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THi ROYALBANiK.
lin event of great financial impiirt-
nam, transpired on the 18th lust, in the
celebrate: by the Royal Bunk of the
fiftieth anniversary of its foundation.
The history of the lnst;tnt!on is ono
of the financial romances of Canada,
a
remarkaele growte le a comparative -
Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto
ly short period from humble begin
The Need of Potato Grading: This simple advertisement, costing tangs to a great banking business,
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When the marketing of your per- only about ;x1 for several insertions, covering not only the Dominion, but
fishable and ,semi -perishable farmd sold twice the number of pumpkins extending' to many foreign countries,
precincts is eel -neared with the market -II that a personal house-to-house can- The expansion of its, business in
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rug of other classes of aonnntoilitnes vasa had, gold for the other man,' recent ye.zrra has heel] remarkable.
notices a vast' difl'erenee in the Pumpkins ordered delivered were hour other institutions with establisle
process, For instance, an inquiry ad -I taken to town when other reasons` ed clienteles in as many provinces
dressed to a steel mill as to the ,price made a trip. necessary. Farm sales were absorbed, an energetic policy
of rails is not likely to result in de- in most cases were managed by the was pursued, and today the Royal
finite quotations until the kind and! women folks; I ranks well up among the big, financial
else of rails are,specifled, and a farm -I A producer living near a fair -sired concerns of the Continent.Its opora-
or asking his hardware dealer as to town can -often turn a vegetable) or nons in Cuba and the West Indies, a
the price of rope will at once be asked fruit crop to excellent profit by the meld early exploited, have given it a
as to the kind and size of rope de -1 small ad., telephone, post -card route.' leading place in those countries,wile
sired. Few prospective purchasers' The higher the retail store price, the the result that it has now 01a branch -
would greet a merchant seriously with better 'tire opportunity for direct sell-, as, and 42 subbranches, giving it pro
the question, "What ere plows worth I lug. The telephone in this trade is, Mier place among Canadian,.banke in
to -day if one did it is quite likely; a priceless aid, When the phone num-] this respect. Capital has grown to up-
that he would receive a reply some -I her is mentioned in a small advertise -i wards of $16,000,000, the reserve fund
what along the following lines; "We' p merit, the telephone brings orders to y.•10,400,000, deposits to $381,307,000,
have a twelve -walking' low at one' from scores of housewives, accustomed end assets L01470,870,000.
price and a sixteen -inch gang plow at! to buying all provrsmons by phone.
a vastly different price." The same' They could' be reached in no other way.
holde true of most classes of mer -1 ;.When phone number alone is adver-
chandise; size, kind and quality are so' tised, orders.from those families with-
close'ly associated with value that they] out telephones, which are in the -maj-
must be stated 'when d'osig'eating then arity in some places, are cerbnin to be
price. I reduced. Therefore, 'when inserting
It is et this point that the marketsern advertisement, put after the farm
lug of certain classes of farm products phone number— "or 'drop a post card.
is different—ser fortunately, quality cndi Avondale Farm, Windsor." That little
price are not se closely associated at stroke of . thoughtfulness automatic
least at the producer's end o'f the line, ally treblesthe number of prospective
If the individual 'who inquired about
plows were to ask his local grocer
about'what he was paying for pota-
toes, it would be unusual if he did
not receive the prompt repiy, "a dol-
lar" or whatever the case spay be, On
most lines it is one price as fad_as the
farmer is concerned,
To be sure, these commodities are ill wind that blows nobody any good.
