The Lucknow Sentinel, 1916-07-27, Page 3.1rort.
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isieeerseesess;
,Candiae ere nwre and more be-
eoreing recegnized as the equal of
their eWn eitizena ley Our friends in
Tho republie to the, eauth a Ake and the
more the people a the twe nations
Inhattle alad fraterldZ9 the lefaiii will be
the prejudice between„148, Most of us
had 11, common origin and Altho taw
laabits and customs differ in Sento re-
epeete, as do eur arebitiene and moral
tendencies, there is at heart and
Itlindamentsliri 'as citizens, not So
,Mtreli real differeace in evidence when
we come to,linow each other well.
We Were particularly pjeasecl, there,
fore, to learn •that our old friend and
fellow -teacher of the seventies now
•six hundred and sixty.three aeree aro
luxuriant with this green-rinuned red.
• hearted.treasure, beside Wittelt the :ap-
pe a Edo mouta be no temptation,
at All. AO n indetetrY, Geergia Melon
growiag is among the cemparativelY
new And Meet profitable lines nf. ag.
rieultare. liendretle of thoureands
dollers are roAliagd everv Year on a,
field that once was cultiVated almost
•entirely for home WM. This develop..
meat, which is parallel to that of
peach And apple orchards and pecan
grovaa, allows the Poeeibilitiee gf the
so-called minor crops, By prodncing
• variety ef things for which there is an
assured 'demand and producing them
the /Ignorable William. Berwick Pb On a well -considered scheclul\e •so that
eU,.4UStice. Of'. the $upreme.' Cont f.'ahnosti.every• season of Om; yearWill
or Ontario, 'had accepted the .invitatiere
of the eutheeities. Of Tele Untveretty
tO deliver the Dodge lectures on the
" Respeneibilities. of pitisenehip "
the cemiug 'college year. This. lecture,.
'Ship has been held, by...the most pro-
• Ininent • Americans,' including ,such
distinguished .citieens.•ae. ex-Pre:4(1014.
W.. H. Taft; Plibu:,.Root, Charles P.
' Hughes; etc"' !nit no one not MI Mneri-
eaaeiti:Aen has .heretofore been eelece-
ed: as . lecturer exeept Viscount Eryee
,.Whenhe was ambassador at Washing-
ton, We are sure that Canadians of
. all classes Will aPpreciate.most highly
' the donapliment to our -eminent
.Re is .brother4ealaw to the late Dr.
. 0. C. James, .C.X.Qa Dorninioa Com-• .
misaionei of Agriculture, and a native
• of...the County. of. Noethuinbeeland.
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Our older readers will remember
how our grandmothers and mothers
• *yen were strong believers in the use
of medieinal herbs for all kinds. of
human ,ftilments---one or more plants
for every separate ill. Doctors then
,as now 'scouted the remedial values
and caned them simples" for two
reasons -because the persons •aidio
used them were the simple-minded
people and the remedy, if such, they
deigned to characterize was. simple,
too. English ,gardens even now con-
tain ,more or less of these olthfaShion-
• • ed medicinal herbs. • To us who were
• familiar with them the old-time frag-
rance is almost discernible in the very
recital of the names of the aromatic
plants. The fact that nearly all the
• common household medicines were de-
riv'ed from plants of pleasant odors
'leads to a wonder as to whether their
• "supposed Virtues were discovered be-
• fore they were brought into domestic
• cultivation or afterwards. We believe
that nature' does Provide a remedy for
•the most of our physical ailments if
we only Itnew which and When to use.
have 'its money erop,farmers veal wax
-continually more • prospermrs and in-
dependent, The, natural resources Are
so matifold 'diet this can be donee It
requires only foresight and ,energy to
turn the unnumbered opportunities to
account. Canadian farmersmight
take a nseful hint from the fotegoing,
•* • *
It is:a great mystery to the Col.
lingweed Bulletin why more farmers
do 11Qt attend Meetings for agricut.
turaliits • in larger numbers: "The
trOuble lies, at the- door of the 'farmers
thernselvee. There is not an organi-
eation of- anykind that can be kept
egressive and useful .unless .those
within its membership can be induced
to be active and eriereetic,'and by Ode
it must not be taken that it is held
that the older men should be crowded
aside. ,Youth and enthusiastn some-
times, indeed very often, •requires to
be tempered, and muchcan be done in
this direction by the" advice and ex-
perience ef those who have served
their day with the axe, the fork and
the plow in.bhilding up rural Ontario."
