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50 per eent. end replace with snip
the grein mixtures recommeudesh
The men who does net take
Poseible step to hold over his $
and who saerifiees his assets,
Make .421 unqualified mietalse
it'were distinetiy hetter to disPeS
practically give Away, a judiele
culled few, and winter the bah:
fairly well, than to Ala Sa
The 'VV6irld's Live Stoe I
T e revs United State$ proteetivoi Making the Old Farm Wen..po Yew Tricks
' Situation,
etr ,i s haying a davraollis elie,e, on No Inure wedaeg through now pert of the Weli though the exhaust.;
csiiye steels sikiation in this coentry, clieked paths on a freezing' janualth'Y
1;7 ' % ,ticifl'arlY es regerde western Profs dey for the fanner, Pl9Telio eXpanSion of the air- in the trap
12 per cent, me valuable than bran
,
1 (as Omagh a ram echate, maY pro's , uttelleor;s1 gb'rylcutlItTireillsth%rwrit TtInIF4"utt Y111111:111ciellsd:1113144c411116g of 1.'3:15: ie°arlitQh:venbl:4:4:11.11; et:te":aa:t414:8:ehae:gee Qaf :1:rietPauTinIt'P'fle"rx:
1
_ eo 1,nees, This situation, tios,vevestbaatilasileest • '
'thou t hopeful signs . , .. erts enough pressure on the water in
from a milk predocing standpoint, in blessing in dieguiee. After all', the ,oPe there was 4 tremeadotis decrease
itself it has a fairly high fibre eon- problem resolves itself inte one of ii the stock at the end of 1020 ,eom-
A.44rets cemmunIcatlens to Aulonoraist. 73 'Adelaide et. West, "wont*.
. Profit in Purebred Sires. s,
The cesh value of using a pure-
bred bull has been strikingly proved
U1 an interesting experiment eared
put last year by a farmer on the
Pecifit eat, He Was able to allow a
difference insthe sellingsprice of. $53.40
between twe steers of the same age,
out of the same kind a cows which
had been reared side by side on the
range and bad been finished together
in the saine feed lot—a difference,
according to his own statement in an
American farm paper, due eatirely to
the influence of a pure-bred as against
a scrub sire. The story of the experi-
ment is thus briefly told in the words
of the producer himself: "Both steers
were eal-md in the spring of 1918,
their darns being the same kind and
quality of cows. They were put to-
gether in the fall of 1919 and, fed to-
gether during the winter of 1919-1920.
They were turned into the same pas-
ture in the spring of 1920 and p
ii.to the same feed -lot on Decerab
lst, 1920; they were then fed all t
alfalfa hay they would eat until Ja
uaey 15th, when e.bout 20 lbs. of sila
and 5 to 6 lbs. of 'corn were add
to their daily rations, until Mar
20th, when they were shipped
Srskarie for sale. The steer sired
a purebred bull weighed 1,410 lbs. an
•sold for 8e per lb., or $112.80. Th
sired by a scrub bull weighed 990 lb
and sold for 6c per lb., or $59.40, t
difference in the selling price of th
two steers being $53.40."
A eirailar result demonstrated b
carloads was recently recorded on th
Chicago market. An Illinois feed
tent All though Eastern nan,aci,a,; distribution, and control of supply.
however, easels a sight crop and we ociduesbytiotabewhich may have to be ,handle,
will be forced to depend upon West- province Most affected, fa
Ontario, with not more than 1"9 Per
ern production. Wheat by-peoducts
cent. of last year's crop held ever
should be fairly readily procurable.
