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THE TWILIGHT STORY.
CHAPTER THREE
f What Lady Hen Did,
' Do you rember I told you LadY
lien stayed sitting on her white egg,
;which sho hid in the barn. all eight
long to keep it warm? Well even
rorhen daylight came around she just
Olt she couldn't leave it 'there all
alone and didn't know what to do.
But just then in fiew Miranda Spar -
tow. When she saw the egg she told
Lady Hen she was right to keep it
;warm all the time andd not let it get
'cold. So Lady Hen was glad she -stay -
led and sat there all of today too. The
'lark came again and she went to sleep
the way she did the night before, But
when the next morning came, nay! but
ishe was feeling hungry and - so very
thirsty too. I guess you would feel
:pretty hungry if yeti just didn't have
your dinner and would_ only have to
wait till supper time, wouldn't you?
But Lady Hen did without breakfast
and dinner and supper because she
!thought the egg might get' cold. She
got just awfully hungry, so this morn-
iug when she knew it was time for
breakfast and the nice Lady front the
big house was calling all the chickens
to dome as she threw out a lot of good
grain, she looked out to see that no-
body was around and then she crept
Carefully out and ran over and she had
a great big breakfast. Oh, it was good,
and the water was so good. too. But
as soon as she was finished she hur-
ried back, afraid the egg would get
'cold. However she found it wasn't
'Cold yet because she was away such
a little while, so she decided she would
'o every morning and get something
to eat and then hurry back again.
After that do You know what else
she did? You can't guess, why she
laid another eft in the nest, then an -
Other and another until. she had eight
12-3-4-5-6-7-S. They. she to herself,.
"Now I guess that's enough for me
!Lo look after."'
Miranda Sparrow came flying in one
day after Lady Hen had the eight eggs
and whispered something in her . ear
and then flew out again, and after she
was gone Lady Hen did what she told
her to do. She would fluff up her
• wings out big and thea can You im-
agine what she did? She rolled on the
eggs and they didn't break for her
body was so soft, but she did look
funny. Then she put her bill down
and turned over each egg. you See
Lady Hen never had ally babies before
so Miranda Sparrow had to tell her
to do that.
Lady Hen had been sitting ou those
eggs a long, long time. Just think
elle was there for three long weeks.
Little boys and girls had their play
day on Saturday and went to Sunday
School on Sunday three times, going
to school all through the week for
three weeks and still she was sitting
there. She began to notice no other
lady liens seemed to want to have
babies so late in the year, for here
it was after the summer holidays,
but she didn't like to ask them about
it because then they would
wenow
ll
ell
about her eggs •hidden away so
in this nice dark corner.
" The very next morning something
wonderful happend, Lady Hen heard
something. If she had been the least
bit deaf she wouldn't have heard it.
Pretty soon the sound came again as
plain as could be. tank -Peck -Peck,
Where did it come from? and here
was another little noise only it had a
wee bit higher sound, peck -peck -peck,
and she got quite fussed. up about it.
At last she peeked underneath her
warm body for she wondered If some-
thing was wrong with her eggs, and
sure enough one of the eggs was brok-
en and she said, "Cluck, Cluck, Cluck,
well what's this? I don't understand
it, but I better sit real quiet so they
don't all break," but soon the eggs
started to move and a big piece came
off. She thought she better look un-
der again.
When she looked under this time.
oh what do you think she saw? a
fluffy little head was peeking out of
the egg and his bright little eyes were
looking at her, Lady Hen was so ex-
cited and hurried and covered her
feathers around it so it wouldn't get
cold, but pretty soon on the. other
side she felt another egg break and
here was another little fluffy head.
Oh, how cute they looked, She cud-
dled them in under her so close and
warm, and Lady len knew then these
were her babies that she had waited
for, for suck a long time. The dark
was softly creeping in. around the cor-
ners and Lady Hen told her babies
about the lovely night for the first
time and they shut those sleepy
little eyes and soon all were sleeping.
Next week—How about the next morn-
ing?
After The'Pudding
Comes The Cake
The Christmas cake ranks nest in
Importance after the Budding and the
mince -pies, and it is wise, when
youngsters have to be considered, to
to provide a cake not too rich or
heavy, The Christmas cake, and not
the pudding and mince -pies, as many
believe, is the "last straw" at many
Christmas feasts.
