East, depart 7.83 ern,
" n n 2, 58 rem.
Going West, ar. 11.10, dp. 11.17 a.m.
ri az'. 6.53, dp. 6,46 p.m,
" " depart 11.18 p.m.
LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV.
going South, ar. 7;88, dp. 7,50 pan.
" "' depart 4,15 pate
Going North, ar. 10.30 dp. 11.10 a.m,
Cluing kierthr Citinevl: • 6.40 p,me
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13y Agronomist ' R
This Department is for the use of our farm readers who want the advice
of an expert on say q eetlon regarding soli, seed, crops, etc. If your question
is of sufficient general-lnterest, It will be answered pthrough this column. If
stamped and addressed envelope le enclosed with your tetter, a complete
answer• will be mailed to you, Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Pubilehing
00., Ltd., 73 Adelaide St. eye Toronto.
A.D.:—Which, would be better for
sandy loam, to spread well rotted
manure on this fall or in the spring?
Would it be advisable to use fertilizer
on such land in tlle"spring? This land
is level and well drained, intended •for
potatoes.
Answer: --I would advise putting on
the manure in the spring.. Be sure
to store it protected from the rain and
snow; otherwise you will lose a lot of
the. available plantfood by leaching,
In order to get largest yields of best
quality next spring, you will do well to
add fertilizer to -hie soil. In tests at
Fredericton, New Brunswick,.; last
year, the Experimental Farm got an
increase of 69 bushels and 83 pounds
of carrots per acre by adding 650
pounds of fertilizer to the acre along
with 80 tons of manure per acre. This
increase was in addition to that obtain-
ed by the manure alone. In the same
test, the addition of fertilizer to ma-
nure retuned a gain of 124 bushels
and 44 pounds of turnips to the acre.
Potatoes require largely the same type
of fertilizers as ;the foregoing crops.
The addition of sufficient fertilizers
will undoubtedly give you good results.
H. B.:-1. What would you advise
sowing on low muck land to give per-
manent pasture? 2. Could you give
me culture directions for lentils? 3.
What will rid a field of twitch grass?
Answer: -1. For low land grass for
permanent pasture, I would advise you
to sow a mixture of—
Red top 10 lbs.
Timothy 4
Alsike clover 4 lbs.
White clover 2 lbs.
Total 20 lbs. per acre
If possible, provide suitable drainage,
2. Relative to culture of lentils, French
advises a light and dry soil. 'Grow the
lentils in rows about 18 inches apart,
Inviting them 3 inches apart. The
seed is planted about an inch deep on
a well prepared seed -bed. Consider-
able care must be given to the cultiva-
tion of the crop. When the plants
turn yellow, harvest the whole plant,
leaving the beans in the pods. If they
are threshed out, the lentils do not
store so well. 3, To get rid of twiteji,
grass or quaek grasgij it requires per,
sistent acre. Varipus methods; aro re-
commended,' Some get g'oed'results
by giving the soil good preparation
and then seeding it to a very heavy
seeding of rape, 'millet or sorghum.
,,The idea, is to smother out the geese:
Others get good results by summer
:fallowing, raking up the pieces of
roots, drying and burning them, as
often as the material can be gathered.
Subscriber:—I would like your mein-
ion of alfalfa sowed on disked bean
ground in the spring. Do you think
land should be plowed?
Answer:—If the land where your
beans were grown last year is of 'a
clay type, it should be pie -sieved in the
spring in preparation for a` seed -bed
for alfalfa. It is almost impossible
to give too much care in preparation
of the soil when alfalfa is to be grown.
It might be of interest to you to know
that on the Cornfalfa Farms; Wauke-
sha, Wisconsin, where approximately
800 acres of alfalfa are grown on a
600 -acre farm, greatest care is given
to plowing, disking and harrowing the
soil. Swartz Bothers, the operators,
report that at seeding time they also
apply from 400 to 00 pounds per acre
of 0 fertilizer carrying 2 per cent.
ammonia, 8 per cent. available phos-
phoric acid, and under -normal condi-
tions 2 per cent. 'potash. This addi-
tional available plantfood gives the
young crop a vigorous start. The
SwartzBrothershave been growing,
alfalfa for the last twenty years and
have made an extensive crop of it
during the last ten years. It is no
uncommon thing for them to cut from
six to seven tons of excellent alfalfa
hay per acre.
