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nfNSON, LEIS., . D.D I.
Gredlute qif the royal College of
'Metal ¢iegtgeons of Ontario And of
te His -
Wet Dental University
y09iee, Military of Toronto. �District,
?Io, 1 London, Ont. Mice hours at
and Saturday, from ono tyo
5.10 � 2814-12 ,
I r. 7. R. FORSTER
Ern N. Now end Threat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
IleretteLehi j�nt New York Ophtled- rhl ma his promlase. Ra value
Uri g Astral Ipetitute, Moorefleld's ..,pring
aM Golden Square Throat Hoe- .:anuot be reckoned up In dollars
`- A{ silica in ftcott ;tad cents. Another source of water
talk. o V• Ye Drng Stere, ;apply on the farm is the rain water
Bead, I third am.Wedtod3 in each
Beath from 11 am. to E p.m. by aught on the Pusan of the ergrouet
d
1 and stored 1u large underground
tanks, called cteterua. It Is com-
monly called aloft water in contrast
to the hard water of wells and
springs.
A Supply of Soft Water a Boun.
Every housewtte who is fortuuate
enough to have a plentiful supply of
soft water for washing dishes,
clothes and woodwork, cud fer use
in the bath, known well how much '
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HE FARM CISTERN id FOODS OF PUNTS
Like Human k;eings, They Need
Good Supply 'ot Soft Water a a Baincced Ration.
Household Boon.
:'our Plant Growth Without Nitrogen
e Farmer's Wife and Daughter—1'hospliete Also Required tee
WIlI Appreciate It--{.ocatlon of
the Cistern -.r Advice 6tveu for
Loral Installment.
'Contribute Agriculture. Toronto r meat of
Lucky indeed is the farmer who
can boast of a never -feeble supply of
sure and fresh water from well or
Waterloo Street Borth, Stratford.
Phone 867, Stratford.
CONBULTUW IIt}GINERRS
' Muses. Proctor & Redfern. Ltd.
1. M. Proctor, B.A..8e., Manager
SS Tomato St., Toronto. a..
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rales Salta nevem. Frbrim, Ault
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Our pw:—UsraUY veld set .r
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LIHRCHANTS CASUALTY CO.
dpeeialiets in Health and Accident
Insurance.
Policies liberal and unrestricted.
Over $1,000,000 paid in loesea.
ICxeaptional opportunities for local
Agents.
904 ROYAL BANK BLDG.,
i 778-8I Toronto, Ont.
LEGAL
R. S. HAYS.
Barrister Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Notary r for
Do -
Minion BaPublic.
k. c Office in rear of the Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Money to
Wan -
BEST & BEST
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Barristers, Solicitors, Convey
tanners and Notaries Public, Etc.
Office in the Edge Building, opposite
The Expositor Office.
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PROUDFOOT.
KILL RAN AND
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Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub -
lie. etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
Kidd Block. of W.ach week. Proudfoot, S Office in
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]„ Killoran, B. E. Holmes.
Bent Results — The Dieting K
Plants Expealned. .
, Coetrlbuted bYtares TorDepe.)[meat et
Plants, like animals, require teed.
Their food consists of simpler rah-
stances,
a -stances, but It is none the less to-
seuaary. In general farm prelates we
do not teed plants; but we . grow
them in a soil, Irom which and the
surrounding air, we expect Own to
gather their food. in nearly .very
iustance there 1s an abuudaaee of
food around the plant, but it la not
always in a form that It can M ab-
sorbed. Sometimes there may be
an abundance of soma of the tend
constituents and very little of others.
We recogufse the inayertaase et a
balanced diet for mea, but fall to
realise that it is lust as important
for the plant.
superior It Is to hard water. It 'Elie Soil Must Have Nitrogen.
saves a lot et soap, and the oper Fortunately, while there are quite
:,tions are mope easily carried out I a number of eaneutfat parte to tie
and the results more aatiaaactory' balanced diet of a Plant; there are
this valuable supply o water c ne- four that it has
- - - - tJ�PT. H�D AS At PISA
.►» v Ira BAY TEAT SOMEr �: their cwt, GAGE OF THE TRACTOR SUNTEit
Th d testae bests tbs tit
.1!00 Oa the black Set of trate* there
ONE 1 AB IIAD AS A BATTER?' i the number of Stine oxsapt 4 la rightful place [sage
tract crease
cannot n ace for tain Kidd.
