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The Wingham Times, 1915-07-01, Page 3July ist [915 NIo A.LuM ►-; > IML.Y `r PitiltrirEDes 't*E ''The provincial war tax on the county of Bruce amounts to $28,340 65. Norman Robertson is completing his 29th year as treasurer of the County of Bruce. This means that he has been handling the county money for half the length of time this county has been in existence, for according to Norman Robertson's History of Bruce the pro- vincial County of Bruce was organized at a meeting in Southampton on March 19th, 1857. Premier Norris told the Manitoba Methodist Conference that the Provin- cial election would be followed by a referendum on prohibition. Electric railways in the United States in 1912 had 43,044 miles of track. 1915 EDITION OF McK1M'S, It is now nearly a quarter of a cen- tury since Mr. A. McKim, who estab- lished the first independent advertising agency in this country, completed the rather ambitious task of publishing the first directory of Canadian periodicals. The 1915 edition, of which we have just received a copy, shows that the great war has not seriously affected the newspapers of Canada. While the birth rate of new publications has re- ceived a check, and the death rate of the weak ones has perhaps increased a trifle. most of the leading papers, par- ticularly the dailies, show very healthy increases in circulation. Three metro politan dailies have reached or passed the hundred thousand mark. A census of the papers listed and described in the 1915 directory shows nearly 150 dailies; seven tri -weeklies, 45 semi-weeklies, over 1,065 weeklies, about 40 bi-weeklies or semi-monthlies, 250 monthlies, three bi-monthlies and 18 quarterlies -a total of over 1,575 pub- lications. This means approximately one daily to every 10,000 families, and one week- ly to every 1,500 families. From this one would infer that for a comparative- ly new country, Canada is well-read. A. McKim Limited report the usual keen demand for the Canadian News- paper Directory. which sells at $2. Its red -banded, gold -stamped, green -cover has become a familiar sight on the desks of advertisers, publishers and business men everywhere who are in- terested in Canada. Times till Jan. 1, 1916 for 40c -*4s• 44r e7.14.o4s00000 W.b 040 R•*.443•004.•e•••••••4•••e•00•40e0 4 9 /"!17 ren ' 4. Imes 4 • .4 • •4 + •s 4 A •v • • • • • 9 • 9 A w • 4 •• 4 .9 • w • w A • 4 Clubbing List: a mimes and Saturday Globe Times and Daily Globe Times and Daily World Times and Family Herald and Weekly Star.... Times and Toronto Weekly Sun Times and Toronto Daily Star Times and Toronto Daily News.. Times and Daily Mail and Empire. Times and Weekly Mail and Empire Times and Farmers' Advocate Times and Canadian Farm (weekly) Times anti Farm and Dairy Times and Winnipeg Weekly Free Press Times and Daily Advertiser (morning) Times and Daily Advertiser (evening) . 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These prices are strictly:•. *•cash in advance•.• •• • •Send subscriptions by post office or express order to* • iA. • Office•Tirx�,e i Stone Block • .•' WINGHAM ONTARIO 4 • • •a *44-44 41 441.4.4440 ,t•fig..44•..44+9+449+49+4+••4•4•'•44c. +•••t,••4, VIOLENT ATTACKS Of DYSPEPSIA Battered Tortures Until She Tiled °Frult•a tlres" Sr. JEAN nr:Mama, Jan. 27th, 1914, "After suffering for a long time with Dyspepsia, I have been made well by "Fruit-a-tives." I suffered so much that at last I would not dare to eat for I was afraid of dying. Five years ago, I received samples of "Fruit-a-tives" and after taking them I felt relief. Then I sent for three boxes and I kept improving until I was well. I quickly regained my lost weight -and now I oat,, sleep and digest well -in a word, I am fully recovered, thanks to 'Fruit-a-tives.' M,ui, CHARBONNEAU. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. At dealers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit -a -tines Limited, Ottawa. THE WESTERN FAIR. The Western Fair, London's popular Agricultural Exhibition will be held this year from September 10th to 18th. It is considered by the management that this year, above all others, should be the one when extra efforts must be put forth to make the Exhibition a great success; therefore with assistance by the Government the Board of Directors have decided to make a cash addition to the prize list of $3,000. Good as it was before, this will certain- ly make London's prize list very attrac- tive. The list is now !in the