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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1924-09-18, Page 7,go FILLING -THE PROSPERITY bulging during settling. • The bulging TANKS, left air spaces, and molding fellowed. The silo is the cheapest and. inoet' After the elle had.,fellY settled; there . . efficient eoerse fodder storage. Is little or no lateral pressure. 1 ng that can be erected on the farm.' The inside el a silo is PO place for A ton of elover hay or cern, •fiejd_ a lazy man during filling time. Only cured and stored in the farm barn, re -1 the most dependable workers should quires at least 4.00, ctibic feet of space, be entrusted with the spreading and Packing of the finely-ent fodder. The The same qaantity of ceaTi or clover' would occupy bait fifty ,cubic feet of lazy man will lean up against the alio elle space. lwall or sit down and 'loaf, letting the cut :fodder pile up, With the heavy The storage of fifty tons of clover or corn madup as dry hay or corn' and light Portions separated, and with fodder, tvoulca require a barn 40.x 830:, the leaves all together, soft, spongy x 16, costing Oat less than $1,200. The areas develop in every foot throughout same quantity of aeadea made up as: the mass, It cell be smoothed over a silage ceuld be stored in a silo 10 x 30,1 the time, but the telling evidence of costing not to exceed •$800, loafing is generally seen in the mouldy The silo has. made possible the ex- sections when the silage is removed. tensive use of plants that are not suf- The best corn may be grown, the ficiently palatable in their natural beat of silos built, the cutting machin- sta Le to be of great value. The ensil- erY may be used, yet the silage largely age process, when praoticed on sun- spoiled by loafers neglecting the -flowers, mustard, coarse sweet clover spreading and packing of the fodder and Russian thistle, makepalatable as it goes into the tank, All silage material should be finely acceptable ensilage. Alsoa'othe silo may be made to serve a uSdul pur- cut. Coarse stalks and hollow clover pose by providing a mediurithrough and grain stems must be cut short and i e which weed -infested crops may be be crulied or broken in order to pack The use of the flexible distribu- 'handled, by being utilized to save Well grass, clover and grain crops in sea -1 tor tube is a great aid in the even sons too wet for haymaking or grinl spreading of cut fodder, t, too, should ripening. 1 be operated by a man posseesed of During the season of 1920 a very: sufficient energy to do an honest day's la; ge portion of the cut and stocked work. • The highest grade of corn silage is grain crop of the Taeific Coast would have been lost had it not been that made from those varieties of corn that . the farmers had silos. Owing to con- produce a large proportion of grain tinued unseasoned. weather the grain in the total weight of crop. Large - sheaves made a luxuriant growth, de- growing southern varieties of dent veloping about eight 'inches of matted corn that give an immense green weight of bidder per acre, will, as a green top. In this condition the crop rule, produce a very poor silage. Many originally intended for grain was put - into the silo along with such green dairymen prefer flintvarieties and the small stalk varieties of early ma- turing dents for silage purposes. From such, a rich sweet silage can be made.„ The weight per acre may not be nearly as great as with the late maturing, large -growing dents, but when the sil- Successful silage making depends ages are compared on the digestible matter basis, the smaller growing first of 'all on fermentation processes, ..dry earlier maturint dents and flints have which are largely controlled by the the advantage. Only such varieties as will ripen at least a few ears should be used, even in most northern sec - the outside and reduce the losses to a tions. minimum. Air -tight, hence satisfac-In the early years of silo experience - tory silos, may be made of wood, stone, thepractice was to grow big corn. brick, monolithic concrete blocks and Little attention was paid to the grain yield, and much poor silage resulted from the twelve to fourteen -foot stalks Generally