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ddress oummunicatlona to Aprouont s !3 Adelaide St. West, or turned p t so Repotting habits and proper thing
loather. Every odd corner turned up the plant some, provided it has not be- p ' per attitudes in her. make a child do a' himself one
Storehouse or intik Heap.
A farmer friend of mine ;broke ;a
piece of harness the other day. He
was in a hurry to get started, but the
harness had to be fixed. After a half
HOW I Feed Plants.
Plants grown in pate thrive much
better for me if given some feed
Plants that are kept in pate year after
year, like ferns and begonias, will re-
eeerfie's.1---ssee-- !e hour's hunt he found his punch quire constant feeding as well as re- M
Horne Education
"The Child's First School le the; Family"--eroebel."
Correcting Faults—Ey Edith Lochridge Reid.
any a well-meaning mother is takes time but very few points in e.
the rivets and riveting machine. Then keep up liberal feeding than to repot laboring under a false idea of what children's discipline require si
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CANADA'S DAIRY
TRIUMPH
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Then more time was lost in locating potting now and then. It is bottom to �
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'al really constitt
x For some time Canada has been
steadily climbing to dairy eminence,
'ising step by step,; through improve-
ment of stock, until for three succes-
sive tirnes she produced a world's
champion cow. Such s' ' •b to 1 h
been developed all over the Dominion
within the brief period of time since
the Dominion turned her attention
seriously to dairy cattle, that it has
occasioned. a demand from many parts
of the world, and is yearly exported
otn a substantial scale. Nothing, how-
ever, has so Summed up Canada's po-
sition of eminence in the dairy field
as her triumph at the National Dairy
Show held recently :at Syracuse,; New
York. .
At this show the best dairy cattle
that could be procured in Eastern
Canada came into competition with
the superior herds of all the states of
the Union and a greater aggregate of
cattle than has ever been drawn to-
gether in a similar event on the con-
tinent. A total of 1,320 dairy cattle
were entered, and when it is realized
that in many cases only one animal
was entered by one breeder, it will be
see that the pick of the herds of Am-
erica were present to compete for
honors. For the purpose of the show
the provinces of Canada were given
the standing of states, and Ontario
and Quebec had its "state herds" in
the competitions.
HEN -HOUSE LIGHTS HELP
POULTRY' PROFITS.
During the last few years the sub-
ject of artificial illumination for poul-
try flocks has been a topic of keen
discussion. When; the idea first be-
came popular. it was supposed that by
some psychological process the hen
was treacle believe that she was _going
through two days instead of one and
naturally the old erroneous adage,
"An egg a day" would mean two eggs
e day. The process is purely a
IShysiological one, however, and not
c : one o:fpsychology at all,
At present we can find records at
most college:plants and experiment
stations which all point in the same
direction -more winter eggs.
The underlying principle of ertifi-
1 illumination is a problem in feed-
. It is said that the crop of a hen
Contain only enough feed to keep
stive tract busy for a period
• five hours. In other words,
rt winter days a ben goes
about 4.30 or 6,00 p.m. We
ways attempted to send her
• with a full crop, but now we see
" net this supply 15 going to be well on
' Its way before midnight .Then where
is the heat: and energy to come from
for body maintenance? We know that
an animal body makes demands on
the food and stored materials first for
body maintenance. In other words,
heat must be supplied. Broken-down
tissue must be replaced, energy must
be supplied and'the natural secretion
must be kept up. These functions we
find- take from throe -fourths to "four-
fifths of all the feed consumed. The
excess, if any, will be used for pro-
duction, or in the case of a hen,' for
reprodt.ction. We find that in the
short winter days the hen has a small
amount of excess food to be used for
production, due to the short feeding
hours and the long hours of inactivity.
The economics of artificial lighting
reveals an increase in winter produc-
tion which means an increase in eggs
when the price is high, While a slight
increase can be expected in early pro -
.duction this is not great enough to
add materially to the profits. We
really take the heavy spring laying
and distribute it over the waiter
months while prices are better.
Electric, gasoline and kerosene
lights are used, but the most econom-
ical and successful is electric current.
We find many people using gasoline
lights and having excellent results.
