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Establi.shed 1840
Head Office, Guelph
Risks taken on all classes of Maul.
able property on the cash or premium
note. system.
ABNER COSENS, Agent,
Winghain
DUDLEY sl'OLIIES
'BAFIRISTER, S.OLICITOR, ETC.
Victory and Other I3onds Bought and
Sold.
Office --Mayor Block, Wingham
itilothaist4.
Ford S. Price
elieerals in different combinations and
Well known as the Rothamsted X-
pertitnent `baltions is all over the
werld, I looked hi vain foe it on the
map. After a great deal of eeerch
and inquiry I finally. sliecovered that
it tvee located in Hertifoodshire, which
one of the English countieS, not fat
north te Lo'nden. From rr3y geidte-
book I learned that the unagricelteral
gentleman "who -wrete it givea but a
Angle line to the place, concerning
which whole volumes have been writ-
ten, thus: "Not far from Harpenden
is located the Rothamsteci Experis
mental Station."
Visiting this farm was not the chief
object of my visit to England. But I
vowed that I would not leave the coun-
try until I, bad seen the institution,
and walked ever these fielcia which,
have become almost historic.
The ride from Londen to Harpenden
ehovaed thetsRothamsted is located in
a section very typical of Southern
England,. The fields are rolling, the
mere hilly portions being wooded.
Small grains and hay are the chief
cro.ps, indicating -that the soil is
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BARRisTER AND SOLICITOR
Idoney to Loan at Lowest Rates.
W1NGHAM
DR. G. ROSS
animuita. The average yield of the
unfertilized plot, ep to 1912, was 12.6
bushels, per siere, few a period ef sixte-
ope years. The yield started about
fifteen .bushels in 1840, and has fallen
entil Dew the yield seems to be about
stationary at tee bushel's per acre,
with no sign of soil exhaus.tio.n. Such
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Facuity.of Dentistry
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peratiye etfticacY of French ana Ger-
man potash woe being tried, out on
potatoes/. On this field, too, a new
fertilizer is being tested, a barnyard
ieantere made by spraying straw piles
with a sabstence whieb causes their
rapid (lecey. The' aubstance used it
culture of ba.cteria in a Weak ammonia
Solution. each as urine, or ammonium
sulphate. When straw piles are treat-
ed with this spray they decay rapidly,
and rot down late a mass looking like
outran -sped manure. Considering that
the spraseitsele 'contains ammonia -and
that' a straw pile ao treatei -would
..
a. crop is of course not a profitable have )tie chance for leachm;g, the aided much in destroying tlie root -
one. Where the inine3rals have been manure reselting from this process lets. 'Sprouts appeared after a few
sup.plied, but no nitrogen, as on plot sh'ould be a verY effective 'fertilizer. ' weeks and the plot wan harrowed
5, the yield for the same p.eriod has The idea for, this prose -es came clurin,g again.
been 14.5 bushels. ear when the country needed high Eaoh time, as it was harrowed, we
flow '14 Waged war on
tile Quack Grass;
Net long••tige 'get -Sok .glia.ea, one of
the greatest peete) appeassed
al'ong the e.eadeide Whieb borders'OUT
"Mat
Theesday, Ally 13, 1922.
omits as ocators
Problem .of Qbedienee---,By Edith Lochrid,p$
eiJ
stopped to consider day she'
annoying things that 'never gooto another elite4 • erase apd.
, not' deliberate diso- 9,1elock without
er
,oa time they act miesion. Thia'"is' the Vital' ,
sely thrthigh", miss, There niu.et „be. neelsitsand-exisa lobed,
lessees ree. steasas.'a 'Child one day for
„
farm. The plot Was ahout two acres'. Have you ever
and is A gr...9X7f4$... loam tee. int- that most of the
Mediertely plowed the wIdole tract of 'children de are
land from the tense teethe wheel track. heti lende"? Ivlosr
Its fact we even inarired the fonoeback either ,theughtle
roehe under 'mit-eels then dragged the. Just &nee over to -day fors inatenee .:Ibitetring and then go, effeto the c
seeeral feet to, enable .-ue to ke.ep the :take.
ing uP with, the disk harrow, which nervous and now that things, have about as she pleaSee after echool. is
eeemed to go wrong., nd .11 p ob- not consist rt dis iph and any cii
ably have scolded the children' for aeon realizes this. Coneteref obediere,e
,doing things that made' you teoahle becomes inetin.ceive habil, and the sues
toor7werk. But, (lid they reallY mean cs,thesrstionfgthine wtihmoele Stoyeteornioedi:leineneilsanoit
• Julia tore her new gingham dregs maintain a stera,dy hand even though
ditnbing, a • tree to...rescue Muggins, it sometimes is inconvenient foe the
the pet, kitty. Now Jae, didn't say, parents.
