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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-01-02, Page 7-- a, By Agronomist, Thee Department 10 for the use of our farm 'readers who want, the advio.° 'esrt an expertan queiglon regarding aoll, Teed, cr,opte, etc'. If-Yottr elleot,!en lo of sefficient 1,-enerai Interest, -It will be answered 'through thie coiuten, stamped and addressed enveiope, is enclosed with your totter, a complete sinswer-wel be mailed to yeu, Address Aeronomiete,eere Vellsoneedisesislea co,, Ltr 73 Adelaide stJ VV., Toronto.- e • totes' for lint harvest. Sugar win etelling in Spain a month ago at front tle eenteete Poen& •M Spain WaS `neutral: In Atiarriit em O cente to 54 ,e.nietpetee;oultd, Jen procurable, whihrejet /Turkey, met beeore bee scaPitulritio,e leder Mashing hiedvdsin1RalkietitSVIldk.A4-. sopotamia, %year wag selling, tweet least was dileted, aDfrefid'85).707'Io",$5 a pound. These eigures !show a globe - wide shortage, Pedigreed Seed.. I -DeTellePiag This, Young Dairy Animels best caretakers-, report 'excellent re The calf IS the 'fundantental fie: suite from the'uSe of abinitone table - tor in cattle \breeding.. . succeas or sPooliful of soluble blood meal mixed failere with a herd ie dependent more important than a knowledge of hreeediag farms might be ,profltable, Booariag a living calf, lusty with the bo'Wels of the calves in good condi proverhent of the herd depends upon care and: deeelopthent ef the ealf 'are inexPenei've.fred a wider use of it on inherited, merits of its aecestors. The ecligreeein blending the blood lines. Young animals that are,teing ele a onlY the increase bet the inte' vef4ed for breeding lathPoiee 'time and since it is e efannerativel Aev.ithatie.9a)cie; fie.eig.seearveidie iteol.1.:iese the not, be closely housed and *pampered. should y e - the .calf, rf there is not arnple unpin- ' vision made :for the reception of, the basis .of eueones ' in producing well yeenestee and, tee ',tee easse and de„ developed cows rind to that end the velogrnent, then ne wisdom in the Yc'eng S'41°1' Should be given 14' much purchase price ofthe dam, no study outdoor lige and exercise as is consist - of pedigree, no familiarity' with 'breed erit ,With a healthy -growth and not - - histery, Can save the herd from peas- mal develepment. By close stall feed- ing into oblieion, ing it is possible,to obtain greater liendreds of breeders df regietered iiYowth- fiCuMg the fleet ,yerir bet it -is cattle, who have Made liberal hived- a question 'whether or not this -method ments in stock and equipmeee. emee tends to make the animals more -sets - failed, simply because they, had not ceptsbie to disease and common ail - the gumption to secute. the- -Services merits, The calf that is well fed and ef,good care takers or were unwilling allowed to run outside a few weeks to themselves to give- vigilant watchful- grow and develop strong meseles and nese and daily atteneion to care and a vigorous cOnstitution is capable of 'feed' Senn neglect to bring sunshine making better gains from the 'amount and fresh air' to the calves; ' ethers .of grain and roughage consumed think clean pails and feed boxes too than ope that has been kept inside meth, treuble. •some will feed mere during the eummer eued' fell months, than the calf can digest; others will When cattle become 'so refined in type let ,the calf "rough it." The general:, and pleasing to the eye that the rug-, appearance of the calf tells a story ged life of outdoor % is denied them, which the good caretaker can inter. destructive diseases -Inc -mese with the (it'd with keen perception /end avoid so-called improvement. It is well' trouble. Getting , a geed dart . is -eneligh to assist nature in caring- fee important hi every endertaking,. end. stock, but in his „misgeided zeal man nowhere is ft more jitiportent than M often ats nature'Lways eside. ,The the life of a calr that is •exitected to fat, comely heifer contentedly chew- enake a return on an investment and ing her cud in,a weenie riehly bedded express the merits of the breed. stall, surrounded witl&every. comfort 'Right care and proper, precautions which her owner can think of, may would save many calves that are lose'llot have the productive ability' Or, the and the ,loss is greet,because Of -the reprectuctive: yeetultiess ' of ' the •mod. lnyeetment in the sire. ahd, dein and .erately fleshed', roUghecoated calf that the, long period in mnbesto life; bet liestles abed the pasture