While the Bulletin may be half right,
or more, in our •opinion the chief
.reason for non-attendance at farmers'
meetings is the lack of education' in
country districts. : Those who. attend
farrnereInstitutes may have observed,
as we have, that the intelligent farm-
ers are usually Present, but those who
need instruction in agriculture most
are absent The fault lies with our
inadequate public school system, which
halaced the rural schools under the
Control of young girls and farm boys
will not go, to school to such teachers
after they attain to the ,age when they
Can get the most benefit under proper
teachers.
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Some woeful failures' have come to
city people who think it is the com-
mon lot of farmers to get rich quick.
The high prices they` are compelled to
pay for all kinds of farin preduce.
Physicians of long' ago used herbs helps them in the belief they so often
iii their practice but they did not let cherish /that leads them on 'the rocks
the people kneVrof what the medicine when they follow their desires to go
was coniposed. We are; not sure but ifarming, The Department of Agri -
that the Mediehml qualities of some , culture,- we are told, receives letters
, plants, barks, etc., are Still recognised ;regularly from would-be farmers who,
• by .present-day physicians. People de on superficial knowledge, or beeause
not•longer, in this country at least, go of the glowing stories of land sharks,
• to their • gardens or the woods for ' get the false idea of wealth made pri
. them, but to 'druggists, who :obtain !the farm. Some of them appear to
• them from far-off lands -India, China; [believe that the reason all the farmers
• Turkey,' where they are grown like , are not rich is because of extravag.
tea for commercial purposes. In the ; ance, • wastefulness, ignorance, and a
United States these herbs have alsoleek of bueinessability. , To these let-
• gone out of fashion as a feature of the ' ters the Department's specialists reply,
smell garden. Where now does one rnueli as follows: •
;find camomile, dill, caraway, thyne, " As,a matter of fact, fairriers as a
•-rosemary, horehcdinct, fennel, southern % Class are intelligent, industrious and
•• wood " old Man " and their like ? An[ eConomical, • and many of them are
' English paper includes pennyroyal in !men of getictbusiness judgment. Fer-
• tile list, but this grows so freely in then those who have made a thorough
; wild places in this country that it has study of the 1th:sines's side of farthing
never been made a garden Pleat. The i know that it is not an easy matter to
• same is true of Peppermint, except in 'make money on the farm. Only the
• market gardens. Whether or not it is I most practical and experieneecrform,
worth while, as in old time; to grow ers are making considerable profit out
theeeherbs-for their use as "simples "lof their business; Much of the money
. is not certain,•though the high prices.; that has been. made on the farm in
•"of drugs- owing' to the wet indicates recent Jeare has been made, not by.
s In the nature of things
• that it might be desirable True they 'farming, but by the rise of price on have a charea for many persons hardly farm lend
less than plants grown for beauty a- this rise cannot continue indefinitely,'
•:lone, and their cultivation is not with.. and some one will own this land when
• �t • interest on purely aesthetic the price becomes practically station -
grounds. As a spring tonic we doubt
if the root of gentian, so commen'in
our boyhood, has marry.. superiors as a ' It is,a good plan .for those who get
• .spring medicine. Herbs, roots and the itching for .farm life - to go out
ameks still have their uses, but few with- farmera and, engage in farm worli
people now seem to go to the trouble for a season -there are always open -
of preparing them for medieinal pur-, ings to • then willing to work -end
• poses. whatever lads of time or money such
;* *• * . course involves the first loss' will be
Doctors could do a great deal if they ,the best, in most cases at least. We
• would to prevent people from vim- do not deny but that thereaare exe
• traeting disease and sickness, but thatdons, but while if is true that °ems -
would militate against the pecuniary ionally-a city bred family.makes good
interests:of their profession and fe*, On the farm, this is the exteptien and
men are so generous and philanthropic not the rple. • It is always 'a risk to
• that they -will kill the geese that lay. invest in it busthess viithout• first mak-
the-golden egg. • They will tell you, if ing, a thorough study' of that business.
you ,were to suggest such a 'hiamani, Many city people who have saved ,up
• tarian benevolence, that the bane of a few hundred dollars and who have
their prefession now and alWay has, had little or no farm experience, but
ary, or perhaps starts to decline.
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• '•0!'.
been t • t " f la who 'are imbued with- a rosy visien
of the joys and profits of farming, buy
poor land at high prices and thereby
lose the savings they have been years
in accumulating. One city family, paid
$10,000 cash and assumed a $12,000
mortgage on a farm worth only about.
$11;000. Another pdid $2,000 cash and
-signed niortgege ler $6,000. on'sa
aarm• that was lateappraised at
$8,0b0. A. city family that had paved
$2,000 used this money to make &first.
payment r on eleap farm lad, • and
when their eyes were • opened found
they still owed cohsiderebly more than
the farm wag worth.. For seven years
they have worked almost night .and
day to meet the n'Tterestovithout be-
ing able to reduce the principal:
These instances could be multiplied al-
most indefinitely.