They are not quite as satisfactory,
however, for a large plant, due to the
labor in tending the lights. Kerosene
barn lanterns do not give very satis-
factory results, Automatic devices
can readily be arranged for electric
lights, thus reducing materially the
labor, Where electric current is avail-
able two forty or fifty W. T. lights
will light a pen 18x20 quite nicely.
These lights should be arranged at a
point slightly forward of the middle
of the house and spaced. about evenly
from, the ends. This reduces she
shadows to a minimum. A single light
tends to produce more shadows. The
lights may be fastened to a rafter or
joist, It is not necessary to drop the
light closer than six or six and one-
half feet from the floor. A reflector
will aid materially in lighting up the
floor area, One gasoline lantern'will
illuminate a pen 18x20 quite effi-
ciently,
Since lighting is essentially a feed-
ing practice it will be seen that it
must bo very regular and never fail-
ing. This has led to the use of sev-
eral automatic devices being invented,.
to turn the lights on and off. This is
practical only where' electric lights
are available. Many large plants use
a time switch. This is an instrument
designed to turn the' lights on and off
automatically. While the original
cost is rather high it is doubtless a
good. investment on a large plant
where many birds are being kept. We
have, however, many simple home-
made devices which rank with equal
satisfaction and at a much less cost.
These usually consist of alarm clock
attachments. Possibly the simplest is
an ordinary'"tumble switch set out
from the wall. The alarm clock is then
placed so the winding stern in turning
throws the switch'over. 1 have seen
several modificationsofthis sane idea,
but they are all relatively simple, in-
expensive and reliable. Any eine who
has a mechanical turn of mind and a
genius for invention' can easily -fix up
a home-made device at. a very email
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EARLY BREAxFAST OR LATE SUPPER.
Poultrymen are employingseveral
systems of illumination which might
!be summarized as follows: -
1. Morning light,
2. Evening light,
3. Combination of morning and
evening light.
4. Night lunch method.
These possibly explain themselves.
Where morning light is used the lights
are turned on about 4.00 mm. and off
at daylight. This system has an ad-
vantage where electric lights are used.
No dimming device is required as is'
necessary with evening lights. Feed
and water can be put in the pens the'
niglit before and the attendant gets
away from late Hours at work. This
system has a strong appeal to the
hired man whose interests in the even-
ings are not in the chicken coop.
The evening light is often used
where gasoline lanterns are used. The'
lights are put in at dusk and allowed
to stay on until 8.30 or 9.00 p.m. A
dimming device is necessary with this
system in order to get the birds to
roost. With lanterns this is accom-
plisghhted,by gradually turning down the
li:
A combination system is commonly
used by farmers who make a practice
of turning the lights on in the morn-
ing when going to do their chores,
and again in the evening.
The night lunch system consists of
allowing the birds to go to roost as
usual and putting the lights on about
8.00 o'clock' for an hour while the
birds are given a feed of scratch feed.
This system is most economical on
fuel, the lights being on :but for a
short time.
It is considered that a fourteen -hour
day is .possibly the correct length of
lighting. We would not recommend
I using lights in excess of: that amount.
FEEDING BIRDS UNDER LIGHTS.
Birds under lights must be fed more
than they otherwise would and must
be kept constantly busy, •' The birds
are in heavies' production and are ex-
posed to just as much severe weather.
The grain ration should be increased.
Fourteen pounds of grain per day to
each 100 hens would not be too much
This should be given in four feeds.
The common practice where morning
lights are being used is to feed the
night before for morning, Grain is
fed again at 8.00 o'clock, right after
dinner, and again before' the birds go
to roost. The last feeding should be
the heaviest, with a liberal feeding in
the morning. If the birds do not con-
sume large amounts of grain they are
sure to lose in weight and go to pieces
in the spring. A dry mash is kept be-
fore the birds at all times. It is ad-
- visable
d-visabie to increase the corn content.
ten per cent. to aid in maintaining
„lesedy weight. The common practice
w "fere evening lunch is being used is
to feed, three times a day on grain. In
the morning about three pounds; at
:noon about two pounds, and at dusk
( about three pounds per hundred birds.
Then when the lights are turned on a
feeding of about six pounds.