"I'm going to climb this tree and tear When baby first starts dellberatele
my (treats beeanse mother isn't look- to thro is spoon off ,his Mg. chair
hg." But she caine along home from and. throw his porridge about, 'that is
echoel and saw .poor kitty yowling the time to teach Obedience to the
from the topmost branch, whe're "Fide laws of table Mannere When he first
had chased her. And in Julia's heare hits you with his littl•e fist because,
was just' one desise,-.-to help her pet yhoisu Tobiavned, arerper:::t for aufotrhoo,..rit:ieatctined-
1 I rt, rneanotr---that is the time to instil into
do it each teed strikOs until it he-
.
eonies a habit with him to reepect you
and your eel -emends.
The secret of malchig obedience a
habit is keeping a steady hold over
the child's action e and ,clirecting him
Awake in eacrh little action until de-
liberate disobedience is reduced to a
minimum.. To forbid the child not to
de a thing ene day and then to permit
him to do the same thing the next clay
is a course of nation whieb gives hhmr
.no definite idea 'oe what eistal obtediente
is. "Consistency—thou- arrt jewel"
is no more truly a.pplicable anywheee
than in discipline of thildren. And the
next lew of suceeseful training in
obedience' is to discriminate .witaely be-
t 'en the act of impulse and the
come hones at once from -the very is malice-aferethetight condisc3t.
Plot with sPrineetbeth harrow, fellows in youX own home.' Yoe feel tieed end ethe next day 'and' leaVe•lier.to' wander.
On Plots 6, 7 and .8 the treatnaent feod, 'production, and this offered' a w'ent over the ground, with a mattock,
has been the same as on //let 5, eiteep•ti Method of getting fertilieser more and grubbed' Out the grstse the grew
that plat 6 receives 200 pounds, of eheaply and quickly than by ordinary eleee to trees and telephone p.olee,
ammonium aalts, plot '7, 400 pounds, methods. The fa.ct that materials Usually we drag.ged the plea every
and Plot 8, 600 rpounde. The wheat on used are inexpensive is of course an three weeks,. which ,was quite suffis
these plots proved to he regular stair important advantage. Meet to keep the grasss down,
srtepe, the three plots yielding an Another new and interesting ex- After two seasons we: planted pc -
average of 23.2 bushels, 32.1 bushels, limn/lent which is being tried out at tatoes on thiseasr-ound and realized a
and 36.6 bushels respectively. These Rotharnsted is the stimulation of -crop fair crop. Not o, seear ef the grass
yields show the law of diminishing growth by, electricity. The vvork is .
returne—that after a certain point carried on by passing a weak current
_little more cant be secered from ex- through the soil. This hes beee tried
tamely heavy applications of fertil- eut m pot culturee a,n, on half, m e
leer'. Oats, with an increase of growth on
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rather heavy, which is the case. It has been found that fertilizers those teats of about 20 eel. cent. While
On 1 account of the scarcity of lumber, the of soluble nitrogee are more effective this -fact may never be of practical
English have turned to a very perme for a fall -sown crop like wheat, -when eleoportance on a large farm, especially
an.ent type of farm buildings, inanity I a small portion is put on in the fallI while th.e oes.t e electricity is soesigh,
brick with led tile roofs, Now and I ard the loarlance in the spring. This it may lirave its uses, in greenhouse or
then, through the carevind'ow, one ' is the way the ernmopia fertilizers are ether intensive farming. The mere
gets a gin/epee of a big mar/adore applied, except on one or two check fact ithat crop groWlh is 'stimulated by
, .,
Nviiich signifies that tile 'country round i plats. The'reason fox this is that the
belongs, or once did, tn the ownee of wheat crop does not grow -rapidly
the large house, "My Lord of the enough in the autumn to assimilate
Manor." Within the lest ten years ' the nitrates as fast as ;they become
the English have been breaking up' available, and they leach ,out in drain-
tlieve big estate% and_ the more pros- age water during winter.