usually graded before they reach the It might with equal propriety be said
-consumer, and it is this very item— that 'it's a most unusual flood that
grading—en route from producer to doesn't carry somebody something
consumer which contributes to the of value. It is certainly true
"awful cost" of distributing ferns that hillside drainage waters
products that most of us complain may - 'frequently be turned to
•about. good account, and be made indirectly
it can hardly be said that any one a source of benefit. The .writer is
".doss of individual:=, is to blame; how- thinking of a farmer acquaintance
ever, the producer is as much at fault whose land catches 'a large parted the
as anyone in 'Ibis respect. It is he who wash from an adjoining, farm of ,high -
most strenuously objects to grades er altltfzde. The previous owner of
and standards. Regardless of who is the lower farm was very indignant
to blame, one thing is certain: As at the seeming unfairness of nature,
long es teen producer sells his potatoes and sought .in every way to rid him -self
as potatoes, and so on, perishable of his neighbor's drainage waters. His
farm products will never reach the successor, however, thought` other -
same level of perfection An marketing wise. The floods from the uplands
•as have other classes of merchandise, were encouraged to enter and spread
Certainly there is just as much need out over his fields. The result was
that twenty acres or more of his farm
increased remarkably in fertility—in-
creased to the extent that the yields
were almost- doubled. What the form-
er owner had regarded as a nuisance,
this more progressive one looks upon
as a blessing.
Of course, the floods were not given
unrestricted liberty. They were per-
mitted to enter through a fan-like gap
at the mouth of which there was a
considerable area of grass. The scat-
tering of the waters greatly decreased
their -tendency to erode, and 'the grass
tended to entangle the coarser parti-
cles and restrain them from damaging
the interior of the field. In this way
the surface layer of the area above
mentioned was deepened several
inches with fine rich silt.
A critical examination of hillside
wash reveals the fact that only the
finer and lighter parts of the soil are
carried any very great distance, the
heavier parts accumulating along the
immediate path of the drainage ditch.
The lighter humus, naturally, is float-
ed away quickly—an explanation of
why the first flood waters are dark
colored. Of about equal ease of re-
moval are the soluble,portions--the
parts containing the most available
plant food. Those parts that render
the water muddy are insoluble consti-
tuents of varying degrees of fineness.
The overturning, grinding, aeration,
and mixing of these frequently form a
soil excessively productive.
It is not always possible, of course,
to trap the wash from the nearby up-
lands; but -whenever it can be done
the labor Involved will bring large
returns. Every farmer so situated.
ahoutrl give this matter careful atten-
tion,
customers. Post cards furnish a valu-
able service at te, ridiculously low price
and can be popularized as business -
getters for farmers. They are little
used -at present.
Don't Let Your Land Run Away.
There's an old saying that it's an
for grsdes and standards by which to
designate value—price—as there is
for grades and standards in steel rails
for designating price.
Few will dispute the assertion that
there is as much difference in value,
relatively, 'between a five -ounce scabby
potato and a twelve -ounce smooth, dis-
• ease -free one as there is between fifty-
pound and one hundred and ten -pound
rails.
All unstandardized products must
either be acrid by inspection or upon
the reputation of the seller—never by
the merits of the goods before they
are seem, Inspection only adds. an ex-
tra 'handling charge, and causes a
great deal of inconvenience.
The shipper may say he has a No.
1 potato, but what constitutes a No. I
potato'? If each of fifty growers and
'dealers were asked to sort a bushel of
No. 1 tubers, there would be many
different kinds of No, l's sorted from
the seam pile, because of a lack of a
mammon gauge by which to judge a
No. 1 potato.
Marketing Via Ad., Telephone and
Post-Cerds.
One man I knew had a crop of ex-
-oelient Brie pumpkins, altogether too
nice to feed to his cattle. He filled a
wagon and peddled from house to
;house in the 'nearest town. He re-
'tnreed home with half the load and
;informed his wife: "Pumpkin pie isn't
popular this year." , He reduced his
'price front two cents. 'to one and one -
'half cents a pound on a second trip,
:and still had pumpkins left, A third
trip was necessary to sell all the crop.
Another man 'with pie pumpkins' not
•a bit better, placed an advertisement
in the local newspaper. It wasn't 'the
advertisement an expert would have
written; nothing flowery; nothing cal-
culated to create an 'appetite for
pnmtplcrn pie,except the mere mention
of the word --which Is enough. He
'quoted a priers of two cents a pound
delivered, one and one-half cents a
pound at the farm: He also added:
r"Phone 2;34, or drop me a card," and
genre his name and address,
iN TEN YEARS
500 Dollars
're invested at 3% will amount to $697.76
If invaded at 4%, interest com-
pounded quarterly, will
amount to $744.20
But if invested in our Sia%
Debentures will amount to$880.20
Write for Booklet.