In additoin to the above methods,
care must be taken to keep a supply
oclean
f
o water before the birds at all
times. This is sometimes difficult in
mornings when the water freezes over
night. If there is snow on the ground
I dump the water in the evening and
fill the dishes with snow. This will
give very good results until water can
he supplied a little later in the morn-
ing. Do not neglect the green feed
and oyster shell.
LIGHHTS IN SPRING.
Many persons using lights have had
an 'unhappy ending to a productive
winter by turning the lights off too
suddenly in the spring. Any sudden
change must be avoided and we usual-
ly take from two to three weeks to
complete the change, cutting them
down gradually a few minutes each
day. This should be clone about.April
15. We plan on having the lights off
by May 1. The early and late feeding
must be continued even after the
lights are turned off,
Distributing Liquid Manure.
A prosperous farmer who owned
two hundred acres of valuable land.
also maintained a large herd of dairy
cattle. The barns were carefully cared
far, acid all refuse was collected in a
manure pit.
One end of the pit contained a sump
in which the liquids ran. Since this
liquid represented the most valuable
part of the manure it was hauled' out
onto- the fields as fast as it as-
cuniplated,
But so much time was consumed
when disposing of it in the usual man- I
ner'that a more economical means was'
sought. The farm owner had a two -
ton truck, which was a sort of'a gen-
eral-purpose conveyance. It was de-
cided to equip this with a tank and,
by means of the exhaust gases from
the engine, spray the liquids over the
fields.
The tank 1. held three hundred al -
lofts. A faucet six -eighths of an inch
in diameter was attached -to the out-
let. The exhaust pipe was continued
back of the muffler, and it terminated
just beneath the rear end of the tank.
Fifty cents paid for a heavy gal -
vomited iron dustpan of suitable type.
This was soldered on the pipe and the
seam aleo soldered,so that the ex-
haust would emerge and spread fan
wise across the upper side of the
dustpan.
A•short piece of hose was attached
to the faucet and brought to within
two inches of this outlet. After reach-
ing the field, the driver set the faucet
to discharge the proper quantity, then
went on over the field; the exhaust
throwing the liquid over an area from
six to fifteen feet wide, depending
upon the rate of discharge.
•
Tho great problem is to learn how
to gala wealth honestly and efficient-
ly and to distribute it justly while, at
the same time. we continue'to live to:
getteer as neighbors.
time would have been the minutes and with heavy feeders even to twice' was quite through his lunch his boy achieved after all. •
actually consumed by the labor itself. a week. . I chum
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neither the right size nor shape to is already checked I have Icemen fading a fault when in reality she is other nine times, it is absolutely en-
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its piece of leather, but the were come so crowded fer root room that it chid. .Often she 'thinks she is cot- time in ten, and then do it for hi the
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use. Another hour was lost, then the ferns to be kept growing well with only nagging at the child, or at best ergy wasted all around, just like sew-
farmer used a piece of roe and start- ver little soil left in the ans just' shooting very wildly around the marls. ing the new patch on the old garment
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I could' not help but compare this I never feed a , weak Plant or a his napkin. I've been trying for six the stitches.
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ed' out: byfeedingregularly and. well � Here is Edward. He is careless with which is too thin and worn to hold
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elan to another farmer of nnq aequan- sick one. A -plant should be healthy months to get hem to fold et and put Training children is like a business
tante. Id he had brolcon the. same and row]n • florin -ally if feedingwill it in the ring," his mother observed, proposition: wo get just what we go
piece of harness it would have talion benefit it, and a weak plant le likely as we were clearing the table; "but after. If we invest patience, time and
him just long enough to look into a I to be killed outright by even a light. he does it only about one time in ten." thought in the task of correcting a
certain cupboard in the wagon house dose of plant Eesti. 'Neither do I feed Now Edward's mother was actually child's- habits the results are inevit-
had the ; pdry.The
to know whether or not he I lints when the soil' is sincere in her remark. Imagines By ably successful. It isn't always easy,
r own admission she had stru heled g
leather. If he bad .found the leather,' strength 'of the solution should -be'. gg nothin Worth while is but a week
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six months on the one little point of spent in correcting a fault takes ices
the rivets, punch and riveting machine' weak at first and gradually increased
wore in their places on a shelf in while an application once in true weeps discipline. At the next meal I watched attention and energy that nagging
aEdward. It was noon and before he for mantles with no definite object
front of his bench and"the shelflost'in at ie at may increased to weekly Ij
rang the doorbell and Edward Another point is very important in
One man had just as much stuff asFor mixing into the soil, bone meal dropped everything and dashed to correcting faults. Be very sure the
the other, The former ']cee s nIschool, of course,' without folding his fault is a real one, that it bears di-
pile,pjunk p a safel fertilizer. foodslMost as the'pre. napkin. At dinner that night, we rectly an character training. If it is
the latter a storehouse. His lam- pared plant have it a base.'