speaking,, wooden silos are cheaper to erect, but less durable that went into the silo without the than the others. Wooden silos when very necessary two -pound, well -glazed ear. Hard experience has demon - standing empty dry out. If before strated that there is more milk, beef they are. filled they receive attention, or butter in a cubic foot of silage and the hoops are tight, they will keep m silage perfectly, for the wood will made from corn that consists of big swell sufficiently t� make them illicy*stalks. The greatest quantity of digeetible tight. Silos made of other materials, dry rnatter is obtained from a corn material as was available at the time; moisture and acid culture were added in quantity sufficient to control the fermentation processes. A good silage resulted, the silo having saved the crop. • amount of air present in the mass of fodder. Silos built with air -tight walls will cut off the air .supply from if, properly constructed, are always air -tight. Silage will keep,perfectly in a silo of ,any kind which is air -tight. On the other hand, spoilage 'ialvvays results when air enters the silo at the sides or at the bottom, and often cause large losses, a few small openings will allow sufficient air to enter to spoil the whole mass of ensiloecl material. The top of the ensiloed- material will seal itself through decay of about a foot of material, less when very green 'crops are ,used, and more when neore matured crops are put in, Spoilage can be largely eliminated by cutting thoroughly the last few loads of silage as they are cut up, by covering the sil- age with a layer of finely cat wet staaw. Silos less than twenty feet deep do noi give the same high efficiency as silos over thirty feet deep. Height is crop when it•has reached the condition to cut for hublting, ripe enough to esomplete maturity in the shock. ' An- other advantage in growing earlier maturing varieties is that such can be ensilaged in September and the land prepared for fall wheat, an important factor now that the Etropean corn borer has become a menace to corn growing over a wide area. The freezing of corn after it has reached the denting oi early glase, stage, does not materially injure it so far as silage making' goes, if the crop can be cut •up shOrtly after freezing. It is always advisable to run the risk of frost, rather than en- siloing the corn in an immature state. Canadea*Produttion of Butter and Cheese. Canada turned tint 163 456 759 required in order that :the weight of pounds of creamery butter valued at the mass may be sufficieot to, compact $56,894,008 last year, compared with ..• the ant material and reduce the air 152,501,900 pounds valued at $53,453, - content '-to a degree not favorable to 282 the year before. The price of but - extensive ferinentation. The deeper ter in. 1923 av,eraged 34 cents per the silo ,of any given capacity, the pounds against 35 cents per pound ernallex the cross' or top turface ex-, in 1922. Of last year's production, posure. This is iinportant, since silage Quebec manufactured 60,179,616 will spoil rapidly if exposed to the air. pounds valued at $20,741,454; Ontario, 'rho modern practice is to build the 54,773,180 pounds valued at $19,443,- si1oe high, and of a diameter that is , 505; Maritime Province, 6,319,574 in keeping', with the daily feed re- ! pounds valued at $2,352,521; Prairie quirements, the aim being to have the Provinces, 39,223,225 pounds valued silo as small in diameter and as kigh at $13,106,048, and British Columbia, - as it is practicable th build. The deep 1 2,961,154 pounds valued at $1,250,485. silos have the distinct advantage, inj Of cheese, Canada manufactured 11 that a better Silage can be made and; per cent. more at an increased value there is less 'wastage on exposed top of 31 Pei' cent. last year compared surface. Low, wide diameter silos with the year before, the total manu- are easier to fill and eruPtY, but de factures in 1923 being 151,483,353 not pack v,Teli and surface waste quite pounds valued at $28,629,366. The av- heavily. lerae..eo price of cheese last year was 19c The wall or walls should be smooth- compared with 16c in 1022. The Mari - and vertical. The structure.should be time Provinces produced in 1923, 2, - true and of uniform diameter through- 071,238 pounds of cheese valued at .rteet.enten ."'