1 who refllafford a alae tho tri about him gets as
Idesftioa of the "Mad Satter" im- ' by carefully wotcsing the expenditure practical Advice About Rims* �
atetbstelY bri)q'ont° 'Iliad aand ture' in connection with its use shabby ea welcome now se it did in
of "Al'ice in The third' and real factor has been — This Farm Machine. , - 11101 when he swung at 'Execution
reunarka'ble scene with the Mad Hat- I the great improvement in oars, which t , Dock, for literature can badly ewe
ter and kis friends, the 'March Hare ' nukes .them far .more trustworthy ' Noise the Tractor'—It Must Be KepIdo tat end jaw, his boots and cut -
and the Dorvnouse, and it ie only and far less likely to need repairs Clean—Be Careful In Lubricating lass- and Ids 'high 'placed employers •
natural to presume that the phrase and tinkering. The care of a Brat- could by no mearte save bis life. It
ted with f b leer + Rath Oils and ereaae — Air . us time nevertbelese, thinks, 'Josepk;�
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"mad ,ae a better otagttm clava modern car calls
or arae ,
Lewitt Carton, But fess ituagina- effort and leas knowledge of mechanlcp Cleaning. B. Gilder, liitter•K11ty friend the the
tive writer only gave a literal inter- ; than was the vase even two or three ' 'd ontrlbutse br Unerrlo beDsneerse of captain and for years a student of
pretation to a sayingg which far • years ago. Some of the latest mod- i Agrleufturs, Toroata) Itis •Gory, to separate history from,
antedated his time, having been in ' f myth. That daunting nurse of
ala. are so free from need of adjust- Yt Fd
existence since the earliest days of meat and care that a roan has little; In the year 189E the Hart -Parr Howard Pyle's show the Capt.Kind
English history.'W gain Sorin the employment of a , Co. built their first tractor. Daring l of fiction, not the upright Sbottien
As a matter of fact, the phrase gel chauffeur, excepting retie! frog the 1910 there were about 1.300 tractors skipper that --Mr. Gilder and the re
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chauffeur,
know it, is a" rather Cockneyized actual work of driving.gThe modern sold in the Uulted x1.800 and is cords Grp—our_ baro was. e -
So
adaptation of the original, which had car ales makes drivin far less work goes a title 4lgare frorn the pagesef
leo relation to a hatter at all. This , and far more -a pleasure than was the 1920 this number was increased to romance. 'There 'ia not a scrap of
word was otdginelly "atter," whit case a few seers eggs. 17.5,000. This year the sales are evidence to prove that he ever cora-
ls old Anglo-Saxon for viper, while greater than the total for the past mitted a single piratical act in 'his
the adljective "angle Bhang be
translated in ifs aeries of angry or, ttu Years, many dealers being cold 'whole 'tie;' said his defender, wags
riolot, rather than insane. At ROYAL BOARD BILL UNPAID t in the first four swaths of the I before the resented hCenturyaClub. "It was
first therefore, the expression was "who lye going to pay axalm'pe'ror 7 Ho
t t ofdin
down from the clouds in fairly cop- ouly three or
taus amuuuts month by month, and I eulty in getting, and, of these agati
costs nothing except a email outlay, there are two that are erre fre-
nrobabl 9150, once m a lifetimt quently deficient than others. Thep
for eave-troughing and a s:oragt 1 are nitrogen and phosphoric aci.
tank or cistern. There is a great store of the for -
Over Ontario the average rainfall I user in the gaseous form is the air
from April to Deeomber is about 21/2 ' around us. as much as apPruxlnately
inches .per mouth, and if all tilt ` 70,000,000 pounds over every Aare
buildinis of as average -aired farm of land. Yet, because the plait
were provided with eave-troughing i takes Its nitrogen In a soluble Perm
no less thau four barrels of water through the roots of the plant, this
per day on the average over the" inert, gaseous nitrogen is of so ase
whole year would be collec.ed. 'Chir I until tt 18 taken into the soil and
quantity of water will serve efficient rendered available. Among other
I • a family of six living in a hoe,. methods of getting tele nitrogen Into
y the soil, mature has provided that 1f
tures ped a ok modern plumbing fix we grow legumes, su01 as clover.
turas The only draw on the well, or Peas, etc.. we will get some of this
h:., 1 water, supply would be and itrogen built into the Plant. Then
-. eeeee regp res for drinking and on the decay of the accumulated
"I'.••';; Purposes' vegetable matter from these aid
A Good Cistern a Necessity.-, other plants, the nitrogen is left in
'fo safeguard against a shortage the form that is of use to plants.
