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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-04-17, Page 3flir aua 11011.1.1 The Housekeeper • Bun a cap of bur until Week:, then add half a cup of water after taking frora the fire. Put in st bottle Rant nee for eoloring graVies. Soap and wood. ashes is excellent for cleaning zinc tube and pails. A glese of very hot water Pipped slow- ly will often prove a cure for sleepleees nese. In pre's:wing sue of any kind, to serve with a sardine or wanton disla the oil from the muted 'fish may be used as a battle quite as well as but ter or olive oil. When a wall is sOft and will and hold a nail where you wish to hang a pietare, mix a, little plaster of parie in a teacup; enlarge the hole, insert the plastere-and in a minute after the nail and when it hardens the nail will be per. fectly e.ecure. Cook vegetables which have S. g-troxig odor or taste in a large amount of water. Oyeter$ chopped and added to the gravy of a juiew porterhouse eteak are as good as mushrooms. Try it. HAS NO KICK. "teal it a 'fright the way living has gone up?" "Oh, I don't know. I haven't any fault to find." "What, do you think the preeent prices are satisfactory?" "Perfectly. They suit rae exactly." "But look at the cost of foodstuffs, sir. Eon are 45 cents a dozen, butter 40 vents a pound, flour up in, the air, po. tatoes eoeting more than ever before. We can's stand it, I say." "Maybe you can't, but I ean." "You're the first man I've ever met who said so. May I ask what ie your business?" "You may. Pni in the grocery busi- nese—Detroit Free Press. Popular Young Farmer Talks TELLS WHAT DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS DID FOR HIM. He's Back at Work Again, After Suffering frOm the Pains, Nervous- ness and De;resci3n that Only Kidney Disease Can Bring. Point Alexander, Ont., . April 14.— (Speciale—Mr. D. A. Freneare, a well- known and popular young fernier, live ing near here, who has been a sufferer from kidney disease for some time past, le back at work again, and. he says, without hesitation, that his cure is due to Dodd' ,3 Kidney Pills. "I was always tired and nervous," Mr. Froncare say., in speaking of his ill - nese. suffered. from baeka.ehe and neuralgia, and my sleep was broken and unrefreehing. My eyes were puffed and there were dark red eircles around them . "My muscles would cramp. I felt heavy and sleepy afterwards, and I was depressed and low.epirited, while shortness of breath and dizzy pells served to make life yet more miserable for me, "I was .always thinety; my limbs were heavy; and I had a dragging sensation aerose the loins. "My symptoms led me' to believe I had kidney disease, and 1 started to uee Dodd's Kidney Pills. I have taken eight boxes in all, and I am very grate- ful for the benefit I have received from them." If the disease is of the kidneys or from the kidneys, Dodd's Kidney Pills will euro it. : t Some Experiments In Bee -Keeping Ontario farmers have been conducting experiments of various kinds under the direction of the Experimental Union for quite a number of years, a.nd for the last three year some of them ha.ve conduct- ed experiments in bee -keeping with spec- ial reference to the "Prevention of Nat- ural Swarming," and also in the "Races of Beets." During 1912, theee different. methods of swarni prevention were test- ed by members of the Experimental Un- ion and one or two experiment a on races of bees. Experiment No. 1.—Of the the 220 persons Who undertook the first experi- ment in swarm prevention, 31 sent re- ports from 18 different counties.. These reported a total of 830 colonies of bees in the spring and 1,109 in the fall, being a spring average of 27 colon - ice per experimenter and a fall average of 36. Their total honey crop was 63,- 230 lbs., an average of 76.1 lbs. per cols only, spring count. Fifteen of. these ex- perimenters were for one reason or an- other unable to eompiete the experiment, but all of them sent good reaeons for this and most of them stated that they had received benefit by applying at leaee part of the instructions to their bee management. Those pito were able to compete the experiment reported that they had been able to reduce natural swarming from 48 per cent, to 21 per cent. Experiment No. 2.—Experiment No. 2 was for "Swarm Prevention in Comb lioney Production." Six complete re- ports of this experiment were sent from fere counties. The total number of col- onies represented was. 101, spring count, and 228, fall eount. The total honey ero? was. 8,440 lbs., an average of 52.47 libe. per eolony, sprieg eount. The per ent. of natural sWarM6 from hives managed sceerding to instructions was 57 per eent, and from those managed actording to the old method 100 per cent. Swaming I e itlwa:e more difficult to control in comb honey production. The average crop Of nonev was oleo higher than from those managed aceording to direetione. Expel iment 3..—Twelve experimen. tame sent colarlete reporte from five dif- ferent ounties on Experiment No. 3, 'The Prevention of Natural Swarming by the Manipulation f Hives indeed . . Gives a (Wick, grIliiant Polish That Lasts ARMS AND FACE VERY NCH DISFIGURED Skin Cracked and Bled, Causing Much Pain. Was Getting Dis- couraged, Cuticura Soap and Ointment Soothed Right Away. Used Them Four Weeks, Has Not Been Bothered Since. 