., One ot the neWest icl'eas throughout England is the sale of miniature busts of the Prince of Wales all proceeds. to go to Lord lialg's £25,000 campaign for the benefit of 13ritish ex -service men. )1.11-1 ay School SEPTEV1BER 21 Jeg4,1e1V2irL.E.e.haauMicsasuiosnt anlryakTeou:e Mcitaerakr2ialga4rk5.1: 1G400.1dell ,,you not gothg out Qf this L ataus ono MAN OF PRATO11, 35-88. aa tbey still do in China, and in inanY 11"se until You've eaten your breal- IL :MOUS TliE GREAT PIrkSICIAN, 39415, INTROOraorroat---IVIarla 1;21-24 con- tains the record of a whole day's work of Jesus. The scene is Capernaum; the time is the first Sabbath which Jesus spent in that city. In the morn- ing Jesus attended the synagogue and tanght. At midday, Jesus leaves the sYnagogue, and ping to the house of TRAXNING, CHILDRE THE ?LORENCE J, 0 VEliS, other heathen count).ies. 1.Yhenever, taet, Leon, said his mother emphatic - to he (e!.'xu' e.4 °e 1de; any y wasofthaet aboveail(iscYamn cljailt°,eille a l lly.,e.eir let golol s. f the p 1 raonn,e, sdco4olorollmfodol,....o ii-fliaaSel'ea:it)a°1.211.$'ese:ufses5:sniribirlyidnodrlili:la.rhtlisol'Intaelidve ver kgtilYelnes aft l'inn7d." a downb'outt tthrie.e minute he was l‘bacl': Wen' tothe dining room, scowling. sdoeumisonosf the usou,ff,,eain'edrsb, reicrarninagnabl;ilkihtoe I again, His mother had gone upstairs, U she hoard him. the dieordered mind, the sensekof Gods „Leon ,, love mid power to save, Mar seasin , she called, ``Youhishav,en' Simon arid Andrew, heals the mother - crowds reappear, Jesus is gone. The usually quiet streets of might appropriately be given to the ,,, ,,4. 1 picture of Jesus in these verses of 1.:a.sr: bis, sehdusliond l ordinary scenes are -witnessed in the Mark. ong, men. in-law of Simon. At aunset, extra - "Working all day" is the title that • a, ' But the next; meaning, when the C4Pernaulm enfowV'Tses:4s80:-01\142ece:IT:hesehseiPa'etrpseers, tellriaelsyo answer, and the' n eIxtv''"nainatt:entwiaies the with pe ttkhoeuseacroncpaests of the terrors inspire finished? You can't have Qaten env - knows no law. The leper flings him- ing my three weeks with the Thorn - by demons, the most wonderful proof thwinfivtehathsaiailgdlblat,abvariaLiom t (.,errie eper no self at the feet of Jesus, crying, "If tons. 'Vlore than a year elapsed be.e. But necaesnlIsdittc>cly iallpptrheiatsrhte;tslo; had 'been enacted every morning :liars, Le streets are again thronged h s d . yw , od ,W- tiortgatie If, it • a tove . zoiwthhetrheeirtos,et,e buftoutnhde ni.e dean!, Pnalecat3had bee Anxiously Pete]: f It,. sh.ows the wonderful a evidence that the Isere:or/n- and hie companiant ity o Jesus, thataat this moment be a e n continuous. . BY 1VIRS. GR, ACE BATES'. t onl illin thou canst make fore m next visit but soonf gc, in search of Jeseis and find him in1 los not even hesitate to touch the Another nine months passed; again 'leper. He knew it to be God's -will th t 4 ' was with these friends, But a • A. tourist' ----- near our 'little farm I learned that one should make the solitudes outside Of the city, pray- iat that momen t he should touch the 'has furnished us an idea „that is pay- things good, not stint them. Ask ing. This brings us to our present chane had taken place. Each morn- . man and should say "I arn ing off the mortgage for us. My hus- Jesus as he thou cleansed." ing' Lean sat quietly down t,0 lesson. We are nov,r to see a man of prayer. I breai- band and I are town:-brecl. We plan - enough to make a reasonable profit and they'll sell fast. I've never for- gotten the story about my grand- mother, who was a faMous cook. Someone, said to her: "Why, is it, Mrs. Blank, that your cooking always tastes so good?" And my grandmother answered: "Because I put good things in it; that's why." We don't try to soak people be- cause they're tourists. That's piggish and unprofitable. We've never tried it, but we've seen it tried. It may work once, but not often the second Vs. 43, 44. But Jesus sternly charges fast when I did, his mother sitting 1. JESUS TnE MAN OF MAYER, 35-38. him to say