The old horse, if given proper care
and treatment will in almost every
case stand as much hard work as the
young animal and, considering the
price of horses at the present time the
old horse is worth just as much to the
farmer as the young horse; as far as
work is concerned.
Of course if the old horse is offered
for sale he will not bring as much
as the young one, because the most of
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FORD Sz 1 LEOD, Clinton
his life lies iu..the past, however, con-
sidering everything if he be given the
proper care he will pay his way and be
a profitable and faithful servant to the
farmer.
With many, as soon as a horse be-
gins to grow old, say from 12 to 14
years he is neglected and does not re-
ceive the care he should have, nor the
care that he was given when young.
He is no longer groomed as regularly
and .thoroughly as formerly. When
, not in use he is left to run in the pas-
ture during all kinds of weather, and
if a little-crowded/for stable room he
is many times left out for the winter
to find a place of shelter Found thee
old straw stack,' or behind a bank
some place.
Many times the old horse does 'not
receive the kinds of feed that are best
for his particular case and, if the teeth
are a little long and this is often the
case with the old horse, he cannot
grind the feed as he did a few years
past. When the old horse has reach-
ed this stage he cannot masticate his
food as it should be, consequently a
portion of it does him no particular
good.
Then again it must be remembered
he will require a longer time to eat
his feed than when young. Unless
some ground feed is given him and he
is given sufficient time to eat it when
being worked, he will fail to get the
full benefit of his meal, and in a mat-
ter of a very short time he will begin
to lose flesh and will no longer pre-
settt the fat, sleek appearance of form-
er days.
It is obvious therefore that if the
horses are to :be serviceable until a
good old age, they must receive as
good care and treatment, if not a
little better, -in their declining years
than when they were young. They
must not be neglected whether at work
or pot. ,
No reliance can be placed upon a
fowl that is not pure in blood. There
is a downward tendency in the haphaz-
ard mixture of breeds. The purebreds
of to -day not only possess the strong
constitution of the crossbreds, but they
combine with it wonderful powers for
the production of eggs and the grow-
ing of meaty carcasses;^qualities that
are more or less unsatisfactory it
t y r
mongrels.
It was purebreds that solved the
possibility of winter egg production.
Mongrel hens are not found in the list
of phenomenal layers, neither are they
a factor in establishing poultry farms,
In fowls that are pule we have
habits, abilities and characteristics
practically the same. This enables us
to feed and care for them more Intel
ligently. -
There is ordinarily more profit in a
dozen purebreds that in fifty dung-
hill fowls. As a rule, mongrels are of a
hardy nature: they ere not inbred.
The continual mixture of blood avoids
any bad effects such as come from
close relationship.
In purebreds we also have beauty.
The uniformity of marking, color,
shape and size makes thein attractive.
What success Would the broiler
plants have if mongrels and not pure-
breds were employed? Uniformity
of size and condition is of untold
value in shipping carcasses to market;
and so it is with eggs; and surely we
earn not expect uniformity if we use
stock that will produce all sorts of.
sizes, colors and conditions.
Care should be exorcised not to
overfeed the calf on milk, It is prat.
tically impossible to satisfy a calf's
appetite for reilk•withont overfeeding
it; therefore the amount should be
either weighed of measured . out at
each fending, -
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WHY CHILDIt)GN
NEED MILT£
' "r"t>r2 nata:tSsiteneloaieis i -taws e tars testis
The most important part of milk a
a food .fon' 0h11dre'n is that 'whit
furnishes the vitality of the child. 3
is found in two snbstencee, not very
well known, which diet specialists cal
"growth getters" because they bege
growth. These two substances are
found in milk store plentifully than in
any other food. One of them is 11
solution in the liquid portion of the
milk and the other is in the fat.