ber supply is neatly piled—oak planks Nitrate of soda and antmitnia are good hate going for a ride and -everyone not one on which you are willing to
for floors, wagon tongues, and so on, nitrogen carriers, and will make the stied, Edward included, and no one expend time and patience to correct,
are in one pile, fence boards in an- foliage luxuriant and a deeper color. paid any attention whether he folded' then why mention it at all? But if a
other. His tools are neatly. arranged Too'much nitrogen is likely: to give his napkin or not. Without eiaborat- habit is really annoying and one that
in racks in front of his work tenth, foliage at the expense of flowers, and ing any further, you mothers get the will prove embarrassing to the child
Nails, screws, bolts and staples' are to dull the colors of some of the fol-: point' It would have taken perhaps and his friends through his life, then
sorted and in boxes upon their proper iage nie nt •, Pone meal is rich in l a week of time and patience to sit attack it at once and definitely and
shelves. Each piece of inachiinery„has' phosphorus, and has some nitrogen.
its kit of tools which are never found
outside of the tool box.
There is only one difference between
these two men. One takes a few min-
utes after each job to put things back
where they belong. The other would
rather spend an hour hunting for
things before he begins work—at
least that's the impression you get. product than before the great conflict. HOUR
One knows where to lay his hand on
I find a six-inch' rule the handiest
thing in sewing, to turn hems, to
measure widths in seams.—M. R. M. HIDE -AND -GO -SEEK WRITING
Little fonts love jokes just as much
Do you want something with a kick as do grown-ups, and they are always
in it? Try milk. anxious to turn the tables on their
playmates, and even big folks.
Here is a little surprise trick that
you can 'fool your little friends with,
and perhaps papa and mamma,
Let us call it hide -and -go -seek writ-
ing, First, squeeze the juice of a
lemon in a thoroughly clean ink bot.
for markets must conform to con- bot-
tle, being sure that every trace of ink
agricultural colleges recently remark -has been rein.eved. With a new steel
ed:ed: "What I should like to know is sumers' taste and national likes or oils- cit point write with this fluid on
June rays, the mostperfect feed likes. For instance, a well known' ordinary writing
X g writer states that in England the y g Paper -
we know,in a dairycow is converted The writing will beinvisibleand
types of the Yorkshire and the Berk- you will have to be careful to have
into rich milk and in a beef steer into shire have been quite reversed within
prime beef.' the last 50 years. He says: "The large plenty of the fluid on your pen. After
This pertinent question is evidence Yorkshire pig furnishes a striking in- this is thoroughly dry, press it firmly
of the newer spirit and trend every- stance of this transformation. In with a hot iron and you willn y, sur -
where visible in livestock work. It is times gone by (never, it is hoped, to prised to see. the writing rite s.
true that all foods and feeds when return) the typical pig of the breed would be fun paper write several
consumed take on the character'of was considered to be one short in the linesdadds a ahef and when
things very dissimilar=—meat and hair ,nout, enormously heavy in the jowls askk comes homeis on t work tWhen
and horn and tissue—within the body and thick in the shoulder, with back to tells youm what is on the sheet.nothinWhen
of the self -same animal. The techni- wide and fat, legs long, bone round to tells overhcan seep per and sur -
cal
-
cal explanation of.this is a matter and coarse and a carcass of immense the hot iron the paper sur -
for scientists. But the result is some-
thing which interests intelligent live-
stock nen in what is confessedly the
most practical way—through their
pockets.