The Great West Permanent
Loan COnlnaleyy
Toronto Office king at, West
,314ax oat;'Nx)Af`L{s(ora,CNNAgnet-.
Elevators Save Backbone and Time.
Scooping corn into a crib is one of
the hardest 'baekabrealcrng jobs on
the farm. With an -elevator -the :hard
work is done away with, and there is
a saving of time in unloading ear -corn
and small grain. There is a great need
for saving in both time amid, backbone
nowadays, for there is no great abun-
dance of either.
Many farmers have quit 'scooping
corn into cribs; elevators do it more
cheaply, especially where there Is a
large amount of corn to handle. Small
grads is being handled in the same
way. Elevators can he used either for
filling cribs and granaries, or for
emptying cribs and granaries into the
wagons at marketing ,time.
There are different types 'ii£ eleva-
tors on the market. Many of the
now and up-to-date cribs have pit ele-
vetoa'ie installed in them. The grain
is dumped from the wagons just the
same as at a commercial grain ele-
vator, and then elevated into the cribs,
or Into bins overhead. Outside ele-
meters can be used on any kiind of
crib. Power for all elevators' can be
furnished by a gasoline amine,- the t'her`e ie electricity on the fern, the
motor 'will' fuenish power.
Au acoompilshment of this kind is
the highest tribute that can be given
the vigorous and progressive character
of the management and in that tribute
the, vice-president and managing di-
rector, Mr. E. L. Pease, has a large
share, for he it was who thirty-two
years ago blazed the trail of success,
The Royal Bank has in its president,
Sir Herbert Holt, , and its General
Manager, Mr, C. E. Neill, men of
energy, capacity, and 'wide experience
in business and banking affairs. The
prosperity of the bank is a reflection
of the prosperity and growing com-
merce of Canada, in which the insti-
tution has materially aided by encour-
aging domestic and promoting foreign
trade.
The Hallmarks of a Green-
horn Mechanic.
Everywhere you see the hallmarks
of the greenhorn mechanic—that fel-
low who knows little about machinery
but thinks he knows it all.
He is the mat wlie rises the wrong
tool on every job; who is always able
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bills.
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to tear clown but seldom able to put;
together; who rushes in where really
gmechanics fear to tread; who is'
good,
always able to give advice on any
mechanical subject.
In short, he is the man who makes
half the wheels of repairing machin-
ery go round, 'because when he gets
through "fixing" a machine real
mechanics have a job.
You can always tell when he has
been near a machine.
Nuts will have been loosened and
tightened by the use of hummer and
cold. chisel.
Cotter pins will have been taken out
and not replaced.
All lock washers will have been
scattered to the winds.
Thread's on bolts and nuts will have
been battered and stripped.
Every part about the machine will
be loose unless it has simply stayed
tight of its own accord.
Gears will be chewed up until they
are almost unrecognizable.
Bearings will have cried in vain for
grease and adjustment. 1
Parts will be missing, paint seraEeh-
ed, and the whole machine dirty and
unkempt.
The services of such a man are dear
at any price—are dear even if they
cost nothing.
Do not be a greenhorn mechanic.
Be no mechanic at all rather than this.
And do not hire one!
GOOD HOMES ATTRACT GOOD HIRED HELP
In a certain factory district, when
the munition plants were paying high
wages for labor, an enterprising
farmer on the city's outskirts ,needed
some permanent help. To get it he
did what seemed to many a vain thing.
Going to one of the biggest factories,
where the unskilled worker received
from two 'to three times as much as
he was prepared to pay, the farmer
had it announced that he wanted men.
He stated the wages he expected to
pay, described the liking conditions on
his farm, and offered quite liberal 'al-
lowances of fuel, milk and vegetables.
Then he let the men think the propo-
sition over for a week.