in
a
OR cake and linseedby-prodUcts will the form of low grade hay and
be high in price, but will apparently. 60 to 65 per cent. normal crop this decrease of cattle was 2,414,050, of
be available fairly generally. Even year there is no "bullish'' moveineet ,sheeP 7,140,400, or nearlyfifty per
to the hay market as yet, .„ cent. less than in 1914, of swine 2
at this high price it is doubtful if the os
feeder whose main desire is to cut • ,r955,290, or 30 per centelese than be-
fore the war. In Italy the decreases
down on roughage cannot afford to be
without some linseed oil meel in the ;were of cattle 400,259, of sheep 2,070,-
ration. With 10 lbs. of hay of fair 000, and of mine 383,074, or a seventh
quality, 4 to 5 lbs. of straw and de- f the whole.. In Germany there were
c
Pending on the age end condition of No c'olony house should decreases of attle 4,089,963, or more have more
e
the animal, a few pounds of a inixeuee than fifty chickens in it at else thne. than a fifth and of swin11,389,643,
"or f
of bran 2 parts, oats 2 parts, linseed More eggs, less feed and more nearly orty-Ave per cent. Belgium
es
oil meal 1 part, production need not be money has been the result of culling hovved decreases of 557,213 cattle,
.
looked for, but the animal will be well out the poor hens early. • of 59,171 sheep, and of 866,519 swine,
maintained. Corn, from all indica- ,A ragged bird that has just beganAelng a decline of over thirty per
t ceet. in both p
tions, will be one of the heaviest crops to molt ,should not be ' cattle and sheeand of
pared with pre-war yeers,,excepting
.
only an sheep Geemany. Britam
.the decreases shown were of cattle
421;6,57, of eheen ,4,633,917, of swine
523,748, $'i' about a fifth of the number
in the country in 1914. In France the
now jos, .niore than 50 per cent. in swine. Not
because she is not laying.
on the countries that participated in
Head lice an chickens or tur
key, '''' , 1 '
v
on _ a ,. , ass, fiesiwar show decreases but every
can be killed by rubbing es a
, aeuntry in Europe, excepting only
camphorated Oil. e :
d Portugal, is sin the same
Keeping young roosters after they f'-'1"lain an
a Thus Denmark. shows a
weigh five five pounds to the pair is
grow thee- are classified in market as ' 'he
for after their eambe ,Vine of 60 per cent. in swine and
waste of food,
Netherlands 65 per cent., these
ut ever recorded in the United States.
er This .means that ground corn may
he enter largely into our. ,Canadian ra-
n._ tons. A mixture of 4 parts bran, 2
ge parts corn, 2 parts oats and 1 part oil
ed meal would be an excellent coneen-
eh bated substitute for a roughage. Even
to bran and corn, as these concentrates
by are likely to be the most easily pro-
d cured, eauld be fed, 4 parts bran, 2
at parts corns
el The use of straw—Where roUg•h
old roosters," veluc,h bring consider-
ably less in price. e,
o not overcrowd. A grnt many
being Canada's principal competitors
siseabog products. Returns from Rus-
-sla .encl Austria for obvious reasons
e farm poultryekeepers in their entless- are notgiven,but Czecho-Slovakia
I cat -
stew. It must practically all be fed. room for and, by overcrowmwin
dingealost
money- atteMet to ishewa a decline of 30 per cent.
lam far making in
he is scarce, straw cannot be afforded as
keep twice as many birds an
e'se''&ey have; e d nearly 55 per cent, in s sine.
et a bedding material, particularly oat e United States shows an increase
dose upon 17 per icent. in cattle, a
yl The practice of feeding cattle entirely entirely cut of the production Of ., :1-
ss of nearly 10 per scent. in sheep,
e; on straw is, of course, not economical, ter eggs. Each bird ahould have abont
and a gain of over 12 per cent. in
er but the ruminant must have a certain three square feet of floor space in the
PPed two carloads which he had fed! amount of crude fibre. They should house. Either build more ,housee oe swine'
ehi
since weaning, one carload the pro -1 not, however, be asked to obtain their market the extra, birds before winter
purebreclbull, the ,other pnr..! energy from the comparatively low
' sets in. ,
genyaf a Robber Bees.