nothing about Ms cure, but with us though she had eaten prev-i- ned when we bought our farm to raise V. 35. The prolonged labor of the i to go at once to one of the Priests ously, He ate each course in turn pigs and chickens and keep five or day before had curtailed Jesus' hours with the offering required in the maw slowly with evident enjoyment. I was six cows. We have discovered that of rest. Nevertheless, long before day- of Moses. (See Lev. 13:49; 14.12-32) surprised and so glad that on the light, he leaves the city for the solitude He was to do this "as a testimorlY t„'s ' ' was leaving, I could not re - there is real money in selling good things to eat to people in the, tourist where he can find a time and place for , them, that is, to show that a from commenting on the trans - camp. A similar tra.de could be built God. He must pray in order to fit him- curei, or to show that he is a pro- . e • he le frnroarniningl self for the day before him. What did phet of God in Israel. (See 2 Kings formation. Leon had gone to school with to -ern -folks from any farm pro - he ask on bended knee in that dine 5:8,) and we were just sitting down for a perly located. if we had any. chickens for gale. They were stirring in the leaves, We are main silent, as Jesus commanded, but Teacher Association," said neY friend, "It came about through the Parent - said they would call for them Axt day. not told; but we know it must have proclaims his cure far and wide. The sinning. been , to be wholly surrendered, to be result is described in the present verse. "If Bob and I both go -,:e 1 baked bread and two green apple utterly guided by the Father's will, to Jesus cannot enter any of the cities have to take Leon. One evening we pies the next morning, and when I saw be given strength for all that the day for a time. The popular excitement is those articles on the table beside my time. might ask of him. Men sometimes too great for men to listen calmly to all went and listened to a particularly dressed chickens the thought suddenly White bread, rolls, and cookies we think that work can serve as a substi- his iessage, and he :looses the quiet- clever lecture on 'Nagging'. The next Some bikers wanted•to know one day hour, while the first faint morning airs! V. 45. The healed leper does not re- final chat. occurred to me, "When those people don't bother With. Bakers can make tute for prayer. Our Lord did not er places for his work. morning while Leon was dressing, he call for their chiekens, perhaps I can these good and cheap, and they can A LEPER. said; 'Mother, the man last night worked? Yet he also prayed,f sell them some bread and pie," far undersell the private individual. .or prayer is not work, or anything else • • - We use the word "leprosy" for a didn't say anything about breakfast, I set the stage properly, dressed Mese take much time and stOve rOOM, )nut prayer. . particular disease; apparently the did he?' chickens close to pie and bread. They which count in a rush. Vs. 30, 37. It seemed extraordinary (Lev. chs. 13, 14) used the terrn for Biblical writers, even in the Lew' " 'Breakfast?' I said. "'Yes—well—that's the onl ' bought -the whole display. ,One should have a variety. It takes 6 Peter and his friends, that Jesus several distinct maladies Setting you ever nag me about.' y thing I carried bread, pie, and fried cakes sell several articles almost as quickly, world was waiting for him in Caper- 111:37) and the leprosy of the garment aside the leprosy of the house (Lev. e • ' • • So the idea was,born. The next day I was amazed, and for the mo - some time to sell one thing. One can should absent himself when all the down to the camp and sold two, dol- and have more cash at the close of naum. Had he not an engagement to (Lev. 13:47-59) as peculiar and ob- men -t, angry. lars' worth. ' the deal. Also one should be business- keep with all these anxious souls who scure, there remain several skin ells- "'Do you think that's a very nice, In less than a week I could see that like: We feel that this is as legiti- were lining the streets with their sick? 1 eases as well as more deeply seated way to talk to Mother?' I asked. But Jesus had also an engagement toiaffections