hands of the printer and will soon be ready for distribution. Thousands of advertising maps and hangers have been sent throughout the country during the past week announcing the dates, and arrange- ments are being made as quickly as possible to assure Exhibi tors and visitors alike, that this years Exhibition will be the best ever held at London. Any in- formation regarding the Exhibition will be gladly given on application to the Secretary, A. M. Hunt, London, Ont. Catarrh Cannot he Cored with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the sdat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional dis- ease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts direct- ly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medi- cine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, con:- bined with the best blood purifiers, act- ing directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two in- gredients is what produces such wonder- ful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constip- ation. WISE WORDS OF WISE MEN. Thou wilt always rejoice in the even- ing, if thou 'hast spent the day profit- ably. -Thomas a Kempis. Love is the salt that preserves af- fections and actions frons the corrup- tion.of life. -Eugenie De Guerin. He that saveth his time, from prayer shall lose it; he that loseth his time in communion with God shall find it in blessing. -Wilder. If you censure your friend for every fault he commits, there will come a time when you will have no friend to censure. -Egyptian Proverb. A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. -Addison. Do not expect always to have smooth sailing; then, if the storm comes, you are ready for it; if the calm comes, the greater is your enjoyment. -Anon. Put love into the world, and heaven, with all its beatitudes and glories, be- comes a reality. Love is everything. It is the key of life, and its influences are those that move the world. - R. W. Trine. THE WINGHAM TIMES Farm and Garden (101.030M CV.Cacacawxcco' X*6).Cac iVit Oe, USE OF MECHANICAL SEEDER. Distributes Seed More. Evenly and Ef. feets Great Saving in Quantity. With clover, alfalfa. sweet clover and all the grass seeds usually enough seed is used to the' acre for three or four good stands. If every seed took root and grew where it fell on the soil there would be so many plants to the square yard that none could grow well. They would stand so thickly that they would smother each other to death. Where mechanical seeders are used to distribute the seed uniformly over the surface of the soil much less seed per acre will be required. Sy using a me- chanical seeder for uniform distribu- tion and covering the seed mechanical- ly n saving of felly one-half of the seed can be effected. Some farmers are afraid to disturb the soil of their wheat fields and mead- ows in spring. Where stover or other PLANTING SEED Rt7'EI UAND DRILL. small seed is to be sown in wheat in the spring the soil when dry may be cut with a disk or toothed narrow without any injury to the wheat. In most cases the surface working; will do the wheat good, and it is a sure means of planting the clover or grass seed. It is good practice to cut the surface of a thin meadow in spring with a dist: har- row for increasing the plants with clo- ver or alfalfa. harrowing with a tooth- ed harrow after sitting the surface with the disk. Sweet clover is corning into general prominence all over the country. One reason why more farmers do not grow it or try it is that they have been told animals will not eat the growing plauts nor the hay. It is true that most farm animals will not eat -sweet clover at first, but as soon as they get a good taste of it and become used to it they will eat it as readily as the best corn, clover or alfalfa. Sweet clover should be sown early in the spring. It Is a splendid crop to go before alfalfa to inoculate and enrich the soil. It grows rankly in wet soil and will grow large in soil too dry for almost any other cultivated plants. It used for pasture. unlike alfalfa, stock should be turned on it while the plants are young. so they will learn to eat it before it grows old and woody. It is a biennial, like red clover, and will self seed if allowed to form seed every year. The modern disk drill, of which there are many good makes, is the only good drill to use. Pages of space would be required to tell of all its good merits over the old style drill.