Is not the broad reason for the dif-
fering uses of the same feeding ma-
terial by different animals due to what
is beam -Aug better known as "type"?
In hogs the effect is very plainly ex-
emplified. In a wide sense general
hog feed fed to a "select" type tends
to become muscular tissue of lean with tinent there are two well marked var-
-A. H.
English farmers learned during the
right there at the table and keep an finally uproot it. Concentrate on that
active boy right there also until he'onething until you and the child have
had learned to "fold his napkin auto-: conquered it, and never again will you
methane,. Anything worth while have that particular trial to meet.
war that sulphate of ammonia, of
which the country had been exporting
thousands of tons, was good for -in-
creasing crop production. Now they
are using 230 per cent. more of this
THE CHILDREN'S
what he has in store. If he does not
find it he knows he does not possess it.
The other hunts around a while; then,
not finding it, he thinks that perhaps
he has it, but still he is not sure, so
he buys new.—W. r. Messenger.
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Market -Type Demand 1 in Hogs is Clearly Known
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Overseas Trade V!1'II N t W 't f• B d ' E
A professor at one of the Canadian should be kept in mind is that types
Weight, inninly comprising lard, hide
and boner At the present time the
prise him by letting him read it.
Try this, too, when your little
large Yorkshire is an animal of a friends come to visit you in the after -
totally different character ... well noon to play games, With the lepton
formed, compact, fine in bone, deep in ink write the names of half of those
present on a slip of paper and pass
carcass and carrying much loan meat them to those whose names you -did
in knfin]tely better demand t
„ not write. When they press these
much higher prices. Would that not slips ,with a hot iron, they will learn
be better expressed by saying that the who their o
market type of the Yorkshire breed opposite player will be in
was altered to :suit consuming taste? the next game.
It is well known that on this eon -
The "Why" in Export Bacon Hogs
This' is the profitable
part. Must be long
and of good quality.
A "Wiltshire side" of bacon as exported is sold in one piece,
shoulder, middle and ham. The diagram tells why Canadian
hogs should be long -bodied. • The best weight "Wiltshire
side" is about 60 lbs.; this can be cut from a 200 -lb. hog of
"select" quality.
WHY HOLLY RABBIT LIVES
ALONE.
"This is surely a fine evening," said
Bruin. "The cool air makes my bee
stings feel much better. Thee° hor-
rid bees! I'in afraid I shall run every
time a see one now."
"Oh, they won't bother you unless
you molest them," replied Roily Rab-
bit. "But when you do trouble them,
they are saucy fellows."
Holly' had just brought a chair out
on the porch alongside Bruin's. He
had finished up the supper work and
was ready to enjoy the evening with
his guest and newly made friend.
"You have a very pretty place here
for your house,' said Bruin, "and such
near neighbors."
"They are old settlers around here.
Sammy Squirrel lives over there," said
Roily Rabbit, pointing to the north.
"He is a good fellow and makes a fine
neighbor. "Over there, pointing to
the east, "is Willy Woodchuck's >house ;
and just beyond there is where Charlie
Chipmunk lives."
"What a fine lot of neighbors," he
said.
"Yes, but it doesn't seen_ like home
inter -larded fat, or streaked bacon, ieties in some breeds of swine at which any more," said Roily with a sigh.
Fed to a heavy Duroc: Jersey or Po- Berkshires are the outstanding ex- "You look so sad, kind friend May
land -Chula the same feed becomes fat, ample, one definitely lard type and the I asks why?" questioned Bruin
"I do not like to bother others with
my misfortunes, but seeing that yeti
ask tee, I;, will tell you," said Roily
Rabbit,' "Perhaps you have noticed
that I live alone here,"
"Yes,' said Bruin, "and ever since
I same I have wondered why,
"This is the reason," exclaimed
Roily. "It happened just about this
time last year. Mrs. Rolly Rabbit and
I were out after some early dewber-
ries. We went to the patch where we
had always picked them. Finding
none, we wandered far away to the
edge of the Big Woods, We were both
very careful, for we had heard of some
of our neighbors who had gone out
there and never came basic Just
when we were both real busy picking
berries, I looked up and, saw--"
Here big tears' began -to roll down
Roily 'Rabbit's cheeks. Bruin felt very
sorry for him.