' Plat 2, which receives an annual
perous fa-rnners are buying lams
their own. .
1-larpen.den, the village near Roth-
ameted, is a quaint old-fashioned Eng-
lish town, with its inns and eueicsas old
shops, with an occasional garage to
ed. rO0fS to give it a rural aspect. The
gr-een, or -commons, of which
Special attention pa3a to aiseases of
UT fl 11111SLY modernize the plaoe, and a few thatch -
B Sc., M.D., C.M.
many English villages boast, Stretches
Women and Children I:mating taken
tl rou 'h the centre ;of the town and far
postgraduate work in Surgery, Bac-
teriology and Scientific Medicine.
Ottice al the Kerr P.esidence, between
he Queen's Hotel and the Baptist
Church.
tkil business given careful attention.
Phone 54. P.O. Box 113
dressing of inanure, hes had an aver-
age yield for sixty-one .eeaves of 35.2
bushel,s.
could :not help wondering virliet
would hapeen if the rammed plot
mentioned a.bove were to receive also
a liberal application . cf phosphoric
acid, or if manure were added to. plot
8, -which now gets 600 p'eutscis of am-
monia, or, again, if all tiliese plots
an influence like , an electrical is -
charge, • is hi itself -meet intereeting.
may be feurelealong 'our roads.. te
day, though our 'aileighibbriS', -ferie I clown. She acted on impu.s
across tee eo,a,d je literally everrun 'beob,..asle she intended to disobey., : •
_ • .
with it. , I Now- the bole is in the ,drese and
Occasionally some • of, ole grass has to be rriended--but surely if we
sprouts ale/1.g a fenee. These are ueus, think of the accid.ent, aa Such and not
ally well -bunched patches, and -we! as a direct disregard of our .commandle,
have found that tarred -paper roofing,I We .can -feel nu resentnient toward the
eprread ov•ex the grass with ' edges- child. We mothers all tore our dr:ses-
sile-10y lapped, emotherod this iirvae I es" wh.en we -were „small and our
.
mon When wela Weighted 'nown with mothehss had to. meed then/. So let us
sed and stones. net .clessify suer acts ap these under
A stone pile liseated on a quack= die'oliedience. But let es now oonsider
gea,ee pes,oh seelseeteeneleate it quick- another incident. Yoe have toad Julia
there are enough of theirs. school; ;but she goes ever to Mary's
Around fen,ce posts, trees,. and and plays mobil five o'elloolc and you
startles, where the paper cannot be do not lcnow where she is. This Is
applied, the plants nnset be dog out direct disobedienoe. But right hese is
.a season or less they die out alt,hough she Iney not admit it. 11 a
every three or Tour week -s, anal after a eecret. which every motlier knows
This vouric is best 'chine when tire child has been consistently taught to
ground is cloy. --Stalt_is sonietiraes used
to hill chimes of • the, grass,' but
as a rale it is teo expensive bo of
much value as an exterminator.
Drainage Losses Tested. .
The work which has been done at
Rothameted. on drainage, and especial-
ly the analysis of drainage water, is
the oldest and most cottensive in the
werld. The amount of water draining
throug-h soils at twenty, eorty aucl
sixty inches in depth, has been meas-
ueetcl since 1870 by specianY con-
structed rain gauges. Each plot on
l3roadhalk. field is tiled lengthwise,
and all Of these tile empty into a brick
trough 'which extends the entire width
of the field. •Frorn thes;e drains tilsO
water can be analeeed at any time,
Up pest the entrance to the grounds. were placed under a good rota o' and from this field and frail/ the drain
of IR,othemsted. with cle-ver. For it is very evident gauges themeelves .come a goodly por-
At the inn at which decid'ed to that on most plet.s-soree of the plant- tam of aux knowledge. of lessee of
sPeed the night they told me that footla are present in large ell°ugh fertilizers, lime, etc., ana losses from
Rothameted was only a short way up quantities to suPPort muah larger er°P different cultivation -methods.
the green. The innkeeper also volun- Fortunately we do get a. coin- The field ex 13eriments at Reitihaa,a_
teased the information that a great Parison between the lininanured Plot, sted are all connected with the soil
many peotple from all parts of the wheat after fallow with no fertilizer,
Ilk. C. Rednald
M.R.C.S. (Eng).