-lowa Home- stead. • • • • • x TO GET RID OF BEETLES.: 00 000000000 if we could kill off alt the dune bugs DR. A. W. CHASE'S or May beetles we should have no CATARRH POWDERC white grubs. is sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blower. Heals the ulcers, ings in the throat and permanent. t cures Catarrh and Hay Fever. t'45c. a box; blower free. Accept no substitutes. All dealers or Edmanaon. n■tee do Co.. Limited, Toronto. clears the air passages stops drop. Ontario's new board of license co'7• missioners intends to make dnrirg t e year a personal inspection of eve -v hotel applying for license in 1916. i' ta phcants will be notified to put in their applications not biter than July 15 ntxt. It is expected that the inspecto- system in the province will be rearran ed, with oe provinci1 district iR pech e and as many local inspectors as may t e required. The province will be divida? into five or more inspectoral districts. The giraffe is said to be the only animal in natu.., tliat is entirely dumh, not bring ab1" to exdress itself by ant sound whate':r. Each female beetle lays between fifty and a hundred eggs, each of which is pretty likely to hatch into a grub to feed on corn roots, grains, strawberries and the like. There are three well known ways to kill the beetles. One is to spray poison en the leaves of the trees on which they feed. The second is to spread sheets, tar- paulins or canvas under the trees and jar the beetles down with a battering ram made of a plank with a cushion on the end, similar to the scheme for, col- lecting the eurculio. The third takes advantage of the beetles' fondness for a lamp at night Bang nn ordinary barn lantern over a tub of water on the surface of which is film of kerosene. The latter .plan seems most .promts- ing, as it induces the bugs to 'seep their own destruction. They fall into air MI when trying to do whatever :nor try to du to the light -Farm and Fireaid h MEnicn AL PLANTS. To describe, or even to give a list of the five hundred varieties of plants that come under the head of medicinal, as given in a more than ordinary interest- ing Bulletin by Assistant Dominion Botanist, J. Adams, M. A., would take up an exceptional amount of space. Mr. Adams entitles his publication "Medicinal Plants and Their Cultivation in Canada." It is Bulletin No. 23, Second Series, of the Experimental Farms, and can be had free by address- ing the Publications Branch, Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa. Director Grisdale. of the Dominion Experimental Farms, makes a correct estimate when he says "Such information as is contain- ed in this publication should be of value to many of our farmers." Dominion Botanist Gussow explains that the bulletin owes its preparation to the numerous inquiries received from time to time relating to the cultivation of plants possessed of certain medicinal or health -restoring properties Mr. Adams who was formerly lecturer on Botany and Vegetable Materia Medica at Dub- lin, Ireland, suggests that no farmer runs any risk by devoting a small plat of about an acre to drug culture as an experiment for a few years. But for anybody to go headlong into the busi- ness as a speculation would be unwise. After dealing with soil, climate, culti- vation, collection, drying, imports and exports and explaining the terms used, I Mr. Adams gives prominence, with faithful illustrations in outline, to the medicinal plants in demand. These briefly are. American White Hellebore or Indian Poke, flowers May and'June, poisonous, occurs in swamps and wet woods from New Brunswick to British Columbia; price 8c to 100 per pound. Hop, flowers July and August, ripe September and October, occurs in thickets and on river banks from Nova Scotia to Manitoba; cultivated in On- tario and British Columbia; 25c to 55c per pound. Golden Seal, flowers in April, ripe in Julp or August, native in woods of On- tario, must be cultivated; $5.45 to $5.75 per pound. White Mustard, flowers all summer, occurs in fields of waste places; 8c per pound. Black Mustard, occurs in fields and waste places; 10c per pound. Seneca Snakeroot or Mountain Flax, flowers May or,June, grows in rocky woods from New Brunswick to Alberta; 40c to $1.15 per pound. Sacred Bark or Bearberry, occurs in, moist situations in the mountains of British Columbia; 8c to 10c per pound. American Ginseng, collected by Sep- tember, occurs in woods in Quebec and Ontario; $5 per pound. Carraway, flowers May to July, oc- curs on waste ground in Eastern Can- ada; Sc to 9c per