for a even calves calves that are born strong do ing. Sun, air and grass are needed not always continue to thrive for the in securing that superb 'vigor which eimple reason that some painstaking immunizes animals from disease.. It +caretaker doe e not keek after them is always better to pradice safe and erne a eley to discern the 'slightest sane methods of,growing youtg, stock indicatien _that health and,grOwth are than to go to extremes. not as they should be., The sire with -Dining. the first three Weeks of the pedigree and individtiel merit has calf's life from four to six quarts of 'only the calf -th express hie value; the Whole milk per day divided into three cow; true to type, and noted for her feeds will giye -good results. There- excellende, is a disappointment ifeehe after skim-hiilkegrain feeds and hay rani to produee a good, lust* _pelt may be profitablyfeci Until the young', On Many farms where, -whole milk ster ,le six months ‘old. Skim -milk Is sold the use of pl.epeied calf foods should play an important part in the has been found profitable. It, seldom diet pf .the calf.' . One cannot afford' naYe, however, to depend updn these to omit , skim -milk entirely,, althotigh subStittite foods. %Intl) the palles are preparedacalf foods may be used to from foe; to five weeks old, and then supplement a.scarit supply. . When the to use 'them merely as a aupedement calf 'is three mouths .old silage may to the fikim-milk and hay ration. At be fed once a day vithile at six,months the leadirig,.exPethnezital fern -101 has of age it will snake „geed Ise of two beenfelted that the Use of sitim-milk, feeds of, silage each day: As early or powdered milk is necessary to ena as: possible grain ehoulde' be ' intro - able the calf to make efficietit ase, of ducee' into the calf ration. One-half these PrePared leads. - Xt has been a pound a day of a mixture made up demonstrated that the addition of of equal parts of cornmeal, wheat protein, each Iii the malbtineen of milk bran, ground oats, with the hulls re. or the pieteins of meat helped' out Fayed,' and half te Part of linseed wonderfully en making the preteinsin the Cereals more easily digested. This undtiubtedly explains the great"value of .0; feedilke 'skim-ttrilk Or soluble blood meal ie -s,upplying the deq ficiencies in grain 'feeds and prepared mixturee as Well ' ati ,promoting the healthof the calves.. , Sine of the / . meal constitute an e5thellent thlf ra-- tion. The skim -milk ,e,tnd 'grain ra- tios should be continded after the calves are 'turned out to pasture, une less grass is unusually geed and they are, old enough to Maintain growth and flesh condition without,additional feed.. 'Ale • Food Control Corner There is not,* ecrap More food in the world because peace---"white- winged peace"--hris come bath. Those lands with plenty, as Canada, in reality, he 'obligated by a dictate of humanitarian honor, to send still more of _their sufficiency,overseas, Leaving out the enemy c'enntries— and -apparent* they have been so battered and starved, and their spirits so depressed by an unvarying ration for four years, that they are bordering desperation and etarva- tion—there are anything up to 160,- 000,000 people who win have to be helped over the interval until the next harvest. Even then, possibly; the normalizing of food plants and of t food animals may not be complete, Out of our existing stores we were able to keep our Allies so maidiel- louery well fed that none of them were reclined to the state of depres- sed, dejeded ;national spirit which plainly ecnitributed to the utter de- bacle of the once great German Em- pire Nohe the less, the Allied home sup- • plies bave during the war been"greet- ly eeten into, and their grain Beide have 'been much reduced. - Dr. Vernon Kellogg, who was for The Hi, 1100 Price 31 MWFt;?R$ to us, no matter what quart itys We 'pay the blehest,price, also express • charges, • ley once and you are mieured of satisfaction: • Apagv compANY Nue W. Montreal, t:.