L.R.C.P. (Lond).
Fl-lYSICIAN AND SURGEON
(Dr. Chisholm's old stand)
DR. R. L STEWART'
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
Office Entrance:
Second Door North of Zurbrigg's
Photo Studio.
JOSEPHINE'STREET PHONE 22
Dr rigaresaret C Calder
General Practitioner
Graduate University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine.
OMee—Josephine St., two doors south
of Brunswick Hotel.
Telophones—Office 281, Residence 151
J. G. ST ART
world visited HarpeDden to see Roth- and wheat in a rotation -with no fertil-
amsted. It was with no little pride izer. Here are the yields, an average
that he showed me his Visitors' Regis- for fifteen of the same -years.:
ter, which contained names of people Continuous wheat— _
from a great many foreign le:ncle. Broadbalk field, Plot 3. -.11.3 bus.
Walking up the common I seon Wheat after fallow—
(same fro Rotherasted. In front of the lio.os field, Plot 0 ... '17.2 bus.
main building is a huge boulder, on Rotation wheat—
.
tem: "To 'commemorate the cemple- The eanoes. paat is cuetiveted (me
tion of fifty years of cbotinuous ex- year and planted to „teat the next.
peeenente (the first of their kind) The rotation Plots are grown in a
agriculture, conducted at Rotharastecl four-yearrotation with a legume. •
by Six John Bennet Lewes and Joseph As all these facts were narrated to
Henry Gilbert, A.D. 1893." immedi-
ately back of this memorial stands
the rnain buildieg of the Rotharnsted
Station, a inedest twoestossey- trick
struetuee whit -a housee practically all
Real Estate Agent and Clerk of the
Division Court.
Mee upstairs in the Chisholm l3lock,
WINGFIAM, ONT.
DR4, F. A. PARKER
which has been carved this inscrip- Agdell field, Plate 21-22...26.9 bus.
otf the lial;oratories, offices and library.
A stranger is impressed by the 'sine-
Phicity and raoldesty of the place. n
is a fact that more building space is
needed, but this world-famous
tion has only a meagre in -come, derived
almost wholly from gifts of its found-
er, Sir John B-ennet Lewes. The
government has not been liberal
toward itis upkeep, and only a small
amount of money lias been given by
other private interests.
Began With a Dispute..
The experiments at Rothamsted
were risalilly -started as the result of
an argument between Sir John Lewes
and the German scientist, Justus von
Liebig. Liebig h-eld that if plants
were supplied with other minerals-, the
carbon and nitrogen necessary for
their growth would be obtained from
the air. Lames held that nithogen was
also a necessity in the soil, and pro-
ceeded to demonstrate his belief. The
fact -was that both -were light and ler th
wrong, but the truth of nitrogen fixa-
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Osteopathy, E(ectricity. All diseases
treated,
Officeadjoinrang residence, Centre
areet, next Anglican Church (former-
ly )r. 1V1a,c1)-onald's). Phone 272.
A Lost Ship.
11 lea beneath the -waters,
deep,
totting and rusting througb the cen-
turies; -
Dalai mosses' hide golden piracies
Ana sea snakes. through ite broken
cabins creep
And o'er its, sunken treaseres, vigil
keep;
leeriest whiten
deck
Atoll great fish
peck,
While o'er its maste
whine and leap.
fathom&
k
on its siimy, gutted
at this. human fodder
grim
Sometimes the divers, like
1(lois clad,
Descend upon Its reited, ancient
bulk, •
And shudder, as they Watch the ersa
rolls skulk,
lat1irig the 7.111et-y Wlaite that nOlet-
thie drOtlited ship teat sail-
ed from Salem tolen,
And left no man to teill faYtioi VreJlt
Berlins.
me by the guide, I asked if all crops
showed this ability to Ewe in the same yard manure.
soil year after year. He replied that A very interesting incident occured
svelte certainecreps, beaky for in_ recently in the bacteriological labor -
stance, did almoet as well as wheat, atoey, when u phenol of carbolic acid
other crops did. not have this virtue, solution was used te_Steriliee‘ a s'olly
due to insects, soil exhaustion, crop and subsequent eounts showed More
siekness, or ao eorabination of all haeteria Present than before. RePeat-
me the plot en ed trials proved that there is a group
causes. He showed
Ho,os field ee„, potatoes were green of. bacte,ria in the soil which actually
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continuo -may from 1876 to 1921, -when 1e0 °n plien°1-/ and which this s'°11ati" I
the yield got so low that it was evi_ is fatal to 'mast forms ef bacterial life,
lY if tile sticril°S are w41� IlaTled and not to loiter on the way home from
Why I Plant Glaclioli.