pound. Peppermint, flowers July to Septem- ber, occurs in wet ground from Nova Scotia to Ontario; 9c to 16c per pound. Spearmint, grows in wet ground from Nova Scotia to Ontario; 7c to 20c per pound. Mr. Adams, in addition to giving de- scription and exact illustrations, in every case quotes the market price. Following the plants in leading demand, he comes to those used in moderate or small quantities, such as Irish Moss, Ergot, Male Fern, White Pine, Hem- lock, Balsam Fir, Juniper and so on. These occupy 24 pages, two to five to a page, and then we have foreign medic- inal plants which might grow in Canada. A list of 54 publications and a compre- hensive index add to the instructiveness and interest of an exceedingly valuable bulletin. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Stonecutters in Shanghai, China, are paid 25 cents a day. Milk is obtained in the Philipines mainly from the carabao. Woodstock is suffering from the most extensive measles epidemic in its history. George McLean is under arrest at Thessalon on a charge of murdering Duff Sanderson at that town during a poker game. Mrs. J. C. Yule, widow of Rev. A. V. Timpany, a pioneer Baptist missionary to India, and for many years President of the Women's Foreign Missiunary Society of Ontario, died at Brantford. An attempt, partly successful, was made to wreck a Walkerville factory making uniforms for the British Gov- ernment, and twenty-six sticks of dynamite were found under the Windsor 1.Arinories with the fuse partly burned, hut having gene out, The perpetrators are believed to he German sympathizers. SILAGE FOR HORSE$, The following cuanmary is pre- sented by the Missouri station in stating in brief form the result of its observations and experi• euees in feeding sllege to horses: Corn silage is now being fed with success by a large number of horsemen and farmers to all classes of horses and mules, Corn silage should always be fed in combination with other feeds. Within the limits of its useful- ness it is a cheap substitute for hay and adds variety and suc- culence to the ration. Silage isnot a success except in the hands of a careful feeder with an eye to the thrift of the animal. Under no circumstances should spoiled silage, either moldy or rotten, be fed to horses or mules. FOR BETTER LIVE STOCK. Neighborhood Organization Needed if Quality la to Be Improved. [Prepared by the United States depart- ment of agriculture.] One reason for Americans' indiffer- ent success in animal breeding has been the lack of neighborhood organi- zation. Where a whole community is interested in the same breed of live stock, where practically every farm 'is a breeding station, there is tirst a wider basis of selection than where only one farm is given over to that breed. A wider basis of selection makes possible more scientific mating than is Possible where there are only a few breeding animals from which to select. In the second place, a neigh- borhood enterprise of this kind gives greater permanency and continuity than are possible -where only a few in. '• dividual farmers are interested. It has happened so often in this coun- try that it may almost be .said to be the rule that by the time a successful breeder has built up a superior herd, stud or flock his' life is drawing to a close, his sons have moved to town and t his animals are scattered. These animals may after they are scattered do something toward improv- ing the general average of the animals of the community, but this is by no means certain. There are many chances that they will be crossed with other breeds, and the general tendency of haphazard crossbreeding is to produce mongrels. If, on the other hand, the whole com- munity in which such a breeder lived were engaged in developing the same breed instead of a large number of dif- ferent breeds, his animals would prob- ably remain in the same neighborhood and be crossed with others of the same breed. When this happens the work of the individual breeder is not lost, but is enabled to count in the improvement of the stock of the country. Under our present highly individual- istic methods the farmer who enters upon a breeding enterprise frequently, If not generally, makes the initial mis- take of selecting some breed which is new to his community in order that he may have something different from anything possessed by his neighbors. It is safe to say that a neighborhood whose farmers behave in this absurd manner will never become distinguish- ed for the