The Wingham Advance, 1909-09-02, Page 34,
.FARM
alkaiseurairawieedeemeesee
nsuurs or CO-OPERATIVE EX.
PERIMENTS WITH ,A.UTUMN
sow. oRorp.
Four hundred and tea feriners
throughout Ontario goat:dell experi-
ments with autumn sown crepe during
the past year, Reports have been re-
ceived from thirty-eix of tho counties
of the province. Moe couutiee which
f tallish the greeted number of good: re.
ports oe successfully conducted: experi.
ments were Middlesex, Huron, Brant,
Norfolk and Muskoka. The experiment.
ere deserve much credit for the good
work which they have done, not only
for theMeelves, but for the fanners gen-
erally, Average results of the carefully
conducted co-operative experiments with
autumn sown crops are hero presented
in a very concise form.
Winter Wheat—Four varieties of win-
ter wheat were distributed last autumn
to those farmers evlao wished to test
some of the leering varieties, on their
own farms. The average yield per acre
of straw ana of grain are as follows:
• Imperial .Amber, 1.4 tons, 24,1 bushels;
Abundance, 1.3 tons, 23.9 bushels; Bun
karian, 1,2 One, 21.9 bushels, and
Nigger 1.4 tons, 21.9 bushels, '
The imperial .Amber gave the greatest
yield per acre in the co-operative expert -
melts throughout Ontario in 1907 and
in 1908, as well as In 1009, It also came
first in popularity with the experi-
menters in each of these years, The
Imperial Amber will again be distri-
buted throughout Ontario this autumn
as one of the varieties for co-operative
experiments. We distributed the Dam-
sons Golden Chaff for co-operative ex-
periments throughout Ontario in each
of twelve, years; but not within the last
three years. According to extensive
inquiries which we have made this year
the Dawson's Golden Chaff is still the
most popular and the most extensively
growa variety of winter wheat in the
province.
Winter Rye—The average yield of
grain per acre of each of three varieties
of winter rye, distributed in the autumn
of 1908, is as follows: Mammoth white,
28.1; Common, 22.1, and Washington,
19.6. In the experiments throughout
Ontario the Mammoth White surpassed
the Common rye by a average of five
bushels per acre in 1907, 5,4 bushels per
acre in 1908, and sia bushels per acre
in 1909.
Fertilizers with Winter Wheat— In
the co-operative experiments with dif-
ferent fertilizers applied to winter wheat
the average yields of grain per acre for
five years are as follows: Mixed. 'fer-
tilizer, 25.2 bushels; nitrate of soda, 23.8
bushels; muriate of potash, 22.9 bush-
els, and superphosphate, 22.7 bushels.
The unfertilized land gave an average
of 19.9 bushels per acre. The super-
phosphate was applied at the rate of
320 pounds, and the muriate of potash
and. the nitrate of soda each 160 pounds
per acre. The naixed fertilizer con-
sisted of one-third of the quantity of
each of the other three fertilizers here
mentioned.. The usual cost of the fer-
tilizers ,as used in this experiment is
between $4 and $5 per acre.
Fodder Crops—In each of six years
the- seed of hairy vetches and winter
rye, has been distributed throughout
Ontario for co-operative experiments in
testing these crops for fodder purposes.
In the average of six years experi-
ments, the hairy vetches produced slight-
ly the largest yield of green fodder per
acre, but in 1909 the largest yield was
produced by the winter rye.
DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL FOR
EXPERIMENTS DT 1909.
As long as the supply lasts material
will be distributed free of charge in the
order in which the applications are re-
ceived from Ontario farmers wishing to
experiment and to report the results of
any dna of the 'following tests: 1. Three
varieties of winter wheat; e. two var-
ieties of winter rye; 3. five fertilizers
with winter wheal; 4. autumn and
spring applications of nitrate of soda
and common salt with winter wheat;
5. winter emmer and .winter barley; 6.
hairy vetches and winter rye as fodder
crops. The size of each plot is to be
one rod wide by two rods long. Mater-
ial for Nos. 3 and 4 will be sent by ex-
press and that for too others by mail.
C. A. 2avitz.
.A.LFALEA AS FEED AND SOIL IM-
PROVER.
The value of alfalfa for the produc-
tion of feed, as well as for the improve-
ment of the land it grows on, has been
pretty well illustrated on the dairy
farm of H. & 3. McKee, Oxford. County,
Ont. A call on Jelly 1st by a member of
our staff, afforded opportunity to see a
stout piece of six or seven acres, seeded
three years ego, at the rate of 22 pounds
to the acre, with a nurse crop of one
and a half bushels of oats per acre.