of the human body. .The "'1 didn't know you didn't want to the business was too much for nre, so mate and honorable as any business, keep with God. ,- t plague on the head or -beard, "the talk about it,' he said, in a. perplexed I dr 'afted the "gudeman." He got eggs and conduct ourselves accordingly. V. 38. J ' esus explains that he must scall" of 'Lev: 13a20-37, was, according tone. -vegetables, and apples ready; I baked There is much pleasure in. this, as well not return to Capernaum. His quantitY. of food; and away we went as profit. We meet strangers, get ac- ary task is to preach to the sourirsimoi I contagious and inveterate ringworm. to niany physicians, some variety of "'All right,' I said, 'you had better to eat. your breakfast properly at ten o'clock. We have adhered to quainted, try to give thexn a good ------------------------------------ lThe disease is still common among trY every morning so that we shan't have many stime is short, and the message of the that very day to preach in other town -1 • on , poor Jews and Moslems. The same that hour ever.since—ten o'clock every' ion of our locality and make day but Sunday. Another of our first good friends. classes are affected by lencodermia oi. to discuss the subject.' Kingdom is urgent. • He - must go This is a cash business; no credit shall he go over the cities of Israel? . vitiligo which produces a discolora- "But after he had gone to school 1 Lev., right, I did h' plans was always to take orders for m ships oGalilee, or ow otherwise f f h dressed chickens. We don't take them. asked nor given. Credit makes poor I tion of the skin such as is described thought tihenamgattiemr aobuotu. t .13.1s Leonbrewakas, keep. e quire of our customers 'whether they'll prepare by prayer for this missionary , 111.1e3v.inchciu1d3e„s oarisiot mpsaoyribaesisthoart En- fasts. wh. t source of daily worry to me. I oft a was more, they were a unless ordered, because they won't customers and poor friends. We in- Then Jesus tells Teter that it was to Believe me, we used to sit and -look be in need of an article produced on y journey, that he came away from lish leprosy. What is called leprosy to -day is a a felt that he was going out without at each other on the veay home some the faxen in fall or winter, and can Capernaum that morning. Smniumarly we find Jesus spending a night in disease that produces commonly, being properly fortified." She paused days when our sales amounted to dispose of our winter products in this thickened condition of such features fourteen' dollars and sometimes as loay. prayer before he chooses his twelve las e eye rows, e sides o e nose, th b the f the thoughtfully. disciples. (See Luke 6i12.) Ithe, eheeks, the chin and the ears. The "You know," she continued, high as twenty. We soon began to pay ,. - I mustn't omit to ' mention that II. JESUS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN, 39-45. :thickening gives to the hands and feet has to leave here before seven. and I up some of our bills. We had borrow- cleanliness is very essential. Vege- ed every cent for stock and equipment. That was, the first year, and last summer was the second. We started June 18th; and in ten weeks we took in $1,000 in round numbers. We built a screened -in back verandah, and there we did most of our work, baking in the kitchen range. We also had an. oil stove with aft oven. When we took orders we scrupulous- ly filled them—all but once. Some peo- ple who didn't eat meat on Friday ordered a quart of baked beans. Some- how we overlooked this order, and when we got to them, the bean kettle, like Mother Hubbard's cupboard, was bare. Suffice it to say, they would have nothing more to do with us dur- ing their stay. Fortunately this hap- pened to us only once. tables are severely scrubbed, eggs well washed, food containers are dust and fly -proof and clean on the outside, and we ourselves are clean as to dress and person. Bungalow aprons are approved apparel, and may always be neat and clean. One lady became my customer be- cause the first bake -lady who came along had dirty finger -nails. People may be made of dirt, but they serious- ly object to eating it. . Maturing of Cheese. l'he