When the cream is taken from the
milk half of the growth getters are
taken with it;and butter made from
the cream contains practically all of
those that the cream contained, Skim-
med milk has the other half of these
mys�erfous substances, and cheese
made from this skimmed "milk retains
only a portion of them. Skimmed milk
is better than no milk for a child, but
not nearly, so much growth will. be
made as when whole milk,is fed. Yet
milk, cream, butter and cheese all con-
tain this growth getter,
Milk is a Food
Milk is a food acid not beverage,
and children who nee drinking tea and
coffee in lieu of milk are being de-
prived of their most important food,
with the possible consequences of less
than normal growth, with bones that
are_weakened or crooked. Not only
does the milk' furnish the vitalizing
substances that, promote the. function
of growth but it supplies the materials
from which the growing body is form-
ed. Such is the -case with the forma-
tion of bone, made up laa•gely-of line.
No other food contains so much lime
all ready for' use by the body' and at
so low a cost as is furnished by milk.
The muscles growing to keep pace
with the lengthening bones need the
protein furnished by the curd of milk,
and the muscles make more rapid
growth when fed on the protein from
milk than on that from other foods.
Eggs, cod liver oil and—to a lesser
extent—meat all contain the growth
getter which is found in the fat of
milk, The whole cereal grains, corn
tain the ono found in -the watery part
of milk, Thus it can be partly sup-
plied in whole grain flours, meals and
breakfast foods. This vitalizer is
found also in dried beans, peas,•lentils,
meat and eggs.
But to give the child milk is by far
the surest and simplest way of seeing
that it has the necessary grotvth get-
ter.
There is likelihood of a present-day
tragedy in this country the children
are given less milk. If the lives and
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O3ostlon le or general interest It will be answered through these coluinni;
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Address Cr, Jobu 11, Heber, care 00 Wilson Publislilag Co., 74 West Adelaide
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Gut out +worrying, it helps d:soase to dev• elop,
- WHOOPING COUGH.
In England whooping eo a$h—per-
tussis—occasions more deaths than
l$, does measles or diphtheria or scarlet
fever or typhoid fever'. 800 of our owrt
children dies annually of it. -Nor id
1. this taking into account the diseases
t which, may be complicating or sequel
to -pertussis—emphysema, hemor-
rhages into the brain, hernia, broncho -
n pneumonia, mastoid abscess; tuber
culosis,
Whooping cough is even more ser-'
isms for adults. In old people it has
been fatal in itself or it has led to the
development of, such "terminal alim-
ents" as pneumonia. Pertussis comes
oftentimes in epidemics,; which vary
greatly in contagiousness, intensity
and mortality. The specific germ is
spread, just as in diphtheria, in the
secretions from the mouth and the
nose that are sneezed (and t us
atomized or sprayed out). coughed and
spat out, or carried about in handker-
chiefs, on toys, drinking cups, roller
towels and the like, which people who
come in contact with. the, patient
handle. Except for the droplet in-
fection which results from sneezing
and coughing (and wl.ich is always to
be obviated by the handkerchief or
other cloth held before the patient's
mouth and' nose during these acts)
pezitassis is not an air -borne infection,
The infection is got either directly (by
contagion) in kissing and the like; or
indirectly, -•as from toys and the like.
It is a person to person infection; and
the germ' is not likely to live and be
noxious more than several days out-
side a living body. He who keeps
beyond speaking distance of the
patient is not like to be affected. The
pertussis incubation or hatching period
(the time between exposure to the in-
fection and when one shows the first
symptoms) is from a week to a fort-
night. If sixteen days have passed
since the exposure there is no occasion
t0 worry,
QUESTIONS ANI) ANSWERS.
Subnormal Temperature.
Will you kindly advise me if any-
thing"can be done for subnormal tem-
perature of one and olio-lialf degrees.
I am 55, weigh about 160, work in-
side, do not drank, use very little
tobacco, sleep fairly well.. I had a
nervous breakdown 15 years ago from
overwork, worry and other causes.