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A little ptactical advice from an
experience,d man who lilts no :land to
sell should be sought. Any such man
would Advise dee city man that in
purehasing a farm great care should
be taken to,get'a good -farm at a fair
price. To pay or agree to pay more
that the farm is worth Vs to invite
failure. Prom a business 'standpoint
no farm that does not pay hiterest on
the total biyeetment, depreciation on
equipment, eind wages for gill labor'
perfortited on that farm, is succeasfule
"Even when great care is 'taken in
making the investment only in 'exeep.
dotal cases should the city bred fain.
fly attempt $arnaing. Generally the
beet advice that et,th be given to the
City bred man who &Arai to become
a tatter is what we havereconimend.
ad/ namely, that before plirchitsing a
directions," • and if they won't do it.1
when sick they are not very likelY;to'
• *do better when viten, and less aparett
need for special care or action. We
• notice that some action has been taken
alopg preveritative lines. A news des-
• patch in the papers recently stated
• Californiaa • la going to terithapeople
• how to keelivsell. The deepatch says:
Doctors cure the sick. The Univereity
_of Califernik_ wants wpinen to keen'
folks well, To this end it is offering
a course in its present Summer se's-
• sion ofspecial value to women who
want to make this their business in
• _lifa„ The course will_shovagirls hoN
• to become viaiting nurses in schools, k
ha* to be neighborhood • Visitors, '
teaching mothers the care of babies. I
• It has a special contribution for the
• soelel service workers. who follow up
• hospital cases and ailing families to
remove the ceuses of illness,and for
the girl svho wants to become a physi-
•cal •educator.
When one sees the variety of fruit
in the groceries and fruit stores in
June, and especially the big luscious
watermelon, he wonders how they get
• here So early said where they grew• .
On iaquiry we find that the melons We
get in this 'part of the Proviride .in
•early summer come from the Southern
• States, being shipped in Fargo quanti-
• ties -ear -load lots -.to Totento and
, Montreal and than sent out in stager
tonsignments to retailers hi ernaller
plates. • •
• Georgia holds the lefty dietiotiOn
raldng Mere waternielons than Wit
[0110 State. !ti.,#611,t7-posttu thestek4
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A 14.1NatAl SENTRY. FLANOEsts... • •• - °
• • An .efficial photograph' showing a l'$ritierilseefinel on duty .in Plande,r81,
eilhouetted a,gains.t-the shy,
,
farm he worleas a farm ham( for two
or three 'years. Thia will give him
an opportunity to learn, at first hand
many things about the business, as
well as the practical side, of farming.
In no other way, as a rule, can be
get geed farm training and experience'
at less trouble and expense or with-
• out danger from financial disaster.
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What teed service te' the average
man in hia life work is. Algebra ?
asks a practical business man. We
give it up, like the other donkey
did," as the old joke ran. Many hours
we spent in our' school days on the
subject, and we • liked it well, •too.
Teachtng the boys and girls how to do
quadratic equasions was also to us
very interesting. • But in a business
career of four decades we have never
once had occasion to resort to an al-
•gebraic 'solution of our many pro-
blems. Still the examiners who set
the •papers. for Normal Entrance
exams. this year ,must consider Alge-
bra a very • valuable subject. The
paper was no -credit to any teacher
owing to its too great length if for
no other reason. There were twelve
questions, containing in all nineteen
parts, which is equivalent to nineteen
separate problems: • As' the time al-
lowed for the -paper was 214 hours,
the average time for each problem
was less than eight minute. • Only a
very • exeeptional • candidate •could
finish within the limit, aud, even then
mould have no time for revision, or
checking over his or. her work.
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A Montreal friend Sent us this ar-,
• ticle, which is full of wisdom' and exl,
cellent practical thoughts. We have
no use for persons Who are forever
placing a • discount on themselves.
Everyone should set a high° value on
their ability 'and then e strive. and
strain every nerve to measure up to
the Standard set. This is the article:
" Make your • personality count.
1Vrake--- if stand far something. Then
don't be afraid to adverdse "it There
are meny legitimate and honorable
ways of advertising yourself. Try to
steed that in your community, riot in a
freakish way, but in being a big,
generous, capable man. Be a man 92
principle, of ideas,. of push, hustle, in-
telligence and initiative. To be known
and liked by a large number of people
will help your business . ifinneasur-
ably. Mixing is an art in which tht
business builder should •fid'an; adept.
To extend your, aequaiptence- is to ex-
• tend your business." "
• Take att. interest in your community
-identify yourself • with its general
affairs social, educational, religious,
municiPal, induatrial, and in all young
people's -enterprises. Be .pubiic spirit-
ed and generous • according. to your
means in helping every good work.-
Give some • of your time te philan-
tropic Work: .Show in -ail practical
Ways that you are really interested
in your town or, Community. Be- an
active an p ct., .