„.4. ......rto4reirat Bona ot goeholutra, at, a-koarrii b moss for te yearul tom ,ft4•• ••• two years the tight -hand man in feeding Belgium, and who is fiew touring Europe, saysi that the losses in cattle M France and Italy are very serious. Not only are meat and milk 'directly affected, but in these lands oxen are largely used for draught ,purposes, and the areas -which can be ploughed next year are likely to be greatly reduced by the absence of beasts to draw ,the plough and harrow. , s Then as- to cereals, the International Agricultural Institute has aeclared thet the -preelection of wheat in Italy, while greater than it was lest fear, is below the average for the years beeoee the war. Spain, Geeat Bri- tain,' Italy, Luxemburg, SWitzerland, Canada - United Stats, India, Japan, Egypt, and Tunis (a, list which, 'with the exception ef Russia, Argentina and Southern A egtralia, coenprisei all the chief wheat.producing coun- tries) Dhow an increase of only 8 per cent. above the average for fire years, 1912-16, these including two year of war.. That 8 per cent. will make%but a poor showing even to feed the Rus- sian people, much less help in raising the 6'enera1 level 'of wheat supply for the better nouriseimerit of, millions and millioes of Allies, :- Rye,however, in the . six chief countries, shows an inefease ef 50 per cent. over the average „for -*the same period, and barley an increase. of nearly 7 per cent. Oats ,show a drop of, roughly, 15 per centfor the sante fiVe-Year peeled, and (maize) corn hi Speih, Switzerland, Canada and the United States altogether is estimated to show a elimination of about 8 per cent. Linseed, now more largely. used than eveirfor" ani- mal feed,'and highly important for its, essential oils for human tensump. tion, has decreased at- least 16 per cent, Sugar beet productioneini all the Europena eountaies,---ep uding Ger- many 'Kid Austria, has dropped from 8,500,000 tons in 1914-15 to 4,4e8,000 esimessee. When seed grain is-advertieed *50 pedigreed ogees iteehoeld mean two things; first, that the record of that particular strain is known from ete oeigh4s,Second, that it is ritheen the qualities that make it eupenior other selections of the SPAS S011,, Iii Mier' that, the term pedigreed may have the proper significance to 'those who wish to purthase seed Vain of high quality, the following outline is given of the medial me- thods in the primary selection work of pedigreed varieties or strains of grain. Before seed grain can. be ,termed pedigreed it must be de- scended from a single plant; that ,particular plant must' haste been' a superior plent to othersalrf its 1 rid and must' have had the ability to transmit the high yield and the, de- sirable characters for which it bag. been selected. This superiority can only ,be determined by careful °beer- vation at the time, of the first selee- ;Hen and by a careful test under uni- form conditions with the atent or other standard Vaeieties, '1s°, this. electedstilain rthist_be watched close- ly during', t.se • muitiplidatiep period for the appearanhe of false heads or the breaking up of tbe variety,„This is, the essential work in, the propaga- tion of pedigreed seed and enleris it hs been seleoted in accordance with the above methods, the word pedi- greed should riot be used, s- • Apart from those who are associat- ed with experiment stations there are but few Men in Canada wheThade the facilities and the keowledge esseritial to perfoeng the primary selection 'work en the procinctien of pedigreed grain., Any observant person can, however, obtain pedigreed seed and by the maintenance of a seed plot and the careful rogueing ou.t of the -Pales heads and chance impurities, preserve the purity and quality of hie seed grain -that it may continue to rank as pedigreed seed. As the production of pedigreed strains and varieties is practically confined to the various Dominioneend Provincial Expenimerit Stations, any so called pedigre,ed aeed that does not thace back to ethese sources(; or is net re- gistered M the Canadian Seed Grow- er's Asseciation should not be pure, chased 'as seat, without careful in- quiry into its origin, , Pedigreed seed bears the same ;e- lation to the grain growing indtsetry as Pedigreed breeds bear. to 'the live stools industry, and its nse is neces- sary if a grower desires to nutin- thin , the Yield, purity arid quality of his 'grain.—Experimental Farms Notes. ' Nistr FOLD* PS L:t i-AfitivisatitNitnb1LINES ONce -11.1Hbl MY BAIT1114 cdf WAS R1011 IMIT 111E' RAU. t'llGHT. 