Concentrate on a cako that is fruity.
without being too rich or heavy. An
ideal cake can be made from the fol-
lowing recipe:—
To a pound of self-raising flour add
a, good pinch of salt; then rub in half
a pound of margarine. When the mix-
ture is like breadcrunlbs, add a quar-
ter of a pound each of washed cur-
rants, sultanas, and stoned raisins, and
two ounces of chopped candied peel.
To this add a quarter of a pound of
line white sugar and a tablespoonful
pf nixed spice, ;ad stir well.
i Next take two eggs and beat them
:well, adding a gill of milk. Stir this
In the cake mixture until the whole
3s thoroughly moulded together.
�'rrease a cake tin and line with clean
white paper. Put the mixture in the
titin and place in a hot oven for twenty
minutes. After twenty miuutes the
]feat must be reduced, and the cake
baked in a slow oven. After two
hours the cake may be tried with a
knife, If the latter comes out clean,
the cake is done. If not, put it back
iii the oven and allow it to cook until
he knife does come out clean.
To ice the cake, allow it to, get
Otte cold, then cut off the top until it
is perfectly Sat, Take half a pound
of loin: sugar end roll out until
smooth. Beat up stiffly the white of
one egg with a pinch of -salt, then
Ancient Totem
Strange things—strange ways—have left their pristiue traces amo
Canada's aborigines. Here we see a mighty strange totem with win
Unusual- And in background may be made out prow of ancient du
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The object of this departmeldt acre of fertilizer analysing 2 to 4 per
Is to place at the service of our cent nitrogen, 8 to 12 per cent avail -
farm readers the advice of ac- able phosphoric acid, and 10 to 15
knowledged authorities on all sub- per cent potash. The higher potash
Jects pertaining to the farm. fertilizer should be used on the black
Address all questions to Pro- ground since muck soils are always
fessoe Henry G, Sell, in care of short ofthis type of plantfood. For
The Wilson Publishing Company, best results apply 200 pounds of fer-
Limited, Toronto, and answers tilizer through the fertilizer attach-
will appear In this column in the meat of your sugar beet drill alien
order in which they are received, pleating the seed. Two hundred to
When writing kindly mention this six hundred pounds of the fertilizer
paper. As space is limited it is should be spread on the ground by the
advisable where immediate reply fertilizer dropper grain drill preced-
is necessary that an addressed ing. sowing of sugar beet seed.
envelope be " enclosed with the T. W.:-1. A five acre field has a
question, when the answer will be clay sub -soil' with five inches of block
mailed direct before being pub -
earth on surface, is it suitable for ter -
fished. nips and potatoes? 2. How deep
Copyright by Wilson Publishing should potatoes be planted and how
Co., Limited. mauy bushels to the acre?
Here are some of this weeks gees• Answer: -1. The clay soil with the
black earth ou top if carefully worked
tions and answers:— should be suitable for turnips and
Reader: -1. I have a piece of clay should produce fairly good potatoes.
ground which I have had in . potatoes sowing Potatoes as a rule do hest en gravelly
sowing
for two years and I intend
wheat on this next year. I ask your or sandy loam soil. 2. As a rule po-
tatoes should not be planted more than
advice in regard to the best results. 4 to 6 inches deep. Ten to twelve
Would it be -wise to put any More bushels to the acre is considered a
manure on? 2. What do you• think sufficiently thick seeding.
about sowing oats on sod which is to M. F.:-1. Would it be wise to top -
be plowed next spring? dress fields of wheat with manure for
Answer: -1. If you woui d the Po winter? We were not able to get the
tato ground heavily. 1 would not ad- manure out earlier.
vise adding more stable'°manure when Answer: ..You will be well ad-
vise,vhowever, it for.wheat. I would lbsad-.
vised to top -dress winter wheat with
adding about 300 lbs. manure, especially if the wheat has
per acre of fertilizer carrying 12 to 14 not made a very heavy top growth.