8 llunter St., Davisville, Toronto, Ontle. rlo.—mely little girl Was troubled with cracked, arms and face from the tine be was born. 'They were certainly very much disfigured. The skin was sensitive and cracked and bled, causing much pain by smarting. When healing a little it took the form of Itching. The trouble made her very cross. When she cried the tears would make it smart and cense more pain. 1 tried cold cream, — and and it got better only to break out again when exposed to the air. She suffered ter over three years and I was getting discouraged when I read of Cuticura. Soap and Ointment and sent for samples. Cuticura Ointment seemed to soothe it right away, where other ointments made it burn, Iso .1 bought some more. 1 used them for four weeks and she bas not been bothered since. Bev face and arms have never had a mark since, in fact her complexion is wonderfully clear." (Signed) Mrs. Underhill, 1)ec. 11, 1911, Cuticura, Soap is best for ?skin and hair because of its extreme purity, delicate yet effective emollient properties, and refresl2ing fragrance. It costs but little more than ordinary soaps, wears to a wafer and gives comfort and satisfaction every moment of its use, for toilet, bath, and nursery. Cuti- cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are sold everywhere. 1Aberal sample of each mailed free, with 82-p. Skin Book. .Address post card Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Dept. 49D, Boston, 1.1. S. A.. of s," The total number of colonies ownedby experimenters in the spring was 515, and in the fall 743. The total honey crop reported was 25,363 Iles., an average of 49.24 lbs. per colony. The per ()Ant. ef nature,: swarms from bees man - teed according to direction's was 14 1-2 per cept. and from those allowed to rewarm naturaily was 39 per cent. The average number of pounds per colony was a little higher from the former than the Jt' tter. Tine shows a distinct gain in the preventioa of swarming and in the honey crop all along the line by ex.. permenters following directions. While experimenters are learning to prevent the loss and worry of n.aturat swarming, they are also learning to in- crease their number of colonies when desired, by artificial means quite aa Guecessfully as by the natural way and ,much more eheaply. PROFITS IN BEEKEEPING. Now to sum up, we have 49 experi- menters scattered all over Ontario, with, 1,506 colonies, spring count, and 2,080 colonies, fall count. This represents an investment of say $20,000,000. Their in- come for 1912 is first, an increase of 54 colonies, which, without hives, would be worth hi the fall at least $3.00 eoch, to- talling $1,722.00, also 97,042 lbs. of honey worth at least $10,000.00. This gives each of our 49 experimenters the neat divicleed of Si per cent. on his capital invested. Theese figures repreeent bee- keeping on the fares end de not ta.ke in- to account rent for location, teeming of honey and supplies, labor and other costs for which the farmer bee -keeper uenally does not pay cash. The special- ist has all these expeeses to face and still makes a good living. These reports come front experi- menters and show that they are getting uc mh better returns front their. bees than the average Ontario beekeeper. F,yen the latter do not do so well as those from whoee reports the following summaries are taken. The indifferent beekeeper is holding dewn the produc- then of honey all over Ontario, that tons of it have to be imported from thlt Un- ited States, in spite of the tariff wall, to supply the demand. Tt may eurprise inany of our beekeepers to know that United States extracted honey, which costs the Canadian dealers Mc. and more per pound, is benig sold in Canadian cit- ies this winter. The average returns from honey ale9. by co-operative expera menters were given above. The following reports come to this of. fice from various sources: In 1910-633 beekeepers, from 31,145 colonies, produced 1.643,900 lbs. of honey —an average of 52 lbs. per colony. In 1911-749 beekeepers, from 32,009 hives, produced 1.489,009 lbs. of honey.— an average of 46 lbs. pee colony. In 1912—.569 beekeepers, from 29,564 hives, produced 1,011,200 lbs. of honey— an average of. 34 lbs, per colony. RACES OF BEES. As to the special experiments on "Races of Bees,' the results are not very conclusive as yet, except that it seems to he well demonstrated that Italian bees are very good resisters in the neighborhood of this disenee to get their bees Italianized as rapidly as possible, because there is no way of curing the disease in black bees, end when one has good Italian bees and the colonies strong there is very little lose from trouble of this kind. For particulars in reference to con- ducting eimilar experiments during 1913 write to Morley Pettit, Provincial Apis arist, Ontario Agriculturel College, Guelph, One. CURES COUGHS &COLDS TRAWLERS HURT THE TELEPHON Some difficulty is being experienced by the Japanese telegraph service owing to the damage eaused to the su'bmarine cables off the eoast of japan by fishing trawlete, Owing to the profitable nature o fthe' business, there has rencently been a large increase in the number off trawl- ers, with the result that an interrup- tion of the cable serviee is frequently elute& The authorities of the Govern- ment Telegraphs and Agriculture De- partments are at present eonferring as to the steps to be taken to overcome the diffieulty. immomm• IN SHOE P011511 No Tutpentitt Better for the Shoes aegeara BABY WOOD DUCKS. Journey to Water When They Leave Lofty Nests, Somebody, Burroughs, I believe, eaid "the notion that the mother duck takes the young birds one by one in her beak and carries them to the creek Is doubtless ennoneous." 