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A.eldress communications to Aaronorplet, 73 Adelaide 3t. VVest, Toront3
How I Get the. Best work Out of Jr early potatoes continued, and 1 ads°
Few Horses.
Of all 'the leaks .op. the farm, it has
been my experience that one of the
worst is the poor use of. herSes, There
are three reasons for this:,
The use of too email or too peor
quality horses, the use of to few
horseS in the team,' arid the nee toe
few •days in the year of the horses
kept.
It has +been said that the average
n.umlber of hours per day worked by
farm horses is three. This does not
mean that the days 'worked are sltort,
but that the horses stand in the barn
or roem thie pasture two-thirds ot the
bime. Maybe you 'think you are not
out a-nything while your horseare on
pasture, or that you are !only out the
feed -while they are standing in •the
stable, but on closer analysis you will
see that this is, not the ease. ,
The cost items of keeping a horse
are: Feed, interest, depreciation, shoe-
ing, and veterinary bills. In additions
there are repairs 'to harness, though
this is not a strictly horse cost, and
scene inn). labor. Of these costs, the
idle horse is just as subject to thoie
for interest and depreciation and vet-
erinary bills as the one that is work-
ing. He is also subject to the feed.
and -shoeing costs,, though to a legs
extent. As to -depreciation on harness,
this wears out abont as fast hanging
in the stable as when in use.
Comparing the cost per working
hour of a horse -working 1,000 hours
per year with that for one working
2,990 hours per year, weget figures as
forlows:
• A Word ofWarning.
A word of warning, Garden Dian,
'With pail or hose or sprinkling can:
Pale liberal drink on garden land,
Or else, I pray you, stay yogic hand.
For if you only wet the top
The thirsty roots get scarce a drep,
And, struggling upward after water,
By hoe or draught are doomed to
slaughter,
lead sehoele are the .greatest de-
ence of the nation,
• It is just as feasible to inorease the
feed produced from the pasture lot as
from the corn 'field.
Many 'persons miss doing •great
'things ;beoanse they set thernselve,s at
too many t,asks.
1,000 2,000.
Items of cost. hrs. hrs.
Oats at 40c per leu.. $36.00 $45.00
Hay at $18 per ton ... 60.00 54.00
Pasture.... .... 5.00 2.00
Interest at 6%; on $250 15.00 15.00
Depreciation, 10% a
year en $250 25.0025.001
Veterinary bill ...... 5.00 • 5.001
Shoeing ... .... . 25.00- 35.00
The ;secret of invistbIe darning is
tehoositg the thread. A raveling et
-two can ;always •be pulled front the in-
)eide seams al a chat •eir dress. A care-
ful housewife Whet she maltea riew
table lio.en ready for hemming -will
are the threadthat she pulls out and
I wind them on a spool for future tree,
A Irian has to motal right te skin
the earth, iuiiest he is thread to do it
sheer e,eirfesefextee and to enable
'him to live irk some epoelk of an tn-
eqeally developed seelety; arid if there
• e or have been iacdu secial epochs,
then is seatetV itself directly respee„.
ar the, Waste of the eornekon
4:111tl ey,
Total .... . $171.00 $181.00
Cost per hr. worked 17.01 9.05 •
kept the team en the road part of the
month. In • the latter part of the
month the corn was cut, and put in
the silo. October was given over to
digging and delivering late potatoee,
and a team was on the road part of
this month. November was given
over to fall plowing, and the other
four months were spent hauling ,milk
with one team, while the other did
chores (the manure was hauled every
day).
As will be scan, the work was con-
tinuous, there being no very slack
times nor any times when we were
overworked. I never kept exact track
of how maoy days the horses worked
. ,
chering the year, hut rth-ey were n the
i.parct of nearly !every good
day, and put in most of the time good
full days. They -worked probably 240
days or more a year. Since then I
have bought another 100 acres and a
tractor, and now I ani just making a
chenge in my type of farming. I am
snlastituting hay for potatoes foe the
money crop. When the change is
cempleted, the year will be about the
same in the spring and fall, but in
the summer it win be as follows:
The latter part of June, cutting and
drawing alfalfa; July; cutting and
drawing timothy and clever; the lat-
ter part of July, sereond cutting of
alfalfa; August, harvesting grain and
third cutting of alfalfa
I •started with . four horses that
would not average 900 pounds apiece.