Dominion Dairy and Cold Stor- age Commissioner, Mr. J. A. Ruddick, in his last News Letter calls attention to Section 12 of the Regulations under the Dairy Preduce. Act which reads: "No cheese shall be graded until it I always baked a quantity of food, is sufficiently mature, in the judg- and if I had orders I baked more. The ment of the grader, to permit of the idea irto have' food on hand. There quality being properly determined." are many who won't iive orders, s° The Commissioner says that during we sell them as we find them. At the his recent visit to the United King - beginning of the season 1 bake less, dom he was more than ever impressed baking more as the crowd increases. with the necessity of Canadian fac- It is better to have too little than too toaies stopping the practice of ship - much, for things must be fresh. ping thair cheese when only a day or We take' the seasonable vegetahles two old. He further states that fac- and fruits and eggs. Of :baked foods tories that pursue a reasonable course the first favorite is pie—apple, berry,' in this matter and keep cheese until it lemon cream, Vanilla cream, custard, is properly matured, will receive the pumpkin, and ChocolateeI usually bake, protection to 'which they are entitled. mostly apple and two other kinds one, Henceforth shipments of cheese that day, and so on. I've baked as many as; are too green for grading will be 28 in one day. I carried them in bis- I warehoused at the maker's expense cult boxes last year, with a pie tin, until they have become reasonably ma - inverted for a cover; Tilt next ture. Mr. Ruddick believes every in - Season I'M going to have a tinner I telligent operator will appreciate a make a regular pie carrier, like a system that places all factories on bakea's. the Same footing. . Brown bread is next, and this is so --4,--- simple a-ny child (or inan) can make The End is Not Yet. it. It Is just a sour -milk graham Some farmerwith a statistical turn out to 1 acilitate the undisturbed set- $514,404; Quebec 46,770,556 poundal bread with a cupful of bran added, of mind has computed that a gallon of - Cling of the fermenting mass. Any'ob- valued at $8,763,712; Ontario 99,535,- baked in a loaf. It's delicieus and as. line will milk 300 cows bale four a- struction, such ,as bulge or cavity 405 pounds value,. at $18,$42,102, and recommended by doctors. h Wenever f ons of hay; mix thirty-five' cubic., feet interfering with the settling will show the Prairie Provi2,216,058 pounds 1 • nces tourists baeke canna they usually of concrete, move a ote-tnn truck considerable spoilage at the time when valued at $438,023. bought a supply to take home. It fourteen miles, plow three-fifths of an the silage is being removed. If thej ,It will be noticed Quebee manufac- sides or walls are not vertical and. Weed the meet creamery hatter 'and parallel, good results cannot be et. Orttarie by far the most cheese. pected. The outward pressure of the cut Cost of Rearing Pig. fodder during settling is approximate- A record of the cost of keeping a ly eleven pounds per foot for each foot sow for a year and feed consumed by oi deP lit• herself and litter at the Lennoxville, At the began of a thirty-foot silo, Quebec, Experimental Statin, showed the pressure on , each square feat t that each pig at weaning age had cost would be over 300 pounds. A silo ten I $2.29. Four Yorkshire brood SOWS feet in cliaineter and thirty feet highiwere used in the experiment. Bach will leave to stand an ootward pres-, sow aaised two litters and raised an sore "on the 10V/Cr R)Ol WAII oii 5tpproxi-1average of 18.8 pigs, which were wean - mately ChM pounds. The pressure' ed at from $ix to eight Weeks Of age, on the tenth section is • about 6,600, The feeds used consisted of middlings, Paunds, or 2:t0 poi -Inds per foot. These oats, barley, oil meal, tankage, clover pressures indicate that the silo wail hay, roots, and aim -milk, besides pas - must be strong and secure. Square' turage for four months. The pars silos failed to be fully efficient, large-! deniers given are from the annual beeauee they were not built still' report of the Statiab, issUed by tto enough to stand tbe pressure without Depart:tent of