1 could not see how else it could be done, writes a contributor to the Youth's Compan- ion, and I spent several valuable days of several different years in trying to find out how it was done. The thing that puzzled me was how the mother wood duck (Aix aponsa) managed to get her numerous progeny down from their lofty cradle and upon the water without injuring them. I was not alone in my ignorance; some very eminent ornithologists have won- derecl about the matter as well. After a five mile pull one hot .Tune day I let my boat lie in the shade or some lofty cottonwoods that grew on the lake shore, while I lay back and watched the play of shadows on the calm water. A splash near hy'attracted by atten- tion, and I looked around to see a mother wood duck just alighting. There was a little one by her side, but I did not see how it got there. In a moment the old duck rose, circled a' few times to gain altitude, and made direct for a hole in a large dead tree a few rods away. The hole was at least sixty feet from the ground. The duck squeezed her body through the opening and disappeared. She came back in a few moments with a duck- ling in her mouth. After resting for a moment she Cain° sailing down and placed this baby beside the first. One after another she carried down the entire brood of .eleven little yellow and black fluffy balls. They flapped their tiny wings and fluttered in the water as if that were not the first time they had ever been in swimming. The mother duck returned once more to the tree to make sure that she had not overlooked one, came back, placed herself at the head of the pro- cession, called softly to her babies and swam away, followed by the entire family in single file. / New Treatment Now Advocated For Bronchitis Is Having Wonderful Success, and Is Making Most Remarkable Cures. For broneltitie a different form of treatment is now advocated. it .con - slats of a k.entifically devised vapor that penetrates to the uttermost recesses of the lungs and bronadal tubes. Every spot that is sore, every surface that ie irritated is at once bathed 'with soothing balsams and healing essences that male chronic bronchitis an impossibility. This treatxnent now so universaq employed in bronchitis throat troubles, colds, etc,, is, called 0.76A.TARRLIOZO.NE. It acts just as air of the pine woods, acts, as a heading antiseptic remedy for all diseases of the ;breathing Arga,ns. Just think of it—a remedy that can be carried with the very air you breathe to the seat of bronchial or cetarrhal inflammation. A remedy powerful enoug,li to kill germ life toed yet 60 heal- ing that disease flees before it. Cetarria ozone is truly a wondeefal remedy. It many lands it has Wan its way, and is affording grand results to sufferers from cokes, catarrh, throat weakness, asthma, and bronchitis. There is no enfferer from a grip.py cold or any winter ill that won't find a cure in Catarrhozone,whieh ie employed by physicians,ministers, lawyers and public u3.011 throughout many foreign lands. Large size lasts two months and coats $1.00 and is guanine teed; small size, 50e; saimple eize, 25c., a.)1 storekeepers and druggists, or The Catarritozone Co., Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Canada. PIG FEEDING AS A SCIENCE. In feeding pigs Which are to be (levet, oped for feeding purposes less protein food should be given than in the ca,se where the pigs are intended fox market, According to experiments tried, pigs which are to be developed for breed.mg purposes should start with 5-10ths of a pound of digestible crude protein. daily per 100 pounds live weight when two months old. This should be increased to 55-100ths of a pound during about seven purposes should start with 5-10ths of a pound during the next four weeks, and then during the following seven or eight weeks they should be fed 5-10ths of a pound of digestible crude protein per 100 pounds live weight daily. Following this there is another four weeks' period of reduction from 5-10ths of a pound to 35- 100ths of a pound, and then another sea. en or eight weeks' period of feeding 440ths of a pound. Thus the teduotion continues till the hog reaches maturity at two years of age, when orny about '2-10ths of a pound of digestible crude protein is necessary as a daily allowance per 100 pounds live weight. PIG .AT TWO MONTHS. The market pig when it is two months old gets 6.10the of a pound of digestible crude protein daily per 100 pounds live weight. This is gradually increased. Fol. lowing this there is rt reduction from 7-1.0ths to 6-10ths of a pound during four