Corner nests save room; and, being During a honey dearth while the
semi -dark, hens prefer them. TheY weather is 'still warni, the bee -keeper
Should in all his work carefully avoid.
afeing anything that will excite rob-
bing, for robber -bees are a conetaat
annoyance and. danger in the apiary.
most climates, as the air could enter gees
them morefreely. The opening to the Warm weather will readily yield to any
that have nothing else to do in
lower nest should be about three temptation to obtain honey in this
inches from the floor. A Perching 4ary. Alter moi -e or less fighting they
board had best be erected for the hen Will overpow
er any very weak colon-
.
to alight on in flying up to the toP tees
. , especially those that have last
nest.
and in has immediate vicinity
.! percentage of nutrients contained in
Throughout the animals were fed and straw. Nevertheless, with some grain
raze ogether. The load of his own or concentrates supplied, straw forms
breeding weighed 1,365 lbs., while the an excellent eFtede fibre filler and in
purchased load weighed 938 lbs. The order that the digestive and excretory
spread in price was 75c perecwt, while organs may function properly, straw
the total difference per head was maY be made to take the place of
$42.91, a result solely fo be credited much more valuable roughage. It is
to the purebred sire.
. • safe to say that there will be very
little bedding wasted this winter in
How Can .We Meet the Shortage of many parts of the East. Sawdust and
Hay and Straw. shavings are ,available in many places.
The general crap situation in On- There is no reason why considerable
tario during the present season indi- bedding material might not be gather-
cates the necessity of radical changes etd in the form of leaves in the fall.
in the feeding of reughage this win- They have been utilized in the past.
ter. How may roughage be saved? The advisability of cutting hay and
What are the substitutes, if any? it straw and of mixed feeds—By increas-
has been. shown that live stock may ing the labor of feeding in the cutting
be maintained on a ration of =leen- of roughage and by mixing say cut
trates. This is neither practical, econ- hay, cut straw, and whatever meal is
ordeal, nor necessary, however. In being fed, there is little doubt that a
, very brief form the situation may be considerable -sa„ying of roughage may
approached under the following head. be secured. Len energy is required,
inge. to masticate, digest and , assimilate
CaelsielefeediniasesP y ea pee,;,thia:,erst- feed, .and where.:itnis'ndietel
eqieei, end 'Elie pattitability is betiered or at -least'
straw . ve been c,verfeel. With the 'averaged' Under normal feeding prat -
mows full and •hay cheap, our live trice the advisability of cutting,rough-
stock have been asked to obtain the age is doubtful in that the cow is fit -
nutrients necessary for their main- ted by nature to elo. this work herself.
terms:seeand growth by handling large However, this winter the object is to
quantities of crude fibre with a eom- save roughage and the farmer who
paratively small percentage of nu- hasfacilities for eutting the roughage
trients. Under these particular condi- will find a result in saving. Can the
tions they have come through the win- feeding value of such a mixture be
ter at least fairly well. With hay and furthers improved? '
straw at a premium, however, the Molasses—A straight comparison of
question arises to what extent ear, molasses with such feeds as bran, oats,
roughage be cut out of the ration of shorts, corn meal, et., shows the fact
the horse or cow and substituted with that molasses has a comparatively low
. other feeds which are procurable. Very -feeding value. It is true that the
few feeders have ever had occasion to sugars are of considerable value from
weigh the hay which they are feeding their carbohydrate nature. However;
their live stock. The manger is filled as a conditioner or as an agent to
and the operation repeated. When it render other feeds more palatable, and
is considered that the standard re- on top of this, with the very fair feed -
commendation for the feeding of hay ing value hi the feed itselfeinolasses
to horses is at the rate of 1 lb. to could be highly remnimended to feed
every 100 Iles. of live weight, it will either mixed- with cut feeds, distri-
be appreciated that many horses have, buted in the undiluted form over hay
In the past, eaten hay for their own
amusement only. When it is realized
that 8 or 9 lbs. of good clover hay
, and 4 or 5 lbs. of oat straw is an
the roughage needed for the milking
cow supplied-' with a well balanced
meal mixture and ensilage it -will be
ova:Tent that hay is in the very great
'majority of cases overfed to cattle.