Agriattiture at OttaWa, makes wonderful sandayiches. We mix four loaves at it "HMO in a erock, put them in four pans which just fit the oven, placing tharn on the bottom first. Then four more, plaeing the first OrieS on the top grate; thus we're able ti hake eight loaares at once. When you say brown bread and baked beanS, people sit up and take' notice. I baked rtay beans by the Bos- ton method. soaking theta overnight and starting them on top of the stove When the OVOn Was being used for other things. Next come fried cakes—not dough- nuts, but sour -milk fried cakes. After that cup cakee—spice, retain, plain and chocolate. These I carried in clean boxce, Whiele got from the store pie ,lleithydonataaeae, r acre of land, and make enough elec- tricity to keep eight lights going in a farmhouse for thirty hours. And the end is not yet. Cleaning up dairy herds is one of the best 'methods of advertising (miry products to a discriminating public. Breeders with early hatched cock- erels often hold therri too long, es- poultry was more generally conducted food and water every two hours. It is eially if they have plenty of feed and. on business principles, when engaged cruel to keep a hard-working animal do not need the Morley, Then they in largely for the sake 51 expected pro- thirsty. Hay dipPed in water will keep of so many him cool if he cannot have, a &ink, find that the price er pound drops pfits, We wauld not hear birds disgusted or badly disappointed breed- Set that the Manger is kept gaup - until the four and fiVe-pound hying no more money thau they would ors. A large proportion of the be. ulously clean. Horses are extremely iiave brought as broilers evhehwsigh. ginaers commence with an eneeneene clean feeders and Will not clear up mg two r three amount of selfeeonceit and false ideas their food if there is dust in the re - and a very small amount of exper. Maining portion of it. A piece of Severity -five per cerit. of the world's ieneo, and Until this is directly and roOk salt ehOnld be kept in. the man - yield efgold in 1928 wak prOdtioott completely reversed, aucaeee and profit ger. The horse enjoys it, it doe -geed wltlihi tho Britiala Eiipire. wilt)iever be attained, and prolnoteS apPetite, -V. 39. We are not told the length or , a lumpy appearance. In some cases extent of this journey, in which Jesus1the joints of the fingerand toes are now visits the synagogues of. Galilee. I affected and parts fall off, while lumps His task is to proclaim the nearness, on parts exposed to rubbing often be - of the Kingdom and to lead the souls] come open sores. At the same time the of men to God. But in the furtherancethickening extends to the mouth and of this task of leading men to God, he throat, and the voice is reduced to a heals whenever the sick axe brought; husky whisper. These are the obvious to him. In particular, Mark records !features of the disease, but sometimes that he cast out "denions." It was they are entirely absent. What is universally believed that "evil spirits"Ifundamental is that in every leper the entered into people, and produced de- nerves of the skin cease to act, he rangernent of mind, convulsions, hys-lloses his sensibility, and there is a terical cries, and spiritual distress. profound lowering of the vitality and Men lived in terror of these demons,' efficiency of the organism. Rations for Laying Hens. What -was regarded as the best ra- tion for laying hens was lcd for two Restraint for a Cow. Sometimes it is very desirable to know how to 'restrain a cow from kick - years in succession to birds in the ing, without casting or applying hob - Egg -laying Contest conducted at the bles or chains. When a cow gets a Nappan, Nova Scotia, Experimental caked udder, and one teat or ,,quarter Station. The scratch grain mixture must be drained through a milk tube, consisted of 100 pounds of wheat, 100 try the following method which has poi:Inds-of corn, 50 pounds of oats, and always been successful with us: 50 pounds of barley. The dry mash, One person grasps the cow's nos - which was kept constantly before the: trils with his left hand, using the birds, consisted of a mixtore of 100 thumb. and two fingers. He raises her pounds of bran, 100 pounds of mid -I head, just as though he was going to dlings, 100 pounds of crushed oats, 100,1 drench her, except that he holds her pounds of corn meal, 60 pounds of cal head around more to her side. When like to ha.ve my breakfast wiih. him. It hasn't seemed wise to waken Leon so early so of course he had had to eat his breakfast alone. I had not been particular about having him rise at any regular hour and often he had to hurry in order to reach echool in season. 