weeks' One. During the next sev. en weeks the pigs get 05-10ths of a. round of digestible crude protein daily per 100 pounds live weight. This is re- duced to about 3-10ths of a pound dur- ing the next four week at whieh pobit it remains constant tilt the pigs are in prime condition for market when eight months old. Pigs that are to be develpped for breediug purposes should have about 13 pound e of total water daily per 100 pounds live weight when they are two months old. This includee the water contained in the feeds used in the ration, as well as the water that is need' as weter. This quantity of water is grad. ually reduced, so thot when the pig is ti months old it is getting 9 pounds of wa- ter daily per 100 ponnde live weight. Vol - lowing this the amount of water in the ration should remain emnewhere be- tween 8 and 10 pounds daily per 100 pounds live weight. WATtli. FM PIGS. The amount of Water tell to pigs that are grown itha fettened for the merket, starting with the pig when it is two -, months old and laving it in prime eon. dition for market at eight months ot age, deereasea gradually from 12 pounds to 4 pounds of water daily per hundred pounds live weight. This, however, does not inelnde the water eontained in dry feeds. The latest data 'ehows that this idiould be slightly modified, es follows: The aniount -of water at the beginning, intateditig thatof the feeds, should be Bright, Ruddy Cheeks For Pale thris No Longer Any Need to be Pale, Weak or Anaemic. By Following the Advice of Miss Mc. Ewen You Can Quickly Become Strong Again, The pallid girl always lacks appetite. What little elle eats is badly digested. At night B he is restless, she dozes, but doesn't sleep soundly. Vital force niust be inereased, new blood must be eupplied and, a. general rebuilding take place before ehe will feel like she ought. Dr. Hamilton hats invaluable exper- ience in these cases and found nothing so prompt in building up young women as hisuvegetable pills of Mandrake and Butternut, Dr. Hamilton's Pills begin by cleai*. ing the Gerstein and purifying the blood; they also improve digestion and render food ready for absorption. .Additional nourishment is quickly supplied and the patient is fast strengthened and invig- orated. Full of spirit, ruddy and strong ie the girl that assists her (trade by the use of Dr, Hamilton's Pills. The following recent letter from Miss Etta, McEwen, of Haliburton, speaks for itself: "In using Dr, Hamilton's Piles I fiud, my syetem is wonderfully built up. It is certainly the most effective remedy ever used. 1 havenbV a good appetite, sleep more soundly, and awaken in the. morning feeling quite refreshed, "Formerly I felt tired and depressed,. I looked as if a severe illness were hang- ing over my head. "Nothing could give quicker results. than Dr, Hamilton's Pills and I strong- ly advise every young woman to use them." All dealers sell Dr. Hamilton's Pills, 25.c per box or five boxes for $1.40,, by mail or from The Catrterhozone Co.,Buf- falo, NX., and Kingston, Ont. the same as that for pigs that are to be developed, for breeding purposes, namely, 13 pounds. But this should decrease to 10 pounds at five and one-half months of age, and after this decrease to five pounds at eight months of age, with the pig in prime condition for maiket. Thus the decrease is not in a, straight line, as previonsisenti`P the amount fed is rela- tively higher tit about the middle of the feeding period. Fe7,EDING CARBOHYDRATED FOOD. The amount of carbohydrate fed to pigs that are being developed for breed- ing purpoees should be somewhat lower than is fed to nutrket pigs, so as to pre- vent them from getting too fat, They Should get approximately 2.2 pounds dur- ing the third to the sixth month, inein- sive. Following this it should be de- creased, so as to keep l the pigs in tne de- sired breeding condition. By using different feeds and differ- ent quantities of the same feeds there are an infinite munber of combinations that may, be made. all of which may be good. 1.1 corn is not available, rye, bar- ley and wheat rice, eio., may be used in- stee.d. If soy beans are net at hand, oil meal may be substituted, or peas may be used, but the quantity must be inereneed, as the peas do not contain .as much protein. This would also in- crease the carbohydrates; heune the corn would have 'to be correspondingly decreased. Or these may be left out and more skim milk. added. Some of the protein rna,y also be supplied in the form of clover or alfalfa. Tf skem mine is not available, more of some other nitrogen- ousJeed may be supplied, and aiSo more water, as milk is 85 to 90 per vent. wee ter. If tankage containing 60 per cent, protein is usedinthe place of soy beans, meal will much lees suffice, as tankage is richer in protein. The above is intended for dry lot feed- ing. If pigs are on pasture these quan- tities .should be somewhat reduced. if the ration is used in a dry lot, a little more bran or shorts used in place of part of the corn, so as togive the ration more bulk, will improve it. A greater variety of feeds will probably also melee the ration better. 