I soon found that they were no good
for businees, and bought a pair weigh-
1,sno sataaer •natee T boatel; an -
other pair weighing alaout 1,500 apiece,
and still later I exchanged the lighter
ones for horses weighing •about 1,600
pounds apiece.
••I had always heard ;alma how slow
big horses were getting around corn-
ers and about how working on soft
ground bothered them; but I have
never found that to be the case. I did
find that it takes no more grain to
feed a big horse than a small one, and
but little mere hay. Why? Well, a
;entail horse doing heavy work -mnst
work on his nerve, while a heavy one
The above figures, while they do not
hold for every !community, are as fair
to the 1,000 -hour horse as to the 2,000 -
hour one. You see that the cost is
nearly double for the horse which
works the -smaller number of hours.
Applying the figures to a crop like
potatoes, on Which about 100 hours of
horse work are used, we get a differ-
ence in cost of pectilection of $8.05
per aere, which,, though not large, is
worth saving.
To get the hest use out of your
horses is a problem iin farm inaertge-
ment. Perhaps the best way I can
illuetrate is to give ray own exper-
ience. When I started farming I had
four horses. The farm consisted of
140 acres, of which 42 acres were
woodis. Three aores of potatoes were
raised, and seven of corn, and the
rest was in hay and oate. Later I
raised+ +trem 12 to 19 acres of potatoes,
and about 10 to 12 acres of corr., be-
sides the hay and oats. The -cultivated
crops take more horse work anyway,
and potatoes take a good deal of team-
ing to deliver. The result was a
great 'increase in horse efficiency and,
incidentally, in income. Then. I rented
finst one 60 -acre farm and later an-
other, without any inerease in the
number of horses kept. In addition
to the 260 acres farmed with the four
homes, I also had a team on the road
for several weeks, and took the job of
hauling milk in the winter when there
was too mach snow for the trucks.
My year was about as follows:
April, fitti-rtg land; May, fitting land
and planting early potatoes, oorn, and
oats; June, fitting for late -planted
late potatoes, planting them, and cul-
tivating corn and. potatoes; • July,
spraying, cultivating, and haying;
August, harvesting grain, digging and
delivering potatiies, and one team on
the road. In September digging of
is at ease doing the same work.
As to using mocee horses in the team,
there is no reason why many farmers
in the East cannot do what is so com-
monly done in the West—drive four -
horse teams.
By letting one man do all the milk-
ing with the machine, and. the other
drive the four -horse teamove are able
to do -a lot more work than otherwise.
I use for fitting a six-foot double -disk
'harrew. Three horses are needed to
pull a six-foot single disk if it is set
ep to where it ought th be. Four
will pull a double disk as easily as
three the single one, and do twice the
• week. And the week is more smooth-
ly done.
Many people would say that this
intensive use of 'horses would be hard
on them. In reality, the opposite is
the case. Regularity is of more' im-
portance with horses than are hang
vacations. The work horse that does a
good day's work every day, gets fed
regularly, and has' few days off ex-
cept Sendaye, lives longer and suffers
less from disease,- than the carriage
horse used' to, which did -nothing for
a week and -then put in one or two
hard days.
• My horses were hard and, in fine con-
dition to work in the spring when
they had been hauling milk all winter,
and 1 wank' have half of my spring'
work done before some of the neigh-
bors had got their horses hard enough
to stand a full day's work.
• I do not mean that a horse should
never have a vacation. It is excellent
if you can turn him out for two or
three weeks in the spring or early
summer, but this is al. that I have
ever found necessary, and even that
-can be dispensed with if the horses
are turned out nights for a month or
so• in addition to the - usual feed of
grain and some hay.—A. 11. S.
The young foal will make more use
of these summer dayseif he is kept in
the stable during the day. Flies and
hot weather are not contributing fac-
ters to a healthy and vigorous growths
The mare and feat Stabled during the
day, given a. couple of grain feeds,
end then turned out at 'night, will do
better than the ones left' out all day.
A ration of four-fifths parts of oat -s
and one-fifth partof bran by weight
forms a good feed at this time,
Careful breeders have probably had
their mares arid lowla in daring the
day since the first of ,Iuly. If the
mares have been needed for wc•rle,
moderate. amount has not hurt thorn
and they are better ofr than they
would be if left! in a pasture all dur-
ing the day. The foals are big enough
row so that they do not teed the
Mare. •
My 'Birthday Book.”