Shoulder your full share of the re-
sponsibilities of your sphere of activi-
ty. Be a full citizen in all that the
term implies and encourage others to
1
eo.operate with you in every good
work for the common good.
•
• . •
• MATTER ANNIHILATED. \
By Chas. M. Bice, Denver,' Colo.
According to he new physics, mat- I
ter, .as we know it, disappears. • We
know of nothing so empty -so near a
vacuum, as matter in the new concep-
tion of it, fol it is -only. a bole in the
ether. .
- Sir °Wet, Lodge says an aternacon-
siets of a globular matsof positive '
electricity with very minute negative
electrons embedded in it. The electrons
are 100,000 tinies smaller than atoms,
yet have a corrugated surface. Whr.t
a •flight of the scientific imagination
such a. conception irtmelves ! one
has ever seen ea atom, nor eyen a
molecule.
The „power of human vision wottld
have to be hicreased 'over a million '
fold to be able to see a moleeule, to
say nothing' of peeing an atom or an.
electron, And yet science is able to
handle the electron, and determine its.
action an4ropertiee.
••What an underworld of mystery and
power it all is I In 15.1 eleinbers all
the might and power flat reiads the
eatth and shakes, the heavens. Ift
imagination, we can see the invisible
aqd ornnipOtent electrons emanating
front the atoms in aurnbers Woad
the power of mrthernatics to compute,
summoned by some Mysterious cm.
minder, and hurled in tient johalauxee
across the battlefield of the storm.
It is in this interior world of mole.
etilar activity that the many tran5.
forniations of energy • take place.
Here is the hiding place d the light;
eing, of. the'-eleattOne which moulded
• together 'make the tlander storm. 8*
we live, in a 'world of collisions, 'and
hurling misfiles of 'which 011iv settees
give as no evidence, and- it is well
they do not 'There is tremendous
activity in the air we 'breathe, in the
water we drinlc, in the food We eat,
and in the soil upon which we tread;
which, if our senses could only take
it all in, would doubtless drive'es Mad.
The electrons give inertia to mat-.
ter as well 'as force- and. cohension.
.They' are what makes water a liquid,
and the diamond the hardest of known
substances. The 'flow of this energy
frem its atomic' sources we realize as
heat, and it is that whicb suffices to
keep life going on this planet. It is
from this energy We have 'stored tip
in the -geologic ages our coal, oil and
natural gas, and we see it to -day in
the winds, tides, waterfalls and in
electricity. • • ' •
The electric constitution of matter
compels us to revise our physics, and
to a large extent abolish our ideas a
matter. Thebeta 'rays from radium
'will penetrate solid iron a foot in
thickness, • compelling' • us to reclass
opaque bodies.
We can confine ahd,control the odors
emanating from organic bodies, but
we cannot control the rays of radio-
active matter. We can separate the
three kinds of rays -the' alpha, the
beta, and the gamma; by magnetic
devices, but they cannot•be corked up
or isolated. And we now know that,
these rays are emanating continuously
all about tia, though they cannot be
seen. •
-It is hardly an exaggeration to say
that in this conception we are brought
into contact with a kind of transcen-
dental physics. A new world is pre-
sented, where the laws and accidents
of ponderable bodies do not apply Or
exist. Gross platter disappears, and
in. its placewe have matter demater-
ialized, and,a,s it were escaping. ,
We see a world where perpetual without making enemies or losing
motion is no longer impossible, -where friends- is suffitieht testimonial V) his
'apparently two , bodies c•ceilpy the tapt, and it must he due largely to
same spaceatthe same: time. We are -this ;aialitY • that he -With Lord
COMING G.
tER OF 3
MIKE 010 DEVONSHIRE W044 DE
:rartoun.