'NOME RUN ( HEARD Ttit' EMS All HOUT BUT 6013 WAS llIERE AND CAUGHT ME OUT( Early hatching_ - means better .chick, better seceder. al' regrilig, higher epribes for surplus cockerels sold as broilers, mature pullets in tAs fall that will lay more eggs der - leg cold weather, andIarger, plump- er roasters aed capons for the holi- 'd'ay markets. It also means greater use from incubators and brooders and better labor disteibution by putting the hatching and , edie of the small chicks ahead of the rush ef spring planting. It is very difficult to break hens of the egg eating habit. Various me,- thods, such as filling, an egg shell with red pepper, placing a china egg in the nest, etc., have been fried, but with very little muccess. This habit is started because of the lack of ani- mal food, or accidently a hen breaks an egg in getting out of the nest and thereby establishes the habit. How- ever, if the hens get plenty , of beef scraps or sour milk and are kept busy during ,the day, they are eot as likely to begin such a habit. Very often there is only a hen or two in the flock which do this de- structive work 'and by carefully watching one. can piek them out and get rid of them. "It is blessed to give; blessed is hse of whom it 14 said that he so loVell g 'ing that he was glad to give his life."—Donald Mulkey: GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX Andrew F. Currier. M.D. • V Dr. Carrier will answer all signed letters pretainIng to' Malik It yam triestion li or general interest it will be,answered through these columnsl Ili not. it will be answered personally stamped; addreesed enveluite is enP closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe tor Individnal Cal011 or make diagnoids. Address Dr.,endrew Y. Currier, care cot WI10 Paibilahlorto. 72 Vadelaide SI West. Toronto. •.•• Cold in the Head. The influeeza, or by courtesy, the Spanish influenza, was so reeentlY with us, „(indeed still here and will remain a long time through. the sequels that have come out cif it) theta seems hardlyleir to begin a talle,abotit colds in stir head. And yet those disagreeable visis tants are always with us; summer and winter, more abundant in win- ter than in summer and with vary- ing degrees of misery accompanying them. We speak of "catching" cold as if there were something infectious or contegious about it and there prob- ably is sometimes but not always. One catches cold by eontact with somebody who has it, or by exposure to the influence of certain ,irritating germs, but one catches cola jint as effecterilly, at ,any rate with the saine symistonts, by exposure to pungent -gases or to draughts of air or to cold and wet, , ' , The symptoms are familiar enough, a paroxysm of sneezirige'watery dis- cbarge"frorn the eyes and nose, swell- ing et the nasal ,mucus membrane,' and 'necessity of mouth 'breathing, difficulty in sleeping on account of general discomfort. This continues two or three days and' then if there are no complica- tions the discharge diminiehes, it iS no longer watery but milieus, the breathing beccenes lees troublesome, the general condition improVes and after a fe* day the afflicted dntson seems to be as well as ever. 'It is not always easy to ,know how to treat a cold and I talce the liberty of describing the method used by a dear old medical 'friend, Dr. Beverly Robinson of New York, who has had more experience in public and pri- vate practice than cbmes to the lot of most doctors. 'When sritezinge chilliness; and cough first appear give to an adult 5 to 10 grains hf salicylate of am- monia and half a grain df caffein in apsuies EdVey tWO hones, four or five lune. • , If this does hot break up the cold 1 will probably shorten it, and pre- vent a complicating grippe or bron- chitie. It there is fever add half a grain of phenacetine to each dose and at bed time take half a tedspoonful af aromatic spirit of ammonia and the same quantity of spirits of nitre in two tablespoonfuls of water. Rub within the nose a steal' quan- tity a carbolized vaseline or menthol salve. Aleo at bedtime take a hot mustard water foot -bath, dry the feet care- fully and wear long woollen stockings in bed. If constipated, take a laxative pill or Seidlitz powder the next mereing. If there are cough and expeatora- tions store -the other medicines, give a teaspoonful of syrup of hypophos- phite of ammonium every two hours and wear for an hour or tveo at a tithe the Robinson inhaling matkatin- haling equal parte of beechevood deo- , sote, spirit of chloroform, and alco- Paint the eheet with compound tincture of iodine and wear an elec- tric pad at night if there is pain s in the thes - If the cold'is attended with cough, fever and pain in the chest the vapot of creosote may be inhaled front a croup -kettle, or if this odor is objec- tionable it mdy be modifiedelay adding compound tincture ef benzoin or the Oil of pine. ' The aiet should be very moderate, add' it mayebe entirely liquid during the first forty-eight hours. If there is great weakness a suit- able alcoholic stimulant may be given if relief has not been obtained with hot coffee and tea. ' • Questions and Answers Olive-E.