Even for the producing dairy herd
where no other roughage appeara in
the ration and where it is supnlemeet-
ed only by concentrates the very limit
of hay that would be required.would
be 20 lbs. daily with say 8 or 9 lbs.
of oat straw and this for the eow that
Is being held over for better times and
or straw, or diluted with water and
sprhilded by the use of a waterina man i
ea
a
can be built in any style desired—cai.
have solid walls, or they may be made
slatted, -with plasterinfg lath. -The
latter plan raight be preferable in
their queen, and will carry the 'honey
t?3, 'their own hives. Robbintg is fre-
He Got One. qhently started by the caegessness of
Uncle—"You ought to be ashamed' the bee -keener during matiipalation,
of yourself, Tommy. See what a lot of .especsally when removing the honey.
prizes your sister has got, and , asfln. dealing with this subject in. Bul-
haven't even earned a certificated! leen No. 26, Secontd Series, available
"Oh, but I got e certificate ,once, :47:the Piiblieaticins Braneh of the De -
uncle," said Tommy. ' • pay.tment efeAgriculture, Ottawa, the
"Indeed! 'What for, I sheuld like to erminien Apiarist points out that ti
know?" ' t bbing no ctiony shoald be
"For being born." : o, grow weak and, no honey
should expesede in, the
,regi*Whas begun, the at-
tack 'Colonies shotild have a bunch
of wet grass or weeds thrown over the
entrance. Hives should be opened as
little its possible and then only dur-
"Barnyard golf links" are a Pretty
sure -sign 4a happy farm, or com-
munityi pit,ching horseshees is, a one
hundred percent. Canadian, sport.
Sitiple 'Methods of Priservink Vegetables
While many garden vegetables can are vvashod, drained and. weighed. Use
be stem& dal a well constructed cellar about 3. lbs. ,of 'salt for .100 lbs. of
for use during the winter and spring vegetables. No water is necessary,
months,. there are advantages in pre- becanse the salt extracts the 1.11GCS-
serving some of them in crocks, hot- sary ,moisture 'from the- vegetables.
ties, and other containers. A simple Cabbage, string beans, and beet tops
method of preserving vegetables by may be treated in this way. ,Spreact a
fermentation and salting is described layer of ,vegetablei one ineh thick in
in Bulletin 93 of the Experimental the bettom of the crock, covering with
Farms, Ottawa. S-uch containers as a very ;Olin layer of salt, being careful
old kegs, butter tabs or stone crocks to distribute the salt evenly. If more
may be used. The preservation may salt has to be added tlie finished pro-
be carried out either by salting with- duet will be too salty. Fill the crock
out fermentation, fermentation with only three-qaaters full, placing a
dry salting, and fermentation in 13rine. cloth over the top, then a plate turned
Salting Without Fermentation. upside downs or a- piece 'of 'clean board,
The vegetables best suited for salt- and a weighit. A terapound weight is
ng without fermentation are 'spinach, sufficient for a five -gallon crock.
-bring beans, green peas, corn and The containereshould be allowed to
bbage. The vegetables -are washed, stand in -a warm room for from eight
he water drained off, and 'the vege- to ten days. When' b-abbles ef gas
ables weighed. The best results are cease to
btained by using 25 lbs. of salt to complete.
aPPear the fermentation is
very 100 lbs. of vegetablea Spread
A layer of h'ot paraffin wax, about
orie-half inch thick, is poured over the
top to prevent a igum farming. It is
vera importa.nt that the wax should
net be added before the fermentation
ceases.
Fermentation in Brine.
Cucurnbees, letting beans, green
over the the feed in the mangers. It is a
wonderful relish and the use of com-
paratively small quantities of it is
easily seen in the better condition of
cattle. Apparently the feeding grades
of molasses will be fairly readily pro-
curable, particularly in the Maritime a
Provinces. Prices will be very con- d
siderably lower than have applied s,
within the last few yews and the des
comparatively small quantity that nm
wauld be required would be such as a
to forte the use of this material on C
the consideratian of live stock feeders de.
wherever it may be procured.