Do yott ovee forget when your cow
/a geing to calve, or when your sow
Is Oiling to have pigs? I have, and
1 temetimes treed to put it down on
the !calendar and bo my notebook, too,
Then neva if ye Lhs ralralar would be
Wed for something eisa, co' I'd lose
the leaf tett if t.h, ilot6boo'k Now
hate f-iund a retell better Pltl tO
keep these records, and that is in a
breeding book.
I have lined it so that there is a
space for the name of the animal, the
date bred, the sire, the date con-
ception taket place, and the elate birth
may be expected. . e
A year or so ago T had two cows
oat were about two months late in
freshening, and I felt pretty sure that
my records were wrong. It -caused in-
convenience, so I resolved to work
out a better plan.
Probably some farmers would need
a record for each of the kind of liee-
esteek kept, but I find one book suffi-
eient for my purposes.
• Most, farmers figure that a Corw's
gestation period is nine months and a
sow's four months. This of couese, is
not exactly correet. I find by carefully
watching that in most cases they- will
come mighty close to the exact num-
ber o,f days. Two sowe that I watched
farrowed. within.. an hour of the 112
clayS—e-kpeaeri, covr thd tro6
le not less than 280 days extept in
rare ceses. Cates have been carried
tor
'410'en 'firol'itthitql‘a7s=d" l!eeei and
teetered. Mares require an average
of .330 days -„R.
—eve—
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE
CHILDRPI'S
HOUR
What Waheued Tumpty Toad.
Tumpty Toad sat -on the garden
walk eunning himself. It was a
drowsy day, and Tumpty Toad was
feeling much too sleepy to move.
Indeed, When two mosquitoes lighted
on a nasturtium leaf near his head,
Tumpty Toad only blinked an eye at
them. They 'would have tested good
no doubt, but hardly good enough to
be worth the effort of putting Out
his tongue,
Now Tumpty Toad couldn't ItelP
hearing What the mosquitoes were
saying. It seemed 'easier to listen
than to move outof hearing. They
weren't sleepy, he learned, in spite of
the heat: They were merely hungry.
"And nothing biteable in sight,"
said one crossly, "but that old toad,"
• "You don't ,call hire biteable," said
the other. "Hers too tough for my
taste."
"a`Hriums”h.," warned the first. "He may
he
"No -clangerreturned the second.
"Can't you see he's asleep?"
Tumpty Toad kept his eyes shut.
Not that lie wasn't annoyed. No one
likes to be called tough, even by a
mosquito.
• "Here conies somebody tender,"
said the first mosquito suddenly.
"Aha," said the second with satis-
faction.
And both mosquitoes fell silent.
Tempter Toad could hear them Aliarp-
ening their , He was almost
curious enough to open his eyes. Still
he Telt eo lazy! And he could, trust
his ears to tell him who this tender
somebody was.
• For steps were corning along the
walk, a big, grown-up pair of steps—
not the tender ones decidedly—and a
little, uncertain, toddling pair.
"Funny toad," said the baby.
Tumpty Toad felt a -soft little tickle
down his back. He didn't jump or
wriggle away, for lie knew that the
tickle was the baby's finger stroking
and patting him. He sat very still,
not to frighten the tickle away.
"Nice, funny toad," said the baby,
"See if it doesn't want a fly," said
a big, grown-up voice that belonged
to the big, grown-up steps.
That was thoughtful surely. Tumpty-
Toad was almost excited enough to
open his eyes.- Still he felt so lazy!
And he could trust his nose to tell him
when. the fly was near.
The mosquitoes stopped sharpening
their bill's.
"Ready?" asked the firet.
"Go!" said the second.
Tumpty Toad heard the hum of their
wings as they passed. It was a hun-
gry 'hum. And it was headed straight
for the haby.
Tumpty, Toad opened both eyes wide.
He had forgotten all about being
sleepy. Close beside him on the walk,
steeping to hol4 a big fat fly inviting-
ly near his mouth was the baby. ,Such
a gurgling, laughing dumpling o(f a
baby. The first mosquito had settled
on one bare little foot, and the second
was lighting on the fat little hand
that hat' out the fly.
But Tumpty Toad didn't wait to
look at the fly. He darted out his long
tongue, once, and wiped the first mot-
-quito off the baby's foot; twice, and
•hooked the second mosquito off the
baby's' hand. Bite the baby, we -did
they?