The gladiolue is about thte most
satisfastory farm flower I grow. It
is beautiful, blooms ever a long per-
iods. can hardly- be excelled for cutting,
and needs no painstaking cage.
I never' need to get down on the
g'reund to wend gladioli aut, -for they
come ep so eo.on and -with such heavy
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THE CHILDREN'S
HOUR
How Boys and Girls Make MoneY.
Everywhere- ;bright boys ancl girls
are eagex to earn their own spending
money. A teacher of Fourth Class
boys and girls placed this question as
a subject for their English work:
o.se "Whet are you doing/ or what ave
and with its relation to crop produc- stalks that an occasional heing
animal breeding and n-utrition, etc., lei
-adding is necessarY, and 1 have onlY A vesy few adrnitte'd that they•had
Yon clone, to make erioney?"
tion. Experiments -in pliant breeding, Iteep them clean. No pruning, or die -
are carried on at ether institutions. to out the stalks when lhe first two earned none 'et aes. The answers of
In -the lab oratorlea. at Rothamsted orthree 'Weems are open te have them I the others, greatly condensed.; are
large force of trained employees are last in the honee for aesseelc. And if elven here as suggestionsto our
engaged in malting analyses and- stir- I leave them on. the pliaitte When the young folks who are anxious to make
dies of different skies. of soil work. filet spike has ceased to hlooin, one Or
Entomologists are making studies of two lees vigorous ,spikes will follow.
the insect life of the soil. As many In range of colas's and shades they
as 7,000,000 insects of differsent speci.es rank among the best; and never ape
per acre are found in these soils to pear coarse in texture. In shortethey
a depth of nine inches. Thismean's are fine fiewere, and ha-ve become one
more than 100 to each .square foot. of the most- -popular for sentinel' sales
The number is f-oued to he much in the cities. •
greater in plots errich receive barn- I never have any tamable keeping
monsters
stseege
dent the soil was exhausted far po-i these Partieular strains g-rew, develop-
ed and multiplied on it.
These are a few of the things one
can lean). by spending a day at Roth -
=sited. One m'ust ad/nee the tel -
selfish work of Sir John Bennet Lewes,
his tenacity of purpose and his noble
endowment of the station. Much cre-
dit must go to his chief aid and ad-
viser Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, to
taboos.
Trying to Exhaust the Soil. .
In another exp.eximent the ,obj.ect
was to exhaust the soil completely.
Oats were grown for a few years until
they failed. Thee 'barley was seeded
for a few yeare, at first with •goo•d
results, but later it failed., Now wheat.
is being producedon this ground with
\vhom rnuch of the painstaking work
no signs yet of crap failure. Thel
at Rotheansted for the first sbcty
ability of -wheat to grow where barley - -
years can be credited. The foresight
and eats fail is no doubt due to its
deeper rooting habit and its ability and earne6tnes's °I-Ithes's twe men may
well serve as a guide to experimenters
to get nineh plant -food kern deeper
layers in the :soils but even this deep thLou_ghout the world. To their earn -
ss their devotion, their far -
rooting habit does not keep . some e's,'"`-. '
ohtedness and their* unselfishness,
crops, as for example, red clover. Ir4 su•-•-•-'
scientific agriculture is indebted for
1849 a start was made to grow Ted
tion by legumes was not peeve( es clover continuously, arid in the next the iiii°1rmabkm and experience of
Dearly a hall-cernhary atter the foiled- twenty-seven years red clever .was eighty;,, years of continuous field ees
ing of Rothernsted. seeded an this land fifteen times, hut, P'"". --;-s' and the'labaratarY analY-
E. J. Russel, Director. of the Station, after an intermission when no clover greatest single store of knowledge of
was on hie vacation when. I visited as grown and the land fall:cave--------1100ooseeil and it's fanati`ms in s'isteime
Rothameted. 1 was aststred, however, mopped, only the first red clover crep ''"-x-'aY'
that all the employee% would. 'be glad following was 'successful. On a richl se,
to tallc with me, and that the guide golden soil, however, red clover has „nitrogen Is Free.