layer of the vegeta,bles. one inch
eep in. the bottom of the erock and
prinkle with salt, being eaaefel to
tribute the salt evenly.' Continue
alcing alteenate layers of vegetables
nd salt until the crock is nearly fulL
over with a piece of cotton. or a
uble thickness of cheesecloth. Over
thas put a plate or a piece of board snaton, beets, peas, and corn may all
and a weight. A clean brick or *one be preserved4in brine. Wash the vege-
may be used as a weight. tables, ' drain off the water, and pack
The eontainer should now be set in a erock until neaelY full. Prepare
aside in a cool place. If at the end a week brines esing ene-half a pint of
of 24 hews the salt e.nd the peessocee vinegar and three-fourths of a cup
on the vegetables have not extracted of Salt to each gallon of water. If a
home enough to covet, acid it brine, five-gallorecrock is used, two and one -
made by dissolving 1 pound of salt in; half gallons of bri-ne will be neces-
2 quarts of water, Enough brine! sassy.. This must be covered with a
should be added to come above the elo,t11, a Piece of clean beard or a
plate or board. Set aside it 4 place Plate, and a ;weight. The containen
-where it will not be disturbed and anust'be left in a Witalll place until the
cover with hot paraffin wax, feementation has ceased and then
Beans should be cut in twa-inch talent to a cool place, where it will
ces; peas should be shelled; while not' be distuebed after covering with
'n -should be eooked for ten minutes hot paraffin wax, `
-set the iiiilk, after which it is cut when salting cucumbers, a layer a
the cab with a sharp knife
It has been found that in, ar.eparing dill lead a handful of inixed spice 1/147
ted beans for the table, it is. nmeh obreoPckis.6edG'brenenthetobnoitattoolne,e"mtlaytol3a1(,)afe:bbilee
tet to soak the beams for two hours peeporee with sain arid spices. Beet
the reornissg, changing the water
61111.1 times, end also changing the bsh:ivagidferinloibie.tedPeel:4tahe°yr/yisiiriciosebetifioeirle7
ter while cooking, rather than, to ,
may
ow there to soak over night, as long 1,cjoe11,1;:fatristal Li.in tVioire:,:pi,e.erip,11,1,,relaitedtion. coprit,
king softens the beans. ,
dishes es efee.Vders or omelets, where
Fermentation With Dry Saltinah eeei taste may not be objection-,
prepasing vegetables ;ter )night he to some people if
n with dry 8:.!tir.Z., cry eaten alone.
44
this will describe the situation in The. value of chaff and leaves—In
many districts that cutting down the the past considerable quantities of the
quantities used in past feeding, prae_ most valuable part of the plant have
tdce a full 50 per cent. and substeuts been \vested in the form of chaff
ing with a few pounds of meal would
net only effect a great saving in
leaves, ete. These accumulate on the
barn floors and too often find their
roughage, but incidentally would bring way ta the manure pile or barnyard
the cattle in question through in as direct. They must; of course, reach
good or better shape than bad been the barnyard by way of the manger,
the case where roughage was fed in In general it is difficult to offer a
unl'anited quantities. recommendation where such a wide
, More silage and roots—Ie many vane
' ty of case " '
s and corehtions arise.
sections of Ontario particularly, hay The main advice to he given, in con -
may be substituted by the use of move elusion, is after all extreme economy
ensilage and roots. Where suceulent in feeding hay- aed etraw. Weights
ughagess „such as the foregoing are and quantities are difficult matters to
;available the quaetity of hay fed ,may juggle with when 511eaking in a gen-
be cut to the 'very minimum, These eral way. The aye of the feeder is,
1 feeds will, however, not be available after ell, a proverbial merit. More
, to any great extent in many parts -of or less experimentation will be re -
Quebec arid the greater part of the quirecl by the individual feeders in
i Maritime Provinces eceording to culling down little by little the rough-
preeent indications. ago which he has ,beeri. atcustomed to
Meal eneetitetee_To replace ones feed and replacing it by minimum
half of the ration where dry roughage quantitiee of Concentrated or grain
has bean calcalated to form the whole ratiene' If heY continues to in -crease
rmion of! ei.c cow, oats, bran arksi re,i in prit e end if grains and, concenbates
pie
eel
to
off
sal
bet
sev
Wa
alI
sots
11.4, partrulle,„le, to t,e (.1 ni,t. ries tea quickly, it would Flatus 31
estsittittessifia fren 10 to nl:y let cheaper to eat dosvt roughage
sese.