4 -o -a Zam-Buk for the Children Mothers Tell What It Did For Their Little Ones. Thousands of mothers in Galinda owe a debt of gratitude to Ziatneleuee. Mrs. J. Quidhig, of Ninette, Man., says: "My little bey was suffering very badly from a foam of skin disease over his eye. I applied Zam-Buk to the affect - cid part, and in a very short time, the Sores were healed." ;Mrs. F. Miners, of 311' Suffolk etreet, Guelph, Ont., eays: "My little daughter Lorinda (6) contracted a skin disease. This first ,broke out like tiny water bus- ters afterwards taleing the form of dry .scat:ts. These would disappear for a short time, and then reappear woree than ever. We tried Zion -Bak and per- severance witits use resultedh in a cure." All druggists and stores sell Zuni- Buk nt 50c. box or post free from Zain- Duk Co., Toronto, upon receipt of price. •-•-• COMPULSORY EXERCISE FOR SOWS. We claim that exercise constitutes more than one-half the battle if strong litters are expected, and it should be re. membered that the average sow will not of her own accord speed enough energy to answer the purpose. We believe in eeattering feed for sows, and there is no better place to do this than right out on the postures or in the bare feed lots. Shelled corn or grain of any kind may be used for this purpose. It a mistake to feed 80Ws o, heavy ration in the morning end allow them to go right bark to their sleeping quezters. If they are fed in troughs, they should be immediately turned out, 60 that they have 110 tteeeSs whatever to strawy (par- ters. triiless the weather is 'too cold, they are far bettor off out on bare ground, where the comforts of life are so few that they will spend their time romping around and perchance in squeal - big, Anything to keep tbem going is bet. ter than to let them loaf in the yards. • trnder this plat ninny a man has been able year after year to raise (thong lit - term, even though his sows have been feet on earn alone, whileait is never dif- fieult to find instances where balanced reticule have been fed, only to find very poi' results follow in the production of weak Utters. Compulsory exercise by brood (sows ehould be the watchword ef every ewirie breeder during the week e that fol. low between this period and farrowing time. A tempany has been orgartited in the eity of Puebla, Nresico. capital MOM, and. has asked a concession from the eity 'ountil to rebuild the old theatre whiels was dostroyed by fire and to erect eatali theatres for the: enterttin- naMt Of the lower c.tri8StS. BUFFALO ROAMS. RRY1.11.0. American Bison Was Great Highway Builder. The buffalo was good surveyor, since its instinct led it to take the easiest and most direct paths over high lends and low to its goal, Charming and. Lansing, Oct have given study to this matter, assure us that the buffalo observed something like the prineiples that to -day govern the operations of the eng,ineer. The explorers who landed on the southern shores of Lakes Erie, Midi'. gen and Seperior, very soon observed the buffalo roads or 'traces,' Some- times thee° were narrow ditches, a foot wide and from six inches to tWo feet deep, trodden down by the impact of , thousands of hoofs, as herd After lserd of bufalos had stamped along in single file behind their leaders. When the first path became too deep for comfort, by reason of repeated travel, the bison would abandon it and begin a second path alongside the lint, and thus the frequented trnces would 'be gradually widened. Or an immensi herd of these heavy animals would crash through the forest, breaking in their rapid progress a broad, deep road from one feeding ground to another. Inasmuch as this route would be Lpl- lowed again and again by this and other herds, it would become quite level and as bar da.s a roinr. The con. sequence was that the pioneer road - makers always greeted with joy Net sight of a buffalo road. The line of ninny of these roads is followed to -day by railways and canals. just as in the old days it was followed by the log roads and turnpikes. The buffalo followed the level of the valley. He swerved round high points whenever it was possible) crossing the ridges and wetershe:ds atthe beat na- tural divides and gorges. He crossed from one side of a stream to the other repeatedly in order to avoid climbing up from the level, after the manner of our ittodern loop railways. Sore Back No fun, Cure It To -Day, Rub on "Nerviline" It will Cure Your Aching Back, Stop Your Suffering, Keep You Well. • Back Sufferers, Read Below. "I am just so delighted with the com- fort of Nerviline brought me that I want to talk about it all the time," writes J .C. Ca,ughla,n, of Saskatoon. "For ages I have been subject to an aching, dragging feeling' at the base of the spine. When attacks came on it made my whole body ache. It ap- peared as if I had taken cold and a soreness developed all ahrough my muscular system. When in Winnipeg ong day a frieeht spoke to me of Nervi - line, and X bought a 50c bottle. That Was the beet half -dollar I ever spent, it did so much for me. It is herd to con- vince some people of what a really good. medicine van do, but there will be no seeptics after they try out Nerviline. I use it for everything now. It's fine for Rheumatism and Neuralgia, and all sorts of museuiar pain it curet--; But internally, if possible, Nervi - line is even better. It cures a cramp in ten seconds, and, as for gas and upset or sour stonmeh, nothing can excel Nerv- iline. I think it ehould be kept in every home as ii protection against sudden ills, and also to cure ills that resist other treatments." • Family size bottles, 50c; 'trial size, 25c; at all storekeepers and druggists, or The Cetarrhozone Co., Buffalo, N.Y., U. S. A, DAFFODILS. wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills. When all at onee I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils. Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing In the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way. They stretched In never-ending line Along the margin of it bay; Ten thousand saw 1 at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee— A poet Mild not but be gay In such a jocund company. 1 gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth to me the show had brought. For oft, when on me' couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. And then my heart with pleasure fille And dances with the daffodils. William Wordsworth HOPE IS NOT LOST. (Buffalo News) Gradually a faith in the world that was almost shattered is being glued together and made whole again. Nothng as hope- ful as this has been speared by our scis- sors in many Months: "When the trous- ers skirt models were sent out into the street they were very promptly hooted batk into the shop again," from the French fashion MagaZinea. -41—•••• WEI a good plan to stand your grolind, but be sure you have some. "Prize Mammoth Long Red" Miuttgel MADE IN CANADA 1ONTAIN5 NO ALUM MAKING THE TELEPHONE MIND THE BABY HOUSECLEANING HELPS. To clean painted walls, Dirt seems to have an affinity for newly painted walls. For some reason or other the walls of the kitchen are bound to get dirty before the paint becomes dry. There's a way to keep the dirt out. Before the paint has thoroughly dried make up a batch of starch as you would for the laundry. Thin it so that it will flow nicely under a brush and apply a coat to the wall, It will dry clearly and protect the paint. When the wall gets dirty just wash off the starch and put on another coat, You'll have a good clean wall most of the time and one painting will last about four times as long as if usual methods were followed. To ebonize wood—Take one pound of log -wood chips and three pints of water, boil to one pint and apply to any grained wood. Let dry and apply another coat. After this is dry sand- paper it. Mix one gill of vinegar and three tablespoons of iron or steel fill- ing. Let stand five or ten hours. Put on wood with a brush. After it is thoroughly dry sandpaper and polish. To clean plaster casts—Bust and statuettes may be cleaned by dipping them into a thick liquid of starch or apply a thin •solution with a brush, covering every part. Let it dry two or three days. Then carefully peel off the starch. The dirt will come with it. Cleaning windows—Be sure and wash your windows when the sun is not shining. If they dry too quickly they may streak before they can go wiped. A good way to clean them quickly is to use whiting and alcohol and benzine, with enaheft calcined magnesia added to -make a thick milk, is excellent. oth these mix- tures are much better for cleaning than soap and water. To clean wood work—Wash white paint 'with a heavy suds made of white soap and to every quart of suds add one tablespoonful of gasoline. For mahogany or other polished woods use a mixture of linseed oil, vinegar and turpentine, equal parts. Pour some of the mixture on a cloth, rub the wood well and polish with a dry cloth. On unpainted varnished wood use soap and yater and then re- varnisn. To clean door handles—Clean plated handles and hinges on doors by rub- bing with a flannel cloth wet 'with kerosene aud dipped in whiting; polish with dry flannel. Clean the woodwork as explained elsewhere for painted or varnished surfaces. A:. Ho The family remedy for Coughs and Colds 'Shiloh costs so little and does so much!' 4 1 TO CLEAN CARPETS. All carpets or rugs should be well beaten and rubbed with a broom be- fore being cleaned. To beat properly hang them on a stout line, wrong side out. The sticks used should be pli- able, with cloth in the form of a *knot at the end tO prevent tearing the car- pet. After Well beating the wrong side turn and heat the other itt the same way. A,ter the floor has been wash- ed and become dry, the carpet can be relaid and then cleaned with a damp flannel cloth wrung out of warm soap- suds or water containing ammonia or borax. t re - Keep your mouth Out and you won't have to eat your word, A Frenchwoman was anxious to have baby sleep in, the open air in It s carriage, and at the same time she was too busy attending to her house- hold duties to stay by the carriage and be on hand when the child awoke or cried. She secured ma old tele- phone transmitter and connected it with the line running into her house. She put the tre.lsmitter in the cae- riage so that the baby boulsi not make a sound without transmitting the cry over the line to the house, Then the mother went about her regular duties pausing once in a while to take down the receiver of her house 'phone to listen to baby. If only regular breathing ewas heard she continued her task; if there was a cry or a crow she was ready to go to the youngster. IMPURE BLOOD IN THE SPRING The Passing of Winter Leaves People Weak and Depressed. • .Ai winter passes away it lea.ves many people feeble- weak, depressed and easily tired. The body lacks that vital force and energy which pure blood alone can give. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are an all -year-round blood build- er and nerve tonic, but they are espec- ially useful in the spring. Every dose helps to make new, rich, red blood. Re-, turning strength commences with their nse and the vigor and. cheerfulness of good health quickly follows. There is just one cure for lack Of blood and that is More blood. Food is the material from which blood Is made, but Dr. Williams' Pink Pills double the value of the food we eat. They give strength, tone up the sto- mach and weak digestion. eleer the complexion of pimples, eruptions and boils, and drive out rheumatic poisons. If you are pale and sallow, if you feel continually tired out, breathless after slight exertion, if you have headaches or backaches, if you are irritable and ner- vous, if your joints ache, if yeur appe- tite 'fails and food deee not nourish nor sleep refresh you, Dy. Williams' Pink Pills willinake you well and strong. to build. up leee blood is the special purpose of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and that is why they are the best spring medicine. If you feel the need of a tonic at this season give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial and you will rejoice in new health, new etrength and new energy. Do not let the trying weather of summer find you weak and ailing. Build your- self up now with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills—the pills that strengthen. Ask for Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and do not be persuaded to take something else. If your dealer does not keep theee Pills they will be ent by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, by y .1ting The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, *se A MOTHER'S TRIBUTE. Pathetic Ceremony at Night on an Atlantic Liner. Strange, perhaps, to us, but very touching, is the tender, intimate solici- tude of the Latin races for their dead —"I nostri morti," as the Italians are wont to call those whom theyhave i lost. There is a simple pathos n the incident that was related by a passen- ger on one of the great tralundlantic :before the steamer smiled maAil few days yv3 from Havre its captain received a let- ter from a peasant woman of Isidro -et - Loire. In it she explained that her only son had been a cook on the Titan - ie and had gone down with the vessel. She was sending, ehe wrote, a cross which elle begged him to drop into the sea at the spot where the disaster oc- (lured. The cross eame in due time, a simple eross of wood, fashioned rudely enough by the mother's fingers, and one night, as the great vessel neared Newfound- land, for the space of a minute her en- gines ceased to pulse and the little wooden cross, weighted with lead, sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic. — Paris cor. Philadelphia, Telegraph. OUR SEEDS: RODUCE Big Roots! hig crops Big Results! When you ask for "ROOT SEEDS" insist on getting:— Steak,. Briggs' oftoyal Giant" Sugar Boot Steels, Briggs, "Prize Mammoth Long Rod" Mangal, Steele, Briggs' sif Giant Yellow Oval" Mangol. Steal*, Briggs. "Glint Yellow' Globe" Mango' and insoles Briggs" “Glitnt Whits Sugar" MangeL Me Other ROCA 'crops produce so large an amount of desirable cattle food for winter feeding. Insist on having them—thoy'ro thole best- retuutts substitutes and other' said to be just as good. Sold by loading Morahants ovorywhoro in Canada • STEELE, BRIGGS SEED CO., Limited HAMILTON TORONTO WINNIPEG 7 I Hints Far Breeden PRACTICAL HINTS ON RAISING I"OWLS, Poultry keeping uncler correct emit - tions is al Profitable as well as. a fasein- , ating occupation. There is nothing par- ' tieularly difficult about the work, al- though when engaged in for profit, it eould not be referred to as "child's play." It requires constant attention to details, a never-ending vigilance that becomes irksome if one has not genuine enthusiasm for the daily routine, A good house is perhaps the first essen- tial for success.. A house, to be good, does not necessarily have to be au elaborate or expensive one, so long as the comfort and well-being of the fowls are assured. Four prime requisitiee in poultry house construction are light, warmth, dryness and good. ventilation. Windows should be placed as they are in dwelling houses; that is, with the greatest length up and down rather than hori- zontally, as this permits the sun to shine well back in the houee in the win- ter time. A comparatively high front wall is necessary, which should always face to he south or slightly southeast, so as to get the benefit of the greatest amount of sunlight possible in the win- ter. In cold climates double walled houses are best, but there is no neceee Ray anywhere for packing the spaces between the walls with hay or sawdust. Roofing paper