would telce ine anyw'here that I de- produced trennencloes crops, but the Of course, there are times when it
shed to go. This guide was e young -yield has declined for a period of over is adeisabk to buy nitlegen. But
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agricultural student of Cambridge sixty years. It seems likely that this ie not netiesisary erhene a proper
University, and was spending his sum- "clover-. sic:knees," and not soil ex- system of farming has been followed.
h the are
the billos aver vvinter. They need
only to b,e kept from frost and in a
dry plaee 'to Come etit in the spring
in perfect shaizte. They wrila keep very
nicely on a sshelf in a day cellar. , ing, at the same rate, while the pa
As they increase quite freelys.,You erste attend seme entertatinetent."
cell soon have a fine Collection without 7-"I take care of a neighbor's chickens
much eash outlay.—Agnes Hiloo. while the owner takes tripseer goes
visiting." -
An Incinerator for Every "I -work in the mailer -le -ram of an,
money.
Thee champion intoneyenalser set uP; obtain the best resulte, cloves o .o
a hicYole repair shop in a shed back be eut from early to full hlloorn, for
of his home, and' in the two niGn.ths1 not may at this time is 'the largest
vacation esaxned. $98, above expe.nees per cent. of the feed value tin the
for materiels. Others wrote: clever, but if cut at this 'time a see -
"1 lead the bread wagons that go ond and even a third aroip este he
CUt from small ;bakery near ray I harvested. ,
home each morning." The 'nitrogenous elements of the
"I take care of a neighbor's baby clover are the most. valuable for feed -
for three hours every Saturday and ing purposes and it is therrefore im-
am Paid a °dealer- Occasionlaft the portant to cut the elover at the time
child is left with me during the even- of their 'greet' est development. Cutting
• the clover at just the right time and
curing it so as to prevent the loss of
these, verifiable -elements will result
a Teed of real value the cunning
winter.
Tho clever ehould he ,cat during the •
latter part of the day when it is free
tin eans, receiving _a eatery of $22.50
An older girl mends the 'family
stOckings and those of an averw-oxlescl
neighbor. One picked beeries on a
ranch, any nenslacr raised chickens
and rabbits and made gardens of their
own, not a few running' little market-
stads along the Idglivrays, putting up
asteactive booths, flowere,
fruits, eggs, and produce of all kende.
Curing.' Clover :for Po it
. u 17Y.
.
There is so theoli talk ab'oPat .clover
-as .winter feed for laying liens that
I th•ought I would explaiin hew to eutre,
it to the beet'advantage. 'Clover is one
of the best end ehteaneet fOOdla TOT the
poultry,* as can be 'stored and used,
as green feed clueing the esi'ntea.
Horne.
An incinerator in which te _burn
refuse should ire in every home, as it
lessens the danger of fire and pre-
vents burning paper$ from being
scattered by the wind. We keep ours
Setting by the back cloor-"'and. all waste
is thrown in, such as rage, papere, etc.
When it is. full it is carried out away
from the buildings and set on fire.
A piece of email mesh chicken Wire
ebout three feet high :and ten feet
long formed the cylinder part and was e
rehiforeed by pieces of heavy wire be- money for a year. One can put in the clover in the haymow.
vished and is Paid Clover cut, cured end harvested- as
For my own sake, regretted •that 'ante seven crops were peoduced. Even ais and cledluctions which form OUT
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evening parser, at fifty cents an hour.
"After school ea.ch da -y I work in the
.,rom dew and moisture, for thie
package elevator of a stare, at taventYs save time in tiering it. The following
five cents an hour. Usually pet in day after the clever has &led ernd
about three hours." wilted, shelve it up and turn it over.