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V
ectr li)tiusse ofxsevneateery,,frfoemr tthhee elicierleTzpe fwraetnter.stlyietefmeacooetusid mNaltnta,esinerra
4stecaitt:
ler pressure on its pipes.
wife! The moclean farmer revolte n the farmhense has a tistern
against being civilization's drudge, second pump with Pipe attacharent4
and ene of the oustancling signs of his may be sunk into it, with a special
revolt is hie determination to have lin
up-tosdate'water system en his farm.
lieretofora the storage tank has
found favor in various quarters as a
suecessor to -the oldefashioned, back -
air -trap, while the same engine, air -
taros and compreseor that supply the
hard -water faucets will provide soft
water for laundry and bathroom pur-
poses, With equal facilsty water may
brealcieg, pinup -and -pail method. be piped to the farm buildings from
I
Users of the storage tank, howevea, a spring, lake or a running stream.
find that its water supply is not fresh, If a gasoline engine is used, an
but stale and blackish and at times automatic cue -off is provided to stop
contaminated with deposits of slime it when the proper pressure is reaeh-'
and rust. ed. Thus the farm owner may start
One .4sf the best systems available the engine and ,leaveit, secure in know -
for farm use to -day discards the stor- ing that there is no chance of the
age tank altogethee and substitutes an air tank's becoming overcompressed,
air tank and an air -operated pump The advantages of this system are
almost endless. With en hourly ea-
pacity of 300 gallons at a total lift
of seventy-five feet and 200 gallons
submerged in the well. The other es-
sentials ef the equipment are an air-
oer mPlo.etsosrprt'oansuepiprlityratphearbpdowaenr.engTinhee at a lift of 150 feet, is there anything
first advantage of this system appears a man can not do with it? Besides
in the process of installing it; the saving unlimited time and strength, it
engiee, air tank and cofinecting ap- insures an inexhaustible supply of
paratus may be located in any con- fresh drinking water, free from con-
venient place ,about the farm build- tact with the open air and dirt, not
ings, and the Towner is saved the ex- only fox the family but for the stock.
•pense of building a purep house or It makes possible the more „frequent
digging a pit in which to bury a tank, watering of dairy cows than under the
as 'is saecessary in many storage -tank old systems, also the indoor watering
systems. Often he finds an outbuild- which wise farmers prize highly. It
ing the hest location if he wants to brings water of just the right temper -
get double use from his gasoline en- ature, thus encouraging the cows to
gine in operating other farm ma- drink all they need and increasing the
chinery, A good place is the base- milk output to a surprising degree.
ment of the farmhouse, from which The system furnishes plenty of
pipes.ean easily be run to the kitchen water to sprinkle the faem lawn and
and bathroom upstairs, as well as to garden and to keep the heusewife's
hydrants in the yard and the stable. flower beds flourishing. Owners ef
A gasoline engine or electric motor "show country places" may even
operates the air:compressor by zneasas gratify their cravings for a lily pool '
of a belt. The com.pressor sends the or a fountain, if their water -supply
air in the tank through a galvanized warrants it.
iron pipe into the well, driving it into The 'farm owner need not be afraid
the puma, which is submerged at least that the system will monopolize his
six feet below the surface of the gasoline engine. In fact, he may use
water. Besides the air -pipe leading the engine at the same time to furnish
into the pump, an air exhaust -pipe electric lights, grind feed and separ-
leads out of it, also a water discharge- ate nulk, thus considerably reducing
pipe which connects with the air -trap the cost of his water -supply. All of
and the faucets. The pressure of the which means that the purnp-and-air-
air, driven by the compressor, forces lank system loses no time in paying
the—Water downward' in the pump for itself.
cylinder- and upward again through There is no best water -system for
the water discharge -pipe. As iftravels farm hasnes, -but there are many good
out of the well to the air -trap and the ones. Whoever has a gas engine or
faucets, the air escapes into the upper electricity should have running water.
AVVV•MMIMMINIOMMIlv
ing the hour before sunset, or early in The fall hotbed will supply the table
the morning, or under a net tent. It with a few fresh vegetables during
is advisable, after the honey flow is the- late fall and early wintbr. Selest
ended, to eonteact the entrances of all - •
hives. One Oan tell if a colony is be- the warmest and sunniest spot in the
ing robbed by seeing the robbers enter garden, where water rsever stands, and
harfiedly. With the. abdomen contract- nut the 'hotbed there. Dig a pit from
ed,anch, leave with the addomen dis- fifteen to eighteen inche sdeep, six
tended, flying straight home.