If suit water in times of drought This means that decaying vegetable
.tad during the winter season when nutter In the soil is the stain source
rains are, scarce, the cistern should of nitrogen as a food for farm crops
be largo enough to hold a two or other than legumes. We may be
three months' supply. This would quite sure that if the sail is low 1n
require a storage tank at the very decaying vegetable matter there will
est 10 feet square and 10 feet j be a small amount of nitrogen. With-
eeep, or its equivalent in different di- out plenty of available nitrogen we
leusions, or two smaller tanks hay- cannot get the abundant growth of
rug together this capacity. It is well leaf and stein that is necessary; ne-
e, remember that the tank built in cessary, because it is in the leaf that
the cubical form, say lOx10x1O. is , the carbon dioxide taken from the
more ecouomical than one of the I air Is built up into sugars, starch,
,nine size but oblong in forst and other compounds of like nature,
and that anything that limes the sjse
of the leaf Just as surely limits the
plant's ability to make and store
these compounds. Nitrogen forces
big leaf and stem growth, hence its
great 'value In crop production.
The decaying vegetable matter,
however, does more than furnish ni-
trogen; it improves the physical cot
dition of the soil, thus making It
easier to work. It increases the abil-
ity of the soil to hold water, thereby
insuring better returns in dry wea-
ther, and in its decay furnishes acids
which help to bring insoluble plant
food into an available condition.
teats to make
'Chase are strong a:aten
about any constituent of the soli,
but they show the importance of
growing catctn.c ropy to plough down
as frequently as possible in the rota-
tion. A legume naturally is the bent
crop, but where this is not possible,
or too expensive, grow rye, rape, or
some crop that will furnish organic
matter to the soil.
VETERINARY
F. HARBURN, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and honorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontalic,
Vettrihary College. Trents diseases of
au domestic animals by the most mod•
ern principles. Dentistry and Milk
Fever a specialty. Office opposite
Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth.
AB orders left
attention hotel
oNigbtll re-
calls
I,sive prompt
received at the office
JOHN GRIEVE. V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Office
a specialty. Dentistry ty
ennary a ory P.
and residence on Goderich street, one
door east of Dr. Scott's ofce, Sea-
MEDICAL
DR. GEORGE IIEILEMANN.
Osteophatic Physician of Goderich.
Specialist in Women's and Children's
diseases, reheumatism, acute, chronic
end nervous disorders; eye, ear, nose
and throat. Consolation free. Office
above Umback's Drug store, Seaforth,
Tuesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m
C. J. W. HARE, M.D.C.M.
425 Richmond Street, London, Ont.,
Specialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin-
ory diseases of men and women.
DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine
McGill University, Montreal; member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Coun-
cil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
of Resident Medical staff of General
'Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. Phone 56.
$ensall, Ontario.
(ti 2 ix15xi0) foe example.
-•ylind -r form takes even less ma
-erlal than the cubical, bu: it may
ee a little slower and harder t
build. Sometimes the bottle for
s constructed. Hither the cylindri
cal or bottle type is usually built o
brick laid in a rich conerete moria
tad finally well coated ,,., ..:.id
vith a rich mixture 01 - •" ' 'ef
. sably super cemetit, and nue can
l'he 1Ox10x10 size will hold 6,25
Lu perial gallons, or approximatel
.100 barrels. In U.S.A. gallons tb
capacity would he 1-5 more, or 7,50
gallons. '1'o build the cube -shape
cistern (10x10x10) it would requir
12 cu. yds. of concrete, the wall
bottom and top being six lnche
thick. Using a 1-6 mixture it woul
take approximately 18 barrels of c
went and 15 loads of gravel. Fo
the cylindrical shape it would tak
about 11 cu. yds. of material, an
tor the oblong shape (6 2-3x15x10
about 13 cu. yds. With a knowled
of local' prices of material an
labor, it would be an easy matter
, stimate the cost of a 6,000 to 7,0
gallon cistern.
• DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich street
east of the Methodist church, Seaforth
Phone. 46. Coroner for the County of
Boron.