4****4 •
00 Hao Been One of the Busiest Nen
• in'the United KingdoM
?'or Years. •
In the opinion. of 1 Ex-Atta.claelf
whose ackaamtance with public men,in
• the 014 Country is ofleeV ettaMlilari
• and who contributes( artielee on Euro,
• Pean affairs to the Pittelearg Dispatch
Canada is to be congratulated upon
the fact that the Dulte of Devonshire
.10 to beher' next OdiVern0r^•Gglierair
• 41 EakAttaOhe" says that CanadiauS
*Of find in the Duke of Devoashire
one of the latest approaChable •an
geniat viceroys who was ever sent to
,Ottawa. It is admitted that it will'he
no easy task to succeed so heartily -
•liked a Governor-General as the Puke
of Connaughtewho has endeared him-
self to the people of this -country ; but
if anyone ceuld succeed in the task
• it is likely to be the Duke of. Devon-
• shire, whose great position, has been
so long established that he has never
felt the tlightest need of asserting it
in word or 1 -Jeering. •
.. A Strong Sense of Dutyq
‘Only sastrong sense of ,ditty could
induce the Duke of Devenshire to ac-
cept the position of Governor-Generial
of Canada, for he ,has nothing left in
the way of elevation of rank to which
he might aspire; and highly though
the people of Ottawa may esteem the
privilege of living in that city, it is
not something that might fittingly
crown the ambitionof the Duke of
,Devonshire. His acceptance of 'the
gp.,1Ost means that he will have to break
6r
hie racing stable, close Devonshire
Hou in Piccadilly and the famous
Chats orbh mansion in Derbyshire, as
well s Lisrhore Castle iii Waterford,
to both of which Country residences he
and the,Duchess aresaid; to be deeply
attached. Moreover, his active busi-
ness career will have to be abandoned
or at least interrupted for some years,
and he has been one . of the busiest
•men, in the kingdom, He manages
half a dozen greateVtates, and owns
almost the whele ' of the prosperous
seaside tovrn of -Eastbourne, of which
he hap, been repeatedly elected Mayor.
He is also laird -Lieutenant of. Derby-
shire Chancellor of the University of
Leeds, chairman of a great shilibuild,
irg company, and of several industrial
and mining concern's, at well as being,
a M.F.II. and active president of at
least a dozen charitable and philan-
thropic concerns:
A Tactful Duke.
1• One of the distinguishing character-
isticof the Duke -ofDevonshire is
his tact, which was do severely tested
ayhen, he acted as Financial Secretary
of the Treasury, in which capacity he
I was ' ex-offiCie the distributor of the
Government patronage, endChief
whip of the party. His -Was' he, de1i2
! eate dety. of , selecting the r cipienta
of peerages, banineteies,• knighthoods;
and other, honors on the: first of the
year Ood on the Kirig's..birthday. That
lie was able to discharge these duties
introduced to a world where the 4th.
dimension is Possible: .
• In the physics we studied- at s'Aieol
friction turns kinetic energyinto
ion, energy and heat, which quickly
disappear ; but When we reach the
interior wiirld of the electron now, we
behold 'perpetual motion aesthe rule;
for we have reached the fountain-hedd
of energy, and the motion of one body
is not at the expense of the motion. of
another body, but is -a • part of the
spontaneous strugglin, jostling and
vibration that go on,forever in all the
matter of the universe. .
The Brunonian movement of partic-
les of matter is no length.: the last
word, for they are visible by the aid
of a high-power glass; • but in the
new,,physics, the particles are infinite-
ly smaller and their agitation a mil-
lion times more intense. The atoms
that compose the molecule are said to
be dancing about and flying with in-
credible speed in all directions, while
th eieetrons inside the at�ins areVII
More violently agitated and rapidly
changing places. • •
•
Thus we meet the same staggering
figures in the science of the infinitely
little that we do in the infinately vast
and great.
While these electrons are hypothe-
tical bodies which; • no . eye has ever
seen, or can see, they build Up the
solid frame of the universe. - •
We here get a glintrie of the magic
of chetnical combinations, and its won-
derful law of affinity. • Certain bodies
attract ,others with a fierce and an-
rneasureable force, and when they
unite the resultant compound is h new
body totally unlike either 82 the con-
stituent elements: • In feet both sub-
stances have cliSappeureci and a new
ope has taken their place. -
Tlie cliaMe-cifehlorine gas and -ti
mineral sodium into common salt, is
a wohderful 'ovation. The 'atoms seeei
to get 'tnside °Pone another and suffer
a complete transformation • arid, yet,'
we fife-Vert-ifili th-er-diniut;lfrerwe crier
resurrect •the oxygen again, and; re -
Stere the elements, but just how thee
molecules unite /and are lost in one
another, it is impossible to conceive.
It is so fundamentally unlike a mech-
anical mixture; that even our imagi-
nation ean furnish no clue to
Science tells us that the antinifesta=
tions wo call light,* heat, magnetism
and electricity, _all come from the
activittes of the elactrone. The elect-
ron is not a material, particle; and
so. matter in its last analysis is de -
Renee the step to the
electric coestitution of matter ' 15 an
easy one, and instead of matter we
have disembodied onergY ••
• Sir Oliver Lodge thinks this state of
motter borders on, or is identical With,
"what we dill the 'spiritual, affeeding
a key to All the occult Phenomena of
life _and mind, Chemical activity • is
the fhea atop from the non4iving to
the livihre, but the last step hat never
been taken hi any earthly, laboratory,
-•
Derby, the 'closest persithal friend • of
King:George. . Butft was in hisrela-
dens with his lateuncle„ •the 'eighth
Duke, that this characteristic • shone
most brightly, and in especially trying
circarnstanees. •.