Destroy weeds this fall arid they
won't get a chance to. grow next
spring.
A neighborhood without a commun-
ity house is like a family without a
home.
A few minutes given at a definite
time each day will keep a record of
the farm business; and with accurate
figures at the end of the season a
man can see at a glance where he is
making money and where he is los-
ing it,
feet wiAse "and as long as the hetbed
is%to be. Let' the pit eeten east and
west Build a. frame. around the pit,
preferably of twO-inch boards for a
perrnament structure, having the rear
or north wall fifteen, inches high and
the south wall eight Mares above the
margin of the pit. Bank part of the.
excavated sail around the outside of.
the frame, to -give additional protec-
tion. Fill the pit with fresh strawy
stable manure to a depth of fifteen
inthes after it is packed' down by
tramping. Above this, -place four
inches of rich garden zoil, in, which
the seeds are to be sown.
The Welfare of the Home
Dealing With the Angry Child—By Jennie‘S. Clough.
Of the aany problems which con- uncontrollable, ancl it is impossible to
front a mother, one of the ;hardest is talk with him, put him by hims.elf
that of meeting in the wisest way the untilehe is more calm. While he is 'n
undesirable traits that appear in ail- a temper be careful not to leave hhn
dren. In dealing with these problems where he tan break or clesb:oy any -
there are two great helps. First, a thing. Often his outburst is like a
sense of humor. If a child collies thunder storm, the thunder end light -
down to breakfast sullen and bad- fling are tremendous while they last,
tempered, make some little jake, it but are soon over. Then, just as soon
ihcilps to clarify the atmosphere: as possible, divert the child, get hint
don't mean laughat the child, that interested and busy about something.
only adds fuel. to the fire; but do some A much harder type of child to deal
amusing thing, or ten a funny story with and; one that tries our patience
and you will make the clouds vanish more, is the sullen child. He makes
like magic. Parents who appreciate no outlet for himself like the angry
fan and who are the real companions child who vents his temper in screams
of their little ones have the happiest and passionate talk. His bad temper
and mast affectionate children. flat works all on the inside. He broods
most important of all is grace. Grace over the trouble, „distorting and- en -
is that lovely, loving epirit which, no larging it by dwelling upon it. He
matter how trying the children are, usually refuses. comfort or sympathy
eannot be disturbed. We cannot have and seems to enjoy shutting hhuself
thie of ourselves, it is the gift of God. away from everyona He usually a
He eays, "My grace is sufficient for sensitive child—shy, leaking confi-
thee," so when the thildren are noisy dence in himself, inclined to dwell
and -naughty and our nerves seem just upon himeelte too nruch. What can we
about in pieces, let say thia over do with such a child? He won't talk
arid over mentally and we shall be thestratible out, like the high -tempered
surprised at the peace and, quietness ,child, and it is unwise to put hire by
within ourselees that will fallow. himself as you would the high -temper -
Granted that we have sympathy and GC1 ehild. Give him something to be
poise ourselves, we are in a fit condi- busy about as soon as poseilyle. Work
tion to help cur children to overcome is even mare necessary for him than
.their fauna. Often childsan are cross for any other type et 'child, for we
and naughty because they ere over- must get him out of himself. 11 poss
tired, ever -excited or hungry. We sible, have hini work where he will
must be sure thet their naughtiness have the companionship of his broth
does not come from seine physical errs arid sister, or perhaps -he can hells
teasers that we can help, If a child is you in what you -are doing. Week sc
in a bad temper the first thIng to do a blessing for most persons, but foA
is to quiet him. Itow? By being very no one more than for thd wlit
quiet. ourselves, but very firm, letting is inclined to live his little life inrgid
hirn see our strength and poise arid of himself. This type of child is u
then trying to find out what has stir- ally reserved and takes things hzde
red hive Sy our talking it over with but to the few people he loves he gIvn
him and letting him pour is out his a wealth of affection and loyalty an
nerses be *ad and he will have usually` he has a deer), 'strong Wall.
an oetlet for his passion. Xi he seems Whieh is sincere and true.