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DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medallist of
'Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario.
The Location of the Cistern.
The house cistern may be located
the cellar, or outside underground,
cording to conditions. If the cel -
r he large and provided with good
rainage for the overflow of the cis -
ern, there can be no serious objec-
on to having the cistern in the cel -
r. if the roof of the house is not
rge enough to collect sufficient rain
ater for the water service of the
eine, the roofs of barns and other
endings may be connected up to an-
ther cistern at these buildings and
he two cisterns connected for joint
ervice if necessary. In this case
robably the best arrangement would
e to build one very large under -
round tank, 12 or 15 feet square
lid 10 feet. deep, at a point where
ain water from both house and
arns would gravitate and collect.
Between the barns and 1hie cistern
t would be advisable to build a
settling basin to intercept dirt front
roofs. The water system would be
connected to this large cistern ' to
supply the house or barn as required.
The same water system could he used the rate of 100 to 150 pounds per
waterto supply the house or barn rwso the acre on the poorer parts of the field
from the well or other source will usually pay well.
used for drinking and cooking Turnips have difficulty in absorb-
puInobes.
In building a cistern do not make Ing phosphates, hence although the
ground is usually well manured for
this crop, It will pay to add three
or four hundred pounds of acid
phosphate per acre. On ground that
was rich enough to grow twenty-five
tons of turnips per acre we have
raised the yield five tons by the use
of three hundred pounds of acid
phosphate per acre.
The points to be kept In mind are
that while nitrogen Is so valuable
there Is a very large supply An the
air which can be got through the
growing of leguminous crops, and
that the phosphate, for various rea-.
sons, hate a peculiar vallie when
used to supplement good general ma-
nuring and good cultivation.—Prof.
Robert Harcourt, O. A. College,
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DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
;faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Oblcago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don,: England. Office—Back of Do-
nlnion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5,
Night calls answered from residence,
Vlatoris street, Seaforth.
o AUCTIONEERS
THOMAS BROWN
Mauled Ll Huron anauctioneer
Perth. Correspondence
ants for sale dates can be
mote
calling up phone 9/,Seaforth
or The Expositor Office. Charges mod -
orate and satisfaction guaranteed.
R. 1'. LUKER
Learned auctioneer for the County
of Moron. Sales attended to he au
ports of the ebuaty. Sever fears' elf-
perienee in Manitoba end 8aakatobo-
tem. Teres reasonable. Phone Ne.
191 r 11, Rhtsbe'. Centralia P. 1 .
E Ifs left at They=
• Quo' *' aedidortit,
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uatd mere to imply the fury . and Chervil board bill?" is the problem
eaak• e,wo nature of an enraged i the Allied Governments are trying to
snake, than the, hastiness and often- t solve. So far no country has come
tenon amusing insanity of someone , forward and offered te pay the bilis
who is itamlally dmng the unex- ieft behind in Swltserland or the ex-
pected, as
in the case of Louie Car- pensee which will follow tie exile of
• iantone character. But as time the former .monarch to Madeira.
went
went on the meaning of the phrase The former King has eupensivve
softened enmewbat and "mad atter"', This is evidenced by the fast
ham"' "mad hatter" and its prim- that the Swiss retreat cost nearly
ars significance was entirely lost in 2,000,000 francs a year to keep go -
the mist vihieh surrounded the growth
of the English language. mg. In a hurry - to reach his old
throne Charles forgot several bub-
stantial obligations. 'Chese and the
cost of maintaining Ch les and his
large family -at Madeira are occupy-
ing the Allied Ambassador's Coun-
cil. The total Swiss bill will exceed
several .trillion Swiss francs, apart
from the establishment ret up at
Madeira for the foruner ruler of Aus-
tria-Hungary.
It is believed that the Hungarian
Government will pay moat of the bills
and the members of the Little En-
tente, to whose existence the sup-
pression of monarchial adventures is
essential, may bear a part of the
burden. The annual expense at
tie,c menta over the fire, or throw .Madeira probably will be provide]
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
A useful form of fire-extinguisher
is the hand grenade. In one and a
half gallons of water d'iesolve five
pounds summon salt and two and a
half pounds salantmoniac. Bottle
this up in the thinnest bottles you
can find, cork very tightly, and place
them where every one will be able to
find then quickly, but not in too hot
a iplace.