Answer—Subnormal temperature
may be occasional and not serious.
If persistent the reason is it is clue
to alcoholism, melancholia, lnnutrition,
wasting diseases and chronic poiso--
ing in dangerous -trades. A persist-
ent subnormal temperature of one and
one-half•degrees.is a more momentous
matter than the same above the tier -
mal. You should have Your family
doctor give you a good overhauling. I
are sending you the principles of the
Hygienic Life. Leading that should
help considerable. Almost all indoor
workers sutler from lack of exercise.
Blood Pressure.
Do you think a blood pressure of
125 serious?
Answer—No. But it is below par,
slightly. It should be about 140. The
conditions your doctor mentioned (16
pounds under weight and anemia)
would account' for the reduced pres-
sure. Leading the Hygienic Life
should help greatly to your restora-
tion. .
-the health of the children, are to be in-
sured each child must have milk and
have it ie. t.bu: lance.
Do Not Tax Children
Only thoughtlessness or selfishness
can snake the children pay the first
and the worst war tax through the
taking away of milk or lessening the
usual gtiantity of this most necessary
food, The ill effects of this depriva-
tion would not come swiftly enough to
warn of the harm that is done but
with a dreary slowness that is not
likely to be noticed: Little by Little
the child's health is undermined but
even when the break comes, whether
it seems to be due to a contagious dis-
ease or to a severe cold, the real cause
may never be thought of—that the
child has not had enough food of the
kind that a child needs.
Without milk children cannot thrive,
War -Tore Christmas Cakes
A cake which is made in Great
Britain and sent to the men at the
front is called
Soldier's Cake.
Cream 1 cup brown sugar with 1 cup
butter; add 2 eggs well.beaten, ne cups
milk; 2 cups whole-wheat flour, 1 cup
flour sifted with 4 teaspoon baking
powder, 3/2 teaspoon salt and 1 tea-
spoon mixed spices; then add 1 cupful
each of currants and seeded raisins.
Mix well, turn into a greased and
flour cake tin and bake for two haurs
in a moderate oven. The cake should
cook quickly for the first ten minutes
and more slowly afterwards.
This cake will keep in good condi-
tion for a long time:
Canadian Trench Cake.
Mix Vs cup butter, 1 cup brown
sugar, 1 -cup larding water, 2 cups
seeded raisins and tat teaspoon salt
in a saucepan; bring to the boiling
point and boil for five minutes, cool,
and add 1 teaspoon powdered cinna-
mon, 1 teaspoon powdered ginger, 1/2
teaspoon powdered mace, 1 teaspoon
soda, and 2 cups flour sifted together;
beat well; pour into a well greased and
papered bread pan and bake in a. slow
oven for one hour.
The following is one of the breads
sent from England to the prisoners
abroad. It will keep for a month if
necessary.
Prisoner's Bread
Into a bowl sift 7 lbs. flour and stir
in enopgh tepid water to matte a firm
dough; turn out on a floured baking
board, knead thoroughly until elastic,
then knead in 4 tablespoons butter, 1
tablespoon sugar, and 2 teaspoons salt.
Divide this dough into three portions
and bake in a good hot oven.
A cake that was sold by a Red Cross
chapter for the benefit of its funds is
the following:
Red Cross War Cake
Mix together 2 cups brown sugar, 2
cups hot water, 2 tablespoons lard, 1
teaspoon salt and 1 package seeded
raisins. Boil for five Minutes or
until they begin to bubble. When cold
adcl 1 teaspoon ground cloy'es, 1 tea-
spoon ground cinnamon, 3 cups flour,
and 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1
teaspoon hot water. Bake for 45
minutes in a slow oven.
Camp Cake
Beat to fa cream 3/2 cup butter with
Ya cup brown sugar; add 2 cup self -
rising flour, 2 eggs well beaten, 33i.
cup milk and 334 cup Sultana raisins.