Part of the field is a clay loam, and
part a gravelly loam. On the sloping
portion of the field, which, if we did not
misunderstand, is the heavier soil, the
alfalfa was very heevy, apparently good
for two and a half.tons per acre. Part
of the field had. been mowii, and wag
some of it in the wind -row, and some in
the cock. The uncut portion was a dense
mass, almost as high as a man's thighs,
and pretty well out in 'Mom, whieh is
rather too far advanced to make the
best Cruality of hay, one-tenth in bloom
being the ideal stage to aim at in cut-
ting, when weather and other condi.
tions permit.
Two years ego, Mr. McKee broke up a
field that had been seven ot eight years
in alfalfa, but had been spotted by ice
lying on the ground hi Winter, Front title
a heavy erop of ensilage earn had been
taken, and this year it was being re.
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PLFTNAM'S PAINLESS
CORN EXTRACTOR
Becaed to alfalfa, with a uurse crop of
oat* The now seeding had already
made a fine growth, and, digging up a
couple of roots, they ware found abund-
antly supplied with the little pinhead
and great -grained -eked ceereseences in
which dwell the nitrogerepthering bee-
terie that capture this eleseve and vela -
able gas (nitrogen) from the atmos-
phere, convertiog it to dre uses of the
plant. On aueli a field, artificial loom -
latter), would show no benefit, as It has
beeori already naturally Inoculated by
the previous growth of alfalfa. On
farms where neither alfalfa nor sweet
clover have ever grown, artificial inocue
iation for alfalfa often shows marked
results, especially at first, by starting
a prompt developineut of these bacterin,
with correspoudingly greater vigor el
the crop,
ONTARIO'S AGRICULTURAL GREAT.
.NESS.
Mr. C. a James, the Provincial Depu-
ty Minister of Agriculture, has been_
presenting the Toronto Board of Trade
with some interesting information rela-
tive to the importauce, from an agricul-
tural point of view, on the Province of
Ontario.
The settled area of Ontario ineludes
24,800,000 acres, of which 14,000,000.
acres are cleared, 5,500,000 acres wood-
land, 2,000,000 acres slashlana, and 3,-
000,000 acres swamp, marsh or waste
land. Of the 24,500,0Q acres, 23,000,000
acres lie in what is known as Old On-
tario and •were setttled betweeen 1788
and. 1860. There are besides in tae
north country scattered tracts of land
aggregaeing 1,600,000 acres in extent
and settled within the last few years.
For agricultural purposes we have to
add another amen, 01 10,000,000 acres un-
occupied and only partly explored as
yet. It is known as the clay belt, and is
being opened up by the National Trans-
continental Railway.
In 1906 Ontario produced. $12,000,000
worth of beef, $10.000,000 in bacon
awl pork, and $9,000,00 in cheese. In
1900 the corresponding figures were $27,-
200,000, $22,600,000 and $15,000,000. In
ten years the aggregate value of these
three eomnaodities rose from $31,000,000
to $64,700,000.
The number of horses on Ontario
farms increased from 611,241 in 1896
to 726,421 in 1908, the number of milch
cows from 956,000 in 1898 to 1,113,374 in
1008, swine from 1,640,787 in 1898 to
1,816,763 in 1908. In the same decade
'poultry increased from 9,084,273 to 12,-
285,613. Live stock to the value of V9,-
750,000 was sold or slaughtered iri 1896.
Ie 1906 the figures had risen to $61,500,-
000. The total value of live stock on
the farms increased from $104,000,000 in
1898 to $189,500,000 in 1907, and the
value of farm lands'buildings and im-
plements from $923,090,000 to $1,222,-
000,000.
nese figures are wonderfully elo-
(went of the agricultural progress of
Ontario. There should be still further
expansion, through a discouraging note
comes recently in the eetimate of the di-
rector of colonization that the rural
population has decreaSed 114,000. The
great clay bett of 16,000,000 acres in
Northern Ontario, for the discovery of
which credit is* due the Ross Govern-
ment, is capable of supporting a popula-
tion nearly equal to that of older On-
tario. When the National Transconti-
nental Railway is built and the, Temis-
kaining and Northern Ontario extended
to conned with it a settlement of that
vast area, may reasonably be hoped for,
and a great addition to the agricultural
wealth of the province. There is room
for growth in the ..older portion yet by
more intense farming. A difficulty, of
course, preschte itself at present in the
scarcity of farm laborers,
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Six Sentence Sermons.
The fir iit test of a truly geeeas mars
hiifininanity.
w`lifri4eLves a good turil hOU
noel. Yorget it; he Wliq does one should
iseStel: tementbet it:7410.32°n.