Should fire break out, knock the
neck of the bottle off and-prrinkle
the• whole bottle into the fire against [},rough a penWdon, wholly or partly
eemethiog hard with sufficient force
t•' break it, and great progress will
he el:eh. in subduing the fire, if it
ie'11 , etircly extinguished.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
(11y Canadian Forestry Associatien.1
Q. 1 have a son just graduated
from high school who wislles to lake
a training in Forestry. What
schools are available in Canada?
A. There are Forestry schools at
University of Toronto, Laval Uni-
sersit.y, Quebec, University of New
Brunswiek, Fredericton and Univers-
ity of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Write• to the nearest one for a cal-
endar. The usual course is four
years and the summer vacations are
usually spent in actual woods work
in the employ of governments or
private companies.
Q. I have had some little experi-
ence as a woodsman and would like
to qualify for a position in the Gov-
ernment Forest -Service. Is there
arty ehort courfit available?
A. 'Nearly all the senior executive
officers in the government forest ser-
vices are graduate foresters who have
spent at least four years in a college
of forestry. We have not as yet any
Canadian sc'hool's to train men for
the junior benches. You might write
the College of Forestry,
'Syracuse,
reuse
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N. Y., for particulars regarding the
State Ranger School at Wanakena,
5, Y. The latter 'provides ;Osbert
course such as you desire.
Q. -I have heard somewhere that
it takes several 'hundred spruce logs
to produce a single edition of one of
our large daily newspapers. Have
you the figures for this?
A. It has been estimated that a
newspaper With one hundred thous-
and circulation will require about -225
average size spruce -and balsam 'logs
for a single issue.
Q. Would' you advise planting
Manitoba Maple as a shade tree?
A. As you are living in 'Eastern
Canada you had better choose a more
satisfactory maple. The Manitoba
Maple is a quick grower and that is
about its only worthy featurOt par-
ticularly when you have the choice
of a dozen far superior shade tree
species. Why not a Norway Maple?
Q.—Is it true that the people of
Canada are the legal owners of near-
ly all the forest lands?
A. It .fe true indeed and a fortu-
nate fact for the 'Canadian people.
While a considerable part of the
standing timber is leased to corpora-
tions and put to good use, the title
to the land itself remains in the
name of the people. This means
that the mass of Canadian citizens
and not primarily lumbermen or pulp
n'antifacturers are responsible for
the management of the timberlands
and will be answerable for handing
on to the next generation the forest
reset in as good or better condition
than we ourselves have found it.
Phosphate Also a Necessary Food.
The element next to nitrogen in
importance is phosphorus. Nitrogen
can be got from the air by legum-
inous plants, but ,the phosphorus
supply in the soil can be supplement-
ed only by adding some form of ma-
nure or fertilizer. The supply in the
soil Is comparatively small, and le
naturally held in an insoluble form,
so that losses by leaching may be
reduced to a minimum. So firmly is
the phosphorus held, that 1n our
study of the soils of the Province,
we find that after nitrogen, no plant
food constituent that may be added
will give so decidedly good results as
phosphorus. This is especially tree
when applied for the cereal grates
and turnips. On fall wheat, - 410
pounds of acid phosphate per acre
has doubled the yield, and basis slag
on heavy soils has given even bet-
ter results. On soils fairly reale in
vegetable matter, and thus well sup
plied with nitrogen, there is usually
no need of supplementing the gen-
eral manuring with anything but the
phosphate, the exception being when
fall wheat has wintered poorly and
fs having a hard time to make growth
in a cold backward spring. Then
an application of nitrate of soda at
Beer. These figures are a pretty fair
indication that the tractor is taking
Its place as a farm imPlement. Farm
itupletuents generally have a very
si,u:t life, and tractor depreciation to
usually reckoned at from 20 to 26
,,: r cent.
-1 o usl ng.
A good tractor deserves the best
of protection and when not in use
•.r stored for the winter should be
ul a shed that is weather, tight. If
.t is to be left in tee field over
eight IL should be covered with a
:e;:tcrproof canvas to properly pro-
.ect :he wiring, magneto, etc. ,
paid by Hungary. In this the Little
Entente may also have a share.