. •
Thou shaltnet eee thy leretlickte k's
and ass faileek b'S tret 'verav end, hitte.
thyeell f reei Ilieri thee .slett st re
:help hint to lifj; an again ----Dent
'XXil, 4
"Serves -them 'right for ibeing hu
gry," thought Turnpte Toed.
He darted out his long tongue again
and the big fat fly followect,the, mos-
quitoes down. Tumpty Toad's capacious
throat. And that wee' the vety best
place Lor there all, if you 'ask' ine!
. • Tumpty Toad *inked' 'at the nester -
trent leaf, vvherd the mosquitoes had,
eat,
"I'm not es sleepy as I look," said
Tumpty Toad.
Storage of Vegetables.
An earth pit, a cellar under the
barn driveway, a cellar under' a build-
ing, and an isolated ,collar provide four
ways in which faerners can best .store
their field roots and other perishable
products. Methods jnvyhich the 'three
cellars can be constructed or adapted
for the purpose are described in Pam-
phlet N. 10, new series, of1/4 the Do-
minion Department of Agriculture.
The eaanth pit is fully dealt with in
Exhibition Circular No. 57 and is
'therefore omitted in this pamphlet.
Besides giving minute particulars of
the natiire and amount of material
required in eaoh instaa6e, the plans
submitted 'have been designed with
an eye to simplieity and economy in
construction.
It is pointed out that the elements
to be first considered for the preserva-
tion or vegetables in their natural
State are ventilation, temperature,
moisture,- drainage, depth, and loca-
tion. All these matters are taken into
consideration. The cellar under the
barn driveway is of course intended
only for the keeping of feed for the
live stoek. The plan. given provides
foe a cellar 14 feet by 20 feet inside
with a storage capacity of 750 bushels
based on a depth of 5 feet. The cellar
under a building is so nearly like the
ether cellars thet no special descrip-
tion is thought necessary. Tlii•ee types
of an isolated -oellbar are dealt with
and designated as C1e C2, and C3,
respectively. Cl is e type that has
been tried with-sucoess for eight years
at Lethbridge, Alta., experimental'
stationeand C2 one that has been used
at Rosthern, Sask., station for half
that time, ,also with satisfactory re-
sults. The one Was a -capacity of 880
bushels and the' ther of 1,500 bushels;
eaeh based on a depth of 5 feet. C3 is
different from the others, principally
in the matter, of its roof, two methods
for farming .whioh are given. • It is
also a little more expensive. If the
.soil be sandy' and the ;ground high, the
most favorable conditions are offered
for the cellars.
• Cleaning Wegdy Corn.
• One season the wet weather kept us
out of our cornfield until the weeds
grew very thick. It looked as though
-they would take the crop
Ordinary cultivation would have
done very little, if any, good, so we
hitched to the listerevvith one horse,
and ran a shallow 'furrow between
the rows, the dirt, •of course, being
thrown. each way, eavering the weeds.
As soon as -the -dirt settled a little,
we took the five -shovel cultivator and,
letting, the horse ;walk down the shal-
low furrows, practically leveled the
ground between the rows. '
By this time the weeds had been
given such a good worrying that the
• ordinary four -shovel celtivator was
put in the field+, and; the ground worked
to a good advantage wherseeit wbuld
have been impracticable without Pre-
• vious preparation. •
, .
A little nonsense is singulasiY TO-
freshing to the man who works heed.
Parents as Educators
Preparing Our Children for Citizenship
BY ALICE WINGATE F'ItARY
Our children are given regular in-
struction in citizen,Ship in shoot, but'
the best that can he done for them
there will not alone give them the
urge toward. helpful service in the
community that -they might have with
the thoughtful co-operation of their
parents. The talks, -songs 'and pag-
eants of school have elerved, to widen
their vieion and strengthen their grasp
of the dramatic events of the past.
Fathers and mothers can help them to
express th•yir appreciation of the time
and country in -which they live it
termtf of every -day servibe. To teach
them that they have an important
part in keeping a happy, well -ordered
home aed that the atmosphere of a
community is the !o.traoSphere of its
homes, is to -day a foundation for sub-
stantial cititenthip later, To add to
this a setse of responsibility totalled
a younger child in One's own family
or a friend's or tOVOard animal pets,
is at least to steal; the habit of con-
sitleiting the interests of others. Just
to keep ettphasizing these twe points
day after day se that they become a
part of the children's lives is no small
task in itself.