0,t. Man syliq . hal pe4 1Uit1tiit 1.0
boas Eif but is illustrious ancestori's
potato—the only good helonging
y4 under . the ground,aie
Overbiiese
made up not of great sacrifices
an Flaws, p j.ittle things, In which
Titles and kindnesses, and email obligas.
twos; giveit habitually, are '11410 Vvin
anti preserve the heart and secure cora;
Davy,
The.soui may :moiler leave off to sub.
Past than to love; and, like the vine, it
withers and. dies if it has nothing to
embrace. --South.
If you wish success in life, Make per.
severance your boso infriend, experienee
your wise counsellor, (mutton your &dee
brother and hope yotir guaraleii gentile,
—Addison,
n
i so otn,
Give
thy tongue too groat a lib-
erty, lest it take the prieotter. 4 word
unspoken is liko the Word in the ?Mb.
heed, thine; if vented; thy :word la hi
anotheret hand. If thee desire to be
held wise. be so Wile as to hold thy
tongue,---Qtlarlos.
4�1.
T1u elq§14n3Z that shapes pup ends gave
le hollow Wight
flWhatla the uso of• my being on the
job with the present coiffurear.it snort-
ess.
ea.
IlerewAh kthreaneeXsiti helPieksiness.
ON THE ROOF.
Duke of Akruzzi's Exploration of
of "Mountains of tho Moon)t.
Mr. Edward Witympeep narrative en,
titled "The Exploits oS the Duke of the
Alentazi" is (=Witted in the September
Wide World Magazine. in this hide'.
meat, Mr, Whyinp?r takes the reader
from the "Artie regeons to the Equator,
the object of the Duke being to expiote
the "Mountains of the Moon."
Schoolboys of the last generation, says
he, used to hear it good deal about the
"XfountainS of the letoo," The appele
lation bas disappeared froni mesteru
eeogziv)letiiiezaoi.
lrtext-books. and $s replaced
byit
Anwenzori was first eon in modern
hi
thrice by Stanley on ay 24th, 1,888. He.
recognized it as a single snowy moun.
tiain rather than as a range, Rid esti-
mated its distance froni him to be seven.
ty niu1e, On March 17th, 1889, when
about eighty miles off, he cousidemd
that it was from eighteeu to nineteen
hundred feet. On june letla Stanley
a considerable elevation, but he rights),
guessed that the height of the highest
peaks was about sixteen thousand Fix
hundreetl feet. On June 15t1X Stanley
saw Ruwenzori Again, and said ie was
"one of the retest visions in the werld.
• , . a bright vision of mountain
beauty and glory.'
The Duke always takes an adequate
staff for the operations he proposes to
carry. out. He believes in his oom-
patriots, and on this ()limey Italians
alone were employed. In all the party
tonsisted of eleven persons.
On starting`frora Entebbe the caravan
bad grown to three hundred porters and
assistants. The march was made an fif-
teen days. When about five -sixths of it
had eeen accomplished, they gob. their
first view of Ruwenzori, stin a long way
off.
' Duongolo, twelve thousand four hun.-
dred and sixty feet, was made headquar-
ters. Bujongolo was couviently situated
but yielded rather cold quarters for the
porters. This had been foreseen, and
flannels and blankets wore distributed
among them, "They had great difficul-
ty in putting them 011, awl their long
and ludicrous attempts generally result.
ed in frantic: effoits to squeeze their legs,
into sleeves of tho woollen vests."
The temperatures experienced on the
sununits of the Equatorial snowcapped
peaks were by no means severe. They
were seldom much beneath the freezing
point. The lowest (28,4 degrees F.),
seems to have occurred on June leth,
upon Peak Margherita. At Bujongolo
it generally fell to 33 or 34 degrees le
at night. The frequent nista were a
much greater obstacle than the cold.
The ascents made in the leawenzori
range 'are not to be compared in diffi-
culty with the ascent of Mount St. Elias.
Both the peaks and their glaciers are
comparatively mall. They presented
few obstacles, and their ascents might
have been met by less skillful moun-
taineers, but whab there is to admire
in this African campaign are of perfect
management, the adoption of the right
means to attain.the ends of which were
in view, and the completeness of the
manner in which the reaults were attain-
ed. His Royal Highness showed once
again that he is an excellent anountain.
eor and organizer.
It is now the Dake's intention to scale
the Himalayas. He is still young, hav-
ing been born at Madrid on January
29th, 1873, and so has only just enter-
ed his thirty-seventh year. On the "Roof
of the World" there is space enough or
him to eclipse his conquest ,of the
"Mountains of the Moon."