The fact that Charles and his fam-
ily still have firm fele-nes in Hung-
ery -is, evidenced by the purchase of a
2,0(10,000 crown 'bed and bedroom
suite for the ex -queen by Budapest
royalists. The bed was made of sa-
tin wood, with brocade and gilt dec-
orations. The money was raised by
popular subscription. The authori-
ties have refused to permit its dis-
play in public, fearing royalist riots,
so the bed will be ant intmodiately
to Madeira.
the serious mistake of making it too
small. Then install some form of
water system in order to have the
Bolt water, both hot and cold, on tap
throughout the house. In subse-
quent articles I will describe various
types of water systems for the farm
home.
The Department of Physics,
O.A.C.„ Guelph, Ont., is prepared to
advise you without charge regarding
installation of water systems, plumb-
ing, sewage disposal, etc.—R. R.
Graham, O. A. College, Ouelbh.
Every farm and country home
should feed itself, and to do this it
is necessary for each family to grow
garden vegetables and small fruits.
Ml corn cribs and grain bins
should be carefully inspected to see
that they arb rat and mouse proof.
A concrete foundation for storage
buildings Is advisable whenever it Is
Practicable. -
to
Benders E11sein sad £.. *y tc-
Preibwee about 1110 per cent
of Ibe iriorspst is the United 81ate.
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USEFUL FARM DOG.
No animal is more useful around
the farm than a well trained dog.
They will handle sheep and cattle
as well as most men and sometimes
better than half a dozen men.
a frame-up. Buried treasure
never buried a cent's worth. That
Mary was devised - to amuse Sum-
mer tourists on long Island.
"Once a man supposed to be well
informed in history whispered to she '
darkly that he had heard that the
partners of Capt. Kidd's enterprise
when he sailed on the Adventure
were 'potpie very well 'known.'
They were indeed. One was a mem-
ber of the Royal family --in feet,
the Kung of England—and among
his other partners were the Lord
Chancellor, the First Lord ft
he
Admiralty, the Secretary of ie,
the Governor of New York and
Robert Livingston, founder of the
American family of that name. His
condmission as a pirate '.bunter bore
the Great Seal, of which the Lord
Chancellor is the sole keeper, as
every one knows. Now, these
gentlemen were all of , the Whig
party, then in power. The Tories
were keen on the hunt for a scandal
to be used against them. The rest
of the story, and its sad conclusion,
follow from that fact. There had
to be a scapegoat, and Kidd was the
Haan.
His history is simple and honor-
able. His father was said to have
boen a Non -Conformist minister,
who was put to the torture of the
boot. Late jn his career he ran a
Racket between New Yorlt and Lon -
den, but in 1689, 'when William III.
had became King, anti there was
hot fighting in the West Indies, he
did good service on the English side
.r'ainst the French. There were
troub!ous times. in New York when
he retie -nod, a Lieutenant -Governor
being in office pending the arrival
of the new Governer sent out by
the King, for the former Governor
ltd fled. Jacob Leiser was the
popular leader; but Capt. Kidd sup-
ported the aristocratic party; and
he served the cause so well that in
1691 the Provincial Government re-
warded him with a substantial ,gift.
:Vlomnver, he married a rich widow,
end these two foots account for the
only treasure that in all likelihood
he ever rpotesrssed.”
The erpedition to the Indian
Ocean, the Red Sea and neighbor-
ing waters on which Captain Kidd
aajledjorth in the galley Adventure
in 4696 bad for its powerful
backers the great folk mentioned,
says Marion Storm in the New York
Poet. Nevertheless, it was miser-
s and manned, for the carefully
picked crew with which it started
wilt tell you what oil to use In his wasPitaken off by a press gang and
particular• machine. The reason dif Kidd had to come to New York to
terent tractors call for different 1oils drum up recruits. When he left
is because they differ in construc-' this City _Gov. Fletcher predicted
:Ion, speed and operating eratln tempera- that he would never be able to con -
,re. To. make sine that you are fro] for a long period the g nge of
;, tting the oil recd mended, buy it ruffgians that composed his crew, in -
,u sealed containers. asinuch as they were to get no pay
aechanical Oilers. - except a share of the spoils. "There
wene 160 men," said Mr. Gilder,
Seine tractors aro equipped with "and they were to receive a quarter
mechanical oilers. In these cases of the winnings, to be divided
iresh oil is constantly supplied to among them all! The King was
certain parts. These oilers work so to' draw •a tenth of the proceeds—
well that they are often forgotten. a third more than Kidd's own
share."