IloweVer eager a young persob inay
be to serve his 'community, his impulse
will be dissipated er accomplish harm
rather than good unless his efforts
are intelligent. in Maud Lindsay's
tale of "The Giant Energy anti lig
Il'airy Skill" (an effectivZ eCtlt; te
d to cluldrei roM five to ten) the
fairy hdc1ies the eager, clumsy giant
to So direct his 'boisterous impulse to
serve, that after days Of patient effort
, lee is welcomed as a helper instead of
Ibeing merly toleratsi by theee
&-otis enhugh to overlook his !care-
lessness. A tet-yeat-old who was
crocheting a gift for her giandinother
reinerked, "EVen if it ist't dene well
Ifirandiriotoct will like it Imeeneejts
my Work, ' "low mach more whole-
econe fee the little girl it Would have
been if someone had ' insisted on the
charm el °freeing a. neatly made gift,
that Grandmother's pleasure :need not
,
be marred by -apologies. Organiza-
tions .are too Often hindiered by the
birt unskilled volunteer
worker. The community life of the
future will be enriched by every child,
who 'has learned to take pleasure in
careful, finished. work.
• "We require from buildingS as from
men," writes Ruelein in "Stones of
Venice" "two kinds of goodness; first
the doing of their practical duty well,
'then that they be graceful and pleas-
ing in cloitg it." This is one secret
of ;acceptable service, that the doer
shall find joy in his work rather than
seek all his pleasure as e thing apart.
This we can emphasize to ;oar little
citizens, showing them as consistentty as possible that we do find joy 'In
duties, -
Onr:eliildrcn will receive their firin:.
est foundation in the matter of their
responsibility toward the community
from the stress which is laid by happy
example and ;persistent .te.ahing Qn
theSefeegueetlerrgof the conuniftity
iVatitee by the' right sort of homes.
Read -them Mr K.alte Douglas Wig -
gin's charming Story 711111-Arr.CaraSe'S
Chieken8." Theins was athenage whose
light totildnatalzytally 'Possibility be
lil.4!:201.ei Carey `giveS. the keynote
childret when they
tri6ie 'kite the-Mi4'aileill'at, "W9
intist wake it a home; 'as beautlfull and
cernpiete as we CST) afford, One real
home always Makes others, I am elute
of that! We otinnot be diappy, or
prosperoue, or aseful, or suecessfel,
unleee ;we ,can contrive make the
Yellow House a hone. The river is
Mir river; the village is 'out village;
the people era our teighbors; Beulah
belongs to nt and ae belong
Pouf ale"
Inrarteday, Jirlir 1.3,1922.
The Girls' institutes of Ontario
By Emily J. Guest, iViA.
The Junior Women's er, as they ame"
popularly known, the Girls' Institutes,
continue to She oneof the interestirrg
features-th
of e • Ontario institute
organization.-
• Where theitenumbers are small, the
girls usually cart -jean as an integral
part of the Women's Branch Institutes
receiving special consideratiot when
the program is being planned and
carried out. As a rule also ;one girl
is elected to the Branch board- -of di-
rectors to represent the junior mem-
bers and baing forward -their views
-and desires. Sometimes keho they form
a girls' circle within the branch, hav-
ing their own ehairman who is a mem-
ber of the execlitive, and making them-
selves respc•nsible for ' all of some
meetings ar some of each. These,
inethotds remain popular in many,
places where much driving is done
as• mother and daughter can 'thus
come together to the meetings. Also
the life and brightness brought into
the meetings by the girls is greatlt-
appreciated by the women.
,
Where there- are a eonsiderable
nunilser of girls brought together by
such interests as one of the short
;coulees, they, frequently decide to
organize a junior -instituter. still co-
operating °basely with the women's
inetitubeeif there is one, but planning
• .and arrying on their own work and
m'eetiegs and receiving similae help
and eecognitioe from the departments
in the way of grants, literature, and
extension lectures. In their own pro -.
grams, besides the regular study .of
better and More scientific home-mak-
ing—for as the majority of the girls
are toeltintgforwarld to having a home
of their twin, 'ode of the primary aims
of the club is to prepare them better
to 'fulfill this mission—eomninnity
matters, seh-ools, hospitals, libraries,
and reemeation are given attention.
For. the hospitals the branch, under-
talcei plain- sewing of such kind that
the younger ;girls .can share in it. In
eotne cases at least one complete in-
• fant's layette, 'cradle ;included, is made
durrtjunior
g theyear.
itiear.s.taubes are showing,
too, an active friendly interest in• the
echoeils, visiting them and the teacher,
giving prizes at the schnoil fairs, en-
couraging the literary societies, and
doing what they -cart geneeallly to aid
in getting, better, eleaner and more
attragtive sc+hools and. grounds.