A Difficult Situation..
By the will of hie gran father, the
seventh "Duice, Lord Victor Cavendish,
as ;he was then, received all the pro-
perty not entpiled, "f ;
laces, and other valuable possessions;
arid it was generally understood that
the seventh Duke was strongly op.
posed to leaving thorn to his OW11 son,
because it was well known that he
was to: marry the Duchess 'of Man-
chester. To this brilliant woman the
old Duke had taken a prejudice, and
when after his death his sow and heir
married her, as expected, relations be-
tween him aad the • nephew might
well have been strained. That. they
remained the best of friends, and that
the new Dilates§ of Devonshireleft to
the wife of the present Duke instead
of to any of her oivn dairghters her
very finest diamonds •, are sufficient;
evidence if theandlinees and.tact that
hair° saved a situation, that must have
been aWkward:
Is Sure to Make. Friends '
It .has been "noted. that among the
• several names • that had been men-
•
ticited as likely t� succeed the Duke
•of Connarght, • that of the Duke of
Devonshire was never head. • War
conditiops made it. injudicious to ap-
point She Dake of Teck, Queen Mary's
brother, after he had been practically,
decided UPore' • Lord ' Curzon was
named ; and so were Lerd
Lord Derby • and Lewis Harcourt.
Brilliant puldic Men though they are,
Lord Derby had _Inure important war
ti;tteirtOl)erf Of at present -than
ia 'possible for a Canadian. Governor-
General, to discharge, and Lem' Cur-
zen rind Lord Milner are probably
better adapted for Imperial service he
(AK& spheres. The office of, GetvLa nor-,
General of Cada has been in the past
• used to achieve fine strikes of states-,
and history triay repeat it-
self in this respect What the Duke
cif Devonshire will make Of it remind ,
.81lo a Paying- Proposition,
It is safe iv say that mom silos will
be built iit-Cara0.419ri- year-tlim
apy previous year. Om ell4e has
proved to be superior to routs as a
eueetelent feed for elairY cattle, and
When it is realized that a b.m. of cepa
can be grovrn for anywhere from
thirty cents to one dollar more cheap -
then a ten ef roots, it if,' ap-
parent that i the man who keeps cattle
and -has not got a silo le riot Malting
the best of hie opportunities, says the
Canadian Countryman.
If growing corn instead ,of rooba et:
fe4s a saving of half .4 dellar per
ton When eighteen Or twenty acres is
reserved for succulent feed each year
(Wlaieh is hy no theane an excessive
acreage),„by growing corn, over $15Q
would, be saved in the. season's crop.
This Is enough money to put up a
" Althofagh for •aniatly years' silage,
has been regmelied as one of the best
succident, feeds for, dairy cattle, it, is
only .conipara.tively recently that - it
has receiseed proper recognition as a
feed fer- fattening steers. Some ex-
periments carried on in the States te-
cently shOw that cattle that are. fed as,
much as fifty. and- seventy-five pounds
of silage per lair sold for almost* as
much as those fattened chiefly on
grain, while the cost Of making one
hundred pounds gain was from $2 to
$3 less. • We quote from Wallace's
Farmer: "At the Missouri. Station,
one lot ef steers which receilied an
average daily ration of 37.6 pounds of
silage; 4 poinkli ,Of alfalfa hey, and 5
pounds of oil meal sold for $9,65 per
cwt., while another lot reeeived 'an
average daily ration of •16.3 pounds
of silage 3.9 pounds Of alfalfa hay
and 15,3 pounds of shelled corn,. sold
for $9.75 per cert. • In other' words;
the steers getting nu corn, but a large
amount of 'silage, together with oil,
meal and ,alfalfa have .sold within 10
cents Of these getting 15 pounds of
corn a day. These high sjlage steers
allatally sold 5, cents higher per cwt.
than two 48-oaylstvwrites.
than another lob which received an
average daily ration. of, 17.5 pouads of
silage'2,3.7 pounds Of alfalfa hay, 15.6
Pounds of shelled „corn, and 2.6 pounds
of cottonseed meal. It is interesting
to note also that the steers receiving
the larger amounts of silage did not
shrink any more than those receiving
the Smaller amounts. The dressing
percentage eves almost but not quite
so high in the cast of the low Silage
steers.
"The _Missouri „ekperinient, S 4 when
taken in connection with Iowa and
Pennsylvania. experiments; indicates
Very strongly. that the beef cattle men
have finally reached the point where
they ar,e almost compelled to rely on
large ainotnits of silage. , • For years,
the Ettg,lishmen and Scotnien have fed
their average f3tee'r 70,100, or even
120 pounds af foots, together with not
more• than eight Or nine Pounds of
grain.