may be used to advant- age between the walls, and roofing fabrics makes a cheaper roof than shingles and one that is just as satis- factory, A shed roof is considered bet- ter than a gable roof by most poultry- men. By making the rear wall only four or five feet in height, the amount of dead air space Which the fowls have to warm in could weather is reduced. Never use a stove or other artificial heat in a house for adult fowls. It is expensive, unnecessary and altogether undesirable as it is ruinous to the most robust vitality. Ventilator shafts or openings in the roof of a poultry house do more harm than good by drawing out the warm aid and.admitting a cold downward current. The modern model method of ventilating a poultry house is by means of window openings in the front (south) wall, eovered with burlap or muelin. The latter is best for severe climates. These curteins perrait a gen- tle diffusion oe'fresh, pure air, but break up all drafts and. cold currents. In- stead of having two glass windows itt the south wall of the poultry house, *cover one with cloth and see if your house is not dryer, purer and more sat- isfactory in every way than before. On pleasant, sunshiny days remove the cloth screens entirely and give the house a good sunning and airing. No one breed is best for any and every purpose, though some excel for special purposes. For eggs alone the Leghorns, Minoreas and Hamburg's are probably the best. All of these varieties . are producers of white eggs. The Min- . orcas lay the largest egg and the Ham - burgs the smallea, while the Leghorns are the most common and mut gener- ally popular. 'All these breeds are con- sidered "nervous" and are not as well adapted to close confinement as are larger and more sedate breeds. The "general purpose" breeds usually fill the requirements of ordinary confine- ment satisfactorily, though, given the opportunity, they are also scratchers and rustlers. The extreme in the "lazy" type of fowl is reached in the Brahma and Cochin, the latter not being the least restless of any in confinement. Both these breeds are of large size.They are heavily feathered on body and shanks. They are fair layers and in- clined to broodiness. The best "general purpose" breeds are the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhoie Island Reds and Orpingtons. Any and all of these varieties are fair producers of nice brown eggs, and are also excellent table fowls. In America these 'breeds rank in the order named. In popularity the Plymouth Rock has long stood at the head of the list, and will doubtles,s re- main the leading all-rou,nd fowl. In this family there are the barred, buff and white varieties. However, there is good in all the popular varieties or -they would not long remain so. A skill - e4 poultryman can make a success with af /lost any of them. Banta= require little house and yard room, and, being small, make nice pets far children. They are profitable producers of eggs under favorable conditions, though the eggs ar3FisxintuarieLs should never be permanently attached to the house, belt should be easily inovable. This is especially true of the roosts and nests, which, if they touch the house, will permit lice and mites to crawl all over the building. By having theee fixtures entirely clear from the walls of the house the vermin can easily be rea,ehed and destroyed by treating the fixtures with coal oil or a liquid lite -killing preparation The best roosts are all on a level and not more than three fee„t ,.ebove the Poor. By having perches . on, the same level the fowls do not fight and crowd one an- other to attain the highest position, but will epread out evenly and contentedly over the entire roost. Low roosts are desirable because they are easy to keep clean and lessen the possibility of fowls getting hurt falling, sumping ter being pushed off the perches. For large, heavy fowls, three feet may well be the limit in height for the perches.' Ndsts should not be jollied together oi$, made in one box. The separate nest fooilitates matters in many ways, both as rqgards cleanliness and convenience. Twelve byfourteen inches is flout the correet size for a nest for mesPura- sized fowls, suth aa rlynaouth I eks or Weettelottes. To save house 00113. great =Inv poultrymen find itdesir- able to plitee a platform under the perches to oath the droppings and un- der this platform the nests may be le- cated. Thus the nests and. roosts to - ether occupy no more space than woOd the latter alone. The plan is .exee1l4n:t where the dropping boards are eleari of every day or two; but where clea iiness &cue not exist the use of this pla!,ti really makes matters worse, as tlrp droppings are so clese underneath thckl, fowls that conditions soon 'famine un -.1 healthful. There is no infallible formula that ea,n'. be laid down for tbo feeding of fowls. The quiet breede would soon betome too fat to be profitable on the Stone kind of feed that would be just right for the energetic, active breeds. The latter bioeseifIseo.a. llowever. 'being smaller, require Is. A new hotel being erected in Walsh. Ington will be operated very largely by the flee of the ToTaxitograph, 'which Makefi a. record of every order or transaction.