per cent available phosphoric acid and Do not put too heavy a covering of
5 to 6 per cent potash. The reason is manure. About 2 to 4 tons to the
that stock manure, is relatively weak acre has been found to be most ef-
in plant ripener- acid— fective. This will tend to lodge the
and the addition of hosphoric the fertilizer in
question will tend to balance manuresnow over the wheat and will, there•
fore, protect the wheat and gain more
and assist the wheat crop to .make for it. In the spring as
good root -growth and to ripen evenly. moistureon as the field is sufficiently dry
The potash will help the plumping of soto go upon, it may be advisable to
the grain. The fertilizer is best ap- top -dress the wheat field with 250
plied through a grain drill with fer- pounds per acre of a fertilizer analys-
tilizer distributing compartment. 2.in about 2-12-6. This will give the
Oats may be sown on sod land which early growing wheat a good start and
ever,the plowing should not be too has beenplowed this spring. How- should help in the general vigor and
yield of the crop. Fertilizers can be
deep, else the -water supply for the applied am a top dresser by broadcast -
oat crop might be seriously impaired. in them with a lime and fertilizer
I prefer using plowed sod for potatoes spreader or by crossing the grain with
cu someltivvother cultivated crop sinceation gives a chance to rid fee a regular grain drill, applying the fer-
cutilizer through the regular fertilizer
soil of weeds before the grain and section. Care should be taken to have
grass crops are sown. the discs or hoes suspended so that
G.O.: I have fourteen acres of roll- they will not injure the growing crop.
ing clay soil to plant to beaus next
Farm Problems
ed by Prof. Henry G. Bell, Dept. of Chemistry,
Ontario Agricultural. College, Guelph
Life of Cut Flowers Prolonged
By Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere
The life of cut flowers, fruits and.
vegetables may be prolonged by stor-
age in a carbon dioxide treated at-
mosphere, show experiments reported
to the American Chemical Society by
Norwood C. Thornton, of the Boyce
Thompson Institute for Plant Re -
Arch, Yonkers, N.Y. •
Roses, one of the most perishable
of flowers, responded well to the treat -
`meat. Rosebuds stored in carbon di-
oxide treated air for seven days were
still fresh and opened slowly with
good color and shape when removed
to warm air, while those kept for the
same period in ordinary cold storage
were badly shattered. Since florists
have considered three days the maxi-
mum period for roses, the treatment
gave a possible gain of four days.
This is a new application of the
principle on which all refrigeration by
solid carbon dioxide, known as dry
ice, is based. All living orgauisms
respire, giving off carbon dioxide.
This process, which leads to total
decay in the case of cut. flowers, fruits
add the icing sugar gradually. Take,
a bread knife and, after dipping it in
hot water, prepare to smooth over the
icing, which you can pour over the
cake in spoonfuls, dipping the knife
from time to time in hot water to en-
sure
llsure smoothness. Then leave it to
set.
To colour the iciug, cochineal or
vegetable coloring cau be -obtained at
any grocer's, and a few drops are add-
ed to the icing before putting it on
the cake. To make almond icing,
work four ounces of ground almonds
into the yolk of an egg without beat-
ing,
eating, with four ounces of icing sugar
as well. This makes a stiff mass
which can be piled and arranged on
top of the cake'before the white icing
is added.
"Your wife seems terribly worried."
"She is. She is worried about how
to buy 24 Christmas gifts with three
dollars and a half."
"Economic ideals must include the
ideal of beauty as 'well as the ideal
of plenty," —Sir Basil Blackett.
and vegetables, can be delayed by the
presence of carbon dioxide in the air.
"To handle dry ice efficiently," Mr.
'Thornton explained. "It became im-
portant to determine the tolerance of
various plant organs to artificially pro-
duced dioxide atmospheres. The re-
sults show that some plant organs are
improved for consumption by proper
percentages of carbon dioxide, others
have considerable tolerance of the
gas, and only a few require that mini-
mal amounts of it he present.
"During the treatment the pear be-
came very soft and juicy, while the
peach and the banana remained hard.
The banana withstood. 33 per cent
caebon dioxide without apparent in-
jury to the final ripening - color' or
flavor. This concentration retarded
the coloring of the banana so that it
was approximately two days longer in
ripening than the controls. Citrus
fruit -withstood a relatively high con-
centration of carbon dioxide without
noticeable injury during or after the
storage period."
Earth's Four -Hour Day
Most people impatiently await the
coming of the shortest day—because
from thence onward the evenings be-
gin to lengthen.
The date of the shortest day de-
pends upon the exact time the sun at-
tains its most southerly declivatiou,
If it does this before midnight on
December 21, then that day is the
shortest. If after midnight, then the
22nd enjoys the distinction; while if
the time of most southerly declination
occurs exactly at midnight, as occas-
ionally it does, then there are two
shortest days in that particular year.