After long hardships Capt. Kidd
returned to the West Indies on one
of his prize vessels. "He was be-
guiled to come ashore at -Boston—
although he knew that t -he false
charges against him made that
dangerous—by his- one-time friend,
the Earl of Bellomont, now Governor
of New York and the greater part
of New England. Lord Bellomont
speedily threw him, heavily ironed,
into jail, and passed the good word
on to the anxious King and .the
Whig nobles, whose Tory rivals
were in full cry on the scent of this
scandal—'Royalty compromised by
piracy!' For a year Capt. Kidd lay
in prison in -Boston, and then was
taken over to Newgate Gaol, Lon-
don, where at last he was brought
to trial, as they called it, and con-
victed of piracy on five indictments
and of murder also. He had no
friend. There was nobody to whom
his life was not an inconvenience.
The trial was a tragi-epmedy. The
sole damaging evidences/ consisted of
the perjured stories /'of two men
who had desertted lir to go off
with a self-cdnf$ pirate in
Madagascar, and she were 'promised
own lives cor swearing away
his, as he told them to their faces.
:'fe:ming. ,.
Exposure Is not by any means the
tuts 11l.treatment to which a tractor
-s subjected. Have you not often
;eon them so covered with dirt and
_, Pse that you wonder how they
.nu carry the extra load? If the work
,£ carrying It was all it would not
.e ne batt, but the groat trouble with
...,,. dirt accumulatluns la that
, ;suer or lever the grit 18 going to
::,rk into the bearings and get into
,e carburetor, with the result that
.,u have ground- out bushings and
rod cylinders. To clean off these
cunni latious each day will take but
u taw moments and pay you well. 4b
11- tv them to stand for a week or
;;cans that the beat of the en-
ee , will burn theta and make their
,oval a very difficult matter.
, e en—icat Ing.
'til in 0 gee engine or tractor
ewes three purposes: 1, general
l ehricatiun; 2, cumpe.seem seal In
E. • cylinder; 3, cooling
For each pat: of an euglue that
luires oil there [oust he an ade-
quate supply or that part is going
r ' tail sooner or later. It hap been
.;.id teat not one man In a hundred
',;u-:ws every oil hole on his tractor.
'lis Is nearer the truth 1 ban may
:u• imagined, and part of the fault
ties with the manufacturer who
places' oil holes or grease cues in
prices where it would almost require
a detective to find them. You must
study your oiling char:. and then
follow the system of oiling as laid
tljwn in your tractor manual. Give
the manufacturer credit for know-
ing the oiling needs of his product.
Oir l greases should be bought
most carefully. Each manufacturer
If you must have a sheep dog, get
one that comes from' a useful line
of dogs, one that has drawn •tn with
the mother milk the impulse to work.
There are .many different kinds of
sheep dogs. The Scotch 'Collie is one
of the noblest and best of the kind—
sagacious, quick, eager to learn, and
when properly trained will do his
work with a finish that 'will put most
of the others to shame.
There are many stratus of collies
mostly classified by color, as sable
and white, black and white, black and
tan, black white and tan, grey, white.
Then there are rough coated collies
and smooth coated collies. The for-
mer have very long hair, the latter
short hair. There are good dogs in
all these strains.
"Water in the farm house" should
some either before or lust after the
automobile.
One can find many grand doge in
old Scotland that are much mixed in
color and have very few of the fancy
points demanded in show dogs, but ;;,et lung ate a tractor operator
they are on their job, when they fall •„earl one of his cylinders blowing
in with a flock of sheep. Many of gas past the piston. On examination
!hens over there are better than six , was found that rho piston was dry
men for handling sheep. In. fact, no 2nd scored. Further examtn-
number of men could handle sheep alio❑ badly revealed the fact that the little
-in those hills as a well-trained dog pump in the oiler which should have
can. - been supplying oil to that cylinder
Avoid narrow 'headed dogs. The had stopped working. The eller woes
d rained and washed out well with
ver
end when you get one to train you
will know what an awful 'lack is this
lack of brains. Along with this high
breeding often goes weak constitu-
tion. You wants dog that can work I en apart when, after quite a careful
all day without getting tired. He :;earth, a small bit of chaff was
.moat 'have -a constitution. tonne in one of the fine oil passages.