excellence of its live stock or of its field crops. A third reason for our lack of suc- cess in animal breeding has already been suggested -namely, the lack of stability of the average American farm family. Where the same farm stays in the same family for several genera- tions, if it happens to be a breeding farm, there is time to build up a supe- rior herd, stud or Sock. In the United States this does not often happen. The sons of a successful breeder have in the past frequently gone to a city to enter upon urban business or profes- sion. But even this instability of the farm family, which prevents the con- tinuation of breeding enterprises over long periods of time, is in large meas- ure due to a lack of rural organization. A Plumb Bob Level. Some years ago I needed a level, but could not secure one within ten miles, says a Correspondent of Farm and Fire- side, from which this article and the picture are produced. The one I con- structed as a makeshift answered the purposesowell• that I finished the MgeTS§ whole job by it. Take a piece of b o a f d having a straight edge. To this fasten two other pieces, forming a triangle. Now with a square find the point on the base from which a line leaving it at tight angles exactly strikes the point where the side pieces meet. From this point suspend a plumb bob and your level is complete. I used an old peg top as a plumb bob, but almost any little weight will do. PLUMB BOB. HOw to Load a Wagon. In loading a wagon place the load evenly over the front and hind wheels. If any difference is made it should be on the hind wheels. They are larger and hence do not sink in as deep as the smaller front whee11. The fact that the load is farther fraut the team, does not increase the draft en the wag- on. When the team is hitched to some- thing dragging on the ground then the nearer the team is to the load the light. er the pull. This is due to the fact that the nearer` the team Is the more the pull will be upward, thus helping to r=educe the friction between the load and the ground. Page 3 PATRIOTIC GOODS A complete line of Patriotic WritingPaper, Sct•ibhliug Books, xercise Books,PItiy- ing Cards, Flags, Penati its, etre. INITIALED STATIONERY A new stock of Initialed Stationery in fano.), papeter- ies and correspondence cards, GENERAL STATIONERY Our line of general station- ery including writing paper, envelopes, etc, is complete. Try us with your next order. 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SEAFOR fR CREAMF RY CO, SEA FORTH, ONT. obegmunimmarzawsrazummov4 CUTWORMS AND HO W TO FIGHT THEM. Farmers, market gardeners and others who cultivate the soil will be pleased to know that the Entomological Branch of ' the Dominion Department of Agricul- tore, has issued a 31 paged bulletin (No. 10) on "Cutworms and their Con- ( trot", prepared by Mr. Arthur Gibson, Chief Assistant Entomologist. in the introduction it is stated that cutworms • as a class rank in importance with such well known pests as the San Jose Scale, the Codling Moth and the Hessian fly, all of which are among our most de- structive insect enemies. There are certainly few insects which, year after year, inflict such widespread damage as the various caterpillars known common- ly as cutworms. The annual loss oc- casioned by these 'meets in Canada amounts to hundreds and thousands of dollars. In the bulletin the methods of controlling cutworms are discussed fully. Under "Preventive Measures" tae value of clean cultivation is referred to as well as the placing of bands of tin or paper around plants which are set out. "Remedial Measures" include descriptions of various poisoned baits to destroy the cutworms, directions for the making of proper furrows or ditches to prevent the advance of armies of cutworms, etc. Fifteen common kinds of cutworms are described in popular detail and much information given on the habits and life -history of the various species. The bulletin is fully illustrated, the figures being clear and well chosen. Altogether there are 20 illustraitions of cutworms, cutworm moths, injury to plants, etc. Copies of this new publi- cation may be had free of charge on application to the Chief of the Publi- cations Branch, Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa. Enquiries regarding these insects or other kinds which are found 'to be injuring crops, should be addressed to The Entomologist, Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa. 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