But Roll'
y went
on "I saw a big t mai
with one of those- horrid bang -bang
things pointing right at my wife. :I
was faint and hollered `run' : Just
laid and grease. True, an excess of
fat -forming foods would tend to make
a bacon bog fat, but in the main, if
care is taken in this regard, "type"
is the first requisite in the production
of a market class.
Type is not breed, though it is hard
to know where type hardens into
breed and where breed blends with
type. After' all, both are the resultof.
fixed characteristics: breed definitely
separated after selective crossings and
carried on from generation to genera-
tion and type perhaps the same thing
within breeds but not yet clear in the
line though in the process of besom
ing clear..
In the bacon hog we know that the
characteristics or the marks ofa type
to suit Canada's beet market, -and it
must be clearly understood that other
types are as important for other mar-
kets—are the long body, with an in-
born capacity to form lean, tender
flesh quickly. In addition the "type'.'
must be ready to take a "finish" as
near to 200, lbs. as can be. What
other approximating the bacon type.
It will, of course, be possible to keep
on selective treating within these
breeds so as 'to produce a clear line,
for that is the way in which in the
past breeds have been evolved. But
it is a long and costly process so far
as Canada is concerned. Our market
is clearly set for one type. We must
get that type on our `farms by the
shortest possible method.
One theng. is sure; rile : oversens
bacon market will not stand still for,
us the long years necessary to builds
ing up now types from lard hogs. In
other words, if Canadian farmers in
large numbers do not "get after" this
valuable overseas market in bacon by.
the shortest possible route and furnish
itt with that -which it demands so1n10
other fanners will. That has been the
secret of Danish success,
Why bother with what will not pay?
let us in Canadafeed our hog feeds. to
types that we tosow will suit our trade
and yield, year in year out the margin
over cost that the world calls profit.
then there was a terrible `bang.' I
ran as fast as I could and hid in some
bushes. In a few minutes I peeked
out, What I saw I sball never forget!
The big man was going away with
Mrs. Roily Rabbit's hind: foot hanging
out of his big pocket. That was the
last I saw of her.”
I Fooled Dad.
My dad doesn't believe in bothering
with accounts, but he comes to me
time and again and asks how we are
coming with this cattle deal and that
crop. I'm for accounts, and exacting
ones, all the time.
Because we keep accounts we know
the cheaper method of fattening our
cattle. We know the cost of hired
labor at harvest of each crop. We
don't need to gamble and wait for
high markets, for wesell when our
cost figures are covered by a fair
margin of profit in the market.
We've learned what crops in differ-'
ent fields pay more mar the fertilizing
costs, and, why. Labor and time ex-
pended are all figured out. Not a sale
or purchase is made' but is entered
in the right departmental column.I f
My account of Mother's chick in-.
cubation and final sale was proof that
when she thought she was making big
profit she was barely covering costs.
Accounts showed that her vegetable
city sales were bringing her big pro-
fit. She added acres on both sides of
her vegetables patches and made let-
tuce her star seller and profit winner.;
I've proved to Father that one big.
truck' of high horsepower did more
service and cost less in upkeep than`
the two small trucks we had the year'
previous, figuring cost, repair, and
gasoline.
All these little accounts mean more
intelligent farming, with a complete
knowledge of all branches of farm
cost.' The savings made have paid for
my typewriter, book supplies, and;
many farm improvements, and have
made farming 100 per cent. more in-
teresting to me.—I. S.
Sods for the Pigs.
Before it freezes up etore a wagon
load or two of good, tough, green, sods
away in the barn cellar, pit or shed.
Such will be very useful to toss into
the pig pens now and again during
the winter months. .The pigs need
mineral matter and this is an easy,
cheap and efficient way to give it to
them.
Would Craze Him No Doubt.
\vine (in humor for 'tun) ---"How doe'
you litre my new Egyptian vase effect
dress? Of course, it's guaranteed not
to crack nor craze."
Hubby --"Won't crack; nor craze, eh?
It'll erase me to pay for it, I 'don't
doubt."