'GERMANY'S FUTURE. .
"Militarism," says Dr. la. J. Dillon, "is
the mother of Socielisine' ,And he pro-
ceeds to show how the German military
burdens are giving a great -impetus to
Socialism and contributing to bring
about an impending change.
Doubtless the new taxes will weigh
heavily on the people, poor and rich,
and transform financial, into political
cares and grievances. This would be
the case at the best of tinea, for the
iitandard of living in the Fatherland is
considerably below the standard of Jiv-
ing in Great Britain. But the result will
be more intense, more painful now than
in average Urals because of the unusual
depression felt almost everywhere, but
more especially amoug the working met,
tens of thousands of whom are without
employment. These people are being
aroused from the torpor of generations.
The blow dealt them has come, they
are told, from the region of politics. To
the region of polities they accordingly
turn, eager to strike back. People who
never before spent a thought on mat-
ters political are now beeoming mem-
bers of democratic or socialist patio.
4 new peasants' league eonfronts the
old landowners' association; the latter
day Hansa League recently founded for
the purpose of withstanding the reac-
tionary policy of the Agrarians and fur-
thering the interests of trade and indus-
try, is enrolling, members by the thous-
and; and other signs are numerous ot
the coming struggle of the masses for
those full political rights which they
have been vaiely expecting for nearly
forty years.
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HIS HABIT.
(Cleveland Leader,)
"Shall I Ask your pa's consent for as to
wed1"
Said the suitor, but the maiden shook
her head,
"No; he always answers yes."
,(This is that,. 1 must 0=100, for a
limerick. But there's rio more to be
said.)
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Toteeny—Pop; what is meant by the
mother tongue/ Tommy's Po it -h -h,
my boy! Don't get her started
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me, coupled tvith the everoncreasing an,
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Constent headaches, :mocks before the
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How to Preserve Peaches,
Pears or Plums.
(Ry an Expert.)
MRS. ALICE G. KIRK.
(By Alice Gitchell Kirk.)
The same principles apply in can-
ning the large as the smaller fruits.
Keep cleanliness, yes, surgical clean-
liness, and sterilization in mind. Do
not attempt too 'many at once; be
sure you. have your fruit jars before
your fruit is ready and waiting for
them, Buy good fruit if you have to
buy less of it; it is cheaper in the
end and much more katisfactory.
When canning peaches, pears or
plums, have the jars sterilizieg in.the
steam cooker which you have filled
with cold water. Boll 10 minutes.
While they --are sterilizing pare the
fruit by putting them a few at a
time into a wire basket or colander
and plunging them for a minute into
boilingwater, Out the peaches or
i
pears n halves, peel and throw at
once into cold water, It will require
about one pint of syrup for each
quart, and this may be a thin or
heavy syrup, boiled at least five min-
utes. Fill the sterilized jars with the
fruit, cover to ovetflowing with the
baiing syrup, fasten the sterilized cov-
ers on and set back in the steam cook-
er for 15 or 20 minutes if the peaches
are hard. Set to one side to cool.
These may be canned in like manner
in a kettle of water, allowing 10 min-
utes longer for the cooldng in the
water.
1,6
THE VILLAGE CATCHER.
Beaind- the erstwhile willow tree
The village catcher squats.
A cross and hostile man is he
With fingers tied in knots
Festoonecl about two menunoth palms
As big as corner lots.
His neck is short and thick and red;
His face is black with tan,
Be tears his muzzle from his head
And kicks whene'er he can
And shakes his fist at all the world,
For he fears not any man.
The merehant kings with eager grills
Come flocIdng by the score
To see him rake the wide ones in
And wave his arms ana roar,
And, hear his pungent chaff which flies
Like sparks: from the furnace door.
He goes on Sund.ay to the park
And sits among the boys
IJpou the bench with viaage dark
And loud,Aufernal noise.
And .when the umpire dodges rocks
It makes his heart rejoice.
•
33roiling, rejoicing, thundering,
On through the game he goes.
acit inning sees some reason new
To rise upon his toes
And put it o'er the other crew
By means each player knave.
Thank, thanks to thee, my worthy
friend,
For the lesson thoo hest taught.
Turn loose your tonghe to join the strife
When battles imiSt be fought. .
Hot air will do as much in life
As mode, nerve or thought.
—Omaha World-Iterald.
Vacation of Uncle Sam's Hoeses,
Thiele Sam will hereafter allow thirty
days' vaeaticet a year to the post office
department horses in Washington. The
monads are to be sent, a few at a time,
to a fine, rioli pasture in Maryland.