—Five weeks ago my little girl had her tonsils removed and each morning her nose is filled up and there 14 blood upon her pillow, just the same as before the oper4ion. Answer—[ ehould think it possiVe that the child hak adenoids in the back of her throat and nese, and that if yOu would take her to a skilful specialist in nose and throat diseases, he would be eble to determine, upon examination, just where the trouble le and to oo such tal operation would glee relief, PREPARING POULTRY PRODUCTS By Earle W. hGage Putting the finishing, touches on a tproduct before offering it for sale yields the flamer the greatest return of any laber. This lack of 'finish" is nowhere so 'clearly seen as in ,our poultry products as shipped to mar- ket. To preve that producers do not put the care ,they should on their poultry preclude 'before offering them for sale, one may visit any market and he will And that st large propoetion of the poultry and eggs exeposed for sale exhibits a carelessness 'that TIO other ssisiness could stand. Good farmers who follow a • systematic crop rota- tion, who conderve all the ayailalale moisture in the soil, whb nevef mar- ket other live stock except in a finish- ed condition, seem to forget all their 'bueiness principles when poultry and eggs are being disposed of, and think only of getting rid of them iu the quickest and easiest way possible. The time it takes to prepare pro- duce before It is shipped from the farm is time Well spent. No matter what is •being sdid, be it breeding stock, hatching eggs, live or dresse pouleese or market eggs, it shoul never be sent front the -farm until i le in the best possible -condition. ES peeially is this true -when produce is intended for table uee. ,,,,Well -finished broilers or roasters cost less per, poend to the *Delmer than those that are poorlyfleshed' and they are much more palatable to the consumer. Though he may have to ,pay from twenty-five to fifty per cent. more per poubd for them, as, a rule, the edible portion really costs ratber than holding them until they mature. It is a good plan to be near your ;market. This, however, is a rela- tiye term and does not always mean, neer in the sense of distance. Some people one hundred miles from the market are really nearer than others within ten. miles, in that it does not cost as much to deliver mid the pro- duce arrives in better shape. Distance from market should be considered, not in miles, but in tiine, coedition, and expense in getting produce from the farm to the market, Two miles of rough country road from the farmer to the railroad sta.. tion may be a greater distance than two hundred miles from the railroad station to the consumer. , One -can he miles distant and yet be close en- ough. Many farmers who consider tliemselves out of reach of the best markets may be nearer than they think. In such cases a ,little co- operation may • make their position ideal. The nearer the producer can come d to the consumer, that is, the fewer d middlemen in between, the higher will t be his prices, but the greater will be _ the. labor end expense of marketing. The best paying customers—these vein are willing. to pay from five to twenty cent i above the market price —are the private families who want tile best of everything and who are willing to pay for it. More atten- tion. must be given to this class, how- ever, and all producers are not so situatedthat they can cater to IL, Next to the family trade comes the hotel and Testaurant trade, which also eequires a producer close enough that produce can be shipped or delivered frequently at not too high a cost. Next would come the retail store. There are good retailers in every town looking for producers who will suPply eggs regularly each week the year round at several cents per doz- en above the average egg price. 