Mix well, turn into a cake tin lined
with greased paper and bake for 50
minutes in a moderate oven. •
Wartime Scones
Into a bowl sift 2 cups flour, 1 table-
spoon sugar, 141 teaspoon salt, 1 tea-
spoon baking powder and 2 of cream -
of -tartar; add 2 cups Graham flour,
and rub in 4 tablespoons shortening.
Make the clry ingredient into a soft
dough with a cup of water or milk.
Divide into four ,pieces, make each
piece into a. smooth round; roll out 3/2
inch thick, divide each round into four
scones and bake on hot griddle or in
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flhellmotirm depends on an Asia
wklioh'ilows ni the blood, aflceting the
muscles and joints, producing in lam -
n ation, stiffness and pain. ',Phis acid
gets into the blood through aeras de -
Yea in the digestive processes, and
rotiiaius there beeaese the liver, kid-
t
it off'.
Hood's Sarsaparilla, the old-time
n
blood toe, is very successful in the
treatment' of rhonmetisin, It acts
glireetly, with purifying effect, on the
i
blood and through the blood on the
liver, kidneys eel skin, which it
stimulates, and at the same time it
improves the digestion,
Get, kload's Sarsaparilla today.
Sold by all druggists.
no
ysan
1 shin are too torpid to carry
kegol
If you are breeding for speed, mate
long-legged males and females. Most
of us would not care for that kind of
sheep on our farms. We do not want
fence jumpers, but quiet, yet vigorous
sheep. For this, sheep with short
Pegs and compact bodies are best..
Every year or two some one sue-
fiesta that the forests be used as sheep
or goat ranchos. The foresters say it
is impracticable. Why not use farm
pastures instead?
A narrow gateway for sheep leads
to a big let of trouble.
A sheep corral is nothing less than
insurance against sheep -killing dogs, .i-:...
which have constituted one of the
greatest obstacles to' sheep -raising.
Sheep niay be driven into the corral at
night, since sheep losses usually oc-
cur at night.
Be sure there are no 'ticks on the
sheep when they go into winter quar-
ters.
It will cost good inoney to winter a
lot of ticks and there is no profit in
them.
A ticky flock will come out ,skin
poor in the spring no matter how.you
feed.
and even though they may be getting
quantities of other food substances
those who -have studied the, problems
of child nutrition point out that slow
starvation results, or at lied such
ppor development that 'the child is
stunted.
Parents are said to be changing well
formed !food habits in order that the
little ones may have milk that they
need. It has been long recognized that
food prejudices are among the most
difficult to overcome, but it is urged
that the grownups of the household
must be self -forgetful enough to ada'pt
themselves to changes in their d.;
fare if by so doing the children may
have their milk.
In many families to -day in which
both milk and meat have been abun-
dantly used the problem arises as to
which one must be. reduced. From the
point of view of the .pocketbook and
from that of patriotism—the greatest
good to the future of the country -let
milk be retained, or even increased in
the family diet. Without question
milk is a cheaper allround food than
meat, and, although the children must
have milk, adults can use milk as a
supplement to a decreased meat diet.
' All other kinds of farming are more
or less of a gamble, but the'man who
is in dairying is reasonably sure of a
fair return for his labor and capital.
There. is no sure way of telling
what a cow is capable of except by
weighing and testing the milk. There
is no connection between the length
of the tail and depth of the milk
pail the cow will fill. Some of our
best milkers have been bob -tails.
At the same time a wide space be-
tween the back ribs is a good thing
to look for in buying. The main
thing, however, is depth and width of
rib and space between ribs and hips.
This indicates capacity to store and
digest food. The "milk veins" are
also important.
If you want large milk yields you
must have a fairly large cow. Other
things being equal, a large cow will
produce more, at less cost, than will
a small cow.
If you killed a cow which was giv-
ing three gallons at a minting you
probably would not find more than
that many quarts of milk in Iter ud-
der. The tnillc is produced while the
process of milking is going on. The
act of milking transforms tiny cells in
the udder into the form of milk,
Every dairy farmer should test his
cows and weigh their milk. He
should do this for his own satisfaction.