Stil more infrequently it sometimes
happens that this time is delayed until
after midnight on the 22nd, in which
case, of course, the 23rd becomes the
shortest day.
nudging by our modern standard, at
one period of the earth's history all
our days were "shortest .days," for
astronomers have shown that in very
remote times the day lasted only
about four hours.
This ureaus that for millions of
years the day has been slowly but
surely leugthenieg. Its duration, in-
deed, has altered in. this direction
even during the time of civilised man.'
We know this from study of ancient
eclipses, as found in Chinese records.
C.L.M•S.
The other day a man, hitherto with-
out a spot on his character, inquired
with well -feigned innocence:
"How can five persons divide five
eggs so that each man will receive one
and stili one rentain in the dish?"
After the company went all but dis-
tracted in the mazes of this proposi-
tion the fellow meanly said:
"One takes the dish with
the egg."
spring. Would like to get advice as
to fertilizer. Would you advise using • World's Most
fertilizer on this land, and if so, how
much per acre, and what kind?
Answer:—Many beau growers have
obtained satisfactory returns from
fertilizing their crop. In tests carried
on with beans in Huron County, by
this institution in 1929, the average
increase for fertilizing beans was 2,93
bushels per acre. The increases in
the seven experirnents conducted at
that time, ranged from 0 to 5.75
bushels per acre. Good results were
obtained from the use of 2-12-6 or
-8-10-5 fertilizers. These are usually
applied at the rate of 300 pounds per
acre. Best results are obtained by
applying this fertilizer through the fer-
tilizer section of the grain drill, Many
bean growers recommend spreading
the fertilizer 7 to 14 days before plant-
ing the beans. If you do not have a
grain drill with fertilizer dropping sec-
tion, any broadcasting machinery such
as a lime spreader will distribute the
fertilizer on top of the plowed ground.
Careful harrowing and disking will
work it iu. When fertilizers are ap-
plied through the grain fertilizer drill
it should be allowed to drop through
the hoe on each side of the one drop-
ping beans, but not in•the hoe that is
dropping the • seed. If fertilizers are
carefully applied as described, they
supply available plant -food to the
young growing crop and give it ma-
terial assistance. Do not drop the
beans on the fertilizers.
P. F.: We are contemplating grow-
ing a small acreage of sugar beets the
coining season and as it will be our
first experieuce along this line, we
would like to have your advice as to
what analysis of fertilizer to use. One
field is heavy ground with clay sub-
soil. The other is black ground with
gravelly bottom.
Answer'—For fertilizer for sugar
The cause of peace is not the cause
of cowardice. If peace is sought to
be defended or preserved for the safe-
ty of the luirurious and the timed, it is
a sham, and the peace will be base;
war is better, if peace is to be main-
tained.
He Got a Plenty.—"Now," said the
college man toehis dad at the football
game, "You'll see more excitement for
two dollars than you ever saw before."
"I don't know," replied the old gent;
"that's what my marriage liceuse
cost me."—"Malteaser"
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Wonderful Bank
The recently completed head office
building of Lloyd's Bank in London is
probably the most wonderful in the
world. It has taken more than four
years to erect, and during that time
600 men have been engaged incess-
antly upon the work.
Labour-saving devices have been
brought to a fine art. There enters,
let us say, a customer who wishes to
inquire the size of his balance—or,
more likely in these days, his over-
draft. The clerk of whom he makes
his inquiry writes down the message
upon a telewriter. This is reproduced
automatically and instantaneously in
a department several floors away
where the bank ledgers are kept. The
ledger clerk looks up the amount and
records the figures on the telewriter.
Next moment these are passed over
the counter to the customer.
In the basements of the bank far
below ground level are bombproof
strong rooms with huge steel doors
weighing many tons. Yet so beauti-
fully balanced are they that a child
can open them—once the key hast
been turned in their burglar-proof
locks. All corridors are patrolled in
cessantly, and a wonderful system of.
mirrors enables the guardians to see
round distant corners,
The park -keeper found ,a tramp
asleep ou one of the seats,
"Hi, your he exclaimed, shaking
the man's shoulder. "I'm going to
close the gates,"
"All right," murmured the tramp,
sleepily. "Don't slam then"
Far be it from me to assert that
what everybody says must be true.
Everybody is often, as likely to be
beets use from 400 to 800 pounds per wrong as right.
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