A week later he returned to the fac-
tory. More than a dozen men anxious
to hire out -met him: They were not
inexperienced men, but steady, skilled
farmhands. From these applicants he
was able to pick the very kind of men
-he wanted, and hes hired help problem
was solved in short order.
This incident was told by a member
of an official housing commission
which learned much about rural labor
problems while mainly studying' eity
conditions. A member of this com=
mission says that the solution of the
rural labor problem is entirely a ques-
tion of suitable, attractive homes for
farm hands; that the farmer who has
a clean, neat, comfortable home fbr his
help can obtain .labor without much
difficulty even in times of labor scarc-
ity, and can also get that steady, reli-
able class of help farmers must have.
A fanner commissioner of agricul-
ture, when he returned to his farm
from college, immediately built a good
home for the hired man and his fam-
ily. He says he has never had any
trouble about labor; 'his employees
have always been of the 'best class,
and when they left invariably it was
to go to their own newly -acquired or
rented farms.
There is much more than wages in
the labor problem. Some farmers al-
ways seem able to get good help;
others never seem able to. Large
farms where there are houses for mar-
ried hired men, or a farm boarding-
house for single employees, usually
have less difficulty about labor than
the small farm where the hired man
must live with the family- 'a trying
contact which often ends suddenly the
business and social relationship. Not
only does the hired man prefer his
own home, but the average farm fam-
ily does also. The subject is two-
sided. An outsider constantly under
the home roof is a damper on family
Intimacy.
Where it is practical to provide an
attractive home for _hired help, it
ought 'by all means to 'be done. The
investment is sure to return good in-
terest on the cost, because the farmer
automatically will collect a paying
rent on It. The money spent will earn
big dividends 'by attracting a desirable
class of labor.
When a separate house can not be
given the 'hired man, then itis quar-
ters in the farm home should be com-
fortable and attractive. The class of
help farmers get is little If any better
than 'the kind of quarters given the
help.
unci the worst is yet to come
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Address communications to 73 Adelaide et West, Toronto
Scarlet Fever;
The incubation ---the hatching—
period of scarlet fever is from two
to four days. Then comes the invasion,
suddenly and often .at night, with
vomiting, "red paint" sore throat, and
a high fever; and also in severe casae,
and with very young children, with
convulsions. There is the "beef"
"cat's" or "strawberry" tongue. The
eyes are generally not inflamed. Then
at the end of the first, or during the
second, day—"one clay 'to 'begin and
two to show"—comes the scarlet -color-
ed eruption, first on the chest and
neck; it' is often pretty well spread
out and made up of many red points
underlying the general flush, . This
eruption disappears first where it'ap-
pears first and in from three to five
days, It peels off in •shreds. As com-
plications of scarlet fever, we have-,
to fear inflammation of the middle ear,
swollen glands in the neck, kidney dis-
ease, joint inflammations, pleurisy and
pneumonia. I
Scarlet fever is, like diphtheria and
measles, caught by direct contact, also'
by ''breathing 'in the minute droplets
coughed or sneezed out when one
comes close to the patient. The air
which thepatient breathes is not in
itself in`1?ectious. The disease is caught
also from the towels, handkerchiefs,
dishes and so on which the patient has
been using.
The peeling in scarlet fever is not
nearly so catching as the discharges
front the sore throat and nose in the
beginning of the disease. All the
same, children with scarlet fever must
of course be isolated, quarantined,
kept apart from other -children, until
the skin is clear and all discharges
from' the nose' and throat have stop-
ped. There are mild forms of scarlet
ever (scarlatina) as there are mild
forms of measles or of diphtheria; but
you can catch the disease severely
front a mild case: Take no chances.
A child with only a sore' throat and a
slight, :rash may be the "means of
spreading dangerous infections. The
moral is, then: Never neglect ar sore
throat.
Questions and Answers.
Would symptoms of endocarditis
(caused by rheumatic fever) disappear
to any extent;if I stopped smoking
cigarettes? My trouble is continual
throbbing when sitting or lying down.
Is my ailment a leaking valve or
something worse? I am 32 and single.
I worry a let over my trouble. What
advice would you give regarding my
marrying?