Democracy loses much through its
apathy toward experts.
Co-operatives can weather the
storms when founded en the rock of
fidelity,' but not on the sands of.dis-
trust
Whatever progress is made in our
rural program will come' largely as
the result of education and organiza-
tion.
There are- said to be 8,424 spoken
languages and dialects in the world,
of which America has 1,624, Asia 987,
Europe 687, and. Africa 276. i
THREE .STATE HERD AWARDS.
The results of the competitions were
unprecedented, and gratifying to the
fullest extent from Canada's point of
view. In addition to carrying :off a
goodly number of first and seconds
and other prizes in the various classes,
Canadian herds won the junior cham-
pionship for bulls in Holsteins, and
the senior and grand championship
in the female section for Ayrshires.
The state herd award for Holsteins
went to the eollectbon of animals of
that breed representing Ontario. The
similar award for Jerseys also went
to the Province of Ontario. The best
Ayrshire herd at the show was ad-
judge to be that from the Province of
Quebec. Thus the premier honors in
the three great dairy breeds were
brought home to Canada. This was a
very remarkable performance as not
more than two animals from any one
herd can be shown in these classes,
and probably indicate more than any-
thing else the average quality of the
pure-bred dairy herds in Canada, and
the showing leads to the eon8lusion
that the average quality of Canadian
pure-bred herds excels that of the
average quality of the herds in the
United States.
Altogether in the three classes in
which it entered Canada took away
sixty-three high awards, sixteen for
Holsteins, twenty-one for Jerseys, and
twenty-six for Ayrshires, against the
finest aggregation of dairy cattle ever
assembled in one show ring, and rep-
resentative of all that is finest in
dairy cattle on the continent.
There were 190 exhibitors of Hol-
steins. Among the sixteen prizes
awarded Canada wore, a second for
Haley & Lee on Belle' Calamity
Wayne; a third for Haley & Lee on
Susie Teaks Alban; fourth for W. J,
Elgie on Julia Abberlcerk; and a
fourth for A. L. Bidet on Jessie La-
doga Pesch.
Among the Canadian Jersey win-
ners were a first for B. H. Bull & Son
on Brampton Bright Radiator; second
for R. J. Fleming on.Maxweiton Vol-
unteer Sultan; first for James Gagg
on Edgeley Silver King; second Lieut,
Governor Cocicshutt on G. F. Fiore-
dors; first for B. H. Buil & Son or;
Produce ' of La Prairie's Pride and
third to the same breeder on Bramp-
ton Radiator's Legacy,
QUEBEC SWEEPS AYRSHIRE$.
In Ayrshires forty-two exhibitors
competed for honors, and it was with-
out doubt the biggest -aggregation of
quality that has ever been exhibited
in the show ring of any exhibition not
excluding Scotland. Canadian prize-
winners included the state herd, the
seeder:azid grand championship in fe-
males, the outstanding cow' being Pal-
merston Hyacinth Sth of, E. C. Budge,
Montreal, while Burnside Blossom
Andrietta, the champion cow at To-
ronto and Ottawa for R. R. Ness &
Sons, Howick, Quebec, was first in her
class. Other awards were a .second.
for Farm of St, Sulpice, Oka, Quebec,
on. Alta Crest Blackstone; third for S.
J. Hamilton, St. Eustache, Quebec, on
Rowallan' Mintmastee; and first for
J. 11. Black, Lachute, Quebec, on Xiil-
loch Latest. News.
The honor Canada secured will go
down to history as one of the most
remarkable achievements in livestock
circles. The real significance of what
such meritorious prizes mean to 'Can-
ada and the Canadian livestock indus-
try can be•measured in terms of wide -
world advertisement, Delegate - rep-
resentatives of every country of the
civilized world were present as the
premier honors„of the greatest; dairy
show in the world were handed out to
Canada. The awards, secured in the
keenest struggle for dairy supremacy
and given by the continent's most ex-
pert judges, place Canada in the most
enviable position, at a most opportune
time, and the eleven :, hundred dele-
gates, representing thirty -two -differ-
ent countries, cannot fail to carry
home with theta the fame of the new
dairy country and spread the tidings
abroad.