'Usually, by the time he was dressed, some of his schoolmates would be here waiting for him, "As I thought about it I realized that these conditions were 'far from being conducive to a quiet, orderly breakfast. I therefore determined to change them, and I did. .Leon gets up regularly now at seven o'clock. By half -past seven he is ready for his breakfast, the other children have not yet arrived and he doesn't feel hurried. I can't eat a second meal, but I can and do sit at the table with him I plan to talk with hint, at this turns, about things in which he seems par- icularly interested. "At first, when I sat down in this way nurnberless little duties would, suggest themselves to me and it was haxd not to get up and be about them, but I have learned to be deaf to most of these calls, and it has paid. Leon meal, 50 -pounds of •beef, scrap, 50 the milk tube is to be inserted, the eats his first meal Of the day properly. 'pounds of blood meal, and 15 pounds person holding the cow pinches the He looks better and he is better; he has more self-control and is doing bet- ter work in school, and,—I don't have to nag." of ehaaccial. These arrixtitrea were used constantly from the lst of November, when the "test conimenced, until the fourth of September the following year. During the remainder of the year the 50 Pounds of barley in the Scratch mixture was replaced by 50 nostrils as tight as he Can, and the effect is much like twiteriing a horse. Of course, there are cows so Vicious that only tying up the hocks will re- strain them, combined with the above described method. But it is remark- able how this siinple mode of restraint pounds a oats, and in the dry mash will take a cow's-mind—if she has one the 100 pounds of crushed Oats was —off her real troubles, and how much accomplished without ,getting dropped and substituted by 50 pounds can be bonemeal. The green leed used dur- herfrightened or stubborn. ing the winter months consisted of , Hints About Horses. mangels, While in' the spring, months sprouted oats were used instead, Each Do we owe t debt of gratitude to pen 'consisted Of' ten birds, kept con- Horses? stantly housed in a shed roofed build- Are they not faithful, obedient; un- ing 10 by 12 feet he size. Nearly two- complaining servants? thirds of tho front of the house con- Do they not trust us, and is not sided of glass and curtains.e, Hoppers their welfare in our hands? supplied with grit and shell were pro- Will you do all you can to help good Vided for each pen. and regular meals, a good table and ' bed, careful grooming and sensible Green feed freth from the fields in treatment, late summer and early fall helps to prevent the usual decrease in dairy production at this time Of the year. If the breeding of thoroughbred Ile needs three meals a day. A troop -horses daily ration is 12 lbs. of hay, 10 lbs. of oats and 8 lbs. of straw. When he is working hard he needs iodine is the sovereign remedy for goitre and lump jaw. Apply the tinc- ture externally every other day in goitre. Give a pregnant sow or ewe or nanny goat one grain ,of iodide of potash daily in 'feed, water, or salt, during the last half of pregnancy to prevent goitre or hairlessness of off- spring, For same purpose give prege rant cow 20 to 30 grains of iodide of potash a week during a like period. For 'remedy of lump jaw or "wooden tongue' give cow one dram of iodide of potash twice daily in water, ueder • direction of the veterinarian, who thould also operate npon the affected part. Iodine tincture or ointment also cures ringworm.—Dr. A. S. Alex- ander. to The Uneoraeted rigure, allise Cricket -- "Goodeess, MisO Wasp, You're not a bit stylish—dent yen itnAOW thO sleader Walt Is entirely otit os date?.