Answer—Endocarditis is valvular
heart disease, in which a leaky valve
exists. This isnot necessarily a bar
to length of days, and to lining in
comparative comfort, if one's family
doctor is faithfully obeyed, I warn
you that smoking may have, in your!
ease, grave results; the rest is up to
you and depends on whether you are`
determined upon being king of all!
thea is under your own hat. I will
not advise anybody regarding so seri-,
cue a step in life as marriage; but
I urge you to consult your' family]
doctor as to this.
Do you think girls and young wo-
men who go thinly clad in the 'winter,
months, wearing very little more than]
during the summer, are injuring their,
health? Does this make the blood thin
and induce a run-down condition?
They apparently stand it; but what is
your opinion of their future health? 1
Answer—I think so. Anemia (•blood,
poverty) may thus result. Many
"colds" are no doubt thus contracted.
And the neglected cold, considering
what may follow in its train, is one
of the most serious of human malad-
ies. Many case= of tuberculosis and
pneumonia result from "nothing but
a cold."
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There are different plans of poultry
houses advocated by different author-
ities, and supposed -to -be authorities,
some highly ornamental, some very
plain ,in appearance, some simple in
interior arrangements and some de-
cidedly complex. The exterior of a
poultry building may properly reflect
the owner's taste and the condition of
his pocketbook. The outside appear-
ance has nothing to do with the use-
fulness of the house. The Inside con-
sbruction, however, is more important
and a building which is so arranged
inside that the work cannot be done
easily and that the fowls cannot make
the 'best use of the floor space, is
decidedly detrimental.,
One of the simple plans and one of
the best plans, for a •small peultry
building, is one from 14 to 16 feet wide
and as long as ,is necessary, with a
sited or double pitch roof. In the south
side should be enough windows, each
with two 'sashes, like those in a house,
to thoroughly light the interior and
permit the sun to reach every part of
fl duringthe
the floor at sometime day.
In the rear, against the inside of the
north wall and leigh enough from the
floor, so that the fowls can exercise
under it, should be a roost platform,
and above this, sufficient roosts ee
that the fowls will net be crowded,
The nests may be simple 'boxes hooked
to the sides of the 'house, high enough
so as not to obstruct the floor:- If
they are hooked instead of nailed they
earl more easily be taken out and
cleaned, which should .be done oc-
casionally. Grit, shell and charcoal
'boxes may also be hung on the wall,
and the water fount should be placed
an a shelf high enough so that lit will
be out of the way of dirt and litter.
In a house more than 60 feet long
and containing three or more pens' or
compartments an alley along the back
of the house S or 4 feet wide makes
the work of caring for the several
flocks easier, Such an alley 'is to a
certain extent expensive because the
house must be built wider or the pens
must be. narrower. In -such a building,
the nests may be placed under the
roost platform and have a horizontal
door opening into the alley through
which the eggs can be -gathered, The
water fount and mash trough can also
be arranged so that watering and
mash feeding may be very convenient-
ly done from the alley.
pillow !Nina
When you are to make some new
pillows, buy as many yards of mos-
quito netting as you do ticking. Make
slips of this, the same size as slips
made of ticking. Put the feathers in-
to the netting, and slip into the pil-
low tick. When it is necessary to wash
the tick, slip out the pillow,' and air
the feather's, for they will be safely in-
closed in the netting. The work pays,
Heads of cabbage which burst open c '--ternAint94.ei'
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prices as well as some
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by entering your good,
well finished stock in our
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December 11th and 12th
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It was not surprising that Merton.
Reed was in low spinits. His :father
had received a note from the principal
of the high school saying that Mere
;ton's work was unsatisfactory, ;and
hinting that the root of the; trouble
was laziness. The interview that fol
lowed was not a' cheering one. The
atmosphere was so chilly at home that
Merton decided to go to see his grand.'
mother.
As he approached time house, a bent
ferns rose from an onion bed in the
garden, and Merton recognized firs
grandfather, whom he had not expect-
ed to find at home.
"Your grandmother has gone to
Make ' a call,' said the old gentleman,
after an interchange of greetings.