"Every employee of the Government,"
flays the chief clerk in the post offiee
department, "reeeivee thirty days' siek
leave it necessary. E gee no reason why
the home we use in the business of the
department ought tot to receive it rest
or it 'mention, and Itereafthr I am going
to send each of the horses, Way for a
thirty day period of rest. We tan spare
inany of them in t1t Summer, and this
is the time they will appreciate e rest
from the hot implualt and. weleome the
green grams of the coutitry and the shade
of the trees." ---Bit Ana spur.
• •
lmas TIMM.
(Beaton Transeript.)
"So between seasons Barnstorm rune a
trot* term."
"Yee; in the glimmer he minds nie peas
and in the winter his cues,"
fAillS WEDDINGS.
French IVIerriaRes Leave Very Little
to Cbance,,
On the appointed evening I arrived
at the given time, nod after en encl.
lent dinner, at which all members of
both fanlikewsre preeent, we repaired
to the greet drawiug room,where the
chairs had been arranged in a eeutivircle
about two small round tabk.s. Present-
ly two grave ou mnalemen, the family
notarie'
s who had. not beeu seen tt, smile
during the whole' dinner, took their
seats in frout of the tables, and when
we were all assembled the older com-
ineneed to reaa it long memoire, which
he announced Ito had conipiled with the
help to his colleague. Then, to my utter
anutzemeet, he began to mune all the
possessione of the future bride and
bridegroom; so many bonds and mort-
gages, eo many houses, farms, wood-
lands, prairies, articles of personal
adornment, furniture and jewels; the
ways in which they might be need or
disposed of ; whet would bnppen in case
no ,ehildren were born of the marriage;
in ease of death of one or the other of
the parties. In faet, all the miefor.
tones, all the most" terrible end %eldest
eveuts had been foreseen, and cold ehills
began running down my back as I
heard each new case mentioeed. I was
indignant! Positively revolted. Why
were miserable questions of businese
allowed to foreshadow the charming
union of these two young people, who
had known and loved each other since
childhood, and whose true and pure
affection was innoeent of all monetary
interests? Could not all this have been
spared them? "
The next day I frankly opened my
heart to Jeanne and her mother, ex-
plaining the sensations 1 had expert-,
enced the previous evening, and saying
that in my country, when two persons
were about to marry, as long as there
was love on both sides and the man
was able to support his wile, all such
questioes were usually left undiscussed.
They both lieteped to inc somewhat
astonished, and then Madame de R—,
whose great good sense has always con-
vinced me, replied smilingly:
"But, my dear, for us marriage' is
not only the joining of two young and
loving hearts. We go further and con-
sider the generations to come, the
founding of _a new family—a home. As
every one knows, the first years are
often the most difficult, and we there-
fore take precautions...to smooth the
paths of our children, by settling, in
their presence, all business matters—
once and forever, and arranging things
so that the new life may develop under
the best of circumstances.—From "Par-
isian Wedding Parties," by Frances Wil-
son Huard, in the September Scribner.
A WEAK STOMACH
BRINGS MISERY.
Dr.* Williams' Pink Pills Restore
Despondent .Sufferers to
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Nothing is se distressing as a weak
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without tasting food. I got no relief
worth speaking of till I began the use
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They grad-
ually restored my health and strength
and now I am as well as ever I was. I
-would earnestly recommend them to all
those whosuffer as I did." .
It is the blood—bad blood—that is the
cause of' nine-tesths of the ailments from
which both men and women suffer. The
blood is the life-giving fluid of the body.
When the blood is bad it- is bound to
poison some part of the human system
and thus it is that rheumatism, kidney
trouble, indigestion, headaches and back-
aches and it host of other troubles make
their appearance. Dr.. Williams' Pink
Pills cure all these troubles—and they
cure thorn thoroughly—simply- because
they fill the veins with rich red blood.
The genuine Pills bearing thefull name
"Dr. 'Williatne Pink Pills foe Pale Peo-
ple" are sold by all dealers in medicine
or by malaat 50 cents a box or six box-
es for $2.50 from The Dr. Williaras
Medieine Co., 13roekville, Ont,
MICHIGAN ISLAND.
Rises From Lake Orion Every Summer
and Sinks Every Winter.
'One of the deepest mysteries to be
found in this part of the State is the
island that every summet comes to the
suriace of Lake Orion over beyond Park
Island, and, every winter goes back again
to the depths from whence it arose.
-, Its period of appeura,nce and, disap-
pearance are neatly regular. It comes
to the surface along hbout the middle of
August and goes down again nbont Feb-
ruery 15. What causes it to act thus
strangely is it toriondrum that none has
been able to solve, and the best efforts
that have been put forth to keep it with
us or compel it to renmin itt the depths
have been alike without results.