'A. difference of only a few cents per dozen mikes a large difference in the income when several fowls are -kept. For example, one farmer keeping one hundred hens fromWhich he gets ten dozen eggs each year, may take the' wholesale price or he may send them to one of the other -mar- kets and get a premium of five cente on 'a dozen. Five cents on each dozen means fifty cents Per ben or $50 pei: year for the flock, which is practi- cally clear gain, the result of good bueiness methods, uniformly good quality honest dealings. legs. - The neat; attractive package is good investment. First appearane goes,a long way in determining 'th price of eggs and dressed poultry The person who will take the teoubl to make a neat box or crate and has, it tastily addressed and marked, will in all likelihood, have something goad to 'put into it. Really good.. produce is sometime said tor less than it is Worth becaus 14 is aoked in unattractive packages 14 js the neat package that will help sell contents 'every time. There fore, it is good business -to have pro- duce not only of the best quality it- self, but packed in containers that will iedicate the prime quality of contents. ,e The ordinary packages in 'which eggs are shipped to market are not always attractive. The outside- is frequently dirty, lathe neatness and is tOC) often more or less flimsy. 'Even though the contents of such pack- ages are of high quality they do not bring the price they Should beciuse of the unattractive container. The best size package for ordinary shipments is, without doubt, trig thirty -dozen case. For private or special shipments, packages to hold twelve, fiftee,n, or as low as six dozen eggs, May be Made, as the customer wishes. It is an advantage to make these packages, all uniform in size, or half-size, so that in placing them into the car or buggy, they fit in square and fill up the spade. Instead of placing his stock on the market during two months of the Year, or at the VeaSon when there is an over -abundance, which means poor prieese the farmer should arrange to distribute his produce over more of he twelvb Moriths than he does. For instance, instead or keeping he spring chithens all summer long and marketing them in the „gall, some f them, at least, may be' marketed hroughout thp season .as broilers, Broilers ,being twe to three times as much' per pound in May and June as hey bring as roasters in the fall. If herekore, ceekerels' that were large enough to be matketed at this time of the 'year were sold they would com- mand, in moat cases, as much per bird as they would bring if kept until fall, and the cost of pfoduction Would be yery materially lessened. The same btains with hens. Hens that have completed their second laying winter and have passed through the breeding season should be marketed as soon Ss the breeding season is twee, nth - et than held until- fall. liens in June bring from fifty to one hundred per cent, more than in the fall, and 'when marketedin June or Jaely do not come into competieionwith' the cock- erels which ase marketed, as mestere in October and November, The rea- son that the old hens 'bring a lower price in the fall is due to the fact that people do not want them when they can get chickens, but, ifethe same' Bens are marketed in the spring when there are nofresh roasters, the de - /nand is good and the prices in pro- portion to the demand. The ,sarne, may be said of other lines of pcieltier, eepecially ducks. Green ducks, 'tint is, ducks, that have just completed their first coat of felithere; 'should be marketed at that tithe rather than be kept until late fall.4n an experiment receetly con- -dilated with sixty-five Piing it 'Was found that when sold as green ducks'at-ten and a half weeks of age, they brmight on:the local market about two hundred , per emit. more than it 'cost to feed them, oe in other Words, they cosb foe feed $20 rind at ten an& a half weeks of age they broiight po. Sipollar. ducks that, were kept until bill and. Were sold as ducks are tutually sold did not pay for the oat of feed. Large produce dealera claink that they ceunot get a sufficient otantity greeh ducks arid are advising people to sell their ducks at front ten to eleven weeks, Grow Rose. Everyone should celebrate the re- newal of peace by planting Roses, they will grow anywhere in Canada if --a little- attention ie given them; cutiously while Rom imported from our Allies, and neutral countries bloom for a season or two, it is the Roses of England, that flourish and bloom from year to year. ,British Roses in British soil. The value of a farm may be mib- stantially increased by adding to the knowledge of the manager. The world is full of willing people; some are willing to week, others are willing to let them. The constant rule for cooking fish is to submit it to intense heat at first SO as to sear the outside and keep the juice within. Then the tempera- tures should be lowered, until the fish -14 thoroughly done. When the flesh flakes, the fish is -entirely cooked HIRAM' JOHNSON, LTO. 