Then, ignoring the disappointment in'
the boy's face, he added, "Isn't this a
fine day? Makes a fellow glad to be
alive, doesn't it?"
"Well, I don't know," replied Mer-
ton gloomily. "I guess my being alive
isn't any great advantage to me or,
anybody else."
' That was the line which he had in-
tended to take with grandmother; and
although he had a different audience,
he went on: "I'm no good. I don't
amount to any more than that weed
you just pulled up."
"That weed would have amounted
to something if I had let it stay," re-
marked his grandfather.
"There is nothing to me," persisted
Merton. "I shall never -accomplish
anything."
"Oh, yes, you will!" said grand-
father. "Ton can at least do a lot of
harm."
"Oh, I don't mean to do any harm,"
said -Merton. "But I guess I' shall
never do any good, either. I shall be
just a cipher."
"That's a hard stunt, my boy," said
grandfather. "I never saw anyone
succeed at it quite. A chap I once
knew, Jeff Dutton by name, came
about as near it as anyone could; but
even he amounted to something, as I
found to my cost. Jeff's mother, had
a summer cottage at Hunter's Cove;
Jef was four or five years older than
I, a great flabby fellow. The time I
speak of, Mrs. Dutton -load asked me
to take a lady visitor of hers over to
the steamboat landing. It was a two-
, mile row, and I was to have fifty cents.
for the job.
"We were a little late in starting,
and the wind was pretty fresh, so that
it would have been quite a hard row
anyway for a twelve -year-old boy. But
I could have made it if Jeff at the.
last minute hadn't decided to add his
weight to the expedition, That made
difference enough to beat me. I rowed
with all my might, with noassistance
frem Jeff; but the steamboat went off
without my passenger. Jeff stood up
and waved his hands for the captain
to stop, but he only tipped aver the
boat.
"We got no more harm than a good
ducking; hot the lady hired the man
who had cone to our rescue to take
her back, and in the excitement the
fifty cents that was eating, to.,,me
seemed to be forgotten. At any rate,
I never got it.
"You couldn't say that Jeff hadn't
amounted to anything that time. lie
had amounted to about a hundred and
eighty pounds. I guess it was so with
Jeff as long as he lived. He was al-
ways a dead weight in the community.
Never could seem to push, but he ale
ways held back; and, of course, even
sn doing that he deleted for some-
thing. I dealt believe that you can be
a cipher, either, even rif, as you 'say,
you haven't any brains to speak of."
"I don't know that I said just that,
grandfather," interrupted- Merton, r`I
guess I have some brains."
"So much the better," said the old.
gentleman briskly. "Not going, arts
you? I expect your grandmother
'back soon."
"Yes, I must be getting home,"
said Merton, "I have some studying
to do,"
"Merton has just been here," said
grandfather 'when his wife returned,
"Oli, I'm so sorry that I 'was away,"
said she, "Did the dear boy want any.
thing?"
"Well, as near as I could guess,4
said he, "he wanted a little grand-
mothering. I'm afraid I'm not much
good at it," he added modestly,"but
I did my best."
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Salt and charcoal should be provided
to furnish mineral matter for
¢
They may be fed sen'Q:s ly, tutit
advisable .to eda
new salt to the charcoc
a$ it mBei it snore palatable and le
especially good for hogs.
Salt should be available at all times.
It is best, to -keep It in A i piuen all ti.
where it can 'ie i;,.;teoqte frole till
Weather. Charooal is best fed frorii
the hopper or self feeder to prevedl
needless waste.
A common practice is to turn cob 'I
until the cob is well charred, end t'he',
the fire is smothered and the bogs Aa
given access to this. Some peepl,o
their cobs lin a pit, and when pelt
fir
has gained :good headway the to
the pit is covered with a plots of eh -
metal,
metal, and then oovermd With .dl
In this way the 'e"arco'al shay bi
used as needed. rt is best fad wit41
salt to make it more paltabie.
Adopt some system of crop rotatin
and snake it as short a one as laba;
vv 11 parnait.� r J.
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