,"I ohop wood at twenty-five cents, Let- dry until the leaves age neanly
an h.our, eerning about $2 a week and dry. However, if Telt too long, the
s,trengtliening my mies,cles lo•etter than leaves Will cruieble",and be lost, in the
in the gym:" ' 1 handling of the hay. Tarn it once
"By cutting neighbors' lawns and' more and give it another hour of een-
our own I -usually earn $1.50 eaole shine and it is ready to he bunched
I
Saturday." Onto zooks. Keep these small and
"Cutting fruit at a 'cannery during turn them o -ver •the second day, then
he er ives 41.1a my epencling' on the third or fourth (fey you can put
ause o clover fail-. Why shoeld we -buy this expensive
mer vacation taking visitors over the heuetion is the o f
practiced. millions of, pounds circulating over
grounds. He proved to be thoroughly
familiar with all the lines of wok
being earried on, and took me into
Uses -where centineous culture re plant ftoo e eine
iot On little Ilo,o's field I saw the plots every farm, and when it is possible to
ing lashed to the top andI bottom and
four pieces up and down the sides.
ThYo pieces three feet square formed
the top and bottom, and were fastened
to heavy wire circles a.ncl the bottom
was fastened to the cylinder am.
around. The f -op one, or Ed, was hing-
ed to One side and a piece ef loose
wire placed on the side to fasten it
down when the refuse was being
bunneed.—J. L. F.
every nook and -eorner Of Rotharnstecl. when they test the fertilizer and
Wheat Centmeouely. I manures remaining in the Soil. Here,
,
My Brat Wonder as I walked ,out the guide e-"lained, was an exPeri-
over these tamees fielde and listened nient Planned .t° asSist tenants and
to' the explanations of the guido tvas,ll'ansdrds in set*Ing disputes concern -
added to the eon by a
why it was planned in the beg,h1nble, ig fertrilitY
so that crops weeld he geoesn con, 1 tenant kaving a form. As would be
tinu.euely on the same soil. I e0eti eXPeeLed`> 8°111bile nitrogen fertilizes
r are used lip by the crop, or leach -out,
learned, hoesever, that when the ex-, se essse el,,,,h,
slag hab little
11 peisimente tvero plitaned about eighty" la° tue's year. '"'"'•'-'-
yeara ago, little defirlite knowledeed °I' no effecib 0,1 er°" tie r'5't Year'
--Cilia I torts posseaessi as 10 the wily se so'i'il •14,- ane -cake lasts abrout two Years.
fertility and arop prodection. Fort' °tiler fertilizem arid raam.A.64 ere
example, aa T3raadbaik lied, the mese, used up by trona at the rate of (me-
llow many slacks go to the 'buntline, famous of all, wheat has bees grown` half the firet Years One-'fOtiath the Ben-
i on wit. orie-eightli tho third year
of a bird' e nesttle-Nsere; they are alilecorstinemeele for mare thee e'ightsri .. ' , '
.
one plea esi else aela hes had; oneesteleentn the fOttrth year, etc.
If a da Mee will .coraolastently use 1 ,e ea eriment:t show, therefore
, ,
earteled.
OK very iwst bent eivesi it is possible
to obbnilh, god oclecit the yell
I 'dee iel bie bead for bee,alliug
fti, eat! double Tatduetiot it
gr,roe7r,4,;-oeo, .rlditv, R.. W,, 441D,
phmi; 16,04 laitod .afiy lotit dere •' -----
ed .an. anneal dee/sting of fetieteee I Tuamti ill :the grvorwl almost ie.defi-
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ti
Apt,
take l this nitrogeh from the air and
lock it up in the soil where it can he
eeleased for the use of plants? Fur-
thermore, it is not only' inexpensive to
take, the nitrogen from the air and
put it, in the soil, but the process can
be carried on while the farmer is
making a pro& out of 'the fie31d. This
can all be date through the proper
use of legume plant,s. This proper
use ,of alfalfa3, elover, sweet clover,
vetch and other legiames is .certain to
Id the foundation of oer future agri-
eultere. The farmers 'Who learn their'
leeeen early will have greater ad'eties
tage ftom their those who are battle
Id taking full advantage of these
trogenAXing piant,S.