On eae (Me:talon it number of framers
and Wanders resolved to put the Island
out of tho floating business. In their
efforts to do SO they hauled many loads
of stone end deposited them on it dor-
ing the early part of the winter, believ-
ing that whet it went down in February
It would go down for good, weighted as
it WAS with the stones. But the follow-
ing August sew it bob tip scrawly from
below—minus its load oa stones.
At :Mother time all effort was Made to
keep it on the surface arid it was chain-
ed to the eurrounding cottntry with
heavy log ehains. When its 'time for de-
parture mune it departed—and. the log
eluting &vatted with it. The log chains
were never recovered.
The island is cempesed of soft mud
and rushes, and there are some seepticel
souls who attribute its formation and
appearance and disappearance to the
gathering of vegetation in orte spot by
the temente of the lake end its subse-
quent aetay.—Lake Woe torrespond-
oleo Detroit, News -Tribune,
THEIR MAIN *ME,
(Louisville .(ourierslournai.)
'I suppose you found the mandits
ery imptessivrt"
"011, )'Cl. And they made fine beet-
gronrals toe photographs of our party,,*
,e(9 fo 0 fliosaresdood heath
AG IC
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INSURES PURE
FOOD.
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ANTS PROTECT PLANT.
How They Defend It Against Leaf De-
stroying insects.
A standing army of ants for defensive
purposes is kept and provided 'with food
by a seasitive plant of Nicaragua. In
tine acacia there are two. large thorns
at thebase of each leaf inhabited by
colonies of ants which bore into the
sausaget Shaped body, about as large as
a pin's bead, consisting of albuminous
food. The ants sip the nectar and eat
the food bodies, and being contented
with their lot, remain on the plant with-
out doing it any injury.
When the plaut is threatened by an
'invasion of leaf cutting ants, which
would damage it, the ants composing
the plant's army or police force rush out
and repel the intruders. Many similar
arrangements exist in tropical plants,
In one of the most remarkable of
these ant plants the female ant bits a
Mile in the stem- and brings up her
brood inside it. The stalk of eachleaf
is swollen at its bese and bears food
bodies whirl' are eeten by the ants
when they emerge to find for them-
selves, As the old food bodies are eaten
new ones are formed, thus keeping the
thorns and make a home for themselves
by eeting out the soft inner tissue. On.
the leaf stalks there are honeyeglands,
and at the tip of each leaflet there is a
ants, which are of a fierce disposition,
in the plant's employment: Plants of
the same species' which do not happen
to be inhabited by ants fall an easy
prey to leaf matting kinds of ants, which
are only too plentiful in the tropics.
In other cases the defensive ante are
provided ordy with shelter in cavities
of the stem, and various naturalists
have observed that these ants pour out
In troops whenever leaf cutting enemies
attempt to attack the -foliage.
The ants -which thus defend these
plents are small, but sting with extreme
virulenee, their small size making them
the inore "formidable. The leaf cutting
ants cut off the leaves and pile them
up in heaps, forming a sort of kitchen
garden oa leaf mould, upon which they
cultivate a fungus belonging to the
mushroom family. They sow the aphoees
of the mushroom and make a pure cul-
ture of the fungus, nibbling at it to pre-
vent the development of mushroom
heede and thus promote the growth of
spawn.—Chicago Tribune.
How -Corn Grows.
How fast dies corn grow these hot
days and nights?
Wallace Rankin, the hardware dealer,
says a travelling man lost $5 on a wager
in Oswego this week "because he took
the wrong end of a bet with a farmer
as to how fast corn reaches heaven-
ward. The travelling inan bet that a
stalk of corn would not grow six inches
in the time named. The travelling an
lost his wager by an inch and the farmer
won by one inch and five hours.
The wager was made as the result
,of remarks made by the farmer as to
how fast corn was shooting up. He
got off the old remark about it grow- -
ing so fast itt the night that he could
hear its joints pop. -
The drummer laughed at him and
told him lie was mistaken.
"It's easy for you to say your corn
is growing that fast," he remarked, "but
you haven't got any money to back up
your claim."
"'Yes, I have," said the farmer; "I've
got plenty of money, and I hate to get
more by taking it from you on a dead
sure thing, but since you're,such a wise
one and have tried to run a bluff on me
I'll just cover your $5 and bet you that
.that corn grows six inches in thirty.
six lurUrs."
It leaked like a find to the drummer
and he put up the cin. The pair agreed
on umpires and Went to the farmer's
field. There they selected a likely
stalk and tied a string to it, well up
and just long enough to touch the
ground.