He should do it for finane:al reasons;
a cow, proven as
to capacity by test,
will sell for two or three times the
price of an unproven cow.
Shoes For Crossing Desert.
Closely resembling wire baskets aro
the"new sand shoes devised for the
British troops who crossed the Sinai
desert to fight the Turk in Palestine.
By weaving a stiff network of heavy
were and attaching it to their shoes,
says the Popular Science Monthly,
they are able to travel over the finest
desert sand without sinking ankle-
deep in it. They adopted the prim
ciple of tine snowshoe, 10 is said to bo
physically impossible for a man to
walk over desert sand for more than
two days with ordinary shoes. At the
end of that time the toes and heels be-
come painfully inflamed and the skin
comes off.
It is very importanit ) o protect;
sheep froth wet weather, although
they can stand considerable cold.
Lambs make greater gains in feed-
ing than old sheep. Hence it would
be unwise to prohibit -tlie slaughter
of lambs. .
Ewes due'to lamb in the latter part
of winter or early spring should be -
given nutritious food for toning -the
system, developing the young and
growing a coat of wool. Nitrogenous
foods, such as oats, alfalfa and bran,
are valuable for that purpose.
The' Tool Box In The Kitchen.
"Every .well-appointed kitchen has
a tool box all its own," declared one
housekeeper, who says frankly that
she gets more pleasure out of work
done in her kitchen than that which
is necessary in any other room,,in her -
house. "I am talking about house-
work,you understand, not about read-,
ing or studying or playing the piano
or anything of that sort," she explains.
"One thing which I consider an see
absolutely necessary part of the
kitchen paraphernalia is a tool box.
Mine, which really is a deep drawer
over a build -in cupboard, contains two
chisels, a large one and another smal-
ler, a funny little tool -the name of
which I have forgotten, but it is a
wooden handle with a lot of queer
little things that can be fitted into
the end of it forvarious purposes, a
saw, a large hammer and a tack ham-
mer, a lane screw driver and a small
ones -and there are two still smaller
ones that belong to the- handle full of
tools that. I mentioned—a monkey
wrench, a pair of tweezers, a plane
and a few other little things which any
amateur carpenter or real one needs
at various times. •
"We always keep a box of nails of
assorted sizes on hand, also small
boxes of carpet tacks, brass -headed
tacks, brads and -screws of several
sizes. Then, too, we keep a few coils
of wire of different sizes, and we find
that all of these things are wanted
often enough to warrant our keeping
the supply up to date."
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a'hc Melting of the Bells.
They havestiskeis the bells of Flanders -se
And melted them into guns,
They have branded the bells of Flan-
ders
And trained them on Iter sons.
The tower of Bruges is silent,
And widowed shall she stand;
No more shall the voice of Roland
Sound "Victory 111 the land!"
Proud Ghent and prouder Antwerp
Arc silent on the Scheldt;
They have humbled the bells of Flan»
dors-
Art sleeping, Van Artevelde?
Now this is the condemnation
That' follows them through the
years,
That they shall•be blind to beauty
And they shall be deaf to tears,
And through the coming ages,
When wonder and woo are theirs,
Forever the bells of Flanders
Ring louder than their prayers,
—Mary Eleanor Roberts.
Quite So.
Miss Jones flung herself into an
easy chair with a dejected air.
"I don't wonder that Professor Kidd
is unpopular!" she remarked. "IIe
has no tact",
"Hone so, clear?" inquired her friend
sympathetically.
"IIe asked me," replied the other
acidly, "to buy a ticket for his lecture
on 'Fools,' and when 1 bought it, the
ticket was marked 'Admit One' I"
"No more headache for you --take these"
lima'- Jost "smother" the -headache without removing the. Canso,
Take Chamberlain's stomach and Liver Tablets, They not only cure
the headache 000110m a buoyant, healthful foolinar because they
tone the liver, sweeten the stomach and cleanse tho bowels. Try thole,
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