"Silage is 'a little moreboneentratel
than theroota used. by Englishmen
and -Scachmenbut it looks as though
the cern felt -feeder -had at last heen
riven to adopt the methods , 'of the
'feeders across . the water."
These, Fall .Pigs. Were .Prefitabie.
Fifty-seven fall pigs fed at.Univer-
P.arrie, St. Paul, last winter' 'and
marketed recently, left. a margin of
44.56 a. head to cover cost of labor,
!risk, interest, .profit, ete. .•
„
I 3s1 0., Ashby of the . animal hus-
h ry division. at University Farm,.
• beg a series of tests two years age
\to determine Whether raising fall
•pigs is profitable in Minnesota. • The
margin of nearly five dollars h.. •head,
is the result et* the teet.
Eleven., sows farrowed fall litters
for the tests, and the pigs Were wean-
ed .December 16.. • .They were put on
feeding tests two .days later. ' The
records kept, cover an feeds .Consumed
by, sows and litters froni farrowing to
weaning and -from the time tb,e act-
ual feeding teet was begun until it was
finished.
Ttotal cositi of feed for the. sows
. and • pigs up to weaning time was
$180 81 From we nhi • ti
,tiMe Marketing the feed eost $577-88,
'making a -total cost of $13.42 ahead.
The feed was counted .at these prices:
.Shellei cora, 75 cents a • bushel;.
ground barley, ..65 ,cents • a bushel;
short, $26 a ton; tankage, $55 st ton.
• The pigs, averaged 191% pounds
When .aeld May 6. They were sold at
$9.65 in. South 50. Paid, a pride equi-• •
valent to $9.40 at home The sell-
pricenf $17.98 left a "balance of $4.56
each. • No account of arinure , is
taken 15 theee figures. •'
• The pigs were fed in five lots, three
lots fromself feeders end two .lots
fed by hand. Those in' the lots in
which the self feeders were used. did
• ,better ;than -those -in. --the -other-Ws-
The' corn -fed lots required 06.4 seven•
bushels of corn, forty pounds of tank-
age, and from bhirty to forty potinds,
.of shorts • for each, pig from weaning
-time-to-the close of the 'test.
The.pigs were fed frrain alone. They
Were given no, milk and; did not have
eccess to the cattle yards. Mr. Ash -
b3 *nits that. her mulk is available.
or When the pigs eito pick up •After
cattle the margin will be corresnond-
,
•
•
to be seeta\rthat he will make no
blunders end rriany friends his pre-
vious career renders a • safe predie,..
flop.'
•• EaVoritism. •
"Oh, no," soliloquized Johnny/ bip
terly; "there ain't tttly fait -ash in
ehis family! • Oh aol If 1 bite MY
Anger nails, I get a rap , "ster the'
knuckhiss-litit, if the lisby Its •lila
.whole foot they thitik itrt 1. e
• Pretty Small....
Hewitt -a -What sort of it .aloW le
• j•
oewsov.e,tt.--"'We.l.i;:lie 1/..t r' hove to
say to his constiensoi, you havel
'
'it if
/0 rt. ,
or Usti eXhilitStion, tails is brougll
about by over -exert tm and besuffiqc
vat haat 'elnation. The dir
rays of the Vie are not responsible fo
this effectlen,-which very ofter_ oeeur
to an animal on A eleluirp sulf41 4arr,
Some of the tnoro ' Promluent.,ortql
toms 04 heat stroke are Weariness,;,
profuse bweati4g) difricla,bre414„Nrg
an 'extremely bigia; temperatnre, and a.
rapid pulse( Which 4'1'44101'ysrowa
weaker and upon the aPProaiell
death muscular tremors will he noted
The .treatment for sun stroke and.
heat etreke Are the same. Itenenve Old
animal to a cool, (OA, well venti1ate
place And Verna 49. strear4 of eht'
water to flow oyer the horse `arid/
possible, apply ice packet,* the heed:
If ice IS plentiful apply it all over.
body: --8. O'Toole, bT4'ii.th Dakota Ex
perimeat Station.
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•.f • • Farm Notes, •
• Don't turn. a• geed cow off lust be -4
eause elna iS getting old.
te
;t1fr'511,1t:0111011:15*!::::•.;!h!!!:1;:::rse,
more than repay you; fer, any ex
the jig is up. • ICeep goo), aild ten -
one the horse will cool off in a few
minutes, too. •
'Unprofitable cows and unprofitabl
acres keep a fellow all the time tleiak
Ing abeut the poorhouse. It asn't very
pleasant either..