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I've,just found out about their report cards!" "Report, cards?" repeated Aunt "Well, record cards, perhaps, bat they're really just like school reports; they keep a record' of everybody in that big business, and grade us!" "Oh, is that all?" asked Aunt Nan with a smile. "Surely that's no- thing to worry Sh01,1t." "Oh, yes, it is! Why, the girls say that they mark you on intellect and personality and appearance end everything like that! Pm sure never pass! You know I'm stupid and not at all magnetic and not a bit pretty?" • • "Well, of course you don't wish MO to agree with you there exaetly, do you?" said her. aunt. They must haVe been satisfied with your super- ficial aspects—so to speak—else they wouldn't have hired you in the first place. Your staying on, my dear, depends largely on things that ere in your °Wu hands, on whether you have the virtues that wear well. I happened to read an article about this record ystem just the other day. There were thirty-five headings grouped under four main heads; Phy- sical, Intellectual,Personality arid' Salesmanship; and' the thing that in- tqested me, my dear, was to see how many of the highest counts were for things that are entirely in our own heeds: promptness and neatness and honesty and patience, and most of all courtesy. That counted -more than tivice as umeh a's any one of the - others, two ape a half times as much as ambition, enthusiasm or honestir, and Avg times as much as prompt- /nes! Just courtesy, my dear, the kirid of thing that's possible for everyone! 'Ttna woman who has charge of -a Red Cross workroom.She's prompt and efficient and businesslike and enthusiastic—but she isn't coin- t"And I know a giidewho is aa good' as gold ther family. foer,o,Auortailnedm.ipolite or tactful. She evi- o ily. She sacifices r manner that half of the time they act never really appreciate what she does cross and abrupt and rude in her under her. And she can't under- spends her money for them, she does every outward duty. But she's so ually resent her favors, and they a consequence, she fails° lamentably; bether about those little things. As people just won't come to work stand why, and accuses everyone else of disloyalty and laziness. herself to give them pleasure; she dently doesn't think it worth while to know a waitress in a restaurant who is not half so quiclt or efficient as the girls round her; but she' has twice as many 'regular patrons ;because she is always et. Pante and agreeable that people like to go to her table. • "But there—I've wandered away from the reeord cards entirely, haven't I?" "Nevertheless, you've cheered me up 'wondeefully, Aunt Nan. FogI can be polite --thanks to your years of work, and mother's; and I can be • neat 'and prompt, if I• try hard en- ough. And it is an enormous com- fort to think that so' many things are in my own 'hands. I'll make a record in' those anyway and not worry Omit the others." "Do it in all your daily living, too," said Aunt Nan. "It's the best rule I know for all sorts of euccess." Canada Alia Her Eggs And Butter. 'Canada has 27 fowls, eompared With 100 in Holland, 166 in Denmark, 65 in Germany, 2 in Argentina and 82 in the United States. This is con - tabled in a handy statement, plain to grasp at a glance, issued by the Canada Food Board. Increased pro- duction of live stock is of 'vital nn - patience to Canada's future and is the most valuable reconstruction work that can be done. In fifteen of the most important fowl states of the TJnited States. there are 196.4 fowls per square mile and a total of 208,000,000 fowl. • Britain normally imports 190,850,- 620 dozen eggs. She had a war ehortage of 124,786,750 dozen. Six- teen years ago Canada exported 2,- 128,500 dozeneand up to October 3144, 1918, 8,861,889 dozen were exported. If Canada in 1919 export's as many eggs as she did sixteen years ago she will be living up to her egg °part - unity. Brit'ain' before idle war uldported 452,795,264 pounds of butter a year, The shertage of butter in Great Brie tain due to the war was 209,148,784 pounds yearly., Twelve years ago Canada exported to Groat Britain 38,888,074 pounds of butter. Two years ago she exported 6,783,406 pounds of butter. Compared with twelve years ago Canada has not lived up to her butter opportunity. Australia is also seelcine to devel- op a flax-growieg indite -try, the area 14 tbis crop there beteg 1,500 acres as compared with 4,00 in 1917.