,Mr. Rankin happened into Oswego
just as the crowd started out to Ras
Omd.....••••••••••••,..
what the corn had done. It had been
about thirty,one hours then since the
mark was set. He went along with the
party, They found the string elevated
it bit above the ground, and when a
foot rule was put to it there were just
'seven inehes from the end to the soil.
The farmer got the money.—Canute
Tribune.
The Best Exercises After Vacation,
Now as to the best exercises Mr this
purpose: they are undoubtedly those
which I invariably recommend and pre.
seribe—stretching. deep breathing,
ryibmical breathing, and relaxing. These
exercises are extremely simple and are
free from any effort of mind and body,
but their effects are salutary and far.
reachine.
First try this: Stand easily, take it
full breath, at the same time raising the
arms, Then, holding the breath stretch
firmly toward the ceiling, imitating the
action of the ordinary yawn accompan-
iect by a stretch. After a few moments
of firan stretching relax the muscles,
lower the arms and- exhale the breath.
Exactly how you do this matters little.
You can vaey it in any way, stretch in
any direction .that suits.
After a dozen of such deep yawns, try
the swinging breath. Inhale the breath,
swinging the arms straight up in front
of you until they are over the head, and
exbale as they come down. Do this
quite rapidly and with as much ease and
swing as possible. It is tbe ease that
count. To do it stiffly and laborious-
ly will interfere with the beneficial re-
sults aimed at.
The best way to relax is to remove
most of the elothing, lie flat on the floor
and roll over and over first in one dire°.
don and then the other.
Another exercise which wil be found
of great value in resting and relaxing
cramped muscles is the following: Stand
easily with feet slightly apart. Exhale
the breath in a gentle sigh, at the same
time letting the head fall limply for-
ward on the these Now allow the neck
and body to follow the movement, while
the arms hang loosely at the sides, Bend
lower and lower until the hanging finger
tips are near the floor.
Then, without holding the position, at
,once begin to straighten up midi the
erect position has been regained. In this
exercise it is important that the knees
should be held firmly back, but in all
other respects the muscles are entirely
relaxed. The lesseeffort made, the bet-
ter will be the results.—From "'Getting
Over Your Vacation," by De W. R. C.
tatson, in the Outing Magazine for Sep-
tember.
• •
If every housekeeper would use
Wilson's Fly Pads freely during
the Summer months the house ,fly
peril would soon be a thing of the
past,
Where Bayonets Were First, Forged.
Bayoonne, to which the Queen of Spain
has retired, across the frontier from an
Sebastian, has associated itself forever
with military glory.
For it wias here in the seventeenth cen-
tury that bayonets, destined to play an
important part in continental battles,
were first forged, In its early stages of
development the bayonet had to be fit-
ted by means of aehandle to the bore of
the firelock aftev the soldier had fired.
But Bayonne found a better way of
attaching the bayonet, and "now, as a
First Empire admirer of the Freneh said,
"these people owed a large pert of their
victories tcathe new attachment and to
the neglect of this in succeeding wars,
and trusting to their fire alone, they
owed their defeats,"—Loudon Chronicle,
BY THE FORELOCK.
"I'm going to be married next week,
old man. Congratulate me?"
"Why, 1 didn't know you were en-
gaged."
"I wasn't till somebody told me where
a young couple could get a fine cook
chile. And I hated to miss the oppor.
tunity."
WINDSOR
BUTTER.,
Prize
Butter
—the kind that wins
cash and medals at the
fairs, and brings 'top prices
in the market — is always
MAO with
Wind
Slitter.
Sall
Take Time,
Take thee to breath a morning prayer,
asking God to keep you from evil, and.
use you. for His glory during the day,
'Fake time to read a few verses from
God's word Kul day,
Take time to be pleasent. A bright
smile or it pleasant word falls like sun-
beams on the hearta of those
around us.
Teke time to be petite. A. gentle "I
thank you," "If you please," "Excuse
me," etc., even to an inferior, Is ne
compromise of dignity, and yea know
"True politeness is to say
The kindest things in the kindest way."
Take time to be patient with villa.
then. Patience and kindness wilJ open
it way for good influence over almost
any child.
Take time to be thoughtful about the
aged, Respeet grey baits, even If they
crown the howl of it beggar.
Piloted.
(By Amy Parkinson.)
A. silver line, of wondrous shine,
' Along the far horizon lies;
Though round my barque are leaden
seas,
°Wining by leaden skies.
Full many a leegue, inc fears, must
yet
Be passed to reach this goal of light;
And e'en the distant proSpeet may
At times be lost to sight.