Besides an active synipathyl,vith the
improvement of the local libraries, the
juniors avail themselves of the travel-
ling girls' libraries sent out oft loan
by the Library Branch, Department
of Educatiort. The books are selected
tO meet the /*ads eepecially ef glrls
and team be had for a period of -six
Month§ in tn-0Fa/Toll
paying one--:waY exPrees -Charges, The
travelling library is returned anci, if
desired, replaced by a freeh 'ene.
Play has, of coarse, its, legitimate
place, Co-operation with the seniors
has resu1tedJjt t1eAtc,,v4ion cl,ft.12.4P1
basket or volley ball, and other whole-
some reoreatione 1 conneetion in Some
cases with the conninstathr
nS.15-;', AA; bhtjflpj gabliirrt4S"
each of the following subjects in ro-
tatioui
1. Horticulture, . Agriculture.., and
out-of-door matters;
2. Literary and education topics;
3. Practical and ideal h•ome-making;
4.
•
-iSs°eexiaple. cted that all social gather-
ings of junior institutes be properly
chaperoned and close at a -reaeonahly
early •
Storhtmr.
O00-TrSe'S by !departmental "ile-
monstrat-ors and lecturers remain.
popular. These are often earried on at
the same time as the junior farmers'
courses las agricuiltuee, the two organ-
Iza'ons uniting for a weekly literary
afternoon arid ,conchiding with a joint'
lieequet at winch there are traits,
music, recitations, and speeches by
prominent people. •'
One county followed up such a
course in domestic science_ by select-
ing a team of four, a captain and three
others, from each junior branch in
the county, to put on a calming con-
test at the fall fair. The prizes were
trips to institute conventions in one
or other of Ontario's leading cities, or
'canning outfits for the home. One
suoh short course, recently cloeed,
lasted for a month an,d brought to-
gether over two hundred and fifty
youn,g people from the countryside,
being- a veritable little travelling col-
lege, hi a small centre remote fron.
the large cities.
• SOMP' features of interest from the
'
girls protgrams are:
• Education—Sttidies in parliament-
ary law and procedure; How we are
governed; Laws of health and beauty;
English and Canadian Literature;
pubulin :ctil—Pearalg%Planning, .remodelling,
and furnishing a house; Understand-
ing and caeitg for the human body;
Good farm iii home and in public.
• Income earning, pointers for girls
on the -farm, in the home, in the cern-
11141meat5I-r
Hhful recreation, out of doors;
i.11(1Jnros'r women's institutes may avail
themselves of departmental assitance
through the various short courses in
domestic seien,oe, sewing, millin,oryy
first aid .and home nursing, and house
decoeation; also of help from indi-
vidual lecturers on special topics in
connection with theInstitutes 'Bran-ele
s ,
• of the Departinent tit'Agriculture; the
travelling libraries, extension lectures,
and assistance in the preparation of
papers through bhe Packet Loan Lib-
uelph..
rary of tlie Ontario -Agricultural C.01-
lege at G 1
Plow Points Wear Rapidly.
Many farmers who ate using tree-
ters are learning that plow points
tem -ear asore seapjclly when propelled
by the tractor thi'an When horses pull
the implement. This iS due, to the
feet that the tra,etar travels more
rapidly and the increased, resistance
due to speed Nyears Out tile point%
much quicker. It therefore becomes
i-Fee-6;sa7ry to eharpen the plow poitits/
more frequently than is the case when
using' menses, eteseseeel,SgalesS
essays, debates, one minute tgelches,
story tdluling, ,clieetiesiOns, apailiiag and
• geography mate -hes, inusjai eenteets,
41ici ioak ganies are lea/three.
The ).htariolios pian their Meetings—,
tWO11etifis in ifuratien-eto suit
their own tastes and needs. The first
hour is giveitto serried's work—pa:pees,
debate -8y diecuteione, handicraft, clord-
estic science, or the Study of Shakes-
peare Or genie Other Anther, and 'tile
second to recreation -eel -torus ehiging,
instreleeriball misia, phy,sical culture,
falk galI164,, table games, and charades
ckr tableaux in seine branches.'
Other e deveite ark entire Meeting to
Conven
Manta '
far toragtS