Use a pure-bred sire if there is one
e Lae neigi:ltortioad. Scritit Stock
cd4s 11-m0h and returns little. Sea et
rat the ScrubS.
rio 10 At,..6thar ot h,eose,eeeiesi that- a Striall Athena. 'a fertiliVer'.re-
ut,'„u:er 'tereete t'es,1.• MiI8ecdon.caus
ieeive ertineete, er, nitrate ,041-: selln' toutliP1
tl
aei
Hogs on Pasture.
thirty-five cents a box. above should come out of the mow in
"1 deliver papers from an auto-- I winter -awed and nice; The -clover
750 a„morninge-and am paid a 'regti- can be fed to the folvvls by simply
lar selary of $20 a inonth. A man , throwipg a bunch of the hay on the
drives the car." I poulta-y house floor every' day or two
"I raise pigeons all the year round letting the fowls strips off the leave;
and, having found a regular market,' and -eat them as they choose. e
clear good money." I Another good way is to cut tip the
"I sell papers in aloospital, carrying, clover very fi'ne, using about the sante
several kinds and a weekly magazine."1,1aullo a ,cut clover as of grain, OOTh-
"Caddying at the gold. Club pays me meal, wheat middlings or whateveris
from $1.75 to $2.75 a day. They paY' to be, fed with rib,. This should he
The succeesful hog greeter .1thertsra. steventy-five cente fel. a 9 -hole game, thoroughly scalded an co.oee s
only able, to keep- the young 'pigs', Whenever I. can, I double ----------------------------- " e prepared the evening before
grovving rapidly anki continuously, but "I raised pennies on a vacant lot, and alowed to stand in a covered
he is also able to keep his stock hogs, and cleared $100 selling seed. Sold alk,ettle and steam over night. Enough
in. -the pink of' csondition through the few blossoms, but the seed is more water should ;be used to '-make the
the value of good pose/re. Be not, $1 fair 18 holes., By carrying tvv,o 1a4agsi, it dls to liefed in. the morning' the mess
use of green feed., In turning' the hogs
/outs it should te :the • aim,. ef every
fanner toseethat the aniniele, have
shade and Water. If natural shade
not Providedo then seine. ,eort. of arti-
ficial shelter' should be conatracted.
Plenty of good fresh witersehisuld ales°
be made easday available to the. ani-
,
valuable,They are easy to raise,
though they require plenty' of water
and regular watering."
"I raised pareley to suppay a certain
meat market the year Than& 1 raised
, outdoors in the summer, amid in
boxes indoors in the wiet,er."
"I sorted lenione at $2 a day dur-
ing the summer, and do it occatelonally
on Saturdays."
"I spend but four hours a day in
steheol, working afternoons in_ a tole-
,
phone Office at $12 a week."
"I mesa -let yokes, babies', cape end
'boudoir cepa for a friend who ovnte
a dry goods store." .
"I make kites for little hove and
those whe do not know how, using'
bright. colors', odd shapes and fancy
tai
"I raise ascii advertiee Choice 'bulbs."
Painting leather goods f,or a -novelty
-do) -e- hoade ene artiS tic girl's pin -
Money.
One of the licyS, almost geowe 10
size, reit a preSe to make bottome fee
Chinese Eating More Meat.
The old prejudice against the con-'
ptien of meat in China lias: pita
ttally broken down. partita'ullarly
is na‘r being largely toesumed The
cow 10 -00ed oextenrsivly in Chine
'foe power, :learPosere- that if its flesh
werented for. food a Scarcity of ant -
male for f.arirn yeulid ensue. 11
is 'only within the laet deoasle that the
move/tent, of t.,5Mg'earttle feas food lialS
started. Canneci'Meatie are now licires
said there in large quoit:titles
The' stesenese Itiejestie end Levi -
at are welt 160 feet' wide. ,
raa;sh moist. ' If the iniesh'i's ste 'dry as
to crumble it is eve:to be Watated.
Clover lea in the fcirin here outlined
Or in the shape of meal ie a WOTaerftla
aid to egg production for hens.
We heartily eray Thee to send Thy
Holy Spirit into the heart's, ce them
that possees the grounds and pastures
of the-earthe that Ithey, reMenihering
themselves to be Thy tenants, may not
reek out the neat of thedr housesand
lancles•-•-A Prayer for Landalordra.feem
the Prayer Book of Kiing E4vmr.(1,
Keep stock that keeps, vole
Underfed live stock netser paips„ Scant
pasture, poor feed, and poor menials
avecnily a bardern of expense. Why
pay the bille?
Calves wtibli ring worm ell:mild to
given a goad scrubbing \vial &imp eneell
Water!' ansi the affeeted parts treated:I
With some such. mixture as *4110 ur
mid lasd ointment,