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The gathering mist, the spreading cloud,
Or the wild, tempest -driven spray,
May hide from Inc the radiant gleam
That glade my eyes to -day.
:But lower, darkl drive blinding apray!
, Densest of enist euvelop mel
Straight still I'll sail, 'spite gloom or
gale,
To the bourne where I would be.
For mine is not the Hand that steers;
Nor needs the course my feeble
sight—
Ono hath control to Whom thick murk
Is as 'twere sunshine bright,
Toronto, Canada.
A Lesson in Prayer.
(Amos 11. Wells in Presbyterian,)
I have it new theory about prayer.
You won't believe the theory, but it is
true; and hem is the Way I argue:
My baby cannot talk; she can only
cry, and hold out her arms. She cannot
tell nue what she wants, and often she
does not know. It is no small part of
her mother's business to find out what
she wants, and get it for her, if it will
not hint her;
Now, I do not believe that anyone,
not even a mother, is kinder than God,
who made mother. I believe that God
does not wait for us to aek. Vim for
what we want, since often we have not
the words; nor even to know what we
ant, since often all we know is that we
are not satisfied, or happy. 1 believe
that God is always thinking, patiently
thinking, brooding over our possible de-
sires, that He may diseover them, and.
fulfil them.
"I also believe that," you say, In-
dignant that I have Jealled this a new
theory.
No, you do not. If you did, your
whole life would be changed.
You wofild stop worrying, since worry
is only an unrecognized fear that God
has forgotten you.
You would stop envying and coveting,
for you would know that God is devising
the best for you, and nothing as better
than the best.
You would cease to be impatient, sure
that God's eagerness will not permit a
second's unnecessary. postponement.
You would be more earnest, realizing
how close a partner In your business
God has made Himself.
Your life would move serenely, stead-
fastly, confidently, if you really be-
lieved that God was making your hap.
piness His engrossing aim. Your Iife
would be an unending, joyous prayer.
I do not mean that you should make
a parade of prayer. I believe with the
old- lady who said, "There are some
things fit to be done in religion that
ain't fit exactly to be talked about, and
prayer is one." But if you really pray,
yon can't. keep it from talking. Your
lips will sing it, and your eyes will
shine it, and your whole being wili
radiate it forth.
Will you not make trial of it?.
Third and F�urth.
A student in an Australian university
asked the professor, "Why did not tho
old texts tell that the sins of the father
were visited upon the children to the
eeventh and eighth geneeations, as well
as to the third and fourth?" "Because,"
replied the professor, "there will be no
seventh or eighth generation. Sin ex.
anguishes itself before it gets tbat far."
And is not this a inereiful law? It is
e:cod merry all round to -ordain that the
wicked live not out half t/ eir days.Look
et that midnight son, ws ulering in the
tatreet. He is sowing the eeeds of cli.eso-
intion in his Deli bedy, and tee clamps
and foo ami oaths are watering the sail
fer a speedy orals. 'Whet is the ground.
these men walk era They are in the
way of anger. "C-tod iS angry With the
wieked every day." The hardpan of the
la they walk on is hell. What is hell?
The place weere God is not. "The fool
hath said in his heart, There ie no God,"
The old word bath seld, "Their foot shall
slide in due time." What are men?
They ere tveee planted. You 'Want e
tree to adorn your grounds, You .go
to the bosh, make your ehoice, .trint
plant it, it thing of beanty. Many a
1.1*0 growing on the estate is marked
ft' fa11ing and, more, when the dome
goes forth, it gives tie pause. "Their
17illior'etalshealrel noottinbotl4iO64eV'llaihith.eir
"
the grant may be found ht London driv-
hvg eabs and sweeping eroseitigs, "If. ye
live after the fleah ye shell die." SI ye
adopt the maxima, breathe the etinoe-
;there, follow the preeepts, Juetify the
pursuits, and are eontent with these re-
fleetione.
wards. we 111114 leave you to pew re.
lint there is hope for tlioae 00 have
eome to the fourth generationt I knew
iesiiiiii.liiiiriwstilit,itutt.menaoretvolee(I
trilnrlileois :were t -
have been studying our .farnily tree
as far as poeeibles Ana have found
them a poor lot. 1 have riot foetid a
tiaee of love to Chriat .or devOti011 to
Ms muse la ell that 1 have ettlateu or
/ward ithout.and this wohaer has Mitt
to The; Ali) 1 the hot,of the, fourth, put
lq there u turn in the tide, and OM
tir-ea to hoar my father's name on tt now
li:1:on,n;UWti
rrostaSItTioefater the 061110 of the
Lottlig M, ncl Wave it wise Of
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