• be galled, buteif oceura have •
Toe bad that a horse :sheuldyietvte:oidi.
Pr:ink"? oPv6e.rwatehreedraa:Ilinplaceead.
,asoteoi,t5rh!ng arQ heals it almost immedie'
, •
A' little wheat bran, or some mix -e
ture of grain in the feed box at evens!
ing milking time, is a good plea to
bring the herd promptly up to thel, '
gate. Irregular milking throe ii at.
damaging practise.
The Mare that is to beconie • a)
mother must have considerate treatei.
ment and gc:od food. Avoid any
that may be musty, drive reasonablye
and, if drawing loads, let her stop °ea::
casienaRy to get breath. , •.•
If we watch hogs elesely we raayi
learn many lessens from them; They,
know their needs .better than we do.1
wiWhIlen doethtoery tahreemsoneltves9t, cirlith:ir bitthYPea37';14
chance.•• ,
It is easier' to keep alinrse'd
shimhiers healect up than it is te make
them see after they have once beenl
sore. Sarno horses have thinner
than others and 15 breaks through e
ier. Watch every spot, that is likel
to be chafed and iiad the, harness to
protect it. • •
•' A good many times when's,. Sow thai
his borne eight or ten Piga at a litite
drops down tO four or five, we won"
der What is the matter. We may fltich
the reason M. the lowered vitality ,ofl
the sow. This shows the need of tbas
sow being in the best of trim at the':
time of service.
When. a horse refuses be drink wader, don't get 'angry at the horse, bl
islepekithfc.,Qtr.aanden, aczimn4e4ty00.-tthheorcatuhr.wate
is too stale: or fcrult4 Horses must
drink just So much every day, , some
more, some less; but see that they all
have the chance.
ITALY'S xikG• A GOOD SOLDIER,[
.
He Has Had Many. Narrow. Escapes,
•
•
From Death. , ' • '
, - •
The military correspondent ef•thn
London Times, describing his reeent,
tour of the Italian front, says,:
"Italy is fortunate in having at
her head at this critical hour Of her
destinies a king who 'le a soldier
born and bred. It is a common say-
ing that the King of Italy is homesick
when he is absent from the army, and .,
it la certain his Majesty spends every,
hour ,he can spare from state affairs .
with his troops. He wears on his
breast the medal , and rabbets given
only to those who have been at the .
'front a year and though be deprecates
any allusioneto the fact, it is true that
he is constantly in the firing line. He ..
has had many narrow escapes, and
is personally known to the whole
army, who love,„to see him in their
midst. ,
"I have not found any officer of his
army who has ,a better, more ' hi -
timate or inore accurate knowledge
of his troops than the King. Hili
attention to the wants of the arniy
is absolutely untiring, and his cool '
judgment and large experience must
often be of great service to his min-
isters and generals:
"I de not know whether the field
headquarters . of the King of Italy or
of Kin* Albert of Belgium is the most
Unpretentious, but certainly both mon,
archs live in circumstances of ex-
tremesiMphcity. -My:reCollection ie
that when I last had the honor of '
visiting King Albert's headquarters,
the bell in which I must call the par-
lor ° did not ring, and the Queen of
.--atles-Belgionealtaelateaget up and -fetch.'
tea herself.
,"When I had the honor of :being
t•ecer-ved by the King of Italy, I found
, his Majesty in a little Villa which held
, only four people, and the King work.
' ing in a room of which the Only- turni.
1 tere, I can recell, consisted of- a
camp ,bcd, close to the ground and of -
tXiguous breadth, a .einall table and
tre 'chaise of nirOmpromisim hard.
nese, 'ho only 0.44ipeikt in the room
w e the 'base of the task Austrian shell.
w 411 burst Just above t e Ring's.
head. • It had been •ineunte as a on.
venir by the Queen." •• •
o' 14
Distrusted the PrOiniee. •
• °Why he Saa aall deVntOtA?" '1
' "My wife has threatener to leare
me, • , I
I"Cheer up. Women hie ahlta
thrtittenteg ..sonwthing like that
04, hardly ever do IV'
"That's What 74, waa th
•
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• Heat kW Horses. • :
•SunStroke lo caused by the direct
rays of the sun falling upon the .skull,
• horse so affected may die o4449A1Y
aS though stricken with apoplexy
he fatty haVO a Oaduol pararysia of
respiration. tke symptom& which
usually piesopt thinueeivOgI tstYe'
testiness, pawing, spaiens, &ea 4 rnark-
ed of themucous ineuVAIkues
lining the ettaities of the head. no
temperature in aeristroke MAY llet'
Hat' above normal during the whole
couree of the disease,
.Anotheit condition very similar to
,attitlittoke.1,1- that Ithown. a0 heat stroke