Then we have the bob -tailed Eng- The bit of chaff would let the thin
BA dog, a rough looking dog, but a kerosene pack but stopped the thick
glutton for work. These dogs don't 1 cylinder oil.
mint] the m'ud and dirt and when I Equal care as to cleanliness should
trained are most useful. They are, be observed as to greases. If grit is
inclined to handle stock roughly and,ore your hands or whatever you are
this is a trait that is not very nom-! usiiig to fill the grtease cups with, you
mendable in a sheep dog. I mai be sure you are going to have
The next in importance is the Bel- ' scored bearings. In filling the cups
tan shepherd dog. He is bold and see that there is no air left in them
aaktive and is very quick to 'learn. i and then turn them down until you
see grease squeezed out of the bear -
These dogs have been used in France ,ing This makes sure that It is get -
and Belgium -for police dogs and many 'ting where it will do good. It is
of them won during
in the' Red wasting money to buy a low grti9e
hibCross work r v r toe late war, ex- grease because they consist mainly of
thatf a bravery just as fine as a low grade soap and a large amount
worked the men. fon whom they of water and will freeze. Cheap
in the front line trenches. greases also contain acid fats and
1 are certain to spell the highly-flnish-
ed surfaces of anti -friction bearings.
SPIDER AS WEATHER Air Cleaning..
PROPHET. Do not neglect the air cleaner. 1t
1 The spider lei am excellent weather water is used, for example, it should
be cleaned out at noon and again in
,prophet. Henri
iFabre, the wonder- the evening. It is very important
fol ado! .man who found out so many to not allow it to get dry. Old style
of the secrets of insects and their cleaners drew the air through felt
kin, 'learned that the threads of the pads. This type should be discarded
omen
web used for catching its and a more modern one put in its
prey, are -made useless by too uch place. In some circumstances 1t Is
dampness. These threads, so tiny as possible to ruin a tractor in two days
te be almost invisible, are really hol- by working it without the washer
low tubes tilled with a sticky 'fluid performing, its functions.
which oozes through the walls and The above does not pretend to
lrold'e whatever touches the thread. cover all the points In tractor care,
This fluid readily absorbs the enols- but dIds emphasise those that are
ture finen the air and would soon most commonly aegleeted.—E. w.
lose its sticky nature in the rein or Kendall, ' Farm Mechanics' Dept.,
ice. So the wise spider, 'loath to O. 5 College,'OuelPh.
waste precious Material, waits until
the wet weather is virtually over be- tag
fore weaving .the ensnaring threads. N rely M Min biro ar tielei one or
How it knows of the
ferret rice. is to MAEtelegraph !}ire ahem* =bite -
be is shill one tea .arysbaties. aid. Ear
aid.
and freshoilput into the oiler. It
was again turned by hand and again
that particular pump did not work.
The oiler was now removed and tak-
OWNERS BECOME DRIVERS
One of the changes which have
accompanied the evolution of the
automobile frofrt a rich m'an's toy to
an intimate servant of people of all
classes, has been the great propor-
tionate decrease in the number of
men who employ chauffeurs and an
increase in the number of owner -
drivers.
There are three factors which have
been responsible for this change. The
first is that the moderately ell much
man who can afford to spend
money and no more on his automobile
has learned that if he drives 'hirnbelf
he can afford a far better grade of
car than if he has to put part of his
money into wages for a chauffeur, so
we have seen considerable numbers
of such men discarding their chauf-
feurs and buying better grade oars
Children Ory
mesSinez vim do FOR FLETCHLR'S
;, °fi era 79sp1ial°l O A S T CNA I A
•
"So he was hanged as murderer
and a pirate.''' The rope around his
neck broke ,the first time, and the
Newgatechaplain, who bad set his
heart on 'getting a confession, was
much elapted at this new chance.
But it was no vac, Capt. Kidd had
no eine to confess—except probably
d'rinkin0 and swearing."
1 +
WRITING MESSAGE BY PROW
is now possible to write a,mes-
isa with a lead pencil at one station
and reproduce the handwriting at
another place, the reproduction being
accomplished by a minute 'beam of
tight acting ort photograliiio paper.
The sender simply writes down what
ever ,he wishes to send ea a roll of
paper passing through his machine.
Tis emends labor the 'message has
been imprinted on a strip of sensitive
paper and concocts automatically in
the recelvi device. Tho apparatus